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The post, titled "An Open Letter to My Denomination: Have We Lost Our First Love?", expresses concern that the Southern Baptist Convention, which owns the Nashville-based publisher, is "reaching fewer people … than decades ago." The letter includes the link to a June 2013 news story that cites annual statistics showing SBC declines in membership, attendance and baptisms, but Rainer told Baptist Press the timing of the letter is unrelated to any other current events or developments in the convention.
The purpose of the letter, Rainer wrote, "Is not to chastise … (but) to share a broken heart and express a heartfelt desire to change. I must love Jesus more deeply and tell others about Him more often. I must share Christ's love not only with my words, but with every action and interaction I have." He invited Southern Baptists pastors and laypeople to join in him in asking God to lead each individual "to love Him more deeply."
Rainer said he struggled with whether to post the letter out of concern it might be seen arrogant or condescending, but was motivated in part by "the reality of the state of our denomination and the reality that that state is not getting better."
Rainer characterized reaction to the letter as "overwhelmingly positive," primarily because "people have, for the most part, responded out of a personal conviction that God needs to do something in their lives, which -- in my own life -- is what prompted me to write it."
In the first six hours of posting, the letter had been viewed more than 7,000 times, and shared, liked and re-posted more than a thousand times through various social media platforms.
The full text of Rainer's open letter, as posted at ThomRainer.com, follows:
An Open Letter to My Denomination: Have We Lost Our First Love?
By Thom S. Rainer
Dear Southern Baptists:
I could be writing to a broader audience. Perhaps I should be. And I know many outside our denomination will read this brief letter. I hope those readers will bear with me as I have a "family discussion."
Please hear me clearly. I am not writing out of any sense of superiority. Indeed, many of you could put me to shame. But my heart is breaking with what I perceive to be a loss of passion for those who do not know Christ. Many of you have seen the numbers. We are reaching fewer people for the gospel today than we did decades ago when we were a much smaller group.
The First Love
Where is the passion in most of our churches to reach the lost? Where is the passion among our leaders, both in our churches and in our denomination? Jesus told those at the church at Ephesus that they had sound doctrine, that they hated evil (Revelation 2:1-7). But He also told them they had lost their first love. When we truly love Jesus with all of our hearts, we can't help but tell others about Him. We can't help but share the good news.
I thank God for our contending for the faith. I thank God for our affirmation of the total truthfulness of Scripture. I thank God for orthodoxy. But I pray that it is not becoming a dead orthodoxy -- an orthodoxy that has lost its first love.
The Purpose of the Letter
The purpose of this letter is not to chastise. I am a messed up sinner who has no right to look at the splinter in the eyes of my brothers and sisters when I need to deal with the plank in my own eye. I need to fall more deeply in love with Jesus. I need to share His love as part of my very being. In His power I must do more and I must do better.
No, the purpose of this letter is simply to share a broken heart, and to express a heartfelt desire to change. I must love Jesus more deeply and tell others about Him more often. I must show Christ's love not only with my words, but with every action and interaction I have. I must be more like Him every day.
I have no proposal. I have no new programs for now. I simply have a burden.
And as a commitment to God first, but then a commitment to you, I am asking God to lead me to love Him more deeply than I ever have. I am asking God to put people in my life where I can show His love, and tell them about my Savior.
It Must Begin with Me
My life's desire is to glorify God by loving Him with all my heart. And I have no right to say that unless I am so much in love with Him that I "am unable to stop speaking about what (I) have seen and heard" (Acts 4:20). Evangelism must be as natural to me as breathing.
Pastors, will you join me in this plea? Will you be an evangelistic example for the churches God has called you to serve? Laypersons, will you pray for evangelistic hearts in your own lives? I must make that prayer a part of my life every day.
Have we lost our first love? Is that love reflected in how we share the gospel of Christ every day?
May God break me until I am all His, telling others about His Son every day.
And may the sharing of the good news of Christ once again become the focus of all our lives in the churches of our denomination.
Marty King is director of corporate communications for LifeWay Christian Resources. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).
Copyright (c) 2014 Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press www.BPNews.net


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Archive for Thursday, July 14, 2011
Higher food costs: Increases attributed to higher demand
July 14, 2011
Sean Fox, a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, answers questions about rising food prices around the globe.
Q: Why are food prices on the rise?
A: The increased prices can be attributed to several factors based on supply and demand.
Q: I've read that corn, which is used in so many products, should be blamed because so much of it is now going for ethanol. Is that true?
A: Biofuel production has facilitated higher prices through greater demand for corn. Higher oil prices contribute to increased demand for ethanol, which drives up the price of corn.
Q: How much corn is going toward biofuel production?
A: It's estimated 40 percent of the United States' corn output will likely be used for ethanol in 2011.
Q: So is that, in turn, causing food prices to go up worldwide?
A: What has happened is that incomes have increased very dramatically in places like India and China, contributing to a very dramatic overall increase in demand for food commodities. That is a major driver on the demand side. The world's population also has increased by 10 to 12 percent during the last 10 years, increasing the demand for food.
Q: Bottom line: What are the effects from higher food prices worldwide?
A: The effects of higher-priced food commodities are far from universal. In Europe and the U.S., people spend a relatively small proportion of their incomes on food — around 10 percent. People in lower-income countries, such as in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, spend a greater proportion of their income on food. If they are spending 70-plus percent of their income on food, a 15 percent increase in wheat prices or corn prices is a major issue for them.
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K5 International has picked up the international rights to rock drummer documentary Beware of Mr Baker and will take the award-winning film to Berlin's European Film Market next week.
The agreement reunites the Munich-based sales outfit with producer Fisher Stevens, who K5 worked with on environmental doc The Cove.
Beware of Mr Baker focuses on the wild drummer for rock groups Cream and Blind Faith, Ginger Baker.
Directed by Jay Bulger and produced by Insurgent Media's Andrew Karsh and Fisher Stevens, it explores Baker's drug-induced self-destruction, constructed from hour of interviews and with the now reclusive 73 year-old and 3D-aniamted photography.
It also includes interviews with musicians Eric Clapton, Charlie Watts, Steve Winwood, Carlos Santana and Stewart Copeland.
The film won the SXSW Grand Jury Prize last year.
The deal was negotiated by Daniel Baur on behalf of K5 International and Steven C. Beer on behalf of Insurgent Media.


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- Habitats explorer
- Grassland
- Purple Moor Grass and Rush Pasture
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What is it?
The marshy grassland known as purple moor grass and rush pasture occurs on poorly drained, mainly acidic sites in lowland areas with high rainfall and wet soils. It is often found with other habitats, such as wet heath, scrub and dry grassland, making up a patchwork of diverse places that support a wide range of insects. It mainly occurs on gently sloping land or on floodplains where it may be periodically flooded during the winter.
