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LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has demanded that JP Morgan Chase prove immediately that it is complying with state law or, if it cannot, halt foreclosing on California homes.
"I'm taking this action to further protect California homeowners on the brink of foreclosure," Brown said, "JP Morgan Chase, like GMAC/Ally Financial, has admitted that its review of key foreclosure documents was a ruse."
"I'm directing Chase to prove it is following the law before it continues foreclosures in California," Brown added.
California law prohibits lenders from recording notices of default on mortgages made between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2007, unless, subject to limited exceptions, the lender contacts or tries diligently to contact the borrower to determine eligibility for a loan modification. A notice of default must include a declaration of compliance with California law.
JP Morgan Chase, the nation's third largest loan servicer, has admitted that employees signed affidavits in 56,000 foreclosure cases nationwide without first personally reviewing the contents of the borrowers' loan files. As a result, those borrowers lost their homes based on affidavits the bank never confirmed were accurate.
This practice strongly suggests that any purported verification by JP Morgan Chase that it complied with California law before beginning foreclosures here is also questionable.
JP Morgan has suspended foreclosures in 23 other states that, unlike California, require a court order for foreclosures.
On Sept. 24, Brown sent a similar letter to Ally Financial, Inc., formerly known as GMAC, directing it to prove it is complying with California law or cease foreclosures in California until it can. The Attorney General's office is in contact with Ally.
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NEW YORK — Paul Millsap had 27 points and 10 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks moved to the verge of a playoff spot with a 93-88 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night.
The Hawks could have clinched the final Eastern Conference berth had the Knicks lost in Toronto.
Instead, Atlanta remained two games up with three to play, needing just one more win or New York loss to secure its postseason place.
Jeff Teague added 22 points for the Hawks, who won for just the fifth time in 13 games and are only 36-43, but that might be good enough in the East. He frequently took advantage of a matchup with little brother Marquis, forced to play extended minutes while the Nets rested some regulars.
Atlanta was just 1 of 19 from 3-point range, but hit 20 of its 21 free throws.
Mason Plumlee scored 17 points and Marcus Thornton had 14 for the Nets, who had their franchise-record, 15-game home winning streak snapped.
Brooklyn, likely locked into the No. 5 seed, rested starters Deron Williams (right patella tendinitis) and Shaun Livingston, who missed his second straight with a sprained right big toe.
Paul Pierce had 13 points for the Nets, becoming the 18th player in NBA history with 25,000. But he was just 2 of 6 from the free throw line and 1 of 7 behind the arc.
Atlanta can wrap up its spot by beating Miami at home on Saturday.
The Hawks opened their largest lead at 64-53 midway through the third quarter after a run of seven straight points, but the Nets made 10 of 16 shots in the period and were back within 74-73 heading to the fourth.
Jeff Teague, about 4½ years older than Marquis, couldn't hide a big grin in the fourth quarter when a crossover dribble caused Marquis to fall down.
But starter Jorge Gutierrez soon came back in and found Plumlee for a three-point play that gave Brooklyn an 88-87 lead with 2:22 to play.
Millsap's reverse layup gave Atlanta the lead again, and the Hawks got a break when an original offensive foul call on Teague for charging into Gutierrez was overturned when instant replay showed Gutierrez was in the restricted area.
The free throws made it 91-88 with 1:46 remaining, and the Nets couldn't score again before Teague put it away with two more free throws.
Brooklyn led 23-16 after one but the Hawks turned around the game with a 39-point second quarter, when Jeff Teague scored 14 points in 7 minutes.
Much of that came when he was against Marquis, a seldom-used player in his second season and first with the Nets after he was traded this season from Chicago.
Marquis Teague was forced to play extended minutes when Gutierrez picked up his third foul with 5:40 left in the half and the Nets leading by two.
Jeff Teague then scored 11 points in the final 5:16, converting a three-point play when his brother fouled him and later making two free throws after beating Marquis so badly with a crossover dribble that Marquis had to foul him to stop a layup.
Notes: There was a moment of silence before the game for Lou Hudson, the former Hawks All-Star who died Friday at 69. ... Williams was hosting 65 families of children affected by autism in luxury suites. Williams, whose son is autistic, was scheduled for a meet and greet session with the families after the game.


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The Digital Revolution, sometimes referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution , has been ushered in by new digital technologies that are transforming the personal, business, and government spheres, and how these three interact.
For example, by 2020 approximately 940 million online shoppers are expected to spend almost $1 trillion on cross-border e-commerce transactions, representing 30% of the total global e-commerce transaction volume. In light of this new reality, companies must seek innovative and disruptive business models to be relevant in the digital economy. Digitization has enabled more supply-chain management cross-border activities, including, remote monitoring, operations, and access to global markets. Digital platforms give small and medium enterprises (SMEs) access to global markets that comparable offline businesses have not achieved. An emblematic case for Latin America is SMEs eBay sellers in Mexico: they have been able to export their products through the eBay platform, while just 8% of offline enterprises in Mexico export their products.
The largest Internet platforms allow millions of SMEs and startups to compete on a level playing field with larger, more established businesses. Fifty million SMEs use Facebook to find customers, and 30% of their followers are from other countries. These new forms of doing business have enabled industry disruptions. SMEs have the advantage of being flexible and adaptable to the new digital era, and they can respond with agility and speed in the face of innovation and disruption. Additionally, SMEs that export pay 42% higher wages, increase their sales by 55%, and increase their productivity by 54%.
These new business models and cross-border trade opportunities that are enabled by digital technologies also bring new challenges. First off, they pose new issues that status-quo public policies and regulations do not address. Moreover, Latin America and the Caribbean region is hard-pressed to develop the human capital required to match the skillset demanded by the digital economy. Per the World Economic Forum, 37% of companies in the Region consider that one of the main obstacles for the development of their activities is the shortage of professionals with the necessary skills.
There is a sense of urgency. Given the accelerated rise of the global digital economy, the private sector in the Region must lead through transformative and disruptive business models that generate inclusive growth. The Region's citizens in many sectors like labor markets, financial services, health, education, and ICT, must be integrated.
Let's not forget that Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, as well as other multibillion dollar companies, got their start thanks to disruptive business models enabled by digital technology. By 2025, emerging regions are expected to be home to almost 230 companies in the Fortune Global 500, up from 85 in 2010. Latin America is expected to host 34 of these companies. Will yours be one of them?
