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It's everybody jump start It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts Medicine is magical and magical is art The Boy in the Bubble and the baby with the baboon heart And I believe these are the days of lasers in the jungle-- Lasers in the jungle somewhere Staccato signals of constant information A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionairesIn contrast to Sting's radio-friendly list, Simon went for a few deep tracks. I took notes for each tune, but what I wrote down for a whole set from him was not song titles but phrases like "Some zydeco song" and "Some song about wandering in Mexico." He has enough gravitas that he could get away with it; we followed him wherever he took us. (It's probably worth noting that I'm much more familiar with Sting's discography than Simon's, so what counts as a deep track to me might be very familiar to Simon diehards, and similarly, I might be misremembering a few Sting songs as chart-topping that were, in reality, B-sides or even more arcane.) Anyway, here are some of my highlights: * Paul Simon, dancing wildly backstage as Sting performed "Walking on the Moon. * Sting performing a tender version of Simon's "America," which suddenly exploded into a raucous rendition of "Message in a Bottle." * Simon pivoting from a Chet Atkins instrumental ("Wheels") into the Latin-flavored, drum-heavy groove "The Obvious Child." * Simon and Sting wrapping "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and moving straight into "Every Breath You Take." * Simon and Sting closing the night with a tribute to the late Phil Everly, "When Will I Be Loved."
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Marry Our Fortunes Together: Sting and Paul Simon in Concert
I have had the good fortune of seeing several living legends in concert. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bill Cosby, Bob Newhart, Peter, Paul & Mary, David Bowie--some lived up to their legendary status, others have not. How they do isn't entirely the point; the point is to participate, to have a point of contact with someone who in small and big ways marks our cultural history for us. But most of them were awesome anyway. Last night I got to kill two old birds, Sting and Paul Simon, with one rock show at Chicago's United Center. Sting--the lead singer, bassist and main songwriter from one of my favorite bands, the Police, whose solo work was always in the background of my late adolescence and early adulthood, eluded me for years before I finally first saw him perform in the late 1990s. He's a true artist, regularly reinventing his songs and reconstructing his band accordingly--as a saxophonist, for example, I was sad when he parted ways with Branford Marsalis and started favoring the trumpet in his arrangements. The trumpet! I suppose I'll still listen ... Paul Simon is, it turns out, one of Sting's "mentors," an idol even to other idols. His music didn't just shape me, it shaped a generation--two generations, actually, as his constructive engagement of African musicians in the 1980s was as influential as his New York folk standards from the 1960s and 1970s. I sat next to a woman probably ten to fifteen years older than I am; we sang along to many different songs, but we sang along together to even more. I like the premise of a show like this. It requires a level of musical maturity and mutuality; Simon must appreciate Sting as much as Sting appreciates Simon; Sting must take ownership of Simon's songs as freely as Simon does his. And then, of course, they have to blend with one another. In this case, that's no mean feat: far beyond the typical pop orchestration--drums, bass, guitar, keyboard--each artist's repertoire required a wide range of additional instrumentation. Their bands had to learn one another's songs, had to gel with one another, the musical equivalent of Simon's lyric from "America": "Let us be lovers; we'll marry our fortunes together." Two bands become one band, never losing their own identities, creating something new and dynamic and meaningful.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Presume Innocence
Jordan Davis is dead. A hung jury won't change that. Several guilty verdicts of attempted murder won't change that. Repealing or otherwise reforming Florida's Stand Your Ground law won't change that. Nothing will change it. Jordan Davis is dead, the latest in a tragically long list of young black men who died violently because someone supposedly felt threatened by them. I think of the black men I know--of Napoleon and Leroy and Anthony and Ed and John and Romal and Alvin and others--and I can't imagine anyone feeling threatened by them. They're too good, too friendly, too gracious. I think of what the world would have lost if they'd been shot dead when they were young, what the world would lose today if they were shot dead. I can't imagine it. And yet everyone is a stranger more regularly than they are a friend. For a country of nearly half a billion people, these men I call friends are unfamiliar to most. And so it remains a risk for my friends to go anywhere, to do anything. A broad cultural imagination, dominated by white culture with its insidious, festering prejudices, has presumed them guilty rather than innocent, has randomly (and not so randomly) partitioned off the land into places they belong and places they don't belong. As a white man I go pretty much anywhere I want; black men find out after the fact where they are welcome and where they are unwelcome, in often humiliating and sometimes violent ways. They are presumed guilty by the music they listen to, by the volume they set their music at, by the style of their clothes, by the cars they drive, and most fundamentally by the color of their skin. Murder trials that end in acquittals reinforce the tragic mythology, so obvious and yet so rarely acknowledged, that we have made this a white man's world, and black men are trespassing in it. It's an irony that our courts function under the presumption of innocence, and yet for black men in particular our streets function under the presumption of guilt. I'm not immune to this; I have absorbed the cultural portrait of black men as dangerous, and in weaker, shameful moments I allow it to color my perceptions of reality. But I hope that more often than not I resist this indoctrination and give black men the benefit of the doubt. And when I do, more often than not I discover a friend worth having, a man worth admiring--men like Napoleon and Leroy and Anthony and Ed and John and Romal and Alvin and others, whom I'm fortunate to know. I guess, in the wake of the murder of Jordan Smith and the trial that culminated in calling his violent death not a murder, I hope that all of us who are not black men will take our cues not from an insidiously racialized white culture but from the courts. I hope we will extend to black men the courtesy extended by the courts to people like Michael Dunn (who shot Jordan dead) and George Zimmerman (who shot Trayvon Martin dead). I hope we will resist the impulse to presume guilt when we encounter black men, and commit ourselves instead to presume innocence. If we do, we may have the great honor of meeting and befriending people like Napoleon and Leroy and Anthony and Ed and John and Romal and Alvin and others. At the very least, a few young black men may have the opportunity to live a full life and share their greatness with the world. *** There's a meme running on Twitter called #dangerousblackkids. It's worth a long look. Here's an example.
Eden laughing dangerously. Hope she's not 'too loud' or looks thuggish for some of ya'll. #DangerousBlackKids pic.twitter.com/FZywtCvKyZ— The Wiz (@doublewami) February 16, 2014
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Ten Commandments Scavenger Hunt! Part Two, Commandment Nine
My friend Sean Gladding, one of the best people in the whole world, has written his second book, Ten: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture. Sean is a strong and sympathetic storyteller, helping us enter into familiar stories and even familiar theological assertions--in this case, the Ten Commandments (or Ten Words, as he prefers)--with fresh perspective.
Get Ten by Sean Gladding at 40% off! Click here.Last week's winner was Karl Mitchell, who has excellent taste in music and blogs at Ponderances of a Visionary. In response to the post on covetousness (the Tenth Word--Sean counts them down in reverse order), Karl offered this little ditty:
See how easy it is? You can do this! I believe in you! So, without further ado, here's the ninth commandment, along with an excerpt from Sean's book.
@ivpress #10Cscavengerhunt I want your phone even mine is perfectly good.— Karl Mitchell (@KarlPMitchell) February 14, 2014
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (Exodus 20:16, New American Standard Bible) "Maybe the Ninth Word still has something to say to us. Because all these ways of bearing false witness against each other, whether through advertising or gossip or telling racist jokes, lead to one thing: the erosion of trust. And without trust, how is it possible to have any kind of genuine communication? How is it possible to have any kind of meaningful relationships with others?" [John] reached for another book. "Truth telling is thus not a general virtue so much as it is a necessity for maintaining harmonious relationships. It is one of the clearest manifestations of love of God and love of neighbor." . . . Will interjected, . . . "A little half-truth here. A little deception there. A little doubt sown here. A little gossip there. A little rationalization, and slowly the trust necessary for relationships unravels. Everything comes undone. Every word of deception carries a price tag. Every lie. Every half-truth. Every untruth." He leaned forward. "And here's the irony of our situation. When we bear false witness against our neighbor, we think our neighbor is the one who is going to pay the price. That's why we do it. . . . But the reality is, we bear the cost." . . . "Joan Chittister says this, 'Truth is its own reward. It requires no memory. No elaborate explanations. No conspiring confederates. And no fear of exposure.' Telling the truth is liberating."So, there you have it: a taste of the Ninth Word from Sean Gladding's Ten. Now it's your turn. Fetch me an example of bearing false witness--of lying, or gossiping, or dehumanizing, or even advertising--from somewhere in the broad cultural landscape. Use the hashtag #10Cscavengerhunt. The best example gets a free copy of the book. I'll announce the winner next week. Don't worry: you can trust me. And do me and Sean a solid and spread the word about this contest; when it comes to scavenger hunts, the more the merrier, I always say. (That's a lie: I actually almost never say that.)
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Better Late: On Time, Success and Faithfulness
I read the following recently in The Geography of Time, a study of how time is experienced in different cultures, by social psychologist Robert Levine:
My colleagues and I asked people how much they thought punctuality for appointments was tied to success. To my surprise, Brazilians rated people who are always late for appointments as must successful and punctual people as least successful. Our data also showed that Brazilians rated a person who was always late for appointments as more relaxed, happy and likeable—all of which tend to be associated with being successful.If that's the case, then I'm more successful than my friend Dave, because every week he beats me to Caribou coffee for our Friday coffee klatch. It means I'm more successful than my boss and fellow team member, because they're always already in their seats by whenever I saunter in to our weekly team meeting. I'm more successful than the homeless guys I watch TV with on Sundays, since they're already on their second cup of coffee by the time I pull into the church parking lot. Of course, what's true of Brazil isn't necessarily true of the American Midwest. Such flagrant tardiness is generally frowned upon, to put it mildly. My boss and my friend, and even those homeless guys, are more gracious toward me than social mores require of them. I do like the notion of not being ruled so strictly by time, though. I stopped wearing a watch years ago because I felt surrounded by clocks even without one, monitored by time more closely than by the National Security Agency. In some countries, time is a slave to the people; but in my country--and thanks to my country, increasingly in a global economy--time is the slave driver, and our failure to defer to it is typically met with swift and severe punishment, and such punishment is judged to be right and good. I read this paragraph from Levine to the middle-schoolers at my church as a way of demonstrating to them that how we define success is culture-bound and arbitrary. Show up late to an appointment in Brazil and you're a big shot. Show up late to a middle school class in Illinois and you're sent to the principal's office. I told them, in fact, not to waste their time pursuing success; it's too ephemeral, too arbitrary, too fickle to merit their attention. I told them, in fact, that the only time Jesus talked about success, he was shaming the most successful people in his social networks:
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are." (Matthew 23:15)No self-respecting, church-attending, God-fearing middle-schooler wants to be a child of hell, and no red-blooded American evangelical wants to make people more hellish than they already are. But the pursuit of success sometimes leads to just such an outcome. I told those kids that they should pursue faithfulness instead, and that pursuing faithfulness might occasionally result in their being judged as unsuccessful by the people around them. I told them they might sometimes be tempted to forsake faithfulness in favor of success, and that they might sometimes suffer at the hands of people who have sold their souls to the success gods. I didn't sugar coat it for them. But I left there feeling more strongly, not less, that success is an idol, a serpent hissing sweet nothings in our ears. I left there at least temporarily recommiting myself to follow the apostle Paul's advice to his student Timothy:
Set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. ... Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. (1 Timothy 4:12, 15, 16 NIV)Perseverance has more to do with faithfulness than success, because what counts for success inevitably changes, and faithfulness to the God who never changes and who is himself faithful to us inevitably outlasts it.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Ten Commandments Scavenger Hunt! Part One, Commandment Ten
My friend Sean Gladding, one of the best people in the whole world, has written his second book. If you're familiar with his first, The Story of God, the Story of Us, you'll know Sean as a strong and sympathetic storytelling, helping us enter into familiar stories and even familiar theological assertions with fresh perspective. His new book, Ten: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture, is set not in the ancient past but in the present, and it explores how we might think about the Ten Commandments (or Ten Words, as he prefers) in our contemporary context.
Get Ten by Sean Gladding at 40% off! Click here.And now, for our first adventure, here is our tenth word:
No lusting after your neighbor's house--or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's. (Exodus 20:17, The Message)And now, a word from our author:
Will turned to the wider group. "There's so much to envy, isn't there? Houses. Careers. Marriages. Children. Education. Beauty. Athletic ability. Physique. Skin. Hair. Talent. Good fortune. ... "The problem is not with desire itself. It's with the object of our desire: that which belongs to our neighbor. ... I see him as my competitor and not my neighbor." ... Jenny spoke up. "That shouldn't surprise us though, right? Our entire economy relies on this dynamic. ... We read magazines full of beautiful, shiny people who drive beautiful, shiny cars and have beautiful, shiny things, and we want what they have."All right. There you have it. Now it's your turn: Go fetch me a cultural artifact that symbolizes the Tenth Word (#10Cscavengerhunt). I want it. I need it. I've got to have it. *** Oh, one more thing. Here's a short video of Sean talking about the book. Hope you enjoy it!
Sean Gladding, author of Ten from InterVarsity Press on Vimeo.
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Fitness: Does exercise matter?
Throughout my life I have always maintained some type of physical activity until I became an adult. Life got in the way and my time for exercise diminished. I would go on health kicks where I would eat healthy and work out. This usually resulted in going to the gym hard core for several months and feeling great. However, one day off turned into one week and then weeks into months with no return trip to the gym.
Most people that I encounter have gone through this same experience. They go to the gym for a few months and then just fall off. This type of behavior often goes on for a lifetime and people get frustrated. What is the point? Why am I not seeing results? I have no time for this. In our culture there is such a strong emphasis on working out as the first means of losing weight and I began to wonder is this really true?
My answer is NO. In my experience, exercise alone will not get most people who have significant weight to lose (20lbs or more) to their goal. I will even venture to say that exercise to people just starting out with no fitness background often hinders weight loss. Now let me explain. Weight has to do solely with what you eat, so if you eat less you lose. Its really simple math. Reducing your calorie intake and eating nutrient rich foods (foods closer to their natural state) will yield weight loss results. Point. Blank. Period.
Its purely psychological why exercise hinders people just starting out with no fitness background. What happens is we go to the gym and have no clue what to do so we either don't do enough or do too much. The "not doing enough" crowd will usually reward themselves by eating and cancel out the the workout they just did. The "doing too much" crowd will be exhausted after a few weeks and give up all together. Do you see the dilemma? I have been on both sides.
So does exercise really matter? Yes, but not for the reasons that you may think. If your sole reason for exercising is to lose weight then you are going to be disappointed. Last year I when I first became a triathlete (and still had 30lbs to drop) I though I would be super thin and trim when it was over and I wasn't. Mind you, I was biking almost 200 miles a week and running close to 30 and I only lost 3 lbs. This is not to say "don't exercise" because the benefits of exercise are manifold. Working out helps you stay fit, boost your metabolism, makes your heart stronger, increases self esteem, sculpts your body, helps with digestion and just overall good health. I love to stay active and it is one of the reasons I have maintained my weight and when I do eat poorly my body doesn't pack on the pounds. However, the benefits of exercise were not made clear till after I changed my diet and lost the weight.
So before you make that call to order p90x or zumba THINK. What are your goals? If you have 20lbs or more to lose maybe you should rethink your plan of attack and concentrate on your diet. If your ONLY strategy for losing weight is exercise then you will be disappointed.
What do you think? Do you think exercise is overrated? Why do you exercise? Share your thoughts.

