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Many of the early Swiss Brethren of Reformation times were well educated, and a list of the Brethren in 1526 mentions a doctor and his wife as being among the group. After the persecution the Brethren largely became peasants in more isolated districts with little opportunity for economic advancement or formal schooling. Lack of reference to medical affairs in their writings leads one to suppose that they had little acquaintance with professional medicine. They were acquainted with the violent deaths accorded to martyrs. As farmers they were acquainted with the cause-and-effect relationships of exposure, violence, nutrition, and disease. It is known from family lists that the birth and death rates were high. Midwifery was practiced among them and booklets on this art ascribed to Aristotle and Albertus Magnus were used. As economic and educational opportunities increased during the 19th century the medical history of the Mennonites was similar to that of the European people of their class and location. A significant contribution to medical advance came through the work of Dr. Peter Dettweiler (d. 1904), of Alsatian Mennonite parentage, but resident in Bavaria, who discovered that the cure of tuberoulosis was not dependent on specific locations and thus became the father of the sanatorium movement.
The Hutterites of the 16th century developed medical practice far in advance of their day. They may have had personal contact with Paracelsus. Their surgeons and bathers (barbers) attended the nobility, conducted famous baths in Moravia, and recognized the contagious nature of certain diseases; the Brethren followed sanitary practices and applied principles of child training consonant with modern concepts of mental hygiene. The excellent work of the physician-surgeons played a large part in developing friendly relations between them and the nobility. Their profession was respected and at least one of the bathers, Sebastian Dietrich, became the general overseer of the entire brotherhood. Dabbling in alchemy, on the other hand, was considered highly improper. The contact of the Hutterite surgeons with the nobility tended to cause dissatisfaction with the simplicity of life practiced by the brotherhood. Frequently they drifted away from their brothers. The death, near the end of the 18th century, of the one remaining physician and his apprentice within a week was taken to be a providential sign that they should get along without professional medical care. The Hutterite chronicles record wave after wave of pestilence decimating the settlements. Unlike their neighbors who fled in panic to the forests leaving the sick to die in utter helplessness, the Hutterites nursed their victims of the plague and gave orderly burial to their dead,
In 1874-1877 the Hutterites immigrated to South Dakota and later to Canada. Here they gave their children only elementary school education and did not produce any physicians. However, they availed themselves of the medical facilities of nearby towns. At the middle of the 20th century their birth rate was 45.19 per thousand population and their death rate a mere 4.4, making them one of the most rapidly growing population groups on record. Their colonies have been intensively studied because of a reported low incidence of mental illness. (See further Medicine Among the Hutterites)
The Dutch Mennonites were less isolated and economically and socially more favored than their Swiss brethren. One of their unique institutions, that of the deaconesses, had far-reaching results in the medical world. Theodore Fliedner, a pastor of Kaiserswerth, Germany, received some inspiration for founding his famous institution while visiting among the Mennonites in Holland, although the Dutch deaconesses do not deserve the whole credit. The Mennonite deaconesses of Holland were not nurses but rather women ordained to the office of overseer of the poor and needy. They were important in staffing the projects pioneered by the Dutch Mennonite minister Jan Nieuwenhuizen. These projects included an old ladies' home, orphanages, and a home for feeble-minded children. These deaconesses also furnished the inspiration for an order of Mennonite deaconess nurses in Russia and the United States. (See further Medicine Among the Dutch Mennonites.)
The emigrants from North Germany to Russia (1789-1820) took with them their medical customs and practices. Babies were delivered by midwives. One practitioner recorded the 13,000 deliveries at which she assisted. These women received no particular stipend but were exempt from paying taxes. The mortality rate was high. In the Chortitza settlement, of the 6,874 children born between 1880 and 1922, 2,008 died in infancy and childhood, a rate of nearly 30 per cent. Trained physicians were scarce and only one was reported among the 60 villages of the Molotschna settlement in 1880.
The sense of brotherhood led the Russian Mennonite settlers to provide for the aged and infirm. From early days the feeble-minded, the deaf, and the epileptic inherited twice the amount the healthy siblings received. Such funds were placed in trusteeship and came to have a stabilizing influence in the economy of the community as well as providing for institutional care. By about the end of the 19th century the settlements had old people's homes, orphanages, a school for the deaf, and a hospital for those with nervous diseases including epileptics. To staff these institutions a school for deaconess nurses was opened at Neu-Halbstadt in 1909. The doctors were generally Mennonites who had taken training either in German or Russian universities.
While these institutions were the product of united community action, the first Russian Mennonite hospital was the result of a private venture of faith. Franz Wall, a Mennonite minister, inspired by the noble example of George Müller of Bristol, England, converted his home at Muntau, Molotschna, into a hospital in 1880.
The Mennonites in Russia were interested in helping others in need. One thousand rubles were collected and given to aid wounded soldiers during the Napoleonic invasion. During the Crimean War 5,000 sick and wounded soldiers were transported and cared for in the settlements. As a result of exposure to the diseases of the soldiers, especially dysentery and typhus, a number of the Mennonites died. At the time of the Boxer Rebellion in China 5,000 rubles were sent to the Red Cross to be used for the sick and wounded. In the Russo-Japanese War, in addition to Red Cross support, a group of twenty Mennonite young men volunteered to aid sick and wounded soldiers. Of these, a number died, including a Mennonite doctor. In World War I thousands of Russian Mennonite men served on hospital trains and in special hospitals. Mennonite doctors had responsible positions in these services. This medical service was civilian and staffed by volunteers, who had the legal right to serve in the forestry service. The Zemstwo Union was a civilian organization. (See also Medicine Among the Mennonites in Russia.)
The Mennonites of America were earlier suspicious of the ways of the world in education and science. Hence unscientific means for obtaining cures were often used. Among them was a system of incantations known as "powwowing" or "Braucherei." The formulae used were supposed to have some magic qualities, and were not true prayers as some supposed. References to the Virgin, saints, archangels, and the use of Latin words point to a Catholic origin, possibly pre-Reformation and peasant. Powwowing was frowned upon officially, but was still practiced in the 1950s in a few culturally retarded communities. People in such areas lacked scientific standards of evaluation and tended to patronize irregular practitioners, maintained a belief in magnetism and other devices, and placed reliance on herbs, home remedies, and advertised nostrums. However, since virtually all childbed deliveries now took place in hospitals, and immunization of children was routine, modern medical practices were being fully accepted.
In some Mennonite groups "anointing" based on James 5, has been practiced sporadically. Occasionally, in the mid-20th century, individuals were influenced by the "divine healing" movement, and a few attempted to practice it. However, vigorous counteraction in teaching and discipline prevented any significant spread of the aberration.
In Mennonitism throughout the world missionary work and the rise of hospitals and charitable work was a 19th-century development, sometimes influenced by Pietism, sometimes the natural result of a strong tradition of the ministry of Christian love to the needy, which found expression in service to non-Mennonites after the spirit of isolationism began to break down. The value of medical work became very clear on the missionary field, and the first missionary effort by the Dutch Mennonites in Java and Sumatra soon developed a medical emphasis. With some modification that pattern was typical of Mennonite medical missions, whether in India, pre-Communist China, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the Belgian Congo, or Puerto Rico. It consisted of a hospital center staffed by a medical missionary and missionary nurses, assisted by native workers who assumed more responsibility as they received training. In time a school of nursing developed, and native assistants or even doctors were added to the staff. In addition to the central hospital there were a series of outstations in charge of a missionary nurse or visited on schedule by the missionary doctor. In Asia and Africa a leprosarium was generally added. Missions in South America did not include hospital work because of the governments' policy of excluding foreign doctors.
The first Mennonite hospitals in North America were established in the communities of the Russian immigrants about 1900 and later. The General Conference Mennonites developed nursing schools under the direction of a deaconess order. The Mennonites (MC) did not develop community hospitals so early. The first of their hospitals was an outgrowth of a tuberculosis sanatorium established (1907) as an act of mercy in a non-Mennonite community. It was owned by their board of missions. In the mid-20th century this board began operating a number of community hospitals whose constituency was not primarily Mennonite. The two nursing schools of the group were under the general Board of Education and one of the schools was of the collegiate type. It was estimated that there were about 1,000 Mennonite nurses in North America in the 1950s. Among them are a number of male nurses.
In earlier days it was unusual to see a Mennonite physician. Family histories reveal that the physicians who came from Mennonite homes often did not remain members of the church. A study in 1947 revealed that one third of the doctors from such homes were no longer Mennonites. Most of these transferred membership after starting practice and attributed the change to a "broadening" viewpoint, or learning to appreciate other religious views and becoming less dogmatic. Fully half of these physicians did not practice in Mennonite communities, explaining that these lacked cultural or educational opportunities, or that some Mennonites were unscientific, patronized quacks, and were generally unappreciative of a physician's services. A Mennonite Medical Association was founded to help in correcting this difficulty.
