text: TV / VideoUpdated: Chase Carey Returns to News Corp.By Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter|June 3, 2009 ShareBy Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter|June 3, 2009 ShareNews Corp. watchers have long debated if and when James Murdoch may move into a broader corporate position at the conglomerate.It seems that the son of chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch will have to wait for a further potential ascension at News Corp. for at least a while now that his father has brought back trusted advisor Chase Carey in a role that is broader than first expected.News Corp. made things official after the market close Wednesday, confirming that Carey is returning to the conglomerate as deputy chairman, president and COO, effective July 1.Reporting to Murdoch and based in New York, Carey, 55, will oversee all of the company's global operations. A spokeswoman confirmed that the heads of all businesses will report to Carey. The company didn't provide terms of his employment contract, but a source familiar with the situation said it runs for five years.Carey's appointment and addition to the board will come right after current president and COO Peter Chernin, who had focused mainly on the creative units, leaves his job. Murdoch had originally said he won't need a deputy, but observers have long suggested he may need a right-hand man.Meanwhile, Murdoch son James has served as chairman and CEO, Europe and Asia. When Chernin announced his departure earlier this year, some industry observers had predicted the Murdoch son could move into a broader corporate role sooner rather than later, while insiders have suggested he will need more time to expand his experience and boost his standing.When it emerged late Sunday that Murdoch was trying to get Carey to return, talk focused solely on his taking the vice chairman role. Again, some observers took this as a sign that James Murdoch could move into the president and/or COO post in the near future.Wednesday's news suggests though that Murdoch senior wants to give his son more time to gain experience by running an important part of the conglomerate and give the company time to evaluate a potential promotion later.Said one observer: "I think Chase is coming in to bridge the time gap between Rupert and James." Similarly, a News Corp. watcher on Wall Street suggested Carey could leave the president and/or COO role to Murdoch junior over the mid-term if things go his way.Most recently president and CEO of satellite TV giant DirecTV (and its corporate predecessor) since 2003, Carey had spent 15 years as a senior executive at News Corp. and had long been known as a trusted adviser to Murdoch. The firm's global TV operations were among his focus areas."Chase has been one of my closest advisers and friends for years and I am delighted we'll once again be working together across our businesses as we face the challenges and great opportunities ahead," said Murdoch."Under Rupert's leadership, News Corporation has always been the boldest, most innovative media company in the world," said Carey. "With its leading franchises, News Corporation's growth opportunities are second to none, and I am thrilled to be returning at such a transformative time for our businesses across the globe."Meanwhile, DirecTV said it has formed a committee of directors tasked with searching for a replacement. In the interim, Larry Hunter will act as CEO in addition to his jobs as executive vp of legal, HR and administration. Carey had a DirecTV contract through the end of 2010, but Liberty let him out of it. It was not immediately clear if Liberty would get anything in return.Under Carey's leadership, DirecTV's subscriber base grew from 12 million to more than 18 million in the U.S., while free cash flow rose from break-even in 2003 to $1.7 billion last year.Continue ReadingPages: 1 2 Sharehttp://adweek.it/2l2jXs8 copy Adweek Adweek


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It's hard to believe Halloween is this weekend and soon Thanksgiving will be here! This fall has been busy for all of us at Boys Hope Girls Hope. Between football games, homecoming, the first grading period and a couple of special events, the staff and scholars are working to accomplish goals.
In mid-September, we hosted the Success Starts With Hope at the Hyatt Regency and raised almost $50,000. This was a wonderful opportunity to tell our story. Stephanie and Noah both talked about why they liked being a part of Boys Hope Girls . We met many new friends and have engaged those people as new volunteers and donors.
The following weekend the Girls Hope program in Baltimore was featured on the season premiere of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. We had a screening party at the Tavern DTC to watch as a group. It was a fun night, a few tears were shed and money was raised. We are fortunate that three families stepped forward to create a Challenge Fund of $20,000 to be matched dollar for dollar in two weeks. I am pleased to say that we met their challenge and even exceeded it. With everyone's generosity, we raised $47,000. Click here if you want to watch the show.
Two weeks later, Libations Wine and Spirits and the Circle of Hope hosted the 12th annual wine tasting and membership round up. It was a great event with more wines, spirits and beers than you could possibly drink and the food was fabulous! The silent auction spearheaded by the Circle of Hope had interesting jewelry and baskets.
The Regis Jesuit High School Men's Club is now doing outreach with Boys Hope Girls Hope. Members of the Men's Club, their wives and children all came over one Saturday to paint the Boys Hope scholar bedrooms. We also had volunteers from Avaya and the Young Professionals board helping us out with fall clean up inside and outside at both houses. The spring and fall clean ups are a huge help for us! I'd also like to recognize the Knights of Columbus from Our Lady of Loreto for their continuing commitment to helping us on our facilities. They come to the houses once a month and help with "honey-do's." I am so grateful for all this help!
Thank you for what you do for Boys Hope Girls Hope. You help us provide for the children God has placed in our care. We are blessed to have you be a part of our success.

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Rutebeuf's Hard Times Blues
from the French
Hard times, hard times, don't get me started
on how my money's clean departed.
God almighty, King of France,
hear my tale of woes and wants
and spare a copper – spare a hatful –
and make this poor boy oh so grateful.
For a good life I find the trick
is buying everything on tick,
even if you end up owing
cash to every huckster going.
If only you were round the place
I'd tell you all this to your face.
To what have I not been reduced
by these hard times, so sore traduced?
With these tightwads it's a sure thing
no one spares you one brass farthing.
Look at me: I'm some bum you'd blank.
I do my banking at the food-bank.
While you've been off on your crusades
death has stripped me of my mates.
For a king so battle-scarred
you'd think you'd fix your own backyard
but no, I suffer while you blast
your way around the Middle East.
If my prayer is unavailing
it won't be the only thing here failing:
where's the life left worth the living
now we've voted May and Gove in?
I wheeze with cold and yawn with hunger:
my list of ailments just gets longer.
I've no sheets but no bed either
and sleep rough like a desert father.
Where's a boy like me to go?
A barn's the only bed I know.
The straw bed where you'll see me huddle
is this pauper's Ritz Hotel.
This is the song of a hungry bard
who can't shell out for a crust of bread.
Britain, my life's in the toilet
but you don't bat a snobby eyelid.
Our Father, I pray, but what a laugh –
Our Father Who Hath Buggered Off,
pulled a fast one – you dirty rogue –
pinched my stuff and left me broke.
The truth is I've not got a prayer.
I'm sick and I'm sore and I'm sad and I'm poor.
David Wheatley is the author of various collections of poetry, including A Nest on the Waves (Gallery Press). He lives in rural Aberdeenshire.


