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Remember the story of the "miscommunication" between Tosu coach Jim Tressel and some assistant who allegedly took it upon himself to change The Vest's USA TODAY Coaches' Poll ballot?
Well, lo and behold, the Buckeyes again find themselves in a controversial Coaches' Poll balloting situation, this time on the hoops side. But apparently no Tosu coaches were involved, or so we're to believe.
As you all know, Monday night UConn won the NCAA basketball title in a contest even uglier and more deserving of mass walkouts than a Charlie Sheen one man show in Motown. But when the final USA TODAY Coaches' Poll ballot was released on Tuesday, UConn only garnered 30 of the 31 possible first place votes.
So who got the lone non-UConn first place vote? You guessed it: THE Ohio State Ugottabekiddingme. The same OSU team that lost not in the championship game, not in the Final Four, not in the Elite Eight, but in the Sweet 16 - a number slightly larger than, well, 1.
But this time Tressel and his staff have an alibi: Northern Arizona's coach, Mike Adras, claimed he voted the Bucks #1 on his ballot "based on their entire body of work during the season." As of press time, the MZone is checking into Adras' medical condition and looking into whether or not he has any tattoos.
HT: SiC
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Is Tressel staff member now voting on hoops, too?
3 comments:
- Catie said...
Isn't there some type of connection with tOSU, Arizona and the Fiesta Bowl problems? Just sayin......
- April 06, 2011 5:25 AM
- phil said...
And all of a sudden Mike Adras is sporting some brand new Tats and I think we all can guess who paid for those.
- April 06, 2011 6:03 AM
- Dennis said...
Maybe he is trying to get a foot in the door if Matta leaves?
- April 07, 2011 7:00 AM
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Kingdom Hearts 3 represents the end of a trilogy. Well, it's technically not a trilogy because as series creator Testuya Nomura admits, "there have been so many spinoffs."
I hate how though to understand this trilogy you need to buy the other hand-held games. I mean I know the song at the beginging on the games usualy goes with a re capping of the story but after how much has went on between KH2 and KH3....we are in for a long intro.
Of course not! Why end the series when you can release dozens of games varying in quality between main incarnations? They're taking a page from their other main property, Final Fantasy.
...for better or worse.
I've waited 7+ years for KH3, TBH I don't care about Kingdom Hearts


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April 30, 2008 - Coalition and Iraqi forces killed 11 suspected terrorists, detained three others, and seized weapons caches in Iraq over the past three days, military officials said.
During operations this morning in the Iraqi capital:
-- Enemy fighters using small-arms fire attacked soldiers from 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, around 9 a.m. Troops fired a round from their main tank gun, killing one attacker. The soldiers fired another round minutes later at some men attempting to use an improvised rocket launcher. The round killed two of the would-be attackers and destroyed their weapon.
-- Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers operating an unmanned aerial vehicle observed three men emplacing a roadside bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City district at about 5 a.m. The UAV engaged the men with a Hellfire missile, killing one and wounding another.
-- Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers detained three men around 3:30 a.m. near a blast site in northwestern Baghdad, where a soldier was killed earlier by an improvised explosive device. Intelligence indicates the detained suspects were involved in the attack, military officials said.
-- Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, used a tank main gun round to engage a group of men carrying a rocket tripod. The round destroyed the tripod.
In Iraq yesterday:
-- While patrolling in the Istiqal qada region of Baghdad, soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 68th Combined Arms Battalion, spotted two men attempting to recover an armor-piercing explosively formed penetrator. Troops engaged and killed the two men, and an explosive ordnance team destroyed the explosive.
-- Coalition forces observed two men firing a mortar system in northeastern Baghdad around 5:15 p.m. A fixed wing aircraft responded, dropping a bomb that killed the men and destroyed the mortar system.
-- Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, came under attack by heavy machine-gun fire from a house in northeastern Baghdad. Troops returned fire, killing two enemy fighters and destroying two machine guns.
-- Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers engaged and killed an attacker and wounded another after receiving small-arms fire during a security patrol in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad.
During April 28 operations in Iraq:
-- "Sons of Iraq" citizen security group members helped Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers capture a key terrorist in the Iraqi capital. The suspect reportedly is responsible for car-bomb, IED and sniper attacks on coalition forces, as well as for weapons trafficking and kidnapping and murdering Iraqis.
-- The Tikrit special weapons and tactics unit, advised by U.S. Special Forces soldiers, detained a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq cell leader during an operation in the city's Qadasiyah neighborhood. The suspected terrorist financier is believed to be responsible for all IED attacks in the Qadasiyah neighborhood and for bribing local Iraqi security forces.
-- Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers discovered a significant cache in the western part of Baghdad's Rashid district and another near a mosque in Abu Tshir. The caches contained 107 mm rockets and a partially built EFP.
-- An Iraqi citizen in the Abu Osage village outside Baghdad led soldiers of 1st Battalion, 25th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, to a cache containing 450 57 mm mortar rounds. Troops took the munitions to a nearby Iraqi army compound to be destroyed.
-- An anonymous tip led soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Platoon, Troop C, 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, to a cache containing a suicide vest in Mugartimat, a town on the southwest outskirts of Baghdad. The vest was packed with about 24 pounds of homemade explosives and rolls of wire, blasting caps, and pressure and circuit switches. Explosive ordnance disposal personnel detonated the cache on site.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Troops in Iraq Kill 11 Suspected Terrorists
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By Michael Aneiro
Is there a broader lesson that bond investors should learn from the brief high-yield selloff late last month? Specifically, could the Fed trigger another, more protracted selloff when it finally does start raising interest rates?
The July high-yield selloff was peculiar in that there wasn't one clear, obvious catalyst such as a change in the outlook for the economy or defaults. I and others had repeatedly warned of overvaluation in the high-yield market, but those warnings had been going on for months. The most commonly cited triggers were a combination of a slightly more hawkish stance from the Federal Reserve at its latest policy committee meeting, which intensified the selling pressures in late July, coupled with deteriorating liquidity across the bond market that helped magnify losses.
I'd discussed this subject with Mike Swell, co-head of global liquidity management at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, late last week (part of our chat appeared in my most recent Current Yield column). Swell says investors should note how quickly the high-yield selloff accelerated, leading to a record $7.1 billion outflow from junk bond funds in a single week, and says something similar could easily happen again.
"Those fund flows were a pretty significant surprise because they represented a meaningful portion of overall assets," Swell says. "What was interesting was the violent price moves that occurred over a short period of time as people tried to liquidate."
In previous selloffs, Swell says, you'd see big Wall Street banks and brokers willingly buy bonds, serving a key market-maker role. But those banks have cut way back on their holdings of risky bonds since the financial crisis, such that now when there's a wave of selling, there isn't a first-line buyer waiting to catch the market as it falls.
"In the short-duration high-yield sector, what you saw was a big flow out of funds and no liquidity providers, and yields doubled from about 2% to 4% in a short period," he says. "In the past that might have been only a 25-50 basis point move, because Wall Street would have stepped in and bought the bonds people were selling and then sold them off over time to investors."
While this year's pullback was fairly isolated in high yield, last year saw a much broader bond-market downturn. Even though investors have been through that experience, and presumably learned a lesson or two, something similar could happen again. "The move that happened last year is where the entire market gets concerned over rates rising, because investors have had kind of a free ride, and they wonder what's going to happen when the Fed moves out of the market," Swell says. "But we are concerned because of the amount of money in fixed income that's predicated on the Fed keeping rates low. I don't necessarily think people are better positioned than they were in 2013, except maybe in emerging markets. I think when they change that view it's going to shock the markets."
Swell sees the biggest risk coming not not when the Fed raises rates, but when it first offers a real timetable to do so. "The Fed historically tends to tighten sooner and to a greater degree than markets expect," he says. "And the Treasury yield curve is not pricing in anywhere near the type of risk that exists from the Fed raising rates."


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MINNEAPOLIS -- Blake Brewster was in his element Tuesday night at the Metrodome, racing around the bright green artificial turf on Mall of America Field, playing the game of baseball with an unleashed sense of abandon that, in truth, so many of the prospects at this year's Perfect Game Junior National Showcase seem to possess.
But Brewster's intensity seems to register at a different level, the one often referred to "notch above the rest." He is a 6-foot, 165-pound, 16-year-old incoming junior at Moore (Okla.) High School who has already experienced his share of good times and bad, with a disproportionate number of those good times coming at the ballpark.
