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Liberty University worships on Facebook: It's not innovative, it's intuitive
Liberty University worships on Facebook: It's not innovative, it's intuitive
Posted Nov 23, 2011 |
New Media Project
Lerone A. Martin
When a scheduling conflict left the self-proclaimed largest Christian university in the world without a physical space for their weekly campus worship service, they did the obvious: they held church on the school's Facebook page!
The move was inevitable. Liberty University, Jerry Falwell's school, is known for its evangelistic fervor. Falwell and his Christian liberal arts institution have made it a point to use media to publicize their gospel and school. From their Old Time Gospel Hour broadcast in the 1960's, to their online community of approximately 50,000 students, to their
2010 Hip Hop theme song and music video
, Liberty University is no stranger to media.
Vice President and Campus Pastor Johnnie Moore said it best. When two of the commonly used spaces of worship were unavailable for campus church, Moore stated that Facebook, as opposed to cancelation, was the logical move. After all, Moore's religion tells him that Christians should make it "their goal to go where the people are. In the 21st century, they're on Facebook," he wrote on a
CNN blog
Indeed, in many ways Facebook is ideal for church. A
recent study by the Pew Research Center
found that 67 percent of social media users say that maintaining community and contact with others is their primary reason for using social media like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and/or Twitter. Likewise, for many churchgoers, church is a way of maintaining community. This connection is readily seen by the popularity of religion on Facebook. In October, the popular Facebook page, "Jesus Daily," became the first ever religious-oriented Facebook page to
gain over 10 million fans
. It's clear that many users look to Facebook to maintain and cultivate relationships rather that be with friends, relatives, or a Deity.
Subsequently, Moore seems correct when he concludes on the CNN blog, "Doing church on Facebook isn't innovative. It's intuitive."
Lerone A. Martin
, a research fellow for the New Media Project, is Assistant Professor of American Religious History and Culture at
Eden Theological Seminary
in Saint Louis, MO.
New Media Project
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3 Comments
31 Jan
This may be possible in a Protestant, proclamation-based understanding of worship, but it doesn't translate to a liturgical/sacramental system. The importance of physicality and incarnational spirituality in, say, the Catholic Mass makes "online Church" not just impossible but nonsensical.
31 Jan
You raise an interesting point. How has the Catholic Church dealt with online tools such as confession apps etc.?
31 Jan
Well, let's be clear on what these apps are and are not. The "confession app" is not an app that simulates the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation; rather, it is an app that guides the user through an examination of conscience in preparation for the sacrament. The Church would roundly and rightly condemn any app that claimed to offer the same grace as sacramental confession, since it would not involve a sacramental minister.
Similarly, while there are televised Masses, watching Mass on TV does not fulfill a person's moral obligation to attend a Mass on Sunday. In the case of a person who cannot attend Mass on Sunday (for reason of illness, no Mass within a reasonable distance, etc.), watching Mass on TV may be a pious practice, but the obligation itself is abrogated since the Church does not require the impossible.
Here would be my questions: does "gathering" for an "online service" fulfill Christ's promise that when two are three are gathered, he is there? Is "gathering" to be understood in a physical sense, or is it merely a gathering of purpose, attention, or intention?
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It doesn't seem like much. Plucked out of the context of the entire season, these ten games often left the impression of a streaky and inconsistent team. Something very identifiable went wrong in the losses, like the offence going into witness protection or the defence getting a little panicky and throwing the ball everywhere but the first baseman's glove in a ninth inning. As always, it's easy to overreact to missteps like these, because they looked a lot like things a not-very-good baseball team would do. But a not-very-good team might do all of those wince-worthy things and turn it into three wins over the same span; the Jays won six. (And let's remember that winning six out of every ten games in a season gets you to about 96 wins and, if there's an ounce of justice in the world, a playoff berth.) At the very least, between these two arbitrary endpoints, the Blue Jays toughed out a winning record despite some significant shortcomings.
At the same time, there are some very good things happening with this team right now. Edwin Encarnacion is stepping into the spotlight with a grin. Jeff Mathis is showing signs of adequacy that were heretofore deemed not to exist. Three pitchers under the age of 25, two of whom were widely thought to be headed to the minor leagues as late as mid-March, are putting together strong major-league starts and going deep into games. Eric Thames is doing his level best to shut up the #TeamSnider apologists like me. While we wait (more nervously by the day) for Jose Bautista to heat up, the rest of the team is, for the most part, picking up the slack. That's a novel concept for this team.
There's another tough stretch coming up. Not only do the aforementioned Rangers come to town for three games, but the team then heads to the West Coast for four games against in Anaheim and two in Oakland. Those A's and Angels teams aren't exactly setting the world on fire in the early going, but I'm always irrationally nervous about those west coast trips, and usually end up happy if the team gets out of them in marginally better shape than the Donner Party did on its journey to California. But the Jays have at least shown that they can find ways to win even when not everything is clicking. They've begun to demonstrate that different parts of the lineup can hurt you – even when the usually fearsome parts aren't living up to their reputations or hype.
