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Romanticism caf from other website round 2
Posted 15 July 2010 - 03:28 PM
Four years have passed since we last saw you! You have now graduated college and are working in your dream career from the previous round, so lucky you! If you were in a relationship or casually dating in the previous round, you are no longer with that person, but you do have a new significant other and youre now married!
Whats his/her name?
LN: Here http://www.searchfor...ansurnames.html
FN: Here: http://nameberry.com...tage-Baby-Names
MN: Here: http://nameberry.com...ster-Baby-Names
Roll the six-sided dice to find out http://www.random.org/dice/?num=10
How old he/she is:
1) 22
2) 27
3) 25
4) 23
5) 24
6) 26
Where you met:
1) At the library
2) He transferred to your college
3) You dropped your shopping, and he helped you pick it up
4) At the dry cleaners
5) He crashed into your car
6) At a bar
What colour hair he/she has:
1) Light Brown
2) Black
3) Blonde
4) Red
5) Dyed pick a colour
6) Dark brown
What his/her hair is like:
1) Wavy
2) Straight
3) Straight
4) Wavy
5) Curly
6) Curly
What colour his/her eyes are:
1) Blue
2) Brown
3) Green
4) Hazel
5) Grey
6) Blue
What his career is:
1) Architect
2) Fire-fighter
3) Accountant
4) Screenwriter
5) Dentist
6) Musician
Where did he/she/you propose?
1) He/she proposed at your favourite restaurant
2) You proposed after cooking your other half a romantic meal
3) He/she proposed in your local park
4) He/she proposed out of the blue while you were watching TV
5) You proposed on stage at a concert
6) He/she proposed at your parents house
Where did you get married?
1) On a beach in Hawaii
2) In your local church
3) At your parents country lodge
4) You married secretly in a chapel in Las Vegas
5) In his parents backyard
6) Live on a TV show
Where did you honeymoon?
1) London, England
2) Paris, France
3) New York City, New York
4) Milan, Italy
5) Barcelona, Spain
6) Dublin, Ireland
Where do you settle down upon your return?
1) Evansville, Indiana you relocate due to your job
2) Newington, Connecticut you relocate because you want to start afresh together
3) Nassau, New York you relocate due to his job
4) Ripley, Mississippi you relocate because of an ill family member
5) Pocatello, Idaho you relocate due to your job
6) Fresno, California you relocate because you want to start afresh together
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Posted 15 July 2010 - 07:23 PM
Name: Ned Roman Zimmerman
Age: 23
Hair: straight dark brown hair
Eyes: brown
Occupation: Accountant
Met: when I dropped a bag of groceries and he helped pick them up
Proposed: he proposed out of the blue while watching TV
Married: live on a TV show
Honeymoon: Dublin, Ireland
Now living in: Pocatello, Idaho - relocate due to my job
Posted 15 July 2010 - 07:52 PM
Posted 15 July 2010 - 08:03 PM
Four years have passed since I've seen you last and I am now 22 years old, graduated from college and working in my dream job as a police officer. But that's not the only thing that has changed! I am also now married to Leo August Zuckerman so I am now Alyssa Zara Zuckerman! Leo is a 23 year old screenwriter. He has wavy black hair and green eyes. He proposed to me after 2 years of dating while we were having dinner at my parent's house. We actually had our wedding on a live TV show! Leo was able to arrange it because he is a screenwriter on that particular show. We had our honeymoon in Milan, Italy and afterwards we settled down in Nassau, New York where we currently live. We moved here for Leo's job which he commutes to in New York City 2 days a week, the other 3 days he is able to work from home.
Posted 15 July 2010 - 10:03 PM
Four years later, I am 27 and working in a great Law Firm. Im still with the best guy too, his name is Henry Hudson Muller, he is also 27 years old but he has curly red hair and blue eyes. We met years ago when he crashed in to my car. He works in accounting. He proposed 2 years ago in our favorite public park , we were married not long after in a beautiful wedding in his parents back yard after which he honeymooned in Dublin Ireland. When we got back we moved
Pocatello, Idaho for my job.
Posted 15 July 2010 - 10:18 PM
Four Years later - My new last name is Richter, since I married Leo Sebastien Richter, he is a 26 year old fire fighter with wavy blonde hair and green eyes. We met at the dry cleaners, after a few months of dating he proposed to me at the local park and we were married on the beach in hawaii in the summer. After our honeymoon in Dublin Ireland, we made our new home in Evansville Indiana, due to my job.
Posted 15 July 2010 - 10:31 PM
Its been four years and many things have changed. The first major thing that has changed is my name. I am no long Leila Caley. I am now Leila Lang.
I married Walter Sullivan Lang, or Sully, in the church I grew up in and we honeymooned in Barcelona, Spain. He is 24 years old.
While I was studying in college, I practically lived at the library and that is where I met Sully and fell in love almost instantly. He has straight black hair and brown eyes.
He is working his dream job as a dentist. He proposed to me at our favorite restaurant and where we went on our first date. We
now live in Fresno, California because we wanted to start a fresh life together.
*On our honeymoon in Barcelona*
Posted 15 July 2010 - 11:27 PM
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Posted 16 July 2010 - 07:31 AM
Four years later, I am now 23 and a rookie police officer! I recently married the love of my life, Leo Sebastian Wolf, a straight, dark brown-haired and grey-eyed, 26-year-old dentist. We met one day at the dry cleaners while I was in college. I was working there to get some extra money and he brought in his best suit to be cleaned after his friend spilled wine on it at a wedding. We began dating and fell in love and eventually, he proposed to me at our favorite restaraunt! We married in a quaint little ceremony in his parents' backyard and honeymooned in New York City, where we saw a few Broadway shows. Recently, we relocated to Nassau, New York because he was offered a fantastic job in an upscale cosmetic dentistry office.
Posted 16 July 2010 - 12:20 PM
I have curly, red hair and bright green eyes. I have Irish heritage, but I was born and raised in Hickory, North Carolina, where I met the guy I'm now casually dating, Clark.
It's already been four years since I last saw you!
I am now 22, and I've been working as a first grade teacher for the past year. Being a teacher has always been my biggest dream, and I feel so lucky to have that opportunity.
I am also incredibly lucky to have met the most important person of my life.
Clark and I had broken up for about nine months, when I crashed into a young man just after getting out of the mall. I was full of shopping bags and trying to find my car keys in the purse, so I really wasn't paying much attention to where I was going. He was very engrossed in a phone call, so we inevitably ran into each other, and I dropped all my bags in the process. He was very polite and chatty, though, so he helped me pick up my shopping and asked to offer me drinks to apologize.
There wasn't much he had to apologize for, but I think it was merely an excuse. I will never be thankful enough to have accepted.
Henry Atticus Schneider is now my incredible husband. He is 26 and an handsome architect. He is tall, with wavy dark blond hair, that almost lean towards brown, and deep hazel eyes.
After being together for almost two years, and living together for ten months, he proposed while we were visiting my parents for Easter.
He hid the ring in one of the plastic eggs, and wrote my name on it so that when the little ones found it, they would bring it to me.
I was stunned when I opened the egg, but I was quick to recover and say "yes" with tears in my eyes.
We had a very intimate ceremony in the small church of my neighborhood, with just our families and close friends. Immediately after we flew tp Spain, where we spent two weeks in Barcelona and other ten days touring around the coast.
It wasn't long after Henry was promoted at the firm he has been working at for three years. The promotion was a blessing to our family, but it also meant taking over the offices in New York. We were a little sad to leave our families behind, but we also took it as an opportunity to start fresh together.
Posted 16 July 2010 - 02:20 PM
Has it been four years already!
My college years flew by and are long behind me now. I now have a bachelor's degree in Art and I had the previlage to study with some very talented artists. I am hoping to make a living selling my work, so far it is slow going but I haven't given up yet. My highschool sweatheart and I grew apart once we became involved in the busy college life. Two years ago I met the man of my life, Walter Ray Grossman. He is a few years older than me, he's 25 and I am now 22. We met when he crashed into my parked car (he was chasing a wayward frisbee at the time). He has curly red hair and deep blue eyes. He is a musician and has just gotten his big break. We were married a few months ago in his parent's backyard on the Mississippi coast. He proposed to me a few months before I graduated when he was on stage at one of his concerts. It was the most embarrising yet exhilerating moment of my life. We honeymooned in London, England during Walter's first international tour. Since Walter's music career has just started to take off, we decided to move to Fresno, California. He is closer to his record company, while living in a town we can actually afford. We have only been married a few months so kids are still good bit away, but I look forward to the time we are settled enough to start our family.
Walter Ray Grossman & Asphodel Winifred "Adele" Grossman
Posted 17 July 2010 - 09:02 AM
Henry Levi and Rose Alexandra Morgan (Nee Lennon).
At the library, went to the same University, Henry was a year above.
Proposal, Marriage and Honeymoon:
Henry proposed at my parents house and we married a year later at my parent's lodge back in North Carolina. He then organised our honeymoon to be London, England.
Fire fighter.
Dark red, wavy.
Dark brown, straight.
Eye colours:
Rose and Henry Morgan, married and living in Newington, Connecticut.
Posted 17 July 2010 - 04:03 PM
But I am now married to the most wonderful man in the world. His name is Leo Asher Wagner. He is 23 years old. We met at a bar where I was celebrating my best friend's bachlorette party. He also has black wavy hair and he had grey eyes. He is a successful Screenwriter and has written a few indie movies and a soon to be blockbuster adaptation of the book, Gone by Micheal Grant.
We were at a concert for my favorite band, Shinedown when Leo got up on stage and asked if I would marry him! Of course I said yes and six months later we were married in a beautiful ceremony in his parent's backyard. We honeymooned in Dublin, Ireland and than returned to our new home in Pocatello, Idaho.
Posted 19 July 2010 - 05:42 PM
Lily Jasmine Marconi
27 years old and a Doctor
Straight Blonde Hair and Brown Eyes
Born in Mansfield, Ohio
Leo Dexter Roth
27 years old and a Firefighter
Curly Red Hair and Blue Eyes
Met when he crashed into my car outside a restaurant
Proposed at the restaurant we met outside
Married on a beach in Hawaii
Honeymooned in Paris, France
Living in Nassau, New York
Posted 21 July 2010 - 11:10 AM
Four years have passed and now I am an artist showing my work at a local gallery. I'm also married to a wonderful man. Henry Orson Bauer is a 27-year-old firefighter with light brown, wavy hair and blue eyes. We met at a bar one evening. We dated for two years before he proposed at my favourite restaurant. We got married in an intimate ceremony on a Hawaiian beach, at dusk. For our honeymoon we went to Barcelona, Spain. Now we live in Newington, Connecticut where we relocated to start afresh together.
Posted 29 July 2010 - 10:22 AM
So, four years have passed, and I am now married to the love of my life, Leo Kai Kessler. He is 23, and has curly black hair and brown eyes. We met at the library, where I was studying, and fell in love. He is a fire-fighter, and dedicates his life to saving people, so I had to wait nearly three years for him to propose. He proposed at our favourite restaurant on a moonlit evening, with the sky full of stars. We got married at my parent's country lodge in Linden, California, and spent a great two weeks honeymooning in New York City. After our honeymoon we were supposed to move into my flat in Linden, but we had to relocate to Ripley, Mississippi, to be with Leo's father, who discovered he had cancer on our last day in New York.
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BOSTON, Mass.—In one of the most competitive home matches of the season, UMass Boston (5-9) fell just short on Senior Day in a 6-3 loss to Curry College (10-6) Tuesday afternoon at the B.C. High Tennis Courts.
UMass Boston honored senior co-captains Anitra Kloczewiak (Newton, Mass.) and Samantha Counts (Bridgewater, Mass.) before the game as part of the team's Senior Day Ceremonies.
Curry College took a 2-1 lead after doubles play, thanks to winning one of the two doubles matches that went to a tiebreak.
In singles play, the Colonels took three of the first four points to earn the victory, before Kloczewiak closed out the match with a huge victory in the final home match of her career.
Elizabeth Zarkades and Devin Curley opened the match with an 8-0 win for Curry over the Beacons duo of Kelsey Shea (West Bridgewater, Mass.) and Logan Smith (Southwick, Mass.).
The Beacons responded with a big win at number two singles, as Vicky Woytowicz (Springfield, Mass.) and Solveig Castelli (Precojo, France) outlasted Emily Mongello and Molly Louis 9-8, with a 7-4 win in the tiebreak.
Curry closed out the doubles portion of the match with an intense 9-8 win. Megan Mulrooney and Kimberly Love held off Kloczewiak and Counts 9-8, with a 10-8 edge in the tiebreak.
The match marked the 100th career result for Counts, who ranks second only to Kloczewiak on the UMass Boston career record list.
UMass Boston opened up singles play with a victory, as Shea knocked off Curley 6-2, 6-4 at sixth-flight singles.
Zarkades put the Colonels back into the lead at 3-2, when she defeated Kathleen Conroy (Quincy, Mass.) 6-3, 6-3 at number five singles.
Curry pushed the lead out to 4-2, as Louis earned a 6-3, 6-3 win at number three singles over Castelli.
The Colonels clinched the victory at number two singles, as Mongello picked up a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Counts.
Curry capped off their scoring with a 6-0, 6-1 win at number four singles, as Love defeated Nurcin Celebi (Istanbul, Turkey).
Kloczewiak ended the day on a bright note for UMass Boston, as she took a 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 win at number one singles over Megan Mulrooney. With the victory, Kloczewiak picked up her team-leading 20th victory of the season and stands one win shy of tying the program-record for a single-season.
Curry College finished their season with a 10-6 mark, their most wins since 2010. UMass Boston will return to action Saturday at 2 p.m. as they travel to Plymouth State University for a key Little East Conference matchup.

