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US TV Actor Michael Jace Has Been Charged With Murder Of His Wife
Prosecutors in the US have charged actor Michael Jace with murder after his wife was shot and killed in their Los Angeles home.
The 51-year-old actor, who played a police officer in TV crime series The Shield, could face 50 years to life in prison if convicted.
Police claim Jace, who is being held in custody, shot April Jace multiple times in their home earlier this week.
The couple's two young sons were at home at the time of the killing and police have said they are now with relatives.
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Loren Lloyd Roberts (born June 24, 1955) is an American professional golfer. He was born in San Luis Obispo, California. He competed for San Luis Obispo Senior High School and Cal Poly-SLO. In 1975 he turned professional after his sophomore season due to the university's dropping its NCAA Division II golf team.
He worked as an assistant pro at San Luis Obispo Golf and Country Club as well as Morro Bay Golf Course. He won the Foot-Joy PGA Assistant Professional Championship of 1979 and was second in 1980. The first professional tour where he competed was the PGA Tour of Australasia where he played briefly after his 1979 PGA victory.
On his fifth attempt, he earned his first PGA Tour card at the PGA Tour Qualification Tournament in 1980 for the 1981 season. He returned to the tournament in 1981, 1982, 1986 and 1987, earning his card every year except 1981. He did not get his first win on the PGA Tour until 1994 at age 38, yet it sparked a nine-season run of eight victories. His career earnings are over $15 million. He is known as "Boss of the Moss" for his putting skills. He has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings.


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I don't know how many people here play wargames, but I thought I could post this for any of you who may be interested.
Ancient Battles Deluxe is a tactical wargame in which two players battle for supremacy over the battle field. There are a total of 8 different scenarios in the base game ranging from Kadesh in 1288 BC all the way to Bannockburn in 1314 AD. There are also four expansions you can get that include more units, maps, and scenarios. I purchased the base game and all the expansion, but haven't had a chance to play all of the scenarios. However, I have played the first 3 and they have been really fun. Here are a couple of links so you can learn more about the game.
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Getting back in shape after childbirth
Getting back in shape
Above all, give your body time to recover, especially if you're breastfeeding. Don't go on a diet before you stop nursing and don't do abdominal exercises until strengthening your pelvic floor. Don't be obsessed about losing weight during the first few months after giving birth.
Be sure to complete your pelvic floor exercise sessions: by regaining a well-toned pelvic floor, you'll avoid the later risk of urinary incontinence and organ prolapse.
- Cover up small imperfections with a concealer or foundation and take the time to use makeup to feel more polished.
- Wear clothes that make you feel confident and comfortable.
- Moisturize your face and body every day with a nourishing care product to fight dry skin.
If you have stretch marks, use a product specially formulated for deep stretch marks, which will make them less noticeable.
Take time for yourself and ask your spouse, partner, friends and family for help with the baby.
Without dieting, you can watch what you eat and adopt an especially healthy diet with a focus on fresh fruits and vegetables (at least five servings a day), lean meat or fish, whole-grain cereals and starches, and natural dairy products. But try to limit foods with high fat and sugar content.
If you feel famished, which is especially common during breastfeeding, eat lighter meals and allow yourself snacks in the morning and/or afternoon.
Getting back into your pre-pregnancy shape will be gradual. Figure on three to six months to return to your normal weight and around one year for your pre-pregnancy waist size. However, your body is no longer the same as it was before your pregnancy. Your hips may be wider, your breasts may be a different shape and your skin may have stretch marks. Learn to love your body the way it is. You'll be most beautiful by accepting yourself the way you are!


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apskip, do you want to watch "The Race" again?
This sounds as though it could be a "production error" though--if the boat drivers ran them aground and it wasn't the teams fault then they may have been given some sort of an adjustment in placement and sent on from there..
It is not logical that the last place team to the boats would become the first time to arrive. those boats are regulated to take a standard course and use a standard speed. It is not logical that any boat could change position in route.
If that were so, Colby , then why were Nicholas and Donald still the last team to begin the ice climb and why was their boar shown in the episode arriving last?
It's impossible for us not involved in the process to figure out.
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el3so wrote:Must be some far-off planet where people mocking you for the way your penis looks, do not get called out as faggots.grow up looking like some weird turtle neck dicked euro kid.
shivers wrote:Smegma can also accumulate in the folds of the female external genetalia, but we don't slice those bits off of girls, do we?
JITW wrote:Why do people feel that they have to get married just because they got knocked-up?
Seriously, who started that idea and how did it practically become a rule
friendlyskies wrote:horrible
coldharvest wrote:Would you let someone else decide what to do with your own vagina?.....didn't think so.
The obvious answer is let him decide when he gets older if it's all that important. Circumcision is nothing more
than a modified tribal sacrifice ritual to appease an imaginary yet still somehow misunderstood Sky God.
None of my kids had it done and you know they're all healthy and happy.
friendlyskies wrote:Our wedding cost $67, and we've already made our money back in gifts. It's win-win.
friendlyskies wrote:It's a quandary. The hubby has basically said that it's my call, but he'd snip it if it were up to him. Hmph. And I keep finding lots of pro-circumcision stuff that's very convincing. I always figured having a boy would be easier, just because they have more leeway in life - they don't have to be as attractive, intelligent, or ambitious to succeed, or be judged by really stupid shit like how long their skirts are or whatever. Not that I'm blaming society for being unfair, at least not right this minute, but it's not like you have to explain to a little boy about how fashion magazines are photoshopped so you don't have to look like that, but at the same time, don't get fat, or where the fine line between "slut" and "nerd" is, and how to walk it. BUT. Yeah. No one is debating cutting a baby girl's appendix out because it has a 2% chance of exploding or whatever.
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Pamela Anderson has been re-energized by "Dancing with the Stars."
"I'm having so much fun," she wrote on her Facebook profile on Friday of her preparation for the tenth season of the ABC show with professional partner Damian Whitewood. "I've had no dance training – it's so good to learn something new—I feel like I've gone from Baywatch to this – the last 15 years have just disappeared (in some respects)."
But the star added that the last decade and a half wasn't a total wash.
"But – I have such beautiful boys," she continued of sons Brandon and Dylan with rocker Tommy Lee. "It's been the most rewarding job raising great kids – thank God for them – and thank God I still get to play – and have fun-at 42!"
Pam's dancing training hasn't been all fun and games, though.
"May have dislocated a toe," she wrote. "But soaking in ice. It's worth it."
The former "Baywatch" actress, who also starred in such shows as "V.I.P." and the animated "Stripperella" among other film and TV appearances, may be known for her rockin' bod – but she said that "Dancing" has left her feeling more "fantastic" than ever.
"Dance your heart out!" she concluded.
The season premiere of "Dancing with the Stars" takes place on March 22 on ABC.
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A bold new concept brought to fruition (pardon the pun) the Fruit Warps is the latest slot game from Thunderkick. Immaculately designed with exceptional graphics and animations, it is going to be the top slots for a long time. Considering that it has no reels, or paylines, what makes it tick, is the bonus features and the thought of playing a brand new slot, that's going to make the whole slot gaming take notice!
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The Fruit Warps from Thunderkick gaming will make inroads, in the way slots are played. It has no paylines or reels as seen in the regular slots. Instead the symbols all drop onto the screen randomly at different places. A win is possible when 3 or more of the same fruit symbols are matched. Anything more than that, will trigger the other 2 ways of winning.
