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Jan. 17, 2009
CANTON, N.Y. - Brittony Chartier stopped 35 shots as No. 5 St. Lawrence blanked Yale 4-0 Saturday afternoon at Appleton Arena. Freshman goaltender Genny Ladiges made 29 saves for the Bulldogs, but goals from four different St. Lawrence players made the difference.
St. Lawrence (14-5-3, 8-1-1 ECAC Hockey) struck quickly. Ladiges stopped the first shot she saw, an open slap shot from the left point by forward Carson Duggan 20 seconds into the game. But the Saints kept the puck in the Yale zone, and 14 seconds later forward Alley Bero was able to chip one in from just in front of the net to give St. Lawrence a 1-0 lead.
The Saints continued to control play early on, and a good job of forechecking caused a Yale turnover that freed up forward Alison Domenico for a shot that Ladiges was able to stop. The Bulldogs got their first shot on goal four minutes in, and two minutes later freshman forward Becky Mantell just missed getting to a loose puck in front of the Saints net that deflected off a St. Lawrence skate towards Chartier.
Ladiges continued to stand her ground as the period wore on, getting a piece of a blast by defenseman Britni Smith to deflect the puck into the corner five minutes in, then denying Duggan when she got behind the Yale defense two minutes after that.
Yale got its first power play midway through the period but was unable to convert. The Bulldogs did start generating some more offense, though, and shortly after killing off the first Bulldog penalty of the game senior defenseman Helen Resor created a golden scoring chance. She stopped a St. Lawrence shot with her skate in front of the Yale goal, then skated the puck all the way up to the other end of the ice for a shot that Chartier was unable to control. Junior forward Berit Johnson got to the rebound and put another shot on net, but Chartier turned that one aside as well. The Saints took their 1-0 lead into the first intermission.
The night before, St. Lawrence had limited Brown to 20 shots for the game in beating the Bears 3-2. The Bulldogs would put 20 shots on net in the second period alone, but Chartier was up to the task. She stopped a Resor shot 90 seconds in, then turned aside senior forward Kristen Stupay's shot off the rebound and was eventually able to cover the puck with Stupay and junior forward Caroline Murphy chipping away at it. Four minutes later she denied a pair of shots from the blue line by junior defenseman Alyssa Clarke, and then sticked a hard slap shot from Resor up into the netting behind the goal.
Ladiges made a diving cover of a loose puck right after Yale was hit with another penalty at 8:36 of the second, and senior forward Crysti Howser brought that St. Lawrence power play to an early end by drawing a penalty on the Saints. Yale controlled play with the teams skating 4-on-4, but Chartier stopped a wrister from freshman forward Aleca Hughes and also deflected away a hard shot from Resor. As Yale began its abbreviated power play sophomore defenseman Samantha MacLean stopped a puck along the right boards and got off a hard shot that Chartier was able to stop. Shortly after that the Bulldogs had another golden chance, but freshman forward Heather Grant sent the rebound of a shot by Clarke wide with Chartier out of position.
The Saints extended the lead to 2-0 when forward Marianna Locke deflected in a shot by defenseman Courtney Sawchuk at 12:12 of the second. Right after that, with Yale on the power play, the Saints nearly scored short-handed but were denied thanks to a great effort from Ladiges. A turnover gave defenseman Josee Belanger a 2-on-0 breakaway, but Ladiges came out to play her and got enough of her wrist shot to send it high and wide of the net.
St. Lawrence capitalized on the next Yale penalty, with Smith knocking the puck in at 16:16 of the second to make it 3-0. Another Bulldog infraction wound up leading to a Yale short-handed scoring chance with a minute to play in the second. Senior forward Danielle Kozlowski forced a turnover right in front of the St. Lawrence net, but Chartier stopped her shot and the Saints went into the third period up 3-0.
After their second-period barrage, the Bulldogs could only manage seven more shots on Chartier in the third, and she stopped them all. Defenseman Jordan Pyers banged home a centering pass from forward Lisa Batchelor at 12:46 to make the final score 4-0.
Yale (7-11-0, 3-8-0 ECAC Hockey) returns home to face Cornell Friday at 7:00 p.m.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (firstname.lastname@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity


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If you do work out of your car involving a router you could make a router table to the same dimensions!
But I was thinking more along the lines of a nice wooden table and some place mats, wine glasses, and candle stick holder. You could have a classy dinner date in whichever shopping mall parking lot you choose... Tell her to meet you at the local Target, park with each of your trunks an appropriate distance apart (end to end), and use the tailgates for seating. Your originality will be appreciated by any woman worthwhile

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VIDEO: Train Hits Truck Full of Canned Food
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PAYETTE, Idaho (AP) — Police in southwest Idaho say a Union Pacific cargo train collided with a tractor-trailer stuck at a railroad crossing.
Payette police tell KTVB-TV that no one was injured in the collision at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday that cut the trailer in half.
Police say the semi became high-centered on the crossing when gear on the semi dug into the asphalt.
The collision occurred near a Seneca Foods distribution plant and scattered cans of food being carried by the semi.


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April 24, 2012 > National History Day
Ten eighth grade students from Fremont's Hopkins Junior High will be participating in the National History Day state contest at the Riverside Convention Center in Southern California April 27-29. National History Day (NHD) is a year-long education program through which students are encouraged to explore local, state, national, and world history using a variety of primary and secondary sources. Each year, participating students are required to choose and research a topic that follows the annual theme. The theme for 2012 is "Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History."Originally founded by Dr. David Van Tassel, NHD was created as a fun and educational way for students to gather on campus and devote an entire day to history. The first NHD event, held in 1974, consisted of 129 Cleveland high school students.Participating students have the choice of picking a category, or a specific way to display their research. After students have completed their projects, each school holds its own competition from which a select number from each category (both individual and group) are chosen to continue to the county level. At the county level, students are interviewed and their projects are assessed by judges. When two projects are of equal quality, judges often use the interview as a tie breaker. Projects that win at the county level continue to the state level, and next on to the national level, where the same process continues with undeniably tougher competition. Between each level, students are given the opportunity to improve their projects and prepare them for the more difficult judging.At Fremont's Hopkins Junior High, Mr. Thomas Birbeck's seventh grade and Mr. Charles Jennings' eighth grade History students participated in NHD this year. "NHD gives students the opportunity to learn history in more exciting ways. Through the students' extensive researches, they can make their own original interpretations of their primary and secondary resources, giving their topic a new perspective," said Mr. Jennings when asked how NHD benefits students and enhances their learning. The importance of NHD is highlighted by the fact that students are getting the chance to research various documents, interview important people, and learn new things every step of the way.So how did Hopkins Junior High come across National History Day in the first place? Mr. Birbeck takes part in a program called "Words That Made America" which encourages teachers to help their students become familiar with primary information sources. Through this program he was introduced to National History Day, and thought that it would be great for his students to become involved. "I definitely don't regret my decision to get involved, and I am looking forward to participating in National History Day again in future years," said Mr. Birbeck.To find out more about National History Day, please visit www.nhd.org.Editor's Note: Apoorva Rajanala is an 8th grade student at Hopkins Junior High in Fremont.


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Yes, Liz Lemon is indeed out, but that doesn't mean we have to stop talking about 30 Rock just yet.
Following Thursday's Blimpie-licious series finale, the cast of the NBC comedy gathered to thank the show's star, creator and showrunner, Tina Fey.
30 Rock finale: Honest goodbyes, finding bliss and a snow globe
In addition to sweet sentiments from the cast and crew, the video also includes a fan-favorite guest star and some behind-the-scenes shots on set. So who said Fey was too smart for her own good? And which cast members, yes, plural, teared up? Check out the awww-worthy homage below:
Will you miss seeing Tina Fey on your TV screen every week?


