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Good Stewardship of Paradox: The Identity of a Catholic College
Inaugural remarks by Br. Dietrich Reinhart, O.S.B., September 13, 1991
I have chosen for this occasion a topic that, surprisingly, is not easy to talk about. I have chosen to talk about the identity of a Catholic college. That topic is embedded in bigger themes--the place of Catholic colleges and universities within the larger Church, the conditions necessary for graduate study of theology in a Catholic context, the significance of scholarly resources like the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library for Catholic higher education, the contribution of non‑Catholics, non‑Christians and non‑believers to the mission of a Catholic college. It may seem that I am dodging these themes so central to the life's work of many in our academic community. But I am not. I intend to raise questions which are relevant to those themes. But I can only do that if I confine myself today within a smaller compass.
So why is it hard to talk about the identity of a Catholic college? Certainly not because of the presence today of colleagues and friends from other religious traditions. Certainly not because we are joined by representatives of colleges and universities whose missions are not articulated in religious terms. All of you have foundational values which it is difficult to talk about, which it is easier to acknowledge than to describe. All of you know what a challenge it is to ensure vitality in a mission grown old, what a challenge it is to keep such a mission in focus while nostalgia and bereavement for what once was keep distorting the lens.
So why is it hard to talk about the identity of a Catholic college in this obviously Catholic place ? Well you might not have noticed it among the Saint John's and Saint Benedict's faculty and administrators as we processed in, nor among the Saint John's and Saint Benedict's alumni of today and tomorrow who are sitting everywhere in this church. But there are Inquisitors in our midst, waiting for the tiniest slip of the tongue, longing to silence ideas which do not have a full and impeccable pedigree. There also are Ideologues, with rapid‑fire answers to questions they have rarely asked, armored with slogans, fired up with sentiment that to all the world looks self‑serving. Inquisitors, Ideologues . . . that's not all. If any hard‑wrought statement of faith or value comes out of this mouth, there are Scoffers here likely to taunt, knowing how upbringing or warped socialization has impaired my mental powers and those of my ilk. And sitting here quietly are Cynics, bemused, knowing that nothing much is gained by dwelling overmuch on the imponderable--after all, all of this has been said before and where has it gotten us?
Inquisitors and Ideologues, Scoffers and Cynics . . . notice I have mentioned no names. You know who you are! Indeed, in every member of a Catholic college each of these four demons makes his or her home--nibbling away at the mind, clogging up the heart, depleting energy which could be spent in service. Inquisitor and Ideologue, Scoffer and Cynic stalk every dialogue about the identity of a Catholic college. The Inquisitor in us tries to silence disagreement, the Ideologue in us to control it; the Scoffer within finds it easy to ridicule those who speak out of the center of their lives, the internal Cynic dismisses the whole enterprise of talking about values.
Inquisitor and Ideologue, Scoffer and Cynic are all a royal pain. Surely it would be sensible, much more practical, simply to avoid dealing with them. We could divide the identity of a Catholic college into discrete parts, each tended by people with the appropriate training and interest. For example, theologians could take care of exploring the relationship of the divine and the human in expected parts of the curriculum. The ordained and "liturgy types" could make sure that the right kind of worship occurs. "Peace and justice types" could take the Gospel into places where most of us simply cannot go. Certainly Roman Catholics could each have an opinion about whether or not theology, worship and service occupy their proper spheres here. And non‑Catholics could be welcome indeed to appreciate all of this, as long as they stay respectful and out of the way. Fragmenting a college's Catholic identity would allow things to work pretty smoothly. Inquisitors and Ideologues, Scoffers and Cynics would rarely break into the open. When they did it would be an offense against politeness --something we have spent much of our lives learning how to deal with.
Dividing a college's Catholic identity into discrete parts looks prudent, it looks safe. But in reality it is more dangerous than any demon. When broken apart into pieces of turf, each occupied by a specialist or at least a special interest group, when Catholic identity is thus fragmented, it ceases to matter. Sure the curriculum, worship and service long characteristic of the college live on. But they languish since they are unconnected to anything beyond themselves. If as the president of this Catholic college, I call on us all to come to a sharper, more explicit awareness of the college's Catholic identity, we will have to engage in dialogue suspicious of all boundaries, a dialogue in which no one has hegemony as a specialist and none can be excused on the grounds that their special inter est resides elsewhere. This is dangerous stuff. We will have to come to sharper awareness of disagreement, let go of control, resolve no matter what to affirm persons, and bear with ideas which seem half‑baked long enough to tease some thing worthwhile out of them. This will be a messy enterprise. We will become vulnerable. There will likely be name‑calling. Differences, seemingly unbridgeable, will emerge. And, odds are, the larger world will consistently misinterpret what we are doing.
But despite the risks, I use this occasion to call Saint John's University to come to a sharper sense of its identity as a Catholic college. In rejecting other, seemingly safer courses--those which promise immunity from Inquisitor and Ideologue, Scoffer and Cynic--in rejecting those seemingly safer courses, we will have no other choice but to renew our commitment to wide‑ranging and inclusive intellectual inquiry.