In the past, purple moor grass and rush pasture was cut for hay during dry summers, but this practice is now in decline. Today, only a few sites are managed as hay meadows, and most are kept as rough grazing for cattle and horses.
Where is it found?
Purple moor grass and rush pastures are most frequent in the west of the UK, extending eastwards where wet soils are found. It is estimated that less than 70,000 hectares remain with important concentrations in Cornwall, the Somerset Levels, the New Forest, East Anglia, South Wales and Pembrokeshire.
Why is it important?
Purple moor grass and rush pasture is chock full of wildlife, with up to 50 different plant species present in just four square metres of grassland. Usually dominated by large tussocks of purple moor-grass, more uncommon plants, such as lesser butterfly-orchid and fragrant orchid, can also be found among the vegetation. In the south, meadow thistles add splashes of purple in mid-summer, and in the north, globeflowers add striking bobs of yellow.
Flowing water may create flushes which provide an exceptionally rich area for species such as fairy flax, the insectivorous common butterwort and the rare lesser clubmoss.
On more acidic soils, purple moor grass and rushes may be interspersed with tall herbs like wild angelica and the pungent meadowsweet, plus lovers of damp conditions like ragged-robin and water mint. Here, orchids include the heath spotted- and southern marsh-orchids.
Among the grasses and flowers, curlew and lapwing breed, skylark rise up in song and reed bunting blend into the muted colours of reeds. Snipe may be seen darting for cover when disturbed and grasshopper warblers can be heard imitating the insects they are named after.
Purple moor grass and rush pasture is particularly important for its populations of marsh fritillary and brown hairstreak butterflies (UK BAP priority species). Common frogs breed in shallow pools between tussocks, and may be hunted by otters. Grass snakes and adders take advantage of the sunny patches between tussocks for basking.
Is it threatened?
Farmers rightly take pride in the increases in agricultural productivity which they have achieved through ploughing, drainage, increased fertiliser and herbicide application, and increased grazing. Sadly, the costs for conservation have been high and the once familiar sight of purple moor grass and rush pasture is now rare.
How are The Wildlife Trusts helping?
The Wildlife Trusts are working to prevent further loss of our purple moor grass and rush pasture by looking after areas as nature reserves. We use traditional management techniques, such as hay-cutting and grazing, to maintain them, and we are re-wetting areas that have dried out for example through upland drainage schemes.
The Wildlife Trusts also provide advice and guidance for landowners and farmers on wildlife-friendly practices in these areas. By ensuring that the land surrounding our reserves is looked after sympathetically for wildlife, we can create A Living Landscape: a network of habitats and wildlife corridors across town and countryside, which are good for both wildlife and people.
What can I do to help?
- Take part in conservation measures on your land – ask your local Wildlife Trust for advice on grazing and management methods for wet pastures.
- Support the work of The Wildlife Trusts across the UK and become a member of your local Trust.
- Volunteer with your local Wildlife Trust and help your local wildlife; you could be involved in everything from scrub-cutting to wildflower surveying.
- Support wildlife-friendly, traditionally managed farms by purchasing direct from local farms.


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Hall China
Founded in 1903, the Hall China Company began with three brick kilns, 38 potters, and Robert Hall's dream of producing chinaware through the superior single-fire process. It was this single-fire process, which ensures a more durable, lead-free product, that helped establish Hall China as the market leader.
Today, Hall China's factory is an impressive 12 acres under one roof with 125 employees. Six computerized, fast-fire kilns use state-of-the-art technology that results in chinaware that is 32.2% stronger and uniform — piece after piece, year after year.
Recently Hall China joined Homer Laughlin China under the HLC Inc. umbrella. Hall China continues its mission as the largest manufacturer of specialty dinnerware. By offering tabletop completer items for virtually any foodservice segment, Hall China has been able to thrive. We manufacture items that others, foreign or domestic, simply cannot.


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The new Government Security Classification Policy comes into force on 2 April 2014 and describes how HM Government classifies information assets to ensure they are appropriately protected. It applies to all information that government collects, stores, processes, generates or shares to deliver services and conduct business. Published 18 October 2013 by the Cabinet Office. Documents:
- Government Security Classifications April 2014
- Working with OFFICIAL information
- Managing information risk at OFFICIAL
- Working with personal information
- Government Security Classifications: supplier briefing
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"Add to Watchlist" seems to be the only option. Adding from MyMovies itself seems illogical since I always add a film just after rating it.


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A guest post from the Medical Director of the Regional Cancer Therapy Center, Dr. Mark Soberman:
In late 2012, FMH launched its Lung CT Screening Program. Initially, as per the National Lung Screening Trial, eligible patients were those age 55-74, with a 30 pack year (1 pack a day for 30 years, 2 packs a day for 15 years, or some other similar combination of packs per day multiplied by years smoked) history of smoking, either current smokers or those who quit in the last 15 years.
Early this year, data from another more recent study compelled us to revise those criteria, lowering the age of eligibility from 55 to 50 and the number of pack-years smoked to 20. This was because the data demonstrated that doing so would improve the sensitivity of the study, without decreasing the specificity or accuracy. In other words, it enables us find more early lung cancers.
As happens in any market, it was just a matter of time before someone else offered screening lung CT scans in the community. However, it's important to know that all CT screening programs are not the same. All of the professional groups and societies that endorse and recommend CT screening for lung cancer advise that it should be done as part of an organized multidisciplinary program and not a "drive through" where you get a reading and are left with no idea of what it means or what to do.
At FMH, all positive screens or abnormal CT scans are reviewed by an expert team of radiologists, pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons, with results and recommendations reported to the patient and their primary care physician. A dedicated Nurse Navigator coordinates the scans, makes sure patients receive and understand the results and makes sure they get the proper follow up care. We maintain a database to track scan results, ensure that those results are communicated to the patient and their doctor and that the appropriate follow up care is obtained. In other words, we make sure that nothing falls through the cracks. Our patients' lives depend on it.
CT scans can be expensive, but because patients must pay out of pocket, we decided to offer the scans at a cost of $99. The expert multidisciplinary team review and services of the Nurse Navigator are included in that fee. You may see CT Lung Screening offered at the same or lower price, but it is not the same. Make sure you know exactly what you're getting for your money. You deserve the best care possible. It's what we at FMH strive for every day.
No doctor's order is needed for this test. If you fit the criteria above and you're concerned about your risk for lung cancer, call 301-694-LUNG (5864) for a preliminary telephone screening and — if appropriate — to schedule your appointment.


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Milliken woman dies in rollover
Staff reports
A 49-year-old Milliken woman died early Sunday morning when the vehicle she was driving rolled over in west Greeley.
The Weld coroner and the Greeley Police Department are currently investigating the death of Estelle Alvarez.
