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Lillian Blanche Stevens, a retired Baltimore County business teacher and administrator, died Oct. 6 at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson. She was 96 and had earlier lived in Rodgers Forge.
Anita Sue Tews, a niece who lives in Federal Way, Wash., said no medical cause of death was determined.
She was born on a farming homestead north of Edison, Neb. After graduating from a special program at Edison High School, she began teaching at 17 in a one-room, eight-grade rural school house in Webster County. She told family members she starting a fire of corncobs and coal in a stove each morning to warm the classroom.
"She was an independent person who started teaching when she was so young," said Donna J. Carr, a retired Overlea High School business teacher who lives in Parkville. "She cared about her job, her teachers and her students."
Ms. Stevens later earned a bachelor of science in business education at the University of Nebraska and taught at Gothenburg High School from 1942 to 1946. She later received master's degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park and the Johns Hopkins University, where she belonged to the Hopkins Club.
Ms. Stevens moved to Baltimore in 1946 to be a business teacher at Dundalk High School. A year later, she was transferred to a business teaching position at Franklin High School in Reisterstown. Friends said she did not have a car and traveled by bus from her Rodgers Forge home to the school. In 1953, Ms. Stevens purchased a Chevrolet, obtained her driver's license, and during the summer drove to the state of Washington with her mother to visit family.
Friends said she always rose early in the morning and appeared in the classroom regardless of the weather. One morning, when a school official decided to close schools because of snow and he had trouble reaching her, he sent a telegraph messenger to her home.
In 1957, Ms. Stevens transferred to Towson High School and served as chairman of the business department.
"More than the classroom subjects, she taught manners, ethics, good conduct and business dress," said Paul Plevyak, a fellow teacher and friend. "She often taught the seniors and they would be going out on job interviews. She gave them advice: 'You cannot make a second first impression.'"
He said she also maintained contacts with the business community and would send her students on job interviews.
"She gave of herself and was beloved by her students," said Mr. Plevyak. "She also helped new teachers to grow in their careers."
In 1966, she was promoted to supervisor of business education, a position she held until her retirement in 1984.
"Blanche welcomed new teachers and gave good ideas for handling kids," said Walter Snyder, the school system's retired director of personnel. "She was a hard-working, creative teacher who worked hard in selecting our new teachers."
During the first two years in the system's central office, she served part-time with the Maryland State Department of Education as a coordinator for programs and activities of the Future Business Leaders of America, a national student organization that promoted personal growth, work habits and skills and leadership.
"She was an excellent teacher and a champion for her students," said Mr. Plevyak. "She assisted business teachers in the county high schools with improving their teaching and classroom management skills."
Ms. Stevens was a lifetime member of the Maryland State Teachers Association, the National Education Association and the National Business Education Association. She served a term as president of the Maryland Business Education Association.
Friends recalled her as a thoughtful and generous person. "It was difficult to reciprocate her generosity," Mr. Plevyak said.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Oct. 27 at Edenwald, 800 Southerly Road in Towson.
Survivors include her niece and a nephew.
Lillian Blanche Stevens, a retired Baltimore County business teacher and administrator, died Oct. 6 at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson. She was 96 and had earlier lived in Rodgers Forge.


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Twitter, which was cut off from the stream of Instagram photos on Sunday, on Monday released updated versions of its iPhone and Android apps that enable its own photo editing and filtering tools.
"Starting today, you'll be able to edit and refine your photos, right from Twitter," senior designer Coleen Baik wrote on a company blog. "The latest versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android introduce a few new ways to enhance the images you tweet."
The blog post was titled "Twitter photos: Put a filter on it," which could also be interpreted as a swipe at Instagram, the Facebook-owned mobile sharing app.
However, Twitter spokeswoman Christina Thiry said the updated apps were not an answer to the Instagram-Facebook snub, saying the San Francisco company has been working with its photo-editing firm Aviary for months.
Twitter, known for its short messages of 140-characters or less of text, is quickly moving to become more visual, like Facebook. Twitter, which last year let users attach photos to tweets, announced earlier Monday that it is moving users who haven't already switched to a new member profile page layout that requires a photo that is much like Facebook's Timeline cover photo.
Instagram, meanwhile, complained last week that Twitter's new Twitter Card system, also meant to make Twitter more visual and interactive, was causing problems like cropping Instagram photos improperly.
So to protect itself, Instagram was disabling photo integration with Twitter. On Sunday, Twitter said confirmed Sunday that deed was done, meaning Instagram photos were no longer visible directly from tweets or photo galleries and only viewable by clicking an external link.
The updated Twitter apps include eight filters to change the look and feel of the photo, including black-and-white and vintage filters, a bird's eye view, crop and zoom tools and auto-enhance.
Twitter also released the video above to explain the new apps.
Photo sharing have long been a foundation of Facebook activity and are becoming a bigger part of Twitter's universe. After all, a picture has always been worth a thousand words, and the two services know how photos also help pull in advertising dollars.
"Images are becoming the engagement platform of choice," said Neil Vineberg, chief marketing officer of ThingLink, a company that offers brand a way to distribute photos with interactive elements on both Twitter and Facebook. "Interactive images have far greater engagement than almost any other media platform we know."
ThingLink has been working with Twitter to use Twitter Cards for photos that include interactive elements, like this "Battlefield 3: Aftermath" promo from Electronic Arts. ThingLink is also talking with Facebook.
"There's incentive on both sides to make media like ours viewable," Vineberg said. "I think we're living in very interesting times. Seeing how Twitter and Facebook sort of navigate each other is going to be exciting for all of us."

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Ever say to yourself that maybe you should start a work at home business opportunity? That exact same idea has occurred to many people. Some went ahead and did it. Some got afraid of the great unknowns and not got started.
Hmm. Are they actually legitimate reasons? Did they really look at the positive side? Did we look at the possibilities for? The issues in favour of? Maybe we should take a more balanced approach. Let's consider 5 reasons why you should start a work at home business opportunity, simply to decide if any of them fit here.
First, you could make some extra money online. Sure, I recognize your objection that it might nor be easy to make money from the internet.
Yes, that's a valid observation, but take a look at it this way, if you try to make some extra money, then the internet is the best possible way to earn some extra cash for yourself. And moreover, you ought to consider that having your own work at home business is something that is quiet achievable.
Second, Be Your Own Boss. The principal reason behind that could be that you will get out of the cycle to be employed and not working for yourself. And in addition you much more in control of how much money you will make for yourself.
Third, you will have much more freedom. And also you will have more time with your family and for yourself!
Fourth, you might be able to retire earlier then you would do in a normal job.
And Fifth, it is much more fun to work at home for yourself and make a living online.
After you have had an opportunity to go over the reasons, and think about them, you'll notice that a very good case can be made in favour of start a work at home business opportunity.
So now, just think about that for a few minutes. A very good case has been made in favour of doing it. Maybe you really should start a work at home business opportunity for yourself.
If you happen to look at all the reasons and evaluate them, you'll have to admit that a very compelling case can be made for beginning to consider the way to start a work at home business opportunity on the internet.
Just consider it. Maybe, just maybe, you truly, in all seriousness, ought to start making money in a work from home business opportunity.


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The France international is currently contracted to City until the summer of 2015, but is eager to prolong his time with Manuel Pellegrini's team.
Nasri has featured in 22 of City's 26 Premier League games so far this term, scoring four times, and has made six Champions League appearances.
City's ambition of lifting the Champions League trophy in coming seasons attracts Nasri, who scored in the 3-1 Capital One Cup final triumph over Sunderland last weekend.
"Talks? I know they are planned," he told L'Equipe.
"The officials called my agent to tell him we have to talk. Then, we will see.
"The objective is to win the Champions League in a few years' time.
"But when you are happy somewhere, I can't see why you should have to change scene."
City will look to reach the FA Cup semi-finals on Sunday when they take on holders Wigan at the Etihad Stadium before looking to overcome a 2-0 first-leg deficit against Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday.


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Big Bird greets Congressman Perlmutter
Congressman Ed Perlmutter burst out laughing today when he arrived for his scheduled debate with Republican Joe Coors and found a Sesame Street book with a picture of Big Bird on the coffee table.
Talking about timing. The 7th Congressional District debate was hosted by Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting Service.
During the presidential debate Wednesday night, Republican Mitt Romney told moderater Jim Lehrer that he planned to end the subsidy for PBS, home of Big Bird and his Sesame Street pals.
"I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too," Romney said to Lehrer. "But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it."
The plight of Big Bird has gone viral.
During the debate with Coors, Perlmutter said that the problem is not PBS' budget, it's President Bush's tax cuts, a two-front war and Wall Street run wild.


