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The 49ers have traded in their sourdough for silicon.
The team has gone fully native in Santa Clara, embracing the region's technology industry and its monied denizens. Its plans to leave San Francisco behind and build a stadium down there are gaining headway, too. Just this week, the team unveiled a fancy new sales office in the South Bay that uses the latest technology from the Valley to showcase the proposed stadium, which would open in 2015 if the team can get its finances together.
And who can blame them? Great weather. Less urban blight. Richer fan base. Who cares if they leave the city for greener parking lots?
For one, the residents of San Francisco should care. And they should blame the team for turning its back on the city that raised it. Second, the politicians that got us into this mess should care. From my understanding of events, the 49ers were prepared to build here in San Francisco until a rift arose between co-owner John York and then-Mayor Gavin Newsom. A perfectly good plan to build at Hunters Point was scrapped and the team turned to Santa Clara.
And the 49ers are not looking back. At a media briefing to tout the new high-tech sales office, powered by technology from Hewlett-Packard among others, the team's chief operating officer, Paraag Marathe, put it bluntly: "We are building a manifestation of what the 49ers represent and what Silicon Valley represents."
He also said the team wants its stadium to be a "landmark of Silicon Valley."
Not a whole lot of talk about San Francisco there. Or the East Bay. Or Marin. Until we asked.
"We've got a lot of respect for the city of San Francisco," said Marathe, a thoroughly likable and seemingly competent executive. "But our season-ticket holders aren't limited to the city. We believe we'll be as close to the season-ticket holders as we've ever been."
That's probably true. Especially if you open your sales operation in a Silicon Valley office park and build a stadium in Santa Clara. I don't envision too many people from San Rafael or Martinez driving an hour and a half to see what the view from their seats might look like. And then driving an hour and a half back.
To be fair to the 49ers, one has to admit the new stadium design looks great. The place will seat 65,000. It will have 165 luxury suites housed in a five-story, glass tower. On top of that tower will be a grassy area from which some select fans will be able to view the game. My only quibble would be in the class structure of the design. It's skewed to the rich. But that's the name of the game, especially in Silicon Valley.
The 49ers also argue that there are 13 freeway interchanges at the new facility, compared to four near Candlestick. And the team received a huge boost on the parking side of the equation recently when Great America was sold to new owners who have pledged 10,000 spots to the 49ers on game days.
"It'll probably take less time for a fan in San Francisco to get here and back than it does at Candlestick," Marathe said.
Not sure if I buy that, but it all seems to be falling into place in Santa Clara, except for the money. The 49ers have now raised nearly $189 million of the $987 million it will take to build the park. That's a big gap, but Marathe said the team believes the NFL's new collective bargaining agreement will pave the way for financing help from the league.
So, where does that leave San Francisco? Out of the picture.
It will be interesting to see whether the residents of San Francisco - who are losing their NFL franchise, make no mistake - will make this a viable issue in the upcoming mayoral elections.
So far, no one seems to care that the five-time Super Bowl champions are leaving town.
Classy closure: It was all class and good vibes at the Giants' last game of the season this past week, despite the team's disappointing finish.
The stands were packed for the season-ending loss to the Rockies, proving that the Giants' bandwagoners from last year have become true orange and black. And when and if the 49ers leave town, that loyalty will only grow.
Perhaps the classiest moment of the day came when manager Bruce Bochy pulled left fielder Pat Burrell out of the game in the late innings, allowing the hometown slugger to take the field before getting called back into the dugout, where he was met with a standing ovation from the crowd and a series of hugs from teammates.
Burrell was overcome with emotion and had to walk it off in the clubhouse tunnel.
"I could see him biting his lip," said Aubrey Huff later that day as he packed up his gear in the clubhouse. "It was an emotional moment."
Indeed it was. The Giants sold out every home game this year, drawing more than 3.3 million fans to set a club record. The fact that everyone at the last game knew this could be Burrell's final moments on the field as a major-league ballplayer shows that these aren't just rich dilettantes, going out to see and be seen.
The Giants have grown a knowledgeable, real community, right here in San Francisco.
The man in the middle: With the announcement of a merger between Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows this past week, the natural question was: How can these adjacent resorts connect their slopes?
The answer lies with a man named Troy Caldwell, a one-time hot doggin' ski champ who now owns a crucial piece of real estate between the two sites.
Caldwell's land, known as White Wolf, is actually a private little ski area that connects the back side of Squaw Valley's KT-22 area with the Alpine Meadows parking lot. A few years back, Caldwell famously put up 17 lift stanchions on his very own run, which he calls KT South, with plans to operate his own ski lift. He even obtained a permit that allows him 25 skiers per day, all friends and family. But he never finished the project and never operated an actual chairlift.
Now, Caldwell finds himself in the middle of a Tahoe megamerger, and he holds the keys to linking the two properties. Last year, after purchasing Squaw Valley, KSL Resorts contacted Caldwell with an eye toward purchasing his land. So far, no deal is in the works.
In order to open White Wolf as a connection between Squaw Valley and Alpine, the resorts would have to put in an additional chairlift to go over the ridge that divides White Wolf from Alpine.
Caldwell and his wife, Sue, live in Alpine Meadows, where they have built homes. He bought the acreage, which includes portions of KT-22 that he leases to Squaw, from Southern Pacific in 1990. Though there have been rumors of him selling White Wolf to KSL, he told my colleague Sam Whiting, "We've never had any firm offers. I'm sure they would like to buy it, but I want to be involved all the way through this thing."
He estimates that a mountain connection between Squaw and Alpine is 10 years away. If they ever do link up, Squaw and Alpine would be the biggest ski and snowboarding resort in the nation, with over 6,000 acres of land. And that could be a real boon to the area's bid for the 2022 Olympics.
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Rachel Geyer asked: Is there a specific procedure you go through to write a book? Do you need to write in a specific place or is anywhere just fine?
Blake Nelson answered: I can write anywhere. But I have written many of my best books at my parents house, out in the woods in Oregon. That's where I wrote RECOVERY ROAD. It is very relaxing there. And quiet. And I can shoot baskets in the driveway if I get stuck.
Lauren Whitby asked: When you wrote Girl: A Novel was it hard to write in a teenage girls perspective?
Blake Nelson answered: No, it has always come pretty easy to me. Check out this short essay I wrote about that at figment.com: http://blog.figment.com/2011/03/14/how-to-write-like-a-girl-by-blake-nelson/
Chelsea Hogan asked: I ♥ your books!!! Girl and Rockstar Super Star are my favorites, mostly for their common themes of love and music. How do you know so much about music? Were you ever in a band? What kind of music do you like to listen to now?
Blake Nelson answered: Thank you for that awesome question Ms. Hogan. I was in bands for most of my teens and twenties, and that's where I really got in touch with my creative side and learned how to write songs and how to develop original ideas and things like that. I owe my writing career to my music career, I always think. I would have stayed a musician but I wanted to do something that I could pursue my whole life and not just when I was young, so I chose to be a writer.
Elizabeth Keaney asked: I ♥ your books too!! Well, I've read Girl and Recovery Road...anyway, not only do you capture the female voice amazingly (and differently--Maddie & Andrea?? Awesome!) but you also deliver the reader a mostly intact heroine/protagonist at the end....have you ever thought of giving your main character a more "tragic" or unhappy ending? Perhaps instead of going "back east" for college, they end up like Cybil or Trish?
Blake Nelson answered: Oh yes, I just finished a new book where everybody dies at the end. So sometimes I do that. But I like endings where there's hope too, especially since—like in RECOVERY ROAD—the person goes through such a tough time throughout the story.
Alexis Matusiewicz asked: You've been writing YA fiction for (at least) 2 generations of teenagers. What would you say are the common themes/ elements in your writing over this period of time? What kinds of "generational" changes have you made?
