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Sabetha Channel Broadcast – ACCHS vs. Sabetha – click here to watch.
Despite three turnovers in the first half, the Sabetha BlueJays football team remained undefeated on the season with a dominant second half performance in a 57-8 rout of ACCHS Friday night in Effingham.
Things didn't start well for the Bluejays, as the Tigers and head coach Corey Thomas elected to go with an onside kick to begin the game which caught Sabetha off-guard.
The ACCHS offense, though, wasn't able to capitalize on the great starting field position going three-and-out without gaining a yard. Sabetha made the Tigers pay, as Joe Gruber ran for 55 yards before Wyatt Beyer finished the drive with a 3-yard touchdown run to put the Bluejays up 7-0 just over two minutes into the contest.
The Tigers would go on to force Sabetha into three turnovers in the first half recovering a muffed punt, a fumble and an interception, but couldn't get anything going offensively compiling just 54 total yards in the first two quarters.
Sabetha overcame the three giveaways scoring two more times in the first half, as Joe Gruber scored from seven yards out midway through the first quarter before Brandon Brownlee capped off the second quarter with a 22-yard touchdown pass to Riley Herrmann to make the score 21-0 in favor of the Bluejays at halftime.
Sabetha wasted no time putting the nail in the coffin in the third quarter, as Joe Gruber rushed for a 40-yard score less than two minutes into the second half to put the Bluejays up 28-0. Sabetha would score three more times in the third quarter on a 5-yard run by Gabe Garber and a pair of touchdown runs by Mason Engelken of 35 and eight yards.
Engelken capped off the Bluejays scoring with a 56-yard touchdown run to begin the fourth quarter, while the Tigers only score came on a 45-yard scoop and score by Trystin Myers late in the fourth quarter for the second consecutive week.
Sabetha finished the contest with just under 500 yards of total offense, while holding ACCHS to under 100. Joe Gruber led the way once again for the Bluejays rushing for 122 yards and two touchdowns on just four carries, while Mason Engelken added 113 yards and three scores on just five carries.
The victory kept Sabetha (6-0, 5-0 Big 7) undefeated heading into a huge matchup with also unbeaten Nemaha Central (6-0, 5-0) next week in week one of district play, while ACCHS (0-6, 0-5) looks to pick up win No. 1 on the season at Maranatha (1-5, 1-4 NEKL).
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This weekly lottery has been held virtually every Saturday since its inception. By 1778 word of this game had spread to France and captured the fancy of the intelligentsia. It was during this period that the popular version of the lottery was born.
Cards were divided into three horizontal rows and nine vertical columns. Each horizontal row contained a total of nine squares – five with numbers and four blank squares – arranged randomly in the row. The vertical columns contained ten numbers each: column one contained the numbers 1 – 10
column two contained 11 – 20
column three contained 21 – 30 and so on until the ninth column
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In the 1800s the popularity of lottery games spread throughout Europe. Education variations were created to aid children in learning their multiplication tables
spelling and even history.
We could all be yelling "Beano!"
What started as the Italian lottery made its way to America via a carnival pitchman touring Germany. There he came across a lottery game and recognized its potential appeal as a carnival tent game. He made a few revisions to the game play
including allowing players to complete a row vertically
horizontally or diagonally in order to win. And he changed the name to Beano.
He was plying his trade one December evening in 1929 at a carnival near Atlanta
when a traveling toy salesman
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happened along. Early for a sales call
Lowe decided to stop at the carnival. The only tent open was the Beano tent
which was so crowded with people that Lowe wasn't able to play the game for himself.
Lowe watched as the players eagerly listened for the next number to be called and
if they had the number on their card
covered it with a bean. The excitement and tension in the crowd was palpable. When a player finally had a row covered
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only to have the players insist he continue. It wasn't until 3:00 am that the games ended
and even then the pitchman had to chase the players away.
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and Bingo was born
Lowe immediately realized the mass market potential for Beano. Upon his return to his home in New York
he created his own Beano game by procuring some beans
cardboard and a rubber number stamp. He invited friends to his apartment to play the game. There he saw the same rapt attention and excitement that he had witnessed at the carnival. One player in particular was growing ever more excited as the beans piled up on her card. When she finally had a complete row
in her rush to yell out the required "Beano
" she became tongue tied and instead stammered
"I cannot describe the strange sense of elation which that girl's cry brought to me
" Lowe said. "All I could think of was that I was going to come out with this game
and it was going to be called Bingo!"
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Lowe's earliest Bingo games came in two varieties: a 12-card set that cost a dollar and a 24-card set that cost two dollars. Although the name "Bingo" could have been trademarked
the game itself
having come out of the public domain
had no chance of being protected. Once the success of Lowe's game was evident
imitators came out of the woodwork. Lowe's only request to his competitors was for them to pay him a dollar a year to call their games "Bingo." Thus the name became generic for the game.
Bingo every Wednesday at 8:00 p.m
It was a priest from Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania and his financially ailing church that fused the game with churches across the country. A parishioner had come up with the idea of using Bingo as a way to raise money for the church. But with only 24 unique cards to play with
the priest was finding that there were half a dozen winners for every game. The priest contacted Lowe about producing a large number of unique number combinations for the cards. Lowe recognized the fund-raising potential of the game and enlisted the help of a professor of mathematics at Columbia University named Carl Leffler.
Leffler was charged with the task of producing 6
000 new bingo cards. He requested that he be paid on a per card basis. The more cards he created
the more difficult it was to come up with unique combinations. Toward the end he was being paid $100 per card. When the task was finally complete
it is said that the professor went insane!
But the increased number of bingo cards was exactly what was needed to make the game a staple at churches across the country and a sound source of fund-raising.
Some Bingo Trivia …
• There are 2? million regular female bingo players.
• Played by all ages around the world
30% of bingo players are under the age of 35.
• Ninety-six percent of bingo players have won at some point while playing.
• Research shows women are much happier playing bingo
and 15% say they engage in bingo for socializing and companionship.
• The number one reason for playing bingo is enjoyment – winning money comes in fifth.
• It is believed that our current day bingo originated from an Italian Lottery called Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia in 1530.
• A toy salesman
Edwin S. Lowe
brought bingo to the masses with "Lowe's Bingo." The game saved his newly-founded toy company
the E.S. Lowe Company.
• Bingo debuted in 1930 and by 1934 there were an estimated 10
000 bingo games a week in churches and recreation centers across the country.
• According to Lowe
the largest bingo game in history was playe
d in New York's Teaneck Armory with 60
000 players – with 10
000 being turned away at the door.
• University of Columbia mathematics professor Carl Leffler is reported to have gone insane after coming up with 6
000 bingo cards with non-repeating number groups.
• There are 1
200 unique bingo cards possible.
• The first bingo game to raise money was played at a church in Wilkes-Barre
Bingo Glossary
• Blackout – (Also
Coverall) A pattern where you must cover the whole card to win.
• Bonanza – A progressive coverall jackpot that is usually played as the 13th game of the session. Forty-five numbers are drawn before the session and players mark them on separate cards and set aside. There is an additional fee to play this game
usually $1. The countdown begins at 48 numbers or less and go up one number per week to 52 numbers or until won. The amount of the jackpot is determined by card sales for that game.
• Caller – The person who calls out the bingo numbers.
• Chat Room – A handy monitor or screen where you can read and exchange messages with other players.
• Coverall – (Also Blackout) A pattern where you must cover the whole card to win.
