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Making a good newspaper even better is a tall order that takes a well-structured plan executed with undying determination. Any editor or publisher who aims to increase readership must take an objective look at their news product while identifying the good aspects right along with the bad. When the staff at The Courier piles into the conference room for a critique, egos must be checked at the door. You could say our egos are the ticket for admittance. We throw ideas around like Nolan Ryan used to throw fast balls. We bounce them off each other and sometimes we crumple them up and bounce them right into the trash can. No matter how many brainstorming sessions the staff endures there is only so far we can go without tapping into the vast sea of information collectively found amongst our readers. You are our largest asset in more ways than one. Without you, some of us, like myself, would be on the streets because this is all I know.
So we find ourselves at a crossroads. To be a true community newspaper, an open line of communication must be established with the readers. We want to print what you want to read about while we work diligently to remain your messenger in the Arkansas River Valley. Your loyalty and willingness to be an active member of this publication will help us create the best news product possible. We will ask your for input from time to time right here in this column. A few of the plans include a reader survey that can be filled out and sent to our offices. Look for announcements on the survey in future editions of The Courier.
Currently, we would like to tackle one area of local coverage: the submission of local sports and a promise to cover more of your children's sporting events. We know your kids are thrilled to play the games and we want to add to their excitement by printing their pictures, therefore helping you build memories in the family album.
One my fondest memories is sitting with the family when I was seven years old looking at the local newspaper where we found a picture of me playing baseball. I turned the page, and saw myself as my heart raced. I felt like I was a "big leaguer." Those moments are priceless. We will do a better job of covering your children's sports but we also need help from you. We can't be everywhere, so join in the fun and call us with scores, take pictures and e-mail them as well as story ideas. Remember, we we can't promise all submissions will run. If we receive a photo of low resolution or poor quality, and we know it will print poorly, we won't run it.
I've been told the community doesn't submit items of this nature because in the past they wouldn't be published. We will make sure to run every thing that is fit to print. That's my promise to the readers.
E-mail your sporting submissions to sportseditor @couriernews.com.
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Other issues will also be addressed in the future while we remain bound and determined to earn your readership in The Courier every day.
Thank you for reading, and don't hesitate to submit your local sporting news. We want it, and your kids deserve to feel like the big leaguers they are.
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My name is Jessica- I'm 15 and live in England, where the sun doesn't shine and we're not short of rain. I aspire to be a doctor or a journalist, and if I'm very lucky I hope to do something theatrical or I want to act. Yeah, there's a wide variaty there.
I'm an avid writer and reader. I don't have much time do to either of those things though lately, what with an insane amount of GCSE's coming up. However, I still find the time somewhere- the real world doesn't see to much of me.
I absoloutly adore Harry Potter and it has been a second life for me and one my inspirations for everything. I am a canon shipper though I don't mind a little bit on well-written non-canon stuff. However, I do believe Draco/dark pit of despair and Voldemort/dark pit of even worse despair through and through.
I'm a friendly person who loves pretty much everyone. My friends are my family and my writing is my escape.

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OAKLAND -- Ubaldo Jimenez's ability to no-hit the A's into the sixth inning on Saturday involved no secret formula.
"He just doesn't want you to touch the baseball," explained Josh Donaldson.Full Game Coverage
OAKLAND -- Ubaldo Jimenez's ability to no-hit the A's into the sixth inning on Saturday involved no secret formula.
"He just doesn't want you to touch the baseball," explained Josh Donaldson.Full Game Coverage
The A's didn't until Donaldson lined a clean RBI single up the middle with two outs in the sixth, giving Oakland its only run on another disappointing offensive night that spoiled a rather impressive defensive one in a 7-1 loss to the Indians.
Jimenez exited the game after allowing the single to Donaldson, having needed 105 pitches to get there after walking five and hitting a batter. Still, the A's managed just two more hits thereafter, while the Indians kept adding on in Oakland's 10th loss in its last 16 games.
Since the break, the A's are 13-14.
"Obviously it's not a very good time offensively right now, with a lot of guys struggling," said Brandon Moss. "When a guy's mixing his pitches well, keeping him off-balance, getting himself into trouble and getting himself out of it, then you do tip your cap. It was a frustrating night."
It was one that again distanced the A's from the Rangers, who now own a 1 1/2-game lead in the American League West after beating up on the Mariners on Saturday. Oakland also trails Tampa by half a game in the Wild Card standings, while the Indians are 3 1/2 back.
"We continue to go back and forth a little bit offensively," manager Bob Melvin said. "We have to grind our way through it, get a couple of games in a row, and start feeling a little bit better about ourselves. Jimenez was, at times, effectively wild today. He does have good stuff, he does have a lot of different pitches that you have to worry about. He walked some guys, but we couldn't square him up."
"Something that I've put in my mind is not to pitch scared of walking guys," Jimenez said. "If I walk them, just go after the next hitter."
In a sense, the A's made Jimenez work hard without doing much work of their own, making right-hander Dan Straily's job more difficult.
"He has a lot of offspeed for a guy that throws 94 miles an hour," Donaldson said. "He really doesn't want you to hit the baseball. He's going to pitch around you, try to make you swing and miss. He walked five guys tonight. That pretty much tells you the story right there. It's not like there was a small zone, either. He wasn't being squeezed. It's just one of those things, with guys like that, you try to wait as long as possible. Hopefully he makes a mistake, but tonight, for the most part, he did his job."
Straily struggled out of the gate, walking two and giving up two runs, including Nick Swisher's first-pitch solo shot, in a 31-pitch first inning, before settling down and surrendering just one more run through 5 2/3 innings.
But he never truly felt comfortable on the mound.
"I don't know, I really don't," Straily said. "It wasn't exactly like I was keeping the ball down. I felt like I had good stuff tonight. I just wasn't sure all the time where it was going. It looked a lot better, I feel like, than it probably was."
Some defensive gems helped the cause, including Josh Reddick's spectacular throw from right field to gun down Drew Stubbs at third base for a double play in the fifth.
Reddick quickly transferred Michael Bourn's line drive from glove to hand and put into motion a canon of a throw that perfectly landed in the glove of Donaldson, who happened to be right in the line of the speedy Stubbs.
"If I was anywhere else, he's safe," Donaldson said. "It was right there. That was a great throw. I know what kind of arm he has, but Stubbs is fast, and he made it a pretty close play."
"I think I almost lost my voice on that throw," Straily said. "I was pretty excited. I needed that right there. It was huge. That's one thing that never goes away is defense. We seem to play good defense all the time and it was definitely on display tonight."
Shortstop Eric Sogard put on a show of his own in the eighth, claiming responsibility for all three outs. All three, arguably, were tough outs.
First Sogard dove to his right to snag a liner off the bat of Carlos Santana. Then he raced into left-field foul territory to make quick work of Michael Brantley, before ending the frame by leaping up to grab Asdrubal Cabrera's line drive.
"We have the ability to make really good plays," Melvin said. " It seems like when we do go into slumps defensively, we do it for a period. We'll have a couple bad games where we'll make multiple errors, but again, we do have the ability to play pretty well too."
This hot-and-cold type of performance better describes the offense, batting .225 with just 120 runs scored -- amounting to just 3.7 runs per game -- over the last 33 contests.
Straily has received no run support in three of his six starts since the All-Star break and two runs of support or fewer in the other three.
"For a guy that had a no-hitter going," Donaldson said, "we probably had two or three opportunities with runners in scoring position, so we could have very easily taken advantage of that. We didn't."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com.


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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Nov. 20, 2012) ‐‐ Dr. Michael Hawes, chief executive officer of Fulbright Canada, will deliver the Distinguished Canadian Address Monday, Nov. 26.
Hawes' presentation, "Economics, Politics, Pipelines and the Election: Canada-U.S. Relations in an Increasingly Complex World," will take place from 3 to 3:55 p.m. in Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, at SUNY Plattsburgh.
An annual event sponsored by The Development Corporation and SUNY Plattsburgh's Center for the Study of Canada, the Distinguished Canadian Address is designed to recognize individuals who have made a profoundly positive contribution to Canadian public life. This initiative provides a forum that showcases professors, business leaders and government officials. They offer public lectures on a wide range of Canadian issues as well as relations between Canada and the United States.
"We look forward to engaging Dr. Hawes on issues of importance to our center, the City of Plattsburgh and the entire North Country community," said Dr. Christopher Kirkey, director of the Center for the Study of Canada.
Canada and the United States benefit from the largest trading relationship in the world, and, in fact, Canada is the fourth largest source of foreign investment in the United States, according to Paul A. Grasso Jr., president and CEO of The Development Corporation.
