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How Content Can Succeed By Making Enemies – Whiteboard Friday
Posted by randfish
Getting readers on board with your ideas isn't the only way to achieve content success. Sometimes, stirring up a little controversy and earning a few rivals can work incredibly well — but there's certainly a right and a wrong way to do it. Rand details how to use the power of making enemies work to your advantage in today's Whiteboard Friday.
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Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Today, we're going to chat about something a little interesting — how content can succeed by making enemies. I know you're thinking to yourself, "Wait a minute, I thought my job was to make friends with my content." Yes, and one of the best ways to make close friends is to make enemies too.
So, in my opinion, I think that companies and businesses, programs, organizations of all kinds, efforts of all kinds tend to do really well when they get people on their side. So if I'm trying to create a movement or I'm trying to get people to believe in what I'm doing, I need to have positions, data, stories, and content that can bring people to my site. One of the best ways to do that is actually to think about it in opposition to something else, basically try and figure out how you can earn some enemies.
A few examples of content that makes enemies & allies
I'll give you a few examples, because I think that will help add some context here. I did a little bit of research. My share data is from BuzzSumo, and my link data here is from Ahrefs. But for example, this piece called "There Are Now Twice as Many Solar Jobs as Coal Jobs in the US," this is essentially just data-driven content, but it clearly makes friends and enemies. It makes enemies with sort of this classic, old-school Americana belief set around how important coal jobs are, and it creates, through the enemy that it builds around that, simply by sharing data, it also creates allies, people who are on the side of this story, who want to share it and amplify it and have it reach its potential and reach more people.
Same is true here. So this is a story called "Yoga Is a Good Alternative to Physical Therapy." Clearly, it did extremely well, tens of thousands of shares and thousands of links, lots of ranking keywords for it. But it creates some enemies. Physical therapists are not going to be thrilled that this is the case. Despite the research behind it, this is frustrating for many of those folks. So you've created friends, allies, people who are yoga practitioners and yoga instructors. You've also created enemies, potentially those folks who don't believe that this might be the case despite what the research might show.
Third one, "The 50 Most Powerful Public Relations Firms in America," I think this was actually from The Observer. So they're writing in the UK, but they managed to rank for lots and lots of keywords around "best PR firms" and all those sorts of things. They have thousands of shares, thousands of links. I mean 11,000 links, that's darn impressive for a story of this nature. And they've created enemies. They've created enemies of all the people who are not in the 50 most powerful, who feel that they should be, and they've created allies of the people who are in there. They've also created some allies and enemies deeper inside the story, which you can check out.
"Replace Your Lawn with These Superior Alternatives," well, guess what? You have now created some enemies in the lawn care world and in the lawn supply world and in the passionate communities, very passionate communities, especially here in the United States, around people who sort of believe that homes should have lawns and nothing else, grass lawns in this case. This piece didn't do that well in terms of shares, but did phenomenally well in terms of links. This was on Lifehacker, and it ranks for all sorts of things, 11,000+ links.
Before you create, ask yourself: Who will help amplify this, and why?
So you can see that these might not be things that you naturally think of as earning enemies. But when you're creating content, if you can go through this exercise, I have this rule, that I've talked about many times over the years, for content success, especially content amplification success. That is before you ever create something, before you brainstorm the idea, come up with the title, come up with the content, before you do that, ask yourself: Who will help amplify this and why? Why will they help?
One of the great things about framing things in terms of who are my allies, the people on my side, and who are the enemies I'm going to create is that the "who" becomes much more clear. The people who support your ideas, your ethics, or your position, your logic, your data and want to help amplify that, those are people who are potential amplifiers. The people, the detractors, the enemies that you're going to build help you often to identify that group.
The "why" becomes much more clear too. The existence of that common enemy, the chance to show that you have support and beliefs in people, that's a powerful catalyst for that amplification, for the behavior you're attempting to drive in your community and your content consumers. I've found that thinking about it this way often gets content creators and SEOs in the right frame of mind to build stuff that can do really well.
Some dos and don'ts
Do… backup content with data
A few dos and don'ts if you're pursuing this path of content generation and ideation. Do back up as much as you can with facts and data, not just opinion. That should be relatively obvious, but it can be dangerous in this kind of world, as you go down this path, to not do that.
Do… convey a world view
I do suggest that you try and convey a world view, not necessarily if you're thinking on the political spectrum of like from all the way left to all the way right or those kinds of things. I think it's okay to convey a world view around it, but I would urge you to provide multiple angles of appeal.
So if you're saying, "Hey, you should replace your lawn with these superior alternatives," don't make it purely that it's about conservation and ecological health. You can also make it about financial responsibility. You can also make it about the ease with which you can care for these lawns versus other ones. So now it becomes something that appeals across a broader range of the spectrum.
Same thing with something like solar jobs versus coal jobs. If you can get it to be economically focused and you can give it a capitalist bent, you can potentially appeal to multiple ends of the ideological spectrum with that world view.
Do… collect input from notable parties
Third, I would urge you to get inputs from notable folks before you create and publish this content, especially if the issue that you're talking about is going to be culturally or socially or politically charged. Some of these fit into that. Yoga probably not so much, but potentially the solar jobs/coal jobs one, that might be something to run the actual content that you've created by some folks who are in the energy space so that they can help you along those lines, potentially the energy and the political space if you can.
Don't… be provocative just to be provocative
Some don'ts. I do not urge you and I'm not suggesting that you should create provocative content purely to be provocative. Instead, I'm urging you to think about the content that you create and how you angle it using this framing of mind rather than saying, "Okay, what could we say that would really piss people off?" That's not what I'm urging you to do. I'm urging you to say, "How can we take things that we already have, beliefs and positions, data, stories, whatever content and how do we angle them in such a way that we think about who are the enemies, who are the allies, how do we get that buy-in, how do we get that amplification?"
Don't… choose indefensible positions
Second, I would not choose enemies or positions that you can't defend against. So, for example, if you were considering a path that you think might get you into a world of litigious danger, you should probably stay away from that. Likewise, if your positions are relatively indefensible and you've talked to some folks in the field and done the dues and they're like, "I don't know about that," you might not want to pursue it.
Don't… give up on the first try
Third, do not give up if your first attempts in this sort of framing don't work. You should expect that you will have to, just like any other form of content, practice, iterate, and do this multiple times before you have success.
Don't… be unprofessional
Don't be unprofessional when you do this type of content. It can be a little bit tempting when you're framing things in terms of, "How do I make enemies out of this?" to get on the attack. That is not necessary. I think that actually content that builds enemies does so even better when it does it from a non-attack vector mode.
Don't… sweat the Haterade
Don't forget that if you're getting some Haterade for the content you create, a lot of people when they start drinking the Haterade online, they run. They think, "Okay, we've done something wrong." That's actually not the case. In my experience, that means you're doing something right. You're building something special. People don't tend to fight against and argue against ideas and people and organizations for no reason. They do so because they're a threat.
