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Fly on the Wall: A Discussion about Authentic Transformation
- Compiled by Gary Moon for Conversations Journal
- 2004 2 Sep
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to have been a fly on the wall during a conversation among members of the Inklings group– C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, etc.? While we can't help you with that, we can let you in on part of a four-hour, unscripted conversation among Dallas Willard (who is sometimes called "America's C. S. Lewis"), Larry Crabb (who wishes he had written the Lord of the Rings trilogy), and John Ortberg (who is already more famous than Charles Williams).
This Inklings group was recently together for the production of a video curriculum based on Dallas' most recent book, Renovation of the Heart . As part of the taping, a soul talk conversation was arranged. What follows are excerpts from that conversation.
Ortberg: Dallas, you've said that spiritual formation is a universal process – everybody is getting spiritually formed whether he wants to or not. How important is it for people to recognize what is forming them spiritually?
Willard: Well, I think if you can get them to start by realizing they are being formed spiritually, that would be very important because they might be able to do something about it. The question is always what kind of a person I am becoming. What are my experiences doing for me, and do I want to go in that direction? I think that's the primary question, and once you ask it, you had better know what's forming you; and it might be the things you think least of.
Ortberg: I think that at a church, people think of spiritual formation as something that happens when they sit in a service or go to a Sunday school class. But one of the challenges is, most people don't think about their spirits being formed while they are reading a newspaper or talking to somebody at work or going to see a movie.
Crabb: And people don't want to think that way. I find the whole topic frightening.
Ortberg: Because?
Crabb: Well, when you talk about being honest, to begin with, it's frightening to be honest about where I am. Just speaking about me personally, I've been saved now for about 50 years. I got saved when I was eight years old. I had a counselor tell a bunch of boys, eight-year-old kids, "Now look in this campfire. Ten-foot blazes." He said, "Guys, you've got a choice to make. Trust in Jesus or burn forever." That was a no-brainer to me. It's been 50 years since that happened. And when I get really honest about where I am, there are times I wonder if I have really changed in 50 years. Why can I still feel resentment? Why do I still treat my wife in ways I'm ashamed of? I wonder as I think about the whole topic of spiritual formation, how many people are like me and don't want to ask, "Where am I spiritually formed?" They don't want to get into this issue because it feels despairing. Can I really, really change? Is that really a possibility? Who do I know that makes my tongue hang out with a holy envy? Can I really be like that person? Wow! It's a very frightening topic, really.
Ortberg: I grew up in the church like you did, and I think often people who were held up as models of spiritual maturity were people I didn't want to be like. They were severe, judgmental; and there is a part of me that thinks, if all of life is spiritual formation, then all I should do is read the Bible. I shouldn't go to any more fun movies. I'm afraid I'm going to be cut off from what is human and earthy and full of joy and have to do stuff that is really dull and is going to kill my spirit.
Crabb: Isn't part of that because we make the distinction between sacred and secular and just assume that if we are not doing explicitly sacred things by our culture's definition, then we are involved in non-kingdom stuff, going to a movie or playing tennis or something?
Willard: I think one of the things that make this a scary topic is the sense that what forms you is something you think you can never change. For example, maybe you are stuck in a job and suddenly realize your work setting is doing a lot to form your spirit. Suppose you are working as a lawyer, and there is all that pressure to get in those billable hours. All this pressure you have really does shape your spirit. And if you are stuck with this secular/sacred thing, then you are stuck with thinking there is nothing you can do about the very things that will shape your mind.
Crabb: So the only spiritual time you have is when you are sitting in church on Sunday morning and feeling spiritual for an hour.
Ortberg: And the scary part about that is, I think a lot of people who work in an office think only people who work in churches or monasteries or convents are really spiritual. I'm very aware of the fact that I work there, and working in a church does not produce rivers of living water. Not by a long shot....
The Role of Disappointment
Ortberg: Dallas, you've talked about the importance of dissatisfaction in spiritual life. And one of the things that give motivation to seek the kingdom is dissatisfaction with life outside of it. I had been a Christian for a long time, but finally reached the point where I was able to honestly say, I don't think I'm changing. I think I'm struggling to have a quiet time on a regular basis, and I'm avoiding the same types of sins that Baptists avoid. But am I becoming a different type of person, a more joyful person? More humorous and sensible and strong? No.
Crabb: Would you be willing to share the specifics about what created the disappointment that led to a healthy approach to spiritual formation?
Ortberg: Well, for a long time [dissatisfaction] led primarily to a sense of disappointment and stagnation and guilt. Disappointment because I felt that I had invested my whole life in this thing.
Crabb: And this was after being a Christian for a number of years?
Ortberg: After being a pastor. I could have been sued for malpractice. Stagnation because I think that's just part of life. Anytime you feel like you are not making progress, growing, there's a dissatisfaction built into that.
Crabb: But what made you aware of that?
Ortberg: You know [it was triggered] when someone I was pastoring mentioned that prayer was always a struggle for him.
Crabb: And your job was to instruct him into the kind of prayer life that you had.
Ortberg: And I can remember writing to him about a quote from C. S. Lewis, from Letters to Malcolm, about how maybe the prayers that mean the most to God are the ones we offer when we are feeling dry. So I wrote about that, but even as I wrote it, I thought there has to be something more than dryness. And there was a long period for me of–I think it was just being willing to acknowledge the true state of my soul. And this was very difficult because of the way I was brought up and the current job I had. Being a prodigal son wasn't really an option. And I was a pastor.
Crabb: Plus your [making a ] living was dependent [on your role ].
Ortberg: My paycheck was connected to it, all kinds of stuff. So for a long time, it was very much a private thing. Internal sadness.
Willard: You know, I can remember as a young pastor how dissatisfied I was because I knew that much more was supposed to be happening under my ministry. That was outward directed [unlike what you are describing]. I wasn't very much aware of myself. Being Baptist, [I thought ] the main thing was winning souls. Getting converts. That was the top. And I just knew I was grinding it out. There was no flow, no lifegiving freshness to it. So I get another convert. The verse that hounded me was the verse in Matthew where Jesus says you make one convert and make him twice the child of hell as you are.
Crabb: That's a blast-you approach, isn't it?
Ortberg: That's a life-verse for a lot of people.
Willard: What I realized was that just the effort, and being clever, and not growing, but finding devices for getting results [was a trap I had fallen into ].
Crabb: Maneuvering, manipulating, strategizing...all for a good cause.
Ortberg: Another one of those things, at least for me, was trying to achieve something. Achievement was always important and partly a way of evading this gnawing internal sense of dissatisfaction. If something went well, if a talk went well, there would be bursts attached to that...
Crabb: That's called addiction.
Ortberg: Yeah, it is. And it could be on the achievement level; it could be in a number of different areas of life; it could be sexual, relational, or a number of areas. And, I think, to get to the point where I want to put that on the shelf and ask, "Am I really satisfied with my life, with the state of my heart and with the state of my relationship with God? How is that really?" That requires getting alone, putting a lot of things aside, and being willing to face a lot of unpleasantness. My world was a noisy world. So, it wasn't just things inside that inclined me not to do that. It was the pace of life, television, busyness, and lots of other things that I had to put aside and allow the pain to speak loud enough and say, "I'm not satisfied."
Crabb: So we can make the assumption that every human being, when [he or she is] honest, will sense this disappointment, this dissatisfaction. Isn't that the Romans 8 "groaning" idea that until we are complete in heaven there is going to be something that impels us further on? And I wonder if sometimes, as you say, you moved toward an interest in pursuing God more richly by recognition of your own emptiness and the pain that you were covering by busyness and success. I think God sometimes, in his mercy, allows difficult things to put us in touch with our emptiness.