Blake Nelson answered: I haven't changed too much. Most of my main characters are pretty much the same. They think about things and try to figure out how to function in a world that they are just starting to figure out. It's the secondary characters that have probably changed a bit. In the 90s my secondary characters tended to be partiers and were often pretty superficial and I tried to have fun with that. Now they are often nerdy or over-parented and I try to have fun with that too.
Alexis Matusiewicz asked: Also, the movie version of Paranoid Park was one of the best book-to-film adaptations I've ever seen. Which of your books would you like to see made into a film? Who would you want to star or direct? What is it like to put your story and characters in another person's hands?
Blake Nelson answered: My favorite role, and the one I would like to star in myself, is the guy in the old 50s teen movies who is wearing a white lab coat and nerd glasses and has a clipboard and is on the beach interviewing the surfers about their lifestyle and the strange language they speak. "Like what exactly does "far out" mean?' That's what I have become, some weird anthropologist. But whatever. I always thought those lab coat guys were cool.
Matthew Pollack asked: I feel like your books have been unfairly pigeon-holed as YA. I read Girl on a recommendation and felt like it could have enjoyed much broader appeal. When you first wrote it, did you set out to write YA fiction, or was it a marketing decision from the publisher? Do you ever regret not packaging your books differently?
Blake Nelson answered: GIRL was always a weird case because it sort of fit perfectly between the two genres … at first it was published as an adult book and a lot of teenagers read it, because in those days, that's what teens did who were a little more mature and didn't want to read more tame YA books. Now it is the opposite! Grownups read YA books because they like the more plot oriented (and shorter) and just generally more wholesome and fun YA books. I don't care what category my books go into really. I love writing about young people. So whatever the publishers think is the best way to do that is fine with me.
Loreen Gilligan Coldrick asked: Have you decided what your next book will be about? Do you only work on one book at a time, or do you have several going at once?
Blake Nelson answered: I usually just work one at a time. Sometimes I will put things away and let them percolate for a couple months. I did one book that I put away and dug back out over a year later, and it was still pretty good. But letting a book "rest" is sometimes the best thing.
Elizabeth Newbold asked: Are any of the characters in your books supposed to be you? If so, who?
Blake Nelson answered: All the characters in all my books are me, to some extent. I think you have to relate to every character in some way. Sometimes in thrillers or genre books, I can tell when a character is just out of left field and has no actual reality. I usually figure the author could not a find a way to relate to that character. And you can tell.
Elizabeth Newbold asked: Also, I'm reading "they came from below" right now. I'm interested to know where you got the idea for the book. I love environmental books that discuss the issue through the use of a story. What inspired you to write this book?
Blake Nelson answered: That was based just on this one idea: we always think aliens will come from outer space, what if they came from the bottom of the ocean? All the other stuff just came from readings I was doing at the time. Mainly Bill McKibbens, THE END OF NATURE, and a lot of Buddhist stuff I was reading at the time….. It definitely needed that heavier stuff in it, I don't think just aliens from the bottom of the ocean would have been that interesting by itself.
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Bo Daniel Allen and Jennifer Robin Hutchison were united in marriage on June 1, 2012, in Clear Lake. Bo is the son of Dan and Sue Allen and Diane Allen. Jennifer is the daughter of Susan and Jerry Mericle and Robert Hutchison.
Maid of honor was the bride's friend, Alisa Garcia. Bridesmaids were Milissa Hutchison and Karina Darnell, sisters of the bride; Jessica Hoeppner, sister of the groom; and Melissa Miller, friend of the bride. Flower girl was the groom's niece, Emma Hoeppner. Personal attendants included Hannah Allen, the groom's sister, and Jessica Worley, the bride's friend.
Serving as best man was Travis Allen, brother of the groom. Groomsmen were Jeff Arther and Gary Van Horn, friends of the groom; Justin Hoeppner, brother-in-law of the groom; and Daniel Allen, father of the groom. Tobias Hutchison, the bride's son, and Noah Darnell, the bride's nephew, were ring bearers.
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Mr. M. G. de Lapouge had several problems that he needed to try to solve simultaneously back in 1890. Number one, he was a prominent scientist of his time, with a good reputation so why should he be publishing an article in a scientific journal concerning human giants–and of a "type"* evolutionists considered modern?
*Here at s8int.com, we believe that there is only and has only been one "type" of human being. Science has called Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon "prehistoric" and other humans modern.
Secondly, who were these giants who were modern in "type" but enormous when the two groups considered ancestral; Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal were reasonably of the same size of modern humans? Mr. de Lapouge had found evidence in a vast graveyard near Castelnau, France, in the form of fossil bones of a teenager at least seven foot tall and of another enormous man who was close to 12 feet tall.
Writing in La Nature: revue des sciences et de leurs applications aux arts …, Volume 18, in 1890, under the title "The Fossil Giants of Castelnau", de Lapouge took a calculated risk in presenting his findings to a skeptical scientific audience, which he acknowledges.
De Lapouge noted that no one would contest the fact that giant (mega) animals had existed in the past, quite apart from dinosaurs. Wouldn't it seem reasonable, he wrote that at the time of the existence of these giant animals that man retained the same ratio of size to those creatures that he exhibits today?
Good question. The answer to his conundrum: "there were giants in the earth in those days.."..(Gen 6) and Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal were not "ancestors"-they lived in contemporary times.
Perhaps there was a time, pre-flood when every creature was large compared to today and that after the flood some of these giants still remained? ….s8int.com
Excerpt from: La Nature: revue des sciences et de leurs applications aux arts …, Volume 18, 1890
"Giants figure so often in our legends and the most ancient histories of the world that it has been a serious question whether a race of gigantic men has not existed at some remote period of time—for example, during the quaternary epochs of the large mammals, the mastodon, mammoth, and so on—and whether the type may not have survived into later times.
Pigmies would have a better chance of continuing to subsist under the supremacy of the normal man. The giants, like the greater quadrupeds, would be exterminated. Our oldest human fossils, however, such as the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls, do not indicate an extraordinary stature.
Very tall skeletons have, no doubt, been found in some dolmens and barrows, but they are supposed to belong to the Bronze Age race, which is still an element of the European population. M. G. de Lapouge has recently made a discovery which tends to re-open this question.
At the prehistoric cemetery of Castelnau, near Montpellier, which dates from the eras of polished stone and bronze, he found last winter, among many crania, one of enormous size, which could only belong to a man very much over 2 meters (6 ft. 6 in.) in height, and of a morphologic type common in the dolmens of Lozère.
It was the skull of a healthy youth about 18 years of age.
Moreover, in the earth of a tumulus of vast extent, containing cists of the Bronze Age, more or less injured by superposed sepulchers of the early Iron Age, he found some fragments of incontestably human bones of enormous size. For instance, part of a tibia 0.16 meter in circumference, part of a femur 0.13 meter in girth, and the inferior part of a humerus twice the ordinary dimensions.
Everything considered M. de Lapouge estimates that the height of this subject must have been about 3½ meters (11.5 ft.)—that is to say, a veritable giant, according to the popular notion.
He must have lived during the quaternary period or the beginning of the present, but whether he was an instance of hypertrophy or one of an extinct race of giants, it is impossible as yet to say. Singularly enough, tradition fixes the valley of a giant very near the spot in the cavern of Castelnau where the bones have been taken from the tumulus."
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I love this; an eminent scientist of the time, M. Keiner, a professor of pathology at Montpeiller University, had an opportunity to examine the bones in question. He reluctantly it seems agreed that the bones were human, and that they were "twice the ordinary size".
However, since he ascribed the size of the bones to an "abnormailty", he was able to claim that the question as to whether there had indeed been "giants in those days" –to be "unsettled"!
Oh, science, if a twelve foot human skeleton is not evidence that giants existed, what then would be required for proof?…s8int.com
A Race of Giants in Old Gaul
From the London Globe
In the year 1890 some bones of enormous size, double the ordinary in fact, were found in the tumulus of Castelnau, (Herault) and have since been carefully examined by Prof. Keiner, who while admitting that the bones are those of a very tall race, nevertheless finds them abnormal in dimensions and apparently of morbid growth.