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Luiz Ros is currently the Special Advisor for Innovation at the Office of the Presidency. In this capacity, Luiz leads the Digital Economy Initiative at the IDB that seeks to promote the digital transformation agenda in the LAC region. Previously, Luiz was the Manager of the Opportunities for the Majority Sector Initiative under the Vice Presidency for the Private Sector, from 2008 to 2015. Before entering the Bank, Ros was the Global Manager for Markets and Sustainable Enterprise at the World Resources Institute (WRI). Ros also served as a member of the strategic board for the VC III Stratus Investment Fund, which is based in São Paulo, Brazil and supports small, sustainable businesses. Lorena CanoLorena Cano Cuadra is technical advisor for the IDB's Digital Economy Initiative. She has solid experience in digital technology, strategic innovation, in the financial sector, retail and telecommunications. Prior to joining the Bank, Lorena worked in information technology and analytics at Accenture in Boston. Previously, she worked for Scotiabank, Grupo Carvajal, and the Telecommunication Regulation Agency of Peru. Lorena is a systems engineer and holds an MBA from Brandeis University. Follow Lorena on Twitter @lorenacanoc


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- Maurice Bernstein, M.D. said...
I haven't received my copy of JAMA yet to read the article but I fully agree with your views. I teach first and second year medical students "Introduction to Clinical Medicine" and when I tell this to someone and they ask "Do you teach them bedside manner?" I tell the person "No.. teaching bedside manner is teaching them acting and I don't do that."
I teach them how to listen and try to understand what the patient means and how they feel and how to attempt to using the student's own compassion to help to try to connect with the patient. There is nothing theatrical about that. ..Maurice.
- Anonymous said...
I recently started working as an Analyst in the U.S. Intelligence Community and I came across this blog while doing research on categories of biases in human analytical thinking. One of the acknowedged biases within the Intelligence Community (at least academically) is that "Lack of Empathy" is a potential bias and an impedement in analytical thinking. Lack of empathy in your job (even if you don't like to admit it) results in a lower quality of service to your patients just like lack of empathy towards my subjects results in a lower quality of intelligence product. For some reason empathy has taken on this pathetic conotation. We think of it as something that requires us to break down and cry. Empathy is to some extent what you are teaching your students. But as a professor you should know that cognitive understanding usually requires some kind of reinforcement or exercises. Method acting is one of a thousand exercises you could do to teach empathy. Perhaps you have a better one. But simply telling your future doctors about it is not enough. I can empathize with how difficult and time demanding being a med student is. I can empathize with going through 100 hour work weeks for 10 years straight. That doesn't mean I've actually done it and it doesn't mean I'm going to break down and cry now.
If you find it difficult finding empathy for a patient, try finding empathy for a terrorist organization. Not an easy task. Maybe I should look into one of those method acting classes.


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I happened to end up sitting next to the national selector, Geoff Miller. He loves setting cricketing quiz questions, does 'Dusty', so he had asked me to name all the captains he had played under for England. And I had named them all bar one. He looked out of the window and saw that our descent into Rajkot airport was nearing an end, and said: "You've got until we land to get it. I reckon you've got about two minutes."
Fifteen minutes later we still had not landed after an aborted attempt and I still had not got the fact that Miller had played under Geoffrey Boycott.
"We're sorry," announced the captain (of the plane that is), "but there was a dog on the runway."
Laughs were exchanged, heads were shaken. Welcome to the chaos of India.
It was even more chaotic when the England team, along with a handful of the Indian team on the flight (most had gone home after their victory over Pakistan in Delhi on the previous Sunday), reached their hotel, the Imperial Palace, in the middle of Rajkot. There were hundreds of doting fans crowding the small dirty street outside, with its wandering cows, beggars and constant bustle and noise.
All the clichés were there in place; the contrast between rich and poor in a culture that shocks. But I'm not sure it does shock England any more.
There was a time when England teams would do anything not to tour this place. Indeed, England did not tour India at all between 1993 and 2001. But now it is very different. England visit regularly. Long ago the England and Wales Cricket Board recognised that its players' frailties against spin had to be addressed, especially in one-day cricket, thus sending its Lions players out here for frequent training camps and matches. County players find their ways here too for 'spin camps'.
It is not just the money they are chasing – and of course there is plenty of that if, like Kevin Pietersen, you can secure an Indian Premier League deal – it is the practice and the experience.
Could all of this have been a factor in Friday night's victory in Rajkot? I think so. Much was rightly made of the Test series victory here before Christmas but this is probably a tougher assignment. And its arduousness has been addressed slowly but surely. The hurt had simply gone on too long: no victory in 13 one-day internationals here against India, dating back to 2006.
Yes, this tour has little relevance to the broader goals of the Champions Trophy and the World Cup, but it has much relevance to England's pride and self-esteem. They had had enough of being beaten here. And Friday night was a magnificent occasion at the new stadium to the north west of the city of Rajkot. Not every one of the expected 28,000 crowd was there at the beginning (some were fooled by a noon rather than the usual 2.30pm start for day/night matches, while others had to work), but by the end the ground was teeming; a beating cacophony of noise and excitement.
I have not enjoyed a live cricket match as much for some time. And there was much to enjoy in England's performance too. It was not perfect, of course. There remain serious worries about the seam bowling in particular. Steven Finn looks well short of the full gallop, and Jade Dernbach is simply not an opening bowler in international cricket, even if he is a highly skilled operator of variety in the latter stages. Tim Bresnan has yet to convince that his career is not slipping down the other side of the mountain.
It was, though, pleasing that England selected as they did. They actually picked the side I suggested in these pages last Sunday, but I only say that because I was convinced that they would pick four seamers, and omit Joe Root. The evidence of the two warm-up defeats did little to alter that impression.
But in fairness England respected the conditions, and forsook their grand, tested plan. An extra batsman is required here because the two new balls do not move as much as elsewhere and therefore it is imperative to make a brisk start with the bat. Sometimes that will result in early wickets, even if in Rajkot that was not the case. A word in that respect for captain Alastair Cook. He batted supremely well.
It was his partner, Ian Bell, who caught the eye, and Bell did indeed play extremely well, but the truth is that all the while Cook was actually scoring more quickly. It was typical Cook; quiet, modest, yet hugely effective.
He does not mind playing the apparent second fiddle. There was a hilarious moment at the pre-match press conference last Thursday, when the India captain, M S Dhoni, appeared outside the room in anticipation of speaking after Cook.
Immediately half of those present left the room just to take photographs of Dhoni, leaving Cook smiling and shrugging his shoulders. A man of bigger ego might have been crestfallen. Just imagine what it will be like next Saturday when Dhoni's hometown of Ranchi hosts its first international. But first the series moves on Tuesday to Kochi, where the pitch there, just like Rajkot, is known to favour the batsmen, with scores over 300 commonplace. India have won all six one-day internationals there, including one against England in 2006 when not even 77 from Kevin Pietersen could prevent a four-wicket India victory.
This series, contrary to expectation in many quarters, has gripped the imagination. Playing in the smaller outposts does that, rather than, say, in 2011 when England lost 5-0 here, playing mainly in major cities in front of poor crowds. Rajkot proved that. The journeys can be hazardous and tiring, but the cricket can more than make up for that.


