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Some things in life should not go unrecognized. Whether it be the little things or the big ones, paying attention is a good thing. For instance, my folks will be celebrating 60 years of marriage this summer. Just think, sixty years together… and not even all of it with me!
Rather than doing a traditional party where they'd assemble a ton of friends and relatives in a couple hours and then write detailed thank you notes for five days afterward for all the stuff they got (and didn't need, because they already have 80+ years worth accumulated), they decided they would prefer to do some traveling. Both of them are still in good shape, so it wasn't a big deal to take them somewhere. We did a little of that earlier in the year with a trip to Florida. That one went over quite well, but what they both really wanted to do was take another trip to Alaska.
Here's why:
One of Dad's younger sisters lived in Alaska for 40 years or so. My folks visited her and her husband back in 1989 and got to see a bunch of the state with experienced tour guides. My mom used to arrange group tours for a local bank where she was a director. It was a program primarily for their senior bank customers. They're the ones who typically have all the money and the free time to travel. Mom took two different groups to Alaska in the 1990's. Dad went along because he was the experienced one, and not just from their 1989 trip. You see, Uncle Sam sent him a special invitation back in the 1950's to see the world and all it had to offer. His invitation was for an extended tour package. It was not only non-refundable, it was a felony to say no, thank you. He was drafted into the Army and ended up getting sent to Alaska after basic training. He was one of about four out of a hundred or more who got sent there. Incidentally, one of the guys he met during his induction process in Des Moines was a young guy from central Iowa. His name was Earl and he was heading to the same vacation package that The Chairman Emeritus was. Earl's family had come to Des Moines to see him off. One of those family members was his sister. That would be my mother, Elsie. That's how my folks met. Sixty-some years later, they both still love each other and Alaska, too.
The original plan was to have as many of us kids and spouses hit the road and go along as we could. Reality soon set in and we narrowed the list down to those who were able to get time off to make the trip. Past Alaska trips had always been in the middle of June. That enables you to be there during the summer solstice when there is no shortage of daylight. Unfortunately, that was not a date that worked for a lot of us. We ended up with my parents; one sister, Jean; her 12-year-old daughter, Sara; and me. Sherill couldn't get ten to fourteen days off in the middle of summer, but she insisted that I go without her. Keep in mind, we did all the planning for this back in March. At that point, it sure looked like it would be no problem to get all the crops planted and get first-crop hay made by the middle of June. Thanks to the brilliance of Dr. Daryl Strohbehn and others at Iowa State University who developed the Estrus Synchronization Planner, I could do a few clicks on my computer and play with different dates and protocols for A.I. and decide which method would work the best for my combination of dates and desires. I quickly figured out a system that would allow me to be gone for ten or twelve days and not miss a step in the critical process to get my heifers bred once I returned. That would spare my staff the pain of having to do anything with the herd at any specific time.
Next came logistics.
Once you get from Iowa to Alaska, there's the small matter of getting around up there. Past bank trips had been taken using 15-passenger vans as the vehicle of choice. That enabled the group to toss all of their luggage into the two vans and still fit enough passengers inside so as not to be sitting on Samsonite seats. It sounded good, but then we discovered the reality of vehicle rental in Alaska. A van or even an SUV was going to cost a ton of money for ten days. Add in hotel rooms at anywhere from $150 to $250 per room per night and it gets spendy in a hurry. That's when we made another discovery. www.greatalaskanholidays.com We'd rent an RV and hit the road with our hotel on wheels. An RV was actually a lot cheaper to rent than an SUV.
We kept it real, though. A Ford gas engine would power the RV. To me, that screamed two things: "Big dog of an engine, and HUGE PIG on gas!"
I pretty much went two-for-two on that prediction. The mileage was not impressive, but it wouldn't have been great in an SUV either. The sleeping possibilities were a whole lot better in an RV, too. But The Chairman had his limits. An RV, he felt, was "too much togetherness." He doesn't mind group vacations. He does not care for group accommodations. He'd take a hotel room each night, thank you very much, and he'd gladly pay whatever the tab would be. (There's not as much German in his background as mine.)
Turns out the whole RV / hotel combo would work out quite nicely. We'd usually pull into the hotel and drop off our senior citizen members and then park the beast nearby. That would allow the rest of the party to enjoy indoor plumbing and the convenience of a spacious room, as well as decent Wi-Fi connections out in the parking lot.
I'll be honest. I've never understood the upside to any kind of camping. Ever. It doesn't look like the least bit of fun to me. A good share of my time at work is spent hauling loads of stuff around on some kind of trailer or wagon. Having that as my living accommodations is not vacation to me. When it's time for vacation, I want to pull the pin and walk away. I'd like to do it in something that's easy to park, too.
Mishaps of Dennis
That was especially true when we were on our way to Denali National Park. We decided to take a detour and see what was happening in Talkeetna. It was a few miles off the main road, but The Chairman spoke highly of it. Talkeetna was where a former employee of ours used to work. Dennis grew up around Cresco and helped us bale hay before I was born. We were big-time cheeseheads back then, so we'd make ten to fifteen thousand little square bales of hay to feed the dairy cows. Dennis and Guy No. 1 would usually be in the hay mow stacking bales. Even though I never met him, the Dennis story I always remembered was when he misjudged distance and ended up falling out of the hay mow onto the barn floor below. You'd always stack your bales in such a way that you'd build a small opening in the center of the stack. There was a hole in the floor where bales could then be tossed down and carried to the cows nearby. The key was to build your stack in such a way that it was square as you kept adding layers of bales as you filled the barn. Nothing is worse than having to carry bales all the way across the hay mow and then all the way across the barn again to feed them. Get yourself one of those Wile E. Coyote Acme Build-A-Holes in the center and you'd be all set.
Key point here: Don't forget where the hole is as you're carrying bales up there in the mow. If you do, next thing you know, you're pulling a couple G's on your way to the chaff pile below. Dennis knew all about physics and acceleration after that. Surprisingly, he wasn't hurt at all. I would liked to have been there just to see if there was that moment where he was frozen in space and looked down before he began his descent with sound effects, just like Wile E. Coyote. Since I never saw him and had no proof he actually survived, I always wondered if Dennis actually died and they were just telling me he moved away to soften the story for me. All I know is that I left a lot of space between me and The Bale Chute of Death when I was in the mow.
Dennis supposedly moved to Alaska and became a bush pilot. He'd fly all kinds of people and cargo into remote areas of Alaska. My folks went with him one time and got to see a bunch of country from the air. You can never know too many people.
Seeing as how I buy most of my clothes from Omar's For The Obese & Gangly Gentleman, we decided to rent a 31-ft. motorhome for our trip. That one came with a queen-sized bed, thereby allowing me to comfortably fit my outsized carcass into bed each night. The 31-footer was a bit of a whale to move around, be it on the road or in parking lots. That became exceedingly obvious in a tiny little town like Talkeetna. We had chosen to visit when they were having some kind of festival. Talkeetna reminded me a lot of nearby Decorah, Iowa. It was a town with a left-of-center feel and a professional opposition class who spends the majority of their time aggressively against something. Nothing in particular, but if you could be against anything, you'd easily find people to join your cause in no time flat. I believe the Talkeetna contingent was opposing a proposed development.
I dropped my party off for lunch at a bistro downtown while I took Shamu a significant distance away to park. By the time I got back, they were all ready to eat. Our server showed up and took my order after that. The special was a grilled Halibut fish sandwich with Cajun mayo and a side of clam chowder. I was kind of looking forward to it, but it was taking forever. My chowder finally arrived and was outstanding. Then the wait began for the sandwich. Our young server had disappeared. When she finally stopped by again, I quickly discovered that she completely forgot the sandwich portion of my special. My free time had been spent watching the speed at which food wasn't really moving out of the kitchen, so I had a pretty good idea of how soon my meal would be meeting up with me. That's when I decided to skip the rest of the meal and call this a done deal. Since everyone else was done and ready to go, I'd have to hit the road for the hike back to Shamu and then figure out a way to get it back to the other end of town and get it turned around to pick up my party and blow this town. My niece, Sara, decided she'd go with me. She probably wanted to see how I'd get it done without her learning some new words she shouldn't repeat in front of her mother.
