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When the Freeport competitive dance team assembled during the offseason, the Pretzels set a goal to return to state and place in the top 10.
The time has come for the Pretzels to make good on their goal at this weekend's IHSA state competitive dance meet at U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington. Last weekend, Freeport finished fifth in the Class 2A Huntley Sectional to qualify for state.
"We are so excited to be returning back to Bloomington to represent our school," Freeport coach Tara Hersey said. "It was an emotional day on Saturday for the girls as the top 6 teams were announced. I was so proud of them and the way they performed their routine, but we still have some timing to work on and some spots to clean up to make the routine better."
Hersey said practices have been limited due to school closings from the bad winter weather. However, she is satisfied that her team keeps getting better with each tweak of the routine, which is set to the song "Bravado" by Lorde.
That same routine, which the team has practiced for months, was the one which saw the Pretzels take second at the NIC-10 meet two weeks ago.
"We're working hard to make it better," Freeport's Courtney Flemming said.
The Pretzels look to improve on a 23rd-place finish last season, which was the inaugural year of the state dance meet.
Rochelle also qualified for state and will compete in the Class 1A division. The Hubs, who placed third at sectionals, finished second in the state last season.
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2013 Met Gala -- Best Dressed Poll!
Earlier this week, the stars hit up the 2013 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
This year's Costume Institute Gala Benefit ¢ celebrating the opening of the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition ¢ is co-chaired by Rooney Mara, Moda Operandi creative director Lauren Santo Domingo, Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci, and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
JJJ has picked our top six — Emma Watson, Nina Dobrev, Dakota Fanning, Julianne Hough, Taylor Swift and Blake Lively.
But who were your best dressed at the ball? Check out all the stars on the carpet and vote in the poll in our slideshow below!
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Rating: 3 (out of four) Off to a good start
No matter how hyped a suburban restaurant becomes, I rarely end up making the trip from the city to try it out. That's been the case with New Rebozo. I had heard about the restaurant's signature moles from friends and family members over the years and watched it get rave reviews on "Check, Please!" a few seasons back. But up until two weeks ago, I would have had to travel to Oak Park to experience it. Luckily, the Lopez family, who's run the restaurant for 21 years, finally listened to the customers urging them to open a city location.
The New Rebozo crew completely remodeled the ground-level space just off Michigan Avenue, which was previously another Mexican restaurant, Cantina 46. It's modern and understated, with a red accent wall, art from Mexico and a small patio perfect for River North people watching. But I wasn't there for the ambience. I went to finally try those moles.
Chips 'n' dip: The second my friend and I sat down, our smiling waiter delivered a bowl of warm tortilla chips and homemade salsa, which had a nice kick. Given the choice of two guacamoles--the regular ($10) or the daily special ($12), which came topped with diced strawberries, mango, grapes and jicama--we opted for the latter. While fruit can sometimes make a dish too dessert-like, the refreshing mix didn't overpower the avocado; it was large enough for four to share, although the two of us polished it off.
Margaritas: After downing one too many sickeningly sweet margaritas in my lifetime, I'm often skeptical of the drink, but Rebozo's was easy to drink, not overly sugary and mildly tart. It had a hefty pour of tequila for the price, $9. Other 'rita options include a version with mezcal ($11), fruity varieties ($10) and the two-serving Shaker Margarita ($17), which comes in lime, tamarind or pomegranate flavors.
Beyond 'ritas: After downing a fine but forgettable mojito for round one, my friend opted for the michelada ($7). Made with sangrita (a blend of juices and spices that give the drink its red color) and the Mexican beer of his choice (in this case, Pacifico), it came finished with a salt rim. Our waiter proudly told us he made the sangrita, which included grapefruit and orange juices and arbol chilis. It was a zesty drink that's hard to explain—like a really interesting bloody mary, but with more beer.
Tacos: The Chicago menu is smaller than what's on offer in Oak Park, but it still has two tacos options. We split a plate of the tacos chetumal ($20), tender slices of well-seasoned steak, smoky bits of bacon and sauteed peppers topped with melted chihuahua cheese in corn tortillas. We poured on the pancho villa, a chipotle-based, medium-spicy sauce that came on the side. While this definitely wasn't typical taqueria fare, the price still seemed steep for three tacos with no sides. Chalk it up to the prime real estate?
Beyond tacos: Right in the middle of the menu under the "Para Saborear" section was six mole dishes. Sure, there were some other dishes on the menu (enchiladas, stuffed poblanos), but these are the stars of the show. Chef Paco Lopez makes 18 moles on a rotating basis, six per night. Two dishes let you sample all on one plate: Molisa ($17), sauteed chicken with a tasting of the moles, or Fiesta Mole ($20), six cheese or chicken enchiladas, each topped with a different mole. We went for the Fiesta with the finely shredded chicken, and got to try pumpkin, hazelnut, chocolate, almond, sunflower and cinnamon moles. I thought we knew what mole was before New Rebozo, but I was wrong. Each tasted so distinct, with layers of spices and rich chili flavor. We scraped them off the plate to pile more sauce onto every bite. Would the moles been worth a car ride to Oak Park after all? Yes, but luckily I can take the Red Line instead.
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California is the innovator, right?
California is the innovator, right?
The state with the biggest population. The biggest economy. Some of the leading universities.
California is the state that invents things and changes things. California leads, for better or for worse, right?
Some might suggest not based on what happened Election Day.
On Nov. 6, voters in Washington and Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana. California voters two years ago rejected a ballot measure to liberalize marijuana laws.
On Nov. 6, voters in Washington, Maine and Maryland legalized same-sex marriage. In Minnesota, votes rejected a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. California voters four years ago passed Prop. 8 that prohibits same-sex marriage.
So much for the "Left Coast." It's more like a "Rocky Mountain high."
Except maybe California did start the waves that others rode to Election Day victories. It's just harder and much more expensive to get things done in California, a huge and diverse place. It takes about $2 million just to collect enough signatures to qualify a ballot measure.
Election Day may be moot, depending on what the U.S. Justice Department decides to do about the two states' new marijuana laws. Pot use still violates federal law. So far, Attorney General Eric Holder isn't saying much, but in the days before the vote two years ago on Proposition 19, he vowed to "vigorously enforce" federal drug laws even if Californians passed the measure.
And the Supreme Court is expected to decide next month whether to consider challenges to Proposition 8 and the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act that barred federal marital benefits such as joint tax returns and Social Security survivors' payments to same-sex spouses.
Federal appeals courts have ruled that both laws are unconstitutional acts of discrimination (same-sex marriage is legal in nine states and the District of Columbia).
Nobody should try to guess what this court will do on social issues. But we would note that in another, more conservative time, this state led the nation away from an obviously discriminatory marriage law.
In 1948, the California Supreme Court ruled that a ban on interracial marriage violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It would be 19 years before the U.S. Supreme Court did the same thing when it threw out Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute in Loving v. Virginia.
A line can be drawn between same-sex marriage today and Richard and Mildred Loving and their right to due process, privacy and free association.
California helped the Lovings' case. We have a tradition of innovation, leadership and social consciousness. It's a little premature to suggest we've lost our taste for it.


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ACES Fellows selected for 2011-2012
Meeting the needs of college students today requires employing new student-centered learning methods. What worked even 10 years ago may no longer be effective. Armed with this understanding, Lamar University is continuing its commitment to redesign courses in ways that engage students as active participants in the learning process.