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It seems I have, unintentionally, acquired a new enemy in the blogosphere because I have disagreed with the advice they have offered in a public blog post.
The new enemy is June Walker, whose advice I strongly disagreed with in my post "You Do Need A Business Checking Account". First check out her response in the post "There's No Shortage of Bad Advice Out There".
Here is the comment I submitted to her blog this morning:
Ah, another debate among tax professionals!
Why can't we learn to just get along?
I agree with your post's title – "There's no shortage of bad advice out there" – however we disagree on who is actually providing the bad advice.
First of all, sorry for not being perfectly "PC". This is a legitimate complaint. I do try to use "he/she" etc instead of he in my posts.
Secondly I take exception to being compared to "the tax pro who totally misunderstands indie life" simply because I disagree with you on one issue. I have been preparing 1040s for "indies" since 1972, a bit longer than you, and have been an "indie" myself most of the past 38 years.
Now on to your comments on my comments (the highlights are hers) -
You say - "Well, he says, "loan" money to the business account from your personal account and then return it later. If you have attended my seminars or read my book you know: That leaves a very wiggly audit trail for the IRS to follow."
It would seem to me that using one's personal checking account for both business and personal expenses is more wiggly an audit trail for an IRS auditor to deal with.
You then quote your original post - "The very next example from the IRS in the publication is the mixed use – personal and business – of your automobile. So, let's see how efficient two checking accounts would be in this situation – hmm … guess you are expected to pay for each gas purchase with two checks – one for the personal use amount of gas and a business check for the business use portion."
What a silly example. What fool would give a gas station attendant his/her check to pay for a gas purchase? Do you know of any gas station that would accept a check? If the business person uses the Standard Mileage Allowance he/she would just reimburse himself/herself from the business checking account for the appropriate business mileage. If the actual expense method were chosen the business portion of total auto expenses would be reimbursed.
One would expect you to use the usual courtesy of "Mr" in front of Flach when discussing me. You mention that I "took respectful disagreement" to your post. One would expect you to provide the same respect.
Rather than merely "pooh-poohing" me as one who does not understand "indies" just because we disagree I would prefer a serious discussion on the issue. You could, perhaps, explain why if you do not agree with my statement that an indie should "do as much as possible to give your self-employment activity the appearance of a real business entity so that the IRS does not come back and say that it is really a 'hobby.'"
Regarding your other opponent - I am not a fan of Mr Pappas, and have myself felt his wrath, similar to your wrath, when I dared to disagree with him. I would agree with your reference to him as "Attila the Tax Lawyer". It appears that he does not know how to express "respectful disagreement".
To be fair I do not believe you advised corporate officers to pay business expenses with a personal check. I took your post to be concerned with self-employed individuals, LLCs or not, who file a Schedule C.
I totally disagree with his statement – "If you have a serious business, it's unwise to operate as a sole proprietorship and probably malpractice for a lawyer not to point that out to his clients." Lawyers in general like to tout corporations because of the additional legal fees involved in forming and maintaining a corporation.
Let me know when you want to conduct a serious and respectful discussion on this topic.
As of the time of this posting (4:00 PM EST) the above comment had not been published on Ms Walker's blog, and therefore no response was provided. I will let you know if my comment ever does appear and what, if anything, Ms Walker has to say in rebuttal.
I would appreciate hearing from other tax professionals out there on the issue of using a business checking account. Who is right – Ms Walker or I?
FYI, Joe Kristan of the ROTH AND COMPANY TAX UPDATE BLOG has already weighed in on my side in his post "If You Have a Home Business, Should You Have a Business-Only Checking Account?" Joe says – "Mr. Flach gets it right. You will save yourself a lot of time at tax time, and a lot of grief in an IRS exam, if personal is personal, business is business, and that's that. Run your business like a business."


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Pop star Fergie swore when she discovered she was pregnant.
The singer's actor husband Josh Duhamel admits the baby news took them by surprise, and the mom-to-be let slip an expletive as she tried to wrap her head around the thought of becoming a first-time parent.
The actor tells the New York Post's Page Six column, "She was the one when we first found out that was like, 'This s— just got real.' Those were the first words out of her mouth."
Fergie and Duhamel took to their Twitter.com accounts to announce their big news last week, and the 40 year old cannot wait for fatherhood because he feels sure his folks gave him just what he needs to be the perfect dad.
He says, "I'm not 24, I've got some life experience that I think I can impart. My mother was the disciplinarian and my father was more of a free spirit. Hopefully I'm somewhere in between."


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There have been a few recent arrivals in Brixton which have garnered considerable press. By contrast, the chocolatier Paul Wayne Gregory, trained in Paris and maker of the Queen's 80th birthday truffles, just turned up one day in a little sliver of a shop in Market Row. There are beautiful desserts, highly credible salted caramels and some superlative passion fruit ganache, all a five minute walk from our door.
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Following in the wake of the hipsters, I've been dutifully tromping through the optimistically named "Bermondsey Spa" most Saturday mornings, finding a new way to get turned around each time, but also discovering both some great new vendors, and outposts of Borough favourites (particularly Neals Yard Dairy and Mons Cheese) which are far less crowded than the originals. Three highlights:
Heather honey from the London Honey Company
Lots of India Pale Ales at the Kernel Brewery
Chicken from Fosse Meadows at The Butchery
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Notes from Madras, Colonel Wyvern (1878). Wyvern wrote for Englishwomen abroad and their native cooks, explaining how to prepare both Anglo-Indian and European foods.
Greatest recipe
Lamb pizza from Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi's Jerusalem. This may be no better than the fish cakes in spicy tomato sauce, or the hummus or stuffed peppers—all superlative. It gets the nod for perfectly recreating the soft, pliable dough of the lahmacun I ate in Istanbul last winter, and pairing it with a topping that is at once sweet with caramelised meat, crunchy with fresh herbs and sharp with pomegranate.
Best eating moment
A breakfast of chilaquiles—eggs, refried beans and tortilla chips covered with a cooked red salsa, garnished with sour cream, cotija cheese, avocado and coriander (cilantro)—at San Francisco's Ferry Plaza Market, while watching the fog clear over the Bay Bridge.
Most memorable drink
Ruinart champagne at the Royal Opera House, just moments after receiving my engagement ring.
Sleeper hit
A custom mix of Formosa Lapsang Souchong and Higgins Breakfast tea from HR Higgins. We've been drinking their Creole Blend coffee for years; this is fast becoming the house tea: smoky, smooth and mouth-filling without being tannic.
Best evening out
A "Shambolic Sherry Tasting" put on by our local wine shop and held in a freezing upstairs room at the Dogstar pub. There were half a dozen non-sherry pours from natural wine importers, Les Caves de Pyrene, including a Savennières and a Jura chardonnay made in a vin jaune style, and quality nibbles aplenty. The sherries came thick and fast, and ranged from the merely very, very good to the absolutely exceptional (in the form of a rare Palo Cortado). We met a wine consultant working in Kazakhstan too, and heard all the gossip on the Brixton restaurant scene. And all for £7.50.


