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Washington Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Whether State Law Requires Religious Accommodation
Posted by Michael Peabody	/ October 30, 2013
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON –
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, the Washington State Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Kumar v. Gate Gourmet, Inc. on the issue1. The disputed point between parties in a lawsuit; 2. To send out officially, as in a court issuing an order. of whether a claim against an employer for failure to accommodate an employee's religious belief or practice is cognizable under the Washington Law Against Discrimination, Ch. 49.60 RCW ("WLAD").
The WLAD prohibits employers from discriminating against employees in compensation or terms or conditions of employment because of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, veteran status, or disability. This case raises the issue of whether a failure to make reasonable accommodation for an employee's sincere religious beliefs is implied in the statuteA law passed by a legislature..
Federal law requires employers to make a reasonable attempt to accommodate, but the question in this case was whether employers also had this requirement under state law. This is an unusual circumstance where an employer claims the right not to accommodate religious beliefs when accommodating them would not adversely affect customers, other employees, or adversely impact the health and safety of the workplace.
The plaintiff employees, including Hindus, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians filed suit claiming that Gate Gourmet violated their religious beliefs by putting meat in employee lunches labeled "vegetarian" and using pork in meat dishes without disclosing the contents. Gate Gourmet provides food service for airlines to accommodate a variety of religious dietary restrictions, but employees were prohibited from bringing their own lunches or going off-premises during lunch time due to security concerns.
According to the employees' attorney, Seth Rosenberg, when people complained that the meat being served in the spaghetti sauce was pork, the company temporarily switched it to turkey and labeled it, but then switched back to pork without informing the employees. As a result, employees were unwittingly eating foods that violated their religious beliefs, and some chose to forego meals altogether rather than potentially violate their beliefs.
RealChangeNews.org reports that of the 160 employees at the Sea-Tac location (Note: The Seattle Times reports 130), 58 follow special diets including Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Jews who do not eat pork, Hindus who do not eat beef, and others who are vegetarian.
The lead plaintiffA person who brings a lawsuit or action; the party who complains or sues in a civil action., employee James Kumar, is Hindu whose faith teaches that cows are sacred and must not be eaten. As a result of learning that he has been unwittingly consuming beef, Kumar told RealChangeNews that he has to travel to India for a 10-day cleansing ritual. Kumar and other employees have asked the company to cover the trip at a cost of $20,000 per employee including the flight and missed wages.
Attorneys for Gate Gourmet have argued that there is no state law in Washington that would require employers to accommodate religious beliefs and practices. Further, Gate Gourmet argues that the employees did not suffer actual harm since they were not demoted or fired because of their beliefs. In contrast, attorneys for the plaintiffs argue that religious protection is an implied civil right, and that it could make a Washington a state where religious intolerance is enshrined in the law.
If the plaintiff employees lose at the Washington Supreme Court, religious discrimination cases will likely be filed in Federal rather than state court under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which provides that an employer is required to reasonably accommodate the religious belief of an employee or prospective employee, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. However, while the WLAD covers employers with more than 8 employees, a federal case can only be brought against employers with more than 25 employees.
The current ambiguities in Washington state law and potential lack of protection for religious practices of employees underscore the need for a Washington Workplace Religious Freedom Act, which would require employers to demonstrate that an accommodation would require a "significant difficulty or expense" before denying an employee religious accommodation when it comes to dietary requirements, holy day observance, and religious garb.
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Kumar v. Gate Gourmet, Inc. This case involves the question of whether a claim against an employer for failure to accommodate an employee's religious belief or practice is cognizable under the Washington Law Against Discrimination, Ch. 49.60 RCW.
The Rosenberg Law Group has made several amicus briefs supportive of the plaintiffs available at their website.
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington amicus brief
Legal Voice amicus brief
Washington Human Rights Commission amicus brief
Washington State Association for Justice Foundation amicus brief
A video of the oral argumentAn opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions. in Kumar v. Gate Gourmet, Inc. is available here at The Capitol Record – October 22, 2013.
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WHO IS HARRY NILSSON (AND WHY IS EVERYBODY TALKIN' ABOUT HIM)?
Directed by Jerry Scheinfeld
Written by Jerry Scheinfeld
Starring Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Richard Perry
Harry Nilsson wheeled his way in and out of life with such tender rapidity it's a wonder his poor body and soul withstood things as long as they did. With a voice that echoed as much Tin Pan Alley as Abbey Road, this insecure man lulled us out of our somnambulism with many a fine tune, the first big one being the Fred Neil-penned "Everybody's Talkin'," the hit from the film Midnight Cowboy, a song that beat out both Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell because of its appropriateness for the movie as well as stark, simple skill at capturing a sentiment beneath the mouth of a jar and kissing it through the glass.
The movie Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? was released a couple years back and one of the downright dirty shames of this new thing called the twenty-first century is that it didn't sell more tickets than it did, as if Harry was just some flash in the grease who didn't warrant an entire documentary film about him, an idea I for one reject because (a) I've always loved his songs, and (b) because making a documentary this good is something one does not have the ability to do just every day. For one person the point of reference may be that he wrote the song "One," a huge hit for something called Three Dog Night. For another person it may be his album of songs written by Randy Newman. For most people it is probably the thoroughly enjoyable Nilsson Schmilsson record, an album from which no less than three Top Forty singles were culled, an album produced by Richard "The Lion-Hearted" Perry, when the singer's voice was at or near the top of its incredible precipice of talent. Whether one loved the Number One smash "Without You" (written by two guys from Badfinger, whose own version was great but still not as great as Harry's), or the silly and brilliant "Coconut," or the not-as-simple-as-it-seems rocker "Jump into the Fire," Nilsson Schmilsson had a little something for no one and a lot of something for everyone else.
As a kid back in the times when being a kid counted for something, my own first exposure to the man came from hearing him sing the theme from the mediocre TV show "The Courtship of Eddie's Father." Mere days later I was treated to the soundtrack from a kid's animated film called The Point, to this day one of the most enlightened exercises a kid can encounter, and I grooved in total sullen silliness first to "Me and My Arrow" and then to the rest of the album.
No one had ever sung quite like that before. It sounded like what you might get if you'd crossed Paul McCartney with Frank Sinatra and put the voice in the throat of playwright Arthur Miller.
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Karl Emil Mannsfeld, auch Carl (* 16. November 1865 in Annaberg; † 14. Februar 1945 in Dresden) war ein deutscher Jurist, Verwaltungsbeamter und Politiker.

