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Where did I say that the Son did not feel the crucifixion? The one who is
fully human could not help but feel the full agony, compounded by being
forsaken as he bore our sin. If I apply George's reasoning in the same
grossly inappropriate way as he interprets my statement, I would say he
subscribes to patripassionism or some similar heresy. Father, Son and
Holy Spirit are of the same nature, but in the mystery of the Trinity do
not share the same experience, for the Father did not become flesh. The
creed does not say of the Father, "very God of very God." It would be a
silly tautology. It cannot say of the Father, "very man of very man."
I find it interesting that George wants to read all scriptures that
indicate a change in God's action as demanding change in him, rejecting
the passages indicating that he doesn't change. If he read the first
chapters of Genesis in the same way, he'd have to be YEC. He will allow a
human approach to Genesis, but not in temporal references to the deity. I
would like to know how a temporal deity can be the Creator. He could only
be the time-matter entangled panentheistic entity of process theology or
something equally unorthodox.
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Ted Davis wrote, in small part:
Finally, for Denyse: we both know some folks, Denyse, who think that the
classical doctrine of divine impassibility just won't wash, that a God
who loves must also be a God who suffers and who is genuinely moved by
suffering. Even some YECs I know believe that. It isn't "classical" but
it's biblical and very likely true. Some of the questions about
"omniscience" in the classical sense are similar to those about
impassibility. One might or might not be sympathetic with approaches
that challenge impassibility, such as Moltmann's theology of the cross
(to identify just one example that has been discussed here), but surely
it is hard not to be at least sympathetic with the kinds of questions
that motivate the formulations of such theologies. We agree that Fr
Coyne takes this too far, but IMO there are others who don't take this
far enough.
The main problem with the impassibility of the deity is that the notion
is misunderstood. If a human is impassible, he is not emotional, totally
unmoved by that which excites a clear reaction in most persons. This is
not the philosophical notion. Matter is passive, for it receives action
and may pass it along, but it starts nothing truly new. The human
intellect is active, for it initiates. God is /actus purus/, the ultimate
source. As such he is impassive. This does not mean that he is without
feelings, but that he can't be pushed around, very different notions.
Now, if we don't go for process theology, which ties god to the world
necessarily, we recognize God as the Creator of the space-time universe.
But this means that he is outside of the universe, and therefore outside
of time. In the incarnation, the Second Person of the Trinity entered
time as a human infant, but the Father did not enter time. So for God the
Father to feel things when they occur is to place him in time. So I
contend that he eternally feels on the basis of being aware of all time
from without. It may be described as a sort of eternal empathy. This is
possible because knowing is not causing, though many philosophers and
others equate the two, at least in connection with the deity. The denial
of omniscience also springs from placing God in time.
This is a brief restatement of a discussion with George Murphy, Don
Winterstein and others a while back. George still wants the Father to
feel the crucifixion when it happened, which I hold to be incompatible
with his eternity.
I hesitate to say what Dave "wants" but a clear implication of his claim
is that the Son does not feel the crucifixion. I.e., the Second Person
of the Trinity does not suffer & only the assumed human nature (which by
itself is non-personal, anhypoststic) feels the crucifixion. Once we
take seriously the belief that the Son of God suffered, it's not so
surprising to say that the Father actually suffered the loss of the Son
in the event of the cross. The Son and the Father are, as the creed
says, of the same nature. (Of course this doesn't mean that the Father
was crucified.)
Impassibility in the sense that Dave describes it means that nothing that
happens in the world affects God - i.e., makes any difference to God.
There are far more texts in scripture that indicate that things do affect
God than there are that say that God is actus purus. (In fact the number
of verses of the latter type is zero.)
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In his letter announcing a doctrinal review of the Leadership Conference for Women Religious, Cardinal William J. Levada makes reference to a 2001 meeting between LCWR officials and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. At that meeting, the officials were invited to report on the reception by LCWR congregations of Church teaching on the sacramental priesthood, Dominus Iesus and "the problem of homosexuality."
He then declares, "Given both the tenor and the doctrinal content of various addresses given at the annual assemblies of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the intervening years, this Dicastery can only conclude that the problems which had motivated its request in 2001 continue to be present."
One address that has aroused particular concern and discussion was given at the LCWR 2007 annual assembly in Kansas City. The keynote that year was given by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Laurie Brink and was titled "A Marginal Life: Pursuing Holiness in the 21st Century"(pdf). In her address, Sr. Laurie says that religious life stands at a moment of "indecision", being pushed and pulled toward numerous directions, and thus not moving.
She suggests religious are challenged toward:
· recognizing the various directions we as individuals and we as community are moving toward,
· evaluating which of these will foster our life and charism as women religious,and, finally,
· abandoning the other possibilities, sailing headlong into the direction we choose.
Sr. Laurie identifies four directions religious are being pushed or pulled and discusses the merits of each:
1. Death with Dignity and Grace
2. Acquiescence to Others' Expectations
3. Sojourning in a New Land not yet Known
4. Reconciliation for the Sake of the Mission
Regarding the first, Sr. Laurie details the well-known signs of decline and says:
Faced with this scenario some communities have made valiant choices to die with dignity and grace, to put their house in order, to pass on their charism and to ritualize that who they have been will not continue into the future. They do not invite or accept new candidates. They recognize that they have served the Church well, and now leave room for a new movement of the Spirit. They accept that their congregations were called into being for a specific purpose, and they endeavored enthusiastically to accomplish that purpose. Shoring up the crumbling walls of the institution would never be the desire of their founders. They acknowledge their accomplishments, engage in appropriate mourning and rejoicing, prepare for burial and recognize that others will come along after them.
"Death is the default mode for many congregations in denial", she says, who are not actively "ritualizing" the death or making an appropriate burial which would recognize "that the sisters have served long and well." Instead they place:
an exorbitant focus on retirement and its financial needs, and a wholesale depression that manifests in apathy and individualism. These are the walking dead among us. And they don't even know it.
Regarding 2 - "Acquiescence to Others' Expectations," Sr. Laurie give a rather snide title and description to the phenomenon of new orders which are flourishing, but admits nonetheless their success:
Not every congregation is giving up the ghost sort to speak. Some have attended to their reality and are making choices that a generation ago would have been anathema to their members. These groups are recognizing the changing atmosphere in the institutional Church, the reneging on the promises of Vatican II, and the seemingly conservative young adults interested in pursing a life of holiness through the profession of the evangelical counsels. They are taking seriously Pope John Paul II's call to pursue holiness first above all else. They are putting on the habit, or continuing to wear the habit with zest. They are renewing pious practices such as adoration and the Rosary. They are returning to the classroom.
Some would critique that they are the nostalgic portrait of a time now passed. But they are flourishing. Young adults are finding in these communities a living image of their romantic view of Religious Life. They are entering. And they are staying.