In the balance of this talk I want to suggest (1) that Christian experience must be the foundation for inquiry into a college's Catholic identity, (2) that such inquiry has to be mindful of the dynamics of Christian history, and (3) that such inquiry will only be successful if curriculum and worship are anchored in service.
Christian Experience
There is no way to talk about Christian experience without embracing paradoxes--contradictions which tug against each other and, as they do so, open up a reality more spacious than the sum of the parts. The Judaic tradition from which Christianity originated was built on the massive solidity of law and temple, yet it honored unexpected bursts of prophecy. In the fullness of that tradition was born a God‑man, who spoke as the prophet Elijah, yet claimed that rather than destroying the law he came to fulfill it. This Jesus suffered a horrible death, but thereby broke the bonds of death for all time. The early communities who acknowledged this Jesus as Lord set up rules to govern their most basic interactions, yet discovered time and again that they were transformed "in newness of life." Law vs. prophecy, death vs. resurrection, a preoccupation with order vs. utter transformation--these paradoxes have been etched in Christian experience by a rich succession of doctrines and norms. Yet no one has ever quite been able to distill their full meaning in a tidy set of propositions. The Spirit of Christ has always been one step ahead, or (if you like) one fathom deeper, a notch or two simpler.
A Catholic college must draw its life from this rich paradoxical soil. It must teach the tradition, yet ensure that prophetic critique tugs against it--so that the tradition can open up a reality more spacious than the sum of the parts. Along with Jesus Christ, a Catholic college must enter with full heart into the abysmal alienation of humankind, yet--sharing Christ's own story--it must open up to utter transformation. A Catholic college must be unashamed to focus its best attention on ordering the mundane, yet cultivate a lively expectation that what is predictable is passing away. The foundations of belief must he clear in a Catholic college, but there ought to be a palpable sense of a new age breaking in with dynamics which defy expectation.
At times we would all like a simple description of a Catholic college--one which would allow us to name names and establish some standards of measurement. There is something insidious in human nature, something which whittles paradox down to scale. Within a Catholic college there must be something which resists that drive.
Christian History
We can get a sense of what good stewardship of paradox is by considering the dynamics of Christian history. From the earliest Christian times, believers have struggled to understand their relationship to God, tabernacled as it is betwixt the paradoxes of law and prophecy, death and resurrection, order and utter trans formation. Left to themselves, earthen vessels cannot hold these paradoxes for long. Therefore, in each age the Christian community has had to take care that the tensions within these paradoxes do not get out of kilter. Definitions and norms have been needed: definitions of the nature of Christ, the requirements for salvation, the nature of the church; norms for right living, the exercise of Christian authority, the respect due to civil powers. The list goes on and on . . . Each of these definitions and norms has been forged in debate and--once established--has set up parameters which rule out other possibilities, some because they squeeze out the most vital parts of paradox, others because they fail to hold those elements together in a proper tension.
In each age, then, the Christian community has decided what it has had to, what definitions and norms it needs. Christians believe that the Holy Spirit is in those decisions, but not confined to them. The age in which a definition or norm has been cast always gives way to another age, always gives way to an age animated by different dynamics, contending with challenges anticipated by some but experienced by most as absolutely unprecedented. This inevitable passage from one age to the next is hard on definitions and norms; their certainty starts to wobble and their power to fade. Ultimately the essential characteristic of definitions and norms--their ability to hold Christian paradox in its vital tension--is lost. Then the Christian community, amidst bewilderment and pain, struggles to regain what it has lost, to recast definitions and norms so that they once again succeed in opening up a reality more spacious than the sum of the parts.
As the Christian community struggles to do this, it makes a great difference how its members have adhered to the treasured definitions and norms inherited from the past. If the Christian community has held to its definitions and norms by annihilating diversity and debate, then when a new age breaks in, its members have--more times than not--missed the signs of that change. They have been overwhelmed by its challenges, sometimes even shipwrecked. On the other hand, if the Christian community has been confident enough of its definitions and norms to cherish the vitality of debate and value the persons of those who disagree, its members have had the wherewithal to bring their lives into dialogue with a new age and, under the Spirit's guidance, to break good ground within it. In the high noon then of each age's definitions and norms, it is good for alternative visions to live on, to contend and re‑contend, because such a dialogue helps the Christian community stay awake as time's shackles give way, one by one.
At times we would all like a Catholic college to put its feet down and establish what ideas belong and what ones do not. There is something insidious in human nature, something which would like to pickle and preserve what is most precious. The dynamics of Christian history suggest that a Catholic college dare not enter into the business of pickling and preserving. A Catholic college ought to be confident enough about its way of embodying Christian tradition to cherish the vitality of debate about that tradition and value the persons of those who disagree. If a Catholic college is a place where the tug of contradictions can thus be sharply etched in public life, then its members become resilient, attentive to the challenges of a new age and--most importantly--able to respond to those challenges with creativity and vision.
