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Glen Beck is a blithering idiot.
Well, first, "Where do we get out inalienable rights"? What inalienable rights? The argument is that society would not have advanced the "values" or "morals" it did (supposedly) unless it had been buttresses by religion, specifically Christian religion. It is a species of only religious people (Christian) can be or have morals. Reference Sam Harris here and his arguments for the "elevated" nature of the morality of the Bible (he's "agin" it, BTW), and the possibility of having morals and values without God. Further his argument that most of the social advances we have experienced have NOT been due to the forward thinking, humane minded Church or Christianity but rather secular humanists or deist who have often fought AGAINST the Church to change the values and morals that were prevalent at the time. The Church has been forced by these advances to reinterpret or hedge what they have taught so was to appear to have less of an "Iron Age" mentality than the Bible actually fosters.
Most Christians choose the morality of the Bible selectively, or hid part of the morality of the Bible and advance the parts that are somewhat palatable. They ignore the inconsistencies in the morality and the inconsistencies between the actions of the deity (Yahweh and Jesus) and the moral dictates.
The assumption is that people are inherently disposed to "evil" not good. That is a presupposition of the Christian religion. The presupposition is that people unaided by authoritative dictates and the intimidation of punishment will not of their own accord arising out of their own nature do what is beneficial for themselves and others with whom they are in community.
The argument presupposes something which arises out of what it is alleging to prove, that there is a God. It is also a scare tactic that if you personally abandon belief in God and others follow society will descend into chaos, anarchy and brutal self absorption and self interest.
All one needs to do is look to the "human rights" accorded to people by the Church during the inquisition and the crusades or the Islamic leaders of Islamic nations with their sharia law. Religion has never accorded people human rights. Religion accords you NO rights. The only one with rights is God. The inalienable rights he mentions were accorded by people by the "Founding Fathers" precious few of whom were Christians. Jefferson, Adams and Thomas Paine were certainly not Christians but rather, at best, Deist regardless of what the Christian Right wants people to think. They along with Madison were the most prominent framers of the Constitution.
If anything they were humanists. If anything the Constitution is a social contract.
James Madison, the father of the Constitution:
What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not. [Pres. James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, addressed to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1785]
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.
-- James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr., April 1, 1774, quoted from Edwin S Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation (1987) p. 37, quoted from Ed and Michael Buckner, "Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church"
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When someone got very sick, they all flocked to the hospital and to the funeral. The living were never left alone day or night. Everyone brought food or took up a collection for the family so ones far away could come. People took care of each other. That is gone now. In the past anyone could drop by the house and you would feed them, they could stay the night. Now you have to phone if you want to visit, and they often say, "No. We are busy." Someone throws a party and makes a lot of food and hardly anyone shows up. The saddest thing is the loss of community. We never visit with the Machwaya. They keep to themselves and we keep to ourselves.
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- How do people get Chagas disease?
- If I have Chagas disease, should my family members be tested for the infection?
- In what parts of the world is Chagas disease found?
- What are the signs and symptoms of Chagas disease?
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What is Chagas disease?
Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to animals and people by insect vectors that are found only in the Americas (mainly, in rural areas of Latin America where poverty is widespread). Chagas disease (T. cruzi infection) is also referred to as American trypanosomiasis.
It is estimated that as many as 8 million people in Mexico, Central America, and South America have Chagas disease, most of whom do not know they are infected. If untreated, infection is lifelong and can be life threatening.
The impact of Chagas disease is not limited to the rural areas in Latin America in which vectorborne transmission occurs. Large-scale population movements from rural to urban areas of Latin America and to other regions of the world have increased the geographic distribution and changed the epidemiology of Chagas disease. In the United States and in other regions where Chagas disease is now found but is not endemic, control strategies should focus on preventing transmission from blood transfusion, organ transplantation, and mother-to-baby (congenital transmission).
How do people get Chagas disease?
People can become infected in various ways. In Chagas disease-endemic areas, the main way is through vectorborne transmission. The insect vectors are called triatomine bugs. These blood-sucking bugs get infected by biting an infected animal or person. Once infected, the bugs pass T. cruzi parasites in their feces. The bugs are found in houses made from materials such as mud, adobe, straw, and palm thatch. During the day, the bugs hide in crevices in the walls and roofs. During the night, when the inhabitants are sleeping, the bugs emerge. Because they tend to feed on people's faces, triatomine bugs are also known as "kissing bugs. " After they bite and ingest blood, they defecate on the person. The person can become infected if T. cruzi parasites in the bug feces enter the body through mucous membranes or breaks in the skin. The unsuspecting, sleeping person may accidentally scratch or rub the feces into the bite wound, eyes, or mouth.
People also can become infected through:
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- blood transfusion;
- organ transplantation;
- consumption of uncooked food contaminated with feces from infected bugs; and
- accidental laboratory exposure.
It is generally considered safe to breastfeed even if the mother has Chagas disease. However, if the mother has cracked nipples or blood in the breast milk, she should pump and discard the milk until the nipples heal and the bleeding resolves.
Chagas disease is not transmitted from person-to-person like a cold or the flu or through casual contact with infected people or animals.
If I have Chagas disease, should my family members be tested for the infection?
Possibly. They should be tested if they:
- could have become infected the same way that you did, for example, by vectorborne transmission in Latin America;
- received blood or organs that you donated after you already were infected;
- are your children and were born after you were infected; or if
- there are other reasons to think that they might have Chagas disease.
In what parts of the world is Chagas disease found?
People who have Chagas disease can be found anywhere in the world. However, vectorborne transmission is confined to the Americas, principally rural areas in parts of Mexico, Central America, and South America. In some regions of Latin America, vector-control programs have succeeded in stopping this type of disease spread. Vectorborne transmission does not occur in the Caribbean (for example, in Puerto Rico or Cuba). Rare vectorborne cases of Chagas disease have been noted in the southern United States.
What are the signs and symptoms of Chagas disease?
Much of the clinical information about Chagas disease comes from experience with people who became infected as children through vectorborne transmission. The severity and course of infection might be different in people infected at other times of life, in other ways, or with different strains of the T. cruzi parasite.
There are two phases of Chagas disease: the acute phase and the chronic phase. Both phases can be symptom free or life threatening.