• Dauber – Bingo dauber is ink-filled bottle/pen with a foam tip on it used to mark called numbers. When you touch the bingo card with the foam tip it marks the square. (See picture above)
• Early Bird Game – A bingo game that starts earlier than another regularly scheduled game.
• Free Space – The center square of the card. It's like a Joker. You get it free every game and it counts towards your winning pattern.
• Game Board – The display board above your card(s) that shows you the balls in play.
• Game Room – Some online games divide the players into game rooms.
T.E.D. – An electronic dauber system used to play multiple packs at once. These usually require a rental fee and only one is allowed per player.
• Hardway Bingo (Hard-way Bingo) – Bingo in a straight line without the use of the free space.
• Jackpot – A big prize usually awarded for achieving a difficult pattern
such as a blackout
within a specified number of balls.
• Minimum Buy-in – The least amount you must spend to be eligible for prizes.
• Money Ball – A number drawn before the game that will double a player's winnings if bingo is hit on that number.
• Pattern – The shape you need to cover on your card with called out numbers
usually it is a straight line.
• Progressive Jackpot – A Jackpot that gets bigger until it is won. There is usually a separate buy-in for Progressive Jackpot games.
• Rainbow Pack – A paper pack that allows players to play for three or four different prize denominations at once.
• Six-pack
Nine-pack – Six or nine numbers in a block on one card.
G.T.I. – An electronic dauber system used to play multiple packs at once. These usually require a rental fee and only one is allowed per player.
• Validation – Eligibility required to win additional jackpot amounts. Price varies by number of cards played.
• Wild Number – Usually played on a double bingo that leads into a triple bingo. The first number out of the hopper determines the wild number; for example
if 42 is drawn
all numbers ending in 2 should be marked off.
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Abstract: Mechatronics system design involves the modelling of physical system before the prototype developments which has been beneficial in any system design in recent years. In an application such as controlling of robot manipulator through the actuator like stepper motor, servo motor has always been challenging with respect to the performance of controller. In this paper, the transfer function of stepper motor as well as Leadscrew is derived. The Leadscrew converts the rotational motion to linear motion. The overall system for actuation is designed with both stepper motor & Leadscrew with taking account of fractional order controller (FOPID) along with performance metrics such as ITSE, ITAE & ISE. The result distinguishes the dynamic performance of the system with the designed fractional order controller & conventional fractional PID controller in terms of transient response characteristics such as peak time, rise time, settling time & in further shows that not only fractional controller (FOPID) is better than conventional PID controller but also the result characterized with performance indexes like ITSE, ITAE & ISE holds good.
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Spin Mania Review
Work For Mums has recently been sent Spin Mania game to review. Founder of WFM, Suzannah, has reviewed this product along with Josef age 7 and Seren age 5.
What is Spin Mania?
Spin Mania is a game testing speed and agility. It's a bit like the magicians spinning plates trick but with a modern twist. It can be played solo but is much more fun with other players.
Playing Spin Mania
Instructions: The challenge is to spin-up three plates – one at a time – and carry them on your spin spike to three scattered stands. All three plates must still be spinning on their stands when you rush back to the spinning machine to stop the clock and mark your time. The tricky part is that your opponent places the stands, when you are not looking, so you must have eagle eyes, quick feet AND steady hands to win.
Suzannah's Review…
My children were very keen to help me review this product having seen the television adverts. First impressions of the product were good – the parts were well packaged and are solid and colourful. The marker pegs which are used to track the timings on the spinning machine are very small so it's a good idea to keep these somewhere safe as they could easily be lost. The spinning machine requires 2 x 'C' sized batteries.
To start with we had to assemble the plate stands and put them around the room. Our agreed playing area was the lounge and we kept to easy locations for them until we had a bit more practice. Once we were ready we turned the spinning machine on and set the timer to the start position. The spinning machine must be on a flat surface for it to work. Once the tip was spinning, we carefully added a plate and set the timer. Using the spin spike we then had to lift the plate from the spinning machine, take it to one of the plate stands and place it on the stand, still spinning. This proved tricky to start with and does take practice. Seren did get quite frustrated initially but once she had a few goes she soon got the hang of it. Josef loved it from the start and was quite competitive; he found it very amusing that he was better than me at keeping the plates balanced and spinning. Our game play lasted about 45 minutes and we have played a few times since then, each time for about 30 minutes. Josef was the winner, placing all the plates onto the stands, still spinning, before the timer went off.
I really like this game as not only is it a great family game, but it also encourages patience and persistence. It can be made more challenging/competitive for older players by ensuring the plate stands are put in various locations such as under a table, or on a shelf. It would also be great for parties, maybe as a tag style team game.
Seren: "I like Spin Mania because it's fun"
Josef: "Yes! they're still spinning, I won"
You can find out more about Spin Mania, including stockists information at www.drumondpark.com The RRP of the game is £22.99.
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Tellus360 played host to The Roses 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2017. This is an opportunity for interested parties to hear the current state of the club on several levels including participation, financials, provide new committee nominations and votes et al.
President; Eric Garman addressed a diverse audience including members of the past and present playing body.
The State of the Club
Overall, the current state of the club is healthy. Although there is still more that can be done in several areas that would assist in taking the club to the next level.
The Roses has seen an increased number of playing participants over the last 12 months predominately from people new to rugby with a smaller percentage coming from colleges or moving to the area.
The consensus of both President and Director of Rugby, Kevin LaPorte was that while it is important to attract people new to the sport, we need to continue to build better relationships with our current feeder colleges and high schools in the local area. To meet the ambition of the coaching staff, executive leadership and majority of the playing body we must continue to develop competition and depth within the first team squad. Considering our geographical challenges, it is imperative we attract experienced rugby players (High school and above) that have ties to the area. This must be done by creating a corporate social responsibility (field marshaling at the Frostbite Tourney), guest coaching, providing job opportunities and increasing media advertising.
In addition, the Roses are also looking to grow its executive leadership team and to increase its sustainability for a long-term future. This would mean having approximately 8-10 specifically non-playing members assisting with the operations within the club.
From a financial standpoint, the club is considerably healthy. Although, unable to provide specifics; Our residual income has tripled over the course of 12 months. This will continue to be a moving target over the next year as we continue to develop and build our organization structure.
The Roses would also like to recognize and thank its sponsors for their fantastic and unwavering support. The club continues to grow because of them and they have been able to provide some great services on and off the pitch. We'd also like to welcome Novacare to the Roses family. Novacare have been providing a trainer on match days which has been significant in our preparation. In addition, they have a great practice located on Granite Run Drive in Lancaster which is providing physical therapy and consultations.
We encourage players to utilize the services of all our sponsors. Please do not hesitate to ask anyone at the club how to contact any particular sponsor of the club.
Newly Appointed Executive Leadership
President - Eric Garman
Vice President - Kyle Lesher
Treasurer - Frank Bruno
Social Secretary - Barney Cannon
Old Boy Rep - Mike Deeley
Match Secretary - Brice Ohl
Youth Coordinator - Any Carroll
Congratulations to all newly appointed and re-elected committee members!
The Roses Annual Charity Gold Tournament
Last August, Mike Deeley successfully spearheaded the inaugural Roses Rugby Charity Gold Tournament. The club was able to turn a profit from the event and want to build on last years success. Key areas identified are;
- Partnering with another charity close to the local rugby community.
- Promoting the tournament to the public and local businesses to increase the participation numbers outside of former and existing affiliates.
