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(Fairfield, CT) - Ten Sacred Heart University Indoor Track and Field student-athletes were made All-NEC honors for their idoor seasons, announced by the Northeast Conference Monday afternoon.
For the Men's Indoor team, which finished second in the NEC team standings with 116 points, Bertony Jean-Louis (Norwalk, CT) and Drayke Jackson (East Northport, NY) both made the All-NEC First Team in their events. Jean-Louis, who finished 12th in the NCAA Championships in the 60-Meter Hurdles with a time of 7.84 seconds and broke the school and venue record with a 7.76 second time at the IC4A, paced the NEC with a 8.02 second time. Jackson earned his honors in the High Jump event with a bound of 2.07 meters, best in the conference as well.
Patrick Peterson (Gloversville, NY), Jeremy Rosado (Brooklyn, NY), and Brandon Hutchison (Bay Shore, NY) all made the All-NEC Men's Indoor Second Team. Peterson ran a 1:52.62 in the 800 Meter. Rosado finished just behind his teammate Jean-Louis with a time of 8.10 in the 60-Meter Hurdles. Hutchison recorded a leap of 6.69 meters in the Long Jump.
For the Women's Indoor Team, which finished third in the NEC team standings with 109.5 points, Brittney Lane (Greenwich, NY) and Athalia Smith (New Britain, CT) were both individual champions in their events to earn All-NEC Women's Indoor First Team honors. Lane led all NEC'ers in the 3000 Meter ith a time of 9:51.47, while Smith won the Weight Throw with a toss of 18.22 meters.
Lane also earned All-NEC Women's Indoor Second Team honors in the 5000 Meter with a time of 17:35.55. Joining her on the second team are Brittany Henninger (Bristol, CT), Lindsay Aponte (West Islip, NY), and Kolbi Smith (Valatie, NY). Henninger finished the Mile Run in 4:59.03, Aponte recorded a Shot Put toss of 14.21 meters, and Smith threw 17.80 meters in the Weight Throw.
Freshmen Ashia Wright (Chesire, CT) made the NEC Women's Indoor All-Rookie Team with a time of 7.77 seconds in the 60-Meter Hurdles.


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Maximum Likelihood Estimation II: Advanced Topics
- David Darmofal, University of South Carolina
- Eline de Rooij, Simon Fraser University
This is the second course offered in models that rely on maximum likelihood as a primary method of estimation. This course will be devoted to the analysis of longitudinal data: that is, data that vary both across units and over time.
The first section of the course covers methods for making inferences with repeated observations data, focusing mostly on the theory and estimation of models for panel and time-series cross-section data. Topics covered include fixed effects, random effects, dynamic panel models, random coefficient models, models for spatial dependence, and models for qualitative dependent variables.
The second section of the course will cover methods and models for survival data. Survival data record the length of time until some event occurs, for example, the termination of a cabinet government or the time until an unemployment spell ends. Because time-to-event occurrence is an important feature of these kinds of data, methods suitable to duration data are sometimes called "event history analysis." This portion of the course will consider a wide variety of survival methods, including some non-traditional models for categorical data.
Prerequisites: A course in maximum likelihood estimation and/or generalized linear models (such as probit, logit, and event counts) at the level of Long's Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables or Faraway's Extending the Linear Model with R is a prerequisite for this course. Course participants should also be familiar with the multiple regression model in matrix form.
Fees: Consult the fee structure.
Tags: probit, logit, logistic regression, duration models, hazard models, panel data, generalized linear models, spatial dependence, qualitative dependent variable, event history analysis, survival analysis
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Location: ICPSR -- Ann Arbor, MI
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Simon Cowell's departure from "American Idol" has left a showbiz hole that Engelbert Humperdinck wants to fill. Yes, that's right, Engelbert Humperdinck.
The 74-year-old King of Romance and crooner of such hits as "After the Lovin' " is even working the PR machine flaunting a killer tan and a 44-year showbiz career as reasons he should sit in the hot seat. Forget for a moment that the average Fox viewer of the show has no earthly idea of who he is except for a very eccentric name.
His agent Vicki Roberts told PR Wire that Humperdinck's intimate knowledge of staging music shows is a big leg up on the competition. This wouldn't be his first rodeo. "That, along with his legendary status, is why he is the perfect candidate for the position of judge on 'American Idol,' " she noted.
Her colleague Arthur Andelson pointed to the "flexibility of his schedule" (not always a good sign for performers) as a big reason. "I can think of no better music legend to step into the position of judge and lend his expertise to the "American Idol" phenomenon," Andelson stated.
Other names who have been tossed out for the vacated judge's role include Howard Stern, Elton John and Madonna. Humperdinck, who threw out the perfectly normal name of Arnold George Dorsey early in his career, is a longshot at best. That is unless the Facebook crowd gets ahold of the mother of all campaigns.