Give it a shot
On our way to the other end of the Talkeetna zip code, we walked by a booth that was pretty small. It was for a business I'd seen in a brochure Jean handed me during my eternal sandwich wait -- www.talkeetnaair.com. They take passengers on airplane tours of the Mount McKinley glacier area. Jean thought it was something I might be interested in at some point, but we weren't sure how far in advance a person had to book reservations. A guy of about 60 was sitting at a chair in a T-shirt and shorts in front of the booth. To take the edge off my restaurant mishap, and to keep me leveled out on attitude when around The Munchkin (Sara), I decided to stop and quiz the guy. We'd maybe have part of a day late the next week when I'd be able to swing in and maybe do one of these tours, so it never hurts to ask in advance about the possibility. Everything in Alaska requires pre-booking during the summer tourist season, we'd been told, so I figured he'd be booked two to three weeks out.
The brochure I'd seen had four different tour options on it. One was a basic one-hour trip around the mountains. The next one was a bit more involved, went further and lasted about two hours. The third one went further yet and included the option of landing on the glacier. You'd then get to spend some time walking around on the glacier. The fourth tour included all of that and a little bit more time. Prices started at about a hundred bucks a head and went up in about $100 increments from there. Six or seven days from now, that might look pretty good, so I decided to find out if I could get anything booked.
"Will it be both you and your daughter going?" the sales rep asked me.
Nope, just me. She's my niece, so she's not going. (She's a kid and she's not my kid. You'll notice I don't have any. There's a reason. Enough said.)
That's when the rep's eyes lit up. He looked at his watch, then back at the schedule sheet and said, "Sir, which one were you thinking? The basic one or the glacier landing?"
Glacier landing, I said, without getting too specific, because I could sense a combination of opportunity and desperation in his voice.
Ready in five?
"Tell ya what," the sales guy said, "I can get you in on the next flight. It will be the Level 3 glacier landing. I'll give you a helluva deal, too, and we can get you on there in five minutes!"
Gulp. Okay, I'm skeptical, but let's talk.
Numbers were tossed out. They were small numbers. Planes fly whether they're full or only partially full. A paying customer is still paying. Once the fixed cost is covered, the balance is gravy. Take a look at me. One of the first things that comes to your mind is probably gravy, right, Gordy?
The brochure talked about proper clothing and the potential for cold weather when you're on the glacier. I mentioned that I probably needed to go back to the RV for a coat. That's when Biff The Sales Guy gave me instructions. "Sir, take one step back and stand in the sun. Now tell me how you feel."
I feel fine, Biff.
"Well, that's how it's going to feel up there today. You won't need a coat. We can have our shuttle take you to your RV and get it if you want to, but I was up there in this and I felt fine," Biff told me.
In that case, let me go find the rest of my party and tell them, Biff!
That's always fun when you show up without the vehicle and tell your fellow travelers awaiting their ride, "Well, look, you're on your own. I need to go, BECAUSE I WILL BE FLYING TO MT. MCKINLEY AND LANDING ON A GLACIER IN FIVE MINUTES!!!"
Surprisingly, the idea went over quite well with everyone. They would head down to the RV and they'd all take a nap for a couple hours while I went out and did column-worthy stuff. Standard procedure. They know how my life works.
Next thing you know, a shuttle bus pulled up and whisked me away to the airport. Six of us would be getting into the plane with our pilot. I believe his name was Brad. The six of us were a husband and wife, three other guys and I. Brad did the seat assignment work after we covered some of the basics of the plane. He picked one guy and decided to put him in the tiny back seat by himself. Then he decided to put the husband and wife in the seat ahead of him. Brad kept sizing us up. He picked another guy and put him in the next row. Now it was down to me and one other guy over who got the second row and who got to be up front with Brad in the co-pilot seat. We weren't exactly wearing sashes and holding our breath in nervous anticipation of being crowned Mr. Co-Pilot Alaska, but it was close.
Brad kept looking us over. Then, he made his decision.
Where will Guy No. 2 sit?
Well, Uek, it looks like I MUST BE IN THE FRONT ROW!!!
Brad wasn't a huge guy, so maybe he was doing some weight distribution math for seat assignments. I give most of the credit to all of the gravy and pie in my diet.
We climbed into the Buddy Holly Express and got another review of safety and equipment. There was a yoke right in front of me, but I wasn't given any special instruction on how to fly the plane or land on the glacier in case of emergency before we left. Perhaps Brad had already read my boat stories and knew I'm a land-based mammal, so why bother giving me any tips on flight stuff? I decided my role was to more of a Carlton The Doorman than Navigator Howard Borden. Just be in the background and throw something in occasionally if the situation warranted. Afterward, people may remember you, but they won't remember anything specific.
The trip was outstanding! If you get the chance to do it, I would highly recommend a "flightseeing tour" when you're in Alaska. I love small planes, but Sherill absolutely despises them, so it's not often I get the chance to get in one without her around. Getting up at that level to see the mountain up close is beyond spectacular. Photos don't do it justice. Then, getting to land on the glacier and walk around at several thousand feet in elevation is another tremendous opportunity. My goal is to not have it be a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Meanwhile, there's one other thing to keep in mind. A few hundred yards away from our landing point on the glacier was another small hilltop with a cabin on it. We're talking several thousand feet above ground level here. The cabin was built by an early explorer. His descendants now rent it out to tourists. You can get yourself a room in it, not far from the peak of Mt. McKinley, for only about $125 a night. That's dirt cheap by Alaska standards.
Of course, the taxi fare in and out gets a little salty.
As always, it never hurts to know a guy, because retail is for suckers!


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Social civil war erupts over government's advocacy for Kinsey 'myths'
A social civil war is tearing apart a corner of Europe that previously survived a communist regime and emerged from war and violence into a form of democracy – and it's all over a dead sex researcher who based much of his research on pedophiles.
The troubles in Croatia have taken on an international scope since preeminent American researcher Judith Reisman visited to speak in support of freedom of the press on the issue of Alfred Kinsey's research.
Reisman said she was verbally abused and falsely accused by members of the media.
Reisman, who was the principal investigator for a Department of Justice research project on child sex abuse, told WND today she is working with attorneys in the former Yugoslav republic. She plans to file a lawsuit against those who falsely accused her of being a Holocaust denier, a criminal offense in Croatia, and defamed her by calling her a "walking mockery."
The genesis of the story is a move by the Croatian government to impose a Kinsey-based sex education program on school children without parental input or alternatives.
As Reisman has documented in her book, "Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences," Kinsey's controversial reports 50 years ago on human sexuality "involved illegal sexual experimentation on several hundred young children."
His survey, she wrote, "was based on a nonrepresentative group of Americans – including hundreds of sex offenders, prostitutes, prison inmates and exhibitionists."
She told WND one of the authors of the proposed sex curriculum in Croatia, Aleksandar Stulhofer, is linked to Kinsey's research and the ongoing work of an institute that bears Kinsey's name.
According to Project Censored, a respected Croatian journalist working for a state-run network, Karolina Vidovic-Kristo, reported Dec. 29, 2012, on the government's new policies and strategies on sex education.
Project Censored noted: "The sex-education issue has been a topic of widespread debate in Croatia, in the media and by the people on line in various forums. The program was well researched, professionally produced and of significant interest to the citizens of Croatia.
"The program, as are most Croatians, was critical of the government policy and the foundations on which the [sex education] program is based," the report said.
Within 24 hours, she was sanctioned by the state-run network HRT/HTV, which suspended her from duties, canceled her show and publicly threatened her with "strong measures."
Reisman then was invited to Croatia to speak in support of Vidovic-Kristo and underwent what a report from the regional Dnevno.hr website called "the staunch and aggressive, at times shockingly rude and utterly uncivilized opponents of Dr. Reisman's views."
The report said:"The pinnacle of such intolerance was when the faculty's dean [at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb], Nenad Zakosec, came out and aggressively, shouted at Resiman before hundreds of students many of which had shouted insults and barraged bigoted questions/comments): 'What are you doing here!'"
Croatian blogger Ina Vukic wrote, "It is no wonder that Reisman said later that she had never before in her life been confronted by so many bullies as during this visit to Croatia."
