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July 14, 2005 News & Opinion » Feature
The number of women in Arizona prisons has multiplied more than five-fold since 1978--and there's not enough help for them to become productive citizens after being released
By Alexis Blue
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Patricia Cartwright helps former inmates prepare for life outside of prison.
Patricia Cartwright started drinking at age 9. By 14, she was hooked on heroin and living on the streets of Phoenix, hanging with motorcycle gangs and drug addicts. In and out of county jails on shoplifting and other charges, Cartwright gave birth to two boys on the street. By the time she was 20, her sons were living with her mother and sister, and Cartwright was doing time in prison for armed robbery after she and two friends, high on acid and mushrooms, held up a string of Circle K convenience stores.
During her first week at the Arizona State Prison Complex at Perryville, Cartwright was terrified to be in a place that seemed so secluded from the world, living with offenders she considered far more violent than herself. So she adapted to her surroundings the only way she could.
"My time inside was like it was on the street," said Cartwright, now 43 and in recovery. "I just learned how to be a bigger criminal inside. There was a lot of fighting. I was still using drugs inside. It was like being in a big summer camp, except you had a fence around you."
Cartwright said since she went to Perryville in 1982, things have gotten a lot stricter in prison. Rules are tougher, and it's not as easy today to get drugs inside. There are also more rehabilitation and counseling services available then there were in the 1980s, although Cartwright and others argue there are still far from enough.
A more disturbing change has also occurred--a huge increase in the number of women serving time.
Between 1978 and 1999, the number of women incarcerated in Arizona jails and prisons increased 511 percent, from 515 to 3,147 inmates, with the growth in women's incarceration outpacing the growth of Arizona's female population, according to the Women's Prison Association, a national advocacy organization for women with criminal backgrounds.
Similar trends can be seen in prisons nationwide during the last two decades, with drug offenders making up the majority of the increased female inmate population.
It's not necessarily that more women have entered the drug world, said Corey Knox, director of the Inside Out Project, a program of the Southern Institute for Research on Women at the UA intended to raise social awareness of the obstacles faced by formerly incarcerated women trying to re-enter society. Instead, Knox said, the increase is due in large part to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, enacted by Congress in 1986, which require judges to deliver fixed prison sentences to drug offenders.
Mandatory drug sentencing laws have caused an increase in the prison population across the board, but the increase has been much greater for women, Knox said, since women at the bottom rungs of the drug business are more likely to get caught and less likely to be able to give prosecutors the information necessary for a chance at a sentence reduction.
That means more women, like Cartwright, are spending years behind bars. Many of them have never held a legitimate job and have depended on men for their livelihoods. They're often mothers of young children.
Although men still far outnumber women in prisons, the growing women's population presents unique social challenges, especially when their official prison sentences are over.
When Cartwright got out of prison in 1992, she didn't feel like she belonged on the outside.
"I got out and I was scared, and I thought there was no way I could make it in this world," Cartwright said. "I thought, 'Who's going to hire me?'"
So she started using again, and in 1997, she went back into prison for forgery and fraudulent schemes for making counterfeit checks.
Cartwright's rapid return to crime is not unusual. Around two-thirds of all former inmates will re-offend and return to prison within two years after they are released, said Knox.
Finding employment out of prison is especially difficult for women, said Diane Wilson, a career counselor and former director of PHASE (Project for Homemakers in Arizona Seeking Employment), which teaches job and life skills to low-income women and women who have been in prison. That's because women are less likely than men to have had a legitimate work history before entering prison, and because many women have relied financially on boyfriends or husbands for much of their lives, Wilson said.
But in a society that places so much value on work, and in which participation in the labor force is of utmost importance, there are obstacles to employment at every turn for former inmates, especially for women.
Even for individuals who might otherwise be qualified for a job, the simple application question, "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" can be enough to chase away an applicant whose answer is "yes"--sometimes toward a return to a life on the street. Housing applications usually ask the same loaded question, making it difficult for former inmates to find safe and affordable living arrangements.
Because a person can't usually get a job without an address and can't afford a place to live without a job, a dangerous cycle is set in motion, Knox said.
Jobs that don't do criminal background checks or that will hire felons are not always ideal. Many are minimum-wage jobs in industries like fast food, hotels or car washes, Wilson said. The better-paying jobs, offering $10 to $15 an hour, are usually construction jobs or other jobs that require physical labor and which are held predominately by men.
Wilson said the PHASE program offers training for women for non-traditional jobs like plumbing and welding, but women are less likely to gravitate toward higher-paying, male-dominated careers. Instead, women are often more likely to seek out jobs in social services or child care, fields that certainly don't take felony convictions lightly, as 56-year-old Michele Convie learned firsthand.
Convie was a middle-class Catholic schoolgirl when she started sniffing glue at age 14. She was rebelling against her parents, living as a hippie in the San Francisco Bay Area when she gave birth to her daughter in 1967 at age 17. Eight years later, Convie went to prison on drug-possession charges and spent two years there.
Attempting to get a fresh start, Convie later moved to Arizona to be near her mother and daughter, but she continued using, and her second felony conviction came in 1985 when she went back to prison for dealing. Convie's second grandchild was born during her two-year sentence.
When the 35-year-old was released in 1987, several tragic blows forced Convie to take on a level of responsibility she had never known before. In a span of just a few years, her grandmother passed away; her mother and stepfather were diagnosed with cancer, and two friends died of AIDS. That's when Convie knew she had to take control of her life.
"Life started really happening big-time, and I figured I better get the message," Convie said. "Whatever the higher power is was beating me over the head with a brick."
Her drug-hazy years now a distant memory, Convie has reunited with her daughter and two grandchildren and works at New Beginnings, a shelter and counseling center for homeless women and children. She is also a coordinator and member of the speakers' board of the Inside Out Project, which allows her to educate the community on the best ways to reintegrate women coming out of prison into the community.
In 2002, Convie started taking classes at Pima and is now preparing to start her senior year at Arizona State University's School of Social Work in Tucson, where, at 56, she is pursuing her bachelor's degree in social work.
"I'm so normal now; I still go through times when I'm surprised at my daily life," Convie said.
But Convie's felony convictions followed her through life, and her success story was not without its hurdles. Before she landed her job at New Beginnings, Convie was turned down for a position at La Frontera behavioral health center because her felony conviction barred her from working with children or the mentally ill. She had no idea at the time that her past would get in the way of her passion.
Determined to work in social services, Convie appealed her case to the state, and after a year-long process, she was able to get fingerprint clearance for full work privileges, which she said required not only proof that she'd stayed clean, but proof that she had gone above and beyond, getting an education, interning or volunteering in the community.
Anyone with a felony conviction must constantly prove themselves to society, long after their official sentences have been served, Convie said. Simply playing by the rules is not always enough.