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12:00 amTavis Smiley [#2812] Tavis talks with Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick, the Emmy-winning star of The Closer, who dishes about the show's conclusion after a 7-year run, Hollywood marriages and her film, The Possession. duration 26:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)
12:30 amCheck, Please! Bay Area [#702H] Bay Wolf, Green Chile Kitchen and Back A Yard Caribbean-American Grill Bay Wolf, Green Chile Kitchen and Back A Yard Caribbean-American Grill are the restaurants selected by local diners. Will the three guests agree on their Bay Area favorites? duration 26:46 STEREO TVG
1:00 amMoyers & Company [#152H] Ending The Silence On Climate Change * Even as sadness turns to outrage over the Newtown tragedy, and powerful coalitions of leaders and celebrities speak out, those who value guns over lives continue unfazed and unabated. Bill Moyers reports on how the NRA and gun merchants continue to strong-arm Congress and state legislatures into keeping any and all discussion of sensible gun control off the table.
* Also on the show, remember climate change? For the first time since 1984, the issue didn't even come up in a presidential debate. But bringing climate change back into our national conversation is as much a communications challenge as it is a scientific one. Scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, joins Bill to describe his efforts to do what even Hurricane Sandy couldn't - galvanize communities over what's arguably the greatest single threat facing humanity. Leiserowitz, who specializes in the psychology of risk perception, knows better than anyone if people are willing to change their behavior to make a difference. duration 56:46 STEREO TVG
2:00 amNova [#3708H] Hunting The Edge of Space - The Mystery of the Milky Way In this 2-part miniseries, Nova examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe. What began as a curiosity - two spectacle lenses held a foot apart - ultimately revolutionized human thought across science, philosophy and religion. The series takes viewers on a global adventure of discovery, dramatizing the innovations in technology and the achievements in science that have marked the history of the telescope. This tale of human ingenuity involves some of the most colorful figures of the scientific world - Galileo, Kepler, Newton, William Herschel, George Hale and Edwin Hubble - leading up to today's colossal telescopes, housed in space-age cathedrals or orbiting high above the Earth. Now at the center of an international space race, a new generation of ever-larger telescopes is poised to reveal answers to longstanding questions about our universe and, in turn, to raise new questions.
Part 1: Three centuries of engineering have produced telescopes far beyond Galileo's simple spyglass. Perched on mountaintops, orbiting the Earth and even circling other planets, these telescopes are revealing the solar system in detail Galileo could only dream of. This episode brings viewers up close with today's most powerful telescopes and embarks on a stunning journey to the planets and moons now being imaged as never before. duration 55:40 STEREO TVG
3:00 amNova [#3709] Hunting The Edge of Space - The Ever Expanding Universe Part 2 of 2: From the discovery that the Milky Way is just one galaxy among billions to the stunning revelation that these galaxies are speeding away from each other faster every second, this episode investigates the universe's distant past - and its future. Now, modern telescopes have added a mysterious new twist to the plot: The vast majority of the stuff of the universe is invisible, tied up in dark matter and dark energy. But what are these mysterious dark forces? A new generation of telescopes is embarking on a mission impossible to see the unseeable and answer one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the cosmos. duration 54:31 STEREO TVG
4:00 amInto Deepest Space: The Birth of the Alma Observatory This program traces the engineering, construction, and scientific discoveries of the most powerful observatory on Earth - the ALMA telescope in the Chilean Andes. Viewers are taken on a journey both across the globe and throughout our universe to discover how this mammoth radio telescope works and how its observations are revolutionizing astronomy. Through breathtaking footage - including cinematic 3-D animation, dramatic aerials of the ALMA site, and live coverage of the it's first large scale observation - the film reveals the incredible lengths to which humans will go to quench our thirst for knowledge. duration 56:30 STEREO TVG
5:00 amSchools That Change Communities A unique, engaging documentary that turns the current focus of education on its head. While most US schools keep their students bottled up in classrooms as a way of increasing their test scores, this very upbeat special focuses on a diverse range of K-12 public schools in five states that instead break down the walls between the school and its neighborhood. By viewing their surroundings as classrooms, students are not only invigorated, but also more motivated to learn the basics and how to think critically about solving problems they and the larger world they inhabit now face. duration 57:57 STEREO TVG
6:00 amZoboomafoo [#206] Zoboo The Super Lemur It's Zoboo to the rescue! After Zoboo reads a superhero comic book, black bears Muscles and Muscley help him become a Super Lemur. As the new friends are finishing a snack, Zoboo hears a noise and looks up to see kittens stuck on one of Animal Junction's roof beams. The Super Lemur springs into action and saves the tiny cats. Zoboo is now ready to assist animals everywhere while the Kratt Brothers travel to India to find other heroes in the creature world. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
6:30 amRaggs [#142] Forest During Funky Forest Friday, the dogs help Pido tell the story of Little Red Riding Pup. When Trilby wants to go camping, the dogs pretend their garden is a forest for camping. Together, they figure out all the things they would need to bring for a successful camping trip. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
7:00 amSesame Street [#4235H] Zoe Loves Rocco Zoe is hanging out with her pet rock, Rocco, when Alan stops by and sings Rocco's favorite song, "Rocco and Roll." Zoe leaves to get Rocco's hat, and asks Elmo, who's playing astronaut with Baby David nearby, to watch Rocco while she's gone. As Elmo plays with David, a flying disc knocks Rocco to the ground. Then a girl walks by and accidentally kicks Rocco. Elmo is so busy playing with Baby David that he doesn't pay attention to what has happened. When Zoe returns, she realizes that Rocco has disappeared! Zoe is very angry, even though Elmo tries to replace Rocco by giving her a new rock. Chris helps Elmo see how special Rocco is to Zoe and encourages him to use his memory to give him clues to find Rocco. Elmo remembers hearing a sound like something falling to the ground. It's a clue! Maybe the flying disc knocked the rock off the table. They search and find the flying disc, but no Rocco. Then, Elmo remembers that a girl was kicking something. Another clue! They find the girl who explains that she did kick Rocco down the street and into the garden, thinking it was just another rock. Elmo remembers Rocco's shape and size and finds him in the garden! When Elmo returns, he apologizes for losing Rocco and for not understanding that he is more than just a rock to Zoe. She forgives him and they all celebrate by singing Rocco's favorite song again, "Rocco and Roll!" THEME: Emotional Development R / 19 duration 58:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
8:00 amWordWorld [#209H] The Best Nest/Duck's Family Reunion * The Best Nest - It's Duck's turn at show and tell at school, and he wants to bring the thing he loves the best: his nest! But when the nest breaks apart into letters, will Duck be able to retrieve them all in time?
* Duck's Family Reunion - Because they have a similar sounding name, Duck mistakes Truck for a long-lost relative! Frog is a bit ruffled at the epidemic of silliness going around, but ends up saving the day for Duck and his word 'family'. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
8:30 amDaniel Tiger's Neighborhood [#108] Something Special for Dad/I Love You, Mom Something Special for Dad - Daniel notices how happy Dad is to have received a letter from Grandpere. Daniel really loves Dad, so he decides to send him a letter that will make him glad too. He goes to the Post Office with Mom, where he learns how letters are sorted and mailed. He even joins Mr. McFeely on his "speedy delivery" to give Dad the very special letter! I Love You, Mom - Daniel wants to surprise Mom Tiger with her favorite banana bread because he knows it is one way to say "I love you." Dad and Daniel head to Baker Aker's Bakery, where they learn about the bread-making process. Daniel and Dad Tiger surprise Mom and she happily shares the banana bread gift with them too! duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
9:00 amCaillou [#420] Grown-Ups and Me Caillou meets a lot of new people today. He's invited to spend the day with Clementine's family and is nervous until he discovers her family is a lot like his. Caillou's first day at day care is scary until he meets his teacher Miss Martin, and makes two new friends, Leo and Clementine. He has so much fun that when his Mommy comes to pick him up, Caillou doesn't want to go home! On another day, Grandma and Caillou visit her friends in the Seniors' Home and Rover goes with them. Caillou meets a lot of Grandma's friends and tries to keep Rover out of trouble. duration 28:55 STEREO TVY
9:30 amSid the Science Kid [#208] Reused Robot! Sid's toy robot is broken, so he wants to throw it "away." Sid's Mom tells him there is no such thing as "away," and when we put something in the trash, we are actually creating waste. Sid and his friends explore the idea that everything we throw away goes somewhere. This leads to an investigation of how to recycle and reuse items so that we make less trash. (Educational objective - Recycling) duration 28:55 SRND51 TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
10:00 amCurious George [#602H] George Buys A Kite/Train of Light * Curious George Buys a Kite - After a gust of wind destroys their kite,George and Bill are determined to buy the Ultimate Kite on display at Ada & Luke's country store. Luckily, Bill & George's Excellent Job Service finds enough work to keep their weekend schedule filled with money making chores--until rain prevents the duo from completing their outdoor tasks. Can their precise schedule be rearranged to do the inside chores while it's raining and complete the outdoor tasks when it's sunny or will Bill and George's Excellent Job Service go out of business?
* Train of Light - During a trip to Mabel's Department Store, George helps wrap presents, watches himself on TV, rides the escalator, and becomes fascinated by a lamp that casts a shadow of a moving train onto the wall. When George tries to leave the store, the door is locked and the lights shut off. George is trapped inside, so he gets to work creating his own signature lampshade that he hopes will grab the attention of the Man with the Yellow Hat. Will George's plan work or will George be spending the night in the store? duration 28:46 STEREO TVY
10:30 amCat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! [#202] The Surprising Bean/Hear Here The Surprising Bean - Nick keeps trying to surprise Sally, but he just can't do it! The Cat takes them to find a real surprise in the Skippylarito Fields! Once there, Cat shows them a special bean - that suddenly moves! With a shrunken Thingamajigger, they go inside the bean and meet the moth larvae that lives there. They learn that it's really the moth that causes the bean to move. What a neat surprise indeed! Hear Here - The kids hear chirping but can't find where it's coming from. If only they had better ears. Ears like an elephant? Or maybe an owl or even a fox? Not a problem when the Cat's around! He takes them to meet these animals with amazing ears. Back home the kids used what they learned from their new friends to find the sound - a teeny tiny cricket! What other great sounds are around? duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
11:00 amClifford's Puppy Days [#110] Clifford's Winter Spirit/Flo-Motion * Clifford's Winter Spirit - Norville is feeling sad and lonely when it seems as though he is the only one without a tradition for celebrating the first snowfall of the year. It's up to Clifford and his friends to find a way to help Norville feel included.
* Flo-Motion - Flo, a super-athlete, tells her friends she'd rather play alone when she discovers she is not very good at a new Bean Bag game. Will Flo be able to put her competitiveness aside?