Reisman told WND that some in the media who were attacking her worked for a local print publication whose parent company also owns a Playboy publishing franchise in Croatia. The publisher is Europa Press Holding, which produces newspapers Jutarnji List and Slobodna Dalmacija in addition to Playboy, according to reports.
While officials, she reported, "said I had no right to say anything that I said," the people of Croatia responded with overwhelming thankfulness that she was putting into words their concerns about the sex-education demands.
"I couldn't go anywhere without someone coming up and apologizing for the behavior of these hooligans," she told WND.
She said she was received by some government officials as well as leaders of both the Jewish and Catholic communities. She said she fears for Croatia, which as a historically conservative country has a low rate of sexually transmitted diseases.
Others are making the campaign by some in Croatia for an explicit sex-ed program for children into an international dispute.
British filmmaker Timothy Tate's horror at the situation has been posted online:
He said he was astonished, as a filmmaker and a journalist, when he found out about Kinsey.
"It's absolutely crystal clear in his own words, he was using pedophiles to sexually assault children," he said.
He noted that even today, Kinsey's claims are the basis for much of sex education around the world.
"Yet here was this appalling record of the sexual assault and I think in some cases you could call it torture of children masquerading and science," he said.
He said Kinsey should be considered "complicit" in the assaults on children because of his ongoing relationship with the offenders.
He expressed alarm at the punishment for Vidovic-Kristo, noting that if journalists can't raise issues about which society needs a discussion, there is an absence of freedom.
And he said the issue at hand – Kinsey's "myth" that children are sexual from birth – is significant.
According to supporters for the Croatian journalist, the government introduced the mandatory sex education just last fall, without any discussion with parents or religious leaders.
The curriculum would include "touching" exercises starting in the third grade. It's premised on Kinsey's contention that children are sexual from birth. Pornography is taught in the sixth grade.
Stulhofer, who teaches sexology in Zagreb, was trained at the Kinsey Institute in Indiana, and, on his behalf, "Reisman was viciously smeared by the Croatian press," his critics said.
One article suggested she be deported. She was accused of trivializing the Holocaust and now has hired attorney Zvonimir Hodak to represent her in a legal challenge against the media.
"The fact that an elderly Jewish lady was viciously attacked is unprecedented for Croatia's young democracy," wrote one of Reisman's supporters. "Croatia is scheduled to join the E.U. in July 2013. The recent visit of Dr. Reisman has exposed major deficits re fairness in the media, as well as ideological baggage from the Communist time. It would be very useful to get this news out into the international press."
Just last year, Reisman, the principal expert investigator for a U.S. Justice Department study on child sex abuse, said pedophilia advocates are using the same strategy that was successfully employed to make homosexuality a classroom subject for small children in the nation's public schools.
As WND reported, Reisman attended a symposium held by the "minor-attracted people" advocacy group B4U-ACT to disseminate "accurate information" on the position that pedophilia is just one more alternative sexual orientation.
Judith Reisman (Photo credit: Sherrie Buzby)
"If a foreign country came in and did this to our nation, the nation would be outraged," Reisman said about the B4U-Act event, also attended by J. Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action.
The speakers urged the removal of pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental defects in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Reisman explained the same strategy was used by homosexual activists in the 1970s when same-sex attractions were removed from the APA's list of disorders. Eventually, the legalization of "gay marriage," the mandatory homosexuality lessons in public schools and the policy of allowing open homosexuality in the U.S. military resulted.
"Dr. John Sadler (University of Texas) argued that diagnostic criteria for mental disorders should not be based on concepts of vice since such concepts are subject to shifting social attitudes and doing so diverts mental-health professions from their role as healers," the B4U-ACT organization said in a report about its symposium in Baltimore.
Another celebrity was Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins who argued in favor of "acceptance of and compassion for people who are attracted to minors," the report continued.
The report pointedly referred to "minor-attracted people" in reference to pedophiles and explained that the concerns can be resolved with "accurate information." Richard Kramer, who represented B4U-ACT at the event, contended listing pedophilia as a disorder stigmatizes the "victims" of the lifestyle choice.
WND also previously reported when a campaign by Reisman, now a visiting professor of law at Liberty University, began taking her seminars on the fallacies of Kinsey to Rome, Ireland and London.
One of her books exposing the agenda of Kinsey's lifelong campaign recently has been translated into Chinese.
Her books, including "Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences" and "Sexual Sabotage," show that Kinsey's research was based on "illegal sexual experimentation on several hundred young children."
"People in other countries are contacting me, asking me to please come and deliver the truth," she told WND.
Kinsey's extreme view of sexuality is typified by a statement posted on the website of the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which advocates sex between adults and children.
The statement, from Kinsey's book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female," defends adult-child sex and accuses those who object to it of being responsible for "serious effects" suffered by children:
"When children are constantly warned by parents and teachers against contacts with adults, and when they receive no explanation of the exact nature of the contacts, they are ready to become hysterical as soon as any older person approaches, or stops and speaks to them in the street, or fondles them, or proposes to do something for them, even though the adult may have had no sexual objective in mind. Some of the more experienced students of juvenile problems have come to believe that the emotional reactions of the parents, police officers, and other adults who discover that the child has had such a contact, may disturb the child more seriously than the sexual contacts themselves. The current hysteria over sex offenders may very well have serious effects on the ability of many of these children to work out sexual adjustments some years later."
Reisman has lectured at Princeton, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Pepperdine, Johns Hopkins, the FBI, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the University of Jerusalem, University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University. She has been cited by the London Times, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has appeared on "Entertainment Tonight," "Larry King Live," "Donahue," the"Today" show and "Crossfire."
She's been listed in "The World's Who's Who of Women."
WND Managing Editor David Kupelian, shortly after publication of "The Marketing of Evil" in 2005, predicted publicly that the next "liberation movement" to assault America would be "the mainstreaming of adult-child sex."
Now he has noted, "The same godless logic that leads to normalization of homosexual marriage will lead also to the de-stigmatization and decriminalization of pedophilia. Remember, consensuality has replaced morality in today's legal system, so a young person 'consent' to have sex will ultimately trump the old-fashioned desire to protect the innocent. Also, since adult-child sex is a 'cultural preference' in certain non-Western countries, child-molestation lobbyists are now making the argument that criminalizing adult-child sex amounts to condemning another culture. So that's where multiculturalism has brought us."
"One cannot but applaud Judith Reisman for her announcement of defamation lawsuits against the media outlets and individuals in Croatia who had set out to shred her reputation," wrote Vukic. "Dr. Reisman may yet be a heroine that will demonstrate to the Croatian public that freedom of speech in a democracy is a sanctity regulated by the rule of defamation law."

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Flint is an industrial city located an hour northwest of Detroit in Michigan. Originally the home of numerous General Motors factories, including the Buick World Headquarters, Flint has fallen on hard times over the past 30 years due to the decline of the American automotive industry. Despite these misfortunes, the city has an outsized history, including decisive roles in the growth of the American labor movement and community schooling and evident in a host of extensive and well-endowed cultural institutions. Flint's crime numbers have rised dramatically in recent years and funding for redevelopment projects has topped $400 million.
Sometimes considered a suburb of Detroit, Flint is more accurately described as a "satellite" city. Like Saginaw, Pontiac, and other factory towns in Michigan, Flint's identity is often influenced and predicted by the Motor City and the peaks and valleys of the American auto industry. Because these cities, and debatably Flint most of all, have become symbols of urban blight and economic ruin, it is tempting to write them off at the worst as ghost-towns, or at the best as smaller clones of Detroit. In fact, each city is regionally distinct, both in terms of the local institutions they have raised in times of prosperity and crisis, and in the emphasis of civic response.
In Flint's case, for example, the imprint of Charles Stewart Mott, General Motor's most famous philanthropist, often overshadows that of Billy Durant, who actually founded the corporation. Streets, parks, estates, neighborhoods, colleges, and lakes have been named after Mott and his family, and the Mott Foundation funds and supports many cultural events here. But this reverence toward a more glorious past is just as often tempered by frustration with its side-effects and outcome. The bulk of Sloan Museum (see below), for example, is a measured analysis of the opportunities and hazards of rapid industrialization. Much recent literature to come out of Flint, such as Rhonda Sanders Bronze Pillars focuses on the vitality of the African-American community, and its struggle against housing compacts and discrimination in the factories. It is true that many other communities have struggled with these very issues in recent decades, but the height from which Flint has fallen -- from Michigan's "second city" and acknowledged birthplace of the world's largest corporation to an international symbol of crime and poverty -- has left deep scars on Flintites (or Flintstones; another heady debate in these parts).
