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Gallery: "Mopar John" Borzych's OE Gold 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona
From a young age, John Borzych of Indiana was destined to be a car guy. Growing up, John spent a lot of time around cars, thanks to his grandpa owning a local gas station called "Borzych's Shell" and his childhood friend, Timmy Lang whose father owned a body shop. In his early teens, John decided it was time for a car of his own. "I started mowing the church grounds and cemetery, baling hay for the farmers, milking cows after school, cleaning out grain elevators; you name it. I was doing it," says John.
After saving up as much money as he could, he went car hunting. He decided he wanted a car that had a small body with a big block V8 engine under the hood and in his hunting, came down to two choices; a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro with a 396 4-speed or a 1967 Dodge Dart GTS with a 383 4-speed. Being as John was a smart guy, he decided to go with the Dart because there were a lot of Camaros around already and he didn't want what everybody else had. The Dart was white with red interior and a black top.
Early on in his ownership, John didn't drive the car much as he and his dad agreed that he would not drive it to school until his senior year in 1970-1971. Eventually, John started driving the Dart to school and decided to take it drag racing. One day, John showed his dad some Polaroids taken of him racing the Dart. His dad went ballistic and demanded the keys for the car. This was followed up by a serious lecture and then John's dad blocked the car in with his backhoe for a month so John couldn't take it. He told John if he ever raced it again, he would smash it with the backhoe and bury it out back.
Shortly after, John got his Dart back and eventually moved out of the house. In the spring of 1972, John's never ending Mopar collection begun as he picked up a B5 Blue 1969 GTX 440 4-speed for $400 from a guy that wrecked it with no insurance. It was hit hard in the rear but the rest of the car was good and it ran. John started going to junkyards looking for a GTX that had been hit in the front so he could make one car out of two.
He made friends with the owner of L&W Auto Salvage in Valparaiso, Indiana and ended up buying a 1969 Road Runner that was hit in the front for a couple of hundred. With both cars in his possession, he took the front end off of the GTX and put it on the Road Runner. He then stripped the GTX for anything good remaining and scrapped the rest.
It was about this time that he lost his grandfather sadly. Shortly after, his friend over at L&W Auto Salvage called and told him that he had just gotten in a FJ5 Limelight 1970 GTX that was stolen and recovered. After talking to his dad for 2 weeks, John was given permission to buy the car. However, when he went to buy the GTX, it was already sold.
By stroke of luck, when the new owner of the GTX went back to L&W to buy some parts, the owner told him about John. The owner of the GTX reached out to John and the pair ended up swapping the GTX and some cash for John's Dart. Sadly, two weeks later the new owner of the Dart had a tangle up with a semi-truck and wrote the car off. Thankfully he wasn't killed.
In September 1972, John sold his Road Runner purchased his first and only E-Body; a FC7 Plum Crazy Purple 1970 Challenger R/T with a 383 4-speed. John tells us that it was around this time he earned the nickname, "Mopar John" which has stuck with him for all of these years. 1973 brought John a marriage to his first wife and some further changes to his Mopar collection. His mother-in-law gifted them a 1966 Barracuda Formula S with a 273 4-speed and John traded in the Challenger for his first new car, a 1973 Road Runner.
Over the next little bit, John worked on turning his GTX into a drag race car while stuffing a 1969 340 into the Barracuda. In 1974, he purchased a 1969 Dart Swinger from his brother-in-law's brother and sold the Barracuda with its original 273. In 1977, after a close call at a drag strip with the GTX, John decided to park the car and hang up drag racing. With racing no longer being fun, he wondered what to do next.
He tells us, "I kept thinking in my head about a special car of some type; a classic car or a limited production car. A light finally went off in my head and it was a bright one! I remembered in one of my old HOT ROD magazines that there was an ad that had Richard Petty and a bunch of guys around a "special car". I ripped through my old magazines until I found it. It was an ad for the 1970 Plymouth Superbird; a limited production car built for NASCAR. I had to have one so I started my hunt for a Superbird."
Remembering one locally in TorRed, John went to talk to the owner. The owner told John they had only made about 50 of them and that a lot went overseas. When John asked if he would sell it, he said he would for $7,000. John thought the price was high and the owner told him if he didn't buy it now, the price would be $8,000 the following year. John passed and continued to look.
Shortly after, John came across an ad in the Chicago Tribune for a Superbird for $800.00! The nose was bent up and the car needed some work. It was just what he was looking for. The timing just wasn't right though as about that time, John's wife got sick and needed to have some surgery. He learned about the cost of healthcare way back then and couldn't afford to buy the car. Eventually, with the medical issues and bills behind them, John started saving for a Superbird.
While looking through the Chicago Tribune again one day, he came across a V-Code 440 Six Barrel automatic Superbird for sale for $2,800. He called right away and got a few more details before making the 3 hour drive out to see the car. John shares, "My wife and I went to check it out. It was Vitamin C Orange with a black vinyl top and black interior. We took it for a drive and really liked it. The seller said we could have it for $2,000 so I bought it. I was through the moon excited".
The thrill didn't last long though. After getting it home, John started cleaning it up. He went to get rid of some shag carpeting in the trunk and found some cardboard under it. When he removed the cardboard, he found a piece of Masonite strangely cut out in the shape of the trunk and when he removed the Masonite, he found the gas tank and frame rails! It turns out the car was from the Florida coast area and we all know how salt air and water can be on cars.
About the time that he bought the Superbird, John found out about the Superbird Club. Wanting to attend the 1978 National Club Meet but with his car needing work, John decided to buy another Superbird so he started searching. One day while working out on the road, he spotted a white 440 4-speed Superbird being driven by a young man in Chicago. John followed him until he got to his destination. He asked the owner if he would sell it in which the owner declined. John gave him his name and number in case he ever wanted to sell it.
Before finishing up the conversation, the owner told John that he did know of a yellow 440 4-speed Superbird for sale down the road for $1,000. John thanked the owner and made his way out to where the yellow car was supposed to be and sure enough, there it was. He talked to the owner and as he was told, it was for sale and the price was $1,000. The starter was out of the car and it needed new rear brake lines but otherwise it was in good shape. He agreed to purchase it, wrote a notarized contract, gave the owner partial payment and took the car home until the owner got the title from the bank. After two weeks, he got it and John now officially owned his second Superbird.
Oddly enough, the day he finalized the deal on Superbird #2, the young kid with the white one actually called and said he would sell it for $2,400. He had just got his girlfriend pregnant and the car needed to go. John passed on the car but told him to keep his number if the price came down. About six months later, the guy called and said his child was close to being born, the transmission on the car wouldn't shift and he had sold the wing and fender scoops so he would take $450 for the car. That afternoon, John now owned three Superbirds.
He decided to use the white car as a parts car for the other two (John eventually sold it to a friend who restored it). He got the yellow one repainted and made the mechanical repairs before finally attending the 1978 Superbirds of America National Meet. While at the meet, he saw a Dodge Charger pull up with a wing and nose cone on it.
He recalls, "I honestly said out loud, what the heck is that thing? I had never seen one in my life. A couple of the more knowledgeable members told me it was a Charger Daytona and there were only around 500 made compared to almost 2,000 Superbirds. The more I heard about them, the more I wanted one. I also learned about Charger 500s at this time as well and decided I wouldn't mind having one either."
Once John got home, he remembered about a B5 Blue '69 Charger 500 sitting in a local junkyard called Big Jacks. At the time he had originally found it, he had simply thought someone had wrecked it and just stuffed a '68 Coronet grille into it. When he went back after the meet, the engine and transmission were gone along with the interior and wheels and tires; however it still had the special back window and all of the trim. He asked the yard owner if they would sell it in which he was told $50 could bring it home.
John quickly paid for the car and told him that he would be back on Saturday with his trailer to get it. John removed the fender tag to decode it while he waited for the weekend. When he arrived back on Saturday, he was told that while the owner was out of town, some yard workers took the driver side door off the Charger 500 and then crushed it. He then took John out to the back to see the crushed car before giving him back his $50.