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5 People Who Killed It in the Stock Market This Year
Elon Musk's Tesla holdings increased 346 percent this year.
Dec. 31, 2013 -- intro: While many people who have invested in the stock market or have mutual funds have seen a boost in their net worth this year, they have likely not seen anywhere near the bump these five people received.
The record-setting year gave us all-time highs for the major stock indices. The S&P and Dow Jones industrial average are on track for the biggest annual gains since the late '90s, while the Nasdaq reached highs not seen since 2000. Companies like Facebook, Google, Tesla and Priceline were top performers, to name only a handful.
Here's how some of the richest people in the country fared at the end of the year, compared with the start of 2013:
quicklist: title: Elon Musk, Tesla Motors category: 346 percent increase this year media: 21383420 text: Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has had a banner year despite some bumps in the road with a few highly publicized electric cars that caught on fire. The Tesla stock price was around $35.36 at the start of the year and closed at $152.75 Monday, bumping the value of his ownership to $5.2 billion from about $1.1 billion, according to executive compensation research firm Equilar.
quicklist: title: Reed Hastings, Netflix category: 297 percent increase this year media: 21383262 text: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has seen his stock holdings increase about 297 percent. Netflix stock started at $92.01 Jan. 2, and on Tuesday, shares closed at $366.99, bumping the value of his holdings to $944 million from $238 million, Equilar says.
Read More: 11 Movies You Should Watch Before Netflix Purges Them Jan. 1
quicklist: title: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook category: 92 percent increase this year media: 21383371 text: You can't hold Zucks down. Facebook stock was trading at $28 a pop Jan. 2, below the company's IPO price. Fast forward to Monday, when Facebook shares closed at $53.71. Zuckerberg's Facebook holdings increased to $26 billion from $13.6 billion, Equilar says.
quicklist: title: Carl Icahn, Icahn Enterprises LP category: 30 percent increase this year media: 21383473 text: Billionaire Carl Icahn had a memorable year. He joined Twitter this summer, and started moving shares of Apple just from his tweets. (He has tweeted 59 times and already has more than 123,400 followers.)
Icahn Enterprises was trading at $80.00 Feb. 15. As of Dec. 30, shares were worth $105.44 a pop, bumping his ownership value to $10.3 billion from $7.9 billion.
Read More: Apple (AAPL) Stock Surges After Billionaire Carl Icahn's Tweets
quicklist: title: Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway category: 21 percent increase this year media: 21383212 text: As expected, "The Oracle" has ownership of multiple companies as CEO of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway. Altogether, his ownership value increased to $59.7 billion at the end of the year, from about $49.2 billion at the start of 2013.


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The written histories of the establishment of intercollegiate athletics at Hope College are so often dotted with references to the creation of a particular sport for the welfare of the student. This is particularly true for soccer.
In the early 1960s the dean of students, Jim Harvey, approached Dr. Phil Van Eyl, professor of psychology, with an idea: Would he be interested in spending some time with some of Hope's international students who wanted to play a few games of soccer? Dean Harvey knew of Dr. Van Eyl's long-standing acquaintance with the sport because of his European background. Soon after, Dr. Van Eyl, with support from Athletic Director Gordon Brewer, purchased uniforms and scheduled seven junior varsity games. The first year's team (1964) had an interesting international mix of 21 players, half of them foreign nationals from Africa, Asia and South America.
The game was introduced to Holland and Hope during halftime of a football game. After playing for 10 minutes, the soccer players moved to Zeeland High School (on another football field), where Hope recorded its first win. Hope went on to post a 6-1-1 record in its first season.
Encouraged by the success of the first season, Dr. Van Eyl proposed that Hope join a conference and that the college build a regulation-size soccer field. The old estate of founder Albertus C. Van Raalte was determined to be the perfect location. The cost to remove 27 trees and develop the field cost $1,800, which was donated by a college professor. The Holland Furnace Company donated the metal framework to build bleachers.
Soccer became a varsity sport in 1965 and the Flying Dutchmen competed in the Mid-West Collegiate Soccer Conference, a combination of big-time universities and small colleges like Hope.
"We were from several corners of the world, different in native language and skin color, but all dressed in orange and blue, fighting like tigers to bring Hope the victory as Flying Dutchmen," wrote Professor Van Eyl in a 1999 article.
The budget that first year was $1,280. Dr. Van Eyl and his wife did the team's laundry.
There was growing enthusiasm for collegiate soccer across the United States. Just a year after becoming a varsity sport, Hope changed to a new conference of colleges with a similar athletic philosophy, the Michigan Illinois Indiana Soccer Conference.
Dr. Van Eyl's academic obligations prevented him from continuing as coach after the 1967 season. The athletic department took over the coaching responsibilities. Dr. William Vanderbilt, Sr., at that time an assistant basketball and track coach, became the head soccer coach.
Dr. Van Eyl recalled: "I will never forget Bill Vanderbilt setting himself down in my office and saying without any hint of enthusiasm, 'I've been appointed the new coach. Tell me about soccer.'."
A reputation for excellence in the small college soccer world has increased through a succession of coaches over the past 45 years. Current men's coach Steven Smith ranks among the top 20 winningest Division III coaches.
Soccer became an official men's sport in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) in 1970. MIAA soccer teams became eligible to compete in the NCAA Division III championships in 1977. The Flying Dutchmen have played in the NCAA championships 10 times, most recently in 2006.
Women's soccer became an intercollegiate sport at Hope in 1989, the result of the discontinuance of field hockey and the recognition of it by the MIAA. Field hockey, especially popular among coeds from the East, had been played at Hope since the 1950s.
Hope won its first MIAA women's soccer championship in 2003. It marked a significant milestone because Hope became the first MIAA member to win a championship in all 18 league-sponsored sports. It remains a feat no other MIAA member has accomplished.
The Flying Dutch have competed in the NCAA Division III championships three times, most recently in 2005. The women's soccer program entered the 2009 season with a school-record string of seven consecutive winning campaigns.


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Who couldn't figure this out?
He already had 6 cabanas reserved for the after announcement party in Miami's South Beach!
Thanks for 7 years of improvements for the Cavaliers! Dan Gilbert will do the rest to make it right for Cleveland!
LeBron James to Miami
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 09:26 PM
Posted 08 July 2010 - 09:43 PM
And by making it right, you mean screw up like he did by never getting Lebron anyone good to play with, and guaranteeing that if anyone breaks the championship drought in the next 20 years it's not the Cavs?
Posted 08 July 2010 - 10:00 PM
Posted 08 July 2010 - 10:35 PM
Is LeBron now the biggest sports villain in Cleveland history? Let us know what you think!!!