They undoubtedly reopen the question of the "giants" of antiquity, but do not furnish sufficient evidence to decide it.
Reprinted in the New York Times, Oct. 3, 1892
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Customers were expected to camp overnight to be among the first to buy a 24-inch Samsung Flat Screen LCD TV for 99 cents.
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Originally published as black-and-white plates in a 1901 treatise on technical illustration, drawings by French graphic virtuoso Ambale Tronquoy depict precisely rendered geometric forms. These works evidence the draughtsman's masterly combination of drawing and ink wash techniques. Each is a detailed consideration of light and shadow, line, surface, and volume. Dating from the 1800s, the drawings are considered a preface to 20th-century art movements like Minimalism.


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VANCOUVER — A plan to berth an 1,100-room cruise ship in North Vancouver for use as a floating hotel during the Olympic Games appears to be in serious danger of sinking.
Edmonton-based Newwest Special Projects - which has marketed the Norwegian Star to Games visitors for the past nine months - said in a statement over the weekend that sales have been disappointing while expenses have increased beyond expectations. It said it is negotiating with its partners to try to lower costs and keep the project alive.
Newwest Special Projects president Dennis Laliberte said Monday he could not talk about the Olympic cruise ship project and referred inquiries to a company representative in Utah.
"I'm not allowed to say anything about this project," he said.
The possible cancellation of the Olympic floating hotel venture comes after Newwest twice slashed prices to try to boost sales.
When it announced the project last May, the cost of a basic room was to be about $1,300 US a night but that was cut to $500 in October. The starting price was then lowered to $275 US a night last month, with the prospect of even lower prices as the Games neared.
Newwest paid more than $10 million to lease the cruise ship and had to spend a significant amount of money to renovate the Kinder Morgan industrial dock in North Vancouver for use as a temporary cruise ship terminal.
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CHICAGO – Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can detect a failing, or potentially failing, metal-on-metal hip implant (MoM) early on, according to a new study presented today at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Early detection can result in timely revision surgery, decreasing the risk for further tissue damage and pain.
Researchers reviewed the MRI images of 70 patients who ultimately underwent revision surgery for a failed MoM implant. The images were assessed for the presence of tissue damage, swelling and other characteristics.
The study found that an MRI is highly sensitive and specific to identifying tissue damage in MoM total hip replacement (THR) patients. Early identification of at-risk patients can result in timely revision surgery, when necessary, decreasing pain and future damage to surrounding hip tissue.
Also today at the 2013 AAOS Annual meeting, the educational session "Optimizing Management of Patients with Metal-on-metal Hips," featured seven orthopaedic experts discussing the identification and treatment of MoM hip failure.
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BRUSSELS — The European Commission, facing opposition in city streets, on the Internet and in the halls of parliament, has suspended efforts to ratify a new international anti-counterfeiting agreement, and instead will refer it to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates any fundamental EU rights.
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht asserted Wednesday that an opinion from the European Court of Justice would clear away the fog of misinformation surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, known as ACTA.
"This debate must be based upon facts and not upon the misinformation or rumor that has dominated social media sites and blogs in recent weeks," De Gucht told reporters in Brussels.
The decision appeared to reflect recognition by European Union officials of the political obstacles. Protests against the agreement were staged earlier this month in several European capitals — including Berlin, Helsinki, Paris and Vienna — by critics who say the agreement would stifle free speech and access to information.
The hacking group known as Anonymous claimed responsibility last week for a new series of hacks against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and consumer rights websites. The sites were replaced with a violent German-language video satirizing ACTA.
ACTA has been under negotiation for years. Its drafters say it is needed to harmonize international standards to protect the rights of those who produce music, movies, pharmaceuticals, fashion goods, and a range of other products that often fall victim to piracy and intellectual property theft.
The U.S. has signed the agreement. Others include Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea. Mexico and Switzerland participated in the negotiations but have not yet signed.
The EU and 22 EU Member States signed ACTA on 26 January 2012 in Tokyo. Although the European Council — the European Union heads of government — unanimously approved ACTA in December, for the EU to be a party to the treaty, all 27 member countries would have to formally ratify it.
The treaty has been questioned by members of the European Parliament. In a statement Wednesday, David Martin, a spokesman on the issue for the Socialists and Democrats, the second largest bloc in the parliament, welcomed the decision to get the court's opinion.
"Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht today admitted that there are still many question marks about ACTA and what the implementation of the agreement, as it stands, would mean for citizens and for the freedom of the internet," Martin said. "The Parliament has been calling for more clarity for a long time, and we already requested legal opinions from several committees in the European Parliament. Now this ruling will be a good guarantee for the impact on fundamental rights.
EU officials say the agreement will not change EU law. They insist what was legal pre-treaty would remain legal the day after, and what was illegal would remain illegal. But they have said the EU must ratify it as an example to other countries where intellectual property rights are less protected than they are in the EU in order to protect European products and ideas from being stolen elsewhere.
"ACTA will not censor websites or shut them down; ACTA will not hinder freedom of the internet or freedom of speech," De Gucht said.
However, opponents fear ACTA would lead to censorship and a loss of privacy on the Internet. And the plan to gain court approval of the agreement has left at least some of them unimpressed.
"No legal debate can fix ACTA or give it a legitimacy that by design it cannot have," said Jeremie Zimmermann, co-founder of the Internet advocacy group La Quadrature du Net.
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When my daughter was born, I remembered words I had forgotten: sunqu, wawa, uripachallay. They poured out of me, bits of Quechua mixed with English and Spanish to form a strange litany of endearments I repeated again and again as I carefully traced the contours of her face, claiming for her every name, every devotional, I could think of: mi amor, mi chula, mi nena, mi wawa, mi beba, my basket, my bean, my bundle, my love, my heart, mi sunqu, mi corazón, uripachallay, palomita, little dove. When I ran out of words, I'd simply tell her I loved her, chanting: te quiero mucho mucho mucho, tanto tanto tanto, siempre siempre siempre. In the absence of any new thing to say about how much I loved my daughter, I became a kind of trilingual thesaurus.
I was just grabbing words—any word, every word—to fill the space between me and my daughter.
Sometimes I wondered if I would ever be able to write poems again. It seemed unlikely. The best poems are precise, carefully attuned to details and specifics. And my favorite poems have always been spare, nothing but the very thing that cuts through the extra. Think of Lucille Clifton's "won't you celebrate with me." Or Naomi Shihab Nye's "Making a Fist." Or Patricia Smith's "Medusa." These are poems that feel like they have parted flesh or cut a clean streak across a dirty window. But my post-partum poems felt messy and confused, incapable of building even the ricketiest rope bridge across my feelings. I was just grabbing words—any word, every word—to fill the space between me and my daughter. It seemed impossible that we were separate people, and I worried about her obsessively, wondered how I could ever keep her safe, keep her alive. I felt crazy. It was easier to be funny about it than honest. I took up storytelling and comedy as an alternative genre. I'm not suggesting these are dishonest forms, but they allowed me to be a character, to exaggerate for effect—things I would never do in a poem.
And then I was given a gift. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad gift. 3Arts awarded me a two week residency at Ragdale. I wanted to puke. This isn't a figure of speech. I really felt sick to my stomach when I opened the letter congratulating me on the award. Because, of course, I had to accept. It was an incredibly generous gift. Two weeks where I would be paid to do nothing but wander the prairie and write. Two weeks where I could sleep, where someone else would make my meals. Two weeks where I could be alone, or wander downstairs to drink wine with fabulous writers. Two weeks of being me-first, not worrying about my job or my obligations, my chores or my responsibilities. Two weeks without my daughter. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad gift.
What if she dies in a dishwasher?