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THE GNOMES OF UDNALOR: Part I
Upon entering the deep underrealm of Udnalor, one must first pass through the upper halls, which were the residences of the gnomes in days of past glories. Now they have abandoned the fading tapestries to the worms and moles, and an uncanny silence reigns, laid over the oaken tables like the thick layers of dust and humus.
There may be creatures which now inhabit these areas: nests livid with giant maggots, rats and other vermin.
The watchtowers and passageways which lead to the Overground are frequently trodden, however. After all it takes a great many small humanoids to hoist a single giant rabbit corpse back through the fathoms of earth.
The gnomes primarily hunt giant rabbits with bows and arrows tipped with the subterranean poisons concocted by their best alchemists.


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Variations of doors
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Sarto Decanto NS 5292 Interior Door comes in the following configurations: Single Swing Door, Double Swing Door, Single Pocket Door, Double Pocket Door, Bi-fold door, Sliding on the wall, Sliding Door.
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Mac OS X
Mac OS X (officially pronounced 'mac O S ten', but occasionally mispronounced 'O S Ex') is a proprietary, graphical operating system developed, sold, and marketed by Apple Computer. All new Macintosh computers come with the latest version of Mac OS X installed. General information about Mac OS X can be found at Wikipedia.
- Mac OS X v10.0 (Cheetah)
- Mac OS X v10.1 (Puma)
- Mac OS X v10.2 (Jaguar)
- Mac OS X v10.3 (Panther)
- Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger)
- Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard)
- Mac OS X v10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion)
- Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion)
- Mac OS X v10.9 (Mavericks)
- Mac OS X v10.10 (Yosemite)
At Gustavus
Almost every Macintosh computer at Gustavus runs some version of Mac OS X. Most lab machines available for students have version 10.10 (Yosemite) installed, while faculty and staff Macintosh computers may use 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7 or some 10.6.
How do I make OS X automatically log me in upon startup?
- Go to System Preferences
- Click on Accounts.
- Click on Login Options underneath the user list.
- Check the box that says Automatically log in as:
- Select the user that you want it to log in as.
How do I repair disk permissions?
To repair disk permissions do the following:
- Open your Applications folder then your Utilites folder.
- Launch Disk Utility.
- Click on the icon for your hard drive in the list at the left.
- Click the First Aid tab.
- Click Verify Disk Permissions. Wait until it is complete.
- Click Repair Disk Permissions (the repair process may take a few minutes to complete).
- Quit Disk Utility
- Restart your computer.
How do I run Software Updates on my Mac?
Please see Software Update.
Contact us
Please contact the Technology Helpline at 507-933-6111, stop by the Technology Services department in Olin Hall or complete our contact form.


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Progressive Electronics 568A / 568B Ethernet CAT5 Cable Tester
If you're like us, and crimp your own Cat 5 cables, a tester might be good thing to have. Why? Well even if everything looks alright after the RJ45 jacks have been crimped on, there may be a problem. Those kinds of invisible problems can effect how the cable performs and thus how the Ethernet performs.
One way to test newly made wire is to stick it in a hub, or between two computers, and attempt to send a large file across. Chances are if it works fine, you cable will also. Sometimes there is an intermittent problem with a cable. It will work 99% of the time, until someone moves it... Then a short or a open will cause one pair of wires to go out of service, and with it, reliable network access. For tricky problems like this, it's hard find them with out the use of some type of tester. One such tester is put out by Progressive Electronics.
The two cable test jumpers allow the unit to be used to test installed wire via a RJ45 receptacle. This can be either for the technician to double check their work (the unit is designed for Telco or Network Cable installers / Electricians), or used in the event where wire may have been damaged by renovation, nails, or whatever. The unit also has a built in tone generator, so for you techies with a probe, the unit can help determine which wire is which when you are staring at 30 or 40 pairs of cat 5!
The way we have been using this unit recently is to test out our crimped cable. Once the crimping has been finished, one end is inserted into the Transmitter, and the other into the Receiver. If everything is well, the four LED's will turn on in sequence - identifying that the wiring is correct. If something is awry, then the LED's will either light up out of sequence, not light up at all, or if the pairs have been switched, light up red.
These descriptive features are more suited for connections to receptacles then with the RJ45 connectors, an error there means chop off and start over ;-) But, at least the badly crimped wires won't slip through into the network - even if it down mean recrimping.
Progressives' Model 468 tests the following wiring standards; USOC 4-pair, USOC 1, 2, 3-pair, T568A, T568B and 10Base-T. The instructions come with simple wiring diagrams for each wiring standard as well. The unit is well built, and comes in a rugged, padded carry case. It's powered by a 9 volt battery, and has an on/off switch. The only thing I'm not to excited about is the LED's. For some reason they use clear LED's instead of frosted ones. It makes reading the LED's slightly less obvious, as there is a constant background glow.
In conclusion, while we are mainly using the model 468 for testing crimped wire, it has also been used to ferret out a few wires we thought good, but with intermittent problems. Basically, when it comes down to the frustration factor of files being corrupted because of lost data over network cables, or problems with connectivity - the high cost of this testing device is justified. For those of you who regularly install Cat 5, this device, or one like it, is a must have.
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Just as Steve Knight, I don't find much use for object oriented programming in my own code. But there is a name for methods (or functions or subroutines) that drag a bit of state around and that is Object Based Programming. And it is really handy.
What does it get you?
If you have a few variables that need to be operated on together in multiple methods, you can stuff them in the same object.
sub new { my ($class, $dbh, $person) = @_; my $self = { dbh => $dbh, person => $person, } bless $self, $class; return $class; }
You can use accessor methods to do lazy initialisation.
sub person { my $self = shift; if (! exists $self->{person}) { $self->{person} = Person->new(); } return $self->{person}; }
And given a half decent language you can perform tidy-up in the destructor (which, as a C++ fiddler, I kinda like).


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Former New York Mayor Ed Koch has been released from a Manhattan hospital.
Koch looked jovial as he spoke briefly Monday outside NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He was admitted last week with pneumonia and flu.
He said he planned to go to his office briefly, then do some reading at home.
On Friday, Koch said through a spokesman that he was looking forward to celebrating his 88th birthday this Wednesday. He'll be at an annual reunion with members of his administration at Gracie Mansion, the official mayor's residence.
Koch also was hospitalized with anemia in September.
Koch served three terms from 1978 to 1989. The Democrat is famous for asking constituents, "How'm I doing?"


