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UC Irvine 10, Pacific 0
STOCKTON — Senior Drew Hillman homered and drove in four runs and junior Matt Summers threw seven strong innings to pace the visiting Anteaters Friday in the opener of a three-game Big West Conference series.
Summers allowed six hits and struck out seven to improve to 5-2.
Hillman launched a three-run homer in the eighth and also scored three runs and stole a base.
Senior Jon Hurst homered and went three for five for the winners (22-8, 5-2 in conference), ranked No. 17 in the USA Today/ESPN poll.
Junior second baseman Tommy Reyes was two for four with two RBIs, while junior Christian Ramirez was two for five with two RBIs, and senior Brian Hernandez was two for four for UCI.
Sophomore Kyle Hooper and freshman Phil Ferragamo each pitched a scoreless relief inning to complete the shutout.
Mt. SAC Relays
WALNUT — UC Irvine junior Nick Jennings was fifth in the men's pole vault with a clearance of 16 feet, 6 3/4 inches Friday.
Senior Napoleon Greene was 19th in the 400-meter hurdles in 53.57 seconds, senior Matt Lahti was 20th in the hammer throw (179 feet, 11 inches) and junior Chris Carson was 15th in the 100 in 10.96 to highlight other UCI men's performers.
Sophomore Ericka Nowell was 23rd in the women's 400 in 1:02.04 and junior Amber Middleton was 24th in the 100 hurdles in 14.28 to highlight UCI women.
Orange Empire Conference Qualifier
CYPRESS — Anna Walinowicz of Orange Coast College won a singles quarterfinal match and combined with Lianne Wheelock to win in the doubles quarterfinals Friday to advance to the Southern California Regionals, May 5-7, at Grossmont College.
Walinowicz topped Melanie Abella of Fullerton, 6-2, 6-4, in singles.
The OCC duo defeated Tina Vuong and Natalie Loaria from Irvine Valley, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, in doubles after posting a 6-2, 6-0 win in the round of 16.
NAIA Invitational
RIVERSIDE — Vanguard lost a pair of games Friday, falling to Azusa Pacific, 13-7, then dropping a 13-3 verdict to Concordia.
Lindsay McCance had two goals in each game for Vanguard, for which Cara Deckert had three goals against APU.


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The goal of the juvenile justice system is to deter juveniles from future illegal acts. Parents are the most important resource in achieving that goal. Here are a few suggestions on how parents may help their child succeed:
The juvenile justice system is a network of agencies that deal with juveniles whose conduct has come in conflict with the law. These agencies include police, prosecutor, detention, court, probation, and the Department of Juvenile Corrections.
There are various stages in the process. At each stage important decisions are made about how to handle cases.
When the police determine that a crime has been committed and have a suspect, they have the option of referring the juvenile to the prosecutor's office and returning the juvenile to his/her parent or requesting that the juvenile be detained in the Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center.
The purpose of intake is to screen cases to determine how they will be handled. If a juvenile is detained and a petition is filed, the case is referred to court. However, in the case of minor offenses, the case may be referred for informal handling through the youth accountability board or through the probation department. Repeat offenders and felony cases are automatically referred to court by the prosecutor's office.
Detention is a short-term secure facility where juveniles are held awaiting court hearings. Juveniles may be held because of the seriousness of the offense, a history of criminal offenses, the juvenile is a threat to others, or to insure that the juvenile returns to court. The juvenile may also be placed in detention after the sentencing by the judge as a consequence for his/her actions. Parents may be ordered to pay detention costs.
The initial hearing is for the purpose of informing the juvenile and parents of the charges and their rights. The judge will also decide where and under what conditions the juvenile will stay until the next hearing.
The evidentiary hearing is the same as a trial, except that juveniles do not have the right to a jury. At this hearing, the judge listens to everyone's testimony and determines whether the acts charged actually happened.
At the sentencing hearing the judge will decide what services will be ordered and what conditions the juvenile and parents must fulfill. Before the hearing, a probation officer will investigate the case by interviewing the family and other people to gather information to help the judge make a disposition. The judge may also order evaluations such as psychological, substance abuse, medical, etc. At the hearing the judge will consider the evaluations, reports, and statements made by all parties, including the victim. The juvenile and parents will be ordered to repay the victim for losses.
The two main dispositions the court may order are probation or commitment to the Department of Juvenile Corrections.
Probation is the disposition made in most juvenile court cases. The judge will order that the juvenile live with a responsible adult, usually the parents, and order that certain conditions be followed. They may include a curfew, school attendance, counseling, etc. The judge may order that the parents follow certain conditions and if they fail to, may be ordered to pay fines up to $1,000 or serve jail time.
The judge may determine that the juvenile needs treatment that is not available in the community or that the community needs to be protected from the juvenile's behavior. In such cases, the juvenile may be placed in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Corrections. The Department may then place the juvenile in foster care, a group home, a hospital, secure confinement, or placement in another state. Although the Department has legal custody of the juvenile, that does not mean that the parents lose either their rights or responsibilities as the parents. The Department will require that the parents pay for the treatment of their child while he/she is in the state's custody.
The judge may determine that the juvenile is not going to respond to the juvenile system and presents enough of a danger to the community that the juvenile should be treated as an adult. First there has to be a hearing where the prosecutor must prove that the child should be treated as an adult. If the judge orders the juvenile into the adult system, he/she will be subject to any punishment available in adult court, such as a sentence to the Idaho State Penitentiary. There are certain offenses where a juvenile may be waived into adult court automatically.


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In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Quran & God's Sign in the Universe
[41:53] "We will show them our proofs in the horizons, and within themselves, until they realize that this is the truth. Is your Lord not sufficient as a witness of all things?"
[55:37] "When the sky disintegrates, and turns rose colored like paint."
Have a look and ponder
We see it now in the years 1999/2000! and Quran mentioned it almost 1400 years ago.
The picture is taken by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope of the "Cat's Eye Nebula." It is an exploding star 3,000 light years away. They should have called it the "Red Rose Nebula." As the Quran states in Sura 55 "Ar-Rahman",
[ar-Rahman 55:37] When the sky disintegrates, and turns rose colored like paint.
[ar-Rahman 55:38] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?