I cried, of course. For the first two or three days I was there, all I did was sleep, and cry, and write long letters to my daughter describing to her how much I missed her. I watched two seasons of "True Blood" to distract me from my sorrows and then I cried some more because I was wasting this horrible time away from my daughter by watching TV instead of writing poems. So, I tried to write poems, but wrote more lists instead. Mi amor, mi chula, mi sunqu, my heart, mi corazon. I missed her desperately. The space between us was more vast than ever. I couldn't fill it.
"Dear Ida," I wrote in one of my many letters to a two year old, "I miss watching you sleep."
"Dear Ida," I wrote in another, "today I saw a deer."
I wrote everything I could think of, and wondered what I'd ever had to say before she was born. Who had I been talking to? What had I been talking about?
Eventually, though, inspired by an article in the newspaper, I wrote a poem about a mummy. And then one about a ghost. And then one about Facebook. And one about fajas. And one about Jesus. And for fun, I wrote a whole series of three-line poems based on Ecuadorian slang terms that conflate food and sex. (Me hizo la sopa, me entiendes…?) And I even found my way to some poems about my daughter, some way of saying more than OMAIGA I LOVE HER SO MUCH I WISH SHE WAS STILL INSIDE OF ME WHAT IF SHE DIES IN A DISHWASHER? Found a small point of clarity inside my mess, a sliver of what needed to be said, something more but nothing less than this: mi sunqu, my heart, mi corazón …
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Posted: Mon 02 Apr 2007, 14:17
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Qemu-Pizzapup 3.0
Subject description: VM USB w/ Pizzapup
Thanks to the work of Erik Veenstra and Qemu-Puppy, Bogdan Radulescu and his unbelievable NimbleX Linux distro, and all the folks at pendrivelinux.com, I now have a functional, VM USB running the latest Pizzapup 3.0 with that delicious theme and Beagle bark, FF updated w/ Privoxy/Tor, Sound Blaster Audigy, and, get this, no hassle Wi-Fi connection. Tested on one desktop and one laptop w/ Wi-Fi. Certainly not scientific, but it can be done in less than three hours.
What does this mean? It means I can go to--I trust the Process--any computer public or private, pop in an Apacer (it's the most I could afford--teachers don't make THAT much) 1GB USB, click on a my Puppy batch file and whoa! It's all there--everything saved just as it was--yes, finally, a portable virtual machine. Different sound card? No problem--it just works because of Qemu and the batch file. More acceleration? KQemu will start automatically if allowed by the host machine.
Add Fasterfox by Tony, AdBlock Plus, and some mp3's--it's golden.
Definitely not the New Wave of Linux--but it was fun pulling all the pieces together.
I think I'll take my new Puppy for a walk on this beautiful spring day.
Take care!
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Posted: Sat 14 Apr 2007, 11:48
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Hey Jas
I'd like one of them
Any chance of a how to?
or, could it be done as an iso?
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Posted: Tue 15 May 2007, 05:15
Post subject: iso OR HOWTO for pizzapup-qemu usb boot
i second that request for iso or howto.
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Posted: Tue 15 May 2007, 09:47
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more of this please
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Posted: Wed 16 May 2007, 04:24
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You could call it... Pupporoni!
I want this. Of course, I can't even get QemuPuppy to work and it's killing me. I've been going crazy for a week just trying to get that to work, but maybe it's my bios not letting me. It starts to boot, but ALWAYS stops at "Cannot find puppy on '[whatever I happen to try for the PMedia value]' or 'idehd' if I happen to leave out Pmedia altogether. Puppy itself boots fine without trouble when installed to the Mobilemate USB drive using the Universal Installer from the Puppy CD.
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Posted: Wed 16 May 2007, 19:16
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Okay, I finally, after about a week, figured out the exact right combination to get QemuPuppy working, for me anyway. I'm posting it here to help others with similar problems. I formatted the Mobilemate 1GB usb flash drive using the HP flash utility that I found in a link somewhere (it's talked about often on forums) and formatted the USB drive using the dos boot disk option (this may not have been necessary, but since it worked, I see all these steps as something I personally intend to repeat; you'll need dos boot files from windows 98 or earlier to do this). While in windows, I deleted those dos files from the usb disk and extracted the qemupuppy archive's files onto it. I then got in the command prompt (start menu->run->cmd)changed to the USB drive (cd g:), then " syslinux -f g: ". The "-f" may not have been necessary, but I figured it couldn't hurt. It stands for "force" I believe (I don't know exactly what it does). Then I edited the syslinux.cfg file to look like this:
default vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz PMEDIA=usbhd
append QPM=true
Then I rebooted, entered the bios, made sure that the detected usb drive took priority over the hard disk as the boot device. I think it was "hard disk options" that I was into, but every bios differs, so whatever works for yours. I saved the changes, let the computer boot up. It, for the first time after probably 50 bad tries using various other bad combinations of formatting/syslinux.cfg edits, booted , without complaint or reluctance into the fast os we all know and love. I'm so happy, I don't even care that I've pulled all my hair out. :lol: I think I should get drunk now.
In case the reader is having problems getting qemupuppy to boot in qemu mode, that would be an entirely different problem. I never had a problem with that.
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 21:13
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Turpin wrote:
You could call it... Pupporoni!
I want this. Of course, I can't even get QemuPuppy to work and it's killing me. I've been going crazy for a week just trying to get that to work, but maybe it's my bios not letting me. It starts to boot, but ALWAYS stops at "Cannot find puppy on '[whatever I happen to try for the PMedia value]' or 'idehd' if I happen to leave out Pmedia altogether. Puppy itself boots fine without trouble when installed to the Mobilemate USB drive using the Universal Installer from the Puppy CD.
I've had the same exact problem with Qemu-Puppy, also, and it didn't matter if it was an LG 1G pdrive or SanDisk Micro 512M or SanDisk Freedom 256M or.........
I'm glad you have it working, Turpin......I'll give it a go and see if
have any luck with Qemu-Puppy......
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 21:22
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Sweet! I'm hooked on QemuPizzaPup now. The portability! With these powers, I could....
Absolutely beautiful piece of work. I don't know how you did it, but it works like magic. Thanks Jasray
Sorry to hear that, theGeekster. I was so near giving up so many times. It requires a willingness to enter into new levels of insanity sometimes to keep going on it, and I seem to have that going for me. I read that some bioses are simply stubborn and won't let you boot from usb. I would recommend first trying to boot plain old puppy from usb (use the universal installer from the Puppy CD that you create from the ISO or buy from the creators of Puppy). If you can get THAT to boot, there MAY be hope. If that boots, don't assume that the way Puppy partitioned your usb drive is going to work for QemuPuppy (don't assume it won't either). Most likely, you'll get it working by partitioning with Windows fat32 format or HP Partitioning tool. If you're trying it formatted with Windows standard fat32 formatting, try leaving the syslinux.cfg at its default. If with the HP tool, do what I did to get it to work (a couple posts up). Beyond that, try different combinations, look carefully at the bios settings that have anything to do with booting devices, try different values for PMEDIA in syslinux.cfg. They can be PMEDIA= usbflash|usbhd|usbcd|ideflash|idehd|idecd|idezip|satahd|scsihd|scsicd
and don't forget to read all of the official QemuPuppy instructions on its home page, especially that part about syslinux [drive letter]: which is done from windows command prompt. Good luck
Also, you might want to ask Jasray about his little innovation. It works a little differently on booting. It might work for you even if Qemupuppy doesn't. It's the coolest thing... Words fail.
I should note, I haven't succesfully booted QemuPizzaPup except in Windows qemu so far, so I'm kind of back to the old "try evrything" again myself. When will motherboard manufacturers catch on that people want to boot from usb?
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 23:21
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Actually, Jasray, does QemuPizzaPup work for booting the computer? I had assumed it did, maybe too quickly. Come to think of it, I don't fully understand the process the computer goes through at boot time, though I should, considering I have an A+ certification.