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What Should We Teach About Creation?
(John Piper)
The following is an edited transcript of the audio.
How far should we go in teaching creationism in the church? How important or unimportant is it?
I assume the "-ism" on the end of creation has an agenda in terms of the age of the earth or the age of man or whatever.
Let me just say a few general things.
1) We should teach without any qualification that God created the universe and everything in it. It wasn't always here. It didn't spontaneously emerge from a big bang alone, however God did it. God did it. That's clear, and everybody who believes the Word should preach that.
2) Secondly, I think we should preach that he made it good. There was no sin in it, when he first made it.
3) Thirdly, I think we should preach that he created Adam and Eve directly, that he made them of the dust of the ground, and he took out of man a woman. I think we should teach that. I know there are people who don't, who think it's all imagery for evolution or whatever.
And we should teach that man had his beginning not millions of years ago but within the scope of the biblical genealogies. Those genealogies are tight at about 6,000 years and loose at maybe 10 or 15,000. So I think we should honor those genealogies and not say that you can play fast and loose with the origin of man.
That's not the age of the earth issue there. That's the origin of what is a human being, when did that human being come into existence. I think we should say he came into existence by God's direct action and that it wasn't millions of years ago. That was within the scope of these genealogies.
Now, when it comes to the more controversial issues of how to construe Genesis 1" class="bibleref" style="font-style: normal">Genesis 1-2 about how God did it and how long it took him to do it, there I'm totally sympathetic with a pastor who is going to lay his view down, having studied it, and is going to say to his people, "Here is my understanding of those chapters. These six days can't be anything other than six literal days, and so that's how long God took to do it. And this universe is about 10 or 15,000 years old. Though it looks old, that's the way God made it. He made it to look old," or something like that.
Or he might take another view that these days are ages.
Or he might take Sailhamer's view, which is where I feel at home. His view is that what's going on here is that all of creation happened to prepare the land for man.
In verse 1, "In the beginning he made the heavens and the earth," he makes everything. And then you go day by day and he's preparing the land. He's not bringing new things into existence; he's preparing the land and causing things to grow and separating out water and earth. And then, when it's all set and prepared, he creates and puts man there.
So that has the advantage of saying that the earth is billions of years old if it wants to be—whatever science says it is, it is—but man is young, and he was good and he sinned. He was a real historical person, because Romans 5" class="bibleref" style="font-style: normal">Romans 5 says so, and so does the rest of the Bible.
That's where I am, and I think every pastor should go ahead and say what he believes. But how do you define who gets on your eldership, for example? Who gets a teaching office in your church? I'm inclined to not draw that too narrowly.
But I could be wrong about that, you know. I'm 63 years old, and I've never preached through Genesis yet. And I'd like to! I'm going to finish John, and then maybe the next thing I'll turn to, if the elders let me stay around that long, would be Genesis.
We need to give our people help in this.
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Archived Boards and Threads... > MotM Travel Blog
MotM Days 1-3 (plus pre-meeting thoughts)
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Pre Trip (Preparing for the trip)
* Midnight Thursday, December 27th, 2007
* Thursday, December 27th, 2007
The Trip Begins (Days 1-3)
* Friday, December 28th, 2007
* Finally in Tucson
* Saturday, December 29th, 2007
* Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Hello everyone! With the trip to Tucson underway, I want to document my experience to the best of my ability. It will help me remember it better in years to come, it will be a nice thing to show to future children of mine, and I thought it would be a nice thing to share my experiences with the entire SMF community here, my family, and my friends. I have decided two things right from the start in writing this. First, I am going to write it in a sense, like a story, so it may seem more formal than a normal blog would typically be. I also am going to try my best to not get too silly throughout it which I have had the tendency to do in the past. However, I want to capture the mood of the trip to the best of my ability, so if a lot of the time we are having a fun time, telling jokes for instance, I will try to capture the essence of such times in my accounts of the trip.
Midnight Thursday, December 27th, 2007 (Late at night)Tomorrow is the big day, the day I have been looking forward to for months. I set myself out to Tucson to meet the people I have worked with for years, some who almost feel like family to me. I sat in my chair, past midnight, and I felt anxious, yet I was excited. I had just finished doing a little exercising, perhaps in part in an effort to calm my nerves a little bit. I knew that at the point of waking up, my countdown to the first plane I would board would be about 24 hours. 24 hours until my adventure would begin. Could I bring myself to sleep I wondered, or would the excitement swallow me in? I just continued to sit there on my laptop, but why? Was there anything stopping me from sleeping? I figured it was the excitement. As the time drained down some more I finally decided to wrap things up, I shut down my laptop, and made my way upstairs to my room. I plopped myself on to my bed, turned off my light, set my alarm (just the usual routine), and shut my eyes, followed by some routine prayers that I make every night. Would I sleep alright that night?
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 (Past 7PM)The previous night came and went by. I did not sleep particularly well. I scrambled about trying to get all my things together, my mom offered in a hand. I had my suitcase selected and cleaned the night before, and had started loading my laptop bag with certain tech devices that could come in handy at some point, my old Nintendo DS, an old handheld PC, some seasons of television shows on DVD and anything else I came across that could be of use to me. I was waiting for my nephew, sister and brother-in-law to arrive to my home, they were coming in from my brother-in-law's family's house where they had celebrated Christmas. It had been awhile since I last saw my sister and nephew, and much longer since I last saw my brother-in-law. I had not eaten any dinner yet, my mother and I were waiting for them all to arrive and then we would get some pizza. On my laptop now, my sister phones in to announce that they are in Ithaca, meaning they will be home in minutes. I am excited to see them, albeit for a very short while. I was thankful that they would be driving me to the airport early in the morning the next day. It was really nice seeing my nephew again and the big smiles he had to offer me. I gave him the Christmas gift I had bought for him, and he did play with it a little bit! I knew I would definitely be missing him when I left, among of course all of my family as well.
Friday, December 28th, 2007The day was here, the big day, and I felt its presence, the magnitude of all that was about to happen, with a strong excited state of mind. I woke up at around 6, left my house at around 8. When I arrived to the airport and got to the security checkpoint, I was now on my own. I boarded my plane leaving Syracuse to Chicago at around the scheduled time, however after about an hour or so waiting on the plane, they made us all get out. The weather in Chicago was looking bad, and they were canceling and delaying a lot of flights. A few hours later, we finally departed Syracuse, many hours late. When we landed in Chicago, I started to get nervous as to what I would do. The plane I was suppose to have left on apparently left on schedule or close enough to it. So I was stuck there, and for one of the first times in my life, I was entirely on my own, left to take care of my own problem all by myself. And with a sense of confidence, I became determined I would get through this hurdle in one piece.
Shortly after arriving to Chicago, I called an 800 number for rebooking flights. After what seemed like 15 minutes, the person on the phone said there was simply no openings for the Tucson flight leaving Chicago at 8:25. However, the person booked me a flight to Phoniex that was to leave at the same time. I then called a team member who was helping coordinate the meeting and told them about my situation. I was told that I should get on standby for the flight to Tucson, in case an opening showed up. When I went to the desk to ask about getting a standby, I waited about 30 minutes or so as a woman working there was trying to find any possible connections to Tucson. Things seemed doubtful, but all of a sudden there was an opening for the flight to Tucson! I was beyond relieved.
After waiting a few hours, I boarded my flight and then we left. The flight took almost 4 hours and time did not go by very fast for me. It was interesting to see all the different people on the flight. Many of them seemed generally like nice people, and I could possibly get a small sense of what type of person some of the people were. I became quite tired, and had my eyes closed for much of the flight, but couldn't get myself to sleep, nor did I particularly want to fall asleep then. The flight finally landed...
