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Southern Baptists in the News!
The Southern Baptist Convention has been steeped in controversy on many occasions over their lifetime. As a basically southern institution, they were embroiled both in external criticism and internal conflict during the Civil Rights movement. But the most serious controversy of the twentieth century was a struggle to control the resources and ideological direction of the convention.
[Source: A Quiet Revolution: A Chronicle of Beginnings of Reformation in The Southern Baptist Convention, by Ernest C. Reisinger and D. Matthew Allen; Founders Press: Cape Coral, Florida (2000)] Some recent events have analysts predicting that a formal breakup of the SBC is more imminent than previously thought. In 1997, a schism occurred in the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the largest state convention affiliated with the SBC. The newly formed "Southern Baptists of Texas" is more conservative than the group they split from. In November of 1999 the Baptist General Convention of Texas implemented that husbands were to lead the family and wives to "submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ."[Source: Article by Berta Delgado, page 35A in the Dallas Morning News, 17 November 1999.] Instead mutural submission...aka...equality for both sexes.
In February 2000, 30 pastors from conservative Baptist churches in Texas met at Prestonwood Baptist Church to discuss their continued affiliation with the older but more moderate Baptist General Convention of Texas, which had 2.7 million members at the time. They were concerned about the moderate stance of the state convention, and its moves toward becoming a separate denomination from the Southern Baptist Convention, but these pastors decided against leaving the Baptist General Convention of Texas as a group, preferring to leave the decision up to individual churches.
Rev. Clyde Glazener, president of the Texas convention and pastor at Gambrell Street Baptist Church in Fort Worth, told The Dallas Morning News:
"The truth is that, for some time now, a true Baptist could not support some of the agencies in SBC life. We're not interested in siphoning off a lot of funds from Texas to fund a Jerry Falwell-clone church."
5,000 CHURCHES SEPERATE FROM SBs
In July 2000, the coordinator of the moderate Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) has predicted that changes in the Southern Baptist Convention's statement of faith will prompt as many as 5,000 churches to leave the SBC. Many observers consider CBF beliefs closer to traditional Baptist beliefs, while the SBC has become the primary inheritor of the American fundamentalist movement. (Source: Religion News Service/Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2000)
Sociologically speaking, Landmarkism was a process and struggle which helped Southern Baptists to gain identity separate from the Northern Baptists. One of the greatest arguments for Landmarks was the church should be autonomous because they viewed organization beyond the local churches as unbiblical. This caused many churches not to contribute to the cause of the SBC and today some of these same churches still have nothing to do with the SBC. By the 1830's tension began to mount between the Northern and Southern Baptists. Baptists in the South were embracing slavery because it was the core of their social and economic order. Baptists of the North were saying that God would not condone treating one race as superior to another while Southerners said that God intended for races to be separate. In around 1835, the Southern states began complaining that they weren't receiving money for mission work. In 1844 the issues of missionary work and slavery came to a peak. The Home Mission Society gave a statement saying that a person could not be a missionary and wish to keep his slaves as property. This caused the Home Mission Society to separate northern and southern divisions. As a result of this the Baptists in the south met in May of 1845 and organized the Southern Baptist Convention .
After Reconstruction of the South the Southern Baptists began to thrive. Dr. I. T. Tichenor became head of the Home Mission Board. He dedicated his efforts to make the Home Mission Board as Southern as possible. Tichenor strongly urged Baptists in the south to reject alliances with Northern Boards and Support Southern causes. At this time many Baptist churches in the south called themselves southern but they still had ties to northern boards and alliances. Tichenor rallied support for the South and in Fort Monroe, Virginia in 1894 the Northern and Southern Baptists agreed to a territorial arrangement, that established the states of the south as exclusive territory for the Southern Baptist Convention. Thus did the Southern Baptists end their struggle with the north and gained their own identity and their separateness from the Northern Baptists.
Southern Baptists believe in a heaven and hell. The only way to get into heaven is salvation through Jesus Christ. To achieve salvation one must confess their faith that God sent his son Jesus to die on the cross for the sins of mankind. It is only through faith that Jesus died for mankind and that He is the one and only God that people gain entrance into heaven. People who fail to recognize God as the one and only are sentenced to eternity in hell.
The fundamentalists have pursued a number of tactical programs that continue to generate internal conflict and keep the SBC in high profile the broader culture. One very controversial decision the Southern Baptists was the decision to boycott the Walt Disney Company in 1997. They objected to Disney's so-called anti-family and anti- Christian direction. They objected to Disney giving benefits to same sex partners and for having "Gay Days", where gays could come to their theme parks and celebrate openly.
Another controversy arose in the late 1990s when the Southern Baptists, having selected to meet in Salt Lake City, angered the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by pursuing an aggressive program of proselytization among Mormons before and during the convention.
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ADL Outraged by Southern Baptist Statements Rooting Jewish Conversion Appeals in Theology New York, NY, September 28, 1999 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today was "offended and outraged" by a letter from the Rev. Paige Patterson, President of the Southern Baptist Convention, seeking to further validate the church's recent prayer appeal to convert Jews despite a chorus of criticism.
"We are offended by your attempt to taint our High Holidays with prayer urging our community to convert," Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said in response to Rev. Patterson's letter. "It was an act of theological arrogance that was followed by your arrogant response."
Mr. Foxman said Rev. Patterson and other Southern Baptist leaders have responded to the controversy by engaging in "theological confrontations" and arguments that essentially seek to avoid the issue of the prayer guide that has upset and offended so many in the Jewish religious and secular worlds.
"It is not in my spirit or the policy of the Anti-Defamation League to get into theological confrontations as was done in the Middle Ages," Mr. Foxman said. "We talk to other people of faith as equals, respecting the commitment of the other person of God and trying to avoid any prejudice that might hurt the relationship between Christians and Jews.
"Any prayer that invites us to abandon our faith is an attack on our integrity and commitment."
