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Blessed With Balance
It is something of a footballing cliché that 11 great players don't always make a great team.
Broadcaster John Keith watched Harry Catterick's Everton romp to title success in 1962/63 and witnessed, as far as he was concerned, the blending of a peerless assortment of stars into one of the finest sides ever to walk out at Goodison Park.
Blessed with players who would dutifully and unselfishly commit to their given role, Catterick's side outfought and outplayed their rivals on the road to earning the Club its first – and perhaps most significant - English crown of the post-war era.
Having endured relegation for only the second time in 1951, doubts had set in. Supporters wanted to know if Everton could ever re-establish themselves as the dominant force they had been pre-1939, in the early decades of the game and the golden years of Dixie Dean.
Having heaved themselves back into the First Division in 1954, spirits lifted. Yet four seasons of mediocrity followed and in 1961 the Club turned to Catterick, though only after chairman John Moores had ruthlessly dispensed of predecessor Johnny Carey in the back of a London taxi cab.
The move, however, proved wise. It was Catterick, Everton's former defender, who would expertly assemble the elements and ensure the greatest Toffees successes were not those of the past but instead landmarks of the future.
"When Everton won the title in 1962/63, the team's balance was one of its secrets," remembers Keith. "It really was a wonderful 'team'. There's always a dispute whether that team, the 69/70 team or the mid-80s team were the best.
"They were all great sides. The 62/63 team had Billy Bingham and Alex Scott on the wing, Derek Temple too. They were all international wingers - Irish, Scottish and English. Alex Scott and Billy sort of rotated and I think they played about half the games each that season. And, of course, Alex Young was in there too.
"Brian Labone, what can you say about him? He was just a wonderful, commanding centre-half who could really play football as well.
"There were also players who were quite direct. Temple played all across the front line during his Everton career, including centre forward. So he could roam all across the field, play down either side or down the middle.
"So the team was versatile in itself, it was adaptable and it could change to combat certain situations at will."
An integral part of Catterick's creation, defender Mick Meagan agrees.
"The wonderful thing about the team was that there were about four different types of player," he says. "Dennis Stevens, for example, was a hard worker. He'd be up and down, and that was great for Roy Vernon and Alex Young.
"They never had to worry about tracking back because Dennis was doing that for them. We weren't all alike, we were so different. And that was key."
Driven to succeed, Catterick's irrepressible unit sat out one of the coldest winters in history warmed by the knowledge that title glory remained well within their grasp.
Seven weeks the Blues went without a league fixture due to the cold, normal service eventually resuming in mid-February.
A mixed March was followed up by an unbeaten April before wins over Bolton and West Bromwich Albion cemented the Club's seat at the top of the First Division table.
It meant victory against Fulham on Saturday 11 May would end over two decades of hurt and reservation and give Everton the status of league champions for the sixth time in their history.
It duly arrived, Vernon bagging a hat-trick to propel his side on their way to an unforgettable 4-1 win.
"The title hadn't been seen on Merseyside since the first season after the war when Liverpool won it, having taken it off Everton, the last champions before the war," says Keith. "So it was a long wait and certainly Everton fans were excited by it.
"There was a joyful, fantastic atmosphere I remember, and it was a wonderful display to defeat Fulham and secure the trophy. It was just a tremendous achievement to end all those blank and baron years.
"Everton had been down in the old Second Division since they'd last been crowned league champions, so you can imagine the great flood of celebration and relief in a way.
"Personally, I wouldn't like to say which was the best of Everton's three title winning teams because they were all fantastic. But you have to say that 1962/63 team was the one that broke the barrier and brought the title back to Everton in modern times.
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Covering the hills with a mantle of deepest red, the Huckleberry stands supreme among plants for shear abundance of color. Everywhere that the alpine firs withdraw to open up a meadow this plant will find its place and set about to form a sturdy mass of growth. Rising higher than the huckleberry, though scarce acquiring the dignity of a tree, the Mountain Ash glows with leaves of yellow, and flaunts its orange berries for the birds that flock at harvest time. But queen of all ruddy plants of autumn is the Vine Maple whose leaves change at the first touch of frost in the air from green to gold and thence to royal scarlet. And, with a queen's perversity, the maple chooses to wear her whole array of colors on her limbs at once, until at last each one becomes a monotone of brown.
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Ivan Eland on FARCs Terrorist Status
Recorded: Friday, March 26, 2010
Originally aired on 3/26/10 on Russia Todays The Alyona Show. Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses why organizations such as FARC are labeled as terrorist by the U.S. government.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Terrorism and National Crises
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Recorded: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. They discuss the economic baloney of mainstream economists, the failure of most to understand the potential for mass inflation given the money supply currently sitting around in bank reserves, the reality of the business cycle and the politicians and medias failure to grasp it, and why none of us should make sweeping predictions about how the future will unfold, even if we do understand economics, since human action and the flexibility of markets are impossible to quantify.
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Originally aired 3/21/11 on PJTV Front Page with Allen Barton. Emily Skarbek, Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute, explains the features in MyGovCost.org and what it can tell you about federal debt, deficits and government spending.
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Originally aired on 3/10/10 on FoxNews.coms Freedom Watch. Robert Higgs, explains why private investment, not government spending, is the key to economic recovery.
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Originally aired on 2/14/2010 on Russia Today. Senior Fellow Ivan Eland comments on Russias role in the Middle East peace process and the violence that tends to accompany U.S. involvement in Israel.