At LU the Active and Collaborative Engagement for Students program, or ACES, provides the framework for course redesign. Now in its third year, ACES operates a cohort system choosing a group of faculty members each year to work together sharing best practices as they restructure their courses and infuse them with active learning methods.
Recently, LU selected a new group of ACES Fellows. Cohort 3 of the ACES Fellows program comprises Sara Gubala, instructor of political science; Michelle Ozmun and Golden Wright, assistant professors of dance; and Amy Smith and Julie Wilhelm, assistant professors of English. The fellows were chosen through a competitive process. Each candidate submitted a proposal outlining a plan of action to redesign an existing course into one using methods that encourage students to take ownership of their learning.
Gubala hopes to help her students broaden their skill set to prepare them for life after college. Her redesign of American Government I (Political Science 2301) will include implementing a more collegial learning environment, team-based learning and enhanced uses of technology.
Ozmun and Wright plan to align all LU dance course offerings to build in knowledge and complexity from the freshman to the senior level. They plan to use a multitude of active learning methods in their separate classes and compare the effectiveness of each. For Dance Appreciation (Dance 2304), they plan to create a master class template for instructors and to write a textbook on dance appreciation, filling a void since current offerings focus more on dance history.
Smith and Wilhelm, who submitted as a team, plan to redesign English Composition II (English 1302) and implement shared learning outcomes, standards and grading rubrics. They will use peer evaluation, low stakes assignments and early interventions to remove some of the fear many students have in college writing courses.
ACES Fellows, who receive a stipend, make a commitment for two semesters. They will spend time prior to the fall semester completing their redesign plans as well as meeting monthly during the fall and spring semesters. In addition, ACES Fellows participate in a faculty learning community that allows them to share best practices and receive feedback from colleagues participating in a similar experience.
"Looking at the cohort of faculty, I expect an exciting year. We had a number of good proposals, but the faculty who were selected really set themselves apart with innovative ideas and a willingness to enhance their teaching abilities in order to improve student learning," said Todd Pourciau, Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and Center for Teaching+Learning Enhancement (CT+LE).
All faculty considered for the ACES program must teach and plan to redesign courses that are part of Lamar University's core curriculum. The goal is to move away from purely lecture-based courses, which studies have shown to be less effective, and to incorporate strategies that require students to learn independently and from each other. Previous cohorts of ACES Fellows have redesigned courses in the Departments of Biology, English and Modern Languages, Political Science and Psychology.
The ACES program is a component of LU's Quality Enhancement Plan, in accordance with reaccreditation by SACS (Southern Association of College and Schools). The program is part of LU's Center for Teaching+Learning Enhancement, which provides a variety of services to assist the LU teaching community in fostering a culture of high quality teaching and learning.
For more information on ACES, visit https://sacs.lamar.edu/aces/. For more information on all CT+LE initiatives, visit https://sacs.lamar.edu/ctle/.
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The Pratt Gators 12 and Under traveling baseball team took their show on the road last weekend to play in the Derby (KS) Hap Dumont Baseball Tournament—and came home with another championship trophy.
The Pratt Gators 12 and Under traveling baseball team took their show on the road last weekend to play in the Derby (KS) Hap Dumont Baseball Tournament—and came home with another championship trophy.
In pool play on Saturday, the Gators first defeated the Topeka Golden Giants in a 10-0 run-rule game. The Gators collected 10 hits and took 5 walks in the offensive onslaught.
Kaden Evert and Wyatt Schrag shared mound duties for Pratt, combining for a 2-hit shut-out with 5 strikeouts in the 4-inning game.
Grant Bolen took the hill in the Gators next match-up against the curiously named Hutch Yotees. In another abbreviated affair, the Gators prevailed 15-2 in 4 innings. Bolen picked up 7 Ks while yielding only 1 BB, and he was strongly supported by the Gators offense, which flexed its extra-base muscle pounding out 6 doubles.
The Gators completed pool play on Saturday with another run-rule game, this time 10-0 over the Mulvane Spartans. Grant Bolen and Caden Blankenship had doubles and Travis Theis a triple to pace the offense.
Wyatt Schrag pitched the first three innings effectively, then Kauy Kuhn relieved in the 4th and fanned the side to close out the Mulvanes.
In Sunday's bracket play semi-final, the Gators again throttled their opponent in run-rule fashion. This time it was the Rose Hill Shox who were the victims of the 11-0 whipping. Cooper Zenger went 3-3 with a double and Kauy Kuhn tossed a 1-hit shutout for Pratt.
Last week the Gators were narrowly defeated in the Pratt Tournament finals by the Cimarron River Rattlers. The two teams met in the finals of this tournament as well, and this week, the outcome was different.
The Rattlers only score came in the first inning when their lead-off batter walked and later scored on a ground-out.
The Gators scoring came in the 4th inning when Travis Theis hit a wicked hopper that was misplayed by the Rattlers defense. He later scored on a Kauy Kuhn base knock. Kuhn eventually advanced to 3rd and came home with the go-ahead tally when an attempted pick-off throw from the Rattlers' catcher sailed up the left field line.
Kaden Evert and Travis Theis were on the bump for the Gators, and continued to hold the Rattlers at bay for the rest of the closely contested game.
Ultimately, the Gators prevailed 2-1 over last week's nemesis, and took home the championship trophy of the Derby Hap Dumont Baseball Tournament.
"The Gators showed up to play ball this weekend," coach Brian Schrag said. "We hit the ball extremely well and combined it with solid defense and excellent pitching."
The Gators put together five solid wins, including a payback over the Rattlers, leading into the State Tournament which will be held in Pratt at Green Sports Complex July 12-14.
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Comic Books in Motion: The CDC's New HIV Awareness Campaign
September 13, 2011
In a new initiative to combat HIV, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are turning to comic books. But they won't be creating traditional print comic books as many of us know them. The CDC is much more interested in using the blossoming medium of digital motion comics, which brings traditional comic book pages to a video screen and combines them with voice-overs, sound effects and music.
The HIV awareness campaign will be aimed at young people ages 15 to 24. The CDC has contracted the help of Terminus Media, an Atlanta-based comics and animation studio, to bring the campaign to life at a cost of approximately $145,000.
The agency specifically requested the motion comics for the HIV campaign be designed for viewing on just about any device that plugs into a broadband network, from smartphones and laptops to video game consoles and tablets.
Terminus Media prides itself on creating wild, weapon-wielding heroes and villains, so if this novel approach catches on, we may have a very strong new weapon to slash HIV rates and neutralize stigma -- figuratively, that is.
Here's a sample digital motion comic from Terminus Media:
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Bills get fair-weather home slate, open with Pats
Welcome to the AFC East, Doug Marrone. The new Buffalo Bills coach will make his debut against the team's divisional nemesis, the New England Patriots.
The Patriots visit Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sept. 8 in a 2013 NFL season opener, the league announced Thursday night.
Marrone is the 17th head coach in Bills history. Only one of his 16 predecessors won the first game of his tenure. That was Marv Levy in 1986. Marrone has a big challenge to become No. 2. The Patriots have beaten the Bills 18 of the last 19 and 23 of the last 25 meetings.
The Patriots also close the Bills' regular season, on Dec. 29, in Foxborough, Mass.
The Bills' schedule is favorable from a ticket-selling and fan-comfort perspective. Four of the first six games are at home. The Bills play only one December game in Orchard Park, on Dec. 22 against Miami. Last year the Bills played three December games in Orchard Park and failed to sell out two of them. Late-season home games typically are harder to sell out.
