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Is it time to accept literal religious belief systems are intellectually bankrupt?
Is it time to accept literal religious belief systems are intellectually bankrupt given our current scientific understanding of the universe?
For thousands of years different religious belief systems have explained how the universe came into existence and appears the way it is, why we are here, how we should live, and what happens when we die.
Often these beliefs are enshrined in religious texts, from prophets, revelations, or interpreted by a priestly class. In addition to creation myths, there are laws and tribal history/mythologies, miraculous claims etc.
Today we have the benefit of being more aware of the variety of religious beliefs and science to show us that life and the universe is far more complex than most religious traditions give credit. The older religions are so often clearly products of their time and place in terms of explaining the world, what is acceptable, how we should live.
In asking this question I note at best only one of the many religious views could be literally correct and likely none are. While other foreign beliefs seem alien, strange and far fetched, if we are examine the traditions we are familiar with they too are strange. Religions are like clothes and language - artifacts of culture.
Today we laugh at the idea the world is flat, or the centre or the universe, that the sun and the moon are gods. We understand atoms and bacteria, plate tectonics and are starting to grasp the age and size of the universe, evolution and the diversity of life, the quantum.
Science better explains the universe, human behaviour. While never complete, perhaps science gives us a better basis for a rationale debate on the meaning and wonder of life and how best to live.
Do different religions support tribalism, or at least make it worse?
Are fundamental religious views holding back science and social development?
Are Deism or beliefs related to a non interventionist intelligence or creator still valid hypotheses and less damaging?
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There was an article in the paper yesterday discussing the US Republican candidates. It mentioned that over 40% of US Americans believe in the genesis stories. In the only country to put humans on the moon and holding the most powerful and technologically advanced military in human history, nearly half the population believes the universe was created in 6 days, Eden, the tree of knowledge, god walking in the garden, Adam, Eve, Abel, Cain, people living 900+ years etc.
I note many religious folk commented below that that they believe these scriptures are not meant to be taken literally.
Perhaps some literal beliefs are easy to discount. If you believe the Earth is a flat disc sitting on the back of a giant turtle flying through space, or gods routinely walking the earth, I suggest we can file these away as myth.
Key considerations for the other literal beliefs may include (1) whether humans were created as is or evolved and (2) whether the universe is about 6,000 years old or about 13 billion years old. (3) Are the other super normal/natural claims believable?
A god could have created the universe to look much older than it is. Our genetic similarity with other living creatures may just be the way we were created. But what a tenuous connection to reality this is. I suggest this is getting as close to being intellectually unsustainable as possible if not already over the line.
A literalist believes all the other interpretations are false. I suggest they are just one away from a more intellectually sustainable position. There is no proof for even a non interventionist creator.
A big question is how these seemingly nonsense stories, some with roots in the Bronze Age, are still believed today. Perhaps a topic for another conversation?
Thank you for all the thoughtful comments.
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Mar 2 2012: "Science and rational thought provides the basis that does or will explain our experience and behaviour"
Yes, G M, i agree with that. However, not everyone does and people are entitled to believe what suits them even if it doesn't appear completely rational. Isn't this the whole point of Neil MacGregor's talk? I recall an episode of Friends where Ross is frustratedly explaining evolutionary evidence to Phoebe and telling her she cannot not believe the science, to which she replies I don't believe it, I just don't. Good for her. What difference would it make to her life if she did believe it rather than the superstitious mumbo jumbo that gives her comfort on a daily basis?
Scientists' right to state the facts as they see them should certainly be defended and they can be forgiven a little over-enthusiasm given the wonderful things that are being discovered. People rely on science without knowing or realising just how much, and many people, thankfully, just accept the benefits it offers them without regard for the way it clashes with their stated beliefs. Science should continue to make stealthy advance and will probably eventully win out. Meanwhile let's see if we can all find a way to get on together
Mar 2 2012: Good points John. I guess I support freedom of religion (within limits respecting the rights of others) .
People can believe the world is flat if they want. No issue.
However, I would suggest we are at the point that this belief is intellectually unsustainable.
Same with literal religious beliefs in my view. But I'm not stopping people believing the world is 6,000 years old or that Buddha was born out the side of his mother. You actually can't force people to stop believing what they believe I guess. People change there mind or their views evolve in their own time.
I suggest that a 50 year old born again believer might have refined views compared to what he believed at 15 as being absolutely 100% correct.
Jury is technically out on some sort of god in my view.
I'd like us all to get on too. I suggest its just really hard to find common ground with literalist believers compared to other theists. Literalists believers are locked in the past and believe they have the absolute
truth. Sure many of us have strongly help opinions. I do. But I have changed some based on the evidence, reading discussion, debate. I was for invading Iraq when I believed there were WMD there. Then I was against it once it was evident we had been misled. A fundamentalist Jew or Muslim believe they have a divine right to the same land. Again there are plenty of land disputes with no gods involved, but I believe religion adds another level of heat.
I actually believe in freedom of/from religion. I suggest many literalists see it as their mission to convert all of us.
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"The team felt Zul'Aman was one of our best raid dungeons of all time, but that it launched late in the Burning Crusade expansion cycle, so not that many players got a chance to experience it when it first came out. It was really the "hidden jewel" of Burning Crusade raiding. "
Unlike Naxx, which truly was the pinnacle of vanilla raid design and which virtually no one ever saw, ZA was potentially the worst of the BC raids, and I'm shocked that the devs either honestly thought otherwise or felt it was good PR to say so. Everything about ZA was a conceptual recycle of ZG. It may have had a few entertaining mechanics and it may have had some fun gimmicks, but to say it was a "hidden jewel" or "best raid dungeon of all time" is just silly. It's even dumber when you remember its primary competitor in its own expansion was Karazhan, which, while far from hidden, was and still is easily one of the top five raids blizzard has ever designed.