In April 1982, John received a phone call from a friend in the club. His friend told him that there was a U-Pull It salvage yard near him called Avenue Auto Parts in Kansas City Missouri that had two '69 Charger Daytonas in it; a B5 Blue 440 and a R4 Red 440. Besides the two Daytonas, there was also a '69 Charger 500 Hemi car, a '69 Charger sunroof car and some various others including a Studebaker Hawk, Lincoln Continental Hardtop and some two-seater Thunderbirds.
They were apparently a part of a large collection of cars that were impounded by the State of Missouri back in 1973. The owner of a used car lot had gotten into legal trouble regarding the titles to some of the cars he was trying to sell and the cars were impounded as a result. Since the police impound lot was not large enough to store the cars for a longer term until the issue could be figured out, they were sent to Avenue Auto Parts for storage.
Over time, the cars were moved to a far back corner of the property but remained off-limits to any of the customers looking for parts. Eventually though, people looking for parts slowly starting picking parts off of the seized cars; with the yard owner turning a blind eye. The cars were moved around a bit by the loaders, causing damage to them. The owner of the cars ended up going to jail and in 1982, the yard owner went to court regarding the ownership of the cars. The State ended up turned over the ownership and titles to the cars to the yard owner.
His friend told John that the local dam broke and flooded the yard so the yard owner was selling the cars. He was after the Hemi Charger 500 and gave John the name of the owner and his phone number to inquire about the Daytonas. "I called the owner and told him I wanted to buy the red Daytona. He informed me that I could buy it but I also had to buy the blue one. He said that there were so many parts missing that it would take both to make a nice car. I agreed but didn't really want the blue Daytona because I thought it was ugly back then! Now I had to get the money and get to Missouri quick" John says.
He continues to say, "While driving my Superbirds, I would be asked if I wanted to sell one quite often. My answer was always no but I was smart enough to keep the contact names and phone numbers. Not too long before the Daytona deal, a guy called me from North Dakota and inquired about my yellow one. I called him back and told him that something came up and that I would sell him the Superbird. I described the car over the phone and we agreed on a price and a place to deliver the car. We met up to do the deal and he was all smiles."
The next morning, John and his friend made their way to Missouri to pick up the Daytonas. John recalls, "When we got to the yard, the cars were still there and things went pretty good. The cars were in bad shape from all the years in outside storage. There was also some vandalism and parts missing as the owner had stated on the phone.
The red Daytona was missing its antenna, wipers, alternator, carburetor, air cleaner, distributor, wing and interior. The missing interior bothered me most because the broadcast sheet was gone! The cars had been moved around in the yard several times over the years and both suffered damage from the forks on the loader. The red Daytona was bent up on the bottom of the core support and radiator along with some damage to the driver's quarter panel."
"The blue Daytona had 24,000 original miles on it but was missing its antenna, wipers, alternator, radiator, fan, carburetor, wing and wheels and tires. It had damage to the driver's side of the nose. The blue car also looked like it got some water in it from the yard flood since it was sitting on the ground. The owner informed us that the yard was broken into and vandals had used a tire iron on the trunk lids and eventually stole the wing off the blue car a while later. They did a lot of damage to the red car but never got it open. The owner removed the wing off the red car and put it inside a building for safe keeping. Even though it was part of the deal, they never found the wing!"
John loaded up the red one and went back two weeks later for the blue one. His friend that went with him decided he wanted the blue one and since John wasn't a fan of it, he sold it to his friend with the agreement that he had first dibs down the road. Sadly, a short time later his friend got laid off and had to sell the car, so John bought it back. Over the next number of years, John put the two Daytonas into storage while he got back into racing with his GTX and collected parts for them, including wings. With his intentions to restore the red car, the blue one usually sat outside when storage was tight.
When values started going through the roof on the Daytonas, John sat down and started figuring out the restoration plans. One of the big factors was the missing broadcast sheet for the red car. All attempts to locate the sheet hit dead ends. After doing some research, John discovered just how rare the blue car was compared to the red one. With its basic hubcaps, B7 Blue buddy seat interior and white wing, it was one unique Daytona. This combined with the fact that it had its broadcast sheet led John to decide to restore the blue one first.
In the summer of 2007, John decided he wanted to attend the 40th Aero Warriors Reunion in Talladega in October 2009 with the blue Daytona so he needed to find somewhere to have it restored. John says, "I wanted a shop that was within a day's driving range of my house and had already done an award winning restoration on a Daytona. Names like Roger Gibson, Nostalgia Lane and Vance Cummings were on my list. It was around this time, I saw a magazine article with Steve Fox's black and red Daytona in it. While reading it, the names Paul Jacobs and Troy Angelly were mentioned. It just so happened I had bought a bunch of Superbird parts off of Paul a few years back."
He continues to say, "I called Paul and I talked with him about Steve's Daytona and asked if he would be interested in restoring another one. He said that I would need to bring the Daytona to his shop with all of the extra parts. He would have his partner Troy Angelly who does the body and paint there also." In August 2007, John pulled the Daytona out of the shop, gave it a quick bath and loaded it up for the trip to Paul's shop. Once he got to the shop, he unloaded it and the parts for Paul and Troy to look it. The car was very original in many aspects such as the original engine, transmission, rear end, interior and paint!
Paul agreed to restore the Daytona but told John that both of his shops were full and there was a waiting list. John informed him that he needed to have the Daytona done by October 2009 for the reunion meet. They told him that it was possible! John loaded the Daytona up and Paul said they would call a couple of months ahead of when they would be ready for to bring it in. That following winter, John worked hard buying as many NOS and assembly line NOS parts as possible.
Just after the 2008 Aero Meet, he got a call from Troy Angelly with some good news and bad news. He said Paul had gotten a promotion at work and had to scale back the number of cars that he was able to take on however he was willing to do the restoration at his own shop. He said Paul would consult on the restoration whenever needed and that he would have the car done for the 2009 Talladega meet as John had hoped.
In November 2008, the Daytona was dropped off at Troy Angelly Restorations, giving Troy just over 11 months to totally restore the Daytona in time for the meet. The guys at Troy's shop quickly tore the car apart and got the body ready for metal work. The body of the Daytona was sent off to Redi-Strip where it was totally stripped down to the bare metal, exposing some of the nasty rust.
Since both of the front fenders were rusty, John opted to take the ones off of his red Daytona, replacing them with some other fenders he had (he eventually sold the red Daytona in 2015). The original hood was shot and the trunk lid had been damaged from the junkyard vandalism so John purchased an original Daytona hood, trunk lid and wing many years prior off the late Monroe Schellinger who had parted out a couple of Daytonas.
Rust was also found under the battery tray and in the door jambs so those areas were cut out and replaced with new metal patches. The interior floor pans were retained and only needed minor patches. Since the wing had been removed and the trunk lid was pried open, water got into the trunk and destroyed the pan. A replacement trunk pan was sourced from Auto Metal Direct along with lower quarter panels. John managed to find a NOS tail panel, rear valance and valance corner caps so those were installed. The damage to the nose cone as well as some rust on the trunk lid lip was repaired.
In May 2009, Paul and Troy approached John with a plan. They agreed to have the car ready for the Talladega meet as promised but wanted to bring it back after for all of the detail work and to change out anything reproduction with either NOS or perfect original wherever possible. From there, they would enter the Daytona in the 2010 Mopar Nationals O.E Judging class. John agreed and went to work continuing to find parts.
With all of the metal work complete, the Daytona was primed and painted a fresh coat of B5 Blue. From there, the white Daytona tail stripe and rear wing were installed and the underside of the car was undercoated in the exact way it would have come from the factory. The glass was sent out and painstakingly polished to perfection with the exception of the windshield, which was replaced with a correct reproduction piece from ECS.
The original engine and transmission were torn apart where it was discovered that the engine had suffered a lot of water damage. John shares, "It looked like the engine came from a shipwreck. The hood had been left up a lot while the car was in the salvage yard and a lot of water had gotten into the engine. Troy found a water stain line about half way up the starter from the yard flood so that didn't help either".
