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The Theist In Me
[This sermon is second in a three-part series: "The Humanist in Me," "The Theist in Me," and "The Christian in Me."]
You may have noticed that I do not completely attach myself to one label. I do not speak (as I've heard another minister do) under the title of "Why I am a Humanist," or "Why I am a Theist," or "Why I am a Christian." The fact is that Unitarian Universalism in general, and this speaker in particular, is quite pliant and adaptable. A single label rarely captures the essence. Our religion could be, and has been, called a "fuzzy" religion, for it does not demand precise categories or labels.
Last week, I spoke of "The Humanist in Me," and in doing so I spoke of my appreciation for, and commitment to, that tradition which honors reason as the arbiter of belief. Reason is the keystone of the humanist view, and it warrants my solid intellectual and religious respect and commitment.
In honoring reason, humanism rejects supernaturalism. This is part of the humanism that is in me. Rejecting the supernatural does not necessarily entail rejecting the sense of the sacred or the sense of the holy or, for that matter, the sense of the divine.
There is a theist in me as well as a humanist. The God of this theism, though, is a natural, not a supernatural, God. It is not the God of children's stories, nor is it the God of traditional lore. This God is not easy to describe or explain, so it deserves having a whole sermon devoted to it.
The idea of God arose from vague sources in the misty human past. Many psychologists suggest that the idea of God arose from our mental projections. According to Freud, for example, we began to believe in a God because, even as we grow older, we crave the protective care of a parent, so we exalt the memory of our own parents (or the parents we wish we had), and call that all-powerful idea "God."
Others say the idea arose out of our ignorance of how the world works. Since our ancestors could not adequately explain the weather, or the seasons, or the sun and the moon, they invented the idea of an all-powerful, supernatural, conscious being who could control these mysteries that were beyond our understanding.
Whatever the historical source of the idea of God, we know that the idea is pervasive in the human race. There has probably been more thought and writing throughout history on this subject than any other single idea. In the "Great Books" series, which contains the writings of such great figures as Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Darwin, the two thickest volumes are the indices, which give a subject reference to the ideas contained in the Great Books. The indices are broken down into what it calls "Great Ideas," such as "Democracy," "Truth," and "Love." In the chapter referencing the "Great Book" writings on the subject of "God," one finds the following claim:
In sheer quantity of references, as well as in variety, this chapter on God is the largest chapter. The reason is obvious. More consequences for thought and action follow from the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
According to this, then, the idea of God is probably the most popular idea in the great writings of Western civilization. This fact has a particular sting to it when one realizes that the next twenty minutes or so will be devoted to thoughts on this subject from a humble minister from Indiana.
I don't believe that the existence of God—or, for that matter, any claim about God—can be proven. The question, "Does God exist?" is a non-sequitur. It has no meaning. The question implies that we can talk about God in the same way we talk about cows or leprechauns or triangles.
I have at times mentioned the ancient Hebrew tradition in which the name of God is unutterable. In Hebrew scriptures, the name for God is rendered by the initials "YHWH," which today we pronounce "Yahweh." And the word "Yahweh," the linguists tell us, means "it causes to be" or "it causes existence." To say that God exists is to confuse God, the source of existence, with the things that exist themselves.
I do not believe that God exists. I do not believe in the existence of a Being to which I ascribe the name "God." And yet, at the same time, I do believe in God. I believe in a unifying force of the universe to which I may relate, and on which I may rely.
I do not believe that God exists. Yet I do believe in God. I expect the juxtaposition of these two sentences to be confusing for you. I hope so. Because it is confusing for me, too. But it reinforces my conviction that talking about God tends to raise more confusion than clarity. And that's why I talk about God so very rarely in public.
This morning, I will talk about God, and I wish to share with you some of the thinking I've done recently about that concept. And I begin with a humbling disclaimer: I have nothing reliable to say about God. In fact, no one has anything certain or reliable to say about this subject.
It is too often the case that those who speak about God presume rather to speak for God, on behalf of God. They tell us about what God approves and disapproves. They tell us what pleases God and what angers God and what God wants us to do. In most talk about God, the speaker's opinions are presented as God's opinions, and therefore the speaker doesn't need to claim responsibility for his or her views—they are, it is alleged, from God.
As for me, I feel more comfortable speaking my own opinions, and not burdening God with the blame or credit for what I say.
There is nothing reliable or certain that can be said on the subject of God. But there is, I suggest, much that can be said that is interesting, and probably a few things that can be said that are useful. While we cannot speak about what God is like, we can, at least, speak about our human experiences of the divine. Such experiences found continuously throughout human history, are, I think, often interesting and perhaps occasionally useful. It is in that spirit that I approach the subject this morning.
My approach is like that of T.S. Eliot, that great secular poet who spent so much of his life in search of God. Eliot spoke about the human experience of the divine as the "point of intersection between the timeless with time." Here is what he wrote, in part:
To apprehend the point
of intersection
of the timeless with time,
is an occupation for the saint....
There are only hints and guesses,
hints followed by guesses;
and the rest
is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.
The hint half-guessed,
the gift half understood is
"Hints and guesses," says Eliot. For me, that is all we can say about the divine. We begin with our own experience. We learn from the experiences of others. And what we gain in understanding the divine, which is ineffable, beyond the human world of knowledge, is merely hints and guesses.
So, this morning, I will share with you some of my hints and guesses about God. What is God? What is the theist in me? I cannot answer with any reliability or certainty, any more than the ancient Hebrews could. But I can offer, in the words of Eliot, some hints and guesses. These hints and guesses arise out of both common and uncommon experience.
Hint #1: There is something that urges people to love and care for one another. Rabbi Harold Kushner, who has written movingly about the meaning of suffering, wrote the following about God:
When people ask me, "Where is God?" I tell them I would rather rephrase the question to read, "When is God?" Asking "where" implies that God is an object located in a specific place, and if we could just find the right place, we would find God. Asking "When is God?" gives us the idea that God can be anywhere, if the right things are happening. When people are loving, brave, truthful, charitable, God is present. God is not in the place, but in the moment.
Martin Buber, when asked, "Where is God found?" would reply that when people treat each other in a truly human fashion, God fills in the empty space between them. Like an electric arc between poles, God is not so much in either person, as in the relationship that connects one with the other.
The love and care that is expressed between and among human beings is, for me, an expression of the divinity that lies behind the logic and order of the universe. This, I think, is the meaning of the following line, written by E.E. Cummings:
Love is a deeper season than reason.
So the first hint about God is that there is something that urges people to love and care for one another.
Hint #2: Life is meaningful. At least this is my experience of life. There is no particular reason why life should be meaningful. You are born, you live, you die. And yet, somehow in that simple formula, people have been able to fill their years of existence with meaningful acts and contribute to the greater enjoyment of life by all.
The great psychologist Rob May died back in 1994. I suppose I subscribe to his definition of religion, that religion is "the assumption that life has meaning…One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he [or she] has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for." So, if you assume that life carries meaning, you are, by this definition, religious.
Where does this meaning come from? I suppose we create it ourselves, mostly. Or inherit it from others, to some extent. But it is not absurd to suggest that meaning has as its source what everything else has as its source.
I remember, in my study of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy, being perplexed by the fact that he talked about God at all. Whitehead offers a fairly complex but complete system. His metaphysics offer to explain why things are the way they are, in fully natural, not supernatural, ways. Why, then, did he talk about "God?"
I poured through dozens of books about Whitehead, searching for an answer, until I finally found one. It was only a sentence or two, but it suggested a reason. Whitehead needed God, the author said, to explain "novelty" in the world. Novelty. That something new happens, that something unexpected happens (such as genetic mutation, for example). The world can go on tomorrow pretty much as it did today, but somehow, something tomorrow will be different.
And another philosopher, the Unitarian Henry Nelson Wieman, called it "creativity." Novelty or creativity: whatever it is, there is something that allows us to face life with fresh vigor, with excitement, and with meaning.
