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Slayer's Dave Lombardo Takes Journey Into the World of Philm
Like many musicians who've been rocking with the same group for many years, Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo has another creative outlet to fill the downtime when his main band goes on break. The stickman, who constantly wants to be working, spoke with Loudwire backstage before Slayer's gig at the recent Mayhem tour kickoff about what he describes as his more alternative project Philm and how balancing the two bands works.
Tell us about Philm. How does it compare with your Slayer work?
Well, yeah, it's a new band, it's a power trio and we released an album May 15 and it's … very few people don't like it, but a lot of people really do like it and I'm really happy. It's different, it's a little more alternative. It's not metal. I don't follow what I lead. I try to do other things and try to lead in those and not always do things in the same vein. It's kind of the artistic side of me that always wants to progress and create and be creative.
You mention that it's a little more alternative and people would assume it would come from your metal roots, but where do the influences lie here?
It's extreme, what it is it's more like extreme rock. It doesn't go into the double bass because I play a single bass drum set, stripped down to four pieces, and there isn't a second guitar player so it doesn't make it metal. It's just different. I know people picture me playing fast in Slayer but I think fans know by now with all the projects that I've done, that I'm kind of different.
With Philm, obviously it's cool to have something on the side when Slayer's on a break. How enthusiastic does that make you then when you leave that and come back to Slayer?
What it does is kind of creative-wise, it makes me bring in what I've learned with Philm, I'll bring it into the Slayer camp and I'll just adapt certain drumbeats or certain styles to the Slayer form and vice versa. After this, I'll go back to the Philm world and I'm different, I hit harder. When I go to Philm after two months with Slayer, I'm going to be hitting very hard. Where it's different when I go from Philm to Slayer, it's more of a style – more jazz-influence. So it's interesting.
With Philm, obviously Slayer's taking up the summer, but after are you looking at maybe some dates?
Yeah, right away. I'm ready to go out to work it as soon as Slayer's done. We're gonna start booking some local shows and taking little trips up California, doing San Francisco Aug. 25, we're doing 'Slaughter by the Water,' which is going to be a lot of fun. I can't wait for that.
Love those festival names.
Yeah, yeah [in deep announcer voice] 'Mayhem!,' 'Slaughter by the Water!' [smiles].
Stay tuned for Part 2 of our Dave Lombardo interview, in which he talks about all things Slayer.

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ESPN asked John Cena if their is backstage resentment with The Rock working a part-time schedule and being WWE Champion
"No, because that was my whole base of resentment last year. I really thought he was coming back for maybe a yearlong campaign to remind people, 'Hey guys, I have some new movies coming out,' and he wanted to let the WWE fan base know that he was still around. But he came back, he stayed back, and he's competing. Even if he's not on every Monday Night Raw, you have to understand, this guy is the most driven individual I know. The fact that he can do what he can do and still compete in the ring — go film a commercial, go film five movies, go film a TV show and then come back and not leave WWE on the back burner, but still be the champion — it's admirable. He's doing more for WWE by trying to do both those things at once and being on Raw some of the time, than focusing on WWE and being there 100 percent of the time. Just like I have my critics, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has critics, and I was one of the biggest 'Hey man, you're never here' guys around, but not anymore. He's completely committed to WWE."
Cena also discussed why he won't turn heel, if he'll bring the spinner belt back, the most memorable WrestleMania match of all time and more.
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Author(s): Robert Mankoff
A charming, irreverent treasury from the cartoonists at The New Yorker Money doesn't just make the world go round-it spins it upside down, inside out, and out of orbit. Now, thanks to the world's most brilliant cartoonists, it also makes us giggle, chuckle, chortle, and laugh out loud. In The New Yorker Book of Money Cartoons, Second Edition, the cartoonist and cartoon editor of The New Yorker Robert Mankoff brings together over a hundred classic images that show the influence, power, and occasional insanity of money.* Features over 100 cartoons-new and old-from the pens of cartooning legends including Charles Addams, George Booth, Victoria Roberts, Roz Chast, Leo Cullum, Jack Ziegler, Gahan Wilson, and many others* Includes a hilarious introduction by David Sipress* Newly revised to include cartoons that touch on today's most pressing money matters Capturing the myriad ways money informs, confuses, and sometimes takes control of our lives, The New Yorker Book of Money Cartoons is sure to tickle your money bone.
Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. He is also a cartoonist, and more than 900 of his cartoons have been published in the magazine in the past thirty years, including the best-selling New Yorker cartoon of all time. He is the author of the book The Naked Cartoonist, published in 2002, about the creative process behind developing magazine-style cartoons. He has also edited dozens of cartoon books and published four of his own. David Sipress has published over 400 cartoons in The New Yorker since 1998. His cartoons have been a weekly feature in The Boston Phoenix for more than thirty years, and his work has appeared in Time, Playboy, Gastronomica, Reader's Digest, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Sipress is the author of eight books of cartoons and has illustrated several others.


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Financial Management
Payment for your classes before the deadline (your student "Register for Classes" webpage states the deadline) ensures your classes will not be cancelled. Inform your supporters that they need to send their financial gift to the Business Office well before payment is due and to send it to the following address:
Student Account (#_________)
Accounting & Business Office
Dallas Theological Seminary
3909 Swiss Avenue
Dallas, TX 75204
Scholarships for New Students
A small number of scholarships are issued for students who begin in the fall semester of each year. They cover tuition costs for each year of the program, but require registration each January for confirmation. The living expenses are covered for the student, but for the first year only. It is expected that the student's other supporters will sustain living needs for the remaining years of study. Unfortunately, scholarships are few and on campus employment is not guaranteed, so do not depend on these options as your likely source of support.
Financial Planning Tips for New Students
- On-campus employment is possible but openings are limited. Unfortunately, it cannot be counted as support when documenting your finances to attend seminary.
