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Archive - May 3, 2013
Went in to see how Aunt Olive was doing today and she was in fine form. In fact, her pain didn't even come up until I offered to get her heat pack re-heated. After wanting nothing more than to die two days ago, Olive's focus was once again on the future. She wants to go to Detroit Lakes to see one of her students. She wants to write her memoirs. She wants to sort out all her pictures. Oh, man, so much to do!
Painkillers can do wonders.
Olla's resilience is something to behold. It is always inspiring. Her only real problem is short-term memory and the ability to come up with names. That frustrates her. But otherwise, her memory for what happened yesterday is just fine.
Olive was searching her extensive past for the source of her present back pain, and she finally settled on the time she lifted the Model T out of the ditch. I hadn't heard that one before. Olive said she hadn't told anybody before. Then she started telling other tales of events 60-85 years ago which might have hurt her back. They were familiar tales with a new twist, like the time she insisted Mama bring her a ring when Mama went to town for provisions. Mama, despite the family's poverty, came back with a ring, probably of the Cracker Jack box sort. That part of the story was familiar. Only this time, as Olive told it today, she was so eager to get her new ring that she fell down the stairs and fell flat on her back. "Nobody even batted an eye," she said. The fall could have been the source of her present pain.
Or, maybe not.
In the past few days, several of Olive's staple stories have been altered to include an ending which has her flat on her back, probably injuring herself in a way which has now come back to haunt her, 85 years later. Skiing accidents. Skating accidents. Lifting cars. Falling down stairs.
And then there are the nightly strokes. She has had so many that "the blood vessels are just hanging loose in there," Olla claims.
Finally, Aunt Olla asked, "have you seen my wedding picture?" I had, but she had taken it down because she didn't want to gloat. So, it was in the drawer. And there were two copies. So I took one, the picture above. It is of boyfriend Bunny, 52, and Aunt Olive, 101. They aren't legally married, just dating, but Olive's memory is ambiguous, so she says, "I am really not sure what is going on with it all." But she thinks the world of Bunny and is convinced that he chose her because she's the only one in the Hilton who 1) talks to him on the pontoon rides he provides Hilton residents each summer and 2) doesn't have gray hair. "I really have no competition," she said. "The others don't even talk to him. And they're all gray."
I would say they look like a happy couple.


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Iraqi's election will test many fronts and even after the results are in, it will be long journey for the war-torn country to create a functioning government, U.S. troops say.
"We need more encouragement and patience for these people who started with a larger handicap than our forefathers," said Mary Neason, a helicopter pilot from Hewitt, Texas, who flew security missions in Baghdad last year.
Msnbc.com reached out to U.S. military personnel who are serving in or have returned from Iraq to share their views on the region. Many of the readers in uniform who responded said they have taken a wait-and-see stance on the potential of Iraq's election and its aftermath.
Not even American soldiers agreed on whether U.S. troops should stay or go, despite the Obama administration's vow to pull out most American forces after the vote, leaving only 50,000 soldiers behind. Obama's plan calls for all American soldiers in Iraq to return home by 2011.
A few readers were not sure that would work.
"We need to stay there and continue to assist them in forming their democratic government," said Mike Boger of Oakboro, N.C., who says he helped train Iraqi police forces from 2005 to 2007. "If we pull out, they will fade back into their past and never become a modern nation."
Nick Moore, an Army specialist who served in Iraq in 2005, wasn't as sanguine.
"It's a lose, lose situation," said Moore, who said he is now training in Grand Rapids, Mich., for deployment to Afghanistan. "At this point we're not doing anything but holding the hand of a country that does not want our help. The only way things will ever move forward in Iraq is if we leave."
'So many small victories'
Neason had high hopes for Iraq.
"There are always disappointments," explained Neason, who said she piloted security missions in Baghdad as an Army warrant officer. "However, in our imperfections we as Americans have provided the means for Iraqi children to question an evil 'norm' in a society that previously gave them no voice."
She said the election offered Iraqis a chance to find peace and prosperity after years of dictatorship, conflict and sectarian strife. She said the U.S.-led occupation helped usher in a new age for Iraqis.
"So many small victories, accomplishments and impossibilities that never make the evening news have changed the course of thousands of lives toward a direction of opportunities not offered to the Iraqi people in over 50 years," she said.
Sgt. Patrick Jennings of Massachusetts was less optimistic.
"I served twice in Iraq, first during the invasion in 2003 and again during the 'deadliest year' of 2006," said Jennings. "In late 2005, I was witness to the first Iraqi election and was proud to see the people standing up for their own land. That, however, should not be taken to assume I believe Iraq is a place greatly improved or internally willing to improve."
Dozens of servicemembers weighed in. Continue on to the next page for more responses:
I am currently deployed to Iraq. I have been here about 5 months now. I work closely with the Iraqi Army medics. We have training with them weekly. We share meals, stories of our children, and stories of their lives before and after the war. I am amazed to hear that their lives are better than they were before. They drive home without fear of being stopped by the police and arrested. They no longer have to search the Tigris River for loved ones who defied the government. The people of Iraq are resilient, loyal and deeply spiritual people. I see their hopes in the eyes of the children I meet on the streets. I see the pain of living in war in the elderly as they walk to market. And I see the determination to make their country great in their soldiers who sacrifice like we do. — David Branshaw, Chandler, Ariz.
I was in Iraq in 2005 and there for the first election that took place. Security in the country was non-existent. The government was not doing much during that time period because the U.S. forces were doing everything. I went back to Iraq in 2007 and the security had improved, but still needed improvement. ... The Iraqi government had not made much progress providing the basic needs of the people. I was back in Iraq in 2008-2009 embedded with the Iraqi National Police. ... Unemployment is one of the main reasons for problems in Iraq. I think the Iraqi government has improved a little since 2005, but still has a long way to go before they can truly become a government for the people. — R. Lucero, Roosevelt, Utah.
If the elections go off without a hitch, Iraqis should trust in their security forces more, and it should de-legitimize a lot of the insurgency out there. — Sgt. Kevin Reed, 1st Engineer Battalion, stationed in Tikrit, Afghanistan.
Nothing will change after the election. You have too many people over there who want to be in control. After thousands of years living the way they have, we can't just walk in and expect democracy to work after only seven years. Above all that, you'll still have jihadists who are willing to blow themselves up for their cause. ... The only lesson I learned from being in Baghdad is to not take life here for granted. After seeing how they have to live day to day, the little inconveniences here in the U.S., which used to bother me, no longer do. I challenge any American who complains about our government and economy to go live in Iraq for a year. We'll see how much they complain after. — Nolan Meadnis, Garden Grove, Calif.
