text: Student Profiles Paul Jung '06 Paul Jung '06 Home: Los Angeles, California Major: Sociology and Government Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? When I was a senior at Los Angeles Senior High School, my counselor encouraged me, along with several other classmates, to attend a November Weekend Invitational that Bowdoin was offering. So I jumped at the opportunity to explore the east coast. At the time, Bowdoin was continuing its vigorous campaigning to recruit a more diverse student population. When I got on the plane and flew over Maine's mid-coast region, I saw pine trees, estuaries, salt marshes, and rocky shores that I had only recently read about in AP Environmental Science textbooks. I thought that Bowdoin would be an ideal location for me to live my fantasy of becoming a crusader for environmental conservation and preservation. Once I touched ground, the crisp air was invigorating and I instantly connected with many students, particularly the Russwurm AfAm [African American Center] house residents, who inspired me with their life stories of overcoming adversity, which in some ways sounded similar to mine. As I returned home, I envisioned attending a residential liberal arts college such as Bowdoin. Bowdoin, I imagined, was where I would be able to become a bold leader. Why did you choose your major? I took Sociology 101 my first semester at Bowdoin and I decided right then and there that Sociology would be my major. Nearly everyone can identify a life-altering event that has shattered or shook their comfortable glass wall. The '92 L.A. Riots/Uprising was such an event for me, and sociology was a discipline that allowed me to understand the complexities of group interactions. I also took a challenging government first-year seminar titled "Contemporary Issues in World Politics" and was subsequently very interested in learning more about the contemporary debates and issues in the realm of world politics. In my junior year I realized that I had taken so many government courses that I decided to double major. What has been your favorite course at Bowdoin? This is really difficult to pinpoint. But one course that immediately comes to mind is an urban sociology course I took last spring that was taught by former Assistant Professor of Sociology Kirk Johnson. I admit that I entered the class thinking I knew more about urban life than most students. But I was immediately humbled once my own prejudices about urban communities were challenged. Urban areas are incredibly dynamic and the course allowed me to realize that common misperceptions of inner cities as vapid and dangerous can have an immense impact on urban public policies, which can also lead to unintended consequences for people living in urban areas. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? I have worked at Thorne Dining Hall since my freshman year and I had a lot to learn about work back then! The dining hall was my first experience working for a wage and I started off in the dish room where you get to see all the food waste and end up leaving the shift smelling not exactly like flowers. It was hard work and I contemplated quitting on many occasions. However, my perspective on work changed as I gradually got to know the non-student workers who turned out to be friendly people who were working very hard for a living. I am currently among several student workers who are student managers at Thorne Dining Hall and I am delighted to do my part to help improve the dining hall experience. I have been a member of the Korean American Students Association (KASA) and this is my second year as club president. Our biggest challenge has been to ensure that students of all backgrounds feel welcome in our organization. KASA officers and members in past years have been a pretty diverse group of people. As KASA president, I've tried to place a lot of emphasis on striking a balance between cultural, political, and social awareness. For instance, in the past two years, we organized the 6th and 7th annual KASA BBQs in the spring, which is one of our most popular events. Some political events included two panel discussions about North Korean geopolitics. Those panels have featured former U.S. Ambassador to Korea, Hon. Donald P. Gregg, Dr. John Park who is a leader of the North Korea analyst group at Harvard, and former World Bank consultant, Brad Babson. We also organized the screening of the documentary Wet Sand, about the '92 L.A. Riots/Uprising with director/producer Dai-Sil Kim-Gibson and the co-sponsoring of an Asian-American stereotype discussion forum. The forum was Bowdoin's first effort to begin to assert Asian Americans into a focused racial/cultural dialogue. KASA has been an integral part of my experience at Bowdoin and a place where I have been able to develop great leadership skills. Finally, this is my second semester volunteering at the Volunteer Lawyer's Project in Portland, Maine, where I have done phone interviews and completed intake forms for disadvantaged individuals in Maine who are in desperate need of legal services. Evan Gallagher '06, another VLP volunteer, accurately noted that every time you leave the office, you come away with a humble, quasi-satisfied feeling that you have touched, or even saved, someone's life and that you could have done even more. It's a real-world experience that gave me a grisly first-hand look at the level of poverty and disparity that exists in our society. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? No, but I applied and received the Freeman Grant, which enabled me to study Korean language in Seoul, Korea for five weeks during my second summer break. It was a unique cultural experience. I had the opportunity to haggle with a Korean street merchant over the price of a leather belt! Touring the ancient Buddhist city of Kwangju, riding the subway and visiting the National Korean War Memorial Museum, and touring the barbwire landscape of the 38th parallel were among my most endearing memories of Korea. This wasn't a study away experience, but I must mention my summer experience in San Francisco in the summer of 2005, which was made possible by the Public Interest Career Fund offered through the Career Planning Center (CPC). This was an enormous opportunity for me to explore the juvenile justice advocacy field. I had the unique opportunity to visit correctional facilities and to talk to individuals who were leading national and regional-level efforts to inform citizens about issues related to juveniles in the adult criminal justice system. I also got to do some research on youth gangs, which has transformed into an Honors Project this year for the sociology department under the guidance of Dr. Craig McEwen, Dean for Academic Affairs. What is your best Bowdoin memory? My best Bowdoin memories would involve my former roommates. For three years, I roomed with friends from Maine, Boston, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago. It was an interesting mix of different cultures, experiences, and personalities. One of my best recent memories includes having a fantastic vegetarian Thanksgiving meal in Brunswick with my roommate and his host family. For a split second, I really thought I could become a vegetarian until the thought a juicy sirloin steak entered my mind! Another one of my best memories involved getting lost with my roommate somewhere in Yarmouth after coming back from sushi in Portland. What are your plans for after graduation? I would like to earn lots of money after college! But seriously, I was raised in a family that stressed the Common Good. You can't place a value on the positive ripple effects that result from rebuilding communities and inspiring disadvantaged populations. One of the greatest challenges facing our society in the 21st century involves truly understanding, rebuilding, and integrating our nation's inner cities. Somewhat related to this is the challenge of effectively responding to the problem of youth and violence. The pendulum of change continues to swing and I think a paradigm shift in the criminal justice community will occur within the next decade. After Bowdoin, I will return to L.A. and explore my passion of helping at-risk youth. I'm going to apply for the Teach for America Corps along with a few year-long internship programs that would allow me to work in the office of a California state senator or assembly member. After a few years of substantive work-related experience, I intend to apply to law school. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? I would leave video game systems and fast computer graphics cards at home, at least for the first year. I played too many video games and this adversely affected what little time management skills I already had. After almost four years here, I have learned to budget my time much more efficiently. The Bowdoin "bubble" is a really loose term that is ascribed to this institution because of its relative geographical isolation and its multifaceted -- and for some, uniform -- "culture." Some students don't feel compatible to this school during their time here. But for those students, I urge them to accept the challenge of creating their own "niche" at Bowdoin, which is possible given the vast resources this school offers. Be active and experiment while you have the chance here. Many students relish that challenge and become strong leaders in the process. Bowdoin can transform people. In that sense, I think it's more accurate and meaningful to conceptualize Bowdoin as a cocoon rather than a "bubble." Many seniors profiled in the past have said the following and I will reiterate: Bowdoin has incredible resources and personnel and never take these for granted! When you feel disorganized, utilize the Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching, as they will provide effective academic guidance. I also encourage first-years to explore the CPC, get a head start, and establish relationships with the staff such as Anne Shields and James Westhoff who, I must add, are extremely friendly people. Finally, it behooves you to explore and expand your horizon by joining different clubs, taking unique and interesting courses, and attending a variety of campus events. Whenever you wake from a nap feeling refreshed, go outside and meet new people. Taking certain risks pay huge dividends in this safe and friendly academic environment. Story posted on December 12, 2005 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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In this engineering challenge, student teams are introduced to the engineering design process, and then construct and test an earthquake-resistant structure. The lesson plan includes teacher support, student worksheets, multimedia assets, and links... (View More) for students to conduct Web-based investigations. Authentic assessments, a multiple choice test, and rubrics are included. This is an optional extension activity associated with the resource, Flight Mission Challenge: Improving Earthquake Monitoring, a 3 part, multiple-day Earth science and engineering investigation. (View Less)
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The agenda's "Old Business" items alone features six items.
