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Stockton-to-Malone Leftovers Odds and Ends: Injury Tales
1. "I don't like to give in to injuries. I don't like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them. I think everybody should have the attitude that you can't allow yourself to be hurt. You avoid a lot just with that attitude. I don't know. [That's] why I don't wish to discuss it–it's past. I always prefer to look forward." — John Stockton (Hoop)
2. Jazz assistant coach Phil Johnson recalls a time when Malone badly sprained an ankle but balked when trainer Don Sparks requested an X-ray to see how severely his foot was injured.
"Why should I X-ray it?" Malone asked. "I'll play on it anyway." (DN)
3. "I will tell you, there was one year in the early '90s and we were playing Seattle in the playoffs," said Jazz assistant coach Phil Johnson. "John had an elbow injury, and he could not lift his right arm. He spent most of the series dribbling with his left hand. He even considered shooting free throws with his left hand, but he did not want to let the Sonics know that he was hurt. He never told the press, never told anyone. After the season, he had surgery on his elbow. No one ever knew. We knew in the locker room only because he didn't want to hurt the team. But he hated for anyone outside to ever know he was hurt." (Sporting News)
4. That's why he returned to the first preseason game after suffering a painful finger injury while trying to teach rookie Joe Smith a lesson. Malone, who admitted he wasn't particularly fond of the hyped-up Smith or of any opponent for that matter, went up to block his foe's shot "to make a statement."
Instead of swatting the ball, though, Malone smacked the backboard.
He felt a burning sensation in his still-bent-to-this-day middle finger and looked down to see bone protruding through skin.
Sloan grumbled at Malone, "You ain't playing no more." But the Mailman insisted on finishing out the exhibition game in Albuquerque, N.M., even pointing out to his coach that he did similar things when he broke his nose multiple times in a game only to continue playing.
"I got a piece of tape, and taped it, and I played in a preseason game," Malone said. "But we were just like that." (DN)
5. You had to be there the night in Portland when Clyde Drexler accidentally shoved his index finger into Stockton's eye up to the second knuckle. Stockton crouched in the locker room at halftime, dribbling the ball and trying to show the team doctors he could still go. Trouble was, he could see two images. All the better — that made two Karl Malones to look for, not just one. (DN)
6. "The only games [Stockton]'s missed were in 1989 when he had the flu and a sprained ankle and he came to the game, in the Meadowlands, and I said, 'Get back to the hotel and go to bed,'" recalled Sloan. "And when we went to Charlotte the next day we checked him in the hospital." (NY Times)
7. Earlier in the series-clinching victory against the Rockets, the ball struck the tip of his right forefinger, causing a blood blister the size of a sequin to swell behind the nail. A needle was heated and brought to Malone, who worked it betweeen the skin and the nail and lanced the blister himself. He didn't bother to wince. ("Stand and Deliver," ESPN Magazine 6/15/98)
8. In last year's conference finals, Malone burned three layers of skin from the palm of his shooting hand after skidding long and hard against the floor. Jazz trainers did what they could, but the palm was so gory that Jazz assistant trainer Terry Clark compared it to raw meat. Malone played the rest of the series, then averaged 23.8 points against the Bulls in the Finals–and never made a peep. ("Stand and Deliver," ESPN Magazine 6/15/98)
9. In 2000, the Jazz was in Lansing, Mich., to face the Pistons [in an exhibition game], but Stockton was having pregame trouble because his knee locked up. Stockton told Sloan that people had paid to be at the game, so he would play through it. ("Forty reasons to love John Stockton," Sporting News, 3/26/2002)
10. John Stockton fought the trainer to return to the Bucks game Jan. 3 two minutes after having his eye blackened. ("Sloan keeps Jazz hitting right notes," NY Post, 1/10/2003)


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Minimalizam u Jugoslaviji
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During my visit to Tulsa last month I noted a story in the local news involving the search of a used car dealership as the result of a lawsuit alleging that it received about $20.2 million from Hezbollah members or Hezbollah-controlled entities to purchase and ship used cars. I subsequently wrote a little more about the civil lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York; the lawsuit attacks a complex cocaine and automobile smuggling enterprise in the United States and West Africa. The enterprise handles hundreds of millions of dollars each month and some of the profits are routed to Hezbollah through the Lebanese Canadian Bank. Terror finance expert Jonathan Schanzer's New York Post column explains what's happening here:
Last month, the US government filed suit against a number of American and Lebanese businesses that allegedly helped bankroll the Lebanese terrorist group. The civil indictment in Manhattan blew the lid off a vast criminal network that included money-laundering, cocaine deals and more — including 30 US car dealerships that helped the group launder cash.
As one investigator quipped, Hezbollah is the "Gambinos on steroids."
The indictment charges Hezbollah kingpin Ayman Joumaa with smuggling more than 100 tons of Colombian cocaine with the Mexican Zetas drug cartel, yielding hundreds of millions of dollars for the terror group. Indeed, the feds show that Hezbollah relies on a carefully constructed system of criminal enterprises from America to Africa to the Middle East.
Since its 1982 birth, Hezbollah has worked hard to portray itself as a "resistance" organization, fighting against the alleged injustices of Israel, the United States and others, earning it wide respect across the Middle East.
But today the group's operatives — at home and abroad — are thugs who profit from drugs, fraud and more. This contradiction could help erode support among Hezbollah's pious Shi'ite followers.
In fact, the US government has for years warned of the growing Hezbollah drug and crime operations in the lawless "Tri-Border Area" of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.
In 2002, the problem hit closer to home. Two men were convicted of operating a multimillion-dollar cigarette-smuggling operation out of North Carolina, which funneled money back to Hezbollah.
Since then, US officials have grown increasingly alarmed by Hezbollah's activities in the Western Hemisphere.
In 2010, a Tucson Police Department memo warned of growing ties between Hezbollah operatives and Mexican drug traffickers, including the growing use of improvised-explosive devices and car bombs. Other evidence pointed to Hezbollah involvement in the tunnels Mexican cartel's use to smuggle drugs into the United States.
Last Jan. 26, the US Treasury designated a wide network of Hezbollah-linked drug figures, including Joumaa and nine other people, plus 19 entities. In February, Washington listed the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a "primary money-laundering concern." It all culminated in this latest indictment that Manhattan prosecutors unsealed last month.
Hezbollah denies the "false accusations about its involvement, directly or indirectly, in money-laundering or drug-trafficking." But the facts speak for themselves.


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Apt name: The Forgotten probably will be
You're not paranoid if they're really out to get you. It's not knowing that's such a bitch.
And when she gets into that situation in The Forgotten, Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) can be a bitch too– in a good way– with emotional strength equal to the physical strength of Sigourney Weaver and the Queen in Aliens. Unfortunately, while her strength persists, the mystery doesn't.
The Forgotten begins 14 months after Sam, Telly's nine-year-old son, died in a plane crash.
If she had a son. You'd think a woman would know a thing like that, but Telly has memory problems, although you can't make a case for early Alzheimer's out of her forgetting which side of the street she parked on or whether she had a cup of coffee at her therapy session with Dr. Munce (Gary Sinise).
Suddenly all photos and videotapes of Sam disappear, along with newspaper clippings about the plane crash. Dr. Munce and her husband Jim (Anthony Edwards) tell Telly Sam never existed; she had a miscarriage and invented a child who was– and is– very real in her mind. Even her friend and babysitter, Eliot (Jessica Hecht), claims not to remember Sam.
Telly turns to Ash (Dominic West), an alcoholic former hockey player whose daughter was on the doomed plane with Sam. At least that's Telly's story. Ash denies it all.
You and I might go in search of school records or flight records instead of witnesses with anecdotal evidence, but that's why we don't write screenplays.
Screenwriter Gerald DiPego could have gone several ways. He chose to lock in our sympathy by resolving the mystery early, shifting the focus to who and why rather than if. Ash remembers his daughter, and the National Security Agency pulls rank on the NYPD in pursuit of Telly and Ash. From that point on, The Forgotten is a standard thriller with X-Files overtones. Lifetime Television and the Sci-Fi Channel will be fighting over this one.
Most of the movie consists of Telly and Ash evading pursuers from the NSA and– wherever. Telly finds a potential ally in Police Lt. Anne Pope (Alfre Woodard), who sees some logic in her story. Dr. Munce attaches himself to Lt. Pope to help her locate Telly, but whose side is he on?
Moore does some capital-A Acting, less subtle than her usual award-worthy work, and a lot of world-class running. She's always worth watching and raises The Forgotten a little bit above the averageness it seems to be striving for.
Underrated director Joseph Ruben (True Believer, The Stepfather) pulls off some good shock moments, including a car crash that set my heart racing.
How many screenwriters attended the secret conference that declared memory-erasing movies to be a new subgenre? If anyone remembers it, that might make an interesting movie.
The Forgotten is good while it lasts, but supernatural forces won't be required to turn its title into a self-fulfilling prophecy.


