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— by Tom Lundin
Willie Lewis and Mary Lou (from Westword, 1990, photo by Gary Isaacs)
Willie Lewis is a bonafide Denver hero. I am very serious when I say that there should be a statue of this man in a Denver park somewhere, holding a scratchy '50s-era 45 RPM record in his hand. Willie Lewis is an acclaimed rockabilly singer/songwriter/performer, president of Denver's Rock-A-Billy Records and a world-class record collector. If you have ever met him, you would say that he has the unaffected personality of a wild west icon, like maybe Buffalo Bill. But most of all Willie Lewis is a hard boiled survivor.
Rock-A-Billy Records R-101!
He has survived a horrible childhood blood disease (a disease that had killed all male victims prior to Lewis surviving his own procedure). He survived a rough childhood that took him in and out of orphanages, in and out of trouble and eventually landing him in Buena Vista Correctional. He survived an attack on his house and home by a PCP-crazed maniac who jumped through his window and attacked his family (forcing him to be the first in Denver to exercise the famous local "Make-My-Day" law. Yes, this is true!) And most of all, Willie Lewis has survived numerous heart attacks that have led to him having a pacemaker, a defribilator and so many stents that I cannot count them.
What keeps this man alive? He is simply: Too Ornery To Die.
Truthfully though, there are two other factors keeping him going, the love of his life Mary Lou and his respectful dedication to the music he loves… rockabilly. And Lewis knows rockabilly. I guarantee you, no one else knows rockabilly better. Willie Lewis could be recognized as the living breathing embodiment of rockabilly personified.
If you are a Denver resident and you are thinking "I have never heard of Willie Lewis", this has a lot to do with the fact that he has never cared about commercial pop success. He knows his audience and his audience knows him. In Europe, his records from the '80s and '90s sell for as much money as collectable original rockabilly records from the '50s. One rockabilly band even moved to Denver from Portugal to learn from this man.
Way back in the late 1970s, after having collected every rockabilly, doo-wop, country and blues 45 many times over, Lewis thought it was about time to try to record his own 45. He released the famous R-101 45 "The Rockin Blues" on his own Rock-A-Billy Records, distributed by Denver's Wax Trax store. As a matter of fact, for at least a decade, the only way you could get your hands on a Rock-A-Billy Record was through Wax Trax! Travelers from countries like Japan, Germany and Finland would always stop at Wax Trax and "load up" on rare Rock-A-Billy Records' releases.
Since that first release, Rock-A-Billy Records has put out over thirty 45 RPM records (on colored vinyl, a Rock-A-Billy Records trademark), a handful of 10″ EPs, a couple of 12″ LPs, 4 or 5 CDs, and even one 10″ 78 RPM record (!) by High Noon.
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Walking the Streets of Denver: Spuddnicks release on Bopland Records
Not only is Lewis himself represented under names like Willie & The String-Poppers, Billy & The Bop-Cats, King Cat & The Pharoahs, The Bop-A-Whiles and Delmer Spudd & The Spuddnicks (who did an incredible show at The Oxford Hotel for the 1996 Best of Westword Showcase), but he has also released records by High Noon (from Texas), Go Cat Go (from Maryland), Ronnie Dawson (famous for his '50s record "Rockin' Bones"), Carl Sonny Leyland (boogie woogie pianist from England), Kidd Pharaoh (from Denver), The Road House Rockers, The Hal Peters Trio (from Finland), The Original Stablemen (from Germany), '50s rockabilly singer Don Rader, The Barnshakers (from Finland), Little Roy & The Ramblers (from Denver), and 1995 Westword cover-story band the Tennessee Boys (from Portugal). He recently put out a great new CD by Denver band Jimmy Lee Rollins and the Rocks (starring Jim Holdridge).
Aside from releases on own Rock-A-Billy Records, Willie Lewis has also released recordings on Lewmann Records, Waterhole Records, Bop-Land Records (out of Germany) and Goofin' Records (out of Finland). There was even a large book put out in Germany with the lengthy title "The Story of a Hep Cat: Life and Music of Willie Lewis and His Rock-A-Billy Record Company" by Sven Bergmann in 2003. Lewis has recently come out of retirement and started issuing new Rock-A-Billy Records colored-vinyl 45s and has a new LP "Don't Shoot Me Baby" on France's Hog Maw Records that sounds ace!
BuckFifty is about Denver history and here we have this amazing Denver artist who has flown under the radar for many years and is a true Denver legend. So help me here, who do I talk to about this statue? I just saw the esteemed Mayor Hickenlooper introduce X at the Bluebird on Tuesday, maybe he would be sympathetic if he knew that Denver is home to one of the truest rockabilly recording artists of all time and would realize that future generations will be hunting down the story of this amazing man.
Recent release on Rock-A-Billy Records
B50 Note: For more on Willie Lewis and Rock-A-Billy Records visit their website or their myspace page. Tom Lundin is an illustrator, photographer, and chronicler of mid-century modern architecture in Denver. Find out more at his website, modmidmod.com.

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Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings
Sabancı University became the Turkish private university with the highest position upon first entry to the rankings.
Sabancı University entered the Times Higher Education (THE) BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings in 15th position.
Eight Turkish universities were included in the BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings.
After only 15 academic years since its establishment, Sabancı University entered the rankings in 15th place, and was among a handful of Turkish universities in the top 100: METU (3rd), Boğaziçi (7th), ITU (8th), Bilkent University (19th), Koç University (29th), Istanbul University (51st) and Hacettepe University (82nd).
In October, Sabancı University had entered the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings in 182nd position, becoming the Turkish university with the highest position upon first entry to the rankings, and was the only private Turkish university to be among the top 200 universities of the world.
The Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings uses a methodology that covers all core missions of a world-class university - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook – using 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators. In addition to core missions, the geopolitical positions and economic situations of their home countries also affect their ratings.


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On Friday, March 13, Elmhurst CUSD 205 announced the closure of all district schools until April 6. (Graphic Courtesy of Elmhurst CUSD 205)
On Friday, March 13, Elmhurst CUSD 205 announced the closure of all district schools until April 6.
Graphic Courtesy of Elmhurst CUSD 205
Elmhurst CUSD 205 cancels school, plans to move to e-learning
Lucy Valeski, A&E Editor
In order to limit the spread of the pandemic COVID-19, Elmhurst CUSD 205 closed schools from March 16 through March 20 followed by e-learning days from March 30 to April 3. The Elmhurst schools expect to reopen on April 6. An email was sent to students and guardians Friday afternoon announcing the closure. All extracurriculars were also suspended on March 12.
An informational meeting was held for the teachers involving e-learning on Friday, March 13 prompting an emergency late start; however, e-learning days will not begin until March 30 to allow for clarifications to be made surrounding how to classify and count days. The district also wanted to make sure all students could complete the e-learning requirements. It is expected that missed school days in March will not have to be made-up at the end of the school year.
"I received an email from the Illinois State Board of Education [ISBE] that indicates that all missed school days due to COVID-19 will be considered 'Act of God'days and that we will not have to make them up," Elmhurst CUSD 205 Superintendent Dr. David Moyer said. "I am waiting for official confirmation. So, as I currently understand it, we will not need to add days at the end of the school year. However, ISBE has been all over the place, so I am not going to confirm this with 100% certainty–only to the extent of what I am being told now."
Many York students are concerned about how the school cancellations will affect their extracurriculars, standardized testing, AP testing and commencement. However, due to the unpredictable nature of COVID19, it is impossible for the district to guarantee any definite dates for the resumption of activities or school days.
"I'm concerned about how far behind I'm going to fall as a junior academically and with extracurriculars," junior Kathryn King said. "This is an important semester for junior, what with the ACT and SAT and with the AP tests coming up. Without this time to be in class and prep with our teachers, I feel like I will come back to school unprepared and unequipped to do well on these tests."
In an email sent to juniors and seniors from York, it was announced that York's Prom has not been canceled, but ticket sales will be postponed until April.
The abrupt closure of the district schools, as well as all of the schools in the state of Illinois by order of Governor J.B. Pritzker brought a lot of overwhelming change to students and faculty. However, e-learning should help bring normality and structure for the next couple of weeks so students are prepared for what the future may hold.
"It's helpful to have real facts and information and to have a balance between being conscious of the decisions you make but also not panicking," York math teacher Erik Westerberg said. "Going into the e-learning week, it is important to know the school is still trying to accommodate to provide some normalcy for kids while instilling protective measures for the entire community to make sure that if we have some spread of this virus that it is contained. Students should try to see it as an opportunity to have some of the same structure as before and not fall behind."
Election Day 2022 is upon the Elmhurst community
Smoothies making a return to York despite staff shortages
New school year at York means new changes around the building
The Class of 2022 says "goodbye" to the school they've know for years and "hello" to their futures


