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Coen is a strong, young male who still has a lot more growing to do. Already sporting a solid physique and headstrong determination, Coen has quickly proven himself to be an independent and gutsy Koala brimming with confidence.
DOB: 28th February 2016
When you adopt a Koala, you receive a beautiful personalised adoption certificate with a photo of your Koala, a welcome letter, Koala stickers, and more. And if you are in the area you can drop in and visit the adorable Koala you adopted! *(Cost of Koala adoption does not include park admission fees).
*We cannot guarantee however, that the adopted Koala will be available for viewing on the day so it is always best to contact the zoo or park prior to your visit to avoid disappointment.
Please note: Koalas are not pets. This is a symbolic Koala adoption, or a 'foster' program. Your monthly donation, which is a twelve month commitment, goes towards the work of helping save Koalas in the wild; so by adopting one of these gorgeous Koalas, you will be helping their less fortunate wild cousins! The Adopt a Koala program is not tax deductable and is a twelve month program.


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Bear Village offers a two- bedroom apartment with a shared living space, bathrooms, and a kitchen. There will be four students in every apartment.
Why Choose Bear Village?
Features of Bear Village Apartments include two full baths, washer/dryer units, cherry cabinets, tile floors in kitchen and bathrooms, black appliances, dishwasher and pantry. Select apartments have French doors in the living room. Shuttle service provided to the heart of campus Monday thru Friday.
Located in the center of Bear Village apartment complex is the Bear Village C-Store. It opens everyday, stop by for all your shopping needs, including frozen foods, beverages, snacks, microwavable meals, candy, cookies, crackers, and health and beauty products.
Included in Each Apartment
Central heat and air
Internet in the bedrooms
Loveseat and club chair
Two twin beds, two dressers, one student desk/chair per bedroom
Kitchens furnished with dishwasher, stove, refrigerator and four bar stools
Washer and dryer units
What About Security?
UCA is committed to your safety and Bear Village will provide 24-hour access to the UCA Police Department. You should always lock your room and keep your key, not loaning it to anyone else or hiding it somewhere around the building. Report potential security problems to the Residence Life Staff or the UCA Police.
More Information
Should you have any additional questions concerning Bear Village, please contact the Department of Housing and Residence Life at (501) 450-3132, between 8:00AM to 4:30PM: Monday through Friday. Or stop by Bernard Hall Room 201.

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I Have Designed 13 Blogs!
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- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Look at how talented you are! Well done.ReplyDelete
Very talented and clever and the horse below is so funnyReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Well done! That's thirteen more than I have designed.ReplyDelete
Wow, what fun & they all look different too ;). Happy TT!ReplyDelete
The Pink Flamingo
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Wow.. that is very exciting. Love the different designs!ReplyDelete
It says a lot about your work that each one is unique. The thing that holds them together is that they're all damn good. Otherwise, they reflect their owners! Good on ya!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 at 7:02 PM
You do GREAT work. I had no idea that you did the No Nonsense Girl's blog. I haven't seen her around in a while.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 at 7:09 PM
Your designs are great! Happy TT :)ReplyDelete
My dear friend, my dear talented friend. You have used your talent to do my blog design and I am in love with it. You were able to put the essence of who I am to actually put it for everyone to see.ReplyDelete
I hope you make 130 more!
Thanks and have a great week!
When do you want to start?ReplyDelete
They're all so good! I am very impressed, computers scare me!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Yay. And, you moved me, too. I am so excited for you! Your bizness is picking up. I think I know a few more people who will need you for transfers!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2008 at 8:20 PM
wow nice workReplyDelete
I was looking at a professional web designer's site yesterday and I must admit, I like your designs better!ReplyDelete
They look great!ReplyDelete
Those are great!ReplyDelete
nice! I have been to a couple of those blogs. Keep up the great work!ReplyDelete
Very cool! Great work!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! That really is amazing! Here's to 13 more and then 13 more after that!! I just may have to hire you!ReplyDelete
Awesome and I loooooove mine.ReplyDelete
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wish I knew you one month ago. where were you?
You have a lot of talent, my dear. Nice work!
You do such an amazing job. Really. I wish you were WordPress... sigh. I suffer so much!ReplyDelete
Happy TT!
These are great. How does this work? How much does it cost? Can you make me cool??ReplyDelete
WOW!! You're very talented! I love the typewriter one!ReplyDelete
wow...WELL done.ReplyDelete
My T13 #1
WOW! Those are stunning. Way to go! You are so talented. :)ReplyDelete
oh and that post I was telling you about is up. :)
have a great Thursday.
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2008 at 3:19 AM
Wow, those are wonderful. Now I know where to come when things start getting crazy during my redesign in a few months. *Grin*ReplyDelete
You're doing very well! Its a fantastic list.ReplyDelete
Those are so awesome, great job. I would be excited too. Good Luck on many more.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2008 at 7:56 AM
Hum, now I know who to go to when I'm ready to overhaul our blog. :)ReplyDelete
You've got some talent, girl! I know where to come when I've had it with my lack of talent and want a change-up.ReplyDelete
COngrats! Good work.ReplyDelete
those are awesome!! very terrific work!! i wish i had a quarter of your knowledge on how to do that!!ReplyDelete
Well done! Each one of them is perfect in its own unique way.ReplyDelete
hey - i just came from one of those!ReplyDelete
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Did you have any trouble getting into the TT hub today per chance?
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Continued good luck in this exciting venture!!
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Very talented indeed!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! They all look wonderful...I wish you continued blog design requests ;)ReplyDelete
OMG--you are awesome! Did you have any idea it would take off like this!!! So glad I got you when I did--girl, you are going to be really busy now (if you aren't already).ReplyDelete
Job well done! Before coming her I saw #3 on your list. I really like the header design for "Diary of A New Mom".ReplyDelete
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Nice web sites you have designed. You are quite the talent.ReplyDelete
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Well done. But we all know how talented you are.ReplyDelete
You are so talented! They are amazing and all so different! Yeah you! You rock!ReplyDelete
Those are FANTASTIC! No wonder I never see you anymore. :(. How awesome it is to get paid doing what you love. Atta girl!! You may need a nany to watch the kids while you work pretty soon (a-ha)!ReplyDelete
Beautiful work you have there!ReplyDelete
Holy creativity woman! That is awesome! Way to start your own business. :)ReplyDelete
Those all look great!!! Good job! And I recognize a few of them from my blog hopping. :)ReplyDelete
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Those are all great! Congratulations on your talents and work!ReplyDelete
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Great designs.
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I stumbled upon Foster Me Up and was really impressed with the design. I should've known it was YOU!!
Sorry to be MIA.
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2008 at 6:48 PM
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One of the first things I had to do when coming home, along with doing loads of laundry, was to get a phone.
Well, technically, I have a phone. Two, even—a landline (primarily for telemarketers to call) and a cellphone I never use because I haven't bought minutes in ages.
I bought my cellphone a few years ago, after valiantly resisting sales pitches for months. I'm not a phone person, I do everything by email. But as the world was getting hooked, meeting someone without having a cellphone became increasingly difficult. "I will call you when I get there but I'm not sure when." "But I don't have a phone," I would protest. "Can't we set a time?" "Sure. Let's say between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. But I will call you when I will know." Etc.
So I gave in and bought a pay-as-you-go cellphone. A crappy one that dropped calls and stubbornly refused to connect me when it felt like it. I hated the plan I was on—I had 200 minutes per month but I had no way to check when the 200 minutes were up. "You have to write down the length of your calls," said customer service when I called to complain. "Don't you have a number I can call that will give me my airtime balance?" "Nope."
I bet I never fully used my 200 minutes. Bastards.
This year, I knew what I wanted—a BlackBerry. I figured that a smartphone would actually be useful. Being able to check my emails on the go is great and plans were barely more expensive than for a dumbphone.
