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Statistics On Category Orientation of Design Competitions
Statistics An Survey Data On Participant Positioning of Design Competitions; Brief Orientation Etc
The category orientation data explains in which categories design competitions are being held, restrictions on participation and types of designs or projects that could be submitted to them. The data reflected in this section contains information regarding 1000 design competitions and could therefore be considered statistically significant.It is interesting to note that while fifty years ago, architectural design competition was the major type of competitions, today they represent only around 14.5 percent of all events. They have been surpassed by graphic design competitions since it is really easy to organize graphic design competitions using internet. Photography, Furniture, Fashion, Arts and Idea categories follow the architecture competitions and a significant number of competitions are organized under many other categories.The previously unexplained thirty percent of competitions are for animation design, interior design, texture design, packaging design, meta design, social design, digital and electronic devices design, lighting design, home appliances design, interface design and many others such as toy design, vehicle design etc.The Design Competition Types chart explains what type of submissions the competitions are looking for: For example half of the competitions are looking for design concepts, ten percent are for less developed ideas i.e. contests, ten percent are for photography and visualization, and only 20 percent of the design competitions do actually require a good developed design.The Orientation Chart for Design Competitions explains what kind of entries are sought for: It is interesting to note that a significant portion of design competitions are seeking art or technology oriented submissions; this fact indeed explains that design competitions are not clearly defined events; i.e. arts, crafts or technology oriented competitions also consider themselves as design competitions.The One time or Repeating data explains the percentage of design competitions that are organized more than once or for the first time, provided that the data refers to three years of design competitions, we could expect that the number of design competitions would increase continuously over the years.When organizers were asked if the competition is open to all, it became evident that 9 percent of design competitions were actually open only to alumni, company employees or registered club members. (Data regarding 300 answers), while remaining 271 competitions did not have participant exclusivity.Exclusive competitions were mostly for alumni, club or association members, and employees. It is interesting that these competitions still provided their data to register themselves into the designcompetition.com database; i.e. why would they register their competition, if people would not be allowed to join? My theory is that these competitions are not looking for participants but rather publicity.Likewise, a significant 13 percent of the (308) design competitions that have registered themselves to the designcompetition.com database, were not international, indeed the number of national and regional competitions are underestimated in designcompetition.com database, because many local authorities do organize design competitions and similar events. Participation restrictions on design competitions based on professions chart explains restrictions for what kind of people could join the competition. While 73.82 percent of 317 design competitions said the competitions are open to all, a significant percentage targeted participants more discretely: almost 9 percent said, the competition is open to design students, and 7 percent said only professionals could be admitted.26.28 percent of the design competitions that targeted specific participants aimed firstly at design students, followed up by professionals, university students in general, academics, and fresh graduates.Exerpt:The category orientation data explains in which categories design competitions are being held, restrictions on participation and types of designs or projects that could be submitted to them. The data reflected in this section contains information regarding 1000 design competitions and could therefore be considered statistically significant.It is interesting to note that while fifty years ago, architectural design competition was the major type of competitions, today they represent only around 14..
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The Q&A
You Asked, He Answered
The morning after the series finale of "The O.C.," its creator, Josh Schwartz, answers reader questions about his favorite music montage, the thinking behind Marissa's death, the birth of the Ryan/Taylor romance, and more
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Last week on PopWatch, Annie Barrett prompted O.C. fans to send us the questions they'd most want to ask series creator Josh Schwartz about his teen drama, which ended its four-season run on Feb. 23. Close to 100 of you responded, with queries about everything from the reasons Marissa (Mischa Barton) was killed off at the end of season 3, to what kind of bunny Summer's beloved pet Pancakes is. Here, Schwartz answers five of your most burning questions…
If there's anything you could go back to the pilot and change so that it would affect the rest of the show (like a character trait or a line, etc.), what would it be? —TheOCismylife
JOSH SCHWARTZ: I wouldn't change anything in the pilot. I am really proud of the world we created and how we set the stage for the show. Maybe I'd have Luke say, "Welcome to the O.C., bitch!" twice to see if we'd be twice as popular… and could've run for eight years! But to be able to start with the pilot and have it plant the seeds for how we would end, 92 episodes and four years later, makes me value it even more.
When, exactly, did the idea for a Ryan/Taylor romance begin? And was it because of fan demand, or did the writers think it up completely on their own? —monnie44
Their romance was percolating in our minds last year, but we really started thinking about it when we were planning for season 4. It was conceived out of our deep love of Autumn Reeser (Taylor) and how much fun the writers knew we could have with Taylor and Ryan. It seemed the perfect salvation to the darkness Ryan would be in after losing Marissa.
Did you ever consider that to have other plotlines for Marissa [besides death], you could have had her evolve as a happier person and truly discover herself, even if it wasn't in Newport? Did you ever consider that you could have pulled the storylines away from her for a while if you felt she was being overdeveloped? —Kat
Marissa's character has always been a lightning rod for fan reactions. Having her gain redemption and strength, and the opportunity to say goodbye to her family and friends, before a tragic ending — there was no more fitting, appropriate end for Marissa. I think her character will resonate more powerfully for having ended in this way. And she was honored in the finale episode.
The final scene of the episode "The Dearly Beloved," with Imogen Heap's "Hide & Seek," will probably go down as my favorite music moment from The O.C. — even though there were several others that I really enjoyed, such as Caleb's heart attack to Coldplay's "Fix You," or "Dice" in "The Countdown." What was your favorite musical moment/montage ? —latteluver
There are so many… Joseph Arthur's "Honey and the Moon" in the pilot, matt pond PA's cover of "Champagne Supernova" in "The Rainy Day Women" episode, South's "Paint the Silence" in "The Heights," and Jason Schwartzman's "The West Coast" in "The French Connection." But I think my favorite is Patrick Park's "Life Is a Song," which closes out the final minutes of the episode and The O.C. series. That was our point of view: Life is a song.
What was YOUR favorite season and favorite episode? —BB
The first season will always be my favorite because everything was so new for me — the characters, the cast, the crew — it was a blast! The second season — especially the latter half — was really great, too. I have to say, season 4 comes as a close second. So many of the episodes from this season rank among my favorites, and I am so grateful to those fans who have stuck with the show — I hope you felt rewarded. The finale was for you guys. (And my mom. And the part with the bagel slicer was for Annie…)

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Our volunteers make up a close community of like-minded people who share a common interest in the fascinating realm of parapsychology and consciousness. Being a Rhine Center volunteer is extremely rewarding and has distinct advantages, such as having the opportunity to network and socialize with world renowned parapsychology experts and researchers and others with similar interests.
Volunteers are offered special incentives including: attendance at Rhine Center programs and social events, and special discounts. Consider becoming a part of one of the oldest and most respected centers of its kind in the world. Please contact Lisa Bennett, our Volunteer Coordinator or call the Rhine Center at (919) 309-4600 for further information.
Volunteers' meetings always take place the third Tuesday of the month.
The Rhine Center volunteers have been preserving and organizing their abundant newspaper and magazine articles dating back to the 1930s. Susan Freeman and Pamela St. John have been leading monthly "Archival Work Sessions" in the Rhine Research Center Alex Tanous Library since last February, and are always happy to have more volunteers to join them at the table. Time is spent reading fascinating articles and labeling them with date and category. Snacks or lunch can be brought, although we eat them in the kitchen
If you would like to help please sign up with Lisa. Thank you for all your help!
We have come a long way! We are starting to create the actual notebooks for all of the articles, and now we are starting on photos, and of course there are still more articles! It is always fun and informative, and we would appreciate your help. Bring a lunch or a snack.
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They have been down this road before — Congress has already missed several self-imposed deadlines to cut the deficit — but many say they fear that this time, the talks in Washington to avert the so-called fiscal cliff will actually lead to deep cuts.
So they want a say in the negotiations.
"The main message is that it's important to remember that, on a lot of areas of governance, we're partners — and that these issues can't be solved simply by cost-shifting to the states, because the states aren't really in a position to do all that," said Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware, chairman of the National Governors Association. "We just want to make sure that we have a voice as these decisions are being made."
But there is a long history of the federal government's giving short shrift to the needs of states and cities — by making cuts in federal aid that forced service cuts or tax increases at the local level, or by passing laws requiring localities to take expensive actions without giving them the money to do so.
So in recent days, more than a dozen mayors with the United States Conference of Mayors have gone to Washington to lobby lawmakers. And last Monday, Mr. Markell, a Democrat, joined several governors from both parties to discuss the issue on a conference call with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The states, whose tax collections are still below the peak levels they reached in 2008, are in something of an unusual situation. That is because the automatic tax increases and spending cuts that are scheduled to begin in January, called "the fiscal cliff" by Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, are actually better for them in some respects than many of the alternate proposals in Washington.
Half of the cuts scheduled to take effect at the beginning of next year would be to military spending, which would affect states only indirectly. The scheduled cuts to domestic programs would leave Medicaid, the single biggest source of federal aid to states, untouched. And the planned federal tax increases would increase revenues in states whose tax codes are closely linked to the federal code.