Life is meaningful, or at least it can be. There is no reason why life should be meaningful. But, for many people, it is. Meaning arises from the novelty and creativity of the human imagination, novelty and creativity being normal components of nature itself. From that creativity, we can create meaning. The discovery of meaning, for many of us, is a hint at what Eliot called "the intersection of the timeless with time."
Hint #3: It seems increasingly clear that science is moving toward a theory of cosmic unity and interrelatedness. While it used to be the case that science tried to study nature by isolating it into its discrete parts, today, science is increasingly finding that nothing can be understood in isolation from the rest of the world. Every atom in the universe is related to all other atoms.
Physicist David Bohm has written about the unity of the cosmos, and suggests a theory that the whole of the universe is somehow greater than the sum of its parts. The universe is a living system, just as, on a smaller scale, we are living systems. It is easy to consider the human person as being greater than the sum of its parts. We are only now beginning to understand the cosmos as such a living system, too.
As parents watching our children grow, we are fascinated by the development of their individual personhoods. They have their own personalities, their own memories, their own private thoughts. We recognize in our children their own consciousness and emotions. Each one, we come to conclude, is far greater than just the sum of his or her parts. Each one is, in fact, a "person."
So, too, Bohm would say, the universe seems to be more than the sum of its parts. Beyond the vast sea of energy that fills the void between the planets and stars, there seems to be a creative force, what he calls "holomovement," that gives the universe a unifying character, not unlike the unifying character of a someone's personality. The universe is more than the sum of its parts, and in the universe can be observed, as Eliot so poetically noted, the intersection of the timeless with time.
Hint #4: I am amazed at the human capacity to overcome tragedy and pain. For example, I stand in admiration of any alcoholic who is able to control that disease. I am impressed by those who have suffered the deep pain of loss and can still live with hope. Where do they find their strength?
There is nothing supernatural about it. Not at all. It is altogether natural, but it is also sacred. Again, I will let Harold Kushner speak:
I believe in miracles, but I believe only in big miracles, not little ones.
Things like parting the Red Sea or making the sun stand still are
not miracles for me; they are special effects. Cecil B. DeMille or
Steven Spielberg can do it as easily
Authentic miracles happen when weak people become strong, when timid people show courage, when selfish people turn generous…I can believe in God, not because someone has proven it to me philosophically, but because I so often see ordinary people become capable of the most extraordinary accomplishments.
Hint #5: There is something that connects me to the rest of the universe. That, at least, is how I feel. There is an underlying logic and a penetrating power that oversees the pattern of the planets, the seasons of the year, and the flux of my own life. Let me call it the Reason (or Rationality) of the universe.
The nineteenth century Romantics wrote of Reason (always with a capital "R") as the divine source that influenced all things. Perhaps I belong in the nineteenth century, but that image makes some sense to me. Or perhaps I belong in the first century, for the early Christians also used the same metaphor when speaking of Logos as a word for God. Logos means reason, or the logic of the universe—an inherent orderliness or harmony that all things honor, that allows things to make sense.
There is a dusty old book I found on my shelf, published over a century ago, that seems to connect with the modem physicist's view of the cosmic unity. The book is entitled The Idea of God, and was written by John Fiske, a philosophy professor at Harvard. This book was written in the 1880s, not long after Darwin's theories had challenged some of the traditional religious doctrines.
Fiske felt himself to be a philosopher of evolution. Darwin, he felt, had revolutionized scientific knowledge, and it was his task to examine the philosophical implications of Darwinism. It was this effort that produced the book.
In it, Fiske looked at the religious implications of Darwinism. What results is, in fact, a description of the universe that could have been written by 20th century physicists like Bohm. Fiske writes: "If the study of physics has taught us anything, it is that nowhere in nature is inertness to be found. All is quivering with energy."
For Fiske, this persistent energy is called (no kidding) "Force" (one wonders if Han Solo had read Fiske). It is, he says, "the animating principle of the universe." But elsewhere, he refers to it as "Power, the infinite and eternal Power."
And I am a part of that power, just as you are a part of that power. There is something that connects us to the rest of the universe. Call it Reason or Rationality, call it logos or logic, call it Nature or God, whatever it is hints at what Eliot described as the intersection of the timeless with time. We are there in that intersection.
Hint #6: We live with conscience, with a sense of moral rightness, with a sense of duty. Something urges us to do that which is right. Something shames us when we do wrong, even when no one else knows.
I do not believe in a God of reward and punishment, but somehow, the logic of the universe compels us to develop a conscience and to know, for the most part, when we are doing right and when we are doing wrong.
Immanuel Kant, who only rarely had a way with words, offered what is, for me, the most precise summary of religious sensibility when he wrote, "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe—the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." These two items—the starry heavens above and the moral law within—are the two components of any complete religion.
These are the hints and guesses about God that come out of my experiences. I confess that they don't say very much about God, certainly nothing reliable or certain. But I find them to be interesting, and I find them to be useful.
I do not believe in the existence of God. But I do believe in God. The theist in me believes in God the same way the idealist in me believes in Truth.
I do not believe that something exists that we can call "Truth." Truth does not have its own separate existence. It permeates all of life. Truth can be experienced, though never fully understood. I do believe that there is a truthful quality to experience that excites us and edifies us. I suppose I believe in God in the same way I believe in Truth.
Truths, like God, are revealed to us only in part. There is always more truth to explore, more truth to experience.
The theist in me is of the sort that was described by John Haynes Holmes, a great Unitarian minister of the first half of this century.
When I say [the word] God, it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian ever wrote about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas, the saviors of the human race, and God—whoever that may be—has at one time or another reached my soul! More and more, as I grow older, I live in the lovely thought of these seers and prophets.
The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library, but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted with my tears. I never seem so near truth as when I care not what I think or believe, but only that these matters of inner vision would live forever.
Poets rarely offer literal descriptions; great poets deliver to us only hints and guesses about truth. This is, indeed, a path to the divine.
The subject of God rarely comes up in our Unitarian Universalist churches, including this one, because God, as that idea is commonly understood, is more confusing than enlightening. And yet God, as I understand the idea, so permeates every part of existence—in fact, is existence—that whenever life's meaning is discussed, God, whether specified or not, is also discussed. So once in a while I do talk directly about God, as I've done today, but most of the time, I talk about other things, and any link to God is indirect or implied.
To talk about God directly is usually to utter the unutterable, so I can only do it by way of hints and guesses.
I will close with another part of T.S. Eliot's poem about the quest for God, for that intersection between the timeless and time.
For most of us, there is only the unattended moment,
the moment in and out of time,
The distraction of it, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all,
but you are the music
While the music lasts.
…There are only hints and guesses.


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The breathtaking vista of the broad embrace of St Brides Bay as the motorist crests the hill dropping down into Newgale is something the visitor is not likely to forget.
The 2.5-mile wide beach of golden sand, backed by a high pebble bank, is a perfect family beach, but when the breeze is brisk a wind-break is necessary. The sands shelve gently so the shallows are ideal for small children, and during the summer the local authority provides wooden walkways to negotiate the pebbles from the two main carparks. Parking fees are charged from Spring to October but there are designated spaces for disabled use both on the seafront and in the clifftop park on the Nolton Road, where the views are even more spectacular and there is easy access to the Coastal Path.
On approach the eye takes in the northern end of Skomer Island to the left, Stack Rock, off St Brides, triangular Rickets Head, and to the right the rugged coast meandering round past the Green Scar rock off Solva to the northern extremity of the Bay, where Ramsey Island and the South Bishop Rock peep round the corner of St Davids Head.
Almost centre of this spectacular panoramic view on a clear day, distant Grassholm breaks the horizon like a shark's fin, its southern side snow-capped with the gannet guano of centuries, and even the candy-striped needle of The Smalls lighthouse may be seen.
From certain clifftop vantage points at dusk, the pulses of three lighthouses - Skokholm, The Smalls and South Bishop - flicker on and off, warning mariners of the potential hazards of the rocky Pembrokeshire coast.
