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By: The Associated Press Posted: 11:04 PM CDT Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2022 Last Modified: 11:04 PM CDT Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2022
Pressure on Senate GOP after same-sex marriage passes House
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate unexpectedly launched a new push Wednesday to protect same-sex marriage in federal law after a surprising number of Republicans helped pass landmark legislation in the House. Some GOP senators are already signaling support.
The legislation started as an election-season political effort to confront the new Supreme Court majority after the court overturned abortion access in Roe v. Wade, raising concerns that other rights were at risk. But suddenly it has a shot at becoming law. Pressure is mounting on Republicans to drop their longstanding opposition and join in a bipartisan moment for gay rights.
"This legislation was so important," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said as he opened the chamber Wednesday.
The Democratic leader marveled over the House's 267-157 tally, with 47 Republicans — almost one-fifth of the GOP lawmakers — voting for the bill late Tuesday.
"I want to bring this bill to the floor," Schumer said, "and we're working to get the necessary Senate Republican support to ensure it would pass."
Giuliani ordered to testify in Georgia 2020 election probe
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in New York has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear next month before a special grand jury in Atlanta that's investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia.
New York Supreme Court Justice Thomas Farber on July 13 issued an order directing Giuliani, a Trump lawyer and former New York City mayor, to appear before the special grand jury on Aug. 9 and on any other dates ordered by the court in Atlanta, according to documents filed Wednesday in Fulton County Superior Court.
Giuliani's lawyer did not immediately return a call and email seeking comment Wednesday.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis began her investigation early last year, and a special grand jury with subpoena power was seated in May at her request. In a letter requesting the special grand jury, she said her team was looking into "any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections in this state."
Earlier this month, she filed petitions to compel seven Trump associates, including Giuliani and U.S. Sen Lindsey Graham, to testify before the special grand jury.
Indiana Republicans propose banning abortion with exceptions
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Leaders of Indiana's Republican-dominated Senate on Wednesday proposed banning abortion with limited exceptions — a move that comes amid a political firestorm over a 10-year-old rape victim who came to the state from neighboring Ohio to end her pregnancy.
The proposal will be taken up during a special legislative session that is scheduled to begin Monday, making Indiana one of the first Republican-run states to debate tighter abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court decision last month overturning Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
The Indiana proposal would allow exceptions to the ban, such as in cases of rape, incest or to protect a woman's life.
Republican state Sen. Sue Glick, who is sponsoring the bill, said the proposal would not limit access to emergency contraception known as the morning-after pill or limit doctors from treating miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies.
The bill would prohibit abortions from the time an egg is implanted in a woman's uterus.
Outcry after Uvalde pressures schools to keep kids safe
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — When the shooting began at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Mario Jimenez's son was in the classroom next door. The 10-year-old saw his teacher and a friend hit by bullets that passed through the wall. Now, Jimenez worries the boy will never again feel secure in a classroom.
"I don't think these kids are going to feel safe going back to school no matter what they do. They're supposedly protected by the system, and they know the system failed them," he said.
In the aftermath of the May shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers, poor decisions by law enforcement have attracted widespread criticism, but the Uvalde school system is also taking its share of the blame for basic failures — unlocked doors, a spotty alert system and lax enforcement of rules. Now, incensed parents and politicians want concrete safety solutions as the attack becomes part of a larger conversation about how to prepare students for emergencies without potentially inflicting an emotional toll with active-shooter drills.
An investigative report released Sunday by the Texas Legislature found the district did not treat maintenance issues like broken doors and locks with urgency. For instance, the lock on the door to one of the classrooms where the shooting occurred was known to be faulty, and the House committee concluded the shooter likely entered the room through that unlocked door.
The House committee found "a regrettable culture of noncompliance by school personnel who frequently propped doors open and deliberately circumvented locks" at Robb Elementary. The report said school administrators and district police tacitly condoned the behavior, noting that the school suggested the practice "for the convenience of substitute teachers and others who lacked their own keys."
2 indicted in migrant death-trailer case that left 53 dead
Two men were indicted Wednesday in the case of a hot, airless tractor-trailer rig found last month with 53 dead or dying migrants in San Antonio, officials said.
A federal grand jury in San Antonio indicted Homero Zamorano Jr., 46, and Christian Martinez, 28, both of Pasadena, Texas, on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in death; and transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in serious injury.
Both remain in federal custody without bond pending trial. Martinez's attorney, David Shearer of San Antonio, declined to comment on the indictments. A message to Zamorano's attorney was not immediately returned.
Conviction on the death counts could result in life sentences, but the Attorney General's Office could authorize prosecutors to seek death penalties. The serious bodily injury counts carry sentences of up to 20 years in prison.
It was the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico. The truck had been packed with 67 people, and the dead included 27 from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, said Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico's National Immigration Institute.
Senators propose changes to electors law after Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators agreed Wednesday on proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act, the post-Civil War-era law for certifying presidential elections that came under intense scrutiny after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Long in the making, the package introduced by the group led by Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin of West Virginia is made up of two separate proposals. One would clarify the way states submit electors and the vice president tallies the votes in Congress. The other would bolster security for state and local election officials who have faced violence and harassment.
"From the beginning, our bipartisan group has shared a vision of drafting legislation to fix the flaws of the archaic and ambiguous Electoral Count Act of 1887," Collins, Manchin and the other 14 senators said in a joint statement.
"We have developed legislation that establishes clear guidelines for our system of certifying and counting electoral votes," the group wrote. "We urge our colleagues in both parties to support these simple, commonsense reforms."
Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell have signaled support for the bipartisan group, but the final legislative package will undergo careful scrutiny.
Ex-cop Thomas Lane faces sentencing in George Floyd killing
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane is hoping for a sentence Thursday that could let him go free after as little as two years in prison for his role in the killing of George Floyd.