The Augusta City Council has a full agenda to cover Monday night.
The heading of "Old Business" alone features six items.
Discussion of the city's watering restrictions will be on every agenda until a permanent resolution to the city's water woes is found. Also under old business are a change order for the dam and spillway project that is in its final stages and consideration and potential authorization to proceed with repairs on the city's one million gallon storage tank at the water treatment plant.
Also on the agenda is consideration of two proposals for how the council wants to proceed with the annual city-wide clean-up. The two plans – which were detailed in a story in Thursday's Gazette – each received equal support at a work session Monday night. One plan keeps the program the same as it has been for several years. The second offers a coupon to sanitation customers to allow them to take their own trash to the county landfill at anytime during the year instead of bringing large waste items to the city landfill during a specified period of time.
The final matter of old business is consideration of a payment of $20,000 to Augusta Progress Inc. that was pulled from the appropriation ordinance at the Jan. 7, 2013 meeting of the council. The payment, which was approved by the council in February of 2012, was the portion of an airport study the governing body agreed to help fund with API.
Some of the discussion for why the payment was withheld included a dissatisfaction with the airport study by some council members as well as providing funds to API when they already have a significant balance.
Other concerns included Andover and Butler County not contributing any money to the process yet. However, at Wednesday's Airport Board meeting, it was announced that Andover and the county would pay up to $5,000 each for the attorney selected by the board to continue the negotiations of how to proceed with potential development of the airport and how revenue and expenses from a partnership between Augusta and Andover would be shared.
The council will also review and discuss a grant for the restoration of the Frisco Depot downtown, approve the annual update to the city's emergency water supply plan and consider a request from a citizen to have a property reinstated to the Neighborhood Revitalization program.
There will also be the announcement of a work session to discuss the Downtown Design Ordinance to be held Monday, Jan. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall.
In addition to the sanitation program, the governing body also discussed important water projects at their work session last Monday.
The council asked Willis Wilson of Aquatech to bring back proposals for both the new water line to El Dorado and the plan to refill the lake from October to June each year using water from the Walnut River.
Early testing of the water from the river compares very favorably to the water in the city lake. Since the watershed for the City Lake is very small – the watershed for Santa Fe Lake is about four times larger – having this option to enter the summer months with a full lake would be a good back-up plan for the new water line to El Dorado.
Unfortunately, even though it is much smaller in scope, the timeline for the Walnut River project is about the same as that of the new water line.
Wilson will present both of the plans to the council at the Feb. 4 meeting of the city council.


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How do you pack your lunch? Do you always pack leftovers, or make up something fresh in the morning? Do you have a system to help you remember to take your lunch? Or has the lunch-packing-habit always escaped you?
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Kate Walsh and her movie exec husband Alex Young kept straight faces on during a shopping spree around the trendy Paddington area in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday.
The couple spent big on Scanlon & Theodore tops and Tsubi jeans.
Kate, 40, is in town to promote her medical drama, Private Practice. Alex, co-president of Twentieth Century Fox Films, is in town to check on production of the Hugh Jackman's X-Men spin-off movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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At the Hudson River Park Trusts Oct. 7 board of directors meeting, Julie Nadel, a Tribeca waterfront activist and board member, held up an issue of the Sept. 29 Villager open to the editorial Trust must reveal its financial plan. Nadel urged the Trust to follow the editorials suggestion.
Trust member says long-range financial plan needed
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Taking a page from The Villager, literally, Julie Nadel, a board of directors member of the Hudson River Park Trust, asked the state-city authority to consider The Villagers suggestion in a recent editorial that the Trust put together and make public a long-term financial plan for the park.
At the Trusts Oct. 7 board meeting, Nadel noting that The Villager covers the park more than anyone else, held up the newspapers Sept. 29 issue, open to its editorial, Trust must reveal financial plan.
As the editorial noted, Nadel said local elected officials particularly Assemblymember Deborah Glick have long called for the release of such a plan. Former State Senator Franz Leichter, a Trust director, has also asked the Trust to provide its long-range plan, she added.
In her initial answer to Nadels question, Connie Fishman, the Trusts president, said that the budget is done for the whole 5-mile park but that they could probably break costs down for maintenance, utilities and administration just for the Greenwich Village segment, for example.
However, Nadel a Tribeca resident and historic ships enthusiast said thats not what the editorial or she were asking.
I think the main issue is where the revenue is coming in from? she explained. Is there any kind of thought to where the money is coming in from to maintain the park over time?
Fishman said current revenue generators include Pier 40, which has parking, the Circle Line, World Yacht, Chelsea Piers and special events.
The issue of the parks long-range financial plan arose again recently over the question of Pier 57, after two of four development plans for the former M.T.A. bus depot were rejected because the Trust found they would not generate enough revenue for the park. Glick and Assemblymember Richard Gottfried, among others, expressed dissatisfaction that money seemed to be the main factor influencing the Trusts decision. Glick and Democratic District Leader Arthur Schwartz made similar comments during the failed process to find a developer for Pier 40 last year.
Fishman said that as of now, the only opportunity besides Pier 57 for new revenue within the park is the pier used by Circle Line, whose lease expires in 2017.
Its not that complicated, Fishman said. If we can get additional revenue from Pier 57, thats where we can get it in the next 10-12 years.
The first park of its kind in New York State, Hudson River Park is intended to be self-supporting.
Fishman said the issue is really the question: where does the Trust see money coming from in the future?
How can you tell? asked former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, a Trust board member.
Leichter said while theres no question the Trust is very open in terms of its finances issuing quarterly reports, for example there is a need to look at future financial planning, especially since the park needs at least $200 million to be completed.
We know theres a gap in monies were going to need to finish the park, Leichter said. He suggested that the board at least constitute a planning group to consider where these funds can be found.