Understanding Flint requires understanding that its situation is more complex than that presented by the media, whether this is the General Motors filmstrips of the 1950s, or the Michael Moore film. This means that there is more to the place than vacant lots and shuttered factories: The Flint Institute of Arts and annual jazz festival are comparable with cities many times this size, and a lively regional music scene is rooted in such venues as the Machine Shop and the Local 432. One should be aware, however, that any visit is likely to become a referendum on the successes and failures of the American Dream. There is a lot to see and do in Flint, but much of this may be of a sobering and thoughtful effect; certainly a far cry from the dunes of Lake Michigan or Ann Arbor's boutiques. Flintstones (or Flintites) will be open and generous in pointing you to the best bars, restaurants, museums, and parks; they will also give you their own candid thoughts on the plight of their city.
Get in
Flint is a major transportation hub, and in fact this is one of the ways in which its automotive history continues to serve the city well. Flint can be accessed by plane, train, car, and bus.
By plane
By train
By car
Flint is most directly served by I-69, which runs from the Port Huron, MI crossing to Sarnia, Canada, through Flint and southwest through Lansing, MI, Fort Wayne, IN, and Indianapolis, IN, and I-75, which runs from the Sault Ste. Marie, MI crossing to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, south through the Straits of Mackinac, Saginaw, MI, Flint, Detroit, MI, Toledo, OH, Dayton, OH, Cincinnati, OH, Lexington, KY, Knoxville, TN, Chattanooga, TN, Atlanta, GA, Tampa, FL, and Miami, FL. Just south of Flint, US-23 routes south through Ann Arbor, MI, Toledo, OH, and ultimately Columbus, OH.
By bus
Get around
By Public Transportation
As the last section might suggest, Flint is easy to get to, but can be difficult to get around without a car. MTA, the public transit agency, is a reasonably priced (if time-consuming) way to reach your destination, and if you expect to stay within the Downtown area, walking is certainly an option.
By car
While it might be possible in theory to explore Flint without a car, very few people would want to do so. Even after one considers the time and effort saved here, there is something singularly appropriate about traveling the boulevards and parkways, the industrial zones and factory strips, in the vehicle this city helped popularize. Of course, it also helps that Flint is a delight to drive, with a coherent network of roads and expressways linking the city to the suburbs, and abundant parking and a lack of congestion (ironically due to Flint's recent depopulation). Among the city's much-touted $400 million redevelopment efforts are miles of infrastructural repaving and repair, and it is generally possible to get between any two points of the city in ten or fifteen minutes, or to access the remotest suburbs in well under an hour.
The streetscape of Flint is based on two grids, one which conforms to the river for several square miles in proximity to Downtown, and another which is cardinally oriented. While Flint by-and-large conforms to its grids, there is enough topographical variation to cause many roads to split and angle. Some major roads the follow this pattern are Welch Blvd., Flushing Rd., Chevrolet Ave., Miller Rd., Sagniaw St., and Dort Hwy. Within some neighborhoods, the broader streets become curving boulevards with grassy medians, and sometimes this is the only relic of a formerly affluent area.
The Downtown area is uniquely frustrating for driving. Most roads are one way, sometimes in an unordered sequence, which is maddening given the lack of heavy traffic. Saginaw Street bisects this area from north to south, and dividing east and west addresses, while the bridge at Saginaw street divides the city into north and south.
In the larger grid, neighborhoods are divided by major "mile" roads: to the north (running east-west) one passes Hamilton or Davison, Pasadena, Pierson, and Carpenter, to the south (running east-west) Court, Lippincott, Atherton, and Hemphill (on the half-mile), to the east (running north-south), Lewis, Dort, and Center, and to the west (running north-south) Fenton or Saginaw, Dupont, and Ballenger or Clio. It will be important to have a map: while these roads are generally straight, they don't always connect up as one would expect, and it should be easy to navigate as long as you can maintain a basic orientation.
For getting around the city quickly, though, and for reaching most of the suburbs, nothing is faster than Flint's four expressways: I-69, I-75, I-475, and US-23. A trained Flintite can use this network of 70mph roads to go from a coney at Angelo's (see below) to a shake at the Atlas (see below) in about five minutes. I-75 runs to the west of Flint, with access (from south to north) to I-475, US-23 (only driving south) Bristol, I-69, Miller, Corunna, Pierson, Mt. Morris, and 475 again. I-475 runs through east Flint proper (meeting up with 75 outside the city) with access (from south to north) to Hill, Bristol, Hempill, Atherton, I-69, Court (only driving south), Robert T. Longway, Davison/Hamilton, Stewart, Pierson, Carpenter, Saginaw St. (in Mt. Morris), Clio Rd., and I-75. I-69 runs through south Flint proper with access (from east to west) to Center, Dort, I-475, Saginaw, Hammerberg, and I-75. US-23 splits from I-75 just south of Flint, serving the south suburbs.
With a map in your hand, this network is not only sane; it is comprehensible and convenient.
By bicycle
Flint currently has little in the way of bicycling trails, although development is planned to extend these further throughout the city and suburbs, particularly throughout the West Side. The most extensive bike route is currently the Flint River Trail which extends north from downtown Flint to the city of Genesee on the Halloway Reservoir. Other routes link the Riverfront trail to Downtown, the Cultural Center, and Kearsley Park.
Due to Flint's relatively compact size, many attractions are within a short distance of each other by bike. Cyclists are urged to use caution, however, especially on major thoroughfares such as Robert T. Longway or Chavez Drive, as traffic can be fast and heavy, and hills and curves tend to obstruct vision for both cyclists and motorists.
Downtown Flint
Downtown Flint covers approximately one square mile near the center of the city, bounded roughly by Fifth Avenue to the north, I-69 to the south, I-475 to the east, and Thread Creek to the west, with most commercial activity focused along Saginaw Street and the University of Michigan-Flint Campus.
Flint Cultural Center
The Cultural Center is a campus constructed in the 1950s and 60s alongside Mott Community College (see below) with local support and funds from the General Motors. Arranged in a parklike setting along both sides of Kearsley Street just east of 475, this area hosts nine separate entities managed under the organizational umbrella of the Cultural Center, and is often touted as Flint's crown jewel. The Cultural Center includes the Mott Applewood Estates, Bower Theatre (home of the award winning Flint Youth Theatre), Longway Planetarium (Michigan's largest), the Flint Institute of Arts (Michigan's best endowed after the Detroit Institute of Arts), the Flint Public Library, the Flint Institute of Music (home to the Flint Symphony Orchestra), Sloan Museum and Automotive Gallery, The Sarvis Center, and The Whiting Auditorium (which often hosts touring Broadway productions).
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Great tales, for kids of all ages, that stood out on the shelf this year. -- Sonja Bolle
"What Can A Crane Pick Up?," by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, illustrated by Mike Lowery (Alfred A. Knopf)
Combining toddler-pleasing elements -- silliness, a bouncy rhyme scheme, the ever-popular subject of trucks and a wacky illustration with each turn of the page -- this read-aloud book easily becomes a shout-along. "Can a crane lift men in business suits? Yes! And a load of cowboy boots. Cowboy boots or even a COW. A cow? But HOW?" Ages 1-5.
"The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare," by Sam McBratney (Candlewick)
Anyone who adored "Guess How Much I Love You," McBratney's father-son love letter, will be delighted with this collection of four short stories about Big Nutbrown Hare and Little Nutbrown Hare. After big adventures and a little risky business, it's always good to come home to a cozy burrow. Ages 3 and older.
"Sleep Like A Tiger," by Mary Logue, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski (Houghton Mifflin)
Sumptuous illustrations and elegant word choices turn the familiar complaint -- "I'm just not sleepy!" -- into something special. Snails "curl up like cinnamon rolls inside their shells," "bears are mighty sleepers," and although the little girl isn't tired, it feels good to be nice and clean, the sheets feel crisp, and . . . zzz. Ages 4-8.