I think the love for ZG is well noted and a lot of people are happy to see it come back. At least as far as the people I've played with, ZA was useful only because we could sell bears to rich pubbies for thousands of gold. Otherwise, it was an annoying, often painful experience with no coherent grounding in lore. As far as I can tell, the design of ZA was, take ZG, cross off bat, tiger, panther, spider and Jin'do, write in eagle, lynx, bear, dragonhawk and Malacrass and add a timer. The color and architecture is even almost the same!
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No coherent grounding in lore? Zul'jin and the rest of the Forest Trolls (which date back pretty far with High Elves) all want to say "hi". o_O
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Yeah, forest trolls and zul'man existed but why were the players going there? Besides that they wanted a war bear.
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I thought it was alot of fun. The problem was that it was the only 10 you could raid besides Kara, and the lockout was every 3 days so you ran it way too much. I suppose if your guild was clearing BT it wouldn't be so exciting, because you outgeared it, but it was pretty challenging with just T4 level.

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Today's reintroduction of beavers to the wild in Scotland for the first time in 400 years is a milestone for the protection and improvement of Scotland's biodiversity, said conservation charity Trees for Life.
Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham is due to visit the trial site at Knapdale in Argyll later today to release some of the 17 beavers from Norway.
Alan Watson Featherstone, Trees for Life's Executive Director, said: "The Scottish Beaver Trial is a major step forward in reversing our country's long history of biodiversity decline and loss.
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Pages about European Beaver on this site
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- Beavers: Aspen heaven or hell?
- Beavers and Aspen: looking to the future
- Beavers are Back! Caledonia Wild! Summer 2009
- Beaver trial a milestone for Scottish biodiversity Press release 29th May 2009
- Beavers to return to Scotland at last! Caledonia Wild! Summer 2008
- Press release: trial reintroduction of beavers (29th May 2008)
- Scottish executive says no to beavers Caledonia Wild! Winter 2005
- Trees for Life calls for approval of a trial reintroduction of the European beaver 1 March 2005
- Beaver reintroduction decision delayed Caledonia Wild! Spring 2003
- Response from Trees for Life to the public consultation (1998) about beaver reintroduction to Scotland
- Beaver news Caledonia Wild! Winter 2000-01
- Reintroduction of the European Beaver (Castor fiber) into Scotland
External links to pages about European Beaver in the UK
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- The Scottish Wildlife Trust's Beaver Campaign
- Scottish Executive approves a trial reintroduction of beavers (25th May 2008)
- Beavers believed to be on loose (18 April 2008)
- 6 Beavers released into an enclosed lake at Lower Mill Estate in the Cotswold Water Park, October 2005
- Beavers released into an enclosure at Aigas, Scotland, April 2006
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Can you believe that summer is coming to an end? Can you believe that it's time to go back to school? Are your kids ready? Are you ready? I was a kindergarten teacher and I know how apprehensive kids can be those first few weeks of school.
Today I'd like to share with you a cute and easy way to bring a smile to your child's face by reminding them {halfway through the day} that you are thinking about them.
Start with a regular lunchbox {if your child has an insulated lunchbox, see below for an alternative method}.
Tape around the edges of the lid and cover the rest of the lunch box with a plastic bag.
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**If your child has an insulated lunchbox: Cut a piece of vinyl to fit the inside of the lid. Before attaching, spray paint the vinyl with chalkboard paint. Allow the vinyl to dry overnight. Peel adhesive backing off and place on inside of lid. Use a flat edge to smooth out any bubbles.**
Get out your chalk and start writing. Any little message will put a smile on their face. Tell them what you will do together after school or just simply tell them you love them.
Now pack your baby a healthy lunch and send them off to school! They will be surprised at lunchtime when they open up their box and get a little reminder of how much you love them.
My Little Man # 1 {Jack} is ready for his first day of 3-year-old preschool! It's hard to believe that in just two more years he will be in kindergarten. Where does the time go? I hope everyone enjoyed their summer vacation. Hope your little one's first day back to school is a success!
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Green, a Baseball America preseason All-Southeastern Conference first-team selection, got his first start since getting the nod at Florida on April 1, 2005. The 6-foot-8, 245-pound right-hander opened up his 2008 season in impressive fashion, striking out the side in the top of the first inning. Aside from Fairfield's three-run second inning, Green was perfect, sitting down 10, now allowing a walk, working five innings, and seven hits. Green nearly single handedly retired the first eight outs of the game, striking out seven and recording one ground out hit back to the mound. Continue reading


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Chapter Two : Evan0 Reviews
Meet Evan, a fourteen year old boy. He lives with his grandparents on a small farm. But little does Evan know. He is a Summoner.
Evan clapped as his grandfather finished his story.
"Did the Summoner really get eaten by the sea serpent?" he asked.
Even though he was fourteen Evan still enjoyed the stories that his Grandfather told his family.
"That's what we think" Garo answered "but no one knows for sure. The Summoner might have succeeded, that might be the reason that we don't see Keli anymore. But they did not disappear until they killed a whole city full of humans." Evan had been raised by his grandparents since he was ten. When his parents were killed, he had been given over to them and was now living in this old shack with his ten year old sister, Lillian, and five year old brother, Keli.
"Keli's my name!" he shrieked, the only stories that he would not fall asleep in was the ones with his name in them.