Trip Dorkey, the boards chairperson, noted there are a lot of projects competing for scarce parks funds.
Its hard to wait in line and sometimes we have to wait in line, he said.
The board didnt see a problem with forming the planning group.
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Southern Plains farmers have planted some 400,000 acres of winter canola this fall, including 340,000 acres in Oklahoma.
"We still have reports coming in from other states as well as Oklahoma farmers," says Gene Neuens, Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, oilseed field representative. "We will have better information when we get planting seed figures from seed companies in a few days."
Right now, Oklahoma's 340,000 acres is followed by Kansas with 40,000 acres and Texas with 25,000 acres.
"Probably more significantly," Neuens said, "is how much plantings of winter canola have spread geographically. Farmers are continuing to show interest in the crop even farther away from its original planting area."
Winter canola has been planted as far north as the edge of Nebraska, in northern Kansas, near Fredericksburg, Texas, and San Antonio. Other fields of canola have been planted south of Abilene, Texas.
Farmers in the Texas Panhandle have planted extensive acreage as have producers in northeastern Colorado.
Approximately 90 percent of the new crop is in good to excellent condition, Neuens said. Dry conditions in southwestern Oklahoma and northern Kansas required farmers to "dust in" the crop, trusting sufficient rain would come to get the crop growing.
"Farmers and crop technicians are seeing evidence of army worms and diamondback moth larvae in the young canola plants," he said. "Farmers need to walk across fields, get down on their knees and look under the young plants to see if either of these pests is there."
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Neuens said he and Heath Sanders, who works for the Great Plains Canola Association, and Josh Bushong, Oklahoma State University Extension canola specialist, are always available to help producers solve problems and make decisions about their canola crop.
Neuens can be contacted at 405-760-4205. His email address is [email protected]. Sanders' phone is 580-678-2754. His email address is [email protected]. Bushong's phone is 405-361-6941 and his email is [email protected].
All three are experts on winter canola production and also are able to direct a person to other experts on the crop's growth habits, harvest and marketing, he said.
With canola acreage growing each year, Ron Sholar, executive director of the Great Plains Canola Association, and others are trying to convince the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service to record annual acreage and yield reports yield a bit differently than in the past.
"Because winter canola was developed from the original canola, which is a spring crop grown in the summer like cotton and corn, winter canola acreage is still included in the USDA spring crops reports," Neuens said. "We need to get the winter variety of the crop reported in the winter crop category like winter wheat."
Winter canola was developed by crop scientists at Oklahoma State University and Kansas State University about a decade ago to find a crop which could be grown in rotation with continuously-grown wheat. Grown for decades year after year in the same fields, wheat had accumulated different perennial weeds like winter rye and cheat grass.
Seed from these weeds is found in wheat seed at harvest. When farmers sell their wheat seed at local grain terminals, the presence of the weed seed seriously reduces the price paid for the grain.
Winter canola is a completely different crop from winter wheat, and grown in a one- to two- or three-year rotation with wheat, interrupts the growth pattern of the weeds. Within a few years, this rotation greatly reduces or removes the weed threat from the wheat, Neuens said.
As well as its contribution as a perennial weed remover from wheat fields, winter canola is a great money crop in its own right, he said.
"Old crop canola, that is the crop harvested last spring, is selling for $9.80 per bushel. Winter wheat's current price is $7.21 to $7.26 in southwestern Oklahoma."
Price paid for winter canola seed is usually $3 to $5 more than winter wheat prices, he said.
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The colors changed very rapidly this fall and after the past few years of drought, I'm glad for any autumn colors we get to see here in central Texas.
Frio River Reds – Concan, Texas
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I have always been interested in windsurfing however have never had the chance to try it. I am going to Grand Cayman in Sept and staying on the east side of the island. I thought I would take some lessons while I was there. Am I crazy at my age to think I can pick up this sport? Health wise I'm fine just alittle overweight. I am addressing the weight issue by attending Weight Watchers. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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PapaJ don't worry about the age, most surfers on my spot are over 50 and those guys mess with formula gear (read heavy overpowering stuff). Just stretch, don't do anything irrational and if you really want it you can always get a crashvest. It's not cuz all the pictures show young male stallions that it's a young peoples sport, far from! Kitesurfing on the other hand tends to attract a yonuger crowd, but windsurfing is all ages, all the time.
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Hi PapaJ
One of our local guys picked up windsurfing while recovering from his second heart attack because his hospital room overlooked a lake popular with windsurfers...he was 70 something at the time.........go for it
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Get to the weight room and begin working on your core strength. Also work the legs (leg presses / extensions / curls) and the back (chest pulls / bent rowing / etc.). Don't forget the chest (bench press / push ups) to balance the back work. You may need some help from a trainer to get started, but it will be worth it. As you increase muscle mass, your matabolism goes up and your weight loss improves. Plan on at least 2 and if possible 3 workouts a week. Full body workout each time with at least one day recovery/rest between workouts. Use it or lose it! Life gets better with age.
Learning to windsurf is much easier these days, but it still can be frustrating at times. PERSIST - it will be worth it.
I am 63 and have been windsurfing for 24 years. I am in excellent shape because the windsurfing motivates me to be ready to hit the water at any time. I sail all year long and live in north Texas. I average 50-60 sessions / days a year. I would be out more, but I still have to work.
Good luck
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PapaJ go for it!
I'm 53 and going into my fourth year of windsurfing. My only regret is not having stumbled upon this sport sooner in life. Not knowing other windsurfers, the first summer was VERY FRUSTRATING on the lake. Twice boaters offered to take me back to shore thinking I needed their help LOL. Many times I was ready to throw in the towel thinking windsurfing was for the birds. At the end of the season, probably a fluke on my part the boad got on a plane. I did yell 'holy s@#t' and apparently its a common first time response. Now I'm addicted. As long as the body is willing I will sail to a ripe old age. As far as my boom is concerned "FROM MY COLD DEAD and wet HANDS". Good luck PapaJ.
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|26th April 2008, 04:41 AM
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Hi Papa J:
Wow, what a bunch of "gung ho" guys that have chimed in here.
I would agree with most of what they say.
I'm not sure if windsurfing will big on Grand Cayman, but if you cannot find it there,
there are other options.
I wish we could somehow get you into a "A Taste of Windsurfing" at some point because as the others suggest, learning to windsurf, on your own, without modern equipment and modern instructional methods (like we use in "A Taste of Windsurfing") the learning curve can be tough and frustrating.
If you get the right kind of instruction, and then get yourself some "easy to progress on" gear, there is no reason you cannot windsurf and progress to fully planing in fairly short order, without all the hassles and frustration.
Where do you live (USA?).
We'll have a schedule out in a couple of days on the 2008 Sailworks/Starboard Demo tour and "A Taste of Windsurfing" events.
Basically, we will be doing the "A Taste of Windsurfing" events in Dallas, TX,
Austin, TX, Worthington, MN, and Plattsburgh, NY.
If not, make a trip to Hatteras, and we'll have you sailing around in an hour.
