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MUMBAI: Demand for Tata Consultancy Services rivals Infosys Technologies and Wipro hustling to find hundreds of thousands of qualified candidates as global IT purchases grow 7.1% this year to $1.7 trillion. | http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-06-16/news/29665448_1_ajoyendra-mukherjee-infosys-and-wipro-tcs | 2013-05-18T10:33:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
BOARDMAN, Ohio - Hagerstown advanced to the championship game of the PONY League West Region East Zone tournament with a 7-3 win over host Boardman in the winners' bracket final.
Jack Schwartz led Hagerstown's offense with two hits, including a two-run homer. Zach Sauble, Brian Lesher, Nick Stubbs and Corey Carpenter also had two hits apiece, while Brad Banzoff and Christian Binford combined to scatter six hits and strike out nine.
Hagerstown will play in the championship game today at 12:30 p.m. against the winner of the losers' bracket final, which will be played at 10:30 a.m. | http://articles.herald-mail.com/2007-07-29/news/25088803_1_bracket-hits-and-strike-boardman | 2013-05-18T10:21:50 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
(WICHITA, Kan.) — The Wichita City Council unanimously approves the budget for next year.
Currently, the city faces an $8 million deficit for 2011. As we've reported before, to make up the difference, the proposed budget focuses on layoffs and furloughs at city hall.
The budget also includes $600,000 for street maintenance and $2.5 million for incentives to lure new businesses.
The budget does not include any tax increases.
Wichita City Manager Robert Layton told Eyewitness News last month that the cuts will not impact police or fire protection on the streets. | http://articles.kwch.com/2010-08-10/budget-for-next-year_24074816 | 2013-05-18T10:52:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Willard, MO - A sinkhole ripped apart a road near Springfield-Branson National Airport. The tear was found at the end of Farm Road 105 Monday afternoon. It was about 10 feet across, then quickly grew to about 15 feet wide. Road crews first thought the hole was about five feet deep, but after bringing in backhoes, they're not sure yet where the bottom is. The Greene County Highway Department will resume digging Tuesday to find the bottom. A water main snapped when the concrete collapsed, but water service was later restored. Crews say this past weekend's rains may have caused the hole to form. | http://articles.ky3.com/2012-08-06/sinkhole-swallows-part_33070373 | 2013-05-18T10:13:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Pat O'Connell of Laguna Niguel, Shane Beschen of San Clemente and Jeff Deffenbaugh of Huntington Beach advanced Friday through the first round of the Katin Team Challenge on the north side of the Huntington Beach Pier.
The trio advance to today's second round of individual qualifying. The tag-team and individual finals will be Sunday. | http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-07/sports/sp-55000_1_advance-team-challenge | 2013-05-18T10:41:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The white Mercedes-Benz rounded the corner in Beverly Hills, gently pulled into the alley and stopped at a curbside spot that had been saved, allowing Eddie Jones either the convenience of avoiding the crowded valet parking structure for the arrival or the opportunity for a quick getaway. His wiry 6-foot-6 frame emerged from the driver's side, his father, E.J. Thigpen, a man who would gladly trade metabolisms, from the passenger door. Together, they walked to the back entrance of the nearby building.
It's four days after Jones has been named an NBA all-star for the first time and he's here for an autograph session being sponsored by KLAC, the radio station that carries Laker games. Several hundred people wait, some for more than an hour, so he is escorted into Niketown, and then an elevator. | http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-09/sports/sp-27051_1_eddie-jones | 2013-05-18T10:55:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Ventura County Dist. Atty. Michael D. Bradbury on Thursday flatly denied allegations that he threatened the grand jury and tried to coerce an indictment against murder suspect Michael Dally.
The prosecutor was ordered to testify at a court hearing before Superior Court Judge Frederick A. Jones after defense attorneys alleged he strong-armed a murder indictment in the case involving Dally's slain wife. | http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-27/local/me-7414_1_grand-jury | 2013-05-18T11:03:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Reporting from Madison, Wis. — The protests that rocked Madison over the last month drew union members and students — but some key figures in the mobilizations were both.
Members of the Teaching Assistants' Assn. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison spearheaded the two-week occupation of the Capitol that began Feb. 15 — two days before Democratic senators fled the state to stall legislation limiting public employees' union rights. The students helped organize food and other supplies for the makeshift overnight campground in the rotunda. | http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/12/nation/la-na-teaching-assistants-20110313 | 2013-05-18T10:14:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Dr. Lee Riley, chief of surgical oncology at St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill, was quoted by ABC News in a recent story about a reported breakthrough in an experimental cancer treatment. The story, still accessible at abcnews.com under the health section, details the early success of an immune system boost given to a small group of patients with melanoma, a potentially fatal skin cancer. Six of the 13 patients studied saw their tumors shrink from the treatment, a combination of chemotherapy, hormones and a patient's own immune cells.
Dr. Alan Rabson, deputy director of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., said the results need to be reproduced in other laboratories but appear to be "an extremely important advance" in cancer therapy. | http://articles.mcall.com/2002-10-10/features/3443927_1_immune-cells-cancer-therapy-immunotherapy | 2013-05-18T10:22:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
PHILLIPSBURG
Carelessly discarded smoking materials started the fire Monday that damaged both sides of a four-unit duplex in the 100 block of Morris Street in Phillipsburg.
PHILLIPSBURG
Carelessly discarded smoking materials started the fire Monday that damaged both sides of a four-unit duplex in the 100 block of Morris Street in Phillipsburg.
The cause of the fire, which started at 4:30 p.m., was accidental, Fire Chief Richard A. Hay said Tuesday. He did not elaborate on the type of smoking materials or how they started the fire.
The first firefighters got there within three minutes after being dispatched to 101-103 Morris St. They found flames shooting from the back of the building.
Firefighters from Phillipsburg's six stations responded to the two-alarm fire, which took an hour to bring under control.
Although each side of the duplex had two apartment units, at least one of them was vacant. No one was home when the fire started, apparently in 103 Morris St., and spread to the other side of the duplex.
Both sides had extensive damage to the the first floor and basement.
Four people displaced by the fire received assistance from the American Red Cross' Morris County Chapter.
There were no injuries, but three dogs died in the fire.
Both sides of the duplex are owned by George Huber of Washington, N.J. An estimate of the damage had not been determined as of Tuesday, Hay said.
Phillipsburg fire and police departments investigated the fire with Warren County Fire Marshal Joseph Lake.
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J.B. the manatee is on a long, strange and possibly perilous trip.
When he appeared behind the YMCA in Jay Blanchard Park a month ago — hence the temporary nickname J.B. — he was something of a mystery, having made his way nearly 25 miles up the Econlockhatchee River and Little Econlockhatchee River from the St. Johns River, probably during high water early this summer. | http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-20/news/os-blanchard-park-manatee-identified-20120920_1_newborn-manatees-ann-spellman-seaworld-san-diego | 2013-05-18T10:21:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
JOHANNESBURG — Moving on up.
The Johannesburg-Lewiston girls basketball team continues to climb up the Class D rankings and now occupy the No. 2 spot in the state, according to Tuesday’s Associated Press Michigan Prep Girls Basketball poll.
At 17-0, the Cardinals are behind just one team — also unbeaten Birmingham Roeper. Roeper received 75 votes in the poll, while J-L took 67.
Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart, whom J-L lost to in the last year’s quarterfinals and who they could see there again, is ranked No. 5. | http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2009-02-20/johannesburg_24046035 | 2013-05-18T11:02:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
No great surprise that Republican Sen. John McCain will be speaking at a political convention in Philadelphia later this summer. But what's this about Democrat Jesse Jackson and Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader speaking at the same convention?
It's true. They're scheduled to be at the four-day Shadow Convention, planned to start the night of July 30, a day before the Republicans convene, and highlight issues - and humor - that organizers believe the Republicans and Democrats are missing. | http://articles.philly.com/2000-07-09/news/25608980_1_campaign-finance-reform-political-convention-doris-haddock | 2013-05-18T10:42:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
In a fairy tale that has ignited our heart, Anne Hathaway has become engaged to her beau of three years, actor Adam Shulman (Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning). Adam, 30, proposed over the weekend armed with a Kwiat Heritage ring, says Us Weekly. The duo began dating a few months after Anne's thang with Raffaello Follieri folded when he was busted for defrauding investors of millions by posing as a Vatican real estate consultant. (He's currently serving a 4½-year stint in federal prison.)
Anne, 29, who plays Catwoman opposite Christian Bale's Caped Crusader in The Dark Knight Rises, last year told Vogue she and Adam began as friends. "We hit it off immediately, but it took us a pretty long time to get together," she said. She tried to shield her bruised heart, but was smitten. "I am very much in love with him," she told People in August. "Adam totally ruined my plan. I was really actually looking forward to a little alone time, and then I fell in love like a fool!" | http://articles.philly.com/2011-11-29/news/30454831_1_adam-shulman-madonna-marriage-guy-ritchie | 2013-05-18T10:54:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A North Jersey state Assemblyman and Giants fan has apologized after getting grief for calling the Philadelphia Eagles "those gaybirds from Philly."
Not that he exactly said: Sorry, City of Brotherly Love. Or: No offense, Andy Reid and crew.
"I have very, very close relatives who are gay. I have nothing against them. I'm far from that," said Assemblyman Charles Mainor, according to the Jersey Journal.
A Jersey City police detective who was elected in 2010, Mainor said in a Facebook post:
"We are not going to just lay down, we come to play. Who the hell do you think we are the DALLAS COWGIRLS OR THOSE GAYBIRDS FROM PHILLY . . . NO WE ARE THE NEW YORK GIANTS." | http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-17/news/30635399_1_facebook-post-eagles-fans-eli-manning | 2013-05-18T10:32:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This would be a chicken-and-egg situation, except the chicken is having an MRI on its wing and the egg is getting a second opinion from all the king's men.
The Phillies lost another player - Jose Contreras - and another game Saturday. In the wake of another fruitless comeback attempt, the question remains unanswerable: Which came first, the Phillies' inability to get clutch hits in late innings, or the Phillies' inability to dress the players who used to make comebacks seem routine? | http://articles.philly.com/2012-06-03/news/31985566_1_ryan-howard-phillies-carlos-ruiz | 2013-05-18T10:22:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Forget Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears or that Aguilera girl. The rockingest album by a woman is an old-school classic, 1967's I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin. So proclaims the Delphic Oracle of rock, Rolling Stone mag. (Not even Madonna makes the top 10.)
Joni Mitchell's Blue and Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis round out the top three.
Oprah and Kim, Round XC
Oprah Winfrey has released tidbits from her 90-part epic interview with Kim Kardashian, which will air on OWN until the end of time.
Sunday's forthcoming segment has Kim explain why she so digs Kanye West, the man she's allowed the world to believe she's dating. | http://articles.philly.com/2012-06-23/news/32382895_1_kris-humphries-kim-kardashian-lily-aldridge | 2013-05-18T10:22:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The FBI and Radnor Township police are investigating a "vague telephone threat" made to police concerning Villanova University, according to an email sent to faculty, students and staff.
Ann E. Diebold, vice president for communicaitons said in the email the university "has been in on-going contact with law enforcement, which does not believe these calls are credible."
Radnor Township police, the FBI and Villanova officials did not return calls for comment.
"Similar calls appear to have been placed by the same individual to other organizations throughout the country," Diebold said in the email. | http://articles.philly.com/2012-07-25/news/32828893_1_threats-fbi-radnor-township-police | 2013-05-18T10:14:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Highlighted by the collection of the late Douglassville antiques dealer Robert J. "Bob" Merritt, Pook and Pook's two-day sale next weekend of period furniture, fine art, and accessories promises to be one of the Downingtown auction company's strongest. Preceding it this weekend is another autumn auction highlight: Frank and Frank's semiannual sale in South Jersey of decoys, art, and sporting collectibles.
Auctioneer Ron Pook, in a foreword to the 250-page auction catalog (also accessible at), recalled that he had been visiting the sprawling emporium operated by Merritt, who died Dec. 31 at the age of 82, for more than 50 years. "From my podium, if I saw Bob and the late Phil Bradley [an equally prominent Southeastern Pennsylvania dealer], I knew I was in clover that day." | http://articles.philly.com/2012-09-29/news/34149376_1_presale-estimate-french-oils-paintings | 2013-05-18T10:55:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
MICHIGAN CITY -- If you like the way water, malt, hops and yeast are fused together to make good ale and beer, try Shoreline Brewery, a place to hang your hat and relax. Sam Strupeck, who is a brewer and co-owner of Shoreline Brewery & Restaurant in Michigan City combines those four simple ingredients to make 20 varieties of beer every year. "We take pride in the fact that we make our own brand of beer here and serve food," Strupeck says. The "we" he is referring to is his father and business partner, David Strupeck of Michigan City, an accountant who teaches business accounting at Indiana University Northwest. "It's nice to have an accountant onboard here," the younger Strupeck says. That frees up the 31-year-old brewer to focus on making award-winning beer and ale, such as his Beltaine Scottish Ale, his best-seller, which won a silver medal at the 2006 World Beer Cup in Seattle. "It's a very true-to-style, easy-drinking dark beer," Strupeck says. The biannual competition featured more than 56 competing breweries. The Strupecks opened their brew pub in August 2005 in a historic building constructed in 1857 near the Lake Michigan shoreline. "This building has been a lumberyard, a golf ball factory, a camera factory and a NIPSCO training facility," Strupeck explains. Now the 16,000-square-foot brew pub serves an array of sandwiches and entrées, including the restaurant's signature Oatmeal Stout Braised Lamb Shank, served with oven roasted potatoes, carrots, celery and onions. This entrée pairs nicely with the brewery's Singing Sands Oatmeal Stout, Strupeck says. In addition to being a brewer -- which includes selling products for home brewers in a small retail shop adjoining the brewery -- Sam is a self-proclaimed "foodie." He has been in the restaurant business for 15 years and says he realizes the importance of good customer service. "We have 20 employees, including chefs and wait staff. We concentrate on making sure the staff is superior, and we create a family atmosphere here when it comes to our workers," Strupeck says. These days, he relies heavily on his chef and longtime co-worker, Lisa LaFortune of Valparaiso, to serve creative lunches and dinners. The brewery doesn't offer typical "pub fare," Strupeck says. "We create many sauces, desserts, appetizers and entrées -- all made from scratch." Lunch entrées include the popular beer-battered fish and chips along with fresh-cut pub fries. Strupeck often can be found hard at work behind the big glass windows that separate the bar and the brewery, doing what he loves to do -- brewing. He says making beer isn't that different from the everyday activity of many people. "It's like brewing a cup of coffee with grain," he says. | http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2007-10-22/news/26779334_1_brew-pub-world-beer-cup-pub-fare | 2013-05-18T10:53:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Even before he started training young boxers at the Hollywood Police Athletic League gym four weeks ago, Mike Nazario knew the job wasn`t just about teaching kids how to be champions.
Raising a champion would be a bonus: ``Ice cream on the cake,`` is how Nazario puts it.
The 13 youths, ages 9-19, that walk into the sun-streaked gym at Boggs Field each day already know a little bit about fighting. They do it on the streets with painful regularity, sometimes in self-defense, sometimes in anger and aggression. | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-03-15/news/9101130734_1_teaching-kids-boxing-middleweight | 2013-05-18T10:45:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This time of year, there is always discussion about whether a playoff would be better for college football than the current 34 bowl games and Bowl Championship Series. But what would happen to the bowls if a playoff came to be? A playoff would be the end of the bowls as we know them, and have dire consequences for the FedEx Orange Bowl.
In South Florida, the FedEx Orange Bowl is a local fixture. It's a landmark that has been in existence for 76 years. It brings significant tourism and annual social and economic impact to our community. This year, 45,000 out of town fans are expected to flock to South Florida. A switch to a playoff would threaten that. | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-01-04/news/1001030018_1_fedex-orange-bowl-current-bowls-bowl-system | 2013-05-18T10:24:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Even after brief relief brought by weekend rains, most South Florida water supplies remain well below normal — adding to the strain of a record-setting drought.
Groundwater monitoring wells in Broward and Palm Beach counties show water levels in the lowest 10 percent compared with the usual average for this time of year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-06-20/news/fl-drought-rains-update-20110620_1_water-supplies-supplement-community-supplies-water-conservation-areas | 2013-05-18T11:02:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
LUCKNOW: The sensational daylight loot of Rs 15.5 lakh cash at gun-point from the munim of an Agra-based mustard oil trader is likely to have been committed with the connivance of one of the dealers or somebody close to them.
The loot was committed around 1 pm on Monday in Thakurganj. Interestingly, the victim now claims that only Rs 5 lakh was looted and not Rs 15.5 lakh as claimed immediately after the loot. As reported on Tuesday, Harendra Gupta, accountant ( munim ) in a firm owned by Mahesh and Rakesh Kumar, came to Lucknow on Sunday with an oil consignment. He was accompanied by driver of the oil tanker Mukesh Goswami. They off-loaded the oil at the godown of Kailash Chandra Aggarwal on Tulsidas Marg, Chowk, on Sunday evening. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-10-24/lucknow/27983582_1_lakh-loot-harendra-gupta-cash | 2013-05-18T10:42:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NEW HAVEN: Top seed Nikolay Davydenko dispatched American Robert Kendrick 7-6, 6-3 on Tuesday to advance to the third round of the New Haven Open in Connecticut.
The Russian world No.8 Davydenko outlasted big-serving Kendrick in the first set, and cruised through the second to continue his tune-up for the US Open, where he has twice reached the semifinals. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-08-27/top-stories/28206482_1_mauresmo-advances-second-round-seed | 2013-05-18T10:31:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Fresh from the premiere of Paa, the film fraternity found time to tweet its responses on Amitabh Bachchan playing a 13-year-old afflicted with progeria, with his son Abhishek and Vidya Balan playing his parents in the film.
Karan Johar: Amitabh Bachchan is just pure genius! Paa is all soul....all heart...way to go! Superb! | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-04/news-interviews/28110976_1_paa-auro-amitabh-bachchan | 2013-05-18T10:15:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NEW YORK: Accenture Plc,. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-14/software-services/28080131_1_tiger-woods-accenture-plc-gillette-brand | 2013-05-18T10:13:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NEW DELHI: All-rounder Elton Chigumbura has been named as the captain of the Zimbabwe team after incumbent Prosper Utseya had resigned from the post.
Soon after returning from the Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies, Utseya handed over his resignation to the Zimbabwe Cricket.
"It has been a privilege for me to captain Zimbabwe for the past four years," Utseya was quoted as saying in his resignation letter. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-12/top-stories/28296965_1_resignation-letter-zimbabwe-cricket-elton-chigumbura | 2013-05-18T10:36:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NEW DELHI: For almost an hour on Monday, the Delhi air traffic control managed to safely land flights at IGI airport without knowing which type of aircraft is flying in and from where. This happened as the troublesome ATC software yet again developed a snag with the crucial flight data processing system (FDPS) - that gives all information like the type of aircraft, flight route and origin point - conking off at 11.40am.
Alert ATC officials immediately slowed down the flow of traffic, both incoming and outbound, when FDPS of the latest ATC system Autotrack III went dead. "Luckily the radar screen and the very-high-frequency sets used to communicate with pilots did not go dead. So we were able to navigate pilots," said a source. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-29/delhi/31887401_1_atc-software-igi-airport-alert-atc-officials | 2013-05-18T10:41:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Title: The stovetop lobster bake
Categories:
Yield: 4 Servings
3 lb Seaweed
2 Dozen little neck clams
3 lb New potatoes
8 Ears corn
2 lb Small white onions
2 lb Chorizo sausage
3 lb Mussels
6 (1 pound) lobsters
Drawn butter
Cayenne pepper
Coarse salt
Lemons
Hot sauce
1 lg Enamel lobster pot
Preferably 24 quart size
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Things kids say
#41
Posted 06 November 2009 - 07:37 PM
So in the other room, I hear Sarah (15) say to Anna (6), "Go ask Papa." And Anna appears at my side asking, "Can I wear clothes during the night and the day, like the boys?"
"Did Sarah tell you to ask me?" I asked.
"Yes."
"And who am I going to tell you to ask?"
"Mama?"
"Mama. Mama is in charge of the ladies' clothes."
Anna made a sound of frustration on her way out the door. Her parting shot:
"If I were a boy, you could say yes."
Then, in response to the hearty laughter with which I greeted this observation, she grew excited and added, "Write it on your blog!!!" and began strutting around with pride at having uttered a remark that would live on for posterity ... here at Arts & Faith.
#42
Posted 06 November 2009 - 07:39 PM
#43
Posted 06 November 2009 - 09:48 PM
Peter T Chattaway, on 06 November 2009 - 07:39 PM, said:
#44
Posted 17 November 2009 - 07:13 PM
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"Knock knock!"
"Who's there?"
"Penguin!"
"Penguin who?"
"Octopus!"
#45
Posted 19 November 2009 - 03:00 PM
"Mama, I really love Jesus.
"...but I hate the Green Goblin."
#46
Posted 19 November 2009 - 03:14 PM
We are spiders
But Jesus Christ has made us
#47
Posted 19 November 2009 - 05:01 PM
The only cases where we "stretched" to connect a name to a person were with the letters "I" and "F", both of which somehow got associated with Elizabeth's grandmothers. By this point, we had already found letters for Daddy, Mommy, Uncle Larry and all three of the kids. So when Elizabeth pointed to "I" and I said which letter it was, she suddenly said "Grammi!" (i.e. my wife's mother), and I figured that might make some sense since Grammi does spell her name with an "I" at the end. But then Elizabeth pointed to "F", and I said which letter it was, and then Elizabeth said "Oma!" (i.e. my mom), which made no sense at all. But since there is no "O" in "Decent Films Guide" to begin with, I figured I might as well run with it. (When we got to "G", I gave that one to "Grandpa", i.e. my dad, since Grammi was already taken care of.)
#48
Posted 21 December 2009 - 07:23 PM
So when six-year-old Anna reported, "Papa, Nathan is on the top bunk throwing boots!" and I called warningly from the next room, "Nathan, you aren't throwing hard things, are you?" he realized his error ... and did some fast thinking.
"No," he ventured, "the boots are soft ... inside."
Three. He's three.
#49
Posted 22 December 2009 - 02:57 PM
I said: You are not to touch presents under the Christmas tree.
She said: This present is not under the tree.
Edited by MLeary, 22 December 2009 - 02:57 PM.
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Posted 23 December 2009 - 04:27 PM
#51
Posted 03 January 2010 - 09:56 AM
#52
Posted 13 January 2010 - 09:08 PM
Four-year-old Elise, lone sister of four brothers in a family at our church, is sitting on the potty. Looking between her legs, she announces with satisfaction: "Well, I think my penis is coming along nicely."
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On a related note, six-year-old Anna, watching me sit three-year-old Nathan on the potty, asks the obvious question: "Why do boys have penises and girls don't?"
"God made girls' bodies and boys' bodies different from each other," I start to answer, whereupon she interrupts, "And why did God make boys' bodies with so much extra spit?"
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Next: The wrong Nathan.
#53
Posted 15 January 2010 - 01:36 PM
Bella (3 y.o.): Mom! The whole wide world is annoyed by you!
#54
Posted 15 January 2010 - 03:59 PM.
Suz to Nathan (scolding him for roughhousing with his baby sister): "Nathan, you must be gentle with your baby sister, you must protect her and not be too rough with her!"
Nathan (exasperated, with hectoring-questioning tone, as if pointing out the obvious fallacy in Mama's thinking): "Mama, you bought the wrong Nathan...? I belong in a different world."
Suz: "Oh, really? Where do you belong, then?"
Nathan (in same tone): "Back at the store...?"
Suz: "But wouldn't you be lonely without the brothers?"
Nathan (considering): "David could come with me."
James (anxious not to be overlooked): "What about me?!"
Nathan: "James can come too."
Suz: "What if people bought you at the store and they were mean to you?"
Nathan: "I would come back home from the store."
Suz: "How would you get out of the store?"
Nathan: "I would bring my key!"
Suz: "Oh, your key. But you wouldn't know the way home."
Nathan: "I would make a right and a left!"
Suz: "And how would you get all the way home?"
Nathan: "I would bring my balloon and fly home!"
Suz: "But what about the other Nathan I got from the store?"
Nathan (pleased): "Then there would be two Nathans!"
#55
Posted 15 January 2010 - 04:05 PM
#56
Posted 16 January 2010 - 01:57 PM
SDG, on 15 January 2010 - 03:59 PM, said:.
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#57
Posted 17 January 2010 - 10:29 AM
SDG, on 15 January 2010 - 03:59 PM, said:
#58
Posted 18 January 2010 - 03:35 PM
After hearing me say that I don't accept all friend invites on Facebook:
"But Dad, you have to have some friends."
And after hearing me say we were having lunch out:
"But Dad, we have plenty to eat right here in the house."
#59
Posted 04 February 2010 - 10:38 AM
"Mommy, when you hit this penguin it laughs. But when you hit a real penguin it says 'ouch.'"
#60
Posted 04 February 2010 - 11:03 AM
Phill Lytle, on 04 February 2010 - 10:38 AM, said:
"Mommy, when you hit this penguin it laughs. But when you hit a real penguin it says 'ouch.'" | http://artsandfaith.com/index.php?showtopic=23506&st=40&p=213283 | 2013-05-18T10:52:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Readers’ reviews of Jez Butterworth’s new play “Jerusalem,” which opened on Broadway on Thursday night, were sharply divided. While Mark Rylance received almost across-the-board praise for his portrayal of the carefree, trailer-dwelling Johnny Byron (a performance Ben Brantley called “seismic”), many readers said the script failed to match its star’s wattage. Following are excerpts of selected reviews on NYTimes.com.