- Aiming for over 100 participants.
- Set a higher sponsorship target to increase donations and sponsors.
Thanks for doing such a great job Mike. Looking forward to August!
Bryan Dewease representing the MAC
The MAC 2017 finals will be held in Richmond. VA.
Bryan wanted to reiterate that the winner of MAC Division II will STILL be promoted even though the league is one of the smallest and has lost a team due to lack of participation and failing to CIPP.
Once again, the league will be restructured next year and teams will be moved from an oversubscribed Division III to accommodate the very competitive Division II.
The club which unfortunately folded prior to the Fall 2016 season, Media RFC are reforming. However, they need to continue to meet all requirements from USA Rugby before being allowed to playing competitive matches.
Presidents' Award
Finally, the club would like to recognize Roses Old Boy, Don McKinney as the recipient of the Presidents' Award. Don has been ever present with the Roses and continues to set an example to all members of the club. He exemplifies what it means to wear our patch and personifies Roses Rugby. His positive attitude and unwavering determination are the reasons why there has never been a more fitting recipient. Congratulations Don!


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02/14/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1961ER) pdf | impact statement
02/20/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0050) pdf
01/10/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101883D
01/10/17 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
01/17/17 House: Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2
01/25/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
01/30/17 House: Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N)
01/31/17 House: Read first time
02/01/17 House: Read second time and engrossed
02/02/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
02/02/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (95-Y 0-N)
02/03/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
02/03/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
02/08/17 Senate: Reported from Finance (14-Y 0-N)
02/09/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
02/10/17 Senate: Read third time
02/10/17 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
02/14/17 House: Enrolled
02/14/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1961ER)
02/14/17 House: Signed by Speaker
02/15/17 Senate: Signed by President
02/15/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
02/15/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
02/20/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 50 (effective 7/1/17)
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Guerrieri University Center Art Space Presents 'Nature of Space' Through May 27
SALISBURY, MD---The Guerrieri University Center Art Space hosts the photography exhibit "Nature of Space" by Salisbury University senior B.F.A. major Christy Cox through Friday, May 27.
Studying painting at SU, Cox works for the SU Art Galleries and is a member of its creative review board. Living on the Pocomoke River her entire life has given her a deep connection with the natural world.
"The relationship between man and nature is pre-assumed and socially constructed," she said. "We create structures that impose upon and destroy existing perfection. My work seeks to erase those constructed boundaries between man and nature, beauty and filth, preciousness and disposability.
"'Nature of Space' is a series of digital photos taken from my site-specific installations with the intent to accentuate an integrated balance between the existing and the constructed. By adding uncanny objects to unexpected places, I encourage the viewer to reevaluate their version of beauty and their impact on the land. To accentuate the passing of time, my objects rest upon their surroundings and are affected by natural changes in weather or surrounding species.
"By nature I'm a materialist. I require a physical experience with everything around me. I strive for an intimacy with objects and nature and want to encourage that careful observation in others. I aim to create an environment in which the smallest parts of a thing, such as small piece of bark, can speak as loudly as the entire tree. I alter and rearrange these pieces to reconfigure my perspective and to share an altered view of the world."
The Art Space is located in the Guerrieri Center's second-floor concourse. Admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-543-6247 or visit the Art Space website at http://www.salisbury.edu/guc/artspace.


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Congratulations to all the awardees from the FOEDRC Research Day Scientific Poster Session. From the thirty-six abstracts entered, Arpit Sharma's poster titled- Loss of Skeletal Muscle Mpc1 in Mice Stimulates Fatty Acid Oxidation, Nitrogen Retention, and Leanness won the award in the pre-doc category. There were also many outstanding entries in the post-doc/Jr. faculty category, resulting in a four-way tie! The posters of Parijat Joy- Epithelial Sodium Channel Stimulation by Glucose, Trevor Fidler - Deletion of GLUT1 and GLUT3 Reveal Multiple Roles for Glucose Metabolism in Platelet and Megakaryocyte Function, Adam Rauckhorst - The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier mediates high fat diet-induced increases in hepatic TCA cycle capacity and hyperglycemia, and Terry Yin - Development of a HTS-compatible GLUT4 translocation assay for the discovery of enhancers of insulin-mediated glucose uptake were awarded in this category for their research.
Our warmest thank you to all students, staff and judges for their participation in the Diabetes Center Research Day Scientific Poster Session and Speaker Symposium. Without you, the event would not have been a success. See you next year!


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"What man doesn't wonder about what it would be like to have sex with a man?" While dining at Cracker Barrel late one night, I asked the question of a friend. Before I could even begin to muse about my own question, Don Fulton looked at me in my eyes and declared, "I'm gay." In the revelation of the moment, we found a joint love of God that we had never experienced before. In the darkness of the night, we were both afraid. Anyone who was a student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary knew the consequences of questioning the demanded sexual orthodoxy, but there was something emboldening about knowing that I was no longer alone.
While trying to make it, Don and I supported each other. Consistent questions and sheer determination were our only other allies. Life is both difficult and tragic when you hold such a secret that can destroy the life that you think you want. Though we heard Jesus knocking at the door of our closets, we only cracked it far enough to engage each other. In time, we graduated and learned to open wider the door.
The years have grown us. Through various schoolings and jobs, Don and I have learned to love and respect each other no matter the choices we make. Presently, Don serves as a Captain in the Chaplain Corp of the United States Army. I serve on the National Council of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest consortium of pacifists in the United States. Don often remains fairly traditional in his theology. I write queer theology and get called radical from every end of the spectrum. Don has rejected the concept of heterosexual marriage for his life. I fell in love with a woman and have five children. We are different…and yet we remain the carriers of a unique common history. When we get together, we have learned to lovingly both push each other and stand with each other in love. When I survey the landscape of my life, I can say without hesitation that my friendship with Don is one of the queerest relationships that I have.
Presently, Don and I have linked back up at the Alliance of Baptists Annual Gathering. Early this morning, Don looked at me and pondered, "Can you believe we are here?" I had to think for a second. When compared to other denominations, the Alliance of Baptists is a progressive place. Unfortunately, Christian denominations are woefully unprogressive and inadequate to address the various crises in our world. "On some level, I wish we were going to something a little wilder," I responded. "Maybe us two queers are it," Don replied.


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Writing As Therapy (4 week course)
From keeping a daily diary to embarking upon a memoir, from flash fiction to a full-length novel, writing can help us to shape narrative from chaos. As a tried and tested method for coping with and understanding personal crises, depression, anxiety, stress and traumatic events, the simple act of putting words on the page can have profound emotional benefits. Through writing we may attempt to make meaning from our thoughts, feelings and experiences while gaining distance from the things that cause us distress.
In this four part course on Writing As Therapy, Dr Sian Prior will lead you through a series of ideas and exercises in therapeutic writing, exploring a variety of techniques and methods that might work best for you. Each session will involve a mix of thinking, writing, reading and conversation.
No writing experience necessary; grammar, spelling and writing ability are irrelevant. All you need to bring is an urge to write expressively, a desire to resolve personal dilemmas, a journal (or notepad) and a pen. If you prefer to type please feel free to bring a laptop or iPad. There will be class activities and opportunities to share your work, allowing all written material to be kept as private as you wish.
Session One: The Situation vs the Story
'The place to which our writer finally puzzles her way (is): her own mixed feelings. First she sees that she has them. Then she acknowledges them to herself. Then she considers them as a way into the experience: then she realizes they are the experience. She begins to write.'
