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Fluid inclusions – tiny bubbles of fluid or vapor trapped inside rock as it forms – are clues to the location of ores and even petroleum; and they are time capsules that contain insights on the power of volcanoes and hints of life in the universe.
But the realization of the scientific value of fluid inclusions is relatively recent.
At the Centennial Celebration Symposia for the Society of Economic Geologists, Virginia Tech Distinguished Professor of Geosciences Robert Bodnar will review the history of the scientific uses of fluid inclusion, identify the big questions that remain to be addressed, and predict the state of the field in 10, 50, and 100 years.
The title of his paper is "Fluid inclusions, from H.C. Sorby to Edwin Roedder and Beyond."
Fluid inclusions were considered curiosities until Sorby saw the mineral-incased bubbles as clues to processes that create rocks and minerals. Sorby, a pioneer in the use of the microscope to examine rocks, was the first to describe inclusions from a scientific perspective. In 1858, he used them to determine the temperature and pressure at the time the rock was formed.
"Not much else was done until Ed Roedder applied inclusions to wide range of geological problems," Bodnar said. Roedder showed that inclusions could be tapped to determine the pressure and temperature at the time of formation. Roedder's definitive book, Fluid Inclusions (1984), described what fluid inclusions are and how they can be used. Now 86 and still active, Roedder was Bodnar's mentor at the U.S. Geological Survey and continues to provide valuable advice and support today.
Fluid inclusions are a timely topic. They are used by the oil industry to predict where oil deposits have occurred and to track where oil has flowed through the subsurface in order to discover new fields. Chevron hired Fang Lin, one of Bodnar's recent PhD students, to help with exploration because of her experience with fluid inclusions.
But fluid inclusions are really most valuable to exploration for metal deposits, such as copper, gold, and lead. Certain types of fluid inclusions are located with certain types of ore.
"We slice the rock, and if you see inclusions with certain characteristics, it tells us what we are likely to find," Bodnar said. Which leads to the questions that remain to be addressed. "The biggest uncertainties are how long it takes for an ore or petroleum deposit to form," Bodnar said. "Does it take hundreds of years, thousands of years, or millions of years?
"We know how long some processes are active. We know some metal deposits formed in an environment similar to an active volcano. Two or three miles under Mount St. Helens is the kind of environment where copper deposits form," Bodnar said. "The Bingham Canyon Mine, one of the world's largest surface mines, was once under a volcano."
But how does ore form in the volcano? "Volcanoes can be dormant hundreds or thousands of years. Mount St. Helens has been active only a few months in the last 25 years, for example," Bodnar said.
He is part of a group that is studying Mt. Vesuvius. "Written records that go back thousands of years provide a historical record regarding when eruptions occurred, how long they lasted, and how long the volcano was dormant. We are able to extract fluid from the inclusions and use isotope techniques to determine the age when it was trapped," Bodnar said. "We can compare that with the written records and then know what the volcano was doing as the ore formed.
"The better we understand how deposits form, the better able we will be to develop techniques to look for new deposits. There are millions of old, dead volcano sites. They didn't all form ore deposits. The inclusions from the ones that did will tell us what to look for," Bodnar said.
But his favorite future use of fluid inclusions is to study the universe. The rock-bound bubbles are clues to whether there was once water, and possibly life, among the stars. "If we have rock samples from Mars and we find inclusions with water, it increases the chances that there could have been some form of life," Bodnar said. Fluid inclusions will be an important tool to study meteorites and rocks from the moon, asteroids, and the planets we will visit to look for evidence of water and the possibility of life."
The symposium is Saturday, Oct. 15, during the Geological Sciences of America national meeting in Salt Lake City Oct. 16-19. The society has asked the world's experts in areas of economic geology to give talks summarizing the state of their fields. As the Society of Economic Geology Distinguished Lecturer, Bodnar was asked to give the keynote address.
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The new law is actually not so new. It has been introduced several times before, but Goodlatte blames the House's failure to pass it on—who else?—disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
"I have previously introduced similar legislation in both the 106th and 107th Congresses only to have them both derailed by Jack Abramoff?s campaign of misinformation. Jack Abramoff?s total disregard for the legislative process has allowed Internet gambling to continue thriving into what is now a twelve billion-dollar business which not only hurts individuals and their families but makes the economy suffer by draining billions of dollars from the United States and serves as a vehicle for money laundering."
Gambling is bad. That's why the act only outlaws it when it takes place across state lines. When kept within state boundaries, it's apparently not so bad, and the bill does nothing to limit the rights of states to authorize gambling within their borders. As such, it seems bizarrely inconsistent and points up the contradictions in current US law as it applies to gambling. If the goal is stop money from being lost and laundered to shady outfits based in Antigua, then why is Internet gambling banned within the US as well? If the goal is to save citizens from addictive behaviors, then why do legal commercials run on my TV every night encouraging me to come to Vegas or drive down the road thirty minutes to Aurora?