"You're just not quite good enough," Convie said. "You think, 'I've paid a lot of taxes; why am I not acceptable? I have the skills the society has set up for me.'"
Convie said she feels fortunate to have an education, and both Knox and Wilson said the goal should be to get all women released from prison into school. But affording education on a minimum-wage income is no easy task, and a 1998 amendment to the Higher Education Act makes it even more difficult. The amendment prohibits anyone with a drug conviction from receiving federal financial aid for post-secondary education.
"People didn't like that people who'd been in prison could get an education at the government's expense," Knox said. "But it costs society more to have them in prison."
It costs an estimated $20,000 to $30,000 per inmate per year to keep a person in jail, Knox said.
Convie said with so many obstacles in obtaining an education or well-paying job, it's no wonder many former inmates return to a life of crime.
"They can make more money as a prostitute. That's the only way they can feed their kids."
And many women who come out of prison have children to care for. Sixty-five percent of women in state prisons are mothers of children less than the age of 18, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, and are more likely than men to stay in contact with their children while in prison.
They are also generally more determined than men to reunite with their children and families after release, Convie said, and women who are able to get their children back face the emotional and financial burdens of rebuilding and caring for a family, often with no monetary or child-care assistance.
The welfare reform act of 1996 prohibits anyone with a drug-related felony conviction from receiving food stamps and welfare cash benefits, although felons convicted of more heinous crimes don't face the same restrictions.
"If you murder someone or chop someone up, you can get food stamps, but not if you have a drug conviction," Convie said.
Although some states have opted out of the federal ban on aid for drug offenders, the restrictions remain in place in Arizona, making it difficult for low-income women with drug-related convictions to support themselves and their families.
With so many barriers to reentry for women, Convie said society creates "an underclass" of people who are expected to play by the rules, but who face countless barriers in doing so and who are forever haunted by their pasts. A prison sentence of three to five years, Convie said, actually lasts much longer.
"It's the rest of your life," she said. "No matter what you do, you can never get rid of your record. It's like you've got the scarlet letter and the brand."
And the stigma for women prisoners is different than that of men, Knox said.
"Women are expected to be sainted virgins and mothers," she said. "There's a misconception that women who have been in prison have done something really bad."
Knox said she hopes the Inside Out Project will shed light on the issues women face when coming out of prison and that project participants like Cartwright and Convie can and help the community understand that the women in question deserve a new start.
"These are our neighbors and our moms and our grandmas," Knox said.
In addition to educating the community, Cartwright and Convie say the prison system must do a better job at preparing inmates--from the first day of their sentence--for what will happen when they get out: the challenges they will face, the steps they should take, and how to keep from returning to prison.
Cartwright said it was rehabilitation and counseling programs that finally helped her get back on her feet after she finished her second prison sentence and was determined not to go back.
After she was released the second time in 2000, Cartwright entered a transitional housing program, which helped her find a job and a place to live. Cartwright struggled to stay clean--she started using heroin again and was fired from a job she'd gotten through the program--but this time, she went to the program staff for help.
Cartwright then spent time in a halfway house where she said intensive counseling with other people who had lives similar to hers made her slow down. But she left the house when she got involved with a man she met there. She moved in with him, and it wasn't long before her boyfriend started using drugs again.
This time, Cartwright knew she'd had enough.
"I had to get out of there," Cartwright said. "I don't want it anymore. I was tired of the abuse. I think from all the counseling I'd had in the past, something was clicking with me."
So she contacted Tucson's Oasis House for Women, a then-newly opened 90-day transitional housing program for women released from prison. She moved in there.
After she completed the program, Cartwright was asked to be house manager. She said helping other women at the Oasis House is her passion.
"I love it," Cartwright said. "I know what they're going through when they come out, and I'm able to walk them through it and assure them, 'This is what you're going to feel; this is what you are going to go through, and I'm here to help.'"
Cartwright has reunited with her two sons, ages 21 and 23, and is pursuing her associate's degree in social services at Pima Community College.
As a member of the Inside Out Project's speakers' board, Cartwright said she wants to stress getting women more counseling and rehabilitation help before their release.
"It takes so long to work through your issues, and we need to get more folks to help us," she said. "What I'd like to focus on is getting the women while they're inside."
Some women inmates are able to serve the end of their sentences at the Southern Arizona Release Center, a 180-bed, all-female facility, with 30 beds for inmates on release status, which offers some rehabilitation and re-entry programs and classes to inmates in at least the last 18 months of their sentence. But some say this is too little, too late.
"The little bit of stuff that's happening is not preparing people," Convie said. "It needs to start the day you walk into prison."
And since it is largely up to the inmate to choose what programs to participate in at SACRC, Convie said many don't make good use of what is available, and inmates are released unprepared for the outside world.
Dora Schriro, director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, the first woman to ever head the department, agrees that rehabilitation for inmates needs to start sooner, and has developed a re-entry initiative, a five-year plan to increase basic education and GED classes for inmates, expand the department's capacity for drug and alcohol treatment, give inmates more community service and work opportunities on the inside, and offer self-help and transitional programs in areas like anger management, domestic violence, cultural diversity, housing and work and leisure skills.
Schriro said since she became department director in 2003 and began developing the re-entry initiative, the number of inmates who have earned high school diplomas inside prison has quadrupled. Schriro said she hopes several more improvements will be fully implemented in the next two to three years with little extra cost.
"We're not adding teachers. We're using the instructors and school space we have; we're just making better use of it," Schriro said.
For people like Convie, improvements in inmate-rehabilitation programs are long overdue.
"What we're doing now does not work," Convie said. "If this were a business making this kind of product, it would be out of business."
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KATZNELSON, SHULAMIT (1919–1999), Ulpan founder and director. Katznelson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the age of two came to Eretz Israel. Her father, Dr. Shmuel Katznelson, was a pioneer of public health care and social work in Israel. Her mother, Batsheva Katznelson, was an educator and member of the Second Knesset. Katznelson studied social work and received her master's degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1951 she founded one of the first three ulpanim (intensive Hebrew-language courses) in Israel. As founder and director of Ulpan Akiva in Netanyah, she was cited as an outstanding example of Hebrew humanism in adult education. Katznelson managed Ulpan Akiva until 1996. From the outset, Ulpan Akiva was open not only to Jewish immigrants (ollim) but to the non-Jewish population as well. Subsequently, Ulpan Akiva included the teaching of spoken Arabic. In 1983 Katznelson was awarded the Knesset's Speaker's Prize for quality of life. In 1986 she was awarded the Israel Prize for her pioneering work in adult education and in the teaching of spoken Hebrew and Arabic. Katznelson was nominated for the Nobel Prize twice, in 1992 and 1993.