- Vivian Gornick
The first session is a gentle introduction to some key concepts in writing as therapy, including; catharsis, self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-transformation. Drawing on the work of Vivian Gornick (author of 'The Situation and the Story') we will learn how to distinguish between the 'situation' we find ourselves in, and the 'story' we want to tell ourselves about our life. We will employ simple writing techniques to identify the internal conversations we have with ourselves (the dialogical self), and learn how these conversations can help us resolve the challenges we are facing.
Session Two: The Made Up Self
'(In life writing) I want a sense that the writer has reckoned with the self, the material, as well as what it means to reveal it… and how stories are told.'
- Ander Monson
Drawing on the work of sociologist Irving Goffman (who developed self-presentation theory), writer Carl Klaus (author of 'The Made Up Self') and re-visiting the idea of 'the dialogical self' (introduced in the first session), in this session we will look at how we 'perform' our lives, how we 'make ourselves up' in our writing, and how understanding the different 'personas' we perform can help us get distance and perspective on our travails. American writer Ander Monson ('Vanishing Point') suggests we ask ourselves 'what's at stake' when we're thinking and writing about our lives. What remains to be resolved? How can writing help us identify and move through the unexpressed choices and conflicts in our lives?
Session Three: My Savage Mind
'I realise it's my own consciousness I need to confront. Perhaps by writing about myself I'll discover my own identity. Regardless, I'll have to stare at the rough edges of sadness in my life.'
- Patricia Foster
Drawing on the work of writer Patricia Foster (author of 'My Savage Mind') we will look at life writing as a tool for self-understanding and self-soothing. Part two begins with Finding the language of pain, where we will examine how employing writing techniques such as point-of-view (eg. first person, second person, third person voice) can help us to find better coping techniques in our lives. Finally we will be introduced toGratitude journals; how to use daily life writing to 'accentuate the positive' in our lives.
Session Four: The Honest Self
'We imagine the past – we don't remember it.'
- John Banville
We are made up of our memories but we also know that our memories can fade, warp and distort, and at times even 'trick' us. These distortions and tricks can sometimes cause us distress – at other times, they can help us. In this session we will look at how to access faded memories and identify their truth content – both factual and emotional – through writing. Part two focuses on Memory vs imagination, as we examine how to acknowledge and accept the blur between the two, and employ them both in our writing to access the 'story' in our 'situation'. We will practice 're-writing' difficult episodes in our lives with alternative endings, and then conclude the course with a view to taking writing further in your daily life.
Tuesday 4th September 2018, 18.00 - 21.00
Part One: The Situation vs the Story
18.00 Welcome and introduction
19.45 Break (times vary)
21.00 Session Ends
Tuesday 11th September 2018, 18.00 - 21.00
Part Two: The Made Up Self
18.00 Welcome and introduction
19.45 Break (times vary)
21.00 Session Ends
Tuesday 18th September 2018, 18.00 - 21.00
Part Three: My Savage Mind
18.00 Welcome and introduction
19.45 Break (times vary)
21.00 Session Ends
Tuesday 25th September 2018, 18.00 - 21.00
18.00 Welcome and introduction
19.45 Break (times vary)
21.00 Session Ends
Illustration by Kathryn Renowden.
'We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.'
― Anaïs Nin
Dr Sian Prior is a writer, broadcaster and teacher of creative writing. She has been an ABC presenter, an Age columnist and her first book 'Shy: a memoir' (Text Publishing) was published in 2014. In it she examines her lifelong struggles with social anxiety and the techniques she developed to overcome her fears.
Courses allow more time for an in-depth exploration of the topic through conversation and activities. Our courses provide an opportunity to work with leading members of our faculty over the course of a structured period.


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iS Vodka and Amanda Lepore
iS Vodka is THE cocktail sponsor for the launch party of Amanda Lepore's new perfume called "Amanda."
The party premiers in New York City with a designer iS Vodka cocktail that will be pink and fizzy. Amanda's single for her new video is "Cotton Candy" – so the color pink is the theme of this party. Pink satin pillows, pink bunting everywhere, carnival cotton candy spun from a cotton candy cart, bite-sized red velvet cupcakes with meringue icing and crystal sprinkles. Yummmm!
The banquet room will look like the inside of a genie bottle. Just 6 weeks away from the launch of PRIDE NY where Amanda will be in the parade.
Stay tuned for more details…
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|blair (profile) wrote,
on 1-15-2005 at 7:26am
|yeah, okay. it's been a little while? like a week and a day. but I've been a little bit busy. two jobs, school, etc.
I'm going to start looking for a new job to replace my boy scout job. it's just too insane.
I love my puppy more than anything. <3 really.
the news makes me cry. it's awful. I'm wayyyyy overemotional.
livejournal is dead at the moment. and it sort of saddens me. It's not that I don't have other alternatives to lj - woohu is great. it's just that I lack the friend base that I have on livejournal, everywhere else. I have 77 friends on lj, and 75 of those people have me friended on their list. 9 other people have me friended on my main account. it's insane. I think there's only like 52 friends on my secondary account, which is good 'cause it doesn't usually get updated every day.
I went to lunch with a guy from school on Thursday. we went to the commons, ate at the buffet. Now he likes me and wants to take me out on a date. and I just needed to gush about that somewhere. Maybe I lean too heavily on lj. who knows.
Michelle Kwan is beautiful.
I have to continously mention it. but I'm looking so damned good lately.
oh, and my laptop is awesome. being able to play games with the stylus pen/ touch screen is way cool, too. <3333333
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In this Disney•Pixar movie forgetful blue tang, Dory, embarks with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
Dory is a bright blue tang with a sunny personality. She suffers from short-term memory loss, which normally doesn't upset her upbeat attitude – until she realizes she's forgotten something big: her family.
Hank is an octopus. Actually, he's a "septopus": he lost a tentacle – along with his sense of humor – somewhere along the way. But Hank is just as competent as his eight-armed peers.
Bailey is the Marine Life Institute's resident beluga whale who is convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz. The good news – or bad news, depending on who you ask – is that doctors of the MLI can't seem to find anything wrong with him.
Destiny may be a clumsy swimmer, but she has a big heart. She has a big everything, actually – whale sharks are the biggest fish in the sea. Destiny resides in the Marine Life Institute, where one day an oddly familiar blue tang named Dory falls into her pool.
Marlin & Nemo
Marlin knows how it feels to lose family, and it was Dory who helped him find Nemo not so long ago. He realizes he has no choice but to pack up his nervous energy and skepticism and embark on yet another adventure, this time to help his friend.
Nemo is back to being a normal kid: his harrowing adventure abroad doesn't seem to have sapped his spirit. In fact, when Dory remembers pieces of her past and longs to take off on an ambitious ocean trek to find her family, Nemo is the first to offer his help.
All the coins come individually packaged in a perspex coin case, which fit neatly inside the velvet lined, themed outer box. The uniquely numbered, and themed, Certificate of Authenticity sits within the packaging.
This charming coin set would make a meaningful gift for any Disney fan or coin collector.