World War II had a great effect on Mennonite medical affairs. The reservoir of doctors, nurses, and medical auxiliaries was tapped by the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to carry on the medical phase of its relief work throughout the world. Fifteen hundred men drafted to Civilian Public Service worked in mental hospitals as aides, and about 170 women volunteered to do similar work. Other young people worked in general hospitals, veterans' hospitals, in public health and sanitation, hookworm and typhus control, or in health education. Others were used as "guinea pigs" in scientific investigations on typhus, pneumonia, infectious hepatitis, nutrition or metabolism experiments. Similar experience was continued after the war in the "I-W" and voluntary services programs.
One of the results of this experience has been an increased interest in mental health. The MCC established three mental hospitals between 1945 and 1955, and a fourth was under consideration. Another mental hospital was sponsored by the Lancaster Conference (MC) and yet another in Ontario is sponsored by the Mennonite Brethren group. These institutions represented pioneer experiments in the value of personal service religiously oriented, combined with a restful rural atmosphere.
Sickness insurance was a relatively new phenomenon on the American scene. The brotherhood has always had an alms fund in the care of the deacon, and the community often turned out en masse to do the season's farm work of the sick or injured member. It is interesting to note that there existed a Beneficial Society in the Franconia (MC) district as early as 1888 and that they paid sickness benefits. In 1902 the Menno-Friendly Beneficial Association was formed at the First Mennonite Church (GCM) in Philadelphia for the purpose of giving relief "to members who shall be confined to their homes by reason of sickness or disability or accident." Local efforts were illustrated by the Health Society of Yarrow, BC, organized in 1935. This group contracted for medical care by a Mennonite doctor for $12.00 per year for each member's family. A similar plan was sponsored by the Health Society of Coaldale, Alberta. A more extensive movement took place in the Mennonite Church (MC). As a result of official conference action Mennonite Aid, Inc., was authorized in 1949 to set up a plan for payment of hospital and surgical benefits. At the beginning of 1955 it had over 5,000 members.
In Europe Mennonites normally took advantage of the state medical insurance plans, such as the German and Swiss Krankenkasse.
The Mennonites of Mexico and South America have had special medical problems. Since the Mexican group migrated seeking isolation, it was not surprising that they were not aware that their health and sanitary practices were poor and their medical care inadequate, being limited largely to the ministrations of the bonedoctors (Knochenärzte), midwives, and such patent medicines as could be purchased at the village stores. Knowledge of nutrition was meager. Milk was sold for cash rather than consumed by the family. Sanitary installations were scarce. Immunization was not practiced and the childhood diseases, especially enteritis, took a heavy toll. Villages might be 40 to 50 miles from a doctor and almost as far from a telephone. The MCC relief services offered in various ways to assist in raising the health standards, but difficulty with government regulations and the attitudes of the settlers made it necessary to abandon the clinics. In 1954 plans were under way to have the MCC administer a local hospital in Cuauhtemoc.
The Brazilian immigrant group of 1930 included trained nurses and others who had some elemental knowledge of medicine, but no doctor. Medical services had to be obtained at a hospital 40 miles distant until Dr. Peter Dyck from Russia and his wife, a trained nurse, arrived to establish a hospital in Witmarsum. This medical work was supported financially by the Dutch Mennonites. The colonists had their own dental clinic. When the Witmarsum colony was abandoned this hospital passed out of Mennonite hands.
In many ways the most difficult health problems were presented by Paraguay. The settlers included those from Canada in search of isolation, Russian refugees stranded in Europe but refused admittance to Canada often because of trachoma or tuberculosis, and refugees from Siberia long stranded in Harbin, China. When the Canadian group arrived in 1928 about one tenth died on the way into the Chaco from dysentery and typhus. The Paraguayan government offered free immunizations against typhoid, but only a few immigrants took advantage of this. The Harbin group, too, was decimated by an epidemic of scarlet fever. Medical care was inadequate. Practical nurses and midwives did what they could. Because of poor roads and great distances the Paraguayan doctors were almost inaccessible. The MCC sent Dr. John R. Schmidt, and later his wife, a trained nurse, to bring medical aid. Dr. Schmidt found that 75 per cent had trachoma and about 50 per cent had hookworm. Rickets and tuberculosis of the bone were common. Hookworm control was initiated and trachoma was treated with the sulfa drugs. An adequate hospital was built to supersede the old clay-floored dispensary. A small mental hospital was erected. A North American surgeon, a dentist, and an eye specialist spent terms of various lengths giving their specialized services. A school of nursing was set up, and colonists were trained in pharmacy, anesthesia, and other auxiliaries. Promising young men were sent to Asuncion or abroad to learn medicine and young women to learn nursing. Thus a most difficult problem gave way to relentless will backed up by the world-wide resources of the Mennonite brotherhood. Several European non-Mennonite doctors were employed by the Paraguayan settlements, particularly Fernheim. In 1954 the first Mennonite doctor, a son of Fernheim but trained in the United States, began practice in the Friesland colony.
It is typical that a leprosarium was to be established in gratitude to Paraguay for offering a new home and a new outlook on life, to be jointly operated by the MCC and the Mennonite settlements with considerable financial assistance by the American Mission to Lepers. Instead of the leprosarium as originally planned, however, a series of clinics was set up, where ambulatory treatment was emphasized. (See Paraguay Mission to Lepers.) -- H. Clair Amstutz
See also Medicine Among the Hutterites; Medicine Among the Dutch Mennonites; Medicine Among the Mennonites in Russia; Paraguay Mission to Lepers.
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Frank H. Epp writes of Mennonites in Canada, "Every cluster of neighbors boasted a midwife and a bone-setter ready, willing, and able to attend to those medical needs which tea could not cure" (Mennonites in Canada, I, 87). While Epp speaks here of the early Canadian Mennonites, it is a picture that was quite generally relevant to the more conservative Mennonites of Europe and the Americas until the mid-20th century.
There were exceptional medical people among Mennonites from the beginning. This was so in Holland, Switzerland, Prussia, and Russia. Some made outstanding leadership contributions. The Hutterites were well ahead of how others might have regarded them in medicine, particularly dentistry. Dutch Mennonites moved rapidly in deaconess services and training. In Russia the medical concern led quickly to institutions for the mentally ill, the aged, the orphaned, etc.
The movement toward more professionalized medicine did find much opposition among many dedicated Anabaptists and Mennonites from the outset. One can only speculate why there is evidence of seemingly spectacular advances and leadership from the beginning in Europe, yet parallel evidence of a strong commitment to natural healing with herbal treatments, chiropractic manipulation, and the occasional "anointing" according to the Bible. It may be that Anabaptists became a persecuted group, it became difficult to train further professionals and their reliance on cures closer to "nature" became natural. It can also be argued that a few professionals did remain among Mennonites.
Perhaps because the early Mennonite immigrants to America from the less-educated and more conservative groups, medicine had to begin over again. Even when in Russia it became clear that not all students wanted to study for education or agriculture careers, the next step was to set up a business college (Kommerzschule). Mennonites had become a people of the land who believed in strong, fairly "closed" communities. To keep these going, young people were encouraged to train for service to maintain these.
Medicine became one of the built-in features in North American Mennonite communities: "From what we've been told by our mothers and grandmothers, we are convinced that there were few ailments that they did not try to remedy in one way or another.... The remedies... included items such as salt, vinegar, goose grease, sour cream, bran, and even the lowly onion, to mention only a few... After the village store became an established part of the community, such items as apodoldac, wonder oil, 'russisches Schlagwasser', electric oil and a few other patent medicines soon became an integral part of the stock of medicines that were stored in the corner cupboard" (Tina H. Peters, in Mennonite memories, 240). Frank H. Epp also reminds us that, even in North America, some of the Reiseprediger (itinerant ministers) would dispense medicine (Mennonites in Canada, I, 295).
But it did not take long for Mennonites in North America to start pursuing medicine as a field of study. At first they usually did not come back to their home communities to practice. They often found their broadened thinking unacceptable to some of the closed thinking about healing and other "worldly" matters. So they initially were largely lost to the Mennonite churches.
The major turnaround came with World War II. Through Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) involvements in world relief work, doctors and nurses suddenly were in demand. Anybody in medicine was welcomed to help and often these people were asked to provide models for new endeavors. Especially significant was the government's willingness to let mental health services be an acceptable alternative service for conscientious objectors. Suddenly the Mennonite people in medicine were even in demand to help develop more humane ways to deal with mental illness.
