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PIPS Hope and Support - 9th Annual 10K Race and 5K Walk
Annual Remembrance collection in Camlough on Christmas Eve 2018 in honour of Stephen Farrell and his father John
Donal's Beard Shave raises £840.00 for PIPS Hope and Support
Jenny's Facebook Birthday for PIPS Hope and Support
Joan Murphy donates £100.00 to PIPS Hope and Support
Lyness Sisters raise funds in David Lyness's memory
Leon's Fundraiser in Memory of Roisin's 40th Birthday
Newcastle AC donation to PIPS Hope and Support
Tam Barneys Christmas collection for PIPS Hope and Support
EOS IT Solutions - Christmas Jumper Day for PIPS Hope and Support
Silverbridge Boxing Club - Movember in aid of PIPS Hope and Support
2nd Townland Challenge in memory of Gael Conor Quinn
Brian Ellison Birthday Fundraiser for PIPS Hope and Support & Women's Aid
KD Kars donates £3000.00 to PIPS Hope and Support
A Tribute to Kirsty Jess raises funds for PIPS Hope and Support
Newry Bowling Club
Kyle & Holly Galligan
PIPS Hope and Support - 8th Annual 10K Race and 5K Walk - 09th September 2018
PIPS Hope and Support have Sean Doran ABC in their corner!
Fitzpatrick Family & Friends support PIPS Hope and Support
First Derivatives supports PIPS Hope and Support
Academy Hair and Beauty Training School supports PIPS Hope and Support
Kilkeel Flag Day 2018
Rowallane and Slieve Croob Twinning Group
Cora Lenaghan - Darkness Into Light Fundraiser
Brian Murphy fundraises for PIPS Hope and Support
Mrs Rice - Wedding Donation
St. Malachy's Nursery School
The Quilt of Hope
HSBC STAFF IN BELFAST BRANCH Support PIPS Hope & Support
Clonduff Vintage and Classic Car Club
Killicomaine Jubilee Club
Newry Street Collection - Volunteers Required
Quiz & Karaoke Night, Riverside Lounge
GDC Group NI - Recycling
Stephen & John Farrell Family 5th Annual Street Collection
Abbey School Donation
Southern Trust New Partnership
Autoline Newry
Burren Community Forum
Newry Rugby Clubs Chosen Charities for 2018
St Joseph's High School Newry
CGDN Coffee Morning
Sorcha Callaghan Sky Dive Fundraiser
In honour of Denver (Joe) Carroll
Belleek Full Marathon Challenge, Ballina
Saval Gaelic4Mothers and Others Football team - Abba Night
Townland Challenge in Honour of Conor Quinn
In Honour Of Charles Montague
Newry City Runners Cheque Presentation
Banbridge Lions Club
Willie Maley Celtic Supportwers Club Newry
BMWR Cheque Presentation
Noel & Bernie Kearney 40th Wedding Anniversary
Newcastle Athletic Club
Barry & Damian Fox
West Armagh Community Festival Fundraiser
Cloughmore Male Voice Choir Presentation
Fire Cadets
Artana Young Farmers Club Presentation
Wheelers Sportive 2017
Easter Hamper
Strictly Fun Dancing
Saval, The Michael McCarthy Charity Tractor Run
Billy Jones 80th Birthday
Malin Head to Mizan Head
Annual Tree of Remembrance hosted by Newry Rotary
Farrell Family Annual Street Collection in Honour of Stephen & John Farrell
Beate Hahn German Christmas Carols 2016
X-Ray Dept Daisy hill
Dromalane Hop Reunion
High Street, Bessbrook Reunion
Quilly Orange Hall Donation
Newry Colour Run 2016
Conor McAvoy
Come Dine with Me - Davina McKeown
Up the Canal in a Bubble Millvale Mafia Team
Railway Bar Quiz Night
PIPS Newry & Mourne White Collar Boxing
Gerry & Ann McShane
King & Queen of the Mountain
Ye Old Ship Inn
Saval G4M&O's - ABBA Night
Coffee Morning
Remembering Colm
PIPS 2016 Golf Classic
Fiveways Supermarket Newry
Saval Gaelic4Mothers & Others
Buttercrane Charity 2015/2016
Euro 2016 Soccer Jersey Raffle
SRC Drama Group Armagh
Newry Youth Council 2016
Breffini Bridge Club
Memorial Charity Football Match in Honour of Kevin O Gorman
In Memory Of Sharon Sarsfield
Casey's EuroSpar Crossmaglen
Gareth O,Brien Grow it Challenge
Bull's Gym Christmas Day Workout
JN Hire
Dunnes Jumper Day
Rotary Remembrance Tree.
Fuel for Life
Courtneys Counter Collection
Gormans Bar Ladies Night
German Christmas Carols and Cake Sale
Self Harm Training
Christmas Raffle 2015
TrustCare Domicillary Care Donate to PIPS
Annual Christmas Street Collection in Honour of Stephen Farrell
Huhtamaki December Donation
Autoline donate £46,000 to Charities
Paul fundraises for PIPS Newry & Mourne
Jamie Fegan
Golf Classic 2015
Dreams Revival
Camlough Cycling Club
Cloverhill Golf Classic
In memory of Mum
Dearbhiele McNally
Micheal Donaghy
Specsavers Spin'a'thon
Sinead Gorman
Ink Cartridge Drive
Fleadh Rua
Marathon Woman
Rockfield Care Home Cheque Presentation
Mayors Charity Ball 2015
Joan Murphy
St Joesph's High School Crossmaglen
Mourne Lurcher Club
Party in the Pitch in Kilkeel
St John's Bosco G4M&O's Odd Sock Day
Cut Loose Ladies Hair Dressing Sunday
Easter Hamper Winners
''Guess how many eggs are in the jar competition''.
Nisa Rostrevor
St Malachy's Primary School Jersey Day
Spec Savers Chosen Charity 2015/16
Huhtamaki Lurgan Ltd
Retained firefighters from Newry fire station donate to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Cuan Mhuire train staff and volunteers in Applied Suiicde Intervention Skills Training ASIST
Newry Mayor donates to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Newry High School choose PIPS Newry & Mourne as this years worthy charity
A fantastic afternoon of German Carol singing
Christmas Hamper Winner 2014
Local Newry runner and PIPS N&M volunteer Kevin Gallagher completes 12 marathons in 12 days,
Breege McManus from BMM People Development, Newry
Stephen Farrell 2nd Annual Christmas Street Collection
Unilin Distribution
Tash Bash 1
Tash Bash 2014
Newry High School, 6th form students donate to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Yard Sale for Charity
Chris Sexton Memorial Darts Tournament
Kilbroney Vintage Car Show.
The Annual Haldane Fisher Charity âFluffyâ Football Tournament.
Masonic Lodge, Victoria Utility No 296 Tramps Ball raised £500 for PIPS Newry & Mourne
Fiveways Friends Skydive 2014.
12hr 5-Aside Football Match in Aid of PIPS Newry and Mourne and Midway Utd.
The Eon Group of Teleperformance Charity Football Match for PIPS Newry & Mourne.
Paws For Thought for PIPS Newry and Mourne.
Coffee and Cake Morning in Aid of PIPS Newry and Mourne and MacMillan.
Annual Skydive Challenge 2014.
Teleperformance's Dress Down Fridays in aid of PIPS Newry & Mourne.
Olaf Kerr completes To Hell and Back.
Wade Training Flag Day
Rathfriland Regeneration Group 10k 2014
Ciara McGreevy & Elizabeth McGivern raise £275 for PIPS Newry & Mourne by taking part in the Newry half Marathon 2014 and PIPS Blue Day.
Enniskillen 10K
The Peadar O'Doirnin Folk Society Forkhill Inaugural Fleadh Rua 14th June 2014
Mullaghbawn Ladies Complete the Flora Mini Marathon 2014
Mental Health First Aid Training 4 July 2014
St. Josephs Primary School, Ballymartin.
Nicola Osbourne Newry Marathon
Loughbrook Womans Group raise £500 for suicide prevention
Teresa Mooney Tandum Skydive
Cycle Against Suicide
Rathfriland Elim Church & Rathfriland Fire Fighters donate to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Slimming World Warrenpoint
Loughbrook Womens Group
Knights of St Columbanus Annual Dinner Dance
New Year's Day Swim in aid of PIPS Newry and Mourne.
Coffee Morning on behalf of PIPS Newry and Mourne
Meghan McArdle makes a kind donation to PIPS Newry and Mourne
Cheque of £4564.41 presented by Skydive in memory of Michael Rodgers
Cheque of £411.85 presented for 10k run
Skydive girls donate £3,634.81 to PIP's Newry and Mourne
BTEC Level 3 Hospitality Year 2
Joan Murphy,Mullaghbawn
Terry McParland presents Olivia McShane PIPS Newry and Mourne with a cheque for £330.00
ZEN Orthodontics Newry donate to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Christmas Tree donation.
Coffee Dock, Carnbane Business Park Christmas Hamper Raffle
Gavin Burns Skydive
Christopher Sexton Memorial Cup 2013
Ethna McAnarney
Camlough Brass and Reed Band hold a night of music, song and dance
Newry`s Santaâs Charity Fun Run
Haldane Fisher held a Family Fun Day in Memory of Andrew McQuisten
Roelle Hair & Beauty Boutique for raising
Joan Murphy fundraiser for PIPS Newry and Mourne..
Eamon McKeever ...Abseil at the Buttercrane
Firewalk at the Café Brass Newry
Jamie Fegan ..PIPS Newry and Mourne 10K Run
Lil' Miss Colour ..Dress up... Climbing Slieve Donard
Service Users Group ... Car Boot Sale..
