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Praying is a central and vital part of religion. But how do you teach and explain prayer to children?
Cheri Fuller, writing on churchleaders.com, says one way of explaining prayer to small children is to tell them that it's a conversation; and just as they can talk to their parents, they can talk to God. She also recommends parents asking children to pray with them and not to pray out of their sight so they get used to seeing and hearing prayers. On christianity.about.com, Shelley Elmblad says, "Children can start learning to pray even before they can speak in coherent sentences simply by allowing them to see you praying...." She says that teaching children a specific prayer such as the Lord's Prayer, and explaining its meaning, is another way to get youngsters used to prayer, and used to understanding it.
Q: Do you have any thoughts on the best ways to teaching children how to pray and explaining its importance?
In Luke 11 (also Matthew 6) Jesus provided his so-called "Lord's Prayer" to answer his disciples' request that he teach them to pray. It's a model prayer, not a mantra, so if this is used to teach children what the content of their prayers might include, we have to get across the idea that it is but an outline.
As a kid, I didn't see or hear much prayer in my house, but I had memorized the "Now I lay me down to sleep...." prayer that I'm thinking perhaps my granny taught me. The point of prayer was never really discussed, so this particular one became something of a superstitious incantation to ward off the sand-man or whatever else might be lurking beneath my bed or in the closet. It had that creepy part about "if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." Today I believe that would be a happy circumstance, but as a child I didn't take much comfort in the idea of prematurely meeting God because I didn't survive a nightmare or monster attack.
So for kids to learn prayer, they need to be taught rightly, hear it, and be provided opportunity to pray. And when mealtime grace becomes little more than a mindless rhyme, you run the risk of foiling sincere prayer. God requires no artistic couplets to grab his attention and he isn't a soulless computer that requires special code for response. Prayer is communication directed toward a personal being who already knows everything, yet he still desires that we come to him. Where he speaks most loudly in return, or perhaps preliminarily, is in the Bible. Therein lies food for thoughtful prayer, and most of the answers for the questions about which we might pray. Is prayer important? God says, "Never stop praying" (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Amen.
The Rev. Bryan Griem
Montrose Community Church
Prayer is the most naturally supernatural thing we can do. It is a true conversation between us and Father God and involves both talking and listening. It is important that prayer does not become a ritual conducted according to a prescribed formula. The more vital and central prayer is to the spiritual life of the parent, the more children will understand prayer and engage in it themselves.
In our family, we include God in our daily activities, decision-making and special celebrations. Beginning in infancy, our children were exposed to prayers being said over them, blessings pronounced on them and intercessions made on their behalf. When they were young, we encouraged them to thank God for simple things, to ask God for help and to turn to God when they were frightened or upset.
We also had daily devotions as a family and discussed how God answered the prayers of people in the Bible. We invited our children to pray along with us and we modeled thanking God for blessings, asking him for wisdom in our activities, requesting things we needed and praying for others who had special concerns. We spent time remembering answers to our prayers and encouraging our children to see the connection between their prayers and subsequent events.
We always prayed at meal times and individually with each child before bedtime. Normally that prayer was a review of the day so that our children learned to see God's ongoing presence in their lives. We believe that the prayers of children carry as much spiritual weight with Father God as the prayers of adults. We have always taught our children to be bold in their prayers and to expect results. All of our children have grown into adults who are people of prayer.
Pastor Ché Ahn
HRock Church
Observant Muslims pray at five prescribed times a day toward the Kaaba in Mecca, an edifice dedicated to the oneness of God.
Islam teaches that once a child reaches puberty, parents are obligated to encourage their children to pray these five prayers. Prayer should be part of the family's culture and communal activities.
But Islam also teaches the purpose of prayer isn't to engage in mechanical movements like an automaton. Rather, the five daily prayers are a disciplined way we develop a connection, a relationship, with our creator to receive his mercy, forgiveness and soulful peace, and train ourselves to submit to his will.
With that in mind, how do we teach prayer to a child so that it becomes a sustained part of their life? That is a difficult question, given that each child is unique. Their eventual affinity to prayer (or lack thereof) will be affected by a variety of factors — parental modeling, external influences, peer influences and more.