The Requirements of a Catholic Education
A Catholic college then must, first and foremost, have the wisdom to be faithful to the nature of Christian experience, to ground itself in the paradoxes of law vs. prophecy, death vs. life, order vs. utter transformation, contradictions which tug against each other and, as they do so, open up a reality more spacious than the sum of the parts. A Catholic college must be a place whose values and commitments are clear, but which resonates with a spaciousness greater than any formulations can provide. A Catholic college must also be courageous enough to embody Christian paradox in a particular time and place--to build a community which embodies the best understanding of the present, yet prizes personal integrity more than the herd and listens to all voices, especially the un expected and the dissonant. Out of these commitments a Catholic college creates an atmosphere for studying the curriculum, for assembling in worship and for extending itself in service to others. I would like to suggest that good stewardship of Christian paradox from one age to the next requires that a Catholic college's curriculum, worship and service be drawn into a strong, recurring dialogue.
The curriculum of a Catholic college is extremely important. Theology courses must occupy pride of place as a staple within graduation requirements, introducing students to central aspects of Christian revelation--the essentials. But not only the essentials! All students need to develop a sixth sense of the inner paradoxes of Christian revelation and how it unfolds. They need to develop a hunger, however protean, for more understanding. Beyond that basic graduation requirement, a Catholic college must also provide a strong major in theology, so as to ensure that some undergraduates can inquire deeply into the tradition and, through study and conversation with professors and fellow students, become adept at understanding how the paradoxes of the tradition are re‑articulated in the face of great historical challenges. Whether on the level of graduation requirements or the major, students studying in a Catholic college must encounter theology in the context of alternative systems of meaning, so that their thinking becomes caught up in the debate which anchors Christianity's paradoxical tradition and sets the trajectory for its development from age to age. Partly, this is a matter of how the theology courses are conceived and taught. But perhaps of greater significance is the commitment of professors and students in every other discipline within a Catholic college to make explicit, time and again, how their own discipline reckons with Christian tradition--ways in which at different times that reckoning has been appreciative, or antagonistic, or simply non‑existent; reflecting with insight on why those encounters with Christian tradition have proceeded as they have. Only by this broad curricular dialogue can the seeds planted in the study of theology receive the richest possible nurture. Only then can a Catholic college really be said to be a good and faithful steward of Christian paradox.
Too often worship on a Catholic campus is regarded as a way to compensate for the necessary limit to the number of theology courses which the general student can be required to take. On the other hand, it is sometimes expected to be an arena for emotion, since the intellect supposedly gets so much attention in a college's curriculum. In actuality, worship is something quite different than a supplemental curriculum or compensatory emotion. Ideas and emotion inter sect in word and sacrament, but the purpose of that intersection transcends both. Christian worship is all about the Word breaking into lives to create a space for wrestling with questions and for resting for a time with answers not easily grasped. Christian worship holds up a mirror to the restless human heart and mind, and then goes one step further to provide the experience of purest Gift. Christian worship draws individuals of many different dispositions together into community and then sends them on with a transformed sense of the challenges they face. As it quickens a lively sense of community, worship also sharpens awareness of the stark and lonely requirements of personal integrity. A Catholic college must put great energy into worship. It must make sure that preaching and prayers, music, art and gesture are familiar to the individual, redolent of the communal memory of ages past. Yet at the same time, each of these facets must be so crafted that they scrape away at the commonplace, weaken adherence to half‑hearted compromises, provide alternatives to complacencies of every kind.
The relationship of curriculum and worship in a Catholic college is strong, though not at all simple or straightforward. The curriculum is not a form of worship with a syllabus, nor is worship a way to learn something without tests. It is in the common commitment to service that both curriculum and worship find ground to share and work--in their own ways--to shape the identity of a Catholic college. On one level that commitment to service is focused upon the members of the college. Each year the boundaries of a Catholic college are redefined as new people become members. Each new member has precious talents which the college must help them to develop and to share. Each new member has personal dilemmas which the college will need to focus on quite explicitly at times, but most often with a light touch, simply creating a free space in which human growth can occur. A Catholic college, however, does not just look inward. Each year the boundaries of a Catholic college also expand as students, faculty and staff provide help to the needy, join with the disenfranchised in their plight, and then--as is the case whenever one gives of self--return to the campus with a transformed sense of human value, a transformed notion of what really is important in life. It is through providing service to one another, and extending service to a world in need--redefining and extending its boundaries--that a Catholic college's curriculum and its worship are renewed in paradox. A value‑laden curriculum like that offered by a Catholic college has the needed edge only if it is taught and studied by persons attentive to their own strengths and dilemmas, engaged in one way or another with the tangible travails of the larger human community. And the worship which calls the members of a Catholic college together into community is saved from smugness and narcissism only when the individuals who make up that community risk linking their life stories and making room within them for the brokenness of the world.
It is at this point that my remarks begin to wind to a conclusion. The identity of a Catholic college is found in its vigilant, self‑conscious and humble stewardship of the paradoxes of Christian revelation--contradictions ever in need of careful tending so that Christian experience can, from one age to the next, open up to a reality more spacious than the sum of the parts. There is joy in such an identity; also a sense of being poured out in some larger scheme of things.