Community members on Bellenden Road are excited about their first Bellenden big tree lighting and the gift collection for Southwark day centre for asylum seekers.
The lights come on at 5.30 12 December 2015 in the Sun Shine Garden on the corner of Choumert Road and Bellenden Road. Building on the success of the Bellenden Road big lunch, the Bellenden big tree was inspired by a local resident Anne Bowers' memory of a similar event in her hometown as a child and a real appetite to build in the community spirit of the big lunch.
The event has been sponsored by local residents with a lot of support from the Bellenden Road businesses including Melange chocolate shop,Threads, Flock and Herd, In Car Multi Media, The Begging Bowl, Trio, the General Store, the Village Grocer, and Paul's Custom Cycles. Gareth James property have paid for the tree which is very generous.
Please come and join local residents, our local businesses, the Mayor, me and my fellow Councillors Jamille Mohammed and Councillor Nick Dolezal.


Adaptation of the long-running Marvel comic 'The Incredible Hulk', research scientist Dr. Bruce Banner's (Eric Bana) failed experiments cause him to mutate into a monstrously powerful and savage green-skinned behemoth whenever he loses control of his emotions. Jennifer Connelly plays his love interest Betty Ross, Nick Nolte plays Bruce's dangerous father, and Sam Elliott plays Betty's father, the tough-as-nails General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross.
Green is good! The march of the Comic Books movie adaptations continues. This has got to be one of the best thanks to the A-List writer/director team of Lee and Schamus. The cast is exceptionally hot too - including Oscar winner Connelly.
"I'm still better looking than Nick Nolte!"


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Dylan Martinez – Mini Water Bag Sculpture
Hyper-realistic hand-blown water bag glass sculpture by American sculptor Dylan Martinez from his illusory series of work titled "H2O/SiO2". Special numbered edition exclusive to Micucci Interiors! Each sculpture is both hollow and solid, and is individually hand-sculpted from a crystal-clear glass. A fun addition to your art collection, fooling most people who look at them! The water portion of the bag is entirely solid glass, while the top components are hollow blown glass. Signed & numbered by the artist. Please note the product images are only for general reference, as each sculpture is different from one to another due to the unique nature of these pieces.
Ranges from 20 – 24.9 cm (7.9″ – 9.8″) height by 11 – 13 cm (4.3″ – 5.1") width by 8 – 9 cm (3.1″ – 3.6") depth
Artist Dylan Martinez combines several glassblowing and sculpting techniques to form these hyper-realistic plastic bags from molten glass. Through these works, Martinez creates scenarios that obscure the viewer's interpretation of reality and illusion. Driven by a deep curiosity in perception, Martinez creates these unique sculptures that convince the eye that the sculptures are just as they appear, plastic bags filled with water. Dylan's art often examines the boundaries of human perception. His work challenges the viewer's expectations through the manipulation of light, space, and the optical properties of glass. While influenced by traditional techniques in glassmaking, he constantly strives to discover novel approaches to exploit the material and create a lens to view the world afresh.
Through Dylan's artwork, the artist creates scenarios in which the viewer must question their capacity to navigate between reality and illusion. His curiosity of perception is driven by the fact that he is red-green colourblind. Having a deficit in his colour vision is an alternative way of seeing things. Inspired by Trompe L'oeil (an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion), these pieces are made entirely out of hot glass while it is between 650-1150 degrees, which is then appearing as plastic bags of water. The trapped movement of the rising bubbles and the gesture of the forms convince the eye that the sculptures are just as they seem. What is fascinating is that our desires often override our true perception of reality and you believe what you think is visible as the truth.
Dylan Martinez earned his MFA in Glass at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He has studied with master craftsman across the U.S. and abroad. Most recently Dylan completed a month-long residency working with Venetian glass masters in Murano, Italy. His sculptures are sought after internationally with exhibitions in the United States, Italy, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Taiwan, and Singapore. His artwork has been featured in several publications such as Elle Decoration UK, American Craft Magazine, Interior Design Magazine, and Aesthetica Magazine to name a few.
*Price does not include customs clearance/duty tax. This is the responsibility of the recipient once the order clears customs in your country.
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Tag Archives: Steve Richards
The world probably doesn't need another review of Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney by now, but you're going to get one anyway. Rooney's much anticipated third novel tells the story of Alice and her friend Eileen, both approaching 30 and living in Ireland, having met as roommates at university. Alice is a successful novelist who meets warehouse worker Felix through a dating app. Eileen is getting over a break-up by flirting with a man called Simon who she has known since childhood. Rather than getting in touch via texts or calls, Alice and Eileen continue their long-distance friendship by having lengthy earnest conversations via email about capitalism. On balance, I found this epistolary device too convenient and less convincing than the instant messaging chats in Conversations with Friends which remains my favourite of her three novels to date. Nevertheless, 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' further cements Rooney's signature narrative style, which is more about pacing than plot and achieved very skilfully, and she remains particularly good at portraying power dynamics through dialogue and writing endings which are open yet not frustratingly so.
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Lockdown Reading: Part One
Lots of people might be seeking out comfort reads in these strange times, but it seems that I am not one of them. Anyone with anxieties about hospitals, lockdown or politics probably won't want to look at the books I have been reading recently which include a novel set in a hospital, diaries written by a prisoner at HMP Wandsworth and a survey of modern UK Prime Ministers from Harold Wilson to Theresa May. On the plus side, all three books contain a fair amount of dark humour.
Bodies by Jed Mercurio is the 2002 novel which forms the basis of the BBC TV drama of the same name which aired from 2004-06 about whistleblowing in hospitals. Best known for creating the TV series Line of Duty and Bodyguard, Mercurio trained as a junior doctor in Birmingham and his knowledge and experience is evident in a grimly realistic account of frontline healthcare. It is clear that his debut novel was very much an early blueprint for the TV series which, in my view, is far more developed in terms of plot and characterisation, both of which are only lightly sketched in the novel. The TV series is set in an obstetrics and gynaecology department with junior doctor Rob Lake suspecting that consultant Roger Hurley is negligent towards his patients. The novel shares the same central theme of whistleblowing and sees an unnamed newly qualified house officer fresh out of medical school starting work in an accident and emergency department. He makes mistakes resulting in injury and death, as do his colleagues, and the central dilemma is neatly summarised towards the end: "Whether as doctors we make an honest mistake or we commit a huge clanging act of incompetence, the system treats us the same" (p. 329). The unnamed protagonist becomes detached and disillusioned as the boundaries between right and wrong become increasingly blurred. I wasn't sure the dramatic tension on screen would be as effective in the book but I would say both are equally stressful with plenty of black humour and cynicism thrown in for good measure. 'Bodies' is engaging and pacy but definitely not for the faint-hearted.
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Empty weight (EW) is the sum of the 'as built' manufacturer's empty weight (MEW), plus any standard items (SI) plus any operator items (OI), EW = MEW + SI + OI. The EW is calculated for each aircraft series and each unique configuration of an aircraft and is confirmed by periodically weighing it.
The "Operating empty weight" (OEW) is the sum of the empty weight and the crew plus their baggage.