I was finally in Tucson, at long last!
I went down to baggage claim to get my luggage. I phoned in the same team member again and two people picked me up in a matter of a few minutes. After a little drive we drove to the hotel. I got out of the car and then came a bit of a surprise. I heard some noises from above, I looked up, and there looking down from the balcony were the team members of SMF who attended the meeting, almost to its entirety, except for a few people. It was a little awkward to say the least! Since I was the last member to arrive that day, they kind of put me on the spot right then. They had me guess what username belonged to each person there. I guessed a lot of them wrong! JayBachatero and I ended up being roommates and we had a pretty nice discussion about various things (mainly related to SMF) until quite late at night, and it was really nice getting to know Jay more. Of course the discussion did eventually turn around to a brief bit on girls as was anticipated. JayBachatero inquired about whether I ever asked out any of the girls I liked. With a big geek smile I told him that I had not done any such thing (I'm a chicken and a little ugly, you'll see my pics soon enough to determine that ;)).
Saturday, December 29th, 2007I woke up at around 8:30 in the morning after the phone in our room rang, it was one of the team members trying to wake me and Jay up. We were running a little late, and Jay took his shower quickly and almost right after him I took mine. We went down and peered in the conference room where we were holding our first meeting. Most of the team members were already there! We first went to get a quick breakfast though before going back to the conference room. The meeting was a productive one and we covered some important matters (Not going to go into detail, especially since a lot of the material needs to be confidential). After the meeting Jay and I along with a couple other members went to the Carl's Jr. right next to our hotel. The food there was not much different from McDonald's. After some time of a lot of us hanging out in the same room, we eventually drove out to go to the Desert Museum. The experience there was really quite amazing for me. I have not been to that many museums in my life, and it was a pleasure to see some of the things the museum had to offer, especially things I would not see back at home! We saw live snakes first, contained in there own little simulated habitat, and saw much more, including animals like mountain lions and bobcats. Towards the end, we saw Prairie Dogs. I thought they were really cute and did a lot of funny things!
The Prairie dogs, aren't they so cute?
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Later on we went out to get some food. I had some nice discussions with the members at my table, and it was overall a lot of fun. We cracked out several jokes but also did discuss various SMF issues at hand, and our own little stories involving certain things about our experiences with SMF. We joked about handing out SMF cards that we were given, to girls. Wouldn't that be great I thought, if I could hand out my SMF card to girls with my number on it and have the girl actually reach me back? Whether it actually had to do with SMF, or the girl just liked me! One of these days, I thought, I will hand out a few of these cards, but it will be as a joke and I'll probably just end up handing them out mainly to my friends at home.
Later on that night in our room, Jay and I discussed a project we had started working on a long time ago. At the same time I was working on writing some of the blog, which I had little time to write the entire day.
Sunday, December 30th, 2007My second full day in Tucson started fairly similar to how the first day did. I woke up, took my shower, and went down to the conference room for our second meeting. When it came time for me to do some talking about my experiences with SMF and why I wanted to become a team member, I think I stumbled a little bit. I sometimes have a problem coming out with the right words on the spot, but I don't think it went too badly. The meeting was a rather interesting one in getting to know the team members a little more. We eventually went to a place to get subs, and I got myself a meatball sub, and sat with rickC and JayBachatero to discuss our little secret project we were working on. I felt we covered some decent ground on that.
Later in that day we went to Old Tucson Studios, and boy was that quite something for me. I really loved it! It had a lot of cool Western props and such and was used a long time ago to film 100s of old Western movies. There was a lot to see there. We came across some women working there and it was rather hilarious when a few of the team members talked to them, one of them handing them one of our SMF cards. As the idea behind SMF was being explained, it was funny looking at one of their reactions as it clearly seemed they had no idea what we were talking about, but tried to play along with us. They were rather friendly to us, but it comes from the nature of their work. We snapped some pictures early on, and went through a few of the stores there.
Team member with two of the workers at Old Tucson
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One of the highlights of the visit was getting a picture of several of us together, dressed in various customes. The picture ended up looking pretty cool and funny, with a lot of us doing something silly. I had myself a toy gun! :)
Near the end of our visit at Old Tucson, we went through a little horror ride called the "Iron Door Mine Adventure." It was almost scary at certain parts, but I was laughing quite a lot the entire way through, it was funny! The ending was really neat, there was a bridge with a special illusion of lighting on the wall around it that made it look like the bridge really was spinning around like a vortex as we walked by it, it was quite neat. We even ended up going through it again, but the second time was a breeze for me and we all went through it much quicker that time. Also near the end we saw a little Western show put out for us with actors and it was really quite funny and definitely amusing. People kept getting shot, and didn't die very easily though!
One of the strange things popping out on us during the horror ride
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We ate dinner after the visit to Old Tucson, and that was also fun talking to the members at our long table, this time there was probably far more horseplay than SMF discussion, a lot of us just had a lot of fun there and continued to get to know each other better. When we returned back to our hotel, I had a pretty nice discussion with BlackMage about various concerns both of us had. As I got to my room at long last, I started working much more on blogging the experiences I have had thus far. Around that time I started thinking about the team members that came on the trip and felt overall that I really rather liked them all. Everyone of them seemed rather nice and respectful. And in the end, not all of them were quite as geeky as one may expect (that does not mean some of them were a tad bit geeky to say the least ;)).
I went to bed a tired man, yet was able to reflect in my head some of the experiences that I had had so far, even if my drowsy head could hardly think coherently.
Glad to hear you are having a great time man. I can't wait to read about what you did on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. I hope you didn't get into TOO much trouble ;) !
Everyone in ITHACA says "Hi" to you! :)
what the?
Bugeyes are you on some form of medication?
Or is just all getting posted under your username?
Didn't you read Karlbenson that each member has its stunt-double?
--- Quote from: Orstio ---Yeah, I think it's the SMF stunt-double team. :P
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Obviously those 'doubles' do more than posing for photos...
Great blog Akabugeyes! Enjoyed reading it...
Yeah, that wasn't me. :P
Someone posted as my username...damn pranksters...
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A Special Birthday Present
Myself and two associates, Bob and Debbie, made a trip to Chicago from Ohio to make a presentation to one of our major accounts. The presentation went well and was completed in a timely manner. Bob suggested that we leave right away to airport to catch the earlier flight home, but I insisted that we take our time and go to a special restaurant that I had picked out since it was Debbie's birthday. Bob thougt it over and decided that it was a good idea.
We went to the restaurant and had a great dinner. Neither of them had been to this establishment and they were very impressed with the quantity and quality of the food.
Now a cab ride ride to the airport, the security procedure and a walk to the Red Carpet Room to check in for our flight home.
I had just hung up the phone with my wife when Debbie came over to me a told me to look at the TV over the bar.She looked troubled. I walked over to the bar and looked up at the screen and saw a lot of flames and smoke. I asked the bar tender what was going on and he told me that the flight that had left earlier for Ohio had just crashed in a field in Pennsylvania and there were no survivors.
Yes, that was the flight that the three of us would have been on if we hadn't taken the time to celebrate Debby's birthday.
When we arrived at the airport in Ohio the three women from the traffic department were there to great us with tears in their eyes because they did not know if we had taken the earlier flight.
Sometimes it's better to take a breath and slow down. It could save your life!