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The Image of a Storm Cloud
The following is a fictionalized account of the opening of Jon Rafman's You Are Standing in an Open Field, which was on view from Sept 12 - Oct 26, 2013 at Zach Feuer Gallery in New York.
"Zach Feuer's on 22nd Street," said Thor. He looked up from his iPhone and pointed downtown.
"That sounds right," said Zoe. "A really even number. I can picture it on their website." Zoe nodded and then coughed.
I shrugged and joined them—Thor, Zoe, and my girlfriend Ann. Thor leaned over his phone.
Thor was a tall man, handsome with thick eyebrows. At twenty-two, he was a decade younger than me. Zoe, meanwhile, had sparkly eyes. I think she was Ann's age, twenty-eight. "I haven't seen anything new by Jon in a long time," she said. "I don't even know what this is going to be like."
Heroes and Villains: Nate Hill in New York
Nate Hill, from the series Trophy Scarves (2013).
To the extent that people know his name, Nate Hill is a controversial figure in the internet art world. He gets into bizarre, seemingly one-sided fights with art blogs, sends fake computer viruses to his press contact list, or generally puts people off by relentlessly focusing his web projects on "white women"—the most recent example being Trophy Scarves (2013), a photo series in which Hill, who is biracial, poses wearing a tuxedo while nude white women are slung across his shoulders as if they were recently slain wild animals. Like many, I found myself turned off by some of these projects, but, nonetheless, wanted to know more: the satire was clearly there and he was prolific. I also liked how committed he was to being an artist and how thoroughly he followed his artistic voice, no matter where it took him. In a growing series of conversations with Hill, what impressed me was how consistently every project revolves around the idea of a performative "character" and how committed he is to the idea that his artistic voice is channeled through these different characters. I quickly learned that the majority of these characters aren't even internet-based, but performed in public, on the streets and subway cars of New York. Be it online or in New York City, though, these works share a common motivation to be catalysts for disruption, to interrupt Hill's daily passage through networks of various kinds. While I can't justify everything Hill does, after speaking with him regularly and engrossing myself in the work, I am convinced that he is, in a strange way, a significant artist, as well as an interesting if unacknowledged heir to David Hammons and Andy Kaufman, whose projects Hill cherishes. Because he so frequently invokes the idea of character, I thought that to write about Hill necessitated describing him as a character in a fictional style—a mode of prose that I've been experimenting with recently. What follows is an impressionistic story following a few hours in the life of Nate Hill. It precedes two upcoming projects: a live reenactment of Trophy Scarves and "Lights: Nate Hill and Ann Hirsch," a performance event I am curating at Interstate Projects on November 2nd.
Don Slepian's "Sunflower Geranium" (1983)
Recently, Rhizome featured vector animations by Dov Jacobson that had surfaced at the XFR STN open-access media conservation project. Another standout work from the same videotape (RYO Gallery's 1986 EVTV2 compilation) is the sensorially intense Sunflower Geranium (1983) by Don Slepian.
Peter Van Riper: Between Holography and the Avant-Garde
As an artist, my interface with holography and laser technology is always aimed at achieving a particular art piece that communicates the concerns of all my work. They are chance, change, it-ness, attention, a concern with perception.
-Peter Van Riper, From "On Holography" (1980)[1]
Peter Van Riper, Room Space I (1976-78)
When the independent curator, publisher, writer and art dealer Willoughby Sharp died this past December at the age of 72, the art world lost an iconic figure. Active internationally in the art world since the early 60s, Sharp's name is most often associated with his role as the publisher and co-founder (with Liza Bear) of Avalanche magazine (1970-1976) and for his curation of the seminal art exhibition Earth Art (1969). Avalanche has become something of a cult classic in the art world. Consisting mostly of idiosyncratic editorials by Sharp and Bear and interviews with figures such as Joseph Beuys, Yvonne Rainer, Bruce Nauman, Lawrence Weiner and Vito Acconci, Avalanche helped define the art of an era while also redefining the role of the art magazine. The editors viewed Avalanche as an open space for artists and art, and this vision dictated the overall direction of the magazine. Sharp's seminal Earth Art, held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1969, was the first major exhibition of land-based sculptural work, and it included artists such as Walter de Maria, Robert Smithson, Hans Haacke, Robert Morris, Richard Long and Dennis Oppenheim (among others). It has also become somewhat mythologized as the exhibition where the young Gordon Matta-Clark, who lived in Ithaca, was hired by Sharp as an assistant and, thus, met the vanguard of the international art scene for the first time.
However, it should be noted that Sharp, himself, was also a performance artist, video artist, satellite artist and computer artist. In fact, his work at the nexus of art and technology is one of the most passionate chapters in his career, but has largely gone unnoticed. The art historian Frank Popper (who met and befriended Sharp in 1968) has offered one of the few accounts of this work in his book From Technological to Virtual Art. According to Popper, the introduction of television to American culture in the late 1940's had a tremendous effect on Sharp. "Almost instantly after DuMont television sets began to dominate living rooms and lives in 1948, television took control of Sharp, and he was transformed from just watching "Uncle Miltie" to being him," writes Popper.


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Nepali comedy tv show video program from kantipur television – Dittha Saab | 13th April 2019 | Nepali Comedy Serial | Episode 294 – Let's watch and enjoy the comedy video and don't forget to like, comment and share
Dittha Saab is a Nepali comedy serial written and directed by Kishor Bhandari. Kishor Bhandari is the lead role of this program and he is doing double role. He has done his character as a father and son. Father role is a Dittha Saab, so son is also want other people to tell him Dittha Saab. This is a comedy video which will definitely entertain you.


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Faith, Family and Special Needs
July 15 issue interview with David Rizzo, author of Faith, Family, and Children With Special Needs: How Catholic Parents and Their Kids With Special Needs Can Develop a Richer Spiritual Life.
We first spoke with David Rizzo last year, in our article "Catechesis for the Autistic," when Loyola Press published the "Adaptive First Eucharist Preparation Kit" created by Dave and family to prepare daughter Danielle, who has nonverbal autism, for her sacraments. It's the first teaching tool of its kind, and it fills an important gap in special-needs catechesis.
Now, Dave has followed up with a book that explores the challenges and joys of special-needs parenting from a Catholic perspective. In Faith, Family, and Children With Special Needs: How Catholic Parents and Their Kids With Special Needs Can Develop a Richer Spiritual Life (Loyola, 2012), Rizzo offers hard-won advice to parents about living and teaching the faith with a cognitively disabled child — and the unexpected grace that comes with the challenge.
What was your initial response to God when you learned of Danielle's autism, and how has that response changed over time?
At first I was angry at God. Danielle's autism seemed like a cruel joke. I couldn't find any meaning in it: Why would God do this? I felt like I had been in a boxing match with God, and he had delivered the knockout punch. After that, I kept holding out for some miraculous intervention, and I remember taking Danielle to be prayed over, so she might learn how to talk or be cured of her autism.
But it was during one of these prayer services that I discovered the one prayer that made sense: I prayed for Danielle to become the person God wanted her to be. Now, my wife and I have both come to see Danielle's absence of words as something akin to God's silence. In this silence, one has time to feel and accept the reality of the situation; one has an opportunity to come to peace with it. Also, Mercedes and I have seen how much good Danielle accomplishes because of who she is. We have seen so many people touched by her. There is remarkable healing in it.
In your experience, how do people with cognitive disabilities experience and express the life of the Spirit?