The acute phase lasts for the first few weeks or months of infection. It usually occurs unnoticed because it is symptom free or exhibits only mild symptoms and signs that are not unique to Chagas disease. The symptoms noted by the patient can include fever, fatigue, body aches, headache, and rash. The signs on physical examination can include mild enlargement of the liver or spleen, swollen glands, and local swelling (a chagoma) where the parasite entered the body. The most recognized marker of acute Chagas disease is called Romaña's sign, which includes swelling of the eyelids on the side of the face near the bite wound or where the bug feces were deposited or accidentally rubbed into the eye. Even if symptoms develop during the acute phase, they usually fade away on their own, within a few weeks or months. Although the symptoms resolve, if untreated the infection persists. Rarely, young children (<5%) die from severe inflammation/infection of the heart muscle (myocarditis) or brain (meningoencephalitis). The acute phase also can be severe in people with weakened immune systems.
During the chronic phase, the infection may remain silent for decades or even for life. However, some people develop:
- cardiac complications, which can include an enlarged heart (cardiomyopathy), heart failure, altered heart rate or rhythm, and cardiac arrest (sudden death); and/or
- intestinal complications, which can include an enlarged esophagus (megaesophagus) or colon (megacolon) and can lead to difficulties with eating or with passing stool.
The average life-time risk of developing one or more of these complications is about 30%.
What should I do if I think I have Chagas disease?
You should discuss your concerns with your health care provider, who will examine you and ask you questions (for example, about your health and where you have lived). Chagas disease is diagnosed by blood tests. If you are found to have Chagas disease, you should have a heart tracing test (electrocardiogram), even if you feel fine. You might be referred to a specialist for more tests and for treatment.
What if I've been diagnosed with Chagas disease but have a normal EKG?
If you have been diagnosed with Chagas disease, your doctor may perform an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) to check for any problems with the electrical activity of your heart. Even if this test is normal, you still may need to be given antiparasitic medication used to treat Chagas disease. Your physician may wish to review CDC's recommendations for evaluation and treatment for more information.
How is Chagas disease treated?
Treatment is most effective early in the course of infection but is not limited to cases in the acute phase. Your health care provider can talk with CDC staff about treatment options. Most people do not need to be hospitalized during treatment.
I plan to travel to a rural area of Latin America that might have Chagas disease. How can I prevent infection?
No drugs or vaccines for preventing infection are currently available. Travelers who sleep indoors, in well-constructed facilities (for example, air-conditioned or screened hotel rooms), are at low risk for exposure to infected triatomine bugs, which infest poor-quality dwellings and are most active at night. Preventive measures include spraying infested dwellings with residual-action insecticides, using bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticides, wearing protective clothing, and applying insect repellent to exposed skin. In addition, travelers should be aware of other possible routes of transmission, including bloodborne and foodborne.
This information is not meant to be used for self-diagnosis or as a substitute for consultation with a health care provider. If you have any questions about the parasites described above or think that you may have a parasitic infection, consult a health care provider.
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I am such a sucker. I had envisioned a Mr. Rogers kind of evening. It would be convivial, and everyone was guaranteed a good time.
So, in good faith, I start emailing the French folks, eliciting their ideas about how we should pair the wines, which would be served blind, one from each country, to complement food courses. My Gallic counterparts were very busy at the time, and we couldn't get ourselves coordinated. I chose the Italian wines based on the parameters outlined, which were: The wines should retail for under $20.
With that, I headed off to a week in Napa to go to my writing symposium.
In the middle of the week, I got an email. I was in a writing exercise class and the rain was pounding our little Arts and Crafts inspired classroom. It appeared the French had chosen more expensive wines. The question to me was, "What shall we do?"
What could we do? They had chosen their wines, and we had chosen ours. If their more expensive wines showed better, then we could always plead that they had exceeded the agreed-upon price limit. And if the Italians showed better, we could always rise triumphant in that our wines were better quality and more reasonably priced. I went back to my soggy classroom feeling as smug as a Frenchman.
Back in Dallas, the day of the event arrived and I hurried back from a class that I was teaching at the University in Denton, about 35 miles away. At the appointed restaurant ("It needs to be neither French nor Italian, it must be a neutral space."), I arrived to make sure the wines were all in place. The restaurant was nearly empty save a server or two and the Italian-American Chamber of Commerce delegate. No Frenchmen in sight. We helped to clean glasses, wrap the bottles in aluminum foil, both Italian and French, and open some of the reds to let them breathe.
An hour or so before the official start of the event, I was getting anxious, for at this point we had prepared much. Still no Frenchmen in sight. My expert counterpart was probably at work, making lots of money, while I was polishing his glasses. And then they would appear and ask why things were not set up properly. That was the film playing before my imagination. It wouldn't be right, and it would all be the Italians' fault.
Finally they started arriving 10 minutes before the event. They walked in; we made nice and set about the battle of the bottles.
"Calixte" Cave Vinicole de Hunawihr, Crémant d'Alsace Sparkling
Rotari Talento Brut, Trento DOC (metodo classico)
First Course
Field Greens Tossed Lightly in Walnut Oil
Topped with Walnut Crusted Goat Cheese Croutons
Vincent Girardin, Emotions de Terroir Blanc 2004
Illuminati "Costalupo" Controguerra DOC
(Trebbiano/Chardonnay blend)
Second Course
Pan Seared Scallops Wrapped in Apple Smoked Bacon
Domaine des Baumard, Savennières 2004
Santi "Solane" Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso 2004
Third Course
Beef Tenderloin with Wild Mushroom Demi-Glace
Guigal, Crozes-Hermitage Rouge 2003
Coppo Camp du Rouss" Barbera d'Alba 2004
Fourth Course
Assortment of: Mascarpone Stuffed Dried Apricot; Roquefort Stuffed Fig; Milk Chocolate Mousse in Dark Chocolate Tulip; Stilton Cheesecake Topped with Poached Pear
Domaine des Maurières, Coteaux du Layon 1998
Ceretto Santo Stefano Moscato D'Asti 2006
"Calixte" Cave Vinicole de Hunawihr, Crémant d'Alsace Sparkling
Rotari Talento Brut, Trento DOC (metodo classico)
First Course
Field Greens Tossed Lightly in Walnut Oil
Topped with Walnut Crusted Goat Cheese Croutons
Vincent Girardin, Emotions de Terroir Blanc 2004
Illuminati "Costalupo" Controguerra DOC
(Trebbiano/Chardonnay blend)
Second Course
Pan Seared Scallops Wrapped in Apple Smoked Bacon
Domaine des Baumard, Savennières 2004
Santi "Solane" Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso 2004
Third Course
Beef Tenderloin with Wild Mushroom Demi-Glace
Guigal, Crozes-Hermitage Rouge 2003
Coppo Camp du Rouss" Barbera d'Alba 2004
Fourth Course
Assortment of: Mascarpone Stuffed Dried Apricot; Roquefort Stuffed Fig; Milk Chocolate Mousse in Dark Chocolate Tulip; Stilton Cheesecake Topped with Poached Pear
Domaine des Maurières, Coteaux du Layon 1998
Ceretto Santo Stefano Moscato D'Asti 2006
The walk-around sparkling reception was harmless enough. One French couple arrived, and as I asked them which sparkling wine they wanted to start, the elderly gentlemen, in a rather gruff tone, barked out, "We will not have alcohol, only sparkling water." And a giant welcome back to you, pardner.
