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The Lakota Oyate (Great Sioux Nation), as the ancient guardians of the Northern Plains, along with all of our allies in the United States and Canada, members of the Red Nations of the western hemisphere and Indigenous peoples of the world, urge you to deny the permit application for the Keystone XL Pipeline. The pipeline has the potential to destroy sacred land and water. Mr. Secretary, we urge you to make this critical stand and appeal to you as the father of Alexandra and Vanessa and the step-father to John, Andre and Christopher. We ask you to stand with us and reject this attack on mother earth. This is a unique opportunity for you and the President to make a positive decision on behalf of future generations, leaving a legacy of wisdom and foresight. As Marie Randall, a 94-year-old Lakota great-grandmother stated,
"This is the land of our ancestors. We protect it for our grandchildren."
John Kent Lebsock
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Debra White Plume is a Lakota mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Fighting against corporate interests and greed, she is leading a grassroots battle to block the Keystone XL Pipeline from...
Debra White Plume is a Lakota mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Fighting against corporate interests and greed, she is leading a grassroots battle to block the Keystone XL Pipeline from crossing her community's sacred land. Quoted Debra, "Through the long, hot summer we will provide requested non-violent direct action training to Lakota Homelands. We will join our counterparts of ranchers and farmers who will face TransCanada's earthmovers when they come to dig, using the human right to engage in nonviolent direct action. We hope the president will realize the large and diverse national support to deny the permit, that he will be revolutionary and refuse to expose the big land to such a toxic project."
"It boils down to personal responsibility. We must see the truth or else continue to live in the many levels of denial that we all construct and make excuses for what the industry is doing with our support as inactive human beings. People need to have courage and take the stand that this fossil fuel industry and the tar sands mine is wrong and work to shut it down before it is too late."
Debra's home is along the banks of Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Her work and relentless drive to build alliances to protect sacred water and land from the immediate devastation that will be caused by the Keystone XL Pipeline, is not like any battle they've faced before. It is an issue that threatens the health and sustainability of her family and friends. She is appealing to John Kerry's humanity as a father since he has two daughters and three step-sons (Alexandra, Vanessa, John, Andre and Christopher). If Mr. Kerry fails to block the pipeline, history will remember his betrayal of all of us and future generations. His responsibility should be the same as our Native leaders: "We must protect our communities, children, water, for the future." [1]
While Debra and families across the midwest fight the battle on the ground to block the KXL, they need your support on this petition to pressure John Kerry into denying the permit for the pipeline. Sadly, these "fat takers" (corporations and politicians), as they are known in Lakota, who are pushing for the pipeline, do not have the wisdom to think beyond their own greed and narrow needs. We need to let them know that our voice is our power!
[1] [Robin LeBeau, Tribal Council Representative from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.]
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Use a bleach-type cleaner
You should be able to remove the algae rather easily with a bleach-type deck cleaner such as Olympic or Wolman. These cleaners are sold at all home centers and are easy to use. Usually a garden-type sprayer (less than $20) is used to apply the bleach cleaner. Some cleaners do not require any scrubbing — they are allowed to work for 10 minutes or so, then rinsed off with water from a garden hose.
Be sure and read and follow the directions for the specific cleaner you choose. If there are plants around the deck, they should be soaked thoroughly with water before cleaning and rinsed afterward.
Dear Gene: I am planning to paint my concrete patio and will purchase good patio paint. What color would best hide dirt from traffic?
My choice would be a dark color, such as red, green, brown, or gray. Your biggest problem might not be dirt but getting the paint to stick to the concrete. Thorough cleaning, and sometimes etching with an acid, is required before painting. Also, if you use a water-based patio paint, expect it to wear rather quickly in high-traffic areas. Epoxy paints are more expensive and more difficult to apply but are generally more durable.
Dear Gene: I have a bathtub that developed rust around the drain, causing small holes that leaked. It was repaired, but the repair didn't last long. Would a tub liner solve this problem? Some contractors say no, but one says yes. What do you think?
A bathtub liner — a plastic shell that fits exactly into the existing tub — should have its own drain fitting and bypass the old leaking drain. A spokeswoman for Re-Bath (www.rebath.com), a leading tub-liner franchiser, also says it should work. However, there must be a good reason some contractors have said it won't work. If the contractor who says yes is willing to give you a written guarantee that the liner will stop the leaking, you should be justified in going ahead with it.
Incidentally, a tub liner is an excellent way to renew a beat-up tub. A liner costs considerably more than refinishing a tub, but the cost is far less than that of removing an old tub and installing a new one. Tough acrylic liners in a variety of colors can be molded to fit almost any old bathtub.
Dear Gene: My garage door squeaks badly when I open it. I have been told not to use WD-40 to lubricate it because it will attract dust and get gummy. What do you suggest to stop the squeaking?
I have used this product for many years on many mechanisms, including garage-door rollers and tracks, and have never had any problem with them getting gummy. I also know mechanics who use it regularly and recommend it. It isn't necessary to spray a thick coat of WD-40 — a little goes a long way. I would spray some on the rollers, in the tracks, and on other moving metal parts that might be causing the squeaks.
If you are really worried about things getting gummy, you could substitute a silicone spray lubricant or one of the other high-tech lubricants sold at auto-parts stores, home centers, and bicycle shops.
Dear Gene: The carpeting in our townhouse is badly stained with filtration soil. If we replace the carpeting, what can we do to prevent this from happening again?
Make sure you get carpeting that is treated to resist stains and have the treatment repeated each time you get the carpet cleaned. Beyond that, you should take common-sense precautions, such as placing shoe-cleaning mats at all entrances and using washable area rugs where there is high traffic.
Quick tip: Reader Marian Ramos offers a hearty endorsement of Sikkens deck stain — a brand not sold at many home centers. "My 15-year-old deck and fencing was stained with Sikkens three years ago," she said. "After I had it power-washed recently, it looks as good as new." She says Sikkens stain costs more than many others but adds, "I will never use anything else. I know of two deck contractors who will never use anything but Sikkens."
For more information about Sikkens products and sources, go to www.nam.sikkens.com.
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What would I do with an extra $100?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
If I was handed an extra $100 next month, I would get some acrylic nails and I would get a haircut. My hair hasn't been cut since May 2009, and it's long overdue. As for my nails, I've bitten them down to nubs and they're getting on my nerves! (Yes, my stress level is HIGH!) I barely ever get to do things for me, since I'm a single mom and all of my money goes to caring for my kids, so it's nice to do things for myself sometimes!
What would you do if someone handed you an extra $100?
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God can speak to us through the arts.
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Jesus calls us to Himself to send us to the world.
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By Sat Purkh Kaur Khalsa
Several months ago a friend asked me, "Where's the goddess in our Dharma?" It seemed an odd question to me since our entire dharma begins with the Adi Shakti, the primal feminine power, but then when I began to feel around the edges of her question and explore the roots of it within myself, I realized she had a point.
Where's the fecund, moist, dark creative feminine in our path? Where are the crimson bloody bits? Where's the juice? We seem to be surrounded by white, pristine, pearly perfection, which feels a bit sterile after a while. The interesting thing is that I chose Kundalini Yoga as a path simply because it was so juicy. So where'd it go? Where is the Goddess?