Fans of the show were enthusiastic about the play’s scope and went into overdrive with the superlatives:
“End of Act I, I was thinking this is quite a good play, wonderfully acted. End of Act II, a very good play. End of Act III, this is amazing, the best new play I’ve seen since ‘Angels in America.’ ” — johnb, New York
“It reminded me of a cross between Shakespeare and August Wilson, with titanic personalities, a terrific ensemble cast and a text that relates to all of us in one way or another.” — malperson, Washington Heights
On the flip side were readers who thought the play was too long and downright unpleasant:
“If you wish to spend a long evening looking at a messy world and listening
“Consider ‘Jerusalem’ an attempt at some personal longevity. The play is so long, the dialect so difficult to understand, the story so grudging that you will feel that you have slowed time.” — Dr. Charles, Brooklyn
Several readers said Mr. Rylance’s performance made the show a must see:
“Mark Rylance might as well just take the Tony with him now. There is no performance that will come close to the journey this man takes. It is one of the most remarkable performances I have ever seen in my 30 years of attending Broadway.” — nyctheatergoer, New York
“Rylance. Rylance. Rylance. Run, don’t walk. He’s worth the price of admission and then some. The performance of the year, if not the decade.” — voxpopuli, New York
At least one reader wasn’t impressed:
“As for Mr Rylance’s performance, I just found it annoying by the interminable end. The whole thing became to me a vanity piece for him to flay around the stage literally and figuratively.” — Margaret F., New York
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LONDON —.
Theater
London Theater Journal
Ben Brantley reports on what’s happening on London stages..
The night before I saw “Constellations,” I squeezed into an even smaller, less well-ventilated space – at the fertile Finborough Theater, which is perched above a pub near Earl’s Court — to see a play by another promising young writer. Well, half of it is by a young writer, though the play is definitely promising. “Fog,” a mean-streets drama about a fragmented family, was written by Toby Wharton, an actor in his early 20s, and Tash Fairbanks, a writer and performer in her 60s. (They met when Ms. Fairbanks was the partner of Mr. Wharton’s mother.)
You could say that “Fog,” staged with tough love by Ché Walker, is meant to be about the failure of the British foster care system, a subject much in the news of late. (The last page of the script-cum-program lists damning statistics on that subject.) But while it assesses the damage done to a brother and sister abandoned to institutional care by their father, a soldier, “Fog” avoids feeling like a social worker’s screed.
That’s largely because of the finely detailed vividness of the title character, Gary (Fog is his street name for himself), a 17-year-old boy played by Mr. Wharton as a sustained throb of bruising emotional need. Gary has assumed the knife-flicking, trash-talking attitudes of the gangs in the projects (and presumably of the boys who abused him in the orphanage) and of his macho military dad, who has just re-entered his life when the play begins.
But these affectations dissolve into loving, little-boy raptness when Gary looks upon his best friend, Michael (Benjamin Cawley), and especially his father, Cannon (Victor Gardener), a restless, angry man with a short fuse and a shorter attention span. The passivity of a terminally broken spirit lies beneath Gary’s tough-guy postures.
Despite the sweet, heartbreaking hope in his smiles for the men in his life, you know Gary has already given up. (His older sister, played by Annie Hemingway, may be a former junkie and a whore, but she has a vestige of fighting spirit left.) He’s one of those people who are doomed to be left behind, and you can imagine him as an empty old man at 40.
It is to the credit of the cast and the production that when an alarm went off midplay, no one in the audience stirred. Nor did we panic, or even murmur much, when a young man subsequently stopped the show to say that there might possibly be a fire in the building and could we just sit still “until we’ve sorted it out”? (The production resumed shortly after without explanation.) Perhaps Gary’s instinctive fatalism had infected us all.
Two nights later, in a further test of my tolerance for theater in tight spaces, I found myself in the Old Vic Tunnels, railway vaults beneath Waterloo Station that have been converted into a performance space. This was the setting for a production by Kenneth Hoyt (the founder of the Provincetown Repertory Theater in Massachusetts) of “The Sea Plays,” three early dramas by Eugene O’Neill.
Two of these works (“Bound East for Cardiff” and “In the Zone”) take place on board a ship, in the crew’s cramped quarters. The nostril-clogging, metal-and-mould-scented dankness of the Tunnels was enhanced by great quantities of manufactured fog, and the rumble of trains overhead melded with that of stage thunder. And as the coal-begrimed, stir-crazy sailors (embodied by a cast of eager, strapping young actors) lamented the curse of their captive lives, I found myself empathizing with them more, perhaps, than theatrical verisimilitude requires. | http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/london-theater-journal-big-ideas-in-small-spaces/?scp=6&sq=nick%20payne&st=cse | 2013-05-18T10:32:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Poet, essayist and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu enchanted an audience of about 125 Thursday night at the Kessler Theater, in an event presented by local literary outlets WordSpace and Half Price Books.
Codrescu, 66, met fans at a book signing and reception before the show, then spent nearly two hours reading from his works — mostly poetry with a smidgen of prose for good measure — and answering questions from KERA-FM (90.1) senior producer Jeff Whittington and the audience.
WordSpace presents more than 50 programs each year, including author readings (past guests have included Ben Fountain and Amy Sedaris), film screenings, concerts and more.
Codrescu is probably best-known for his work on NPR’s All Things Considered, for whom he’s been a contributor since 1983, and his Peabody-award winning film Road Scholar. Despite his charming Romanian accent — he left in 1965 — Codrescu is quick to point out that he’s “not a Romanian poet. … I’m an American poet who has recently become fluent in Romanian again,” he says.
He talked about his latest book of prose, Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes), and read mostly from his most recent book of poetry, So Recently Rent a World.
Codrescu has retired from teaching and has moved from New Orleans to “the Ozark woods of Arkansas,” two life developments that have allowed him to “say things, and then think about what I say. Very few people have that luxury.” He left the Big Easy, he says, “because I wanted to live a little longer. New Orleans is filled with pleasures that will kill you.”
Much of his recent work, including Bibliodeath, deals with the quickly changing nature of both literature and life in general. Our increasingly public world, he says — what with Facebook and Twitter recording our every move — has essentially killed the “scintillating, thrilling and anguished” pleasure of having, or telling, a secret.
“The closets are empty,” he said with a mournful sigh. “There are too few vices and too much competition. Spies are passé.”
His poetry had the crowd laughing. “Things I did before I got ready for them,” started one entry. “Got famous. Got married. Wrote novels.” Later, “Things I regret missing: “The year of trade school. The Google IPO. Sleep.”
He also talked about assignments he’d given his students. “There’s only a slight vowel difference between fetal and fatal. That difference is you. Discuss.”
We, his students, did just that, and Codrescu fulfilled one of the highest imperatives of authors or speakers: He left us wanting more. | http://artsblog.dallasnews.com/tag/kera/ | 2013-05-18T10:11:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
New Study Shows Evidence of Prejudice Against Asexuals
Asexuals are more likely to be viewed negatively than other sexual minority groups, according to a study conducted by Cara C. MacInnis and Gordon Hudson's Intergroup bias toward “Group X”: Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against Asexuals" was published in Sage's April 24 issue.
Participants were asked questions about how they saw people belonging to various sexual orientations. Heterosexuals were viewed more favorably. Asexuals did not do as well as their Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual counterparts.
The recent survey did not consider Asexuals as potential romantic partners. The survey did ask about human traits that respondents would assign to people belonging to each group. Heterosexuals were assigned the most human traits. Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Gays received fewer of these traits. Asexuals performed less well.
MacInnis and Hudson did not determine if the attitudes of Heterosexuals towards Asexuals are generally more positive than the attitudes of Gays and Lesbians towards Asexuals.
“Those relatively high in RWA [right wing authoritarianism] are more conventional, submit more to authorities, and aggress more against norm violators (Altemeyer, 1996, 1998). Individuals relatively higher in SDO endorse ideologies concerning group dominance and intergroup hierarchies (Pratto et al., 1994). Together, RWA and SDO cover the submissive and dominative elements of prejudice and are generally considered the two strongest prejudice predictors (Altemeyer, 1998; Duckitt, 2005). Although both constructs predict prejudice generally,” wrote MacInnis and Hudson.
The study found that those with strong religious backgrounds are more likely to shun people who do not fall into societally accepted norms. People with less authoritarian views displayed fewer biases against people belonging to sexual minorities.
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EX, promoting in South Korea and China separately. There is still debate over the number of members in each subgroup: theories differ between having 6 members in each, or EXO-K having 7 members and EXO-M having 5 members.
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Birth Name: Kim Jong Dae
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Date of Birth: September 21, 1992
Position: Main Vocalist
Height: 178 cm
Specialty: Singing
Facts: First revealed through the SM Orchestra section at SBS Gayo Daejun.
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Getting In The Mood
You know, when you know that you’re going to go on a vacation, the mood starts to settle in. Sometimes it kicks in a month before the trip, sometimes it only starts a week before. Generally, you will be in the mood for travel as the date approaches. You get excited, you start packing up, you look for places of interests and you are happy. You have that little voice in your head yelling “YAY” every morning you wake up. You can hardly wait! You even wish secretly that time could go a lil’ faster! You want to get out from this place and away from work soonest possible.
Hold on there…… I am writing in “YOU”, not “I”. Aaaahhhh…… Hmmmm…… Sigh……
I will be travelling to Bangkok tomorrow, with a bunch of lovely friends and Andrew. Seriously, the mood hasn’t come knocking. Hello Missy Travel Mood! Have you forgotten about visiting me?
Andrew was the one who booked the tickets. I wasn’t feeling anything back then either. When I booked the hotel a month ago, I was more like in a state of gotta-book-now-or-else-sleep-on-the-street.
I didn’t even bother to search for the attractions in Bangkok until last week. Melissa is the one who keeps feeding me the information and I felt so guilty. :P
I am not even doing the counting down. I did plan the itinerary with Melissa, but I do not “feel” it. I planned for the sake of planning, because I do not want to get the panic attack in such a foreign land where I can’t even understand their language.
I started packing for the trip last night, but still, I don’t “feel” it. I am worried about the HOT weather, I was trying to pack some casual and light-weight clothes. To my surprise, I have little of them. They’re either too plain, or I already feel HOT by just looking at them. I realised my wardrobe has either the working side of me, or the VERY casual side of me. There is nothing in between. Hmph! :(
This isn’t the first time I feel mood-less for a trip, but it is worse this time.
I am preparing for the sake of preparing. I know I am going somewhere, and that’s it.
I am not jumping with joy that I will be going for a vacation. There’s no little voice in my head yelling “YAY” everyday.
I know what I am doing and should do, but I am not feeling excited.
It’s like, “Okay, I’m going to Bangkok”.
Sigh…… What is wrong with me…… Going somewhere with a mood like this isn’t good. Guess I gotta switch it on “manually”, “Ashley, you’re going to Bangkok!!! YAY!!! Shopping!!! YAY!!! Food!!! YAY!!! Ayutthaya!!! YAY!!!”
Hope the travel mood will come when I see my friends tomorrow in the airport. Ya, their silly jokes can do magic. Wuahahahahaha.
It is weird how sometimes we can get all excited about a trip and then not at others. I am heading home to England next week and I cannot wait. I am quietly going “yay’ inside my head. Yay – Okay, I have yay-ed twice on WP now. It’s out there for everyone to enjoy.
I hope you have a wonderful time in BK.
Jamie
May 20, 2012 at 4:46 AM
Ya, I agree with you. Can’t understand why we get excited for one and not for the others.
Bangkok was great, done lots of shopping. Would blog about it soon. :)
Oh well, Jamie, I would have YAY-ed as many times too if I were to head home! It is always exciting and happy to go HOME. :)
Now, you too have a wonderful time in England with your dearest family. And safe journey! :)
XOXO, Ashley
May 24, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Wey…you shouldn’t feel guilty la….Initially we were quite ‘sesat’ and ‘alien’..then we got used to it…everythg went well at the end oso…*looking forward to go again* ;-)
May 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Guilty a bit mah, this time so late only start planning, that’s why go there sesat a bit. Hahahaha. Next time we know oredy lah, straight away take cab, don’t need so susah2 take train. Don’t know when we will go again oh.
May 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM
Yeah..I was telling Alex the same too…nex time if we go..we know where we should spend more time; on the specified places, and food.
May 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Eh, to be honest, MBK is really wasting time.
May 24, 2012 at 3:55 PM
ahaha…. I have the same thought too….but luckily we did not spend much time …luckily we decided to go back to Siam Paragon. Which was a good decision! ehehe
May 24, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Yalor, luckily we quickly made decision to skip it. Next time we go again we should go to that night market opposite Siam Paragon. :P
May 24, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Nite market in front of Central World was bored too…
Yalo…that nite market opp Siam Paragon was not bad le…I want to go back there oso! =)
May 24, 2012 at 4:33 PM
Yalor, only the one near Siam Paragon is good. Now we know liao lor.
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"Even though, it apeases the Sharonists in the White House, but the ripple effect of make-belief-terrorism involving the phrase: "converted to Islam", cannot fail to sound repetitious. It must be reminding the listeners of Aesop's Fables and the lesson: "Don't cry 'wolf' when there is no wolf!."
Unlike Christianity, conversion to Islam does neither need a priest with imperial vestments nor the use of incense, holy water, burning of candles, light before the altars and a holy mass in a Church, with hundreds of witnesses. All it needs is an oath to believe in one God without any partner added with Him. Because of this conversion simplicity in Islam, any mercenary in terrorism, can conveniently declare himself as a convert to Islam. No wonder why names as Vinay Kohly, Suresh Kumar, Vikash Chand, Sarjiyo, Samudra, Richard Reid, Jack Roche, Germaine Lindsay, Brandon Mayfield and many others were branded as Islamic converts, caught in the act of terrorism. No forensic minds can ignore the real pressure behind this phenomenon in recent times. Consequently, the forensic minds must be asking themselves: "is it merely a coincidence of repeated occurrence, or a planned agenda dedicated to demonizing Islam?"
Many years ago, I happened to see a book of cartoons, entitled: LBJ Lampooned. There in the book, was a cartoon of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the successor to the US Presidency, after the assassination of JFK. The book was solely dedicated to depicting LBJ's pretext for dragging the US to the Vietnam War. A cartoon on the cover-page, showed LBJ with a Baseball-bat in his hand, aimed over the head of a skinny Vietnamese. The Vietnamese, kneeled before LBJ, had a swelled-up skull as if a base-ball and the caption read: "That was for nothing - now do something."
In fact, this US-hallmark remained unchanged since the Korean war to today's "war on terror" as George Bush loves to call it. With its money and muscle, the US must have sensed it to be shameful on its own brand of democracy to attack anyone without any reason. The attacked nation or its religion has to "do something." that the US could use as a pretext to exerting its muscle. And when the awaited "do something" doesn't appear on its own, there are several built-in mechanisms to make it look like an event that really happened.
The wars in Korea, Vietnam, bombing Beirut and Libya, deploying troops to Somalia, fighting Iraq-Kuwait War, and the recent quagmire in the protracted war in Afghan and Iraq, are just a few to mention here that linked these countries for "do something" programme of the US. These track-records of the US, exemplify the blatant war-crimes committed behind a hidden agenda. With its lame excuse for protecting its citizens, who live thousands of mile away from the war zones, the US war-machines never stopped. After the World War II, the US make-belief theatrics, dedicated to generating war-euphoria for its legislators, caused such immeasurable atrocities and killing of helpless people all over the world, that make the "holocaust" look like a pussycat.
Lyndon LaRouche of New Hampshire, a Democrat and former contender of the US Presidency, foresaw the aims of the key-players of the Bush administration. He branded them as the "Sharonists in the White House". He didn't have a choice other than to use the term "Sharonists." After all, the "freedom of speech" that was once the epitome of democracy, now gets stifled in the US court when the term Zionist is used by anyone. Lyndon LaRouche has accused the Sharonists of using the US for an Israeli scheme, engineered for a permanent annexation of the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip. He, about four years ago, predicted the objectives of the Sharonists and emphatically identified Israeli connivance towards eliminating the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad for the sole purpose of destabilizing the governments of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran and beyond.
During the peak of George Bush's euphoria for attacking Iraq, The Executive Intelligence Reviews had an article by Edward Spannaus, entitled: "Scare Tactics: Ashcroft's Phoney War on Terrorism". There, the author had drawn a parable that labelled the US Attorney General, John Ashcroft as "America's "de facto Minister of Fear."
Edward Spannaus then wrote: "The blunderbuss tools given by Congress to the Justice Department have enabled Ashcroft and Co. to use the threat of draconian prison sentences to force defendants to plead guilty to offenses that they may or may have not committed. As a result, the Justice Department can point to hundreds of convictions in "terrorism" cases—almost none of which have anything to do with protecting the United States from real terrorism. ...... it's clear why Ashcroft and the Justice Department will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid public trials, which further expose the shallowness and fraud of their phony war on terrorism."
The phrase "shallowness and fraud of their phoney war on terrorism" cannot fail to arouse "shock and awe" to all level-headed citizens of America unless they happened to be those identified by Lyndon LaRouche as the "Sharonists." The names, though include many, are underscored for Richard Perle, then the Chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy; David Wurmser, John Bolton and a host of others.
The incidents of Iraq these days, that involve constant bomb blast on the Iraqis from unknown sources, including rocket-attack from unidentified aircraft make one wonder about the prophet-like vision of Lyndon LaRouche. No doubt, that's why Lyndon LaRouche is not favoured by the US media.
Strangely enough, after staging the 9/11 carnage in 2001, the "Israeli mole" in the White House could not believe that their manifesto, written over a year ago by Paul Wolfowitz, would really be happening before their eyes. A paramount event of this manifesto, now incorporated in the Bush administration's foreign policy, called for the need of a "catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor" on the US main land, that would, with its chain-reaction, help implement the "new world order." In reality, this objective was totally achieved by the planned demolition of the World Trade Center.
The Televised inferno of the Twin Tower, crumbling before the viewers' eyes, soaked the ground soft enough with tears. As a result, Islam vilification became rampant and reached its highest peak. Even a bearded Sikh was thought to be a Muslim and was shot to death. Naturally, vengeance was boiling in the bloods of the sympathisers and world opinion heavily tilted towards the US to attack Afghanistan for the elimination of its government, harbouring Osama, the onetime buddy of the Bush dynasty.
About six months before the unprecedented success in implementing the "catastrophic and catalyzing event", the role of Mossad had to get deeply active in the fulfilment of its ultimate goal. The key to their success then was pivoted on a world-wide vilification and denunciation of Islam. The prelude to such a vilification had to be pre-planned. The destruction of Buddha's statue in Afghanistan helped the goal accomplished.
Afghanistan was ruled by the Muslims since the eighth century. Millions of Islamic people there, under hundreds of rulers, had no problem or dissension to the statue of Buddha, in their heart, before March 2001. Even Sultan Mahmood Ghaznawi, who was known to have destroyed some Indian temples, didn't even touch the statue of Buddha in Afghanistan. Assuredly, the demolition of the statue of Buddha became an agenda for the Mosad-crews for generating the "catalyzing" effect towards maximizing the hatred for Islam all over the world. Even the Buddhists, who never had any problem with the Muslims, were quick to jump on the bandwagon of George Bush.
Perhaps, the normal question is how the Sharonists did it - wasn't it Mullah Omar? Surely the Sharonists didn't have to do it themselves - but they had it done - money, women, brainwashing, safe heaven in the US or even assassination threat would work like miracle. This is not the first time such an incident happened. For instance, since seventh century, the Christian and Jewish population of Jerusalem enjoyed mutual respect and tolerance under the Muslims, and thrieved there. This harmony continued for centuries. Then there came the infamous Al-Hakim, the sixth Egyptian Caliph from Fatemide dynasty.
Al-Hakim had mentally drained and unstable personality, coupled with hallucinating beliefs in rituals. Gradually, he became too close to a Muslim convert from a band of zealots, that lived in the Christendom, came to Al-Azhar for learning. Al-Hakim kept on taking his advice on many affairs that eventually culminated in sacking the pilgrimage hospice in Jerusalem and destroying the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1063, Pope Alexander II had given papal blessing to Iberian Christians in their wars against the Muslims. This, in fact, started the seed of distrust and revenge between these two cousins of the Abrahamic religion and continues even today. Here too, a convert to Islam worked like a miracle in paving the way to war between these two religions - Christianity and Islam.
Coming back to the US scenario, the whole world feels today that George Bush, being a puppet in the hands of his Israeli approved entourage, is practically powerless to say "no". That's why George Bush couldn't defy the pressure of the Sharonist gang in the White House, to divert the war efforts from Afghanistan to Iraq. Evidently, He must have succumbed to the threat that came from the "war party" within his administration, controlled by Israel. After all, George Bush knew it well that if he didn't comply with the wishes of Israel, his days in the White House would be numbered. And for sure, a phoney Islamic-Oswold is sure to be dragged out - and this time, it wouldn't be from a movie theatre, as happened in Kennedy's case. While linking Oswald to communism was the limelight then, now it is Islam - not for communism but for terrorism.
As soon as George Bush diverted his hunt for al-Qaeda, from Afghanistan to Iraq, it became clear to the whole world, that 9/11 was just a smoke-screen towards paving the way to attacking Iraq. The passion, however, wasn't for the US, but instead it was for Israel to have a perpetual safe-heaven in the Middle-East, coupled with the oil-interest of Dick Cheney, the US president in disguise.
With the repeated failure of the Bush administration to prove the existence of WMD in Iraq, oppositions and protest erupted all over the world. Although Spain's prime minister José María Aznar accepted an invitation to enjoy good-time with George Bush in Crawford, Texas on February 22-23, 2003, Spain had about 90% of its population opposing the war.
George Bush also counted on Prime Minister John Howard of Australia. John Howard, on the other hand, was counting heavily on the UN resolution, conducive to attacking Iraq. But to the great dismay of the US led coalition, the UN was split over the issue that called for the use of the previous resolution against Iraq, expired with the Kuwait-Iraq war. The opposition Labour Party leader of Australia, Simon Crean warned that committing Australian troops would increase the risk of terror attacks. He, vehemently, opposed his Prime Minister, John Howard. As the uncertainty continued in the UN, the Israeli interest in eliminating Iraq was quite uncertain and the "Zionist mole" in the White House must have got nervous.
Undoubtedly, Mossad didn't spare any time to remind the other members of the US coalition about al-Qaeda's terrorism. The two bombs, which ripped through a busy night-club area in Bali, killed mostly foreign tourists. Australians lost 88 lives, the greatest number of casualties.
As a consequence, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, propelled by the induced wrath generated by the Bali-bomb, quickly committed his countriy's troops to the American-led war against Iraq, on Tuesday, 18 March 2003. He just abandoned his earlier commitment on a debate in the Australian parliament.
The Indonesian police presented evidence against the alleged mastermind behind the Bali-bomb carnage and identified him as an Imam of a mosque named Samudra. Interestingly, Samudra is a Sanskrit term for "ocean". The term occurs 133 times in the Rigveda - the Hindu equivalency of the Torah. In fact, almost all converts to Islam, identify themselves with a traditional Muslim name. Even Cat Steven, the famous singer of the 70's, named himself as Yusuf Islam after his conversion. Obviously, the name, Samudra - with a divine link to Hindu origin, makes many thinkers wonder why the name Samudra remained unchanged even when he assumed the spiritual duties of an Imam, equivalent to a priest of a church.
The story doesn't end here. Sarjiyo, a 32-year-old Christian convert to Islam, was the third man to be jailed for life over the attacks and was linked to al-Qaeda.
A British-born, Jack Roche, converted from Christianity to Islam, initially pleaded innocent against his charges in Perth, Australia to plotting with Osama and senior members of al-Qaeda. Surprisingly, Jack Roche unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty on the final day of giving evidence, after a short adjournment of the court. Anyone, exposed to the real scenario of these incidents, would have no riddle to ponder how a short recess may reverse a criminal case. Would it be hard to realize what money can do?
Right from the days of 9/11 incidents, the emergence of the converts to Islam played a vital role in establishing Islamic connection to terrorism. For instance Richard Reid, a British citizen, was on board Flight 63 on December 22, 2001. He was caught when a flight attendant saw him attempting to light a match on the tongue of his shoe. He was then wrestled to the ground before he succeeded in doing anything. It might sound shocking, but Richard Reid was given an easy access to Israel, just six months before the "shoe-bomb" incident. More to the point, his flight to Tel Aviv was accompanied by an armed air-marshall, seated close to him.
The FBI and British intelligence confirmed that Reid became involved in street crime and spent time in a number of prisons, including Feltham Young Offenders' Institution. Evidently, his travel to Israel, onboard an El-Al flight, wasn't for fun - was it? Plainly put, would Israel allow a convict and a convert to Islam on an El-Al flight without a planned goal? The FBI, after the "shoe-bomb" incident, kept on referring him as Tariq Raja as well as Abdel Rahim. As a result, the media exposed him to the world as a convert to Islam involved in terrorism.
After a miserable failure of the Bush administration, propelled by the blatant lies behind the WMD, the opposition to Iraq war has become increasingly stronger these days in the US soil. Consequently, the Sharonists in the Bush administration have recently been experiencing a dire need for incidents of terrorist activities involving Muslim participants. And when no Muslims do budge in responding to the temptation of wealth and safe heaven in the US, the terrorism does still continue in Islam's name. Amazingly, these orchestrated terrorist activities are invariably connected to converted Muslims - either from the Christian or the Hindu communities.
The London bomb scenario includes Lindsay, a 19-year-old convert to Islam. He has been identified as the one who blew himself up on a tube-train just after it left King's Cross station. The London police declared the weight of the bomb being 10 pounds after it got blown-up and Lindsay seemed to have been carrying it. Could it be that they had knowledge of the weight prior to its detonation?
Vikash Chand, is another Hindu convert to Islam, apparently involved in a terrorism in Canada. Chand's lawyer, Batasar, also of Hindu origin, presented the case as if he was the government prosecutor. Far from pleading for his clients, he stunned the courtroom by revealing that his client and the 16 others, intended to take politicians as hostage, and murder them as part of a massive terrorist plot.