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Can you believe that it is the last week of September and October 1, 2009 is Thursday? Where in the world did this year go? It certainly didn't feel like fall here this week. It was so humid we had to turn our A/C back on. Tonight however, it is glorious out. So cool & almost crisp! It smells like fall!
Update on the pumpkin shortage – I found large cans of pumpkin at Meijer today. They were the store brand, though, not Libby's. I have a friend here in Columbus who found some at Kroger, but they were going fast.
Cheryl at Gluten-free Goodness is hosting this week's Gluten-free Menu Swap with a vegetarian theme. I have been loving my vegetarian meals lately. Here are some of my favorites: Honey Baked Lentils, Cocoa Coconut Chili, and the Mexican Pizzas I am making on Wednesday.
Onto the menu. This week is the last week before hockey starts. Evaluations are this weekend and then the craziness begins.
Sunday ~ Rotisserie Chicken (Lemon Herb), mashed garlic potatoes (Aaron's specialty), steamed green beans & salad
Monday ~ Burgers (beef or turkey), baked fries or pan-fried potatoes, broccoli & salad
Tuesday ~ Mexican night. Tacos or Mexican Pizzas, refried beans, corn & salad
Wednesday ~ Spaghetti with marinara (Marinutta for me) & veggies (eggplant & zucchini) & salad
Thursday ~ Herb roasted pork loin, roasted squash, sugar snap peas & salad
Friday ~ Pizza night and salad
Saturday ~ Leftovers
Baked Goods
Pamela's Bread
Information on the 22nd Annual Celiac Conference in Columbus.
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Michelle Rhee and Eva Moskowitz on School Choice
Rhee, the former chancellor of DC Public Schools, and Moskowitz, head of a NYC charter school, were asked at an event last week what they thought of the Supreme Court decision upholding Arizona's K-12 scholarship donation tax credit program. The program offers a dollar-for-dollar tax cut to anyone who donates to a non-profit Scholarship Tuition Organization (and the STOs then help families pay for private school tuition).
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According to a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, dated Dec. 7, 2012:
On 12-7-2012, approximately 4:00 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office was notified by the Redwood Memorial Hospital that a gun shot victim was brought into the emergency room. A citizen had found the victim "staggering" on State Route Highway 36, near Bridgeville at a turnout, and transported the victim to the hospital. The victim is a 24 year old white male who resides in Hydesville. When deputies met with the victim he told deputies he could not remember much. He said he had hitchhiked out to the Bridgeville area from Hydesville, on 12-6-2012 during the day. He had three different people pick him up and provide him rides. The victim has provided little information so far to investigators. The victim is being treated for a non-life threatening injury. The case is still under investigation.
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I neglected to take 'before' pictures but these are some pictures I shot this morning of 'during'. The barn was white (but very weathered) and DH took a wire wheel grinder to the WHOLE THING. Yes, he's tenacious like that. I mean that in a good way! It took him HOURS and HOURS of standing in the bucket of a the bucket truck moving his arms up and down, over and over again. I would have gotten sick of it and given up LONG before I was done but not him. (One of the many reasons why he's MY man.) So these pictures show the barn in it's 'stripped' condition. Today he is priming it so hopefully I will have some 'after' pictures to show you soon.
|I couldn't help but include this 'distant' shot with the windmill in the foreground.
|This is the end of the barn that faces the house. DH is planning to remove the spouting and
Yours Truly is thinking that a huge lighted star needs to go on the end for the holiday season. :)
|This is the "road" side of the barn so this is the best shot I could get without going into the pasture (which is very muddy right now.)
|This is the 'driveway' side of the barn.
|And this is the 'shop' end of the barn.
(Please try not to notice that I haven't gotten any further on the bathtub since July.)
So there you have it. Want to guess what color we are painting it? (Since it's his barn, DH chose the color.)
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The 2011 kiteboarding championship rules see an addition in the line-up of major events. The new major discipline is called "Kite Cross" and incorporates the former side-disciplines as BoarderX, Slalom, Long Distance, Crossings etc. into one competition format with official world ranking and championship title.
As a natural progression of racing as well as being the perfect crossover discipline between the various kiteboarding disciplines, KiteCross is designed to bring the action close to the beach and right in front of the crowds and media in an easy to understand K.O. elimination system.
Fully utilizing recent developments in equipment, the KiteCross format allows a wide variety of courses to be set, enabling each race to be tailored in a way that allows both public and TV cameras to easily follow the competition, creating maximum excitement, interaction and enjoyment for spectators both on the beach and watching the event on TV.
Courses are generally based around downwind or figure-eight slalom courses (with or without obstacles to jump over), but can include any number of variations, some of the most dramatic of which include including long distance and between the island style races for the entire fleet. The spectacle of up to one hundred riders blasting across a start line, at over thirty knots, to do battle over miles of open water has to be seen to be fully appreciated !
The majority of competitions will be held on downwind slalom courses with or without obstacles in a multiple single elimination format, where only a number of competitors advance from round to round. While the final championships are not published yet it is expected that the format follows an adopted "no rules" format with direct refereeing and only a minimal set of rules like "boards on opposite tacks" and "dangerous sailing".
The preliminary championship rules can be found here.
The dates for the 2011 world and continental championships (champions decided in one-off events) are to be published beginning of January 2011.


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SinC Education Grant
If you could use some free money to help with writing related conferences, classes and workshops, this grant is for you. Better yet, our grant-writer pro Jeremy Kane has offered to help with your grant application.
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Education Grant Opportunity
February 16, 2018
Dear M.,
We are very excited about this new benefit for our members!
Have you ever thought about attending a writer's conference? Does your
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SinC wants to help, by giving you $150 - that's cold hard cash - for
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SinC will award grants to at least 100 members in 2018 on a first-apply,
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Below are the important details. There's more fine print on our
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WHO IS ELIGIBLE? You must submit a grant application and receive
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Example: Member joins SinC in 2016. She can apply for a grant to be used
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The allure of Google's billions wasn't enough to get Hulu to stream a deal with the Mountain View giant.
The video-streaming site said Thursday it has ended talks to sell its business to suitors, some of whom had been rumored to be Google and Dish Network.
"Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling strategic value to each of its owners, we have terminated the sale process and look forward to working together to continue mapping out its path to even greater success. Our focus now rests solely on ensuring that our efforts as owners contribute in a meaningful way to the exciting future that lies ahead for Hulu," the company said in a statement.
The search company reportedly had offered up to $4 billion for the company on the condition that Hulu could provide two more years on its existing television contracts.


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A contentious bill requiring politically active nonprofits to make the names of major donors public is on the verge of clearing the Texas Legislature.
The measure faces a final vote in the House Tuesday. If approved, it heads to Gov. Rick Perry, who will face pressure from conservative groups to veto it.
Supporters say it will crack down on "dark money" or contributions donors make to groups that are active in politics but avoid disclosure laws. Opponents argue it violates free speech.
Politics from around the world.
When the Senate approved the bill, so many grassroots groups bristled that tea party senators tried unsuccessfully to recall it.
The House could also still reconsider.
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At the request of Malawi where a National Bioethics Committee has just been created, this 3-day training aims to clarify the role and mission of this newly established committee helping its members to develop clear working methods and rules of procedure, as well as initiatives for public information and for networking.

A first activity to be implemented in the framework of the UNESCO's "Assisting Bioethics Committees" (ABC) capacity building project in Malawi, this 1st training session will allow the seventeen members of the newly-created National Bioethics Committee to exchange views among themselves and with other experts, as well as learn about practices of other National Bioethics Committees, some of which are operational for a much longer time.

While the National Bioethics Committee will develop its own work methods according to its mandate, sharing experiences will allow the newly-created to learn from predecessors in preparing its work.

A part of UNESCO's bioethics capacity building initiative, and with a view to enhancing the usefulness of the ABC project, in which framework this training takes place, aims at supporting countries that wish to develop their National Bioethics Committees (NBC). The ABC project accompanies the new committee over a course of 3 years providing one training per year and a variety of resources.

This cycle of trainings is led by UNESCO staff and other international experts from among UNESCO's partners. The participants actively tailor the trainings to their needs so as to strengthen their newly-established institution.

The content of the trainings rely on a series of guides that UNESCO has produced, and also on the UNESCO Bioethics Core Curriculum, which is designed around the internationally-agreed human rights standards e.g. as laid out in "Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights." The training acknowledges and invites exchange on local variation in the practice of ethics in support of universal principles.

Special consideration is given to promoting gender equality in terms of the content of materials used for training and the development of the agendas and plans of the National Bioethics Committees.

For the trainings, as well as for the Capacity Building initiative as a whole, UNESCO gives special consideration to addressing first African states, in line with demand.

The trainings for newly-created Committees have been conducted, and evaluated as successful, since 2008 in Côte d'Ivoire, El Salvador, Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, Togo, and Chad.