His attorney, Earl Gray, has argued that the rookie was the least culpable of the four officers involved in Floyd's death under Officer Derek Chauvin's knee in May 2020, a killing that sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the world, and launched a national reckoning on race.
Lane is one of three former Minneapolis officers who were convicted by a federal jury in February of violating Floyd's civil rights by depriving him of medical care. He faces a separate sentencing Sept. 21 in state court after changing his plea there to guilty to a reduced charge of aiding and abetting manslaughter.
Lane and fellow rookie J. Alexander Kueng helped restrain Floyd while Chauvin, who is white and was the most senior officer on the scene, killed Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 1/2 minutes despite the handcuffed and unarmed Black man's fading pleas that he couldn't breathe. Chauvin's partner, Tou Thao, helped hold back an increasingly concerned group of onlookers outside a Minneapolis convenience store where Floyd tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill in August 2020.
Federal prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson to follow nonbinding federal sentencing guidelines and sentence Lane to 5 1/4 to 6 1/2 years.
EXPLAINER: Can Europe live without Russian natural gas?
BERLIN (AP) — Europe faced an energy crisis even before the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany went offline for regular maintenance.
While there were signals that at least some gas was likely to flow Thursday, it was still uncertain and government officials braced for the possibility that the key pipeline won't restart as scheduled. They say Russian President Vladimir Putin is using energy for political leverage in his confrontation with the European Union over Ukraine.
Russia has already slashed Europe's flows of natural gas used to power factories, generate electricity and heat homes in the winter, and Putin warns they could keep dwindling. The deliveries through Nord Stream 1 were cut by 60% before repairs began.
Even if the pipeline restarts at reduced levels, Europe will struggle to keep homes warm and industry humming this winter.
Here are key things to know about the energy crisis:
Funeral held for Ivana Trump; ex-president pays tribute
NEW YORK (AP) — Ivana Trump, the 1980s style icon and businesswoman who helped Donald Trump build the empire that put him on a road toward the White House, lived a "beautiful life," the former president recalled as loved ones paid final respects to her Wednesday.
The ex-president joined all his children, an array of other relatives and friends at a Manhattan church for Ivana Trump's funeral Mass.
"A very sad day, but at the same time a celebration of a wonderful and beautiful life," he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, before he, former first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron headed to St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church, located just a few blocks from Ivana Trump's home near Central Park.
Ivana and Donald Trump's three children — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — stood with their father and their families as the gold-toned casket was carried from the church. Eric Trump briefly put an arm around his sister's shoulders as she held the hand of one of her small children, who clutched a red flower.
Tiffany Trump, the daughter of the former president and his second wife, Marla Maples, also attended the service, as did family friends including Jeanine Pirro, co-host of Fox News' "The Five," and Charles Kushner, a real estate developer and the father of Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner. Fashion designer Dennis Basso, a longtime friend of Ivana Trump's, was also among the mourners.


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We reached Savannah - still raining. We drove to the field - raining hard. But just as we met with Scott's teammates to start the game, the rain quit, totally.
We played the entire 2 hour match without a drop of rain. Scott scored his first Classic level goal, from a corner kick.
After the game, the teams shook hands, we headed for our cars - and the rains came back with a vengeance.
Scott and I drove downtown, intent on spending a little time exploring Old Savannah, but it was raining so hard we couldn't leave the car without getting soaked. So we decided to drive 80 miles south and have us a mini Jekyll Island adventure.
As you might imagine, it rained the whole way. When we arrived, we drove around listlessly, knowing we only had a few hours before we had to head home to school and work and everyday life. The deluge didn't help our mood much, either.
We wound up at the beach. We parked in the public parking lot at Central Dunes, grabbed our umbrellas, and headed for the sand.
Only there wasn't any. The beach was gone, submerged by a massive storm surge that topped the breakwater boulders and forced us to stand well back from the angry spray.
This was Jekyll Island as we'd never seen it before, the ocean angry and aggressive, it's raw power never more apparent. I remember standing there, bummed out, fighting the wind and my overwhelmed umbrella, longing for the sun - and realizing just how powerful the Atlantic Ocean could be.
What's all that got to do with beach safety?
Most vacationers seldom see the ocean like that - raging, the gloves off. At Jekyll Island, we're used to the placid waters and gentle waves of the gently sloping Eastern Seaboard. That slope absorbs a lot of the energy from the outer ocean waves.
When the storms come, even off-shore, the ocean can turn dangerous. At these times we're very much aware of our frailty. The danger is right there, in front of us. Beach safety becomes more than just an abstract concept.
Even in quiet times, however, when the sun is out and the sea is a flat, placid plain, the beach can be dangerous. But by preparing well and adhering to safe beach practices, we can protect ourselves - and our kids - and enjoy the peace and beauty of the beach.
The first tenet of beach safety - know how to swim before you go to the beach- duh! - and make sure your kids know how, too.
Most communities offer swimming lessons through the YMCA or other organizations. Take advantage of these programs, and learn all you can. Try to pick up some life-saving skills while you're at it.
Then practice. Swim all you can. Strengthen your muscles. And get in some time in the wave pool at your local water park - swimming in ocean waves is entirely different than paddling around in a swimming pool.
Beach safety requires a totally new mindset, so while you're at it, take a Red Cross approved life-saving course, one that offers basic CPR and cardiac resuscitation.
Now that you're better equipped to take on the beach, you need to be aware of the main dangers you might encounter - rip currents, sharks, jelly fish, water quality, and sun exposure.
These beach safety tips are no-brainers.
Don't swim alone, and make sure you keep your kids in sight at all times. Waves come ashore at an angle and over time kids playing in the surf will gradually be pushed down the beach, sometimes without their even knowing it.
Soon they may be out of your sight line, especially if you're dozing or caught up in the latest thriller. So be aware. Train yourself to look up periodically.
Having others around who are also looking after the kids helps. All grownups and teens in your party should know that watching the younger kids is a first priority for beach safety.