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Cover Shot! is a regular feature here at the Café. I love discovering new covers, and when I find them, I like to share. More than anything else, I am consumed with the mystery that each new discovery represents. There is an allure to a beautiful cover. Will the story contained under the pages live up to promise of the gorgeous cover art?
Amanda Bonilla's next installment of her Shaede Assassin series hits stores March 2013. All of the covers rock! I love the splash of green on Crave the Darkness.
In stores March 2013
Nothing comes easy for Darian. Her heightened powers make her indispensable to the Shaede Nation, but dangerous missions have driven her lover, Tyler, to his breaking point. Darian must salvage their bond, but a new assignment to protect Anya—a fellow Shaede and the first of their kind to become pregnant in centuries—stands in their way.
It doesn't help that the two Shaedes are longtime rivals and share nothing besides mutual hatred. But when it becomes clear that someone—or something—is bent on destroying the expectant mother and her unborn child, Darian must put her feelings aside and track down Anya's would-be assassin.
As she probes into Anya's past, Darian digs up long-buried secrets—and a connection between Tyler and the mission that could destroy everything between them…


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The decision, by a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, was a sharp rebuke for the F.C.C. and for the Bush administration. For the four television networks that filed the lawsuit — Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC — it was a major victory in a legal and cultural battle that they are waging with the commission and its supporters.It all started with Bono:
Under President Bush, the F.C.C. has expanded its indecency rules, taking a much harder line on obscenities uttered on broadcast television and radio. While the judges sent the case back to the commission to rewrite its indecency policy, it said that it was "doubtful" that the agency would be able to "adequately respond to the constitutional and statutory challenges raised by the networks."
Beginning with the F.C.C.'s indecency finding in a case against NBC for a vulgarity uttered by the U2 singer Bono during the Golden Globes awards ceremony in 2003, President Bush's Republican and Democratic appointees to the commission have imposed a tougher policy by punishing any station that broadcast a fleeting expletive....Yeah, stick it to Bush and Cheney.
Reversing decades of a more lenient policy, the commission had found that the mere utterance of certain words implied that sexual or excretory acts were carried out and therefore violated the indecency rules.
But the judges said vulgar words are just as often used out of frustration or excitement, and not to convey any broader obscene meaning. "In recent times even the top leaders of our government have used variants of these expletives in a manner that no reasonable person would believe referenced sexual or excretory organs or activities."
Adopting an argument made by lawyers for NBC, the judges then cited examples in which Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney had used the same language that would be penalized under the policy. Mr. Bush was caught on videotape last July using a common vulgarity that the commission finds objectionable in a conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain. Three years ago, Mr. Cheney was widely reported to have muttered an angry obscene version of "get lost" to Senator Patrick Leahy on the floor of the United States Senate.
I love the way the NYT seems enthused about this new liberation in media but still can't print "Go f*ck yourself." (Me neither, but I'm only using the asterisk out of fear of what filters might do to me.)
"We find that the F.C.C.'s new policy regarding 'fleeting expletives' fails to provide a reasoned analysis justifying its departure from the agency's established practice," said the panel.So this is not a First Amendment decision, though the majority does say "We question whether the F.C.C.'s indecency test can survive First Amendment scrutiny." The court is finding fault with the process of developing the new policy. In dissent, Judge Pierre Leval stressed the "the deference courts must give to the reasoning of a duly authorized administrative agency": "The commission's position is not irrational; it is not arbitrary and capricious."
The case involved findings that the networks had violated the indecency rules for comments by Cher and Nicole Richie on the Billboard Music Awards, the use of expletives by the character Andy Sipowicz on "NYPD Blue" and a comment on "The Early Show" by a contestant from CBS's reality show "Survivor."So Bono opened the door and now every nitwit celebrity and reality show half-celebrity will be saying "f*ck" on the slightest provocation. The networks say it's up to you to decide what shows to watch, so... good luck figuring out what to let your kids watch.


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I was running Ubuntu 11.10 without any problems and I decided to upgrade over the internet to 12.04. All appeared to go well and I eventually got my desktop back with the latest version installed.
I then did a reboot.
The standard window appeared asking for my password; entered password, the screen went black briefly with a few lines of white text then password screen reappeared.
If I use 'ctrl+alt+F1' I can log in to text mode ok.
I have done the following without success: changed my password, just in case: changed display manager to gdm; removed /.Xauthority: removed X0-lock file: updated nVidia drivers: added repository 'ppa.launchpad.net/mterry/ppa2/ubuntu and done update: 'startx' gives 'fatal server error, server already active for display 0 .... invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE -1, key invalid.
My system is : Athlon 64 (x2) 4200 with 2GB RAM,a Radeon X1800XT video card and 100GB hard disk.
I have spent a lot of time getting my desktop the way I like it and I would like to get it back!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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A natural-gas pipeline -- who would want it in his backyard? Not me, that's for sure. But a better question is: Should a new pipeline be put in anyone's backyard?
For years, we have all heard the debate over "global warming" or "climate change." Now most scientists agree that it is real and that we are already feeling its effects. The question is now what to do and when. Lots of people will say that switching over to renewable energy sources and more efficient technologies is too expensive and will cause the loss of many jobs. There is some truth to that statement, but the cost of not stopping climate change will be far worse for the economy and jobs.
What will be the cost to protect cities and towns along the coast from rising ocean levels and stronger coastal storms pushing ever higher storm surges? What will Cape Cod look like with a higher sea level and powerful storms? Will there be any homes left on Plum Island?
So how does it make any sense to spend large sums of money to build a new large natural-gas pipeline? Natural gas is not a clean fuel, not when it is burned, not when it is extracted from the ground, and not when it is transported with all of the small leaks of methane. It is past time for us as a town, a state, a country and a world to stop spending money on ways to increase the amount of damage we do to the climate and start to spend that money and more on other options to meet our growing need for more energy.
We need to do this for our future, for our children's future, for their children's children's future.
Yes, there is a cost, but like most things, the longer we wait, the greater the cost. And if we are not very careful, the cost will be one that we and our children and grandchildren will not be able to pay.


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The inevitable happened and Carlos Beltran is now a member of the San Francisco Giants, where he has an opportunity to atone for taking strike three against Adam Wainwright in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS.
One thing for certain is he wasn't going to get it from the Mets, even had he stayed.
After two injury riddled seasons and the Mets' financial empire crumbling, we knew Beltran wouldn't finish out the year. Saddled with a contract that didn't allow compensatory draft picks, the Mets had to get something before he walked this winter.
General manager Sandy Alderson did as well as could be expected in getting one of the Giants' top pitching prospects in Zachary Wheeler. He did so because San Francisco has a young and loaded rotation. F0r the Giants to repeat, they need a bat and Beltran was the best on the market.
In theory, the trade could help the Giants win this year and the rebuilding Mets in the future.
Unquestionably, Beltran's agent, Scott Boras, played a persuasive role, as he made the impression to his client that with several salaries coming off the books next year, the Giants could have the resources to make an extension.
In dealing Beltran, the Mets gave up arguably the franchise's most complete position player, even over Darryl Strawberry, David Wright and Jose Reyes. Beltran has all the tools and the Mets were lucky to have him. Unfortunately, too many Mets' fans have a block on Beltran, and he hasn't received the appreciation warranted a multiple All-Star.