Meanwhile, my French counterpart, who resembled a rough-sanded Philippe Noiret, was asking about the Crozes-Hermitage Rouge. It seemed some of the corks were a bit soggy and the two sommeliers on duty were concerned about the red wine inside. He was unphased and said something about this is the way a natural product should be.
Well OK, then. And that would be fine with me, too.
However, some of the wines were a little corky, and not in a "Hi, my name is Alice Feiring and I'll have some of what you are having," kind of way that encouraged the appreciation of unmanipulated wines. Forgive me, Alice, these were wines that had seen temperature fluctuation in storage, and they were a little crippled. Fortunately, not all of them were, so the sommeliers and I culled through the lot and found, we thought, enough bottles for the group of 76 anxious spectators.
The first course was my moment to shine. I thought sure the Italian was the French and vice versa. A gentleman at my table wanted to discuss the wine I thought was French. I explained to him, because it was a 2004, you could tell by the oxidation in the glass that it was an older wine. He didn't like my explanation or the wine. One victory for the Italians. Or so I thought.
I got the wines backwards. He looked at this "expert" before him, and I knew I was in danger of losing this one to the French. Forget that his wife was with the Italian-American chamber and was Sicilian through and through. He was convinced I was an idiot. So I cinched up my pride and belted out a rational worthy of the finest Frenchman. "Now you can all relax," I explained. "Your 'expert' has chosen to make the first mistake so we can all sit back and enjoy ourselves." No one bought that one. One more try. "Look," I pleaded, "the only thing that separates an expert from the rest of the folks is that experts make fewer mistakes, but they still make them. I admit it, now let's enjoy the wines." [Sub-text: that is unless you want to see how Sicilian I can become]. Sold.
Then the evening veered off into uncharted waters. For the second course, I had made the egregious error of staking out a position of modernity by choosing a red wine to go with the scallops. Smoky bacon wrapped scallops. And of course a more traditional French pairing would match a fine Chenin Blanc with them.
I really, really liked the Domaine des Baumard, Savennières. I just didn't like it with the scallops. For that matter, the Santi "Solane" Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso didn't go all that well with the second course, either.
Then came the obligatory red-meat course. Every wine dinner gots to have 'em. Unless you are in California. Why is that? Who knows?
Now the food and the wine were matching up well, the kitchen was putting out plates to the tables, no one was complaining. Everyone was drinking. It was getting louder and louder in the room. I went to the microphone to talk about the wines.
Nobody wants to listen. They are having too good of a time. Fine. I slink back to my table, the Frenchmen looking at me as if to say, "Don't talk now, enjoy the meal. That is the duty you have now. Sit down. Shut up."
At that point, one of the sommeliers slides over to me, little beads of sweat forming on his forehead. He is running out of the Crozes-Hermitage, and the last table still needs to be served.
I told him to find a bottle that isn't too bad, that we are probably being too sensitive about the soggy corks. Take the bottle over there, and serve it. I, after all, have been commanded to sit and eat.
Five minutes later, my French counterpart came over to the wine table, there was secondary-furrow on his brow and he seemed alarmed. They have a wine at the table that is going through another fermentation, and did we have any more of the Crozes-Hermitage? Of course, no problem. The sommelier tended to their needs. Touché.
Last course, dessert. Here the wines outshine the food. They are varied from each other and offer a sweet counterpoint. The two wines actually dance together much better than the dessert, a lazy-Susan assortment of various items.
Then comes the moment of truth. My French counterpart and I must get in front of this now happy but unruly crowd to discuss the wines. I notice the Frenchmen at the table and their wonderful shoes. Coupled with their conservative outfits and their impeccable women. I glance towards some of the Italian tables, women in slinky black and red leather, their men in crisp white shirts and tailored Italian suits. Some of the young men wearing those pointy little shoes that fashionistas still linger over.
"We would now like to see which wines everyone chose," I croon into the microphone, channeling my inner Perry Como At this point the Frenchman explains something philosophical. Then, I have this epiphany of the logical Gallic man who finds joy in explaining why they are so different from everybody else, while this American-Italian sees how the Italian in me has spent his whole life reaching across the aisle to welcome the diversity and embrace our differences. No sale, again. But for me, a crystal clear moment as to how and why the French and the Italians are so similar, but in such different ways.
A major problem arose at the judging of the Third Course, the Beef Tenderloin with Wild Mushroom Demi-Glace with the Guigal Crozes-Hermitage Rouge 2003 and the Coppo Camp du Rouss" Barbera d'Alba 2004. It seems the wine I had on my "official card" that said it was the Italian wine was in reality the French wine. Or so the French table assuredly pleaded. It didn't take much for me to agree; I too, thought the wines had been switched in the glass by the sommeliers. The restaurant owner came up to me and explained that no, they hadn't been switched; everything was as it had been marked. But I had tasted too much of the poor Crozes-Hermitage to relent in my judgment and of course, the Frenchmen were also correct. It would have been too easy to explain the bad wine was Italian. After all, a random American-Italian man came up to a Frenchman earlier in the night and literally surrendered to the notion that all French wines were better than any Italian wines. Even though he had never set foot on Italian soil. That's another blog. And this has gotten way too long.
So where did that leave us in the battle of the bottles? Who won? Who knows? Who cares? There were some good wines from both countries. And people were surprised to know they chose preferences, in a blind tasting, that they wouldn't normally make. And that is really OK. We had some fun, and I learned there are more similarities between the two countries than differences. I know the French might disagree with me on that last point. Oh well, vive la différence.