The Development Corporation "is proud to be sponsoring public lectures that help to inform and engage the community with respect to the importance of Canada-U.S. relations to our local economic development and expansion efforts," Grasso said.
About the Speaker
Hawes is a professor of political science, an advocate of international education and an alumnus of the Fulbright program. He assumed the leadership of Fulbright Canada in September 2001.
He is chief executive officer of the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States, executive director of the Canada - U.S. Fulbright Program and executive director of the Killam Fellowships Program. Under his direction, Fulbright Canada has witnessed dramatic growth in its programs and in the number of students and scholars that the program supports.
Since 1985, he has been a professor of international relations (currently on leave) in the political studies department at Queen's University in Kingston. He also holds an appointment at the Queen's School of Business, where he currently teaches in the area of cross-cultural negotiation. During the 1999-2000 academic year Hawes was the J. William Fulbright distinguished professor of international and area studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the John A. Sproul senior research fellow in Canadian studies. In the spring of 2010, he was visiting research chair and professor at the Center for Public Diplomacy in the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.
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Ski resort gateway intersection to be discussed
WILMINGTON -- The snow guns are running, so that means the busy time of the year is coming for Route 100.
And that increase in seasonal traffic has some town officials looking at a familiar problem spot in town: the intersection that merges Route 9 and 100.
"We're looking to hold a discussion on the intersection, getting stakeholders, residents, businesses and people who use it on a regular basis together, for the purpose of getting some perspective on what's going on," said Windham Regional Commission Planner, Cullen Meves. "Going above and beyond statistics and our own studies."
On Nov. 26, there will be a public discussion on the intersection in downtown Wilmington. This will be an open hearing, which allows people to talk about the intersection.
This particular intersection connects Wilmington to Dover and is considered the gateway to the ski resorts that you can get to from Route 100. Friday nights and Sunday afternoons are times that make the intersection historically congested.
"There's been talk of modifying the intersection south to allow traffic to flow at a busy time," said Wilmington Town Clerk Scott Murphy. "We've taken steps working with the state and traffic patrol to adjust lights during the winter season. "
Most of the talk will be geared toward hearing and gathering information about the intersection. It will focus on new and old data.
The town of Wilmington and Windham Regional Commission are holding it, so that people who live, work and run businesses in the area will have a chance to talk about the current effects of the intersection, as well as past.
With the Act 250 coming in for a proposed 90,000-square-foot lodge at Haystack, traffic is a topic that comes up with any Act 250 application.
The meeting will happen before more development takes place at Haystack, which may bring more visitors to the area. Due to it's limited membership, however, the intersection should not see any more traffic than it did a few years back, when Haystack was a public mountain and part of Mount Snow, Murphy told the Reformer on Monday.
"It's not a major concern. We've dealt with it in the past," he said.
Talk will focus on how the town and its employees can handle traffic patterns and the seasonal flow of tourists in and out of area.
"We'll run into busy weekends, like Christmas and Martin Luther King Day. It's temporary and most local people realize that you've got to work around that," Murphy said.
Employees from Mount Snow and Haystack, both off Route 100, will be there, as well as town employees from Wilmington and Dover. The Mount Snow Valley Chamber of Commerce and members from VTrans will also be in attendance.
"I'm not worried about any major changes. Hopefully, we'll be coming out of it saying there's no real issues here," said Murphy.
The discussion will go from 6 to 7:45 p.m. at Wilmington Town Offices at 2 East Main St.
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The Book of Isaiah
J. Blake Couey
The book of Isaiah is a compilation of prophetic poetry and narratives, named for an 8th-century
Isaiah is a sophisticated work of biblical Hebrew poetry, characterized by intricate combinations of imagery and wordplay. It features a high view of divine sovereignty, emphasizing Yhwh's control over world nations and superiority over all human and divine powers; these ideas contributed to the emergence of monotheism in ancient Judah. The book also articulates diverse responses to imperial domination, even as it chronicles the ebb and flow of Judah's own imperial aspirations. Striking portrayals of women and gender appear throughout Isaiah, including the extensive personification of Jerusalem as a woman and the comparison of Yhwh to a mother. Isaiah is also notable for its discourse about disability, which serves a variety of rhetorical functions in the book.
The impact of Isaiah was felt immediately, as evidenced by the number of copies of the book among the Dead Sea scrolls and citations of it in the New Testament. It greatly impacted the development of important religious ideas, including apocalypticism and belief in resurrection. In Christianity, Isaiah played an important role in reflection upon the nature of Jesus and the inclusion of Gentiles, even as it informed Christian anti-Judaism. The book has had a more complicated reception in Judaism, where it significantly influenced the growth of Zionism. Scholarly study of Isaiah continues to clarify the shape of its final form and history of composition. Current research on the book is increasingly interdisciplinary, engaging metaphor theory, disability studies, and postcolonial thought. The history of the book's interpretation and reception is another area of growing interest.
Desire, Love, and Romance in the Hebrew Bible
J. Cheryl Exum
In the Hebrew Bible human sexual desire is, for the most part, constructed as male and as dangerous. In the patriarchal economy of ancient Israel, in which women were subordinated to men and younger men to older men, desire poses a potential threat to the preservation of male status, privilege, and hierarchy, upon which the patriarchal system is based. It is viewed warily as an overwhelming urge that, unchecked, can cause a man to lose control and act in ways that might jeopardize his position in the patriarchal hierarchy and, if some texts are to be taken seriously (Proverbs, the story of Samson), even his life. Thus legal texts seek to regulate and control sexual behavior and thereby channel sexual desire in permissible directions; Proverbs responds to the threat that uncontrolled desire poses by offering the young man a patriarchally sanctioned object of desire, personified Wisdom, and narrative texts, such as the stories of Samson and Delilah and David and Bathsheba, provide object lessons in the dangerous consequences of desire. There are few places in the Hebrew Bible where one person is said to love ('ahab) another in an amorous or carnal sense, and in all these cases only one of the pair is said to love. This does not mean that love was not thought of as reciprocated in biblical times, but only that reciprocal love was not a concern of biblical writers, with the exception of the poet of the Song of Songs. The Song of Songs is the only text in the Hebrew Bible in which sex, desire, love, and romance can all be found. This short book, the Bible's only love poem, gives its readers an unprecedented insight into what it is like to be in love from both points of view, a woman's and a man's.
The Eruv as Contested Jewish Space in North America
Myer Siemiatycki
The eruv is perhaps the most creative, confounding, and contested spatial construct in Judaism. Territorially, it demarcates the urban space within which prohibitions otherwise attached to Sabbath observance for Orthodox Jews become permitted. While virtually imperceptible to the human eye, eruvin (pl.) sanctify what would otherwise be sacrilegious. An eruv thus creates permissive religious space for Jews on Sabbath. Hundreds of cities worldwide, including urban areas across North America, are home to an eruv. Notwithstanding their prevalence and undetectable physical imprint on urban landscapes, the establishment of eruvin has unleashed intense hostility and resistance in some locales. Opposition has typically been mounted by a surprisingly mixed array of critics including non-Jews, non-Orthodox Jews, and dissenting Orthodox Jews. The eruv highlights, in compelling fashion, the spatial challenges of navigating faith, ritual, secularism, and pluralism in contemporary American cities. Seemingly ethereal religious beliefs can occasion radically different perceptions of public space.
God in the Old Testament
Brent A. Strawn
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Please check back later for the full article.
The God of the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible) is arguably one of the most fascinating deities in all religious literature: complex and multifaceted; prone to great acts of mercy and kindness, although not above brutal acts of punishment and wrath; consumed with care for the world and its inhabitants; capable of changing direction or mind; inexplicably in love with God's people and deeply concerned with their ways in the world.
This robust picture of the character of God in the Old Testament emerges in the aggregate: from viewing the library of books that is the Old Testament as a whole and trying to reckon with their literary complexity at a higher order of reflection. Inordinate attention to specific parts of the Old Testament—this verse, say, or that one, especially when divorced and isolated from all others—can produce a completely different (mis)perception such as that found in some ungenerous estimations that see the God of the Old Testament as petty or unjust, vindictive or bloodthirsty, misogynistic or genocidal. Such estimations are as old as the second-century arch-heretic Marcion but are also found in works of more recent vintage.
Some—although certainly not all—of these negative descriptors can be applied to the God of the Old Testament in certain passages, but a portrait consisting solely of them will end up being little more than a caricature that will not hold up to close scrutiny because it systematically ignores every piece of contrary data found in the Bible. To be sure, accounting for what might be called "polarities" in God's presentation (God's love versus God's wrath) is a challenging intellectual task, literarily as much as theologically. Not all readers are up to the job (witness Marcion). But this task must be engaged if one wishes to write a complete character description (not to mention analysis) of God from the biblical texts. Indeed, the complexity of any more fulsome portrait of God in the Old Testament—marked, for example, by tensions, a vast array of metaphors, and alternative presentations—should be one of the primary results of such an endeavor. The God of the Old Testament is, after all, first and foremost, according to the description above, complex and multifaceted.