Edited by Duh Huh Dull Sucks, 08 July 2010 - 10:36 PM.
Posted 08 July 2010 - 10:40 PM
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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Posted 21 July 2010 - 02:11 PM
anyone else love the fact that former players that are "Legends" calling out LBJ
You'll be proud of our young people in the classroom, in the community, and most especially in 310 days in Ann Arbor, Michigan on the football field. - Jim Tressel
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UK ministers have discovered that computer hacking is no longer the preserve of awkward teens tapping away in their bedrooms - and will now wage war on gangs raiding Brits' online accounts.
The government has formed a new Cyber Crime Reduction Partnership to bring together top cops, security experts and boffins to come up with strategies to fight online crime rings. The brain bank will aid the National Cyber Crime Unit, Blighty's other crack anti-hacker team.
"For too long the public's perception of cyber crime has been a lone bedroom hacker stealing money from a bank account," security minister James Brokenshire said yesterday.
"But the reality is that cyber criminals are organised and global, with a new breed of criminals selling 'off-the-shelf' software to aid gangs in exploiting the public.
"This government is committed to tackling this threat and we have already had great success. But we want to go further and through the creation of the National Cyber Crime Unit within the National Crime Agency (NCA) and innovations such as the new Cyber Crime Reduction Partnership, I am confident we can bring these criminals to justice."
The NCA was established by law in May 2012 and is expected to be fully operational by December this year. The agency will take on the roles of the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. Its mission is tackling organised crime, fighting electronic fraud and protecting kids from abuse.
Brokenshire launched the cyber-crime partnership during a speech at the British Computer Society, a chartered institute, on Thursday. The minister added that members of the public can play their part by reporting online crimes to Action Fraud, the UK's national crime reporting centre, and by taking basic security precautions when going online, such as using strong passwords and antivirus tools.
Simon Leech, director for HP's enterprise security arm in EMEA, welcome the move.
"The UK's new-cyber crime unit is definitely a step in the right direction when it comes to tackling increasingly complex security threats to business and governments alike," Leech said.
"Our HP 2012 Top Cyber Security Risks Report recently revealed that total vulnerabilities are on the rise, particularly those for mobile, and so it's more important than ever that companies take proactive steps to safe guard themselves, using actionable security intelligence from their information and security events to better identify, understand as well as address risk." ®


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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Gnosis Through Crisis
The oldest question known to Man is: "Who am I?"
The answer is somewhat complicated, which is why the question still persists.
Personal identity is a construct. It is made up of interlocking "patterns" or "imprints," created by repeat emotional/psychological trauma throughout our lives. The deepest traumas tend to occur in the first 14 years of our lives, but particularly in the first 7. This is when our basic patterns—our personal identity—is created.
These patterns interlock and form "grids." Ostensibly, these grids act as shields. They are like emotional armor to protect us—our wounds—from "life"—which is to say, further trauma, further wounding. Problem is, this armor makes it impossible for us to reach these wounds. Deep beneath our armor, they fester and bleed through lack of tending. And that's not all. At the same time, our emotional armor—since it "protects" us from interacting at more intimate levels—severely impairs our psychological growth. Like the bound feet of Oriental women or infant children forced to live inside glass jars to create circus attractions, any growth is redirected down these patterns, into deeper and deeper distortion and crippling. Not only are our wounds chronic, they are gangrenous.
However, since the original armor-patterns were designed—unconsciously but instinctively—to cover these early wounds, they can reveal to us (if studied with a dispassionate eye) the nature and "location" (in time) of our wounding. Instead of "following the money," we need to follow the pattern to find out what's behind the corrupt system of "personal identity." Revelation of wounding leads to crisis; crisis provides the opportunity to tend and dress the wounds, with an awareness lacking at the time of the wounding, and so allow them to heal into scars.
We cannot transform our patterns. They were created this way for a reason. But we can allow them to transform us, by being in them without resisting them, by being "tenderly OK with them."
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...but seriously Jason , when you've healed your wounds ,what do you become?...GOD!...Lucifer! ..or do you always remain a wounded Dog yearning to be healed by the HAND of GOD or THE WINK of LUCIFER?......lol
maybe its time to redefine your paradigms and wake up! or perhaps you are already God~Lucifer SMILING UPON ME! lololo
no time to wallow in the mire....or perhaps as much time as we need!......Dan.
- 7:07 am, July 23, 2009
- solar eclipse said...
- 8:00 am, July 23, 2009
- Jasun said...
somebody doesn't want to get his hands dirty!
do i hear the sound of defensive laughter - or is that just character armor clanking?
- 11:49 am, July 23, 2009
- Joanni said...
ah lovely ,jason responding!
character armor or is that amor!...
"somebody doesn't want to get his hands dirty!"....you really do not know me! ,anyway,...take it easy! and make sure your amour! does not clank too much!...love Satan.
- 12:17 pm, July 23, 2009
- Anonymous said...
"defensive laughter"
- 12:29 pm, July 23, 2009
- Anonymous said...
OK enough OLD SCHOOL Shit!
- 12:47 pm, July 23, 2009
- Anonymous said...
no one will give me what i need....
- 1:31 pm, July 23, 2009
for those that have eyes to see....
for those that have ears to hear,,,
- 2:07 pm, July 23, 2009
- Jasun said...
who's jason?
- 3:41 pm, July 23, 2009
- sweet dreams said...
fuck you . an i'll kill the next rabit hole that surfaces clean....
- 4:17 pm, July 23, 2009
- endgames said...
endtimes and beyond....
- 4:56 pm, July 23, 2009
- Jasun said...
Dan and Joanni,
Why is your nose still up my ass?
You say my shit stinks, and yet here you are, up my ass.
Take your face out of my ass and go somewhere else.
It is sound advice, and easy to do.
Go find a fragrant field to waste your days in.
Don't come back here, don't stick your nose up my ass, only to tell me my shit stinks.
I think you like the smell of my shit, and I think you'll be back.
You have a secret desire for the aroma of my shit.
Millions of blogs to peruse, but you'll be back up my ass.
- 3:40 pm, July 24, 2009
- Jasun said...
thanks Mars.
can we move on now?
Intelligent debate only at the blog from now on; all other fart-mongers will be summarily deflated.
Any other Planets have anything to add?
- 6:13 pm, July 24, 2009
- Jasun said...
"Do you always remain a wounded [Dog] yearning to be healed by the hand of [God] or the Wink of Lucifer?... lol"
Argonauts ~ This seems like a reasonable question to me ~ Would/will we truly survive a Transformative Crisis with our hearts and minds in tact?
There is strength in companionship. Isn't that why we got on this B.O.A.T. to begin with?
- 2:11 am, July 26, 2009
- Pure and Simple said...