Newgale is a popular surfing beach and is also used for sand yachting, kite surfing and windsurfing. Sea anglers fish here for seabass and mullet, and beach users regularly see trains of horses from the nearby riding school walking along the shallows or cantering across the beach. Out in the bay gannets from the Grassholm colony patrol and, when their are shoals of fish, give observers a spectacular display of diving on their prey from a great height, their six-foot black-tipped wings folded back. "Twitchers" may also glimpse a chough on the cliffs.
Supertankers, sometimes half a dozen or more of them, anchor in the bay awaiting a free berth in Miford Haven oilport and the Irish ferry regularly traverses the horizon on its afternoon crossing.
The curious are often puzzled by the hillocks alongside the coast road. These are legacies of the coal industry which once flourished here; in fact small slag-heaps now disguised by vegetation and wild flowers. Another more obvious sign of past coal workings on the Nolton side of the beach is the brick stack and ruined stone buildings of the Trefrane colliery, and beside the road at the mid-point of the beach is an old lime kiln, a feature which almost every cove and inlet in the county possesses as a reminder of the coastal trade in limestone to enrich the farmland.

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Jasmina Lira, a farmworker raising three children on her own, changed the course of her family's life when she secured a job at Finca Santa Marta, a Rainforest Alliance Certified™ banana farm in Limón, on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast.
Lira represents the new face of the sustainable banana labor force. She is at the forefront of a revolution in a $5 billion global industry once synonymous with worker abuse, rampant deforestation and the ruin of streams, rivers and coral reefs. In the 1990s, the Rainforest Alliance began working with local NGO partners, scientists, community leaders and farmers to transform the destructive industry by establishing the first standard for responsible banana production.
"We have a great working environment, we are like a family."Jasmina Lira, banana farmworker
Supporting Farmers and Communities
The Rainforest Alliance works with banana farms to help them conserve their natural resources and promote the well-being of workers and local communities. Banana farms that are Rainforest Alliance Certified undergo annual audits to ensure that they comply with rigorous social criteria designed to protect workers, families and nearby communities. For example, while Rainforest Alliance certification requires the phasing out of dangerous pesticides, farms must provide extensive safety training, protective gear, and washing stations to workers handling agrochemicals while they are in use to prevent workers—and their families and communities— from being exposed. Like other certified farms, Finca Santa Marta in Costa Rica provides healthcare and subsidized transportation for employees.
Protecting Land and Waterways
The banana industry was once infamous for clear-cutting rainforests, polluting waterways and using dangerous agrochemicals that workers carried on their backs. Pesticide-impregnated plastic bags, which farms use to protect bananas as they grow, littered riverbanks and beaches near banana farms, while agrochemical runoff and erosion clogged rivers, choked the region's stunning coral reefs and killed marine life.
Today, Rainforest Alliance Certified banana farms are forging a path to a better future. They recycle plastic bags and other waste; restore and protect land around their banana trees; plant vegetation along waterways to create buffer zones and reduce erosion; eliminate the most dangerous agrochemicals and tightly control the application of those they do use; reduce water consumption; and install filtration systems to treat water used in processing. An independent study of banana farms in Ecuador showed that Rainforest Alliance Certified farms perform significantly better than non-certified farms in responsible land-management.
Improving Incomes
The Rainforest Alliance provides banana farms with the tools to cultivate their crops more efficiently. By conserving water, composting and decreasing their use of agrochemicals, farmers not only safeguard the health of their land—they save money. We also help them negotiate better prices and manage their farms more efficiently, which helps them boost the bottom line. And by paying decent wages—and treating their employees with respect and dignity—certified farms decrease turnover and maintain a productive, efficient workforce. Lira, for example, is committed to Finca Marta because can support herself and her children with a good salary and full social benefits. This virtuous cycle is supported by the growth in demand for certified bananas by large companies such as Chiquita and Favorita.


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Unpredictability |actor = [[Danny Jacobs]] (voice) }} {{Quote|Find my phone now, Batman, or I'll carve this man's existence into my flesh.|Zsasz to Batman over a payphone within Arkham City|Batman: Arkham City}} Born into a life of luxury and wealth, '''Victor Zsasz''' lost his grip on reality after the tragic deaths of his parents at a young age and the loss of what remained of his inheritance money after a night of ill fated gambling at the [[Iceberg Lounge]]. Believing all life to be meaningless and worthless, Zsasz takes it upon himself to murder as many people as he can in order to cure them of life, seeing them as nothing more than zombies stuck in an endless loop of misery. Carving a tally mark into his skin after every murder as proof of his work, the only concern in Zsasz's life is body count and the amount of marks on his body. Mr. Zsasz is one of the escaped inmates when the [[The Joker (Arkhamverse)|Joker]] takes over [[Arkham Asylum (Batman: Arkham Asylum)|Arkham Island]]. He takes hostages that [[Batman (Arkhamverse)|Batman]] must rescue, preventing him from harming innocent Arkham guards and doctors. He can also be fought in the battle rooms as one of Joker's thugs that Batman must defeat to earn points, fighting like the [[High Security Henchman|regular knife thug]] among Blackgate prisoners. After frequent run-ins with [[Batman (Arkhamverse)|Batman]], Zsasz developed an immense hatred and fear of the hero and has been saving his final mark for the Dark Knight himself. Within [[Arkham City]], Zsasz uses the facility to further his own sick desires of murder and mutilation and begins killing dozens of inmates who answer pay phones he dials, eventually becoming known as "The PayPhone Killer". He hoped that, one night, Batman would be on the other end of the receiver and the mark he saved specifically for the hero would finally be carved into his skin. ==Biography== A true sociopath, Zsasz grew up in a life of ease and inherited a large amount of money from his parents. His life took a turn for the worse when he went to the [[Iceberg Lounge]] and bet nearly all of it in Poker. He was on a winning streak but lost to "the disgusting midget who ran the place", [[The Penguin (Batman: Arkham City)|the Penguin]]. Now penniless and alone, Zsasz went into the streets where he was attacked by a mugger, whom he killed with his own knife. Zsasz, upon looking at the dead eyes of the man, realized something: in his now sick mind, he came to the conclusion that nothing matters, so there is no qualms in killing people of all ages. Using the knife, he carved his first tally-mark into his skin and found himself elated by it and became a serial killer. Indiscriminate in his prey, body count is the only thing that matters to Zsasz. He carves a tally mark for each of his victims into his own body, and is saving a special spot for the Batman. Attributes: *Sociopath with no regard for human life *No pattern of killing, making him difficult to track *Compulsive need to kill others ===''Batman: Assault on Arkham''=== Shortly after the Joker instigated a revolt inside [[Arkham Asylum (Batman: Arkham Asylum)|Arkham Asylum]], Zsasz managed to escape and pick up a female hostage when he was surrounded by GCPD vehicles and Batman. He then threateningly held the woman hostage, with Batman shooting his grappling hook and seemingly missing Zsasz by a hair's length. However, it was revealed he had actually been aiming for the wall right behind Zsasz and proceeded to knock him out by yanking the piece of the wall his grappling hook latched onto into him, freeing his hostage. ===Road to Arkham=== [[File:Comicpage3p.jpg|thumb|right]] Victor Zsasz was already imprisoned in Arkham Asylum before of the events of Joker's takeover of the island. During a patient interview between him and [[Sarah Cassidy|Dr. Cassidy]], Zsasz revealed through scary clues that he knew of Dr. Cassidy's four locks on her apartment door, how she forgot to buy cat food "again" and how every night she sat in her red chair with her cat on her lap (revealing that he stalked her before his imprisonment). Both scared and worried that Zsasz knew where she lived; Cassidy took leave from Arkham in order to get away from the insane serial killer. Soon after Dr. Cassidy took her leave; Zsasz managed to smuggle a knife into his cell during another patient interview. Zsasz lashed out killing all guards sent into his cell to stop him. Victor was forced to surrender when four guards aimed their shotguns at him; Zsasz was then sent into solitary confinement for his actions, long enough to carve in 20 new tally marks. However Victor didn't stay long in solitary nor in Arkham for that matter; he soon escaped Arkham and returned to Gotham City to kill Dr. Cassidy. After the door was answered, Zsasz kidnapped Sarah. Zsasz took Dr. Cassidy to an Old County Hospital in order to kill her. An anonymous tip was found in Cassidy's office, leading Batman to the hospital, where he saved Cassidy from her gruesome demise. Zsasz was subsequently put back into Arkham; vowing that one day he will kill the Dark Knight if he ever got the chance. ===''Batman: Arkham Asylum''=== [[File:Ark mans Zsaszbat1.png|thumb|left|350px|Zsasz takes a security guard, [[Mike (Guard)|Mike]], hostage.]] During the Joker's takeover