"The Town Mouse And The Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable,"retold and Illustrated by Helen Ward (Templar Books)
After a visit from his city cousin, country mouse grows "less certain of his contentedness," and goes to try the delights of town. Ward's paintings make a symphony of gold -- from the faux-gilt cover, to the sun-drenched hues of the meadows, to the glow of the city's brass elevator doors and nighttime windows lit from within. Ages 4 and older.
"I, Too, Am America," by Langston Hughes, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Simon & Schuster)
In this happy pairing of verse and pictures, the illustrator has added a new dimension to a few Langston Hughes lines by making "the darker brother" who narrates a Pullman porter, an image with great nuance in American history. Ages 4-8.
"Malcolm At Midnight," by W.H. Beck, illustrated by Brian Lies (Houghton Mifflin)
Everyone thinks Malcolm the new classroom pet is a sweet mouse, but he's actually a rat. The honorable Malcolm wishes to come clean about his identity, but first he'll have to rehabilitate the reputation of his kind, taking to heart the motto of the classroom pets' society: "A critter reveals his true self at midnight." Ages 9-12
"Three Times Lucky," by Sheila Turnage (Dial Books)
In the kind of North Carolina town where the reverend has a son named Thessalonians, an irresistible Southern narrator -- a literary descendant of Scout Finch of "To Kill a Mockingbird" -- Mo LoBeau announces this novel's mystery from behind the counter of the Tupelo Diner: "There's been a murder and we're out of soup." Ages 10 and older.
"There Is No Dog,"by Meg Rosoff (Putnam)
Rosoff's premise in this cheeky (some might say blasphemous) novel is that God is a teenage boy. That would explain a lot, wouldn't it? The creator is surly and self-involved, has little attention span and even less ability to sort out the mess he set in motion. He also has occasional flashes of brilliance and joy. Ages 12 and older.
"Reached," by Ally Condie (Dutton)
In the final book of the "Matched" trilogy, we hear all three voices of the triangle Condie established when the perfectly controlled Society mistakenly paired our heroine, Cassia, with the mysterious Ky, as well as with her properly intended mate, Xander. Ages 12 and older.
"Code Name Verity," by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)
A young Scottish woman taken prisoner in occupied France spins out her confession to her Nazi interrogators. Like Scheherazade, a narrator in desperate straits, she constructs her story cleverly. Is she indeed confessing? Is she dissembling to prolong her life? Is she lying to give her partner time to complete their mission? Ages 14 and older.
"Feedback," by Robison Wells (HarperCollins)
The second book in the "Variant" series about a creepy experiment masquerading as a boarding school. Wells' idiosyncratic, detached yet intense writing style takes on added interest when his novels are paired with his blog (robisonwells.com/category/my-life), in which the author chronicles his mental illness. Wells suffers from OCD -- not, he emphatically states, like "picky people who like to keep their desk tidy" -- but a violence-prone version of the real thing. Even if it were another fiction, it all makes fascinating reading. Ages 13 and up.
Will Sparrow's Road," by Karen Cushman (Clarion Books)
Will Sparrow, sold by his father to an innkeeper for ale in Elizabethan England, escapes the worst fate he can imagine -- being forced to work as a chimney sweep -- and takes to the road armed with nothing but his wits. Karen Cushman's lively historical novels for children are always packed with vivid detail, but this is the first time she has made a boy her main character. Ages 10 and up.
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Seattle police are investigating a Nevada man arrested near the University of Washington in a stolen pickup filled with weapons, body armor and suspected explosive devices.
Police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said the man was taken into custody Wednesday night and booked into the King County Jail, after campus police recognized the truck stolen in Montana.
They contacted Seattle police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation after searching the vehicle and finding the scoped rifle, shotgun and suspected bombs.
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In this absorbing debut, award-winning New York Times staff writer Belluck chronicles the daily life of a maverick physician and the Nantucket community he serves.
In addition to his job as head of medicine at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Dr. Timothy Lepore, a general surgeon, also runs a family practice and serves as the physician for the high-school football team—those are only his official jobs. Not only is his role "central to the health and life of a community in ways that rarely occur these days," writes the author, but it is also exemplary of the art of healing. "His unconventional story shows…that what really matters is the time, effort, conviction, and care that a doctor provides." Lepore is a larger-than-life figure on Nantucket, and his quirks are the stuff of legend—e.g., he carves scalpels from obsidian using stone-age techniques, and he hunts with a pet hawk. Also legendary are his diagnostic skills and dedication to his patients. Over the 30 years that he has practiced medicine on the island, Lepore has dealt with medical emergencies at times when weather conditions prevented the transfer of a patient to a specialist on the mainland. He has treated celebrities on summer vacation, including members of the Kennedy family, but the year-rounders, many of whom work in low-wage jobs in the tourist industry, form the core of his practice. Widely traveled summer tourists may suffer exotic diseases that challenge his expertise, but depression, alcohol abuse and teen suicide are endemic on the island. Under Lepore's leadership, Nantucket's hospital has played a crucial role in maintaining the community's health, but it is becoming less sustainable. "The cost of providing free care to poor and uninsured patients ha[s] grown by 60 percent," writes Belluck. Notes the hospital's CEO, "We kept up with the medical care, but not with the business of medical care."
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by Ron Petrou
Christianity and reincarnation are usually considered to be mutually exclusive. However, in the worldview of Anthroposophy, which he formulated, Rudolf Steiner unites a deep understanding of the significance of Christ for the evolution of the earth with a recognition of the reality of repeated earth lives. His work has inspired the Christian Community Church, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture and much more.
He developed the art of eurythmy, designed the Goetheanum and many other buildings, taught sculpture and painting, edited Goethe's scientific writings, wrote four major plays and numerous books and verses, and gave over 6,000 lectures. Through his life story, one can follow Steiner's own path of development, gain a feeling for his humanity as well as his accomplishments, and see how Christianity and reincarnation are not conflicting concepts but can live together in the soul of the striving spiritual seeker.
Sherry Wildfeuer will speak about Steiner and his philosophy and worldview at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 Germantown Ave. She explained, "The idea of reincarnation often conjures images of human beings having formerly existed as animals, or it implies a fatalistic view of destiny, denying us any freedom. However, in his book 'Theosophy,' Rudolf Steiner shared from his clairvoyant experience a very different picture."
According to Steiner (1861-1925), "The physical body is subject to the laws of heredity. The human spirit, on the other hand, must reincarnate over and over again, and its law consists in having to carry the fruits of previous lifetimes over into the following ones. Our souls live in the present, although this life in the present is not independent of our previous lives . . . People to whom our souls were connected in one lifetime will necessarily encounter us again in a later one because the actions that took place between us must have their consequences."
Wildfeuer goes on to say, "This view denies freedom no more than the reality that after a night of sleep we must face the consequences of the deeds of the previous day. Rather, it allows us to take responsibility for our self-created destiny." Into this picture Steiner also introduces the idea that Christ has become "the Lord of Karma, guiding the process of compensation."
Ms. Wildfeuer first met anthroposophy as a student at Bard College in 1966 and pursued her interest in biodynamic agriculture by working and studying with Alan Chadwick in Santa Cruz, CA, at the Goetheanum in Switzerland, and at Emerson College in England. She taught gardening in California at the Sacramento Waldorf School, and since 1973 she has been a co-worker in Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, an anthroposophical farming community in Kimberton, Chester County, that especially includes adults with disabilities. It is one of about 100 Camphill Communities worldwide.
Kimberton Hills provides social and vocational opportunities for people with varying levels of ability, serves its neighbors through its garden, its raw milk dairy, its Café, and through its artisan Sweetwater Bakery breads. The community is well known as an eco-village as well as a venue for live music.
Ms. Wildfeurer is the editor of "Stella Natura," a biodynamic planting calendar, and is a long-time co-worker in Camphill Village in Kimberton. She has four adult children. The Philadelphia Forum for Anthroposophy, which is centered in Mt. Airy, is presenting Ms. Wildfeuer's talk. For more information, call 267-421-7749.