When the war ended, this impact on Mennonite medicine did not end. To provide for bridge-building so that Mennonite physicians would no longer feel a need to leave Mennonite communities, the Mennonite Medical Association was formed in 1944. Already in 1942 the Mennonite Nurses Association had been founded.
There was, as usual, a mix of reasons for both groups. Not only the new mental health frontier, but also the longstanding involvement in medical missions on foreign field, were beckoning for the services of dedicated physicians and nurses. Once mission executives and missionaries saw the plight of millions in the underdeveloped countries, the old Mennonite vision for wholistic care came to the fore. Medicine, education and conversion needed to serve together. At the same time, the newly identified challenges in mental health care made profound impressions on Mennonite medicine. Many Mennonites entered specialized fields of medical practice and research related to mental health. Others became teachers in the field.
In the 1980s, in North America, like almost everywhere that Mennonites live in the world (there are exceptions in isolated places to which Mennonites have recently emigrated), medicine is a highly respected and even a sought-after profession and vocation.
In 1986 the Mennonite Medical Association (MMA) had a membership of well over 500 physicians from the United States and Canada. These people voluntarily contribute funds annually to give financial aid to medical students interested in a student elective term in a cross-cultural setting. This is done to broaden medical training and is usually carried out in conjunction with mission agencies and MCC so that these students may also get a feel for missionary medicine. in addition, the MMA sponsored the Mennonite Medical Messenger (into which The Christian nurse had been integrated) since 1949, a quarterly publication to promote Christian health care. It had a subscriber list of nearly 2,000 names. The MMA has also initiated and participated in special research consortiums on special medical issues, and has initiated medical exchanges with Mennonites from other countries.
While the MMA has been strongest among Mennonites in eastern North America (largely MC) and has been quite strong across the United States, many Canadian Mennonite physicians identify more with the Christian Medical Association (CMA) than the MMA.
The Mennonite Nurses Association (MNA) had about 500 members in 1987 and has aggressively encouraged nurses to serve overseas and in other need settings. Divided into chapters, they provide scholarships for urgent research and for students coming from needy settings, and they make supplies available for nursing education in developing countries. The MMA and MNA jointly hold an annual Mennonite Medical Convention that usually draws 200-300 practicing health care professional people. At the March 1987, Mennonite Health Association annual convention, it was estimated that about 6,000 Mennonites in North America were, at that time, directly involved in medicine as physicians and nurses.
In 1987 Mennonites were found on all the fronts of medicine: genetic research, surgeries of all kinds, textbook writing, teaching, administration, and bioethics. Their emphasis is frequently seen as a refreshing foray into the current emphasis on preventive medicine rather than total immersion in curative medicine. They were also found at the front lines with those who wanted to emphasize total wellness of people where body, soul, mind and emotions were regarded as one whole being.
When a special section at the 1984 Mennonite World Conference in Strasbourg, France, was given over to health care, about 40 people assembled from a variety of countries. All spoke enthusiastically about Mennonite involvement in this broader area, and also identified deep commitments to encouraging future Mennonite participation in all the critical areas related to medicine. -- Bernie Wiebe
Mennonite Medical Messenger (1949-1998)
Mennonite Health Journal (1999- )
Epp, Frank H. Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: a People's Struggle for Survival. Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1982, index under "medicine."
Klippenstein, Lawrence and Julius G. Toews, eds. Mennonite Memories: Settling in Western Canada. Winnipeg: Centennial Publications, esp. 235-47.
Klaassen, Walter. "The Anabaptist Tradition," in R. L. Numbers and D. W. Amundsen, Caring and Curing. Macmillan 1986: 271-287.
Peters, Frank C. "Noncombatant Service Then and Now." Mennonite Life 10 (January 1955): 31-35.
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Amstutz, H. Clair and Bernie Wiebe. "Medicine." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1989. Web. 16 Dec 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Medicine&oldid=140975.
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Amstutz, H. Clair and Bernie Wiebe. (1989). Medicine. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 December 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Medicine&oldid=140975.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, pp. 550-553; vol. 5, pp. 551-552. All rights reserved.
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we have won 22 and we have 2 more secured(second Berlin and Eurasia). so we need 5 wins in remaining games. we should get 2 from Charleston and Xmas(both arent decided but we have significant advantage), we need to win both tied games(Stalingrad and Feudal Epic) and we need to turn around at least one game where we are significantly behind(FNA, Random(Australia), D-Day and eastern front are 4 games where we still have some chance)...
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you havent won it yet, and i dont think you will win it at all.
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They're free. They're high-quality. So why aren't open educational resources catching on in the state of Washington, which launched and subsidized — with the help of the Gates Foundation — a statewide effort to provide free and reduced-cost learning materials to college students?
Thirty-four institutions in the Washington Community and Technical College system were selected to offer Open Course Library materials in 42 courses per campus, encompassing a total of 2,722 sections. OCL materials are managed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. The materials available to the campuses included both free and open educational resources and reduced-cost commercial materials.
A report that involved a survey of 25 of those campuses found that only 2.8 percent of the 2,722 course sections from those 25 campuses (75 sections) used OCL materials and that just 2.4 percent of students enrolled in the selected courses in those 25 campuses participated in the sections that were actually using those materials during the first phase of the program. That's 2,386 out of 98,130 eligible students. (Information about adoption rates at the remaining nine campuses is not available. It's also worth noting that not all of the campuses offered all of the courses that were part of the OCL.)
Further, only nine of the 25 campuses reported they had at least one course that was using OCL materials. Of those, only 21 percent were using "open educational resources that are free to students online,... while 79 percent of OCL class sections utilized commercial material that had an average cost of $25 for the materials."
The report was put together by OnCampus Research, which is part of the National Association of College Stores.
"I think the data underscores what college store course material specialists experience every day — to secure greater change whether it's adopting lower cost course materials, ensuring greater utilization of what is assigned (which would solve a huge part of the problem of perceived value) and ensuring earlier adoption submissions which is perhaps the greatest way to lower costs requires significant and sustained campus engagement from all corners of the institution," said Richard Hershman, vice president of government relations for the NACS. Hershman, who is currently out on leave, communicated with Campus Technology via e-mail. "College stores on many campuses have attempted to do this through promoting the establishment of inclusive course material advisory committees and annual reporting and securing strong admin and faculty senate support. I think the state system also recognizes this and has sought additional state funding to support more campus-based approaches."
He added that the low adoption rate was not unexpected and that it does not indicate a failure on the part of the OCL program.
"I don't think this data suggests the program is a failure. Quite the contrary: Students in the sections where OCL materials are being used have seen lower costs for those classes."
He said it was more surprising to find that only nine of the 25 eligible campuses had adopted OCL materials to any degree.
He cited a few potential factors for the low adoption rate based on open-ended questions from the survey:
"Some stores indicated students still prefer print and much of what was rolled out in OCL has been custom digital or digital collections. That could be impacting faculty adoptions," he said. "The other thing we have picked up on is the system so far has not done that much with working with the campus stores on this initiative and have primarily focused elsewhere [primarily libraries] and they may find the campus store staff experience invaluable if they do engage and support them. A more campus collaborative stakeholder approach may help move the goals of the program forward and also find more sustainable models that work for individual campuses and their unique needs and student populations."
Hershman added that in phase 2, data for which has not yet been compiled into a report, OER adoption was higher, particularly in language classes.
"For the first time since the launch of the program we have better data on the adoption rate of the identified materials in the statewide initiative where it's getting used and what is getting used. There was plenty of anecdotal information to suggest a relatively low adoption rate, but this data should help the state system better assess where they are now and where they may need to focus on," Hershman said.
Hershman said the raw adoption data from the survey will be released in order to address questions that have come up since the report's publication. Those data may be available as early as this week.
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Aleena Gichie is a charitable giving advisor for CNEWA in New York.
"In the church and in the journey of faith, women … have a special role in opening the doors to the Lord." So observed our new Holy Father, Pope Francis. And it sure is true here at the Catholic Near East Welfare Association! Women make CNEWA work. So I want to take a moment to share my appreciation for the women of CNEWA.
First are the sisters who do God's work in the places we serve. For example, Sister Belaynesh in Ethiopia. She runs a Catholic school that serves the poorest of the poor. But her children receive a quality education and free meals to sustain them, thanks to her careful stewardship. I marvel at how she stretches every penny into a nickel and every nickel into a dime for the sake of her children. Sister Belaynesh doesn't have much, but she is creative. Some of her classrooms are built from old shipping containers.
There are also the women who work in the nine CNEWA offices around the world. Perhaps the best known was Sister Christian Molidor, R.S.M., who has been a part of our family for many years. You probably saw her photos and stories in ONE magazine or read the emails she used to send. Sister Christian is now retired, but not without blessing us with her gifts — both on paper and in person. My prayers and gratitude are forever with her.