Take Me Out ... Teleperformance Team Newry
Angela Cunningham and Rita Fegan ..PIPS 5k Walk
Killeavy INF Quiz Night
TI CHULAINN Family Fun Day 2013
Barry Convery ...South Armagh Warrior Champoin 2013
PIPS Charity Headshave and Waxing Night.
PIPS 10K Run/ 5K Walk 2013
Sarah's Blind Date
Mourne Extreme
Talitha Collins Fundraiser
Co Down Black Face Sheep Breeders Donation to PIPS Newry & Mourne Limited
Canal Court Pub Quiz
Stephen and Collys' Skydive Fundraiser
In Honour of Conor & Elis
Annual Memorial Charity Football Match in memory of Josephine Devlin
Newry City Half Marathon fundraiser for PIPS Newry & Mourne
Clonallon Bridge Club
Asda Downpatrick
O'Hanlons Bar Fundraiser
Life's Little Emergency Kits
'Dress Down Day' in Teleperformance
PIPS Newry & Mourne Gala Ball
Pilgrims Trail
IBOA The Finance Union
Sheepbridge Vintage Club
An Evening of Appreciation
St Patricks Reunion
B&Q Tree Donation
Hugh Doyle
Fegan Family
Carlingford Swim for PIPS Newry & Mourne
Slieve Gullion Wheelers Annual Presentation Night
Christopher Sexton Memorial Cup
Santander support The Meadow Lads donation to PIPS Newry & Mourne
The Saval Charity Tractor Run
Seamus McGuigan Retirement Party
An Riocht Minor Footballers, Kilkeel new Jerseys for suicide prevention
Tara Campbell from An Riocht GAA Club Kilkeel donates to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Newry Marathon Fund Raiser, Davy Doyle
90th Birthday Celebrations
Donation made in honour of The Meadow Lads, Newry
Christopher Burns & Pat Boyle families donate to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Vegas Casino Newry Pool league
Carmel Lundy Memorial Charity Football Match
Newry City Marathon 2012
Lisa Harte Fundraiser
The Jammin' Factory
Fundraiser by Joan Murphy in O'Hanlon's Bar
5 * star weekend break for PIPS Newry & Mourne families
Donation from Golf Links House In honour of Kevin Mackin
Gerard McCoy and friends fundraise for PIPS Newr & Mourne
Annual Memorial Challenge in Honour of Josephine Devlin
Derryvolgie Bridge Club , Donate £1000 to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Students in Southern Regional College, Banbridge put on an end of year show
Newry Fire Cadets donate to PIPS Newry & Mourne
Josephine Sands Birthday celebrations
£500 donation from Huhtamaki Lurgan
Patsy McAteer Birthday celebrations
Carrickcruppen Coffee Morning in aid of PIPS Newry and Mourne
Sacred Heart Grammar School Newry donate their Formal Proceeds to PIPS NEwry and Mourne
Buttercrane Community Bursary
Barcroft Reunion
Mad Hatters' Fundraiser
St Pauls High School, Bessbrook
Michael McManus Memorial Cup
Murdocks Builders Merchants & Newry Building Supplies
In Honour of Ross Kerrin
Local Lady Skydives for PIPS Newry & Mounre
Rock the Nite
Deli-lites Cake and Bake Sale
Derrybeg Reunion 24th Sept 2011
Michael McManus Memorial Cup
Sandilands BBQ Funday
Bereaved Families Meet with President Mary McAleese
PIPS Newry & Mourne 10K Run & 5K Walk
Haldane & Fisher Charity Football Match
Downpatrick Ulsterbus employees diet for PIPS Newry & Mourne
In Honour of Mark Cullen
Former Mayor Distributes Proceeds of Charity Ball
Damian McCullough (Head shave)
Banbridge remember their absent friends
Newry Marathon 2011
Josephine Devlin Memorial Cup
St Mark's Class of '86 Reunion
Kilkeel Youth Group Fundraise for PIPS Newry & Mourne
The Wax Factor in Lisburns Lagan Valley Leisureplex
Rose of Tralee choose PIPS Newry & Mourne
PIPS Newry & Mourne Golf Classic
Ryan and Paul Rooney, Christmas Day Swim
Rostrevor & District Vintage Club
St Peters Hurling Club Warrenpoint
PIPS N&M 2011 Nude Calendar Launch
Wid Geese Sky Dive 9th Oct 2010
Down GAA All Ireland Semi-finalists support PIPS Newry & Mourne
Sean Og Brady Fundraiser
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Sainsburys Nominated Charity 2009
Newry City Marathon
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World Suicide Prevention Day 2009
Newry Lord Mayors Charity Ball
SOSAD, Save our Sons & Daughters (Drogheda)
Hilltown 10K and Fun Run
Dreams Revival
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Daniel Radcliffe Talks Losing His Virginity, Marriage + Moreby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Former 'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe may forever be remembered by some as the young boy wizard. But the 25-year-old British actor is very much human and an adult now, and in an interview with Elle, Radcliffe opened up about some personal issues, including his "first time."
"I'm one of the few people who seem to have had a really good first time," he admitted when the interviewer asked about his first sexual experience. "It was with somebody I'd gotten to know well. I'm happy to say I've had a lot better sex since then, but it wasn't as horrendously embarrassing as a lot of other people's were—like my friend who got drunk and did it with a stranger under a bridge."
In 2010, Radcliffe admitted struggling with alcohol addiction and received treatment. Regarding mixing up sex and alcohol, Radcliffe said, "For some people sex might be better drunk, but for me—and the person I'm doing it with—it's much better sober."
Currently, Radcliffe is dating fellow actress Erin Drake, whom he met on the set of 'Kill Your Darlings.' On whether he ever sees himself getting married, Radcliffe confessed, "I sort of go back and forth on it. It seems like the most romantic thing you can do is stand up in front of all your friends and say that you love this person."
For more on Daniel's interview with ELLE, click here for the full article.

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Skyforce Builds Big Lead Coasts To Win Over Delaware
Sioux Falls swept a two game set from the expansion Delaware 87ers Saturday night with 3,250 onlookers at the Sanford Pentagon. Final verdict was 117-103, but the final margin is slightly deceptive.
A tight first quarter gave way to a 24 minute barrage that Delaware (3-20) was unable to overcome. Statistically the contrast is glaring.
Total FG: Sioux Falls 24-42 Delaware 16-42
3 Point FG: Sioux Falls 8-21 Delaware 2-9
Free Throws: Sioux Falls 13-16 Delaware 9-18
Also the farm team for Philadelphia committed 13 turnovers that led to 15 points for Sioux Falls (14-7) during that fateful stretch. With time remaining in the third quarter the lead reached 32 points.
A combination of an 87ers rally and a little coasting by the Skyforce (14-7) and the potential blowout turned interesting. With under 7 minutes left the lead was a manageable 13 points. Delaware got no closer and the win was secure.
Skyforce Head Coach Pat Delany was honest about his team's ability to grind. "We got the win. We just can't afford to take a step forward and then take two steps back. Our job is to keep getting better."
Six Skyforce players scored in twin figures Justin Hamilton (24 points, 8 rebounds), Tre Kelley (21 points, 7 assists), DeAndre Liggins (21 points, 7 rebounds), Anthony Mason, Jr. (15), Ryan Evans (12), and A.J. Davis (11). Meanwhile Keith "Tiny" Gallon had a monster game with 30 points and 17 rebounds for the visitors with Matt Bouldin backing up the big man with 19 points and 9 boards.
Delaware has one more road game at Erie on Monday before returning home. Sioux Falls will head west for three games starting Tuesday at Santa Cruz with Bakersfield and Los Angeles to follow.


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ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan army on Sunday condemned a prominent Islamic political leader who called the Pakistani Taliban chief killed by a U.S. drone strike a martyr.
Syed Munawar Hasan, the head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, told a Pakistani TV station earlier this month that he thought slain Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was a martyr. He later implied that Pakistani soldiers killed while fighting Islamic militants are not martyrs because they are allied with the U.S.
The army condemned Hasan's comments in a statement posted on its website as "irresponsible and misleading," demanding he apologize.
The Pakistani Taliban have killed thousands of civilians and security forces in their quest to overthrow the country's democratic government and impose a harsh version of Islamic law.
Many analysts have also criticized comments like those made by Hasan that glorify the Taliban, saying they confuse the Pakistani public about the country's true enemies.
The leader of another one of Pakistan's main Islamic political parties, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, said after the Nov. 1 drone strike that killed Mehsud that he would even call a dog a martyr if it was killed by the U.S. -- a particularly strong statement because dogs are widely disliked across the Muslim world. Rehman is the head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party.
Analysts also have criticized the response by civilian Pakistani officials to the drone strike that killed Mehsud. The officials condemned the U.S. for killing the Taliban chief and accused Washington of sabotaging peace talks with the militant group, without mentioning the scores of Pakistanis that Mehsud was responsible for killing.


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Jury finds teen guilty of capital murder
After deliberating almost four hours, jurors found 18-year-old Labyron Jaffar Warren guilty of capital murder Friday afternoon, Sept. 14.
With a week's worth of testimony from 20 witnesses and a small truckload of evidence to back them up, prosecutors say justice has been done.
Warren was convicted Friday for shooting and killing Lamar University nursing student Dang Minh Nguyen during a nighttime robbery at Van's Grocery in 2010. Nguyen was shot in the head at close range, according to testimony Wednesday, Sept. 12, by a forensic pathologist who showed jurors gruesome photos of the victim.