- Be sure your sources of support are firm and secure. A strong financial basis is key to enabling you to concentrate fully on your studies once you arrive. Bear in mind, having just established, at the embassy, that you have sufficient funds to study for 12 months, problems should not arise within the first year. All F-1 students are encouraged to develop a team of supporters for the duration of their studies.
- F-1 students are required to have DTS-approved health insurance. Keep this in mind when you are estimating your expenses. If you hope to use health insurance based outside the US, only those who are single are eligible. Submit documentary proof of the insurance, its explanations, program information, proof of the US office address, and send to the Benefits Officer in the Human Resources Department at DTS, requesting response for approval of intentions. Otherwise, DTS offers an affordable insurance option that most students choose. Bear in mind that travel insurance normally has a restricted period for use.
U.S health insurance companies will not pay for the cost of delivery and hospital expenses of wives who are already pregnant before arriving in the US. In addition, there is no financial aid on campus available for this need. You will need to cover the costs, which are sometimes more than $12,000 USD. There are no free services in this area. If the wife becomes pregnant before traveling to DTS in the USA, you should do the following;
- Postpone travel plans until after delivery.
- Contact the Seminary and arrange to begin coursework after the baby arrives.
- Submit evidence of the additional support necessary (about $4,000) to support the child and
- Return the outdated I-20 form back to the International Student Adviser at DTS before the valid forms can be sent to you.
If you still intend to come with the wife expecting a child, then you must document an additional $12,000 to cover pre-natal and delivery costs in a U.S. hospital.


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The term secular is generally used to mean "worldly, as differentiated from ecclesiastical." The term has changed meaning dramatically over time. Its original definition preserved its Latin meaning - "of an age" - as evinced in the Secular Games, or the Carmen Secularae ("Song of the Augustan Age") by Horace.
The term may be a euphemism used by atheists, since atheism generally has negative associations in the United States. Atheism actually isn't secular (common mistake) because in a secular society everyone is considered to be legally equal no matter what they believe in or don't believe in. Atheism is a religious point of view that God(s) do not exist and is therefore not all inclusive.
The United States was founded as a secular republic, where religious freedom is affirmed in the Constitution and where no special religion is established. However, 'secular' here is not a synonym for 'atheistic' as secular society includes both Atheists and believers. Moreover, it is impossible to fully separate a legislative or educations system from moral beliefs and its sources, and the Bible overall was the primary foundational single source for America's principles and precepts.
Hunter Baker in The End of Secularism, distinguishes between pluralism and secularism, and argues that while the latter has rejected religious foundations of traditional morality, yet secularism itself is an ideology based upon certain philosophical foundations, with its own presuppositions. Rather than being the impartial referee it is promoted to be, when this becomes the orthodox ideology of a nation, it works toward censoring that which opposes it, stifling religious life and discourse.
Secular ethics
For more detailed treatments, see Secular ethics and Secular religion.
George Holyoake's 1896 publication English Secularism defines secularism as:
Secularism is a code of duty pertaining to this life, founded on considerations purely human, and intended mainly for those who find theology indefinite or inadequate, unreliable or unbelievable. Its essential principles are three: (1) The improvement of this life by material means. (2) That science is the available Providence of man. (3) That it is good to do good. Whether there be other good or not, the good of the present life is good, and it is good to seek that good.[1]
Holyoake held that secularism and secular ethics should take no interest at all in religious questions (as they were irrelevant), and was thus to be distinguished from strong freethought and atheism. In this he disagreed with Charles Bradlaugh, and the disagreement split the secularist movement between those who argued that anti-religious movements and activism was not necessary or desirable and those who argued that it was.
Contemporary ethical debate is often described as "secular", with the work of Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics, having been described or self-described as explicitly secular or non-religious.[2][3][4][5]
History of Secularism
The derivation of an ethical code from purely secular "worldly" concerns begins in Ancient Greece with the philosophical study of nature. The Hebrew term for nature is not found in the Bible.[6] Hence, natural law, natural justice, and natural rights are Hellenic in origin. Greek and Roman philosophers, while not atheists, nevertheless built their ethnical philosophy from natural considerations.
Christian theologians differed on their assessment of secular thought. Tertullian asks "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" On the other hand, Thomas Aquinas championed secular thought and provocatively starts the Summa Theologica with the question: "Whether, besides philosophy, any further doctrine is required?"[7] After Aquinas, a harmony between secular thought and religion was the rule until the 19th century. The notion of secularism being inherently anti-religious become the norm after the French Revolution.
Further reading
- Emmet Kennedy, "The Tangled History of Secularism," Modern Age (Winter 2000) Volume 42, Number 1; online edition
- Hunter Baker, The End of Secularism
- ↑ Holyoake, George J. (1896). English Secularism. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company.
- ↑ Derek Parfit (1984), Reasons and persons, Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press, 0198246153, ISBN 0198246153, http://openlibrary.org/books/OL3172889M/Reasons_and_persons
- ↑ Brian Leiter, "Is "Secular Moral Theory" Really Relatively Young?, Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog, June 28, 2009.
- ↑ Richard Dawkins, "When Religion Steps on Science's Turf: The Alleged Separation Between the Two Is Not So Tidy", Free Inquiry vol. 18, no. 2.
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- ↑ Leo Strauss. Natural Right and History.
- ↑ Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica.


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Wabash College Board of Trustees
Joseph D. Barnette, Jr. '61, Chairman of the Board
May 21, 2007
Dear Friends,
The weather was perfect in Crawfordsville for the Board of Trustees' meeting and the College's 169th Commencement ceremony. The spring Board meetings are always special because Trustees have the opportunity to get to know and honor the graduating seniors. This year's class was not large — 160 graduates — but was very impressive. Almost half the seniors will go directly to graduate or professional schools, from USC to Virginia and from Cornell to the University of Hawaii. Seniors pursuing careers in the job market had high praise for the work of the Schroeder Center for Career Development, and our young graduates have accepted an impressive range of professional opportunities.