of Arkham, Zsasz was let loose from his cell in the Intensive Treatment Center. Running free, he encountered two Arkham security guards in the Patient Pacification Chamber. After killing one guard who tried to stop him, he took hold of another guard named [[Mike (Guard)|Mike]], and strapped him to an electric chair. A third guard, [[Zach Franklin]], came across Zsasz, and sounded the alarm, requesting backup on the radio. At least three more guards responded to the alarm and arrived with Dr. [[Gretchen Whistler]], Zsasz's personal therapist. He warned that he would kill Mike if he saw "anything that looked even a little bit like a bat" getting too close whilst the guards attempted to talk him down. Zach Franklin and another guard stood barred at the entryway to the Pacification area, but were able to see Zsasz pacing behind his hostage in the electroshock chair. Franklin tried to call for more backup in the Processing Corridor in dealing with the hostage situation, but found no answer on the radio, as most of the other guards in the vicinity had been murdered by the Joker after his escape through the area. A surviving guard, [[Eddie Burlow]], picked up the call near the door to the Decontamination Chamber but was unable to respond. He directed Batman to the Patient Pacification Chamber. Batman arrived on the scene and met Zach Franklin, who informed him of the situation. Batman used the chamber balcony and grappled behind Zsasz on the gargoyles that lined the top of the room. He snuck up on Zsasz, taking him out and leaving him back in the care of Dr. Whistler and the Arkham staff. He warned Dr. Whistler that it would take much time before Zsasz could be cured, if he could be cured at all. Soon after, Harley Quinn trapped the Arkham staff in the Pacification Chamber. One of the security personnel covered Zsasz with his shotgun to prevent any escape. [[File:Ark mansZsaszPAtientPAcificationSecurityMaskedGuard 034521.jpg|thumb|right|350px|A security guard covered Zsasz with his shotgun to prevent escape after his defeat by Batman in the Patient Pacification Chamber.]] But yet Mr. Zsasz somehow escaped once again, killing three security guards above the Penitentiary in Arkham West. He then proceeded to prop them up like rag dolls around a table as if they were enjoying a game of cards. After the Joker's men had taken control of the Penitentiary, Zsasz proceeded to the heavily-guarded Arkham East. While the Joker's men wrestled the area from the guards, Zsasz invaded the Botanical Gardens. He entered the Botanical Glasshouse Entrance, where he encountered three more members of security at the doorway to the Botanical Glasshouse. Zsasz murdered two of them, arranging the dead guards in a lifelike pose around a park bench. After killing several more Arkham staff, Zsasz scratched out the tallies of his kills onto the bench. Shortly after, The Joker came across Zsasz in the Glasshouse Entrance with his latest victims. ("No doubt acting out some twisted fantasy", according to Joker) The Clown Prince of Crime took Zsasz to the Arkham Mansion after his men had captured Dr. [[Penelope Young]] in the Library, planning to torture the formula for her secret Titan drug out of her. Mr. Zsasz asked to be left alone with Young and successfully forced the secret out of her. Batman searched the mansion until he came across Zsasz, who was holding Dr. Young hostage with a knife to the throat. The Joker, contacting Zsasz via a monitor, tried to convince Zsasz to hurry up and kill her. Zsasz began to panic as he knew Batman would take him down if he did just that but he was also torn by his desire to kill her, slowly savoring her fright and saying that she was "just begging to be slaughtered". Before he could make a decision, Batman knocked him out with a [[Batarang]] to the head. Dr. Young was driven to so many tears while Zsasz held her hostage and nearly killed her. She beat his unconscious body angrily, yelling at him "You monster! You evil, evil, evil monster!", while still crying. After Young was killed by an explosive set by Joker and [[Harley Quinn (Arkhamverse)|Harley Quinn]] set her goons on Batman, Zsasz disappeared, suggesting that he escaped during the chaos, as no guards had arrived to detain him. [[File:Arkmans mr-zsasz-screen.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Zsasz faces Batman in the Holding Cells along with two of the [[Raincoat Henchman|Joker's men (in security guards' overcoats)]].]] His final appearance was in Batman's hallucination of a replay of the game's opening sequence caused by [[Scarecrow (Arkhamverse)|Scarecrow]]'s [[Fear Toxin]]. Batman was placed in the captured position, with Joker capturing him, and Zsasz among the Arkham inmates escorting Batman in the patient handcart. After this, Zsasz had no further appearance in the game and his status remained unknown. ===After Arkham=== [[File:VictorZsasz AC.jpg|thumb|180px|Zsasz roaming free in Arkham City]] Zsasz was briefly mentioned by [[Hugo Strange (Batman: Arkham City)|Hugo Strange]] as an inmate he intentionally, but anonymously released so that Tyger forces could recapture him in order to boost Arkham City's credit as a safe prison. Upon admittance, Zsasz quickly became well known as the "Payphone Killer" in Arkham City, hooking up all the old phone lines with the help of the Broker, tracking and murdering anyone unlucky enough to answer on of his calls after being briefly imprisoned by Penguin in his museum. He briefly appeared in Two-Face's trial against Joker as a juror, and also agreed to condemn Joker to death. ===''Batman: Arkham City''=== [[File:Zsasz.png|left|thumb|250px|Zsasz after being captured by Batman]] {{Quote|Find my phone Batman, or the killing starts...|Zsasz to Batman over a payphone within Arkham City|Batman: Arkham City}} After being incarcerated in Arkham City, Penguin somehow managed to capture him and lock him in a display case of his museum. However, after he broke free, Zsasz continued his efforts to murder and targeted a group of political prisoners that had been placed into the city by [[Hugo Strange (Batman: Arkham City)|Hugo Strange]]. Zsasz would call random payphones in the city and would use them to lure people to him. [[Batman (Batman: Arkham City)|Batman]] eventually started to intercept the calls as they were being made. Using the batcomputer, Batman was able to deduce the location of Zsasz's lair and found him there with a group of people he intended to make his next victims. Batman engaged Zsasz and locked him into a cage in Zsasz's own hideout. === After ''Batman: Arkham City'' === It is unknown if Zsasz was among the many inmates who were released from Arkham City and compensated considerably for the highly illegal and unethical nature of the prison compound following the disastrous end of Protocol 10 and the death of Hugo Strange. Regardless, Zsasz would be at large once again by the time [[Scarecrow (Arkhamverse)|Scarecrow]] initiates his plans on Halloween and forces an evacuation of the city, allowing the villains and their gangs to take control of the streets. However, Zsasz was not among the villains that Scarecrow collaborated with, believing the psychotic killer to be too difficult to control, much to Zsasz's anger. Several of Zsasz's victims can be found near the docks on Founders' Island, murdered and posed in life-like arrangements, with tally marks carved into the wall behind them. The killer himself can be seen near Oracle's clock tower as Batman reviews the security footage from the adjacent buildings as he searches for Barbara's abductors, with Zsasz seemingly seeking new victims to target and add to his tally marks. Zsasz continues to murder dozens of gang-members throughout the night and plans to target Batman once he ruins Scarecrow's plans, ironically predicting that it would be Crane who would be left beaten and humiliated. Zsasz never receives his chance however, as Batman fakes his death following his reveal as Bruce Wayne and reestablishes himself as a far more terrifying and unseen vigilante. It is implied that Zsasz was also putting his own life in danger as the high amount of tally marks he carved into his skin, indicative of the murders he committed, within one night was leading to massive blood loss. Even if he survived the loss of blood, it can be assumed that Zsasz was arrested and put behind bars once again following the GCPD taking the city back after Batman neutralizes all major threats. ==Psychological profile (by Dr. [[Penelope Young]])== "A Psychopath, Zsasz would fit perfectly into the disorganized asocial category of serial killer if not for his special fixation on the Batman. His motives are power and control, which he expresses quite literally by carving a scar into his skin to mark each of his victims. His obsession with the Batman is also manifested in a physical way: He is saving a special spot to scar when he kills the Dark Knight." '''Additional Notes''' "It's rare that an asocial serial killer motivated by control would have no history of childhood trauma; the exact reasons for Zsasz's behavior remain a mystery." "His low IQ further hampers my attempts to treat him. He spent hours at a time ritualistically counting the marks in his skin." '''Extremely unstable!!! Not a canditate for a new research.''' ==Arkham City Profile: Dr. Hugo Strange== There is no doubt that the world would be a safer place without Victor Zsasz, but why send him to the electric chair when he can serve to punish his fellow inmates at Arkham City? Zsasz's blood-lust continues unabated and rules his every action. Personnel are cautioned to avoid any form of contact with this enthusiastic and consummate murderer. ==Patient Interviews== [[File:Batman Arkham Asylum - Patient Interview Tapes - Victor Zsasz|thumb|300px|right|Victor Zsasz's Patient Interview Tapes.]] ===Tape One=== Patient Interview #1, November 4th *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' Taped patient evaluation 1. Patient name is Victor Zsasz, diagnosed clinically insane after the murder of at least 20 women in the Gotham area. Hello, Victor, I'm Dr. Cassidy. Seeing as this is our first session, let's spend some time getting to know each other. *'''Victor Zsasz:''' I don't need you, Miss Cassidy. Everything