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What happened: Norwich Police Officer 1st Class Jonathan Ley was shot and wounded during a Jan. 7 confrontation with Jason Razzino, 30, outside Razzino�s apartment on Cedar Street. After a standoff with police, Razzino shot and killed himself.
Armed confrontation: Norwich police responded after getting a call from a suicide hotline worker reporting that an armed and despondent man planned to die by �suicide-by-cop.� After learning Razzino�s identity, dozens of officers surrounded his home, while others evacuated the Cedar Glen apartment complex. After being contacted by telephone, Razzino twice fired through his door at officers on an outside second-floor landing and stairwell. He then opened his door and pointed his gun at officers. When an officer shot at Razzino, he retreated into his apartment then opened fire through his kitchen window, using a semi-automatic rife. Ley was hit four times and went down. Officer Christopher Merrill returned fire, which let Officer Kyle Besse take Ley down the stairs to safety. Ley was taken by ambulance to The William W. Backus Hospital and later flown to Yale-New Haven Hospital. State police, including a SWAT team, were summoned to reinforce Norwich officers. Razzino killed himself after an 11-hour standoff. No one else was injured.
Recovery: Ley was released from Yale-New Haven on Jan 10. �He had more bullets in him than days in the hospital,� Norwich Police Capt. Patrick Daley said at the time. Outside the hospital, Ley received a salute from 40 officers who had gathered from across the state. Ley�s recovery took several months, including surgeries on his wounded hand and to remove a bullet from his shoulder. Ley returned to work Sept. 9, about eight months later.
Quotable: Forty-six Norwich officers involved in the standoff received a critical incident pin at an awards ceremony in July. �We wear this to remember what we did on that day,� Daley said then. �It was a difficult day. � Please wear this pin with pride.�
Update: Ley has returned to full duty with the Norwich police, and he is now serving as a detective. The New London state�s attorney is continuing to investigate the shooting but has not issued a report.


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Disappointing Experience
Fund: Granite Ventures
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After contacting Sam Kingsland, we got a relitively prompt audience with the team, including a local acedemic whom they invited without any pre-notice. The meeting was quite engaged and it was clear there was both domain knowledge and interest from the group. Then silence. No communication or feedback for over a month, despite vmail and email follow-up. When we finally connected, the rationale for no was somewhat confusing, probably because so much time had passed and so was of little help in helping tune the message better. If its a no, just say no quickly! It makes it easier for us to focus and use any valid feedback to improve the pitch.PRIVATE: Members Only