The complexity of God's portrayal in the Old Testament is the direct result of the diversity of the Bible itself—a term that derives from a Greek plural, ta biblia, "the books." Not only are the books of the Bible several and different at a synchronic level, but also they come from different periods and are themselves (that is, within each particular book) the result of long diachronic processes. This two-layered diversity that marks the Bible adds yet further difficulty to the task of describing God therein, even as it suggests that more than one approach can and must be (and has been) utilized in the attempt.
In the final analysis, it seems safe to say that the complexity of God's portrayal in the Old Testament has functioned not only to make this deity endlessly fascinating in the history of civilization but also to underscore—at some literary level, if nothing else—that the God of whom the texts speak is truly a divine character: not able to be captured, controlled, or managed by the human characters in the stories and not even by the sacred literature itself. Only a robust approach to the biblical literature that pays attention to both synchronic and diachronic aspects can hope to do justice to such a fascinating deity.
History of Ancient Israel
H. G. M. Williamson
The history of ancient Israel is best known to most people from the narratives in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. There, however, the name "Israel" covers a wide diversity of social and political entities over the course of many centuries. The first attestation of the name outside the Bible (on the Egyptian stela of Merneptah, c. 1208
How to combine these differing forms of evidence has been the topic of lively and sometimes rancorous debate, which varies in its detail from one period to another, often depending on the extent to which external sources are immediately available. Solutions are not always available, but exploration into the nature of these problems and misunderstandings in the application of appropriate methods reveal where the problems lie and, in some cases, what are plausible solutions.
Until the 19th century, the history of ancient Israel was, for most people, coterminous with the familiar narrative of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. No relevant external sources were known, and there was no reason to doubt its essential historical reliability, allowance made, of course, for those who could not accept the miraculous as historically factual.
Archaeological and epigraphical discoveries over the last two centuries or so, together with the introduction more recently of new and different historical methods, have led to aspects of this topic being fiercely contested in current scholarship. Taking a general familiarity with the outline "story" for granted, the following analysis will present some of the major topics on which new data have become available and on which opinion remains divided.
Jewish Liturgy
Ruth Langer
Jewish liturgy is a complex phenomenon, manifesting change over time and place as well as some significant diversity today. Today's prayers emerged from the rituals of the rabbis of the early centuries of the Common Era, compensating for the loss of the Jewish ritual center, the Jerusalem Temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70
The received rabbinic worship is highly structured and scripted. There are three services every day, with a fourth on festive days. The key structural elements combined in these services are the recitation of shema῾ and its blessings, the multi-blessing ῾amidah, and the reading of Torah. To these, other elements have aggregated, like introductory prayers, Psalms, and supplicatory prayers. Meals also require short blessings before eating and a longer grace afterwards. The Passover seder extends this meal ritual with narrative, Psalms, and songs. Variation among medieval regional rites and their modern heirs manifests itself within this structure not only in small differences of wording, but also in more significant dissimilarities in modes of performance. In modernity, liberal movements abbreviated, translated, and otherwise rewrote many prayers.
The messages of Jewish liturgy are embedded within this structure as well as in the themes of the liturgical year, expressed primarily through scripture readings. The annual Torah cycle tells the Jewish story from creation up to the Israelites' entry into their land. The primary festival cycle and the blessings surrounding the shema῾ highlight the key elements of this narrative: God's work of creation, redemption, and revelation. Permeating the liturgy, though, is the expectation of future messianic redemption.
Judaism and Visual Art
Melissa Raphael
Until the late 20th century, it was widely assumed that visual art could be of only negligible significance to a Jewish tradition that had been principally mediated through written texts. However, by the closing decades of the 20th century, Jewish cultural historians had demonstrated that, while Jewish worship and study is indubitably logocentric, the Second Commandment's prohibition of the making and worshipping of graven images has not entailed a blanket ban on visual art. Jews have not been uniformly indifferent or hostile to visual art, a category that includes the architectural design and decoration of synagogues; funerary monuments; illuminated manuscripts; embroidery; liturgical seats, pulpits, and the other fittings and ornaments of religious Jewish life at home and at worship; as well as, since the 19th century, drawing, painting and sculpture. Most interpreters now read the biblical texts as prohibiting only the making and worshipping of images of the divine. The Bible forbids idolatry, but is aware that not all images are idolatrous. By around the 3rd century of the Common Era, rabbinical rulings recognized that the danger of Jews becoming idolaters, as they might have done under formerly pagan dispensations, had passed. In short, although in a number of Jewish historical periods and geographical regions there have been good reasons to be reluctant to accommodate visual art within the tradition, there is also ample evidence of visual art in settings that span the entire geography and history of Judaism. Jewish avoidance or neglect of visual art has usually been more historically contingent than theologically necessary. The religious culture of Jews resident in Islamic lands, for example, tended to conform to their hosts' prevailing, though not historically or geographically comprehensive, tendency to aniconism.
On grounds such as these, it has been argued that the notion of Judaism as an aniconic tradition is a modern one. Kant's appreciation of the Second Commandment as one of Judaism's few redeeming features, proscribing any crude urge to see that which exceeds the bounds of sensibility, encouraged western European Jews to advert to Judaism's lack of art a sign of its pre-eminence as the first enlightened religion. The 19th and early 20th-century claim that Jewish tradition is aural and literary, but not visual, seems to have owed more to the modern German scientific study of Judaism's use of the Second Commandment to highlight affinities between Jewish and Christian monotheism and to Jews' desire to integrate into Protestant culture, than to restrictions within their own legal and cultural inheritance.
Perceived violations of the Second Commandment no longer provoke much of a reaction in any but the most conservative Jewish communities. And even among the Haredim, artists have begun to paint semi-abstract pictures that are not considered a deviation from halakhic norms. Yet, while many Jews still regard abstraction as a more permissible form of Jewish visual art than others, it is evident that the art tradition that developed after Jewish civil emancipation in Western Europe has actually been predominantly figurative. A number of scholars have therefore proposed that the Second Commandment has not so much prevented figurative visual art as promoted a distinctive set of styles and techniques, especially those that allow Jewish artists to make images that fulfill their quintessentially Jewish obligation to criticize idolatrous images. Jewish art, it has been argued, exists because of the Second Commandment, not in spite of it.
This essay does not cover Jewish approaches and contributions to film and architecture. It examines both the history and theorization of Jewish visual art and Jewish religious approaches to visual art. The essay uses the findings of this two-pronged enquiry to suggest that Jewish visual art, which is more than art by artists who happen to be Jews, is properly counter-idolatrous art, art that is far from hindered by the Second Commandment but is actively produced by it. Jewish art does more than build cultural, political, and national Jewish identities; it does more than the commemorative work of visually constructing Jewish memory. Visual art made by Jews becomes Jewish when it serves a constructive theological, prophetic purpose and when it uses idoloclastic techniques to produce images that both cancel and restore the glory of the human. This claim counters the prevailing view that there can be no unified or normative theory of Jewish art.
Martin Luther and Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism
Christopher Ocker
The uncomfortable question of Martin Luther's place in the development of modern anti-Semitism is raised by Luther's status as a national cultural icon after German unification (1871) and by the fact that the Third Reich (1933–1945) perpetrated what is arguably the most violently racist state policy known to human history thus far. Luther contributed to the symbiosis of religious and secular prejudices. The reception of Luther's anti-Jewish discourse illustrates the gradual diffusion of religious hostility into a society where churches slid from a central position to the margins of social influence. This can only be understood against the backdrop of a long chronology of religious thinking. The long chronology shows that Luther was more a conduit than a catalyst of European anti-Jewish polemic and feeling.