After publicly stating outrage over the prayer appeal earlier this month, the League made efforts to reach out to Southern Baptist leaders, calling on the church to put an end to the campaign in light of its offensive nature and the proximity of the High Holidays, the most sacred time in Jewish observance.
The letter from Rev. Patterson to ADL outlined evangelical Christian arguments for proselytization efforts among Jews. According to Foxman, "The letter expressed no remorse for the prayer appeal and contemptuously invited us to return the gesture and pray for them. Well, we say `No thanks.' We will not engage in this kind of base spiritual narrowness, as the Southern Baptist leaders have done."
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
Any Latter-day Saint dealing with "anti-Mormon" literature is bound sooner or later to run into the name of Dr. Walter Martin, a man who, perhaps more than any other, is cited as the final word on the subject of orthodox Christianity and the cults occording to the Southern Baptists and far right fundamental Protestants.
Facts concerning Walter Ralston Martin:
1. He is a a member of the Southern Baptist Convention.
2. He is also sympathetic with the Charismatic movement.
Dr. Martin claims that no matter what your works may be, you will die in your sins if you do not believe that Jesus Christ is God.
If a faith group who calls it's said Christian or bibical but refuses to agree with Fundamental Protestants on the following..then they are tagged "CULTS"...aka they get out on the Southern Baptists %$#@ list:
1. Their church is the only true church ( Gee, does not the Fundamental Protestants make the same claim? They must also be a "cult.")
2. They deny the Trinity
3. They deny the personhood of the Holy Spirit; they consider the Holy Spirit to be an impersonal force (Hummm.I guess Star Wars is a "cult."
4. Hell does not exist as a place of eternal torment ( Guess all mainstream Protestants like Presbyterians and Methodists must be "cult," then)
5. They maintain an isolation from other Christian groups ( You mean how SB and fundamental Protestants seperate themselves from Mormons, JWs, Catholics, and Progressive Protestants because they consider them as "cults."????
Faith Christian themed Faith Groups which are tagged as cults by Walter Martin/ Southern Baptists:
1. Religious Science
2. Jehovah's Witnesses
3. Mormons
4. Seventh Day Adventists
5. Unity Church
6. The Worldwide Church of God (before its recent changes)
7. Bibical Non-trinitarians
8. Catholics
Cult" has lately become a word used to direct hatred and intolerance towards non-Fundamental Protestant Religions
Unfortunately, in the minds of many Christians, the various unrelated meanings of the word "cult" get blurred. These faith groups are assumed by many to be evil mind control or destructive cults. Once a neutral term, "Cult" has lately become a snarl word. It's often used to direct hatred and intolerance towards other religious organizations. The word is used with great effectiveness by the CCM; they direct the public's fear of destructive cults (like the People's Temple at Jonestown and the Branch Davidians at Waco) against faith groups that the CCM feels are not doctrinally pure.
Of course, religious movements may not be involved in mind control or life-threatening doomsday beliefs and still be somewhat dangerous to their membership. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses actively discourage blood transfusions among their membership; the Christian Science church encourages non-medical healing techniques; the Roman Catholic Church actively discourages some methods of birth control or health-related abortions. These policies have resulted in early deaths to a small minority of their members.
Non-Christian themed Faith Groups which are tagged "Cults," by Southern Baptists:
1. ALL Eastern Faiths & basically everyone who is NOT Protestant.
Most organizations in the CCM appear to work from within a Fundamental Protestant's belief system. Their prime goal is to expose and fight what they believe is heresy. Misinformation by organizations within the CCM has generated a climate of fear and intolerance towards many Christian groups whose only "crime" is to hold different interpretations of fundamental beliefs.
There is a sense of irony in all of the conflict since all Southern Baptists would be viewed as conservative by those outside the tradition. From the late 1970s forward, they came to veiw themselves as fundamentalists and moderates (those against the fundamentalists). Doctrinally they were not terribly different. But the moderates were vastly different in their social justice issues of equality.Dividing the two sides was also the issue of pastoral authority. The fundamentalists believed in a pattern of authority where a husband has authority over his wife and a pastor over his church. Due to this hierarchy fundamentalists saw it inappropriate for a woman to be ordained as a pastor. The moderates thought any believer should have a right to be an ordained pastor.
The two sides also tended to differ on various social and political issues as well. Fundamentalists were not supportive issues such as homosexuality, and the Equal Rights Amendment. The fundamentalists strongly believed in the issues they took a stand on and would fight diligently to see these issues implemented in the SBC. On the other side the moderates did not have anywhere close to a unanimous decision on any of these political or social issues.
The two sides differed dramatically on what they believed to be important about being a Baptist. The key for the fundamentalists was that they needed a way to get their views and ideas into the SBC, which was dominated by the moderate people who were leading the SBC in a direction, which they didn't want to go.
This controversy began to unfold within the Southern Baptist Convention during the late 1970's and continued to dominate the denomination's attention for the balance of the century.
As fundamentalists rapidly took control of the SBC they began making the necessary changes they deemed appropriate. In 1984, a resolution was passed at the convention in Kansas City, which excluded women from pastoral roles because the woman was first in the Edenic fall. By 1985, the fundamentalists had been appointing trustees for boards who were proven to be inerrantists to institute their policies. The fundamentalists were convinced that agencies were not being governed under biblical principals and they wanted the right people in office to ensure biblical principles would be applied. 24 .
For years and years the moderates continued to fight against the fundamentalists only to lose virtually every time on every issue. One can only be left to wonder how and why were the fundamentalists so successful in their endeavors to control the Southern Baptist Convention.
Despite the efforts of the moderates to combat the takeover by the fundamentalists they lost the battle for several reasons.The fundamentalists were simply more powerful and motivating speakers. They had the ability to move crowds and persuade huge churches to listen to what they had to say. It was partly this reason that allowed Pressler and Patterson to gather the large crowds of messengers necessary to help them elect presidents.