I recently returned from Iraq in July 2009. I think the Iraqi people have come as far as they are going to with our influence. From here out, I think it is up to them if they want the changes or not. ... We need to realize that this is the time to get out. I do believe there has been drastic changes in the last year or so and the Iraqi people are starting to build confidence in their government and their military. ... I have faith in their country and want to see them succeed. — Specialist Patrick Umphries of Alfred, N.Y.
From October '08 to October '09 I was in the Baghdad area as a heavy equipment transporter system operator. ... Are we pulling out of there, yes. But will it stay calmed down, I think not. We can't stop something that has been going on for over 2,000 years. — Michael Miner, Fort Hood, Texas.

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text: Insects hold at least 13 titles in the Guinness Book of World Records. They also have their own tome of distinctions titled The Book of Insect Records, and its contents are a wealth of awesomeness. Entomologists at the University of Florida scoured the literature to come up with insects that were the fastest, largest, longest, loudest and brightest. They also selected more unusual champions: best imitator, least specific vertebrate bloodsucker and most spectacular mating. We've selected our favorites from among 40 categories, along with some of the Guinness honorees. Read on to find out who's who among six-legged bugs. Above: Highest Jumper The insect world championship title for high jump belongs to the 0.2-inch long froghopper, a common agricultural pest. Some species can jump as high as 28 inches. Image: Kaldari / Wikimedia Commons.Loudest The African cicada wins the the William Hung Prize for loudest, and consequently most annoying bugger. Entomologist John Petti, who selected the champion, limited the contenders to insects humans could hear. Male African cicadas produce alarm calls and calling songs with an intensity of about 110 decibels from 20 inches away. By comparison, a jet flying at about 1,000 feet buzzes at just over 100 decibels and live rock music at about 110 decibels. Males use their tymbal muscles to sing. When they contract and expand these chitinous structures, the muscles click, and the sound amplifies as it travels through the body. Males usually sing together, producing a very loud, often deafening, chorus. Bigger males tend to have louder calls, giving them a competitive advantage with the ladies and in fending off predators (by annoying them). Challengers included the bladder grasshopper and the European mole cricket, which make sounds of nearly 100 decibels at a distance of 20 inches. Image: Annual cicada, Bruce Marlin / Wikimedia Commons.Longest Get out your yardsticks! A 12-inch ruler won't be enough to measure the longest insects in the world, the walking sticks (order Phasmida). There are more than 3,000 species of these twiggy insects, and among them, a nearly 21.9-inch West Malaysian female Pharnacia serratipes wins for longest body length. She dethroned the previous record holder, a 21.5-inch Pharnacia kirbyi, who'd held the title for almost a century. In case you're wondering what the longest centipede is, that title belongs to the Peruvian giant yellowleg, which feeds on mice, lizards, frogs and bats. But don't try to measure them; they may bite and their venom is toxic to humans. Images: Top: Pharnacia serratipes stick insect, Wikipedia. Right: The stick insect Ctenomorpha chronus, Wikimedia Commons. Bottom: Peruvian giant yellowleg, Katka Nemcokova / Wikimedia Commons.Largest and Smallest The tiniest adult insects are male fairyflies, tiny parasitic wasps from Costa Rica. Females are 40 percent bigger than males, which measure up to about 1/200 of an inch (0.14 mm) in length and are blind and wingless. On the other side of the spectrum, five giant scarabs share the title of largest bug. These hulky beetles are each more than 4 inches long and weigh between 2.5 and 3.5 ounces, roughly the equivalent of a McDonald's hamburger. Also of note is the giant weta bug, which weighs about 2.5 ounces, and has been said to be large enough to eat a carrot. Nom nom. Images: Top: From top left: Titan beetle, Goliath beetle, rhinoceros beetle, Goliath beetle, Elephant beetle, Wikimedia Commons. Right: Female fairyfly, George Poinar Jr / John T. Huber / Wikimedia Commons.Brightest Insects shine bright to attract mates. And the one that exudes the most light, according to The Book of Insect Records, is the cucujo or Jamaican click beetle, which lives in Central and South America. The roughly 1-inch long insect has two headlights that glow neon green continuously, unlike the more famous firefly which flickers. Watch the bioluminescent beetle in action: http://www.youtube.com/embed/GVne6DCjEZw Image: Wikimedia Commons.Fastest Flyers Zoom! The gold medal in speed flying goes to desert locusts, which can fly at about 21 mph. The corn earworm moths came in close second at 17 mph. (Airspeed, not to be confused with ground speed, is the speed relative to air, which may also be moving.) A second runner-up was not identified. But fans of other speedy flyers, like the deer botfly, shouldn't despair. These records may molt away: "Many insects surely fly faster, but their airspeeds have yet to be studied with modern methods," wrote T.J. Dean in the Book of Insect Records. Scientists use multiple methods to measure how fast insects fly, including stopwatches, wind tunnels, flight mills, cameras, Doppler radar, thermal imaging and radio frequency identification. Comparing results acquired using different measuring tools is difficult. Plus, insect airspeed is also sensitive to just about anything: an insect's mass, size, age, gender, how much food and water it's had, ambient temperature, humidity, solar radiation, wind, oxygen levels, whether it lives in the wild or in a lab, and the angle at which it's flying. Until all flying insects are measured under the same conditions, there may not be a definitive winner. Images: Top: Desert locust, Christiaan Kooyman / Wikimedia Commons. Right: Earworm moth, Wikimedia Commons.Bloodiest The Dracula Prize goes to Glossina palpalis tsetse flies, which were also in the running for the Fewest Kids in a Lifetime Prize. These bloodsuckers live in African forests and are a tremendous public health concern. They are difficult to manage and are the primary carriers of human African sleeping sickness, a central nervous system infection, prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. They feed feed on mammals, reptiles and birds. They don't bother to identify their hosts by smell, as other insects do. When they see a potential victim, they go right in for the blood draw. The Hyalomma asiaticium tick won the Blood Glutton Prize. It can suck up three-tenths of an ounce of blood, the equivalent of about a third of a small shot of tequila. Image: Tsetse have a distinct proboscis, a long thin structure attached to the bottom of the head and pointing forward. They use these to feed. Wikimedia Commons.Best Costume Design Two insects shared the Stevie Nicks Award for most molts, when they shed and replace their exoskeleton. Molting occurs periodically to allow insects to grow. To be fair to insects young and old, which grow at different rates, entomologist B.R. Sojack selected a winner in both categories. Among young insects, the mayfly wins with 45 costume changes. Among adults and immature critters, the firebrat takes home the prize with 60 molts. Image: Wikimedia Commons.Best Dad The male burying beetle wins for Most Progressive