On top of that, the oil pan and windage tray were damaged from the loader's forks. Troy took the block, crank and heads to his machine shop where they magically cleaned and redid everything. Hardened seats were added to the heads and then Troy re-assembled everything before installing it back into the car. The original 727 Torqueflite automatic transmission and 8 ¾ rear end were also re-done, detailed and installed. A freshly re-cored original date coded radiator was installed with a NOS fan shroud.
On the inside, the Daytona's interior was restored with as many NOS or perfect original parts as possible with the exception of the seat covers which were sourced from Legendary Interiors. Underneath, the entire suspension and brake system was restored with again, as many NOS or perfect original parts as possible. John even found NOS hubcaps and a complete set of date-coded NOS and original 5 F70x14 Goodyear white-line tires.
Just as promised, the Daytona made the 2009 Talladega meet. From there, it went back to Troy's shop and got ready for the 2010 Mopar Nationals were it ended up winning O.E Gold Certification. Since then, it's won a handful of awards including Concours Gold at the 2010 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals show and Best in Class at the Louisville Concours De Elegance show. Today, the Daytona sits in John's garage with his long term Limelight '70 GTX and Vitamin C '70 Superbird.
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Car Feature Editor – cody.cole@shawgroupmedia.com Since the age of 4, Cody has been obsessed with everything Mopar. On Christmas of 1998, Cody's parents gave him a rusty '69 Charger shell that his father saved from a field. Cody's garage still features that '69 Charger as well as the additions of a '70 Coronet, '71 Charger R/T, '71 Super Bee, '04 SRT-4, '06 Grand Cherokee SRT8, '08 Challenger SRT8 and a '17 Ram 1500 Rebel. Cody can truly and proudly say him and his wife are true Mopar nuts in love with all types of Mopars!
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No. 25/24 Softball Set To Face No. 2/2 Georgia Wednesday In Athens
#25/24 Georgia Tech Hits The Road For Games At Georgia and Maryland
• The No. 25/24 Georgia Tech softball team (28-5, 3-0 ACC), back in the polls for the first time in a month, hits the road for four games this week. The Yellow Jackets will open the week with a 6:30 p.m. Wednesday night game at No. 2/2 Georgia (27-4) before heading to Maryland (22-9, 2-0 ACC) this weekend.
• The Yellow Jackets and Terrapins are the only two undefeated teams left in the ACC and will play a doubleheader Saturday at 1 p.m. and then conclude the series Sunday at 1 p.m. Maryland is receiving votes in both polls this week.
• Live audio and stats for all four games this week will be available at RamblinWreck.com.
• Tech has won 21 of 22 games now and is 15th in the official NCAA RPI.
Tech vs. Georgia
• Georgia holds an 18-9 advantage in the all-time series between these two rivals, but Georgia Tech is 4-3 in the last seven meetings since head coach Sharon Perkins took over. Perkins, a former UGA assistant coach and associate head coach won her first four games against her former employer.
• Georgia Tech has won six of the last 10 games in the series despite dropping both games to the Bulldogs a year ago.
• Tech and UGA will meet again April 13 at Mewborn Field (7 p.m.).
Tech vs. Maryland
• Georgia Tech is 30-16 all-time against Maryland and has won the last 14 in a row in the series.
Back in the Rankings
• Georgia Tech is back in both the USA Today/NFCA and ESPN.com/USA Softball top 25 polls this week after falling in the "also receiving votes" category for nearly a month.
• Tech opened the season ranked 18th and 17th, respectively, but a losing streak in late February dropped the Jackets out of the poll for the first time in two years.
• Prior to the arrival of head coach Sharon Perkins, the Yellow Jackets had appeared in the NFCA top 25 poll 25 times. Tech surpassed that in her fourth year in Atlanta.
• In the first RPI released March 24 by the NCAA, Tech came in at 15th. Georgia Tech is one of five school nationally with a baseball and softball team ranked in the top 15 joining Florida, Arizona State, Oklahoma and Texas.
Jackets Continue Streak Of ACC Series Wins
• Dating back to the 2008 season, Georgia Tech has won 18 straight ACC series which is now an ACC record. Virginia Tech held the previous mark having won 15 straight from 2006 to 2008.
• Since being swept by NC State April 5-6, 2008, Georgia Tech is 49-7 (.875) in ACC games. During its streak, Virginia Tech went 34-10 (.773).
• The Yellow Jackets have won the ACC regular season and tournament titles in each of the past two seasons and were picked as unanimous favorites to win in 2011 by the league's coaches.
• The 2011 ACC Tournament will be held May 13-15 at Mewborn Field. Its the first time Georgia Tech has hosted the softball championship.
No Yee…No Problem
• Every time head coach Sharon Perkins was asked in the offseason how you replace the bat of Jen Yee she said you can't do it with one bat, everyone has to contribute. Well, in 2011 it has been a team effort.
• Georgia Tech is hitting .343 as a team through 33 games and eight of the nine regular starters are batting at least .315. Tech ranks first in the ACC and 13th nationally in batting average and leads the conference in every offensive category except doubles (third).
• Tech is averaging 6.6 runs a game this season and its .633 slugging percentage is fourth in the nation.
Bombs Away In `11
• After hitting a school record 118 home runs in 2010, Georgia Tech is right on that pace again in 2011 despite losing All-American Jen Yee and her 29 round-trippers.
• Tech is first in the nation with 62 home runs thus far in 2011 and has nearly doubled the next closest team in the ACC.
• Six of the top 10 home run hitters in the ACC don the Gold and White led by sophomore Hope Rush's 12. Junior Kelsi Weseman and senior Kristine Priebe have 10 apiece while junior Shannon Bear (9), freshman Alysha Rudnik (8) and junior Jessica Sinclair (8) round out the top six.
• Rush is 10th in the nation in homers while Weseman and Priebe are tied for 24th.
Perkins Picks Up 200
• With a 1-0 win over Georgia State on March 13, Georgia Tech head coach Sharon Perkins won her 200th career game. Perkins is now 211-78 (.730) in her fifth season at the helm of the Yellow Jackets.
• Perkins has led Tech to the ACC regular season and tournament titles in each of the last two seasons en route to league Coach of the Year honors both times. She has the most wins of any ACC coach since taking over in 2007.
Adkins Back In Form
• Senior Kristen Adkins has regained her form as ace of the Tech pitching staff, just over a year removed from her run to ACC Tournament MVP honors in 2009.
• Adkins, who transferred to Tech for the start of the 2009 season, is currently 14-2 with a 0.78 ERA. She ranks fourth in the nation in ERA and 21st in wins and has 88 strikeouts this season which is already 33 more than she had all of last season.
• Adkins, who also sits fifth in the nation with four saves, has four shutouts to her credit and is holding opponents to a .198 batting average.
• The McKinney, Texas native recorded a career-high 10 strikeouts in a shutout of Georgia State on March 1. Coincidentally, that is the win that sent Georgia Tech on its recent run that has seen the Jackets win 21 of 22 games.
• Adkins enjoyed a stretch this season of 31.1 consecutive innings without allowing a run.
Rush Is A Dual Threat
• With the emergence of Adkins, sophomore Hope Rush has thrown less innings in the circle and the numbers are reflecting that, especially on the offensive side.
• Rush, who was a third-team All-American a year ago and the 2010 ACC Freshman of the Year, is 10-3 in the circle with a 1.71 ERA. She ranks fourth in the league in wins and ERA as well as ninth in opponent's batting average (.214).
• Offensively, Rush is batting .398 (sixth in ACC) with 12 home runs (first, 10th in nation), 37 RBI (first, 30th) and a 1.345 OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage). She is fourth in the ACC and 29th nationally in slugging (.855) as well as fourth in the league in on-base percentage (.490).
From Walk-On To All-American?
• While its still early to call junior Shannon Bear an All-American candidate, the story is quite remarkable. A walk-on with just a handful of at bats in her first two seasons, the Grayson, Ga., native has burst onto the scene and is a candidate for ACC Player of the Year.
• Bear is currently batting .402 (second in ACC) with an .878 slugging percentage (third, 24th in nation), .480 on-base percentage (fifth), 26 runs scored (sixth), 29 RBI (fifth, 89th), eight doubles (tied for fifth) and nine home runs (fifth, 40th).
• Bear is currently batting third in the lineup and playing mostly in left field with a start or two at second base.