"Grandfather?" asked Evan "how do you tell you are a Summoner?"
"Well, good question," Answered Garo "it is very hard to explain, you know there is a Summoner every thousand years, so the only way to become a Summoner is if you are related to him and if you are born on the exact same day, time, and place as the previous one, there is another way but we don't know what it is."
"It would be awfully hard to become a Summoner" said Evan
"I want to be a Summoner!" said Lillian "then I can do everything and not be afraid of it"
"That's not true Lilly" explained their grandfather "remember that the Summoner was deathly afraid of sea serpents."
Evan Scoffed "well who wouldn't be. He did get eaten by one"
"And they can't do everything. See, the Summoners' have strict rules. You must not look into other peoples minds, you can not kill people. And the Summoner disobeyed those rules. And there are great punishments for them. And the Summoner received them. The only way to get through them is to be immortal, so the Summoner went on the quest to get it. He also wanted to wait one thousand years to kill the next Summoner and still be the greatest one in the world." Then grandmother walked out of the kitchen.
"Well? Are you finished filling up our grandchildren's heads with lies?" she asked "It's time for supper! Oh and Evan clean yourself up."
"Yes Grandmother" replied Evan.
He looked at his reflection in the water. Evan was quite the handsome fourteen-year old. He had long curly black hair, tanned skin, and was very tall and muscular. To add more good looks ones that he already had, Evan had the most dazzling eyes. He once heard a girl talking to her friend about them, "Those ice blue eyes, they freeze you in your foot steps when he passes." Girls, they annoyed him more than anything, more than the greatest foe. When he walked into the kitchen his grandmother said "What took you so long? The supper is getting cold"
"I was only gone five minutes" he said back.
"It THAT how you talk to your elders?" yelled his grandmother.
"Katrina, please," said his grandfather "give mercy to us all and not be grumpy as usual." Evan sniggered.
"Well," she said picking up both Garo's and Evan's plates "go hungry." Then she dumped the food on their laps.
"Oh!" she said in mock concern "you two are so dirty! Go feed the pigs, and the other animals." Evan groaned. This was faking or else Katrina would do something worse.
Even though Evan hated pigs, he enjoyed spending time with his grandfather.
"We are going to town tomorrow, sound fun?" asked Garo. Evan shrugged.
"Are we going to the black smith's shop?" He loved going there and looking at the swords.
"No" Garo "I'm not, but you can"
"Really?" said Evan, his voice cracking in excitement.
"Evan you are fourteen" his grandfather "and I think you are old enough, you have shown responsibility with your siblings, even in these dark times."
"Thanks" Evan smiled sadly. His Grand Father used to be so protective of him. When warriors came to town they saw his mother (Evan had his mothers looks) they said to his father to hand her over to be a prize slave, for a present to the captain of the victory. Of course his father refused. But after they threatened to kill Evan and his siblings, his mother had to accept. After a week, his father couldn't bear not having his wife in the house. So he went to get her back. Evan could remember the look on Garo's face when his father told him what he was about to do. "I will bring your daughter home" his father said "I swear." And that was the last time he saw his father. Of course he blocked out the memory of seeing his parents mangled bodies at the side of the river. After that Garo never let his grandchildren out of sight, Evan knew that he did not want to lose another child.
"There was another slave raid again tonight" said Katrina when they got inside "Garo, you should not let Evan go alone, I'm worried"
"Do you always have to eavesdrop Katrina?" answered Garo "Evan is a man now, I am going to teach him how to defend him self, that is why I want him to go to the black smiths. He shall get his first sword!"
"What? Me? You want me to get a sword?" Evan was dumb founded.
A sword, he thought as he lay in the bed he shared with Keli, a real sword.
"Evan?" called his grandmother "I think there is a vase in your room mind getting it for me?"
Yes. Yes I do mind.
He grumbled as he got out of his warm bed, his bones ached. Oh I wish it could come to me, he thought. Suddenly the vase hovered right to him. Evan yelled in fright, and made the vase drop and break. He cursed,
"Evan!" yelled Katrina "that was a good vase, clean it up." She tried to sound nice, but it didn't work "you have a big day tomorrow."
"I'm sorry Grandmother. I'll pay for another one." He said
"And then get to bed" growled his grandmother.
He tossed and turned that night not being able to sleep. Two things bothered him, one, he just remembered how poor they were. When his grandparents took them in they lost all they had because of child taxes. Kalama was a crude king. If there someone who had no money, the kings slave traders came and took them for slavery. Every one in the town was struggling to keep at least some money, so they would not have to endure countless beatings. The other reason of Evan's discomfort was, how in the world did that vase come to him? He searched his mind for answers. This was not the first time this happened to him. But this was the first time he was conscience. Once he dreamed that there was a cat flying towards him and when he awoke there was one hovering beside his bed. But when he woke again in the morning he thought that was just part of the dream. Evan decided that if something like this happened again he would tell Garo. He drifted into an unwanted sleep.
The Keli's crying woke him up with a start.
"EVAN!" he screamed "you knocked me off the bed!" Evan rolled his eyes, his brother cried all day.
"Sorry" he mumbled.
"Evan?" asked Lillian entering the room "what was all the screaming about? You scared me." Lillian was very shy; she had no friends and always was teased by the town's bullies. He wanted to protect her, but he was so busy working for Marith the eccentric stable man. Evan thought, she has hardly any fun, oh I wish I could do something with her. His brain sparked, Lillian loved swords just as much as he did perhaps even more. "Lilly?" he asked "would you like to come to the black smiths with me?"
"What?" she answered "I won't be allowed. Grandmother will never let me, and besides what will Keli do."