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The course will define a project, describe the key stages and process of project management and will use PRINCE2 project management methodology to illustrate the project management process.
The PRINCE2 project management methodology is described in more detail in the module including its seven core principles, seven different stages and key documentation and processes with examples.
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Making of Opera: The Ring - Becoming the Bear
Take a behind-the-scenes look as Randy Snight becomes the Bear in the WNO's production of The Ring Cycle. http://www.kennedy-center.org/festivals/ring Washingtonians have eagerly awaited WNO's first complete Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner's extraordinary four-opera saga of gods and men, giants and dwarves. First performed as separate WNO productions before being presented as a full cycle in San Francisco, The Ring in its entirety now returns to the nation's capital, to be staged in three complete cycles across three weeks. Conceived and directed by Artistic Director Francesca Zambello and conducted by Music Director Philippe Auguin, the production brings together a world-class cast including British soprano Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde, Cycles I & II), Swedish soprano Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde, Cycle III), American tenor Daniel Brenna (Siegfried), American bass-baritone Alan Held (Wotan/The Wanderer), and many other top artists, including several reprising their roles from the original Washington productions. Additional events, ranging from expert-led lectures and engaging symposia to convenient dining options, give audiences even more ways to explore and celebrate The Ring's WNO homecoming. Spectacularly evoking the mythology of America, Francesca Zambello's acclaimed production draws provocative parallels between Wagner's fantastical drama and civilization's corruption of nature. The struggle for the possession of a powerful ring drives this extraordinary series of operas, in which the stakes—control of the entire world—could not be higher. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Major support for WNO and the Ring is provided by Jacqueline Badger Mars. David and Alice Rubenstein are the Presenting Underwriters of WNO. WNO acknowledges the longstanding generosity of Life Chairman Mrs. Eugene B. Casey. General Dynamics is the Presenting Sponsor of WNO's 2015-2016 Season. Generous support for the Ring is provided by Constance Milstein de La Haye St. Hilaire & Jehan Christophe de La Haye St. Hilaire, Panasonic, Lynn and John Pohanka, Ken and Dorothy Woodcock, and an anonymous gift. Additional support for the Ring is provided by The Theodore H. Barth Foundation; Robert and Lynn Downing; Kenneth R. Feinberg and Camille S. Biros, on behalf of The Law Offices of Kenneth R. Feinberg, PC; James A. Feldman and Natalie Wexler; Ms. Wilhelmina Holladay; Prince Charitable Trusts; and Renaissance Tours. Crediting as of April 1, 2016