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Karl Emil Mannsfeld nahm ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaft auf, das er 1889 mit dem Ersten und 1894 mit dem Zweiten Juristischen Staatsexamen beendete. Des Weiteren promovierte er zum Doktor der Rechte. Er trat in den sächsischen Justizdienst ein, wurde 1897 Amtsrichter und erhielt 1900 eine Stellung als Landrichter. Nachdem er 1906 zum Oberlandesgerichtsrat befördert worden war, wechselte er 1910 als Vortragender Rat ins sächsische Justizministerium. Dort erhielt er 1920 die Ernennung zum Ministerialdirektor. 1918 war er Mitglied des Bundesrates.

Mannsfeld war von 1919 bis 1922 stellvertretender Bevollmächtigter Sachsens zum Reichsrat. Er wurde 1922 Präsident des Oberlandesgerichtes Dresden und erhielt 1924 die Ernennung zum Oberlandesgerichtsrat. Während der Reichsexekution gegen Sachsen im Oktober 1923 amtierte Mannsfeld kurzzeitig als kommissarischer Justizminister. Vom 25. Juni 1929 bis zum 10. März 1933 war er Justizminister in den von den Ministerpräsidenten Wilhelm Bünger und Walther Schieck geführten Regierungen des Freistaates Sachsen. Während seiner Amtszeit als Minister war er gleichzeitig Bevollmächtigter Sachsens zum Reichsrat.

Beim Bombenangriff auf Dresden am 13. Februar verlor er seine Habe. Am folgenden Tag begab er sich mit seiner Frau auf die Suche nach seinen Kindern und dabei wurde er beim Tagesangriff auf der Straße durch Bombensplitter getötet, seine Frau schwer verletzt. Er liegt mit anderem Bombenopfern auf dem Heidefriedhof in Dresden begraben.

Karl Emil Mannsfeld war der Vater des Senatspräsidenten am Oberlandesgericht Dresden und LDPD-Politikers Ernst Mannsfeld und Großvater des sächsischen Kultusministers Karl Mannsfeld (CDU).

Literatur
 Erika von Bose: Carl Emil Mannsfeld (1865–1945). Sächsischer Justizminister vom Juli 1929 bis März 1933 – eine biographische Skizze, in: Sächsische Justizgeschichte, Band 7, Schriftenreihe des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums der Justiz,  Dresden 1998, S. 42–75

Siehe auch
 Kabinett Bünger – Kabinett Schieck

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Eirwen Meiriona St John Gwynn ( Williams;  ; 1 December 1916 – 26 January 2007) was a Welsh nationalist, writer, teacher and physicist. Born in Liverpool, she read physics at the University College of North Wales and later earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in that field in 1942. Gwynn taught physics at Rhyl Grammar School and later worked as an assistant account at the Government Exchequer and Audit Department. She then worked as a full-time lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association and was a freelance writer who created 1,500 works on social development and science in the English and Welsh printed press. Gwynn also authored multiple books and short stories, won awards during her career, promoted the Welsh language by being a member of four committees and served as president of two societies.

Early life and education
Gwynn was born Eirwen Meiriona St. John Williams on 1 December 1916 at 99 Shiel Road, Newsham Park, Liverpool; her father wrote her date of birth as 12 December to avoid a fine for late registration of birth. and was disappointed his first born was a girl. She was the eldest child of the self-trained dentist William St. John Williams and his wife Annie (née Williams); the family resided amongst a large Welsh diaspora in Liverpool. Gwynn had a younger brother, Gwilym Gareth. Her father encouraged her to become interested in current affairs, read greatly and become proud of her family roots in North West Wales. From 1923 to 1927, Gwynn attended Birchfield Road Council School, and enjoyed on-stage performing. She learnt to resist bullying from her fellow pupils and teachers because she was Welsh.

When Gwynn was ten years old, the family moved to Llangefni, because one of her father's siblings had found employment as Cardiff's Regional Dental Officer for Wales. She was taught at Pwllheli County School, and was attracted to chemistry, mathematics and physics due to influential teachers and her father. Gwynn defied the school's predominant English-language education, and assaulted an English mistress, who called the girls in the class "Welsh scum". In 1930, she joined Plaid Cymru, five years after the party was founded. Gwynn earned a scholarship to read physics at the University College of North Wales in 1934, after declining to attend the University of Cambridge. She was the only woman in her class to study physics at the college, and received abuse from the external examiner because she was a woman. Gwynn graduated three years later with a higher second class degree.

Afterwards, she remained in Bangor to research X-ray crystallography, and received a Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1942, becoming the first woman to graduate with such honours at the college.

Career

Gwynn and her future husband Harri Gwynn established a Plaid Cymru branch at the university, and was a member of a peasant movement, which united nationalists and socialists. She was head of the physics department at Rhyl Grammar School between 1941 and 1942, before spending the remainder of the Second World War in Warwick and then London at the Government Exchequer and Audit Department as an assistant accountant. Gwynn had an ovarian growth removed and the experienced caused her to develop a dislike of using nuclear technology and nuclear power. According to Meic Stephens of The Independent, she was unsuccessful in other occupations because the interview panel had not expected to meet a woman and did not want to accept one had a degree.

After she was unable to form a Welsh-speaking school in London, the family chose to move close to the Welsh-language village of Rhoslan on the Llŷn Peninsula in 1950. The family took a stockholding that had no electricity, telephone communication or running water; neither had any experience of farming. Gwynn found a job working as a full-time lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association, from 1970 to 1979 in Anglesey, Arfon, Eifionydd and Llŷn, becoming according to her biography written by Deri Tomos in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography "one of the most important interpreters of science and technology – and their implications – to the Welsh speaking community." During her career, she became a freelancer, writing about 1,500 works on social development and science in the Welsh and English printed press. Papers she wrote for included The Scientist, New Scientist, The Observer, Scientific American, The Sunday Times, The Listener, New Internationalist and Y Faner. Gwynn also produced a weekly column of science in Y Cymro for 13 years and a weekly column on nutrition for Y Cymro for 10 years. She also appeared on radio and television.