"That was a lot of fun," he said Tuesday after taking part in the Junior National's morning workout session (he ran a suitable 6.86-second 60-yard dash) and playing a full 10 inning game with PG Green. "I love this stuff; I just live for it."
Brewster, an outfielder and left-handed pitcher, is the nation's 149th-ranked prospect in the high school class of 2015, a University of Oklahoma commit who plays summer ball with Team Oklahoma. He was at the PG Junior National Showcase with his good buddy Kyle Tyler, a Team Oklahoma teammate from Oklahoma City, and Kyle's dad, Wayne. The trio spent last week in the north Atlanta suburbs at the 16u Perfect Game-East Cobb Invitational.
Brian and Linda Brewster, Blake's parents, would have probably made the trip but they weren't in any position to leave Moore this week. They are extremely busy these days, trying to rebuild their family's lives.
WHAT FOLLOWS IS THE COLD HARD FACTS, BLACK-AND-WHITE REPORT posted on Wikipedia about the events in Moore, Okla., just over three weeks ago today:
"On the afternoon of May 20, 2013, and EF5 tornado, with peak winds estimated at 210 mph, struck Moore, Oklahoma and adjacent areas, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others. The tornado was part of a large weather system that had produced several other tornadoes over the previous two days. The tornado touched down west of Newcastle at 2:56 CDT, staying on the ground for 39 minutes over a 17-mile path, crossing through a heavily populated section of Moore. The tornado was 1.3 miles wide at its peak."
Other reports identified the tornado as the "strongest in the United States in nearly two years," and one that left 24 people dead, including 10 school children. It damaged or destroyed 1,200 homes and affected 33,000 people; 16-year-old baseball prospect Blake Brewster was one of those 33,000.
"The day (the tornado hit), I was in my football locker room at the high school," Brewster said. "We were sitting there for about an hour, and then (school personnel) told everybody, 'We've got to go the gym, we've got to get underground.' We were running up to the gym, and that thing (the tornado) was right behind the gym; it was just huge, just rearing its ugly face, coming right for us. We stayed for about an hour at the gym and waited for it to pass, and then my baseball coach (Tony Borum) took me home."
Brewster hadn't adequately prepared himself for what he was about to encounter, but really, who could have prepared themselves for the reality of the total devastation.
"I walked into my neighborhood and I didn't even recognize it," Blake said, his voice becoming a little more halting. "I walked in (to the neighborhood) and I got a little emotional, just seeing all the memories and all the stuff that I've come to know -- stuff I was seeing every morning just walking by -- was gone."
That included the Brewster's home, which was destroyed. There was extensive damage at a pair of elementary schools -- Briarwood and Plaza Towers -- where 10 young school children lost their lives. The high school where Brewster was hunkered down was largely spared. And, he told PG, he was fortunate in that he didn't lose any loved ones -- family or friends -- to the storm.
"We got very lucky," he said. "My sister lives right by Plaza Towers, and she's fine, but it was just an emotional time for everybody, all of my family. At one time we had 15 people in my sister's house -- I have four sisters, and me and my oldest sister didn't have homes. All of her family and my family stayed at my sister Jen's house; it could have been fun having everybody together but this wasn't fun at all."
In the immediate aftermath of the tornado, the people in Moore -- a city of 55,000 that is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area -- didn't wait for the National Guard to arrive -- oh no, not these folks. These are proud, hard-working Oklahomans, and they went to work.
"As soon as it happened and as soon as I got back home I just went to work trying to see if anybody needed help, just going around and making sure everyone was OK," Brewster said. "We pulled 23 people out of my neighborhood, out of their cellars."
Over the next couple of days, assistance arrived from all over Oklahoma and the rest of the country. In one of thousands instances of support, members of the University of Iowa football team hopped on a Hawkeyes bus and rushed down to join forces with the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team to help in the cleanup effort. There was a report that Sooners' football coach Bob Stoops showed up in Moore one day to help remove debris practically in disguise so no one would be distracted by his presence.
"It was amazing," Brewster said, his eyes widening at the recollection. "Just hundreds and thousands of people coming around to our neighborhood and seeing what they could do; you don't see that very many places. We had 100 people helping to clean up my house; everybody came and helped us pack up our house, and it was an amazing sight."
This was actually the second deadly tornado Brewster has survived in his 16 years living in Moore. The community was rocked by an even more deadly twister in 1999, when Blake was 3 years old.
TEAM OKLAHOMA MADE QUITE AN IMPRESSION at last week's 16u Perfect Game-East Cobb Invitational in Marietta, Ga., finishing with a 5-1 record and sharing third place with the East Cobb Tigers 16u after losing to the Home Plate Chili Dogs 16u Childs in the semifinals.
Brewster was amazing at the tournament, hitting .588 (10-for-17) with three RBI, four runs scored and three stolen bases and being named to the all-tournament team. Batting in the No. 2 hole in the order, he was 4-for-5 with a double, an RBI and a run scored in the 14-11 loss to Home Plate. In a 6-3 quarterfinal win over NBS 16s, Brewster was 3-for-4 with a couple of RBI and pitched 6 2/3 innings, giving up two earned runs on six hits with nine strikeouts and one walk.
"For as many guys as we had -- I mean, we showed up with 10 guys," Brewster said. "We didn't have a lot of pitching, and we saw other teams with, like, 20 people. But we got third place, and that was a good feeling. We're going to come back in July (for the PG WWBA National Championship) with a lot more pitching and a lot more people, and that will be a lot more fun."
Blake Brewster won't run away from the challenges his family faces back in Moore. The Brewsters will persevere, rebuild and get on with their lives in due time. But don't fault Blake for finding a little peace, a little comfort, even a little solace on ball fields far away from central Oklahoma while looking ahead to a summer filled with baseball and friendship.
"Baseball is my sanctuary," he said. "I come here and play with my friends and meet new guys all the time; it's just a lot of fun. We're going to do a lot of traveling around this summer, just trying to get seen. We've got a bunch of the same guys on Team Oklahoma that have been playing together since we were about 7 years old. It seems like we've been together forever."
It's a bond not even a EF5 tornado can tear apart.


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Would Juneau taxpayers rather raise taxes or sacrifice services to keep the city's deficit down? An planned phone survey of City and Borough of Juneau residents will ask this question and more to give guidence to the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly.
The Assembly Subcommittee on the Budget Survey finalized and approved nealy 20 questions at a meeting on Tuesday.
The Assembly will use the results as a guide when making future budget decisions.
Bob Koenitzer, Senior Project Manager of the McDowell Group said the Assembly chose McDowell to provide fast, statistically correct information.
"Whenever there is a budget shortfall it is important to the assembly member to have input from the public," Koenitzer said. "So trying to find out if people support raising taxes, or abhor it, as opposed to making cuts in services. And that gives [the Assembly] some pretty strong guidance," Koenitzer said.
The survey will poll 400 people.
"More than an adequate sample to be able to get overall opinions," Koenitzer said.
The Assembly chose to contract with the McDowell Group to do the survey on Dec 19. The McDowell Group can complete a by-phone survey by Feb. for $10,000, the same price quoted by the League of Women Voters, according to CBJ minutes.
Questions could read like "In order to meet the projected budget shortfall are you generally more supportive of reducing CBJ services or increasing taxes or user fees."
McDowell's pollsters will ask responders to list their two most liked city departments and their two least liked.
And then more specifically, "if you had to reduce the CBJ budget specifically what two services or programs would you reduce first?"
"People will come up with their particular gripe, but I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing. It's what's important to them," Koenitzer said.
The Assembly is also looking for responders' preference to increase city income through increased user fees, increased year-round sales tax, increased seasonal sales tax or increased property tax. McDowell will ask for least and most preferred.
"We like to ask these things in a couple different ways to get the most usable information," Koenitzer said.
Chip Thoma President of Responsible Cruising in Alaska asked the sub-committee to add a question about whether Juneau should share its cruise passenger head tax with private dock owners or reserve the estimated $12 million per year for CBJ waterfront and tourism impact projects.
The sub-committee chose not to include Thoma's question.