Ortberg: Oh, yeah.
Crabb: He allows failure. Your success when you write a good book or a good sermon can fill that hole for a time, but never permanently. I know in my own experience probably, [the first of] the two major things was our older son's rebellion. For five years I was terrified that he would kill himself. He was expelled from a Christian university. He went to Taylor because we were told it was 50 miles from the nearest sin. I really tried to do it right. For family devotions I purchased an overhead projector. But when this happened [rebellion], I was humbled by the recognition that I was not sufficient. The other one was my brother's death. Two weeks after he died, I said to my wife, "I can't sleep tonight. There are tears I've not yet shed, and I don't know what they are." I got up and went to my study and got my Bible. I didn't know where to turn. Finally, with tears that were convulsive, I found Hosea 7, where he said, I long to redeem you, but I can't so long as you wail on your bed, but do not cry from your heart. And I was crying from my heart, and I said, "I know you are all I have, but I don't know you well enough for you to be all that I need." And then, "Lord let me find you." And that was the next level of commitment or resolve or intention...
Ortberg: When you say "wailing on your bed but not crying from your heart,"what was the difference?
Crabb: I think that a lot of us cry over our pain [in a manner] that represents little more than a complaint.
Ortberg: We want the pain to stop.
Crabb: Stop the pain, that's your job. And if you don't do your job, I have every right to go to some other source that will, be it alcohol or pornography. That's wailing in your bed, just a complaint against God. [We may feel that] now that I'm a Christian, your job is to make my life go better. Crying from your heart, I think, is just recognition, Dallas, of what you talk about so effectively–personal lostness. [Even as Christians] we still struggle with, "Am I in line with the kingdom? Am I living out the life of Jesus?" And when the answer is "No!" you realize that there is just an emptiness within you, and you can go no place but to God. And then you realize that you are not going to God in a manipulative manner, saying, "I'm empty; fill me." But there is rightness about it [the way you approach him] now. [You are saying] "God, you're it. You're perfect. You're glorious, and I want to know you better. And I believe a benefit of [knowing you] will be there will be joy, there will be love, there will be peace, but I'm not going to require [them] on a timetable. This is just the right thing to do." That's what the heart cries for; that's crying from your heart....
Spiritual Formation and the Thought Life
Crabb: We talk about spiritual formation and I feel like a guy that weighs 400 pounds trying to tell how to lose weight. If I'm going to talk about this, engage with this, I've got to make it practical for me. For years I've hated the word "practical." I seemed to reduce it to a recipe theology or a formula: do this, and this will happen in a very linear kind of way. But recently, I've come to realize that "practical" is a good word. Certainly the Lord was not impractical. There is a mysticism that is appropriate to Christianity. There is an experiential element that is crucial, experiencing God, but there are things we can do; and, Dallas, you talk about the various components of the self. You talk about the way we think, and Paul makes it clear in Romans 12, we are transformed by something to do with our minds being renewed. And a question I want to ask both of you, in your own journeys of Spiritual Formation: if the thought life is as crucial as what we believe, how do we put on the mind of Christ? That's crucial to spiritual formation. What do you do for this to happen?
Willard: Well, just briefly, what I do, and I do this constantly, is I try to put the stuff in Scripture and in theology into plain language. To me, this is one of the most helpful things I can do, to give a sense of reality to the things in Scripture.
Crabb: Can you illustrate that?
Willard: Yeah, take the idea of the kingdom of God itself, which is quite abstract.
Crabb: Most Christians have heard the phrase and have an image of a celestial city.
Willard: That's what we are thinking about. Translate into energy and try to think about energy in some connection to what you learned in physics. Capacity to do work.
Crabb: You're assuming I learned something in physics.
Willard: We didn't learn much.
Ortberg: What you were supposed to learn in physics.
Willard: The difference between potential and kinetic energy. The energy that is in action and what could be in action, and what energy does. That sort of thing. I think that is essential for me to think about it enabling me to realistically think that it [energy of the kingdom] could do something.
Ortberg: Let me give you another example of that. The Lord's Prayer, in The Divine Conspiracy– Dallas, as you write about it, you are putting theology in other words. The idea of Father (you think about what Brennan Manning writes about "father"), who art in heaven–most of us think that means way out there, at least as far away as Poughkeepsie, or something. But to think about the use of heavens" in Scripture as the sphere in which God is present, which means right here. So to look at the prayer as saying, "My father [who loves me intently and has my best interests at heart] is all around me. My Father, who is closer than the air I breathe. And then that becomes a thought. There is something about thoughts to me where they get stale.
Willard: They get very stale.
Crabb: New language helps, personal vernacular.
Ortberg: Yep, just the right word to take something familiar like, "Our Father, who art in heaven," and say, "Our Father, who is closer than the air I breathe." My mind can run with that a little bit. And eventually that gets stale, and I have to keep thinking things out over and over. But it helps. The process of putting it in new words never gets done.
Willard: Yeah, it just helps me wonderfully to do that, if I can. And [the phrase],"If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." To not let that just be a doctrine, but to be about history. This actually happened in history. It's happening right now. So, I work on that, and pray over it and struggle with it.
Crabb: Michael Card helped me with that. You know, if you are in conversation with someone who talks slowly, what do you want to do? You want to finish the sentence for him. Sometimes God seems to talk slowly, and I want to finish the sentences for him. And what Michael said helped me with this. As recently as a week ago, I was discouraged, and feeling empty. I had a busy speaking schedule, and I just wanted to play golf or something. I was dry. I said, "Wait a minute. I'm dry, and there is supposed to be water in me, and I can't taste it. What can I do to start thinking truth in a way that would lead to my heart?" I got up one morning [to spend time with God], and pardon my mysticism, but I felt led to the book of Judges and began reading about Gideon and Jephtha. And I thought, I don't get the point of this, so let me just make up my point and get on with this. That's the mistake. That's not saying, "Let me sit quietly enough to say, this is God's word and he wants to speak to me." So I sat for more than an hour just pondering the chapter [waiting for God to speak]. What was in my mind was, let God finish the sentence. That helps me put on the mind of Christ. But at the risk of sounding legalistic, we need to stay in the Word [as a way of putting on the mind of Christ], but maybe do it differently. I don't want to toss out the baby with the bath.
Willard: A lot of people do.
Crabb: They really do.
Willard: When they need to be told to do it differently.
Crabb: But stay in the Word. That may sound like a good old-fashioned fundamentalist talking, but it is good old-fashioned truth.
Willard: Well, unfortunately, it means to many people, not this life-giving thing that you describe. It's become some form of legalism.
Ortberg: It's not going to do anything for you, but do it out of obligation and then get on with the rest of your day.
Crabb: Tick it off.
Ortberg: Oh, when I was growing up, my sense of it would be, if I had a good, long, hard quiet time, then I could get on with the rest of my day and God would be happy with me. And if I didn't, the rest of the day was going to be kind of shot. And I remember having a conversation with the mom of young kids, and she said, "It was easier for me to do that when I was in college." I asked why, and she said that she had more time for that kind of practice. And it never occurred to her, and the church never taught her that it would be possible for her, while she was with her kids, to take a thought from Scripture and immerse her mind in it, to be in the Word while she is with her kids, and that counts. But we grew up with this idea that certain things count and others don't.