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Debt Negotiation Pitfalls
It's tough being stuck with high-interest credit card debt. Negotiating your debt down so you can get rid of it can sound tempting. Debt negotiation may not be as easy or pain-free as you were led to believe, however. If you're considering debt negotiation, you'd do well to watch out for these pitfalls.
Paying too much to the debt negotiation company
You may pay more to debt negotiation companies than you expect before the party's over. You pay a fee when they negotiate your debt, of course. You may also pay ongoing fees and interest until you've paid off your account. By the time you add up all the fees, you may have been better off just paying your creditors instead.
Losing your money to slimy debt-negotiation companies
Debt negotiation companies are not all equal. The worst ones will tell you to stop paying your creditors and send all your money to them for several months. If you follow those instructions from a company you haven't done your homework on, you can wind up in big trouble. They may take your money and negotiate a settlement with your creditors -- after they take their cut -- or they may just disappear with your money.
They could even go out of business. Money held in a debt settlement company account is not insured by the FDIC.
Not qualifying for debt negotiation
Credit card companies are not in the business of paying money to merchants and not getting paid in return.
You must have a good reason that you should have your debt reduced. The creditors make decisions based on their own self interest. If you can afford to pay off your debt, you probably won't be allowed to have it magically cut in half.
Surprise! You still have debt
After the debt is settled with your original creditors, you may still owe the debt negotiation company. They may use all the money you sent them to negotiate the balances and then expect you to make payments on their fee.
Paying more for credit in the future
You'll pay more for credit after you settle your debts. That's because debt settlement can damage your credit score almost as much as a bankruptcy. After the debt negotiation, every creditor will see you as a greater risk and charge you accordingly. The higher interest rates will add up fast.
Finding out the whole thing was unnecessary
There are other ways to deal with debt that are less costly and damaging to your credit. You could call your credit card company when you're out of work, for example, and ask for "forbearance." That gives you time to make smaller payments or no payments at all while you look for a job. Credit card companies may put you on a hardship plan for other reasons as well, including serious illness or an accident.
You may also be surprised at how quickly you can pay off your debt the old-fashioned way, especially if you get good advice on how to go about it. If you need help getting out of debt, consider turning to a nonprofit credit-counseling organization.
You might have to pay tax on the forgiven debt
The credit card company that reduced your debt sends you and the IRS a Form 1099-C; this shows the amount of debt you've been forgiven. Unless you can show the IRS that you were insolvent, count on paying income tax on the forgiven amount.
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At 5-11, 165 pounds, Jon Dillard looks like a regular, inconspicuous college student. For three years at Maryland, that's exactly what he was.
But everything about Dillard's college experience changed last fall when Terps coach Mark Turgeon held open tryouts for the varsity basketball team. Dillard, who starred for Maryland's club team during his first three years of college, was one of two players – along with Jonathan Thomas – to earn the invite to join Turgeon's squad.
Dillard, a kinesiology major, appeared in seven games for the Terps last season, scoring two points in 11 minutes. The walk-on from Yorktown, Va., discussed his Maryland career with The Sun earlier this week.
How did you end up at Maryland in the first place?
I was just interested in their academics. I realized it was a big research institution. I liked that. I didn't really have any other interest from DI schools for basketball. I was focused on education.
Were you recruited by any schools for basketball?
A couple DIII schools. Christopher Newport University was one I was looking at. But other than that, nothing real big.
How was your experience on the club basketball team?
It was really good. I had a lot of fun. A lot of good people definitely helped me improve my basketball skills. As far as by the time I walked on to the basketball team senior year, from my senior year of high school, I came a pretty far way.
What was a typical week like playing for the club team?
It wasn't too structured. Only two practices a week. However, we did have student coaches who set up tournaments that were really good. We'd play kids from other schools – Princeton, James Madison, U.Va. You get a lot of good tournaments where you'd play five or six games against these schools.
Were you one of the top club players right away?
Yeah, my freshman year I was the sixth man. Sophomore and junior year I was probably one of the top few players on the team.
How did you find out about the tryouts for the varsity team? Did you immediately decide that you were going to try out?
I actually heard about them from a friend on Maryland's cross country team. We were chatting on Facebook and he said, 'There's a rumor that the new coach wants to add guys to the roster.' So I just started working out over the summer with a friend of mine. He started training me, just to get in shape. We'd get in the gym a lot. I got to College Park when school started, and I just continued working out.
What do you remember about those tryouts?
Tryouts, the only thing I remember about tryouts was how hard it was physically just because we weren't really in shape yet. Doing the defensive drills and going so hard to try and impress the coaches, really giving 110 percent. I remember being winded really easily.
Were you pretty confident that you were going to make the team?
I had a good feeling about it after the tryouts. I got the call back. I got the next tryout and they made cuts again. Then they were going to bring it down to just four kids. Originally, they told us that there would be cuts and a phone call a day later. I waited three days, no phone call, no voicemail. I had almost given up. I contemplated calling my mom [and telling her], 'The gig is up. It's the end of the road.' As I started to call my mom, I got a voicemail that said I got in the top four. That's when I knew – I had come this far. I wouldn't let it pass me by.
How did you eventually find out that you made it?
It was crazy. [I found out from] the video coordinator, Matt Braeuer. Actually, nobody really told us directly. Coach Turgeon didn't come up to me or anything. They kept bringing us back, [asked us to] keep coming to team workouts, come to lifting sessions. Matt eventually told me and Jon Thomas, 'You guys need to fix your schedules so you can be at practice at three in the afternoon.' When he said that, I dropped a class in the afternoon. I was just really, really excited.
Did your friends and family know you were trying out? What was their reaction to you making the team?
Yeah, actually only my parents and a few of my really close friends knew I was trying out. Mostly guys on the club basketball team. I didn't tell anybody else. I didn't tell my girlfriend at the time. Everyone was really happy for me.
When did it really sink in that you were on the Maryland basketball team?
I guess it really started to hit me that it was a really big deal when Maryland Madness came around. That's when it really became real. You see your name up on the screen, you have a jersey now. Before that time, I didn't have any gear or a jersey. Then it really sunk in that I was part of the Maryland program.
What was your first game action like?
I think it was against Samford. I just remember being really nervous. I was only in for about one minute. I touched the ball one time. I remember being so nervous. I didn't want to dribble the ball off my foot and feel stupid. … As it progressed, I started to calm down a little more and actually play basketball.
What was your top individual highlight?
It would probably be my only basket. That would have to be the pinnacle.
When did that occur?
It was at U.Va. I got in for like three or four minutes. I just got luck and had the opportunity to take a shot. I drove baseline and took a short jumper that went in.
How was the reaction to your bucket? Were your teammates pretty excited?
Yeah, at least my fellow walk-ons were really happy for me. They were hanging their heads – we lost by 20 or 30-some points. We got on the bus to go back and people gave me some dap. They were supportive.
Were you a big Terps fan before you joined the team?
Growing up as a kid, I wasn't really a Maryland fan. I grew up in Virginia, [as the son of an] Air Force [man]. When I got [to Maryland] freshman year, I immediately became a diehard Terps fans. I used to be a UNC fan, but I immediately became a Terps fan and threw away all my North Carolina gear. I watched [Sean] Mosley my freshman year and Greivis [Vasquez]. Playing alongside Mosley for the first time, and being on a first-name basis with Greivis, was really an honor.
Have you graduated?
I couldn't finish up right away because my class schedule got [changed because of basketball], so I have one more semester. I'll graduate in December. After that, I'm applying for medical school. That's the next step.
What's your plan for the summer? When do you take the MCAT?
I take them this August. I'm still hitting the books. I'll play some pickup and go back to Comcast and roll with the guys a little bit. But mostly I'll just be hitting the books.
Looking back on the past year, what was the best part about your Maryland basketball career?
The best part about it – it's a hard question because there are so many things. Wow. I think the coolest part about being on the team was being able to wear Maryland across my chest, and being able to say I'm part of the Maryland basketball program. Whether or not I got on the court, it was such an honor. And another thing I'll take away from this is that I got so much basketball knowledge, so just soaking it all up. I never had the type of coaching before at the DI level with what Coach Turgeon was teaching us. That was really a pleasure, learning the game of basketball and acquiring so much more knowledge about it.
At 5-11, 165 pounds, Jon Dillard looks like a regular, inconspicuous college student. For three years at Maryland, that's exactly what he was.