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In the autumn of 1998, when Karl Rove was contriving to make Governor George W. Bush President and to build a lasting Republican majority, he came upon "The Catholic Voter Project," a study of voting behavior in national elections since the Kennedy-Nixon contest of 1960. Catholics make up more than a fourth of the electorate, but they had long defied political targeting. This was because, since 1972, Catholic voters had essentially mirrored the rest of the electorate, making it impossible for political professionals to shape a distinctive Catholic message—or even to know for certain whether there was such a thing. The study, commissioned by the magazine Crisis, concluded that the issues that moved Catholic voters could, in fact, be discerned; it was simply a matter of redefining the Catholic vote.
The term "Catholic voter," the study argued, was meaningless, reflecting an answer given to exit pollsters, and not much more. The only relevant Catholic voter was one whose vote was influenced by the fact of being a Catholic. The Crisis project compared the voting behaviors of active Catholics—those who regularly attended Mass—and inactive Catholics, and found a clear distinction. Active Catholics characterized themselves as being more conservative than Catholics as a whole, and, although they did not necessarily identify with Republicans, they were in the vanguard of the thirty-year Catholic march out of the Democratic Party. They were patriotic, anti-abortion, and pro-family (believing, for example, that divorce laws should be tightened).
For Rove, the Crisis report posed a thrilling prospect, akin to the framing of a new constituency, to be courted and drawn into the Republican base, as Protestant evangelicals had been, two decades earlier. "What I saw," Rove says, "was a group that was searching." After reading the report, Rove telephoned the publisher of Crisis, Deal Hudson, who had instigated the study, and invited him to Texas to meet Governor Bush. Hudson liked what Bush had to say, and shortly thereafter he agreed to become an outside adviser on Catholic outreach for the 2000 Presidential campaign. As it turned out, Rove was tapping into something far more profound than voting differences between active and inactive Catholics; he had struck upon a deep current of discontent within the Church, which had been building for nearly forty years, rooted in contending interpretations of the faith.
Rove had chosen the ideal instrument for his Catholic strategy. Hudson was a convert to Catholicism, and, with a convert's zeal, he embraced an undiluted brand of the faith. As a philosophy student in college, in the late nineteen-sixties, and, later, as a professor of philosophy at Mercer University, in Atlanta, Hudson had shunned academic fads—"The Tao of Physics" and the like—and was drawn, instead, to the classics, where he believed the enduring truths resided. He admired Mortimer Adler, who became a friend, and he started his own Great Books courses. Hudson's spiritual migration—he'd been a Southern Baptist minister before his conversion, in 1984—was animated by his wish, as he put it, "to wed the truth of philosophy with revealed truth."
But Hudson's firm doctrinal orthodoxy placed him in the minority within his new faith, as he discovered, to his surprise, soon after taking a teaching job in the philosophy department at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution, in 1989. One day, he was chatting with a sociology professor, a former Jesuit, who asked him why he'd converted. Hudson shared his conversion story, and talked about the perfect accord he'd found in the Catholic faith between mind and soul. His colleague smiled and said, "I used to feel that way, but I don't need it anymore."
"I realized that the Church I had learned to love, and had converted to, was very deep within the detritus of the post-Vatican II confusion," Hudson recalls. He was referring to the contention that followed the Second Vatican Council, which was convened in Rome in 1962 by Pope John XXIII, in the hope of renewing the Church in its mission to present Christ to the world. By the time the Council concluded, four years later, the Church had a new Pope, and a radically transformed understanding of itself. The faithful began to experience changes ranging from a new Mass (said in the vernacular) to the end of meatless Fridays. The progressive wing of the Church felt that Vatican II was a liberation, and invoked its spirit in challenging the faith's core doctrines and theology, often to the point of open dissent. This contingent eventually came to dominate much of the institutional Church, holding sway particularly within the Catholic academy. Catholics who hewed to orthodoxy argued their case on the pages of obscure conservative journals, or from outmanned positions on college faculties, and bided their time. "I realized very quickly that I was going to be a culture warrior within the Church," Hudson says of his arrival at Fordham.
Hudson thrived at Fordham, where, despite his minority view, he got on well with his colleagues and was popular with his students. He took up writing for Catholic journals, in addition to his scholarly work, and ventured onto the lecture circuit, proving himself to be a natural polemicist. But Hudson became a full-time culture warrior sooner than he may have wished, when his academic career suddenly ended, in 1994. After an evening of partying with a group of students on Shrove Tuesday, the eve of Lent, Hudson had a sexual encounter in his Fordham office with an undergraduate. She later informed her dean, and Hudson was strongly urged by Father Joseph O'Hare, the president of the university, to seek employment elsewhere. A lawsuit filed by the young woman was quietly settled, and nondisclosure agreements were signed by all parties.
Hudson moved his family to Washington, D.C., and began a new life. His ideological kinsman, the writer Michael Novak, needed help at Crisis, the Catholic journal he'd co-founded thirteen years earlier, and asked Hudson to become its editor. Hudson agreed, and quickly revitalized the magazine, expanding its subscription base and calling on a network of wealthy, like-minded Catholics for financial support. From his perch at Crisis, Hudson became a prominent figure in Catholic Washington, joining an influential circle of opinion-makers as they cheered the efforts of their champion, Pope John Paul II, to reinterpret Vatican II along orthodox lines. They associated themselves with a group of Catholic bishops, fiercely orthodox and devoted to the Pope ("JPII bishops," they were called), who meant to steer the American Church more toward orthodoxy. Hudson was avowedly Republican, but he fretted that the Party was blind to its Catholic opportunity, mistaking Catholics for an ethnic constituency satisfied by Columbus Day speeches and St. Patrick's Day parades. It was this frustration that prompted Hudson to commission the Catholic-vote study, which concluded, somewhat wishfully, that Bob Dole might actually have won the 1996 Presidential election if he had attracted more Catholics in just a handful of states.
Karl Rove wasn't blind to the Catholic opportunity. When Bush assumed the Presidency, in 2001, Hudson became the volunteer chair of the new Catholic-outreach program of the Republican National Committee. In his book "Onward, Christian Soldiers," Hudson describes himself as "the Catholic gatekeeper" for the White House. The Administration's policies clearly reflected a Catholic influence. On Bush's first workday, he acted to limit federal funding of non-governmental organizations that performed or actively supported abortion as a method of family planning overseas. By the end of his first term, Bush had delivered on every item on a wish list that Hudson says he presented to him at the time of their first formal meeting, in Austin, including its centerpiece, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which Bush signed in 2003. That year, Michael Novak explained Bush to an Italian readership in the journal Studi Cattolici. "Never have Catholics had so solicitous a friend in the White House," Novak wrote. "So pro-Catholic are the president's ideas and sentiments that there are persistent rumors that, like his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, G.W. might also become a Catholic."
Hudson's circle of conservative Catholics diminished the authority of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as the conduit between the Church and the government. "If you wanted to get something to the top inner circles of the White House from a Catholic perspective, you could contact Deal Hudson and it was delivered," William Donohue, the president of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, has said. Diminished, too, was the bishops' more liberal instruction to the faithful regarding their votes, a construct called "a consistent ethic of life." In choosing a political candidate, the bishops advised their parishioners, they should consider hot-button issues like abortion as being just part of the spectrum of issues that are central to Catholic social teaching, alongside opposition to the death penalty, warfare, and poverty. By 2004, some JPII bishops were positing that John Kerry, a pro-choice Catholic, should be denied Communion, and had even suggested that casting a vote for him might be a sin.
All this helped energize that Catholic cohort which the Crisis study had identified as a ready constituency. In 2004, Hudson's outreach team, by blanketing parishes in battleground states with voter guides, working with an e-mail list of a hundred thousand addresses, and sending thousands of volunteers into the field, delivered the Catholic vote to Bush. Hudson's outreach efforts were harmonized with those directed by the evangelical political operative Ralph Reed, a consultant on general voter outreach. Reed, as the head of the Christian Coalition, had largely shaped the religious right and shepherded it into the Republican Party. Rove had engineered a religious political machine that many believed would give Republicans a lasting advantage.
"What Bush did in '04 had never happened before, and it may never happen again," Reed told me recently. In the current Presidential election, that latter possibility actually seems likely. Hudson has played only an attenuated role in this campaign. In midsummer, 2004, during the heat of that campaign, someone at Fordham leaked the records of Hudson's decade-old disgrace; Hudson resigned from the campaign, and as publisher of Crisis as well. Rove, who left the White House a year ago, is now dispensing his advice on Fox News and on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal. Reed, who lost a bid for office in Georgia in 2006, is not officially involved with the McCain campaign. But, where the current election is concerned, the biggest difficulty for Republican religious outreach may be the nominee himself. George Bush is an evangelical who wears his faith on his sleeve, and whom Catholics can imagine as one of their own. When I asked Rove whether John McCain has anything like Bush's purchase on faith-directed voters, he replied, "He does not."
John McCain's accidental education in apocalyptic theology began late last February, on a bright, breezy afternoon in San Antonio. His campaign had arranged for a joint appearance by the candidate and the megachurch pastor John Hagee, who, after months of hesitation, had finally agreed to bestow his endorsement. At that point, McCain had the Republican Presidential nomination in hand, but the Christian right still regarded him with deep misgiving. This was owing, in part, to a sense, widely held by many conservatives, that McCain was really the standard-bearer for the one-man Maverick Party, which made him an unreliable ally in such first-principle matters as gay marriage and judicial appointments. Religious conservatives had been put off by tales of McCain's temper, and by his ungallant termination of his first marriage. They remembered how he had lashed out against their own in 2000, condemning Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as "agents of intolerance," and likening them to Louis Farrakhan and the Reverend Al Sharpton. "I am convinced Senator McCain is not a conservative, and, in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are," the evangelical leader James Dobson said in a statement read to a national radio audience on Super Tuesday. "I cannot and I will not vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience." That week, religious conservatives helped deliver six states to the former Baptist minister Mike Huckabee. When Hagee's endorsement came, three weeks later, McCain hoped that it might begin to repair his relationship with the religious right.
At their joint appearance, outside a San Antonio hotel on February 27th, McCain and Hagee exchanged a hug and a few moments of mutual praise, and then took questions from the press. Hagee was asked how evangelical Christians might rally to McCain. (McCain would have to stress the right things, such as his pro-life voting record, Hagee said.) McCain was tossed a few campaign-trail standards, questions about improving foreign relations, campaign finance, and the like, and then, suddenly, the tone of the event changed. Someone asked McCain what he thought about Pastor Hagee's views on the end of the world. What about Hagee's writing on Armageddon, the great final conflict between good and evil? Did McCain subscribe to Hagee's view that the Antichrist will be the head of the European Union?
Flummoxed, McCain replied, "All I can tell you is that I'm very proud to have Pastor John Hagee's support." He went on, "He has support and respect throughout the nation, and, uh, I've continued to appreciate his support and his advocacy for the freedom and independence of the state of Israel."
McCain stepped back, and looked hopefully to Hagee. "You want to say anything?''
Hagee, a thickset man with a made-for-televangelism baritone, declared, "Our support of Israel has absolutely nothing to do with an end-times, prophetic scenario."
What had been a relatively straightforward political problem for McCain—persuading a skeptical constituency—had suddenly become a vexing eschatological one. Reporters and Internet commentators began to pick through Hagee's writings and sermons, and the McCain campaign found itself trying to explain Hagee's inflammatory interpretations of Scripture, such as his implication that the Roman Catholic Church was the Biblical great whore of Babylon.
Hagee subscribes to a variation of a theology called dispensationalism, which holds that God's human project can be understood schematically, as revealed through Scripture. Formulated and popularized by nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals in England, dispensationalism offered a system for recognizing, through a literal reading of Scripture, the whole of human history—past, present, and future—explained in seven Biblical ages, or dispensations. American evangelicals found great allure in dispensationalism's hyper-Protestant premise—the divine plan, accessible to all through earnest study—and the system was widely promulgated in this country by evangelists like Dwight L. Moody. The most important fundamentalist text, Cyrus I. Scofield's 1909 Reference Bible, in which the tenets of dispensation are outlined in the margins, sold in the millions, and remains in wide circulation today. Many fundamentalists still accept the dispensationalist view—the late Jerry Falwell was a dispensationalist, as is the Reverend Pat Robertson—and many more are at least familiar with its themes. That is partly because of the spectacular dénouement of the seventh, and final, dispensation—the rapture (sudden heavenly ascent) of saved Christians, followed by a seven-year tribulation, during which the Antichrist and a false prophet will install a one-world religion and the forces of good and evil will clash mightily. After the defeat of the False Messiah, Jesus Christ will return to earth and reign in glory for a thousand years, before engaging Satan in one last battle, at Armageddon.
Because Biblical prophecy is largely a literature of symbolism, end-time theology requires a good deal of interpretation. The apocalyptic visions of the prophet Daniel foresaw the emergence of four beasts from the sea, the second of which was a great bearlike creature; Cold War-era dispensationalists saw this as Russia. Falwell believed that the Antichrist, being a counterfeit of Christ, will of necessity be a male Jew. An interpretation of Revelation 17—"I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters. . . . And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON, THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH"—had long been thought by some Protestants to refer to the Catholic Church, and is reflected in Scofield: "Ecclesiastical Babylon is all apostate Christendom, in which the Papacy will undoubtedly be prominent."
Dispensationalism sought to unify the Old Testament and the New, and its literal reading of both indicated that God intended to fulfill his promises to Israel. To many fundamentalists, God's vow to Abraham in Genesis, "Unto thy seed I have given this land," meant that a real, political state of Israel would come into existence and that, with Christ's return, human history would culminate there. These fundamentalists are thus inclined toward a muscular Zionism, and Hagee is among the fiercest of the lot; he is the founder of Christians United for Israel, and McCain's friend and colleague Senator Joseph Lieberman has publicly supported the organization.
McCain was hardly equipped to defend Hagee's eschatology. In arranging Hagee's endorsement, McCain's campaign had apparently failed to take note of the clamor that attended Mike Huckabee's appearance at Hagee's Cornerstone Church, just two months earlier. Huckabee simply ignored the protests, but McCain, the presumptive nominee, would not have that option. As blogs and campaign reporters pressed the Hagee issue, McCain at first firmly stood by the pastor ("I'm very proud to have Pastor John Hagee's support"), but he began to back away ("I don't have to agree with everyone that endorses my candidacy"). The controversy was largely driven by one man, the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, whose usual targets are Hollywood and the liberal media. Donohue condemned McCain's association with Hagee the day after the endorsement and vowed to hound McCain until he renounced him. Interview requests spiked, and Donohue happily obliged, campaigning relentlessly against McCain's embrace of the man whom he called "the biggest anti-Catholic bigot in the evangelical community."
One interested observer outside the McCain campaign began to worry that the damage caused by the controversy would extend beyond John McCain. Ralph Reed suggested that Hagee call his friend Deal Hudson to get his advice. Hudson had lunch with Hagee, listened to his end-time theories, and explained to the pastor the Catholic sensitivity to Protestant calumny. (Martin Luther had been among those who first identified the Catholic Church as the whore of Babylon.) Hagee wrote a letter of apology to Donohue, who, after a congenial meeting with Hagee in New York (arranged by Hudson), publicly made peace with the pastor. (Hagee maintains that his invocation of the term "great whore" was never meant to describe the Catholic Church.)
Donohue was satisfied, but the Hagee controversy persisted. By March, the inflammatory sermons of Barack Obama's former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, had begun to make headlines, and, for the press, the Hagee issue gave McCain a place of equivalence in the pastor-wars story line. In May, the Huffington Post put up an article citing a decade-old sermon in which Hagee suggested that the Holocaust was part of God's plan, as it helped usher Jews back to Palestine. Hagee, who had wearied of the dispute, decided to withdraw his endorsement of McCain. McCain took it a step further, renouncing Hagee's endorsement. Later, he characterized Hagee's end-time statements as "crazy and unacceptable." While he was at it, McCain also rejected the endorsement of the Ohio evangelical pastor Rod Parsley, who had made harsh statements about Islam.
Friends of Hagee say that he was deeply pained by McCain's actions, and other evangelical leaders began to feel that their mistrust of McCain had been warranted. Hudson feared that McCain had wrecked Rove's religious machine, which had been so devastating to John Kerry in 2004, before he had even clinched the nomination. Acting on his own, Hudson sent feelers to some evangelical leaders to gauge the possibility of their working together, independently of the McCain campaign, to defeat Obama. "No way," one evangelical told Hudson, declining the offer. "It might help John McCain."