Male. Other bugs, like wood roaches and some bark and dung beetles, also help their ladies out with the kids: by providing protection, helping to gather food, building the nest and rearing young. But only male burying beetles share are all parenting duties with the mom. And if the female defects, the single dad will pick up the slack. Image: Wikimedia Commons.Most Spectacular Mating The Baum Chicka Baum Baum Award goes to common honey bees. Their mating ritual, which occurs 50 to 100 feet off the ground, is like a sexual kamikaze mission. A horde of drones waits for the queen, and once they spot her, it's an outright race to the finish. "[The] 'comet' of drones pursues the female, with the winner forfeiting a portion of his phallus at the end of coitus and dying soon thereafter," wrote entomologist Doug Sieglaff in The Book of Insect Records. The queen usually mates seven to 10 times because she only gets about one-eighth to one-ninth her fill from each lover drone. She then mixes their sperm to make sure her kids are as genetically diverse as possible. The poor drone, on the other hand, only has one chance to get it right. Who can top that? Image: Louise Docker / Wikimedia Commons.Least and Most (re)Productive The race was tight among insects vying for the Fewest Kids in a Lifetime prize. The contenders included tsetse flies, with six to 12 larvae; solitary bees, with two to six; and poop- and carrion-dwelling scarabaeid beetles, with about six. To increase survival, beetle parents shield each egg in a dung ball covered in clay. But top honors went to louse flies, which have about five larvae. Each develops inside the uterus until it's almost ready to pupate, the stage where insects go through metamorphosis. Females produce only one egg at a time because their investment in each baby tsetse is so great. Live birth in these flies "is thus analogous to giving birth to teenagers," wrote Bianca Cecilie Nygård in The Book of Insect Records. Genghis Khan Trophies for highest fecundity were awarded in two categories: social and non-social insects. African driver ants win among social critters, those that form social networks like ants and bees. Their queen lays three to four million eggs every 25 days. How can she care for so many kids? She doesn't. That responsibility falls to her minion ants. Her main responsibility is pumping out eggs, a task she does quite well. In the non-social bug category, the Australian ghost moths capture top prize. One female from Adelaide, Australia laid more than 29,000 eggs. These moths are fly-by egg layers. Mid flight, they drop their eggs near gumtrees and hope for the best. Because they don't take care of their young, there's a very high death rate among baby moths. Images: Top: African driver ant, April Nobile / Antweb.org / Wikimedia Commons. Right: Australian ghost moth, Dhobern / Wikimedia Commons.Best Actor Swallowtail butterflies are the most spectacular imitators among insects. Female Papilio dardanus can mimic other species of butterflies in more than 30 different ways, and not just in the way they look. The copying can extend to the way they taste and smell. Image: Forehand Jay / Wikimedia Commons.


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text: NEWS Barbra Streisand Feted By Famous Friends at Chaplin Award Gala 4/23/2013 by Jocelyn Noveck FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Kris Kristofferson, Marty Erlichman, Richard Jay-Alexander, Kenneth Bowser, Amy Irving, Barbra Streisand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Hillary Clinton, Tony Bennett, Bill Clinton, Michael Douglas, Blythe Danner, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Stiller (Getty Images) Yes, that's Bill Clinton standing next to 007 "Ever since I can remember," Barbra Streisand told a crowd at Lincoln Center Monday night, "people have been calling me bossy and opinionated." She continued: "Maybe that's because I am. Three cheers for bossy women!" The crowd roared. Of course, the crowd — which included the singer's friends, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, was roaring at pretty much anything connected to her all evening, as the legend of song and screen was honored for her film career with the 40th annual Chaplin Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The Streisand fans especially loved the film highlights, which covered everything from "Funny Girl" and "The Way We Were" to "The Owl and the Pussycat," "What's Up, Doc?" and "Meet the Fockers." And then there was "Yentl" — the first Hollywood movie to be directed, produced, written and starred in by a woman, as the crowd was reminded. Streisand spoke of how hard it was to get funding to make the film. Producers, it seemed, weren't as passionate as she was about the tale of a Jewish girl in Eastern Europe who so longed to study the Talmud that she disguised herself as a boy. It was only when Streisand agreed to turn the movie into a musical — and most importantly, sing in it herself — that she was able to go ahead with the project. It's funny how things always come back to music. How it saves me. Streisand, who turns 71 this week, is one of the few entertainers to have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards. Although she is perhaps most loved for her beautiful singing voice, she told the audience that as a young child, what she wanted most was to be an actress. But nobody really wanted "a 15-year-old Medea," she noted. "Thank God I was given a good voice," she said, explaining how her singing opened the doors to acting. Not that acting was so easy in the early going. At age 16, she recalled, she had to show in a scene that she was in love with a man. But she was not attracted to the actor, she said, so she placed a piece of chocolate cake nearby — so she could stare at that longingly, instead. For the awards gala, which raised $2 million for the film society — twice the previous high amount for the annual event — Streisand was serenaded by Wynton Marsalis on trumpet, by Liza Minnelli, and by Tony Bennett, who closed the show with the song, "Smile," fittingly a Charlie Chaplin song. Also appearing onstage to praise their friend and colleague were Michael Douglas, Catherine Deneuve (last year's honoree), Amy Irving, Blythe Danner, George Segal, Ben Stiller, Pierce Brosnan and Kris Kristofferson. In video clips, Robert Redford — her "The Way We Were" co-star — spoke of how he'd been warned before making the movie that Streisand was "a pain," but discovered that she was "totally engaging to act with, beautiful, thorough and skilled." And Omar Sharif, who played Nick Arnstein in "Funny Girl," gave perhaps the most moving video tribute, talking about how incredible it was that he, an Egyptian actor, played a New York Jew in the 1968 film, and how she had become such a good friend. "We used to go to the cinema together," Sharif said. "We paid for our tickets and sat there and watched." It was Bill Clinton, though, who got the last word — before Streisand, that is — praising the singer as driven, in the best way. "Every great person is driven," the former president said. "But if that person has massive talent, big brains and a bigger heart, you want to go along for the ride." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME


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The Plains
Late Hispanic Settlement
The New West
What We Bought
From the Missouri West
Summer Nights
Our Parents, Our Children
Los Angeles Spring
The Pawnee National Grassland
Along Some Rivers
The Pacific
Turning Back
Pine Valley
Alder Leaves
Sea Stories, This Day
Begins making half-models of boats and ships.