In context, this option is clearly not recommended given the extremely condescending description of such congregations in the address. (You can read it beginning on page 13 of the pdf.)
Option 3, "Sojourning in a New Land not yet Known", I suspect, is the one most relevant to the concerns raised by Cardinal Levada - not simply because it presents an option for the continuation of religious life, but because it purports to be descriptive of the reality in certain congregations. I'll post it here in its entirety and leave it to your own reflection. I may post on option 4 later, but gotta run:
C. Sojourners in a New Land not yet Known
i. Biblical Foundation: Hagar, the Mother of Another Great Nation (Gen
The story of Hagar, at first read, is a sad tale. An Egyptian handmaid to a powerful wife of a powerful resident alien is offered to the husband, in order to produce an heir. Misinterpreting these actions as the possibility of release and elevation in position, Hagar flaunts her new status before Sarah. Bad move. Abraham chooses wife over sexual slave, allowing Sarah to do with her property as she wishes. Sarah sorely mistreats Hagar, who eventually runs away. As the story is told from the perspective of Israel, God intervenes and commands that Hagar return to her abuser. A shred of hope is given her. God will bless her son, who will become a founder of another great nation. She returns dutifully at the word of a foreign God not her own.
Later when Sarah spies Ishmael, the son of Hagar, playing with her son, Isaac, she again intercedes to Abraham. "Drive out that slave and her son! No son of that slave is going to share the inheritance with my son Isaac!" (Gen 21:9). Abraham is distressed—not because of Hagar—but because of his son. Again God promises this child, too, since he is an heir of Abraham, will be a great nation. Abraham sends the two off into the wilderness of Beersheva with only a skin of water and a bit of bread. When the water is gone, she places her son under a shrub and walks a distance away, for she cannot bear to watch him die. As luck would have it, God hears the child's cry (not the mother's?) and provides water in the desert. The text continues, "God was with the boy as he grew up" (Gen 21:17). But the story never says that God was with Hagar.
The narrative of Hagar is also a tale of paradox. Hagar may be a member of the household, but she is a slave, an Egyptian slave at that. She is property for the woman in power, Sarah, to abuse and to dispose of. She is sexually exploited by the man of power, Abraham. The God of Israel is not her God, and sees little need to protect or care for her. But Hagar is, nonetheless, paralleled with Abraham. God promises Abraham that he will be the father of a great nation (Gen 12), a similar promise God also makes to Hagar (Gen 21:18). Abraham sends for a wife from among his kin for his son Isaac (Gen 24:4). Hagar will find a wife among her own Egyptians for her son, Ishmael (Gen 21:21). Sarah needed her man to fulfill her wishes, pleading with Abraham twice to take care of that upstart. But Hagar has no such man, and no such limitation. When last seen, Hagar is leading her son through the desert, bereft of God's guidance for her, with neither man nor family for support or protection. A seemingly vulnerable woman sojourning in an inhospitable land.
ii. Application
The dynamic option for Religious Life, which I am calling, Sojourning, is much more difficult to discuss, since it involves moving beyond the Church, even beyond Jesus. A sojourning congregation is no longer ecclesiastical. It has grown beyond the bounds of institutional religion. Its search for the Holy may have begun rooted in Jesus as the Christ, but deep reflection, study and prayer have opened it up to the spirit of the Holy in all of creation. Religious titles, institutional limitations, ecclesiastical authorities no longer fit this congregation, which in most respects is Post-Christian.
When religious communities embraced the spirit of renewal in the 1970s, they took seriously that the world was no longer the enemy, that a sense of ecumenism required encountering the holy "other," and that the God of Jesus might well be the God of Moses and the God of Mohammed. The works of Thomas Merton encouraged an exploration of the nexus between Eastern and Western religious practices. The emergence of the women's movement with is concomitant critique of religion invited women everywhere to use a hermeneutical lens of suspicion when reading the androcentric Scriptures and the texts of the Tradition. With a new lens, women also began to see the divine within nature, the value and importance of the cosmos, and that the emerging new cosmology encouraged their spirituality and fed their souls.
As one sister described it, "I was rooted in the story of Jesus, and it remains at my core, but I've also moved beyond Jesus." The Jesus narrative is not the only or the most important narrative for these women. They still hold up and reverence the values of the Gospel, but they also recognize that these same values are not solely the property of Christianity. Buddhism, Native American spirituality, Judaism, Islam and others hold similar tenets for right behavior within the community, right relationship with the earth and right relationship with the Divine. With these insights come a shattering or freeing realization—depending on where you stand. Jesus is not the only son of God. Salvation is not limited to Christians. Wisdom is found in the traditions of the Church as well as beyond it.
Sojourners have left the religious home of their fathers and mothers and are traveling in a foreign land, mapping their way as they go. They are courageous women among us. And very well may provide a glimpse into the new thing that God is bringing about in our midst. Who's to say that the movement beyond Christ is not, in reality, a movement into the very heart of God? A movement the ecclesiastical system would not recognize. A wholly new way of being holy that is integrative, non-dominating, and inclusive. But a whole new way that is also not Catholic Religious Life. The Benedictine Women of Madison are the most current example I can name. Their commitment to ecumenism lead them beyond the exclusivity of the Catholic Church into a new inclusivity, where all manner of seeking God is welcomed. They are certainly religious women, but they are no longer women religious as it is defined by the Roman Catholic Church. They choose as a congregation to step outside the Church in order to step into a greater sense of holiness. Theirs was a choice of integrity, insight and courage.
Like Hagar wandering the wilderness with neither guide nor Israel's God, the congregations that choose the way of the sojourner may leave the land of religious familiarity, but they will also become a great nation, for women and men are hungering for their leadership, insights and inspiration.


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SOMERSET, New Jersey (Reuters) - A top U.S. Federal Reserve official waded into the sticky debate over global currency wars on Friday, warning that such beggar-thy-neighbor monetary policies would only hurt world trade and the economies that were involved.
Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said central banks in many countries are adopting policies, often under pressure from governments, to control their currencies, calling it an unhealthy phenomenon.
"We do not want to get ourselves in a world where you have currency wars. Beggar-thy-neighbor policies ... would not be healthy," Plosser told a bankers conference here.
"So central banks and governments need to be cautious about allowing us to slip into a regime like that because that would not be healthy for world trade or for the economies" involved, he added.
Easy money policies by major central banks such as the Fed or European Central Bank often strengthen currencies of developing countries, hurting those countries' exporters. That in turn has prompted some governments or central banks to ease their own polices in response.
The comments from Plosser - a long-time critic of the Fed's easy money policies, though largely for domestic reasons - come on a day newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his biggest push yet to make jobs growth part of the Bank of Japan's mandate.
Under intense pressure from Abe, the BOJ will likely adopt a 2 percent inflation target later this month, double its current goal, and consider easing monetary policy again, most likely by increasing government debt and asset purchases, sources told Reuters this week.