Two seniors gave Commencement addresses. Patrick Millikan, a native of Newburgh, Indiana, was a four-year varsity football letterman and became the 15th Wabash man to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Gregory Strodtman of Indianapolis was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, earned a Mackintosh Fellowship, and received a fellowship to a graduate program in history. Both are fine, well-rounded representatives for the Class of 2007.
The College also paid tribute to two of its own, granting honorary degrees to long-time Religion Professor Raymond B. Williams and Hanover College President Russell "Rusty" Nichols, who will retire this summer after an impressive 20-year term as Hanover's 14th president.
As is customary, Trustees did their work in committee meetings on Friday then gathered for the full Board meeting Saturday morning. The central item of business, of course, was approving the graduating Class of 2007.
Committee Reports
Roger Billings '59 gave the report for the Academic Affairs Committee, which he chairs. The committee learned from Dean of the College Gary Phillips that Professor of Theater Jim Fisher, completing his 28th year at Wabash, is leaving the College this summer to become the department chair at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dean Phillips noted second-year history professor Yvonne Pitts has taken an exciting position in her field at Purdue University, where she'll have the opportunity to work closely with graduate students. Dean Phillips said those moves added to what had been a very busy faculty hiring season, in which Wabash was able to hire its first choice candidates for five of six tenure track searches. Mr. Billings, who is a law professor at Northern Kentucky University, also explained an exciting new program called "LSAT Boot Camp," which is a program designed by members of the NAWM Board of Directors to better prepare pre-law students for the standardized exam. He noted that 35 students had participated in the inaugural three-day program.
Mr. Billings also gave Trustees an update on the ongoing faculty review of the College's curriculum, which is being aided by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash. Several proposals have been designed to stir conversation among faculty and administrators, but no formal action has been taken. The circle of discussion will be broadened and folded into the work of strategic planning this fall and beyond.
Mike Dill '71 reported for the Admissions and Advancement Committee, which focused its work on the Annual Fund, reviewing the work of the Admissions Office, and learning more about the College's financial aid policies. Mr. Dill said the Annual Fund's fiscal year will end June 30 and there is a push in the final six weeks to secure more donors to increase the College's alumni giving percentage. To date, fewer alumni have given more to Wabash, which appears to be a national trend in higher education philanthropy. On the Admissions front, Mr. Dill said the College had received a record number of applications this year and that 248 men had deposited to reserve a spot in the class for this fall. Dean Steve Klein reported his staff is cautiously optimistic that it will hit its goal of 250 new students in August.
The committee had its second of two meetings with Financial Aid Director Clint Gasaway '86 to learn more about the College's philosophy and national trends in an era dubbed "The Discount Wars" in higher education. More and more colleges, including public universities, are discounting their tuition at record levels in order to secure academically and athletically talented male students. That competition is due to the declining percentage of men attending college and puts pressure on Wabash, which is one of the few schools nationwide that continues to meet 100 percent of a student's demonstrated financial need.
Joe Turk H'00, chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, presented to the Board the fiscal 2008 budget proposal that had been crafted by President White's staff. Trustees discussed the budget and the various influences on it. Chief Financial Officer Larry Griffith said a long-term issue facing the College is expansion of the revenue stream. He said tuition increases aren't keeping pace with expenses, and that the administration is working hard to examine pricing strategies and increased fund-raising to offset the imbalance. The $34-million operating budget was approved by the Board. Mr. Griffith also reported the College had secured a new insurance broker and provider, which gives Wabash better coverage with a reduced premium.
The Buildings and Grounds Committee, chaired by Fred Wilson '69, reviewed athletics facilities, particularly the shared soccer and baseball fields at Mud Hollow. The committee will create a long-term plan to provide dedicated fields for both sports, and will look at the cost effectiveness of adding synthetic playing surfaces for football, baseball, and soccer. Mr. Wilson also reported on the ongoing fraternity maintenance program begun this year. Overall, fraternity houses — through routine inspections — are in better shape, but are not achieving the standard set by the College for cleanliness. Trustees approved a proposal to secure a full-time employee within Campus Services to oversee the program and work closely with fraternity house managers. The proposal also includes incentives for house managers to seek additional training and stay in their positions for longer periods of time.
The renovation of the old TKE house, which will become an independent residence hall, is on schedule for completion this summer. Work is about to begin on the new TKE house on the footprint where the old Sigma Chi house used to sit. A two-phase renovation of Delta Tau Delta will begin this summer and continue in the summer of 2008.
Finally, Mr. Wilson reported President White and his staff had begun meeting with two possible campus master planning firms. The campus master planning process will be done concurrently with College-wide strategic planning.
Bill Wheeler '83 reported for the College Life Committee, which met with three graduating seniors — Nathan Bates, Will Certain, and Trent Rogers, all of whom graduated with honors. They discussed their experiences on campus, and Mr. Wheeler referred to them as "real Wabash men, poised and confident." He also gave the Board a briefing on the work of the Schroeder Center for Career Development. Over 70 percent of graduating seniors had completed at least one internship, he said, and the list of graduate schools and employment options was quite impressive. He also noted that 158 students would be on campus this summer, conducting research with faculty, participating in the summer Business Immersion Program, working on Present Indiana projects, and other on- and off-campus internships.
John Bachmann '60 gave the report of the Investment Policy Committee. The ten-year return on the College's various investments is approximately 10 percent, and the current value of the endowment is in excess of $370 million.
Kevin Clifford '77, on behalf of the Committee on Trusteeship, presented the election slate for new Trustees and those whose four-year terms were expiring. Re-elected to four-year terms were Victor DeRose '74, Rade Kljajic '78, and Harry "Mac" McNaught '76. Elected to initial four-year terms were Dr. K. Donald Shelbourne '72 and Jim Davlin '85. Dr. Shelbourne is an Indianapolis-based orthopedic surgeon who specializes in surgical rehabilitation of the knee. Mr. Davlin is the treasurer of the John Deere Corporation. Mr. Clifford also announced that Dr. Jim Cumming '61 had won re-election as Alumni Trustee in balloting by the National Association of Wabash Men.