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We're never lonely online
Roger Ebert, a former Catholic and an eloquent observer of life, has an interesting reflection on relationships, loneliness, and the Internet [1] on his blog this week, and it struck me as someone who edits a website.
The Internet is a place for people can reach out to others and form relationships—to escape loneliness. While urging people of faith to engage others online, the pope and other religious leaders have warned, in fact, of virtual relationships taking precedent over "real" relationships. Ebert, too, warns against this. "A danger of the Internet would be if we begin to meet those needs without feeling there has to be another person in the room," he writes.
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel has joined the critics by calling for a "National Unfriend Day" on November 17 [2]. "Friendship is a sacred thing and I believe Facebook is cheapening it," he said on his show. (Even if the girl he picked on for posting too many updates to Facebook was a made-up exaggeration, some lonely people could have taken it personally.)
But Ebert—who tweets all the time, almost always interesting stuff—takes the conversation to another level: "Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude."
As a writer, I appreciate the importance of words to relationships, whether written or spoken. And it amazes me that relationships, a sense of community has formed on USCatholic.org, even if it's awfully divided and people come and go. Read the comments frequently, and you even get to know the various "anonymous" commenters on our site.
Ebert asks a question that I often have about the people who comment frequently online: "But why are you writing them? Don't you have anything else to do?"
I write here, not only because it's my job, but because I want tell stories, make people think, and raise awareness of issues that I think are of importance. But I have to admit there is some vanity in it. As Ebert writes, "Every day there are untold millions of comments, texts, and online interactions. Millions. And each one says, I am here and I extend my consciousness to there."
Perhaps that's what is most important to remember in all these debates about the pros and cons of social media [3] these days: That behind each blog, comment, tweet, and wall update, there's a real person, reaching out to you.


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For your race-day bike do you have a Terralogic or Brain fork, a bar-mounted lockout or a crown lockout? Or no lockout?
My new bike came with a Terralogic, but I like the RockShox offerings for their feel and ease of maintenance (for my needs and riding style). Took a few test rides and the Terralogic is nice. But then it has the usual Fox feel.
My older race bike has a Reba Brain, and it's pretty good. I think the Terralogic works better than the Brain, but the Reba has a better feel.
Another bike has a crown mounted lockout and that gets real old real fast for me. Seem to set it on a higher low speed compression, adjust the flood gate and get a "90% good everywhere" feel.
A good combo may be a RockShox with a bar-mounted lever, but for a race bike does it get cumbersome to keep locking and unlocking vs just set-and-forget ala Brain or Terralogic?


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American Forces Press Service
March 18, 2010 - Iraqi forces arrested suspected al-Qaida in Iraq and Kataib Hezbollah terrorists today during three operations with U.S. advisors.
The operations were conducted in accordance with the U.S.-Iraq security agreement and in coordination with the Iraqi government, U.S. Forces Iraq officials said.
Iraqi forces with U.S. advisors today arrested a man believed to be an associate of a suspected Kataib Hezbollah brigade leader they were seeking on a warrant in northern Baghdad. The brigade leader is believed to be responsible for carrying out attacks against security forces.
In western Baghdad, Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors searched a building for a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq member who is planning upcoming attacks against Iraqi government officials, officials said, citing credible intelligence.
Following preliminary questioning and an initial examination of the evidence at the scene, the Iraqi forces identified and arrested the wanted attack planner and two suspected criminal associates.
In a separate operation in a rural area southwest of Kirkuk, an Iraqi emergency response unit and U.S. advisors searched several buildings for a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq leader who is believed to have coordinated attacks throughout the country and to have recruited foreign terrorists from Saudi Arabia and Syria.
Information and evidence gathered at the scene led Iraqi police to arrest a suspected criminal associate of the warranted man.
(Compiled from U.S. Forces Iraq news releases.)
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WILMINGTON — Ryan Spooner was missing out.
Drafted fifth overall at age 16 in 2007 to the OHL's Peterborough Petes, 3½ hours away from his hometown in Kanata, Ontario, Spooner left behind his family and girlfriend to pursue a burgeoning career. He even was absent from his high school graduation.
But with some perspective, the mood quickly changed.
"It was weird how that works," Spooner said. "You move away, the first week or two you miss being at home, and in the back of your mind you always miss it. But as it goes on, you know what your goals are, you know what you're trying to do. As an athlete, that's part of the job. Obviously the pros outweigh the cons by a lot."
The sacrifices have paid off, at least so far. Picked 45th overall by Boston in 2010, the forward, now 20 years old, is among those with an outside shot at making the Bruins' roster. Alongside Jared Knight, also drafted in 2010, Spooner likely will start the season in Providence, where he and Knight plan to room together.
A recurring theme for Spooner throughout his journey has been keeping close those he cherishes most. Even when he fled the nest as a teenager, bound for a host family and a new city, his parents were always a phone call or the occasional weekend visit away.
"Without my family there, it would have been really tough," Spooner said. "You get to do a lot of cooking on your own, which I actually don't mind. I cook for myself, even when I'm at home when my mom's there. She doesn't like that too much. She likes to baby me still."
The distances have been sporadic ever since. A 3½-hour drive to Peterborough got shaved in half when he played for the Kingston Frontenacs, and then ballooned to eight hours when he got traded to Sarnia on Jan. 5.
"It was a good blend for me," Spooner said. "I got the feeling for being a middle distance from home, then very close to home, then to the point where I didn't really come home at all. I think having that mixture was really good for me, and it'll go a long way next year.
"If you were just thrown into the fire, leaving from home, you might get kind of homesick."
Spooner played in five games for Providence last season, recording one goal and three assists. In 57 games between Kingston and Sarnia, he had 66 points. Now he comes to his third Bruins development camp at Ristuccia Arena, seeking another chance to pack up a Boston-bound U-Haul.
"Obviously, I want to make Boston, but they have a great team, they have so much depth right now that I'm going to go into camp and play my best and see what happens," Spooner said. "You just have to go out there and play your game. If you try to change things up and do things you usually don't do, that's when you get into trouble."
Spooner, at 5 feet 10 inches and 172 pounds, has been working on his strength this summer, the subject of skepticism among scouts. On Canada's U18 squad, a teammate remarked that Spooner looked like the stick boy. He vividly remembers getting jammed into the glass by Bridgeport's 6-6 captain, which served as a wake-up call.
But his stick skills and attention to detail away from the puck have drawn rave reviews so far from the Bruins staff.
"He's starting to become more of a student of the game," Providence coach Bruce Cassidy said. "A year older, he wants to know, positionally, where to be, have a good stick, the things he's going to need to do when the offense dries up in spurts. Shoots the puck better than he did a year before.
"You see him now, when he walked through the door two years ago, he looked like a 14-year-old kid. Now at least he's got a little peach fuzz on his face, starting to look a little like a man now."
With all the moves, on the road and on the ice, Spooner already has grown up faster than most.Alex Prewitt can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @alex_prewitt.


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CyanogenMod Ports Android To HP TouchPad 86
yesakmac joins the teeming hordes of successful Slashdot submitters, with this excerpt from PC World that says the frenzied effort to port Android to HP's discontinued TouchPad has actually succeeded: "CyanogenMod also released a 'lower your expectations edition' release guide to let you know exactly what is working (or not) under the hood. Modders will be happy to know that basically all the TouchPad's guts are recognized. It supports dual-booting and fake SD cards in case you need to restore the TouchPad. What does not work, though, is the camera, which can only be used for video chat. Power efficiency is still an issue, too. As for the final build, CyanogenMod says they won't be giving a hard date, and that it will be ready when it is ready."


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What will happen during the 22:nd century?
I make five predictions.
In 22:nd century....
1) Red haired people will once again be the envy of all.
2) The favorite sport in the U.S will be soccer. (because of the mexicans)
3) Germany will start a third world war, and you know what they say, third time's the charm .
4) The majority of Sweden's population will be Muslim.
5) The Pope will call for a crusade for the first time in nearly a thousand years, and no one will join him.


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I finally figured out how I want to rig my no-hardware webbing-only suspension... simple, cheap, and light. But I'm pretty sure the webbing I've bought is tubular nylon climbing webbing... too much stretch. I tried hanging between two trees that were far enough apart I couldn't double the webbing, and woke up with my butt on the ground.
So I need some low-stretch polypro webbing. I know I can get the right stuff from arrowhead in camo or black... but I like pretty colors...
Would this stuff work?