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I'm late in getting to it, and don't have time to do it justice at the moment, but Friday's Star Tribune carried a column co-authored by former Hennepin County Attorney Tom Johnson on "racial disparities" in the criminal justice system. As always, the reader must read between the lines to deduce that these racial disparities result from racial disparities in crime rates. Johnson says that racial disparities in the criminal justice system are intolerable. What Johnson does not say is that to the extent these racial disparities reflect racial disparities in offending rates, as they do in Minnesota and elsewhere in the United States, the racial disparities in arrest, conviction and imprisonment rates are not only not intolerable, they are a good thing.
Johnson's writing on the subject of racial disparities in the criminal justice system always implies without directly stating that the disparities are derivative of racial bias among police, prosecutors and judges. His writing has never directly acknowledged or addressed the racial disparities in crime rates that explain the racial disparities that can be observed in secondary phenomena such as arrest rates. Racial disparities in rates of violent crime are of course particularly huge, as are racial disparities in the crime victimization rates that follow from them.
Johnson focuses on everything but the underlying racial disparity in behavior that produces the outcomes he decries. Urging blacks to behave better is apparently not acceptable. Johnson's modest proposal of the moment is to get the police to refrain from enforcing the laws against petty offenses. Genius! A perfect liberal proposal is one that aggravates the "problem" it purports to address and serves as the predicate for more of the same in the future. As anyone familiar with the basic criminological research in this area knows, Johnson's modest proposal is of this variety. So long as you have a piece of the action, full-time employment is guaranteed indefinitely.
Rocket Man and I have noted in the past that the terminus of Johnson's argument is justice by quota, an end point that can be seen clearly in this column. The racial disparities Johnson describes as "intolerable" are "intolerable" to him and his ilk because the extremely illiberal heart that beats in the chest of the contemporary liberal demands strict equality of results as measured among preferred victim groups. The racial disparities in crime victimization rates that should be of concern to Johnson and his ilk if they were serious not only remain unmentioned, they are taboo–until the time comes when they too can be used as a stick with which to beat law enforcement and raise more money from the liberal establishment that funds Johnson's Council on Crime and Justice.
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Distant Worlds Update 220.127.116.11
Posted: 6 JUL 2011
This update for the German and English retail versions fixes an issue that causes a crash with some story line events.
Distant Worlds Update 126.96.36.199
Posted: 6 MAY 2011
The comprehensive 188.8.131.52 update includes all the bugfixes, mod advances, and AI improvements found in version 126.96.36.199 of the expansion, Return of the Shakturi, but without the actual expansion content.
Distant Worlds Update 18.104.22.168
Posted: 29 JUL 2010
The comprehensive 188.8.131.52 update comes with dozens of changes and fixes which improve nearly every part of the game, specific emphasis has been placed on stability, balance, colonies, fleet and ship behavior, and interface improvements.
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Posted: 19 MAY 2010
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Instron complies to BSS 7260 and AITM-0010 for finding the compression strength of impacted composite specimens used in the aerospace industry.
Use an Industrial Series 150LX Model and a spherically seated compression platen to test cubes of hydraulic cement mortars and comply with ASTM C109.
For dimension stone in the constructive energy, use the Industrial Series 600DX Hydraulic Testing Machine to determine the compressive strength and follow ASTM C170.
To follow the standard ASTM D1621-16, use a 3300 or 5900 testing machine with parallel compression plates to test the compression of rigid cellular plastics.
A Hveem Stabilometer measures the pressure and R-value of compacted soil under compression before it is used under surfaces like paved roads.
For moisture exudation testing of compacted soil, Instron adds simplicity with Partner Testing Software that allows users to leave during the test.
A dual column electromechanical test frame works with the high compressive forces in determining the in-plane shear strength of reinforced plastics.
The 3300 Series or 5500 Series testing machines with compression platens follow ASTM D575-91(2012) Method A in testing compression and deflection of rubber.
Compression testing of rigid plastics determines properties like the modulus of elasticity, yield stress, and compressive strength.
ASTM F1306 specifies a standard test probe diameter and sample test diameter for collecting data on flexible barrier films to increase accuracy and repeatability.
ElectroPuls Test Instruments measure impulse and fatigue of athletic footwear in accordance with ASTM F1614, as well as testing other properties of the shoe.
ASTM F1717 defines methods for static, fatigue, and torsion testing of spinal constructs to minimize failure from normal patient activity and fatigue.
ASTM F2077 reveals the axial-compression, compression-shear, and torsion tests needed to understand spinal intervertebral body fusion devices.
ASTM F2267 advises on in vitro axial-compression tests to compare fusion implants used in spinal intervertebral body fusion devices.
A rounded probe attached to a load cell on a Universal Testing Machine may mimic a human finder opening seals on pharmacy bottles.
A compression after impact test for composite laminates can be created by simulating impact damage and then using a universal tester with a Boeing CAI Test Fixture.
Learn how you can use a universal testing system to evaluate the texture and crunchiness of cereal using a universal testing machine.
ASTM C39 gives standards to protect operator safety for compression testing freshly cured and drilled core samples of cylindrical concrete.
The California Test Method 366 requires a stabilometer to measure the horizontal pressure to asphalt concrete under compression, and the 300DX Model can be used.
To prevent drill tip failure from cyclic loads and amplitude vibrations, test the drill tips with a 8874 testing system with compression and torsional loads.
With the decreasing size of cell phones, keypads need to be tested for the force needed to use the keys to minimize accidental typing and increase usability.
With the ElectroPuls, the 8800 controller with Modal Control simulates springs needed to determine the specifications of an ideal spring for an auto-injector.
The Bluehill Expression builder can create custom calculations with compression testing safety helmets to meet EN 397 standards on performance and testing methods.
Following EN 50086-2-4, compression tests can be done on underground conduit systems to protect electrical installations and communication systems.
EN12430 determines the correct way to understand the behavior of thermal insulation products under a point compression force in installation or application.
ElectroPuls and 8870 test instruments can determine the fatigue life and impact performance of orthopedic devices used in reconstructive surgery.
To characterize a variety of sensory texture properties of confectionery products using a 3300 Series or 5900 Series testing system with a 3-jaw chuck and food probe.
A 5942 testing machine can be used with a saline bath to test the compression of an intraocular lens made to improve the eyesight of a patient.
Following ISO 14126, in-plane compressive properties can be determined with shear loading, end loading, or mixed loading of the fiber-reinforced plastic composite.
The 8870 and ElectroPuls systems can determine the fatigue properties of tibial trays used with total knee replacements to prevent failure from biological reactions.
ISO 604 is used to test the compressive strength, compressive modulus, and other compressive behavior of plastics with steel compression anvils and an extensometer.
Instron's syringe test fixture works for various specifications and follows ISO 7886-1 to test the aspiration and injection of liquids.
In following ISO 844, one can understand the compressive stress/strain relationship, properties of rigid cellular plastics, and compressive strength.
Texture Profile Analysis encourages consistency in the manufacture of food, and we tested the relationship with a 3345 system and marinated tofu.
Instron's micro indentation head allows for in vitro micro indentation tests on bones to determine the stress and strain placed on the hard tissue from larger loadings.
Instron's multi-needle and single-needle test fixtures reduce time in testing needle insertion force in the development and quality control of needles.
Instron's syringe fixture for Universal Testing Systems provides an accurate representation of conditions in order to test the forces within needles and syringes.
Orthopedic micro-implants used to treat bone problems and soft tissue injuries need to be tested in simulated loading conditions to prevent failure.
A custom Instron fixture was designed to work alongside a 5965 frame to test the force needed to push a tablet through a blister pack.
To find the best absorption levels for the soles of athletic shoes, the 8516 testing machine measures the impulse and fatigue damping behavior of the footwear.
Stent grafts reduce the chance of risk in treating aneurysms, and their radial force can be tested to minimize movement with a RX675.
Instron's syringe testing figure assists pharmaceutical manufacturers in determining the force needed to eject medications from needles and syringes.
When performing a pull test for conducting tubing in a blood bag, fix clamps to the hole in the component table and use a screw grips to take out the inlet tubing.
Instron's Bath and Submersible Pneumatic Grips can assist in in-vitro testing of soft tissues and biomaterials, which are fragile and require low force measurements.
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When Americans seek reassurance about the health of their democracy, they often read the affirmations of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America. It is time also to read this same book's valuable analysis of some flaws in American democracy that vex us as much today as they did during de Tocqueville's visit in the 1830s. Three in particular provoke deep contemplation: corruption among public officials, high levels of bombast in public discourse and, above all else, the threat that a rising plutocracy could seize control of the state.
The third flaw is often a cause of the first two and so merits special attention. Since the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling by the Supreme Court in 2010 declared that corporations have the same rights of free speech as individuals, an enormous amount of money has flowed into political discourse. Although sometimes unbidden by the candidates themselves, the resulting distorted advertisements show an unabashed intention to manipulate the electorate into choosing officials who will nurse the hands that have fed them financially. The process today is as close as it has ever been to fulfilling de Tocqueville's warning of a possible plutocratic takeover.
The ruling in Citizens United has legal antecedents. Since the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad in 1886, the Supreme Court has sympathized with the view that the right to property expressed in the 14th Amendment extends to corporations. It is a small extension of that tradition to conclude that corporations have a right to freedom of speech as well. The Santa Clara case, however, helped ignite the Progressive movement at the turn of the 20th century, during which substantial efforts were undertaken to make government at all levels more responsive to the people. There is reason for hope today because historically each surge by the plutocracy provoked a reaction on behalf of the wider citizenry.
Jefferson's Rules
One early champion of the citzenry against plutocracy was President Thomas Jefferson. His Inaugural Address came at a moment when the political rules needed reform. For the first time in the history of the republic, one political party was replacing another in power. No one was sure whether the defeated Federalist Party would accept the election results peacefully. The campaign, moreover, had been exceptionally bitter; it culminated with the outgoing Federalist majority in the House of Representatives facing the repugnant task of breaking an electoral college tie between two despised Republicans, Jefferson and Aaron Burr. (The original constitutional method of seating the runner up in the electoral college vote as the vice president was still in effect. President John Adams, a Federalist, had placed third in his bid for re-election. It took much pleading by Alexander Hamilton for the good of the nation and 36 ballots before the Federalists swallowed their aversion to Jefferson, their archnemesis, and rejected the opportunistic Burr. It was even rumored that violence might take place on Inauguration Day in key American cities.)
The political genius Jefferson applied in his Inaugural Address, however, was to pretend that he could take for granted the acquiescence of the entire electorate in his presidency. "During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussion and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and write what they think," he said, making believe that what had really been the animosity of the campaign had been the vigor of free speech.
By so pretending, Jefferson brought about acquiescence in the result. He also set a blueprint for the limits of partisanship that has been followed ever since. He said, "This being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the rule of law, and unite in common efforts for the common good." He then introduced what he called "this sacred principle": that while the political majority must prevail, its will must be discharged reasonably. The political minority retained its rights, and their violation would be oppression. It is good for us today to ask whether Citizens United leaves the political minority resulting from any contest with its rights intact.
Jefferson continued: "Let us then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions."
Jefferson's warning that the hyperpartisanship of the young republic might come to resemble the religious warfare of Reformation Europe clearly indicates that the hyperpartisanship of the early 21st century would both concern him and be familiar to him. His Inaugural Address is worth a fresh look because the man who expressed this anxiety was our first truly partisan president. Jefferson abandoned the aversion to party shown by his two predecessors. In fact, the coalition formed by Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s to oppose the policies of the Washington administration was the first real American political party (the Democratic-Republican Party). As chief executive, Jefferson would pursue his belief that a president is most effective when he governs from the head of a political party. In his Inaugural Address, however, Jefferson shows that he knew when to turn off his partisanship. We need more like him if today's United States is to be politically healthy again.
Partisanship has deep American roots, and it has always been controversial. George Washington deplored factionalism in his Farewell Address. By contrast, James Madison in "Federalist No. 10" saw the potential benefits to a large republic when many small factions must coalesce and trade off with one another if anyone is ever to reach a political majority. Madison was more prophetic about how the republic would actually work than Washington was. And while the longing for Washington's nonpartisan ideal lingers, we come closest to it when we follow the counsel of the Jefferson inaugural.
Leaning on Handlers
Beyond the threat of plutocracy, there are other problems. First, politics has become too much a full-time occupation, and professional public officeholders have become too dependent on professional political handlers. We have lost much of our sense of citizen participation in public life. Founders like John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson had varied interests and multiple careers. By contrast, Dwight D. Eisenhower, our last president who did not spend the majority of his career in politics, stated that he was wary about Lyndon B. Johnson as a prospective successor because L.B.J. had no hobbies or interests outside politics. This kind of narrowness remains a worry.
Second, political handlers, in particular, seem to measure their success by whether they can manage to destroy the reputation of their clients' opponents. Candidates generally go along with this. Even winners of elections often emerge from the process with their moral standing seriously damaged. This makes it much harder to persuade good people to seek public office and limits their effectiveness if they are elected.
Third, fewer media outlets these days strive for well-rounded reporting. Instead, they often champion particular points of view only. Cable channels, blogs and Internet sites are often unabashed in their preferences. The problem with this change is not so much what these outlets say as what their watchers and listeners do with the information. It has become too easy for people to separate themselves from perspectives they might disagree with. One thinks of the voter in a heavily one-sided neighborhood who expressed surprise when a member of the other party was elected to office by a landslide. It could not be, she said, because none of her neighbors had voted for that candidate.
Fourth, political professionals often act as if they can obtain the electoral results they seek only if they scare voters. I frequently receive e-mails that push some candidate or issue. Almost always they predict the apocalypse if someone is not elected, some bill fails or a court ruling goes a certain way. Gone is the perspective of John Quincy Adams, who said of his defeat for re-election to the presidency: "The sun of my political life sets in deepest gloom, but that of my country shines unclouded." Ironically, his sense that the country could survive without him probably accounted for the quick revival of Adams's political career and his election to Congress just two years after losing the White House. Another saying that deserves recollection is by Hubert Humphrey, who commented that anyone can get through a concession speech gracefully by considering it as the first speech of his next campaign rather than the last of the unsuccessful one.
American politicians have also lost their sense of self-deprecating humor. The wit and irony of a Robert Dole for the Republicans or a John F. Kennedy for the Democrats are not much emulated today. A bit of Irish-American political doggerel might be particularly useful for the professionals to revive now—the adage "Don't get mad, just get even." It has been said that this proverb prevented Boston politicians of the immigrant era from descending into total hatred.
The Cane on a Tombstone
Perhaps the greatest passage in Jefferson's Inaugural Address was his identification of the underlying values that the two main parties of his era shared: "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same political principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." What he meant by this was that his contemporaries presumably agreed that we should have both federal government (the Federalist preference) and state government (the Republican preference) in this country. The only quarrel was how to balance power between these two areas of the system. Jefferson thus marked parameters of the debate that calmed it considerably.
Of course, storms continued to break out. A couple of years ago I visited the tomb of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and was surprised to find that a wag had placed a cane upon it. This was a reminder that in 1856 Sumner survived a caning on the Senate floor from a member of the other house after an extremely partisan speech. Earlier, in 1798, Congressmen Matthew Lyons of Vermont and Roger Griswold of Connecticut fought each other with tongs and a cane on the House floor.
When I walk down the street in Seattle, however, I see people treating each other respectfully for the most part. Outside the professional political class, there is much civility and mutual toleration. We need to look to ordinary citizens to spot the national consensus, our common principles. I am confident that today we can identify a unity of principles, just as Jefferson did.
One last point: The comparison in Jefferson's admonition that we not allow our political arguments to become like the religious wars of early modern Europe was not coincidental. If there is proof that U.S. citizens are capable of tolerating difference, it lies in the way we have learned to practice religious toleration. Even before independence, the settlers recognized that the way to survive together in the wilderness was to stop persecuting each other over religious difference. Jefferson led us to do the same in politics.
At the laying of the cornerstone of the National Cathedral in Washington in 1907, Theodore Roosevelt suggested that the only proper competition among religious denominations should be a friendly contest to see which of them could perform the most acts of charity among the American people. Other observers of the religious scene in the United States have also mentioned the desirability that these denominations think in terms of service to others ahead of any sense of empowerment over others. Why not propose similar thinking for our political parties?
In this spirit, we need to celebrate examples of partisans who reached out to one another. History records several famous examples of pairs of presidents who began as friends, became estranged over politics and then reconciled. The first pair was John Adams and Jefferson, partners in the war of independence but so estranged on the day of Jefferson's inauguration that Adams left the capital without greeting his successor. But eventually Adams initiated a correspondence with Jefferson that became the glory of their old age.
A more recent example is that of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, partners during World War II and the subsequent reconstruction of Europe, but then torn apart by the bitter political campaign of 1952. Over a decade later, when the assassination of President Kennedy presented to the nation a lethal expression of political extremism, Eisenhower invited Truman to share a limousine to the funeral. By the end of that day, they shared a drink and agreed that their differences had been exaggerated.
Over the long-term, Americans have tolerated difference well. It is up to us to bring the same tolerance and goodwill back into politics. De Tocqueville included civic spirit on his list of America's democratic virtues; we can hope that this trait will trump the danger of plutocracy.
Funny how the first comment illustrates the very problem the author has identified.
Personally, I cannot imagine any set of circumstances under which it will be possible to bridge the partisan divide in this country in my lifetime - and I am currently 47. Rather than assigning blame to any political party, I'd suggest that the primary reason is that the overwhelming majority of Americans - even the very best educated among them - are not properly educated in what it means to exercise the awesome responsibility of being a citizen in a democratic society. Most of us are told that our primary responsibilities as citizens is to secure a well-paying job that will enable us to purchase as many consumer goods as possible, thus promoting our nation's economic well-being, and that our educational system should be geared primarily to the achievement of those ends. It is any wonder, therefore, that partisans of all stripes are incapable of understanding the substance of their own arguments, let alone understanding or even acknowledging facts that threaten their self-reinforced positions? As a society, we largely dismiss the values a liberal education provides - such as the ability to think clearly, argue persuasively, understand history, and acknowledge that human beings (and hence solutions to human problems) are incredibly complex.
If a catastrophe as great as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 could not engender a spirit of bipartisanship capable of lasting longer than it took to have a day of prayer and reflection to mark the event, I challenge anyone to tell me what calamitous event or set of circumstances will.
Government suppressing free speech rights of any group especially during an election campaign as the FEC (Federal Election Commission) did to the Citizens United group that happened to be incorporated is a proven bad idea that does nothing to resolve or prevent the nation's political conflicts or divisions. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision ruled once again that the U.S. Constitution Free Speech rights apply to everyone, without exception, including groups of people that are organized as corporations rather than private associations or groups that not incorporated. Corporations are a modern form of organization that people organize under.
People do not lose their Free Speech rights because they are organized as a corporation.
The Citizens United Decision ruled that the McCain Feingold law which the FEC used to suppressed the free speech of the Citizens United corporation was unconstitutional because it violates free speech rights. Ridiculously Citizens United a political advocacy group was being told by the FEC that it could not express its political message(s) or it would be fined. The FEC was censoring political expression. The Supreme Courts as it has done for over 230 years has upheld Citizens United and all corporations and unions free speech rights, free of government censorship.
As the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law .. abridging the freedom of speech ... " No law means no law. There are no exceptions . Free Speech applies to everyone even to some people whom this article d regards as "plutocrats" and therefore undeserving or unworthy of having free speech rights that may be expressed as political expression during a political campaign.
Excluding people from expressing their political views because they happen to be organized as a corporation as Citizens United was is arbitrary and capricious and cannot be justified under the U.S. Constitution.
"No law means no law. There are no exceptions."Nonsense.
There are NO rights in the Constitution that are unfettered, be they religious, speech, press, assembly or property
"The liberals were in lock step?" Do you know who appointed Roberts? Is your narrative more important than reality?
But does that mean that a corporation becomes a person? I can organize a corporation with some people but I don't become one.
We are talking about Free Speech Rights which by itself should put everyone on the highest alert as if someone set uff bringht flares at night.
As the Citizens United option says:
"If the First Amendment has any force , it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."
The McCain Fiengold law used by the FEC (Federal Election Commission) actually supresses speech by threat of heavy fines and imprisonment of up to five years. Why? Becasue Citizens United would express a poltical view. Since when is the federal government ever involved in the business of censorship of politcal speech by fines and imprisonment? Suppressing Free Speech is never allowed but especially the suppressing poltical free speech.
As the Court repeated in Citizens United " Political speech is 'in depensable to decisionmaking in a democracy, and this is no less true becasuse the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual,"
Never mind the identity of the speaker is, goevernemnt suppressing Free Speech is just not Constitutional.
As for whether a single SCotUS opinion is the cause of much of any thing, ask and answer the question "has anything really changed since that moment?"