Don't SUI - Swim Under the Influence. Alcohol lowers body temperature, can impair your judgment and swimming ability, and cause you to take risks you would normally avoid.
And if you're on a float, make sure you don't get farther out than you can swim back. It's also a good idea to attach a leash to your float, boogie board or surf toy. If you fall off, it won't get swept away from you.
If there is an underwater obstruction parallel to the beach, like a submerged sandbar, water may pile up on the shore-side of this obstruction. There's a tremendous amount of stored energy in this water. And if the sandbar is breached in a spot, the water may be pulled from the reservoir in a concentrated stream flowing seaward - sometimes as fast as 8 feet per second. This is a recipe for disaster.
Rip currents can also form off objects perpendicular or angular to the beach, like jetties, piers, or the Jekyll Island sandbar.
The United States Life-saving Association (USLA) states that 80% of lifeguard rescues at ocean beaches occur when folks are caught in rip currents. They also cause 80% of drowning deaths.
And rip currents can occur in relatively placid water conditions. They're just more intense as surf size increases.
Learning how to cope with rip currents is critical for your family's beach safety.
There's no getting around the fact that rip currents are out there, and are usually difficult to detect. But they can be avoided or prepared for.
First, try to swim where there are certified lifeguards stationed and on-duty. That's not always the case, and at Jekyll Island there are no lifeguards - you swim at your own risk.
You swim at your own risk!
Your safety is in your hands. As is your kids.
If you spot an area of choppy, churning water, a strange break in on-coming waves, a spot where the water seems discolored, or see seaweed or other debris moving seaward, there might be a rip current present. Beach safety is paramount - swim somewhere else.
If you get caught in a rip current, all is not lost. Keep your head and you can get out of it fairly easily.
Rip currents are usually not very wide, so if you swim to one side or the other you can break free of the surge. Trying to power-swim straight back to shore is a losing proposition. You'll just wear yourself out, weaken - and still be caught in the */#&!! rip current!
If you do get too tired to keep swimming, tread water. The rip current usually dissipates just past the breaking wave line. The feeling of being pulled out to sea can be frightening, but once past that line you may be able to swim free and get back to shore.
If you're still too tired to make it, tread water and raise your arms over your head to signal folks ashore that you're in trouble.
It bears repeating. When someone's in the water, others who care about that person should act as spotters, and keep an eye out. Total beach safety demands it.
When we were young and dumb (and by young and dumb I mean teenagers), we'd think nothing of wading into chest-high water off the Jekyll Island coast. The water was warm, and we'd hangout in groups, usually us guys and a few girls, and shoot the bull, enjoying the rise and fall of the long swells as they arrived from somewhere off the African coast.
That was before the movie Jaws came out. After that, beach safety as it pertains to sharks wasn't a problem - it was nearly impossible to get us in the water.
In reality, sharks aren't much of a danger. For one thing, they're rare. According to the International Shark Attack File, there's only 50 to 70 reports of shark bites world-wide annually.
They say you're more likely to be injured in a car wreck on the way to the beach than to even see a shark. Further, even the attacks that do happen are thought to be cases of mistaken identity - shark thinks you're prey, bites, says "Yukkk!", and spits you out.
To make doubly sure you're not subject to a shark's taste test, there are a few precautions you can take.
Don't wear shiny jewelry. Don't swim at dusk or night. And don't dress up like a seal.
Or do like me - don't get in over your knees.
Jelly fish sometimes come ashore on Jekyll Island. There may even be times when jellies are off-shore in enough numbers to cause a nuisance. It's best to check with the Visitor's Center to see if jellies (or other problems) exist on a beach before getting in the water. It's good beach safety practice.
If jelly fish are present, they're usually not life-threatening. Their stings are painful, but not deadly. Avoid them if they wash ashore, and stay out of the water if they're present.
Community health departments sometimes close beaches due to water quality problems like bacteria or pollutants. Under Federal regulations, the communities are required to do regular testing - public beach safety demands it.
If a section of beach fails the test, the community puts up signs saying the beach is closed until further notice.
If no signs are present, the beach is usually safe as far as water quality is concerned. You might want to think twice, however, just after a heavy rain, when it's possible that pollutants like fertilizers could have been washed into the water.
Here's a lesson I learned about beach safety (as applied to sun exposure) from the School of Hard Knocks (when I was that young and dumb teenager).
Don't go to the beach when you're white as the underbelly of a beached whale.
Don't stay out in the sun without sun block.
Then, once you've been cooked to a fiery, well-broiled red, don't put sunburn salve on your poor feet, then wear sandals, and then walk in the sand. That is, if you don't like the feel of sandpaper slowly scraping the flesh from your feet.
Sunburn is one risk of being in the sun too long. A more serious one is the chance of developing skin cancer. It's been shown that over exposure prior to the age of 18 significantly increases the risk of skin cancer later in life.
Sunlight is more intense between 10 am and 3 pm, so make sure you (and the kids, especially) wear a sun block with titanium dioxide or zinc oxide in it. These products block both UVA and UVB rays. Use one with an SPF factor of 15 or greater. If you're swimming or sweating (hey, who doesn't on the beach?), re-apply the stuff every 2 hours.
Proper beach wear can reap benefits, too. Wide-brim hats are effective at generating shade and shielding sensitive facial skin from harsh ultra-violet rays. Light-weight, long sleeve shirts and deck pants serve to protect the rest of your body. And you can get sunglasses with protection built directly into the lenses.
And...police the kids! They're too busy playing to worry about beach safety thingies!
These are the common dangers you might face on the beach, but don't worry overmuch about beach safety. With a little education, preparation, and common sense, you can defuse these situations before they occur, and enjoy your Jekyll Island Family Adventures to the utmost.
Here's to the four "S's" of summer fun - sun, surf, sand - and beach safety!