Speed At The Top, Speed At the Bottom
• Georgia Tech has stolen 52 bases this season and 38 of them have been by senior Christy Jones at the top of the lineup and freshman Ashley Thomas in the nine-hole.
• Jones, who is also batting .359, is 26-for-27 this season and her 88 career thefts is good for fourth all-time at Georgia Tech.
• Thomas, meanwhile, is 12-for-12 at the bottom of the lineup and has raised her average more than 100 points to .250 in the last couple of weeks.
The Versatile No. 2
• With as much power as there in in the middle of Georgia Tech's lineup, it puts a lot of pressure on the top of the order to get on base. With Jones batting close to .400 for most of the season, junior Kate Kuzma is asked to do a number of different things behind her and has excelled.
• If asked to bunt, Kuzma can do that. She is first in the ACC and 18th nationally with 10 sacrifices. Need to take a pitch or two…no problem. Kuzma is hitting over .300 with two strikes and has been able to let Jones steal second and even third base, on some occasions.
• She also has the ability to hit away. Kuzma is hitting .337 and moves runners along at a .481 clip. The Sharpsburg, Ga., native has seven doubles, two home runs and 13 RBI. It was her three-run home run that started an eight-run fifth inning March 26 against NC State helping the Jackets erase a fourth inning deficit.
Priebe, Weseman Pick Up Where They Left Off
• Senior Kristine Priebe and junior Kelsi Weseman have been moved all over the batting order this season but have continued to produce whether batting third, fourth, fifth, sixth or even seventh.
• Weseman is currently batting .419 (second in ACC, 76th nationally) with a .919 slugging percentage (second, 19th), .550 on-base percentage (first, 24th), 31 runs scored (first, 73rd), 36 hits (tied for sixth), 32 RBI (third, 86th), nine doubles (tied for first), 10 home runs (tied for third, tied for 24th), 79 total bases (tied for first), 16 walks (fifth) and nine hit by pitches (tied for second, 34th).
• Priebe, meanwhile, is batting .380 (10th) with an .826 slugging percentage (fifth, 36th), .459 on-base percentage (ninth), 27 runs (tied for fourth), 35 hits (10th), 36 RBI (second, 45th), three triples (tied for second), 10 home runs (tied for third, tied for 24th), and 76 total bases (third).
Sinclair Working Way Back
• After missing all of the 2010 postseason with a torn ACL suffered in practice, junior Jessica Sinclair has been slowly working her way back into game form.
• The Marietta, Ga., native has found her power stroke as she has a career-high eight home runs already (tied for sixth in ACC, tied for 54th nationally) and is also batting a career-best .315 while patrolling right field for the Yellow Jackets.
Priebe A Finalist For The Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
• Senior Kristine Priebe was named one of 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award on March 28. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence — community, classroom, character and competition.
• An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
• The finalists were chosen by a media committee from the list of 30 candidates announced in February. Nationwide fan voting begins immediately to determine the winner. Fans are encouraged to vote via the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award website or on the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Facebook fan page through May 10. Fan votes will be combined with media and coaches votes to determine the winner.
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Question: How Does An Legal Drinking Age Of 18 Affect Teens In Europe?
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1 Is underage drinking a problem in Europe?
2 Can 18 year olds drink in other countries?
3 Why is the drinking age lower in Europe?
4 What European countries have a drinking age of 16?
5 What is the youngest drinking age in any country?
6 What's the drinking age in Europe?
7 Can you drink at 18 in Bahamas?
8 What is Japan's drinking age?
9 Is alcoholism a problem in Germany?
10 What country has the most drunk driving deaths?
11 Can a 16 year old American drink in Germany?
12 Can u drink at 16 in Italy?
13 Can you drink at 16 in Ireland?
Is underage drinking a problem in Europe?
Although European nations have lower legal drinking ages (16-18) than in the United States (21), similar proportions engage in underage drinking. In two-thirds of European countries, a greater percentage of 15-16 year-olds drank five or more drinks on an occasion in the past month than in the United States.
Can 18 year olds drink in other countries?
More than 55 percent of countries allow 18 year olds to buy alcohol at stores to consume off-premise. In the U.S., the drinking age is 21, a law the country shares with only five other countries (although some states like Illinois, Wisconsin and New Hampshire are trying to change that).
Why is the drinking age lower in Europe?
Lowering the drinking age to 18 would allow 18-to-20-year-olds to consume alcohol safely in regulated environments, with supervision. In many European countries, the legal drinking age is 18 or lower, and minors are not as compelled to drink excessively because moderated drinking is part of the culture.
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What European countries have a drinking age of 16?
In Europe, the most average (median) alcohol minimum purchasing age is 18 years old. But some countries ( Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain ) still set the minimum age at 16.
What is the youngest drinking age in any country?
Youngest Drinking Age At least eight countries and regions have set their MLDA at 16 years. These countries include Barbados, the British Virginia Islands, Cuba, Luxembourg, Panama, Serbia, Serbia, and Zimbabwe.
What's the drinking age in Europe?
While US teenagers are prohibited from drinking alcohol before turning 21, the MLDA in most European countries is 18. Some countries even allow drinking for teenagers as young as 16.
Can you drink at 18 in Bahamas?
The legal drinking age in The Bahamas is 18.
What is Japan's drinking age?
The legal drinking age in Japan is 20. While this age differs from country by country, as long as you're over 20 years of age, you're free to drink in Japan. (Just be sure to bring your passport with you for ID.) As in many other countries, people under the legal age of 20 also cannot purchase alcohol.
Is alcoholism a problem in Germany?
Harmful alcohol consumption in Germany is a serious public health problem: About 7.7 million adults in Germany can be classified as risky alcohol consumers, about 74,000 deaths per year are related to alcohol consumption, and about 1.8 million adults in Germany (18–64 years) are classified as alcohol dependent.
What country has the most drunk driving deaths?
South Africa has the highest rate of drunk driving fatalities globally, with 25.1 deaths per 100,000 total population. In the US, Wyoming is the state with the highest drunk driving crashes, with 7.60 fatalities per 100,000 people.
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Can a 16 year old American drink in Germany?
At 16 – minors are allowed to consume and possess undistilled (fermented) alcoholic beverages, such as beer and wine in public places, bars or restaurants without their parents or a Custodian. (§ 9 JuSchG (1) 2.)
Can u drink at 16 in Italy?
Drinking Laws — There is no legal drinking age in Italy in the sense that a young person of any age can legally consume alcohol, but a person must be 16 years old in order to be served alcohol in a restaurant or a bar.
Can you drink at 16 in Ireland?
Ireland's drinking laws are pretty crystal clear – the legal drinking age in Ireland is 18. That means you need to be 18 to buy a drink in a pub or to buy any form of alcohol from a store. For anyone below 18 years of age to pretend that they are over 18 in order to buy or consume alcohol.


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Kutuzov fountain description and photo - Crimea: Alushta (Topic)
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Kutuzov fountain description and photo - Crimea: Alushta
Kutuzov fountain description and photos - Crimea: Alushta. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.
The Kutuzov fountain is one of the most famous memorial complexes in Crimea. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century. The fountain is located at the foot of Mount Demerdzhi in the place where a mountain stream called Sungu-Su flows. It is known that this stream is a healing source.
The first information about the monument fountain dates back to 1804. At that time it was named after the Sungu-Su stream. The monument was built in the oriental style. Funds for its construction were provided by the Turkish officer Ismail-agi, who died in battle with the Russian troops. By 1830, the fountain became very popular as the Kutuzovsky fountain. According to legend, M.I. Kutuzov, who at that time was a legendary field marshal, owes his life to the waters of the source where the memorial was built.
Led by a battalion of grenadiers M.I. Kutuzov, at that time still a lieutenant colonel, on July 23, 1774 distinguished himself with particular courage in the battle with the Turkish army. The battle took place near the village of Shumy, which currently has a different name - Verkhnaya Kutuzovka. This battle became a legend, since the number of soldiers in the Russian army was 10 times less than on the Turkish side. Legend has it that the Kutuzov battalion, including the lieutenant colonel himself, fought so bravely that they terrified Seraskir Haji Ali Bey himself. Seraskir was afraid that his army might die and decided to stop Kutuzov. Taking a good aim, he fired a shot at the famous military leader and hit his left temple. Having received a terrible wound, the fearless military leader fell to the ground. The seraskir bullet came out in the right eye.