Gwynn reached a large audience by remaining independent from organisations or those from a narrow academic expertise and became a national celebrity in Wales. She expanded her role to write about alternative medicine, nutrition, women's status in society and the dangers of nuclear power. Gwynn authored the space exploration book I'r Lleuad a thu hwnt (English: To the Moon and Beyond) in 1964, a tip book for women in societal change called Cyfrol o gyngor a chyfarwyddyd (English: 'Marriage. A volume of advice and guidance') in 1966 and a healthy eating book called  Bwyta i Fyw (English: 'Eating to Live') in 1987. She was the recipient of a BBC drama writing competition award for her work on a scientific field in 1970. Seven years later, a painting Gwynn produced was exhibited at the National Eisteddfod Art and Crafts exhibition; she preferred to paint in charcoal, oil and watercolour.

In 1977, she won a prize for a short story at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and almost earned the Prose Medal more than once. From these competitions, Gwynn authored Dau Lygad Du (English: "Two Black Eyes") in 1979, Caethiwed (English: "Captivity") two years later, Cwsg ni Ddaw (English: "Sleep will Not Come") in 1982, Torri'n Rhydd (English: "Breaking Free") in 1990 and Dim ond Un (English: "Only One") in 1997. In 1999, she wrote her autobiography Ni 'n Dau: hanes dau gariad (English: "Us Two: the story of two lovers"), which discusses her views on religion and life experiences during her early years. That same year, Gwynn appeared in court because she did not pay her television licence fee to protest over the lack of Welsh-language programming, and was issued a fine; the BBC did not pick up her perception. She was one of five individuals to sign a protest to prevent English-only speakers from having an escort at the National Eisteddfod in Newport in 2004.

She authored and co-edited the 600-page bilingual volume of books called Ein Canrif, 100 mlynedd o hanes ardal Ceulanmaesmawr (English: Ein Canrif, 100 years of the history of the Ceulanmaesmawr area) in 2005. Gwynn became a Derwydd member of the Gorsedd of the Bards in 1985, earned a Bangor University Fellowship in 2002, and was named the recipient of the Science and Technology Medal at the National Eisteddfod in June 2006. She promoted the Welsh language by becoming a member of the Central Advisory Council for Education (Wales), the Court of the National Library, Guild of Graduates Standing Committee and the University of Wales Court. Gwynn was also a president of the British Scientific Society, and of the Y Gymdeithas Wyddonol Genedlaethol.

Personal life
She married the broadcaster Harry Gwynn on 1 January 1942. They remained married until his death in 1985. They have a son, Iolo ap Gwynn, who went on to become a lecturer in biology at the University of Wales and joined Plaid Cymru. Gwynn died suddenly of a heart attack at her home in Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion on 26 January 2007; she had rheumatism that kept her housebound. She was buried alongside her husband close to Llanrug as per her wishes.

Personality and legacy
Gwynn described her outlook on life as "quite cruel and sometimes dark", and was a feminist. In 2018, Women's Equality Network Wales named her one of the 100 Welsh Women as a means of commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Representation of the People Act 1918. The National Library of Wales holds a collection relating to Gwynn. They include her personal papers and objects connected to her life's work.

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For 66th birthday, Israel fetes the year of the woman
Israeli tennis player Shahar Pe'er competes at the Citi Open in July 2011. Pe'er is one of 14 women being recognized by the Israeli government as part of the country's Independence Day celebrations this May. Credit: Keith Allison via Wikimedia Commons.
(April 2, 2014 / JNS) How is the Jewish state's 66th birthday celebration different from all other years' celebrations? Special plans are afoot to recognize the achievements of Israeli women.
On May 5, the theme of the ceremony kicking off the back-to-back Israeli Memorial Day and Independence Day events on Mount Herzl is "The Era of Women—Achievements and Challenges." Independence Day torches, featured annually at the official state ceremony, will be lit exclusively by women at this year's event.
Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat introduced the government's yearlong focus on the achievements and challenges of today's Israeli woman, in recognition of those women who have made significant contributions to both the State and to Israeli society as a whole in the arenas of science, culture, economy, defense, women's rights, education, business, hi-tech, the environment, and social activism.
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Adina Bar-Shalom, who was recently tapped for the Israel Prize for her "pioneering work to bridge societal rifts and socioeconomic gaps and to promote an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle that includes social openness and higher education."
Actress Miriam Zohar, who also received the Israel Prize, in 1986.
Kira Radinsky, for her pioneering work in the field of web dynamics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Belaynesh Zevadia, the Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia.
Carmela Menashe, military affairs reporter for Army Radio.
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Tali Peretz-Cohen, whose rape crisis center comes to the aid of victims of sexual assault in the Galilee and the Golan.
Maxine Fassberg, CEO of Intel Israel and a leader of Israel's burgeoning hi-tech industry.
Miriam Peretz, whose two sons were Israeli army officers killed in the line of duty in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon.
Shahar Pe'er, a teenaged Israeli tennis star currently ranked 11th in the world, who is lighting a torch with Paralympics handcyclist Pascale Noa Bercovitch.
Geula Cohen, a former member of the Knesset, who will light a torch together with Gal Yoseph, chairwoman of Israel's National Students Council.
The 14 torchbearers were selected by the members of a special committee charged to select women of great accomplishment from across Israel's diverse population, what Livnat referred to as representing "a unique mosaic of Israeli society." And that they did. But other Israeli women interviewed by JNS.org have their own ideas of who should have made the list. Among them:
Karnit Flug, current governor of the Bank of Israel, the country's central bank, was "nominated" by Chana Port of Beit Shemesh.
Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick, whose outspoken political analysis shakes Israelis out of their complacency, said Raanana's Etta Korenman.
Supermodel Bar Refaeli, who, said Sofie Rousseau of Kfar Saba, is a stalwart defender of Israel wherever her international career takes her.
Rabbanit Chana Henkin, educator and innovator of the Yoetzet Halacha program, which trains and empowers women to give advice on matters of family and women's health, suggested Tzilia Sacharow of Jerusalem.
Bestselling Iranian-born Israeli pop singer Rita, who is "talented, charismatic, and creative," according to Shelly Margalit, who lives on a kibbutz near Petach Tikva.
Yet Gabie Sykora of Ra'anana believes that every wife and mother of every soldier should be nominated. She currently has a son and a daughter in the Israel Defense Forces.
"Behind nearly every holy chayal/chayelet (male and female soldier)," she told JNS.org, "there's a mom or wife doing their horrendously smelling laundry, getting food ready to stuff them with or send back with them, and trying her darndest not to worry and to keep smiling."