About midnight Sunday, Alvarez, who was the sole occupant in her vehicle, lost control on 95th Avenue, near 20th Street in Greeley. Alvarez initially survived the crash and was taken to North Colorado Medical Center, where she later died.
Alvarez is the 20th person to die on Weld roads this year compared to 24 during the same time period last year.


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Nonprofit group buys Nikola Tesla's former Shoreham lab
That "For Sale" sign on the former Shoreham laboratory of brilliant scientist Nikola Tesla is gone for good.
A group of dedicated fans of the Serbian-American scientist closed last week on the $850,000 purchase of Tesla's laboratory called Wardenclyffe, located off Route 25A.
After nearly two decades of trying to raise money to preserve the lab, the nonprofit group called the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe officially took the deed for the 16-acre cluster of lab buildings from the multinational Belgian company Agfa, said Jane Alcorn, the nonprofit's president.
"I'm grateful. We're still absorbing the reality of it, but we're delighted," Alcorn said. "We're certainly excited, and our next job is to start planning the next order of business."
Wardenclyffe was built in 1903 and designed by the famed architect Stanford White, who was a friend of Tesla. After Tesla lost funding for his research and the lab closed in 1915, its main building operated for decades as a photo-processing plant.
"Here we are almost a hundred years later, and now the property has come back into the sphere of influence of Nikola Tesla," said David Madigan, a board member of the Tesla Science Center nonprofit. "It's a satisfying feeling."
Among other innovations, Tesla invented major components used in modern radio and electricity, only to see the fame and riches for his inventions go to others. He died penniless in 1943 at the New Yorker hotel in Manhattan, where a news conference was held Thursday to announce the final sale.
Alcorn's group had struggled for years to raise enough money to preserve Wardenclyffe as a museum and research center. Last summer, the group got an unexpected boost from a popular Internet cartoonist and Tesla fan, Matthew Inman of Seattle.
Inman called international attention to Alcorn's efforts, and within days the group had received online pledges of more than $1.3 million -- more than enough to buy the property and make a start toward the renovations that will cost millions more, Madigan said.
"We have evaluations yet to do, decisions to make about what buildings to adapt," Alcorn said. "There's a long process ahead, and a lot more money to raise."


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Thank you poems are a perfect and romantic way to say thank you to your loved ones, frineds, teachers, pastors and more.
And unique thank you poems will highlight your appreciation cards. But many people choose to send a thank you gift instead when they want to say thank you but if you want to make it more personalized, the appreciation should also include a thank you verse to make known your sincere appreciation.
This article offers a few thank you poems for you to browse:
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SAG Awards 2013 Articles
2013 SAG Awards hilights, gossip, photos, and video.
French Flu Remedy
Wenn, Splash
I am still not over this flu. It'll be ok for a few hours and then it'll slide back to sucking all over again. And it's turned me into a mouth-breather so that's attractive. Especially in combination with the smell that's wafting around me, a combination of head sweat and sleep musk. Full Story
SAGs Worst & Gross: Sofia Vergara
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Like most of you, I love Sofia Vergara. She makes me laugh all the time. Her fiancé though... For a while now there have been some reports about his sketchy behaviour. Click here and here Full Story
Annie's speech problem
Anne Hathaway's speeches always start out good. Remember the Globes? And her tribute to Sally Field? That was good. Last night too. Last night she started out strong. She talked about her SAG membership, she expressed her love for her community. And if she had stopped there, we'd be cool. Full Story
This was not the worst
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It was a pretty boring carpet on style, right? So how could January Jones be the worst? Not with that bitch-face. (Did you see her stalk in like she was ready to have words?) Not with this hair. You might not like it, or the dress, but at least it gave you a reaction. At least it gave you some thrill. Full Story
Eddie Redmayne: The Season's Best
Too soon? We still have the DGAs, the BAFTAs, and of course the Oscars to come. But Eddie Redmayne's been on such a hot streak, I wonder if it's now an automatic. If he's there, he's the best of the men, the class of the carpet. And the great part of that is that it's never the same. Full Story
Nicole's SAG hair
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Nicole Kidman was definitely a contender for SAG best in Vivienne Westwood. But even if you can get past the lips, can you really get past the hair? Gwyneth Paltrow's straightening iron met Keith Urban. Had it been flat against her head, perhaps it wouldn't be so weird. But there's a humped tease on either side of her part and I can't understand how that happens. Full Story
In the absence of the Brange...
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This year we get the Afflecks... You know how hard the Afflecks have been working. Last night, from the moment they arrived, it was work time, did you see? Ben Affleck hit the carpet before Jennifer Garner did -- she must have been held up getting out of the car. As soon as she joined him though he was right in her ear -- downloading information/gossip/strategising, whatever it was, she dutifully nodded, understanding the game plan, gave him a quick kiss, and they were off. Full Story
Jennifer Lawrence & Jessica Chastain improve at the SAGs
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Because, on fashion, they were both sh-t at the Golden Globes. Click here and here to revisit Jennifer Lawrence's weird red gown and Jessica Chastain's terrible, terrible sea foam. For Jessica it was red McQueen. Full Story


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Michael Gustavson graduated from San Jose State University with a Master of Fine Arts in 1980. A master in raku ceramic using a wide range of glaze colors and textures, he creates vessels, wall sculptures, and substantial totemic forms to be placed in the garden. All are intricate exercises in the harmony of form, texture, and color. Equally successful as free-form organic sculptures and abstract paintings, the pieces incorporate lusciously textured glazes that perfectly complement the surface quality and shape of his compositions.
The artist's vessels explore a fluidity of form particular to clay. They are thrown on the wheel, distorted, and consequently hand stretched to paper-thin proportions. Each graceful form evokes a dancer's torso, shifting endlessly in shape and design as the viewer perambulates around it.
Gustavson's wall hangings, on the other hand, are fragmented shards that hang together as diptychs, triptychs, or five-slab arrangements. Incorporating the negative space between the pieces into the composition, he simultaneously employs organic and geometric shapes in muted glazes. The result evokes a timeless quality, alluding to the endurance of artistic achievements long after the artist and his culture have ceased to exist.
In his most recent series of powerful tectonic forms created for outdoor spaces, Gustavson continues to express his painterly textural compositions using his extensive palette of glazes in his California studio.
Michael Gustavson's artworks are included in private and public collections throughout the world. Such major corporations as IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Seagate, Cranbrook Museum, and Eastman Kodak own pieces by the artist. Most recently his work has been sold to collectors in London, England and Norway.
Gustavson's work is unique: he uses the traditional Japanese process of raku presented in a decidedly contemporary way. Over the four decades of his career, Gustavson has developed a deep appreciation for the spontaneity and firing process of this ancient art form, becoming a master in his technique while constantly pushing the limits of the medium. The glazes Gustavson uses appeal to one's sense of touch through a continued emphasis on surface quality and texture, while his compositional explorations use both color and textural contrasts to create a sense of depth. There is always a line to follow, an area to dwell on, and a relationship of shapes to explore on Gustavson's sculpture.