Immediately the words "through the skin" came to me in response to her query. We experience the goddess through our senses. And as women we experience it through our Self, our identity, our creativity. We experience it when we're in pain; we experience it when we're in ecstasy; we experience it each month as our body sheds itself inside out and we sit and we bleed; we experience it each day when we rise and meditate; when we sit at table to eat, when we go to bed and make love to our partner, when we sing, when we play, when we dance, when we pray. We experience the goddess in every breath; we experience the goddess through the skin.
In any spiritual path there is always the danger of falling into one particular pole or another: ascetic versus bacchus; laissez faire versus fanatic; the Virgin Mary versus Mary Magdalene. Yet these are all false dichotomies—at least in our path as Kundalini Yogis. Yes, we experience the ecstatic but we also go home and do the dishes. Yes, we understand the reach of our own identity in Infinity, but we also express it through the very real dimensions of touch and taste. Yes, we are the Noble Woman but we are also the Lover and the Beloved. We are both queen and consort. We are both Shakti and Bhakti.
This path demands that we be facile and fluent in both expressions of the divine, within and without. So we chant both the Shakti Mantra: Ek Ong Kaar Sat Nam Siri Wahe Guru and the Bhakti Mantra: Adi Shakti Adi Shakti Adi Shakti Namo Namo. We both embody the goddess and bow to her at the same time.
If we don't find that balance, then the brightness, the radiance of our projection, can make us believe there is no shadow, when the truth is that the brighter you shine, the further the shadow's reach becomes. We need that touch of grace—the guru's grace found in the guru's bani. We need to eliminate our inner conflict and understand that the Goddess is not somewhere "out there"; but here, within. It resides within the skin, through the skin, through the senses.
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While testing his new 8mm camera at night, Kaito Kirishima is caught amid a mysterious explosion in his small town. Strangely, Kaito wakes up the next day perfectly fine, but with no recollection of what happened exactly the day before. Unfazed by what seems to have been just a dream, he heads to school not giving much thought to the incident. Discussing with his friends about the camera, they decide to make a movie during summer break. They invite two upperclass students to participate in the project: recently arrived Ichika Takatsuki and the odd Remon Yamano. In a strange twist of fate, Ichika starts living with Kaito as his sister has to work overseas. Summer days are about to get exciting for the small film crew.


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What is the colour in the fashion runway for 2011??
Is Honeysuckle!!
I am not fooling around [especially on the colour name..], but this actually extracted from Colour Spring Report done by Pantone!
Honeysuckle is all about Courageous. Confident. Vital. Is a new brave color, for a new bold world. Get the spirit of Honeysuckle infuse you and lead you a fashionable year of 2011!
Brace the courage to face all the hassle and trouble.
Inspired by its verve and vigor to be more confidence, nothing can be your obstruction.
Stimulate by the dynamic reddish pink, life is never exhausting.
The intensity of Honeysuckle is alluring and engaging, drive the affection to be the center of attraction! Just like hummingbirds being attracted to the sweet fragrance of the nectar, and it also brings back the nostalgia on the carefree day in spring and summer.
"In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues! Honeysuckle derives its positive qualities from a powerful bond to its mother color red, the most physical, viscerally alive hue in the spectrum." - Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®
The eye-catching and stunning Honeysuckle is a colour that definitely suitable for day and night, be it men or women.
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WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. gross domestic product rose by about 2.2 percent on an annual basis in the first three months of 2012, the Commerce Department said Friday.
The figure is considered and advanced estimate, with numbers that will firm up in the next two months as more data become available.
The advanced figure is a solid notch lower than the 3 percent of the preceding quarter.
Commerce said positive contributions for the GDP came from consumer spending, exports, private inventory investment and residential fixed investment.
They were "partly offset" by federal government spending, non-residential fixed investment and state and local government spending. In addition, imports, which subtract from the GDP, increased in the first quarter.
"These are encouraging signs that the private sector is continuing to heal from the worst recession since the Great Depression," said Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Krueger noted it was the 11th consecutive quarter of U.S. economic expansion and said gains would have been higher without a sharp decline in government spending.
"If only the private sector components of GDP are considered, GDP grew by 3.5 percent," Krueger said in a statement.
The breakdown of the GDP includes a 2.9 percent rise in consumer spending, compared with a 2.1 percent increase in the fourth quarter.
Output of durable goods rose by 15.3 percent but the growth for the goods had been faster in the fourth quarter, up 16.1 percent.
Output of non-durable goods -- items that are not expected to last three years -- rose 2.1 percent following fourth-quarter growth of 0.8 percent.
Federal government spending fell 5.6 percent in the first quarter, a sizable drop but a slower decline than the fourth quarter's 6.9 percent decrease in federal spending.
Spending on defense fell 8.1 percent following a 12.1 percent decline in the fourth quarter.
Analysts have warned that Europe's economy, which is predicted to fall into a recession in several countries, is poised to present a serious obstacle to U.S. growth in the next few quarters. Growing business in emerging markets is expected to offset some of that decline.
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GREG BEACHAM, AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES: LaQuinton Ross hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2 seconds to play, and Ohio State advanced to the brink of its second straight Final Four appearance with a 73-70 victory over Arizona on Thursday night in the West Regional semifinals.
Ross, the Buckeyes' remarkable reserve, scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half for the second-seeded Buckeyes (29-7), who rallied from an early 11-point deficit and weathered the sixth-seeded Wildcats' late charge for their 11th consecutive victory since mid-February.
Deshaun Thomas scored 20 points for Ohio State, and Aaron Craft added 13 before ceding the Buckeyes' final shot to Ross. Craft hit an awfully similar 3-pointer against Iowa State last Sunday to send the Buckeyes forward.
Mark Lyons' acrobatic three-point play for the Wildcats (27-8) had tied it with 21.8 seconds left.
Craft dribbled down the clock and gave it to Ross, who coolly drilled his second 3-pointer and set off a wild celebration in the Ohio State section of the Arizona-dominated crowd.
On Saturday, Ohio State will face the winner of the late game between underdogs Wichita State and La Salle. As the only top-eight seed left in the West, the Buckeyes will be Atlanta-bound with one more win.
Sam Thompson added 11 points for the Buckeyes, who trailed for nearly the entire first half before pushing ahead and nursing a small lead throughout the final minutes.
Lyons scored 23 points including his gutsy three-point play for the Wildcats, who rallied from a 10-point deficit in the second half before falling just short of their second NCAA regional final in four years. Solomon Hill added 16 points in his native Los Angeles, but the rest of Arizona combined for just 31 points on 10-for-29 shooting.
After Arizona jumped out to that early 11-point lead, Ohio State gathered its game and mounted a 33-13 surge spanning halftime, taking a 53-43 lead with 11 minutes left. The Wildcats finally answered, but Ross kept the Buckeyes in front with nine consecutive points down the stretch.
Craft became a tournament hero last Sunday against Iowa State, hitting a last-second 3-pointer and drawing a questionable charge moments earlier in the Buckeyes' 78-75 win. Ross had his turn in the spotlight at Staples Center, and he didn't flinch.
The game was the second NCAA tournament meeting between Ohio State coach Thad Matta and Arizona's Sean Miller, whose friendship goes back two decades to their time together at Miami of Ohio and Xavier.