For parents of younger children, in addition to modeling prayer in the home, Koranic (or Biblical) storytelling is one method. Telling fascinating stories is a time-honored way of captivating the child's imagination and is something they look forward to. As a result, Koranic stories imbue a sense of faith and belief. The story of Moses being floated down the river by his mother, then to be reunited with her in Pharaoh's house; the story of Yunus (Jonah) swallowed by the whale due to lack of faith in himself and others; the story of the Virgin Mary and the miraculous birth of Jesus. All these stories and more, if told in a fascinating and meaningful way, can ignite a child's faith and lead to the dedication to prayer — not begrudgingly, but from a sense God-consciousness.
Omar Ricci
As I have often stated here, children, and all of us, are hot-wired for spiritual connection. As a minister and a theologian, it seems to me that when we lose our way, it is because we don't understand the nature and the strength of our bond with the Almighty Spirit. Therefore, step one of teaching children to pray is to get their imaginations going, wondering and learning just who God might be.
Do the Bible stories and our experiences teach us that God is a stern disciplinarian who sits on a throne judging everything we do, generally frowning on every human impulse that excites us and stirs us to creativity, joy and diversity? Is God a strict leader who wants all humans to have a cookie-cutter, cut-from-the-same-mold faith?
Or could God be something different? Do the canonical accounts of human encounters with the divine, as well as our own experiences with spirit, point to adumbrations of God as ever-present help, always urging us to be, and encouraging our sisters and brothers to be their best in every situation? The second description has come to be my understanding of God. That is the apprehension of God that leads me to help children and adults approach prayer. Prayer is connection with that force that is life-giving and affirming. Thoughtfulness is a prayer. Kindness is a prayer. Concentration is a prayer. Discipline to improve one's self is a prayer. So is reflecting on how marvelous and full of promise life is. Teaching children to feel grateful for the experience of life is a prayer. Prayer is being aware of God-for-us, connecting with God-for-us. We teach our children and ourselves how to find words to respond to that presence, and speak words of gratefulness and supplication to that presence.
The Rev. Dr. William Thomas Jr.
Little White Chapel
The idea of prayer being a conversation with God is a good one, but I would hasten to add that praying is not a one-way thing with our rattling off every single worry in our minds without waiting to "hear" what God has to say.
There is a marvelous passage in the Old Testament that says, "Be still, and know that I am God." That's from Psalm 46:10, but the concept can be found elsewhere, too. The whole idea of prayer, I believe, is to try to bring our minds closer to the divine mind, if I may use that term.
In the movie "Shadowlands," Anthony Hopkins plays the Oxford don C. S. Lewis. In one lecture, Hopkins' character says, "Prayer doesn't change God; prayer changes me." Such a concept can be seen in quite dramatic fashion when Jesus is praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, knowing that his time is short. He knows what's ahead for him: arrest, torture and death, and he even prays that God remove that "cup" from him. But in the end he prays, "Not my will but thy will be done" (Matthew 26:39).
So prayer can be a conversation with God, but remember that a conversation is not a monologue. And what we get from prayer may not be what we wanted or expected. Sometimes God says yes, but sometimes God says no — or at least it seems to us at the time that the answer is no. So in our walk and talk with God, we need to listen and we need to be of the mindset that Jesus finally had: not my will but thy will be done.
The Rev. Skip Lindeman
La Cañada Congregational Church
La Cañada Flintridge
The most meaningful important step in teaching children to pray is to be an example. In a family of trusting relationships, young children will naturally follow their parents as they kneel together in prayer. Children may not understand theology, but they easily grasp the concept of a kind being that stands ready to help them.
I don't remember exactly when my parents began teaching me to pray. I simply remember it as something that we did. We prayed before meals and at night before going to bed. My mother, as I recall, usually helped my sister and I through our nightly appeals. She must have taught us to ask the Lord to watch over loved ones and for help with the things we found difficult or frightening. These are the things I remember praying about most frequently. I still pray about them, along with other things.
It may be that our prayers in those days sometimes turned into laundry-list recitations, but the habit of prayer was ingrained. We could feel the warmth of God's spirit as prayers were offered. So children can learn at an early age to seek the Lord's help and they can know when their prayers are heard.
In the LDS church we are taught a particular approach to spoken prayer: We address our Father in Heaven by name, giving thanks from the heart for our blessings. We then ask for help regarding things that we or others may need. We close the prayer in the name of Jesus Christ.
We teach our children this structure, which we consider a demonstration of respect for God. However, it really isn't format, but the sincerity and faith behind the prayer that really matters. God hears and answers any sincere appeal, in any language, spoken or unspoken.
Michael White
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
La Crescenta
Of course, teaching children about the practice of prayer depends upon their age and ability to understand abstract concepts.