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Garnett, Celts hold off Knicks
New York, NY – Despite facing elimination and giving up the first 11 points Wednesday night, the Celtics weren't fazed at Madison Square Garden.
Instead, the veteran leadership of Paul Pierce, Jason Terry and Kevin Garnett helped to pull the Celtics through to extend their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series for another night.
They're halfway to making history.
Garnett had 16 points and 18 rebounds, and the Celtics beat the New York Knicks, 92-86, in Game 5.
Terry went 5-of-9 from beyond the arc and ended with 17 points. Pierce finished with 16. Jeff Green hit a couple of big 3-pointers late in the fourth quarter and tallied 18 points, while Brandon Bass scored 17 for the Celtics.
Boston, which trails the best-of-seven set, 3-2, has a giant mountain to climb. No team has ever rallied from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven NBA playoff series.
"It's definitely on us still," Boston coach Doc Rivers said of the pressure. "It's another Game 7 for us. That's the way we've been viewing it. It's still a ton of pressure on us. We have to be really good defensively. I thought tonight we were."
The Celtics, though, could look to another intense Boston-New York rivalry for inspiration. The Red Sox of 2004 made history by coming back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.
J.R. Smith, the reigning Sixth Man of the Year, struggled in his return to the New York lineup with 14 points on 3-of-14 shooting. Smith, who was suspended for Game 4 for throwing an elbow at Terry, said he would have been playing golf if he'd have played in the fourth contest because the Knicks would have swept the series. Instead, they'll make another trip to Boston for Game 6 Friday night.
"Nobody said it's going to be easy, but now it's a series," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said.
Carmelo Anthony went 8-of-24 from the field for 22 points, but missed all five of his 3-point shots, part of a 5-of-22 performance for the Knicks. They shot 39.5 percent overall.
"Offensively we were searching. Our defense was pretty solid. We have to find offense somewhere," Woodson said.
Smith missed his first 10 shots before sinking three 3-pointers late in the final quarter, the second of which got the hosts within 88-83 with 1:05 remaining.
Garnett, though, used a pump fake to get Tyson Chandler in the air and drained a shot from beyond the foul line with 48.3 seconds remaining to seal the outcome.
There was a tense moment at the end when Boston's Jordan Crawford and New York's Raymond Felton exchanged words near midcourt.
The seventh-seeded Celtics made half of their 22 3-point tries and drained all 17 of their free throws.
Anthony's driving dunk extended the Knicks to an 11-0 lead 4:13 into the game, but the Celtics didn't waver and closed within two later in the period and were within 22-20 after 12 minutes.
Anthony had 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting in the opening quarter, but struggled to a 1-of-7 effort in the second.
Kenyon Martin picked up his third personal foul when he raked Garnett across the face while Garnett went up for a shot in the lane. Still, the Knicks went up as many as six at 32-26 later in the quarter.
Pierce's 3-pointer midway through the second pushed the Celtics ahead for the first time at 34-33, and Boston's lead expanded to 45-39 at the half thanks to Terry's step-back 3-pointer from the right corner in the closing minute.
Boston's largest lead of the third came in the final minute when Terry drained a left wing 3-ball for a 69-60 cushion going into the fourth.
"I kept telling them left it fly, don't hesitate," Rivers said of his team's 3-point shooting. "This is the first game we had complete trust and found the open guy."
The visiting bench exploded in jubilation when Green drove in for a 1-handed slam and a 75-60 lead with 9:05 remaining.
Green drained a pair of 3-balls within a span off less than a minute later in the fourth to create an 88-76 lead.
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Only four times in major pro sports history has a team come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven series, most recently in 2010 when the Philadelphia Flyers downed the Boston Bruins. The 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 New York Islanders also did it in the NHL ... Garnett has 17-plus rebounds in the last three games ... Felton had 21 points and Iman Shumpert 12 for the Knicks, who also got 11 rebounds from Chandler ... The last time the Knicks won a playoff series was the Eastern Conference semifinals after the 1999-2000 season. They fell to the Indiana Pacers in the Conference Finals that year.