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Mindfulness shows promise as we age, but study results are mixed
Posted by: Mohammad Daeizadeh in Medical, Science February 20, 2017 0 343 Views
Scientists still searching for best approaches in older adults
COLUMBUS, Ohio – As mindfulness practices rise in popularity and evidence of their worth continues to accumulate, those who work with aging populations are looking to use the techniques to boost cognitive, emotional and physiological health.
But studies so far have shown mixed results in the elderly, and more investigation is needed to determine exactly how best to apply mindfulness in that population, a new review of the research to date has found.
A majority of the 27 studies in the review suggest that the focused attention at the core of mindfulness benefits older people, but others don't point to improvements. And that should prompt more rigorous investigations in search of interventions likely to do the most good, researchers from The Ohio State University found. Their analysis appears in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
"Mindfulness is a practice that really serves as a way to foster a greater quality of life and there's been some thought that it could help with cognitive decline as we age," said Stephanie Fountain-Zaragoza, lead author of the study and a graduate student in psychology.
"Given the growing interest in mindfulness in general, we wanted to determine what we know right now so that researchers can think about where we go from here," she said.
The good news so far: The evidence from a variety of studies points to some benefits for older adults, suggesting that mindfulness training might be integrated into senior centers and group homes, the researchers found.
Older people are an especially important population to study given diminished social support, physical limitations and changes in cognitive health, the researchers point out.
Studies of mindfulness meditation usually involve three types of practices. The first, focused attention, involves sustained attention to a single thing (such as the breath) and an effort to disengage from other distractions.
Open monitoring meditation, often seen as the next step up in mindfulness, includes acknowledging the details of multiple phenomena (sensations, sounds, etc.) without selectively focusing on one of them.
"This includes being open to experiencing thoughts and sensations and emotions and taking them as they come and letting them go," Fountain-Zaragoza said.
Loving-kindness meditation encourages a universal state of love and compassion toward oneself and others.
"The goal with this is to foster compassionate acceptance," said senior author Ruchika Shaurya Prakash, director of Ohio State's clinical neuroscience laboratory and an expert in mindfulness.
In addition to looking at how mindfulness contributed – or did not – to behavioral and cognitive functioning and to psychological wellbeing, some of the research also looked at its potential role in inflammation, which contributes to a variety of diseases.
In all categories of study, including inflammatory processes, Prakash and Fountain-Zaragoza found mixed results.
The hope is that mindfulness could help the elderly preserve attention and capitalize on emotional regulation strategies that naturally improve as we age, Prakash said.
"Around 50 percent of our lives, our minds are wandering and research from Harvard University has shown that the more your mind wanders, the less happy you are," she said.
"Mindfulness allows you to become aware of that chaotic mind-wandering and provides a safe space to just breathe."
In older people, mindfulness ideally has the potential to help with cognition, emotion and inflammation, but little research has been done so far and those studies that have been done have had mixed results and scientific limitations.
While most of the studies in the review showed positive results, the field is limited and would benefit greatly from larger randomized controlled trials, Fountain-Zaragoza said.
"We want to really be able to say that we have strong evidence that mindfulness is driving the changes we see," she said.
source: The Ohio State University
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Ultra-Lux Apartment Community in Popular Charlotte Midtown Neighborhood Changes Hands
CHARLOTTE, NC - Ram Realty Services and LMC are pleased to announce the sale of Midtown 205 to an undisclosed institutional investor. Midtown 205 is a 261-unit apartment community with 8,630 square feet of ground-floor retail space conveniently located in the popular Midtown neighborhood.
Ram and LMC formed a joint venture partnership in 2013 to develop the community in a pedestrian-friendly location alongside Metropolitan, Midtown's premier shopping plaza just minutes from downtown Charlotte. The project broke ground in early 2014 and delivered the first units in late 2015.
"Demand for high-quality apartment housing continues to grow in the popular Midtown submarket, and Midtown 205 made the most of it, consistently outperforming its closest competitors," said Jennifer Stull, Managing Director of Asset Management for Ram. "Its trend-setting design and walkable location made it one of the most desirable communities to both residents and potential buyers in the region. We're pleased with the sale and look forward to finding new opportunities to continue investing in the thriving Charlotte market."
Residents at Midtown 205 have easy access to an array of popular dining, shopping and entertainment destinations at Metropolitan, including Pisces Sushi Bar & Lounge, Vivace, Dressler's, Target, Trader Joe's, West Elm and more. Also within close proximity of Midtown 205 are the Charlotte streetcar, the Little Sugar Creek Greenway trails, Interstate 277, and US Route 74, providing fast access to Uptown, South End, and other outlying neighborhoods.
In addition to its convenient location, Midtown 205 offers residents a variety of lifestyle-enhancing features and amenities. A shimmering courtyard swimming pool, outdoor kitchen with a flat-screen TV and fireplace, and a modern fitness center with separate yoga and cycling rooms headline the amenities. Inside the apartment homes, residents enjoy custom-designed cabinetry, 9+ foot ceilings, stainless-steel appliances, granite countertops, light-filled interiors and dramatic skyline views in select units.
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Theatre 'founding father' Ted Paul
Featuring excerpts from the Mankato Free Press, By Amanda Dyslin, July 15, 2008:
Hired in 1950, Ted Paul was the first director of theater in the early stages of the Minnesota State Mankato Theatre & Dance department, when theater was a part of the department of English. He was the first theater department chair. He founded Highland Summer Theatre in 1967, and was the driving force behind the building of the Ted Paul Theatre, as it later would be named.
Known as "Doc" to his friends and family, Paul guided theater arts into becoming its own department in 1980, the year of his retirement. The same year he also helped establish a master of fine arts program, which made MSU the first state school to offer a terminal degree.
All of this effort—combined with Paul's principal philosophy of showing an audience shows they wanted to see—culminated in one of the most successful theater programs in the country.
It's no wonder that when the current department chair, Paul J. Hustoles, was hired at the university in 1985, he couldn't believe the size of the theater's audience (40,000 per year), or the amount of revenue it brought in.