If you've created a threat to your enemies, you have also generally created something special for your allies and the people on your side. That means you're doing something right. In Moz's early days, I can tell you, back when we were called SEOmoz, for years and years and years we got all sorts of hate, and it was actually a pretty good sign that we were doing something right, that we were building something special.
So I look forward to your comments. I'd love to see any examples of stuff that you have as well, and we'll see you again next week for another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Take care.
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JavaScript & SEO: Making Your Bot Experience As Good As Your User Experience
Posted by alexis-sanders
Understanding JavaScript and its potential impact on search performance is a core skillset of the modern SEO professional. If search engines can't crawl a site or can't parse and understand the content, nothing is going to get indexed and the site is not going to rank.
The most important questions for an SEO relating to JavaScript: Can search engines see the content and grasp the website experience? If not, what solutions can be leveraged to fix this?
What is JavaScript?
When creating a modern web page, there are three major components:
- HTML – Hypertext Markup Language serves as the backbone, or organizer of content, on a site. It is the structure of the website (e.g. headings, paragraphs, list elements, etc.) and defining static content.
- CSS – Cascading Style Sheets are the design, glitz, glam, and style added to a website. It makes up the presentation layer of the page.
- JavaScript – JavaScript is the interactivity and a core component of the dynamic web.
Learn more about webpage development and how to code basic JavaScript.
JavaScript is either placed in the HTML document within <script> tags (i.e., it is embedded in the HTML) or linked/referenced. There are currently a plethora of JavaScript libraries and frameworks, including jQuery, AngularJS, ReactJS, EmberJS, etc.
JavaScript libraries and frameworks:
What is AJAX?
AJAX, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a set of web development techniques combining JavaScript and XML that allows web applications to communicate with a server in the background without interfering with the current page. Asynchronous means that other functions or lines of code can run while the async script is running. XML used to be the primary language to pass data; however, the term AJAX is used for all types of data transfers (including JSON; I guess "AJAJ" doesn't sound as clean as "AJAX" [pun intended]).
A common use of AJAX is to update the content or layout of a webpage without initiating a full page refresh. Normally, when a page loads, all the assets on the page must be requested and fetched from the server and then rendered on the page. However, with AJAX, only the assets that differ between pages need to be loaded, which improves the user experience as they do not have to refresh the entire page.
One can think of AJAX as mini server calls. A good example of AJAX in action is Google Maps. The page updates without a full page reload (i.e., mini server calls are being used to load content as the user navigates).
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What is the Document Object Model (DOM)?
As an SEO professional, you need to understand what the DOM is, because it's what Google is using to analyze and understand webpages.
The DOM is what you see when you "Inspect Element" in a browser. Simply put, you can think of the DOM as the steps the browser takes after receiving the HTML document to render the page.
The DOM is what forms from this parsing of information and resources. One can think of it as a structured, organized version of the webpage's code.
Nowadays the DOM is often very different from the initial HTML document, due to what's collectively called dynamic HTML. Dynamic HTML is the ability for a page to change its content depending on user input, environmental conditions (e.g. time of day), and other variables, leveraging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Simple example with a <title> tag that is populated through JavaScript:
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What is headless browsing?
Headless browsing is simply the action of fetching webpages without the user interface. It is important to understand because Google, and now Baidu, leverage headless browsing to gain a better understanding of the user's experience and the content of webpages.
PhantomJS and Zombie.js are scripted headless browsers, typically used for automating web interaction for testing purposes, and rendering static HTML snapshots for initial requests (pre-rendering).
Why can JavaScript be challenging for SEO? (and how to fix issues)
There are three (3) primary reasons to be concerned about JavaScript on your site:
- Crawlability: Bots' ability to crawl your site.
- Obtainability: Bots' ability to access information and parse your content.
- Perceived site latency: AKA the Critical Rendering Path.
Are bots able to find URLs and understand your site's architecture? There are two important elements here:
- Blocking search engines from your JavaScript (even accidentally).
- Proper internal linking, not leveraging JavaScript events as a replacement for HTML tags.
Why is blocking JavaScript such a big deal?
If search engines are blocked from crawling JavaScript, they will not be receiving your site's full experience. This means search engines are not seeing what the end user is seeing. This can reduce your site's appeal to search engines and could eventually be considered cloaking (if the intent is indeed malicious).
Fetch as Google and TechnicalSEO.com's robots.txt and Fetch and Render testing tools can help to identify resources that Googlebot is blocked from.
The easiest way to solve this problem is through providing search engines access to the resources they need to understand your user experience.
!!! Important note: Work with your development team to determine which files should and should not be accessible to search engines.
Internal linking
Internal linking should be implemented with regular anchor tags within the HTML or the DOM (using an HTML tag) versus leveraging JavaScript functions to allow the user to traverse the site.
Essentially: Don't use JavaScript's onclick events as a replacement for internal linking. While end URLs might be found and crawled (through strings in JavaScript code or XML sitemaps), they won't be associated with the global navigation of the site.
Internal linking is a strong signal to search engines regarding the site's architecture and importance of pages. In fact, internal links are so strong that they can (in certain situations) override "SEO hints" such as canonical tags.
URL structure
Historically, JavaScript-based websites (aka "AJAX sites") were using fragment identifiers (#) within URLs.
- Not recommended:
- The Lone Hash (#) – The lone pound symbol is not crawlable. It is used to identify anchor link (aka jump links). These are the links that allow one to jump to a piece of content on a page. Anything after the lone hash portion of the URL is never sent to the server and will cause the page to automatically scroll to the first element with a matching ID (or the first <a> element with a name of the following information). Google recommends avoiding the use of "#" in URLs.
- Hashbang (#!) (and escaped_fragments URLs) – Hashbang URLs were a hack to support crawlers (Google wants to avoid now and only Bing supports). Many a moon ago, Google and Bing developed a complicated AJAX solution, whereby a pretty (#!) URL with the UX co-existed with an equivalent escaped_fragment HTML-based experience for bots. Google has since backtracked on this recommendation, preferring to receive the exact user experience. In escaped fragments, there are two experiences here:
- Original Experience (aka Pretty URL): This URL must either have a #! (hashbang) within the URL to indicate that there is an escaped fragment or a meta element indicating that an escaped fragment exists (<meta name="fragment" content="!">).
- Escaped Fragment (aka Ugly URL, HTML snapshot): This URL replace the hashbang (#!) with "_escaped_fragment_" and serves the HTML snapshot. It is called the ugly URL because it's long and looks like (and for all intents and purposes is) a hack.
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- Recommended:
- pushState History API – PushState is navigation-based and part of the History API (think: your web browsing history). Essentially, pushState updates the URL in the address bar and only what needs to change on the page is updated. It allows JS sites to leverage "clean" URLs. PushState is currently supported by Google, when supporting browser navigation for client-side or hybrid rendering.