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Posted: Fri 18 May 2007, 16:29
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I don't know if I should be answering my own question about someone else's work. I just dont want people to get confused. Apparently, Jasray's QemuPizzaPup doesn't boot the real hardware. But, if all you're wanting is something that will boot in qemu mode on a windows machine (and maybe linux, but I haven't tried it), it's definitely the coolest thing. I also don't know if he wanted to make this thing official or just offer it to a few people. Basically, like he said, it's something that someone who knows what they're doing can figure out in a few hours. He just knows what he's doing more than I do.
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Posted: Thu 24 May 2007, 17:42
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Is there any way to do what QemuPuppy does (allowing one to boot Puppy in Linux, Windows or the actual hardware, while preserving and updating settings, bookmarks, and documents) while also allowing one to have sound when booting in qemu-mode in Windows? Has anyone gotten sound to work in Qemu-Puppy in Windows? I mean besides Qemu-Pizzapup, which, cool as it is, can't boot the hardware? Or, alternatively, would there be a way to modify even QemuPizzapup, which has sound in Windows, to be able to boot the hardware while maintaining all my settings, bookmarks, etc.?
If someone could tell me this isn't currently possible, at least I can quit trying.
I even was about to fall back to using the Puppy liveCD in Virtualbox, but that doesn't let it write back to itself multisession. I also can't get Puppy in Virtualbox to see my USB flash drive even though it seems to be active in Virtualbox. Any other method I can think of for storing data from puppy (besides CD/DVD or USB thumbdrive) in Virtual machine mode wouldn't be portable.
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Posted: Sat 26 May 2007, 21:58
Post subject: boot fails
I'm trying to get puppylinux to boot from a 1Gb pendrive, and couldn't get my pendrive to boot, despite setting up the bios OK.
I've given up trying to find my way from qemu, which runs happily in win2k into puppy, which I can't get to run in qemu/virtualbox/or even virtualPC, So I just want portable puppy......
Following along the lines of Turpin's post dated 16 may, I, too, downloaded the [Huge] HP usb boot utility, and modified the syslinux.cfg file
default flash
prompt 1
timeout 30
say HP Firmware Maintenance (press F1 for extended boot options)
say Copyright 2001, 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
display help.msg
F1 menu.msg
label flash
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz loglevel=3 PMEDIA=usbhdd
timeout 50"
I unzipped puppylinux2.14 to the same pendrive, (which overwrote the HP vmlinuz)
This starts a bootup process which runs:[abbreviated]
loading vmlinuz
loading initrd.gz
uncompressing linux
bootup messages
now executing 'init' in initial-ramdisk
mount hdds etc, all done down to busybox
then I get
Usage: init
Init is the parent of all processes
Kernel panic - not syncing No init found Try passing init = option to the kernel
Then it just hangs....
Any ideas anyone?
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Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage contract. Marriage sometimes has a legal and a religious component. Divorce ends the legal contract. Some religions require the married partners to have a religious divorce if the individuals wish to continue their religious practice. For instance, practicing Jews must get both a legal divorce, to satisfy secular authorities, and a get (גט), or religious divorce, to satisfy religious practice. Liberals have consistently gotten divorced at higher rates than social conservatives, which some say strains the sanctity of marriage.
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Primary biblical Statements
Many believe that the Bible indicates that divorce is a sin in the eyes of God, and can lead to drastic consequences for those involved. Indeed, God says "I hate divorce." (Malachi 2:16 NIV version)
For most of 2,000 years Christians have viewed divorce primarily through two scriptural citations, Matthew 5:32 and 1 Corinthians 7:15. God's views on divorce are seen as most clearly articulated in the former, which is reiterated in 19:9:
"32: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery" (Matthew 5: 32) and, "9: And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery" (Matthew 19: 9)
The corresponding passages in Mark and Luke lack the reference to fornication:
Mark 10:11-12 (KJV): And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Luke 16:18 (KJV): Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from [her] husband committeth adultery.
"1 Corinthians 7:15 states But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Doctrinal positions
Historically most conservative Protestant Christians have allowed divorce only in the case of adultery,[1] and some also for desertion,[2][3] The original text of the Westminster Confession, as approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1647, emphatically stated: "Nothing but adultery or such willful desertion as can no way be remedied by the Church or civil magistrate is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage." The offended party in such circumstances is free to remarry, as if the offending party were dead. In 1927, Dr. Clarence Edward Macartney recommended that the Presbyterian General Assembly declare that, "...adultery alone clearly recognized in the New Testament as cause for divorce. Therefore the Church cannot sanction divorce on any other ground nor the remarriage of divorced persons other than the innocent parties in divorces granted for adultery; and it shall be unlawful for a minister to marry any divorced person except one so divorced."[4]
There is disagreement as to how the absence of the fornication clause in the Mark and Luke affect the meaning of the fuller Matthean account, and some believe that any divorce equates to adultery, and incurs the consequences of such. (Gal. 5:19,21) Further consequences of adultery are stated in Deuteronomy 23:2, where it is stated:
"2:A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD." (Deuteronomy 23:2)
However, the verse is open to some degree of interpretation,[5] and as this is an Old Testament decree (unlike the previous reference in Matthew), the generational effects are usually not seen by Christians as applying under the New Covenant[6] where the emphasis of salvation shifts from countries and family lines to individuals, and is open to all who will believe. (Gal. 3:28; Eph. 2; Rev. 5:9)
In the extensive examination of the issue by Wesleyan holiness preacher L. S. Boardman, fornication is shown as not restricted to premarital sex, and he contends that "the words from Mark must be blended with Matthew's account to make the dialogue complete."[7]
Denominational positions
Most Protestant churches permit divorce, but encourage marriage counseling services or pastoral discussion first to save a marriage, saving divorce as a last resort. Sometimes the local pastor has exclusive authority over the marital business of his church, with only minimal policymaking from above. Most conservative Protestant denominations restrict divorce to one or two conditions, and allow remarriage in the case of the innocent victim. Liberal denominations tend to allow or advocate lesser restraints. Their position statements on such often lack substance.
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In the rather detailed statement by the General Council of the Assemblies of God it is stated,
- ...divorce is treachery (deceitful unfaithfulness) against one's companion. Jesus forbade divorce as contrary to God's will and word", though He "permitted a Christian to initiate a divorce when "marital unfaithfulness" was involved", with porneia being "a broad term for sexual immorality of various kinds, often habitual, both before and after marriage (Mark 7:21; Acts 15:20; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:18; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:3). In stating the exception, Matthew did not use moicheia, the Greek noun for adultery. (Jesus did differentiate between porneia and moicheia elsewhere [Matthew 15:19; Mark 7:21] and the verb moicheuō is used in Matthew 5:32;19:9 to describe the actions of the sinful party who forces the divorce without a valid cause.)
As regard remarriage, it holds that,
- This shows that a married person who divorces a sexually immoral spouse does not cause that spouse to commit adultery, since the offender is already guilty of adultery. Paul also included an exception on behalf of the innocent spouse. In cases where unbelieving spouses were unwilling to live with partners who had become believers, Paul advised, "If the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound [not "enslaved," douloō] in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace" (1Corinthians 7:15). "Not bound" is a strong expression that appears to mean the believer is set free. Therefore, the meaning seems to be that the believer is free to remarry.[8]
Christian and Missionary Alliance
The CMA perspective based on an Instructional Statement of The Christian and Missionary Alliance states (in part),
- Divorce is a departure from the purposes of God. Jesus explained that provisions for divorce in the Old Testament were an accommodation to the hardness of people's hearts and a necessary evil (Matt. 19:8; 19:6).
- While divorce is always contrary to God's intentions, it is permitted in certain circumstances. Jesus said in Matthew 5:32 and again in Matthew 19:9 that a person is not to divorce his or her spouse except for the cause of fornication. The Greek word used for "fornication" refers to habitual sexual immorality. It implies all kinds of immorality, including adultery, which desecrates the marriage relationship.