Standard items include all structural modification or configuration orders that may have altered the MEW, including all fluids necessary for operation such as engine oil, engine coolant, water, hydraulic fluid and unusable fuel.
Operator items include fixed, optional equipment added by the operator for service reasons.

The weight added to the aircraft above its OEW for a given flight is variable and includes fuel for the flight and the cargo. Cargo depends upon the type of aircraft; i.e., passengers plus baggage for a transport or commuter airplane, materiel for a cargo airplane, stores for fighters/bombers and service loads such as meals and beverages. Fuel and cargo weights may alter the centre of gravity and flight performance, and require careful calculation before each flight.

Aircraft purchase price by type is a close linear function of EW.

See also
 Maximum takeoff weight
 Aircraft gross weight
Zero-fuel weight

References

Aircraft weight measurements

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by Evan Minsker
Spotify Announces Its Own Award Show
The Spotify Awards aim to offer a "true reflection of what fans are listening to"
Courtesy of Spotify
Less than 24 hours after the 2020 Grammy Awards nominees were announced, Spotify has announced an awards show of its own. It's called the Spotify Awards, and the inaugural ceremony takes place on March 5 in Mexico City. According to a statement, the Spotify Awards aim to offer a "true reflection of what fans are listening to."
"Thanks to streaming and the true audience size of Mexico, users are in the front seat like never before. We decided to celebrate this by recognizing what users love based entirely on their listening. The Spotify Awards is all about this, giving everyone an opportunity to be part of the show," Mia Nygren, Spotify's Managing Director for Latin America, said in a statement. Check out Spotify's announcement video and playlist below.


Photographing Scale Models - Supplies.
Preserving your craftsmanship and work on a model, for years and generations to come is important.
Photographs are a great way to create images to share your projects, both online and off.
(Note that by using two of these end to end you can expand the length for photographing larger objects).
While I'm not a photographer per se', I do like to take photos of my models, and it's neccessary when I write my books and magazines. I moved onto digital many years ago. I now use a camera that has the ability to take images as low as one centimeter away.
I'm not an expert on cameras or even taking pictures, but I know what has worked for me, especially when trying to photograph a model. I build all kinds of models, large and small, from cars to spaceships, and through trial and error, I've come to use what's familiar with me.
Small Table Top Lights - The smaller tabletop LED lights are what I usually use today. I use2, 3, or 4 of them at a time. They produce a very bright light which highlights all the areas of the models. Positioning these lights around the model helps keep the shadows at a minimum. This is what you want because a dark shadow will obscure any details on the model. I typically use one on the left and right, and I have another that shines down from an elevated point (from atop a cardboard box in my case).
Different kinds of models and paint colors may require different positions, so they are easy to move around and try different ways. If you have any glass, a car windshield or aircraft cockpit canopy, you want to try and minimize the lights reflecting off those when you can in a photo.
Umbrella Lights - I do use a pair of these now and then, especially if the model is large. I still use the Tabletop lights, but to get a softer and more even light across the model, I use them all together.
Camera Tripods - A tripod helps steady a camera so you get a clear shot. The closer you get to a model to take a photo, the more likely there will be even the slightest hand movemnet. This gets amplified in an image and you end up with a fuzzy picture. A tripod keeps the camera steady, much better than holding it in your hand freely. Tripods come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. I use a small cheap one, nothing fancy.
Today, many smart phones take very high resolution images, better than many digital cameras on the market. But you still want to use a tripod when you can. A steady phone will give you better results.
Photography Backgrounds - I've tried many types of backgrounds, from many types of materials. Today I use a simple photography white cloth background sheet. It was originally around 6 x 9 feet. but I cut it in half, and use a bench table to lay it on and prop it in the back to have a seamless horizon. There really aren't any small sheets, and the larger ones can easily be cut with scissors. Plus, if you cut it in half, you have an extra one in case someting happens to the first half you're using. They are inexpensive, so you mght as well get the large ones.
If you get any wrinkles in the cloth (and you will if you move it around a lot), a common clothing iron and some misted water will take of those.
Sometimes you will see "photography booths". With the internet and eCommerce everywhere, these are very common for photographing small objects to put on a website. I have never tried one, but my feeling is they are to small for models (unless you're building only 28mm Warcraft figures), and they are limited when it comes to lighting possibilities. I feel that one light position doesn't work on all models. So, these might be great for web shots of a watch or jewelry, but not really models. I'm sure there are modelers that use them, you'll have to judge if they fit your photo needs or not.
I use white as a background for most photos. However, I occasionally photograph spaceships (and some white painted models) that require a black background. I've tried many things over the years, but I've had the best resuts with black velvet cloth. I doesn't reflect any light, unless you get a wrinkle in it, and it's easy to remove any artifacts in a photo with Photoshop (but that's rarely needed).
Black and White Display Boards - These are very handy, especially for quick photos. I just lay them on the white cloth, position the model, setup my lights, and take a picture. For the white one it provides a wrinkle free base to work from. The black one has a matte side, and the other side is glossy, almost like a black mirror. These are especially useful for very close up photos of model parts, or images of aircraft cockpits or a car model engine bay. Lighting can be tricky on the gloss black side because it will reflect your lighting just like a mirror, so you have to position the model and your camera angle to avoid that, but it's easily done.
That's about it for the basics for taking images of your models. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars to get good photos. You can do that of course, but there's nothing wrong with saving a few dollars here and there as well.
Cameras - I'm not a camera expert. But if you buy a new camera, you need to make sure it can take close-up photos. Always check the technical details. How close can you get to take a clear photo?
If you already take images with your cell phone, just take a few minutes to try different distances and see what works.
This is what I typically use above most of the time. If a model is bigger, I use a larger box for the rear light and the horizon, and unfold the cloth sheet wider to accomodate the larger / longer model. The umbrella lights are behind me (when I took this photo) , and I just turn them on and bring them forward when they are needed.
This is conveniant for me, as it doesn't take up much space, and when I want to take a photo I can do it right away. I leave it set up all the time as it is.