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Reggie Miller: Dwyane Wade is Derek Jeter, LeBron James is Alex Rodriguez
Wattage aside, perhaps the Miami Heat's cast of superheros -- or villains, depending on your point of view -- will not be led by King James. TNT's Reggie Miller said the Heat's star system is simple: " Dwyane Wade is the Derek Jeter here. LeBron James is the Alex Rodriguez. One of those guys will have to sacrifice, and it will have to be LeBron. This is still Dwyane's team."
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Sorry Reggie, but Dwyane Wade and LeBron James are different than Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.
First, Wade and James are boys. They wanted to play together. They've been scheming on this longer than you've been dead weight on TNT's broadcast staff.
Jeter and Rodriguez aren't close. They were forced to play together. They tolerate each other. It's a professional relationship. Nothing more.
Second, basketball is more of a team sport than baseball. In the NBA, truly great players transcend statistics and bring out the greatness in each other.
LeBron will be a Magic Johnson style distributor for the Miami Heat. His points will decrease, but his assists will skyrocket, propelling the Three Kings deep into the playoffs.
This won't diminish LeBron's status. It will do the opposite. In the NBA, great players make those around them better and procure championships. They don't worry about 'sacrificing' regular season scoring numbers.
That's the difference between basketball and baseball.
To be a crème de la crème talent in the NBA, a player must stack Larry O'Brien trophies. It's the only currency of greatness. It's the sole measuring stick. So players are willing to work together.
MLB is a numbers game. It's more an individual sport. A player can be an all-time great if he has 'his' statistics. Team success takes a backseat and is less important.
Wade and LeBron aren't Jeter and Rodriguez. They'll make their partnership work. They'll win. And that's all that should matter.
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This past week I wrote my weekly column for Fox News Latino about the tradition of Christmas Eve fireworks in El Salvador, and the injuries it causes each year.
While doing research for the article I came across several videos which, despite the serious subject matter I was writing about, I found really amusing. It's funny when people have a good time with fireworks and don't get hurt, so I can definitely see why people continue to buy them and set them off.
I myself have never handled anything more serious than sparklers and since I didn't grow up with fireworks being set off right in front of me as Carlos did, I have a healthy fear/respect of them. That being said, I know some of you will be setting off some pretty impressive cuetes tomorrow night, so I just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone to be careful and to keep small children at a safe distance while you're celebrating. If you talk to your family in El Salvador on the phone, remind them too. Christmas is not as fun at the hospital. Have fun, pero con cuidado!