Despite losing to UCLA in the Pac-12 tournament semifinals to cap an inconsistent stretch of play, Arizona got a No. 6 seed and blew out Belmont and Harvard in the NCAA tournament's first weekend, reaching the regional semifinals for the 15th time.
Ohio State hasn't lost since Feb. 17, beating Indiana on the road before winning the Big Ten tournament. The Buckeyes had much more trouble than Arizona in their first two NCAA games, but they're showing a knack for last-minute heroics at the perfect time.
Arizona took the lead on its first basket, a 3-pointer from Lyons in the opening minute, and held it throughout a slow-moving first half featuring 19 fouls. With superior ball movement and scoring balance, the Wildcats eventually pushed the margin to 31-20 on Nick Johnson's 3-pointer with 7 minutes left in the half.
Ohio State finally awoke when Craft returned to the game after sitting early with two fouls, trimming the margin to 38-34 by halftime. The Buckeyes finished the half on a 14-7 run capped by the second 3-pointer from Thomas, who scored 16 of their 34 first-half points with his steady all-around game.
Thompson's layup with 17:39 left gave Ohio State its first lead since 2-0, and the Buckeyes opened the second half with a 10-0 run while holding Arizona scoreless for more than 6� minutes spanning halftime.
As the only school west of Wichita left in the regional, Arizona had a significant home-crowd advantage at the cavernous Staples Center, packing the lower bowl with thousands of fans. But Ohio State also had a healthy fan turnout led by Cleveland's favorite son, "The Price Is Right" host Drew Carey.


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Scarlett is healthy as far as I know because she has been checked by the vet during checkups, but we have an embarassing little problem. Even though she gets weekly baths, Scarlett starts smelling a little gamey, I think too quickly. She doesn't smell sick, and her coat etc are shiney and pretty. She just gets an outdoorsy strong DOG smell even though she is indoors most of the time. We use good scented doggy shampoo and cologne. Do any of your Cavs do this? Poor Scarlett. A dignified lady hates to smell bad! :lol:


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Many historic flights lifted off from Baikonur: the first operational ICBM, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957, the first manned orbital flight by Yuri Gagarin in 1961 and the flight of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963. The first astronauts of many other nations, such as Czechoslovakia, France, Germany and Brazil, started their historical journeys from here as well. In 1960 a prototype ICBM exploded before launch, killing over 100 people.
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DAYTON: A high school teacher in southwest Ohio has been indicted on sexual battery charges after a woman said they had sex when she was a student.
The Montgomery County prosecutor says a grand jury in Dayton on Wednesday indicted 43-year-old Michael Weaver of Centerville. Weaver is a teacher at Centerville High School.
Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. says Weaver is charged with three counts of sexual battery involving a teacher.
A message seeking comment was left at Weaver�s home on Wednesday. Court records did not list an attorney for him.
Heck says the woman said she and Weaver had sexual relations when she was a junior at the school between 2005 and 2006.
Officials at the school in suburban Dayton could not be reached for comment after business hours Wednesday.


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LARPing, or Live-Action Role-Playing, is when people take what normally goes down on a tabletop or video game and start doing it in the real world. It's been around forever, lightning bolts and all.
But ever since the brilliant documentary Darkon was released a few years back, outsider's interest in the pursuit has changed a little. What was once an almost universally comedic hobby to them is now...interesting. Mostly because it's fun to hear people's reasons on why they play, and see the contrast between their daily lives and those of their characters.
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CNN Turns to Steinem to Blame Hillary's Loss on Sexism, Media By Media Research Center June 10, 2008 The Impending Death of Feminism By Kathryn Lopez March 10, 2008 The Death Cry of Gloria Steinem By Michelle Malkin March 5, 2008 Steinem's Last Stand By Kathleen Parker March 5, 2008 Stumping for Clinton, Steinem Says McCain's P.O.W. Cred Is Overrated By Niall Stanage March 2, 2008 What Feminism Looks Like By Anthony Gankarski June 3, 2004
Gloria Steinem is a feminist activist, a journalist, and the founder of Ms. Magazine. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and sits on the Advisory Board of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Steinem was born in Toledo, Ohio on March 25, 1934. She spent the early part of her life on the East Side of that city, which she once referred to as a pathologically violent and racist place where white citizens actively looked for blacks to assault. Her father abandoned the family in 1944, and for the next seven years Gloria took care of her emotionally disturbed mother and attended school only irregularly. Steinem entered Smith College in 1952; she worked for Democrat Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign that year. After graduating from Smith, Steinem moved to England, where she became pregnant. Abortion was at that time illegal in England except in cases where the pregnancy was considered a health risk to the mother. Steinem was able to locate a sufficiently unprincipled physician who made that determination in her case, and she had an abortion. Steinem then spent two years in India on a Chester Bowles Asian Fellowship. During this period she researched and wrote her first book, A Thousand Indias, a guidebook for the Indian government. After returning to the United States, Steinem worked for the Independent Research Service, a group that financed trips by American students to Soviet-backed World Youth Festivals. She also worked as an assistant editor of Help! magazine and began freelancing for other journals as well. Steinem remained active as a freelancer for the next several years; she wrote articles on birth control and a profile of Jackie Kennedy for Esquire. In 1968 she joined the staff of the nascent New York magazine, writing the "City Politic" column. She was an early supporter of leftists like Cesar Chavez, John Lindsay, and George McGovern. In 1971 Steinem co-founded -- along with Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, and Eleanor Smeal -- the National Women's Political Caucus. In 1972 Steinem created the American feminist magazine Ms. That same year, she founded -- along with Patricia Carbine, Marlo Thomas, and Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- the Ms. Foundation for Women. In 1974 Steinem co-founded the Coalition of Labor Union Women, whose mission is "to promote affirmative action in the workplace; to strengthen the role of women in unions; to organize the unorganized women; and to increase the involvement of women in the political and legislative process." Until the demise of Ms. magazine in 1987 (it would re-emerge in 1991), Steinem wrote extensively on women's rights issues, invariably in favor of abortion-on-demand, in support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and in sharp criticism of marriage and the traditional family. (She declared that traditional marriage was a form of imprisonment for women.) Steinem's influence waned with the collapse of Ms., and when the magazine was reborn Steinem was only a consulting editor. Steinem withdrew further from the public spotlight in the 1990s after she was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. In the midst of the Bill Clinton sex scandals of the 1990s, Steinem wrote in the op-ed section of the New York Times that the President could not be accused of having sexually harassed women during his political career, because, Steinem reasoned, he "took no for an answer." In 1995 Steinem was a signatory to a New York Times ad voicing support for the convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther. Other notables who signed the letter included Noam Chomsky, Roger Ebert, Mike Farrell, Danny Glover, bell Hooks, Spike Lee, Norman Mailer, Michael Moore, Charles Rangel, Susan Sarandon, and Cornel West. Five years later, Steinem endorsed the "Emergency National Conference to Save Mumia Abu Jamal," organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Among the co-endorsers of this initiative were the American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International, the International Action Center, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, the National Council of Churches, the National Lawyers Guild, Refuse and Resist, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Z Magazine, Ed Asner, Ramsey Clark, Ossie Davis, Susan Sarandon, Al Sharpton, Desmond Tutu, and Howard Zinn.Eight days after 9/11, Steinem lent her name to a statement titled "Justice not Vengeance," which said that "a military response [by the U.S.] would not end the terror" but rather "would spark a cycle of escalating violence," and that bringing the perptrators "to justice under the rule of law -- not