Perhaps Frederick Buechner expresses it most succinctly: "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." 1 There is gladness in inquiry well‑conceived and debate well‑conducted--such gladness meets a gnawing hunger in the human family for new knowledge and dependable arenas in which it can be discovered. There is gladness in belonging to a community whose identity in time is secure precisely because it provides space for individual integrity--such gladness speaks to a world where the ballast provided by traditional values in all cultures is dangerously diminished and respect for persons is merely one desideratum among a bewildering array of others. There is gladness in having a mission which succeeds only if head, heart and hands are in dialogue and at the service of others--such gladness is a re sounding affirmation of the good in human life and all that struggles against the odds to enhance its quality.
A Catholic college must be very clear about the paradoxes which make for its "great gladness" and never cease to sharpen the vitality and significance of its members' insight into those paradoxes. In doing so it meets "the world's deep hunger," empowering all its members to be light in the midst of darkness, precious and well‑loved, providing the world fresh reason for hope.
Br. Dietrich Reinhart, O.S.B.
September 13, 1991
1 Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), p. 95 as quoted in Sharon Parks, The Critical Years: Young Adults and the Search for Meaning, Faith and Commitment (New York: HarperCollins, 1986), p. 200.


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Birds, A Bird Watching Journal would make a great gift for someone already into bird watching or for someone who would like to start a bird watching hobby. Use the Bird Watching Journal to record your observations. The pages in this bird watching journal contain sections for time, place, weather, species and other items as well as a place for notes, sketches or photos. 7.5" x 9" inches. 200 pages. Made in the U.S.A.
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Confederate Congress, North Carolina Members of
A total of 34 delegates from North Carolina served in the Confederate Congress: 29 in the House of Representatives and 5 in the Senate. The following table lists the delegates and the three terms of the Congress in which they served.
|Provisional Congress (4 Feb. 1861 to 17 Feb. 1862)
|Francis B. Craige
|Richard C. Puryear
|Allen T. Davidson
|Thomas Ruffin
|George Davis
|William N. H. Smith
|Thomas D. S. McDowell
|Abraham W. Venable
|John M. Morehead
|First Congress (18 Feb. 1862 to 17 Feb. 1864)
|Allen T. Davidson
|George Davis
|Burgess S. Gaither
|William T. Dortch
|Owen R. Kenan
|Edwin G. Reade
|William Lander
|Thomas D. S. McDowell
|Archibald H. Arrington
|James R. McLean
|Thomas S. Ashe
|William N. H. Smith
|Robert R. Bridgers
|Second Congress (2 May 1864 to 18 Mar. 1865)
|William T. Dortch
|Robert R. Bridgers
|William A. Graham
|Thomas C. Fuller
|Burgess S. Gaither
|George W. Logan
|John A. Gilmer
|James G. Ramsay
|James M. Leach
|William N. H. Smith
|James T. Leach
|Josiah Turner Jr.
Thomas B. Alexander and Richard E. Beringer, The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress (1972).
Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (1975).
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"North Carolina Senators and Representatives in the Confederate Congress, 1861-1865." Photographic print. View larger. Neg. 77-1227. FFP3. North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. Online at http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/civilwar/77-1227lg.JPG.
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Important Tips and Considerations You Should Apperceive About to Survive Camping Trips
If you are planning to accept a acceptable time with the ancestors through a anatomy of activity, again there will be a lot of which that you could accede and to attending into camping outdoors is a way to strengthen the band and hotlink of the ancestors as a whole. Also, this blazon of action will advance assurance and confidence, which is why it absolutely is an important affair to agenda if you are planning to accept a acceptable time with the family.
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Finance & General Government (F&GG) User Group
The Finance & General Government (F&GG) User Group has 47 member counties. The User Group has several software packages, including: Two payroll packages, a human resources package, Capital Assets, Integrated Financial System (IFS), and Treasurer's Financial System.
The Finance & General Government User Group recently completed the IFSpi rewrite project. IFS is owned and managed by a collaboration of 78 counties through the JIC Committee.
List of Officers, etc.
Chair (two-year term up for election in 2020): Mary Kaye Wahl, Carver County
Vice Chair (two-year term up for election in 2019): Lynn Boraas, CarverCounty
Recording Officer (elected annually): Martie Monsrud, Roseau County
Representatives (two-year staggered terms):
Northen Delegate (two-year term, up for election in 2020): Sandy Rittgers, Hubbard County
At-Large I Delegate (two-year term, up for election in 2020): Lindsay Meyer, Wright County
Southern Delegate (two-year term, up for election in 2019): Heidi Jones, Fillmore County
At-Large II Alternate (two-year term, up for election in 2019): Bob Hiivala, Wright County
OSI Committee Chair: Kassandra Engberg, Isanti County
OSI Committee Vice Chair: Lisa Schuman, Watonwan County
OSI Recording Officer: Clara Vereide, Faribault County
ISSG Liaison - JIC: Jon Eckel, Chisago County
ISSG Liaison - OSI: Dennis Fields, Jackson County
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With a ready supply of limestone, quarrying became an early industry in Sandusky. Many German and Irish immigrants were stone cutters, and they found work building homes, schools, churches, and businesses in Sandusky. Helen Hansen noted in her 1975 book, AT HOME IN EARLY SANDUSKY, that "the name of Feick has been associated with building in Sandusky for over 100 years." The Erie County Jail (pictured above), now part of the Sandusky Library, was constructed by Philip, Adam, and George Feick in 1883. You can read about the Feick family in the book BUILDING AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY FEICK, located in the Family History collection of the Sandusky Library.