"He is the founding father of theater at MSU," Hustoles said. "The roots are very deep, and I think he gave us two huge things: One was the quality of theater, and the other thing was his 'popular stuff.' He watned to do plays that people enjoy seeing."
Might sound simple enough, but many colleges and universities do off-Broadway, arty theater almost exclusively. Doing four musicals a year, which MSU Theatre has done since Paul's time, is unheard of, Hustoles said. Not only are they difficult to put on, but many academic theaters look down on them as being trite and trivial.
Paul's philosophy, which was immediately appreciated and has always been carried on by Hustoles, was to offer a variety of shows and lots of them. Musicals, dramas, comedies and many genres in between could all be seen in the same season, which is why season tickets became popular at MSU even before they were a staple in theater as a whole.
Within the department and in the community, Paul's philosophy was appreciated, Hustoles said. Former students of Paul's from the early 1960s came back to Mankato to see Bus Stop last fall and met with Paul to talk about old times. His health had been declining, but he was in good spirits, said Nancee (Parkinson) Hernandez, who played "Cheri" in the 1960-61 production of Bus Stop under Paul's direction.
"He was the best director," said Hernandez of Bryson, Texas, last fall. "He would say when we were playing a character we were not allowed to play that character. We had to be that character."
Paul's son, Eric Paul of Excelsior, said said to his family, the theater meant everything to him. Eric and his sister even helped out, going door to door in the early 1960s selling season tickets.
"The theater, as a term, but Mankato more specifically was his life," Eric said. "It was what he was all about."
Personally, Eric said Paul was an amazing father. Strict but fair, he said. And few people knew how sentimental he was.
"It was sometimes hard for him to show, but he could cry at a commercial," Eric said. "And that's the beauty of the man."
Paul was born in 1915 in Tarkio, MO, where he attended school. After teaching high school English for a period and earning a master's in English Literature from the Univesity of Colorado in Greeley, he went to New York to be an actor. He worked at NBC briefly and for McDonnell Aircraft in St. Louis, MO, before signing up to be a Merchant Marine, serving in Brooklyn.
He married Katy Carpenter in 1943, and they had three children.
Paul earned his doctorate at the University of Iowa, where he taught, before accepting his position of assistant professor of speech and director of theater at Mankato State Teachers College, now Minnesota State University, Mankato.
"Back in those days (1950-51), at Mankato State Teachers College in little Mankato, I don't think there was ever a thought that there would be someone like my father who woudl come in and develop a theater program," Eric said.
Paul retired from Minnesota State Mankato in 1980, but continued teaching elsewhere until 1985 and directed another 15 shows over the course of nine years. Four of the shows were at Mankato, including Angel Street in 2000, which was the first play he directed at the college in 1950.
Hustoles said Paul attended almost every production Minnesota State University Theatre put on for about 20 years after he retired.
"It was wonderful because he would come in and offer advice and talk about the shows," Hustoles said.
Paul's wife died in 1985, the same year the Ted Paul Theatre was named after him. In 1987, the department implemented its first endowment scholarship named after Ted Paul.
During his time at Minnesota State Mankato, he directed more than 125 plays.
Dance 'founding mother' Florence Cobb
Florence Cobb was born in Muskogee, OK, on March 19, 1921. Her grandmother and great-grandmother were both slaves in the South, and her mother was a teacher. She grew up in a predominately white neighborhood in Oklahoma, yet had to attended a segregated school in a neighborhood three miles away. In a 1994 article in the Wells Mirror, Cobb talks about her encounters with discrimination on that long walk. "I walked, and I got beaten up," she said. "I had to pass a high school, and I was verbally molested by the kids."
Yet the racial discrimination she endured did not discourage her love of learning. She headed off to college at the age of 16 to follow in her mother's footsteps to become a teacher. She earned her B.S. at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, MO, in 1941. She attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Tennessee State University, eventually earning her M.S. degree in Health and Physical Education in 1961. She taught Physical Education at schools in Florida, Ohio and Tennessee before coming to Minnesota State University, Mankato (then called Mankato State College) in 1968.
When she arrived in Mankato, she observed that students in rural Minnesota had very little exposure to the diversity of culture compared to urban areas. She sought to change that. "We went whole hog, with concerts, theatre, dance and music," Cobb said. Under her guidance, dance as an art and an academic endeavor flourished. She brought in many guest artists, and led workshops and taught classes that were open to the College's students as well as local high school students and community members. Additionally, she advised and choreographed for the college's already established dance group, Orchesis. She also led a dance trip to Europe in 1971. The attending students travelled by Volkswagen bus, staying in camping parks and learning about indigenous folk dances.
Her work promoting the art of dance culminated in the implementation of the Dance Education Minor, under the auspices of the Physical Education Department, in 1976. In a press release that same year, Cobb stated, "The new program is supportive of the trend toward greater consumption of the arts in our society and will provide an opportunity for students to develop their creative potential." Cobb taught at the University for 22 years before retiring in 1990.
In 2013, Cobb received a special citation at the Twin Cities SAGE awards in October of that year honoring her contribution to the Minnesota dance community. A Minneapolis Star Tribune article covering the event read, "Wearing biker-ready black leather pants and boots, the octogenarian [Cobb] accepted her award with a few wise words: 'I've shared time and space and energy with all of you. And that's all it's about on this Earth.' "


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The rumors are true: "Gossip" sucks.
Some movies descend into ridiculousness. "Gossip" starts out there and just gets worse.
The premise — the nature of gossip, how it's spread, what damage it can do — is interesting, but Gregory Poirier's lame script and Davis Guggenheim's style-without-substance directing completely ruin it, though at least there is some reasonably good acting along the way (not that it helps any).
Three Manhattan college students share an impossibly luxurious apartment together, as well as a journalism class. Derrick (James Marsden) is adept at spinning yarns and looking smug; his mostly platonic friend Cathy Jones (Lena Headey) has a conscience (her only character trait); their oddball roommate Travis (Norman Reedus) is a weird modern-artist with seemingly unlimited resources in the area of high-tech computer gadgetry, despite his not having a job.