- A good use of pushState is for infinite scroll (i.e., as the user hits new parts of the page the URL will update). Ideally, if the user refreshes the page, the experience will land them in the exact same spot. However, they do not need to refresh the page, as the content updates as they scroll down, while the URL is updated in the address bar.
- Example: A good example of a search engine-friendly infinite scroll implementation, created by Google's John Mueller (go figure), can be found here. He technically leverages the replaceState(), which doesn't include the same back button functionality as pushState.
- Read more: Mozilla PushState History API Documents
- pushState History API – PushState is navigation-based and part of the History API (think: your web browsing history). Essentially, pushState updates the URL in the address bar and only what needs to change on the page is updated. It allows JS sites to leverage "clean" URLs. PushState is currently supported by Google, when supporting browser navigation for client-side or hybrid rendering.
Search engines have been shown to employ headless browsing to render the DOM to gain a better understanding of the user's experience and the content on page. That is to say, Google can process some JavaScript and uses the DOM (instead of the HTML document).
At the same time, there are situations where search engines struggle to comprehend JavaScript. Nobody wants a Hulu situation to happen to their site or a client's site. It is crucial to understand how bots are interacting with your onsite content. When you aren't sure, test.
Assuming we're talking about a search engine bot that executes JavaScript, there are a few important elements for search engines to be able to obtain content:
- If the user must interact for something to fire, search engines probably aren't seeing it.
- Google is a lazy user. It doesn't click, it doesn't scroll, and it doesn't log in. If the full UX demands action from the user, special precautions should be taken to ensure that bots are receiving an equivalent experience.
- If the JavaScript occurs after the JavaScript load event fires plus ~5-seconds*, search engines may not be seeing it.
- *John Mueller mentioned that there is no specific timeout value; however, sites should aim to load within five seconds.
- *Screaming Frog tests show a correlation to five seconds to render content.
- *The load event plus five seconds is what Google's PageSpeed Insights, Mobile Friendliness Tool, and Fetch as Google use; check out Max Prin's test timer.
How to make sure Google and other search engines can get your content
The most popular solution to resolving JavaScript is probably not resolving anything (grab a coffee and let Google work its algorithmic brilliance). Providing Google with the same experience as searchers is Google's preferred scenario.
Google first announced being able to "better understand the web (i.e., JavaScript)" in May 2014. Industry experts suggested that Google could crawl JavaScript way before this announcement. The iPullRank team offered two great pieces on this in 2011: Googlebot is Chrome and How smart are Googlebots? (thank you, Josh and Mike). Adam Audette's Google can crawl JavaScript and leverages the DOM in 2015 confirmed. Therefore, if you can see your content in the DOM, chances are your content is being parsed by Google.
Recently, Barry Goralewicz performed a cool experiment testing a combination of various JavaScript libraries and frameworks to determine how Google interacts with the pages (e.g., are they indexing URL/content? How does GSC interact? Etc.). It ultimately showed that Google is able to interact with many forms of JavaScript and highlighted certain frameworks as perhaps more challenging. John Mueller even started a JavaScript search group (from what I've read, it's fairly therapeutic).
All of these studies are amazing and help SEOs understand when to be concerned and take a proactive role. However, before you determine that sitting back is the right solution for your site, I recommend being actively cautious by experimenting with small section Think: Jim Collin's "bullets, then cannonballs" philosophy from his book Great by Choice:
"A bullet is an empirical test aimed at learning what works and meets three criteria: a bullet must be low-cost, low-risk, and low-distraction… 10Xers use bullets to empirically validate what will actually work. Based on that empirical validation, they then concentrate their resources to fire a cannonball, enabling large returns from concentrated bets."
Consider testing and reviewing through the following:
- Confirm that your content is appearing within the DOM.
- Test a subset of pages to see if Google can index content.
- Manually check quotes from your content.
- Fetch with Google and see if content appears.
- Fetch with Google supposedly occurs around the load event or before timeout. It's a great test to check to see if Google will be able to see your content and whether or not you're blocking JavaScript in your robots.txt. Although Fetch with Google is not foolproof, it's a good starting point.
- Note: If you aren't verified in GSC, try Technicalseo.com's Fetch and Render As Any Bot Tool.
After you've tested all this, what if something's not working and search engines and bots are struggling to index and obtain your content? Perhaps you're concerned about alternative search engines (DuckDuckGo, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.), or maybe you're leveraging meta information that needs to be parsed by other bots, such as Twitter summary cards or Facebook Open Graph tags. If any of this is identified in testing or presents itself as a concern, an HTML snapshot may be the only decision.
What are HTmL snapshots?
HTML snapshots are a fully rendered page (as one might see in the DOM) that can be returned to search engine bots (think: a static HTML version of the DOM).
Google introduced HTML snapshots 2009, deprecated (but still supported) them in 2015, and awkwardly mentioned them as an element to "avoid" in late 2016. HTML snapshots are a contentious topic with Google. However, they're important to understand, because in certain situations they're necessary.
If search engines (or sites like Facebook) cannot grasp your JavaScript, it's better to return an HTML snapshot than not to have your content indexed and understood at all. Ideally, your site would leverage some form of user-agent detection on the server side and return the HTML snapshot to the bot.
At the same time, one must recognize that Google wants the same experience as the user (i.e., only provide Google with an HTML snapshot if the tests are dire and the JavaScript search group cannot provide support for your situation).
When considering HTML snapshots, you must consider that Google has deprecated this AJAX recommendation. Although Google technically still supports it, Google recommends avoiding it. Yes, Google changed its mind and now want to receive the same experience as the user. This direction makes sense, as it allows the bot to receive an experience more true to the user experience.
A second consideration factor relates to the risk of cloaking. If the HTML snapshots are found to not represent the experience on the page, it's considered a cloaking risk. Straight from the source:
"The HTML snapshot must contain the same content as the end user would see in a browser. If this is not the case, it may be considered cloaking."
– Google Developer AJAX Crawling FAQs
Despite the considerations, HTML snapshots have powerful advantages:
- Knowledge that search engines and crawlers will be able to understand the experience.
- Certain types of JavaScript may be harder for Google to grasp (cough… Angular (also colloquially referred to as AngularJS 2) …cough).
- Other search engines and crawlers (think: Bing, Facebook) will be able to understand the experience.
- Bing, among other search engines, has not stated that it can crawl and index JavaScript. HTML snapshots may be the only solution for a JavaScript-heavy site. As always, test to make sure that this is the case before diving in.
Site latency
When browsers receive an HTML document and create the DOM (although there is some level of pre-scanning), most resources are loaded as they appear within the HTML document. This means that if you have a huge file toward the top of your HTML document, a browser will load that immense file first.
The concept of Google's critical rendering path is to load what the user needs as soon as possible, which can be translated to ? "get everything above-the-fold in front of the user, ASAP."