is meaningless. *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' Don't you think that's a very negative outlook on life, Victor? *'''Victor Zsasz:''' You've no doubt read my file. *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' Yes... yes I have. It says you come from a wealthy family. That your parents died. How you lost all the money gambling. *'''Victor Zsasz:''' And none of it matters. *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' Why do you keep saying that, Victor? *'''Victor Zsasz:''' Because the only thing that does matter is the mark. Have you seen my work, Miss Cassidy? *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' If you're referring to the marks on your... *'''Victor Zsasz:''' Of course I mean my tally marks. And I have a space for yours. Do you want to see where? ===Tape Two=== Patient Interview #5, November 19th *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' Taped patient evaluation 5. Victor is not responding well to treatment. Victor, yesterday we spoke about the people you killed. *'''Victor Zsasz:''' Ah, the zombies. *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' They're all people, Victor. *'''Victor Zsasz:''' They are zombies, continuously shuffling through the daily grind, waiting for someone to liberate them. *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' You mean kill them. The police report states that you have murdered, or liberated if you like, 20 young women in the last 3 months. Each had her throat slit and was left... posed. *'''Victor Zsasz:''' They were all lucky to be chosen to receive my gift. *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' I doubt they would agree with you. *'''Victor Zsasz:''' Really? How about you, Miss Cassidy? As you take the elevator to your apartment each night, open the six locks to apartment 433, remember you forgot to buy your cat food. Again. *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' How do you know where I... ? *'''Victor Zsasz:''' As you sit down on your favorite red chair, cat on lap, just waiting for something to happen. I can make it happen, Sarah. I am your salvation. ===Tape Three=== Patient Interview #1, November 22nd *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Patient's name is Victor Zsasz. For the record, the patient has transferred from, Dr. Cassidy, who is on leave after the incident last week. (''Zsasz enters with guards'') Hello, Victor. Please, take a seat. Guards, you can leave us. *'''Guard:''' Sorry, Doctor. Warden's orders. I can't leave you alone with him. *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' I understand. Hello, Victor. How are you feeling today? Victor! I can't help you if you don't speak. *'''Victor Zsasz:''' Depressed! Does that help you? Can you get into my mind, Doctor? *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Why depressed? *'''Victor Zsasz:''' I'm just thinking about the one that got away. The one I chose. I needed the mark. I want the mark! [[File:Ark mans-riddle-2--article image.jpg|thumb|left|400px|Zsasz's victims are always arranged in lifelike positions after their murders.]] ===Tape Four=== Patient Interview #4, December 12 *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Victor has been more subdued recently. Response to medication has been poor. (''Zsasz coming in with guards'') Hello, Victor, is there anything you'd like to talk about today? *'''Victor Zsasz:''' (mumbling) Cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting... *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Victor! *'''Victor Zsasz:''' (mumbling) Cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting... *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' This is going nowhere. Guards. Get him out of here. *'''Guard:''' You heard the doctor, get up! Didn't you hear me? He's got a knife! Get a tranq in him! Get a tranq in him! Oh God! He's on Bill. He's cutting him. Get him off. Get him off. We need help here! ===Tape Five=== Case Study Notes, December 22 *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Victor has been in isolation since the attack on the guard last week. As I wait for him to be brought to me, I have had time to review his notes. I am increasingly worried he cannot be cured. He has no empathy for his victims. Deep down, I believe he views all of us as potential victims. *'''Guard:''' Doc, are you okay? *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' What's happening? *'''Guard:''' It's Zsasz. He broke out of isolation. He's gone. *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Oh God! *'''Guard:''' Don't worry, Doc, you're in the safest place. He's definitely left the island. *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Of course. But someone needs to alert the authorities, he'll need to kill again. Do you understand me? Needs to. Oh no. He's gone after Dr. Cassidy. (''dialing on a telephone'') *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' (''phone rings'') Hello? *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Sarah, it's Gretchen. Listen to me. *'''Dr. Sarah Cassidy:''' (''Zsasz knocking at her door'') Oh, for the love of... Hold on. There's someone at the door. *'''Dr. Gretchen Whistler:''' Sarah! Do not answer the door. Can you hear me? Do not answer the door. It's Zsasz! He's free. ==Game Over Lines== *"''I'm going to take my time, Batman. After all, you took yours.''" *"''You missed my call.''" *"''You took too long, Batman.''" ==Trivia== *If the player takes too long in rescuing Dr. Young, Zsasz will eventually decide to kill her thus causing the mission to be failed and bringing up a special Joker message in which he sarcastically announces "Now that was unexpected! Who'd have figured the deranged murderer would kill the poor little doctor?!" *During Batman's first encounter with Zsasz there are actually many different ways to take him down. **1: The player can easily perform a glide kick followed by a ground takedown **2: He can simply drop to the ground and knock him out from behind with a combo. **3: Additionally the player can very easily knock Zsasz around the room and as long as they don't give him enough time in between hits to push the trigger they will not fail the mission. Sometimes Zsasz will actually try to fight back with his knives much like in the challenge mode. One particularly interesting way to defeat Zsasz is to use the cape stun attack on him repeatedly in order to push him around the room and into the electric barrier that barred your initial entrance to the room and the guards, however no matter where Zsasz falls after the cutscene his body will reappear next to the electrified chair. *Zsasz appears as sort of a 'boss' enemy in many brawling type challenge modes. He fights like a common knife enemy among the [[High Security Henchmen]], but the taunts made are in his voice particularly. He will appear in the final round of melee challenge maps only and this time can be taken down any way the player chooses just like a regular thug instead of from a batarang or a simple takedown like in story mode. *All of the main enemies in the game have special messages if you lose in their levels. Zsasz, however, is the only enemy not to have a special message. Instead, Joker plays his messages if you lose during Zsasz's levels. He gets his own in Arkham City. *Comparing Zsasz's appearance in ''Arkham Asylum'' to ''Arkham City'', the most likely place Zsasz is saving to scar for killing Batman is his forehead. **However, some comic adaptations say that he is saving his mark for Batman for the inside of his eyelid. *In the museum in Arkham City, there is a display place in the entrance hall where Penguin kept Zsasz as one of his exhibits. However it is smashed, alluding to the fact that he is active in Arkham City. You are able to unlock concept artwork for Zsasz in his display case by finding Riddler Trophies and riddles in the Museum. *You can't visit Zsasz in ''Batman: Arkham City'' as Catwoman for a unique conversation because she won't open the doors to his hideout stating that out of all the people in Arkham City Zsasz gives her "the creeps". *During Zsasz's second phone-call in ''Batman: Arkham City'', the player can read some of his most recent case history. In addition to his kidnapping and attempted murder of [[Sarah Cassidy|Dr. Cassidy]], it mentions him stabbing one Mr. A. Rowse to death in an alley with a serrated blade and also his murder of an aspiring artist named Mr. J. Carpenter, whom Zsasz forced to create paintings depicting depraved acts of violence before slicing his throat and leaving him to die. *Usually at least once during the side-mission, as Batman approaches a ringing phone, it will suddenly stop only to start ringing again when the Dark Knight begins to walk away. This implies that Zsasz is purposely toying with Batman for his own personal amusement by hanging up the phone when the hero gets close and then calling it again as he is about to leave. *If you don't trace his phone-call, you will get two additional calls where Batman even tries to trade himself to save the two victims. After the call his Bat-Computer will automatically trace his location. *During the second phone call, Zsasz mentions he has three victims, yet when Batman arrives in Zsasz's lair, there are only two. The third victim can be found deceased in the water near the floating bridge if you scan the water in Detective Mode. *From the phone-calls, one can notice that Penguin cheated Zsasz at the poker game, where Zsasz lost everything. Zsasz recalls he had four of a kind of sixes, while the Penguin had a straight flush, three through seven. Zsasz describes Penguin laying each card of the flush down on the table from his hand, meaning that they were not playing a version of poker with communal cards. Penguin's hand therefor included a fifth six that could not have been from the deck. ==Gallery== ===''Batman: Arkham Asylum''=== <gallery captionalign="left"> Batman-arkham-asylum-artwork-mrzsasz.jpg ZsaszArt.jpg|Art of Victor Zsasz by character artist Carlos D'Anda. 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Disney Channel star Jordan Fisher has been crowned the winner of "Dancing with the Stars" alongside partner Lindsay Arnold.