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Who would you pick in your squad ?
My 16 Man squad:
Jaffer, Sehwag, Dravid, Kaif, Yuvraj, Raina, Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Pathan, Powar,
VRV Singh, Munaf Patel, Kumble, Sreesanth, Rp SIngh, Gambhir.
Who would you pick in your squad ?
My 16 Man squad:
Jaffer, Sehwag, Dravid, Kaif, Yuvraj, Raina, Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Pathan, Powar,
VRV Singh, Munaf Patel, Kumble, Sreesanth, Rp SIngh, Gambhir.
Agarkar in place of VRV or RP...And why the hell is Dinesh Kartik there?I mean he's pretty good...but we also got a pretty able Keeper in RainaOriginally Posted by IqbalJaved
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Must be a laugh line.....Originally Posted by honestbharani
"Talent is nothing without opportunity"
"You're not remembered for aiming at the target, but hitting it"
Twenty20 used to be boring.
You've got a good combination, except that if you're picking Dinesh Karthik with the expectation of loads of runs, you'll be disappointed. Munaf Patel is an under-rated batsman, and can come useful as a six-hitter to support the top seven batsmen. Harbhajan may be out of form, but he's still India's second-best bowler, and none of the pacers come close to him, even on supposedly bowler-friendly pitches. Then again, Powar is a good choice– pick a five-man attack of Irfan, Sree/VRV, Munaf, Kumble and Powar, and you will have more run-scoring options despite taking five bowlers. RP Singh is better as a one-day specialist than a Test extra. Another option is Pravin Kumar, who's been more effective than Munaf in the Ranji Trophy, with bat and ball, so he may make the side ahead of Munaf or VR Singh or Agarkar, especially in the forthcoming ODI's.Originally Posted by IqbalJaved
The starting lineup should have Sehwg and Gambhir opening, unless the pitch is dodgy, in which case Jaffer should open. Dravid, Tendulkar and Yuvraj in the middle-order will be enough, then Dhoni, then Irfan, Munaf and Powar. Irfan and Sreesanth can take the new ball, then Munaf comes in first-change, then Kumble and Powar. Irfan can use the movement through the air, while Sreesanth can attack the batsmen and push them back. Munaf can hold a line and length for some time. Kumble and Powar will be an interesting pair to watch. Ultimately, even if the management take a step backwards and play six batsmen, the top three will have to score heavily, but they will still struggle to take 20 wickets between four bowlers. That is why the bottom five should also be involved in batting.
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I have no problems with your squad except I still think Harbhajan might be included. Also, I would give preference to Gambhir and Raina over Jaffer and Kaif respectively.Originally Posted by IqbalJaved
But among seamers, I'm not so sure. Regardless of whether we take 5 or 4 regular bowlers, we should have 3 seamers. Among them, Pathan would be my first choice since he adds depth to the batting and has his uncanny ability to take wickets early. Munaf, Santh and VRV will have to be rotated. I want to see VRV's performance against england first before giving him the nod before Santh.
I would like to see India go in with this combination -
Venugopal Rao
Ramesh Powar
Irfan Pathan
RP Singh
Munaf Patel
Only change in this squad of 16 can be - VRV Singh in place of Ramesh Powar. As for having an extra keeper, we have Dravid who can keep.
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I m pretty sure I heard he is...on the stupid Fourth Umpire show on our National channel...but then again it was stupidity on my part that I listened to them and decided to post here w/o double-checking...Originally Posted by honestbharani
Fourth Umpire? No wonder. I'm quite sure the person who said that Raina is a keeper may have branded Harbhajan Singh a left-arm spinner and claimed that Ricky Martin is the Aussie Captain, and also Eddie Murphy is a legspinner from Zimbabwe.Originally Posted by nikhil1772
Take my advice. Avoid that commentator.
Originally Posted by nikhil1772
hope u aint confused with Robing Uthappa.. as i am pretty sure he is a keeper for Karnataka..
If he's the wicketkeeper for Karnataka, he must have been doing it only occasionally, since their regular wicketkeeper is Thilak Naidu, one-time India prospect. The last thing the Indian team needs is another Deep Dasgupta clone.Originally Posted by alternative
Maybe.but I think I heard Raina,maybe that guy on the show must have said it by mistake too instead of Robin.anyway I m never watching that show again even if my life depended on it.the only reason i watched it was because cable was out and i had to watch the match on ddOriginally Posted by alternative
I hope this is the tour Windies can finally turn things around.
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For week of September 12, 2010
Issue 321
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"No one is like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is mighty in power. Who should not revere you, O King of the nations? This is your due. Among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you."
Jeremiah 10:6-7
"Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues."
John R. W. Stott
"It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace, wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"Grace isn't about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It's when you finally realize that the other shoe isn't going to drop, ever. It's the moment you feel as precious and handmade as every star, when you feel, finally, at home for the very first time.
"Grace is when you finally stop keeping score and when you realize that God never was, that his game is a different one entirely. Grace is when the silence is so complete that you can hear your own heartbeat, and right within your ribs, God's beating heart, too.
"I used to think that the ability to turn back time would be the greatest possible gift, so that I could undo all the things I wish I hadn't done. But grace is an even better gift, because it allows me to do more than just erase; it allows me to become more than I was when I did those things. It's forgiveness without forgetting, which is much sweeter than amnesia."
Shauna Niequist, in her book Bittersweet
Preston, who is attending Dallas Theological Seminary, realized he was not alone while listening to Dr. Tony Evans, the senior pastor at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, speak at weekly Bible study meetings at Valley Ranch. Evans discussed only now beginning to understand the Bible after 15 years of college and 30 years of ministry…. Read this in full at
by Matthew Lee Anderson
Nancy Pearcey is perhaps the most famous heir of Francis Schaeffer's legacy. Her book Total Truth was both a bestseller and award-winner, which can be a rare combination. I was delighted to sit down with her to discuss her latest offering, Saving Leonardo (http://www.SavingLeonardo.com), which is just as unique, thoughtful, and important as her last.
Q: The book is Saving Leonardo. Is he in danger?
A: I wrote the book to be a survival guide to the varieties of secularism that are undercutting freedom and dignity within our culture today. The reference to Leonardo functions as a metaphor for the way the arts and popular culture channel worldviews deeply into people's minds and emotions.
The substance of the book is an exploration of the two major "brands" of secularism today. It's a little like Ford and Chevy. We often think of secularism as a single phenomenon, but there are really two strands: modernism and postmodernism.
Modernism still reigns in the natural sciences, in fields like biology, chemistry, physics, where the dominant worldview is scientific materialism, which treats humans as little more than biochemical machines.
At the same time, postmodernism is rampant in literature, theology, the arts, and similar disciplines. It is just as dehumanizing because it tends to treat humans as simply the product of social forces, such as race, gender, and ethnic group. These two streams have created a pincer movement that is crushing human dignity and liberty…. Read this in full at
by Charles R. Swindoll
Let's think about worship. When was the last time you decided to stop playing "church" and start really worshiping? If the truth were known, many believers don't have a clue what worship is. We wonder, does worship mean I have to hold my hands up when I sing and pray, like some Christians do? Does worship mean I need to close my eyes and envision something heavenly, lest I become distracted by something earthly? Does worship mean I have feelings that are a little bit ecstatic, maybe bordering on the supernatural?
What exactly is worship? And is it all that rare? In 1961, while he was speaking to the pastors of the Associated Gospel Churches of Canada, the late A. W. Tozer said that worship "is the missing jewel in modern evangelicalism." I think he was a prophet ahead of his time…. Read this in full at
"If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on."
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), Tozer on Worship and Entertainment, WingSpread Publishers, 2006, p. 9
by Brett McCracken
Here's a riddle: A young man walks into a building. From the outside, it looks like a nondescript, run-down, abandoned warehouse. Inside he finds mood lighting, music with throbbing bass, and young people wearing skinny jeans and superfluous scarves. A bar off to the side offers drinks of some sort, and a frenetically lit stage is shrouded in fog. Jumbo screens display what appear to be music videos. Everywhere people text on their iPhones.
A young woman with a nose ring and a vaguely Middle Eastern tattoo comes up andintroduces herself. She makes awkward (but refreshingly earnest) small talk about her passion for community gardens and food co-ops. She asks him if he has heard Arcade Fire's new album, and compliments him on his bushy beard and lumberjack look. Beards like that are cool, she says. Eventually she asks him for his contact information.
Question: Is the man in a bar? Or is he in a church? It could go either way…. Read this in full at
"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
C.S. Lewis in The Weight of Glory
[Note: CNN's Kristen Hamill filed this report about a new off-Broadway production of "The Screwtape Letters," the C.S. Lewis novel about a two devils who pen letters back and forth about tormenting and tempting Christians.]
I spoke recently with actor Max McLean after taking in a performance of "The Screwtape Letters," an off-Broadway production staged by his Fellowship for the Performing Arts.
Sporting his character's slicked-back salt and pepper hair, now matted with perspiration, McLean tells me that adapting an iconic piece of work from one of literature's most famous Christian writers, C.S. Lewis, was a "long process."
"Lewis never intended it to be a theatrical adaptation," says McLean, who wrote and directed the play with the Fellowship for the Performing Arts' artistic director, Jeffrey Fiske. "He wrote it as a meditation on the banality of evil and how seductive it is and how corrupting it is." …. Read and see this in full at
James Merritt tells the story of Robert Eaglen, who was a deacon in his church in Colchester, England. "He woke up one Sunday morning in January. The ground was blanketed with a foot of snow. He started to turn over and go back to sleep, but he thought to himself, 'I'm one of the deacons in my church. If the deacons don't go, who will go?' He put on his boots, hat and coat and walked six miles to church. He was right. Most of the members did stay home. As a matter of fact, even the pastor didn't show up. Only 13 people were at church — 12 members and a 13-year-old boy he had never seen before.
"Somebody said, 'Why don't we just sing a little bit and go home. We don't have a preacher.' But Robert Eaglen said, 'It's foolish for us to come all this way and not have a worship service.
"'Who's going to preach?' they asked. Impulsively, Robert said, 'I'll preach.' He'd never preached in his life. He got up and did not know what he was going to preach. I'm sure that's happened to some of us on Sunday nights, as well, but he didn't have a clue what he was going to be preaching.
"In his quiet time the day before, he had been reading in Isaiah, so he turned to Isaiah 45:22, 'Look to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth.' Later he recalled, 'I preached maybe 12 minutes, and I must have said 50 times "Look to Jesus."' It was all he knew to say. 'Look to Jesus.' He got through with saying, 'Look to Jesus' about 50 times. He looked at that little 13-year-old boy and said, 'Young man, if you'll look to Jesus, you'll be saved.' And they had prayer and left.
"That boy, years later, wrote these words: 'I did look, and then and there the cloud on my heart lifted, the darkness rolled away. At that moment I saw the sun, I accepted Christ into my heart, and I was born again.' That 13-year-old boy was Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
"I thank God that Robert Eaglen didn't get up that day and preach a message on 'How to Be Up When the Weather is Down.' Thank God he didn't get up and say, 'Let me talk to you today about how to glow in the snow.' Thank God he didn't get up and preach a sermon called 'Snow White and the Eleven Disciples.' Thank God, he preached the Word. He shared the gospel with a 13-year-old boy and gave that boy an opportunity to be saved. We don't need to follow fads, fashions or flakes. We need to keep the ship of our ministry anchored to the rock of this Book, believing it, obeying it, defending it, sharing it and preaching it until Jesus comes. That's how you confront a postmodern world."
(James Merritt, Pastor, Cross Pointe Church, The Church at Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Georgia.)
"On the one hand there is the persistent memory of the past with its failures, hurts, shame, and guilt. On the other hand there is the revelation of the gospel that shows me who I now am in Christ. In so many of our lives, the voice of condemnation drowns out the voice of revelation. It is so much easier to focus our eyes on us than on the Lamb. We become overwhelmed with the memory of our past rather than fixing our gaze on the robe, the ring, the sandals, the fatted calf-all symbols of our Father's grace lavished upon us. We walk down that dark road to find a corner in the servants' quarters.
"Your journey to the Father's house begins with that first step of changing your mind about who you perceive yourself to be and who you truly are. When you do change your mind about who you are, you will change you mind about where you live, moving out of the cold and isolated quarters of the servant into the warmth and intimacy of the Father's house."
John Sheasby with Ken Gire, from the book The Birthright
Happiness has a greater impact on a person's giving than their wealth, according to the results of a worldwide study on charitable behavior. The World Giving Index, recently published by the Charities Aid Foundation, was compiled from Gallup surveys conducted in 153 countries.
The surveys asked people, over 15 years of age, whether they had given money to charity or volunteered in the last month, and to rank how happy they were with life on a scale of one to ten. Overall, 20% of the world's population had volunteered time in the month prior to interview, 30% had given money to charity, and 45% had helped a stranger…. Read and see this in full at
by David Brooks
