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Clerk's death brings call for mandatory video surveillance
City-mandated video surveillance? It's on the table in Pine Bluff, Ark.
In the wake of the unsolved killing of a convenience store clerk, local leaders are considering an ordinance to require convenience stores and restaurants to install and maintain surveillance cameras on their properties, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported on Nov. 12.
The move was prompted by the shooting death of Mohammad Islam during an attempted robbery Sept. 25 at the Big Red Food Mart. The shooter has not been apprehended, a situation that police investigators say has not been helped by the fact that security cameras inside the store were not working at the time of the crime.
"What we want to ensure is the safety of people working in these stores," said Alderman George Stepps, who sponsored the ordinance. "That's the bottom line here."
Fines of up to $1,000 could be assessed against storeowners, managers or clerks at properties found in noncompliance. The city's Fire and Emergency Services Department would inspect properties and ensure that cameras are operational.
According to the Democrat-Gazette, Pine Bluff—population 49,083—could be the first city of its size in the state to have such an ordinance.
Capt. Greg Shapiro of the Pine Bluff Police Department told the newspaper that the department supports the proposal and sees it as a crime deterrent.
"We asked for this piece of legislation following [Islam's] murder," Shapiro said. "We don't want to place a financial burden on any business, but this is 2012, and the technology is available and affordable to protect employees [of these businesses] and help us deter, as well as solve, crimes."
Keith Jentoft, president of RSI Video Technologies, said the proposed ordinance is a sign of the times: using technology to fight crime instead of throwing declining law enforcement personnel against it.
"What I find fascinating is that the motivation is not to reduce false alarms, but to make arrests," Jentoft told Security Systems News. He said Pine Bluff's ordinance and similar legislation can help the alarm industry "upsell an entire community of businesses so that their alarm systems can do a better job of protecting people."
The Pine Bluff City Council on Monday night postponed a vote on the proposal.
It is tragic that yet another heinous crime has taken the life of Mohammad Islam.
What happened at this convenience store is an example of how technology can assist law enforcement in solving crimes. What occured here is not about false alarms. What happened here is not about declining law enforcement resources. It is unfortunate that an existing but malfunctioning video surveillance system is somehow being linked to false alarms. One has nothing to do with the other.
Pine Bluff's proposed ordinance to require surveillance systems has the potential to deter criminal activity. I applaud the police department and the alderman for looking to technology to protect their citizens. The key item in the proposed ordinance is that the systems will be inspected by the municipality to assure they are functioning.
Today's technology solutions can go a long way in assuring such systems remain functional. DVR technology that sends "health check" information to a monitoring center can help assure that an on-site DVR is functioning properly. Cloud based video storgae can go further, by eliminating maintenance downtime for on-site DVR's.
I for one do not find this "fasinating" as our industry has been installing video storage technology in convenience stores for over 20 years, starting with Video Cassette Recorders (VCR.) Technology has certainly advanced since the VCR days. What is key here is that the technology be functional when it is needed most. Today's technology solutions go a long way to that end.


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Tagged: where im from
Right. It's been awhile, I know. :p Boo on so many levels.
But I've been busy. Busy with my heart. Busy getting back on track. Busy forgiving. Busy paying attention. Busy planning, moving, settling in, teaching, learning, loving and learning some more. Busy letting go. Busy accepting. Busy making up for lost time. Busy resting. Busy recalibrating. Bust traveling. Oh and busy with images.
Yup. Been busy living.
There's more to it too, of course.
The silence.
Part choice, part involuntary mutism – there's always more to it than just the silence of someone's soul. Um, because it's never really quiet in there. The total opposite actually. And until some of the wires untangle, and not until breathing resumes to normal, attempting to write about whatever sometimes, especially when nothing is pouring out, becomes counter productive.
Sure, I have been documenting what I've been grateful for these past months. Sharing snaps and slices with people I love in my other online spaces. Traveling has made that easy. There's something about visiting old friends in a new place (Jower in KL) and visiting old places with fresh eyes (Manila and New York City) that allow for this combustion of inspiration. Everything I see right now, I want to shoot and share. So, yeah, I thank G everyday for photography and communities who appreciate photography.
But writing, boy do I miss you. There's nothing like you and the way you enable/force us to articulate what we are thinking, feeling, learning one word after the other. I have missed you, old friend. I have been cheating on you with my new love, photography and I'm really sorry for neglecting you. Please forgive me because here I am. Mid year. Mid July. Mid summer break. In my favorite city on the planet, doing many of my favorite things with a lot of great people sometimes; alone most days. Am overwhelmed with gratitude and joy right now and I'd like to honor where I am standing right now with this momentum post and an old poem.
A brief background and an extended explanation:
I wrote this poem for and with my students (and co teacher) last school year. I write a version each year I teach poetry actually, so there are many versions swimming around on different pieces of scratch paper, several inboxes, maybe three to four Moleskine notebooks and Pages documents. I've read older versions aloud to my class before but I've never blogged any of the pieces. This is the first one I've shared beyond the classroom. The original post written for my kids lives here. There's also this writing and photography course I am taking this summer with 89 other women all over the world, who are strangers right now but hopefully won't be for long, and I wanted to share this post with them. We are on our second week with already two sets of photo and writing exercises. This where I'm from poem (inspired by George Ella Lyon's version) reminded me of the first writing exercise we had to do – stepping stones to unravel where we have been, which may also reveal where we are headed. Here goes…
by Ms. Pau
I am from an old house on 21 Lilac St.
from rooms with stories, secrets
and slippers in my father's hands
occasionally hitting the exposed
surfaces of my little body.
I am from extending stolen tearful
glances at my mother who
didn't know what to do.
Making that first note to self:
never cry where your young
angry father
could sense you.
I am from the stone balcony that looked out
at the dusty street
and our big black steel gate
where I watched my
Yaya Shirley leave unexpectedly
after she was almost stabbed
by our other evil helper.
I am from abandonment that I
got to know too intimately at a very young age,
from the expectation to be
strong, silent and sure, which
meant I was being a good girl because
I understood why,
because I didn't cry.
I am from thinking that moving houses
was never supposed
to be traumatic.
Haunting images of my parents,
partners and friends
leaving me again and again and again
from Sunday tears erupting from my core
for no good reason except the thought
of another goodbye
even years later
as a grown woman
I am from a bigger backyard, a bigger house
an even bigger gaping hole in my heart.
I am from this place where I learned to say the words
"I love you" second and not first;
"I am sorry" first and never second.
I am from Alabang Golf and Country Club,
holding hands, bad poetry read to young crushes
who thought they had found their true love
Big words and alliterative phrases
clumsily strewn together for loved ones I vowed
I would never forget
never wanted to forget
to forget me
I am from betrayal, deep sadness
and harsh secrets learned too early;
from an awkwardness in my own skin
I clung to, not knowing how else to be
from fighting for a self that he, she, and
everyone I knew thought was perfect
except my-self
I am from everything they said I couldn't be
I am from one day realizing I had wrapped
myself voluntarily in a cocoon, so difficult
to escape and wiggle out of
feeling like I deserved to hide there, and
to prove me right I had to
break my heart
over and over and over
But I am also from the paper thin wing that
made the first finest tear
the path to redemption and forgiveness
began with
the other wing setting me free…
I am from books that adorn my walls
fortified from anyone who thought I was
illiterate and not critical enough
Yes, from a thousand books
I can't live without today
A thousand friends who have
kept me company, have helped
me escape, who constantly remind me
all to well about my own humanity.
I am from a hundred films, movies
and pirated DVDs; characters like
Tyler Durden, Mr. Keating, and
Lara Croft, I wish
I were instead of me sometimes.