So I started shopping around. First, I went online. In Canada, we don't have that many providers: the big three are Bell, Rogers and Telus. Then they are a few "alternative" providers such as Virgin Mobile, Koodo and Mobilicity.
I knew what I wanted: I didn't care that much about the phone itself, but I was looking for a plan with unlimited calls to 5 or 10 numbers (yes, I have no social life) and some data.
First, I struggled with the lingo. I thought my English was pretty good but understanding the plans, more or less detailed on each provider's website, was tricky. What the hell is tethering? A supertab? How much data do I need?
But what annoyed me the most was the inability to see the actual monthly plan rate at a glance. After killing my eyes on reading the fine print (sometimes occupying half of the screen), I decided to meet the devil face-to-face.
Armed with a friend and a Starbucks Latte (welcome back, first world!), we paced Bank Street where most of the providers have a store.
First, we went to Rogers, where I explained I was looking for a BlackBerry and a plan. "BlackBerry sucks," the employee told me in uncertain terms. "You won't like it. They break right away." I felt some loyalty to RIM. "But I had one at work and it was fine," I protested. "Nope. They all break."
We left Rogers.
Bell was next. This time, the employee didn't have anything against RIM and he showed me the plans. "That's pretty good," I acknowledged. "So it's that much per month, right?" The employee fidgeted. "Well, yes. I mean, plus voicemail, plus call display, plus activation fees and plus tax."
Wait a minute: isn't that included?
Not in Canada my friend! Cellphone plans here are a notorious rip-off, but it's not like we have much choice. I got used to paying for incoming calls and to the fact my plan was going to cost me from $50 to $80 per month. Still, I wanted to know what I was actually getting for that price.
I left the store without a phone.
The following day, Feng came with me. "Can't be that difficult!" he boasted. We stopped at one of these cellphone broker places. "I have a great plan for BlackBerry," claimed the employee. "$40 a month and you can get that phone for free with a three-year contract." "So what do I get for that price?" The employee looked at me with pity. "A phone. Do you need airtime?" "Well, yes. It's a phone after all," I pointed out. "Okay, make it $55 a month. Do you need data?" "That's kind of the point of having a smartphone," I added. "Okay, make it $60 a month then. Plus tax, plus voicemail, plus call display, plus activation fee, plus system fees. Got two pieces of ID?"
The two pieces of ID stayed in my wallet. After visiting a few stores, we called it quit. "You know what," said Feng, exhausted. "Buy what you think is best. There are no discounts, no good deals and they are all the same."
So I went back to my first choice (Virgin Mobile, marginally cheaper) and signed up for a plan.
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The Equal Justice Society today joined more than 50 civil rights, public interest and grassroots organizations sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and congressional leaders supporting Mark Lloyd, the associate general counsel and chief diversity officer of the FCC, and the agency's longstanding mission to promote localism, diversity and competition in the media.
In recent weeks, Mr. Lloyd has been unfairly attacked on cable TV and radio talk shows with false and misleading information about his role and responsibilities at the FCC. A respected scholar and public servant, Lloyd was hired by the agency to expand media opportunities for women, people of color, small businesses, and those living in rural areas.
The full text of the letter and a list of signatories is below:
September 16, 2009
To: FCC Commissioners and Congressional Leaders
We, the undersigned, ask you to speak out against the falsehoods and misinformation that are threatening to derail important work by Congress and the Federal Communications Commission on media and technology policies that would benefit all Americans.
In recent weeks, Mark Lloyd, the associate general counsel and chief diversity officer of the FCC, has come under attack by prominent cable TV and radio hosts, and even by some members of Congress, who have made false and misleading claims about his work at the agency.
Mr. Lloyd is a respected historian, an experienced civil rights leader, and a dedicated public servant. He was hired by the FCC to "collaborate on the policies and legal framework necessary to expand opportunities for women, minorities, and small businesses to participate in the communications marketplace." His important work should not be hindered by lies and innuendo.
As the leading media policymakers in Washington, we ask you to speak out against these unfounded attacks, stand publicly behind Mr. Lloyd, and make clear your commitment to carrying out the core mandate of the FCC — as enshrined in the Communications Act of 1934 — to promote localism, diversity and competition in the media.
Let us be clear as to what "localism" actually means. Broadcasters get hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of subsidies in exchange for a basic commitment to serve the public interest. Broadcasters are expected to be responsive to their local communities. Localism has been a cornerstone of broadcast regulation as long as there has been broadcast regulation. It has nothing to do with censorship or interference with local programming decisions. Localism is simply about public service, not about any political viewpoint. Local public service programming and political talk radio, whether liberal or conservative, are not mutually exclusive.
Likewise, as the Supreme Court has recognized, "Safeguarding the public's right to receive a diversity of views and information over the airwaves is … an integral component of the FCC's mission." Diversity of media ownership is a crucial issue, and the agency must address the fact that women and people of color are vastly underrepresented among media owners using the public airwaves.
But diversity is also about closing the digital divide: People of color, the poor, and rural Americans are far less likely to have high-speed Internet access at home or share in the benefits of broadband. Diversity is about creating opportunities and broadening participation; it should go without saying, but it has absolutely nothing to do with censorship.
The third tenet of the FCC's mission is competition. Those using their media megaphones to slander and distort the views of Mr. Lloyd and others may not want competition. But the FCC's job, in its own words, is "to strengthen the diverse and robust marketplace of ideas that is essential to our democracy." The overriding goal must be more speech, not less — more radio stations, more cable channels and more Web sites.
At the core of President Obama's media and technology agenda is a commitment to "diversity in the ownership of broadcast media" and a pledge to "promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints." Now is the time to further that agenda, not to retreat from it.
We ask you, as leaders on these key media issues, to draw a line in the sand now, speak out against the unfounded attacks, and redouble your efforts to enact a policy agenda that will strengthen our economy, our society and our democracy.
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Free Press
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Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Winnie Stachelberg
Center for American Progress
James Rucker
Stephanie Jones
National Urban League Policy Institute
Brent Wilkes
League of United Latin American Citizens
Larry Cohen
Communications Workers of America
Alex Nogales
National Hispanic Media Coalition
Bernie Lunzer
The Newspaper Guild
Communications Workers of America
Kimberly Marcus
Rainbow PUSH Coalition's Public Policy Institute
Malkia Cyril
Center for Media Justice
Andrew Schwartzman
Media Access Project
John Kosinski
Writers Guild of America West
Sandy Close
New America Media
Amalia Deloney
Media Action Grassroots Network
Angelo Falcon
National Institute for Latino Policy
Michael Calabrese
New America Foundation
Gigi Sohn
Public Knowledge
Rinku Sen
Applied Research Center
John Clark
National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians
Communications Workers of America
Graciela Sanchez
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
Mimi Pickering
Steven Renderos
Main Street Project
Hal Ponder
American Federation of Musicians
Tracy Rosenberg
Media Alliance
Terry O'Neill
National Organization for Women
Roger Hickey
Campaign for America's Future
Andrea Quijada
New Mexico Media Literacy Project
Jonathan Lawson
Reclaim the Media
DeAnne Cuellar
Texas Media Empowerment Project
Chris Rabb
Loris Ann Taylor
Lisa Fager Bediako
Industry Ears
O. Ricardo Pimentel
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Todd Wolfson
Media Mobilizing Project
Erica Williams
Campus Progress
Gary Flowers
Black Leadership Forum
Eva Paterson
Equal Justice Society
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr
Hip Hop Caucus
Cheryl Contee
Jack and Jill Politics
Dr. E. Faye Williams
National Congress of Black Women
Emily Sheketoff
American Library Association
Ari Rabin-Havt
Media Matters Action Network
Kathryn Galan
National Association of Latino Independent Producers
Roberto Lovato
Joshua Breitbart
People's Production House
Karen Bond
National Black Coalition for Media Justice
Tracy Van Slyke
Media Consortium
Shireen Mitchell
Digital Sisters, Inc
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We currently operate within a low background counting laboratory on the surface at LBNL in Berkeley, CA and within a deep underground site at the 4850 ft. level (4300 m.w.e.) at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD.