Critical Rendering Path – Optimized Rendering Loads Progressively ASAP:
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However, if you have unnecessary resources or JavaScript files clogging up the page's ability to load, you get "render-blocking JavaScript." Meaning: your JavaScript is blocking the page's potential to appear as if it's loading faster (also called: perceived latency).
Render-blocking JavaScript – Solutions
If you analyze your page speed results (through tools like Page Speed Insights Tool, WebPageTest.org, CatchPoint, etc.) and determine that there is a render-blocking JavaScript issue, here are three potential solutions:
- Inline: Add the JavaScript in the HTML document.
- Async: Make JavaScript asynchronous (i.e., add "async" attribute to HTML tag).
- Defer: By placing JavaScript lower within the HTML.
!!! Important note: It's important to understand that scripts must be arranged in order of precedence. Scripts that are used to load the above-the-fold content must be prioritized and should not be deferred. Also, any script that references another file can only be used after the referenced file has loaded. Make sure to work closely with your development team to confirm that there are no interruptions to the user's experience.
Read more: Google Developer's Speed Documentation
TL;DR – Moral of the story
Crawlers and search engines will do their best to crawl, execute, and interpret your JavaScript, but it is not guaranteed. Make sure your content is crawlable, obtainable, and isn't developing site latency obstructions. The key = every situation demands testing. Based on the results, evaluate potential solutions.
Thanks: Thank you Max Prin (@maxxeight) for reviewing this content piece and sharing your knowledge, insight, and wisdom. It wouldn't be the same without you.
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Win a Ticket + Lodging to MozCon 2017 – On Us!
Posted by Danielle_Launders
That's right! We're bringing back our MozCon contest where you, our community, can submit your creative entries for a chance to come to MozCon 2017 for free! Last year we had so many impressive and deserving entries, it was hard to choose just one… which is why this year there will be three lucky winners. Yes! You read correctly — three lucky people will be able to attend MozCon for free. Moz will not only cover your registration, but you'll also have reserved VIP front-row seating, and we'll pick up the bill for accommodations at the Grand Hyatt.
This is your chance to meet Roger, laugh and cry at MozCon Ignite, converse with speakers during lunch, and of course learn all the things! To enter, just send over a unique piece of content telling us why we should send you to MozCon. Make sure your entry is both original and creative!
First up: Create!
Brainstorm and create something new, unique, and compelling. Last year we saw tons of ingenious ideas, including:
- Videos (must be one minute or less)
- Blog posts
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- Drawings
- Slide decks
- Anything else you can dream up!
These are just a few examples; there's plenty of room for you to come up with your own trail-blazing ideas. Perhaps you'll film your own Whiteboard Friday detailing why you should come, or record a custom-written, sung-from-the-heart tune about why you love MozCon? Get creative and show us what you got!
Secondly: Submit
Once your content has been perfected and is ready to share, tweet us a link @Moz and use the hashtag #mozcon by Sunday, June 18 at 5:00pm PDT. To keep things fair, there will be no exceptions — so make sure to follow instructions and don't forget to include your contact information (name and email address) somewhere easily visible within your content. We need to be able to connect with you if you're a winner!
All submissions will be reviewed and voted on by Moz staff. We'll let the votes of 150 Mozzers decide the top 3 entries.
Let's break it down:
- Submissions close on Sunday, June 18 at 5:00pm PDT
- Entries will be judged by Mozzers based on creativity and uniqueness of content
- Winners will be announced and the winning entry shared from @Moz via Twitter on Monday, June 26
- You must be able to attend MozCon, July 17–19 2017, in Seattle. Prizes are non-transferrable.
- All submissions must adhere to the MozCon Code of Conduct
- Contest is void where prohibited by law.
- The value of the prize will be reported for tax purposes as required by law; the winner will receive an IRS form 1099 at the end of the calendar year and a copy of such form will be filed with the IRS. The winner is solely responsible for reporting and paying any and all applicable taxes related to the prizes and paying any expenses associated with any prize which are not specifically provided for in the official rules.
What 3 lucky people win:
- A free ticket to MozCon 2017, including optional VIP front-row seating (valued at $1049)
- Accommodations with suite upgrade at the Grand Hyatt from July 16–20, 2017 (valued at $1,300+)
All right, what are you waiting for? Time to start on those submissions. Best of luck to you all!
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Phone and Voice Services
Several telephone models are used throughout Mt. SAC.
A link to a general instructional manual is provided below.
Voicemail System
To listen to your voicemail, dial:
On Campus: Dial 4000
Off Campus: Dial 909.274.6555 then your extension then * (star).
Click the link below to view a general overview of the voice mail menu.
Voicemail Navigation Menu - NEW
The Mt. SAC switchboard is located in Building 23 Room 6150.
The switchboard operators are available Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.


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Bobbi Gibb
Roberta Louise "Bobbi" Gibb (born November 2, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts[1][2][3]) is the first woman to have run the entire Boston Marathon (1966).[4] She is recognized by the Boston Athletic Association as the pre-sanctioned era women's winner in 1966, 1967, and 1968.[5] At the Boston Marathon, the pre-sanctioned era comprised the years from 1966 through 1971, when women, who were banned from entering the Men's Division Race because of their gender, ran and finished the race. In 1996 the B.A.A. retroactively recognized as champions the women who finished first in the Pioneer Women's Division Marathon for the years 1966–1971.
Gibb's run in 1966 challenged prevalent prejudices and misconceptions about women's athletic capabilities.[6] In 1967, she finished nearly an hour ahead of Kathrine Switzer, who had obtained an invalid number in the Men's Division Race, which threatened the accreditation of the race and angered officials, who tried to remove the number. In 1968 Gibb finished first among five women that ran the marathon unregistered. It was not until late 1971, pursuant to a petition to the Amateur Athletic Union by Nina Kuscsik, that the AAU changed its rules and began to sanction women's division marathons. Kuscsik won the initial AAU-sanctioned women's division race at Boston in 1972.[7]
Early life[edit]
Bobbi Gibb grew up in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts during the 1940s and 1950s.[8] She studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University School of Special Studies.[9][10] Her father was a professor of chemistry at Tufts. She was already running through the woods with the neighborhood dogs when, in 1962, she met a middle distance runner at Tufts named William Bingay, who would later enlist in the United States Navy and become her first husband.[11][12][13] They married on February 5, 1966, in California.[13] Her running included daily commuting of the eight miles to school.[11] She ran in white leather Red Cross nurses' shoes because there were no running shoes available for women at the time.[14]
Boston Marathon[edit]
Before 1966, the longest Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)-sanctioned race for women was one and a half miles. Until 1972, when the first women's division marathon opened, the Boston Marathon was a men's division race, so all the pioneer women who ran before 1972 were, under the AAU rules, unsanctioned runners, running in an as yet to be sanctioned women's division race.