Kutuzov was transferred by the grenadiers to the nearby Sungu-Su spring, where they began to wash his wound. The soldiers witnessed the miracle that was happening then. The blood stopped before their eyes, and the wound closed completely. Recovering himself, Kutuzov got to his feet. As a result, the Russian army put the 25 thousand Turkish army to flight. Kutuzov, who lost his right eye in the battle, received the Order of St. George for his heroism. By that time, he was 29 years old.
For miraculous healing, Kutuzov planted a poplar near the place where the wound he had received was washed. Later, a memorial was erected here, which was named Kutuzovsky. Having heard the story of the miraculous healing of Kutuzov, many people upon arrival in Crimea tried to drink water from this unique source with healing properties, near which the famous field marshal planted a tree. The memorial was reconstructed in 1832. By 1956, according to the architectural project of A. Babitsky, the memorial was altered by the sculptor L. Smerchinsky, who gave it its present appearance.
This is a very unusual monument in the form of a wall supporting a mountain. On the wall itself, there are carved inscriptions that tell about the events that took place in 1774. It also has an ornamental portrait of the legendary commander, under which a small fountain is installed. Immediately in front of the monument, there are cannonballs related to the time of the Crimean War.
The Kutuzov fountain is located in a beautiful area, near the slopes of Mount Demerdzhi in the south of the Angarsk pass. If you find yourself in Crimea,
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Keeping a religious freedom commission bipartisan
Back in President Bill Clinton's second term, Congress created the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, tasked with monitoring religious liberty around the world and, in annual reports, highlighting the progress (or, more likely, lack of progress) various countries are making in this area.
I thought it was a good move at the time and believe that over the years it has done good work. If I have a criticism it is that Congress and the executive branch often pay little or no attention to the commission's findings and, therefore, don't place enough emphasis on making sure that it's the policy of the U.S. government to advocate religious liberty as one of the foundational human rights around the world.
In recent weeks and months, however, the bipartisan cooperation that has allowed the USCIRF to do its work effectively appears to be threatened by changes proposed in a bill meant to reauthorize the commission's existence.
You can read about that proposed legislation in this Associated Press story and in this article from The National Review. You can decide whether those reports contain conflicting analyses.
As the AP reports, the reauthorization bill "would ask the commission to review 'the abuse of religion to justify human rights violations' — a responsibility not defined in more detail — and restrict commissioners from using their federal title when they speak as private citizens. Additionally, commissioners would have to report to Congress on international travel paid for by sources outside their families or the government.
"In a capital often dominated by partisan polarization, those proposed changes created a rare division: senators in both parties seeking increased oversight, and commissioners in both parties balking."
What most concerns me about this matter is that the USCIRF, despite the appointment of commissioners who think quite differently from one another about religious liberty, has remained an effective organization because it has remained bipartisan in approach. It hasn't fallen prey to the vicious partisan divisions that have turned much of our federal government malignant.
Whatever the solution is for the reauthorization, the result must not be one more agency dissolving into gridlock because of partisan politics. That would be the worst thing for religious freedom around the globe.
If you agree, let your member of Congress know.
THE GROWING WORK OF CHAPLAINS
Does it seem to you as if you're meeting more chaplains nowadays? Why would that be? This RNS story has one answer: ". . .as fewer people identify with a specific religion or attend religious services, Americans may be more likely to meet a chaplain than a local clergy person at a congregation. That's why the newly formed Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, aims to explore how chaplains are adapting to their changing circumstances." Chaplains often do terrific work. If you know one, say thanks.
Drafting God and Satan into political roles
Now that we're past Thanksgiving, I want to back up a few days and think about some strange ways recently that religion and politics have crossed paths in the U.S.
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said the other day that President Donald J. Trump (and Barack Obama before him) was "ordained by God" to be president.
I'm not sure just what that says about God's political instincts if God wanted both Trump and Obama, but I would say they could be charitably described as confused and/or conflicted.
What Perry actually said was this: "I'm a big believer that the God of our universe is still very active in the details of the day-to-day lives of government. You know, Barack Obama doesn't get to be the President of the United States without being ordained by God. Neither did Donald Trump."
And Perry's far from the only amateur theologian to thus opine. As the CNN story to which I've linked you above reports, "In February, former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that God 'wanted Donald Trump to become president and that's why he's there.' A month later, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined the chorus, saying it's possible God raised Donald Trump to be President in order to protect Israel from Iran."
Almost certainly this kind of thinking is drawn from the twelfth chapter of the New Testament book of Romans, authored by the Apostle Paul.
Here's how that chapter begins (in the New International Version): "Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God."
As scholar Mark D. Nanos has taught me, Paul's words are aimed at Jesus gentile followers who were part of temple or synagogue life in the First Century. Which means he was teaching them to respect temple authorities. He was not telling them that God put the Romans in a position to rule in the Holy Land and that people should acknowledge them as God's deputies.
To use Paul's words as warrant for suggesting that 2,000 years after Paul wrote, whoever the U.S. president is in office because God ordained him to be is a serious misreading of scripture. If Obama and then Trump really were both God's choice to be president, God's got some serious explaining to do.
Similarly, we've been hearing weird theology recently about whether people who criticize Trump are doing it under the influence of Satan.
As this Atlantic story notes, "Franklin Graham and Eric Metaxas, two prominent figures within the American evangelical movement. . .have now decided they must try to demonize his (Trump's) critics.
"Literally."
Paul Wehner, author of the piece, goes on to quote both Graham and Metaxas on what they believe to be demonic influence on Trump's critics.
Then Wehner concludes this of Graham and Metaxas: ". . .they felt compelled to portray those with whom they disagree politically as under demonic influences, which for a Christian is about as serious an accusation as there is. It means their opponents are the embodiment of evil, the 'enemy,' anti-God, a kind of anti-Christ.
"There is no biblical or theological case to support the claim that critics of Donald Trump are under the spell of Satan. It is invented out of thin air, a shallow, wild and reckless charge meant to be a conversation stopper."
How about if we all agree to judge politicians by their actions and policies and not by scriptural misreadings or by the language of spiritual warfare? Maybe even God would ordain that more rational approach.
(I found the image here today at this site.)
NOT QUITE THE ORIGINAL
If you had a Thanksgiving meal yesterday, my guess is that it didn't match the very first Thanksgiving meal, as described in this RNS story. And if it did you heard such phrases yesterday as "Please pass the sobaheg stew." Somehow my family missed that yesterday, too.
Thanks, Merci, Gracias, תודה, Ευχαριστώ, Tack, Vielen Dank
For Thanksgiving today, I simply want to say thanks to all of you who have read my words over the years. I'm grateful to each one of you, whether you liked those words or not.
May your day be filled with gratitude, one of the true signs of what makes the world go around, love.
WHO CAN TEACH RELIGIOUS STUDIES?
What is the author of this RNS blog post talking about when he refers to "the legacy of colonialism in religious studies" and how does it affect the study of religion today? Good questions. And the Sikh author of the post provides some interesting answers.
Can sacred texts be rescued from fundamentalism? 11-27-19
This past weekend here on the blog, I wrote about the Dead Sea Scrolls as a way of celebrating the importance of the written word, especially as that word has become sacred writ.
To continue that theme, today I am linking you to this review of Karen Armstrong's new book on scripture. Armstrong, as you may know, has written lots of intriguing books about religion. I haven't read her new book yet, but I can almost guarantee you that it will challenge some of what you think you know.
The new Armstrong book is called The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts. The review to which I've linked you calls the book "a tour de force of the history of religions."
And adds this: "Throughout this 'history of the world' (limited by not covering Africa, North and South America), Ms. Armstrong emphasizes that the sacred texts do not simply provide a list of 'do's' and 'don'ts' that are most often directed to reward and punishment in the afterlife. She specifically details and analyzes sacred texts that also call for a 'radical transformation of mind and heart' of the individual. This is what she means by 'the lost art of scripture.' The increased fundamentalist readings of sacred texts to validate bigotry and violence against others (the left side of the brain) demonstrates this tragic loss."