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Madison Phillips fell in love when she picked up the clarinet at Lovejoy Discovery School two years ago. She was happier to go to school on days when she got to play her instrument and went from struggling through school to being on the honor roll this year, her mother said.
So when 10-year-old Madison found out that her school was ending its instrumental music and band program, she reacted predictably.
She cried.
"They just had their last concert on Friday," said her mother, Kathleen Phillips. "It was very sad because it was announced that it was going to be their last concert ever."
The Buffalo Public Schools are dropping band, orchestra and all other instrumental music programs next year in half the schools that currently have such program, according to district teachers. That's 14 of the 28 remaining instrumental music programs. District teachers estimate 1,300 students will be affected. Another four schools will see reductions in their instrumental music programs.
While the district has chipped away at its instrumental music programs for years, the elimination of so many band and orchestra programs next school year marks the first loss of so many at once.
The reduction also expands the gap between suburban and elite city schools that continue to nurture instrumental programs, while the remaining city schools are dumping concert bands and trumpet lessons in a desperate bid to boost core academic staffing.
"They're making you want to leave the city," said Phillips, whose daughter asked her if the family could move to Hamburg, where she has heard school band programs still exist.
Contrast Buffalo with a district like Williamsville, the next largest district in the region. It has a band or orchestra program at each of its 13 schools and more than twice as many full-time instrumental music teachers than Buffalo.
Williamsville has been named one of the 100 Best Communities for Music Education six times since 1999, including this year, and 30 percent of Williamsville's students participate in some type of instrumental music program.
This despite the fact that Williamsville spends less than $17,000 per student, with 65 percent of that money coming from local taxpayers, while Buffalo spends $22,000 per student, with most of that money from state and federal aid.
City music teachers point to studies indicating that playing an instrument helps with children's math and language acquisition skills, boosts intelligence, raises test scores and often motivates more students to stay in school and learn.
"I can't tell you the number of kids who say, 'I'm only in school today because I have my lesson,' " said Amy J. Steiner, a 15-year music teacher who had an award-winning band program at International Preparatory School. "It breaks my heart."
Tenth-grader Jose Rodriguez, one of her students, said he loved playing trumpet so much that he asked his mom to buy him one for Christmas two years ago.
"It helped me with leadership skills," he said.
Superintendent Pamela C. Brown stated that no major cuts are being made to the district's music program and stressed that general, vocal music education will still be offered at all elementary schools.
"I do want to make sure it's clear there have not been dramatic cutbacks in instrumental music," she said last week.
She referred to the 2013-14 budget, which indicates that the equivalent of 6.76 full-time instrumental music teachers are being cut from the budget.
But instrumental music teachers contend that when adding up the number of programs being cut or eliminated, the actual number of full-time instrumental teachers being lost is nine. In addition, since many schools have already scaled back band programs, full-time instrumental music teachers in Buffalo are often shared by more than one school, making the impact of the cuts more widespread.
District spokeswoman Elena Cala said the teachers' assessment of how many school music programs and positions are being cut is based on uninformed conjecture on their part.
The teachers said they verified the information directly with their own school principals. The Buffalo News asked to speak with the district's supervisor for music to double-check the facts, but the district denied the request. The dramatic loss of band programs is directly related to the district's partial move to a new school-based budgeting program that gives principals some discretion over their own building staffing next year.
A number of principals have said they appreciate having more autonomy to determine how to allocate nonmandated positions. But some principals at smaller schools, and those with declining enrollments, said they have struggled to maintain basic staffing levels and couldn't afford to keep programs like band.
Kevin Eberle, principal of International Prep, said 30 percent of his students are immigrants who need "universal language" programs like instrumental music to keep them in school and provide support for their language education.
But of the seven positions he had discretion over, he said, he was forced to prop up his math, English, social studies and science staff levels. To keep a band director, he said, he would have had to give up a remedial math teacher.
"You don't have an option," he said.
Some parents and students said they have no exposure to instrumental music except through their schools.
That's certainly true for Phillips, who works as a security guard. She said her son played trumpet at South Park High School, and her daughter wanted to follow in his footsteps.
"She wanted to be in the high school band when she gets older, and she's going to be at such a disadvantage," Phillips said.
She won't be alone. Band directors at city high schools that still have instrumental music said they wonder if they will have enough students to support their existing bands and orchestras if the loss of programs at the elementary level isn't reversed.
"Down the line, it is going to affect our program," said Timothy Lyons, band director at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.
Park District School Board member Louis Petrucci is losing four instrumental music programs among the seven schools he represents in South Buffalo.
"Unfortunately, instrumental music was one of the casualties of the budget deficit," Petrucci said. "There would have to be some type of outside funding source identified specifically to restore instrumental music. That's the reality, that we just don't have the money that we need."
A number of organizations have stepped up in the past to support city school band programs. One of them is the VH-1 Save the Music Foundation, which worked to sustain the district's music programs years ago with the donation of $1.2 million worth of instruments.
A condition of that donation was that the district continue to offer instrumental music programs in its schools.
The foundation's executive director sent The News a statement saying that the foundation is committed to partnering with the Buffalo district and that "the idea of pulling instruments is an absolute last resort."
"Since we were made aware of the rumored cuts, the foundation has made numerous attempts to meet with Buffalo Public Schools in an effort to clarify the district's plans for music programs via phone, letter and email," said Executive Director Paul Cothran. "While we understand the many challenges and priorities on the superintendent's desk, to date no such meeting or call has taken place, and we hope that changes soon."
Proponents of instrumental music said they aren't going to let this matter rest. A noisy, instrument-laden rally is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on the steps of City Hall to protest the music cuts before the School Board's 5:30 p.m. meeting.
They're calling the rally "forGOT MUSIC?" – a riff off the national milk campaign – and are pushing for the district to restore band programs.
"It infuriates me that they put through this budget, and no parents were told anything," said 15-year music teacher Melissa Stewart, who teaches at both Discovery School 67 and Southside Elementary. "Basically, they're lying to parents. They're lying to everybody."
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Dr. Kirk Brumels, associate professor of kinesiology and program director of athletic training education at Hope College, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Michigan Athletic Trainers' Society (MATS) on Friday, June 7.
The ceremony will be held in Ypsilanti, during the society's annual Hall of Fame Dinner.
Brumels, a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association and licensed Michigan athletic trainer, has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2001. He had previously spent more than a decade as an athletic trainer with the New England Patriots.
He has been active with MATS in a variety of ways, including as president during 2011 and 2012, president-elect in 2009-10, and as chair of the Professional Education Committee during 2007 and 2008. His current involvement includes serving as Michigan state representative to the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association (GLATA).
In addition to teaching and serving as head athletic trainer at Hope, Brumels conducts research in athletic training, including collaboratively with students at the college. His publications include co-authoring the fourth edition of the textbook "Developing Clinical Proficiency in Athletic Training: A Modular Approach" and co-authoring nine chapters in the textbook "Core Concepts in Athletic Training and Therapy," as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals. Through the years, he has made multiple presentations on his research or aspects of athletic training during MATS, GLATA, and the NATA Annual Meetings and/or Symposiums.
A 1988 graduate of Hope's athletic training program, Brumels worked with the college's basketball, baseball, field hockey and football teams as well as in the athletic training room as a student. His undergraduate experiences also included an internship with the Patriots during the summer before his senior year.
After Hope he did graduate work in athletic training at Western Michigan University, completing his master's in 1990. While in the master's program he was also the staff athletic trainer at St. Mary's Sports Med Center in Grand Rapids. He completed his doctorate at Western Michigan University in 2005.
He worked with the New England Patriots in Foxboro, Mass., from 1990 to 2001. His responsibilities included supervising, educating and coordinating student athletic trainers during summer training camp and various internship positions throughout the football season. He also worked with the team physician and head athletic trainer to coordinate all aspects of medical services for the team and its staff.
MATS is a not-for-profit organization formed to assist its members and to educate the public on the role of a certified athletic trainer (ATC) within the health care profession. The society consists of certified athletic trainers, non-certified athletic training students and other health care professionals.