For an ill-defined "Class Project," the three decide to start a rumor and then track its progress. The rumor they choose is that while they were all at a fabulously ritzy college party (to which, apparently, no ugly people were invited, if they even exist at this fantasy university), strait-laced Naomi (Kate Hudson) had sex with her beau, Beau (the ever-puffy Joshua Jackson), in a bedroom.
Somehow, Derrick, Jones (that's what she likes to be called, in a vain attempt to give her a personality) and Travis fail to see how this untruth could lead to actual problems. "It's just words," Derrick says, stupidly. "So how bad can it be?"
Well, it seems Naomi and Beau actually did go to a bedroom together (Derrick saw them), but she was too drunk and quickly passed out. Once the rumor goes around that they had sex, though, she wonders if perhaps Beau raped her and she just doesn't remember — a nagging doubt fostered by Beau's initial reluctance to let his friends believe he DIDN'T score with her (you know how guys are).
Soon, Beau is arrested on rape charges, and Jones is finding that Derrick may have had ulterior motives in choosing Naomi to start the rumor about. There's plenty of drinking in this movie, all of which exacerbates the myriad problems and prevents anyone from doing anything sensible about them. And all along, everyone seems surprised that a rumor as simple as "two people had sex" could have led to so many wacky hijinks.
Most of the film is at least entertaining in a "this movie is dumb" kind of way. It has a cool alternative-techno soundtrack, which often drowns out the stupid things being said. And it's nothing if not stylish. (In fact, it's nothing BUT stylish).
But then we get to the final five minutes, in which we witness a sequence of events that might be the worst ending in film history. That's where all bets are off, all hopes of redemption are gone. That's where "Gossip" goes from being just a lame, worthless film to being a vigorously stupid piece of work that will infuriate anyone who sat through the previous 85 minutes of it.
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A delegation from the UAE Space Agency has taken part in a series of meetings and workshops at the French Space Agency (CNES) as a part of the development of an international Space Climate Observatory (SCO).
The SCO aims to support the monitoring of climate change impacts with data from space, in order to provide decision-makers with the information necessary for the implementation of mitigation measures and the development of new solutions to the challenges posed by climate change.
Led by Dr. Mohammed Al Ahbabi, Director General of the UAE Space Agency, the delegation from the UAE Space Agency met its counterparts from the French Space Agency in Paris to discuss the framework and implementation of the SCO initiative.
"We believe that international cooperation and knowledge sharing are essential to tackling climate change, and we are proud to represent one of the two Arab countries invited to participate in the SCO initiative. Our participation is facilitated by the UAE's advanced remote sensing and Earth observation capabilities, provided by a range of satellites including KhalifaSat, DubaiSat-1, DubaiSat-2 and other smaller satellites designed to monitor specific elements of the Earth and its atmosphere such as CO2 and methane levels," concluded Dr. Al Ahbabi.


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Reflections from a visit to the Goetheanum – Earthlimited | Earth Limited?
From Lugano we drove through Switzerland to Dornach, near Basel. It was evident everywhere that the Swiss understand the importance of trees in the landscape and in managing water catchments. In Dornach we met with Hans and Ineke Mulder who took us around the Goetheanum, the world centre for Anthroposophy. The Goetheanum is an amazingly organic building. Rudolf Steiner, who designed this and the first Goetheanum, was an incredibly insightful and prolific human being. His merging of spiritual insight and scientific thought covered many disciplines. I'm not an anthroposophist but I do have an open mind. I see a lot of value in what Steiner shared, particularly when expressed through living examples such as Sekem (see post "Sekem, Egypt") in Egypt and Poggio di Camporbiano (see the posts "A week in Tuscany" and "Poggio di Camporbiano, a very resilient farm") in Italy, and of course through the education of our daughters at Taikura Rudolf Steiner School in New Zealand. With the multiple challenges and potential crises that we are facing around the world, we need to be open to what Steiner and others have presented to the world. We cannot solve the many problems we have through the narrow, rational, thought that has created them.


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U.S. Bombs from Turkey as Turkey Steps Up Attack on Kurds
CNN reported Thursday: "For the first time, the United States launched manned airstrikes from a base in Turkey against ISIS forces in Syria, the Pentagon said Wednesday."
Also, see Washington Post piece on Thursday by David Ignatius: "Kurdish Leader Blasts Turkey's President," which states: "Turkey's political tensions were sharply evident Thursday, as the country's leading Kurdish politician accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of 'supporting ISIS' in the past. He said that Erdogan wants early elections as part of a strategy of 'attacking the Kurdish movement' and reversing its recent political gains."
KANI XULAM, kani at kurdistan.org, @AKINinfo
Xulam is director of the American Kurdish Information Network. He said today: "The U.S. use of bases in Turkey follows Ankara breaking a three year truce with the Kurds — and the U.S. government is not stopping that. This is in line with prior U.S. government policy. Three years ago, the U.S. provided Turkey with "actionable intelligence," which resulted in the death of 34 Kurdish villagers.
"While Kurdish forces have been quite effective in fighting ISIS in Syria, the Turkish government has turned its back to ISIS fighters crossing its borders. This is partly driven by an incredible animosity toward [Syrian President] As'ad — partly out of an anti-Alawite sectarianism.
"With elections coming up and with the Erdogan restarting a low-intensity conflict in Turkey, the ongoing war in Syria and Iraq could easily spread to Turkey."
Xulam recently wrote the piece "Calling all John Browns in Turkey."
Also, see, by Patrick Cockburn: "Turkey conflict with Kurds: Was approving air strikes against the PKK America's worst error in the Middle East since the Iraq War?"
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Damn. Wish I had disposable income.
I've split this into its own thread This is exciting!
Another sale or is this a remainder if the one they did a while ago?