Eileen Fay is another wonderful woman of CNEWA. You may have had the pleasure of speaking with Eileen if you have ever called our New York office. She is a donor relations representative who has worked with us for more than 50 years. Eileen recently retired. Yet she didn't leave us — she continues to support the mission of CNEWA by very generously volunteering three days a week.
Last but not least are the women who are reading this blog post — our donors! You deserve a special "thank you," for you are the ones who make possible our great work. With your help, CNEWA and our partners, like Sister Belaynesh, are able to do far more good. God bless you and all of the women in our family. You are making it a better world for all!
To learn about some of the other great women working with CNEWA, check out this video. And to find out how you can help keep their work going, visit this giving page.
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Norma Intriago is a fundraiser in the development office of CNEWA in New York.
With so many war orphans in her care, Sister Maria worries how she can feed them all. But today, thanks to you, she has hope. Hope for the neediest children in Iraq — and all of her sisters serving the poor in CNEWA's world.
May God bless every single one of you who made a generous gift to our Celebrating Women campaign. You may remember a special benefactor of CNEWA pledged to match you dollar-for-dollar. I'm writing to tell you the promise was kept. The power of your generosity has been doubled!
Sister Maria isn't the only beneficiary of your gift. Another is Sister Ayelech. She runs a humble Catholic school in Ethiopia that I visited. Her school is a home-away-from-home for some very poor children. I witnessed how she stretches every dollar so it really counts.
It was summer when I visited. School was out and some of the children had no one to watch after them. With almost no money, Sister Ayelech created her own "summer school." She turned simple mattresses into a fun gymnasium. Thread and needles became crafts class.
Sister Ayelech even rescued discarded sewing machines from a local dump. These were transformed into an opportunity for jobless mothers to earn money to care for their families — and earn another valuable currency: hope.
With you standing behind them, Sister Ayelech and Sister Maria can continue serving the poor and witnessing to the Gospel in some of the poorest places on earth.
On behalf of all the religious women with whom CNEWA partners, I thank you for your celebration gift. And remember: you didn't give just one gift. With the dollar-for-dollar match, you gave two. Be sure the sisters will double their grateful prayers to God for you.
And if you haven't had a chance to participate in our Celebrate Women campaign, don't worry. You still have time. Click here by Saturday to double your gift to religious women and the poor whom they serve.
Oh, and one more piece of great news: You inspired yet another benefactor of CNEWA to offer an additional matching gift challenge — $50,000 for the formation of novice sisters. You'll hear more about it soon. Until then, thanks again!
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We've profiled the amazing work of the Nirmala Dasi Sisters in ONE magazine numerous times over the years. Earlier this month, CNEWA President, Msgr. John Kozar, had the opportunity to meet with some of these women and see first-hand the "thankless" work they do on behalf of society's destitute and unwanted, including single mothers, persons with Hansen's disease and the mentally ill in Kerala. In the November 2010 issue of ONE, Peter Lemieux reported on the great work of these sisters on behalf of children and adults with H.I.V/AIDS at the Grace Home in Trichur, India:
With the school-age children gone, a quiet falls upon the grounds of Grace Home — that is until a 2-year-old boy noisily pushes his pintsize tricycle across the facility's marble floor. The tricycle plays an electronic version of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Energetic and healthy — in fact, rather pudgy — the boy first came to Grace Home in 2009 covered in scabies and looking lean, says Sister Lisi, who calls him simply Chakara, or "sweetie" in the local Malayalam language.
"He would cry all day and all night," she says. "Maybe he was thinking about his mother — she lost her mind and lived with Chakara in the Kuttippuram Railway Station, taking him here and there. Or maybe he feared he was going to be given away.
"He's in good condition right now," boasts Sister Lisi, adding that Chakara's CD4 count is high, at more than 800. "He doesn't need ARTs."
Chakara's attachment to Sister Lisi is unmistakable. He clutches her habit at the knees. She picks him up and puts him back down. He pushes the tricycle around some more and then into her feet. Sister Lisi ignores him. Chakara gets fussy and she picks him up again.
"At his age, he needs a mother's concern and love," says Sister Lisi. "I feel like I've been appointed his mother. Now he's getting so much love. I don't know how much love I have to give, but whatever I have I give."
Sister Lisi's love and devotion are characteristic of the Nirmala Dasi Sisters. All 300 of its members, including 50 devoted to persons living with H.I.V./AIDS, "care for those who nobody else will care for," says Msgr. Vilangadan.
The Nirmala Dasi Sisters care for society's destitute and unwanted, including single mothers, persons with Hansen's disease and the mentally ill in Kerala, Mumbai and as far away as Kenya. But no matter where they serve, says Msgr. Vilangadan, "they must be witnessing. We must show how Christ lived and show the kind of person he was — humble, poor, hardworking, striving to save the souls of the poor and sick. Our life must be an extension of Christ's life."
To learn how you can help CNEWA continue to support courageous sisters like the Nirmala Dasi Sisters, visit our "Celebrating Women" campaign on Causes. There is still time to give to our March matching challenge in honor of these women and others like them in the countries CNEWA serves.
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Today is U.N. World Water Day and in many of the countries CNEWA serves, there is a water crisis of some sort to which we have responded. We recently wrote about CNEWA's efforts in helping with Lebanon's water supply crisis.
There are similar problems in India. In Kerala usually the women and girls of the family have to travel a mile or more on foot from their homes in order to retrieve gallons of clean drinking water. CNEWA has funded water tanks in many villages in Kerala, in order to eliminate such a burden. Just this month, CNEWA President Msgr. John Kozar was able to witness firsthand the positive impact these tanks have had on the people of Kerala:
Besides construction projects and renovations at the parish proper, CNEWA has been instrumental in helping the people of this parish to improve the quality of life by assisting in the building of substantial houses and water holding tanks. The area is very mountainous. Normally the rains come with great force and cause annual flooding, mudslides and loss of soil. With the water tanks, they now can break out of the cycle of being inundated by floods or suffering from drought.
After a most moving and loving visit with the parishioners at the church hall, we headed out with the pastor to a much more remote area of the parish. We saw firsthand the dynamic difference a new durable house can make for the poor and how having a controlled supply of water gives the cycle of life new meaning. We had some very steep climbs to arrive at these sites, but the recipients of our charity were beaming to show us their new homes and their water catchment systems. Thanks to you for giving them this new dignity through your kind donations over the years! CNEWA has funded over 40 such water tanks just in 2011 alone. Over the years, hundreds of families have benefitted from CNEWA's water tanks in this part of India.
To learn more about Kerala's water woes, read Rain Rich, Water Poor in the May 2010 issue of ONE.
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Last December, during his pastoral visit to the Holy Land, CNEWA President Msgr. John Kozar had a chance to visit with Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena at their clinic in Jordan. These sisters — whose provincial house is in Iraq — staff hospitals, orphanages and schools for those still in Iraq and those Iraqis displaced throughout the Middle East. They do not turn their backs on the people, and the dire circumstances in Iraq seem to drive them to want to do more. Last August we were able to catch up with a few Dominican Sisters visiting the U.S. and gain some insight into this fearless congregation of sisters:
Your community lost its mother house to the violence.
Sister Diana Moneka: Yes, it was bombed several times. But God was with us. When they bombed our mother house the first time, the missile fell on a bedroom where four sisters were sleeping. It was 1:30 a.m. They couldn't escape. Pressure from the fire prevented them from opening the door. A sister sleeping down the hall eventually got them out. The sisters were so shocked, but after a while they felt the presence of God. They realized, "We're still alive because of God."
How is morale among the sisters?
Sister Maria: They are very down and frustrated. Whenever there is some activity and work, and they're busy and producing, they are happy. But sometimes, they get very frustrated.
Sister Diana: We're walking with people step by step, every day. Wherever there is a bomb, we're with the victims. Caring for traumatized people is a very difficult task, because their trauma wears off on you. Coming back home, if you don't have a big community that supports you, the spiritual and psychological parts are very hard.
We've lost lots of family. I lost my brother. Five years ago, he was shot. One sister, two of her nephews were kidnapped and disappeared. Another, her nephew disappeared and they have heard nothing about him. It's been almost five years now. We're trying to help people and at the same time dealing with our own trauma.
Sister Maria: In the past six years, we have not had one meeting with all the sisters together. We used to have them at the mother house. This is very difficult for the sisters, because we can't unite together. We want to build a new mother house. We have the property and the blueprints, but we do not have the money.
Click here to read more of our interview with the sisters.
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Beth Clausnitzer is CNEWA's director of Donor Services.