In retrospect, the most important speech at the Democrats' 2004 Convention wasn't the nominee's ("I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty") but the keynote, delivered by a little-known state senator from Illinois. "We worship an awesome God in the blue states!" Barack Obama intoned. The line, even to the unchurched, sounded like something from a hymn (as was the case). It was a rare thing for a national Democrat to pull a verse from a gospel tune up from his internal playlist, but Obama spoke the phrase credibly, with an easy conviction.
In the sorting out that always follows an election defeat, Democrats decided that Kerry had lost because many voters believed that neither he nor the Democratic Party shared their values. Howard Dean had sensed this as a candidate, but he seemed clueless about how to proceed (citing Job as his favorite book in the New Testament, among many other gaffes). After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House, she commissioned a Democrats' Faith Working Group, a reflexively administrative response to a metaphysical problem.
The most effective Democratic religious outreach has been performed by the Democrat to whom it comes most naturally, Obama. Almost as soon as he joined the Senate, Obama became a prized booking on the speech circuit, where he proved to be fluent in what Jesse Jackson once called "faith talk." Obama spoke forthrightly about his Christian beliefs and about his conversion experience ("Kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side in Chicago, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me"), in a way that was hardly customary for Democratic politicians. In casting Republicans as the dangerous God Party, Democrats had turned themselves into the Secular Party so resolutely as to seem almost hostile to religious faith—a perilous position in a country where ninety-two per cent of the population believe in God, more than two-thirds believe in the presence of angels and demons, and nearly a quarter have said that the attacks of September 11, 2001, are prophesied in the Bible.
Obama addressed this problem in a remarkable speech on June 28, 2006, at a gathering of the Christian-left group Call to Renewal, in Washington, in which he offered a frank critique of liberal queasiness regarding faith. "There are some liberals," Obama said, "who dismiss religion in the public square as inherently irrational or intolerant, insisting on a caricature of religious Americans that paints them as fanatical, or thinking that the very word 'Christian' describes one's political opponents, not people of faith."
Echoing the themes of Deal Hudson's 1998 Catholic-voter report, Obama said, "The single biggest gap in party affiliation among white Americans today is not between men and women, or those who reside in so-called red states and those who reside in blue, but between those who attend church regularly and those who don't." He told secularists that they "are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square," and suggested that "a sense of proportion should also guide those who police the boundaries between church and state."
He went on, "Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation—context matters. It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance feel oppressed or brainwashed as a consequence of muttering the phrase 'under God.' I didn't. Having voluntary student prayer groups use school property to meet should not be a threat, any more than its use by the High School Republicans should threaten Democrats."
Among those who were impressed by that speech was Douglas Kmiec, a professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University School of Law, a Christian school in Malibu, California. Kmiec (pronounced Kuh-meck) was the embodiment of a Reagan Democrat—a Catholic reared in the Democratic Party, who felt that he had been driven into Republican arms by the leftward lurch of the McGovern-era Democrats. When Kmiec turned Republican, he did so with a vengeance. He worked in the Reagan Justice Department (sharing an office with Samuel Alito), and, as it happens, when George W. Bush was elected he returned to Washington from California—he had gone there to teach at Pepperdine—as the dean of Catholic University's Columbus School of Law, spending time with fellow Federalist Society members such as Antonin Scalia and Alito. His son, Keenan, clerked for Alito at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and for John Roberts at the Supreme Court. Kmiec's advice on judicial appointments was heard by the White House, and he was himself considered a candidate for the federal bench. Kmiec was the sort of Republican jurist—smart, devoutly Catholic, and a committed pro-lifer—that Democrats had learned to fear.
After returning to Pepperdine, Kmiec was recruited by Mitt Romney to be the chairman of the Committee for the Courts and the Constitution, for Romney's Presidential campaign. In the era of judicial-appointment wars, such committees are a way of signalling to the Republican base that the candidate is right on such issues as abortion, and Kmiec's association with Romney was meant to give a pro-life seal of approval to a candidate who was once pro-choice. Kmiec became a Romney true believer, and, when Romney withdrew from the race, Kmiec found himself without a Presidential favorite. John McCain held no ideological allure, and Kmiec, like many Romneyites (and Romney himself), felt a lingering resentment toward him. He believed that McCain had resorted to Swift Boat tactics in misrepresenting Romney's position on Iraq. "Let me put this as kindly as I can," he says. "Senator McCain was not the most generous of heart, or honest of disposition, toward his primary opponents. I always want to concede his integrity, because I can't ever envision myself surviving a P.O.W. experience of the kind that he survived, and I admire those years of his life—but that admirable contribution to American history was greatly dimmed by seeing him up close and personal in the primaries."
Kmiec found himself reflecting on Barack Obama, and his Call to Renewal speech. "His insights there were not only significantly different from the Democrats of the past," Kmiec says, "but they were significantly better than either the Democrats or the Republicans of the past, in the sense that he argued that religion shouldn't be a wedge issue, and that we should stop demonizing each other on that basis. Religion necessarily is a source of morality, and morality is necessarily the place where we draw laws from. That in itself, to have acknowledged that, was a key sales point for me, because even the Supreme Court gets itself tangled on that proposition."
A week after Romney withdrew from the race, Kmiec wrote about his Obama reflections in an article for the online magazine Slate, which bore the provocative title "Reaganites for Obama?" Kmiec wrote that Obama's politics of hope reminded him of Reagan's sunny optimism, and he mused that, while abortion was still of paramount importance to Catholics, years of Republican rule had not significantly reduced its occurrence. "Beyond life issues, an audaciously hope-filled Democrat like Obama is a Catholic natural," he wrote.
Kmiec's conservative Catholic friends were aghast, and several of them, including Deal Hudson, rebuked him in Catholic publications, some even suggesting that he was motivated by ambition. Kmiec thought the response heavy-handed, and observed that if this was an example of Republican religious outreach, then John McCain's campaign was in trouble. "It was a brick through the window with a note attached, and the note said, 'Obey, or else,' " he told me. "I never quite figured out what the 'or else' was. I'm a tenured old professor not looking to go anywhere. And I live in Malibu. What is it they're going to dangle in front of me?"
Shortly after his Slate article appeared, Kmiec received a call from a young woman working in the Obama campaign, a friend of Keenan Kmiec (himself now an Obama supporter) who had clerked with him at the Supreme Court. She asked if Kmiec would consider supporting Obama more formally. In that and other conversations with the Obama camp, Kmiec expressed his admiration for the candidate but also his reservations about Obama's position on abortion. Obama was such a staunch supporter of abortion rights that he received NARAL's endorsement over Hillary Clinton, and, at an event for Planned Parenthood, he'd promised that "the first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act"—which would nullify most state restrictions on abortion. Kmiec was assured that Obama's position on abortion was more nuanced than it seemed, and that, although Obama was pro-choice, he was not pro-abortion.
Kmiec eventually got an opportunity to air his doubts to Obama himself, at a Chicago meeting with a select group of religious figures. (Among them was the evangelist Franklin Graham, who asked Obama, "Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the way to God, or merely a way?" Obama responded, "Jesus is the only way for me," and Graham left the meeting impressed.) "I even raised the objection to just talking about abortion as a vehicle for gender equality," Kmiec recalls. "I said, 'You know, this is not language that a Catholic will accept, and I don't accept it. You don't need to use it, if I understand your position correctly. So tell me your position.' And out of that I got an answer that said, 'I would never counsel my daughters to have an abortion. I view it as a profoundly moral decision. It is my purpose to discourage the practice. But it is also my belief that there's no other actor on earth than the mother who can address this question. And to be pro-choice means that you contemplate that the choice can be the choice in favor of life.' That suggests to me that he's got the mental disposition to understand, at least from the Catholic perspective, how abortion is more a tragedy than a method of equality."
Hudson told me that he was astonished by Kmiec's abrupt shift. "Has Doug Kmiec never met a charming politician before?" he asked. He said that Kmiec seems to have adopted the liberal-Catholic construct of "a consistent ethic of life," contextualizing abortion in a spectrum of other Catholic issues. "It sounds like my friend Doug has just completely gone over to the other side," Hudson said.
"I want to say back to Deal, 'We're worshipping at different churches, then,' " Kmiec responded. "The church I have attended since my mother walked me down the block to St. Pascal's, in Chicago, was one that had taught this social gospel. . . . I would say back to Deal, 'Yes, I'm in the Federalist Society, and, yes, I believe in private property and federalism and the separation of powers and all that. But these other beliefs I find fully compatible.' "
Kmiec endorsed Obama on March 23rd—Easter Sunday, his conservative friends noted. A few weeks later, while attending a meeting of Legatus, a Catholic business leaders' association founded by the conservative philanthropist Tom Monaghan, Kmiec attended Mass with his colleagues. The priest declined to serve him Communion.
It remains to be seen whether Kmiec is an anomaly or if he represents a broader willingness by Christian conservatives to reconsider their Republican fealty. Democratic Catholic outreach since 2004 has been earnest, perhaps most usefully in the recruitment of candidates who adhere to the Church's orthodoxy, rather than the Party's, on such matters as abortion. The Party hurt itself badly with Catholics at the 1992 Convention, in New York, when the governor of Pennsylvania, Bob Casey, was denied a speaking role because of his outspoken pro-life views. After the Party's 2004 losses, Casey's son, Bob Casey, Jr., was recruited for a Senate run, despite the objections voiced by pro-choice activists. Casey defeated the religious-right stalwart Rick Santorum, and was among the speakers at the Democratic Convention last week. Doug Kmiec participated in a panel on Thursday, as part of a series of Faith Caucus meetings, a first for Democrats. The Convention had opened with an interfaith gathering on Sunday, featuring remarks from Colorado's governor, Bill Ritter—a Catholic Democrat, with orthodox views. Among the reasons for Obama's selection of Senator Joe Biden as his running mate, the most compelling may have been the fact that Biden is a practicing Catholic. (It may be an indication of Biden's potential in this regard that a Web site called Catholics Against Joe Biden appeared within hours of the selection.)
Obama's pro-choice-but-against-abortion formulation has been taken up by the Party, and is reflected in the Democratic platform. This apparent softening on the abortion issue, however rhetorical, has allowed for a resurgence of the "consistent ethic of life" construct, now being aggressively proposed by Catholic liberals as the proper Catholic approach to issues.
John McCain's religious-outreach effort has been attenuated at best, perhaps reflecting the candidate's pronounced ambivalence toward the religious right, and the insistent agenda of cultural conservatives in general. McCain admitted as much in July, when George Stephanopoulos, of ABC, asked him about his position on gay adoption. He doesn't support it, McCain said, but he added, "It's not the reason why I'm running for President of the United States."
Independents and moderates may admire that attitude, but it is a cold bath to cause-driven activists, who, in another time, would have been able to count upon harmonizing their efforts with those of the national Republican campaign. Activists in California, anticipating a ruling by the state Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriage, launched a drive to put an initiative on the ballot in November that would amend the state's constitution to ban gay marriage. The proposal prompted an extensive support effort—forty-day fasts, prayer marathons, and the like—among Church leaders in California and the two other states that have similar measures, culminating in a daylong stadium rally on the weekend before Election Day. "There has been no dialogue with the McCain campaign at all," says Jim Garlow, the pastor of the Skyline Church, in suburban San Diego, who is one of the drive's organizers. "If I were Senator McCain, I would do everything I could to identify with this issue. I don't know that he will. I have no idea what his campaign is about. At this point, he seems quite low-key on these types of things."
On the evangelical right, there is a pronounced sense that the movement, as a political force, is adrift. This is, in part, the result of a vacuum of leadership, as the movement faces its first election season in a generation without Jerry Falwell on the scene. Younger evangelicals, put off by the image of the Christian right created by Falwell and Pat Robertson, are fiercely pro-life but seem less inclined than their elders to commit themselves to Republican Party politics. Karl Rove has suggested that the movement, though still central to the Republican coalition, may have reached a plateau. "There were a lot of people in 2004 who were motivated to participate in the process because of what they felt to be a personal connection between themselves and President Bush, in part because of the faith link," Rove told me. "I don't think they feel that with either candidate this time around. And one thing we know about people of faith, particularly Protestant evangelicals, is that they tend to flow in and out of the system. Evangelicals, certain elements of them, have a very strong tradition of believing that they need to withdraw from the public life of the country."
George Bush, who was his own best religious-outreach operative, might have been able to fill the vacuum and rally the faith-directed base, and Bush nostalgia is already showing itself among some on the religious right. "George Bush knew how to walk into a room of evangelicals and in five minutes send all the right signals," Albert Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Kentucky, told me. "He almost could have left the room having accomplished in five minutes all that he wanted to accomplish. And that is not the case with John McCain. John McCain can walk into the room and in five minutes have people more puzzled about who he is than they were before he came in."
The signals that McCain does send, especially to the young, are not necessarily helpful to his cause. "You know, a part of it is McCain the man," Mohler says. "A part of it is McCain the candidate. And a part of it is just . . . his age. This is a man who wore a cardigan sweater when he was campaigning in Florida. I mean, I grew up in Florida, and that's sending a signal for sure."
It may be that the greatest motivator for politically conservative Christians is the prospect of a Barack Obama Administration. By midsummer, James Dobson, of Focus on the Family, had reconsidered his vow never to support McCain. On his radio broadcast, with Mohler as his guest, Dobson reiterated McCain's many faults but allowed that even McCain was better than Obama—whom Mohler characterized as "the most liberal candidate, I think, to gain a party nomination probably in the history of this country." Dobson proceeded to offer the most tepid semi-endorsement possible. "I have considered the fact that elections always involve imperfect candidates," he said. "There are no perfect human beings. And you always have to choose between two flawed individuals; that's the way we are all made. So it comes down to this—and I never thought I would hear myself saying this, but it's where I am—that, while I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might. And that's all I can say at this time."
A nose-holding base does not often deliver election victories, but few evangelicals could imagine what McCain might say or do, with any degree of authenticity, that could excite the base. The prospect of McCain's appearance with Barack Obama at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church, on August 16th, made many evangelicals cringe. Mohler was among those who expected the worst from what seemed, given Warren's disdain for sharp partisanship, a venue perfectly tailored to Obama's strengths. But McCain surprised. For many evangelicals, the event turned on the question, posed by Warren to both candidates separately, "At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?" Obama's response, characteristically nuanced, came across as a dodge. "Well," he began, "I think that, whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade." Asked the same question, McCain didn't hesitate. "At the moment of conception," he said, to the loud approval of the congregation.
"I think it was a good start," said Rove, who believes that McCain still needs to reveal more to the public about his personal faith. On Albert Mohler's radio show two days later, the verdict on the event was less tentative. "John McCain just blew Obama right straight out of the water" was one comment from a typical caller. "Politics has a way of making strange bedfellows," Ralph Reed says. "The irony is that McCain has a chance to win as large a percentage of the evangelical vote as Bush did in 2000, and maybe even 2004, which no one would have predicted six months ago." Shortly afterward, of course, McCain thrilled his conservative base further with the selection of the fervently Christian Governor Sarah Palin, of Alaska, as his Vice-Presidential nominee. ("A home run," Reed declared to the Times, and Dobson called the choice "outstanding.")
The Saddleback event illuminated Obama's greatest liability for faith-based voters: his resolute support for abortion rights. Many, including Doug Kmiec, winced when Obama said, at a town-hall meeting last spring, that he supported sex education because he didn't want his daughters "punished with a baby." The week after the Saddleback event, conservative commentators advanced the theme that Obama supported infanticide, as evidenced by his opposition to a 2003 bill in the Illinois legislature requiring medical personnel to attempt to sustain the lives of babies that survive abortion procedures. Obama's various explanations—that the bill threatened the rights established by Roe v. Wade; that his opposition was largely procedural—did not stand up well to scrutiny, and even Doug Kmiec admitted to having doubts.
"Here is a bit of an Achilles' heel," Kmiec says. "Senator Obama the candidate, as many have observed, is different from Senator Obama the legislator. That's the unanswered question about the Senator. And it's a question that does require a leap of faith on my part, and on the part of anyone who comes to him from perspectives like my own."
Kmiec has decided that he is willing to take that leap. Obama has no reason to expect a mass exodus of religious conservatives from the Republican ranks, but if he can persuade even a portion of those voters who were swayed to Bush's side by the Rove religious machine, it could be enough.
In Rove's view, Obama has already begun to transform the faith-unfriendly Democratic image that made the Republicans' 2000 and 2004 strategies possible.
"The overt hostility of some elements of the Democratic Party is being usefully scrubbed away by Obama," Rove says. "And, for that, everybody in America ought to be thankful." ♦