But governors said that no one was rooting for President Obama and Republicans in Congress to fail to reach a financial accord, in part because they fear that the resulting combination of spending cuts and tax increases could prompt another recession, which their states can ill afford.
Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, a Republican, noted that the spending cuts and tax increases were intended to be so undesirable that they would spur opposing sides in Washington to overcome their antagonism and strike a deal on taxes and spending just to avoid them.
The plan "was designed to be a terrible answer," Mr. Snyder said, "and I think they did a fairly effective job of doing that."
Pat McCrory, the Republican governor-elect of North Carolina and former mayor of Charlotte, said state and local officials needed a greater voice in Washington.
"I don't think the debate should be just between the White House and Capitol Hill, but the state and local government should be at the table," Mr. McCrory said. "Because I assume some of their answers are going to be pass-throughs to the states or to cities, as I saw as mayor in the past."
The automatic cuts would hurt states in several areas. A recent analysis by the Pew Center on the States found that roughly 18 percent of the federal grant dollars flowing to the states would be subject to across-the-board cuts, including money for education, public housing and nutrition programs for low-income women and children.
But some governors fear that any "grand bargain" struck by Mr. Obama and Congress could lead to even deeper cuts to states, and they worry that it could include tax provisions that they believe would be harmful, like ending the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds that makes the bonds more attractive to investors.
But the needs of states and cities have often been an afterthought when Washington has talked about curbing spending.
Alice M. Rivlin, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget who served on two recent high-profile federal commissions — the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, better known as the Simpson-Bowles Commission, and the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force — acknowledged as much in an appearance this summer.
"I've served on not one but two commissions on the federal deficit," Ms. Rivlin said when another group she belongs to, the State Budget Crisis Task Force, released a report warning of the fiscal problems facing states. "And I can attest that although we were certainly aware that the proposals we made would impact state and local government, we did not do a serious analysis of what would happen."
Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio, a Republican, has been on both sides of the federal-state divide: trying to cut the federal budget as a chairman of the House Budget Committee, and now seeking to preserve services, especially for the poor, as a governor.
"I'm just saying that if you're going to affect us, you'd better realize there's a bottom line that affects flesh and blood and real people," he said this month at a meeting of the Republican Governors Association. "And you can easily throw every one of these budgets into the red by just trying to get a nice number."
The absence of a formal dialogue between the federal government and the states was cited as a danger by the State Budget Crisis Task Force, a private group led by Richard Ravitch, a former lieutenant governor of New York, and Paul A. Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
"There are no standing structures and procedures within the federal government for analyzing the impacts on states and localities of reduced federal spending or federal tax changes, and there is little dialogue about these issues between the federal government and state and local governments," its report said last summer. It recommended creating something like the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, which lasted from 1959 to 1996.
John Kincaid, a former executive director of the advisory commission, which included federal and state officials, said it grew less effective as political polarization increased.
"No matter what happens in Washington, it's going to hit state and local governments very hard," said Mr. Kincaid, who is now a professor of government and public service at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. "I think, by and large, states have become accustomed to this pattern of decision-making, so they're going to brace themselves for whatever comes. State and local officials will lobby very hard to get what they can out of this bargain, but they won't be all that significant as players."
Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/us/politics/states-want-to-have-say-during-talks-over-budget.html?partner=rss&emc=rss


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JT - I yield the thread to you for a question....but please...not "what color are the flecks in the iris nearest Jim's pupil?" please. We haven't all been THAT close.
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
Mark Twain
wow i know this is going to sound HORRIBLE, but where do you get all of your info. i try to find things like his fav. this and that and stuff, but i dont know where to look. help me out here
Cotton, I'm too tired. Here's why: The night before last, we had a storm that woke me up at 4am. Then last night, I was getting ready to go to sleep and the fire siren in town went off. This was around 1, I think. We have a volunteer fire department and since my family has always been involved with it, we have a scanner. I turn on the scanner and I'm hearing that the fire is shooting from the roof and they are asking to expedite the tankers. Then they give the name of the property on fire and it's our landlord's name. They say, "next to the bank." And this property in which we live is next to the bank...though I'm completely aware that the landlord's actual HOUSE is also next to a bank in a town five miles away.
So either...HIS domicile is ablaze, or MINE is.
I must confess that once in the past, I accidentally started a minor conflagration on the patio roof area of this apartment, but I totally had the butt can put OUT with the kitchen fire extinguisher before the first of the six volunteer fire departments toned out arrived. And they all know me... . This is another great reason not to smoke, or, at least to make sure you completely submerge your cigarette butt in water before you put it in the butt can...and no smoking on the patio at the end of autumn, when there are leaves blowing....but I digress embarrassingly...
Anyway, last night....when I hear the location of the fire, first obviously...I sniff and don't smell smoke, but this place is big...so I decide that I need to run through the apartment and up the stairs into the back part to MAKE CERTAIN that we're not on fire. And I have on a pair of flannel pyjama bottoms that are too big and they fall down while I'm running across the kitchen.
I pretty much pulled them back up, while still in motion and through the dining room, the back door, up the stairs to the glass door and I see...
....no fire.
But this still means that my landlord has a big fire and I watch all the trucks going (including my awesome cousin in his pickup) and I'm worrying that this family's house is going up in smoke. Every local volunteer fire department's motto is, "we've never lost a foundation." Finally, I get a clarification over the scanner that it is the landlord's barn-like structure and the house is ok.
I guess it got a bit hairy, though, because it was windy and the flames did lick at the house and melt some siding, but the intrepid volunteer firefighters managed to stop it spreading. Yay team.
I should have put this on the Life is funny thread.
My point is. I'm going to bed. Someone else ask a question, please.
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
Mark Twain
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User talk:TheHYPO
Hi, I'm glad you'll have a look at it. Try using html comments. In some places whitespace won't cause problems, but it's sort of a trial and error process. better play it safe and use comments everywhere at first, then we can gradually try removing them. Also, take a look at the latest changes I made to {{ComicHeader}}. You could incorporate them in {{comic}} or simply transclude {{ComicHeader}} to reduce code clutter even further. Cheers, Waldir (talk) 16:14, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, I've ran out of time for explainxkcd today (I was moving some pages around). I will latter take a look at the template and see if I can improve anything. Just a note: the example usage seems to be categorizing the template page into the categories. I'm not sure having an example there is worth the miscategorization issues... --Waldir (talk) 18:24, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. I was looking through our templates and found {{wat}}. I'm not sure exactly what's the use case for that. Could you give me an example? --Waldir (talk) 08:52, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey; I don't know if it will be useful here; I duped both {{wat}} and {{w}} from another wiki I created here because I wanted to create a quick and easy (and standardized) link to Wikipedia articles (side note: I wonder if wikipedia links should have a little "W" logo like XKCD links have a little XKCD favicon?).
{{w}} creates a quick link to wikipedia to the article in the argument - second argument is the display text, just like a regular wikilink except to wikipedia instead of to the native explainxkcd wiki. A side usage is just putting in {w} bare, creates a link to the same article title at wikipedia appended with the phrase " at Wikipedia" (with a link to wikipedia). On the other wiki, this was generally used for "See Also:" links to articles at wikipedia where I didn't intend to have an article on that wiki itself. I created {{wat}} for when I wanted the "at wikipedia" form, but I had to retitle the article (eg: the article was "Hello" but the article at wikipedia was "Hello (common greeting)" so a plain {w} wouldn't work. Also, if I wanted to also link to the wikipedia article on "greetings" at wikipedia in the see also section.
I don't know if this will be of any use on this wiki (and if it's very uncommon use, the same functionality could probably be achieved with another argument (eg: {w|Hello (common greeting)|Hello|at=yes}) - as I used a see also section on many pages, it became useful to me. If you want to delete it here (or include the functionality into {{w}} I'm cool with that.
That said, I think "see also" could come in handy here, although generally people are just wikilinking to most relevant topics in the Explanation itself. There could be other topics that don't fit neatly into explanations though. TheHYPO (talk) 13:53, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation. It's been a long time (sorry about that), but this period was also useful to put that template to the test of actual use. It seems it hasn't found much use here, so I'll convert the only instance of its application (Category:Velociraptors) to the {{w}} template, and delete the (somewhat awkwardly named, I must say) wat template. If the "at Wikipedia" form becomes common, we can, as you suggest, augment {{w}} with extra parameters. Cheers, Waldir (talk) 14:46, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
I like the idea you are going for, but it currently suffers from the image scaling issue. Or are you seeing properly scaled images? Blaisepascal (talk) 14:48, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Moving pages
Creating explanations and moving the page twice creates a double redirect. The List of all comics has links to both the title and number pages for each comics. I open both up in two tabs, and just paste, submit, close tab, paste, submit, close tab, no moving pages, and the redirects work. Thanks for your time and attention. lcarsos (talk) 21:35, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Time continues
I undid your edit to 1190: Time because it hasn't finished. I have, however, recovered your Plot. Mark Hurd (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
- I don't mind your edits, except they seem to have lost information, but some of it may have been redundant. I don't have time now to review it, though. Mark Hurd (talk) 23:41, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi TheHYPO, you did edit my add @Scene2: But I think: - they did not reach "another" river. It's the first river they ever found, all other images are showing the sea. - "Cueball slips in and loses his water bottle" <- We do not know that there is water in the bottle, it could be also limo, we don't know. I am not native English so I am happy about edits, but we still should be correct. --Dgbrt (talk) 16:43, 2 May 2013 (UTC)


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Last night Jamie and I made our "All About Peaches" themed dinner, and for the appetizer we had bruschetta. Although maybe it could also be considered crostini--is there really a difference between the two? Personally, I don't care about the official term, since both are awesome. What could be better than good bread brushed with olive oil, toasted until it's warm and crisp, and topped with yummy ingredients?