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Hello all! I am re-learning algebra from the ground up and am thankful I found this place for assistance. I have a word problem I am having trouble transforming into mathematical equations.
Here is the problem:
In Crystal's silverware drawer there are twice as many spoons as forks. If Crystal adds nine forks to the drawer, there will be twice as many forks as spoons. How many forks and how many spoons are in the drawer right now?
I have been working on this for too long and need a little help. I have been jotting down some truth's such as
total = spoons + forks
spoons = 2 * forks
I'm quite stuck trying to fit the adding of nine forks and that switching of fork-to-spoon ratio in the equations.
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America Finally Embracing Multigenerational Living: Lennar's Next Gen-The Home Within a Home® Attracting Strategic Homebuyers
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Nov. 8, 2012 02:53 PM
FORT MYERS, Fla., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of multigenerational households has increased by 60% since 1990, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This dramatic change in the American lifestyle is primarily due to two trends. First, Baby Boomers are living longer and are faced with deteriorating pensions, a failing Social Security system, and ever-increasing healthcare costs. Secondly, college debt and the amplified cost of living means that many children move back home after college, and stay for several years. To satisfy this evolution in the American household a respected national builder has created Next Gen-The Home Within a Home® by Lennar. This intelligent home design includes a separate suite with its own entrance, eat-in kitchenette, bedroom, bathroom, laundry room and living room. This revolutionary concept is now coming to Naples, Florida. Homebuyers are lining up in anticipation of Next Gen home designs already being built in the community of The Preserve at Corkscrew.
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Lennar's Next Gen-The Home Within a Home is the ultimate solution for multigenerational living. According to John Graham, co-author of Together Again, a book about multi-generational living, and Professor of Marketing and International Business at University of California Irvine, "We are seeing the nuclear family going back to the interdependence of the extended family. For the last 50 years the American ideal was the nuclear family living independently, but with the economic changes of recent decades that no longer is the solution of choice." He added, "Multigenerational living is very customary in most countries. It is now becoming much more common in the U.S. I am happy to see progressive builders like Lennar addressing this change."
The housing crisis expedited the shift to multigenerational living. Buyers want the most for their money and are strategizing long-term. According to Sharon Graham Niederhaus, co-author of Together Again, after interviewing over 100 multigenerational families, "It became clear that the balance between proximity and privacy is the key to success." Her research showed that the key to successful multigenerational living was independence and separate facilities. "What makes this home design perfect for multigenerational living is the separate entrance as well as kitchen and bathroom," she added.
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Hey Boss,
Was down at Stones Pub earlier this eve, happened to have an early dinner followed by a sampling of desserts as result of their "cake off bake off".
It was chocolate vs lemon and the results might surprise you… lemon for the win 18-7.
Wish I knew the pastry chefs names but it was the owner vs the dude with the cap here.
Good times in Gloucester!
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Ohrid, Macedonia - Artemis Spanou (Rhodes, Greece / Greek National Team), a member of the Robert Morris University women's basketball team, earned Most Valuable Player at the U20 European Championship B Division after leading Greece to a third-place finish. After finishing pool-play with a 4-1 record, Greece lost a two-point game in the semifinals to Sweden before edging the Czech Republic, 60-59, to take Bronze in the 11-team event.
Spanou led the tournament in scoring by averaging 19.4 points per game. She also led all players with four double-doubles and was second in rebounding (9.8 per game). The Northeast Conference Rookie of the Year shot 44.3 percent overall and connected on 75.0 percent (42-56) from the foul line.
Spanou picked up four double-doubles in Greece's final five games, including each of the elimination round contests. She ended the event with 17 points and 10 boards in the win over the Czech Republic in the third place contest. She had 24 points and 12 rebounds in the team's semifinal loss against Sweden.
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Food Truck festival benefits Food Bank
The food truck phenomenon sweeping the nation has found its way to Rhode Island with an event to benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Truck Stop: A Festival of Street Eats will be held on Friday, April 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Bank of America City Center (skating rink area) in the heart of downtown Providence.
Ten gourmet food trucks will offer tastings, along with wine and beer tastings by Jonathan Edwards Winery and the Narragansett Brewing Company. General admission is $50; VIP tickets are available for $75 and include early admission, extra tastings and a free beverage from the cash bar. For tickets and information, go to www.rifoodbank.
org/TruckStop or call 230-1673.
Truck Stop: A Festival of Street Eats kicks off the Eat Drink RI Festival, a three-day local festival organized by David Dadekian, founder of culinary website Eat Drink RI.
Food trucks participating in Truck Stop: A Festival of Street Eats include Championship Melt, Chez Pascal's Hewtin's Dogs Mobile, Clam Jammers, Flour Girl Baking Company, Joedega, Like No Udder, Mijos Tacos, Radish, Rocket Fine Street Food and Tallulah.