Naturally, an inquisitive mind cannot fail to question if Chand and his chosen lawyer, Batasar are in the same payroll, dedicated to creating credence on the Bush doctrine: "War on Terror." The existing minority government of Canada, headed by a radical conservative leader, Stephen Harper had a dire need for a terrorist incident in Canada. This helped him establish for the next federal election that Canada too has Muslim terrorists, and as such, sending combating troops to Afghanistan was totally justified.
Incidentally, according to Canadian "Law Times", Batasar, the lawyer for Vikash Chand is "under fire" from his criminal law colleagues. According to the Toronto Star newspaper, Vikash Chand was a member of the Royal Regiment of Canada, the second largest reserve regiment of the Canadian Forces.
Though it dates about 3 years ago, most people who keep track of the world affairs, would still remember that a few powerful countries of Europe, namely France, Germany and Russia caused a deadlock in Iraq issue in the UN. Consequently, here comes again the creative pretences of Mossad to make France rethink about opposing the Iraq war. A bombing in Pakistan killed 11 French technicians and 23 others sustained injuries outside a five-star hotel. An explosive-laden car rammed into a navy vehicle taking the French to a dockyard. Then in October 2002, a French super-tanker was on fire, off the Yemeni coast after a mysterious explosion.
Despite the Zionist controlled media quickly identified al-Qaeda for all these bomb blasts, it couldn't sway the French determination to opposing the Iraq war in 2003. The sharp minds of President Jacques Chirac and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin must have known it well that while France was trying to avert a war in Iraq, al-Quida couldn't have been involved in provoking those who were against such an unjust war.
There is nothing new to the rest of world that Israel is a terrorist state who is armed to the teeth by the US. It actually meets all the definitions as set out by George Bush. Israel, right from its inception, has used Mossad to carry out violence and terror, including assassination. Even the Canadian-born astro-physicist, Gerald Bull wasn't spared. He was murdered on the entrance of his home in Brussels, Belgium.
Mosad, though successful in most of the times in its terrorism assignment, it must have been a severe miscalculation on its part on the morning-rush-hour in Madrid on March 11, 2004. Its powerful explosives ripped open carriages, killing at least 200 commuters and wounding more than 1,500 others. But ironically, the initial arrest included two Indian Nationals - Vinay Kohly and Suresh Kumar. Even though Spain's government blamed Basque separatist group Eta for the attacks, an audio tape in Arabic was planted by the perpetrator and the media quickly put the blame on the al-Quida. Perhaps it didn't occur to Mossad and the media that Vinay Kohly and Suresh Kumar are not Muslim names, they, rather, are Hindus.
While the Madrid bomb investigators couldn't find a convert to Islam immediately, he was eventually uncovered over a year later, on Friday, 23 June 2006. A CNN broadcast tells us that a lawyer and former Army officer, Brandon Mayfield, who converted to Islam, was arrested as a material witness in the deadly train bombings in Spain. He was from Portland suburb of Aloha, USA.
On June 23, 2006, a CNN report tells us again that a federal indictment unveiled Friday alleges seven men in Miami were engaged in a terrorist plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, and other US government buildings in Miami, Florida. Another report qualifies them as: "These are native born Blacks who converted to Islam"
Even though it appeases the Sharonists in the White House, but the ripple effects of these orchestrated terrorism involving the phrase: "converted to Islam", cannot fail to sound repetitious. It must be reminding the listeners of Aesop's Fables and the lesson: "Don't cry 'wolf' when there is no wolf!". The CIA-Mossad partnership must realise that if al-Queda represents Muslim terrorists then they would not keep non-Muslims, especially Hindus, and Christians in its payroll. Doing so would be equivalent to Israel employing Osama to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Sources:
[1]. Scare Tactics: Ashcroft's Phony 'War on Terrorism'
by Edward Spannaus - "de facto Minister of Fear.":
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[2]. Richard Reid
He visited Israel in June 2001 and onboard the El-Al flight to Tel Aviv was accompanied seated close to an armed air-marshall. The FBI, after the "shoe-bomb" incident, kept on referring him as Tariq Raja as well as Abdel Rahim.
[3]. Vinay Kohly, Suresh Kumar - [BBC News. Madrid Bombing]:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3597885.stm+Vinay+Kohly+
%2B+Suresh+Kumar&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=4
[4]. Vikash Chand - [CTV news]
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[5]. Sarjiyo - Bali Bombing
Sarjiyo, a 32-year-old Christian convert to Islam, is the third man to be jailed for life over the attacks:
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third+man+to+be+jailed%22&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=1
[6]. Samudra - [BBC News]:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2499943.stm
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[7]. Samudra in the Rigveda - The term occurs 133 times in the Rigveda, referring to oceans (real, mythical or figurative) or large bodies of water as well as to large Soma vessels, e.g. RV 6.69.6 (trans. Griffith)::
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samudra+Samudra+%2BRig+Veda&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=1
[8]. Jack Roche - After converting to Islam, British-born Australian Jack Roche
[9]. Germaine Lindsay
The fourth suicide bomber was identified as Jamaican-born British resident Germaine Lindsay, who lived in Aylesbury.
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[10]. CNN news - Federal indictment unveiled Friday alleges seven men in Miami were engaged in a terrorist plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago
2006/US/06/23/kent.cnna/index.html+%22federal+indictment+unveiled+Friday
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+were+engaged+in+a+terrorist+plot+to+blow+up+the+Sears
+Tower+in+Chicago%22&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3
[11]. "these are native born blacks who converted to Islam":
These+are+native+born+Blacks+who+converted+to+Islam%22&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=1
[12]. Brandon Mayfield - Muslim-convert Brandon Mayfield spent 17 days in detention ...
2004/05/26/fbi_madrid_blunder/+Brandon+Mayfield+%2Bconvert&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3
[13]. Catholic Encyclopedea - In 1063, Pope Alexander II had given papal blessing to Iberian Christians in their wars against the Muslims
cathen/08355a.htm+Al+Hakim+%2B+first+Crusade+Catholic&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=6
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Now, if you wanted to get a separate phone line for your office, and a separate internet connection, then you could get those two things bundled together. And they'd obviously be on a different bill from your existing services.
But you can't get separate bills for services that are part of a double-play / triple-play package. Sometimes you can determine the broken-out costs of the individual services inside the bundle, sometimes you can't even do that.
If I were you, I'd probably get a cable-internet line run to the office, in addition to the services you have now. They'll pull cable from the pole to your house (if it doesn't exist already) and probably install a jack by drilling into an exterior wall from the outside with a long bit, and sealing it with caulk. If you want a better job that's less destructive to your house, you'll need to hire an electrician who does data/video wiring. The cable internet line would just be for your office. It will cost probably $60/mo or so to get internet without accompanying television service. Then you can take that bill and submit it to your new company for reimbursement in total honesty that it is just for work.
One note: DO NOT tell the cable company that it is for a home office. Seriously, don't do it. They will try to force you into buying a "business" internet package that is exactly (for your purposes) the same as the home service, just 150% more expensive.
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...And found nothing that related to my problem with this. Ive had a baker cyst for 2 years. In the beginning the pain was minimal, and havent had much trouble till now. Occasionally, the lump goes up and down, is this normal and what causes this? Also, Im having pain now and it is bigger than it ever was, about as big as a ping pong ball. It also has a red dot, like a pimple right in the mddle of it. What kind of home care can I give it? Could it be ready to rupture, if so is it a nedical energency? Should I have it drained, and if so, how long does it take, do they numb it, and how does it feel afterward? Im sorry for all the questions, but found no answers to these questions in the archives. Thank you Walt, hope you are feeling MUCH better.
In Reply to: Pored over archives for Baker Cyst Archives... posted by Arleen Andersen on September 15, 2000 at 01:28:31:
Hi, Arlene.
Thanks for your kind thoughts.
Sounds like you need to see a knowledgable surgeon (one who knows that the most important thing is locating the rent in the joint capsule and repairing THAT, not removing the "cyst"). Once the rent has been sealed the cyst would disappear of its own mechanisms.
There is no emergency EXCEPT it is a LOT easier to find the rent IF the cyst is present: all one has to do is follow the cyst to its neck. Once the cyst is ruptured, it is VERY difficult to find the rent.
Let us know how you do.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Pored over archives for Baker Cyst Archives... (Archive in Baker's) posted by Walt Stoll on September 17, 2000 at 09:17:53:
Im sorry but I dont quite understand what you mean by the 'rent'. Can I be awake during this procedure?
In Reply to: Re: Pored over archives for Baker Cyst Archives... (Archive in Baker's) posted by Arleen Andersen on September 17, 2000 at 20:23:01:
Arlene,
You have not done your homework. This is explained many times in the archives. The "rent" is a rip in the joint capsule that allows the fliuyd to leak out.
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(Sacramento)-- Today Assembly Bill 780, authored by Assemblymember Raul Bocanegra (D – Pacoima), passed out of the Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee on a unanimous vote.
“This bill is a small step towards ensuring that California’s small businesses will have access to much needed working capital” said Assemblymember Bocanegra. “AB 780 provides for a small investment of two million dollars into the state’s network of Small Business Financial Development Corporations (FDC’s). The 11 FDC’s, strategically located around the state are the regional vehicles for the State’s Small Business Loan Guarantee Program.”
(Los Angeles) - California State Assemblymember Raul Boncanegra (D-Pacoima) was sworn in at the State Capitol with all the pomp and circumstance. However, Assemblymember Boncanegra thought it was important to have a second swearing-in, with the community that believed in him and voted him in to office. After taking the oath of office among friends and neighbors, Assemblymember Bocanegra got a little choked up while reminding the crowd, "The son of a gardener is now your State Assemblymember." Learn more about this special and heart-felt ceremony in the 39th Assembly District, in this Assembly Access Video.
Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima) was elected to the State Assembly in November 2012 to represent California’s 39th Assembly District, which includes the communities of Pacoima, San Fernando, Arleta, Mission Hills, Sylmar, North Hollywood, Lake View Terrace, Los Angeles, Northeast Granada Hills, Sunland-Tujunga, and Sun Valley.
Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Bocanegra attended local public schools before earning an Undergraduate and later a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from UCLA. Shortly after college, his career in public service to the families of Northeast San Fernando Valley began.
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At least seven sunspot groups dot the sun this morning at 10 a.m. (CDT) as photographed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Sunspots are cooler regions where magnetic energy is concentrated. Sometimes that energy is released as a solar flare, propelling solar particles and radiation toward the Earth. Credit: NASA
Like you and I the sun has cycles. None of us escapes the day-night rhythm of sleep and wakefulness. The most visible of the sun’s rhythms is the 11 year solar cycle also called the sunspot cycle. These vary from 9 to 14 years but the average is 11.
In a typical cycle, the number of sunspots and solar storms begins at a minimum, rises to a maximum and then returns to minimum. During solar maximum the sun is peppered with sunspots and powerful, aurora-producing flares are common; at minimum the sun’s face can be blank for days or even weeks. Minimums and maximums also vary. Some peaks are longer and more sunspot-rich than others, while “valleys” can be short or long with variable spot numbers.
The peaks and valleys of the past 110 years of solar cycles. Sunspot numbers (shown at left) wax and wane in an approximately 11-year cycle.
The solar cycle was discovered by German astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe in 1843 after he noticed sunspot numbers wax and wane in a regular pattern after 17 years of observation. Swiss astronomer Rudolf Wolf went back through previous sunspot records and reconstructed the sun’s ups and downs as far back as the mid-1700s.
Samuel Heinrich Schwabe
Each cycle gets a number. Solar Cycle 1 spanned the years 1755 to 1766. The last, Cycle 23, peaked in April 2000 with an average of 120 sunspots per day around the time of maximum. This was followed by a deep quiet period or minimum between cycles 23 and the current 24th with a record number of 801 spotless days between October 2005 and May 2010. This past solar minimum, which bottomed out in December 2008, was the longest and quietest in over a century. Since then, but especially over the past year, activity has been steadily on the rise.
The graph shows the last sunspot maximum in 2000 up through June this year. The current Cycle 24 is predicted to reach maximum next spring with an average of 60 spots a day. This would make it the smallest maximum in over 100 years. Credit: NASA
2012 has been a good year for sunspots, solar flares and auroras as we dig our way out of minimum and sail toward the next predicted peak in spring 2013. To date, the sun has kicked off about a half-dozen X-class flares. These are the most powerful variety with potential effects on Earth ranging from aurora creation to wreaking havoc with satellites and power grids. From late 2008 through early 2010 I recorded almost no auroras here in Duluth, Minn. In the past year however, we’ve been treated to several brilliant displays and at least 10 minor ones.
The brilliant flash is a powerful solar flare that erupted in March 2012. Flares can affect the upper atmosphere (auroras), airplane communications, satellites, power grids and oil pipelines. Click image to see a spectacular video of a solar eruption that happened yesterday. Credit: NASA
NASA solar scientists predict a very weak maximum in 2013 with an average of 60 sunspots daily. If this holds true, Cycle 24 would be the least active since Cycle 14 which peaked in February 1906 at 64. While this sounds like bad news for aurora watchers, don’t put on your long face just yet. Every cycle max, even the wimpier ones, feature powerful flares and crazy space weather.
“Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather,” says Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. “The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013.”
That storm, called the Carrington Event, is named after astronomer Richard Carrington who spotted a brilliant flare through his telescope on September 1, 1859. Shortly before dawn the next day, the sky blew up in a brilliant display of northern lights visible as far south as Jamaica. Aurora-induced electric currents in telegraph lines shocked telegraph operators and set telegraph paper on fire.
“A report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society’s high-tech infrastructure and require four to ten years for complete recovery,” according to a recent NASA press release.
We’ll soon see what Cycle 24 has in store. At the very least, more brilliant auroras are on the menu.
I am looking forward to an active cycle..In 1957 ham radio was blessed with great
action on all bands. My favorite ham band is 10 meters where little rf power will get
you contacts around the world…Do you suppose we can look forward to that?
This time around there are probably not many CB xcvrs left–hopefully.
Here’s hoping that sunspot activity will increase..I have seen two flaming coronas in my life time–the first was 1938- 2nd in late 60′s or early 70′s-entire sky was red! 73
Walter,
I don’t do ham radio but I’ve enjoyed shortwave listening (and listened to quite a few hams on the sidebands)for years with my Drake R-8. 1957 was a record solar max in the past hundred years-plus. I hope we get another one like it in our lifetimes. Happy listening!
We are constantly discussing the events of the Sun, and still do not know the real causes, whose effects on the Earth can be caused by damage to a couple of trillion dollars.
I ask:
How many millions of dollars to give civilization on Earth to know exactly predict the occurrence and prevent damage.?
Tell me a percentage of the damages.
I can help. I declare very seriously.
oh haha well in that case just name your price
hi Bob, noted the rather strong max in the late 1940′s. I recall some rather spectacular auroras during that period, especially in 1947-48.
Bob, do you think there’s a definite connection between the sun’s output and climate change, whether it be warming or cooling?
Tough one Carol. There’s a clear connection between the sun’s output and the warming of Earth’s outer atmosphere. These are cyclic variations from one solar maximum to the next. Over the lifetime of the solar system the sun’s output has probably undergone changes that have resulted in climate change on Earth. As for the current climate trend – it’s not due to a change in the energy output from the sun.
Thanks Bob. I wasn’t sure. Given the correlation between the Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age, I was wondering if there was any correlation in modern times.
Carol,
Ah, yes. I’d forgotten about that. Yes, there is possibly a connection there between the sun and climate during that long period of no sunspots. Here’s a great article on the topic:
Interesting article, Bob. Thanks for posting. I wonder why (and it’s not explained) the LIA was seemingly confined to the Northern Hemisphere? There’s no mention, nor illustration, of conditions in the Southern Hemisphere.
I know Carol – I wondered about that too. I’m not fully convinced the change was due to sunspots. Almost convinced but still a bit skeptical.
Thanks for linking that article, Bob; it tells a good story. The key point is that while the total solar irradiance TSI might decrease just a few tenths of a percent, cooling the earth a mere fraction of a degree, the UV solar flux varies much more greatly. That can tweak the stratosphere and work down to the troposphere, as the article says. Then it kicks the atmospheric waves over the oceans. Note the big warm blobs over the North Pacific and North Atlantic, which sends the jet stream diving south into the US and Europe, bringing the cold. So it’s a way for otherwise modest changes in the Sun to affect a large change in our climate.
These ocean changes/cycles go by names like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and along with El Nino are the biggest things affecting hot summers, cold winters, hurricanes, droughts, etc. over the northern land masses. Long-range forecasters use them to predict (with slight success) what kind of winter it will be, for example.
As for the southern hemisphere, since there’s so much water and so little land, the jet stream waves don’t get as strong and things are more consistent.
If you want to hear more, I’m giving a talk on this stuff on the Sky & Telescope eclipse cruise in November. So you can toast your toes in the Coral Sea while I talk abut how cold it got in Duluth.
Richard,
It does sound a like a “butterfly effect” scenario. I’d love to hear your talk while floating in the Coral Sea. That just sounds like a good place for a Duluthian to be in November.
Woah. Crazy. Thanks for this I had never heard of this phenomena.
Found some info on the Little Ice Age in the Southern Hemisphere:
It seems there WERE some effects, especially in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Strong flares from the sun is not an indication of a strong cycle. Solar Cycle 24 is very weak. It is much weaker than most folks realize at 1/20th of the x-ray and UV emissions compared to a normal cycle. This has to have an affect on weather.
Given the high probability for a grand minimum, you can kiss ham radio as we now know it good bye too.
Henry,
Agreed. Cycle 24 is definitely a weak one thus far. For the record, consistent, major flares from the sun are one sign of a strong cycle.
“The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013.”
Hmmm… it could yet get very interesting, eh?
Was that flare or CME in 1859 particularly big and powerful? Or did it have those effects just because it was a direct hit on the Earth? Maybe there isn’t really any way to know for sure, eh?
Bob,
The flare was extremely powerful – plainly visible in white light – and situated so that its radiation was Earth-directed. Most flares are only seen through a special H-alpha filter. If I’m not mistaken, the 1859 flare created the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded on Earth. I’m not sure when the quote comparing the current cycle with the 1859 one was written, but this cycle’s maximum is expected to be considerably lower than many, including that of 1859. No matter what the overall cycle strength, the potential for powerful solar flares is there. | http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2012/09/01/whats-in-store-for-sunspot-cycle-24/ | 2013-05-18T10:11:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The Beyond Belief 2006 seminar that I have been writing about on the weekends did not have a set schedule. Rather, speakers were invited up to speak sometimes out of turn in order to generate what the organizers called a conversation on the issues. After Joan Roughgarden gave her presentation about describing evolution in biblical terms, Richard Dawkins was invited up to give a response.
Dawkins actually responded first to something that Steven Weinberg said at the end of Session 2. Just before the conference broke for (a very late) lunch. Weinberg was given an opportunity to introduce the next topic, which was supposed to be, “If not religion, then what?”
Prophets and their Books
In this short introduction, he expressed an important concern. Humans seem to have a strange attraction to prophets and their books. If we get rid of Jesus (or, actually, Paul) and The Bible, or Mohammed and The Koran, what enters the vacuum?
Marx and Das Kapital
Hitler and Mein Kampf
Mao and The Little Red Book
Some people would add:
Darwin and The Origin of Species: yet, this classification comes from those who are so locked in a mindset of “a prophet and his book” that he cannot imagine somebody living without a prophet and a book. They assume, falsely, that everybody must have a prophet and a book to live by and the ask, “If not The Bible, then what?
Another pairing that I could add to the list is:
Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged.
Now, some people may be offended by my putting this book in the same company as those above. Yet, the worshippers of any of these ideologies would find the company shameful, I imagine. Yet, they all do have a lot in common. I once was a libertarian who spent a lot of time among Randian Objectivists, and the distortions of reason and fact that they can subject themselves to would shame a Christian, in spite of the fact that they hold reason in high esteem.
Some may claim that I have done the same thing, blinding myself to facts and reason in defending desire utilitarianism. I will not deny the possibility. Furthermore, I hold that I am the least qualified to judge whether such a charge is true or false. I hope that it is false. I also hope that, if the charge is true, that others can see through those mistakes so that they do no harm.
In the mean time, let’s get back to the main point. If not religion, then what? One of these other non-religious prophets and their books? That sounds like a bad idea.
Is there a a reasonable alternative to prophets and their books?
The Mischievous Old Aunt
Weinberg ended up comparing religion to an old aunt. “She lies and causes mischief,” Weinberg says, “But she was beautiful once and we loved her.” In her old age, she has become quite a bother, and it is time for her to pass on, but we will still miss her, according to Weinberg.
Richard Dawkins stepped up to the microphone and said,
I wondered whether Steven Weinberg . . . was feeling the need to bend over backwards and be a little bit nice about religion. Scrape the barrel to find something nice to say about religion. So, we came up with this picture of the elderly aunt. We will all miss her when she goes. I won’t miss her at all. Not one scrap. Not one smidgen. I am utterly fed up with the respect that all of us, including the secular among us, have been bestowing upon religion.
What Is There to Miss?
Ultimately, if we are talking about missing religion, we are talking about missing false beliefs.
False beliefs are, as Weinberg says, ‘mischievous’ (to say the least). We seek to fulfill our desires. However, we act to fulfill our desires given our beliefs. False or incomplete beliefs stand in the way of us fulfilling our desires. The person who believes that a glass contains water and drinks it to quench her thirst tells us of the ‘mischievousness’ of false beliefs.
Some of these false beliefs provide an escape from a reality that can be difficult to handle, such as the possibility of death. Weinberg spoke of consoling a parent over the loss of a child with the false belief that the child is not really dead, but instead has moved on to another place where the child will know nothing but joy and the protection of an almighty and perfectly benevolent God. These false beliefs are the difference between pleasure and pain for a lot of people.
Yet, they are still false beliefs, and false beliefs are the barrier that gets in the way of our preventing harms to start with. A quite simple fact of the matter is that there will be far fewer children dying if we had a better handle on how to explain and predict the real world. We could then explain and predict those parts that tend to kill children, and make them far less common or far easier to avoid. Just as false beliefs can get in the way of our quenching our thirst, they can get in the way of our saving our children.
Comfort and Joy and the Meaning of Life
There are also those who would miss the comfort and joy that they claim to find in religion, and the meaning that their life has when they devote their life to God.
On this measure, I have had dreams in which some deep desire of mine has been fulfilled – or, at least, the dream has given me a belief that they were fulfilled, giving me great joy. I wake up, and find myself in the same house facing the same job so that I can pay the same bills. I wish that it had not been a dream – that the events had been real. In fact, that’s what it means to say that the dream fulfilled my desires. They caused me to have false beliefs that the state I was one where its propositions were those that I desired (wished) to be true.
Yet, it was still a dream.
What if I could stay in that dream state forever, falsely believing that the propositions I accepted in the dream were true in the real world? I would know great comfort and joy. I would think that my life had meaning and purpose. In fact, I would be a blob of protoplasm wasting away in a dream state until I finally died. Even if I was given an opportunity to remain in that dream state, with all of the comfort and joy it provides, I would prefer the real world, with its difficulties and disappointments. At least, in the real world, when I help somebody, there is somebody who actually benefits.
No person has ever found meaning and purpose in his life serving a God, because the time he spends serving God is like the time that I spend in a dream. It may generate great feelings, but those feelings have no anchor in the real world.
The one difference between permanently sleeping and living a dream life and religion is that the person living the dream life is harmless. He lays in his bed while his body rots, accomplishing nothing real but experiencing great joy and the pretense that he has done great things. He does not do any good, but he does not do any harm either.
Unfortunately, many of those who find meaning and purpose in religion find that meaning and purpose in doing things that are harmful to others. Notwithstanding the maiming and killing of others in the name of God, they seek legislation that deprives others of fulfilling lives and relationships, stand in the way of medical research, block scientific advance, erect barriers to freedom that do real-world harm but which serve no real-world purpose, and denigrate and belittle those who do no harm and tend to provide great benefit to the community in the name of defending the faith.
Besides, people also thought that they found meaning and purpose for their lives in the Nazi Party, the Communist Party, and the KKK as well. Sometimes we just have to ask, “How many people have to suffer and die for your life to have meaning?”
Conclusion
If not religion, then what?
Well, let’s put an end of the era of prophets and their books. Those who quote some author as if he were an infallible prophet can already trust that he does not know what he is talking about. Nobody is that good.
And even though false beliefs can bring comfort and joy, they also bring great misery and sorrow. Better abilities to explain and predict the real world are the best tools that we have to avoid the situations where we would need to be comforted, including the deaths of children, and our own deaths.
There is a real world out there. Anything worth doing, is worth doing for real.
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A very nice post. The only thing I can think to add is a mention of psychologist Bob Altemeyer's micrometer-precise measurement of why so many people are attached to scripture: They are psychologically predisposed to obey authority without much regard to that authority's content. | http://atheistethicist.blogspot.com/2007/02/richard-dawkins-missing-religion.html | 2013-05-18T10:13:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I'm glad this question came first, as it's actually the first time I've heard a question phrased this way from any Christian. Notice Licona doesn't ask why I don't believe, he asks why Christianity is a turnoff. Which is quite a different matter. Licona has noticed that, apart from disbelief, there is something about religion in particular that rubs atheists the wrong way. Very astute, Mike. (Except, of course, for slipping in the mistaken attempt at equivocation with the ever-popular Christian weasel word "worldview." Atheism is not a "worldview." It is merely the disbelief in gods.)
I'll take the final question first. When credible evidence for a deity comes to light — a thing theists have singly been incapable of providing — then I will doubt my atheism. This does not mean I have a closed mind towards the idea. Even when I say, with full confidence, that I don't believe in any gods, I'm not making a dogmatic proclamation of absolute knowledge. But here, it's like the question of leprechauns. Would I believe in leprechauns if evidence for them ever made it sensible to do so? Sure. But in the absence of such evidence, I'm quite confident in maintaining my disbelief in leprechauns. Ditto gods.
