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This set of cutters is so simple to use; forget having huge amounts of cutters for different sizes, this one simple strip cutter has a variety of different sizes, allowing you to make more at once.
The Windsor Clikstix range of cutters have the added benefit of an ejector! Just press the cutters on to thinly rolled out Mexican or petal paste, then press, cut and eject – it really is as simple as that.
These plastic Clickstix, whilst easy to use, are of course slightly different to most conventional cake decorating cutters – many of which are made from metal such as stainless steel. As such, you should refer to the full instructions provided on the reverse of the packaging to ensure that you get the best out of these great, hard wearing clickstix cutters from Windsor Cake Craft.
Each letter is sized approx. 1.2cm tall.
The clear plastic material makes them easy to handle and clean, but best of all they're virtually indestructible!
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Fire Art - Mermaid
Fire Art comes in all shapes and sizes. Spice up your desk or nightstand with this abstract art, that pleasing to the eye and adds a touch of class to every space.
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For games that are sold on the UK High Street, the PEGI classification scheme allows purchasers to check that the game is appropriate for a particular age range, and also be forewarned about any 'questionable' content contained within the game, such as violence, sex or drugs references, and so on (e.g. Classifying Games).
At the time of writing, there is no mandated requirement for online games to display PEGI ratings, even if the games are made specifically for the UK market, although PEGI does have an online scheme – PEGI Online:
The licence to display the PEGI Online Logo is granted by the PEGI Online Administrator to any online gameplay service provider that meets the requirements set out in the PEGI Online Safety Code (POSC). These requirements include the obligation to keep the website free from illegal and offensive content created by users and any undesirable links, as well as measures for the protection of young people and their privacy when engaging in online gameplay.
So how do you decide whether an online game is likely to be appropriate for a younger age range? One way is to 'trust' a branded publisher. For example, games appearing on the BBC CBeebies games site are likely to be fine for the youngest of players. And the games on CBBC hit the spot for slightly older children. If you're not too bothered about product placement and marketing, other trusted brands are likely to include corporates such as Disney, although if you're a parent, you may prefer games hosted on museum websites, such as Tate Kids or the Science Museum.
But what about a game like following, which is produced by Channel 4 and is intended to act as a 'public service information' game about privacy in online social networks?
What sort of cues are there about the intended age range of the players of this game? Are there any barriers or warnings in place to make it difficult to gain access to this game on grounds of age? Should there be? Or is it enough to trust that the design and branding of the site is only likely to appeal to the 'appropriate' demographic?
Look through the Smokescreen game website and missions. To what extent is the game: a simulation? a serious game?
How does the visual design of the game compare with the designs for games on the 'kids' games sites listed above?
PS if you get a chance to play some of the kids games, well, it is Friday… :-) I have to admit I do like quite a few of the gams on the Science Museum website ;-)


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Nyad fought off winds, sickness and fatigue on record swim
An open water swim instructor talks about how someone can prepare for a swim like the one taken from Florida to Cuba by Diana Nyad. VPC
After setting a record ocean swim at 64, Diana Nyad won't stop there.
Diana Nyad's record-setting, 103-mile weekend swim from Cuba to Florida was marred by swirling winds, choppy waters, seasickness and a bit of self-doubt, the exhausted but ebullient endurance swimmer said Tuesday.
Winds created choppy sea conditions about 90 minutes after she slipped into the water in Havana on Saturday morning. "As a swimmer, you're never happy in wind, you go up and down and you fight it," she said at a Tuesday press briefing in Key West.
Although the waves slapped against her, Nyad, 64, managed to avoid swallowing water until Saturday evening, when she donned a wet suit and a face mask to fend off the venomous box jellyfish that had marred her previous efforts to swim the distance. The custom-made mask, however, couldn't prevent her from swallowing water.
"Saturday night was hell on Earth. I couldn't take a breath — I was getting tired as well,'' said Nyad, joking and in good spirits following the ordeal of completing the crossing on her fifth try after four failed attempts in 1978, 2011 and 2012.
Ringed by kayakers using electronic gear to ward off sharks and keep her on course, Nyad said she began vomiting from the seawater hours after beginning her torturous swim. By Sunday morning, her support crew was trying to get her to eat scrambled eggs and consume fluids to keep her hydrated.
"I was losing confidence that I could make it through Sunday and Monday nights,'' she said. "It was really tough."
Her support crew did not tell her how much farther she needed to go to reach Key West — Nyad said she thought she'd still be swimming into Tuesday, figuring the trip would take 80 hours. Instead, favorable currents and a steady pace of about 1.8 miles an hour got her to shore shortly before 2 p.m. Monday, just under 53 hours after she began.
It was the first Cuba-to-Florida swim crossing for someone not using a shark cage or flippers. Nyad prepared for the effort by swimming up to 10 hours a day.
"As I've said before, this is a sport filled with personal isolation. It takes a lot of will and mind to get through all these hours. The mental concentration of non-stop swimming ... the physical duress is obvious," she said.
Nyad often passed the hours humming songs from Neil Young, Janis Joplin and others, recalling the works of scientist Stephen Hawking and counting numbers in Spanish, French and German.
"It's been a thrilling journey,'' Nyad said, urging fellow Baby Boomers that it's never too late to pursue personal goals and dreams. "The truth is, we're just coming into our own. I wanted this swim not to just be about an athletic record, but a lesson to live life fully engaged, to be alert and alive every day."
Next up: NYAD 48 beginning Oct. 8 in New York City's Times Square. Nyad will swim for 48 hours in a specially built Italian lap pool to raise money for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
"That's going to be a breeze,'' Nyad said.
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Proposed Canon
Move is a unit statistic. For each point of Move, the unit may cross an additional hex boundary per turn. A unit's move normally restores to full at the start of the side's turn. For more details on how units move, see Movement.
A mounted unit expends its mount's move rather than its own when passing through hexes. This aspect of the mechanics is how Parson's mount relay works: a unit mounts up, then expends the mount's move to get to the next mount in the relay, which is then ridden to the next, and so on.
A unit assigned to the garrison of a city is called a garrison unit. These units have a move value of 0, but can freely move about the city without expending Move while both on-turn and off-turn.
Move is considered a Turnamancy limitation.Erf-b3-p287
Known Moves & Comparisons
- 56+ - 19 of 46 DwagonsErf-b1-p046a
- 56 - Stanley the Tool's plated red dwagon
- <56 - 27 of 46 Dwagons
- 52 - Jillian Zamussels' best Gwiffon.
- 44 - Orlies
- <40 - Slowest of Caesar Borgata, Vinny Doombats, Dewy Tulips, and Leather Valese
- 31 - The yellow Dwagon Jillian rode during her escapeIPTSF Text 46
- 24 - Charlie's Archons, some Gwiffons (minimum value, could be much greater)
- 22 - Vinny's Doombats
- 18+ - The ground units of the GK Strike Force (Dwagons, Archons, Tchotchkes, Sourmanders, Wiener-Rammers, possibly other Heavies, and Knights and Decrypted Commanders, though these were probably mounted on faster units)
- 8 - Jack Snipe
- 0 - Garrison Units have a Move of 0 and cannot leave their City's zones. They can freely move throughout the city on and off Turn without expending Move.
Siege engines and other slow units would take "five or more" turns to reach Gobwin KnobErf-b1-p021a as of Gobwin Knob's Turn 3. If the distance to Gobwin Knob from the Coalition's starting point was in the realm of 25 hexes, that would put their movement in the 4-6 range, which seems about right when compared to Jack Snipe's move.
According to the RCC's map, the column stretched at least 18 hexes, possibly more. That would mean, for a speed 6 engine, 3 whole turns to catch up to the front of the column. This helps explain why, after Parson destroyed 40% of the siege, mostly from the front, that Ansom indicated waiting a day would increase the usable siege by ~ 60% - if, say, 5% of the original number were available during the first day of the siege, and another 30% were within range of Gobwin Knob for the next turn, that would explain the numbers and leave an additional 25% siege another day's travel behind.
Ground units seem to be <10, mounts 10-20ish, and fliers 20+.
Stanley's red, we can assume, is the most powerful dwagon. So either some dwagons are fast but not powerful, or plating slows dwagons.