Tuesday, jurors were shown equally gruesome photos of the crime scene, full of sneaker footprints tracked through Nguyen's blood and scattered cash. Among the evidence key to the prosecution's case were bullet fragments pulled from the skull of Nguyen, which prosecutors attempted to link to Warren and a .38 special revolver.
Firearms expert Bradley Bruns told jurors Wednesday that, while he could not rule out the fragments as having come from the revolver the prosecution says killed Nguyen with Warren at the trigger, the expert could not prove the fragments came from the gun either.
A friend of Warren's who was with him in the moments after the robbery took the stand, testifying crack cocaine was common within their group. The man said he angrily warned Warren not to follow Shawn Nelson, Preston Addison and Melvin Lucien, who are also suspects charged in the robbery.
Nguyen's family was noticeably absent from the courtroom while Warren's family members were present and vocal.
Wrapping up Wednesday's testimony was Warren's 16-year-old brother. Prosecutors hoped to pit blood against blood after the brother spoke to investigators on videotape in 2010 — when the boy was 14 years old — and more recently Monday, Sept. 10. The boy denied the prosecutor's claims that Warren had told him he might be able to get away with the murder if police didn't pick up the trail soon, becoming visibly emotional as prosecutors grilled the boy and chastised him for looking at his brother, the defendant, while answering questions. Assistant District Attorney Pat Knauth said he was taken aback by the boy's reluctance to testify but wouldn't let that stop him from seeking justice.
"I was surprised and disappointed in him," he said in an interview with The Examiner.
Warren's defense attorney, Tom Burbank, said the prosecution's case was flimsy and putting a minor on the stand was a mistake. He said, "What does a 14-year-old do when you have six or seven police officers in a room … trying to interrogate you?"
Burbank's last-minute witnesses, two sisters and lifetime friends of Warren's, said Warren was with them at the time of the robbery. The sisters testified as to Warren's good character, prompting Knauth to pounce on the opportunity to submit Warren's prior record, which was previously inadmissible in court.
In a somewhat bizarre but passionate closing argument, Knauth admitted the revolver previously shown to jurors as the murder weapon was probably not the weapon used to kill Nguyen.
"I don't think it was this gun," he said. "It might've been."
Knauth said based on circumstantial evidence and testimony from a known drug addict, jurors should nonetheless find Warren guilty.
With the guilty verdict, Warren now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
"He would have to serve at least half of his sentence before parole is a possibility ... at least 40 years," said John Stevens, the judge presiding over the case in Criminal District Court.


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Christianity Under the Roman Emperors Home Author's Afterwords
Christianity Under the Byzantine Emperors
When quiet was re-established in Egypt by the Roman armies, after more than sixty years of civil troubles, it was found to be no longer the same country that it had been under the Antonines. The framework of society had been broken, the Greeks had lessened in numbers and still more in weight. Greek toleration of all religions and of all modes of thought then gave way to Egyptian more bigoted earnestness. The bright days of Egypt as a Greek kingdom ended with the rebellions against Gallienus, Aurelian, and Dioclesian. The native Egyptians and the old superstitions then rise again into notice, as Greek civilization sinks around them. The building of Constantinople, and the removal of the scat of government from Rome to that new Greek city, yet further lessened the numbers, and thus the rank of the Greeks in Alexandria. Among the Christians, the more superstitious Egyptians, whose religion was still polytheism under a Christian form, as being now the more numerous, are able in their turn to call the Greek Christians heretics. Then began the celebrated Arian controversy, as to whether Jesus Christ were a God or a created being; and the same intolerance, which ten centuries earlier would not allow the Libyans to eat beef, is now uneasy at there being two opinions about the miraculous birth of the Saviour. The opinions of Arius were tile same as those of the late Bishop Dionysius, that Jesus was the First of Created Beings. But what was orthodoxy before the rebellions, while the Greeks were able to treat the Egyptians as slaves, was heresy since the Egyptians had found out their weight and power; and the young and able Athanasius, a Greek deacon in the Alexandrian church, rose into importance by taking the Egyptian side in the controversy.
It was not in the first instance seen that the dispute was in reality a political struggle between the Egyptians and the Greeks, but it took the form of a religious argument as to whether Jesus was an uncreated being of out, substance with God, or was inferior to the Father. The quarrel in Alexandria unsettled the faith of the world, so much was that city a guide both to the east and west in matters of religion; and the Emperor Constantine was persuaded to call a council of bishops to meet at Nica, in Asia Minor, to settle the question. Unfortunately the decline of civilization, and the increase of ignorance during the last two centuries had been as great in Greece and Italy as in Alexandria. The civil wars between rival emperors, the licence of the soldiers, the inroads of the barbarians, and the progress of despotism, had crushed free thought and genius everywhere. The Roman or western half of the known world was wholly without a writer of any kind, except in the ranks of the prejudiced theologians; and in the Greek or Eastern provinces what little learning or cultivation remained was chiefly to be found in Alexandria. Hence when the creed of Christendom was to be settled by the votes of the bishops, after Egyptian superstition had already gained a strong footing in Alexandria, any purer or more simple views of Christianity, stood little chance of holding their ground in an assembly of divines summoned from yet wider and more ignorant provinces.
At Nica, as is usually the case in an assembly of divines, the more superstitious talked down and frowned down the more reasonable. The Emperor sided with the Egyptians, which may be explained by what we have before seen, because Greece and Rome had been used to look up to Egypt as their teacher in religion; and he had lately, on building Constantinople, received from Alexandria fifty copies of Church Lessons, for the use of his new churches. The Egyptian opinions, supported by the eloquence and earnestness of the young Athanasias, the spokesman of the Egyptian bishops, prevailed. He drew up the celebrated form of words, now known by the name of the Nicene Creed, as a statement of the opinions which the Egyptians contended for; and the Council ended their labours by ordering everybody to receive it as thc true Christian faith.
The controversy was by no means at once settled by this decree. When Constantine saw that the quarrel was more political than religious, he took the other side of the question, and joined the Greeks; and Egypt continued almost in rebellion on a point of controversial theology during the reigns of Constantine, Constantius, Julian, Jovian, and Valens. For forty years Athanasius, the darling hero of the Egyptians, was able to defy the power of the Emperors, and after his death peace was restored only on the accession of Theodosius, who took the side of the Egyptians, and allowed them in their turn to persecute the more enlightened Arian Greeks. From that time forward the Christianity of the superstitious Egyptians became the Christianity of the majority in Alexandria, and after a time, with very few variations, the Christianity of the greater part of the world.
The aim of the Nicene Creed was to require everybody to acknowledge, that Jesus Christ was a God, in such clear and forcible terms as to turn out of the Church all who would not follow the Egyptians in the mystical opinions which they had introduced, so that there should be no escape for those who believed in one only God, and who gave any whatever lower rank to the Saviour. It declares that there is one God, the Maker of all things, and yet that the one Lord Jesus Christ was not made; that he also was very God of very God, and was yet crucified by Pontius Pilate; that he had been previously incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and made man, although of one substance with the Father. All this carried with it no contradiction to the mind of the Egyptians. They were used to being told and believing that two Gods could be one God. They were used to hear of a God being put to death, as they had always held that Osiris, though a god, had been put to death. They were used to hear of children being born of an earthly mother, and having no earthly father, as they held that many of their kings were so born, being incarnate by the god Amun-Ra. But Athanasius did not introduce into his creed any Egyptian mysticism to support it, nor did he try to explain away its inconstency by any play upon words. The Nicene Creed does not mention the Trinity nor the two natures of Christ, but leaves the contradictions stated in the boldest terms. The well-known Athanasian Creed, in which an explanation of the difficulties has been attempted, is supposed to have been written two or three hundred years later, and the name of the great Alexandrian bishop has been given to it, either dishonestly, or because it was thought to represent his opinions. This later creed states that though "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God, yet they are not three Gods, but one God." This is the Egyptian doctrine of plurality in unity, which is represented in numerous sculptures, and explained in pages 12 and 98. It then asserts the two natures of Christ, that he is both "perfect God and perfect man." This was meant to get over the difficulty of a dying God which had been ridiculed by Xenophanes, in the case of Osiris, five centuries before the Christian era; when he told the Egyptians that if Osiris was a man they should not worship him, and if he was a god they need not lament his sufferings. But this Athanasian Creed, though setting forth the Egyptian opinions, was an offspring of the Latin church, and it is very doubtful whether it would have been wholly approved of by Athanasius. The Egyptians had raised Mary, the wife of Joseph, almost into a goddess, at least into "the mother of God," who had imparted no portion of human nature to her son; they denied the two natures of Christ, and clung faithfully to t he words of their own Nicene Creed, which declared that he was "of one substance with the Father."
It was during these years of civil trouble and political agitation that Christianity, or at least a form of religion which called itself Christian, spread over the whole of Egypt. That large class of the population which a few years before formed the priesthood of the old temples, were now Christian monks. They were all zealous supporters of Athanasius, and all earnest against the Arian opinions of the Greeks. For their use, three Egyptian translations of the Bible were made, one into the language used in the western half of the Delta, called Coptic, a second into that of the Eastern half, called Bashmuric, and a third into the Thebaic, for the use of Upper Egypt and Nubia. They readily fitted the old temples to the new religion. Their opinions had undergone but small change. On the rock temple of Kneph, opposite Abou Simbel, they painted the figure of the Saviour, with a glory round his head upon the and thus it became a Christian church (see Fig. 101) The great court-yard of the temple of Medinet Abou, at Thebes, was is used as a cathedral church dedicated to St. Athanasius. In some cases, they removed from before their eyes the memorials of the old superstition, by covering up the sculptures on the walls with mud from the Nile, and white plaster. In other cases, they contented themselves with making a slight change in the sculpture, as at the temple of Asseboua, in Nubia, where they painted the figure of the Apostle Peter over that of the old god of the temple, and the sculpture now represents King Rameses II. presenting his offerings to the Christian Saint (see Fig. 102).
