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Soaring Unemployment for Young Workers Makes Us Ask: “How Can We Get Creative?”

A recent statistic has been released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealing that 16.7% of ages 18-24 are unemployed in the US as of May 2009 – the highest we’ve experienced in at least 60 years.  The striking number stretches just past the previous record of 16.6% in 1982.  The youngsters’ statistic far exceeds [...]

June 15, 20091 CommentRead More

SAG Unsatisfied with Hollywood Salary Increase

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has struck a two-year deal with the major Hollywood studios to increse the minimum wage for actors of film and primetime TV shows 3% as a part of a $105 million package of improvements.  The deal, however, did not cover appearances on the internet – a hotly debated issue in Hollywood. [...]

June 10, 20091 CommentRead More

Public Invited to Town Hall Meetings on St. Johns County Budget

St. Johns County Administrator Michael Wanchick will be holding public town hall meetings starting Tuesday at the St. Johns County Convention Center at the World Golf Village. Because of the county’s diminishing economy, Wanchick wants to hold these meetings to discover what is truly important to the people of St. Johns County and what is [...]

June 8, 2009No CommentRead More

Two Americans Sentenced to 12 Years in North Korea

Two American reporters, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were sentenced today to 12 years in a labor prison in North Korea.  The two young journalists were reporting on the trafficking of women when they were arrested by North Korean officials on the North Korean-Chinese border. The reporters were working for Al Gore’s California-based Current TV.  [...]

June 8, 2009No CommentRead More

Pres. to Speak in Egypt About U.S.-Muslim Relations

JUNE 2, 2009 – The president plans on travelling to Cairo, Egypt to make a speech to the Muslim world about U.S.-Muslim relations. For the record, I don’t think this is a terrible idea. In fact, I think it’s a healthy move for international and inter-religious dialogue as well as a savvy political strategy for [...]

June 2, 20092 CommentsRead More

North Korea Denounces Peace Treaty with US and South Korea

MAY 29, 2009 – The US military’s security awareness has been on full alert since Thursday when North Korea renounced the treaty keeping peace between North and South Korea since the end of the Korean Conflict in 1953. Leading up to the renouncement, North Korea displayed military prowess with recent underground nuclear testing and short-range [...]

May 29, 20091 CommentRead More

Prayer, Meditation, and Contemplation: Insight for the Contemporary College Student

Mysticism is a wide spectrum, involving many different facets and outlets for the experiencing of the Ultimate. The most common and prevalent in Western culture are the practices of prayer, meditation, and contemplation. By examining Kenneth Leech`s ideas on prayer as a window to our true nature, Kierkegaard`s idea that God is the criterion in [...]

May 27, 20093 CommentsRead More

Evangelism and Holy War: Levinas’s ‘Face’

In his God and Philosophy, Emmanuel Levinas writes of one`s responsibility for his neighbor and viewing the face of that person. In reference to Levinas`s ideas on these matters, I will define the face as the summation of who a person is, and claim that evangelists and militant religious crusaders dissolve the face of the [...]

May 21, 2009No CommentRead More

Observations from Observatory: Individuality from the US to Cape Town

CAPE TOWN – The United States emphasizes the individuality of people. The underlying ideals behind the political and economic systems of democracy and capitalism are that each individual has the opportunity to express his or her own beliefs on how the state should be run and to be able to delve into whatever professional venture [...]

May 18, 2009No CommentRead More

My Cup Runneth Over: The Church at the Well in Wake Forest, NC

April 22, 2009 Scott Bufis The high E-string catches under a loose thirteenth fret producing a shrilly tink as my hand grazes over the six strings. I stop the song for a moment, pull the string out from under the defected piece of brass, and continue as though the interruption never occurred. As I lift [...]

April 22, 2009No CommentRead More

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