- When one partner of a divorce has become involved in adultery, the offended spouse is permitted—though not required—to get a divorce. If an unsaved husband or wife refuses to continue to live with his or her spouse and departs, the believer may agree to this separation (1 Corinthians 7:15). Such separations may result in divorce, and in that case the Christian is guilty of no wrong.
- When an adulterous relationship has brought about a divorce, the party who is innocent of adultery has a right to remarry (Matthew 5:32). The right to marry anyone guilty of adultery is denied and as well as to marry anyone who obtained divorce for the express purpose of remarriage (Mark 10:11–12).
- According to 1 Corinthians 7, remarriage on grounds of desertion alone is not permitted. When two unbelievers have been divorced and one is subsequently converted and neither has remarried, the Christian should attempt to restore the marriage. If the non-Christian refuses, this makes the marriage the same as the kind described in 1 Corinthians 7:15.
- If a person is divorced on other than the above scriptural grounds and his or her former partner remarries, that partner by remarrying has, according to scriptural standards (Matt. 5:32 and 19:9), committed adultery and has dissolved the original relationship.
- Persons who remarry after being divorced on other than scriptural grounds are guilty of adultery (Matthew 5:32). A Christian clergyman should not perform such marriages.[9]
Evangelical Lutheran
In a non-binding, declaration, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, without providing clear criteria states,
- If after careful consideration the marriage relationship is deemed beyond repair, and the effects of continuing the marriage to be more destructive of the welfare or persons than divorce, the decision for divorce may be recognized as a responsible choice, the lesser of several evils in a fallen world....Remarriage of divorced persons is neither forbidden nor automatically endorsed by The American Lutheran Church.[10]
In Common Convictions, adopted by the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on November 9, 1996, the section on "The ending of a marriage" ambiguously states,
- In some situations, however, divorce may be the better option.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church Position Paper on Divorce & Remarriage (adopted at the 15th General Assembly, June 1995) states that,
- ...marriage is a sworn fidelity, whereby God joins a man and a woman in life-long companionship. Nevertheless, divorce is permitted only in circumstances of grave repudiation of the marriage covenant, namely adultery and willful, irremediable desertion.
- Adultery is a radical breach of marital fidelity, violating the commitment of exclusive conjugal love...Christ's teaching is that if a divorce takes place on any other grounds than that of marital unfaithfulness, it can have no sanction from God, and any new marriage which follows is an adulterous act, since from God's standpoint the original couple is still married to each other. Matthew 19:9 indicates that a valid divorce (on the grounds of marital unfaithfulness) entails the right to remarry...
- Desertion is the destruction of the marriage which the Christian spouse was unable to prevent. The believer in such a case is not bound (that is, he or she is free to divorce and remarry); for Paul says, "God has called us to live in peace." (1 Cor. 7:15)[11]
Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod
The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod states that
- While divorce can be justified Scripturally in certain situations (e.g., adultery or desertion), it is always preferable for couples to forgive and work toward healing and strengthening their marriage.
In the 1987 study, Divorce and Remarriage: An Exegetical Study", it is stated,
- A person who divorces his/her spouse for any other cause than sexual unfaithfulness and marries another commits adultery. have no prohibition on divorce.[12]
Mennonite founder Menno Simons (ca. 1496-1561) clarified the Anabaptist position on divorce, based directly on the words of Christ and of the Apostle Paul, with adultery being the only acceptable ground for divorce.
- And also, that the bond of undefiled, honorable matrimony is so unchangeably bound in the kingdom and government of Christ that neither a man nor a woman can forsake one the other, and take another, understand rightly what Christ says, except it be for fornication, Matthew 19:9.Divorce has not permitted among the Anabaptists and Mennonites from the earliest times to the mid-20th century except for the cause of adultery, in accordance with the Biblical standard as found in Matthew 19:9, although separation (either legal or privately arranged) was generally allowed.
The Wismar Resolutions of 1554, (as quoted in Mennonitisches Lexikon I, 530) stated:
- Adultery on the part of one member breaks the marriage relationship. However, the responsible party may return to re-establish the relationship provided he (or she) gives evidence of due repentance and a changed life. In cases of deliberate adultery, the innocent party may be free to remarry after consulting with the congregation." The position taken by the Hutterian Brethren was ". . . that nothing can break the marriage bond except adultery. In cases where a man is married to an unbelieving woman, and she desires to live with him, he may not divorce her (nor vice versa). If the unbelieving husband threatens her faith or hinders the training of the children in the faith, she may divorce her husband, but must not remarry so long as that man is living.[13]
However, the statement of position and policy adopted on June 24, 1983, by the Southeastern Mennonite Conference, states
- Scripturally, there is nothing which breaks the marriage bond except death. The act of adultery does not dissolve the marriage bond, although it decidedly affects the quality of a marriage relationship and leaves a permanent scar on the persons involved. A legal document called divorce, from God's point of view, does not break the marriage bond, else remarriage would not be adultery. Even the conversion of one of two unbelieving married partners does not dissolve the marriage bond. If the unbelieving partner should leave, the marriage bond continues.[14]
Orthodox Church in America
The OCA takes a liberal position on divorce, as stated in the Q+A section of its official web site:
- Regarding divorce, the Orthodox follow Christ in recognizing it as a tragedy and a lack of fulfillment of marriage as the reflection of divine love in the world. The Church teaches the uniqueness of marriage, if it will be perfect, and is opposed to divorce absolutely.
- If, however, a marriage breaks down and collapses, the Orthodox Church does in fact allow a second marriage, without excommunication, that is, exclusion from Holy Communion, if there is repentance and a good chance that the new alliance can be Christian.
- More than one marriage in any case, however, is frowned upon. It is not allowed to the clergy, and the service of second marriage for laymen is a special rite different from the sacrament as originally celebrated.[15]
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
In 1992 the Presbyterian church stated in Minutes of the General Assembly" (p. 62) that divorce was allowed under Biblical grounds.
Reformed Church in America
Reformed Church in America stated [1] that
- God's intention for marriage is permanency. Divorce involves sin. There are only two permissible grounds for divorce: adultery, based on the exceptive clause in Matthew 19:9, and desertion of the believing spouse by the unbeliever, based upon the so-called "Pauline Privilege" in I Corinthians 7:15.[16]
Roman Catholicism
In ancient time Roman Catholics could possibly obtain divorces for either of the two traditional reasons,[17] Later Canon law does not admit divorce. The Catholic Church has a process of annulment based on the non-fulfilment of any of the religious marriage requirements, such as individual freedom or a previous unmarried state. In addition, various other conditions are recognized as possible grounds for annulment. Technically, an annulment is not a divorce but a declaration that a valid marriage never took place. Current available statistics show 53,885 annulments were granted to Catholics in the United States[18] and 638,705 from 1984 to 705[meaning unclear], the large majority being for "defective consent", meaning deceit by one of the parties.[19] Other common grounds for annulment include "lack of due discretion" in choosing a spouse, "psychic incapacity" to fulfill marital obligations, "defect of form", referring to a marriage that was not performed in the Catholic Church, and "prior bond", meaning one of the partners was married to someone else at the time of the wedding.[20]
In the 2004 Presidential election season many devout Catholics were scandalized by Senator John Kerry, now married to his second wife, taking Holy Communion without having obtained an annulment. Some charge Catholicism with engaging in deception by using annulments to circumvent its prohibition on divorce,[21] while it is pointed out that the Bible considered people married even when joined under conditions which might quality as grounds for annulments.[22]
The current catechism states, in part,
- The remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse contravenes the plan and law of God as taught by Christ. They are not separated from the Church, but they cannot receive Eucharistic communion.[23]
Southern Baptist
Due to the autonomous nature of the Southern Baptist churches, the largest Protestant denomination, there is no universal policy within the Convention that addresses divorce, though consistent with their general conservatism, they are expected to be strict, as historically it was.[24][25] Domestic abuse is grounds for divorce[26]. One study showed that among Southern Baptists, the top five issues of concern were divorce (53 percent), negative influences from the media (38 percent), materialism (36 percent), absentee fathers (29 percent) and latch-key kids (23 percent).[27]
United Methodist
The United Methodist Church position [2] is that
- When marriage partners are estranged beyond reconciliation, the church recognizes divorce as regrettable, but also recognizes the right of divorced persons to remarry.[28]
United Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ holds [3] that
- Divorced and remarried persons are welcome to participate fully in the life of the church."[29]
Wesleyan Church
The Wesleyan Church states,
- The only scriptural grounds for considering divorce is the sexual sin of the spouse such as adultery, homosexual behavior, bestiality, or incest. Appropriate counseling to restore the relationship must always precede a consideration of divorce. To obtain a divorce on other than scriptural grounds is a sin against God and man. Such putting asunder of what God has joined is a direct and deliberate act of disobedience against both the Law and the Gospel. It separates one from God and subjects a member to Church discipline (5350; 5370). (Discipline 265:10; 410:6) Divorce, however sinful the act and however serious the consequences, is not unpardonable. A redeemed sinner or reclaimed backslider is "free" to marry "in the Lord" or to remain unmarried...[30]
Secular view
Divorce is the dissolution of a contract and laws vary from state to state.