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'''Cesar Vialpando''': Hey holmes, you OK?
'''Cesar Vialpando''': Hey holmes, you OK?
'''Carl Johnson''': Yeah. [[Wu Zi Mu|Woozie]] left a message, say I gotta go get [[Jizzy B.|Jizzy's]] phone after he made the call. Then I can ambush the meet and take down those [[Ballas|Balla]] pushers from [[Los Santos]].
'''Carl Johnson''': Yeah. [[Wu Zi Mu|Woozie]] left a message, say I gotta go get [[Jizzy B.|Jizzy's]] phone after he made the call. Then I can ambush the meet and take down those [[Ballas|Balla]] pushers from [[Los Santos]].
'''Cesar Vialpando''': Hey homie, you want me to roll with you?
'''Cesar Vialpando''': Hey homie, you want me to roll with you?
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The following is a script of the Ice Cold Killa mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Carl Johnson: Damn, where'd I put it? Where the hell did I put it? Shit!
(Cesar arrives, carting a tool trolley.)
Cesar Vialpando: Hey holmes, you OK?
Carl Johnson: Yeah. Woozie left a message, say I gotta go get Jizzy's phone after he made the call. Then I can ambush the meet and take down those Balla pushers from Los Santos.
Cesar Vialpando: Hey homie, you want me to roll with you?
Carl Johnson: No, this a one-man job. I gotta stay real low key. I was thinking about welding some shit together, and making me a silencer!
Cesar Vialpando: You're fucking crazy, holmes! You gotta get out of this ghetto mentality!
Carl Johnson: So what you thinking?
Cesar Vialpando: Let me show you. Check this out, holmes.
(Cesar reaches into the tool trolley and pulls out a pistol equiped with a silencer.)
Cesar Vialpando: Here, take mine.
Carl Johnson: Where'd you get that?
Cesar Vialpando: Same place I buy my pants, holmes. This is America.
(Carl heads down to the Pleasure Domes in Battery Point and meets with Jizzy.)
Jizzy B.: Gimme some room. Gimme some room bitch! It's that time of the week again...your provider is about to make that special call. If I think for a moment that one of you hos is hustling me...
(Jizzy makes the execution sign.)
Bettina: You better make a bigger cut this week Jizz. We're running low, honey!
Jizzy B.: Shut up bitch, I'm handling business!
Bettina: Don't you even raise your voice at me, asshole!
Jizzy B.: Now shut up, bitch! Your funky ass...
Bettina: What a dick!
(Bettina leaves and Carl arrives.)
Carl Johnson: Hey Jizzy, I need to holler at you.
Jizzy B.: Well talk, then, friend. I mean, that's we'll ever do. A kind word here, a wise saying there. Shit, I'm a walking book of proverbs.
(Carl pulls his gun on Jizzy.)
Carl Johnson: No, you fucked up, man!
Jizzy B.: C...C'mon, man. Hey, I get it wrong, you know? I'm imperfect. You know, like...hey. Not a kind man. Not a wise man, you know. Not a smart man, but. Dear Lord, I tried!
Carl Johnson: No, you fucked up when you trusted me, playa.
Jizzy B.: C'mon, baby...I...I...But...But...
Carl Johnson: You ass-selling, yay pushing, piece of shit trash!
(Carl tosses Jizzy onto a couch and prepares to shoot him.)
Jizzy B.: Oh, lord! Watchoo all waiting on, huh? Somebody cap this nigga, man!
(Jizzy escapes and sets his guards on Carl, but Carl kills the guards, then goes after Jizzy, kills him and takes his phone, then Carl calls Cesar .)
Carl Johnson: Eh, Cesar.
Cesar Vialpando: Hey, dude, wassup?
Carl Johnson: I need you to meet me at Pier 69. We're gonna take down the Loco Syndicate.
Cesar Vialpando: OK holmes. You gonna need some backup?
Carl Johnson: No, man. I got it covered.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — New York Times Co. received a formal bid valuing the Boston Globe at more than $100 million last month from a former Globe executive and a Boston private-equity firm, though about a third of the value would come from the buyers assuming some of the paper's pension liabilities, according to people familiar with the matter.
That bid has remained on the table even as this week the Times NYT, -0.43% announced it had hired Evercore Partners to shop the New England Media Group, whose main asset is the paper.
People close to the situation said that as a public company, the Times had to open up the sale process to prevent shareholder lawsuits.
The Times has been in quiet talks for the past year with the buyer group, which includes former Boston Globe President Rick Daniels and private-equity firm Boston Post Partners, represented by Managing Director Heberden Ryan, the people said. The talks began after the departure of former Times CEO Janet Robinson, they said.
Times Chief Financial Officer Jim Follo facilitated the talks throughout the year by helping the prospective buyers undertake due diligence.
In January, the group submitted a formal bid that included the assumption of between $25 million and $35 million of liabilities connected with the Globe's nonqualified pension plan, in which senior company executives participate.
The Times would have kept the larger pension obligations for the rest of the Globe employees on its books, the people said. That would suggest the cash payment the Times would receive could be only around $70 million.
A spokeswoman for the Times declined to comment. The Times acquired the Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993 but took an $814 million write-down on the paper and other New England Media Group assets in 2006.
Here's the one other story that you can't afford to miss today
Other potential suitors for the Globe include Jack Griffin, the former CEO of Time Inc. TWX, -0.46% and current president of Empirical Media, who was involved in an earlier, unsuccessful bid for the paper with Aaron Kushner, according to people familiar with the matter. Kushner went on to buy the Orange County Register instead and is no longer involved with Griffin, according to the people. Griffin hails from a Boston newspaper family and has an office of his company in the city.
Kushner, who has been vocal about his interest in Tribune Co.'s newspapers expected to come on the market soon, is also a prospective suitor for the Globe this time around, said people familiar with the matter.
Several people close to the Times Co. and Globe said the Times was hoping to draw a bid out of News Corp. NWS, -0.31% NWSA, -0.83% owner of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, the Fox television networks and other assets across numerous media, which had been seen as a possible buyer of newspapers after it splits its print-media assets from its entertainment businesses this summer. But News Corp.'s ownership of a television station in Boston could rule out purchase of the Globe, given regulatory rules that prohibit companies owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.
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There are plenty of sayings and cliches that deal with the thought of 'home.'
There are plenty of sayings and cliches that deal with the thought of 'home.'
Home is where the heart is. There's no place like home. Charity begins at home. Who says you can't go home?
As a coach, it's always refreshing to be able to go home. It's also always puzzled me to see how coaches have to establish a new home to start their coaching careers, and home has to change.
West Davidson athletic director Charles Elmore and Thomasville A.D. Woody Huneycutt are set to retire as the school year ends. They are capping off careers that were spent entirely at their home school. And for both of these first-class gentlemen, the schools they worked at were the schools they graduated from.
Elmore is Mr. West Davidson. He has been in control there as athletic director for almost two decades; he never served as an overbearing, screaming bully. He has a quiet nature, and people respect him because he shows them respect.
Huneycutt is a similar fixture at Thomasville. He has a very similar demeanor; he doesn't have to rant and rave to make people do what they're supposed to do. Everyone knows the expectations, and they try their best to meet those expectations.
It will be weird to go to West or Thomasville this fall, and ask for guidance from someone other than these two.
Another athletic director who is closing the books on his long, impressive career is Central's Gene Poindexter. While he didn't graduate from Central, he has been there seemingly forever. His personality is nearly identical to that of Huneycutt and Elmore. He wants things done the right way, and his staff and students know what his expectations are.
Poindexter is an example of someone who established a new home. He became a Spartan, even though he didn't graduate from Central (he went to East Davidson). And once he settled in at Central, he never went anywhere else.
As a coach, it has to be difficult to guide a team other than your home school. But, sometimes it has to be that way. Can you imagine Matt Ridge, Brian Hege and Matt Jacobs all on staff at Ledford? All three of those Panthers' graduates are sensational basketball coaches, and they deserve their own programs.
But, I've been surprised that one of those three has never come home to Ledford. They went to the state title game when they played at Ledford, and I have to imagine it would have to be very tempting to come back where they enjoyed that magic and try to lead the Panthers back to prominence.
But, Hege is about as entrenched at Central Davidson as a coach can get. That is his new home; he doesn't want to be anywhere else. The same seems true for Jacobs at East Davidson, and Ridge has settled in for the long haul at Davidson County Community College.
Jacobs coaching at East is the oddest of them all; how can a coach go to work for his school's archrival? I always wondered that when I saw Jerry Walser coaching baseball at Central Davidson.
Walser got an opportunity to come home to West, and he jumped at it. You want to know how much it means to come home? Talk to Walser. He loves that green shirt he wears, loves West Davidson with a passion. For him, and for the lucky coaches that get the opportunity to experience it, home truly is where the heart is.
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Roy Hibbert's return is not official yet, but it will be in due time. The Indiana Pacers will match the Portland Trail Blazers' free agent offer sheet, according to my amigo, Mike Wells of the Indianapolis Star. Is it just me, or was this the all-time no brainer? It amazes me this was even a question in the Pacers' front office, which makes me a little leery of the current administration in charge of the NBA franchise.
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The title says it all
Aluminum bulkheads are they worth the price for a basher setup
They are expensive
and heavy so whats the benefits compared to stock?
Last edited by littlefoot; 06-14-2012 at 11:52 AM.
if its not broken, bash harder
they will survive a hard impact and most important they dont flex like the stock
Xtreme has no limiits
They are worth it. I have had to do TWO complete chassis swaps because the bulkheads broke and so did the chassis. They
are also good at making your diffs last longer. Which are a pain to replace and put back together.
With less flex less chance of chipping a tooth on your ring gear
they arent that heavy when compared to stock.....
they are definitely worth it
But that being said, I really see no problem with going all aluminum/titanium. Its not too much weight for brushless to handle if you gear properly. 2 of my traxxas RC's wound up being mostly aluminum, both held up for a year plus, and had higher sell value. Wish I wouldn't have had to sell, but sometimes life's brutal.
So yeah, this is true...
But when they don't flex in a crash they put more pressure on the surrounding parts.they will survive a hard impact and most important they dont flex like the stock
I weighed the difference less than 2 ounces
i got alum bulk head.. after breaking about 4 and worth it to me. i got integy and they're tricky to install the servo saver on i dont know how to explain it though. kinda like you got to do it in steps different than others.. and the integy ones you'll have to drimmel where the shaft comes out or you driveshafts will rub or mine did anyway
integy isnt known for it's overall quality.... however, their bulkheads to seem to be ok
i went with the HR, the bolt the haves together, and the steering Y post for the front is bolted through the halves adding even mroe rigidity
I have the GPM ones. Worked perfect so far.
Nobody is born with experience
Not to sound rude but why is that? Did you own an integy aluminum part and it broke? Or a part they made that was sub par quality that you purchased? Can you link me to an independent review that says they are sub par?
I have no stock in or affiliation with integy other than having owned several of their products, and I am having trouble understanding why people say "they suck "so to speak" without saying *why*. Thanks in advance.
look around the net.... tons of people have problems with them
there are some integy parts i will run, and some i wont..... there are rpm parts i will run, and some i wont, there are some hr parts i will run, and soem i wont.....
there is mroe than enough info out there to back up the research i have done...
when the integy axles first came out, there were literally hundreds of people that posted online that their axle shafts snapped. the gh and gpm were no better.. i have never heard of a traxxas shaft snapping.....
So I have looked on the net many times for that category. But since the other brands axles also break bend and pop out, I don't see how that means integy is bad. I mean, if literally hundreds of people say both brand x and brand y break, you cant say "brand x sucks" when comparing it to brand y.
Just my observations, sorry to 'derail'. Just want people to make informed decisions.
I have an Integy front bulkhead, that i'm quite happy with. No more stripped front diffs since i installed it.
Its about twice the weight of the stock plastic bulk, 32,9g vs 17,9g.
No need to dremmel anything on mine and the servosaver fits like a glove on the steering Y-post. Much much smoother turning as with the stock plastic steering post.
I'll found you'll need to shim the ring AND the pinion on this one for a perfect mesh.
I would have prefered the HR design with the locking bolts, but got the Integy as an eBay snap. It was used and blue, but very cheap.
As you see the Integy does not even have the long cross bolt the stock X version bulkhead has, but the steering Y post is screwed on. It seems that is still enough holding power to keep the halves together and secure the diff.
I'm not a big Integy fan myself. Owning quite a few parts from them i know their build quality, surface finishing and general fit of the parts often let a lot to be desired.
But honestly, from my experience, HR, GPM or even RPM is in NO way better, they all have their duds in the sortiment. HR apparently has massive QC issues and some poor design choices, like their knuckles -but always the shiniest finish. GPM often uses rather low quality materials, like in their not so good shocks or alloy rods. No bashing, only my experience.
You have to read a lot before deciding on a part, and even after a lot of research, some parts just dont work as you has hoped.
Sorry got carried away. Back to topic - alloy bulkeads.
I personally have seen Integy parts (Rustler A-arms and Merv rods) that were bent and broken from crashes which were not that bad at all. Besides that I heared other bad experiences from people who are trustworthy to me.
On the other hand my Integy gear boxes and Merv battery doors have served me well so far.
I had GPM alu rods on my Merv which bent when you only looked at them. I also had steel GPM shafts that broke like they were plastic.
If Integy parts were decent, I guess there would be more people complaining about the negative press they get.
Nobody is born with experience
The gpm rods are letting me down also
broke 2 in 2 runs
doesnt mean they are not good but i have no luck with them so far
also integy has al ot of PPL who complain but also a lot of PPL who have a great time with them
Xtreme has no limiits
i have a few integy parts i bought after i hear about there negative rep. i bought their push rods, axle carriers, and bulkheads.
got to say i havent had a problem with anything other than the push rods they bent at the rod end, but i have had many other brands to do the same thing gpm from the toys and others. the only ones i havent tried that i want is the hr, cause they dont screw in to rod ends its all on piece, i will test them soon. so cant just blame integy.
i would love to have some of the hr bulkheads but for the price compared to integy and my budget it was no choice.
i got to say i have put my car the HE!! and the bulkhead and axle carriers have not failed in any way what so ever.
I use GPM rods, but the steel ones. Get an extra set of rod ends with them and you will be fine.
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Nobody is born with experience
Any kind you get, get extra rod ends. I'd rather replace rod ends than something else in the steering/suspension!
True... I didn't know they made steel ones
Traxxas aluminum hold up.pretty good and look even better!