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Meet Jill Arrington, new Executive Director of Groundwork Atlanta!/
Jill Arrington comes to Groundwork Atlanta with over 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience; she has spent most of her career working in community and economic development, with a focus on adaptive re-use, asset management of real estate, affordable housing, infant and teen health care, youth education and mentoring, and community activism and engagement. In addition to her degrees in law and history, Jill also has a B.A. in Music and experience in the cultural arts and entertainment arenas of choral societies, symphonies, and rural arts. In her time as an Atlantan, Ms. Arrington has seen Atlanta grow and morph from a large sleepy southern city to a bustling international city, filled with many opportunities and challenges for communities working to strike a balance with their history, as well as the needs of residents and desires to continue to grow and prosper.
Jill is "Thrilled to work closely in the arena of clean air and water, Brownfields, urban gardening and food scarcity, and youth development". Ms. Arrington believes there are a few key factors that can make or break a society. She said, "History has shown that when resources are threatened, particularly natural resources, society is stressed... The best way to address a problem is by finding and addressing the underlying cause of the issue. If resources are threatened, it takes a holistic approach to address it." With regard to Groundwork Atlanta's efforts to improve livability and economic opportunity through initiatives that address various threats to community and natural resources, Jill looks forward to "bringing stakeholders together to re-imagine a holistic approach to how resources are used to benefit everyone".
As the Executive Director of Groundwork Atlanta, Jill works to build community collaboration to produce concrete future-forward results. She stresses a holistic approach to community development, which brings all parties to the table to find consensus and collaboration opportunities. Using her legal background and training, reinforced with her work in corporate America, Ms. Arrington uses active listening and communication as key strategies to garner and sustain trust, and to move initiatives forward. As a student of Servant Leadership, Jill emphasizes trust, integrity, and accountability as key principles in her approach to this work.