Hope this helps,
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Thanks for all the positive responses. Roger in regards to your question I live in Bartlesville, Ok. It's in the northeast part of the state about 40 miles due north of Tulsa. Dallas is around 5 hours from Bville. Hatteras would be cool however my coin is already dedicated to the Grand Cayman trip! I'm a firm believer in taking lessons. I've done that with skiing, snowboarding , guitar,scuba diving etc. The rental place in Grand Cayman offers beginners lessons in group & a private 8 hr session. Again thank you all for your feedback.
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Four students from Smith Middle School received grant awards along with six staff members from various campuses around Beaumont.
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Rice, who speaks Wednesday night to the Republican National Convention, sought to tout Mitt Romney's foreign policy credentials.
She tells "CBS This Morning" Romney "would understand American exceptionalism and would not be afraid to lead from the front." Rice says the election is about "the future of American leadership" in the world. She says U.S. policy on Syria has been ineffective. Asked what she thinks President Barack Obama has done wrong, the former Bush administration official says Washington has been losing influence around the world because Obama has repeatedly demanded that Syria's Bashar Assad step aside and nothing has happened.


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DUBAI (Reuters) - A Russia-led proposal calling for sweeping new governmental powers to regulate cyberspace could enable countries to block some Web locations and wrest control of allotting Internet addresses from a U.S.-based body.
The proposal, co-signed by Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, added to fears in some Western countries of a stalemate midway through a 12-day conference in Dubai to rewrite a longstanding treaty on international communications.
Russia and its supporters, which include many African and Arab states, seek to formally extend the remit of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to govern many aspects of the Internet.
The United States, Europe and other allies including Australia and Japan insist the treaty should continue to apply only to traditional telecommunications such as international wireline and wireless calls.
Countries can opt out of parts of the revised treaty when it emerges or refuse to sign it altogether.
"If we have no agreement it will create political tension around the Internet," said Markus Kummer, vice president for public policy at industry think tank The Internet Society.
A leaked draft of the Russia-led proposals would give countries "equal rights to manage the Internet including in regard to the allotment, assignment and reclamation of Internet numbering."
This could allow governments to render websites within their borders inaccessible, even via proxy servers or other countries. It also could allow for multinational pacts in which countries could terminate access to websites at each others' request.
Such moves would undermine ICANN, a self-governing nonprofit organization under contract to the U.S. Department of Commerce, which is ultimately responsible for making sure that people trying to reach a given website actually get there.
"Much of the Internet was developed from U.S. research funding, and the U.S. has kept a residual role, so many other governments say it's not right that one government 'controls' the Internet," said Kummer.
"The irony is the U.S. has a very laid-back role and protects the Internet from political interference, but the fact it's the U.S. makes it highly political."
"The reason some countries want to create national control over addresses is so they can have another point of control," said Rod Beckstrom, until recently chief executive of ICANN, which currently sits atop the addressing system.
Decentralizing the process could prove chaotic if many countries demand that companies use only their national system, he told Reuters.
Beyond web locations and addresses, the Russia-led coalition document says ITU member states should be able to control other elements of the Internet's infrastructure within their borders, as Russia has sought for months.
The revision would give nations the explicit right to "implement policy" on net governance and "regulate the national Internet segment," the draft says.
"If you throw in addressing and naming, that puts the entire ecosystem in play, which is what the U.S. and E.U. said they would never agree to," said a Western participant at the conference who asked not to be named to maintain his ability to negotiate.
"You're almost guaranteeing lock-up in certain areas that might prevent the other areas from easily going forward," he said.
The coalition wants the new treaty to include measures to combat spam email, but its definition of spam is so broad that it could be applied to almost any emailed message.
That would provide a pretext for authoritarian regimes to suppress opponents, critics warn, while also doing little to solve what is a technical problem.
Another clause states any country should have the right to know the route of telecom traffic "where technically feasible," which differs from an earlier submission and appears to acknowledge tracing Internet traffic is impractical.
"Internet networks don't follow national borders and a lot of governments are not happy with that notion, that they don't have control over their territory," said Kummer. "Some governments feel threatened, which they see as undermining their national sovereignty."
Egypt was named as a co-author of the Russia-led submission, but on Sunday it disavowed the document in what may be a sign of cracks emerging in the loose anti-U.S. coalition.
"Our name was associated to this proposal by mere misunderstanding," Nashwa Gad, a department manager at Egypt's Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT), said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
"Egypt has always been supporting the basic Internet principles that ... the Internet should remain free, open, liberal. We do not see that the ITU mandate deals with the Internet."
The United States has made a counterproposal co-signed by Canada that would stop the treaty being applied to Internet companies such as Google or government and business networks.
It say increasing the treaty's scope could provide a platform for governments to stifle free speech, reduce online anonymity and censor Internet content.
But Russia and its supporters argue they need new powers to able to fight cyber crime and protect networks.
After six days of largely private talks, very little seems to have been agreed, with the main plenary committee meeting on Monday to again consider the U.S.-Canada proposal among others.
The ITU usually agrees decisions by consensus, but the intransigence of both sides means it could come down to a vote, which may leave the United States and its allies in the minority.
"The U.S. is not considering walking out of the conference and is still participating as normal," a U.S. spokesman said in an emailed statement, denying an earlier report that the United States could quit the summit, which ends on Friday.
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ELLIS– The sudden and tragic passing of 16-year old TJ Hellerud from a car accident in 2003 sparked a tradition that is still going strong today. For the past seven years, a youth/disabled deer hunt has been held by the Hunting Heritage Group and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) in honor of Hellerud, an avid hunter and outdoorsmen.
"Hunting was more than just past time or hobby for TJ," said Cynthia Maier, Hellerud's mother. "It taught him the struggle for survival, the reality of death and the appreciation of life."
The memorial tradition continues this year as the Hunting Heritage Group and KDWPT invite resident youth and disabled deer hunters to apply for the 2013 youth/disabled deer hunt Sept. 7-8. Youth participants must be a Kansas resident age 10-16. Candidates must submit an application form by August 24
in order to be considered. There is no charge for the hunt and lodging will be provided.
The first morning will consist of classroom instruction followed by a trip to the local gun range to sight in rifles. Guides and hunters will then head to their respective hunting areas. Hunters will hunt from blinds with experienced guides/mentors on private land that neighbors the Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area in Trego County. Some youth participants may hunt on specially designated areas within the Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area. At day's end, hunters will return to the meeting area for pictures and a recap of the day's events. Hunters who are unsuccessful Sept. 7 will be invited to hunt the following day.
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Headshots are a Canucks Army feature where we link to the day's freshest news, and other assorted Canucks web-goodies. If you've written a blogpost, produced a tribute video or birthed a clever .gif into existence – please e-mail Thom at email@example.com.
Gordon Macintyre writes about the impact of shootout points in the standings, and blames the Canucks shooters for the team's struggles in the skills-competition.
John Garrett has a solution, based on fostering "internal competition" within the team through a shootout drill. Just reading this post made me hungry for Kraft Products, Pizza Hut and a variety of other delicious food stuffs, which, coincidentally happen to be sold by team sponsors.