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Regis Philbin's characteristically animated appearance on "The Daily Show" last week ended with him planting a kiss atop John Oliver's head. "I realized he just sapped my youth – that's how he still looks so incredible. He sucks years from the heads of men through his lips," Oliver later quipped.
Philbin, as we've noted, also has the rare gift of letting you laugh with him and at him at the same time. At this point, even with nothing to prove, he appears determined to get – and give – the last laugh. Check out Philbin's kiss of life to Oliver as he prepares to revive a TV career for the ages:
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Welcome to Shade Mountain Vineyards!
We welcome you to visit us here at our winery and vineyards outside of Middleburg, Pennsylvania. While sitting outside on our expansive decks, you'll marvel at the spectacular views of the vineyards and fields nestled in the foothills of Shade Mountain. Most importantly, we cordially invite you to sample our wonderful variety of over 50 different wines! Our 19th-century barn houses wine-making and hosts free daily tastings of our full line of wines. You do not need an appointment, just drop in during our regular business hours, as we are open 7 days a week year-round.
Think of our area as a great escape for a relaxing weekend. In addition to Shade Mountain Vineyards & Winery, local attractions include Penns Creek Pottery, housed in a turn-of-the-century mill, and Raymond B. Winter State Park, complete with hiking trails, lake and wildlife center. After your busy day, spend a night or two in luxury at The Copper Beach Manor in downtown Lewisburg. We are also day-trip-worthy as we are a nice drive from Harrisburg and State College. Pack a lunch to enjoy with your favorite Shade Mountain selection, while overlooking our vineyard on our beautiful deck!
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Disruption Starts With A Foot In The Door: Amazon's New Data Plan Is Limited But Potentially Revolutionary
from the need-pressure-from-somewhere dept
Amazon's offer here is a way to tiptoe into that pool with something of an alternative. Yes, they're just piggybacking on someone else's network via some sort of MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) agreement, so you're still really using one of the national carriers' networks. But from a consumer standpoint, it is offering something of an alternative for mobile data, at much more reasonable prices (though, obviously, the super low caps match that super low pricing). That, alone, doesn't revolutionize mobile data pricing, but it does seem like a way for Amazon to get its foot in the door and expand over time. Amazon has a long history of figuring out ways to do things in a consumer-friendly manner, even if it means undercutting others to do so (which has made it a few enemies). In the presentation itself, Jeff Bezos noted that they're focused on making money elsewhere -- basically as people buy things via the device -- and thus the company has tremendous incentive to keep the prices of the devices and the service quite low. And that has the potential to be quite disruptive.
In some ways, I look at it as similar (in a very different context) to Google's fiber effort in Kansas City. In both cases, you have companies sort of dipping their toes in the water of ancillary markets that make their primary markets more valuable. They're very limited at this time, and many people may brush them off as being useless. But that's what always happens with The Innovator's Dilemma. Offer something simple and small, and the legacy players brush it off as too small or too limited to matter. But keep improving on that, and you undercut legacy providers without them fully realizing what's happening -- often because you're using your tiny and "weak" efforts there to actually enhance your primary market, where the traditional players have no presence.
Lots of people are reasonably mocking the 250MB limit. It is kinda useless. But, look at it as a wedge, and the beginning of the climb up the innovation slope, making Amazon's core business more valuable... and things could actually get quite interesting.


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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Kelly Merkel led the Tennessee State women's golf team on day one of the SIUE Doubletree Intercollegiate. The freshman shot a 12-over 84 on the Par-72, 6,025 yard course at Sunset Hills Country Club in Edwardsville, Ill. on a beautiful 76 degree day.
Merkel recorded ten pars on the day and is tied for ninth with four other golfers. The Columbia, Tenn. product is six strokes behind co-leaders Savanna Schubert of Lipscomb and Cassie Rushing from Southern Illinois, who are at 6-over.
Amelia Dap recorded a birdie on the par-4 eighth hole on her way to a 92 on Monday. Dap is 14 strokes off the lead heading into the final day of competition.
Sarah Needleman is tied for 57th with Evansville's Kelly Lamarche after carding a 97.
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The main posters from each side, Linus7 and peterfarrington, actually both quit the site around the same time because they got so disgusted, either with each other or the "ecumenical-ness" of this forum.
My priests recently discussed thsi issue. Seems that there was a meeting recently of SCOBA and SOOCH theologens who compared notes on the belief systems, and they found out they were talking about the same things. According to what was discussed, the exact same belief exhists in both the Chalcedonian and Non Chalcedonian churches. The only differences are really jursdictional now. Also, my priests explained to me that the circumstances of the council (Chalecdon) were irregualr. I hope that this gap can soon be solved and that once again we might return to full communion.
The Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox have less barriers to keep them from reuniting with eachother than either the Oriental or Eastern Orthodox Church have with the Roman Catholic Church.In Christ,Aaron
Anastasios, are you reading this?!
I do not believe that union will happen in this lifetime, although it would be nice.
I furthermore do not believe that we should commune in each other's church until we are officially reunited.
Don't believe everything you think.
The more I know, the less I know.
It upsets me that when Ethiopian Orthodox Christians first moved to my town, before an Oriental Orthodox Church was built here, that the Greek Orthodox Church would not accept them for communion unless they confessed their "heresies".
Well, anyways. What I am getting at is that when I go to the Greek Orthodox Church to recieve communion, I am not denied it. Maybe it is because I was originally baptized in to the Greek Church or because they now accept Oriental Orthodox Christians to receive communion.
We (all the Orthodox Churches in my town, including both the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches) had a very fun Christmas party together on Sunday and no one seemed to nit-pick about any Chalcedonian heresies.
Regardless of the fact that you think it's wrong and it goes against your personal opinion, the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churches are not yet united and until that day they cannot freely commune in each other's Churches.
This is not merely a matter of my opinion. Eastern Orthodox Christians can and do freely receive communion in my Church.
All I am asking for is quid pro quo.
This is not merely a matter of my opinion. Eastern Orthodox Christians can and do freely receive communion in my Church. All I am asking for is quid pro quo.
We do not need to become united under juristiction, we need peace and understanding. The autonomy between Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churches should remain but not the intolerance and misunderstanding.Why not? We accept Eastern Orthodox Christians to receive communion in to our Church. My father's parents were Greek immigrants; his father fought for Greece in World War II. As an infant, I was baptized in to the Greek Orthodox Church but later on, my father converted to Roman Catholicism because that is the faith of my mother. My last name is so Greek that no one can pronounce it! Well, anyways. What I am getting at is that when I go to the Greek Orthodox Church to recieve communion, I am not denied it. Maybe it is because I was originally baptized in to the Greek Church or because they now accept Oriental Orthodox Christians to receive communion.We (all the Orthodox Churches in my town, including both the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches) had a very fun Christmas party together on Sunday and no one seemed to nit-pick about any Chalcedonian heresies.
Refusing Communion to someone who is not wholly in total belief with the Church isn't intolerant.
Hopefully the issues that separate us will be resolved, but it includes problems such as acceptance of the Ecumenical Councils after Chalcedonean
not just the wording or intended meaning of one nature comprised of 2 equal and complete natures or 2 natures met in one person with no confusion or lessening.
The steps are starting to take place toward reunification
but one should not place sacramental communion before doctrinal communion.
But they are not allowed by their church to do so.Anastasios
They are allowed to in my Church. When I first started attending St. Gregorios, Father Michael believed that I was still Greek Orthodox.
If I as an Eastern Orthodox go to communion in your Church I WILL be excommunicated from the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Because then open communion for anyone would be the practice. If it doesn't matter that we do not agree on doctrine in order to receive communion, then what does it matter what the doctrine is at all?
If you were communed in an Oriental church with the priest still thinking you were Eastern Orthodox, then that was a failure on the part of the priest.
They are not insulted, and I would not be insulted to not receive in a Oriental church.
Matthew,No offence, but your replies to choirfiend shows that you have a really confused ecclesiology. You cannot seriously say in the same breath that our respective Churches should remain separate (you use the word "autonomous") AND that we should go to communion in each other's Churches. It is very hard to discuss issues like this with you, as I'm not sure if you're understanding what we're trying to say. Sorry if I am wrong, but that's how I see it.Bob
Not some. ALL. For the last 1500 years.