Besides Japan, Switzerland, Brazil and China have all taken steps to push down the value of their currencies in recent years. The Fed, ECB and Bank of England have depressed their interest rates over long periods in the wake of the global recession, and pumped trillions of dollars into their economies.
"Many countries are trying to use monetary policies to control their currencies, to protect their countries from fluctuating currencies," Plosser said.
"I think that's a maybe a short-run strategy but not necessarily a healthy long-run strategy.
His comments echoed those of BoE Governor Mervyn King, who last month warned that the trend of currency wars could grow.
Turning to U.S. monetary policies, Plosser outlined other ways the Fed's actions could backfire.
The aggressive policy accommodation may be frustrating Americans' efforts to restore their personal wealth and may actually slow a broader rebound in U.S. consumption, he warned.
"Efforts to drive real rates more negative or promises to keep rates low for a long time may have frustrated households' efforts to rebuild their balance sheets without stimulating aggregate demand or consumption," Plosser, who does not have a vote on Fed policy this year, told the bankers.
Now more than three years after the recession ended, households will nonetheless take time to restore wealth to a comfortable level, Plosser added, "and attempts to increase economic 'stimulus' may not help speed up the process and may actually prolong it."
Last month, the Fed ramped up asset purchases that are meant to spur growth and pledged to keep rates near zero until the unemployment rate drops to 6.5 percent, as long as inflation expectations don't climb above 2.5 percent.
U.S. unemployment was a lofty 7.8 percent last month.
The U.S. economy grew at a decent 3.1 percent annual rate in the third quarter but growth is expected to have slowed in the final months of the year. Last month, Fed policymakers said they expected GDP growth of between 2.3 to 3.0 percent this year, and 3.0 to 3.5 percent in 2014.
U.S. retail sales have been sluggish, rising 0.3 percent in November after a drop of 0.3 percent the month before.
Among a minority of so-called hawks at the central bank, Plosser also largely repeated predictions for a pick-up in U.S. economic growth to about 3 percent this year and in 2014. He also expects unemployment to fall to near 7 percent by the end of 2013, from 7.8 percent last month.
Plosser characterized the pace of U.S. economic growth as "moderate," and predicted that fourth-quarter growth was likely near 2 percent.
Turning to the U.S. fiscal situation, the policymaker said the lingering uncertainty over government spending and taxes is weighing on business hiring. The Fed is probably not helping on this front, either, Plosser said.
"Here, too, in my view, monetary policy accommodation that lowers interest rates is unlikely to stimulate firms to hire and invest until a significant amount of the uncertainty has been resolved," he said.
Facing the so-called fiscal cliff, U.S. lawmakers on January 1 struck a partial deal that avoids the worst of the planned tax rises but put off big decisions on spending cuts for two more months.
Reporting by Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Neil Stempleman


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Residential Life Commuting Students
Transcript Information Social Policy
Safety & Security Disability Services
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Program residents live on the Barnard campus in Sulzberger Hall, a modern air-conditioned facility equipped with high-speed internet connections. Students live in double and triple rooms and roommates are assigned based on students' responses to a housing questionnaires. Monday to Friday breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunches and dinner are included in the cost of the program.
All students in residence are guided by a carefully selected group of Barnard Resident Assistant and are supervised by the Associate Director of Residential Life, a full-time administrator.
If you live on campus, your Resident Assistant (RA) will become a very important resource and friend during your stay. Hall meetings are arranged as well as hall activities. In addition, living with a roommate within a real college dormitory setting is an important part of your pre-college experience.
Commuting Students
Students who live in the greater New York City metropolitan area may choose to attend the four-week or one-week sessions as commuters. Commuters may occasionally arrange to stay overnight in the residence hall at a moderate cost on a space available basis. Commuters may enjoy meals in our dining facilities while on campus.
Student Evaluation Information
In most of our programs, in lieu of an official transcript, classroom instructors provide an evaluation on official letterhead for each student. This policy places a greater emphasis on the journey of learning, rather than a grade. If you would like to submit your instructor evaluation(s) as part of a regular college application, you may send the evaluation directly to your college(s) of choice. Since our office does not provide official transcripts, your evaluation does not need to be sent directly from our office. Please note that these evaluations are not letters of recommendation, but are rather informational regarding the content of the class(es) and evaluative regarding a student's performance. Please note that our courses are not for college credit.
Social Policy & Guidelines
If you enroll in Barnard's summer programs, you must be capable of assuming responsibility for your behavior and willing to comply with all regulations designed to protect the health and safety of all participants. You are required to attend all classes, Beyond the Gates sessions, or Leadership Institute workshops; residential students must comply with sign-out procedures and observe curfews. In keeping with college policy and legal restrictions, smoking and the use of drugs and alcohol are strictly prohibited. Unacceptable student conduct will result in disciplinary action and/or dismissal. Details of the social policy are sent to each admitted applicant.
Safety & Security
Your safety is one of our highest priorities. Morningside Heights, the neighborhood in which Barnard is located, is among the safest in Manhattan based on New York City Police Department statistics. When you arrive on campus, you will have an orientation to New York City "street smarts" with a member of the Barnard Safety and Security Staff so you learn to be alert and aware of yourself and others. 24-hour desk attendants monitor the residence halls, and only those with Barnard identification may enter. Security guards also staff booths on the perimeter of the Barnard campus.
You also play a role in assuring your own safety by complying with the program's 11:30 p.m. curfew Sunday through Thursday, and the midnight curfew on Friday and Saturday. Students who go off campus when they are not in class must sign out in a logbook and sign in when they return. Curfew and sign-in/sign-out procedures are taken very seriously by the program's director and college officials; violating these policies will result in disciplinary action and/or dismissal.
Disability Services
Barnard serves students with a broad range of temporary and permanent disabilities, including visual, mobility, and hearing impairments, as well as students with hidden disabilities. The Barnard campus is also wheelchair accessible. The buildings on campus interconnect and have special features and access routes. Regular counseling sessions are not available for summer program students.
Travel Information
Barnard College is easily accessible from all New York City metropolitan area airports, train and bus stations, as well as by car. Students commuting to campus daily take the #1 Broadway local train, or one of the several buses (M-104, M-4, or M-60) directly to Barnard. All admitted students receive detailed travel instruction.
On and Off Campus Activities
Every day after class and occasionally during lunch hours, activities and excursions are planned to various places all over NYC, as well as right on Barnard's campus. These excursions are often led by Barnard College students who work in the summer either as Resident Assistants or Program Coordinators. There is also a wide range of activities suggested for students who would like to venture out in Manhattan on their own, or with friends (as long as they are mindful of the rules!).
Broadway Shows
You cannot visit New York City without seeing at least one Broadway show! Every summer about six to seven Broadway shows are offered at discounted prices by the Evening and Weekend Coordinator. You are also encouraged to look into any additional shows that may be of interest to you. There are various ways in which you can get discounted tickets on the day of any show.
