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Garden and CSS News, Conspiracy Theorists Unite!July 26, 2003
Note: If you're looking for the comment Tantek has made about the CSS validator, due to archiving changes on this site you may now find it here.
If you haven't been to the Zen Garden in a while, go! The current front page set of designs (Hedges through to Not So Minimal) is absolutely amazing, and way exceeds my vision of what this would become. Everyone who has submitted so far ought to be proud; this is a quite a thing we've got here.
As well, the translations list is growing. Twelve languages are complete, and I have four more in the works. I've learned a lot working with foreign character sets, and I'll write about my findings in the future. For the time being, take a look at Jukka Korpella's thoughts on multilingual authoring for the web, written after his experience translating the Garden to Finnish (coming soon!)
It's getting a bit harder to keep up with the volume of submissions. I work with almost every designer to bring their work up to Zen Garden standards, and I've tried to give as helpful and constructive criticism as possible to the work that doesn't make the cut. I have at least 10 submissions on hand right now, some will make it, most won't. That's 10 people I have to spend 5 to 10 minutes writing back; it adds up.
How am I doing so far? Consider this a chance to voice your opinion about the way I'm running the Garden. I've made many small changes along the way thanks to feedback, and I'm open to more. Just remember — I can tweak non-display code like titles and accesskeys, but there are far too many designs to modify structure. §
Seamus Leahy is at it again. Reminiscent to the Literary Moose's CSS Destroy table experiments (look for 'A Rose of Winds'), he's come up with some really interesting alternative table formatting for browsers that can handle CSS-2's Table Model. §
For anyone looking for a slightly less ambitious challenge than the Zen Garden, Nic Steenhout has written me about a contest he's running. The Internet Bonsai Club is looking for a CSS makeover. 500 people a day visit his site, so it could be some rather respectable exposure. Take a look. §
Holy signal to noise, Batman. Like, what? Some days I start to wonder if Mark Pilgrim is on to something when he closes comments on older threads. §
Reader Comments
First of all Dave, you are doing a great job!
Now the feedback…
From the 'CSS Zen Garden' HTML page:
The media attribute specifies 'screen'. This, of course, makes perfect sense as the designs are rich and visual in nature. They're not meant for aural, print, small screen, etc…
However, some of the submissions use the 'voice-family hack' to deal with the IE 5 box model problem. While I definitely see the reasoning and value in using the hack (heck, I used it myself!), it ultimately results in validation error:
Property voice-family doesn't exist for media screen : ""}""
If I'm not mistaken (and if I am please feel free to correct me) but part of the reason that the Garden exists is to show the value of standards-based design. The 'Garden' page also uses a strict XHTML doctype so the assumption can be made that adhering to standards is paramount to making the case for standards-based design.
My humble solution: Include an (admittedly ugly) condtional statement in the head section if IE 5 must be supported. Yes it is an ugly hack (arguably not more so than adding extra div tags for purely presentational reasons), *but* its completely valid. Its not *valid* in the sense that its tricking the validator either, but actually valid in that its really just a comment in the mark-up to every browser but IE 5+.
This is what I use on my site Zeit.ca:
<!–[if IE 5]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/style/hacks.css">
I do this to keep my main stylesheet free of hacks and at some future date it makes removing IE 5 support incredibly easy as all the hacks are stored in their own file.
This addition would not break any current designs and would allow authors the ability to support IE 5 in their design without resorting to hacks that prevent validation.
The commenting system stripped out a line from my last message:
"From the 'CSS Zen Garden' HTML page:
<style type="text/css" media="screen" title="currentStyle">"
Oh, for Pete's sake. I just changed the media type last week from "all", and hadn't realized it broke the box model hack.
Guess why I changed it? That's right: accessibility concerns. Specifying media="all" has issues with Fahrner Image Replacement in screen readers, since they'll pick up the display: none;. I figured an easy way out was changing the media type, and as an added bonus it got me thinking about opening the floodgates for print media style sheet submissions too.
Well, I guess that's out.
Alright — onload javascript dropped, and media type deleted. So that opens me up again to people complaining about FIR breaking JAWS, but in this case I'm going to have to choose valid CSS over a small accessibility concern which isn't entirely relevant anyway.
The Zen Garden is well linked in a lot of german weblogs, as far as I read them. It was mentioned a lot of times in the css-d-mailing list (that's where I heard of it the first time) which is pretty multinational.
It is suggested as reference in the IWA/HWG CSS Intermediate online course.
So I think that a far amount of potential submitters even outside US/UK/Canada should be aware of this project.
Dave - I understand your point of view. Besides, it's absolutely not your fault that there is a lack of international submissions. And, of course, I understand that you're not going to refuse outstanding submissions that fall within a certain geographic region that is already well represented.
Anyway, to make my point I decided it was time I roll up my sleeves and get to work to produce a submission. That way maybe Holland might get a place in that list (if it's good enough).
Dave wrote: "media type deleted"
I am not "intimate" with the spec so please correct me if I am mistaken: If you don't include a media type is that not the same as specifying a media type of ALL? Sure the CSS and XHTML will validate, but devices like webTV/small screen etc… would be correct in trying to render the site using the CSS provided when really they should not (WebTV renders it regardless, but that is besides the point).
Again, I completely understand your reasoning, however it just strikes me as being 'incorrect' (albeit pragmatic).
Just one request: is there any chance you could lose the status bar effect? It's annoying in browsers that support multiple tabs as it tends to stick around on other pages, but more importantly it makes it impossible to see which images are being loaded while watching the page render, which helps the visitor understand how the design is structured (particularly when on a slow connection).
MikeyC - yes, AFAIK, no media type is the same as media="all"
There's really no elegant solution for this one. Either our CSS as media="screen" breaks the validator when we use Tantek's hack, or all devices get the same CSS and it validates.
I'd prefer to use screen, but not at the expense of validation. If someone can come up with an elegant solution that doesn't involve stripping out all Tantek hacks and placing them in a separate CSS file, I'm all ears. Not only would accessibility concerns be solved, I'd be able to also add media="print" and open that up for submissions too.
"There's really no elegant solution for this one."
Perhaps in a year's time the act of simply hiding CSS from IE 5 can be assessed (using the high pass filter or whatever), just as CSS is currently hidden from Netscape 4. IE 5 currently has around 30-40% marketshare?? How low must it go before you would feel comfortable hiding CSS from it and its broken box model?
How low? Consider some still code for NN4.x's 1.5% or lower market share… Me personally, on the Zen Garden? I'd say 10% or lower would be enough for me to start hiding CSS from IE5, but you can guarantee I'd get a lot of e-mail about that if it ever happened.
The Garden is seen in a lot of different lights; some think it goes too far and isn't practical on today's web, while others think it doesn't go far enough and is overloaded with unsemantic junk. The majority gets it, but the splinter groups on either side seem to be the most vocal.
Still, it's about practical CSS that can be used today (for the most part — I broke a few rules with 'mnemonic', and have bent them once or twice for other designs) and supporting IE5 is well within that definition.