While planning CNEWA's campaign to celebrate women in the church with my colleagues, I found my emotional focus being pulled in two directions: the tireless work of the religious sisters who devote their lives to helping others, and the lay women who support their missions, either directly or indirectly. Mercy Sister Christian Molidor and Megan Knighton have shared their thoughts on the work of the sisters. Now, I would like to share my thoughts on the work of laywomen.
To outsiders, it appears that laywomen make smaller sacrifices than women in religious life in service to God. A sacrifice, however, is still a sacrifice and it should never be undervalued. Time that is devoted to working with the poor, assisting with fundraising or simply volunteering to clean the church hall following a social event — all of it counts.
Every day, I look around CNEWA's office and see women who could easily earn a larger salary in the secular business world, yet they choose to earn less knowing their sacrifice serves the greater good. Many times I've stepped into the elevator — our offices are located in the Terence Cardinal Cooke Center, home of the Archdiocese of New York — and have overheard conversations that ranged from possible solutions for solving technical problems to soothing words of encouragement being given to an immigrant who had sought asylum to avoid religious persecution in his homeland. The range of work that lay women do for the church is broad and never-ending.
I'm proud to be counted among these women. From this office worker living in New York City to all of the women of the church around the world, I celebrate you, your strength, your dedication, your contribution and your love.
For more posts related to our Celebrating Women initiative, click here.
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Today, many Roman Catholics celebrate the feast day of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus. There are numerous religious orders and charities that bear this saint's name — including St. Joseph's Orphanage, a home for girls run by the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel in Kerala. The girls' parents are unable to support them financially, so St. Joseph's affords them better opportunities and hope for their future. In the September 2005 issue of ONE, Paul Wachter wrote about this home named after the saint:
While it is true that nearly all the "orphans" at St. Joseph's have parents, the opportunities available to them at the orphanage and affiliated schools offer the young women better lives, the sisters said. "Otherwise there would be even less opportunities for the girls," said Sister Priscilla Anna. Through the schooling at the orphanage and the after-school program, the sisters believe they are breaking a cycle.
"Our goal is to see all our girls with a good job and/or a good husband," Sister Priscilla Anna said. "That way, when they have children, they will be able to present them with better opportunities than their parents offered them."
For more, read St. Joseph's 'Orphans'. To learn how you can support girls like the residents of St. Joseph's Orphanage — and the work of religious sisters like that of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel — join us as we "Celebrate Women" this month through a matching gift campaign that supports this admirable work. You can also join our community on Causes.com to share your appreciation for women and sisters!
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In 2009, we interviewed Sister Winifred Doherty, a member of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, about empowering women in Ethiopia. She stressed the importance of knowledge as a tool of empowerment. Having access to education provides the opportunity for success and prosperity. Though Catholics are a minority in Ethiopia, Catholic-run schools are making a difference. Take a look at our interview with Sister Winifred Doherty below:
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Megan Knighton is a Major Gifts Officer for CNEWA.
When I was 21, I spent the summer working in India with a group of sisters and lay women. I had never traveled that far from home and I remember being petrified hovering over the Pacific Ocean on my 24-hour flight to Chennai. I was going to work for the Christian Council of Social Services, an ecumenical organization dedicated to eradicating poverty, improving healthcare and supporting workers' and women's rights. It has also partnered with CNEWA. Idealistic and young, I had big ideas about what people needed. I wanted to help implement various on-the-ground models for improving the lives and dignity of the poor, particularly women. But what I learned on that trip was far more than just practical and effective ways to deliver humanitarian care.
It's amazing how much of my life as a middle-class, American woman is embedded in privilege. I can wake up every morning and take a warm shower, go to my kitchen and have a cup of tea and an English muffin, take the subway to my 9-to-5 job and sit in my cubicle reaching out to donors and feeling good about my contribution to the world. I have acollege degree, in fact a graduate degree. I have insurance and access to quality healthcare whenever I need it. I can facebook and tweet all day if I want to from my office computer, my Blackberry, or my laptop at home. I can go to sleep at night assured that my neighborhood is, for the most part, safe and protected. I am, generally speaking, a very blessed woman.
What I experienced in India was a little different. The word that best captures the spirit of Chennai is contrast. Modern art museums next to shanty towns. Mercedes driving next to ox-carts. Educated, female business owners walkingnext to poor prostitutes. One woman I worked with summed it up rather succinctly: "In America, women wear mini-skirts, they go out on the town, they have choices. But it is here, in India, where we have some of the most educated women in the world, while the poor women suffer from one of the highest rates of H.I.V./AIDS in the world." That is a chilling contrast.
The sisters and women I met and worked with in Chennai understand the reality of poverty, H.I.V., depression, addiction and domestic violence that afflicts their community. But this doesn't stop them from using their incredible strength, creativity and energy to help. They labor every day to ensure that the rights and privileges they've worked so hard to obtain are protected. They devote their lives to ensuring that families are cared for and well fed, and that children are immunized. They teach women skills to work and support their families. Theyhelp men overcome alcoholism and depression through empowerment workshops and retreats. This is the power of women to change their communities for the better.
I left India with a deeper appreciation for what religious women and men have done to allow me to have the privileges and freedoms I now enjoy. I also came away with a deep reverence for the sacrifices of those women I worked with who truly understand the power of kindness and perseverance to change the world. Let's celebrate these women!
To learn more about the sister pictured above, check out our interview below with photojournalist Peter Lemieux. He told us about his experience working with the Nirmala Dasi Sisters in Mumbai, while reporting the July 2011 story, 'Slumdog' Sisters for ONE.
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In May of 2010 we were introduced to Sally, a lovely young Iraqi refugee in Jordan, by Sister Wardeh of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary. Sister Wardeh, a good friend and warrior for CNEWA, has worked with displaced Iraqis since the first Persian Gulf War in 1991. Sally's story was especially poignant: this vibrant 19-year-old woman was battling cancer. Her chemotherapy was no longer working and she needed expensive surgery. CNEWA friends were able to rally behind Sally and her family. We raised $15,000 in one day to pay for her surgery. That gave Sally the precious gift of life, and the blessing of time.
Sadly, the time was short. We heard some sad news from Sister Wardeh recently: after a brave battle against the disease, Sally had "gone home to God." We remember Sally and her family in our prayers, and we also remember those who cared for her so lovingly — people like Sister Wardeh. We are so thankful she introduced us to Sally — and thankful, too, that our CNEWA family was able to pull together and help her when she needed it most.
Join us this month as we celebrate the work of sisters like Sister Wardeh in the lives of women like Sally.
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In his blog today, Andrew Perloff talked about the leading candidates for MVP this year in the NFL. He spoke of Brady, Romo, Randy Moss and Terrell Owens. He makes a solid argument that Brady and Romo have both been helped significantly by the additions of Moss and Owens to their teams. He makes the point that the Moss/Owens effects can cause defenses to avoid blitzing/being aggressive which can give Brady and Romo lots of extra time to throw (not to mention being able to throw behind terrific offensive lines). Watching the Buffalo game Sunday night, I'm not sure I've ever seen a quarterback have more time to throw than Brady. I could quarterback for New England – have all day to throw, close my eyes, then puke up a hail mary pass that Moss could catch.
Now, I don't want to act like Brady himself hasn't had an unreal season because he has. In fact, I actually agree with the argument saying his stats alone close the case. And, I also tend to agree with those who state this may be the greatest QB performance in a season ever. Also, I'm not forgetting the impressive year by Wisconsin's Tony Romo. But I have a real problem with Favre being left out of any MVP discussion to this point. There is more to MVP consideration than stats.
Favre is quarterbacking the youngest team (or now the second youngest because apparently Favre's age skews it) in the league. He is doing all of this with a second year head coach and coaching staff. He is doing all of this with 3 novice offensive linemen, young receivers, an inexperienced RB crew and one tight end. He is not quarterbacking a team loaded with Super Bowl veterans and other veteran all-pros who know how to win. He is not quarterbacking for a coach with tons of experience (both Belichick and Phillips). And importantly, he's not quarterbacking in a system with which he is totally familiar – he's still learning it. Sure, Favre is not doing this alone, as other players have stepped up including a tough, young defense. But Favre's play this year has been a marvel – think of his NFL-leading number of 40+ yard pass plays and how perfectly thrown some of those balls have been. He doesn't have Randy Moss jumping up and turning interceptions into touchdowns. And I would argue that Favre's charge coming into this season was far more challenging than Brady's or Romo's. Favre having the Packers 9-1 at this point is more impressive to me than Brady's 10-0 and Romo's 9-1. Again, Brady would get my MVP vote if the season ended today, but Favre MUST be in the discussion.