Their happy endings, misadventures
and worlds combined
leave me envious and confined
As I gaze vacantly at the laundry
spinning round and round
I am from the quest for kindness
gratitude and turning the corner
but still not having a clue
from women's rights and claiming feminist
and not believing in God for awhile
because according to my Masters Degree
that made me look weak
I am from all of it boiling down to that angry little girl
who wasn't allowed to speak
or make an appearance
All she wanted was to be heard and be herself
I call her Olivia
I am from writing and writing and writing
during nights desperate for answers
and from days like this, where I am writing
and writing still
I am from many complicated,
complex and convoluted corners
that don't remember everything
like I thought I did
I am from wondering what it all means to
all of it making sense
I am from seeing the world behind a lens
and through my pen and lined journals
from finding solace
in the sound of the pounding of keys
I am from these eternal lines and shared images
from these two always, always saving the day
I am from malignant tumors
that peppered my neck and upper chest
from cancer that came out of nowhere
but taught me the most important lessons
in life
from being in remission
and from being spared
for a reason
I am from my body image, the final frontier
that is the total contradiction of who I am now
fissures from an old script
of a self worth defined by a society screaming
I need to be stick thin to be beautiful
tiny cracks in my psyche that need
to be filled
healed and sealed
I am from metamorphosis that only happened
when I stopped trying
from being transformed by
gratitude and a love that overflows
from the ultimate well spring of life
I am from my Creator
who reminds me that I am
wretched and yet
still the best thing that's ever
happened to Him.
I am from a God who says
I made you for a reason and has
a son who helped me understand
the words, 'I forgive you."
I am from the earth and the sea and my
sun kissed skin
from beneath the shallow surface
of the ocean, watching dugongs
swim away as I listen to my heavy breathing
and celebrating a heart that's so full
it could burst at any moment
I am from my Kuya I was born to adore and
and a father, now older, less angry, my biggest ally
These pieces make me who I am
the best bits that make the most sense
most of the time
the very basic
definition of where I belong begins
with Mon and Maqui, Eddie and Rae
the conversations that wow me on
a daily basis
to collaboration, asking important questions
and reclaiming the power of storytellers
and storytelling
I am from always challenging myself as a teacher
and learner and from saying
I can still do so much more
I am from spaces that we create to build a new life
three hours away from where I was born
From missing the sound of the clipping carabiner
to finding peace on the mat
I am from the inked narratives on my skin
that remind me that the pain, it always ends.
I am from love lost, love found
love that I have recently discovered
who recognized me back
as his long lost friend,
match, partner and soulmate
a challenging handful he can't quit
We are from the shark always being included
in this disastrous adventure
we have begun
Here goes…
I am from my mistakes and
my redemption and transformation
that has already begun.
I am from where I am headed,
where goodbyes become easier
and where everyday there are
warm hellos.
I am from today, still alive
more than okay
the best I've ever felt
in 39 years
I wouldn't recognize ennui
if it sat in front of me to have tea
I am from
looking out my balcony
writing these verses for the most important
people in my life right now
finally coming home to a huge party
where everyone is invited
Again, thanks for passing by. Appreciate it.
grateful slice: summer break, time, poetry and honouring where we are from


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Good for you, millefiori. Keep that BIC and you will succeed in reaching your 40K. (Just remember to eat once in a while. It helps when you have the strength to keep your but... er... tail end in that chair!)
Hey everyone -I've missed this thread! I finished the SFD (Sh$$ty First Draft) of my MG the end of February, and intentionally took a 6-week break from it
And hope the truffles came out yummy, thunderingelephants!
Hey Thunderingelephants - your picture has humans in it now! Are you, perchance, one of them?
I'm working - on trying to get the message board avatar upload feature to finally work again. Does that count?
Sorry to hear about your argument with your mother. In a similar scenario, just a call from my mother-I was supposed to meet her ten minutes ago, but I had forgotten. Just as well she cancelled 'cos I haven't had my hair cut and she ordered me to do it last time I met with her. I had to clench my fists to stop myself from doing her nose damage. I love her, but sometimes... Leave your w.i.p alone for a while and maybe try a and -if baby lets you.Truffles tomorrow - if I can get the cooker going! Otherwise I will to rely on my writing.
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Who is a True Jew? Part 2
From Gospel Translations
By John Piper About The Gospel
Part of the series Romans: The Greatest Letter Ever Written
Romans 2:25-29
For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.
Gentiles Can Become Jews
Paul's purpose in this chapter is to underline the need of the Jewish people (along with the rest of the world) for the gift of righteousness which God gives freely to those who trust Christ (Romans 3:20,28; 1:16-17). Both Gentiles and Jews are under the dominion of sin (3:9), and in need of a salvation that God is ready to give to all those who put their trust in his Son.
Now in these verses (2:25-29) the way Paul underlines this need that Jewish people have is to show that Gentiles, are actually becoming the true Jews, and will even stand in judgment over the Jews at the judgment day. This was a staggering thought to Paul and his fellow Jews - that Gentiles could be counted as Jews who inherit God's promises to Israel, while natural-born Jews are judged and perish.
How Can This Be?
How could this be?
Well, Paul's argument is remarkable and is full of rich truth for us today. There are implications in this text for us that are breathtaking. Let's quickly get into Paul's flow of thought and then broaden our horizon to another passage of Scripture that will help us understand this one even better.
Amazingly, he says in verse 26 that the uncircumcised man (the Gentile) will be regarded by God as a circumcised man (a true Jew) if he "keeps the requirements of Law." "So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?" So it isn't circumcision that makes you a true Jew, it is keeping the requirements of the Law - that is, it is understanding what the Law was really all about and being changed by it in the heart and living out God's purpose for man taught in it (see 1 Corinthians 7:19).
Then in verse 27, even more amazingly, Paul says that the Gentiles will be a living indictment of the disobedient Jews at the judgment day if the Gentiles "keep the law." "And he who is physically uncircumcised (=Gentile), if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who, though having the letter of the Law and circumcision, are a transgressor of the Law?"
So in both verses 26 and 27, Paul pictures some Gentiles really being part of God's people and being saved from judgment, while some natural-born Jews are judged and perish at the judgment day. This underlines the need of Jews not to presume upon their privileged place as Jews. They are sinners like everyone else and liable to judgment.
How Can Some Jews Not Be Jews?
Now, again, how can this be? How can Paul say that natural-born Jews may not really be Jews, and Gentiles, even without being circumcised, may really be Jews? Because if this is true, then you and I today may actually become true Jews and part of God's chosen people with all the privileges promised to the children of Abraham.
Paul knows this is a staggering thought for the Jews and Gentiles of his day and so he gives some supporting explanation in verses 28-29.
But before I show you his argument, I want to make sure you are with me and that you see this truth in at least one other place in the New Testament -namely, the truth that Gentiles actually become part of God's chosen people Israel.
The clearest place to see this is Ephesians 2:11ff.
Remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands [Note! The Jews are the "so-called circumcision" - this is the same point as in Romans 2:25ff: they are Jews, but not true Jews] -(12) remember that you were at that time separate from Christ [=the Jewish Messiah], excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. (13) But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. . . . (19) So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household.
So you can see how Paul thinks in this regard. In relation to Christ, Gentiles really do become part of the "commonwealth of Israel" (verse 12). They become "true Jews."
But how does Paul explain and defend this in Romans 2:28-29? What makes these two verses so remarkable is that they are given as the explanation of how Gentiles become true Jews by "keeping the requirements of the law" (verse 26) and "fulfilling the law" (verse 27, more literal than "keeping" the law). Verse 26 says that an uncircumcised Gentile will be regarded as truly circumcised "if he keeps the law." And verse 27 says that the uncircumcised Gentile will judge transgressors of the law "if he fulfills the law."
Then comes the explanation for how such "Law-keeping" or "Law-fulfilling" makes a person a Jew. He answers, verses 28-29: "For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God."