Publishes Beauty in Photography.
Continues to photograph in the Los Angeles basin.
"On the side of Reche Canyon, 3:00 pm; a cloudless day with no shadows; smog is so heavy that the cars below have their lights on.
Ahead of me, a rattlesnake, as thick as my forearm, warns me . . . which is how he got so old, I guess. We're each respectful, and lost."
"Discovered yesterday there are people living in cardboard boxes in the dry wash beneath the four-level San Bernardino interchange.
Imagine what it must be like there at night (I haven't the courage to go) with the trash and the little fires, the terrible noise,
the car lights sweeping out from the curves, out over the dark."
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Publishes an introductory essay in Daniel Wolf's The American Space: Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography:
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Friday, 7 June 2013
Some Queensland Certificates as Images
At the moment the Registry's Web site says:
* Births: 1825-1890 available as images or certificates; 1891-1913 available as certificates only.
* Deaths: 1825-1890 & 1965-1979 available as images or certificates; 1891-1964 & 1980-1983 as certificates only.
* Marriages: 1825-1889 as images or certificates; 1890-1938 as certificates only.
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It appears that the mother's name "bug" has returned to the Death records. Except this time, the reason is clear. the government giveth ... and taketh awayReplyDeleteReplies
Bob, I am under huge pressure at the moment so I haven't tested the new site thoroughly - but some death index entries are showing the mother's maiden name in full. For example, the entry for Annie Augusta STEINKE (my grandmother) shows her mother's maiden name as Emilie Albertine HOHN. (Actually it should be HAHN, not HOHN, but my point is that the name has not been truncated.) Have you ascertained whether the shortened names are only after a certain year?Delete
Thanks for alerting us to this Judy. I'm sorry to read on Bob McAllister's blog that some of the indexes no longer contain the same information though. The ability to download the certificates should be very useful though.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello Aillin. Some death index entries are still showing the mother's maiden name in full. (See my reply to Bob's comment above.) Perhaps the shortened names are only in a later time period? Right now I am dealing with various personal and domestic crises, and I don't have time to test that theory.Delete
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Let $S=\mathbb{C}[x_1,\dots,x_n]$ be a polynomial ring and $p_a=x_1^a+\cdots+x_n^a$ be a power sum symmetric polynomial in $S$. Let $n \geq 3$.
Question: To show $p_m,p_{2m}, \dots,p_{nm}$ forms a regular sequence in $\mathbb{C}[x_1,\dots,x_n]$ for any $m \in \mathbb{N}$. Or equivalently let $I=\langle p_m,p_{2m},\dots,p_{nm} \rangle$ denotes the ideal generated by $p_m,p_{2m},\dots,p_{nm}$. Let $R=S/I$. To show $R$ is a complete intersection.
Facts: It is shown by Conca, Krattenthaller and Watanabe that $p_m,p_{m+1},p_{m+2},p_{m+n-1}$ always forms a regular sequence in $S=\mathbb{C}[x_1,\dots,x_n]$. see http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2662.
My computer calculation suggests that $p_m,p_{2m},\dots,p_{nm}$ always forms a regular sequence in $\mathbb{C}[x_1,\dots,x_n]$. One may use Newtons identity of power sum to try, although I am unable to conclude.


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A sermon is an oration by a member of the clergy. Sermons address a Biblical, theological, religious, or moral topic, usually expounding on a type of belief, law or behavior within both past and present contexts. Elements of the sermon often include exposition, exhortation and practical application.
In Christianity, a sermon (also known as a homily within some churches) is usually delivered in a place of worship, most of which have a pulpit or ambo, an elevated architectural feature. The word "sermon" comes from a Middle English word which was derived from Old French, which in turn came from the Latin word sermō; ("discourse").
The word can mean "conversation", which could mean that early sermons were delivered in the form of question and answer, and that only later did it come to mean a monologue. However, the Bible contains many speeches without interlocution, which some take to be sermons: Moses in Deuteronomy 1-33 [1]; Jesus' sermon on the mount in Matthew 5-7 [2] (though the gospel writers do not call it a sermon; the popular descriptor came much later); Peter after Pentecost in Acts 2:14-40 [3] (though this speech was delivered to nonbelievers and as such is not quite parallel to the popular definition of a sermon).
In modern language, the word "sermon" can also be used pejoratively in secular terms to describe a lengthy or tedious speech delivered with great passion, by any person, to an uninterested audience. A sermonette is a short sermon (usually associated with television broadcasting, as stations would present a sermonette before signing off for the night).
Christian tradition
In Christianity, a sermon is typically identified as an address delivered to an assembly of Christians, typically containing theological/moral instruction, i.e. most Protestants will regard what their pastor "preaches" this Sunday at their Church gathering as a sermon.
The word "sermon" is used to describe many famous moments in Christian (and Jewish) history. The most famous example is the Sermon on the Mount by Jesus of Nazareth. This address was given around 30 AD[citation needed] and is recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (5:1–7:29, including introductory and concluding material) as being delivered on a mount on the north end of the Sea of Galilee, near Capernaum. It is also contained in some of the other gospel narratives.
During the later history of Christianity, several figures became known for their addresses that later became regarded as sermons. Examples in the early church include Peter (see especially Acts 2:14b–36), Stephen (see Acts 7:1b–53), Tertullian and John Chrysostom. These addresses were used to spread Christianity across Europe and Asia Minor, and as such are not sermons in the modern sense, but evangelistic messages.
During the Middle Ages, sermons inspired the beginnings of new religious institutes (e.g., Saint Dominic and Francis of Assisi). Pope Urban II began the First Crusade in November 1095 at the Council of Clermont, France, when he exhorted French knights to retake the Holy Land.
The academic study of sermons, the analysis and classification of their preparation, composition and delivery, is called homiletics.