military action -- is the way to end the violence." Other notable signatories included Harry Belafonte, Medea Benjamin, John Cavanagh, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mike Farrell, Margaret Gage, Danny Glover, Randy Hayes, Michael Klare, Michael Lerner, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Ratner, Edward Said, Martin Sheen, and Cora Weiss.In a 2002 appearance at the YWCA of Palm Beach, Steinem blamed "white male patriarchy" for the Catholic Church's pedophilia scandals and the 9/11 attacks. She also drew a comparison between the Church and Adolph Hitler, claiming that both were products of strong patriarchal structures. In fact, according to Steinem, "the cult of masculinity is the basis of every violent regime," and she urged that boys be raised more like girls. Also in 2002, Steinem was a signatory to the "Statement of Conscience" crafted by Not In Our Name, a project of C. Clark Kissinger's Revolutionary Communist Party. This document condemned not only the Bush administration's "stark new measures of repression," but also its "unjust, immoral, illegitimate, [and] openly imperial policy towards the world." In 2004 Steinem supported Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry and was a signatory to a "Pledge of Action to Stop a Stolen Election." "I remember the stolen presidential election of 2000," the statement said, "and I am willing to take action [by protesting] in 2004 if the election is stolen again." Other signers included Medea Benjamin, Julian Bond, Leslie Cagan, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jesse Jackson, Michael Lerner, Barbara Lubin, Michael Moore, Eleanor Smeal, and Howard Zinn. This "Pledge" campaign was a joint project of Code Pink, Global Exchange, The Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and United for Peace & Justice. In July 2005, Steinem joined a coalition that included individuals and organizations such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Culture Project, Code Pink, Eve Ensler, Not In Our Name, and United For Peace and Justice, who together demanded the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp and an "immediate independent investigation into the widespread allegations of abuse taking place there." Steinem also has weighed in on the Middle East conflict, lending her name to an online petition titled "A Call to Bring the Settlers Home to Israel," which asks the U.S. government "to provide generous foreign assistance" and financial incentives to those Israeli settlers willing to evacuate settlements in the Occupied Territories. Drafted by the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, the petition -- which was also signed by such notables as Eric Alterman, Ed Asner, Gordon Fellman, Morton Halperin, Stanley Hoffman, Michael Lerner, and Eli Pariser -- calls for $3 billion in cash incentives to be given to 16,000 settler families as a payoff for moving back inside Israel's pre-1967 border. In January 2008, Steinem penned an op-ed for the New York Times supporting Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and claiming that "gender is probably the most restricting force in American life." Campaigning on behalf of Mrs. Clinton in March 2008, Steinem used the topic of Republican candidate John McCain's Vietnam War-era imprisonment as a springboard for charging that the American media were guilty of gender-based bias against Mrs. Clinton. Said Steinem: "Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], 'What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?'" Asserting that the media were too eager to fawn over not only McCain's military background, but militarism generally, Steinem said:
"I am so grateful that she [Mrs. Clinton] hasn't been trained to kill anybody. And she probably didn't even play war games as a kid. It's a great relief from Bush in his jump suit and from [John] Kerry saluting." Steinem added that "from George Washington to Jack Kennedy and PT-109 we [Americans] have behaved as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people."
"I am so grateful that she [Mrs. Clinton] hasn't been trained to kill anybody. And she probably didn't even play war games as a kid. It's a great relief from Bush in his jump suit and from [John] Kerry saluting." Steinem added that "from George Washington to Jack Kennedy and PT-109 we [Americans] have behaved as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people."
Stating that she "would like very much to see [Barack Obama] be President for eight years after Hillary has been President for eight years," Steinem said that "a majority of Americans want redemption for racism, for our terrible destructive racist past and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. I don't think as many want redemption for the gynocide" [America's alleged mass killing of women]. "They [Americans] acknowledge racism -- not enough, but somewhat," added Steinem. "They would probably be less likely to acknowledge that the most likely way [for] a pregnant woman … to die is murder from her male partner. There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female."
In June 2008, after Mrs. Clinton had been defeated by Obama in the Democratic primaries, Steinem stated: "I never thought that a progressive woman could win the top spot in my lifetime, and I never thought she could win, which was all the more reason it was important to support her. We [Americans] have a very bad record in this regard." That same week, Steinem announced her endorsement of Barack Obama for the presidency. Steinem has authored such books as a biography of Marilyn Monroe titled Marilyn: Norma Jean (1986); Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (1993); Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1995); and Moving Beyond Words: Age, Race, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender (1995). Between 1979 and 2008, Steinem made close to $50,000 in political contributions. Some three-fourths of this went to Democrat candidates for public office, and one-fourth went to leftwing special-interest groups. Among the recipients of Steinem's donations were Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, Jim McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Nydia Velazquez, the National Organization for Women PAC, the Progressive Politics Network, and Voters for Choice.In November 2013, Steinem was presented with a Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC shortly before receiving the award, she expressed her reverence the work of the late Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood:
"I hope this [award] is retroactive in honoring the work of Margaret Sanger. I hope that she would celebrate this recognition that reproductive freedom is a human right at least as crucial as freedom of speech and that no government should dictate whether or when we have children."
"I hope this [award] is retroactive in honoring the work of Margaret Sanger. I hope that she would celebrate this recognition that reproductive freedom is a human right at least as crucial as freedom of speech and that no government should dictate whether or when we have children."
Also in her Press Club remarks, Steinem praised President Obama for his unrivaled understanding of the importance of "reproductive freedom." "There's no president in history from whose hand I would be more honored to receive this medal," Steinem said.On August 10, 2017, Steinem appeared as a special guest on Michael Moore's one-man Broadway show, The Tems of My Surrender, a production depicting President Donald Trump as a madman. In a discussion segment with Moore, Steinem said:
"I don't have the answers, but you have to remember though, I'm a hope-aholic," explained Steinem, who received a standing ovation after her appearance. "Though it's incredibly dangerous what happened — and it is, as you pointed out, the result of a perfect storm — we are woke now. We are seriously woke. … It's a thousand times more because it's all age groups and the anti-Vietnam movement was largely young people, and it's geographically everywhere where the civil rights movement was not as much in the whole country as it should have been. It's just huge. It is the majority, it's people just doing whatever we can, which is the key."
"I don't have the answers, but you have to remember though, I'm a hope-aholic," explained Steinem, who received a standing ovation after her appearance. "Though it's incredibly dangerous what happened — and it is, as you pointed out, the result of a perfect storm — we are woke now. We are seriously woke. … It's a thousand times more because it's all age groups and the anti-Vietnam movement was largely young people, and it's geographically everywhere where the civil rights movement was not as much in the whole country as it should have been. It's just huge. It is the majority, it's people just doing whatever we can, which is the key."
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Essay - Tom Prugh
Seven Tons
I never thought I was very attached to the stuff I own. But it sure is attached to me.
This little epiphany struck while I was standing in the middle of my basement a few weeks ago, paralyzed by exhaustion after the fourth consecutive 15-hour day of lifting, shoving around, carting about, packing, discarding, and looking in despair at the seemingly endless pile of things my family and I had acquired.