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Club to punish fans who racially abused Altidore
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch club FC Den Bosch pledged Wednesday to do all it can to identify and punish a group of fans who hurled racist abuse at United States striker Jozy Altidore during a match.
Den Bosch said fans responsible for the monkey chants Tuesday in the Dutch Cup match against Altidore's AZ Alkmaar "do not belong in the De Vliert (Stadium) and will face the toughest possible sanctions."
The racist chants gave a hollow ring to the slogan "Without respect, no football" that was coined by Dutch soccer authorities in the aftermath of the death of a linesman who was attacked by players after a match between two youth teams near Amsterdam in December.
Altidore, who is black, was not available for comment Wednesday. He's played for the U.S. national team and the New York Red Bulls from 2006-08.
After the match, he told Dutch television the chants were the worst abuse he has been subjected to on a soccer field.
"It's a bit disappointing that these things still happen in this time that we're in," Altidore told Eredivisie Live. "But what you going to do? You just hope these people can find a way to improve themselves. You can only pray for them."
Altidore, one of Dutch soccer's most prolific strikers this season, scored a goal from the penalty spot in his team's 5-0 win over Den Bosch and urged the referee not to take the players off the field despite the chants.
The 23-year-old American said education is the key to stamping out such chants.
"At the end of the day it's still alive, racism. All we can do now is try to educate ourselves, the young kids coming up, to be better than that," Altidore said.
Den Bosch condemned the chants from a small section of the crowd.
"A cup tie that was supposed to be played in an atmosphere of respect has left us scarred," the club said in a statement on its website.
Referee Reinold Wiedemeijer halted play briefly in the second half because fans threw balls of ice at his linesmen.
Offensive chants are nothing new in Dutch soccer stadiums, but it had been hoped that the sharpened focus on respect following the death of volunteer linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen might help eradicate them.
"(The fans) totally ruined weeks of preparations with monkey chants, throwing things at match officials and not showing respect for those on and around the pitch," Den Bosch said.
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"Lemme tell ya, nothing clears out the pores like a weekend in Reno with the baby-sitter."
Another bit of sagely advice from John. John was our janitor, and in all his 35-odd years of working, it was probably the best job he had ever had. He worked for 15 years pumping gas until everyone went self-serve. My favorite story was how during the bitter Toledo winters he would hose down the entire parking lot, wait for it to freeze up and then put up a huge sign at both entrances saying "Beware: Ice." The rest of the night would be spent in the locked garage with not a single customer to lure him out of the warm indoors or interrupt his eight hour-long canasta smokers.
"You ain't got nothing wrong with you that a little rest, relaxation and female company won't cure," he said, disgusted. "You're just a punk kid who never had to work for nothin', so of course you don't know which way is up. Don't tell me different. I read about your generation in the newspapers and believe me, it's a cryin' shame."
The lunch room was nearly empty. John glared at me in his filthy blue company coveralls, leaning his chair back just far enough to touch the wall. John was the only employee who was actually provided a free set of work clothes, and to show his appreciation he washed them at least twice yearly.
"You got a good job. You got a girlfriend. You got no cancer, no heart problems, no gout, no arthritis, nothin'. I got a blood clot in my leg that any day could make a beeline for my heart, wham-the bum rush is on and I keel over dead. You hear me pissin' and moanin'?"
"No," I agreed, though technically that's exactly what he was doing now.
"So what's the matter with your girlfriend?"
"I don't know. We don't talk so much anymore, we don't have sex so much anymore,...the passion, it's missing passion."
"You expect too much. Any two people who say they still moon and spoon like they did when they were courting after five or ten years together are either liars or they're fuckin' nuts and probably don't even know what day it is."
"Why can't it be exciting, though?" I ask, actually making eye contact. "I'm almost 30. Why can't I get up in the morning and get excited about coming into work? Why can't I have an exciting, fun and totally sexy relationship? Why shouldn't I?"
"I don't know. Why shouldn't everybody win the Lotto? Why can't people stop stabbing and shooting each other? You tell me, you went to college."
The time clock clicks loudly in the pregnant pause. John pushes his seat forward, then leans back once more.
"Okay, returning now to Planet Earth. I'm gonna give you better advice than any shrink, and it ain't gonna cost you a hundred an hour. What you gotta do is go buy a red convertible with a huge stereo system, buy some of that gangster rap teenybopper shit and start cruising the high school parking lot. Spend a couple of months doin' some panty shuckin' with some 17-year-old cheerleaders. Straighten your spine out a little, get it outta your system and when it's all over you'll realize the good thing you had with your little miss at home. All she'll know is how nice it is you bring home flowers so often. It'll all be just this little smile on your face that she'll never understand."
John lets his chair fall to the floor as he stands up.
"Time's up. Gotta work."
My life sucked. I was a faceless low-paid office weasel. My boss didn't know my last name until she balled me out last week because her assistant had found out my computer password was "dung pump." Over the four years my girlfriend Cassie and I had been together, the initial months of talking, laughing and screwing had devolved into mumbling, fighting and snoring. I was not happy and could not for the life of me break up with her. The words would not form in my lips. I just sank deeper and deeper, feeling more helpless and lost. If I ran the world, schools would stress overall the subject of physics, in particular the theory of inertia. I don't care if it was fucking gym class-every class would start with a recitation of the profound truism that objects in motion are likely to stay in motion, and objects that are stationary are likely to stay that way. I was never much for the fast lane of life and now and for as long as I can remember I was in the bus lane. With a flat. And it didn't seem like I was ever gonna get moving.
I was turning 30 in a month. It just didn't seem right. I lost my virginity when I was 21, an age when my peers were seemingly jaded experts in the ways of dating and mating. I've had the same shitty job for four years, with no end in sight. I made a mental list of famous celebrities who were dead by 30. Another list of those who were already washed up reclusive semi-retirees by 30. Shit, I thought, Drew Barrymore had group sex when she was 12. I was not only far from being a celebrity, but the closest I've come to group sex was being sandwiched between two women in the subway on a high school trip to New York. The only foreign country I'd visited was Canada, which didn't count because it seemed exactly like Minnesota with a lower drinking age. I'd never taken LSD, PCP, XTC, tried S&M or B&D, and wanted to ASAP. With the evil three zero looming big as day before me, I felt like I've come to school late and the finals were already over. As fate would have it, Cassie was leaving town for a month to help with the birth of her sister's baby. I knew this was a sign: I was a rat being plopped down in front of the maze, and I had a month to stumble my way through and really taste life's cheese.