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Jump reveals a new character for Lightning Returns - Lumina.
I thought Lightning was the only playable character?
If so then announcing a new one is rather pointless. More so if there's no actual picture to back up the announcement.
Is it really just me, or has Square really and truly forgotten how to make JRPGs? They can't simply take a step back?
And what's with this spilling all plot details before the game's release? That says that they have no confidence in their reputation as story tellers, and that they know full and well that they've lost it.
And is that just what everyone does nowadays?
FF13 was the worst in the series, yet they are still dragging on with it.


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Kathleen Alice Stokes
STINNETT - Kathleen Alice Stokes, 74, of Stinnett died Saturday Oct. 1, 2011, in Borger. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday Oct. 6, 2011, at Stinnett Cemetery with Rev. Bill Sizemore, pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be at Stinnett Cemetery under the direction of Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.Kathleen was born May 26, 1937, at Newberry, Mich., to Joel and Elna Carlson Streeter. She married Donald Edward Stokes Jr. on Aug. 11, 1956 at Newberry, Mich. Her passion was taking care of her family. She loved life and her husband. She was a beautiful and strong person, devoted wife and mother. She had been a Stinnett resident for eight years.She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother Louis Streeter.She is survived by her husband Donald Stokes Jr. of Stinnett, sons, Kenneth Stokes of Newberry, Mich. and Donald Stokes III of Stinnett; grandchildren Travis Stokes, Ian Stokes and Nicholas Stokes, and five great-grandchildren.To send condolences, sign the online guestbook at www.mintonchatwell.com.


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Bayern Munich captain Philipp Lahm says his side must beat Chelsea in Saturday's Champions League final if they want to be considered part of the club's "golden generation."
Bayern host Chelsea at Munich's Allianz Arena with the Bavarian giants bidding to lift the trophy for the first time since 2001, having reached two of the last three finals.
Lahm played in the Bayern team that lost 2-0 at the hands of Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan in the 2010 final in Madrid.
Current club president Uli Hoeness and chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, meanwhile, were part of the Bayern team that won consecutive titles in 1974, 1975 and 1976.
Lahm will lead Munich out on Saturday eager to make history by lifting the Champions League trophy for the second time and claiming the club's fifth overall European Cup title.
"You need an international title if you want to become a golden generation," said the 28-year-old.
"You want to lift the cup when you are in a final. And of course it is nice to be the first one to lift it. I don't have many more years at the top level."
Bayern have been licking their wounds since they were hammered 5-2 by Borussia Dortmund in last Saturday's German Cup final and Hoeness has warned that FA Cup winners Chelsea are a dangerous side.
"Chelsea are a team with their backs against the wall, because of their up-and-down season in the league," he said.
"If they lose the final, they will not be in the Champions League next season and we all know what that means for a team like Chelsea.
"Anyone who thinks we have already won this match is certainly wrong."
Bayern are bidding to become the first team since Inter at San Siro in 1965 to win the European title on home soil and two years after defeat in Madrid, Lahm says the team has grown.
"We have many players who were playing for us in 2010," said Lahm.
"We have developed, we have much more experience. The belief in winning the title is much bigger than two years ago."
Having been a ball boy in 1997 when the Champions League final was last played in Munich, Lahm admitted he never dreamed he would one day captain Bayern in a European final.
"At the time, I definitely wasn't dreaming that I would one day be competing for the trophy, it was simply too far away," Lahm told Munich-based newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
The Germany and Bayern captain was 13 years old when Dortmund claimed the trophy with a 3-1 win over Juventus on May 28, 1997 at Munich's Olympic Stadium, which was Bayern's previous home stadium.
Despite the occasion, Lahm admitted he was underwhelmed by the experience.
"It was nothing special. The same group (of ball boys) had been together the whole season for every home Bayern Munich game. We wore the same kit and there was no special briefing," he said.
Munich's 69,000-seater Allianz Arena, Bayern's home ground since 2005, will be sold out on Saturday, but the final will also be screened at the Olympic Stadium as the club received more than a million ticket applications.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Madison Bumgarner drove in two runs and struck out nine in seven innings, and the San Francisco Giants overcame an embarrassing lineup mistake to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 on Saturday night.
The Giants were caught batting out of order in the first inning, wiping away Buster Posey's RBI double. Manager Bruce Bochy submitted a lineup with Posey batting fourth, but the reigning NL MVP and batting champion hit third.
On the day he earned his first All-Star selection, Bumgarner (9-5) helped erase Bochy's big blunder by retiring his first 14 batters. Tim Federowicz's two-run homer off Bumgarner accounted for each of Los Angeles' runs.
Gregor Blanco had three hits and an RBI to end an 0-for-25 skid, and Marco Scutaro drove in another run to help San Francisco stop a four-game losing streak.
Sergio Romo pitched a perfect ninth for his 20th save.
Stephen Fife (3-3) allowed seven hits and four runs — although only one was earned — in 4 1-3 innings. The Dodgers committed three errors and never got going offensively, with rookie sensation Yasiel Puig striking out four times for the first time this season.
Help is on the way for the Dodgers. They acquired right-hander Ricky Nolasco from the Miami Marlins during the game in exchange for three minor league pitchers.
But they couldn't find a way to match Bumgarner, who gave up three hits and walked none. The big lefty has won five of his last six starts.
It was only the fourth time in 15 games the Giants had scored more than two runs. San Francisco also had lost 10 of its last 11 games and started off looking even worse.
After Posey hit third in Pablo Sandoval's spot to give the Giants a 1-0 lead, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly called out the mistake to umpires. Posey was ruled out but got to bat again in the fourth spot, ending the inning on a flyout to right field.
Posey had batted third in 15 straight games until Friday night.
The Giants also had Posey batting third in the digital lineup in the clubhouse and on papers passed out in the press box — but not in the official lineup card submitted to the Dodgers and umpires. Bochy even talked before the game about wanting to return Posey permanently to the fourth spot with Sandoval healthy again and San Francisco struggling.
"Call it superstitious, I'm going back to where we did have success — that's Pablo in the 3-hole and Buster in the 4-hole," Bochy said.
The move might have been a bit of redemption for Mattingly.
After separate ejections of manager Joe Torre and bench coach Bob Schaefer in the Dodgers' 7-5 loss to San Francisco on July 20, 2010, Mattingly made his own mistake while he was the hitting coach. Mattingly went to the mound for a chat with closer Jonathan Broxton in the ninth inning before Andres Torres came up. Mattingly took a few steps back off the dirt toward the dugout before turning around and advising first baseman James Loney exactly where he wanted him positioned.
Bochy came out to protest to plate umpire Adrian Johnson that Mattingly's about-face constituted a second trip to the mound. The umpires huddled and agreed, and Broxton had to leave the game. Mattingly was forced to summon George Sherrill, who promptly served up Torres' two-run double that gave the Giants the lead.
Los Angeles made more than its share of mistakes on Saturday night.
In the second inning, Nick Punto's throw pulled shortstop Hanley Ramirez off second base for an error. Bumgarner walked to force in a run, Blanco's single drove in another and Scutaro flied out to right to put the Giants ahead 3-0.
Torres also reached in the fourth when Ramirez misplayed his grounder and was slow to recover, setting up Bumgarner's sacrifice fly that stretched San Francisco's lead to 4-0.
Andre Ethier's bloop single to left with two outs in the fifth was the first baserunner off Bumgarner. Federowicz followed with his third home run to trim the Dodgers' deficit to 4-2.
Ramirez tripled leading off the seventh before getting thrown out at the plate by third baseman Pablo Sandoval.
NOTES: Dodgers CF Matt Kemp sat out with an irritated left shoulder, as expected, after leaving Friday's game with the injury and receiving a cortisone shot. Mattingly said he's hopeful Kemp will play Sunday or Monday at the latest. … A moment of silence was held before the game for victims of an Asiana Airlines flight from South Korea that crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport. … Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw (7-5, 1.93 ERA) starts against San Francisco's Chad Gaudin (2-1, 2.60 ERA) in the series finale Sunday.