After nine years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, I have decided to step down, but will continue as an active Trustee. The Board elected Stephen Bowen '68 to succeed me as Board Chair. Trustee David Shane '70 was elected to replace Mr. Bowen as Executive Committee Chair. All other Board officers were re-elected to one-year terms.
Mr. Bachmann and David Givens '56 completed their terms as active Trustees and chose to move to emeritus status. The Board expressed its sincere gratitude for their service. Mr. Bachmann had served since 1982 and had been chair of the Investment Policy Committee for much of that tenure. Mr. Givens was elected to the Board in 1987 and served as Chairman of the Executive Committee, and was a stalwart member of the Budget and Finance and Investment Policy committees.
In his President's Report, President White reflected on the work of his first year leading the College and expressed his appreciation to the Trustees, alumni, the Deans and CFO, students, faculty, and staff for their work in a seamless administrative transition. He thanked all for the good spirit and excitement of the Inauguration festivities, and especially noted the work of Jim Amidon, chair of the Inauguration Steering Committee.
President White then discussed the timeline and parameters of the strategic planning process that will be underway in August. He outlined the various conditions in which planning will take place and the keys to developing a plan that will have campus-wide involvement in process and execution. President White asked Board members John Fox '64 and David Shane to help lead the planning efforts in concert with President White and his staff, and to help to keep the Board engaged in the ongoing process and on campus discussions. The goal for the process is to have a draft before the Board at its January meeting.
On a personal note, it has been a great joy to serve as Board Chair these last nine years. Many good things have happened for our College and its students. Wabash is in excellent shape and has capable leadership moving forward. Charlene and I express our gratitude for the trust placed in us and for the many friendships we have developed along the way.
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A prominent Washington journalist said in interviews on Wednesday a senior White House official warned him he would "regret" publishing a story challenging the White House's account of how the idea for automatic spending cuts originated.
Bob Woodward said in interviews with Politico and CNN that when he informed the White House he was writing a story critical of the White House's handling of a debate over the origin of the cuts, known as sequestration, the official reacted angrily.
The aide "yelled at me for about a half hour," Woodward told Politico, and then followed up the tirade with an email.
"I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today," the official wrote Woodward. "You're focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. ... I think you will regret staking out that claim."
Politico reported that Woodward saw the statement as a veiled threat.
"I've tangled with lots of these people," said the journalist, who established his reputation by breaking the story of the Watergate break-in under President Richard Nixon and has written a series of best selling books about Washington politics.
"But suppose there's a young reporter who's only had a couple of years — or 10 years' — experience and the White House is sending him an email saying, 'You're going to regret this,'" Woodward said. "You know, tremble, tremble. I don't think it's the way to operate."
Some $85 billion in spending cuts are due to go into effect Friday unless Congress acts, and with the deadline approaching there is practically no movement toward preventing them. President Barack Obama has scheduled a meeting with congressional leaders on Friday, but little is expected of the encounter.
The president has crisscrossed the country in recent weeks to draw attention to the inconveniences and problems from the cuts, which economists say could shave 0.6 percentage points off of already anemic U.S. growth.
While the president has been conducting that campaign, the spat over what Woodward calls the "paternity" of the sequester has proven a distracting sideshow to the fiscal battle.
The administration has sought to counter charges by Republicans that the sequestration cuts were proposed by Obama administration officials.
Woodward's book "The Price of Politics" is a fly-on-the-wall account of the negotiations in 2011 that ended with a deal to raise the nation's debt limit. As part of the deal, both sides agreed to make additional efforts to reduce the national budget deficit, and proposed the sequester as an alternative so unappealing that it would force the administration and congressional Republicans to find common ground.
That deal proved elusive and both sides are currently trading blame for the sequestration cuts.
Woodward said in an article in the Washington Post on Friday that the president and his chief of staff at the time, current Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, were wrong in initially claiming last year that the sequester was the Republicans' idea.
"Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and (Rob)Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid," Woodward said. "They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved." Nabors was then the White House's chief liaison to Congress and is now deputy chief of staff.
The administration has argued that both sides agreed to the terms of the sequester and has pointed to comments at the time from House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, that he was for the most part satisfied with the deal that spawned the arrangement.
Woodward's account of his recent testy exchange with the White House points to continued sensitivity over the issue of whose idea the sequester was.
A White House official said in an emailed response to Reuters that no threat was intended by the comment.
"The email from the aide was sent to apologize for voices being raised in their previous conversation," the aide said. "The note suggested that Mr. Woodward would regret the observation he made regarding the sequester because that observation was inaccurate, nothing more."
The BuzzFeed news website identified the official who tangled with Woodward as Gene Sperling, head of the National Economic Council. The White House did not respond to a request to confirm the identity of the official.
News of the exchange drew instant reaction from Washington insiders on Twitter, much of poking fun at the war of words.
"My amateur advice: stop cooperating with Woodward in the first place," wrote Neera Tanden, the president of the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress think tank and a former Obama campaign advisor.
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New Study of Dr. Benjamin Church
For his third, he turned to the first notable Patriot to be revealed (somewhat) as secretly slipping information to the Crown: Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution.
I say "somewhat" because Gen. George Washington and Massachusetts General Court couldn't come up with ironclad proof of Church's treachery. He admitted to sending his brother-in-law John Fleeming a letter in cipher that described the Continental Army in detail. But that description overstated the American strength. Did Church actually believe the figures he wrote? Was he communicating in some previously arranged code? Or was he playing a double game, trying to bluff the British out of attacking the Continental siege lines?