No-fault divorce
In 1969, California became the first U.S. state to legalize no-fault divorce. Under the common unilateral divorce laws (also known as no-fault divorce), either party can demand and get a divorce at any time and for any reason with marital assets being split evenly (or "equitably", as in Texas; for example a woman who worked at home may get a larger share of the estate due to her being outside the workforce).
The "no-fault" provisions only apply in that allegations of fault cannot prohibit the divorce from being granted, but courts do consider allegations of fault when children are involved in regards to awarding of custody, and in some cases in the awarding of marital assets.
Atheism and divorce
See: Atheism and divorce
Divorce Rate
The United States has a divorce rate of 3.6 per 1,000 as of 2005.[31] This results in a 41% failure rate for first marriages.[32]
In times past, the divorce rate was statistically much lower. Divorce affects more than the spouses; it also causes pain for any children from the marriage where the non-custodial parent is often seen less often or in some cases not at all. It is common for children to blame themselves for the divorce. Relationship difficulties for the children are especially common into later life if either of the parents is poisoning the relationship with the children for the other by making negative comments to the kids.
According to a Barna Group study from 1999 with a sample size of 3854, the percentage of atheists getting divorced was lower than that for Christians or Jews[33]
However, a follow up study in 2001 that looked into cohabitation trends found that Christians weren't cohabitating in the same proportions as non-Christians and that was affecting the results from the 1999 study. Checking for born again Christians specifically, it was found that 80% of born again Christians were or had been married compared to 69% for all other groups. When this was adjusted for, it gave born again Christians a slightly lower divorce rate than the general population. The difference is within the margin of error.[34]
In addition, The Barna Group has traditionally used nine doctrinal questions to categorize people as evangelicals, which distinguishes them from those who only fit the category of "born again" Christians. Using this criteria, just 8% of the adult population in 2006 were considered evangelical.[35]
Another Barna study in 2004 looking only at people who had married and their rate of divorce (sample size of 3,614) found that there was no difference in divorce rate between born again Christians and other Christians and that Christians on a whole had a slightly lower percentage of divorce when compared to atheists and agnostics. The difference is within the margin of error.[36]
A later study in 2008 revealed that while 78% of adult Americans have been married at least once, the percentage of born again Christians who married was 84%. Among atheists and agnostics that percentage was 65%, and 74% for those aligned with non-Christian faiths.
The study also showed that 33% of all adult Americans have experienced at least one divorce. The greatest disparity related to income, with the divorce rate among "downscale adults" being 39%, versus 22% for "upscale adults." As relates to ideological differences, the lowest likelihood of having been divorced after marriage was among evangelicals (26%), and Catholics (28%). The percentage among atheists was 30%, and 37% for people who consider themselves to be liberal on social and political issues. Among "born again" adults the divorce rate was identical to that of the national average of 33%. The study did not determine whether a divorce occurred prior to the person becoming become born again, though previous research indicated that applied to 20% of people in this class.[37]
Among those churches (e.g., Anabaptist and Conservative Holiness) that recognize no alleged Scriptural exceptions for divorce (and thus prohibit remarriage), the divorce rate is much lower. Among the Mennonites and Amish it is 0.3%.
The Barna study from 2004 also found that there was a large difference in divorce rates between baby boomers and the generations before, with the boomers having a much higher rate of marital failure. It is estimated that the boomers may pass a 50% rate of divorce. The generation after the boomers, the baby busters, appears to be heading to a similar rate of marital failure as the boomers based on early data.[38]
In the US, divorce rates vary substantially among the states. According to a Wall Street Journal article,[39] the states with the lowest rate of divorce in 2009 were Massachusetts (1.8 divorces per 1,000 people), the District of Columbia (2.1), Pennsylvania (2.3), Iowa (2.5), and New York (2.5). Those states with the highest divorce rates were Idaho (5.0), West Virginia (5.0), Wyoming (5.2), Arkansas (5.6), and Nevada (6.6).
Lowering the divorce rate
Alarmed at high rates of divorce within the Christian community, the Family Research Council tried to reverse that trend. They found that 85 percent of Christian couples either had no premarital counseling or only met once with their pastor. Considering this to be unacceptable, they put together programs that require a minimum of 4 months premarital preparation including the taking of a premarital inventory and meeting with mentor couples. This caused divorce rates to drop by 30% to 50% for those couples who adhered to the program.[40]
Covenant Marriage
In order to help solve the social problems created by inordinately high divorce rates, some states have begun passing laws enabling covenant marriages. A covenant marriage in some cases is harder to obtain than a default lawful marriage license and also is more difficult to break (the common exceptions being violence, abandonment or adultery).[41]
- ↑ Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible; Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible; John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible on Mt. 5:32; 19:9
- ↑ Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown
- ↑ Ibid. Boardman
- ↑ Religion: Ground for Divorce; Time magazine, Monday, May. 23, 192
- ↑ According to the Talmud and the Rabbins, this refers to those who were begotten in incest or adultery (cf. Ges. thes. p. 781), and is seen by Maimonides and Matthew Henry as being for deterrent effect, while Jephthah (Judges 11:1) seems to be an exception to this, as Ruth is in the next verse. See John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. And as Henry notes, interpreters also are not agreed what is here meant by "entering into the congregation of the Lord."
- ↑ Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible, Dt. 23:2
- ↑ DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE UNDER GOD By L. S. Boardman The Problem of Divorce and Remarriage Scripturally Examined in the Light of the Original Text
- ↑ AG Position Papers: Divorce and Remarriage Application of Biblical Principles
- ↑ Divorce and Remarriage
- ↑ Teachings and Practice on Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage. A Social Statement of the American Lutheran Church, a predecessor church body of the ELCA (1982)
- ↑ Position Paper on Divorce & Remarriage
- ↑ How is divorce viewed in the LCMS?