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The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), has amazed and inspired visitors from near and abroad for centuries. Many a traveler has gazed upon this ancient masterpiece of architecture and wondered to themselves just what size pastries will mankind achieve in the future.
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Construction of the Colosseum began under the rule of the Emperor Vespasian in around 70-72. As Vespasian was taking a relaxing bath after a long day of oppressing the known world, one of his servants brought him a tray of newly invented doughnuts. Vespasian, upon trying one, was delightfully surprised and purportedly uttered "Ego operor non vere teneo quam oro Latin" (Doughnuts are to me, as Christians are to lions.)The rest of Vespasian's rein was dominated by his affection for doughnuts, culminating finally in the construction of a giant Doughnut mold. Many an advisor attempted to
dissuade The Emperor from this reckless enterprise. But undaunted by his certain inability to actually eat even a small portion of the envisioned doughnut, Vespasian pushed ahead with the plans. It was to be his downfall.
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After much debate engineers settled on stone and slave labor for construction, a radically different approach for ancient times. The materials necessary for the mold were putting a great strain upon the Empire's finances not mention the Doughnut ingredients themselves. Vespasian's popularity amongst the nobles plummeted, for his preoccupation with doughnut baking had diverted him from making war, leaving the upper classes' thirst for blood and riches unquenched. The peasants were also unhappy that the grain required for such a gargantuan pastry would starve them and there families to death, but this was secondary.
So one night in 79 A.D. as he sat studying cookbooks Vespasian was stabbed to death by assassins sent by his adversaries. The succeeding emperor, Titus, completed the structure in 80 A.D. and many foreigners and wild animals were killed in celebration. Little did they know, just the day before Vespasian had dedicated the Doughnut-in-progress to almighty Jupiter. It was to be a costly error, jupiter only likes flapjacks!!!! .
Disuse and Divine wrath[edit | edit source]
For most of his reign Titus was preoccupied with killing people who believed different things than him, and the Coliseum was never put use for its intended purpose. Over the years different emperors came and went, as the Coliseum gathered dust, which collected in the middle to create a sand bed. The ignorant masses eventually tore down the crumbling inner walls and used it as an arena, its original purpose long forgotten.
The Roman Empire fell on hard times in the Crisis of the Third Century, and people wondered what they had done to anger the Gods so. During an official sacrifice in the capital a bolt of lightning (that may or may not have been thrown by all or any of Zeus, Jupiter, Thor, God, or Jaweh) Struck the Coliseum causing a great fire that left it and much of the city severely damaged. The people were in panic over this ill omen, complicated by troubles abroad and corruption with in. It appeared as if the mighty Roman Empire was finally at an end.
And a fucking random point:
Nobody ever came to the coliseum. They thought it was spelt colliseum and they saw enough men fighting tigers in their underwear. They preferred to watch it on TV. Why? BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO FUCKING LAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rediscovery and Salvation[edit | edit source]
It is around this time that we begin to hear of one Latvenum the Elder. To the great amusement of his fellow citizens, Latvenum claims to have found an ancient scroll detailing the true purpose of the Coliseum, and the cause of the Empire's troubles. Laughed off by his peers, and finally accused treason, Latvenum was sentenced to be fed to Rhinoceroses in, ironically, the Coliseum. The Romans, not knowing yet that despite their fearsome appearance Rhinoceroses are actually herbivores, were amazed at Latvenum's survival. Imagining him to be some kind of divine messenger, the old scholar's warnings were finally heeded.
Under the orders of current Emperor Diocletian, The Arena was re-modified back into its original mold state, and baking began immediately. Soon into it however, a great controversy erupted as over to what type of doughnut was to be molded. Several factions representing their preferred flavor had heated debates in the public forums, sometimes degenerating into mob violence, and barely stopping short of military conflict. In the end, through a series of brilliant speeches, and throat cutting the Plain Old Glazed faction prevailed. Prosperity and peace once more returned to the land. But not for long.
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Some of it was eaten, most of it molded over, and all of it pissed off the Gods. In their holy fury they condemned Rome to slow decline over the next few hundred years, but the Coliseum remained. As a monument to mankind's ingenuity and power, to humanity's cruelty and foolishness, and to people's fondness for sticky sweet fried things.


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New York's realtor to the super-rich is striking out on her own.
I. Dolly Lenz, who has brokered more than $8 billion in deals over 25 years and has long been on the top real-estate deal-makers in New York, is leaving Douglas Elliman Real Estate. She is expected to take with her a team of brokers and staffers.
Lenz is a CNBC contributor and is featured in CNBC's "Secret Lives of the Super Rich: Megahomes."
A spokesperson for Elliman declined comment, saying only, "we wish her well."
Lenz said that she's leaving to "pursue other opportunities" that will be announced in the coming months. While she declined to be specific, it's likely that she'll carve out a bigger role in the real-estate market rather than joining another agency as a broker.
Aside from forging relationships with some of the richest buyers and sellers in New York real-estate, Lenz has run successful marketing and sales operations of several large building conversions in Manhattan, including the Apthorp, Manhattan House, the Cipriani Club Residences at 55 Wall Street and Miraval Living.
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SALISBURY — The Salisbury City Council decided earlier this week to again delay a decision on whether to accept Salisbury University's (SU) offer for free streetscape work on Onley Road.
While the streetscape work would be relatively light and largely cosmetic, some on the council expressed concerns over Onley's future and what the city needs to do to make the street meet community standards.
"These are city streets," said Council President Terry Cohen. "They belong to the people of Salisbury."
SU Director of Facilities and Planning Jeffery Downs met with the council Monday to discuss the school's willingness to supply lighting posts along Onley and install channelization devices as well as crosswalks and some curbing among other improvements.
"Our prime goal is just to make it safe … we may have to tackle this one bite at a time," he told the council.
While what SU is offering is hardly extensive, Cohen pointed out that Onley has a history of being a complicated road and along with Bateman St. has managed to stir controversy for years.
"We inherited quite a headache," she said.
Councilwoman Deborah Cohen noted that nothing about the streetscape work will contribute towards traffic calming, a promise that she reminded the council it made previously.
"We're not even delivering on that," she said.
"There is a balance to be achieved here," added Campbell.
Public Works Director Teresa Gardner explained to Campbell that moving ahead with what SU is offering would not eliminate the possibility for future traffic calming measures.
"Just because we put a signal in doesn't mean we leave this community," she said.
Gardner said that Onley Road and the surrounding streets are "an area we will have to watch." As far as traffic calming goes, she agreed with Campbell that it could be beneficial but suggested the council not jump into anything unprepared.
"The problem is that you have buses in that area as well as fire service," she said.
Though "nothing is off the table," Gardner revealed that one popular calming device, a traffic circle, could cause just as many problems as it fixes.
"While they help the flow of vehicle traffic, there are some concerns about pedestrians and cyclists in the circle," she said.
Last week, the council postponed accepting the SU gift for the first time, while also holding off on a decision to begin construction that would turn nearby Bateman Street into a one-way outlet. Cohen has urged patience and caution with any decisions that could put Onley Road on a path the city is uncomfortable with.
"We are creating a box that will force [residents] to spend their money in Fruitland," she said.
Anything being proposed right now, Cohen continued, is "an interim solution to a really much, much bigger problem." She added, "We know at some point that Onley is going to be extended."
Councilwoman Shanie Shields agreed that there's no silver bullet to making Onley Road perfect for everyone but urged compromise. Accepting SU's offer for free streetscaping is a good first step, she said.
"I have no problem supporting this," said Shields.
Gardner felt the same and reiterated that the city would be paying nothing for the work offered by SU.