This is an honest and perfect view of the personality....I especially like the end....we should be strong and love ourselves even with our wounds. That is our way to happiness. Very good point and well put. :)
- 3:20 am, July 26, 2009
- Jasun said...
ah someone had something nice to say finally! : )
Venus - when we go all the way into the wound we pass through the wound. The wound is never healed, but on the other side, it is no wound at all, but - a vagina?? : 0
- 1:58 pm, July 29, 2009
what you become?you become what you always were and never ceased to be,essencialy.In this time and place,maybe that essence DOES need protection.That makes sens,nothing heretic about that.Even a down to earth psychologist would agree.As for GOD and LUCIFER...''tu ne prononceras pas mon nom en vain''...
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Carrie Underwood seems like she's all about the music, even if it isn't country music. So that explains why she was at a Coldplay concert earlier this week. "Just caught the @Coldplay concert in Boston tonight! Truly amazing! Great band, great production, great crowd! #inspired," she wrote. I love that she's getting inspired for her own upcoming tour by looking outside the country genre and seeing what rock stars are doing. (Remember when Sugarland borrowed the concert bubble ball idea from the Flaming Lips?) But it doesn't mean at all that Underwood is straying from her roots. In fact, two days after her Coldplay show, she was with Brad Paisley for a photo shoot and the announcement that they have signed up to host the CMA Awards for the fifth year in a row. She tweeted, "Hanging out with @bradpaisley today. Just caught him in my makeup chair. #suchadiva," and "Ask @bradpaisley why he just lost $100 to me!" She also posted a couple of photos of the two of them, all dressed up but with Paisley in a balloon hat. Hopefully that won't give her any inspiration for her tour.


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|Great-Grandpa DeMeulenaere's Trunk
Kak as the family called her, lived in an older yellow brick farmhouse which was full of her beloved antiques. She had family treasures from ancestors on all sides of her family as well as her husband's. She also bought her own antiques and had a good eye for beautiful and unusual pieces.
One of the family heirlooms Kak had was this trunk on the left which her father Archie made by hand. It's quite large and has a slightly curved top. It sat in a spare bedroom covered with antique quilts.
Kak spent the last 20 years making lists of where each family heirloom or prized antique was to go. She remembered the history of every piece she bought and every item passed down in the families. And she knew what grandchild or great grandchild was to be given the privilege of caring for each heirloom when she was gone.
Many of the items had names written on tape attached to the back or the bottom of the piece. Other smaller items were listed and described, with the name of the person who was to have it on her death.
This trunk had my husband's name on the bottom on a piece of green tape. It was his great-grandfather's and we know it was built by Archie (aka Achille DeMeulenaere) after he arrived in Canada from Belgium, so after 1900. Kak couldn't remember when her father made it but we are hoping to find out more information from Archie's grand-daughter who we co-incidentally "met" online yesterday!
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Lainey Gossip has some new photos of Taylor and Kristen on the set of New Moon!
"These are exclusive on set photos of Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner as Bella and Jacob shooting scenes in what's supposed to be La Push yesterday for New Moon.
As you can see, they're both wearing wigs. Movie making magic! And I always thought her hair was that thick and lustrous! There'd been a lot of questions about whether or not Taylor could grow into the role. From the back, Taylor does look kinda man now. Kristen's make up is great. Am all over the stain they use on her lips. Gorgeous."


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* American Revolutionary War original
The front page has an item mentioning: "It is said General Lee was taken...crossing a ferry to Virginia & that Lord Dunmore, who had information of his route...sent a frigate to watch it, who took him and 30 rifle barrel men..." [must be untrue as he was not captured until December]. Another item makes an interesting observation: "...we as yet turned the tables on ourselves during the American war; for...instead of raising taxes on the Americans (the object of the war) we have been obliged o tax ourselves and that so enormously, that continuing it another year without better success may draw this nation to the verge of a general bankruptcy."
Page 2 has a report from Harlem, near New York City, with some details on the historic Battle of New York, noting in part: "Yesterday was an unlucky day for us. The enemy landed...at Turtle Bay, below Hell-gate...brigade under General Parsons were soon obliged to retire from the waterside & give ground for the enemy to land. Gen. Mifflin immediately marched from Mount Washington...Three days since it was resolved to quit the town 7 we have been removing ever since. We have taken almost every thing out of the city...New York never was tenable & the holding of it obliged us to divide our army into many weak parts...Monday se-night, the Hon. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge...set off for New York in order to confer with Lord Howe...They have since returned..." and more (see).
Inside also has a document from Congress concerning arms & ammunition of the Continental troops, signed in type: John Hancock. A letter from Ticonderoga includes: "The enemy have not made any appearance here yet...mean to act only o the defensive. Gen. Arnold is about 100 miles down Lake Champlain...where he is watching the motions of the enemy...".
Page 3 has with a letter beginning: "If the account of the burning of Falmouth is true, I shall blush when ever I recollect that I am an Englishman...". More war content as well, including some back page content.
Four pages, bit of foxing, very nice condition.
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Antonio Calanni / AP file
The Shroud of Turin bears the faded image of what appears to be a Christlike figure. Italian researchers say they've come close to the shroud's coloration by blasting strips of linen with ultraviolet laser light.
Last updated noon ET Dec. 27:
Italian researchers have resurrected the idea that the Shroud of Turin's mysterious image of a Christlike figure could only have been created by a powerful flash of light — but skeptics still aren't buying it.
Scientists have tussled with believers, and with each other, over the origins of the centuries-old cloth for decades: Many believers think it's the true image of Jesus, left behind miraculously on his burial cloths after his resurrection. Analyses of the Shroud's chemical makeup, as well as radiocarbon dating of fiber samples, have led lots of researchers to conclude that the image was painted onto the cloth during the 14th century. But other researchers, sympathetic to the Shroud's cause, say those tests were faulty.
The Italian studies, conducted at the ENEA Research Center in Frascati, addresses a specific question in Shroud science: Could a burst of radiation have created the coloration seen on the linen? The answer is yes, although the results reported in the latest studies aren't a perfect match. So does that mean the Shroud image could only have been created by the flash of a miraculous resurrection? The answer is no, despite what you might read on the Web.
Five years of tests
"Sadly, we have seen many claims spread in the Web made by journalist/bloggers that discuss the content of a paper they never read," lead researcher Paolo Di Lazzaro told me today in an email. "It is obvious that a serious scientific work cannot prove any supernatural action. We have shown that the most advanced technology available today is unable to replicate all the characteristics of the Shroud image. As a consequence, we may argue it appears unlikely a forger may have done this image with technologies available in the Middle Ages or earlier. The probability the Shroud is a medieval fake is really low. In this sense, the Shroud image is still a scientific challenge."
Di Lazzaro and his colleagues based their conclusions on five years of tests, using an ultraviolet laser apparatus and strips of modern-day linen. They blasted the cloth with UV at different power levels, and reported that they "achieved a very superficial Shroud-like coloration of linen yarns in a narrow range of irradiation parameters." The best effect depended on laser pulses lasting less than 50 nanoseconds.