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Renesas Enhances Security and Privacy for Bluetooth 5 Connections
Provides Full Support Including Long-Range and Mesh Network, and Single-Chip System Control and Wireless Communication
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced the RX23W – a 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) featuring Bluetooth 5.0 for IoT endpoint devices such as home appliances and healthcare equipment. By combining Bluetooth 5.0 with Renesas' Trusted Secure IP on its popular high-performance RX MCU family, Renesas offers customers an optimized single-chip solution for system control and wireless communication, while also providing a more secure way to answer the Bluetooth security risks such as eavesdropping, tampering, and viruses.
The new RX23W is based on Renesas' RXv2 core (Note 1), which provides outstanding computational performance with improved FPU (Note 2) and DSP functions and operates at a maximum clock frequency of 54 MHz. The RX23W provides full Bluetooth® 5.0 Low Energy support including long-range and mesh networking functions and achieves the industry's lowest level reception mode peak power consumption at 3.0 mA. Furthermore, it integrates a rich set of peripheral functions that are indispensable for IoT equipment, including security, touch key, USB, and CAN functions. These functions allow the RX23W to implement both system control and Bluetooth wireless functions for IoT endpoint equipment such as home appliances, health care equipment, and sports and fitness equipment on a single chip. In addition, the RX23W's Bluetooth mesh functions make it optimal for industrial IoT equipment collecting sensor data within a factory or a building.
Key Features of the RX23W MCU:
Full functional support for Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy and outstanding reception characteristics The RX23W supports long distance communication (long range: 400 m), 2 Mbps (megabit per second) data throughput, and Bluetooth mesh networking, supporting the full functionality of Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy. Furthermore, the RX23W achieves a 3.0 mA reception mode peak current – the industry's lowest level – and a reception sensitivity level of -105 dBm at 125 Kbps.
A basic protocol stack package and all standard profiles In addition to a Bluetooth 5.0 basic protocol stack package, Renesas provides API functions that conform to all standard profiles, including a Health Thermometer Profile (HTP), an Environment Sensing Profile (ESP), and an Automation I/O profile (AIOP). These allow users to start prototype development and evaluation quickly and can speed up the user's development process.
A revolutionary development environment that allows simultaneous development of system control and communication control Renesas provides a Smart Configurator, implemented in a GUI, that can generate all types of MCU peripheral function driver code and pin settings for the e2 Studio integrated development environment (IDE) to generate the Bluetooth driver code. Renesas also developed a QE for BLE that can generate programs for custom profiles and embed them in user application programs to support application program development. Renesas also developed a Bluetooth Trial Tool Suite that allows users to perform initial wireless characteristics evaluations and Bluetooth functional verification in a GUI. The RX23W target board includes antennas and has already acquired certification under Radio Law. The recommended reference price of this board will be US$55 per unit (excluding tax).
Secure communications MCU for the IoT The RX23W integrates Renesas' Trusted Secure IP (TSIP) as part of its built-in hardware security engine. The TSIP driver uses strong encryption key management with hardware accelerators to securely boot customers' IoT devices and protect them from security threats. Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CVAP) certification is expected.
Reduced Bill of Materials through integration The RX23W includes a dedicated Bluetooth® high-precision low-speed on-chip oscillator, eliminating the need for external matching circuits and external capacitors. This reduces both BOM (bills of materials) costs and circuit board areas, resulting in lower IoT equipment manufacturing costs.
Note 1: The RX23W includes the RXv2 core, which achieves the high performance of 4.33 Coremark/MHz. Coremark is a benchmark test that the EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium has specialized for evaluating CPU cores. It is a set of programs written in the C language that perform operations such as data reads and writes, integer calculations, and control operations. The performance value per unit operating frequency is a score using the CC-RX V3 RX family C/C++ compiler.
Note 2: FPU (floating point unit): A function unit that is dedicated to performing floating point calculations.


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Gresham, Ore. – Sophomore Philip Noble of Treasure Valley overcame a 105 point deficit going into today's remaining five events in the men's multi events to pass Clackamas freshman Dominick Walker to take the Decathlon Championship.
Walker went into the day leading the field with 3475 points and continue to hold the lead until the pole vault (third event of the day) where Noble's winning vault of 4.5m (14′ 9.16″) was 200 points better than Walker's performance. The pole vault dropped Walker into third behind Lane freshman Kevin Godfrey, who scored the second best vault at 4.4m (4′ 5.22″).
Walker pulled back into second in the following event, javelin, with the second best throw of 44.35m (158′ 7.54″) just short of Lane freshman J.J Rosenburg's toss of 49.33m (161′ 10.12″).
Noble led Walker by 115 pts going into the final event, 1500m, but left no doubt about the championship when he blew away the field with a winning time of 4:19.96, nearly five seconds faster than the 1500m runner-up, sophomore Tim Armstrong of Spokane who finished third overall.
Cook started the day in fourth place but had strong performances in today's three events, including the top javelin throw of 34.37m (112′ 9.14″).
Mt Hood freshman Catherine Sims began the day in third place and easily finished the meet in third, 244 points ahead of Clark sophomore Brooklyn Holton.
The top three finishers; Noble, Walker and Armstrong for the men and Sims, Taylor and Sims earned NWAACC All-American honors.
The remaining NWAACC Track & Field Championship events will take place on May 21-23 in Spokane.
Coaches' comments: Matt has been shaking off a little rust but is now beginning to run fast again. Though the results indicate he got 4th in the Pioneer open, he blew his heat away and was running by himself. I have mentioned it several times…the men's 800m at NWAACC is going to be HOT. Romey concluded his meet by running a 48.7ish anchor leg on a season PR relay performance.
Coaches' comments: Comments about athlete's performance(s): Both were new PR's (Discus-8' PR, SP-1' PR) and we are really impressed w/ Griffon as he played basketball and has only been out for a month. He is the new NWAACC leader in the Discus.
Coaches' comments: Catherine took about a second off of her hurdles time for the year; she won the 400m in the pioneer open with a good time; she competed well in the heptathlon earlier in the week; and she ran huge in the meet winning 4x400m Relay. Catherine is very versatile and is on the verge of improving her marks to the next level.
Another coach wrote, "She won both the 200 and 400 at the Lewis and Clark Invitational".
Coaches' comments: Dianne broke our school record in the women's Triple Jump by over a foot. She placed second in the event, just getting beat by 1 cm.
Coaches comments: Terra won the 100m hurdles with a very good time (15.14) for early April. Terra's high school PR was a 15.32. She also ran legs on the winning 4x100m relay as well as the winning 800m sprint medley. To complete a great day for herself, she broke her own school record with a jump of 12' in the pole vault and got 2nd overall in the event.
Coaches' comments: Lacy's high school PR was a 118' in the javelin. Last week she threw 131ish which was huge for her. This week, she won the javelin in the Pacific NW Relays with a throw of 141'8" (43.18m) which takes her up a level. She also set a new PR in the Hammer and finished 3rd for the competition.
Oregon City, Ore. – JC Cook, the Cougars' 6′ 1″ sophomore guard, has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Central Washington University.
Cook, from Canby, led the 2009 Cougar team to an NWAACC championship, an all time best 29-3 record, and a Southern Region (13-1) title as well. He was also named the Southern Region MVP and on the NWAACC all tournament team.
In 2008, he was selected to the Southern Region 1st team while helping his team to a 2nd place finish in the region. As a freshman, he was one of the top scorers in the NWAACC, averaging 21.7 ppg, then backed it up by averaging 19.1 ppg as a sophomore. He also finished among the NWAACC leaders in steals and assists both seasons.
Cook was actively recruited by more than 20 Division I and Division II schools.
At Central, he joins a program that has been one of the top Division II schools on the west coast. The Wildcats have a consistently proud competitive tradition of excellence that dates back 50 seasons. They have also finished 2nd in the conference each of the past two seasons and have qualified for the Western Regionals in three for the last four years.
This is Jake's first honor this outdoor season and the sixth of his career.
LARAMIE, Wyo. – Wyoming senior Jake Shanklin and New Mexico senior Lee Emanuel have been selected as the Mountain West Conference men's outdoor track & field co-athletes of the week.
While at the inaugural New Mexico Tailwind Invitational in Albuquerque, Shanklin out-threw the field to capture the hammer throw title with a distance of 212′-11.00″ (64.91m). The mark, which is a personal-best for the Ellensburg, Wash., native, was good for sixth all-time in the Wyoming and MWC record books and is the farthest throw in the league this season. Shanklin's toss regionally-qualifies him for the NCAA Championships and currently ranks him tenth in the nation.
Vancouver, WA – Lower Columbia's Tim Mackin recently recorded his 600th win at the helm of the Red Devils' softball program.
Mackin has compiled an astounding 606-135 career record over 17 seasons and has guided Lower Columbia to ten NWAACC championships, including nine of the last ten.
Coach's Comments: Very strong marks. I'm excited to see this NWAACC 800m at the championships.
Another coach wrote, "Both marks are NWAACC leaders and he looked absolutely raw in the 1500 and will run much faster!!!!
Another coach commented, " Spencer walked away from the Willamette Invitational with two personal bests and conference leading times in the 1500 and 800. Despite being a little disappointed with his performance in the 1500 Spencer bounced back with a nearly two second PR in the 800 in his first effort at that distance this season. He is big time talent and is very coachable. Look for big things the rest of the spring.
Spencer has demonstrated the qualities of a high caliber athlete and teammate since joining the team at Lane. He brings positive energy to each practice and is extremely easy to work with.
Coach's comment: Placed second out of thirty athletes, leading the NWAACC, has been a consistent, steady performer.
Coach's comments: The 5000 mark was a :35 second PR and leads the NWAACC by :70 and her 800 mark the next day was also a PR.
Another coach commented, "I was thoroughly impressed by how Brittnee ran in the 5000 at Willamette. I think she pr'ed by 42 seconds or something along those lines, which is basically ridiculous. I heard she said prior to the race she was going to break 18 for Coach Erik Anderson. She proved his influence and presence is still very prevalent.
Coach's comments: This is a school record and we anticipate her breaking it a couple more times this season. She had an awesome attempt at 12'1.50" (3.70m) where she cleared it but brushed it on the way down. Also, she tore up the 3rd leg of the 4x100m relay and ran strong in the 100m hurdles (almost falling about midway and still running sub 16).
Former Green River Gator, David Patton (2002-04) earned one of the final roster spots for the Chicago Cubs bullpen and made his major league debut last night against the Houston Astros.
HOUSTON — The brand-new neon-orange backpack was sitting near the bat bags and catchers' gear, just waiting for David Patton. And he can't wait.
Patton found out Sunday morning he had made the Cubs' Opening Day roster when he met with general manager Jim Hendry in his Houston hotel room. The right-hander, who has spent five seasons in Colorado's system but never pitched above the Class A level, is finally in the big leagues.
Coaches' comments: On a cold wet day in Shoreline, Mitch set a new personal record by taking more than 18 seconds off his previous personal best in the 5,000m. The team's captain, Mitch has consistently been one of the hardest workers in the off-season and that work has continued to pay off in his performances on the track.
Coaches' comments: His third PR throw in as many meets and was the top collegiate thrower for the third meet in a row throwing against 4-year competition.
Coaches' comments: Won the 400 meter dash for the 3rd week in a row and anchored the 1600 relay to first place. Won both races w/ big finishes over some good competition vs. Gonzaga, Whitworth and UPS. She also has over a 3.0 accumulative GPA.
Coaches' comments: Ashley won all three events at the Buc Scoring Meet helping the women defeat Whitworth and UPS. The Hammer mark broke a 7-year old school record plus she is now leading all three throwing events on the NWAACC performance list. More amazing is that she just had a cast removed from her throwing arm last week before the meet. She has a 3.0+ GPA and has signed a full ride with Wyoming!!!!