The original Third National Bank of Sandusky was built in 1914 on West Market Street. Henry Millott was the architect, and the contractors were "G. Wm. Doerzbach and Brother." G. William Doerzbach is pictured below.
The exact location of the building below is unknown. Notes from the original photograph indicate that carpenters were working on the "Lake View House" in Sandusky. (Note the limestone bricks around the foundation.)
For more information about the architects, builders, and contractors of Sandusky, visit the Archives Research Center of the Sandusky Library. Among the sources available on this topic is an excellent architectural history of Sandusky entitled TREASURE BY THE BAY, by Ellie Damm.


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If you are like me, you tell yourself you won't buy the Halloween candy that you have a weakness for, yet somehow it always ends up in your pantry. And eventually, your stomach. For me, that candy bar is a Baby Ruth. So, every Halloween, I have a bowl full of extra Baby Ruths that I continuously eat during the remainder of the week.
So this year I thought I would get a bit crafty – "what if my favorite candy bar were a cookie?" So, I took my remaining Baby Ruths, chopped them up, and put them in my favorite basic cookie recipe (from The Cookie Book by Peggy Cullen).
So during the 11 minutes the cookies were in the oven, magic happened. The nougat melted and turned chewy and sweet, and the peanuts and chocolate infused the entire dough. These might actually be the best cookies I have ever made.
So, my Halloween experiment turned into a new favorite. And, I would bet that your favorite Halloween candy would also be worth the little experiment of seeing how it translates into a cookie.
So, thanks to my basic cookie recipe and Halloween imagination for inspiring my new favorite cookie!
2 dozen
2 ounces (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened
6 tablespoons granulated sugar
6 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1/4 salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
7-10 fun size Baby Ruth candy bars, chopped
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugars, salt and vanilla until well combined. Beat in the egg. Scrape down the bowl using a rubber spatula and beat for a few more seconds.
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda. Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and mix on low speed just until absorbed. Combine the Baby Ruth pieces into the dough.
Shape the dough into 1 1/2-inch balls and drop them about 3 inches apart onto baking sheets. For perfectly uniform cookies, scoop the dough using a 1 1/2-in cookie scoop, leveling the dough off across the top before dropping onto the baking sheets. Bake for 11 minutes, or until the edges are golden. Let sit for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.


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Billy McKnight says ex-girlfriend Mindy McCready's suicide 'not a major shock'
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Singer Billy McKnight says the suicide of country star Mindy McCready, his ex-girlfriend, at her Arkansas home was not "a major shock."
The former couple had fought for years over custody of their 6-year-old son Zander, who was placed in foster care along with his 10-month-old brother Zayne, this month. McCready's family said she had been drinking and using drugs again, and wasn't caring for her children.
The baby's father, McCready's then-fiance David Wilson, was found dead of a gunshot wound in January. McCready denied any involvement in his death, which remains under investigation.
McCready, 37, died of an apparent self-inflected gunshot wound Sunday afternoon. She reportedly shot her dog before she killed herself.
"As sad as it is, it didn't come as a major shock," McKnight said on the "Today" show Monday.
"She's just been battling demons for so long," he said. "I was around her when she attempted suicide twice, so I knew it was in her. ... I feel for her mother and her family and especially my son."
McKnight said he wants Zander to live with him.
"He needs to come home," he said, adding, "I don't know what is going to happen to Zayne."
'Survivor' winners Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca break up
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. reality television stars Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca said Monday they have broken up after a decade as a couple.
Zohn, 38, and Morasca, 32, met after she won "Survivor: Amazon" and he was crowned champion of "Survivor: Africa." They subsequently competed together on "The Amazing Race" and headlined their own show, "Everyday Health."
Zohn recently underwent successful treatment for Hodgkins lymphoma.
"It is with much consideration and a heavy heart that we are announcing that after 10 years of a loving relationship, the decision was made to move on without each other," the couple said in an exclusive statement to People.com Monday.
"We will carry with us the memories of a relationship grounded in love, laughter, support and friendship," the statement said.
"We have experienced some of life's greatest joys and toughest challenges together and our decision to be apart can never diminish that. We want to thank everyone for their support and we ask that our privacy be respected as we move forward."
Actress Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael, penning memoir
BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Media personality Michael Lohan, the estranged father of troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan, is penning a memoir, said his collaborators in Florida.
The elder Lohan has engaged the South Florida firm TransMedia Group and its founder Tom Madden to co-write and publicize his book, "I'm Not Your Daddy Dearest ... If I Can Turn My Life Around, So Can You."