One of the theological disasters of our time is mentioned there: "The increased fundamentalist readings of sacred texts. . ."
No sacred text was meant to be read in a completely literal way. Such texts contain poetry, metaphor, allegory, myth as well as sometimes real history. They are stories told for a larger purpose. If you never get past a literalistic reading, you really never get to the meaning.
But such straight-line thinking is what drove the 9/11 terrorists, the bombers of abortion clinics, the people who murdered Jews in synagogues and black Christians in a South Carolina church. That's the kind of thinking we must find ways to turn around. Maybe books like Armstrong's new one and even my last one, The Value of Doubt, can help.
SOME GOOD SIKH-MUSLIM COOPERATION
Some Sikhs in a small town in India are raising funds to help Muslims there build a mosque. It's a great and welcome example of interfaith cooperation in a nation with a history of that but a nation that in recent times has often degenerated into needless religious rivalry spurred on by Hindu nationalism. Maybe in return, Kansas City area Muslims might want to help the local Sikh community build its new temple in Johnson County -- a project I wrote about here earlier this year.
How not to miss the context of the New Testament
Well, Tom Wright is at it again -- speaking truth in fresh and interesting ways. Or, at any rate, truth as he sees it. And the fact that I often (not always) agree with Anglican Bishop N.T. Wright makes it easier for me to think of his way of putting this as truth.
Wright has just co-authored a new book (he does that, it seems, about twice a week) that looks at the context of First Century Israel and the life of Jesus in that time.
It's called The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, and is co-authored by scholar Michael F. Bird.
RNS did this piece that described the heart of the book (I haven't had a chance to read its 1,000 pages yet) as he presented it recently to a church in Chicago.
The focus of the piece is on Wright's understanding of what Jesus meant when he began his ministry by announcing that the "kingdom of heaven is at hand."
As the RNS report notes, "Both progressive and conservative Christians misunderstand what Jesus meant when he said the 'kingdom of God is at hand,' he said.
"'Actually, the kingdom of God at hand means God's kingdom coming in unexpected ways on earth as in heaven — not away somewhere else and not destroying earth, but transforming it.'"
I sometimes explain it this way: Jesus meant that the reign of God is breaking in today and we can experience at least a taste of what that reign will look like when it comes in full flower. How? By living lives of justice, mercy, compassion and love and teaching others to live that way, too.
So the idea of the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God does not refer (at least exclusively) to the sweet by and by of the afterlife. It applies to this very day and of our duties, if we're followers of Jesus, to demonstrate what the kingdom will be like when it's finally and fully here.
Which is one more reason Christianity is such a difficult religion to follow faithfully and well. It requires something of its adherents every day, something that's not easy to do.
If you run into people who normally give me a gift for Christmas and want to mention Tom Wright's new book, I won't object.
Oh: And if you want a recommendation for another book that helps you understand the context of Jesus, here's one I have read (more than once), The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, by Amy-Jill Levine.
WHAT THE POPE SAID IN JAPAN
On his trip to Japan, Pope Francis declared that owning or using nuclear weapons is "immoral." I wish the calculus were that simple. It's true that the U.S. is the only nation ever to use nuclear weapons in war. But the evidence is overwhelming that use of them saved more lives than it cost, though there you have to factor in the reality that the lives saved were mostly American while the lives lost were mostly Japanese. And then you have to remember that it was the Japanese who were the original aggressors. See how complicated all this gets? In a perfect world, everyone would agree that nuclear weapons are immoral. The problem is that, so far at least, we don't live in a perfect world. I like the pope's instincts but let's all recognize that he's aiming for perfection.
More bad news in the Catholic abuse scandal
Nearly the whole world is aware of the priest sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.
It's been appalling not just because children's lives have been severely damaged but also because bishops who covered up the abuse have damaged the credibility of the church itself.
Because the basic story now is decades old -- though most Americans didn't become aware of it until The Boston Globe brought it to light in 2002 (earlier work was done by The National Catholic Reporter) -- people not affected by it may not realize that it is far from over.
But just as good journalism brought the story to public light, good journalism is revealing what's happening now. And it's not a pretty picture.
In October, the Associated Press reported that almost "1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement. . ."
There's worse in the AP report: "These priests, deacons, monks and lay people now teach middle-school math. They counsel survivors of sexual assault. They work as nurses and volunteer at nonprofits aimed at helping at-risk kids. They live next to playgrounds and daycare centers. They foster and care for children.
"And in their time since leaving the church, dozens have committed crimes, including sexual assault and possessing child pornography, the AP's analysis found."
Then just a few days ago, a special AP investigative team reported this:
"Facing thousands of cases of clergy sex abuse, U.S. Catholic leaders addressed their greatest crisis in the modern era with a promised reform: Mandatory review boards.
"These independent panels with lay people in each diocese would review allegations fairly and kindly. And they would help bishops ensure that no abusive priests stayed in ministry.
"But almost two decades later, an Associated Press investigation of review boards across the country shows they have broadly failed to uphold these commitments. Instead, review boards appointed by bishops and operating in secrecy have routinely undermined sex abuse claims from victims, shielded accused priests and helped the church avoid payouts."
(The Catholic dioceses in Kansas City and St. Louis both get criticized in this report.)
It's shocking and inexcusable.
Which is not to say that the church hasn't done some things right in the scandal. Indeed, many local parishes now have training and other programs designed to help members spot possible abuse and report it. And some priests have been yanked out of their jobs and prevented from being alone around children.
But the AP reports are clearly disturbing and require a vigorous response from all levels of Catholic leadership, to say nothing of demands from people in the pews for an explanation of what has gone wrong.
The reality is that the irresponsible behavior the AP describes injures not just the Catholic Church but, rather, Christianity more broadly and religion itself. Who could blame people with an interest in finding a spiritual path if they turned away from institutional religion if this is how things work?
The church clearly has much recovery work to do. And each day it delays doing it puts more children at risk.
LOCALIZING A NATIONAL STORY
Although the news about declining church attendance in America and declining numbers of church members is old, this story gives a good and interesting picture of that in Alabama. What does it look like where you live?
P.S.: My latest Flatland column -- about how a Kansas City man has adjusted to life after his wife was murdered by a neo-Nazi -- now is online here.
Scroll down (or up) for a celebration of words
Depending on who is reporting the story, either Nov. 23 or Nov. 24 of 1947 was the date on which E.L. Sukenik of Hebrew University in Jerusalem first saw small pieces of the newly found Dead Sea Scrolls and recognized their great significance.
You can read about the scrolls and Sukenik at the links I've just given you, and I urge you to do that because the story of the discovery of them and how they made it into the hands of reputable authorities is fascinating.
But I want to use this subject this weekend to say just a few words about the centrality of words -- especially written words -- to faith traditions.
The first creation story in the Hebrew Bible describes how God used words to speak the whole cosmos into existence, starting with "Let there be light."
Eventually accounts of the people of Israel and their prophets were written down and came to be thought of as sacred scripture, sometimes called the word of God.
Similarly, the Gospel of John in the New Testament describes Jesus Christ as "the Word," a relatively weak but intriguing translation of the richer Greek word "logos." And, of course, the gospels and the rest of the New Testament eventually were recognized as sacred scripture by followers of this Jesus.
In Islam, some centuries after Christianity had divorced itself from Judaism, the beginning of the story also involves words -- ones said to have been dictated to the Prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel over more than two decades. Those words became the Qur'an, Islam's sacred scripture.
Words matter in almost all faith traditions, sometimes a great deal, and not just in written form. In a traditional Catholic Mass, for instance, what are called the words of epiclesis (or epiklesis), are spoken aloud to ask God to turn the substance of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist into the substance of the body and blood of Christ.
And yet the truth is that ultimately words fail us. Words cannot fully capture the divine reality, cannot say all about everything having to do with faith. But it takes words even to acknowledge that words fail us.
One of my greatest joys as a writer is to find exactly the right word to use in exactly the right place for exactly the right reason. I just wish it happened more often.