"Grandmother will take care of him. I really want you to come." Evan said. Lillian was like his best friend and the only girl he liked. When Lillian grew older she would be the prettiest girl in Eleanor, she had blond hair, sparkling green eyes, and her skin was always pale, why Marith said she looked like an elf, and she did have strangely pointed ears.
"I'm not sure" she said sheepishly
"Fine" said Evan his impatience growing "don't come, I don't care, I do have money to buy you a fine dagger, but I can get one for my self"
"You would get me a dagger?" she said quietly "I'm sorry, get it for yourself you need it"
"I already have one," he said "besides, I want to get you one"
"Oh Evan!" she ran to him and threw her arms around him "Thank you."
"No problem."
"But before we tell Grandfather" she looked at Keli "we need to clean this little piglet." Keli started screaming all over again.
After they wrestled Keli into the warm lake, Evan and Lillian dreamed of what they would get at the black smith's
"This is so kind of you Evan" Lilly said "I dearly hope Grandfather will let me."
"I'll drive him to it" Evan answered "besides what will he have to argue about, I'm going to get you a weapon, and a woman of your beauty will have to defend her self."
"Ugh!" she said back "You are so annoying sometimes an- Evan stop!"
Evan was tugging on her hair, she hated when he did, that was the main reason he did it. Lillian and Evan wrestled a little while Keli walked around in the shallow lake.
When they got to the table Lillian gave a go ahead look.
"Grandfather?" he said
"Yes?" came the soft voice of Garo
"Um... I.....eh" Evan was stuttering "I was wondering if......um...if Lillian would come with me to...uh....the black smith's with me"
"WHAT?" Screamed Katrina "You, take Lillian to the smiths? When did you get that idea?"
"Well she rarely gets to do something with me and I thought...uh... I really want her to come I'll take my dagger!"
"Please?" Lillian pleaded "I don't want to be stuck with Keli, again" she added giving Keli a sharp look.
"No!" confirmed Katrina "Won't they Garo?"
"You can go." He said, Katrina's eyes filled with tears
"I guess you want them to die too." She said, and went to their room slamming the door. Evan could still hear her sobs when they left.


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Drunk car crashes. . .2 Reviews
Brendon isn't taking the kidnappings very well. . .
Beautiful Disaster
(#) theblondeone0828 2007-03-24 08:49:22 PMahhhhhhhh.
that plan by bob is totally pure evil.
more soon!!!!
Author's responseYes, I know it is.I'll update again later tonight. i'm on a roll. . .
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Concert review: Falling for (and with) Over the Rhine at the Old Rock House, Friday, November 9
Over the Rhine played a beautiful, haunting performance last night at the Old Rock House and spread the love.
As a duo, married singer-songwriters Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist are as close to a match made in musical heaven as anything I've seen, but they are far from the perfect couple. Anyone who has attended a dinner party as a guest of a "power-couple" knows the effect a well-played conjugal performance can have on the ill-prepared — the stories told in punctuated harmony that can easily upstage the music, the moments of mutual reverence and the general impression of endless, daily contentment that trigger unwanted envy and understandable insecurity.
These types of couples don't keep good friends for long, since who wants to cope with a constant reminder that your own marriage seems harder than it should and love isn't all you need; but Linford and Karin display a remarkable vulnerability in both their on-stage presence and in their music that seduces you with honesty and urges you to cherish what you love. They are the couple you want to love because you want to know them better, not the couple you hate because you can never be like them.
Early in the night, a beautiful rendition of "All My Favorite People" set this tone. The song is a meditation on human frailty and an earnest acceptance that we are all, eventually, damaged goods and better because of it. This humility isn't fleeting, Karin's voice throughout their canon is a salve to the unrepentant cynic: "Cause all my favorite people are broken/Believe me, my heart should know/As for your tender heart, this world's going to rip it wide open, /It aint gonna be pretty, but you're not alone."
And the audience didn't feel alone either. Throughout the night, Linford provided us with measured, well-crafted narratives sharing intimate moments from the couple's life. He spoke of dusky evenings when a song was born, a glimpse into surprising domesticity, when they sat as the sun went down on the porch of their pre-Civil War farmhouse in the Ohio valley, and wrote a song. But rather than mythologize their love, they seem resigned to suffer it, and in that they share something precious, and real, and troubled at times: "What may seem complicated/Is overstated, downright misunderstood/Love will not be outdated/Maybe placated, but it's got to be good."
It is difficult not to engage in speculation with these two. Karin Brequist is a stunning woman whose beauty is captivating long before a note escapes from her lips in song. An earth-bound beauty, she sings from deep within, breathy and rustic and never overwrought — with a signature sound their one-time producer Joe Henry likened to "…blue smoke in rafters." There is wistfulness to Karin that invites curious assumption and begs the listener for empathy. When an audience member tried unsuccessfully at first to catch her attention by shouting out a snippet from a well-known lyric, "I couldn't love you more than I love you now," she quipped in return, "Oh..I thought you were getting fresh with me…" then with a gracious, soft let-down, "and it's all right if you were," she left us all to swoon a little. A mystery hangs over her and invites you close, promising intimacy that may overwhelm but seems ready to embrace.
In contrast, Linford is a driving force, "with a lust for light and an iron will." His narrative weaves everything together, from their home, to Ohio, to their life as itinerant musicians. This forced perspective can itself overwhelm, and his background — a son of a preacher who himself roamed the country — seems tailored to a professional dreamer, a skilled poet and a willful lover, ruthlessly applying an aesthetic like a missionary of music to "leave the edges wild."
