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The Christian In Me
[This sermon is third in a three-part series: "The Humanist in Me," "The Theist in Me," and "The Christian in Me."]
In this series of sermons, there is much more we could do. The first week, the subject was "The Humanist in Me," and last week it was "The Theist in Me." Perhaps you could suggest more titles that seem appropriate. I could speak of "The Judaism in Me," for I have been deeply influenced by that tradition. Though I make no pretense at being a scientist, I could easily claim to speak about "The Scientist in Me." I have some sympathetic understanding for those who are looking for our roots in more primitive, earth-centered religions, and to that extent I could also talk about "The Pagan in Me." My list could go on and on, and perhaps over time I will add to the current list.
But today, I propose to speak of "The Christian in Me." Even though we may not call ourselves, individually, Christian, our denomination has grown from the Christian tradition. Further, such celebrations as Christmas Day are an important part of our culture. And no matter how secularized and commercialized it has become or may become, there is no denying that this holiday season focuses on the man for whom Christianity was established—Jesus. Christianity is the religion of Jesus, and it is appropriate to take a deeper look at the influence of that person, and that religion, in our lives. This is as true for Unitarian Universalists as it is for anyone.
Roy Phillips' story about the 'cross in the closet' at the Unitarian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a very common story, both symbolically and literally, for Unitarian churches around the country.
At some time during the last fifty years or so, the vast majority of our Unitarian churches in this country removed a cross from prominent display in their sanctuary.
One urban church I know offers a typical example. The cross was there in the front until about 20 years ago. Its removal was only mildly controversial, but most people in the church believed that Unitarianism had grown beyond its Christian roots, and that the cross was no longer central to their religion. A few strongly objected, but their opposition to removing the cross had more to do with the importance of tradition than it did with theology.
It was removed from the main sanctuary and placed in the small chapel in another wing of the church. Over the years, the chapel was used less and less, until eventually it became a storage place, like a large closet. Today, in the main sanctuary, where the cross used to be, there hangs a large beautiful tapestry of "the tree of life." This has become the visual focus for the congregation.
At All Souls, our covenant is the visual focus in our sanctuary and many people, especially new members, comment on how meaningful it is. Once in a while, though, when I hear a comment about how wonderful the covenant is, I hear it described it as being "where the cross is supposed to be."
In New England, where some of the oldest church buildings are Unitarian, it is fairly easy to identify them. Instead of a cross on top of the steeple, there is usually a weather vane.
What goes around comes around, they say. Today, a number of Unitarians are reconsidering our almost universal decision over the last century to remove crosses from positions of prominence in Unitarian churches.
One of the earliest criticisms came in an article written about 15 years ago by Duke Gray, then minister of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago. Duke entitled his article, "Was Dracula a Unitarian?"
He pointed out an interesting coincidence. In the 1600s, Unitarianism flourished in a section of Europe known as Transylvania. And of course, today, Transylvania is best known as the legendary home of the vampire Dracula. The legend of Dracula, he reminded us, includes this curious fact: Dracula was frightened of crosses. In the presence of a cross, Dracula would loose his power, cringe in fear, and run away.
Duke suggested that Unitarians today, like Dracula, suffer from an ailment he has called "cross cringe." We are afraid of them, he said, and when we are around them, our feelings range from mild discomfort to rigid antagonism.
There is enough truth in what Duke said that most of us recognize what he means when he talks about "cross cringe." I think the truth is far more complicated than that, though.
What I would like to do this morning is symbolically bring the cross out of the closet, dust it off, and look at it again. When I am done, we may wish to put it back in there, and that's all right with me, too. My plea is that it not be summarily discarded; that we know where it is in case we need it.
I also want to talk about it in the context of my own life and my own religious views. I was born into a solidly liberal Christian home, raised in a conservatively Christian church, and socialized in a predominantly Christian culture. I suspect that much of this is true for many people here. You and I still live in a predominantly Christian culture.
It is impossible for me to deny that there is a lot of "Christian" in me, though sometimes I may foolishly try to deny it. Whatever "Christian" there is in me, I have found it, upon honest reflection, to be an important and comforting source of strength. And for that, I am grateful to that Christian home, that Christian church, and that Christian culture.
To identify the Christian in me, I find it easiest to begin with a look at the Unitarian relationship with Christianity.
It has been a long journey for Unitarianism from the Reformation days to today. Four hundred years ago, all Unitarians considered themselves to be Christian. More than that, they considered themselves—as every Christian group considers itself—to be the most genuine form of Christianity. Of course, the rest of Christendom had a difficult time recognizing it.
Many Unitarians today find it, well, awkward to understand how our forbearers could reject the doctrine of the trinity and still consider themselves Christian. This only attests to how miserable Unitarians have been in the art of theological persuasion from the start (of course, theological persuasion in those days often took the shape of a sword).
The early Unitarians were thoroughly biblical in their convictions. I'll explain their position briefly but I won't dwell on it.
The distinction between a Unitarian Christian and a Trinitarian Christian is perhaps best explained by the distinction Unitarians often make between "the religion of Jesus" (the religion that Jesus taught) and "the religion about Jesus" (the religion that centers on who Jesus was). To the extent that there is a Christian in me, it is decidedly the religion that Jesus taught, rather than the religion about Jesus.
There are really two radically different religions in the New Testament. Remember what your grandmother called the "red letter" Bible? Those were Bibles specially printed so that the words of Jesus appear in red print, and everything else appears in black. Believe it or not, your grandmother was promoting a Unitarian Bible! Because, if you examine only the words of Jesus—that is, the teachings of Jesus—you will find nothing remotely resembling a Trinitarian formula which asks us to worship him as if he were a god. Nothing. All such talk came from those who lived after Jesus did.
The religion that Jesus taught was primarily ethical—how to live rightly, how to treat others. When Jesus was asked, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" he did not answer with a creed to be believed. He answered by saying, "You must love God, and you must love your neighbor as yourself." That is all you are required to do. And he then illustrated that love by telling the parable of the Good Samaritan—which, you will recall—is a story about ethics, not about dogma. Nothing, absolutely nothing, was mentioned about believing some creedal statement concerning the nature of the Godhead. The religion that Jesus taught was thoroughly ethical; it was not theological.
If you wish to know the religion of Jesus, don't dwell upon the edicts and proclamations of churches though the ages. Look to the red lettered words. Take, for example, the Sermon on the Mount. Here Jesus offers ethical advice: "So whatever you wish others would do to you, do so to them" This has been received through the ages as "The Golden Rule." Seek reconciliation with those whom you are in conflict with—in fact, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you. He offers advice on moral humility: "Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? First, take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
He offers comfort to those who are troubled: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth…Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted...." He advises spiritual humility, telling people not to pray in public, like the hypocrites, but practice your piety, your prayer, your spirituality, in private. And he offers hope and aspiration: "You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world...Let your light shine so that others may see your good works."
This is the religion that Jesus taught, and if it be Christianity, then there is a Christian in me.
The religion that Jesus taught has to do with loving your enemies, caring for the needy, putting principle above wealth and power, accepting those who are different, showing mercy, seeking justice, and things like that. Or, as Jesus himself put it, "[I have come] to preach good news to the poor,…proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed." Elsewhere, he said, "I have come that you may have life, and have it more abundantly." That is the religion of Jesus, and it is one that I share, and one that is shared by most Unitarian Universalists I know. The Christian in me (and in you) remains strong to the extent that we take those teachings seriously.
Unfortunately, much was to happen to Christianity that was to shape it, or at least a large part of it, into something other than what Jesus taught. After Jesus died, others came along and taught a different religion: a religion about who Jesus was. The focus of this new religion shifted attention away from the teachings of Jesus to a belief about the divine nature of Jesus. The earliest and most prominent proponent of this new religion was Paul the Apostle, the author of most of the New Testament. But you don't find many red letters in the books he wrote, because he did not teach the religion that Jesus taught. He taught a new religion that centered on the doctrine that Jesus was some form of God.
The distinction between these two religions is significant. In one, Jesus is human; in the other, he is God. The crucial practical difference, for me, at least, is one of accessibility. If he is human, even I can aspire to follow his teachings, based upon his life. If he is God, his life is no longer a model for my own, no longer accessible. For how can I aspire to be like a God?
Some people are perplexed that Unitarian Universalists observe the Christmas holiday, wondering why we would do so if we don't worship the god, Jesus. To me, the key is found in that issue of accessibility—that Jesus was like me. The Christmas story is of the birth of a child in the most humble of surroundings, being raised in the most ordinary of families, but arising to the heights of moral and spiritual accomplishment. To me, the story loses its power if, in fact, the ordinariness of the person, Jesus, is left out of the plot. Christmas is a universal metaphor that only gains in its power if it is the story of a real person.