Joe Pelletier writes that the Canucks are not as good as they seem and are in desperate need of "size" and "grit."
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Pass it to Bulis breaks down the homerific call from the Avs broadcast team on Kevin Bieksa's miracle game-tying goal in Saturday's game. The best part is the colour guy literally saying "oh no" as Bieksa steps into that wrister. Gold!
The NHL fined Chuck Kobasew for his spot of dangerous stick-work on Hamhuis, while the two were racing to touch an iced puck. Jannik Hansen's similarly cheap play from Thursday night against Detroit, went unnoticed apparently.
Finally, our pal the Stanchion breaks down his assist on Bieksa's game-tying goal in typically exhaustive detail. Lightning, apparently, does strike twice!


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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator is suing the NCAA over its use of the $60 million fine that Penn State is paying for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.
The suit filed in Commonwealth Court Friday by Sen. Jake Corman comes two days after Gov. Tom Corbett filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA over the sanctions.
Corman's lawsuit says the state gives Penn State so much money every year that "it would be impossible for the payments to be derived solely from non-commonwealth funds."
Corman, whose district includes Penn State's main campus, contends Pennsylvania taxpayer money must be spent on state purposes.
An NCAA spokeswoman had no immediate comment Friday.
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Sweden's the Mary Onettes are '80s radio playlists raiders of the highest order. On the best tracks from their second LP Islands, the band finds a wistful sweet spot between synthetic swell (everyone from New Order to a-ha) and new romantic swoon (the Cure, or even Echo & The Bunnymen). Last week, they came through NYC for their second time, to support this second album, playing three public shows — at Union Hall (11/4), the Studio @ Webster Hall (11/6), and Mercury Lounge (11/8) — and one private one at their label offices. Along the way they even did normal human things like riding subways, bar hopping in the East Village, selling CDs on street corners, returning lost wallets to NYC students, and ample etcs. Photographer Kyle Dean Reinford spent a few nights shadowing the band in their various guises and delivers this caption-filled photo essay for a peek at how much fun it is to visit the city when you're in a band that everybody is into. Click through for the gallery, and click below for a couple of MP3s and the video for the excellent Islands standout "Puzzles."
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|Nassau Community College to Host SUNY Student Financial Aid Day January 22, 2011
|January 21-23
|Departments of Theatre and Dance & Africana Studies Present The Wreckin' Ball
|January 19
|Sixteenth Annual Midwinter Blood Drive
|January 18
|Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery Presents Transforming Lives
|January 13-14
|Sixth Annual Nassau-Argonne International Mössbauer Symposium
|January 1
|Spring 2011 Registration for Nassau Community College is Now Underway
|Nassau Community College Presents: Black History Month 2011
|February 16
|The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975 Former New York State Senator Seymour Lachman
|February 15
|Grammy Award Winning Artist, Author and Activist Common: Common Sense, Common Knowledge
|February 14
|The Nassau Community College Spring 2011 Cultural Program
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|February 14
|Who Gets to Eat What: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Writer & Academic Raj Patel
|March 30
|Cyberbullying and Homophobia: Responses and Impact
|March 29
|Being Bullied is Hell, But Life Gets Better: ESPN Sportswriter LZ Granderson
|March 24
|Annual Spring Blood Drive at NCC
|March 23
|How American Business Can Change the World: One Job at a Time! Business Strategist Kate Buggeln
|March 22
|HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Awareness Day at Nassau Community College
|March 17
|Department of Theatre and Dance Presents Cabaret
|March 15
|Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to What Matters Feminist Blogger and Author Jessica Valenti
|March 15
|Nassau Community College New Website Wins Gold Award
|March 14
|Healthy Parenting - Tonya Lewis, U.S. Department of Health
|March 9
|How I Killed Pluto (and Why It Had It Coming) Astronomer Mike Brown
|March 7
|One Woman's Fight, A Country's New Law: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
|March 7
|Women's History Month Committee Presents Women Claiming Justice
|April 28
|The Nassau Community College Department of Theatre and Dance Presents Doubt
|April 27
|"Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go"Inspirational Speaker Lucille O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal's Mother
|April 16
|Center for Catholic Studies Presents: Catholic Social Thought, Social Science and Social Policy: IV
|April 12
|Nassau Community College Presents Gasland Director and Producer Josh Fox
|April 7
|2011 Spring Dance Concert at Nassau Community College
|April 4
|The Making of Avatar and What's Next in Filmmaking: Producer Jon Landau
|April 3
|Nassau Community College Makes Dreams Come True for Young Women at the "Prom Boutique"
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|New Nassau Community College Student Government President Karen Chica
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|16th Annual "Celebrate Summer" Blood Drive at Nassau Community College
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|Twelve Nassau Community College Students Receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards
|May 9
|College Board Of Trustees Approved Nassau Community College Budget
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|Admissions Days at Nassau Community College June 28, 29 & 30, 2011
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|Mid-Summer Blood Drive at Nassau Community College Public Invited to Participate: Wednesday, July 20
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|Nine Nassau Community College Faculty Members Receive State University Chancellor's Award for Excellence
|August 1
|Nassau Community College to Publish First Ever Alumni Directory
|September 25
|Nassau Community College to Participate in the American Heart Walk
|September 21
|Nassau Community College Presents: The Police and the Constitution
|September 21
|Jewish Studies Project Presents: Ethel Bauer Katz, Author of Our Tomorrows Never Came
|September 20
|"Back to School" Blood Drive at Nassau Community College: Public Invited to Participate
|September 9
|Nassau Community College Remembers 9/11 on Monday,
|October 30
|My Generation is Leaving You a Mess - So What Are You Going to Do About It? Columnist & Activist Peter Goldmark
|October 24
|"The Arab Spring: What's Next?" Beirut "Daily Star" Editor-at-Large Rami Khouri
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|Nassau Community College Breast Cancer Awareness Expo & Walk
|October 19
|NCC Presents Two Programs About Anorexia, Bulimia & Bipolar Disorder: Author and Mental Health Advocate Marya Hornbacher
|October 14
|Nassau Community College Presents: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
|October 14
|NCC Fashion Design Students Pair with Long Island Movers & Shakers for "Design Wars" Competition at Roosevelt Field
|October 12
|Entourage Creator & Producer Doug Ellin to Speak at NCC:"The Experiences of a Hollywood Insider"
|October 11
|"Your Rights and the Law" A Free Legal Seminar at Nassau Community College
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|Dawn DiStefano Appointed Executive Director of the Nassau Community College Foundation
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|Nassau Community College's 26th Annual Italian Heritage Day Celebration "Italianita in America"
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|Nassau Community College Presents "You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government" Business Journalist Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
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|Nassau Community College Presents "Cell Phones and Health — What We Know; How to Protect Yourself NOW!"Scientist, Professor & Author Dr. Devra Davis
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|Center for Workforce Development Presents "Online Marketing: A Panel Presentation"
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|Thanksgiving Blood Drive at NCC: Public Invited to Participate
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|Nassau Community College Names Jorge Gardyn, MD New Trustee
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|Nassau Community College Presents "The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage"Author, Editor & Columnist Ellis Cose
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|Open House at Nassau Community College
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|NCC Presents "The 1961 Freedom Rides — What They Mean for Today" Freedom Rider Dr. A. Lenora Taitt-Magubane
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|Nassau Community College Presents: "Understanding Eating Disorders"
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Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner today announced the appointment of 17 members and 17 alternate members to the Cotton Board, as well as one vacant alternate member position in Mississippi created by a resignation.