Apple Computer, Morgan Hill, CA
Bank of Tokyo, Philadelphia, PA
Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder, CO
Crankbrook University, Cranbrook, MI
Cabrillo Community College, Santa Cruz, CA
David Cutler Corp, Bell, PA
Kaiser Hospital, Irvine, CA
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MacDonald Corp, Chicago, IL
Saks Fifth Avenue, Miami, FL
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Sea Tac Airport, Seattle, WA
Sequim Medical Center, Sequim, WA
Syntax, Santa Clara, CA
Seagate Corp, Bloomington, MI
Wydell & Reed Corp, San Jose, CA
World Headquarters Bank, San Francisco, CA
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Goldie Hawn
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I'm sorry but there is no arguing this point. Not even from those of you just getting home from Las Vegas.
What makes it so cool, you ask? Maybe the fact that you could have the chance of a lifetime when Belle and Sebastian releases a 7″ next year of a song that was WRITTEN ABOUT YOU!!!!!!
Inside every copy of Belle and Sebastian's new album Write About Love is a unique code which you will enter here and then write 300 words about love, in any sense of the word. Why you love. Who you love. What you love. Where you love. Anything. Just write about love.
Then Belle and Sebastian will pick a winner (henceforth referred to as "Lucky") and Stuart Murdoch will fly out to Lucky's hometown, hang out with Lucky for an afternoon, and write and record a song about Lucky which will then be released on an exclusive Belle and Sebastian 7″ later in 2011.
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Editor's note: The MetroWest Daily News and Wicked Local were sponsors of this event, along with Regis College, and Daily News Editor-in-Chief Anne Brennan was one of the panel speakers.
"This past year was a ... when I was in eighth grade ... was pretty tough because I was a Trump supporter and I had a tough time in school because people weren't necessarily respectful of my political beliefs. And I just want to ask the panel, what you guys can instill in our future students to teach respect and to agree to disagree when it comes to political beliefs?"
That was the question poised by 14-year-old Harry Murphy of Walpole at the end of the "DeHate the Debate" panel discussion at Regis College in Weston on Monday, Sept. 11.
The panel discussion focused on whether Americans can remove the vitriol from discussions about politics and work to find common ground in what is becoming an increasingly divisive time in politics. The panel talked about whether Americans can have conversations about politics without arguing.
Watch our video coverage of the event to see how the five panelists answered Murphy's question and the praise they gave the teen for his courage in speaking up. The panelists — Newton mayor and candidate for Massachusetts governor Setti Warren; Waltham Mayor Jeannette McCarthy; former Massachusetts lieutenant governor and CEO of O'Neill and Associates Tom O'Neill III; former CNN White House correspondent and current Little Park Media owner Dan Lothian; and Daily News Editor-in-Chief Anne Brennan all spoke Monday to a crowd of about 600 people at Regis College.
WCVB reporter Janet Wu moderated the event, during which the speakers talked about how they handle assumptions about their chosen professions, how social media has changed the public discourse and more.
Watch the MetroWest Daily News and Wicked Local Facebook live stream of the conversation. Then scroll down to view the conversation on Twitter, which you can join with the hashtag #DeHateDebate.
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Welcome To Three Rivers
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That means hundreds of men and women dressed in Santa suits will descend San Diego's streets Saturday at high noon to take part in what the event organizers call "Kringle Kaos and Holiday Hedonism."
Santarchy or Santacon events are held in just about every big city in the country and many more around the world.
This 21+ event began in 1994 when a few friends decided to visit downtown San Francisco for a night they titled "Kringle Kaos." That night has evolved into a worldwide phenomenon.
The dress code is simple. Duh? Wear a Santa suit.
Many Santa's carry bags of naughty goodies to hand out along the way.
The Santarchy organizers have a four "f" list of things you should not do.
Don't "f" with police, kids, security or Santa. In the past, most revelers stick to those principals.
They are clear that Santarchy is "not a movement." They say it is also not a protest against Christmas or commercialization. "Really, it's just a bunch of Santa's getting together to have a good time."
The December 12 Santa-bration begins at exactly 12:00 at the Balboa Park Fountain. All late Santas will rally at at Nunu's in Banker's Hill at 3 p.m and then Santa's Sweatshop, also known as The Ruby Room at 6 p.m.


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(AP) -- Ilya Kovalchuk broke a tie with a short-handed goal late in the second period and the New Jersey Devils won their third straight game with a 4-2 victory over the slumping Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.
Andy Greene and Patrik Elias iced the game with power-play goals 14 seconds apart with less than 5 minutes to play as the Devils (6-1-3) sent the Lightning to their third consecutive loss. Elias also had two assists.
Adam Henrique scored for the second game in a row and Martin Brodeur made 17 saves for New Jersey.
Nate Thompson and Matthew Carle scored for the Lightning, who have five goals during their losing streak. Tampa Bay scored 37 times in starting the season 6-1.
New Jersey, which came in having killed off 15 straight penalties, was 4 for 4 on the penalty kill, with Kovalchuk tallying after the Devils got an unsportsmanlike penalty.
Kovalchuk's third goal and second short-handed came after he intercepted a pass by defenseman Sami Salo and skated into the Lightning zone on a 2-on-1 with Travis Zajac. The Russian used his center as a decoy and snapped a shot from the dot in the left circle low into the corner of the net against a defenseless Anders Lindback at 17:34, snapping a six-game goal drought.
The Devils had been hit with their third straight penalty 1:11 earlier when somebody on the bench appeared to say something that referee Chris Rooney didn't appreciate.
Brodeur made the mistake that allowed Tampa Bay to tie the score 1-all a little more than 4 minutes earlier. Usually an outstanding puckhandler, he misplayed a pass from the crease off the sideboards. Martin St. Louis intercepted the pass and found Thompson between the circles for a shot into the top of the net.
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Henrique, who missed the first five games of the season while recovering from thumb surgery, had put New Jersey ahead earlier in the period thanks to a mistake by Lindback. The 6-foot-6 goalie thought he had caught a shot from the point by defenseman Anton Volchenkov. The puck, however, slipped out of his glove and Henrique pounced on the loose puck and backhanded it into the net for his third goal in five games.
Steven Stamkos, who had a five-game goal-scoring streak snapped in a 2-1 loss at Philadelphia on Tuesday, had the best chance to tie the game in the third period. He cross-checked Devils defenseman Marek Zidlicky to get open and missed a wide-open net after getting the rebound of a point shot by Marc-Andre Bergeron.
Greene scored with 4:48 to go with the Devils on a two-man advantage, and Elias capped his second straight three-point night seconds later.
Carle scored with the Lightning down three goals.