They are very open to the Spirit in that many have learned to compensate for their deficits in language by becoming more reliant on visual, tactile, kinesthetic and other types of information to make sense out of the world and express themselves. Often, this leads to a more intuitive and spontaneous approach to life.
Think of how much spontaneous energy children like my daughter Danielle show … the joy they can show.
It's almost like King David and his dance of joy and praise. Of course people with disabilities can also show quite a lot of negative emotions, too. But so much of the time it's positive and joyous. People with disabilities can often be very loving, too. Danielle used to come up to us and take our hands to squeeze her head as a sign of her love for us. Sometimes she asks for a kiss using a picture icon, her electronic speech device or sign language.
How can we best communicate the faith to those with special needs?
I talk a lot about this in my book, Faith, Family, and Children With Special Needs. You can use anything really that isn't based solely in language. Picture presentations work really well. Puzzles and matching are motivating and familiar ways for kids with special needs to learn any kind of material, including religious. Association with familiar and concrete things is very helpful.
A good example is relating the doctrine of God as Trinity to the child's own family. One of the best ways my wife, Mercedes, and I helped Danielle learn about Jesus and Mary was to relate this to Danielle's experience with Mercedes, to the love she has for her. We taught some of the events in the life of Jesus and Mary by taking Danielle and her sister Shannon through the lovely Rosary garden at the Cistercian monastery in Mt. Laurel, N.J. They loved walking through the scenes of the mysteries, with the life-size stone statues there.
The sacraments are a terrific way to communicate the faith to our kids precisely because of the visual, tangible and experiential nature of the sacraments. They are a visible sign of the invisible God. Also, as you know, Mercedes and I, along with our oldest son Brendan, developed the Adaptive First Eucharist Preparation Kit to help prepare children with special needs learn what they need for first Communion.
How does our experience with this kind of catechizing and parenting help our own faith to grow?
That's a great question. I figured that if I was to teach Danielle, then I would need to discover the faith in a visual, associational and intuitive way, too. I started to explore the sacraments, the liturgy, prayer, and even the world around us in a silent way. I paid attention to the sights and sounds … the feel. I felt more than I thought. I wasn't so quick to put everything into thoughts and words. I tried to adopt something of Danielle's silence.
What I found when I shut up was God's presence. I tell a story in the book about how even a walk with Danielle and Shannon by the detention basin in our neighborhood, seeing the ducks and a great blue heron, became an opportunity to experience God and his goodness. This approach allowed me to enter more deeply into the mystery of Jesus and his incarnation.
What in particular about the Catholic faith is either harder or easier to convey to those with cognitive disabilities?
One thing to keep in mind is that every person with a cognitive disability is different, a unique person made in the image and likeness of God. Some can understand a lot. Others may only understand in a limited way. However, each child is capable of learning to be the person God is calling them to be.
I've found doctrine can be very difficult to teach, so it's best to adopt the K.I.S.S. principle: "Keep It Simple Sweetheart." Modify and simplify to match the child's capacity. It can be difficult to teach compassion to the needs of others, especially when the child has autism. But there are ways to do this. It's difficult, but not impossible.
I think it's easiest to teach participation in the liturgy, the sacraments and incorporating prayer and acknowledgement of God into the rhythms of the child's life, such as praying grace before meals, etc. Now, higher-functioning kids, say those with Asperger's syndrome, may actually get into and understand the more complex theology and philosophy.
What graces do you find as the parent of a child with autism?
Well, one is the ability to find joy in life's simple moments that many other parents take for granted. For instance, Danielle recently called me "Dad" for the first time using her electronic speech device. She was nearly 13 years old at the time. Or even just getting through a routine dental appointment without problems — such moments come wrapped in praise.
Thomas L. McDonald blogs at GodandtheMachine.com.


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St. Paul and the Historical Jesus
Pope Benedict XVI's weekly general audience.
During his general audience on Oct. 8, Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of teachings on St. Paul, focusing on Paul's relationship to the historical Jesus. Paul's knowledge of Jesus and his proclamation of the risen Christ as God's Son and our savior was grounded in the life and preaching of Jesus himself.
Dear brothers and sisters,
During my last couple of catecheses on St. Paul, I spoke about his encounter with the risen Christ, which changed his life in a profound way, and his relationship with the Twelve Apostles who were called by Jesus — particularly James, Cephas and John — as well as his relationship with the church of Jerusalem. The question that now remains revolves around what St. Paul knew about Jesus here on earth — his life, his teachings and his passion.
Knowing Jesus
Before we take up this question, it might be useful to keep in mind that St. Paul himself made a distinction between two ways of knowing Jesus, and more generally, two ways of knowing his person. As he wrote in the Second Letter to the Corinthians, "Consequently, from now on we regard no one according to the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer" (2 Corinthians 5:16). To know "according to the flesh," in a carnal way, means to merely know in an outward manner, using exterior criteria. We might have seen someone on various occasions; therefore, we are familiar with their features and various details regarding their behavior — how they speak, how they carry themselves, etc.
Nonetheless, we do not truly know someone if we know them in this way. We do not know the core of that person. We truly know someone only with the heart.
The Pharisees and Sadducees knew Jesus in an outward way. They were acquainted with his teachings and many other details regarding him, but they did not know him according to his truth.
There is an analogous distinction in some of Jesus' words. After the Transfiguration, he asked the apostles: "Who do people say that I am?" and "Who do you say that I am?" The people know him, but superficially. They know different things about him, but they don't truly know him. The Twelve Apostles, on the other hand, thanks to a friendship that involves the heart, had understood, at least in substance, and had begun to know who Jesus is.
Even today there are these two ways of knowing him. There are very learned people who know many details about Jesus as well as simple people who are not familiar with these details, but who know him according to his truth: "The heart speaks to the heart."
In essence, Paul was speaking about knowing Jesus in this way — with the heart — and essentially knowing a person according to their truth, before knowing details about them.
Having said this, the question remains: What did Paul know concretely about Jesus' life, words, passion and miracles?
It seems fairly certain that he never met Christ during his life here on earth. Yet, he surely knew some of the details about Christ's life here on earth from the apostles and from others in the emerging Church.
In his letters, we find three ways in which he refers to Jesus prior to Easter.
Direct References
First of all, there are some explicit and direct references. Paul speaks about Jesus' Davidic lineage (see Romans 1:3).
He knows about the existence of some of his "brothers," that is, blood relatives (see 1 Corinthians 9:5; Galatians 1:19). He knew what happened at the Last Supper (see 1 Corinthians 11:23). He knew some other things that Jesus said, regarding, for example, the indissolubility of marriage (see 1 Corinthians 7:10 with Mark 10:11-12) and the need for the community to provide for those who proclaim the Gospel — just as any worker deserves his wage (see 1 Corinthians 9:14 with Luke 10:7).
Paul was familiar with the words that Jesus spoke at the Last Supper (see 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 with Luke 22:19-20), and he also was familiar with Jesus' cross.
These are direct references to what Jesus said and facts about his life.
The Gospel Tradition
Secondly, in some of the phrases of Paul's letters, we can see various allusions to the tradition found in the synoptic Gospels.
For example, the words we read in his First Letter to the Thessalonians, which tell us that "the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night" (see 1 Thessalonians 5:2), cannot be explained by referring to the Old Testament prophecies because the metaphor of the thief at night is found only in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke. Therefore, it must have been taken directly from the synoptic tradition.