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Let's face it: even the most resilient, robust, and secure storage sites, located above ground or even underground, could potentially be exposed, in a certain degree, to all kinds of disasters that may temporarily or indefinitely halt the site operation. This could be an extreme weather condition or natural disaster (hurricane, tornado, earthquake, etc.), a prolonged and unplanned interruption of power supply (power grid or power station failure), an accident, act of war, cyberattack, and who knows what else – God forbid…
Enterprises that rely on non-stop, continuous, and unbreakable access to data, as well as on the ability to keep existing data integrity in parallel to on-going update/writing operations at the highest possible standards, must have disaster prevention and recovery mechanisms in place, ready to be used at any point in time.
Enterprise-class storage systems, such as IBM XIV Gen3, IBM FlashSystem A9000, and IBM FlashSystem A9000R, provide advanced site mirroring capabilities, either synchronous or asynchronous, including 3-site mirroring for XIV Gen3, and HyperSwap for FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R. These native underlying replication and high availability (HA) technologies allow these IBM storage systems to serve not only conventional hosts and clusters, but also virtual machines in VMware and Microsoft cloud environments, as well as OpenStack cloud nodes.
Virtual machines duplicates can be deployed at a secondary backup site, together with the backup storage systems to serve those sites.
- In a Microsoft Azure environment, automatic failover to the backup or primary site is natively supported by the storage system, by using Microsoft Azure Site Recovery.
- In a VMware environment, virtual machines can be recovered by using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) together with the IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), which also supports – starting from version 3.0.0 – HyperSwap operations.
- OpenStack high availability configurations are also supported.
For detailed information about employing HyperSwap for VMware and Microsoft environments, refer to the IBM Redpaper: 'IBM HyperSwap for IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R'. Additional data protection scenarios are described in this IBM Redpaper: 'IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R Business Continuity Solutions'.


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CBS aired a taped interview with Ray Lewis before the Super Bowl, and Lewis had an odd answer when asked about the 2000 double-murder that continues to dog his legacy.
Some background: Lewis was found guilty of obstruction of justice in connection with two murders outside an Atlanta nightclub in 2000. SB Nation has a full rundown of the case if you want the complete details.
On CBS, Shannon Sharpe asked Lewis what he would say to the families of the two victims. Lewis talked about the infallibility of God and mentioned that the criminal justice system is broken.
Here's the transcript:
CBS: "What would you like to say to the family?"
LEWIS: "It's simple: God has never made a mistake. That's just who he is, you see. If our system — and this is the sad thing about our system — if our system took the time to really investigate what happened 13 years ago, maybe they would have gotten to the bottom line. But the saddest thing ever is a man looked me in my face and told me, 'We know you didn't do this, but you're going down for it anyway.' To the family: If you knew, if you really knew the way God works, he don't use people who commits anything like that for his glory. No way. It's the total opposite."
Lewis has a tendency to ramble when he's speaking with the media, so this isn't all that unusual for him.
But given the sensitivity of the topic, Lewis probably would have been better served with a simple apology.


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Super Bowl's supposed marquee matchup was no contest. The Seattle Seahawks' defense dominated the Denver Broncos' offense Sunday evening, setting the tone from the outset as the Seahawks coasted to the first Super Bowl triumph in franchise history.
The Broncos had an errant snap leading to a Seattle safety on the game's first offensive play. Denver didn't manage a first down until it already trailed 15-0 in the second quarter. The Seahawks intercepted two first-half passes by Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, with linebacker Malcolm Smith returning one of them for a touchdown, and never faltered on their way to a 43-8 victory.
The Denver offense had four turnovers in all, including lost fumbles by wide receiver Demaryius Thomas in the third quarter and Manning in the fourth quarter. Manning ended up throwing for 280 yards on 34-for-49 passing. He actually set a Super Bowl record for completions. Thomas's 13 catches also were a Super Bowl record. But by the time Manning threw a touchdown pass to Thomas as time expired in the third quarter, Seattle had built a 36-0 lead.
"Our whole defense, top to bottom, they played lights out," Seahawks wide receiver Percy Harvin said.
It was supposed to be a compelling confrontation between a Broncos offense that ranked first in the NFL during the regular season and the Seahawks' top-ranked defense and in particular between Manning and a Seattle secondary known for its aggressive, physical play. Manning set single-season NFL records for passing yards and touchdown passes this season and won his record fifth MVP award Saturday night. But he and the Broncos had no answers for the defense they faced Sunday.
Smith, who was named the game's MVP, said he expected the game to unfold just as it did.
"We feel like we play with a level of intensity other teams have to match," Smith said. "We liked this matchup. We felt they would have to deal with us."
Added cornerback Richard Sherman: "I think it was more about our players playing well than Peyton. . . . You can never really expect it. But I wasn't shocked. I expected us to stand up."
Manning's offensive line played nearly flawlessly when the Broncos beat the New England Patriots in the AFC title game two weeks earlier. That certainly wasn't the case against the Seahawks. Seattle's pass rushers made Manning move around in the pocket and forced him into mistakes. Seahawks defenders put some heavy hits on Broncos receivers after catches. Cornerback Byron Maxwell knocked the ball from Thomas's hands on the wide receiver's third-quarter fumble.
"I wasn't surprised at all," Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner said. "Watching the film during the week, they hadn't played a defense like us that flies around like we do, that hits like we do. . . . We thought we could hold them to zero points if we played our game."
Denver's first major mistake was an unforced error. Manning lined up in shotgun formation for the Broncos' opening play. He was moving toward the line of scrimmage and wasn't ready for the ball to be snapped to him when center Manny Ramirez sent the snap sailing over Manning's head. The ball rolled into the end zone, where running back Knowshon Moreno fell on it for a safety. The Seahawks had the fastest scoring play in Super Bowl history, getting on the scoreboard after 12 seconds.
Manning's first interception came on a pass lobbed over the middle directly to Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor late in the first quarter. That set up a second-quarter touchdown for Seattle. Manning's second interception came when his arm was hit by Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril on a throw. The pass went high into the air. Smith made a decisive move toward the ball. Moreno didn't. Smith got the interception and dashed 69 yards for a touchdown.
When the Broncos gambled, it backfired. Coach John Fox left his offense on the field on fourth and two from the Seattle 19-yard line late in the first half. Manning threw an incompletion on a pass deflected by defensive end Chris Clemons.
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I have put together 18 systems this year for my office. 10 with EVGA GTX 1070 SC and 8 with Gigabyte GTX 1080 Windforce. I am by no means an expert and only ran two different free bench mark programs but found my systems running the 1070 ran better than the 1080...
All machines on MSI z270 M3 boards, i7 7700K, 32gb G.Skills Ripjaws, and Samsung Evo 850 500GB SSD.
GTX 1070 Nova bench average graphics score: 1891
GTX 1080 Nova bench average graphics score: 1467
We are a engineering shop and live on Autocad so I also used Cadalyst Systems Benchmark
GTX 1070 Cadalyst Systems Benchmark 3D index: 1962, 2D Index: 549
GTX 1080 Cadalyst Systems Benchmark 3D index: 2037, 2D Index: 526
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Getting Veterans Licensed to Work
By Mika Cross on March 2, 2017
Imagine if you drove trucks for the military in some of the world's most dangerous and challenging terrain, in every kind of weather, day and night. After years of serving your country, you decide you want to go home, be closer to family and get back to work.
As you begin to transition from service, you make a surprising discovery: Suddenly, it doesn't matter that you were promoted three times, won service medals and logged hundreds of thousands of miles driving. Employers require you to re-certify and re-train for the very same work you performed in the military. Even though you've got the skills, it's hard to get a foot in the door. For too many veterans, this is a real problem.
For veterans, obtaining a professional certification can be one of the most helpful steps in finding meaningful civilian employment. In fact, in one recent survey, veterans listed professional certifications as the most helpful job search aides, along with education resources and the ability to connect with veteran-friendly employers.
With that in mind, the Department of Labor last year released a toolkit for states, which details the streamlining of professional licensing and credentialing for veterans and transitioning service members. The toolkit identifies common barriers, describes strategies for overcoming them, and provides a blueprint that can help states accelerate veterans' licensing and certification.
The toolkit offers plenty of useful resources to help states navigate some of the common challenges in implementing policies that overcome the complexity of state licensure and third-party certification systems for veterans.
Why is it important?
Earlier this year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report on occupations that require licenses and certifications. Their findings included:
More than three-quarters of workers in healthcare and technical occupations held certifications.
Employed people were twice as likely to hold a currently active certification or license.
Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers were 34 percent higher for those with a certification or license.
People with a certification or license had a lower unemployment rate (2.7 percent) than those without these certifications (6.1 percent).
Making Progress
Our toolkit is designed to help states assist qualified veterans who are already experienced in their fields. At the department's Veterans Employment and Training Service, we'll continue to work with our partners and stakeholders to help get veterans back to work doing what they do best.