This couple has many friends. They are featured in their songs, cultivated from tours, and seem to be carried along in spite of failings or fair-weatheredness with a fierce, dogged loyalty. How do I know this having never met them? It is because I believe this to be true and do not want the dream to die.
As any fan of Over the Rhine will tell you, and there was a sold out crowd this Friday evening, they remain an inspiration, not out of misplaced worship but hard-won piety. They are almost financed exclusively through fans and avoid entanglements with record labels and producers. Fans have collaborated on their albums, donating to them with no expectations of return, save the music, which appears to me to be the greatest gift of all, apart from love that is. As the evening wound down, the crowd — predominantly couples — left hand in hand, heads on shoulder, and with each, possessing a little bit more love than when the night began. If that's not a friend, than I don't know what is.


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As the winds blew of the col winter night a new family was moving in. my name is hannah i have brown hair and big eyes and no friends. i dont fit in anywere till today.
mom wake up there is a new family next door i guess they moved in when we were sleeeping . i know hannah they have a girl your age. you should be her friend. i dont know mom.. ill think about it
hannah tonight were all going over to see them so u have no choice but to talk too her. mom fine ill be her friend so shut the hell up about it. ill see you u after school mom.
as night came fast the moon came out and i hurd a weird noise coming from outside it sounds like an animal dieing i have never hurd this sound befor. come on hannah its time to go. "ding dong" yes hellow who are you?
i live next door i wonted to welcom u.
o hellow thank u for being so nice but plz leave
hey im not leaveing till u let me in and eat this pie
fine come in come in
hellow im hannah and u are?moonlight and why are u talking to me? i wont to be your friend NO!!!
ha ha ha as she bit the flesh off hannahs kneck hannah is changeing into a vampire just like moonlight. yes for everone who really read this u guessed right moonlight is a emo vampire i bet u would of nv guessed that did u? i made is chapter so boring sp you would be bord like i am every day. i dont wright storys i wright poems and give tips and advise.. or is what i just said anather lie? you will never know.. this story really comes with a meaning if u guess it inbox me ur answer of what u think the meaning is and if u guess it right i will tell u somethng about me that no one knows. so goodbye
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One of the best trivial pursuit questions ever "How many of every five Americans watch their bread while it's toasting?" #trivialpursuit #trivia #seriously #me (at Saints Pub + Patio)
Doing cute things with Aaron while celebrating my Dad's Birthday
My New Years :)
Wolf Pack
Dinner at Pachamamas
Birthday Song
Lighting candles on a birthday cake after a few margaritas… you can see how that went… Aaron: "Ow!…Ow!…Ow!" and MegT swooping in for the win.
Cake Time!
21st Birthday Fiesta!
Look what I found!
The stages of my frustration due to waiting on an email stating whether or not I got a job.
Finished product for the Billboard, it's just so weird seeing myself all Photoshopped and what not…
At Eric's Birthday party, HAD A GREAT TIME. Partied with some fun bitches that I hadn't seen in a while as I celebrated Eric's ability to purchase his own booze.
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Hope you guys are havin' a dank Easter as well!
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The World is Changing, and Strategies Need to Adapt Along The Way
Keith Meade | Strategy
As a parent of two young children, I often receive this advice from other parents: As soon as you think you have it figured out, kids change and challenge you in different ways. So true.
This video from Eddie Obeng at a TED event helps illustrate how the changes we see in children is only beginning to address how fast the world is changing right now. Especially the technical and digital spaces in which we live.
Just in the past 30 days we are seeing big changes in how our clients connect with their audiences:
- Mobile audiences have surpassed the desktop/laptop audience.
- Clients who were traditionally in the BtoB space are realizing the importance of reaching the consumer.
- Clients are addressing how search and mobile traffic impact the customer experience.
What I love about Eddie's presentation is that it brings home the point of developing strategies that embrace change. Companies and organizations must adopt this practice to remain competitive.
Do your projects account for change management? If the project doesn't go live for 6 to 12 months down the road, and it's based on traffic patterns from 6 months prior, your entire audience could change in that time frame.
As marketers, we need to be where the puck will be, not where it was.


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As Big Banks Are Scrutinized, Look To These Regionals
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I have followed the banking industry, and regional banks in particular, most of my adult life. I liked regional banks in particular because I believed I understood how they earned money. They took in cheap depositor cash, and loaned out that money in mortgage, credit card, and commercial loans to create generous net interest income. They supplemented that with modest fee income from those credit cards, mortgage applications, and the like. As long as bad loans were minimal, it was easy to understand and hardly any more difficult for banks to earn profits.
In this month's Atlantic Magazine, Professor Frank Portnoy and Jesse Eisinger took a look at what exists in the here and now, especially with regard to the perceived opacity which inhabits big banks' balance sheets and income statements. Essentially, they ripped to shreds Wells Fargo's (NYSE: WFC) financial reporting in its audited annual report, making note of the trillions of dollars that are at risk. And to think, Wells Fargo, with the glowing support of Warren Buffett, is widely thought of as the nation's most conservative and well run big bank.
But even knowing that many of the problems that led to the 2008 banking crisis exist in different forms today, we can see that big banks are rife with actual financial and legal foibles. JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), whose CEO Jaime Dimon is regarded as the "smartest banker" in the industry, managed to lose some $6 billion from its London trading desk in early in 2012, at a time when the bank was stating its daily at risk amount, or value at risk, was well under $100 million.