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Pastoral Prayer - April 5th, 2015
Abba Father,
We give our thanks to you this day and everyday, Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth…but today…we are a little more thankful than we are other days. Because it all starts here, doesn't it. Today is the day that things turned the corner for humanity. We wonder if you are celebrating today, as we are? We have words, and paintings, and even movies now that imagine what it was like when Jesus stepped out of that tomb. But you, Father…you were there…you saw it with your own eyes…felt it with your own heart…experienced it with your own flesh. You must be celebrating with us, matter of fact you are celebrating for us.
Because the truth is Jesus, we don't like to remember the reason behind the reason we are celebrating. Why you were in a tomb in the first place. Why you experienced death to begin with. It was because of us…our selfishness…our chaos we bring into this word. So forgive us in our celebration that we are so quick to forget why you were resurrected. And in that forgiveness let us celebrate that our death has been swallowed up in victory. Let us celebrate that our selfishness and sin perished on that cross. Let us celebrate that when you emerged from that tomb, so did a completely new version of humanity emerge right along with you…a completely new version of ourselves.
So Holy Spirit, you are welcome here. Come fill this place, fill our individual space and continue to pick us up, spin us around, and make everything new. Help us to continue to celebrate tomorrow, and the next day, and some odd Tuesday several months from now. Help us celebrate with our hands by being agents of healing for those broken and ill around us. Help us to celebrate with our hearts, by mirroring forgiveness and reconciliation to those we love and those we consider our enemies in our midst.
Thank you God, for making a way for us to be reunited with you and making a way for the resurrection to be experienced everyday, in this life and in the next. Now in one united voice we pray the prayer our resurrected savior taught us when we pray together…
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
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'I'm scared:' Shock, grief after killing at Fort Mill's all-American Peach Stand
Police respond to shooting at The Peach Stand in Fort Mill
Shock, grief, fear. Emotions likely to accompany any shooting death. More so, some say, when it happens at a place that's known for so much else.
"And at the Peach Stand," said Jeff Helms, police chief in Fort Mill and one of the dwindling number of residents who have been in town longer than the store. "That's iconic Fort Mill."
On Tuesday afternoon, Peach Stand employee Karson Bailey Whitesell, 19, was shot and killed at the store.
Christopher Benjamin Mendez has been charged with murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime, in Whitesell's death, police said Wednesday.
Arrest warrants were served late Wednesday afternoon, Fort Mill police Maj. Bryan Zachary said in a release. A bond hearing was conducted afterward, and bond was denied on both charges.
Mendez was to be transferred to the York County Detention Center, Zachary said.
Details about the incident continue to come in from law enforcement, as do community reactions.
Randy Turney of McConnells commented on Facebook that his in-laws were in the store when the incident happened, and that police asked them not to give details because the investigation was ongoing. Turney said he knew the situation was serious from his mother-in-law's call.
"All I know is, she called me and she was scared," he said.
The store on S.C. 160 was closed Wednesday morning, but a woman who stops by every day, between taking children to nearby schools, paused to pass a few minutes.
"You wouldn't think it would happen here," she said. "And this is sort of the 'it' place to be, for those of us who live around here. It's sad and scary."
The Peach Stand — the original produce stand, just across the highway from the main store, dates back to the 1930s — has been in Fort Mill since 1980. In those nearly four decades, the store has grown to include a restaurant, butcher shop, bakery and ice cream counter. It sells local fruit and vegetables, and supports farmers who produce it. It sells Springs Farm peaches, strawberries, blackberries and other produce.
The store also is a meeting place. For years, when Fort Mill only had one high school a country block down the road, students would drive to the Peach Stand for a soda or snack before practice started for sports and other extracurricular activities. People meet there still.
Charlie Powers, who served as mayor in Fort Mill for 24 years, is about as synonymous with the town as is the place he stops by every morning.
"I just go there early in the mornings and drink coffee, meet with folks," Powers said of the Peach Stand. "Tell our stories."
Powers said what happened shouldn't be a reflection on the people there.
"It's a great place," he said. "Those kind of things can happen anywhere. They've happened at churches. It used to be the safest places in the world, were churches and schools, and you see what's happened."
Powers says the crime has something to do with Fort Mill's population growth in recent years.
"It's just one of those very, very pitiful situations that happened," he said. "That's the world now. It's not Fort Mill, just because it's close to Charlotte or anything else. Whatever's wrong, I don't know. I don't know what's wrong with people's thinking."
Powers has more experience than most understanding how hard an incident like this is to get over. A decade ago, Powers walked into a gas station in Fort Mill; a man having just robbed the place shot him in the head, after Powers held the door open for him. Both Powers and the store clerk, also shot, survived.
"It's a devastating situation," Powers said. "It'll keep you awake at night, wondering what's wrong with people."
On Wednesday morning, a couple of women dropped off flower bouquets at the store entrance and quickly left. Jeanna Allstun, a regular customer, said she stopped by to buy Amish bread. She said she did not know about the shooting.
"I pop in once a week, or every couple of weeks, to pick up a little treat and see what's new on their shelves," Allstun said.
Customer George Hermann, formerly of Fort Mill, drove from Charlotte to offer condolences.
"When I lived here, the Peach Stand was a local stop for us," he said. "The Peach Stand was like passing something special."
Hermann said the store was "a point of reference whenever we had company," and he would always give directions to the store.
"It would be like something happening at your local church because the Peach Stand was always looked upon very highly by the residents," he said, "and it's just unbelievable."
Helms said the shooting at the Peach Stand was hard for his department, officers only a day removed from attending the funeral of Det. Mike Doty of the York County Sheriff's Office. Doty was killed and three other officers wounded after responding last week to a domestic violence call in York.
Fort Mill and other officers saw people offering support for miles along the processional route, children waving flags and adults crying, an outpouring of support for law enforcement.
"And then you think, OK, now maybe we can get back to some sense of normalcy," Helms said. "And then this happens."
In his 35 years in law enforcement, Helms said he can't recall so much happening in so short a span.
"I don't even know how to describe the last 48 hours," he said Wednesday morning.
Mayor Guynn Savage said the entire community is hurting, including first responders "raw with emotion" before they ever received the Peach Stand call. She, like Powers before her, believes the town and business shouldn't be defined by the act of violence.
"Unfortunately events like this are no longer unique," Savage said. "We see acts of violence too frequently in today's world. We're not immune. There's no area that's immune."
The mayor was impressed, grateful for and humbled by the outpouring of support for law enforcement the week prior to the latest shooting. She expects more support now.
"I don't think it's indicative of where we're living," she said of the violent act. "I think it's a symptom of the world we live in, not of where we live in the world.
"We do live in a very special place as well. Not one that's immune to violence, but certainly one that knows a close community of caring, giving. That when something like this does occur, they reach out to one another."
In a statement, Peach Stand general manager Ron Edwards said the store would remain closed through Thursday.
Online reaction
As word spread of shots fired at the Peach Stand in Fort Mill and that Whitesell was killed, people online expressed fear, sadness and shock.
Bailee Moore tweeted she was "trying not to cry" and she'd never heard of an incident like this in her hometown "I'm scared to live in."