In the end, the American authorities couldn't answer those questions solidly enough to convict Church of spying. (It didn't help that the Continental Congress's committee to write regulations for the army, originally chaired by Washington, hadn't taken the possibility of such betrayal into account.) The Congress ordered Church confined without trial, tried to exchange him for a British officer, and finally sent him into exile.
The Revolutionary generation wrote a lot about Church, but much of it seems rooted in guesswork tinged by hindsight rather than hard evidence. Research over the past hundred years, especially after Gen. Thomas Gage's intelligence files became available, has shed more light on the doctor's activities. It's clear now that Church was disclosing sensitive information to Gage before the war began. But how long before? How much did he reveal? What were his motives, and did they change?
John Nagy has gone back over all the evidence that's come out about Church. This is the first commercial book to use my study's revelation that Dr. Church's mistress, who betrayed him under pressure from Gen. Washington, was most likely Mary (Butler) Wenwood of Marblehead, estranged wife of Newport baker Godfrey Wenwood. The book is sure to be thorough.
And who knows? More information may yet surface. At his blog Ed Witek has just shared images of the doctor's younger brother Edward and his family. Edward is the doctor's only close blood relative for whom we have a portrait, so peering at his face is the closest we'll probably come to looking Dr. Benjamin Church in the eyes.


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Grades K-2, 3-5
Communities – What They Provide For Us
Students will learn that a job is work people do to earn a living in the world today.Students will learn the difference between jobs that provide a service and jobs that provide a good.
You are mayor of a new up and coming community. You need to make sure your town is safe so that many new people will move into your area. When you build your community you will need to match each worker to the job that she or he provides. Notice whether that person provides a good or a service to the community. It is important that both types of people live in your community in order for it to grow.
[Note: Teachers and advanced students can click here to learn more about city planning]
Learning Objectives
- Identify a variety of jobs that people perform and determine for each job whether it provides a service or good.
- Explain the importance of having businesses that provide services and goods in their community.
Resource List
Kids and Community: Find out what it's like to be a city planner and try some cool activities! Discover how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them.
What Kids Can Do: Find out how these kids are making a difference! Meet amazing young activists and check out what they've been doing to improve their communities; find resources to help you get involved too.
Communities – What They Provide For Us: This is and interactive drag and drop activity. Students will match each person with the job she or he provides for the community.
Interactive Drag and Drop Activity 1
Build Your Own Community Worksheet: The students will cut out buildings, vehicles, and other things that can be found in a city to build their own community.
Providing Goods or Services: This is another interactive drag and drop activity. Teachers can assess students understanding of the concepts in this lesson.
Interactive Drag and Drop Activity 2
Related Lesson Plans: The following are additional lesson plans, and activities, available for your use.
I Can Dream Anything!
Delivering the Goods
Build Your Community
Activity 1:
The learner will match each person with the job that she or he provides for the community, using this interactive drag and drop activity.
Activity 2:
After the students have determined the job that each person provides, have them design their own working community using these worksheets — or draw their own. Make sure they include:
- three businesses that provide a service.
- three businesses that produce a good that is used by the people in the community.
- three types of shelter that people could live in.
The students will then add any other details that they think their community should have in order to look like a community that someone would want to live in.
They could also write a story about their community including several reasons why someone would want to move there.
You may also want your students to design a billboard advertising the new growth and development of their community and why it would be the perfect place to live.
Why do communities need people who provide services as well as goods?
[You need to have both types of people to have a balance. People need to have a place to purchase items that they need in order to live. Businesses need to carry items that people are interested in purchasing so that they are able to sell them to make a living. It is with this balance that a community is able to support itself and grow in population.]
What would happen to a community if there were no businesses in town?
[The people would have to drive to another city to buy their food and clothes. It might not be a very safe town if there were no fire departments or police departments there. People would have to drive to other communities to shop for food and clothes, or to go to the doctor.]
Extension Activity
- The teacher could invite the parents in for a "Community Worker Day." Students would select a person from the community and give a presentation on that person's job. The students who make these presentations should dress in costume to look like the people they are portraying. Alternatively, the teacher might invite working parents into the classroom to talk about their jobs.
- Take the children on a bus tour of your community. Visit different businesses located there: For example, the post office, stores, banks, hardware store, phone company, energy company. If it is not possible to visit, invite people from some of these businesses to visit the classroom; ask them to talk about their businesses and why they are important to the community.
- The following are additional lesson plans, and activities, available for your use:
- I Can Dream Anything!
Can your students really DO everything? Can your students really BE anything? The one true statement is that your students really can DREAM anything. This lesson is based on the song, "I Can Do Anything," and students find many service occupations within the song. They will discover that they can do many different things, but they can't do them all! Choices have to be made!
- Delivering the Goods
In this lesson, students learn to differentiate between goods and services. It encourages children to identify for themselves the names of the producers of goods and services.
- Build Your Community
Students will build the community of their dreams. They also learn about the different businesses and what service they provide. This lesson also provides a written definition of goods and services.
- I Can Dream Anything!
Teachers can assess students understanding by using this interactive drag and drop activity. In this activity students will sort people into the categories they belong in (good, service, or both).
Have the students draw a picture of themselves doing jobs that they are responsible for in their family. They could show themselves taking out the garbage, picking up their room, helping to clean the house, setting the table, or folding clothes. Other possible jobs include mowing the lawn or cleaning the kennel or cage for a pet. Have the students write a story about themselves and present it to the class.
To learn more about kids who are making a difference in their community check out the what kids can do website.


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Feb. 9, 2007
For the Bisons on Friday, February 8, it was an uphill battle from the start. The Evansville Purple Aces posted a five run first, but one run was all they would need as they handed the Bisons a 10-0 loss.
Left-hander Paul Piennette received the season-opening start for the Bisons, but never made it out of the fourth inning. In 3.2 innings, he gave up seven runs on six hits while striking out two.