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Turning the human body into a power station sounds like a zany plotline from the Matrix movies, but scientists are starting to take seriously the idea that one way to stem climate change might be to harvest tiny amounts of energy in the form of the body's heat, movement, metabolism and vibrations.
In one form of the technology, experts are turning to piezoelectricity, which means "electricity resulting from pressure". In a piezoelectric material, small amounts of power are generated when it is pushed out of shape. As an extraordinary example of what's now possible with these materials, the heart itself could be used to power an artificial pacemaker. Though these devices require only tiny amounts of power - one millionth of a watt - their batteries typically run out after a few years. But as Dr Amin Karami at the University of Michigan says, a pacemaker that harvests the energy of the heartbeat itself might operate for a lifetime. In a recent address to the American Heart Association in Los Angeles, he pointed out that a sliver of a piezoelectric ceramic one hundredth of an inch thick, powered by vibrations in the chest cavity, is able to generate almost 10 times the power required to operate a pacemaker.
The technology can be used on the outside of the body as well. Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a "power shirt" woven from pairs of fibres coated with tiny strips of zinc oxide and gold. As you move, the fibres rub against each other to produce a current. Prof Zhong Lin Wang, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says that "we could provide a flexible, foldable and wearable power source that, for example, would allow people to generate their own electrical current while walking".
In Britain, at the University of Newcastle, Dr Michele Pozzi has created a "pizzicato" energy source that could power a satellite navigation device. Fixed on the knee, the device consists of an outer ring and central hub. As you walk, the ring rotates, and 72 plectra around it "pluck" four piezoelectric arms on the hub, generating electricity. Steve Burrows, of Bristol University, has harnessed the up-and-down motion of walking to turn an electricity generator. Even our footsteps can generate power, by driving a salty liquid through microscopic pores in a shoe sole to deliver up to two watts per leg, using a "reverse electrowetting" device developed by Prof Tom Krupenkin at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "This is more than sufficient to power such common devices as smartphones and tablets," he says. "We expect the first product prototype to be available in one to two years."
Laurie Winkless, of the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, has studied a range of such harvesting technologies. She points out that they have their drawbacks. A piezoelectric "battery" inside a heel may be able to power emergency location devices for hikers, but the wearer will feel the added resistance from anything above a few tenths of a watt. There are also problems with so-called "thermoelectric" materials, which generate electricity when one side is hot and the other cold: a shirt made of such a fabric could draw too much heat from the body, leaving the wearer feeling chilly.
Overall, however, the future for such nanogeneration appears bright. In the Science Museum's Atmosphere gallery, we have a model of one promising technology that is now in use: a paving slab made by Pavegen Systems to scavenge the energy of tramping feet. The company's tiles were incorporated in a walkway leading to the Olympic Park that turned more than 10 million footsteps into enough energy to illuminate the walkway for eight hours each day.
In future, says Winkless, a range of energy-grubbing technologies will increasingly appear in the home: "Energy harvesting pots could mean that boiling your pasta charges your mobile phone. The vibrations of your washing machine could power wireless sensors - or your TV remote could be powered just by you pressing the buttons."
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THE AGONY & THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS to Open in Los Angeles, 2/20
The script, revised and updated by the author, performed by Alex Lyras (The Common Air), opens February 20 at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood, where it will continue every Wednesday at 8 pm through April 10.The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs examines the controversy of globalization through the rise and fall and resurrection of Apple, illuminating how Apple's former CEO and his obsessions shape our lives. It follows the trail all the way to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPads, shining a light on the very human price we pay for our high-tech toys.With two runs at New York's Public Theater and performances across the country between 2010 and 2012, Daisey opened a Pandora's box in the world of technology and production, demanding social responsibility in the corporate sector, inspiring his audiences to action and influencing change in the corporate practices of both Apple and Foxconn, Apple's supplier in China.NPR's Ira Glass was so moved when he saw the show that he invited Daisey to perform an excerpt on This American Life. The January, 2012 episode, titled "Daisey and the Apple Factory," became the most downloaded episode in the show's history. Two months later, Glass officially retracted the episode when he discovered that Daisey had embellished and even fabricated "facts" for dramatic effect. After the firestorm, Daisey reformed his work, removing the contested details and standing by his assertions that the conditions in Apple's supply chain violate China's own labor laws and remain unethical. The New York Times calls Version 2.0 "more powerful, funny and engaging" than ever. "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is an example of the true power of theater," says Lyras. "Here's a performer who took on a conglomerate and actually affected change. Apple got so much heat, so many questions from people who had seen the show, that it had no choice but to start providing answers."At the same time, Lyras points out that the production's history is a mirror reflection of itself. "Like all writers documenting an atrocity, Daisey wanted both the truth and the drama. And, not unlike Steve Jobs, somewhere along the way, he lost site of the original design. The difference is that Daisey stepped up, admitted wrongdoing and made the necessary changes."Daisey writes on his website, "When I started performing this monologue, almost no one in the audience had ever heard the word "Foxconn" even though they make almost half of all the electronics in the world. Today when I tell this story, it's common knowledge. When I started, people would lecture me that nothing could ever change-no one would ever notice or care about labor in China, period. But that changed. People did wake up, and for the first time in decades began to actually think about the web of relationships between their things and how they are made." In his determination to "spread the message," Daisey released The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs into the public domain under a revolutionary open license. In the first week, the script was downloaded over 100,000 times. It has since seen more than forty productions around the world and been translated into six languages. The first Chinese production opened last year in Beijing and will tour to Hong Kong and Shenzhen this year.Robert McCaskill, whose longtime creative collaboration with Alex Lyras includes 2009's multiple award-winning The Common Air, directs the Los Angeles premiere. Multimedia design is by Tim Arnold, who incorporates video and projections to enhance Daisey's tale.Matthew Quinn produces for Combined Artform/Theatre Asylum.Alex Lyras' first solo performance for the stage, desperelics, was produced at the Gene Frankel Theater in New York and later at the HBO Workspace in Los Angeles. It led to a development deal with NBC based on his characters, and a role in Mike Nichols' What Planet Are Your From? His second solo effort, Unequalibrium, co-written and directed by Robert McCaskill, was selected for publication in "New Playwrights: Best Plays" as well as "Best Men's Monologues For the Twenty First Century." The show ran in New York and Los Angeles, where it was nominated for a Drama-Logue Award. The Common Air, Lyras and McCaskill's third collaboration, linked six disparate characters during an airport delay at JFK. It ran at the Elephant Theatre in Los Angeles for six months, receiving multiple awards and nominations, then transferred to New York for an eight-month run at Off Broadway's 45 Bleecker Street Theater. The Common Air has since been translated into German and Italian. As a writing team, Lyras and McCaskill have sold pilots to Brillstein Grey, NBC, FBC and FOX studios. Lyras produced and acted in the feature film, Mona, which won Best Picture at the 2008 Malibu Film Festival, and in the soon-to-be-released Heterosexuals, written and directed by McCaskill. His screenplay, ALVA, a story that asks if Thomas Edison was our greatest inventor or an idea thief, won the Tribeca Film Institute's Sloan Foundation Award. Lyras is a member of the Writer's Guild West. Mike Daisey has been called "the master storyteller" and "one of the finest solo performers of his generation" by The New York Times for his groundbreaking monologues which weave together autobiography, gonzo journalism and unscripted performance to tell hilarious and heartbreaking stories that cut to the bone, exposing secret histories and unexpected connections. His controversial work, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, was recognized as one of the year's best theater pieces by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, San Jose Mercury News, and The San Francisco Bay Guardian.The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs opens on February 20 and continues every Wednesday @ 8 pm through April 10. General admission is $20.00; full-time students with ID and seniors are $15. Theatre Asylum is located at 6320 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood,CA 90038 (1½ blocks west of Vine). For reservations and information, call (800) 838-3006 or go to agonyecstasy.brownpapertickets.com/.