Gibb trained for two years to run the Boston Marathon, covering as much as 40 miles in one day.[11][15] On writing for an application in February 1966, she received a letter from the race director, Will Cloney, informing her that women were not physiologically capable of running marathon distances and that under the rules that governed amateur sports set out by the AAU, women were not allowed to run more than a mile and a half competitively. She realized that it was more important than ever to run and that her run would have a social significance far beyond just her own personal challenge.
After three nights and four days on a bus from San Diego, California, Gibb arrived the day before the race at her parents' house in Winchester, Massachusetts.[15] On the morning of Patriots' Day, April 19, 1966, her mother dropped her off at the start in Hopkinton.[15] Wearing her brother's Bermuda shorts and a blue hooded sweatshirt over a black, tanked-top swim suit, she hid in the bushes near the starting pen.[15] After the starting gun fired, she waited until about half the pack had started and then jumped into the race.[16]
The men soon realized that she was a woman. Encouraged by their friendliness and support, she removed her sweatshirt.[9] To her delight and relief, the crowds cheered to see a woman running. The press began to report on her progress towards Boston.
Diana Chapman Walsh, later President of Wellesley College, recalled the day years later:
That was my senior year at Wellesley. As I had done every spring since I arrived on campus, I went out to cheer the runners. But there was something different about that Marathon Day—like a spark down a wire, the word spread to all of us lining the route that a woman was running the course. For a while, the "screech tunnel" fell silent. We scanned face after face in breathless anticipation until just ahead of her, through the excited crowd, a ripple of recognition shot though the lines and we cheered as we never had before. We let out a roar that day, sensing that this woman had done more than just break the gender barrier in a famous race…[17]
By the time Gibb reached the finish line in Boston, the Governor of Massachusetts, John Volpe, was there to shake her hand.[18] She finished in three hours, twenty-one minutes and forty seconds,[13] ahead of two-thirds of the runners. The following morning her feat was front-page news in the Record American, where the headline read: "Hub Bride First Gal to Run Marathon."[19] In another Record American article entitled "Roberta Gets Official Support: Females May Run Marathon," Jack Kendall wrote:
Roberta the runner may revolutionize Boston's fabled BAA marathon — and for that matter every other long distance run staged in the country. Even as the bunions acquired from Tuesday's grueling 26 mile, 385 yard race were subsiding, the furor over a woman's intrusion into what had been an all-male domain was mounting.
But a spokesman from the New England Amateur Athletic Union has already decided it may be a woman's world after all.
He plans personally to contact the organization's national headquarters and seek consideration for suspension of the NAAU rules so that a female who wishes to compete in the marathon can do so.
In his opinion the only way the rule could be circumvented would be through suspension of the rules.[20]
The May 2, 1966, issue of Sports Illustrated featured an article written by Gwilym S. Brown entitled "A Game Girl In A Man's Game":
Last week a tidy-looking and pretty 23-year-old blonde named Roberta Gibb Bingay not only started but also covered the 26-mile, 385-yard course at a clip fast enough to finish ahead of no fewer than 290 of the event's 415 starters.[12]
In 1967, Gibb, by then a full-time student at the University of California, San Diego, ran again. She finished in three hours, twenty-seven minutes and seventeen seconds, almost an hour ahead of another female competitor, Kathrine Switzer,[13] who was famously subjected to an attempt by race official Jock Semple to remove her from the Men's Division Race. Gibb, who ran unnumbered, was not similarly bothered. In 1968, Gibb ran again, finishing in three hours and thirty minutes, first among a growing number of women, which included Carol Ann Pancko, Elaine Pederson, and Marjorie Fish.[21] In 1969, 1970, and 1971, Sara Mae Berman was the women's winner, and in 1972, Nina Kuscsik was the winner of the first officially sanctioned women's division event.
In 1996, at the 100th running of the Boston Marathon and the 30th anniversary of Gibb's first run of it, the Boston Athletic Association officially recognized her three wins in 1966, 1967, and 1968 and awarded her a medal. Her name was inscribed with the names of the other winners on the Boston Marathon Memorial in Copley Square.[22]
In 2016, Gibb was the grand marshal of that year's Boston Marathon.[23] That year's female winner, Atsede Baysa, gave Gibb her trophy; Gibb said that she would go to Baysa's native Ethiopia in 2017 and return it to her.[24]
Education and career history[edit]
Gibb received her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1969,[15] fulfilling the pre-medical requirements, with a major in philosophy and a minor in mathematics. She has reported she was denied admission to medical school because of her gender.[15] Gibb then worked with Professor Jerome Lettvin at MIT on epistemology and color vision while studying law. In 1974, Gibb entered the New England School of Law,[14] receiving her Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1978.[2] She worked as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts State Legislature, studied natural systems, and pursued her interest in sculpture and painting. She was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1978.[2] While raising her family, she practiced law, specializing in real and intellectual property. She worked, for part of that time, in patent law with Jerry Cohen, Esq.
Gibb sculpted the 12-inch bronze figurines of a pony-tailed girl running that were given as trophies to Joan Benoit Samuelson, Julie Brown, and Julie Isphording, the top three women marathoners at the US Olympic trials in 1984.[14][25] Samuelson has commented on her trophy, stating: "There are only three in the world. It's irreplaceable."[25][26]
Gibb has written a memoir entitled Wind in the Fire: A Personal Journey.[27] A film based on her memoir and with the same title is currently in the works.[28] She has been included in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World. In 1982 she was inducted into the Road Runners Club of America Long Distance Running Hall of Fame,[29] and she has been interviewed for news programs and documentaries on ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, and HBO. She was included in the 1999 HBO Sports documentary Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports. In 2000, she produced a documentary on her art and running entitled Where the Spirit Leads. Gibb received the 2009 Tufts University Athletics Distinguished Achievement Award[30] and was inducted into The Sports Museum of New England Hall of Fame in 2011. Her Special Achievement Award was presented by Joan Benoit Samuelson at the Sports Museum's 10th Annual "The Tradition" on June 28, 2011.[31][32] She pursues a career in art and writes on a wide range of topics including economics, spirituality, the nature of natural systems, and the phenomenon of subjective experience. Recently she joined the Cecil B. Day Neuromuscular Laboratory as an associate working to find the causes of and cures for neurodegenerative diseases, specifically amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She divides her time between San Diego and Boston.
See also[edit]
- ^ Gibb, Roberta (1942–) Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages, January 1, 2007
- ^ a b c "Bobbi Gibb - Chronology".
- ^ Benyo, Richard; Joe Henderson (2001). Running Encyclopedia. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics. p. 124. ISBN 0-7360-3734-9.
- ^ "Boston Marathon History". Archived from the original on April 24, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
- ^ "Women's Open Division". Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
- ^ http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/communication/pdf/thesis08.zaccone.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Nina Kuscsik". NYRR.
- ^ Sosienski, Shanti (2006). Women Who Run. Berkeley, California: Seal Press. p. 3. ISBN 1-58005-183-9.