SU has expressed a strong interest in getting streetscape work completed this summer before students return for classes. Both the university's offer and construction for turning Bateman Street into a one-way route will be discussed again at the July 2 special session.


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Saturday's Werewolf (mark your calendars now)
I will be reading my paper "Saturday's Werewolf: Vestiges of Premortal Romance in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Novels" in Cupertino at the 2009 Sunstone West symposium on either the 27 or 28 of March --- although almost certainly the 28.
Everything 28 will be at the Hilton Garden Inn:
You are all, of course, welcomed to come and listen to me read. I will strive to be less than deadly boring.
Important notice: I have three big thankyous here. 1) To Tyler for getting me on this project, to Ben for coining the phrase "Saturday's Werewolf" and to Lady Steed for letting me have the hours and hours and hours it took last week to write this thing. Slightly smaller thankyous to all those of you who have read it for me, viz. Mel, eg, TB, Schmett, RC, Laura.
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- Anonymous2/24/2009 8:53 PM
I've registered. Looking forward to it.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2/24/2009 8:54 PM
PS - Don't know if you care, but her name is spelled Stephenie.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I better register too, huh?
Crap. I thought I had it down now too!
By the way, I'm definitely Saturday.
If my situation were different, I'd make the trip to Cupertino! It sounds wonderful.ReplyDelete
I wish I could be there. Break a leg! :)ReplyDelete
It's a good paper. Wish I could be there to hear you read it. Alas, I'll just have to live with reading it myself.ReplyDelete
I'd love to hear you read it. Alas--no trip to sunny California is planned during that week.ReplyDelete
That sounds like an interesting topic.ReplyDelete
Ah, boo, now I want to go to Sunstone West even more, but I'll be out of town that weekend. Boo! Hiss! Best of luck!ReplyDelete
Thanks, everybody. I'll be asking from some advice from those of you with symposium experience, so I'm sure I'll have reason to thank you again soon.
I think you owe a thank you to berzerkcarrottop for allowing you to borrow her books for so very very long.ReplyDelete
This is a very good point. I've had them for months.
Can people roughly 8000 miles away get an email copy?ReplyDelete
You bet, Chosha. All you need to do is ask.
Although a polished copy will appear online here shortly afterwards.
That was me.
- Anonymous2/25/2009 9:31 PM
You're welcome.ReplyDelete
And if I had wanted/needed them back, I knew where you lived.
Knew, past tense. I thought you might want them back sometime, so we moved.


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I hope you've seen the updates and know that our space on Valencia is looking beautiful! We still have so much work to do, but we met at our new space this morning and I couldn't be more excited.
There are lots of preparations to be done before we open and I know there will be plenty of late nights. But, one of the things we need most is a pastry chef. We need someone to whip our pastry kitchen into shape. We've gathered ideas for our cafe offerings over the past few months and even had a decadent chocolate breakfast as a trial run. But, we need an experienced pastry chef to lead the way. I've listed the full job description below. If you're interested, we'd like to see your resume and a short draft of a proposed menu. The menu need only be your first thoughts.
We'll hire for other positions in a few weeks, but we need to focus our efforts on a pastry chef at the moment. When we have other positions available, I'll put them up on our blog as well!
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- Designing recipes and plating for an inventive, chocolate-focused menu to include pastries, a suite of hot chocolates, and specialty desserts
- Costing, sourcing, and ordering the ingredients necessary to execute the menu
- Vetting the menu with the public and making alterations in preparation for opening
- Running the daily operation of our pastry kitchen, including managing any future support staff
- Soliciting feedback about menu on a regular basis, then refining and innovating offerings
- Contributing feedback to our chocolate makers to help them to produce an outstanding product for baked goods and confections
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A piece of equipment that has become increasingly common in recent years is the trap bar, that hexagonal device which has become the bane of many a lifter. An easy way to build up the quads and lower back, the trap bar first came into my consciousness when i began lifting in the early 2000s. An odd device, the thing kicked my ass as I attempted a meagre deadlift.
Since then, we've come to better terms to the extent that I began to wonder where this device came from. What was its original purpose? And how did it end up on a gym floor in Dublin? A series of questions that has led to today's post.
The History of the Trap Bar
Unlike the common barbell or even the EZ bar covered previously, the trap bar has an incredibly recent history. Invented by Al Gerard in the mid-1980s, the device was seen as an alternative to the deadlift, a means of increasing one's lifting numbers without aggravating injuries.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves here. Who was this Al Gerard?
An American lifter of regional merit, Gerard was a drug free powerlifter operating in the US during the 1980s. Despite being plagued with lower back problems for many years of his competitive career, Al pulled a 625 lb. deadlift in competition in his early 40s. In a remarkable book published on Amazon about the history of the Trap Bar (Available here), Gerard revealed that his lifting career in his 20s and 30s had not centred on the gym but rather throwing 100 and 200 lbs. bags of fertiliser around in his job at the local plant.
Eventually however, Al caught the lifting bug and began a slow process of building up to a 500 lbs. deadlift. Over time he built on his numbers to the point where he could pull 600 lbs. plus from the ground. A mightily impressive feat that unfortunately for Al, had resulted in a banged up lower back. Wanting to increase his numbers in the squat and deadlift without overdoing it on these exercises in training, he set about devising a device that could mimic these movements without the back pain.
Where did the Idea come from?
Returning again to the book previously mentioned (Available here), Gerard cited power lifts in the rack as his primary inspiration. Doing rack pulls or squats in the power cage, albeit with a slightly lesser range of motion, allowed him to increase his numbers without pain.
As his inflexibility increased, Al became more and more determined to find a solution. Squatting with 100 lbs. dumbbells in each hand, he chanced upon a rather novel idea. What if he could stand in between two weights and lift – what sort of device would this look like? Soon the Trap Bar prototype emerged, bolstered by Gerard's insight that the closer you bring the resistance back to the body, the more efficient the lift is going to be.
Within weeks Al had improved upon his numbers with the tradition deadlift. He knew he was onto something.
Then What?
It began to grow in popularity, that's what. According to Paul Kelso, himself a keen advocate of the Gerard device, Al's first ad for his bar appeared in the September 1986 edition of Powerlifting USA. Seeking to expand his marketing, Gerard claimed his device was suitable for not only the deadlift but also the stiff leg deadlift, the shrug and the upright row. Soon enough, the device had found acolytes in Paul Kelso, Dr. Ken Leistner and a host of other weightlifting outlets.
For reasons that have yet to be explained satisfactorily in the public sphere, the Gerard bar went out of production for several years in the early 2000s owing to licensing and trademark disputes. The trap bar was then reintroduced to the market by John Wood with the blessing of Al Gerard. Incidentally you can view the original trap bar designs as sold be John Wood here.
Aside from the promotion of influential figures such as Kelso and Leistner, another significant feather in the cap from the Trap Bar's point of view was its increasing popularity amongst NFL players during the late 2000s, early 2010s.
Since then, people have waxed lyrical about its benefits. According to Stronger by Science the trap bar's advantages are numerous:
- It's easier to learn than the barbell deadlift.
- No hyperextension at lockout.
- No need for a mixed grip.
- High handles for people with insufficient hip ROM.
- Less chance of getting pulled forward/spinal flexion.
- It can still be just as hip-dominant as a barbell deadlift.
- (Likely) higher transfer to other sports.
Some Fun Variations
Before we finish out, I thought it'd be cool to go through some of the more unusual variations that can be done with the Gerard Trap Bar as detailed by FitworldExposed.
Have any other trap bar variations you'd recommend? Or stories about the trap bar? Let us know in the comments below!
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Within three days Jesus's followers went from heartbroken sadness to triumphant jubilation. The cross screamed, "The End," making them feel hopeless and helpless. But the resurrection trumpeted, "The Beginning," bringing confidence and courage. The cloud of doubt and despair that had shrouded them melted away and was replaced with unshakeable faith.