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Queen of Roses, by Elizabeth McCoy (1:54)
December 18, 2014, by Jefferson Smith
Category: Immerse Or Die - Tagged: robots, science fiction	- 4 comments
Today we realize that relying on pronouns to orient a scene involving a dozen characters is a recipe for disaster.
What I gleaned about the story: A person of unspecified age and gender is either a check-out clerk in a retail store, a robot for sale, or possibly a customer. And there are other people of each type present. Presumably, they all buy/sell each other for fun and profit.
WTF #1: Pronoun confusion
Analysis: She waited silently as the purchaser walked down the line, stopping occasionally to look at one of her fellows. The man had irregular features… Who is "she?" The narrator? Possibly the purchaser? Who is "the man?" The purchaser or the fellow? And whose "fellows" are they? Fellow purchasers? Fellow narrators? This is not an auspicious way to start. Two sentences into the first paragraph and I'm hopelessly lost.
This strikes me as a likely case of a writer who has not left the project sitting idle for a while and come back to it later for revisions. Clearly the author knows what's going on because she has it all organized and visualized in her head, but the actual text written does not convey enough of that imagined scene for a reader to reconstruct the scene. Or at least, not enough for me.
WTF #2: Continued pronoun vagueness
Analysis: I'm 5 paragraphs further in and I still have no idea who "she" is. Probably because we've had about 8 different people mentioned so far, and still no clear identifiers.
WTF #3: Yet more pronoun confusion
Crowd scenes and pronouns do not mix. Especially if the characters haven't been established yet.
Analysis: To be blunt, I'm not even at the bottom of the first page and I still have no idea who is in this scene. There's a bit of dialogue between the "purchaser" and a robot, but I have no concrete idea who the narrator is in this scene, or what's happening. If I pushed myself to guess, I think the narrator is another robot on the shelf, or in line, but I'm far from certain. And frankly, by this point I'm already mentally exhausted, like a homicide detective trying to reconstruct the scene from three vague clues left behind at the scene.
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4 thoughts on "Queen of Roses, by Elizabeth McCoy (1:54)"
Marcia Blake 2014-12-18 at 12:00 PM
My comment to your post about this on Google+: "Um, +Jefferson Smith, this is from the book description – hard to miss on the Amazon page (http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Roses-Elizabeth-McCoy-ebook/dp/B007R8G4J4) and in its position before the ToC in the e-book sample itself: 'Sarafina was content to be an accountant, insulated from the public as she kept the numbers behaving and played chess with her fellows. But when the First Daris Bank is bought out, her indenture is sold to a cruise ship and Sarafina is thrust into a job she was never meant for. Now she's dealing with a motley crew, drunkard captain, flirtatious first officer, fire-sale equipment, and worst of all . . . Passengers.' That's the sketch that intrigued me enough to read the full sample, where I learned in the first paragraph who the 'purchaser' is, and understood from the following nine lines of dialog who – and what! – the other players were and what their relationships meant. Altogether a satisfying beginning, for me. But your mileage clearly varies, and I will defend to the death your right to feel differently about it! :-)"
And, as I wrote in a subsequent comment after you defended your position, we can agree to disagree on this one.
Jefferson Smith 2014-12-18 at 10:05 PM
Yes, many readers will read the marketing blurb and gather more information from that, which might clarify things, but with IOD readings, I avoid the marketing (even if it's included on the copyright page, as it was in this case) and go straight to the beginning of the story, after the Table of Contents. It has been my experience that many books ruin the reading experience by revealing too much in the blurb or cover commentary. So, to evaluate the story, I read nothing but the story.
Lexi Revellian 2014-12-19 at 5:15 AM
Agreed about the slightly confusing start (I don't like stories starting with 'he', 'she' or 'the boy' etc. – why not give us a name? But this could easily be tweaked, and by the end of the first page I wanted to read on as the android and her world interested me.
I think the first paragraphs of a book can be the hardest to write, and the hardest to edit on your own.
Angela Castillo 2014-12-19 at 6:43 AM
It's a beautiful cover, and I hope the author will make a few changes, I think it would be worth the effort.


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Банда — офшорне газонафтове родовище в Атлантичному океані біля узбережжя Мавританії. Розташоване у 55 км від Нуакшота, в 20 км на схід від офшорного нафтового родовища Chinguetti. Глибини океану в районі родовища складають 200—325 метрів.

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Родовище було відкрите у 2002 році внаслідок буріння свердловини Banda 1. У 2008 році спорудили дві оціночні свердловини Banda NW ST-1 та Banda East, які підтвердили поширення покладів та наявність зв'язку між всіма трьома свердловинами. Вуглеводні виявлено у відкладеннях міоцену.

У 2012 родовище визнали комерційним та почали підготовку до реалізації плану облаштування, за яким потрібно пробурити ще дві експлуатаційні свердловини. Від встановленого на океанському дні маніфольду до берегового газопереробного заводу пролягатиме підводний трубопровід довжиною 75 км та діаметром 250 мм (ще 6 км складатиме наземна ділянка до ГПЗ, для якого обрали місце у 9 км на північ від Нуакшоту). Підготований газ постачатиметься на заплановані до спорудження дві теплоелектростанції потужністю 180 та 120 МВт, якими займається компанія Societe de Production d'Electricite a partir du Gaz (SPEG).

Початок видобутку на родовищі очікується у другій половині 2010-х років. В майбутньому планується також використовувати інфраструктуру Банда для обслуговування розташованого поблизу нафтового родовища Тевет.

Запаси родовища оцінюються у 34 млрд м³ газу (видобувні) та 334 млн барелів нафти (геологічні).

Первісно оператором проекту була австралійська Woodside, яка поступилась своїми правами малазійській Petronas. Остання у 2011 році продала основну частину участі Tullow Oil (67 %), при цьому сама залишилась із долею у 15 % (іншими учасниками є Kufpec (13 %) та Premier Oil (5 %)). Проте у 2014 році і Tullow Oil вирішила полишити проект, що викликало чергову затримку із його реалізацією.

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Газові родовища Мавританії
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Dwyane Wade has offered the Cavaliers a major boost off the bench.
Random dribbles following the Cleveland Cavaliers' 113-91 snooze job of a victory over the host Chicago Bulls on Monday.
1. This was a boring game, and that's a good thing. The Cavs faced a lousy team and took care of business almost immediately. They needed a night with no drama, no fuss, and nothing but easy sailing. That was this game, the Cavs' 12th consecutive win.
2. Yeah, I know. Twelve in a row. The Cavs can tie the franchise record Wednesday at home against the mighty Sacramento Kings.
3. OK, the Kings aren't so mighty. But let's focus on that another day. Besides, I don't want you to accuse me of jinxing anything.