Fig. 101.
Fig. 102.
By the burst of enthusiasm in favour of Athanasius, the Nicene Creed became the received religion of all native Egyptians, and beyond them of those Alexandrians who aimed at rising into importance by taking the popular side in the quarrel. Arianism, on the other hand, even when supported by, the weak government of the Emperor, lost ground rapidly, and it soon took refuge in the fortified camps of the Greek soldiers. A church was dedicated to the Arian bishop George, within the walls of the strong castle of Babylon, opposite Memphis, and another at Ptolemais, where the Greek garrison collected the toll of the Thebaid, and where the modern village vet bears his name, and is called by the Arabs Geergeh, St. George became a favourite saint with the Greeks in Egypt, and in those few spots where the Greek soldiers were masters of the churches, this Arian and unpopular bishop was often painted on the walls, riding triumphantly on horseback, and slaying the great serpent or dragon of Athanasian error.
At this time a marked separation was taking place between the opinions of Constantinople, the chief seat of the Greek Church, and those of Egypt and Rome. The more civilized Constantinople held aloof for the present from the more, superstitious Egypt as its religious guide. But the case was far otherwise with Rome. Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course.
When in the reign of Constantine the country was quiet, thc intercourse between the Egyptian and the Roman churches was renewed under still more favourable circumstances, because the city of Alexandria had become more Egyptian and less Greek than ever it had been before. Constans, the next Emperor of Rome, openly gave his support to Athanasius when in rebellious disobedience to Constantius, his own sovereign; and the opinions of Athanasius, received the support of the whole Roman church.
At the end of the third century Hesychius, of Alexandria, had published a new edition of the Greek Bible with a corrected text, and such was the credit of Alexandria, as the chief seat of Christian learning,, that all distant churches sent there for copies of the Scriptures. When Constans wanted copies of the Greek scriptures for Rome, he sent for them to Alexandria, and received the approved text from Athanasius. In this, a matter of learning belonging to the last century, the Roman Emperor acted wisely, but in the matter of religious opinions the case was far otherwise.
Alexandria in the fourth century was very different from that Alexandria which had earned its high character for criticism and scholarship, though the change, in the eyes of the Roman church, was a change for the better; and they were equally pleased to import from the same city Alexandrian manuscripts and Egyptian superstitions. All Christendom was copying the monastic institutions of the Thebaid. Italy and the West acknowledged Egypt as their best instructress in all ecclesiastical matters; and the approval which they, gave to the ecclesiastical institutions could hardly have been yielded so cordially, unless they at the same time gave a full approval to the religious opinions.
As the Egyptians excelled all other Christians in the practice of self-denial and fleshly mortification, so their religion was naturally thought the most pleasing to God, and their theological views the soundest. Natives of Italy, not content with living in their own monasteries under the strict Theban rules, flocked into Egypt to place themselves under the severe discipline, and to learn the opinions of the ignorant Egyptian monks. As these Latin monks did not understand either Coptic or Greek, they found some difficulty in regulating their lives with the wished for exactness; and the rules of Pacomius, of Theodorus, and of Oresiesis, the most celebrated of the founders, were sent to St. Jerome at Rome, to be by him translated into Latin, for the use of these settlers in the Thebaid. The two countries shaped their opinions so nearly in the same mould, that when St. Jerome visited Egypt he found the church there holding what he called the true Roman faith. Two at least of these teachers of monastic discipline were clearly Egyptians, not Greeks. Their names, Pachomius, or Pa-chem, a priest of the god Chem, and Oresiesis, or Hor-se-isis, Horus the son of Isis, even without the evidence of the foregoing pages, might have led us to suppose that the source of their theology, both for themselves and for the, Theban monasteries under their rule, was as much Pagan as Christian.
The closeness with which Western Europe followed, Egypt may be seen even in smaller matters. St. Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, calls Jesus "the good Scarabus, who rolled up before him the hitherto unshapen mud of our bodies," thus giving to him one of the names and characters of the god Horus, who is pictured as a scarabus, with a ball of mud between his feet (see Fig. 103). The ball, which usually means the sun, would seem to have sometimes meant the sins of mankind; and the goddesses Isis and Nephthys are often represented as rolling the same ball before them. St. Augustin also, during the greater part of his life, was a Manichan, and held the Gnostic opinion of a god of goodness and a god of evil; and he was so far an admirer of the Egyptians, or at least of their practice of making mummies, as to say that they were the only Christians who really and fully, believed in a future resurrection from the dead.
Fig. 103.
If St. Jerome, when noting the religious agreement between Rome and Egypt, really fancied that in anything whatever Rome had been the teacher, he had read history to very little purpose. But Rome and Egypt then held the same views of Christianity, which have since been known as the opinions of the Roman church, and which were at the time rejected as too superstitious by many of the more learned bishops of Constantinople, Asia Minor, and Syria, who for the time held back from the Athanasian opinions.
Hence arose the separate establishment of the Greek church, which for a short time was Arian, and which from political causes has ever since been disjoined from the Roman church. Political causes also, arising from the disturbed state of the world in the fifth century, presently separated Egypt from Italy; and then the Coptic and the Roman church ceased to hold so exactly the same opinions. As Greek intelligence offered every year less check to Egyptian ignorance, the Coptic church became yet more superstitious; though, fortunately for Rome, that city was no longer in danger of being led to follow.
The churches of Constantinople and Greece, with the Greek churches of Asia Minor and Syria, did not, as we have said, at first move towards the Egyptian opinions quite so fast as Italy and the west. But the change from the earlier faith was presently quickened in the East by political circumstances. On the death of the Emperor Valens in A.D. 379, Theodosius, a general who hail been born in Spain, and brought up in Western Christianity, was made Emperor of Constantinople and the East. The disturbed state of his dominions called for the strong arm of military despotism; and Theodosius required the church to give the same obedience to his simple will that he received from the army. He at once dismissed the Arian patriarch of Constantinople, and ordered all the clergy to be turned out of their churches if they would not receive the Nicene Creed. He summoned a council of bishops to meet at Constantinople, for the purpose of having the Nicene Creed declared to be the creed of the church of the whole world. He did not summon to it either the Egyptian bishops or the Western bishops; they already held the Nicene faith. He summoned only the Eastern church, and in that council, under his orders, the Nicene Creed was reenacted forty-five years after the Arians had been allowed to re-enter the church. The Council of Constantinople also added to the creed the clauses which declare the Holy Spirit to be a person who ought to be worshipped equally with God and Jesus, leaving the Nicene Creed very nearly as it is now read, and thus for the first time establishing the Trinity as now understood by the so-called orthodox Christians.
The book trade of Alexandria gave the Egyptian opinions a great importance in the Christian world. All the oldest and best manuscripts of the Greek Bible now remaining were written by Alexandrian penmen, that of Paris, that of the Vatican, that of Cambridge, that of the British Museum, and that from 'Mount Sinai, now in Russia. In Alexandria were made the Ethiopic version, and probably the early Latin version. The Armenian version and the old Syriac version were corrected in Alexandria, from the most approved and earliest Greek text.
These are strong proofs of the rank which that city held, and of its power to guide the opinions of foreign Christians. Nor were corn and books the only products which other countries received from Egypt, either as tribute or by purchase.
About the middle of the fourth century there was a general digging up of the bodies of the most celebrated Christians of former ages to heal the diseases and strengthen the faith of the living. The tombs of Egypt, crowded with mummies which had lain there for centuries, could of course furnish relics more easily than most countries; and Constantinople then received from Egypt a quantity of bones, which were supposed to be those of the martyrs slain in the Pagan persecutions. The Archbishop, John Chrysostome, received them gratefully, and though himself smarting under the reproach that he was not orthodox, according to the measure of the superstitious Egyptians, he thanks God that Egypt, which sent forth its corn to feed its hungry neighbours, could also send the bodies of so many martyrs to sanctify their churches. And Gregory, of Nazianzus, a little before had remarked that Egypt was the most Christ-loving of countries, and adds, with true simplicity, that, wonderful to say, after having so lately worshipped bulls, goats, and crocodiles, it was now teaching the world the worship of the Trinity in the truest form.
Fig. 104.--Isis Rising Heliacally.