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Torii Hunter receives appropriate 40th birthday presents from Twins teammates
Minnesota Twins outfielder Torii Hunter is one of the best baseball players if this generation; Not many people are going to argue that. However, Hunter is also getting up there in age as his illustrious career comes to a close, and the magnifying glass was put on that a little closer Saturday with his 40th birthday taking place.
Yes, Torii Hunter is 40, we're all old.
Anyway, as you would imagine, some of the younger members on the Twins wanted to have a little fun with this, which is understandable. And they came through in a pretty nice way.
So Hunter was given some Depends and a walker, among some other things. But, again, you can't really blame the Twins teammates here, they need to show Hunter that his future isn't as bright as he might think it is. He's approaching that senior citizen age and there's nothing that he can really do about it.
The good news is that Hunter is one of the most colorful personalities that you will find and he's taking it all in stride.
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Volume 1, Issue 1 (2008)
Editorial: Information Systems Research for Africa: A Renewed Focus
Victor Mbarika and Peter Meso
e-Government for Development: A Case Study from Mozambique
Gertrudes Macueve
Emergence of the E-Government Artifact in an Environment of Social Exclusion in Kenya
Nixon Muganda Ochara
Information Technology Acceptance in South Africa: An Investigation of Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and Actual System Use Constructs
Udo Richard Averweg
An African PhD Program in Information Systems: The Case of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Solomon Negash, Richard T. Watson, and Detmar W. Straub
Initiating a New Information Systems Course: A Case Study in Educational Innovation
Michael Eccles, June Pym, and Kevin Johnston
co-Editor-in-Chief: Solomon Negash, PhD
co-Editor-in-Chief: Victor Mbarika, PhD
Associate Editor: Peter Meso, PhD


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Based on the success of the Ansari X PRIZE (which stimulated the creation of billion-dollar private spaceflight industry) and more recently the launch of the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE and the $10M Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, this talk explains how to incentivize breakthroughs. Traditional thinking, risk-aversion and incrementalism will cause the demise of companies unable to cope with the coming decades of disruptive innovation, while the rapid growth of key exponential technologies (Nano, Info, Bio) are empowering individuals and companies to do what only governments were able to achieve in past decades. Such technologies will drive a period of significant disruption and opportunity.


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"Daily Sketches—2015"
For now, I am spread out all over the dining room table at my family's new home in Arizona. Glass top and all I have pens, brushes, pencils, wads of wet paper towels, my palette, a jar of water and various plastic zip bags filled with stuff. No one seems to mind or notice all the water and paint spots on the glass…yet. Then they will be glad to see me and my chaotic "arty/sketchy" mess head back to frozen Maine.
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Dear Conservative Friends,
I'm here because I'd like to start a dialogue with you. I am tired of the fighting across what seems to be a Grand Canyon of a divide. While I have a few of what you would consider socially liberal opinions and facets of my identity, I don't subscribe to a political affiliation. I would rather work cooperatively. Too many lives are being lost, societies all over the world are in steep decline, and when we look deep into our souls, I don't think we actually want different things. I think we need to do a better job at communicating as if we were friends, a less dysfunctional family, and finding a way to let people get on with their lives when they do things that upset us.
There are going to be a lot of blurred lines, and some that aren't. We are going to have to compromise. What is most important is that we are going to have to learn to respect and love each other. Love is the most important thing in this world.Read More