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Q: Permutation group order of operations and exponent I ran across a problem in my homework that I am not quite sure how to approach. It is $((154)(13))^{13}$. Is this standard order of operations where I can evaluate within the parentheses before exponentiating? Also, is there an efficient way to evaluate this without say evaluating this step by step until you hit the 13th power? For the sake of this problem, we evaluate from right to left. Thanks!

A: First, try to write $(154)(13)$ as a single permutation. That'll be $(1354)$.
Now, note that if you apply $(1354)$ four times, the numbers won't change places. That is, $(1354)^4=Id$. Can you continue from here?

A: $(154)(13)$ is not a disjoint cycle.
their product will be a cycle of length 4.
$p^4 = e\\ p^{12} = e\\p^{13} = p$
Supposing they were disjoint, a $2$ cycle with a $3$ cycle would make a cycle of order $6$

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As fans wait for Juventus' first competitive fixture of the season against Lazio in the Italian Super Cup on 18 August, Bianconeri stars will in the meantime be featuring in another tantalising encounter: on Wednesday 14 August, the Stadio Olimpico in Rome will host a friendly between Italy and Argentina in which six of Antonio Conte's men will be in action.
Azzuri boss Cesare Prandelli has called upon the services of Gianluigi Buffon, Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini, Claudio Marchisio and Andrea Pirlo for this clash between two big powers on the world football stage.
The game will pay homage to Pope Francis, a figure who represents both nations having been born in Buenos Aires but to Italian parents.
It is also a fixture which, above and beyond its important symbolic significance, constitutes a crucial warm-up for the double bill of games that Italy face at the beginning of September (notable amongst which is Italy against the Czech Republic at Juventus Stadium).
It is vital that Prandelli's men get into their stride against Argentina because success in the following two games could ensure the side's passage to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.


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Louth manager Ollie McDonnell admitted Meath had "too much" for his side in Croke Park on Sunday.
The Royals handed Louth a comprehensive nine-point beating on the day with McDonnell acknowledging the impact the setting may of had on his troops.
"They seemed to have just have too much all over the pitch for us," McDonnell said after the match.
"When they attacked they really looked like scoring. We struggled all over the field to contain them and we probably only had four-points scored 10 minutes into the second-half.
"That was probably where the real problem was. We just weren't getting the ball in the right areas, up front.
"You are looking on and wondering which bits can you fix, but we had problems all over the place. They just seemed to be a better team on the day," he added.
McDonnell continued: "When you play in Croke Park, it is a different experience for sure.
"It probably looked like that because we certainly played better in the other games.
"You are not sure whether it was the opposition who were that much better than the other teams we played or whether we just didn't perform as well.
"We certainly didn't perform today. A lot of our kick-passing was being intercepted and we looked very slow on the ball coming out of defence.
"You could put it down to playing at Croke Park, it could be a bit of nervousness or the occasion, but you are just not sure, in the end we were well beaten," the former Louth forward said.
The dismissal of captain David Quigley in the first-half did little to aid the cause either, McDonnell conceded.
"It just made it that bit more difficult, we were under pressure, they were well on top, but with the sending off, we just had to rejig the team around a wee bit.
"It is not ideal when you have to do that. It certainly didn't help us because we might have been able to stick closer to them if it didn't happen.
Despite the performance, and the result, McDonnell still reckons there are players capable of making the step-up to the senior grade.
"We've had some good performers over the few games.
"Who were the stand out performers from today? Niall McCabe looked very good at the back, I thought Robbie Brodigan competed very well in the middle and drove forward.
"You would be looking at William Woods and Aaron O'Brien, who looked very good when he came in.
"They were probably the standout players. Ciarán Sheridan I thought was quite strong on the wing, he won three or four kick-outs early on for us and he played quite well when we put him at centre-back.
"Louth will always be looking for fellas who can bolster the squad," said McDonnell.