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|January 19th, 2016, 12:48 AM
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I'm bill and I'm making electric skates
hey guys, im bill. i like to make new things and push the envelope. i have been messing around with electric skateboards for a while and trying to use the drive systems to retrofit roller skates. im trying to take a in-wheel electric skateboard motor system such as the one here and making a system that is likewise remote controlled so i can power roller skates without effort. tell me what you guys think and i would appreciate any direction as to which forums might have other tinkerers. thanks
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|February 21st, 2016, 06:00 PM
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Hey there, my name's Josh, I'm 40 and I live in Corvallis, Oregon. My grand parents owned Lake Park Roller Rink from the early '70s until around '97 when my grandfather passed. The first 20 years of my life -- my earliest memories of childhood were at that rink. I was a competitive indoor speed skater in my earlier years, but I never went anywhere with it.
The rink was recently purchased by a local derby team and they've asked me to start coaching them. Not knowing anything about the sport, I've agreed to act as a trainer.. Helping them with their technique, conditioning, etc. in exchange for session time on the rink floor. I really just like going fast.
A lot has changed in 20 years and I'll have a lot of questions. Thanks!
|March 10th, 2016, 06:54 AM
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Jeff from SoCal. After a 15+ year hiatus I'm back on skates!
|March 21st, 2016, 05:16 AM
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My name is Isaiah Janisch. I've been able to skate for as long as I can remember, but I wasn't a serious skater until 2012. I skated everyday on my driveway on plastic skates from Target. Then I got a pair of Rollerblade Fushion10ks in April of that year and over the summer I worked my way up to skating 30 miles. Even before I got my Fushion 10ks I wanted to join an inline speedskating team but I was unable to find a club, so I started ice speedskating with the Madison Speedskating Club in September 2012. I still practiced on inlines for hours a day during the summer and sometimes during the winter. A few years later I found the Team Wisconsin inline club. 2015 was my first full summer skating indoors and outdoors with a real inline team.
I haven't competed on inlines yet but I've competed at several national championships on ice (short track and long track). I hope to compete nationally on inlines someday.
|August 2nd, 2016, 10:20 PM
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Hi all. Jen from Vegas
So as my title and my username says, I'm Jen and I live in Vegas. New to this forum but I've been skating now for almost 40 years. Like just about everybody who remembers the 80s I started with four wheel skates and got pretty good at it. In high school, my main hang out was the roller rink. After school, I went into the service and got my first set of inlines. I've been skating on them for so long now I have a hard time with the old four wheels any more.
I really enjoy speed skating. It's one of the best exercises I've ever tried, plus it's just fun. I currently have two pair of speed skates, one is a Miller Sports I got about 10-12 years ago, but they're a little too big. The other is a pair of Luigino I bought used a couple months ago, and they're a little too small! Maybe the next pair will be just right.
The bad thing about living in Vegas is the summers. It's simply too hot to skate during the summer. I can't skate for about four months a year. But come about October, I'll be at it pretty regularly again.
In the meantime I'll hang out here from time to time. I really don't know if there is anyone else or any place here in town that is all about speed skating. We have a couple of roller parks and as tempting as it looks to go out and try a half pipe I have to remember things hurt a lot more at my age.
|August 3rd, 2016, 08:48 PM
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Hello folks. Anthony from Texas here.
I've been skating for as long as I can remember, but never truly seriously--mostly just with friends around the block or on the rink.
I'm running a pair of Radical 100s, which should hopefully change soon as I move into a speed boot and start going to some of the local practices.
I'd like to do a marathon/start competing soon, but I have really bad asthma which is proving prohibitive even with an inhaler. :/ I could really use some suggestions, if anyone has any experience with the subject.
(Edit to include picture of new skates...)
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|November 15th, 2016, 03:19 PM
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Hi. I'm Martijn from the Netherlands. Started ice and inline speed skating about five years ago because my wife kindly asked me to. How could I deny that ;-) I found and still find it hard to learn but really like it. After standard recreational skates I bought K2 Radical pro's and then a pair of Bont Jets. The Jets with the 3pf 6061 frame and 110mm Bont G3, Mayhem 85A and 87A wheels. I still like the Radical pro's and really love the Jets, to me they rock. Last year I bought second hand Powerslide Cell and Rollerblade Twister freestyle skates. I mostly use them (with Led wheels) for a local Friday Night Skate. I don't like competition but I do like speed and love to skate long distances. My goal for next season is to inline skate the Elfstedentocht (225km). Still a lot of training ahead ;-)
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|December 9th, 2016, 02:59 AM
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Hi Yall Im Bob from TX. I been skating off and on for about 16 years. My first serious set was Roller Blade speed machines. I recently bought the Bont semi-race and slowly adapting to them.
I did the Road Rash in Austin, TX in 2012. Still sporadically skated afterwards, but more so now since a knee injury and had to stop jogging. Skating, for me, is the best cardio work out, easy on the knee, and I love the rush.