The team's annual regular-season game in Toronto's Rogers Centre is against the Atlanta Falcons, on Dec. 1.
Coming off a 6-10 season, the Bills did not get any love from the television networks. For the fourth straight year, the Bills are not scheduled to appear on either NBC's Sunday Night Football or ESPN's Monday Night Football. Every team is required to have at least one prime-time game. The Bills play a nationally televised road game on a Thursday night, at Cleveland on Oct. 3, on the NFL Network.
Here are some other facts on the Bills' slate:
• Based on last year's records, the Bills have the seventh easiest schedule in the NFL. Of course, last year's records are only a vague indicator of the coming season's results. The Bills had the third-easiest schedule in the NFL entering last season. The Bills play only five games against teams that made the playoffs last year.
• While the Bills won only six games last season, four of the teams they beat are on this year's schedule.
• The Bills play the team defending its Super Bowl title for the first time since 2005. The Baltimore Ravens, who won the championship in February, visit Buffalo on Sept. 29. It's only the second time the Ravens have come to Buffalo since their inception in 1996.
• The Bills do not play west of the Mississippi River for the first time since 2007.
• Tampa is on the schedule for the 10th time, and it's the ninth time the meeting is in Tampa.
• Carolina, with former No. 1 overall draft pick Cam Newton at quarterback, comes to Buffalo for the first time since 2005.
• Jacksonville might as well be in the Bills' division. The Bills and Jags meet for the ninth time in the last 11 years.
• Cincinnati faces the Bills for the third time in the last four years.
• The Bills face Kansas City for a third straight year and Cleveland for a second straight year.
• Under the league's rotating schedule format, the Bills play the AFC North and NFC South teams.
• Looking for a positive (or perhaps wishful) omen? The last time the Patriots opened the season in Buffalo was 2003. The Bills won, 31-0. The two teams closed the regular-season that year, as well, with New England taking revenge, by a 31-0 score.
Aug. 11 at Indianapolis, 1:30 p.m.
Aug. 16 Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Aug. 24 at Washington, 4 p.m.
Aug. 29 Detroit, 7 p.m.
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Sep. 8 New England, 1 p.m.
Sep. 15 Carolina, 1 p.m.
Sep. 22 at N.Y. Jets, 4:25 p.m.
Sep. 29 Baltimore, 1 p.m.
Oct. 3 at Cleveland (Thursday night), 8:25 p.m.
Oct. 13 Cincinnati, 1 p.m.
Oct. 20 at Miami, 1 p.m.
Oct. 27 at New Orleans, 1 p.m.
Nov. 3 Kansas City, 1 p.m.
Nov. 10 at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.
Nov. 17 N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.
Nov. 24 Bye Week
Dec. 1 Atlanta (Toronto), 4:05 p.m.
Dec. 8 at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
Dec. 15 at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.
Dec. 22 Miami, 1 p.m.
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Press Release 181/2013
28 August 2013
Ambassador Pertti Majanen was elected to chair the United Nations Sustainable Development Financing Committee on 28 August in New York.
Majanen will serve as co-chair of the 30-member Committee along with Mansur Muhtar, former Minister of Finance of Nigeria, until the end of 2014.
"Ambassador Majanen's position as co-chair of the UN Sustainable Development Financing Committee gives Finland a unique opportunity to be involved in shaping global development," says Minister for International Development Heidi Hautala. "A successful proposal for financing can create the base for fruitful negotiations on what types of development goals the United Nations sets for the next 15 years."
The Committee's task is to produce a draft strategy, extending to the year 2030, for financing efforts aimed at sustainable development, including climate finance and development cooperation. Because the scope of the Committee's work is very broad, the co-chairs must ensure that the various UN processes work together.
The financial strategy proposal will encompass a wide range of different sources of financing. Finland's aim is to achieve practical, concrete and action-orientated proposals that could be implemented effectively.
Private financing will play a key role alongside public financing. The pivotal question is how sustainable development objectives are taken into account in financial flows from trade and international investment and, on the other hand, how investments are targeted better than before, for instance for measures aimed at climate change. Public development cooperation financing is important, but it is clear that the majority of the financing must come from other sources.
"Developing countries' own resources are in a central position, so questions of taxation, accountable management of natural resources, or investment transparency are an important part of the Committee's work," Minister Hautala states.
The UN Sustainable Development Financing Committee is part of an extensive package that the United Nations is preparing on behalf of post-2015 development work. The Millennium Development Goals set in 2000 will expire in 2015. The UN Secretary-General has set up a number of working groups to compile proposals for the objectives to which the world organisation and its member states should be committed for the next 15 years so that extreme poverty could be eliminated and global development could be brought to an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable level by the year 2030.
The road map for acceptance of the post-2015 Development Agenda will be adopted by the UN General Assembly on 25 September.
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Former Jersey Shore star Angelina Pivarnick is now engaged!
Yes, E! News confirms that Angelina's boyfriend of two months David Kovacs, popped the question at STYLE360 Sachika's fashion show on Wednesday. And she said "yes" of course.
"It was so surreal," she told E! of the big moment. "The ring is huge. So big." David proposed with a with a 2.5 carat ring while other media outlets report that two have known each other for a few years. A picture of Angelina and David is below.
In other Shore news, JWoww told E! News Wednesday that the yet to be filmed season 4 will shoot a few weeks in Italy and then return to film the remainder of the season back in Jersey.
JWoww also revealed that season 4 should probably be the last. "If it ends, it has to end at the Jersey Shore," said JWoww. "I think we would have done it all by then. What else could we do?…I just feel like after Italy and going back to Jersey one more time we probably accomplished it all."
And what about her relationship status with Roger? JWoww revealed they are still together after 7 months of dating. "I'd love for him to come to Italy two or three times," she said. "That'll make us or break us, because if we can make it through Italy and not seeing each other so much, then we're cool to move in and stuff like that."
She also stated she is still considering posing for Playboy magazine once the show ends. See, JWoww's contract with MTV reportedly bans her from posing nude for the men's mag. "I do feel like it's a strong thing for women to do. And as long as they cover up certain parts, I'm good," she laughed. "We have to cover up the vajajay cooka. And then it's like, Why not? You see my boobs out half the time anyway."
Moving on to tonight following last week's drama filled episode which showed Sammi and Ronnie breaking up for the umpteenth time. On the 8th episode this season, Ronnie is an emotional wreck following Sammi's departure, and when the girls take her side, Ronnie feels like he has no friends left in the house. And believe it or not, Ronnie will also spend tonight's episode trying to win Sammi back, you know, after destroying all of her things last week.
The new episode airs at 10/9c on MTV.


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|Our Lady Help of Christians and the Battle of Lepanto
artist: Paulo Veronese
Three cheers for Bishop Porteous, who has called on an Islamic organization to remove provocative and offensive billboards claiming that 'Jesus is an Islamic prophet'.
Those billboards...
The billboards in question have apparently been paid for by an Islamic group calling itself 'MyPeace' (!), which claims that it wants "to encourage Christians and Muslims to find common ground by raising awareness that Islam believed in Jesus Christ".
Except of course that Islam doesn't believe in Jesus as Christ - a word which means the Messiah, the anointed one! Unsurprisingly, the group's website is actually all about how (just say the magic words with conviction) and why (instant forgiveness of all past sins!) to convert to Islam.
What we actually believe
Fortunately, Bishop Julian Porteous, currently an Auxiliary of Sydney, has pointed out that to Christians, "Jesus is more than a prophet". The SMH reports:
"He is the Son of God. He is acclaimed Lord and Saviour of humanity," he said on Monday.