- ^ a b National Art Museum of Sport: Sculptor was first woman to complete the Boston Marathon Archived May 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ O'Reilly, Jean; Susan K. Cahn (2007). Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader. Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press. pp. 38–40. ISBN 1-55553-671-9.
- ^ a b c Gibb, Bobbi. To Boston with Love: The Story of the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon
- ^ a b Brown, Gwilym S. (May 2, 1966). "A Game Girl In A Man's Game". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ^ a b c d Derderian, Tom (1996). Boston Marathon: The History of the World's Premier Running Event. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics Publishers.
- ^ a b c Creamer, Robert W. (May 28, 1984). "Scorecard". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f "Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb - A Run of One's Own".
- ^ "Track & Field: Queen of the Marathon". Time magazine. April 29, 1966. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ^ "Marathon's Elite Women Runners Defy Spring Snow to Speak at Wellesley College". Wellesley College News Release. April 10, 1996. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
- ^ "60 Vintage Photos From Forgotten Moments In History". History Daily. April 3, 2019.
- ^ (April 20, 1966). "Hub Bride First Gal to Run Marathon". Record American
- ^ Kendall, Jack (April 21, 1966). "Roberta Gets Official Support: Females May Run Marathon". Record American.
- ^ McLaughlin, Dan and Bill Duncliffe (1968). "Babes Bug BAA Bosses." Record American.
- ^ "Boston Marathon Memorial". Boston Art Commission. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2016.
- ^ Associated Press. "Bobbi Gibb serves as grand marshal of 2016 Boston Marathon". Wicked Local Rockport.
- ^ Atsede Baysa gives her Boston Marathon trophy to Bobbi Gibb - The Boston Globe
- ^ a b Musca, Michael (April 2008). "Finally, One for the Girls: The '84 Women's Olympic Trials Marathon". Running Times Magazine. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ Moore, Kenny (March 4, 1985). "Her Life Is In Apple Pie Order". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "Wind in the Fire". Harvard Book Store. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
- ^ Katz, Brigit (April 20, 2015). "The incredible story of Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon". Women in the World (in assoc. w. New York Times). Retrieved April 20, 2015.
- ^ Road Runners Club of America. "Road Runners Club of America: History of the National Award Winners" (PDF). RRCA website. Arlington, Virginia: Road Runners Club of America. p. 1. Archived from the original (pdf) on July 8, 2008. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
Roberta Gibb-Welch
- ^ "Homecoming 2009". Tufts University E-News. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
- ^ "Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb To Run Inaugural B.A.A. 10K". Competitor. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
- ^ "The Tradition". Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- Cataneo, David (April 21, 1986). "Taking some giant steps for women: Gibb's gallant '66 run". The Boston Herald.
- Derderian, Tom (1986). Boston Marathon: 100 Years of Blood, Sweat and Cheers. Triumph Books.
- Derderian, Tom (1996). Boston Marathon: The History of the World's Premier Running Event. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics Publishers.
- Gibb, Bobbi (2012). Wind in the Fire: A Personal Journey. http://www.harvard.com/book/wind_in_the_fire/
- Higdon, Hal (1995). Boston: A Century of Running. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, Inc.
- Poletti, Frances (2017). The Girl who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, The First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon[1]. Seattle, Washington: Compendium, Inc.
External links[edit]
- Bobbi Gibb official website
- Bobbi Gibb biography and film site
- The Story of the Marathon
- Where The Spirit Leads: Bobbi Gibb, First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon (YouTube)
- Dupont, Kevin Paul (June 26, 2011). "Memoirs of marathon's first lady". Boston Globe. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
- "Famous folks from Cambridge: Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb". Boston.com. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
- Wind in the Fire film's Facebook page
- ^ Poletti, Frances,. The girl who ran : Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. Yee, Kristina,, Chapman, Susanna,. Seattle, WA. ISBN 9781943200474. OCLC 986238065.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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i don't know what was wrong with me, but before we even ate which was early in the afternoon, i kept falling asleep. i laid down on the couch and fell asleep, then we ate, and after i fell asleep again. good grief! i'm such a bear. but it was definitely a day of eating, lounging around (sleeping in my case), catching up, watching movies, and indulging in cheesecake.
my heart always feels really full this time of year. i feel so blessed. i'm beyond grateful for my own family and wish i could have been with them this year, but i'm grateful for beej's family taking me in this year, too. :)
^we are still eating leftovers from thanksgiving. so much food! (raeleen's whipped mashed potatoes are so yummy)^
^my favorite little baby, Archie^
^look at my babe! we went through old photos when his sisters came over later that night, and i was dyyyyyyyying. he's just the cutest little blondie boy i've ever seen!^
^our first thanksgiving together. i'm sad we didn't take more pics, oh well. at least we got one right! i saw this picture later that night and was like why am i not wearing shoes...and why am i holding my stomach like i'm having a baby?^


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Don't feel like you belong?
by Edward T. Babinski
Have you heard of a classic sci-fi novel called Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein? It's about a boy raised by Martians who then travels to earth, and truly feels like a stranger in a strange land, like he doesn't belong. It's a great story, and also involves man's search for religious truth as a major theme. It was very popular during the 60's along with Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Also, Woody Allan's comedic prose works are also classics, in the humor section of any major bookstore, GETTING EVEN, WITHOUT FEATHERS, and, SIDE EFFECTS. They are all written I suppose from the point of view of someone who doesn't belong, which is to say from the viewpoint of a Jew in modern day society, in this case a neurotic obsessive one, obsessed with such basic matters as religion, sex, and death. The stories he invents in "Hassidic Tales" as told by "famous rabbis" of the past are fall-off-your-chair funny.
Also, there was a letter sent to the website www.billhicks.com years ago. I can't find it at the moment. But it was the tale of a kid who felt he didn't fit in. He wanted to do something dreadful to himself, because he felt like nobody truly understood him. Then he discovered the comedy of Bill Hicks, and felt for the first time like somebody else really understood him. It was a great letter. Moments like those are great.
I thought I was going to pieces when I was a fundamentalist and when I began to realize how much other people believed in their religions. They were sure as I was, and just as compassionate and kind.
Which reminds me of an e-mail I rec'd just the other day which said, "I think the Chr. Reconstuctionists make a good case that other religions, such as Hinduism produce terrible consequences for humanity."
And I replied:
I have no particular love for any particular religion. But certainly Christians of all people, have no right to criticize the consequences and history of another religion. For all of Hinduism's faults, it never produced slavery. The caste system, yes, but slavery, no. Heck, even Medieval Christianity had a _caste_ system of _inherited_ nobility, kings, lords, all the way down to peasants. And during the Medieval ages when king Asoka ruled India he made it a rule that all religions should be respected. There was peace during his reign and freedom of religion, while in Europe and the Middle East there was the Thirty Years' War. Asoka even entertained Jesuits in his court, and allowed them to speak their views..