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I was saved back in October 1979 after experiencing three separate drug hallucinations convincing me that I would not awake the next morning. Along with the alcohol, nightly partying, drug dealing, dropping out of High school, depression, DUI and minor theft, that last night by the Spirit's leaning I was prompted to the Lord (perhaps through the prayers of my Grandmother and divorced mom) to salvation by grace through Jesus.
I wish I could say that in these many years that I've become a mature thirty plus year old Christian; that would not be true. After three or four years of being on fire for Christ and meeting my wife, having our two kids, being blessed beyond measure, we experienced a church break up that left me blaming myself (whether true or not) for self indulgent fanaticism. I vowed to walk this Christian walk but, this time on my own. It didn't take long for the cares of this world and the hurt left behind for my spiritual fruit to wither.
Some twenty years later my wife and kids encouraged me to come back into fellowship. Mind you, I had not ever abandoned my faith, I simply had tried to hide it under a basket as a "Lone Ranger" apart from all the rest; a sin perhaps greater than all the sins before my salvation.
Since telling others my testimony, I've been surprised to hear how many other wayward believers have similar stories. And though I can never make up for the twenty three or so years I've lost, I can certainly surrender myself here on out to the obedient abiding path.
Recently the Lord prompted me to commit myself to various levels of street ministry. I am learning humility, sincerity, servitude, trust, perseverance, even some of the street life, so much that couldn't be learned from theory and books. Gods word has by immersion become living. The pBiblx2 Field Wise Bible System software was born out of urgent needs arising from this.
By developing and promoting pBiblx2 and ShepherdPupLinux , the Lord has often connected me to people and organizations around the world, some of whom I have come to depend upon for wise counsel, others who have broadened my understanding and appreciation for just how vast Gods work is all over this earth. I've gained a new respect for the body of Christ as a whole, just how massive and how many different directions He has it moving. We all have a part to play.
I know with all certainty that Gods hand has moved upon my life by the profound changes that he has made in me and those around me, in so many areas, in so little time. I would not have chosen the direction nor the means of myself without being gently lead by His Spirit. My joy overflows!
I know with all certainty that it is the hand of God by the way it seeks to pour through me and out into the world around me. It is warm, it is loving, it is so far beyond what I could ever imagine. It is as if my heart has become like a magnet turned right side up now, being insatiably attracted to Him. It is truly amazing.
God be praised!
John16SermonNotes2 - Notes and audio to sermon given 3/19/2017
PrayingThePsalms - A recent prayer devotion I experimented with.
New - PracticalRevelation Living the book of Revelation in a practical daily sense.
New - TotalDepravity List of verses supporting total depravity.
New - LosingOnesSalvation Can one lose their salvation?
New - SolaScriptura The doctrine of authority by scripture alone.
New - SolaFide The doctrine of justification by faith alone.
New - SolaGratia The doctrine of by God's grace alone.
New - GodIs learning who God is by the simple words "God is"
New - GrowingInGraceOutline - Bob Hoestra series on grace outline adapted for viewing on pBiblx2
New - ChristiansPoliticsAndReligion Who says politics and religion don't mix...
New - PsalmsWicked
New - EssentialsAndNonEssentials - The determination of essential and non-essential doctrines of CHristian faith.
SolaFide2 - 2017 Sermon Prep
TMP - JudeReformationSermon - sketch for a possible sermon on Jude/Contending for the faith/Reformations


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Galaxy Cluster MACS J2129-0741 and Lensed Galaxy MACS2129-1
Dying Young: Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges the Picture of How Galaxies Evolve
Acting as a "natural telescope" in space, the gravity of the extremely massive foreground galaxy cluster MACS J2129-0741 magnifies, brightens, and distorts the far-distant background galaxy MACS2129-1, shown in the top box. The middle box is a blown-up view of the gravitationally lensed galaxy. In the bottom box is a reconstructed image, based on modeling, that shows what the galaxy would look like if the galaxy cluster were not present. The galaxy appears red because it is so distant that its light is shifted into the red part of the spectrum.
Science: NASA, ESA, and S. Toft (University of Copenhagen)
Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI), and the CLASH team


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In a move the state�s insurance industry said it expected, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin ordered a hearing regarding a proposed hike in homeowner insurance rates.
In a move the state�s insurance industry said it expected, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin ordered a hearing regarding a proposed hike in homeowner insurance rates.
Goodwin said this week the requested rates appear to be excessive and unfairly discriminatory.
Insurance companies, represented by the North Carolina Rate Bureau, have requested an overall statewide average increase of 17.7 percent for homeowner insurance rates.
Under the proposed increase, Gaston County homeowners would pay 9.4 percent more while neighboring Lincoln and Cleveland counties would see 14-percent increases in their insurance premiums.
In all three counties, insurers are also asking for 30-percent increases on renter and condominium policies.
The hearing, which is open to the public, is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. June 3, 2013, at at 430 N. Salisbury St. in Raleigh.
Goodwin will serve as the hearing officer and listen to experts from the Department of Insurance and the Rate Bureau to decide what rate changes, if any, are warranted.
If the Rate Bureau appeals Goodwin�s decision, companies can raise rates while awaiting an appeals decision. If the Rate Bureau loses its appeal, money must be refunded to policyholders who paid too much.
The Department of Insurance says it could argue the following issues:
Old data: In the ratemaking process, data typically runs two years behind. The filing is based on data from 2005 to 2009 but numbers from as recently as 2010 were available at the time this filing was compiled.
Profit methodology: To come up with a proposed rate, the N.C. Rate Bureau uses a formula that awards insurance companies excessive profit of 10.5 percent. That formula was successfully challenged in a 2001 auto insurance case, which was decided by the N.C. Supreme Court.
Hurricane model: Estimates of potential hurricane damage are based on a model that does not appear to be adequately documented or justified.
Homeowners in North Carolina�s coastal counties would face 30-percent hikes should the filing be approved as is.
Insurers blame potential hurricane damage for that escalation. Rate Bureau Director Ray Evans says the same factor is behind proposed rate increase in counties such as Gaston.
Hurricanes have proven they can travel farther inland and create more wind damage in regions situated far from the coast, according to Evans.
A public comment period on the rate filing was held Oct.3 through 19. The Department of Insurance received approximately 8,800 emailed or mailed comments, and approximately 35 people made comments in person during a session held Oct. 17.
The last request to increase state homeowner insurance rates came in 2008, when the insurance companies requested a 19.5 percent statewide average increase. A settlement agreement allowed for a 4.05-percent statewide average increase to go into effect in May 2009.
Evans says that most recently proposed rate hikes aren�t expected to take effect before 2014, which is part of the reason the industry asks for such large increases at once.
Basically, he says, insurance companies are required to pay out higher claims while still charging lower rates.
Given the time it takes to put an increase in place, he estimates North Carolina homeowners have seen their policies rise by an average of 1.5 percent a year.


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Welcome to the Office of Housing and Residential Life
Residential life is an integral part of the total educational experience. The residential life program at Marist is based upon the philosophy of providing students with a safe, healthy, and attractive living environment that supports and supplements the educational mission of the College. Marist provides housing for over 3,300 undergraduate students in corridor, suite, apartment, and townhouse-style residences.
Students are housed using a "rites of passage'" philosophy, which recognizes that a student's developmental stage should be supported by his/her living environment. Therefore, freshman students are housed in residence halls designed to promote social interaction and staffed with individuals trained to work with freshmen and their specific adjustments.
As students move from freshman to senior year, they are housed in more independent living environments (suite-style, townhouses, and apartments) which helps to prepare them for their eventual move out into the world following graduation. Along the way, they acquire certain freedoms and responsibilities that will help them develop into mature and responsible citizens.