Jessica Jinx of Fort Mill shared a similar sentiment, tweeting she was "absolutely heartbroken."
In my town of Fort Mill, SC, a young woman was gunned down in broad daylight this afternoon at the peach stand. I am absolutely heartbroken. My heart is with you tonight #FortMill https://t.co/mgvdTN0qXB— Jessica jinx (@Jessiejinx_clt) January 24, 2018
Another Twitter user, @realdadinstands, was "utterly sick (and) disgusted" by what happened at the Peach Stand, a place he called "the definition of American community."
The Peach Stand in Fort Mill is the definition of American community. Clean, friendly, unique, beautiful biz ran by Springs fam. This shooting makes me utterly sick & disgusted. Too bad nobody close by was carrying to end that monster. I will stop in more often to support them.— realdadinstands (@realdadinstands) January 24, 2018
Others tweeted they live near the site, or shop there often, and couldn't imagine a shooting happening there.
I was just there @ThePeachStand yesterday picking out SC treats to send friends in other states.— Amber Shockley (@AmberAubade) January 23, 2018
Crazy to see this.https://t.co/YeVDRnHEMS
Facebook reaction was similar, including Jack Davenport's account of having been in the store. Something he called a "very scary situation."
Hattie Keyes called the Peach Stand "one of those beautiful places with beautiful people that SC boasts about."
Some commenters recalled having just joked with the victim recently about store prices or having done her hair. Others recalled time spent at the store, a place Mike Glazier called "probably the safest place in Fort Mill growing up." If the Peach Stand isn't safe, he posted, nowhere is.
Mike Kalasnik said "this is what I'll think of" every time he passes it now.
Joe Cronin, who recently left Fort Mill after working as planning director, said he couldn't believe the incident happened "at the Peach Stand, one of the most recognizable institutions in Fort Mill" and a favorite place to visit.
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1. Why sport psychology?
Because investment banking just didn't sound as fulfilling :)
But really… Why sport psychology? That's a pretty easy question for me. I have played soccer for a long time, emphasis on the long. I started when I was 6 years old, and this definitely isn't an exaggeration, but I knew I wanted to play college ball from the moment that I played in my first game. I'm not sure if it was because soccer was the only sport I happened to have a natural talent for-I couldn't even hit the ball off the tee when my parents signed me up for softball-or if it just made me feel good that I was better than the boys. Whatever the reason, I just had this gut feeling, I will play soccer in college.
So my youthful exuberance motivated me. It motivated me for 12 years. And I did make it to play in college, but what happened along the way is where the sport psychology comes into play. In 8th grade I suffered my first big-time injury, a torn ACL in my left knee. After nursing the injury and returning to play, I suffered two more injuries in the same knee (within two years of the original injury) that required surgical repair, meniscal tears. By the time I was a sophomore in high school, I had undergone 3 procedures, and was still determined to make it to college.
For the next four years I would remain injury-free, and even contribute as a freshman "starter" on my college team at Northern Arizona University. Then, my sophomore year, the cycle started again; I tore the ACL in my right knee 8 games into our season. Again, under the surgical knife, I came back to play my junior year, and BAM-you guessed it-another torn meniscus. By the time my senior year had arrived, I was fully rehabbed and ready to play my last season, the one that I knew would be the best of them all.
To make a long story short(er), the very first game of our season I broke my tibia, and was told that playing my senior year would not be an option. Talk about a game-changer. I had the choice of taking a medical red shirt and playing a fifth year, or graduating and moving forward with my life. Enter sport psychology. Had I not had someone to help me decipher through my thoughts and feelings at that time, I honestly don't know where I would be. Soccer had been such a huge part of my life for such a long time that the thought of not having it anymore was paralyzing. I hadn't known myself without the sport, and I wasn't sure that I was ready to move on from it.
I'll leave a little curiosity in here, and let you try and guess the choice I made… But what I will say is that the confidence that I found in myself from my experience with sport psychology was undeniably amazing, and something I knew I wanted to share with others.
2. What is your favorite sport to play? What is your favorite sport to watch?
Is that a real question? Favorite sport to play, without a doubt, is soccer.
The second question-much more interesting… My answer is, it depends. Am I actually at the venue where the sport is being played, or am I watching it on television? And if I AM at the venue, then how close am I (because that does make a difference)? And all of these are definitely different than the sport I actually watch the most. So here it is…
Watching at home on television: Football
Watching at the venue, but from a distance: Hockey
Watching at the venue, but really close to the action: Basketball-Maybe Football, too.
Actually watch the most at the venue: Baseball
3. Tell me about your absolute favorite moment in your athletic career.
Of course it's a soccer moment.
It happened in high school. It was my senior year, and we were playing against our cross-town rivals in one of the last regular season games before playoffs. Our rivals were ranked 7th in state that year (in pre-season polls), with over half of their starting 11 athletes already committed to play at Division I universities. On paper, they were the better team; any betting person would have put their money against us. We were young and inexperienced in comparison, and not to mention, terrified of a team that threatened to destroy us in front of our home crowd.
We entered the game on nerves and adrenaline, which actually played to our advantage. At halftime the score was still tied 0-0 and our confidence started to surface. We can play with these girls. Stop giving them so much credit. Before we took the field for the second half, I erupted with words of encouragement. I don't remember what I said exactly, but I do remember the feeling of being huddled up with my teammates, demanding everyone's best effort for the last 45 minutes of the game…Powerful.
The game comes down to the wire. There is 7 minutes left, and one of our defenders passes me the ball on a quick transition to the other side of the field. I began to dribble towards the other team's goal and was quickly approached by a defender. My tunnel vision was on, and all I could focus on was getting to their goal as quickly as I could. The defender approached me, and I tapped the ball between her legs. Before she could understand what happened, I gathered the ball behind her, and noticed the goalie was pretty far off her line. I launched a shot from about 40-yards out to the upper right hand corner of the goal. The ball went in, and we ended up winning the game 1-0.
4. If you could have lunch with any athlete, who would it be?
Megan Rapinoe. One thing that I really admire about her is how she I think that she uses her fame as an outlet for creating awareness, and in some cases, creating change. She has done philanthropic work for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and also became an ambassador for Athlete Ally, which is a nonprofit organization that focuses on ending homophobia and transphobia in sports. She has also advocated for the equal treatment of women in soccer; this past December, the United States women's national soccer team made headlines when it refused to play a match in Hawaii because of the poor condition of the artificial turf playing surface. After claiming a World Cup championship, women are still playing on subpar fields, in subpar locker room conditions, with subpar pay, in comparison to their male counterparts.
I guess I'd choose her because we'd have a lot more to talk about than soccer, and I genuinely think she is using her athletic prowess for more than just popularity… She uses it to make the world a better place.
5. Do you have a favorite mental skill to work on with clients?
Performance anxiety, and athletes experiencing transition (athletes returning to play after injury, transitioning from high school to college/college to professional levels, athletic retirement, etc.).
6. Which skill do YOU need to practice more often?
Self-care, enough said.
7. How do you want people to remember you?
I want people to remember me with smiles. I might not be remembered as a perfect person who changed the world, but I think it'd be just as powerful to be remembered as a person who helped to really change a couple lives for the better.