Can you imagine how they felt when they realized Jesus had risen from the dead? Suddenly hope came alive; now everything He had said was validated as truth. They had not believed a lie. His victory over death was the acid test that forever sealed their sure conviction that He was the Messiah.
We commemorate Jesus's death on the cross with solemnity, but the resurrection calls for thunderous applause, praise, and song. All the blessings that come our way through the Savior's cross are confirmed by the resurrection. It proved that the Father was satisfied with the Son's payment for our sins. Now we can know that our transgressions are forgiven and we're eternally secure.
What's more, Jesus promises that we, too, will be resurrected and given new bodies. Physical death could not hold Him, nor will it overpower us. Because He overcame the grave, His followers have the same kind of life He has—eternal and indestructible.
As Christians, we have the right to celebrate Easter with great rejoicing. Because of this event, our lives have been forever changed. We've been transformed and given new life. With unwavering faith, we trust the Bible because Christ's power over the grave proves He can and will fulfill every word.
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Her luminous beauty -- seen in doe-like eyes set against perfectly chiseled cheekbones -- helped make her one of the first black women to triumph in Hollywood.
Her radiant vocals -- tinged with the sorrow of the blues -- placed her in an elite class of singers known globally by their first names alone, such as Ella (Fitzgerald) and Billie (Holiday) and Sarah (Vaughan).
Her unblinking defiance of the racism of her era -- which once inspired her to hurl a table lamp and other objects at a bigoted heckler -- established her as an impassioned figure of the civil rights era.
Lena Horne, the last of a pantheon of black divas who helped thrust African-American culture into the American mainstream, died Sunday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, at age 92.
"There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne," said Dee Dee Bridgewater, the Grammy- and Tony Award -winning singer-actress, who, like generations of performers, counted Horne as an inspiration.
"She crossed the color barriers, even though she had to fight to get there," added Bridgewater.
"She held a special place where blacks could view her as a heroine, at a time when we needed heroes," observed David Baker, distinguished professor of music at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Ind.
Ms. Horne "maintained a place of dignity that belied the way blacks were treated at the time," added Baker. Indeed, whether glowing in 1940s films such as "Stormy Weather" or conquering Broadway in 1950s musicals such as "Jamaica" or reaching new audiences with her autobiographical show "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" in the 1980s, the singer exuded an aura of heightened elegance and refinement. That she was able to extend her distinct musical-dramatic franchise well into the 1990s, releasing several jazz CDs and winning her second Grammy for one of them, "An Evening with Lena Horne" (1995), gave her career an epic span, for it stretched back to 1934, when she bowed at the fabled Cotton Club, in Harlem.
Yet practically every aspect of Ms. Horne's life was marked by emotional turmoil, starting with a comfortably middle-class childhood interrupted by hardships when her parents separated. Beneath the high sheen of her show-biz persona, in other words, Ms. Horne struggled with issues of race, privilege, deprivation and social consciousness.
"So many of the things that happened were so ridiculous, you know?" she said in a rare Chicago Tribune interview, in 1998, retaining a hint of the Southern drawl the Brooklyn-born singer acquired growing up in Georgia, when her mother traveled the South as an itinerant actress.
"You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph."
Well before Ms. Horne faced such situations, however, her family imbued her with a sense of pride that would define her racial attitudes thereafter. Early on, she learned of the impressive legacy of her forebears: Her paternal grandmother held key positions with the NAACP and the National Urban League; her grandfather was the first black member of the Brooklyn Board of Education; her uncle served as an adviser on race relations to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
And Ms. Horne never forgot the words of her grandmother, who "taught me about facing down, you know, looking people in their eyes and saying, 'I don't like it,' " when a wrong had been committed, she said in the Tribune interview.
That philosophy steeled her for the travails ahead, beginning at the Cotton Club, where she worked as a chorus girl performing for whites-only audiences to help support her struggling mother and stepfather.
"I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club," said Ms. Horne, describing a celebrated venue where the country's greatest black artists played to wide acclaim, but under dismal conditions and for minuscule pay ($25 a week for three nightly shows , seven nights a week, in Ms. Horne's case).
"I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear," she added, in describing her self-styled musical education. "That was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for performers of color]."
But when she decided she wanted to step into the Cotton Club spotlight as a soloist and her stepfather began lobbying on her behalf, one of the club's owners "beat him up and they pushed his head down a toilet and told him to shut his mouth," she recalled in a New York Times interview.
Ms. Horne fled the club and soon was touring the country with the black bandleader Noble Sissle , in the mid-1930s , and shattering racial precedents by performing with white bandleaders such as Artie Shaw and Charlie Barnet in the early 1940s.
She quickly emerged a major black singer of the era, the amber tone of her voice and the implicit swing rhythms of her phrases helping to bring African-American musical vernacular into the popular culture.
"Her voice was very distinctive -- you could tell Lena Horne anywhere," said Samuel Floyd, Jr., founder of the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago . "I don't know that anybody could match that sound."
"It was a quality of voice that drew you in like Nat Cole's voice," said Baker, the Indiana University professor. "She had wonderful pitch, extraordinary range. She could do any kind of tune, from a love ballad to a swing piece, and make it convincing."
Perhaps inevitably, the luster of Horne's vocals, as well as her stunning good looks, won her cameos in major musical films. In 1943 alone she sang the title song in "Stormy Weather" (swathed in a glittering gown) and performed in "Cabin in the Sky," "Thousands Cheer," "I Dood It" and "Swing Fever." Musical sequences in '40s pictures such as "Broadway Rhythm," "Ziegfeld Follies," "Till the Clouds Roll By" and "Words and Music" made her an internationally known artist.
She became, as she once said, "the first Negro sex symbol" (though devotees of Josephine Baker might have disagreed). But because Ms. Horne refused to take the roles of maids and prostitutes routinely accorded black actresses in that time, her movie career was confined to musical performances and never fully blossomed.
Moreover, her outspoken manner did not endear her to Hollywood chieftains or to certain aspects of the movie-going public. In a notorious incident during World War II , she walked onstage at a USO show at Ft. Riley, Kan., only to see that German prisoners of war were sitting in front of black American soldiers.
Ms. Horne rebelled.
"I just walked off the stage and went up and sang to the back of the room," she remembered, in the Tribune interview. "It happened a couple of times, and they finally said, 'Get her out of the USO.'
"I just reacted as Lena, you know."
The movie star was becoming a lightning rod for criticism, her scenes -- like those of many other black performers -- excised from films when they were distributed in the South. Her second marriage, in 1947 to the white MGM composer-arranger Lennie Hayton, inspired violent threats and obscene mail after they went public, in 1950.
Though Ms. Horne was under consideration to star as Julie in the 1951 film musical "Show Boat," the role went to Ava Gardner.
Ms. Horne's close friendship with the politically active singer-actor Paul Robeson, who she said "helped me come to an understanding about my people," helped finish off her Hollywood career. Widely condemned in anti-Communist publications for her association with Robeson -- whose career also was ruined in the era of the "Red scare" -- she turned her back on the movies by the mid-'50s.
"I never had the great urge to be in the movies in the first place, only because I saw that it was Tarzan or nothing," she said in the Tribune interview. "I never fell for the myth. So when I saw the way things were going, I just got on out."
Instead, she focused on nightclubs and Broadway musicals, winning particular acclaim in Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's "Jamaica," opening on New Year's Eve, 1957.
Yet she never flinched from battles as she encountered them. When a patron in a posh Beverly Hills restaurant referred to her by a vile racial epithet, in 1960, she flung the aforementioned table lamp, several glasses and an ashtray at him.
Her rage, she often explained, owed in part to the strange position she found herself in: A major black star somewhat ostracized by Hollywood yet wealthy enough to have been isolated from everyday black life in America, as well.