But as a commemoration of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, let's do what we can to honor sacred words this weekend. You'll be glad you did. I give you my word.
THE CASE AGAINST STEPHEN MILLER
A collection of Jewish organizations has accused White House senior adviser Stephen Miller of being a "white nationalist" and have demanded he be fired or that he resign. President Trump has hired a lot of incompetent people, but Miller may be among the worst -- not for those reasons but for his repugnant ideas.
P.S.: I thought this article about the current troublesome state of religion in India might interest some of you. It's by my childhood friend Markandey Katju, a former justice on India's Supreme Court.
ANOTHER P.S.: My latest Flatland column now is online here.
Considering hate, 56 years after JFK's murder
Today, the 56th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, seems like a good time to explore the subject of hate crimes, which that murder surely was, even if it didn't then or doesn't now meet some specific legal definition.
One reason to get into this subject is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently released its annual report on hate crime statistics, based on data from the year 2018. As this Religion News Service piece notes, "the FBI's numbers paint a damning picture of hate in America: Anti-Semitic homicides in the United States reached their highest level ever; racially motivated hate against Latinos went up by 13 percent since the year before, and 48 percent over the past five years; anti-transgender hate crimes rose nearly 34 percent; and anti-Sikh attacks increased 300 percent over the past year.
"While reported hate crimes decreased slightly overall, from 7,175 in 2017 to 7,120 in 2018, the statistics show that the incidents had become more violent. Hate crimes targeting individuals (as opposed to property) rose to 4,571 — an 11.8 percent increase since 2017."
I'm at work on a project exploring how straight-line, monochromatic thinking -- whether about religious doctrine, race, politics or something else -- can and sometimes does lead to violence. We have seen example and example of what hatred can do to rip up families as well as societies.
The JFK murder forever altered American history in ways we'll never fully understand. For instance, there was some evidence that at the time of his assassination Kennedy was starting to question the nation's involvement in the civil war in Vietnam. If he had lived, would Vietnam have become the terrible dividing line it became in American culture and would it have cost us so much in blood and treasure?
We don't know. His murder has prevented us from knowing, but it's almost impossible not to suppose that the later distrust of what our government tells us might not have developed had post-Kennedy officials not lied to us about how we were winning the war in Vietnam.
In any case, the point is that crimes and other violence rooted in hatred inevitably violate the teachings of the great world religions. And at least in part it's up to those religions to continue working against any kind of hatred. The new statistics tell us there's much more to accomplish. And the JFK assassination anniversary (I was a freshman in college at the time) reminds us of the consequences if we don't manage to disarm hate.
(The photos above of Arlington National Cemetery and John F. Kennedy's burial site are ones I took many years ago and have kept because they spoke to me of final things.)
HOW HOUSES OF WORSHIP RESPOND TO DISASTER
Faith communities sometimes are put in a position of needing to respond to catastrophes in their area. Which is what happened to a Baptist church not far from the recent school shooting in California, as this RNS story reports. It's a way houses of worship can be good community members, important parts of the social fabric. If they fail at that task, why do they exist?
The late Rev. Eugene Peterson, most famous for his paraphrase of the Bible called The Message, was also a really engaging Presbyterian preacher. Penguin Random House has just published a lovely little collection of parts of his sermons called A Month of Sundays: Thirty-one Days of Wrestling with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It's a daily devotional full of insight after insight. Why does John the Baptist preach in the wilderness, the desert? Peterson: "The desert is a sign of our poverty and the world's emptiness. It's a symbol of our nakedness before God and our willingness to leave all and follow him." And is Peterson a detached pastor or someone with real problems and emotions? Peterson: "I need to admit to you that I still get angry with the world and still become fearful in it. I get fits of righteous indignation in which I judge and condemn. I descend into moods of fear when all I want to do is escape. But I have learned not to make a religion out of my fear." The upcoming Advent season would be an excellent time to use this book as a source of daily meditation.
Sometimes religious beliefs are, well, just strange
One of the things that has long fascinated me about religion is the many -- and sometimes quite bizarre -- shapes that it's taken across history.
And, yes, I know there's an argument to be made that many worldwide traditional religions tell stories that seem bizarre to outsiders (and sometimes even to insiders). A parting of the Reed (or Red) Sea. A resurrection from the dead. A night journey to Jerusalem on the back of a winged mule-like white beast. And on and on.
But many odd religious stories turn out to be essentially harmless and even quaint and almost charming.
Such as: This BBC story tells of a faith community that formed in the United Kingdom based on a woman's belief that when Jesus returned to Earth he would come to Bedford in south-central England, just under 50 miles from London.
"Two centuries ago," the story says, "a 64-year-old woman called Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant with the Messiah. She died in December 1814, months after making this bold claim. Inevitably, a post-mortem examination revealed there was no child."
Yes, but that wasn't the end of it.
In 1919, the story reports, one Mabel Barltrop, intrigued by the Southcott story, formed what was called the Community of the Holy Ghost (in 1926 renamed the Panacea Society). It "was a group of mostly women who believed Barltrop was a prophet and the daughter of God, and whose aim was to set up their own Garden of Eden in Bedford."
Barltrop, the story says, had learned about "the life of Southcott, who had predicted a messiah would spark 'the millennium' or the Second Coming in England. Southcott's various prophesies were kept in a sealed box, which she instructed must only be opened by a gathering of 24 Church of England bishops."
Well, the bishops never gathered to see what was in the box and the Panacea Society eventually died out a few years ago. But it left a good chunk of money. Today a charitable trust in its name uses that money for various good purposes and now also operates a museum that tells the Southcott-Barltrop-Panacea story.
Kansas City area residents also may know that three different faith communities believe the Second Coming of Jesus will happen not in Bedford, England, but, rather, in Harry Truman's hometown of Independence, Mo. So there's competition for the end-of-time event.
People seem to need to believe things that are supernatural or almost beyond belief. And often such beliefs lead the believers to live valuable, healthy and productive lives because their beliefs issue in moral behavior, in generosity, love, compassion, mercy. But sometimes, as in this Bedford case, it's hard to know why people believe what they believe and what difference it makes in their lives.
For instance, in the late Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, there's the no-doubt apocryphal story of strange faith that goes this way:
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
Maybe it's turtles all the way down not to bedrock but to Bedford. Or maybe not.
POPE FRANCIS' OLD HOPES ABOUT JAPAN
Pope Francis is on a trip to the far east, including Japan. If I knew that he once dreamed of being a missionary in Japan, I had forgotten that fact until I read this RNS story about the trip. Sometimes dreams take a long, long time to be realized, even if only in part.
P.S.: The people of Turkey under their current leader have endured a great deal -- and the oppression continues. I've written about that here in 2017 and, earlier this year, here. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, which is International Human Rights Day, the Dialogue Institute will hold a Kansas City gathering to talk about what's happening in Turkey now and what people can do to respond to the outrages there. Details you need to attend this free event are here.
Why we need to remember the Nuremberg trials
On this date in 1945 (I was all of 10 months old at the time), the Nuremberg trials of 22 Nazi war leaders (and later of many more lower-ranking German authorities) began in Germany.
If you think about the timing, it's shocking that the trials began just over six months after the end of the war in Europe. Compare that to the still-not-started military tribunal trials of the people charged with the 9/11 terrorist attacks 18-plus years ago who still are being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Six months vs. 18 years. What's wrong with that picture?
As this online entry by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum notes, "The Nazis' highest authority, the person most to blame for the Holocaust, was missing at the trials. Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in the final days of the war, as had several of his closest aides. Many more criminals were never tried. Some fled Germany to live abroad, including hundreds who came to the United States."
One of the things I have learned in not just reading about the Holocaust but also in doing research for the book that Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn and I wrote (They Were Just People: Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust) is that many survivors of the Nazi evil didn't want to talk about what they went through and often hid their story from their children and grandchildren until much later in life.
Indeed, it really wasn't until Raul Hilberg published The Destruction of the European Jews in 1961 that the world began to pay much attention to the Holocaust, at least after the Nuremberg Trials ended.
And in some ways it took the movie "Schindler's List" in the early 1990s to kick-start Holocaust interest and scholarship into its current state.