Everything from last time sold and included recording equipment from Jingletown. This one has stuff from Mike and Tre as well, more guitars and some stuff from iconic performances.
I'm a bit surprised he's selling guitars he's played until very recently.
I know, particularly the one from The Coverups and Longshot shows.
Does that mean they're breaking up?
I'm also surprised he's willing to part with an acoustic it says was his very first guitar. Considering how sentimental he is about Blue you would think he'd want to keep that acoustic or hand it down to Jakob at least.
That's an idea I'll get behind as long as I can choose which splinter will be mine.
This is a daily mood.
That'll show us for making jokes about Billie dying. We got what we deserved. He doesn't like us anymore.
For what I read, Pete and Meat are on this sale too? I mean, aren't those amps used by Billie until now?
I read that it's the speakers from Woodstock, not the amps.


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The Associa Lifestyle Pinterest page features boards and ideas promoting the lifestyle of an Associa community homeowner. The boards include Summer Efficiency Tips, Savvy Home Tips, Summer Home Trends, Living Practical, Summer Party Tips and Summer Safety.
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Traffic to Pinterest has also increased by more than 145 percent since the beginning of 2012 and according to comScore, the average Pinterest user spends 98 minutes per month on the site.


*The following article walks you through FarApp's "advanced" methods for creating Product Mappings. These steps will use screens that normally only FarApp representatives interact with. Please see this article for creating more basic Product Mappings: https://support.farapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/225798028-Product-Inventory-Sync-Data-Mappings-in-app-farapp-com If you need to create more sophisticated mappings, please contact FarApp support so we can assist you.
Go to the FarApp Product Mapper here: https://adv.farapp.com/secure_QuickMapper.
Switch to the correct category you want to review/adjust at the bottom of the screen.
For eBay, your standalone items use the eBayFixedPrice category. If you also post variation items to eBay, you'll find the mappings in the eBayVariations category.
For Amazon, you'll usually have an "Amazon" category which will contain the majority of the mappings. Then each individual Amazon category you post items to will have its own individual category. If all of your specific categories have a mapping in common, it only needs to be set up in the "Amazon" category. If you want to override one of the mappings for only a subset of your Amazon categories, then the mappings will need to be defined in those individual categories.
Client (Source) Fields: These are the fields that we can map from your backend system (e.g. NetSuite). They can only go in the "Client Field" column in the middle pane or (for certain mapping rules) in the "Rule Args" column. FarApp has a specific format it uses so any field you can map will be found here. Any mapping you create that contains a source field must match the text exactly as it shows in this tab. Otherwise, it won't match the format that FarApp uses and won't work. Double-clicking on a client field in the left pane will pop up a window showing some sample values that have been loaded for that field. You can also drag the field to the yellow section of a mapping in the middle pane and it will automatically populate in the "Client Field" column of the corresponding mapping.
Rules: These are the mapping rules that have been defined in FarApp to create more complex mappings. They can only go in the "Mapping Rule" column in the middle pane. If you single-click a mapping rule, it will show a description of the rule at the bottom of the page. If you double-click a mapping rule, it will pop up a window showing how the rule has been used in other mappings for comparison. You can also drag the rule to the yellow section of a mapping in the middle pane and it will automatically populate in the "Mapping Rule" column of the corresponding mapping.
Storefront (Target) Fields: These are the available fields in the category you're currently mapping. Double-clicking a field will create a new mapping rule in the middle pane with that field in the "Storefront Field" table. If you do this, make sure you complete the mapping for that row or if it was accidentally created, make sure you delete the mapping. Incomplete mappings will cause an error for the FarApp product/inventory sync processes. You can also drag the field to the yellow section of a mapping in the middle pane and it will automatically populate in the "Storefront Field" column of the corresponding mapping.
Storefront Field (required): This column is the field in the marketplace/cart that is being mapped to.
Seq (required): This field has no effect between mappings for different "Storefront Field" values and should have the value "0" (i.e. zero) or "10". However, if you have multiple mapping rows for a single "Storefront Field" the value in this column determines the order in which the mappings run in increasing order so you'll often see increasing increments of "10" to define the order of mappings.
Client Field (optional): This is a field from your backend system (e.g. NetSuite). The text has to match exactly one of the values in the "Client (Source) Fields" tab. If this isn't the first mapping for this target field (according to the Seq) value or if the target field is being populated using a value in the "Default Value" or "Mapping Rule" columns, then this field doesn't have to be populated.
Default Value (optional): This is the value to set the Storefront Field to if the other columns in the mapping row haven't been set and/or don't produce any output (e.g. you populated a Client Field but you didn't put a value in the field in your backend system).
Mapping Rule (optional): You can use a rule from the Rules tab to create more complex mappings. For example, if you're mapping a list field from NetSuite, you must use the NSListValue mapping rule to output the value instead of the ID of the selected list item in NetSuite.
Rule Args (optional): The arguments required for a specific rule. These are typically space-separated. If you want to provide an argument that has spaces or a blank argument, please enclose the value in backticks (i.e. a blank argument would be ``).
Account (required): If this mapping should apply to all of your accounts using this connector, the Account value should be "*". Otherwise, set the Account value to the matching account name. If you want a particular mapping to only apply to a subset of accounts, you'll want to clone the mapping row for each account and set the Account value appropriately.
To Children? (optional): This is useful for variation items (e.g. Matrix items in NetSuite). If you want a mapping to use a parent's value for a field, then check this field.
After making modifications, please click "Save Changes" at the top to commit your changes.
Refresh (not typically used): This will delete all of your changes and will reload your mappings from FarApp.
Add Missing Destination Fields (not typically used): This will add all available "Storefront Field" values to the middle pane as mappings. If you click this, once you're done mapping, make sure there are no mapping rows in the middle pane that have a "Storefront Field" value with no other columns populated or this will cause an error.