Crabb: This goes back to the vision issue, Dallas. Can we get a vision that the word of God can be literally food? There's the Scripture about eating the Word. I would say in my own experience, the last couple of weeks, I've had a different level of experience of eating the Word by letting God finish the sentence, by going to Him when I'm in my need. You hear so often, "Let's put aside our problems and come before God." I think that is ridiculous. Let's come as we are, struggling, empty, whatever, and assume that God actually has a feast spread. He wants to feed my soul, and the Bible is one vehicle through which he feeds my soul.
Ortberg: I think that is the other side of it. I want to feed my mind. I'll talk to folks at my church sometimes–because the temptation in the circles I run in is to think if I just get enough information, if we want to have godlier people in the church, let's just cram them full of more exegetical information–so, I tell them sometimes, "God's primary purpose is not to get you all the way through Scripture, but to get Scripture all the way through you." And that's one side of it. That's one side of it. The other side is to slow down enough to be aware of what are the thoughts that are generally running through my mind. I'll find that when I'm praying, I start having this anger fantasy about someone who used to be a deacon years ago, and he'd done something that I don't like, and I'm doing something that is making him feel really bad. Or I'm having some success fantasy where I'm doing something that's just wonderful. I used to think that those are failures in prayer, but from some wise coaching I now think, if my mind keeps going back to those things, then maybe I have some issues around anger, or forgiveness, or significance, that it would be good to talk to God about. But one of the problems is the train that my mind usually runs on is something I'm not even aware of, let alone talking to God about. So I have these times of thinking godly thoughts, but the rest of the time the life of my mind is quite apart from thinking about God.
Willard: That's the time to bring these together and welcome those thoughts. I know that when I've done that, very often, the combination of the word of God, prayer meditation, with those thoughts, rather than pushing them away [changes them]. They become different. For example, I am able to become compassionate toward the person that I was justifiably angry at....
Spiritual Formation and Our Feelings
Willard: This helps a lot and brings together that other aspect of the mind, which is emotion. Because when we bring the word of God as a living substance into us, it really does change us. My experience has been at the level of feeling. I still remember teaching a woman once; as we drove along, I was going over Romans 8 and suddenly it dawned on me what this all meant. It was like the car was filled by glory. It was so profound. I really was never the same after that in thinking about the love of God and being loved by God. I trace that back to the content of the thoughts. That's what made the connection. When we are dealing with cases like you described [when previously discussing the role of thoughts], that emotions, loaded with a bunch of images, and how foolish he made me look, and so on, I have to bring that over into the context of the content of the Word of God. And see myself to see myself differently.
Crabb: That word "content" you used, let me just put in a little first grade sentence. We're not going to be able to chew on Scripture unless we have some familiarity with it. I think it's important in our small groups and so forth to just learn the word of God. I knew about Jephtha because as a kid, I was dragged to more churches than I ever wanted to go to, and there's just a value in knowing the Scripture. Even if it feels dry for the time, it's like a first-year medical student learning the bones and the chemicals. I want to just make a plug for Bible knowledge. This emotional thing–how thoughts and emotions are interrelated–again, it was very recently I was realizing that my attitude toward my wife had to do with my feeling somewhat justified in distancing myself from her. And feeling that if she didn't respond a little differently I was really handling myself quite honorably. But then I noticed the pain in her face and knew this wasn't right. I pondered the obvious Ephesians 5 passage about loving her the way He loves me. And I realized if He loves me the way [in the same way] I'm treating my wife, I'm in bad shape. And there was a level of brokenness that changed my feelings toward my wife. I was broken. I was repentant. I went and told her that. I felt warm toward her. I went and told her that, and that one of the biggest privileges I had in life was to have her as a wife. I felt warm; it was wonderful. I'd like to think it will sustain itself for the rest of my life.
Willard: Well, one of the good things about these emotions is that they spread over the life, don't they?
Crabb: They do.
Willard: When I'm in union with my wife at this deep level, I'm in union with the world. And, conversely, I remember how not being in union with my wife would affect my children.
Crabb: When I was in private practice and going in to work to see my seven or eight clients, a number of times I had to call her and straighten out something with her, because I was of no use to anyone when I was at odds with my wife.
Willard: The Germans did studies with this and found that health benefits were associated with kissing your wife in the morning–much lower blood pressure, fewer heart attacks.
Crabb: Something as simple as that. That's the power of emotions.
Ortberg: So are the Germans doing that more now?
Crabb: My wife would like to live in Germany if that's the case.
Willard: It's a powerful kind of thing; it really is.
Join us for Part Two of the conversation tomorrow.


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Balotelli talks progressing well
Talks between Mario Balotelli's representative and Liverpool are understood to be progressing well as the club seek assurances about the player's behaviour - although any deal will not be completed in time for him to feature against Manchester City.
Reports suggest the Reds have agreed a £16million fee with AC Milan for striker Balotelli's proposed move to Anfield.
And while Liverpool have not commented, Press Association Sport understands productive discussions involving Balotelli's agent and the club took place in England on Thursday and are continuing on Friday.
Mario Balotelli is close to sealing a return to England
A key aspect of those discussions is believed to be the Merseyside outfit's desire to obtain some kind of guarantee about the discipline of the mercurial 24-year-old Italy international.
Balotelli himself remains in his homeland for now and will not be able to take part in Liverpool's Barclays Premier League clash with his former side City at the Etihad Stadium on Monday as the transfer would need to be completed by midday on Friday for him to be eligible.
Balotelli on Thursday added credence to the reports that he is set to return to English football by saying it would be his last day at Milan's training ground.
The Serie A side followed that later with a statement on their website revealing he had said his farewells to his team-mates.
Liverpool have been looking for a marquee striker to replace the departed Luis Suarez this summer but their interest in Balotelli represents a remarkable about-turn from around three weeks ago.
When the Reds played Milan in a friendly in the United States, manager Brendan Rodgers expressed admiration for Balotelli but subsequently ''categorically'' said he was not a target.
Recently, however, a move for QPR's Loic Remy has collapsed while interest in former Chelsea striker Samuel Eto'o has cooled and attempts to sign Radamel Falcao from Monaco seem unrealistic.
With new signing Rickie Lambert the only frontline support for Daniel Sturridge and the transfer deadline nearing, a move for Balotelli has become more attractive.
Balotelli is a proven performer and scored Italy's winner in the World Cup opener against England in Manaus.
But the baggage that comes with him is considerable. His spell at City from summer 2010 to January 2013 was a whirlwind one, with occasional sparkling performances interspersed with volatility on the field and erratic behaviour off it.
His numerous misdemeanours famously included fireworks being set off in his bathroom, throwing a dart at a youth-team player and training-ground bust-ups with team-mates and manager Roberto Mancini.
On the positive side he played a key role in the 2011 FA Cup win and contributed to the following year's Premier League success, but he also hindered progress by accruing four red cards.
City - for whom he scored a total of 30 goals in 80 appearances in all competitions - eventually tired of the circus surrounding him and offloaded the former Inter Milan player to his boyhood club AC Milan.
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The Hall of African Peoples explores Africa's cultural heritage from ancient Egypt to more modern times. The hall highlights lifestyles and customs—many of them disappearing—of peoples living in four environments: grasslands, deserts, forests, and river regions.
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(MCT) — HOUSTON — Three people were shot at a north Houston community college Tuesday in the latest act of gun violence to mar a school campus.
Witnesses and officials said the shooting at Lone Star College's North Harris campus erupted about 12:20 p.m. CST after an argument between two men in front of the campus library.