NYC Sightseeing
We make sure that you are given the opportunity to visit many of the major New York City attractions through our organized excursions. Some of the must-sees include the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the Brooklyn Bridge, and much more! Experience walking tours through Chinatown, Wall Street, Harlem, the High Line. The list goes on and on.
Outdoor Performances
Summer is a great time to be in NYC, especially because of the numerous concerts, performances, and movies that take place right outside in NYC parks. Some of these events include performances at the Central Park SummerStage, Seaport Music Festival, Hudson River Festival, New York Philharmonic in Central Park, Shakespeare in the Park, Madison Square Music and the Bryant Park Film Series.
Restaurant Outings
After Broadway, New York City is best known for its diverse restaurant options. At least once a week, a group restaurant outing is arranged, and each week the cuisine is different. In the past we have taken students for Greek, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and Indian food. Oh, and let's not forget milkshakes at Tom's, lattes at The Hungarian Pastry Shop and, of course, chocolate anything at Max Brenner's.
NY Neighborhood Searches
The most fascinating thing about New York City is how diverse it is. You could be walking down the street and within a matter of minutes go from Chinatown to Little Italy. You will be amazed at how different the city culture is depending on whether you are simply uptown, downtown, or on the West Side or the East Side. Knowing this, your Program Coordinator arranges various tours of all the major neighborhoods in the city from SoHo to Harlem to Greenwich Village.
Fitness Activities
We offer optional gym memberships at the Columbia gym to 4-week Pre-College Program participants for a minimal charge. In addition to on-campus get-fit activities, various outdoor fitness activities are also offered. In the past we've had fitness and nature walks, yoga in the park as well as yoga on the Hudson, in addition to salsa dancing at Lincoln Center and bicycle riding in Central Park.
Theatre & Dance
The NYC arts scene includes so much more beyond Broadway! If you are taking an acting or dance class while at the program, you will most likely attend a dance or acting performance as part of your course requirements. The Program Coordinator will also arrange excursions to all sorts of additional performances.
TV Studio Visits
Over the summer the Today Show offers a concert series where famous artists are invited to perform for free. The only catch is that you need to wake up VERY early in order to be there by 6AM. Apart from the Today Show there are various other studio tours available which your Program Coordinator can tell you more about. Past summer outings have included tours and tapings at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and tours of the NBC studios.
Museum Visits
New York City contains many of the greatest museums in the world from the Frick to the MET, Whitney, MOMA, the Guggenheim and beyond. No art class at Barnard is complete without using the great resources of our city as an extension of the classroom. In addition, while in New York you are encouraged to take advantage of the group excursions or even just go with a group of friends or solo to enjoy our cultural riches.


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Student Loan Access
Broad Prize
Out of Africa
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Student Loan Access
In a joint statement on October 10, Secretary Spellings and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pledged additional support for the student loan market. "Continuing constraints in our capital markets have posed challenges for students and student lenders throughout the last year," they said. "We recognize that education is the foundation of a strong American workforce, and we must not let challenges in our capital markets hinder our students' opportunities. Given these ongoing concerns, the Administration is taking a series of steps to support the student loan market." Earlier in the week, President Bush signed an extension of the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (see http://edlabor.house.gov/micro/loansact_extend.shtml). Since the original May 2008 enactment of this law, no student has been unable to access federal student aid. The new law simply extendsfor another yearcertain temporary provisions, including granting the Secretary of Education the authority to purchase loans from lenders within the federal guaranteed loan program (to ensure they continue to have access to capital to originate new loans). Next steps? "Over the next few months, schools and lenders will be making decisions for the 2009-2010 school year," the executives noted. "Using our newly extended authorities, the Administration is moving aggressively to support the continued availability of funding for federal student loans in the next school year, with the goal of restoring the federal guaranteed student loan market to normal operations. We are working on an expedited basis and will make further announcements in the coming weeks." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/10/10102008.html. (Note: A dedicated agency web site, http://federalstudentaid.ed.gov/ffelp/, provides key guidance regarding the authority to purchase loans.)
Meanwhile, last week, the Department conducted the last of six public meetings soliciting issues to be considered for action by negotiated rulemaking committees under the Higher Education Opportunity Act. A list of presenters and a transcript from each meeting is available at http://www.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/hea08/index.html#neg-reg.
And, this week, the Department published in the Federal Register final regulations for Title IV student loan programs, as amended by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (see http://edlabor.house.gov/micro/ccraa.shtml). These regulations address, among other issues, income-based repayment plans, public service loan forgiveness, economic hardship deferments, and military deferments. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/
Broad Prize
Congratulations to the Brownsville Independent School District, winner of the 2008 Broad Prize for Urban Educationthe largest education prize in America awarded to the most improved urban district. Brownsville, located at the southern-most tip of Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border and serving one of the poorest urban populations in the U.S. (with 94% of students qualifying for subsidized lunch), bested four finalists: Aldine (TX), Broward County (FL), Long Beach (CA), and Miami-Dade. (Long Beach won the 2003 Broad Prize, and Aldine and Miami-Dade are three-time finalists. This was Brownsville's and Broward County's first year in the running.) The $2 million prize goes directly to graduating high school seniors for college scholarships. Brownsville receives $1 million, while the other finalists receive $250,000 each. Scholarships are given to students who demonstrate significant financial need and have a record of academic improvement during their high school career. Recipients who enroll in four-year colleges will receive up to $20,000 ($5,000 per year). Recipients who enroll in two-year colleges will receive up to $5,000 ($2,500 per year). For more information, please go to http://www.broadprize.org/.
Out of Africa
For more than a week, Secretary Spellings traveled the African continent, discussing a variety of regional and multilateral education programs. In Zambia (http://zambia.usembassy.gov/pr10202008.html), she met with government representatives, toured the Bwafwano OVC Home-Based Care Center (supported through President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), visited Silver Rest Basic School and Mwaanabwami Community School, and addressed hundreds of teacher trainees at David Livingston College of Education. In Kenya (http://nairobi.usembassy.gov/
2008-press-releases/pr_20081017.html), the Secretary met with President Mwai Kibaki and Minister of Higher Education Sally Kosgei regarding implementing the Africa-U.S. Higher Education Collaboration Initiative, as well as visited Nairobi's Precious Blood School and Dagoretti High School. In Rwanda, the Secretary laid a wreath at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre (in memory of those who fell victim to the 1994 genocide), visited the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Girls' School, and delivered remarks at the Africa Regional Higher Education Summit (http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/education_and_universities/
afrsummit/). The regional summit builds on the work that began during the Higher Education Summit for Global Development (http://www.hedglobalsummit.org/), held at the U.S. Department of State in April 2008.