Taking a broader look at the big bank atmosphere, one might wonder with profits at or above the 2006 and 2007 highs, why aren't stock prices. Many of those banks, as well as many regional banks, are selling at or below their tangible book values, implying investors do not believe the quality of banks' reported numbers. There is the Libor scandal, which has already caused fines levied against Barclays (BCS) and UBS Bank (UBS) and still threatens to impair the balance sheets of JPMorgan, Bank of America (BAC), and Deutsche Bank (DB).
Add in the Abacus Scandal that Goldman Sachs (GS) had the lead role in, rigging the investment against the public and in favor of itself, and the long history of civil and administrative penalties paid by Citigroup (C), and it seems none of the big banks are actually concerned about honor or transparency.
Other than the Libor and other recent scandals of these banks, what else do they all have in common? They are all on the list of the Financial Stability Board's opinion of the 29 banks that are still too large, or at least systemically important, to fail.
I am not against the idea of investing in big banks. It is just important to have some respect for what you are getting into before one invests in any of them. I am bullish on Wells Fargo, and almost bullish about Citigroup.
Regional banks are not as simple as they once were, but they hold nowhere near the skeletons in their closets as the big banks have. My favorite types of regional banks are those that struggled greatly in the recession, have struggled to come back, but are showing signs of doing exactly that. Suntrust Bank (STI) and Regions Financial (RF) are two clear examples. Another is BancorpSouth (NYSE: BXS), a Mississippi based regional with about 300 branches mostly in its home state, Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Its stock price is struggling at less than half its pre recessionary price, but with good reason as earnings are about half of what they were in the middle of last decade.
BancorpSouth is on pace to more than double its earnings in 2012 from 2011, for its best year in the last four. Analysts expect earnings for 2012 of about $91 million, or $0.96 per share, compared with $38 million, or $0.45 per share in 2011. But I see far better days ahead, as the bank begins to expand again its loan portfolio and manages to reduce credit costs further. The $91 million in 2012 earnings will still be only a 0.66 return on assets. As an institution with a long history of averaging about a 1.2% return on assets, BancorpSouth has the chance to double its earnings and stock price, out to mid-decade. I do not like its geographic footprint as much as I do Regions' or SunTrust's', but for those wanting to take a chance on a bank with a real potential for capital growth, BancorpSouth is an option.
Flagstar Bank (NYSE: FBC), the largest savings bank in the Midwest with about $14 billion in assets, has come a long way since the New York Stock Exchange warned that Flagstar was close to losing its NYSE listing. An October 10:1 reverse stock split got Flagstar's stock price up over $1 per share. The stock price has nearly doubled since October though, on the back of an improving balance sheet and earnings. The balance sheet shed $1.2 billion in commercial loans to CIT Group at the end of 2012. The company has blown through profit estimates the last two quarters, and I look for it again to exceed forecasts of $0.82 per share in the fourth quarter. The economy Flagstar is rooted upon in Southeast Michigan is showing growth in real estate prices and economic activity, and I look for Flagstar to have a stellar 2013. The company is selling for about five times earnings, and I think this company is a winner.
M&T (NYSE: MTB) is another, albeit larger regional bank I will keep my eye on in 2013. M&T has historically been a well-run regional bank. But its pending 2012 purchase of Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK) will change that. It is not often a large purchase not only will be immediately accretive to the acquirer's earnings, but to the purchaser's capital ratios as well. The Hudson City purchase will drive M&T's 2013 earnings up by as much as $1.40 per share, above an already solid bottom line in 2012. That gain of roughly 20% is not reflected in the current price, and I am highly confident that M&T will be a winner in the banking sector, and market overall, in 2013.
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Here's how Will Wright played the new SimCity
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Being able to rope in the creator of SimCity to help promote your new entry in the series is a bit of a PR coup for EA. In this new video, Will Wright (for it is he) has a chat with Stone Librande about the manner in which he played the new game.
Wait a second … Stone Librande? Ocean Quigley? Are people over at the SimCity development team just making up their own unusual names now?
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I'm going out on a shopping trip by myself to a big town for the first time in months.
1) proud of myself
2) freaking out a little bit
Preach… People always telling me I'm better now because I'm not a stick anymore. Fuck you, you don't know my brain.
When are people going to realise that eating disorders are not weight disorders?
You don't have to be thin / underweight / emaciated to have an eating disorder.
You can look perfectly 'healthy', and have a monster in your mind that is destroying you from the inside.
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- Sold Date: 10/9/2009
- Type: Detached Single Family
- Year Built: 1950
- Garage: Electric Door or Gate Opener,2 Car Garage
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- Gas Water Heater
- High Ceilings
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- Electric Door or Gate Opener
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- Bedroom Types: 1 Master Bedroom Suite
- Exterior Features: Stucco Exterior
- Family Room: No Family Room
- Has Fireplaces (Y/N): No Fireplace
- HasPool (Y/N): No Pool
- Horse Property: No
- Levels: 1 Story
- REO: False
- Roof: Composition Roof
- Shower: 1 Stall Shower
- Tub and Shower: 1 Shower over Tub
- Tub: 1 Tub
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Hi, I'm Erin aka Wednesday's Child. I'm a stay at home mom in South Georgia. I like dancing, swimming, karaoke, singing in the church choir, thrift shopping, serving on god damn motherfucking committees, restaurants, trying new decadent recipes, drinking wine, cemeteries, cats, photography, pedicures, gossip, and making up goofy new lyrics to old pop songs. I even acted in a summer theater production of Fiddler on the Roof as Fruma Sarah, and I scared the shit out of most of the little kids (and several of the adults, including my dad who was a villager and set builder) with my Japanese horror style facial expressions as that opera singing ghost, but acting is too damn much work. I'd rather just be a film critic.