Im stepping my frequency of skating and plan to keep up the pace at 58 years old. So, back in the forum to get involved in marathons.
|March 19th, 2017, 09:43 AM
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Hi all,
Name's Leigh, from Adelaide, South Australia.
Have been skating in a pair of SEBA FRX80s for the past couple of years and decided that I want to move into the speed skating arena; trying to work out which boots I should look for. Have narrowed it down SEBA's Marathon 100 or Powerslide Endurance.
I'm shifting from 80mm wheels, so don't want to jump too high too quickly.
|May 12th, 2017, 03:42 AM
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Well, here I go...
I'm Becca, 28 and currently living in Atchison Ks. Started skating when I was 4 and got my first inline speed skates at 9. My mom worked at the rink near us in Aberdeen Wa. So I was there at every session and after hours. In 03 moved to Kansas and gave up skating due to lack of places near that had speed skating.
Well, my husband found my old skates in a box and asked questions. He has talked me into getting back in it. He wants to start too.
So here I am , looking to find more info on how things have changed since 2003.
Hopefully, find some other skaters around to skate with as well.
Last set up was. Verducci Corsa boots, maple clap frames, kryptonic wheel's with ceramics.
Thats my skate history.
Other about me, couple kids, few pets, I do fire, glow, and sideshow acts with my other half. Though, he has his regular full time job. Other then that I enjoy being outdoors, Travel, and creating things.
|June 30th, 2017, 06:51 AM
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Hi there from SE Wisconsin
Hello, I am a 14 year old speedskater from SE wisconsin, I skate at the pettit national ice center in milwaukee, but in my off time I skate at waukesha skateland. I mainly do long track but I also do short track when I can. Ive only been skating for about a year now.
|October 4th, 2017, 03:00 AM
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Hi. I am Boris and I live in NYC.
I got bored of using biking for commuting around the city and I switched to inline skates (Maxxum 90). They are less practical but they are so much more fun! I skated for a couple of years and then I learned about NYC skating marathon in 2016. I registered to participate but then, I took a lead fall when rock climbing and broke my leg three weeks before the marathon. Apparently, it didn't work out last year but this year I finally ran it at 1:48. So, now I want to run it again, faster and better. It would be great to try 100k but I am not sure if I ever get strong enough to do that. It's also a lot of fun skating downhill and making slalom turns. Thank you for letting me join this forum.
|October 6th, 2017, 09:27 AM
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Hello everyone,
my name is Romek, I am Polish by origin, but live in Belgium. I've got a pretty standard background, I guess: I started skating for fun and fitness a dozen years ago (2001), skated during my university years, then had a break of some 11 years with only occasional skating here and there; last year I got back on the skates and felt painstakingly slow, craved the speed and I recalled that when I was a student I dreamt of proper (5 wheel skates at the time) speed skates, but of course could not afford them on a student budget. I realised I can afford them now as a grown man so I did (PS R2) and got hooked. This year in August I went to a Sk8 skool camp and got hooked even more. A couple of weeks ago I switched to a more proper and supportive Bont Jet (really like them), but I am still on 4 x 100mm until I strenththen my ankles enough (multiple volleyball injuries...) and get my technique right to move to 110mm. And here I am.
I look for like-minded people to discuss all the weirdest aspects of speed skating ranging from how a specific weaving pattern in my socks affects my speed to which colour of skating boots is quicker and why
|September 21st, 2019, 01:41 AM
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Hi, I'm Rod and I live in Atlanta. Started in-line skating in California in the late 80's with an amazing bunch of great people.
Haven't been on the skates in way too long, getting back on them this year. Glad to be a part of a forum that promotes skating.
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|December 20th, 2019, 01:07 AM
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Hello everybody,
I'm Derrick and I live in Boise, Idaho, USA. Not sure if I really qualify as a "speed skater", since I see most folks in this forum skate in races and marathons; but I do skate pretty fast for a geezer! I'm 53 years old, skate about 6 miles per day, and joined today so I could get advice from serious skaters like you. My current skates are modified Rollerblade Maxxum 100's (3 x 100 and 1 x 90), and I'm beginning to experiment with Torrent rain wheels, and skating in bad weather. I've been skating my whole life and I've been hurt a number of times; I wear long clothes, wrist guards, and just recently starting getting used to a helmet.
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The Tao's Wandering Eye: Give us some Figgy pudding, or maybe some Zim
To be honest, we'd never been much a of Figgins fan in the past, having written him off as a bit of a slap and dash type with marginal fielding skills. Seeing him boot a couple of balls in a playoff game against the Red Sox has probably stuck with us, and we're always a bit wary of guys who put up high averages but mediocre slugging.
But in recent months, we've started to come around on the free-agent-to-be, and we're ready to start visualizing him as Jay next year, if only so that we can be disappointed this offseason.