"In Australia with its Christian heritage a billboard carrying the statement `Jesus A prophet of Islam' is provocative and offensive to Christians."
Bishop Porteous, whose comments come a day after the Darlinghurst billboard was vandalised, said it was important religions don't antagonise others with "provocative statements".
"For the sake of preserving social harmony and respect between major world religions these billboards should be withdrawn, along with others which carry messages directly offensive to Christians," he said.
Australians have not been fooled!
Go back even a few months and the general line coming from Islamic organizations was generally the soft-soap approach: yes, there are extremists out there, but most of us don't like them; yes some countries do have nasty old-fashioned sharia law, but don't worry, we don't want that here.
For some strange reason this line hasn't, on the whole, been swallowed by the majority of Australians.
Perhaps because they can see the continued strong growth in the number of Muslims in Australia thanks to our high and 'non-discriminatory' migration policy, and an associated flexing of political muscle in some NSW electorates in particular.
Perhaps its because they read ongoing reports of serious threats from homegrown and imported terrorists, and note the persistent refusal of local Islamic leaders to actually condemn such actions.
Or perhaps it is just because the more they learn about Islam and its persecution of Christians around the world, the less they like it!
New tactics
In any case, it is becoming clear that in response, Islam in Australia is switching tactics.
In recent months we've had a submission to a Parliamentary Inquiry advocating recognition of sharia law from a Muslim peak body, in line with Australia's alleged commitment to pluralism. The Government came out strongly rejecting this, but don't think this is the last time this argument will get trotted out - after all it has succeeded in the UK and Canada, both of which recognise sharia law courts in areas such as divorce and inheritance law.
And now the claim of 'common ground' with Christians.
The problem of course is that this one is much harder to counter because many so-called Christians don't actually believe that Jesus is truly divine - that's why so many people support women's ordination amongst many other errors! Because if they did think Our Lord was truly divine, if they did believe he actually instituted the Church through deliberate decisions as God....
The other problem is that Islam presents an attractive alternative for many in the face of the disintegration of our society. We might all - including some notable feminists - instinctively recoil at a group of women deliberately calling themselves 'sluts' and demanding the right to wear anything they like or nothing in any circumstances whatsoever, for example, but it is only Islamic leaders who are standing up and effectively calling them on it. Of course, most of us would think the Islamic position an extreme overreaction in the opposite direction, but in the absence of a clear alternative, some will take the extreme.
The recovery of a Catholic culture
It is precisely for these reasons that we need to work on recovering a genuinely catholic culture, so as to present an alternative.
In the UK, fish on Fridays is on the way back in. Our bishops should follow suit.
We need a big push to remind people that Sunday is a Holy Day of Obligation that should be taken seriously.
The UK bishops there are also considering reinstating Holy Days of Obligation during the week - and Ascension this Thursday would be one of my key picks for a similar move here!
To bring back a focus on confession (making it more readily available at a variety of times and places would be a good start in my own diocese!).
There is a lot to be done.
But a bishop calling Islam on its hypocrisy in demanding that no one do anything that offends it, while freely assaulting the beliefs of other religions is a very good start indeed.
Unfortunately the assault from within is a lot harder to make people realise is a serious threat than an invasion fleet sailing up to your shores. But pray for victory nonetheless!


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text: Review : Mac OS X Snow Leopard updated 08:45 am EDT, Fri August 28, 2009 by MacNN Staff Apple releases a modest but capable Mac OS X upgrade. MacNN Rating: Product Manufacturer: Apple Price: $29 (regular), $49 (family license) The Good Faster; reclaims drive space in an era of bulk. Worthwhile Finder and Exposé tweaks. Exchange 2007 support. Lays foundation for much faster performance. Hardware-accelerated QuickTime. $29 upgrade price; no version check. The Bad Some compatibility issues on launch. QuickTime X interface a partial step back. Not a major leap forward two years after Leopard. No Exchange 2003 or earlier support. Critics have often accused Apple of charging for service packs to Mac OS X where Microsoft has released interim updates for free. While it's true Apple has often tended to release OS releases frequently -- in some cases within a year or less -- these have often been major architectural and interface changes where Microsoft's focus on maintenance. With Snow Leopard, however, Apple itself has signaled that it's content with a more modest upgrade. The question then is whether a less superficially ambitious update is worth paying $29, especially when Microsoft at least initially appears to have a more aggressive (if more expensive) update in Windows 7. installation and reclaiming space Loading a new version of Mac OS X has never been especially complicated on the surface, but digging even slightly deeper has usually revealed some problems underneath. Advanced options were potentially confusing, and trying to whittle down unneeded data has often been an exercise in frustration; it's no secret that apps have been written specifically to cull unnecessary language install files or printer drivers. Thankfully, Apple has touched on both of these in Snow Leopard, albeit not necessarily how you'd expect. Controversially, Apple has taken away the stock options to erase and install or upgrade and install; you can only choose to perform a straightforward installation, which amounts to an upgrade if Mac OS X already exists on the system. It's possible to erase a drive using Disk Utility on the DVD (available in the installer), but it's evident Apple decided that the previous options were too complicated. We didn't have any problems relating to not wiping the disk first, so this appears more a decision to streamline the process and prevent someone from wiping the system clean without understanding the consequences. What's more notable are the more sensible install options. Rather than ask you to install every printer driver, Apple just installs drivers for any printers it can recognize as attached to the system and lets you choose to either install drivers for more common models or to install every driver. It's less tunable but is also much easier -- and, for the average user, saves them gigabytes of storage. In fact, it's the amount of space that actually returns to the user that highlights the Snow Leopard install process. Where Windows 7 has swelled to take up about 16GB of disk space, or 20GB if you're using the 64-bit version, Apple's release has actually shrunk from what it offered two years ago. Through a combination of the reduced driver install, the elimination of PowerPC binaries, and some strategic compression, a Leopard user theoretically gets back 7GB of space. In our test, it was even more dramatic: our late 2008, 2.4GHz unibody MacBook went from 100GB of free space to 117GB. Users with cavernous amounts of free space may never notice it, but it could make a large difference on older systems, the MacBook Air, or any other system where it's all too easy to run low on storage. OS install speeds haven't gotten dramatically faster, though. We timed a complete install on the MacBook at about 36 minutes. This could be faster with a 7,200RPM hard drive or a desktop-sized optical drive, but it doesn't stand out by itself. speed improvements From day to day, the one aspect of Snow Leopard you're most likely to notice is speed. Most changes aren't dramatic in and of themselves, but combined they amount to a smoother experience. A cold boot on our MacBook sped up from 52 seconds to 44 seconds; a shutdown took just 5 seconds instead of the earlier 8 seconds. We also noticed that at least some apps tended to load faster. Safari, for example, took 3 seconds, or 2 Dock icon bounces, to load under the previous Mac OS X release; in Snow Leopard, it took a single bounce and 2 seconds. There are also less quantifiable speed improvements: thumbnails load faster, Wi-Fi reestablishes a connection faster, and links to remote servers restore faster after waking from sleep (not to mention automatically try to reconnect). Time Machine backups are also faster. These advantages are less likely to manifest themselves on systems with large amounts of RAM or on subsequent uses, but they create a cumulative effect that amounts to a lot. Moreover, the speed-ups are more noticeable than they are in Windows 7. Users with a reasonably recent Windows Vista PC may never notice a difference; it's not unless it's a netbook or marginal upgrade candidate that the difference is obvious. Leopard wasn't slow to start with, and a significant number of quirks have been ironed out. Finder and Expos? refinements With