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Lucy in the Sky
There's a point at which this joke stops being funny and turns sad, and it's very early in its over two hours runtime.
There's a point at which this joke stops being funny and turns sad, and it's very early in its over two hours runtime.
The fact that Midnight Traveler even exists is a bit of a miracle.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about the 4K restoration of George T. Nierenberg's "Say Amen, Somebody" currently receiving a limited theatrical release.
An article about the second annual Ebert Symposium, "Creating an Inclusive Cinema and Media Ecosystem," scheduled for Friday, September 27th at the University of Illinois…
An article about the 4K restoration of George T. Nierenberg's "Say Amen, Somebody" currently receiving a limited theatrical release.
An article about the second annual Ebert Symposium, "Creating an Inclusive Cinema and Media Ecosystem," scheduled for Friday, September 27th at the University of Illinois…
A reappreciation of a Billy Wilder classic.
FFC Seongyong Cho looks back at Alan J. Pakula's twisty thriller Presumed Innocent.
Chaz Ebert interviews Robert Shaye, founder of New Line Cinema and Unique Features about directing his third film, "Ambition."
A dispatch from Toronto on three foreign films.
Grave and somber, Scott Cooper's "Hostiles" opens with a scene that recalls John Ford's "The Searchers." In 1892 New Mexico, a family of homesteaders—mom, dad, three kids—are going about their business when Comanche warriors thunder toward their ranch. Grabbing a rifle to defend his family, the father is cut down and scalped first. Before setting fire to the ranch, the Natives go after the rest of the family and kill all the kids. Only the mother survives by hiding in the woods.
The nod to "The Searchers" is a bit misleading, though. Unlike this month's other neo-western, Jared Moshe's terrific "The Ballad of Lefty Brown," which harkens back to classic westerns by directors like Ford and Howard Hawks, Cooper's film belongs more to a lineage that includes "revisionist" westerns such as Robert Aldrich's "Ulzana's Raid." By any reckoning, it is one of the most vivid and compelling evocations of the bitter, violent hatreds that once separated Native Americans from the settlers and soldiers who invaded their territories.
The film has a lot going for it. Besides the gorgeous, burnished look supplied by cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi, Cooper gets a range of fine performances from a topnotch cast that includes Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Scott Wilson, Q'orianka Kilcher and Timothee Chalamet. Its main fault lies in the department where so many ambitious, handsomely mounted films falter: story.
Scripted by Cooper "from a manuscript by Donald E. Stewart," the tale begins in earnest when it shifts from that initial massacre to a cavalry fort where Captain Joseph Blocker (Bale) is given the last assignment he would ever want. For seven years the fort has served as a prison for aging, ailing Cheyenne chief Yellow Hawk (Studi) but now, as Native resistance to white domination is all but finished, a new mood of progressivist clemency in Washington has decreed that the chief can return to his tribal home in Montana to die. Told to escort Yellow Hawk and his family on the long journey, Blocker is so opposed to the order that he at first seems willing to be court martialed rather than accept it.
The reason is simple: he deeply, passionately hates Indians, having fought them frequently and been the target of their violence. One reason the story gets off to a strong start is Christian Bale's effectiveness in conveying this character's bitterness and anger. Though his mouth is largely covered by a droopy handlebar moustache, Bale's fierce eyes radiate looks that are at once haunted and haunting, reflecting years of pain and rage.
Once on the trail, Blocker demeans the dignified chief by keeping him in chains. But his unwelcome assignment is complicated further when the party arrives at the ranch where they discover the massacre and the surviving wife, Rosalee Quaid (Pike). She is traumatized, and the task of burying her family puts everyone in a grim mood. Nor is the mood improved when it becomes apparent that the marauding Comanches are still on the warpath. Fighting them, and trying to make it through their territory alive, is the effort that occupies Blocker's party for most of the story's first half.
Thereafter, they arrive at a fort where it is determined that Mrs. Quaid will continue on with Blocker and his men, who now find a new assignment added to their original one: They're supposed to take a soldier accused of murder (Foster) to a town where he will be tried. It is at this juncture that the tale begins to lose its focus. Are we concerned with the horrible relations between Natives and other Americans, or with the animosities among soldiers? Though Blocker and the prisoner have a back story that touches on their anger over Indian fighting, this whole section of the narrative seems superfluous and digressive.
As becomes evident early on, the real, inward journey depicted in the film is the one where Blocker recovers his humanity by learning to grant the Indians theirs. This is a worthy theme and dramatic premise but it's only partly, and rather unsatisfactorily, realized. While Blocker's gradual change of heart—which eventually includes the first flickers of romantic interest in Mrs. Quaid—comes across thanks to Bale's strong performance, the film's biggest flaw lies in how underwritten the Indian parts are. Though the venerable Wes Studi is a commanding presence and fine actor, his character is given very little shading or dimension, and the other Indians are allowed practically none.
This adds up to a film that's beautifully shot and acted, but also meandering, overlong and only sporadically focused on its central issues. As for its politics, in making the story primarily about one (white) man's redemption, "Hostiles" falls back on a well-worn if still potent dramatic trope while saying virtually nothing about the genocide committed against Native Americans.
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Playboy came into existence in 1953 with the publication of the first Playboy magazine, which featured the famous 'Rabbit Head' logo, designed by the Art Paul - art director on the magazine.
Since the first humble beginnings the magazine grew to encompass a huge brand empire that included the publishing arm, and the Playboy Clubs which were staffed by the famous 'Bunny Girls'.
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Welcome to the online site for Calvert Marine Museum Store. Whether you've moved out of town and miss us, came for a visit and regret not purchasing something that spoke to you, or are local and want to send something from the store to someone far away, we're here to help!
If you saw something in the store, but it isnt listed here, just send us a message or give us a call.
Sometimes items are listed as out of stock online because we are using them in a display in the store, but if you let us know we're happy to update any listing for you if the item is still in stock.