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Undergraduate Program
Peer Advisors
Our current peer advisors are all chemistry majors in their senior year and have gone through training with the College Center for Advising Services, and also work with the chemistry Undergraduate Studies Committee.
They can help students with:
- Declaring a major
- Making connections with faculty
- Reviewing research opportunities
- Exploring study abroad options
- Investigating independent and interdisciplinary study options
If they can't answer your question, they are happy to point you in the right direction!
Chemistry Peer Advisors, 2018-2019
Ian Brodka
Andrew Lee
Peer Advisors for all participating UR departments are listed on the CCAS website at: http://rochester.edu/college/CCAS/peers


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Giants' Dwayne Harris wins NFC Special Teams Player of the Week
New York Giants slot wide receiver and return man Dwayne Harris has been named the NFC's Week 7 Special Teams Player of the Week, for his performance against his former team, the Dallas Cowboys.
With the game locked in at 20-20 in the fourth quarter, Harris returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown with just seven minutes left. The touchdown turned out be the game-winning score for the Giants in their key divisional win.
The last Giants player to win this award was place kicker Josh Brown during the 2013 regular season. Harris had previously won this award in three separate games during his tenure with the Cowboys.
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In just a few seconds you will find the answer to the clue "Municipal waste department" of the "7 little words game".
Each bite-size puzzle in 7 Little Words consists of 7 clues, 7 mystery words, and 20 letter groups. There is no doubt you are going to love 7 Little Words!
Now back to the clue "Municipal waste department". Here you'll find the answer to this clue and below the answer you will find the complete list of today's puzzles.
Municipal waste department 7 Little Words
Answer: Sanitation
Now just rearrange the chunks of letters to form the word Sanitation.
The other clues for today's puzzle (7 little words May 16 2019)
- Capital of Nicaragua 7 Little Words
- Road salt distributors 7 Little Words
- Lament 7 Little Words
- British tea maker 7 Little Words
- One preoccupied with self 7 Little Words
- Lack of ability 7 Little Words
- Municipal waste department 7 Little Words
- UN human right since 2010 7 Little Words


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If you own a Cortana-powered smart device, such as the Harmon Kardon Invoke speaker, or the GLAS Thermostat, you can manage and control them from a Windows 10 PC. You do this by clicking the Cortana icon or search box on your desktop Taskbar and in the pop-up panel that appears you'll see a Cortana device icon (represented by a smart speaker). Click this and then click Settings to add or manage your Cortana-powered device.
You will then see an Add a device link you can click to begin the process of pairing a new Cortana device with your PC. It's worth noting that if you don't see the Cortana device icon in the main Cortana pop up panel you will need to change the region on your PC. To do this, search in the Start Menu for region and from the search results click Change your country or region.
Change the main Country or region option to United States and restart the PC. When you next sign in to the PC and open the Cortana settings panel, you will see the Cortana device icon, and be able to add and manage your new Cortana-powered smart device from the PC.


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Latest News
Motorcyclist killed in Hanover
December 07, 2018
Investigators assigned to the Hanover Police Division are probing the circumstances surrounding the fatal collision that claimed the life of a man on Wharf Road, Orange Bay, Hanover on Thursday.
Dead is 24-year-old Tevin Clarke, bartender of Campbelton Road, Hanover.
Reports from the Green Island Police are that about 3:30 p.m., Clarke was driving a motorcycle heading towards Logwood.
On reaching a section of the roadway, he collided with a Toyota Hiace mini bus that was travelling in the opposite direction.
He sustained multiple injuries and was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.


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Display & Overstock Blowout
We are currently making room for new 2019 displays and clearing out many of our chandeliers, vanity strips, pendants and walls scones so come in and check us out!
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Law Firm Sues AT&T and T-Mobile over Crypto Thefts in Phone Hacks
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Law Firm Sues AT&T and T-Mobile over Crypto Thefts in Phone Hacks
Silver Miller, a Florida-based law firm involved in many crypto-related lawsuit, is suing AT&T and T-Mobile after customers accused the telecom giants of allowing hackers to swap their SIM cards, in what appears to be an elaborate scheme by fraudsters. The security breaches resulted in the theft of cryptocurrency worth nearly $1.3 million.
A Silver Miller's client claimed that the AT&T's lack of security allowed hackers to enter his account, even after it increased security following an earlier attempted hack, and steal crypto coins worth roughly $620,000.
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Being a schooled person myself I realize I'm stuck with certain beliefs. I seem to thrive by using a schedule. It makes me feel more relaxed because I have a starting point and if I go a level deeper. It gives me a feeling of control. The other thing is that I really use schedules as a starting point. I tend to do my own thing while feeling in control.
For example: when we go on vacation I am the one who does all the research. What is there to do, what do we like to see, etc etc. Dear husband even relies on it. You might even say he lets go of control of the situation and has faith in the schedule I will make. And here it is. If we are on a holiday we decide from day to day basis what we will be doing, looking at that wonderful schedule as a starting point. It is there, but it is not written in stone. I like to be prepared and at the same time flexible. We have a plan but it is ready to be altered.
Back to homeschooling. Of course I had a plan. I remembered all the things I did at Maximan his age, we could do that too. I was able to read when I was four. However, Maximan is of course, his own being. Doing things his own way at his own pace. Which is exactly the reason for choosing to homeschool. However, I find myself feeling I'm not doing enough. I'm eager to help him, to teach him. All he want is play. And that is a good thing. It makes me realize I have to let go. I have to have faith, like dear husband has faith in me when we go on vacation that everything will be allright. And I have to admit, it is hard. I like to have control and now… I have to let go. To trust that he is eager to learn.
Right now the most important thing is play and playful learning and of course let our days be shaped by his curiosity. It is an adventure and not only is he learning but I am as well.
So I'm telling myself to breathe, have faith and let go…


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Day 13 and things could not be better!
Over the last 13 days, this is what I have gained from the Blogosphere at large....
- Great help and comments from the readers of this blog.
- Awesome ideas from similar blogs.
- A few bucks towards my experiment.
- A fresh perspective on the world in general
- New attitude towards my day job
- A 1,200000 rise in the Technorati ladder.... (is that unreal or what!!) - link to me and I will link to you!
Less sleep, a couple of new buddies and a bad case of bloggers RSI!If you found this site to be helpful or inspiring you are welcome to donate to Robs Experiment!