There's nothing about Christianity troubling to my atheism, per se, so much as troubling to my humanism and ideas about goodness and decency. What turns me off about Christianity is that I consider it morally confused at best, and morally bankrupt at worst. Indeed, the Doctrine of Hell alone forever disqualifies Christianity as a moral belief system of any kind. Put bluntly, any religion that not only uses threats of eternal torture and punishment to enforce compliance, let alone considers eternal torture morally acceptable in the first place, simply for the "crime" of not being Christian, can only be considered not merely immoral but evil. Let us, for the sake of argument, say God exists. Am I to understand that this deity — said to be omniscient, omnipotent, omnific — is so insecure in his rule over his creation that he would find it necessary to consign me to eternity in hell merely for using my reasoning capacities (which he presumably gave me) to doubt his existence, especially when this God has deliberately chosen to refuse to reveal his existence unambiguously? Am I supposed to consider such a being worthy of my admiration, let alone my love and, most incredibly, my worship?
I often ask people who call the television show to imagine an abusive spouse, who tells his wife the following: "Honey, I love you with all my heart. But I swear, if you ever leave me, if I ever even think you're looking at another man or thinking about breaking up with me, so help me, I'll break your neck!" Now, is this a man you'd introduce your lady friends to? Is this someone you'd consider, not only a good man, but the best and most moral kind of man possible? No? But look closely. This man is your God. Don't worship him to his satisfaction, don't accept the divine love he so generously offers you, and go directly to hell, boom, no passing "Go" or collecting the proverbial two Benjamins.
Honestly, can you really be so clueless as to why Christianity turns atheists off, when it offers such an appalling deity for our devotion?
The immorality of Christianity doesn't stop there. This is a religion that preaches "love one another," and yet encourages the most virulent forms of hate. True, Islam does this to a degree Christianity can only dream of, but Christianity is still pretty objectionable. It is Christianity that inspires essentially 100% of the homophobia that is practiced in this country, and it informs most of its racism as well. You could say that this activity is merely bad people misinterpreting Christianity to their own ends. But it's hard to sell that excuse when passages in Leviticus calling for the execution of gays, and similarly hateful passages in Romans exist.
And why do so many racist groups openly identify themselves as Christian, giving themselves such pompous names as "World Church of the Creator"? This, I'd say, is perhaps not something particular to Christianity as it is to the very nature of religion itself: religion has historically been a tool for people to justify violence, atrocities, bigotry, oppression, even outright murder by giving such activity the divine stamp of approval. Todd Rundgren comments eloquently on this in his song "God Said," in which he imagines God replying to the prayers of a desperate and insecure believer.
You are not serving me, you're serving something else
Cause I don't need to be pleased, just get over yourself
You can't suck up to me, I know you all too well
But I don't dwell upon you, so get over yourself
Cause you're not praying to me, you're praying to yourself
And you're not worshiping me, you're worshiping yourself
And you will kill in my name and heaven knows what else
When you can't prove I exist, so get over yourself
You might say, again, that religiously-inspired hate and violence is man misusing religion, and doesn't come from God. But outside of Rundgren's song, I don't see God doing much to put a stop to such activity in his name. And when you consider, as I (and Todd) have, that what people call God is pretty much always simply their own idealized self-image, projected upon the universe, is it any wonder that religiosity has so often taken such an ugly form?
Another thing that turns me off about religion in general and Christianity in particular is the way such beliefs encourage delusion and bankrupt knowledge. I could go on (and have) at length about the way Christian fundamentalists in America are engaged in an all-out war on science education, specifically the study of a subject — evolutionary biology — that is vital to the understanding of our health and of our ability to treat disease. And the roster of scientific all-stars suppressed (Galileo) or just plain murdered outright (Giordano Bruno) by the Church is a stain you'll never wash off. But this post is going to be long enough as it is, so I'll move on..
Regarding the so called "resurrection expert", it appears he fancies himself an expert in something that actually happened. It's as if a "Star Trek expert" somehow deluded himself that the Starship Enterprise really exists. One can be an "expert" on fictional events, but the bizarreness of religionists is that they have, mostly through peer pressure, convinced themselves that the myths and fables of their ancient books aren't fiction. It's a very weird psychological phenomenon, one which I find endlessly fascinating.
Similarly, I always get a chuckle when someone condemns me to hell for being an atheist, because they invariably fail to understand the simple fact that for a threat to be effective the person at whom the threat is directed has to believe it to be real. Otherwise it has all the power of a six year old child threatening his parents that the monster in the closet is gonna get them..
There are video clips where he is answering "questions" from people, but I could only stomach one of them, his answer to "Misquoting Jesus", where he launches a huge ad-hominem attack against Bart Ehrman and his book, without addressing any of the points raised in the book. One vitriol spilled command to "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"..
You are so right, and I hope I have learned my lesson since my last row with Rho over gay-marriage. Fundies like Rho are like coming across dead animals in the woods. The mere sight is so sad, I feel compelled to poke them with a stick a bit. In some vane hope, I guess I expect they will just "wake up" and scamper off to live out a normal life. But, alas, they simply lie there, lifeless and dead (from the neck up), just like when I found them.
DagoRed,
Love the allegory! With that carcass, even the trees weep.
Actually, in my discussions with him I considered that he might be a troll posing as a theist, just to get a rise. But given the time he has put into it, and the numbers of other individuals like him, I have to assume he is being honest, or at least honest as he sees it.
Tommy - ."
Nuh-uh. Don't you know that the default position is that the historians are accurate? (/sarcasm)
which leads to here (better links, IIRC):
So: "You simply cannot be serious. Be consistent then with all textual evidence and see where that gets you. Become a historian and then you'll know why they treat textual evidence as prima facie true unless discomfirmed. THEY MUST DO THIS! THERE IS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE!"
I just amazes me how the most important "historical event" of Christianity is plagued with so much contradiction in the inerrant Bible.
Yeah... you are SO clever in your own little world, on your own little blog in cyberspace, where you have hours upon hours to type and re-type answers to these questions. Why don't you get some balls and debate Mr. Habermas, a foremost Christian scholar, in-person? And then we shall see who the victor is!
I've watched extended-length footage of Habermas taking on Antony Flew before a live studio audience. Habermas decimated Flew. He would do the same to you.
Habermas has written many books. Some of them answer each and every point you've posted here (and frankly, your points are just recycled atheist garbage that keeps getting regurgitated on various corners of the internet ad-naseum). Why don't you form some original opinions instead of re-using the same old, tired points that people came up with while you were still in diapers?
And the fact you start your post by denying that Jesus ever lived is the most ridiculous assertion I've ever heard. While I'll concede that Jesus' resurrection is an unknown variable, his existence is almost certain, even if only based on prima facie evidence. To assert otherwise is simply illogical and makes me believe you have been living in a cave for the majority of your adult life..
It really wouldn't matter who the opponent was. You could pit Ken Ham against a panel of Nobel Prize winners; it wouldn't make one bit of difference to you. You'd still conclude that your guy "decimated" them - because that's what you need to believe.
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There is, of course, a reason why religious apologists generally (and creationists in particular, BTW) always want in-person debates. It allows them to use theatrics, personality, hand waving and obfuscation to "win" the debate, rather than doing so on the merits of the argument - assuming they actually stick to the topic, that is.
Written arguments/responses are much preferred for anyone really interested in generating more light than heat. It allows you to parse exactly what the other person has said in detail, followed by the ability to research a well-considered answer without being interrupted or steered away from the topic.
The Sam Harris-Andrew Sullivan online debate is an excellent example of how written debates are better, despite the fact that Harris is usually a decent debater in person. The format kept Sullivan from wriggling off the hook in certain areas, where the same situation in person would have yielded less fruitful discussion and more yelling and interruption.
Habermas has "answers" to atheist arguments, but they're crappy answers that only convince people who are already in the tank and who have clearly shown a distaste for considering any non-miraculous explanations for the "events" in question. Strange how Muslims and Jews agree with the atheists and find his case uncompelling. Wonder why that is? you'd care to produce any of this "prima facie" evidence you claim makes Jesus' existence "almost certain," then be my guest. But even having ironclad evidence that the Jesus of the Gospels was a real person would not, in and of itself, constitute evidence of any of the supernatural or divine claims surrounding him. You know that, right?
In any case, throwing an adolescent shit-fit over my article and calling it "recycled atheist garbage" does not constitute a refutation of it. If I've gotten my facts wrong, explain where and how, in detail. I expect you cannot, and a hysterical tirade is, in fact, all you've got.
If Habermas asked to debate me, I might consider it. But I cannot see the point of it. Debates do not establish facts. Evidence does. I know Christians like debates, because, as Kingasaurus pointed out, debates are all about performance, bluster, and getting a laugh from the audience. Christians are good at that, and debates give them the illusion they've got facts on their side by virtue of enjoying the applause of a congenial audience.
Since you're obviously a huge Habermas fan, though, why not do this: alert Habermas to this blog post, and if my points are as lousy as all that, he should have no problem demolishing them in reply, either here or on his own blog or both. Something like that would certainly be more likely to impress me and the other readers here, than a pissed-off rant from a petulant fundie scorned.
@Martin. So this is a case of these guys coming to us. If Habermas wants me to consider all of his apparently vast scholarly work on the subject, then he should present a better question than one whose premise is rooted in a number of assertions he doesn't back up. Where does he show the proof that "75%" of scholars agree the Resurrection happened? Who are these scholars? Are they real academics, or just fellow fundamentalist apologists like himself? If he wants to present a series of claims as part of a question for atheists, he needs to be the one to bring all of his facts to the table first. It isn't my job to chase after his facts. If I get asked a question by an apologist, I will answer the question asked. It's a bit foolish to say, "Oh, I'll ask you a question, but before you answer it, read all my books too."
Do historians say that Hannibal never crosses the Alps because Polybius contradicts Livy on the event? heck no. that is why it is stupid for you to appeal to discrepancies in the gospels. It is nothing but special pleading.
Look up what the special pleading fallacy is first, before accusing someone of it. If anyone is trying for special pleading, it's the Christians, who want to claim ironclad historicity for Biblical claims on extremely flimsy evidence at best. And as for Livy and Polybius, neither of those men's writings have had 2000 years of followers proclaiming them the inerrant word of God, nor do either of them claim Hannibal performed unheard of supernatural feats like rising from the dead and becoming ruler of the universe...
If you read how Habermas presents his case he doesn't go for "ironclad historicity" but usually goes with the 5 facts that even skeptics accept.Even most non-Christians scholars (Bart Ehrman and Pinchas Lapide are 2 examples) accept the minimal facts..
If you come to my house and claim you're lateness was due to a traffic jam, I'm inclined to take your word for it. Traffic jams are commonplace, and even though there is a slim statistical chance that you are lying for some reason unknown to me, I'm not going to be really motivated to thoroughly investigate whether the traffic jam actually happened. But if you claim an elephant escaped from the zoo, and during its rampage trampled your car, I'm not likely to just go along and buy it. A zoo escape (or even an alien abduction) doesn't contradict naturalism, but it is sufficiently unlikely that if you claim it happened, I'd really like some ironclad evidence beyond your say-so.
In the same vein, claims of supernatural "miracles" qualify as extraordinary claims - NOT just because they contradict the known laws of the universe that we've discovered, but also because they are sufficiently outside our everyday experience that we can confidently say that reports of real "miracles" are less likely to be accurate than the person simply lying, being mistaken, or being deliberately fooled by another person. Doesn't mean there's absolutely no chance that something supernatural happened, but the evidence had better be darned good before we buy into it.
This is why things like "I saw some guy levitate" simply doesn't get accepted on the person's say-so.
There are modern gurus who perform "miracles" in front of throngs of eyewitnesses who are convinced the person in question has real supernatural powers. Very few outside the true believers are convinced by such stuff, as people educated in sleight of hand and subterfuge can state that it's much more likely that the guy is simply doing tricks.
Such gurus, as Sam Harris points out, don't even make the nightly news. Yet plop down some similar (decades old) accounts in some hearsay-ridden ancient books, that come out of the pre-scientific, superstitous environment of the first century Roman empire, and billions of modern people think it's a worthwhile project around which to organize their lives.::
Thanks for posting the link to this article to my blog post. I hadn’t read it, but it’s funny. I find the questions “asked” nearly rhetorical in nature. In fact, I just reread an exchange I had with a theist back in 2008, where he asked specifically this question, and when atheists posted answers, he objected it was obviously not intended as a real question, but as rhetorical. It was Craig’s question: “What's the real reason you don't believe in God? How and when do you lose your faith in God?”
It’s the sort of question you ask a person when you just don’t like the answer you’re getting. I can’t help people who don’t get answers they want to rhetorical questions. But I can say that if you’re asking questions rhetorically and not wanting answers, then you’re assuming you already know the answer. But what’s interesting with the theists who offer this as rhetorical, is that 10 times out of 10, they’re assumptions are wrong. So, humorously, they ask without wanting to know, and they demonstrate that what they think they know is wrong. The very person who could learn in this situation is, ironically, assuming he has nothing to learn from the people he is asking.
“Resurrection expert”? Is that like Big Foot Cryptozoologist? I sometimes ask when I see a divinity degree, if that means the person has graduated to god. There is something special about being an expert on something nobody can confirm ever existed or actually happened.
In your reply to Habermas, I’m reminded of the Luke Gospel. It has no named author, but we use Luke. Then we proceed to discuss that book as “Luke’s Gospel,” disregarding that we really don’t know it was authored by a person named Luke. And that becomes “everybody accepts Luke wrote it…” Well, we refer to it as though Luke wrote it, because it’s handy to do so; but that doesn’t mean Luke wrote it. Then when we address that whoever authored Luke wasn’t an eyewitness. And the reply is that he _interviewed_ eyewitnesses. And how do we know this? Well, because this anonymous author said so in the text. Did he also tell us how he knew these people were eyewitnesses? Was there any screening? Seriously, how did Luke weed out real eyewitnesses—if there were any—from the people we all know and love who will assert they experienced/saw anything in order to simply have someone to talk to? Were these the alien abductees of antiquity? How do we know they weren’t? Did the author talk to anyone at all? Or did the author simply assert he did? How do we know his claim is accurate? How do we know, without original texts, if this claim was the same in the original or was added or revised later?
For any of these questions we can take a guess. And we can study and take a more educated guess. But we can’t really ever know the answers to these questions because the only means of examining these issues is long gone. We can’t interview anyone. We can’t look at any tomb. We can’t do anything that would be remotely necessary to establish this as “fact.” And that is the problem—when the theist or apologist puts this out as “fact,” tacks on the fallacy from popularity, and then declares challengers to their bald assertions are off their nut. No doubt he has the numbers to pull it off. But it’s dishonest, unreasonable, and dishonorable. I’m fine being considered nuts by a majority who asserts “facts” they simply _cannot_ demonstrate are, in fact, facts.
And yes, your breakdown of the resurrection myths is very helpful. | http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/2009/01/answering-apologists-questions-part-1.html?showComment=1232552880000 | 2013-05-18T10:41:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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As the Atlanta Braves take on the Miami Marlins in game two of their three-game series, Braves' manager Fredi Gonzalez has made four changes to the lineup from Monday.
The two big moves are the returns of Chipper Jones and Brian McCann, who were both given the night off Monday. Jones replaces Martin Prado, who moves back to his natural position at shortstop, while McCann replaces David Ross.
Prado's move back to shortstop pushes Andrelton Simmons to the bench and Jose Constanza gets the start at left field, replacing Jeff Baker.
Full lineups for both teams are below:
Atlanta Braves:
1. Michael Bourn CF
2. Martin Prado SS
3. Jason Heyward RF
4. Chipper Jones 3B
5. Freddie Freeman 1B
7. Brian McCann C
8. Jose Constanza LF
9. Paul Maholm P
Miami Marlins:
1. Gorkys Hernandez CF
2. Donovan Solano 2B
3. Jose Reyes SS
4. Carlos Lee 1B
5. Justin Ruggiano LF
6. Austin Kearns RF
8. Gil Velazquez LF
9. Nathan Eovaldi P
For more on this series be sure to check out Talking Chop and Fish Stripes. For more news and notes! | http://atlanta.sbnation.com/2012/9/18/3354118/braves-vs-marlins-lineups-chipper-jones-brian-mccann/in/3109883 | 2013-05-18T10:40:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Here's a look at seven obsessives who've predicted the entire 2011 NFL Draft. Each link goes to a complete seven-round mock draft, but let's talk about the Atlanta Falcons selections. As is custom, Adrian Clayborn is the most popular first-round pick, but take a look at that second round. Three of seven have Troy WR Jerrel Jernigan going to Atlanta, with another sending him Georgia Dome way in the third. That's about as close to a second-round consensus as you'll ever get.
Oklahoma State RB Kendall Hunter is named in two drafts as a third-rounder. Based on the list of players the team has worked out, picking Clayborn, Jernigan and Hunter would certainly make sense.
Beyond that, it's anyone's guess. Most are convinced the team needs offensive line, tight end and secondary help in addition to the positions listed above. Fans of good clean fun will hope that D.J. Williams pick comes true.
Seven seven-round mock drafts:
* For some second rounders and seventh rounders and stuff.
** To replace our current young, country-named Alabama QB!
*** Slower than all hell thanks to video autoplay on all seven pages.
**** Other seventh-round pick disappeared. I don't know.
***** Draft a Virginia Tech QB? Nothing ever goes wrong!
****** Guarantee you this will not happen.! | http://atlanta.sbnation.com/atlanta-falcons/2011/4/28/2139003/2011-nfl-mock-draft-seven-rounds-jerrel-jernigan-kendall-hunter | 2013-05-18T10:21:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
After all the speculation, last night’s Golden Globes was the first time that observers caught up in the controversy surrounding “Django Unchained” got to see how the movie would be rewarded in Hollywood.
Quentin Tarantino took home the big prize, Best Screenplay, and not two minutes into his backstage interview, he dropped the n-bomb.
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According to E! Online, the room fell silent, with one reporter letting out a low whistle of disbelief.
Actor Don Cheadle tried to lighten the moment, by doing what else?
Dropping the word himself.
“Please no n*gger questions,” Cheadle told reporters. “Black people questions are all right.”
As previously reported by NewsOne, comedian Katt Williams said that Tarantino does not get a pass to say the word — even if Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson think that it's acceptable.
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This is why we can’t have nice things. Following in the footsteps of the “Star Wars” Death Star and Secession “We The People” petitions, S.R. of Wilmington, North Carolina has created a petition to make R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix) the new National Anthem of the United States.
The petition, posted on WhiteHouse.gov, reads as follows:.
Petitions that met the listed criteria became searchable on WhiteHouse.gov once — and if — they reach 150 signatures within 30 days. If that was accomplished, for President Obama to actively consider a petition, it must have reached 25,000 signatures within the remainder of the same 30-day period.
The White House has always reserved the right to change the time limit and number of signatures required, and did exactly that in the wake of the Death Star petition. Now a petition must reach 100,000 signatures within 30 days.
At the time this article was published, the petition had reached 2,234 signatures.
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(04-21-2011 01:26 PM)Sporkdevil Wrote: Love Castonzo. I really believe that is an elite tackle. Doubt we come within 10 picks of him, though.
(04-21-2011 01:33 PM)Jesus Wrote: Maybe if he does something nefarious over the next few days he might fall.
(04-21-2011 02:26 PM)g-dawg Wrote: it depends on if Tyron Smith goes ahead of Castonzo or not. Frankly, I would take Castonzo all day long over Tyron Smith but Smith seems to be the media darling of the tackles.
If Castonzo gets by Detroit, then he will definitely slide until at least #17 (Patriots) and then Giants(#19), Chiefs(#21), Colts(#22), Eagles(#23) - that is a gauntlet there in the late teens - early twenties - I agree there. | http://atlantafalconstalk.com/Thread-Not-happy-with-the-DE-WR-options-at-27-overall-here-is-the-player-I-would-want | 2013-05-18T10:55:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
(01-20-2013 08:11 PM)ggp Wrote: Tony will be replaced by a WR. I expect Koetter to employ more four-WR sets. To do that, we will need to improve the OL. This is nothing new.
Abe has not been an elite pass rusher this season. He is still very good, but he is not the dominant player that he once was. Nolan will find a NT to move towards more 3-4 sets. Once that happens, our athletlic LB's will make plays. Remember what Nolan said, at the beginning of the season, he wants five guys with five sacks.
We will draft a replacement for Turner. Thank you to MT, he was a terrific Falcon.
The Niners are not great. They will have their problems next season. I would not worry about any other team. We need to worry about ourselves.
I am optimistic. You should be too.
(01-20-2013 08:16 PM)Beef Wrote: Lol. On the decline??
Way to go full retard.
(01-20-2013 08:20 PM)swanlee Wrote: Swift always goes full retard. He doesn't even bother posting when things are good his only purpose is going full retard.
(01-20-2013 08:19 PM)AUTiger7222 Wrote: Well we some how manged to have even less sacks this season than we did last season and gave up more yards than we did last season and had no assemblence of a run defense.
(01-20-2013 08:44 PM)ggp Wrote: Agreed. Nolan had to use the weapons on the roster. This draft will be defense-heavy. Add a real NT and some athletes to back him up and we will have a very good defense.
Let me say this: the defense gets all the blame for the second half meltdowns, but an offense that can actually keep the chains moving would make our defense looks worlds better. We NEED the best OL we can accumulate. That needs to start with a real RG. Konz will slide over to his natural position of Center and he needs to have a MASTER BLASTER parked to his right. If we had that kind of OL, we would have easily won this game.
(01:18 PM)Aftermath Wrote: that's kind of the point of an offense, especially ours. We have two #1 receivers and the best TE to ever play the game, no reason why we shouldn't be scoring on every possession. But to not score at all during the entire 2nd half is inexcusable. We score 1 TD or 2 FGs in the second half and the game is ours, but we turn it over twice instead and squander the one turnover that the D managed to deliver us. D gave up just as many points in the 2nd half as they did in the first, O just never showed up after halftime.
(01-20-2013 09:27 PM)ggp Wrote: I am not arguing against upgrading the defense. Changes are in order. But, we just witnessed two play off games where our offense could not advance in the second half. We did not score a single point in the second half......not even a FG!
We do not have the OL to compete against the top teams in the league. The good news is that we can acquire that OL pretty easily.
(01-20-2013 09:35 PM)AUTiger7222 Wrote: I'd rather win games 13-10 than to have to hope my offense scores 35 every game to win. | http://atlantafalconstalk.com/Thread-Not-sure-what-to-think-This-could-be-our-ceiling?pid=113610&mode=linear | 2013-05-18T10:21:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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uesday, November 23, 2010
{ Basketball + Birthday + Boyfriend }
You know what I love? Basketball! Especially CLIPPERS basketball. But do you know what I love
more
than basketball? Birthdays!! Especially birthdays at basketball games! But do you know what I love
more
than birthdays at basketball games? My boyfriend!!! So imagine how happy I was last night when I got to celebrate my boyfriend's birthday with him watching from the 10th row as the LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS totally dominated the New Orleans Hornets! Loved
every
minute of it!
Okay, so obviously that wasn't the real score, but at half time someone either goofed up or thought it would be funny to change the 55 to a 155 and the crowd absolutely loved it! Glad to have another win under our belt! GO CLIPPERS! And Happy Birthday my love!
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11/23/2010 for us, after dinner "fun" walked right through the front door. Kiele and our friend Ryan were heading out to Yogurtland and invited us to tag along (that's not true...I invited us to tag along but they were happy to have us) so we enjoyed some fro-yo and then came back to the house. And that's when it all just happened. We started doing couples yoga!
To be honest, I don't even know how it happened really. I just remember Kiele grabbing a yoga book and the next thing I knew we were all on the floor being contorted into these crazy yoga positions. It was actually quite hilarious. And challenging! We took a few pics of our favorites as a keepsake of our Monday night date. And well, they were just too funny not to share. Have a good laugh on me! know you're probably thinking, "What? But you don't even own a house yet!" I know, but one day I will, and when that day comes, I will use my "kitchen money" to design that dream kitchen I've
always
wanted!
So what does this dream kitchen of mine look like? Well, its quite simple really. It
must
have clean, boxy lines. The cabinets
must
be white. The hardware
must
be nickel. The appliances
must
be stainless. It
must
have a rectangular farmhouse sink. The countertops
must
be carrara marble. The backsplash
must
be staggered subway tile. And the island
must
be butcher block. Ok, I guess I can be flexible on the last one.
Who says I'm picky? I just know what I want. That's all. Take a look at some pictures I've collected over the years that helped inspire my design ideas. Oh how I dream of owning this lovely kitchen someday... enjoyed a freshly tossed salad with apples, walnuts and gorgonzola, the most delicious butternut squash soup with homemade cornbread croutons, sweet and savory paninis, honey mustard brussel sprouts (Erin and i love these from our missions!), and the most mouthwatering pumpkin streusel to finish it off! Oh, and don't forget the sparkling cider with frozen pomegranates to toast to the most delectable Halloween dinner ever!
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Tiger pitchers turn up the heat
AUBURN – Through 18 innings and more than five hours, Auburn’s pitchers sent a parade of hitters back to the dugout on a cold Saturday at Plainsman Park.
Ryan Tella hit an inside-the-park home run in the third inning.
Four Auburn pitchers – left-hander Daniel Koger, right-hander Terrance Dedrick, left-hander Michael O’Neal and right-hander Tre Cochran Gill – combined to give up one earned run and seven hits in two games in the Auburn tournament.
In the second game, the Tigers beat College of Charleston 5-1. They lost 2-1 to MTSU earlier Saturday on one misplaced pitch that became a two-run homer in the eighth inning.
O’Neal got the start against the Cougars and pitched six scoreless innings, giving up six hits, walking one and striking out five to get the win. Cochran-Gill pitched three hitless innings, giving up a run in the ninth on a walk, a passed ball, a wild pitch and a groundout.