Before the game, the Devils decided to play first-round draft pick Stefan Matteau, marking his sixth game of the regular season. The decision means that the first year of his contract kicks in for this lockout-shortened 48-game season. The 18-year-old can still be sent down to play junior hockey, but his entry level contract is now active.
NOTES: With blizzard advisories in the northeast, the Lightning are heading to Boston for a game on Saturday. The Devils will play at home against the Penguins. ... Devils LW Dainius Zubrus was scratched with an upper body injury sustained Tuesday against the Rangers. ... Brodeur played in his 1,199th NHL game. ... The crowd of 14,802 was the Devils' first non-sellout in five home games.
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The victim sustained non life-threatening injuries and was transported to Exeter Hospital after what police believe was a four-door silver sedan that allegedly struck the man while the car was traveling north. It continued driving immediately after the incident.
The man has since been released from the hospital and is doing fine, Lt. Jeff Simes said Wednesday.
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Last Friday, police responded at about 7:08 a.m. to the report of a pedestrian having been struck in the crosswalk on Route 108, Simes told Foster's that day.
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Though the area is a common spot for pedestrians to cross the road, Simes told Foster's "there isn't necessarily many vehicle-versus-pedestrian accidents." He said that location sees a high level of pedestrian traffic due to so many apartments located there.
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LSD, oh how I love you. (this is a long entry)
Today was my first 10 run.
Not ten miles (though close), but 10 on the infamous scale. Really, it was incredible. I think the mapmyrun.com version isn't quite as much distance as I ran, but it might be my happiness/ego getting in the way. I was supposed to do 1:45 hrs, but only did 1:33 ("only" … ?)
Here is the run. It really was awesome. The weather here today was perfect: cold in the AM and lovely by the afternoon. My Mom is in town visiting, so we decided Bent Creek would be a great place for her to walk/bird and for me to run. I knew that Bent Creek loop didn't go so well for me the last time we did it (Sept 7th). Actually, the last run there was more or less horrible, but I was excited and ready to tackle today's run.
Before I get into the details of the run, I want to make a few statements:
1) I didn't do the Thursday run (which would have been rescheduled for Friday anyway) because I didn't feel like it and because I was sleepy and achy and because it was pouring rain. I didn't want to deal with the rain or with running on a treadmill. Really, I wondered if I could write that on this blog, to all of you readers, that I just didn't want to run… but there it is. I gave myself the permission to take care of myself, to body sense and listen to what my body was asking me to do. Sometimes I get into these funks where I try to tell myself I don't want to go run or exercise or grocery shop or something just 'because', when really I am being lazy. You'd think I'd be able to play reverse mind games and just get out there, but no… Sometimes it's nice to just be lazy.
2) Ivan and I went to a Hatha Yoga class on Saturday. It was my attempt at some physical activity, it was at a good time of day, it was what we wanted to do with our afternoon before Mom arrived. So we went, and it was lovely. Ivan's first real experience at a yoga class, and it was wonderful. Aided by a calm teacher and yoga props, the class was 90 minutes and sufficiently exhausted my muscles. I woke up this morning realizing I was kinda sore (isn't yoga supposed to be Chi anyway? You can't really do ChiYoga. Can you? Can I ever do an intense and enjoyable yoga class without getting sore?). It was a healthy kind, where I could feel my muscles and remember that I have some.
3) I ate a huge breakfast of coffee, water and pumpkin-bread french toast at Sunny Point Cafe. It's about a mile from my house, so we decided we'd just walk there this morning, and we bundled up and by the time we arrived, were warmed enough to sit outside in the 55 degree weather, not even in the sunshine. Lovely breakfast and I was wanting some carbohydrates to get my sugar and energy up for the run. I drank a LOT of water.
When I started the run I was excited. I am sure that helped me feel good about the entire thing, but I was really excited — for how beautiful the weather was, that my Mom would get to enjoy the WNC mountains, that I was going to rock my run. I took music again for this run (gasp…). Really, I mean, come on, how was I going to spend that long on a loop/out n back run with just the sound of my own breath? (Smile). I know that might sound silly to some of you crazy long distance runners, but that's a long time for me to be in my own head.
I left my Mom at our meeting place with iPod in one hand and water bottle in the other. I figured I ought to take some water with me, so I took it about 3/4 mile up the road with me and stashed it in the leaves. When I started the run, I didn't have any music, and I stayed that way until 50 minutes into the run (I have to congratulate myself, because I didn't think I'd go that long without music if I had it with me). I started the run basically just smiling and happy. I have been asked to be a little clearer with the focuses of my runs, and perhaps I have been a little vague about my actual brain activity on these runs… so, just to set the record straight, the only things I focused with on this run were:
a) ankles up (the woodchips and pebbly terrain were just begging for me to trip, so I kept my ankles up). I didn't think about it, I just did it. They just went up. There were only a few times that my feet scuffed, and they were when I was tired and when I was going up hill. I was very clear about that.
b) I thought about maintaining a good cadence. I didn't bring the metronome. How crazy would it be to have the metronome beeping along and have some music on…? Ha, the thought is funny: I'd be like a crazy person truly beating to the sound of my own drum: 87 beats per minute for a little while and then WHAM 95 … slow, back to 67, then 87… oh, wait now I am at 95!..
No, it wasn't like that at all. I actually felt that my cadence was good. I wasn't thinking anything except 'quick, quick, quick'…
c) breath. I didn't think too much about it except when I started to get short of it or when i got a little twinge of a side ache. Then I focucsed on breathing OUT.
Sometimes in today's run, I focused on keeping my arms going from elbow to wrist, elbow to wrist, over and over again and quickly, sometimes later in the run if I felt tired, I used my arms to set my perceived quick cadence.
It seems so long ago, (only like 7 hours) but what I do remember is that there were quite a few people on the trail, and I didn't ever let that bother me, I kept smiling. I was so excited to be able to run almost 10 miles and enjoy it. It's like I just told myself (even days ago) that today's run would be awesome and that I could do it… and I did! Thank god for Michael Jackson. Just when I hit the biggest hill at about mile 6, (not really a hill, but it felt like it) "Beat It" came on and then, blessedly, "Speed Demon" immediately after that. Isn't that hilarious?
When Danny first gave me the workout schedule, I looked, of course, straight to the last workout to see what I was expected to accomplish. The last run time for the LSD was 1:45. I thought 'Pashaw, yeah right. Is he crazy?' I mean, obviously I would have to run at least that long in the race, but I really didn't know that I'd be able to get there (only 9 minutes short) within 10 weeks.
[isn't it so appropriate that today's run, my "last" run of the 10 week schedule turned out to be a '10' run?]
Anyway: I am trying to stay focused when I am writing this to really tell you how it was, how great it was.
I tagged this as 'almost euphoric' for a reason, and now I am having a hard time chronicling how I made it, or how it just was awesome.