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Last year, the Billy Goat Saloon gained national recognition as Dive Bar of the Month on the Internet. Now, the Gem Village institution is going for movie-star celebrity.
Epiphany Pictures, a Colorado-based production company, spent three days last week shooting scenes for the firms forthcoming release Cowboys and Indians, a modern-day drama set and shot mostly in Pagosa Springs and Tucson, Ariz.
It follows the life of Angel (played by Maria Johnson, also known as adult-film star Ruby Knox), a Paiute Indian woman who lives desperately on the edge after having been raped. The Billy Goat stars as The Round-Up, a topless bar where she earns her living. (The Billy Goat has not really gone topless its just showbiz.)
Angel tries her best to raise her son, Gas, the product of the rape, but the 14-year-old runs away from home and is picked up by a hard-up cowboy, Twisty, who was present on the fateful night. As Twisty explains to the boy his mothers history, the boy is grateful to the cowboy for elucidating many unanswered questions about his past.
Kyle Agnew (John Carter) plays Gas, and Catherine Hicks (Seventh Heaven), Jeffrey Von Meyer (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Lisa DAmato (Americas Next Top Model) have supporting roles. The film is written and directed by Ian McCrudden. McCruddens previous work includes Äntligen Midsommar - A Swedish Midsummer Comedy (starring Luke Perry), Anita O Day: The Life of A Jazz Singer; Islander; Trespassers; The Things We Carry; The Big Day; Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler and Trailer The Movie. Athena Lobit is the producer.
Epiphany has not given an estimated release date for Cowboys and Indians.


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Little Bluestem is a warm-season native perennial grass in the shortgrass, mixed-grass and tallgrass prairies. It is readily recognized by its bunch habitat and its reddish blue-green foliage.
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Stanley Cup Playoff Preview - Los Angeles vs. San Jose
With their first-round victory, the Los Angeles Kings became the first team in NHL history to win five straight playoff series despite opening each set on the road.
These Kings, though, have had success in their own building this season as well and will open a playoff series at home for the first time since 1992.
As the Western Conference's eighth seed a season ago, the Kings knocked off the Vancouver Canucks, St. Louis Blues, Phoenix Coyotes and New Jersey Devils to win their first ever Stanley Cup championship and did so without home-ice advantage in any of the four rounds.
Los Angeles also opened up the 2013 postseason on the road with a rematch against the Blues and dropped the first two games of the series in St. Louis before rebounding to win the next four contests.
All six games were decided by a single goal and the Kings finally grabbed a series advantage by winning Game 5, 3-2 in overtime on defenseman Slava Voynov's winner eight minutes into the bonus frame before taking Game 6 by a 2-1 margin at home.
It was the Kings' 10th straight victory at home dating back to the regular season.
"I think we're confident now," said Kings center Mike Richards. "A year ago -- I can't compare it to what went on back then, because I barely remember it to be honest with you. We're confident. We still have some work to do, I think. We played well enough to win the series. We can still get better, and that was our goal from day one this year, was to improve right through to the last day. So we have some work to do, and some time to get some bumps and bruises out of the way, and get some practices in."
The Kings will now get ready to open their first playoff series at home since the 1992 division semifinals against the Edmonton Oilers. Los Angeles lost that series in six games and hasn't won a set it opened at home since beating Vancouver in six games during the 1991 division semifinals.
L.A. is 4-5 all-time in the playoffs in sets that begin at home.
After averaging 2.73 goals per game during the regular season, the Kings averaged just two per contest versus the Blues, but turned up the defense by yielding just 1.67 goals per game. A lot of the credit should go to netminder and reigning Conn Smythe Trophy winner Jonathan Quick, who allowed more than two goals in a game just once during the series with the Blues.
Even more important, Quick did not get rattled after losing the first two games of the set following an inconsistent regular season. He ended Round 1 with a 1.58 goals against average, .944 save percentage and one shutout.
Another key to the victory was the heavy minutes logged by defenseman Drew Doughty. The 23-year-old averaged 28 minutes and 49 seconds per game, posting 33:37 of ice time in the extended Game 5. That didn't stop him from scoring a goal and notching 25:02 of ice time in the series finale.
Voynov also had a knack for coming up big as he matched his regular season total with two game-winning goals in the series while leading the team with a plus-5 rating.
Veterans Rob Scuderi and Robyn Regehr also averaged over 20 minutes per game for a solid core at the blue line, while rookie Jake Muzzin saw a slight dip in ice time after leading the Kings with a plus-16 rating during the regular season. He had a pair of assists and was a minus-2 in the first round while averaging 15:36 of ice time.
The Kings got balanced scoring versus the Blues, with Jeff Carter leading the team with three goals. He finished fourth in the NHL during the regular season with 26 goals and had a league-high eight game-winners before coming up big with a pair of goals in Game 5.
Carter's former teammate in Philadelphia, Richards, led the Kings with five points -- all assists -- while Justin Williams and Dustin Penner also had a pair of goals versus the Blues. Penner had the series clincher, scoring with 0.2 seconds left in the second period in Game 6.
Dwight King added a pair of assists to form a solid second line with Richards and Carter, while Anze Kopitar had a goal and three assists in the six games skating with Williams and Dustin Brown. That line will look to chip in more offensively in Round 2, while Penner while try to stay hot to add even more depth on the third line with Trevor Lewis and Jarret Stoll.
SAN JOSE SHARKS (6th seed, West)
2013 PLAYOFFS: Defeated Vancouver 4-0 in conference quarterfinals
Expectations for the San Jose Sharks were certainly lowered when they followed up a Western Conference finals series loss in 2011 with last year's quick first-round five-game exit.
And while San Jose opened the season with seven straight wins to become quick contenders, a mid-season fade and ultimate sixth seed had many once again writing off the Sharks.
A solid four-game sweep of the Northwest Division-champion Vancouver Canucks may have changed all that.
One knock on this edition of the Sharks was the fact that the club went just 8-14-2 on the road this season, negating an outstanding 17-2-5 mark at home.
In fact, San Jose did not lose its second home game in regulation until April 21 and was one of only three teams this season to have two separate seven-game winning streaks, joining the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks. However, of those 14 wins over the two streaks, 11 came at home.
So there had to have been a sense of relief when the Sharks won their first two games in Vancouver before opening up the home portion of its playoff schedule with a 5-2 victory in Game 3. San Jose then showed its resilience, again rallying from behind to win the series-clincher 4-3 in overtime.
"In the past you kind of felt the pressure. This year we didn't feel that way and maybe that carried through into third periods," said Sharks head coach Todd McLellan.
"We're a loose group, playing free. (There's) not a lot of expectations that are put on us from the outside that have been on us in the past."
The Sharks used an excellent power play to get by the Canucks, scoring seven of their 15 goals on the man advantage. All three of Logan Couture's first- round goals came on the power play, while Joe Pavelski also scored a trio of goals on the man advantage.
That helped the duo pace the Sharks with eight points each, taking some pressure off of expected scorers Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau. Not that the two didn't do their jobs, with Thornton notching four power-play assists as part of his six first-round points. Marleau added four goals and an assist versus Vancouver.
In addition to killing off two of 10 short-handed situations, the defensive story was goaltender Antti Niemi, who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win a Stanley Cup in 2010 but had been less than impressive during his two playoff runs with the Sharks.
That all changed in the first round, with the 2013 Vezina Trophy finalist winning a pair of overtime games while posting a 1.86 goals against average and .937 save percentage.
In front of Niemi, McLellan continued to spread his minutes out between his six defenders. Dan Boyle (23 minutes) and Marc-Edouard Vlasic (22 minutes, 40 seconds) were the team leaders, while Justin Braun, Brad Stuart, Matt Irwin and Scott Hannan all averaged at least 17 minutes of ice time per game.
That also allowed former blueliner Brent Burns to remain up front at forward, where he notched a goal and two assists.
Boyle, Burns and Hannan combined for two goals and seven points, while forward Raffi Torres provided some energy with 14 hits to along with solid speed.
Depth could be an issue for the Sharks in Round 2. Forward Martin Havlat did not play after Game 1 due to injury and there is no timetable for his return, while fellow winger Adam Burish, a key penalty killer, is not expected to play this round due to an upper body injury.
Veteran Scott Gomez filled in for Havlat, while it is unknown who McLellan will turn to in place of Burish, who appeared in all four games.
This will mark just the second postseason meeting between these two Pacific Division rivals. The Sharks got the best of the Kings in six games during the 2011 conference quarterfinals. Thornton, Marleau and Couture all had two goals and three assists in the set, while Pavelski had three goals.
The Kings and Sharks split four regular-season meetings this year, with each team winning twice at home. The Sharks and Kings faced off in their respective regular-season finales, with L.A. notching a 3-2 win.
Los Angeles has won six of its last seven at home versus the Sharks, but has dropped six in a row in San Jose.
Williams paced the Kings with two goals and six points versus the Sharks this season, while Brown scored three times. Kopitar and Scuderi had four assists each, while Quick was 1-0-1 with a 2.74 GAA and .903 save percentage in three games.
Burns led the Sharks with six assists and eight points in the four meetings with the Kings, while Couture added three goals. T.J. Galiardi and Irwin both scored twice.
Niemi went 2-2-0 with a 3.31 GAA and .904 save percentage in four games versus the Kings in 2013.
While the Sharks may be playing with the pressure off, the Kings continue to take a no nonsense approach to the playoffs. That has Los Angeles performing at a high level despite the weight of being defending champions.
San Jose will have some extra rest ahead of this series and is certainly prepared for a long series with some fresh defenders, but will have to solve a Los Angeles defense that yielded only two power-play goals in 17 short-handed situations.
Quick and Niemi should keep these games from being high-scoring affairs, but Los Angeles' offensive depth should eventually get the better of San Jose.
Sports Network predicted outcome: Kings in 6