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Shades of Grey & Fake Celebrities
By Raven LeDay
Black and white values have been the structure of society for centuries; however, now grey is the color of choice. Every negative situation is now accepted with an excuse.
What ever happened to the "Diamonds" of the world? In the 1998 film, Playa's Club, Diamond played by Lisa Raye, is a stripper that provides for her child but keeps the discussion about her profession to a minimum. In recent years, the publicity of strippers – or "models" as some say – has gone from ten to ten million. It has become so accepted in our society that more young girls are aspiring to be strippers at younger ages. Our generation has made it "cool" to be a "fake celebrity." These people are praised by followers on social media, by rappers in music, and now by the club industry.
I can't speak on clubs before my time, but I can touch on the ones I've came into contact with. I am just like many in their early twenties, who enjoy the nightlife. What I will not stand for are the clubs that increase the entry price because a "fake celebrity" has been asked to come.
To clarify, a fake celebrity is a surgically-engineered person that is guilty of one or more of the following: possibly known to have dated successful and/or famous men; has appeared on one or more reality TV shows; has a "cheap" boutique or t-shirt line promoted on Instagram; has been or currently is a stripper; and/or has attained fame from social media.
If I am paying $20+ when a "fake celebrity" is hosting a club I would normally only pay $10 or less to enter, I do not expect standing and smiling. I expect fire hoops, back-handsprings, free bottle service and/or remixes on the 1s and 2s. In my opinion, we are giving these celebrities too much credit for only being attractive, and not holding them accountable for the reason they're famous in the first place.
As women, we are always told: keep your legs closed, don't be a product of your environment, be a lady in the streets, and always display yourself as a child of God. But these same values seem to disappear if she is drop dead gorgeous. I may never understand this way of thinking, but until then I can only focus on myself. Good or bad publicity is still publicity that keeps these fake celebrities in high demand.
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Dexter Community Schools is conducting traffic and pedestrian counts on Dan Hoey between Baker and Ann Arbor Street and on Baker between Dan Hoey and Hudson. The counts are done with cameras that are mounted to sign posts. The data collection is expected to be completed by October 15, 2018.
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The contractor for the 2018 sidewalk project will be back in the community tomorrow (Thursday, October 11, 2018) to make some necessary repairs to the intersection ramps listed below. Please proceed with caution through project areas.
Jeffords Road from the alley (behind the PNC/Hackney Hardware) to the corner of Forest and Broad will be closed starting October 11, 2018. The road is expected to remain closed until November 8, 2018. The roadway will be open on Sundays during the closure. The alley (behind the PNC/Hackney) will remain open.
Hydrant flushing for Fall 2018 will be completed by the end of the day today (Friday, October 12, 2018).
The Dan Hoey/Bishop Circle paving has been rescheduled for tomorrow - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 (weather dependent). The paving will be done on half the intersection at a time so that two way traffic can be maintained with flagging.
City contractor JV Contracting is scheduled to begin applying pavement markings throughout the City starting the week of September 10, 2018. This work will not require road closures, however some lanes may be closed while the paint dries. Please proceed carefully through work zones.
The City will be performing preventative maintenance on several areas of the sewer system the week of September 17, 2018. The sewer mains will be cleaned with a vactor truck, which puts high pressure water through the main. The areas that will be cleaned are as follows:
Dexter Crossing - Cambridge, Carrington, Lexington, Kingsley, Bristol, Preston, South Downs
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If you have any questions about the work, please contact the Utility Department at 734-426-4572.
Please call the Utility Department's on-call number - 734-368-5212 - immediately if you see anyone besides the City of Dexter (in a marked red vehicle) or the Dexter Area Fire Department using a City fire hydrant. It is against City Ordinance to use a fire hydrant without City permission. Contractors who need water for projects can contact the Utility Department at 734-426-4572 to make arrangements to purchase water.
Yellowbook phone books will be distributed in Dexter during the month of November. If you would like to opt out of receiving a book please visit http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com. Yellowbooks can be recycled.
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Laughing at School
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Laughter is in league with the guilt of subjectivity, but in the suspension of law which it announces it also points beyond that complicity. It promises a passage to the homeland.
—Horkheimer & Adorno
Can one find oneself at home in the classroom? Both a surrogate home and the quintessential other space, the journey out and back that marks coming of age. Don't we learn that we can never really come home, that it is home that eludes us? Does not the teacher feel this more acutely than most? Is that why we speak so wistfully of the student's futures?
Witness Novalis' precision: it is not that we wish to go back home, but that we wish to be at home while away from home. To be at home in the world for once. A comical affair. The too somber classroom keeps us from finding our way home, but not in the way we would suspect. It is not that the classroom/home is recognizable by its ebullient laughter. It is that we cannot help but laugh at finding ourselves at home there. This? This is home?