Likewise, when we read that God "chose the foolish of the world" (see 1 Corinthians 1:27-28), we hear a faithful echo of Jesus' teachings on the simple and poor (see Matthew 5:3; 11:25; 19:30).
In addition, there are Jesus' words during a moment of messianic rejoicing: "I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned, you have revealed them to the childlike."
From his experience as a missionary, Paul knows that these words are true, and that it is the childlike whose hearts are open to knowing Jesus. Also, his reference to Jesus' obedience "to death" that is found in Philippians 2:8 cannot but recall Jesus' total willingness to fulfill the Father's will here on earth (see Mark 3:35; John 4:34).
Paul was, therefore, familiar with Jesus' passion, his cross, and the way in which he lived the last moments of his life.
The cross of Jesus and the tradition regarding the events surrounding the cross are at the center of Paul's kerygma (preaching).
Paul was also familiar with the Sermon on the Mount — another pillar in the life of Jesus — some elements of which he cites almost to the letter when he writes to the Romans: "Love one another. ... Bless those who persecute you. ... Live in peace with all. ... Overcome evil with good."
In his letters, therefore, there is a faithful reflection of the Sermon on the Mount (see Matthew 5-7).
Transposing Tradition
Finally, it is possible to find a third way in which Jesus' words are present in Paul's letters, as he transposes traditions that predate Easter to the situation after Easter. A typical case is the subject of the Kingdom of God. This is certainly at the center of the historical Jesus' preaching (see Matthew 3:2; Mark 1:15; Luke 4:43).
In Paul, we can see this theme transposed, because it is obvious after the Resurrection that Jesus in person, the risen One, is the Kingdom of God. Thus, the Kingdom of God reaches wherever Jesus reaches.
Out of necessity, the theme of the Kingdom of God, which foresaw the mystery of Jesus, was transformed into Christology.
Nevertheless, the same dispositions that Jesus required in order to enter into the Kingdom of God are exactly the same ones that Paul required vis-à-vis justification by faith: Both entrance into the Kingdom of God and justification require an attitude of great humility and willingness, free of presumptions, in order to accept God's grace.
For example, the parable of the Pharisee and the publican (see Luke 18:9-14) teaches exactly what St. Paul teaches when he insists that we are obliged to avoid any boasting in our relationship with God.
In addition, Jesus' teaching on the publicans and the prostitutes, who were more willing than the Pharisees to accept the Gospel (see Matthew 21:31; Luke 7:36-50), and his decision to share meals with them (see Matthew 9:10-13; Luke 15:1-2), are fully found in Paul's teaching on God's merciful love toward sinners (see Romans 5:8-10 and Ephesians 2:3-5).
Thus, the theme of the Kingdom of God is formulated in a new way, but is always faithful to the tradition of the historic Jesus.
Another example of transformation that is faithful to Jesus' core teaching is found in the "titles" that refer to him.
Prior to Easter, Christ called himself the "Son of Man." After Easter it is obvious that the Son of Man is also the Son of God. Therefore, the title that Paul prefers for describing Jesus is Kýrios (Lord) (see Philippians 2:9-11), which points to Jesus' divinity.
With this title, the Lord Jesus appears in the full light of his resurrection.
On the Mount of Olives, during Jesus' extreme anguish (see Mark 14:36), the disciples, before falling asleep, heard Jesus speak with the Father and call him Abbà (Father). This is a very informal expression, akin to our word "daddy," that only children use for their father.
Up until that moment, it was unthinkable that a Jew would use such a word to address God. But Jesus, being a true son, spoke in this way during this hour of intimacy and said, "Abbà, Father."
Surprisingly, in St. Paul's letters to the Romans and Galatians, the word "Abbà," which expresses the uniqueness of Jesus' relationship as a son, appears on the lips of the baptized (see Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6) because they who have received the "Spirit of the Son" now carry this Spirit within them and can speak as Jesus and with Jesus as true sons to their Father.
They can say Abbà because they have become sons and daughters in the Son.
Freedom in Christ
Finally, I would like to speak about the saving dimension of Jesus' death, which we find in that passage of the Gospel where "the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many" (see Mark 10:45; Matthew 20:28).
Jesus' words are faithfully expressed in Paul's teaching on Jesus' death as a ransom (see 1 Corinthians 6:20), as redemption (see Romans 3:24), as freedom (see Galatians 5:1) and as reconciliation (see Romans 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18-20).
Here is the core of Paul's theology, which is based on this saying of Jesus.
In conclusion, St. Paul did not think of Jesus as a historian would — as a person from the past. He certainly was familiar with the great tradition regarding Jesus' life — his words, his death and his resurrection — but he did not treat them as something from the past, but as the reality of the living Jesus.
For Paul, Jesus' words and actions do not belong to some historical period, to the past. Jesus lives and speaks with us today, and lives for us. This is the true way to get to know Jesus and to embrace the tradition regarding him.
We, too, should learn to know Jesus, not according to the flesh as a person of the past, but as Our Lord and brother, who is with us today and shows us how to live and how to die. Register translation
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Opensource Reprint: Nekyia "A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Given the recent interest in the July 31, 2017 article in the New York Times regarding the Python bell-krater depicting Dionysos with Thyros which was seized by New York authorities from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, ARCA has elected to publish Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis' original Journal of Art Crime article, in its entirety.
Originally published in the Spring 2014 edition of the Journal of Art Crime, ARCA's publication is produced twice per year and is available by subscription which helps to support the association's ongoing mission. Each edition of the JAC contains a mixture of peer-reviewed academic articles and editorials, from contributors authors knowledgeable in this sector.
We hope this article's publication will allow ARCA's regular blog readership and the general public to get a more comprehensive picture of this object's contentious origin.
Originally published in the Spring 2014 edition of the Journal of Art Crime, ARCA's publication is produced twice per year and is available by subscription which helps to support the association's ongoing mission. Each edition of the JAC contains a mixture of peer-reviewed academic articles and editorials, from contributors authors knowledgeable in this sector.
We hope this article's publication will allow ARCA's regular blog readership and the general public to get a more comprehensive picture of this object's contentious origin.
Please note that Tsirogiannis' requested information from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on both the Bothmer's fund and the full collecting history of theis particular krater's recorded collection history on February 7, 2014, three years and five months before its present seizure by New York authorities. While the researcher did not say, at the time, that the vase had been identified in the Medici archive, given the focus of Tsirogiannis' research, it is safe to assume that the museum should have had an idea why this particular researcher may have expressed an interest in the vase's provenance and its acquisition via the Bothmer Fund.
"A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Metropolitan Museum of Art"
In five images from the Medici archive appears a Paestan bell-krater depicting Dionysos with Thyros and phials. He is seated, along with a woman playing a double-flute with a bird on her lap, in a cart drawn by the god's aged companion Papposilenos. Above Papposilenos appears the bust of a woman with a thyrsos, separated from the rest of the scene by a wavy line. Between this bust and Papposilenos, in direct visual alignment with the end of the flute played by the woman in the cart, appear the Greek letters *ΥΒΡΩΝ (*UBRŌN: the first letter is uncertain; only one roughly horizontal stroke survives, sloping slightly downward to the right at the level of the centre of the following Y). On the reverse side of the vase, two draped youths are depicted between palmettes identical to those that frame the main scene.