In describing "The Christian in Me," I have spoken, so far, mostly of the teacher, Jesus. Let me say just a word about the religion that arose out of his teachings, Christianity. It is no secret that Christianity has had a rather checkered history. On one hand, there is the legacy of persecution, violence and oppression. It has been used to justify evils ranging from slavery to the suppression of women's rights. On the other hand, Christianity has been the inspiration for great feats of generosity and benevolence. Hospitals and schools and children's homes and charity organizations have been formed in our society, mostly out of Christian motivation. In most cities, there are probably more Christian-based social welfare organizations that provide help to the needy than any other kind of agency.
No one can deny that Christianity has given comfort and hope to countless souls over the centuries, and surely this must count as significant. In an 1821 sermon, William Ellery Channing spoke of how Christianity has been a support to the great masses of people, even those who don't fully understand their own faith. It has had, he said,
an exalting and consoling influence, a power to confer the true happiness of human nature, to give that peace which the world cannot give....[This supports] the faith of thousands who never read and cannot understand the learned books of Christian apologists, who want, perhaps, words to explain the ground of their belief,…but who hold the Gospel with conviction more intimate and unwavering than mere argument ever produced.
I mention this aspect of Christianity simply to honor the fact that it has, over the generations, offered profound hope, courage, and comfort to so many. Hope, courage and comfort are essentials to any religion, and to the extent that my own religion contains them, I recognize Christianity as a major source for these values in me.
But I return, once more, to the history.
Over the following centuries, Unitarians held firmly to their belief in Christianity as it was taught by Jesus. But something happened to Christendom over which they had no control. It became increasingly obvious that Paul's view of Christianity—a view that defined Jesus as the object of worship—had become widely accepted as the norm. The religion that Jesus taught had become secondary.
I return to Channing. Over 150 years ago, Channing knew that Christianity was becoming defined differently from the intent of its founder. In a sermon on Christianity, he wrote the following:
When I think what Christianity has become in the hands of politicians and priests…how it has crushed the soul for ages…how it has struck the intellect with palsy and haunted the imagination with superstitious phantoms; when I think how, under almost every form of this religion, its ministers have...hewn and compressed it into the shape of rigid creeds, and have then pursued by menaces of everlasting woe whoever should question the divinity of these works of their hands; when I consider, in a word, how, under such influences, Christianity has been and still is exhibited, in forms which shock alike the reason, conscience and heart, I feel deeply, painfully, what a different system it is from that which Jesus taught...
I make no bones about it, and no apologies for it: Unitarians lost the battle over what defines Christianity. It took them a long time to realize they lost. As recently as a hundred years ago, most Unitarians still held tenaciously to the view that theirs was an authentically Christian religion. It was too painful to let go of that view.
So, in the last century, many Unitarians have let go, and the cross, for the most part, has been placed in the closet for safe keeping. Letting go wasn't easy. In the 1880s, the debates centered on a statement of covenant for the Unitarians, and whether it should recognize that we follow the "lordship of Jesus" or the "leadership of Jesus." Leadership won out. Later, the phrase became "the Spirit of Jesus."
Today, our denominational covenant does not even mention Jesus by name. Instead it recognizes the contributions of "Jewish and Christian teachings, which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves." The religion that Jesus taught is still very much a part of us, but the religion that is taught about who Jesus was, which today seems to own the name "Christianity," has little to do with who we are.
I tell this story of the Unitarian journey with Christianity because it is sometimes parallel to my own story, and to the story of many Unitarians today. What the Unitarians experienced over four hundred years of history was a grand scale metaphor for what I experienced as an individual when coming into adulthood.
While running from adolescence into adulthood, I tripped over a paradox. It was there right in front of me, but I couldn't avoid bumping into it. What churches say Christianity is is not what Jesus said; but it is the churches, not Jesus, that have the final say. So at some point in my life—and I cannot isolate it to a specific day or even a specific year—but at some point, I realized that I had to content myself with not being a "Christian." I had to let go of the label, even if much of Christianity remained in me. And so the symbolic cross was stored away in some symbolic closet.
And it's too bad, really. I have never lost respect for the religion that Jesus taught. Of all the things he said, there are only a few with which I disagree, and there are a few that I don't understand, but the vast majority of his teachings I find to he profound, inspiring, and true.
But since the churches seem to define a "Christian" differently, most of us have forsaken the label and closeted the symbol of the cross.
My reason for going through the history this morning is to suggest that Unitarians, while they may have closeted the symbol and the label to a large extent, have not, in my view, forsaken the religion that Jesus taught—at least, I don't feel I have.
I have said that "most" of us have forsaken the label "Christian." I am quick to point out that there is a significant movement within our denomination known as the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship. This group of Unitarians proudly and gladly claims the label Christian (and I suppose I am proud and glad that they do), for they refuse to let others define it for them. In many of their Unitarian churches, the cross is still prominently displayed. I once spoke in a U.U. Church in Rhode Island that has a large cross dominating the sanctuary, and they repeat the Lord's Prayer, which they call "the Prayer of Jesus," each week.
I said earlier this morning that I want to bring the cross symbolically out of the closet, dust it off, and look at it again. It is important to do this from time to time, I think, because Unitarians—myself included—too often succumb to a very unhealthy trap. A key cornerstone of our outlook is tolerance. One cannot understand our principles without knowing how important it is for us to practice tolerance of other religions. We learned this mostly by being a minority religion ourselves.
Too often, I'm afraid, our tolerance has a blind spot. And that blind spot is Christianity—especially Christianity that demands loyalty to Jesus more than loyalty to what Jesus taught. By identifying this blind spot in our tolerance, I am talking about myself as much as anyone else, because I often catch myself in this trap.
As a rule, you will not find me publicly criticizing Buddhism. No, sir. If I talk about Buddhism, it is to praise it, not bury it. Just about everything I say about Judaism is sympathetic and understanding. I like nothing more than to strike up a conversation with an American Indian who can tell me about his native religion. I'm all ears and completely open. Even a Scientologist, a Mormon, or a Hare Krishna would elicit a tolerant response from me.
Why is it, then, that tolerance comes so much harder for me when the subject is Christian religion?
David Rankin, a Unitarian minister in Detroit, tells of the time he spoke at a Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. He chose Christian symbolism in literature as his topic. After the service, he was asked to attend a sermon discussion in the basement. He was greeted by an angry man who shouted, "We have a free pulpit in this church, and we don't want any of that Christian garbage!" "Like W.C. Fields," wrote Rankin, "I have never returned to Philadelphia."
Why is it that tolerance seems so much harder for us when it comes to Christian religions? I think I know why.
Those of you who have been, as I have been, a parent of a teenager, know that what the books say about adolescence is often true. Those of you who are going to be the parent of a teenager—read those books cautiously.
The books say this: among other things, a teenager is going to rebel. The teenager will ignore anything you say and have little tolerance for your views. This is actually healthy, the books add encouragingly, because the adolescent is shaping his or her identity as separate from his or her parents'. If all goes right, after the teenage years, when the adolescent has a secure self-identity, then he or she will be able to relate maturely again with the parent, on equal terms. They may disagree, but they won't be quite as disagreeable. Or so say the books.
Well, as Jesus might say in a parable, Unitarianism is like unto a teenager. Christianity is our parent; it gave us birth. After a very long childhood, we are now in our long teenage stage of rebellion, creating a separate identity, which is healthy, I suppose. Like any other teenager learning separation, we have very little patience for our parent.
I suspect that may be why we find it easier to be more tolerant toward Rastafarians than toward Baptists.
This analogy could, of course, be taken far too literally. But the lesson is sound, I think. It takes a certain maturity to be tolerant, and it takes a certain security in one's identity to risk being tolerant.
Part of being tolerant with regard to Christianity is recognizing and honoring the Christian in us.
I have taken the cross out of our closet today in part to remind myself, and to remind you, that our religious parent does indeed have something of value. And I hope that by taking it out once in a while, we can find it easier to understand and appreciate its value, and not feel threatened by it.
We will probably not make the cross central again—especially as long as Christianity remains a religion about Jesus more than a religion of Jesus.
Nor would I want the cross central if that meant restricting or narrowing our religious search and vision. But neither should we altogether remove the cross, and the tradition it represents. We should take it out once in a while, dust it off, and honor it. Like the cross at the Unitarian Church in St. Paul, move it around: now you see it, now you don't.


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It looked all set to be another frustrating afternoon for the Gunners, held to a 2-2 draw at Southampton in midweek, following a dogged display by an Eagles side who are fighting for survival.
However, England midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - fit again following five months out with a serious knee injury suffered on the first day of the season - finally ended Palace's stubborn resistance when he chipped in a fine pass from Santi Cazorla at the start of the second half.
Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny produced a brilliant save to deny Cameron Jerome an equaliser from a close-range diving header before World Cup hopeful Oxlade-Chamberlain struck again on 73 minutes to make sure of victory.
City host third-placed Chelsea on Monday night and so could once again knock the Gunners off the summit, and Wenger accepts many pundits see the title as City's to lose.
"I can understand that completely because we haven't done it for a while, and as well I must say that we face quality competitors," said Wenger, who expects to be without deadline-day loan arrival Kim Kallstrom for up to six weeks as the midfielder recovers from a back problem.
"We do not play against average teams and Man City have scored over 100 goals, so everybody thinks 'can you beat these teams?' I say yes, and that is what we have to show.
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The only thing I can say is that after 24 games we are there, and it's now about how we finish the season."
Palace remain in a dogfight for survival, just a point above 18th-placed West Ham.
Eagles boss Tony Pulis feels new signings Tom Ince and Joe Ledley, coupled with the imminent return to fitness of forward Glenn Murray, can only boost their hopes.
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Wenger, meanwhile, admitted he would probably not have signed Kallstrom if he had been aware of the injury earlier.
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"I would not have signed him if we had two or three more days to do something, but it was Friday night at five o'clock, so it was (a case of) you (sign) nobody or you do it under these conditions," said Wenger, who was already without Wales international Aaron Ramsey for around six weeks.
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|Lunar Clementine mission shows the South Pole of the Moon. The permanently shadowed region center showed earlier evidence of meteor cratering and ice never exposed to direct sunlight, but Arecibo radar reveals dust.
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The European Space Agency's SMART missions – Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology – are designed to test new spacecraft technology while visiting various places in the solar system. SMART-1 is now at the moon, mapping the surface mineralogy. Future missions can use the technology being tested by SMART-1 to go to Mars, Venus, Mercury, comets, and the sun.
SMART-1 flew to the moon using a new type of ion propulsion system. These engines work by expelling a continuous beam of charged particles –ions– out the back, which then pushes the spacecraft forward. Because SMART-1 is also testing miniaturized instruments, it is tiny by spacecraft standards, weighing only 367 kilograms (809 pounds). It could fit into a cube just one meter (3.3 feet) across, although the solar panel wings extend out about 14 meters (46 feet).
In this article, Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist at ESA and Project Scientist for SMART-1, describes how lunar discoveries could improve our understanding of Earth's history.
The SMART-1 survey of mineral resources will be the first geologic map of the moon. We are using the infrared spectrometer on SMART-1 to take spectra of the lunar soil, which tells us the distribution of minerals on the surface. Some minerals were created by volcanism, others by impacts, so they've seen different types of pressures and temperatures. This shows up as different crystalline structures. By measuring the spectral fingerprints of these crystals, we can reconstruct the history of the different minerals.
|Electrical solar energy for SMART probe.
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Another scientific objective is to study how the moon responds to solar X-rays. When solar X-rays strike the moon, different elements such as magnesium, silicium, aluminum and iron emit X-rays at different wavelengths. By measuring those emissions, we are going to show where these elements are present on the surface. This will add to our understanding of the moon's composition. Is the moon made of green cheese, or something else?
When we know the composition of the moon, we can better understand the historical relationship between the moon and the Earth. We believe now – at least this is the prevailing scenario – that the moon was created 4.5 billion years ago when there were still a lot of planetary embryos (called planetesimals) floating around in the solar system. When the Earth was very young, only 10 to 50 million years old and still a global ocean of magma, a body about the size of Mars impacted the Earth. This impact blasted a mixture of materials, from both the impactor and from Earth, into orbit around the primitive Earth. This material then re-condensed to form the moon. By measuring the chemical makeup of the moon now, and knowing what we think was the makeup of the Earth back then, we will be able to better understand how much of the early Earth is incorporated into the moon, and what happened during this great impact event.
|Distance view of road travelled. Image of the Earth and Moon taken by Galileo spacecraft.
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Future missions might be able to collect samples from the lunar surface. Some of these samples could be meteorites – asteroids or perhaps rocks from Venus, Mars and the Earth. In particular, there might be meteorites from one planet that has completely disappeared now — the early Earth. Because of tectonic evolution and erosion reshaping the continental crust, the early Earth is gone. But 3.8 billion years ago, when there was a period of heavy asteroid bombardment, some pieces of this early Earth could have been projected onto the moon. Those rocks would now be buried under some protective layers.
The moon is the childhood attic of the Earth. It is where we put the toys in the closet, and we didn't play with them for 4 billion years. But now we can go back and look at them – we can go back to the moon and get some of these samples of the early Earth. Maybe there would be still some organics embedded into the samples there, and maybe even some trace of an organism that predates the oldest organism we've found so far in the Earth's fossil record. But collecting those samples requires a very well organized strategy, and that is something we could put as an objective for future robotic or maybe even human missions. It may be that humans are needed to spot the best places where there will be some layers from this Earth ejecta on the moon from 3.8 billion years ago.
We could also look for rocks from early Venus, since we believe early Venus was also reshaped in a 50 to 100 million-year time scale. But for samples of early Mars, I believe it would better to go to Mars itself. Because Mars is a geologically less active world than the Earth, there are still some very old terrains there that we could access.
Future missions that will rely on technologies we are now testing with SMART-1 include the BepiColombo mission to Mercury and the Solar Orbiter, which will study the sun close-up. We are also planning astrophysics and fundamental physics missions, such as LISA, a gravitational wave detector. LISA will rely on a micropropulsion thruster to maintain, within nanometric accuracy, the positions of three spacecraft separated by a million kilometers.
Related Web Pages
Lunar Prospector
Impact origin of moon
Review of Theories of Moon-Forming Impact (Planetary Science Institute)
Moon Meteor Truly Extraterrestrial
Moon Written in Stone
SMART-1: Chips Off the Terrestrial Block
Treasures from the Lunar Attic
Lunar Scarface
End of an Era, Dawn of Another?
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Humble Bundle got my attention with this one. Might buy two copies so my brother can read some PA while overseas on mission. Amazing how they have taken products that are essentially given away for free over the internet by the creators, and found another way to somehow make money off it. Humble Bundle must be using witchcraft.
Where's the incentive? It's not like Google will hire him as CEO after...
They reaffirmed their support of SOPA right at the start:
"We've only ever stated that the ESA represents us in legislative matters "
SOPA is a legislative matter. The ESA supports SOPA, therefore CAPCOM supports SOPA. Then saying afterwards that they have no internal stance is meaningless.
Your example actually works the opposite way. Cars past the early 90s are all required to use the same code diagnostic software (OBD-II). You generally need to buy a scanner, but it allows you to read the codes your onboard diagnostic system is storing. Your repair manual will have a section of codes listed to decipher them.
Where the car example does mirror Campos' is that the codes and diagnostics are designed for trained technicians (doctors in his case) and can still be pretty cryptic to decipher.
I feel it would be great to have data like this freely available. As long as it is not being used for marketting, i think the person who owns it should have free use. As long as it doesn't contain personal identifiers, it could be used to build apps to monitor your health in real time, and the data it collects over time could be used by researchers to study and make advancements in their field.
Holy crap, i think i just exceeded the total money supply of the entire world! No wonder the MAFIAA think they deserve the same if my own MAFIAAnomics can reach the same outcome from a single song.
Multiplied by the amount of discs produced, the number of average views per disc, and the number of average viewers in the audience of each viewing. Maybe they could cut the number of views down, except my dvds all seem to be locked so i can't skip to the menu.
Note how at the end the author says "I don't know that this is what happened, I'm just guessing"
You ARE the Brute Squad!
Come on DH, if the RIAA and MPAA can get you kicked off the net now on accusations, the next step is to make it illegal for anyone to speak about their failures to adapt to the present and future.
If you are watching a movie, do you get charged for each song in the soundtrack? What about if you are watching a music video for a song and it shows clips of the movie? Seems only fair to charge a fee on top of a fee for those privileges.
Maybe the chip can be programmed to cause you to go blind or deaf whenever music or movies are playing that you aren't willing to pay for. That way we only have to reject one or two of our senses temporarily to avoid infringing.
Mike is always advocating the importance of good execution, but i don't think we're talking about the same thing.
To add to this, losing 1/3rd of your traffic is huge. If you run your own business, and you suddenly lost 1/3rd of your gross sales, would your business still be profitable? Doubtful.
What i got from the article was that if the cult could show sufficient damages under Dendrite, then discovery would still be allowed. I find it disingenuous that the cult copyrighted the manual shortly before pursuing legal action. It seems like it was just legal maneuvering specifically to identify the people speaking out against them. If you don't think anonymity is important, especially when you are speaking out against religious groups, i challenge you to join a scientology chapter and then proceed to shed light on your experiences there.