I felt fast, I felt in form, I felt happy, I felt grateful, I felt like I was doing something for myself and I was being a successful do-it-for-yourself-girl. I was so happy to not have speed work or to have a particular 'agenda'.
I am sore now, which is okay, but I know it's from the yoga. I had a little bit of knee ache that started around the :45 min mark and lasted through the run, but as soon as I walked it out afterward, it was gone.
I am in disbelief that I ran 1:45 hrs today, without injury, without pain, without tears. I did run 1:45 hrs today, with grace, with happiness and with fun.
Folks, if I can do this, you can do this. I work for this company, for heaven's sake, and I am just as amazed and grateful as any of you. This is the good stuff. It's called LSD for a reason.
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If I had to describe this weekend in only one word it would be "indulgences". Luckily, I am allowed more than one word to elaborate.
On Friday night Christian and I made the long trek to his friend Steffi's birthday party, who lives all the way on the fifth floor of the same building. This was especially convenient because the weather has been cold and rainy, thus I was one of the only girls who arrived with non-frizzy hair. Steffi studied at the Université de Montréal last semester, so it was nice to see a familiar (female) face. The party was really fun. There were lots of other exchange students there, so both English and German were being used. I spoke French to a French girl who complimented me on my lack of a Québécois accent, to which I replied that I had spent the last two years trying to acquire one. Along with all the exchange students and Steffi's other friends, Christian's regular group of guy friends were also there. There are six other boys that pretty much do everything together: Rody, Hammer, Mickey, Bőrnd (pronounced Bernd), Thomas, and BJ. Most, if not all – I'm not sure – have known each other since elementary, and all stayed friends. They are all really nice and have been really welcoming, which continued on Friday night. When we go out with them, I don't feel like I am just tagging along. Anyway, they were all there on Friday night, although no one else had brought their girlfriends, which was kind of annoying as I crave girl contact. Steffi wouldn't let anybody leave, so even Christian and I, who had been planning to stay late, left later than we had intended, at 5 in the morning.
The next day's indulgence started when we woke up, at 1:30 in the afternoon. I won't bother writing much more about Saturday, except to say that I did all my homework, read Anna Karenina, and didn't get out of my pyjamas all day. Despite having woken up so late, I still managed to fall asleep around midnight.
Sunday we slept in, but not too late, and got ready to go to the "Buschenschenk" with Bőrnd and Martina, his girlfriend. The Buschenschenk is basically the Austrian wine district, where families have small restaurants on their property where everything they serve comes from their own gardens, farms, and vineyards. I wanted to have the most authentic Austrian Buschenschenk experience, so I ordered a Brettljause: a platter with different kinds of meats, sausages, cheeses, and spreads that comes with a basket of breads. Our bread was so fresh that it was still warm. There was turkey, ham, prosciutto, sausage, meat spread, a garlic tzatziky (sp?) like spread, but thicker than tzatziky, cheese, pickles, peppers, and tomatoes. We drank a Styrian specialty called Schilcher Sturm, which tastes like gourmet Boones. It is an immature wine, but it is opaque, and you can't seal containers of it or else it will explode, so you have to drink it really fresh. Martina was driving home, so we also ordered a bottle of the house white grape juice that is so sweet that you have to dilute it with water. After the Sturm, we ordered a bottle of white wine to go with our dessert, which was so refreshing after the savouriness of the meats and the sweetness of the Sturm that it might have been the best white wine I have ever tasted. For dessert, Martina ordered two pieces of cake that ended up coming in three separate pieces because they are so big. One was a white cake with marmalade, brown sugar and nuts on top, and the other was a large roll of white cake with marmalade in the middle. I think if we hadn't left then, we would never have made it out of our seats, so we went for a walk around the vineyard, picking grapes off the vines, and taking pictures of the colourful hills.
While Martina drove home, I fell asleep in the back seat, and woke up beside the apartment building. As soon as we were inside, I lay down on the couch and slept. Two hours later, I was woken up for dinner: cheese fondue. Had it been any other day, I would have been more than happy to eat chunks of baguette dipped in melted cheese and white wine, but on this day, it seemed like a daunting task. But, the picture of graciousness, I struggled through. Of course, it was delicious, but after dinner I walked up 24 flights of stairs to try and make up for the outrageous amount of cheese that I consumed. So ended my weekend of indulgence.
This morning Christian and I biked back to the second hand bike store, where I finally found a pretty, reasonably priced bike. It is a girl's bike, all white, including the handles, pedals, and the basket on the back. Christian pointed out that it looks like the bike equivalent of an iPod. To get out of the cold rain, we went for coffee and then both biked to our respective schools. Tomorrow I have school at 8 am again, for six hours, and then I have to go to the university to convince various professors that they should let me into their classes, even though they might be full.
I don't have school this Friday, for a national holiday, so we are probably going to drive to Italy with Christian's friends. I am really excited for my first international European trip since getting here, and to go to Italy for the first time. It makes up for not getting to celebrate Halloween. Hopefully we will get to move in to our apartment when we get back. Our lease starts November 1st, so we are hoping that they will finish moving out this weekend so that we can start getting our stuff in. I am so excited about everything right now that even non-indulgence days are pretty wonderful.
This isn't exactly the same thing as what we had, but it has most of the same things. The next picture, though, is the exact Buschenschank that we went to, but the grape plants were full of leaves, and there were still some grapes.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, January 11, 2008
The Best Lead - the Rest Follow
All the rules of making pictures that attract specific audiences we've learned from Mark Wiseman's article this week are based on solid research - and common sense would seem to support the findings he presents. But we need look no further than these three ads by three of the finest illustrators of the mid-20th century to appreciate that the rules are made to be broken.
Both Austin Briggs (at top) and Al Parker (directly above) understand how to capture the attention of all readers with their flawless composition, interesting character types and subtle accentuation of relevant detail. Man or woman, young or old, its almost impossible not to want to invest a little time studying these pictures. There's just nothing generic or typical about them. They are just so eminently relateable and appealing on an entirely uncontrived, human level.
And since this topic really began last Friday with a Pepsi ad, it only seems right that it should finish with one - and one of the best, by the great Joe DeMers.
While DeMers' people are certainly far more idealized than Briggs' or Parker's, he transcended the intent of Pepsi's campaign to target a female audience by creating an image that gives almost equal weight to the man and the woman. Where many other Pepsi ads show only a woman, or where the man is reduced to just body parts (as in last Friday's ad) - good examples of how to follow Wiseman's recommendations for using picture content on audience selection - DeMers uses the woman's victorious body language and superiour positioning in relation to the man to send a subtler message - one that is still interesting and non-threatening to a male audience.
Its a truly masterful composition.
"If you use the wrong sex in a picture, you risk missing or misleading your audience, " writes Mark Wiseman. "The two sexes follow definite behavior patterns." The best illustrators prove that everything Wiseman says is the truth... and everything he says is a lie.