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It's been about a month now since the Men's National Team collapsed out of the World Cup. I've gone through most of the steps of grieving during this time - denial, anger, depression, and finally acceptance - and I've thought a lot about why this happened and the sad state of US Men's Soccer.
* Side note 1 - this is one of the longest posts I've ever written, at close to 3,000 words. If you're not a soccer fan, click here to read my previous post "Cruise Control and Chasing Infinity" instead.
* Side note 2 - I'm a big soccer fan, and I'm pretty opinionated. Not surprisingly, a lot of people have asked what I think about the USMNT. This is my public brain dump - a written record of some changes I would like to see made. And it is completely off-topic from the rest of this blog. OK, here we go...
So how do we fix US Men's Soccer?
First, let's get an uncomfortable truth out of the way:
America isn't passionate about soccer
Yep, I said it.
Comparing attendance numbers across the top 5 professional sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and MLS), the MLS only captures about 5% of the overall attendance figures. College is even worse, with NCAA Soccer drawing less than 1% of the college fans' overall support. We simply aren't going to compete with the best in the world (Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Italy, England, and France) if the majority of the country isn't engaged.
That being said, we have 3.6 million kids currently registered with youth soccer. So those top 7 countries not withstanding, I don't see any reason why we can't dominate the likes of Uruguay - who has a total population of 3.5 million people - and other less-populated countries such as Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Hungary and Portugal.
Keep in mind we are only looking to fill a roster of about 25 players, ages 18 - 32. That's less than 2 players from each age group, out of the 3.6 million kids playing soccer today.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the USMNT to be ranked in (or near) the top 10 in the world, year in and year out.
Changes Needed
Let me start with an observational story, just to set my paradigm.
My son is currently playing high-level soccer in the u14 age group - not academy level, ECNL or DA, but State Cup level. We were able to witness firsthand the great differences between top teams and 2nd teams in the same club, as my son trained and played with both teams during his formative u9 - u11 years. And the differences were vast.
Club's Top Team
- Trained with a coach who was "A" Licensed, and whose other job was coaching a local college team.
- Sometimes trained an extra evening during the week.
- Extended their season into April by scheduling a late-season tournament.
- Played together in an indoor league in May and June.
- When both teams practiced together, the club's Director of Coaching spent about 2/3 of the practice time with the top team.
- Because the kids were better skilled, they got more touches on the ball from each drill. (less time was spent chasing after errant passes and bad touches, etc.)
Club's 2nd Team
- Trained with a coach one year who was "E" Licensed, and then with a coach who was "D" Licensed and who also coached a local high school team.
- Season ended in March.
- Received 1/3 of the DOC's attention during combined practices.
- Because the kids were less skilled, their drills didn't run quite as smoothly, which meant less actual practice at the desired skill being taught.
By the time these kids reached u12, the kids on the top team were clearly better players. They had had 3 years of more training, better training, and longer seasons. This set the stage for which kids were going to earn their way onto the elite teams during the u13 and u14 seasons, and ultimately be in a position to catch the eye of the US National Team or an MLS Club Academy.
This leads us to the all important question: Are we getting the right kids onto the top-level teams at u9 - u11?
Here are 6 changes we can make in order to build a Top-10 team, starting with the fastest and easiest to implement:
Part 1 - Maximize the current player pool
1.) Remove Relative Age Bias
Relative Age Bias, as described in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, is a real thing. The kids born at the beginning of the year are older than the kids born at the end of the year, which makes them inherently better. They have had additional time to mature - both physically and mentally.
Pick any contest - it doesn't matter whether it's physical or intellectual, and match up the 4th graders against the 3rd graders. The 4th graders will win every time, right? Yet today we're asking the kids born in November and December of 2008 to compete with kids born 10 months earlier in January and February of that same year, and thinking we have a level playing field; we don't.
The playing field is not level at all. And this isn't just theory - check out the birth months from all players who played in the UEFA Youth Tournaments in 2010:
Look how few kids born in the late part of the year make to the top. This is effectively eliminating half of our potential players.
Change #1: Replace "birth-year" age bands with 6-month age bands, such as "2009 Spring" and "2009 Fall", and treat each age band equally - no different than the 2008s and 2009s are treated equally today.
This will not change the overall number of registered soccer players, so it shouldn't require many additional resources. It's more of a shifting of current resources, and it will double our USMNT's player pool.
2.) Remove Early Growth Bias
There's an old NBA saying which says "You can't teach size," meaning that no matter how much you coach a player who is 6' 9", he will always be at an inherent disadvantage to the opposing player who is 7' 1". The NBA is a tall man's game.
Soccer, on the other hand, is not a tall man's game. Here are some players you may have heard of (and their height):
- Lionel Messi (5' 7")
- Alexis Sanchez (5' 7")
- Xavi Hernandez (5' 7")
- Eden Hazard (5' 7")
- Juan Mata (5' 7")
- Pedro (5' 7")
- Sergio Aguero (5' 8")
- David Silva (5' 8")
- Andres Iniesta (5' 8")
- Luka Modric (5' 8")
- Jesus Navas (5' 8")
- Coutinho (5' 8")
- Neymar (5' 9")
- Andrea Pirlo (5' 9")
- Jesse Lingard (5' 9")
- Antonio Valencia (5' 9")
- Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez (5' 9")
- Wayne Rooney (5' 10")
- Landon Donavan (5' 8") - arguably the best American soccer player ever.
- Christian Pulisic (5' 8") - the best current American soccer player, and probably will become the best American ever.
These are some of the world's best soccer players, any one of whom would immediately make the US team a heckuva lot better if he played for us. And they are all considered small by US sports standards.
Considering the average height of an American male is 5' 9", and 5' 9" is tall enough to be a world-class great soccer player, let's remove height from the player pool selection process entirely - the boys will all get to their full-grown height by the time they need to be; it doesn't matter if they are shorter than average when they are 10, 12, 14, or even 16 years old.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of coaches and clubs who look at size when selecting their teams (whether consciously or not), even at the u9 - u11 age groups. But kids' growth spurts all come at different times. Just because the taller kid might help win more games this year is not reason enough to select that kid.
Change #2: Coaches must not consider player height when selecting their top-team player rosters.
Nobody can see the future, but we can assume the player with parents of average height will grow to become average height. And since we only need average height at 18 years old (or later) to have an impact on the USMNT, we should let the kids grow at whatever pace nature has in store for them, and instead focus on selecting the most promising players - not the biggest players - for our top-level youth teams.
3.) Parent Education and Coaching Referrals to sift and sort top players into top clubs sooner
Imagine a young 9-year old boy, Ethan, playing in his first soccer game today.
His parents have a friend whose son played on a soccer team last year and they had a lot of fun, so they have Ethan sign up for that team. They didn't bother to research all the different clubs in the city, and which ones provided what long-term opportunities. And why would they - at this point they just wanted Ethan to get a chance to play soccer and to see if he even likes it.
It turns out Ethan does like it, and he is very good at it. His team wins almost all their games, and Ethan scores multiple goals every game.
Unfortunately Ethan is playing in a lower-level division, on a volunteer-based team with a parent-coach who has entry-level coaching knowledge. Ethan is having fun, doing well, and playing with his friends - which is great. But a couple years later, by the time the parents start asking questions and wondering if they should get more serious about the game, Ethan's chance at the big-time may have already passed him by.
Those kids with the top-level coach have been getting better (and more) training for the last 3 years; by the time they are 12-13 they are probably better players than Ethan. (although Ethan could have been the top player on their team...)
Change #3: Parent Education and Coaching Referrals. The minute it becomes obvious that a young player is naturally gifted (ie: he is the best player on the field, all the time), the family should be advised of the different soccer options available, and his coach should make a referral to a club and/or coach who can provide more long-term options for the player.
Section 1 Recap:
So, we currently have 3.6 million kids registered for youth soccer, but we aren't pulling the national team from all 3.6 million kids:
- Half of the potential world-class players will likely get left behind because they were born in the 2nd half of the year.
- Half of the remaining world-class players may get overlooked because they were shorter than their peers at 9-12 years old.
- And of the 25% who were born in the first half of the year and are taller than average, I'm guessing about 25% of them start out playing for smaller clubs and are never able to catch up.
In the end, we are currently only giving about 18% of our nation's soccer youths the chance to get into the USMNT's elite-level player pool.
This means we could, without much financial investment, increase our top-level talent by more than 5 times! Imagine building a World Cup roster with 5 Christian Pulisics, 5 Clint Dempseys, 5 Bobby Woods, and 5 DeAndre Yedlins - we would be a tough team to beat!
Part 2 - Increase the player pool
Those first 3 changes could be phased in over a couple of years, without much difficulty. The more difficult changes lie in increasing the player pool - reaching soccer players who aren't included in the 3.6 million registered youth players.
4.) Addressing Affordability - the "pay to play" model
Youth club soccer is expensive, with most estimates I've seen coming in at about $3,000 per year, per child - that's basically a car payment! There are millions of families across the country who simply cannot, or will not, spend that amount of money for their child to play sports. (regardless of how gifted he may be.) Obviously families with multiple kids can get priced out of the system even if they earn well into the upper middle class income levels.
There isn't an easy or inexpensive solution to this issue.
Maybe US Soccer could sponsor "play at the park" nights, where they create a safe environment for kids to play unorganized soccer under the watchful eyes of a few coaches. Lots of kids could get introduced to the sport, and the handful of naturally gifted players would be easy to spot and could be filtered into a more competitive environment (and on a scholarship basis.)
Maybe US Soccer could help facilitate a "sister club" program, where larger clubs in the high-income neighborhoods partner with (or create) clubs in under privileged neighborhoods, and coaches in the lower-income neighborhoods could act as both coaches to the many and recruiters to the few who might have what it takes to compete at the highest levels.
Maybe US Soccer needs to restrict the number of clubs in an area, in order to contain administrative, field, and coaching costs.
Maybe US Soccer needs to create more clubs, in a neighborhood-club style, so that travel is minimized and there would be plenty of games to be played neighborhood vs neighborhood.
Maybe the problem isn't with the current system, but with the lack of local scouting towards the big picture. US Soccer could have full-time scouts watching practices and games from various neighborhoods and clubs, and selecting the talented few to be moved into larger clubs for continued development.
Change #4: The pathway towards elite-level soccer needs to be more affordable for more families.
I don't know what the best way is to overcome this challenge, but I can guaranty we are missing out on hundreds of elite-level players (nationwide) at each age group, just because their families cannot afford to play club soccer.
5.) Import players from other sports
Go to any high school in America, and have the students vote on the top 5 most athletic kids in the school. I'm willing to bet the vast majority of them will be basketball and football players.
We know the top athletes play basketball and football.
We know that basketball and football are "size matters" sports.
And we know that many of the top NBA and NFL players come from under privileged neighborhoods, where college education and a middle class life are a longshot for most families.
What if we build an academy for a small number of ultra-athletic, top-of-the-pyramid type kids? It looks like this:
- Find 8th and 9th grade boys who are super-athletic but undersized for their sport.
- Meet with their family to get everybody on the same page: "Since Dad is 5' 9", Mom is 5' 4", and Uncle is 5' 8", the boy is unlikely to grow tall enough to play professionally; he might not even get to play Division 1 ball."
- Offer him a scholarship to the Crossover Academy, where he will live, go to school, and spend 4 - 6 hours per day training in soccer - both physically and mentally. And this will all be in a safe environment where gangs, drugs, and other potential pitfalls don't exist - it will be a way out for many of these kids.
- After 4-5 years in this top-level environment, he may or may not be able to make the USMNT youth squad, but he will very likely be eligible for a college scholarship.
- If this is successful, and this program can be seen as a way out of the inner-city and a way into college and middle class America, other short elite-level athletes (understanding their genetic height disadvantage) may start kicking a soccer ball earlier.
I know what you're saying. "This will never work, since the kid has never used his feet while growing up."
While that may be true, we have never tried anything like this before. These would be the best of the best athletes, with quickness and hand-eye coordination most of us can't even fathom. And then we're going to give them 3 training sessions a day, over the course of several years.
I'm willing to bet that some of these kids could improve enough to make an MLS roster, or at least an MLS academy. And if that's the case at 17 years old, what can they become with another few years' of training with professionals?
Change #5: Build a Crossover Academy to train the best of the best undersized football and basketball athletes.
We might one day find a 20-year old Deion Sanders or Russell Westbrook playing soccer at such a speed that defenses quiver in their boots.
6.) Be Patient; it's working
The MLS is working. It's working slowly, but it's working.
Attendance is way up from where it was 20 years ago. So is the quality of play.
Salaries are increasing, which makes the game more rewarding, which entices more athletes to play soccer and more borderline athletes to train harder.
TV revenue is increasing, along with the sheer number of games available to watch on TV. (and online, and on tablets.) More MLS players are becoming household names, and more players are finding themselves on Sportscenter than ever before.
Not only that, but almost every team now has an academy for developing their own players (the best of the best players from their respective areas), and the league continues to add more teams (which means even more youth academies.)
The youth game has also gotten more competitive, and we are seeing a new crop of players in the USMNT youth system who will likely be better than the last generation of USMNT players.
Change #6: Have patience.
The trouble with waiting, though, is that nobody wants to.
Bottom Line
There are plenty of things US Soccer can do to have an impact on our Men's National Team's success at the world level. Some of them are inexpensive and easy to implement, while others will require a great deal of investment capital.
Regardless of which option(s) they choose, if any, there isn't any reason at all why the USMNT shouldn't perform better than it has.
There. That's my 2 cents on a public record.
What are your thoughts? Shoot me an email - I'd love to hear.
We'll have to wait to see what unfolds in the coming years...
- Chris Butterworth
updated 11/15/17: For additional reading, see Changing Youth Soccer: the pay to play model - a coach's perspective, by Lloyd Biggs of goalnation.com