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LIGHT TOUCH: Epileptic seizures range from the minor to the incredibly disruptive and dangerous. Although many people are able to control their seizures with drugs, around 40% of people with epilepsy can't control the seizures at all. Now researchers at the University of California have succeeded in controlling seizures in mice by using an EEG-based computer system. When the system detects a seizure it activates thin fibre-optic strands implanted in the brain. The light turns on certain proteins that stimulate or inhibit specific neurons in the brain and so arrest ongoing electrical seizure activity. The research with mice could lead to better ways to help people with uncontrollable seizures. That's some skilled brain manipulation.
MONITORING THE MONITORS: TV programmes often have security guards watching banks of screens that show what carefully placed cameras see. When guards spot a problem they take action. Researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid have just made that kind of system smarter by having software analyse the images in real time. Anomalies, such as a vehicle moving in the wrong direction, set off an alert for a human to investigate. They say the system could be used for public and road safety and will work with existing surveillance cameras. Which is all fine, so long as it's someone else the cameras are watching.
ROSE TINTED LENSES: O2Amps glasses enhance our view of oxygenated blood beneath the skin. That can help medical staff identify veins or detect bruising. One variant though, with Oxy-Iso lenses, may be able to help people who are red-green colour blind. Tests so far are producing positive results. The lenses hinder the perception of yellows and blues through at the expense of enhancing reds and greens, so may be dangerous for driving. Solutions are just never that easy.
ISLAND OF THE SUN: The Swiss are building 3 islands in Lake Neuchâtel. Each island is 25 metres across, contains 100 photovoltaic panels, and serves as a laboratory to demonstrate the efficacy of floating concentrated solar power plants. The power generated by each island will be sent via cable to the electricity grid on land. Those PV panels have to go somewhere, so why not on a lake?
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My friend recently had a homebirth and I was privelaged to be at her home while she labored/delivered the baby and I was convinced THIS IS THE WAY! I am actually 8 weeks pregnant, and am debating what to do. I had a LEEP procedure done where they removed 1cm of my cervix, my OB said it wasn't a lot and shouldn't cause any complications (I've done a lot of research on this as well) but they would do vaginal ultrasounds throughout my next pregnancy to assure my cervix was not thinning out prematurely. I am wondering if it would be safe to be in the care of a midwife and do a home birth rather than have to mess around with all that hospital stuff!
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I think your best bet would be to discuss this with your chosen midwife. However, as I understand it, the risk of having this procedure is that it may lead to preterm labor. If you went into labor too early for the baby to be born at home, your care would be transferred to a hospital. This would be the case for any pregnant or laboring woman planning home birth who develops a complication requiring the resources of a hospital.
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One swing of his bat and Kendrys Morales reminded folks still watching his Mariners why the team wants to bring him back next season. There are counter-arguments like his non-existent baserunning inability to field a position full-time and a pricetag that will climb to eight figures per annum. But Morales on Wednesday flicked his wrists and launched an Aaron Crow offering some 414 feet over the center-field wall delivering a 6-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals these floundering Mariners needed. Few current Mariners have the type of elite game-changing ability to hit a two-strike 97 mph fastball as far as Morales just did with the game on the line. And that's why a Mariners team that has struggled to drive in runs all season is reluctant to part with one of the few dependable middle-of-the-order bats they have. "You have to open up your zone with two strikes'' Morales said of his mindset awaiting the 1-2 offering with teammate Raul Ibanez interpreting. "He tried to throw a pitch away but he left a pitch out over the plate and I hit it.'' The Mariners had stranded eight more baserunners up to that point. Kansas City had used a four-run fourth inning off Taijuan Walker to erase a 4-0 deficit and it seemed Seattle might not score again the way it kept leaving runners in scoring position from the middle innings on. But then Franklin Gutierrez worked a tough two-out walk and Morales hit his first home run in over a month. That helped left-handed relief pitcher Lucas Luetge pick up his first win of the season after he threw two scoreless frames and Danny Farquhar closed out the ninth. Morales looked like a hot commodity at the July 31 trade deadline but had been in a tailspin since. He hit his previous home run on Aug. 2 and since then had posted a .200 batting average and on-base-plus slugging percentage of just .508 heading into this one. Mariners manager Eric Wedge has lamented the lack of veteran production being generated by the middle of the order. Much of that was directed at the since-traded Michael Morse but the team clearly missed what Morales had done earlier. Morales admitted he hasn't felt productive in a while at the plate. "I was trying to produce but I wasn't able to'' Morales said. Before Tuesday's game he and hitting coach Dave Hansen watched video of his early season at-bats to try to spot any differences with his current approach. They found a few things and went into the batting cages to correct them. "We went and watched some video and then we went to try to perfect and get to the place I was a few months back'' Morales said. Morales insisted he isn't feeling pressure of carrying the load with many of the team's bats struggling in the clutch. The Mariners are 3 for 40 with runners in scoring position on this trip.
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This document is a draft
How to do a pre-release
- File a ticket (e.g. #4290)
- Check buildbot to make sure all supported platforms are green (wait for pending builds if necessary).
- Read through the
READMEfiles to make sure things like the supported Python versions are correct
- Make a branch (e.g.
mkbranch Twisted release-4290)
- Run
./bin/admin/change-versions XX.YY.ZZpreN
- Commit the changes made by
- Run
./bin/admin/build-news .
- Commit the changes made by
- Make a temporary directory for the tarballs to live in (e.g.
mkdir /tmp/twisted-release)
- Run
./bin/admin/build-tarballs . /tmp/twisted-release/
- Upload the tarballs to a public website
- Announce the pre-release on
- the twisted-python mailing list
- on IRC in the #twisted topic
- in a blog post, ideally
Open questions
- How do I decide the version number?
- Do we need to commit the changes from
build-newsfor pre-releases?
- They leave the pre-release version in the NEWS files when doing pre-releases
- But build-tarballs won't work with uncommitted changes
- How do we manage the case where there are untested builds in trunk?
- How/when in this process are the Windows installers and/or MacOS .dmg files created? See #3279.
- (I presume .deb and .rpm packages are left up to Linux distro packagers)
- How/when in this process are the docs built?
- When should the front page of the wiki be updated?
- Test
change-versionswith pre-releases
- There should be a template for release announcements
- Pre-release announcements should include an exhortation to test
- Release announcements should include actual NEWS summaries and maybe a pointer to the full thing
- There are missing scripts:
- for uploading pre-release tarballs
- Need a standard place to upload tarballs
- for signing tarballs
- for uploading release tarballs
- for uploading pre-release tarballs
- It would be nice if the news fragments contained information about who made the changes
- Mine ReleaseProcedure for useful information
Suggestions for additions to pre-release steps
- pick a release quote :)
- bump copyrights in [source:trunk/LICENSE], [source:trunk/twisted/_version.py] and [source:trunk/README]
- Delete the news
NNNN.bugfixetc files after building [source:trunk/NEWS]
- Check the milestone for the upcoming release, get rid of any non-critical bugs
- Check for any open tickets marked regressions, get them fixed
- A thought for future releases: since we'd really like folks to download the prereleases and try them out, perhaps we should put the [source:trunk/NEWS NEWS] file on the web somewhere official, too, so they can see all the cool stuff they can try out?
- "Other fixes" and maybe all tickets should be links when they are on the web
- Document how and when to tag releases in SVN.
- Read through the NEWS files and write a summary of the interesting changes for the release
- Read the INSTALL file, check the required Python version. If it mentions supported platforms, check that the list matches the current set of buildbots.
- Get cube access
For the release itself
- Remove the 'pre'
- So tedious! Write a tool to do this. #4316
find . -type f -not -path '*.svn*' -not -name '*~' | xargs grep -n 'pre2'
- Add the quote of the release
- Get the branch reviewed
- Merge the branch into trunk
- Tag the branch
svn cp svn+ssh://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/branches/release-x-4290 svn+ssh://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/tags/releases/twisted-10.0.0
- If at this point you discover a showstopper bug in the release:
- File a ticket
- Fix the bug
- Get it reviewed
- Land the fix
- Merge the change to the release branch (not the tag)
- Delete the tag
- Make a new tag with the same name from the release branch
- Or make a new release with a micro version change
- Make new tarballs
- Build windows installers
- http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/builders/winxp32-py2.5-msi/
- Branch: "branches/release-x-4290"
- Download from http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/builds/
- Upload to the official upload locations:
- Prerequisites: cube account; write access to /srv/www-data/twisted/Releases/
- <radix> jml:
cube:/srv/www-data/twisted/Releases/<Project>/<First two parts of version number>/*
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- New directories are 2775, and ought to be in the www-data group. New files are 664, and ought to be in the www-data group
find /srv/www-data/twisted/Releases -name '*10.0.0*' | xargs chmod g+w
- Wait for the tarballs to be mirrored to tmrc
- They are mirrored 15 minutes every hour
- foom offered to force the mirror
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- twisted-web@…
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- PyPI
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- Packaging
- Do we need to do anything for Debian / Ubuntu?