Auburn coach John Pawlowski said, other than one wayward pitch, he was pleased.
“Daniel had his off-speed stuff working,” Pawlowski said. “Tre did a good job coming out of the bullpen. Michael just fills up the strike zone.”
O’Neal said the pressure was on after the loss in the first game.
“There was a lot of pressure to me to throw strikes and set the tone for us,” O’Neal said. “We can’t lose games like that. Two in a row would really be unacceptable, so I had to go out there and compete as hard as I could.”
Centerfielder Ryan Tella sparked the Tigers against the Cougars with a rare two-run inside-the-park homer in the third inning. His sizzler down the left field line ended up under a bench in foul territory. Instead of raising his hands to signal the ball was unplayable, which would have resulted in a ground rule double, left fielder Brandon Murray tried to dig it out. Hitting coach and third-base coach Gabe Gross waved him on.
“Gabe teaches us when the ball goes under there to throw your hands up,” Tella said. “He put his hand right back under it. Gabe was waving me around third. I don’t think it happens that often in college baseball. It shifted the momentum for us.”
Shortstop Dan Glevenyak scored on first baseman Garrett Cooper single, and the Tigers took a 3-0 lead.
“The thing that really sparked us in that game was Ryan Tella’s hustle,” Pawlowski said. “If he’s not running hard, they get the ball back in. That turned the game.”
Tella went 3-for-5, also scoring two runs. Shortstop Dan Glevenyak and third baseman Damek Tomscha had two hits apiece.
“The first game left a bitter taste in our mouths,” Tella said. “We are way better hitters than what we showed in the first game. Gabe put a little fire under us. He got on us a little bit, and we deserved it. We knew what we had to do the second game.”
The first game was a taught pitcher’s duel. Johnny Thomas’ two-out, two-run homer off Dedrick in the eighth inning made the difference. Auburn had the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth but catcher Blake Austin and pinch hitter J.B. Crowe popped out to end the game.
Auburn, which moved to 5-1 on the season, plays Indiana State in the final game of the tournament Sunday at 2 p.m.
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Nintendo Power Issue #1 ReviewJune 26, 2012
Here is an awesome review of the first issue of Nintendo Power and the Nintendo Power phenomenon in general. I dare someone to call the Pro PowerLine and ask for help with Super Mario Bros 2.
That one led me to this one, which you might like as well:
Yet Another History of NintendoJune 25, 2012
I’ve posted histories of Nintendo before, but this one is way cool. This guy did this as a history class project. How awesome is that? He even has a thesis: Nintendo has become the greatest video game company ever by pricing and innovation. I don’t know about the pricing part. That was always Mom’s area. But I agree with the innovation part.
ANESthetized and Arcadian on Amazon.comJune 8, 2012
Well, it looks like it will take Amazon.com and Smashwords awhile to work out their differences, so even though I didn’t want to do it this way, I uploaded ANESthetized and Arcadian onto Amazon.com myself. If you’re a Kindle fan (as I am), check them out. Please don’t forget to give me a [good] review.
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Above is a rose from a rose bush I planted this year. It is an English rose named Pat Austin. It has a lovely coppery tone and sweet fragrance but its stem is not very strong. It could be that we planted it in an area which does not get enough sun. Below is another charming rose; it is a postcard from my vintage postcard collection.
Below is an inside view of one of the large meeting rooms in the Trocadéro._0<<_1<<
Mother had learned to dance the Charleston, but by then another dance was getting very popular worldwide, a dance from Argentina, the tango. Mother loved to dance – she went to many tea dances, as they were called, and danced the tango.
Carlos Gardel was born in France but since he is still so famous in South America, Uruguay has been trying to establish that he was born in their country instead, but he was not.
Tea Room Tango, by Jullius Müller-Massdorf, German, 1863-1963
She often reminisced about dancing Carlos Gardel’s tangos. He had come from Buenos Aires to Paris in 1928 and then again in the early ‘30s both in Paris and on the French Riviera. He was Argentina’s superstar and the best of all the tango singers in the world. He had a distinctive baritone voice and a great sense of rhythm. He was very elegant, impeccably attired and always smiling.
He was born as Charles Romuald Gardes in Toulouse, France (south west of France) on 11 December 1890. His mother Berta Gardes was single, and his father was declared as unknown. His French Government birth certificate is on the web. He lived with his mother at no. 4 rue du Canon d’Arcole in Toulouse.
Berta immigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina with Charles in 1893 to join a French friend of hers who had a laundry business there.
In early 1924 Carlos Gardel visited his family in Toulouse. He went on to Paris where he performed in music halls and theatres. His success kept growing and he acted in several movies. But he would visit his family in Toulouse at least five or six more time until 1934.
Vintage postcard of Buenos Aires harbor.
Charles, who by then was called Carlos, spent his childhood in the “Mercado de Abasto” area where they nicknamed him “El Francesito” (the French man.)
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Around that time my mother left the House of Worth to start a business with a friend, rue de la Paix – a famous area of Paris, not far from the Opera.
She also did some free-lance in the high fashion business.
Style of dresses from that era
Mother told me many times though that she would often go with her girl friends to dance the tango, which was more popular than ever. Carlos Gardel was one of her favorite.
Whenever Carlos Gardel paid a visit to Paris Mother always tried to attend his performances.
Tango, by René Gruau French , 1909-2004
Whenever Carlos Gardel paid a visit to Paris Mother always tried to attend his performances.
Unfortunately on 24 June 1935 Carlos Gardel and several of his band members were killed when their aircraft collided with another on the airfield of Medelin in Colombia. Gardel left a will where he indicated that he was born in Toulouse, France. A partially burnt passport was found, bearinghis name, but from the country of Uruguay. This is the reason Uruguay is claiming Gardel as its own.
I read a lot on Carlos Gardel, mostly in French.
I also read some Spanish booklets (which I translated via Google translate.)
I even found on the Net a postcard that he had sent to his French family.
Postcard which says: ‘Dear grandparents Happy New Year I send you this little postcard to remind you that I always remember you with love and I also remember my good aunt Carlota and my good uncle Juan. Here we are very happy to know that you are in good health. We are all right and soon if God allows me I'll spend some time with you.
I read a lot on Carlos Gardel, mostly in French.
I also read some Spanish booklets (which I translated via Google translate.)
I even found on the Net a postcard that he had sent to his French family.
Your grandson that loves you and does not forget you. Carlos”What I found out though in my research is that French men who lived in foreign lands were exempt from military duty in time of peace. However when the First World War started they were called to serve France. In the Argentina’s census of the time it showed that there were 20,924 eligible French men living in Argentina. Only 5800 went back to France to fight in the war. The easiest way not to go to war was to change nationality. Still in his soul Carlos Gardel was from Argentina, not from France or Uruguay. He was formally naturalized as an Argentinian in 1923.
From my readings it is quite obvious that Gardel was born in France. First of all there was the authenticated birth certificate and witnesses and also, why would an Argentinian singer stop in Toulouse on five different occasions to see the Gardes family? Gardel’s chauffer, Antonio Sumage confirmed in 1944 while being interviewed by a magazine that he had driven his boss to Toulouse because Gardel wished to visit his mother’s siblings.
In 2009 UNESCO declared the tango as part of the world’s “intangible cultural heritage.” They have also classified Carlos Gardel’s voice a human patrimony where they officially state that Carlos Gardel was “a French Argentinian singer born in France.”
There has been a renewed interest in the dance and it is easy in summer to find places to dance the tango like in Paris, New York and other large cities. Dancing the tango has many health benefits. It has been linked to better balance, increased heart health and improved memory. My mother taught me the tango and I love it. I have many CDs of tango music, including Carlos Gardel’s.
When Carlos Gardel died in the plane crash on 24 June 1935 his fans were numb with grief. His body was returned to Buenos Aires and more than a million came to his funeral. To this day Carlos Garel’s tomb is visited by a large number of fans from all over the world and they bring flowers still.
Just like Valentino, Carlos Gardel in the 1930’s was the epitome of what a fashionable man should look like.
I am not sure if that was the type of man my mother liked.
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*** Coucou Vagabonde ! :o) Tu nous gâtes avec ce post ! Tu nous emmènes dans une époque d'y il a des dizaines d'années et c'est un vrai plaisir ! La vie de Carlos Gardel, danseur, chanteur, comédien plein de charme, Paris et ses endroits d'antan et tes parents très beaux sur les photos... MERCI VAGABONDE ! Ce n'est que du bonheur de venir chez toi ! GROS BISOUS !!!!! Bon dimanche !!! :o) ***
Passionnant ce post sur cette star du tango, je dois dire que j'ignorais tout cela, j'adore regarder de bons danseurs, le tango n'est pas seulement une danse, c'est aussi un prélude à l'amour, la danse de séduction par excellence !
Ta maman était une très jolie femme !
Bon week-end Vagabonde !
It's hard to confess this, because I don't like being so ignorant, but I am wondering how you found so much information about someone I had never heard of.
You found a lot to document Gardel's French birthplace. So many beautiful photos, and postcards! I was thinking the other day that you must have a very good filing system for your postcards to use them to such advantage here.
This post is tremendous. I learned so much from it, feel that I know this handsome man. Thank you for digging and sharing what you found.
I love the rose, the color is so lovely. And it would be nice between my teeth in a tango I am Ruth after all. :)
This is a terrific post, Vagabonde - history, romance, family and the Tango. What a wonderful story you have to tell and your archival footings really bring it alive. Thank you.
I know little to nothing about the tango, other than the name. And absolutely nothing about Gardel! What a great and informative post. I also love those pictures of your mother from one of those photo booths. Now I will need to learn some more about Gardel.
What a wonderful post - the history and the family story entwined - I really enjoyed this.
When we were in Argentina a couple of years ago we saw people dancing the Tango on the street - everywhere. We heard the music of Gardel, CDs were available for sale in the shops and his name is still in the forefront of any discussion of Tango.
Lovely! Much appreciated!
Salut
Comme argentine... bravo et merci!
Un petit cou cou du dimanche
Amtiés
Elisa, en Argentine
You know what I did?
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C'est vrai.
I must read it over and over again;-)
I love the way you can tell your mothers story through postcards and photographs. You are lucky to have such a rich history and that she documented it so well for you. The postcards are absolutely charming!
Carlos Gardel is not a name I have ever heard before.His photo shows him as a very handsome man, just the type that would have appealed to ladies in the 30s. My mother had her favourites too and they were all of a similar sort.
You are very fortunate to have such a brilliant collection of postcards. It shows that your family is spread all over the globe.
A lovely post and most interesting; I hadn't heard of him either. I love the tango and watching the experts dance on YouTube.
You certainly know how to get down to the nitty gritty. I joined a French genealogy page and paid for a year to find my Great-great-Grandparents but I'm not having much luck!
You have really done your research well to find out so much about Carlos Gardel, a man I have never heard of. But he was certainly a handsome man, amd I am sure there were many hearts broken when he died in such a tragic manner.
I like the three photos of your mother. I think women look very sexy in hats!
caught up on your posts! such wonderfful stories ,photos,postcards!! I am taken back to a wonderful time in history..I can hear your mother ,the sounds,the music ..all of it through your magnificent posts!!!
*** Coucou Vagabonde ! Par ces quelques mots je te souhaite un très bon début de semaine !!!!! BISOUS !!!! ***
That rose is a beaut. : j
Tango is still well loved in Paris. There's a park off of the seine on the "Quai de la Rapée", near "l'institut du monde arabe", that has three three mini amphitheatres, or giant alcoves ()... and in the summer season, a tango club bring a player and people just dance there in the evenings... In the other two alcoves there's folk dancing in one and swing dancing or capoeira in the other. And right nearby there's a largish square where they do salsa.
You are always such a fount of information, Vagabonde. WONderful information that just enriches our lives, post after post. I love the way you piece things like this together. I wonder if there will ever be a movie made about him...like there was of Edith Piaf? I can just see all the tango dances, which I would love!
Hi Vagabonde, thank you for your message on my blog! It is certainly going to be a big change in my life. I begin to fell better now, I hope this nausea will go away soon.
I love your post, as always! Very interesting those old pictures of Trocadero.
I went to Buenos Aires in 2008 and i just loved it! And tango is the most beautiful, sensual dance in the world (and must be one of the most difficult...). Tango is something you never get tired of looking at.
What a wonderful post, Vagabonde. Really enjoyed this especially as I knew nothing about Gardel. He has a superb voice and style. Can't understand why your mother would not have liked him. Was everyone like that in the 1930s, I wonder? The sophisticated veneer over a world preparing to tear itself apart. Sad about the old Trocadero. Looks a wonderful old place. I only know the Metro station.
Beautiful rose and a wonderful collection of postcards and old photos. It was really a different world back then. Thanks for bringing it alive.
*** Un petit coucou ensoleillé juste pour toi Vagabonde ! BISES AMICALES !!!!!! :o) ***
Je viens de faire un passage vite fait, Vagabonde. Je repasserai plus tard pour commenter. Tout ce que j'ai vu, c'est la rose comme celle du post précédent. J'ai les mêmes à la maison.
A plus tard donc !
I love coming here and just don't do it often enough. Gorgeous visuals and I always learn something. I've never heard of Carlos but the Tango? Truly the dance of love. No wonder your mother was so enamoured by it. The fashion postcards are just darling.
First, such a beautiful rose, it looks like a painting! And another wonderful story about your dear mother. The photos of her are priceless and I love the one of your father, too. I was not familiar with Carlos Gardel, but enjoyed reading about his interesting life. I love to tango, too. Cheers, cher!
I didn't know Gardel had been born in France, and from the way you explain it, it sounds as though Argentines would be reluctant to believe it (which interestingly I didn't know). Growing up in Buenos Aires in the 60's & 70's I heard his singing voice on every colectivo I ever took, and saw his photo swinging from the rear view mirrors of buses and taxis. I must admit that to a child such as I was then it sounded dated, although I did use to play "Caminito" on the guitar... His story is so fascinating though.
It's such a privilege to grow up bilingual, and a pleasure to make the effort to stay fluent in two languages - not one, but two different worlds open before you, with their people and their culture both equally dear and familiar - and comfortable. It's wonderful to understand them both from the inside, and clearly this is the case for you with France.
I've enjoyed reading back through your posts and appreciate all the research that has gone into them. Thank you.
Caroline (from Bristol, UK)
My, my. Isn't Carlos quite the Latin lover! Such a handsome man and that voice is memorable. I'll bet women were dying to get nex to him.
Your mom has such a twinkle in her eye, she is someone you just want to know.
The first rose is spectacular! I have one from Jackson and Perkins called "Antiqua" that is close, a touch more pink in the center and yellowish after it opens.
I would love to tango, but to do that dance really well, you would have to know your partner...really well!
I had such a good time looking at all the postcards. Another wonderful post. Thank you!
Merveilleux post, Vagabonde !
Belles illustrations. maintenant j'en connais plus sur Carlos Gardel qui faisait pâmer les femmes. Il avait une très jolie voix et était assez bel homme.
Je trouve que ton Papa a une certaine ressemblance avec le roi du tango. Le tango est une danse très sensuelle que je ne danse plus because que mon Chéri ne sais pas danser. Mais quand j'allais au bal je ne m'en privais pas.
Merci encore pour ce beau post.
Hmm...a singer, dancer and handsome man all rolled into one! Who could resist?!
What a wonderful way to tell the story of you're Mom - and what a nice contribution!
Thanks for sharing in every details and for all the lovely photos and cards.
As I just had company from Buenos Aires, I was very interested in your post. A handsome man and beautiful voice! Must ask my cousin about Gardel.
Thanks a lot for sharing all your wonderful memories with us, Vagabonde!
*** Bon séjour chez ta fille en Californie Vagabonde ! :o) Merci pour tes mots chez moi, je te fais de GROS BISOUS et je te dis "à bientôt !!!!" GROS BISOUS !!!! ***
Mais tu es une grande voyageuse !
A bientôt !
*** Un petit bonjour en ce vendredi matin !!!!! :o) Je t'envoie plein de GROSSES BISES Vagabonde !!!!!! ***
Another interesting post.I'd never heard of Gardel but what an interesting man he was.
The Charleston, Tangos and tea dances reminds me of my mother, too.
WoW! Very interesting post. Great history and fabulous accompanying images. Your mother must be / have been some women.
Thank you for visiting my blog once again, Vagabonde.
I am astounded with the wonderful information in this post! It was like traveling back in time, and learning of details and culture of that time gone past. I love history and learning about this kind of information -- specific cultural information of time periods -- in particular, so this was a real joy to read. Thank you for taking the time to research and write about Carlos Gardel, and with the added focus of your mother's history, too.
Also, your roses are gorgeous. :)
Here in Chile everybody loved Carlos Gardel too and my grandparents where his fans and I remember listening old vinyls with his tangos in my grands homes.
They told me about him and here his songs are still listened.
cariños,
maria cecilia
What a beautiful post. I was at a rose garden this past week, and noticed the McCartney rose. It is gorgeous.
I think that your father looks as handsome as Gardel. Your mother had good taste in men!
It is so much fun to be taken to another time and place, and learn of the people there. Thank you!
Nancy, Lorilaire, Elisa et Claude - Merci pour vos gentils commentaires. Ce post était long alors j’apprécie que vous ayez pris le temps de le lire et d’écrire un mot. Je suis toujours contente de lire vos impressions sur mes posts.
Elizabeth, DJan, Lakeviewer, TorAa, DianeCA, Shammickite, Ann, Paty, Fennie, Elaine, Baino, Marguerite, Linda, Jinksy, RennyBA, Sablonneuse, EarthGypsy, Karin, Maria Cecilia and Alwaysinthebackrow - It was a pleasure to read your comments. I always look forward to see what you think about my posts and photographs. Thanks for taking the time to write a note – I appreciate it very much.
Ruth – I was interested by Carlos Gardel so I had a document in my computer on him and every time I learned something new I would add it to my document, at least for a year. Thanks for your interest.
Ginnie – I do not know about a movie on Carlos Gardel. If one was made it may have been in Spanish. I’d love to see one, though. I always enjoy reading your comments.
Alesa Warcan – thanks for giving details about tango dancing in Paris – maybe some time I can be there when they dance it. Thanks for commenting.
Friko – I have been collecting old and new postcards for decades. I buy them when I go on trips and the vintage ones when I find them in flea markets. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Alaine – I saw a TV program in France which showed that many of the very old genealogy records for France have been bought by the big genealogy bureau in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Pondside – It is so nice that you could go to Argentina. I hope I can go some day. Thanks for stopping by.
Angela – I’d like to hear what your family thinks of Gardel. Thanks for commenting.
Lonicera – welcome to my blog. What an interesting childhood you had to be brought up in Argentina. Thanks for commenting on my post. I hope you will come back.
Your mother certainly lead a fabulous and fascinating life. I totally agree with everyone that you've done a wonderful job of putting together this post about Carlos Gardel.
Sam
This is the most astounding post! I adore the tango, knew of Gardel, but not much about him. Again, such wonderful use of vintage cards to illustrate.
Your mother's story is fascinating, Vagabonde -- it is one to be told, and I hope one day you will write it in full. She was lovely, your father handsome (and, I think, more my type than Gardel!). But oh, the tango!
I'm so very glad Ruth told me about you!
This is wonderful. I am Argentine by birth (Buenos Aires), American by naturalization and my ancestors were French. In Argentina is a well-known fact that Carlos Gardel (Carlitos for us), was born in France.
Being from Buenos Aires, I have visited his ABASTO neighborhood many times, his house (just form the outside), and of course his tomb in Chacarita cemetery. What is curious is that someone always places a cigarette in Carlitos bronze statue - as it was his custom when alive.
We have a saying in Argentina about Carlos Gardel who was known as "El Morocho del Abasto" (because of his black hair): "Carlitos, cada dia canta mejor", which means "Carlitos sings better every day".
My dad always tells me a story about Carlos Gardel. When my dad was about 8, he and his parents and siblings attended an acrobatic show at the Luna Park in Buenos Aires. Because there were so many people watching that show, it was hard for the children to see the stage. My grandparents were able to hold my two uncles up so they could see, but there was no other adult to hold my dad up. Enter Carlos Gardel, who was also in the audience and sitting next to my grandparents. Being very tall, he picked my dad up and held him for the whole duration of the show. From then on, he would often be invited to my grandparents house on social occasions.
Carlos Gardel was unique in his gentle ways, his charisma, his handsome traits (he was a beautiful man inside and out), and his magnificent voice.
It was a very sad day in Buenos Aires when the news of his death reach the citizens. To this day, he is remembered and revered by old and young alike.
Carlitos, each day that passes by, you sing better!
Anonymous – thank you so much for your long comment. It was so interesting and added a unique personal anecdote which I am sure everyone would like to read. I am pleased that you wrote this first-hand information on my blog and I hope that you will come back and read more posts.
Muy buenos días estimados amigos. Por favor no tengan miedo pero les estoy comunicando del mas aya... aquí me han dado permiso. Mi vida fue llena de bendiciones. Si nací en Francia pero me criaron y viví mi vida en la argentina. Por favor, sigan viviendo porque la vida es muy corta. Dios les espera y yo les espero en este otro mundo también lleno de vida y almas pero sin dolor. Escribo esto por hijo de mi hijo en los estados unidos. Vivan, mis amigos, vivan.
CG
Passionnant!
Et les documents d'époque sont très évocateurs.
Quelle belle façon de faire revivre ces années là.
En ce qui concerne Carlos Gardel voici un article de article de la Dépêche
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Fanon:Sozin's Blood - Chapter: The Second PrinceComments59
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The Second Prince is my first try at Fanon (so be indulgent) and mostly gives what could have been the life of two well-known Fire Nation men before "A:TlA". It might or might not be the beginning of a larger series ; it can very well be a stand-alone. It all depends of how much I enjoy writing it, and how the community appreciates it.
So, here goes "The Second Prince", "Sozin's Blood" first chapter.
StoryEdit
The young man hurried through the gardens. He had been studying with his Tsungi Horn tutor at the other end of the palace when a servant had entered and had prompted him to go to his parents' room. He of course knew this could happened at any moment, in view of his mother's state, but somehow the news still managed to take him by surprise.
Heart pounding, he jumped the last meters and managed to slip elegantly on the marble floor. He turned in a different hallway, accelerating when their door came into view. Unfortunately, the elaborate pavement had just been washed.
The oaken door almost exploded when Iroh crashed into it. Some servants, alarmed by the thundering noise, went out of the room and found him laying stunned. They took him inside and sat him on a bench in the antechamber. They let him ponder over his deeds and went back behind the velvet curtains.
I wish they had some tea instead, Iroh thought while drinking a cup of fresh water a servant had given him. He got up from the bench and tried to stealthily enter in the proper chamber. But one look from his father made him think otherwise. He grudgingly came back to his bench.
Half an hour passed, but he still wasn't allowed inside his parents' room. Growing bored, he had been studying each object which was decorating the antechamber, each bearing gold trimmings and each extremely boring to behold. This was dull. He looked at his reflection in a mirror decorated with dragons. He was about 15 ; while already taller than his mother, he was a little smaller than average. His face was a little squarish. His eyes were the color of gold. He smiled at his reflection and Mirror-Iroh smiled in return.
"Enjoying the sight?" a man's voice said.
Iroh almost jumped into the mirror. His father had silently crossed the curtains and had sat at the opposite of him.
"Come. Sit next to me."
It wasn't a request; it was an order. Iroh went at his father's side.
"You shouldn't watch yourself constantly." his father coldly stated. "Pride is one of the greatest dangers, especially to our kind."
"Well, it's not my fault if I'm handsome" Iroh joked.
Azulon indulged a rare smile. "There's a difference between knowing your qualities and letting them overcome your mind, which might lead you to believe yourself flawless. If you are not able to perceive your true limits, it will play against you on the battlefield. It might kill you."
"I'll try not to forget it."
His father's smile expanded a little. "Oh, I trust you, Iroh. If you're a little cocky at times, you're also hard-working. You will be a good Fire Lord."
Silence stretched.
"But as I said, you better remember it. Otherwise, you'll die."
Silence stretched further.
"How is she?" Iroh asked.
"She's fine." his father replied, almost indifferently. "She's resting at the moment. Her maids will tell us when she's ready to talk to us. Now, stay quiet. I must think."
While Azulon closed his eyes, Iroh enjoyed this moment of rare proximity with his father. Whenever he saw him, they were either practicing Firebending, or attending a war meeting, or eating at a crowded table, with several guests between them. As far as he remembered, this was the first time they were together almost as equals, with the exception of the vacations at Ember Island and the few times they had accidentally stumbled on each other while both heading to the closest bathroom at night.
He carefully stared at his father. Fire Lord Azulon had entered into his 52nd year a month ago, but still showed no sign of aging. His hair might have greyed a little but he was certainly fitter and in a better health than most men ten years younger. He had just come back from the Earth Kingdom, where he had personally led an offensive on some important district. Only the imminent birth of his second child had been able to bring him back to the palace.
At last Iroh asked the question that was burning him (figuratively speaking).
"Is it a boy or a girl?"
Azulon opened his eyes. "A boy." he muttered, and he closed back his eyelids.
Ah, Iroh thought, that's what he is thinking about. A boy meant a future general and an "incarnation" of the entire Fire Nation : whatever he would do would be taken as representative of his country. He would either light the world with the glory of the Fire Nation, or be a shameful stain. There was no third way. And now, Iroh would bet on it, Azulon was already thinking of who would be his son's tutors, his servants, maybe already his eventual wife. The Fire Lord was the controlling type. But it came with the job, Iroh guessed.
"My Lord." The two royals turned their heads to the maid who was bowing on the ground.
"You may speak." Azulon said.
"Thank you my Lord. Fire Lady Ilah ordered me to tell you that she is well and in a shape good enough to talk to you. However, do not stay too long. Despite the Fire Lady's claims, she needs more rest."
Without a word, the father and the son both got up and headed to the dark room.
"Iroh, my sweet. Come to me."