Martin Luther and Christian Hebraism
Stephen G. Burnett
Christian Hebraism was a facet of Renaissance humanism. Biblical scholars, theologians, lawyers, physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and teachers in Latin schools sought to learn Hebrew in order to read the Old Testament in its original language, and to borrow and adapt ideas and literary forms from post-biblical Hebrew texts to meet Christian cultural and religious needs. While some medieval Christian scholars such as Nicholas of Lyra and Raymond Martin made extensive use of Hebrew in their works, not until the early 16th century were a significant number of Christians able to learn Hebrew and use it to study the Hebrew Bible and post-biblical Jewish texts. The desire of biblical humanists to read the Old Testament in Hebrew, the curiosity of Christian Kabbalists searching for ancient wisdom, and a slowly growing number of Jewish tutors and Christians who were able to provide Hebrew instruction all contributed to the growth of this movement. Jewish printers pioneered the techniques of mass-producing Hebrew books to feed this new market. Christian printers would use these same techniques to print grammars, dictionaries, and other books needed for instructing Christians. The growing conviction of Martin Luther and his followers that the Bible was the sole source of religious authority (sola scriptura) provided the most compelling reason for large numbers of Christians to learn Hebrew. The most active and innovative Protestant Hebraists during Luther's lifetime were members of the "Upper Rhineland School of Biblical Exegesis," including Martin Bucer, Wolfgang Capito, Conrad Pellican, and above all Sebastian Münster.
Martin Luther and his Wittenberg colleagues were early adopters of the new Hebrew learning. He first learned Hebrew using Johannes Reuchlin's Hebrew grammar, and put his knowledge to practical use when lecturing on the Old Testament and translating the Bible into German. His colleagues, above all Philip Melanchthon and Matthaeus Aurogallus, helped Luther translate and revise his translation from 1521 until his death in 1546. Luther characterized his approach to interpreting the Hebrew Bible as "Grammatica Theologica," employing Hebrew philology to interpret the text, but also wherever possible making it "rhyme" with the New Testament. Toward the end of his life, Luther became increasingly concerned that Münster and other Hebraists were too quick to accept Jewish interpretations of many Old Testament passages, particularly verses that traditionally had been understood to be messianic prophecies. In On the Last Words of David (1543) Luther offered a model of how he interpreted the Old Testament, while sharply criticizing Christian Hebraists who followed Jewish interpretation too closely.
Martin Luther, Jews, and Judaism
Dorothea Wendebourg
Martin Luther was engaged with the topic "Jews and Judaism" all his life, from his earliest works until his last. The main context for his preoccupation with this topic was interpretation of Holy Scripture, particularly in his many and ample lectures on books of the Old Testament, starting with the "Dictata supra Psalterium," his first lecture on the Psalms (1513‒1515), down to his "Lecture on the Book of Genesis" (1535‒1545). In addition, he wrote several treatises on the question of how Christian society should relate to the Jews living in its midst, most important, "That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew" (1523) and "On the Jews and Their Lies" (1543). These writings were, however, to a large extent also exegetical works. Altogether Luther's attitude toward the Jews and Judaism is characterized simultaneously by continuity and by radical change: (1) continuity is obvious in his theological statements on Judaism which were based on a certain hermeneutics of the Old Testament centered in the Messiahship of Jesus Christ; and (2) change in his demands regarding the treatment of contemporary Jews which in earlier years followed his conception of the Two Kingdoms whereas in later times he came back to the traditional ideal of corpus Christianum. This change led to contradictory receptions of his statements on the topic in the course of history. All this is reflected in the research on the subject since the beginning of modern historical scholarship.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategyAlthough the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[9] but merely popularized it.[10] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[2]
Republicans in the Nixon era specifically marketed themselves to racists, courting votes from "Negrophobe whites" as the way to win the White House.
The party has long since moved on from that position, but its effects are harder to move on from. A generation of minority voters grew up knowing- because the Republican party came out and said so - that Republicans were not concerned with their interests.
There's no policy or platform, however well thought through, that can quickly overcome that. It will take generations of conspicuous non-racism to move that needle - which is why the left charges republicans with racism almost reflexively; first, because it was true (which makes it hard to trust claims that it no longer is), and second, because even if the Republican party has moved on from that shameful strategy, it's better for the Democrats if minority voters continue to associate Republicans with racism.
Our justice system no longer works for those without cash and when people see that the system doesn't provide basic justice and they see it coming from Republicans they reflexively see them as the enemy. Years of the cry Law and order has been felt very harshly in the minority communities across the country.
I feel like what you're talking about is a stretch...
Human beings have free will and in this country you do not need to commit crime to survive and if there is one thing our gov't has shown it is that you can get assistance. There is no excuse for crime. Minorities, or anyone else for that matter, are not forced into a life of crime, they choose it.
I go agree that we need to revisit our penal codes. Especially those concerning non-violent crime and first time offenders.
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I'm not saying he can't pass a test at an Ivy League school, he's capable
of reading something and repeating it. He can learn the tax system and figure out how to get around it. He's capable of making money with the money he inherited.
He just has no common sense. When he's not prepped for something, he'll say things that are inappropriate. He can't communicate and is a social dufus.
He's a cross between Ted Baxter and Milburn Drysdale.
BTW, the cop and the French guy are killing Romney on an IQ test. FF2 as well. I will not exclude or include anyone else for fear of hurt feelings.
See? That's the diplomacy Romney is missing.
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Jury trials are rare b.c a lot of criminals plead out. Do you want lawyers to work for free? We give them a public defender. And there is a such thing as jury selection that defense attorneys participate in.
Law and order is a good thing. The reason why there are high percentages of minorities that are incarcerated is not b.c of Republicans. But that is the excuse Dems have sold to minorities.


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Jair Jurrjens doesn't want to get too far ahead of himself.
The young starter said earlier in camp that he wouldn't believe he made the Braves until someone told him in person. And even when the club's game notes listed him as the starting pitcher in the third game of the season, Jurrjens still refused to celebrate.
"I suppose that means I made the team," Jurrjens told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I'm still not going to believe it 'til I fly to Washington [for the season opener Sunday]. I'm not telling anyone. I'm still waiting."
Jurrjens reasoned that no one gave him official word and that plenty can still happen between now and the opener.
"That [plan] could change. You always have to be prepared," Jurrjens said.
For Fontenot, it's time to find a home: Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella found a clever way to tell infielder Mike Fontenot that he'd made the team. Instead of calling him into his office or approaching him in the clubhouse, Piniella used his own sly way of letting him know.
"He said, 'Hey, have you got a place in Chicago?'" Fontenot told The Chicago Tribune. "I was like, 'No.' And he said, 'Well, you can get one.' I was like, 'OK.' I was pretty happy, and pretty pumped."
After getting 30 at-bats last September, Fontenot wasn't sure if he had a place on the 2008 Cubs or not, but after a strong spring, he earned his way north.
"I didn't know exactly what to expect coming in," he said. "I knew they probably would have an open spot on the infield though, so I took that approach to move around, keep working on things and make it through spring."
Soccer skills come in handy for Hernandez: On most ground balls towards the pitcher's mound, a pitcher either fields and throws, fields and runs to first or fields and eats the ball -- but not Minnesota Twins pitcher Livan Hernandez.
When Tampa Bay's Elliot Johnson bunted towards Hernandez earlier this week, the Twins' veteran simply kicked the ball to first baseman Justin Morneau to record the out.
"That's the way I play," Hernandez told The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "and nobody is going to take that from me. People think I'm on the mound, relaxed. But when I'm on the mound, I'm thinking, 'What is the best way to make three outs?'"
The ball landed directly in Morneau's glove as Tampa Bay first base coach George Hendrick started to clap and the Twins in the dugout tried their best to process what they'd just seen.
"Everybody in our dugout was taking their hat off and just bowing to [Hernandez]," said Rays shortstop Jason Bartlett. "To kick it and to hit it in the air right at Morneau's glove -- it's impossible, but he did it."
For Morneau, a former hockey player, catching the ball was no problem at all -- even if it was kicked at him.
"Any other first baseman it probably would have hit off their knee or something," said Bartlett, "but Morneau had that hockey instinct."
Rivera learns he's made the Brewers' roster: When Mike Rivera got off the bus Wednesday after the drive from Phoenix to Tucson, he was summoned into the office of manager Ned Yost.
At that point, Rivera probably thought he was going to be told he would be starting the season at Triple-A Nashville. Instead, he received the news that he was going to be backup catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers this season.
"He said it's 98.2 percent," a relieved Rivera told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "He said he didn't want to give me 100 percent."
The last time Rivera, 31, was on an Opening Day roster was in 2002 with Detroit. Playing the last three years at Nashville, Rivera is very familiar with current Milwaukee pitchers Yovani Gallardo, Manny Parra and Carlos Villanueva. That familiarity worked in Rivera's favor.
"Mike has past history with Villanueva, Manny Parra, Gallardo, all those guys in the organization," said Yost. "He's a nice defensive complement with Kendall. I like the way he sets up behind the plate. He blocks balls well, his throwing has improved. He understands the importance of team defense and can swing the bat enough to be dangerous."
Alou will return ready to bust out: Moises Alou is sure of one thing as he recovers from hernia surgery -- when he starts playing again, he will be hitting the ball and hitting it often.