After a lousy season in 2008 (.685 OPS, 1 HR, 72 runs scored), Figgins has rebounded nicely this year, with 100 runs scored, a .404 OBP and .406 SLG. He still gets thrown out more than we'd like to see (16 times versus 39 steals), but he'd make an ideal top of the lineup option for the Jays in 2010, should they need one.
(Although there's a good argument to be made that Marco Scutaro's numbers are better, and we fully expect our wise and sage-like readers to make that argument in the comments.)
Also, Fangraphs tells us that we shouldn't believe our lying eyes when it comes to Figgins' defense, as he ranks third in the majors amongst third basemen with a 13.0 UZR/150. Only Evan Longoria and Ryan Zimmerman (13.8 and 16.1) rank ahead of him.
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MLB Trade Rumo(u)rs' Tim Dierkes makes the argument that the Nationals should consider putting Zimmerman up for auction in order to replenish a lagging farm system. Zimmerman is in the midst of an outstanding season (.372 OBP, .527 SLG, 27 HRs and 90 RsBI), and is locked up through 2013 at a fairly reasonable rate.
And though it seems as if he's been around forever, Zimmerman is still only 24 years old, which is nearly a full year younger than Brian Dopirak, and just about a year older than J.P. Arencibia.
We're not necessarily thinking that the Nats will offer him up, but if there is a guy who might be worth selling the farm for, it would be Zimmerman.
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- Steve G. said...
Zimmerman strikes me more as the next Robin Ventura as opposed to George Brett. Ventura was really good for a lot of years, a borderline all-star and a guy who could start for a playoff team, but he wasn't someone you would give the farm up for. If someone is willing to give up the farm for him, and I was running the Nats, then I'd take it, just because I don't think Zimmerman is a phenom or anything.
As far as Figgins goes, I'd be against giving him a contract because traditionally, the worst type of player to sign is a guy in / approaching his 30s. Figgins will be 32 all of the 2010 season, and because the Jays aren't on the cusp of contending, and because he's not a bonafide all-star, they shouldn't seriously entertain the notion of signing him.
- September 3, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
At 24, Zimmerman is putting up an OPS close to .900. Ventura put up an OPS just over .800 at the same age.
That's a lot of extra bases over the run of a year.
- September 3, 2009 at 2:34 PM
I'm confused....why are we selling the farm for Zim? Is he THE piece? Let's stay focussed here. We aren't in a position to sell the farm for anybody.
As for Figgins, seems like a buy-high scenario to me.
- September 3, 2009 at 3:28 PM
This season's been hard on everybody, but I'm beginning to think Tao's lost the plot.
[Not trying to wind anybody up.]
- September 3, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
@Anon 3:28
I think Zimmerman could be even better in the next four years, and that he could be the cornerstone of a championship team.
I don't think the Nats will trade him, and I don't think we'd have the pieces to get them.
So it's all pie in the sky.
@ Anon 3:30
I wouldn't argue with you on that one. I've totally lost it.
I'm playing out the string.
- September 3, 2009 at 3:38 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Zimmerman and Figgins are our "pie in the sky" now?
Talk about your lowered expectations. Rogers is good at lowering expectations though.
- September 3, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Rogers is the BEST at lowering expectations.
I'm all for Figgins. I'm all about buying high. Literally. Have you been in the grocery store while high? I'm sure you have. It's a fantastic experience. Sure, the bill's a lot heavier than what it normally is, but it's a ton of fun.
I hate this team. I'm afraid of what the Yankees are going to do the boys. And, oddly, I feel more confident in Rick-Ro than Doc right now. Ricky's throwing his best pitches...
- September 3, 2009 at 4:22 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Dude, one time I bought high, and I spent $120 at Blockbuster and $40 at Little Ceasars, and that's when I was a poor student.
Agree that Figgins would probably be buying him at the top of his value (like we did with B.J. Ryan). Still, if you could get him on a two or three year deal, then we do that.
He's 31, and he's not slowing down. Yet.
- September 3, 2009 at 5:03 PM
- Colin said...
Is there some reason we can't target Scutaro AND Figgins? I mean, we're going to need a third baseman and a shortstop, and there probably isn't anyone available out there better than either.
I'd take them 1/2 in front of Hill and Lind. Another big bat would be nice, but you could get that at DH and pick anyone available.
- September 3, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Watching the game tonight and I'm certain that Snider is a Canseco wannabe in the outfield. This kid is pathetic!
- September 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM
- DaveC said...
Sure, because he's not young, and there's no way he improves, or that he'll make up for it at the plate. Trade him now, while we still can!
- September 4, 2009 at 5:54 AM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Tao: $120 at BlockBuster and $40 at Little Caesars. That's fucking impressive.
- September 4, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Clearly, I was hungry. For food and for culture.
Actually, one of the videos that I rented that night was an Anna Nicole Smith "thriller" called Skyscraper (I think), so calling it culture is a bit of a stretch.
But I did buy Fargo and OK Computer on that night, as well as two pizza subs. So it all evens out.