I also have read about the marvelous attempts by some Hindus to spread the news about birth control, which the Catholics in their country are attempting to thwart. One female who works with poor Indians and who teaches them birth control says that the families that have only a few children are much better off, since they can concentrate on those few children and they grow up well and whole, while the old way of having as many children as possible, and wearing down the health of the wife and stretching the budget for the children until some inevitably die, is a much worse way to go. She has proven this is true via the lives of the women she has worked with. Yet Mother Teresa tells India and the world they must go the other way.
Interesting is the fact that the 1996 winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion was Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ (which also subsidizes Josh McDowell Ministries!). But the very next year the winner was a Hindu, Shastri Athavale, whose spiritual and social activism was inspired by the The Bhagavad Gita. Athavale has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to spend two weeks or more visiting India's poorest villages where they seek to advance the self-respect and economic condition of those they visit. For more than four decades Athavale has taught that service to God is incomplete without service to humanity.
Perhaps you've heard of Sundar Singh, the Sikh convert to Christianity? He was quite famous in his day. But he made plain his view that, "There are many more people among us in India who lead a spiritual life than in the West, although they do not know or confess Christ...It is of course true that people who live in India worship idols; but here in England people worship themselves, and that is still worse. Idol-worshippers seek the truth, but people over here, so far as I can see, seek pleasure and comfort...The people of the West understand how to use electricity and how to fly in the air. The men of the East have sought the truth. Of the three Wise Men who went to Palestine to see Jesus not one was from the West.'". Heiler, p. 217.
Neither was Sundar afraid to raise his voice in favor of "universalism." He could never deny to all non-Christians the possibility of entering heaven (as fundamentalist and hard-line evangelicals, like McDowell, do). In 1925 Sundar wrote, "If the Divine spark in the soul cannot be destroyed, then we need despair of no sinner... Since God created men to have fellowship with Himself, they cannot for ever be separated from Him...After long wandering, and by devious paths, sinful man will at last return to Him in whose Image he was created; for this is his final destiny.". Sundar Singh, Meditations on Various Aspects of the Spiritual Life (London, Macmillan, 1925).
In February, 1929, the year Sundar disappeared on his final missionary trip to Tibet, he was interviewed by several theology students in Calcutta, India, where he answered their questions: "(Question #1) What did the Sadhu think should be our attitude towards non-Christian religions? - The old habit of calling them 'heathen' should go. The worst 'heathen' were among us [Christians].
By the way, C.S. Lewis' close lifelong friend, Bede Griffiths, became a Catholic monk and ran a Chrisitan-Hindu ashram in India for decades, devoting his life to inter-religious dialogue, and grew to love Hindus and Hinduism so much he wrote books praising Hindusim's most sublime aspects, even defending it against papal ignorance and misunderstandings. Griffiths also got Lewis to admit in a letter that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it may make him very much worse, a "devil," as Lewis himself admitted to Griffiths in one of the last letters Lewis penned.
In the little self-contained Christian "world" view of evangelists there is no room for Hinduism. Yet for millions of devout Hindus there remains room for Christianity and Christ's divinity. Hinduism in that sense encompasses a wider range of faith than Christianity.
There are even what one might call "fundamentalist" Hindus, like the one who asked Joseph Campbell, "What do scholars think of the Vedas [the most ancient Hindu holy books]?" Campbell answered, "The dating of the Vedas has been reduced to 1500 to 1000 B.C., and there have been found in India itself the remains of an earlier civilization than the Vedic." "Yes," said the Indian gentleman, "I know; but as an orthodox Hindu I cannot believe that there is anything in the universe earlier than the Vedas.". Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By (New York: Bantam Books, 1973), p. 54.
It's obvious that the study of the world's holy books by historical, archeological and literary scholars continues to provoke tension and discomfort in "Vedic believing" Hindus, "Koran believing" Moslems, and "Bible believing" Christians (like McDowell).. Philip H. Ashby's The Conflict of Religions (published around 1960), describes the conflict in the major world religions between modern scientific knowledge and old religious traditions. Christianity is not the only religion being "attacked" by "devilish liberals." Traditionalists in all the world's religions feel threatened by the insights that scholars bring to light whenever such scholars are free from having to parrot inherited dogma. So there is nothing "unique" about "Bible believing" Christians in that respect.
Furthermore, there are millions of devout Hindus more moved by the story of Krishna in the Hindu holy book, The Bhagavad Gita, than by the story of Jesus. As one Indian Catholic priest candidly told a British journalist, "Although my family had been Christians for generations and I had been through the full rigors of a Jesuit training, I still, in my heart of hearts, feel closer to the God Krishna than to Jesus.". Mark Tully, "Lives of Jesus" in The Illustrated London News, Christmas Issue, 1996, p. 33. (In Indian courts of law, people swear with their hand on The Bhagavad Gita not the Bible, and there are even popular Indian books with titles like, The Bhagavada Gita for Executives by V. Ramanathan.)
There are also millions of devout Buddhists more moved by stories of the Buddha and his disciples. See Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker, The Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (1997). than by stories of Jesus and his. Anagarika Dharmapala, a nineteenth century Buddhist, commented, "The Nazarene carpenter had no sublime teachings to offer, and understandably so, because his parables not only reveal a limited mind, but they also impart immoral lessons and impractical ethics...The few illiterate fishermen of Galilee followed him as he promised to make them judges to rule over Israel [appealing to relatively 'base' desires according to Buddhist teachings - ED.]." To such Buddhists, "Jesus is a spiritual dwarf before Buddha, the spiritual giant." A J. Mattill, Jr., The Seven Mighty Blows to Traditional Beliefs, 2nd Ed., Revised and Enlarged (The Flatwood Free Press: Alabama, 1995), p. 237.
Oddly enough, one version of the Buddha's life that reached Europe from India underwent subtle changes along the way, until the Buddha became a Christian saint! According to that version the "prince" who "lived in India" was named "Josaphat," and he was a "Great Renouncer." Research into the origins of "Saint Josaphat," revealed that the Latin name, "Josaphat," was based on an earlier version of the story in which the Greek name "Ioasaph" was used, which came from the Arabic "Yudasaf," which came from the Manichee "Bodisaf," which came from "Bodhisattva" in the original story of the Buddha. (A "Bodhisattva" is a person who achieves great spiritual enlightenment yet remains on earth to help others.) Thus the Buddha came to be included in Butler's Lives of the Saints.. See Leonard Swidler, "The Buddha Revered As A Christian Saint," The Catholic World, May/June 1989, p. 121; and Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Towards a World Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988), pp. 7-11.
Also, some of the earliest Jesuit missionaries to China, who read the Far Eastern book of wisdom, the Tao Te Ching, returned to Rome and requested that that book be added to the Bible, because it contained teachings on non-violence, love and humility that paralleled and preceded Jesus' teachings by hundreds of years. (Many of those parallels are commented on in The Tao of Jesus: An Exercise in Inter-Traditional Understanding by Joseph A. Loya, O.S.A, Wan-Li Ho, and Chang-Shin Jih.)