Product Code: 30-00562
Metal Content (Troy oz) 1
Monetary Denomination (Niue) 2
Fineness (% purity) 99.9
Nominal Diameter (mm) 40.00


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August 4 Ms. Jacque Campbell (M.S., faculty advisor Dr. Dave Felix), Ms. Katherine Martin, Ms. Kieu Tran (M.S., faculty advisor Dr. Jeremy Conkle) and Mr. Cole Castleberry (M.S. faculty advisor Dr. Lee Smee, now at Dauphin Island Sea Lab) officially graduate from the CMSS program at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. Congratulations for the achievements and good luck with your future endeavors!
August 1 CMSS graduate Michelle Culver (MS 2018, former faculty advisor Dr. Jim Gibeaut) is awarded the 2018 Gulf Research Program Science Policy Fellowship administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. This is a program that helps scientists hone their skills by putting them to practice for the benefit of Gulf Coast communities and ecosystems. Ms. Culver will work on the staff of the EPA Gulf of Mexico Program Office for a year.
July 18 The National Science Foundation awards a Major Research Instrumentation grant to CMSS faculty Drs. Jeremy Conkle, Hussain Abdulla, Brandi Reese, and Lin Zhang. This grant will enable these scientists to aquire a GC Triple Quadruple Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS/MS), which will be used to study biogeochemical cycling and environmental contaminants. Drs. Dave Felix, Jim Silliman, Richard Coffin, and Mr. Tony Woods are also a part of this project.
June 10 CMSS PhD students Melissa McCutcheon, Lily Walker, and Hongming Yao attend The ASLO 2018 Summer Meeting in Victoria, Canada and present their research.
May 31 CMSS PhD student Audrey Douglas receives $2000 grant from Texas Sea Grant Grant-in-Aid Program. Her research is entitled "Submarine groundwater discharge derived dissolved organic nitrogen: The overlooked component in coastal systems and nutrient budgets (Phase 2)".
Audrey Douglas - Composition and fate of submarine groundwater discharge-derived dissolved organic nitrogen
May 15 CMSS program welcomes two new PhD students - Ms. Mariana C. León Pérez (faculty advisor Dr. Michael Starek) and Ms. Kelsi Schwind (faculty advisor Dr. James Gibeaut).
May 12 Dr. Hongjie Wang (Ph.D., faculty advisor Xinping Hu), Ms. Michelle Culver (M.S., faculty advisor Dr. James Gibeaut), and Ms. Jamie Smith (M.S., faculty advisor Paul Montagna) officially graduate from the CMSS program at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. Congratulations for the achievements and good luck with your future endeavors!
April 5 CMSS MS students Katherine Martin and Michelle Culver win 1st and 2nd place at the Third 3MT competition, respectively.
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. Texas A&M
February 9 CMSS PhD student Sajjad Abdullajintakam receives funding from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation Grants-in-Aid Program. He has been selected to receive $2500 in grant funds thanks to the Michel T. Halbouty Named Grants. Congratulations Sajjad!
January 16 CMSS program welcomes new PhD student - Terry Palmer. Terry will be working with Dr. Jennifer Pollack for his graduate research.
December 22 The National Science Foundation awards a grant to CMSS faculty Dr. Hussain Abdulla on a study entitled "Peptide deamination as a source of refractory dissolved organic matter in marine sediments". This is a joint project with Dr. David Burdige at Old Dominion University and Dr. Tomoko Komada at San Francisco State University. Dr. Abdulla is the lead PI on this project with a total budget of $1.17 million.
December 18 CMSS PhD student Melissa McCutcheon wins the Atlee M. and John W. Cunningham Memorial Research Award. The award is established for graduate students in the following research focus areas: coastal, marine, and environmental sciences with an emphasis on watershed resources, processes, and policies. The Center for Coastal Studies of Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi administers this award.
December 16 Drs. Elena Kobrinski Keen (faculty advisor Dr. Richard McLaughlin) and Ryan Rezek (faculty advisor Dr. Jennifer Pollack) officially graduate from the CMSS program at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. Congratulations for the achievements and good luck with your future endeavors!
December 11 CMSS PhD students Audrey Douglas and Melissa McCutcheon win the Outstanding Research Assistant Award and Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, respectively. The College of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi administers these awards to recognize significant contributions from the graduate students to the university community.
November 14 Drs. Abdulla and Murgulet reveal decades-old hidden pollutants in Nueces Bay using advanced high resolution accurate mass spectrometry.
November 3 Kieu Tran and Michelle Culver both receive the Minorities in Natural Resources Conservation (MINRC) Student Stipend to attend the 2017 SEAFWA Conference.
November 3 Kieu Tran gets 2nd place in the Gulf of Mexico Alliance Photo Competition in the Data & Monitoring Theme (pictured Jake Berryhill, MS student in Dr. Starek's lab setting up a drone).
September 21 The National Science Foundation awards a grant to CMSS faculty Drs. Patrick, Hogan, and Reese on a study entitled "RAPID: Measuring the response of stream communities to a punctuated disturbance across a semi-arid to sub-humid gradient". This research team will conduct a series of field studies to examine the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on ecosystem processes and organisms across trophic levels of coastal streams in mid to south coastal Texas.
September 20 The National Science Foundation awards a grant to CMSS faculty Drs. Montagna, Hu, and Wetz on a study entitled "RAPID: Capturing the Signature of Hurricane Harvey on Texas Coastal Lagoons". This research team will conduct a series of field and lab studies to examine the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on biogeochemistry and organisms of lagoons in mid to south Texas coast.
September 18 Melissa McCutcheon, PhD candidate, is elected as the Student Representative for the Gulf Estuary Research Society (GERS), a regional Affiliate Society of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation. She will serve the 2017-2019 term.
September 11 Hongjie Wang, PhD candidate, publishes a paper "Decadal fCO2 trends in global ocean margins and adjacent boundary current-influenced areas" in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. This work is featured on TAMUCC website.
September 8 Elizabeth Del Rosario, CMSS PhD student, along with Marine Biology PhD student Joey Reustle, are selected by the Institute of Teaching and Mentoring to participate in the 24th Institute on Teaching and Mentoring from October 26-October 29 in Atlanta, GA. They are among the 15 minority PhD students selected from partner institutions across the Texas A&M University System on a project funded by the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program of the National Science Foundation.
September 5 CMSS program welcomes new MS students - Elaine Kurr and Mariana Carolina Nieva Tamasiunas and new Ph.D. students - Jenna Cooper, Larissa Dias, Thomas Lavigne, and Quinn McColly.
August 8 CMSS alumina Dr. Brittany Blomberg (former faculty advisors Dr. Paul Montagna and Dr. Jennifer Pollack) is named a 2017 Science Policy Fellow by the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Bloomberg is now employed at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and her host will be the Texas General Land Office.
July 10 Hongming Yao, PhD candidate, publishes a paper "Responses of carbonate system and CO2 flux to extended drought and intense flooding in a semiarid subtropical estuary" in the journal Limnology and Oceanography.
June 14-18 Dr. Paula Rose co-leads an OneGulf cruise with the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) off the coast of Texas to examine hypoxia issues.
June 14-17 Dr. Richard Coffin joins University of Auckland and University of Southern Calfornia to co-lead International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) planning in Sydney, Australia for a site off New Zealand.
June 12 Emily Cira (fall 2013 cohort, faculty advisor Dr. Michael Wetz), currently a PhD candidate, receives the prestigious Knauss Fellowship from NOAA. Check out more about this fellowship. Congratulations Emily!