Four of the five Medici images are produced on regular photographic paper, and one is a Polaroid image. Two of the regular images are numbered in pen "4/50" and "4/51", while the Polaroid is numbered "3/214". The Polaroid image bears a handwritten note underneath: "H. cm 33,5 RΥΒΡΩΝ". In all five images the krater is depicted intact, but half of the base and part of its rim are covered with soil or salt encrustations. The regular images present the krater standing on a dark red velvet surface. Also visible in these images is a creased brick-red paper stuck on a white surface leaning against the wall behind the vase; it seems that this is intended to complement the velvet base as a background.
The same south-Italian bell-krater surfaced at a Sotheby's antiquities auction on June 23, 1989 in New York. The consigner of the krater was not named in the auction catalogue and the object was offered as lot 196, under the general title "Other Properties". No previous collecting history of the vase was mentioned in the catalogue. The estimation price given was $50,000-80,000. The catalogue entry reads:
Paestan Red-Figure Bell Krater, circa 360-350 B.C., painted with a phlyax scene depicting Dionysos and a Maenad seated in a cart pulled by the satyr Papposilenos, the nickname "Hubris" in Greek above him, Dionysos seated and holding a phiale and thrysos [sic], the maenad playing the double-flute, a dove perched on her lap, Papposilenos' hairy body indicated by white dots, and wearing red anklets and leopard-skin, the bust of a maenad floating above holding a thrysos [sic], two draped youths in conversation on the reverse; details in added yellow, red, white, and brown wash. Diameter 14 1⁄2 in. (36.8 cm.)
Attributed to Python. Cf. Mayo, Art of South Italy, no. 106, and Trendall, Red-figured Vases of Paestum, pls. 92, 98, c-f, 99, 100, c-d, 101, e-f, 105, e-f, 107, a-b; also cf. pl. 89, for a vase by Python where Papposilenos is given another appropriate nickname.
The painter Python, and his colleague and probable teacher Asteas, were the most influential of the Paestan vase painters.
The object was sold for $90,000 (information received by email from Sotheby's employee, Mr Andrew Gully on March 21, 2014).
Shortly after the Sotheby's auction in New York, the vase became part of the antiquities collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (henceforth MET). It was given the accession number 1989.11.4. In the MET publication (Picon et al. 2007:239 no.184), the main scene on the obverse is described as follows:
The phlyax scene shows a youthful Dionysos, god of wine, and a flute-playing companion riding a wheeled couch. The draught is provided by an old silenos wearing a fleecy costume under a fawn skin. The inscription above his head reads "Hubris." The drawing and polychromy, at once fluent and disciplined, represent Python at his best.
The MET website records that the acquisition was possible due to the "Bothmer Purchase Fund".
A Tainted Collecting History
Following my previous articles for JAC (Tsirogiannis 2013a-b, discussing antiquities which passed through the hands of Medici), I need not describe at length the implications of the first signifcant fact; the vase appears in the archive of the convicted dealer Giacomo Medici, and no earlier collecting history can be found. It is, however, worth here applying a point made in The Medici Conspiracy on p. 57: the conditions of the photographs themselves confirm that this vase is very likely to have been excavated illegally after 1970 (the date of the UNESCO Convention against illicit trade in antiquities). The bell-krater is photographed using Polaroid technology not commercially available until after 1972; the krater is situated not in its archaeological context with a measuring tool, but with soil encrustations, on an armchair; in the regular photographs, the vase appears against a background whose brick-red colour seems clumsily matched with the dark red velvet surface, the same surface on which Medici photographed several other antiquities which later proved to be illicit and were repatriated to Italy (e.g. the 20 red-figure plates attributed to the Bryn Mawr Painter, once offered to the Getty Museum: see Watson & Todeschini 2007:95-98, 205; Silver 2010:138-139, 143). It is profoundly clear that the bell-krater was not in a professional environment or treated in a professional way.
Sotheby's does not disclose the names of the consigners or the buyers of objects, as the company stated when contacted in the recent past while I was researching other cases of antiquities lacking collecting history (Tsirogiannis 2013a:7). Mr. Andrew Gully stated in January 2013: "Sotheby's does not disclose the names of consigners or buyers. In the future, please use that answer as your guide" (email on behalf of Mr. Richard Keresey, Sotheby's International Senior Director and Senior Vice President, Antiquities). However, the association between Sotheby's and Medici has been described at length by Watson (1998:183-193) and Watson & Todeschini (2007:27). The first book led to the permanent closure of four departments of Sotheby's in London, including the antiquities department; the second provides a detailed image of the continuous business between Sotheby's and Medici during the 1980s.
The MET has a long history of acquiring looted and smuggled antiquities after the 1970 UNESCO Convention. The two most prominent cases were the Euphronios krater acquired in 1972 from the notorious dealer Robert Hecht during the directorship of Thomas Hoving, and the Morgantina treasure acquired in 1981, again from Hecht, during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello. On February 21, 2006, de Montebello signed an agreement in Rome to return both krater and treasure to Italy among 21 antiquities in total (Povoledo 2006). In January 2012, Italy announced the repatriation of c. 40 vase fragments from the MET; Fabio Isman revealed that the fragments matched vases already repatriated to Italy from North American museums, and noted that these fragments previously belonged to the private collection, kept in the MET, of the museum's antiquities curator Dietrich von Bothmer (Italian Ministry of Culture 2012; Isman 2012).
This collection came to prominence again in 2013, when I matched a rhomboid tondo fragment of a kylix by the Euaion Painter at the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome to fragments from the Bothmer collection (Tsirogiannis & Gill forthcoming 2014). Although the MET did not reply to my email requesting the collecting history of the object (February 26, 2013), in July 2013 the Villa Giulia Museum informed me that the MET planned to return the rest of the kylix to Italy.
That match was made possible because the MET had posted (although they then withdrew) images of the fragmented kylix in the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) Object Registry, a website on which museums can post objects lacking full collecting histories before 1970. The Registry covers only objects formally acquired by museums after 2008, which explains why the Python bell-krater does not appear there (last accessed on April 6, 2014). There is no such Registry for objects acquired in the period 1970-2008 and lacking earlier collecting history, but on the basis of this new identification and published reconstruction of the bell-krater's collecting history, the MET should accept that this object too should be repatriated to Italy, either voluntarily, following the recent example of the Euaion kylix fragments, or, if it comes to court, following the United States vs. Frederick Schultz verdict, by which U.S. law recognized foreign patrimony law (Silver 2010:249; Renfrew 2010:94).
The Need for Further Academic Research
The identification of the vase in the Medici archive, with the handwritten note below the Polaroid image, not only suggests that the vase has most likely been unlawfully removed from Italian soil, but also highlights discrepancies between published interpretations of the main scene depicted on the vase. Let us look more closely at the scholarly descriptions of the vase to which the MET refers on its website.
The MET website gives three sources of publication for the vase; two from Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) and one from Carlos Picon et al. (2007) Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (no. 184, pp. 161, 439). The two references to LIMC turn out to be to the same paragraph, in the supplement to vol. 7, found at the end of vol. 8 (1997:1113, Silenoi no. 20a = "Tybron no. 2"). This reads:
New York, MM 1989.11.4 – Green 93 Abb4.4 - S. Tybron (oder Hybron) Zeiht Dionysos und Auletin auf einem Karren.