Maybe the first decade of the 21st century will come to be known as the great age of headroom. During those years, new houses had great rooms with 20-foot ceilings and entire new art forms had to be invented to fill the acres of empty overhead wall space.
When future archeologists dig up the remains of that epoch, they will likely conclude that sometime around 1996, the US was afflicted by a plague of claustrophobia and drove itself bankrupt in search of relief.
But that economy went poof, and social norms have since changed. The oversized now looks slightly ridiculous. Values have changed as well….One of the interesting figures in this recalibration effort is David Platt.
Platt earned two master's degrees and a doctorate from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. At age 26, he was hired to lead a 4,300-person suburban church in Birmingham, Ala., and became known as the youngest megachurch leader in America.
Platt grew uneasy with the role he had fallen into and wrote about it in a recent book called "Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream." It encapsulates many of the themes that have been floating around 20-something evangelical circles the past several years…. Read this in full at
by Steve Scalici
The world's view of work is that it is a necessary evil; that our jobs should make us happy, and that income defines a person's worth. What was God's original intent in ordaining work? How much has the world's view of work seeped into your thinking? …. Read this in full at
Chris Keith was 12 years old when he learned his family didn't die in a car wreck. His father suffocated his mother and then shot Chris' 8-year-old brother, Mikey, in the back of the head while he slept, his grandparents explained.
The elderly couple had taken the boy to a counselor. As they told him the real story of what happened, they pulled out newspaper clippings from October 1985.
Chris had begun to wonder about the scars on his own head, and he had pieced together other clues from the past. Yet he'd never known the full truth. His grandparents then told him the hardest news of all. Before his father killed himself, he put the .38-caliber handgun to Chris' head and pulled the trigger. Medics had declared everyone in the house dead, including Chris.
Now 30, Chris Keith visits church youth groups and juvenile justice centers to tell his story. A Christian, he believes God had a plan for him and that's why he survived…. Read this in full at
"Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground."
Psalm 143:10
"More men fail through ignorance of their strength than fail through knowledge of their weakness."
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With less than two weeks before "Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day," cancer-stricken Christopher Hitchens is encouraging believers to hold off on praying for him.
"I don't mean to be churlish about any kind intentions, but when September 20 comes, please do not trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries," the atheist author wrote in a first-person article for Vanity Fair's October 2010 issue. "Unless, of course, it makes you feel better," he added, echoing a past comment.
Last month, in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Hitchens said he was well aware of the prayer groups that have formed since he announced late June that he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer -– the same cancer his father died of.
When asked if he told people not to pray for him, the devoted atheist told Cooper, "No," but said those who feel better in doing so "have my blessing." In an interview days later with The Atlantic, Hitchens also said, "I take it (prayer) kindly on the assumption that people are praying for my recovery."
Now, about a month after the interviews, Hitchens appears to have decided to discourage prayer –- particularly on Sept. 20 -– noting in his Vanity Fair piece that it would present him with another "secular problem."
"[W]hat if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating," he wrote.
Author of the New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Hitchens is one of the most prominent figures in the "new atheism" movement, though the English-born author describes himself as an anti-theist…. Read this in full at
by Amy Julia Becker
A good death is possible for most people in America, but not because a good death comes through physician-assisted suicide. A good death is possible when the resources exist to help patients express their wishes to caregivers and family members in such a way that they find healing in relationships, purpose in their lives even at the end, and hope for the world to come…. Read this in full at
The Rev. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good (http://www.newevangelicalpartnership.org/), said: "To those who would exercise derision, bigotry, open rejection of our fellow Americans of a different faith, I say, shame on you. As an evangelical, I say to those who do this, you bring dishonor to those who love Jesus Christ." …. Read this in full at
by Steven Martin
"Thank you, God, for this water," I said as I shaved this morning. Funny how living in a desert makes you think about these things.
Water is a basic human right. People cannot survive without it, and it is universally recognized that one role of a humane government is to supply its people with basic necessities, water being one of the most important.
We have learned that the Israelis control 80% of the water in the West Bank. 20% is left to the Palestinians. Out of the 83%, the Israelis sell some of the water back to the Palestinians. People here in Bethlehem have told us that the water supply can be shut off for days, sometimes weeks.
They are smart, adaptable people who find solutions to great problems: some homes are built with cisterns to collect water when it is available and also to gather rainwater. Large storage tanks can be seen on the roofs of most houses…. Read this in full at
By Charles M. Blow
With all of the consternation about religion in this country, it's sometimes easy to lose sight of just how anomalous our religiosity is in the world.
A Gallup report underscored just how out of line we are. Gallup surveyed people in more than 100 countries in 2009 and found that religiosity was highly correlated to poverty. Richer countries in general are less religious.
But that doesn't hold true for the United States. Sixty-five percent of Americans say that religion is an important part of their daily lives. That is compared with just 30% of the French, 27% of the British, and 24% of the Japanese.
I used Gallup's data to chart religiosity against gross domestic product per capita, and to group countries by their size and dominant religions…. See this graphic chart in full at
by Brandon O'Brien
This year I have begun making the transition from student to teacher by teaching an introductory course on World Religions at a local college (while I'm still taking doctoral classes myself). We're a couple weeks into our journey, and earlier this week we talked about indigenous ("pagan") religions. One aspect of pagan religions that strikes me is that the relationships between the adherents and their gods is most often manipulative. When the gods are happy, the rains come, the crops grow, people have babies, people stay healthy. When the gods are unhappy, the land is blighted by drought, famine, barrenness, and disease. In order to set things right, the people have to make sacrifices, perform rituals, or repeat incantations to appease the gods. The system is set up to control the power of the deities.
Biblical Christianity is essentially the opposite: the relationship between God and humans is not based on rites, rituals, and incantations; it is not a religion of manipulation. Instead, the relationship between God and God's people is based on covenant and, first and foremost, on God's gracious desire to love us in Christ.
That's easy to say. But I'm ashamed to say that I catch myself from time to time beginning to think about my personal relationship with God in pagan terms…. Read this in full at
In what has been more than a 5-year battle, a federal court in Chicago ruled the University of Wisconsin should not deny religious student organizations funding due to worship, prayer or proselytizing, a suit brought on by the UW student organization Badger Catholic.
Former Chancellor John Wiley denied Badger Catholic — then known as the UW Roman Catholic Foundation – funding granted from the Student Services Finance Committee in February 2006.
Badger Catholic responded by filing a lawsuit against UW in November 2006, stating UW's funding denial on the basis of religious affiliation violated the organization's First Amendment rights.
The suit settled in May 2007, the terms of which included UW funding Badger Catholic's budget for the 2007-08 academic year and considering future budget requests the same as any other student organization.
Peace did not last long, however, with Badger Catholic filing another suit in September 2007 because UW placed restrictions on and even denied certain items of the budget, which were meant to fund religious events and materials, according to the archives…. Read this in full at
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One midwinter night in 2008, Senator John Ensign, of Nevada, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, was roused from bed when six men entered his room and ordered him to get up. Ensign knew the men intimately; a few hours earlier, he had eaten dinner with them, as he had nearly every Tuesday evening since he'd come to Washington. Now they were rebuking him for his recklessness. They told him he was endangering his career, ruining lives, and offending God.
The men leading this intervention considered themselves Ensign's closest friends in Washington. Four of those who confronted Ensign — Senator Tom Coburn and Representatives Bart Stupak, Mike Doyle, and Zach Wamp — lived with him in an 18th-century brick row house on C Street, in southeast Washington, a short walk from the Capitol. The men regarded themselves in part as an accountability group. Despite their political differences — Coburn and Wamp are Republicans, Stupak and Doyle are Democrats — they had pledged to hold one another to a life lived by the principles of Jesus, and they considered the Tuesday supper gatherings at C Street an inviolable ritual…. Read this in full at
UK Daily Mail reports that the Scottish Episcopal Church has caused controversy by removing masculine references to God in a new order of service. The new liturgy and worship forms with more "inclusive" language are an attempt to acknowledge that God is "beyond human gender." Not every church, however, will be using the new form — only those who have difficulty with a male God. To that end, words such as 'Lord, he, his, him' have been removed; 'mankind' has been replaced with "world" in most instances. Traditionalists have criticized the changes on the grounds that they smack of political correctness and because they believe they are not consistent with the teachings of the Bible. The church's Liturgy Committee produced the new form in consultation with the Faith & Order Board of General Synod and the College of Bishops…. Read this in full at
Foundery Pictures has just announced the availability of a special license for local churches to screen the award-winning independent film Wesley (https://www.visionvideo.com/detail.taf?_function=detail&a_product_id=35244&refurl=/start.taf) for their congregations. The movie, which premiered in 2009, was exhibited at select theaters across the US and at several international film festivals. The home DVD was released in July from Vision Video, www.visionvideo.com.
The film stars Burgess Jenkins (Remember the Titans, The Reaping) as John Wesley, Emmy-nominated TV legend June Lockhart (Lost in Space, Lassie) as his mother, Susannah Wesley, Golden Globe winner Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Death of a Salesman) as Bishop Ryder, and R. Keith Harris (Big Fish, Junebug) as John's brother Charles Wesley.
The movie documents the personal struggles of John Wesley, whose work and ministry would transform the face of England in the 18th century. For the first time, Wesley's fascinating spiritual struggle is presented in this dramatic feature film based on John's own private journals. These journals, kept in a secret code, were not translated until the early 1980s; earlier books and one 1950s feature film were based only on the public record, and did not have access to the private thoughts, doubts, and struggles of this great spiritual leader…. Read this in full at
"What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, but never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out."
Dwight L. Moody
"Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God."
2 Corinthians 7:1
Words: John Wesley, 1741
Music: 1805
We lift our hearts to Thee,
O Day Star from on high!
The sun itself is but Thy shade,
Yet cheers both earth and sky.
O let Thine orient beams
The night of sin disperse,
The mists of error and of vice
Which shade the universe.
How beauteous nature now:
How dark and sad before!
With joy we view the pleasing change,
And nature's God adore.
O may no gloomy crime
Pollute the rising day;
Or Jesus' blood, like evening dew,
Wash all the stains away.
May we this life improve,
To mourn for errors past;
And live this short, revolving day
As if it were our last.
To God—the Father, Son,
And Spirit—One in Three,
Be glory; as it was, is now,
And shall forever be.
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"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"
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Faithful pastor
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Be in God's will
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Rebates & returns
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Bills decrease while blessings increase
"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God" (Deut. 28:2).
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'67 Trail 90 || '86 R80 G/SPD+ || '97 F650ST || '00 1150 GS || '07 Xchallenge || '13 CB500X || '14 Grom
Does this bike make my butt look fast?
That looks like way to much fun.
Ps: Brake lights on an MX track. What will they think of next?
Steve Marquardt
lookin good there Visian!!! Reminds me of a recent ride too!
Vance Harrelson
2019 Rally Chair
MOA Foundation Director / Ambassador
R1200GSA "Buck" / G310GS "Tiny"
Nice body english for turn set up - nothing more stylish than a good roost
2011 R1200 GSA Smoke Grey Metallic Matt
2009 G450X White
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we need to invent "autoknobs"... push a button and your tires change from street to dirt tread.
there is nothing quite like this bikes ability to pound some ground and then rail the pavement.
I am having a blast railing the pavement on the Rhino (aka GSA) and can't wait for some off road activity
2011 R1200 GSA Smoke Grey Metallic Matt
2009 G450X White
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You look skinnier in the first picture.
2013 Goldwing
I would love to ride an HP2E...I bet I would sell one ofm y GSAs I might try to trade my 08 GSA off and find an HP2E
I had to sell my RT to get one and was negotiating for one when Lone Star BMW came in with the low mile 04 GSA well farkled...The guy was asking 13500 for it. The evening after trading into the GSA I get a PM saying he would take 10,500!!! At that price I could have sold the RT and made the deal work with my bank wihout hurting me too bad It will come in time...I am a bike whore