But she found release for this anger in the civil rights wars of the '60s, she said, working with the National Council of Negro Women, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Urban League and other organizations.
Even so, she faced several personal tragedies. In 1967, she was devastated by the death of composer Billy Strayhorn, arguably her closest friend.
"They had matched souls ... she really never got over his passing," said Alyce Claerbaut , the composer's niece. A few years later, in the early 1970s, Ms. Horne suffered -- within the period of a few months -- the deaths of her father, her 29-year-old son and her husband, Hayton.
"I started to change when everybody left me, when I found out that the worst had happened to me and I was surviving," she told the Tribune. "I began to think about myself, to look back at what I had been given and what I hadn't had. And I slowly grew into my other self."
By that she meant a performer who started to show vulnerability in front of the public, rather than just an unattainable elegance. The perfect veneer began to crack, and audiences loved it.
"I was never really aloof -- that was people's image of me -- but it came about because I didn't ever think that I should be anything but perfect for the audience," she said in the Tribune interview.
"I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect."
So well into her 60s, she began turning in some of the best work of her career.
"At first she was not as deep as Ethel [Waters]," said the noted Chicago jazz singer Geraldine de Haas, in citing Ms. Horne's first great influence. "But she grew to be."
Certainly her 1981 Broadway show "The Lady and Her Music," which won a Tony , represented a new pinnacle for her, pairing her now searing music with surprisingly candid stage commentary.
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"The most awesome performer to hit Broadway in years," observed Newsweek.
"Sorry, this has to be a love letter," opined Clive Barnes , in the New York Post.
"The lady's range, energy, originality, humor, anger and intelligence are simply not to be believed," wrote Walter Kerr in the New York Times.
But Ms. Horne wasn't done yet. A series of recordings in the 1990s for Blue Note Records , one of the world's leading jazz label, reminded listeners of her stature as musician, even as she progressed into her ninth decade. Though a slight vocal wobble was apparent on discs such as "Live at the Supper Club" and "We'll Be Together Again" (an homage to Strayhorn) , the interpretive wisdom and signature sound of Horne's work made them late-in-life classics.
Last year, she was the subject of a 608-page biography, "Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne," by James Gavin. When Ms. Horne was told by a journalist that the likes of Ella, Billie, Sarah and -- of course, Lena -- never would be heard again, she demurred.
"Oh, I'd love to be thought that good," she said in the Tribune interview. "That's a compliment, but I'm not sure I'm the last. "I certainly hope not."
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It's been too long since we overanalyzed and misinterpreted Ed Reed's purposefully vague statements about retirement.
Thankfully, Reed gave us some new material to work with over the weekend.
"Back home with my son, he's riding his bike an I'm doing yard work! Tell the bosses I'm comfortable!" Reed posted on Twitter along with the accompanying picture of domestic bliss.
His "bosses" in this case would seem to be the Baltimore Ravens' front office. That's the same group of men with whom Reed is apparently trying to negotiate a new contract. The all-time great seems almost certain to play this year and the Ravens are counting on it.
It remains a mystery when Reed will actually show up for work. Skipping mandatory minicamp in June when the Ravens expected him was a sign Reed is serious about ... something. More vague statements could come in August, along with a potential holdout.


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David's first request in this next section is for God to lead him. Just as a refresher we need to remember the context of this - Absalom's rebellion. David cried out to God for His leadership because of his foes. This was Absalom - who was the rebellious son who longed to be king. It was also Ahithophel, David's former advisor, who joined in the rebellion with Absalom. There was also a host of others who ran to Absalom's side in this rebellion. David's foes were numerous - and he desperately needed God's direction. For him it was a life and death matter. David's cry was for God to make His way straight or smooth before him. Every decision mattered.
It is this way with us too. We have an Absalom too - it is Satan, who also desires to usurp God's rule and authority. His work is to subtly deceive us into thinking we should join his rebellion. The world is also filled with a myriad of Ahithophel's, who seek to counsel us contrary to God's Word. These may be anything from an actual person who wants us to walk in their way rather than God's way. The spirit of Ahithophel is in our entertainment, our news, our music - it is everywhere. It is the spirit that wants to convince us to live for ourselves - or for the values of the world rather than those rooted in the Word of God. Believe me when I assert that we need to cry out to God daily that He lead us in His righteousness - and make His way straight so we can walk in it. We should note before moving on that David's request is to be led in God's righteousness - not his own self-styled direction.
Verse 9 and 10 are a watershed moment in Scripture. They are the verse first time we have an imprecatory portion in the Psalms. If that word is new to you (imprecatory) - it refers to a call or prayer to bring down evil things or curses upon a person or group of people. There are those who are offended with these prayers - seeing them as an embarrassment to the Bible and to God. Nothing could be further from the truth. These prayers are representative of God's holiness - and His steady position of wrath against all sin. It is what the wicked deserve for rebelling against God. Maybe it would be wise to remember what Absalom did shortly after becoming king. He was counseled by Ahithophel to rape all the remaining wives of David in broad daylight before the people. He also raised an army with the intent of killing David and all those with Him. David's prayer is not so much a wish on his part - but as a mouthpiece for God - he offered a prophecy for those who continued in this rebellion. Indeed there was nothing true in what these two said. Their inner most beings were given over to destruction - wanting to kill David. Their throats were like an open grave with the smell of death and rotting corpses in it. All the time they were flattering the children of Israel - they were plotting death, destruction, and devastation to the King.
But - before we get too self-righteous about things - Paul used these very words to describe our nature and what we are capable of in life. We do have an inner Absalom and Ahithophel in our flesh. Our "inward part" is destruction too because of our sin nature. The word used there speaks of a chasm of wickedness within us - and when we fall into it and live out of it as a source there is no depth to that which we are capable of thinking or doing. We can speak deathly words and even use flattery to accomplish sinful desires.
David's exact request is that they be destroyed - and that God would let them fall by their own wicked counsels. And for those who remember the history of these events, that is exactly what God did. He thwarted the counsel of Ahithophel when he listened instead to David's friend, Hushai, who was working as a secret agent for David inside Jerusalem. Ahithophel hung himself when his ungodly counsel was rejected - and Absalom was destroyed in battle. But, before we become too critical toward David for this request we should also see that his desire was not for his own honor - but for the honor of God (they have rebelled against You!). Absalom and Ahithophel indeed had heaped up a multitude of sins as they rebelled not just against David - but against God. This reminds us that these imprecatory psalms have as their basis the honor and glory of God - not any personal vendetta of a man or men.
David finishes this song with a call to be glad, sing for joy, and be exult over God's gracious defense and favor. When we trust in the Lord - coming to Him in prayer for our needs and our protection - God delights in bringing that protection into our lives. It is a good thing to trust the Lord and to love His name and honor in life. It may not bring the less bumpy road to us - but even in our trials and troubles we will see Him work mightily and have reason to praise Him much! Three things here are told us concerning how God will work to answer our prayers. First we find refuge in Him. The word refuge means to rest in the shade of a tree. The word was also used as a picture describing how baby birds would find refuge under the wings of their mother. God protects and gives us a refuge in Him in our darkest and most difficult moments. Second, when we embrace God's righteousness in our troubles - God will bless us. The word blesses in this passage speaks of someone giving a greeting that promises friendliness and camaraderie - and here it says that God is the One greeting us in this way. What a joy to know that He comes to us in such trying times with a friendly greeting that promises blessing, fellowship, deliverance, hope, strength - and everything you can imagine coming from a close friendship with God in those moments! Third, God promises that He will encircle us with His favor (read grace here!) like a huge shield. The shield referred to here was one that was over twice the size as a normal shield. It was used by the warrior to kneel down behind and be covered by its protection. God is that way with us - and how we should love the imagery used here. God is that shield to us - but only as we kneel in prayer and take our refuge in Him.