Eastern religions also feature stories of miracles and visions, along with stories of saintly Hindus and Buddhists who died beautifully and serenely. In some cases a sweet flowery odor is said to have come from their corpses. In another case a corpse allegedly turned into flowers at death. All in all, the stories rival those of Catholic saints and their miracles. In fact, "sainthood" is a phenomenon common to all the world's religions.. Richard Kieckhefer and George D. Bond, eds., Sainthood: Its Manifestations in World Religions (Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988). Needless to say, reading about Hinduism and Buddhism in books written by Josh McDowell is no substitute for reading books written by Hindus and Buddhists. A tour of any large bookstore can provide plenty of interesting titles by both Hindu and Buddhist authors.. Here is a list of books on Hinduism (none of which were written by hard-line Christian apologists): The Hindu Phenomenon by Girilal Jain; Hindus and Others by Gyanendra Pandey; Hinduism for the Next Generation by V. Krishnamurthy; Recovery of Faith by Radhakrishnan; An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi; Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda; The Mind of Swami Vivekananda by Gautam Sen; The Mind of Adi Shankaracharya by Y. Keshava Menon; Ramakrishna and His Disciples by Christopher Isherwood; Living Biographies of Great Religious Leaders by H. Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas; Truth is Two-Eyed by John A. T. Robinson (Christianity as seen through Eastern eyes and Hinduism as seen through Western eyes). Not to forget the magazine, Hinduism Today.
Right now secular and governmental charities feed more people worldwide than religious ones do. One thanksgiving there was an aritcle in USA Today that listed the three major organizations in America that feed the hungry and not one of them was related to any particular Christian denomination or even to Christianity as a whole. Check out the United Way sometime and the listing of all the charities in your area. See how many of them are "church-related." Church-related charities do a good job of parading around their righteousness in the public square like the Pharisees.
If it wasn't for a host of scientists who happened to be either lapsed churchgoers, heretics, apostates, infidels, agnostics, or atheists, and their successes in the fields of agricultural and medical science, hundreds of millions would have starved to death or suffered innumerable diseases this past century. Those agricultural and medical scientists "multiplied more loaves of bread" and "prevented/healed more diseases" in the past fifty years than Christianity has in the past two thousand.
Also, Florence Nightengale, the woman who made nursing a legitimate profession, was a lesbian who disdained institutionalized religion. The founder of the International Red Cross, Andre Dunant, was gay. The founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton, was a freethinker. And Helen Keller, the blind and deaf woman who proved an inspiration to sufferers of severe disabilities, was a humanist.


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Merce Cunningham Dance review: Legacy Tour insight
Such was the magnitude of Merce Cunningham's artistry that even the 26th and final Berkeley engagement of the choreographer's company is affording its share of insights and revelations.
The three-evening visit, which opened gloriously Thursday at Zellerbach Hall and concludes tonight (no doubt in a mist of memories), will not be the final time the Bay Area sees the troupe (it stops at Stanford on Nov. 1). But it is our last opportunity to observe vintage Cunningham fare made over four decades and performed by members of the crew he trained before his death in 2009.
This leg of the Cunningham Legacy Tour was astutely planned to display the choreographer's range of tones and textures, to show what is possible in "abstract dances" that are nevertheless grounded in a benevolent view of humanity and the natural world.
"Antic Meet," the rarest of Thursday's pieces, was on the bill for the Cunningham company's Berkeley debut 49 years ago, and this was the U.S. premiere of the reconstruction by Sandra Neels and Robert Swinston. Missing for four decades, "Antic Meet," accompanied by John Cage's insolently brassy Concert for Piano and Orchestra and clad in Robert Rauschenberg's daffy costumes, impudently skewers the prevalent modern dance styles of the 1950s. To say they look mannered and absurd when torn from context would be an understatement.
In this six-dancer work, no American choreographer of consequence escapes Cunningham's bemused gaze. The black costumes acquire saucers around the waist that recall modern dance pioneer Alwin Nikolais. Martha Graham (in whose troupe Cunningham had danced) is gently skewered with gestural language and by Marcie Munnerlyn and Andrea Weber, wearing parachutes around their waist, shifting balances and poking each other ominously. Interludes of acrobatics, soft shoe and melodramatic confrontations (dancers in dark glasses) proliferate with the irresistibility of a great cartoon.
Rashaun Mitchell has inherited Cunningham's original role and his rangy bearing and cool demeanor - unshaken by an absurdly stretchy sweater (think Graham), or materializing bouquets and doors that slide in from nowhere - and gives a brilliant performance. I particularly treasure the caveman routine with Mitchell wearing a huge fur coat that Diaghilev might have coveted. After one experience with "Antic Meet," you understand why Cunningham left this stuff behind to pursue his own visionary path.
It was wonderful, too, to see Swinston's reconstruction of the 1998 "Pond Way" (commissioned by Cal Performances), one of Cunningham's more serene "animal dances"), though the 13 dancers, ethereal in Suzanne Gallo's white harem pants, proved a bit wobbly in the reflective solos and unisons. We might be in a nature preserve (Roy Lichtenstein's witty backdrop suggests a marshland), where beasts gather for nourishment and mating. Deep arabesques, trim jumps, faun leaps and endearing shimmies and sidles prevail. Brandon Collwes stood out in a striding male solo, joined in an affectionate trio by Munnerlyn and John Hinrichs. For added atmosphere, there's Brian Eno's ambient score for three CD players.
In the concluding "Sounddance" (1975), the 10 dancers, starting with Swinston, emerge serially from a slit in Mark Lancaster's florid gold curtain and, like sideshow performers, virtually dematerialize in the same manner. Perhaps Cunningham is reminding us that he is, after all, a fabricator of theatrical allusion. The drama (perhaps the comedy) here resides in watching the choreography confound our expectations. The proliferation of lifts proposes some kind of drama, but they vanish before our eyes. The dancers cluster upstage in what seems a significant grouping, and they seem to wander away. The flexed feet and chains of arabesques suggest nothing more than themselves and must be savored for their very transitory quality. David Tudor's grating electronic score doesn't win a lot of friends, but the marriage of Cunningham and his Berkeley audience was sealed long ago.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company: "Roaratorio." 8 p.m. today. Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley. $22-$56. (510) 642-9988. www.calperformances.org.


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LUST – a love of your own gratification that renders love and devotion to God and others secondary. It is a self-indulgent extravagance, a worship of personal wants.
Read 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
The passion of lust will make you lose control. You will find yourself looking back and trying to remember what it meant to feel true love, to know compassion. When lust burns inside us, our only recourse is to find Christ and set our focus on his work in us.
Jesus, you are my first love. I want all my other loves in life to flow from my relationship with you. Help me not to be blinded by the passions of lust and instead be open to your Spirit's warning and direction.


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