no plans to launch a complete overhaul of the Mac OS X user interface in Snow Leopard, Apple was free to tackle minor quirks, and that's what was done here. Besides speed, Finder's changes mostly streamline what was already there: it's now possible to thumb through a multi-page PDF or other document without entering Quick Look if the thumbnail is large enough -- which it can now be thanks to a size slider in Finder windows. Spotlight now has the option of changing search defaults and of better sorting, and items put in the trash can be restored to their original locations. As mentioned earlier, dropped connections to network shares or other resources resume more quickly. Those who regularly juggle tasks between apps may also appreciate an important change to the Services section in the right-click (contextual) menu or in the main program menu: rather than offer every possible service, it's now sufficiently intelligent to show only the actions Mac OS X thinks can be taken in a given situation. If you select text in a web browser, for example, you'll be given text-related options like making a Stickies note, not image imports. Editors and others who face unusual tasks that come up often, or which have multiple steps, can even create Automator tasks that get pinned to the Services menu. Stacks have arguably received the biggest help. Leopard owners will recall that they quickly became useless any time they were applied to folders with significant numbers of files. Many files were often excluded from the view as it could only handle a certain amount of data at one time. That's now fixed; whenever Stacks are set to Grid or List view, you can scroll through all files as easily as you would in a Finder window. The simple adjustment now makes Stacks useful for your Applications or Documents folder, not just temporary holding places. If prospective buyers are expecting a cosmetic reminder that they've bought a new Mac OS X update, though, they'll be sorely disappointed. About the only conspicuous change to Finder itself are translucent black contextual menus for Dock icons. They're pretty and help retain more visual consistency with Dock features like Stacks, but that's roughly as far as they reach. Much more significant is the change to Expos?. The visual task switcher has always been useful, but in Leopard and earlier it quickly becomes something of a mess when many windows are open. Windows in the past used to scatter in seemingly random directions and could sometimes be so small as to be hard to decipher. Snow Leopard now neatly organizes and labels the windows and lets you zoom into them to verify their contents if they're too small. It's much easier to view just the windows for a particular app, too, as you can now click and hold on the Dock icon instead of having to remember a keyboard or corner mouseover shortcut. All of these contribute to a perceivably quicker time switching apps. It is one of the few features that feels partly like a reaction, however: Windows Vista and 7 have had visual thumbnails of taskbar items since 2007 and have already had a way to view just a particular app's windows in that context. To call Snow Leopard a copy would be something of a mistake, though: Microsoft still doesn't have a way to see the windows for every running app, and its side-by-side previews are too small. Flip 3D remains a cosmetic selling point rather than truly functional. the controversy of QuickTime X Apple has a periodic tendency to overhaul its software in slash-and-burn fashion: it's so determined to refresh the experience that it knowingly purges features for the sake of simplicity. Most Mac users will recall this happening most recently to iMovie, which with its 2008 update scrapped many of the precision editing and transition tools in the name of speedy use. A similar, but less jarring, transition has happened with QuickTime. For some reason skipping multiple revisions to be labeled QuickTime X, Apple has tried to create as minimal a player as possible. The window frame and its timeline now disappear altogether when a movie is in mid-play; it's only when you mouse over the window that a floating control appears. This can be handy when a video is playing alongside other apps on the desktop but does feel somewhat arbitrary when the video is by itself, especially as you need to temporarily obscure some of the video to pause it (even if you can move the control panel). Similarly, some of the more advanced features have taken a step back from their particularly detailed prior methods. Editing a video is now accomplished almost exactly like it is on an iPhone 3GS: you can only choose the start and endpoints on a visual timeline. Like with the iPhone, or even iMovie '08/'09, you now have to gauge the ideal cut point visually. This is a boon for those making quick edits but is a problem for pros who may want consistent edits based on the timecode. When it's time to share, you also no longer have fine-grain control over encoding settings. Apple only allows simple iTunes, MobileMe and YouTube upload options that vary in quality depending on the size of the original audio or video and its intended destination, such as an Apple TV (720p) or iPhone (640x480). That QuickTime 7 is now included as an optional component during the Mac OS X installation suggests that Apple itself knows it isn't quite ready to sever ties with its old way of doing things. Thankfully, what Apple takes away in interface depth it makes up for in performance. The architecture itself is supposed to be faster, but Apple at last is making use of graphics hardware to drive video. On a basic level, any Mac that can support Core Video or other modern graphics-based technologies in Snow Leopard can offload some of the rendering and scaling work to the graphics hardware and make up for a weak main processor. Any Mac with a GeForce 9400M integrated chipset can even get near-total acceleration of H.264-encoded videos. It's slightly disappointing that no other graphics hardware is currently recognized for this feature, however. Those who like to use third-party codecs for playback will be glad to know that formats like DivX or XviD will still play in QuickTime X when those codecs are present. Taken at a wider view, QuickTime X therefore feels very much like iMovie redux. It's a gamble taken that users will like the new features enough to forgive missing features until they're added back, if they're added back at all. All the same, this is more that can be said for Windows Media Player 11 in Windows 7 -- it remains largely unchanged from what ran in Vista. invisible features: 64-bit, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL An often unheralded aspect of Mac OS X updates is the frequent attention to the underlying framework. For all the obvious additions at the top, Apple usually has at least as many changes that exist to improve the potential of the OS for the future. Some of these are hard to detect -- Tiger brought code changes that reduced the need for third-party compatibility updates, for instance -- but they're commonly more substantial than the changes brought about in Windows' service packs. In Snow Leopard, these take more of a central role, although it's not always easy to tell. The deepened 64-bit roots are a quintessential example. Some of the performance gains realized in the OS stem from the wider data path, as 64-bit data lets them process more information at once; but it's not a cure-all. Some apps wouldn't benefit at all from the change, and even memory-hungry apps only seldomly can (or even need to) access more than the 4GB per app that was the limit in Leopard. Many of the changes are there mainly to prepare Mac OS X for the soon-to-come day when most apps will want 64-bit access or will see a noticeable gain from more than 4GB of RAM each. Security does take a step up as well due to the way apps use and reserve memory, but without any attacks yet targeted at Snow Leopard, it's hard to tell whether this will make software more iron-clad. Much ado has been made about how Apple boots all Macs but the Xserve into a 32-bit kernel in Snow Leopard, even when the hardware supports 64-bit addressing. It's an advantage Windows 7 64-bit has in being largely native. There's an advantage to this, but in practice Microsoft isn't gaining much. Only a handful of tasks, usually server-oriented, currently need the underlying manager to consume the extra system resources. Until a 64-bit kernel is useful in most every aspect of computing, Snow Leopard's implementation is as effective as Windows' for the end user. Grand Central Dispatch is even more focused on the future. It should give multi-core Macs, or virtually all of them since 2007, a speed boost in apps that can split tasks between multiple cores. Potentially, it's a powerful feature. But since only Mac Pro workstations have any more than two cores as of this writing, much of the technology is currently wasted. It won't be until processors launch with Intel's Hyperthreading, which lets one core sometimes run two tasks at once, that Grand Central Dispatch will make itself useful. Even then, it will depend on developers altering their app code to make use of the better multi-core support. OpenCL (Open Compute Language) faces a similar situation. It will eventually let supporting video chipsets (mostly from AMD and NVIDIA) take on non-graphics tasks like vector math in scientific calculations or to handle physics in games. Companies have already pledged support, but