So there we have our primer in prayer from David. It begins with a cry for God's presence - an audience with Him in prayer. It begins with a heartfelt and sincere desire to connect with Him and wait for His answer and deliverance. It then moves into a time where we request God's leadership and guidance, knowing that not only our outward enemies are evil - but also our inward tendencies when we look to ourselves rather than Him for that guidance. Finally, we see that it ends with a turn to God's promises for comfort, encouragement, and endurance. We take our refuge not in our own abilities to deliver ourselves - but in our God and His promise to bless those who turn to Him in righteousness and godly dependence. Oh, to learn these lessons again and again as we pray and seek His face. Indeed we would find our God infinitely able to handle any problem, trial, or trouble we face - and - we would go from concerned cry to praise for protection and provision. And through it all we would learn that intimacy with our Father in heaven is at the core of every answer we receive.


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Long before coming to the PBS show "Frontline" and the documentary work that would bring a string of awards, Mike Sullivan began his television career in 1970 as what he called "a lowly floor director at the CBS affiliate" in Portland, Ore.
"I soon realized the news department had all the cameras and all the excitement," he wrote in 1993, for the 25th report of his Harvard class. "I quickly apprenticed myself to the best news photographer in the shop, recording sound for his documentaries, assisting him through all the night edit sessions, soaking up the craft."
After arriving as a senior producer at "Frontline" in 1987, Mr. Sullivan worked on many documentaries, some of which were highlighted in a video tribute when he left his job as executive producer of special projects earlier this year. Topics included Shakespeare, Rwanda, farm families, and world religions, a range that reflected the sweep of humanity he examined right from the start in his home state.
"I was assigned each day to record another drama in this small city – its car crashes, bank robberies, fires and murders, its political triumphs and follies, its heroes, wise men and fools," he wrote of his time in Portland. "In this incredible array of dramatic everyday stories, I found my alternative to the fantasies of Hollywood."
Mr. Sullivan — whose "Frontline" work was honored with numerous duPont-Columbia batons, Emmy Awards, and Peabody Awards — died in the library of his Marblehead home Sunday. He was 67, and doctors believe he suffered a heart attack, his family said.
"Mike was a formidable intellect and a great reader," said David Fanning, founder and executive producer of "Frontline."
He added that Mr. Sullivan "believed passionately in the idea of public media and public television, and particularly in 'Frontline,'" with its format that allows for lengthy, thoughtful examination of complex issues.
Mr. Sullivan "wanted to leave no stone unturned in discovering the core of what it was that made his documentaries tick,'' said his wife, Jeanette Harrison-Sullivan, a public relations executive. "It was important that he gave it his all."
At "Frontline," Mr. Sullivan was a supervisor on projects including "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" (1993), "The Farmer's Wife" (1998), "Ghosts of Rwanda" (2004), "Country Boys" (2006), and this year's "Kind Hearted Woman."
Colleagues said Mr. Sullivan had a particular passion for Rwanda and, since the late 1990s, ensured that high-level broadcast television closely examined religion.
"I thought we needed more sensible coverage of religion and its impact on the American scene," Mr. Sullivan told Current, a media publication, at the beginning of this year when his job was phased out because of what "Frontline" said was a funding shortfall.
Mr. Sullivan had been a supervisor on programs such as "Pope John Paul II: The Millennial Pope" (1999); "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero" (2002); "The Mormons," which "Frontline" coproduced with "American Experience" in 2007; and "God in America" (2010) another coproduction with "American Experience."
"When I think of Mike Sullivan, I think of the word earnest in the very best way," said Michael Kirk, a "Frontline" producer, director, and writer. "It was very important to him that we do serious work that no one else was trying to do."
The oldest of three siblings, James Michael Sullivan was born in Coquille, in southwest Oregon, and grew up nearby in Myrtle Point, a town of fewer than 3,000 people.
He graduated from Myrtle Point High School and went to Harvard, where he studied English and received a bachelor's degree in 1968.
For a couple of years, he lived in Oregon and California, teaching high school English and dreaming of filmmaking. During this period, his first marriage ended in divorce.
While living in Portland, Ore., he met Jeanette Harrison, "a tall, striking, strong-willed, Berkeley-educated television reporter, who immediately caught my attention by refusing to pay much heed to my excellent advice about how to produce her stories," he wrote in 1993.
They married in 1978 and worked in Minneapolis for several years before he took the "Frontline" job.
"He was one of the most exemplary individuals I've ever met in terms of being honest, being loyal, and having the highest of standards," his wife said.
"He found people fascinating," she said. "He loathed pretention, but he delighted in people of all sorts. He delighted in people who excelled in their pursuits, people who were unusual, people who were passionate, and people who were selflessly committed to an ideal or an idea."
At "Frontline," Mr. Sullivan "was always arguing for fairness," constantly probing to make sure both sides of issues were well represented, said Raney Aronson-Rath, deputy executive producer.
"He was a man who didn't conceal his own opinions and was quite forceful at times, which led to some challenging times in the editing rooms with producers," Fanning recalled.
Kirk noted that "you didn't want to go into a room or a meeting or a screening without having it right. He was a fighter for the things that he really believed in."
And yet the hundreds of e-mails Fanning and Aronson-Rath have received since Mr. Sullivan's death almost to a one mention his big-heartedness, his intellect, and a laugh no one forgot.
"He was a man with a great roaring laugh," Fanning said.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Sullivan leaves a daughter, Kate of New York City; a son, Jake of Brookline; twin sons from his first marriage, Jason and Sean Smith; a brother, Dennis of Eugene, Ore.; and a sister, Sheila of Portland Ore.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.
"He really was always sort of a small-town boy at heart," Harrison-Sullivan said. "Even though he had developed an intellectual and professional sophistication, he stayed true to himself."
Kirk, who is from Idaho, said he and Mr. Sullivan talked about "what a privilege it was to go to Washington and report on serious politics. For us, it was always a big deal to go there and think of the biggest issues of the day, a couple of guys who had worked our way up."
Reflecting in 1993 about how far he had gone in his profession, Mr. Sullivan said the pride he took in work and family grew stronger each year.
"In all, this far downstream," he wrote, "I seem to have lived a life not willed, but discovered — discovered in this honorable work I never even dreamed of as a young man, and in the joy of a family I once believed I might never find."
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Research shows that the fatty acids in human milk may influence brain development. Using that data as a springboard, a group of scientists, led by a team at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, set out to determine how the makeup of infants interacts with their mothers' milk to affect intelligence.
Their findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA: breastfeeding can boost a baby's intelligence quotient if the newborn has a certain version of a gene, called FADS2 (fatty acid desaturase 2), which affects how fatty acids are processed.
"We were searching for an empirical example that would allow us to show scientists that it is possible to use the environment as a tool, to uncover novel genes that are important for human outcomes—including diseases," says study co-author Terrie Moffitt, a psychiatry professor of at King's College. "Our chain of logic from environment to genetic marker allowed us to discover for the first time the link between the FADS2 gene and the IQ, an important child health outcome."
The genetic marker that Moffitt refers to is located in the FADS2 gene, which has two primary variations. The new study, based on 1,000 New Zealander children (a portion of whom were breast-fed) in the early 1970s as well as on more than 2,000 breast-fed kids who lived in the U.K. in the mid 1990s, showed that 90 percent of the subjects had at least one copy of the more common version of FADS2 and 50 percent of them had two copies.
The researchers found that breast-fed infants with at least one or more of the common variation had IQ scores that were, on average, six to seven points higher than those of nonnursed kids with similar genetics. But breast-feeding did not appear to affect those children (10 percent of the population) with only the less common variant. The scientists ruled out other factors, including birth weight and the mother's social class and IQ, finding that they had no impact.
"Those who were breast-fed scored on average three points above the population mean of 100 on the IQ test, whereas those who were not breast-fed scored about three points below the population mean," Moffitt says. In other words, breast-feeding led to a gain of a few IQ points, whereas those using baby formula in lieu of mom's milk led to a slight dip.