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True or False: Half of All 7-Footers are in the NBA
[The Bullets-Wizards have had 15 different 7-footers suit up over the years. Only one appears in this photo. Via SI Vault and B-R.]
Roy Hibbert is a very, very tall man. Seven feet-and-two-inches tall, in fact.
And over on Grantland, there is a really, really good article about Hibbert's development. How D.C.'s own Big Roy went from Georgetown scrub to NBA All-Star in eight years.
Go read it.
Author Jordan Conn captures the routine — from Hibbert's pre-game stretching to his mixed martial arts practice — that transformed a 7-foot-2 non-athlete into one of basketball's best players. But in the sea of detail, there was one data point that jumped out to me. (Bolding is mine.)
Citing data from the Centers for Disease Control, Sports Illustrated estimated that there are fewer than 70 7-footers between the ages of 20 and 40 in the United States. Seventy 7-footers; 30 starting NBA centers.
If you're Nate Robinson's height, you need to be an exceptional athlete to make the league. If you're Hibbert's, you just have to be pretty good.
In my 1 a.m. perusing, I misread Conn's point – concluding that nearly half of all young 7-footers are in the NBA.
And as Matt Yglesias, Tyler Cowen, and a few other folks quickly pointed out on Twitter, there are some major flaws with that calculus.
- "Starting centers" don't have to be 7-footers, as fans of 6'8" Ben Wallace know. (Unless you're counting Wallace's 4-inch afro.)
- Many aren't U.S.-born.
- And at least a few have rounded up their heights — in the NBA, it makes cents (and many, many dollars) to add centimeters.
The NBA: A jobs program for really tall men
But there are confounding factors the other way, too.
"Starting centers" don't include all the stiffs who arrived in the NBA on basis of height alone, only to ride the bench or quickly wash out. And at least one player, Kevin Garnett, is famously known for underestimating his height.
It's a messy data set.
And understanding that, I went to the indispensable Basketball-Reference.com for the most comprehensive review, based on listed heights and NBA appearances.
Here's what B-R tells us:
- In the past two decades, 88 different players identifying as U.S.-born and at least 7-feet tall have played at least one minute in the NBA. (Fifty-two list themselves as an even 7-feet.)
- Thirty-five of them, from greats like David Robinson to curiosities like Chuck Nevitt, are now over-40-years-old.
- That leaves 53 seven-footers in our target age and nationality.
It's hard to know how many of those 7-footers are actually rounding up by a few inches, unfortunately. But even assuming that half are fibbing (probably those closer to an even-7-feet) still gives us about 25-to-30 legitimate 7-foot NBA players and alums.
And what about that denominator? Conn also cites a Sports Illustrated article that goes deeper into how the CDC got its "70 seven-footers" figure. Again, bolding is mine.
An actual accounting of 7-footers, domestic or global, does not exist in any reliable form. National surveys by the Center for Disease Control list no head count or percentile at that height. (Only 5% of adult American males are 6'3″ or taller.)…
The curve shaped by the CDC's available statistics, however, does allow one to estimate the number of American men between the ages of 20 and 40 who are 7 feet or taller: fewer than 70 in all. Which indicates, by further extrapolation, that while the probability of, say, an American between 6'6″ and 6'8″ being an NBA player today stands at a mere 0.07%, it's a staggering 17% for someone 7 feet or taller.
Later in that SI piece, an NBA scout says that he'll "check up on anyone over 7 feet that's breathing." So while there's no guarantee of stardom, it's a pretty sure thing that any 7-footer will at least get a shot at the NBA.
That a giant like Alan Ogg or Peter John Ramos will get a chance — maybe more chances than he deserves — to stick with a team. In wild hopes he'll blossom into a Hibbert, not a Nevitt.
And that's not a tall tale.


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Hey remember those FD Podcasts? Those were really fun and I genuinely miss them if for no other reason than having an excuse to talk to Lexi, Christina, Victoria, and Brodie on a weekly basis and drop F-bombs and play Marry, Boff, Kill and all that fun stuff.
So yes, I miss them. I understand other people miss them too. Maybe one day we'll get the band back together but the fact is most of us have kind of moved on with our lives and are either dodging shrapnel in undisclosed locations or work in tennis now and those conversations are probably not all that appropriate in a publicly disseminated podcast. Don't get me wrong, the conversations still happen. I just don't record them anymore. It's just called "The Way The World Works."
But my good friend Ben Rothenberg who writes for The New York Times and I do another podcast called "No Challenges Remaining" and we try to keep that same fun and off-the-cuff conversational vibe in a more structured format.
We have a new episode up, our 25th if you can believe it. You can listen to it here. I talk about how The Following scared the living shit out of me. So yeah, totally related to tennis all of it.
You can "like" our Facebook page to keep up to date with new episodes. Please do.
Has this unsolicited self-promotion made me horribly uncomfortable on the verge of tears and diarhea? Yes. I really haven't changed that much.


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NW Mo. community preparing for Internet-organized protest in teen sexual assault case
MARYVILLE, Mo. – A northwest Missouri community where large, energized crowds are more commonplace on college football weekends was bracing Tuesday for an Internet-organized rally on behalf of a girl who says she was sexually assaulted nearly two years when she was 14.
Daisy Coleman's story made headlines nationwide and beyond after The Kansas City Star published a 4,000-word article earlier this month detailing the girl's claims that a popular 17-year-old plied her with alcohol, sexually assaulted her and then dumped her off near her home in sub-freezing temperatures in January 2012.
The story struck a nerve because of the way Nodaway County prosecutor Robert Rice handled it, including dropping felony charges against the alleged assailant and a second 17-year-old who recorded the incident on his cellphone.
The Star story sparked a social media storm that included threats against Nodaway County and Maryville officials by the Internet hacking group Anonymous, which also promoted Tuesday night's protest. Participants were encouraged to bring daisies as a symbolic gesture of support for Coleman.
The Associated Press generally does not name alleged victims of sexual assault but is naming the Daisy because she and her mother have been granting public interviews about the case. The AP is not naming the two who had been accused in the case because there are no active charges against them.
Courtney Cole, a women's rights activist from Kansas City, said she came up with the idea for the protest after reading The Star's account. After she announced the event on social media, Anonymous contacted her and got permission to help promote it, which she said made it go viral.
After Rice announced last week that he was asking for a special prosecutor to take a new look at the case, Cole changed the tenor of the event and move it back to 6 p.m. so more people could attend.
"Because the situation has changed and Rice has done the right thing, there is no reason to protest," Cole said. "We would look like bullies. So we changed it to a rally to provide support for victims and families and create an awareness of the rape culture society we live in."
Nodaway County commissioners decided last week to close the county's administration building and courthouse Tuesday because of the event. Sheriff Darren White said the city would be setting up portable toilets and podiums on the square to accommodate the protesters.
White said he has heard rumblings there would be a counterprotest but didn't have any details. Everybody has the right to come out and speak their minds, he said, as long as they respect the rights of people who disagree to speak theirs too.
Melinda Coleman, Daisy's mother, issued a statement Monday night praising Maryville, the school district and even coaches of the two who had been accused in case for supporting her family.
Coleman, who has indicated she did not plan to attend Tuesday's event, asked that participants remain peaceful.
"I do not condone violence in our defense," Coleman wrote. "I don't want others terrorized as we have been."