For the bruschetta, I started with a fresh, aromatic loaf of rosemary olive oil bread from the grocery store bakery. The right bread is essential, since it's the foundation of the whole dish, and I prefer something with more depth and flavor than just white french bread. Slice the bread about 3/4 inch thick, place on a baking sheet and drizzle lightly with olive oil. Toast under the broiler until golden brown and crisp.
Meanwhile, prepare the topping. I topped mine with diced peaches, goat cheese crumbles, a little honey and lemon, freshly chopped mint, and a sprinkling of coarse salt. If you combine the topping ingredients together like I did, then be sure to eat the bruschetta right away, since the goat cheese will start to absorb the juices from the peaches and get soggy if you leave it to sit for too long. Or instead of mixing everything together, just arrange slices of peaches on top of each slice of bread, then top the peaches with the remaining ingredients for a pretty presentation.
Printable Recipe
Peach, Goat Cheese and Mint Bruschetta
- 1 loaf good bakery bread
- olive oil
- 2 peaches
- 1/2 cup goat cheese crumbles
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
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- Charlotte Dawson found dead
- Darkness behind life in the spotlight
- Twitter criticised for failing to act against trolls
As news of Charlotte Dawson's death swept across social media like wildfire on Saturday, friends and strangers alike reacted to the news with shock.
While it took just minutes for condolences to flood Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, those who worked with the presenter and former model spoke of a ''rock solid'' but ''troubled'' character.
Presenter Ben Fordham, who met Dawson on a weekly basis, last saw her on Friday.
"It's just awful for the people who knew and loved her closely but also for those who knew and loved her form afar - they might never have met her but would have related to her because she was so raw and so real," he said.
"She was outgoing, outrageous, outspoken, more than anything she was an outstanding human being. She lived in a bit of a dream world, I suppose, as far as fashion, TV, modelling, champagne and parties, but above all these, she was a rock solid character who was loyal to everyone around her."
"A lot of people would be used to seeding Charlotte on TV and in fashion fields, but behind the scenes she was a rock for her friends."
Many of them took to Instagram, to which Dawson regularly uploaded photographs. There, fashion designer Alex Perry, a close friend of Dawson's, wrote: "We lost a Beautiful, Bright, Shining girl today rest in peace my sweetheart ... I love you x."
Model Jen Hawkins added her condolence: ''RIP beautiful Charlotte. You will always be loved and missed. Love Jen. X"
Australia's Next Top Model's Didier Cohen wrote: "I wish you knew how much you were loved... I love and miss you forever ... I can't believe this... RIP."
Roxy Jacenko wrote on her Sweaty Betty PR page: "RIP Charlotte - such a sad day - you were one in a million and will be missed dearly. Thank you For all you did for me xxxxxxx"
Model Megan Gale added: "Words just seem insufficient right now and can't come close to expressing just how much you will be missed Charlotte ... You were a Fantastic woman, Friend and work colleague who always knew how to make people laugh and you gave the best advice. You've left us far too soon, but I pray now that you've found peace and are at rest - love Megan xxxx".
Brian Walsh, Foxtel's Executive Director of Television, knew Dawson for 15 years and worked with her on the network's Australia's Next Top Model series.
''I'm deeply shocked and I think every at one at Foxtel who knows and loves Charlotte is in shock at the news - it is just profoundly sad. She was the consummate professional when she came to work and she made an invaluable contribution to Australia's Next Top Model.
''She was someone young girls looked up to, [they saw] her honesty, openness and vulnerability, which she wore in public and I can't help feeling that social media has played a role in this tragic outcome.''
He said he last saw her socially before Christmas, when the pair talked about Dawson's plans for the year ahead.
''She was looking to do something different with her life and her career this year and we had a very honest chat as we always would. She felt she was ready for some new challenges in her life.''
Editor of New Idea magazine Kim Wilson said the news was ''so, so sad''.
''It's a particular shock for us because when we last did a shoot with her eight weeks ago, she seemed particularly positive, bubbly, healthy and even more beautiful.
Deb Thomas, a general manager at Bauer and former magazine editor, first met Dawson in the early 90s.
''I'm shocked, I'm absolutely shocked. We were on Mornings together about a week ago,'' she said.
''She's always been troubled, I have to say she had some terrible things happen to her as a young girl.
She said she had spoken with Dawson at the Mornings studio. ''We were talking about the success of her book, she was giving me some advice about some medical treatment I'd had.''
Helen McCabe, editor of Australian Women's Weekly, remembered an unfailingly honest woman. ''I feel sick at the news,'' she said. ''The thing about Charlotte that I've always said is that she was extremely honest and open, so you could never not like her. She was always happy and I was always troubled by her problems, they were very raw and out there.
''I don't think any of us thought it would get to this. People probably didn't understand the depths of her pain. In a world of celebrity where people are very conscious of their brand and doing the right things, she was a breath of fresh air in many ways.''
As reflections on Dawson's life continued to pour onto social media, Helen Razer, journalist and close friend of Dawson, wrote a blog that stingingly warned against over-simplifying her friend's complexities.
''I will tell you that she was bright and curious and a great autodidact who, somehow, managed, despite working in an industry where intelligence is a liability, to see that the world was complex'', she wrote at Bad Hostess.
''And her death was complex. And it doesn't belong to you. So get your hands off her.''
For help call Lifeline on 131 114 or visit beyondblue.org.au
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Jewish World Review Feb. 18, 2013/ 8 Adar, 5773
Obama is wrong to make young people think college is mainly about making a living
By David Shribman
JewishWorldReview.com | How did Barack Obama become, by Oscar Wilde's definition, a cynic?
Last week President Obama boasted in his State of the Union address that his administration was preparing tools so parents and students can "compare schools based on a simple criteria: where you can get the most bang for your educational buck." Part of a national movement to quantify the return on investment students get from college, Mr. Obama's "scorecard" will include information about the jobs and salaries of individual colleges' alumni.
Mr. Obama never had a moment of vocational education until he went to Harvard Law as his trade school at the age of 27. But he apparently didn't encounter Wilde's definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
For there could be no greater act of cynicism than to attach a monetary value to a college education. And by encouraging the notion that higher education is primarily about an economic payoff, the president is undermining a peculiarly American invention, the liberal arts degree.
In his heart, Mr. Obama, who read Nietzsche, Weber, Sartre and Tocqueville at Occidental College and Homer, Cicero and Virgil once he transferred to Columbia, must know that is true.
Every member of his Cabinet holds a liberal-arts degree except Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, who graduated from West Point -- but then went and got a master's degree in English from Duke, which is not what you expect from a future chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Mr. Obama's vice president double-majored in history and political science. Indeed, not one person close to the president went to college with the plausible notion of monetizing his degree.
Certainly not Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano, valedictorian of her class at Santa Clara University, who got a degree in political science. Nor Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who holds a degree in sociology from Harvard. Nor Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who majored in history at Columbia. Nor Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who graduated from Yale in political science.
Six years ago, Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson delivered the commencement address at Dartmouth College, which once rejected my petition to create my own American Civilization major because the faculty committee knew I was drawn to journalism and thought my proposal too career-oriented. In his address Mr. Paulson, a onetime English major who went on to run the investment firm Goldman Sachs, said:
"And to you parents out there who wonder about your sons and daughters graduating today with English majors -- I like to hire English majors. ... Seriously, as an employer, I have long believed in a liberal arts education from a U.S. college or university. I believe that Shakespeare, Socrates and the Peloponnesian wars are great preparation for successful careers."
How much bang in today's marketplace do you suppose you get from the Peloponnesian War?
Mr. Obama -- no Dwight Eisenhower, whose Cabinet once was described as nine millionaires and a plumber -- is offering his college initiative at a time of great peril to the liberal arts.
In 1990, David W. Breneman, who had just completed six years as president of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, identified 212 institutions as liberal arts colleges. Two decades later, the number had dropped to 130.
An evaluation of the state of liberal education prepared late last year by three respected specialists -- no romantics, as one of them is an Ernst & Young accountant -- warned that "American higher education will be diminished if the number of liberal arts colleges continues to decline."
Where the president has gone wrong -- along with those college trustees contributing to the 39 percent decline in the number of liberal arts institutions -- is in assuming that Americans need to be trained for a living rather than educated for life. This is more than a semantic distinction. It is the difference between reading Shakespeare in college and mastering accounting.