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Beijing Olympics 2008 (Last Week) Dev. Eurocom Pub. SEGA Systems: PC, 360, PS3 MSRP: $29.99, $49.99
Going to go out on a limb here and say this might not sell as well as Mario and Sonic's take on this year's Olympic games. Just a hunch, but I don't think Amanda Beard and Tyson Gay have the built-in fanbase. After seeing Gay crumple to the track this weekend though, I think the dreaded Olympics game cover athlete curse got him. Anyways, having run track all the way through my college days, I can honestly say that never once did I think that running 800m or 1500m would make for a compelling video game. Yet those two events are here, along with 34 others spanning from Track & Field to Aquatics to Gymnastics to more obscure sports that only see the light of day every four years yet somehow fill us with nationalistic pride should we happen to win them. As you would expect, with so many different disciplines, the game is simplified to rhythmically pressing buttons at appropriate times to correspond to various meters while watching Virtua Athletes do their thing. Having developed Athens 2004, this is Eurocom's second go-round at the Olympics, so they should have a pretty good grasp on ways to make you hit buttons as quickly as possible. And for the first time ever you can compete online against up to eight people to see who pulls up lame with a finger cramp and who brings home the gold... only to be stripped later for a positive dope test. Stay clean, people, stay clean. - ship
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NCAA Football 09 Dev. EA Tiburon Pub. Electronic Arts Systems: PS2, PSP, Wii, 360, PS3 MSRP: $39.99-$59.99
It's Pre-Madden time of year again and as always I'm not too sure on what to say about this year's NCAA Football 09. The demo I played on the Xbox 360 looked and played great, but I'll take EA's word on it that they opened up the offense and improved on everything else because I can't remember what last year's version played like. With the new twelve player online Dynasty Mode, though, there should be enough content here to keep you busy well into Bowl Season... or at least until Madden comes out next month. The Wii version forgoes all that online nonsense and instead focuses on getting the whole family involved with "All-Play" controls that provide for a more casual and fast-paced game. - ship
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Rock Band Track Pack: Vol. 1 Dev. Harmonix Pub. MTV Games Systems: PS2, Wii MSRP: $29.99
For the PS2 and Wii owners who are feeling left out of the 360/PS3 downloading-extravaganza comes the first (of many, no doubt) track pack for Rock Band. Already bored with the songs that came with the game? Then maybe you'll enjoy "Buddy Holly", "Joker & the Thief", or "Synchronicity II". There are 20 songs all-together, so each song averages out to being $1.50, which is cheaper than the $1.99 you'd generally pay for the 360 or PS3 version. The down side is, of course, that you have to buy them all. - mrs. ship
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Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (Last Week) Dev. Firaxis Pub. 2K Games Systems: DS, 360, PS3 MSRP: $29.99, $59.99
Generally, turn-based strategy games and simulations are not my cup of tea. Partly because I just don't get that much enjoyment out of thinking hard and partly because I suck at them. Fortunately, ol' Sid Meier has come up with a way to accommodate for those of us that sit on a couch and don't feel like memorizing tech trees or complicated controls. Sure, the hardcore PC enthusiasts will say this is dumbed-down, but by dammit, that's what a console version of a strategy game needs. We're simple folk, with our four face buttons and short attention spans. Throw in some colorful cartoon historical people who make funny talking noises and we'll give it a shot. In fact, the art style reminds me of Sid's last rather enjoyable console game, "Pirates!", so he might be onto something here. The core game mechanics are similar to the PC versions: establish cities, collect resources, build units, conquer the world.... and now we're all back to being bored... but don't be, the game actually is not overwhelming and before you know it, you are actually understanding the rules and looking forward to progressing your civilization to the next big thing. it's entirely too addicting and you never seem to get the feeling that you are doing something wrong (a problem I have with most strategy games). This could be because there are constantly new goals for you to be achieving along whatever path you are taking (yes, there's a tech tree, but it's very simple and can be pulled up easily). Add in four different ways to win and fourteen different leaders, and you've got a game with a lot of replay value. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there is anyway to play local multiplayer, so if you want to play against other human beings, you'll have to take the fight online. - ship
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Space Chimps Dev. Brash Entertainment Pub. Brash Entertainment Systems: PC, DS, PS2, Wii, 360 MSRP: $19.99-$39.99
Based upon the "out of this world movie adventure of the year" (their words, not mine), this looks to be pretty standard platforming fare. You can either be the boy chimp or the girl chimp and hop, swing, or do that griding/sliding rail thing that all platformers have now as you explore a tropical island themed alien planet. Chimps ahoy! That pun is a little primitive, but I'm running with it. - ship
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Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon (Last Week) Dev. Square Enix Pub. Square Enix Systems: Wii MSRP: $39.99
This is the only game I reviewed this week that I KNOW I want to purchase, and previewing it makes me want to buy it that much more. I'm already addicted to the Mystery Dungeon format, and I like Final Fantasy better than Pokemon (no offense, little Treeko). There are different jobs for your Chocobo that will alter the weapons you can use and give your character different strengths and weaknesses. The animation style is fantastic but there is some questionable cut-scenes and voice acting, but the gameplay is getting excellent reviews. Overall, there isn't much else to say about this title other than it's a quality mystery dungeon title with great characters and it's probably worth the pricetag. - mrs. ship
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We Love Golf! Dev. Camelot Software Planning Pub. Capcom Systems: Wii MSRP: $49.99
From the makers of the original Hot Shots Golf and many Mario Golf titles comes... wait for it... another arcade golf game. So maybe not the most original title, but Camelot knows its stuff and this looks like it's going to be another enjoyable outing. Forgoing the obvious swing your Wii-mote like a golf club controls, the game instead uses a more traditional triple-click style of swinging with Wii-motions added in. Having not gotten my hands on the game yet, I'm not entirely sure how that works, but the videos look like the game will be a blast and it has been receiving good reviews. Fellow nerds will be pleased that you can play as Ken of Street Fighter fame and Morrigan of
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Wonder World Amusement Park (Last Week) Dev. Coyote Console Pub. Majesco Systems: Wii MSRP: $39.99
You know it's a sad week in gaming when the biggest competition between new releases is for best carnival-themed mini-game compilation. Since Carnival Games sold so well on the Wii, Majesco is releasing it's own title for the cotton-candy loving gamer. The mini-games are similar but are divided up into areas within the park, and gamers can take their Miis and explore the 3D park areas in between playing games. The five areas within the part are Carnival, Fairytale, Pirate, Space, and Spooky. There's some underlying humor within the game (like shooting Zombies in the Tunnel of Love) that wasn't found in Carnival Games. The same people that bought Carnival Games should be heading out to buy this title, so I'm expecting it to sell well. Unless, of course, the carnival-themed mini-ame compilation market has been saturated. Scary, right? - mrs. ship
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Carnival Games (Last Week) Dev. Cat Daddy Games Pub. 2K Games Systems: DS MSRP: $29.99
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Mister Slime Dev. Lexis Numerique Pub. South Peak Interactive Systems: DS MSRP: $19.99
Not just a clever name, the protagonist is actually a ball of goo on a quest to save his village of other slimeballs from their arch-enemies the Axons. Essentially a 2D platformer with puzzle elements, you must guide Mister Slime through the levels by attaching his arms to pegs much like the "Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber" series of games. Oh, and there's lots of blowing. Blow to make him swim, blow to make him breathe underwater, blow to make him fly. Because as we all know, you can pretty much get out of any sticky situation with enough blowing and vigorous rubbing. Overall, seems like a decent enough budget title, but I wouldn't expect Mister Slime to be signing any Ecto Cooler licensing deals anytime soon. - ship
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Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Clue Bender Society Dev. Gorilla Pub. Majesco Systems: DS MSRP: $19.99
Okay, so after the extreme letdown that came with playing The Deadly Secret of Olde World Park (the first Nancy Drew DS title), I wasn't about to get my hopes up with this second title. The first game was not graphically pleasant, the mini games were ultra repetitive, and the "clues" within the gameplay were easily found via the giant magnifying glass where you were supposed to point with your stylus. Olde World was rated E for everyone, but no one should every buy it. It is with those feelings of dread that I approached this game. What I found was a decent trailer and some added new features that both scare and excite me: snowmobiling, boating, sneaking a-la MGS, and an E10+ rating (you can guess which ones scare me and which ones excite me). The bottom line: this game could suck, or maybe it will be decent. I most certainly won't be fantastically awesome. Let me buy it (because I will anyway), and I'll let you know. - mrs. ship
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Pony Luv (Last Week) Dev. Gogil Pub. Aspyr Systems: DS MSRP: $19.99
It's been a while since I've had a really lame and crappy pet sim to preview, so I may be a bit rusty at veiling my sarcasm. In what I can only assume is a sequel to Puppy Luv and a prequel to Kitty Luv, Bunny Luv, and Dolphin Luv, we get the adorable pony-owning simulator for the DS. The gameplay allows the user to name, bathe, feed, and do various tricks on their pony until they grow up, stop being cute, and get sent to the glue factory. All for just $19.99. - mrs. ship
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Wordmaster Dev. Sarbakan Pub. Destination Software Systems: DS MSRP: $19.99
Sarbakan has taken the basics of the Mastermind board game and applied them to this DS title. The gameplay focuses on guessing a 6-letter word, then telling you how many of the letters you got right. From there, you try and gradually figure out what random word they've chosen. It brings to mind that Price-Is-Right game in which you had to guess the price of the car and Bob would tell you how many numbers were correct and then you had to change the ones you thought weren't right. Yeah, this game would be cooler with Bob Barker. - mrs. ship
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Jeep Thrills Dev. Gamesauce Pub. Destination Software Systems: PS2 MSRP: $12.99
Do I spy a titular pun for a cheap racing game based around Jeep vehicles? Choose from eighteen different and customizable Jeep vehicles and race over 35 tracks. (Wow, that's actually quite a few courses.) There's really not any other info available, but the screenshots show a lot of Jeeps racing along a wide variety of brown textures. There's giant-stone texture, there's dirt with lines in it texture, there's blurry dirt texture, and there's apparently a non-pictured frozen Alaskan tundra texture that I suspect... is not brown. With all these different textures, it might be easy to lose focus on your "one main main objective: conquering the terrain and the elements and owning the planet!" That's right, make that planet your bitch. - ship
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PopCap Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Dev. PopCap Games Pub. PopCap Games Systems: PS2 MSRP: $19.99
The two games being rereleased within this title are Zuma and Heavy weapon. Zuma is a puzzle title that revolves around shooting colored balls at a chain of colored balls. Match up 3 colored balls and they all disappear (you know the concept). Heavy Weapon is a side-scrolling shooter with tanks, helicopters, jets, and jeeps. Both solid titles if you don't already own them. - mrs. ship
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Unreal Tournament III (Last Week) Dev. Epic Games Pub. Midway Systems: 360 MSRP: $59.99
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Devil May Cry 4 (Last Week) Dev. Capcom Pub. Capcom Systems: PC MSRP: $39.99
(Deja Preview) Okay, so I'm a bit behind in the series and I have no idea why the new protagonist in this game looks nearly identical to Dante, but is named Nero and has a demonic grappling hook arm. (Could someone please get one of these guys some "Just For Men" so I can keep them straight?) Regardless, you're going to be slicing and shooting with just as much pizzazz as the previous games. Check that, you'll have even more pizzazz as it seems they have toned down the difficulty which allows for mere mortals to possibly even play through the game this time around. (Yes, that includes me.) - ship
This is a port of the current 5-month-old console title of the same name. Added to the PC version are the new "Turbo" and "Legendary Dark Knight" modes. Turbo mode is obviously a faster version of the title; Legendary Dark Knight mode, much to my chagrin, is not a version where you play as Batman. Instead, the game will use the extra PC oomph to throw more enemies at you. - Treehouse Gamer
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Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice (Last Week) Dev. Her Interactive Pub. Her Interactive Systems: PC MSRP: $19.99
With this being a slow week and with all PC detective games being extremely formulaic, this preview will be written in haiku.