"I know I always come back from things like this, and I come back strong," Alou, 41, told Newsday. "I don't just come back. I come back and I perform well, and I perform when it counts."
While Alou has experienced his fair share of injuries during his career, this latest setback is frustrating.
"I came here in the best shape of my life," he said. "I was in great shape since November. I never lost my playing shape. I never got a beer belly, never got fat. Whether it was to come back to play here or it was to look good on the beach at my beach house, I was looking good, feeling good and then all of sudden it just happened -- a non-baseball-related injury."
Alou started to experience pain in early March, a pain that did not go away.
"Everybody keeps asking, how did you do it? Did you lift something heavy?" Alou said. "I've been doing the same things I've been doing my whole life. I've been doing my leg [exercises] every other day since 1999 when I hurt my knee. I don't know what happened. Some people say this could have happened a long time ago and then all of a sudden it can show up, but I don't remember doing anything like that."
Redman gets nod for Rockies' home opener: The Colorado Rockies announced that veteran Mark Redman will be the team's fourth starter, meaning he will be on the mound for the team's home opener on April 4 against Arizona.
"We have familiarity with Mark, and he pitched well in important games for us," general manager Dan O'Dowd told The Denver Post.
A finesse pitcher, Redman was 2-0 with a 3.20 ERA for the Rockies last season.
"He's the perfect example of a guy who's very smart and knows how to get outs," shortstop Troy Tulowitzki said.
Manager Clint Hurdle also slotted Redman in the fourth spot in the rotation because he wants Redman sandwiched between the hard throwing Ubaldo Jimenez and rookie Franklin Morales.
"To do that with a guy like [Redman], who has a large volume of innings, is important," Hurdle said. "It could be less taxing on the bullpen. And [with their styles], we can be on the gas, off the gas and then back on."
Duke's feeling ready for regular season: Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Zach Duke worked five innings and allowed just one run earlier this week in his next-to-last start of the spring.
While striking out five and walking none, Duke was also a star at the plate by getting two hits off of Tigers pitcher Dontrelle Willis.
"I'll be honest with you: I got lucky twice," Duke told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "Dontrelle's not easy to hit. Luckily, the ball was thrown where I swung."
Pittsburgh manager John Russell liked what he saw out of Duke. "Zach was very good," said Russell. "The command he was showing in and out was nice to see."
With good velocity and a solid sinker, Duke was also pleased with his effort. "It felt real good, exactly how I wanted it to," he said. "I've been building up to be the caliber that I showed today. I'm ready to go win some games."
Duke, who is scheduled to make his first start of the season on April 5 against the Florida Marlins, says he is coming into the 2008 season feeling like he's made some mental adjustments.
"I would say I'm definitely smarter," he said. "I've always been a tough guy; I don't let much get to me and I know what I'm capable of. The big thing for me is just feeling like I can go out there and give the team a chance to win. There were times last year when I didn't feel like that. Now, I definitely feel as good as I have in a long time."
Bannister works the thinking game: Kansas City pitcher Brian Bannister uses all he has to retire hitters, be it a fastball, a curve, or his brain. Bannister, who keeps charts and video of hitters, does all he can to have an edge when he's pitching.
"Can you just out-think a hitter?" Bannister asked in an interview with The Kansas City Star, pondering the question. "Yes, I think you can, once you get enough knowledge of that hitter."
Sometimes, out-thinking a hitter can include using an old trick often employed by former Royals closer Jeff Montgomery -- tossing one softly right down the middle of the plate and trying to catch the hitter of guard.
"Oh, yeah, I do that," Bannister confessed. "I'll throw them a big lollipop. You know, if you throw them your best pitch, they'll hit it. That's what they do. That's why they're such great hitters.
"But you throw them a lollipop -- that's the last thing they expect."
And then there are those that are trying to out-think Bannister as he tries to out-think them.
"Take a guy like Manny Ramirez," said Bannister. "He'll purposely take outs early in the game just so he disrupts any pattern pitchers might have of him. That way it's really hard to pitch to him when the game is on the line. That's why he's so good in the clutch."
Then there are hitters with no pattern, or hitters that Bannister simply doesn't get out no matter what he does.
"That's the random part of baseball," he said. "It doesn't make sense. The rest of the league gets them out no problem. But I can't. I don't know if it's because the plane of my pitches sets up well with the plane of their swing, or what...
"Logically, you pitch around them. Don't let them hit at all."
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PARIS (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is investigating disclosures to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) about the variable response that certain patients may have to blood-thinner Plavix, Sanofi said in its annual report.
The French drugmaker said it had became aware of the probe in June 2012 and was cooperating with the DoJ.
Plavix, once the world's second-best selling drug, was co-marketed by Sanofi and U.S. drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb before it lost patent protection in May 2012.
The U.S. FDA added a so-called boxed warning to Plavix in 2010 to highlight that the drug could be less effective in certain patients who could not metabolize it properly.
A Sanofi spokeswoman declined to elaborate on the statement in the annual report.
The DoJ and Bristol Myers Squibb were not immediately available for comment.
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BY MARIE ANDRUSEWICZ -- Oh, Cicadas. Why do you incessantly buzz, disturbing the daytime slumber of casino workers and the good people who work the night shift at Walmart?
Turns out there's more than one answer to that question. For starters, male cicadas are making that sound to attract a lady-friend cicada.
"That's totally for mating," says Nevada State Entomologist Jeff Knight. "And different cicadas have different sounds. You can tell them apart if you're good at it." Knight says that sound is audible to humans within a hundred feet of the cicada.
OK, fair enough. But why do cicadas need to procreate, i.e. exist?
"Actually cicadas probably provide a food source for an awful lot of birds and other animals that pick them up," says Nevada State Entomologist Jeff Knight.
Las Vegas is home to the Apache cicada, which Knight says is about an inch to an inch and a quarter long, has clear wings, and some light cream to green-colored markings once they've reached their adult stage.
But the coolest feature on the cicada, besides the ability to do this, is the tymbal.
"Tymbals are organs on the abdomen that, when they flex very rapidly, they produce that shrilling sound," says Knight.
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Local residents Patsy and Kenny Smith recently turned their good luck into fortune at the Monsanto Annual Consultant Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 6-8, 2013. Entered into a drawing early in the convention, Patsy was elated to later hear her name called as the recipient of $2,500 for the charity of her choice. "Of course, our first thought was the Mancos Public Library" said Patsy, who served as the director of the library for 19 years before retiring in 2011. Since retiring, she has been helping her husband Kenny manage his business, Premier Weed Management. "We work all over Montezuma County," says Patsy, "and know how important the Mancos Public Library is to our customers, and to our own family. I never dreamed an act as simple as attending a convention would present us with an opportunity to help our local library. We are thrilled. "
Library Director Lee Hallberg said the money will be put to good use. "This donation couldn't come at a better time", he said, "the library is facing a few challenging years, and this will go a long way toward helping support the programs and services that the community relies on".
A small ceremony was held at the library on March 29, where Patsy & Kenny presented the America's Farmers Grow Communities Fund check to the library.


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Defense big staple of Orioles' success this year
By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com
BOSTON -- There are no precedents for what the Orioles have done defensively.
Baltimore has made just 39 errors in its first 131 games this season and is on pace to finish with 48 miscues for the year, which would shatter the existing Major League record.
The Mariners set the all-time mark with 65 errors in 2003, and the Orioles are also on pace to set the single greatest fielding percentage in league history. Baltimore has fielded at a .992 clip this season, narrowly ahead of the all-time mark of .989 set by the Rockies in 2007.
Baltimore has been so good, in fact, that its entire infield may be eclipsed by individual players. The Orioles have seen their infield -- excluding their catchers -- combine for just 28 errors this season, and Pittsburgh's Pedro Alvarez (25) and Chicago's Alexi Ramirez (21) may be able to catch them.
So what has been the biggest factor in Baltimore's historically clean season? Third-base coach Bobby Dickerson, who doubles as the infield coach, gives a lot of the credit to shortstop J.J. Hardy, who won an American League Gold Glove Award last season.
"We have pretty much the epitome of a fundamental shortstop who plays the game smart and makes good decisions," said Dickerson. "One of the biggest things that has happened has been our first-base play. Chris Davis has probably saved eight or 10 throwing errors, which in turn saves a whole lot more. Once the guys feel comfortable throwing, they don't aim the ball over there. Most defenses, if you don't throw the ball away, you usually play pretty soundly."
Hardy, a two-time All-Star, passed the credit on to the people around him. Hardy said that he's worked with a number of second basemen this season and that all of them have been strong defensively. He also credited third baseman Manny Machado for having a standout season of his own.