May 19 Melissa Rohal, PhD candidate working under Dr. Paul Montagna, is named Student of the Month by the The Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of the Gulf Ecosystem (C-IMAGE), a research consortium funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
May 19 Six CMSS graduate students receive grants from Texas Sea Grant Grant-in-Aid Program, along with 9 other TAMUCC graduate students. The awardees and their proposed projects are listed below:
Meridith Diskin - Differences in habitat structure complexity impact predator-prey interactions
Audrey Douglas - Composition and fate of submarine groundwater discharge-derived dissolved organic nitrogen
Bimal Gyawali - Evaluation of coastal groundwater storage variabiltiy: implications on the effects of climate anomalies on submarine groundwater discharge
Melissa McCutcheon - Investigating the relationship between oyster reef substrate, sediment geochemistry, and oyster shell preservation in the Mission-Aransas Estuary
Mark McCay - Changes in the late Holocene paleoenvironment of southeast Texas reverse estuaries evidenced by multiple proxy observations: Request for funds to perform isotopic analysis of foraminiferal microfossils
Hongjie Wang - Photochemical degradation of dissolved organic carbon in Baffin Bay, Texas
May 1 Elena Kobrinski Keen (fall 2013 cohort), currently a PhD candidate, publishes an article "The billion dollar problem brewing in the Gulf" in the Environment Coastal & Offshore magazine.
April - May PhD Student Mohammad Barzegar working under Dr. Darek Bogucki, contributes to Submesoscale Processes and Lagrangian Analysis on the Shelf (SPLASH) experiment took place in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the research was about coastal ocean surface currents and how oil pollutants might be transported via these currents.
April 17 PhD student - Meridith Diskin's paper entitled "Effects of black mangrove Avicennia germinans expansion on salt marsh nekton assemblages before and after a flood" is accepted for publication in the journal Hydrobiologia.
February 3 PhD student - Meridith Diskin's co-authored paper entitled "Mangrove expansion into salt marshes alters associated faunal communities" is accepted for publication in the journal Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science.


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At some point during any given school year, one of my students, will hand me a note, supposedly written by either a parent or guardian, allowing either the student themselves or a person desiring a ride home with them, the permission to ride, and/or to get off at an alternate bus stop from the one they are originally assigned to.
Some of the notes I have been handed, over the years, have been creative, a few of them, somewhat believable. Others, however, left no question in my mind as to who may have drafted the makeshift permission slip. Until this year, my hands down favorite, was a student written note, scrawled out on spiral notebook paper, written with a highlighter. Any time one of my students hands me one of these handcrafted gems, I am thrown into a position that requires me to call them out on their mischievous forgery.
The quote that comes to mind when this happens is…
"I might have been born at night, but it sure as heck wasn't last night."
This year, I have in my possession my new favorite parent forgery, by far! I received this note just two days before the end of the school year, from one of my elementary school students. Yes, you read that correctly…elementary.
I was about half way through my elementary route when two of my fourth grade girls informed me that they had a note for me and started waving this, said note in the air. When I stopped the bus, I asked the girls to bring the note forward. Before I had an opportunity to look at the note, I began spewing forth the proper protocol for requesting a temporary alternate stop location.
I had to hold back a laugh when I received the note, pictured below. I gently tried to explain why I could not allow the child to get off where the note indicated. I was met with protests and the threat of unshed tears welling up in one of the children's eyes. Shortly after I was handed the handwritten permission slip, one of the same girls held up her iPhone and said, "Here, here is a text from my mom that says I can get off at my friends stop."
Sadly, I could not accept the text message as permission either.
By far, the sweetest forgery, of all time!


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Morges: Preliminary Orthodox proposals
01 December 1999
A record of the proposals emerging from the preparatory meeting of the Orthodox Participants by H.E. Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Ephesus
Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1998
The purpose leading to the creation of a Special Commission composed of representatives of the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches on the one hand and of the Protestant member churches of the WCC on the other, in order to confront the difficulties faced by the Orthodox churches with the goal of their unimpeded presence and participation in the life and the activities of the WCC, has been defined and gradually promoted until its fulfilment.
The Eastern Orthodox churches, through the Inter-Orthodox Meeting held in Thessaloniki in May 1998, formulated their desire and proposal for the creation of such a Commission to review those aspects of the WCC that in their view need revision and reconstruction. The WCC itself, through its eighth assembly held in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the decisions of its Central and Executive Committees, has also taken appropriate steps. Thus both sides journeyed together in the creation of the Special Commission.
The purpose of this Commission is to study, create and put into action those possibilities, occasions and presuppositions that would (1) allow the Orthodox member churches of the WCC to feel and to act comfortably within the Council, (2) prevent them from having problems of conscience and other anxieties and (3) avoid any problems or circumstances which would lead to an alienation from the ecumenical idea and the ecumenical movement, notwithstanding their estrangement from the institutional expressions of this movement, especially from the WCC, which constitutes its privileged institutional expression and instrument.
Before entering into direct dialogue with their counterparts in the Special Commission -- that is, the Protestant members appointed by the governing bodies of the WCC - the Orthodox members had the opportunity to hold a preparatory encounter and to formulate their proposals for the next steps, in order to undertake responsibly the task that was entrusted to them.
The following reflections constitute a first recording of Orthodox proposals for determining the prerequisites for an unimpeded participation of the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches in the WCC.
The methodology adopted here suggests a number of specific "areas" or "circles" of homogeneous thoughts and proposals. Presented in an appropriate manner, these ideas could form the framework for Orthodox proposals on those decisions and actions which, from an Orthodox perspective, should be undertaken and put into action by the WCC and its decision-making bodies.
At a first stage, one could envisage five such specific "areas" or "circles". Accepting them, further elaborating them, and putting them into action would certainly facilitate the work of the Special Commission, which is called to pave the way, in the form of "circles of interests", towards any decisions or actions that may lead to a new structure of the WCC. These are the following:
I. Towards a new structure of the WCC
Referring to a new structure, one could obviously think immediately of drafting a new constitution for the Council. It is clear, however, that the exercise of drafting and voting for a new constitution, especially within the present institutional mechanisms and procedural systems of the WCC (mechanisms and systems that require extremely careful, very precise and certainly time-consuming processes even for simple amendments to the present constitution) is almost impossible.
Therefore, it would be preferable to speak here of some fundamental amendments to the present constitution and consequently, of certain modifications to the rules and By-laws of the WCC.
The purpose of the proposed amendments focuses on the following points:
- to broaden the structure of the WCC, so that in the spirit of a true "fellowship of churches" a presence and participation of the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox in the WCC "on equal footing" is guaranteed.
- to pursue the necessary merging of churches, confessions and communities of the wider Protestant family, so that their presence in the WCC could be united and not fragmented. Indeed, this could guarantee a co-existence of "equal footing" of the Orthodox and other member churches of the WCC and reinforce the character of the Council as an institution serving unity and not the preservation of Christian fragmentation.
- to determine the objective criteria for the major issue of membership. Those communities which did not and do not fulfil these criteria should merge with the "trunks" they came or they come from. Otherwise, their artificial self-sufficiency and independence not only distorts the initial character of the Council as a "council of churches" but also prevents the Orthodox side from the possibility of feeling that its participation in the WCC is grounded on a correct ecclesiological basis.
- to determine rational voting procedures in the WCC, which should be applied by all its decision-making bodies, especially its Central and Executive Committees and assemblies. This would be another way of ensuring Orthodox participation "on equal footing" and avoiding fundamental problems of identity and ecclesiological self- understanding for the Orthodox.