- September 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Rogers is the BEST at lowering expectations.
Your mom's better!
- September 6, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Really? Figgins is in the budget now. But replacing the letters on the "ring of honour" and taking down the banners for Rios, Ryan and Rolen is too expensive an undertaking? The YES network did a bang up job of pointing out the team's foibles this weekend. Good luck with all that, Jays fan. At least they won 2 of 3.
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Rizo has been a professional concept artist since 2005, and has worked with companies like Radical Entertainment and Relic.
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Activist investor Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, has just unveiled his website taking on Herbalife, a multi-level marketing company that sells weight loss and nutrition supplements.
Ackman, who has an "enormous" short position, believes Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. He also has a price target of $0 and believes the company is going to fail.
His newly launched website, FactsAboutHerbalife.com, includes Herbalife distributor presentations, recruiting material, videos, nutrition club photos, third-party investigative reports, Herbalife Today magazines, court depositions, etc.
During a special Sohn Conference presentation yesterday, Ackman talked about how Herbalife portrays its "Nutrition Clubs" as "vibrant retail channels". To demonstrate this point, he put up a slide using a clip from Herbalife's Today Magazine showing a crowd of happy people drinking smoothies in a sunny and airy space.
Ackman also quoted the CFO from a conference call last month saying investors are encouraged to visit the clubs.
So the Pershing Square team decided to check out some clubs in Queens, New York and Omaha, Nebraska between March and September 2012.
They took some photos and we've included their findings in the slides that follow. Basically, Pershing Square's findings show that these clubs don't look like the ones that were advertised in the magazine from Herbalife.
Following Ackman's 342-slide presentation on his short thesis yesterday, Herbalife came out and said he used "outdated" and "inaccurate" information. Herbalife said today it's hosting an analyst day in January to try to rebut Ackman's short presentation.
We called Herbalife this morning to provide us with specifics, but they haven't gotten back to us yet.
Since Ackman confirmed his short on Wednesday, shares of Herbalife have tanked. The stock was last trading down 19 percent today.
First, here's what the Nutrition Clubs look like in Herbalife's magazine
Now, here's what a Herbalife Nutrition Club really looks like, according to Pershing Square Capital Management.
Want to see Ackman's short thesis?
Check Out We Have Never Seen Anything Like Bill Ackman's Dizzying Takedown Of Herbalife >


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Date: 10/15/2007; 57 minutes
This conference on Emerging Energies Technologies takes an unbiased look at how the United States can make the transition from dependency on carbon-based fuels to a sustainable alternative fuels-based future. In this program Nobel laureate Alan Heeger of UCSB and Joan Ogden of UC Davis give their perspectives on renewable energy. (#13287)
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Many years ago, when I was 24 years old, God used an orange Volkswagen Rabbit, a sporty red Audi, and a toll-taker to teach me a valuable lesson that I've carried with me to this day.
My husband and I had been married a few years and, like many newly married couples, we had no money. I was driving the ugliest car on earth, an orange Volkswagen Rabbit.
There are several reasons why this car was the ugliest car on earth. Reason one – it was orange, my least favorite color. Not just my least favorite, but the color I detest the most. The color orange offends my eyes.
Secondly, it was ugly because it was old, and rusting and falling apart. So much so, that when it rained, water collected in the hatchback. And I don't remember the interior being much to look at either.
But it was transportation. And it got me back and forth to work each day. At that time, I was working with my mother and step-father at their medical practice. Every day when I drove to work, I had to pay a toll to cross the Charter Oak Bridge in E. Hartford, CT. Every day, as I approached the toll, I would pull all the way over to the toll booth at the far right. The center ones always had the longest lines and I wanted to avoid all that. Every day, I would give my pre-paid toll ticket to the same ticket taker in the booth all the way to the right. And every day it was me in my ugly-as-sin old beat up orange Volkswagen Rabbit. And every day, the toll taker would not say a word to me or even look my way. He would just take my ticket.
That is until one day, my ugly orange Volkswagen Rabbit stopped working and had to go to the shop. Since my husband and I had very little money, we couldn't afford for me to miss work on top of having a car repair bill. Also, my mother and step-father liked having me in the office to get things done. They liked being able to go to lunch together while I was in the office, answering phones and being there in case any afternoon patients showed up early.
So, it was a win-win scenario for my mother and step-father to let me drive one of their cars until my ugly orange car got fixed. I don't know why, but the car they chose to let me borrow was a sporty, not orange, but cherry-red newer model Audi. It definitely was a giant step up from my ugly old car.
The next day, I got ready for work as usual, got in the cherry-red Audi and headed to the office. And as usual, I pulled all the way to the toll booth to the right to give the toll taker my ticket. But, not as usual, the toll taker didn't ignore me. That day, he decided to say, "Well, hellloooooo!"
The exchange literally took seconds. I handed him my ticket and he said hello. But that exchange taught me a valuable lesson. Because his greeting that day made me very angry.