Generally, Unity teaches children that we are all children of God, the one power and the one presence. We are all members of the human family and everyone is included in the family, no matter what their race, cultural or religious beliefs.
We also tell children that they each have the light and love of God within them. This is described as their "Good Self, My God-Self," and that through the power of their own thoughts, prayers and choices, they are making their world, every day. We teach our children that everyone can be a person of peace, love and understanding.
There are a few lines in an old, familiar Unity hymn: "We make our own world, wherever we are. We can make it happy, we can live in beauty. We can live in a heaven or hell, our attitudes will say." That sums up our Sunday School and Youth Education for young people attending a Unity church.
The Rev. Jeri Linn
Unity Church of the Valley
La Crescenta
I'm not sure that teaching a child to pray is fundamentally different than teaching an adult. So let's learn from the example Jesus set with his disciples. Certainly our children are our disciples. "While [Jesus] was praying in a certain place, after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.' And he said to them, 'When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come.'" (Luke 11:1-2).
Jesus prayed with and in front of his disciples. They knew it was important by the example he set. They knew he would often rise early to pray by himself and that he would even pray through the night. They heard what he prayed to the Father and were thus witnesses to its effectiveness when the prayers were answered. They also lived in a cultural context of prayers, seeing John pray with his followers.
So some practical suggestions would be to pray with your children. Be a person of prayer, not just in front of them, but as a personal pursuit. Pray specifically with them so that God's answers will be evident when they come. Teach them simple prayers like the Lord's Prayer as examples, explaining the meaning of the requests. Raise them in the context of the church, where they see people outside of their immediate family praying too. Be in front of your children what you wish them to become.
Pastor Jon Barta
Valley Baptist Church


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Closing out a short visit through Los Angeles, President Barack Obama spoke to employees of DreamWorks Animation on Tuesday, and praised the entertainment industry as an economic "bright spot."
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text: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Mark Hahn wrote: > > that means:-) in addition to commensurate amounts of tape backup. The > > ick! our big-storage plans very, very much hope to eliminate tape. > > > tape backup is relatively straightforward -- there is a 100 TB library > > available to the project already that will hold 200 TB after an > > LTO1->LTO2 upgrade, and while tapes aren't exactly cheap, they are > > vastly cheaper than disk in these quantities. > > hmm, LTO2 is $0.25/GB; disks are about double that. considering the > issues of tape reliability, access time and migration, I think > disk is worth it. from what I hear in the storage industry, this > is a growing consensus among, for instance, hospitals - they don't > want to spend their time reading tapes to see whether the media is > failing and content needs to be migrated. migrating content that's > online is ah, easier. in the $ world, online data is attractive in part > so its lifetime can be more explicitly managed (ie, deleted!) It isn't the media, it's the way it is served. Tape is ballpark of $250/TB, but once you've invested in a general shell -- a tape library of whatever size you want to pay for -- cost scales linearly, and it (tape) is easy and relatively safe to transport. Disk, by the time you wrap it up, serve it, connect it to this and that, and provide it with this and that costs much more. Otherwise I agree with most of what you say, but remember, I didn't write the RFP specs. Besides, today they decided to drop the 60 TB of tape spec. Oops! We'll still meet or exceed it anyway, as we have a big tape library that is conveniently underutilized handy, so we REALLY just pay for the media (plus maybe kick in a drive or two). > > The disk is a real problem. Raw disk these days is less than $1/GB for > > SATA in 200-300 GB sizes, a bit more for 400 GB sizes, so a TB of disk > > per se costs in the ballpark of $1000. However, HOUSING the disk in > > reliable (dual power, hot swap) enclosures is not cheap, adding RAID is > > not cheap, and building a scalable arrangement of servers to provide > > access with some controllable degree of latency and bandwidth for access > > is also not cheap. > > no insult intended, but have you looked closely, recently? I did some > quick web-pricing this weekend, and concluded: > > vendor capacity size $Cad list per TB density > dell/emc 12x250 3U $7500 1.0 TB/U > apple 14x250 3U $4000 1.166 > hp/msa1500cs 12x250x4 10U $3850 1.2 > > (divide $Cad by 1.25 or so to get $US.) all three plug into FC. > the HP goes up to 8 shelves per controller or 24 TB per FC port, though. So you add FC switch and server(s) and end up at a minimum of around $5K/TB. The maximum prices I'm seeing reported by respondants and that we've seen in quotes or prices of actual systems are well over $10K/TB, some as high as $30K/TB. Price depends on how fast and scalable you want it to be, which in turn depends on how proprietary it is. But I'll