Eighteen Nancy Drews
All of them being the same
Please don't buy this crap. - Treehouse Gamer
You can't blame Treehouse Gamer for dissing the Nancy Drew games for the same reason you shouldn't judge me for thinking most RTS games on the PC are the same. They're just not my style, and clearly TG didn't grow up with Nancy like I did. That being said, yes all the games are similar because they're all point-and-click adventure titles. But like drinking a fine wine, it takes a true connoisseur to notice the subtle, yet important, differences between the titles. I guess his palate just isn't sophisticated enough for Nancy Drew. - mrs. ship
Best Deal: There don't seem to be any specific deals for Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice.
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On The DL with the Shipwrecks
King of the Monsters (Last Week) Systems: Wii Virtual Console (NEOGEO) MSRP: $9
It's hard not to love giant monsters punching each other in the face while destroying a metropolis. From Rampage to War of the Monsters, I don't think you can screw this genre up (yes, I even liked Rampage: Total Destruction), and King of the Monsters is a classic example of how much stupid fun can be had when you place a large lizard and an abnormally ample ape into one of our puny, insignificant civilizations. Anybody want to place bets on which game from SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 will be ported to the Virtual Console next week? - ship
Major League Eating: The Game Systems: WiiWare MSRP: $10?
Yes, sports fans, twelve of your favorite eaters are in your hands as you can play as the legendary Kobayashi, Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, or the number one ranked eater in the world, Joey "Jaws" Chestnut. In addition to stuffing your face, you can unleash attacks on your opponent such as belches, bad breath, or mustard gas... wow, that last one seems a little drastic, but in the no holds barred world of competitive eating, I guess anything goes. The game features both online and local two player multiplayer so both you and a friend can experience the enjoyment of watching caricatures of professional gurgitators yack all over themselves. Of course the power of Wii-motion is what truly brings this game to life... well, lax quality standards on WiiWare probably didn't hurt any either. - ship
SPOGS Racing (Last Week) Systems: WiiWare MSRP: $10
Gotta getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha face in the race! Wait, that's head in the game... Too bad, as you'd much rather be watching Troy and Sharpay get their groove on than racing around these big wheels (not the sweet plastic three-wheelers, but an actual singular large tire) with 2D faces in them. And they're not even your face, they are just random cartoon faces which means their catch phrase doesn't even make sense... unless you are perhaps an animated squirrel, but even then, you probably aren't this animated squirrel. So you won't be shocked that the computer A.I. is broken, the graphics are unappealing, and there is really no redeeming quality other than us geeks and otaku won't have to worry about this one wasting valuable storage space. - ship
Coffeetime Crosswords Systems: XBLA MSRP: $10
More crosswords. This time they come with achievements and online co-op play. I might just have to give in and play a crossword title now. - mrs. ship
Golf: Tee It Up! (Last Week) Systems: XBLA MSRP: $10
Certainly not as full-featured as its contemporary "Hot Shots Golf", "Golf: Tee it Up!" still offers a quick and enjoyable round of golf for a mere $10. There's cartoony customizable characters, two colorful 18 hole courses (one in the Caribbean, the other in Scottland), and really simple, classic triple-click style controls. Up to four-players can hit the links either online or locally and there are plans to add more courses and character clothing through future downloadable content. That extra content may be influential in keeping you interested in the game, because while it is certainly solid, there doesn't seem to be the level of depth that will keep you coming back for additional tee times. Still, for $10, consider it the video game equivalent of going to hit a bucket of balls. - ship
Schizoid (Last Week) Systems: XBLA MSRP: $10
The first XNA game to make the big time, Schizoid shows why that development path is viable for both developers and consumers by providing us with a unique, entertaining, and simple game. Built around a co-op experience, each player controls one of two ships (one is orange, the other is blue... this is important, I'm not just name-dropping those colors for no reason so pay attention) in a set-up and graphical style that can most easily be compared to Geometry Wars. Unlike a twin-stick shooter, however, you only use one stick and there is no shooting. Instead, the ships must clear the stages by ramming into like-colored enemies while dodging the opposite colored enemies, so the orange ship runs into the orange enemies and vice versa. Like I said, really simple concept, but the emphasis on teamwork along with dealing with different enemy behaviors makes for a good time. The only downfall about that is that if you are playing by yourself you are left to let the computer control the other ship (which is okay) or control each of the ships on your own (which is quite a task). I'd recommend giving it a go with a friend to see if both of you dig it enough to play through the full game, which is an odd thing to suggest for a game that named itself after a personality disorder where people are anti-social. - ship
Song Summoner (Last Week) Systems: iPod MSRP: $4.99
Square Enix comes out of nowhere with a tactical RPG for the iPod that creates your soldiers based upon your MP3s. Similar to what the Monster Rancher series did with those relic compact disc things, your Tune Troopers are created by selecting songs from your library. The game somehow assigns classes and statistical values for each song, which is a pretty neat concept. For instance, if you made a squad member from this week's CAG Foreplay Podcast file, I'm sure you'd get a super-rare job class with unparalleled attributes that you could then take into battle. The game itself is actually very competent and controls easily enough with the scroll wheel. Here's a pro-tip though: remember what songs you used to create your characters as you actually receive bonus "Groove Points" for listening to those MP3s outside of the game. So, Square, you are able to create a completely new game for the iPod and charge $5 for it, but you can't quite seem to charge less than $40 for all these PSP and DS rehashes? - ship
Did we miss a good sale on a game? Did we miss previewing a game completely? Well, the only way that everyone can know a better deal is out there is to let us know about it. Post deals you've found or games that we missed in the thread so that CAGs can make sure they are getting the absolute best prices on new releases.
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An Urban Wilderness in Milwaukee
Ten years ago, after joining Milwaukee Riverkeeper, I decided to explore my local watershed. I wanted to try to think outside the box or, in this case, the usual civil boundaries that define urban and suburban geographies. What I discovered was an experience of nature that both surprised and delighted me. My quest grew into The Urban Wilderness Project, which seeks to acquaint city dwellers with nature in their midst as well as to promote the preservation and restoration of natural lands along rivers.
After six years of exploration, during which I photographed and wrote about every part of the watershed, we produced Urban Wilderness: Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed. Some of the photographs in this essay were included in the book; some have been added more recently. The issues they deal with are the same issues that face cities all over the country. I have been happy to note that since I began the project the concept of urban wilderness has become part of a larger conversation about living in sustainable cities.
Eddee Daniel's book of photographs and stories, , published in 2008 by the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, received the Kodak American Greenways Award. Daniel has been a board member of Milwaukee Riverkeeper for the past ten years. Read more in his blog and at


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This is Step 1 in our 4 step process for teams to become certified. In this class you will learn best practices for safety and handling as well as the policies, procedures and protocols required by Project Canine. You and your dog will also be evaluated to determine if you are ready to be a therapy dog team. This class is for you and your dog. Sign up for class now.
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Recent News
March 31, 2014
Nova Products, Inc. Recalls Dietary Supplements with Undeclared Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of African Black Ant (Lot# 2006-000926), Black Ant (Lot# 2006-3627878), XZen Gold (Lot# 130310GL), ZXen Platinum (Lot# 130520PL), XZen 1200 (Lot# 13051012), XZone Gold (Lot# 131110GL), and XZone 1200 (Lot# 13071012) at the retail level. The products contain undeclared amounts of sildenafil and tadalafil, active ingredients of FDA-approved drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction.
The products are packaged in blister packs, envelopes, bottles, and/or boxes distributed to consumers nationwide at retail stores. Lot numbers are identified on the back or side of each product.
These undeclared active ingredients pose a threat to consumers because they can interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs (such as nitroglycerin), resulting in decreased blood pressure. Prescription drugs containing nitrates are frequently prescribed for individuals with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease. Additionally, these products may cause side effects such as headaches and flushing.
The full recall including a list of products can be found at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm391045.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.


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By Jeffrey Wasserstrom
As my friends know, it doesn't take much to make me think of Mark Twain. And even people I've never met who have followed my writings on China know about my obsession with Twain, since I've managed to bring him into discussions of a wide range of China-related topics, from Shanghai history (he never went there but has a San Francisco-bound fictional character set sail from that treaty port) to the Boxers (with whose cause he expressed sympathy in 1900). So, it's no surprise that, when rumors about Jiang Zemin's death flew and then were squashed recently, I found myself thinking of Twain.