- to give the Executive Committee (this important, small and flexible instrument of decision-making, elected from within the Central Committee) the possibility of being composed of an equal number of Orthodox and Protestant members, so that in whatever falls under its responsibility (and practically all matters do fall under its responsibility) and in important current issues, a process of "filtering" could be inaugurated, and any common decision and common action would be undertaken after a consensus reached on the basis of "an equal footing".
I am afraid, however, that under the present circumstances in the WCC this last suggestion exceeds the limits of improbability. I think therefore (and I dare suggest) that it is not only desirable, but also feasible to create a small ad hoc committee, with an equal number of Orthodox and Protestant members, parallel to the Executive Committee, with the following broad mandate: (1) to determine the agenda of all ecumenical processes and meetings; (2) to consider the necessity for the study of any subject, proposal or situation to be faced, of whatever origin and nature, according to clear ecclesiological presuppositions; (3) to have the right of rejecting (veto) any proposal or subject that cannot be accepted for reasons of conscience; (4) to obtain an a priori consensus among all sides for any specific matter on the agenda of the WCC.
- in the course of the study of each subject, as well as in the process of its final formulation, or in the stage of final decisions with regard to that study, to record the eventual different points of view of one or more churches (including the Orthodox whenever they would have such a point of view) with acute objectivity and not in a covert or impersonal way that would lead to misinterpretations and reactions within the churches;
- to take into consideration and to assess anew the ecumenical documents of a fundamental significance and weight on which the consensus of our churches has already been expressed (e.g. the Toronto Statement of 1950, the BEM document and the written reception of it, the CUV document and the responses to it).
2. Evaluation of the reasons that led some Orthodox churches to withdraw from the WCC
The reasons are certainly manifold. Independently of what the Orthodox churches involved are doing, these reasons should be examined also by the WCC with objectivity and sincerity. In other words, the WCC should ask itself: what is the degree of its own responsibility in those cases and what should and could the Council do to heal this situation?
- Each church may have its own reasons, arising from the conscience of its hierarchs, clergy and flock. In this case, the Council should ask itself whether it has a certain responsibly for such a struggle of conscience within the local Orthodox church, whether the difficulties have reached the point of erosion and whether or not the situation can be healed. If there are ways of healing the situation with the understanding and contribution of the WCC, then our reflections and proposals for its restructuring should be taken seriously into consideration, in the hope that this could constitute a healing process.
- The reasons may be of a different nature from case to case, and they may derive from internal situations in an Orthodox church. Ideas, tendencies, movements, streams and reactions nurtured by various internal rivalries can provoke an immediate echo in the relationships of a local Church with other organizations, including the WCC. In such case the Council should be extremely careful and sensitive, so that detrimental tensions and confrontations within this Church would not be created.
- There are reasons provoked by conservative and mainly fundamentalist currents and tendencies within the churches, a phenomenon that is very common the last few years. Fundamentalism, as a harmful and reactionary phenomenon and element, needs to be examined by the WCC. The WCC should adopt the most accurate position vis-à-vis this phenomenon, in order to limit evil and irreparable consequences on the life of a particular Orthodox church.
- Given these various reasons (which we have put in an hierarchical order), which directly or indirectly lead an Orthodox church to withdraw from the WCC, the Council should pay particular attention to all the cases observed and should find ways to approach them positively. The Council should avoid negative situations that provoke or nurture withdrawal from the Council. There are many such situations today, considered as serious faults or unacceptable institutional deviations. In particular, under the influence of conservative and reactionary circles, common prayer of the Orthodox with other Christians, including all the canonical implications of this practice, is being presented as a sinful and completely unacceptable act. In addition, there is the use of the WCC platform by some partners in order to project their syncretistic tendencies and practices (e.g. Canberra assembly); extravagances during worship services or eucharistic celebrations; the whole issue of intercommunion in its many forms at various levels, creating questions and problems of conscience; practices that are alien not only to the Orthodox tradition but also to some parts of the Anglican and Protestant traditions (ordination of women, use of inclusive language in theology and worship, ambiguous theological positions taken by leading figures of the movement, moral and social positions provocative to the Orthodox tradition and ethos yet adopted and promoted by certain instruments of the ecumenical movement). These gradually accumulate, broadening the spectrum of reasons forcing the Orthodox to withdraw from the Council, and causing many problems to the churches.
There is no doubt that the Council should seriously review its positions on all these matters. Courageous and decisive decisions ought to be taken; and this is what the Orthodox side rightly seeks.
3. Possibilities for the creation of parallel ecumenical movements
For fifty years it has been undisputed and indisputable that the ecumenical movement is rooted in the conscience of the wider Christianity as an institutional and existential reality, and that the WCC is the certified expression and the main instrument of this movement.
Beyond this affirmation, however, one should admit that there is outside the WCC a veiled tendency - even a movement - and therefore a dangerous orientation towards two very dubious deviations of the ecumenical movement. These tendencies worry the Orthodox churches and disturb the conscience of their faithful. The Council should avoid the temptation of following these tendencies, which we could describe in the two following forms:
- The possible universalization of the ecumenical movement through an openness to other religions, other ideologies, secular organizations, with a predisposition to syncretism, doubtful connections, interests and forms of cooperation that are alien to the nature and character of the Council as a "council of churches" and as a space of encounter for promoting together the purposes and the actions defined by the member churches which seek to serve unity, reconciliation and fellowship. These doubtful tendencies could not only become detrimental to the Council but also strengthen the alienation of its member churches, including the Orthodox. The universalization of the ecumenical idea could be far more dangerous than any even fanatical withdrawal from the ecumenical movement.
- The globalisation of the ecumenical idea and the ecumenical movement. By this I mean the concentration of all forms of conscious functions, reflections, tendencies, convictions, traditions, teachings and even essential dogmatic beliefs within a large "melting-pot", with its own mechanisms, co-ordinated by visible and invisible centres of power without any accountability and beyond any control. Within this "melting-pot" the identity and particularly the self-consciousness of the churches is either distorted or entirely lost.
In view of such a very likely siege of the ecumenical idea and reality, we need to consolidate and affirm our determination to stick to the ecumenical movement, which we have created and participated in, the movement we have already experienced, which can nevertheless be improved through healthy means and criteria.
4. The WCC and parallel structures
Together with the proposed steps for the restructuring of the WCC in order to ensure an unimpeded participation of the Orthodox churches, there are proposals being developed which focus on the creation of some parallel structures, commonly known under the term "Forum". The eighth assembly in Harare dealt with this idea. From the Orthodox side some "proposals for discussion" (Russian Orthodox Church) are being elaborated which suggest the creation of a structure parallel to the WCC, a structure called "Forum".
The suggested proposals are worthy of study. The purpose of the Special Commission, however, is to determine the possibilities of an unimpeded Orthodox participation in the WCC. It should thus be made clear that, although any alternative proposal is welcome and should be taken into consideration, in-depth study of such proposals should take place only if it will contribute to the main purpose of the Commission.
5. Theological clarification of terms in use in the WCC, with specific reference to the Orthodox participation in the Council
To a very large extent, negative impressions and negative positions in the Orthodox Churches vis-à-vis the WCC are undoubtedly created by a deficient theological understanding of theological and other terms used in the ecumenical movement. This is an old issue. It has its own history. It has drawn the attention of both the Orthodox churches and the WCC.