At least one of them was armed, authorities said. Both were hurt and hospitalized under armed guard. Late Tuesday, authorities charged one of them with aggravated assault and identified him as Carlton Berry, 22.
A maintenance worker in his mid-50s was shot in the leg and hospitalized in stable condition. A fourth person, a woman with a student ID card whose connection to the school was unclear, was hospitalized with "medical complications" after the melee, said acting Harris County Sheriff Maj. Armando Tello.
It was unclear what sparked the argument at Lone Star, which has 90,000 students and six campuses, including North Harris with 19,000 students.
"I never thought it would happen here. It's starting to become common," said Ana Coronado, 18, a veterinary student in her second semester. "When I chose that college, I chose it because I felt safe there, I felt comfortable. I don't know what to feel now."
Some students did not recognize the sounds as gunfire.
Daniel Flores, 19, was doing homework when he heard six or seven loud pops.
"I thought it was construction," he said. "Then people started running, and I knew it had to be a shooting."
Pedro Cervantes, 19, a dental hygiene student in his second semester, said there are gangs in the suburban area, mostly Bloods.
"You notice it because of the tats," he said, meaning gang tattoos, and some gang clothing on campus.
But Cervantes said he hadn't felt unsafe at Lone Star until the shooting. Now, he worries about his safety and the value of his degree.
"I'm paying for this," he said. "I don't want this college to have a bad reputation."
Lone Star Chancellor Richard Carpenter said weapons are not allowed on campus.
Training had begun for staff last week on how to handle a school shooting, he said, leading many workers to lock their doors and stay in place after the shots rang out.
"I'm relieved that we were as prepared as we were," Carpenter said. "Often people pass on that training. They say, 'Oh, that won't ever happen here, I don't need that now.' This probably made it very real. I suspect all our employees will be very eager to participate in the future."
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Three local organizations came together to give one young girl a special summer evening, with dinner and free tickets to her favorite band's concert.
There's nothing quite like live music – especially when it's by your favorite band.
Three local organizations came together to give one young girl a special summer evening, with dinner and free tickets to her favorite band's concert.
Like many teenagers, Karelle Reid, 16, of Braintree loves rock bands. Unlike many of her peers, however, she suffers from debilitating health conditions: Karelle has both mitochondrial disease and congenital muscular dystrophy, a disease that recently killed her mother's cousin.
Although she has been able to walk for most of her life, at this point she is relying more and more upon her wheelchair, although she would rather use a scooter.
Between losing a family member, growing more tired from her condition, and turning 16, it's been a "rough year so far" for Karelle, said MDA fundraising coordinator Erin Yoder Logue.
Despite her disease, Karelle lives an active life as a student and ambassador to the local chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) of Rhode Island and Southeastern New England, attending local events to spread awareness and help fundraise.
Logue was touched by Karelle's story and wanted to help out in some way. She asked Karelle who her favorite band was; when she heard that it was 3 Doors Down, who would be playing a show in Cohasset, Logue reached out to the South Shore Music Circus, asking for them to donate tickets.
"She is a very strong girl with a spitfire personality," Logue said of Karelle in her letter to the Music Circus. "I was talking with her recently at an event and asked her what her favorite bands were. I suggested One Direction and she quickly corrected me and said, 'I'm more into rock. 3 Doors Down is my favorite band right now.'"
Once Logue heard that, she also reached out to Cohasset Lt. Paramedic Rob Forde, who coordinates the department's Fill-the-Boot campaign, through the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), which raises money for the MDA.
Forde hosts a few Fill-the-Boot and Touch-a-Truck events throughout the warmer months, with several dates at the Music Circus, Shaw's and Stop & Shop.
Logue let Forde know that Karelle would be attending the 3 Doors Down Concert on Wednesday, July 30.
Forde reached out to his fellow firefighters, who all pitched in for a $150 gift card for Karelle and her guests to enjoy dinner in addition to the concert that night.
"The guys didn't even hesitate, which is cool," said Forde.
Forde said that he met with Karelle and her mother, Betty, at their home the day before the show to deliver the gift card, and said he spent an hour talking with them in their living room.
"Karelle is quite a talker," said Forde, adding that the straight-A high school student moved with her family from Arizona in order to get the best medical treatment for her condition.
Despite the hardships, "Karelle is a rock star – she's full of energy," said Forde. "Her spirit, the way she talks – she's excited about so many things. She's not letting [MD] get the best of her; it's inspirational."
Before the concert, Karelle and her entourage visited Forde during the Touch-a-Truck event, trying on the fire department's equipment and goofing off with MDA stickers, turning one of them into a mustache.
"She would've worn it all night if it hadn't fallen off," said Forde.
Forde has been running the Fill-the-Boot and Touch-a-Truck campaigns in Cohasset for the past eight years.
Logue shared in an email to the Mariner that since 2006, the Cohasset Fire Department has raised over $16,000 for the MDA through the boot drive.
Forde will be "filling the boot" at the Cohasset Stop & Shop (400 Chief Justice Cushing Highway) this week on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The next drive is scheduled for September 4, 5, 6 and 7.
In addition to giving back to the MDA, Forde said he enjoys the community aspect of the drive. "Kids get to touch a truck" and talk to firefighters one-on-one. "We usually don't get a chance to talk to people when it's not an emergency," said Forde.
For more on the MDA, visit mda.org. For more on the IAFF's Fill-the-Boot campaign, head to iaff.org.
Follow reporter Erin Dale on Twitter @ErinDaleMariner.


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The 2011 Canadian Whisky Awards
Posted by Arctic Wolf on January 20, 2012
Last year, Davin de Kergommeaux (Canadian Whisky) hit upon an idea which I thought was long overdue, the first ever fully independent Canadian Whisky Awards! These awards highlighted not only the best tasting whiskies made in Canada, but they also awarded special achievements by Canadian Whisky Distillers in areas of innovation, brand extension, and media/advertising. I supported Davin in his efforts to raise the public profile of Canadian Whisky, because like Davin, I believe Canadian whisky deserves to be recognized as a World-Class spirit.
The profile of the Canadian Whisky Awards has grown considerably over the past year. So this past fall when I was asked to participate with Davin and five other North American judges to evaluate the state of Canadian Whisky in 2011, I jumped at the chance to be involved. So it was that with Davin De Kergommeaux acting as Chairman of the Judges (and Lead Organizer), and with six more of us helping out as best we could, we set ourselves to the task of evaluating and judging Canadian Whisky for the year ending in 2011. Blind samples were sent out across Canada and into the United States for judging. We all sipped and sampled and marked down our scores. The scores were checked closely and then tallied, and of course the winners were selected.