Many of you are probably Ben Hogan fans; a lot of us at RotarySwing.com are too. He was one of the greatest ball strikers ever to play the game, and did a lot of things that were revolutionary and many years ahead of his time.
You've probably heard of Hogan's swing "secrets" - tips that some say you can apply to your game and fix your game forever.
For instance, one of Hogan's famous moves was to cup his left wrist at the top of the swing, and this was a technique that helped him become a much better golfer than everyone else.
However, the fact that it worked for Hogan doesn't mean you should automatically do it. Cupping your left wrist opens the club face, so if you're already hitting slices and you cup your left wrist it's only going to make matters worse. Your slice will get even bigger.
Hogan tended to hook the ball a little too much, early in his career. Cupping the left wrist allowed him to compensate for his hook and helped straighten out his ball flight, so it was definitely a good idea for him. That doesn't make it a cure-all.
Another of Hogan's secrets that you may have heard about is kicking the right knee in as you start your downswing. It's true, Hogan got a lot of lateral shift in the downswing with that move. However, that move can put a lot of wear and tear on your left hip.
The left hip comes under a lot of strain if it slides too far forward, past neutral joint alignment. It can get very sore and suffer damage over time.
Sliding the hip forward can also cause you to lean your upper body back and get too much axis tilt away from the ball, which can lead to lower back pain.
If you have pain in your left hip or lower back in your golf swing, or after playing a round of golf, it may well be that you're shifting too far forward with your lower body.
We all know there's no secret move you can apply to your game to magically fix everything that's wrong with your swing and turn you into a fantastic golfer.
The only true "secret" in golf is to work develop a great swing based on solid fundamentals. A pro's tip or quick fix may or may not work for you, depending on the characteristics of your swing.
Nobody with a 20 handicap ever discovered that one little secret move that catapulted them onto the PGA Tour. That's just not how it works. The "secret" is to build an entire swing that's fundamentally solid and allows you to play well day in and day out.
That said, Hogan did have some secrets that allowed him to become a much better golfer than most of his counterparts, and there is one that you can definitely apply to your own game.
One of Hogan's secrets was to eliminate one side of the golf course. He practiced doing this on a daily basis, and it's certainly one of the things that helped him become such a great golfer.
We're going to show you how to do that yourself at the end of today's lesson. When you can go out on a course and find trouble on one side or the other, you can just eliminate that side of the golf course. It will be much easier to make pars and a lot of birdies.
The main topic for today is how to tone down the shot shaping techniques you learned on Days 1-5.
You've learned how to hit big hooks and slices. You know how to manipulate your hands and body to get the ball moving in different ways. Now we're going to show you how to tone that down so you can use those same techniques to hit a fairly straight shot that just falls a little to the left or right.
Your game will be much more consistent and much more effective because you'll be able to control your shots and compensate for errors when you're playing a round of golf.
We'll start with how to tone down the hook.
In the earlier lessons, you learned that swinging the club out to the right would get the ball to start to the right, and that closing the club face by rolling it to the left would put some right-to-left spin on the ball and get it to hook back to the left.
We had you do big, exaggerated versions of these movements to hit a 20 or 30 yard hook. That's the right way to learn these motions; you start big, then tone it down. Today you're ready to tone it down.
The drill set up in the photo below will help you practice smaller, more controlled hooks. You'll need two alignment rods and two foam swimming pool "noodles." The noodles are very inexpensive, usually just a couple of dollars wherever beach or pool items are sold.
Slide the noodles over the alignment rods. If you can't get foam noodles you can still do the drill; they just make the lines easier to see. If you drill with just the rods it's possible to miss (hit outside the rods) without realizing it.
Set up the rods so that if you were to hit a perfect swing, dead-straight toward the target in the distance, the ball would just barely miss the left foam noodle.
You can also lay a rod or club on the ground, parallel to the target line. This is your reference line for aligning feet, hips, and shoulders. Set everything up so that if you were to line up completely square to the line and hit a perfectly straight shot, you would barely miss the left noodle.
When you were learning to hit a hook we had you keep your stance square and manipulate the shot with just your hands, arms, and club to swing out to the right. That helped you exaggerate and learn the moves, but it's going to change now that you're ready to hit a controlled hook.
The reason is that if you set up square and use your arms and body to hit all your hooks, the club face will tend to work too far behind your body. If you need to swing 20 yards out to the right you can end up with the club coming way from inside, forcing you to flip your hands at the bottom, and you can't do that consistently over time.
Instead, we're going to adjust your stance. We'll start with a 10-yard draw, so you need to line your feet up about 10 yards to the right of the target.
When your feet, hips, and shoulders are all square to your adjusted target line, you can swing just slightly to the right, instead of exaggerating it like before.
The reason we do this is that the direction your ball starts out is controlled about 85% by the direction the club face is pointing.
If you want to play a 5 yard draw, your club head needs to be moving about 10-12 yards to the right of the target.
You don't want to have to swing 10-12 yards to the right in relation to your body's alignment. Instead, you'll line up your feet about 10 yards to the right and then barely swing inside-out - just a little to the right - with the plane of the club coming through impact. Then you'll just close the face a little bit.
Start the drill about four or five feet behind the foam noodles and hit five shots. Try to start them all out 10 yards to the right and then draw them back so they end up about 5 yards to the right of the pin.
Keep practicing until you can hit five shots that start to the right of the noodle and then draw back.
Once you've got the hang of it from 4-5 feet away, you're going to move farther and farther back from the foam noodles. This makes your margin for error much smaller.
The farther back you go, the less room you have to start to the right of the eventual target while still keeping the ball between the alignment rods.
If you're up pretty close to the alignment rods and your shot goes just barely inside the right noodle, that may be 20-30 yards to the right of your target.
If you move back a little, now when you barely miss the right noodle you may be sending the ball just 10 yards right of the target. A little farther back and the right noodle is only 5 yards right.
The farther back you go, the more difficult the drill.
Once you're doing pretty well at 4-5 feet away, move to a spot 10-12 feet back and hit the shot again. Practice from here until you can hit five good shots that start to the right of your target (but between the alignment rods) and then draw back to the left.
Once you're doing that fairly well, bring it back to about 15 feet from the noodles and do another five.
Keep practicing until you can do 15 good shots in total - five each from 5, 10, and 15 feet. That's it for the Day 6 drills.
We talked at the beginning about Hogan's trick of eliminating one side of the course.
This is very important - it's actually one of the most important fundamentals that you can have in your golf course strategy.
To start using this trick yourself, you need to imagine a giant wall starting at the left foam noodle and stretching all the way to the target in the distance.
When you're hitting right, you're going to consider anything that touches that wall - anything to the left of a perfectly straight shot - to be a terrible shot.
Start out your shots, play them to the right and let them fade back. You can miss 20 yards to the right, no problem. A big miss to the right is better than any shot that crosses the target line and misses to the left, even by just a yard.
When you're hitting a fade, obviously your imaginary wall is on the right.
When you play a right-to-left shot, never cross the target line to the left.
When you play a left-to-right shot, never cross the target line to the right.
If you do, it's a bad shot. Definitely count it as a miss.
Practice getting your hook under control and make sure that you never cross the target line. Whenever you hit a right-to-left shot, be sure you never ever miss to the left of the target.
As you learn to do this you'll be amazed at how much easier it becomes to miss only on one side or the other.