I noticed you have an impressive list of translations available of the CSS Zen Garden. However, there's not much of an international representation in the list of official designs. It's mostly anglosaxon designers that dominate the list (errr, and Germany). I think it's time the international webdesign community outside the US, UK and Canada wake up and submit their work. In the future it might be an idea to limit submissions to countries that are not yet represented. Of course this would mean (positive) discrimination, but heck, it would limit the number of submissions.
You could have an "International Submission Month", a month where the only submissions that will be accepted or those of designers from countries not yet listed. Sure, quality matters. It still has to be good! After that month, submissions can resume to normal. Ah well, just a suggestion.
Good points Simon - I've had others complain about that too. It may yet go.
Didier - If designers outside English-speaking countries need to be better represented, it's up to them to submit. Maybe the Garden needs to be better-promoted on non-English webogs; I can't do this on my own, not the least reason of which is that I pretty much speak English only.
I'm not playing the political game, so if you see a deficiency, it's only because I haven't received anything. Your ideas are interesting, but I'm not going to start denying good work just because it doesn't match my geographical criteria ;)
I have now create a second example for the reformatted table.
The problem I'm finding is that as soon as I put any position (relative or absolute) on the extra divs, they imediately assume relativity to the top and left of the entire page body (as they should, based on what they ARE relative to). So the furthest down on the page I can get them is where bottom of the initial screen loads (and after that they stick there and don't move with the scrolling).
If you know a way around this, let me know. My suggestion of a few extra divs within the #container would be a viable workaround, but if there's a way to do it without that change, I want to know what it is (so I can use it!).
(It's very possible that I just am overlooking something. Any suggestions from anybody?)
The Garden is fantastic, a real eye opener for people who think that using CSS imposes a boring sameness. However, I do have one little grammatical weed to point out. The first sentence is either in the past tense, which seems a bit odd, or you have mispelled "lie". In other words, the sentence should be:
"Littering a dark and dreary road lie the past relics of browser�specific tags, incompatible DOMs, and broken CSS support."
See this page for an explanation of "lay" versus "lie".
Jai — maybe it's your floats. If large parts of your design are floated, it's possible the extra divs are starting from a different spot than the bottom of the document. Since position: relative; completely relies on where the element starts from, this is relevant.
Try this:
#extraDiv1 {
position: relative;
top: -20px;
left: 20px;
If it's showing up anywhere but the bottom of the page (possibly overlapping elements on the bottom) then something's wrong.
The first sentence is either in the past tense, which seems a bit odd, or you have mispelled "lie".
Possible. I can't remember what process made me pick "lay" over "lie", but I seem to remember struggling with this one. Do others concur?
Dave wrote: "I'll take a closer look at this when I have some time. It looks promising, but I'd a) have to throw IE6 into Quirks mode (which would involve heavy retro-fitting)"
Would it really? Wouldn't it simply require adding an xml prolog to the beginning of the document (above the doctype) to throw IE 6 into quirks mode while leaving Mozilla, Opera, Safari in standards mode…
" I'd have to write a special section on using it instead of the Tantek hack."
Let's not forget that we end up in the same place anyways: validation error. Using CSS 3 is not valid as its not a final recommendation yet. Even if it were: Using the vendor-specific -moz- won't validate either. I think it just makes the situation worse quite frankly. As you stated before: as long as IE 5 must be supported there really is no "elegant" solution.
Would it really?
Yes it would. Notice how adding -border-box-sizing forces Mozilla into using IE5's broken box model, rather than vice-versa. Consider the Tantek hacks at work in the Garden, and that the designs take for granted the proper W3C box model. If we go and swap box models on them, they will break.
Let's not forget that we end up in the same place anyways: validation error.
This is the more relevant of the points; I haven't tried out the technique in any capacity yet, so I was taking Brownstone's word for it that it doesn't get flagged as an error. I wasn't even aware box-sizing was a CSS-3 property, actually; -moz-box-sizing obviously isn't.
The goal: a validating box model hack that allows me to use media="screen" without having to add a secondary style sheet specifically for the hacks. Will this do it? I don't know. I'll investigate when I have time.
Dave wrote: "Consider the Tantek hacks at work in the Garden"
Yes, I didn't account for current submissions…my oversight… otherwise i think its sound:
IE 5 in quirks mode using IE box model;
IE 6 in quirks mode due to XML prolog, therefore using IE box model;
Mozilla in Standards mode using the CSS-property & vendor-specific -moz- gives you the IE box model;
Opera in standards mode using the CSS-property gives you the IE box model (Opera in quirks mode would give you the IE box model too, btw)
You could serve up a legacy page for existing submissions and a new page for anything from here on out…just a suggestion… ;)
As you stated before: as long as IE 5 must be supported there really is no "elegant" solution.
But there are easier ways to overcome IE5's limitation. Tantek's hack, while ingenious, adds an awful lot of confusing guff to a CSS file. Which brings me to…
If we go and swap box models on them, they will break.
But you wouldn't have to sit down and think out new values, because they already exist as part of the hack � those "broken" box-model values are already in place. You just have to remove the W3C box-model values and the voice- hack specifics and you're home free. But then, I would say that, since I'm not the one who has to do it. ;o)
I wasn't even aware box-sizing was a CSS-3 property, actually; -moz-box-sizing obviously isn't.
Only Opera supports box-sizing as far as I know, and yes; the -moz equivalent is proprietary to Mozilla of course. Even so, the validator didn't even raise an eyebrow when I tested it.
"You just have to remove the W3C box-model values and the voice- hack specifics and you're home free."
Personally, I don't like the idea that authors would be restricted from using the correct box model for the sake of IE 5. I think if you travel down that road it has the potential to severely undermine the Garden's credibility.
They do not have to be restricted; you can leave all the current styles as-is, and just draw attention to the above solution for those who would create a Garden design in the future. All Mr. Shea would need to do is add the XML prolog to the top of the HTML file, and Tantek/Non-Tantek hacked style-sheets could live happily on the same server.
Where designers would be restricted is if the box-sizing hack were added in-line to the HTML file, before the @import statement to load the chosen style.
Addendum to the above post � Bugger; does the Tantek hack work in IE6? If not, then I guess the XML prolog thing wouldn�t work. I didn�t think of that before I posted.
Mr. Brownstone: "They do not have to be restricted; you can leave all the current styles as-is, and just draw attention to the above solution for those who would create a Garden design in the future."
But if you add the XML prolog it throws IE into quirks mode and because it lacks the same parsing bug as IE 5 the voice family hack has no effect. Therefore existing submissions that use the W3C box model would break .
"Bugger; does the Tantek hack work in IE6?"
hehe…i guess i was writing my submission while u were writing your appendum…see my previous post where it appears I am stating the obvious.
Hey Dave, would it break anybody's existing CSS submissions if you threw in a few extra blank divs within the #container div? I just think that could be helpful for people who want to position things on the bottom of the page (like bottom corners).
If it would break current designs, forget I said anything :)
Jai — the blank DIVs are already at the bottom of the page; I don't think another set within a specific DIV will help very much. And if I do that, I should put them in the header as well, so it's balanced, right? ;)
The 6 extra DIVs are for hacks, basically — creative use of CSS should mean they're not needed, and most designs don't use them, but they're around just in case. I've made use of them on occasion, so they are definitely valuable; just against the spirit of what CSS should do.