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Bitburg, Germany — To help the estimated 155,000 children coping with having one or two deployed parents, Installation Management Command-Europe in Germany recently offered a sports and fitness event as a part of Camp A.R.M.Y Challenge, a summer program for children in grades six through 12.
The sports and fitness camp was held at Sportschule Bitburg, a former U.S. air base in Germany. More than 75 children from military installations from Belgium to Italy participated in the camp and received a week of individualized instruction from coaches and trainers, along with trying outdoor adventures, such as canoeing and wall climbing.
The program is aimed at improving the mind, body and soul, says Joe Marton, director of the program. The A.R.M.Y in Camp A.R.M.Y Challenge stands for adventure, resilience, memories and youth. Although the camps are intended for Army families, children of deployed troops from other services are eligible to take part as well.


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Nicole Son Hing started collecting bridal magazines at the age of 6, so when Scott Roberts proposed, she was more than ready to plan the wedding of her dreams. Though Nicole, Scott and his family live in Ontario, Canada, the couple decided to marry at the Wexford Plantation, a Hilton Head, SC, community where Nicole's parents live. For their October 16, 2004, outdoor wedding, Nicole and Scott wanted "an Asian-inspired event filled with handmade details to reflect our life as a couple," says the bride. With the fall breeze blowing off the Atlantic, Nicole (whose Chinese name means "orchid") carried cymbidium orchids down a raspberry-pink-parasol-lined aisle to a canopy of white orchids, where she and Scott recited the vows they wrote. Guests (many of whom had flown in from Canada several days before the wedding) kept cool with fan-shaped programs and waved wands with kiwi ribbon streamers instead of throwing rice as the newlyweds left the ceremony.
At the reception, guests sat at iridescent chartreuse taffeta-covered tables under a tent illuminated by twinkle lights and 100 white Chinese lanterns. Taper and votive candles surrounding the rose, orchid and hydrangea centerpieces gave the tent a romantic glow. After sipping bubble tea, a Taiwanese beverage, the guests feasted on prime rib with brandy-cream sauce, tortellini with herb-infused olive oil, and tilapia with mango-pineapple salsa. Following a Chinese wedding tradition, the newlyweds visited each table and toasted the guests. "The entire day was perfect," says Nicole. "I would do it again in a heartbeat—with Scott, of course!"
Learn From Nicole and Scott
Customize your welcome bags: Stickers reading "Nicole and Scott" embellished the packages of homemade biscotti and banana bread that the couple gave to guests in monogrammed beach bags.
Forgo the ferns: Instead of leaf filler, green orchids and hydrangeas complemented the pink roses and orchids in the floral arrangements.
Cater to the kids: Nicole and Scott mailed young guests their own invitations and entertained them at a separate reception in the Wexford Plantation clubhouse with movies, games and a magician.
Keep out-of-towners busy: Nicole and Scott organized boat trips, beach picnics and spa treatments for guests in the days before the wedding.


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Below may be the strangest Santa Claus photo I've ever seen:
Granted, my mom isn't screaming or crying in this photo, but she doesn't look particularly happy to be seated on his lap either. Her posture is really stiff and her expression is a bit vacant. I think she's in her happy place.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) the above experience didn't phase her a few year's later:
In this photo, my mom is very excited to tell Santa what she wants for Christmas. My Aunt Joan is on the right, I guess patiently waiting her turn. I'm a little worried about Santa though. He seems to be losing one of his eyebrows and I can't quite figure out what's going on with his shoes. And what's in that paper sack next to him?
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Building pro-growth coalition for reforms: The Caribbean Growth Forum
What does it take to make reforms work in small island countries?
At the end of June 2013, twelve Caribbean countries presented a roadmap for growth in three areas -logistics and connectivity, investment climate, skills and productivity- to a broad audience of private sector representatives, international development institutions, regional organization, civil society and media. That event culminated a 7-month long phase during which policy-making was not the result of close-doors meetings, but a process of intense negotiation, consultations, and consensus building among all actors of each Caribbean country's societies. All of which was documented in real time and in a transparent fashion by each government. Yes, business was not "business as usual".
Reforms priorities were agreed and a calendar for implementation brushed on a power point slide in the wonderful framework of five stars Bahamian hotel…After the workshop lights, projects and microphones shut down, many of us went home with a familiar sound in our ears: and now what? Was it another "talkshop"?
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Sixx: A.M. Already Working on Third Album
Nikki Sixx, who doesn't appear to have a moment of downtime thanks to the fact that he pulls double duty in both Motley Crue and Sixx: A.M. and writes books, posted a Facebook update to share some good news about Sixx: A.M. The group is already writing its third album and is possibly eyeing a 2013 release.
The band is still knee deep in promoting its latest, No. 1 single spawning album, 'This is Gonna Hurt,' but that isn't stopping the guys from keeping their eyes on the future and keeping the creative juices flowing.
Below is the text of Sixx's update:
Here is something that is not a rumor…SixxAM is already at work writing for the 3rd SixxAM Album.Probably a 2013 release considering the body of work were setting as a goal…We will be doing a proper video for the next single soon…..Tour options keep coming but we haven't found the right fit yet to open up the conversations…..Keep you all posted….Night…"
Speaking of Sixx: A.M., there's still time to enter to win Loudwire's Sixx: A.M. prize pack, featuring a digital copy of the Sixx: A.M.'s 7′ EP along with physical copies of 'This Is Gonna Hurt' and Sixx's accompanying book of the same name. Hurry up and enter. This could be your lucky day.