Things are becoming different today between Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Christians from how they were 1500 years ago. The contraversy between us in Chalcedon was due to linguistic differences.
Thus your love only appears to extend towards those who believe as you do.John.
I also love those who brand me a heretic due to my Oriental Orthodox faith.
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!Internet martyr alert! Internet martyr alert!
I think you can say ~ In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and post with charitable and prayerful intentions.
At times I wish we had an emperor around to solve the matter by bringing all sides together.
If it is God's will that we come together as one, then we must allow our hearts and minds to bend in that direction, and let whatever is obstructing aught be cast fom us.
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What It Takes to Make a Hit Runway Collection
On Style columnist Christina Binkley followed Rochas's Fall 2013 collection from the runways of Paris to magazine photo shoots, and ultimately, to the stores. Photo: Vogue Magazine.
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Give 'em hell, Mitt!
On Medicare, the Romney campaign is borrowing the strategic logic of a long-ago military legend.
Taking command of the French 9th army in 1914 as it retreated before the Germans, Marshal Ferdinand Foch uttered his immortals words: "Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I attack."
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The best Romney ad of the campaign is the current spot on President Barack Obama's cuts to Medicare. It points out that the president took $700 billion from Medicare to fund "Obamacare," robbing one unsustainable entitlement to create a new one. The ad is truthful, unadorned and — for any senior who feels protective of Medicare — damning.
In the Medicare debate, schoolyard rules apply: Punch the bully in the mouth twice as hard.
If Medicare reform could be adjudicated in a roundtable discussion hosted by uberwonk Alice Rivlin over tea and scones at the Brookings Institution, it would be one thing. But the tenor and substance will be set by David Axelrod, whose professional obligation is to be witlessly demagogic and wholly dishonest.
It's impossible to have a reasonable discussion with people who insist you are going to "kill people" (Paul Krugman's words). If Vice President Joe Biden hasn't yet said that the Romney-Ryan Medicare premium support plan will lead to the re-institution of chattel slavery, just wait till the next time he gets worked up before a largely African-American audience.
It is understandable, given the history, that Republican political consultants have lost control of their urinary function and been sleeping with waterproof bedding since Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). They are traumatized by long experience. Traditionally, for a Republican to propose Medicare cuts is a risk; to propose transforming the program a death wish.
Never before, though, have Democrats passed the largest Medicare cuts in history immediately prior to launching their tried-and-true assault. This time, it is a case of the pot calling the kettle a danger to America's seniors.
It's as if Democrats harangued Republicans for proposing "tax cuts for the rich," after passing their own steep cut in the top rate. Or for wanting to "unchain" the banks, after passing their own repeal of Dodd-Frank.
Confronted with Obama's Medicare cuts, Democrats and their friends in the media resort to denial — the best of all psychological defense mechanisms.
Some cover their ears and say "la-la-la-la" as loudly as they can. On "Meet the Press" Sunday, I asked Rachel Maddow if she supported the $700 billion in cuts and she simply wouldn't say. Here was the Oxford-educated pride of liberal punditry professing to have no opinion on a primary means of funding what she considers a glorious legislative achievement.
Others pooh-pooh the significance of the cuts. They supposedly hit only "non-essential services." This may be the first time in the debate over entitlements that Democrats have deemed anything related to Medicare "non-essential."
What Democrats mean is that $156 billion of the cuts fall on the Medicare Advantage program. They have always hated this feature because it gives seniors access to private-sector coverage options. But seniors like it. A quarter of them, about 13 million, get their coverage through Medicare Advantage. The Obama cuts will chase about 4 million of them out of it, according to Medicare's actuary.
Then there's the argument that these cuts aren't "cuts" because they are only reductions in the rate of growth. Soledad O'Brien, the CNN anchor who never lets an incomplete grasp of facts stop her, fell back on this line the other day.


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It's hard being the runt of the litter, and the iPod shuffle knows it. When your bigger siblings are the iPod nano and iPod touch, it's hard to impress anyone if you're little more than a piece of flash memory with a headphone jack. Not that there isn't a market for the iPod shuffle's class of player, but it hasn't had the easiest development.
If we were being generous we might argue that the world just wasn't ready for the groundbreaking and innovative removal of controls from the third generation device. If we were being realistic we'd point out that that it was an ill-considered and unwelcome move for Apple. Suffice it to say that the re-addition of controls to the body of the fourth generation iPod shuffle tells us everything we need to know about the reception received by the last one. Attractive it may have been, but it was definitely flawed.
Fortunately for the iPod shuffle, despite the presence of volume, track selection and a play/pause buttons on its face, along with a three-way selector and a small VoiceOver button up top is far from ugly. And though its larger than its predecessor, the 29mm x 31.6mm x 8.7mm, 12.5g device is still small and light enough to be barely perceptible when attached to your clothing using its built-in clip.
The VoiceOver button takes the place of the press-and-hold action on the in-line remote of the previous iPod shuffle – although if you have a compatible headset, that still works. A press has the iPod shuffle pronounce the currently playing song and artist to you, while a hold cycles through the available playlists, with a further press selecting the last mentioned. Because this control no longer doubles as the play/pause and track-skip button as it did with the in-line remote it's much easier to navigate between playlists now.
You probably won't have all that many playlists on your iPod shuffle, though, because it now comes exclusively with 2GB of flash storage – your only options are what colour you decide on. However, considering how portable the new iPod nano is, the issue isn't the lack of a larger capacity but equally portable player in Apple's iPod line-up, but rather that of pricing. The gap between the 2GB, £39 iPod shuffle and the £129, 8GB iPod nano is enough that we doubt anyone looking at the shuffle would consider making the jump.


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There is, as Jeroen Blok is concerned, no greater, freer fantasy than the imagination of children. In the world of a child, nothing is impossible. There are no rules, you are free. You can be everything and everyone you want to be. With their imagination children can make a new reality, which does not really has to exist. Jeroen cherishes the little child in himself. During painting he tries to let this childhood fantasy speak, because, for him, this creates new opportunities and makes the world funnier, more interesting and colorful.
Beside artist Jeroen is an illustrator of children's books. For this exhibition he shows his paintings and illustrations seamlessly into each other. The exhibition runs until March 6, 2011.
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Colleen May
Aug. 19, 2010
ROCHESTER — Colleen May, 62, of Rochester, died at 5:25 p.m. Aug. 19, 2010 from injuries sustained in a traffic accident.
She is survived by her husband, Delbert; daughters, Allison Tyler of Danville and Kelly (Chris) Drubert of Brownsburg; brothers, Larry Koebcke of Valparaiso and Walter (Donna) Koebcke of Kewanna; and two grandsons.
Visitation will take place from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2 at the Good Family Funeral Home, 1200 W. 18 St., Rochester, and an hour prior to services at the church.
Funeral services will take place at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 3 at The St. John's Lutheran Church (4th and Jefferson streets), Rochester.
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The Global Services Forum will gather together prominent players in the services sector, from governments, the business world, and academia.
It is a unique opportunity for sharing best practices and forming partnerships that promote growth in trade in services, and foster sustainable development.
Organized by UNCTAD together with the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China and The People's Government of Beijing Municipality
On the occasion of the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), 28 May-1 June 2013, Beijing, China
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told a joint Leaders' Summit of the Global Services Forum (GSF) and the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) on Wednesday that services sectors around the world represent the most important opportunities for growth and economic "upgrading" sought by developing countries.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Brett Kujala scored the game-winning goal with 2:20 remaining in regulation to lift the Bowdoin College men's lacrosse team to a 10-9 win over Springfield on Tuesday evening.
The Polar Bears rebound from just their second loss of the season Saturday to defeat the #13 Pride and improve to 6-2 on the season. Springfield falls to 5-2 overall on the year.
Kujala and Tyler Williams finished with two goals and one assist apiece. Conor O'Toole scored twice in the win for Bowdoin while Will Wise had three assists - all in the fourth quarter. Bryce Serriello led Springfield with a hat trick.