However, the Bisons had their backs against the wall from the first pitch, Evansville's Ben Norton threw. A lead-off walk to Ben Williams is all Norton would give up over six innings. He struck out eight to record his first win of the season.
Jeremy Kuester relieved Norton to start the seventh, and allowed a hit to Casey Bond, the Bisons' first of the day.
Second basemen Andew Nickerson recorded the Bisons only other hit on an infield single to third in the ninth.
Right-hander Charles Williams came on in relief of Piennette in the fourth. After walking Kasey Wahl to load the bases, Williams got Pat Tumilty to fly out to deep center to escape further damage.
In 4.1 innings, Williams gave up three runs, two earned, on four hits. He walked one and struck out three.
Freshman right-hander Taylor Merry pitched the final inning for the Bisons. In his collegiate debut, Merry gave up just one hit, while striking out two.
However the story of the day was undeniably Evansville' pitching. Together, the two Purple Ace pitchers combined to face the minimum twenty seven batters while striking out ten.
"Norton was definitely impressive today," Lipscomb pitcher Matt Schnelly said. "Our guys never gave up though. We just have to come back out tomorrow and give it our best again, and hope we walk away with the win."
Piennette receive the loss to bring his record to 0-1.
The Bisons will kick off game two of the three game set at one p.m. tomorrow. Left-hander Rex Brothers is scheduled to take the mound for the Bisons. For Evanville, right-hander Fred Jones will receive the start.


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To read more of Terry's comments,
Collins said he doesn't know what role Mejia will end up in by the close of camp, but said if Familia doesn't make the team out of camp, he will work in Triple-A Las Vegas' bullpen.
As of now, newly signed Brandon Hicks will serve as the team's backup middle infielder.
Tim Byrdak could begin throwing in May, and Collins said Byrdak might be able to contribute in the second half.
The Mets expect Johan Santana to make between 28 and 30 starts, Collins said.
Darin Gorski, who has spent most of his Minor League career as a starter, could get a look as a lefty specialist in the big league bullpen.
Collins wants to look at Justin Turner in the outfield during camp.
Zack Wheeler could get a shot at the rotation out of camp if the team trades a starting pitcher this winter.
This discussion may be for another day, but the Mets really need to figure out a plan for Jenrry Mejia and Jeurys Familia. Mejia has been jerked around between being a starter and a reliever since 2010 based on need, and he just has not gotten his career on track. I worry that instability has played a role in that.
As far as Familia is concerned, if the Mets intend to bottom-feed the bullpen market this Winter, it would make sense to take a look at Familia in a short relief role during camp. But if they do that, I'm not sure why they would send him back to Triple-A to start. Of course, teams don't develop pitchers to be relievers, but there needs to be a sturdy plan for him (and Mejia) going forward, and they need to stick to it.
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Doctorate in International Relations on Campus Degrees | International Relations PhD Programs Overview
A Ph.D. in International Relations on-campus program allows students to research and explore areas of international security, international organizations, policy and law, as well as global political economy and current issues that face the international community as a whole.
Most International Relations PhD programs give students both theory and methodology that relates to political theories, ideologies, philosophies, policies, and social inquiry.Some programs give students the opportunity to specialize in areas such as:
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If you aspire to a career with an international focus, and are hoping for more than an entry-level job, earning an International Relations PhD may set you up for a pretty bright future! Why not initiate a search on GradSchools.com so you can review your choices!
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Four years ago Koua Fong Lee killed three Minnesotans when he rammed his 1996 Toyota Camry into the rear of another car at the Snelling Avenue exit of Interstate Highway 94 in St. Paul. Lee's car careened into the other car somewhere between 70 and 90 miles per hour and Lee was, not unreasonably, convicted of negligent vehicular homicide.
Lee's particular Toyota model was never part of the controversy over the alleged unintended acceleration of certain models of Toyota cars. No mechanical problem was found with the car after the accident. The trial judge nevertheless granted Lee a new trial on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel after the Toyota controversy seemed to lend some credibility to Lee's account of how the accident happened. Former Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner declined to prosecute the case again. Lee is now free once more to drive the city streets.
Unbelievably, to my knowledge, no one other than me has asked Gaertner why she threw in the towel on the case. In comments she made about the case before a local lawyers' group this past October, Gaertner made it clear how much she disliked being asked around town about Lee's eight-year sentence (a sentence the prosecutor had requested after Lee's conviction). Wasn't the sentence too harsh? Prosecuting crimes can really be a bitch; it may not always be the best way to win friends and influence people.
Gaertner said she stood behind the case she originally brought against Lee after deliberating over it for a year after the accident and taking heat about the delay from the local chapter of the NAACP; the deceased victims of Lee's negligence were all black. Gaertner also said the state legislature should revisit or clarify the law against negligent vehicular homicide. In response to my question asking why she threw in the towel on the case, Gaertner cited the difficulty of getting a jury that could fairly adjudicate the case as well as the loss of collective community support for additional punishment of Lee.
Michael Fumento exposed the absurdity of Lee's exculpatory claims in an excellent New York Post column. For some reason Fumento's analysis has never seen the light of day in the local media.
Moving from the realm of tragedy we now enter the realm of comedy and farce or some mixed genre that Polonius might have noted (perhaps "tragical-comical-historical-pastoral"). Lee and his family have filed a lawsuit against Toyora in federal district court in St. Paul. In the lawsuit Lee alleges that Toyota is responsible for the problems flowing from his conviction and punishment.
Lee alleges that he required psychological counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder because of both the accident and his imprisonment and that he now requires sleep medication. Toyota recently moved for the dismissal of some of Lee's claims. Law students struggling with the concept of "proximate cause" in their Torts class may be helped by this example:
In documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court, attorneys for Toyota said many of Lee's claims are without legal merit and should be dismissed. Among them, they said Lee can't claim damages for his incarceration because any alleged wrongful conduct by Toyota could not have directly caused his trial and imprisonment.