Also, Finnish and Japanese translations are now up.
I would like to suggest an alternative for Tantek's IE hack, which I use myself and does not seem to be caught by the validator. (Even though most of my personal CSS files are riddled with other kinds of errors, this doesn't seem to be one of them ;-):html * {
box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
}All this does is force Mozilla, Opera, – and any other CSS3 savvy browser that understands box-sizing – to work with the IE-based box-model rather than the W3C default. Since IE's model makes much more sense to most people, it's quite a convenient hack. You need only specify one value for width, height, and so on, and these values in turn are easier to figure out.
The inspiration for this hack came from Peter-Paul Koch�s box-model tweaking and * selector pages. Indeed, it is simply a rip-off of both to get the result I wanted.
I hope a viable solution can come of it.
I hear what you are saying, Dave, but hear me out a moment on the extra divs.
The Garden page is kinda like this:
-supplemetal text
-end container
-extra divs
-end Body
I understand eth value of having the extra divs under everything- so they can be absolutely positioned from the top:0 and left:0, but on designs that scroll down (which is most of them), nothing can be attached to the bottom (unless there is a property I am unaware of- I know Mozilla can relatively position divs with a "bottom:" command, but IE seems to ignore that). If there was one or 2 extra divs in the #container, that would allow relative div alignment to the bottom of that container.
I agree, in the "Real world" of designing, extra divs just don't make sense,- but for the purposes of a very customizable CSS demonstration, I think that they do make sense.
Of course, it's your garden :) Plant whatever tomatoes you want! I'm just suggesting that cherry tomatoes would grow nicely in it ;)
I hope a viable solution can come of it.
I'll take a closer look at this when I have some time. It looks promising, but I'd a) have to throw IE6 into Quirks mode (which would involve heavy retro-fitting) and b) I'd have to write a special section on using it instead of the Tantek hack. It will most likely be too much trouble, but you never know.
Jai — think about it a bit more; those DIVs are already at the bottom of the document. Using relative, not absolute positioning, or even just using them in place without modifying the positioning, you should be able to accomplish whatever you need to down there. They're outside of #container, granted, but that shouldn't be much of a problem with some creative CSS.
I use the following solution, it's spawn off from Tantek's hack:
body > div#name{
And off course you need to put IE6 into quircks mode, but that isn't a big deal.
More of the same:
Vermin in the Garden
I've basically just reiterated my personal stance on dealing with the problem.
No updates for 3 days makes baby jesus cry.
Dave wrote: "The goal: a validating box model hack that allows me to use media="screen"…"
Just brainstorming here and haven't really twisted my brain all the way through the scenerio:
Wouldn't specifying media types of screen & aural be a possible solution?
eg: <style type="text/css" media="screen,aural">
I have no clue about any actual implementations out there, but in theory, a "screen reader" should ignore the stylesheet altogether considering that a "screen reader" is not the equivalent of a "browser that understands aural style sheets". TV devices, handhelds, etc should in theory also ignore the stylesheet as its marked specifically for either screen or aural capable devices.
If this is so, then surely its a better bet than specifying a media type of "all" (which "screen readers" do pick up).
The hack should validate and the 'voice family' is essentially meaningless as used in the hack so it shouldn't cause an aural browser too much difficulty.
Interesting thinking, but two flaws I can see off-hand (feel free to correct me if they don't apply) — the biggest is that aural IS, in fact, intended for screen readers. The official word on the CSS2 spec is that aural is for speech synthesizers, which is more or less exactly what a screen reader is. JAWS audibly dictates the screen to you.
The second and more obscure is that your method might actually knock out IE6 as well. Seemingly, it doesn't pick up multiple media types.
Dave, since your contact form is still broken, I'm using this to tell you that if you don't have anyone working on a Swedish translation for the Zen Garden I'd be willing to help.
Does that also count for media="" or only for @import, btw you should use media="screen aural" without ','.
Dave wrote: "the biggest is that aural IS, in fact, intended for screen readers. "
This could, indeed, be correct. I just happen to recall reading something to the contrary…but I might be confused ;)
As long as it doesn't trip up IE 6 then its at the very least a better solution than media="all" as small-screen devices and TV devices will ignore it.
>Consider this a chance to voice your opinion about the way I�m running the >Garden.
I think you should add anchors to the css Zen Garden � Design List page to make it easier to link to the different sections. Individual submission anchors would be even cooler ;)
themes and look�alikesconceptualminimalall others
Good idea, now that the list is getting so huge. Thanks, I'll try to do that soon!
I think it's impossible to change now, but HTML is not an acronym….
Hiya all
I've noticed some designs in the garden have a "clipping" problem in NN7 when window is reduced in size. Mine did too that's how I came across it. ;)
The problem is triggered by putting a width on the container div and then using margin: 0 auto;
#container {
margin:0 auto;
this can be corrected by also adding a min-width to the #container element or to the body element
just thought I'd share this as I found someone else speaking about it on their website and can't remember who..sorry
A couple of quick points:
1. The CSS Validator is buggy with respect to media specifc properties
> Property voice-family doesn't exist for media screen : ""}""
This is an error in the CSS validator itself and has been reported. The validator should report a warning, not an error.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2001Jul/0086.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2001Oct/0070.html
My advice: validate your style sheet as an media independent file, and then @import it within a media dependent element as necessary.
2. box-sizing
>I wasn't even aware box-sizing was a CSS-3 property, actually;
which is expected to finally go to CR in a month or so which will make it officially ok to implement/use box-sizing.
>Only Opera supports box-sizing as far as I know
IE5/Mac has supported box-sizing since March 2000.
While it wouldn't fix the Zen Garden issue of dealing with already-made designs, couldn't the Tantek hack be implimented with a property other than voice-family? As long as the property can be assigned a string, and is allowed in screen-media style sheets, it would work without causing validation issues.
How about the 'text-align' property, which is allowed to take a string ( http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#propdef-text-align ); or the 'quotes' property? Something like this:
Is there anything wrong with this idea? I haven't actually tried it out…
This is quite possibly old news by now considering it hit the web yesterday ;)
Tantek's "Mid Pass Filter" could be a possible solution to the problem touched upon in this thread. Unfortunately, it would require reworking existing Garden Designs in order to validate, but it would allow CSS Zen Garden to use the proper media type: "screen" and at the same time allow authors to feed IE5/5.5Win unique style rules to deal with its incorrect box model.
Here's an example that validates:
Note: There are no actual IE5/5.5Win style rules in the example. It's just to show that validation is possible.


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Bangkok. Juvenile prostitutes in a center that shelters them.
Pattaya. Young boy "streetwalker" outside the seaside bars.
Chiang Mai. A brothel for young prostitutes.
Town of Pattaya.
A young girl with her client in a hotel; he's charged $12.
Pattaya. Group of young prostitutes detained during a police raid at Jomtien "gay" beach.
Pattaya. The well known Jomtien "gay" beach, minutes before a police raid. Both small boys were later detained by the police.
Town of Pattaya.
A prostitute's daughter playing with a customer of the bar where she spends much of her time.
Town of Pattaya.
The redlight district at night.