as of today no apps on the Mac or elsewhere truly support it. Again, it won't be until developers have had time to adapt code to the new feature, although when it's used it should be a significant boost. a word on Exchange support Hooks for Microsoft Exchange have been a centerpiece of Apple's Snow Leopard marketing, but for most users this is difficult to test. Like many home users and smaller (or simply less centralized) businesses, we don't use or require Exchange Server in our infrastructure at MacNN and Electronista. It's therefore impractical for us to test the feature. We will say that it's surprisingly well integrated for a first release and covers all of the common tasks you'd have previously needed Microsoft Entourage to run: you can now edit and sync meeting statuses in iCal, automatically fetch contacts in Address Book or receive push messages in Mail. For companies where a familiar Microsoft experience isn't essential, this could finally make integrating Macs a straightforward process. Ironically, it actually gives Apple a slight edge over Microsoft itself, as Windows doesn't have built-Exchange support for its built-in apps. Naturally, the company would rather you buy Office instead on a Windows PC. That's often preloaded by PC makers, but it's not guaranteed on the same level as Mac OS X now offers. There is one caveat: Snow Leopard will only recognize Exchange Server 2007. More aggressive companies won't mind this, but conservative firms running Exchange Server 2003 or older versions will face the same requirement for Entourage that they do today. compatibility on launch While the process of updating to major versions of Mac OS X has grown increasingly pain-free over time, there have always been apps that have needed fixes to work with whatever Apple is shipping. Snow Leopard seems to have made these issues more pronounced, at least on launch day. It's not evident whether this relates to the 64-bit code or something deeper still, but we found a surprisingly notable range of apps that have or need an update to work. Apple's own Aperture and Keynote need to have been recently patched; in third-party apps, users have no choice but to patch some particularly important software, like Parallels Desktop (3.0 won't work) and several antivirus utilities. Apple has a compatibility list for those who want to know what is known to have broken. Slightly more worrying are that some apps will refuse to load properly or at all without updates that have just appeared or are still enroute. CyberDuck FTP client wouldn't run at all until we installed a beta version with Snow Leopard support. The background notification system Growl also behaves erratically as of press time. Thankfully, a few compatibility issues have been overblown. Some had feared that Adobe's lack of support for its Creative Suite 3 under Snow Leopard meant it would break. While we hope to verify this in longer-term testing, at least Photoshop CS3 continues to work. Still, we'd still like it if Adobe would support a two-year-old release still in use by many professionals. Certain menubar apps like DropBox and SMARTReporter also seem to run correctly. This may be one of the few areas where Windows 7 has an unambiguous advantage. Helped in no small part by a plan to avoid the mistakes of Windows Vista by goading developers into having new support code ready, Microsoft has made moving to Windows 7 relatively easy, at least for Vista users. They can more confidently assume that recent apps will work on launch day, although in fairness Apple started Snow Leopard later and released it earlier. wrapping up and the Windows 7 rivalry Little doubt exists that Snow Leopard isn't a surprise bargain for an OS release. If Apple had released it at the company's usual $129 price point, there would rightly have been anger at being overcharged for features that don't have a significant impact on how you use a Mac. But it's selling for $29, and at that price it makes eminently more sense. Despite what some detractors might say, it's not just a glorified patch: there are many noticeable, albeit not dramatic, improvements for the better. Not to mention that many of the architectural changes are deep enough that a patch very likely wouldn't have been realistic. It's easily worth what Apple is charging, and we've heard of buyers ordering multiple copies for their friends to get them onboard. That recommendation is especially notable as Apple doesn't saddle the install disc with the activation or version checks you might see in Windows. You won't have to reinstall a prior version of Mac OS X just to put Snow Leopard back on in the event of a crash, for example. It's a qualified success in some areas. We'd advise against installing Snow Leopard right away on a production system until you know the apps you need to use will run. Someone using Microsoft Office and nothing else won't have much trouble. If you depend on an older version of a mission-critical app, check with a friend or online to see if it works (or if you can get an update) before investing in the release. Also, as Apple has repeatedly made clear in the past few months, users of PowerPC-based Macs will have to replace their systems to use the new version. We won't be too mournful: these users have had over three years to upgrade and will probably have another year yet before enough apps require Snow Leopard to force a decision. Potential switchers to the Mac may face an even tougher choice: do they want to jump into Mac use with Snow Leopard, or stay on track with an upgrade to Windows 7? Having used pre-release versions for months, we won't be shy in saying that Windows 7 is a good release for Microsoft with a friendlier interface, more device support and better performance. If we were serious PC gamers or needed to run Windows for specific apps, we wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. However, aside from the taskbar and other interface changes like Aero Peek, most of what Windows 7 does is to fix the mistakes made in Vista that in some cases actually scared customers away. The extra performance is needed because Vista was too demanding for many low-end PCs and still won't work smoothly on most netbooks. Device support was a priority because Vista's first year on the market was dominated by stories of hardware that wouldn't work or didn't work properly. Interface changes were made because Vista still largely relied on the same interface mechanics as Windows XP. As a result, Windows 7 feels more like catching up to where Vista should have been than a genuine step forward. Buying a new PC with 7 is more palatable than just an upgrade, but won't offer a radically different experience -- and unlike Apple, Microsoft still plans to charge its regular upgrade rates. Unless you bought into the early pre-orders, the most common upgrade version of Windows 7, Home Premium, will cost $130. That's a large cost to absorb for what is ultimately getting the OS to what it should have been in 2007. Apple won't always charge $29 for a Mac OS X upgrade, of course, and switchers should know that Snow Leopard's price is a one-off circumstance meant chiefly to get as many Mac users as possible on the same feature set before the hardware and software move ahead. Whether or not that future expense matters, Snow Leopard in our minds trumps Windows 7 simply because it's building on an already good experience and making it better; for most considering the move, it's a good time to switch.


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The Roberson family of Vienna, Mo., is grateful to the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center staff. Pictured at John Roberson's home in Vienna are (back row) Becky Ousley, Landre Ousley, Karleigh Ousley and Kenneth Roberson and (front row) Jill Fick and John Roberson.
One stubborn cold leads to cancer diagnoses and treatment for Vienna family at University of Missouri Health Care's Ellis Fischel Cancer Center.
In January 2007, Jill Fick was having trouble getting over a cold. She visited her family physician after a few weeks had passed and she still wasn't feeling better. He ordered chest and neck X-rays and found abnormal nodules on her thyroid, a gland in the neck that produces metabolism- regulating hormones.
After visiting an ear, nose and throat physician in Jefferson City, Fick was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She was referred to Robert Zitsch, MD, a head and neck surgeon at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. Zitsch diagnosed Fick with medullary thyroid cancer, which had spread to some lymph nodes.
Fick found that she had plenty of support from her loved ones following her diagnosis. Her family members were especially helpful. Her brother, John Roberson, accompanied her to nearly every appointment. And Fick learned she could count on those at Ellis Fischel.
In July 2007, Zitsch performed surgery to remove Fick's thyroid and lymph nodes in and around her neck. A few months later, with the advice of Zitsch, Fick's brothers were tested for the gene, called MEN 2, that caused their sister's cancer. Roberson did have the gene. Following testing, Zitsch diagnosed him with
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These vehicle were sold without the required load carrying captivity modification label. Dealers will mail the corrected label to vehicle owners. Owners have the option of requesting that the dealer install the label. This recall is expected to begin on May 27, 2010.