The inability of the moderates to gather support for their cause also contributed to a fundamentalist victory. The moderates could not gather enough support because only the older people who had dedicated their lives to the SBC were willing to take on the fight. Younger people simply were not willing to dedicate their lives to a fight with the fundamentalists. Still, a schism within the SBC is probably not likely. A major reason for this is the high degree of autonomy that each local congregation maintains. Ministers, and their congregations may disagree with the leadership direction of the SBC, but what happens at the national level has little, if any, affect them. Thus, if churches feel that the convention is irrelevant to them, there is little initiative to leave. In the late 1980's Nany Ammerman, the leading scholar of Southern Baptists conducted a study and concluded that most churches anticipated no changes at all in their church despite the fundamentalist takeover. If people today still feel that they and their church are autonomous from the national convention then a schism is very unlikely to occur.
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ATHENS, Ohio (April 13, 2006) -- Four students in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism have won national competitions for prestigious summer internships.
Three seniors were among 85 college students chosen nationwide for Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing internships this summer. A fourth student was selected for the Chips Quinn Scholars program, which gives exceptional journalism students of color hands-on training to bring greater diversity to the nation's daily newspapers.
"We are proud of how well our students have done in this competitive environment," said Tom Hodson, director of the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism. "It is a testament to the school's focus on teaching core journalism fundamentals and the emphasis put on applying these skills in the real world."
The Dow Jones program, which drew more than 550 applications for 2006 summer internships, is the most competitive editing internship program in the country. The seniors who won spots in the program are:
Magen Howard of Castalia, Ohio. Howard will spend the summer on the copy desk of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky. Howard is a news writing and editing major. She spent last summer as a reporting intern for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and also has interned at the Norwalk (Ohio) Reflector. She is a reporter and copy editor this year at The Post, the independent, student-run newspaper at Ohio University.
Kyle Kondik of Broadview Heights, Ohio. Kondik will spend the summer on the copy desk of the Akron Beacon-Journal in Akron, Ohio. Kondik, who was named a Top Prospect last year, is a senior majoring in online journalism. Kondik is this year's editor of The Post and last summer he was an intern with the Columbus Dispatch, working with the staff of the editorial page.
Chrissy Lane of Orchard Park, N.Y. Lane will spend the summer on the copy desk of the News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind. Lane is majoring in public relations and is this year's managing editor for The Post. Lane has been a media relations intern for IBM and a special events and publicity intern for the City of Boston.
In addition, eight Scripps students were named "Top Prospects" by the Dow Jones program. The "Top Prospects" honor is given to students who show exceptional promise as editors. The students are Noah Blundo, Patrick Bourland, Christine Fram, Cristina Lachowyn, Cara McCoy, Molly O'Hare, Kristen Perry and Cheryl Sadler.
The Chips Quinn internship goes to Dwayne Steward, a junior in the news-editorial sequence from Delaware, Ohio. Steward will spend the summer reporting for the The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Steward is a reporter for The Post.
"The fact that so many Scripps students have won these internships - and have a track record of winning these competitive internships every year - is a great compliment to their talent and commitment to journalism," said Deborah Gump, Knight Professor of editing and coordinator of Dow Jones and Chips Quinn internship programs for Scripps.
The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund offers summer internships in newspaper copy editing and sports copy editing, as well as business reporting. Each program provides free pre-internship training seminars on college campuses and weekly salaries starting at $350 for a minimum of 10 weeks. Interns who return to college full time the following fall will receive $1,000 scholarships from the Fund. The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund was founded in 1958 by editors of The Wall Street Journal to improve the quality of journalism education and the pool of applicants for jobs in the newspaper business.
The Chips Quinn Scholars program, sponsored by the Freedom Forum, is named for John "Chips" Quinn Jr., editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal, who died at age 34. Chips was the son of John Quinn, advisory trustee and former deputy chairman of the Freedom Forum, and Loie Quinn, who together founded the program in 1991. There were six interns that first summer; today, more than 900 students have participated. Chips Quinn Scholars participate in a four-day orientation program before starting their internships, and they also receive $1,000 scholarships.
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fix #7705 - NPE when using piclayer plugin without data layer
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Iguaçu Falls
One of the great natural wonders of the world, the Iguaçu Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu, Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú, Tupi: Y Ûasu "big water") are situated near the border of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. The area is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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The Tri-Border
Access to the Falls is usually done through one of the three cities in the so-called tri-border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
The city on the Brazilian side is Foz do Iguaçu - big, but less secure. The town on the Argentine side is called Puerto Iguazu and is small and pretty. Although the falls are between Brazil and Argentina only, Ciudad del Este, the city on the Paraguayan side, is just across the bridge from Brazil. It's a hectic (but exciting) centre for contraband and cheap electronic goods.
Border crossing between these countries is fairly relaxed - authorities assume most people are on a day trip across the border and won't even stamp your passport. So, if you are crossing into another country for good, you will have to persuade them to stamp you passport (otherwise you could run in to problems later). US passport holders may require a visa to visit the Brazilian side of the falls.
By plane
From Foz do Iguaçu there are frequent flights to Rio de Janeiro etc. From Puerto Iguazu there are daily flights to Buenos Aires
By Bus
On the Brazilian side, Foz do Iguaçu is about seven hours by bus from Curitiba. From Puerto Iguazu there are several daily buses to Buenos Aires and Posadas and from Ciudad del Este there are lots of buses to Asuncion.
Get around
There are hourly (or so) buses between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazu and Ciudad del Este. There are also hourly (or so) buses between Foz do Iguaçu and the Brazilian side of the falls and twice hourly (or so) between Puerto Iguazu and the Argentine side of the falls. If you want ride busses from one side of the falls to the other, you will have to take 3 separate buses.
It is only a short walk across the Friendship Bridge over the river Parana between Foz do Iguaçu and Ciudad del Este.
Alternatively, you can take a taxi.