The Pride got out to an early 3-1 lead following a pair of goals from senior attackman Ryan Murphy. After a pair of strikes from O'Toole and an inside finish from defenseman Mac Caputi, the Polar Bears gained a 4-3 advantage with 4:22 remaining in the first half. Just 1:30 later, senior Devin Abad knotted the game at four goals apiece with a well-spotted shot from the left alley, sending the contest into halftime.
After a goal from Tyler Williams, the Pride capped a long possession with a bounce shot from Sheehan that found the bottom right-hand corner of the net, tying the game at five. With just under four minutes remaining in the third quarter, Serriello dodged down the right alley and ripped a bounce shot past Bowdoin goalkeeper Connor Laughlin to give the Pride a 6-5 advantage.
Back-to-back Bowdoin goals from Franklin Reis and Kujala gave the Polar Bears a 7-6 advantage with 12:01 remaining in the contest when Kujala caught a pass from Wise and snuck one past Springfield goalkeeper Connor Nash. Just three minutes later, Williams beat his defender and pulled up for a 15-yard bounce shot that found its way into the back of the net to give the Polar Bears an 8-6 edge midway through the fourth quarter.
In response, Serriello let a shot go from the right side to pull the Pride back to within one goal. Just one minute later, Brendan Boss found the back of then net to even the game at 8-8. At the 5:21 mark, Bowdoin sophomore Sean Offner fired a bounce shot past Nash off of an assist from Wise to give the Polar Bears a 9-8 lead. Serriello responded with his third tally of the contest to pull the Pride back even with 3:51 to go.
With a man-up advantage late in the game, Kujala received an assist from Wise on the crease once more and beat Nash to give the Polar Bears a 10-9 advantage with 2:20 remaining in the contest, sealing the victory.
Laughlin made eight saves in the win for Bowdoin.
The Polar Bears will return to action at home Saturday against Trinity at 1:00 p.m.
Kujala's Fourth-Quarter Goals Lead Men's Lacrosse Over Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Brett Kujala scored the game-winning goal with 2:20 remaining in regulation to lift the Bowdoin College men's lacrosse team to a 10-9 win over Springfield on Tuesday evening.


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The New Zealand woman who fell to her death from a Gold Coast balcony would hate the public spectacle the tragedy has become, her sister says.
Warriena Tagpuno Wright, 26, fell from the 13th floor of a Surfers Paradise unit shortly after 2am on Friday.
Since her death, reports have claimed the owner of the unit, Gable Tostee, used secret cameras throughout the property to record encounters with women.
But a person claiming to be Mr Tostee has denied those rumours on social media.
Ms Wright, who was visiting Australia to attend a friend's wedding, reportedly met Mr Tostee through the dating app Tinder.
Her younger sister Marreza, 23, says the sordid claims made her older sister's death harder to deal with.
"My sister was a very private person; it's very hard for me to talk about her," she told reporters on Thursday.
"She would really hate all of this attention."
A tearful and shaking Marreza said Warriena was "not only my sister, but my best friend", and appealed for anyone with information to help her understand how the tragedy had occurred.
"Rie was the most important person in my world," Marreza said.
"She was a very beautiful, cheerful, intelligent person who not only was my sister, she was my best friend
"It's hard for me facing the loss of my sister without knowing what happened in the last hours of her life."
She hoped that anyone with information would contact police.
Mr Tostee was interviewed by police last Friday after Ms Wright's death but has exercised his right not to answer them.
Police said they had no plans to talk to Mr Tostee, but seized several items from the unit on Wednesday, including CDs and computer hard drives.
Detective Superintendent David Hutchinson said those items were still be looked at.
"We have reviewed some of those at this stage," Det Supt Hutchinson said.
"The ones we've looked at so far have just been the usual. We have not, to this point in time, recovered any home-made pornographic sex tapes."
Mr Hutchinson said an autopsy had been completed and Ms Wright's remains could be released by the coroner in the next two days, allowing the family to return her body to New Zealand.
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The stock market opened higher on Wall street Tuesday on optimism that China will take action to reverse the recent slowdown in its economic growth. Homebuilders rose on news that home prices rose for the first time in seven months.
It was enough to send markets higher in a month where the Dow Jones industrial average has risen on only four days.
The Dow on Tuesday was up 137 points at 12,592 after the first hour of trading. Caterpillar and Alcoa rose the most of the 30 stocks in the average.
China is the largest market for aluminum, which Alcoa makes, and Caterpillar recently said it is aggressively courting China to sell its construction equipment. The Dow is still down 5 percent for May and is headed for its first monthly loss since September.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 15 points to 1,332 and the Nasdaq composite rose 38 points to 2,876.
U.S. markets were closed Monday for Memorial Day.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller report on home prices found that prices increased in 12 of the 20 cities it tracks. The increase in March from the month before was the first in seven months. It was the latest evidence of a slow recovery taking shape in the troubled housing market.
The news sent homebuilders higher. PulteGroup rose 3 percent, while Toll Brothers and Lennar rose over 1 percent.
In Europe, concerns that Spain's ailing banking sector might worsen the European debt crisis sent the Spanish stock market to nine-year lows. Other European markets rose.
Spain's banks are sitting on huge amounts of soured investments in the country's imploded real estate market. That has led to the recent nationalization of Bankia, the country's fourth-largest lender. Bankia revealed last week that it needs far more money in state aid than previously expected, $23.8 billion.
Madrid's Ibex index fell 1.7 percent. Bankia dropped another 11.4 percent. The yield on the benchmark 10-year government bonds, a key gauge of investor confidence in the country's ability to avoid bankruptcy, was slightly lower at 6.41 percent. The rate is perilously close to the 7 percent rate, which is widely seen as too high for a country to afford over the long term.
Oil prices were up a little less than one percent to $91.40. Crude has dropped from $106 four weeks ago amid signs of slowing global growth and optimism that a military conflict over Iran's nuclear capabilities could be avoided.
Energy companies were also gaining on expectations that China will need more energy to fuel its growth. Peabody Energy shot up 6 percent, Chesapeake Energy was up 5 percent, and Consol Energy gained 4 percent.
Other stocks that were making big moves:
— Williams-Sonoma rose 3 percent after an analyst for Janney Capital Markets upgraded the home goods retailer's stock, citing strong growth trends at the company's West Elm stores.
— ConocoPhillips rose over 2 percent after a Citi analyst said the company is likely to pay hefty dividends this year thanks to asset sales that generated higher returns than analysts expected.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 29, 2005) - Leading by one point with 12:37 remaining in the game, the ETSU men's basketball team used a 12-0 offensive burst to take a 61-48 lead and eventually win 82-70 over non-conference foe Morehead State Thursday night in front of 4,050 fans at Memorial Center.
The Bucs, who got double figure scoring efforts from veterans Tim Smith (Newport News, Va.), Travis Strong (Memphis), Ben Rhoda (Dayton, Ohio) and Brad Nuckles (Council, Va.), used their final non-conference game of the season to win a second-straight game and improve to 3-6 overall. ETSU will return to Atlantic Sun Conference action on Jan. 4 at home against Florida Atlantic, with tip time set for
"Our core guys really came up big," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow. "Those four guys have played in our two most recent NCAA Tournament trips and they've been playing very well in games and in practice right now. We've gotten off to a rocky start this season but we have 18 league games left and their all winnable. That's where our focus is now."
ETSU opened the game with a nine-point run to lead 9-0, with
In the second half, the two teams traded the lead four times before the Bucs made their run. A 3-point basket by Smith sparked the 12-point spurt and resulted in a 13-point lead at 61-48 before
Smith led all scorers with 24 points - his 46th career 20-plus point game - while Strong also eclipsed that number with 20 points of his own for a season high in that category. Rhoda pitched in 14 points along with season highs for rebounds (nine) and minutes played (40), while Nuckles had season highs for rebounds (nine) and free throws (six) on way to a 12-point effort.
Strong helped the Bucs to their best steal effort of the season, as the team picked up 16 swipes led by a season high eight from the junior guard. ETSU shot a blistering 56 percent from the floor, out-rebounded the Eagles 30-26, and forced 24
The Eagles were led by Quentin Pryor with 21 points, while Shaun Williams picked up 17 and Cordaryl Ballard added 12.
While ETSU returns to action on Jan. 4 against Florida Atlantic,