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2022 will see increasing AI role in augmented and virtual reality>>
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Getac announces new rugged tablets for release in 2022
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Out with the new, in with the old: AU consumers want longer-lasting products
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Logitech develops Chromebook-certified stylus pen for educators
According to Logitech, the stylus has been created for children and teachers alike.>>
Hundreds of Australian corporations identified with email security vulnerabilities>>
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Boris Johnson has been "hobbled" as foreign secretary partly by a Whitehall refusal to make the Foreign Office a strategic department spanning diplomacy, trade and overseas development, according to the chair of the foreign affairs select committee.
Tom Tugendhat suggests that bringing trade, intelligence and overseas development issues under the control of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) would provide better coordination to meet the challenges of the post-Brexit era.
In a speech to be given on Tuesday to the Rusi defence thinktank, Tugendhat says his proposals will require a revolution at the heart of government.
After the EU referendum, the FCO was dismembered, with the responsibility for Brexit negotiations going to the new Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU). Tugendhat argues that this shift led to a further power grab by the Cabinet Office, taking key Brexit talks closer to the prime minister.
At the same time, responsibility for trade negotiations was handed to a self-standing department, diminishing the Foreign Office's clout in the commercial area of foreign relations.
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There is also frustration in the Foreign Office that Johnson's preoccupation with the Tory leadership means he spends more time positioning himself in relation to Theresa May, and Brexit, instead of developing a coherent stance towards Europe, China and Russia.
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There were many successes and developments throughout the last year, but being so busy we weren't always able to shout them from the rooftops. We wanted to take a second before we finally accept 2019 is upon us, and give you a rundown of Authentic F&F's highlights from 2018.
Toward the beginning of the year we ramped up activity around building our real estate platform — Amplify. We worked on further refining the mixed reality module, using AR and VR, to provide websites with deeper interactivity with urban spaces before and after the projects are complete. Now, this project has progressed — we're plugging into these features for real users and real clients. Watch this space for some case studies soon!
Some vivid conversations led to the planning and recording of Season One of our (newly released) Transforming Cities podcast series! The podcast is about diving into the minds of urban industry leaders, learning what inspires and motivates them, and applying those valuable stories or lessons to our own work. See more on this here.
We started working with Minneapolis and Denver-based Hyde Development in the Summer of 2018, helping their team launch websites for two key projects: 76 Commerce Center and Northern Stacks.
76 Commerce Center is a growing industrial development just north of Denver and off Interstate 76. With multiple buildings in the planning and construction phase, the project will yield almost 2 million sq ft of new Class A industrial space in the region.
Northern Stacks has been a staple in Minneapolis during recent years, offering industrial distribution and office/warehouse facilities to large companies. With its elevated finishes and superior amenities, it continues to grow and thrive in a hard-working region.
After the positive feedback they received on our first first Amplify projects, we also began work on a third Hyde project to be launched in early 2019; Nordøst Exchange. The project will invest in and adapt an old YMCA building, transforming the space into a creative office and retail marketplace.
By Fall 2018, Houston-based Triten Real Estate began to take notice of the work we were doing with Amplify and signed on for two new projects; their company website, and a new project to be launched in early 2019. This project is an adaptive reuse project based in Houston's blossoming Heights neighborhood called m-k-t, and it's deep in design and implementation as we speak.
Outside of Amplify, we also launched new work with longtime client J.S. Held to rethink and redesign their global website. Originally gaining traction in the construction insurance space, J.S. Held has since expanded into a global multi-disciplinary consulting firm that expertly covers all aspects of the real estate, construction, design, build, and related industry fields. As they continue to expand and cross borders, so too does their website.
As we closed out 2018, we were also fortunate to partner with Epstein Global, a multi-disciplinary design and build firm based in Chicago who we've started to assist with design and SEO optimization. After initially assisting with various content management system updates and upgrades, we look to the new year and a fresh collaboration as the company looks to evolve as a top design, engineering, and build team.
We wanted to take this opportunity to thank our clients, partners, and supporters for accompanying us through a successful 2018, and wish you all the best going forth into 2019.
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I was named after my grandmother, Faithie Maurine Guier Pope. She died when my mom was 14, so I never got to know her. But what I do know of her is that she played piano at church, knew her Bible well, had great faith, and was intimate with her God. She taught Sunday school and loved her family. She sung on the radio on Sunday mornings in a gospel quartet. She had many friends, several of which made her a quilt while she was sick – by hand. And last of all, she died of cancer at a young age, and boldly left this world without fear of her future.
Though I've never met her, there's something about being named after a person that affects how you see yourself, and how you respond to life. We all live up to what we're called, and believe it to be true. For example, if you call a child "stupid", eventually they will believe you. I have understood all my life that I am somehow to be a reflection of her. She was the definition of a "Faithie" in my understanding. I'm not saying I'm there, because she was a powerfully good woman. I know that some of the things I've done have brought dishonor to her name. But being her name's sake has had its effect.
In Psalms 23 we read that God restores our soul and leads us in the path of righteousness. It's a beautiful chapter hat pronounces God's many blessings on us. But that's not all it says. The verse gives His ulterior motive. He does these things "for His name's sake". We are called "Children of God". We are to be a reflection of who He is, because we are named after Him.
A quick Bible word study of "in My Name's Sake" will show you God's ulterior motive in all His blessing on us is to make much of Him, to bring glory to Himself. And as David Platt so perfectly put it in "Radical", who else would we want Him to glorify? If He were to choose to glorify any other man or power He would no longer be Almighty God, the authority of everything. God does not bow to anyone. He alone is God. How messed up would our world be if He blessed us for our own glorification and our own honor! That would be no better than "employee of the month" or "student of the week" contests. What He gives us, both in blessings and in trials, are all "for His name's sake".
In Ezekiel 20:19 God speaks of the Israelites wandering in the wilderness, and how He instructed them to not follow the ways of their parents, but told them "I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them". It goes on to tell that they did not follow God, and in verse 22 God says "Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out." For God's name sake, they were spared. Why? God needed the Gentiles (non-Jewish) to be able to see and understand God's love and mercy for His people.
Isaiah 48:10-11 speaks of God getting glory from us through the process of trials that lead us closer to Him by saying "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another." The trials we go through are not for our good, but ultimately to bring Him glory.
While all things, good and bad, work together for our good (Romans 8:28), we are not the focus of God's actions. He doesn't bless us for our benefit, or correct us for our benefit. His being glorified through us is the focus. It is all about HIM, and not about US. Yes, God loves us, and He seeks to bring us closer to Him in everything He does, but it's not for our sole benefit. We are to make much of God because He needs to be exalted in a world that desperately needs Him. We are given His name, being called "Children of God". Our lives should honor that name and fulfill our purpose for life, which is to bring God glory and honor – nothing less.