Fisher beat out violinist Lindsey Stirling and actor Frankie Muniz for the Mirrorball Trophy on the season 25 finale of the ABC reality competition Tuesday.
Fisher paid tribute to Arnold on Twitter after the announcement, writing: "There aren't words to describe the feeling of going through BATTLE with my SISTER. Putting in all the time and effort and energy for 12 weeks, then to be rewarded for it after having the most incredible time?! Unbelievable."
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Science deliberately mangled by Answers in Genesis:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/article ... e-11032012 (item 4)
"Despite implicit faith that "gene duplications allow evolution of genes with new functions," no one has actually shown how that could happen."
"Since mutations actually don't add any new information..."
"The main problem with using this discovery to support evolutionary theory is that no new function actually came into existence. The dual-function gene already existed in the organism. The genetic information was not new; it was already there."
"These bacteria did not evolve an innovation. They did not acquire new genetic information, as duplication of an existing gene is nothing new."
But as reported in the Abstract of the scientific paper: "Gene duplications allow evolution of genes with new functions. Here, we describe the innovation-amplification-divergence (IAD) model in which the new function appears before duplication and functionally distinct new genes evolve under continuous selection".
If this does not also support the idea of bacteria evolving into something more complex, why do YECs pretend it isn't happening ie there is 'no' new function?
As in other similar cases, the duplication meant that two functions were being carried out instead of just one.
"Cornell University evolutionary geneticist Richard Meisel cautions that this evolutionary mechanism may be limited to bacteria and viruses, which brings up another rather obvious point: nothing about this discovery provides a mechanism for Salmonella to become any new kind of more complex organism, only another variety of Salmonella." That does not necessarily follow. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6105/316 (cited by AiG)
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Apple's founding contract expected to bring $150,000 at auction
It was revealed on Monday that the document which founded Apple Computer Company in 1976, will be sold by Sotheby's in an upcoming books and manuscripts auction, reports Bloomberg.
The original three-page draft is signed by co-founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, and is the third most-valuable lot being sold in the December auction.
âThis is a foundation document in terms of financial history, social history and technological history,â said Richard Austin, head of books and manuscripts at Sothebyâs in New York.
Wayne, who was the original owner of the contract, met Jobs while working at Atari Inc. and was later promised a 10 percent stake if he could persuade Wozniak to join Apple. The three founders drafted the official paperwork on April 1, 1976, effectively establishing the fledgling computer company that would turn into today's tech heavyweight.
On April 12, however, Wayne withdrew as partner, receiving $800 for his share of the company. Sotheby's notes that he subsequently received another payment of $1500, though by the end of 2010 his original stake would have been worth an estimated $2.6 billion.
A manuscript dealer, who acquired the founding draft from Wayne, sold the documents to the auction house in the mid-1990's.
âIt was right before Jobs rejoined Apple,â Austin said. âAt the time, everyone thought that Apple was pretty much finished.â
Jobs, whose closely guarded personal life was recently exposed in a biography by Walter Isaacson, was seen by many as the driving force behind Apple's dramatic turnaround in becoming one of the largest companies in the world.
The tech guru's untimely death in October generated an enormous amount of press, which is part of the reason Sotheby's is selling the documents.
âWith everything in the news, this seems to be the time to do it,â Austin said.
Auction lot featuring Apple's original founding documents | Source: Sotheby's
Included with the original contract is a statement by the County of Santa Clara noting Wayne's withdrawal from Apple as well as an amendment to the original draft.
The auction will take place on Dec. 13 in New York.


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Public Health Students Collaborate with University of Costa Rica to Deliver Parasite Prevention Measures Abroad
ALBANY, N.Y. (March 27, 2013) — When a contingent from the University at Albany's Center for Global Health went to Costa Rica in January to help isolated communities with parasite-prevention measures, they gained first-hand experience in delivering public health and learned the importance of global collaboration.
During the service-learning trip, led by School of Public Health Assistant Dean Carol Whittaker, the 16-member group of students and Center staff delve into Costa Rica's healthcare system from several different perspectives, including the country's ministry of health, and local and county hospitals.
The most dramatic aspect of the 10-day expedition involved the experience students acquired collaborating with colleagues from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in providing members of an indigenous population with public health knowledge and skills to prevent parasite infection. Parasites in the region cause such diseases as malaria, dysentery, and, in the case of the Chagas parasite, destruction of the heart muscles.
Taking a moment to pose on a mountainside near the village of Brus Malis are expedition members Jean Carlo Córdoba Navarrete of the University of Costa Rica, UAlbany student Allie Kline, School of Public Health alumna Michele Andrews, UAlbany MPH student Jillian Jeffrey, and Don Federico, a Ngobe community health worker.
Alleviating the menace to communities of such infections was the goal of UAlbany students, among them graduate student Allison Kline, a Liberty, Missouri, native who traveled to an isolated mountain-top village near the Costa Rican-Panama border populated by the Ngobe people.
"When we reached the village of Brus Malis, we split into groups each accompanied by a UCR student or staff member, along with a Ngobe community health worker. Our mission was to educate families on how to prevent parasite infections, deliver antibiotics to treat existing infections, and supply rain boots that would protect children's feet from being infected by parasites in soil," Kline said. "I was able to use my Spanish skills to instruct parents and children on proper hand-washing techniques."
Kline said the trip advanced her interests in health education as well as providing her with first-hand knowledge on the creation of culturally effective public health messages. "I am very grateful for the opportunity I had to observe community health workers in the field and to work with so many amazing people from UCR," she said.
This was the Center's fourth trip to Costa Rica. It makes similar study abroad trips to the Dominican Republic to support persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families.
The Center is part of UAlbany's School of Public Health and serves as a focal point for international education, research collaborations, and programs. The Center addresses major global public health challenges through educational programs, capacity building projects, applied research, interventions, faculty and student exchanges, and evaluation. It works in partnership with the School of Public Health, UAlbany academic departments, the NYS Department of Health, and selected U.S. and international institutions.