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The Goods: Lu betcha!by Derek Jory / Vancouver Canucks
Schroeder ensures V stands for victory
The Canucks rookie scored the shootout game-winner as the fourth Vancouver Canucks shooter in a 2-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks Friday night at Rogers Arena.
Schroeder didn't go for style points on his first career shootout attempt as he simply blasted the puck through Corey Crawford; Roberto Luongo, who had 27 saves on the night, finished with four stops in the shootout stopping Nick Leddy to earn the Canucks their fourth win of the season.
Alex Edler finished a gorgeous tic-tac-toe play 15:42 into the first period to open the scoring before Patrick Kane tied things up at 9:42 of the third.
This was the fourth time the Canucks have gone to a shootout in eight games, and it came with Vancouver wearing special 'V' patches to honour the Vancouver Millionaires.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A well-respected national education magazine has ranked Kentucky 10th in education performance.
Education Week magazine announced the ranking Thursday in releasing its 2013 Quality Counts survey. Gov. Steve Beshear praised the higher ranking in a news release.
Last year, Kentucky was 14th on the list, and the year before, it came in 34th.
The highest-ranking state was Maryland.
Overall, the state received a B-minus grade from the magazine. It received high marks in categories such as assessment and accountability, but lower grades in achievement, school finance and chance for success.
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Back-to-back losses haven't put the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in panic mode yet, but it's starting to get hot around the collar.
Just one game off the final playoff spot in the NFC with a 6-6 record, the Buccaneers have a good shot at returning to the win column when they host the fading Philadelphia Eagles Sunday afternoon at Raymond James Stadium.
The Buccaneers won four in a row from Oct. 25-Nov. 18 and suffered a second straight close defeat last weekend in a 31-23 setback at Denver. Bucs quarterback Josh Freeman had a 72.8 quarterback rating against the Broncos and threw a pair of TD passes with an interception returned for a score. Freeman said he tried to fit a pass in a tight window to Vincent Jackson, but Broncos linebacker Von Miller stepped in front and rumbled toward the end zone.
Freeman noticed Denver dropped deep in pass coverage and that played a role in the team's execution.
"We found a way to beat ourselves, Freeman said. "Bottom line is we have to execute better. We have a lot of football left to be played. We're just focused on the next game. Focused on getting ready for the Eagles."
Freeman said the players were anxious to get back home, study film and put their best foot forward in preparing for Philadelphia. The Eagles are out of the playoff picture, but could pose problems for Tampa Bay, which has played some tough foes over the past few weeks. Denver was able to contain rookie sensation Doug Martin, who has rushed for 106 yards in the past two games and was held to 56 yards on 18 carries in Denver.
Martin and Redskins rookie Alfred Morris are both tied for third in the NFL with 1,106 rushing yards. Tampa Bay needs Martin to revert back to Weeks 8-11, when he averaged 148 yards per game with five touchdowns.
Tampa Bay has thrived this season with Martin and averages 117.5 rushing yards. Martin leads all rookies in rushing and is averaging 92.2 ypg. He'll have a chance to bounce back against an Eagles defense that is 18th in run defense, yielding 117.9 ypg. Martin was asked this week to evaluate his performance the past two games.
"I feel like I have been doing good. My body feels great, my mind is clear," Martin said.
The Buccaneers, who close the season with games against the NFC and are 3-5 against the conference, may have an added advantage with the celebration of their 2002 Super Bowl XXXVII title set for this weekend. They defeated the Eagles in the NFC Championship Game that year, closing out the final game at Veterans Stadium.
Philadelphia's season has imploded much like its old stomping grounds at the Vet and looks to halt an eight-game losing streak, the longest under coach Andy Reid and worst slide since an 0-11 start in 1968.
The Eagles haven't won since defeating the rival New York Giants back on Sept. 30, but have been competitive in each of their last two losses. In last Sunday night's 38-33 loss at Dallas, Eagles rookie quarterback Nick Foles made his third career start and threw for 251 yards and a touchdown. Foles was then named the starter the remainder of the season as Michael Vick continues to recover from a concussion suffered on Nov. 11 versus the Cowboys at home.
"We need to score more points and put more points on the board, and that's on us and me as the quarterback," Foles said this week. "I felt like we ran the offense well, and we just have to keep getting better and we can put more points on the board and win the game."
Foles has given the Eagles some life offensively and rookie running back Bryce Brown appears to be a steal in the seventh round. As LeSean McCoy rests with concussion-like symptoms, Brown has rushed for 347 yards and four touchdowns in his last two starts. Brown, though, had two costly fumbles in a loss to Carolina and coughed up the ball again last week against Dallas. The fumble was scooped up by Dallas rookie Morris Claiborne and returned for a TD.
Brown and the Eagles have been working on protecting the football.
"We're doing a lot of stuff at practice, scout guys are going after it a lot more, trying to game-simulate it because we don't really do contact (in practice)," Brown said. "It's making me work a lot harder, too.
"They almost got two (fumbles today), but we're over-emphasizing high and tight, keeping it real tucked. They didn't get me."
Philadelphia is ninth in the league with 133.6 rushing yards per game and faces the NFL's stingiest run defense in Tampa Bay. The Bucs have suffocated opposing running attacks this season, allowing a league-low 82.3 rushing yards per game.
The Eagles own an 8-7 record all-time against Tampa Bay, which includes a 33-14 win in the last meeting on October 11, 2009 at Lincoln Financial Field. Philadelphia is 2-3 on the road in this series. The two teams have split four matchups in the playoffs.
The Eagles have made some moves in the defensive department, most notably firing coordinator Juan Castillo and naming defensive backs coach Todd Bowles as his replacement. Defensive end Jason Babin was let go a few weeks ago and defensive line coach Jim Washburn received his walking papers this week.
Former d-line coach Tommy Brasher was coaxed out of retirement to take his old job back and doesn't get much time to prepare for Freeman and Tampa Bay's two talented receivers in Jackson and Mike Williams.
"We kind of knew something was going to happen after the season we've been having," Eagles end Brandon Graham said. "It's part of the business. It sucks that (Washburn) had to leave but I know Coach (Andy) Reid is going to put us in the right position to help us win. If that's what he felt he needed to do, I'm all for it."
Graham is one of a few young lineman being evaluated and played well in last week's loss to Dallas. Rookie end Vinny Curry and defensive tackles Fletcher Cox and Cedric Thornton are also under the microscope for an Eagles defense that is 26th in points allowed (26.7 ppg) and 17th in yards allowed (351.5 ypg). The Eagles should see a lot of Martin on Sunday. Martin's emergence has made Tampa Bay's pass attack that much better.
The Eagles' secondary has struggled in almost every game. Safety Kurt Coleman hasn't done much to hush the critics and may even miss Sunday's game with a sternum contusion. Special teams ace Colt Anderson has been working with the first team and will be in for a long day if not prepared.
"It's going to be huge," Anderson told the team's website. "Any time you can get practice reps you're going to feel more comfortable out there.
"We have to approach this week no different than others. We're just trying to win the game and we're going to kind of show everybody what kind of team we are."
The Bucs, though, have had their struggles in pass defense and are the worst team in the league in that category, allowing 309.4 ypg. Rookie safety Mark Barron and veteran Ronde Barber won't have to worry about injured Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson (ribs), but Jeremy Maclin can cause problems.
Maclin leads the Eagles with four TD receptions this season and is third with 44 receptions behind tight end Brent Celek (50) and Jackson (45). Celek can give opposing linebackers headaches in coverage and is arguably the heart and soul of the offense. Buccaneers rookie linebacker Lavonte David leads the team in stops (108) and Barber has a team-best four INTs. The Bucs are facing a rookie in Foles and could work the lanky signal caller into some mistakes.
But Tampa Bay will win the game with offense. Freeman won't have to worry about dodging tacklers because the Eagles are one of the worst teams in sacks. Freeman has been sacked just 17 times in 2012 and once in five of the past six games played. He went down twice versus Atlanta in Week 12. Freeman has 18 touchdown passes to four interceptions in his last eight games. In the previous four home games, Freeman has passed for 1,214 yards with eight TD passes, one interception and a 114.9 rating.
If all goes wrong for Freeman, at least he has Martin to turn to. Martin is second in the NFL with 1,480 yards from scrimmage. Martin has an NFC-best nine rushing scores in his first year out of Boise State and his presence has opened the passing offense.
"Our offense is pretty well-balanced. Mike Williams and Vincent Jackson are able to open the run game as well as the run game opening up the pass game," Martin said. "So it's nice to have that balance as an offense."
Martin added that he believes the Eagles have a strong front line, but isn't worried about the drama going on with their defense.
Freeman should have no issues going against Philadelphia's disappointing defensive backfield that seems to find a way to break down every week. The Eagles' defense has allowed 16 touchdowns with no turnovers the last six weeks and opposing quarterbacks have an average rating of 142.4 over that time. Tampa Bay is 11-3 when Freeman reaches 100 in QB rating and will chock up another win Sunday. Having Martin in the backfield and facing an Eagles defense in disarray will help the Bucs' postseason chances substantially.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Buccaneers 29, Eagles 17


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Elizabeth Weisman opened the scoring at 9:19 (Gil Talbot).
HAMDEN, Conn. – Elizabeth Weisman, Lauren Varela and Emily Mosbacher each scored goals, while goalkeepers Bethany Kanten and Cheta Emba combined for the shutout, leading the Harvard women's soccer team to a 3-0 win at Quinnipiac Wednesday afternoon.
With the win, Harvard improves its record to 3-1-1, marking the best start for Harvard to a season since beginning 4-1 overall in 2001. The loss drops Quinnipiac to 4-1-1 this fall.
Kanten made one save in net for Harvard in the first half, while Emba did not face a shot on goal in the second half by Quinnipiac. Jillian Kelly finished with five saves for the Bobcats. The Crimson controlled the final count in shots, 13-2, and corner kicks, 8-3.
Harvard controlled play early, mustering four of the first five shots, before grabbing a 1-0 lead on a tally by Weisman. Alika Keene earned an assist on the play, setting up the goal by Weisman at the 9:19 mark. In the 35th minute, Weisman nearly went up by two goals, but Weisman's chance at 34:46 hit the post.
The Crimson outshot the Bobcats, 8-2, in the first half, forcing Kelly to make four stops. Harvard also earned four of the six corner kicks in the opening stanza.
In the second, Harvard had two early corner kicks, the latter resulting in a shot on goal by Aisha Price, but Kelly turned aside the chance by the Crimson at 55:00. In the 66th minute, Harvard doubled its advantage to 2-0 with a tally off the foot of Varela, who found the back of the net at 65:32.
The Crimson capped the scoring when Catherine Coppinger made a pass to Emily Mosbacher, who capitalized for a goal at 86:17, making it a 3-0 contest.
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Sorg to mount write-in candidacy for district justice
ST. MARYS – Robert "Bert" Sorg has announced that he will mount a write-in campaign for Magisterial District Justice 59-3-03 for the Nov. 8 General Election. "We're going to mount a good campaign. We're going to try it," Sorg said. In the May 17 Primary Election, Sorg, a Republican, cross-filed on the ballots and came in third on the Democratic ballot, behind Stephen P. Skrzypek and Mark Jacob; and third on the Republican ballot, behind Jacob and Skrzypek. Skrzypek later withdrew his candidacy and the Elk County Democratic Party, faced with three possible actions, named Jacob as the Democratic nominee on the fall ballot because he came in second on the Democratic ballot and because he is a registered Democrat who was on the primary ballot. Their other choices would have been to name a substitute candidate for Skrzypek from a pool of people who were not on the primary ballot or name no one. The party made the decision at an executive committee meeting following Skrzypek's withdrawal from the race. Sorg said he is appealing to Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike who may feel that their choices have been limited by the county Democratic Party's decision. Pick up a copy of the Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011 edition of The Ridgway Record for more.