Opportunity soon laid itself before me. Staying late one night, I noticed a new girl working telemarketing during the swing shift. I found out her name was Brenda. She had a white blonde crew cut and came to work wearing a t-shirt that was an ad for a '70s XXX movie called Confessions of a Peanut Butter Freak ("She liked it Creamy Style!" the ad copy leered). On a lark I had once brought home an X-rated video one night for Cassie and I to watch, and she immediately burst into tears. Not only did I have to listen to her explain how pornography degraded sex and violated the civil rights of women, but the video store still charged me $3.99 even though I returned the tape moments after I rented it. She certainly wouldn't have appreciated the humor value of such a shirt, especially when worn at work.
The world Brenda inhabited seemed like a million miles away from the rest of the telemarketers. She swore freely, took long smoke breaks and had seemed to have no desire to coerce lonely, half demented old shut-ins out of their credit card numbers just to make more than the $5.50 an hour base pay. Several nights in a row I stayed late, loitering at the photocopier during my end-of-day invoice distribution. I pretended the copier was jammed, did everything twice, copied blank pages, anything to catch a glimpse of this rare sign of actual life under the florescent lights. Finally, Thursday I heard her tell her cubicle mate that she was having a huge party that weekend. To the copier I went, and waited.
"Do you need help with the copier?" she asked, after a full 10 minutes of histrionic faux struggle.
"Yeah, sure," I answered, aiming for cool but coming closer to retarded.
She grabbed my stack of already thrice-copied invoices and put them in the feeder tray. Time was running out.
"You're Brenda, right?" I asked.
I knew that unless she is a really capable liar, she will spill the beans about the party, and unless she finds me totally repugnant, she will ask me if only out of awkward obligation.
"Yeah, my roommates are having a party. Wanna come?"
Bullseye. My plan was far from smooth, but it was effective.
There were the usual age old party-going questions to contend with. Gift or no gift? Bring food? Drink? What should I wear? What were the kids wearing these days (though many of these kids were probably only months younger than I)? Going through the closet was a regular heart punch to the ego. I only owned work-approved duds. I tried on innumerable combinations, but try as I might, I still looked more ready to go milk-bar hopping with Pat & Debby Boone than score with some Alternative Nation sweeties.
At the party, it was hard for me not to shake the feeling that I was a chaperone, or at the very least an undercover cop. The selections on the stereo only brought question marks, and at times I felt like committing the ultimate faux pas of asking them to turn it down. There was plenty of food and booze at hand and runs to refill my plate and glass keep me occupied for at least a few minutes until I actually had to speak to a stranger. I eyed an oddball who looked ripe for small talk. He was in his mid-40s and looked like the big Indian guy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. He confessed to me that he actually was homeless, lived in the woods across the street, had heard the noise and decided to pretend he was invited and come in. Nobody had caught on to his ruse so far, and he had been there over two hours. He asked me to promise not to give him away. I nodded and agreed. Figuring every good confession deserves another, I told him I was turning 30 and this party was me getting a head start on a mid-life crisis. He cracked a smile and told me how when his mother turned 30, her hippie pals made her a cake shaped like a casket and staged a mock funeral.
"Never trust anyone over 30, remember," he winked.
The blood drained from my face. I slammed the rest of my self-made gin and tonic.
"Thanks," I gulped, and sulked away.
It wasn't until three drinks later that I actually got the nerve to talk to women. The first was a pretty blonde named Jenn. Even in punk rock riot grrl alternative culture, I realized, being pretty, thin and blonde was as essential as it was among the cheerleader / fraternity crowd. Jenn had so many piercings that it looked like she had fallen asleep face-first in a fishing tackle box. She told me that she sang with a ska/punk band named Grimace. I smiled and asked her if they ever let Mayor McCheese sit in on bass. I knew Jenn was talented right then because she is the only person I've known who could actually give me the middle finger without letting go of her beer. One down. How many to go?
A girl who looked about 16 with jet black hair, clown white makeup and a pentagram necklace actually said "Hi" to me in what sounded like a stage whisper. I parried by trying to make small talk about the upcoming Marilyn Manson tour, but kept slipping and calling them Marilyn Munster.
"I think I hear my friend calling me," she said above the din, pointing at nothing in particular.
Finally the inevitable happened: someone asked me why I was there. She was short, a good deal shorter than any of the women at the party. She had a black motorcycle jacket and wore a leopard skin pill box hat pulled over her long bottle-red hair. Her hands were in fists, as if she were permanently ready to deck someone. I told her Brenda and I worked together. Nodding, she asked me if my job was cool. Frankly, "job" and "cool" seemed to be words that do not belong together in a sentence, so I had no idea how to respond. I told her I almost got fired for using the phrase "dung pump." With no further explanation, she laughed and told me that when she temped in the phone company's 1-800 division, she would call up televangilists during her lunch hour and tell them, "Do you realize your phone number spells 1-800-EAT-TWAT?" She laughed real loud, startling everyone around us even with the blaring music. I laughed, too, and it felt good. I liked her.
She told me her name was Laura, and she kept a guarded interest in me the whole night. We played 20 questions. I guess this was my coolness test, because certainly I had no rep or style to proceed me. Favorite tattoo? Whale smoking a cigar and blowing smoke rings through his blowhole, I said, remembering a design on the wall of a biker joint I once went to with my brother. Favorite drink? Anything free. Dream date? New Years Eve in all four time zones, I said, remembering a hypothetical math question from junior high. She actually smiled at that one, so I figured I was doing good. I really found out a few hours later when she offered to give me a ride home and proceeded to nearly chew my face off before even putting the keys into the ignition. I was so nervous only my drunkenness kept me from throwing up.