Ilah lay on the Royal Bed, so enormous one could put a Platypus Bear in it. She had dark circles under her eyes and her skin was sweaty. But otherwise, she did look healthy.
"Mother." Iroh said. He kneeled besides the bed. "How do you feel?"
Ilah chuckled. "Not too bad when compared to your own birth. I was ill for days."
Azulon sat on the bed and took her hand. Despite their age difference and their arranged marriage, they did have affection for each other, though not true love.
"Do you want to see him?" Ilah asked Iroh. He managed only to nod in silence. Ilah pointed, with a pale finger, a cradle in the corner of the room.
Wearily, Iroh walked in the direction of the baby bed, but did not dare look into the cradle. A maid, full of good intentions, took the baby boy and tried to hand him to Iroh. Curse you, he mentally said to the woman.
"But I don't know how to handle it!" he exclaimed aloud. Ilah giggled under her pillows while the maid patiently showed the Crown Prince how to hold the baby without hurting his head. Iroh's face felt hot.
The baby was … reddish. It was some kind of blob with a vague humanoid shape. A few jet black hair locks sprouted out of his head. As Iroh's face came down for closer examination, big golden eyes opened, far brighter and lighter than his own.
"Huh, he - hello." Iroh stammered.
The baby's mouth turned into a cheerful smile and he laughed in a wonderful way.
"Oh, he already loves you!" Ilah said. "I feel you two will get along famously!"
"But Mother!" Iroh replied in fake utter outrage. "I'm fifteen years older! When he'll be my age, I will already have children! The age difference is too big! We'll never be real brothers."
"Don't be silly" his mother told him. "Age is nothing. He's of your blood, he's your family. Love is already here." She nodded towards the grinning baby.
Iroh kissed his brother on the brow, who laughed again, before handing him to his … to their mother. The baby started to cry when he left Iroh's embrace.
"Why, you see," Ilah argued. "I can't see why you won't be real brothers as you say, since he seems to love you so much."
Azulon turned to his son.
"Leave." he ordered him. "Your mother should rest."
"And Iroh dear, would you mind asking one of the servants to bring me a cup of Ginseng tea?" Ilah asked, smiling. "That would be nice."
Iroh smiled back. "As you wish, Mother."
As he left the room, he muttered under his breath : "See you later, little brother."
Iroh looked at the Pai Sho board incredulously.
"How can someone do so much damage with a White Lotus tile?" he exclaimed.
"Ah, why not? The White Lotus tile, though alone the least powerful, can change the balance of an entire game with the right strategy."
They were playing in a pagoda in the gardens ; the day was hot. After a few lessons in the library, they had escaped its unbearable heat and were now relaxing.
"Would you like another game?" Master Hayao proposed.
"With pleasure." Iroh started to put his different tiles according to a complicated strategy. Hayao's, however, seemed to be placed randomly.
"Master, are you sure you want to put this Lucky Cornucopia that way?"
Hayao politely smiled. "Focus on your game, student. Or you might lose. For the forty-second time."
They started to play. For once, Iroh took the upper hand.
"I'm afraid you're losing, Sifu." he grinned, as he kicked two of Hayao's Cherry Blossoms out of the board.
"Ah, the Rainbow Lobster." Master Hayao simply whispered. "So brutish, yet so powerful. Very clever of you, student."
Iroh frowned. If the tutor wasn't that worried, that meant that Iroh was falling right into one of his traps. He focused even more on the game.
"So," Hayao questioned, "how do you feel with that little brother?"
"Well, he looks quite cheerful. And he seems to be fond of me." Iroh said absently, moving a tile. "I do love him. I just hope he won't cry too much or become annoying when he'll grow up."
"And yet, student, you seem quite thoughtful. What is the problem?" the old man asked.
Iroh remained silent, and so did Hayao. They had learned to know each other very well since the old man had first entered the Royal Palace, ten years ago. Hayao, a gifted Firebender and retired military officer and doctor, was the Royal Family's main healer but also the Crown Prince's strategy tutor, hence the many games of Pai Sho. He also taught Iroh about Foreign Cultures, something the Fire Lord himself had wanted, as "knowing the enemy was knowing his weaknesses". But he was far more than a simple professor for Iroh. With his old-fashioned and distinguished quietness and politeness, he was almost a second father.
"I'm not sure that my father actually loves me." he finally confessed. "My mother shows it to me well, but my father … Every time I'm near him, it's almost as if I wasn't his son, just another courtier. He never ceases to be the Fire Lord."
"Now, don't worry." Sifu Hayao stretched his arm and patted his student's shoulder. "That's not because he doesn't show his emotions that your father doesn't love you."
"Are you sure?" Iroh asked, his voice a little broken.
"Yes. The attitude of the Fire Lord is due to his own father's education. It is so much anchored into his very being that, even if he wished too, he wouldn't be able to express his feelings spontaneously. By the way, you lost your Rainbow Lobster."
"Maybe, Master, but this is nothing compared to the loss of your Holy Sun - here - and of your two Moon Flowers." Iroh replied.
"I'm very impressed, student." admitted Hayao. "You become better at each sunrise."
"My teacher is very good." Iroh smiled while pouring Jasmine tea in two teacups.
"To come back to your father, you are actually quite lucky, as he is far more caring that Fire Lord Sozin was in his time."
Iroh raised an eyebrow. "I thought Fire Lord Sozin was the greatest Fire Lord ever."
"Oh, I can tell by experience that he was ; in battle he was a formidable sight to behold. But he wasn't much of a loving father. At the Battle of Taku, when then Crown Prince Azulon disobeyed a direct order from him, he burnt his lower leg."
Iroh felt uncomfortable. Telling that Sozin wasn't entirely good was an equivalent of blasphemy and there were always evil ears sneaking around.
"He burned his leg?" he repeated.
"Oh, not badly. I was the one who took care of the wound and I don't think there's a scar left. After all, Azulon's decision changed the outcome of the battle.The Fire Nation won that day."
"Then why did he burn him?"
"It was a way to show that in the army, obeying orders is the soldier's prime duty, I suppose. Now what can you acquire as a benefit from this story, student?"
Iroh thought for a few seconds.
"Er, there's always worse somewhere?" he said hesitantly.
"Exactly. Now let's go back to Pai Sho."
They remained silent for a long time, devoting their entire intelligence on the game.
Finally, Hayao broke the silence.
"I believe there are fireworks tonight to celebrate the new Prince's birth, after the intronisation."
Iroh looked at him suspiciously.
"Indeed there are."
Hayao had a sly smile.
"Will you go and see it, student?"
"I can't see how I can miss it, it's almost under my windows."
"And will you go alone … or with that young raven-haired lady?"
Iroh's face became bright red.
"Cixi is just a friend!" he protested.
"Oh, yes. Maybe." replied Hayao. "You lose your Scarlet Dragon."
"But you lose the whole game, Master." Iroh made his Incandescent Pearl slide on the board and knocked out Hayao's Lion Turtle. "The Lion Turtle is the most powerful tile in the entire game, Master, and I have more than the equivalent of the double of what's left of your pawns. You just can't win."
"Actually, you lose, student." And with a series of elegant movements, Iroh's tiles were removed of the board. "Close your mouth, student, or otherwise, a Moose-Fly will enter in."
"And as usual, I didn't find out the strategy until you have achieved your goal."
"Actually, this entire afternoon was nothing but a skilled manipulation that allowed me to make you confess willingly what was on your heart. Indeed, if you hadn't been so comfortable, would you have told me about what was on your heart?"
"I guess that no." Iroh laughed. "You truly are a master in deceiving people."
"Indeed I am." chuckled the old man. "And what is the lesson?"
"Always be weary of other people's intentions?"
"Very good, student. Very good. Now hand me that teacup."
Iroh had put on his most beautiful clothes and was now waiting inside the old Coronation Temple on the Royal Plaza. It was almost sunset and it was a little cold by now. The entire population of the Capital was now crowding the plaza and the surrounding avenues. Their chatter resonated under the temple roof.
Finally, a gong rang and everyone went silent. The Fire Sages, Iroh and Fire Lord Azulon, holding the newborn baby, all moved forward and stood before their people, slightly shivering.
The Great Fire Sage started to speak.
"In this year of the Monkey of Fire in the Air Ri Wu era, the fifty-second year since the glorious coming of Sozin's Comet, on the first day of the eighth month, Fire Lady Ilah, wife of our mighty Fire Lord Azulon, gave birth to a son!"
The crowd started cheering.
"This son, this second Prince, will one day grow up and become, as his brother, father and grandfather before him, one of the most powerful Firebending masters ever, that will lead us to victory in the War we fight for the enlightment and the sake of the peoples of the other nations!"
The Plaza exploded with hurrays and cheers. The Fire Lord had to raise a hand to bring back order.
"My loyal subjects", he said with his cold voice. He wasn't shouting like the Fire Sage, yet his voice was perfectly heard in the complete silence. "I give you a prince of my blood, of great Fire Lord Sozin's blood, that will serve you and guide you!"
He lifted up the baby boy, who stared at the applauding crowd with amazed golden eyes.
"I give you my son!"
The dying rays of the twilight sun casted blood-colored light on the face of the newborn.
"I give you Ozai!"
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Phil Miller announced the release of Chakra GNU / Linux 2011.09, a new version of a desktop distro, Arch Linux is a fork of the latest version of KDE as a desktop environment.
The features of Chakra GNU / Linux 2011.09 are:
KDE 4.7.0
Kernel Linux 3.0.3;
Implemented to improve the package manager and repository AppSet Chakra Community Repository (CCR);
Updated initscripts for testing systemd;
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1) Vegans on average live 6 years longer than non-vegans.
2) The average vegan total cholesterol level is 128. The lowest level for a heart attack is 150.
3) Milk consuption has been linked to cholic, ear infections, asthma, and a whole slew of other diseases.
4) Cholesterol can cause impotence
5) Vegans dont consume any cholesterol
6) Vegans dont smoke, and smoking is one of the leading causes of death
7) 33% percent of Americans are OBESE, while only 2% of vegans are
8) Tofu is a lot cheaper than steak
9) Fur has formeldahyde in it, which has been known to cause cancers and etc
10) Charred meats contain carcinogens that can cause cancers
11) Fast food meats like those at McDonald's have thousands of additives that are not only addictive, they can cause you to gain weight and mess up your whole body
12) The USFDA recognizes vegetarian and vegan diets as the healthiest diets.
13) Veal calves are often stillborn or unborn.
14) Veal calves that are born are raises in crates where they cant even turn around, and are fed only a diet of milk for 16 weeks before they are slaughtered.
15) Dairy cows on average live for 5-7 years, where as they are able to live to 20 years or more!
16) Pigs are more intelligent than dogs, and have the intelligence of a 3-year old.
17) Egg-laying hens are kept without water and food for 14 days at a time to force their bodies into another egg-laying cycle
18) It takes 7 cows to furnish a leather interior Mercedes-Benz
19) Milk is known to cause acne breakouts
20) MEAT IS DEAD FLESH
How many more reasons do you need?
70 comments:
but veal is so tender and so darn good
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No doubt cats taste fantstic, perhaps you should eat them too? What about humans? I'd bet if you tied them to the ground when they're first born and eat them after a few weeks you'd find they taste "so tender and so darn good" too. Doesn't make it right though.
Vegans are supposed to abstain from products that are tested on animals, and cigarettes are probably the worst product tested on animals.
A "vegan" who smokes would be considered only a strict vegetarian, just like a "vegan" who buys and wears leather, fur, etc.
Where's the evidence that Vegans live on averag 6 years longer then non vegans? I'd be interested to get a link.
Being a vegan I'm interested in the subject, and, I thought well researched.
As quoted by the Vegan society, there's no difference between the life expectancies of Vegans, Vegetarians and Omnivores.
Thanks
Becky.
If you know of a vegan that smokes you need to sit them down and start looking up how cigs. are tested on animals and the animal products that go into those. So being vegan does mean you dont smoke, or else your like a straight edge kid that drinks...your just saying it to be cool, or be diffrent or whatever.
Vegans living longer, I have a hard time agreeing with though, do to the fact that many chinese people live to be older than most, and they still consume a good amount of animal based products.
For those of you that strongly disagree with the things said within this blog, should really take the time to educate yourself. It is not a vegans job to sit down and be like "I got my info from here" or to be like "here let me look that up for you"
We have done our studies to be able to bring you information, if you dont want to take it, look it up for yourself.
Simple as that.
X?X
Blackbasement Collective
It is true that the human body, like any mammal's is designed to process milk, however the human body is NOT designed to process cow's (or any other mammal's, for that matter) milk, which is drastically different from human milk. It's just not natural and very unhealthy. And mammals lose their ability to process milk after infancy, anyway.
It's true that humans are supposed to breast feed after they are born, but after a certain age we actually produce an intolerance to any kind of milk, because we are supposed to be eating food by then. Also, I used to eat meat, and I used to get horrible stomach aches all the time, but since I stopped, I haven't had any. The way that livestock is treated these days, with hormones, bad living arrangements, and the way they are sloppily slaughtered(sometimes the stomach is accidentally sliced and ends up in your meat! yum!), maybe thats why I got sick. That's my reason for being vegetarian. I've decided to become vegan because of these same reasons. Cheese, yogurt, butter, stuff like that just seems unnatural to me. Plus cheese has something called casein in it, which has the same effect on the brain as morphine, hence, it can be addictive! Eggs don't seem right to me either, I mean, they're dead animal babies! That's just my opinion, but I think I have a few points. I've had my doubts about whether any animal products are meant to be eaten by humans, but I think they're ok for a treat every once in a while, if your not vegan or vegetarian. But, if I had time, and I knew how to hunt, I'd go get me some tasty fresh meat! Otherwise, just go see how these animals are taken care of. That should be enough to make you vegan!!!
Milk does not cause any health problems unless consumed in extremely high doses. The human body, as with all mammals, is designed to process milk."
THE HUMAN BODY WAS MADE TO CONSUME MILK, BUT ONLY THAT OF IT'S MOTHER AND NOT AFTER INFANTCY.
One of the many differences between vegans and strict vegetarians is that vegans avoid products tested on animals. Cigarettes are one of the cruelest products in history to be tested on animals (often dogs.)
If you consider yourself vegan and you smoke, you might as well give a donation to March of Dimes or something of the sort.
More reasons to be vegan:
ANIMAL RIGHTS
*the egg/dairy industries absolutely could NOT exist without the meat industry. There would be too many males. Simple as that. They are reliant on each other. Think it through carefully and you'll understand. Even if you eat the eggs of your pet chicken, it's still bad as you could not have done this without the egg and therefore the chicken industries existing. Also:
*even free range organic chickens are slaughtered at 16 months, as after this age the eggs are less lkely to be perfect
*dairy cows are also the mother cows, making veal calves.
*remember there is no such thing as an "ethical" method of killing. Would YOU like to have your throat slit or have your neck snapped for example?
*if a person has had a happy life, does that make it acceptable to cut his life short and take away his future? Remember that humans are animals too and we all have an inherent will to live (obv except suicidals etc)
*honey bees are usually killed as the beekeepers take all the honey when the bees need some to survive
ENVIRONMENT
*at any one time livestock out number people 3.5 to 1. Think of all the food that need to be grown for them, when humans could eat the food themselves and cut out the middle man (animals)
*25% of global warming is due to rainforest destruction and change of land use, and the vast majority of this of this is caused by farming.
*farming (cows I think) produces huge amountsof nitrous oxide and methane which are respectively 296 and 23 more potent greenhouse gases than CO2
*it takes Huuuuuuuuge amounts more energy and water to produce meat than veg. I can't remember the statistics but trust me they are phenomenal.
*there are way too many livestock animals in the world. If you think the human population is too big (10% of all humans ever alive are alive NOW) think of the farmed animals - it's unnatural.
*"ethical" farming is even worse green-wise as the animals need even more land and resources.
*basically the world simply does not have enough resources or room to be anything other than vegan. As one very important bloke says: "we have to treble food production by 2040 without using any more land or create 5 billion vegans"
*people don't realize all this because they don't associate global warming with it. They think that because theres physically nough room for loads of animals and people there are no problems. HELLO - GLOBAL WARMING.
*the British government are trying to gently get this message across but so far have been to pussy. They think it will make people hate Labour even more.
NOTEs TO STUBBORN NON-VEGANS:
*please do not preach non-veganism to us. If you don't like what you're reading/talking about then carry on with your ignorance, carry on with your "out of sight, out of mind" approach and leave us alone.
*as said, if you don't agree with what we say go and educate yourself. I'm not going to quote everything I've read, or prove something is a fact - if you don't believe us it's YOUR job to find out. remember we are vegans for a reason.
MYTHS
*It is absolutley NOT DIFFICULT to get all your nourishment.
*there is very little efffort needed to get protein, all 8 amino's. This is the most annoying myth. Just because meat is high in protein (inferior protein to vegan sources, as it happens) and milk is high in calcium (also inferior) does not mean these are the only sources.
*every vitamin etc are available naturally in the vegan diet. B12 would come from root vegetables but not anymore due to unnatural modern farming methods.
*People always say "I'd rather be happy" etc. Your happiness will NOT be effected, and your life won't either.
*People are daunted by the prospect of veganism and are put off.
*The biggest mistake is try to have a diet exactly he same as before with vegan substitutes. Bad idea, you won't enjoy it and will feel you're living off 'fake' stuff. You need to think of all the vegan things available that yu haven't tried yet.
*No you can't eat cheese again, but you will find things in the vegan diet that you enjoy just as much. Anyway why should people and animals die and the environment be affected jjust for your tastebuds?
vegans don't smoke?? why?
nvm i get it sry i asked.
I respect your position, although I myself am an omnivore. I won't get into how environmentally unfriendly soy farming is, but I will say that (at least in europe) there are brands of organic rolling tobacco that are not tested on animals. There's lots of companies that hire rational people that are perfectly aware of the risks to test their products.
Anonymous said: *basically the world simply does not have enough resources or room to be anything other than vegan. As one very important bloke says: "we have to treble food production by 2040 without using any more land or create 5 billion vegans"
You forgot the best option: Get rid of 3 billion people.
Sorry, I can't go Vegan. There's nothing quite like a good burger, and I believe humans have a right to raise animals, kill them, eat them, chew them, and poop them. I do, however, respect the Vegan lifestyle and it is admirable how you people have the discipline to control your eating habits.
Vegans do smoke. Most people I know roll there own. there is organic tobacco available. I smoke organic mugwort. It's a natural herb and it's fantabulous!!
I would but as I don't live by myself, the rest of my family will feed me meat
i stopped eating eggs after my biology teacher said in class: "eggs are chicken period." yuck.
It's funny because the comments actually have made me think more about becoming vegan than the actual article. Thank you for all of your comments.
i actually know a lot of vegans who smoke...
if vegans dont consume cholesterol then why do they have a cholesterol level of 128?
not trying to start and arguement, just curious.
GO VEGANS!
man going vegan is good for the earth yourself and pretty much everything
and if you're that shallow and all you care about is looks vegans are sexy too!
Eggs are not check periods.
I'm a vegeterian. Due to my mothers refusal to let me become vegan and my intense dislike of soya and rice milk I still eat milk and eggs. However, I fully intend on finding a milk substitute that I like so I can become an ovo-vegeterian.
Hello, I liked your list and so I made a YouTube video of me reading it. I don't mean to come off narcissistic, please like the video and not ask me to take it down.
im a 15-yr-old vegan and find it easy to be vegan, but many people are just all like "Oh, i would die if i was a vegan" im just like wutev. Go fellow vegans/vegetarians. the animals need us :) booo all u animal killers, u suck !! :P
to sarahe_21:
I'm on your side in this argument, but...
Eggs are not dead animal babies. They are unfertilized. They are the result of the chicken's menstrual cycle - in other words, the chicken's 'period'.
I'm a vegan and I smoke. In January I will be a vegan for one year. Although I'm not vegan for health reasons, or necessarily for animal rights, although those things are pluses. My decision is based more to a response to a sustainability problem, resources and environment. That is also why I switched to rolling my own cigarettes instead of buying those with filters...
Any way, the point is some Vegans (at least this one) do smoke :)
You are a faggot. Oh my God, your self-righteous bullshit makes me glad that you will be a doddering, diaper-filling prick for 6 years more than I will be. I look forward to eating my bacon double cheeseburger tomorrow, because meat is awesome, and you are not.
hey i was just wondering..
do cows NEED to be milked? a friend told me by not milking the cows it can lead to an infection in the udder etc. :S
sorry, actually posted that before i google'd it
I love these facts, now I know more :)
I am currently vegetarian, but I am on my way to becoming vegan. Thanks for the extra facts I never knew!!! :)
I don't think we should have to live up to every vegan standard.
I smoke, and drink and I have a few leather items.
I still don't eat meat, eggs or milk.
I consider myself a Vegan, and maybe you think it's not legit, but I'm living up to my vegan standards, not yours or anyone else.
That's the way it should be.
I tried to just cut back on meat and eat more vegies and i got sick
can anyone explain this to me
Sam, I recommend that you wean yourself off meat. Take away one form at a time until it's gone. You don't want to shock your system. When my family and I went vegan, we cut out red meat first, then milk, then all cheese, then pork, then chicken, fish, and eggs went bye bye last. None of us got sick, but your body will have to adjust, and your digestive functions may be off for a little while.
I can honestly say that going vegan was the best decision I ever made, and my husband and kids have come right along with me and are are really happy.
Good luck, if you decide to try again. I will recommend 2 websites to you: vegweb.com and vegsource.com.
Kudos to Krista Sue!:)
I was vegetarian for 6 years and then went back to the omnivore lifestyle in college, only to return to vegetarianism for 4 years and have been vegan for the past year. I think it is important to identify as vegan, but i do not feel my veganism has to impress anyone. From time to time, i will eat an egg, but only from chickens that are rescue birds. I feel very passionately that supporting chicken rescues and not wasting the resource of the egg is one of the best solutions to this current epidemic of animal overpopulation. Eggs are in fact seeds; as a nut begets a tree, so an egg grows into a chicken. The heart of veganism resides in compassion for ALL life. No life, plant or animal (and yes animal includes human) is more precious than any other - all life is precious and deserves respect - no omnivore, carnivore, or herbivore would argue that.
as for the guy going on and on about devouring cheeseburgers, nobody is telling you not to do that. Do what feels right to you. If you are offended, that is coming from within yourself.
Love for everything, including those who don't agree. After all, we're all one :)
Who says smoking isn't vegan? I smoke organic tobacco which I roll myself using hemp or rice paper.
Smoking tobacco is also not as big of a killer as people are made to believe, much like marijuana, when smoked in large amounts it increases risks of cancer, but I am a firm believer (and there is plenty of evidence to support) that anything that is grown on this earth that isn't a poison when ingested is not a large risk to our health. Why are there 90-100+ year olds in Mongolia and other Asian countries in particular who smoke rolled tobacco daily and are still healthy?
I suggest vegans concentrate more on the GMO's and other chemicals being put into their foods (especially soy based) which have been linked to numerous cancers and health issues.
Looking into the likes of Monsanto is a good start.
A large proportion of my diet is Vegan, and I have many friends who are as well. We all smoke rolled cigarettes and are more concerned with the chemicals being put into our bodies and human rights than preaching veganism and the killing of animals (which is not seen as unethical to many) to non vegans or vegetarians.
Humans are also not animals. By biological definition yes, but science is far behind our age and reality in recognising our own existence (put as 20 times off by the likes of Michio Kaku). Human spirit lives on through other dimensions, and whilst we can connect with animals through energy, vibrations and tone, animals do not.
Lastly global warming doesn't exist, it's simply to steal even more of your money through emissions taxes ;)
TOTALLY TURNING VEGAN
Didn't know that about the cigarettes. I'm quitting now :)
You may have just also saved me from lung cancer. Thanks for some awesome motivation.
hey. i really like this site. i'm a new vegan and the reason i am a vegan is because of the animals...for about a month now, i've been trying out the vegan thing and absolutely loving it and knowing i'm standing up for something amazing while doing it. i followed a vegetarian diet for seven years before and an ovo-vegetarian diet towards the end. it ended up being that the only thing i was eating that was dairy was cheese and the dairy in the veggie products (morningstar farms) so i just stopped.
BUT, I SMOKE. i've been smoking for three years and believe me, before i decided going vegan i searched everything. because i'm pretty much an ethical vegan more than anything else and anyone else like that can still smoke. american spirit cigarettes are vegan, actually and you can also roll your own or make your own cigarettes because that's unprocessed tobacco most of the time.
so don't generalize vegans into being non smokers. i refuse to believe that i abstain from eating any kind of dairy products AND i switched to all natural beauty produsts a looooong time before this. so just because i smoke, i'm not good enough? i'm doing my part to save the environment. but if i want a cigarette that isn't tested on animals, i'm allowed to have one and be vegan.
marijuana is ALSO vegan :) and i'm sure lots of vegans still smoke that. smoking isn't just cigarettes either.
Thanks for the info and encouragement. Though I think it gets a little ridiculous though when it goes so far as to say you can't smoke and be a vegan. That's like saying you can't drive a car cause look at that oil spill over there in the Gulf and how many animals it's killing, or you can't read a book cause the trees that were chopped down to make it probably caused the death of some forest critters. Doing anything causes 'harm' in one way or another, it is ALL CONNECTED. However, we can make the obvious choices and be the positive change in humanity by being conscious of your actions. That's all. Going vegan now. Cheers.
Very ital site you have!