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Al Parker was always leading the pack when it came to innovative compositions, even in the 50's. Although this rendering is pretty traditional, the composition is not. He had a great sense of design, and everything fit together like a puzzle. The American Airline plane in the sky is placed exactly in the right spot in the sky. The cheerleaders are an excellent example of the design principal, "repetion with variation". Only one cheerleader is fully shown, and the rest are in pieces and parts, giving them variety and interest. Notice subtle variations of their hands. In the background, the player on the left is angled to the left, the player on the right is angled to the right. The man in the foreground consists of two simple shapes, head in profile and part of the back and shoulder. But the woman is made up of a number of various animated shapes... head in profile, body leaning forward, game program in hand, arm holding purse and other items of different shapes... plenty of body animation. For every angle from left to right, he counters it with an angle from right to left... which creates energy movement and balance. Finally he compliments all the angles and various shapes with a straight horizontal pipe railing, and the stadium architectural line that spans the entire width of the painting, tying everything together. An absolutely perfect composition.ReplyDelete
I visited Al Parker in his California studio, many years ago... and he told me he gave up a career as a musician to become an illustrator, but he used the same principals in composition as he did in music. Well, I certainly hear the music in this Al Parker illustration. I might add that I agree with Leif, Joe DeMers also had a great sense of composition and design. So did Austin Briggs, but I don't think this is one of his better illustrations.
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Thanks for revealing the details lost to the digital rush, Tom. Your words are like any of my instructors and bosses who came up the ladder drooling over Parker work! (Three decades later, they were still pointing out similar solutions of his, with awe in their voices.)ReplyDelete
As a young punk, I was amazed by gazing on original works (Loomis, Whitmore and Peak come to mind), wondering where the lettering had gone. It was a revelation that our studio had a guy on staff (about fifteen years older than the boss) who labored over script and other novelty lettering 40hrs/week, to later "strip" together into camera-ready art... the work only *looks* casual...


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There's a Youtube video "A Vision of K-12 Students Today," that seems to be the junior version of the vision of college students today video, only with less whiny students. At least college students have some choices, whereas most K-12 students are forced through the involuntary factory of public education.
The complaints are a bit different. All these students want to be "engaged," of course, and engagement is apparently always the responsibility of the teacher and never the student. In many ways I'm quite sympathetic to these students. I'm sure many of their classrooms are boring and their teachers dull. I spent my pre-college years wondering whether the educational system was designed to do anything other than bore me into submission. As far as I can tell, it wasn't. I've struggled to make sure my daughter doesn't suffer the stultifying effects and methods of the typically dull educational system.
What I'm not particularly sympathetic to or impressed by is the assumption that the problem with all of their schooling is that they don't use "technology" enough. It seems to be a tragedy that most of their teachers haven't used blogs or wikis, because, you see, these students are "digital learners." They hold up signs saying "If we learn by doing" and "What are we learning sitting here?"
But what does that mean, we learn by doing? Is that always the case? One learns to be a historian by "doing history," I suppose, but that's not necessarily the way one learns about history. It's how one learns to write poetry, but one doesn't need "technology" for that. It's not necessarily how one learns to be a citizen. It is how one learns to make a wiki, but is making a wiki at all difficult? As a sometime teacher as well, I question this logic. I teach writing in the context of political philosophy. Whether I know how to use blogs and wikis is irrelevant to this activity. Class discussion of difficult texts doesn't require "digital engagement," and yet they are a cornerstone of a liberal education.
One student asks, "How do you learn?" A better question might be, what are you learning? "What kind of education would you want me to have?" "If I were your son?" "Your Daughter?"
I can answer this one quite easily, since I in fact have a K-12 daughter. What I want for my daughter is a sound liberal education, because I believe that liberal education will prepare her best to be a satisfied human being, a concerned citizen, and a person eminently capable of adapting to the changing circumstances of the world. What I want might be partially understood by referring to Common Core or in this text, Beyond the Basics, or Dorothy Sayer's "The Lost Tools of Learning," or just a good liberal arts curriculum. This video seems to imply that the various digital technologies they want to use are at all difficult to use, as if anything that doesn't use digital technologies is somehow inadequate for them. I've had no trouble adapting quickly to technology or changing circumstances, but I think that's best explained by a long and rigorous liberal education. Using technology for these "digital natives" is all fine, but what are they using the technology to teach? A bigger problem with their education is probably the aggressive standardized testing they're subjected to and their relatively insubstantial curriculum than the fact that they can't make a wiki for class.
Some of the comments seem odd. For example, we're told that soon the largest English-speaking country will be China, and then that there are more honor students in China than there are people in North America. Okay. I wonder if all those honor students in China are buckling down with their laptops and iPods, and that's why they're learning so much English. Really, I don't wonder at all, because I don't see the connection between this and anything else in the video, especially the very next frame where the sign reads "But only 1/2 of us will graduate from high school." The "But" implies that somehow this is related to the previous statements on China, as if there being so many honors students in China somehow leads to half of American students not graduating from high school in some sort of bizarre intercontinental zero-sum high school graduation game. I also wonder where they got these statistics. According to the census data, in 2001 the number of high school graduates per 100 17-year-olds was 72.5, not great, but not 50% either. And according to this census study, the percent of Americans 25 and older with a high school education in 2003 was 83.2 and is projected to be 87.3 by 2028, and this is the "low projection." The high projection is 91.0. I have no idea whether this is correct, but I'm at least citing the source.
This confusion may be designed to put the next statements into perspective: "Teach me to think." "To Create." "To Analyze." "To Evaluate." "To Apply." All of these actions are necessary to take the statements on China and American high school graduation rates and make any sense of them whatsoever. But then comes, "Teach me to think. Let me use the WWW." I posit that using the WWW and learning to think have no necessary connection with each other, and that in fact the conceptual clarity and analytical agility that these students need would be better served by a strong liberal arts curriculum or a good course in logic, and they don't need computers or digital cameras for either of these.
If there is any sense to the comparison of China and American high school students, what might it be? One relation might be increasing globalization or cultural diversification, or perhaps the need to be able to communicate with and understand those of different countries and cultures. What makes this sort of communication or understanding more likely: being able to manipulate digital images, or a grounding in world history and foreign languages? Or perhaps they're trying to imply that Chinese students just work harder than American students? That might certainly be the case, but what does this have to do with being digital learners? Who wrote the script for this thing, anyway?
Sometimes I hesitate even to make arguments like this, because opponents will too easily assume that anyone who doesn't fall in line with the "digital learning" argument is somehow opposed to such technology. This is hardly the case for me. I'm immersed in digital technology at work and at home. My daughter's school has a classical curriculum and no computers. She loves it, and somehow, shockingly, she manages to learn. Videos like this imply that something like a miracle must be occurring if this is so. Does this mean she won't grow up sufficiently "digital" to make her way in life? I doubt it. She's got the family desktop, her own OLPC laptop, her iPod, and various other playthings. She spends plenty of time on various digital activities. These are easy things to do, which is why an 8-year-old can do them so easily.