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Could an Aggie be on the cover of one of the most popular video game franchises of all time? How about a Hearne icon? You can help decide.
Online voting is underway to decide the football player who will be on the cover of Madden NFL 25, which is scheduled to be released August 27. The 25th edition of the game could have either a classic player from the past or a current star.
Voting is taking place on ESPN's SportsNation website.
A pair of Aggies are among the 32 current players vying for votes. Von Miller is now a standout linebacker for the Denver Broncos, and Ryan Tannehill just finished his first season with the Miami Dolphins as their quarterback.
In a March Madness-style bracket of 64 players determined by Madden and ESPN, Miller is a six seed. Tannehill is a 16 seed, the lowest you can get.
On the "Old School" side of the bracket, Mumford-born John Randle, who starred at Hearne High School, is an eight seed. The defensive tackle starred for the Minnesota Vikings for most of his career, which ran from 1990 until 2003. He is a Pro Football Hall of Famer.
First round voting continues through March 20. Eventually, one "Old School" and one "New School" athlete will go head-to-head to decide who graces the cover of the next Madden series.
An Aggie recently came up short on landing on the front of EA Sports' NCAA game offering. Ryan Swope was the runner-up to Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson. The results were announced earlier this week.


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Launch time is nearing for an astronaut with University of Colorado connections who is preparing to make his third trip to the international space station, one that will see him fulfill dual roles for overlapping missions.
Steve Swanson took part Wednesday in a news conference streamed live on NASA TV with the two other members of the crew that will launch March 26 for a six-month mission to the space station.
Fielding questions from grade school students as well as journalists, posed in person and by way of social media, Swanson — the one participant speaking English as his primary language — talked about everything from what it feels like to walk in space to astronauts' usual choices of beverage in space.
"Ah, that's another good question," was Swanson's frequent refrain, even when students asked questions about life on the moon — where Swanson is not going now and has never been.
"We do live where we work," Swanson said, about life on the space station. "So the commute is short, which is nice. We have a daily planning conference every morning and every evening about 12 hours apart, and we work from the beginning of that (period) to the end of that ... and that's including working out. We get a little time off each day (to work out) to help keep this going, and help rejuvenate ourselves."
Swanson, who graduated from Steamboat Springs High School and received a bachelor of science degree in engineering physics from CU, still makes his home in Steamboat Springs. Introduced Wednesday as an avid hiker and camper, he drew comparisons between those activities and life in space.
"I find them very similar —- especially, a shuttle mission was very similar to a camping trip," said Swanson, who has traveled to the space station twice previously, once each on the space shuttles Atlantis and Discovery. "The food, for example, is quite comparable."
Swanson also said looking back at Earth from the station's low orbit of about 230 miles above our planet is not so much unlike what one might see after hiking to the top of a mountain.
"It's just a little bit better when you're up higher, looking from space," he admitted.
Swanson will serve as flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft that launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 26. In May, he will transition into the role of station commander, when the crew of Expedition 40 is scheduled to join them at the space station. Swanson and his two Expedition 39 partners, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, of the Russian Federal Space Agency, are expected to return to Earth in September.
Swanson worked as a NASA systems engineer and flight engineer for the shuttle training aircraft before being selected as an astronaut — one of 20 with direct ties to CU. He has walked in space four times in his two prior trips to the space station.
There are now two space walks tentatively scheduled during his upcoming time on the space station, one to complete repairs relating to a previous ammonia leak on the station's far port truss, another to change out some lights and cameras. Swanson hopes those scheduled tasks come to pass.
"Getting a space walk would be fantastic," Swanson said. "It's always a goal for any astronaut to get a space walk. To do it again would be great.
"It's a very busy time, and kind of stressful, but at the same time it's a fantastic thing to do. The views are amazing out there. It would be hard to describe because it's so different from anything else. Relaxing and just seeing the whole Earth below you is a wonderful thing."
Putting it in terms geared toward some of his youngest interrogators, Swanson added, "It's like being a kid on the best playground in the world."
Contact Camera Staff Writer Charlie Brennan at 303-473-1327 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Skip to comments.'Explore as much as we can': Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes on evolution & intelligent design
Posted on 05/16/2007 6:54:51 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Charles Townes is the Nobel Prize Physics winner whose pioneering work led to the maser and later the laser.
The University of California, Berkeley interviewed him on his 90th birthday where they talked about evolution, intelligent design and the meaning of life.
I thought this would be good to share...
BERKELEY Religion and science, faith and empirical experiment: these terms would seem to have as little in common as a Baptist preacher and a Berkeley physicist. And yet, according to Charles Hard Townes, winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics and a UC Berkeley professor in the Graduate School, they are united by similar goals: science seeks to discern the laws and order of our universe; religion, to understand the universe's purpose and meaning, and how humankind fits into both.
Where these areas intersect is territory that Townes has been exploring for many of his 89 years, and in March his insights were honored with the 2005 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. Worth about $1.5 million, the Templeton Prize recognizes those who, throughout their lives, have sought to advance ideas and/or institutions that will deepen the world's understanding of God and of spiritual realities.
Townes first wrote about the parallels between religion and science in IBM's Think magazine in 1966, two years after he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in quantum electronics: in 1953, thanks in part to what Townes calls a "revelation" experienced on a park bench, he invented the maser (his acronym for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission), which amplifies microwaves to produce an intense beam. By building on this work, he achieved similar amplification using visible light, resulting in the laser (whose name he also coined).
Even as his research interests have segued from microwave physics to astrophysics, Townes has continued to explore topics such as "Science, values, and beyond," in Synthesis of Science and Religion (1987), "On Science, and what it may suggest about us," in Theological Education (1988), and "Why are we here; where are we going?" in The International Community of Physics, Essays on Physics (1997).
Townes sat down one morning recently to discuss how these and other weighty questions have shaped his own life, and their role in current controversies over public education.
Q. If science and religion share a common purpose, why have their proponents tended to be at loggerheads throughout history?
Science and religion have had a long interaction: some of it has been good and some of it hasn't. As Western science grew, Newtonian mechanics had scientists thinking that everything is predictable, meaning there's no room for God so-called determinism. Religious people didn't want to agree with that. Then Darwin came along, and they really didn't want to agree with what he was saying, because it seemed to negate the idea of a creator. So there was a real clash for a while between science and religions.
But science has been digging deeper and deeper, and as it has done so, particularly in the basic sciences like physics and astronomy, we have begun to understand more. We have found that the world is not deterministic: quantum mechanics has revolutionized physics by showing that things are not completely predictable. That doesn't mean that we've found just where God comes in, but we know now that things are not as predictable as we thought and that there are things we don't understand. For example, we don't know what some 95 percent of the matter in the universe is: we can't see it it's neither atom nor molecule, apparently. We think we can prove it's there, we see its effect on gravity, but we don't know what and where it is, other than broadly scattered around the universe. And that's very strange.
So as science encounters mysteries, it is starting to recognize its limitations and become somewhat more open. There are still scientists who differ strongly with religion and vice versa. But I think people are being more open-minded about recognizing the limitations in our frame of understanding.
You've said "I believe there is no long-range question more important than the purpose and meaning of our lives and our universe." How have you attempted to answer that question?
Even as a youngster, you're usually taught that there's some purpose you'll try to do, how you are going to live. But that's a very localized thing, about what you want with your life. The broader question is, "What are humans all about in general, and what is this universe all about?" That comes as one tries to understand what is this beautiful world that we're in, that's so special: "Why has it come out this way? What is free will and why do we have it? What is a being? What is consciousness?" We can't even define consciousness. As one thinks about these broader problems, then one becomes more and more challenged by the question of what is the aim and purpose and meaning of this universe and of our lives.
Those aren't easy questions to answer, of course, but they're important and they're what religion is all about. I maintain that science is closely related to that, because science tries to understand how the universe is constructed and why it does what it does, including human life. If one understands the structure of the universe, maybe the purpose of man becomes a little clearer. I think maybe the best answer to that is that somehow, we humans were created somewhat in the likeness of God. We have free will. We have independence, we can do and create things, and that's amazing. And as we learn more and more why, we become even more that way. What kind of a life will we build? That's what the universe is open about. The purpose of the universe, I think, is to see this develop and to allow humans the freedom to do the things that hopefully will work out well for them and for the rest of the world.
How do you categorize your religious beliefs?
I'm a Protestant Christian, I would say a very progressive one. This has different meanings for different people. But I'm quite open minded and willing to consider all kinds of new ideas and to look at new things. At the same time it has a very deep meaning for me: I feel the presence of God. I feel it in my own life as a spirit that is somehow with me all the time.
You've described your inspiration for the maser as a moment of revelation, more spiritual than what we think of as inspiration. Do you believe that God takes such an active interest in humankind?
[The maser] was a new idea, a sudden visualization I had of what might be done to produce electromagnetic waves, so it's somewhat parallel to what we normally call revelation in religion. Whether the inspiration for the maser and the laser was God's gift to me is something one can argue about. The real question should be, where do brand-new human ideas come from anyway? To what extent does God help us? I think he's been helping me all along. I think he helps all of us that there's a direction in our universe and it has been determined and is being determined. How? We don't know these things. There are many questions in both science and religion and we have to make our best judgment. But I think spirituality has a continuous effect on me and on other people.