Mostly because I thought that Jiang could now make use of the famous line attributed to Twain: reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. But also because, in one of his novels, Twain had two characters listening to people deliver eulogies about them — and if Jiang had had access to Hong Kong television, he could have had a similar experience.
I'm not as obsessed with Shakespeare as I am with Twain, but the Bard is another favorite author who came to mind after the Chinese government, which had taken its time providing any information about Jiang, finally issued a statement dismissing as baseless rumors the by-then widely circulating and much discussed online reports of the former leader's demise. More specifically, I thought of Much Ado About Nothing, the title of a Shakespeare comedy. This phrase came to mind particularly easily, I suppose, because I was traveling by train through a part of England not far from Stratford when the is-he-or-isn't-he-dead rumor mill was churning fastest. The phrase also has a special link to Jiang, since he infamously referred to the 1989 protests and massacre as "much ado about nothing" during a television interview with Barbara Walters.
In fact, though, while it would be foolish to make too much of the significance of a rumor that proved false, the flurry of speculation about Jiang's fate and the Chinese government's response to this speculation is not completely without interest. This incident — or rather non-incident — is one from which some meaning can be wrung.
One thing that the non-incident shows or really just underlines is simply the capacity of the internet, and especially microblogging platforms such as Sina Weibo and Twitter, to magnify the significance of rumors about any place and increase the speed with which they spread. Rumors flew fast and furiously within China and around the world, first claiming that Jiang was very ill and then that he was dead, from the moment that Jiang, the man who succeeded Deng Xiaoping and preceded Hu Jintao as China's paramount leader, failed to attend the main July 1 ceremony held to mark the 90th birthday of the Chinese Communist Party.
Another thing, more specific to China, that the non-incident reveals is that the Party continues to be fixated with controlling the flow of information and putting a carefully thought out spin on events. And that this can make it much slower to respond to news than other organizations, which in turn helps create a vacuum in which rumors can gather momentum.
The Chinese authorities are good at moving swiftly to try to stop people from expressing certain kinds of opinions or even using certain kinds of words — as shown by internet censors blocking the use of any character in Jiang's name and the most common term for "heart attack" in posts. What they are not good at doing is offering up even very simple statements of fact, until they have weighed the pros and cons of presenting it in different ways.
These recent developments also reminded us of how skeptical international news organizations, and at least equally importantly Hong Kong media, are when it comes to assuming that if something important has happened in China, Beijing will let them know. No one thought, in other words, that if Jiang had died, the Chinese government would be as quick to announce this fact as, say, the American government would be when a former president passes away. There is justification for this skepticism, if we think not just about past deaths of Chinese leaders but also about how slowly news about SARS was allowed to circulate and, more recently, the effort to prevent word of the tainted milk scandal from spreading until the Olympics were over.
All of this is noteworthy, but neither the unusual nature of the current moment in history nor the peculiar handling of the media by the Party should be overstated. There were widely believed rumors about China that gained traction long before the internet was around and long before the Communist Party was founded — let alone came to power. And here, we can go back to the days of Twain. During the Boxer crisis of 1900, the international press reported in July that all of the foreigners held hostage in Beijing had been killed. In fact, they had not. When foreign troops stormed into the city in August, nearly all the foreigners who had been captive were freed alive — and some of those who were freed later commented on their ability to read their own obituaries in old copies of newspapers.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chair of the History Department at the University of California, Irvine, and the author, most recently, of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know. His reviews and commentaries have appeared in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and a wide range of magazines and journals of opinion, including New Left Review, the TLS, the Nation, the Huffington Post, Time and Newsweek. He is the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies and co-founder of the UCI-based China Beat blog/electronic magazine.


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This is Mara Abbott the very first American woman to win the Gira Donne (which is the Giro for female cyclists). The very…first. This is an amazing bit of cycling history because not only did she win a race that I am barely in shape to watch but she beat the second place finisher by more than two minutes.
Abbott is riding for Peanut Butter and Company's Team Twenty12 An astounding ride for an American, and fortunately the world's cycling press will cover this amazing, historical moment. It will be great to see the press highlight her ride especially in light of the current poor-showing from US men in the Tour de France. In fact since it's a rest day I bet we'll hear all about Abbott and her amazing Giro-clinching ride yesterday.
Breaking News! Alberto Contador played soccer on his day off!!!!!! Holy shit!
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What are doing for our Families Success. This kids program is designed to give them and their families the best possible chance for a Successful Future.Is this a place where ideas in life change? You can bet on the Y-I-BET program to put adventure, education and motivation into your life. Einstein's Theory for Success was Work + Success + Keep Your Mouth Shut. However, today we must speak up, but it still takes work and play. This program shows a way to learn and have a great time all at the same time. Have fun and enjoy whatever you do, but make sure that you are learning all at the same time. As the Guilliams family exhibit grows, you will see how we have worked to introduce a totally new type of life for a family that was on the edge of total disaster.
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The North Pole Expedition of 2003 was a fantastic event with the first Free, Unassisted, Scuba dive under the Ice, the worlds first Marathon Competition and the largest expedition group ever to go to the pole. There was also the NASA EM-31 Project testing ice thickness and the new sensing technologies. All in all, it was fantastic and you can see the photos here.
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but many parts are still being added.
Working with people is what we all need to do.
Every man is a man regardless of where he grew up and what he was taught.
Every woman is a person too, no matter where she has come from or what she was also taught.
Take a look at our TV sets today. Listen to the music that our kids are listening to today. Almost nothing has morality or has educational value. In fact, most programs and songs teach disrespect, hate, violence, and sexual immortality. On the streets there is violence, danger and drugs. Education is being taught as being un-cool. Being cool is to be a foul mouth tough guy who is heavily involved in drugs. This is all negative feedback that is being pushed onto our society by both inside and outside forces, plus buy the copycats who are making money or just trying to be someone cool themselves.
We have our troops fighting terrorism overseas, but how are we fighting terrorism right here in the United States? It's sort of like how are we going to get the splinter out of someone else's eye, when we can't even get the log out of our own eye! We need to start fighting the violence right here in America. We need to fight the drugs and everything that is causing our problems right here at home. This is why the Y-I-BET on the Youth of America Program was formed to begin with. This program was created as a way for kids to learn things that they never even knew about before. It teaches that there is a standard way to make your life richer and better. With the high intensity activities combined with variety and spaced repetition, the psychological impact on these kids will be moved in a totally positive direction, pointing the kids in the right way to give them their very best start in life.
When I took a course in fire fighting, while in the US Navy, they said, "don't spray the flames, spray the source of the fire." Our police are seeing a higher and higher crime rate in our country and they are doing everything that they can to stop the crime and to protect all people. Even though their job is a necessary part of stopping crime, they are only spraying the flames but missing the source of the fire. The source of the fire is what we are teaching our kids. The negative feedback that our TV and Radio is showing to our kids is the programming of their minds and the condensation nuclei which will generate the way that they will react to any situation, as well as with the formation of their overall ideology. It is important to teach our kids not to have a foul mouth: To have education and technology as a hobby: and to do your fair share of work through both physical effort and an educational effort. "Work harder on yourself than you do the money, money is attracted and not pursued," as Ed Beckley once put it. But the benefits of this work on all parts of your life, not just on money.
With the Y-I-BET Program we are spraying our fire hoses directly at the source of the flames. We are replacing the street education with the ideas of learning by doing new things. We go to Air Shows, Races, Airports, Military Bases, Museums or just for a walk through the country. We have found that it's not only the kids that need to be trained, but it's the parents that need training too. Education and self improvement must be a way of life being incorporated into the form of our pleasures and entertainment. Read through the following pages and look at what we have done throughout the years for the betterment of our people, community and country. Thank you very much, C. Jeff Dyrek, Webmaster. www.YellowAirplane.com
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While trolling the booths at Interbike Las Vegas, I came across an interesting photo of a contraption that plays a vital role in bicycle industry product safety.
It's a servo-hydraulic Universal Testing Machine (UTM) capable of performing most cyclic fatigue test protocols. Members of Microbac Laboratories, Hauser Division, located in Boulder, Colo., were on hand. Their division is a full-service chemical, mechanical, physical, and microbiological testing laboratory.
Stress cycles at maximum load
The photo showed a crank and pedals hooked up to the UTM. "We have seven tests for cranks, spindles, and pedals," said Russ Willacker, Associate Engineer, "with stress durations ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 cycles." By applying constant stresses at maximum expected loads, machines can provide much faster, more accurate, documented results compared with real-life road testing.
Microbac provides a valuable service for bicycle/component manufacturers desiring to document their product's durability. While some bicycle companies do their own testing, that sounds to me like the fox guarding the hens.
Failure is not an option
When I described my experience with short-lived bike parts, Steve Ferry, Lab Director, made an important point about testing vs. real-world experience. "Even when a product passes a test, it doesn't necessarily mean every part will have the same lifespan. There are manufacturing variances. In some instances there are defects in the manufacturing process itself. We determine if the part holds up to a given stress test as designed."
If a part fails under test, it's more than likely back to the drawing board for the manufacturer.
While it's comforting to know bikes and components are tested before being sold, a company's dedication to quality is crucial for how long parts last.
Standards bodies
So who determines how much stress to apply and for what duration? It's up to safety and reliability standards bodies, such as ASTM — one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world – and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). While European governments require safety/durability tests, the U.S. government does not. "Most companies do the tests anyway for liability reasons," said Willacker.
How these standards organizations work is a bit of a mystery, but they are an integral part of any industry. Most of their members are represented by a particular industry. So someone who works at Trek, Shimano, Specialized, on so on, will be a member of a particular bicycle standards committee. There will also be engineers on a committee who have no vested interest in a particular company.