If Apple wants to control the reveal of their product, then why was an Apple engineer bar hopping with a prototype? It's not Gizmodo's responsibility to sit on that story, and Apple got A LOT of great, free coverage of the iPhone4. Too bad they lumped in all the negative publicity for being vindictive.
I think you need to check your sarc meter.
I never said the claims were right or wrong. I said there is a clear parallel between them.
Hmmm...Lindows claims Windows trademark is invalid because it is too generic for trademark validation, despite it being the most used OS in the world. Shagbook claims Facebook is too generic for trademark validation despite it being the most popular social media site in the work...Has your brain stopped working that you can't draw the parallel?
Wait...so are you saying you think Mike thinks Facebook is evil? I seem to recall reading numerous postings by Mike calling out the Winklevoss claims against Facebook as ridiculous.
No, i think Facebook refers to Facebook, and that Shagbook does NOT refer to Facebook. The whole point of the article is: Facebook is overzealous with trademark lawsuits, someone is finally hitting back.
There must be some loophole for surveillance footage. I think it is completely wrong that he showed it to a group of teachers in some private screening. If he was going to show it to anyone, it should have been the police. But I don't think seeing something like this while watching surveillance footage should be an indictable offense. That would be the same to me as if the video was entered into evidence and played for the judge and both parties (and possibly jury). Once again, completely wrong and possibly illegal to host a private screening of this.


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Here's Kenny:
"He's a leader. He's the kind of guy you want in the middle part of your infield. He will profile offensively, I think, better in the middle part of your infield. And we may have a guy who can be an All-Star at that position vs. a guy who would maybe be in the middle of the pack at third base."


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Pope: Rediscover joy in faith
SILAO, Mexico - At an outdoor Mass beneath the slopes of Cubilete, a towering mountain crowned with a statue of Jesus Christ, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged Mexicans on Sunday to more tightly embrace their faith to prevail against the country's violence, poverty and other plagues.
"We must overcome the fatigue of faith and rediscover the joy of being Christians," Benedict told hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics in his sermon. "From this joy spring the energies that are needed to serve Christ in distressing situations of human suffering."
Invoking the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's Catholic patroness, the 84-year-old pontiff said, "When so many are suffering due to poverty, corruption, domestic violence, drug trafficking, the crisis of values and increased crime, we come to Mary in search of consolation, strength and hope."
Benedict's call comes as the gangland carnage that has killed more than 50,000 in little more than five years still besieges much of Mexico. Benedict met briefly Saturday with eight family members of Mexicans killed, kidnapped or vanished amid the mayhem.
"We have suffered so much violence that we hope he can bring a message that will change things," said librarian Guadalupe Pulida, 50, who had traveled 12 hours by bus with dozens of people from her parish in Matamoros, a gangster-battered city that shares the Rio Grande with Brownsville. "It's only faith that might save us."
This is only Benedict's second visit to Latin America - home to about half the world's 1 billion Roman Catholics - since assuming the papacy seven years ago. He flies Monday morning to Cuba, where he will hold public Masses in both Havana and the eastern city of Santiago.
"It's just the right time for him to be here," said Teresa Mungia, 28, who had come with her parents and siblings from the city of Guadalajara. "We need peace in Mexico. We need a better world."
Many turned away
Celebrated beneath an azure sky and a blazing tropical sun, Sunday's morning Mass was the high point of a weekend of the pontiff's visit - his first and likely last to Mexico, which has the second largest Catholic population in the world.
Vatican officials estimated the crowd packing into the Mass site at more than 640,000.
People began flocking to the Mass site Saturday evening and into Sunday's pre-dawn hours to get as close to the altar as possible. By shortly after dawn, the sprawling park nearly was filled to capacity. Thousands more people who trod more than four miles up a closed highway - and many of whom had traveled great distances to be here - were turned away moments before the Mass began.
"The lack of organization was incredible," said Hilda Martin, 53, who came from Tucson, Ariz., to attend with her three siblings. "There is no water, no toilets. We are all here for God, but this is ridiculous."
But she and many others took the chaos in stride, saying they were content with their effort.
"God knows we're here even if we didn't get in," said Moises Rivas, 21, who made a 32-hour bus trip from near the border with Belize, on Mexico's Caribbean coast. "It was well worth the trouble."
"Christ the King," the shrine atop Cubilete, serves as one of Mexico's most visited religious sites. It commemorates the so-called Cristero War of the late 1920s, when priests led Catholic guerrillas in bloody rebellion to the government's anti-Vatican policies.
Some 90,000 people were killed in several years of fighting, most of them in these central highlands, many of whose inhabitants remain Mexico's most devout and conservative Catholics.
Politicians at Mass
The anti-Catholic campaign was waged by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for most of the last century. Mexico's PRI-led government re-established formal relations with Vatican only in the early 1990s. Mexico's presidency has been held since 2000 by the conservative National Action Party, many of whose members are closely tied to the Catholic Church.
Enrique Peña Nieto, the PRI's presidential candidate who is favored to win the July 1 elections, attended Sunday's Mass and took Holy Communion. So did President Felipe Calderon, other presidential candidates and leading politicians of all political stripes.
"It's right that his shrine should be above all a place of pilgrimage, of fervent prayer, of conversion, of reconciliation, of the search for truth and acceptance of grace," Benedict said in his homily. "We ask Christ to reign in our hearts, making them pure, docile and courageous in humility."


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Killing the Food Supply: The Dangers of Genetically Modified Food
Killing the Food Supply: The Dangers of Genetically Modified Food
by Anthony Gucciardi
May 2nd, 2010
Genetically modified food has entered the food supply through secrecy and deception. Some claimed that genetically modifying the food supply could even put an end to world hunger. At first glance, genetic modification really does look like a great idea. It allows for larger crops, enhanced growing seasons, and even bigger animals. The truth of the matter is that genetically modified food has been shown to sterilize the population, lead to infant mortality, and exacerbate the usage of pesticides on a global scale.
Food Abomination
The world is quickly realizing that there is no benefit to consuming and producing genetically modified food. The consumers are speaking out, and their voice is being heard. Food free of genetically modified ingredients is the fastest growing retail brand. As the information surrounding GM (genetically modified) food rose to the mainstream media, the people began to anger. They were looking for someone to blame for allowing this atrocity occur, and they had to look no farther than Monsanto.
The Monsanto corporation is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is responsible for producing and selling genetically engineered seeds. These are the seeds that yield genetically modified crops. Monsanto has such a grip on the industry, that it produces 90% of the United State's genetically engineered seeds. This is the same company responsible for the development of bovine growth hormone, which incited mass controversy over its effects. It was determined by many health experts to be extremely dangerous, with many linking it to cancer and other life-threatening conditions.
Numerous studies have proven genetically modified foods to be an extreme health hazard, but one must only look at how it is created to realize how unsafe GM food really is.
How it is Made
The following is an excerpt from Blind Health: Forbes Magazine Declares Monsanto Company of the Year, an article I authored that exposes GM foods. The article was featured on multiple top news websites.
The genetic modification process is potentially harmful to your own genetic coding, according to many health experts.
The bioengineering process itself is quite ridiculous. Billions are spent each year to genetically modify the food supply, tainting it with genetically modified frankenfood. Genetically modifying foods requires one to tamper with the very genetic coding of the crop and/or seed. The process entails the transfer of genes from one organism to another, such as taking particular genes from a pig and transferring them to a tomato. Not only does this defile nature, but it leads to a host of health problems.
Due to the complexity of a living organism's genetic structure, it is impossible to track the long-term results of consuming genetically modified food. Introducing new genes into even the most simple bacterium may cause an array of issues, highlighting the complexity of even the simplest organisms. Introducing new genes to highly complex organisms such as animals or crops is even riskier.
When introducing the gene to its new host, it is essentially impossible to predict the reaction. The genetic intelligence of the host could be disrupted with the introduction of the new gene, creating an adverse reaction. There is truly no way of knowing the long-term effect genetically modified food, as there are too many variables. There is simply no room for science when Monsanto is involved.
The World Takes Action
What the world is beginning to see is a swift call to action against not only genetic modification of the food supply, but against the contamination of our food supply worldwide. The people are beginning to demand that high fructose corn syrup be taken out of their food, and that aspartame be removed from products like diet soda and chewing gum. Big corporations love to push such food abominations upon us, but sooner or later the citizens demand action.
India has recently begun to recognize the dangers of genetically modified food, calling for a multitude of scientific studies to determine whether or not the food poses a threat. The people of India had been calling for a change that the government was forced to recognize.
Public sentiment is negative. It is my duty to adopt a cautious, precautionary, principle-based approach, said Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
Even in the United States, Monsanto is currently under investigation by seven states. Since so many concerned citizens are demanding something to be done about genetically modified, the government of your nation is forced to respond. Through activism and spreading the word, genetically modified food can easily be made a sad mistake of the past.