"The reality, of course, is that many independent actors – including police, prosecutors, defense counsel and jurors – played pivotal causative roles in sending Koua Fong Lee to prison," Toyota's attorneys wrote.
Now comes word that federal investigators have found no evidence of sudden acceleration by Toyota automobiles resulting from electronic failures. What about the mechanical problems previously identified by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration? Forbes reports the NHTSA investigation finding that the "vast majority" of cases of unintended acceleration were actually due to what NHTSA called "pedal misapplication" — stepping on the gas instead of the brake, or in addition to the brake. (In his New York Post column this past August, Fumento had revealed that NHTSA was sitting on this finding.) Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood rejected the straightforward description of "driver error" — when a reporter asked if the problem was drivers making a mistake, LaHood shot back, "Nobody up here has ever insinuated the term that you used, driver error" — but adults can draw the appropriate conclusion.
Pedal misapplication? The case of Koua Fong Lee calls for some such euphemism to cover the institutional failures that have made Lee a free man portraying himself as a victim while pursuing a lawsuit against Toyota. I can't think of a good euphemism at the moment. With thought of the Lee case in mind, however, I do have a word of advice for Twin Cities motorists: Drive defensively!


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Medieval churches, cobblestoned streets, and endless olive groves: head to these small European towns to discover a country's soul.
A few winters ago, my family and I checked into a restored 17th-century estate in the tiny town of Lower Monferrato, in Piedmont, Italy. Our bay window looked out onto rolling hills covered in grapevines and, far, far in the landscape, the snow-topped Alps. No cars passed the cypress-dotted landscape; each morning we sat down in total tranquility to a breakfast of fresh-baked bread, soft cheeses, and blood orange juice. The experience was one that many modern travelers are searching for: a few nights hidden away in a European village, experiencing the traditional culture and soul of a destination.
What is the allure of these small towns with their meandering streets, lunch-only cafés, and intimate shops? Writer David Farley might just have the answer: "In a time of creeping globalization, villages offer a look into the past as well as a clearer sense of the country or region, including its food."
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So for your next European getaway, take a detour to a tiny town. Ullastret, in Spain's Baix Empordà, is a notable Slow Food mecca: at the four-room Hotel El Fort, owner Lola Puig serves locally grown vegetables, homemade bread, and organic goat's cheese on a lantern-lit terrace that overlooks a field of mulberry trees.
Further off the beaten path, in Arild, Sweden, the artist Lars Vilks built Nimis, a public art installation with a maze of 300-foot aboveground tunnels and a 45-foot-high climbing tower. The fishing village itself is just a two-hour drive and ferry ride from Copenhagen.
This type of experience can fulfill many expectations. According to writer Sylvie Bigar, who researched these secret places to come up with the best ones, "A tiny town offers adventure, novelty, beauty, as well as a sense of history. Knowing that some of these gems have been there for so long and have not been 'discovered' yet calms the spirit and brings a sense of peace."
A plugged-in agent can help to coordinate this type of getaway. Or just put the guidebook aside, head into the countryside, and explore on your own. The return on your investment? A rewarding and unique experience and, once you return home, priceless memories and bragging rights. —Sarah Spagnolo


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Supreme Court Rule 183(j) (2002 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 210) requires a district court reviewing a K.S.A. 60-1507 motion to make explicit findings of fact and conclusions of law regarding each of the movant's specific issues, either orally on the record or in a written journal entry. Such findings and conclusions are necessary to provide the appellate court with an opportunity for meaningful review of the district court's decision.
Appeal from Leavenworth District Court; FREDERICK N. STEWART, judge. Opinion filed February 7, 2003. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Cheryl A. Stewart, of Kansas City, for appellant.
Frank E. Kohl, county attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before BEIER, P.J., ELLIOTT and GREEN, JJ.
BEIER, J.: Darrick Harris appeals from the district court's denial of his K.S.A. 60-1507 motion, alleging that the district court's journal entry failed to comply with Supreme Court Rule 183(j)(2002 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 210).
Harris was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated battery after a Lansing Correctional Facility fight in which one guard was killed and another severely injured. He filed the instant 60-1507 motion and was provided with counsel and an evidentiary hearing on his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and newly discovered evidence.
At the hearing, Harris asserted that the lawyer who represented him at trial and on direct appeal failed in several specific respects to provide him with the level of representation guaranteed him by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and that those failures led to his conviction. In addition, he had obtained, and submitted for the court's consideration, an affidavit describing a posttrial admission of perjury by one of the witnesses who testified against him at trial. He alleged that this information constituted newly discovered evidence entitling him to a new trial.
The district judge who had tried Harris' case also presided at the evidentiary hearing on his 1507 motion. Harris testified, as did one of two other inmates he had wanted his lawyer to call at trial. There was no testimony from the other inmate Harris had sought unsuccessfully to have testify at trial or from Harris' trial counsel. Harris detailed his complaints about his counsel's performance at trial and on appeal.
At the conclusion of the 1507 testimony and closing arguments by both sides, the district court judge said only:
"Mr. Cornwell was Mr. Harris' choice of counsel both for trial and appeal. Mr. Cornwell is a very experienced and successful attorney, who specialized in serious criminal cases. During the trial in this case, which I heard, in no way did his performance appear to be deficient. The entire record on appeal in this case has been reviewed by the Kansas Supreme Court, and they in no way mentioned they found any of his actions deficient. And it does appear Mr. Harris regrets some tactical decisions that were made, and most especially the final determination of the jury. I have received no evidence today that would support any ground upon which relief could be granted to Mr. Harris, and I will deny his motion for the record."