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It did the trick because we won the game.
If we had lost, it would be a different story.
When it came down to it
-we didn't get any turnovers
-the Ravens drove down the field to tie the game
While we looked better, i wouldn't be crowning us a dominant defense just yet


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5 Things I've learned in unemployment
List blogs are hot, and, unfortunately, so is unemployment. I figured it was about time to sit down and write up my "what I did on my summer vacation" (we went to the Vineyard, I met a sea captain, I milked an Alpaca!), but instead break it down into digestible hits.
1.) The news is damn depressing
Funny how stories about unemployment figures, the jobless rate and the stagnant pace of growth in the economy are background noise (albeit sad background noise, like a Sarah McLaughlin album) when you have a job. Now that I'm a free agent (my preferred term thank you), all that news seems to do is sucker punch you. That's the best case scenario, worst case is it depresses the hell out of you, making the job hunt that much harder. As a reader of news I know you can't easily stop those stories no more than you can stop the causes behind them, but still, NYT, could you take it easy on the fun-loving headlines using phrases like "jobless have only desperation?"
2.) You've got a lot of time with your thoughts
And depending on how much you like yourself, that could be a good thing…or not. Over a long enough period of time your brain can turn into that annoying roommate who never gets off the couch and leaves a thimble-full of milk left in the fridge. When your days consist of looking for work, evaluating (and re-evaluating) your worth and making a case for your potential, that's just opening the gates to some self-debasement. At the same time, you've got ample opportunities for your mind to wander and discover that repressed ADD inside you. This is problematic only because when you should be looking for a gig you end up losing hours contemplating things like "whatever happened to that Mustang Steve McQueen drove in Bullitt." (Answer: It is believed to be hiding in a barn somewhere in the Ohio River Valley.)
3.) Finding that "book in you" is a lot harder than you think


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We couldn't observe St. Monica's day (August 27) and then forget her son Augustine's day (August 28).
St. Augustine is one of the most influential persons in the history of Christendom. His influence on theology and church life is great. You'll find a thumb-nail sketch of his life here.
(The image on the left is the work of John Nava in an installation at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. Click on the image on the left for a larger version. Augustine is the middle figure of these five, from left to right: Jurgis Matulaitis, Bernard, Augustine, John the Baptist, Maria Venegas.)
Augustine is my patron saint. (The Gaelic for Augustine is Aibhistín {awv-ish-teen} which comes into English as Austin.) I remember that when I was a child my father (also named Austin, after his uncle in Ireland) would sometimes call me Aibhistín.
My patron's work on original sin played no small part in rewriting the baptismal practice of our Church. A prayer of his, written just after his own baptism, is a favorite of mine and one I return to often - and always when on retreat. Perhaps you will make these words part of your prayer as we celebrate St. Augustine.
Too late, have I loved you,
O Beauty ever ancient, ever new,
too late have I loved you!
You were with me, and I was not with you;
I was away,
running after beautiful things which you created;
things which could have no existence except for you,
and yet they kept me from you.
Then you called, you cried out,
and you pierced my deafness.
You enlightened, you shone forth,
and now my blindness has vanished.
I have tasted you;
now I hunger and thirst for you.
You breathed your fragrance upon me;
I drew in breath and now I long for you.
You have touched me, and I am on fire
with the desire of your embrace.
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For the winner of a beauty pageant — and someone who is beautiful by most, if not all, standards — Kirsten Haglund is pretty down on beauty. She won the Miss America crown in 2008, but in a great Q&A on Forbes.com, Kirsten encourages women to "banish the beauty ideal."
This blog has meant a lot to me in the few brief months it has been in existence. I expected to be inspired and to meet dozens of amazing women. But I didn't expect to have so many of my preconceived notions completely discounted in such a short period of time. I didn't think of myself as a terribly judgmental person, but when many of the Miss America hopefuls parading around Atlantic City last month were found to have backgrounds in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, I was pleasantly surprised. And when I warmed to a 32-year-old porn star at an adult industry convention earlier this month, I was stunned.
Please try not to judge me too harshly. At least I'm learning.
Kirsten, who recently graduated from Emory University, doesn't seem to have any obvious connections to New Jersey, but I think her thoughts on the beauty industry are important for any woman to read.
Kirsten suffered from anorexia for six years, from the age of 12 to 18, and says that it ruined her chances of pursuing her first dream and becoming a professional ballet dancer.
"When women get trapped in the cycle of body hatred, all sorts of distortions occur in both behavior and thought patterns that lead to the disintegration of physical health, destroy relationships and leave a woman fractured and broken," Kirsten says.
"The diet and beauty industries share responsibility for these issues by perpetuating one very Western form of beauty/body type as acceptable and ideal," she continues. "They make billions of dollars making women feel inadequate and fat so that they'll buy their products as the solution to their insecurities. Women need to be empowered to ignore that message and accept their bodies and their own unique beauty. When they do, they can embrace their other skills and abilities, develop innate confidence and set an example to the next generation of young women: that being a 'woman' in the West isn't defined by hating your body and always being on a diet."
Kirsten asks parents to be aware of how they talk about their bodies and their health in front of their kids so that bad habits and body images aren't perpetuated. And she tells female students to start a revolution among their friends, bringing an end to "fat talk."
"Each of us has been given a struggle or a challenge for a reason," she says. "It is not simply for our own growth — in the way that we have been healed, we can help heal others."
Kudos to writer Denise Restauri, founder and CEO of GirlQuake, for the original post on Forbes.
And for more information about Kirsten's work with eating disorders, visit the website of her foundation, the Kirsten Haglund Foundation.


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An Israeli View of Female Palestinian Terrorists
Young Palestinian women in an Israeli prison. They pray to Allah and wear tightly tied headscarves, but they pose for a group photo and emphasize their femininity. You feel compassion for them when they talk wistfully about their children, whom they can only see through the bars.
When the 30-year-old Kahira is finally allowed to hug her four children in one scene, tears well up in the viewer's eyes – although he knows that this mother is a murderer.
The Israeli director Natalie Assouline portrays female Palestinian terrorists in her film debut. Nevertheless, she always allows the audience to feel the tension between sympathy and condemnation. The impressive documentary film is titled Shahida – "martyrs for Allah" in Arabic – and these prisoners do see themselves as martyrs. That is part of their self-deception.
A mother with a heart – and a bomb
Eight female Palestinians have taken part in suicide campaigns during recent years, killing 42 Israelis and injuring 386. One hundred twenty Palestinian women were arrested for their involvement in terrorist attacks. Since 2002, more and more Palestinian women have assumed the traditional role of men as living bombs.
Terrorist organizations know that women are less rigorously checked at the border. As a result, the pregnant Manal was able to help plant a bomb in an Israeli elementary school. That is also how Kahira managed to drive a Palestinian into the center of Jerusalem, where he blew himself up, taking three Israelis with him.
Yet the woman with the beautiful eyes and full lips is angry that an Israeli newspaper described her as a terrorist and, what is more, published a bad photo of her. "I'm humane, I have a heart, I have feelings; after all, I'm a mother," she emphasizes.
A bomb for the hospital
Particularly shocking is the story of Waffa, a resident of the Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. On her 19th birthday, she was baking a cake when a bottle of gas exploded. She was taken to Israel's Soroka Hospital with severe burns. According to her own account, she was treated very well by the doctors there for six months.
Then why did she return and try to blow herself up in this hospital, of all places, Assouline asks. The 22-year-old Waffa smiles self-consciously, looks around in silence, then speaks. Her statements are the exact opposite of what she said earlier.
"I already told you, the doctors weren't nice to me and treated me badly. But that wasn't the only reason. Actually I already dreamed of becoming a suicide bomber when I was still a young girl. Why? To be worthy of God's mercy, and also because of the 'Shahada' – martyrdom."
Although these Palestinian women dream of the destruction of Israel, they gladly tell their stories to the Jewish-Israeli filmmaker, who interviewed them for two years. Only in passing does the viewer learn that they try to use the film as a vehicle for their political and ideological ideas. The camera films a conversation in the prison yard between Manal and the leader of the strict Muslim prisoners' group.
"What did you tell her?" asks the woman. "Not everything, just the usual interview stuff," Manal assures her.
Inner-Palestinian Conflict
The two Palestinian groups – the strict Muslims of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the secular Fatah – were separated from each other after it came to brutal violence between them. Unfortunately, the viewer does not learn about that. It does become obvious, however, how much these women are oppressed within Palestinian society.
One prisoner, Ranya, puts it bluntly; because she was repeatedly beaten at home, after her release she voluntarily returned to prison. Since Ranya does not want to join either of the two Palestinian groups, she has to be protected – by Israeli prison guards.
What drove these women to their assassination campaigns? "They have personal motives which are gradually becoming politically tinged," says Ranya during the interview.
Dialogue in everyday life?
"Such a woman is like a person who lies to himself for so long that he begins to believe his own lies. In time I understood that what they said in front of the camera is not what I have learned about them in the meantime. For example, I could never quite understand Kahira. An extremely beautiful, feminine women, with whom I developed a good relationship."
"I see that she cannot live without her children," Ranya goes on to say. "I understand that she is living under Israeli occupation and wants a Palestinian state. But what a price she is paying for it! When I ask her about it, she says she only did it for her children. I have never fully believed that, however."
Director Natalie Assouline is convinced that peace can only be achieved if Israelis and Palestinians really get to know the culture of the other side and respect each other as human beings. "Most of the prisoners told me that the only Israelis they had met before me were soldiers."
She doubts, however, that the almost friendly dialogue she was able to carry on with the Palestinian women in the prison can also be possible in everyday life.
Igal Avidan
© Qantara.de 2008
Translated from the German by Phyllis Anderson
The Women of Hamas
"Islam Protects Us"
The burgeoning fundamentalist religious forces have not only radicalized the conflict between Israel and Palestine. A new generation of Palestinian women is also increasingly looking to the Islamists for salvation. Kai Adler reports
Interview with Juliano Mer Khamis
"Politically-Speaking, I Am Palestinian"
Juliano Mer Khamis is an Israeli actor and director. His father was a Palestinian, his mother a Jew. Igal Avidan spoke with him about political radicalism, the traumas of Palestinian youths, about his most recent film and his "Freedom Theatre" project
Assaf Gavron: "CrocAttack"
A Shrewd Insight into the Tragedy of Terrorism
In his third novel, "CrocAttack", Israeli author Assaf Gavron tells the parallel stories of an Israeli who survives three suicide attacks in a short space of time and a radical Palestinian. Volker Kaminski read the book and considers it a breathtaking montage
Interview with Eytan Fox
Falling in Love with the Enemy
"The Bubble" is the story of three young Israelis in Tel Aviv, and a tragic love affair between one of them and a Palestinian. This Israeli film won the Panorama Award from the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas. Igal Avidan spoke with director Eytan Fox