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dANCEpROjECt will again present "Men Dance Michigan" at Hope College for two evenings at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The concerts will take place on Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17, at 8 p.m.
Now in its second year, "Men Dance Michigan" presents the works of male choreographers who live, work and create dance in the State of Michigan. The showcase concerts feature the talent and unique vision of male choreographers from around the state and encourage them to remain in Michigan as artists, performers, educators and role models.
The concert will feature several participants. Peter Sparling of Ann Arbor will present "Le Fils des Etoiles," which premiered at the 2007 Chicago Humanities Festival and was conceived on the shores of Lake Michigan as a paean to nature. Shawn Bible of Oak Park will present "Leftovers" for a quartet of women coping with loss and the past and "You Look Like You Got Stepped On,"an awkward and physically odd look at first love. Philip Leete of Traverse City will present the lyric ensemble piece "Escalation," a journey that reveals the stranger that lives inside us. Joshua Cummings of Petoskey will present "The Hidden Day,"a moving landscape of time and images. Steven Rodriguez of Holland will present "Ravenous Vine and the Split Glutton," a collaborative work between a dancer and musician working in parallel. Aiden Feldman of Ann Arbor will present "Life Line,"a manipulation and interaction with the environment, and "All Growed Up,"a solo that is part humorous and part video. Michael Kaffka of Holland will present his street-smart version of "Singin' in the Rain."
Both evenings will include a post-performance discussion session where audience members have a chance to ask questions and offer feedback about what they saw and heard.
Tickets for the performance are $7 for regular admission, $5 for senior citizens and students, and free for children under 12, and are on sale at the ticket office in the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
Tickets will also be sold at the door. All seating is general seating, and the doors will open at 7:30 p.m. on the two concert evenings.
The ticket office is in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, which is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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From the EULA: "You agree you are not involved in or profit from the use of animals for entertainment..."
I keep two cats in order to control mice on our rural premises. These animals are also a source of much intertainment.
What you can - and cannot do - with your software is often determined by the code owner's license. From not using open source APIs with closed-source digital rights management (DRM) to being barred from fiddling with Windows source code, we've seen it all. Or have we? Joining the open source and commercial melee is a document …
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Whatever this license might be, it most definitely isn't an open source license. The Open Source Definition has at least two clauses (no discrimination against persons or groups, and no discrimination against fields of endeavor) that are. at least according to the article, are violated. Similarly, the Four Freedoms include the right for anyone to run the software, again violated, according to the article, by this license.
I do wish the article's author had been a bit more careful about using the term `open source' for something that is nothing of the kind.
I am curious, but not so curious to read through all the available licensing options with my IANALButILikeToPretendIAm hat on, but if i were to get to the download section without saying I agree to the terms of use (say, for example, I was using a browser with broken JS or CSS support, such as notepad.exe, or i went straight to the download url) and I used the software in accordance with the commercial or lgpl license as documented on their website, have I actually violated anything?
Apart from the DMCA, of course. Everything violates the DMCA.
Brilliant, I was considering this as well.
Choose the groups you don't like, opensource to the rest of humantiy and hope that one of the bozos in the group you don't like just as much as sniffs your software and take them to court :)
Opensource licenses are a lot more confusing then this is free as in beer (actually I am not sure if free as in beer is that straightforward anyhow), good to see some more exclusions put into them.
I wonder if you could release a book and block who had the right to buy it - that would put a few noses out of joint.
Ok, new levels of randomness from the Internet. Whatever.
But the title of this little Reg' Article is wrong as this is not "Open Source" at all. Let's check the somewhat "papal" definition at http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd. It says:
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups: The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
And there you go.
Well, it's their license, so I guess they get to say what they want.
I hope all five of them have fun using the software. Actually, looking at the restrictions in a bit more detail with a legalistic eye, I'm unsure that anyone alive in a "modern" western nation could claim to be able to follow the license restrictions to their full extent without at least some wilful hypocrisy.
But hey, whatever floats their boat.
If you take a look at the google code project page (http://code.google.com/p/exttld/) it says on the front page that it's released under the GPL. IANAL, and I have no idea what the GPL's position on this is, but can you apply extra conditions to a piece of code (like they have done) and still claim that it is under the GPL? Obviously their copyright, their rules, but one would think that by licensing something under the GPL, you lose the right to dictate who can and can't use your software.
The code is covered by GPLv3.
Section 8 of GPLv3 includes the following:
"All other non-permissive additional terms* are considered "further restrictions" within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term."
* It lists some very specific additions you may make.
Section 10 of GPLv3 includes:
"You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License."
"By downloading ExtTLD from this website, you agree to the following terms and conditions."
Which suggests the additional terms only apply to whoever downloads the code from that site- they're the copyright holders so they're allowed to do this. However, since the actual code is LGPL once it's been given to someone they're free to distribute it without the additional restrictions.
This isn't at all new. Around 1994 I encountered a package which granted a free licence to anyone except for members of the Nevada state legislature and their immediate family members for whom a $50000 licence fee was payable.
Reading between the lines the author was a university student resident in Nevada who didn't at all like the state education policies.