It made me angry because suddenly , I was worthy of his hello. It was still me driving through the toll booth, handing him my ticket. The only difference was that day, I was driving a cherry-red Audi instead of an ugly orange Rabbit. The drastic change in my vehicle somehow had increased my value in his eyes.
But my value, and yours, is not derived from the kind of car we drive, the house we live in, or the price of the clothes we wear. Our value is derived from who we are in the eyes of God. We are His creation and He is crazy in love with His children. Brennan Manning put it this way, "Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."
I'm not sure why anger was the emotion that "hello" stirred in me that day. It just felt so wrong to me that the car I was in somehow made me better in the toll taker's eyes. I still bristle inside to this day when I feel pressure to "be" or "do" something because it might make someone think better of me.
I know of a couple who once owned a financial planning business. When they first started out, they decorated their office as best they could. And knowing this couple the way I do, I'm sure the office looked just fine.
One day, a well-dressed man walked into the office. The wife, who was the receptionist, asked, "May I help you?"
"No, thanks," said the gentleman, "I'm just looking around."
And after he examined every piece of furniture and picture on the wall, he walked out. The couple assumed that because their office wasn't decorated grandly enough, he didn't think they were successful enough to handle his finances.
(That was a big assumption; he could have just been a weirdo.)
So, trying to make the "right" impression on future potential clients, the couple spent thousands and thousands of dollars redecorating their office.
That story makes me cringe.
I am a real estate agent. I have to prospect for new clients all the time. If I had to spend thousands of dollars to impress someone with my "success", then that person just isn't meant to be my client.
Gary Keller (co-founder of Keller Williams real estate) put it perfectly at our last convention when he was encouraging agents not to go into debt to build their businesses. He was talking about buying a sensible car for our real estate business. Gary said that many agents feel they have to drive an expensive or fancy car to impress their clients. He hit a home run with me when he said, "If a client is judging your ability as a real estate agent based on the car you drive, you have an idiot for a client."
"Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."
So it is an illusion when we think we are more, or better, or successful because of "things" – things we wear or drive or own. Our value, our only value, comes from the value God places on us. This goes totally against what society tells us. The world tells us to amass "stuff" and the more stuff we get will make us happy and important.
Dave Ramsey says in his Financial Peace class, "We buy cars we can't afford to impress people we'll never see again at red lights."
"Define yourself radically as one beloved by God…"
Now that my husband and I have been married for nearly 27 years and have had job promotions and salary increases – and yes, have amassed more "stuff", I ask God to always help me remember to be defined by who I am in His eyes and not by anything else that doesn't really matter anyway.


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One layer cake – Lily and Will by Bunny Hill Designs
2 7/8 yards background fabric – Bella Solid in Snow
2/3 yard for binding – Posh Green Plaid
3 2/3 yards for backing – Cottontail Green
All seam allowances are 1/4″ throughout.
First, cut the background fabric into 40 strips that measure 2 1/2″ x width of fabric.
Next, choose 30 fabrics from the layer cake. Make sure that they contrast well with the background color.
Then, take one 10″ square and trim small slivers off each side of the block. (I used a dark fabric for the sample block for contrast purposes.) Don't trim more than 1/2″-3/4″ off each side, or the block will become too small. Just a bit taken off each side is sufficient.
Cut two strips of background fabric approximately the height of the square.
Sew on to the block and press.
Trim off the excess ends of the strip so the ends are even with the rest of the block.
Sew and press.
Using a 12.5″ square, trim around all 4 sides of the block.
The block is finished.
Repeat above steps until all 30 blocks are made.
Layout the blocks in a pleasing arrangement. The layout is 5 blocks across and 6 rows down.
Sew blocks together in rows and then sew the rows together.
Baste, quilt and bind as desired.
Since I used a plaid binding, I cut the strips (2 1/4″) on the bias. A little fiddly, but well worth the final results.
One lap quilt that measures 60″ x 72″.
Amanda Jean


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Almost 500 Translink staff and passengers have been assaulted in the course of their employment or while travelling since 2010, new figures have shown.
A further 164 members of staff have had their complaint of being threatened recorded, but both an employee and a union official claim the problem is more widespread than the available statistics indicate.
You wouldn't believe the abuse we get just for doing our jobs, and you get a fair few threatsNI Railways employee
One NI Railways worker told the News Letter that the level of violence and threatening behaviour directed towards staff was intolerable, and that his employers tended to "play down" the severity of many incidents.
"We just have a sense that [NI Railways management] aren't treating this seriously," he said.
"Most of the time there is just one of us on the train and its a nightmare if something kicks off. You wouldn't believe the abuse we get [from the public] sometimes just for doing our jobs, and you get a fair few threats.
"I haven't been too bad but some of the staff have been beaten up and it just seems that we're expected to carry on as if nothing had happened. You hear about how [the management] are going to sort this out, but it's just happening far too often."