Patpong. Young prostitutes at the Princess Castle bar.
Pattaya. Juvenile prostitutes being detained during a police raid on Jomtien "gay" beach.
Pattaya. The Jomtien "gay" beach. After a police raid, a juvenile prostitute is detained.
THAILAND. Pattaya. Juvenile prostitutes waiting for customers in a "gay" bar. 1993.
THAILAND. Pattaya. Juvenile prostitutes detained during a police raid on Jomtien "gay" beach. 1993.
Pattaya. The Jomtien "gay" beach. Police chasing juvenile prostitutes.
THAILAND. Pattaya. A Child re-education Center for former prostitutes and delinquents. Leh, 13 years old, is a former prostitute, who was sold by her mother to
Meo hilltribe near Chiang Mai. School girls from the Meo village, this is the kind of village that recruiters go to find girls to work in bars and the sex busin
Pattaya. Jomtien "gay" beach, young boys with tourists.
Pattaya. Juvenile prostitutes detained by police after a raid on Jomtien's "gay" beach.
THAILAND. Pattaya. Young girl streetwalkers with their "pimps". 1993.
Pattaya. Juvenile prostitutes in the Sirene "gay" Bar.
Town of Chiang Mai.
Juvenile prostitute aged 14, coming from the region of Mae Song, in a secret brothel.
Town of Pattaya.
Juvenile prostitutes at the police station after a raid on the beach of Jomtien, frequented by foreign pedophiles.
Town of Pattaya.
"The Sirene " homosexual Bar, young boy with tourist.
Pattaya. A Child re-education Center for former prostitutes. Pen, who is 9 years old, was selling chewing gum in the redlight district up to 5 am in the morning
Chiang Mai. A young prostitute of 14 years old, biding her time.
Town of Pattaya.
Juvenile prostitutes with tourists.
Town of Pattaya.
Pimps protecting their streetwalker girls.
Bangkok.Patpong district.
"Princess' Castle Bar".
THAILAND. Juvenile prostitution. 1993.
Town of Pattaya.
Young boy "streetwalker" looking for clients outside the seaside bars.
Town of Pattaya.
Juvenile prostitutes under arrest after a raid on the beach of Jomtien, frequented by foreign pedophiles.
Pattaya. A child re-eduction center, Malee who is 12 years old, is being given shelter.
Pattaya. A child re-education center and shelter. Former prostitutes Malee who is 12, and Phon who is 13, during a psychotherapy session in the shelter.
THAILAND. Juvenile prostitution.


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"You know you want to!" they said.
"Give us our preciousssss!" they said.
Two of the above three are verbatim quotes from my inbox. I am, if nothing else, a slave to your affections, my dear Reader.
This year's cakes are probably the "easiest on the eyes", as our colonial cousins over the Atlantic would probably say. I am quite the sucker when it comes to pretty watercolours, and, if you wrap your tea in pretty watercolours, then I am almost already sold on the tea.
The monsters mostly come at night. Mostly.
August, 2013
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When referring to the earliest followers of Jesus, the Gospel writers often speak of two groups of disciples: the Twelve and the Women. The Twelve refer to the twelve Jewish men chosen by Jesus to be his closest companions and first apostles, symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Women refer to an unspecified number of female disciples who also followed Jesus, welcoming him into their homes, financing his ministry, and often teaching the Twelve through their acts of faithfulness and love. Just as Jesus predicted, most of the Twelve abandoned him at his death (John 16:32). But the women remained by his side—through his death, burial, and resurrection. This is the fourth installment of a four-part series about the women who surrounded Jesus during his passion. (See Part 1: The Woman at Bethany Anoints Jesus, Part 2: Mary's Heart is Pierced Again, Part 3: The Women Wait.) Happy Easter!
"Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news:
'I have seen the Lord!'"
—John 20:18
The story of how Mary Magdalene became known as a prostitute is a complicated one.
One of at least six Marys that followed Jesus as a disciple, she was distinguished from the others through identification with her hometown of Magdala, a fishing village off the coast of the Sea of Galilee. According to the gospels of Mark and Luke, Jesus cleansed Mary of seven demons, after which Mary became a devoted disciple, mentioned by Luke in the same context as the Twelve, who traveled with Jesus and helped finance his ministry.
In 597 Pope Gregory the Great delivered a homily on Luke's gospel in which he combined Mary Magdalene with Mary of Bethany (Martha's sister), suggesting that this Mary was the same woman who wept at Jesus' feet in Luke 7, and that one of the seven demons Jesus excised from her was sexual immorality. The idea caught on and was perpetuated in medieval art and literature, which often portrayed Mary as a weeping, penitent prostitute. In fact, the English word maudlin, meaning "weak and sentimental," finds its derivation in this distorted image of Mary Magdalene. In 1969, the Vatican formally restated the Gospels' distinction between Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, and the sinful woman of Luke 7, although it seems Martin Scorsese, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Mel Gibson have yet to get the memo.
A cynic might suggest that this mistake and its subsequent popularity represent a deliberate attempt to typecast and discredit a woman whose role in the gospel story is so critical and so revolutionary that the Eastern Orthodox Church refers to Mary Magdalene as Equal to the Apostles.
Although she appears to have been a critical part of Jesus' early ministry, Mary Magdalene's extraordinary faithfulness shines most brightly in the story of the Passion.
Gospel accounts vary, but all four identify Mary Magdalene as among the first witnesses of the empty tomb.
According to the Synoptic Gospels, she and a group of women rose early that fateful morning, three days after Jesus had died, to anoint the body with spices and perfumes. When they arrived at the tomb, they were met by divine messengers guarding the entrance, who declared that Jesus had risen from the dead, just as he said he would. The women immediately left the tomb behind and, "with fear and great joy," (Matthew 28:8) ran to tell the other disciples.
Luke notes that on their way, they remembered what Jesus had taught them about resurrection, confirmation of the fact that these women had been present for some of Christ's most important and intimate revelations and that they took these teachings to heart.
But when the breathless women arrived at the home where the disciples had gathered, the men did not believe them. Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that perhaps explains why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an "idle tale," the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women. Perhaps the men invoked the widely held belief that, just like their sister Eve, women were easily duped.
A few, however, were curious enough to take a look at the tomb, and so, according to John's account, Mary returned with Peter and another disciple to the place she had encountered the messengers. The men saw for themselves an empty grave and a pile of linen wrappings folded neatly within it, and conceded to the women that the tomb was indeed empty. However, John 20:9 notes, "they still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead."
The men returned to report what they had seen to the rest of the disciples, leaving Mary behind. Perhaps the disciples posited the theory that Jesus' body had been stolen, for John wrote that Mary, once so full of breathless excitement and impassioned belief, now stood outside the tomb, crying.
Angels appeared and asked her what was wrong.
"They have taken my Lord away," she told them, fully accepting the disciple's dismissal of her "idle tale" of resurrection, "and I don't know where they have put him"
The angels were then joined by a mysterious man, whom Mary assumed to be the gardener. He, too, asked why she was crying.
"Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him," she pleaded.
Only when he called her by her name did she recognize the man as Jesus.
"Mary," he said.
"Rabboni!" she cried.