5. Anyway, back to what really matters. If you're Cavs fan, you have to love what's going on. That 5-7 start is now a faded memory, as the Cavs are just getting it done in any way imaginable and in every way that's needed.
6. They also suddenly look deeper than at any time during either LeBron James era — with Dwyane Wade turning into a legitimate candidate for Sixth Man of the Year. It's early, but that's just the truth.
7. Wade came off the bench Monday to score 24 points on 9-of-13 shooting, collecting six rebounds along the way. He has also turned into the team's best defender.
8. Jeff Green also gave another underrated showing in reserve, finishing with 14 points and eight boards.
9. And remember, this team is still missing Tristan Thompson, Derrick Rose and Iman Shumpert, and has yet to see Isaiah Thomas take the court. General manager Koby Altman set out to build an experienced and deep roster after trading Kyrie Irving, and that is exactly what Altman has accomplished.
10. Kevin Love has been fantastic lately, and he continued the trend on this night with 24 points and 13 rebounds. James added 23 points, seven rebounds and six assists.
13. One fun moment during the game came when LeBron drove and got fouled for a three-point play, then looked over and said something to Bulls great Scottie Pippen, who was sitting on the sidelines.
15. Finally, some more numbers: The Cavs (17-7) have tied the franchise mark with seven straight road wins. They've done it four other times — with 1997-98 being the most recent. More precisely, it last happened 20 years ago this month.
16. They have also scored at least 100 points in 17 straight games. The last time they did that? Try 1988-89, when they accomplished the feat 19 times in a row. Today's Cavs are averaging 114.3 points per game since Nov. 1. Not bad, eh?
17. By the way, is it just me, or is the Bulls' Fred Hoiberg the most likely coach to get canned next? Their struggles are hardly entirely his fault, but guess who always takes the fall for disastrous starts?
3 Comments on "Dribbles: Depth helping to keep Cavs' rise alive"
Wade should stay on as the captain of the 2nd unit. Why mess that up with D Rose coming back? I think Rose should be the 4th string point guard. Calderon has shown how steady he is, playing D and not causing any problems with bad decision-making. Isaiah hopefully will improve the starting 5 with a burst of energy. But this Cavs 2nd unit has been incredible. I just hope that TT and Rose don't mess up the chemistry. Shump will fit in like he did before. Wade has turned back the clock with his play. Incredible efficiency.
Calderon & Shumpert playing in front of Rose? Really??? Only if Rose's mental state is a bigger issue than we know. Otherwise, he's too talented to play behind those two.
When IT is at full strength and playing 24 plus minutes Rose probably won't see but 8-12 minutes a night anyway. Everyone knows his injury problems so he will play some with the second unit but is still a liability on the defensive end. Rose will more than likely split some time with Shumpert and Calderon will be back on the bench. Wade Green Korver TT will stay the core of the second unit bringing in occasionally a Rose, Shumpert, Frye depending on the situation but the second unit guys will also play with a few starters so playing time is going to wear thin for some of these guys. I think during the Playoffs some of them might not even hit the floor but we will see.


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Notes: West York powers into District 3 title game
Time to empty the notebook from West York's overpowering, 31-7 victory against Susquehanna Township in a District 3...
Notes: West York powers into District 3 title game Time to empty the notebook from West York's overpowering, 31-7 victory against Susquehanna Township in a District 3... Check out this story on gametimepa.com: http://www.gametimepa.com/story/high-school/blogs/the-varsity-beat/2012/11/24/notes-west-york-powers-into-district-3-title-game/75284328/
GameTimePA Published 3:02 p.m. ET Nov. 24, 2012
Time to empty the notebook from West York's physically dominant, 31-7 victory over Susquehanna Township on Friday in the District 3 Class AAA semifinal...
-- First, let's start with West York coach Ron Miller's thoughts on his team's opponent next week. Bishop McDevitt (13-0) is the twice-defending district champion. The Crusaders are rated the top AAA team in the state by PAFootballNews.com (West York is No. 4) and the No. 21 team in the country by USA Today.
"They're the No. 1 or 2 team in the state," Miller said. "They're 13-0. We're 13-0. They're the two-time defending (district) champion, Division I players all over the field. We're going to work as hard as we've ever worked, try to give ourselves an opportunity at the end of the game and give them whatever we got."
McDevitt defeated fourth-seeded Lancaster Catholic, 27-7, in the other District 3-AAA semifinal Friday, led by quarterback Alec Werner's 327 passing yards. Werner and reciever Brian Lemelle -- who boasts several Division I scholarship offers -- are just two standout members of a McDevitt offense that is averaging 39 points per game. Werner has nearly 3,000 passing yards this season.
-- Perhaps the biggest takeaway from Friday's game was the dominance of West York's running game. The Bulldogs ran 65 times for 365 yards. They only attempted one pass after halftime, mostly because they didn't need to throw the ball.
At one point in the fourth quarter, West York drove 97 yards on nine plays -- all runs -- to set up James Johnson's clinching, 22-yard scoring run.
Ryan Dixon wrote his sidebar from the game on West York's trio of running backs. Indeed, this rushing attack is largely opposite of the one that carried the Bulldogs to the 2008 district title game. That ground game operated largely on the shoulders of one primary runner: Brandon Real.
Needless to say, the ball distribution this season as been far more democratic. Five West York running backs have at least 242 rushing yards this season. Four have had at least one 100-yard rushing game. Brock Snellbaker (881 rushing yards, 11TDs) leads the team, followed by Johnson (605, 6), quarterback Brandon Kinneman (544, 12), Steven Wilson (391, 2) and Anthony Trone (242, 6).
In their three district playoff games this season, West York is averaging 273.3 rushing yards.
"We pounded that into their head all week," Miller said. "We gotta run, we gotta run. Boy, did we."
-- Let's not forget the yeoman's work put in by the big boys' up front. Before the season, West York's senior-led offense line was touted as perhaps the key to the Bulldogs' district title hopes. Now, late in the season, those lineman are earning their keep.
Their leader, center Brody Kern, had perhaps the quote of the night Friday.
"It doesn't matter if you have a standout running back," Kern said. "If your guys up front are moving the defensive lineman back five, 10 yards, anybody can run back there.
"Our backs played great (tonight), but our line played great, too."
-- As expected, standout Susquehanna Township runner Colby Grant had his moments Friday. The speedy, senior tailback rushed for 133 yards on 15 carries, including a highlight-reel, 38-yard touchdown in the second quarter.
Most of his damage, however, came on five runs which accounted for 126 of those yards. On his other 10 carries, Grant went for 7 total yards.
Here's a breakdown of Grant's 15 rushes: 5, -1, -3, 14, -2, 0, 23, 2, 38, 6, 13, 38, -2, 2, 0.
In all, Miller said he was pleased with the way his defense handled Grant, especially during a pair of key goal-line stands in the second and third quarters.