summarize all of this when I get through the proposal and can breathe again. The cheapest solutions are those you build yourself, BTW -- as one might expect -- followed by ones that a vendor assembles for you, followed in order by proprietary/named solutions that require special software or special software and special hardware. Some of the solutions out there use basically "no" commodity parts that you can replace through anybody but the vendor -- they even wrap up the disks themselves in their own custom packaging and firmware and double the price in the process. > > Management requirements include 3 year onsite > > service for the primary server array -- same day for critical > > components, next day at the latest for e.g. disks or power supplies that > > we can shelve and deal with ourselves in the short run. The solution we > > pretty standard policies. > > > adopt will also need to be scalable as far as administration is > > concerned -- we are not interested in "DIY" solutions where we just buy > > an enclosure and hang it on an over the counter server and run MD raid, > > not because this isn't reliable and workable for a departmental or even > > a cluster RAID in the 1-8 TB range (a couple of servers) it isn't at all > > clear how it will scale to the 10-80 TB range, when 10's of servers > > would be required. > > Robert, are you claiming that 10's of servers are unmanagable > on a *cluster* mailing list!?! or are you thinking of the number > of moving parts? I'm thinking of scalability of management at all levels, and performance at all levels. I don't >>think<< that I'm crazy in thinking that this is an issue in large scale storage design -- at least one respondant so far suggested that I wasn't radical enough and that off-the shelf or homemade SAN solutions are doomed to nasty failure at very large (100+ TB) sizes. I'm not certain that I believe him (I had several people describe their off-the-shelf solutions that scale to 100+ TB sizes, and was directed to e.g. http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php) but think of me as being hypercautious in my already admitted ignorance;-) That is, if there are no issues and people are running stacks of 6.4 TB enclosures hanging off of OTC linux boxes and managing the volumes and data issues transparently and they scale to 100's of TB, sure, I'd love to hear about it. Now I have, although there are issues, there are issues. As I said, I'll summarize (and maybe start some lovely arguments:-) when I'm done but I'm still DIGESTING all the data I've gotten from vendors and list-friends (all of whom I profoundly thank!). > > Management of the actual spaces thus provided is not trivial -- there > > are certain TB-scale limits in linux to cope with (likely to soon be > > resolved if they aren't already in the latest kernels, but there in many > > of the working versions of linux still in use) and with an array of > > I can understand and even emphathize with some people's desire to > stick to old and well-understood kernels. but big storage is a very > good reason to kick them out of this complacency - the old kernel are > justifiable only on not-broke-don't-fix grounds... Again, agreed, but one wants to be very conservative in a project proposal, especially when we HAVE NO CHOICE as to the actual kernel or OS distribution -- we will have to just "install the grid" with a package developed elsewhere by people that you or I might or might not agree with. Historically, in fact, I think that there is no chance that either one of us would do things the way they have done them so far, and maybe we will ultimately influence the design, but when writing the proposal we have to assume that we'll be using their linux. Where at least we've talked them up from some -- shall we say old? obsolete? non-x64 supporting? versions of linux and the associated kernels and libraries as a base... (you get the idea). > > partitions and servers to deal with, just being able to index, store and > > retrieve files generated by the compute component of the grid will be a > > major issue. > > how so? I find that people still use sensible hierarchical organization, > even if the files are larger and more numerous than in the past. It's a grid, and we're trying to avoid direct NFS mounts on all the nodes for a variety of reasons (like performance, reliability, security) and because in this kind of grid people will need to use fully automated schema for data storage, retrieval, and archival migration on and off the main data store. Honestly, I personally think that the data management issue and toolset is MORE important than the hardware. As you note, we can build arrays of disk servers or arrays of disk and associated servers or network appliances and arrays of disk a variety of ways, including DIY with a fairly obvious design. In order for people to be able to direct a node to run for a week and drop its results, properly indexed and crossreferenced by user/group/program/parameters in a database, somewhere into the data store where it will be transparently migrated onto and off of an attached tape archive as needed AND possibly resync'd back to a project CENTRAL store AND possibly sync'd back to the home LAN and store of the grid user for local processing --- it is doable, sure, but I wouldn't call it trivial or necessarily doable without some hacking or involvement in OS projects addressing this issue or purchase of proprietary software ditto. If it is trivial, and there is a simple package that does all this and eats your meatloaf for you