The Iguaçu Falls are an awesome sight as tons of water throw themselves over cliffs and the mist rises amongst the jungle. They are taller than Niagara Falls, and twice as wide, for which Eleanor Roosevelt is said to have exclaimed on her first sight of the Falls: "Poor Niagara!"
It is well worth spending a day on each side of the falls.
On the Argentine side (30 AR$ pp, second day for half price if you get your ticket stamped before leaving on the first day, subsequent days are free if you tell them you are staying at the Sheraton) there are a whole series of walkways and trails by the main visitors centre, allowing you to stand right on the edge of the precipice, below some of the waterfalls themselves, see a good overview and take a short boat trip to Isla San Martin below the falls. Wear waterproofs and protect your camera!
There is a free train running up to a 1km-long walkway across the river to stand just back from the main horseshoe of falls - the Devil's Throat (Garganta del Diablo), where the roar and spray are tremendous.
On the Brazilian side (20 R$ pp, cheaper for Brazilian residents) you get an excellent overview of Devil's Throat and the rest of the falls, from both above and below.
Spectacular boat trips can be made under the falls, but are kind of pricy if you take the Safaris offered on the Brazilian side of the Falls. If you go all the way to the "Las Cateratas" station on the Brazilian side, you will be offered e.g. wildwater rafting & abseiling activities at better rates. When you arrive shortly before the activities close for the day or they're just not busy you can easily bargain about the price and get a really good rate!
From the Argentine side:
On the Brazilian side of the falls you can buy souvenirs, but they are very expensive compared to the souvenirs you can buy on the main road of Foz do Iguaçu. There are some very cheap shops along this road, including a gift shop with many hand-crafted crystal goods.
On the Argentina side, there is a really nice hotel that serves a good buffet. You can see the mist coming out of the falls and also generally see toucans and other birds flying around.
On the Brazil side, there's a buffet that stands right next to the throat. The food is good, the view of the river makes for a surreal sight as you know the falls are really close by but you can't really see them other than the mist and the noise.
Excellent food, and probably the nicest restaurant in Puerto Iguazu aesthetically. The Pollo al Diablo (Chicken Devil's Style) is delicious. English is spoken, great for lousy spanish speakers like myself.
At Puerto Iguazu you can go to "La Barranca", nice place near both rivers and the Three Frontiers Landmark (Marco das três fronteira), nice people and live music at weekends. In Foz do Iguaçu there are a few nice nightclubs at the city center.
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Forums → WEPR → Louisiana Petitions To Secede
Not all Americans are enthralled with obama.
According to a news article published online by World News Daily (WND), The residents of Louisiana have started a petition to peacefully secede from the U.S. and form their own government. The petition was started on November 7 of this year, the day after the election.
(Now I'm going to opine a bit.)
While it causes me great pain to see America in the sorry state it's in now, and an act(s) of secession would only intensify the situation, this may be what needs to happen. I love my country and desperately want to see it return to its former glory, but the current regime has taken conditions ranging from fair to poor and exacerbated them to such an extent that the national condition is in a rapidly worsening state of untenability for all involved. The people of Louisiana realize this and are acting accordingly.
I believe that if obama actually cares for this nation like he says he does (which personally I doubt strongly), he would take this new development as a sign that he and the rest of the regime need to reverse their actions and/or resign. If he doesn't, it is likely that this will be the first of many cases of Americans separating themselves from a government that is no longer Of, By, and For The People but rather seeks to enslave them with government dependancy and weakens the nation on the foreign and domestic fronts.
America is dying, people. Something has to be done in short order, or America will be consigned to the ash-heap of history as a great nation that forsook its own ideals and killed itself from within. And I can't stand the thought of that happening.
All of you who believe in God or prayer, please say an extra prayer for the nation tonight.
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Well what do you know, Texas is also petitioning to Secede.
Of course it seems they failed to realize online petitions in such a case mean jack.
More information, there are 12 states with petitions.
Funny, Obama won in several of them.
"Louisiana, Texas, Montana, North Dakota, Indiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Colorado, Oregon and New York"
Oh, online petitions, well those kinds of petitions were bound to be everywhere even if Abraham Lincoln was elected.
Article I read said the count was at 15 petitioning to secede.
Might as well split everybody! Then we can have those oh so fun and tiny feudal wars again! Then again, Texas would end up on top. More guns than California and more people than everywhere else that isn't that wimp California.
Texas would end up on top. More guns than California and more people than everywhere else that isn't that wimp California.
Not with me providing military strategies for my state
They are doing online petitions? Really?? They might as well just rip out notebook paper and have one person sign it in 100 different names while they are at it..
Or Texas and a the other states like it can secede and leave he U.S.A. With all the awful and wimpy states like California (no offense admin team). Texas would do quite well on its own, nice supply of its own oil, probably a bigger military then the U.S.A. for its size and no real worry of terrorist attack because most of the civies will have guns to defend themselves with. If only it were the country of Texas.
Or Texas and a the other states like it can secede and leave he U.S.A. With all the awful and wimpy states like California (no offense admin team). Texas would do quite well on its own, nice supply of its own oil, probably a bigger military then the U.S.A. for its size and no real worry of terrorist attack because most of the civies will have guns to defend themselves with. If only it were the country of Texas.
Incredibly poor education, which would make the point of everyone having a gun just down right scary. But hey other than New York, New Jersey and Florida (who voted in favor of Obama in majority) let them go.
Besides some of these states petitioning to secede are the biggest drain in federal aid, disproportionate to the amount of taxes payed in those states.
Hey whining Republicans, educate yourself for a change instead of moving to redneck country and regret it afterward.
Well that didn`t work out as I thought it would, let`s try that again.
Eighteen States Have Now Filed to Petition
"these petitions serve more to make a point than to present a serious proposition, they are a physical symbol of the deep resentment for the direction in which the United States is moving under the Obama administration."
In other words.
You do realise that a petition is what it is, right, and that is, some bright spark felt that they could get people to agree to a cause, and asked everybody to sign it? Nothing more, right?