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The drastic dip in the economy has left a lot of us car guys scratching our heads. Our budgets are stretched to the max, and luxuries that aren't vehicle-related are on hiatus until further notice. Still, it's possible to add parts and make power during these tough times, all the while staying within a strict budget. The truth of the matter is not all of us can afford a brand-new crate engine, nor can we dig up the pocket change towards forced induction. Heck, even a basic engine overhaul these days seems unimaginable.
The good news is that with a budget frame of mind, it doesn't take much to free those locked-up ponies from your muscle car. Take into consideration what an engine needs, namely air/fuel and spark. Any approach to improving these characteristics is bound to both increase power and create a much more efficiently running engine.
A perfect opportunity to illustrate these efforts came to us. We jumped at the chance to prove our theory on a street-driven '64 Chevelle that was recently purchased on eBay. The Chevelle was a clean sweep with glossy black paint, a new interior, and a solid-running, iron-headed 350 small-block with a factory-style HEI distributor, a Carter carburetor, and stamped-steel rockers. While Colin Hicks' gem survived the northern-Oregon-to-sunny-SoCal road trip without a single hiccup, he was still after a bit more performance out of the mill. Of course, everything had to meet within the constraints of his wallet, so we limited our performance enhancing to an ignition upgrade with an MSD 6AL and a Pro Billet distributor with new wires. We also took advantage of a set of Comp Ultra-Gold rockers and banked on the valve lift for increased air into the cylinders. We also replaced the archaic Carter carburetor with a fresh unit from Holley.
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Looks like the visit this weekend was a good one for Drake Harris.
Drake Harris may be visiting #Michigan again soon, per @SWiltfong247 ($): http://michigan.247sports.com/Article/Michigan-Has-Great-Impact-On-Drake...
Also, Coach Brown from The M Block tweeted this:
Wilton Speight tells me he and Drake Harris got very close during this weekend's visit. They actually talked about being roommates.


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"Well funded conservative groups should seek to hire activists to track Democratic incumbents and candidates with video cameras constantly recording their every movement, utterance, and action," the report urged.
The five-member study group's report outlined in stark terms what it wants:
"An allied group dedicated to research to establish a private archive and public website that does nothing but post inappropriate Democrat utterances and act as a clearinghouse for information on Democrats would serve as an effective vehicle for affecting the public issue debate."
Like Project Veritas, the conservative outfit that's sparked controversy as it trains what it calls "citizen journalists" to secretly videotape people in politics and government? Like the Democrat-friendly American Bridge, which has a sophisticated tracking operation that logged about 3,200 events during the last election cycle?
On Thursday, a group of Republican campaign veterans announced the formation of their new group, called America Rising.
"This organization will be a counter-weight to the Democratic equivalent, American Bridge," the new group said in a statement.
"We plan to start this enterprise because so many Republicans seem to agree there is a need on our side of the aisle for an entity that is focused solely on holding Democrats accountable for their actions and records using research, candidate tracking, rapid response and digital tools," added Matt Rhoades, Mitt Romney's campaign manager and a key organizer of the new group.
The party and candidates for federal office are prohibited from coordinating with outside groups leading up to elections.
But the idea of video tracking is growing in politics, aided by the spread of handheld cameras, the availability of the Internet to spread "gotcha" videos, and the hunger of people for what appears to be raw cinema verite.
It caught fire in 2006 after an Indian-American Democratic volunteer shooting video of Republican Sen. George Allen showed the senator referring to him as "macaca," which struck some as a racial slur. The video went viral, and Allen lost.
The video race was on.
Last year, a bartender recorded Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's remark at a fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans are "depending on government" and "believe that they are victims." The clip helped fuel the image of Romney as an out-of-touch rich guy.
The tracking process grew more sophisticated in the last election cycle, as American Bridge was created with the sole purpose of conducting opposition research, communications and tracking of Republicans.
"Democrats felt we couldn't match Republican groups dollar for dollar," explained Chris Harris, communications director for American Bridge. "Our groups had to be more creative, more efficient, and work together."
American Bridge hired 20 trackers, people ranging in age from their 20s to their 40s, who knew how to handle sophisticated camera equipment. They got about 2,000 hours of footage and were instructed to only record relevant events.
They claimed success stories, including catching Romney taking a hard line on illegal immigration, saying among others things that illegal immigrants were "looking for a free meal."
American Bridge raised about $17 million and spent about $15 million. It's already out tracking candidates who could be running in 2014 and 2016.