out to a PB of data, please enlighten me...:-) > > a) What are listvolken who have 10+ TB requirements doing to satisfy > > them? > > we're acquiring somewhere between .2 and 2 PB, and are planning machinrooms > around the obvious kinds of building blocks: lots of servers that are in > the say 4-20 TB range, preferably connected by some fast fabric (IB seems > attractive, since it's got mediocre latency but good bandwidth.) Ya. > > b) What did their solution(s) cost, both to set up as a base system > > (in the case of e.g. a network appliance) and > > I'm fairly certain that if I were making all the decisions here, I'd > go for fairly smallish modular servers plugged into IB. Any idea of what that would cost? > > > c) incremental costs (e.g. filled racks)? I meant "cost of additional filled disk enclosures" once you've bought in. Some solutions involve network appliances with a large capital investment before you buy your first disk enclosure, and then scale linearly with filled enclosures to some point, where you buy another appliance. Some solutions already specify an appliance interconnect so that the whole thing is transparent to your cluster. Some solutions are expensive, expensive. I'm just trying to figure out HOW expensive, and how far we can go for what we can afford with the different alternatives. I'm happy for anyone to tell me the virtues of the expensive systems (the benefits) as long as I have the costs in hand as well, so I can ultimately do the old fashioned CBA. > > d) How does their solution scale, both costwise (partly answered in b > > and c) and in terms of management and performance? > > my only real concern with management is MTBF: if we had a hypothetical > collection 2PB of 250G SATA disks with 1Mhour MTBF, we'd go 5 days between > disk replacements. to me, this motivates toward designs that have fairly > large numbers of disks that can share a hot spare (or maybe raid6?) Right, but if your hypothetical array of disks also involved a stack of over the counter servers, network switches (of any sort, eg IB or FC or GE), and so on, there isn't just the disk to worry about -- in fact, in a good RAID enclosure it is relatively straightforward to deal with the disk (and hot swap power and hot swap fan) failures. Dealing with intrinsic server failures, e.g. toasted memory, CPU, CPU fans, CPU power supply (maybe, unless server has dual power) and sundry networking or peripheral card failures takes a lot more time and expertise, and can take down whole blocks of disks if the disk is provided only via direct connections to specific servers. Both human effort and expertise required and projected downtime depend a lot on how you build and set things up. Or rather, I >>expect<< it to, and am seeking war-stories (stories of profound failures where some design was FUBAR and ultimately abandoned for cause, especially) so I can figure out which designs to avoid because they DON'T scale in management. Performance scaling is also important, but we're not looking for the fastest possible solution or truly superior performance scaling (the kinds of solutions that cost the $10K+/TB sorts of prices). Unless of course all the other solutions simply choke to death at some e.g. 80 TB scale. I don't "expect" them too, sure, but if I knew the answer, why'd I ask? > > > e) What software tools are required to make their solution work, and > > are they open source or proprietary? > > I'd be interested in knowing what the problem is that you're asking to be > solved. just that you don't want to run "find / -name whatever" on > a filesystem of 20 TB? or that you don't want 10 separate 2TB filesystems? Partially described above. The dataflow we are expecting isn't unique to our problem, BTW. One respondant with almost exactly the same needs described a tool they are developing that is designed fairly specifically to manage the dataflow and archival/migration issues transparently. I'm waiting to hear whether it interfaces with any sort of indexing schema or toolset -- if so, it would simply solve the problem. Solve it for the cheapest possible (hardware reliable, COTS component) data stack -- a pile of OTS multiTB servers -- as well! In case the above wasn't clear, think: a) Run 1 day to 1 week, generate some 100+ GB per CPU on node local storage; b) Run hours to days, reduce the data to "interesting" and compressed form, occupying maybe 10% of this space. How the actual data is originally created (one big file or many little files, e.g.) I haven't a clue yet. How it is aggregated ditto. At some point, though; c) condensed data (be it in one 10 GB file or 10 1 GB files or larger or smaller fragments) is sent in to the central store, where it has to be saved in a way that is transparent to the user, indexed by the generating program, its parameters, the generating/owning group, various node and timestamp metadata, all in a DB that is searchable by the large community that wants to SHARE this data. So "find" is clearly out, even find with really long filenames. Find is REALLY out if you think about its performance scaling as you fill the store with lots of inodes. d) Once on the central store, the data has to be able to stay there (if it is being used), be backed up to tape (regardless), be MIGRATED to tape to free space on the central store for other data that IS being used, be retreiveable from backup or archive, be downloadable by the generating user to a home faraway for local processing, be downloadable by OTHER groups/users to THEIR homes faraway, and be uploadable to a