- ↑ The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) "Divorce and Remarriage
- ↑ Statement of Position on Divorce and Remarriage
- ↑ The Orthodox Church in America: Divorce, Birth Control, Abortion
- ↑ Understanding Protestant Churches of North America (2003) by Shelly Steig,
- ↑ Dissolution and annulment of marriage by the Catholic Church, by Eileen F. Stuart, p. 82
- ↑ Vatican's 2004 Statistical Yearbook of the Church
- ↑ What God has joined together, pp. 25,26, by Robert H. Vasoli
- ↑ John T. Catoir, J.C.D., "Understanding Annulments," St. Anthony Messenger, 1998; http://www.twopaths.com/faq_marriage.htm
- ↑ Catholic Divorce: The Deception of Annulments, Pierre Hegy, Joseph Martos (Editors)
- ↑ Papal Presumption
- ↑ Catechism of the Catholic Church, (c) 1994, 1997; #1665
- ↑ Divorce, annulments, and the Catholic Church, by Richard J. Jenks, Craig A Everett p. 29
- ↑ http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=441
- ↑ https://www.baptiststandard.com/opinion/voices/abuse-is-biblical-grounds-for-divorce/
- ↑ Divorce, Media & Materialism Top List of Threats to Family
- ↑ Ibid. Steig
- ↑ Ibid. Steig
- ↑ Standing Firm 10-17-01
- ↑ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_20.pdf
- ↑ http://www.divorcerate.org/
- ↑ http://www.adherents.com/largecom/baptist_divorce.html
- ↑ http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=95
- ↑ Survey Explores Who Qualifies As an Evangelical, 2007, The Barna Group
- ↑ http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=170
- ↑ New Marriage and Divorce Statistics Released, March 31, 2008, The Barna Group
- ↑ http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=170
- ↑ http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_DIVORCE_20100813.html
- ↑ Southern California Christian Times, Feb 2000, Pg 14
- ↑ http://marriage.about.com/cs/covenantmarriage/a/covenant.htm


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It is the most commonly asked question – what DOES the service charge include? It doesn't always mean servers, which we know can be confusing. Most catering companies (and venues) have a lot of odds and ends that cost them money to make your event happen, and in turn, will apply a percentage to your event in order to cover those costs. In lieu of sending you a 4-page breakdown of every single item they are charging you for, the end result is the service charge line on your invoice. Typically this percentage ranges between 18–20% for offsite catering, and 21–23% for exclusive catering at a venue.
Your service charge includes the following:
- Serving Items
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- Behind the Scenes Staff
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NORTHWOOD — One is left to wonder what kind of cross country season Hannah Parker would have had in 2012 had she been healthy.
The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy sophomore battled a stomach virus most of the season, and yet still played a vital role in leading the Bears to a third straight Division II title, second consecutive Meet of Champions crown and second at the New England championships — the best cross country season in school history.
Coe-Brown was also fourth at the Nike Cross Northeast regional in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
Parker, who won the school's first D-II individual championship in late October, has been named Foster's girls cross country runner of the year for the second straight time.
"That girl, I have just been in awe of her ability to compete when she's not at her best," said co-coach Brent Tkaczyk. "She somehow has the ability to regroup, no matter what and finish stronger than the people around her. It's a pretty special thing that she has."
Parker won the D-II race at Derryfield Park in Manchester, highlighting a dominating team performance by the Bears in which they scored 25 points to 97 for second-place Hanover.
"At the top of the hill, I knew she was going to do it," said co-coach Tim Cox. "She had that look. It was a mile and a half in and she wasn't going to be denied, no matter how fast she had to run that day."
That race on that day solidified in her coaches' minds the runner of the year award. Her efforts that followed also played a role in why they thought she deserved the award, although for different reasons.
If Parker was not at 100 percent in Manchester, she was even less so the following Saturday at the MOC in Nashua.
"I felt like it was all a haze," Parker said. "I was kind of out of it. My legs just weren't working anymore. All I thought was I need to finish this race. I couldn't drop out. I just had to finish the race. That was my goal."
Parker said freshman teammate Elisabeth Danis, who ran fourth in the MOC, played in integral role in helping her to finish.
"She was with me the whole first mile," Parker said. "She really helped me through it and I really appreciated it. That's one of the main parts of the team that I love because we're all together as one."
Parker finished a pedestrian 13th at the MOC, where again Coe-Brown won in convincing fashion with 66 points to 109 for second-place Londonderry.
"The Meet of Champions was survival," Tkaczyk said. "She had no choice. We weren't going to run the race at full tilt."
Parker still wasn't herself, so she went to a doctor and found she had bacteria in her stomach.
"It made my stomach feel so awful when I ran," Parker said. "I didn't feel it during the race, but after the race I felt ill."
Now that what was wrong with her had been pinpointed, Parker breathed a little easier as she took antibiotics to battle the bacteria.
"It was definitely discouraging," Parker said of the whole stomach virus affair. "But I knew the girls on my team were great runners and even though I worried about how I was feeling and they worried about how I was feeling, I knew they would give it their all, too."
Indeed, Parker's teammates had her back. There were the three freshmen (Danis, Laskowsky and Meg Scannell), classmate Katie Scannell, junior Jessie Carney and senior Katelyn Terry.
Parker was starting to feel better, but her coaches knew she still would not be at 100 percent for the New Englands at a wet and muddy course in Cumberland, Maine. There certainly was no way she could run at the pace she was accustomed to.
"New Englands was one of her most heroic efforts," Cox said. "Brent and I are sitting there thinking should we even run her. Once we got the diagnosis we felt good about running her. We just had to be careful with hydration."
So Cox and Tkaczyk devised a strategy that used Parker as the No. 3 runner to pull the fourth and fifth runners with her, while Danis and Laskowsky went out as the top two runners.
The strategy became even more complex when the Bears were given a poor box or lane position.
"She is the tallest kid on the team, so we had her block and plow through to get the little freshman out (at the start)," Cox said. "And then to come off that and run as third girl. Believe it or not, that's an intricate race plan for a race of that level. For her to pull that off to perfection and feel good when she finished, that was a great moment."
Parker was 43rd overall, while Danis was 17th and Laskowsky was 37th. CBNA was a solid second to Barrington, R.I., 75 to 132.
Cox added, "Without her we're not second. We're fourth, fifth or sixth and our season is probably over and we don't go to the Nike regional where we had a great experience."
Parker admitted she felt pretty good.
"I liked the course," she said. "There was a lot of mud, but it was the first race I actually felt normal, since the beginning of the season. I was really happy that I ran the best that I could and I was feeling really great, too."
She added with a laugh, "I was standing up at the end."
Cox and Tkaczyk both agree that Parker has evolved in the team's emotional leader.
"She's the emotional pulse of the team," Cox added. "She just wants to compete and that's really refreshing."


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Have you ever been taken in by a spambot online? Perhaps chatted with a disembodied presence, thinking it was a real person and coming dangerously close to giving away personal info? If so, then you've helped to develop sex robots.
The kind of crude artificial intelligence that exists in something like the Slutbot, according to Peter Nowak, author of the new book Sex, Bombs and Burgers:
The Slutbot, also known as "CyberLover," ... made the rounds on dating websites in 2007. The "flirting robot" was a piece of software developed by Russian hackers that could establish relationships online with ten different people in just thirty minutes. The program, which could be configured into several versions ranging from "romantic lover" to "sexual predator," could carry on full conversations and convince people to reveal personal information by asking questions like, "Where can I send you a Valentine's Day card?" or "What's your date of birth? I'm planning a surprise for your birthday."
Security specialists said the artificial intelligence built into the software was good enough that victims had a tough time distinguishing the bot from a real suitor. "As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering," one security analyst said. "Internet users today are generally aware of the dangers of opening suspicious attachments and visiting URLs, but CyberLover employs a new technique that is unheard of. That's what makes it particularly dangerous. It has been designed as a robot that lures victims automatically without human intervention."
Combine the Slutbot's software with hardware like the Real Doll, haptic technology, teledildonics and other recent breakthroughs, and you might have the makings of a real sex robot, Nowak argues. We could be just a year or two away from real sex robots coming on the market — and consumers will be crazy for them, he claims. As one roboticist tells Nowak: "People are willing to have sex with inflatable dolls, so initially anything that moves will be an improvement."
The Toronto Globe & Mail is running a series of excerpts from Nowak's new book about robots, and it's pretty fascinating stuff. [The Globe And Mail]


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