ED Publications
On October 21, the Department's Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) released the latest publications in its popular series of "Innovations in Education" guides. "Creating and Sustaining Successful K-8 Magnet Schools" profiles six elementary and middle school magnets that uses instructional themesin subjects such as leadership, fine arts, and math and scienceto meet the needs of students from diverse backgrounds. This guide offers insight into the strategies these schools used in planning and implementation and, more importantly, outlines the keys to success that have helped make the schools sustainable in the face of changes in context and leadership. "Successful Magnet High Schools" profiles eight secondary school magnets that are effectively preparing students for college and the workforce. This guide spotlights innovative approaches to forming a culture of high-quality teaching, providing rigorous academic programs, promoting equity, forging partnerships, and modeling innovation. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/pubs/intro/innovations.html#ms.
Later that day, OII released "A Commitment to Quality: National Charter School Policy Forum Report," drawing from discussions with nearly 100 charter school leaders at the Department's May 2008 forum on charter schools and 15 years of experience and research with charter schools. Among its findings, the report indicates that, in several states, more than 70% of charter schools had reading proficiency rates for low-income students that exceeded statewide rates for low-income students in 2006-07. The report also delineates six principles to produce and maintain quality charter schools: (1) charters achieve excellence early in their operations; (2) charters improve their performance year in and year out; (3) charters that have consistently strong results can expand and replicate; (4) charters have access to a robust infrastructure to help students and teachers succeed; (5) charter authorizers remedy chronic underperformance by closing the school and opening superior options swiftly; and (6) charters strengthen all corners of public education by sharing successful practices and fostering choice and competition among schools. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/admins/comm/choice/csforum/report.html.
In addition, the Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has unveiled results from the 2005 school crime supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Data is presented on the prevalence and type of student victimization at school (4% of students ages 12-18 reported they were victims of any crime at school), selected characteristics of victims, and the availability of drugs and presence of gangs and weapons. For more information, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009306.
Title III Interpretations
Last Friday (October 17), the Secretary issued final interpretations for several provisions of Title III of the No Child Left Behind Act. In particular, she interprets provisions related to the annual administration of English language proficiency assessments to limited English proficient (LEP) students served by Title III, the establishment and implementation of annual measurable achievement objectives for states and subgrantees receiving Title III funds, and state and local implementation of Title III accountability provisions. Department officials made adjustments to the proposed interpretations based on comments submitted by states and other interested parties. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/
Also: Earlier this month, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Kerri Briggs and Acting Assistant Deputy Secretary for English Language Acquisition Richard Smith sent a letter and guidance document to Chief State School Officers reiterating that states and school districts may not replace local, state, or other federal funds with Title III funds. For more information, please to go http://www.ed.gov/programs/sfgp/legislation.html.
From the Field...
Some important announcements:
The National Endowment for the Arts' The Big Read, now in its fourth year, provides citizens with the chance to read and discuss a single book within their communities. Libraries, municipalities, and non-profit organizations are encouraged to apply for one of approximately 400 grants that will be awarded for programming between September 2009 and June 2010. The deadline for applications is February 3. Aside from a $2,500 to $20,000 grant and financial support to attend an orientation meeting, communities will receive many resources, including reader's and teacher's guides and audio guides with commentary from artists, educators, and notable public figures. For more information, please go to http://www.neabigread.org/.
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently extended the deadline (to November 14) for the second round of Picturing America applications. This initiative promotes the study, teaching, and understanding of U.S. history and culture by introducing students and the general public to America's art treasures. It supplies schools and public libraries with free, high-quality reproductions of 40 great American works of art (approximately 24" x 36" in size) and an illustrated teacher resource book with notes for all grade levels. The materials will be delivered in spring 2009. For more information, please go to http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/.
Through December 19, elementary and secondary students, teachers, administrators, and parents from across the nation have the opportunity to share their ideas and opinions on how technology should be used in the education process, through Project Tomorrow's sixth annual Speak Up survey. Results are shared with participating schools so they can use the data for planning and community discussions. Results are also used by government agencies and various organizations to inform new programs and policies. For more information, please go to http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/.
Quote to Note
"The loan purchase and participation interest programs implemented over the last few months have helped ensure that federal student loans were available to students enrolling in postsecondary institutions for the 2008-09 school year, and federal student lending is now exceeding last year's pace. Our financing program has supported just over 40% of the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) loans that have been distributed this year. Over 800 lenders have enrolled in our loan purchase program. Almost $51 million of federally guaranteed loans have been originated for the current school year, up from approximately $45 billion for the same period last year."
|Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson (10/10/08)
Upcoming Events
On Tuesday (October 28), at 12:00 noon ET in Columbia, South Carolina, Secretary Spellings will issue final Title I regulations to strengthen the No Child Left Behind Act, including requirements that states implement a uniform graduation rate and enhance parents' leverage in accessing public school choice and supplemental educational services options for their children. Soon thereafter, materials will be posted at http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/10/10282008.html.
The next Scientific Evidence in Education (SEE) forum is set for October 30 (11:30 a.m.-1:45 a.m. ET) at the Charles Sumner School (1201 17th and M Street, N.W.), in Washington, DC. The topic? "Meeting the Teacher Quality Imperative: New Evidence on Teacher Induction and Professional Development." The forums are free, but space is limited, so register in advance online. For more information, please go to http://www.seeforums.org/.
Over the next two weeks, the Department will be exhibiting at the National Black Child Development Institute's 38th Annual Conference in Atlanta (October 25-28), the National Coalition of ESEA Title I Parents' 35th Annual In-Service Training Conference in Birmingham, AL (October 29-November 2), and the National Middle School Association's 35th Annual Conference in Denver (October 30-November 1). If you are attending any of these events, please stop by the Department's booth.
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AIG blinks, won't sue over bailout
That didn't take long.
In the face of furious criticism from Washington and elsewhere, American International Group's board of directors announced Wednesday the firm would not participate in a shareholders lawsuit against the government over the terms of a taxpayer bailout that saved the company from ruin.
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AIG took a $182 billion bailout during the financial crisis and the idea that it would join a lawsuit arguing the terms of taxpayers' largesse were unfair sent steam coming out of the ears of many lawmakers and government officials.
( See also: AIG press release)
"[R]emember the crook that broke his leg robbing a house then sued them for negligence on safety? yes, well he's now AIG's gen counsel," Austan Goolsbee, the former top White House economist, said on Twitter early Wednesday.
Members of Congress were equally furious, with some sending letters to the company demanding an explanation.
"There's an old joke about [comedian] Jack Benny," newly retired Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told POLITICO Tuesday. "One of the great jokes was that he had a show — where he's walking and some guy comes up to him and sticks a gun in his face and says, 'Your money or your life.' And he says, 'I'm thinking, I'm thinking.' I mean, that's AIG."
One former senior administration official who worked on the AIG bailout joked Wednesday, "To paraphrase Churchill, the Board did the right thing after having exhausted every other alternative."