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Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Education and Theory (ISC E+T) is one of the four committees of Docomomo International. It concentrates on the fundamental relationship between education, theoretical approaches, and the preservation of the modern movement.
This past summer Docomomo ISC E+T added two new student editors to its cause: Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Jennifer Whisenhunt and Mary Park.
Both students have recently completed the newest Docomomo ISC E+T newsletter. It addresses the Docomomo International Conference this past summer in Finland, the goals for the upcoming year and the role of students at the future Docomomo conference in Seoul, Korea 2014.
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NEW HAVEN — Two men extradited from Britain to the U.S. last year pleaded guilty Tuesday to supporting terrorists in Afghanistan through websites that sought to raise cash, recruit fighters and items such as gas masks.
Babar Ahmad, 39, and Syed Talha Ahsan, 34, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in New Haven to charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
By pleading guilty, the men "admitted that they knew that their efforts could result in the maiming and murder of individuals, including U.S. citizens," said acting U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly.
A prosecutor said Ahsan traveled to Afghanistan with Ahmad's assistance to fight and attend a training camp run by al-Qaida. But Ahsan did not admit to that assertion.
Both men also possessed a classified document discussing a U.S. Navy battle group's movements and vulnerability to attack, authorities said. A former Navy sailor, Hassan Abu-Jihaad, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2009 for leaking the details about the battle group to the website. The group was never attacked.
"This investigation further demonstrates law enforcement's resolve to bring to justice anyone who supports those who would target American interests at home or abroad," said John Sandweg, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The judge did not immediately accept Ahmad's plea while she awaits information from probation officials, but she said the plea was voluntarily made.
The two men, both British citizens who were living in Britain at the time, faced charges in Connecticut, because authorities said they used an Internet service provider in the state to run one of the websites.
A charge of conspiring to kill persons in a foreign country will be dismissed under the plea agreement.
The websites operated under the name of Azzam Publications, which authorities say provided support to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime and focused on the wars in Bosnia and Chechnya in the 1990s. The sites asked for donations of military suits and gas masks for the Taliban and appealed to Pakistanis to travel to Afghanistan to fight, according to Ahmad's plea agreement.
The websites posted articles on how to train for fighting and gave guidance on how women could participate in jihad. The sites also produced videos of Muslims detailing their experiences on the battlefield in Bosnia and advertised videos of battles in Chechnya.
Ahmad was held without trial for eight years in a British prison, raising concerns among human rights advocates. He said in court that he was treated for post-traumatic stress disorder in 2009 and 2010, but he did not offer further details.
In an interview after the BBC won a legal battle to speak with him, Ahmad insisted he did not condone terrorism and urged authorities to put him on trial in the U.K. He acknowledged he had visited Bosnia several times during the 1990s and had been involved in the conflict there.
The men are expected to request that he serve his sentence in Britain. When a judge told Ahmad he would be excluded from returning to the United States, he said he assured her that he had no plans to come to the U.S.
Ahmad faces up to 25 years in prison and Ahsan faces up to 15 when they are sentenced on March 4.