Laura was not what you would call a stabilizing influence in my life. We would meet everyday at lunch to drink, eat from the CARE packages of gourmet food her mother would send, and boink. With her encouragement, work became my playground. Instead of dreading it, every day was a new opportunity to keep boredom at bay and get paid for it. When the vice president's wife would call anonymously for him like clockwork at 4pm, I began telling her that he had left at noon with his wife. When there was a company memo to gather up all broken and defective chairs and line them up in the downstairs conference room, I added one to the group. After the line of busted chairs with Post-It notes stuck to them reading "Broken Back," "Will Not Lower" and "Wobbly Arms" was my perfectly good chair with a note explaining "Makes Butt Itch." The thought that one of our managers would actually find out I put it there, and hold a formal meeting about my situation, or that the first-generation Cambodian men who were hired to maintain our furniture would somehow try to valiantly repair the chair and its "problem," made me smile to myself for days. I was enjoying it all so much nobody would have ever suspected that I was responsible for any of these ill deeds. Why should they? I was the complete opposite of the disgruntled employee.
Nights with Cassie were usually dinner, watching TV or reading and off to bed at a sensible hour. A night with Laura could involve shooting rats at the city dump with one of her large collection of handguns, homemade voodoo ceremonies or buying each other lap dances over at Wiggles. One night we closed down so many bars that the next day's hangover prohibited me from moving my eyes or head. I had to look at something by turning my whole body in its direction. John thought my stiff-backed movements were so hilarious he called me C-3PO for a week.
It was crazy, maybe even she was crazy. I didn't care. I told Laura about Cassie coming back early on and she said it made no difference and we would deal with that when it happened. Every day was unpredictable. I felt alive. But all along, I knew it was too much fun to last. Sooner or later, it would end.
And it did. One day I called her number only to find a strange voice on the other end. It seems that Laura had left to stay in San Francisco for a unspecified time and had a girlfriend house-sitting until she came back. This woman had no idea how long or short this stay might be, and appeared unconcerned.
I heard from Laura again three weeks after Cassie came back. She called me late at night at home. If that wasn't terrifying enough, she called to tell me that she was pregnant. Her period was late, she went to the women's clinic in San Francisco and it was confirmed. Before I could even suggest it, she told me she had three abortions during her teens, and there was no way she would have another one. I became immobile as she talked, unable to move much less respond in coherent verbiage. She then told me that she had talked to her parents and they had offered her 1000 dollars and a new car if she would marry the baby's father. She decided we should marry and move to Raleigh, North Carolina. She said she feared that if things continued as they were going, no state would allow smoking in public of any kind and her three pack a day habit would soon render her an unemployable social pariah. She remembered that someone had told her that the tobacco interests were so powerful in North Carolina that you could smoke in the maternity ward.
We were married at the city courthouse. 50 bucks, a short speech, fill out a form and we were joined together forever in the eyes of God and the state of Ohio. I was amazed. They didn't even ask for ID. I've had shoe returns that required more effort.
We've been in Raleigh for a month and the 1000 dollars is almost gone. Cassie cried when I told her, cried when I left and when I talked to her yesterday on the phone she was still crying. I got a job washing dishes at a local all-you-can-eat buffet place. Laura works part time at a used record store when not asking the Ouija board what we should name the baby. As of today, boy or girl, she is firm on calling it "Zerbit."
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Daniel Radcliffe stranded in Canada due to visa problems - report
Actor DANIEL RADCLIFFE missed his first day at California's Comic-Con convention on Thursday (24Jul14) after he was reportedly stranded in Canada due to visa problems.
The Harry Potter star had been in Toronto to premiere his new movie What If ahead of a planned trip to Comic-Con, but he was unable to leave the country due to an issue with his work visa which left him unable to enter the U.S.
A source tells New York Post gossip column Page Six, "He's stuck in Toronto with visa problems."
Editors of the publication report Radcliffe is currently in the process of upgrading his work visa to a permit which will grant him a three-year stay in America, and needed a stamp from the U.S. embassy in Toronto to approve the paperwork.
However, Radcliffe was reportedly unable to obtain the stamp in time because the embassy's computer network was suffering technical problems.
The actor is expected to attend Comic-Con on Friday (25Jul14) to promote his film Horns, but it is not yet known whether his travel dilemma has been resolved.


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Jewish World Review May 24, 2013/ 15 Sivan, 5773
Does Obama have Plausible Deniability?
By Dan K. Thomasson
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The name of the game is and always has been Plausible Deniability. The goal is to protect the big guy in the Oval Office from prior knowledge of politically damaging activity. You know that's true when "What did the president know, and when did he know it?" becomes the paramount question. Nixon probably would have won the PD game had it not been for his penchant for keeping detailed records of his days in office, including the recordings of his Oval Office conversations that ultimately did him in. It's tough to claim lack of knowledge under those circumstances. Perhaps he should have listened to Democratic Rep. Joe Waggoner of Louisiana when he advised him in a telephone conversation shortly after revelation "to burn the tapes."
Nixon probably would have won the PD game had it not been for his penchant for keeping detailed records of his days in office, including the recordings of his Oval Office conversations that ultimately did him in. It's tough to claim lack of knowledge under those circumstances. Perhaps he should have listened to Democratic Rep. Joe Waggoner of Louisiana when he advised him in a telephone conversation shortly after revelation "to burn the tapes."
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I continue to find new things to admire in the Leonard Lauder Collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, for instance these woodblock prints by the little known artist from Kyoto, Kobayashi Kaichi.
Leonard Lauder (b. 1933), son of Estee Lauder and brother of Ronald Lauder, co-founder of the Neue Galerie in Manhattan, began collecting postcards at the age of six. By the time Lauder donated his collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2003, it numbered in the thousands.
Leonard Lauder (b. 1933), son of Estee Lauder and brother of Ronald Lauder, co-founder of the Neue Galerie in Manhattan, began collecting postcards at the age of six. By the time Lauder donated his collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2003, it numbered in the thousands.
The public began to get an idea of the breadth of the collection the next year through an exhibition - and book - The Art of the Japanese Postcard.
Among other surprises, a neglected area of Japanese art emerged. The early Showa period between the two world wars is often overlooked by westerners, who focus instead on the revelation of ukiyo-e prints first seen in the west during the (ate 19th century.
After the devastating earthquake of 1923, the city of Tokyo modernized as it rebuilt, and a new generation of young men and women adopted aspects of western sophistication in clothing, sports (skiing, golf), and art. The mixture of influences from Art Nouveau and Art Deco is distinct from the western versions.