Many sermons have been written down, collected and published. Such sermons include John Wesley's 53 Standard Sermons, John Chrysostom's Homily on the Resurrection (preached every Easter in Orthodox churches) and Gregory Nazianzus' homily "On the Theophany, or Birthday of Christ" (preached every Christmas in Orthodox churches). Martin Luther began a tradition of publishing sermons (Hauspostille) on the Sunday lessons for the edification of readers. This tradition was continued by Chemnitz and Arndt and others into the following centuries — for example CH Spurgeon's stenographed sermons, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit.[1]
The Reformation led to Protestant sermons, many of which defended the schism with the Roman Catholic Church and explained beliefs about scripture, theology and devotion. The distinctive doctrines of Protestantism held that salvation was by faith alone, and convincing people to believe the Gospel and place trust in God for their salvation through Jesus Christ was the decisive step in salvation.
In many Protestant churches, the sermon came to replace the Eucharist as the central act of Christian worship (although some Protestants such as Lutherans give equal time to a sermon and the Eucharist in their Divine Service). The goal of many Protestant's worship, as conditioned by these beliefs, was to rouse the congregation to a deeper faith, rather than have them just partake in rituals.
In the 18th and 19th centuries during the Great Awakening, major (evangelistic) sermons were made at revivals, which were especially popular in the United States. These sermons were noted for their "fire-and-brimstone" message, typified by Jonathan Edwards's famous "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" speech. In these sermons the wrath of God was clearly one to be afraid of, although fear was not the message Edwards was trying to convey in his sermons, he was simply trying to tell the people that they could be forgiven for their sins. Edwards also preached on Religious Affections,[3] which discussed the divided Christian world.
Jewish Tradition
Rabbinic ordination often includes the phrase, Rabbi, Teacher, and Preacher in Israel, and there is a long history of using sermons in Judaism as part of education, ethics, a call to repentance, or as a message of hope, often during difficult times.
In 1939, Rabbi Philip R. Alstat, an early leader of Conservative Judaism, spoke and wrote about the lesson of hope that the festival of Passover could give to the Jewish people, despite the rising power of Nazism in Europe:[4] he counseled hope, and even gratitude, as part of Jewish strength to withstand the pain of events in Europe:
Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism. We are the contemporaries and witnesses of its daily re-enactment. Are not our hapless brethren in the German Reich eating "the bread of affliction"? Are not their lives embittered by complete disenfranchisement and forced labor? Are they not lashed mercilessly by brutal taskmasters behind the walls of concentration camps? Are not many of their men-folk being murdered in cold blood? Is not the ruthlessness of the Egyptian Pharaoh surpassed by the sadism of the Nazi dictators?
And yet, even in this hour of disaster and degradation, it is still helpful to "visualize oneself among those who had gone forth out of Egypt." It gives stability and equilibrium to the spirit. Only our estranged kinsmen, the assimilated, and the de-Judaized, go to pieces under the impact of the blow....But those who visualize themselves among the groups who have gone forth from the successive Egypts in our history never lose their sense of perspective, nor are they overwhelmed by confusion and despair.... It is this faith, born of racial experience and wisdom, which gives the oppressed the strength to outlive the oppressors and to endure until the day of ultimate triumph when we shall "be brought forth from bondage unto freedom, from sorrow unto joy, from mourning unto festivity, from darkness unto great light, and from servitude unto redemption.
In the same way, he preached a message of hope in 1938 when he said that,[5] "Undaunted, we confidently expect that some day, somehow, the present low ebb of liberty and democracy will be followed by a rising tide whose onrush will irresistibly wash away the ramparts of tyranny." His sermons and articles targeted the Jewish community, the United States, the "family of nations," the "Jewish homeland in Palestine," and frequently described the importance of the "Jewish State"—a nation yet not created, but which he supported with both his words and his actions. He shared his vision of that State by proclaiming that, "Whether the Jewish State be large or small, its importance in the family of nations will be determined, not by its limited area, but by its creative genius and cultural contributions to mankind. Like Judaea and Athens of old, it may be only a small vessel, but exceedingly rich in precious content."[6]
There are a number of different types of sermons, that differ both in their subject matter and by their intended audience, and accordingly not every preacher is equally well-versed in every type. The types of sermons are:
- Expository preaching - exegesis, that is sermons that expound and explain a text to the congregation.[7]
- Liturgical sermons - sermons that explain the liturgy, why certain things are done during a service, such as why communion is offered and what it means.[8]
- Biographical sermons - tracing the story of a particular biblical character through a number of parts of the Bible.
- Evangelistic sermons (associated with the Greek word kerygma) - seeking to convert the hearers or bring them back to their previous faith through a recounting of the foundational story of the religion, in Christianity, the Good News.
- Hortatory sermons (associated with the Greek word didache), exhorting a return to ethically living, in Christianity a return to living on the basis of the gospel.
- Historical sermons - which seek to portray a biblical story within its non-biblical historical perspective.[9]
- Redemptive-Historical Preaching - sermons that takes into consideration the context of any given text within the broader history of salvation as recorded in the canon of the bible.
- Topical sermons - concerned with a particular subject of current concern;
- Narrative sermons - which tell a story, often a parable, or a series of stories, to make a moral point.
- Illuminative sermons, also known as proems (petihta) - which connect an apparently unrelated biblical verse or religious question with the current calendrical event or festival.[10]
Sermons can be both written and spoken out loud.
Delivery methods
Sermons also differ on the amount of time and effort used to prepare them.
- Scripted preaching — preaching with a previous preparation, it can be with help of notes or a script, or rely on the memory of the preacher.
- Extemporaneous preaching — preaching without overly detailed notes and sometimes without preparation. Usually a basic outline and scriptural references are listed as notes.
- Impromptu preaching — preaching without previous preparation.
With the advent of reception theory, researchers also became aware that how sermons are listened to affects their meaning as much as how they are delivered. The expectations of the congregation, their prior experience of listening to oral texts, their level of scriptural education, and the relative social positions — often reflected in the physical arrangement — of sermon-goers vis-a-vis the preacher are part of the meaning of the sermon.
Albert Raboteau describes a common style of Black preaching first developed in America in the early nineteenth century, and common throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries:
- The preacher begins calmly, speaking in conversational, if oratorical and occasionally grandiloquent, prose; he then gradually begins to speak more rapidly, excitedly, and to chant his words and time to a regular beat; finally, he reaches an emotional peak in which the chanted speech becomes tonal and merges with the singing, clapping, and shouting of the congregation.[11]
See also
- Preacher
- List of preachers
- Expository preaching
- Extemporaneous preaching
- Popular Sermon of the Medieval Friar
- Khutba, Muslim analog
- Kerygma
- Theology
- Midrash
- Christian Virtues
- Redemptive-Historical Preaching
- ^ Spurgeon, C.H., Spurgeon's Sermons, Baker 2003, ISBN 0-8010-1113-2
- ^ Tappert, T.G., Selected Writings of Martin Luther, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007, p.325
- ^ The Religious Affections
- ^ Sermon quoted in The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, March 31, 1939
- ^ Liberty as Theme of Passover, New York Times, April 17, 1938
- ^ All Faiths Urged to Fight Dictators, New York Times, November 17, 1937.