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Finally, today - and we're sad about it - we wrap up our Afro Global series. As we hope you know by now, this year we decided to observe Black History Month by hearing from a wide variety of people with roots in Africa who are changing the world all over the world. The series was produced by TELL ME MORE's Freddie Boswell. She joins us now to help us close out the series along with our executive producer Carline Watson. Welcome, Carline, Freddie.
CARLINE WATSON, BYLINE: Thank you, Michel.
FREDDIE BOSWELL, BYLINE: Thank you.
MARTIN: And I do want to mention, if it's OK, that you are both part of this global diaspora because both of you have lived all over the world. And so I wanted to start, Freddie, by asking you - what were you hoping for with this series?
BOSWELL: Well, as a Kenyan-Brit who lived in London and now lives in Washington, I think one thing I just wanted to do was highlight some of these really exciting voices. But also it was to kind of show the connections that people have across the diaspora and across Africa, and how much also they want to connect with the different parts. So, like, I wanted to highlight, obviously, Nollywood, which is an incredibly industry coming out of Nigeria, but by highlighting Jeta Amata, the director, he's someone who is working with Hollywood actors, you know. And he said in the interview, kind of Black History Month - bring it back to Africa, let's create these connections and let's get African-Americans to realize that there is kind of an industry and a business and exciting things happening there as well.
MARTIN: One of the people who also exemplifies that connection and is making connections was Stromae. I think that was one of your favorites - the European club musician, singer - Stromae. Tell us what you liked about him.
BOSWELL: He's such a big star at the moment in Europe. And actually, the day we did the interview The Guardian newspaper in England had an article at him saying the biggest star you've never heard of. And the thing that got me - and I think we have some tape - is where you asked him how his career had been affected being a man of color.
MARTIN: And just mentioning that he is Belgian. He was born in Belgium, but his father is - was from Rwanda - sadly, he lost him during the genocide. His mother is Belgian. And, yes, that was an interesting moment. Let's play that clip.
STROMAE: What does that mean exactly, man of color?
MARTIN: A man of color?
STROMAE: Yeah.
MARTIN: Interestingly, in this country, we use that to mean people who are not white, basically. That's pretty much it - not white.
STROMAE: OK, color. OK.
MARTIN: That's kind of how we use it.
STROMAE: The thing is - I'm not brown or white, that's the thing, I'm just half-and-half. I don't think it's about color or something. It's just about feelings.
MARTIN: So what struck you about that? In fact, a number of listeners wrote in because there was something about that moment that caught a lot of people's attention.
BOSWELL: Well, I think for me, I'm also mixed - my mom is black Kenyan, my dad is white Kenyan. So I was brought up without these kind of labels of you are one thing or another. And I think moving here to America is slightly different from Europe in that people understand labels, like you are black. And when we were creating the series, the question of what is blackness and who is black came up quite a lot. Carline and I, we were discussing, for example, "The Voice" winner Tessanne Chin from Jamaica. But it turns out that her background, she is Chinese-Jamaican. And so I appreciated that kind of refreshing point of view that he is part of Black History Month, and obviously, you know, his father is a black African man, but he sees it slightly differently. And it resonated with me that...
MARTIN: Everybody doesn't see things the way this thing shakes out in the states.
BOSWELL: Right.
MARTIN: Right. Carline, what about you? What resonated with you in this series?
WATSON: Well, you know, one of the interviews you did that I particularly liked was Zahra Burton. She's a Jamaican journalist. She worked here for quite some time and then she went back to Jamaica and she set up her own production company - "18 Degrees North." And Zahra, in a way typifies a lot of Jamaicans in that we're very outward looking people. She came to this country, she worked here, but then she decided there has to be something more.
And so she took the skills and the knowledge that she learned here and went back to Jamaica and is doing really terrific work reporting on some of the lesser-known stories that you don't get out of the Caribbean, sort of taking it beyond the latest earthquake, hurricane disaster. And I loved it when she said she looks for stories that resonate with people wherever they are because, for me, that's very much about what TELL ME MORE tries to do - it's making the connection.
MARTIN: You know, the idea of a glass ceiling is also one that came up during the course of our numerous conversations. And one of the other ones that struck you, as I understand it, was from Kwame Kwei-Armah, who is a playwright who made a big splash in Britain and then moved to Baltimore to direct that city's Center Stage theater. And he was talking about why he came to America, which is a familiar story, I think, to immigrants from lots of different backgrounds. Here it is.
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH: On the surface, it would seem like, you know, everybody comes to America because it's the land of milk and honey. And many of these actors and many of us have been headhunted here. But actually, there was a sense that there was a glass ceiling in Britain for artists of color.
MARTIN: Well, Carline, tell me why that struck you?
WATSON: Well, I was surprised that he didn't think there was a glass ceiling here for artists of color because I thought, listening to that, there are any number of actors in Hollywood that if you spoke to them, they would say, at some point in your career, you can only go so far - the roles just stop coming. But then I think what would be interesting with - is to see whether or not that feeling of being able to come here and make it actually does translate into something bigger. I mean, people like Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - will they become leading men in this country? Are they going to get the hot roles with Julia Roberts or Jennifer Lawrence? We'll just have to wait and see.
MARTIN: So, Freddie, you know, we've been talking about what we liked here about the series. Tell us what kind of reaction we've been getting from listeners on Twitter and Facebook and through other avenues.
BOSWELL: Well, I think the interview that I think got a lot of attention was Yaya Alafia, who was the "America's Next Top Model" contestant, then went on - has had quite a successful film career. She was in "The Butler" most recently. And she raised the question of what it is to be an African-American because she said, I'm part of the diaspora, I'm at home in many places, but I am truly an African-American. And I think that that's one of the things that the series did very well, is that it also showed that, OK, we're all observing Black History Month, but it means different things to each of us. And in a way, we can all then see and celebrate our diversity within what the month means to us.
MARTIN: Freddie Boswell is a producer here at TELL ME MORE. Carline Watson is our executive producer. They were both kind enough to walk down the hall and join us in our studios in Washington, D.C. Thank you both so much.
BOSWELL: Thank you.
WATSON: Thank you, Michel.
MARTIN: You can listen to all the interviews from our Afro Global series at NPR.org/TELLMEMORE. And you can still weigh in on Twitter at #AfroGlobal. And that's our program for today. I'm Michel Martin and you've been listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Let's talk more tomorrow.
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Correlation between IQ and occupational status is the same thing as a correlation between occupational status and IQ. Correlation is a two-way statistic, all it means is that the variables vary together. If you run the comparison in statistical software you get the same number regardless of which is variable 1 and which is variable 2.saint_matthew wrote:At no point does he make either a correlative or causative connection between IQ and occupational status. He does make a correlative link between occupational status and IQ, but thats by no means the same statment.
Red herring. Nowhere have I claimed it is. Perhaps you're (at least in part) misunderstanding my argument. The question under discussion is whether IQ tests are a valid indicator of intelligence.IQ =/= Knowledge
To summarize my points:
1. Contradiction of your claim that engineers are likely to score 100 (average) on IQ tests. Engineers are in the top occupational status groups and income levels, both of which correlate with IQ. Intuitively, engineers must also be good at problem solving. Engineers are likely to score well above average. A web search for "IQ by occupation" will show some averages. You also claim that experts in a subject are not likely to have a higher than normal IQ. This is contradicted by the IQ-education/occupational success link. You haven't refuted either of these.
2. We define intelligence in a number of ways. IQ is correlated with several things which are commonly identified with intelligence - financial success, educational success, occupational performance, career status, scores on other exams such as school tests, brain size, etc. You haven't refuted any of this, only made the claim that this isn't true. These correlations can be found in a number of published sources, indicating you either don't believe those sources or have some other reason to disagree, which you haven't explained.
3. The ability to manipulate scores on a test through practice, rote memorization, or situational factors is a flimsy argument to consider the test invalid, since most tests can be "cheated" in these ways. Without specific intentional manipulation, retesting shows a reliable range of scores.