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Our Wedding: Portraits
I'm so excited to continue sharing bits and pieces of our wedding! These frames from our day are some of my most cherished snapshots to date. Because things were a little damp during he festivities, Ainsworth and I returned to our wedding venue with Sleepy Fox Photography the day after our nuptials to take a few more portraits. The intimate couple of hours were so dreamy and special.
photography: Sleepy Fox Photography // second shooter: M.Newsom Photography // venue: Hardy Chambers Farmhouse in Pulaski, Tennessee // event design + planning: Hazel + Scout (bride) // day of coordinator: Joanna White // officiant: bride's father // florals: Old Frond // wedding dress: Rue De Seine // veil + headpiece: Fox & Hare // shoes + bridesmaid dresses: Free People // flower girl dresses: Tea Princess & Zara // hair + makeup: The Transformation // groom + groomsmen attire: Asos // paper goods + calligraphy: Linen & Leaf // rentals: The House Nashville // music: Big Spring Productions


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At first was neither Being nor Nonbeing.
There was not air nor yet sky beyond.
What was its wrapping? Where?
In whose protection?
Was Water there, unfathomable and deep?
There was no death then,
nor yet deathlessness; of night or day
there was not any sign.
The One breathed without breath,
by its own impulse. Other than that was nothing else at all.
Darkness was there, all wrapped
around by darkness, and all was Water
indiscriminate. Then that which was hidden by the Void,
that One, emerging, stirring, through power of Ardor, came to be.
In the beginning Love arose, which was the primal germ
cell of the mind. The Seers, searching in their hearts with wisdom,
discovered the connection of Being in Nonbeing.
A crosswise line cut Being from Nonbeing.
What was described above it, what below?
Bearers of seed there were and mighty
forces, thrust from below and forward move above.
Who really knows? Who can presume to tell it?
Whence was it born? Whence issued this creation?
Even the gods came after its emergence.
Then who can tell from whence it came to be
That out of which creation has arisen, whether it held
it firm or it did not,
He who surveys it in the highest heaven,RIG VEDA 10.129 translated by Raimon Pannikar.
He surely knows or maybe He does not!
The nature of God is something for philosophers. It's an occupation that is almost futile in that whatever characteristic or attribute they give to God would invariably be wrong. What is 'omniscient'? What is 'omnipotent'? These are just concepts we made up. God is most certainly beyond anything we can attach an attribute to. One? Trinity? These are all meaningless. Does God exist? What is 'exist'? Existing is something for us. We have no reason to conclude that the word even applies to God.
I said the occupation is almost futile. Wanting to know God certainly has its benefits especially if one seeks communion. But to examine this as a purely intellectual exercise is counterproductive as the nature of God is not apprehended intellectually.
We also must not discount the entertainment value of speculating about the nature of God with friends over beer. At the very least it prevents you from talking about Kris Aquino.


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In a recent Guardian article (See Here) John Naughton gives us some ideas about how to approach the problem of educating our kids in the technology saturated world that is only going to get more-so in the future. A great deal of what Naughton says I agree with but he then resorts to some good old-fashioned rallying cry stuff like "The biggest justification for change is not economic but moral. It is that if we don't act now we will be short-changing our children. They live in a world that is shaped by physics, chemistry, biology and history, and so we, quite rightly, want them to understand these things. But their world will be also shaped and configured by networked computing and if they don't have a deeper understanding of this stuff then they will effectively be intellectually crippled. They will grow up as passive consumers of closed devices and services, leading lives that are increasingly circumscribed by technologies created by elites working for huge corporations such as Google, Facebook and the like. We will, in effect, be breeding generations of hamsters for the glittering wheels of cages built by Mark Zuckerberg and his kind." Read More
Knowing, understanding and create optimistic futures through the Habits of Mind
This is a short article I wrote for my school magazine. I hope you find it interesting. As the needs of our society have changed, so the level of expected intellectual ability required by people to enable them to be successful has risen. Prior to the industrial age it was sufficient to learn a process or job that you would have for whole of your working life. This job was likely to be similar to that done by your parents and grandparents throughout their working life. Later, during the industrial age, the primary concern was production, with workers being selected (and socially ranked into classes) based on their ability to read, memorise and use a large number of recognised facts. As time has gone on, society moved from the industrial to the information age. With this change the ability to learn and remember facts has given way to a much more important need for understanding. So what are the characteristics we now need to develop in our students to ensure they have a good chance at a successful, productive and satisfying life? Read More
Some thoughts on the effects of ICT on our society
Now I love technology, but the following is related to an email I received from one of my colleagues who is similarly technological but yet concerned with detrimental effects of modern technology use on our students. This is an email I was writing to him in response. It's a bit rough and needs more work but contains some important thoughts (if I may say so!!)
Computers and phones in bedrooms will become more and more of a problem. I think a large number (I would guess the majority) of parents have no idea what their kids are up to online. I have always told parents in newsletters and meetings to have the computer in a family area and to make bedrooms a technology free zone where possible. I also tell them to set up these expectations early as it is harder to convince a Secondary age child than a Primary child of where the computers in the house should be. Read More
Teaching is a bit like torture!
As I was driving to work today, I had a thought. Teaching is a bit like the act of torture, the principle is exactly the same.
When you torture someone you inflict a level of pain to effect a confession or extract information. In both cases the level of pain needs to be just enough, but not too much. Too little and the victim will be able to suffer the discomfort, too much and the victim will either lapse into unconsciousness or expire – both of little use to the torturer.
When we teach, both the appreciation of the student's readiness to learn and the design of the lesson have the quality of enough but not too much. The students level of readiness and the appropriate teaching strategy needs to be explored, much as the wiggling finger of pressure on a pressure point seeks first to discover just the right place and then to judge the right level of pressure to bring about the squirming of the victim without causing a complete faint.
With ill-judged application of our teaching methods or incorrect analysis of our students' readiness to learn (another way of describing the Zone of Proximal Development) we will either fail to interest students due to pitching our instruction too low or cause our students to disengage by overwhelming them with expectations of their learning that are far too high.
Teaching is hard and needs to be precise. Much like the torturer we need to study our methods and try some new ways. Just make sure that not too many of your victims expire before you get some learning happening.
Using web filtering as classroom managment
For some reason teachers who ordinarily are comfortable with managing students in their class, find the management of students within a computer area such as a computer lab, extremely demanding. One response to this is that teachers ask for technical staff to block websites citing that the sites are a distraction.
Here is a good response to this issue http://tiny.cc/nTk10.
Within my experience I would say that one of the reasons for students being distracted when in class is due to the trivial and/or unengaging nature of the work that students are set. The cure for this is differentiated learning and the use of powerful questioning techniques. A good reference for this is www.fno.org
Educators coping with or embracing change – attitudes to learning
For part of my Masters course at QUT I am doing a reflective unit. While doing this I wrote the following. It may be of some interest.
"Many educators, for many reasons, often develop coping mechanisms when faced with innovation and/or change in the educational environment. These teachers repackage, resist or sometimes ignore the change, rather than engaging with the thoughts and actions that need to occur. Some have even been known to ignore the changes that are required with the rationale that if they wait long enough the innovation will either be cancelled or the frequent changes that occur in education will mean that eventually the system will revert to the 'old way'. Unfortunately, sometimes these educators are right. Read More