Seventy-one years ago tomorrow, my uncle, who later died in a PT boat in combat off Guadalcanal, wrote a letter to my father, then a high school senior. He wasn't much for preaching, but in this letter he wrote from the heart:
"If you went to a trade school you'd have one thing you could do & know -- & you'd miss the whole world of beauty," Philip Alvan Shribman wrote from the U.S. Navy transport ship Crescent City somewhere in the Pacific. "In a liberal school you know 'nothing' -- & are 'fitted for nothing' when you get out. Yet, you'll have a fortune of a broad outlook -- of appreciation for people and beauty that money won't buy. You can always learn to be a mechanic or pill mixer etc., but it's only when you're of college age that you can learn that life has beauty & fineness. Afterwards, it's all struggle, war: economic if not actual. Don't give up the idea & ideals of a liberal school. They're too precious, too rare, too important."
In this letter, cherished by three generations of my family, my uncle argues that the liberal arts were what the Allies were fighting for in World War II.
I think he was right, and I think it is a tragedy that this American treasure is under assault from a president who himself was the beneficiary of those values and that outlook -- and from the audacity of hope that led him as a young man to believe that the way to make a difference in his life and in others' was to study Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle, thinkers almost impossible to monetize in today's market.
College debts and rising tuitions are true crises. But if you wonder whether college is worth it -- if you doubt lazy mornings reading Milton and difficult afternoons in the chemistry lab have any value -- don't look at the government's jobs and salary figures. In Virginia, where those figures already are available, the College of William and Mary, which provides one of the most prized diplomas in America, ranks seventh in the state in salaries for recent graduates. I bet those liberal arts alumni of Thomas Jefferson's university do very well in the long run.
Instead, take a look, if you must, at the return-on-investment rankings for alumni 30 years out. Eight of the top 10 colleges specialize in the liberal arts. It turns out that you can get a pretty good bang out of mastering the Peloponnesian War after all. It is, in fact, priceless.
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David Shribman, a Pulitzer Prize winner in journalism, is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
David Shribman, a Pulitzer Prize winner in journalism, is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Indictments detail alleged Kennebunk prostitution case
New information is released into case where Zumba instructor is accused of prostitution
There are new details coming out about the alleged prostitution ring being run out of a Kennebunk Zumba studio.
News 8 was the first to report that a York County grand jury indicted both 57-year-old Mark Strong of Thomaston and 29-year-old Alexis Wright of Wells on Wednesday.
Strong is facing 59 counts that include promotion of prostitution and violation of privacy.
Wright is facing 106 counts that include engaging in prostitution, violation of privacy and tax evasion.
The grand jury indictment explains the link between the Zumba instructor and the insurance agent from Thomaston.
One of the charges against Wright accused her of "agreeing with Mark W. Strong Sr. to engage in or cause the performance of the conduct by planning and arranging for a prostitution business that she would own, control, manage, supervise or otherwise operate in association with Mark W. Strong Sr. where she would meet persons and received a pecuniary benefit for engaging in sex acts with them."
Another charge said Wright and Strong agreed "to set up a recording camera and/or an Internet connection in a surreptitious manner in a private place to record individuals without their knowledge."
Until now, Strong had been the only one charged with a crime.
He has pleaded not guilty to one count of promoting prostitution.
Wright's attorney had no comment for News 8 on Thursday morning.
Kennebunk Police Lt. Anthony Bean Burpee said investigators have been meeting with the alleged johns in this case.
He said some have been cooperative with law enforcement and some haven't been cooperative.
He said investigators will likely begin to issue summonses next week.
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Michael Warren Lucas is a writer, computer engineer, and martial artist from Detroit, Michigan. You can find his Web site at www.michaelwarrenlucas.com and his fiction (including more stories about life in the universes beyond the Montague Portals) at all online bookstores.
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Flash Builder "Burrito" and Flex SDK "Hero" now available on Adobe.com
Flash Builder "Burrito" and Flex SDK "Hero" are now shipping as part of the Flex 4.5 release. All Burrito & Hero content has been retired from Labs.
Flash Builder "Burrito" and Flex SDK "Hero" are now shipping as part of the Flex 4.5 release. All Burrito & Hero content has been retired from Labs.
Flash Catalyst "Panini" has been released to Adobe.com as Flash Catalyst CS5.5. All "Panini" content on Labs has been retired.
New challenges have emerged for application developers with the rapid evolution of mobile computing platforms. The Adobe® Flash® Platform already enables developers to deliver consistent application experiences across multiple browsers and operating systems.
With the introduction of Adobe Flex® SDK "Hero" and Adobe Flash Builder™ "Burrito," along with the availability of the Adobe AIR® runtime on mobile devices, developers can now build mobile Flex applications for touchscreen smartphones and tablets with the same ease and quality as on desktop platforms.
With Flash Catalyst "Panini," designers can leverage their skills with Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Fireworks® to rapidly prototype user interfaces for Flex-based websites and applications, and collaborate intelligently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ software. In addition, static artwork can be transformed into interactive projects for the web or for websites and applications, all without writing code.
Flash Catalyst "Panini" includes many new features and enhancements, and offers new integration with the preview release of Flash Builder "Burrito."
The Adobe® Flash® Builder™ preview release codenamed "Burrito" introduces new features and enhancements to Flash Builder and provides support for the preview release of the Adobe Flex® SDK codenamed "Hero."
For a detailed overview of the new features, product enhancements and workflows introduced in Flash Builder "Burrito," please read Product Manager Andrew Shorten's What's New in Flash Builder "Burrito" article.
Adobe® Flex® SDK preview release codenamed "Hero" introduces new support for mobile Flex application development, expands and refines Spark components, and includes some great improvements for large application development. The easiest way to explore the new features included in Hero is to use the Adobe Flash® Builder™ "Burrito" preview release.


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Red's Weekly Top 5: NCAA Hoops Tournament Memories
Selection Sunday is upon us which means March Madness is about to happen. I've seen hundreds of tourney games over the years and there have been thousands of memories. But, as hard as it was, I've narrowed it down to 5. These are my Top 5 Favorite or at least most memorable, NCAA Tourney moments. Not that these are the 'best' moments of the Tournament, but just my most memorable.
1) Alonzo's block — First, I'm a lifelong Hoya fan and I didn't want this to be a list of 5 Georgetown memories, so Zo's block actually represents my most memorable G'town tourney moment as well – It was 1989 and the Mighty Hoyas were the #1 overall seed in the Tournament. First up was 20-point underdog and 16th seeded Princeton from the Ivy League. Of course no 1 seed has ever lost to a 16 seed in tourney history, ever. Coach Pete Carrill lured Freshman stud Alonzo Mourning away from the basket with his sharp-shooting big men while the Princeton guards would backdoor the over-aggressive Hoya D. Lay-up after lay-up after lay-up for the Tigers, each one seemingly with less than 5 seconds on the shot clock. However, Georgetown had little trouble scoring either, as Mourning was just too big in the middle. But the game came down to the final possession, and it belonged to the Tigers. Down 50-49, Princeton ran a play to again bring Big Zo out of the paint…but this time their big guy took the shot, and Mourning leaped to try to just get a piece. And that's just what he got – a piece, but enough of a piece to cause the shot to fall short and Georgetown to hold on to victory. Whew!
2) Keith Smart's jumper – It's 1987 — Steve Alford and the Indiana Hoosiers are in a titanic battle with freshman beast Derrick Coleman and the then Syracuse Orangemen. I think DC had something like 20+ rebounds in that game….crazy. Anyway, this game too came down to the last possession, and the Hoosiers had the ball. Up a point, the 'Cuse decided that All America guard Alford is NOT going to beat them….little did they know Keith Smart would. After he hit that corner jumper, I can remember going outside and shooting that shot over and over and over. 3….2….1….from the corner…..gooooooood! You too, right?
3) Bo honoring Hank – In 1990, the college basketball world lost a fantastic player, one Hank Gathers. He played alongside Bo Kimble in High School and both stints in college, at USC and Loyola-Marymount (Gathers and Kimble transferred from USC to LMU after the '85-'86 season after their coach was fired). During the 1990 West Coast Conference Tourney, Gathers collapsed and died on the court due to a known heart condition. The conference tournament was of course suspended and, due to their regular season title, LMU was given the automatic NCAA tourney bid. The 11th seeded Lions made an unbelievable run, all the way to the Elite 8. But what I most remember is that Bo, although right-handed, would shoot his first free throw of each tourney game lefty, honoring his longtime southpaw pal. Bo went 3 for 3 left handed during the Tournament. Great stuff.
4) Rice's takeover – 1989 – The University of Michigan is entering the Tournament with a coach who hadn't won a game all season. The coach who was at the helm for every win that season was Bill Frieder. But after the regular season, Frider had accepted a new job with Arizona State, and although he intended to coach the Wolverines throughout the Tournament, AD Bo Schembechler was having none of it. He told Frieder to split and gave the job (and the Tournament) to Steve Fisher. There's no way this team can advance very far with a new coach, right? It's just everyone forgot to tell Glen Rice. Dude went nuts. I can remember him coming off those double-screens and popping out at the top of the key….swish! Perfect form, perfect release…it was beautiful. It seemed like he never missed. Throughout the Tournament, he scored a record 184 points, just a shade over 30 per. That record still stands today. I wanted to have just won day where I was in the zone Rice was for that Tournament. Simply amazing. By the way, the Wolverines did go on to win the whole thing – Rumeal Robinson sinking the clinching free throws against Andrew Gaze and Seton Hall.