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The deadlift is one of three key powerlifting exercises, with the other two being the squat and the bench press. There are two common ways of performing the exercise: standard deadlift and sumo deadlift. The main difference between the two styles relates to which muscle groups are used during the lift. The placement of the feet and hands are slightly different in a sumo deadlift than in a regular deadlift, which provides for the opportunity to use alternate muscle groups. As with any weightlifting exercise, which of the two styles is best for an individual depends on his or her level of training and body structure.
The goal of a deadlift is to lift a weight off of the floor using the legs and back and to successfully lock-out, or complete, the repetition. The primary muscles used in the performance of the deadlift are the quadriceps, hamstrings, and glutei maximi of the legs, as well as the trapezii, latisimus dorsii, and erector spinae of the back. These muscles all work in conjunction along with many other stabilizer muscles to lift the weight off of the floor and into the lock-out position. Performance of the standard deadlift alone can lead to a strength plateau, as the same muscles are emphasized during every lift.
The sumo deadlift is only a slight departure from the standard deadlift and can be very useful in breaking through a plateau. In performing a sumo deadlift, the feet are placed farther apart with the toes pointing away from the body at approximately a 45° angle. The hands grip the bar just inside of the legs, near the calves. The back is kept arched by pushing the abdomen forward and the tops of the thighs should be parallel to the floor at the start of the lift. Anyone utilizing the sumo deadlift should look up throughout the lift to ensure that a proper spinal arch is maintained.
The deadlift is arguably the single most effective way to build overall strength and muscle mass. The sumo deadlift, in particular, places a special emphasis on the legs and gluteus maximus. Proper performance of the sumo deadlift can greatly aid any weightlifting regimen and may help break through any plateaus reached by performing the standard deadlift alone. A deadlift, regardless of the type, should always be performed with a spotter and proper form adhered to in order to help avoid injury.
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The simultaneous dismemberment of these sculptures, reused in the same foundation, whether in capitals or the statue, reflects the removal of these materials to a common source, which can only be the ruins of a whole whose cultural role is attested by the presence of the crouching man; the latter characterising, with pillars for cut heads, reused at the same time as the sculptures, the Salluvian sanctuaries whose historically known destruction was due to the punitive operations carried out, at the request of Marseille, by the Romans in 125-124 BC".
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Building mutual relationships between the Northeastern Iowa Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary
Youth Gathering Guest
Áron Czapek joined the youth from Trinity Lutheran, Mason City, to travel to the ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston this summer. Áron is a 17-year-old Lutheran living in Budapest. He attends secondary school where he is in a specialized science class. After graduation he plans to go to university.
Áron shared about his visit to the U.S. and experience at the Youth Gathering in a Lutheran Magazine in Hungary.
Read Áron's story >>
Camp Ewalu Guest
Eszter Andó, a 24-year-old woman from Hungary who is serving as a member of the camp staff at Ewalu Camp and Retreat Center this summer.
Eszter was baptized in the Lutheran Church. At age six she began playing piano, including for the church and in competitions. In her free time she is a vocalist and piano player in a rock band.
Eszter is currently in university studies for biology and geography teaching. During her most recent semester, she taught a high school geography class. She is coming to Ewalu to gain work experience with youth in an international environment and to improve her language and communication skills.
Companion Synod-Hungary Visits
Download this excerpt from a 2017 newsletter of the Lutheran Church in Hungary that highlights some of the companion synod visits that have taken place between the Northeastern Iowa Synod, ELCA and the Lutheran Church in Hungary.
Hungarian students visit the synod
Two health care students from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and participants in the Lutheran Church's "Roma College" visited the Northeastern Iowa Synod from April 20 – May 5, 2017.
Vanda Krisztina Túró was studying to be a health care visitor, and Judith Megyesi was studying to be a midwife. In addition to practicing their English and visiting some area attractions, the students visited health care facilities and shadowed a county nurse, a school nurse, a parish nurse, and a physical therapist who works in geriatric and pediatric settings. They also visited some congregations, colleges and social ministries, as well as two farms.
Thank you to everyone who helped to make these guests from Hungary feel welcome!
Roma College director visits Northeastern Iowa Synod
The Northeastern Iowa Synod welcomed Pastor Erzsébet Molnár, director of the Lutheran-sponsored Roma College in Hungary, as a guest from May 30 to June 15, 2016. The Roma College is a residential college program that provides mointoring, cultural education and other support to help Roma students transition to university life.
During her visit, Molnár met with the synod's Companion Synod – Hungary Network, preached at Trinity Lutheran in Mason City, and participated in WIYLDE, the Wholly Iowa Youth Leadership Discipling Event at Wartburg College. She addressed the Synod Assembly, where she also led a Hungary Companion Synod seminar and joined youth for fellowship.
In addition, Molnár met with people responsible for helping minority populations integrate in academic institutions at Wartburg College, the University of Northern Iowa, Augsburg College, and College Possible in Minneapolis.
Roma guest visits Northeastern Iowa Synod
The Northeastern Iowa Synod and Wartburg College welcomed a Hungarian Roma guest in May 2015 as part of the companion synod relationship between the Northeastern Iowa Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary (ELCH). At the same time, a Wartburg Theological Seminary student visited a Hungarian university as a guest of the ELCH.
Jeri was the guest of honor at two receptions in Waverly, and he worshipped and spoke about his Roma culture at four churches: Zion (Jubilee), La Porte City; Zion, Castalia; United, Chester; and St. Paul (Maple Leaf), Elma. In addition, he visited two Iowa farms; toured the Iowa Capitol, the State Historical Museum and the offices of the Iowa Department of Human Services in Des Moines; met with faculty at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque; and attended a Rachel Kurtz concert.
Wartburg College provided lodging for Jeri, who recently received his social work degree from the University of Debrecen in Hungary. Jeri accompanied Wartburg social work students on their field placements to area social service agencies, including North Star Community Services, The Larrabee Center, Boys & Girls Club of the Cedar Valley, and St. Paul Lutheran's Saints Alive after-school program in Waverly.
Jeri enjoyed his time in Iowa and noted that he especially liked being among people who showed no racism toward him for being a Roma (formerly called Gypsy), like he encounters in Hungary. Jeri left Iowa on May 22.
"We're really doing some creative things in this companion relationship," said Kit Kleinhans, Wartburg College professor of religion who holds the Mike and Marge McCoy Family Distinguished Chair in Lutheran Heritage and Mission. "This exchange has the opportunity to be transformational in the life of this young Roma man and also in the life of one of our synod's seminary students, to see how things are done in a very different culture and how much the church is involved in addressing some of their social issues."
The synod and Wartburg College funded the airfare and room and board expenses for Jeri's visit. Congregations and individuals are invited to contribute toward those costs.
"Our hope is that this exchange will be only a first step in a continuing and expanding partnership between the synod, Wartburg and the Roma College at the University of Debrecen," said Pastor Mark Anderson, assistant to the Bishop. "The opportunities this collaboration makes possible are staggering.
Wartburg seminarian visits Hungary
Katie Frush, a first year student at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque and a member of Zion (Jubilee) Lutheran Church in La Porte City, spent a few weeks in the spring of 2015 at the Roma College in Nyíregyháza in Hungary as a cross-cultural immersion.
She worked alongside Roma College students and had opportunities to engage in a network of social programs, such as a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, elderly care facility, women's shelter, meal program and addiction center. She stayed in a Nyíregyháza College dormitory.
Follow Katie's blog about her time in Hungary.
Read about Katie's trip to Hungary in 2015.
Northeastern Iowa Synod Trip to Hungary
Members of the Northeastern Iowa Synod and Wartburg College visited Hungary in May 2013 as part of the Companion Synod relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hungary.
Ashley Debilzen, a Young Adult in Global Mission (YAGM), writes about the Iowa group's visit in her blog. The group met Ashley at the Children's House in Gorogszallas where she works. Ashley accompanied the group to Nyiregyhaza where they visited the Roma College and met another YAGM, Kristen Wall. The visit to the Roma camp was a life-changing day for many in the group.
Young Adults Serving in Hungary
We invite you to join the Northeastern Iowa Synod in sponsoring the Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) in the coming year.
Learn more about the 2018-2019 YAGM volunteers
About the Compaion Synod – Hungary Network
The Northeastern Iowa Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hungary began a companion synod relationship in 2011. Through this relationship, synod members have an opportunity to expand their horizons to learn, grow and pray with and for our brothers and sisters in Hungary.
In August 2011, the Rev. Dr. Tamas Fabiny, bishop of the Northern District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary (ELCH), and his wife visited the ELCA churchwide offices in Chicago and several sites in the Northeastern Iowa Synod. In May 2013, Bishop Steven Ullestad and others from the Northeastern Iowa Synod visited Bishop Fabiny, congregations and other sites in Hungary.
Our faith and synod are strengthened by our relationships with our companion synod.
Our companionship builds us up — we learn from other people, which helps us recognize what is happening here.
Seek ways to get our congregations involved.
Submit a supplement to the Star newsletter before year end.
Continue to support of the Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) project.
Share about YAGMs and companion synod at conference assemblies.
Work to establish congregational connections with churches in Hungary.
Feature Katie Frush in Star newsletter about her trip to Hungary.
Arrange a conference call with Bishop Tamas Fabiny about the Syria refugee crisis and the 60th Anniversary of the 1956 uprising in Hungary.
Utilize communications tools such as Skype to connect youth groups, build partnerships and exchange ideas.
Lutheran Church in Hungary: www.lutheran.hu/indexe.php
Learn more about the Lutheran Church in Hungary
FACILITATOR — Jon Tehven
SYNOD COUNCIL LIAISON — Rev. Erika J. Kielstrup
SYNOD STAFF — Rev. Mark A. Anderson
Refugee Crisis in Hungary
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is working with Lutheran companion churches, such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary (ELCH) and the Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia, and with The Lutheran World Federation, to assist people seeking refuge in Europe now and to meet their future needs.
Lutheran Disaster Relief is working in partnership to provide food, diapers, blankets, water, health kits, hygiene kits and psychosocial services to assist those who have fled their homes.
Lutheran World Relief is shipping mission quilts, baby care kits and personal care kits to Serbia to distribute to refugees and migrants. LWR is supporting ACT Alliance members to provide humanitarian support, such as hygiene items, winter coats and blankets, emergency shelter and psychosocial support in Hungary, Serbia and Greece.
The bishop of the Lutheran church in Hungary, the Rev. Tamas Fabiny, has said that the ELCH is working to "promote a culture of mutual respect, inclusion and love" among refugees entering Budapest. Read Bishop Fabiny's letter about Refugee Crisis in Hungary.
Response to the Migration Crisis
(PowerPoint Jan. 2015)
Learn more how you can support organizations responding to this this refugee crisis:
Lutheran Disaster Response
Pen Pals from Hungary
The Jubilee Conference (Cedar Falls-Waterloo area) of the Northeastern Iowa Synod has begun a pen pal relationship with fifth and sixth grade students from Szombatheyly, Hungary. The conference received 27 letters from the students, with assistance from Chelsea Paulsen who serves as a Young Adult in Global Mission (YAGM) teaching English at the Lutheran school in Szombathely.
The students introduced themselves, told about their families, and shared about their interests, such as playing soccer, volleyball, and basketball, swimming, reading, biking, shopping, listening to music, camping, dancing, and playing musical instruments.
Watch for more updates as this pen pal connection continues to grow.