This is amazing. The reason it's amazing is that what Paul is trying to show is why Law-keeping - Law-fulfilling - makes one a true Jew, and his answer is all about internal change, not external activity. He says, in essence, that Law-keeping or Law-fulfilling makes you a true Jew because it is not mainly an external thing, but an internal thing. It has to do mainly with the sense of the heart and not the seeing of the letter. It has to do mainly with praise that comes from God in secret, not the praise of man in public (see Matthew 6:4,6,18). That is what the Law is really all about. Otherwise the argument doesn't work.
The argument says: "Gentile, you can be truly circumcised to God and belong to him as a true Jew, if you fulfill the Law!" "Really?" says the Gentile, "How so?" And Paul answers, "Because being truly circumcised and being a true Jew is a matter of the heart and happens by the Spirit." Now, that answer only makes sense if "fulfilling the law" means experiencing this heart-change by the Spirit, and then living in sync with that inner change.
So the point is that a person is a true Jew - a true part of God's redeemed people - if he fulfills the Law, that is, if his heart is circumcised by the Spirit to love God. Deuteronomy 30:6 promised, "The LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live." That's what Paul is talking about here, and you don't have to be a natural-born Jew, he says, for it to happen to you.
But it wasn't happening for many Jews and it was happening for some Gentiles. Why?
Draw a Picture
Let me try a picture to see if I can make this plain for the children, and then maybe the adults will get it too.
At the top of the picture is God. You can't see God, so we will just write the word G-o-d. At the bottom of the picture there is a heart - our heart. In the middle between God and us there is the Law -picture a book, the Bible. Now the ultimate aim of the Law is to bring our heart and God together in a personal relationship of love and trust and obedience, not just an acquaintance like you might have with the store clerk or the mailman. But a deep and personal love relationship and fellowship.
But this was not happening for the very people of the Book. Most of the Jews were reading the Law and learning the Law and summing it up in lists of regulations and doing most of them. And in all this, Paul has said, they were transgressing the Law, and their circumcision was useless and didn't help them at all (verse 25).
Why? Because something is missing from the picture. What's missing? Tell me on the basis of verse 29 alone. "He is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God." What is missing is the Spirit.
How shall we draw the Spirit? He is invisible. Let's use arrows. Draw an arrow from the Law in the middle down to the heart. The Spirit takes the Law and writes it on the heart (Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 11:19-20; 36:27) so that we love it and it becomes part of us, rather than being merely an external pressure from the outside.
Then draw another arrow from the heart up through the Law to God. The Spirit not only takes the Law through our eyes into our hearts; it also takes us through the Law into God. And that's the ultimate goal of the Law: a personal relationship of love with the living God through his Word.
Writing Equations
Without the Spirit we either reject the Law of God out of hand, or we change it into something we can manage. And in either case we lose, and the Law condemns us: you can become a transgressor of the law by rejecting it or by trying to keep it in your own strength. Paul calls the law minus the Spirit: "letter." And he says in another place, "the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life" (2 Corinthians 3:6).
So let's put two summary equations in the corner of our picture.
Law minus Spirit = 1) external religious ritual (like circumcision) 2) the need for the praise of man to keep you going 3) death, because the Law becomes mere "letter," and that kills
Law plus Spirit = 1) internal circumcision of the heart 2) satisfaction in the praise of God, even if no man approves you 3) life, because the Spirit unites us to God in love
Now what's the point of all this? The main point I want you get this morning is this: Seek and cherish the work of the Spirit of God in your life to make you a true Jew. Our salvation hangs on this - the work of the Spirit -
1) circumcising our heart to love the Lord (Deuteronomy 30:6) 2) writing the Law of God on our heart (Jeremiah 31:33) 3) freeing us from our need for the praise of man (Romans 2:29)
All of this is what Christ obtained for us when he shed his blood to seal the new covenant (Luke 20:22; Hebrews 13:20).
But still someone may say, "Is it really important that we think this way about our salvation? Can't I just be a simple Christian, and not worry about being a Jew, or a descendant of Abraham, or circumcised in heart?
Wild Branches Grafted into the Olive Tree
I think the way I will answer that question is to take you to Romans 11 and simply walk with you through one more text and let you decide how important you think this is. In Romans 11:17-25, Paul compares the true Israel to a cultivated olive tree with natural branches, and the Gentile world to a wild olive tree with wild olive branches. I will make a few comments as we read starting at verse 17.
(17) But if some of the branches [= some Jews by birth] were broken off, and you, being a wild olive [= Gentiles], were grafted in among them [= became true Jews, or the true circumcision, as Paul says in Romans 2:26-29] and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree [the root of the olive tree is the covenant God made with Abraham and his true descendants, and to become a partaker of this root is to became a beneficiary of salvation, the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that he would be their God and they would be his people; if you are grafted in -if you become a part of true Israel - that's yours], (18) do not be arrogant [you Gentiles] toward the branches [the natural Jews]; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you [O how easily we get this turned around, thinking that Christianity is the mother and Judaism is the dependent daughter, when in fact, Judaism is the mother and Christianity is the dependent daughter. Our life, our hope, our salvation is sustained only by God's commitment to the covenants he has made with Israel -"the root supports you," not vice versa].
(19) You will say then [you Gentiles], "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." (20) Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief [so we see that faith is what makes you a Jew or not, which, in view of 2:26-27, means the essence of Law - keeping it in faith], but you stand by your faith [you have a part in this rich root of the promise of God to be your God if you believe in the Messiah, Jesus Christ, as Paul said in Galatians 3:7, "It is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham" - you stand only by faith; that's the essence of being a true Jew and part of the Israel of God]. Do not be conceited, but fear; (21) for if God did not spare the natural branches [Jews have been broken off and condemned for unbelief], He will not spare you either [you can be as deceived as they were about being a true Jew if you try to cling to this tree without the Spirit changing your heart].
(22) Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell [Jews who were not true Jews, uncircumcised in heart], severity, but to you [Gentiles who have the Spirit of God and faith in Christ], God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness [that is, continue in faith by the power of the Spirit]; otherwise you also will be cut off [O how many professing Christians there are whose attachment to the tree of life is simply external and ritualistic, without the work of the Spirit circumcising their hearts to love God]. (23) And they [the broken-off branches of the Jews] also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. (24) For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? (25) For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery - so that you will not be wise in your own estimation - that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so [= thus] all Israel will be saved.
Is it important for you to be a true Jew? All of God's saving blessings come to the world through the rich root of the olive tree, the covenant he made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to be their God. There is no salvation outside Israel. Paul wrote these things to the Gentile church in Rome for a reason; and I preach them to you for a reason. I want you to be grafted into the olive tree and to remain firm by faith and drink of the rich root of God's promises and be saved.
So consider the kindness and severity of God (Romans 11:20) and remain in his kindness.
Other Relevant Texts to Be Studied
Genesis 17:25 - And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
Leviticus 26:40 - If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me—41 I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.
Deuteronomy 10:14 - Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it. 15 Yet on your fathers did the LORD set His affection to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day. 16 So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer. 17 For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.
Jeremiah 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to the LORD And remove the foreskins of your heart, Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Or else My wrath will go forth like fire And burn with none to quench it, Because of the evil of your deeds.
Jeremiah 9:23 - Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; 24 but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD. 25 "Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—26 Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart."
Matthew 8:10 - Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who were following, "Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel. 11 "I say to you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; 12 but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Matthew 15:22 - And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed." 23 But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, "Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us." 24 But He answered and said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 25 But she came and began to bow down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" 26 And He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." 27 But she said, "Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." 28 Then Jesus said to her, "O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed at once.
Romans 9:6 - But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; 7 nor are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants, but: "THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED." 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.
1 Corinthians 7:19 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God.
Galatians 5:6 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
Galatians 6:15 - For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Philippians 3:1 - Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision; 3 for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,
Colossians 2:11 - In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
Revelation 3:9 - Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.