As for the study's implications on the nature / nurture debate, Linda Gottfredson, a professor of education at the University of Delaware, says that a person's DNA is not really a blueprint, as it is commonly portrayed. "[Genes] are more like playbooks," she says. "It's not nature or nurture, but your genes operate frequently by making you more susceptible or less susceptible to certain environmental conditions." Hence, the withdrawal of breast milk from the diets of babies with a certain genetic predisposition resulted in a negative effect on intelligence.
The exact mechanism by which the enzyme coded by FADS2 might influence IQ is not known, but Moffitt suggests two possible roles: The gene variants may affect the conversion of dietary precursors to long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, which aggregate in the brain in the early months after birth. Alternatively, the presence of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids may act on the gene itself, causing it to turn on or off, thereby affecting the metabolic pathway the acids use.
The authors note that since the time that study subjects were breast-fed, many baby formula manufacturers have begun adding fatty acid supplements to their products, potentially giving them an IQ boosting effect.
"What's critical about this paper is that we haven't known entirely what are the mechanisms by which breast-feeding supports higher IQ," says Joseph Hibbeln, lead clinical investigator at the Unit of Nutrition in Psychiatry at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. "This really helps to dissect one of those mechanisms: that is , if your body can't make [fatty acids] efficiently, you better get it through the breast milk to support optimal IQ."


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B.C. teachers will vote on another mandate to strike March 4-6, B.C. Teachers' Federation president Jim Iker said Tuesday.
"Unreasonable proposals" from the province's negotiating team include wage increases lower than what other public sector unions have received, and a continued refusal to put class size and special needs support limits back into the contract, Iker told a news conference in Vancouver.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender said wage negotiations "have to start somewhere" and after a year of bargaining, the BCTF has yet to present a wage demand. He declined to provide specifics of the government offer, but said classroom conditions are on the negotiating table.
"Clearly we're at the table with class size and composition," Fassbender said. "Our negotiators presented a package of proposals. We are still waiting to see the full proposal, including the wages, from the BCTF."
Iker confirmed the union has not yet made a wage proposal, after a year of negotiations to replace a contract that expired in June 2013. The union described the government's offer as a 0.5 per cent increase on ratification, not retroactive to the past year, making three years with no increase.
"The proposal is followed by another zero for 2014-15 school year and then various ones and point fives over the next four years," the BCTF said in a statement.
Iker said any strike action would be phased in, and would not immediately include forcing teachers to stop extra-curricular volunteer work, withholding report cards or walking off the job.
Peter Cameron, appointed last year as chief negotiator for B.C.'s 60 school boards, said Tuesday he is surprised the union is going to a strike vote without tabling its complete position. There have been hints at the bargaining table that the BCTF has an "extreme" wage demand, he said.
Cameron said the BCTF has characterized the public school system as being in "free fall," when in fact completion rates have improved over the 12 years when class size and support have been in dispute.
"The graduation rate for special needs kids, for aboriginal kids, has gone up dramatically since 2001," Cameron said.


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Plans to revitalize the University of Wyoming Geological Museum are moving forward with the selection of an architectural firm to design improvements to the 56-year-old facility.
Work is slated to take place this summer in the first phase of renovation aimed at making the museum a focal point for student and faculty research, while giving the public an appreciation of Wyoming's geologic history and mineral resources.
The architectural and engineering firm of Malone Belton Abel P.C., of Sheridan, was selected to conduct a detailed analysis of the museum and work with UW planners to develop a schematic design for the improvements.
"The group working on the project has developed all sorts of wonderful new ways that the museum will involve and educate the public, and these improvements are the first step toward meeting those objectives," says Carol Frost, UW's vice president for special projects and a longtime faculty member in the Department of Geology and Geophysics.
Due to state budget cuts, the museum closed briefly in the summer of 2009, drawing attention from the museum's fans around the world. When the museum reopened in August 2009, it was with the help of private funds from the UW Foundation. Shortly after that, noted UW supporters Brainerd "Nip" and Anne Mears donated $570,000 to support the museum. Matched by state funds, the endowment now totals $1.14 million.
A second fund, in memory of noted geologist S.H. Knight, was created later in 2009. With state matching dollars, it has reached $250,000, joining with the Mears' endowment to generate operating money for the museum.
Meanwhile, the UW president's office has allocated $500,000 in one-time money for museum upgrades. Adding that to $200,000 generated by the Mears' endowment, the university has $700,000 to spend for the first phase of the project.
The work is expected to include possible removal of asbestos in the museum's floor tiles; modernizing the building's mechanical, electrical, lighting and fire protection systems; upgrading of technology; updating and reinstalling existing exhibits, including new signs; and designing and installing some new exhibits.
"From the time the museum was closed, we've come an enormously long way," says Art Snoke, professor and former Geology and Geophysics Department head who has led a task force charged with reinventing the museum. "We'll make a gigantic step forward this summer. It should provide a springboard for further fundraising to help the museum reach its full potential."
The roots of the Geological Museum reach back to 1887, the year UW opened. It was a small natural history museum that consisted of the personal collection of J.D. Conley, a professor who taught a range of courses, including geology, astronomy, physics, commercial arithmetic and bookkeeping.
As UW grew and expanded, so did the museum, its collections and displays. Wilbur Knight, hired in 1893 as a professor of mining and geology, succeeded Conley as curator. Eventually, the collection outgrew its home in the Hall of Language (now Old Main), and most of it found a new one in a wing of the Mechanical Building. When the Hall of Science was completed in 1902, the museum moved there. It stayed there until 1956, when the current structure was built on the east wing of what is now the S.H. Knight Geology Building.
By that time, Knight's son, Samuel Howell Knight, had worked at the university for more than four decades. In that time, he had developed the UW Geology Department into one of the nation's best. Knight designed the terra cotta bas-relief Stegosaurus and Triceratops panels at the front of the museum; built the copper Tyrannosaurus Rex that guards the museum's entrance; and even painted several of the displays inside the museum. He also was responsible for the initial mounting of the Apatosaurus skeleton that is the museum's centerpiece.
Kelli Trujillo, the museum's current part-time manager, says the project planners intend to maintain some of the museum's endearing features -- "preserving Sam Knight's museum," as she says -- while modernizing the infrastructure and "telling the scientific story as accurately as we can."
For example, she anticipates that while the Apatosaurus will stay in the center island -- along with the skeleton of "Big Al" the Allosaurus -- other fossils now in the island , but not from the Jurassic period, will be moved elsewhere in the museum. The center island then could be enhanced with topographical features and plants to represent the "Jurassic world."
Along those lines, museum planners would like to organize exhibits according to geological time to enhance the "informal science learning" that takes place in the museum, says Mark Clementz, associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics who's in charge of the department's scientific collections. Additionally, there are plans to rotate some displays in the museum to feature UW's extensive collection of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, along with rocks and minerals.
"What's on display in the museum now is the tip of the iceberg of what we have," says Clementz, who himself is working on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded exhibit about whale evolution.
There also are plans to develop more hands-on exhibits to make museum visits an even more meaningful experience for children -- who made up a good share of the museum's 13,000 visitors between Aug. 1, 2010, and July 30, 2011.
But the museum changes aren't only aimed at visitors. Plans call for the facility to become a center for teaching and research, with connections not just to the Department of Geology and Geophysics but to entities across campus.
Planning for the Geological Museum was aided by an outside assessment and self-study conducted through the Museum Assessment Program of the American Association of Museums.
The museum currently has no full-time staff and relies on a work-study student and two graduate students to be open to the public 34 hours a week. The hope is to eventually have several full-time staff members to help the facility realize its potential. However, that will depend upon further financial contributions.
"We're excited about the renovations that will take place, but it's just a start," Snoke says.