5) Hill to Laettner – 1992 East Regional Final – a trip to the Final Four on the line. All America beast Christian Laettner was already perfect on the night, having gone 9 for 9 from the field and 10 of 10 at the line. But there were only 2.1 seconds left, and Duke trailed Kentucky 103-102. Its Duke ball out-of-bounds baseline after a made UK basket. Grant Hill inbounds the ball with a Hail Mary-like bomb to Laettner at the far free throw line. Guarded by two Kentucky players (who inexplicably just stand there), Laettner catches the bomb, dribbles, spins, and fires a 17 footer that hits nothing but the bottom. Time expires and Duke advances to the Final Four (and eventually the National Championship). Amazing pass, amazing shot, amazing game by Laettner. He literally couldn't miss all night.
Ok, I know I left out TONS of great stuff. Honorable mention to Scotty Thurman's jumper vs Duke, Chris Webber's timeout that wasn't, NC State, and the multitude of Georgetown memories….Jordan in '82, Ewing in '84, and Nova in '85.
Let's start bustin' some brackets!
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Kerala Long Honeymoon Tour Package
By Holidayy Udaan
Kerala Long Honeymoon Tour Package Itinerary:
Starting Per Couple
₹ 49700
Day 01 : Cochin
Arrive Cochin Airport (COK) / Ernakulam Railway Station (ERS/ERN) where our representative will be waiting with a PLACARD of your name. Meet & Greet & proceed to hotel for check-in (1400 Hrs). Later move out for a local tour in the afternoon covering Folklore Museum, Jew Town, Jewish Synagogue, Dutch Palace, St. Francis Church, Santa Cruz Basilica, Fort Kochi Beach, Chinese Fishing Nets, Marine Drive, Lulu Mall, Cochin Shopping. Overnight At Cochin.
Day 02 : Cochin - Munnar (140 Kms - Approx 4 Hrs Drive)
After an early morning breakfast, check out from the hotel & embark on a fascinating journey to Munnar covered with unending expanse of tea plantation. Take a Photo Stop at Cheeyappara & Valara Waterfalls. The panoramic view of the Cardamom hills & green carpets of tea plantation is an unforgettable experience. Overnight Stay At Munnar.
Day 03 : Munnar
Morning after breakfast at hotel, proceed for an exciting local tour of Munnar. Visit Eravikulam National Park where you can see the very rare mountain goats locally called the nilgiri tahr, pothamedu (view of tea, coffee & cardamom plantation & breath taking hills & lush mountains) the echo point, thoovanam falls, top station dairy farm, mattupety lake & dam, Kundala Lake, Kundala Dam, Munnar Boating, Munnar Tea gardens, Munnar Tea museum & Tea factory, Blossom Park, Munnar Elephant Ride, Rose Garden, Hydel Park, Photo Shooting Points, Tea Powder Shopping. Overnight stay at Munnar.
Day 04 : Munnar - Thekkady (110 Kms - Approx 3 Hrs)
Morning after breakfast at hotel check out and drive to Thekkady. Thekkady is a world famous wildlife sanctuary and it is also called as Periyar. On arrival, check in at the resort. Afternoon proceed to visit the spice plantations like cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, coffee, tea estates, proceed for a game viewing cruise on the Periyar Lake. Here you will be able to see a large variety of wildlife, which include elephants, monkeys, deer, wild boar etc. Evening you can take an Elephant ride (Optional) at Periyar wildlife to watch wild animals. On your way back to the hotel, stop at the local market and pick up some fragrant spices & in the evening enjoy the Kathakali Show (Optional), Kalaripayattu Show (Optional). Overnight stay at Thekkady.
Day 05 : Thekkady - Kumarakom (135 Kms - Approx 3 Hrs)
Morning have breakfast at resort later check out resort and drive to Kumarakom, a place best known for the honeymooners. It is a cluster of little islands on the Vembanad Lake. The lush green vegetation and the climate attract a number of tourists to this place. On reaching Kumarakom, check in the backwater resort and later on move out for the local tour. Visit the Kumarakom bird sanctuary and the Backwaters. Overnight stay at Kumarakom.
Day 06 : Kumarakom - Alleppey (Houseboat Stay)
Morning after breakfast transfer to Deluxe Houseboat to enjoy the backwater stay with cruise from Alleppey to Alleppey. This journey is considered to be one of the best attractions. The houseboat is fully furnished with single and double bedrooms, sundeck, private balcony and a kitchen. It also comprises a chef, oarsmen & cabin assistant. The materials that go into the making are all local and eco-friendly bamboo poles, coconut fiber ropes, bamboo mats, coir carpets etc. Overnight stay at Alleppey Houseboat.
Day 07 : Alleppey - Kovalam (Approx 4 1/2 Hrs Drive)
Morning have breakfast at houseboat, check out at 9 AM and drive to Kovalam. Kovalam is one of the world's famous tourist destinations for Beach lovers. On arrival check-in to the hotel. The white sands of Kovalam beach are the best in Kerala. You are promised with a relaxed stay at the palm fringed beaches. Rest of the day is at leisure to relax on the beach shore. The area is rich with greenery of coconut palms. You can spend the day swimming and bathing at the beach. Indulge in sun bath, handicraft shopping, optional ayurveda etc. Overnight stay at the Kovalam.
Day 08 : Kovalam
Morning have breakfast and later move out for a local tour of Kovalam. Visit the Kovalam Beach, Poovar, Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Napier Museum & Wildlife Zoo. And overnight stay at Kovalam.
Day 09: Kovalam - Trivandrum (16 kms - 20 Mins Drive)
Morning have breakfast at resort, later transfer to airport/railway station to board your flight/train to onward destination from Trivandrum.
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
James, William
William James, 1842–1910, American philosopher, b. New York City, M.D. Harvard, 1869; son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James and brother of the novelist Henry James. In 1872 he joined the Harvard faculty as lecturer on anatomy and physiology, continuing to teach until 1907, after 1880 in the department of psychology and philosophy. In 1890 he published his brilliant and epoch-making Principles of Psychology, in which the seeds of his philosophy are already discernible. James's fascinating style and his broad culture and cosmopolitan outlook made him the most influential American thinker of his day.
His philosophy has three principal aspects—voluntarism, pragmatism, and "radical empiricism." He construes consciousness as essentially active, selective, interested, teleological. We "carve out" our world from "the jointless continuity of space." Will and interest are thus primary; knowledge is instrumental. The true is "only the expedient in our way of thinking." Ideas do not reproduce objects, but prepare for, or lead the way to, them. The function of an idea is to indicate "what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve—what sensations we are to expect from it and what reactions we must prepare." This theory of knowledge James called pragmatism, a term already used by Charles S. Peirce. James's "radical empiricism" is a philosophy of "pure experience," which rejects all transcendent principles and finds experience organized by means of "conjunctive relations" that are as much a matter of direct experience as things themselves. Moreover, James regards consciousness as only one type of conjunctive relation within experience, not as an entity above, or distinct from, its experience. James's other philosophical writings include The Will to Believe (1897), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Pragmatism (1907), A Pluralistic Universe (1909), The Meaning of Truth (1909), Some Problems in Philosophy (1911), and Essays in Radical Empiricism (1912).
See his letters (ed. by his son Henry James, 1920); the Harvard Univ. Press edition of The Works of William James (17 vol., 1975–88); biographies by E. C. Moore (1965), G. W. Allen (1967), L. Simon (1998), and R. Richardson (2006); R. B. Perry, The Thought and Character of William James (2 vol. 1935, abr. ed. 1948) and In the Spirit of William James (1938, repr. 1958); studies by B. P. Brennan (1968), J. Wild (1969), P. K. Dooley (1974), and H. S. Levinson (1981); J. Barzun, A Stroll with William James (1984). See also studies of the James family by F. O. Matthiessen (1947), R. W. B. Lewis (1991), and P. Fisher (2008).


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and stroke your cat menacingly. LET'S GO!
AMERICAN IDOL – 8:00PM (FOX) Your mentor tonight is Alicia Keys, who will teach the Idols everything about having an uncommonly smooth complexion and singing four-minute songs with no discernible hook. Tonight's song theme is "songs of inspiration." That means someone WILL sing "You're the Inspiration," by Chicago. NO ONE NEEEEEEEDS YOU MORE THAN I! Also expect a hearty dose of "Wind Beneath My Wings" and a perhaps a scat version of the "Chariots Of Fire" theme. I could see Kara bobbing her head to that. ANTICIPATION: KEYSPIRATIONAL!
LOST – 9:00PM (ABC) Tonight's episode is titled "The Last Recruit." WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Does it mean that Colin Farrell's character from "The Recruit" will appear on the island? Will someone die? Was the moon landing faked? How do we know it's a volcano ruining the European airline industry, and not some alien conspiracy? WHY DOES JELLO SHAKE? My guide says that tonight, "The camps merge, and new alliances are formed." OMG! This means Sawyer could win the immunity challenge! And Kate may have to strip for peanut butter! And then Jeff Probst will give some of the castaways serious 'tude! SOMEONE'S TORCH IS GONNA GET PUT OUT AND I AM SCARED. ANTICIPATION: THE ISLAND IS MARQUESAS!