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The Phils spring training losing streak continue as they end up in a 2-2 tie with the Braves.
The Phils end up in a 2-2 tie with the Braves as their present five-game win-less streak continues.
The Braves took the lead in the top of the fourth as, with the bases loaded, via a lead-off single by Chris Johnson, a walk by Dan Uggla, sending Johnson up to second base, and, after Andrelton Simmons strikes out, swinging, a one-out single by Steven Lerud, moving up both runners, and with one man out, Joey Terdoslavich hits into an RBI force out, 6-4, scoring Johnson, as Lerud is forced out at second base for the inning's second out, giving the Braves a 1-0 lead, while Uggla moved up to third base, as Terdoslavich was safe at first. The Phils would tie the game up at one-all in their half of the fourth as, with two men on, and with two men out, Kevin Frandsen hits an RBI single, knocking in Bobby Abreu, who was earlier hit by the pitch, then moved up to second base on Darin Ruf's single, while sending Ruf, who had earlier singled, up to third base, before moving up to second base on the throw to the plate. The Phils then took the lead in the bottom of the seventh as, with two men on, and with one man out, Tony Gwynn, Jr. hits into an RBI force out, 6-3, knocking in Frandsen, who had started the inning off with a single, moved up to second base on Cameron Rupp's single, then moved on to third base on Reid Brignac's sacrifice bunt, 1-3, giving the Phils a 2-1 lead, while sending pinch runner Tyson Gillies, who was pinch running for Rupp, and had moved up to second base on Brignac's sac bunt, on to third base. The Braves would tie the game up at two-all in the top of the ninth as, with a man on third, and with one man out, Matt Lipka reaches first base on a fielder's choice ground ball that is hit to second baseman Cesar Hernandez, who then throws home to catcher Tommy Joseph to try and gun down Jose Constanza, who had started the inning off with a double, then moved up to third base on Joseph's passed ball, soon getting Constanza in a run down between third and home before he is tagged out by pitcher Brad Lincoln, 4-2-5-1, for the inning's second out. Meanwhile, Lipka would move up to second base on the run down, and attempts to go on to third base, which prompts an errant throw to third to shortstop Andres Blanco covering, allowing Lipka to score on the throwing error. That would be the final score as Shae Simmons threw a 1-2-3 ninth.
Sean O'Sullivan pitched a strong game as he threw three scoreless innings, giving up three hits and a walk, while striking out two. Kevin Munson pitched two innings, giving up a run on three hits and two walks, while striking out two. Antonio Bastardo and Jake Diekman combined for one and one-third scoreless innings, giving up three hits (Bastardo (2), Diekman (1)) and a walk (Diekman), while striking out two (one batter each) between them. Brad Lincoln received his first blown save of the spring as he pitched one and two-thirds innings, giving up an unearned run on two hits, two walks, a wild pitch and a passed ball, while striking out a batter. Brandon Beachy pitched three scoreless innings, giving up a walk and a wild pitch, while striking out one. Ian Thomas collected his first blown save of the spring as he threw an inning, giving up a run on two hits and a hit batter, while striking out one. Hector Daniel Rodriguez threw two scoreless innings, giving up a hit. Anthony Varvaro pitched an inning, giving up a run on two hits, while striking out a batter. David Carpenter pitched a 1-2-3 inning, striking out two batters. Shea Simmons also threw a 1-2-3 inning, striking out two.
The Phils had only five hits in the game, all singles, with Kevin Frandsen (RBI) leading the team with two hits. Bobby Abreu, Darin Ruf and Cameron Rupp had the other three Phils' hits, while Tony Gwynn, Jr. knocked in the other Phil run on a ground out. The Phils also had a walk (Dom Brown), a hit batter (Abreu) and a stolen base (Brown (1)) in the game, while the defense performed a doubleplay and committed an error (Brad Lincoln).
The Phils (1-6-1) next play two split-squad games tomorrow afternoon, one against the Yankees (4-3) at Bright House Field in Clearwater and one against the Tigers (4-3) at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Fla. Both games are to start at 1:05 pm EST.


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A Military Retiree Against Republican Extremism
I've been a Republican for nearly fifty years, since I was first able to vote. But most of the GOP of today is alien to the principles of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, and it has taken on a tone that is even alien to the principles of my Christian faith. Wonderful public servants like Dick Lugar and Olympia Snowe have been driven from our party, and the formerly broad tent of our party is becoming exclusivist and even a Taliban-like enforcer of ideological extremism.