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As Andy Reid's fall from Philly grace likely nears its conclusion, Eagles running back LeSean McCoy is sticking up for the only coach he's had as a professional.
"If you sat here and tried to name five to eight coaches that's better than coach Reid, I would like to hear it," McCoy said, via the Philadelphia Daily News. "Coach Reid's a good coach. He gets blamed for everything. Sometimes you break down the film, break down the plays, and the mistakes, how do you fault the coach for that?"
Reid was 118-73 and made the playoffs nine times in his first 12 years before the Eagles signed several high-profile free agents to form the so-called Dream Team. The Eagles have gone 12-18 since.
"I guess people have their own opinions, their minds are made up," McCoy said. "The thing about the team is, we know how good a coach he really is. Whatever happens happens, but I'm behind Coach Reid 110 percent.
"It's the players he's brought here together to play, they weren't a good enough group. ... I don't think he should get blamed for the turnovers they caused of blown (coverages)."
But Reid will be blamed. Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie called the team's 8-8 record in 2011 unacceptable. That was before the roof fell in with the current four-win campaign.
This is a situation where something has to change. I don't think anyone believes Reid is just an awful coach who doesn't have a clue. But every coach gets fired at some point. Jon Gruden was fired, and now people talk about him like he's the second coming of Vince Lombardi.
Reid has to go for the team not living up to expectations, despite past successes. The Eagles haven't won a playoff game since 2008. That Super Bowl appearance was eight years ago. Things run their course ...
Blame Reid or not, but the end is near.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A federal prosecutor says an Austin, Texas, man has been charged with trying to crash a plane by working to open emergency exits while it was in the air.
AirTran Flight 265 safely diverted Monday evening to Memphis with 119 passengers on board. It was on the way from Baltimore to Austin.
U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III says in a news release that 63-year-old Randolph B. Robinson was indicted Wednesday.
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YouTube sensation Lindsey Stirling is perhaps the first – and only – artist in the world to blend classical violin, modern dance, and…The Legend of Zelda?!
On September 19th 2012, Lindsey released her self-titled debut album, Lindsey Stirling, coming off the heels of an incredibly successful presence on iTunes. Comprised of 12 original tracks, the album showcases Lindsey's signature violin-electronic-dubstep style – opening with "Crystallize," her most popular piece. Prior to releasing her album, Lindsey had already sold over 300,000 songs, several of which have hit the iTunes Top 100 as well as the top of the digital electronic charts.
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A classically-trained violinist, Lindsey's love for music began with free community concerts and the sounds of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Mozart played daily in her home on an old record player. At age five she begged her parents for violin lessons. After a year of her incessant pleading, Lindsey's mom found a teacher she could afford who would give her daughter 15-minute lessons every other week. She hoped that young Lindsey – now six – wouldn't grow bored. She never did, and has played ever since.
Young Lindsey's passion for the violin was matched only by her love of dancing. Having to choose violin rather than dance lessons, Lindsey decided to train for the latter in a more unconventional way: YouTube videos. She studied footwork, practiced moves and techniques, and even taught herself to Moonwalk, becoming the world's first unofficial YouTube-trained dancer.


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This week, while trying to edit some
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ThinkPad R61i running Fedora. I have a few nitpicky issues with
Fedora and traditionally Linux distributions are not super laptop
focused. But, again, to be fair running Linux on a laptop today is
nowhere as painful as it was say 10 or even 5 years ago.1
In any case, the Mini for the most part has become something of an
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well a place to manage tunes to listen to via AirTunes.
Which brings me back to my video issue, even before the new iPhone 4 my Mac was the machine I preferred to use to manage video and photos, along with music. The new phone of course adds lots of reasons why to continue and even expand using my Mac, but, alas, the G4 just isn't up to the challenge anymore. Of course, I knew this day was coming. In fact, given that Apple is no longer supporting OS X on the PowerPC chipset, I'm kind of surprised they haven't "gone native" with iTunes by now.
So the obvious, cheap and easy solution would be to replace my Mini with the 2010 model Apple released in June, right?
It is, but I recently purged a whole
lot of papers from my desk in the home office and while there are
still a few boxes laying about the place, the desk actually looks
inviting again.2
The problem now isn't miscellaneous papers, it's miscellaneous
computers: the Mac Mini, the Lenovo ThinkPad and a Dell Optiplex 320.
It just so happens that Apple this week completed their desktop updates for 2010. So now I'm wondering if I want to move on and do a little digital consolidating as well.
As I previously stated my Mac is my media station right now, my Lenovo is my workstation and the Dell is a home server running SuSE Linux and handles fileshare/backup, website development environment and virtual machine host duties.
So the main question I find myself asking is do I go whole hog with a Mac Pro or do I go for the high-end Quad Core 27'' iMac?
Nor, am I the only one apparently asking this question. John Gruber suggests this is "a really good question" when quoting a blog post by Marco Arment.
Interesting, Gruber stops there and doesn't note that in Arment's own post he comes to the conclusion that while the Pro is priced with a " $1200 premium" over a similarly configured iMac, the Pro has a higher resell value on Craigslist and eBay. More important to me,3 the Pro provides greater flexibility, since obviously, the Pro is not a consumer focused machine with a limited upgrade path.4
In Arment's own words, "while the Mac
Pro costs a lot more up front, high-performance users also get a lot
more value and versatility over its lifespan, which is likely to be
much longer and end much more gracefully."
Wait did I just talk myself into getting a Mac Pro? Great, now how am I going to afford the damn thing?
1 Yes, really I tried using a version Linux on a laptop over 10 years ago...
2 And not just because the chair is no longer playing host to escapees
3 I hardly ever end up trying to resell any of my old computers. I either repurpose them, whole or in parts or store them for later.
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MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. – Mount Olive won all the singles matches in straight sets and swept the doubles matches as the Trojans defeated Coker 9-0 in Conference Carolinas men's tennis Saturday at Walker Tennis Center. Alexandre Queiros won 6-4, 6-4 at No. 1 singles and combined with Diogo Miranda for an 8-4 win at No. 1 doubles. Diogo Sender's 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 4 singles clinched the team victory for the Trojans.
Diogo Miranda posted a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 6 singles, while Luiz Mariano lost only one game at No. 5 singles. Gabriel Santana (No. 2 singles) and Bevan Hewitt (No. 3 singles) also posted wins.
The win improves Mount Olive to 2-6 overall and 2-1 in conference play. Coker is 0-4 overall and 0-1 in the conference.
Coker will take on Barton College in their next match on Tuesday, when they travel to Wilson, N.C. for a 2:00 p.m. match.
Mount Olive 9, Coker 0
March 6, 2010
At Mount Olive, N.C. (Walker Tennis Center)
1. Alexandre Queiros (MOC) def. Juan Vallejo-Gonzalez (CC) 6-4, 6-4
2. Gabriel Santana (MOC) def. Evan Schreiner (CC) 6-3, 6-0
3. Bevan Hewitt (MOC) def. Rick Vliegen (CC) 6-2, 6-4
4. Diogo Sender (MOC) def. Ty Medlin (CC) 6-1, 6-1
5. Luiz Mariano (MOC) def. Fred Estep (CC) 6-1, 6-0
6. Diogo Miranda (MOC) def. Chad Austin (CC) 6-0, 6-0
1. Queiros/Miranda (MOC) def. Schreiner/Vliegen (CC) 8-4
2. Hewitt/Thiago Dualiby (MOC) def. Vallejo-Gonzalez/Medlin (CC) 8-1
3. Sender/Mariano (MOC) def. Austin/Estep (CC)