Packaging not necessary, there's no good way to make an installer that overrides the default Pythonsee #3279
- Definitely need instructions for OS X-using developers who want to use a more recent version of Twisted
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Where is Paul Oneill when you need him to break some stuff in the dugout. Must be killing him to watch these "big stars" come up so small.
Where is Paul Oneill when you need him to break some stuff in the dugout. Must be killing him to watch these "big stars" come up so small.
Tigers fans going nuts. "Leyland is a senile old fool who must be fired immediately.."
Jeter had to be helped off the field in the 12th, looks like a pretty bad injury to his left leg.
Broken ankle. Jeter's done for the year. ****.
If Joe is going to bench and pinch hit for A-Rod, he has to do the same for Swisher now, too.
The guy misplayed two balls in RF last night and it cost them at least 2 runs. A good RF catches both of those -- and doubles up Cabrera on the 1st one. Nick isn't producing at the plate and he's now playing a crappy RF. Sit his ass down. I think we've all seen enough.
They can't afford to carry dead weight anymore now that Jeter is done. Every man has to do his job if they're going to win this series, and Swisher has proven over the last 4 years that he's incapable of doing his part in October.
Swisher is exposed in October because he can't do one thing. Hit good pitching. He can take pitches and walk. He can hit bad pitching. But he can't swing the bat against good pitchers. That's where all the stat and OBP guys have it all wrong. Batting average does matter. The guys who have good averages are better players cause they can actually hit. See Ichiro, Jeter
Cano has been as bad as anybody in this series at the plate, and now he cost us a run because he couldn't turn a double play.
Cano needs to be pulled. 0-25 stretch, not running hard down to first base and now he just botched that DP for Kuroda who has been spectacular.
Considering you can make the case to bench 5 or 6 guys.. I see no point in doing it now. Changes need to be made in the lineup.
Goodbye Swisher, trade Granderson. We are unfortunately stuck with A-Rod.
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3rd straight playoff game not sold out.
Bench swisher. Ichiro in right. Gardner in left. Never put Swisher in a game again.
It's unbelievable.
On the bright side, this is the last year he will infect the lineup in the playoffs. There is no way Cashman brings him back.
Doug Fister, Anibel Sanchez, Jason Hammel not exactly Cy Young candidates and these Yankee bums can't buy a hit. Not asking for a home run every time up but could we string together a couple of singles in 7 games? I wouldn't be shocked if Verlander pitches a no hitter tomorrow. Seriously!!cashman has to blow this team up. Granderson is the Dave Kingman of the Yankees, Swisher--if I have to see that stupid village idiot grin one more game....Cano has taken a serious step back this year. Arod ...why beat a dead horse. Unwatchable. Show some emotion! Sorry, I'm done.
But I didn't think the pitching would be THIS good. They have gotten a very good outing every single game and the offense has fallen flat on their faces.
With any sort of offense, this is a championship caliber team. But the O is just SOOOOO bad.


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The Magician
The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle
A great leader must possess "something which others cannot altogether fathom, which puzzles them, stirs them and rivets their attention." So wrote Charles de Gaulle some thirty years ago, and so has he been practising ever since. Playing the role of mystery man, he drops sybilline statements the way lesser stylists drop clichés, sows uncertainty for pleasure, and continually reverses himself in mid-field without so much as changing similes. Here is a man who in the past three decades has gone through virtually every role in the book—from conventional staff officer, to rebel, to party chief, to political exile, and now to Président-Soleil—and has made them all seem equally legitimate. De Gaulle so cleverly defines his position that any interpretation is possible, all options are open, and any course of action—however improbable before the act—seems inevitable upon execution.
To his critics he is a Machiavelli of deception and double-dealing, but for De Gaulle all this is part of the game of statesmanship. He may be deceitful, but he has never deliberately lied in public, for that would be to diminish his standing and narrow his options. "What distinguishes his political style and what makes him unique," as Herbert Luethy recently pointed out in Foreign Affairs, "is precisely that he knows how to be an opportunist without appearing to be one, and how to compromise without compromising himself." De Gaulle's style depends upon guile, dissimulation, and illusion—and he is a master of them all.
Je vous ai compris, he assured a screaming mob of Algerian colonists in 1958 shortly after he returned to power. They thought he was promising never to let Algeria go, and so they cheered. But within four years the North African colony was independent, the pieds noirs retired to southern France (where last December they trooped out to vote for François Mitterand against the "traitor" who gave Algeria back to the Arabs), and De Gaulle has managed to convince most people that it all happened exactly as he planned. Perhaps it did, but nobody will ever know, for De Gaulle refused to give his cards away in advance. He is all things to all men ("I am a man who belongs to no one and who belongs to everyone," he declared in 1955), cutting across party lines and ideological platforms, a man of the Right who attracts admirers on the far Left, an ex-officer who is contemptuous of the army, an imperialist who gave away the Empire, an autocrat who saved the Republic. "De Gaulle," as Jean Lacouture remarked in a recent biography* which deserves prompt translation into English, "is more left-wing than the Popular Front ever dared be."
A compendium of contradictions, De Gaulle cultivates mystery the way American politicians cultivate sincerity. It is his trade-mark and the camouflage which allows him freedom of maneuver. This air of mystery irritates Anglo-Saxon diplomats, but it is…
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Sony Reader Pocket Edition Giveaway: Help Me Fill My Widget
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ISony has a new social media site for booklovers called Words Move Me. As a way to promote this, Sony has approached a number of bloggers to share their reading experiences with others and have provided them a Sony Reader to the readership. We actually get two of them, one to give away and one to keep. Because I already have a Sony Reader, I'm going to give away both Sony Readers. This is the Sony Reader Pocket Edition.
I was given a tester to try out for a couple of weeks and I was pleasantly surprised by the size. It's smaller but I liked how portable it is. The screen is nice and clear and I thought the bottom layout of the buttons was very intuitive. We have a pink (rose) one and a silver one to giveaway.
- Simply leave a comment with your favorite quote along with the book and author of the book from which the quote comes.
- This contest will close on Sunday, December 5, 2009, 10:00 PM CST.
I will announce the winner on Monday and the device will be mailed Priority Mail to get to you before Christmas.
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The Assumption of the Virgin, 1455-1456
Neri di Bicci
Italian, 1419 - 1493
egg tempera with oil glazes and gold leaf on wood, likely poplar
216 x 221 cm irregular
Purchased 1930
National Gallery of Canada (no. 3716.1)
NEW - This altarpiece, painted for the Spini family chapel in Santa Trìnita, Florence, was Neri's first important commission. After the Virgin's burial, her body was taken up into heaven. The apostles who gather around her sarcophagus find only flowers within. Some stare in amazement or are lost in grief; others understand the true nature of the miracle and look up to see the Virgin in glory. In answer to St. Thomas' doubts, the Virgin offers him physical proof - giving him her sash, a relic preserved in Prato, near Florence. At bottom is a picture within a picture: a Crucifixion, which refers to the Mass celebrated at the altar below.
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Japan's Faltering Business Condition Persists
Japan's business conditions in the manufacturing sector continue to falter, indicating that the weak global economic situation is affecting the country's economy.
According to the data released by the Bank of Japan Friday, the Tankan Large Manufacturing Index dropped to -12 in the October-December quarter from -3 in the previous quarter.
"Looking at the industry breakdown of business conditions DI among large firms, sentiments especially deteriorated among machinery manufacturers as represented by transportation machinery in manufacturing sector and deterioration in sentiments was clearly seen for retail, construction, and personal service industry in non-manufacturing sector. The results give an overall snap shot of sluggish economic conditions due to the combination of prolonged period of global economic slowdown, appreciation of the currency, and level-off in policy stimulus," Credit Agricole said in a note.
Meanwhile, the capital expenditures projection for the fiscal year 2012 was revised to 6.8 percent from the previous forecast of 6.4 percent.