Revelation 2:9 - I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.


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Barbecuey Ratatouille
July 14, 2009 at 11:05 pm 11 comments
The other day Thing 1 began screaming. It was that shrill kid cry that adults can never quite identify. I can't stand that kind of exclamation it is either glee, cackling or pure pain and no one can ever tell which until you can get eyes on the "victim"! Sometimes it is as simple an answer as, "the baby smiled at me" other times as innocent and understandable, in my case, as "I saw a BEE!" I could not see the kids from where I sat in my garden of weedin' so when Thing 1 screamed I expected the worst.
He came running with his hands over his eyes sputtering all sorts of nonsense that I couldn't make sense of.
"Are you bleeding?" I blurted.
"No," he managed.
My kids know that my first response is likely to be one of two things: Is there blood, or Is something dead (namely a pet or woodland creature). You'd think by now they would come yelling, "No blood mom!"
Finally I got some sense out of my oldest son, whom I'm constantly having to remind myself is still only seven. "Bubba (who is only 2) threw sand in my eye and on my head!"
The boy accused came toddling over with a look of consternation and stood a little distance off assessing the situation. I helped Thing 1 to get his eyes to tear and had to practically put him in a straight jacket to keep him from clawing at it. Once I had that situation fairly handled I put my attention to the discipline of my youngest son.
"Bubba," I frowned, "it's not nice to throw sand. Tell your brother you are sorry!"
He came closer and as I looked I could see that in his own hair was at least twice the sand that the older son had. Hmmm I pondered. This little boy dumped sand all over his own head and then got a brilliant idea to throw sand onto his brothers head? Or could it just be that all was not as it seemed.
Upon further investigation I'm sure you can guess how the real story played out and in this instance there were no innocent parties.
Thankfully no one found any creatures in the woods.
What does all this have to do with dinner? I think you will be able to follow my logic if you've seen Ratatouille.
Ever since watching the Disney movie Ratatouille my boys have been bugging me to make the dish it is named for. When they first asked, I hadn't a clue what it was but after perusing the Internet for recipes, watching cooking videos and consulting my culinary expert (my husband) I believe all I have left to say is Eureka!
In honor of sand and sun I've been spending my days outside and my cooking efforts have maily centered around the grill so my challenge was to make Ratatouille without heating up the house or using tons of dishes. The following recipe is my solution to both. I reinvented this French dish, a peasants vegetable stew and even the "peasants" in my household couldn't get enough!
Barbecuey Ratatouille:
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Ratatouille is a peasants stew made using various veggies and sometimes served over rice. You are sticking with the nature of the dish if you include eggplant and zuccini along with any other vegetable that you have on hand or can find cheap. Here are a few items you need as well.
- olive oil
- tomato sauce
- garlic
If I can do it you can do it! (The Recipe):
If you will be serving your Ratatouille with rice now is an excellent time to begin cooking it.
After you have the rice on, gather all your veggies.
I used 1 eggplant, 2 med zucchini, 4 small potatoes, 4 small sweet peppers (or 1 large bell), 1 red onion, 1 tomato. Other vegetables sometimes used are mushrooms, chickpeas, okra etc.
Juline the eggplant, zucchini and peppers. Cut the potatoes into bite sized pieces and the tomato into wedges. Slice the onion into rings and place over everything in a disposable tin foil roasting pan.
After you are done slice and dicing, fire up the BBQ.
Once you have all the veggies arranged drizzle olive oil generously over everything.
Place 6 cloves of garlic (peeled and sliced) in a tin foil square and drizzle with olive oil then tightly seal the square and put it in the corner of your roasting pan. Cover the pan with another roaster or tin foil and place on the grill.
Grill the covered veggies over medium heat approximately 20 min. You will have to check from time to time as some vegetables will cook more quickly. Flip any that are cooking unevenly and rearrange as necessary. I burnt a few to the bottom of the pan but we decided we all liked the Cajun flavor!
Once your veggies are cooked through remove any tough skins (I took the skin off the eggplant) and anything burnt beyond recognition. 🙂 Cut everything into bite size pieces and toss into a nonstick skillet over med heat. Immediately pour in 1 cup of tomato sauce or your favorite spaghetti sauce and toss to coat. Simmer just until heated through and serve over a bed of rice.
allons, mangez !
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It looks absolutely de-light-ful! It makes me hungry just looking at it!
That's a great idea to use the grill. I usually make it in the oven where it bakes for 1 1/2 hrs. Not something I want to do in the summer!
P.S. When my youngest was very little he used to bite his brothers. It hurt sooo bad they gave a scream that I always recognized. Even now when they are big I can't always tell if someone is hurt or not. Thankfully, we don't have biting problems anymore.
Yeah, I know exactly what scream you're talking about. It sends me into a panic every time–fear of the unknown, I guess.
That dish looks SO good!
That looks really good. I didn't use to be a fan of ratatouille but I didn't eat vegetables again. This might be a great dish to make with this week's CSA. However yours looks so good I'm ready to eat now.
I love any dish that combines this many veggies in a flavorful way! Yum!
I love ratatouille. I make it, and honestly, I can't wait to eat the left-overs. It's so, so flavorful and if you've never had it you must try it. Every minute spent cooking is worth it. I make mine in the oven after cooking it on the stove top first…it's a process but, oh how I love it!!! It's as satisfying as a meat stew…thanks for sharing this. I am going to have to make some soon.
This looks great! I've never made ratatouille, but I like the sound of it. I'll have to try this soon with all the fresh vegetables available now.
What I want to know is after all that begging, did they eat it? And I've heard the sand saga too many times – kids! 🙂
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Youkilis Not Expected Back This Year
Two unimpeachable sources now advise that Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis, who appeared to jam his thumb while batting the other night, has in fact so severely torn a muscle – possibly a torn ligament – that whether or not he will actually require surgery on the injured hand, he is not expected to play again this season.
Youkilis is, as revealed earlier, headed for a further examination tomorrow by Dr. Thomas Graham, hand specialist at the Cleveland Clinic.
Further details as they become available.
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I'm going to keep it classy, like the guy whose birthday I was born on (Jason Kendall!), but from a strictly win-loss perspective this is good news for Yankee fans. Of course, Beckett could hit Tex on the hand and we'd be D-E-D too. And Big Papi would have been a bigger loss. I don't see how I could hate the Red Sox more, but I was happy for Mike Lowell when he hit that home run in his first at-bat (first pitch?). So he might step up in Youkilis's place. If this had happened one week earlier, or even a few days, Prince Fielder might be Boston-bound, or Dunn, or Lowell's ex-teammate Lee (if he didn't block the trade, which I think he would have). Anyhow, even if of Youkilis I say "bats right, throws tantrums," he's the sort of player you hate if he's on the other team, but because of his grit and fiery competitiveness, I'm sure they love having him on their team. Get well soon.
Terry Francona may not be able to detach his palm from his forehead until November.


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Standing on a pass in Colorado can make you truly appreciate our state's amazing beauty and vast space. Pass hikers typically walk through a beautiful valley, climb above treeline, hike to the top of a pass and are suddenly greeted by yet another amazing valley waiting to be discovered. Eccles Pass is a great choice for someone looking for that "ah-ha" moment.
The hike starts next to Interstate 70 in the Frisco/Silverthorne area. A sign at the trailhead doesn't even say Eccles Pass. It simply says, "Meadow Creek 331." But this is no simple hike. The climb starts right away. In the first half mile or so, you'll gain 500 feet of elevation. One way to ease the pain? Come in the fall. The first half mile of the trail is lined with Aspens that put on a colorful show in mid-September. Stop and take lots of pictures to ease the pain of that initial elevation gain.