PH because I think she went to Nevada once.
The article doesn't say "Open Source" (note the capitalizations). The article uses lower-case references to "open source" throughout.
Contrary to increasingly popular belief, Stallman & Co. did _NOT_ invent the concept of opening up the source code to one's applications. I regret to inform you that "Open Source" is not a f*cking registered trademark.
Their licence page at http://extjs.com/license shows 2 licenencing methods:
Open licence (GPL v3 - actually pointing to LGPL) at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
Commercial licence at http://extjs.com/ext-commercial-software-license
I cannot see in the commercial licence anything pertaining to this article... and of course, nothing in the LGPL licence either...
1. The Open Source Definition is not the work of Richard Stallman or the FSF, who overall does not like the phrase.
2. The non-discrimination clauses I quoted come from the Open Source Definition, which is published by the Open Source Initiative.
3. When Microsoft developed licenses that they considered to be open-source (note lower case), they submitted them to the OSI for approval.
4. The Wikipedia article on open source cites a reference ([6]) from 1990 that shows the term to be used to signify `materials open to the public and freely available' [my wording] and opposed implicitly to `controlled'.
5. I hope Sean would not consider a library to be public if it refused admittance to meat eaters, vegetarians, or any other group.
For the record, I have been using open-source software since about 1970, back when user groups such as SHARE (IBM) and DECUS (DEC) used to distribute it. The GNU Manifesto clearly says that RMS wanted to re-create the environment he'd experienced at the MIT AI Lab, so he can hardly have claimed to invented the concept.
"The article doesn't say "Open Source" (note the capitalizations). The article uses lower-case references to "open source" throughout.
Contrary to increasingly popular belief, Stallman & Co. did _NOT_ invent the concept of opening up the source code to one's applications. I regret to inform you that "Open Source" is not a f*cking registered trademark"
<sarcasm> You really don't know what you're talking about do you?</sarcasm>
This license will go the same way as that weird clause on Zynaddsubfx (A fine and free synth).
The clause was something like "Please don't use this program to make music that is against God and Jesus Christ".
Thankfully that weird request appears to have disappeared in the latest incarnation of Zynaddsubfx.
(Bill-Z-bub for relevance)
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"Also out is participation in animal-based sports, such as rodeo riding, and transport of animals."
So does this mean Transport for London, UK train companies and airlines can't use it until they abolish cattle class on all services?*
*The word "service" is used loosely here. No I'm not bitter about ****ing engineering works finishing late this morning, I already notified LUL of their farcical use of the word "service".
IANALBILTPIA also. Imagine that. Anyway, assuming that you did not agree to the terms of their license, you would be violating copyright. However, since it is apparent that they've actually distributed it under a GPL, and merely added those terms and conditions to the front, rather than distributing it under a modified GPL, no, you would only be violating the DMCA.
Oh, and at least one other poster might be interested to know that a trademark need not be registered, and given the recent usage of the term, 'Open Source' would almost certainly qualify for being an unregistered trademark, if it were unregistered. Now, I wouldn't be willing to bet that the term is, in fact, unregistered, also given recent usage of the term.
Now, one bit of confusion I do have, as IANAJ, and most specifically, IANTJThatThisCaseWouldGoToIfItWereTakenToTrial, and, of course, said trial hasn't happened yet, is does the fact that the author of the code is attempting to add terms to the GPL modify the effect of the attempt? If that detail doesn't modify the attempt, then, as someone said above, the additional restrictions simply fall off. If it doesn't, then, well, as someone else above mentioned, none of us use it, because humans are animals, and we therefore all produce various animal products - whether software, cars, noxious gasses, or other...
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Florentin is in metamorphosis. Ramshackle constructions are rapidly giving way to new building projects that are springing up everywhere. Here the stylish, Bauhaus inspired residential project designed by Ilan Pivco rises above Florentin's makeshift sheds.
These industrial alleyways populated by metal shops, carpenters, students and artists won't be here for much longer.
But two young architects bought an old store, in a street much like the one above, renovated it, designed it to collect as much light as possible and have transformed it into a flat and studio. Their
block is slated for demolition but meanwhile...
Spotted in a design studio we visited on' Open Houses' weekend. Tel Aviv separates itself from the rest of the country: a scenario that many would say has already taken place.
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A detail of ceiling in Neve Shechter , a recently opened religious/cultural centre. The wall paintings were part of the original Templar design. Later the building was called Cafe Lawrence and was used as a cinema for British soldiers.


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Recently we rolled out a number of new feature and compatibility updates to the site.
By popular demand, we now support multi-CPU Xeon systems. With supporting motherboards and processors, you can now add multiple CPUs to your build. (Note: Opteron support isn't available yet, but it is on our roadmap.) Similarly, we've added support for registered RAM, and significantly upgraded the number of listings of ECC RAM. As with unbuffered RAM, registered and ECC RAM compatibility checking is available.