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Adoption: Return to Sender?
When a Tennessee mom put her 7-year-old adopted son on a one-way flight back to Russia, it caused an uproar that made the subject of international adoptions front-page news. Dr. Phil speaks with adoptive moms who say they relate to the woman's decision, and unless you walk a mile in their shoes, you have no way of understanding. Learn what the experts say you should do to prepare for a cross-cultural adoption and how to get through the adoption process the right way.
Jayne says she had no idea the 2-year-old little girl she adopted from the Ukraine eight years ago, Mikhaela, was profoundly deaf and autistic. Jayne says the now 10-year-old has multiple behavioral disorders and kicks, bites, punches and tries to hurt herself daily, and is getting too strong for her to handle.
"I've been running on empty for about five years now. I have nothing left to give."
Kristi says all the love in the world couldn't help the daughter she adopted from China, who has been placed in out-of-home care in order to keep Kristi's other children safe. Kristi says she wasn't even close to being qualified to parent her now 14-year-old daughter, Tierney.
"She had a plan to take out the entire family."
Jodi says her adopted daughter's destructive behavior almost drove her to complete insanity. Jodi didn't know where her daughter, Victoria's, fear and rage was coming from. She says parents need to understand what early childhood traumas these children go through in order to be able to help them.
"It took three years before we found a therapist who could diagnose her."
Not all international adoptions go poorly. Cindy, a Dr. Phil staff member, says adopting her little girl from China in 2000 was the best thing she's ever done. Dr. Phil and his experts give tips on how to properly prepare for an international adoption.
"You have to go in with your eyes wide open, preparing for the worst and hoping for the best outcome."