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BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, the last in our series on Faith and Family in America. Today, how churches and other religious groups are responding to the growing number of families who are not the traditional married mother and father with children — single mothers, cohabiting men and women, gay couples, and the divorced.
Judy Valente begins her report with conservative Protestant evangelicals trying to preserve traditional marriage.
TONY PERKINS (President, Family Research Council) (Speaking at Event): We've got to take a stand, even if it means people say bad things about you.
JUDY VALENTE: Tony Perkins is champing at the bit. The president of the Family Research Council told a California audience he is looking forward to the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito. Perkins believes Alito will not be the kind of high court judge who tries to redefine marriage, but one who will uphold traditional religious values.
Mr. PERKINS (Speaking at Event): This nation will only be as strong as its families, and the families will only be as strong as the parents and marriages that bind them together.
VALENTE: Earlier this month, Texas became the 19th state to pass an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Mr. PERKINS: In every state where a marriage amendment has made its way to the ballot it has passed, on average with over 70 percent of the support of the voters.
VALENTE: These votes, he says, will put pressure on Congress to pass a similar amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Mike and Harriet McManus started Marriage Savers nearly 10 years ago. They say their program has saved 50,000 marriages that would have ended in divorce.
MIKE MCMANUS (Co-founder, Marriage Savers): You are declaring, by your actions here, a new day for marriage and an old day for divorce.
VALENTE: McManus says churches need to stop being wedding factories and start working to preserve marriages. Marriage Savers appears to have made an impact. Earlier this month, Cheyenne, Wyoming became the 198th city in which his "Community Marriage Policy" has been adopted. Clergy from different denominations signed the policy, agreeing to require four months of preparation for couples wanting to marry in their churches. The plan also provides support for troubled marriages.
Mr. MCMANUS: We think that there are couples in every church who could be trained to be mentors — to help people either prepare for marriage, to enrich existing ones, or save troubled ones. And this is really a new idea.
Pastor JERRY DYCE: I'm Pastor Jerry Dyce; my wife Opal, from Cheyenne Christian Center.
VALENTE: Those who volunteer to be mentors get a weekend of training before they begin to counsel other couples.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: I came because I love children, and having been a teacher for many, many years, and watching the pain that children go through from a divorce — they don't adjust well.
HARRIET MCMANUS (Co-founder, Marriage Savers): They're sitting on a great mother lode of wisdom, a wealth of experience, some of it not so pleasant, but hopefully some of that experience has helped them to hone and fashion a more successful, more healthy marriage over the years.
VALENTE: Pam and Chad, who live together in Chicago, are about to take a premarriage inventory. She is Methodist. He is Catholic. And they want to get married in the Catholic Church. Each has filled out a lengthy questionnaire which includes specific questions for interfaith couples and for cohabiting couples. Now they will compare notes with a facilitator from the Archdiocese of Chicago.
EILEEN SMITH (Facilitator, Archdiocese of Chicago): Rather than marry and then over time have some of these items come to the surface — both strengths and challenges — take a look at it ahead of time and be able to communicate about it. Are we ready to plunge in?
PAM: I think so.
Ms. SMITH: Okay.
ELSIE RADTKE (Director of Family Ministries, Archdiocese of Chicago): Many of the young couples getting married today come from families of divorce, and they do not want to go though the pain of divorce. So their rational is, "If we live together it's like test-driving the car. If we live together, then we'll see how that is." Of course, what they don't know is what research is showing us, and that is that about 70 percent of the couples that do cohabit will end up divorced. You cannot test-drive commitment.
VALENTE: Pam and Chad, both from stable, intact families, are confident about their relationship.
PAM (To Ms. Smith): We have mutual respect for each other that I think we'll always have. I think that's kind of what makes a marriage work.
CHAD (To Ms. Smith): We seem to do everything together and we work together really well.
VALENTE: Without a camera in the room, Pam and Chad would go on to discuss more delicate issues, including their different faiths and their approaches to child rearing. In the end, the couple said they were pleased with the experience.
CHAD: I think we learned that we already have a strong communication base between the two of us and that, I think, we're going to be in really good shape.
PAM: Yeah.
VALENTE: The counseling doesn't always go so well. Sometimes couples discover the relationship wasn't as good as they thought.
Ms. RADTKE: One of the ladies in our office that does the facilitation calls herself now the "marriage buster" because she has found that about 20 to 23 percent of the couples that she has worked with — and she's worked with hundreds of couples — end up either postponing their plans to marry or canceling them completely.
VALENTE: For religious institutions, preserving traditional marriage is one aspect of supporting family life. Another is how to support couples who are not married.
Even in some conservative faith traditions, cohabitating couples, single moms, gay couples, and stepfamilies are not uncommon in their congregations. Some churches have been slow to address these changes in family life and now find themselves in a dilemma: how to pass on their traditional religious teachings while still reaching out to nontraditional families.
Sociologist Penny Edgell of the University of Minnesota has studied church outreach to couples and families. She found a lot of nostalgia for the traditional family.
Professor PENNY EDGELL (Sociologist, University of Minnesota): But I also found that there were a lot of congregations where there was really quite a bit of innovation. There was a lot of talk about how we make dual family earners fit. There was a lot of talk about ministry to single parents and the divorced.
Pastor GENE APPEL (Willow Creek Community Church): There's not a person in this room that doesn't need a family — some kind of place to belong, to be loved, to have mercy extended to you there. Let's pray together.
VALENTE: Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago is one of the best-known of the megachurches. There are gay couples and cohabiting couples in the congregation. They are welcome, but there are no specific ministries for them.
Pastor RANDY FRAZEE (First Evangelical Free Church, Chicago): There is certainly a desire for churches to maintain and promote a concept of family that is extremely intact. And yet, again, I think we also have to deal with the reality that there is an enormous pandemic — there's a crisis that's going on, and we're called on to reach out to help people right where they're at.
VALENTE: In contrast to Willow Creek, the First Evangelical Free Church is a much smaller, more intimate congregation on the north side of Chicago. On a recent Sunday, a dramatic presentation on premarital sex, the challenges of marriage, and the issue of homosexuality.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Lord, I'm burning. Lord, I'm burning. Find some nice lady to put me out.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Sometimes it's so easy for we happily married couples. We wag our fingers and shake our fingers at those who didn't make it, feeling all superior. As if we don't all have our own troubles and secrets.
VALENTE: The congregants have developed a real sense of community, lingering long after the service is over. In addition, small groups meet on a regular basis in private homes. Some have become like small families. It is a place for people to share their burdens.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: I had a huge fight with my father yesterday.
JENNIFER: As you know, I wasn't here last week because I was crying.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #4: There was a death in our family.