"So much of the press Lohan receives misfires as it characterizes him as 'a drug-abusing, felonious stock trader' as opposed to the decent, honorable guy I know," Madden said in a statement Monday. "Readers of his tell-all memoir will meet a very different Michael Lohan -- the real one."
Michael Lohan is a frequent guest on reality and talk shows. He made headlines last month when his on-and-off girlfriend Kate Major gave birth to their son.
He also has four children, including Lindsay, with his ex-wife Dina Lohan, and DNA tests proved in November he fathered Ashley Horn during an extramarital affair nearly two decades ago.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Robin Williams set for sitcom pilot
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Sarah Michelle Gellar and Robin Williams are to star in the pilot for a U.S. workplace comedy called "Crazy Ones," EW.com reported.
Written and produced by David E. Kelly, the show is about a father and daughter who run an advertising agency together.
Gellar starred on the iconic supernatural series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Williams is an Oscar-winning actor and stand-up comedian. His film credits include "Good Morning, Vietnam," "Good Will Hunting," "Dead Poets Society," "Awakenings" and "The Birdcage."


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The Role of Coaches
Coaches are a major factor in the learning outcomes derived by club sport participants. Coaches are to provide technical assistance and teaching, on-field game management and administrative guidance. The emphasis remains on student leadership, so while it is not the coaches position to make decisions pertaining to the administration, it is important that coaches help students develop leadership skills necessary to make those decisions.
The job description outlines the generic responsibilities and duties for club sport coaches. Coaches are to act as ambassadors of the University, assist with club sport recruiting efforts and are bound to University Human Resource policies. Club sport coaches will report to the Director of Student Recreation, Fitness and Wellness.
Club sport coaches will be paid a stipend to be agreed-upon prior to the start of the academic year.


text: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 16:10, Mark Hahn wrote: > it's very beowulfish to take advantage of changing hardware. > many/most server boards these days have two builtin gigabit links. > and why not take advantage of the new crop of small/cheap gige switches? > pricewatch has 8-ports for $US 320! I hadn't seen that, but lets use that as a working number...so $40 a port, and I'll even assume that it scales to 16 port switches too. Now you wanted to run 16 switches so $10240 in switches. Or $160 per node for 64 nodes. Just for the switches. > > Plus the additional admin time to > > configure and maintain all the networking options. > > wiring requires some patience and care; I don't really see why admin > would be hard. in fact, I think for the grid-of-switches approach, the > builtin spanning tree would work fine, since there are no redundant links, > unlike with a fat tree. you'd still have to set routes on each node, > but wouldn't that just take a pretty simple perl script? Wiring fiber on Myrinet takes time too. You're right this could be a push. Some good for one side, some for the other too. Now I've never setup a grid-of-switches, what would the routing tables look like? It doesn't seem like that simple a perl script to me, but maybe I'm missing something. > I don't see myrinet (or quadrics or IB) at <$100/port any time soon. Given that your solution was $160 per node for just the switches, maybe $200/port is a better comparison. Dave -- David E Vehrs, System Engineer Aspen Systems davidv at aspsys.com 3900 Youngfield Street Tel: +01 303 431 4606 Wheat Ridge CO 80033, USA Fax: +01 303 431 7196 http://www.aspsys.com


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Cutting the Cord Part 4: Building Your HTPC - Installing and Configuring Windows Media Center
Running Windows Media Center for the First Time
Missed any installments of our Cutting the Cord Series? Catch up on them here:
- Cutting the Cord Part 1: The Assessment
- Cutting the Cord Part 2: Building your HTPC – The Hardware
- Cutting the Cord Part 3: Building your HTPC – OS Install and Tuning
- Cutting the Cord Part 4: Building your HTPC – Installing and Configuring Windows Media Center
- Cutting the Cord Part 5: Wrap up - Media Center Add-ons and Options
We've finished tweaking our Windows 7 Home Premium installation in preparation for Media Center in our previous installment and now it's time to get down to the core of our project and finally roll our sleeves up and dive into Media Center itself. Windows Media Center is an excellent product with an extremely passionate group of fans and one simply needs to check out the Green Button forums or the DTVUSA Forums to find like-minded Cord Cutters. Considering how well thought out and excellent Media Center is for most 'set top box' type tasks, I never understood why Microsoft didn't put more effort behind pushing it and yet they worked double time to try and push projects like Clippy and the Kin. Unfortunately, not only has Microsoft not supported Media Center, some of their actions with Windows 8 make it feel like they're actively working to kill it off.
Regardless, Windows Media Center is still the product to beat for an all in one Cord Cutting solution in my opinion. While I'm building my media center in Windows 7 Home Premium, if you are building a Windows 8 Media Center, many of the steps will be very similar, if not the same, to what I'm doing here. Many of the setup screens are mirror images between the two versions of Windows and you should be able to follow along with this guide for Windows 8 as well. Unless you just absolutely must use Windows 8 for some reason, I highly suggest using Windows 7 for your Media Center as Microsoft has decided to leave some key features out of the Windows 8 version that makes Windows 7 superior in my opinion.