Delete Unmapped Fields (not typically used): This will delete any mapping rows that have value in the "Storefront Field" column but no other column populated (i.e. they haven't been mapped).
Save Changes: Commit any mapping changes so they're saved permanently.
Cancel Changes (not typically used): Revert any of the changes you've made since the last save.
Sort: This will sort by Storefront Field and Seq in ascending order just for display purposes and ease of mapping since this will display the rows in mapping order.
Remove: Clicking this button will delete the currently selected mapping. You'll need to click on a mapping row to select it.
Clone: Clicking this button will duplicate the currently selected mapping. You'll need to click on a mapping row to select it.
Propagate (not typically used): This will copy the currently selected mapping to all related categories (e.g. if you're editing the eBayFixedPrice category, it will copy the mapping to the eBayVariation category). You'll need to click on a mapping row to select it.
Compare: This will show other mappings utilizing the currently selected mapping "Storefront Field" value. Seeing how they've been mapped in other cases helps substantially with mapping.
Display (not used): Use at your own risk.
Restrict (not used): Use at your own risk.


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Another View of QE's Demolition
By Jeffrey P. Snider|2014-12-08T17:26:45-05:00December 8th, 2014|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|
One last of piece of evidence tying QE to liquidity disruptions in 2014, and the big buying "crash" of October 15, is the "flow" of "dollars" presented by TIC. My contention from last week was that the decay in systemic liquidity (repo) began not in May 2013 with the introduction of the "taper" concept, but a few months earlier when dealers may have recognized functional irregularities as eventually reversing QE-driven imbalances (especially what was until then a one-way, crowded trade in swaps). Swap spreads started to decompress months before anything else began to move negatively, including open-mouthed assertions from the FOMC that they were considering anything like ending the QE flood.
If we take the broader view of "dollar" liquidity to the foreign conception of the system, that February/March inflection in swaps trading is every bit as visible and obvious in TIC.
As I have said before, there has been a systemic shift in the global dollar short going all the way back to August 9, 2007. That has not been linear, but rather a stepped process with the next visible disruption that begins just as swap spreads change. As it was, the "dollar" disruption was quite immense even in historic comparison with the prior panic and near-panics (like 2011). That "transmission" of changing leverage availability and liquidity perceptions is why, in my analysis, the eventual introduction of the "taper" idea produced vastly asymmetric results.
In other words, the foundation was already deficient and eroded by the time the Fed pushed the whole thing over the edge last May. That just confirmed what "market" participants were already afraid of largely because that had been heavily positioned in the opposite direction due in full part to impressions of Bernanke from September 2012.
Eventually central banks around the world were "forced" to step in with various and sundry orthodox and mechanical countermeasures, but, again in the context of what started in 2007, the damage had already been done. "Dollar" participation and apparent "flow" has not returned to even what it was before February and March 2013 – meaning that systemic liquidity from the eurodollar part of the equation has been devolved significantly. The change in liquidity behavior from the pre-crisis period until now is simply stunning, with a third major shift again just as the 2013 selloff takes place.
Taken together with dealers that have moved resources away from FICC and liquidity providing activities, it is no wonder the Treasury Department is warning of further liquidity episodes like October 15. The important point here is to emphasize that as reality in conjunction with how and why this most recent liquidity degradation came about – QE.


Apple will give iPhone 8 owners a taste of augmented reality.
The next big thing from Apple is probably a year or so away from its grand unveiling.
Apple has a host of engineers dedicated to building and testing different augmented reality headsets, and according to a new report, the crew is getting a lot more resources to turn it into a consumer product.
Before unveiling its glasses, iPhone owners may get an early taste of Apple's AR tech with the 2017 iPhone. Numerous rumors have claimed the company plans to add augmented reality features to the device this year, but the Financial Times says Apple Glasses won't be far behind.
Even though Apple is pushing forward with the glasses, the report claims any launch or unveiling is "at least a year away, perhaps much longer." Apple is usually content to wait and see how early products from competitors pan out while it builds the best device it possibly can.
Apple isn't the only company racing to build an AR headset. Silicon Valley's mysterious startup Magic Leap is supposedly aiming to get its head-worn computer out by the end of 2017. Microsoft showed off its AR headset called HoloLens last year and started shipping developer units for $3,000.
Considering Magic Leap is still trying to shrink its backpack computer and goggles down to something people will actually want to wear, Apple's got at least a few years to make its spectacles perfect.


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The last few days I've been getting up earlier and earlier. Since I got up so early yesterday, the sun came out while I was walking from my classroom to the office.
I've really been paying attention to sunsets since I've come back from Nebraska, but I haven't seen many sunrises. It was nice.
I stood still an enjoyed it for a while.
Ahhh… it begins. Thank you, God, for the beautiful sunrise, and please bless this upcoming school year for Brad and everyone at Emmanuel.
Here's to the start of a great year!


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The Self and the Structure of the Personality: An Overview of Sri Aurobindo's Topography of Consciousness
Matthijs Cornelissen, Indian Psychology Institute, Pondicherry, India
https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2018.37.1.63
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga aimed not only at what he called the realization of the Divine, but also at an integral transformation of human nature under Divine influence. For this exceptionally wide aim, he developed an exceptionally deep and comprehensive frame for understanding human nature. His concepts, as discussed in this paper, must be understood on their own terms, which are often different from meanings attributed in the conventional language of Western psychology. This paper provides a detailed account of Sri Aurobindo's conceptualization of the various centers of identity and of the vertical and concentric dimensions he used to describe the structure of the personality. It explains the importance Sri Aurobindo gave to the location where one places one's consciousness, and indicates why he argued that consciousness is not only awareness, but also force. Finally, this paper describes how Sri Aurobindo visualized the still ongoing evolution of consciousness and humanity's role in it.
Cornelissen, M. (2018). The self and the structure of the personality: An overview of Sri Aurobindo's topography of consciousness. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 37 (1). http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2018.37.1.63
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