- ^ Perry, Simon. "How Biblical is Expository Preaching?". The Baptist Times. Retrieved April 2011.
- ^ Schüch, Ignaz (1894) A manual of homiletics and catechetics: the priest in the pulpit (Boniface Luebbermann editor and translator) Benziger, New York, page 170, OCLC 15157571
- ^ Schüch, Ignaz (1894) A manual of homiletics and catechetics: the priest in the pulpit (Boniface Luebbermann editor and translator) Benziger, New York, page 169, OCLC 15157571
- ^ Holtz, Barry W. (1984) Back to the Sources: Reading the classic Jewish texts Summit Books, New York, page 198, ISBN 0-671-45467-6
- ^ Albert Raboteau, A Fire in the Bones, Reflections on African-American Religious History (1995), pp 143-44
- Corran, Mary Cunningham and Pauline Allen, eds. Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian Homiletics (A New History of the Sermon; Brill, 1998)
- d'Avray, David L. The preaching of the friars (Oxford University Press, 1985)
- DeBona, Guerric, OSB. Fulfilled in Our Hearing: History and Method of Christian Preaching (Paulist Press. 2005) on Catholic preaching
- Donavin, Georgiana, Cary J. Nederman, and Richard Utz, eds. Speculum Sermonis: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
- Edwards, O. C., Jr. A History of Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. ISBN 0-687-03864-2
- Larsen, David L. The company of the preachers: A history of biblical preaching from the Old Testament to the modern era (Kregel Publications, 1998)
- Spencer, H. Leith. English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
- Sullivan, Ceri, 'The Art of Listening in the Seventeenth Century', Modern Philology 104.1 (2006), pp. 34–71
- Willimon, William H. and Richard Lischer, eds. Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995. ISBN 0-664-21942-X
Primary sources
- American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Warner, ed. (New York: The Library of America, 1999) ISBN 1-883011-65-5
Other languages
- Holtz, Sabine, Predigt: Religiöser Transfer über Postillen, European History Online, Institute of European History, Mainz 2011, retrieved: 25 February 2013.
Further reading
- McFarland, Kenneth. Eloquence in Public Speaking: How to Set Your Words on Fire. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1961. viii, 264 p. N.B.: Although this book is not specifically devoted to preaching and sermons, it frequently touches upon, and advises about, preaching and sermons as means of, and occasions for, public speaking.
- Tostengard, Sheldon A. The Spoken Word, in series, Fortress Resources for Preaching. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1989. 109 p. ISBN 0-8006-1149-7
External links
|Look up sermon or preach in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: Preaching
|Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Sermon.
- The American Rabbi - Rabbinic resource of sermons, stories, anecdotes and writings for today's rabbis.


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Do you plan to keep your family photographs forever? If so, where will you store them?
As printed photos: a bad idea as photos printed with most of today's technology solutions, including those printed at the local drug store, will fade within a very few years. The problem is best seen on color photographs where the reds will fade first, only to be followed by the other colors over time. Even black-and-white photos made by today's techniques will fade. (Photographs printed years ago by chemical means in a photographer's darkroom lasted much longer than today's photographs printed at home on an inkjet printer or in a commercial film development lab using a more-or-less instant printing process.
On floppy disks: a bad idea as floppy disks have almost disappeared. Within a few years, floppy disk drives probably will only be found in museums where they may or may not still function.
On microfilm: a bad idea as microfilm has never been a good method for storing photographs. In addition, archival-quality microfilm is no longer manufactured although you can still purchase lower-quality microfilms (at high prices) that have no promises about expected longevity. In addition, new microfilm readers are almost impossible to purchase today and spare parts for the older readers, needed to keep the machines operational, are becoming scarce.
On CD-ROM or DVD disks or Blu-Ray disks: a bad idea as these optical drives are also disappearing. Many laptop computers and quite a few desktop systems are now manufactured without such disk drives. Within a few years, these optical drives probably will only be found in museums where they may or may not still function.
In flash drives: a bad idea as the life expectancy is limited. Flash drives can last up to ten years, but as mentioned on NYTimes.com at https://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/qa-the-lifespan-of-a-flash-drive/?_r=0, flash memory doesn't usually degrade because of its age, but rather because of the number of write cycles, which means the more you delete and write new information, the more quickly the memory in the device will start to degrade. Since all these devices are similar in that they all use flash memory, they'll all degrade in a similar fashion.
In an iPad or other digital tablet: a bad idea as these things change rapidly and standards are still evolving. If you purchased one of iPad's first models when they first appeared in 2010, would you still be able to use that device today? How about 25 years from now? Will your descendant be able to use it 100 years after your death?
In a so-called "digital picture frame": a bad idea as these devices seem to appear and disappear every Christmas season. Will the digital picture frame you purchase still be useable in five years? Twenty-five years? Or longer? Sure, they look great hanging on the wall, displaying a new photograph every few seconds. However, most of them do not have a capability of searching for and displaying a specific photograph upon demand from hundreds or even thousands of photos stored in the device. Even worse, most of them do not have any capability to copy the pictures FROM the picture frame to a different device.
In a cloud-based photo storage service: a bad idea as these services have a history of appearing and disappearing at most any time. According to an article by John Herrman in the New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/style/digital-photo-storage-purge.html:
In March 2000, Yahoo created Yahoo! Photos, a place to store your photos. It had limited storage space available as was typical of online storage services of that time.
In 2005, Yahoo acquired Flickr, the popular photo site.
In 2007, Yahoo announced it would discontinue Yahoo! Photos and that users should move their photos to Flickr.
In 2018, Flickr, now owned by Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon, was sold to SmugMug, a smaller competitor. Flickr said that users could only store a maximum of 1,000 photos. Users could begin paying or take the rest elsewhere. SmugMug later switched to a plan that requires payment from ALL users with plans starting at $5.99 monthly or $47.88 a year if billed annually. Details may be found at https://www.smugmug.com/plans. There are similar stories from other online photo storage services.
My thanks to the several newsletter readers who told me about the recent New York Times article by John Herrman.
So where do you want to keep your photos?