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The load carrying capacity modification label may be missing.
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This could be considered a medium priority recall; this would change to high if your vehicle is subject to carrying heavy loads. Please contact your Toyota dealer. They will check to see if your specific vehicle is affected and advise you on what to do next. Always have your vehicle identification number (VIN) handy when you call.


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10.3 Ward Young Women Leadership
This chapter focuses on administering the Young Women organization in a way that will strengthen individual young women and their families. Young Women leaders frequently review chapter 3, which outlines general principles of leadership. These principles include preparing spiritually, participating in councils, ministering to others, and teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The bishop and his counselors provide priesthood leadership for the Young Women organization. They watch over and strengthen individual young women, working closely with parents and Young Women leaders in this effort.
The bishop calls and sets apart a sister to serve as Young Women president. He also oversees the calling and setting apart of other Young Women leaders. He may assign his counselors to call and set apart these leaders.
The bishop interviews each young woman who completes the Personal Progress program (see 10.7.3).
Bishop and His Counselors
The bishop and his counselors regularly participate in Young Women meetings, service, and activities. The bishop works with the Laurels. He assigns his counselor who works with deacons to work with the Beehives and his counselor who works with the teachers to work with the Mia Maids.
The bishop assigns one of his counselors to oversee the ward Young Women organization. This counselor meets regularly with the Young Women presidency. He reports on Young Women matters in bishopric meetings.
The bishop interviews each young woman at least annually. If possible, he interviews each 16- and 17-year-old twice annually. If this is not possible, he assigns a counselor to conduct some of these interviews. Six months after each young woman between the ages of 12 and 15 has her annual interview with the bishop, she has an interview with the counselor in the bishopric who oversees her class.
In these interviews, the bishop and his counselors follow the guidelines in Handbook 1, 7.1.7. They may also refer to the Young Women Personal Progress Tracking Sheet for Leaders, which they receive from the ward Young Women secretary.
The bishop and his counselors recognize each young woman in sacrament meeting when she advances from Primary to Young Women, when she advances to a new age-group, and when she receives the Young Womanhood Recognition. When a young woman advances to a new age-group, a member of the bishopric gives her a certificate.
Members of the bishopric counsel together prayerfully to determine whom to call as class presidents. They do not select leaders merely because of age or seniority in the class. The Young Women presidency may recommend young women to serve as class presidents (see 19.1.1 and 19.1.2).
When a member of the bishopric calls a young woman to serve as a class president, he asks her to recommend whom to call as counselors and a secretary. He counsels her to approach this responsibility prayerfully, seeking guidance from the Lord about whom to recommend. However, the bishopric member also helps the class president understand that final responsibility to receive inspiration on whom to call rests with the bishopric.
A member of the bishopric seeks permission from a young woman's parents before asking her to serve in any of these callings.
After extending these callings, a member of the bishopric presents the young women to their class for a sustaining vote. Then the bishop or an assigned counselor sets the young women
A Young Women leader may communicate with the bishopric regarding any changes that may be needed in class presidencies.
Ward Young Women Presidency
The ward Young Women presidency consists of a president and two counselors. They work under the direction of the bishopric. They also receive orientation and ongoing support from the stake Young Women presidency.
Each member of the ward Young Women presidency is responsible for one of the Young Women classes, as follows:
Ward Young Women President
The Young Women president has the following responsibilities:
She serves as a member of the ward council. As a member of this council, she participates in efforts to build faith and strengthen individuals and families (see chapter 4). She is also a member of the bishopric youth committee (see 18.2.9).
She submits recommendations to the bishopric for sisters to be called to serve in the Young Women organization. In making these recommendations, she follows the guidelines in 19.1.1 and 19.1.2.
She teaches other Young Women leaders their duties, using this handbook as a resource.
She oversees the records, reports, budget, and finances of the ward Young Women organization. The Young Women secretary helps with this responsibility.
Ward Young Women President and Her Counselors
The Young Women president and her counselors have the following responsibilities:
They get to know each young woman and become familiar with her talents, interests, and challenges. They look for ways to strengthen young women individually, help them grow in their testimonies, and encourage them to participate in the Young Women organization. They give special attention to young women who are new members and young women who are less active.
They support each young woman in her family.
They help young women work on Personal Progress. They are also encouraged to work on Personal Progress themselves.
They may counsel with parents and priesthood leaders about the needs of young women.
They ensure that the ward Young Women program is organized and functioning properly. As part of this effort, they oversee and instruct ward Young Women advisers and specialists.
They often teach lessons in Sunday classes, though they may share this responsibility with Young Women advisers. They oversee efforts to improve gospel learning and teaching in the Young Women organization. In these efforts, they follow the principles in 5.5.3 and 5.5.4.
They attend class presidency meetings and provide guidance as needed.
They work with class presidencies to plan and carry out activities, including Mutual activities. They help class presidencies build unity among the young women.
They teach leadership skills and qualities to class presidencies and other leaders in the Young Women organization (see 10.9).
They hold Young Women presidency meetings. They also meet regularly with the counselor in the bishopric who oversees the Young Women organization.
Ward Young Women Secretary
The Young Women secretary has the following responsibilities:
She consults with the Young Women presidency to prepare agendas for presidency meetings. She attends these meetings, takes notes, and keeps track of assignments.
She instructs class secretaries and oversees their work in keeping attendance records. At least quarterly, she compiles attendance information, reviews it with the Young Women president, and submits it to the ward clerk.
She ensures that the bishopric and the Young Women presidency are aware of young women who are not attending meetings regularly and young women who will soon advance to another Young Women class.
She uses the Young Women Personal Progress Tracking Sheet for Leaders to record the progress of individual young women as they participate in Personal Progress and other activities and as
She helps the Young Women presidency prepare an annual budget and account for expenses.
Ward Young Women Advisers
The bishopric may call Young Women advisers to help the Young Women presidency with their responsibilities. Each adviser works with a specific age-group of young women and works under the direction of the presidency member who is assigned to that age-group. Advisers have the following responsibilities:
They help the Young Women presidency and class presidencies plan and carry out activities, including Mutual.
They may teach Sunday lessons. They also may help teach leadership skills to class presidencies.
They may help record the progress of individual young women in the Personal Progress program.
They attend ward Young Women presidency meetings as invited.
Young Women Class Presidencies
A class presidency is normally called for each Young Women class. In a ward or branch with few young women, one presidency may be called for the combined age-groups until the young women are able to be organized into their respective classes.
Class presidencies have the following responsibilities:
They watch over and fellowship class members, especially those who are new members or less active and those who have disabilities or other special needs. They pray for them, spend time with them, and become genuine friends.
They help class members establish close friendships, learn leadership skills, and live the gospel.
They help each young woman know that she is welcome when she becomes a member of their class.
They support class members' efforts in the Personal Progress program.
They hold regular class presidency meetings.
They conduct the Sunday meetings for their classes.
They help plan activities, including Mutual.
The class presidents serve on the bishopric youth committee (see 18.2.9).
Young Women Class Secretaries
Class secretaries have the following responsibilities:
They compile and review attendance information and submit it to the Young Women secretary.
They consult with the class presidency to prepare agendas for presidency meetings. They attend these meetings, take notes, and keep track of assignments.
They may help class presidencies and Young Women leaders plan activities.
Ward Young Women Activity Specialists
The bishopric may call specialists to serve temporarily in planning and carrying out specific activities. For example, specialists may be called to help with activities such as Young Women camp, youth conference, and sports. These specialists serve under the direction of the ward Young Women presidency.