This report comes after it was reported that Japan's gross domestic product contracted in the third quarter in comparison to that in the previous quarter due to the soft global demand and the weakening domestic consumption in the world's third-largest economy.
According to the revised data released earlier this month by the Cabinet Office, Japan's GDP, which measures the annualized change in the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced by the economy, shrank to 0.9 percent in the quarter ending Sept. 30 from a 0.1 percent rise in the previous three months.
Japan reported last month that the retail sales fell in October compared to those in the same month last year, indicating a faltering of consumer spending, which accounts for the majority of overall economic activity. The data released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry show that Japan's retail sales, which measure the total value of inflation-adjusted sales at the retail level, fell 1.2 percent in October from those in the same month a year earlier, down from a 0.4 percent rise in September.
The continuing debt crisis in Europe and a strong yen have also hurt the demand for exports, the key driver of Japan's economy. Investors see an urgent need for the policymakers to evolve measures that strengthen the growth potential of the economy, which many expect to be announced after the elections in December.
With Japan's gross domestic product contracting in the third quarter in comparison with that in the previous quarter, the policymakers are under pressure to further ease the monetary policy.


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Lately, if you've checked into gas stations in the Brazos Valley and checked out the prices, your checkbook probably hasn't looked too bad when you leave. The days of the nearly $2 gallon are a thing of the past, at least for now.
According to experts, the massive demand for oil over the summer caused a massive surge in production by OPEC. In fact, a million barrels more than their formal 27 million per day were produced.
But the demand has lessened over the winter, and now there appears to be a fairly large surplus. OPEC will now curtail that extra million barrel production, with Saudi Arabia scheduled to cut half a million of that.
At a $1.70 per gallon average, Texas is 13 cents below the national average. Over the past month, the price of gas in the state has dropped 13 cents, which has drivers literally turning their heads.
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Between Yoast and seoprocessor
What is wrong if we put both Yoast and seoprocessor? what may make, I also tried it, because both of them good. Why just talk about SEOPressor vs. Yoast? Why not compare other SEO plugin?
I learn best blogger in the world and I see what they recommend and use themselves.
When I see someone with an over 10,000 websites on the internet say that they use this plugin to get search traffic and I listen very cloesly GILAA. check it out here
Most of the bloggers have recommended both the All in One SEO Pack or SEO by Yoast but so many recommend Yoast that I decided to use it for this comparison.
By the way I do not think the All in One SEO Pack plugin is better than Yoast.
I have used it in the past and as I actually found better results with Yoast than I do with it that's why I changed over a year ago.
I used to really want to use Yoast.
It is easy to use and you get a green light fast enough indicator tells you that you are ready for SEO, but I do not want GREEN LIGHT I want search traffic.
Why I switched to SEOPressor?
This Practical. If the suggestions made by SEOPressor many spam or illogical then I do not want to use this plugin. The fact that the practical and sensible advice is what I like the most, and the fact that you can target 3 keywords.
SeoPrecessor Versus Yoast
SeoPrecessor Versus Yoast
It's easy. It is really easy to use if you have been using Yoast. Meta information field is the same you just put it in a different place. The cool thing is SEOPressor will work with Yoast so you do not have to uninstall it if you do not want. In tests SEOPressor I read my entry in the field of meta Yoast without problems.
The price is right. If you want professional results you will need a professional's tool. simple as that. The best landscapers using best lawnmower. If you want results then you need professional SEO TOOLS professional. SEOPressor is the right price for small business owners and solopreneurs. This is why I suggest you buy it.
In short I believe the point of SEO is simply describe your content to the search engines so that they can find it more easily.
SEOPressor do a much better job of this than Yoast.
Yoast is doing a better job of this than SEOPressor...?
both are different you can use both plugin at the same time seopressor is mainly for onpage optimisation. when you write any article you can check it scores by this plugin. i am using both the plugin and it's working fine for me.
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Browser game developer InnoGames just announced the upcoming inclusion of background music and sound effects in Grepolis. The free-to-play hit will soon receive a new version of the epic music theme and sound effects – including songs for specific gods. For this purpose, the soundtrack, already known from TV-spots, was covered by the famous Brandenburg State Philharmonics with over 60 musicians. Video recordings from the theme song taping are available on YouTube, you can also watch it below. The new sound effects are planned for the beginning of 2013.
The covered theme song will also soon be heard in the upcoming TV-spot. The new in-game sounds will give players audible feedback for their decisions, which is intended to increase the game comfort and the atmosphere of the title. InnoGames plans to present more audio previews in the coming weeks.
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We can't paper over these serious issues by declaring the existence of a supernatural being with such immoral behavior. Nor should we be duped into thinking response shows humility. Admitting that we do not understand everything about the universe is humble. saying that we do not understand how making people eat their children is a depraved punishment even if it is ordered by a god, is an inexcusable abdication of critical judgment. But if there is a person who argues that God works in mysterious ways, ways that utterly contradict our notions of moral behavior, ''then its nature is clearly not the source of our morality.'' If according to the Bible that Yahweh's nature is familial cannibalism a just punishment, yet when we call any human who provides such a law as depraved, then these positions are in direct conflict. And invoking divine mystery does nothing to resolve that conflict.
We can't paper over these serious issues by declaring the existence of a supernatural being with such immoral behavior. Nor should we be duped into thinking response shows humility. Admitting that we do not understand everything about the universe is humble. saying that we do not understand how making people eat their children is a depraved punishment even if it is ordered by a god, is an inexcusable abdication of critical judgment. But if there is a person who argues that God works in mysterious ways, ways that utterly contradict our notions of moral behavior, ''then its nature is clearly not the source of our morality.'' If according to the Bible that Yahweh's nature is familial cannibalism a just punishment, yet when we call any human who provides such a law as depraved, then these positions are in direct conflict. And invoking divine mystery does nothing to resolve that conflict.
==Christian and humanist morality compared==
==Christian and humanist morality compared==
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Christian morality changes over time and is interpreted differently by different Christian sects. Individual Christians disagree among each other over what they think is God's moral law. Many Christians have a tendency to idealize victimhood. The once popular film, "The Passion of the Christ" shows this. Further the popularity of the story of Noah's flood suggests something potentially evil. [1] Christians believe they base their morality on what they think God wants, on trying to imitate God and Jesus. Some Christians are adept at finding Bible-based excuses for what they personally want to do; such as slavery and capital punishment - or emancipation and repentance, the bible can be made to support whatever you want especially if you misinterpret it just right (some effective methods include changing tone when you say the words out loud, using less-then-accurate printings such as the King James Version or even reading tiny parts completely out of context).
Christians frequently argue that they have a superior timeless morality based on God's will and this is clearly not true as shown below.
Does believing in Yahweh make you a more moral person?
Imagine that your society had a new leader, who published four laws that would intend to phase in as follows;
- Any citizen who talks on a Friday will be executed. The leader was born on a Friday and did not talk and thus wants this respected in law.
- Your leader can kill citizens or order their killing for any reason.
- Any citizen forced by your leader to commit crimes through mind-altering drugs will be punished.
- Parents who commit crime will have their children killed. And if it is not their first offense, they will be made to eat their children.
These laws would no doubt spark outrage. Law 1 kills people for a crime with no victim. Law 2 makes the lawmaker unaccountable by declaring their own killings lawful by definition. Laws 3 and 4 explicitly punish the blameless, directly contradicting the principle of personal responsibility with Law 4 adding an obscene element designed to dehumanize. They are definitive cases of injustice. So if asked about our objections to these laws, we are not confined too say that they are not to our taste. We have non-arbitrary reasons to object. These laws would clearly lead to identifiable abuses, we know too much what constitutes as harmful behavior, suffering, and responsibility to allow such laws to be incorporated into our justice systems.
But what if this leader has been in office all your life and you have been brought to think of him as morally perfect? Such a lawmaker would not make laws that were unjust. So this would create major cognitive dissonance. How would we respond? Perhaps we would fit some context into which it is of course right for someone who had done so much for this society to make some obsessionally arbitrary demands, or perhaps we would try to evade the problem that saying the leader's grasp of morality was so far ahead of ours that we could not understand them, that they worked in "mysterious ways." But we would be wrong, clearly the root of the problem is the root and false corrupting idea that the lawmaker is perfect. It is corrupt because it is causing us to accept unjust laws, it leaves us defending the undefendable. Remove this idea, ad we can see the unjust laws for what they are. When we accept ideas uncritically, or make them sacred so we don't question them, this can distort our moral reasoning because we are them prone to make mistaken ideas ruling our attitudes and behavior outside our awareness. Those who swallow whole, or injected the idea, the lawmaker is perfect, cannot properly evaluate the law until this distorting idea is identified and removed. Removing uncritical ideas we swallowed whole is often the key in resolving certain problems we have in many areas of life.