Keep up the vegan work..
italandveganworld.com
Blessed love
Well, I just came across this blog tonight. I've been considering for an awful long time becoming a vegan. I've noticed that consuming animal products (specifically eggs, turkey burgers, etc) make me feel sluggish and crappy and when I eat it I have zero energy for the whole day. So I have been ready to give it all up. Well, after doing some research (and watching that video, "meet your meat" on peta's website), I have no doubt that this is the right decision for me. I cannot in a right conscience support what goes on with the cattle, cows, chickens, piglets... It's so awful. I cannot condone it. For good.
i wanna go vegan and i think this post helped a little lately every time i eat meat i get so disgusted because i start picturing aminals
Haha, I've been vegan for.. maybe three months? I'm a boy of 16 years. My transition was like.. I started to have more often the vegetarian option on the school food list (as we have school food paid from tax cash here in Finland) and during the last summer, I ate more and more vegan meals 'til I stopped eating any animal products. I don't usually smoke, just sometimes begging a random cig from mates. But I can't see any ethical reasons for refusing to drink booze.. as the Finnish mass lagers (that are mostly drunk to get wasted :P) don't use any animal clarifying, and neither do the hard spirits.
Again a random post with no sense, typical for me. :/
Why are people saying eggs are dead baby animals? I disagree.
However, that said, I personally find eggs disgusting and revolting and do not understand why anybody would want to eat one.
I'm going to make it easier for you guys to understand the Myths and Truth about being a vegan. Lets say it in a better way, keeping yourself healthy by living a life with out Chemi-kills. If you would like to learn more about living a healthier life just click on
I might be helping someone's life by leading them to this type of information.
After all we can see a 20 gr8 reasons here.. still some kinda Animals won't agree. Still one more reason left behind... Going vegan makes you show love to fellow beings of this gifted planet. Vegan is the difference between the 6th sense and the Nasty hunting 5th sense. Imagine, someone sucking yo momma's breast to feed their baby, leaving yo hungry behind. Imagine, someone killing yo jus born baby for protein and six packs. GO VEGAN pals.
I am not a vegan and will not be. I will admit that this is completely selfish, but let me show you a few holes in your argument.
1) True, or at least sounds very likely.
2) So, because there is low cholesterol, they are not likely to have heart attacks. Got it.
3) Colic is only common in babies and very few who are not infants are subject to it. As for the other diseases, the fact that it is milk has nothing to do with spreading the disease.
4) So can becoming old(:
5) Cholesterol is needed for your body to function properly, along with producing Vitamin D and helping to digest foods properly. 128 is a very low level and may not be completely healthy for a person.
6) While smoking is a leading cause of death, there are cigarettes that have stated that they are not tested on animals. With this in mind, you can still smoke while being a vegan.
7) This is only because there is a low level of fat in vegan and vegetarian diets. Healthy consumption of regular foods and a balanced diet can prevent obesity just as well as being a vegan can, if not better.
8) And? While tofu is a seemingly healthy alternative, it is a disgusting food in my opinion, and is basically dehydrated, cubed soy milk.
9) A lot of thing have formaldehyde in them. Heck, a basic chemistry lab does too!
10) If you're careful how you cook your meat, you have nothing to worry about.
11) This is why it is the individual's own responsibility to stay away from McDonalds. Being a vegan is only a motivation to stay away, nothing more.
12) Healthy doesn't always mean beneficial. While a person can get all the essential nutrients it needs, in some cases those who do not know where to get what they need to survive can be subject to malnourishment and things like that.
13) This will not change by you not buying or eating veal.
14) Cruelty to animals is to be taken up with the slaughter houses. Not buying the meat will only effect the grocery store instead of the slaughter house itself unless it is on a much larger scale. You alone cannot change that.
15) Most cows in the U.S. are dairy cows, and this will not change. The milk will still be sold and processed. If you don't buy the milk and consume it, the cow's life will be worth nothing(:
16) Yet those in third world countries do not seem to see the difference between dogs and pigs as it has been said that they are both consumed. While this is an obvious stereotype with little to no grounds to support it, it still brings across an interesting point in my opinion.
17) Read my reasoning for number 15, and just change it to eggs.
18) So don't buy Mercedes. These cows will still be killed, sold, and skinned.
19) As are many dairy products, and this can be prevented with frequent washing with or without dairy products.
20) Your fingernails are dead flesh. Yet you don't seem to complain.
I just began vegetarian, and I want to become vega, but my parents will not allow me, I'm only 13
Go vegetarians and vegans!!! I am curently a 13 year old vegetarian, but when I move out, I WILL become vegan!!!!
I don't understand why people are so judgemental, i am a vegan, i amproud of being a vegan. Though to each his own, if you think eating meat is the right thing to do awesome for you, but i dont, so dont try to convince me, nor critsice me for something you dont even understand. I do wht i think is rught and so can you. I believe that humans and animals are simmilar and that we form bonds with eachother, which means that animals have feelings, sadness, grief,happiness and pain. So therefore killing an animal is the same as killing a human to me. I am healthy, thin, have a great complexion and have endless ammounts of energy, and i am saving the encironment and animals lives at the same time. Veganism makes you sexier, smarter, healthier and most of all compassionate. Please dont judge before you learn what we are about. I want to spread the ease and conveinance of veganism i also want to spread the word of get off your ass and cook something like you are supposed to.
thats just what i believe.
Veal may be nice but remember veal is a child of a cow and you know what sort of people eat/hurt children .. sink ya brain into that fact numbnuts
To the person saying not buying meat will not effect slaughter houses - supply and demand my friend. The less people eat meat, the less is demanded from the grocery store and the less is needed to be slaughtered. Therefore if enough people become vegan, the amount of animals being slaughtered will drop dramatically because to kill them without enough people to buy will lose them money.
And as for the 'too low cholesterol levels', our body produces all the cholesterol it needs itself, it doesnt NEED extra, it just starts to clog us up.
I believe that people cannot know true spiritual happiness until they wake up in the morning and know that they are not killing countless other intelligent life without need. Don't get me wrong, if i got dropped on a desert island and had no food i'd be chasing those boars around like a crazy bear until i got myself some food. However in modern society we do not NEED to kill, we are CHOOSING to kill. It is murder without cause, and murder that is making us sick.
Actually... Vegans can smoke. A brand called Natural American Spirits does NOT test products on animals
however, i am not encouraging smoking
"Vegan's don't smoke" SHUT UP!! I, as well as many other vegans and vegetarians I know smoke. Not all tobacco companies test on animals. Very ignorant, what's next? Vegans don't smoke weed, inject heroin or snort cocaine? Just because you don't smoke, and fail at researching, doesn't mean all vegans and vegetarians abstain from it.
You're only in fucking university, grow up & do some more research. Also, your "raw veganism" at such a young age is going to be a severe health risk, I hope for your health you're taking supplements + vitamins. You're what I like to call a "pretentious vegan" so many of them in your age bracket.
Fuck vegan life, don't try push it on others.
Absolute bollucks that vegans live longer than 'non vegans'. Sure the diet is healthy, but so are non vegan diets. I know heaps of vegans that have to take tablets for iron and vitamins to compensate.
How is that natural?
Cholesterol is a substance that our body uses for various functions in including building cell walls. Cholesterol give cell walls fluidity and semi-permeability. It's not cholesterol that is bad for you, but rather too much of it. (Just like Calories aren't inherently bad, but too many Calories can be unhealthy.)
Cholesterol can be found in both animal and plant sources but plants tend to have much lower (sometimes insignificant) amounts of cholesterol because (unlike animals) plants have rigid cells walls. Therefore, vegans consume very little cholesterol while meat eaters consume more. The body is capable of producing all the cholesterol it needs if you eat the raw materials (found in fats). However, it is not bad to consume the cholesterol that you need because your body will just not produce the amount you consume. It is only a problem if you consume too much. Too much means your body is producing zero cholesterol and you still have more than you need. Then your body will start to store it in your blood vessels which can lead to health complications.
That "Cholesterol can cause impotence" is inaccurate. Rather eating too much cholesterol is correlated to higher rates of impotence in men.
It's great to see a lot of inquisition from non-vegans here - even the negative stuff. I personally welcome cynicism and even criticism. This provides an opportunity do to two things 1) share what you know and 2)learn what you don't know. When you don't know the answer, don't just make up stuff. Research it. There are pros and cons to veganism (as there are to all things in life). Ultimately, this is a very personal decision which can't be forced on anyone.
Some great resources to turn people to are: Diet for a New America (book), Earthlings (documentary), and, a fun one :), Skinny Bitch (book).
My advice: Don't be preachy, but be open to discuss your reasons for veganism when asked. Vegans are few and far between, and we should represent each other well by being educated, well versed, open to discussion, and above all else healthy and happy.
To those who bitch about soya products:
80-90% of the world's soya product if fed to livestock, which ends up on carnists plates.
well...meat is supposed to be dead. Although I do believe that animals are there for us to eat... says the bible and it follows the natural order of living things, etc...
But, as always, humans do ruin things by trying to make things better, but mostly by trying to make a bigger profit, by adding preservatives and chemicals, and torture of animals, etc... I believe that a lot of these additives are whats making people sick... which is the main reason I would like to go at least vegetarian, but for the most part, stay away from fast food...ugh..every time i go on a fast food binge I gain weight, get bloated, lazy, and just feel horrible all over.
GO TO THIS LINK AND READ EVERYTHING.
I AM 100% CARNIVORE..BUT I AM NOW THINKING TWICE AFTER I READ THIS.
To the anonymous person that said:
"GO TO THIS LINK AND READ EVERYTHING.
I AM 100% CARNIVORE..BUT I AM NOW THINKING TWICE AFTER I READ THIS."
If you are 100% carnivore, you are dead. Human beings cannot survive entirely on meat. Just saying.
Go vegan. Stop the murder of billions of animals. Stop the animal holocaust. See the real world. Vegans walk with a true purpose in life and a true meaning that no meat or animal product eater will ever know. The world will change. To the meat eater there ignorance is my bliss.
Great topic. Thanks!
If eating meat is bad why does it taste so good?
For those who are unsure of why we are vegan and choose to put us down, know your facts before you judge. Just google the trailer "Earthlings" and maybe it will help you understand :) It has to do with our health, unnecessary torture to animals, and caring for our environment. | http://aveganlife.blogspot.com/2006/05/20-reasons-to-go-vegan.html?showComment=1221179580000 | 2013-05-18T10:12:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The off-Whyte bohemian coffeehouse that keeps students up late studying (or avoiding it) with Kashmiri chai and Indian cuisine opened a slightly more subdued version on Jasper Avenue. It’s licensed, and open until midnight everyday.
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Monday Night Football Introduces New Halftime Feature
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
A MNF ESPN Conference call went down earlier today and the Leader introduced a new feature to the broadcast. PTI Halftime. It will be a 6-minute edition of the show, and really isn't a bad idea at all. So what's the problem? Tony Kornheiser had no idea this was happening until the conference today. Via Fanhouse....
It turns out that Kornheiser isn't sure how to feel about it either. ESPN announced the halftime PTI on a conference call to promote Monday Night Football today, and when I asked Kornheiser what we could expect from the halftime segment, he said, "This is the first I've heard we're doing it."Wow. Even though holding the details from Tony K is probably a good idea, it's still pretty crazy that they did. Also, everyone welcome one Mr. Michael Raymond Wilbon to the fray. Good times.
Jay Rothman, senior coordinating producer for Monday Night Football, said he knows exactly how PTI at halftime will work but that he's holding off on giving any details to Kornheiser.- MDS
Tony Kornheiser, Mike Wilbon Will Do PTI at ESPN Monday Night Football Halftime (Fanhouse)
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ESPN's goal is to integrate PTI into every program, I guess
Although I'm sick to death of synergy, it's better than having Berman's highlights (which, unfortunately, are probably still part of it).
Personally, I believe that if ESPN insists on doing those mind-numbing "interviews" with the stars of Desperate Housewives during the games, halftime is where it should go. That way, for example, every ESPN Bears game doesn't have to be interrupted by the musings of Jim Belushi.
this is something the PTI people have talked about doing for at least four years.
PTI with Jim Belushi and George Lopez would be pure gold!!!
Yes, more of the Woody Allen unfunny shtick!
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The Pam Ward Chronicles: Week Two
Saturday, September 06, 2008
We're back again for yet another day of Pammy goodness. I'm going to skip the formalities this morning and get right to the quotes (if that's okay with you). As always, keep the quotes coming and be sure to included your website(s) so I can give credit. Also, we need a calm Hanna to keep this thing up for the entire day. The winds are already pretty crazy, and the thing is literally going through my backyard, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Your Week Two Announcing Schedule
“If they can get the center or guard to the linebacker, or the second level, at the point of attack....it’s out to the races.”- Chris Spielman
“They’re lead by their offensive line, offensively.”- Mark May
“He’s tired tonight. He did a Soccer game in Dallas last night. It was exciting, there was actually a goal in that game.”- Sean McDonough
"And the ball hit him in the wrong spot that time.....um.....Yeah."- Roland Williams
"What spot was that?"- Tom Hart
"In the old.....uh.....Hands."- Roland Williams
(Via Eric)
A Gameday feature on Tim Tebow?! WTF!!!?! (Via Kyle)
I can't stand ESPN's love with him. They've run that same trip to the Philippines piece about 40 times.
I hate Ohio State, and I hate Pam Ward. The only reason I haven't thrown my remote into the tv is because I'm waiting for Ray to say something entertaining. Only in America. Yes, it's 7 seconds into the game. (Via Charlie)
Hahaha. Tell us how you really feel.
"There's good looking James Laurenitis"- Ray Bentley (Via Anon)
"6' 6" 230 pounds he's not supposed to be able to move like that."- Andre Ware (Via Nick)
Really? That doesn't seem like a lot. Andre Ware is just not good with numbers.
"I guess you can say he's a "Threet" to run."- Dave Pasch (Via Nick)
Terrible.
"Tony Romo, not available today for Eastern Illinois."- Dave Pasch
And to think....I actually used to like Pasch.
"Mike Enyon made headlines when he won the lottery. $250,000"- Pam Ward
"That's a lot of pizza to buy for him and his buddies at Ohio University"- Ray Bentley
(Via Anon)
"Oh Chris, I've missed you so much."- Pam Ward
"Ohio State's first two possessions were 2-and-outs."- Ray Bentley
"And Scott gets it up..."- Pam Ward
Yes! We're getting "Innuendo" Pam today. Oh and someone tell Craig James to settle down....
"Doing things off the field, whether that's pool parties or swimming days."- Ian Allen
"The thing you like to see from a receiver, he goes up and makes that hands catch."- Ray Bent. (Via Anon)
"Yeah, let it wing."- Ray Bentley (Via Bazooka Jones)
"He rode that down like a mule."- Rick Walker (Via JG)
"That ball must be riveted to your ribcage."- Mark May
Ummm....okay?
"No man in history has won five consecutive majors in the same major, two different majors."- Dick Enberg on Roger Federer
"This is where they like to play Football."- Andre Ware on Michigan
Ummm....Miami has the ball at the Michigan 12 yard line. I'm pretty sure that's not true. And right on cue....
"You kick a field goal here and you get yourself within another field goal of tying the game"- Andre Ware
The score is 10-3 right now. (Via Anon)
"Right now they have their hands full of bobcats!"- Pam Ward (Via Jared)
DANGER!
"They are having a hard time getting to the Quarterback because of his elusivity."- Ray Bentley (Via Bazooka)
Wow.....just wow.
"You see him look to the right with his eyes right before the snap..."- Ray Bentley (Via Sam)
As opposed to looking with his feet?
"When it goes wrong, you gotta bring the butter."- Rick Walker (Via JG)
"If you're Solich, I think you have to punt this one....oh, wait, it's third down, never mind." - Ray Bentley
"Yeah, this isn't Canada. If we were in the CFL..." - Pam Ward
(Via S2N)
"He was catching everything last week. I can't believe he's dropping easy passes like that." - Ray Bentley
"You think that's an easy pass?" - Pam Ward
"Well, he got his hands up, that's what his hands are for." - Ray Bentley
(Via S2N)
"A 48-yard return...correction, 69 yards."- Pam Ward (Via Kyle)
Not even close and I'm pretty sure that this isn't AJ Trapasso and actually James Lauranitis....
"I tell you what. If I was a bartender, I'd give you no more to drink."- Lou Holtz to Mark May
"In a summer of Batman and Iron Man, we go to my other partner Cart Man."- Brad Nessler
"You have to play physically. Punch em in the mouth and hope they don't punch back. Not physically, but you need to play physically."- Lou Holtz (Via Bazooka)
"The kickoff goes and we're underway, it'll go out of bounds and Oregon State will have great field position."- Brad Nessler
"It was a dud!"- Bob Griese
"Exactly right, it was like lighting a firecracker on the 4th of July and nothing happens!"- Brad Nessler
(Via Anon)
"Can I rent you for New Years Eve, you know your useless information"- Pat Haden to Tom Hammond (Via Sean)
"That's two for Virginia Tech, they'll have a third and five."- Mike Patrick while calling the ECU-WVU game
"A pickup of 14 moves the change for A&M." - Joe Beninati (Via Steve)
"And they [Washington] have to go for it here, they can't give it back....oh wait, it's third down, sorry." - Petros Papadakis
"Thought you knew something, huh?" - Barry Tompkins
"Yeah, I thought I did. I must have gotten screwed up when he changed the down marker." - Petros Papadakis
(Via S2N)
"It is library quiet at Notre Dame Stadium." - Pat Haden
"I've been to libraries with more noise." - Tom Hammond
"Baker... all the way... Rodney Ferguson... 45 yards, I beg your pardon it was the big back." - Joe Beninati (Via Steve)
"There were more people covering him than live in Calcutta"- Pat Haden (Via Sean)
"Better take that rifle away from the Mountaineer."- Mike Patrick after WVU turned it over on downs (Via Anon)
"Pitt needs to call a timeout here so they can get up a hail mary!"- Doug Graber
"Pitt is out of timeouts Doug."- Jon Saunders
(Via An."- Kirk Herbstreit (Via Noah)
"Superman does it again, but the Joker hung tough for a while."- Brent Musburger (Via Multiple Commenters)
"How do you ask your girl 'hey baby do you want to go to the game' and then take her up to the rock? I mean it's not like you got privacy up there"- Mark Jones
"They are certainly enjoying themselves."- Bob Davie
(Via Sean)
"This is the biggest event here since the Stones. Well sometimes you get what you want, and sometimes you get what you need."- Mark Jones
"You've been waiting to get that one in."- Bob Davie
(Via Anon)
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From yesterday's PTI cut-ins discussion: "the next logical step is to put products in their hands during the cut-ins."
Like when McDonough & Spielman were talking about Chris' favorite brand of Jack Links Beef Jerky?
This exchange was kind of awkward from the Northern Alabama/Carson-Newman game last Thursday:
Roland Williams: "And the ball hit him in the wrong spot that time.....um.....Yeah."
Tom Hart: "What spot was that?"
Williams: "In the old.....uh.....Hands."
A Gameday feature on Tim Tebow?! WTF!!!?!
Aw man, Andre Ware is calling the Michigan game.
I hate Ohio State, and I hate Pam Ward. The only reason I haven't thrown my remote into the tv is because I'm waiting for Ray to say something entertaining.
Only in America.
(Yes, it's 7 seconds into the game).
Chris Spielman should be in the booth, not sideline reporting. Send Pammy or Ray-Ray down on the field.
"6' 6" 230 pounds he's not supposed to be able to move like that."
Andre Ware on a Steven Threet 7-yard run
"There's good looking James Laurenitis" - Ray Bentley
Hahaha....I don't know why that made me laugh so hard, Anon.
Way to bring the thunder early people. Especially when these games blow.
Wow...
"I guess you can say he's a "Threet" to run."
Dave Pasch
Anyway, looks like Michigan is going to blow out Miami.
Pam Ward: "Mike Enyon made headlines when he won the lottery. $250,000"
Ray Bentley: "That's a lot of pizza to buy for him and his buddies at Ohio University"
Bentley: "Ohio State's first two possessions were 2-and-outs."
Ward: "And (OU QB Theo) Scott gets it up..."
"You gotta get positive yards initially before you start having guys miss"
Ware
Is ESPN totally kissing Ohio's ass today or what? Ohio vs. Ohio State on ESPN while ESPN2 has Miami of Ohio vs. Michigan. WTF? BTW, how bad does Michigan need to get before we take away their tv privileges?
I'm a fan Pete and I approve of your ban.
San Jose State's up 7-0 on Nebraska in the first quarter. I'm surprised ESPN didn't throw the UPSET ALERT tag on the Bottom...
Rick Walker Doing the GA Tech / BC game:
"he rode that down like a mule."
On a tackle behind the line of scrimmage.
With GA Tech having a First and goal:
"you gotta do it better than the other team."
Thanks for the insight.
"Big time players make big time plays in big games". - Chris Spielman
Really? I never knew that...
Ray Bentley on the deep ball:
"Yeah, let it wing."
"Dr. Lou and Mark May on the couch, for some therapy." - Ray Bentley
Jesse Palmer's next endeavor after ESPN analysis: The Jesse Palmer School for Kids Who Can't Read Good
Damn, AA, do you have more TV's going than my 2? Way to throw tennis in the mix.
Whoever the color guy is on the MI/Miami game...
"You kick a field goal here and you get yourself within another field goal of tying the game"
The score is 10-3 right now
"They are having a hard time getting to the Quarterback because of his elusivity." -Ray Bentley
(Thanks, Firefox spell check, I already realized that's not a word)
Pammie: "Right now they have their hands full of bobcats!"
It's not much...but everything she says is wrong.
CBS is pissing me off. Stop telling us that if we want to know the score of the other SEMIFINAL to go to their website.
You're job as a sportscaster/network on a live event is to keep us updated, not to endlessly promote your shitty website.
And an update because I gave in and went to the site... Murray won the first set, 6-2, and is trailing 4-5 in the second.
I lost alotta respect for CBS.
"You see him look to the right with his eyes right before the snap..."-Ray Bentley on Boeckman on the last TD
what else was he going to look with?
Bazooka- I can't believe that they are going to show the whole match on a delay. We all know what the score is and I can see it on the TV behind Dick Enberg right now!
Rick Walker:
"When it goes wrong, you gotta bring the butter."
WTF ?
I dont know if anyone picked this one up during the Ball State/Navy game last night but Chris Spielman said one of the Ball State players was
"big hipped and big rear ended"
"The goal for this team is a national championship, and if you can't get back a good MAC team in Ohio U, you aren't gonna get to the national championship" -- Chris Spielman
Wow I screwed my last comment up...
"The goal for this team is a national championship, and if you can't get past a good MAC team in Ohio U, you aren't gonna get to the national championship" -- Chris Spielman
Really?
Pam Ward, on Ohio U's Week 1 loss @ Wyoming: "...up in Laramie, which is always a tough place to play."
"If you're Solich, I think you have to punt this one....oh, wait, it's third down, never mind." - Ray
"Yeah, this isn't Canada. If we were in the CFL..." - Pam
"That's a lot of beef!" - Ray Bentley
Mike Hogewood also at GA Tech / BC:
"he was in pain and in pain after that pass."
Describing a play when the BC quarterback threw an interception, and got hit hard.
Nothing like having a homer like Chris Spielman on the sidelines for the Ohio State game.
After the wideout drops a Boo Jackson pass that he had to leap for:
"He was catching everything last week. I can't believe he's dropping easy passes like that." - Ray
"You think that's an easy pass?" - Pam
"Well, he got his hands up, that's what his hands are for." - Ray
NO FLAGS ON THE PUNT RETURN? There was a clear block in the back around the 50.
Ray Bentley dropping some douchiness: "That's what hands are for!" on a dropped ball
And Pam Ward: "A 48-yard return...correction, 69 yards."
Rick Walker after BC quarterback tackled in end zone for safety:
"Where is the magna cum laude the tight end on that play ?"
Rick, I know you played TE in the NFL, but come plugging your own position.
On the ensuing kickoff :
"GA Tech can take command here on this series."
Uh, the safety made it 16-12 BC, so if even GA Tech scored a touchdown (which they did), they would be up by 3. That was he PbP guy, not Walker.
Hockey is about the only sport where being up by 3 is a commanding lead.
Oh, and bazooka, we counted at least two illegal blocks on that B.S.
"They said they'll kick from 43 and in. This is 33, plus 7, 40, 50 yards." -Rick Walker I believe
Thanks for the math lesson... There's this thing they stress in elementary school called Mental Math
Check that, it was Hogewood.
"Did you that there's not one man in that group?" - Barry Tompkins, after John Jackson does a sideline report surrounded by gorgeous white women.
Just wondering, but how many times
did they mention that Ohio St was playing USC next week ? I figured the game would be used as an infomercial for next week.
[As the coaches shake hands at mid field with the clock winding under 20 seconds]
"The game isn't really over, but the crowd thinks it is as they file out of the stands." -I can't get the announcers straight in BC/GT... I think Walker
"It makes a defense have to defend everything." -Flutie on the Tyrod Taylor/Glennon platoon
"You have to play physically. Punch em in the mouth and hope they don't punch back. Not physically, but you need to play physically."
-Find a new word Dr. Lou
This is a great day for it to be raining and there be an away game. Everyone is on (or off) their game.
Lou Holtz to Mark May: "If I were a bartender I would tell you 'No more drinks!'". Discussing Ohio State v USC.
Brad Nessler: The kickoff goes and we're underway, it'll go out of bounds and Oregon State will have great field position:
Paul Maguire: It was a dud!
Brad Nessler: Exactly right, it was like lighting a firecracker on the 4th of July and nothing happens!
Correction: Bob Griese called it a dud, not Paul Maguire.
"San Diego State hasn't run the ball yet. Here's their first run of the game, and you can see maybe why they haven't run it. Loss of a yard." - Tom Hammond
Hayden to Hammond after a discussion of the new stadium grass:
"Can I rent you for New Years Eve, you know your useless information"
Don Munson on the Citadel-Clemson game after a holding penalty by Citadel:
"He (Citadel player) ate a lot of Kourtnei Brown's jersey"
"Touch Down San Diego State!"
Oh, wait. My bad. That's not a flub... Notre Dame just sucks.
"Washington up 21-0." - John Saunders
It's 21-14, but whatever.
"And Washington's up 21 to nothing."
-John Saunders
This game has been back and forth, and the score of 21-14 was on the screen in front of him.