"These processes may have played a role in the generation of the body image on the Shroud of Turin," the researchers report.
They don't go so far as to claim a miracle. But the fact that UV laser blasters didn't exist in the 13th century, let alone in Jesus' day, strongly implies that they suspect something out of the ordinary was going on.
Di Lazzaro told me that the tests were not financed by ENEA, which is a government-sponsored research agency, and were conducted outside working hours. "The research was curiosity-driven, the attempt to replicate an image which is considered 'the impossible image' due to its very peculiar characteristics," he said.
Over the years, Di Lazzaro and his colleagues have published a long list of studies, including peer-reviewed papers (see below). The latest studies were presented at a May conference in Frascati and published in November as an ENEA technical report (with a disclaimer saying that the contents didn't necessarily express ENEA's opinion). But they didn't really get traction until this week, just in time for Christmas, thanks to a series of sensationalized British news reports.
Critiquing Shroud science
Shroud science, also known as sindology, usually percolates outside the scientific mainstream — but every once in a while a sensational claim comes into the public spotlight. Joe Nickell, an investigator for the New York-based Center for Inquiry, has been following sindology for decades. He noted that the Italian research revives a discussion going back to the 1980s, spearheaded by a group called the Shroud of Turin Research Project, or STURP.
"This is really nothing new," Nickell told me today. "This is a supposed vindication of STURP."
Nickell said Di Lazzaro and his colleagues started out with the assumption that the coloration on the Shroud couldn't have been created by applying pigment to the linen — which runs counter to the conclusions drawn by other studies. Starting out with the idea that the human figure shown on the Shroud is an "impossible image" stacks the deck in favor of a miraculous explanation, he said.
"Making the assumption of a miracle is a really, really, really, really, really big assumption," Nickell said. "That it's done in the name of science is just astonishing."
Nickell said the latest findings don't prove much of anything, even though they're dressed up in high-tech tests.
"It is made up of whole cloth," he said. "The pro-Shroud people start with the answer, and then they have to get some scientific evidence to back this up."
From 2008: An American researcher says the Shroud of Turin might be the real burial cloth of Jesus after all.
Some folks would suggest that the Shroud of Turin is a valuable focus for faith, whether it's real or not. What do you think? How much value is there in studying the Shroud, and how much impact do scientifico-religious debates like this one have on your own thinking? Check out the Web links below, give it some thought, and add your comments.
Update for 4:15 p.m. ET Dec. 22: Di Lazzaro sent a follow-up email calling attention to his group's publications, which I've added below, and he poses this question for Joe Nickell: "Was he (or anybody else) able to reproduce by chemical paint, acid and any other color a depth of coloration which is 0.2 micrometer thick (that is, one-fifth of a thousandth of a millimeter)? We are talking of this, because on the Shroud, the image has a coloration depth so thin that it is impossible to do with any kind of painting. I can quote peer-reviewed papers that show this is the coloration depth of the Shroud image.
"By the way, Nickell will be interested to know that using VUV photons we obtained this shallow coloration thickness," Di Lazzaro wrote.
I'll pass the question along to Nickell, who says he doesn't use email. I suspect the answer could go along two tracks: One is that it's a tough thing to try to reproduce a precise coloration depth under any circumstances. The other is that centuries of wear and tear might have had an effect that's not easily replicated by the contemporary application of pigments or other chemicals. But we'll see what Nickell has to say.
Update for 2:15 p.m. ET Dec. 23: Nickell responded to Di Lazzaro's question, and added a couple of questions of his own:
"Paolo Di Lazzaro claims the Turin 'Shroud' coloration depth is 0.2 micrometers, but surely he does not claim that that was uniformly measured throughout the cloth. The coloration indeed appears to be generally confined to the topmost fibrils (although the face image does show faintly on the back of the cloth). Using a two-part hypothesis I put forward in 1983, Italian chemist Luigi Garlaschelli has produced a replica shroud with such superficial staining. So let me ask Lazzaro a question in turn: Have you been able, using your high-intensity ultraviolet laser technique, to produce a replica shroud yourself? Until you do, shouldn't you stop slashing carelessly with Occam's razor?"
Here's a 2009 Reuters report about the Garlaschelli replica.
Update for 3:50 p.m. ET Dec. 26: Di Lazzaro sent this response to Nickell's questions via email:
"In 1978, several sticky tapes were used to sample the Shroud in different points of the body image. When the image fibers were pulled out of the adhesive, their colored coatings had been stripped off the fiber and remained in the adhesive. These coatings were independently analyzed by Profs. Alan Adler and Ray Rogers, and all of them were too thin to measure accurately with a standard optical microscope. This means the thickness of all coatings was smaller than the visible light wavelength, say thinner than 0.6 micrometer.
"Recently, these results have been confirmed by a direct measurement of another fiber, showing the thickness of the colored coating around the fiber is about 0.2 micrometer. As a consequence, there is quite a good probability most of the image fibers throughout the body image have a coloration depth smaller than 0.6 micrometers.
"Prof. Garlaschelli claimed he obtained 'a superficial coloration' without mentioning 'how much' superficial. Is it 100 micrometers thick? 10 micrometers? One micrometer? Nobody knows. I asked chemists [who are] colleagues at ENEA, and they told me it is impossible to obtain a coloration depth smaller than 10 to 20 micrometers with the chemicals used by Prof. Garlaschelli. This fact alone means the results of Garlaschelli are not comparable with the Shroud image. Mr. Nickell may be interested to know Prof. Garlaschelli refused to reply the letter sent to the editor of JIST (the journal that published his results) where several points of his work were criticized, including the lack of a measurement of the coloration depth.
"Coming to the question of Mr. Nickell: We never claimed to have reproduced the whole Shroud image. We were interested to gain a deeper insight into the physical and chemical processes that generated such an unusual image. And we were successful to find photochemistry processes that are able to generate a Shroud-like coloration of linen fibers.
"Concerning Occam's razor, I am a scientist, and when I wish to understand a phenomenon, seeking for a scientific explanation, I use microscopes, spectrometers, image detectors and other laboratory tools. I see Mr. Nickell prefers using philosophical instruments like the medieval Occam's razor, a theory proposed in the 14th century. Each of us is free to choose the most familiar tool to find answers."
Update for noon ET Dec. 27: And Nickell responds...
"Di Lazzaro equates the depth of colored coatings that were stripped from surface fibers (using adhesive tape) with the depth of penetration that might be determined by cross-sectioning of actual threads, then asserts that a single fiber's examination (still apparently not cross-sectioned) has 'confirmed' the dubious claims. Given the tremendous evidence against the 'shroud' — its incompatibility with Jewish burial practices, lack of historical record, bishop's report of the forger's confession, the still-bright-red 'blood' which failed forensic serological tests, the presence of pigments and paints throughout the image, three laboratories' radiocarbon dating of the cloth to the time of the confession (1260–1390), and much additional evidence — it would seem that Di Lazzaro is straining at a gnat and attempting to swallow a camel. Let him produce a shroudlike image according to whatever theory he can muster, and we'll talk again."