The New York Times article mentioned previously offers several suggestions about storage of your precious photographs but neglects to mention the one major risk of all the suggestions: these services appear, disappear, or get bought out regularly. If bought out, the new owners may change the policies and prices of the previous owners.
Then there are the hardware, software, and operational issues:
Dropbox had an outage in 2014 where many files, including photographs, were accidentally destroyed and were unable to be restored. See my earlier article at https://blog.eogn.com/2014/10/17/dropbox-has-deleted-a-bunch-of-user-files-from-the-cloud/ for the details.
RootsWeb had an outage about a year ago and still has not been able to restore all the user-contributed files. See my earlier article at https://blog.eogn.com/2018/01/10/rootsweb-is-currently-unavailable-and-probably-will-remain-that-way-for-some-time/ for the details.
There are other, similar stories. In short, your photos are at risk.
Of course, you will always want to keep copies of your photos at home where they are conveniently available to you. In fact, "at home" is an excellent solution, even if it is imperfect. Never use "at home" as your only solution! What happens if you are the victim of a forest fire? Just ask the folks whose homes and all the contents of each home were destroyed in the recent California fires. For more evidence, ask anyone who has had homes damaged or destroyed by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, or even burst water pipes.
The reality is that you always need to keep backup copies of your photographs and other valuable digital information and the backup copies must be stored in a place that is located far away from any disasters that would destroy photos kept in your home.
Archivists and others have long used a technique called L.O.C.K.S.S. – Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe.
L.O.C.K.S.S. to the Rescue
The L.O.C.K.S.S. Program, based at Stanford University Libraries, provides libraries and publishers with award-winning, low-cost, open source digital preservation tools to preserve and provide access to persistent and authoritative digital content. However, then techniques of the L.O.C.K.S.S. Program may be used by anyone, private individuals as well as libraries and publishers. While the L.O.C.K.S.S. Program used at Stanford and elsewhere is sophisticated, it is based upon a simple concept: if something is valuable to you, keep lots of copies of it stored in lots of different places. They won't all disappear at the same time. Even iof one service goes away or if a disaster occurs in your home, you will still be able to retrieve copies from the MULTIPLE locations where the many copies are stored.
For details about the L.O.C.K.S.S. Program, see https://www.lockss.org.
The basic concept of L.O.C.K.S.S. isn't brand-new. In fact, it was first described more than 200 years ago!
"…let us save what remains not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."
-Thomas Jefferson, Feb. 18, 1791
While you have just read several reasons why you should never use only one backup method, there is nothing wrong with using a combination of the same methods. In short, keep copies in your computer at home, in your iPad, in a desk drawer at the office, at a relative's house, in multiple cloud-based file storage services, and elsewhere. Follow Thomas Jefferson's advice!
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Australia's Emma Jackson served notice on her Commonwealth Games rivals when she produced the second fastest run of the day to grab a stirring bronze medal in the ITU World Triathlon Series event in London overnight.
It was far from the perfect race for the pint-sized Queensland Olympian after mistake riddled swim-bike legs, which saw her fall in T2 (bike transition) – her race seemingly over.
She had already produced a sub-standard swim leg, which saw her 30s off the pace and missed the lead pack of 11 going into the five-kilometre run leg of the sprint distance race (750m swim; 20km bike; 5km run) in and around London's Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park.
But the determined former ITU Under 23 world champion set off in hot pursuit of the leaders and ran down all but two competitors in what was a brilliant trial in the countdown to next month's Games in Glasgow.
Australian-based American Gwen Jorgensen (54mins 44 secs) led home a US quinella on the day with an emotional Sarah Groff (55:12) hanging on for second ahead of Jackson (55.17), who left five Games rivals in her wake.
New Zealand pair Nicky Samuels and Andrea Hewitt were fifth and sixth respectively; Great Britain's Helen Jenkins from Wales (seventh) with Ireland's Aileen Reid (eighth).
Then there was Britain's WTS rankings leader before London Jodie Stimpson, who will represent England in the Games, was 11th.
The men's race earlier in the day saw Australia's Glasgow-bound Wollongong-based Ryan Bailie produce a brilliant close-up seventh place finish in a frantic race won by Spain's Mario Mola with Bailie's Glasgow team mates Dan Wilson (24th) and Aaron Royle (30th) while Ryan Fisher came home in 28th, Cameron Good 33rd with Declan Wilson a DNF. FULL ITU MEN'S WRAP.
The former South African born Western Australian, Bailie, has now leap-frogged training partner Royle to be fifth on the WTS rankings with Royle dropping from fourth to seventh.
But the day belonged to Jackson whose trademark run leg made up for her indifferent start.
"Things certainly didn't go according to plan that's for sure when I ended up in the second pack on the bike," said Jackson.
"My plan was to have a good swim and try and end up in the lead pack on the bike but it didn't work out and then I dropped my bike and fell in T2 (bike transition) which set me back.
"I may have been able to challenge for second place but for what happened in T2.
"That's only my fourth ever ITU podium so I am really pleased with that bronze medal finish and I can now head back to France, by-pass the next ITU race in Chicago and focus on the Commonwealth Games - that's my main focus of the year."
Jackson showed a lot of tenacity as she set out to run down all but two in the classy field.
Despite a 20 second gap to the leaders that was compounded with her fall n T2, (37 seconds – the equal slowest of the day) Jackson didn't let up on her way towards a brave podium finish.
As a sprint race the 750m swim in the Serpentine played a significant role in the way the race panned out.
Led by Carolina Routier (Spain), Lucy Hall (GBR), Jorgensen, Kate Hursey (USA) and Groff all had excellent swims and launched themselves into the 11 strong lead group on the bike that also included Samuels, Alice Betto (Italy), Reid, Marie Rabie (RSA) and Rebecca Robisch (Germany).
Behind them Great Britain's top contenders Stimpson and Jenkins were stuck in a first chase group that just couldn't seem to make ground on the leaders across the 20km bike.
That left the head group with a 20 second lead starting the 5km run, which proved too much of a lead to give Jorgensen, the fastest woman on the ITU circuit.
As always, Jorgensen didn't fly out of transition but worked her way into the run in the first kilometre.
But even before the first lap finished, Jorgensen had effortlessly moved into the lead by 14 seconds. From there it was a foregone conclusion with the only question just how fast she could run. The answer was a slick 16:10 run split, compared to Groff (16:39) and Jackson (16:17).
Jorgensen's win was her fifth WTS win – equal with Australia's Emma Moffatt and Canada's Paula Findlay.