"Do not hold on to me," Jesus urged as she fell before his feet, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."
And so again, Mary Magdalene ran to the house where the disciples were staying and told them she had seen the risen savior face-to-face.
"I have seen the Lord!" she declared.
But it was not until Jesus appeared to the men in person, allowing them to touch the wounds in his hands and side, that they finally believed.
Stephen J. Binz notes that "her announcement, 'I have seen the Lord,' is the same credential used by Paul to insist on his own authority as an apostle: 'Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lored?' (1 Cor. 9:1). The church's belief in the resurrection originated with the evangelical witness of this woman."
Far from being easily deceived, women were the first to make the connection between Christ's teachings from Scripture and his resurrection, and the first to believe these teachings when they mattered the most. For her valor in twice sharing the good news to the skeptical male disciples, the early church honored Mary Magdalene with the title of Apostle to the Apostles.
That Christ ushered in this new era of life and liberation in the presence of women, and that he sent them out as the first witnesses of the complete gospel story, is perhaps the boldest, most overt affirmation of their equality in his kingdom that Jesus ever delivered.
And yet too many Easter services begin with a man standing before a congregation of Christians and shouting, "He is risen!" to a chorused response of "He is risen indeed!"
Were we to honor the symbolic details of the text, that honor would always belong to a woman.
(Today's post is an excerpt from A Year of Biblical Womanhood, to be released in October.) Have a blessed Easter! He is risen!
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You'll Like The 2009 Dodge Ram 3500 If...
Anyone who regularly needs the services of a rugged, high-capacity pickup with excellent powertrain choices, lots of room and stellar towing capabilities should find some iteration of the Dodge Ram 2500 or 3500 worth considering.
You May Not Like The 2009 Dodge Ram 3500 If...
Those who place a high importance on interior design and features may find more to admire in the Ram's heavy-duty competitors from Ford and GM. The Mega Cab's scale also requires mega-sized garages or parking spots.
What's New
The 5.7-liter HEMI V8 is upgraded to 355 horsepower and 395 pound-feet of torque. The 6.7-liter Cummins Turbo Diesel is now the standard engine on all 3500 models and can now be equipped with remote start.
Interior Features
Depending upon configuration and trim, interiors vary from decently civil in a vinyl-clad ST-level Regular Cab Ram 2500 with its 40/20/40-split bench seat, to quite nice in a cloth-covered six-passenger SXT or SLT Quad Cab and to demonstrably upscale in a leather-swathed and ultra-spacious Laramie-spec Mega Cab. The instruments are legible and most switches and controls well positioned – although the audio system selector buttons and the undersized display for the optional navigation system could use a rethink. While the Quad Cab's 60/40-split flat-folding rear seat will carry three adults in reasonable comfort, stepping up to Mega Cab spaciousness makes the aft quarters downright inviting and adds power-adjustable pedals plus numerous comfort and convenience touches.
Exterior Features
The "big rig" look is a long-time Ram styling cue, and the 2500 and 3500 lineup carries on with the now-classic Dodge face that matches a prominent "gunsight" crossbar grille surrounded by bold brightwork (dark grey on the base ST) with squared-off fenders and wraparound headlamps. Additional shiny bits and chrome wheels are parts of higher trim levels, but no Ram truck includes a locking tailgate. There are two cargo-box lengths, of eight feet with the Regular Cab, six feet, three inches with the Mega Cab and either size for the Quad Cab. The rear doors on Quad and Mega Cab models swing open nearly 90 degrees to facilitate loading and unloading.
Driving Impressions
A strong, stiff frame and decently sorted suspension endow the Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks with a good basic foundation. The cabin is comfortable and reasonably well isolated and, while the ride on certain road surfaces can get slightly choppy (particularly in an unladen 4x4 model), adding passengers or payload settles things down nicely and is a modest price to pay for the Ram's excellent all-around capabilities. Despite its tow-maxing bottom-end torque, the Cummins Turbo Diesel can't quite match the HEMI's off-the-line snap. But even the 2500 Laramie Quad Cab 4x4 we drove was still capable of accelerating from zero to 60 miles per hour in about seven seconds. Slightly raucous on cold starts, the potent diesel quickly quiets down and is always virtually smoke and odor-free. The Allison-supplied six-speed automatic transmission is an equally laudable and smooth operator. Like the five-speed automatic that backs the HEMI engine, it offers a convenient Tow/Haul-mode switch on the shift lever.
Pricing Notes
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices (MSRP) for the Dodge Ram 2500 trucks start at around $30,000 for a 2500 ST Regular Cab with the HEMI V8 and run to around $49,000 for a "base" 3500 Mega Cab 4x4 Turbo Diesel. The Ram's competitors in this arena, the similarly-priced Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD and 3500 HD models and the Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty pickups, are projected to do somewhat better with respect to long-term residual values. However, the Ram does have some advantages of its own – notably the availability of the people-pampering Mega Cab and multiple best-in-class maximum tow ratings – that could figure into any purchase decision. Another plus in the Ram's favor is that it comes with the longest powertrain warranty – original-owner unlimited time and mileage on the HEMI V8 and five-year/100,000-mile coverage on the Cummins Turbo Diesel.
Notable Equipment
Even a base 2500 SL Regular Cab has air conditioning, a four-speaker AM/FM/CD sound system, dual 12-volt power outlets, tilt steering column, four-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS) and dual front airbags. The SXT trim adds chrome bumpers, cloth upholstery, power windows, locks and mirrors, keyless remote and cruise control, while the SLT has an overhead console and chrome steel wheels. The top-line Laramie trim level includes leather and faux wood in Mega Cabs as well as a power driver's seat, dual-zone climate control, steering-wheel cruise-control buttons, security alarm and more brightwork in Quad Cabs. All SLT and Laramie 4x4 models feature electric activation of their dual-range transfer cases.
Notable Options
In addition to features that define specific trim levels, the Ram 2500 and 3500 offer an assortment of appeal-enhancing packages headed by the descriptively named Popular Equipment Group (ST/SLT), Navigation Convenience Group (SLT/Power Wagon/Laramie), Light Group (SXT/SLT) and Sport Appearance Group (SLT). Beyond the commercially-oriented Power Wagon, any SXT model can be equipped with the comprehensive TRX4 Off-Road package that includes skid plates, limited-slip differential, on and off-road tires, tow hooks and fog lamps. Stand-alone options include a bedliner, premium audio (with or without SIRIUS Satellite Radio), power sunroof, side air bags and electronic stability control (standard on Laramie) plus dedicated trailer towing upgrades.
Favorite Features
Available Mega Cab
Quite literally the biggest cabin in the pickup segment, the Mega Cab's additional 20 inches of length yields outstanding accommodations for front-seat and, particularly, rear-seat passengers. Its 60/40-split flat-folding rear bench seat features reclining seatbacks and an additional 7.7 cubic feet of stowage space behind it. Other Mega Cab features include rear air-conditioning outlets and an available DVD system.
Cummins Turbo Diesel
While the HEMI may be slightly quicker, when it comes to sheer pulling power the 6.7-liter Cummins Turbo Diesel is the clear choice. It boasts prodigious towing capabilities, outstanding reliability and durability, HEMI-beating fuel economy and "BlueTEC" design enhancements that make it the only turbo-diesel clean enough to meet the EPA's 2010 requirements for NOx emissions levels.