The scope of the malevolence was so massive, so unexpected, so incredible that it took time for the world to acknowledge that a modern European nation could orchestrate such an intentional catastrophe.
The question remains of how the German people could have been led to support a government that had as its goal the elimination of European Jewry. One of the answers is that Adolf Hitler outlined his thinking about this matter in his repugnant book, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) in the early 1920s and that most people ignored what was his clear goal. Here is some of what he said in that book malignant and pernicious book:
All human culture, all the results of art, science, and technology that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan. This very fact admits of the not unfounded inference that he alone was the founder of all higher humanity, therefore representing the prototype of all that we understand by the word "man." He is the Prometheus of mankind from whose bright forehead the divine spark of genius has sprung at all times, forever kindling anew that fire of knowledge which illumined the night of silent mysteries and thus caused man to climb the path to mastery over the other beings of this earth. Exclude him — and perhaps after a few thousand years darkness will again descend on earth, human culture will pass, and the world turn to a desert.
The mightiest counterpart to the Aryan is represented by the Jew.
Blood mixture and the resultant drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is contained only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.
If the Jews were alone in this world, they would stifle in filth and offal; they would try to get ahead of one another in hate-filled struggle and exterminate one another, in so far as the absolute absence of all sense of self-sacrifice, expressing itself in their cowardice, did not turn battle into comedy here too.
It was and it is Jews who bring the Negroes into the Rhineland, always with the same secret thought and clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting bastardization, throwing it down from its cultural and political height, and himself rising to be its master. For a racially pure people which is conscious of its blood can never be enslaved by the Jews. In this world he will forever be master over bastards and bastards alone.
I feel almost as if I should apologize for inflicting those words on you, but I hope you already know about them. Besides, we're in terrible trouble if we forget that a man who became the leader of a supposedly civilized and free nation wrote them.
The world had no choice to but behave in a rational, lawful way and convict the Nazi leaders in a fair trial as a way of demonstrating that this kind of putrid straight-line thinking could not stand. The sad reality is that today antisemitism is resurgent. But if we continue to try to teach our children about all of this, through such agencies as the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, we have a chance of unplugging this deadly anti-Jewish thinking.
ON THE WAY OUT?
A new report says the mainline Anglican Church of Canada won't exist in 20 more years if current trends continue. Does someone offer palliative or hospice care for faith communities?


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Salma Gilani Joins Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Toronto Office
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP is pleased to welcome Salma Gilani to the Securities Group.
Salma received her J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School, where she received the Dean's Letter Recognizing Cumulative Overall Excellence for ranking in the top three per cent of the class of 2015. She is a recipient of the Blakes Scholar Award, the Ivan Cleveland Rand Prize in State and Citizen, the WeirFoulds LLP Prize in Administrative Law and the Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Prize in Commercial Law, Business Associations and Taxation. Salma holds a B.A. in English and history and a B.Ed. from York University.
Salma is an Ontario certified teacher. Prior to law school, she worked as a high school English teacher in Toronto and spent a summer teaching abroad. During law school, she worked at Parkdale Community Legal Services in the Employment law division. Salma also volunteered as a resource developer for Law in Action Within Schools program and as an intake worker for the Community and Legal Aid Services Programme.
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Automotive Collision Repair – Main Auto Body, Inc.
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Soccer Skills Day with UofR Cougars!
ALL players and coaches/parent helpers of TAYSA (Triangle Area Youth Soccer Association) communities of Balgonie, White City & Emerald Park, Pilot Butte, McLean, and Edenwold are encouraged to attend a soccer skills day run by the UofR Woman's Soccer Program.
Please see the Events page for all the details and registration.
Registration for the 2019 Outdoor Season is now closed.
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We would like to thank ALL our Coaches and Assistant Coaches/Helpers who volunteer and are continuing to make our Programs a success!! We hope that you are having a great a time as all of our players!!
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GRAND PRIZE for PROCOM SYSTEM in the ECO-RESPONSIBLE IN BUSINESS competition
On 26 October, during the ENVICON International Environmental Protection Congress gala, President of the Management Board of PROCOM SYSTEM, Mr. Artur Wójcikowski, has received the MAIN PRIZE in the "ECO-RESPONSIBLE IN BUSINESS" competition.
Asian Power Awards 2015 - silver for the Taichung project
On 2nd September in Bangkok "Oscars" in the energy industry in the region of Asia and the Pacific were awarded. The project of stoking improvement implemented in cooperation with PROCOM SYSTEM in the largest coal plant in the world (10x550MW) in Taichung on Taiwan was awarded a silver medal in the "Coal Power Project of the Year" category.
On 2nd September in Bangkok "Oscars" in the energy industry in the region of Asia and the Pacific were awarded.
The project of stoking improvement implemented in cooperation with PROCOM SYSTEM in the largest coal plant in the world (10x550MW) in Taichung on Taiwan was awarded a silver medal in the "Coal Power Project of the Year" category.
The project was recognized due to the fact that improvement of the stoking steering system was conducted without stopping the automation system, that is on-line. All tests, installation of cabinets and start-up of the steering systems were carried out during full operation of blocks. During improvement stoking involved: coal unloading (from ships), coal storage in spoil tips and filling up of block silos (10x10).
Start-up on the structure lasted from January 2014 to July 2014 and turned out to be a full success. All steering systems were transferred to the new system without exceeding the deadline. The old tele automatics Teleperm-M system was updated to the latest version of the DCS SPPA-T3000 system by Siemens.
On behalf of PROCOM SYSTEM the project was managed by Łukasz Gamrat. We would like to thank Łukasz and all employees who have contributed to the completion of the task.
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This rule describes standards and procedures of the Department of Nuclear Engineering for post tenure review of faculty. It supplements NC State University's Academic Tenure Policy and Regulation on Post Tenure Review of Faculty. To the extent of any inconsistency, the Academic Tenure Policy and Post Tenure Review Regulation control. The Department Head is responsible for assuring that the procedures as set forth in NCSU REG05.20.04 – Post Tenure Review of Faculty and this Rule are followed.
Only Full Professors due for review: PTRC will comprise three Full Professors.
Only Associate Professors due for review: PTRC will comprise two Full Professors and one tenured Associate Professor.
Full and Associate Professors due for review: PTRC will comprise four members, three Full Professors and one tenured Associate Professor; the latter will recuse himself/herself from the review of Full Professors.
2.1.2 The Head will designate one of the Full Professors serving on the PTRC as committee chair. The PTRC Chair should familiarize himself or herself with the applicable policies and regulations and this rule.
2.1.3 The Head shall announce the composition of the PTRC and its designated Chair during the first four weeks of the fall term if any reviews are scheduled for the academic year. In case of a vacancy on the PTRC, the Department Head after consultation with the remaining PTRC members and Chair shall appoint a replacement.
The PTRC Chair will schedule all meetings, coordinate with the Department Head, and prepare and transmit reports from the committee to the Head.
Associate Professors are to be evaluated to determine if they are performing the realms of responsibility set forth in their Statement of Faculty Responsibility at the Associate Professor standard as set forth in the Department's Rule on Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Standards and Procedures. To meet expectations as a result of the PTR, they must present evidence that they are maintaining the standards for promotion to associate professor as set forth in the Academic Tenure Policy and college and departmental reappointment, promotion and tenure rules. Exceeding expectations should result from both internal and external recognition such as college, university, national and international recognition through awards, citations, senior and fellow grades in professional societies, and evidence of outstanding additional performance beyond the normal limits in teaching, research and services.
Professors are to be evaluated to determine if they are performing the realms of responsibility set forth in their Statement of Faculty Responsibility at the Professor standard set forth in the Department's Rule on Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Standards and Procedures. To meet expectations as a result of the PTR, they must present evidence that they are maintaining the standards for promotion to full professor as set forth in the Academic Tenure Policy and college and departmental reappointment, promotion and tenure rules. Exceeding expectations should result from both internal and external recognition such as college, university, national and international recognition through awards, citations, senior and fellow grades in professional societies, and evidence of outstanding additional performance beyond the normal limits in teaching, research and services.


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