That a petition exists only means that it was created, not that it was popular. All one can comment on is the magnitude of the butthurt felt by Obama opponents in that petition being created, regardless of who won in that state. If a significant number of people (and I'm talking a percentage approaching those who did not vote for the Dems) signed that petition, then it might be interesting. Otherwise big deal.
America could be in a much worse state if not for Obama, and I don't believe it's dying.
how so? president bush had a pretty good Economy with gas at about $1.60 and in bushes 2 terms he raised debt about 4.889 trillion (not that great but just wait) , plus he had 9/11!
now in Obamaâs 1st term we have had: 4-5 dollar gas in some places, he added 6 trillion in debt in [/b]one term he is the most anti-israel president we have ever had, and we have had 2[b] Scandals bigger than watergate covered up (fast and furious and Bengasi)
Obama's administration inherited the GFC. Do you suppose you could explain to me how the US's part in the GFC came about?
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Stevie Wonder issued a statement this weekend clarifying comments he made earlier in the week regarding Frank Ocean's sexuality, MTV reports. In an interview with the Guardian, the soul veteran had appeared to question the authenticity of the younger singer's attraction to another man, which Ocean had disclosed on Tumblr in July.
While praising Ocean's work, Wonder told the Guardian, "I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused . . . People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond."
Believing that his remarks had been misinterpreted, Wonder attempted to clear up his thoughts on the matter.
"I'm sorry that my words about anyone feeling confused about their love were misunderstood," the singer said in the statement. "No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music. Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man. What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period."


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Win Win brings together two of the most interesting figures in American cinema, Paul Giamatti and Tom McCarthy. Both are distinguished character actors in mainstream movies: the versatile Giamatti was in Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show, Oscar-nominated as the boxing manager in Ron Howard's Cinderella Man, and played Tolstoy's secretary in The Last Station; Tom McCarthy appeared in Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, and George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck and was co-author of the story for Up, the delightful, Oscar-winning, animated film.
But their most rewarding work (artistically if not financially) has been in the independent sector where Giamatti has played the lead in Alexander Payne's beguiling wineland comedy Sideways and Tom McCarthy has directed The Station Agent and The Visitor.
McCarthy's films, difficult to characterise by genre, centre on decent, unprepossessing men who have lost their way as they approach middle age. The hero of The Station Agent – a proud, 4ft 5in loner – is drawn into a circle of fellow outsiders in a New Jersey backwater. In The Visitor, a widowed New England economics professor (a role for which Richard Jenkins was rightly nominated for a best actor Oscar) has his life transformed when he cares for a Syrian musician and his Senegalese girlfriend, both illegal immigrants, who have been duped into renting his New York flat.
In his new film, the characteristically well-observed Win Win, the protagonist (the archetypally unprepossessing Giamatti) is Mike Flaherty, a middle-class, Irish-American lawyer, married with two small daughters, practising law with something less than spectacular success in a small New Jersey town. Despite a good relationship with his sharp, witty wife, Jackie (Amy Ryan), his life is on the dull side and unfulfilled. He has a regular jogging friend in Terry Delfino (Bobby Cannavale), an exuberant Italian-American divorcé who spies on and rails against his ex-wife. In his spare time, he assists his other close friend, the prissy Stephen (Jeffrey Tambor), who coaches the Pioneers, the wrestling squad at the appropriately named New Providence High School, the worst sports team in the state.
Mike's practice is failing. He has trouble paying the family bills while the central heating system and the plumbing at his small office are seriously in need of repair. Whether by choice or possibly accident, Mike's handful of clients are largely elderly folk and he's tempted by the opportunity to get a regular sum of money by becoming the official guardian of the seventysomething Leo Poplar (Burt Young).
A widower with no contactable relatives, Leo's in the first stages of dementia. There is a mixture of genuine humane concern and obvious self-interest in this arrangement, and when he puts Leo into an old folks' home, it involves deceiving the court, his secretary and his wife. McCarthy as writer and director, and Giamatti as actor, persuade us that the manifestly decent Mike is acting in a forgivable way, but his dishonesty is ticking away like an unexploded time bomb, ready to blow up his life.
Suddenly, the 16-year-old Kyle (Alex Shaffer), son of Leo's long-estranged daughter, turns up from Ohio on the doorstep of his grandfather's old home, seeking refuge from his negligent, drug-addicted mother and her abusive boyfriend. Laconic, surly and seemingly dangerous, he's taken in by Mike and Jackie. After Jackie initially thinks of him as a danger to her children (she refers to him as "Eminem" and locks the door to his basement bedroom), Kyle turns out to be not only sad and vulnerable but impressively honest.
He becomes part of Mike's family and there's a beautiful moment when Jackie and Kyle discuss the elaborate tattoos on his back and she shows him the discreet tattoo engraved on her ankle as a teenager ("JBJ" to celebrate New Jersey's own Jon Bon Jovi). Moreover, he was a star wrestler back home until he turned violently against his family and teachers and he might prove capable of transforming the fortunes of the local high school and bring glory to Mike and his colleagues.
McCarthy develops the narrative cleverly and his choice of wrestling rather than baseball or basketball is inspired. McCarthy was a high-school wrestler, as was the ace screenwriter Steve Tesich, who won an Oscar in 1979 for the teenage rite-of-passage film Breaking Away and adapted The World According to Garp, the work of another star wrestler, John Irving, in which Robin Williams played the eponymous grappler.
For most audiences, wrestling is an unfamiliar sport and has the advantage of featuring rather strange manoeuvres, the directions of which are hard to predict and the outcome, for the uninitiated at least, not always obvious to recognise. In this, the contests on the mat reflect the drama of the film of which they are a part.
Inevitably, Mike's transgressions catch up with him when Kyle's errant mother turns up from Ohio to threaten and bargain over her father's money. By this time, the spectator is as involved in Mike's actions at both a personal and a moral level as he is himself. We're compelled to judge him publicly, while seeing how dishonest or at least highly compromised actions can have beneficial consequences. McCarthy does a little fudging here, mainly in the interests of dramatic neatness and the preservation of a lightness of tone. But Win Win remains a deft, warm, serious and often very funny film.