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I'm a little odd. A little off-kilter. I'm not crazy, just a trifle strange. Make sure you read more than one entry, and you might start to understand.
Talk Talk Talk Talk
I don't communicate well over things like IM and TXT. I'm pretty sure it's not just me, but I'm particularly bad. I have a tendency to ignore IM windows, but that's a small crime. Many times I just don't understand what people are saying. It's really hard to explain. Because of the pure text, with no inflections, no emotions, it's really difficult to tell what someone means. Especially with me because I, and many of my friends, enjoy the handy use of sarcasm. I also find it difficult to say things. Here it's one thing because it's just me doing a monologue. I get so few comments (ahem!) that there's no real dialogue going on. I can generally explain myself pretty well, and even if I don't, it's not like I'm someone famous who has to worry about being misunderstood. Plus over IM, because it's 'instant' you have to be meticulous in your typing. I'm usually really good about it, but I told someone I didn't want to wait until August for something. Unfortunately, because I'm relatively new to the whole txt-ing thing, I accidentally wrote that I don't want to until august. I forgot the word wait, and because of the nature of txting, I didn't realize I had made the mistake until a week later, when my phone told me I had to delete some of my messages because memory was getting full....
I really like talking over the phone. You can hear the inflection in people's voices, but you've got enough of a distance that you can blush without them knowing, or change clothing, and they usually can't tell.
So, I'm having future issues again. I'm really having a conundrum. Bill & Michelle want me to move up to Alaska. And while living near them sounds nice, Alaska no longer sounds as appealing. I just don't think I want to be that far away from everything. I talked to Michelle last night and she talked about my having kids and moving in next door to her and she and I ruling the PTA meetings. I could totally see that. It would take moving to Alaska though. Right now, I'm kinda leaning towards the East Coast. Or staying here. That's my conundrum. I talked with one of our regulars this morning, Jay, and I keep turning it over and over in my head about potentially wanting to get back into acting. It would take some work, but I could totally do it. I almost feel guilty for not doing it. I live in LA! I could be anywhere in the US doing what I'm doing right now, but I live in LA. There's no reason (beyond start-up money) for me to not be doing that. It would take time out of my jewelry making, but I'm not doing as much of that as I would like either. I don't know. And right now I'm really tired because I stayed up to late last night and then had to open this morning. I think it might be naptime....
Question of the Day: What are you reading at the moment? (Besides my blog, duh!)
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- Courtney said...
Hi Debbie!
This is your very first college roommate! I saw a link to your site through the SRC alumni website.
Hope you don't mind my commenting...it's nice to see what you're doing these days. It's been a long time since we chatted over IM.
To answer your question, I'm reading Crunchy Cons and The Orthodox Church.
Maybe I'll "talk" to you soon!
P.S. Are you in touch with anyone else from SRC?
- Friday, March 23, 2007 6:19:00 PM
- BlueCoder said...
Well I can relate but completely from a mirrored reality. Email and blogs I can edit. It's phone and real life conversations that I have trouble with. My mind just operates on different gears.
Your in your twenties. Go bungee jumping if you want to. Live.
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Tooth Extraction - What To Expect
Is a tooth extraction painful? There's no question that many dental patients fear root canal procedures, believing them to be extremely painful and something to be avoided whenever possible.
In reality, however, an extraction of a tooth can actually be more physically traumatic than the dreaded root canal because an entire tooth is being removed from its socket in the surrounding alveolar bone.
Most extractions are performed because a tooth has broken off or been damaged beyond repair by tooth decay.
In some cases, dental patients have extra (supernumerary) teeth that must be removed to make way for other teeth to come in.
Still other patients are getting braces and one or more teeth must first be extracted to make room for the teeth that are being repositioned.
And, wisdom teeth (the third molars) are often extracted for one or more reasons, either before or after erupting from the gums.
Although there is a system of proposed rates, the cost you will have to pay can be variable, depending on the needs and care of your specific case.
Types of Extractions
Two main types of tooth extractions are performed by dentists and oral surgeons.
The first type consists of procedures called "simple extractions." Often performed by general dentists, this type of tooth extraction is only performed on teeth that are visible above the gum line.
The second, more complicated type of tooth extraction consists of procedures called "surgical extractions." Performed by oral surgeons, a surgical extraction is required when the tooth can only be removed after the gums have been cut and pulled back to allow access to the tooth.
This article will focus on simple tooth extractions.
Most simple extractions can be performed following the injection of a simple local anesthetic. If having your tooth pulled is making you nervous, your dentist can also give you some anti-anxiety medication.
The Procedure of Extraction
Once the procedure begins, you'll almost certainly feel a lot of pressure. The root of your tooth is firmly encased in a socket within the alveolar bone, held firmly in place by a periodontal ligament.
To be able to extract the tooth, your dentist will need to widen and enlarge the socket as well as loosen and eventually break the connection between the tooth and its ligament.
The bone in the jaw is somewhat compressible, and this characteristic plays an important role during simple tooth extractions. When a dentist forces the tooth against one of the sides of its socket by applying firm pressure, the bone in that region will slightly compress and the tooth's socket will slightly expand.
By repeatedly applying controlled pressure to the tooth from different directions, the entire socket will grow larger and the ligament holding the tooth firmly in place will loosen.
Eventually, the pressure detaches the ligament and creates enough space in the socket to allow the tooth to come out.
Dentists have an assortment of instruments available to manipulate and apply the necessary pressure to the tooth being extracted. For example, tools known as "extraction forceps" are specialized pliers, and dental "elevators" are levers that fit between the tooth and the gum. Both instruments are frequently used during the extraction process.
Using the extraction forceps, your dentist will grasp the tooth and then loosen it by slowly rocking it back and forth, simultaneously applying firm, steady pressure and rotating the tooth as much as possible.
In some cases your dentist will also use an elevator to help lift and loosen your tooth. These manipulations combine to expand the socket of the tooth in all directions and break the attachment between the tooth and the periodontal ligament, ultimately allowing the tooth to be pulled out with the forceps.
Once the procedure is over, dental patients typically don't experience much extraction pain.
If you do have some discomfort, however, you could take Tylenol®, Advil®, Motrin® or some other over-the-counter pain reliever. On the other hand, you might not need any pain medication at all.
Don´t forget that the tooth care you give yourself afterwards is paramount for a swift healing process.
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The whole world seems to just slow down this time of year. People are bundled up, shoulders hunched together, looking down, everyone looking forward to a hot drink wherever they go next. It's harder to get out of bed, to go out of the shower, to go out at night. And often it's because of those very factors that when you do get out of bed, and you do go out, you get more bang for the buck because everyone else who went out that night wasn't gonna let a little thing like cold weather stop them from having a good time!
I had a photo shoot in November and I was attempting to make a timeless picture, one that could be from any of the last 4 decades. I was going a rock band's album cover.
And that is the thought I wanted to finish with. We can embrace modern technology and lifestyles while still keeping a classic and timeless facade to our lives. After awhile it won't even be a facade. It will be you.
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Journal Article > Study
The occurrence of wrong-site surgery self-reported by candidates for certification by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.
James MA, Seiler JG 3rd, Harrast JJ, Emery SE, Hurwitz S. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2012;94:e2(1-12).
This study found that wrong-site surgeries continued to occur despite adoption of "Sign Your Site" initiatives and implementation of a Universal Protocol. The most common errors reported were related to wrong-level spine surgery.
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Patient participation in surgical site marking: can this be an additional tool to help avoid wrong-site surgery?
Bergal LM, Schwarzkopf R, Walsh M, Tejwani NC. J Patient Saf. 2010;6:221-225.
Wrong-site surgeries remain a persistent safety issue, despite extensive efforts by regulatory bodies and professional societies to address the problem. One such intervention, initially adopted by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, requires surgeons to sign the site of the surgery by marking the site of the operation on the body. This initiative has been less successful than hoped. In this study, investigators attempted to engage patients in safety by having patients themselves sign the site. Unfortunately, fewer than 70% of patients successfully followed the instructions and successfully marked the incision site. While only a few patients committed an overt error (i.e., signing the wrong site), the suboptimal adherence in this study indicates that site marking protocols may not benefit from increased patient engagement.
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Surgical site signing and "time out": issues of compliance or complacence.
Johnston G, Ekert L, Pally E. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009;91:2577-2580.
Adherence to measures to prevent wrong-site surgery remained lower than optimal over a 2-year period, in this study conducted at two teaching hospitals in Canada.
Journal Article > Meeting/Conference Proceedings
Patient safety in North America: beyond "operate through your initials" and "sign your site."
Wong DA, Lewis B, Herndon J, Martin C Jr, Brooks R. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009;91:1534-1541.
This article highlights the discussion at a joint symposium between Canadian and American orthopedic associations. The authors discuss the state of patient safety, wrong-site surgery, and future areas for improvement initiatives.
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Medical errors in orthopaedics. Results of an AAOS member survey.
Wong DA, Herndon JH, Canale ST, et al. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009;91:547-557.
The majority of practicing orthopedic surgeons in this study had witnessed a medical error within the prior 6 months, with medication errors and wrong-site surgery the most serious problems reported.
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Assessment of the implementation of a national patient safety alert to reduce wrong site surgery.
Rhodes P, Giles SJ, Cook GA, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17:409-415.
Wrong-site surgery is a rare yet devastating outcome. Prevention strategies have focused on adoption of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol and structured communication tools such as time outs. This study examined the impact of a national safety alert issued to all NHS hospital trusts in England and Wales about preventing wrong-site surgery. Investigators interviewed surgeons and senior nurses in the 12-15 months following the alert and discovered significant variation in the adoption of proposed recommendations. While the alert was associated with greater awareness and surgical marking of sites, the authors discuss the complex nature of change management around the new policy. A related commentary [see link below] discusses the broader context of efforts to eliminate wrong-site surgery. A past AHRQ WebM&M commentary discussed the factors contributing to a near-miss wrong-site surgery, and a recent commentary outlined the anatomy of a time out.
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Surgeon operates on wrong knee at Miriam Hospital.
Freyer FJ. Providence Journal. September 20, 2008.
This story reports on an incident involving wrong-side surgery and describes how the hospital responded to the event.
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Most surgery in wrong spot done on spine: 11 such cases found in state since 2006.
Smith S. Boston Globe. July 30, 2008;Metro section:1A.
This article reports on the incidence of wrong site surgeries in Massachusetts and describes complex factors that may contribute to such errors occurring in spinal surgery.
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The prevalence of wrong level surgery among spine surgeons.
Mody MG, Nourbakhsh A, Stahl DL, Gibbs M, Alfawareh M, Garges KJ. Spine. 2008;33:194-198.
This study surveyed more than 400 neurosurgeons and found that 50% reported performing a wrong level surgery at least once during their career.
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Patient safety in Taiwan: a survey on orthopedic surgeons.
Yang CT, Chen HH, Hou SM. J Formos Med Assoc. 2007;106:212-216.
The researchers surveyed Taiwanese orthopedic surgeons and found that a national campaign encouraging surgeons to mark the incision site reduced wrong-site and wrong-procedure errors.
Journal Article > Review
Spinal surgery and patient safety: a systems approach.
Wong DA. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2006;14:226-232.
The author reviews the epidemiology of surgical adverse events from major epidemiologic studies and discusses the need for a systems approach to preventing wrong-site surgery with particular emphasis on spinal surgery.