The results were unveiled yesterday (January 19, 2012) at the Victoria Whisky Festival in Victoria, British Columbia. Here are those results:
Results for the 2011 Canadian Whisky Awards
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text: This is significant news for all scientific laboratory workers who use notebooks and software systems. Please forward this on to interested parties in your organization. We apologize for any duplications that may exist in the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (8/6/96) Contact: Rich Lysakowski, Ph.D., Executive Director The Collaborative Electronic Lab Notebooks Consortium phone: 508-443-4771 fax: 508-440-9798 (PLEASE DO NOT "REPLY" TO THIS MESSAGE. IF YOU ARE SERIOUSLY INTERESTED IN MORE INFORMATION, THEN PLEASE SEND E-MAIL TO: lysakowski at aol.com ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- DOW CHEMICAL JOINS GLOBAL CONSORTIUM ON ELECTRONIC LAB NOTEBOOKS DOW CHEMICAL HELPS DRIVE COLLABORATIVE ELECTRONIC LAB NOTEBOOKS TO MARKET IN VENDOR-NEUTRAL CONSORTIUM BOSTON, MA--The Dow Chemical Company has joined the Collaborative Electronic Lab Notebooks Consortium. This Consortium of large industrial companies is driving the creation of software systems for electronic lab notebooks and R&D team project data management and collaboration systems for the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotech, food and beverage, oil and gas, and related chemical-based industries. Dow is the fifth Fortune 300 company to join the partnership, along with Air Products and Chemicals and three as yet undisclosed pharmaceutical companies. "Scientists have long needed electronic notebooks as a way to minimize the tedium of lab work. Currently, researchers spend many hours per week writing, transcribing, cutting and pasting and otherwise transferring data in paper notebooks to record their work." observes Dr. Rich Lysakowski, the Consortiums Executive Director. He continues "Yet, paper notebooks are just one part of a much larger system for managing records, data and documents in R&D projects. The paper chase and tedious bottlenecks in productivity must be minimized. In their current paper form, notebooks are very time-consuming to use and costly to manage -- they lock up key information needed to speed up projects." Dr. Lysakowski says further that "Scientists really require very flexible, open and interoperable software tools that integrate electronic lab recordkeeping, project data management, and collaboration processes. This user-driven Consortium is coordinating the efforts of major R&D organizations through an open process that ensures emerging products fit end users needs well." Barbara Sutter, Manager of R&D Proprietary Information and Corporate Information Technology at the Dow Chemical says "The Consortium is a good deal for Dow because from the start we can specify, test and verify that vendors are building what we need -- the result is that our needs get met better, for less money. Our computer users are asking for better tools to enable them to collaborate globally, and be more productive by eliminating redundant and inefficient paper processes." Barb adds "The Consortium has an open software architecture and open business practices that lets us to pick our infrastructure and scientific toolkits ourselves, and integrate them more easily than before. The Consortiums shared vision is consistent with Dows computer strategy. Simply put, it provides us with the best leverage for our money." The two-year Collaborative Electronic Notebooks Consortium is now recruiting additional members, up to a maximum of 15. The Consortium Members are defining and funding the development of commercially-supported electronic notebooks that capture, store and manage electronic records within existing systems for groupware, document management, the World Wide Web, and other systems used in scientific laboratories. The software will permanently record and archive all common types of data from analytical, organic, biochemical, genetic, toxicology and other laboratories, including instrument spectra, chemical structures, documents, spreadsheets, DNA and protein structures, and other data. At the close of the two-year Consortium, full searching and sharing of all common types of notebook information will be possible from the commercially available products. The notebook software clients will be have a modular architecture that include plug-ins that specialize notebooks for different types of labs and job functions. The Consortium is pulling together all necessary pieces, which exist now, and using them in the right combinations to satisfy the major requirements for both scientists and their support staff. For example, the Consortiums lab notebook software systems will allow chemical structures and spectra embedded in existing products to be referenced and easily used, including products such as CAS SciFinder, Beilsteins CrossFire, MDLs ISIS, Daylights tools based on SMILES, Tripos, Oxford Moleculars tools based on CommsManager, Galactic Industries GRAM/3D, Hewlett Packard, Perkin Elmer, Beckman, and many others. Scientists typically use more than one chemical structure handling product and must access specific subsets of the 50+ million compounds in databases spanning several of the aforementioned vendors. Scientists also typically use many different instrument and spectral data systems. Analytical instrument data systems and LIMS are other classes of software that will eventually be integrated into the collaborative electronic notebook systems. The Consortium has already started defining practical standards, benchmarks and best practices for procedures that meet all the major legal and regulatory requirements for open systems that manage electronic records in accurate, trustworthy, reliable ways. The Collaborative Electronic Lab Notebooks Consortium has been operational since December 1995. It expects to deliver its first software and knowledge packages by early 1997. Interested companies with a need for electronic notebooks and team project data management and collaboration systems for R&D and testing labs are invited to join the Consortium now. Consortium Members receive large software discounts, determine system specifications and get early access to software. Potential Members are encouraged to join before October 11, 1996, after which the membership rates will increase. Qualified vendors of electronic lab notebooks, groupware, document and workflow management, LIMS and instrument interfacing systems, scientific information databases, and integration tools will be awarded contracts to develop and support the Consortium software. Companies interested in becoming Consortium Members should contact: Dr. Rich Lysakowski, The Collaborative Electronic Notebooks Consortium, 8 Pheasant Avenue, Sudbury, MA 01776. E-mail: rich at teamscience.com, Tel: 508-443-4771. Fax: 508-440-9798. CONSORTIUM BACKGROUND INFORMATION The electronic lab notebook systems and tools will come from several leading scientific software vendors selected by the Consortium. Because lab data formats and applications are so specialized, varied, and constantly changing, supporting all common scientific lab data types is beyond the scope of any one scientific software vendor. For example, a medium-sized drug company in the consortium states that it must support over 400 different commercial applications every year in Research alone. Application and data integration is an almost insurmountable challenge for end users and support staff. Other key Consortium deliverables include point-and-click application integration tools that encapsulate existing softwares, turning them into standard objects that easily plug into electronic notebooks clients and servers. These tools will allow Consortium Members to configure multivendor solutions at a fraction of current costs. Scientific software markets comprised of niche vendors focused on LIMS, instrument data systems, chemical and biological information systems, and numerous data processing and reporting applications. Niche vendors have failed to meet the legal, regulatory, and systems integration requirements to create successful electronic notebooks -- as evidenced by the failure of the ResearchStation product and Helix Systems, Inc. in 1995 and the withdrawal from the market of the ForeFront Group, Inc.s Virtual Notebook System in 1996. Organic and medicinal chemists working in combinatorial chemistry, high-throughput screening and other types of scientific labs have stated they would like interfaces that give them equal access to each of these products from within the Consortiums electronic notebook systems. The systems must simultaneously serve and go beyond vertical market segments such as chemistry, biology, and materials science. Although chemical structures are important for many research labs, most needs for electronic notebooks exist in labs where few if any chemical structures are used. Companies in the consortium have learned the lesson that they cannot afford to replace their infrastructure with products from scientific niche vendors for something as important as the corporate intellectual property contained in their R&D records. Most R&D companies have already committed their infrastructures to one or more general-purpose base platforms for Web groupware, data, or document handling, such as Lotus Notes, Microsofts Exchange, NetScape WebServers, Documentums EDMS, Interleafs Intellect/BusinessWeb, Saros Mezzanine, Oracle and others. This precludes companies from switching to vertical solutions from a single scientific software vendor. The Consortiums strategy is to leverage existing investments by building on top of and integrating such base platforms, which will be chosen within the next few months. The tools logically must come from several software markets simultaneously. The World Wide Web, MS-Windows, and Macintosh computers are target operating systems for the electronic lab notebook and team project data management systems. _____________________________________________________________________________ The Dow Chemical Company is the largest US chemical company, operating 94 manufacturing sites in 30 countries. Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA, Dow is diversified into basic commodity and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, polymers, solvents, agrochemicals, consumer products, and environmental services. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is one of the largest suppliers of industrial gases and equipment worldwide. Headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA, Air Products maintains a strong partnership with companies in delivering gases for all applications, specialty and intermediate chemicals, and environmental and energy systems. 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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26757AS EXPECTED, Microsoft has just outlined plans for a range of new corporate security services and products.
CEO Steve Ballmer and security VP Mike Nash jetted in to Germany to flesh out the announcement, which covers virus, spam and spyware protection.