"I continue to be excited about these opportunities for participants to learn about other health care systems," said Whittaker. "We are proud of our students and their willingness to use their vacation time to help others. There's no doubt they feel a great sense of accomplishment and learn a great deal from these experiences."
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The art of Edward Miller.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
A Winter Ghost
The art of Edward Miller.
2 comments:
- K.O. said...
Gorgeous!!! Wonderful depth, color, and mystery. I'd kill for an original.
- February 9, 2012 at 12:41 AM
- Sara said...
The art in this post and the posts after this one are fab! Great finds, Rot!
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UnNews:Husband comes out as gay, wife not surprised
|Every time you think, you weaken the nation —Moe Howard
|Saturday, August 15, 2020, 10:18:59 (UTC)
|Husband comes out as gay, wife not surprised
15 February 2008
SACRAMENTO, California -- Anna Marie Will had always suspected her husband of being "a major pansy," but her worst fears were realized last week when her husband Jim came out of the closet and told her he was a homosexual. The couple had been married for ten years when Jim made this announcement. According to Anna, this is all just now starting to make sense.
"I always suspected he was a fag," the large, disgusting woman told our reporter. "For one, we've been married for ten years and never slept together since we got married. Not once. Not on our wedding night, not on Valentine's Day, not even on our tenth anniversary. I sorta knew he was gay all along. What else could explain it?" She then proceeded to eat the swiss roll she had been warming up under her ass.
Jim and Anna were married June 5th, 1997. They had been engaged for a very short time, as apparently their marriage was arranged by Anna's father. "That boy dun git 'imself drunk 'n knock up mah daughter! I knowed he's wus gonna do the right thang cuz I told 'im if 'e don', I'ma cum afta 'im wit mah scattershot!" Jim solemnly confirmed these details. "Yeah, me and my buddies just decided to go check out a different bar. I got pretty trashed, and to be honest, she looked kinda like a man. I dunno if it was the light, the alcohol, or something. But it was something. I woke up the next day in the passenger side seat of her daddy's truck and he's telling me all kinds of things and I'm freaking out. Next thing I know, I'm married. I figured I should just go with it and not ask any questions."
The news came as a shock to Jim's friends and family. "He finally came out?" Jim's very close friend, Vern, told our reporter. "Good for him! Do you think he'll stay married? Oooohh, I'm so excited!" While his family did not share Vern's enthusiasm, they also seemed proud of Jim's decision to be open about his orientation. "I hope this means he's finally free from that hag he's living with. Oh shit. You're not going to print that, are you?"
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KANSAS CITY -- Third baseman Mike Moustakas, 0-for-15 in the Royals' first four games, got a break from the starting lineup on Sunday, but manager Ned Yost expressed confidence he'll get in gear soon.
Yost used Danny Valencia, a right-handed hitter, at third base against White Sox left-hander Chris Sale, and also had righty Justin Maxwell in right field to replace another left-handed batter, Nori Aoki.
"Does Nori need a day today? No. Nori handles lefties well," Yost said. "Moose could use a day off, especially against a guy like Sale, but Nori doesn't need one. The thing is just to try to pick spots to get Danny in there and Maxie in there."
Yost figures to have trouble creating playing time for his bench players.
"It's tougher on our team," he said. "Some teams, like Detroit, have got kind of platoon situations that keep their bench involved. We don't have that. All of our guys are just about everyday players so it's hard to keep your bench guys going."
Maxwell was used to replace Aoki in right instead of left fielder Alex Gordon "because that's where he's more natural," Yost said. "and because Gordy's got history against Sale."
Despite Moustakas' slow start, Yost is not discouraged.
"Moose hit .450 in Spring Training, led all of baseball in RBIs. That's more of the hitter he is," Yost said. "I mean, he's not a .450 hitter, but he hit lefties, he hit righties, and he's seeing pitches which is key. He'll get his hits."
Moustakas, the skipper noted, has become much more selective in swinging at pitches.
"In his best year, he saw like 3.6 pitches per at-bat. He's seeing over five pitches per at-bat now," Yost said. "That big walk that he had yesterday -- that run-scoring walk -- he wouldn't have taken that walk last year. So, he's definitely making improvements."
Although Moustakas this year is making a concentrated effort to hit the ball to all fields, so far opposing teams are shifting their defenses and playing him like an extreme pull hitter.
"Until he proves that he can go the opposite way like he did so well in Spring Training, they're going to continue to shift. They have more of a track record on him, more at-bats under his belt, for them to make that kind of a move," Yost said. "It does get into your head a little bit, but I think it's more playing the percentages off the data they have in his past."
It'll be a relief when Moustakas does break out.
"He just needs to get that first hit to get going," Yost said. "He's pressing a little bit, but not nearly as much as he did on any occasion last year. He's going to be OK."


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MTV execs must be doing some serious fist pumps right now.
The season 4 premiere of "Jersey Shore" shattered MTV records, with 8.8 million people tuning in to watch Snooki and the gang go wild in Italy, according to Nielsen ratings.
The hour-long extravaganza also drew an 8.2 rating in the 12-34 demographic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Reuters reports the episode bumped down "Jersey Shore"'s last premiere, which debuted in January 2011.
What crazy shenanigans went down in the Italian homeland to attract so many people? Well, Pauly D was planning an "international panty raid," and breaking news emerged that Snooki and the Situation may be "smushing." And as always, there was plenty of bronzer and hair gel to go around.
While the show broke records for the most-watched premiere, it isn't MTV's most-watched episode. That trophy would go to a season three show in which Snooki got arrested (8.9 million viewers, according to The Hollywood Reporter).
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Woman who bus driver says he was helping tells her story
Ruben Alcantar says Bill Bierman wouldn't leave them alone during fight
The woman at the center of a controversial firing of a bus driver caught on camera breaking up a fight said that driver isn't telling the whole story.
She claims it got out of hand.
The woman only agreed to talk with WISN 12 News reporter Christina Palladino on the phone Thursday night and decided to come forward after seeing the video of the incident all over the news Thursday.
Palladino also interviewed her boyfriend. The couple claims the bus supervisor doesn't have all the facts right about what happened at Second Street and National Avenue in October.
The woman said the newly released surveillance video said it's misleading and wanted to tell her side of the story only on WISN 12 News.
She said her screams were from anxiety, not from being assaulted by her boyfriend.
"I was having a panic attack, so you can see them trying to hold me back and calm me down, so that's what was going on. It sounds a lot worse then it actually was," she said.
Calls from county leaders have been getting louder for fired bus supervisor Bill Bierman to get his job back after he claims he intervened in the fight to help her.
But the woman involved said Bierman wouldn't listen to her and is now changing the facts.
"When he asked, 'Do you need any help?' I said, 'No. I'm OK,' and Ruben said, 'No we are fine.' It was just an argument. We were just fighting, not physically fighting. He never touched me in any way," she said.
Ruben Alcantar said Bierman still wouldn't leave them alone while they continued to argue outside a bar.
Alcantar told Palladino all of a sudden Bierman was in his face.
"The whole time he's like, 'I'm going to get you. I'm going to kill you.' and I'm like, 'No, no.' So then he got a hold of me, and I spun around a bit and hit my head on his truck," Alcantar said.
Alcantar took pictures of his injuries he claimed he suffered during the scuffle.
While Bierman is being honored, Alcantar's girlfriend wants to clear her boyfriend's name.
"It just really upsets me to hear Ruben's being wrongfully accused of something he did not do," the woman said.
Alcantar pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct ticket and was fined $185.
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[August 30, 2011] Mark will be in the play "Windows On The World" on Sept. 12 at The Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood. VIP Reserved tickets includes a post show reception with cast.
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[August 4, 2011] Mark will play FBI Agent Fletcher in the bank heist cabnapping
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We have a man who was born in Glendale, Queens and wants to be governor.
The man I'm applauding is Suffolk County Executive, Steve Levy, who has a record of achievements for the County. He has switched from being a Democrat to a Republican so he can achieve his conservative ideals. As I had mention he has many accomplishments and I would like to name a few as follows.