I studied English at Georgia Southern University, where I wrote for the independent student newspaper. I also watched a bunch of amazing films there because the English department used to rent 35 mm prints and show them at the student union theater. We got to see films like Blue Velvet, The Fourth Man, Tampopo, and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, years after their original theatrical runs (and let's be honest, they may never have had theatrical runs in this part of the state). So I was very lucky in terms of that part of my education. GSU is where I started writing movie reviews, but my weird film journey began in the surprisingly diverse video stores of my hometown, and with my weird and wonderful dad, who sat me down when I was a kid and showed me stuff like Monty Python, The Toxic Avenger, Cheech and Chong, and Peter Sellers.
I spent the 90s in Athens GA, mostly working in another amazing video store. We had Hong Kong action, Fulci, Something Weird, all the great art directors with their own sections…and 5,000 porn tapes. No shit. I did not like horror films very much back then, because they scared me too much (can you believe it?!), but I was a huge fan of the 90s independent talky dramedies.
I've also worked as a massage therapist, a house painter, a switchboard operator, and every damn job you can do in food service. But by far my best job has been my job as the mother and personal assistant to one hilarious, handsome, intelligent, and bossy little boy. He lives for video games (especially Minecraft), science, Nickelodeon, his own little blog, and telling me that I'm wrong, and he charges me a quarter every time I swear. He already likes Twin Peaks, Hausu, Ghostbusters, and Clue, and he's only 10. Actually, he thinks Ghostbusters 2 is the superior film, but that really was more of a kids' film, right? So we won't hold that against him. The family tradition of weird films continues! And now we have the miracle of high speed internet, where I can find more films to watch, and where I can share what I've found with you. I love talking to people I would otherwise never have met, in places I've never been, about the films that unite us all, and the obscurities I find on some dusty bottom shelf at the flea market.
This site consists of mostly reaction posts about horror, with some action and sci-fi thrown in to make me feel less morbid. I saw all the fun horror films that were so popular in the 80s, and I did rent some video nasty type films the minute I turned 18 after gazing longingly at the big boxes for so long on trips to the video store. Buio Omega was quite a shock to 18 year old me, as was I Spit on Your Grave, when my childhood horror experience had consisted of films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Poltergeist! But I didn't become a horror freak until about 2007. I started watching horror in an unconscious effort to work out some aggression, and then a couple of years later I started this blog as a way of making myself feel like I was using my degree. Even though, if you asked my professors, I was only a B student when it came to writing post modern critical essays, and academia was not for me after the bachelor's degree was done, I do love finding literary devices in trash cinema. As a bonus, you never have writer's block when you're blogging about films! So this has basically been one long independent study project. I've been working on this blog for five years now, and although I slow down at times, I don't see myself stopping anytime soon. There's a cavalcade of crap out there all along the cinematic spectrum. I'm gonna watch it all.
You may contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I also have another blog going which focuses on horror of the 1990s, at 90shorror.com, and a YouTube channel, inspired by my TV Tuesday series.
P.S. My husband is also a trash cinephile so please check out his blog, Wide Weird World of Cult Films.


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We are used to hearing about large awards being presented to those harmed, abused or injured by school teachers, police, firefighters, and other government employees.
The Santa Clarita City Council meeting this Tuesday will be the first chance for council members to consider the implications of the referendum against Ordinance 14-02.
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There is something special about getting out and enjoying the open-space areas of Santa Clarita.
Someone recently asked me to summarize the chloride issue in really simple terms.
I am responding to the op-ed article that Gary Horton wrote ("Oh, the places our tax money goes") that was published in the June 11 edition of The Signal.
There is a reason that conservatives in general and conservative Republicans specifically are angry and upset.
I am told that my kids go to a good elementary school, Stevenson Ranch Elementary. Not only have I been told that, but from the various awards located in the front of the building, I must assume that this school is a good one.
For years, policy-makers have assumed that any program to address global warming by cutting carbon emissions would be a drag on the economy and cause massive job losses.
One of our most necessary freedoms as Americans is the freedom of speech, as protected in the Bill of Rights. Yet, today, while much is being shouted and written supporting this prized privilege, the fact is the freedom to speak is being taken away.
The city of Santa Clarita is home to numerous nonprofit organizations that benefit residents from all walks of life.
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My Uncle Earl was recently invited to give the commencement speech at the Robert Oppenheimer School for Really Smart Kids, a charter school approved by the Newhall School District but located in Lancaster.
Dr. Seuss is among the most beloved in the pantheon of American writers. Ostensibly written for children, most of his stories also carry deeply meaningful lessons for those adults reading along with their kids.
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On Facebook last week, I happened upon a post in the SCV Forum that triggered a lively debate over the "threat" big government poses to American business.
Growing up, I heard my parents talk often about certain actions being "common courtesy."
Gov. Jerry Brown keeps declaring the "California Comeback." Whether I talk to small business owners, students or seniors, no one else shares that view.
It is with great concern that I am writing about the demands the tea party, Libertarians, and the conservative wing of the Republican Party call "ending big government."
For several decades, climate scientists have been amassing a vast amount of evidence that we are in an unprecedented period of global warming, all life forms on this planet are in extreme danger, and humans bear the greatest responsibility for producing the greenhouse gases at the heart of the problem.
We've all heard of leaders who put their fingers in the wind to determine which way the political breeze is blowing before deciding what to do. And while this smacks of pragmatism, it also describes one theory of ethical behavior.
On this anniversary of 9/11, it seems there is more to be concerned about now than to alleviate us from the wounds inflicted 13 years ago.