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Responding to People in Power
by: Miki Kashtan on December 27th, 2012 | 4 Comments »
There are topics about which I feel confident and settled in my knowledge and experience to speak with a sense of inner authority. How we transform the legacy of millennia in learning how to respond to those in power eludes me. I keep thinking that I have a piece of the answer, and then I see even more fully how immense the challenge is. Nevertheless, I want to contribute my share to a conversation I didn't start and which I hope can be ongoing in many circles as we come to see our complicity, both when we have formal power and when we don't, with maintaining things as they are. I want this conversation to become bigger so that we can tap into our collective wisdom, beyond what I or any one person can offer. I share these thoughts with the humility of knowing I truly don't know what the way forward is.
Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, speaks more than once about the fact that people in power shit just like everyone else. I remember being startled by the bluntness of this image. For myself, I have preferred a different way of aligning myself with the complete and radical shared humanity of all. I remind myself that whoever the person is I am thinking of was once an infant, and I immediately touch my hope that, at least then, that person was loved. Different as these two methods are, they both point to the same truth, though I doubt that Kundera shares my fervent desire for each person on the planet, including all those who have harmed others, to receive sufficient love that harm would stop. This, for me, is one aspect of being able to transform, within myself, how I respond to power. I want the well-being of the person in power even when I want to oust them from power, even when I want to do everything in my power to stop them from doing further harm.
I see this as key, because unless I am able to see the person in power as fully human, brother or sister to me, and unless I can truly wish for their well-being, I don't believe I have fully liberated myself from the shackles of the consciousness of separation. I want that freedom as the foundation of discernment and choice about how to respond.
The discernment I am seeking is to form my own opinion about the person, free from stereotypes, reactivity, submission, or rebellion. I can entrust myself to a leader in a fully empowered way, knowing that I trust their integrity, vision, and care, and follow willingly and with full empowerment out of that trust. If I don't find sufficient trust, I can take on the much tougher path of challenging authority with love. Just as much as entrustment is wildly different from submission, challenging authority with love is different from rebellion. And while entrustment is a dictionary word even if it is not commonly used, we don't even have a word for the kind of challenge I am envisioning. It can take the form of embarking on winning the trust of a leader, becoming their ally in learning to transform their ways. My departed colleague and co-founder of BayNVC, Julie Greene, told a moving story of how she completely transformed her boss's way of managing her simply by taking on an intention of responding to her boss empathically over months of suffering. Eventually, her boss stopped micromanaging her and their relationship flourished.
Challenging authority with love can take the form of saying "no" without giving up on the person's humanity or dignity, either personally or collectively. This is my deepest understanding of what Gandhi did with the British authorities, and what enabled them to exit without losing face. The more we want to change the choices of those in power, and, finding them unwilling to join us in peaceful dialogue, the more we must use nonviolent resistance, the more essential it is that we maintain a stance of uncompromising love within our hearts. I see this commitment as the insurance policy that guarantees that our actions are never tainted by judgment or hatred, so that our use of force, when we engage in it, is entirely motivated by a desire to stop harm and create the conditions for dialogue and solutions that work for all, without hatred or desire for revenge. This is, no doubt, a tall order.
Love our leaders without idolizing them, stand up to dictators without hatred, change structures without war – those are the paradoxical challenges of responding to authority. I long for all of us to trust our own humanity, to have a sense of empowerment, to know we can participate in shaping what happens together with those in power. In short, to maintain, in full, both our own humanity and dignity and that of those in power, including those whose actions we abhor. It's the only way I know to ensure we will not have throwaway people or new dictators.
What Makes It Hard to Reach People in Power?
As challenging as opening our hearts to those in power is, it's not even enough! Our offer of love and understanding still needs to find its way to that person's heart, and much of that journey is not ours to predict or control. I have written recently about my failure to support "Jonathan" effectively while working with his company. Considering how much Jonathan trusted me at the outset, and how far away we have moved from that trust, I know I have a lot of learning still ahead of me. None of it is simple.
When I enter into dialogue with anyone, the fundamental premise of it is that through connection we can reach a state in which we both care about both of our needs, thereby forming a shared commitment to a solution that works for both of us. This frame depends on a profound kind of trust: that the other person is human like me. As this applied to Jonathan, for example, I was confident that he would be wholeheartedly committed to creating change once he truly understood the effect of his choices on those who worked in his company. I so completely underestimated the extent of his commitment to having things go his way. Early on, Jonathan said: "Having power means you rarely hear no." For me, someone with a modest amount of power, this was a wakeup call, reinforcing my own commitment to be open to others' "no," even to invite it when there is a power difference between us. For him, I gradually learned, this was a source of comfort and ease: having power meant he didn't have to negotiate, to show his vulnerability, to ask for what he needed and be in dialogue with others about it. He could just say it, and it would happen. I can see the seductive appeal, both in terms of this very personal level, and in terms of the ease of getting things done. I can see how the cost of his employees' "yeses" becomes conveniently invisible.
Much has been written about what New York Magazine calls " The Money-Empathy Gap" – the phenomenon of people with wealth showing less capacity for empathy, compassion, and even ethical behavior, and a higher preoccupation with their own well-being in disregard of others'. My own aha about this phenomenon came when I realized that rising up the ladder, even inheriting money and retaining it, require a willingness, at least to some degree, to get needs met at the expense of others. Sometimes this relationship is direct, as in the case of CEOs whose salaries are orders of magnitude higher than their employees, while at other times the relationship is indirect, even hidden, as in the overall willingness of all of us in affluent countries to get goods produced by devastatingly poor people in faraway countries.
Even though I knew all of this before meeting Jonathan, I didn't in any way think strategically about what it meant for my relationship with him. I continued to anticipate and trust he would act "like me" and was repeatedly shocked to hear and see behavior that I could only interpret as lack of care. I am still unclear, even after many months of considering this fundamental failure on my part, what I could have done differently. What would be required in order to cross that loss of interest in others that seems to accompany, as both cause and effect, the acquisition of power and wealth?
The Path of Empathy
One possible way forward is to shift the balance from providing feedback to offering empathic understanding. This approach would be based on premise that when people feel fully heard, when they know they matter, they are more likely to be open to hearing from others. I have no doubt that I was providing too much feedback relative to empathy. What I don't know is how much empathy would be sufficient to make room for the feedback. I am frightened to imagine that there may be people whose emotional needs are so high, whose concern with their own safety and well-being so consuming, and whose lack of trust so extreme that no amount of empathy would be sufficient to open their hearts. Is this fear my own lack of faith, or is it an accurate perception of the level of dysfunction in our money-driven society characterized by a class of CEOs, and especially those at the very top of the largest corporations, who are no longer able to connect empathically with others? If so, what hope would there be for anyone's attempts to create connection and dialogue across power differences?
Part of the irony of this situation, as I see it, is that whenever someone "buys" their needs through others' compliance based on fear or reward, they are bound to know, somewhere deep within, that they are outside the web of interdependence and love: those who serve them do not do it because of care. If this conjecture is accurate, then external power doesn't necessarily feel powerful, which can reinforce the uncaring behavior on the part of those in power. That's a lot to bridge through love and empathy, and most of us don't have enough staying power, faith, or even capacity to create and sustain the relationships to create transformation in this way.
The Path of Nonviolent Resistance
The other path is the one taken by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and others since: balancing the power of the few by the coming together of the many, thereby creating the conditions that would bring the powerful to the dialogue table.
Not every strike, rally, or sit-in action fits the stringent criteria of this kind of nonviolent resistance. As I understand Gandhi and MLK, they persisted all along in maintaining a loving presence toward the very people whose actions they sought to change. They continued to invite them to dialogue, and they never lost sight of aiming for a solution that would ultimately work for the powerful as well as the masses Gandhi and MLK mobilized. They successfully managed to stay away from "us-them" approaches even while putting enormous pressure on the systems they challenged.
This requirement to maintain a loving stance is only one of the challenges that this path presents. In the current climate of union busting, where the possibility and scope of activity of unions are progressively more restricted, it's also more and more difficult to imagine how to apply nonviolent resistance within organizations. Even more significantly, dialogue, when successful, can take place between one individual and another, whereas nonviolent resistance requires the coordinated efforts of large groups of people. In the context of USA, in particular, the prospects for such activity have been grim for a while.
I don't have answers. That's what I keep coming back to. That's almost always true. The purpose of this piece, in particular, was to raise questions, not to answer them; to seek companionship in framing the dilemma; to open conversations, hopefully not only my own.
I don't know how we will reach the people in power. I only know that the task is essential if we are to survive these times and emerge as a species that thrives within the web of life on this planet.


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Along with broad multilanguage support, the browser now lets you reload a Web site in Desktop mode. The support for the desktop user agent means that the occasional site that looks funny on your phone or tablet can appear in its more familiar Chrome-for-desktop clothes.
You can also now add Chrome bookmarks as shortcuts on your Android Home screen, so you can launch directly into frequently visited sites. App support has improved, too, as links opened in Chrome that recognize a complementary app installed on your phone give you the option in most cases of jumping into the app. This can be useful on sites like Yelp.
On the more technical side, Chrome now properly interacts with the device Wi-Fi proxy, if you have one configured. Web developers ought to take note: this version of Chrome for Android also tweaks the user-agent specification, which is the code that tells a Web site which browser is being used to view it.


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I heard about this abandoned mill town before "The Hunger Games" movie hit the theaters. It is actually how I came to know "The Hunger Games" Trilogy. I wanted to explore this abandoned town after I read about it a few years ago but had also read that the roads to this town were all blocked off because a movie was being filmed at this location. I thought nothing much of it except that I was very disappointed that I could not explore Henry River Mill Village. However, I waited it out, and eventually took the journey to Hildebran, NC; when we arrived it appeared as if no one had stepped foot in this ghost town for ages. The only indication that part a major motion picture had been shot here was the "Pastries" and "Cakes" that had been added to the main town building; this even looked as though it had always been there. And trying to make a long story short, I discovered the movie filmed at this location was called "The Hunger Games", found out it was based on the first of a three book series, read the books, became obsessed and was one of the many fanatics that saw the first showing at 12:00am. (In the movie this town was portrayed as District 12)
You can find a good amount of interesting history about this abandoned mill town online. Because I personally like pictures more than words and I fear I may already be reaching the end of your attention span, I will let you seek out this info instead of me lengthening this post with the town's history.
This is private property and I have heard that there is now a good force of security protecting the property since "The Hunger Games" hit the theaters. Because of this, I am very excited about the fact that I was able to take these photos prior to the fan madness in North Carolina so I can share them with all of you. Hope you enjoy!