In many instances, a standard specification will be strongly influenced by the dominant manufacturer. Agreeing on standards can and does lead to disagreements that need to be negotiated among standards committee members.
The U.S. bicycle industry adheres to standards set by ASTM and the International Organization for Standardization, (ISO), which has a special technical committee for bikes.
TC149 establishes: "Standardization in the field of cycles, their components and accessories with particular reference to terminology, testing methods and requirements for performance and safety, and interchangeability."
CEN, European Committee for Standardization, also has a specific Technical Committee, TC333, that defines European standards for cycles. Some CEN bike standards were developed before ISO published their standards, leading to strong European influences in this area. European cycle standards tend to describe minimum safety requirements, while ISO standards have encouraged companies to make bike parts a particular way so they are interchangeable.
Airline safety lesson
Ferry and Willacker are both avid cyclists. When asked for if his perspective on bike part failures has changed since he started working at Microbac, Willacker said it has. "Riding my mountain bike and making a jump, I start thinking about the stresses involved."
He believes the airline industry has the right idea. Airlines routinely schedule parts replacements, rather than chancing a catastrophic fatigue failure. It's a good policy to keep in mind as your bike parts pile on the miles.
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Learning the Basic Crochet Stitches
Are you learning how to crochet or looking for a few tips on crochet stitch basics? Let's start with the basics. Every crochet project is built from a series of cleverly placed crochet stitches. And a solid understanding of the crochet basic stitches is essential for any crocheter.
In this free eBook, you will find a crochet stitch guide for the basic stitches you will need to create beautiful works of crochet art.
A handy list of crochet abbreviations will be invaluable as you learn to interpret the language of crochet. Keep this handy list close at hand.
There are several different crochet stitches available to start your crochet project. The most common method is the chain stitch. This easy crochet stitch is not only the base of many crochet projects but is also an essential stitch to know when creating lace fabrics and the simplest stitch in your repertoire.
The adjustable loop is a great option for projects such as hats where you do not want an opening on your first round of stitches. The ingenious adjustable loop is also known as the magic ring or magic loop.
For a foundation with elasticity, try the foundation single crochet or foundation double crochet. These easy crochet stitches allow you to work both the beginning chain and first row of single crochet or double crochet stitches at the same time. No more trying to work stitches into a beginning chain.
The slip stitch and single crochet are the shortest of the crochet stitches. These sturdy stitches are perfect for joining rounds and for working solid fabrics and colorwork techniques such as Bosnian crochet and tapestry crochet.
The half double crochet beautifully blends added height with a dense fabric. This easy stitch is a great introduction to the yarn over.
For a taller stitch, try the double crochet and treble crochet. These quick stitches are beloved for their economical use of yarn and their speed. Projects worked in these basic stitches boast incredible drape but do not provide as dense of coverage as their smaller cousins.
The Wool Bam Boo Scarf by Judith L. Swartz will build on the crochet stitches you have learned and introduce you to decreases. This beautiful crocheted scarf is worked in a soft wool and bamboo-blend yarn.
Use the basic crochet stitches you just learned to whip up the Quick Cuffs by Toni Rexroat. The 100% wool yarn means these cuffs keep you warm on cold days, and the variegation allows them to be worn with multiple outfits.
As you combine and build on these basic crochet stitches, you will form a solid crochet foundation. So download your free copy of Techniques for Different Crochet Stitches: A Crochet Stitch Guide from the Crochet Me Experts today.
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Talking Comics with the Jersey Devil
Power STILL hasn't been restored in my cave deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, but this is probably due to the fact that it never had any. I knew this was going to be a bad storm when the Jersey Devil showed up at my cave and asked if he could plug his phone into my charger.
I never knew the Jersey Devil was into comics. He had dropped by my cave a few times in the past to borrow sugar, and one time because his friends had baked him some brownies and couldn't eat them all. When he saw Before Watchmen Silk Spectre on my coffee table, he freaked out.
"YEAH!" he hooted. "I had heard about these! Are they any good? Is there, like, an overall plot?"
Some are great, I said, some aren't. NO, I said, they follow their own narratives. I told him I was getting pretty excited about Before Watchmen Moloch #1 coming out this week because it was drawn by Eduardo "100 Bullets" Risso.
"I liked that Spaceman book he just did. I used to love seeing his stuff in Heavy Metal," said the Devil.
"That's getting a deluxe hardcover edition this week from Vertigo," I mentioned. "Wow! I didn't know you liked comic books, The New Jersey Devil," I said. He likes being called by his full name…he's oddly formal like that.
"Bigfoot is really into them and he lent me some stuff," he said. "I'm really looking forward to Avenging Spider-Man #14 this week. Spidey's going to team up with Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur!"
The New Jersey Devil has a pretty good point. Devil Dinosaur is awesome.
Marvel is launching a new Iron Man title with a new #1 this week. Tony seems to be sporting his new Black and Gold armor he'll be wearing in the most of the Marvel Now titles. I'm on board.
Few talk about Vertigo these days, but this week Vertigo is bringing a top tier table of titles. The first of their authorized Stieg Larsson graphic novel adaptations hits the shelves with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo TP, as well as the sequel to the comic which inspired the film Road to Perdition, the aptly named Return to Perdition.
The debut graphic novel Black Lung from Chris Wright and Fantagraphics books also looks intriguing. Black Lung is already garnering critical praise and getting some great press. 'Tis a story of love and loss, and one man's quest to commit as much unspeakable sin as he can in order to be reunited with his dead wife in Hell.
There are also a couple of sweet art books hitting the shelves this week. Famed fantasy artist Brom has an original art novel called Krampus: The Yule Lord featuring everybody's favorite Christmastime crazy, the Krampus! PLUS, a brand new book from Scott C. in the form of Great Showdowns.
Scott C. is a wonder! If you haven't picked up Amazing Everything, Scott C.'s first book of fantastic illustrations, NOW would be a great time! The holidays are fast approaching, and there ain't nobody that you know who wouldn't want this book for their very own!
NEXT WEEK: The Disney/Lucas merger and what it means for us all. Till then, stay dry!
More musings from Unkiedev, Earth's own sidekick, can be read at unkiedev.blogspot.com


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The Arduino Mega 2560 R3 board is built upon an AVR ATmega2560 microcontroller running at 16MHz. The ATmega is pre-programmed with the Arduino bootloader that allows you to upload code to the ATmega2560 via USB using the open-source Arduino development environment. The ATmega2560's UART0 is connected to an ATmega16U2 USB-to-Serial converter chip, so you can connect the board to your PC via USB and download your code.
The board has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 14 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button.
It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable, or power it with an optional AC-to-DC adapter (7V to 12V DC), or a 9V battery to get started. The Arduino Mega board is compatible with most "shields" (add-on boards) designed for the Arduino Uno, Duemilanove or Diecimila boards.
This board is R3, making it also compatible with newer Arduino shields that use additional pins. Arduino R3 adds SDA and SCL pins near the AREF pin, and two other new pins placed near the RESET pin. One is called IOREF, which allows R3 shields to adapt to the voltage provided from the board. The other new pin is not connected; it is reserved for future purposes.
Because the board features Atmel's own USB-to-Serial chip instead of an FTDI chip, there is no need for drivers under Linux or Mac (only an .inf file included with the Arduino IDE is required for Windows), and you have the ability to make the board show up as various types of devices.
Arduino is an open-source platform based on boards featuring an Atmel AVR microcontroller with a pre-programmed bootloader and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to software on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). The open-source IDE can be downloaded for free (currently for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux).
Note: If you choose the GSM/GPRS Module for Arduino add-on board below, you also will need a compatible antenna which is not included.


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Barbarians Rugby
Barbarians confirm squad for summer tour
ESPN Staff
May 15, 2012
Mils Muliaina will line up for the BaaBaas © Getty Images
The Barbarians have confirmed their squad for their three-match summer tour.
The 33-man party includes players from ten different countries and three figures who hold in excess of 100 caps for their country. The Barbarians face England, Ireland and Wales over the course of a week and have a wealth of talent at their disposal.
The latest additions to the party include All Blacks centurion Mils Muliaina, South Africa World Cup winning captain John Smit, Leinster's Isa Nacewa and Pumas half-back Felipe Contepomi.
From a home nations point of view, all eyes will be on England's Mike Tindall, Wales' Stephen Jones and Scotland's Rory Lawson. They will line up alongside Shane Williams who brings down the curtain on his career in their match against Wales on June 2.
The team, coached by John Kirwan with Grant Doorey has assistant, meets in London on May 22.
Barbarians' squad:
Forwards - Schalk Brits (South Africa), Benoit August (France), John Smit (South Africa), Aled de Malmanche (New Zealand), John Afoa (New Zealand), Duncan Jones (Wales), B J Botha (South Africa), Neemia Tialata (New Zealand), Jerome Thion (France), Mick O'Driscoll (Ireland), Anton van Zyl (South Africa), Pelu Taele (Samoa), Raphael Lakafia (France), Antoine Burban (France), Akupusi Qera (Fiji), John Beattie (Scotland), Pedrie Wannenburg (South Africa), Juan Manuel Leguizamon (Argentine)
Backs - Isa Nacewa (Fiji), Mils Muliaina (New Zealand), Ian Balshaw (England), Cedric Heymans (France), Shane Williams (Wales), Paul Sackey (England), Sailosi Tagicakibau (Samoa), Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu (Samoa), Mike Tindall (England), Damien Traille (France), Felipe Contepomi (Argentine), Stephen Donald (New Zealand), Stephen Jones (Wales), Rory Lawson (Scotland), Jerome Fillol (France)
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