Also on the compatibility front, when evaluating power supply compatibility with video cards we now factor in the number of PCI Express power connectors. Previously if the wattage supply was sufficient but there were insufficient power connectors on the power supply, we'd recommend using a molex-to-PCIe adapter. Lately though it seems less and less video cards are shipping with those adapters, so we decided to make the compatibility stricter. Starting today, you'll see incompatibility alerts if the power supply has an insufficient number of 6, 6+2, or 8-pin PCI express power connectors for the video card(s) in your part list.
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As result, I am now running WKO+ on my MacBook Pro by using Windows 7 Professional running inside the VMware Fusion 4 virtualization software. I have also heard from multiple people that Parallels Desktop 7 virtualization software works well. It is important to note that I have 8GB of RAM installed—lots of RAM will make a huge difference for running a virtualization set up for WKO+. This setup isn't as clean as it was with CrossOver but I can still manage just one computer for my primary work. I do have a recent model basic Windows laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium with another install of WKO+, and I can say that my VMware setup runs much faster so overall this Mac setup works great.
[Update Jan. 24, 2011: Updates have been made to this post since it originally was posted in January 2010 to include some subtle updates. The following information presents using version 8 of CrossOver Mac. Version 9 is now the current version but has been generally reported to not work well with WKO+. If you've had success with version 9 of CrossOver Mac, please post your experience in the comments.]
Let me cut to the chase: running TrainingPeaks WKO+ 3 with Mac CrossOver 8 is pretty easy. You have a Mac and want to run WKO+ without messing with Windows? Just keep reading.
Some background...
running TrainingPeaks WKO+ on a Mac using only CrossOver Mac—no Bootcamp, Parallels, or other installations of Windows needed. I figured it could be helpful for others but was surprised at just how popular, especially considering it wasn't the most straight forward process. Success varied, but it showed there was a big interest for Mac users to run a Mac-only solution.
The process...
I said this was pretty simple. But it's not Steve Jobs simple. Downloading from your device directly to WKO+ doesn't work out of the box, so you'll need a separate Mac-native application to do that. But generally, all you need is:
- Desire to run WKO+ without ever starting up Windows
- Mac with an Intel processor
- TrainingPeaks Device Agent, GoldenCheetah, Garmin Training Center, PowerAgent, or other software to download data from your power meter or heart rate monitor. I recommend TrainingPeaks Device Agent for it's simplicity of installation (included needed drivers for various devices) and the fact that it supports lots of devices. The drivers Device Agent installs will work in GoldenCheetah, too, if you choose to use it.
- CrossOver Mac version 8 (30-day free trial, $40); version 9 is the current version but those buying a license should be able to access version 8 and the old version may be available by hunting around the Codeweavers website
- TrainingPeaks WKO+ 3 (30-day free trial, $129)
- Install TrainingPeaks Device Agent, GoldenCheetah, Garmin Training Center, PowerAgent, or whatever other software you want to use to download data from your device.
- Download the TrainingPeaks WKO+ 3 installer
- Install CrossOver Mac.
- Install Internet Explorer 6 in CrossOver (optional step, but I did it, everything works, so I'm including it). In CrossOver, select Configure > Install Software..., then select Internet Explorer 6 from the list and install it in a new bottle of its own following on the onscreen prompts. A standard install works fine—no need to customize it.
- Install TrainingPeaks WKO+ 3 in CrossOver. Select Configure > Install Software..., then click "Install unsupported software..." and install it in a new bottle of its own. When asked for the installer file, find where you saved the WKO+ installer and let it go through its paces.
To get files from a previous version of WKO+ I recommend reviewing the online help topic "Migrating Your Data..." at WKO+ Start Up Guide: First Hour. This will give you the needed background for migrating data, but I found a slight modification to those directions that works better:
- Manually create a new athlete in WKO+ 3 with the same name as the data you want to import
- Exit WKO+
- Find the folder created for that athlete's data (should be at /user home folder/Documents/TrainingPeaks/WKO/Data/).
- Drag the old .wko files into that folder
- Launch WKO+ again and ta-da! This only seems to work, though, if you manually create the athlete in WKO+ first.
To get new files into WKO+, you'll need to use TrainingPeaks Device Agent, GoldenCheetah, Garmin Training Center, PowerAgent, or whatever other software you want to use to download data from your device. Then find the file you downloaded in that application (or export it from that app), and open it from within WKO+. Unfortunately, dragging and dropping a file from the Finder onto WKO+ doesn't work when using CrossOver as it would when using WKO+ in Windows.
Since using this setup for nearly a year, I've found one caveat. The data comparing different files in the multi-file/multi-range analysis tool doesn't work. The graph displays the comparative data just fine but the numerical data isn't displayed.
Got all that? Now sit back, relax, and enjoy the fact that you have one less reason to run Windows! Unless you're me and had to buy a Windows computer for another use and are now syncing and maintaining both anyway. I still do 95% of my WKO+ work on the Mac, though.


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Traveling around the world is music to the ears. There's the graceful, melodious sound of the nai pan flute in Moldavia. The unique mixture of sounds in a performance of Balinese gamelan. The foot-stomping songs of the Irish.