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As the Daily Mail continues to expose them, Hannah Maslen seems to find the phenomenon dubious before concluding in cautious favour:
Whilst drinking and smoking can be kept within one's private life, evidence of pornographic stardom is less easily concealed, less easily kept private. If a teacher were to repeatedly come into school drunk, or hungover to an extent that he couldn't teach properly, then his drinking would become relevant to his professional role. In noticing this, we can perhaps re-frame what is at stake: it is not that professional role is expected to extend into private life but, rather, that there is an obligation not to allow one's private life to (detrimentally) intrude on one's professional role.
But as she also notes, any non-illegal and legitimate use of one's private time could easily through coincidence have a detrimental effect upon the performance of one's job. She imagines students discovering that a male teacher does cheerleading, thereby appearing to undermine his credibility. But let's make the point starker: what if a class of boys which inevitably toys with mild homophobia in their teenage years were to discover that one of their male teachers were gay? This could, quite easily, 'intrude' on one's role insofar as you might fail to command the authority over the classroom that you previously did, detracting from the learning environment. Hence, fire the teacher? Please.
This kind of thing makes my skin crawl. To reason in that way, or, worse, to make any judgements about the virtues of a teacher's interests and claim they are not appropriate role models accordingly is about as illiberal as things get. The purpose of education isn't to carve out adults in accordance with some subset of the population's idea of a 'good' person. So even if, bizarrely, the fact one's teacher was a porn star did incline pupils to give that career path more consideration, so what? We object, and only employ teachers who were previously Benedictine nuns?
I think there are, inevitably, some criteria built into the workplace that means it is relevant to step into the private realm and assess a person's character. But I don't mean anything of this variety. I mean things like: whether the teacher, or any other employee for that matter, spends his evenings campaigning on behalf of the KKK. Those sorts of considerations do seem to be of a different, appropriate sort, because an employee's beliefs may render their ability to treat people equally impossible. This is a hunch, but I imagine a justifiable one. I'm optimistic we can draw a line that allows for that sort of discrimination without opening the floodgates to banning porn stars, just because some social stigmas continue to linger around sex.


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A Less Leftist Brown
Until this fall, Glenn Loury taught at Boston University, an institution that is home to many neoconservative scholars.
Loury, an economist who doesn't like the way he is tagged by some as a conservative, freely acknowledges that he stands out as a black scholar who rejects some views that are widely held among black scholars. For example, Loury has questioned the value of affirmative action.
So where is Loury now? He has moved to Brown University, an institution frequently mocked and attacked by conservatives for being politically correct. Loury says that his move may suggest that he and his new university both may not be what others assume.
"Brown is a liberal institution, but it's not mindlessly so. I have taken some very conservative positions, although my views have moderated in recent years," he says. But the bottom line for him is that "Brown is a very dynamic place right now," and he has felt completely welcomed even though his scholarly work continues to be controversial. His current project is a book for Princeton University Press that will argue that everyone is wrong about affirmative action and that there is a "lack of conceptual thinking" and "evidence" on all sides of the debate.
The stereotypical Brown would be up in arms about Loury's appointment. In fact, he's been warmly welcomed, and even given a courtesy appointment in the university's black studies department.
To be sure, Brown is not about to be confused with Hillsdale. People of all political persuasions agree that the student body and faculty are overwhelmingly liberal. But Loury's appointment follows other signs that suggest to some that the university has become much more hospitable to non-liberals and suggest to others that the image of Brown may have been unfair to start with.
In February, Ruth Simmons, Brown's president, gave a talk to kick off the spring semester in which she said she was concerned about reports she hears from students, parents and alumni about "the lack of diversity of opinion on campus." Students have told her of a "chilling effect caused by the dominance of certain voices on the spectrum of moral and political thought," she said.
Jonathan Ellis, editor in chief of The Brown Daily Herald, says that the speech had an impact. "The issue of intellectual diversity has really been brought to the forefront, really sparked by that speech," he says.
Ellis isn't sure how the issue is playing out. He thinks Brown is less activist than most people believe. "If you expect everyone to be tree-huggers, you'd be surprised," he says. And some liberal students believe that the intellectual diversity issue is a ploy by conservatives "who don't have any trouble getting their voices heard, but who are using this to get heard even more."
Besides the Simmons speech and the Loury hiring, another development at Brown has been the growth over the last three years of the Political Theory Project, which supports postdoctoral fellows with a range of views, but sponsors conferences and lectures on issues related to a free market and "Liberty Lunches" on such thinkers as Adam Smith and F.A. Hayek.
John Tomasi, director of the project and an associate professor of political science, says that at a conference last year, there were more than 250 Brown students who attended a Friday night program on market-based economies -- and that the students stayed from 7 p.m. until after midnight so that they could also take in an Ayn Rand play. "There has been a groundswell of enthusiasm from undergraduates here," he says.
Tomasi says that Brown currently has "a disconnect" between students who are interested in market based ideas and "the kinds of courses many Brown professors teach."
While Tomasi considers himself politically in the minority at Brown, he says that "the culture of the place is changing, and I think in a most positive way."
"I certainly feel that there is a more receptive audience among students," he says. And he also praises the Simmons speech, which he says was influenced by her listening to students.
"The current administration is open to students pursuing whatever ideas and whatever political perspectives interest them, and this administration seems more open to that than previous administrations," Tomasi says.
Some of the many Brown professors who are not conservatives are also noticing a change. Robert Pelcovits, a physics professor who holds the elected position of chair of the faculty, says "I don't think these things people are noticing are coincidental, but how widespread this is going to become, I couldn't say."
Pelcovits -- who identifies himself politically as a moderate -- says that he thinks the climate is changing in a good way. "One of the things I've appreciated about Ruth Simmons is that she is telling students that it's critical that they engage in a frank exchange of ideas."