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Warren Spahn, who in a career spanning 21 seasons won 363 games, the major league record for a left-handed pitcher, died yesterday at his home in Broken Arrow, Okla. He was 82.
Confounding batters with a fluid, high-kicking motion and an assortment of pitches that nicked the corners of the plate or darted just outside the strike zone, Spahn was a craftsman on the mound.
He did not win a major league game until he was 25 and had served in World War II. But when he retired after the 1965 season at age 44, he owned a host of records.
Pitching 20 seasons for the Braves -- 8 in Boston and 12 in Milwaukee -- and a final season with the Mets and the San Francisco Giants, Spahn had a record of 363-245, fifth on the career victory list. He won the Cy Young award as baseball's best pitcher in 1957, was an All-Star 14 times and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973, his first year of eligibility.
''For the years I was watching him, Koufax was tops,'' Johnny Podres, a Dodgers pitcher and later a pitching coach, told Donald Honig in ''October Heroes.'' ''But for the long haul, for year-after-year performance, Warren Spahn was the best I ever saw. He was just a master of his trade. I couldn't take my eyes off him. Watching him was an education.''
Whitlow Wyatt, Spahn's pitching coach at Milwaukee, once said: ''He makes my job easy. Every pitch he throws has an idea behind it.''
Spahn won at least 20 games 13 times, a record for a lefty. He holds the records for most times leading a league in victories (eight, including five consecutive years, from 1957 to 1961) and complete games (nine). He pitched 382 complete games in 665 starts, and his 5,243 innings pitched places him No. 1 among left-handers.
He pitched 63 shutouts, a National League record for a left-hander, and had a career earned run average of 3.09.
At 6 feet and 175 pounds, Spahn was not regarded as a power pitcher, but he led the N.L. in strikeouts every season from 1949 to 1952.
He pitched two no-hitters, against the Philadelphia Phillies in September 1960, at age 39, and against the Giants in April 1961, five days after his 40th birthday.
In 1963, he matched his season high in victories with 23.
He could hit, too. His 35 career home runs are an N.L. record for a pitcher, and he had a .333 batting average in 1958.
Spahn was honored in August by the Braves, who unveiled a bronze statue of him at Turner Field in Atlanta, where they now play. It depicts his pitching motion, right leg pointed toward the sky.
Warren Edward Spahn was born in Buffalo on April 23, 1921. His father, Edward, a former semipro baseball player who sold wallpaper, built a pitcher's mound in the family's backyard and developed his son's pitching style.
''He insisted that I throw with a fluid motion, and the high leg kick was a part of the deception to the hitter,'' Spahn told The Sunday Oklahoman in 1998. ''Hitters said the ball seemed to come out of my uniform.''
Spahn signed with the Boston Braves organization in 1940. He made his major league debut in 1942, pitching briefly for Manager Casey Stengel, who had banished him to the minors in the spring for refusing to throw at the Dodgers' Pee Wee Reese, as Spahn told it.
Spahn was drafted into the Army's combat engineers in 1943. He took part in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 and the seizure of the bridge at Remagen, enabling Allied troops to begin crossing the Rhine. One minute before that bridge collapsed, on the afternoon of March 17, 1945, killing many American soldiers, Spahn had been alongside it. He emerged from World War II with a battlefield commission, a Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart for a shrapnel wound.
He returned to the Braves in 1946, posting an 8-5 record, then emerged as one of baseball's best pitchers with a 21-10 record the next year.
In 1948, Spahn teamed with the right-hander Johnny Sain to pitch the Braves to a pennant in a race inspiring an enduring baseball rhyme.
On Sept. 14 of that season, The Boston Post carried a four-line poem by Gerry Hern, its sports editor, beseeching Spahn and Sain to assume the pitching burden in the final weeks and hoping for some rain to give them enough rest between outings.
The rhyme was shortened among Braves fans to ''Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.''
Over the next 12 days, Spahn and Sain each started three games and each won twice, with three days off and one rainout in between, as the Braves captured their first pennant in 34 years.
Sain won 24 games that season, Spahn 15.
Spahn was outpitched by the Indians' Bob Lemon in Game 2 of the World Series, then won Game 5 in relief, but Cleveland captured the Series in six games.
The Braves endured lackluster years after that, then moved to Milwaukee in 1953 and enjoyed a stunning revival behind the pitching of Spahn, Lew Burdette and Bob Buhl, the power hitting of Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews and the catching of Del Crandall. Spahn's pitching helped the Braves win the World Series in 1957 and a pennant in 1958. He was 1-1 in the 1957 World Series and 2-1 in the '58 Series, both against the Yankees.
Relying on guile long after he had lost the velocity on his fastball, Spahn continued to thrive past age 40. But in 1964, he slipped to 6-13.
The Braves sold him in November to the Mets, who made him the highest-paid player in their three-year history with a $70,000 salary. Also serving as a coach and pitching once more for Stengel, Spahn was 4-12.
After having lost 11 straight on a last-place team, he was released in mid-July 1965, joined the Giants and went 3-4 for them to close out his pitching career.
Spahn later managed the minor league Tulsa Oilers, served as a pitching coach for the Indians and in Mexico and Japan, and was a minor league instructor for Cleveland and the Angels. He operated a cattle ranch in Hartshorne, Okla.
He is survived by a son, Gregory, and two granddaughters. His wife, LoRene, died in 1978.
Spahn was a master of control -- or the deliberate lack thereof.
''Home plate is 17 inches wide,'' he once remarked. ''I give the batter the middle 13 inches. That belongs to him. But the two outside inches on either side belong to me. That's where I throw the ball.''
Even better, he often made the batter swing at a pitch he could not hit solidly. ''You have to be able to throw strikes,'' Spahn said. ''But you try not to whenever possible.''
Spahn complemented his fastball with a curveball, a screwball, a slider and changeups, all thrown with the same overhand motion.
''I'm smarter now than when I had the big fastball,'' he told Time magazine in 1960. ''Sometimes I get behind hitters on purpose. That makes them hungry hitters. They start looking for fat pitches. I make my living off hungry hitters.''
Interviewed in 1999 at the All-Star Game in Boston's Fenway Park, Spahn took a dim view of modern-day pitching, particularly in the American League with its designated hitter.
''One of the things I dislike about baseball today is we've made nonathletes out of pitchers,'' he said. ''They pitch once a week. They count the pitches. They don't hit. They don't run the bases. That's not my kind of baseball.''


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It's Thanksgiving, and as one writer friend notes, it's very good to have "an attitude of gratitude." We all have plenty to be thankful for in life, and this is a good opportunity to remember that.
For the fifth installment of the Michigan-Ohio State, we go back 15 years to 1997, right in the heart of then-President Bill Clinton's second term in the Oval Office. The economy was roaring, but the Michigan Wolverines entered that season with plenty of doubts regarding their talents. There were quiet rumblings that "The Block M stood for mediocrity." Quietly, Michigan vowed not to let the '97 campaign turn out the way that previous seasons had finished. Through the first 10 games, everything went according to Michigan's blueprint, but the 11th game was against a highly motivated group from Ohio State. After a scoreless stalemate in the first quarter, Michigan broke through when freshman Anthony Thomas scored on a run up the middle. A few minutes later, Charles Woodson used a couple of good blocks to scamper down the far sideline. Michigan led at the half, 13-0.
The third quarter started out with Michigan scoring on an Andre Weathers, giving the Wolverines a commanding 20-0 lead. But Ohio State wasn't about to go quietly into the night. The Bucks stormed back with a pair of touchdowns, the first coming when quarterback Joe Germaine connected with David Boston, and the second coming after linebacker Jerry Rudzinski forced a fumble from Michigan quarterback Brian Griese. With the Wolverines ahead by only six points, Michigan fans held their collective breath, but the Michigan defense held the lead, punctuated by Marcus Ray's bruising hit on Boston that swung the pendulum of momentum back in Michigan's direction. The Wolverines held on to win, 20-14, and went on to defeat Washington State in the Rose Bowl, completing Michigan's first perfect season in decades and giving Michigan a share of the National Championship in the season before the Bowl Championship Series was introduced.
Once again, thanks to Brian Cook of mgovideo & mgoblog, as well as to color commentator Bob Griese, and venerable play-by-play man Keith Jackson, who provided the heart and soul of college football for viewers everywhere for several decades.


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By Harry Gibbons
The policy focuses on ways of safely removing mountain lions that wander into populated areas.
Jordan Traverso is with the Department of Fish and Wildlife. She said the new policy gives animal control officers more options when dealing with the potentially dangerous animals.