The district judge's journal entry on the 1507 motion, filed approximately 5 weeks after the evidentiary hearing, set forth no substantive findings and conclusions. It said:
"[T]he Court, after hearing the evidence and arguments of counsel, finds as follows:
1. That the Defendant's K.S.A. 60-1507 Motion comes on for hearing.
2. That the Defendant's K.S.A. 60-1507 Motion is hereby denied."
Rule 183(j) requires a district court reviewing a 1507 motion, regardless of whether an evidentiary hearing is granted, to "make findings of fact and conclusions of law on all issues presented." (2002 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 212).
We recently addressed the requirements of Rule 183(j) in State v. Bolden, 28 Kan. App. 2d 879, 24 P.3d 163, rev. denied 271 Kan.___ (2001). We observed:
"Last year, in State v. Moncla, 269 Kan. 61, 4 P.3d 618 (2000), the Kansas Supreme Court made clear that Rule 183(j) has teeth. . . .
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"Moncla counsels us to monitor district court compliance with Rule 183(j) more strictly than we may have in the past. . . . Under Moncla, the district court's order in this case was insufficient because it failed to make findings of fact and conclusions of law regarding each of Bolden's arguments. The court's failure to address the two-part ineffective assistance of counsel test is very similar to the court's neglect of the applicable test for newly discovered evidence in Moncla. Even if this case were not ripe for reversal for an evidentiary hearing, it would be remanded for compliance with Rule 183(j)." 28 Kan. App. 2d at 883-84.
On this appeal, Harris focuses exclusively on perceived deficiencies in the district court's journal entry. We agree that those deficiencies are obvious, but this argument misses the central point of Bolden, State v. Moncla, 269 Kan. 61, 4 P.3d 618 (2000), and the rule they interpret. As Moncla explained, the purpose of requiring stricter compliance with Rule 183(j) is to ensure an opportunity for meaningful appellate review. 269 Kan. at 65. Without explicit district court findings and conclusions on the specific issues raised by the movant, it is difficult if not impossible for this court or the Supreme Court to evaluate whether the motion should have been granted or denied.
We therefore must look not only to the district court's expression of its findings and conclusions in its journal entry but to its oral expression at the time of the hearing. If the record contains a transcript of the district judge's oral findings and conclusions, and they meet Rule 183(j)'s requirements, remand is not required and we can proceed to the merits of the appeal.
In this case, the oral findings and conclusions reflected in the hearing transcript also are deficient. They address neither the two-part standard for evaluation of ineffective assistance of counsel claims, see State v. Hedges, 269 Kan. 895, 913, 8 P.3d 1259 (2000), nor the two-part standard for evaluation of newly discovered evidence claims, see Moncla, 269 Kan. at 64. They do not specifically respond to any of Harris' claims about his counsel's alleged errors. They must, in order for us to have meaningful opportunity for appellate review.
One further point bears mention: Because remand is an inefficient remedy for this recurring problem, we have thoroughly reviewed the hearing transcript and record to ascertain whether we can characterize the district judge's specific findings and conclusions as implied by its oral statement at the hearing. Although certain infirmities in Harris' factual presentation and legal reasoning are obvious, we simply cannot read the judge's mind and dispose of every claim. Our effort was further impeded by the judge's oral reference to irrelevant material, e.g., the facts that Harris chose his trial and appellate lawyer and that the lawyer was experienced and enjoyed a good reputation. Remand is, unfortunately for an overburdened system, unavoidable.
Reversed and remanded for entry of findings of fact and conclusions of law consistent with Rule 183(j) and this opinion.


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We live in a complex society, but in the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, we are doing our best to make it less complicated.
In fact, that's exactly what we do -- we study complex systems and look for simplifying solutions. We work across all environments and fields of study including manufacturing, management, service industries, healthcare systems, and others. So, our time could be spent at a hospital developing ways to decrease wait times in emergency rooms, or you might find us in a manufacturing facility working on quality assurance issues or consulting at amusement parks, and beyond.
At the undergraduate level, we offer a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering. We are proud to inform you that this degree is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
At the master's and doctoral levels, we have two programs: one in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) and the second in Systems Science (SS). Those pursuing master's degrees also have the option to choose a concentration in Health Systems or a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree with a concentration in Industrial Engineering or Systems Engineering. The department is also one of few to offer an accelerated MS degree program - the Executive Master of Science in Health Systems program is the only one-year program of its kind with focus on improving healthcare, currently offered in Manhattan.
A health systems concentration is available in both MS programs. It is geared for professional or leadership roles in healthcare areas including hospital operations management, health systems engineering, bio-technology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, health information technology, consulting and health policy.
We also offer the 4+1 program for qualified undergraduates, which allows them to complete requirements toward an MS either in SS or ISE in a relatively short period of time. A similar program is in place for an advanced degree from the School of Management.
The Department is very active in research. We are very closely aligned with the Watson Institute for Systems Excellence (WISE), which is an internationally renowned, multi-faceted, customer-focused organization that assists industry in a cost-competitive manner while currently enhancing competitiveness in industry. Our faculty and primarily graduate students are brought together with federal and industry sponsors to conduct innovative industry-based research. Many students take advantage of our graduate distance learning program (EngiNet) to continue their education while being involved in WISE.
So, if you like to look at complex systems and try to improve them, you will like it here. If you want to be involved in cutting-edge research and application of that research, you will also like it here. Please continue to explore our website to learn more about the exciting opportunities available here at an affordable price. Our Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Directors are available to answer any questions you may have that are not addressed on our website.
We are continuously improving our programs as we strive to ensure that we meet and/or exceed the mission and goals of our School and our Department, which are listed here for your review:
SSIE Department's Mission and Goals
The mission of the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering is:
1. to educate students at the undergraduate and graduate levels of systems science,
industrial engineering and systems engineering,
2. to advance the state of scientific and technical knowledge through basic and applied research,
3. to provide technical support for the economic development of the state of New York, and
4. to provide service to the university, the public, and the professional community.
Again, thank you for your interest and good luck in your educational endeavors.
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