About .55 miles from the trailhead is a trail split. A sign tells hikers Lilypad Lake is to the right, but continue up, into the lodgepole pine forest to head for the pass. This section of trail is an old Jeep road, so it's plenty wide to chat with friends as you hike.
1.35 miles from the trailhead, you may notice the sound of a creek. That's Meadow Creek, the creek the trail was named for. Soak up the sound of the water, because it comes in short bursts along the trail. The trail crosses the creek and continues its climb up the valley that you really can't quite see yet because of the thick forest.
At 3 miles, the place with the first distant mountain views, you'll have climbed about 2,000 feet of elevation gain, but there's still another 1,000 to go over the next 2 miles.
Suddenly, about four miles into the hike, there's another stream crossing and you'll leave the trees for the last time and come into a meadow that appears to stretch all the way to the pass. There's another 600 feet of climbing to go, but first you'll walk across this meadow enjoying the vistas of the surrounding peaks. After hiking toward one mountain for much of the hike, suddenly you'll find yourself pointed to a saddle on the right. That's Eccles Pass up there. Just a short distance away, the Meadow Creek Trail ends and you're suddenly on the Gore Range Trail. The Gore Range Trail climbs the pass and after that last bit of hard climbing – there it is – the top. As you crest the saddle, wait until you see the amazing view awaiting you on the other side. Drink it in, but don't forget to turn around and enjoy the amazing valley you just hiked up. Bring lunch, and leave yourself some time to just sit here at the top and enjoy this marvelous place.
When you're ready for more, you can continue on to Red Buffalo Pass, maybe loop around Buffalo Mountain back to the Meadow Creek Trailhead or just return the way you came.
Details: The hike to the top of Eccles Pass and back is about 10.25 miles with 2,900 feet of elevation gain.
Directions: From Interstate 70, take exit 203/Frisco. Drive half way around the traffic circle to a dirt road on the west side of the roundabout. Take the dirt road a half mile to the trailhead. The trailhead has signs, but no bathrooms or trash cans.
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The photo flashed on live TV, an almost ghostlike visage. But the picture of Michael Jackson's unclothed, painfully thin corpse sadly might be the enduring, haunting image to emerge from the trial of the doctor tasked with caring for him.
There was Jackson – whatever his foibles, a performer who gave his all from his boyhood to his final days – literally stripped of his dignity, for the world to see.
With the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray moving into its fourth week, the King of Pop's image in death appears to be spiraling more out of control than even in life.
We've noted that the court case threatens to alter Jackson's legacy, with the sordid circumstances of his demise potentially overshadowing the way he lived – a mix of astounding musical accomplishment and, to put it mildly, dubious personal decisions. While time will render the verdict, the trial seems to be speeding up the deliberations, via the stark last glimpses and sounds of the premiere entertainer of his era.
Many fans used the Internet to unleash their fury about the public showing of the photo – employing the very medium that will ensure the image, briefly seen on TV with a black box covering Jackson's pelvic area, is forever a click away. Their anger is misplaced, but understandable – there's an impulse among supporters to protect Jackson, who projected a Peter Pan-like aura and now seems at his most vulnerable more than two years after his last breath.
Tapes of his slurred voice played in court lack the childlike endearment and eccentricity that was part of both his charm and weirdness. There's a helpless sadness in listening to an obviously addled Jackson express a desperate desire to be seen as the "greatest entertainer in the world" – a need instilled in him since the childhood he seemed to spend the last four decades of his life trying to reclaim. Jackson also needed his "milk" – his juvenile nickname for the powerful anesthetic that apparently helped lead to his downfall.
There are conflicting rumblings over whether his elder son, 14-year-old Prince, will take on an adult role and testify during the prosecution's rebuttal, as soon as this week. Jackson, we suspect, would have tried to protect his child from the spotlight's glare, knowing better than anyone its power to wilt blooming youth.
We can't say if the child's account, which reportedly contradicts Murray's description of his interactions with Jackson's children the day the pop star died, is essential to the prosecution's case. But the trial is necessary to uncover the naked truth about Michael Jackson's death – a truth, no matter what the impact on his legacy, that could give the music superstar the final measure of justice and dignity he deserves.
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When it comes to kicking the habit, there are few options available for smokers: Cold turkey, the patch, gum, hypnosis, and our new favorite, having your son start a Facebook campaign.
That's the approach that may finally help rocker John Mellencamp give up smoking.
The rock hall-of-famer's 14-year-old son, Speck, started the Facebook group "1,000,000 to join, my dad john mellencamp will quit smoking."
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"i made a deal with my dad that if i get a 1,000,000 to join this group he will quit smoking," says Speck, who obviously prefers lowercase letters on his Facebook page.
On Dec. 1, the group hit more than 7,000 people. As of Tuesday afternoon, membership was up to 238,000 people.
According to Mr. "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." himself, he didn't expect the campaign to reach national attention.
"The conversation in our house took about 4 minutes, when he said he was going to do it, and I said, 'Sure, Speck. Go ahead;' and now he's gone on NPR," said Mellencamp on his website. "But he was asked to go on 'Good Morning America' and 'Larry King' and we could have blown it up a lot bigger but we said no to everything else so as not to exploit him or make it seem like it was just a publicity stunt as some cynics have said."
Mellencamp, 58, has tried multiple times to quit since suffering a heart attack in 1994, the Associated Press reported.


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Chevron Pipe Line Co. on Friday donated $10,000 to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah for its care of beavers rescued from the site of a diesel fuel leak at Willard Bay State Park.
Chevron spokesman Gareth Johnstone described the money as an "advance," adding that the company "has formally offered to cover all costs associated with nursing the beavers back to full health."
The nonprofit center in Ogden has been caring for six beavers rescued from the site of the March 18 spill. Officials estimate more than 27,000 gallons leaked from a split in a Chevron pipeline that carries diesel from Salt Lake City to points in Idaho and Washington state.
Johnstone said a Chevron representative has visited the center to offer assistance and thank workers. "We are committed to assisting the beavers back to health and returning them to their natural habitat," he said.
Center Executive Director DaLyn Erickson said Friday that Chevron promised the $10,000 several days ago, "but they came through with the check today and reiterated they would be helping with the expense of the beavers."
She said the three beavers rescued within a few days of the spill are doing well. "We're feeling fairly confident they're going to make a full recovery."
Three other beavers rescued eight days after the spill two juveniles and a female adult believed to be their mother are still in critical condition, she said.
"They've got severe burns to their body, around their eyes, in their mouths. ... They're pretty critical right now but making progress," Erickson said.
She said worries that a father beaver might still need to be rescued were alleviated after an ultrasound showed the mother is not pregnant.
The community's response to requests for help has been "incredible," Erickson said, with people bringing in willow and cottonwood cuttings for beaver food and making cash donations. Donations can be made online at wrcnu.org.
Because the center's workers have been so busy with beaver care, it had to cancel a fundraiser that was expected to raise $30,000 for the facility. "Losing that," Erickson said, "it's going to put a pinch on us."
How to help
The nonprofit Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah is asking the public to make donations online at wrcnu.org and to deliver willow and cottonwood cuttings to 1490 Park Blvd. in Ogden.


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In comic books, superheroes make disguise look easy. They successfully hide in plain sight even when their costumes aren't clever or, in some cases, even concealing. Seriously, didn't anyone in Metropolis ever think that Superman looked a bit like the tall, handsome journalist hiding conspicuously behind the glasses and self-deprecation?
In real life, disguises are much more difficult to pull off. Just ask any A-lister who's tried to escape the paparazzi by donning a baseball cap and sunglasses. Not only does this rarely work -- it usually results in a hideously ugly photograph on the cover of a celebrity mag.