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In our popular article, Five Charity Myths Dispelled, we tacked 5 common misconceptions about charities. Last month, Ken Berger participated in a panel discussion for reporters that focused on this very topic (read some of his comments here). At that event, co-hosted by Edelman, the Chronicle of Philanthropy and The Bridgespan Group, a list titled "Top 10 Myths in Covering the Nonprofit World" was distributed. I share these with you as many donors also subscribe to these beliefs.
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The circle means many things.
You can circle the wagons for safety, and you can pull someone into your circle of friendship. Wedding rings are circles because they have no beginning and no end, going on forever.
And the International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons embodies much of those ideals their "circles," or small groups, that filter down to provide aid on local levels.
The cool temperatures and rainy weather matched the weekend's official turn to fall, but they didn't stop the community from turning out for the Finchville Fall Festival. The annual event brought hundreds to its epicenter at the Finchville Ruritan Club where a big yard sale enticed buyers, and plenty of fun surrounded the booths.
Fresh vegetables and gourds were available, and everything from an antique tractor show to a dunking booth and games were available to help ignore the wet weather.
Visitors to the Shelbyville Welcome Center on Main Street on Thursday probably felt like they had passed through a time warp.
In addition to other historical exhibits already on display, the center, which houses the Shelbyville Historic District Commission's office, featured a new exhibit that had just opened.
The World War II era certainly should bring back a lot of memories for many people who come to see this exhibit, said Sharon Hackworth, co-chair of the Shelby County Historical Society.
The romance of Marquis Antoine "Tony" de Charette from Brittany, France, and Susanne Henning continued, despite the adamant opposition of her mother, Sue Henning of Allen Dale Farm in Shelby County.
Sue Henning, concerned about Charette's character and financial standing – her own family having endured difficult financial times – carried out an investigation to learn as much as she couldabout the man with whom her daughter was smitten.
Brad Holland spent Friday enduring just about every hardship the human body can endure – thirst, exposure to all kinds of weather, near dehydration, fatigue…you name it.
But he wouldn't have missed it for anything.
Holland, a financial advisor who lives in Shelbyville with his wife, Audrey and three daughters, participated in a 25-mile marathon, from rim-to-rim in the Grand Canyon, all in the name of charity. The money he raised will be used to purchase a water supply system for residents in the Dominican Republic.
You walk and run in them. You work and style in them. And now, you can save lives with them.
Shoes are the focus of an upcoming collection drive being organized by a local Cub Scouts pack, joining in a growing effort to convert donated footwear into fresh water systems in impoverished countries.
Cub Scouts Pack 470, which primarily features Simpsonville Elementary School students, is organizing the drive, which is scheduled for Sept. 19-30. The school is the primary drop-off location, but the movement stretches well beyond local borders.
He only has one eye and goes by the name of "Chicken," and not only has he stolen the hearts of all those at an animal rescue facility in Shelby County but also that of a woman 3,000 miles away.
"He's just the most amazing little guy you ever saw, and this woman is driving all the way out here from California to pick him up," said Ashley Shelburne, founder of Tyson's Chance, an animal rescue organization.
If you're looking for something to do, Shelby County has a full lineup of activities in what is the busiest weekend of the fall.
From historical re-enactments and lectures to parades and festivals to celebrating pets and commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9-11, there are three days of activities all over the county.
The annual commemoration of the Long Run Massacre and Floyd's Defeat, presented by the Painted Stone Settlers already began for students today and continues through Sunday at Red Orchard Park.
Things have certainly changed.
The world is definitely a different place.
But do we continue to learn, 10 years after the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001?
Students and teachers, no doubt, took time to discuss the matter in school this week. Maybe it was a small part of a lesson, maybe it was a whole class, but the events of that day do not appear to have worked their way into the fabric of U.S. and world history classes like D-day or the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The threads we have woven together in the 10 years since terrorists stole commercial airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and, with help, a field in Pennsylvania form a yarn that stretches across generations.
We look back, and those of us who saw what happened, saw those Twin Towers pierced by jets, saw them one by one crumble and fall as if they were a child's toys and not man-made spires, feel that yarn wrap around us with a tension that won't ever quite ease up, even after days, weeks and years and – now – a decade.
No one has ever forgotten the terrible loss of American life 10 years ago at the hands of terrorists.
Shelby County Sheriff Mike Armstrong called it one of the worst days in our nation's history.
Now, a decade after al-Qaida terrorists killed 3,000 people in four separate attacks in New York City, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, as the nation prepares to honor its dead on Sunday, many are reflecting upon the changes that terrible day has wrought on our society.
In Shelby County, the answer is clear.
About 85 pilots will fill up the airspace over Moody Pike this weekend with aeronautical feats as high as 200 feet in the air and plummeting toward the ground before pulling up just feet over the grass.
Of course, these pilots will be grounded for the entire third annual The Bruce F3K competition of discus launch gliders.
The competition is the largest in the world, and the brainchild of Bruce Davidson, who lives on Moody Pike at the site of the contest.
When faced with an unplanned pregnancy, hope is a welcome word.
With the surprise that often accompanies this revelation, there can also be fear, sadness or delayed joy. Hope comes with an understanding of the choices a woman has to live with her discovery. Hope comes with an embrace, a place of welcome, and a caring person to walk with in dealing with the event of an unplanned pregnancy.
Although often overshadowed by his famous older brother Daniel, Squire Boone left a mark on Shelby County that will never be forgotten.
After leaving the Falls of the Ohio settlement, which would eventually become Louisville, and establishing the Painted Stone settlement on Clear Creek in 1780, Boone and the 13 families he brought with him were the county's first permanent residents.
And because of that, Joe Ruble believes Squire Boone should be better recognized here.
The band Caribou of Louisville will be playing at a pool party Saturday night at the Shelbyville Country Club. Paul Woods, a native of Shelby County,is drummer and vocalist in the band. Woods, 53, was educated at Shelbyville and Shelby County high schools and attended the University of Louisville and Murray State. He took a few moments for questions from The Sentinel-News about his career, Caribou and the event.
The Sentinel-News: How did you become a part of Caribou?
Robert D. Kemper was considered a Shelby County hero long before he was killed in the line of duty in 1971, and 40 years later, efforts are being made to keep that memory alive forever.
Work is under way to memorialize the U.S. Navy officer known as "Boo Boo," who flew 256 combat missions as a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War and was killed while saving another aviator during a states-side training flight in 1971.
Bettie Allen Meriwether, owner of Allen Dale Farm in Shelby County, took great pride in knowing that her farm had been in her family since its establishment in 1795 by Robert Polk Allen. Her great grandmother, Ann Allen, widow of John Allen of Frederick County, Virginia, had been buried in the family graveyard on the property in 1805.
She valued the land, having fought a successful legal battle (1885-1889) to wrest the farm from control of her brother, George Baylor Allen, whose plans to mortgage the property would have undoubtedly been tantamount to its sale.
The name Vintage Voodoo invokes old-world charm in New Orleans, back alleys and dark streets.
But the Shelbyville-based band - consisting of guitarist Michael Whisman, lead singer Rick Willard, drummer Patrick Jacobs, guitarist Bobby Hardaway and bassist Greg Viergutz, the only member not from Shelbyville - said that's not quite the case.
"Vintage Magic just didn't sound right. There's really nothing voodoo about us, but it's vintage because we're all old," Whisman said laughing.
"I had no idea, I can tell you I was just completely bowled over."
Those are the words of Shelby County Attorney Hart Megibben, who Thursday was named 2011 Outstanding County Attorney by the office of the state attorney general.
Megibben, accompanied by his family, attended the Prosecutor's Conference in Louisville, where the award was announced. Two recipients are chosen each year, and the other was John Estill of Mason County.
Megibben said he never expected to receive such an award and that was very honored.
Ever hear of a time-traveling farmer?
That's the plot of Shelby County resident William Greer's first book, which was published two weeks ago.
Greer also has another book coming out soon, a nonfiction work, based on his true-life experiences in Vietnam.
What's more, he has a third book that was recently accepted by his publisher.
Believe it or not, there is something even more amazing than a novice writer having three books accepted and published all in the same year.
What in the world could that be, you ask?
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We often talk with our partners about all the ways they can take advantage of the extensibility in IE7. Today, Yahoo! released something new and (I think) pretty cool. "Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo!" presets the homepage and search to Yahoo properties. Of course, users can easily change the settings just as they can with the standard version that we ship. The Yahoo! version of IE7 is available now on the Yahoo site.
Yahoo! used the beta version of the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) to customize IE7 to meet their needs. The IEAK is available to all developers and partners who want to create their own customized versions of IE7, as well as IT pros who want to use it to ease enterprise deployment. You can download it from the Microsoft Technet site.