Jackson's third place sees her sitting in fifth place on the WTS rankings now led by Jorgensen, with Moffatt, who missed London but who will be joined by Australia's third Glasgow representative Ashleigh Gentle in Chicago in a fortnight, in ninth. FULL ITU WOMEN'S WRAP
Images courtesy of Janos M.Schmidt/ITU Media


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Although I haven't been able to write over the past three months, I HAVE been keeping up with my reading! There have been some fabulous releases, and as I may have mentioned (several million times), I'm a fan of audio since it allows me to do what I need to do while being entertained by a book.
Anyhoo, thought I'd give a list of everything I've devoured the past while. In no particular order:
- Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter
- Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter
- Jinxed by Inez Kelley
- Kiss of the Rose by Kate Pearce
- Edge of Heaven by Rhiannon Leith (aka RF Long)
- all 7 of the Highlander series by Karen Marie Moning
- all 4 Fever books by Karen Marie Moning
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- finally read My Sister's Keeper
- On These Silken Sheets by Sabrina Darby
- Naked by Megan Hart
- Coming Clean by Inez Kelley
- Animal Instincts by Gena Showwalter
- Books 2-8 of the Argeneau Vampire series by Lynsay Sands
- Pleasure to the Max by Cami Dalton
- Dark Peril by Christine Feehan
- Night Fall by Cherry Adair
- Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Tangled Up in You by Rachel Gibson
- Crave by JR Ward
- Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
- Jack & Jilted (a HQN Blaze)
- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- Switch by Megan Hart
- Sin Undone by Larissa Ione
- Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin
- Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
I'm currently reading Torment by Lauren Kate. Not convinced I like it yet. I have Crescendo and Beautiful Darkness on the slate next, in between some erotic romance ebooks I've had tucked away in a folder :D
What have YOU been reading?
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3 months of READING
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These are the dumbest arguments on the planet.
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So the league went well yesterday.
Got to play against some kids. Seems like all of them have a very good understanding as far as how to play the game. Helped them out with building their decks, which makes me think that I could possibly make a small seminar/tutorial on how to build decks.
Although I had to leave a little early, that didn't stop my adventures in the PTCG. I played a few sets with one of my friends, who proxied up a Mewtwo ex/Tornadus ex deck, and I
I'll keep this one short...
So two fighting game majors, a year of depression, and a new job later, I encountered a group of people at the local card shop. A mother, her two children, and several others also play the Pokemon TCG over there. She and I got into a huge discussion about how the game used to be (i.e. Base Set) and how it is now. Turns out she's a professor, and she's teaching the local kids how to play the game, and she mentioned that an extra hand would be great.
Snorlax, why are you always sleeping and eating all my food.
Every time I use you in a battle, you are no good!
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We always win battles after your meals.
Just like the bellsprout you just killed.
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Over a year ago, I posted this 16 x 20 portrait of Irvine and Anna Rebecca (Wertz) Bennett. While I did find living descendants, nobody wanted to claim the portrait. A few days ago, another researcher, who is working on this Bennett line and revising a book on the family, found the original blog post through a Google search and contacted me.
After trying to figure out how to ship a 16 x 20 flat object (more difficult than you'd think—I had to get creative!!), it will be on it's way to West Virginia tomorrow. I'm so happy I finally found a home for this portrait…it's certainly a one-of-a-kind piece and deserves a good home. And, the researcher will likely reproduce it in his book.


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Yesterday Barack Obama went to the annual Associated Press luncheon and exhorted journalists to avoid the "false equivalence" syndrome in coverage of controversial events. If you've missed the previous 10 million items on this theme, you can read his speech or my precis of it. In short, the false equivalence problem is that although it's convenient and "objective"-seeming for reporters simply to quote "both sides" of a public issue, the results can be misleading when one of the sides is simply making things up.
Today the same Associated Press published an article on his speech that perfectly exemplified the problem Obama was complaining about, and was all the more piquant for being presented as a "fact check." The subject was the now-infamous "individual mandate" provision of the administration's health-care plan.
As Obama pointed out in his speech, the individual mandate originated as a conservative/Republican idea. Conservatives preferred it precisely because it was an alternative to government-run "single-payer" coverage, like Medicare or the VA. This was part of the reason Mitt Romney embraced the mandate in his health-care plan in Massachusetts. Yesterday Obama said:
So as all of you are doing your reporting, I think it's important to remember that the positions I'm taking now, ... if we had been having this discussion 20 years ago, or even 15 years ago, would have been considered squarely centrist positions. What's changed is the center of the Republican Party.
Today the AP was back with its "fact check":
[I]f Republicans have moved to the right on health care, it's also true that Obama has moved to the left. He strenuously opposed a mandate forcing people to obtain health insurance until he won office and changed his mind.
This is false equivalence in its Platonic-ideal form. It's presented as being "objective" -- These politicians! They all just flip and flop! -- but in fact is deeply misleading about the realities. As Brian Beutler pointed out today on TPM, making things seem symmetrically unprincipled in this case requires either lack of awareness of, or knowing manipulation of, the basic facts.
Yes, Obama's position on health care has changed. But his embrace of the "individual mandate" represents a move to the right, not leftward as the story claims. Before that, he had been in favor of (a) single-payer coverage, in his days as an Illinois politician, and (b) the "public option" during his 2008 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. His decision to build "ObamaCare" around the individual mandate -- rather than on the public option or a single-payer concept -- reflected pressure on the administration to make the plan more "centrist," not more leftist or radical. When the switch to individual mandate was announced, by far the most heated criticism came from the left, on grounds that Obama had sold out supporters of the public option. Meanwhile, the likes of the impeccably conservative Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa (right) were saying that there was a "bipartisan consensus" in favor of the individual mandate compromise. So: the current Republican hostility to the individual mandate represents a rightward shift, and so too does Obama's embrace of the plan.
Beutler sums up the achievement of this latest "fact check":
His hosts [at AP] weren't listening -- and as a result they've made Obama's points about Republicans and the media for him....
It's true that Obama campaigned against an individual mandate in 2008, only to embrace it -- however reluctantly -- after he became president. But to say that constitutes a move to the left betrays a lack of understanding about the origins and purpose of the individual mandate, and of Obama's broader evolution on health care reform.
Wow. I my current affable mood, I will assume that with this item the AP was actually paying ironic homage to Obama's argument, and reminding him of the importance of continuing to make it. For more on today's false-equivalence news, see Greg Sargent in the Washington Post.
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