P. Terrence Hopmann, chair of political science, says that if there is a shift going on now, that doesn't mean conservatives weren't welcome in the past. Hopmann, a self-described liberal, says that there is a self-fulfilling nature to being identified as a liberal institution (or a conservative one).
"I think Brown has always been hospitable, but there's self-selection in these things. If you have a liberal reputation, more liberal students may apply. Because we've had that reputation, we probably had more liberal students than at many other campuses," he says.
If word gets out that conservatives can thrive at Brown, which Hopmann believes is true, that's great. "I think anyone should feel comfortable coming here. A university thrives on the free exchange of ideas," he says.
William Keach, an English professor, says he believes that all the conservatives' talk about how they need more outlets demonstrates that they in fact have plenty of outlets. "There's an irony in that they are writing about how they have no access, when they have access," says Keach, who adds that he does feel that the student body has become more conservative recently.
Keach, a socialist, also says that conservative faculty members overestimate the political commitment of their liberal colleagues. "My complaint about Brown is that too many of my colleagues identify themselves intellectually with the left, but try to get them to come to an antiwar meeting or a demonstration, and you see that Brown is less left-wing than other university communities."
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Maurice "Snookey" Reed.... Montford Marine Passes
The Obituary only states that Maurice "Snookey" Reed served in the Marine Corps, but it sholud be noted the "Snookey" was a proud Montford Point Marine who served his country in the South Pacific during WW II.
Snookey was a dynamic individual, a fellow Centralian, Alpha brother, community leader and a true friend. He will truly be missed.
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REED, Maurice L. "Snookey" 85, of Springfield, made his journey home to the Lord on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 9 P.M. at the Springfield Regional Medical Center-Fountain Boulevard Campus. He was born January 3, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Charles and Verna (Thomas) Reed. Snookey came to Springfield in 1950 after graduating from Central State University with B.S. in Mathematics and Physical Science. He completed additional advance studies at various universities in computer programming, operations and analysis, logistics management, equal employment opportunity counseling, and parliamentary law. He retired from WPAFB and the City of Springfield as a computer programmer. Snookeys professional and community experience is vast and varied. He has been in the Marine Corps., educator, supervisor, 1st black disk Jockey in Springfield, Oh. He was a member of the following organizations: National, American and Ohio Association of Parliamentarians, Academy of Parliamentarian Procedure and Law, Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc, Central State University General Alumni Association, Clark Technical College Foundation, US of America-Great Lakes-Springfield and Clark County and Center Street Branches of YMCAs, United Way, Springfield Urban League, Board of Directors of Springfield Urban League and Ohio Sickle Cell and Associated Health Association, Access Center for Independent Living, Brain Injury Association of Ohio, Learning Association of Ohio, Ohio Dental Assistant Association, Member of the Comprehensive Study of the Springfield City Schools, Springfield Kiwanis Club, Selective Service System, and 32nd Degree Free and Accepted Masons-Prince Hall Affiliate. Presidents of the United States Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford awarded him the Certificate of Appreciation for Member of Selective Service Board #13. He was named Outstanding Alumni Brother of 1974 by Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc., Citizen of 1978 by Frontiers International Inc., Alumnus of 1978 by Central State University, Black and Non-White YMCA Layman of 1978, National Association for Equal Opportunity in High Education Presidential Citation of 1993 and YEttes YMCA Mothers Club Award for Service to Youth. Snookey is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Betty C. (Hardin) Reed; daughters Verna D. and Pamela C. Reed of Springfield and Maureen R. (Ron) Sewer of Santa Clarita, California. He is also survived by grandchildren Tony, Tara, Tori, and Teon of Santa Clarita, California and many nieces, nephews, and cousins who will miss him very much. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Charles, and a sister Lillian. Funeral Service for Mr. Reed will be held Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Visitation will be 9:00am with family present 10:00am until time of service which will be at 11:00am with Reverend Christopher Ferguson officiating. Internment will follow at Ferncliff Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Porter-QuaIls Funeral Home, Springfield Chapel.


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Dynamo center back Jermaine Taylor, one of the team's most important players over the last two years, suffered a left shoulder injury in the eighth minute Saturday night against the New England Revolution.
Taylor suffered the injury after colliding with New England forward Dimitry Imbongo on a clean 50-50 challenge. Taylor fell awkwardly and immediately tugged at his left shoulder.
Dynamo trainer Theron Enns rushed to check on Taylor and immediately called team physician Dr. Kaare Kolstad to evaluate the Jamaica national team star on the BBVA Compass Stadium pitch.
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With the drizzle obscuring the morning sun, we had a similar effect to that of a low mist over the town today. I chose a high and distant vantage point to shoot one of the local steelworks, which have as much significance on the social history of the town as they do on it's economy. The immense scale of the steelworks provided a great way to use the weather conditions, layering the relief of the town in the background, and creating a natural soft focus effect.
This was shot as a much wider panoramic image, but has been trimmed for presentation here. Three shots were used for the portion you see here.
All shots taken with a Nikon D300; Tamron 18-270mm @ 170mm; ISO 200; F/10; 3 seconds. VC off.


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This bill would enact a law affirming that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children and that such right shall not be infringed by the government unless the governmental interest as applied to the parents is of the highest order and not otherwise served.
01/07/13 (House) Prefiled and ordered printed
01/07/13 (House) Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
01/17/13 (House) Referred to Civil Subcommittee, House Courts of Justice
01/23/13 (House) Subcommittee hearing; passed with amendments
02/01/13 (House) Passed by Courts of Justice Committee
02/05/13 (House) Passed by House
02/06/13 (Senate) Referred to Senate Courts of Justice
02/15/13 (Senate) Passed by Senate Courts of Justice
02/20/13 (Senate) Passed by Senate
This bill was signed by the Governor on March 21, and is now law.