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22 February 2011
Jews of Uruguay
A recent email I received from a reader in Mexico detailed the history of some wonderful families from his own history. Included in those histories were a few mentions to some of his people who came from Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Jewish history of Uruguay goes back as early as the 16Th century The community at that time was not large, however there were a few who had arrived and avoided the Inquisition. The first real record of a Jewish community began with a settlement in the 1770's.
The modern Jewish community of Uruguay today probably dates back to the 1880's. However by 1909, the Jewish population of Montevideo, the largest community in the country was only about 150. The first synagogue in that community did not open until 1917.
The time of the greatest number of immigrants into Uruguay was the 1920's and 1930's. Many of these immigrants were people who stopped on their way to Argentina and Brazil and then never left. Later, after the establishment of the State of Israel another wave of immigration took place. This group of Jews, almost 20,000 in number came from places such as Algeria and Egypt.
Today, the Jewish population of Uruguay is around 25,000 people almost 90% of which live in Montevideo. At the turn of the 20Th Century, the population was almost 3/4 of Sephardic origins, but today it is close to 3/4 Ashkenazic.
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Corinna wrote:New to me, fabulous find, Carole!
She seems to have changed clothes between the two shots, or maybe she just put on a cardigan. It does indeed look like a hotel room. So where does the cat come from? Pets are unusual in hotels. Puzzling.
And the slightly drunk look on her face is unflattering. I've ambivalent feelings about this photo.
Do you happen to know when and where it was taken?
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Many have argued that the notion of Library 2.0 is more than just a term used to describe concepts that revolve around the use of technology; it is also a term that can be used to describe both physical and mindset changes that are occurring within libraries to make our spaces and services more user-centric and inviting. Others within the profession have asserted that libraries have always been 2.0: collaborative, customer friendly, and welcoming. But no matter which side of the debate you fall on, just about everyone agrees that libraries of tomorrow, even five or ten years from now, will look substantially different from libraries today. 23 Things On a Stick can help you get ready to participate in the changes!
1. Watch this video. Stephen Abram kicks off 23 Things at Murdoch University Library in Australia.
2. Read this blog post by John Blyberg, a library blogger from Connecticut.
2. The latest on Library 2.0 is in Library Technology Reports, Volume 43 Issue 5. Read this article "The Ongoing Web Revolution". (The full volume can be found via ELM; click on Vol. 43, Issue 5 and go to the article.)
These articles offer more views on Web 2.0 and libraries:
- OCLC Next Space Newsletter – Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web take libraries? Five Perspectives:
- Wikipedia – Library 2.0
Here are some ideas to blog about--but don't let these questions limit you. Share all your thoughts, ideas, and discoveries.
- We know time is always an issue--Stephen Abram shares some ideas on where to find the time for 23 Things. Where will you find the time?
- Why are you participating in 23 Things On a Stick? What do you hope to learn?
- How has the Internet and the vast resource it can be affected your use of time at work and/or at home?
- Where are you in your knowledge and use of Web 2.0 tools? How about your library?
- What are you looking forward to in 23 Things On a Stick?