Those things, entering our house one or two at a time, had quietly become a multitude. Now we were preparing to move and had to confront them en masse-and what a mass. There were, it seemed, thousands of them. Standing in the basement, an image popped into my mind: Gulliver tethered to the ground by zillions of Lilliputian strings. These objects, most of which I couldn't remember buying and had no present use for, must have served some purpose or scratched some itch at the time. They hadn't felt cumbersome then, but now they were exacting their revenge as I tried to shed them-like a bit of tape stuck to your fingers, which won't come off no matter how hard you shake your hand. Every last one of those thousands of objects demanded a choice: keep it? sell it? donate it? or just throw it away? As our deadline neared and the desperation mounted, I have to admit that a lot of otherwise useful things just got pitched.
Much has been written about humans and their stuff. One illuminating book on the subject is Material World: A Global Family Portrait. It's mostly photographs of families from all over the world, sitting in front of their homes with their possessions spread around them as if they were on a picnic. The contrasts are striking. Some families in Material World throw away more in a year than most people will own in a lifetime, while others lunch every day on potatoes and eat no dinner at all. Globally, for every one of the first category, there are dozens of the second, barely getting by on a few cents a day. Most families seem to acquire stuff as they are able, but that ability has less to do with merit-more than one breadwinner in a less-developed nation works two or three jobs-than with accidents of birth. (Pick your parents carefully, and you too can learn to take affluence for granted.) However, there seems to be no clear correlation between absolute wealth and family happiness, a conclusion reinforced by economic studies.
Equally revealing is Limited Wants, Unlimited Means, a collection of eye-opening essays about life among hunter-gatherer bands, based on archaeological data and studies of the few remaining hunter-gatherers left today. Hunting and gathering is arguably humanity's natural state; humans lived this way for hundreds of thousands of years before a few groups gradually figured out how to make agriculture work. (Whether because it was obviously better, or because hunting and gathering worked so well that population pressures finally forced people to stay put and farm, is not clear; experts disagree. Agriculture-based social systems-with their despots, caste systems, slaves, imbalances of wealth, misogyny, and other ills-have a lot to answer for).
The very antiquity of hunting and gathering disposes us to see it as vastly worse than modern ways of life. Of course, there has been a lot of progress since humanity began to farm and then specialize. I for one am thankful for bicycles and antibiotics, if not for nuclear weapons and talk radio, among other fairly recent inventions. But the shock in reading Limited Wants is to learn that in most ways people living in hunter-gatherer bands were at least as well off as their farming neighbors. Hunter-gatherers enjoyed more varied diets, more egalitarianism, and less exploitation and violence. Their life expectancies were equal or longer. In general, hunter-gatherers appear to have ceded few advantages to the farmers we extol for revolutionizing human society.
And they had very few possessions. Stuff per se is of little use if you're a hunter-gatherer; it just has to be dragged along when you move on to the next place. Stuff is a burden, and its lack, far from broadcasting one's poverty, implies freedom and self-sufficiency.
Together, these books hammer home the lesson that our ways, including our consumption patterns, are mainly cultural ways. People never tempted by the sirens of consumption seem not to miss having lots of stuff at all. On the other hand, many of us coming of age in times and places where not only affluence, but the expectation of ever-growing affluence, is the norm, seem a little lost among our playthings. Even cornucopian stuff won't necessarily make you happy.
So I am a product-a slave?-of my culture, and have learned to require a lot of stuff. My reluctance to shed things often expresses itself as a mental cry of "I might need that!" I've tried instead to put myself in the place of a nomadic hunter-gatherer, whose way of life relied on mobility among local sources to replenish essential belongings. Food and basic artifacts could be acquired or crafted almost anywhere. So I imagine the hunter-gatherer experienced no "Might need that," only "I can get that when I need it." Which is an attitude that could easily lead to a sense of the everlasting nurturance of the planet-Mother Earth-provided one knew the landscape well.
People in industrial nations live far more materially complex lives, and most don't know any landscape very well. For us, such living off the land would be anarchy. Our sense of the Earth is expressed in modern conventional economics, which is devoted to the "problem" of "scarcity." There's no doubt whatever that scarcity is reality for billions of people-partly because there are billions, and more billions on the way, but also partly because some of us have hitched ourselves, more or less unselfconsciously, to a dream of sybaritic opulence. Wanting so much condemns us to disappointment. Meanwhile, the biosphere pays and pays.
My family's physical move is over. We've settled the bill for the 14,000+ pounds of things we had trucked from suburban Washington, D.C., to Colorado. But the revenge of the possessions continues. We're now in a smaller house with little storage space, and despite having worked hard to get rid of things via garage sales, eBay, donations, and landfilling, we still have way too much stuff. We've carved functional spaces-places to sleep and eat, work space in the office-out of the jumble, but movement from room to room is still along narrow paths that wind their way through stacks of boxes, pieces of furniture, and rolled-up rugs that don't fit comfortably anywhere. Those things are trying to teach me a lesson. Will it ever sink in?
Tom Prugh is Editor of World Watch.


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I read Nadia's Song by Soheir Khashoggi for the Diversity Rocks! Challenge.
Khashoggi moves back and forth on the timeline of Egyptian history, from the 1940s to the 1980s. Two story lines unfold while 50 years of Middle Eastern conflict play out in the background. This story was interesting to me, as I had not fully understood the reasons for turbulent current events.
Karima, a servant girl in 1940s Egypt, falls in love with her English employer's son. Though the love story is doomed, Karima holds on to two treasures – a child, and her exquisite voice. Both bring her joy and sadness, as predicted by a midwife. Karima becomes a famous singer, adored by her country. Further in the story, Karima's daughter lives a privileged life in Europe. She grapples with identity issues however, and makes certain discoveries that lead her to her lost past.
This was a fairly quick read and enjoyable. I liked the way Khashoggi started some of the chapters with what I considered an "update" on Egyptian events. This information placed the story in perspective for me, anchoring it in a certain point in time; I was able to relate historic events to those in the story.


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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
Southington's 5-0 lead shrank to three runs when a Southington error sparked a two-run rally by Bristol Eastern. Lancer batters followed with a pair of singles and a double. Southington's once-secure lead seemed to shrink to nothing as a Lancer dropped down a bunt.
But Southington's defense jumped into gear.
"We work on defense every day," said Lady Knight softball coach John Bores. "Every practice we work on every situation so that, when we come into a ballgame, nothing surprises us. I don't have a big roster. I only have about 13 kids on our varsity roster, but we drill them every day with first and third plays, people trying to steal home, or suicide squeezes. We work on everything."
Rachel Harvey scooped up the bunt and threw out the runner at first. Natalie Wadolowski rocketed the ball back to Harvey at the plate to stop the lead runner and Harvey threw a strike to Sydney Ferrante at third to end the inning.
The Knights made up the runs they lost. The defense posted a 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the seventh inning, and Southington escaped Bristol with a 7-2 victory that seemed a lot closer than the final score.
"This was a game that I was really concerned about," said Bores. "I figured that they'd give us a good game. Unfortunately, they did. They made it closer than it should have been. I don't want to sound conceited or arrogant, but we should have shut them out. You can't drop a ball for the first out of the inning because everything bad happens…You've got to make the plays."