PB-scale toplevel store and centralized archive in a higher tier of the grid. e) and maybe other stuff. The RFP wasn't horribly detailed (it wasn't at ALL detailed) and the material we've obtained from grid prototype sites isn't very helpful at the design phase. So we may NEED to export NFS space to the nodes or use XFS and some fancy toolsets or the like, but we're hoping to avoid this if the actual workflow permits it. On a grid, it "should", since grid tasks should all use "grid functions" to accomplish macroscopic tasks, not Unix/linux/posix functions or tools. > > f) Along the same lines, to what extent is the hardware base of their > > solution commodity (defined here as having a choice of multiple vendors > > for a component at a point of standardized attachment such as a fiber > > channel port or SCSI port) or proprietary (defined as if you buy this > > solution THIS part will always need to be purchased from the original > > vendor at a price "above market" as the solution is scaled up). > > as far as I can see, the big vendors are somehow oblivious of the fact > that customers *HATE* the proprietary, single-source attitude. > oh, you can plug any FC devices you want into your san, > as long as they're all our products and we've "qualified" them. You are now the third or fourth person to make THAT observation. "Standards? We don' care about no stinkin' standards..." (apologies to Mel Brooks and Blazing Saddles...;-) > > > Rules: Vendors reply directly to me only, not the list. I'm in the > > market for this, most of the list is not. Note also that I've already > > I think you'd be surprised at how many, many people are buying > multi-TB systems for isolated labs. there are good reasons that > this kind of scattershot approach is not wise in, say, a university > setting, where a shared resource pool can respond better to burstiness, > consistent maintenance, stable environment, etc. I agree again. Hell, I maintain a 3x80 GB disk IDE RAID in my HOME server these days, and the only thing special about the "80" is the age of the disks -- next time I upgrade it I'll likely make it close to a TB just because I can. So TB-scale storage is to be expected in most departmental size computing efforts at $1/GB plus housing and server. 100 TB-scale storage is a different beast. One is really engineering a storage "cluster" and like all cluster engineering, the optimal result depends on the application mix and expected usage; a "recipe" based solution might work or it might lead to disaster and effectively unusuable resources due to bottlenecks, contention, or management issues. Cluster engineering I have a reasonable understanding of; storage cluster engineering at this scale is way beyond my ken, although I'm learning fast. If only I had a couple of hundred thousand dollars, now, I'd build and buy a bunch of prototypes and really learn it the right way...;-) Thanks enormously for the response, rgb > > regards, mark hahn. > 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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Meredith Bragg, Paul Curreri, and James Mason
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Never, in my all to frequent visits to the Tokyo Rose basement, have I seen anything resembling seating impinging on the smooth expanses of floor between the stage and the "seating/sleeping/make-out area" that lines the club's back wall. Except for in that small and secluded area, sitting is not usually an option at the venue, and often the biggest problem visitors must address is finding a cool way to stand. "Hands in the pockets, out of the pockets, cross the arms, weight on hips, right, or left, time for another cigarette?" is the usual train of thought to the common TR inhabitant.
Last Thursday night's show at the Rose did away with this pressing issue entirely; arrayed from the stage to the soundboard were rows of folding chairs, which though they did destroy a bit of the minimalist aesthetic of the basement lair, were quite in check with the night's featured genre. Hold on to your hats kiddies, because the Tokyo Rose basement has gone folk.
The evening began with Meredith Bragg, who turned out, contrary to expectations, to be a man. Bragg, who sounds a bit like '90s rocker Matthew Sweet, is the lead singer in the DC indie-rock group Speedwell, which some (actually just me) would describe as "too shoe-gazing for more than regional fame." Bragg solo on the other hand, does not have much of an other hand: the three-man sweet-and-quiet folk outfit that took the stage bearing his name (drums, keys, and Bragg on guitar/vocals) was fairly un-notable.
Local guitar hero and country folk/blues madman Paul Curreri was on next, the performer most of the unusually well groomed seated audience members had come to see. Curreri's weaving guitar lines, faster than light finger-picking, and melodies often appearing to have come from above, make him an instant favorite of most who have had the pleasure of seeing him, or hearing one of his two albums. Songs from both records graced the night, with tracks like "Fishbowl," an example of lyrical mastery if I've ever seen one ("Creak! As the weathervane dovetails/ Crack! Goes the whole town's neck/As the weathervane cockle-doodle-doos toward what it was pointing at"), from the latter, and a "fucking awful" version of the fabulously country-dark "Bees" from the former. And Curreri even played my favorite song of his, the unrecorded "Cocaine,"– "my mucus membranes are just a memory" is but one of this song's classic refrains.