"Consistency. Range. Awareness. Arm. All of the above," said Hardy of Machado's strengths. "I think he's doing everything that any third baseman can possibly do to be as good as he's been."
The Orioles aren't resting on their defense, and Hardy said that each of the players have shown a commitment to focus and working on the little things. Nobody in Baltimore is gunning for the record. The O's are just playing solid defense and hoping that it makes a difference in the standings.
"We still have a long way to go," said Dickerson, "and I think that's one thing that sums us up. None of that is even an issue for us. We're trying to make the playoffs. The focus is on playing today. These guys are fundamentally sound and they're focused on every pitch. It's that kind of defense."
Orioles paying close attention to waiver wire
BOSTON -- Making a claim is only part of the process -- and everybody's doing it.
Manager Buck Showalter talked about Baltimore's activity on the waiver front on Thursday, and he made it clear that the Orioles are in the market for another player. However, he also said that virtually every team in the playoff picture is claiming players in the hopes of adding them.
Baltimore has reportedly made a successful claim on two players -- Minnesota's Josh Willingham and Seattle's Mike Morse -- and is in the process of trying to acquire them. But Showalter said that the Red Sox are making the same effort, and that at this point, it's just a matter of due diligence.
"Everybody is. It's that time of the year. That's why the Trade Deadline isn't really a pure deadline," said Showalter of waiver claims. "People that don't see themselves as part of it are trying to make a deal now that really sets them up in the future. ... There's a lot of things going on behind the scenes."
Showalter said that he hasn't spoken to general manager Dan Duquette on Thursday, but he acknowledged that the front office is all over the claim game. In fact, Showalter said that he gets an e-mail every day about who's available on waivers, and that sometimes it's a shocking name.
"If you sit there and look at it every day, you're like, 'Oh my gosh, they put one of the best players in the game on trade waivers today,'" said Showalter of the waiver list. "No, you don't have a chance for him. I'm not real sure why they do that, but there's got to be some good reason."
The bottom line is this: Showalter is going to make out his lineup card every night based on who gives them the best chance to win. If the Orioles are able to add a bat or two before September, he'd be thrilled with that development, but otherwise, Showalter likes his current personnel.
"I think it's right here. It might be Wilson Betemit. It might be Henry Urrutia coming back," said Showalter of reinforcements from within. "There's a lot of things moving. Until somebody tells me there's something else coming, I think it's right here and I think it's the people we have."
Showalter endorses aggressive baserunning
BOSTON -- The Orioles want to see aggression on the basepaths, so manager Buck Showalter isn't going to get upset every time somebody gets thrown out. Showalter said Thursday that he had relayed that message to Brian Roberts, who was thrown out attempting to steal third in Wednesday's 4-3 loss to the Red Sox.
Roberts, who had successfully stolen second base, was thrown out at third base in the same inning. Moments later, third baseman Manny Machado got a pitch to hit and took it deep. But Showalter said that you can't assume the hitter would've even gotten that pitch if Roberts was still on base.
"I thought [the pitcher] lost a little focus," said Showalter. "That doesn't mean he would've hit a two-run homer. That doesn't mean that would've happened. ... I like the fact that he stole second. I like the fact that Robby's taking what's there. He wasn't expecting him to throw a fastball up that's easy to throw on. I'm just glad that Robby's feeling good. I dwell on the base he stole a pitch or so before that."
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Harvey impressive in his Aberdeen debut
By Brittany Ghiroli / MLB.com
BALTIMORE -- Right-hander Hunter Harvey, the Orioles' first-round pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, was impressive in his debut for short-season Aberdeen on Tuesday night.
Harvey -- who consistently threw his fastball in the 93- to 94-mph range -- worked 4 1/3 innings and allowed one unearned run that held up as the decisive tally in a loss to the Hudson Valley Renegades.
"When you're taking a pitcher in the first round, you're trying to identify that guy as a No. 1 or No. 2 starter. A top-of-the-rotation guy. And that's what he looked like," IronBirds manager Matt Merullo said of Harvey, who was selected with the 22nd overall pick.
Harvey gave up four hits, two of which were infield singles, struck out five and walked just one. He exited in the top of the fifth inning after throwing 76 pitches; the run scored after he was out of the game.
Showalter looking ahead to roster expansion
BALTIMORE -- Manager Buck Showalter met with Dan Duquette, executive vice president of baseball operations, on Wednesday to go over potential September callups and said that the organization is considering players who are not on the 40-man roster.
Top pitching prospect Kevin Gausman is expected to be among the callups, and bringing in reserves should allow Showalter to better distribute the load in the bullpen.
Showalter, who is meticulous when it comes monitoring the bullpen's workload, said that he wouldn't hesitate to stretch out relievers -- even closer Jim Johnson -- to multiple innings if needed over the next few days.
"There's not a long haul now. Our guys understand there's some different dynamics going on now with 30-something games left," Showalter said. "You are going to see [starters Scott] Feldman and Miguel [Gonzalez] in the bullpen, different areas, until we get to September. I don't think you will necessarily see us call all the 40-man callups on one day, either."
Designated hitter Wilson Betemit, who will continue his rehab on Thursday with Triple-A Norfolk, will be monitored closely over the next few days as the team weighs whether to activate him from the 60-day disabled list or extend his rehab and have him come up as part of roster expansion.
As they did last year, the Orioles will have players continue to work out at the team's spring facility in Sarasota, Fla., in case of an emergency.
O's staying loose, keeping mood light
BALTIMORE -- Though they have lost six of eight games, the Orioles have managed to keep the mood light in the clubhouse as they try to get back on track in the postseason race, and Wednesday afternoon was no exception.
Several members of the Maryland Table Tennis Center club were in the clubhouse hours before the series finale against the Rays, with the Orioles pitted against some of the best young players in the world.
"Nobody in here [was] able to get their serve back," manager Buck Showalter said after taking in some of the games, which caused a lot of laughter and good-natured ribbing as the table-tennis players easily bested the professional athletes.
Showalter thinks it's important to have fun over the grind of a 162-game regular season and stressed that the clubhouse isn't his domain.
"It's the players' clubhouse. It's not mine," said Showalter, who had the coaches' lockers moved out of the clubhouse in one of his initial moves after taking the helm in 2010. "It's a place I want them to feel like they want to come to.
"The environment is important. So many serious things go on there for three or four hours. We have a lot of things that go on, a lot of things that happen on the road that nobody knows about. We've got 100 things going on, fantasy football, and thank God. Otherwise it'd be boring. They're -- some of them I can't talk about -- pretty funny."
Showalter gives struggling Johnson night off
BALTIMORE -- The Orioles used three pitchers in the ninth inning of Wednesday's 4-2 win, none named Jim Johnson, raising the question: How much can you read into manager Buck Showalter's decision?
"Oh, sure, you can read," Showalter said of the move to give the struggling Johnson a night off. "We've got 30-something games [left]. We're going to put our best foot forward every night. Jimmy's our best option, one of them. I'm glad we've got more than one good option. We've got a lot of good options, and we'll continue to make use of them."
Johnson (3-7, 3.58 ERA) has blown three consecutive save opportunities after converting 10 straight, and he allowed runs in four of his last five appearances. The Major League leader in both saves and blown saves, Johnson didn't warm up on Wednesday; Showalter said the right-hander wasn't available.
"I could have pushed it," said Showalter, who used Darren O'Day, Brian Matusz and Tommy Hunter instead. "[Johnson] had been up two or three days in a row and pitched last night. He's like second or third in appearances, and I was trying real hard to stay away from him."
Hunter, who entered with runners on first and second and no outs, retired two batters before Matt Wieters threw out Kelly Johnson trying to steal second to end the game. It was Hunter's fourth career save; all have come this season.
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Arkansas State Police (ASP), the Russellville Police Department (RPD), and the Pope County Sheriff's Department (PCSO) will work together to reduce the number of DWI-related incidents during the holiday week.
Each agency has a specific plan, but will also collaborate on procedures that are intended to stop those who drink and drive.
ASP will actively observe drivers with a sense of hyper awareness, Lt. Kyle Drown said.
"We intend to ramp up and concentrate more on DWI offenses," he said. "Officers will set up checkpoints and step up working with local agencies.
"The state police's focus will be saturation on the highway. Drivers should avoid all distractions, especially in construction zones."
Law enforcement throughout the state are in a DWI mobilization initiative, which will be in force through July 7.
On July 8, an ASP speed mobilization period begins and runs through July 14.
"Our goal is to do the best we can to ensure safe travel and protect the holiday," Drown said. "We intend to keep the element of surprise and use sobriety check points as a deterrent."
All law enforcement agency patrol officers are in preparation during theses times because drinking and driving increases during a holiday season, RPD public information officer Drew Latch said.