-- The Bulldogs defense spark Friday came courtesy of senior linebacker Nick Duncker, who stepped in front of a pass in the first quarter and returned the interception 48 yards for a touchdown. That gave West York a 10-0 lead.
The interception was Duncker's first of the season.
"I was just kind of sitting back," Duncker said. "He threw it and it kinda just hit me. It was unreal. I didn't really know what to do with it, so I just started running."
"We have a thing, every time I get a pick he's like 'You stole that from me,' " said linebacker-mate Snellbaker, who leads the Bulldogs with seven interceptions. "It was huge."
Duncker ranks second on the Bulldogs in sacks (6.5) and third in tackles (65).
-- Linebacker Anthony Franklin turned in another huge game for West York, with three tackles for loss (by my count). He had a big hit on Grant during the goal-line stand in the third quarter.
Franklin leads the Bulldogs with 106 tackles this season.
-- One statistical oddity from Friday's game: West York standout receiver Zack Smith was held without a catch for the first time this season. Already this year, Smith has set Bulldogs single-season records in receptions (60) and receiving yards (1,085).
Then again, West York only threw the ball nine times Friday. Smith did have 19 rushing yards on three carries.
-- Next week will mark West York's fifth District 3 title game appearance. Here's how the Bulldogs have fared previously in the district finals:
2008 (AAA): West York 15, Manheim Central 7
1997 (AA): Bishop McDevitt 35, West York 14
1991 (AA): West York 29, Bermudian Springs 15
1988 (AA): West York 33, Delone Catholic 14
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Film review: 'The New Fire' and the old Gen IV rhetoric
The New Fire is a pro-nuclear propaganda film directed and produced by musician and film-maker David Schumacher. It's similar in some respects to the 2013 film Pandora's Promise.1,2 The New Fire premiere was held in October 2017 and it can be streamed online from 18 October 2018.
Promotional material claims that the film lacked "a supportive grant" (and celebrity endorsements and the backing of a major NGO) but the end-credits list numerous financial contributors: Berk Foundation, Isdell Foundation, Steven & Michele Kirsch Foundation, Rachel Pritzker, Roland Pritzker, Ray Rothrock, and Eric Uhrhane.
The film includes interviews with around 30 people (an overwhelming majority of them male) interspersed with footage of interviewees walking into buildings, and interviewees smiling. The musical underlay is a tedious drone ‒ a disappointment given Schumacher's musical background. A highlight is hearing Eric Meyer ‒ an opera singer turned pro-nuclear activist ‒ bursting into song at various locations around the COP21 climate conference in Paris in December 2015, while he and his colleagues handed out free copies of the pro-nuclear book Climate Gamble.
Interviewees are mostly aging but the film's main message is that young entrepreneurs may save the planet and its inhabitants with their Generation IV reactor projects. The film's website states: "David Schumacher's film focuses on how the generation facing the most severe impact of climate change is fighting back with ingenuity and hope. The New Fire tells a provocative and startlingly positive story about a planet in crisis and the young heroes who are trying to save it."3
Schumacher writes (in the press kit): "These brilliant young people – some of the most gifted engineers of their generation, who in all likelihood could have cashed in for a fortune by doing something else – believe deeply that nuclear power could play a key role in saving the planet. And they are acting on that conviction. They did the research. They raised the money. They used cutting edge computer technology to perfect their designs. They are the new face of nuclear power, and to me, the newest and most unlikely climate heroes."
These climate heroes are contrasted with anti-nuclear environmentalists. One interviewee says that "people of our generation are the first ones that have the opportunity to look at nuclear power without all the emotional baggage that previous generations have felt." Another argues that anti-nuclear environmentalists are "very good, decent, smart people" but the "organizational DNA … that they have inherited is strongly anti-nuclear." Another argues that environmental organizations "have been using nuclear power as a whipping boy for decades to raise funds". Another interviewee attributes opposition to nuclear power to an "irrational fear of the unknown" (which surely poses a problem for the exotic Generation IV concepts promoted in the film) and another says that "once people sort of understand what's going on with nuclear, they are much more open to it".
The film trots out the usual anti-renewables tropes and falsehoods: 100% renewables is "just a fantasy", renewables can contribute up to 20% of power supply and the remainder must be baseload: fossil fuels or nuclear power.
In rural Senegal, solar power has brought many benefits but places like Senegalese capital Dakar, with a population of one million, need electricity whether the sun is shining or not. A Senegalese man interviewed in the film states: "Many places in Africa definitely need a low cost, reliable, carbon neutral power plant that provides electricity 24/7. Nuclear offers one of the best options we have to do that kind of baseload." The film doesn't explain how a 1,000 MW nuclear plant would fit into Senegal's electricity grid, which has a total installed capacity of 633 MW.4 The 'microreactors' featured in The New Fire might help … if they existed.
Accidents such as those at Fukushima and Chernobyl get in the news because they are "so unusual" according to interviewee Ken Caldeira. And they get in the news, he might have added, because of the estimated death tolls (in the thousands for Fukushima5, ranging to tens of thousands for Chernobyl6), the costs (around US$700 billion for Chernobyl7, and US$192 billion (and counting) for Fukushima8), the evacuation of 160,000 people after the Fukushima disaster and the permanent relocation of over 350,000 people after the Chernobyl disaster.9
"Most people understand that it's impossible for a nuclear power plant to literally explode in the sense of an atomic explosion", an interviewee states. And most people understand that chemical and steam explosions at Chernobyl and Fukushima spread radionuclides over vast distances. The interviewee wants to change the name of nuclear power plants to avoid any conflation between nuclear power and weapons. Evidently he didn't get the memo that the potential to use nuclear power plants (and related facilities) to produce weapons is fast becoming one of the industry's key marketing points.
Conspicuously absent from the film's list of interviewees is pro-nuclear lobbyist Michael Shellenberger. We've taken Shellenberger to task for his litany of falsehoods on nuclear and energy issues10 and his bizarre conversion into an advocate of worldwide nuclear weapons proliferation.11 But a recent article by Shellenberger on Generation IV nuclear technology is informative and insightful ‒ and directly at odds with the propaganda in The New Fire.12
So, let's compare the Generation IV commentary in The New Fire with that in Shellenberger's recent article.
Transatomic Power's molten salt reactor concept
The film spends most of its time promoting Generation IV reactor projects including Transatomic Power's molten salt reactor (MSR) concept.
Scott Nolan from venture capital firm Founders Fund says that Transatomic satisfies his four concerns about nuclear power: safety, waste, cost, proliferation. And he's right ‒ Transatomic's MSRs are faultless on all four counts, because they don't exist. It's doubtful whether they would satisfy any of the four criteria if they did actually exist.