The first week of the season was a strange one for the Lady Knights, but they emerged with two wins in as many tries. On Wednesday, they opened the season in a wind-blown game at home. On Friday, it took a triple play to stop a late rally.
Still, the Knights are 2-0 after week one, and a lot of the credit goes to Jordyn Moquin on the mound. In the opener, Moquin fought off cold temperatures and high wins to strike out nine in a no-hitter. On Friday, the Lancers managed six hits but all but two were fielded by Southington infielders.
"She's obviously not an overwhelming strikeout pitcher, so what we're looking for is a lot of ground balls and pop-ups," Bores said after Friday's win. "That's what she gave us all day. There were only two balls hit hard. One was a single to center. The other one was to left field, and the wind carried it."
The offense did the rest. Kaitlin Paterson went 5-for-5 against Bristol Eastern with a lead-off single, a double, and two runs scored. Sydney Ferrante went 3-for-4 with a home run and two doubles. Haley Arduini went 3-for-4. Kendra Friedt scored a pinch hit home run in the seventh inning, and Southington held on for a 7-2 win.
"I thought we swung the bats really, really well today. We made good contact, and I was very pleased with the way we swung the bats," said Bores. "I'm not pleased with some of our defense. I thought we made a couple of defensive miscues that were pretty obvious, and I'm not happy about that."
The defense came as somewhat of a shock after Southington's performance in game one. With temperatures in the 40s and a strong wind affecting pop-ups throughout the game, Southington's defense didn't commit an error.
East Catholic struggled as balls shifted trajectory in mid-air. A pair of early hits were driven back from the fence. One caught a draft and sailed into foul territory. Late in the contest, two balls seemed to reverse in the air as the wind hurled pop-ups back at the infielders.
"Crazy things can happen in wind like this," said Bores. "All it takes is a bloop hit, and you could find yourself in a close game. You always worry about that, but I thought we handled it really well."
Once again, Moquin was a big reason. She allowed a walk in the first inning and another one in the fifth, but those were the only East Catholic batters to reach base. Meanwhile, Southington hitters combined for 14 runs on 12 hits.
Lauren Zazzaro led the way with three hits in four at bats. Natalie Wadolowski and Emily Lippincott scored doubles. Sarah Carangelo and Caitlin Downes scored multiple hits, and Southington cruised to a 14-0 win.
"I think the wind actually hurt us more than it helped us," said Bores. "We hit some shots to the fence that would have hit the fence or gone out, but he wind knocked them right down."
Things won't get any easier for the Knights as they return to Bristol on Monday to face the Rams before taking on Newington and Rocky Hill. But after one crazy week, Southington emerged with two wins.
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Bill's first big break occurred in 1998 at the Abbott Magic Get-Together in Colon, Michigan. He entered the Adult Stage Competition and debuted his now signature effect, The Dancing Hank. Members of the audience, including many magicians, were astounded with Bill's routine. Not only did he give the hank attitude and style, he made the hank dance in ways that were all but impossible! Though countless hours of practice amounted to only 4 minutes of stage time in Colon, Bill turned the magic world on its head by becoming the youngest contestant to win the Adult Stage Competition at Abbott's! In his first major competition, Bill had joined the ranks of his idols. The buzz circulated through the convention and people noted "We'll be seeing that young man in Vegas or on TV in the near future."
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Circle in the Square's last tenant, "The Norman Conquests," was a superlative example of the enhanced scrutiny and heightened involvement that can be afforded by in-the-round presentation. "The Miracle Worker" is a less ideal fit; its staging in this first Broadway revival appears shaped more by necessity than by concept. Kate Whoriskey directs William Gibson's midcentury chestnut with sensitivity, if not with any startling new insight. But the volatile battle of wills between the young Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, remains dramatically and emotionally effective, played with conviction by Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill.
Originally a 1957 teleplay, the drama was drawn from Keller's autobiography and Sullivan's letters. Gibson reworked the material for Broadway in 1959 and for the screen three years later, in both cases directed by Arthur Penn and starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. That film version, which netted Oscars for both stars, remains a vivid benchmark for the raw intensity of the clashes between Keller and Sullivan.
Those fight scenes retain their visceral charge in Whoriskey's staging, even if the configuration at times partially obstructs the two protagonists' faces during crucial interactions.
In plays such as "Reasons to Be Pretty," "Blackbird" and "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," Pill has demonstrated her skill at animating prickly contemporary women who can go from sullen vulnerability into bellicose attack mode in a flash. She's no less convincing as 20-year-old Boston-Irish Sullivan, hired in 1887 by the Keller family in Alabama to serve as governess to Helen, left deaf and blind by an illness in her infancy.
Despite her lack of teaching experience, Annie perceives Helen's problem as an excess of pity and indulgence in place of communication. Her mother, Kate (Jennifer Morrison), showers the child with unconditional love, while her father (Matthew Modine), a stiff-backed former Confederate Army officer, believes she's beyond help. As a result, tantrum-prone Helen is an almost feral creature. Her instinctive intelligence means she knows how to get what she wants, delivering a well-aimed kick or left hook when she doesn't.
Annie's refusal to let sympathy condition her treatment of Helen is matched in Pill's performance by her total absence of self-pity. She speaks of her awful past — her orphanage upbringing, the death of her young brother, overcoming her own blindness — with hard-edged matter-of-factness. And the Kellers' skepticism about her youth and outspoken attitude bounces right off her. Only in letters to her mentor are the doubts beneath her headstrong toughness aired.
Breslin is equally persuasive, her cherubic features sharply contrasted by evidence of the plotting going on inside Helen's intellectually starved head. In a confident stage debut without the benefit of dialogue, the young thesp stays firmly in character whether violently acting out, howling with frustration, clamoring for comfort or fooling Annie with a false promise of obedience. Without shrinking in height, Breslin appears to ball up like a human fist, merely by planting her feet on either side of her and tightening her jaw.
The close moments between teacher and student are the production's most affecting, particularly their first encounter, in which the importance of touch is established, and the alphabet "game" that will become Helen's key to learning is introduced.
Their brawls, of course, are the dramatic high points, led by the famous breakfast smackdown during which scrambled eggs fly as Annie banishes everyone else from the room until Helen learns to eat with utensils from her own plate.
Director Whoriskey ("Ruined") fosters a strong connection to the three characters at the play's center. The allegiances and conflicts among Helen, Annie and Kate (played with touching delicacy and warmth by Morrison) are conveyed with real heart. Secondary roles such as Helen's frosty aunt (Elizabeth Franz) and half-brother (Tobias Segal) are somewhat thankless, while Modine is one-note blustery as Capt. Keller, whose softening in the final scene typifies the more perfunctory aspects of Gibson's emotional climax.
Major dramatic license is employed in having Helen grasp the concept of words representing not just tangibles, but also feelings, in a single breakthrough. But the play is no less moving for it. And the core idea – that Annie's perseverance is fueled by her own emergence from darkness, driving her not just to tame Helen but to open her world to knowledge – resonates fully.