Beginning January 1, the Cotton Board will consist of 37 representatives of cotton producers and importers, their alternates and one consumer advisor. The members and alternates named today will serve a three-year term, ending Dec. 31, 2010.
The re-appointed members are: V. Larkin Martin, Courtland, Ala.; Van F. Murphy, Quitman, Ga.; Jimmie G. Johnson, Vanduser, Mo.; Robert D. Robbins, Altus, Okla.; Arthur W. James, Jr., Sumter, S.C.; Willie L. German, Somerville, Tenn.; Jackie L. Burris, Wellman, Texas; Craig D. Shook, Corpus Christi, Texas; Kenneth W. Dierschke, San Angelo, Texas; Nancy A. Marino, Upper Brookville, N.Y.; Werner Bieri. Maysville, Ga.; John D. Clark, Los Angeles, Calif.; Yvonne M. Anderson, Minneapolis, Minn.; A. Mark Neuman, Champaign, Ill.; and Peter M. McGrath, Plano, Texas.
The re-appointed alternate members are: Walter L. Corcoran, Jr., Eufaula, Ala.; Richard L. Moss, Doeryn, Ga.; Edward E. Dement, Sikeston, Mo.; Robert H. Miller, Wellington, Kan.; Dale W. Player, Bishopville, S.C.; Larry W. Rice, Covington, Tenn.; Debra R. Barrett, Edroy, Texas; Jeffery T. Posey, Roby, Texas; Arlene M. Eastwood, Jackson, N.J.; and Linda G. Tipton, Bella Vista, Ark.
The newly appointed board members are: Dwight W. Menefee, Lake Arthur, N.M.; and Gary E. Ross, Yardley, Pa.
The newly appointed alternate members are: Jack L. Joy, Artesia, N.M.;
Madison Farmer, Lamesa, Texas; June M. Sassler, Parkton, Md.; Scott D. Hyatt, New York, N.Y.; Sarah F. Kay, Charlotte, N.C.; Helga L. Ying, Piedmont, Calif.; and Kristin H. Hughes, San Francisco, Calif.
Mike P. Sturdivant, Jr., Itta Bena, Miss., was appointed to fill the Mississippi alternate member vacancy created by a resignation.
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ASA rejects value and price not the same argument
BT has scored a minor victory over TalkTalk, after it had a trio of complaints about the latter's advertising upheld.
BT had objected to an ad punting a TalkTalk phone and broadband package, which claimed users could save £154 over 18 months compared to BT.
TalkTalk was not comparing like with like, complained BT. It claimed the BT package cited was not the most similar to the one TalkTalk was pushing, and was based on a higher line charge than BT's best available. None of BT's own promotions were mentioned, it added.
The ad also attracted a complaint from Plusnet, which challenged TalkTalk's "unbeatable value phone and broadband" claim.
On the first two claims, TalkTalk argued the toss. On the third, it said it was "an oversight" not to have mentioned BT's own promotions.
As to Plusnet's claims, TalkTalk said it was pushing a "value" argument, "a concept which, while related to price was not solely assessed on price".
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma transportation officials are to conclude a deal with Union Pacific railroad that was 30 years in the making.
The Oklahoma Transportation Commission meets Monday at 11 a.m. at which the agency is to announce that Union Pacific is to take ownership of 350 miles of rail lines in the state.
The railroad and the state are concluding a 30-year lease purchase agreement on the rail lines.
Commission members are also to vote on two $12 million road projects in Sequoyah and Woodward counties.
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Can a video game be too hard?
Some video games are hard. Some are really hard. And some are so freakishly, spoon-bendingly difficult that they take 10 hours of solid play before you've even begun to master the basics. Whenever I slip one of these nasty little backbreakers into my game system, I usually discard them in frustration after a couple of hours and wonder: What's the point? What adult has the time to master this stuff? Could it ever be worth it?
Recently, I've decided the answer is yes, even if you're reduced to tears by a hellish game, it can be worth it to plug through. Why? For the same reason it's often worth struggling through many other pieces of art or entertainment that we consider "difficult." Anyone who's slogged through the experimental swamp of Ulyssesknows that it seems like a pointless chore at first. But if you're patient, the literary payoff is powerful—er, so I've been told—perhaps all the more so because you've worked hard for it.
The latest test of this thesis is Tecmo's new Ninja Gaiden, a game so punishing that even some hard-core players fear picking it up. Like most fighting games, Ninja Gaidenrequires you to use dozens of different moves, from the "Divine Cicada Slash" to the "Cremator," a lovely combo that sprays guts in all directions. But the moves require particularly meticulous timing: Push "attack" when you're supposed to push "defend," and your enemies will mow you down like a daisy in a weed-whacker. Sure enough, I got mowed. I'm pretty good at most action games, but when I slipped the disc in my Xbox, I was slaughtered barely minutesinto my first fight. That went on for two hours. But I sucked it up, kept slamming away, and after about four hours, I'd mastered a few combos that could lay waste to most of my lesser enemies.
Mastering a hard game is kind of like learning a new language. You practice wearily, mangling the words, unable to say the simplest thing. Then one day you walk into a bar, and suddenly you know how to order a drink. When you have your first breakthrough on a hard game, it's that same existential thrill. With Ninja Gaiden, I stumbled into a room full of teleporting zombies and 12-foot-tall skeletons wielding battleaxes the size of lampposts, and instead of freaking out, I realized: Cool. I can handle this.
Game theorist Eric Zimmerman describes games as "systems of desire." They make you want something—to score a home run, to kill a zombie, to win a hand of cards—but they impose rules that make it difficult to do so. Games offer a carrot, a stick, then another carrot and another stick, on an infinite loop. When game designers successfully strike that delicate balance between challenge and reward, they create truly intoxicating play, the sort of game that grips you in a druglike ecstasy, feverishly hunched over your console until you look up and realize, good grief, it's 2 a.m.
Mind you, hard games aren't necessarily better than easy ones. I recently bought Nintendo's Mario Kart: Double Dash!!because it's the precise opposite of Ninja Gaiden. Mario Kart is so user-friendly that a bonobo could pick up the controller and zoom around the kooky race-tracks. I'll often whip out Mario Kartfor few minutes in the middle of the day as a quick pick-up-me, a little blast of fun. In contrast, when I play Ninja Gaiden I have to pencil it into my day planner. I turn off my mobile phone, lock the doors, and tell my girlfriend I'll be unavailable for the next three hours. It requires that level of monklike devotion.