The figures released in response to a Freedom of Information request show that since January 2010 a total of 226 physical assaults on staff have been recorded, with 245 passengers also reporting having been assaulted on Translink property.
The employee, who did not wish to be named, added: "I think it's time everyone who assaults a member of staff should be prosecuted - to get the message out that it won't be tolerated.
"If you get the figures that's only half of the story. There are loads of cases where you think you could be assaulted, because people get so aggressive, but it ends up nothing is done about it because no one got hurt. They just expect us to carry on.
Translink reported 198 of the cases listed to the PSNI.
On average around 35 assaults on Translink staff are recorded every year, according to the latest figures.
The scale of the problem has not diminished significantly since North Down MP Lady Sylvia Hermon raised the issue at Westminster in 2007.
The then secretary of state Peter Hain revealed there had been 110 recorded assaults on staff over a three year period – 37 per year on average.
The issue was highlighted again in April last year when Translink offered a £1,000 reward in connection with a 'road rage' assault on a bus driver.
Police were called after the driver of a black BMW forced the Goldline Omagh to Belfast bus onto the hard should of the M1 motorway and attempted to pull the Translink employee through the window.
The incident took place on a Saturday afternoon when there were a number of passengers on board the bus.
In July this year, services to part of the Lagmore area of Belfast were suspended after a brick and petrol bomb attack on a bus.
In the company's staff protection policy document, violence is defined as physical assault, as well as "a threat by word, weapon or action which suggests a possible future act of assault and/or persistent harassment".
It adds: "Verbal abuse is not considered to be a violent incident but will be recorded...however, excessive or prolonged verbal abuse may have a psychological impact."
• A Translink spokeswoman said safety is their "top priority," and that a number of steps to increase employee and passenger safety have been introduced.
She said: "We take all workplace violence extremely seriously whether this is verbal or physical abuse.
"All our staff have the right to work without fear and we take a zero tolerance approach to stamp out intimidating antisocial behaviour. However, it is important to put some context around these figures; we operate around 80 million passenger journeys every year – over 12,000 services every day and the majority of these are safe and without incident.
"CCTV cameras are also installed on our Metro buses, local and cross border trains and Goldline and Ulsterbus vehicles.
"We continue to work with our trade unions, and colleagues across the industry to monitor this kind of route crime and explore new methods and technology to catch the perpetrators."
The spokeswoman said the company "provides emotional support and guidance" for employees who have suffered from physical or verbal assault, and added: "We also work closely with trade unions as we know how important it is to help individuals to return to work through an appropriate plan.
"To encourage the public to report instances of anti-social behaviour, we operate a reward scheme which pays out up to £1000 to anyone who witnesses and gives evidence of any incident of trespass, vandalism or assault that result in a successful conviction."


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Is B.C. brave enough to follow Quebec's world religions curriculum?
When is ignorance bliss?
For some it's when the subject is religion.
How many times have you heard someone remark, almost proudly, they know virtually nothing about religion? As if the deep convictions of four out of five of the world's inhabitants were beneath them.
Resistance to inter-religious understanding remains strong, judging from continuing global conflicts — and the shortage of courses about religion in the vast majority of North American public schools.
And also judging by the rotten eggs some pundits and activists have tossed at Quebec's five-year-old "ethics and religious culture" curriculum. It requires all students to take classes in religious and secular world views.
Given the reactionary response some Canadians have had to Quebec's elementary and high school courses, it was heartening to see the results of a recent poll conducted for the B.C. Humanist Association.
It revealed more than 77 per cent of British Columbians would like world religions taught in public schools.
Even though he is an atheist, the head of the B.C. Humanist Association, Ian Bushfield, was one of those who hoped Canadians would become more knowledgeable about religions and other collections of beliefs about humans' relationship to the universe.
"I support the teaching of comparative religions/world views, provided it includes a discussion of secular moral philosophies — like Quebec has done," Bushfield said in an interview.
"I think it does two things. First, it helps promote tolerance and understanding, traits that are increasingly important as B.C. becomes more diverse.
"Second, I think it can help humble ideas and combat fundamentalism of all stripes. It's important for everyone (even atheists) to challenge their beliefs regularly and recognize that different people have different ideas."
To date, B.C. public schools basically offer students only a short program in world religions, typically in Grade 8. Most other North American educational jurisdictions don't do much more. Many do less.
Quebec may have moved the furthest on the continent.
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After launching studies of successful mandatory world-religion curricula in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and Nordic countries, former Liberal premier Jean Charest forged ahead and instituted a similar program for Quebec schools.
In a province where the powerful Roman Catholic church once shaped education, Charest's much-debated curriculum (known as ethique et culture religieuse) replaced the abolished subject of Christian religious and moral education.
Given the strength of the Jewish minority in Quebec, and the rapid growth of other religions such as Islam, many educators in the province believe it's time to instead teach students "about" all religions, while outlining protocols for helping them make ethical choices.