Shellenberger quotes Admiral Hyman Rickover, who played a leading role in the development of nuclear-powered and armed submarines and aircraft carriers in the US: "Any plant you haven't built yet is always more efficient than the one you have built. This is obvious. They are all efficient when you haven't done anything on them, in the talking stage. Then they are all efficient, they are all cheap. They are all easy to build, and none have any problems."
Shellenberger goes on to say:12
"The radical innovation fantasy rests upon design essentialism and reactor reductionism. We conflate the 2-D design with a 3-D design which we conflate with actual building plans which we conflate with a test reactor which we conflate with a full-sized power plant.
"These unconscious conflations blind us to the many, inevitable, and sometimes catastrophic "unknowns" that only become apparent through the building and operating of a real world plant. They can be small, like the need for a midget welder, or massive, like the manufacturing failures of the AP1000.
"Some of the biggest unknowns have to do with radically altering the existing nuclear workforce, supply chain, and regulations. Such wholesale transformations of the actually existing nuclear industry are, literally and figuratively, outside the frame of alternative designs.
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face," a wise man once said. The debacles with the AP1000 and EPR are just the latest episodes of nuclear reactor designers getting punched in the face by reality."
Shellenberger comments on MSR technology:12
"New designs often solve one problem while creating new ones. For example, a test reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used chemical salts with uranium fuel dissolved within, instead of water surrounding solid uranium fuel. "The distinctive advantage of such a reactor was that it avoided the expensive process of fabricating fuel elements, moderator, control rods, and other high-precision core components," noted Hewlett and Holl.
"In the eyes of many nuclear scientists and engineers these advantages made the homogeneous reactor potentially the most promising of all types under study, but once again the experiment did not reveal how the tricky problems of handling a highly radioactive and corrosive fluid were to be resolved."
In The New Fire, Mark Massie from Transatomic promotes a "simpler approach that gives you safety through physics, and there's no way to break physics". True, you can't break physics, but highly radioactive and corrosive fluids in MSRs could break and rust pipes and other machinery.
Leslie Dewan from Transatomic trots out the silliest advantage attributed to MSRs: that they are meltdown-proof. Of course they are meltdown-proof ‒ and not just in the sense that they don't exist. The fuel is liquid. You can't melt liquids. MSR liquid fuel is susceptible to dispersion in the event of steam explosions or chemical explosions or fire, perhaps more so than solid fuels.
Michael Short from MIT says in the film that over the next 2‒3 years they should have preliminary answers as to whether the materials in Transatomic MSRs are going to survive the problems of corrosion and radiation resistance. In other words, they are working on the problems ‒ but there's no guarantee of progress let alone success.
Dewan claims that Transatomic took an earlier MSR design from Oak Ridge and "we were able to make it 20 times as power dense, much more compact, orders of magnitude cheaper, and so we are commercializing our design for a new type of reactor that can consume existing stockpiles of nuclear waste."
Likewise, Jessica Lovering from the Breakthrough Institute says: "Waste is a concern for a lot of people. For a lot of people it's their first concern about nuclear power. But what's really amazing about it is that most of what we call nuclear waste could actually be used again for fuel. And if you use it again for fuel, you don't have to store it for tens of thousands of years. With these advanced reactors you can close the fuel cycle, you can start using up spent fuel, recycling it, turning it into new fuel over and over again."
But in fact, prototype MSRs and fast neutron reactors produce troublesome waste streams (even more so than conventional light-water reactors) and they don't obviate the need for deep geological repositories. A recent article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ‒ co-authored by a former chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission ‒ states that "molten salt reactors and sodium-cooled fast reactors – due to the unusual chemical compositions of their fuels – will actually exacerbate spent fuel storage and disposal issues."13 It also raises proliferation concerns about 'integral fast reactor' and MSR technology: "Pyroprocessing and fluoride volatility-reductive extraction systems optimized for spent fuel treatment can – through minor changes to the chemical conditions – also extract plutonium (or uranium 233 bred from thorium)."
Near the end of the film, it states: "Transatomic encountered challenges with its original design, and is now moving forward with an updated reactor that uses uranium fuel." Transatomic's claim that its 'Waste-Annihilating Molten-Salt Reactor' could "generate up to 75 times more electricity per ton of mined uranium than a light-water reactor" was severely downgraded to "more than twice" after calculation errors were discovered. And the company now says that a reactor based on the current design would not use waste as fuel and thus would "not reduce existing stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel".14,15
So much for all the waste-to-fuel rhetoric scattered throughout The New Fire.
Michael Short from MIT claims MSRs will cost a "couple of billion dollars" and Dewan claims they will be "orders of magnitude cheaper" than the Oak Ridge experimental MSR. In their imaginations, perhaps. Shellenberger notes that "in the popular media and among policymakers, there has remained a widespread faith that what will make nuclear power cheaper is not greater experience but rather greater novelty. How else to explain the excitement for reactor designs invented by teenagers in their garages and famous software developers [Bill Gates / TerraPower] with zero experience whatsoever building or operating a nuclear plant?"12
Shellenberger continues:12
"Rather than address the public's fears, nuclear industry leaders, scientists, and engineers have for decades repeatedly retreated to their comfort zone: reactor design innovation. Designers say the problem isn't that innovation has been too radical, but that it hasn't been radical enough. If only the coolant were different, the reactors smaller, and the building methods less conventional, they insist, nuclear plants would be easier and cheaper to build.
"Unfortunately, the historical record is clear: the more radical the design, the higher the cost. This is true not only with the dominant water-cooled designs but also with the more exotic designs ‒ and particularly sodium-cooled ones."
Oklo's sodium-cooled fast neutron microreactor
The New Fire promotes Oklo's sodium-cooled fast neutron microreactor concept, and TerraPower's sodium-cooled fast neutron 'traveling wave' reactor (TerraPower is also exploring a molten chloride fast reactor concept).
Oklo co-founder Jacob DeWitte says: "There's this huge, awesome opportunity in off-grid markets, where they need power and they are relying on diesel generators … We were talking to some of these communities and we realized they use diesel because it's the most energy dense fuel they know of. And I was like, man, nuclear power's two million times as energy dense … And they were like, 'Wait, are you serious, can you build a reactor that would be at that size?' And I said, 'Sure'."
Which is all well and good apart from the claim that Oklo could build such a reactor: the company has a myriad of economic, technological and regulatory hurdles to overcome. The film claims that Oklo "has begun submission of its reactor's license application to the [US] Nuclear Regulatory Commission" but according to the NRC, Oklo is a "pre-applicant" that has gone no further than to notify the NRC of its intention to "engage in regulatory interactions".16
There's lots of rhetoric in the film about small reactors that "you can role … off the assembly line like Boeings", factory-fabricated reactors that "can look a lot like Ikea furniture", economies of scale once there is a mass market for small reactors, and mass-produced reactors leading to "a big transition to clean energy globally". But first you would need to invest billions to set up the infrastructure to mass produce reactors ‒ and no-one has any intention of making that investment. And there's no mass market for small reactors ‒ there is scarcely any market at all.17
TerraPower
TerraPower is one step ahead of Transatomic and Oklo ‒ it has some serious funding. But it's still a long way off ‒ Nick Touran from TerraPower says in the film that tests will "take years" and the company is investing in a project with "really long horizons … [it] may take a very long time".