Lawmakers expressed a similar reaction.
"I'm pleased to hear that after receiving the largest bailout by the government to a private company in United States history, AIG has decided not to sue the taxpayers who provided it," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Wednesday.
The outrage was unleashed after news broke late Monday that AIG's board was meeting to consider whether to join a $25 billion lawsuit over whether the terms of the bailout were unfair to shareholders, who claim they were deprived of billions of dollars.
The suit is being led by Starr International — once one of the largest investors in AIG and chaired by former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg — which asked AIG to join its legal action.


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Queenstown adventures - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Queenstown, the adventure capital.
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to Queenstown in the Video tab.
Thrill-seeking tourists pursue adrenalin rushes around Queenstown, billed as New Zealand's adventure capital. The world's first commercial bungy jump began near the town in 1988. Adventurous visitors can also enjoy jet boating (another New Zealand invention) on local rivers, and snow sports in the mountains.
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Carleton's 27th Annual Chesley Lecture Addresses "Global Warming and the Fate of the Land Carbon Sink"
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Jan 16 2013 7:30 pm
Location:Olin Hall Room 149, Carleton College
Stephen W. Pacala, Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Frederick D. Petrie Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, will present Carleton College's 27th Annual Frank G. & Jean M. Chesley Lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Hall Room 149. Entitled "Global Warming and the Fate of the Land Carbon Sink," Pacala's presentation is free and open to the public.
Pacala also co-directs the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, an effort to develop solutions to the greenhouse warming problem, and is a founder and Chairman of the Board of Climate Central, a nonprofit media organization focusing on climate change. Pacala has researched a wide variety of ecological and mathematical topics. At Princeton, his work focuses on problems of global change with an emphasis on interactions among the biosphere, greenhouse gases and climate. He also researches solutions to the climate problem, the dynamics of forests, and the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function.
Pacala completed an undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in biology at Stanford University. His honors include the David Starr Jordan Prize, the George Mercer and Robert MacArthur Awards of the Ecological Society of America, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
The Carleton College Chesley Visiting Lectureship Series, in the fields of the natural and physical sciences, mathematics and anthropology, is made possible by a gift to Carleton College from Jean M. Chesley '37 of Red Wing, Minn., and the late Dr. Frank G. Chesley '36. The Chesley Lectureship brings an outstanding scholar and teacher to Carleton each year for a series of classes, public lectures, faculty seminars, and student meetings.
For more information about this event, including disability accommodations, please contact the Carleton College Department of Environmental Studies at (507) 222-5769.


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Eminem has hit out at Donald Trump with a freestyle rap at an awards ceremony.
The star, 44, filmed the rap, broadcast at the BET Hip Hop Awards, in a Detroit car park.
In The Storm, given the name in reference to the US president's cryptic "calm before the storm" remark about global events, Eminem criticises Mr Trump on issues including North Korea, aid, immigration, the NFL (National Football League) and white supremacy.
He raps: "Racism's the only thing he's fantastic for/Cause that's how he gets his f****** rocks off and he's orange."
And he adds: "But we better give Obama props 'cause what we got in office now is a kamikaze that will probably cause a nuclear holocaust while the drama pops/and he waits for shit to quiet down, he'll just gas his plane up and fly around till the bombing stops."
He rapped that attacking the NFL - Mr Trump criticised American football stars for kneeling during the national anthem - was "his form of distraction... so we focus on that instead of talking Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada.
"All these horrible tragedies and he's bored and would rather cause a Twitter storm with the Packers."
Snoop Dogg, Ellen DeGeneres, Sean Diddy Combs and NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who started the NFL protests last year to bring attention to police brutality against minorities - were among those tweeting their support.
Mr Trump is yet to comment.


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Winter weather has taken its toll on both sides the US and Canadian border. One utility that has taken it in the chops from all the ice and snow has been electric companies that provide services to businesses and individuals. Now this wasn't the only time that there have been electrical outages due to severe weather. Power outages have become rather routine when severe weather hits. The question is, "How much mitigation do you want to invest in to reduce the impact of outages?"
The above is the theme from a Toronto Glob editorial, see the ice storm: Why you want the lights to go out, sometimes in the piece they call attention to the fact that you can't mitigate every risk. The costs to do so would be too high. Thus, the focus on risk management: Dyman & Associates Risk Management Projects: Cyber Security
"What is risk? You can look here; it is the odds of suffering a loss in the future. It is a cost. And what about the reduction or elimination of that risk? Also a cost. In deciding whether to pay the price, utilities – and all of us – end up having to weigh three factors: the size of the possible damage, the likelihood of its occurrence, and the price of mitigation."
Risk management will become a greater part of the discussion as we move forward and the warming climate starts to impact our communities in varying ways. This will be a good discussion for communities to have. One way to reduce risk is to disperse it in the entire community (whole community). If individuals are better prepared than the costs for organizations can be lessened, and costs of single entity preparedness reduced. Check out the post right here…


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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Do Murderers Deserve Our Sympathy?
But the role of society in making murder more likely does not constitute a justification for murder. Murderers do not deserve our sympathy and should be punished regardless of circumstances.
And people realize this for the most part. When parents murder their non-disabled children, there's seldom any sympathy for the murderers. This is true regardless of any hardships the murderers might have been experiencing. Sentences are generally harsh. And there's little to no outcry about such sentences.
But it's different with disabled children. And I can't help but conclude this is because the disabled victim is considered to be less than human - perhaps better dead than disabled.
And make no mistake. It's not autism which caused Karen McCarron (reputedly a curebie mom) to snap. It was the negative discourse about autism which contributed to her state of mind. It's organizations like Autism Speaks with videos such as Autism Every Day. They have sent a message (and continue to do so as I write this) to the effect that it's unremarkable for parents of autistics to be thinking about killing their autistic children.
Things don't have to be this way, as evidenced by all the parents writing about acceptance at Autism Hub, and by the parents of Rett girls, who apparently don't spend their time whining about services and the mostly self-imposed difficulties of raising autistic children.
I'm not one to believe in fate or purpose. But I'm willing to consider that Katie's death might have fulfilled a purpose in a sense. Perhaps it will help people realize that "if we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities", as Autism Diva points out.
In Memoriam - Katherine "Katie" McCarron
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In a very eerie way, this blog entry is related to your last - both are on eugenics and the question under which circumstances it is permissible to kill a child. My guess is that the individual thresholds vary a lot.ReplyDelete
One thing that baffled me is that a lot of geneticist will not tell parents the gender of their child before the legal abortion limit. Gender is a huge issue in infanticides (pre- and postnatal) in some cultures. It is often very difficult for others to think in the frame of thought of the parents. When I first thought about the idea of aborting a child because of (usually her) gender, I was appalled, but the pressure of society (not mine but some mothers') can be very hard to bear.