This description of the scene gives two readings of the writing on the vase, correctly noting that the final two letters appear to be Ω N (ŌΝ); the writing is interpreted as a nickname for the old Silenos figure, using the evidence of a neck-amphora attributed to Python (Trendall 1987: 142, pl.89 no.240) in which Papposilenos appears in the top right corner of an elaborate obverse scene (the birth of Helen from an egg) with the clear inscription ΤΥΒΡΩΝ above. Medici's vase, it seems, was not known at the time of Trendall's publication, since Trendall writes (p. 142): 'this is the first time ['papposilen inscribed ΤΥΒΡΩΝ'] has been identifed, though the name is not found elsewhere'. In LIMC, the inscription on the bell-krater is the second such identification but with some uncertainty about the reading (and hence, meaning) of the name.
The LIMC entry, describing Dionysos' companion on the cart simply as 'Auletin', ('flute-player'), is more neutral in description than the source it cites, John Richard Green in his book Theatre in Ancient Greek Society (1994). Green on p. 93 describes the scene on the krater (pictured in his fig. 4.4), 'recently acquired' by the MET, as that of 'an actor as papposilenos' pulling Dionysos and 'Ariadne' along on a cart (for Green, the bird on her lap is 'doubtless...a symbol of love') on a festive occasion, while 'a maenad keeps them company'. By 'maenad' he means the thyrsos-bearing figure in the upper left corner of the scene, separated from the others by a wavy line. Green characterises the vase as "splendid", referring to it as 'by Python', but placing it 'on the earlier side of the painter's career.'
There are a number of odd elements in this interpretation; in other vases attributed to Python, busts of figures appearing at the top of the scene, surrounded by a wavy line, are given names (inscriptions above the figures) indicating that they are deities or nymphs (e.g. the red-figured bell-kraters no. GR 1890.2-10.1 and 1917.1210.1 in the British Museum); that is, the wavy line in these cases represents a nimbus and hence the separation of realms. As for 'Ariadne', more is needed to support this mythological identification, which is not found in Picon; unlike several Python vases, there are no names on this krater except for the inscription, not mentioned by Green, at the level of the pipes above the Silenos-figure. Finally, Green's dating of the vase to Python's earlier period does not find support in the elaborate shape of the palmettes framing the scene, which, detached from the fans below the vase-handles, conform to the 'standard variety' rather than the less-developed earlier shapes (for a chronological overview, see Trendall 1987:16). The MET publication, unlike that of Green, refers to the vase as an example of 'Python at his best.'
Green informs us in an end-note that the vase passed through Sotheby's in New York, the same year (1989) it was acquired by the museum (Green 1994:192, note no. 8), a fact that is not stated on the MET website. Sotheby's catalogue is in fact the earliest published attribution of the vase to Python, and the catalogue, although it cites Mayo and Trendall for parallels, does not in this case name the authority for the attribution (as it sometimes does in other cases). While the attribution to Python is most probably correct, the vase is not signed by Python; up to 1987, only two vases signed by Python were known (Trendall 1987:137, 139). It is odd that Sotheby's cite a parallel in Trendall 1987 ('another appropriate nickname' for Silenos) and yet offer the incorrect reading of the inscription as 'Hubris', which in turn appears to be the basis for the official description on the MET website (last accessed April 2014) and published by the MET in Carlos Picon et al. (2007:439) (the third bibliographical reference given on the website). The MET too read 'Hubris', although citing LIMC, in which we find 'Tybron (oder Hybron)'. Medici, for all his lack of Greek, did represent the inscription more accurately; the first letter seems to be a T or an H rather than an R, but the fading of the paint makes it uncertain. The ending of the word is more surely ΩΝ (ŌΝ); an abstract quality such as hubris is an unlikely inscription in this context.
It is evident from this outline of the different interpretations that further professional study is required.
We have highlighted both the partial nature of the collecting history given in all published sources, and the differences in the scholarly analyses of the vase. The fact that the MET's bell krater – only the second vase on which papposilenos is given another name - is not included in Trendall's 1987 corpus of Paestum vases indicates that the vase surfaced after 1987. However, Trendall's 1987 reading of the neck-amphora inscription seems not to be exploited either in Sotheby's reading of the inscription on the bell-krater in 1989 or the reading by Picon et al. in 2007.
Green alone mentions all the sources published at his time. Nevertheless, apart from this vase, there appear in Green's book images of other vases that later turned out to be illicit (e.g. Green 1994:30, g. 2.9, an Attic red-figure calyx-krater with two members of a bird chorus about a piper, at the Getty Museum; Green 1994:46, g. 2.21, a Terentine red-figure bell-krater with comic scene showing a slave and two choregoi with a figure of Aigisthos, formerly in the Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman collection and, later, at the Getty museum); these were likewise depicted in Polaroid images from the Medici archive; they were repatriated to Italy (Godart, De Caro & Gavrili 2008:102-103 and 138-139, respectively).
The MET has several questions to answer. What is the 'Bothmer Purchase Fund'? It has been proved that Dietrich von Bothmer played a crucial role in the acquisition of archaeological material, looted and smuggled after 1970, both on behalf of the MET and for his personal collection formed during the same period (Gill 2012:64; this obvious conflict of interest was overlooked by the museum; see Felch 2012, Tsirogiannis & Gill forthcoming 2014). My email to the MET (February 7, 2014), querying this point and requesting the full collecting history of the krater, remains unanswered, although it was sent to three different offices. No contact details for the Department of Greek and Roman Art are available on the museum website.
In a wider perspective, the Python bell-krater at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is one of many similar cases. North American museums, recently found to have acquired illicit antiquities, and forced to return those objects, still have in their possession many more. The very museums which advertise their care for transparency, in practice continue to conceal the full collecting history of tainted objects they own, and wait for them to be discovered. In this regard, the story of the Python bell-krater case is absolutely typical.
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Author's Acknowledgement: I am grateful to Dr. Helen Van Noorden for her comments and her overall help. My thanks go to Mr Andrew Gully (Sotheby's) for providing me with the hammer price for the bell krater in the June 23, 1989 auction.


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Date: January 03, 2010 01:12PM
There are two feral cats that use my place for hunting and hanging out. We have a great relationship where I respect their choice to be wild and they go about their business. I happen to have some suet sent to me for feeding birds but am more inclined to leave it out for the cats ahead of snow storms in particular, when the foraging could get difficult. They must know what suet is from their experience staking out bird feeding stations... The suet lists rendered beef suet, peanuts, millet, corn and oats in 11 oz packages and I have four packages. Should I put it out for them occasionally.
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Date: January 03, 2010 05:50PM
if you start feeding any wild animal , its your responsibility to continue. Considering its winter (but im not sure where you live) it would be nice for them to have some feed at least thru the cold months now. You would have to google and see if peanuts or the other ingredients are toxic (i dont think they are)
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Re: Feral Cats
Date: January 03, 2010 07:19PM
I see, I wouldn't want them to get sick or to come to expect it. These cats are in their prime and healthy though a severe winter could be hard on them and we are just getting over a major early snowfall. I just have this one time supply of suet, something I wouldn't ordinarily buy.
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Date: January 04, 2010 01:23AM
well i would toss it out there as a sporadic treat then .. that way they dont come to depend on it being there
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Re: Feral Cats
Date: January 04, 2010 01:53PM
Thanks, I put some out where they could find it and it disappeared. I imagine the mice, birds and rabbits are breathing a sigh of relief that the feral cats are a little less hungry today...