TerraPower's sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor remains a paper reactor. Shellenberger writes:12
"In 2008, The New Yorker profiled Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft executive, on his plans to re-invent nuclear power with Bill Gates. Nuclear scientist Edward "Teller had this idea way back when that you could make a very safe, passive nuclear reactor," Myhrvold explained. "No moving parts. Proliferation-resistant. Dead simple."
"Gates and Myhrvold started a company, Terrapower, that will break ground next year in China on a test reactor. "TerraPower's engineers," wrote a reporter recently, will "find out if their design really works."
"And yet the history of nuclear power suggests we should have more modest expectations. While a nuclear reactor "experiment often produced valuable clues," Hewlett and Holl wrote, "it almost never revealed a clear pathway to success." ...
"For example, in 1951, a reactor in Idaho used sodium rather than water to cool the uranium ‒ like Terrapower's design proposes to do. "The facility verified scientific principles," Hewlett and Holl noted, but "did not address the host of extraordinary difficult engineering problems." ...
"Why do so many entrepreneurs, journalists, and policy analysts get the basic economics of nuclear power so terribly wrong? In part, everybody's confusing nuclear reactor designs with real world nuclear plants. Consider how frequently advocates of novel nuclear designs use the future or even present tense to describe qualities and behaviors of reactors when they should be using future conditional tense.
"Terrapower's reactor, an IEEE Spectrum reporter noted "will be able to use depleted uranium ... the heat will be absorbed by a looping stream of liquid sodium ... Terrapower's reactor stays cool".
"Given that such "reactors" do not actually exist as real world machines, and only exist as computer-aided designs, it is misleading to claim that Terrapower's reactor "will" be able to do anything. The appropriate verbs for that sentence are "might," "may," and "could." ...
"Myhrvold expressed great confidence that he had proven that Terrapower's nuclear plant could run on nuclear waste at a low cost. How could he be so sure? He had modeled it. "Lowell and I had a month-long, no-holds-barred nuclear-physics battle. He didn't believe waste would work. It turns out it does." Myhrvold grinned. "He concedes it now."
"Rickover was unsparing in his judgement of this kind of thinking. "I believe this confusion stems from a failure to distinguish between the academic and the practical," he wrote. "The academic-reactor designer is a dilettante. He has not had to assume any real responsibility in connection with his projects. He is free to luxuriate in elegant ideas, the practical shortcomings of which can be relegated to the category of 'mere technical details.'""
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7. Jonathan Samet and Joann Seo, 2016, 'The Financial Costs of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: A Review of the Literature', www.greencross.ch/uploads/media/2016_chernobyl_costs_report.pdf
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12. Michael Shellenberger, 18 July 2018, 'If Radical Innovation Makes Nuclear Power Expensive, Why Do We Think It Will Make Nuclear Cheap?', www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/07/18/if-radical-innovati...
13. Lindsay Krall and Allison Macfarlane, 2018, 'Burning waste or playing with fire? Waste management considerations for non-traditional reactors', Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 74:5, pp.326-334, https://tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00963402.2018.1507791
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Transatomic Gen IV startup shuts down
Nuclear Monitor #867, 15 October 2018, https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/867/nuclear-monitor-867-15...
We wrote about Transatomic Power's proposed molten salt reactor (MSR) in the last issue of Nuclear Monitor.1 Since then, the startup has shut down.2,3
Transatomic had raised more than US$4 million from Founders Fund, Acadia Woods Partners, and others. But it was unable to raise US$15 million required for the next phase of the project.
In 2016, following the revelation of false calculations, Transatomic abandoned its plan to use waste (spent fuel) as fuel and it abandoned the associated claim that its 'Waste-Annihilating Molten-Salt Reactor' could "generate up to 75 times more electricity per ton of mined uranium than a light-water reactor".4 Its waste-annihilating reactor was reinvented as a waste-producing, uranium fueled reactor.
Transatomic co-founder Leslie Dewan put a positive spin on the company's collapse: "Today the advanced nuclear technology sector is thriving, with over 70 advanced reactor projects in progress, financing actively flowing to new technologies, promising engagement with the NRC, multiple films and TV documentaries covering innovations, and even bipartisan political support."2
According to the Third Way pro-nuclear lobby group, "at least five companies are already working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to prepare for licensing".5 In other words, not one of the Gen IV startups has gone further than to notify the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of their intent to engage in regulatory interactions ‒ and only five have taken that modest step.6
1. Nuclear Monitor #866, 24 Sept 2018, Film review: 'The New Fire' and the old Gen IV rhetoric, https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/866/nuclear-monitor-866-24...
2. Leslie Dewan, Sept 2018, 'Open-Sourcing Our Reactor Design, and the Future of Transatomic', www.transatomicpower.com/open-source/
3. Energy Central, 2 Oct 2018, 'Transatomic Folds Its Tent ‒ Its Legacy May Live On', www.energycentral.com/c/ec/transatomic-folds-its-tent-its-leagcy-may-live
4. James Temple, 24 Feb 2017, 'Nuclear Energy Startup Transatomic Backtracks on Key Promises', www.technologyreview.com/s/603731/nuclear-energy-startup-transatomic-bac...
5. John Milko, Todd Allen, and Ryan Fitzpatrick, 8 Feb 2018, 'Keeping Up with the Advanced Nuclear Industry', www.thirdway.org/graphic/keeping-up-with-the-advanced-nuclear-industry
6. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 'Advanced Reactors (non-LWR designs)', accessed 3 October 2018.
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Being an adult means many things, but it doesn't mean you have to have a stiff upper-lip when it comes to a holiday away from family.
This year I'm not able to afford to fly back and spend the holidays with my family, so I am facing my first holiday alone. The way I'm dealing with it is that I'm not getting too excited or invested in the holiday season. I just can't wait for it to be over. I know I'm an adult now, but I just feel like a kid who wants to be home for Christmas. How should I deal with this?
Not being with the people you love during the holidays is difficult, and I am sorry you will not be with your family this year. The holidays are about good will and cheer, yet they do bring on a swirl of emotions about the previous year, and being away from family doesn't help. No matter what age you are, there's nothing wrong with wanting to bring back the magic of being a kid at Christmas. Being an adult means many things, but it doesn't mean you have to have a stiff upper-lip when it comes to a holiday away from family. One way to counteract this and rekindle your Christmas spirit is by spending time with those people who are less fortunate.