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Highly regarded scientist, food and wine expert and educator Joie Pierce Jones died June 23 after years of failing health. He was 72.
A memorial service will be held for the longtime Laguna Beach resident later this year, date and location to be announced.
"He was a special man," said Becky Jones, his wife of 48 years. "He will be missed."
The Joneses moved to Laguna Beach in 1977 when he was appointed professor of radiological sciences at UC Irvine.
"He knew he wanted to live in Laguna," said his wife. "He had a good friend and colleague whom he had visited here. The first thing he did was show me Bird Rock and Main Beach."
While a professor at Irvine, Jones pioneered new developments in ultrasonic imaging and tissue characterization, acoustical microscopy and non-contact ultrasonic imaging. He holds multiple patents.
He was founding president of the Orange County Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America. He was also active with Laguna's Environmental Committee and gave freely of his expertise to the city on numerous occasions, particularly on the issue of telecommunications towers.
His expertise was also sought nationally.
Jones served on President Jimmy Carter's scientific advisory board. He played a similar role in President Barack Obama's first campaign and served as an advisor to the Obama administration on energy and medicine. He was a consultant to the Department of Energy on the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
His wife said he was honored to serve on a special committee under the Secretary General of the United Nations to investigate solutions for global warming.
Jones' interests were broad. Besides science, he was active in the arts. He was the founding president of the UCI Theater Guild and served as president of the Laguna Beach Chamber Music Society. He was a gifted musician, who played first chair cornet in the Texas state high school band.
Jones loved good food and good wine. He was a black-hat member of the California Wine and Food Society, serving for a decade as the group's wine committee chairperson. He wrote a food and wine column with his wife.
"Joie was a Renaissance man," said former Mayor Neil Fitzpatrick, a member of a dinner group to which the Joneses belonged.
"He was interested in everything and the kind of guy who made you feel good when you saw him."
Jones showed early signs of what was to become his life's work. He was a Texas high school student when he built a rocket to measure radiation in the upper atmosphere. The rocket rose 52 miles, a record that still stands, for which Jones won the National Science Fair.
The win earned Jones the opportunity while a student at the University of Texas, Austin, to work during summers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He participated with teams that worked on the early moon and Mars landing projects.
Jones earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and his master's degree in mathematics at Austin. He also was an honor student in English and philosophy.
The Joneses met at the university when she was a sophomore and he was a senior. They married in 1965.
"I graduated and he got his master's one week and the next weekend we married," said Becky Jones.
The couple spent the next years in Rhode Island, where Jones earned his doctorate from Brown University.
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In recent years, he explored alternative and complementary medical modalities, especially the relationships between Eastern and Western medicine, according to his wife.
Working with colleagues, he made landmark discoveries about the nature and mechanisms of acupuncture. Working with Pranic healers (a biofield therapy) in a laboratory setting, Jones conducted pioneering controlled experiments that established the healing power of subtle energy. He interacted with the Chopra Foundation, Andrew Weil's program in Arizona, and the Friends of Health organization.


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Hope College will honor the 1983-84 men's basketball team on Saturday during the Holland Sentinel/Russ DeVette Tournament at DeVos Fieldhouse.
The 1983-84 team, which recorded an undefeated regular season, will be recognized at halftime of Hope's 3 p.m. game in the Sentinel/DeVette Tournament. Fans are invited to meet with team members before the game from 2:30 to 3 p.m. and after the game.
Ten of 12 players from the 1983-84 team will be in attendance, former Hope men's basketball coach Glenn Van Wieren said. The late Tod Gugino will be represented by his wife, Brenda.
"It is going to be a great time," Van Wieren said. "Every one of these men has contributed to their community. They are high integrity and high quality men. To see where they have taken their lives and how they have helped others is what you hope for in a team."
Hope welcomes Illinois Wesleyan, Lake Forest, Ill., and Wilmington, Ohio, for the Sentinel/DeVette Tournament. Friday's games feature Hope against Lake Forest at 8 p.m. and Illinois Wesleyan against Wilmington at 6 p.m. Saturday's games are 1 and 3 p.m., with Hope playing at 3 p.m. no matter Friday's outcome.
Thirty years ago, the Flying Dutchmen finished with a 22-2 overall record after going 22-0 during the regular season to set a school record for consecutive wins. Hope was ranked No. 1 in the country for eight consecutive weeks.
The Flying Dutchmen also claimed their fourth consecutive Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) championship. Hope was the last undefeated team heading into Great Lakes Regional play in the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Forward Chip Henry of Kentwood led the Flying Dutchmen in scoring (17.0 points per game) and rebounding (8.2).
Three teammates also scored in double figures — center Jeff Heerdt of Elmhurst, Ill., at 11.8, guard David Beckman of Shelby at 11.5 and forward John Klunder of Grand Rapids at 11.3. Hope outscored opponents by 17 points per game that season.
Other 1983-84 team members coming back to campus are center Jeff Heerdt, guard Todd Schuiling, center Dan Gustad, guard Jeff Dils, guard Scott Gelander, forward Scott Gugino and guard Steve Majerle. Forward Matt Hester will not attend due to family commitments.
Heerdt and his teammates are looking forward to the reunion.
"When I think back to my years at Hope and Hope basketball it is fun to see my teammates and remember the big games, the long bus trips and the great experiences," Heerdt said. "Now 30 years later, I realize how blessed I was to be able to attend Hope. Not because we won so many games but because of the quality people that came into my life during that time."
Added Henry, "It's a special group of guys. We had a lot of great experiences. I think it started with Coach Van Wieren, then we got a bunch of guys who really didn't care who was scoring the points or who was getting the recognition. We tried to do the best we could to help the team."
Said Beckman, "It has been a really special thing to reconnect with people who were really important at one point of my life. It was just a wonderful time for me, the team and Coach. Reconnecting with those guys has brought back a lot of great memories."
Added Schuiling, "That was a special team, a talented team with a wonderful coach. Coach Van Wieren was a great leader and mentor. There were some special moments, not only success on the court, but the camaraderie we had as a team."