To the English-speaking audience, Kobayashi Kaichi (1896-1968) remains something of a mystery. Born in Kyoto, he created several sets of prints on popular themes for the Sakuraiya Publishers there during the 1920s. The romance of youth was a favorite subject. and, although it may seem sentimental to our eyes, to his contemporaries these images expressed the height of westernized sophistication. Taisho chic was essentially the style of the affluent urban Japanese, usually young and single, enamored of western clothes and movies.
What distinguishes Kobayashi Kaichi's work is its harmonious blend of disparate styles. At a distance from the centers of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, he was free to use the elements that fit his modern version of traditional Japanese prints. His perspectives are arbitrary, his colors flat, and his inclusion of detail is governed by aesthetics, not reality. In the series Evening of Sorrow, this universal personal drama of waiting is enacted against an imagined architectural background that seems to float somewhere between fin-de-siecle Vienna and a Hollywood film set.
Images: Kobayashi Kaichi, images undated, from the Leonard Lauder Collection at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1.- 4. from the series Evening Of Sorrow.
5. from the series Lyric Dolls: Sadness of Youth.
6. from the series Blue Birds.
7. Ace of Hearts from the series Youth.


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Well....Others are never in charge for your success or level of happiness in anything. If it's right for you then you will know from the first second on. It's only up to you to make the best out of it and to enjoy. Well - like everything I guess. Kiting is Zen. "
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No one ever said it would be easy and as I am new to kiteing I too get totally frustrated and pissed but I know in the long run it will all be worth it. I see the writing on the wall, this sport ROCKS!!!
I have been windsurfing for 25 years and talk about frustrating, Hell, it takes you 3 years to just learn to turn...
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Around the world, millions of people lack access to improved sources of drinking water. Pesticides, bacteria, organic matter, and other pollutants can make accessible water unsafe for human consumption. Finding a cost-effective and easy method to purify water is therefore a major global initiative. One possible solution is a nanoparticle biofoam, which may provide an efficient method for generating safe drinking water.Read More
Henrik Sönnerlind July 28, 2016
As of COMSOL Multiphysics® version 5.2a, we bring you features designed to enhance your structural mechanics contact modeling. You can, for instance, simulate objects that stick together once they come in contact (adhesion) as well as those that pull apart (decohesion), including full cohesive-zone modeling. Learn how to address each of these scenarios using the new functionality in COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More
Kateryna Vyshenska July 27, 2016
Archimedean spirals are often used in the analysis of inductor coils, spiral heat exchangers, and microfluidic devices. Today, we will demonstrate how to build an Archimedean spiral using analytic equations and their derivatives to define a set of spiral curves. Based on these curves, we will then create a 2D geometry with specific thickness, extruding it to a full 3D geometry.Read More
Bridget Cunningham July 26, 2016
As technology evolves, the demand for devices with greater features and functionality emerges. Of course, this means that the designs themselves become more intricate and complex. Simulation offers an efficient route to analyzing and optimizing such devices, prompting further industrial innovation along the way. Today, we'll take a look at how a team from University of Buffalo designed multiphysics models and simulation apps to spread modeling expertise to a broader range of industries.Read More
Caty Fairclough July 25, 2016
Quadrupole mass filters, the key component of quadrupole mass spectrometers, filter ions by their charge-to-mass ratio, only allowing ions with a certain ratio to pass through the device. As such, a high transmission probability for a specific ion through the filter is desirable. However, fringe fields in the mass filter can affect this probability. By using multiphysics simulation, we can take a closer look at quadrupole mass filters and investigate the effect of fringe fields on these devices.Read More
Bridget Cunningham July 21, 2016
In any form of treatment, it is always desirable to minimize the level of discomfort that the treatment process causes patients, while ensuring overall safety and effectiveness. For diabetes patients, insulin injections remain an important form of treatment, but the process itself can be painful. With the help of multiphysics simulation, a team of researchers from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology sought to develop a MEMS-based micropump that could administer insulin injections in a safe and painless way.Read More
Bridget Cunningham July 20, 2016
Cryogenic techniques are used to treat a wide range of cosmetic dermatological problems as well as remove internal tumors and other damaged tissue. Shifting from the typical nitrogen-based approach, researchers at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. sought to investigate the potential of using a thermoelectric cooler, or Peltier device, to cool a cryogenic probe. Here's a look at how COMSOL Multiphysics provided them with the tools to do so.Read More
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While bumblebees are not a complete mystery, we still have a lot more to learn about these helpful insects. A topic with a lot of buzz surrounding it is how they find food. Using electroreception, an ability most often found in aquatic animals, is one possibility. But how do bumblebees use electroreception? To find answers, a research team at the University of Bristol combined the power of physical experiments and simulation.Read More
Nirmal Paudel July 18, 2016
In this blog post, we work through the three-phase induction motor described in Testing Electromagnetic Analysis Methods (TEAM) workshop problem 30a. We analyze the induction motor in 2D using the transient solver in the Rotating Machinery, Magnetic interface. We investigate the motor's start-up dynamics by coupling the electromagnetic analysis with the rotor dynamics, including the inertial effects. At the end, we compare the benchmark model's results with those from the COMSOL Multiphysics simulation.Read More
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Scientists are using an asteroid's close encounter with the Earth to test the planet's defense systems. NASA says the space rock will come within 26,000 miles of the planet overnight. That's far enough that it won't be a threat, but close enough for NASA to conduct a drill to see how well its planetary defense systems would work if a real asteroid was heading our way. NASA doesn't expect to have to put the plan in effect for a while.
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Broadband for schools?
Schools should be connected to the Internet. Most people, I suspect, would agree with that statement (although a few dissenters may contend that such a statement does not go far enough, and that all schools *must* be connected to the Internet.) Indeed: Lots of countries around the world have been, and are, engaged in efforts to connect all of their schools to the Internet -- and for those schools that are already connected, to connect them faster.