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Let me give a fairly simple example of where the forms break down in representing common family and meta-family relationships. In the areas of the world that have inherited the language and traditions of the Roman Empire (commonly referred to as Romance languages today) the standard form genealogical record is unsuitable. Here is a quote from George Ryskamp's book, Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage (Ryskamp, George R. Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage. Riverside, Calif: Hispanic Family History Research, 1984, page 268) made in the context of discussing research in original Spanish parish registers:
Some may ask, "Why not take notes directly onto family group sheets?" This is a very unwise practice for a number of reasons. First, the family group sheet does not always allow for all the information contained in the original records. For example, there may be no place to put the information about padrinos (godparents)and where they are from. The other reason, perhaps more important, is that part of the value of the original records comes in recognizing the relationship between the various items of information given, and the date on which they were entered.This issue is not confined to those people with Hispanic roots, many cultures around the world have the same issues. In my own heritage, many of my ancestors practiced plural marriage. The standard family group sheet is entirely inadequate to even acknowledge those relationships. Likewise the actual structure of a polygamous marriage is obscured by the standard pedigree chart since there is no way to differentiate between plural marriage and serial marriage except through careful examination of the dates of the marriages and the birth dates of the children. This issue extends to any other culture where the kinship tradition is outside the "standard" Western European model.
Why is this important? Primarily because the types of information recorded and analyzed by most researchers is confined to the format of the forms they use to gather information. Using the standard forms confines the researcher to one particular world view and thereby automatically eliminates much useful and necessary information about the family. I am guessing that many of the so-called "brick wall" type problems can be attributed to this narrow view of the family and its associations and the myopic focus on inadequate forms.
Presently, there is a huge push to add "stories and photos" to the family record. The primary impetus for this movement is the involvement of the youth in genealogy and to ostensibly increase involvement in family history research. But the current format of the standard forms works against this type of additional information. For example, in the standard pedigree model as used by FamilySearch.org's Family Tree, there is nothing indicating the existence of any stories or photographs about the family. That information is limited to tabs on individuals. Without looking at each individual in a family, and in my case that can be almost a hundred individuals, you cannot tell if any of them have stories or photos.
FamilySearch is certainly not alone in this limitation. Although most contemporary program allow photos and stories to be attached to an individual, most, if not all, focus on the individual and not on the greater family structure. In most case, the link to the to photo or story must be added to each individual in the family without regard to the greater family structure and there is no way to focus on a family unit, as such, to see all the photos and stories attached to the individuals within the family.
The effect of the standard format and forms is to isolate the individual from the family structure (including godparents and other relationships) and focus on a very narrow set of preserved records. If there are or were any stories or photographs the use of pedigree charts and family group records have obscured their existence for decades. Of course there are no records that are truly individual in nature, all human records ultimately lead to the family and then on to the kinship systems and the greater cultural environment. By focusing on only a small sub-set of this information, the genealogists are losing the exact information needed to do what they are apparently trying to do; preserve the family's heritage.


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By Josh Monblatt, iContact Strategic Advisor
You have a special relationship with your subscribers, one that is unique and allows you to speak to them on a very personal level. But it is up to you to make sure that relationship stays on good terms.
If your inbox is anything like mine, I'm sure you have no less than 40 emails from businesses just today—each of them urging you to part with your money for a product or service you hadn't considered until you looked at that email. So, why do I look at those emails? Because those 40 emails I receive on a regular basis have done something right; they've done something that the hundreds of other businesses begging for a space in my inbox have not: They got my attention immediately and have cultivated a healthy relationship with their subscribers. Over time, they have gained my trust and confirmed (sometimes repeatedly) that I want their messages. They got my trust because they got my attention, and they got my attention because they got my trust. If you want both the attention AND trust of your subscribers or, for that matter, anyone, you must be consistently ethical, consistently compelling, and consistently relevant.
"In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics, you get shortsighted. If you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end."
-Tom Seaver
So let's focus on getting your readers to pay attention. It all starts with the subject line. Because we have to nurture our relationship, it should be obvious that we don't mislead our readers. This means we cannot write an email subject like, "$10 in Free Food at Luigi's Pizza," especially when your email takes them to a web page where they have to purchase at least $30 of food from Luigi's. A better subject line would be, "$30 for $40 of Food at Luigi's." Sure it may sound better in the original subject, and you may have generated some sales, but the second subject clearly explains what it is you're offering, and you have correctly set the expectations of your daily readers.
Maybe you don't send out emails every day but still want to get noticed. Ask yourself if your message subject is unique enough and compelling enough to have your subscribers read it immediately. Develop a sense of urgency through iContact's split testing and see what one-off subject lines work best for your specific business.
Never be afraid to test. Test out different subject lines with your list. Try a random split test, or better yet, segment your list and send the different versions of your subject line with the same message content based on geographical location, gender, previous purchaser, or whatever information you feel is pertinent to subscribers within your list. Be aware that the open rates do not always measure the success of your subject line. Maybe your email didn't generate a high open rate, but perhaps those that were opened and clicked on generated a much higher sales-per-order rate than you expected. So you now realize that your email had limited appeal, but now you can use that info to better segment your lists in the future and target those subscribers with a compelling subject. Never lose sight of your end goal.
Do your messages require action by the recipient? If so, just be bold and go ahead and say that in the very first word of your subject, for example: "Confirm your subscription" or "Click our renew link to extend your membership." If you have gained subscribers' trust, this will be appreciated and not considered spam. Let's take this one step further—what if your message is also time-sensitive? Again, go ahead and say that right away in the subject, and your loyal readership will respond.
There is no magic formula for crafting successful subject lines. There is only common sense, good advice, and learning from past mistakes. Consistently test and tweak your subject line to get the results you're looking for.
Key Points
- Consistency in ethics, content, and copy builds trust and viewership.
- Lead, but don't mislead with the message subject.
- Test and test often— tweaking little things often produces big results.
- If action is required, say so immediately.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 25, 2014) – The current U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Weekly update released on March 25 includes briefs on U.S. players.
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- Contact: Bill Kauffman
REVIEWING FOURTH RED-BLUE MATCH: San Diego area members of the U.S. Women's Training Group shined in the fourth and final USA Red-Blue match played on March 19 at the Coast Volleyball Club located in their hometown. Kelly Reeves (San Diego) led all players in scoring with 19 points including 17 kills with a 48 kill percent, while Chloe Ferrari (San Diego) chipped in 14 points for the third-best scoring total. Lauren Plum (Poway, Calif.) was credited with 43 assists, two aces, one kill and six digs. Both Ferrari and Plum played junior volleyball at Coast Volleyball Club before going to University of San Diego and University of Oregon, respectively. Maddie Martin (Tampa, Fla.), who helped Penn State to the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's National Volleyball Championship title, chalked up 15 points including three aces. Kat Luft (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Bailey Webster (Baltimore, Md.) secured 11 points each in the match. Alexis Olgard (Spokane, Wash.) and Kylin Munoz (Monroe, Wash.) reached 10 points apiece. Katie Slay (Raleigh, N.C.) added eight points and Katie Mathews (Detroit, Mich.) recorded three points. Dana Burkholder, who last played on the U.S. Women's National Team in 2002 and is currently the club director for Viper Temecula Volleyball Club, joined the Training Group late in the Winter Block and was credited with 33 assists and two kills on two attacks in the match. Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.), a two-time Olympic Games silver medalist, notched 10 digs, while Natalie Hagglund (Encinitas, Calif.) turned in five digs and a kill.
SPOTLIGHT ON JANE WARD - 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF OLYMPIC GAMES VOLLEYBALL: Jane Ward was a dominating player and early volleyball pioneer who helped usher the Americans into the Olympic Games. This year marks the 50th anniversary of volleyball being introduced into the Olympic Games 50 during the 1964 Tokyo Games, and women's volleyball was the first team sport ever in the Olympics. From 1954 to 1968, Ward was a dominant outside hitter who also set and occasionally saw time at middle blocker. Ward captained the very first two U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Teams in 1964 and 1968. She also played in the 1956 and 1960 FIVB World Championships, along with four Pan American Games (1955, 1959, 1963 and 1967). "Now we're looked at as the pioneers, and we had a wonderful time," Ward said. "We had some great travels, and met different people and were exposed to lots of cultures." In domestic events, Ward led her team to 14 consecutive USVBA national titles. She earned all-American status 13 seasons and was most valuable player at Nationals five times. Ward and her 1964 Olympic Games teammates will be recognized on May 21 during USA Volleyball's Boyce Banquet in Phoenix, Ariz., as part of the 50th anniversary of Olympic volleyball celebration. For more details and to purchase banquet tickets, click here.