GLEE – 8:59PM (FOX) It's the episode you've all been waiting for. Or, at least, those of you who like both "Glee" and "Madonna" have been waiting for. It's the all-Madonna episode! Featuring Madonna songs! Sung by people who can sing better than Madonna! If I stop and think about it, I strongly believe that "People who like Glee" and "People who like Madonna" are pretty much the same group of people. That Venn diagram would just be one circle. One fabulous circle that changes its identity every three years or so. ANTICIPATION: I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH YOU
YOUR KID ATE WHAT? – 8:00PM (TLC) Hey, relax. He just swallowed a pine cone and a sledgehammer. No need to get all frenzied over it. ANTICIPATION: KIDS SWALLOWING THINGS!
30 FOR 30: SILLY LITTLE GAME – 8:00PM (ESPN) ESPN's killer "30 for 30" documentary series continues with this history of rotisserie baseball. I love rotisserie baseball players. They're delicious. With side of beans and fried yuca? Can't be beat. ANTICIPATION: HUNGRY… FOR STATS!
Tuesday Watch List:Glee Sings Madonna, Plus "Lost"
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Tuesday, June 2
Jack Nicklaus Meets Andy Warhol
Jack at the Masters. (Pocketwiley/Flickr)
IT'S MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT WEEK, and that means a spotlight on the greatest golfer of all time, Jack Nicklaus, the Golden Bear. I'm not trying to pick a fight. Really, I'm not. I simply will consider Jack the greatest until Tiger Woods bypasses Jack's record mark of 18 professional majors.
I suspect that Tiger would tell you the same thing. There's a reason he had Jack's records taped to his bedroom wall while he was growing up in Cerritos, California.
In Jack's honor, PGATour.com has a photo gallery of some of the Golden Bear's treasures located in the World Golf Hall of Fame, including, of all things, a painting of Nicklaus by legendary artist Andy Warhol. The Warhol painting was donated to the Hall by renowned art collector Richard Weisman, who told PGATour.com that at one point during the sitting Warhol asked Jack to move his "stick."
"Jack glared and said, 'Excuse me, this is not a stick, this is a club,'" Weisman told PGATour.com. "Then he looked at me and said, 'Does this guy know what he is doing?'"
Besides the Warhol portrait, items include Jack's first Green Jacket and the Memorial Medallion Jack was awarded at his own tournament in 2000.
Nicklaus Treasures Photo Gallery
−The Armchair Golfer
5 comments:
- Unknown said...
No bigger Tiger fan than me, but Jack Nicklaus is still the greatest golfer of all time. And, you are right, Neil, Tiger doesn't want to be in that conversation until he hits 19...
- Charles Boyer said...
"Greatest golfer of all time" is an extremely subjective subject if you think of it. Why not Bobby Jones?
True, "only" 13 majors, but he did win a Grand Slam. No one has yet to replicate that minor feat. Plus, look at his winning percentage in majors vs. anyone else...it's still the highest.
At any rate, it is fodder for great discussion.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
Thanks, One-Eyed. I agree.
Great point, Charles. I agree that it's very subjective, which makes for fun discussion.
Maybe it would be more accurate to say Jack is greatest of the modern era. Jones was incredible, accomplishing so much and essentially retiring before he turned 30!
And if we want to reach back in time, there's always Harry Vardon, who won the British Open six times and the U.S. Open once. Back in his day, there wasn't a Masters or PGA Championship. So Vardon was about as dominant as a golfer could be in the early 20th century.
- Charles Boyer said...
Thanks, Armchair.
Along with Vardon -- who I view as the Tiger Woods of his day, replete with the adulation that went with the job, I would also not hesitate to mention the man who invented the idea of the touring pro in the first place: Walter Hagen.
52 wins and 11 Major wins is nothing to sneeze at, and remember that Hagen only played in the 1936 Masters, well past his prime and before it was a major. As a professional, The Hage was ineligible for one of his time's annual big championships, the US Amateur. Let's suppose he was and that he won 5-7 of them, which is very likely given the rest of his results. That puts him right there with Tiger and Jack, where he belongs in my book.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
The Haig! Absolutely. Great, great player. And every PGA Tour pro owes him. He blazed the trail.


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Lam Wai Ming's Functional Aesthetic Airport Control Centre
Lam Wai Ming Exhibits The Functional Aesthetic Airport Control Centre
Lam Wai Ming, the thinktank behind the award winning work airport control centre by Lam Wai Ming explicates, This is the Control Centre of Hong Kong International Airport. The challenge is to efficiently accommodate densely equipped technical spaces, to cut down logistic interference from unexpected events, and to ultimately streamline the control centre's operation. The space consists of 3 functional areas: Daily Management & Operations zone, Operation Manager's Office and Emergency Management zone. The feature ceiling and the extruded aluminium wall panels are the distinct architectural features that also satisfy the acoustic, lighting and air-conditioning demands of the space..
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After spotting a bird toy at Walmart earlier today that is supposedly toxic and unsafe for parrots, I've been considering making my own bird toys. Recently I stopped by PetSmart and bought a lot of toys for my Budgies, but after seeing the same dangerous toy I mentioned above there as well, I think I'm going to toss my recently bought toys out as well. Anyways, I found a website that has a variety of bird toy parts available, and they all look safe to me, but I'm no bird toy expert, so I was just wondering if anyone has had any bad experiences with the parts sold here: http: http://makeyourownbirdtoys.com/
Or does it look unsafe?


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Sunday, August 18, 2013
A defenseless feeling creeps over me when I get too far away from my camera gear for too long.
It's not as if I'm in a constant state of looking for something to photograph, but I get antsy when I want to shoot images and I don't have my usual assortment of lenses and equipment.
Vacations can be particularly trying times to temporarily part ways with the majority of one's gear. But occasionally imposing limitations to how you approach your craft such as using only one lens can help direct or even force creative results.
This summer, while loading up the car for a week in Estes Park, Colo., I initially set out with the intention of cramming my entire roller bag of gear into our Honda Fit. I even packed a tripod with high hopes of doing some long-exposure photography at night.
Before we set off, I decided I wanted sleep much more than starry, nighttime landscape photos so I ditched the tripod. Also, having second thoughts, I opted for a smaller and much more compact setup to fit some of my daughter's toys in the car and not just my own.
Ultimately, I decided to limit myself to one camera body, a wide-angle to mid-range zoom lens and my iPhone. My Canon 35mm digital would be used for the times when I really wanted to shoot pictures while having full control over the exposure and the iPhone would work great for everything else.
Mostly I kept the heavy stuff locked away at the cabin. Only on three occasions did I actually reach for my professional gear when I knew the richness of the experience and the light would be too nice to pass up.
One of those occasions was when my daughter and I went walking through the Moraine Park meadow with the wisps of tall grass swaying around her. This is not to say that one can't shoot such images with an iPhone; however, it lacks the quick control of exposure, focus and depth of field that you often need to succeed in capturing fleeting moments.
The iPhone did come with its own set of rewards. Hiking through the mountains with a sleepy, 25-pound child on your back can quickly wear you down. Dropping that extra camera weight and using the iPhone was necessary for the longer hikes. With the iPhone, I ended up shooting primarily with the Hipstamatic app for the contrasting images that it produces and also for the non-traditional square format. I created little vignette-style images from the trip with the intent of stacking them together in one file.
With this approach, I could allow the detailed images to play a part with the wider environmental shots to give a broader presentation of our experience. This way, the scores of people lining up to see my family's vacation photos could get it all in one fell swoop.
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Pittsburg State University honored four alumni with its 2013 Kenneth K. Bateman Outstanding Alumni Awards during Homecoming activities last fall. The recipients were selected based on their professional achievements, as well as their community and organizational involvement.
This year's recipients are: Gaberiel S. Bever, a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and a member of the anatomy faculty at the New York Institute of Technology; Dottie R. Bringle, former chief operating officer and chief nursing officer at St. John's Hospital in Joplin; David M. Harrison, a Jerry S. Rawls professor of finance at Texas Tech University; and Angela Moriconi, a freelance photojournalist with KCBS/KCAL-TV and KNBC-TV in Los Angeles.
Gaberiel S. Bever
Gaberiel Bever grew up in rural Farlington, Kan., and attended Girard High School before graduating from PSU in 1996 with a degree in biology. He earned his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and was subsequently awarded an interdepartmental research fellowship at Yale University. He is currently a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and a member of the anatomy faculty at the New York Institute of Technology. He recently was elected an honorary research scientist at the Evolutionary Studies Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bever's publications on major evolutionary transitions have been covered by more than 200 media outlets including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and the BBC. He is an active field researcher and has collected fossils in some of the most remote parts of the world, including western China, the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and across southern Africa.
Bever and his wife, Amy Michelle Balanoff, who is a resident research associate in paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, live in New York.