Designer Derek McLane economically suggests a comfortable 19th century Southern home with a few pieces of furniture and doorframes. However, the distraction of having them lowered and raised from the flies takes us out of the drama, adding to the feeling that a cozy proscenium stage might have been more accommodating. Paul Tazewell's costumes evoke the period with unfussy crispness, while Kenneth Posner's lighting is especially lovely in intimate moments. Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen's music, predominantly strings and piano, adds suitably tender or dissonant notes.
At the first press night and reportedly through previews, the audience included an uncommonly high number of children for a non-musical Broadway show. Their quiet attentiveness during the perf indicates that the half-century-old play and Keller's struggle still exert a hold on young imaginations.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 15 – Futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil said on Friday that he is going to work as director of engineering at Google to help "turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality.",
Kurzweil, an author whose books include "The Age of Spiritual Machines" and "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever," said that Monday would be his first day on the job at Google.
"In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic," Kurzweil said in an online newsletter.
"Fast forward a decade – Google has demonstrated self-driving cars, and people are indeed asking questions of their Android phones," he continued.
"We're really on a remarkable trajectory of quickening innovation, and Google is at the forefront of much of this development."
Kurzweil, who will turn 65 years old in February, said he has been enthralled by technology, especially machine learning, since he was in his early teens.
He designed software that enable a computer to write original music and his inventions include the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, according to the website kurzweilai.net.
"I've always worked to create practical systems that will make a difference in people's lives, which is what excites me as an inventor," Kurzweil said.
"I'm thrilled to be teaming up with Google to work on some of the hardest problems in computer science so we can turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality."
Google research director Peter Norvig praised Kurzweil's contributions to technology, among them an eponymous reading machine that people – including famed musician Stevie Wonder – use to have written works read aloud.
"We appreciate his ambitious, long-term thinking, and we think his approach to problem-solving will be incredibly valuable to projects we're working on at Google," Norvig said in response to an AFP inquiry.


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Welcome to
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Camp Living Stones is a Christian outdoor recreation and adventure youth camp located near the beautiful Cherokee National Forest. During the summer, we offer one week, gospel-centered, fully-programmed experiences that are designed to challenge students, grades 6-12, in a relationally-intentional, group-oriented environment to know and follow hard after Jesus Christ. Additionally, we offer year-round retreat services.
About Camp
About Camp
Since we are located in the mountains of the beautiful Cherokee National Forest, outdoor recreation and team building come naturally. We facilitate ACTIVITIES such as: climbing wall, rappelling, zip lines, high ropes, low ropes, mud pit challenge, archery & tomahawk throwing, horseback riding, livin' the mission, sand volleyball, 9-square-in-the-air, Gaga ball, disc golf, Buckbald Summit, and white water rafting on the Ocoee River.
Being fully staffed, we are glad to serve the needs of programs and RETREATS throughout the year. Whether you simply need some FACILITIES to host your event, or desire us to direct a full program, we are ready to help.
More than anything, we desire students to grow in their knowledge and passion for Jesus regardless of if, when, and where they attend SUMMER CAMP. We would love for you to consider joining us.
We have found that "bigger" is NOT always "better."
With a maximum capacity of around 100 students during the summer, we have intentionally capped our growth in order to maintain a sense of intimacy with the campers. We strive to create a safe and caring environment for students' voices to be heard and spiritual needs to be met.
Based on Jesus' intentionality with the twelve disciples, we have seen the benefit of creating smaller groups of twelve or less students with each of our counselors. These counselors invest massive amounts of time, energy and prayer throughout the week as they connect with their students. Before arrival, counselors spend time praying for each student by name. From the moment students show up at camp, counselors are deliberate about getting to know them personally.
In addition to the formal small group times to debrief the evening messages, counselors meet one-on-one with each of their students throughout the week to give them individual attention and prayer. We have seen over and over students deeply impacted by this relational connectivity with passionate and approachable counselors.
Often, students form bonds with counselors that last for years.
Whether it is the outdoor recreation, serving our community, morning devotionals, testimonial times, evening sessions or lunch conversations, we constantly seek to challenge students to apply what they are experiencing to their spiritual life.
In scripture, we see evidences of Jesus and the apostles utilizing their experiences to launch into deep spiritual insights. They were not limited to holy discussions in the temple. Instead, they often related their ordinary experiences to express beautiful, gospel truths. We encourage the same practice and we want students to see the realities of scripture in both the holy and the ordinary.
So, whether they are learning in a chapel worship service or pressure-washing a deck, our staff challenges students to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit in relating these experiences to their spiritual life.
We believe, preach and teach that to be a Christian means that we are unashamed followers of Christ. But to where are we following him?
Scripture shows us that Christ was on mission. He left paradise to live the perfect life we could not live and die the death we should have died so that we might be saved. However, his goal was NOT to simply save people as an end in itself. The purpose of saving people was for the sake of God receiving fame, honor and praise from every tribe, tongue and nation. Christ modeled perfect obedience to this mission. Being a Christian and being on Mission are inextricably linked.
Therefore, we strive to integrate the Greatest Commandment and the Great Commission as primary texts for Christian living
To put it simply: LOVE GOD. LOVE PEOPLE. SHARE GOD'S LOVE FOR PEOPLE.
Through CHAPEL and SMALL GROUPS, we learn to LOVE GOD MORE
Through LIVIN' THE MISSION, we learn to LOVE PEOPLE MORE.
We desire Camp Living Stones to be a place where students come to either know Jesus for the first time or come to know him more deeply.
Our hope as Christians is fixed on the life and work of Jesus. So each summer, the THEMES on which our camp is based will actually be different angles of the same theme - "Jesus Christ and him crucified." We believe that all of the Bible points to Jesus as the centerpiece. Romans 11:36 says "For from him and through him and to him are all things…" Whether we are studying a letter from Paul, the Passover in Exodus or a gospel narrative, we will ultimately preach the good news of Jesus Christ.
So, our activities, testimonies, worship, teaching, and devotionals will all point campers back to the gospel and how it applies to all of life.
We strive for excellence and believe that the quality of the camp experience we offer far surpasses the expense. We are committed to doing everything possible to help students come to camp with the hope that they might meet Jesus and follow him.
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One of the greatest joys of serving at Camp Living Stones is seeing groups bond and become more unified.
"Unity" and "Teamwork" are essentials in the Christian life. Because of this belief, we have implemented several interactive team exercises that are sure to challenge campers' false sense of pride and autonomy in a tangible way.
Our LOW ROPES course requires teamwork, trust, problem-solving, diplomacy and interdependence. At HIGH ROPES, students must rely on each other to effectively navigate the course. And at our TOWER, students are challenged to conquer their fears and embrace a spirit of encouragement for those who may be struggling.
Outside of these exciting activities, students have opportunity to enjoy a deepening sense of acceptance and Christian community by sharing in their small groups, participating in corporate worship, SERVING THE COMMUNITY eating great food, enjoying fun group GAMES such as sand volleyball and Gaga ball, experiencing the beauty of God's creation in the spectacular Cherokee National Forest, roasting some marshmallows over an open fire and embracing the adventure of the raging white-water on the OCOEE RIVER.
Throughout the whole week, students create lasting memories together that inevitably strengthen unity and love for one another.