By 2008, the province's public and private school systems were being required to give compulsory courses for almost all grades. The courses are taught in a variety of ways, but on average they take up about two hours of class time per week.
Some religious Quebecers have complained the curriculum is "relativistic." They fear it doesn't favour one religion and claim it threatens parents' right to control their children's upbringing. Court cases have been launched.
But hundreds of thousands of Quebec students have taking the courses in the past five years, without significant signs of mass revolt. And there have been many quiet expressions of appreciation for the profundity of the material.
The ethics and religious culture courses are designed around two principles, reflecting the views of the Quebecer who has become Canada's most internationally respected philosopher, Charles Taylor (who happens to be Catholic).
One principle behind the courses is the "recognition of others," the concept that one of the best way for diverse people to get along is to understand what makes the "other" tick.
McGill University law professor Daniel Weinstock, who was an early promoter of the program, emphasized the courses are not "confessional," designed to advocate any world view.
"The courses basically help students understand: What does the world look like from the perspective of a Muslim, Jew, secular humanist or even a Marxist," Weinstock, a secular Jew, said in a telephone interview.
"The concern was that kids would be leaving school without an important key to understanding the world around them."
Are B.C.'s educators prepared to learn from Quebec?
So far they've expressed little interest. The topic of religion tends to make educators nervous.
And Weinstock is among those who acknowledge ethics and religious culture courses "potentially open a can of worms …. Teaching Islam post-9/11 is a bit of a minefield, for instance."
Given such sensitivities, most Canadian educators just ignore world religions. They fear offending. It's the same reason some B.C. high-school biology teachers quietly sidestep the subject of evolution, so as not to rile the small cohort of Christians who interpret the Bible literally in regard to a six-day creation.
But should we endorse such wilful ignorance? What would B.C.'s ministry of education have to face and overcome if it showed the boldness to follow Quebec's lead?
As Weinstock suggests, there might be some initial practical challenges.
"We didn't understand how steep the learning curve would be in terms of training teachers to teach" religions and ethics, Weinstock said.
In that regard, Quebec has found it helpful when more students preparing for the teaching profession take undergraduate courses in world religions and applied ethics.
And, at a political level, a major point of contention in Quebec has focused on the courses being mandatory even for private religious schools, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or Muslim.
Nearly all Quebec's private religious schools receive about 65 per cent of their funding from taxpayers, which means (as it would for similarly funded independent schools in B.C.) they must follow a basic provincial curriculum.
Judging from Quebec's battles, B.C. could expect the most concerted opposition to mandatory religion and ethics courses to come from conservative religious people.
The Baptist Press, for instance, summed up such antagonism when it ran a headline about Quebec's program that declared: "Mandatory courses say all religions are true."
Such dissenters charge that the courses promote religious "relativism," which they say is an ideology that claims all world views and morals have equal value.
That why some worried Quebec Catholic parents launched a landmark court case seeking an exemption for their children. But last year the Supreme Court of Canada rejected their case, saying the parents' religious freedom was not being infringed.
However, the legal issue is not dead. The Supreme Court of Canada announced in June it would hear a case launched by Loyola, a Catholic boys' school that seeks to offer a world religions program that also promotes Christianity
Weinstock, whose own children have appreciated taking Quebec's ethics and religious culture courses, believes critics have adopted an unhelpful definition of "relativism."
To Weinstock, relativism basically means "anything goes." But Weinstock said Quebec's religion and ethics courses do not in any way treat, for instance, Naziism, as equivalent to a major religious or secular world view.
Instead, Weinstock maintains Quebec's ethics and religious culture program promote "pluralism." That, he says, is the principle "there are multiple ways of looking at the world."
In multi-faith B.C., such a perspective to most is self-evident.
And so is parents' right to teach their children that their world view is superior.
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Alternative viewpoint on the fascinating Loyola case from Cardus, a Canadian Christian magazine


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Reading 1: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill
When Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt told a reporter that "the story is over." In fact, the story of this stalwart woman's life was far from over. Upon leaving the White House, she retreated to Val-Kill. She described her life there in an autobiography:
Eleanor Roosevelt was a gracious hostess to all her visitors. One particular group she hosted every summer was the Wiltwyck School, which was established to provide for neglected and abandoned children. She served on the school's Board of Directors and provided it with financial assistance. Roosevelt described a typical Wiltwyck School outing:
1. How many people did Roosevelt employ, and what types of jobs did they perform?
2. What types of people did Roosevelt invite to visit or stay at Val-Kill? What activities could visitors participate in?
3. What kinds of daily life activities did Roosevelt perform? Would you have expected a wealthy president's widow to do those things? Why or why not?
4. What was the purpose of the Wiltwyck School?
5. What activities did Roosevelt plan for the boys when they came to Val-Kill?
Reading 1 was compiled from The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt. Copyright 1937, 1949, 1958, 1961 by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Copyright 1958 by Curtis Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.


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