I saw a documentary once about a mother who was caring for her apallic son. It was clear that she loved her son dearly and that she was very afraid what would happen to him once she died, which is why she openly pondered to "take him with her". Along similar lines I recently had a conversation with a mother on the playground whose older daughter is severly brain damaged, and, since she turned 16, does no longer qualify to stay in her care home. The mum spoke of the desparation that she felt and other mothers in a similar situation feel when they are deserted by the system to cope with the phenomenal task of caring for their children and it is not the lack of love that makes them ponder murder, it is the sheer exhaustion of someone who has to care for someone else 24/7 for years on end without a break.
Rather than focussing on "healing" whatever necessitates the intensive care, maybe a "give a mom a break" programme could prevent a lot of cruelty and ultimately murder.
Hi Catherina. Thanks for stopping by.ReplyDelete
One thing that baffled me is that a lot of geneticist will not tell parents the gender of their child before the legal abortion limit.
That's an excellent point. And it goes to differences between groups of people. There are differences, in average, between men and women. I know a lot of people don't like to hear this, and prefer to pretend differences do not exist between sexes and races. But this kind of thinking hurts autistics, as differences between autistics and non-autistics are undeniable. Instead of denying differences, we should work on acceptance of differences.
If Ms. McCarron was in fact heavily into "curebie" stuff, then I wonder how much her mental state was affected by repeatedly being sold hope at a high price and then having those hopes dashed (and lets not forget that all quacks are really in the business of selling hope). That certainly can't excuse murder, but I can certainly see such a cycle contributing to a growing sense of hopelessness and despair (especially since the biomed pushers typically argue that you have to buy their stuff Right Now or else your child is doomed forever). Expose someone with a broken moral compass to that and you've got a recipe for disaster (and even in a morally stable parent, that kind of despair could lead them to institutionalize their kid, or to simply give up and not do anything to help their development).ReplyDelete
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FYI, I've moved John's comment and my response to the comments section of my previous blog entry. John, please follow the link.ReplyDelete


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California Ballet
By Olga Smoak, International Journalist Editor of Ballet in Russia Founding member of International Foundations Diamonds of World Ballet
From its inception in 1968, California Ballet Company has been a fertile ground for the re-staging of the demanding classics and for the creation of its own trail-blazing works. Later on, the CBC bestowed on emerging young choreographers, many from San Diego, an opportunity to create and to develop through the company their own personal dance statements. In addition, the CBC has influenced, nurtured and enriched the lives of generations of committed dancers - artist, many of whom are now performing on four continents.
Furthermore, unusual for a US company this size, from very early on, the CBC began to acquire a distinct international profile. Later on, the CBC became a ballet ambassador, as it shared, gave and received artistic knowledge and hospitality, at home, south of the border and as far away as Romania, Russia and Georgia.
Finally, throughout this 41 year saga, the company enriched the area and also found a supportive echo in its California native soil, which has cherished this jewel enduring in its midst.
Director Maxine Mahon began recreating full length classics in 1971. Charles Bennett, longtime Associate Director, contributed several signature works, works based on San Diego's historical and Spanish roots as well as children's ballets. Dame Sonia Arova and Thor Sutowski produced a beautiful rendition of Swan Lake (1997) and others. In addition, CBC has enriched its repertoire with interesting contributions by CBC dancers and teachers.
In 1972, the foundation for the Company was laid in the California Ballet School. It is here that the directors and senior performing members of the company act as dance instructors in ballet, jazz, and modern dance. After more than three decades, the company is proud to recognize alumni in New York and other American cities, in Austria, Canada, Norway, South Africa and the Philippines.
In 1974, Company members Marlene Jones and Douglas Hevenor participated in the Seventh International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria where Bennett garnered second place for Albinoni Adagio. The Romanian Government invited Mahon as the first American dancer educator to teach, choreograph and lecture throughout Romania. Jones and Hevenor received special performance prizes at the '76 First Tokyo World Ballet Concours. Bennett received a gold medal. CBC also participated in competitions in Varna, Bulgaria/'78, Jackson, Mississippi/'86, Helsinki, Finland/'91 and Jackson, Mississippi/'94.
In 1976-77, Oleg Danovsky and Marius Zirra came to San Diego to teach and choreograph. CBC made ballet history with Stanislav Issaev (Moscow Classical Ballet) coming to guest in '86-'87. This was the first appearance of a major Soviet ballet star with American ballerinas. In '88-'89 two Soviet choreographers and two pairs of Soviet stars worked with CBC. In '90, CBC hosted Pisarev and Dorfeyeva for the US-Russian Art Festival and hosted an evening for the Bolshoi School.
In 1989 and '91 respectively, CBC students Calvin Kitten, Karla Navarrete and Jennifer Curry studied in Tbilisi, Georgia. CBC has performed in Tijuana, Mexico, and at the Summer Festival of San Lois Potosi. Dancers from Mexico are continually invited to perform with CBC, enhancing many productions. Since 1995, the company has made annual tours of the Western United States with its popular production of The Nutcracker, and has been accepted into the California Arts Council's prestigious Performing Arts Touring and Presenting Program.
Mahon has choreographed for Starlight Opera and SD Opera productions, with whom CBC dancers regularly perform. In addition, Mahon's desire to bring awareness of dance to the public has led to the creation of a successful series of lecture programs. Funding has been provided by grants from the California Arts Council including an Exemplary Arts in Education Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts and CETA. The Company currently enjoys support from the City of SD Commission for Arts and Culture and the SD County Enhancement Program.
The CBC is a miracle of the vision and determination of its indomitable founder Maxine Mahon, and the fire which she transmitted to her collaborators, which has molded them into the shining institution which is today the multi-faceted California Ballet Company of San Diego.
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Recently I went to the Connect Now conference and had the chance to hug Darren Rowse, meet Gary Vaynerchuk and hang out with my social media friends. One year ago, I didn't think I'd be able to accomplish something so awesome.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern men's lacrosse team broke the single-game scoring record in its home opener this evening against first-year program Huntingdon, winning 27-2 in Panther Stadium.
The Panthers move to 2-1 on the season, while the Hawks fall to 1-1 after defeating Oglethorpe in their inaugural game.
The single-game goals, assists, and points records were all broken in tonight's game, as BSC recorded 27 goals and 17 assists for 44 total points. Freshman Erik Klein also broke the single-game points record with his six goals and six assists for 12 points, and freshman John Sommerall broke the single-game face-offs record with 17.
BSC scored the first three goals of the game, and led 7-1 after the first period. The Panthers out-scored Huntingdon 9-1 in the second period, leading 16-2 at halftime, and then shut out the Hawks in the second half while adding 11 more goals for a final score of 27-2.
Klein led with six goals on six shots, as well as six assists. Senior D.J. Ward and sophomore Michael Sanicola also recorded four assists apiece. Sommerall led with 11 ground balls, and senior David Litton had four caused turnovers.