COLLEGE ISN'T THE END FOR STAR VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS: The Associated Press writer Anne M. Peterson delivered a well-written piece on playing opportunities that are available for U.S. athletes following college. The article takes a look into how U.S. players venture across the ocean to play in foreign professional leagues and what it is like in general to be away from family while making a good living from the sport they love. Courtney Thompson, who was the subject of the video documentary Court & Spark describing her life overseas as a professional volleyball, and Rachael Adams were both quoted in the story representing the U.S. Women's National Team. The story has run in major publications such as the New York Times, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer. To read the story, click here.
ALISHA GLASS WITH FENERBAHCE IN TURKEY: Setter Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) is competing this winter with Fenerbahce in Turkey. In the Turkish League, Fenerbahce (21-1) won a prolonged 25-21, 25-27, 25-22, 16-25, 25-23 match over third-place Eczacibasi on March 20 to stay in the hunt for the regular season title. Glass moved back into the starting lineup and led Fenerbahce to a 34 kill percent of the match while adding three individual kills on five attacks, two aces and a block for six points. Fenerbahce (61.5 points) and Vakifbank (64 points) both own 21-1 records. In CEV Cup action, Fenerbahce will face Russia's Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg in the home-and-home final round on March 26 and March 29 for the CEV Cup title.
HOOD WITH ILBANK IN TURKEY: Outside hitter Regan Hood (Dallas) is playing for Ilbank of the Turkish League this winter. Ilbank dropped a heart-breaking 21-25, 25-10, 23-25, 25-22, 15-12 match to Sariyer BLD on March 20. Hood captured 13 points in the match, all on kills coming from 32 attacks. She added an 80 positive reception on a 46 of her team's 104 service receptions. Hood is currently the ninth-best scorer in the league with 273 points scored. Ilbank remains in sixth place with a 10-12 record.
HILDEBRAND NAMED CBV ALL-STAR, LEADER IN STATS: Kristin Hildebrand (Orem, Utah) was named to the Brazil Super League All-Star First-Team upon completion of the regular season. Hildebrand, who helped Volei Amil finish second in the regular season, ranked fourth in the league in attack efficiency with a .230 mark (154 kills, 61 errors, 405 attacks). She ranked atop the league in defense with a 57.1 success efficiency on 186 total digs. Danielle Scott (Baton Rouge, La.) finished the regular season ranked 15th in blocking with 66 blocks as part of a 21.7 success percent while with Brasilia Volei. Alaina Bergsma (Chandler, Ariz.), playing her first professional club season, ranked 20th in attack efficiency and serving while competing for Minas. In addition to Hildebrand, the Brazil Super League All-Star team included outside hitter Tandara (Volei Amil), setters Dani Lins (Sesi Sao Paulo) and Yael Castiglione (Maranhao), opposite Sheilla (Molico/Nestle), middle blockers Thaisa (Molico/Nestle) and Roberta (Sao Caetano), and libero Vere (Brasilia).
HILDEBRAND WITH AMIL IN BRAZIL: Kristin Hildebrand (Orem, Utah), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is playing this winter with Volei Amil in the Brazil Super League. Amil started the best-of-three quarterfinal series with a 21-9, 21-15, 21-18 victory over seventh-seed Sao Cristovao on March 21. Hildebrand pocketed 11 points with five kills and match-high six blocks. She added an 80 positive reception percent in the victory. The two squads meet again on March 28, and if necessary, on April 4.
SCOTT WITH BRASILIA IN BRAZIL: Danielle Scott (Baton Rouge, La.), a five-time U.S. Olympian playing middle blocker and two-time Olympic silver medalist, is competing in Brazil this club season with Brasilia Volei. As the eighth seed in the Brazil Super League playoffs, Brasilia lost to top-seed Molico/Nestle 21-12, 21-14, 21-14 on March 20 to open the best-of-three quarterfinal round series. Scott tallied four points in the loss and was her team's second-leading scorer. The two teams meet again on March 27 in the second match of the quarterfinals.
KIM GLASS WITH BANANA BOAT/PRAIA CLUBE IN BRAZIL: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, is playing in the Brazilian Super League this winter with Banana Boat/Praia Clube. Banana Boat, the fifth seed in the Brazilian Super League playoffs, lost to fourth-seed Sesi Sao Paulo 19-21, 21-13, 21-13, 21-19 on March 23 to start the best-of-three quarterfinal round. The series resumes on March 29 with the third match played on April 5 if necessary.
LARSON-BURBACH WITH DINAMO KAZAN IN RUSSIA: Jordan Larson-Burbach (Hooper, Neb.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing once again for Dinamo Kazan in the Russia Super League. Fresh off its CEV Champions League title, Kazan defeated Omichka 25-23, 25-23, 25-19 on March 20 in a battle of the top two teams in the Russia Super League. Larson-Burbach contributed six kills and a block for seven points in the victory. On March 24, Kazan swept Tyumen 25-16, 25-20, 25-18 with Larson-Burbach contributing five points in the win. Kazan improves to 16-0 with 47 points in the Russia Super League and now has an 11-point, three-match lead over Omichka (16-3, 36 points).
GIBBEMEYER, LLOYD WITH CONEGLIANO IN ITALY: Setter Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.) is competing for Imoco Volley Conegliano in the Italian Serie A league for this winter season, while middle blocker Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.) transferred to Conegliano in February. Conegliano rallied to defeat league-leader Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza (14-3, 43 points) 25-21, 17-25, 21-25, 25-19, 15-11 on March 22. Lloyd set the squad to a 37 kill percent for the match and added a block. Gibbemeyer turned in five kills and four blocks for nine points in the victory. Conegliano, currently in second place with a 14-3 record and 40 points, takes on eighth-place Openjobmetis Ornavasso (5-12, 17 points) on March 30.
MURPHY WITH NOVARA IN ITALY: Opposite Kelly Murphy (Wilmington, Ill.) joined Igo Gorgonzola Novara in the Italian Serie A1 league midway through the league schedule. Novara, which was idle this past weekend in the Italian Serie A1, is currently in a tie for fifth place with a 10-7 record and 29 points. Novara resumes action on March 30 against first-place Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza (14-3, 43 points).
ADAMS WITH TAURON BANIMEX DABROWA IN POLAND: Rachael Adams (Cincinnati, Ohio), a middle blocker on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is playing in Poland this winter with Tauron Banimex Dabrowa Gornicza. In the Polish Orlen League Playoffs, Tauron swepts its quarterfinal round best-of-five playoff series with BKS Aluprof Bielsko-Biala following a 25-21, 17-25, 22-25, 25-15, 15-8 victory on March 23. Adams notched 12 points with five kills, four blocks and three aces. Tauron will challenge Chemik in the semifinal phase. Adams is maintaining a blog during her travels, and is open to the public at rachadams.
HILL WITH ATOM TREFL SOPOT IN POLAND: Kim Hill (Portland, Ore.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing this winter with Atom Trefl Sopot in the Polish Oren Liga. Sopot swept its best-of-five quarterfinal round playoff series with Beef Masters Budowlani Lodz with a 25-18, 25-18, 25-19 victory on March 19. Hill was a sub in the third set providing a 71 positive reception percent on seven chances. Sopot takes on Impel Wroclaw in the upcoming semifinal round.
HOOKER-COULTER WITH CRIOLLAS IN PUERTO RICO: Destinee Hooker-Coulter, the 2012 Olympic Games Best Spiker and silver medalist with the U.S. Olympic Women's Team, has resumed her playing career this spring after missing the 2013 international season to give birth to her first child, daughter Keitany. She has joined Caguas Criollas of the Puerto Rico Super League and is expected to make her debut on March 29 against Catano. Hooker-Coulter last played in the Puerto Rico Super League in 2010 when she led Corozal to the league title and earned the final series most valuable player honor, then joined the U.S. Women's National Team that summer.
FAWCETT WITH PONCE IN PUERTO RICO: Opposite Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio), who was part of two medal-winning U.S. teams this past summer, transferred to Ponce of the Puerto Rico Super League after the completion of her Korea Volleyball League season. She is expected to make her debut with the team on March 28 versus Carolina.
THOMPSON WITH VOLERO ZURICH IN SWITZERLAND: Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.), a silver medal-winning setter on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team, arrived in mid-November to play for Volero Zurich in the Swiss League. In the Swiss League double round-robin playoffs, Volero completed its near-perfect run in the playoffs. Volero defeated sixth-place Hotel Cristal VFM 25-12, 25-10, 25-20 on March 19, then downed second-place Volley Koniz 25-21, 25-19, 25-23 on March 22 to go 10-0 in the playoffs. Volero lost just one set during the 10 playoff matches.