Which is why disguises that actually conceal their owners are so impressive. Take the Boston Tea Party. Do we relish this American legend because a bunch of Massachusetts colonists tried to turn Boston Harbor into the world's biggest teapot? Sure, but there's also the fact that the colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians before boarding the British tea ships and dumping 342 chests of tea overboard. They were clever and defiant -- and they got away with it.
History is filled with similar connoisseurs of camouflage, and we have an entire list to prove it. Let's start with the granddaddy of all disguises -- the horse that concealed an army that conquered an overconfident enemy.
Trojan Horse
Everyone knows the story of the Trojan horse. The Greeks hid a small force of their warriors in the belly of a great wooden horse. Then they wheeled the horse to the gates of Troy and said, "Yo, dudes, we give up. Before we take off, please accept this noble steed as our gift to you." Then the Greeks boarded their ships and sailed off.
The Trojans should have been suspicious (heck, even the Trojan priest Laocoön warned about Greeks bearing gifts), but instead they opened the gates, pushed the horse inside and proceeded to party like it was 1999. Meanwhile, the Greek fleet was hiding out at a neighboring island, waiting patiently. In the middle of the night, they sailed back to Troy and marched quietly to the gates, which had been thrown open by the soldiers hidden in the horse. The rest is blood and guts and a lot of drunken mayhem.
Today, some scientists question the validity of the story. They argue, for example, that the wooden horse may have been a battering ram used to break down the gates of Troy. But oral historians, who apparently wanted a grander tale to tell, altered the facts and injected the idea of an equine disguise. Either way, a Trojan horse has come to symbolize any form of subterfuge that causes one group of people to unwittingly invite a subversive enemy (or enemies) into a protected area.
Jennie Hodgers
More than 400 women disguised themselves as men so they could fight in the American Civil War [source: Righthand]. Forbidden to enlist in either the Union or Confederate armies, they bound their breasts, cut their hair, rubbed dirt on their faces and generally kept to themselves. Until it was time for battle, of course. Then they stood shoulder to shoulder with their male comrades, serving as scouts, spies, guards, cooks, nurses and even combat soldiers.
After the war, many of these women warriors took off their disguises and lived the rest of their lives as wives, mothers and daughters. Not Jennie Hodgers. An Irish immigrant living in Belvidere, Ill., she enlisted in the Union army as Albert D.J. Cashier in 1861. For four years, she served faithfully in the 95th Illinois Infantry Regiment, which saw action in 40 battles, including the Siege of Vicksburg, the Battle of Atlanta and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. She never suffered a serious injury and, after her discharge, returned to Saunemin, Ill., where she continued to live and work disguised as Albert Cashier. In 1899, Cashier applied for a pension and was deemed eligible by a board of surgeons.
She might have carried her secret to the grave, except the medical community finally caught up with her. In 1911, after a car struck Hodgers, a doctor discovered the truth as he tended to her injuries. Shortly after, she began suffering from dementia and was admitted to an insane asylum in Watertown, Ill. There, doctors once again realized that the Civil War veteran wasn't a former infantryman but an infantrywoman.
Ellen and William Craft
Jennie Hodgers disguised herself as a man and gained entry into some of the biggest Civil War battles on Southern soil. A few people, such as Ellen and William Craft, used the same trick to escape the South and win their freedom. As slaves living in Macon, Ga., Ellen and William Craft were married, but they decided not to start a family until their children could be raised in a free state.
To make that dream come true, they hatched a daring plan: Ellen, a quadroon with very fair skin, would disguise herself as a young, white cotton planter, while William would pose as the planter's slave. Then the two would travel, in plain sight, pretending to visit relatives in Philadelphia.
To complete the ruse, Ellen cut her hair and bound her right arm in a sling, which relieved her from having to sign guest registries or other papers. Then, on Dec. 21, 1848, they departed Macon, Ga., on a train bound for Savannah. After that, they boarded a steamer to Charleston, S.C., and then a second to Philadelphia. Along the way, border patrols detained them numerous times and, on more than one occasion, almost discovered their true identity. But on Dec. 25, Ellen and William arrived safely in Pennsylvania, a free state, where they received assistance from the underground abolitionist network.
The couple eventually settled in Boston before fleeing to England in 1850 to escape slave hunters looking to take them back to Georgia. In the 1870s, they returned to the United States with their five children and opened a school.
Shi Pei Pu
OK, try to keep up. In 1964 Beijing, Shi Pei Pu lived and worked as a man, singing in the Beijing opera and teaching Chinese to diplomats' families. In his role as instructor, Shi met a French embassy clerk by the name of Bernard Boursicot. Boursicot, whose only sexual experiences involved men, was determined to fall in love with a woman. That meant Shi was out of the question, right? Wrong.
Shi convinced Boursicot that he was actually a woman who had been forced to go through life as a man, because her father required a son. Not only that, Shi persuaded the Frenchman to steal classified information he encountered in his job. Over a span of 20 years, Boursicot turned over multiple French embassy documents through Shi to the Chinese secret service.
The two became lovers. Some of this will be left to imagination, but according to Boursicot, their amorous interactions rarely lasted for more than a few minutes and always occurred in a darkened room. At some point, Shi claimed she was pregnant with Boursicot's child and did indeed produce a son, presumably obtained through adoption. Shi and his "son" moved to Paris, where Shi won acceptance in the French community and even appeared on television.
In 1983, the masquerade ended when French authorities arrested the couple and charged them with espionage. They were each sentenced to six years in prison, although they were pardoned when the French government determined that the documents passed by Boursicot to Shi had little political significance. For Boursicot, perhaps the bigger blow was discovering that the woman he loved was no woman at all.
Willie Sutton
Disguises and bank robbers go together like rama lama lama, ke ding a de dinga dong. Most of the time, the bad guys seem to go for something theatrical (think of the evil clown masks donned by the Joker and his buddies in "The Dark Knight"). But every now and then, a talented thief can get the job done with subtlety and charm.
That was the MO of one Willie Sutton, a celebrated American bank robber known as "the Actor" and "Slick Willie" because of his proclivity for disguises. He frequently posed as a Western Union messenger and arrived at a target bank or store just as it was opening. Other favorite getups included a maintenance man, a policeman, a diplomat and a window cleaner. Once, in 1947, Sutton escaped the Philadelphia County Prison in Homesburg, Pa., in the guise of a prison guard. When searchlights caught him trying to scale the prison wall, he yelled, "It's OK," which fooled the real guards and allowed Sutton to escape.
In the end, though, Sutton's cleverness couldn't keep him from doing hard time. All of his crimes earned him a life sentence plus an additional 135 years. After his final capture in 1952, Sutton remained behind bars until 1969. He was released due to illness, but he lived until 1980. He died in Spring Hill, Fla., at the age of 79.
Mimic Octopus
The animal kingdom abounds with masters of mimicry -- one creature taking the form of another in order to gain protection from predators. Classic examples include viceroy butterflies imitating the coloration of unpalatable monarch butterflies, milk snakes bearing a similar stripe pattern to deadly coral snakes and harmless moths channeling venomous wasps.
In all of these cases, the mimic copies another single species. But recently, biologists discovered a strange type of octopus that can imitate a veritable school of ocean creatures. It's known as the mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus), and it only grows to about 2 feet (60 centimeters) long. It spends its days swimming along the muddy bottom of shallow estuaries in Indonesia and Malaysia, trying hard to keep its soft body from becoming a tasty treat for larger predators. Luckily, the mimic octopus doesn't have to rely on speed or brute strength. Instead, it shape-shifts into a menagerie of poisonous animals.
Scientists have watched the mollusk transform into more than 15 different species, including stingrays, jellyfish and lionfish [source: Hemdal]. To take on the appearance of the flat and poisonous sole fish -- one of its most impressive impersonations -- the mimic octopus draws all of its arms together to form a leaf-shaped wedge and then undulates over the ocean floor. It can also impersonate a banded sea snake by stuffing six of its arms into a burrow and pointing the other two in opposite directions so they look like two snakes.