Under the Hood
The Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks offer two different engines for two different kinds of customers. Each delivers outstanding performance and is available with a choice of transmissions. The 5.7-liter HEMI V8 makes 355 horsepower and 395 pound-feet of torque. But even with Chrysler's efficiency-enhancing Multi-Displacement System, that can deactivate four cylinders under light-load cruising conditions, real-world mpg will still peak in the mid-teens with either the six-speed manual transmission or the available five-speed automatic. For those seeking up to 16,500 lb of towing capacity, there's the 6.7-liter Cummins Turbo Diesel. Available on nearly all 2500s and 3500s, this refined, rugged and super-clean diesel develops 350 horsepower with a heady 650 pound-feet of torque at 1500 rpm when backed with its available six-speed automatic or 610 pound-feet at 1400 rpm with the standard six-speed manual transmission.
5.7-liter V8 HEMI
355 horsepower @ 5400 rpm
395 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4200 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: N/A
6.7-liter in-line 6 Cummins Turbo Diesel
350 horsepower @ 3013 rpm
650 lb.-ft. of torque @ 1500 rpm (automatic)
610 lb-ft of torque @1400 rpm (manual)
EPA city/highway fuel economy: N/A
Editors' Notes
Heavy-duty pickups are a special breed of hauler. These full-size leviathans are built to tote and transfer big-time payloads and pull trailers weighing in excess of 10,000 pounds. Chrysler's entrants into this segment, which includes competitors from Chevrolet, GMC and Ford, are the Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 pickups. Available in Regular, Quad or Mega Cab configurations, with rear- or four-wheel drive, short or standard bed lengths, shorter or longer wheelbases, single or dual rear wheels, multiple trim levels and HEMI V8 gasoline or Cummins Turbo Diesel power, these ultra-Rams offer everything the basic Ram 1500 pickup does while adding even greater all-around capability.


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Istanbul, the demographic and economic heart of Turkey, has gone through enormous changes over the past century. This mega-city of about 15 million inhabitants has seen its population increased more than tenfold since 1950. Over time, it has established itself as the industrial, financial and logistics centre of the country, producing almost one-third of the national output and absorbing the bulk of foreign direct investment. And, on the international scale, Istanbul ranks among the fastest growing OECD metro-regions.
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Last week, Richard Deitsch of SI.com reported that highly popular NFL play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson (also known for announcing NCAA men's basketball) had left CBS. Thereafter, Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News called the report "premature," given that CBS had a chance to match the offer Johnson later got from FOX.
Raissman now reports that CBS opted not to match the offer from FOX, which means that Johnson is indeed out at CBS. And that he'll now be working for FOX.
It's still unknown whether Johnson's CBS contract required an opportunity to match, or whether Johnson opted to do so because (as we surmised on Monday) he simply didn't want to leave CBS.
Interestingly, Raissman reports that some within CBS (cough . . . Jim Nantz? . . . cough) "were not thrilled with Johnson's rise to March Madness' most popular voice."
Sheesh. Since when did it make sense for a network to run off an announcer because he was becoming too popular? That said, if Johnson was becoming hard to work with because of his popularity, then that could become an issue. But notions of jealousy and turf protection shouldn't be driving decisions of this nature.
For NFL fans, the move means only that Johnson will primarily be working NFC games, not AFC games, on Sundays during football season. The next time, of course, there actually is a football season.


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Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill has insisted he will not attempt to gag number two Roy Keane.
The 42-year-old former Ireland skipper is today due to give his first press conference since being named as O'Neill's assistant, with the media eagerly anticipating his appearance.
However, while the manager is adamant that it is he who is in charge, he has no intention of telling Keane what he can and cannot say.
O'Neill said: "I am going to try to clear something up here: I am not Roy's father, absolutely not.
"He can look after himself, he can say what he wants. Seriously, he is under absolutely no gagging at all and I am quite sure I would not even have to have that conversation with him.
"I am not going to sit there saying, 'Don't say this, don't say that'."
The pair met the players for the first time on Monday evening and conducted their opening training session the following morning.
O'Neill admits both parties are still getting to know each other, but he is determined to treat his squad as adults as he sets about the process of stamping his own mark on the team.
Asked about discipline, an issue which often taxed predecessor Giovanni Trapattoni, the 61-year-old said: "Well, you must remember I grew up, I played under one of the most mercurial managers there ever was in Brian Clough.
"Brian Clough would have come down on an evening the night before a game when we were staying, let's say, in London and said, 'Lads, do you want a glass of wine with your meal?'.
"That would have been unheard of. He was so unorthodox, he was off the wall, but he had a philosophy that he was dealing with men and that if they couldn't look after themselves...
"He did not expect if he left the room that these boys would have five glasses of wine. He gave you some leeway. You go across that leeway and he would have cut you in two.
"I don't know, but just hearing the stories, I think Jack [Charlton, former Republic manager] was kind of like that, treating the boys like men. In other words, if you win the game, I will give you some free time.
"I'm kind of like that, and I think John O'Shea would tell you. Winning the games is very, very important. If you've won and you've worked for it, you should be allowed a little bit of time to let your hair down, if that's the case."
Meanwhile, O'Neill confirmed that the Football Association of Ireland is investigating the possibility that England Under-21 striker Connor Wickham could be eligible for the Republic.
He said: "If someone tells me someone is available, particularly someone I have worked with and might have a chance, I would give it some consideration."


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Social Inclusion and Universal Social Mobilisation
In order to ensure that no poor family is left out, a bundle of strategies for social inclusion/mobilization of all identified PoP and poor households into functionally effective and self-managed institutions will be used. The focus would be particularly on most vulnerable sections like scheduled castes, scheduled tribes (particularly vulnerable tribal groups), single women and women headed households, persons with disabilities, landless, migrant labourers, isolated communities, minority communities and communities living in difficult areas (especially flood prone, drought prone and naxalite affected). A detailed operational guideline would be developed for area specific vulnerability.
Promoting Self Help Groups
Using the concepts of 'affinity' and 'neighborhood', and making use of culturally sensitive IEC materials and taking help of community resource person, SHGs of the poor would be promoted by the frontline staff. As the task of mobilizing the poor into SHGs is a massive one, the services of multiple stakeholders including CSOs would be used for this purpose. While mobilizing the identified poor into the SHGs, priority would be given to the vulnerable sections like the SCs, the STs, the landless, migrant labour, isolated communities and households led by single women and people with disabilities.
Inclusion of Pre-Existing SHSs
As part of social mobilization, a comprehensive scanning of the pre-existing SHGs promoted by line departments and NGOs would be carried out. On the basis of the Community Operation Manual, eligible SHGs would be identified for inclusion into the project. If necessary, MoUs would be entered into with the NGOs/CSOs for this purpose. However, a fundamental principle to be followed in this regard would be to include only SHGs dominated by (at least 80% of members from poor HHs) the poor into the project fold.