BANWARTH, JACKSON, DIXON WITH RABITA IN AZERBAIJAN: Libero Kayla Banwarth (Dubuque, Iowa), Cursty Jackson (Los Angeles) and Tori Dixon are part of Rabita Baku for the 2013-14 club season. In the Azerbaijan Super League, Rabita Baku faces Igtisadchi on March 26 and March 27, followed by Lokomotiv Baku on March 28. Rabita Baku is in first place with 27 points and a 9-1 record.
LICHTMAN WITH LOKOMOTIV IN AZERBAIJAN: Cassidy Lichtman (Poway, Calif.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, joined Lokomotiv Baku late in the 2013-14 season to compete in Azerbaijan Super League. Lokomotiv is scheduled to play Azerail on March 26 and league-leader Rabita Baku on March 28. Lokomotiv is in fourth place with 14 points.
HAGGLUND, MIYASHIRO WITH VILSBIBURG IN GERMANY: Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii), a libero on the 2012 U.S. Olympic silver-medal team, and setter Jenna Hagglund (West Chester, Ohio) are playing for Rote Raben Vilsbiburg in the German league this winter. In addition, Americans Dominique Lamb and Michelle Bartsch are competing on the squad. Vilsbiburg ended the regular season with 42 points and tied with Dresdner SC and VC Wiesbaden; however, it dropped to third place for the playoffs based on tiebreakers. Vilsbiburg will challenge sixth-place Potsdam in the quarterfinal round that start on March 29. On a side note, American Becky Perry led the league in points per set with 5.48 average and was fifth overall in scoring with 285 points despite playing just 14 matches. She converted 48 percent of her attacks.


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University of Vermont
Judith A. Ramaley (1997 - 2001)
In 1997, a century and a quarter after The University of Vermont had admitted its first two women students, the trustees elected Dr. Judith A. Ramaley as UVM's twenty-fourth and first woman president.
Judith A. Ramaley served as president and professor of biology at Portland State University. She held faculty and administrative positions at Indiana University, the University of Nebraska, University of Nebraska Medical Center, University of Albany, a university center in the State University of New York, and the University of Kansas-Lawrence. She graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in zoology and received her Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of California–Los Angeles. Upon completion of her doctoral studies, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University. She was an American Council on Education Fellow at the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha during 1978–79.
In 1989 Dr. Ramaley served as the chair of the Academic Affairs Council of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) and as chair of the Commission on Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. She also served as convener of the Chief Operating Officers group of NASULGC. She served as chair of the Division II Subcommittee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Presidents Commission and as a member of the Joint Policy Board of the NCAA (1994-96) and as chair of the BioAdvisory Board of the Division of Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation (1994-96). She served as a member of the National Advisory Council for School-to-Work Opportunities and as chair of the Education Reform Subcommittee. She also served as a member of the Kellogg Commission for the Future of State and Land Grant Universities and was a member of Campus Compact.
Judith A. Ramaley assumed her duties as president of the University of Vermont on July 1, 1997 and was formally inaugurated on October 17, 1997. Dr. Ramaley was president of The University of Vermont (UVM) and professor of biology from 1997 to 2001. From 2001-2004, Dr. Ramaley was Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources Directorate (EHR) at The National Science Foundation. The EHR Directorate is responsible for the health and continued vitality of the Nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and for providing leadership in the effort to improve education in these fields.
Ramaley served as the 14th president of Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota from 2005-2012.


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By Karen
In preparation for his new Guts & Glory tour in November, Anthony Bourdain dropped in at the Comedy Cellar in NYC last week and did 10 minutes of standup to test his material. I'm sure it was better than bombing in front several thousand people, which is what his personal appearances typically attract, given the space, but it was risky in that he wasn't guaranteed an audience of foodies.
Imagine making cracks about Guy Fieri and Adam Richman to people who have never heard of them.
But no guts, no glory. That's our Tony!
I've been watching the final season of No Reservations, and he utterly charmed me in Burgundy and Emilia-Romagna. And I was awed by Ottavia's amazing display of lower-body strength in Rio when she wrapped her legs like a boa constrictor around her hapless opponent to win her first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu match.
No Res wraps on November 5 in Brooklyn — and Travel Channel waves buh-bye to future Emmys unless crown prince Zimmern can rise above a diet of balls and bugs.
To watch the Brooklyn show, Tony's fan-favorite sidekick, Zamir, will be the guest of honor at the Lafayette Hotel in Buffalo, NY, where there will also be a Bourdain impersonator contest. Let's hope somebody captures some video of that.
The second and final Bourdain-led season of The Layover begins in the No Res time slot November 19. Tony's selection of places is excellent: Chicago, Atlanta, Dublin, New Orleans, Paris, Philadelphia, Sao Paolo, Seattle, Taipei, and Toronto.
It will be interesting to see how Travel Channel pads and drags out Layover to milk the illusion of Tony's presence as long as possible.
I believe Tony begins work on his new, as-yet-unnamed CNN series in December.
But before all that, on November 9 a new 30-minute series debuts on PBS at 9 p.m. called The Mind of a Chef. It stars David Chang, with Bourdain as executive producer and narrator.
Details have been released on how Tony and Nigella Lawson's ABC food competition, The Taste, will work. What sticks in my craw is the bit pitting amateurs against pros, but I trust that Bourdain wouldn't condone a vastly uneven playing field after his merciless mocking of non-chefs on other similar shows.
And it seems Tony may have finally been bitten by the merchandising bug…
Zagat and Eater reported that Bourdain and BFF Eric Ripert may be launching a new chocolate bar called Good & Evil some time after November 8, but nobody seems to know any details.
First a graphic novel comic book, now candy. What next? Bubble gum with celebrity chef trading cards?
Old news, but also of interest…
On October 11, Bourdain got roasted at the New York Wine & Food Festival. Here are some of the zingers, and it sounds like Eric Ripert stooped nicely to the occasion.
More zingers.
The following morning, Tony got to spend 3 whole minutes chatting with Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show.
Bourdain recently did a phone interview with the Houston Press. It was published in 2 parts, and part 2 was most worth reading.
In part 1, Tony said he'd like to see chicken Caesar salads disappear from restaurant menus, and took a swipe at old white-haired food critics that got a rise out of John Mariani of Esquire.


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See: Athens Stock Exchange.
American Stock Exchange
On October 1, 2008, it changed its name to NYSE Alternext U.S. Prior to its 2008 acquisition by NYSE Euronext, the American Stock Exchange was a mutually owned stock exchange located in Manhattan. Of the three main U.S. stock exchanges, it has the most liberal policies on company listing, having more small companies than either the NYSE or NASDAQ. As a result, it is smaller than either of those stock exchanges by trading volume, handling only about 10% of American securities.
Athens Exchange
A major securities exchange in Greece. It was established as the Athens Stock Exchange in 1876. In 2002, it became the Athens Exchange in a merger with the Athens Derivatives Exchange. It trades stocks, bonds and derivatives. More than 300 publicly traded companies are listed on the Athens Exchange.


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The switch was successful! As in Shoes Off Please is now a self-hosted site and I can start making it more user-friendly, organized, and pretty! I'm itching to get started but…womp, wooomp. My computer got sick and has to go to Apple rehab. The timing!!!
Oh MacBook Pro how I have loved you. We've had some great times together, some all nighters, lots of movies, and you've been there for me through my FIT years of papers and photoshop. I hope you feel better soon.
What that means as far as the blog goes is that any updates and working out kinks is going to have to wait.
In the meantime I want to share a print we just got in the mail from Lefty Lettering. It's by Kristin Nohe's shop on Etsy and I love it! It's a Steve Martin quote and the message is great.
It's going in the kids' room over Mia's crib. We have so much work to do in that room but I'm so excited for all the little pieces we've been collecting to add to it.
Feel free to send any original art our way to display! We're super thoughtful like that 🙂


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UFO Update
Posted by dandare on November 25, 2007
Greetings to this weeks update………The website Unexplained Mysteries has a nice article on "Defining Ufos in Turkey" (posted 23rd november,2007). It mentions that the recent ufo sightings in november, where covered by the major newspapers; it also goes into a brief dialogue about past Turkish sightings. Also, mentioned in todayszaman.com, (posted 23rd november,2007) is "defining unidentified flying objects in turkey".
In thisishertfordshire.co.uk ,"the Mystery lights explained" (posted 22nd november,2007)….. and you've guessed it, the cause put out by the paper is lanterns.
Similarly, the Copenhagen Post mentions that a ufo sighting, was also lanterns in "UFOS: the truth was out there" (posted 21st november,2007).
In thisisgloucestershire.co.uk "Silent lights are a Ufo puzzle" (posted 22nd november,2007)…the witness mentions seeing a bright red light moving across the sky, followed by others.
ripleyandheanornews.co.uk has "UFO sightings over the town " with "unexplained orange lights sighted for a second time over Ripley" (posted 20th november,2007).