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I'm trying to build a simple kernel, but it fails when I use write_imageui. The kernel should just copy an image to another. I know that there isn't probably any sense in making such kernel, but I'm just trying to learn the language. Anyway, here is the kernel:
const sampler_t sampler = CLK_NORMALIZED_COORDS_FALSE |
__kernel void copy(image2d_t src, image2d_t dst)
int2 pos;
uint4 input;
int x = get_global_id(0);
int y = get_global_id(1);
pos.x = x;
pos.y = y;
input = read_imageui(src, sampler, pos);
write_imageui(dst, pos, input);
If I put it like above, clBuildProgram gives me error code -42 (btw how can I determine what error that is?). But if I comment the last line out it compiles just fine. Any idea what is going on?
P.S. I'm using Nvidia SDK and my GPU is GF9500GT.


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Now that Senate Republicans have killed Obama's cybersecurity legislation, there is a good chance the president will sign an unconstitutional executive order implementing provisions of the failed legislation.
"Cybersecurity is dead for this Congress," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid following the move.
Republicans blocked the legislation in August and again on Wednesday, saying it would lead to further business regulation. The final vote was 51-47, short of the 60 votes required under Senate rules to bring the bill up for passage.
Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced the legislation in February. The bill proposed "voluntary" cybersecurity standards set by the Department of Homeland Security for companies that operate infrastructure considered vital to U.S. national security. It also set standards for companies and the government to share information on cyber threats.
The bill's defeat paves the way for an executive order. "An executive order is one of a number of measures we're considering as we look to implement the President's direction to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today's cyberthreats," White House spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said in September.
"We've spent months going over the various faults in the bill – and of the faults in the other proposed Cybersecurity bills," the Electronic Frontier Foundation said following the vote against cloture in the Senate. "We were particularly concerned because the Cybersecurity Act included overly vague definitions for key terms like 'cybersecurity threat,' 'cybersecurity threat indicator,' and even 'countermeasures.'"
The failed legislation would have allowed companies to spy on users and share their personal information with the government. As a result of this public-private partnership – defined as corporatism or fascism – surveillance would be outsourced to private companies not beholden to the Fourth Amendment. Companies would have the authority without warrants or judicial process to modify, block, or disrupt internet traffic they and the government believe pose vaguely defined cyber security threats.
In his farewell speech to Congress last night, retiring Rep. Ron Paul stressed the need for a free and open internet without government intervention. "The internet will provide the alternative to the government/media complex that controls the news and most political propaganda. This is why it's essential that the internet remains free of government regulation," Paul said.
If Obama signs an executive order and imposes so-called cybersecurity regulation, the ability of the government to impede the free flow of information will undoubtedly be enhanced. As Infowars.com has noted on numerous occasions, critical infrastructure in the United States is not part of the public internet and not threatened by hackers. It has been used repeatedly over the last few years to condition the public to believe that the government needs to regulate the internet.
Government invariably exploits what appears to be well-meaning legislation to attack political enemies. The Department of Homeland Security has excelled at attacking the Occupy movement and considers the patriot movement an enemy of the national security state.
If enacted by imperial fiat, the ability of the federal government to attack that enemy and disrupt and censor the free flow of information on the internet under the guise of protecting public infrastructure will be greatly enhanced.
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Assume you have an almost connected simple Lie group G with trivial center. (In particular excluding non-algebraic examples such as the universal cover of SL_2(R).)
Such a group should automatically be an algebraic group over the reals resp. the complex numbers.
Is this true and why?
Can we in addition conclude (EDIT: under a good choice of the field and possibly additional assumptions?) that G is absolutely almost simple as an algebraic group?
EDIT: Asking this I do not want to regard a complex Lie group as a real algebraic group.


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Terps set to celebrate move to the Big Ten June 30 and July 1
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland Department of Athletics has announced a string of exciting events to celebrate the Terps' historic transition to the Big Ten Conference on July 1.
"We are eager to celebrate this big moment in our history," University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh said. "We have chosen our future, spent a year of intense preparation, and have been welcomed by the Big Ten with exceptional camaraderie. We are academic partners. Now, we cannot wait to meet in competition."
On Monday, June 30, Maryland will kick off the two-day festivities with a trip to the Under Armour Brand House in Baltimore for the official launch of exclusive Maryland/Big Ten inaugural apparel. The event, which is open to the public, is slated to begin at noon and will include a brief program featuring Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, Under Armour leadership and Maryland coaches and staff. Music will be provided by the Mighty Sound of Maryland.
"The University of Maryland and Maryland athletics are excited to celebrate its new era in the Big Ten Conference," Director of Athletics Kevin Anderson said. "This is an outstanding conference comprised of flagship research universities and our new partners share our pursuit of both athletic and academic excellence. We are thrilled to join the Big Ten and look forward to officially beginning this next chapter for the University of Maryland."
The fun continues with an event Monday night at Nationals Park where Maryland and the Big Ten Network (BTN) will play host to a block party at the Fairgrounds, adjacent to the ballpark, beginning at 4 p.m. There will be an appearance by the Big Ten mascots and all Big Ten alumni are encouraged to attend. The Big Ten will be honored with the Nationals Spirit Award during a pre-game ceremony prior to first pitch of the Nationals/Rockies game at 7:05 p.m. Tickets are available for the public on a limited basis at a special Maryland group rate of $14 by clicking here.
"The Big Ten couldn't be more proud to officially welcome the University of Maryland to the conference on July 1," Big Ten Commissioner James E. Delany said. "President Wallace Loh, Kevin Anderson and the rest of the Maryland community have been great partners during the transition period, and we look forward to building a successful future together."
On Maryland's first official day as a member of the Big Ten Conference, there will be an on-campus celebration on Mitchell Field (near the M Circle) from noon-1:30 p.m. The event will feature the special unveiling of the Big Ten ice cream, interactive games, t-shirt giveaways and appearances by the Mighty Sound of Maryland, Testudo and the Spirit Squad.
In addition, BTN will dedicate its entire programming to the University of Maryland on Tuesday, July 1 to commemorate the Terps' inaugural day in the Big Ten.
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- Maryland staff/coaches scheduled to arrive at Under Armour Brand House
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"When an emergency occurs in the wild, the goal must be to provide the greatest good for the greatest number in the shortest time, and do no harm in the process."
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BEUKES, Johann. Analytic concepts in middle Foucault. Herv. teol. stud. [online]. 2012, vol.68, n.1, pp.1-17. ISSN 2072-8050.
This article investigates prominent analytic concepts in the philosophical historiographies of Michel Foucault (1926-1984), with specific regards to the work done in the middle phase of his career. These concepts accentuate the relation between history, power and contingency within the context of social inquiry. The author qualifies a particular order in the isolation of these concepts from the middle part of Foucault's oeuvre: the notion of present history is introduced as the central concept in Foucault's analyses from this period. It is argued that the notion of present history sustains Foucault's other unique historiographical and socio-diagnostic tools from the particular period, namely archaeology, genealogy, discourse and power analysis. The article contributes to Foucaultian scholarship by periodising these concepts within the larger oeuvre, without subordinating Foucault to the parameters of his own 'method'.


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Whitening toothpaste can whiten teeth slightly by removing surface stains, such as those caused by drinking coffee or smoking. Whitening toothpaste can also be used after a bleaching treatment to help maintain results.
To remove surface stains, whitening toothpaste typically includes:
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- Chemicals that help break down or dissolve stains
Some whitening toothpastes contain the chemical blue covarine, which adheres to the surface of the teeth and creates an optical illusion that can make teeth appear less yellow.