There are countless opportunities to volunteer and be with other people on Christmas. Just Google "volunteer on Christmas Day" brings up a variety of ways to be of service. The site VolunteerMatch.org offers opportunities within your zip code. You can also call your local hospital and inquire about ways to spread Holiday cheer to sick children or patients who have to spend the holidays in a hospital bed.
Giving your time to someone who will really cherish it is the best gift of all. Isn't that what Christmas is about anyway? And after you spend some time being of service, it will be wonderful to call your family and share with them how you transformed being alone at Christmas to bringing a little Christmas into some needy hearts. Moreover, you will really see that giving is the ultimate form of receiving.
Also, don't be bashful about telling your friends you are homesick and not able to be with your family! I can recall a few times I found out a friend was alone for the holidays and my first reaction was always, "Why didn't you tell me? You could have spent Christmas with my family." People are usually very open with invitations this time of year. Not only is it in the spirit of Christmas, but most people love the idea of having a friend as a "buffer" at family gatherings!
It really is easy to start spinning in your mind that you are alone when not in the usual company of family and friends at home for the holidays. It's important to remember that while you may not physically be there, you are far from being alone. Call your family and friends (maybe they would split investing in an affordable webcams so you can Skype each other), get out to volunteer, and see if there are friends in your city to spend time with. Especially with the economic crunch we are in, you may be surprised by the number of people you know in the same boat.
Most importantly, don't let the image of what a holiday "should" be dictate your feelings. This time of year is filled with movies and advertisements that oversell this time of year promote false expectations. Focus on what this season is really about: love and gratitude - not presents and parties. You can still fill yourself with the same feelings of love, friendship, and compassion that are at the core of the holiday season if you just look.


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AP source: Irving, Barnes finish US Olympic basketball team
OAKLAND, CA - JUNE 19: Kyrie Irving #2 of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on during the game against the Golden State Warriors during Game Seven of the 2016 NBA Finals on June 19, 2016 at ORACLE Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/N
The U.S. basketball team has its roster for Rio.
Kyrie Irving and Harrison Barnes accepted spots on the team to fill out the Americans' 12-player Olympic squad, a person with knowledge of the details said Saturday.
The decisions come two days before the Americans plan to announce the team in New York. They were confirmed to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because roster details were to remain private.
The Americans had received 10 confirmations by Thursday and were holding spots for Irving and LeBron James, who wanted more time to decide after winning the NBA championship. James opted not to play but Irving should be an important player after a number of top point guards, including Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul, withdrew from consideration.
Irving was the MVP of the 2014 Basketball World Cup.
Once James passed on what would have been a fourth Olympics, the Americans settled on Barnes, who becomes the third Golden State player on the team. The swingman shot poorly in the NBA Finals as the Warriors lost to Cleveland in seven games.
The rest of the roster: Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, New York's Carmelo Anthony, Toronto's Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, Indiana's Paul George, Golden State's Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, Sacramento's DeMarcus Cousins, Chicago's Jimmy Butler and the Clippers' DeAndre Jordan.
It's not as experienced as recent U.S. teams, as only Durant and Anthony have played in the Olympics. The Americans lost a number of potential selections to injuries or other reasons in recent months, including James Harden, Anthony Davis and Blake Griffin.
Anthony will set a record by playing on his fourth U.S. team and could become the most decorated Olympic men's basketball player ever if he helps the Americans to a third straight gold medal.
ESPN first reported Irving would play. Barnes' decision was reported by Yahoo Sports.


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MEMBERS OF SYNOD have endured a heavy diet of liturgy in recent months. The Liturgical Commission (the work simulation scheme set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury to counter the threat of clerical unemployment) has been providing us with services for every occasion, a multiplicity of eucharistic prayers and goodness knows what else. Before long, though we shall all claim to be Anglicans, we will be able to invest a new meaning in the word "common".
Three hundred years ago the Book of Common Prayer was exactly that – a succinct collection of services, with the Psalms appended at the back of the book, and the whole volume would fit into your pocket. Everybody used it and wherever you went in the Church of England you would find a welcome familiarity in the form of service used.
Not so in the brave new world of the twenty-first century. 'Common' Worship (contained in a multiplicity of volumes) will be far too large to fit in the pews and far too expensive for parishes to buy anyway. There will be alternatives to nearly everything, with options to use ELLC texts even where the General Synod has explicitly not approved them. The word common will have been completely redefined to mean something like "culled from a standard source of resource material – or perhaps elsewhere". It is quite possible that no two parishes in the country will be using the same liturgy – and indeed large numbers of parishes will use other people's liturgy (the Roman Missal, for instance) and large numbers of parishes will use little that is recognisable as Anglican liturgy at all. So much for all the Synod debates.
Ministers will increasingly make up mix'n'match services on their computers, downloading material from a library of CDs or internet sites. Some congregations may get a service sheet with it all written down, but most will find themselves staring at overhead projection screens, or reduced to silence while it all goes on up front – just as their forbears did in medieval pre-Reformation days.
In all probability the Bishops will not lift a finger. Can you imagine a bishop admonishing an incumbent who continues to use the ASB – or parts of the ASB? They will do nothing about it because there is nothing they can do about it. Even liturgical enthusiasts like the Bishop of Salisbury will be as powerless to stop the incoming tide as King Canute was 1000 years ago.
Its not that I've got anything against do-it-yourself prayers. In fact, some of them have a far profounder impact than anything the Liturgical Commission has ever dreamed up. A few weeks ago, for instance, a minister by the name of Rev Joe Wright was invited to open the new session of the Kansas Senate. Everyone was expecting the usual bland, politically correct generalities but what they heard was a stirring prayer, passionately calling the country to repentance and righteousness.
Apparently no-one nodded off. The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In six short weeks, there were more than 5,000 phone calls with all but 47 of those calls supporting Mr Wright. Requests for copies of the prayer have been received from all over America and from as far afield as India, Africa and Korea.
So what did Mr Wright pray to provoke such a response? Was he right to do so? The text is reproduced below, so you can judge for yourself:
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe on those who call evil good," but that's exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We confess that:
We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism. We have worshiped other gods and called it multi-culturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn children and called it a choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.
We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbour's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honoured values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who You have sent to direct us to the centre of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the living Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.'
I suppose it is just possible that one of the Lords Spiritual might use the opportunity afforded him when he leads prayers in their Lordships' House to use a form of the above. Time is short before Commissar Blair legislates the present House into oblivion and replaces it with a load of on message clones with pagers. But will any of the twenty six Lords Spiritual have the bottle?
Gerry O'Brien is a lay member of the General Synod. He represents the Diocese of Rochester.
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