He had some good penetration in the backfield.
-Tom Hammond
"A pickup of 14 moves the change for A &M" - Joe Beninati (Texas A&M-New Mexico on Versus)
Beninati again:
"The Aggies have come out with their hittin' shoes"
May I note that neither the commenter who mentioned the quote nor AA himself have spelled the last name of Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis correctly. Although, I have to admit it is a hard name to spell.
"Baker... all the way... Rodney Ferguson... 45 yards, I beg your pardon it was the big back." - Joe Beninati, seriously, your lucky you're not a big hockey guy down there in DC.
"And they [Washington] have to go for it here, they can't give it back....oh wait, it's third down, sorry." - Petros Papadakis
Guys, check the fucking down counter before you talk. Second color guy to do this today.
"Thought you knew something, huh?" - Barry Tompkins
"Yeah, I thought I did. I must have gotten screwed up when he changed the down marker." - Petros
The refs just gave the game to BYU. This is ridiculous.
The football gods don't like the city of Seattle. One of the worst calls ever.
Washington may very well not win 2 games this season......
"It is library quiet at Notre Dame Stadium." - Pat Haden
"I've been to libraries with more noise." - Tom Hammond
Pac-10 officiating. A glorious amount of stupidity.
Pac-10 gives games to the other team!
They should just disband the conference and have them play as independents.
"I think Houston Nutt wanted more time to come off the play clock before that timeout." -David Norrie
There were 2 seconds on the play clock when they called the TO. He was incessantly yelling and pointing at the play clock, like it wasn't reset...
And it took them 10 minutes until someone told them what happened to figure that out.
Just horrible.
Hayden "There were more people covering him than live in Calcutta"
The receiver was double covered.
Wow, big win for Notre Lame
After WV turned it over on downs -
Mike Patrick: "Better take that rifle away from the Mountaineer"
"What scares you when officials make those calls is that they can vote."
-Dr. Lou redeems himself for a day of ridiculousness
I need to find Johnny Holliday... Comcast is pissing me off with this Terps/Middle Tennessee broadcast.
Chick Hernandez and some guy that has some affiliation to MTSU and every sentence he's spoken has contained a first person pronoun referring to the Blue Raiders.
Random announcer is Kelly Holcomb, who I just heard the MTSU PA announcer describe as a "Football star."
BS.
"Oregon with a Route 66 on Utah. 66-24." - Rece Davis
Two things: First of all, it was Utah State, not Utah. Secondly, "a Route 66"???
Credit the Rece Davis one above to "Jfein". I accidentally hit the wrong button. Sorry.
Pam Ward makes me want to throw up.
Just wanted to add that for my last comment of the day.
From the end of the first half in the Buffalo at Pitt game.
Doug Graber: Pitt needs to call a timeout here so they can get up a hail mary!
John Sanders: Pitt is out of timeouts Doug.
After Robert Marve throws for Miami's first first down of the night:
Kirk Herbstre."
I'm just waiting for the Mavre was / was not marvelous line or somebody to pick up on the fact his
last name ryhmes with Favre.
Noah
Herbstreit is beside himself having to be in SEC country for the first two weeks of the season
I agree because he has to go back to the boring Big Ten at some point.
"Turner goes up top to Darrell Scott and it's knocked away... No, wait. He held on to it." -Chick Hernandez
Watch out Chick, those pump fakes are really tricky. I bet you can trick Chick with a tennis ball the same way you can with a dog.
great moment with corso on the sidelines and the cameraman tapping him on the shoulder.
"Superman does it again, but the Joker hung tough for a while."
--Brent Musburger
Superman does it again. But the Joker hung tough. - Musburger
"Superman got it done, but the Joker hung tough" - Musberger
Nice job mixing your superhero and villian.
Brent Musburger at the end of the Florida-Miami game "Superman wins again, but the Joker hung tough"
clearly someone doesn't read his comic books
"Superman does it again, but the Joker hung tough" - Musberger (who apparently needs to brush up on his DC Comics)
I wish I would have caught the quote word for word, but early in the Texas-UTEP contest, Mark Jones was talking about how big a game this was for the Miners and their fans. He goes on to say this contest gives them a chance to get "oiled up." What he was implying I don't even want to speculate.
I may have missed something as I just turned the game on, but Bob Davie just claimed that Colt McCoy "is facing his first adversity of the season" but Texas is winning 28-13 in the 3rd.
Showing the mountain next to the Sun Bowl, Mark Jones circles a couple and says:
"How do you ask your girl 'hey baby do you want to go to the game' and then take her up to the rock? I mean it's not like you got privacy up there"
Mark Jones just used the room service quote again. I honestly hate him more than Pam Ward.
He also said at the end of the third: "This is the biggest event here since the Stones. Well sometimes you get what you want, and sometimes you get what you need."
Bob Davie: "You've been waiting to get that one in."
Musburger's Superman / Joker quote has to be #1 for this week. I mean c'mon...the "Dark Knight" (which broke every box office record imaginable) came out less than 2 months ago. You would think with all the publicity and widespread acclaim it (and Ledger's character) got, even an idiot would be able to differentiate the two.
If that's not enough, consider 5 different people posted it here.
After watching college football on ESPN yesterday, it's making baseball on FOX (with Tim McCarver and Joe Buck) look downright cheerful.
@Sean - re: Mark Jones and the couple on the mountain
You realize she had her hand down his pants, right? And Bob Davie's comment about how they were clearly enjoying themselves? Priceless.
The video game simulation on the ESPN football field is a lot better than I thought it would be.
Andre Ware might just be the worst announcer in all of college football.
Mark Jones said Texas' appearance in the Sun City was the city's biggest event since Mick Jagger and the Stones played the Sun Bowl. True, but I thought my appearance in El Paso as an LDS missionary 5 years ago was worth something...
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Nuclear Outrun is a physics-based race between a Nuclear Warhead and Trucks. Blast away obstacles and zombies to collect points while racing for the exit. Spend points into upgrading Vehicle, Combat and General Aspects. Overtime Mode is unlocked upon completing the game, there’s no escape but find out how far you can go before the nuclear missile lands and turns you into a smear in the landscape. View Nuclear Outrun Walkthrough Guide for more information!
Play Online: Nuclear Outrun
Nuclear Outrun Level Guide
Use the upgrade levels below as reference guide on best-way to spend upgrade points. This avoid sacrificing many trucks to escape from nuclear pandemonium. You will need to have a balance of Vehicle and Combat upgrades to escape quickly.
Vehicle Upgrade
Level 1 – Vehicle engines are now more powerful
Level 2 – Spiked Wheels lasts for 2 seconds.
Level 3 – Spiked wheels can be used up to 2 times.
Level 4 – Vehicle engines are now more powerful.
Level 5 – Spiked wheels last for 5 seconds.
Level 6 – Spiked wheels can be used up to 3 times.
Level 7 – Vehicles are immune to explosive force.
Level 8 – 10X Bonus for crushing things with wheels!
General Upgrade
Level 1 – Every run will now have explosive crates!
Level 2 – Every run will now have balloons.
Level 3 – Explosive crates now have a wider range.
Level 4 – Zombies spawn with lower health.
Level 5 – Explosive crates now spawn more frequently
Level 6 – Balloons have higher chance of spawning!
Level 7 – Bonus from distance traveled is now doubled!
Level 8 – Zombies now give twice as many points when killed.
Combat Upgrades
Level 1 – You now start each run with 1 extra ammo clip.
Level 2 – You now carry a passenger with a melee attack.
Level 3 – You can now carry a random backup firearm.
Level 4 – You now start each run with 3 extra ammo clips.
Level 5 – Passengers have a longer attack range!
Level 6 – You can now carry a backup 99mm Pistol
Level 7 – You now automatically reload after 1 second.
Level 8 – You now start each run with 5 extra ammo clips.
Unlockables
Level 1 – 99mm Pistol (Weakest firearm, does very little damage)
Level 2 – Shotgun (standard shotgun, short range, high damage)
Level 3 – Revolver (six shots, punches through weaker objects)
Level 4 – Magnum Pistol (powerful handgun, able to do a lot of damage)
Level 5 – The Blade Boomerang (throws a boomerang that homes on a target)
Level 6 – Machine Pistol (fires short bursts, good against multiple objects)
Level 7 – Assault Rifle (fires in a wide burst, but does a lot of damage)
Level 9 – Squid Launcher (shoots squid which destroys anything it touches)
Level 10 – Submachine Gun (fire short, accurate bursts)
Level 11 – Compound Bow (shoots electric arrows that penetrate objects)
Level 12 – Combat Rifle (good damage, lots of ammo, fires in bursts)
Level 13 – Sawn Off Shotgun (requires frequent reload, but destroys everything)
Level 14 – Grenade Launcher (grenades explodes after 1 second)
Level 15 – Combat Shotgun (high ammo count, decent damage, best shotgun)
Level 16 – Hunting Rifle (bullets instantly strike the crosshair)
Level 18 – Sniper Rifle (needs good accuracy to use well, high damage)
Level 19 – Sawblade Launcher (fires a rotating sawblade)
Level 21 – Rocket Launcher (fires 3 homing missiles that explodes on contact)
Level 22 – Minigun (shoots a wall of bullets, chews through objects)
Level 23 – Remote Control (Summons Flying Robot/Cyborg T-Rex)
Level 24 – Gauss Rifle (fires an accelerated, high damage shot)
Unlocked after completing 20 Trucks Run
Bomber Blimp (Sends a blimp on a bombing run)
Shark Gun (It’s not for killing sharks, trust me)
Explosive Revolver (Fires exploding bullets)
Nuclear Outrun Screenshots
Main Menu introduces the developer “Nerdook” and game title “Nuclear Outrun”. A simple game menu is located above in every game screen containing Mute Music/Sound-Effects, Game Quality (Low, Medium, High), More Games on Kongregate and Nerdook’s Facebook Official Page.
This game offers 3 Save Slots. Select either slot and click Accept to begin your Outrun Adventure! If you wish to delete an existing save game, click the Delete on the bottom left corner. You can view Friend’s Score on if they play on Kongregate (requires an account).
Every game has a story and objective. Here is the Game Introduction: Nuclear missiles descend slowly towards the city. Our only hope is to outrun them with our trucks. You have 20 trucks. How many can escape?
This is the Weapon Menu where you can slightly customize your Truck’s wheels size and select your primary weapon. There are a total of 25 unlockable weapons you can use to dispose obstacles sprinkled between Nuclear Shelter and the Safety Bridge.
You can select one of two driving modes : Automatic or Manual. For starters, I recommend automatic. This allows you to focus on shooting while computer drives your truck automatically. For hardcore gamers who are in need for more challenge should select Manual. Use W/Arrow-UP for acceleration, S/Arrow-DOWN to reverse and brake, A/Left-Arrow and D/Right-Arrow tilts the truck.
This is the Game Screen where you exit your Nuclear Shelter on your armored truck. You can set your wheels on spikes that destroys any obstacles it touches for a limited time. This can be obtain by upgrading your Vehicle (see list above). The extra passenger will aid and protect your truck (obtain from General Upgrade).
Game Score is shown after reaching the exit (a distance of 1100 meters from Nuclear Shelter) There are 3 road blocks (iron crates) along the way, you can use spikes to deal with it or just blow them up with guns. Beware of mini Nuclear Warheads that approaches from right around 500 meters.
Failing to reach the exit will bring up the Game Over Screen, smearing it with bloody red and black shadow of your remaining truck and self. This occurs a lot during the first 10-15 level ups. Once you have obtain sufficient upgrades and better weapons, you can reach the exit easily.
Each time you Level UP you will unlock a new weapon and sometimes an additional upgrade points. Select a primary weapon that you are comfortable with (I used Remote Control to summon a flying Robotic Tyrannosaurus T-Rex) Spoiler: If you can drive your truck above 100mph constantly, order your T-Rex to attack and it will keep on chomping zombies/crates/birds/bombs in front of it!
Success or failure still rewards experience points or upgrade points. Spend them in Upgrade Menu in either Combat, Vehicle or General aspects of your vehicle. Each category has total of 8 upgrades, each has a stronger version of its predecessor.
The game automatically saves screenshots. You can export them as JPEG files!
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I really wanted to like Macuro because it’s actually a very cute bar with great bohemian eclectic decor, and the food isn’t too bad either. But after having tried it a couple of times I am left feeling underwhelmed and overcharged. I don’t see how a paper placemat and a small basket with three slices of bread and a handful of picos warrants a 1 euro per person “cubierto” charge. I was also put off by the 8% IVA not being included in the menu prices (is that even allowed?). And so after trying several mediocre starter dishes I didn’t feel inspired to spend 4 euros (plus IVA) for a mushroom risotto tapa or 17.80 euros (plus IVA) for a plate of pork tenderloin with truffle parmentier. If they can’t get the basics right, and insist on extra charges, then I doubt I’ll be back.
Calle de Rosario Vega, 10
Tel 954 28 46 85
€ € € €
1 euro per person cover charge and IVA not included in prices
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Dynavox AcoustaBar SD400 40" All-in-One MFi Digital Sound Bar
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Features
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- Recharges iPod
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- Plays iPod and MP3 Music
- S/PDIF Optical/ Coaxial Digital Input &(3) RCA Analog Inputs for Best Sound
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With quarterback Matt Brown heading to TCU, the Arizona Wildcats will turn their attention elsewhere. Luckily, there is one quarterback still considering the UA — and he's a good one.
The tremendously-named Munchie Legaux visited to the UA a few weeks ago, and is considering breaking his verbal commitment to Colorado.
Like Brown, Legaux is a dual-threat quarterback with sparkling prep credentials. The Rivals.com recruiting service lists Legaux, a New Orlenas native, as a three-star recruit and the No. 12 dual-threat quarterback in the nation. By comparison, Brown was ranked 11th.
That's assuming the UA can sell Legaux on its new offense, whatever that is.
Coaches and recruits come and go, especially in the month or so between the bowl games and signing day. Still, Brown's departure is particularly disturbing. The QB was born in Tucson, and raised a UA fan; when he committed last April, Brown said he "got chills" at the thought of becoming the Wildcats' quarterback. The quarterback changed his mind following a frustrating and distressing few days.
Mike Stoops assured Brown that the Wildcats will run the same spread attack, and apparently will name Bill Bedenbaugh as co-offensive coordinator.
Who will coach the quarterbacks — and which quarterbacks will come to the UA — is a question that needs answering.
Nick Foles is expected to start under center this fall as a junior, with juniors Matt Scott and Bryson Beirne backing him up. Richard Morrison was expected to switch to wide receiver, but that may change.
The addition of a guy named Munchie could change all that. | http://azstarnet.com/sports/blogs/finley/article_b2101e10-0a38-11df-8477-001cc4c03286.html | 2013-05-18T10:22:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
LETTER: ‘We Don’t Need a New Tax to Change Public’s Perception on Crime’.”
Martin states that “Burien’s problems are no worse than neighboring jurisdictions,” and names other local areas with higher crime rates. If the money is simply to “change the public’s perception,” then we don’t need a new tax with additional police to do that. Instead perhaps a public relations campaign promoting Burien as a “safe” community with statistics to back it up. Especially since in the article Police Chief Scott Kimerer said “even with the extra officers, Burien encompasses too large an area to make patrolling residential neighborhoods a plausible idea.”
Also, since it appears annexation of White Center is certain, won’t the additional annual $5 million in funding provide for the additional police officers needed? Mr. Martin has proposed, after two years, shifting $300,000-$400,000 of the funding for police to some of Burien’s elementary schools, including those in White Center and North Highline.
I agree with Lucy Krakowiak, who stated educational reforms should be left to the Highline School District. We have a district-wide levy, which includes ALL of our schools and the citizens of Burien have been very generous in supporting our schools, even in tough economic times. Let’s give our new Superintendent some time to assess our district’s needs and determine how best to improve the performance of all students.
The list Mr. Martin mentioned – tutoring intervention, teacher training, parental involvement, a longer school day and holistic approaches such as nutrition and dental care, while important, should be addressed by the school district and PTAs, not the Burien City Council. They have enough to do with the challenges annexation will present to the city of Burien.
- Bonnie Moormeier
Burien, WA
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I agree with the poster.. This is Martins underhanded way of squeezing more money in the form of taxes to cover the short fall of police coverage that will ensue if we annex white center.. Its a nice soundbite though.. Kids and Cops.. What the ? Flowers and cats?? Apparently he thinks the average Burienite is too stupid to see the disconnect…
I have good friends in Seahurst, a block from my home, who were robbed yesterday early morning. Two doors were knocked down and many items stolen from their home, including televisions, computer equipment, toaster oven, and prescription medications. This really happened. It’s not just a perception that we have a crime problem in Burien. We’d appreciate it if our city officials would work with citizens to actually solve the problem. Ironically, this could result in better public relations than any fabricated P.R. campaign.
MARTIN: You must be kidding! Why would anyone want to pay more taxes to Burien? They have wasted money on screwed up paving jobs, gotten sued over another construction contract and lost. Seattle is willing to provide what? Three times more police for White Center annexation? Come on MARTIN! I live in Area Y. I’m sure if the rest of the residents of White Center, South Park and whatever would agree that Seattle is the better way to go.
On the consent agenda from the last council meeting under approval of vouchers I noticed that the city of Burien has paid (from 3/15 – 4/2) $43,007.30 on something called Cops Technology Grant Exp. Is this part of the “Kids and Cops”?
FYI from 3/15/2012 – 4/2/2012 the city spent a whopping $923,747.18 on a total of 95 transactions.
The council is avoiding their fiduciary responsibility by not having an independent audit of the city books annually.. Its a case of the fox in charge of the hen house and the roosters are deaf dumb and blind.
They do have an independant annual audit, as required. You can find them on the City’s website.
ATKMH
I reviewed the 2010 period this audit looked at and found some red flags..
First let me say that my day job has me involved in corporate audits so reviewing a annual or now it appears biannual State government audit of a city government which focuses on the process rather than examining the details ensures that all the requirements are met for statutory reporting. This type of audit which by itself will find any obvious or flagrant fiscal malfeasance, however, it does not in anyway expose or examine potential irregularities of actions taken within the statutory boundaries. It also leaves an incredible amount of wiggle room and in the case of city contracts and purchase orders many opportunities for creative accounting. Thats why an audit by a really independent and IMPARTIAL non government certified private firm is a much different and much more thorough examination.
These deficiencies are stated right up front by the state and I quote, (btw its called CYA in case the audit itself is called into question.)
“We do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the City’s internal control over financial reporting.”
“We have applied certain limited procedures, which consisted principally of inquiries of management regarding the methods of measurement and presentation of the required supplementary information. However, we did not audit the information and express no opinion on it.”
There are some obvious red flags I noticed that need to be vetted or examined in a brighter light so to speak.
I quote:
” As of year-end 2010 the City had $27.7 million in debt outstanding compared to $20 million last year”
“Beginning in 2009 the City adopted a biennial budget. The second biennial budget for 2011 -2012 projects an 18% increase in resources over the previous biennium and a 19% increase in expenditures. These large increases are a result of the annexation which occurred in early 2010, which increased the population of the city by over 44%.”
It will be interesting to see the actuals from these optimistic projections.. Also I find it odd that Martin can project these costs and revenues but is unable to come up with the projections for the white center annexation which he would have to state in a business plan which the city council has failed in their fiduciary responsibility to the residents by not required he provide this.
I think going to a two year budget is a really bad idea as far as accountability goes because even if there are obvious flagrant irregularities we will not discover them for two years instead of what was previous an annual budget when we would find out the next year.
It also puts more burden on the state to review twice as much data as they were doing before even if it was just a cursory statutory review it still reports the numbers.
Interestingly enough the out of court settlement for 2.9 million dollars was not examined at all except to verify it was claimed and accrued.. The WHY is not part of the audit. and again I quote:
“On June 6, 2011, the Burien City Council approved an out of court settlement agreement with the general contractor on the First Avenue South Street Project for $2.9 million. This settlement amount has been accrued to the financial statements and resolves this claim”
Another red flag that popped out at me was the cities so called system of encumbrances..
And I quote:
” An encumbrance system is maintained to account for commitments resulting from approved purchase orders. Outstanding encumbrances lapse at year-end and are absorbed within the new year’s budget appropriation.”
I think its pretty obvious this is an area that potential irregularities disappear and are just accrued into the next budget.. No cost benefit analysis is done.
Finally even though the city taxes you in many ways like through your cable bill and your utility bill I thought it might be of interest to all land owners in Burien to review how much of your real estate taxes went to the City of Burien’s government coffers..
and I quote:
The City’s regular levy for 2010 was $1.52034 per $1,000 of the assessed valuation.
or in 2010 every property owner in Burien paid $152.00 per $100,000 in real estate value directly to the city of Burien. It will be more in 2011 and 2012 because they increase it every year..
I for one would like a better accounting of how my tax money is being spent!
I looked at those reports, too……my question is, why has their value of land gone up by roughly 3 million and the building values by roughly 1 million when every other real estate value has decreased since Obama was elected? Are these related to some new acquisitions or is this some creative bookkeeping?
You may be right William – that the fox is in charge of the hen house.
Not saying that you’re right or wrong William or if I agree or disagree, however, the majority of municpalities, counties, special districts, schools and the state have transitioned or are transitioning to the 2 year budget cycle. The state is currently trying to find a way to do a 4 year budget projection.
The SAO’s office still still performs the yearly review as well.
Encumbrances are also used because as current state law is written something purchased this year must be invoiced and in-hand by year end. However, many business year-end cycles end in March. As a City Light staffer, I personally find that encumbering the money, which means we have to say WHO it is going for as well as for what, helps me negotiate a better price point with vendors. The vendors know we have money set aside for them (at least in the contracts I work on that are on Seattle’s vendor approved list), they want that money for their year end spreadsheets and don’t want us to wait until their new year. Using this “trick” I was able to save about $20k of SCL rate payer money for a renewal of software.
On taxes, the city hasn’t raised it the statutorily allowed 1%. There was a poll back in November on this blog that would have generated about $70k more for the general fund. Instead City of Burien employees approached the council with healthcare changes that saved about $70k to the general fund on a yearly basis.
As Seattle Employee I can say that before the change I had better healthcare benefits than Burien employees. At Seattle we’ve given back COLAs, frozen our pay, taken days off unpaid, increased our payments into retirement but the thought of healthcare changes has never even been brought up by the city or unions. So once again to the Burien employee – Thank you for your work on saving the city tax payer money.
Lastly, as Cit of Burien residents our property taxes are among the lowest in the county. As Highline residents our taxes are among the highest. We pay more than most other areas for schools. If anyone is curious about how their property tax is appropriated please go to: and put your address. Then click Property Report.
Joey Martinez
Per State law the State Auditors office audits all state, county, local, school, special districts… When I worked for the City of Auburn (2001-2005) they were in yearly for a month or so. They’re always around at Seattle and City Light as well. I imagine they’re in Burien on a regular basis as well?
The reports can be found at :
Joey Martinez
I agree with William…is this a sneaky way to help buffer shortfalls for area Y? Berk estimated increasing the annual contract with King County Police by 3 million for area Y. Interesting how the high end of this utility tax increase, a whopping $12.+ per month per household will create an additional 2.3 million, more than two thirds the need for area Y. For 30,000 households this is 3.6 million…should be just about right…
I’ sure most of you would be singing a different tune if a crime happened to you or one of your loved ones.
Maybe then you would get behind the “Cops and Kid’s” initiative, so that we can turn around what is not a perception, but a reality that we need more Cops on the streets….
PJ
I don’t think ANYONE debates the merits of getting more cops on the streets.. Lets just state thats what we need not this Kids and Cops thing designed to hide exactly what you state is needed .
Thats why I have been so vocal about how 15 cops is not nearly enough to cover the area in the annexation of white center proposal. The city of Seattle said it would take at least 45 and that analysis was done BEFORE the recent crime wave here in Burien.. I estimate that we need at least a dozen more cops just here in Burien.
Think about it >>> IF the residents of area Y are bamboozled into voting for Burien instead of waiting for Seattle (which would be a much better scenario for them) then guess where the shortfall in policing is going to be drawn from? Yes BURIEN! So if you, like myself, are concerned about having LESS police available in current Burien than we have now I suggest you put some of your energy into educating the residents of area Y into voting down Mike Martins empire building proposal of annexation to Burien! | http://b-townblog.com/2012/04/12/letter-we-dont-need-a-new-tax-to-change-publics-perception-on-crime/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
General Motors Unveils Plans For The 2014 Corvette
One my greatest interests in life has been cars. I make my living around race cars, but in my hobby time it’s all about Corvettes. There’s never a time that I don’t have one in my garage. On Saturdays it’s usually out in the driveway with Mark Sr. and Mark Jr. polishing on it.
I couldn’t resist doing a story on the newest version of the greatest of all American sports cars. At least that’s my opinion of how to describe the hot rod that comes from, not Detroit actually, but Bowling Green.. Production on the next model will begin in the third quarter of 2013.
GM has retooled plants before while continuing production, but that wasn’t feasible at the Corvette plant. That’s because of the scope of the vehicle’s redesign. The 2014 Corvette will have just two carry-over parts from the current model, the interior cabin air filter and the rear latch for the removable roof panel.
General Motors unveiled a new Crossed Flags logo to debut with the 2014 Corvette. More than 100 variations were considered before the final design was selected. | http://b1027.com/general-motors-unveils-plans-for-the-2014-corvette/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Of all the DJ’s in the country, Jason Statt was 1 of 4 chosen to be on the “Let’s Ask America”. He played to win money for Cincinnati Toys For Tots. He didn’t win it all, but $1000 is awesome!
Here is a Clip from the show.
The Show will re-air Saturday on ABC .
I cant believe I’ve seen you on TV!!! You did great and I’m so proud of you of raising money for charity. Great Job!…
and you looked great too | http://b105.com/2012/10/26/stattman-won-1000-for-cincinnati-toys-for-tots/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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