Dr. Ernst Trier Morch
Some people -- the Leonardo da Vincis, Nikola Teslas and Albert Einsteins of the world -- have an uncanny gift for creative thinking. After reading this entry, you'll want to add Ernst Morch to this elite group. Dr. Ernst Trier Morch was a Danish-born doctor who transformed the practice of anesthesiology by inventing the Morch Piston Respirator, a forerunner of respirators used today to breathe for patients under anesthesia. He was also the first scientist, while studying dwarfism in Scandinavia, to document the frequency of mutations in humans. He determined that the mutation for dwarfism occurred spontaneously at the rate of 1:10,000 normal births [source: Stephen].
But Morch's greatest contribution to humanity may be his efforts as a freedom fighter during World War II. He participated actively in the Danish Resistance Movement, publishing illegal newspapers and sending intelligence about German bombing missions to England. He also helped to evacuate 7,000 Jews out of Denmark using one of the most exotic disguises in the history of skullduggery [source: Stephen]. Here's how it worked: To get to neutral Sweden, the Danish Jews stowed away in fishing boats, concealing themselves beneath false bottoms. Unfortunately, the Gestapo caught on and started using bloodhounds to sniff out the stowaways. In response, Morch worked with a pharmacist friend to develop a powder derived from rabbit's blood and cocaine. When the powder was sprinkled on the decks of the fishing boats, it concealed the scent of the Jewish passengers, allowing them to make a successful escape.
After the war, Morch received medals from the kings of Denmark, Sweden and Norway for his rescue work and other humanitarian activities.
Helium Disguised as Hydrogen
Atoms don't have brains, so it's strange to think of one atom getting tricked by another. And yet that's exactly what scientists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver accomplished. This bit of chemical deceit involved hydrogen and helium atoms, elements one and two on the periodic table. You might recall from high school science that the nucleus of a helium atom contains two protons and two neutrons, around which orbits two electrons. A hydrogen atom has just one proton and one electron.
Now for the trickery. Using a particle accelerator, the scientists managed to replace one of a helium atom's orbiting electrons with a muon, a subatomic particle similar to an electron, but with a mass around 200 times greater. Because it's so massive, the muon crowds the nucleus and cancels out one of the positive charges associated with the protons. What's left is a single electron zipping around a nucleus behaving as if it possessed a lone proton. In other words, the scientists successfully disguised a helium atom to look like a hydrogen atom.
Why go through this exercise? To test the effects of mass on chemical reaction rates and to confirm predictions of quantum theory. After they made the extra-heavy "hydrogen" atoms, they allowed them to bond with normal hydrogen atoms to form molecular hydrogen, or H2. They discovered that light hydrogen reacts much more quickly than the extra-heavy hydrogen made from helium, matching calculations made using quantum physics.
Bob Zmuda Plays Andy Kaufman Playing Tony Clifton
Long before Sacha Baron Cohen masqueraded as Borat, Andy Kaufman played Tony Clifton, a Las Vegas lounge singer with questionable talent. Or did he? According to Kaufman, he and Clifton weren't just different people -- they were archrivals. According to Bob Zmuda, Kaufman's best friend and co-writer, several people hid beneath Clifton's garish costume and outlandish wig, including Zmuda himself.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Clifton made several appearances on the TV talk show circuit. He coerced Dinah Shore into singing a duet and then proceeded to dump eggs on her head. On Merv Griffin's show, Clifton performed several songs -- "I've Gotta Be Me," "Volare" and "I Will Survive" -- and then discussed how he lived in a Winnebago in Las Vegas and befriended eccentric aviator Howard Hughes. He also accused Kaufman of stealing his act.
Clifton continued his rant against Kaufman on "Late Night with David Letterman." After singing a few numbers, he complained that Kaufman was using his name without permission. It's unclear whether Letterman believed he was talking to Clifton or Kaufman, but he would have been wrong in either case. In a 2006 interview on the "Opie and Anthony Show," Bob Zmuda claimed he played the role of Tony Clifton, a ruse that Letterman didn't discover until years later.
Project Greek Island
Disguises normally hide people, but not always. Sometimes, a building can be used to conceal something within its walls or under its floors. The Greenbrier, a luxury hotel located in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., has been a favorite disguise of the U.S. government for decades. During World War II, the State Department leased the hotel to hide away hundreds of German, Japanese and Italian diplomats and their families until they could be exchanged for American diplomats stranded overseas. Then, in September 1942, the hotel's lavish architecture served as a 2,000-bed army hospital.
But the biggest deception came during the Cold War, when the government sought a suitable location for an underground bunker to house members of Congress in the event of a nuclear holocaust. Once again, Uncle Sam looked to The Greenbrier as a solution. To keep the project a secret, bunker construction was timed to coincide with a major addition to the hotel -- the West Virginia Wing. In 1962, the facility, code-named "Project Greek Island," opened for a business it hoped it would never conduct. The bunker had four entrances, each protected by steel and concrete doors able to withstand a nuclear blast 15 to 30 miles (24 to 48 kilometers) away [source: The Greenbrier]. It also featured a self-contained power plant, 153 rooms and a total of 112,544 square feet [10, 456 square meters] on two levels [source: The Greenbrier].
It remained a top-secret installation until May 31, 1992, when The Washington Post published a story exposing it. Three years later, the facility was fully decommissioned and opened to public tours.
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Often, we think of disguises as pranks -- wearing Groucho Marx glasses to get a few laughs. But this article proves something else: Disguises can be the difference between life and death, escape and imprisonment. Didn't the Rolling Stones have something to say about the darker side of deceit? "She was practiced at the art of deception/Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands."
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It will be Baby #2 for Jim and Pam.
Actress Jenna Fischer confirmed in an interview with New York magazine that her real life pregnancy will be written into the upcoming Season Eight of the NBC comedy "The Office."
"Pam will be pregnant when the season starts," says Fischer. "Pam and Jim snuck away last season on Valentine's Day, and they had sex. The story is that they conceived this baby at that time and were keeping it a secret until we come back from the summer."
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For Fischer, the script for the new season opener - the first season of the post-Steve Carell era - was something of a happy accident.
"When we started shooting that [Valentine's Day] episode, I thought to myself, If everything goes well, this is going to be a very, very convenient coincidence," she says. "And I think I found out I was pregnant when we were shooting that episode."
"The Office" returns in the fall, with James Spader - at least temporarily - filling in for the departed Carell as manager of Dunder-Mifflin.
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No late-game miracles for Bears in Seattle
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SEATTLE -- It was the same play that felled Colorado. Same quarterback. Same receiver. Almost identical situation. Except this time, California came up short.
"We were on the one-yard line, and thought we could punch it in," said head coach Jeff Tedford, who's Bears lost 31-23 Saturday in Seattle. "We didn't."
After twice trying to send diminutive tailback Isi Sofele up the middle at the Washington goal line, just one score away from sending the game into overtime, junior quarterback Zach Maynard threw the same fade route that his little brother Keenan Allen had turned into gold two weeks ago in Boulder, Colo. This time, though, Allen couldn't get a hand on it.
Click Here to view this Link."The field has a huge crown on it, I felt like I gave him a good ball and it just aired on me all the way out to the sideline," Maynard said. "There's not much I can do about it but give him a chance to make a play on the ball. It's all on me."
Maynard -- who threw for a career-high 349 yards on 23-of-43 passing with no interceptions -- could not finish off a drive on which he led the Bears (3-1, 0-1 in Pac-12) on a 15-play, 85-yard march.
After missing senior Marvin Jones on a first-down pass, Maynard saw left tackle Mitchell Schwartz get flagged for a false start, putting Cal back at its own eight-yard line.
Maynard looked to Allen on the next three passing attempts, hitting him for 12 yards and a first down, missing on third-and-three and finding Allen again for 17 yards on fourth-and-three.