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DesertPenguin wrote:I was working today and only got to see the highlights. From that limited sample, Bennett looked really, really good. He's got skills with the puck unseen on this team outside of Sid and Geno.
And if he doesn't play in the playoffs, then DB has a complete hate on for rookies. The guy has MORE than earned his playing time and is dangerous when he gets the puck. His biggest knock was his defensive game and he's more than impressed in that area.
Kunitz - Sid - Iginla
Bennett - Malkin - Neal
Morrow - Jokinen - Dupuis
Cooke - Sutter - Adams
Kennedy, Glass, Jeffrey, Vitale
Or something to that effect.


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Ruling awaited
in Schiavo case
Schiavo's parents plan to take
case to federal appeals court
A federal judge early this morning refused to order reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, leaving the fate of the severely brain-injured Florida woman unresolved.
After emergency intervention by Congress and President Bush, the judge heard a request by the parents of Terri Schiavo to restore the life-sustaining feeding tube.
The tube was removed Friday afternoon after Florida courts rejected a flurry of motions by Robert and Mary Schindler to keep their daughter alive.
In a 13-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Whittemore of Tampa said the 41-year-old woman's parents had not established a "substantial likelihood of success" at trial on the merits of their arguments.
Whittemore wrote that Terri Schiavo's "life and liberty interests" had been protected by Florida courts. Despite "these difficult and time strained circumstances," he wrote, "this court is constrained to apply the law to the issues before it."
Judge Whittemore, who was appointed by President Clinton in 1999, was chosen by lottery to investigate whether Terri Schiavo's constitutional and statutory rights have been violated since she suffered a severe brain injury 15 years ago under disputed circumstances.
Rex Sparklin, an attorney with the law firm representing Terri Schiavo's parents, said lawyers immediately were appealing to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to "save Terri's life." That court already was considering an appeal on whether Terri Schiavo's right to due process had been violated.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill early Monday that sent the case to federal court for review. President Bush signed it into law moments later.
"In cases like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws and our courts should have a presumption in favor of life," Bush said in a statement.
The emergency House vote of 203-58 came at 12:30 a.m. following a voice vote in the U.S. Senate. House Democrats stalled the vote forcing lawmakers into an emergency late-night session.
The president rushed back from his Texas ranch to sign the measure that could trigger a federal court review and a quick restoration of feeding tubes needed to keep the brain-injured Florida woman alive.
"We are very very thankful to have crossed this bridge," Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri Schiavo's sister, told reporters following the vote. "We are hopeful, we are very hopeful, that the federal courts will follow the will of Congress and save my sister's life."
Republican supporters said the "Palm Sunday Compromise" would protect the constitutional rights of a disabled person, and denied suggestions that they viewed the case as an opportunity to shore up support among religious conservatives ahead of next year's elections.
But Rep. Jim Davis, D-Fla., said the congressional action was "a clear threat to our democracy." Congress, he said, was ignoring the constitutional separation of power and "is on the verge of telling states, courts, judges and juries that their opinions, deliberations and decisions do not matter."
Schiavo, 41, collapsed under disputed circumstances Feb. 25, 1990, suffering severe brain damage when her heart stopped momentarily. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, attributes the collapse to an eating disorder, but the Schindlers strongly suspect he tried to strangle her.
The Schindlers have pleaded with Michael Schiavo to divorce their daughter, pointing out his live-in relationship with another woman, with whom he has two children.
"It's not about me, it's not about Congress, it's about Terri," Michael Schiavo said Friday on CNN's "Larry King Live" program.
"I want you all to think about going through a judicial process to have your own wishes granted and then the Congress and the government walking in on that because of their personal views. That's absurd."
Michael Schiavo has maintained Terri had no desire to live under her current medical conditions, though there was no written corroboration of that.
Recent stories:
Terri's death wish or Michael's?
Democrats block vote in Terri case
House, Senate reach compromise on Terri
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed
Florida Senate rejects Terri bill
Lawmakers ready to save Schiavo
Michael Schiavo rejects $1 million
Man offers $1 million to save Terri Schiavo
Federal bill introduced to save Terri Schiavo
Judge to hear abuse claims in Schiavo case
Judge's error to save Terri Schiavo?
Judge Greer orders Terri's starvation
Terri Schiavo's life in balance again
Clock running out for Terri Schiavo
U.S. Supreme Court refuses Schiavo case
Judge spares Terri Schiavo – for now
Florida high court hears 'Terri's Law'
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Read WorldNetDaily's unparalleled, in-depth coverage of the life-and-death fight over Terri Schiavo.