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Lymaraina D'Souza is an Indian model and Femina Miss India Universe of 1998.

She subsequently got her Masters in Counseling and is Licensed as a therapist. Lymaraina owns a thriving private practice now.

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D'Souza was born in 1979 in Bombay and was educated at Fort Convent School, Mumbai and Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics.

She was crowned Femina Miss India Universe 1998 by the outgoing titleholder Nafisa Joseph. She represented India at Miss Universe 1998 held on 12 May 1998 at Stan Sheriff Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. She was among the top ten finalists. She was ranked second in the interview round, ninth in the swimsuit round and eighth in the evening gown round.

D'Souza subsequently went to Hawaii Pacific University and graduated with a B.A. in psychology in 2002.

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Business, Professional Coaching: Becoming Big Business
By Carol Angel, Washington Journal Profiles Editor
Seattle - If Irene Leonard has her way, more and more business and professional people will view having a personal coach as a status symbol. She hopes that when executives get together, one of the first questions they will ask each other is, "Who's your coach?"
Given the rapid growth of business and professional coaching in the past three or four years, Leonard and others in this burgeoning field appear likely to see that happen.
According to Laura Whitworth, a founder of the Coaches Training Institute In San Raphael, Calif., most Fortune 500 companies now use coaches - often on-staff - or their managerial employees, and the demand for coaches "is increasing exponentially."
"We have doubled in a year," says Whitworth, adding that since its start-up in 1992, CTI has trained 3,500 coaches and is moving toward 4,000. Only about 10 percent of those who complete the training go on to become certified, she adds. In coaching, the coach works one on one - often by telephone with people who are considering career changes, making job transitions within their company, trying to change their business strategies, or just seeking more balance in their lives.
Leonard, whose business is called Coaching for Change, is not the only coach in the Pacific Northwest who is bullish on the profession, but she is one of the few who are attorneys.
Others have come to the ranks with backgrounds in counseling and therapy, or from the business world.
For example, Vikki Brock of Call Me Coach in Bellevue has an MBA and worked for Boeing for 21 years. Linda Miller, whose business is Interlink Training & Coaching in Kirkland, was working in behavioral sciences before becoming a coach. Marsha MacInnes of Insight Career & Business Coaching in Seattle has a Masters degree in counseling and practiced counseling for 12 years. Jim Rohrbach, of Mentor Networks USA in Bellevue, was a consultant for mid-tier, entrepreneurial businesses. And Steve Troutman of Solutions Strategy in Seattle worked at Microsoft.
In the coaching relationship, notes Leonard, clients articulate and clarify their professional and personal goals, and steps are set up to achieve these goals.
The coach's role is to remind the client of their overall goals and refocus them toward actions the client holds important. Part of the power of coaching comes from the time spent with a coach, says Leonard, which provides the opportunity they want in their lives.
Methods vary, but in Leonard's practice, after the initial interview she has a weekly check-in with clients as to what progress has been made, and brainstorms ideas for improving various areas of their lives. Assignments are given that are to be carried out in between sessions. The process provides the follow up and accountability that are necessary to make changes.
Rohrbach says that building \up trust and empathy with the coach helps clients move forward and achieve their goals. "The coach listens and provides frank, honest and empathetic feedback," he adds.
The Academy for Coach Training in Bellevue, the only coaching school located in the Seattle area, began training coaches in 1997. According to President Fran Fisher, "We have students moving through at the rate of about 100 per year, in various stages. We're growing so fast - we've been doubling our revenue every year for the past three years."
Miller, a co-founder with Brock of the Puget Sound Coaches Association, says there are about 120 professional and business coaches locally. Forty of them are registered with the International Coaching Federation, the professional association for coaches, based in Angel Fire, N.M. The ICF's total membership has quadrupled form 500 to over 2,000 in the past two years.
Whitwoth believes there are many reasons for the growth demand: "Thanks to technology, there is more to do and less time to do it in. People want to get more order, consistency, and sanity in their lives, and to do it relatively quickly. And more people are coming to be trained in coaching skills because they find how much it helped them, and want to do it for a living.
The concept of coaching in the athletic arena has become very sophisticated, says MacInees, "and we translate that into the business world. As in athletics, someone is very good and wants to get better, and the coach helps them meet their objectives."
According to Ron Roesler, executive vice president of the Academy for Coach Training, personal coaching differs from therapeutic counseling in that coaching "comes for a place that says the person is already whole and has their own answers, and no one else can provide answers for their lives - whether it's career related if personal."
Coaching also differs from consulting according to coaches.
"My experience is that consultants tell people what to do, and that even though business and law firms hire consultants they don't often follow through on what the consultant tells them to do," says Leonard.
Ideally, she says, "A coach could work in tandem with a consultant, to help people discover for themselves what they need to do. When it seems like something is your own idea, you are more likely to carry it out that if it comes form someone else."
Clients fall into a variety of categories. In Rohrbach's practice, they may sales personnel who aren't doing as well as they would like; or people who have been doing technical work but who need different skills as they grow into upper management. Sometimes he is called in to help someone who is being downsized and out, or to work with a person fairly high up in the organization who is in "career derailment mode," to help them find their direction.
"The very skill sets that helped them get there are stopping them form making the next leap," he says. Often it's a question of helping the person let go of the need to micromanage and learn to delegate more authority and responsibility.