When used twice a day, whitening toothpaste can take from two to six weeks to make teeth appear whiter. Whitening toothpaste that contains blue covarine can have an immediate effect.
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These two group activities use mathematical reasoning - one is numerical, one geometric.
What happens if you join every second point on this circle? How about every third point? Try with different steps and see if you can predict what will happen.
Work out Tom's number from the answers he gives his friend. He will
only answer 'yes' or 'no'.
Here are ten cards numbered 0 to 9:
Using all ten cards, rearrange them to make five prime numbers.
Can you find a way of doing it with five two-digit numbers?
How about using one one-digit number, one three-digit number and three two-digit numbers? ...
This problem is based on an idea from Mathematical Challenges for Able Pupils Key Stages 1 and 2, published by DfES.


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Workers' Compensation UpdatePublished: October 15, 2012
Workers' Compensation, mandated and regulated by the state of California Labor Code, provides medical and income benefits to employees injured on the job or who become ill because of a job-related condition.
By law, employees may choose to be treated by their personal physicians rather than the industrial carrier provided by the university. However, employees must file a Predesignation of Personal Physician form with the Workers' Compensation Specialist prior to any illness or injury. You may be treated for such injury or illness by your personal medical doctor or doctor of osteopathic medicine if:
• Your employer offers group health coverage;
• The doctor is your regular physician, who shall be either a physician who has limited their practice of medicine to general practice or is board-certified or board-eligible internist, pediatrician, obstetrician-gynecologist, or family practitioner who has previously directed your medical treatment, and retains your medical records;
• Prior to the injury, your doctor agrees to treat you for work-related injuries or illnesses;
• Prior to the injury, you provided your employer the following in writing: (1) notice that you want your personal doctor to treat you for a work-related injury or illness, (2) and your doctor's name and business address.
Also, you may choose to give notice of a personal chiropractor or personal acupuncturist.
You may be able to change your treating physician to your personal chiropractor or acupuncturist following a work-related injury or illness. In order to be eligible to make this change, you must give your employer the name and business address of a personal chiropractor or acupuncturist in writing prior to the injury or illness. Your claims administrator generally has the right to select your treating physician within the first 30 days after your employer knows of your injury or illness. After your claims administrator has initiated your treatment with another doctor during this period, you may then, upon request, have your treatment transferred to your personal chiropractor or acupuncturist.
The Predesignation of Personal Physician form and the notice of personal chiropractor or personal acupuncturist can be found online through the Human Resources Management website, under Workers' Compensation in the forms section. Employees unable to access this form through the website should contact Cheryl Velasco at 562/985-2366.


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Topic: Similar bands to Kenso
Posted: May 15 2008 at 17:24
Seeking recommendations for bands that have a similar prog fusion style like the Japanese band Kenso. Since their Nearfest 2005 appearance I have gotten into them, and really love their kind of laid back dual keyboard synth heavy prog fusion style. Any bands similar to Kenso----Japanese or otherwise from those that know about Kenso's music?
btw, I know they are similar to Bruford's solo work, which I already have most of, as well as some of Holdsworth's stuff, and there is a definite influence from the instrumental work of mid period Genesis (ala Los Endos) which is my favorite era of Genesis, so that supplies more background on my tastes.
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I only know these bands by reputation, so I hope you don't mind the suggestion, but apparently Ain Soph (another Japanese band) might appeal to you.
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Ken Watson is close to Kenso.
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I agree with the Ain Soph suggestion, notably their debut A Story of Mysterious Forest is excellent!
I can hear much Gentle Giant and Return to Forever in them though, whom I presume you are already familiar with. Check out KBB (another very good Japanese fusion band), Gong (76-78 stuff) and Dixie Dregs if you haven't. Im sure you'll love them as well!
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Jews in America: Thomas Jefferson and the Jews
Thomas Jefferson is deservedly a hero to American Jewry. His was one of the few voices in the early republic fervently championing equal political rights for Jews. Jeffersons Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia is a classic American statement of religious toleration. Significantly, while Jefferson championed the rights of Jews and other religious minorities, he did not do so out of respect for Judaism but because he respected the right of every individual to hold whichever faith they wished.
Jeffersons advocacy of civic equality for American Jewry began as early as 1776, when he co-sponsored a bill which the Virginia legislature ultimately defeated which would have allowed the naturalization of Jews, Catholics and other non-Protestants as Virginia citizens. During the debate, Jefferson quoted John Lockes argument that neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.
Four decades later, in 1820, Jefferson wrote to the Charleston Jewish physician, Dr. Jacob De La Motta, that religious freedom is the most effectual anodyne against religious dissension. Jefferson told De La Motta that he was delighted to see American Jews assuming full social rights and hoped they will be seen taking their seats on the benches of science as preparatory to their doing the same at the board of government. Subsequently, referring to the reading of the King James version of the Bible in public schools, Jefferson expressed his belief that it was a cruel addition to the wrongs Jews had historically suffered by imposing on them a course of theological reading which their consciences do not permit them to pursue. To Joseph Marx of Richmond, Jefferson expressed regret . . . at seeing a sect [the Jews], the parent and basis of all those of Christendom, singled out for persecution and oppression.
While Jefferson advocated for Jewish liberty, he held certain aspects of Judaism in low regard. In fairness, Jefferson opposed all religions based on divine revelation. He believed that Gods existence could be proven by reason and common sense rather than faith. A detractor of all priests, he found those of the Hebrew Bible a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family of god of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel.
In 1787, Jefferson summed up his view of Jewish revelation in a letter to his nephew, warning him to be skeptical of those facts in the Bible which contradict the laws of nature. As one example, he cited the assertion in the Book of Joshua that the sun stood still for several hours. Since that would have meant, in scientific terms, that the earth stood still, Jefferson asked his nephew to consider how the earth, spinning on its axis, could have stopped suddenly and started rotating again without enormous destruction to natural and manmade structures. Similarly, the rationalist Jefferson doubted that God personally inscribed the Ten Commandments on a tablet which Moses later destroyed and then re-wrote.
It bothered Jefferson that the God of the ancient Hebrews was, in his words, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. He could also not understand how Jews could believe that the God of infinite justice would punish the sins of the fathers upon their children, unto the third and fourth generations. He agreed with the view expressed by John Adams that, in respect to God, the principle of the Hebrew is fear.
Jefferson thought that reason and logic demanded a belief in an afterlife, an area in which he found Judaism deficient. Jefferson argued that, without fear of punishment beyond the grave, individuals lacked an incentive to behave well and that, without hope of reuniting with loved ones, family commitments and friendships would lose their gravity. Since a definitive afterlife was not universally accepted in Judaism, Jefferson thought it a religion without utility.
Despite his reservations about the perceived defects in Judaism, Jefferson never wavered in his commitment to civil and religious freedom for Jews. Jeffersons most notable achievement in establishing religious and civic toleration for American Jewry was his 1779 Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia. Adopted in 1785, the Bill proclaimed: No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess. . . their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise . . . affect their civil capacities.
Two years later, in 1787, the U. S. Constitution was adopted. Article VI contains the following, Jefferson-inspired phrase: No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Despite his attitude toward Judaism as a religion, Jeffersons advocacy of the rights of Jews and those of other religious minorities has become the law and custom of the land. Toleration of all religions, the absence of an official government religion, and the right to practice and express religious thought freely are the hallmarks of Jeffersons legacy. Despite his private views of Judaism, he was indeed a most righteous Gentile.
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