My Experience: Working through the Windows Media Center setup is much easier to do on a computer monitor as opposed to trying to do it while hooked up to your Television. We'll hook our HTPC up to a television when we're wrapping things up, but in the meantime, save yourself some hassle and just do everything on a monitor.
Continue reading Cutting the Cord Part 4 to "Get Started" with Windows Media Center!
Before we begin, if have a television tuner card in your HTPC, be sure to have your antenna and cabling hooked up and attached to the tuner as we'll be scanning for channels later during setup. To launch Windows Media Center, you simply need to click on your Start button and you should see "Windows Media Center" sitting smack in the middle of your program list. Click on it and off we go.
After a few moments Media Center will launch. Clicking on the right or left arrows will show you a few brief highlights of Media Center. When you're ready to start the setup, click on the "Continue" button on the bottom of the screen.
To save some time, you can hit the big "Express" button and Windows Media Center will automatically configure some settings, but I generally like to see what settings are available, so I prefer to do Custom installs. Mouse over the "Custom" button and select it, or better yet, give your remote a try and see if you can scroll over to the Custom button and select it.
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If you map your photos or videos as a shared drive they will show up nicely in MCE instead of clicking the shared folder first. The downside to this i've noticed is that some applications don't like to install/uninstall if your photos folder location is mapped as a network drive.
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Can someone give me a link to the WMC guide data? Before installing WMC, I want to see the quality of their guide data for my zipcode. Or must I install WMC on my win7 system to get it in a format that I can read?
I'm getting an error in Windows Media Center "Video Error: Files needed to display video are not installed or working correctly". This happens when I click on the live TV button. I've updated the drivers and followed the instructions, the only change to the hardware specs is an A10 processer. THanks.
hey guys im running a bone stock hp touchsmart 520. i just hooked up my new att uverse wireless receiver to my computer via cable. i set up some recordings with all settings to make it grab the best quality it can. i had the recordings set to the hd channels offered with the service.
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A wooden crate containing 34 boxes of glass and nitrate
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text: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Joe Landman wrote: > Remember, the poor starving universities need to eat too... :( Oh, I agree, I just dislike it immensely when University's start to resemble occult, tax protected venture capital investment firms with a built-in money laundering business in the form of "open and free" teaching and research. Supposedly they exist to teach and to do research in the most philosophical of senses, but for far too many of them the moment there is a sniff of money in a development they are all over it. For "patentable" technology, one can just barely justify this, at least historically. For software, which typically lives on a copyright, the university has no more business getting involved than it has trying to co-opt a publication to a learned journal and force the author to republish it with copyright belonging to the University for money. In practice, I think even the patent co-opting is middling Evil. Rather than even partnering with the actual developer who likely had the idea, did all the groundwork, got the grant, so that the University MADE MONEY (likely money exceeding the developer's salary) from every step of the process at basically no risk to themselves, they just assert, sorry, this belongs to us now and we'll give back some tiny fraction of anything we make from it to your research program, if you are fortunate enough to get tenure and keep your grants and still be working here when we do. But for software, especially software developed by academics and grant-paid employees in association with federally funded projects, this kind of nonsense is just unforgiveable. One thing I like about Duke is that they understand the clear benefit to open source software, and more or less insist that stuff developed by systems staff that is reusable be GPL or equivalent. But then you run into a place that doesn't and is grasping mine mine mine... while freely using the pieces WE contribute back to the GPL pool. > There are valid reasons to ask for money for software. There are valid > reasons not to distribute everything gratis (GPL is *not* a business > plan) and to constrain redistribution. These reasons make sense for > businesses. Universities generally have a different mission than > businesses (though arguably, Bayh-Dole has blurred this significantly). One would hope. > > As with other employers, they own in most cases, everything you do. If > you want to build a company based upon what you have done in your lab, you > have to negotiate with the tech transfer office. "Negotiate" isn't exactly the word -- generally it is laid out pretty clearly in the faculty and staff bylaws. Any negotiations had better start before you even start the project, and to keep something you may have to formally leave the University before you start or risk their just taking it no matter when or how you finish. Greed is a universal human trait, I guess, even in the Ivory Tower. Doesn't mean I have to like it. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Mapping the Social Space of Opinion: Public Sociology and the Op-Ed in Canada
This special issue of CJS illustrates the international spread of an empassioned debate among sociologists about the future direction of their discipline ignited by Michael Burawoy's call to elevate the presence and status of public sociology. Burawoy's program entails a greater engagement by sociologists with civil society (non-governmental organizations, communities, movements) in the development of their research agenda, and the production of research outputs that are more accessible, relevant, and useful to non-academic audiences. Burawoy and his supporters see the emphasis on public sociology as a way to revitalize the discipline, in particular, to solve several inter-related problems that it faces, at least in the U.S: a lack of internal coherence, declining public legitimacy, public misapprehension of what sociologists do, and minimal influence on policy-making (Burawoy 2004a, Turner 2006, Boyns and Fletcher 2005). Skeptics and critics within the discipline, conversely, argue that "going public" will only hurt sociology's public legitimacy, insofar as it constitutes a kind of left-liberal moralizing that is out of sync with majority currents of opinion.