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"To help our customers combat the evolving threats and to have those rights protected, we are taking a holistic approach to security that includes developing new technology, partnering with the industry and keeping customers as educated as possible about how to stay ahead of the latest threats facing them," said Nash.
Theres also going to be a new anti-virus and anti-spam product next year based around the vendors buyout of Sybari earlier this year.
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The spring production presented by National Technical Institute for the Deaf Performing Arts is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory beginning April 25 in the Robert F. Panara Theatre on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus.
The production is co-sponsored by MSM Productions, Ltd.
Roald Dahl's mischievous tale of five children who win coveted Golden Tickets granting them a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour the mysterious and magnificent chocolate factory, escorted by its owner, the reclusive Willy Wonka, will be presented in American Sign Language, spoken English and captions.
This is the only stage where this unique method of acting with sign language, voice and captioning happens simultaneously and seamlessly. Everyone can understand the plot.
Directed by Jim Orr, 80 cast and crewmembers are participating in the colorful production. RIT/NTID students also constructed the set.
Willy Wonka will be played by Matthew S. Moore, a RIT/NTID alumnus and founder and publisher of Deaf Life magazine. Moore, of Rochester, is no stranger to the stage.
"I'm co-sponsoring this production because I support the performing arts department and ASL theater. When I was a student, the Panara Theatre was my home. This is where I learned what 'theatrical signing' was all about. I want other RIT/NTID students to experience this excitement, the creativity, the personal growth, and I want the audience to be wowed and to have fun. I want this production to be the best we can possibly do, a higher level of professionalism fit for Broadway."
Six performances are scheduled: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25; Friday, April 26; Saturday, April 27; Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4; a 2 p.m. matinee is scheduled for Sunday, April 28.
Tickets are $5 for students and seniors, $7 for others, and may be purchased at the box office (if available) one hour prior to the show, reserved by calling the NTID Box Office at 585-475-6254 or emailing email@example.com.
The Panara Theatre is in Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall, next to parking lot L.
For more information, visit www.rit.edu/NTID/theatre.


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BROCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) — The boyfriend of a New York college freshman beaten to death in her dorm room has been indicted by a grand jury.
Monroe County district attorney's office spokesman David Marion says a grand jury voted on the indictment Wednesday. He says he can't discuss its contents because it hasn't been filed in court.
New Hartford resident Clayton Whittemore pleaded not guilty earlier to murder. He's accused of killing 18-year-old Alexandra Kogut. He's been in custody since shortly after Kogut's body was found Saturday at the State University of New York College at Brockport.
The 21-year-old Utica College student is scheduled to appear Thursday in Sweden Town Court as Kogut's family and friends gather for her funeral 150 miles away in New Hartford.
Kogut's family says it's "grateful" for the community support it has received.


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On April 28, 2011 I presented part of a free presentation on SQL Server Disaster Recovery and Prevention. This online presentation will be available (on-demand – starting the day AFTER the presentation) for 3 months after the initial delivery date, and covers core consideration for addressing database corruption and disasters in SQL Server environments.
Session Details
Here's a copy of the abstracts or overview for my session:
Despite increasing trends towards the use of SQL Server High Availability (HA) solutions to pro-actively mitigate down-time, HA solutions simply can't protect against all forms of disaster - especially database corruption. DBAs therefore need to utilize a defense-in-depth approach that properly emphasizes regularly scheduled and tested backups along with the need to regularly check for and know how to properly address problems stemming from data corruption.
In this free, hour-long Web seminar, independent SQL Server expert Michael K. Campbell will talk about best practices for using BACKUP, RESTORE, and DBCC commands to keep your organization's data protected in the event of disaster. You'll also learn how to confidently implement regular backups and address problems with database corruption in emergency scenarios - while gaining practical insight into how to mitigate down-time and decrease data loss.
You will learn the underlying technology and use of how disaster prevention tools can work better for your business. Restoration tools enable users to mount backups as live databases, get access to database backups with read and write options as well as allowing for large space savings and faster backup access.
If you have any questions on corruption or disaster recovery and prevention, I therefore recommend you take an hour and watch this presentation if you haven't already done so.
Additional Resources
During this presentation I blurred through a lot of technical content, and made reference to additional resources. Consequently, I'm providing links to those additional resources in this post.
Additional Background and Tutorials on Backup Basics
As part of my presentation, I covered that there wasn't enough time to address backup basics – but that I had made 2.5+ hours of Free SQL Server Videos available that cover backups. As such, here's a link to 2.5+ hours of free SQL Server videos on SQL Server Backups. (And I can't stress enough, again, that unless you are very familiar with the process of executing backups and recovering databases, then you're not prepared for disasters.)
Additional Background and information on DBCC CHECKDB (and friends)
My session BLURRED through corruption and correction techniques. Paul Randal (blog | twitter) was part of the team that built DBCC CHECKDB, and provided a phenomenal presentation on DBCC CHECKDB internals – which I recommend that you watch if you're curious to learn more. (Note, however, that Paul is showing the ins and outs of this feature of SQL Server. Best advice still remains that you should use backups in almost ALL cases to recover from corruption – as explained in my presentation.)
PAGE_VERIFY option for SQL Server Databases
As part of my presentation, I covered how PAGE_VERIFY can be used to pro-actively detect corruption or IO problems. Setting this option is part of ALTER DATABASE and is best set to the CHECKSUM option.
MSDB's suspect_pages table
During my second demo, I used suspect_pages to determine which pages were corrupt – to speed the restoration process. Managing this table is up to you – as outlined in books online.
SQL Server Page Restores
In my second demo, I showcased how to use the PAGE switch/option in RESTORE to target specific pages. Books Online outlines this technique here – along with guidance/caveats/etc.
DBCC CHECKDB/etc
Throughout my presentation I kept referring to DBCC CHECKD and 'friends' in the sense that DBCC CHECKDB 'wraps' or is the super-set of multiple DBCC commands. As with backups, you need to be familiar with these tools and commands if you're going to be an effective DBA. Consequently, the following links within Books Online are essential reading:
And note, too, that Paul Randal provided additional information/insights/guidance on many DBCC commands back when he was working at Microsoft.
I made an oblique reference to DBCC PAGE – a non-documented feature of SQL Server that you can use to view information in your individual pages. Additional information found here.
Setting up IO Alerts
Finally, as part of my presentation, I recommended that you set up alerts for SQL Server Errors 823,824, and 825. To do this, run the following command:
USE msdb GO EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name = N'823 - Read/Write Failure', @message_id = 823, @severity = 0, @enabled = 1, @delay_between_responses = 0, @include_event_description_in = 1 GO EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name = N'824 - Page Error', @message_id = 824, @severity = 0, @enabled = 1, @delay_between_responses = 0, @include_event_description_in = 1 GO EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name = N'825 - Read-Retry Required', @message_id = 825, @severity = 0, @enabled = 1, @delay_between_responses = 0, @include_event_description_in = 1 GO
Then, you'll want to zip into the SQL Server Agent, expand the Alerts node, and double-click on each of these alerts, and set up a response from the Response tab (i.e., such as setting up email alerts and so on.)
Slides and Presentation Demo
Update: I received a couple of requests for slides and some questions about the orchestration of my demo. (The demo was pretty simplistic – but I think folks are mostly curious about the order of operations for a RESTORE operation involving the PAGE parameter.)
So, I've included a copy of both my slides and a simple demo script in a .zip file (353KB) here.