By the time local folk-rocker James Mason went on, my ride was getting a bit tired, but I successfully pleaded my case and was able to check out four of the singer/songwriter's songs. As I've said before on these pages, Mason's style is easy to compare to Nick Drake's– they both specialize in soft, acoustic, sleepytime tunes– with a healthy dose of folkster Elliot Smith thrown in. Mason sang and played guitar, backed by his brother Christian on second guitar, and did a nice approximation of the sound on his great recently released album, Carnival Sky. From what I heard in my brief exposure, I will definitely be checking Mason out again in the near future.


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by Rita Charleston
If necessity is the mother of invention, add a strong feeling of community involvement to the mix, and you might come up with someone like Mary Ellen Graham.
An academic, educator, writer and the mother of six, Graham, 76, is the force behind the creation of My Place Germantown, a fully renovated, safe, spacious house that 12 previously homeless men now call home.
The seed probably was planted in 1991 when Graham joined St. Vincent DePaul Church, which is famous for its outreach programs and social justice focus. Along the way, she was seriously involved in several community projects, even traveling to Africa at one point where she was offered a unique, full-time position at a university in Tanzania.
"When I returned home, I realized I couldn't devote the time necessary to accept such a position and that there was a lot I could do here. So I began mainly by working for the Catholic Archdiocese's Mercy Hospice, the oldest shelter and recovery house for women in the city of Philadelphia."
At one point, Graham, who has a master's degree in English from what is now Arcadia University in Glenside, was a full-time coordinator of the writing center and tutorial services at Chestnut Hill College when she had what she refers to as "a conversion kind of experience." Poet and social advocate Edwina Gateley, a speaker at the college's International Women's Day event, so inspired Graham that she volunteered at Philadelphia's Women of Change, a shelter for the homeless. "It sounds hokey," she admitted, "but then I wanted to leave academia in order to serve the poor full-time."
It was 2007 when she discovered there was a large number of men in Germantown between the ages of 40 and 55 who had very few housing options.
"Many were unemployed and most faced serious disabilities, such as physical or mental health issues, and long-term substance abuse issues," Graham explained. "They represented a whole spectrum of disabilities and my sense of justice was deeply offended by the fact that they were being neglected. While there were shelters for women, for the most part these men were being perceived almost as lepers, people who a friend of mine called 'the throwaway people.'"
Finding that no one wanted to come out to Germantown to create a home for the hard-to-place, Graham decided to do it on her own. It took three years, but finally, in November, 2010, My Place Germantown opened at 209 E. Price St. Located on one acre of land, it's hard to miss the building, brightly painted in raspberry and orange.
My Place Germantown boasts 12 efficiency apartments, complete with kitchenettes, full closets and private baths. Two units are wheelchair accessible, and a third is accessible for the hearing and/or visually impaired.
"The men, who can stay as long as they like, are chosen on the basis of need, coming from living on the streets, an emergency shelter or transitional housing," Graham said. "They must have had a recent episode of homelessness and/or be certifiably disabled."
Neighborhood resources include a health clinic, legal services, a food pantry, a learning lab literacy program and more. Professional support services such as a case manager and resident advocates to provide 24/7 support are also available.
For her work, Graham received an Access Achievement Award from the Mayor's Commission on People with Disabilities of the City of Philadelphia in 2011. She was honored for "outstanding commitment to increase access for people with disabilities through the removal of physical and attitudinal barriers" for creating My Place Germantown, Philadelphia's first permanent supportive housing for homeless men with mental and physical disabilities.
"In the beginning, the major issue I had to face was hearing the word 'no' from so many people I approached. Now that we're up and running, the major issue I face today is how to keep the house going," she said.
"That is a major job for me, but when I look around at what we've accomplished, I think it's wonderful. The men here have made remarkable progress in recapturing their productive lives. Today, they seem happy and healthy, and I am thrilled with the progress we've made."
My Place Germantown is the only permanent housing for men with special needs in the city. To make donations or to volunteer, call 215-763-6387. Reprinted, with permission, from Milestones, a publication of the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging.