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Fergie's pink eyes always yearn for home. Fergie is an exceptional guinea pig. Whenever she is removed from her cage and allowed to roam freely, she exhibits only guarded enthusiasm. Sure she'll pad around awhile, depositing a turd here and a turd there. If she's particularly anxious, she might even leave a trail of poops.
But inevitably Fergie's thoughts turn back to home. For her, sojourning in the great expanses falls short of the hype. Before long, Fergie winds her way back to the outskirts of her cage, and gazes longingly at her little hut through the bars towering a foot above her head.
She'll wait there for a time, thinking her caretaker will be bright enough to see that she's done with her imposed romp and wants back in her cage. When she realizes her tender is not so informed, Fergie popcorns up and over the bars in a single bound and scurries blissfully back to her house, keeping her rump to all astonished onlookers.
Fergie knows that true freedom is not freedom from all boundaries. We would do well to learn this from Fergie.
We don't understand freedom, otherwise Fergie's behavior wouldn't surprise us—her athletic prowess notwithstanding. We tend to live under the belief that we are free agents. Not so. In reality, we are wholly dependent on our Creator; we only live because He grants and sustains our life.
Unfortunately, we stubbornly strive against this fact, determined to make it on our own in the wide open and allegedly boundless spaces. Having cut ourselves off from God, we find our world a frightful place, where we quickly start grasping and possessing--jealous of what we don't have, hating those who do; far from the promised freedom, we find ourselves prisoners of our own insecurity. Fergie shakes her head and looks to home; so should we.
Let's go back to God and rest in the cradle of His holiness. Only there are we truly free.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Fergie's Freedom
Fergie's pink eyes always yearn for home. Fergie is an exceptional guinea pig. Whenever she is removed from her cage and allowed to roam freely, she exhibits only guarded enthusiasm. Sure she'll pad around awhile, depositing a turd here and a turd there. If she's particularly anxious, she might even leave a trail of poops.
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Monday, August 22, 2011
What is the true arbitrator of morality? Part 3
Thirdly, we wouldn't be having this conversation if we are the products of only matter/energy. The epistemological implications of evolution dogged Darwin: can we know we know anything?
The eighteenth century philosopher and patron saint of materialism, David Hume, explained that all we can know is what we receive as impulses impinging on our nervous system; truth is nothing more than a consistent outcome from a repetitive series of stimulus/responses. If we are only the outcome of matter/energy slow-cooked in a crucible of chance, then Hume would be perfectly correct. But how could concepts of right and wrong ever emerge from such a state? They couldn't.
Hume's ideas awoke Kant from his intellectual slumbers. Even though Kant disavowed any possibility of uniting the particulars with the universals—nature with grace—creature with Creator--he saw the necessity of the universal of a transcendent morality, and proceeded through his concepts of the maxim and the categorical imperative to prove the existence of God—albeit, despite his Lutheran upbringing, a deist god, not the Christian God. Kant took a leap of faith because practical reason demands that there is a transcendent morality, and in the process showed that there has to be a God.
The point is the evolutionary philosophy, which is founded on the eternal existence of matter/energy, cannot accommodate concepts like morality without contradicting itself. I am reminded of one such philosopher who went to great lengths to show that infanticide, war, rape, and such are all valid mechanisms of natural selection, and therefore not wrong. Okay, at that point he appeared to be living his worldview. But then he finished by saying that we all really should try to love one another. Sorry, dude, you cannot do that. Your worldview simply doesn't have any explanation or justification for making such a leap. But you made it anyway because you knew that it is impossible to live your worldview in the real world. So you imported morality—Judeo-Christian concepts of love and justice, I might add—into your philosophy in order to make it livable. What it should tell you is your worldview is fatally flawed.
We can know because the Creator, God, is both infinite and personal. He created an ordered universe; therefore, it can be investigated. He interacts intimately with us whom He created for that purpose, so we can know and understand the cosmos He placed us and our purpose in it. Being personal, God's right order of things naturally involves relationships. And these relationships are driven and maintained by Love. But Love cannot be divested from the right order of things, otherwise everyone would attempt to interrelate on the basis of what feels right, and the result would be chaos and destructive relationships.
Love is therefore inextricably tied to the right order. This inseparable and essential union demands and defines the transcendent morality. The only way we can apprehend this morality and so exist in and fulfill the purposes for which we were created is if we walk intimately with God; for God is the only source of the Love and order that defines true life; we depend solely on our Creator for our existence. When we turn our back to him by believing we can be our own moral agents, we die. Sadly, that is the state we are all in. And this state of death keeps us floundering in the particulars without any way to the universal we know must exist because we cannot really live without it.
But precisely because God is both merciful and just, he hasn't left us in death. Instead, in a real moment in history, He took on flesh and dwelt among us and entered death, and then, because He died unjustly, by the power of God's Love and in His justice, Christ was raised back to life: Christ lives! And because He lives, we can live with Him if we only acknowledge Him as King and live to please Him, which is to conform to the Love and order God demands and created us for—to seek God to be our one and only moral agent. And we trust that we will please Him because, through Christ's faithfulness to God for the restoration of His creation, God will be faithful and dwell forever with us who believe Him, trust Him, and so obey Him, and because of God's faithfulness we will succeed.
Jesus the Christ promises us: "I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life."
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
What is the true arbitrator of morality? Part 2
Secondly, if morality is instinct, then everyone would be moral, which is not the case, even in the liberal European countries Professor Coyne mentioned. I've visited and worked in several of them, and selfish-ambition reigns there as here.
If morality were a product of natural selection, then morality would be hardwired in all of us; it would be instinct, not something capricious. A female black widow will always eat the male. A nursing mother dog will always push away a weak pup. If given a chance, a male lion will always eat the cubs. When one is hungry, whether, beast or human, one will eat. Instinct will always win out unless prevented by illness, the environment, or overcome by a stronger member of one's species. Instinct would be the handmaiden of natural selection, if natural selection were the governing force of the living world.
But people are not naturally moral. People will invariably pursue their own agendas over the agendas of others. As I intimated in Part 1, people will pick and choose their so-called altruistic acts based on their own agendas. Hence, what might appear to be altruistic really isn't anything more than the pursuit of selfish-ambition.
We must also avoid narrowly defining morality in this conversation. Morality is much more than acts of kindness. Morality is founded on pure justice and mercy; consequently, morality will necessarily encompass every aspect of relationships, from the most unseen to the most conspicuous. We cannot hope to be truly moral unless our core thoughts and aspirations are completely selfless.