One of the University of Wyoming's greatest ambassadors for internationalization, Rod Garnett is applying what he's learned about music in every corner of the world to enhance his award-winning teaching career and bring a global perspective to the Department of Music.
Through ethnomusicology, or the study of music from different cultures, Garnett creates a unique and influential experience for students.
"While all studies of music must take into account human interaction, ethnomusicology has a very broad reach with a particular interest in cultural relativity," Garnett says. "While our American music schools focus on what is identified as classical music of Western Europe and such forms as jazz that are often identified as classical American music, ethnomusicologists are interested in learning about all kinds of human interaction with music."
An accomplished flutist, Garnett is particularly interested in origins and use of the flute by different peoples and cultures, a quest that led him to return to school to seek his Ph.D. in anthropology. In 2010, Garnett received a received a Fulbright student research grant to study nai (Romanian-style pan flute) and Moldovan music at the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts in Moldova's capital of Chisinau. His research also was supported by the Seibold Professorship grant from the UW College of Arts and Sciences.
Garnett's research on the nai is providing insight into a changing modern culture, says Sarah Strauss, a UW Department of Anthropology associate professor and member of his Ph.D. committee.
"He has been looking at cultural identity in the context of Moldova as a post-Soviet nation with complex politics and culture, to understand how the nai pan flute is used for different kinds of music and different purposes," she says. "And to learn how nai music is understood by Moldovans as a major part of their cultural patrimony, as well as, now, a route to fame and fortune, or at least a better living."
Garnett's work also has benefited the UW's music department, including the acquisition of a Balinese gamelan and creation of a gamelan performance ensemble, and the establishment of two world music courses. And, Garnett is developing ethnomusicology degree options for the department's curriculum.
"He is one of a handful of faculty in the department who are interested in music on a global level. His expertise in this area is a real bonus for us," says Theresa Bogard, chair of the music department. Garnett's interest in world music has greatly influenced students, too.
Since joining the UW faculty in 1990, Garnett has received many accolades for his contributions as an educator, researcher and performer, including the UW Ellbogen Award for Teaching Excellence (2002), the Wyoming Governor's Arts Award (2004) and the UW Internationalization Award (2008).


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Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how the Universal Design for Learning framework can lead to expert learning and effective education decision making.
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Opal is a composition of silica and certain amount of water, usually up to 10%. Its internal structure was a mystery until the invention of electron microscope, which revealed a lattice like pattern of silica spheres arranged in more or less orderly fashion. That is the case for precious opal which dazzles us with its play of colour, which in turn is created when light gets scattered and waves interfere with each other. There are many varieties of opal with main sources being Australia, Mexico, Brazil and recently Ethiopia. Opal has amorphous structure and its hardness varies between 5 and 6.5 on a Moh's Scale. While wearing opal you should generally avoid, hard knocks, abrasion, immersion in liquids other than water ( household chemicals, oils etc.). To clean your opal it's best to use wet cloth or gently clean it under running water, you should avoid ultrasonic cleaners. Australian Boulder Opal becomes more and more popular as other opal sources continue to diminish. It can show patterns and colours as strong as the top black opals because the rock matrix gives it a dark background for its fire to shine up against. It is composed of thin opal veins that were originally, empty cracks in Ironstone or other type of rock, where the water could intrude and fill it with silica that over time settled to create a gem known as Australian Boulder Opal.
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As featured in Australian Patchwork & Quilting (vol. 20 no. 8 pp 88-9), Gather Ye Rosebuds is a stunning wall hanging adapted from an Art Nouveau stained glass design by Alex Gascoyne. This prize-winning pattern won prizes at Canberra and Brisbane state quilt shows in 2010. It is available as a 13 part pattern set or at a discounted price for the full set. The quilt size is 43 1/4 by 82 3/4 inches (110 x 210 cm). Individual patterns $18.50 including post (Aust. only), or $211 for the full set (posted Aust. only). SALE PRICE now $180 posted within Australia only. International customers please contact us for price delivered to your address.
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text: Sustainability, utility and beauty are the guiding principles that define this artist. She matches the needs of the consumer long term and fit well into their environment. Her objects therefore keep their value. Their timeless design, their subtly light-hearted character and their distinct functionality create a bond between people and the objects. Flexibility is the key to the choice of basic principles for her: whether it is materials, everyday situations or certain specific techniques. By developing a well-conceived idea and sticking to it, her objects have a distinctive and very recognisable signature.


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Texas Instruments' OPA376 family represents a generation of low-noise operational amplifiers with e-trim, offering outstanding dc precision and ac performance. Rail-to-rail input and output, low offset (25 µV maximum), low noise (7.5 nV/√Hz), quiescent current of 950 µA (maximum), and a 5.5 MHz bandwidth make this part very attractive for a variety of precision and portable applications. In addition, this device has a reasonably wide supply range with excellent PSRR, making it attractive for applications that run directly from batteries without regulation.
The OPA376 (single version) is available in MicroSIZE SC70-5, SOT-23-5, and SOIC-8 packages. The OPA2376 (dual) is offered in the DSBGA-8, VSSOP-8, and SOIC-8 packages. The OPA4376 (quad) is offered in a TSSOP-14 package. All versions are specified for operation from -40°C to +125°C.