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Craig's IMC Race Report
My Iron-Journey Several years ago I decided that I wanted to complete the Canadian Ironman before I turned 40 in 2010. The Ironman race was conceived by a group of guys sitting around drinking beers in Hawaii who dreamed up a competition to see who was the fittest, the Ironman consists of 3.8km, bike 180km, and run 42.2k. Seeing as this is also my preferred method of setting goals, with beer in hand, I though that this was the event for me.
To enter the Ironman you have to sign up a year in advance so on Aug. 26, 2007 my good friend Aly Leith (who I blame for talking me into doing this a few years early) and I made our way up to Penticton to watch the race and sign up for 2008. When we arrived in Pentincton we were welcomed by the complete frenzy that is the Ironman. Thousands of people were lining the streets to watch the over 2400 athletes competing. Standing at the finish line was one of the most inspiring experiences I have had. People of all ages, shapes, and sizes were arriving into the finish chute. You could see the overwhelming sense of accomplishment each competitor felt as they cross the line.
On the way home from Penticton I started to think on the challenge I had just committed to. What I came up with was a bit disturbing. One – I have not really trained for anything in several years, two- I am 40lbs overweight, three- I have a bad knee, and the most disrupting thought was this – I don't really know how to swim! What the hell am I doing? Is this is going to kill me?
I needed a plan so I started some research. I was happy to find out that most Ironman training programs were 20-24 weeks long and I would not need to start the intense portion of the training till February or March. This being said all the programs that I found clearly stated that you need to be in good condition before you start. I decided that I would commit the fall and winter to developing some base fitness and then hit the ground running (literally) in March.
February 2008. 233lbs, 56min 10k run, swim 100m (with 3 breaks), and knee still not 100% - it bothered me on every ride to date.
I think this says it all, the fall training did not go very well. Liz decided that she wanted to join a tri club to help her prepare for the world triathlon championships and I felt this would be good for me as well. In March we joined the Leading Edge Triathlon Club (LETC). I can still remember the first session with the group. The coaches, Alan and Andrew, looked us over and I could tell that in Liz they saw an elite athlete they were excited to work with and in me a former athlete who has a lot of work ahead. (a few months later Alan admitted to me that they both thought I was crazy to choose the Ironman as my introduction to the sport). The real training began.
August 2008. 195lbs, 44min 10k run, swim 4000m (no breaks), 16km bike time trial average 40kmph, knee 80%.
Phase 2 of my training was coming together. The LETC training program had worked wonders and my conditioning improved dramatically. I felt that I was prepared to take on the Ironman and I finally was confident that I was not going to drown, crash, or collapse on the racecourse.
Saturday August 16 we packed up all our gear and hit the road for Kelowna. Almost the second we hit the highway my body decided that it would fall apart. When we arrived in Kelowna we went to the hospital and I was diagnosed with a strep like virus. The doctor felt that if I were to take the antibiotics needed to clear it up I would suffer side affects that would further prevent me from racing. He suggested that if we let the virus take its own course it may clear my system by the following weekend. Not great news. The week leading up to the Ironman, the final taper, I spent bouncing off the walls in anticipation. My health was slowly improving but I was still not 100%. I realized that all I could do at this point was to show up on race day ready to go and hope for the best.
The Ironman race: 6:30am I make my final wetsuit adjustment and headed to the water. It all hit me at once. Over 2200 wetsuit clad racers surrounded by thousands of screaming fans, a helicopter flying overhead, and media everywhere. Although I had always understood the scope of the event it really did not sink in till then. The atmosphere was amazing. Just before 7 we made our way into the lake, I think the water level must have gone up at lease a bit as we waded to the start line. The cannon shot and we were off . 80min later I trooped back onto the shore having completed the best 3.8km swim in my life. I felt great and made my way to the transition area where I was meet by three wetsuit strippers that literally stripped my suit off in about 2 seconds. A few minutes later I was off on my bike to complete the challenging 180km course. As I am not much of a hill climber I decided that my race plan would be to pedal as controlled and efficiently as I could on the flats and attempt to attack the climbs aggressively. For the first 90km the strategy worked well and I was on my goal pace. Shortly after this point things fell apart. My knee was not happy and I was not able to keep fluids in. I realized that if I was going to finish I was going to have to slow my pace and reset my goal. This really sucked the wind out of my sail but I decided to carry on and try to enjoy the day. 90km of riding in pain followed by hobbling through a marathon may not be everyone's idea of a holiday but it was great.
Making my way around the marathon route I realize what a major, and positive, impact this event has on the Penticton community. People were sitting at the end of their driveway or on their front lawn, in the rain, cheering for every person that raced by. It took me what seemed like forever to get through it but I'm pretty sure I had a smile on my face the whole way. What made the expierience rewarding was the sight of all the familiar faces along the race course who showed up to cheer me on. I would not have kept going without you guys there. Although I was not able to finish in the time I felt capable of and barring the fact that I threw up then collapsed about 10m past the finish line I did finish and I am proud to say that I am now an Ironman.
I really want to thank everyone for all of the amazing support leading up to and on race day. My loving wife Liz, the best training partner ever. Aly for the initial push and the inspiration to race. Kristina, Toby, Ben, Julia (J-Mac), Paige, Kristen (KK), Claire, Michelle, Jack, Nicky, The Leith's, and The LETC peeps for making the journey to Penticton to watch the race (nothing is more inspiring that a familiar face in the crowd). And a big thank you to everyone who sent me texts, emails, followed the race online, or were just thinking of me on race day. Last but not least I want to thank Alan and Andrew for their coaching support, I would not have the progress I did without you.
The Iron-end.


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Questioning the Bible? (with Jonathan Morrow)
Is the Bible racist? Sexist? How do we know the Bible contains the right books? In this episode, Sean interviews adjunct Talbot professor Jonathan Morrow about his book Questioning the Bible. Sean and Jonathan aim to offer answers to the toughest questions people are asking today about the Bible.
Show notes, including a full transcript, are available at: biola.edu/thinkbiblically


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