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I'm very happy with the new house. Despite all the boxes I felt at home from day one. I started the unpacking in the kitchen, which is wonderful to work in. I even did a few baking experiments while I was emptying the boxes (think chocolate brownies + pie). I don't know if anyone else relates to this but it seems each time we move we start eating differently (I know we've moved often in the last years but now we're done). Maybe it's because we are grocery shopping in new stores and seeing things we had stopped noticing in stores at your old place. Now it seems we have entered some kind of a hummus phase. It also happened in Antwerp but here I'm eating even more hummus (it reminds me that I haven't shared a hummus recipe on the food blog). These days it's mainly Moroccan-inspired hummus devoured with pita bread and vegetables - yum!
Do any of you have a desk in the bedroom? It's something I have always liked but I'm seriously thinking about it now because of our very spacious bedroom. The movers actually put my desk and rattan storage trunk in here when emptying the vans, and I like them in here. In our old place these items were in my study room and our male Persian cat used to sleep in it, on the windowsill. Now his favourite sleeping spot seems to be this room, the windowsill next to the desk (he's sleeping there right now). It almost feels as if he's chosen this room as my study, that he's telling me to just keep the desk in here. If I go for it I will avoid the office look, I will only place a lamp and a few books on the table and keep the bookshelves downstairs.
Speaking of bookshelves, I'm off to the kitchen to grab some hummus before unpacking the books. There is a bookshelf downstairs that looks lonely without any, and so does the coffee table in the sitting area. Have a wonderful day!
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Accuracy of seats and abutments
Geometrical and running accuracy
Maximum running accuracy, high speeds and low operating temperatures can only be achieved, even with super-precision bearings, if the mating parts and other associated components are made with equal precision as the bearings. Deviations from geometric form of associated seats and abutments should therefore be kept to a minimum when machining mating parts. Form and position recommendations in accordance with ISO 1101:2012 are provided in table 1.
Thin-walled bearing rings adapt themselves to the form of their seat. Any errors of form on the shaft or housing seat can therefore affect the bearing raceways and bearing performance, e.g. angular misalignment of one bearing ring relative to the other, can cause loss of running accuracy, load concentration and high operating temperatures, particularly at high speeds. The numerical values of IT tolerance grades in accordance with ISO 286-1:2010 are listed in table 2.
Surface roughness
The surface roughness of a bearing seat does not have the same degree of influence on bearing performance as the dimensional and geometrical tolerances of the seat. However, obtaining a desired interference fit depends on the roughness of the mating surfaces, which is directly proportional to fit accuracy. Guideline values for the mean surface roughness Ra are listed in table 3 for different bearing tolerance classes. These recommendations apply to ground seats.