That sounds like you agree with the "intelligent design" movement, the latest framing of creationism, which argues that the complexity of the universe proves it must have been created by a guiding force.
I do believe in both a creation and a continuous effect on this universe and our lives, that God has a continuing influence certainly his laws guide how the universe was built. But the Bible's description of creation occurring over a week's time is just an analogy, as I see it. The Jews couldn't know very much at that time about the lifetime of the universe or how old it was. They were visualizing it as best they could and I think they did remarkably well, but it's just an analogy.
Should intelligent design be taught alongside Darwinian evolution in schools as religious legislators have decided in Pennsylvania and Kansas?
I think it's very unfortunate that this kind of discussion has come up. People are misusing the term intelligent design to think that everything is frozen by that one act of creation and that there's no evolution, no changes. It's totally illogical in my view. Intelligent design, as one sees it from a scientific point of view, seems to be quite real. This is a very special universe: it's remarkable that it came out just this way. If the laws of physics weren't just the way they are, we couldn't be here at all. The sun couldn't be there, the laws of gravity and nuclear laws and magnetic theory, quantum mechanics, and so on have to be just the way they are for us to be here.
Some scientists argue that "well, there's an enormous number of universes and each one is a little different. This one just happened to turn out right." Well, that's a postulate, and it's a pretty fantastic postulate it assumes there really are an enormous number of universes and that the laws could be different for each of them. The other possibility is that ours was planned, and that's why it has come out so specially. Now, that design could include evolution perfectly well. It's very clear that there is evolution, and it's important. Evolution is here, and intelligent design is here, and they're both consistent.
They don't have to negate each other, you're saying. God could have created the universe, set the parameters for the laws of physics and chemistry and biology, and set the evolutionary process in motion, But that's not what the Christian fundamentalists are arguing should be taught in Kansas.
People who want to exclude evolution on the basis of intelligent design, I guess they're saying, "Everything is made at once and then nothing can change." But there's no reason the universe can't allow for changes and plan for them, too. People who are anti-evolution are working very hard for some excuse to be against it. I think that whole argument is a stupid one. Maybe that's a bad word to use in public, but it's just a shame that the argument is coming up that way, because it's very misleading.
That seems to come up when religion seeks to control or limit the scope of science. We're seeing that with the regulation of research into stem cells and cloning. Should there be areas of scientific inquiry that are off-limits due to a culture's prevailing religious principles?
My answer to that is, we should explore as much as we can. We should think about everything, try to explore everything, and question things. That's part of our human characteristic in nature that has made us so great and able to achieve so much. Of course there are problems if we do scientific experiments on people that involve killing them that's a scientific experiment sure, but ethically it has problems. There are ethical issues with certain kinds of scientific experimentation. But outside of the ethical issues, I think we should try very hard to understand everything we can and to question things.
I think it's settling those ethical issues that's the problem. Who decides what differentiates a "person" from a collection of cells, for example?
That's very difficult. What is a person? We don't know. Where is this thing, me where am I really in this body? Up here in the top of the head somewhere? What is personality? What is consciousness? We don't know. The same thing is true once the body is dead: where is this person? Is it still there? Has it gone somewhere else? If you don't know what it is, it's hard to say what it's doing next. We have to be open-minded about that. The best we can do is try to find ways of answering those questions.
You'll turn 90 on July 28. What's the secret to long life?
Good luck is one, but also just having a good time. Some people say I work hard: I come in on Saturdays, and I work evenings both at my desk and in the lab. But I think I'm just having a good time doing physics and science. I have three telescopes down on Mt. Wilson; I was down there a couple nights last week. I've traveled a lot. On Sundays, my wife [of 64 years] and I usually go hiking. I'd say the secret has been being able to do things that I like, and keeping active.
'Faith is necessary for the scientist even to get started, and deep faith is necessary for him to carry out his tougher tasks. Why? Because he must have confidence that there is order in the universe and that the human mind in fact his own mind has a good chance of understanding this order.'
-Charles Townes, writing in "The Convergence of Science and Religion," IBM's Think magazine, March-April 1966
Who created us? U.S. vs. UC Berkeley beliefs
A Nov. 18-21, 2004 New York Times/CBS News poll on American mores and attitudes, conducted with 885 U.S. adults, showed that a significant number of Americans believe that God created humankind. UC Berkeley's Office of Student Research asked the same question on its 2005 UC Undergraduate Experience Survey, results for which are still coming in. As of June 8, 2,057 students had responded.
Seems to me that mathematics even more so than science except perhaps physics is especially advanced by such personal revelations. Mathematicians and physicists deal in theory and universals all the time.
As Wigner observed, mathematics is unreasonably effective in the sciences.
My favorite example is Reimannian geometry which was developed with no application for it. The geometry was envisioned in the mind of Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann and he described it, mathematically. And yet Einstein was able to pull Reimannian geometry off-the-shelf to describe the structure of space/time, i.e. general relativity.
And there is the example of Newton conceiving his mechanics, then developing the math to describe/mathematically express it. It always puts me in awe of the whole sheebang when I consider these sorts of examples. I find I wish I had the math background to express my 'new paradigm' for reality, my dimensions and variables and continua notion which considers life as sourced in a distinct dimension as real as space or time, and spirit sourced in a dimension as real as the others. It would make mathematical the concept of higher order beings, like humans, and Angels, etc.
Does the human genome have "pages?"
Progress as a word describing a process. Im aware, however, that one mans progress can be another mans excrement sandwich. Motives and objectives define progress. Progress can be used as a political tool (the Progressive Party or progressive political policies contrasted to anothers ill-conceived or evil intentions) suggesting a superiority of political motives and goals. Im sorry, but I just cant get very enthused over schools of thought, preferring ideas instead.
Darwin was mystified by the extension of his insight to things other than biological species
Im not sure mystified, or simply horrified. In any event, I take it that he treated the interested attentions of Marx as though encountering a skunk under the front porch. Marx was thrilled to make a connection between Darwins science and Marxian political and economic theories. Darwin couldnt see it, and refused to affirm the relationship. Avoided it like the plague, as a matter of fact.
Fair answer.
But bad religion isn't the only thing that threatens science. Science curriculum, especially in high school, is being overtaken by all sorts of oddities that don't belong, e.g., sentimental ecology, race, and gender topics.
On that I believe we are all in accord.
At the same time it informs our values and cements our affections as a people, or a culture.
That would be bad science in the sense that bad news is stuff on the news program that crowds out actual news.
Improvement is the meaning as used by sociologists such as Marx and by historians.
Being "born again" like most spiritual things it is metaphorical.. Describing the "Spirit" or even the "spirit" in human language is weak it takes a word picture to approach showing the observation.. Being "born again" is a word picture of something else.. the term is pregnant..
It strikes me that bad religion is the least of the modern threats to science (in the Western classroom), yet it seems to draw the greatest attention and the greatest ire from the "Masters of the Universe." Why is that do you suppose, or am I mistaken?
Yes, I understand that is the meaning they wish to convey, but it is an excrement sandwich to some, just the same.
What's your point? Are you maintaining your assertion that he was talking about the Bible?
Do I need to drag out the full context of the quotation?
For Collins, unravelling the human genome did not create a conflict in his mind. Instead, it allowed him to "glimpse at the workings of God".
"When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it," he said. "But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along.
"When you have for the first time in front of you this 3.1 billion-letter instruction book that conveys all kinds of information and all kinds of mystery about humankind, you can't survey that going through page after page without a sense of awe. I can't help but look at those pages and have a vague sense that this is giving me a glimpse of God's mind."
Collins joins a line of scientists whose research deepened their belief in God. Isaac Newton, whose discovery of the laws of gravity reshaped our understanding of the universe, said: "This most beautiful system could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful being."
Yes, I maintain that.
Yet even if Dr. Collins were referring to the genome, my point would be made. I do understand, you see, that Dr. Collins is a recovered atheist....
I thank you for dragging out the full context. Like Einstein, Dr. Collins seems to resonate with the sort of thing presented here:
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear.And then, theres this:
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews 11:3
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.All italics in the above are mine.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans 1: 2023
Just the merest suggestion of scripture about which we might reflect this evening. Or not, as the case may be.
Thanks so much for writing js1138!
The question is not if he used the scientific method, but if he held divine revelation above that of science (given that he was a monk, it's safe to assume he did). From what you have said, his findings should be discarded.
The very first wording in Genesis conveys 'With wisdom God created' ... BUr'aShYTh. Information preceded space and time and matter ... and the Mind of God preceded information on the order of the universe as God deunified to allow dimensions to express and the universe to manifest and then become aware of itself and thus of God.
The question is not if he used the scientific method, but if he held divine revelation above that of science (given that he was a monk, it's safe to assume he did). From what you have said, his findings should be discarded.
False. The method you follow determines what you are doing.
If you follow the scientific method, you are doing science. If you allow divine revelation to supersede your scientific findings you are certainly not doing science no matter what your scientific credentials may be.
It seems to me that the will to live is field-like in its behavior, i.e. fecundity principle or life principle. The universe, biosphere, collectives of organism, individual organisms, functions within organism and individual cells all struggle to survive and hierarchically at that.
The functions of an organism (e.g. cardiovascular) cooperate and the organism survives, individual organisms (e.g. army ants) cooperate and the collective survives, etc.
This behavior is also mentioned in Romans 8, the willful creature.
It may be inter-dimensional as Lisa Randall suggests gravity might be.
Any hoot, thats what I would expect.
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