Dottie R. Bringle
Dottie R. Bringle earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from PSU in 1990. At the time she earned her degree, she was employed as a staff nurse in the Emergency Department of St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin. Bringle went on to earn a master's degree in health science administration at Southwest Baptist University in 1993.
Bringle worked for St. John's for 25 years, where she took on increasing responsibilities. She served as the first trauma coordinator and was instrumental in development of the trauma program. She also was director of Emergency/Trauma/Flight services and later ICU and Surgical Services before being named chief nursing officer in 2004, becoming responsible for all nursing functions in the hospital. In 2010, she was named Chief Operating Officer, which added all other clinical departments to her responsibilities.
Bringle was serving in that position when a devastating tornado struck the hospital in 2011. She played a major role in the hospital's reaction to the disaster and its recovery.
Bringle left Mercy in August 2012 to return to PSU where she will complete a degree as an advanced nurse practitioner in May 2014.
Bringle lives in Diamond, Mo., where she is engaged to be married to Brian Murphy, M.D. She has three children: Shawn Dodson, Brieanna Blackledge and Michelle Hucke. Her parents, John and Derotha Hetherington, live in Cameron, Okla.
David M. Harrison
David M. Harrison grew up just blocks from the PSU campus and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Pittsburg State in 1992. At PSU, he earned a Presidential Scholarship and was a member of the Honors College.
Harrison went on to earn an MBA from Wichita State University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Florida in 1998.
Harrison began his teaching career as an assistant professor at the University of Vermont in 1998. In 2007, he moved to Texas Tech University, where today he serves as Jerry S. Rawls professor of finance in the College of Business.
Harrison's areas of specialty are real estate investment trusts, mortgage markets, real estate finance and housing policy issues. He has written scores of articles for journals in his field and is the editor of the Journal of Real Estate Literature. He is also the recipient of numerous awards for both teaching and research.
Harrison and his wife, Amy (Rosenbaum), have three children: Aaron, Katarina and Kamdon. They live in Lubbock, Texas, where Harrison has served as a volunteer youth football and baseball coach and has served on the board of Western Little League Baseball.
Angela Moriconi
Angela Moriconi grew up in Frontenac and graduated from Pittsburg High School in 1993. At Pittsburg State, she majored in communication and took classes in broadcasting where she worked at CAPS-13, PSU's student-run television channel.
Moriconi began her career as a photojournalist with KOAM-TV in Pittsburg in 1995.
She joined KBAK-TV in Bakersfield, Calif., in 1997. Moriconi worked at stations in Las Vegas and San Francisco before moving to WFOR-TV in Miami, Fla., in 2004. Since 2007, she has been a freelance photojournalist for KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. In 2012, she also began freelance work for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles.
In her career, Moriconi has covered a wide range of national, dramatic news stories ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the mass shootings in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater. She has covered the Oscars and the Emmy Awards as well as major sporting events like the Pro-Bowl and Superbowl.
She has won more than a score of professional awards, including an NPPA best of photojournalism national award in 2004 and Suncoast Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2006 and a Pacific Southwest Emmy Award in 2004.
Moriconi lives in Los Angeles, Calif. Her parents, Charles and Sharon Moriconi, live in Frontenac.


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Levene, Dublin "I'm driving my three children to school every morning, knowing I'm making a difference to their future. And I only have to fill the car every 5 or 6 weeks. Hybrid is definitely the way to go."
Ross, Tipperary "To switch from Diesel to Hybrid was an easy decision. The cost savings of the fuel, the insurance and the car tax – for someone with a young family, that makes a huge difference."
Jonathan, Waterford "People are surprised that you don't have to plug it in, and it's self-charging. I would have no hesitation recommending Toyota Hybrid to any friend."
17" machined-face alloy wheels (5-double-spoke)
Privacy glass,rear and rear side windows
Shark-fin antenna
Shark-fin antenna
Toyota Touch® 2 multimedia system with 7" screen
3-spoke leather steering wheel
Sliding central armrest
Heated driver & front passenger seats
Toyota Touch® 2 multimedia system with 7" screen
3-spoke leather steering wheel
Sliding central armrest
With Hybrid models, the innovative, electronically controlled Continuously Variable Transmission (e-CVT) manages the flow of power from the petrol engine and electric motors for smooth, effortless acceleration. It delivers the optimum blend for every driving condition, ensuring maximum fuel efficiency.
The 1.8 litre Hybrid Synergy Drive® is the world's most advanced full hybrid system. It combines a 1.8 litre VVT-i petrol engine with two electric motors to provide low fuel consumption, low CO2 emissions and a powerful, peaceful driving experience.
Pre-Collision System
Automatic High Beam
Front fog lamps
will make you more visible to other drivers during the day.
Road Sign Assist
Vehicle Stability Control (VSC)
Lane Departure Alert
Pre-Collision System
Automatic High Beam
Front fog lamps
will make you more visible to other drivers during the day.
Road Sign Assist
Vehicle Stability Control (VSC)
Lane Departure Alert
How it works Find out how the different components of the Hybrid Energy Drive system work in harmony.
Toyota Hybrid vehicle sales increase 140% in 2016 Toyota Ireland today announced significant growth in its hybrid car sales for 2016 compared to 2015.
Toyota Motor Europe Hybrid sales keep rising, up 16% year-on-year Toyota Motor Europe (TME) today announced third quarter sales of 211,100 Toyota and Lexus vehicles, bringing the January-September total sales to 662,000 units and the group's market share to 4.7% for the nine-month period.
Hybrid Shines at Frankfurt Motor Show As one of the most prestigious motor shows in the world, if you've got something new and exciting to reveal, Frankfurt is the place to do it – and in 2015 Toyota have plenty to make you stand up and take notice.
Toyota Prius takes a bold step forward At the forthcoming IAA motor show in Frankfurt (Press days September 15-16th, Public days September 19-27th), the new Toyota Prius makes its public premiere. The introduction of the all-new fourth generation Prius marks a further advance in the history and achievements of Toyota's hybrid power technology.
Disabled Drivers Association goes Hybrid with Toyota Toyota Hybrids combine ultra clean petrol technology with powerful electric motors to deliver a new type of driver experience.
Hybrid Health Check: Toyota Launches New Hybrid Service Programme Toyota Ireland has today launched a new Hybrid Service Programme for Toyota hybrid customers across Ireland. The Toyota Hybrid Service programme is designed to maintain hybrid vehicles to the highest standards and help them retain residual values, ensuring that customers enjoy the full benefits of owning a hybrid.
Toyota is world's leading automaker in patenting Toyota is world's leading automaker in patenting with 26% of the world's patents. The researched 18 biggest global carmakers registered more than 57,000 patents in 2014, up 7% versus last year. More than quarter of them (26%) are accounted for Toyota, making it the world's leading automaker in patenting.
Study shows Toyota and Lexus Hybrids can save you cash Exceptionally low cost of ownership has long been a cornerstone of Toyota Hybrid's benefits, which is especially interesting for business fleet customers. A new independent study conducted by Tec-RMI in Germany confirms this.
By reducing engine weight, fuel consumption & emissions, our green thinking benefits all our cars. But it's not just our vehicles that lead the way in green motoring, we're also committed to reducing the environmental impact of all our operations, bringing us closer to a true zero emissions vehicle.
At Toyota, quality is a way of life. That's why your Toyota has been rigorously tested to ensure it meets our highest quality standards.
We want our customers to be as confident in their Toyota as we are. Our comprehensive warranty means you can be.
Because we know your car better than anyone, we'll make sure your car is running the way it should be.
We take the hassle out of financing your car with affordable and flexible ways to get into the driving seat of your new Toyota.


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No Regrets
Annotate kevin cossom:
Yeah, I'm on the move, I can-can't look back (no way)
Screaming "no regrets, no regrets at all"
Wasting time, I can't get that back (can't get that back)
Uh, so everyday I go hard
Real nigga and all my niggas real niggas
Came from making real figures (too much money) nothing less
No regrets (let's get it)
No-no, no regrets, ahhh
Pusha T:
Say hi to the bad guy, say ahhh to the champagne
Got a call from my jail niggas, said I'm doing my damn thing
(Woo!) they see I'm doing my damn thing
Magazines, videos, they ain't missing a damn thing
Nowadays I sell hope, what you rather I sell dope?
What I sell is a lifestyle, naked bitches on sailboats
Foreign cars on a freight train for every nigga they railroad
Rent-a-cars we road run, money longer than train smoke
I done been in that same boat, I ain't letting this chain go
Representing my niggas down till they free 'em like django
It's the same old, just the same old
How the game go, where the pain go, where the blame go
My mind wanders on a pj, my momma brought up in the pjs
In the club sippin' p&j on the same arm as my piaget (woo!)