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Monument to John Rae, MC, LL.D, FRS, FRGS by Joseph Whitehead (active 1889-95). St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney. [Click on images for larger pictures.] According to the Mapping Sculpture site, "Possibly the Joseph Whitehead, born in London c.1824 and living at 11 Linnet (?) Road, Fulham in 1891, who described himself as an 'Ornamental Artist.'"
John Rae (1813-93), a Scottish physician who worked for the Hudson Bay Company, learned Inuit ways of living in the Aerctic and explored northern Canada. According to Wikipedia
He learned to live off the land like the Inuit and working with the local craftsmen, designed his own snow shoes. This knowledge allowed him to travel great distances with little equipment and few followers, unlike many other explorers of the Victorian Age.
In 1844-45, wanting to learn how to survey, Rae walked 1200 miles over two months in the winter forest, a feat that earned him the Inuit nickname Aglooka, "he who takes long strides." In 1846 Rae went on his first expedition and in 1848 joined Sir John Richardson in searching for the Northwest Passage.
While exploring the Boothia Peninsula in 1854 Rae made contact with local Inuit, from whom he obtained much information about the fate of the lost naval expedition [led by John Franklin]. His report to the British Admiralty carried shocking and unwelcome evidence that cannibalism had been a last resort for some of the survivors.
As Wikipedia points out, "Franklin's widow Lady Jane Franklin was outraged" and encouraged well-known authors, including Dickens, to attack the Socttish physican. Wikipedia, however, incorrectly claims that Charles Dickens " wrote several pamphlets condemning Rae for daring to suggest British Naval sailors would have resorted to cannibalism." In fact, Dicken's "Lost Arctic Voyagers" explicitly defends Rae:
we will premise that we find no fault with Dr. Rae, and that we thoroughly acquit him of any trace of blame. He has himself openly explained, that his duty demanded that he should make a faithful report, to the Hudson's Bay Company or the Admiralty, of every circumstance stated to him; that he did so, as he was bound to do, without any reservation; and that his report was made public by Admiralty: not by him. It is quite clear if it were an ill-considered proceeding to disseminate this painful idea on the worst evidence, Dr. Rae is not responsible for it.
According to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, recent scholarship confirms the cannibalism, though some have suggested that lead-poisoning from pioneering but primitive canned goods played an important role in the expedition's disastrous end. Rae, who grew up in the Orkneys, recognized that obvious fact that the Inuit, who had centuries of experience in the Arctic, knew more about surviving in polar conditions that did upper-class Englishmen. Typically, he was savaged by many in the English press for reporting the facts as he found them. Whereas Franklin is memorialized standing next to the Athenæum and London's most prestigious clubs — in other words, close to the center of the Empire — the truly heroic Rae found his memorial in a church far from London and in a sculpture that modestly makes no claims to heroism.
Photographs and captions by Robert Freidus; commentary by George P. Landow.. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the Victorian Web and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite it in a print one.]
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- An Introduction to Dickens's "The Lost Arctic Voyagers"
- The Franklin Expedition: 1845-1859
- The Search for the North-West Passage: 1497-1845
- The Lost Arctic Voyagers
- Noble's Franklin Expedition Monument
- Cannibals on the Northern Ice: Nationalist Ideals, the Big Lie, and the Franklin Expedition
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. "Terror to Terror: How heroic lies replaced hideous reality after the Arctic death of Sir John Franklin." Times Literary Supplement. (13 November 2009): 3-4.
Gifford, John. Highland and Islands. London: Penquin, 1992
"Joseph Whitehead." Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Web. 3 May 2011.
Lambert, Andrew. Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Exploration. London: Faber, 2009.
Dickens, Charles. "The Lost Arctic Voyagers." Household Words, 2 December 1854.
"Lead solder big factor in deaths of explorers." Victoria Times-Colonist . 1 February 1990. B9.
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Show us the big data money: Isilon gets Hadooped
One-stop Hadoop/Isilon/Greenplum shop
EMC is betting big on big data analytics and has integrated the Hadoop filesystem into its Isilon scale-out filer offering and enabled its Greenplum analytics product to use Hadoop data.
Hadoop is an object-style distributed and scalable open source filesystem (HDFS) implemented across a cluster of datanodes and a single NameNode, with a secondary NameNode in larger clusters to snapshot the primary NameNode's data structures and to be used as a rebuild resource if the primary NameNode fails. The NameNode contains metadata about files stored in the datanodes which serve them up on request.
HDFS is popular today in universities, especially in life sciences, as well as for some Web 2.0 applications. Part of EMC's pitch is that the NameNode is a single point of failure and there is no high-availability for it, effectively, it claims, ruling it out for enterprise data centres. The company reckons that there is a large opportunity to provide Hadoop systems for big data analytics in corporate data centres if HDFS could be made usable in the enterprise-sense and manageable by ordinary storage admins. That's what it's doing by providing an integrated Isilon-HDFS storage back-end for a Greenplum HD analytics front-end.
With the Isilon OneFS v6.5 release, EMC has provided a one-stop Apache Hadoop shop and what it sees as missing facilities in the Hadoop world, namely:
- A sharable instead of a dedicated storage infrastructure;
- high availability for the NameNode;
- protection through snapshots (SnapshotIQ), replication (SyncIQ) and backup (NDMP, backup);
- improved storage efficiency beyond the 3X data mirroring of basic HDFS to the 80 per cent level;
- ability to scale compute and capacity separately; and
- automated data import/export via NDS, CIFS, FTP, and HTTP
Nick Kirsch, Isilon's director of product management, said of the NameNode implementation: "This is unique. The NameNode is now part of our distributed metadata. Every node is a NameNode."
Next Greenplum has certified Apache Hadoop, provided platform management and control, and parallel analytics access with the Greenplum database. EMC is also providing design and training services, 24x7 support around the world and a roadmap for development.
EMC contrasts its approach with that of Oracle and NetApp, neither of whom, EMC claims, can provide Hadoop natively integrated with their storage arrays; full HA for the NameNode; the same level of storage efficiency; multi-protocol access; and corporate-level protection features.
Purdue University has tried out the Isilon/Hadoop combo in its statistics department and has endorsed it, saying that there is now no need for a separate Hadoop data silo and that its users now had "a single, shared storage resource for data computing and analytics". Its statisticians do more statistics and less Hadoop infrastructure management.
EMC claims these added features will make Hadoop more usable by enterprises and also that enterprise Hadoop users will increasing look to data scientists (See Wikibon description) to statistically analyse their big data sets for meaningful – and monetisable – information. After all, the ability to monetise the crunched data is the big data pay-off.
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Coach Jon Ireland enters his fifth season at the helm of the Lipscomb Lady Bisons soccer team with one goal in mind -- the program's first berth in the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament.
In each of the last four seasons the Lady Bisons have won four games, the most ever by the program in a season. Ireland's team finished 4-14-0 last season. In his three seasons at the helm of the program, Ireland has an overall record of 16-55-4.
Ireland is driven by a love for the game that began when he was 7 years old in Searcy, Ark.
"I was at church and this man came up to my father and told him he should get his boys to play soccer," said Ireland. "We didn't know anything about it. We signed up and it turned into a life-long passion."
It is a passion shared by the entire family.
Ireland and his four brothers all have played and excelled in soccer. Ireland also has two sisters, one of whom played soccer. One brother, Jeff, coaches at Faulkner University. Another brother, Joseph, is a recent graduate of Harding where he played soccer; he is now an assistant coach on the Lipscomb staff. Josh will be a freshman soccer player at Harding. And he has a 15-year-old brother, Josiah, who is also on his way to a future college career. One of his sisters, Amy, also played soccer at Harding.
Ireland admits the technical points of the game were not what attracted him to soccer at the beginning.
"I enjoyed it, but at the age of seven I think the coolest thing was the uniforms and the refreshments you got after the game," said Ireland. "We played baseball for one year, but our father encouraged us to find something we loved to do and dedicate ourselves to that sport and become the best that we could."
He has goals for his team that go beyond winning games.
"I'm big in terms of goal setting and not focusing just on wins because sometimes we don't have control as to who wins game," Ireland said. "You can do everything you can to win and somehow lose."
"We focus on what we can control such as fitness, discipline, organization, team work and motivation. If you focus on those things the wins will come."
Ireland spends a great deal of time studying the styles of successful coaches, regardless of the sport, from football legend Vince Lombardi to Phil Jackson, the coach of the NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers.
"I like to read about how they handle situations," said Ireland. "I'm not really sure there is a formula because every situation is different, but there is so much you can learn from those types of coaches regardless of what type of sport they are involved with."
"I want to see how they motivate their teams. I want to find out how they run their camps. I want to see how they treat their players and how they handle discipline situations. Successful coaches have a lot to offer."
Ireland admits he has an "old-fashioned" approach to the game, something he first learned from one of his club coaches.
"He was very strict in terms of people being on time," said Ireland. "Our practices were very structured and we worked very hard. I had a coach in high school who was very organized. He always came to practice with everything written down that he wanted to get done."
"Every coach is focused in on different things," said Ireland. "But one of the biggest things that influenced me, even as a player, was the discipline factor and how important that was in holding things together and making a team work."
Ireland was the head coach for the women's soccer program at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala., prior to joining the Lipscomb program. In 2006, his only year working with the NAIA program, he guided Faulkner to a 10-8 record and a trip to the conference tournament. Prior to that, the Faulkner women's soccer team had never won more than three games in a season.
He also spent four years as an assistant coach at Harding University in Searcy, Ark., before making the move to Faulkner.
Ireland's coaching experience covers almost all areas of soccer. He worked as an Olympic Development Program coach from 2000 to 2004. In club soccer, four of his teams combined to win seven state championships in Arkansas from 1997 to 2005.
His licenses include a USSF National "B" License, an NSCAA Goalkeeper Level I diploma and an NSCAA Goalkeeper Level II diploma.
Ireland, a midfielder-defender during his playing days, played college soccer at Harding from 1999 to 2003. He served as team captain in 2002 and 2003. He was an All-Gulf South Conference selection in 2003. He was also the assists leader in the conference as well as a member of the All-Gulf South All-Academic Team.
He graduated from Harding in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology. He is working on his Master's of Science in sports counseling at Harding.
He and his wife, Hailee, reside in Nashville. Hailee is a nurse at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.