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There is cosplay, and then there is...well, we might need a word that goes beyond cosplay for this.
This crew of Japanese Attack on Titan fans, of the Through The Night crew, laugh at the notion of simply dressing up as the show's characters and posing. They've taken to the woods and gone all out, creating a clip that's both a mock trailer and blooper reel.
It'll get a little cheesy if you sit through the whole thing, but fans of the series (or just the hard work of cosplayers) should find plenty to exhale deeply about.
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UH seeks nominations for systemwide employee awardsUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Office of the President
The University of Hawaiʻi is seeking nominations for two systemwide employee awards — the Willard Wilson Distinguished Service Award and the President's Award for Excellence in Buildings and Grounds Maintenance. Recipients will be recognized at the university's 2006 Convocation Awards in the fall.
The Willard Wilson Distinguished Service Award was established by the UH Board of Regents in 1969 in honor of retiring Board Secretary Willard Wilson. To qualify, nominees must be a UH employee who has worked for at least 20 years and be recognized as having served a wide breadth of the university and their department, among other qualifications. The recipient will receive a Regents' medal and a $1,000 award.
The President's Award for Excellence in Building and Grounds Maintenance is an award which recognizes an individual who has exhibited sustained superior performance in a maintenance, landscaping, custodial, shop or trucking position. To be eligible, nominees must demonstrate criteria including sustained superior performance above and beyond the call of the individual's duties and aid in improving the physical appearance of their campus. The recipient will receive a certificate and a $1,000 honorarium.
The deadline to receive nominations for both awards is February 28, 2006. For further information and a nomination form, contact Joyce Chun at the Office of the President at


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The Pavilion Tea Room will serve hot food until 3pm everyday. Between 3pm and closing there will still be an arrangement of sandwiches, cakes and drinks available to purchase.
On the Terrace stands the Pavilion Tea Room, the perfect place to soak up the sun or relax in the shade and enjoy a refreshing drink and a bite to eat. Here you'll find an enticing range of dishes, whether you are looking for a light snack or a hearty lunch, and a great selection of drinks, from refreshing juices to, of course, warming teas. We pride ourselves on the use of fresh, locally sourced produce to create our delicious fare, so a trip to the Pavilion Tea Room is always a treat. Our delicious hot meals are served from 11am until 3.00pm and freshly made sandwiches are on offer throughout the day. At the right time of year you will also see Wisteria sinensis in flower, providing an attractive framework around the Pavilion's main window. From the Pavilion it is only a short step to the Sensory Garden, which is full of plants to touch and smell. This area of the Gardens has also been designed with tactile studs underfoot to enable visitors who are blind or partially sighted to locate plant labels in Braille. Please find a copy of the menu here


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• I love Mercedes' character design so much, I wish she was a main character. As it is, she is just a pain character.
• This strip and next week's was originally one strip, but I made far too many panels and decided to split them up.
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Segal Fellowship offers experience, networking
Summer internships offered for undergraduates and graduate students
For Aaron Chalek, applying to become a Fellow of the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program was an easy decision. He was already familiar with the program's core values, because they were exemplified in a man he already knew as someone special.
Before coming to Brandeis to pursue a master's in public policy and business administration, Chalek says, "I worked for a nonprofit that worked with business leaders on socially and environmentally responsible economic growth policy. We held an Eli Segal award day every year."
"Eli was a business leader, but someone who cared about his community and building up his community through socially responsible matters," Chalek says. "I didn't know there was an actual fellowship at Brandeis in his name."
Eli Segal earned his bachelor's degree in history from Brandeis in 1964. After graduating in 1967 from the University of Michigan Law School, he became a leader in several Democratic Presidential campaigns, working on fundraising, hiring, and acting as chief of staff for President Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992. He then worked as the CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service and was a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal.
As the architect of the AmeriCorps program, Segal built a legacy of commitment to community. Following his death in 2006, family members and the Clinton Family Foundation created the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program, which supports summer internships for Brandeis undergraduate students and for graduate students in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management's master's in public policy program.
[The 2013 Segal Fellow application deadline is December 21. Online information is here.]
The Segal program has three main components -- the Eli J. Segal Citizen Service Fellowships, the Segal Network and the Segal Memorial Lecture.
Each year, students are selected as Fellows to participate in a variety of internships over the summer. They are added to the 400-plus member Segal Network, which includes founding members of the program, members of Eli Segal's family, and former Segal Fellows. The Memorial Lectures focus on new and innovative ideas regarding citizen leadership and national service.
This year, Chalek and Paul Vancea '14 are among the eight graduate and undergraduate students named this year's Segal Fellows.
"Considering my background, it was a natural fellowship to apply for," says Chalek.
Program director Toni Schwarzenbach shed some light on what being a Fellow really means.
"The Segal Program selects Fellows and invests resources, effort, and mentoring to help build the future citizen leaders of our community," says Schwarzenbach. "We are unique because the program includes a lifetime network. Participation in the program fosters a community of leaders dedicated to the idea that service, through a variety of public, private, and non-profit partnerships, can make a tangible and long-term impact in any community."