Checkpoints will be manned by two to three officers and will be stationary for 30 minutes to an hour at each location, according to Latch.
This procedure of mobility is used to cope with online media information, such as Facebook and Twitter announcements that warn drivers of sobriety checkpoints.
"In conjunction with mobile checkpoints, we will have permanent road checkpoints to evaluate drivers for DWI, valid license, and proof of insurance," Latch said.
There will be officers who will specifically enforce DWI, Latch said. Local taxi companies are on board and available for those who do not have a designated driver.
Latch advised drivers and partygoers to designate a driver to help friends get home safely.
"The RPD simply wants the community to enjoy the holiday safely," he said.
Pope County Sheriff Aaron DuVall said his department will work closely with state police when coordinating sobriety checkpoints.
"To keep the element of surprise, secure checkpoints will operate over a two- or three-night period," he said.
Checkpoints will center on difficult areas in the county and actively check drivers under the influence, according to DuVall.
He wants residents of the county to understand that even one drink could cause a driver to test over the limit.
"Pope County residents should have a good time, but do it safely and conscientiously," DuVall said. "The life you save may be your own. If you are driving, do not drink, just don't do it."


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Emerald Breakfast On the Go! Nut & Oatmeal Mix - We love portion-controlled snacks, and these new packs of nuts, dried fruit, and oatmeal clusters RULE! Your flavor options are Blueberries & Creme, Maple & Brown Sugar, and Apples & Cinnamon. YUM. Each pouch has 180 - 190 calories, 5 - 8g fat, 45 - 100mg sodium, 26 - 31g carbs, 3g fiber, 13 - 19g sugars, and 3 - 5g protein (PointsPlus® value 5*). Jimmy D's Breakfast Minis - We know willpower can be tough to muster in the morning, but fight the urge to grab a fast-food breakfast with THIS heat-n-eat option: turkey sausage patties on cute little croissants! Each serving (2 minis) has 230 calories, 10g fat, 440mg sodium, 25g carbs, 1g fiber, 4g sugars, and 11g protein (PointsPlus® value 6*). Keep a box in your freezer, and you'll always be prepared! Luna Fiber Bars - They're here at last! We got a sneak chew of these a while back, and now Luna Fiber bars are finally on store shelves. In Chocolate Raspberry, Vanilla Blueberry, and Peanut Butter Strawberry (YES, they taste as good as they sound), each bar has 110 - 120 calories, 3 - 4g fat, 150 - 190mg sodium, 24 - 25g carbs, 7g fiber, 11g sugars, and 1 - 2g protein (PointsPlus® value 3*). Pair one with some quick 'n easy protein (a Mini Babybel, perhaps?) for a great morning meal on the go.
Prepare to have your world ROCKED... Bai5 Antioxidant Infusions are, hands down, the best drinks we've tried in YEARS. What makes 'em so amazing? They taste WAY better than all the other naturally sweetened, low-calorie beverages out there! Sweetened with stevia, each 8-oz. serving has only 5 calories. And the unique flavors are mind-blowingly delicious: Costa Rica Clementine, Congo Pear, Ipanema Pomegranate, Malawi Mango, Brasilia Blueberry, Panama Peach, and Sumatra Dragonfruit. Bai5 is sold in select stores and online. We are officially OBSESSED. To help YOU become obsessed too, our pals at Bai have put together a variety pack that features four of the seven amazing flavors: Clementine, Mango, Blueberry, and Dragonfruit! This pack is the PERFECT way to sample these insanely amazing beverages. Plus, EVERYONE who orders the Bai5 variety pack will get a copy of a fantastic cocktail recipe -- HG's Mangoberry Bai Breeze -- and 100 randomly selected people who order will get a FREE Hungry Girl T-shirt! A sampler of guilt-free sippers, a low-cal cocktail recipe, AND the chance to win a free HG tee? THAT RULES! Click NOW to order! (Heads up: Bai makes full-calorie drinks as well, so make sure you always get the 5-calorie kind!) We are SO excited for you to try these!!!!
Several popular frozen-yogurt chains are gearing up for summer with amazing new options! Check 'em out...
New Greek Yogurt Flavors at TCBY - Two fruity varieties of the chain's protein-packed Greek yogurt are joining the original Honey Vanilla: Blueberry and Pomegranate! Plus, due to overwhelming demand, the brand's now planning to make the limited-time Greek yogurt a permanent menu fixture. TCBY's Greek fro yo contains 100 - 110 fat-free calories per 4-oz. serving.
Red Mango's Latest Flavor... Honey Badger! - The YouTube sensation (Google it if you dare) has become Red Mango's newest star flavor. We're hoping the limited-time yogurt tastes more like natural sweetness and less like short-legged mammals. Just 100 calories and no fat in a 1/2-cup serving.
Pinkberry Raises the Topping Bar and Adds a Fruity New Flavor - P-berry is saying sayonara to toppings with trans fats, hydrogenated oils, and high-fructose corn syrup and adding some better-for-you stuff, including fresh watermelon, a balsamic glaze, and fresh watermelon puree. Plus, the brand is rolling out a new flavor of fro yo -- Strawberry! -- with 110 fat-free calories per 1/2-cup serving. Sweet!
HG Heads-Up! The serving sizes given for the fro-yo stats are NOT necessarily the amounts served! Red Mango's small cup holds closer to 5 ounces, and a small cup at Pinkberry holds about 3/4 cup. (And those are just estimates... You KNOW those towering swirls vary in size.) Click here for our awesome survival guide, and watch those portions!
Domino's appears to be hopping on the gluten-free trend, adding Gluten Free Crust to its menu... but wait. Since it's made in a regular kitchen, it runs the risk of gluten exposure. A disclaimer on the Domino's website reads, "The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness supports the availability of Domino's Gluten Free Crust but CANNOT recommend the pizza for customers with celiac disease. Customers with gluten sensitivities should exercise judgment in consuming this pizza." Click for more info. BE AWARE if you've got celiac disease... and maybe share this info with any pals who have celiac disease and might be drawn in by gluten-free crust. ***The latest celebrity making moves to reduce our nation's junk-food consumption is... Mickey Mouse! (Kind of.) The Walt Disney Company recently announced guidelines stating that any product advertised during its kid-geared TV shows and radio programs and on its websites must comply with new nutritional standards. WOW! Consistent with federal criteria, the new guidelines promote eating fruit and veggies and limiting calories, saturated fat, sodium, and sugar. This means many kinds of candy, sugared cereal, and fast food will be banned from advertising. Because of existing contracts, the changes won't take effect until 2015, but still! Way to go, Mouse. ***Don't be fooled... Just because a food label features the words "whole grain," it's not necessarily a good source of fiber. New research reveals that many products with whole-grain claims contain less than 3g fiber per serving. Read that nutrition panel! ***In so-wacky-we-couldn't-make-it-up news, lizard saliva is apparently the latest cure for food cravings. Yup. Researchers suspect that a natural substance obtained from the saliva of North America's largest lizard, the Gila monster (!!!), could be used to reduce food cravings. A synthetic version of the substance is already used to manage blood sugar in diabetics. Despite these recent findings, we do NOT recommend a reptilian make-out session to curb desires for specific foods. And that's all we've got. HG out!
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Guess what? Today, June 18th, is International Picnic Day! Make one of these Italiano Tuna Salad Wraps, put it in your knapsack (you DO have a knapsack, right?), and get ready for picnic time.
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Camp is the youngest of three children born to Grady and Lula Mae (Irons) Camp. Writing came naturally to her—her mother had been a newspaper reporter, and her father was the business manager of the Amarillo, Texas newspaper. Camp began writing down her own stories when she was 10, and often wrote when she needed to relax. Camp attended the University of Texas at Austin and West Texas State University before becoming a teacher in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After moving to North Carolina, she took a job in the trust department of a bank. Camp then began law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the same time, she began reading romance novels and decided to write one of her own. Camp finished her first novel, Bonds of Love while in law school. It was published in 1978 under the pen name Lisa Gregory. In the ensuing years, Camp has published over 43 books under four names: Lisa Gregory, Kristin James, Sharon Stephens and Candace Camp. Camp married in 1980 and had a daughter in 1982.


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Obama Meets Relatives of Slain TSA Officer
President Barack Obama met Monday evening with relatives of Gerardo Hernandez, the Transportation Security Administration officer killed in a shooting earlier this month at Los Angeles International Airport.
He also met with two TSA officers who were wounded during the incident, Tony Grigsby and James Speer, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. The meetings took place at the president's hotel in Los Angeles, where he arrived Monday to attend Democratic Party fundraisers.