The efforts of the United States in this regard that began under the 'e-rate' program in the 1990s have been much studied and emulated around the world, and countries as diverse as Malaysia, Morocco and Turkey have sought in various ways to utilize Universal Service Funds to help connect the un-connected. Korea has perhaps gone the furthest in rolling out very fast connectivity to all of its schools. Armenia will soon (if has not done so already) have completed connecting all of its schools to the Internet; when I last checked (in late 2012), Uruguay had almost done so as well. Given current technology infrastructure and available funds, not all countries are of course yet able to connect all schools, even if they consider this to be a priority. (Even in a country as developed as Uruguay, 70 schools were reported still to be without electricity in early 2012 -- not being connected to the electrical grid can make efforts roll out connectivity to all a little more difficult ....) In countries where almost all schools can be connected via existing means, a lack of supporting government policies and/or incentives for groups to connect the unconnected schools can mean that, even where connections to the Internet are technically feasible, they may not be commercially or practically feasible. Some recent work by the World Bank found that 95% of all schools in Indonesia could theoretically be connected to the Internet now, if the political will could be found and provided certain policies and incentives were put into place. (Connecting the remaining 5% of schools -- no small number, in a country as large and diverse as Indonesia, with over 13,000 (!) islands and 250,000 schools -- would be much more difficult, as many of the schools in this 5% category are quite remote, and there are as a result often significant, and very costly, infrastructure challenges to overcome.)
OK, if all schools should (or must) be connected to the Internet, what should be the nature of that connection?
Again, most people would probably agree that, in 2013, all schools should have broadband connections to the Internet. This is, in fact, a common theme in many of the national policies related to ICT use in education one encounters around the world, especially in the more 'advanced' (OECD) countries, and increasingly in middle income countries as well. Reasonable people may (and do!) disagree about the extent to which school connectivity should be prioritized compared with other pressing needs in the education sector, but, while there may be a lack of consensus on the relative importance, the general importance of connecting schools, and indeed in doing so at broadband speeds, is a widely held goal in much of the world (even if it is not always practical in the near term). That said:
What exactly does 'broadband' mean when we are talking about connecting schools to the Internet?
It turns out there is no simple answer to this query. Indeed, there are lots of different answers, depending on where you are and the context in which you are posing such a question.


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Two UW College of Law Teams Reach Elite Eight in National Energy Competition
Two University of Wyoming College of Law teams finished among the top eight teams during the recent third annual National Energy and Sustainability Moot Court Competition at the West Virginia University College of Law.
The competition highlighted emerging trends in energy law as well as recent developments in sustainable energy production. UW's third-year team of Joe Evers from Sheridan, Jared Larsen from Lander and Alex Obrecht from Cheyenne won the recent inaugural Davis & Cannon Natural Resources Competition at UW. Their brief at the nationals was ranked the sixth-best overall.
A second-year team of Kelianne Chamberlain from Afton; Cash Freeman, Laramie; and Tim Sowecke of Huron, Ohio, also advanced to the eight finalists among the 24 teams from 15 universities. Sowecke was selected as the competition's sixth-best oralist.
"Placing not just one, but two teams in the 'elite eight' of this competition is a great result, especially since this was our first entry into this competition," says UW College of Law Dean Steve Easton. "This strong showing reflects our law school's strength in energy and natural resources law."
Texas Tech won the three-day competition, and Florida State was the runner-up.
"The competition is geared toward law students desiring to work in the energy and sustainability law field," says Temple Stoellinger of the Wyoming County Commissioners Association, who coaches and advises the teams with UW Law Professor Dennis Stickley. "The competition tests their skills and provides them with a practical experience in energy and sustainability law."
Students were required to write and submit an appellate brief and then participate in an oral argument in front of a panel of judges, simulating an oral argument in front of a federal court of appeals. The students had to be prepared to argue both sides of the case: the industry side and the U.S. government side.
The arguments involved the fictitious Franklin Gas Company, an owner/operator of hydraulic fracturing natural gas wells, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Franklin was charged with being a major source of air pollution under the Clean Air Act and with violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for the unintentional death of birds in an impoundment pond.
UW law professors who helped the teams prepare for the competition were Diane Courselle, Deb Donahue, Easton, Sam Kalen and Larry MacDonnell. U.S District Judge Nancy Freudenthal opened her court and presided over a practice round between the two teams the Monday before the national competition.
"We are very grateful to the Davis & Cannon firm for providing the financial backing that made it possible for us to enter this competition," Easton says. "Because of our law school's emphasis on energy and natural resources law, we have hoped to participate in this competition for some time. Their financial support turned that hope into a reality."


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How can the words of prophets be tested to discover the truth? The most important question is whether they acknowledge that Jesus is fully God and fully human. In the first century, many people were so convinced that this material world was corrupt and evil that they couldn't imagine how a perfect God could wrap Himself in imperfect skin. Many today still function as if the physical world is a bad thing; this understanding is demonstrated when they downplay the hope of bodily resurrection and emphasize the heavenly destination of souls. Implicitly, this belittles Jesus' own incarnation and resurrection.
On the other hand, many people accept Jesus' humanity but deny His divinity. He may have been a great teacher, they say, but certainly not the incarnation of God. However, Jesus made bold claims about who He was and what He came to do. These are not the things a great teacher would have said or done if they had not been true. It is fair to say that no other life has drawn so much scrutiny, and no other life has ever elicited such praise.
7 My loved ones, let us devote ourselves to loving one another. Love comes straight from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and truly knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 Because of this, the love of God is a reality among us: God sent His only Son into the world so that we could find true life through Him. 10 This is the embodiment of true love: not that we have loved God first, but that He loved us and sent His unique Son on a special mission to become an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 So, my loved ones, if God loved us so sacrificially, surely we should love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God with human eyes; but if we love one another, God truly lives in us. Consequently God's love has accomplished its mission among us.
13 How can we be sure that He truly lives in us and that we truly live in Him? By one fact: He has given us His Spirit. 14 We have watched what God has done, and we stand ready to provide eyewitness testimonies to the reality that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone unites with our confession that Jesus is God's own Son, then God truly lives in that person and that person lives in God. 16 We have experienced and we have entrusted our lives to the love of God in us.
God is love. Anyone who lives faithfully in love also lives faithfully in God, and God lives in him. 17 This love is fulfilled with us, so that on the day of judgment we have confidence based on our identification with Jesus in this world. 18 Love will never invoke fear. Perfect love expels fear, particularly the fear of punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been completed through love.
19 We love because He has first loved us. 20 If someone claims, "I love God," but hates his brother or sister, then he is a liar. Anyone who does not love a brother or sister, whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has never seen. 21 He gave us a clear command, that all who love God must also love their brothers and sisters.
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Murray & Christine's record of their journey. "A day in a car in an English county is a trip to a fairy museum where all the exhibits are live and real." Rudyard Kipling