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Children demand justice for trayvon
Two kids hold signs demanding justice for Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black teenager in Florida who was killed by a community watch member who thought he was suspicious, at a protest organized by the 102 JAMZ "Wild Out Wake Up Show" hosts at the Murrow Boulevard Post Office on March 23.
Martin was returning from buying Skittles when George Zimmerman, the admitted shooter, followed and killed him. Zimmerman has not been arrested and Martin was unarmed, sparking nationwide outrage.
Over a hundred people showed up to mail letters and bags of Skittles to the Sanford, Fla. Police Department in protest of their handling of the case. The sign pictured reads, "Dear sir, I am 10 years old it could have been me." People across the country have worn hooded sweatshirts like Martin as a sign of protest to racial profiling. "Being black and having a nephew… it's painful to know they can't walk down the street without being a suspect for something," UNCG biology and pre-med student Phylicia Spivey said. "It's a problem anywhere because it can happen in any neighborhood."
Her friend Lauren Lamelle, who attended the event at the post office with her, works with youth at the YMCA. "If that ever happened to one of my kids [at the YMCA] I would be hearbroken," said Lamelle, a media studies student at UNCG. "The man who shot him should go to jail."
High Point resident Shawn Wilson expressed a similar sentiment for why he attended. "It's a sad tragedy. We're not going to sit down and take it, especially a youth," Wilson said. "He was perceived to be about some violence and all he was doing was walking to the store."
Hundreds of residents marched through downtown Greensboro for Martin on March 24 demanding justice for Martin and drawing parallels between cases of police brutality and criminalization of youth of color both nationally and locally. Signs read "I am Trayvon Martin," "Does my skin color threaten you?" and "Justice for Trayvon." At a rally after the march, a 14-year old girl addressed the crowd.
"Now I'm worried, am I next?" she said. "A democracy ain't gonna mean nothing unless we say so." — photo and story by Eric Ginsburg


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something to make this site better?
maybe keeping the row to the left, the "my settings"(?) row
The site kinda already has something like that. The member functions list, edit my profile, edit site options, edit signature and etc....
thats the one!
what i mean is, when you post a thread, the menu isnt there anymore.. you have to click the "home" link to return to it..
That might crowd the screen if'n you put the menu on every page, MO. . .
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text: City of Garland aquatics staff received an "exceeds" rating on their first operational safety audit of the pool season. The audits are conducted by Ellis and Associates, an international aquatic safety consultant. The "exceeds" rating given to Garland staff is the highest possible for an Ellis and Associates safety audit. The process involves auditing lifeguards on scanning and rescue skills, and pool managers are also evaluated on their supervisory performance. Two more safety audits will be performed by Ellis and Associates over the remainder of the pool season. For the previous four years, Ellis and Associates has recognized Garland aquatics staff for consistently exceeding their criteria for swimmer safety. The City of Garland operates four aquatics facilities. For more information, visit http://www.garlandparks.comor call 972-205-2750.


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Wet Conditions Delay Final Minnesota Planting Push
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Wet conditions are delaying a final planting push by Minnesota farmers.
Ninety-six percent of Minnesota's expected corn acreage has been planted, which is just 1 percentage point behind the five-year average. Soybean planting is 86 complete. That's 3 points behind the five-year average.
A statewide average of three days were suitable for fieldwork last week.
In its weekly crops progress and condition report for Minnesota, the U.S. Department of Agriculture also said Monday that corn emergence is 89 percent, or 2 points behind the average. Sixty-five percent of the soybean crop has emerged, up 27 points from a week ago.
Eighty percent of the state's corn crop is rated in good or excellent condition. The first soybean condition ratings for the year came in at 77 percent good or excellent.


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TV and music pioneer Dick Clark dies at age 82
American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer. The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark; at least one popular musical act—over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run DMC—would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles. Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon holds the record for most appearances at 110.
The show's popularity helped Dick Clark become an American media mogul and inspired similar long-running music programs, such as Soul Train and Top of the Pops. Clark eventually assumed ownership of the program through his Dick Clark Productions company.
It premiered locally in late September 1952 as Bandstand on Philadelphia television station WFIL-TV Channel 6 (now WPVI-TV), as a replacement for a weekday movie that had shown predominantly British movies. Hosted by Bob Horn as a television adjunct to his radio show of the same name on WFIL radio, Bandstand mainly featured short musical films produced by Snader Telescriptions and Official Films, with occasional studio guests. This incarnation was an early predecessor of sorts of the music video shows that became popular in the 1980s, featuring films that are themselves the ancestors of music videos.
Historic marker at WFIL studiosHorn, however, was disenchanted with the program, so he sought to have the show changed to a dance program, with teenagers dancing along on camera as the records played, based on an idea that came from a radio show on WPEN, The 950 Club, hosted by Joe Grady and Ed Hurst. This more-familiar version of Bandstand debuted on October 7, 1952 in "Studio 'B'," which was located in their just-completed addition to the original 1947 building (4548 Market Street), and was hosted by Horn, with Lee Stewart as co-host until 1955. Tony Mammarella was the original producer with Ed Yates as director. The short Snader and Official music films continued in the short term, mainly to fill gaps as they changed dancers during the show—a necessity, as the studio could not fit more than 200 teenagers.
On July 9, 1956, Horn was fired after a drunk-driving arrest, as WFIL and dual owner Walter Annenberg's The Philadelphia Inquirer at the time were doing a series on drunken driving. He was also involved in a prostitution ring and brought up on morals charges. Horn was temporarily replaced by producer Tony Mammarella before the job went to Dick Clark permanently.
In late spring of 1957, the ABC television network asked their O&O's and affiliates for programming suggestions to fill their 3:30 p.m. (ET) time slot (WFIL-TV had been pre-empting the ABC program with 'Bandstand'). Clark decided to pitch the show to ABC brass, and after some badgering the show was picked up nationally, becoming American Bandstand on August 5, 1957.
"Studio 'B'" measured 80'x42'x24', but appeared smaller due to the number of props, television cameras, and risers that were used for the show. It was briefly shot in color in 1958 when WFIL-TV began experimenting with the then-new technology. Due to a combination of factors that included the size of the studio, the need to have as much space available for the teenagers to dance, and the size of the color camera compared to the black-and-white models, it was only possible to have one RCA TK-41 where three RCA TK-10s[1] had been used before. WFIL-TV went back to the TK-10s two weeks later when ABC-TV refused to carry the color signal and management realized that the show lost something without the extra cameras.
Clark would often interview the teenagers about their opinions of the songs being played, most memorably through the "Rate-a-Record" segment. During the segment, two audience members each ranked two records on a scale of 35 to 98, after which the two opinions were averaged by Clark, who then asked the audience members to justify their scores. The segment gave rise, perhaps apocryphally, to the phrase "It's got a good beat and you can dance to it." In one humorous segment broadcast for years on retrospective shows, comedians Cheech and Chong appeared as the record raters.
Featured artists typically performed their current hits by lip-synching to the released version of the song.
The only person to ever co-host the show with Dick Clark was Donna Summer, who joined him to present a special episode dedicated to the release of the Casablanca film Thank God It's Friday. Throughout the late `50s and most of the `60s, Clark's on-camera sidekick was announcer Charlie O'Donnell, who later went on to announce Wheel of Fortune and other programs hosted or produced by Clark, such as The $100,000 Pyramid.
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Jerome Harrison (born February 26, 1983) is an American football running back for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Washington State.