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After I prayed, the Spirit guided me—and then warned me.
As a 16-year-old I learned that the Lord does indeed listen to and answer sincere prayers, even those of a young man.
My father followed the counsel of the Brethren that we should be prepared with not only food but also fuel, and so each fall my younger brother and I would help him cut and haul firewood to be stored for future need. In the area of Virginia where we lived, trees were being downed to make way for new construction. There was a time allotted for those who wanted to cut up the wood and haul it off. One bright fall day, my father announced that we would drive out to one of these construction sites and get a truckload of wood.
It was my father's job to work the chainsaw and cut the trees into pieces that my brother and I could haul to the truck. We had worked late into the afternoon when my father announced that we could pack up. After reaching into his pocket, he looked at us and said, "Oh no. I lost the keys." At first we thought he was kidding, but then he pulled his pocket inside out and revealed a large hole. All three of us started to search where we had been. We looked and looked but could not find the keys.
It was getting late and cold. We had not dressed for the cool of evening, and it would have been a hike of several miles on country roads to get to where we could reach a phone. It was not a life-threatening situation, but to a tired 16-year-old, it seemed desperate. After searching for as long as I could, and realizing the futility of our efforts in this maze of wood and sawdust, I took the only course I thought was left. I went behind the pile of trees and there humbly pleaded to our Heavenly Father. I explained to Him what our situation was and asked if He could help us find the keys.
Answers to prayers come in many ways. On this occasion, as I opened my eyes, I felt a distinct prompting to go to a stack of trees where we had cut earlier that day. Even though we had each searched there previously, I walked over to that spot. As I arrived there, again a prompting came to look down into a hole between the large trunks lying across each other. It was now dusk and getting difficult to see, so at first I could not see anything in the dark hole, but as my eyes became adjusted I was excited to see a glimmer of metal. Just as I was about to reach down and grab the keys, the Spirit gave me a distinct warning not to put my hand in that hole. The prompting was so strong that I decided to examine the situation more closely. I squinted and could barely make out the reason why I was not to reach for the keys. There, curled in the leaves and sawdust next to the keys, was a copperhead snake.
There have been many occasions in my life when I have knelt in prayer, and I am so thankful for a loving Father in Heaven who listens to and answers prayers.
I did the only thing a wise 16-year-old would do. I shouted, "Hey Dad, I found the keys," and he responded, "Where?" I yelled, "Over here." Then with a pause and a smile I added, "And you can get them out!" When my dad got to where I was, I explained to him our dilemma about the location of the keys and how our friend the snake was guarding them. My father got a long stick, slowly lowered it so as to not disturb the snake, and pulled out the keys.
Soon we were in a warm truck with a full load of wood and ready to head home when my father asked me how I ever found those keys. I told him. He believed me and reminded me that we should take a moment to express our gratitude to our Heavenly Father for finding the keys, and we did.
There have been many occasions in my life when I have knelt in prayer, and I am so thankful for a loving Father in Heaven who listens to and answers prayers. Answers have not always come in the same way as they did on that cold fall day, but I learned then that "every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth" (Matthew 7:8).
Follow in Faith
"I have discovered that what sometimes seems an impenetrable barrier to communication is a giant step to be taken in trust. Seldom will you receive a complete response all at once. It will come a piece at a time, in packets, so that you will grow in capacity. As each piece is followed in faith, you will be led to other portions until you have the whole answer. That pattern requires you to exercise faith in our Father's capacity to respond. While sometimes it's very hard, it results in significant personal growth" (Richard G. Scott, "Using the Supernal Gift of Prayer," Liahona and Ensign, May 2007, 9).


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Justin Bieber Adds Two More Tattoos to His Growing Collection [PHOTO]
Justin Bieber has been a busy little bee, adding another two tattoos to his collection of ink.
And yes, these are in addition to those other two tattoos we recently shared with you -- which were a compass and a jester.
The Bieb's most recent ink includes the word "LOVE" down his forearm and a music note (specifically a treble clef) behind his left ear.
While the "LOVE" tattoo on his forearm is easy to find on Instagram, the treble clef is more difficult to locate and has only appeared on a handful of websites, including the Justin Bieber Crew fansite.
That means that the music note is only allegedly Bieber's, but it could totally still belong to him.
Still, three confirmed new tattoos in only a few days is an awful lot of new tattoos.


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Sometimes you don�t have to travel far to affect change in the world. Help might be needed just a few hours away.
This month, a group of eighth and ninth grade students from Calvary Schools of Holland spent four days serving residents of Detroit.
The trip was organized through Steve Fox, a member of Calvary Baptist Church and executive director of i:68 Missions. Fox and his wife, Jessica, run domestic mission trips to New York City for youth and other church groups. Over the past year, however, Fox said they�ve been starting to shift their focus to Detroit and forging partnerships between West Michigan churches and Detroit churches.
�The whole point was to pull (the students) out of Holland and let them see mission trips don't necessarily need to be overseas,� Fox said. �There are people in need everywhere.�
Calvary�s executive director, Kevin Alderink, said he hoped the trip would help students see how they can have an effect on society.
�It�s about how to have empathy and see that you can help change another person�s life and how energizing and powerful that is.�
The team spent four days working at the Detroit Rescue Mission and various other organizations in the heart of the city. Students painted, served meals and talked with residents to hear their stories and prayer requests.
Thirteen-year-old Chloe Baumann, an eighth-grader who went on the trip, said the most memorable part was the conversations she had with some of the men at the mission. Most people asked for prayers for protection and safety, and those requests, Baumann said, helped her to see life from another perspective.
�I always knew that there were people not as well off as we are here in Holland, but going there to that area, it was just amazing to see that people really do live like that all the time and they�re just happy for a warm meal or for someone to just smile at them,� Baumann said. �What was really awesome was you go there and think you�re going to bless people and they end up blessing you probably even more.�
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Sent to serve: Calvary students spend 4 days volunteering in Detroit
Sometimes you don�t have to travel far to affect change in the world. Help might be needed just a few hours away.


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10am-5pm this Saturday Nov 14 Raighne and I will be at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts selling our comics and creatures at the Center's annual Book Arts Fest. I'm super excited because I've never gotten to work this event before. There will be lots of artist-created books. The thought of all those handmade papers, screen-printed covers, and letterpress printed texts makes my quiver with delight. No doubt I'll be spending any and all of my profits... Also, I've heard from my Mom that there is a mystery writing conference going on at the Loft Literary Center (also located at Open Book) on the same day.
We will have the second edition of Beard Growing Contest for sale at our table. It has a different cover, printed by our amazing neighbor Eric Recktenwald and his company The Lab Digital Production. The printing quality makes me cry with awe.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts is located in
the Open Book Building in downtown Minneapolis
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612.215.2520
2D Cloud @ MCBA Book Arts Fest this Saturday
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- Paul said...
hello, just wanted to express my complete adoration of the little beard growing contest book i bought on saturday. my wife and i really loved yr creations and blissyvibes. :) somehow the book seems to have inspired me to grow a beard. but i already had one, so i shaved mine off on tuesday night and am starting anew! hahaha, thanks for the courage, guys!
please take this love from my fingertips and keep spreading it through all that you do.
bearded dream travel 4 life,
- November 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM
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Thor Motor Coach has announced the addition of 34ST model to its Tuscany XTE brand of luxury diesel motorhomes. The new 34ST joins the 36MQ and 40EX as the most compact floorplan to date on the Tuscany line of class A diesel pushers.
"We are excited to bring this unit to market. We have heard the customers speak and we are listening. We have seen major retail market share increases in our larger Tuscany and Tuscany XTE models, but we continue to get requests for that smaller coach, with big time diesel amenities," says Adam Gudger, national sales manager for Thor Motor Coach. "The 34ST is the full package!"
The 34ST diesel pushers are powered by the Cummins ISB-XT engine rated at 360-hp, and 800 ft. lbs of torque. According to Thor, compared to gas engine motorhomes in the 35' range, the 34ST boasts 75 percent more torque. Standard exterior features include an Onan QD 8,000-watt diesel generator, Energy Management system, 2000-watt power inverter, and lateral arm patio awnings. The Freightliner chassis has a 55-degree cramp angle on the front steer axle, allowing the 34ST "unsurpassed maneuverability and increased stability."
Highlighting the interior is a large U-shaped dinette, while the opposing Hide-a-bed sofa with air mattress can be converted for additional sleeping when needed. Modern cooking conveniences include a stainless steel residential refrigerator, stainless 30" over the range convection microwave, and timeless Samsung solid surface countertops.