Building Federations at different levels for sustaining Collective Action
The upper level federations will involve itself in nurturing and sustaining primary groups through ensuring the quality, facilitate learning, manage revolving funds of different genres, and mobilize access to public services and entitlements. Among other things, federations seek economies of scale, larger aggregation, linkages and convergence.
Formation of Village Organization (VO)
Once a minimum number of functional SHGs are established in the village and micro plans prepared, the facilitation team will undertake promotion of primary federation of SHGs. The triggers for initiation of VO will be at least 8 SHG are functional with membership of 12 members, member of SHGs are doing regular weekly savings from last 3 month and SHGs are given training on VO concepts and they are ready to federate themselves.
The role of VO will as follows-
- Providing technical assistance to SHG members.
- Problem solving and conflict resolution in SHGs.
- Review SHG performance.
- Facilitate formation of SHGs of the remaining poor in the village.
- Compile micro plans for the socio-economic development of its members.
- Review micro plans for the social and economic development of SHGs.
- Prepare Action Plan for the socio-economic development of its constituent area.
- Network and establish linkages with resource agencies for implementing the micro plans/investment plans and thus ensure the economic and social empowerment of the poor households.
- Act as a platform for sharing experiences and concerns of SHG members
Inclusion of Pre-Existing Federations
Integration of existing federations does not strictly mean disintegration, reorganization or revamp, it means allowing each federation to function independently according to its pre-set mandate, however not undermining the issues such as governance, clarity about vision, proper sense of ownership and frame work of self-regulation.
Cluster Level Federation (CLF)
Once a minimum number of functional VOs are established in the village, the facilitation team will undertake promotion of Cluster level federation of VOs. The triggers for initiation of VO will be at least 15- 20 VOs are functional with membership of 12-15 SHGs, EC of VO are doing regular monthly meeting from last 2 years and VOs are given training on CLF concepts and they are ready to become part of cluster level federation.
The role of the cluster level federation will be as-
- Giving priority to the demands of SHGs and their Federations in the annual plans of PRI by making suitable financial allocation.
- Leasing out natural resources such as ponds/tanks, market yards and also involving these institutions for proper management and maintenance.
- Focussing on gender & legal issues such as managing counselling centres, help lines.
- Dissemination of information & awareness generation on issues as Gram Shaba, health, nitration sanitation, education.
- Taking up matter of tribal, social evil and labour related issues.
- Providing immediate support to the vulnerable and the destitute.
Block Level Federation
The apex institution is the Block Level Federation. The Block Level Federation will emerge when the SHGs/ VOs/ CLFs have attained a critical strength both in terms of numbers and capacities. This is when the need for converging/ aggregating at a higher level will be required. The requirement will in terms of dialoguing with Government, Private Entrepreneurs, Banks, and MFIs etc. for supporting development both economic and social in their respective geographical area.
The role of BLF will be as-
- Facilitate provision of technical assistance to the CLF, VO and SHG members
- Problem solving and conflict resolution
- Undertaking social audit.
- Promoting & facilitating all support to producer groups/ livelihood groups through livelihood resource pool & partnership with technical partners i.e. Business Development services.
- Quality management of SHGs.
- Maintaining MIS.
- Undertaking micro finance activities, micro credit, insurance etc.
- Resource generation through partnerships with govt. & non govt. agencies.
- Mobilisation of community professionals.
Livelihood Based Producer Groups
Development of livelihood groups (Producer Groups) and their federations (Producer Cooperatives/Companies) will also be facilitated. The producer groups and their federations would derive membership from the base CBO unit viz., SHG. The livelihood groups would be provided support through customized training for village and block level management of enterprises, productivity enhancement, franchise management, quality enhancement and value addition skills. Linkage of these groups to the commercial sector would also be facilitated. Important commodities and livelihood interventions identified within the project in specific districts are Dairy, Agriculture, Incense Sticks, Jute, Makhana, Fisheries, Banana, Honey, etc.
The main functions of the producers' group at the collective level will be:
- Purchase or procurement of inputs for production
- Local processing and storing of inputs and outputs
- Marketing and selling of the produce
Role of Community Professional and Community Resource Person
In order to manage the CBO activities, a cadre of community professionals accountable entirely to the institutions would be required. The services of the professionals would be hired and paid for by the institutions. However, the professionals would be trained and groomed by the facilitation team initially before they take over the responsibilities assigned by the institutions. The CBOs would also be trained to review the performance of the professionals.
Community Professionals in JEEViKA
The programme intends to follow a very intensive community oriented, organic development process to build more than 10 lakh community institutions and their federations. Nonetheless, this requires building a cadre of community professionals at an enormous scale who will not only provide a supporting hand in formation and nurturing of these community institutions but managing and leading these institutions to a meaningful cause by imbibing the values of equity, transparency and accountability.
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Las Vegas bookies may be bringing in tens of millions of dollars in Super Bowl bets - more than $93 million was laid down on last year's game - but a pair of breweries on opposite sides of the country have engaged in a tastier, and potentially more embarrassing, wager.
Frederick's Flying Dog Brewery in Maryland and the iconic San Francisco-based Anchor Brewing Co. are putting each other's brews on the line for their respective teams when the Ravens and 49ers square off in Super Bowl XLVII Sunday.
The loser must pour the other brewery's beer in its taproom for a week, said Erin Weston, Flying Dog's public relations manager. It might not sound like the losing end of a bet to pour another high-quality craft beer from your taps, but that's not all. The guides for the losing company's brewery tours will be decked out in the winning team's Super Bowl championship gear for a week.
"We're going to kind of work through the details on that,'' Weston said. ``We don't want to be too cocky going into it. We want to at least be prepared, but I don't think we'll have to worry about that.''
Weston's confidence may be a result of the roll the brewery has been on along with the Ravens throughout the playoffs. Before the Ravens-Broncos Divisional Playoff game, Flying Dog brewmaster Matt Brophy approached good friend Adam Avery of Boulder, Colo.'s Avery Brewing Co. about a friendly wager.
"They just bet a case of rare beers that we wouldn't be able to find here and they wouldn't be able to find there,'' she said. "When the Ravens kind of took control of that overtime, we were pretty stoked about that.''
The brewery secured its second case of rare small batch brews courtesy of Boston-based Harpoon Brewery the following week when the Ravens pummeled the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game.
Weston dropped a not-so-subtle hint that it would be nice to enjoy some of those beers while watching the Super Bowl.
"So we're trying not to be jerks and rub it in, but we haven't gotten our shipment of beers from either of them,'' Weston said.
Next up is the maker of the legendary Anchor Steam Beer and the brewery widely credited with starting the craft beer movement in the United States.
Weston said Flying Dog staff wanted to raise the stakes for the biggest game of them all.
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My weekend at the "Hague Hilton"
By Damir Sagolj
I have followed their bloody trail for 20 years now.
As a Bosnian and as a photojournalist, I have tracked them through the ruins of Sarajevo — the target of concealed snipers and heavy artillery from the hills — to the mass graves of eastern Bosnia and the villages that were ethnically cleansed and destroyed forever, past houses, now owner-less, that nobody will rebuild and churches, barren of worshipers.