MacInnes says her clients "are professionals, well-educated, accomplished, motivated. They have fulfilled what they can do where they are, and are ready for a change. I specialize in those who are becoming, or are, entrepreneurial." About one-third of Leonard's clients are attorneys, the rest are chief executive officers and business people. Many of the lawyers, she says, are unhappy with their practices, and "bringing them back to what brought them to law in the first place."
Some coaches work intensely with one company. Microsoft is the primary client for Steve Troutman, who coaches teams that mentor 600 or so college interns who come to the Redmond campus each year; he also helps the interns manage that relationship for their side.
"Microsoft hires as many college students as it can, and this is one way to get them to fall in love with the company," says Troutman. "For the interns, there is a tremendous amount of value in teaching them how to use the resource that is their mentor."
Troutman, a former Microsoft employee, says that when he began at the company, "It was horrible to be new there, and others were having similar experiences. So I developed this program while there, and they asked me to continue it after I left."
Troutman's coaching at Microsoft is done in a classroom setting, and coaches who do executive training usually do it face-to-face.
But most other coaching is done by telephone, since that's the approach that often fits best with clients' busy lifestyles.
Some coaches, however prefer face-to-face contact. Marsha prefers doing her coaching in person. "I like my clients to get away from work. I do some by phone; but when we are being creative together in the same room, I like it better", MacInnes says.
Coaching is not cheap. Monthly fees range from $350 on up, for weekly or twice weekly half-hour sessions. On the plus side, coaches say most clients find three to six months of coaching is sufficient to get them well on the way to making the life changes they seek.
Just as coaching has gotten to be big business, so has the training of coaches. Training approaches and costs vary widely. Coach U Inc. and corporate Coach U International (CCUI), related schools located in Steamboat Springs, Colo., offer two types of training: live clinics using 200 facilitators worldwide; and a business coaching program done via teleconferencing. Tuition is $3,494 ($1,995 with discounts). Miller, director of clinic training for CCUI, says this year she will be holding sessions in Toronto and Queensland, Australia, and possibly Singapore.
California-based CTI conducts training programs in person in various cities in the United States, Canada and elsewhere. Co-founder Whitworth says the course involves four weekend classes, then a full-day exam; the process takes at least a year. Cost of the program is $395 for the first class and $535 for each of the three additional classes. The certification program, which takes a minimum of another six months, is separate, conducted by teleconferencing, with weekly classes, supervised coaching sessions and special labs.
Brock, who teaches at the Academy for Coach Training in addition to having her own practice, says about 40 percent of her clientele are people who want to learn coaching skills. ACT, owned by the husband-and-wife team of Roesler and Fisher, has a program that involves five different courses and takes about a year; the cost is $5475.
Washington Journal August 2, 1999.
For more information about "Coaching for Change", contact Irene Leonard's website at www.coachingforchange.com or call (206) 723-9900.
Copyright 1999. Reprinted with permission from the Daily Journal Corporation.
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Southern Baptists Worry About Decline
By CARY McMULLENLEDGER RELIGION EDITOR
Jun 8, 2008 at 2:30 AM Jun 8, 2008 at 8:44 AM
First Baptist Church of Mulberry was built of red bricks in 1935. In time-honored fashion, the pews face straight ahead, below stained-glass windows bearing the names of longstanding families who gave so that the house of God might be beautiful.
Besides preaching, baptism is the most important act in a Southern Baptist church, a sign that the faith is being passed on to new believers. At First Baptist Church of Mulberry, the baptistry, the pool in which baptisms are carried out, is at the very front, up behind the choir. Only it has been empty lately.
The church has fallen on hard times, and last year only one person stepped into the waters of the baptistry, according to an official report.
The Rev. Gerald Bagwell, First Baptist's pastor, has been trying to turn the attention of the 75 or so regular worshipers to the needs of the community, as a way to bring people into the church.
"People don't care what our theology is. They just want to know if we're caring," he said.
First Baptist is typical of most Southern Baptist churches. Unlike massive First Baptist Church at the Mall in Lakeland, a megachurch with more than 8,700 members, most congregations are small and not growing.
As the Southern Baptist Convention begins its annual two-day meeting on Tuesday in Indianapolis, a cloud hangs over the "messengers," or representatives, of what has long been claimed as the largest Protestant group in America.
Statistics released in April have alarmed leaders and members alike. They confirm that the denomination has been declining for decades, a decline hidden by assertions of growth in membership and in political and cultural influence.
It is part of a pattern of complacency and bewilderment with a changing society, Southern Baptist leaders say. The president of the convention, the Rev. Frank Page, recently complained about "our lack of spiritual passion."
"Many of our people simply do not know how to relate to people in 21st-century culture and have been frustrated at their inability to communicate the Gospel," he said.
And studies indicate that with a couple of exceptions, what is happening to the grande dame of American evangelical churches is happening to its smaller cousins also.
At stake is the future of a way of religious life known and loved by generations that has promised eternal bliss, promoted simple virtues of kindness and charity and fostered a cohesive, deep-dyed religious, regional and national identity. It is also a way of life that ignored or even fought some important social movements and, in the past 30 years, became increasingly militant and politically active.
CRISIS WITHIN THE CHURCH
At least one critic is referring to the decline as a crisis inside the church and said the much-vaunted cultural and political dominance of evangelicals is a mirage.
"We've been led to believe evangelicals represent 25 percent of the country, that a majority of Christians are in this movement. Their voices have drowned out everyone else's, and I think that's a shame," said Christine Wicker, author of the just-released book, "The Fall of the Evangelical Nation" (HarperOne, 221 pages). "We've been duped to believe they're much larger and more powerful than they are."