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Unfortunately, Kaplan's piece "Mischief in Mali" seems more likely to perpetuate American ignorance of what is going on in this part of the world than to dispel it. And because our military is involved, it seems important to critique Kaplan's reasoning.
Kaplan is surprisingly unsympathetic to the grievances of Mali's Tuareg people. His article dismisses the Azawad National Liberation movement as "a circumstantial ally" of al-Qaeda, but neither Kaplan nor anyone else has put forth any evidence that the Tuareg—non-Arabs who speak an entirely different language and are considered by Islamic purists to be barely Muslim—are involved with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM). Yet it is under this pretext that the US is training the Malian Defense Forces. (Kaplan went to Mali on an embed with a brigade from the New York National Guard.)
The nomadic Tuareg, who traditionally have mainly earned their livelihoods as herders in Mali's desert north, have long craved some form of self-rule, as well as the right to use their own language in their schools and region, and it is disingenuous for Kaplan to say that it is hard to say "whether there really is a Tuareg national movement." Even the State Department's Mali profile acknowledges that the Tuareg have been fighting for autonomy and to preserve their way of life since independence in 1960.
As usual with such rebellions, economic motivations play a role. In recent decades, drought and desertification have eroded the Tuaregs' already precarious way of life. Kaplan notes the expansion of cotton cultivation in Mali, but does not explore how this development could have different effects for the north than it does for the south. Cotton is a notoriously thirsty crop, one responsible for the draining of the Ural Sea and the desertification of parts of Uzbekistan, another big producer. It is unclear how direct a political impact the three million cotton farmers in the south have had (or will) as they expend the water resources of the north, but the issue could be a justifiable point of contention for the Tuareg.
And no matter what one decides on the legitimacy of the Tuareg grievances, it is by no means clear that the US is doing the right thing by—it seems—helping the Malian Defense Forces (MDF) put down their rebellion. This is not, say, the IDF.
It does not seem to bother Kaplan that the Songhai, an ethnic group in northern Mali that opposes the Tuareg, have their own militia and, as Kaplan admits, support hard-liners in the MDF. Are we are doing the right thing with the MDF ? Or are we taking sides in a battle that has nothing to do with international terrorism threats or the interests of the US ? Kaplan does not appear to seek out any Tuareg spokesmen for their take on the situation and seems to accept an implicit US narrative of counterterrorism that is never substantiated.
Kaplan has written sympathetically of the Kabyles of Algeria elsewhere, yet he fails to mention that the Tuareg are from the very same ethno-linguistic group, the Amazigh, what outsiders call "Tuareg" in the desert and "Berber" in the settled lands. They speak and write an ancient, non-Arabic language, and are themselves divided into several tribes. In his much more interesting writing about Algeria for the American Spectator (for instance, his February 18, 2011 piece "An Arab Spring ?"), Kaplan seems to know full well what the Amazigh in Algeria are and to sympathize with their activists, notably Ferhat Mehenni, whom he and I both know.
Kaplan misleadingly refers to the Tuareg as numbering about a half million in Mali and another half million in Algeria and Niger, without noting that they are part of the same larger ethnic group of the Amazigh (or Berber) who span northern and western Africa. The Amazigh are numerically far more significant, comprising a third of the population of Algeria, a majority of the population of Morocco (whose king is half Amazigh), and perhaps ten percent of the population of Libya. While Tuareg and Amazigh speak different dialects of Tamazight, it is the same language, just as Mexican and Castilian Spanish are the same.
Finally, Kaplan's critique of the Libyan revolution, paraphrasing the president of Niger's warning that "the unintended consequences of the Libyan crisis would include the seizure of power in Benghazi and Tripoli by Islamist extremists," seems to be part of his general state of denial about why people take to arms. Kaplan speaks of "political violence—that of the Tuareg or AQIM or any other group," as though the two groups' goals had anything in common, and then goes on to claim that the "root causes of violence are violent men" not "social or economic conditions." This would surely surprise the makers of our own revolution, not to mention the middle aged lawyers, men as well as women, who made the Libyan revolution. Without having up-to-date knowledge of Mali firsthand, it is hard for me to endorse the Tuareg rebellion. I can't say whether the Tuareg of Mali would be better served by their own state, an autonomous region, or more representation in Mali's economic decisionmaking. But I question why the US is helping the MDF to supress what might be a legitimate movement—and why Kaplan won't ask harder questions about this involvement.
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The exhibition Singgalot: The Ties That Bind celebrates 100 years of the Filipino American experience through a panel exhibition that includes over 100 photographs, images, and historical documents drawn from the National Archive, the Library of Congress, the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) and personal collections.
Developed by the Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The national tour has been made possible by Farmers Insurance logotype and the Smithsonian Institution.
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MARLBORO, Vt. — Mention the name Rudyard Kipling, and images of tropical forests, mongooses and cobras come to mind — not the snowy vistas of Vermont. But that's exactly where many of the British writer's best-known tales, including "The Jungle Book," took shape.
In honor of his connections to Vermont, a group of scholars known as the Kipling Society is holding its symposium outside the United Kingdom for the first time — and touring a home the author built in the shape of a ship, high on a hill overlooking the Connecticut River.
During the four years he lived there, one of the greatest chroniclers of 19th-century British imperialism snowshoed in winter, went to barn dances and made friends with his neighbors.
"I found the neighbors were flattered to have Kipling among them. They were keenly interested in his work, that they respected rather than resented his apparent, and only apparent, wish to keep to himself," said Thomas Pinney, a retired professor from California's Pomona College who gave the keynote address Monday at the two-day symposium, "Kipling in America," at Vermont's Marlboro College in Marlboro, not far from Kipling's home in Dummerston.
Kipling lived in Dummerston from 1892 to 1896 when he wrote "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," the story of a mongoose that battled two vicious cobras in India while protecting his human family from harm. While in Vermont, he also wrote the other stories in his collection "The Jungle Book"; "Captains Courageous"; the poems of "The Seven Seas"; and many of the stories in "The Day's Work" and "Many Inventions."
He was drawn to Vermont because of his wife, the sister of one of Kipling's literary collaborators, who was from Brattleboro. Part of the draw for the 60 scholars visiting this week from the United Kingdom and the U.S. will be a tour on Tuesday of Naulakha, the home he built in the shape of a ship.
They are also viewing some of the college's Kipling holdings, such as the contents of a safe deposit box that was discovered untouched in the early 1990s after almost a century in a bank in Brattleboro. Among the items in it were a copy of his marriage license, a will and other personal documents.
Organizers hope the meeting will serve to revive Kipling's reputation, which among scholars declined through the middle years of the 20th century as the British imperial era lost esteem.
"We will hear something about Kipling the ideologist of imperialism, because he was that, as a spokesman; he saw the British empire as the great force for spreading law and progression," said Professor Janet Montefiore, the editor of the Kipling Journal and director of the symposium. "But also he was this wonderful tale teller and also, the thing that is so nice about Kipling, he is so interested in people."
Kaori Nogai, a Japanese scholar who has studied Kipling while earning her doctorate at the University of Kent, said many of the topics Kipling wrote about a century ago remain relevant today, in the age of globalization.
"He talked about empire, how different people from different continents and different races have to live together. I think he will become even more relevant now," Nogai said. "It's not just that he's a brilliant writer; he has a vision for the future."
Scholars visit Vt. birthplace of 'The Jungle Book'
MARLBORO, Vt. — Mention the name Rudyard Kipling, and images of tropical forests, mongooses and cobras come to mind — not the snowy vistas of Vermont. But that's exactly where many of the British writer's best-known tales, including "The Jungle Book," took shape.