"The major difference in the policy is that if there's a situation where a mountain lion is otherwise acting normally, it's exhibiting normal mountain lion behavior, it allows us to use tranquilizers to dart and relocate a lion, rather than having to kill it," said Traverso.
The department will still use lethal means if an animal presents a public safety threat or if other non-lethal methods have failed.
There have been only 16 reported mountain lion attacks in California since 1890, six of which were fatal.


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I am reading on magnetic monopoles from a variety of sources, eg. the Jeff Harvey lectures.. It talks about something called the winding $N$, which is used to calculate the magnetic flux. I searched the internet but am not being able to understand the calculation done in this particular case.
$g=-\frac{1}{8}\int_{S^2_\infty} Tr([d\hat{\Phi},d\hat{\Phi}],\hat{\Phi})$
Then the author says that
Now $\Phi$ restricts to a map $\Phi : S_\infty^2 → S^2$ , where the target is the unit sphere in $su(2)$. This map has some degree $N$ , and it is easy to verify that the right-hand side of the above equation is $−2\pi$ times this. Therefore $g = −2\pi N$ .
What is $N$, the winding number also called as the degree on the map? By what i have learnt, it is the number of times you wind an object unto the another, then shouldn't the integral be $N*4\pi$, as $4\pi$ is the surface area of $S^2$.


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The Impact of a Continuing Resolution on PCS Orders Timelines
By Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy announced today that Sailors should expect to receive orders with approximately two months lead time for permanent change of station (PCS) moves following passage of a second Continuing Resolution (CR) for Fiscal Year 17 that will fund the government through April 28, of next year.
"The Navy fully realizes that these shortened lead times limit Sailors' time to prepare for moves, and burdens them and their families," said Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Adm. Robert Burke. "Going forward, we remain committed to providing Sailors with as much information and lead time as we can. Our goal remains to mitigate the CR's impact on Sailors and their families, to the best of our ability. We ask for your patience as we work through the funding challenges."
Due to the way resources are phased and allocated under a CR, the Navy currently does not have sufficient funds in our manpower accounts to allow for normal three to four month lead times for Sailors' PCS orders.
While the Navy will make every effort to ensure that PCS orders are released in a timely manner, these fiscal challenges will result in compressed PCS timelines for Sailors. To date, NPC has received less funding than planned and the average lead time for PCS orders has decreased to approximately two months. Sailors who have not yet received orders will likely have less than two months lead time when the orders are released.
The Navy has utilized a prioritization strategy in previous PCS funding-constrained periods with the intent to minimize impact to Fleet readiness, career timing, and families. Emphasis will remain on global support assignment rotations, career milestone billets, critical readiness fills, minimizing gaps at sea for deployed units and those working up to deploy, and keeping the training pipelines moving. Those Sailors who are going to operational units about to deploy, numbered fleet staffs, overseas billets, individual augmentees or must-moves (safety, early return of dependents, humanitarian) will be issued their orders first.
Additionally, Navy Personnel Command will continue to issue letters of intent for overseas moves. That way, while orders may not be in hand, individuals can start the process of doing overseas and medical screenings, dependent entry approval, passport applications and security clearance requests.
We encourage all Sailors with projected rotation dates during this fiscal year to contact their detailers with questions and concerns with the understanding that there may be a delay as we work through Sailors' issues.


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Below is a recipe my girlfriend adapted for making glögg - mulled wine - using wines from Washington. Enjoy!
- 2 bottles 2010 Magnificent Wine Co. Mountain Merlot (I chose this wine because it's low in oak but other low oak red wines will do).
- 1 bottle Thurston Wolfe 2008 JWT's Port Premium Dessert Wine and 2 bottles Maryhill 2007 Vintage Port (these worked wonderfully but any Port-style wines will work)
- 750 ml bottle Christian Brothers VS Brandy
- 6 cinnamon sticks
- 15 cardamom seed pods (or 1 tsp whole cardamom seeds but do not use powder)
- 2 dozen whole cloves
- 1 orange peel, whole and washed
- 1 cup dark (not golden) raisins
- 2 cups sugar
Note: Some of these spices may be harder to find in their whole form at larger grocery stores. I found them all at PCC. I found both the Port-style wines and the brandy at Wine World in Seattle.
1) Crack the cardamom seed pods by placing the pod on the counter and laying a knife on top of it. Press gently with the knife until it cracks open but leave the seeds inside the pods. You may use 1 tsp whole cardamom seeds, but do not use powder.
2) Pour the red wine and the port into a stainless steel pot. Add 5 cinnamon sticks, cardamom, cloves, orange peel and raisins. Cover and simmer low heat.
3) In a separate pan put the sugar and 2/3 of the brandy. Warm over medium to low heat and stir occasionally until the sugar is dissolved. Let it simmer until the tiny bubbles enlarge to become bigger bubbles (about 15 min). This allows the sugar to caramelize.
4) Add the sugar syrup to the spiced wine in the pot. Cover and simmer on low heat for one hour stirring occasionally. Add one more cinnamon stick and continue to simmer (covered) for another 30 minutes.
5) You can add more of the brandy at this point but I highly advise against doing so. It packs quite a punch, but the alcohol is very well-integrated and goes down quite smoothly.
6) Turn off heat and let sit for about 15-20 minutes. Strain to remove the spices and raisins.
Serve warm in a mug. (Optional: serve with a garnish of fresh orange peel).
Reserve the wine bottles you used to bottle up the leftover Glögg. Makes approximately two and a half to three 750 mL bottles.
NB: I omitted the almonds in the original recipe and varied a couple ingredients. I did not serve with the orange peel that the original recipe recommends and it was still wonderful. I also let it simmer for an additional 30 min and waited another 15 minutes to strain all the spices and raisins.
Read the original recipe here: www.amazingribs.com/recipes/drinks/glogg.html
Making holiday glögg from Washington wine
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Unknown Says:
mmmmm yummy. BTW, I think you could go with a little less sugar, but it was really good. KHR
Some additional suggestions for red wines to use include wines from the Columbia Crest Two Vines series and Stonecap (thanks to reader Rick Hughes for suggesting the latter).
Terry Christiani Says:
That sounds incredibly potent!
Terry, it packs quite a punch and goes down far too easily so less is more when it comes to serving size!
JPineda Says:
I can't wait to make up a batch! Will any kind of brandy work? Also, how do you know if a red wine is low oak? Any other Washington or Oregon wines you would recommend? The two vines is easy enough to fins though.
JPineda, any brandy should work - that's just what I used. Most red wines you'll find under $10 are going to see minimal oak treatment and given that you're adding a lot of spices and flavors, I wouldn't put anything much above that in because you're not going to separate out the wine from the other flavors.
JPineda Says:
Thanks! We'll make a batch and report back!


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--Freshman Kyle Wood pitched six solid innings and Coast Guard scored three runs in the first as Coast Guard clinched a spot in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) tournament with a 7-5 win over Springfield.
Springfield falls to 10-15 overall and 7-11 league action, while Coast Guard, which has won five of its last six, improves to 19-11 overall and 9-6 in conference play.
Both teams totaled 12 hits in the contest, with Coast Guard's Tyler Babkiewich (2 RBI's) and Nolan Gallagher each recording three hits in the win. For the Pride, Mike McGowan produced a team-best three hits.
Coast Guard got off to a hot start hitting four-straight singles in the first to drive in three runswith RBI singles by both Gallagher and Babkiewich.
In the bottom half, Frank Calabrese walked before McGowan hit a rocket into right field, scoring Calabrese as McGowan coasted into third with a triple.
In the third inning, Ed Sella hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Gallagher as Coast Guard increased their lead to 4-1.
The Pride answered back again in the bottom half, thanks to Jared Hopkins leading off the frame with a single before eventually moving to third. After falling behind in the count, Sean Smith was able to produce a sac fly of his own to make it a two-run game.
The teams traded runs in the fifth and sixth to allow Coast Guard to own a 5-3 lead heading into the ninth. The Bears tacked on two more on a Babkiewich single and an error by Springfield, pushing lead to four.
The Pride made a late rally with two outs when pinch hitter Brett Poulin singled in McGowan and Matt Milano also had an RBI single to plate Smith, but senior closer Tyler Vieira was able to force the ground out to end the rally.
Travis Lane suffered his second loss on the season going 5.0 innings giving up 10 hits and allowing five runs. Reliever Peter Baranski pitched the last four innings allowing two runs and striking out four.
Wood picked up the victory, going six innings and scattering six hits while surrendering up three runs. Senior Curt Barrett threw a pair of scoreless innings in relief with three strikeouts before Vieira was touched for two runs in the ninth.
Coast Guard is back in action on Wednesday when the Bears host Wesleyan at 4 p.m.


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