"I think a big part of the Segal Fellowship is the understanding that it's a lifelong process and that these are some of the goals that I will hold on to the rest of my life," says Chalek. "But I think the fellowship will give me the opportunity to shape my career and skills, and as Fellows, apply them in real life."
Vancea is majoring in business, economics and film while still deciding what to pursue as a career.
Last summer, he interned at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global consulting firm founded by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Samuel "Sandy" Berger and former New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman. There, Vancea did everything from making coffee to writing letters to presidents of countries on behalf of former Secretary Albright.
"I also met so many people who were involved with PeaceCorps and AmeriCorps, things that Eli Segal actively promoted the culture of," says Vancea. "Because of my connections with the Segal network, I was able to meet with some of the top employees in the company. It was really motivational for me."
Now, a season away from summer, Vancea is on to another project in relation with Eli Segal – this time, to glorify him.
"Halfway through my internship, I was thinking, 'Why not try making a film about Eli Segal?' because most of us have never met him and most of his friends were in Washington D.C.," Vancea says. "I pitched the idea to Sandy, he loved it, and then he told me to draft a few questions to send to a long list of people he thought could provide some insight. The next day I sent 54 emails to discuss scheduling and everyone agreed to speak.
After spending the remainder of his four weeks in Washington D.C. interviewing those who knew Segal, Vancea showed his documentary at the Segal Fellowship Retreat on Nov. 10.
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Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) December 06, 2012
Ever on the look-out for opportunities to expand its brand of health care coverage for Wisconsin's disabled and low-income residents, Milwaukee-based Independent Care Health Plan (iCare) will begin marketing its Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan (SNP) in Dane, Oconto and Shawano Counties this fall.
In addition to its service area expansion, iCare is opening its first off-campus office at the N.E.W.?Curative Rehabilitation, Inc. facility in Green Bay, Wisconsin this month. N.E.W. Curative is a private non-profit organization that serves the elderly and individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities.
The arrangement with N.E.W. Curative builds upon a prior agreement to provide staff to serve as HealthGuides for iCare members. N.E.W. Curative HealthGuides represent the interests of iCare members in Brown County, providing personal, face-to-face interaction between the member and iCare's Milwaukee-based care management teams. N.E.W. Curative HealthGuides provide services in the areas of assessment, care planning, medical advocacy, and post discharge follow-up. A similar agreement was arranged with RCS Empowers, Inc, located in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Independent Care provides health insurance coverage for over 15,000 people, offering Family Care Partnership and BadgerCare Plus Core programs in addition to its Medicare Advantage and Medicaid product lines. Independent Care owns a 31 percent share of Wisconsin's Medicare Advantage SNP market for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Besides the counties mentioned above, iCare provides services in Brown, Kenosha, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Outagamie, Racine, Sheboygan, Walworth, Waupaca, and Winnebago counties.
Originally a health insurance provider for the State's Medicaid Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, iCare expanded its product offerings into the Medicare Advantage market in 2007. Created in 1994 through a partnership between the non-profit Milwaukee Center for Independence (MCFI) and Humana, iCare commands a 26 percent share of the Wisconsin Medicaid special needs market and plans to provide its Medicaid SSI Plan services in Dane, Oconto and Shawano counties in 2013.
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Here's part II of the Shirky presentation on Cognitive Surplus at the LSE on June 28, 2010.
Part one can be found here.
In this section Clay discusses some of the drivers behind behavioural economics, our intrinsic motivation towards community and how these motivations do a better job of holding us together than any amount of external rules.
He discusses what it takes to motivate people to participate - on three levels - communal (where it's mostly for each other), public (where it's for each other and those who choose to consume the outcome) and civil (where it's for the public good - where it's to make a better world/thing/outcome that really matters.
Enjoy, comment and standby for part III - in which Clay answers questions and gives brands a bit of a kicking.


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Crochet Baby Beanie Cap - Half-Double Crochet
Size G Crochet Hook
3-ply baby weight yarn
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Round 1: Ch 2, 11 HDC in loop, do not join. (12 HDC)
Round 2: 2 HDC in-between each HDC; (24 HDC) mark beginning stitch with marker.
Round 3: 1 HDC in-between next st, 2 HDC(HDC INC) in-between next st; (36 HDC)
Round 4: 1 HDC in-between ea HDC around to beg marker.
Round 5: 1 HDC in-between each of the next 2 st's, 2 HDC in next space; continue around to beg marker. (48 HDC total)
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War criminal calls for more prisons: the UK riots and the criminality of Jack Straw
What price justice when war criminal Jack Straw is free to call for more prisons to be built so young people caught stealing a £3.50 case of water can be jailed for six months?
Jack Straw, former foreign secretary in Tony Blair's government, was quick to his feet, following David Cameron's speech on the UK riots in Parliament on 11 August.
"We need more prisons," Straw told Cameron and the House of Commons.