When we see the traits attributed to the biblical deity Yahweh, clearly if it existed, it could not be better placed to meet our fair consistent justice. We are told it knows our thoughts, knows whose guilty or innocent, and is perfectly moral. So unlike human justice administrators, it would have no excuse for punishing anyone but the guilty, or for punishing them disproportionately. And yet according to the Bible, it permits, commits, and commands the vilest atrocities corresponding directly to the laws we just rejected above as unjust. It orders the killing of those working on the Sabbath, gay people, and women who show insufficient evidence of virginity on their wedding night. It kills 70,000 people when David takes a census at Yahweh's request, and kills almost all land animals by flooding for human wickedness. It hardens the heart of the pharaoh, the Egyptians, and the King of Heshbon through mind control to enable their defeat and destruction. It sends a powerful delusion to make certain people believe a lie just so they can be condemned. And it deceives prophets into giving false messages, then punishes them for doing so. Having stated that no child shall be killed for the sins of the father, it orders the killing of children for their father's sins, the killing of the Amalekite infants, the killing of children without pity, and at least three books in the Bible have Yahweh committing perhaps the most vilest atrocities we can think of; making parents eat their own children.
Some Christians claim that if the monotheistic god doesn't exist, then everything is permitted. In fact, if we accept the Bible, far too much is permitted. The bible tells us that Yahweh not only permitted but endorsed rape, slavery, killing of babies and children, familial cannibalism, and mass murder. It is Yahweh that permits everything. When our judgment is impaired by false teaching, we can plainly see the injustices here as we did with the four laws.
But what if we were brought up to think that Yahweh really exists and it morally perfect? How do we respond to these acts? Declare them just? We know killing those known not to be responsible for the sins being punished is quintessentially unjust. Do we concoct an elaborate justification for anything Yahweh did? No, when we indulge any impulse to excuse or defend these acts, we are already going dangerously astray. If we justify these acts, what won't we justify? Do we brush Yahweh's atrocities under the carpet of symbolism, claiming they are not meant to be taken literally? Nothing in the Bible makes clear that Yahweh is acting symbolically, but even if they were the idea of an omni-benevolent baby punisher makes no more senses as a symbol than as a literal being. Do we claim that these particular passages are just merely beyond our understanding? Not only is that unconvincing, when we condemn humans who act this way without hesitation, it represents one of the most deplorably irresponsible attitudes towards morality and justice we encounter.
We can't paper over these serious issues by declaring the existence of a supernatural being with such immoral behavior. Nor should we be duped into thinking response shows humility. Admitting that we do not understand everything about the universe is humble. saying that we do not understand how making people eat their children is a depraved punishment even if it is ordered by a god, is an inexcusable abdication of critical judgment. But if there is a person who argues that God works in mysterious ways, ways that utterly contradict our notions of moral behavior, then its nature is clearly not the source of our morality. If according to the Bible that Yahweh's nature is familial cannibalism a just punishment, yet when we call any human who provides such a law as depraved, then these positions are in direct conflict. And invoking divine mystery does nothing to resolve that conflict.
Responding to these atrocities with examples of mercy does not work either, it just shows that the Bible contains both atrocities and mercy.
What about Jesus?
Some emphasize the New Testament above the Old, shifting focus from Yahweh to the parable genteelness of Jesus. But in Matthew 15:1-6 Jesus endorses Yahweh's order to kill those who curse their parents, presumably including Tourette's who sufferers from neurological disorder. Two of the gospels have the bizarre story of Jesus punishing the fig tree, making it wither because it has no fruit when he is hungry, even though it is not the right season for it to bear fruit. This is like smashing a TV set on Friday because a Sunday film is not showing. It's unstable behavior tantrum. Some apologists say that Jesus is reinforcing the parable of the barren fig tree - a comment of fruitless people. But that does not hold water, the tree he curses is not barren, and the gospel shows the he is stopping it from bearing fruit again. Also later verses reveal (Mt. 21:21) that the main point of this miracle is to show that with enough faith, one could literally move mountains (Mt. 11:24). This is merely a display of destructive power against a healthy tree to show Jesus' dominance over nature and to convince his disciples that they shall receive anything they desire if they pray with enough conviction - a questionable message in of itself. Luke 9:61-61 Jesus tells a man wishing to follow him that he cannot go back to his family, the man must instantly disclose of his closest relationships. How about fetch his family so that they can all follow? These are Christian family values according to the Bible: abandonment. The "good news" of Jesus is not so good.
Of course, as before, the root of all these familiar responses is a false belief. Once we realize that the biblical god does not exist, once we have overcome our reluctance to overcome an idea given to us when we were least able evaluate it (moral perfection), an idea that we are trained to not to question under punishment, the dissonance disappears and we stop torturing logic to disguise Yahweh's injustice. A perfect just being would not order the killing of innocents, it would not create problems or violate the principle of personal responsibility by using mind control to induce punishable behavior. It would not regulate abusive practices such as slavery and condemn them, nor would it punish disproportionately. Declaring something perfect then using that deceleration to infer that everything it does is perfect is NOT how valid reason works. When one argues for the existence of a god that is perfectly just, love, and honest - these are highly specific and fragile claims. A being with these qualities cant do just anything, many behaviors would by definition would lie outside its possible repituare. If it punishes the innocent by the use of deception (2 Thess 2:11), any claim to perfect virtue shatters into incoherence. Perfection is an absolute, and Yahweh uses deception -regardless of the reasons apologists put forward for this behavior- the use of deception in of itself destroys the claim that Yahweh is perfectly honest.
Many who reject theism are told they owe their morality to religion, that they borrow moral capitol from Judeo-Christian tradition. Even if this were true, the Judeo-Christian tradition borrowed from what came before. It was not the monotheistic religion that invented prohibition against murder, theft, or perjury. The prohibitions promote peaceful coexistence and were doing so long before the Bible's writers were born. So the claim that we borrow moral capitol already rings hollow. But more importantly, if the Judeo-Christian tradition reflects the Bible, an epic set of texts that practices across the entire moral spectrum for endorsed and permitted from virtuous to vicious, it is no more valid to say that we borrow from this than to say that we borrow from a hypothetical human, who has an extensive catalog of good and bad deeds, ranging from charity to mass murder. Something that expands the entire moral spectrum and will by definition have some great virtue in it, but this does not mean that we use it as a moral guide. When the mass-murdering charity worker stands trial, the charity doesn't make up for the murders and the murders destroy any claims that he is a role model. Likewise, the many immoral teachings in the Bible provide the grounds why we must condemn these passages outright as morally disgraceful and reject any notion that the Bible is a source of moral revelation. We cannot trust the Bible as a moral guide, but it gets worse than that. The insanity of the Bible is what it permits in one passage, it prohibits in another. The making of images or anything of its likeliness on earth or heaven is forbidden (Ex. 20:4) and commanded (Ex. 25:18-20). People are ordered to stone others to death (Duet. 21:21) yet only those without sin are fit too cast the first stone (Jn 8:7). We are told no one is without sin (Rom. 3:23). We are told that good deeds can be shown (Mt. 5:16) and not shown (Mt. 6:1). These conflicting requirements defy rationality, and of course much of the Bible's appeals depends on its countless moral inconsistencies which enable almost anyone to find passages that endorse their particular view. Some find passages to support their bigotry, their thirst for blood, while others focus on passages endorsing peace and acceptance. But books that endorse all viewpoints ultimately endorse none.
Non-Christians who cite biblical cruelties are often accused of cherry-picking. In fact, non-Christians can freely acknowledge both kindness and cruelties in the Bible. Particularly the cruelties that should concern any decent person are those who ignore and overlook the immoral content of religious scripture, who are truly cherry-picking. Theists who discard the less palatable parts of Scripture should at least be honest about the standards by which they do this and concede that they are applying their own independent judgment to Scripture. Obviously when we use our own moral sense to separate god and bad in Scripture, when we revise our interpretation of it to reflect the more enlightened view of our time, it is not Scripture guiding our morality. It is our morality guiding our perception of Scripture.