The Nov. 1 shooting injured six people and shut down the international airport for several hours. Federal officials identified the alleged shooter as Paul Anthony Ciancia, a 23-year-old resident of Los Angeles….


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Business majors at the University of Washington Bothell can choose to pursue a formal option in Accounting. Demand for accountants is extremely high as businesses work to plan, manage, and control their operations. Well-educated accountants with strong ethical values are needed to help prevent the types of practices that led to scandal in such well-publicized cases as Enron and Worldcom.
Admissions to the Accounting Option is competitive. Applicants interested in pursuing this option, MUST clearly indicate this in the online application under the section: "Location and Option/Concentration" on page 7 of the UW application. Current UW Bothell students should complete the Internal Application for Bothell, available at: http://www.uwb.edu/babusiness/applyba
Applicants must also meet the following requirements to be eligible for consideration:
Students may NOT enroll in any Accounting courses until they have been approved by the review committee. Students will be notified.
Core Courses (and prerequisite)
BBUS 300/BBSKL – Management of Organizations/Teamwork Skills
BBUS 307 – Business Writing
BBUS 310 – Managerial Economics
BBUS BBUS 320 – Marketing Management
BBUS 340 – Operations & Project Mgmt (310)
BBUS 350 – Business Finance (310)
BBUS 320 – Marketing Management
Capstone Courses (and prerequisite)
( * All core classes must be completed & have grad app on file)
BBUS 470 – Business Policy & Strategic Mgmt.
BBUS 480 – Global Environment of Business
Required Courses (and prerequisite)
BBUS 361 - Intermediate Accounting
BBUS 362 - Intermediate Accounting 2 (361)
BBUS 363 - Intermediate Accounting 3 (362)
BBUS 373 - Cost Accounting (361)
BBUS 411 - Auditing Theory & Practice (362)
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BBUS 450 - Federal Income Taxation (361)
BBUS 361 - Intermediate Accounting 1
BBUS 435 - Accounting Information Systems (361)
Business Electives (and prerequisite)
5 credits of any business elective
(Must be 300/400 level)
10 credits - 2 courses from the list below: Available Electives
BBUS 412 - Advanced Business Law (BCUSP 202)
BBUS 449 - Acctg Practices in Not-for-Profit Org. (363)
BBUS 451 - Financial Policy & Planning (350)
BBUS 453 - Financial Institutions & Markets (350)
BBUS 454 - Investments (350)
BBUS 455 - Futures & Options (454)
BBUS 456 - Entrepreneurship Finance (350)
BBUS 459 - Special Topics in Finance (350)
BBUS 463 - Advanced Financial Accounting (362)
BBUS 467 - Advanced Taxation (450)
General Electives (must be 300/400 level)
* Not including BIS 315 & 495 10 credits
* Not including BIS 315 & 495 5 credits
Total Credits
90 Credits
90 Credits
After completing the two-year Accounting Option, students are eligible to take the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) exam. Students who wish to become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), however, should plan on spending three years in the program. To take the CPA exam, a student needs a minimum of 225 quarter hours or five years of college (a master degree is not required).
In addition to public accounting, the Accounting Option will thoroughly prepare students for careers in private, government, and non-profit accounting. The curriculum is designed to enable graduates to fill a number of corporate positions such as internal auditor, managerial accountant, and tax accountant. Graduates will also be prepared to serve in government positions such as tax examiner, budget analyst, and government auditor. You can get more information from the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants.
In their first year post-graduation, UW Bothell graduates earn more than their peers from other WA state public universities.
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Hip arthroplasty - precautions; Hip replacement - precautions
After you have hip replacement surgery, you will need to be careful how you move your hip, especially for the first few months after surgery. In time, you should be able to return to your previous level of activity. But even when you do your everyday activities, you will need to move carefully so that you do not dislocate your hip.
You will need to learn exercises make your new hip stronger.
After you fully recover from surgery, you should not downhill ski or do contact sports, such as football and soccer. You should be able to do low impact activities, such as hiking, gardening, swimming, playing tennis, and golfing.
Some general rules for any activity you do are:
When you are getting dressed:
When you are sitting:
When you are bathing or showering:
When you are using stairs:
When you are lying in bed:
When you are getting into or riding in a car:
Do NOT drive until your doctor says it is okay.
When you are walking:
Minns Lowe CJ, Barker KL, Dewey ME, Sackley CM. Effectiveness of physiotherapy exercise following hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: a systematic review of clinical trials. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2009 Aug 4;10:98.
Ververeli PA, Lebby EB, Tyler C, Fouad C. Evaluation of reducing postoperative hip precautions in total hip replacement: a randomized prospective study. Orthopedics. 2009 Dec;32(12):889-93.
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Rebecca Raymond is a swimmer – a competitive athlete who doesn't like running and prefers water to dry land.
Rebecca Raymond is a swimmer – a competitive athlete who doesn't like running and prefers water to dry land.
Despite her aversion to running, however, the 24-year old Easton resident laced up her sneakers on June 30, picked up a torch and pounded the pavement in the One Fund relay from Dartmouth to Boston.
She signed up for the charity fundraiser as soon as her friend and event organizer Joseph Mello posted it on Facebook.
Raymond didn't have a personal connection to anyone injured in the Boston Marathon bombings. She only knew one person in this year's marathon.
But she did it for a campus she loves and for the victims of the blasts.
"I felt it was something that I wanted to do for those that were affected. I had to run for those that couldn't do it for themselves," the 2007 Oliver Ames High School graduate said.
Raymond felt deeply connected to the victims as a graduate student at U/Mass Dartmouth.
Terrorist bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was enrolled as a student there and, in fact, had traveled back and forth from Watertown to Dartmouth in the days after the bombing and during the police manhunt.
Raymond still imagines where he might have been on campus during that time.
"To know he was here, it all seems so surreal," she said.
The relay was a reflection of both the resilience of the Dartmouth community and its healing.
Raymond had pledged to walk the first one-mile lap from the campus and travel with the school's van into Boston.
But she ran the mile from Raynham into her hometown of Easton. Then she ran another mile through Milton and another into Mattapan and another into Boston.
When exhaustion set in, she thought of how the money raised would help the victims and their families and it gave her the strength to go on
She ran a total of four miles in the relay and along the way the swimmer became a runner with a purpose: One Strong.
"It was just a great feeling and sense of unity," she says.


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Problem detected and Windows shut down
Check adequate disk space (I have plenty)
If driver identified in stop message then disable driver or check for updates. Try changing video adaptors. Check for BIOS updates, disable caching or shadowing.
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*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x8054aa32, 0xF8A30c34, 0xF8A30930)Anyone have any suggestions please of why my problem is just on this one particular website? I have added www.ebay.co.uk to the trusted zone of ZA but it still happens.Many thanksAndrew
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AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
AT&T, for reasons unknown at this point, has blocked user access to portions of 4chan, the online hangout for the world's most notorious cyber-terrorists. And they thought iPhone customers were a pain in their ass! This will end badly.
For benefit of the uninitiated, 4chan is a popular Wild West-ish outpost of internet known equally for its infamous hacking jobs and pranks (Rickrolling emerged from this murky swamp) as its meme generation, perhaps most notably the LOLcats phenomenon. 4chan's /b/ messageboard, one of the sections of the site blocked by AT&T, was once described as "the asshole of the internet" by Gawker and Valleywag alum Nick Douglas, an outpost where "btards" gather to engage in tasteless games of uncensored oneupsmanship, where the objective is often to see who can elicit the most shock from other members of the community.
Users of AT&T's DSL internet access across many states in the US are reporting that they are being blocked from the infamous /b/ message board in what appears to be an act of internet censorship by the phone company. This started today Sunday and no one has yet been able to get any official confirmation out of AT&T as to why.
Moot, the founder of 4chan, has confirmed AT&T is filtering/blocking the site.
In addition to starting a war with the internet's most skilled collection of cyber-rogues, Central Gadget says that AT&T may also be breaking the law.
Under the FCC's Comcast/BitTorrent ruling, Internet Service Providers may only slow or cap connection speeds. They are not allowed to block any service or protocol on the internet. Here, 4chan as a web site appears to fall under an internet service, but it is also conforming to standard web page protocols. It appears AT&T does not have the legal right to block 4chan, only to cap customers who are "abusing" their access to the internet.
Predictably, the 4chan crowd is already mobilizing both inside and outside of their online community. AT&T didn't just open a can worms, they dove headfirst into a den of vipers, and this will be very interesting to watch play out.
AT&T Takes on 4chan—Everybody Stand Back [Tech Central]
AT&T Blocking Access to Some Parts of 4chan [Central Gadget]
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