Young Women Music Director and Pianist
The bishopric may call a Young Women music director and pianist. They may extend these callings to adult women or to young women.
The music director selects and conducts hymns for Sunday opening exercises. She may also help young women learn special musical selections and develop their musical abilities.
The pianist plays prelude and postlude music and hymn accompaniment in Young Women meetings.
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- Uses all or all but one of the documents.
- Analyzes the documents by grouping them in as many appropriate ways as possible. Does not simply summarize the documents individually.
- Takes into account both the sources of the documents and the authors' points of view.
You may refer to relevant historical information not mentioned in the documents.
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Be sure to analyze point of view in at least three documents or images.
What additional sources, types of documents, or information would you need to have a more complete view of this topic?


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Biological invasions: a growing threat to biodiversity, human health and food security. Policy recommendations for the Rio+20 process drafted by IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group and IUCN's Invasive Species Initiative.
Planet Under Pressure 2012 was the largest gathering of global change scientists leading up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) with a total of 3,018 delegates at the conference venue and over 3,500 that attended virtually via live webstreaming. The first State of the Planet Declaration was issued at the conference.
Following the conference and declaration several ISSG members were concerned with the limited attention being paid to the issue of biological invasions and invasive alien species in the Rio+20 process. Members proposed the development and submission of a policy paper highlighting the growing threat of biological invasions on biodiversity, human health and food security for the Rio+20 process.
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Shaun White says he's antsy about his upcoming chance to make history on the halfpipe and, in a shoutout to his fans, thanks them for supporting his decisions.
In a pair of videos shot Monday and provided to The Associated Press, White addresses his fans directly in one and speaks about his experience in Russia in the other.
"I go up and down," White says. "I'm excited, then I'm not excited because I'm, not nervous, but just kind of antsy. And it builds and snowballs into other things, and it's just a lot of mixed feelings rolled up into one. It's the day before the big day."
The halfpipe contest is Tuesday, and White could become the seventh athlete to win three straight golds in an individual Winter Olympics sport.
He makes a passing reference to his late call to pull out of the slopestyle contest — a decision that sparked criticism in some circles.
"You're the best," he tells the fans. "You support me through the decisions I make, the training regimen. You show up to the contests. You watch it on TV, and I feel it. ... I want to do my best, not only for myself but for you guys. Wish me luck and here we go."
White's parents and his brother and sister are with him in the mountains above Sochi and he said that's made a big difference in the hectic lead-up to his big day at the Olympics.
"That's what makes me a normal person at the end of the day," he says. "They don't care what happens. They don't care what the media has to say or other riders have to say, or anything about anything. It's just family."
White would be the first U.S. man to win three straight gold medals at a Winter Games and would join speed skater Bonnie Blair as only the second American overall.
It's been a rough few days of training for White. First, he tackled the slopestyle course and decided to pull out of the event. Then, he headed over to the halfpipe, which has been heavily criticized for a number of problems — too steep on the sides, bad snow, bumpy on the bottom.
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Checking in on the… MAACPosted by rtmsf on February 13th, 2009
Ray Floriani of College Chalktalk is the RTC correspondent for the MAAC and NEC Conferences.
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – There are no undefeated teams anymore in the MAAC. Last Saturday , in a rematch of last year's MAAC championship, host Rider knocked off Siena 90-88 to hand the Saints their first conference loss of the season. The victory secured the two outstanding player of the week awards for Rider.
Sophomore guard Justin Robinson earned Player of the Week honors. Robinson scored a career high 25 points and had three rebounds in that win over Siena. Novar Gadson, a freshman swingman, earned Rookie of the Week accolades with his 17 point, 4 rebound , 4 assist performance in the same contest.
The standings as of Friday February 13, 2009:
- Siena 14-1
- Niagara 11-3
- Rider 9-4
- Manhattan 8-7
- Fairfield 8-7
- Iona 6-8
- Loyola 6-8
- St. Peter's 4-10
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Vettel is the man to beat at British GP
Jun. 27, 2013
SILVERSTONE, England (AP) — As they get ready for the British Grand Prix this weekend, a sense of urgency seems to be creeping into the paddocks of Ferrari, Lotus and Mercedes.
The talk on Thursday was dominated by the abrupt announcement that Red Bull's Mark Webber is leaving Formula One after the season. But for the teams competing for the drivers' championship, the focus remains on Webber's teammate, Sebastian Vettel.
"I think he's doing a fantastic job. I think he's been nearly perfect in all the races with no negative races, always performing well in qualifying and doing very good races," said Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, who is second in the title race.
The three-time champion Vettel has shaken off some early season tire troubles and a controversy with Webber at the Malaysian GP. He is back to his dominant best, with the surest sign being his performance at the Canadian GP earlier this month in which he beat Alonso by 14 seconds.
The 25-year-old German now has a 36 point-lead over Alonso with 12 races remaining. Lotus driver Raikkonen is another eight points back in third and Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton is another 11 points behind in fourth.
Despite extending his lead, Vettel has tried to dampen down expectations that the championship is already his, insisting he was trailing at this time last season and needed a string of late-season victories to overtake Alonso. Should he win his fourth consecutive drivers' championship, Vettel would match the exploits of F1 legends Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher.
His challengers understand they need to start beating Vettel.
"We need to keep fighting, we need to keep pushing and we need to recover from these bad races that we had now," Alonso said. "I think Red Bull is performing really well, it's improving compared to the first part of the championship, so we really need to raise our game if we want to catch Sebastian because he's doing a fantastic job."
Hamilton agreed.
"He's performing as the world champion that he is and they will be difficult to catch but I don't think it's impossible to close the gap," said Hamilton, who has had several podium finishes this season, including in Canada.
"From our side, we've already closed quite a huge deficit already so we're happy where we are. But of course we want to do better," he said. "Fernando's a lot closer. I think once they sort out their qualifying they'll be able to match the Red Bulls, if not beat them. So we need to do a lot more work."
Hamilton said his team is still having tire trouble and is struggling to translate the pace it gets in qualifying to the race.
Raikkonen spent much of the day fielding questions about a possible move to Red Bull. But he, too, was more worried with getting his season back on track after poor finishes in the past two races in Monaco and Canada.
"Obviously, it's not ideal but we can only try to improve the situation," he said. "If we can improve a lot and there are problem for the others it can change quickly the positions. There is still a lot of racing to go this year and we cannot lose much more points."
Meanwhile, Vettel's Red Bull teammate Webber announced Thursday morning that he's signed a multi-year contract and will compete in Porsche's new LMP1 sports prototype at the Le Mans 24 Hours race and in the world endurance championship next year.
The team only learned of Webber's decision Thursday and said it would take its time to find a replacement — with Red Bull principal Christian Horner simply saying he wanted a "fast driver."
"We want to field the best two cars we can next year," he said. "We are in a fortunate position where there are quite a few drivers who would like to drive a Red Bull car and we have two talented young drivers (Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo) that we have been developing in Toro Rosso. We don't need to rush into a decision."
The 36-year-old is having a tough season, having failed to win a grand prix and lying fifth in the drivers' championship, 63 points behind Vettel. But the Australian has done well at Silverstone — having won two out of the past three races — and is confident he can add to his nine victories and 36 podium finishes before leaving F1.
"It's been a happy hunting ground around here, in Formula One and also, years before that in the junior categories," he said. "The Red Bull car in the last few years has also been pretty strong here, so we're looking forward to certainly challenging for another victory."