Each game offers a different flavor of achievement. The quick-hit delights of Mario Kart are similar to the joys of a detective novel or a romance paperback, while the intense, grinding slog of Ninja Gaiden creates a sort of exhausted exhilaration, like finally reaching the end of War and Peace. Neither one is better than the other, but too many people miss out on the latter merely because the barrier to entry is so high.
The trick behind cracking a difficult game is to surrender to the chaos. Gamers call it "button mashing." When you first encounter a difficult game, just wade in, thrash away at the buttons, and hope for the best. Eventually you'll do something accidentally brilliant, and then you can try to repeat it. (Not much different from how we approach everyday life, really.) We tend to think of top players as having Jedi-like Zen control over the game, but they too started out by flailing.
There's also scholarly advice. After all, how do most college students fight their way through difficult novels? They read the critics, people who professionally tease out every nuance of a book. No sane reader attempts Ulysses without also having a copy of The Bloomsday Book, that meticulous guide to Joyce's literary hyperlinks. The same goes with games. For each hard title, some public-minded geek will have written a "walkthrough," a blow-by-blow explanation of techniques to use along the way. Some guy named Chris Zawada saved my sanity by producing a meticulous Ninja Gaiden FAQ with strategies for beating each "boss," the superpowered enemy who appears at the end of each level.
But just because a game is hard doesn't mean it'll have a payoff. Many games are arduous for all the wrong reasons: They have overly complex rules, enemies with no weaknesses, puzzles whose solutions do not follow Earth logic. Grind your head as long as you want against Resident Evil 3: Nemesis or Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, and they'll stillsuck. There's no point wasting time on them, just as there's little point struggling through many works of literature that are touted as "difficult" but have little aesthetic or intellectual payoff. (How much Ezra Pound does anyone really needto read?)
So, sink 40 hours of your life into a hard game only if it's already been widely praised by game reviewers and game blogs, the folks who play everything. I rely on these selfless warriors the same way I rely on film buffs who visit every benighted film festival on the planet until they've discovered the true indie gems. They suffer so that we don't have to.


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At age 33, Seth found himself chained – literally – to a bed in his parents' basement, fighting off demons both real and figurative.
At age 33, Seth found himself chained – literally – to a bed in his parents' basement, fighting off demons both real and figurative.
The last thing he thought he would ever be doing is sharing his story in front of a crowd of well-dressed people at the Neosho Civic. But on Saturday, that's what Seth did, giving his testimony during the Teen Challenge of the Four States annual banquet.
Embodying the theme of Saturday's event, Seth was rescued to serve.
"The fact that I am standing here is a miracle," he told the audience.
Working through Teen Challenge, a faith-based rehabilitation program, Seth said he broke free from chains of depression and alcoholism, rebuilt his relationship with his parents, and is now on staff at the local Teen Challenge center, 18527 E. State Highway 86.
But he almost ran away. He wanted to leave the center his first day. It was May 22, 2011, the day of the Joplin tornado. There were no buses available.
"That day saved my life," Seth said.
It was during his time in the Teen Challenge program that Seth read Psalm 18:11 and realized that God "had been hiding in the midst of my darkness, protecting me, holding me, drawing me back to Him." During an altar call, he said God showed him why what he had been doing was wrong.
"It's not just a matter of right and wrong, it's a matter of hurting people, hurting myself and hurting my family," Seth said.
He also said he was no longer afraid that God would not forgive and accept him.
"The safest place to be from God's judgment is to run straight into Him," Seth said. "...God loves me."
Teen Challenge is a two-stage 14-month residency program dedicated to helping men kick addiction to drugs and alcohol through applying biblical principles and preparing them in service to the local church and community. Locally, the program is open to men ages 18 and up, though Teen Challenge also has women's facilities, some with day cares, in other locations.
The local Teen Challenge program started a little more than 20 years ago. Mark Bridges was an early director. On Saturday, he talked about the days when the program had very little money and was in danger several times of closing down. But God always provided, he said.
"It was the worst years of my life and it was the best years of my life, because God showed us things that I would have never learned if we had had money coming in," Bridges said. "...We saw miracles, just plain miracles. It was just totally unbelievable."
Today, Teen Challenge of the Four States has a 20-bed residency facility east of Neosho and is nearing completion on its staff residency building, which will free up extra beds so more men can enter the program. However, $24,000 is still owed on it, according to director Jim Lowans. Raising money for that project, as well as for a new van, was the purpose of Saturday's event. The night featured a steak dinner, served by Teen Challenge residents, a performance from the Teen Challenge of the Four States Choir, and a drama performance.
"Teen Challenge is about restoring lives," Lowans said. "Not only the lives of men, but the lives of families."
That was evident twice on Saturday.
Rick married his high school sweetheart. He had a good job. But within 10 years, "I drank myself out of my marriage," he said. He continued to dive deeper into alcohol and drugs. After a series of legal problems he ended up in the Teen Challenge of the Four States program. He said he hated the program his first month and a half there. But then he said he gave his life to Jesus Christ and "ever since then, God has been blessing my life every day," he said.
"As soon as I complete this program in about four months I'm going to become a spiritual leader for my family and I will be taking them to church," Rick said. "...with the help of Teen Challenge, and the grace of God, I have overcome."
Unbeknownst to Rick, his sister, his son and his three granddaughters were backstage. When Rick put down the microphone, Lowans asked his family to come out and they had a quick family reunion on stage, all hugging each other.
Brian came to Teen Challenge about a month and a half ago. His parents divorced when he was three years old and he was raised by an alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather. At the age of 12, he became a ward of the state and he ended up in boys home in Tulsa. By age 15 he was in a juvenile lockup facility, where he first found Christ. After his release at age 18, he "left God, though He never left me." Brian moved to Colorado, where he began fathering children with different women, though that "did not fill the void that was inside my heart." At 25, he moved back to Oklahoma where he picked up contact with his father, though their relationship didn't have a lot of substance. Brian attempted to go straight but ended up on drugs again.
But then about eight months ago, Brian received the worst phone call of his life. His five-year-old son was in the hospital after an entertainment center fell on him. His little boy was dying. Brian took a flight to Colorado. Four hours after Brian stepped off the plane, his son was dead.
"He died in my arms," Brian related, tearing up.
He went back to his hotel and wept. He cried out to God to save his family and to save him from addiction. The next day, his dad called him at the hotel.
"He said 'son, I love you, and I'm going to be here for you when get back. We're going to start a new life, and I'm going to help you get yourself together,'" Brian said. "I started crying and thanking Jesus. I made a commitment right then that I was going to start serving Jesus. I came back here and I am finally off of drugs. I have committed myself to the Teen Challenge program. It has done tremendous things in my life. God has done tremendous things in my life."
Brian's father was in the audience. At Lowans' invitation, he walked toward the stage. His son met him in front of it. They embraced.


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The new $1.3 billion runway that opened at O'Hare International Airport on Thursday immediately began to provide a payoff on the long-term investment, with airlines running mostly on-time operations despite overcast skies that normally would cause some flight delays, officials said.
A minor glitch did occur, forcing the Chicago Department of Aviation to shut down the new runway for about an hour and a half in the morning after pilots reported that one or more centerline lights in the runway had broken off or popped out of fixtures, according to controllers in O'Hare tower.