The Bible is an extraordinary set of texts, however what it gives us is not the way of the perfect being, but a fascinating record of the inconsistencies of ancient beliefs and customs described by fallible authors writing centuries ago, borrowing extensively from others mythology and giving frequently conflicting versions of events never witnessed by the authors, and have been circulated through decades of word of mouth. Many of these authors felt the massive extermination of lives was honorable behavior for a god, confusing morality with power, and they poured this flawed understanding into their writings. But if their ancient minds fail to see the cruelties and contradictions in what they wrote, it should not be invisible to us now. We do ourselves grave injustice if w enshrine their ignorance in our morality. They did not know better, we do. Religious scripture is fixed in distant history, and it many endorsements of cruelties we do not tolerate today make this abundantly evident. It is not a virtue of religious dogma that it doesn't change, it is the most profound failing. Moral systems that can't develop in response to our advances in our understanding cannot edify, they ossify. Moral considerations, far from leading us to embrace the 'good books', are exactly what should lead us to reject them.
Christian and humanist morality compared
If you are an atheist, agnostic or other person who doesn't accept any particular religion you almost certainly also want to be moral. Your self respect is better if you are a moral humanist and other people will respect you as well. Humanist morality improves conditions in this world which is the only world we know exists.
It is perfectly possible to be good without any god or gods. Secular philosophies around the world can provide guidelines on how to live a moral life. At root, morality can be obtained through empathy and experience (how our actions affect others) are human sources independent of religion that can help us determine how to be a good person.
Christians and theist apologists may argue and declare that they are "good" because they follow the moral compass as their deity. Neurological advances are pulling back the curtain in religious moral thought. In a revealing study by Nicholas Eply (Eply, N. et al 2009, "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106), Christian volunteers were asked to report their own views, the views of their deity, and the views of others on a range of controversial issues (such as legal euthanasia) while having their brain activity scanned. Results show that thinking about divine views activated the same brain regions as thinking about their own views, indicating that when believing themselves to be consulting the divine moral compass, theists may instead be doing is doing what the rest of us do: searching their own conscience. However, simply following the demands of a divine being does not reveal a person as good, rather simply obedient. This brings up the problem of the divine command theory, that if a theist's deity declared that genocide was morally right, then the theist must accept it regardless. If they do not, this reveals that the theist already follows their own moral compass despite the demands of an authoritative figure.
Christian intolerance
Far too many Christians assume that atheists can't be moral or are morally defective. After a former Christian deconverts long standing Christian friends or family members occasionally decide without reason the former Christian isn't moral any more. Here's an example. It's not a particularly bad example. It's an example from a thread which happened to be active in August 2008 when this was written.
The main part of the discussion was focused on faith. Not just his faith, but what have I put my faith in. How do I know what is wrong or right... mainly in the context of my personal morality. What do I do when I am alone. Why not lie? Why not steal? I mentioned that it makes sense to me that morality could evolve in a communal setting, but he honed in on personal morality again. He said now that I don't believe in any religion, what is my construct in the way I behave? I have to admit that I don't have the best answers to this question. I treat people with respect and kindness. I don't lie (except those little lies like, "Yes, honey. You look fine." But, heck, I almost never even do that.) Basically, I really do live the Golden Rule, but this had no persuasion on my friend since that doesn't deal with what I'd do when I'm by myself.
In the above case the Christian's long standing knowledge of how his friend behaves was discounted. Since the atheist had deconverted it was assumed that he can't be moral any more. There is a very serious dark side to undermining Non-Christians and trying to convince them that they can't be moral. Atheists need the assurance to resist pressure from Evangelical Christians especially when those Christians set out to prevent them being strong or resisting temptation to behave badly. There are serious problems for atheists for example in the more intolerant parts of the United States Bible Belt especially in rural areas. Fundamentalist Christians worldwide are cult-like and sometimes out of touch with reality. "What the Bible Says" counts for more than direct observation. The pastor chooses which parts of the Bible he wants his flock to read and interprets it for them. When Christian morality is examined thoroughly it becomes clear that Christians have no good reason to feel superior.
It is well known that hundreds of Christian branches, fellowships, and churches promote intolerance towards homosexuals, witches, heretics, nonbelievers, women, Jews, and even people of different skin color.
Cult like Christians being uncharitable
How a Baptist Minister behaved:
My wife is an apostate. When she came clean about her doubts in religion to her baptist congregation, very few of them remained friends with her. Her former pastor told her she could no longer claim to be, or even use words like, 'good' and 'moral' because she had no foundation to give them without g-d. People she went to high school with and thought of as close friends ignore her attempts to contact them. And, of those who still talk to her, most of them think she's just going through some sort of phase and try to talk her into going to church with them when she visits (we've moved several hours away), which she doesn't seem to mind, but I take as very disrepectful of my wife's views.
Fortunately only a minority of Western Christians are as extreme as the above example, indeed many of the more Liberal Christians would argue that the pastor described in the above text was being judgemental and unchristian. In some areas, for example parts of the United States Bible Belt far too many Christians assume that without their religion nobody can be moral. Some disregard the good life lived by, for example Mahatma Ghandi because he was a Hindu while others assume some type of religious faith is required for a person to be moral. Naturally believers provide no sound scientific or empirical evidence for this extreme claim and refer to their unproved religious teachings. Psalms 14, 1 is often quoted as is Psalms 53, 1. The Psalms were written by the same Bronze Age herders who thought children who made fun of a prophet deserved death as shown in the next section.
Bible-based morality
The Bible had many times been called the "good book" but the reality is the Bible (both the Old and New) is not good at all. As already pointed out, the biblical deity named Yahweh is a moral monster.
According to the Old Testament (2 Kings 2:23 & 2:24) God sent two she-bears to tear some children to pieces because they made fun of Elisha's bald head., see Skeptic's Annotated Bible. Children can be really thoughtless and cruel when they make fun of people. Bad-tempered people can easily be tempted to curse them. Nonetheless that behaviour in a child cannot merit the death penalty in any civilized country. Indeed any mass murderer who caused forty children to be killed in that horrific way would certainly face life imprisonment without parole in any civilized country. Bronze Age herders wrote that part of the Bible and unsurprisingly those teachings are totally unfit for the 21st Century. Throughout most of church history Christians believed this story about the she-bears was literally true, indeed Fundamentalist Christians still believe it today. Liberal Christians see the bad parts of the Old Testament as symbolic of something or other in some way or other.
The above is just one example among many of God as an arbitrary, capricious character corrupted by power. Fortunately most Christians ignore the worst aspects of their God's alleged actions when deciding how to behave. Better Christians also ignore the worse behaviour of God's so-called representatives or prophets. The better Christians decide which parts of their alleged God's behaviour are worth imitating by following their intuitive sense of right and wrong while the bad parts of their God's behaviour are explained away or ignored. Atheists also have an intuitive moral sense. Part of this intuitive sense is hard wired into human brains. That part is the same across cultures and religions and among those without religion. Another part of the intuitive sense of right and wrong is culturally determined. That part varies between cultures, between religions and at different times in history, it varies among Christians as well as among atheists.
So-called timeless morality
Christians enjoy the fiction that they have a "timeless" morality set in the Bible. In reality Christian morality changes over time as does other morality. A glance a history shows this. Slavery is an example
Christianity and Slavery
Before the American Civil war slave owners in the South of the United States used passages in the Old Testament and the New Testament to justify their position. The Bible even permits beating a slave to death with a reservation.
21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.See Skeptics Annotated Bible.
21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
If a master beats a slave to death the master will be punished provided the slave dies at once. If the slave survives and suffers for a day or two before dying the master is not punished. He only loses his property.
St.Paul in the New Testament also sanctions slavery. This comes in Ephesians 6.
6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
See Skeptics Annotaded Bible. Masters are told to treat slaves well. Apparently it's still OK to give slaves reason to be really frightened and tremble.
Today most Christians prefer to avoid those sections of the Bible. If forced to explain biblical justification for slavery they may come up with something but fortunately Christians as a group think it would be wrong to reintroduce slavery. Christian attempts to justify what is in the Bible can lead to them sanctioning things that most moral Humanists would say are evil.
Below is a Christian attempt to justify slavery written as recently as 2008.