If I leave today, throw the keys away
But I'mma live today, I wanna see tomorrow, I wanna lead the way
Momma had me in the ghetto (ghetto), I was raised in the slums (slums)
Every hero got theme music, guess I need me some drums (yeah)
Bought me a 5 for 50, I bust 'em down, it was (woo)
Trying to be fresh as forces, I swear they white as new ones
Streets taught us, streets raised us, had it less determined
Dodging jackers, dodging murder, federal escaping (damn)
Uncle got power, now I see him in another 10
We was set up just to lose, lord know we trying to win
In the pursuit of this powerless masterpiece to the hour
You know it's platinum and waterproof, wear this bitch in the shower (ha-ha)
Yeah, we want finer things, plus a plug in the scale (scale)
Yeah, them plates shining like diamond rings at back can't you tell? (that's right)
In the hood I'm a king, king arthur to the people
Except he got his on a chariot, I got mine in a regal (yeah)
Sportcars, italian leather, princess cut, [?] baguettes
Law of physics say them 9s weigh more when they wet
No regrets
Pusha T:
Presidential I came back
April showers I rains back
Jumped ahead like june something
Still I'm wheeling that maybach
Tom ford with my braids back
Tom ford and my shades black
Dope boy with a cape on
Super-sizing that beige back
All white like gotti said
Ye told me I'm outta here
Mentioned ye two years ago
Yeah, I got that by the square
(Woo!) and you could buy a pair
20 Or more and we'll fly 'em there
How you acting like I'm ain't here?
D-boy and I pioneer
Autor(es): ,Young Jeezy & Hudson Mohawke


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This week we've mentioned the sex, and the alcohol. That leaves the rock 'n' roll. Wine, women and song. All bad stuff.
There's so much music in novels these days. Perhaps there always was, and I've been deaf and blind. Adrian McKinty (yes, him again) puts lots of music in his books. Sergeant Duffy listens to a wide repertoire. He's a bit of a show-off, that Duffy.
In Adrian's YA novel The Lighthouse Keepers, which I've read but not yet reviewed, the young main character raves about music. Not so sure he's not too precocious in his musical taste, but never mind.
Might be an Irish thing? When I first ran into John Connolly – outside the Ladies, before an event, and before he knew who I was – he pressed a CD into my hands. I gather he listens to a selection of music each time he writes a book, and those tracks end up belonging to that particular novel.
I added John's favourites to my iTunes, and every time a track I can't identify pops up on shuffle, I can be certain it's one of his. I only added the CD because it contained a Lee Hazlewood track. I used to be a great fan.
A Jodi Picoult novel from a couple of years ago also included a CD. I passed the book and CD on to someone else, while making sure I put the tracks into iTunes first. I like them a lot.
It can be inspiring having an author's choice of music for when you read. But what if you don't like the music that helped them write? If every time the characters play their favourite tracks, you just can't stand the music? Would you rather do without it?
Rather like when you find out which actor inspired someone's character. If it's the 'wrong' actor, you'll have to quickly re-imagine them as someone you'd prefer. (Nobody tell me their heroine was inspired by that Keira woman! I'd have to burn your book.)
Music is an age thing, too. Adrian – again – is the wrong age for me. He doesn't pick the music I listen to, nor the stuff forced on me – I mean, made available to me – by Offspring. I have a whole decade, that's been almost completely blacked out. (When Son did a GCSE project on a decade in pop music, he was given the 1980s. Naturally. And we could offer no help.)
It's not only the music behind a book, or the albums enjoyed by a fictional character. The whole book can be based on music. Obviously. Recently Son translated extracts from a couple of music based novels written by a Norwegian author. That was 20,000 words featuring an opera and all the backstage stuff. Luckily it was a made-up opera, so it ended up being less of a fact checking nightmare.
And we get YA books about pop groups, and wannabes. With the current talent programme epidemic on television we will probably end up with many more of them. It beats vampires, though.
Although having said that, I seem to recall that one of Anne Rooney's vampires played in a band.
And Elvis lives.


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Study: College Tuition Prices on the Rise
Prices for in-state tuition at public, four-year universities rose nearly 5 percent in the past year--all while higher education researchers and officials say there could be a decline in student financial aid.
A new report released this week from the education advocacy group the College Board shows tuition rates and fees at public colleges nationwide are $8,655, an increase of 4.8 percent over the previous year. But many students receiving state or federal financial aid to attend a higher education institution do not pay that amount.
"You look on average at how much tuition are full-time public college students really paying it's about $2,900, it's not $8,700," said College Board policy analyst and study co-author, Sandy Baum.
According to the College Board, this net price has been rising each year since 2009-2010. But Baum and other higher education officials said the availability of state and federal aid could be dwindling.
College Board data shows federal grant aid given to some 9.4 million undergraduates in 2011-2012 declined by $3 billion in the past year.
Meanwhile, Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) officials said state funding to higher education facilities has decreased 6.1 percent in the past year. Baum said she is seeing other states cut higher education funding while the nation's economy "is improving not quickly, and not so dramatically."
"We're spending less of our resources on higher education as well as just having lower levels of resources," she said.
Meanwhile, IBHE officials said they have been seeing an increase in state tuitions in the past five to ten years.
Timothy Opgenorth, Director of Financial Aid at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), said he is seeing more parents unable to support their children's higher education. UIC's in-state tuition costs currently stands at $4,604, an increase of almost $200 over the previous year, according to data posted on the school's Website.
"Now we're seeing more parents saying you know we just can't help you, we need to take care of things at home. Therefore, then, students are having to borrow more to make up for that difference," Opgenorth said.
However, Opgenorth said he understands why states are having difficulty securing funding for higher education.
"There have just been cutbacks at the federal and state levels, just because of the current situation with the deficit," Opgenorth said. "Higher education has not been exempt from that. Would I like to see them exempt? Yes, but I also understand that they have a certain amount of funds that they have to disperse accordingly and I trust they make those decisions based upon everything that they know," he said.
Baum, from the College Board, also said the tuition increase is not as large as previous years.
"The rise in college prices is improving, not so dramatically and not enough to eliminate the problem. But they are improving and they never stay very high for a long time," she said.
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Watering the Tulips
November 7, 2012
"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land"– 2 Chronicles 7:14
By the time this is published, the election should be determined barring some "hanging chad" catastrophe. About half of the country believes they have elected a man that will positively affect the future of our country. The other half believes that we are headed for sudden and swift destruction. Many Christians have aligned themselves with one of the major political parties in our country and believe it alone is the answer to all of our issues, as a nation. How are believers really to view our present situation?
God's relationship with Israel in the Old Testament gives us much to consider when we look at the failure of a nation. For what it's worth, you will search long and hard to see where the Lord corrected them for their tax brackets or education system. Team politics (people root for their party in America much the same way as they root for football) was not Israel's problem. It went far deeper than that. Yet, God certainly corrected them. So, what did He correct them for?
First of all, Israel forsook God. They turned from God to idol worship. They replaced true worship with humanism. Ultimately, this was seen in their actions. They became a society full of adultery and addictions. Sound familiar? It should. This is exactly what has happened in United States. Any serious researcher knows that our country was founded on Biblical values. Our laws were intended for a moral society. We are neither God-fearing nor moral today.
Our children are taught from an early age that God is not real. We have supported that belief by allowing our children to be taught such fairy tales as evolution. Even professing Christian teachers tell our children that the world is billions of years old. If this is true, there was no Adam and Eve; there was no Fall; and, therefore, there is no need for Jesus. This is blasphemy. It is a flat denial of God and His Son.
They are also taught that morality is relative. In other words, what may be right or wrong for you will vary from person to person. But, this is not true. God's standard is absolute. It does not give. Right is still right and wrong is still wrong.
According to the verse before us, Israel's problem was not politics. It seems that we are almost to the point that even many Christians today believe that politics is the problem in America. We, as a Christian society, seem to think if we could only get a man in who would lower taxes and fund education all would be well. But, this is not our main problem. Until we, as a society, turn back to the Lord we cannot prosper. Until we turn from our wicked ways, we cannot thrive.
Oh, let the people of God pray and seek God's face at this time in our history. May we ever turn from our wicked ways! May we, as a society, turn from the sins that we have glorified! Then, perhaps God will bless us again. People of God, do not discount the involvement of God in our economy. Is it possible that our economic downturn is the result of judgment rather than politics?
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This APS board member doesn't believe condoms stop STDs. (This is about dispensing birth control on campuses.)
That dude who was shot Downtown by APD was armed with a butter knife.
Rio Rancho graverobbers steal bronze urns.
Baby flamingo at the zoo.
The expensive 2010 N.M. races.
Federal agency that gives money to religious groups has poor oversight.
The top 10 stories the media didn't report.
Lobo robbed lobo, says UNMPD.
Criminals wear Yankees caps.
1 in 7 Americans lives in poverty.
Pope compares atheists to Nazis.
That band Hanson still exists. Now, it's broody.


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Getting around in Agartha sucks. Sure, the various Solomon Island zones are varying degrees of convenient, but getting to the portals for Egypt is a hike, and Transylvania may as well be in, well, Transylvania.
Getting back to the city portals is easy enough (just fall), but heading back out into the field is a pain. Worse yet, the hike gets longer just as you hit the endgame zones from which you'll frequently want to be coming and going to do dungeons or use services in London, NY or Seoul.
I've heard rumor of 'shortcuts' in Agartha to the various portals, but am too dense to find them.
How can I get around Agartha more quickly? Especially to the Transylvania and Egypt portals?