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Often I don't even see the bites, because I'm so covered with tattoos that the welts don't announce themselves within the images on my person. I can feel them though, insidiously disguised as the vague discomfort even a fully healed tattoo is capable of, the ink in the skin still considered a foreign body by the immune system, which after years raises hard outlines in a last ditch effort to push it out.
There must be something in my bed but I look and look and look and there is nothing there. Maybe it's so small I cannot see it. They could be fleas although I just did a thorough flea treatment which even included a trip to the vet and forcing the dogs to be sequestered outside for a full hour. The little Chihuahua stared at me through the window of the door not believing she was shut out. Of course I am way too co-dependent of a dog mom and sat on the other side of the door trying to assure her it was ok and likely making everything a whole lot worse and way too emotional for everyone.
Its odd to me that dogs will live their whole lives outside, which to me contradicts the purpose of pets. How do you hold them to your body if they are outside all the time? Where is the comfort and communion that comes from communal living with animals? My dogs go outside to conduct their dog business and the timely transactions of poo and pee and of course for walks and runs and hikes, but that is about all that happens out of doors. The rest of our relationship unfolds on the couch or the bed, where they are not only welcome, they are intensely needed, but that is also probably why I have these bites.


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Watching a woman ride a bike as she rocks a dress and high heels has a particular visual appeal.
Watching a woman ride a bike as she rocks a dress and high heels has a particular visual appeal.
"It's so romantic looking. I f---ing love it," Jessica Mathews said.
So much so, Mathews, a program coordinator at advocacy group Consider Biking, has brought a monthly bike event to Columbus that encourages women to ride while dressed to the nines.
A buddy of Mathews started 2 Wheels & Heels in Cleveland last year. At these events, women wearing everyday clothes - be it dresses or denim - travel as a pack on their bikes around town. There are now also 2 Wheels & Heels rides in Austin, Chicago and Minneapolis.
The purpose, of course, goes much deeper than creating a pleasant sight for sore traffic-stuck eyes.
"Getting more girls and women on bikes on the road humanizes bicycling; it normalizes it," Mathews said. "Biking becomes not so intimidating, and drivers become more protective of all bikers on the road."
The biker benefits, too.
"It makes riding accessible for everyday," Mathews said. "Biking isn't just about a recreational sport and spandex."
Last month marked the first 2 Wheels & Heels in Columbus. About 16 women attended, vastly varying in age, fitness level and favored fashion.
The slowly paced treks will be held every last Wednesday of the month until the weather makes riding impossible, Mathews said. This Wednesday's ride starts with a meet and greet at Brothers Drake followed by a ride to Clintonville's Pattycake Bakery and back.
Mathews' skirt-wearing-while-pedaling secret: Wear bike shorts under those bad boys.


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Subject: Editorial, General Tech | February 23, 2012 - 04:10 PM | Ken Addison
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The other day I was sitting around 'pinning'. (If you're not sure what this is yet, you need to get on Pinterest ASAP—that's all I'll say.) Anyway, in between pinning pictures of houses I'll never be able to afford and DIY projects I'm never going to do, I stumbled upon a picture of the Rainbow Village. It looked a little something like this:
How could anyone not be instantly drawn to such a vibrant and cheerful place? I immediately pinned it to my Travel Board and filed the image away for future trip planning. Some point later, I realized that this Rainbow Village was actually located in Taichung City, Taiwan, just about an hour south of Hsinchu. Talk about convenience! In actually, the Rainbow Village is a military dependents village, founded over 50 years ago. It has been transformed into the unique attraction it is today as a result of the talented Huang Yung-Fu, an 86 year old who picked up his paintbrushes just a few years ago and personally covered the buildings with colorful animals and aboriginal-like people.
Military dependents villages were originally built in Taiwan to house Nationalist soldiers when the KMT retreated to Taiwan. Much more information can be found on good 'ol Wiki if you're interested. The majority of these drab, concrete houses have been demolished to make way for modern, high-rise complexes so common in cities across Taiwan. Luckily, thanks to the efforts of Huang Yung-Fu, the Rainbow Village will continue to be preserved. We would definitely recommend stopping by if you are in the Taichung area! The actual village is quite small, and although the pictures might appear otherwise, it is a popular and crowded tourist attraction.
The easiest way to access the Rainbow Village is via scooter. Click here for a map of the area.
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I had the same problem with my gggrandfather's death certificate. Someone at Afrigenas suggested that I try to locate the funeral home where he resided. It paid off, not only did they have the death certificate but also the names of all the people that helped pay for the funeral. You'll have to make some calls but it's well worth it.
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