When people go to court to ask for protection of their rights against government intrusion, courts first decide whether the right is fundamental or not fundamental. If the judge decides it's not fundamental, then the judge will allow the government to infringe on the right as long as it has a "rational" reason. But if the judge decides the right is fundamental, it gets much better protection. The government is allowed to infringe on it only if there is a truly compelling reason, and there is no other way for the government to accomplish a very high priority.
As of today, there is nothing in Virginia statutes or state constitution saying whether parental rights are in the category of fundamental rights. It's left up to the whim of the judge. This is the problem SB 908 solves.
SB 908 does not give any new rights. It does not even say what rights you have right now as parents. That must be determined by looking other places—state and federal statutes, the state and federal constitution, etc. SB 908 simply gives much better protection to your rights that already exist.
Opponents of parental rights bills sometimes claim it would give parents a right to abuse their kids. This is incorrect. SB 908 does not give any parent any new right at all! You don't have a right to abuse your kids right now, and you won't have a right to abuse your kids after the bill becomes law. But your rights that are already there will get much better protection against government infringement
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7/7: Is the government covering up evidence of bungling by the intelligence services before the 7/7 bombings in London? 9/11: Did George Bush stage the 9/11 attack, or at least purposefully allow for it to occur so he could generate support to invade Afghanistan for reasons linked to the oil industry? And was Flight 93 shot down on the order of the White House before it could reach its target? Or was it really al-Qaeda acting alone? HAARP: It is said that HAARP camouflages the most destructive weapon ever created. Is it really possible that this is what this 33-acre site is concealing? The Lockerbie Bombing: Initially it was assumed that Libya had a clear motive for the Lockerbie bombing, revenge for the 1986 US Air Force raid on the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi. But the truth is inevitably far more complex. The Madrid Train Bombings: What is the truth behind this atrocity in Spain? Oklahoma City Bombings: Is the fact that the FBI failed to investigate McVeigh's connections with the Militias, and the fact that they held back 3,000 pages of documents enough to prove the Oklahoma City bombing was orchestrated by them? Pearl Harbor: Did President Franklin D. Roosevelt conspire to bring about the attack on US forces at Pearl Harbour? The Port Chicago Explosion: What was the real cause of this explosion? The Rainbow Warrior: French DGSE agents alleged to have sunk this Greenpeace ship. How much of this is true, and if it is, why did they do it? Roberto CalviIn, 1982: "God's banker" was found dead, swinging from Blackfriars Bridge in London. As Calvi had been under enormous pressure it was assumed he had killed himself. But 20 years on, the case was reopened and revaluated, producing somewhat different findings. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Does the Order moonlight as an intelligence broker? TWA Flight 800: Why did this plane explode over the Atlantic?
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Rihanna isn't one to shy away from controversy, so it came as no surprise that she posted two photos of guns on her Instagram page. Many thought the photos were highly insensitive, coming after the tragic school shooting in Connecticut.
One photo was of her good friend, model Cara Delivigne, holding a large gun, while the other photo is of a grandmother holding two guns with the caption "Thug Life" below it.
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(Comprehensive Guide to Short Stories, Critical Edition)
The events of "Butcher Bird" take place during a single afternoon. A family sets out to visit their new neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield. Mr. Garfield is an Englishman, whose talk of scientific farming methods and making the desert bloom has reached the family. The father clearly has no desire to visit them, but the mother wants to be neighborly, so they go.
The mother's and boy's experiences during this visit are vastly different from the father's. For the mother and her son, the Garfields' home is a place of wonder, beauty, and discovery. There is a rug in the house, there is music, and outside, in this barren country, are trees that Mr. Garfield has been trying to grow from cuttings taken down at Old-Man-on-His-Back, a nearby spot where a creek comes out of the hills. To the father, however, the Garfield home represents everything that he is not, so he is scarcely able to behave pleasantly.
The visit gets off to a bad start because the father is determined not to like Mr. Garfield. When Mrs. Garfield serves lemonade without ice, the father's face reveals his contempt and disdain; he has just spent two weeks digging an icehouse in order to have ice-cold water and beer during the hot season.
Mr. Garfield then shows the boy his gramophone. As the delighted boy inspects this curious machine, his father sharply commands him to keep his hands off; Mr. Garfield, kindly insisting that the boy cannot harm the gramophone, undermines the father's authority. Soon the father is moodily looking out the window, and tension grows in the room. Realizing this, Mr. Garfield gropes somewhat...
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Changes are coming to Pittsburgh after Tuesday's Game 7 loss to the New York Rangers. That much is certain.
After the regular-season darlings failed to reach the Stanley Cup Final for the fifth consecutive season since their 2009 championship, losing yet again to a lower-seeded Eastern Conference team, head coach Dan Bylsma and starting goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury are on the hot seat.
But so is the man who gave Bylsma and Fleury a firm vote of confidence after the Penguins were swept 4-0 by the Boston Bruins in 2013's Eastern Conference final.
Penguins general manager Ray Shero could be fired along with Bylsma and other members of Pittsburgh's coaching staff, according to a report by Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that cites multiple anonymous sources.
According to Rossi's sources, "Ownership specifically is concerned about a perceived lack of accountability for players, overall team toughness and unproductive drafts," he writes. "The sources also said Penguins ownership might not want to undergo a complete front-office shakeup with only about a month before the NHL Entry Draft."
No decisions regarding a front office or bench shakeup have been made yet, and they will not be rushed, Rossi reports.
"Our ultimate goal is to win the Stanley Cup," Bylsma, who was named the league's top coach in 2011, told reporters after Tuesday's 2-1 loss. "We haven't done that in five seasons. I haven't contemplated what the price is going to be or anything toward the future yet."
The 51-year-old Shero joined the Penguins in 2006 after serving as an assistant GM for the Ottawa Senators (1993-98) and Nashville Predators (1998-2006). He compiled a team that won a Stanley Cup in 2009 and claimed General Manager of the Year in 2013.