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Contributed by Richard Dixon, Senior Analyst MEMS, iSuppli
Back in February 2009 the iSuppli MEMS and sensor team reported on trends in the automotive magnetic sensor market, and has since completed a comprehensive report on the whole market for silicon magnetic sensor elements and ICs – predominantly Hall, asymmetric magnetoresistive (AMR) and giant magnetoresistive (GMR) based devices. This article provides the cliff notes of our special report and briefly compares different technologies and highlights just some of the many applications for this very pervasive sensor.
Where do these sensors play? The fields are broad and include:
- High-cost applications like industrial motors that require accurate knowledge of rotor position to control loads
- Mid-priced automotive sensor ICs that measure rotation speed angle, and position
- Low-cost consumer and mobile phone products


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A new filing in a dispute over a Rudolf Stingel has illustrated more of the background in the case of Inigo Philbrick, particularly how the dealer would move between classifying the transfers of works as sales or loans. "That is the real story here of what is going on with all of these Inigo deals—there was a lot of easy money allowing him to perpetrate these frauds, not only from the Reubens but others as well," says attorney Judd Grossman. Read More »
Russian museums are seizing on Vladimir Putin's idea to open satellite venues in various regions of the country as a move to improve living standards. "We must organise branches of such museums in regional centers of the Russian Federation, so works of art don't lie around in storage or in basements, but so people see them," Putin said. Read More »
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Kansas forward Thomas Robinson announced on Monday that he will forgo his senior season and enter the NBA draft.
"I've been blessed enough to have the option to forgo my senior season and enter the NBA draft," Robinson said at a press conference Monday morning with his coach, Bill Self and little sister, Jayla, by his side.
Robinson averaged 17.9 points and 11.8 rebounds his junior year and led the nation with 27 double doubles. The first unanimous All-American since Blake Griffin, Robinson responded marvelously to more playing time this season, averaging 31.8 minutes a game for the Jayhawks after spending his first two years with the team in more of bench role.
Considered promising but more raw than polished before this season, Robinson eventually came into his own and took the Jayhawks to the NCAA championship game.
The 6-foot-10 power forward joins other Jayhawks the likes of Mario Chalmers and Josh Shelby to leave the program early for the NBA and is a projected top-ten pick in this summer's NBA draft.


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Live Case at TCT Mirrors PRS Patient Specific Simulation Rehearsal
13 Dec, 2012, 19:16 GMT
CLEVELAND, December 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
The Simbionix PROcedure™ Rehearsal Studio (PRS) was put to the test when Barry T. Katzen, MD, FACR, FACC, FSIR, Founder/ Medical Director of Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute utilized the technology to pre-operatively plan and rehearse for a Live Case he performed at the 2012 TCT Conference. Following the rehearsal done in advance of the surgery, Dr. Katzen performed the EVAR endovascular intervention live at the TCT. This "Future Techniques for Endovascular Therapy" session demonstrated new techniques for possible improvements on a variety of procedures in the endovascular space.
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The practice session involved the pre-operative review of the patient's anatomy, selection of tools dedicated for EVAR procedure, including deploying a Gore C3 Excluder endoprosthesis .The patient had challenging anatomy with a lot of iliactortuosity and a fairly big flow lumen which posed technical challenges for the group of physicians doing this procedure.
The patient's CT scan was downloaded into the PRS which allowed Dr. Katzen to create a patient-specific 3D virtual anatomical model. Dr. Katzen used it to plan and practice the endovascular intervention which included the identification of the appropriate access strategy, selection of tools, guide wires, catheters, endoprosthesis as well as choosing the effective fluoroscopic views.
At TCT, Dr. Katzen showed the practice video and then performed the actual surgery on the patient they had rehearsed earlier. The live case replicated the rehearsal. http://simbionix.com/simbionix_videos/tct-2012-evar-live-case-video/
"The patient presented several anatomic challenges that were realistically demonstrated in the simulator," said Dr. Katzen.
"As a result of the PRS simulation, we reevaluated our measurements and modified the right side of the limb. We verified, went back and recalculated everything and basically adjusted the right limb size. We felt that it was going to work and it did," said Dr. Katzen. "The simulation has predicted type Ib endoleak in the right limb which we actually corrected with a balloon and didn't have to put in another graft."
"I find the rehearsing part of the simulation incredibly interesting," said Dr. Katzen. "This will be great for a surgeon or an Interventionalist because it is all about better outcomes."
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compile "org.grails.plugins:wicket:1.4.9"
Wicket PluginIf you want to use the Wicket framework as an alternative view rendering technology on top of GORM then this plug-in is for you
Supports wicket version 1.4.9Plugin is up-to-date for Grails 1.3 using Groovy 1.7Anonymous inner classes support was added in Groovy 1.7 making it possible to use pure Wicket syntax without any workarounds.
FeaturesThe plug-in provides the following features:
- Hot reloading of the WicketApplication class
- Hot reloading of Wicket Pages and views
- Integration with GORM and the underlying Spring container
Installing the Plug-inThe plug-in is available from the Grails central repository and can be installed with:
The installation process will create a class called WicketApplication at the location grails-app/conf/WicketApplication.groovy
grails install-plugin wicket
Pages and ViewsThe plug-in provides a new directory under grails-app/pages where you should create your Wicket page classes which should end in the convention "Page" if you want hot reloading to happen. For example:
Now define the view in grails-app/views:
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.WebPage import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.basic.Label import org.apache.wicket.PageParameterspublic class HelloPage extends WebPage { public HelloPage(final PageParameters parameters) { add(new Label("message", "If you see this message wicket is properly configured and running!")); } }
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Australian consumers are being advised to hang up on scammers who claim they are owed money for receiving telemarketing calls while registered on the Australian Communications and Media Authority's (ACMA) Do Not Call Register.
An ACMA spokesman told Computerworld Australia that the scammers usually request an upfront payment of $149 in order to process the compensation funds which can vary from $300 up to $3000.
ACMA clients targeted with phishing emails
Security threats explained: Social engineering
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"The Do Not Call Register does not contact people to advise that they are entitled to compensation, or to confirm personal details," he said in a statement.
"People should not provide any personal identification or financial details to scammers claiming to represent the Register."
He added that the Authority had been targeted in a variation of the scam during October 2011 where consumers received calls from people claiming to be from the Data Protection Council which is part of the ACMA.
In addition, the authority reported last year that callers were requesting fees to add a person's number on the Do Not Register list.
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On this date in...
1953: On VALIANT LADY, Helen (Nancy Coleman) told Jane (Helen Wagner) about her experience with the pilot. Watch the episode below.
1975: On THE EDGE OF NIGHT, "Josie" (Louise Shaffer) learned she might spend her life in prison for the murder of Mark Faraday.
1981: Wayne Northrop debuted as Roman Brady in DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
1985: German soap opera LINDERSTRAßE ('Linden Street') premiered.
1988: Actress Anne Seymour, who played Cornelia Exiter in ANOTHER WORLD and Beatrice Hewitt in GENERAL HOSPITAL, died at age 79.
1994: On ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Joey (Nathan Fillion) wanted Dorian (Robin Strasser)to apologize to Viki.
1996: Howard E. Rollins Jr. (Ed Harding, ANOTHER WORLD, FBI Agent, ALL MY CHILDREN) died at age 46 due to complications from the AIDS virus. Check out our recent World AIDS Day tributes here.
1998: On ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Viki (Erika Slezak) and Clint (Clint Ritchie) were at odds over Jessica's pregnancy.
2009: AS THE WORLD TURNS was canceled. CBS aired the final episode of the 54 year old soap on September 17, 2010.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Michael Levin (ex-Jack, RYAN'S HOPE; ex-John, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Tim, ALL MY CHILDREN) - 80
Billy Hufsey (ex-Emilio, DAYS OF OUR LIVES; ex-Bartender, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) - 54
Teri Hatcher (ex-Susan, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES; ex-Angelica, CAPITOL) - 48
Dominic Monaghan (ex-Simon, FLASHFORWARD; ex-Charlie, LOST) - 36
Ian Somerhalder (Damon, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES; ex-Boone, LOST) - 34
AnnaSophia Robb (Carrie, THE CARRIE DIARIES) - 19
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