The American Chronicle has a piece on "Desire to Debunk" (posted 23rd november,2007).
In thepilot.com "Teens Report spotting ufo" (not sure when posted but within the last week), in which they report that "it was fizzling, falling like it was on fire". However, at the time of the sighting, the leonid meoteor showers had reached their peak, which could be easily seen with the naked eye.
From chichester.co.uk, "RAF did send fighters up" (posted 21st november,2007); the sighting was actually observed on the 4th october, 2007 over Felpham seafront, "….with unofficial confirmation from the Ministry of Defence that two RAF planes were sent up to investigate the phenomenon". They were shaped like two round football shaped objects, that changed into "multi-faceted diamond shaped discs"; they observed that RAF fighter planes were soon in the area ten minutes later.
At the tpmcafe.com "More young people believe in UFOs than read a daily newspaper" (posted 19th november,2007).
In the canadian national newspaper, "Gnostics reveal why christians deny UFOs and extraterrestrials contacts with humanity" (posted 19th november,2007).
In inexplicata.blogspot.com, "Argentina: UFO in SE Buenos Aires Province" (posted 22nd november,2007). This took place on 18th november,2007, when fishermen saw a "powerful light aimed at the windshield of the vehicle", and used a cellphone to take video; however, it is of poor quality due to it being nighttime and pitch black.
Other news of interest:
"UFO sightings reports" at about.com
"Cool tool: Emblems from the Pentagon's black world"
"Do black budget trillions support a secret american space program?" Earthfiles.com
"Exopolitics: Discipline of choice for public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life" ufodigest.com
***(new feature) recommended website of the week:
blackholesandastrostuff for a wealth of knowledge on the topic, an excellent site well worth a visit.
Projects in the pipeline:
A look at uk ufo sightings in 2007 + ufo sightings around omaha (a history of).
These will be out within the the next month or so…. if there is anything you would like me to look into, please put your suggestions below in the comments.
This entry was posted on November 25, 2007 at 7:42 pm and is filed under "Flying Saucer", are we alone?, astronomy, extraterrestials, the universe, ufo, ufo cover up, ufo fleet, ufo in uk, ufo sightings in turkey, ufo updates, ufo's, ufo's in UK, Useful ufo links. Tagged: blackholesandastrostuff, defining ufos in turkey, desire to debunk, mystery lights explained, raf did send fighters, silent lights are a ufo puzzle, teens report ufo, ufo sightings over town, ufos: the truth was out there. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
2 Responses to "UFO Update"
Strange Rob said
Nice photo there of the avrocar. Funny, I was just reading a book that had more about that and its USAF connection.
dandare said
Thank you Strange Rob for your comment :)….
i might do an article on the avrocar in the new year.


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This quick fix includes some placeholder graphics, as well as the shim to get the mac version working properly.
It also includes the sounds, which originally had to be pasted into a copy of the MacWolf binary, which will not work with ECWolf without replacing wolf3d.bin. This essentially just makes the mod playable and fixes a few out of place gfx (not all).
Menu graphics adapted from WolfenDOOM Version of Astrostein, Wolf 3D, and the ECWolf Tech Demo by Executor.
Includes fonts from Tech Demo by Executor
Includes updated MacWolf title track (ogg format. rest aren't included since original has custom music which I haven't figured out how to access yet)
This is only a temporary build, as this is designed for the crippled version currently
being run by the dev versions of ECWolf. As such, this WILL NOT WORK with the official releases yet, only the dev versions
which support MacWolf. Dev versions can be found at http://devbuilds.drdteam.org/ecwolf
Once MacWolf is offically supported, I will be updating this to work with that version./
This also includes the original Astrostein mod needed to run this fix, already MacBinary'd up.
Extract ZIP file
Drag and drop "Astrostein.bin" and "astrostein_fix.pk3" onto the ecwolf executable
run "ecwolf --file Astrostein.bin astrostein_fix.pk3"
This may be a side effect of my old ass computer but I have noticed
a slight lag while playing Astrostein. I haven't experienced it with any
other mod except the mac version of the Astrostein mods, so I
assume that it is the large amount of custom assets in the original file.
The sounds for the missile launcher and flamer replacements don't work, but this seems to be because of ECWolf's incomplete status on MacWolf, since it doesn't work in Vanilla either.
I decided not to do decorate (yet) for this fix, so there is no way to fix it until I decide to
Not all sounds may be 100% exact, as I had to guess, since SheepShaver wants to be a little bitch about copying resources in ResEdit
Wolfenstein 3D by iD Software
Mac version by iD Software and MacPlay
"Astrostein" originally by Laz Rojas
Fix by AstroCreep
Extra resources from Wolfenstein 3D (PC) and WolfenDooM version of Astrostein
Requires ECWolf 1.3.99999 (Dev Versions only!!!) and Wolfenstein 3D: Third Encounter
I am aware that MacWolf is notoriously hard to find, but please do NOT ask me for any copies or where to download it. I had to find my copy myself, which means you have to too!
To get a working version of MacWolf, you must MacBinary the original executable file and the scenario file for Second Encounter (should be a file that says "Second Encounter - 30 Levels) [that will give them the extension .bin]. Then, rename the binary "wolf3d.bin" and the scenario file "wolflvls.bin" and drop them into your ECWolf data folder (wherever you put your game files, i.e., VSWAP.WL6)
Spoiler: SCREENSHOTS!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:DOWNLOAD - http://www.mediafire.com/download/ckbk9 ... x_v1_0.zip
I have uploaded a seperate patch named "astrostein_fix_PC. This version is slightly different, as it includes a few more files to
achieve compatibility with the PC version of Wolfenstein 3D! This is kind of a big deal, since (as far as I can tell) this is the ONLY
mod to achieve cross compatibility with both the Mac and PC versions of Wolfenstein! (Even if it's only slightly - the fact that you can literally just
change a few things and load original Mac assets with the PC version is amazing. Thanks Blzut3!)
This will still require the dev versions, as it heavily relies on the Mac decorate codes, xlat, and ability to load Mac scenarios.
This still includes the original mod, ready to go, so you won't have to mess with any MacBinary shit at all if you don't want to! Simply drag n' drop or run "ecwolf --file Astrostein.bin astrostein_fix_pc.pk3. Even though this runs with the PC version, it is still prone to the bugs Blzut3 hasn't worked out of the Mac version yet, such as crashing at the end of the game.
UPDATE 8/10/15 - Palette fix and a few optimizations
UPDATE 12/03/18 - added Mapinfo, game no longer crashes at end and levels have music.


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The doctor charged with manslaughter in the case of Michael Jackson's death interrupted CPR on the singer and delayed calling 911 in order to collect and hide drug vials in the room where Jackson died, stunning new documents obtained by the AP reveal.
Dr. Conrad Murray, who long treated Jackson and allegedly administered lethal amounts of the drug propofol to the star, stopped the process of CPR so he could hand another man drug vials to stash away, Jackson's logistics director Alberto Alvarez told investigators, according to the AP.
Jackson died June 25 from an overdose of propofol and two other drugs Murray gave him -- Jackson reportedly referred to the propofol as his "milk" and used the drug to sleep, even though the powerful sedative is meant to be used in hospitals under the supervision of a doctor, experts said.
U.S. & World
According to Alvarez, Murray interrupted CPR on Jackson to instruct Alvarez to put vials of drugs in a bag. The statement was questioned by Murray's lawyer, who alleged Alvarez did not mention the vials in an earlier statement.
"Alberto, Alberto, come quickly," Murray said, according to a statement obtained by The Associated Press. "He had a reaction, he had a bad reaction."
Alvarez told investigators he saw Jackson with his mouth and eyes open with no sign of life, an IV attached to the singer's body as Murray performed mouth-to-mouth while Alvarez did CPR.
Jackson's children, Prince and Paris, cried as they saw the doctor trying to save their father, according to Alvarez. They were quickly ushered away.
Alvarez said Murray then told him to remove an IV bag from a stand and put it in a blue canvas bag. He did, and noticed the bag had a connector with a milky white substance in it. Alvarez didn't say what happened to the bags, nor did he identify what was in the vials.
Two days after Jackson's death, under several hours of questioning by police, Murray eventually directed them to a closet in Jackson's bedroom. In it, they found propofol and other sedatives in a bag.
Murray, a Texas-based physician, was charged with involuntary manslaughter in February in Los Angeles.
Murray "did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael Joseph Jackson...in the commission of an unlawful act, not a felony," a statement from the L.A. District Attorney's office said at the time of the hearing.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office has asked a court to suspend Murray's license pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against him.


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