Don't play the self-interest card here. The argument put forth by Prof. Coyne is that morality is a development of evolution to secure the race. The only way to ensure such complete security is if everyone considers the other person before themselves. In that way every person's needs would be met and every person would be able to achieve their ultimate purpose in society. Selflessness insures societal strength, self-interest undermines it.
The human race is completely selfish from birth. Therefore, morality cannot be an instinct. Morality doesn't come naturally for us. Quite the contrary, morality is something we spend time trying to circumvent with the least cost, not something we easily embrace and willingly pursue. This would not be true if morality were the product of a natural selection; we wouldn't be able to resist it if it were. Indeed, we wouldn't even think about it anymore than we do hunger; when a stimulus occurs, we react to the stimulus.
Morality in the human race is far removed from any kind of a stimulus/response expected with natural selection; therefore, morality is not the result of evolution.
Morality exists because a moral God created us. We are immoral because, in our conceit, we have turned our backs to our Creator in deference to our selfish-ambition.
God gave Humankind moral laws for at least three important reasons: 1) to give us a picture of the right order God intended, and, therefore, must have for the cosmos, 2) to demonstrate we have rejected that right order in deference to our selfish-ambition, and 3) to protect us from ourselves until He completes His plan for restoration.
If we turn back to God, we will begin to live moral lives—not perfectly, because God's restoration is not yet completed; the world is not yet just. But by walking with God, today, God enables and motivates us to act justly with mercy and forgives us when we fail. And in the process we will see ourselves and others around us being restored. This is what Jesus the Christ has accomplished for us. All we must do is acknowledge Him as King and, for that reason, live to please Him. We can be confident that He will be faithful because He's alive!
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
What is the true arbitrator of morality? Part 1
One Professor Coyne of Chicago recently published an editorial in USAtoday in support of his book, "Why Evolution is True." The thesis of his editorial is that our genes that have been carefully developed through the agency of natural selection and Human reason are the rightful and best arbitrators of morality. He rejects, as the good atheist he professes to be, the idea of a god being such an arbitrator, because God, being inherently good, could only commit moral acts; yet a quick reading of the Bible shows God sanctioning the deaths of thousands of people. No, he says; evolution has created the moral code in people for the strengthening of Human society. People are moral even as atheists. Prof. Coyne supports this by reminding us how moral people in the liberal and atheist European countries are. We don't need religion; we only need our instincts to be guided by our intellect.
I wrote a letter to the Editor of USAtoday in rebuttal of Coyne's thesis; it's unlikely they will publish it. Consequently, I will use this blog over the next few weeks to challenge Prof. Coyne's assertions.
First, any truly moral act is founded on pure justice and mercy. Only God acts purely morally because only He is perfectly just and merciful. We can only act morally, therefore, if we are walking with God.
Everything God does is moral, even if it doesn't appear so to us. Even the slaughter of thousands of people as described in the Old Testament? Prof. Coyne would no doubt counter. We are in rebellion against our Creator. He would certainly be just in vaporizing everything and starting over. But throughout the OT God was establishing His plan for restoration, and this required the execution of justice to pave the way for the ultimate expression of mercy in justice to be revealed: the advent, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension of the God-Man, Jesus the Christ. God knows what He is doing, we don't.
This is a difficult teaching. But Jesus told us the basis of judgment is very simple: one either enters the light or one doesn't. Those who resolutely ignore God's call to turn back to Him and remain in the dark will enter into eternal reprobation. There is nothing complex in this. God empowers us in every way because of the faithfulness of Jesus the Christ to enable us to turn to Him. And then He empowers us to enter and remain in the Light by faith alone (believing Him, trusting Him, and doing what He expects on the basis of that belief and trust). Jesus said come to Me all who are weary and weighed down (isn't this all of us?) and He will give them rest, and then learn from Him because His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
Why aren't people coming by the droves into the light? The answer is pride. They like Prof. Coyne, and I wish him no ill will, want to be their own arbitrators of moral behavior, and they have adopted a system of thought that appeases their consciences so they can do that without regret. Prof. Coyne spoke in pride how he rescued a hapless postman who had dropped his parcels--certainly a nice act. Yet, contrary to what the noble professor might admit, he will assess the next occasion using his reason, which he stated is our best dictator of morality, and decide against it, despite the protestations of instinct to the contrary. The reasoning will be quite convincing, I'm sure, such as the professor is late to an important meeting; or, in the interim the professor learned that the postman is a theist, so the professor decides the extra work will be due penance for the postman's stupidity.
God's moral economy doesn't work that way. If we walk in the light, which is how it must be with God because he is perfectly just and merciful and He doesn't change, then we must always do the moral thing, regardless of whether it's an inconvenience or not, or our opinion of the person(s)in question.
Therefore people chose to stay in the dark because God's moral economy appears too expensive. The irony, as I have already intimated, is that it isn't; because of Jesus' faithfulness, God impels, empowers, picks up, and forgives everyone remaining in the light. And, instead of eternal reprobation, all such light-dwellers will have eternal life. This is the restoration I spoke of that God has accomplished through Jesus the Christ.
God will restore the right order of all things, where everyone walks with God, and, therefore, the cosmos remains just (right order is maintained, hence the concept of justice vanishes because justice is really only a course adjustment back to the right order of things), and all relationships, starting between God and Humans and proceeding to all those between Humans, subsist perfectly in Love (the concept of mercy disappears because the right order of things has been restored, hence there is no injustice to be reckoned).
God is faithful to His promise of restoration, and, therefore, perfectly just and perfectly merciful. And we can be certain of this because Christ is alive!
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(Reuters) - The Cincinnati Reds put ace pitcher Johnny Cueto on the 15-day disabled list on Monday as they continue to battle injuries in the opening month of the season.
Cueto was hurt while pitching against Pittsburgh on Saturday and was diagnosed with a strained muscle in his back.
"This is unbelievable," the Dominican told reporters.
"I felt so good. I've been pitching so relaxed that I didn't believe this could happen now the way I was feeling. One pitch I threw, I felt this and that was it."
The 27-year-old Cueto joins left fielder Ryan Ludwick (torn labrum in right shoulder) and lefty reliever Sean Marshall (shoulder tendinitis) on Cincinnati's early season DL list.
Cueto has gone 1-0 with a 2.60 ERA this season. He helped guide the Reds to a division title in 2012 when he finished 19-9 with a 2.78 ERA.
The club promoted right-hander Justin Freeman from Class AAA Louisville to assume Cueto's roster spot.
(Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; Editing by John O'Brien)