"During inspection, it was discovered that a runway light needed repair,'' city aviation spokeswoman Karen Pride said.
The problem was fixed before noon, when under a steady rain, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other elected officials as well as hundreds of airport guests attended a runway commissioning ceremony held inside a big white tent only a few hundred feet away from the new runway.
The addition of a fourth parallel east-west runway on the airfield essentially creates new options for O'Hare's air-traffic control playbook, which contains different combinations of runways used specifically for either arrivals or departures, officials said.
The Federal Aviation Administration prohibits the use of intersecting runways when cloud ceilings are below certain heights and visibility is reduced, requiring pilots to operate under Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) procedures, which was the case Thursday morning.
But instead of being limited to two arrival runways, which would reduce the number of airplanes allowed to land each hour, O'Hare controllers were able to use three arrival runways, including the new airstrip called 10 Center/28 Center.
As a result, the arrival rate of 88 landings per hour during low cloud ceilings and rain was increased to 106 landings per hour by using the new 10,800-foot runway, FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro said.
"This project is a perfect example of efficient modernization. It shows that if you invest in efficiency, you get great operational results,'' said Jim Compton, vice chairman and chief revenue officer at United Airlines.
Triple-runway arrival capability in almost all weather conditions, including fog and snow, will help the airport better handle the traffic that the airlines throw at it, said Dan Carrico, president of the air-traffic controllers union at O'Hare.
Addressing a cheering crowd of O'Hare supporters at the runway-opening ceremony, Emanuel said the airfield expansion project means travelers will reach their destinations "anywhere in the United States or anywhere in the world daily and directly, on time – weather-permitting.''
The last comment drew a laugh from the crowd. Emanuel's predecessor, Richard M. Daley, had sold the runway project to the public as a solution to flight delays caused by bad weather.
Over time as the airlines add more flights, the new runway will help O'Hare accommodate almost 90,000 additional flights annually, according to the city. The opening of 10 Center/28 Center on Thursday essentially flipped the switch on new flight patterns that will bring planes to and from the airport westbound 70 percent of the time and eastbound 30 percent.
The new alignment and the planned ramping up of flights have sparked outrage among thousands of Northwest Side homeowners and suburbanites living west of O'Hare who will be the most impacted by changes in jet noise.
Homeowners protesting the new runway were kept far away from the airfield Thursday.
In their remarks, Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth noted that more needs to be done to provide noise-abatement to communities under O'Hare's flight corridors.
Emanuel later reminded reporters that when he was in Congress he represented residents living near O'Hare.
"We are going to continue to expand the airport and also make sure that the residents around the airport get the type of resources and support they need,'' Emanuel said.
During the runway commissioning ceremony, Chicago Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino was drowned out in her welcoming remarks by a plane landing on the new runway.
Moments later, the audience broke into applause in response to the thunder of a jet taking off. But the plane was actually taking off from a different runway, just 1,400 feet north of the new runway, according to controllers in O'Hare tower. Runway 10 Center/28 Center will be used primarily as an arrival runway, the FAA said.
The total cost of 10 Center/28 Center was $1.3 billion, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation. Construction costs included relocating almost 1,500 graves at St. Johannes Cemetery, moving Union Pacific Railroad tracks twice, and other projects, officials said.
The runway's opening marks the last component of the first phase of the O'Hare expansion project, which was originally estimated to cost $6.6 billion in 2001 dollars. The cost estimates subsequently escalated to $8.35 billion in 2007 dollars and the latest cost is $9.7 billion in 2012 dollars, according to the city.
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A group of dumbasses in Florida calling themselves the Satanic Temple are trying very hard to get attention from the media by holding a rally to support a new law allowing students to lead prayers and "inspirational messages" at school events.
Satanists from all over Florida are scheduled to gather on the steps of the Governor's Office at the intersection of S. Monroe and Apalachee Pkwy 1:00pm Friday January 25, 2013 in a show of solidarity for governor Rick Scott who has shown unwavering fortitude and progressive resolve in his defense of religious liberty, particularly in his recent approval of Senate Bill 98 [SB 98] authorizing "a district school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message to be delivered by students at a student assembly; providing policy requirements; providing purpose, etc."
Neil Bricke of the Satanic Temple will deliver a speech to the assembled crowd.
"The Satanic Temple embraces the free expression of religion, and Satanists are happy to show their support of Rick Scott who — particularly with SB 98 — has reaffirmed our American freedom to practice our faith openly, allowing our Satanic children the freedom to pray in school."
The Satanic Temple believes that God is supernatural and thus outside of the sphere of the physical. God's perfection means that he cannot interact with the imperfect corporeal realm. Because God cannot intervene in the material world, He created Satan to preside over the universe as His proxy. Satan has the compassion and wisdom of an angel. Although Satan is subordinate to God, he is mankind's only conduit to the dominion beyond the physical. In addition, only Satan can hear our prayers and only Satan can respond. While God is beyond human comprehension, Satan desires to be known and knowable. Only in this way can there be justice and can life have meaning.
Same stupid bullshit we hear from Christians, with a little twist. Okay guys, I posted about you. You got a little bit of the attention you crave so much. Now go away.


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Whitehall departments have spent more than half a million pounds on Apple products since the general election.
Ministers have been criticised for spending taxpayers' money on "expensive gadgets" after it was revealed they had splashed out on 464 iPads, 314 iPhones, 160 Mac computers and two iPod touches.
This brought the total spend to at least £640,000, as five departments including the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Education and the Foreign Office all refused to divulge how much they had spent.
Some of the biggest spenders included the Department for Health, which purchased 294 iPhones and 117 iPads, and the Ministry of Justice, which treated itself to 107 iPads and 86 Mac computers, while the Home Office had also spent over £48,000 in 2013 alone on 100 iPads, three iPhones and six Macbooks.
Labour criticised the spending, saying that while David Cameron might enjoy playing Fruit Ninja, ministers should put their iPads down and concentrate on achieving higher living standards.
A Labour source said: "Ministers are spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer pounds on expensive gadgets but still don't have the answers to Britain's cost-of-living crisis. Hard-pressed families will think this looks like huge indulgence during these tough times.
"David Cameron may love playing 'fruit ninja' in his spare time but his ministers really need to put their iPads down and start work on a plan to earn our way to higher living standards for all."
Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, also criticised the Government, saying there were less expensive alternatives available.
"Departments have a duty to tell taxpayers what they are spending their money on so they can be scrutinised over how they spend it," he said. "iPads are a premium product with a premium price tag, it's vital their purchase represents value for money - especially when there are less expensive options available."
But the Government defended itself, saying modern technology was helping them to save money and get the best value for taxpayers.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "At the time of the last general election, Whitehall was spending far too much on IT. As part of our long-term economic plan, we are reforming the way we buy this technology saving taxpayers over half a billion pounds last year.
"Hard-working people expect us to get best value for their money so we won't apologise for using modern technology which saves money and helps civil servants do their jobs, providing the services on which we all rely."


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