He has enhanced management efficiencies, addressed minority issues, health benefits reform and has helped established a housing preference program for veterans returning from defending our nation. What really sold me on him is his leadership and vision in addressing Suffolk's largest budget short fall. Upon taking office, Steve Levy drafted and approved the largest budget deficit reduction package in the county's history, facing down a projected hole of more than $238 million. Even in a difficult national economy in 2009, Steve closed a shortfall of more than $150 million without raising taxes and without reducing vital services.
Here is a public servant that can walk the talk. In his speech in Albany the other day he promised to declare a fiscal emergency, cap on spending, capping property tax increases, and is calling for and end of business as usual and an end of politics as usual.
Our state government is in a disarray and we are the laughing stock of the nation. We need a man like Steve Levy who can get the state back on tract and solvent again. Now for that I say," Run Steve run."
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No, chances are it's not "bricked". Here's what you need to do:
1) Unplug your interface from all sources of power. If it's plugged into a computer, unplug the USB cable from the computer. If the other end is plugged into a car, pull the interface out of the car's OBD-II port. Let it rest for a bit. While it rests:
2) Find a PC. No, not a Mac running Windows in a VM; we need a machine that runs Windows natively. Beg, borrow, or steal one if necessary. Installing Windows on a Mac using Boot Camp will also work.
3) Make sure you have a current version of VCDS installed. The current "Release" version is always available for download from this page.
4) Make sure that the PC has internet access and that Windows Firewall isn't blocking our software's access to our server via TCP port 11,000. The current version of the VCDS Installer takes care of that for you if you don't un-check the relevant option. Note: Some routers can also be overly agressive about blocking outbound traffic. This is rare with "home" routers, but somewhat more common with those installed in corporate environments.
5) Plug your interface into a USB port on the computer.
6) Start VCIConfig manually. There should be a shortcut to it in your Windows Start menu:
Or you can start it directly in your VCDS folder:
VCIConfig should find the interface and show you its serial number. If it doesn't, unplug the interface and try a different USB port (assuming the computer has more than one), then click [Refresh Interface List].
If you get a MessageBox indicating that VCIConfig can't read the current versions like this:
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Fox Distorts Reagan's Record On Iranian Hostage Crisis To Attack Obama Over Embassy Violence
Following Violence At Embassy In Cairo And Consulate In Benghazi, Fox Goes Back To The Reagan Well
Fox is attacking President Obama's response to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and unrest in Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere by suggesting he should have acted more like Ronald Reagan during the Iranian hostage crisis. In fact, Reagan said the U.S. should agree to most of Iran's demands, and experts say he had little to do with the release of the American hostages in Iran.
Fox Attacks Obama By Distorting Reagan's Record
Fox's K.T. McFarland: Iran "Immediately Let Those Hostages Go" Because Of Reagan. During the September 13 edition of Fox & Friends First, Fox News national security analyst K.T. McFarland criticized Obama for his handling of the recent upheaval in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, comparing it to the Carter presidency and the Iranian hostage crisis. Regarding the hostage crisis, McFarland claimed:
McFARLAND: Jimmy Carter had the same situation in Tehran in 1979. Americans were taken hostage -- American diplomats. He tried to negotiate, he tried to apologize, and what happened was the country just laughed at him, and they kept the hostages longer and longer and longer ... [W]hen I came in with President Reagan in 1980, there was a very different reaction. They immediately let those hostages go.
The problem with President Obama coming out and trying to apologize and be understanding and not set a firm position, is that all the leaders of these Arab countries -- they look at that and say, well gee, I've got the mobs in the street, and I've got President Obama who understands. I guess I'm going to side with the mob on the street. They're more dangerous to me. [Fox News, Fox & Friends First, 9/13/12]
Fox's Bolling: It Took A Ronald Reagan To Solve That Hostage Crisis. Fox News' The Five devoted a segment to comparing the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis to the recent unrest in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. During that segment, co-host Eric Bolling claimed "it took a Ronald Reagan to solve that hostage crisis." [Fox News, The Five, 9/12/12]
But Carter Negotiated The Release Of The Iranian Hostages
NY Times: "Complex Deal That Lead To [The Hostages' Release] Was Brokered by President Jimmy Carter's Administration." A December 7, 2007, New York Times article fact checked a political ad ran by then-GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani's campaign that linked the release of the hostages to the swearing in of Reagan. The Times explained that:
Although the hostages were freed less than an hour after Mr. Reagan was sworn in as president, the complex deal that led to their release was brokered by President Jimmy Carter's administration. The hostages were released because the United States agreed to return nearly $8 billion in frozen assets to Iran, most of which Iran used to pay off foreign creditors. [The New York Times, 12/7/07]
As A Candidate, Reagan Urged The U.S. To Agree To "Virtually All" Of Iran's Demands For Releasing The Hostages
Wash. Post: Reagan Said The U.S. "Should Agree To Virtually All" Of Iran's Demands In Return For The Prompt Release Of The Hostages. The Washington Post reported in September 1980 that Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set four terms before he would release the hostages, and Reagan said that the United States should accept three of those terms and added that the fourth term could not be met without following "due process of law." From the Washington Post:
Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan said last night that the United States should agree to virtually all the new demands of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in return for the prompt release of the American hostages.
In a prepared statement he read before he and President Carter delivered separate speeches to the National Italian-American Foundation dinner, Reagan said the United States "can and should" agree to release Iranian assets in this country, cancel all claims against Iran and pledge nonintervention in Iran's domestic affairs.
These were three of the four conditions Khomeini set for the return of the hostages in a statement issued Friday in Tehran.
Reagan said Khomeini's fourth condition -- the return to Iran of the property of the late shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi -- cannot be met without "due process of law."
"Having agreed to these points we must above all insist that the hostages be released immediately upon conclusion of an agreement, that there be no delays, introduction of additional demands or waiting for fulfillment of an agreement," he said.
The GOP nominee also pledged not to make negotiations over Iran's new conditions" and said that if elected "I will observe the terms of the agreement." [The Washington Post, 9/14/80, via Nexis]
And Experts Say Reagan Has Little To Do With The Release Of The Hostages
PolitiFact: Seven Scholars Said "Reagan's Foreign Policy Approach Was Either A Minor Factor" Or No Factor In Hostages' Release. Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact found the claim that the fear of Reagan's foreign policy led to the hostages' release as soon as Reagan was sworn in to be false. From PolitiFact:
"Well before Reagan became president, the deal for releasing the hostages had already been worked out by the Carter administration's State Department and the Iranians, ably assisted by Algerian diplomats," said David Farber, a Temple University historian and author of Taken Hostage: The Iranian Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam.
"I don't think they were scared into the release," [University of Central Florida professor David] Houghton said. "In all likelihood, they released the hostages because they needed the sanctions we'd placed on them lifted so they could finance their war with Iraq."
[S]even scholars of the period told us that Reagan's foreign policy approach was either a minor factor in the release of the hostages or not a factor at all. The fact that the deal was negotiated entirely by the Carter administration, without involvement by Reagan or his transition team, seems to support the expert consensus. Romney made a claim that flies in the face of history and offered no evidence to support it. [PolitiFact, 3/7/12]


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Clinton and Obama, Polar Opposites
Last night, Bill Clinton introduced President Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee. He went to great lengths to stress their similarities, but failed to mention their divergent views on the appropriate size of government.
When President Clinton took office in 1993, government expenditures were 22.1% of GDP, and when he departed in 2000, the federal government's share of the economy had been squeezed to a low of 18.2%. As the accompanying table shows, during the Clinton years, federal government expenditures as a percent of GDP fell by 3.9 percentage points. No other modern president has come close.
And, that's not all. During the final three years of the former President's second term, the federal government was generating fiscal surpluses. Clinton was even confident enough to boldly claim, in his January 1996 State of the Union address, that "the era of big government is over."
When it comes to the appropriate size of government, Clinton and Obama are polar opposites.


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