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Notes on the Song of Caedmon by Dr. Charlie Rozier
The song of Caedmon, or Caedmon's Hymn, represents one of the earliest known translations of biblical text into English verse. Caedmon's Song, consists of nine lines of praise for God the Creator, and is likely the result of Caedmon's first poetic epiphany, as described by Bede in his Ecclesiastical History (see below). Although Bede's account included only a Latin paraphrasing of the English original, two of the earliest copies of Bede's History preserve early written versions of the English text (these are: St Petersberg, Saltykov-Schedrin Public Library Manuscript O.v.I. 18, and Cambridge, University Library Manuscript Kk.5.16). However, as noted by Marsden, certain West Saxon features of the English original suggest that these earliest transcriptions may have altered slightly from Caedmon's Northumbrian original.
Bede's Latin paraphrased version reads:
Nunc laudare, debemus auctorem regni caelestis, potentiam Creatoris et consilium illius, facta Patris gloriae: quomodo ille, cum sit aeternus Deus, omnium miraculorum auctor extitit, qui primo filiis hominum caelum pro culmine tecti, dehinc terram Custos humani generis omnipotens creauit.
(Now we must praise the Maker of the heavenly kingdom, the power of the Creator and his counsel, the deeds of the Father of glory and how He, since he is the eternal God, was the Author of all marvels and first created the heavens as a roof for the children of men and then, the almighty Guardian of the human race, created the earth.)
Old English version, according to Marsden, pp. 80-1.
Nu sculon herigean heofonrices Weard,
Meotodes meahte on his modgeðanc,
weorc Wuldorfæder, swa he wundra gehwæs,
ece Drihten, or onstealde.
He ærest sceop eorþan bearnum
heofon to hrofe, halig Scyppend;
þa middangeard moncynnes Weard,
ece Drihten, æfter teode
firum foldan, Frea ælmihtig
Most of what we know about Caedmon derives from the fourth book of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Bede portrays Caedmon as an illiterate farm hand who worked on lands owned by the monastery at Whitby. During the tenure of Abbess Hild (657-680 AD) Caedmon was visited at night by an unknown figure who asked him to sing. Despite Caedmon's complete lack of experience and professed inability to sing, he was able to compose several lines of verse in praise of God the Creator. The next morning, he added more, and was taken by his reeve to Abbess Hild, and performed his song before an audience of learned monks. Caedmon was read passages of Scripture, and was able to translate these into several more verses on the spot. Following this examination, Caedmon was ordered to join the monastic community at Whitby, where, according to Bede, he went on to compose many songs based on biblical narrative and theological doctrine.
Bede's short account of Caedmon's life probably reflects a mingling of contemporary legend and basic truth. It is almost certain that Caedmon composed the verses ascribed to him by Bede. Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Junius 11 (produced c.1050) collects a large number of Old English poems on biblical narrative and theology, and as such may represent echoes of Ceadmon's compositions. However, close analysis of style within the featured poems does not allow the conclusion that they were all loyal to the work of a single poet, and as such probably do not represent the work of Caedmon.
The miracle of Caedmon's first song and consequent discovery of his gift is more difficult to elucidate. Although Bede claimed that Caedmon was frightened of singing (and would even leave fests if he were asked to sing) it is also entirely plausible that he did indeed have such a talent, but was simply frightened of showing it until the supposed day.
Further Reading:
Bede's Ecclesiastical History, ed. and trans. Bertram Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford, 1969), pp. 414-21.
Richard Marsden, The Cambridge Old English Reader (Cambridge 2004), pp. 76-85.
P. G. Remley, Old English Biblical Verse (Cambridge, 1996).
A. H. Smith (ed.) Three Northumbrian Poems: Caedmon's Hymn, Bede's Death Song and the Leiden Riddle (Exeter, 1978).


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Ticket includes entry to track and marquee, light snacks, entertainment, children's activities, sweeps, bar service.
Fashion parade, dance exhibition, fashion on the field.
Join us for a fun-filled afternoon in the sun with family and friends.
Date: November 15, 2014
Time: 12 noon
Cost: $25- Children under 16 free
Venue: St Francis Xavier Cathedral


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This is a word collection page. We all hear great words everyday and here is a good container to keep 'em in. If you have some good ones, write them down now. You could also go to the Word of the Day site. This week's theme over there is "in the air." Nice.
Melly Testa and I doing a journal page in each other's style and late tomorrow the instructions we gave each other and the results will be up.
See you then!


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220 pages
The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed. At the same time, modern political and social theory is fundamentally eurocentric, yet the critique of eurocentrism remains marginal to marxian and critical realist theory.
Addressing the eurocentrism of both modernity and modern theory, Eurocentrism: A Marxian Critical Realist Critique discloses the deeply embedded constraints it imposes on historical and social reflexivity.
Building on the insights of post-structuralism and post-colonialism, Eurocentrism shows how the powerful anti-eurocentric tendencies of the marxian critique of civil society and the critical realist critique of philosophy have been misunderstood or ignored. It develops the latent potential of these traditions to develop a systematically anti-eurocentric approach to understanding and explaining modernity.
Introduction – Eurocentrism, Capitalism and Modernity, Chapter 1 – The emergence of 'Eurocentrism': Fragments and Contradictions, Chapter 2 - Anthropocentrism and Europic Universals, Chapter 3 - Marxism and the Europic Problematic, Chapter 4 - The Dual Dialectics of Europic Theory, Chapter 5 - Critique of the Eurocentrism of Civil Society, Chapter 6 - Ethical Economic Symbolic Representation: Eurocentrism and Imaginary Dialectical Universalisation, Chapter 7 – Capital: Marx's Anti-Europic Theory of Modernity, Conclusion – Eurocentrism, capitalism and the end of modernity (and post-modernity)?


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I LOVE caramel and apples!! The only thing that would have made this better is if I had a bowl of chopped pecans nearby to dip my apples in...after they were dipped in the caramel!
This caramel is delicious!! It is easy, but does take a lot of time and patience. It is SO worth it!! I put some in half-pint bottles and sent them to school with the kids for their teachers with one red and one green apple to go with it.
This would also be delicious on ice cream! I slightly adapted the recipe from this one.
Homemade Caramel for dipping apples
- 2 cup evaporated milk (NOT sweetened condensed) (you will be needing one regular can and one small can)
- 2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 stick of butter
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Makes 1 quart.


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The U.S. Coast Guard is urging all canoe, kayak and rowboat owners to place a small, orange reflective sticker on their vessels in an attempt to avoid triggering unnecessary search parties.
This free, waterproof sticker helps rescuers determine if a lost vessel's paddler is in distress or if the boat just drifted away from shore.
On July 23, the Coast Guard launched a search for a possible missing kayaker near Marblehead. Authorities were notified of an adrift, unmarked 10-foot gray, green and black kayak with a cell phone aboard. The Coast Guard charged the phone and later found the owner of the kayak was rescued the previous day and was in the hospital, according to Petty Officer Cynthia Oldham
The search lasted over two hours and utilized a 47-foot Gloucester Motor Lifeboat crew and a Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Air Station Cape Cod, according to a Coast Guard press release.
"We want people to know that they exist," said Oldham. These free Operation Paddle Smart stickers have been around for years and list the owner's name and two contact phone numbers. But Oldham said people can make their own by writing their name and phone number on their canoe, kayak or rowboat in permanent marker. This point of contact is important.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary, who are volunteer Coast Guard members, hand out the free stickers. The auxiliary also offers boating classes, safety checks and does a great job of preparing boaters with emergency procedure protocols, Oldham said. Stickers are also available online at http://www.cgaux.org/.
"We can't just assume," Oldham said of when the Coast Guard is alerted of an empty vessel. Because kayaking is "becoming increasingly popular," she said the Coast Guard frequently finds adrift kayaks and has to investigate.
Oldham explained how people safely pull their kayaks from the water, the tide comes in, but no one's in danger. She said the "Coast Guard doesn't know that."
The Coast Guard recommends making a 'float plan' and indicate where you'll be going and time you expect to be back. Leave it with a spouse, friend or reliable person, and if you're not back in time, that person will alert the Coast Guard. Oldham said this is a good starting point for the search and rescue.
Operating a search helicopter and lifeboat crew are costly, and divert officials away from their stationed patrols. Oldham said the cost of search parties vary depending on the types of aircrafts, boats and agencies involved, but their number one priority is saving lives.
The Coast Guard reminds all boaters and paddlers how important it is to make necessary precautions for each trip on the water.