They "shall be of the heathen" is the key phrase here. God approved of slavery in this instance only because it was His hope that those who became slaves of the Israelites from foreign nations might "be saved." Even though they would lose their earthly freedom, God hoped that they would gain eternal freedom by coming to know Him, which is far more important.
See Atheists may say the Bible is morally deficient
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Church based morality
All Christians believe that the Bible is authoritative to varying extents and all Christian sects have their own unique way of interpreting the Bible which their leaders teach to the faithful.
Roman Catholics
Additionally the Roman Catholic Church believes that the Pope's statements and the churches teachings are sometimes binding on the faithful. For centuries the Roman Catholic Church overlooked scandalous child sex abuse among the clergy. A Roman Catholic priest sometimes acts as a normal man, falls in love with an adult woman and marries her then he has to leave the priesthood. He is further told that his marriage is invalid, he is in mortal sin and in danger of Hell while he remains with his wife. He and his wife are both considered in mortal sin and they should escape damnation by separating. By contrast a priest who abused little boys and/or girls could and can confess, receive absolution and continue as a priest. If child abuse by a particular priest became scandalous he would be moved to a different parish where parents did not know that they needed to protect their children from him. It's unclear how far Roman Catholics have reformed if at all. With this record the Roman Catholic Church believes that it has the authority to teach what is right and what is wrong. They try to teach their own membership and the whole world.
See also
This article was written in response to Christians, especially Christian Fundamentalists criticising atheists. The article focuses on what are seen as weaknesses in Christian morality but mentions in passing that most Christians behave better than the article suggests most of the time. There are any number of web sites, other media and ordinary people pointing out what is seen/imagined as good in Christianity and this is a small wiki trying to put the other viewpoint.
External links
- Criticism of Christian Morality
- Atheist Theft of Christian Morality
- Absolute moral standards - are they possible?
- The Poverty of Theistic Morality
- More Research concerning Atheist Morality
- Bible Morality Challenge
- Christopher Hitchens on Christian Morality Short video that's to the point
- Richard Dawkins on Absolute Religious Morality


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How will you view this team and ownership if Walt doesn't make any moves?
How will you view this team and ownership if Walt doesn't make any moves?
Smart for not giving up too much for little in return in a bad trade market.
I don't want a "marginal" upgrade. If he doesn't make a blockbuster that will change the competitive balance for years to come, like the Rolen trade, I don't want one. Besides, he has signed several free agents, Izzy, Springer, and GMJ. I'm glad GMJ didn't work out, that proves to me at least what this team did early is legit, they are deep, good and here to stay.
"Ahh, Jesus, I like him very much, but He no help with curveball." - Serrano. "Are you trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?" - Harris in Major League (1989)
I voted "great" because I have full faith in Walt to make sound baseball decisions for this season's playoff run and also for the long term success of the club. If he gets a reasonable deal to improve the club this season without giving up a pile of talent he will do it. But he won't panic.
I trust Walt will do the right thing but I really don't envy him right now. I don't know if it is a function of the youth on this team but the Reds are a wildly inconsistent team which makes it very hard to improve.
Joey Votto and Scott Rolen are the only guys on this team, that month to month you pretty much know what you will get. Everybody else is up and down in HUGE swings.
Top three OPS guys in July - How many people would guess
Votto 1.111, Stubbs .761, Cabrera .706
Phillips, Rolen, Bruce and Gomes have been dreadful in July, but at the same time, when they play at the top of their game it will be extremely difficult to get someone better at any of their positions.
So I believe that the trade deadline will be pretty low key with maybe a bullpen arm or bench guy. Not much more than that.
What if the Sun doesn't rise tomorrow.
Those are the same odds that Walt stands pat.
First of all, he's already done three things:
Sign Springer, Isringhausen, and Matthews.
He's also done other things:
Waited for the returns of Bray (good thing), Volquez (good thing), Burton's progress (we'll see), giving Fisher another shot.
And, he's been in communication with many, many teams exploring other things.
Walt has been quite busy and been anything but, "standing pat".
I'd be surprised due to his history in making moves, but I also have faith in him and wouldn't be disappointed at all.
"I can't take this homerism anymore." - 10xWSChamps, August 11, 2010. A Cardinals fan having a problem with all the homerism on Redszone. Classic.
"Man do I miss the days where were didn't need a calculator and an encyclopedia of baseball metrics to enjoy a baseball game ... - MikeS21" - 8/2/12 game thread
Just made up this quick analysis of Reds' wins, pitching, and offensive stats by month. Didn't know where else to post it so I threw it in here.
April: (12-11, 5.41 ERA); .245 BA, .322 OBP, 106 R, 22 HR
May: (18-11, 3.84 ERA); .299 BA, .366 OBP, 162 R, 45 HR
June: (14-13, 4.19 ERA); .274 BA, .327 OBP, 118 R, 26 HR
July: (11-10, 3.08 ERA); .254 BA, .319 OBP, 96 R, 26 HR
Just going off of this, the weakness seems to be our offense. Although we have the #1 offense in the league, that was basically because of a ridiculous hot month of May and a good June. The Reds are currently 10 games over .500, 7 of which is because of the great month of May.
We definitely need another bat in this lineup. I just don't know if there's anyone out there worth a big move.
1.) What players are realistically available?
2.) Are they a significant upgrade over what is currently on the roster
3.) Is the value they provide better than what they are trading away.
Just running through the exercise. Say Drew is available is does his .099 superior OPS improve the Reds so much that you are willing to trade away a Yonder Alonso.
I think what you will find is the guys available are only marginally better than what we have and the only way you will not overpay in prospects is if you take back really bad contracts.
But, specifically, Arizona's Drew would be. His Defense is lights-out better than Cabrera's, and his OBP is lights-out better than Cabrera's.
As much as I've always liked and believed in Alonso, I'd trade Alonso for Drew straight up, and that would be more right there than Arizona got for Haren.
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The Breezy Bishop Schowcase has a new name and a new location, but the girls basketball competition should be just as fierce in the Beast of the East Showcase scheduled for the second weekend in December at St. Frances and at the Carmelo Anthony Youth Development Center.
This year's event features 44 teams, mostly from Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, competing in 33 games over three days. Among the top local teams participating: Archbishop Spalding, Aberdeen, Digital Harbor, McDonogh,
Following is the schedule for the event, which kicks off at 5 p.m. Dec. 9.
Beast of the East Showcase
Friday, Dec. 9
At St. Frances
Meade vs.
Primetime Prep, NY vs. Peddie, NJ, 6:45
MATHS vs. Oak Hill, Va., 8:15
Riverdale Baptist vs. Regis Jesuit, Col., 9:45
At Carmelo Anthony Center
Hill School, Pa. vs. Princeton Day, 6:30
Aberdeen vs. West Branch, Va., 8
Germantown Academy, Pa. vs. Grassfield, Va., 9:30
Saturday, Dec. 10
At St. Frances
Mervo vs. Fallston, 8:30 a.m.
Archbishop Carroll, DC vs. Damascus, 10 a.m.
Holy Cross vs. Robert E. Lee, Va., 11:30 a.m.
Forest Park, Va. vs. St. John's, 1
Frederick vs. Regis Jesuit, Col., 2:30
Oak Hill, Va. vs. H.D. Woodson, DC, 4
Digital Harbor vs. Riverdale Baptist, 5:30
At Carmelo Anthony Center
John Carroll vs. Hill School, Pa., 9 a.m.
Elizabeth Seton vs. Grassfield, Va., 11 a.m.
South River vs. West Branch, Va., 1
Good Counsel vs. Cape Henry, Va., 9
Sunday, Dec. 11
At St. Frances
National Christian vs. McDonogh, 10 a.m.
Oak Hill, Va. vs. St. John's, noon
Holy Cross vs. Cape Henry, Va., 2
H.D. Woodson, DC vs. Spalding, 4
St. Frances vs. Coolidge, DC, 6
At Carmelo Anthony Center
Pallotti vs. Princeton Day, 11 a.m.
Hill School, Pa. vs. Roland Park, 1
Robert E. Lee, Va. vs. Bishop McNamara, 3
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Dave Mortensen, professor of weed ecology, hosted "Hands-on collection, identification, and preservation of plants," for the 14th annual conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, held earlier this month at University Park. The workshop demonstrated how to record the biodiversity of Pennsylvania plants, fields, and pastures. Here, Mortensen shows participants how a technical document can also make a beautiful display piece.