Allen then rushed for a yard, Maynard hit his brother again for 12 to midfield and the roll was on. Sofele gained seven to the Huskies' 43, Maynard hit Allen for seven to the Washington 36 and the Huskies were flagged for pass interference on Jones.
"They were just the plays that coach called, the defense, the offensive line made some big gaps for us and Keenan broke open a couple times," Maynard said. "I was making my reads off the backers, and when he opened up in the hole, I was able to get him some good balls."
With less than a minute remaining, the Bears found themselves on Washington's doorstep.
"There were a lot of good things. For people to continue, it's fourth down, backed up in our territory, to hit that play and come out of there, he did a lot of really good things today," Tedford said of his junior signal-caller, who became the first Cal QB to have a 300-yard passing day since Kevin Riley posted 351 yards against Arizona State on Oct. 31, 2009. "Marv, Keenan and the offensive line did very, very well today."
A 19-yard pass to Allen put Cal at the two, but on two successive attempts, Sofele could not blast through the stout Washington defensive line, which held the Bears to just 108 yards rushing on the day.
"We got down to the two there and tried to punch it in a couple times, actually tried to throw a pass and punch it in a couple times, and they stiffened up," Tedford said. "We tried to put it on the last play to Keenan, and [Maynard] just overthrew him and didn't give him a chance to catch it."
Asked whether the 5-foot-11, 215-pound junior C.J. Anderson could have been an alternative to the 5-foot-8, 190-pound Sofele at the goal line, Tedford admitted that the stouter back may have been the better choice in that particular situation.
"I guess you could look at it again. Not the fullback, but yeah, that could have been something, I guess, that CJ would have scored, I don't know," Tedford said. "That's a thought."
The Bears had trouble scoring all day in Seattle, settling for three field goals by senior Giorgio Tavecchio inside of 36 yards on the day after drives stalled out.
"When we had to settle for field goals, there's no doubt about it: you get in the end zone and you'd like to come away with touchdowns," Tedford said. "We had some opportunities down there to come out and make some plays, and a tight game, a good opponent, we've got to come away with touchdowns more than field goals, and we didn't today."
Cal went 7-for-17 on third-down conversions, while the Huskies seemed to find the sticks on every third-and-long situation, going 6-of-11 overall and 5-for-6 in third-down situations of 10 yards or longer, scoring three touchdowns and a field goal on four of the five drives on which they made out in such a situation.
"They didn't do anything necessarily well. It was just more so us, [our] one-on-one match-ups, little things, giving up, messing up on your technique and fundamentals, I guess that exposed us a little bit," said senior inside linebacker Mychal Kendricks. "It's nothing that they did, necessarily. It's on us."
Kendricks did more than his fair share of work on Saturday, recording a season-high 14 tackles -- one shy of his career best -- and recovering the first fumble of his career, caused by true freshman outside linebacker Cecil Whiteside.
"He's a playmaker," said Cal defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast said. "He's a guy who has identified himself in this defense as somebody that we're going to use, and he's got a very good skill set, he moved from outside to inside, he's getting more comfortable inside daily and he's an active guy that we're going to find ways to use, week-in and week-out."
Whiteside was in for the majority of the game, along with fellow freshman Chris McCain on the outside, and the two combined for six tackles and half a sack.
"Cecil knocked the ball loose on the one, but they're a progressing, young group that's a work-in-progress," Pendergast said of his outside linebackers. "You're talking about three and four guys that really haven't played at all, and they're having their growing pains week-in and week-out, and we need to have them come on in a hurry."
Washington quarterback Keith Price, though, was able to take advantage of some youthful mistakes by the outside backers, and proved incredibly slippery while making time with his legs.
"There were a couple big plays today that we gave up, and there were really a couple of them where the quarterback stepped up in the pocket and threw the ball off the scramble and we have to just stay in better coverage down the field once the quarterback does break the pocket," said Pendergast. "That's one thing we talked about this week, because he was that kind of guy. We've just got to keep working at the things that we're doing and try to get better at those balls down the field."
Price didn't use his legs so much to straight-up run, but he did use them to great effect in escaping pressure, finishing the day 19-of-25 for 292 yards and three touchdowns.
"He's a good quarterback," said Washington native and Cal defensive lineman Trevor Guyton, who had four tackles and both of the Bears' sacks. "A lot of guys should have wrapped up and tackles everywhere, we should have wrapped up and converted a lot more on those third downs where they converted. They played well, but we've got to play better."
Though Price took two sacks, he avoided at least three more.
"We've just got to keep working at it," Pendergast said. "We preach all the time about finishing, and today's no different. We've got to continue to work and finish and work on finishing our pass rush, because the coverage at times was good down field and they protected a lot. They kept seven and eight guys in, because of the pressure, so then, we've got to be able to cover them. We've got to win some one-on-one match-ups when we're gaming up front, so when you go out there during the course of the game, it ends up becoming a guessing game, whether they're protecting or not. You're calling pressures, you're calling coverage, you're calling pressure, you're mixing it up in there, and you win your fair share and they're going to make some plays, as well."
The Huskies had six plays of 20 yards or more on the day, highlighted by a 70-yard touchdown strike from Price to junior tailback Chris Polk with 12:13 left in the game to give Washington the winning margin.
"It didn't look like a bust. I don't know what call we had on there, but it looked like we were in two deep and one-on-one inside with the backer and they ran right by him up the middle," Tedford said.
On that particular defensive play call, there was not supposed to be a safety back where Polk caught the ball, but inside linebacker D.J. Holt got beat, straight-up, as Polk blew past him for the wide-open catch.
"They were in an empty-type formation with the back getting free release out of the backfield," Pendergast said. "He was one-on-one with D.J. and he hurt us. We would have liked to have gotten to him more. Obviously we didn't, he held the ball and made a nice throw over the middle and that was a good job on their part. D.J. had that back up the seam there, and we didn't get enough pressure on the quarterback at that time, and they did a good job executing. Their back got behind him, [Price] lobbed it over D.J.'s head and the guy made a play."
Polk ran 20 times for 60 yards and a touchdown, but was a bigger threat in the passing game, catching four balls for 85 yards and that touchdown.
The Huskies' second-leading receiver was big freshman tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins, who hauled in four balls for 54 yards and two touchdowns.
Cal opened up the scoring with a 90-yard pass from Maynard to Allen with 10 minutes left in the first quarter -- the longest pass in school history - as Allen streaked up the right side of the field.
"It was just a seam route, really a middle read," Allen said. "I just stay up top, run a post and bust to the middle, I hit the seam and they didn't cover me."
As soon as Allen caught the ball, he was swarmed by defenders, including junior Desmond Trufant, who was nearly juked out of his cleats on some nifty footwork from Allen.
"I was just playing with him," Allen laughed. "I set him up, didn't know I was going to go back outside, but I saw him close at the end, so I cut off of him, trying to beat him to the corner."
Allen saw a good blend of coverages throughout the day, sometimes getting double-covered, sometimes seeing no coverage at all, en route to setting a career high with 197 receiving yards on 10 catches.
"I just run my routes, just like in practice," Allen said. "I try to get open and that's what I was doing, trying to find a hole in the zone a little bit, and then they switched it up a little bit in man, double coverage, I'm just trying to get open."
The one that eluded him, though, was the final toss, which will now have to sit in his and the team's craw for two weeks until they next see action, on the road, in Eugene, Ore.
"I just know I didn't have a chance to get the ball. I knew it was out of bounds. He came up to me and I told him that we mess up some times; nobody's perfect. They played man-up, he was head-up on me, and he wasn't outside, so I knew I was going to be open. I felt like I got separation," Allen said. "I thought I could help the team like I did in Colorado, but I guess it just wasn't enough. We'll come back the week after next."