Harrison played college football at Washington State, where he transferred after two years at Pasadena City College. Although he played most of his junior year behind starter Chris Bruhn, he finished the last five games of the year with over 900 yards. His senior year saw greater playing time and great success. He broke the record for most consecutive games with 100 or more yards by a Pac-10 runner, with 16, and set the Cougar single-season rushing record with 1,900 yards, which also led the NCAA Division I. He was a consensus All-America choice in 2005. He was a major in Humanities/Communications.
Harrison was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round (145th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft.


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A glance at the list of men's singles champions at Wimbledon the last dozen years reveals plenty of pleasant-enough looking chaps, though not a single slam-dunk male model in the bunch.
No matter. Each one was instantly fawned over the moment he held the trophy aloft, celebrated for toughness, smarts and the kind of devotion that knows no quit.
Marion Bartoli displayed all of those qualities — and more — on the way to winning Wimbledon in this most tumultuous of years. But because she's a woman, at least one man behind a microphone couldn't stop there.
His name is John Inverdale, and even as Bartoli headed toward the spectator's box where the father who taught her to play tennis sat, Inverdale's listeners on BBC Radio were treated to some musings about how she came to possess a champion's ability.
"Do you think Bartoli's dad told her when she was little, 'You're never going to be a looker? You'll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight.'"
Inverdale has apologized, of course, though that hardly came off better than his original remark. The BBC did, too, before reporting that nearly 700 viewers called in as of Monday night to complain. It's kicked up a row in print, on the airwaves and across social media over in Britain similar to the one that buzzed briefly over here when Brent Musburger awkwardly rambled on about Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron's girlfriend during the broadcast of the college football national championship.
The principals who find themselves the subjects of such remarks rarely make it out of the ensuing media circus gracefully, but the Bartolis are proving themselves rare exceptions.
For her part, Bartoli showed up for the champion's dinner looking like a model — "her dark hair down in a loose wave ... figure-hugging black dress ... sky-high ankle boots," as one British newspaper breathlessly reported — and then said, "I invite this journalist to come and see me this evening in ball gown and heels, and in my opinion he could change his mind."
When her father, Dr. Walther Bartoli, was asked about Inverdale's comments, he simply said, "I am not angry. She is my beautiful daughter. The relationship between Marion and me has always been unbelievable, so I don't know what this reporter is talking about."
Neither did Inverdale at the time — and that's the real shame in this whole mess. There actually is a long, very tender and very complicated backstory behind the latest Wimbledon champion and her father that has nothing to do with her "looks."
Walther Bertoli was Marion's first coach, largely reponsible for her jarring style. She plays aggressively, but isn't very fast. She hits two-handed off both sides, a strategy Walther Bartoli insisted she master after watching Monica Seles rise to the top of the heap nearly 20 years ago. His guidance was important enough that only last summer, Bartoli reportedly turned down a chance to represent France at the London Olympics because of national federation rules about having private coaching at a previous event.
But this past February, Bartoli arrived at the same crossroad that a number of great athletes and their parents-as-coaches often do. She and her father parted ways, and after some shopping around Bartoli wound up settling on former Wimbeldon champion and countrywoman Amelie Mauresmo. And indeed, she got fitter and more mobile.
Bartoli didn't drop a set throughout the past fortnight, an impressive feat when you consider how all the top seeds stumbled, including Maria Sharapova, who actually works in her spare time as a model.
Bartoli was beset by plenty of the same nerves that felled the rest. Watching her hop back and forth awaiting serves can make you twitchy, but it's one of those things Bartoli relied on since she was young to help cope with the pressure.
Old habits are hard to break, which also explains why she looked often in her father's direction during her win over Sabine Lisicki in what was a mistake-filled final. Bartoli had been in Lisicki's sneakers in 2007, when she lost the title match to Venus Williams. No one likely understood better the distance she had traveled since that day than Walther.
No doubt he told her, from the time Bartoli was small, that she'd have to "be scrappy and fight." Inverdale got that part right. Plenty of athletes have heard the same thing from one parent or another over and over throughout their careers.
But the other part, the part about how she was "never going to be a looker" is not just cruel, it's stupid. Because if it were true, we'd have precious few champions to fawn over — man or woman — in the first place.
Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at email@example.com and follow him at Twitter.com/JimLitke.


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Larry Getman '89, vice president at Xilinx, is the featured speaker at the upcoming Dean's Alumni Speaker Series event. He will present "Being a Career Chameleon" at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Xerox Auditorium in Gleason Hall.
Getman's presentation will focus on discovering strategies that work to keep an engineer's career fresh and some key skill sets needed across multiple disciplines.
As vice president of the Processing Platforms Division, Getman is responsible for leading Xilinx's All Programmable system-on-chip business strategy, including product definition, ecosystem development and product line marketing for the company's flagship Zynq technology. Since joining Xilinx in 2004 when it acquired Triscend Corp., Getman has held executive management positions in corporate development, processing business development and marketing.
Prior to work at Xilinx, he served as vice president of business development at Triscend Corp. and held engineering and sales positions with Credence Systems and National Semiconductor. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from RIT and an MBA from San Jose State.
The Dean's Alumni Speaker Series is sponsored by the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and RIT's Office of Development. Contact Donna Benier at firstname.lastname@example.com or 585-475-4045 for more information.


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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, "class struggle" is portrayed as an intensely personal affair, as much a tension within the mind of a single character as a conflict between characters. Students' own experience of the struggle to belong can provide a starting point for an exploration of the mixed emotions--jealousy, admiration, desire, resentment--that characterize main character Nick Caraway's attitude towards the "secret society" of wealthy Easterners. Other lesson activities also include a close study of the text and an examination of Fitzgerald's letters and other statements.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal recovery and relief program provided more than a quarter of a million young black men with jobs during the Depression. By examining primary source documents students analyze the impact of this program on race relations in America and assess the role played by the New Deal in changing them.


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The Basketball Wives officially return tonight with the premiere of their third season!
The new season began filming almost immediately following the season 2 reunion show so the drama is still very fresh with all the ladies. Tami Roman is still reeling from finding out Evelyn Lozada slept with her ex-husband, plus you know, that whole being called a "non muthaf*cking factor" thingy too.
A newly single Jennifer tries to find her way, a newly out of the circle Royce mends her friendships with Suzie and Tami, while Shaunie tries to stay out of the drama. New castmember Meeka Claxton also makes her debut tonight and wastes no time in getting right into the thick of things.
In an interview with NicoleBitchie, Shaunie O'Neal talks whether Gloria Govan is returning, slams Royce and takes a not so subtle dig at Meeka by pretty much saying she was desperate to get on the show. Excerpts are below –
Shaunie On Royce – "Royce is back. But truthfully I don't really deal with her this season. After her behavior at the reunion show, I realized she wasn't someone I wanted to give my time to… I think the rest of the girls and I have realized that Royce is the type of woman that constantly has to have some sort of drama going on, so we've come to expect it. She's involved in some drama now, with Jen over the leaking of Royce's pictures. So I try not to deal with her."
Shaunie On Meeka's Persistence In Joining The Show – "Meeka was very persistent. She reached out to us regularly, emailing her credentials, pictures, really letting us know why she belonged on the show."[…]Well she's already found some drama. I can't give too much away but let's just say, she had to learn the hard way."
When asked whether Gloria will be returning this season, Shaunie replies, "Gloria is actually going to be apart of another show I'm doing." As you all know, Gloria is currently a Lakers wife-in-waiting living in Los Angeles, which makes us wonder if a Basketball Wives Los Angeles spinoff is in the works.
The new season premieres tonight on VH1 at 8/7c. You can click here to watch the season 3 trailer!