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In considering Wisconsin State Attorney General JB Van Hollen's November 7, 2012 petition to bypass the Court of Appeals and consolidate the two Voter ID cases (League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Education Network, Inc, et al. v. Scott Walker, et al.,and Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP, et al. v. Scott Walker, et al.), the state's high court denied the petition on both counts.
In the decision published this afternoon, the Court again refused to take up Voter ID, pending the Court of Appeals hearing, and also refused to consolidate the two cases.
This represents the second refusal of the State Supreme Court to take up Voter ID ahead of the Court of Appeals. On September 27, 2012, the Court denied another similar Van Hollen request, citing the motion as being "premature."
Van Hollen has made enactment of Voter ID a centerpiece of his term as Attorney General, in spite of the staggeringly low occurrence of voter fraud in previous elections.


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Press Release
Peter Wegner
extended till 15 September
Short Poem about a Cloud, 2010
MINERAL LOGIC, Detail
The exhibition
at Galerie m Bochum gets a new look from
August 29
onwards. Four recently finished works by American artist
Peter Wegner
will be included in the presentation and on view till September 15.
Peter Wegner is interested in the surfaces and qualities of the materials he uses for his works: MDF, graphite powder, matte and high-gloss enamel or acrylic paints meet and contrast each other. In his newest paintings, slender and precise cuttings draw through the surface of the MDF rectangles. The incisions provoke shadows and refractions of light or show color on their cutting edges.
Galerie m Bochum is pleased to present from 4 May to 8 September new works by the American artist
Peter Wegner
(*1963, South Dakota). Three of the four groups of works on display were conceived especially for the gallery. His installations, wall pieces and collages continue to explore the issues of color, ordering systems and the poetry of the ordinary already familiar from Wegner's oeuvre to date.
commands the whole floor of the large exhibition hall. Two circular fields are formed from over 300 painted beams of different lengths. One shimmers in many shades of blue, recalling a sparkling, backlit water surface. The other circle looks at first like a void, a mirrored surface waiting to be filled, because the beams in it are painted a matte white. Only a few of the beams display numbers and letters, representing cryptic fragments of color descriptions: BLUE POOL, C-925G AQU, 6 BLUE SKY. The written description and visual experience of color overlap. Seeing, recognizing and imagining coincide. ATLAS BLUE therefore continues to explore concepts addressed in other of Wegner's installations beginning in 2003, for example SPACE, TIME & THE WEATHER.
In his WALL-TO-WALL-TO-WALL painting
created for Bochum, Wegner has for the first time used the form of the "bilingual" diptych. Two clearly demarcated rectangular color fields applied directly to the wall and the corresponding written descriptions of the respective hue carry out a dialogue on the wall. One green tone is both "Oase 130" and "4702 Oasis." Or are they two different colors?
The color cards commonly used in Germany and America with their efforts to clearly identify and categorize colors and their names provided the inspiration for Wegner's work. The chaos surrounding pigments as products made by various international manufacturers, all with their own associative names and descriptions for the many shades, is detached here from the demands of industrial expedience.
The poetic quality of Wegner's works runs like a thread through his entire oeuvre. The clear formal language and monochromatic elements allow the viewer to experience a lightness and lucidity that does not necessarily seem inherent in the simple materials and their basic shapes. This phenomenon can also be found in the wall-mounted LATTICES. The rectangular basic form made of MDF resembles the dimensions of a canvas, and yet the perforations add a third dimension that creates a sculptural quality. The inner edges of the cut-out areas in
cast delicate colored shadows onto the wall behind them. The pale yellow, light blue and light red household paint thus creates in conjunction with the light, the omissions, the MDF surface and the wall a volatile atmospheric sculpture reminiscent of a cloud.
In the long gallery, nearly transparent collages with shimmering alabaster surfaces seem to float before the wall. Individual rectangular films come together to form a cohesive whole, but one with intersections, overlaps and empty spaces where the wall shows through. The sober chemical description of the material is: K Al2 AlSi3 O10 (OH)2. The works in the series MINERAL LOGIC are in turn made out of the mineral muscovite. The structure of this natural raw material consists of paper-thin layers that can be separated off from the mass.
showcases the surprisingly aesthetic impact of this material, which is used in industry as an extremely heat-resistant insulation material for high-voltage power lines.
In the works of Peter Wegner everyday things are brought into the art context, where our perceptions of them are transformed. Out of honest materials, light, shadow and words the artist elicits very tangible visual pleasure. In the process, he shakes up, as if in passing, our matter-of-fact understanding of the world, revealing the codes that surround us and which determine our lives without us being aware of it. The visual and poetic, as well as philosophical depth of his works haunts us long after.
Peter Wegner grew up in South Dakota and graduated from Yale University. After many years in Brooklyn, New York he now lives in Berkeley, California. Permanent collections featuring Wegner's work include: The Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Getty Center, Los Angeles; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Yale University Art Gallery, among others.
more information about the work of Peter Wegner


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