Education is certainly about more than conforming the students to No Child Left Behind, but it's also about more than "digital learning," and learning can take place without the digital. There are numerous problems with the public education system, but whether the students are digitally engaged is a lesser problem than the content of the curriculum, the control of teachers over the classroom, union opposition to pay for performance, or various other things. Students need to learn to read and do math, but they also need to learn about history and the arts. They need to know about their own and other cultures. They need to learn to speak and write effectively. And of course they need to learn to think, create, analyze, evaluate, and apply. It's very possible that they would develop these skills more in debate class than they would in any number of "digital media."
Digital learning or digital nativism have little to do with the many problems facing American education today. If students can't think, create, analyze, evaluate, or apply, the problem is most likely not that they are "digital natives" and that all their old fogey teachers don't know how to make wikis. That argument implies that children today are incapable of learning unless they are learning "digitally," but this argument can be turned around. If students are incapable of learning by reading books or engaging in discussion or approaching difficult subjects logically as well as analogicallly, this isn't necessarily the fault of the teachers of the educational system. It just shows that these students aren't very intelligent or adaptable, which is probably not the case.
They note in the video that their parents use email, but that they IM and text. So be it. But if these students are as unadaptable as this video implies, and are incapable of adjusting to the common world and communicating across generations, it might be surprising if they don't graduate from high school, but it will hardly be surprising if they don't finish college or get jobs. Part of a liberal education is learning what has come before, especially the best that has been thought and said, and adapting it to changing circumstances. As Heidegger noted, we are thrown into being, and as Wittgenstein argued, there is no private language. We are immersed from birth in what has come before, and struggle to adapt ourselves to a culture, history, and language that precedes us. To imply that because children today text while their parents email we are encountering some sea change in what it means to be a human being and that the newer humans we call students can't adapt to a common world that preexists them and we can't communicate properly with them is to do both the students and ourselves a disservice.
As academic librarians, we face the recent products of the educational system every year. What would make it easier for students to be able to do library research? More digital learning, or a good liberal education. Are those two things incompatible? Certainly not. But I'm skeptical that the discussion seems to be around the medium and not around the content, as if introducing more blogs, wikis, and digital media into classrooms would somehow solve our educational problems.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. – It can be almost painful to watch individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) breathe. When they're not coughing, they're fighting for every breath. Approximately 24 million Americans struggle with COPD — which typically worsens over time and is the third most common cause of death.
A lung infection can be a life-threatening event for someone with COPD.
Researchers now say that the bacterium, non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI), may be a key factor in the hallmark signs of COPD: airway inflammation and impaired pulmonary function. While NTHI frequently exists in healthy humans without causing any problems, it seems to proliferate and flourish in the lower respiratory airways of patients with COPD.
The University at Buffalo has recently been awarded a $2,287,587 five-year National Institutes of Health grant to study and detail the mechanisms that allow NTHI to infect and survive in the airways of adults with COPD. This understanding may lead to new drugs that can effectively reduce NTHI infections and save lives.
This study represents the 28th year of a long running grant to study NTHI.
"In healthy people, H. influenzae is present in the throat but not in the lower airways of the respiratory tract," said Timothy Murphy, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and UB senior associate dean for clinical and translational research in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the principal investigator on the grant.
"People with COPD, however, have diseased airways which impairs the normal protective responses. Thus H. influenzae is present in the lower airways of people with COPD. It is also the most important bacterial cause of exacerbations or the worsening of COPD symptoms, and can lead to serious complications."
The three aims of the grant are to study how NTHI is able to persist from months to years in airways; to assess potential vaccine antigens that are under development; and to assess how NTHI can survive repeated courses of antibiotic therapy.
The grant was first funded shortly after Murphy joined the UB medical school. Every three to five years, the grant was renewed by what's called a competitive renewal where scientists write a new grant that is reviewed and then competes with all other NIH grant applications.
Sanjay Sethi, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, a co-investigator on the study, also collaborated with Murphy on the long-running study of adults with COPD.
The perfect score — a rare accomplishment – Murphy says was most likely related to several factors:
- An 18 year prospective study with this level of rigorously characterized bacterial strains is unique. No other set of strains collected longitudinally and with this level of detailed clinical data tied to each strain exists in the world.
- The application of state-of-the-art "next gen sequencing" to this unique set of strains is compelling. Sequencing technology is advancing so quickly that proposing such a large amount of sequencing just a few years ago would simply not have been feasible. Now this amount of sequencing can be performed readily.
- The specific questions that have been proposed to study in the grant's three aims will advance the field significantly.
- Determining genome sequences on this large unique set of well-characterized strains is likely to yield new and unexpected results. This is the "exploratory" nature of this grant.
In the study, how NTHI survives an onslaught of antibiotics will be handled by using an innovative Hollow Fiber Infection Model developed by Brian Tsuji, PharmD, UB associate professor of pharmacy practice and co-investigator on the grant.
Tsuji's model will expose NTHI to levels of antibiotics at the exact levels that occurred in COPD patients. Murphy says they will integrate these results with the results of genome analysis for a better understanding of antibiotic resistance and tolerance.
Michael Buck, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry who oversees the UB Next Gen Sequencing Core is also working as a co-investigator and will be responsible for the genome sequencing
Murphy adds that the technicians who work in his lab are essential to making all of this work possible. They are Charmaine Kirkham, Aimee Brauer and Antoinette Johnson.
In the last 50 years, says Murphy, other than the development of antibiotics, there has been little progress in developing new treatments and prevention of infections in COPD.
"I am trying to understand the mechanisms by which H. influenzae causes infection so that these observations can be used to develop better treatments. This is an excellent example of translational research."
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Diana Waterman, the newly elected First Vice Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, has named her black Angus cow "Oprah." Waterman noted on Facebook that the cow recently birthed a calf.
Sveinn C. Storm, a Republican who publishes an Queen Anne County-focused blog called "Pave Our County?", says that naming a cow after a Black celebrity who has publicly struggled with her weight is "precisely why an enormous number of Americans view Republicans as racists."
As a Republican, I do not believe that Diana Waterman comes even close to promoting a positive image for the party. There is a slim chance that Diana Waterman names all of her pets after prominent black Americans she admires, but I doubt it. In fact, I'm betting she names her new calf "Michael Steele." Perhaps she will give him a quick call and see if he's okay with that."
The Maryland Republican Party, which is (allegedly) the home of former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, has dismissed calls for Waterman to resign.
Waterman has deleted the Facebook post. The screencap can be seen HERE.
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