It is our pleasure to relieve pressure from the many youth leaders and chaperones that spend a week with us during the summer. We are fully-staffed and fully-programmed during our nine week summer season. This means that from the moment a group arrives to the moment they depart, we take care of everything. Here is a brief outline of what we provide:
In what way is our location convenient? Certainly we are not located in an urban context with sprawling shopping malls and coffee shops with free wi-fi. No. Our convenience is based on our purpose of being a retreat from the hustle and bustle of city-life where students can focus on interacting with one another and growing in their faith.
Practically, Camp Living Stones is conveniently located away from the busyness of work, school, sports, phones, computers, videogames and television.
Geographically, Camp Living Stones is conveniently located about 1.5 hours north of Chattanooga, 1.5 hours south of Knoxville, and 45 minutes east of Cleveland. We are nested at the base of Starr Mountain on the fringe of the beautiful Cherokee National Forest.


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A bill being introduced in the South Dakota House would provide tax rebates for property owning parents with either home or privately schooled children. The rebate would come in the form of reduced property taxes and be capped at 80% of the yearly expenditure per pupil, currently about $3700.
The bill is designed to be revenue neutral by cutting school districts' capital expenditures and raising rates on other property owners. Proponents of the bill argue that private and home schooled children save public school systems money, while parents of these children are paying twice for education.
In other news, people who hire private security guards, those who buy their own books, and apocalyptic survivalists with bunkers and arsenals are also demanding their tax money back because they have chosen not to use the police, the library, and military respectively.
If these ideas sound ridiculous, it is because they are; and so are school voucher programs, no matter how they are formulated. Government exists to serve the general public interest. It is not a vending machine designed to give everyone exactly the amount of candy they are willing to pay for.
The reality is that most, but not all, people who decide to home or private school their children do so for religious reasons. Most of the rest are relatively wealthy families that demand higher standards, i.e. college preparatory academies. Such constituencies are usually better organized, and/or better funded, and hence are having their concerns taken seriously by the legislature in a way that other groups' demands are not.
There are obviously issues surrounding public schools that have many concerned parents wishing to find an educational scenario that better suits them for whatever reason. Sadly, many states have succumbed to these demands and implemented a voucher system that serves only to worsen the original problem by stripping those public schools of both funds and the type of parents who are actually concerned about their children's education.
In the case of this particular bill, renters, who are less likely to be able to afford alternative schooling, are excluded from the benefits, while all other property owners, whether they have children in school or not, are saddled with the costs.
Ultimately, families should have the right to choose home or private schooling, they just shouldn't expect help paying for that choice, especially when it comes at the expense of our already woefully underfunded public educational system.


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"I love Boris Johnson, he's great comedy value."
Really? I live in London. If I want comedy, there are plenty of places I can go for that. There is no need to look to the mayor for rampant hilarity. Hell, why is he even considered to be so damn funny? The unkempt mop of blonde hair? The bumbling mannerisms? That time he got stuck on a zipwire? If that's as good as British comedy gets these days, we may as well go back to watching re-runs of Dad's Army.
"But he's a national treasure!"
So is Sooty. But that doesn't mean he should be the mayor.
All snarking aside, Boris Johnson does belong squarely on a blog dedicated to watching morons.
He has done an excellent job as coming across as the cool Tory, the Conservative who's really quite progressive. He is so funky he even supports same-sex marriage, even though he publicly said he didn't realise it wasn't yet legalised here. But who needs a mayor who is aware of the laws of the land? Pish tosh!
Hell, with all his Boris bike antics, he has even managed to paint himself as the Tory who is ecologically friendly. Except he's not.
Are you labouring under the misapprehension that he is the green Tory who cares about the people? This is the mayor who decided to give his mates in one of the most privileged parts of the capital a nice little tax break when he reversed Ken Livingstone's decision to extend the Congestion Charge zone to the western part of central London. If someone has to drive into central London from a more deprived borough, it will cost them £10-£12 each time.
The latest stunt on the Congestion Charge is to remove the exemption for most hybrid cars and all cleaner diesel cars. Boris is expected to approve this plan so it comes into force in July. It's not as if Central London is overrun with gridlocked Priuses and curiously, it will only add an estimated £1 million-£2 million to Transport For London's coffers . Surely this could be achieved by, oh, I don't know, extending the Congestion Charge to the west again.
I test-drove a Honda Jazz hybrid last year and for two days, I did the 16-mile round trip from my house in Zone 4 to my Congestion Charge zone office and back. Because this car operates in pure electric mode when driven at speeds of 20mph or less, and given the stop-start nature of driving in London, I spent most of my commute on both days emitting pretty much nothing. I used almost no petrol in two days. Forcing such cars to pay the Congestion Charge will do nothing to encourage people to buy more eco-friendly cars.
But why would he care about that? He has been busy spending £1.4 million of public money on an anti-pollution scheme that doesn't work. In 2010, he heralded with much fanfare a trial of dust supressants on some of London's dirtiest roads. The idea is that the pollution is literally glued to the road. Except that a study by non-morons at Kings College London showed that it was not working and that diesel was the main cause of pollution and that the attempts to glue pollution to the roads did nothing to reduce the grot in areas where the big problem is quite simply too much traffic.
Last week, Boris showed further signs of eco delusion when he announced grand-sounding plans for the Congestion Charge zones to be transformed into "Ultra Low Emission Zones." Which sounds great on the surface. Except that trucks will be exempt from any restrictions. Oh, and this won't come into effect until 2020. How useful.
His green credentials took a further nosedive in a ridiculous, science-denying column on climate change for The Telegraph last month. His incoherent rant featured reminiscences from his childhood, random observations from his bicycle, the admission that he was no expert, quotes from scientists that he didn't know whether or not to believe, and the conclusion that all this chuffing snow means that climate change might be a big load of hooey.
And while Boris loves to tell the world that he has the best job in the world as mayor of London, it is indeed curious that he has taken time out of London this week to pop up to Eastleigh for a spot of Conservative campaigning.
The Eastleigh by-election, caused by the embarrassing downfall of Lib-Dem moron Chris Huhne, features the socially conservative Maria Hutchings as the Tory candidate. Despite being at odds with Hutchings on the issue of marriage equality, Boris felt that the best use of his time was a spot of campaigning miles away from the capital.
Tragically, the Tories believe that getting Boris out on the hustings for Hutchings will be a vote-winner. And, hey, who wouldn't be swayed by his persuasive words, as quoted by Torcuil Crichton, The Daily Record's Westminster editor: "It is our constitutional duty to kick the Lib Dems in the … well, do they have any?"
What a statesman.
Boris may say over and over again that he has no ambitions to be an MP again but he has a funny way of showing it. In 2011, David Cameron was quoted as saying his "number one priority" for 2012 was to ensure Boris remained mayor of London. Perhaps Cameron fears that a BoJo return to Westminster would be a threat to his leadership. Or Cameron has become so London-centric that he really doesn't care about the rest of Britain, with the possible exception of Chipping Norton.
Either way, it would appear Cameron is happy to keep a faux eco warrior in charge of London. A faux eco warrior who put up bus and tube fares again with minimal protest.
But as long as people keep falling for his alleged charms and have no issue with voting for a man widely viewed as a lovable buffoon, there'll be no breaking free of party politics at local government level any time soon. And the capital's attempt at democracy will be more like an idiocracy. Boris voters of London, you have the mayor you deserve.