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I just added a bunch of wine to my cellar. I did most of it with the new interface. The old interface is just so much more efficient.
For the new one, why can't I just click on the vintage of the wine and be taken to the add screen, rather than select a vintage with a checkbox and then click for the next step?
And when I do add the wine, I have to scroll down to save, seems like that could be more efficiently placed higher so no scrolling is involved.
In the old version, with the efficiency of space on the screen it's just a lot quicker to enter stuff.
FWIW, I use an MBP 15" for everything.
"Wine, one sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise and taste."
- Milton
aphilla, check your email please.
Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone.
MyBlog @ www.wineismylife.net
After using the new version for a couple of days, i found that aesthetically it looks better with the side panel showing, but functionality is much better if the side panel is hidden. Makes it look and work closer to the older version. This message has been edited. Last edited by: Merengue,
"The hardest thing to attain ... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority" George Saintsbury
That makes absolutely no sense! You are actually drawing people to WS, or at a minimum you are keeping them here. Given their logic, all talk about sports should be driven to ESPN or some other sports website. That is insane, pisses me off, frankly.
So, just to annoy those WS boneheads, I'm wondering if you have considered moving the "quantity" column back where it is in the Classic version. It's useful to be able to scroll down and see how many bottles I have of each wine. On smartphones, etc. the screen size does not allow one to see each wine and quantity. So, if the quantity column were to the left of the wine name, it would be more convenient. Other than that, I'm one happy camper (although unhappy with WS's idiotic paranoia).
"But, if ye wish her grateful prayer,
Gie her a haggis!" -Robert Burns
Maybe they just hired Mark Squires..?
ITB - Insulting winemaker
haggis - you'll have to make that inquiry directly within CellarTracker's framework as Mark is not permitted to participate in CT related threads anymore.
You have always been a gentleman, Eric, and I trust you will respect their wishes.
Agree. Way uncool.
I really prefer the old classic version because of its simplicity AND you could get to everything from the one main page...all the links were right there and there was no clutter. I'll keep with the classic mode because it does everything I want it to and more.
I also prefer the classic version. Does anyone know how to only log in 2 bottles out of a pending 4 bottle purchase? Thanks
Personally, I don't use that "Pending delivery" feature anymore. I use a storage location called "Pending".
Austin Wino, and others, I really wish you would get in touch with me directly.
-Eric LeVine
It rhymes with wine...
Clearly I was wrong.
Seems like Eric is doing what WS asked him to do. What were you wrong about?
It appears that w+a missed THIS POST.....
I still don't get it.
Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone.
MyBlog @ www.wineismylife.net
I've been using the new site since early beta, and while at first I wasn't a fan (mainly due to the Grape Stories change) I've long since used it almost exclusively when accessing by computer. For mobile, I still use the classic, as it just seems to run cleaner. The last feature I used the classic for on a regular basis was label printing, but Eric has since resolved that and the new site's functionality for that is great.
So even though you can't respond here, Kudos on the new site Eric!
That's, RedLoverJim to you
I still can't get over the new font colour - it's too soft for my eyes to process and feel like I actually have to work to focus in on it.
Still can't stand the new site. Is there any way to have the classic mode as my default setting?
Bookmark the classic site?
"Wine, one sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise and taste."
- Milton
I've been trying to get the new site to work for me but I'm still digging the classic site. Its more simple looking but in my opinion way easier to read and navigate. I like no-frills
I've been doing the same, but will hop over to the classic site once in awhile. I don't find the new site to be awful, just that it takes an extra click or two to do certain things.
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After technical hassles too complicated and boring to describe, my conversation with Ann Althouse is up at BhTV. It got a little heated in the begining [sic] and I've been trying to figure out why Ann and I had such a problem talking to each other about Frank Meyer, state's rights etc. Ann's a nice and reasonable person, after all.I had a problem -- as I say in the diavlog -- with the continual discussion of abstract ideas that in real life were connected with racist policy as if the ideas could be examined without paying attention to where these ideas led the man who thought them up. We were sitting there essentially celebrating Frank S. Meyer for 9 hours. It wasn't that I thought I was morally superior -- though I did end up feeling like a big liberal -- it was that I found myself in a position where silence meant too much. To be frank, there were times when I it occurred to me that this might be the way highly intelligent white supremacists would present themselves in mixed company.
A little background: She and I both attended a Liberty Fund conference on Frank Meyer's legacy. Meyer was the author of the doctrine which became known as Fusionism (though Meyer didn't like that label). Meyer was obsessively libertarian in almost all realms, but he alo [sic] took the structure of the constitution very seriously, making him a staunch supporter of State's rights. This put him in the untenable situation of defending States' rights in the face of Jim Crow. He was right on the constitutional principle of state's rights, but he was wrong historically and morally about how that principle needed to be applied in reality. We set aside a whole panel session for this topic, though many of us — but not Ann — had already spent the night arguing about this stuff until 2:00 in the morning. Anyway, earlier last week, Ann ran a post on her site implying that attendees of the conference were a little scary because they "believed" too much. I called her post "odd." She apparently, and I think wrongly, took considerable offense. She later explained that she was really talking about the libertarians and their extreme dedication to ideological conviction. Proof of this, I learned while talking to her, was the lack of realism when talking about the States' rights stuff.
Anyway, you can learn more and see all the related links by going to BhTV. But what's been bothering me ever since our conversation is that Ann sees herself as specially positioned — both at the Liberty Fund and in conversations with me — to lecture others about race. I agree with her entirely about how conservatives need to be very careful when trying to sell federalism. But what bothers me is the assumption that conservatives need liberals to tell us about how to be racially "enlightened." It seems to me — and this is just my theory — that because a roomful of people who were not trying to persuade any audience or play to any constituency didn't perform the usual liberal rituals about how terrible Jim Crow was, Ann interpretated [sic] this as a lack of commitment. Morevoer, she thought the people in the room were woefully out of touch with racial reality and therefore need moral tutoring from a liberal who really understands these things.
The incessant abstraction felt wrong to me. Isn't it nice that they talked about the problem of race during the off hours? Excuse me for being asleep at 2 a.m.! We went for hours and hours in the sessions talking about virtue. That seemed quite weird and obtuse to me. The response we were being intellectual just doesn't cut it. Imagine a left-wing conference going 9 hours talking about Karl Marx's ideas and disqualifying discussion of the evils wrought in the name of communism. We talked about the evils in the middle of the night while you were sleeping. We know all that, now get back to the fine ideas.
Maybe at a similar conference full of liberals there would be much gnashing of teeth and teary-eyed condemnations about the legacy of Jim Crow. But, if that's the case, mightn't that be a sign of how liberals embrace liberalism to feel good about themselves and morally superior to others? There's a certain Sorkinesque aesthetic to liberalism, full of self-congratulation and righteous grandstanding, that assumes the world needs liberals to tell everyone else what's right and wrong.I said in an earlier post -- one that Jonah linked to and that we discussed in the diavlog -- that I don't know many nonliberals because I'm here in Madison, so this point about my perspective has been well-conceded, and not just at 2 a.m., but publicly and explicitly on this blog. I was in a strange milieu at that conference and observing it and my reaction to it was a big part of what I was doing in the 9 hours I spent at the table. I was scarcely asking for people to "dance a[n] 'I'm-not-racist' kabuki every time they make a point." Imagine the vast number of points that were made in a 9-hour conversation. At some point the failure to talk about it has got to mean something!
I'm not saying that Ann is one of those liberals, by the way. In fact, she gets a lot of grief from the left for not playing that game. But, I do think she doesn't know conservatives (or libertarians) very well, and so when we don't talk like liberals, or when we don't talk like conservatives at the University of Wisconsin, Madison — who're forced to dance a [sic] "I'm-not-racist" kabuki every time they make a point — she thinks we don't understand reality and that we really do need liberals to guide us to enlightenment.
But it's not just a matter of wanting people to acknowlege that race discrimination is bad. I (almost) always assumed that everyone would say: Of course, it is. We all know that. As I wrote in that earlier post, I see something wrong with the style of thinking that entails latching onto ideas as ideas. I have a problem with the fundamentalists and ideologues who don't keep track of how their ideas affect the real world and who don't maintain the empathy and the flexibility to adjust and correct their thinking in response to what they see. I kept trying to ask why people were finding the ideas of Frank S. Meyer so enthralling. One theory is that they actually like where the ideas would take a person, but no one wanted to talk about that. I'm willing to believe you don't want to go where he went. Another theory is, you just like the ideas as ideas, and if you concede that, you have the other problem, that you're an ideologue, and I find that dangerous.
Presumably, there's a third theory. Somehow, you like the ideas but not in any hardcore fundamentalist way, and you see a way to use them and benefit from them but still maintain your bearings and preserve or pursue what you, with good sense, understand to be good. Talk about that. Tell me how.
One last point I tried to get in our conversation, but couldn't.Watch some old Bloggingheads diavlogs with Jonah. He typically dominates. I knew that and wanted to make sure I wasn't dominated. He knows how to come back if he wants. I usually pull my punches, but, in this diavlog, I went ahead and took a few shots.
Conservatives were, broadly speaking and with more exceptions than the conventional narrative allows, on the wrong side of the civil rights movement. That goes for National Review, too, by the way.Yeah, the National Review pieces in the conference readings had Frank S. Meyer actively encouraging the state governors to take back the National Guard and fight off Dwight D. Eisenhower's nefarious plan to enforce Brown v. Board of Education. (Oh, but let's talk about Meyer's beautiful ideas.)
But the left has used this fact to put the mark of Cain on conservatives ever since. It's amazing to me how eager liberals are to say that intellectual history matters when it's inconvenient conservative intellectual history. But whenever you try to to turn the subject to liberal intellectual history, all you get back is eye-rolling. One small example: Recently, I wrote that liberals had a long love affair with Fidel Castro. This is simply factually true. And yet, I was deluged by liberal readers and lefty bloggers whining about how either that never really happened or that was old news. hardly applicable to liberals today. Well, liberal and leftwing fawning and excuse-making for Castro is far more recent than conservative support for Jim Crow, thank you very much.Well, this part isn't about me, obviously.
The Progressive movement, which we today call liberalism, stands on a foundation of eugenics and theocracy. But, if you bring that up, you mostly get ignorant stares from the same liberals eager to tell me — a guy named Goldberg from New York City — that I have to atone for what "my side" did in the 1960s. I don't mind coming to grips with my side's intellectual history, in fact I love that stuff. What offends me greatly is when liberals say conservatives are the only ones who should do it and, moreover, they should only do it when it suits liberal ends.I agree!
Anyway, there's other fun stuff up over there, from robot rights to kid's cartoons. Time for me to take Cosmo squirrel hunting.I agree that squirrel makes a fine holiday meal. And he's right that we move on to talk about robots and cartoons. We also talk about toys and sex. And Andrew Sullivan.
ADDED: Jonah writes: "[Frank S. Meyer] was right on the constitutional principle of state's rights, but he was wrong historically and morally about how that principle needed to be applied in reality." Look at that closely. If you really believe in the principle, what saves you from going where the principle leads? If it's all about how you apply the principle in reality, you've moved away from the hardcore ideology that I was critiquing. If you're going to take the lessons of history to heart, and you're going to keep your moral compass and check your course, then you're not one of the people I'm complaining about. You agree with me. I kept saying that to Jonah, and I think he heard me. My real problem was with the libertarians. The conservative traditionalists, the Burkeans, have a safeguard against the worst mistakes of the ideologues.
YET MORE: Stephen Bainbridge reads this post and says:
My guess is that hanging out in Madison and the national law school community has exposed Ann mainly to libertarians (can you say Eugene Volokh or Glenn Reynolds), as opposed to conservatives who learned first at Kirk's feet before folding in Novak, Hayek or Meyers as seasoning. The latter are concerned not so much with abstract ideas, as they are with achieving a proper balance between the Permanent Things and the need for salutary reform, tempered with a caution founded in the law of unintended consequences.Hmmm.... I can only assume Steve didn't read the part of this post where I say:
If you're going to take the lessons of history to heart, and you're going to keep your moral compass and check your course, then you're not one of the people I'm complaining about. You agree with me. I kept saying that to Jonah, and I think he heard me. My real problem was with the libertarians. The conservative traditionalists, the Burkeans, have a safeguard against the worst mistakes of the ideologues.And listen to the diavlog. I tell Jonah several times that I'm not really talking about him, I'm talking about the libertarians. Steve's big point is that I need to learn about Russell Kirk (who was, by the way, in our conference readings). I tie Jonah to Edmund Burke at least twice in the context of saying I'm not really talking about him. And Kirk ≈ Burke, right?


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