Pastor BILL SHEREOS (First Evangelical Free Church, Chicago): We can't replace family, but we can provide supportive environments where we do treat one another like families. And we don't have many particular groups that are targeted toward individual kinds of people or kinds of families, but we do a lot of mixtures.
JENNIFER: We were joking at dinner that there really is no functional family. There's no family that's normal.
MARY: Being part of a small group, you get different feedback and different ideas about things because we're related to each other through Christ, but not necessarily through blood or marriage.
Prof. EDGELL: I make a distinction between what I call radical innovation, which is really reconceiving what a family is, and incremental innovation, which is keeping your idea of what a family is, but doing whatever you can in terms of practical changes in ministry to reach out to more people.
Pastor SHEREOS: There are two cultures I think that you have to bridge. And one is the culture of the Bible and the other is the culture in which you live. And to me, the church has to be a bridge between those two cultures,
VALENTE: Divorce is one area where churches do seem to be creating a bridge. St. Peter's Catholic Church in the heart of Chicago's business district is a place where people come and go throughout the day to say a quick prayer or just sit quietly. It also has an active outreach to divorced people.
CARYN WIECZORKIEWICZ (Facilitator, St. Peter's Church): Most of them seem to come to the church because of divorce. They start coming more often to the services here, daily Mass, or stopping in to say a few prayers because it's a time of struggle and there's nowhere else to turn. Nonjudgmental friendship; seeing other people who are struggling as they are, who have the same faith background, who've all come from a background where they truly believed as they stood at the altar, "'Til death do us part" — and now that's all changed.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: For a lot of us growing up Catholic, Mom and Dad, the worst thing I could think of was losing my parents — never divorce.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #5: It was scary. What would happen to my faith, and how it would be accepted in the Church afterwards? It's helped, talking it through with other people.
Ms. WIECZORKIEWICZ: There's really two sets of people. There are people who come to Mass regularly, or who stop in at church when they're going through a struggle — whether it be divorce or illness or whatever — and turn to church. Then there are others who are afraid to ask, they're afraid to find out. They're afraid of rejection. They're trying to do it on their own. And that's when they end up falling away.
VALENTE: Many churches struggle with ministry to unmarried couples.
Pastor SHEREOS: We have couples in our church that live together. And, you know, we don't want to chase them out of the church. We want to minister to them in the name of Jesus. They would not end up being a leader in the church, but we would want them as part of the community.
VALENTE: Another issue is the status of gays, who make up a significant part of this Chicago neighborhood.
Pastor SHEREOS: We have some people in our congregation that would have same-sex attraction; some that would be gay couples. But our church wouldn't give the message that that is a biblically endorsed lifestyle. We would recognize that it's part of the broken world we live in.
VALENTE: Within the Catholic Church, ministry geared to gays is limited. In Chicago, at one church, one night a week, there is a Mass for A.G.L.O, the Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach. It keeps a low profile. The priest did not want a camera at the Mass.
Elsie Radtke, of the Archdiocesan Family Ministries office, sees some signs of change.
Ms. RADTKE: I can't speak for the Church. But I can speak for local parishes, and I have seen on the local level some very, very good pastoral outreach to couples and individuals who are homosexual. And they are treated with respect. They are invited to be part of the community.
Pastor FRAZEE: It's easy for us to tell people what we're against. It's another thing — it takes up more energy and time to come alongside people where they're at and show them grace. And the thing that the evangelical church, by and large, believes is that all of us fall short of the perfection of God. A church can, with great conviction and compassion, maintain a position of what we believe the Bible teaches about what is good, what is right, what is healthy, but at the same time reach out to people where they are in their time of need.
Prof. EDGELL: One of the things we have to be careful of is thinking about religious congregations, religious leaders, religious doctrine as somehow set in stone and that that's what's authentic religiously. Because whether religious communities acknowledge it or not, authentic expressions of faith are ones that are relevant for contemporary society.
VALENTE: Edgell predicts that the most successful churches of the future will be those, like St. Peter's in downtown Chicago, that recognize the new realities of family life and respond compassionately to the members' changing lifestyles.
For RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY this is Judy Valente in Chicago.
ABERNETHY: And this footnote: in our RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY survey, about three quarters of nontraditional families and more than half of traditional families said love is what makes a family, and it doesn't matter if people are gay, straight, married, or single.
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Coral Gables in Miami-Dade County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
George Edgar Merrick
Photographed By Maggie Prats Lora
1. George Edgar Merrick Marker
George Edgar Merrick. Dreamer, writer, poet, philosopher, lover of the beautiful - he made his dream become a reality in the creation of Coral Gables, City Beautiful., Dade County commissioner from 1914 to 1916. He advocated and promoted good highways and transportation., He founded the University of Miami and gave land and money to establish it., He was a founder of the historical association of Southern Florida and was its first president. He was a director of Fairchild Tropical Garden and a trustee of Plymouth Congregational Church. He was Miami Post-Master from 1940 until his death., His dream city of Coral Gables, whose first streets were laid in 1921, is a monument to him. . This historical marker was erected in 1955 by The Historical Association of Southern Florida. It is in Coral Gables in Miami-Dade County Florida
Dreamer, writer, poet, philosopher, lover of the beautiful - he made his dream become a reality in the creation of Coral Gables, City Beautiful.
Dade County commissioner from 1914 to 1916. He advocated and promoted good highways and transportation.
He founded the University of Miami and gave land and money to establish it.
He was a founder of the historical association of Southern Florida and was its first president. He was a director of Fairchild Tropical Garden and a trustee of Plymouth Congregational Church. He was Miami Post-Master from 1940 until his death.
His dream city of Coral Gables, whose first streets were laid in 1921, is a monument to him.
Erected 1955 by The Historical Association of Southern Florida.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Education • Government & Politics • Roads & Vehicles.
Location. 25° 44.929′ N, 80° 15.789′ W. Marker is in Coral Gables, Florida, in Miami-Dade County. Marker is at the intersection
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of Biltmore Way and Southwest 42nd Avenue (State Road 953), on the left when traveling west on Biltmore Way. Located in a park opposite Coral Gables City Hall. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 405 Biltmore Way, Miami FL 33134, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. George E. Merrick (within shouting distance of this marker); Coral Gables Miracle Mile (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Police and Fire Station (approx. 0.2 miles away); City of Coral Gables (approx. half a mile away); Site of Packing House of Coral Gables Plantation (approx. half a mile away); U of M Opened Here (approx. 0.6 miles away); Coral Gables Merrick House (approx. 0.6 miles away); The Historic 1926 White Way Lights (approx. 0.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Coral Gables.
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