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CULTURE- MUSIC- Suit himself: Kenny G likes Kenny G just fine
None of young Kenny Gorelick's high school teachers could have predicted that their prodigious young saxophone student would eventually grow up and turn into the best-selling instrumental composer of all time. But there are also legions of detractors who would say that's the musical equivalent of TV Guide's being the most popular magazine in the country: Gorelick has attracted more criticism than almost any other musician of his generation, most notably a biting critical essay by guitarist Pat Metheny over Kenny G's decision to overdub his sax stylings on Louis Armstrong's pop classic "What A Wonderful World." But then, those jazz purists will complain about pretty much anything, won't they?
The Hook: So, Latin music this time?
Kenny G: It's an all Latin CD, almost all original music. It was fun to try to compose in that field, challenging and very satisfying. It turned out great, and I'm really proud of it.
The Hook: As a white dude, do you feel personally connected to that music?
The Hook: I don't know that I have a connection in that normal way. I've done songs on my previous records that had a Latin feel, and I loved the way they turned out, so I figured I'd try to do a whole album that way. I knew a lot of the best Latin players in LA, and we just got together and started jamming.
The Hook: How much harder is it to write an album outside your element, as opposed to just a song or two?
Kenny G: It was challenging in some ways. It was a different approach; it had a little bossa nova underneath it. That was the only difference.
The Hook: Are there other foreign dialects you might eventually want to explore?
Kenny G: I've always thought it would be fun to do classical music, but I wouldn't want to do a famous classical piece. I'd want to write a piece of music that sounds like a classical song but is my own composition– maybe go on the road and play with a symphony orchestra.
The Hook: Is there a philosophical reason for wanting to write it yourself?
Kenny G: For me, the satisfaction of creating music is why I do what I do. It's not about playing a song; it's about creating something that's never been done before. I think that's one of the reasons people like my music; I'm not just playing somebody else's music.
The Hook: Considering you're probably your own worst critic, what's the whitest thing you can hear about this last album?
Kenny G: I'm not trying to be an egomaniac, but everything turned out really good. I can't think of anything I'd do differently.
The Hook: Do you generally feel that way about your records?
Kenny G: I do, because I take my time with them. They're not quick little things that I throw together. I spend a lot of time listening to them, and I don't release them until they're where I want them.
The Hook: Do you listen to your own records a lot, or does that happen only during the process of making them?
Kenny G: I listen to my Christmas music at Christmas, but not really. People will put the record on when I go over to their house, and I don't mind at all– I'm proud of my music, and if they want to show me my music, I'm not going to ask them to change it. If it comes on the radio, I let it go. But no, I don't listen to it.
The Hook: What's the working process like?
Kenny G: I usually come up with a melody on my saxophone and try to see if I can do something with it.
The Hook: Do you ever write it down?
Kenny G: No. I don't need to. I just play it. And when somebody else comes to play on it, they just play it. The only time anything is written down is when there's an orchestra arrangement.
The Hook: How did starting your professional career so early shape your work? What might have gone differently if you had waited a few more years?
Kenny G: When you have success, it gives you confidence to do your own thing. The successful songs were the ones I composed by myself and played every instrument. It gave me some confidence to go in the next time I was recording to know that if I liked it, it was good enough.
The Hook: You've been clear about your admiration for Grover Washington Jr. What was the most difficult part about learning to play his music? The challenges posed by Coltrane and Charlie Parker are a little more obvious.
Kenny G: As a student, the best way to learn is to emulate, and hopefully somewhere along the way you come up with your own sound. The thing that I hear, unfortunately, about people who go after Charlie Parker and Coltrane is that they really do sound like them. If you sound like Charlie Parker, people are going to compare you to Charlie Parker, and it's tough to beat him– same with John Coltrane. With Grover, I went after him, and I came up with my own sound.
The Hook: What's so different about the way you do things?
Kenny G: It's the sound of the saxophone. I just get a sound that nobody else gets; it isn't a conscious effort, that's just the way it is. And since I'm writing my own music, I know they're not compositions you've heard before. When I do my music, I'm proud of the fact that it's going to be unique.
The Hook: Do you think of yourself as a pop artist or a jazz artist? That's one "criticism" that's often pointed at you, but if you embrace it, maybe it's not such a bad thing for people to say.
Kenny G: Really, I couldn't care less.
The Hook: Did you think about that after Metheny's essay?
Kenny G: That didn't affect me at all. I actually thought it was a joke at first. I was disappointed that a musician like that would go out and say that stuff publically about somebody else; it's not a classy way to be. I was disappointed that he chose that route, but it was meaningless to me– I do what I do, and if I like it, that's good enough. I can tell you this– I've never heard anybody in the world say that they didn't like that arrangement. Everyone says it's one of their favorite things I've ever done.
Kenny G performs at the Paramount Theater on June 8. $58.50-$69.50, 8pm.
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Then let me be the first: Mr. Gorelick, I did not care for that arrangement of "What a Wonderful World" - not at all.
This guy must live in a glass bubble, surrounded by handlers. LOTS of people don't like that "arrangement" (more like "derangment") or his music in general; his unawareness of this fact indicates a state of self-delusion.
And he has a lot of nerve to suggest that Pat Metheny is un-"classy" in any way; he massacred a beloved track. He should be ashamed.
Does the "G" stand for Gay?
"Everyone says it's one of their favorite things I've ever done."
Ok, so I can only deduce that Mr. G has to be surrounded by sycophants and/or musically incompetent people. The only good thing about his appalling version of "What a Wonderful World" is that it caused Pat Metheny to write a very acute criticism of it.
Hey, I have been playing music 48 years. I play 12 instruments. Saxes among them,alot of double neck guitars,violin and I do a single act. And have recorded tons of original songs.I work all the time. I think Kenney's music is great and original.Thats why he is the no.1 Saxophonist song seller of all time. His music is pretty and soothing.People are so critical and hateful. If any of you out there can do better,go for it.I love his version of wonderful world.By the way,I am a very educated musician that major was music theory.I was at the top of my class out of 64 hard working students.People need to quit being so full of hate and look at themselves.I will challenge anyone out there.If you ever get more saxophone no 1.hits in the USA than Kenney -- I will personally write you a check for 5K. If you do,which you won't, e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com.-Billy Gambrell
Mr. Gambrell,
Vanilla Ice (as did Milli Vanilli, The 2-Live Crew and - possibly - William Shatner) sold a great deal of records, does that make them great musicians?
The mere fact that you would equate copies sold and dollar to any sort of artistic accomplishment completely undermines your argument, discredits your being in any position to speak on the matter and makes your opinion completely UN-valuable.
Stay out of grown folks conversations.
Thanks and be well (and quiet),
Hey, Kenny G makes his music and does not force anyone to buy it. Fact is -millions of people love his music, and that's cool. i wouldn't compare him to any jazz musician, it is just too different. I also prefer to listen to Kim Waters, who is closer to him in style. But because I know many wonderful people who think Kenny G is number one - I take off my hat and give him much respect.
People...he's just a sax player who is good enough to enjoy his work and make money at it....alot of money. He doesn't claim to be a great master of jazz or pop music. He is good at what he does and people like it. Too many "sacred cows" that people get worked up over. This is not complicated. What Pat said is just an opinion. It's meaningless to Kenny because he's not going to stop playing in order to please other jazz musicians who are mad about touching the "sacred cow". Crazy, emotional responses that will mean nothing in 50 years. Louis will be Louis, Pat will be Pat, Kenny will be Kenny. Enjoy the ride and don't get your panties all in a bunch. Nothing immoral or illegal has been done by Kenny G. Relax, get over the envy and move on. You can dislike him but don't blame him for the unpopularity or lack of success in your own line of work.


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Yarullin scores in overtime as Russia defeats Slovakia 3-2 in WJHC openerNHL.com @NHLdotcom
UFA, Russia - Albert Yarullin scored at 4:50 of overtime Wednesday as Russia escaped with a 3-2 victory against Slovakia in the opener at the world junior hockey championship for both teams.
Nikita Kucherov and Alexander Khokhlachyov also scored for Russia, while Andrei Vasilevski made 32 saves.
Matus Matis and Richard Mraz had the goals for Slovakia. Adam Nagy stopped 34 shots.
Slovakia tied the heavily-favoured hosts on the power play with 34 seconds left in regulation to send the game to overtime. But the Slovaks took a penalty in the extra period and Yarullin made them pay off the ensuing faceoff, blasting a one-timer from the point past Nagy.
Pool B action continues for both countries Friday with Slovakia taking on Canada and Russia meeting the U.S.
Canada leads Pool B with three points after a 9-3 win over Germany, while Russia sits second with two points for the overtime victory. Slovakia picked up one point for the OT loss and is followed in the standings by the Americans, who open their tournament on Thursday against Germany.


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Billy Crystal, Jimmy Fallon Among Jay Leno's Last Guests on The Tonight Show
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