The chatter on the Shroud:
- ENEA: Shroud-like coloration of linen fabrics by vacuum UV radiation
- Int'l Workshop on the Scientific Approach to Acheiropoietos Images
- Telegraph: Study claims Shroud is Christ's authentic burial robe
- Daily Mail: The Turin Shroud DOES have miraculous powers
- The Independent: Scientists say Shroud is supernatural
- Center for Inquiry: Turin 'Shroud' called 'supernatural'
- Telegraph: The Turin Shroud is fake. Get over it
Earlier tales of the Shroud of Turin:
- Documentary looks at the face in the Shroud
- 'Jesus-era' cloth casts doubt on Turin Shroud
- Could new test settle Shroud of Turin debate?
- Public gets a look at the Shroud of Turin
Journal references from Paolo Di Lazzaro:
Peer reviewed Journals:
G. Baldacchini, P. Di Lazzaro, D. Murra, G. Fanti: "Coloring linens with excimer lasers to simulate the body image of the Turin Shroud" Applied Optics vol. 47, 1278-1283 (2008).
P. Di Lazzaro, D. Murra, A. Santoni, G. Fanti, E. Nichelatti, G. Baldacchini: "Deep Ultraviolet radiation simulates the Turin Shroud image" Journal of Imaging Science and Technology vol. 54, 040302-(6) (2010).
Conference Proceedings
P. Di Lazzaro, G. Baldacchini, G. Fanti, D. Murra, E. Nichelatti, A. Santoni: "A physical hypothesis on the origin of the body image embedded into the Turin Shroud" Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on The Shroud of Turin: Perspectives on a Multifaceted Enigma, edited by G. Fanti (Edizioni Libreria Progetto Padova 2009) pp. 116 – 125. ISBN 978-88-96477-03-08 01-12.
P. Di Lazzaro, G. Baldacchini, G. Fanti, D. Murra, A. Santoni: "Colouring fabrics with excimer lasers to simulate encoded images: the case of the Shroud of Turin", XVIII Int. Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, High-Power Lasers, edited by R. Vilar, Proceedings SPIE vol. 7131 (2009) pp. 71311R-1 – 71311R-6.
P. Di Lazzaro, D. Murra, A. Santoni, G.- Baldacchini: "Sub-micrometer coloration depth of linens by vacuum ultraviolet radiation", Proc. International Workshop on the Scientific approach to the Acheiropoietos Images, edited by P. Di Lazzaro (2010) pp. 3 – 10.
D. Murra, P. Di Lazzaro: "Sight and brain, an introduction to the visually misleading images", Proc. International Workshop on the Scientific approach to the Acheiropoietos Images, edited by P. Di Lazzaro (2010) pp. 31 – 34.
Technical Reports
G. Baldacchini, P. Di Lazzaro, D. Murra, G. Fanti: "Colorazione di tessuti di lino con laser ad eccimeri e confronto con l'immagine sindonica" ENEA RT/2006/70/FIM (2006).
P. Di Lazzaro: "Wissenschaftliche Hypothesen zur Entstehung des Bildes auf dem Turiner Grabtuch" 30Tagen n.4 (2010) pp. 63-66.
P. Di Lazzaro, D. Murra, E. Nichelatti, A. Santoni, G. Baldacchini: "Colorazione similsindonica di tessuti di lino tramite radiazione nel lontano ultravioletto: riassunto dei risultati ottenuti presso il Centro ENEA di Frascati negli anni 2005 -2010" RT/2011/14/ENEA (2011).
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Nook pre-orders have been sold out since November 20th, and orders placed after that have been subject to oft-delayed ship dates. Now B&N says that these backordered Nooks won't ship until January 11th, even later than reported this morning.
Remember, if you ordered a Nook before November 20th, B&N promises it'll make it by Christmas—but if you waited until after the 20th, your only options are to wait until the backordered Nooks start shipping on January 11th, or fight your way through the likely crowds at the few high-traffic retail stores that'll have them on December 7th. We're also hearing about more general shifting of ship dates—anybody pre-order one and have their estimated time of arrival changed? [Barnes & Noble via Engadget]


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I have been visiting the battlefields of the Western Front for about twenty years now. In order to be able to potter to my heart's content I moved to France in 2003, bringing my meagre pension with me.
Through the menu on the right side of the page you should be able to explore the countryside.
Not everything is covered because there is so much to see and visit. My objective is to try and link things together so that with luck readers who were looking for one thing will find something else that interests them nearby. That's how the site is constructed: I become distracted by something totally unconnected with the research in hand, but interesting all the same.
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KWPT Commission Approves Duck and Goose Seasons
Low Plains Southeast Zone duck season to open Nov. 15
The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission approved season dates for the 2012-2013 duck and goose seasons at a public hearing conducted at the
Kansas Wetlands Education Center near on Aug. 23. Duck seasons are as follows: High Plains Unit – Oct. 6-Dec. 30 and Jan. 19-27, 2013; Low Plains Early Zone – Oct. 6-Dec. 2 and Dec. 15-30, 2012; Low Plains Late Zone – Oct. 27-Dec. 30 and Jan. 19-27, 2013; Low Plains Southeast Zone – Nov. 15, 2012-Jan. 27, 2013. Great Bend
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Shooting hours for duck and goose hunting are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset. The daily bag limit for ducks is 6 ducks with species and sex restrictions as follows: 5 mallards (only 2 of which may be hens), 3 wood ducks, 2 pintails, 2 redheads and 1 canvasback. Daily bag limit for mergansers is 5 (only 2 of which may be hooded). Daily bag limit for coots is 15. Daily bag limits for geese are as follows: 3
geese, 2 white-fronted geese, and 20 light geese. Possession limit for ducks and geese is twice the daily bag limit, except there is no possession limit for light geese. During the conservation order for light geese, there is no daily bag or possession limit.
Special youth waterfowl seasons allow youth 15 and younger to hunt under the supervision of an adult 18 years old or older. The adult may not hunt. Shooting hours and bag limits are the same as during the regular duck and goose seasons. Youth seasons are as follows: High Plains Unit and Low Plains Early Zone – Sept. 29-30; Low Plains Late Zone – Oct. 20-21; and Low Plains Southeast Zone – Nov. 3-4.
The Commission also approved changes to the falconry regulations, which bring
state regulations in compliance with federal requirements and allows falconers to operate under a state-managed system with federal oversight.
Changes were approved to rehabilitation permit regulations as a result of changes in the falconry regulations related to the possession requirements for treatment of injured animals.
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