He may get his wish, looking at some of the sentences that have already been handed down in the hundreds of cases rushed through emergency courts -- no doubt at the government's bidding, to show that instant retribution will take precedence over justice.
A mother of two, who was asleep at home during the riots, has been given a five-month jail sentence for accepting running shorts stolen by someone else.
A 23-year-old student got six months for stealing a £3.50 case of water from a supermarket.
A 43-year-old man is in jail pending sentence for stealing items worth £1 from a newsagent.
But, if Jack Straw is right and we need more prisons, he should be one of the first inmates, alongside Tony Blair, who he served so loyally throughout the 13 years of New Labour government.
Jack Straw was foreign secretary during the run up to the Iraq war in 2002-3. He was, the Iraq Inquiry tells us, the only member of Tony Blair's cabinet to be fully informed of the prime minister's discussions, negotiations and plans.
Straw knew that when George Bush and Tony Blair met at Bush's Texas ranch in April 2002, they "signed in blood" a secret deal to invade Iraq, whatever the views of the United Nations or the people of the United States and Britain.
Just prior to that meeting, Straw told Blair in a secret memo that "legally there are two potential elephant traps". Firstly, that "regime change per se is no justification for military action". And secondly, that "the weight of legal advice here is that a fresh mandate [from the United Nations] may well be required".
And it was Straw who was central in the attempt to bounce the United Nations into that second resolution to give a fig-leaf of legality to a war of unjustified aggression. He was rarely off our screens in 2002 telling us how Iraq was not giving access to the UN weapons inspectors, knowing that this simply was not true, as Hans Blix the chief UN inspector has pointed out, noting Straw's "incorrect answers" -- better known as lies -- to the Iraq Inquiry.
And Straw knew it was a lie when on 11 February 2003, a few days before the biggest anti-war demonstration in British history, he said: "We have to strain every sinew, even at this late stage, to avoid war."
Straw had already told Blair in his March 2002 memo that the US was going to war regardless, and later he was left in no doubt by the US secretary of state Colin Powell in March 2003, who told him, "We are going to war whatever Saddam does."
The only sinew Straw was straining was to find a way to justify a war which was going to happen regardless of legality or whether most countries and most people in the world opposed it.
This is why he rejected the advice of his senior legal advisor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Sir Michael Wood, who told him in a memo that invading Iraq "would amount to the crime of aggression" and would be illegal under international law. It was the only time in Wood's career, before or since, that his legal advice had not been accepted by a minister. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8479996.stm
And this is why Straw was dismissive of Sir Michael's deputy FCO, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, who stated in her letter of resignation in March 2003, " I cannot agree that it is lawful to use force against Iraq without a second [UN] Security Council resolution."
Yet, despite all this evidence to the contrary, Jack Straw told the Iraq Inquiry that he would never "have been a party" to a war of regime change, which he said would be "improper and self-evidently unlawful".
Straw is clearly a congenital liar whose ability to speak untruths is limitless. But he knew what would be the consequences of the war on Iraq, legal or not, because he described them in February 2003:
People will get killed and injured. That is the brutal and inevitable reality of war. Some of those killed will be innocent civilians; even those killed who are not innocent have souls, and wives, husbands, children who will suffer.
Straw knew he had it in his power stop this illegal war. In a written statement to the Iraq Inquiry in January 2010, he said he was "fully aware" that, as foreign secretary, his support for military action would be "critical" if the UK join the invasion of Iraq. "If I had refused that, the UK's participation in the military action would not have been possible. there would almost certainly have been no majority in cabinet or in the Commons."
This is tantamount to a confession that he colluded in mass murder. Not only would Britain have been unable to march "shoulder to shoulder" into the illegal war, but the inevitable resignation of Tony Blair and the fall of his government would have put enormous political pressure on the United States for at the least a postponement of its war plans.
The blood on Straw's hands is no less than that of Tony Blair, for a war in which over one million Iraqis died, four million were made homeless and the country so devastated that today there is acute rationing of electricity, many areas have no access to clean water and a health service that was once the most developed in the region is in tatters.
So next time we hear David Cameron talk about "criminality pure and simple" and he tells "the lawless minority... you will pay for what you have done" we need to know if his definition of "criminality" extends beyond the crime of stealing a £3.50 bottle of water or receiving a pair of stolen running shorts.
Does it include what the Nürnberg Tribunal, set up after World War II, following the trials of leading Nazis, called the supreme international crime:
To initiate a war of aggression ... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
The Tribunal said individuals should be held accountable for "crimes against peace", defined as the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression", which leaves little doubt about incrimination in the mass slaughter and devastation inflicted on Iraq by Jack Straw and his fellow conspirators -- from Tony Blair, George Bush, and Colin Powell, to Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumseld .
Jack Straw's enthusiasm for jailing people predates his call on David Cameron to build more prisons to lock up rioters. The Blair years were marked by a doubling of the prison population to over 80,000, giving Britain the dubious accolade of locking up more of its citizens than any other European country. When Jack Straw became home secretary, he was ever hungry for more prison places.
It tell us much about the quality of justice in this country that the person in charge of building new prisons was someone who should have been incarcerated in one of the cells.
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