I visited every single corner of the Balkans' "vukojebina" — literally, where wolves f** — a term that perfectly captures these remote, forgotten places, far from civilization. Always too late to be a victim, but early enough to see and feel. I followed war crimes with the passion of a journalist and the guilt of a survivor.
That road ends at "The Hague Hilton", as the detention unit of the war crimes tribunal is sometimes called. There, 40 or so accused war criminals — innocent until proved guilty — live in harmony and comfort awaiting their sentence.
As I entered, the first journalist ever allowed to report from inside, I had butterflies in my stomach. For I am a prisoner of my past. Some of the people detained here were accused of crimes against members of my family. We lived through the siege of Sarajevo. My Muslim relatives — my grandmother, my uncle and others — were forced from their homes and ended up in Sweden. Croat relatives on my father's side were driven out — different armies, different turf. Some of my relatives were killed, and found in mass graves later.
I had already been tested. The previous day, in the corridors of the tribunal building, I bumped into Radovan Karadzic. A brief encounter, our eyes locked, and then he said a hello. I said nothing, my cameras stilled. I thought, "he looks so arrogant, so confident, even in handcuffs he dwarfs the guards". And then he was gone, escorted to his chair in the courtroom.
I felt no reaction, and that shocked me. My life was in his hands back in the 1990s, when he was known as one of "the butchers of the Balkans", in control of the artillery and snipers around Sarajevo, and I was just a sad statistic in the ruins of the former Yugoslavia.
I have to admit, Karadzic looks good. He has regained his strength and confidence — even that devilish old smile is there, freezing my instinct to take pictures for a second. He is no longer the pale shadow that the world saw when his alias Dr. Dabic was exposed, shaved clean, and turned back into the Karadzic we all knew.
But when we met in The Hague, I found he means nothing to me because I don't care what happens to him or to the others that were brought here. I only care about the sentence and justice and what happens in the future, when this court shuts down. He and his fellow detainees are treated well in "the Hague Hilton".
I know it is wrong to compare it to the standards of ex-Yugoslavia's "vukojebina" and to think of the crimes committed, but I can't help feeling this is just too much.
Back home, the perception of the court and its "prison" as it is wrongly called there, reflects the divide of a schizophrenic society. For the nationalists, who still regard these people as heroes, this place is a dungeon, but for so many others it's a stopover on what they hope is the road to hell.
As I smoked a cigarette (I recently quit smoking) on a balcony, I heard the thwack of a strong first serve on the tennis court below, and then some words in the different dialects of my language. I couldn't recognize who was playing on the tennis court below but I've been told that Ante Gotovina, the Croatian general accused of war crimes against Serb civilians, is the undisputed tennis champion round here.
Opposite are the solitary cells, rooms with a single mattress on a bare floor and bright yellow walls. David Kennedy, Chief of the Detention Unit, says none of the accused from the former Yugoslavia behave badly enough to end up in solitary.
In fact for most, life here is good: art rooms, tennis and basketball courts, indoor and outdoor, a gym with enough toys for all the survivors of the Srebrenica genocide. There is a kitchen, showers and phone booths in between the wings where detainees have their cells. Mobile phones are forbidden so war crimes suspects have to use calling cards (30 euros a month, courtesy of the UN) if they want to call home.
No incoming calls are allowed, no internet, just letters.
Inside their cells, they can watch programs from home on flat screen TVs. Books and papers are delivered regularly. In one empty cell, there's a pornographic sketch on the wall, someone's homosexual fantasy.
In the kitchen, I saw a pie ready to be baked, a pack of playing cards, and a receipt for 23 euros for a kilo of Dutch beefsteak and some other food delivered to a detainee. The food here is prison food, but special orders are delivered from outside, including from a Balkan shop every week. Cartoons of Iranian president Ahmedinejad and ex-Libyan leader Gaddafi snipped from the newspapers are stuck to the kitchen door.
There are even parties. Birthdays and religious holidays are celebrated here, as they were under Tito's brotherhood and unity. Men who allegedly exterminated on the basis of religion or ethnic group in the 1990s when they were free now sit down at the same table to celebrate each others religious festivals.
"They'll cook for the saints days, get the materials in from the Balkans shop, and the whole wing will sit down and celebrate whatever it is," said Kennedy. Even when they are competing on the football field they don't team up along ethnic lines, and Kennedy says there has not been a single incident of a national or religious nature in all these years.
What a contrast to what happened under their command back in the 1990s. I vividly remember the few photos leaked from The Hague several years ago, images that haunted me for months before I managed to read them properly. It was Slobodan Milosevic's birthday and the pictures showed a party in that same kitchen. There they were, those war-time enemies, commanders and leaders, all having a good time, hugging each other and looking straight at the camera for the one who took the pictures.
How could it happen, among those men who allegedly committed serious war crimes against other ethic groups?
"They get along together because they are in the same circumstances," said Kennedy. "They're facing the same restrictions that custody, being detained, puts on them, they are all living together in the same area, in the same wings, there's no segregation based on ethnic background, and in those circumstances it's best and easiest to get through it if you can get on with your neighbors."
Maybe. But to me, regardless of whether they are Serb or Croat or Muslim, all these people are notorious criminals and ethnic cleansers. Accused and innocent until the court gives its verdict, which I hope is soon.
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty offers an opportunity for reflection on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The most recent MDG progress report indicates that the global target of cutting in half the proportion of people living on under $1.25 per day was met in 2010. Since 1990, hundreds of millions of people are no longer living in extreme poverty and have the opportunity to live better lives.
The targets of expanding access to improved sources of water and significantly improving the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers have also been met. Additionally, in the last decade, global malaria deaths declined by nearly a third, and many countries have achieved near parity in primary education enrolment between girls and boys.
The Millennium Development Goals have succeeded in creating a common agenda which unites countries and peoples around the world. Their time-bound, clear, and measurable targets have focused action on the most basic indicators of sustainable human development.
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The version of Dead or Alive 2 Tecmo published for PS2 was incomplete, driving franchise creator Tomonobu Itagaki to found an independent studio.
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Historian John Higham once referred to anti-Catholicism as "by far the oldest, and the most powerful of anti-foreign traditions" in North American intellectual and cultural history. But Higham's famous observation actually elided three different types of anti-Catholic nativism that have enjoyed a long and quite vibrant life in North America: a cultural distrust of Catholics, based on an understanding of North American public culture rooted in a profoundly British and Protestant ordering of human society; an intellectual distrust of Catholics, based on a set of epistemological and philosophical ideas first elucidated in the English (Lockean) and Scottish ("Common Sense Realist") Enlightenments and the British Whig tradition of political thought; and a nativist distrust of Catholics as deviant members of American society, a perception central to the Protestant mainstream's duty of "boundary maintenance" (to utilize Emile Durkheim's reading of how "outsiders" help "insiders" maintain social control).
An examination of the long history of anti-Catholicism in the United States can be divided into three parts: first, an overview of the types of anti-Catholic animus utilizing the typology adumbrated above; second, a narrative history of the most important anti-Catholic events in U.S. culture (e.g., Harvard's Dudleian Lectures, the Suffolk Resolves, the burning of the Charlestown convent, Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures); and finally, a discussion of American Catholic efforts to address the animus.
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