It so happened that this last Friday, Carrie and I had a chance to visit the Stonehenge site in England. Stonehenge is, of course, that ancient collection of giant stone pillars all arranged in a wide circle about half a football field wide standing all alone in a vast expanse of farmland in the middle of nowhere.
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We have recently seen illustrative reactions to behavior by Americans with perceived grievances against the government, first in the aptly named Bunkerville, Nevada, and then in Ferguson, Missouri.
There is an old statement that goes like this: "He's picking up pennies and letting the dollars float by." It refers to the tendency of some to pay attention to little things while the big things escape their notice.
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(HIGHLANDS, NJ) -- The makers of Popsicle brands have forced Love Jam Industries to re-label all of their Orange Creamsicle sexual lubricant products and candles. Lipton Investments Inc., DBA Good Humor-Breyer's Ice Cream and the trademark owners of Orange Creamsicle, Fudgsicle, and Popsicle filed cease-and-desist letters to the novelty company claiming trademark infringement.
Formerly named Orange Creamsicle Scented Lubricant, four ounce and eight ounce bottles of the water-based sexual aid were available in adult stores and on the company's website LoveJam.com Now, Love Jam has re-named the product Orange Cream Flavored Lubricant.
We had done a search on the term Creamsicle and found no trademark in the class we were registering the product in. In fact, an on-line search of the term yielded a countless of number products with the term. Everything from drink recipes from a famous chain restaurant to carpet colors and even several other cosmetic products were using the term. Out of the blue, with no prior phone call or anything, we received a Fed Ex letter, telling us to stop referring to our products as Creamsicle. So, we called our lawyer and he explained that, though there were legal loopholes available to me, they would have been at my expense, said Cary Lazar, the company president and founder.
He explained that we could file in the class we searched but Lipton could still have a right to fight it based on their trademarks, and he assumed they would. With these things, there's a risk of how long is this going to take and how much is this going to cost" said Lazar. I can understand lubricant because it's more adult-oriented, but I've seen the name everywhere, just go into a cosmetic store.
I chose not to fight. From what my lawyer was telling me, when a company owns the trademark, they can choose to defend it wherever they want. It's their decision; they're an international brand and have very deep pockets. In two months time, I received at least three calls from their lawyer and another Fed Ex letter, reminding us of their legal case and just checking up on our progress, said Lazar. The bottom line is the fact that they chose me as an example. Obviously, they could have found other products using the same words, but they didn't. The legal motivation behind Good Humor-Breyer's pursuit of Love Jam appears to come from a desire to prevent an unsavory association with adult products.
Let's put it this way, it was better that their action came now, rather than two years down the line when I might have had thousands of bottles on the shelves already. For more information contact Cary Lazar at 1-866-Love-911 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Cary Lazar, Chef D'Amour
Love Jam Industries
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Washington • Congressional Republicans on Tuesday pushed legislation to exempt their states — including Utah — from the president's power to unilaterally designate national monuments.
A month after President Barack Obama named five new national monuments — and on the 105th anniversary of the designation of Utah's first national monument, Natural Bridges — critics of the Antiquities Act assailed the law as a way to circumvent locals who are most affected by the action.
"This process has not worked," said Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah. "It has been abused."
Bishop led a Natural Resources subcommittee hearing Tuesday on a series of bills — three of them from Utah lawmakers —- that would prevent a president from using the Antiquities Act to name monuments in certain states without Congress' consent or adding other restrictions to the power.
The hearing comes amid Bishop's push to bring environmentalists, oil and gas officials, local leaders and other groups to the table to negotiate compromise legislation to divvy up land in Utah for protection or development. There was no mention of such compromise in Tuesday's hearing.
An Idaho member wanted to protect the Gem State; Montana's representative sought an exemption for his state; Nevada wanted in on the deal, too.
"There has got to be a better way of doing this," said freshman Rep. Chris Stewart, a Utah Republican whose bill would spare the state from the presidential power.
Alaska and Wyoming pushed restrictions for their respective states into the law decades ago after presidents used the act to name monuments. Other Western states now want to be able to slip through the same loophole. And there are other attempts to ax the president's power, too.
In a separate bill, Bishop would require any future monument to undergo rigorous environmental study.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has legislation to make any White House designation of a monument subject to approval by Congress.
"What we're arguing for," Chaffetz said, "is public participation, public input, a public debate."
Utah officials, including two witnesses who testified, cited then-President Bill Clinton's use of the Antiquities Act to create the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah in 1996 as an example of the law's overreach.
"We've lived in actual fear of this raw executive power ever since President Clinton and Vice President [Al] Gore, in a cowardly, infamous act, failed to engage the people of Utah in a public process," said Carbon County Commissioner John Jones.
While the Grand Staircase monument still stings for many Utahns, the Antiquities Act has been used to preserve some of the state's most iconic landscapes.
Presidents used the act to designate Zion, Arches, Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon as monuments before they were named national parks.
Mark Austin, a general contractor in Escalante just outside Grand Staircase, said he believes the community has adapted well to the monument and now has a sustainable economy.
Austin, who was at Tuesday's hearing, says the Antiquities Act has become the fallback to preserving valuable areas when Congress fails to take action.
"At times, it's the only viable option to bypass the quagmire," Austin said. "In an ideal world, we'd all sit down and have rational discussion but, unfortunately, Congress is unable to do that."
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is urging Obama to use the Antiquities Act to protect the area around Canyonlands National Park. Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said earlier this year that the president must use his authority to protect key areas.
The Natural Resources Committee did not vote on any of the legislation Tuesday but is expected to take it up soon.