Wicker, a former religion reporter for The Dallas Morning News and now a freelance writer living in Pasadena, Calif., said she began to suspect that the numbers claimed by denominations and evangelical organizations, like Focus on the Family, were overstated. She examined statistics from the churches themselves that she says give a truer picture of their size.
Her conclusion: committed evangelicals, who attend church regularly and fully subscribe to evangelical beliefs, are only about 7 percent of the population, less than a third of what has been claimed.
The latest Southern Baptist figures tend to bear that out. The denomination has claimed that except for 1998, its "total membership" - a figure that includes just about anyone who ever joined a Southern Baptist church - has been climbing. But a new analysis from LifeWay Research, an arm of the convention, showed that since 1950, the growth rate has been shrinking (see chart). Over the past decade it has been less than 1 percent and in 2007, it fell into negative numbers.
But the total membership - 16.26 million in 2007 - which has been the foundation of the claim to be the nation's largest Protestant denomination, is almost universally agreed to be inflated. Friends and relatives are kept on church rolls for sentimental reasons, even if they no longer live in the city where the church sits.
The Rev. Tom Ascol, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, will introduce a resolution at this week's convention challenging the practice.
"The rolls of most of our churches have been bloated for at least a generation, and it's just gotten worse. If one-third to 40 percent of our members show up with regularity, that's considered to be healthy," he said by phone recently. "It's hypocritical."
BAPTISMS DECLINING
In 2007, worship attendance in Southern Baptist churches was 6.1 million a week, suggesting that of the 16.2 million total members, perhaps a third are present and accounted for.
But what most alarms Southern Baptist leaders is the drop in baptisms because it is a better measure of vitality, they say.
In 2007, the number of baptisms nationwide was about 346,000, a decrease of 5.5 percent, the third straight year and seventh in the last eight that baptisms have declined. One Baptist official called the report "truly disheartening."
So concerned was the Rev. Bobby Welch, former pastor of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, when he was elected president of the convention in 2004, he set a goal: in 2006, Southern Baptists would baptize 1 million people. The idea was to place personal responsibility on rank-and-file Baptists to save the unconverted, but it didn't help. At the end of the year, there were 371,850 baptisms, a 4.15 percent decline from the previous year.
The 73 churches and missions of the South Florida Baptist Association, which encompasses the western half of Polk County, have managed to buck this trend somewhat. They reported a 22 percent increase in the number of baptisms last year, but the Rev. Robert Roberts, director of missions for the association, is not particularly encouraged.
Asked about the reasons for the denomination's decline, Roberts noted that Southern Baptists have not kept up with the changes in society over the past 40 years.
"It's tough out there today. We're not adjusting our methods to a new generation. They're harder to reach, in some ways. There's a lack of trust in the population that was not out there 30 or 40 years ago," he said.
"We're locked into doing church a certain way, and we're finding it hard to change our ways."
TURNING AWAY
Americans have been turning away from religion, liberal and conservative, for decades. According to the American Religious Identification Survey, people who said they were non-religious or non-affiliated doubled between 1990 and 2001, from 8 to 14 percent of the population. A recent Pew survey showed that the largest growth among adults has been the non-affiliated.
"They're not dropping out of the faith, they're constructing their own. Traditional faiths are not helping them, so they're coming up with their own ideas," Wicker said. "Evangelicals are tremendously threatened because they have a very rule-bound God."
Asked what could reverse the long decline, Southern Baptist leaders offered a variety of answers. Like others, Roberts said churches and their members have been too complacent.
"The attitude of the local congregation is, we're content. People who are content don't make many changes. Until we're discontented with the way we are, we're going to continue the way we are," he said.
Bagwell, the Mulberry pastor, agreed. He came to Polk County in 1978 as the pastor of First Baptist Church of Lakeland. In those days, it was a dying downtown church that had lost 500 members over the previous 13 years. He started a campaign of having members canvass neighborhoods on Monday evenings. By the time he left in 1986, the church had turned around and the stage was set for the explosive growth it later experienced.
"People loved each other and were willing to reach out," he said.
The Rev. Todd Pope, pastor of Griffin Baptist Church in Lakeland, which averages about 150 people in worship on Sundays, said small churches could offer people the personal touch they're looking for.
"The focus for far too long has been toward the megachurch. The idea is that bigger is necessarily better. But Southern Baptists traditionally have focused on smaller, neighborhood community-based churches. I think we've gotten away from that," he said.
REACHING OUT TO THE FRINGES
Pope acknowledged that it is not easy for middle-class churchgoers to reach out to people of different races or those on the fringes.
"Maybe we're scared of the culture. We're not going to get the guy with an earring and a Mohawk haircut. We want somebody who looks like little Johnny," he said.
One Southern Baptist church that isn't scared of the culture baptized more than two dozen people last year. Compass Point Church is a small, cutting-edge congregation that meets at the Northside YMCA in Lakeland. The Rev. Chris Elrod, Compass Point's pastor, is a blogger who regularly hangs out at local clubs and conducts a Bible study in a bar.
"We try to befriend folks who normally wouldn't go to church," he said.
Recently, Elrod said, the church befriended Pete, a 69-year-old alcoholic and ex-convict who had cancer and got kicked out of his apartment.
"A guy in our church - who had gotten kicked out of another church - took him in. We worked with him. Three weeks after he was baptized, Pete passed away," Elrod said. "We have to keep taking risks. I do think there's something to be said for new churches being more open to new directions."
Stories like that resonate with Wicker, who said she comes from a family with several generations of evangelical roots. She expressed hope the church can reverse the downward trend.
"Evangelical faith has a lot to offer people," she said. "The Baptists I know are kind, warm, good, funny people. I like Baptists."
[ Cary McMullen can be reached at cary.mcmullen@theledger.com or 863-802-7509. His blog, Scriptorium: A Religion Panorama, can be read at religion.theledger.com. ]


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