Indeed, the issue of terminology - the deeper meaning of terms used, their correct interpretation and their application - has been on the agenda of both the Orthodox churches and the WCC from the very beginning (the very first constitution of the WCC, the Toronto statement, the documents of Faith and Order and more recently the CUV).
The fellowship of "churches and confessions" in which we participate, the visible and invisible unity in the church and among the churches, the council of churches or the council of "families" of churches, the church, the churches and the WCC, churches and schisms, co-existence and cooperation of churches -- all these and many other formulations, expressions, terms and slogans are coming back today in the contemporary development of relationships among the churches and between the churches and the WCC.
These terms should therefore be included among the specific areas which the Special Commission is called to clarify.
If the Special Commission is created to undertake theological work as well, it should take into account this area too, with the certainty that it will contribute greatly not only to a clarification of the relationships between the Orthodox and the WCC, but to a further deepening of the broader issue of the common understanding and vision of the World Council of Churches (CUV).


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THB Abortion is ok.
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I will be the proposition and will set the movement:
The mechanism
This house believes that the abortion of fetuses before the 12th week is moral and should be legal.
I know that it is legal. I would love it if somebody who knew what they were talking about would take the case of the opposition.
The rounds will be
:Round 1 = Prop mechanism and op opening
Round 2 = prop main arguments and op rebuttal
Round 3 = Extension on any points previously made
Round 4 = summary speech
Your Youtube videos are extremely strange and unentertaining.
Your move.
I will be the proposition and will set the movement:
The mechanism
This house believes that the abortion of fetuses before the 12th week is moral and should be legal.
I know that it is legal. I would love it if somebody who knew what they were talking about would take the case of the opposition.
The rounds will be
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Round 2 = prop main arguments and op rebuttal
Round 3 = Extension on any points previously made
Round 4 = summary speech
Ok round 2, my main argument (PS screw you, my youtube videos are amazing, I hate you! I hate you! aaaaaaaaaaahuhuhu!:( Sorry, sorry about that, I just, I just really love my youtube videos.) Anyway, some arguments!
Right, so this is the main argument the proposition will be using. Up until the 12th week of pregnancy, the fetus remains and non-sentient (not alive or conscious) extension of the mother. The fetus is not alive up until this point and as such there is no wrong in removing it from the mother. If the mother wants this extra bit of flesh removed from her body, fine. Let her. It is a woman's right to have control over her pregnancy. 9 times out of 10 the reason a woman will go through with the abortion procedure for 1 of 2 reasons.
1 the woman did not get pregnant on purpose and does not wish or is not ready to bring up a child.
2, there is serious medical conditions with the baby which will make it's life a worse thing than not having that life to begin with.
So a sub-point :
Up bringing.
So what do you think the chances are of the non aborted child having a good life? Well, let's look at the evidence. In 2011 91% of abortions in the UK were carried out before the 13th week of gestation. And 78% before the 10th week. Medical abortions accounted for up to 47% of the total. And 1% were carried out because of fear that the child would be handicapped. ( This means handicapped to the point where they could still live a happy life, not something like downs syndrome.) So looking at these stats do you really think women who get abortions are baby killing monsters, or just women who got pregnant accidentally or who's child would be seriously disabled? The latter? I thought so. So let's think of a woman who did not get a child aborted. She got pregnant accidentally ( because who would abort a child they tried for?) and doesn't have the money or time to bring up a child. What do you think the chances are that the child will be put up for adoption. They are actually 1 in 5000. And with 69000 children in the UK born every year, that is a high chance. If they aren't adopted, how do you think they will live. They will put strain on their mothers for food and money. Ultimately, they will drag the family into debt. I am not saying you should value money over life, but if a woman doesn't think she can bring up a child happily then she probably didn't get pregnant on purpose and should be able to get that child adopted.
Remember the mechanism
I can't stress this enough, we are talking about abortion up to the 12th week of gestation. No later. Do not ignore the mechanism. You are trying to prove that it is immoral and should be illegal.
I'd like to thank you for taking the side of the opposition, and wish you luck in the rounds ensuing.
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I noticed you quit the debate, as I quote "InVinoVeritas forfeited this round."
I will take this to be your way of conceding defeat.
Thank you.
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Posted by wiploc 5 years ago
Thanks. I was imagining it was a kind of abortion. "THB abortion is ok." :)
Posted by TheMolestacher 5 years ago
And I don't think anyone would have an acronym in lower case letters.
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Varanasi: The DM of Ballia, on Thursday, recommended the UP Board secretary to cancel the mathematics exam of high school and conduct re-examination after the question paper of the subject was leaked a day before the exam on Wednesday evening.
A flying squad, led by auditor and nayab tehsildar Machhlishehar also sealed carbon copy of the solved paper of mathematics of high school examination found at a centre in Mirganj of Jaunpur district.
According to reports, the nexus of copying mafia and UP board staffs leaked the mathematics question paper of high school of 822CB series on the eve of the examination on Wednesday evening. The leaked paper was sold to many students. The attention of the district administration was drawn towards this when question papers of the same series were distributed at examination centres on Thursday.
VARANASI: The Chemistry question paper of UP Board inter exam leaked before the examination in Ballia district on Tuesday. Ballia district magistrate has recommended a re-examination.
The DM, however, claimed that the question paper was not leaked from any centre in the district, but through internet.According to reports, the question paper of chemistry came in the market before the beginning of the examination. DM Yashwant Rao told TOI over phone that question paper leaked through internet, as all envelops at the examination centres were found sealed. tnnHe said that he recommended for the re-examination of the paper.
The question paper of Mathematics of High School of UP Board examination also leaked a day before the examination in Ballia on February 25. The examination was cancelled and re-examination of the paper was recommended. .
LUCKNOW/ALLAHABAD: Over 5.7 lakh students of classes X and XII abstained from writing the UP Board exams in the last three days. Officials of world's largest examination body, the UP Board, claimed on Saturday that majority of these students had registered themselves for the exams simultaneously from two schools. Authorities also decided to lodge FIRs against teachers skipping invigilation duties.
According to the secondary education department, total 69.93 lakh students enrolled themselves for the class X and XII examinations, of which only 64.23 lakh are appearing for exams. This year 31.32 lakh students had registered for class XII exams, while 38.61 lakh had applied for class 10 exams involving private and regular candidates. While over 3 lakh class X students have dropped out, the figure of class XII was 2.70 lakh. There are 20,945 schools in the state affiliated with the UP Board.
Allahabad division reported highest number of missing examinees with over 1.95 lakh such cases, followed by Lucknow, Bareilly and Meerut. The board is compiling the data on day-to-day basis.
ALLAHABAD: The UP Board has miserably failed to check cheating menace in ongoing class X and XII exams. Unable to cope up with the criticism, the board has shut down the control room set up at head quarters to provide details of students caught using unfair means. The control room functioned merely for four days.
As cases of cheating continued to abound, the board decided to lock up to avoid any further criticism over high numbers of cheaters. UP Board secretary, Amarnath Verma, however, said, The divisional level data of day concerned can be obtained from the additional secretary office while that of the district can be obtained from the district inspector of school. However he
failed to give any answer as to why the system was changed.
I do not think there has been an unexpected rise in case of copycats. Everything is under control, he added. The first five days of the board exams have witnessed recommendations for cancellation of over 150 centres.
and punitive action against equal number of invigilators. Unlike the past years, the number of copycats being caught during exams of even less important subjects too is on the rise. Sources said that around 700 to 900 students were caught daily during exams of important subjects like physics, mathematics, history and social science.
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