Junior goalkeeper Andrew Huffman played all 60 minutes in the net, recording nine saves.
BSC out-shot Huntingdon 57-22 and had 49 ground balls to the Hawks' 21. The Panthers were also 7-of-8 on extra-man opportunities and 19-of-20 on clear attempts.
BSC will play two neutral-site games over the next few days, facing Guilford College on Saturday at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., and then Adrian College on Monday at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.


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Samsung and AT&T have launched a replacement program for the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active that covers the handsets in case of water damage. An anonymous tipster to PhoneArena states that the companies offer a one-time swap, and Engadget confirmed the existence of the program with AT&T.
Smartphone warranties or insurance plans do not typically cover any kind of physical damage, including damage from water. But the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active's flagship feature is supposed to be water-resistance; Samsung rates it as able to withstand up to one meter of water for 30 minutes. It's not mil-spec, but it should guide the phone through puddles and more inclement types of weather, at least. Unfortunately, some tests have shown it's not even that resistant.
In a sense, it's noble of AT&T and Samsung to make good on the promise that the phone should be water-resistant by excepting it from the usual replacement standards. Perhaps they're accounting for customers who might push the one-meter, 30-minute limit a little too hard. In another sense, it feels a bit like an admission of guilt.
The phones are eligible for the program only if they were purchased directly from AT&T, either online or at its retail locations. Customers who bought their phones at a big-box retailer like Best Buy or Walmart or an electronics store like Radio Shack will be told to deal with those chains directly.


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Each report page allows the ability to filter by Organization and Building. Also any filters that are specific to the current page.
Hover over any chart to get a detailed tool tip.
The chart "actions" dialog allows users to download the chart image, save the charts data, annotate the chart and print the chart.
Annotate allows users to draw on the chart with the cursor. This is particularly handy in the event of a presentation where certain data points need to be highlighted.
Annotations are also exportable.
Value lines help help show users where they are on the value axis by displaying a moving line and highlighting the axis values.
Data Tables allow users the ability to download or print tabular data.
The search utility on tabular data throughout the Kansas Building Report Card is a keystroke search that will automatically populate a table base on your active search.
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When we recently looked at the Alienware M14x and were impressed with its stealth bomber lines but rather less
impressed with its poor graphics performance. Now PC manufacturer Razer has
announced an even sleeker gaming laptop it hopes will blow away the
The Razer Blade not only boasts some tasty specs but also
features a multi-touch display in the palm rest which turns into a shortcut
screen when combined with an external mouse for gaming.
The multi-touch display will act like a touchpad during
normal use and will then turn into a shortcut screen during gaming. Ten
shortcut keys are displayed above the main screen which will be fully customizable
according to Razer, but for major titles like Battlefield 3, they will be
automatically configured.
The secondary display will be powered by the SwitchBlade UI,
which will also control the 10 LCD shortcut buttons above it.
The Razer Blade is just 22mm in depth and features a 17in
screen with a 1920 x 1080 resolution. Inside your games will be driven by a
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Optimus Technology and 2GB of dedicated GDDR5 VRAM.
Also included will be a built-in HD webcam, a 320GB HDD, 8GB
of RAM and a 60Wh battery. Of course all this gaming goodness will set you back
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regions has yet to be announced but we'll let you know as soon as Razer gets back to us.
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The Razer Blade will be available in Q4 2011 in the US and
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Hibernate allows developers to interact with data from a relational database in an object-oriented fashion. This brings a lot of benefits to maintenance of development. However, hibernate is an abstraction of data which essentially is its function as an ORM, and this usually forces the developer to know hibernate's internals in order to use the tool effectively.
Maintaining collections in the object world is something every application does. Using hibernate you can manipulate colllections by adding and deleting items through the java api, and by way of mapping, hibernate takes care of generating the SQL to augment that data in the database. If the nuances of the mapping is not understood, hibernate may produce what seems like strange results. A particular instance arises when you map a List on the many side of a one to many relationship. When removing an item from the list, hibernate issues a delete statement to delete all elements, and then issue insert statements to insert everything back in except the one removed. This seems ineffecient and odd. Why not just delete the one item? Then if you change the collection type to a Set, only one delete statement is issued by itself. This article tries to explain this behavior and hopefully bring to light hibernate's internals.
Explanation by Example
The scenario described above occurs when mapping a one to many relationship with a association table. The association table stores two attributes, each of which is a foreign key to another table. In addition, the many side object is mapped with a List, but no index column is used. Hibernate recommends when using a list that an index column is used, but why exactly? The example should illuminate why hibernate recommends the index column when mapping a list. The example will show you what happens when using a list without an index column.
Example Setup
Let's set up the example. Let's say I have two classes: A and B. There is a one to many relationship from A to B, where A has many B's in a List. Using hibernate we map B with one to many and leave out the index column.
As instances of these classes, we have an A1 with 3 children and A9 with no children (just for contrasting sake). The figure below illustrates this
In the database, we have three tables. The association table maintains the relationship between A and B. No constraints are in the table for simplicity sake. (We want to focus on hibernate's behavior and worry less about enforcing integrity in the database.) Notice there is not indexed column in AB.
Here is the data in the tables:
Also notice that the list contains two B1's, as a list is capable of containing duplicates. So we code in java to delete an element from A, say the first element in the list which is B1.
So what occurs on hibernate's flush? It first issues an sql to delete all rows in the relationship table where B_ID = 1. Then it inserts all the relationships that are not supposed to be deleted!
This seems strange.
However the reason why this occurs is because hibernate supports the additional feature of a collection that is called a Bag. A bag is a collection which can have duplicates but is unordered. The best feature of a bag is that you can get the number of occurrences of an object through the API with
public int occurrences(Object o)With a list, there is no way to do the same without iterating through the whole list.
Thus, when a list is mapped without an indexed collection, hibernate treats in like a bag. In essence, a list which has an indexed column is an "indexed bag.
Since hibernate handles our list as a bag, it believes there could be duplicate entries in the association table. In addition it knows the items in table AB are unordered, so there is no way to tell which row should be deleted from the object in java. We asked earlier, why not just issue one delete statement. If it stopped here we would end up with:
So hibernate needs to continue and re-insert the rows it knows from java that are not supposed to be deleted. In memory, it can just look at the list after remove() was called and insert the remaining relationships. So we end up with what we wanted:
When using a list in hibernate an indexed column is necessary if you want efficient manipulation of adding and deleting items. With an indexed column, when you code a remove(index), hibernate can relate that index to the column in the db and even if there are duplicates, it can distinguish and delete one row. Better yet, if duplicates are not needed in your application, you can use a Set. A set requires no index column and hibernate can distinguish one row because it know a set does not have duplicates.
If you are wondering what is the purpose of a Bag, references below may answer that question.