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With the end of Summer approaching, Autumn brings the annual beauty of falling leaves—but also falling temperatures. This is a time of year when we start to add layers to clothing, take a taxi instead of walking, and generally move less throughout the days. When people don't physically move as much, it causes a lack of proper movement within the body too. Inactivity can lead to stiffness, poor circulation, pain, and sometimes a predisposition to injury or sickness. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the diagnosis for this lack of movement or flow within the body is called liver qi stagnation.
Symptoms related to liver qi stagnation are wide-ranging and bothersome. Emotional symptoms can manifest as depression, irritability and moodiness, or sometimes as less obvious symptoms like excessive sighing, tightness in the chest, or a general feeling of constraint. Physical symptoms can be as diverse as rib-side pain, PMS, or cold hands and feet.
One of the ways to relieve this condition is through exercise. Working out is a way for people to stay healthy and create movement and energy in the body. Exercise improves circulation, reduces stress, helps with blood sugar regulation, and contributes to overall cardiovascular health. Muscles and joints with proper blood flow, flexibility, and ease of movement are often healthy and strong. But how much exercise is enough (or too much)?
In Chinese medicine, it's not about how hard or how long you work out. We view exercise in terms of consistency: it's about moving qi or energy through the body on a regular basis to unblock whatever has become "stagnant" and restore proper flow to the body. Liver qi stagnation can appear either due to a more sedentary lifestyle or from stress that causes tightness in the muscles, stiffness in the joints, and overall inhibition of blood flow in the body.
Often, when we work out consistently (4-5 days per week for 30 minutes per day) it will improve energy and help us to feel happier, warmer, more energetic, and more alive. But when people overdo it and push beyond the body's limits, the effort can backfire and lead to signs of depletion. At Herb + Ōhm, we see this all the time in our practice. When it comes to exercise, more is not better. Balance is better.
How can you tell if you're over-doing it with exercise? The most common sign is extreme fatigue. If you work out and then feel like you need a nap or are unable to make it through your entire day, then it's a sign that your exercise intensity is not beneficial. Headaches, inability to focus, and light-headedness are all signs of expending too much energy. If you experience these symptoms after exercising, it could be a sign you need to scale back.
The goal to eliminate liver qi stagnation is to get things moving in the body so that you feel better—not depleted. In practice, striking this balance becomes especially relevant for women who are trying to conceive. This process requires energy (or qi), and there needs to be a balance between unblocking and not over-extending ourselves, which can lead to a state of depletion.
How do you feel after your workouts? Do you have more energy? Do you feel better, or do you feel exhausted and need to nap/sleep early? Answers to these questions will help guide you in determining the optimal intensity of your workouts to obtain the maximum benefits from the exercise you're doing.


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Ariel Amir
Ariel Amir
- Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics
Ariel Amir grew up in Israel and received his B.S. from Hebrew University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2011, he came to Harvard University as a Junior Fellow, and in 2014, he joined the Harvard Paulson School as Assistant Professor of Applied Math and Applied Physics.
His research centers on the theory of complex systems, which he applies to problems from physics, materials science, and living organisms, often in collaboration with experimental groups.
Recent work in the group has helped identify a universal form of aging in glassy systems, elucidated the role of mechanical stress in regulating bacterial cell wall growth, and developed new stochastic models that attempt to capture the relation between cell growth, DNA replication and cell division in microbes such as budding yeast and bacteria.
Current work in the group is focused on developing stochastic models for cell cycle regulation in microbes, across a diverse sets of model organisms (bacteria, budding yeast and archaea) and on the mechanics and shape regulation of bacteria. Additional themes include studying slow relaxations and aging in glassy systems and the theory of structural coloration (generation of colors by means of specific structures at the sub-micron scale rather than pigments).


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Noosa Photographer Noosa Seaside Wedding - Yvonne & Lyle
Seaside Noosa wedding for NZ couple.
Like most modern day love stories Yvonne and Lyle met in a local pub. Luckily it was love at first sight! On a holiday in Noosa last year they decided that Noosa beach was the perfect place to marry. A seaside Noosa wedding soon followed.
Family and friends all travelled from Christchurch to Noosa and stayed at the gorgeous "Peppers Resort" on Noosa Hill overlooking Hasting Street. With everything you could possibly need at the resort and close access to Hasting Street it was the perfect choice.
Vicki from "Silk Hair & Makeup" was called in to style the lovely ladies and the wedding ceremony was held at Beach Access 12 on the sand with a stunning ceremony set up created by Susyn at "Circle of Love" .
Lovely local wedding celebrant "Patricia Quinn" conducted a beautiful wedding ceremony with Yvonne and Lyle reading their own vows with lots of funny moments and even a few tears.
Wedding flowers by "Orchids of Tewantin". Congratulations Lyle and Yvonne :-)


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When you think Battlestar Galactica, (BSG), do you think of any other TV series like the modern day Star Trek series, Carnivale or Roswell? Or how about Mission Impossible II? Why would you, you may be asking?
You would if you were a follower of Ronald D. Moore, the man behind the show that has us scrambling to figure out who the final Cylon is.
Ronald D. Moore's past experience as producer and writer have brought him to this point - where he's got a pretty good handle on how to deliver a story. His experience gives him the edge he needs to explore the darker side of humanity, to deliver a dark compelling story about how the Human race has been reduced to a few thousand individuals trying to survive while sorting out their place in the scheme of things. Moore explores delicate social balances while the surviving fleet of humans pursue what they first thought was nothing but a religious myth.
I came across a recent interview of Moore and something he said there made me nervous... I think we need to be emotionally prepared for what is coming at us in the second half of the final season of BSG.
In his mind, he loved the way the HBO show The Sopranos ended, but said that was an open ended finale. The characters were meant to live on after the show ending moment. With Battlestar Galactica, he pointed out that the ending of the show will be the end of their narrative. As in the end of the sentence. A period. Done... oh my.
What does he have in mind then? Or more accurately, what is on the digital media that is holding the rest of season 4?
If you hadn't noticed (but how could you not), getting to the end of this tale wasn't just about technology revolting against its creators. It also incorporated a religious overtone with polytheists vs. monotheists. Of the strength of ones own faith, pursuing that which they could not see. Yet pieces of this mythical quest slowly came to be, giving it more credence as time went on, making it seem more the truth than a myth.
Ronald D. Moore
Moore has explored the blurry edge of theological differences between the opposing forces who are now strained allies. Yet regardless of what faith they held dear, it seemed all for naught in the mid-season finale as they arrived at what was thought to be Earth... A devastated and ruined Earth. Now their faith is in question.
As Moore puts it, both sides feel betrayed by their faith, that they may possibly have no God - and now have to deal with themselves.
A rather sobering point that Moore made was in reference to the upcoming unveiling of the final Cylon. He compared this to the famous question back in the 80s: "Who shot JR?" No matter who it turns out to be, some of us will be let down while others will feel justified.
It's here that I must warn you that to avoid going crazy, whoever it turns out to be, we have to accept it and move on. No second guessing. The fun, the ride... will be over alright? I don't want my readers going crazy! Besides, we'll find something else to conjecture upon somewhere down the road!
As far as that final Cylon, we won't have to wait for the very last-minute end of the series to find out who or what it is - because Moore didn't want this reveal to be so all important that it becomes the reason for the series/final season. He did pitch that once we see who it is, the revelation will fit into the entire mythology of the show itself.
Hmm... now does that get the wheels turning or what? I've already started second guessing my own choices, but I will remain steadfast on principal.
A snippet on the prequel Caprica:
Moore almost gave up on getting Caprica off the ground. Being a character based drama in a world stemming from science fiction that wasn't always going to be riddled with action was a hard pitch but he made it stick with the network. He obviously is putting a bit of pressure on himself since he realizes no one has ever really pulled off a successful series with this mix, but feels if the show is a success, it would go a long way to validating the genre.
I think if anyone can do it, he just might be able to make it stick.
Have your Vipers in their launch bays ready to go because Battlestar Galactica will return to the Sci-Fi Channel on January 16th for the conclusion of this 4th season!
Sources: imdb.com, amctv.com


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