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Recorded: Monday, February 1, 2010
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This Company Proved Analysts Wrong, Once Again
Harsh is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
When communications equipment maker Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN) released its second-quarter results, one thing became very clear -- the company is indeed ahead of the rest in its industry. Management stated during the first-quarter conference call three months ago that the company's competitive strengths have kept it ahead of the pack, and that was proved when it released its latest results.
Surprise, surprise!
Ciena surprised the Street with adjusted earnings of $0.02 a share while everyone was expecting a loss of $0.01, making it the second consecutive quarter when the company posted an adjusted profit while analysts were looking forward to a loss. The company posted revenue of $508 million, up 6.3% from last year and comfortably ahead of the $483 million analyst estimate.
Throw in a terrific outlook, which calls for revenue of $515 million-$545 million in the current quarter, comfortably ahead of the $509.5 million analyst estimate, and you'll know why Ciena shares have been soaring in the high-teens of late. But, more importantly, these results and forecast are proof that Ciena's execution and industry positioning are indeed terrific, and that carrier spending is strong.
In addition, Ciena saw a considerable improvement of 2.9 percentage points in its non-GAAP gross margin from the year-ago period, and is targeting a mid-40s range in the future. The business has been gaining strength and it's not surprising. But then, Ciena investors would be hoping that the stock continues to rise going forward and isn't tempered by other industry news as I'd pointed out before.
A few solid reasons to buy
I've said numerous times before that Ciena is one of the best plays to benefit from the growth of cloud computing and network upgrades on the back of its product innovation and huge customer base. The company counts bellwethers such as AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon, BT, and several other customers across the globe.
Ciena boasts of more than 1,000 customers and its customer engagement is just top class. In fact, 90% of the company's top 20 customers don't buy single products, but rather buy solutions across the entire product portfolio according to CEO Gary Smith. Ciena is looking to ride the growth of increased data consumption as a result of cloud computing and growth of mobile computing, and believes that the infrastructure in place will have to be expanded and upgraded over time to satisfy the data boom.
The company's focus on software intelligence should continue to be a driving force going forward, as Ciena stated that infrastructure as a service is the fastest growing trend in cloud computing. The rising need for programmable and automated networks will lead to multi-year "re-architecturing" and Ciena has placed itself in a position to benefit from this by developing its open architecture.
The company believes that the shift in networking architecture has begun and this should continue to be a tailwind going forward. Throw in the company's solid clientele, such as AT&T, which is aggressively upgrading its network infrastructure, and the bull case for Ciena looks stronger.
AT&T would be spending around $20 billion on average over the next couple of years as it aggressively rolls out its 4G LTE network. Considering the fact that AT&T is Ciena's major customer, accounting for more than 10% of its revenue (probably), it should continue to benefit from Ma Bell's largesse going forward.
Also, Ciena's customers in other regions, especially Latin America, where it had recently landed a contract with Telefónica Vivo in Brazil to supply its 100G solution, and presence across a number of Tier 1 customers in Asia should provide further boost to the stock going forward. Ciena, like last time, exited the quarter with an order backlog which was greater than the revenue, and this further indicates that the company's business has gained solid traction.
Playing the Savior
Ciena's results spread positivity across the optical networking industry, as other players such as Finisar, and most notably JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ: JDSU) soared on the back of its solid performance and outlook. JDS Uniphase, a supplier of optical networking components and 4G LTE test and measurement solutions, had begun the year in style, but dampening industry news from the likes of F5 Networks threw a monkey wrench in its momentum.
The company issued a drab guidance for its ongoing quarter last month, but it was the result of a one-time event as carriers delayed the release of their spending budgets. Even Uniphase had witnessed solid orders and had finished the quarter with a book-to-bill ratio of more than 1. Ciena's results affirm the fact that telecom spending is up and running, and there's every reason why JDS Uniphase should also see better times going forward.
The bottom line
Ciena is up close to 30% this year and I think that its business is strong enough to propel shares even higher. The company has reported two profitable quarters back to back, albeit on a non-GAAP basis, and is gunning for more margin improvements. A solid order backlog and a strong, diversified client base are some great reasons why investors could enjoy further share price appreciation going forward.
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PETA Has a Big Beef With Today's Presidential Turkey Pardon
Today is a big day for one lucky turkey -- President Obama will pardon him from being someone's Thanksgiving meal. The fortunate fowl will be taken to a lovely sanctuary where it will roam the rest of its days instead of being served next to some stuffing as part of the historic Presidential Turkey Pardon.
This year, there are two contending birds vying to be spared -- Cobbler and Gobbler. Yes, they have names, and, even more bizarrely, they're currently living it up in luxury at the posh W hotel in D.C. The two have been vying for votes online, and today at 2 p.m., the president will announce which bird wins. You can watch the whole thing go down at 2 p.m. Eastern time here.
Don't worry though; the loser doesn't have it too bad. He won't get the title of National Turkey, but he won't be eaten either. Both will actually be taken to George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate to chill.
It's a rather funny tradition and sort of a strange way for the President to spend his time, but, according to the White House, it's a tradition that dates back to 1963 when John Kennedy pardoned the first turkey at the White House. And it's all in fun.
Guess whose feathers are all ruffled about it though? PETA. You'd think they'd be happy to see animals' lives being spared, but that's not the way they see it. In fact, they're so pissed that they're equating the pardoning of turkeys with discrimination against minorities.
Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA, wrote in a letter to President Obama:
It makes light of the mass slaughter of some 46 million gentle, intelligent birds and portrays the United States' president as being in some sort of business partnership with the turkey-killing industry. Turkeys do not need to be 'pardoned'—they are not guilty of anything other than being born into a world of prejudice. They are innocents who should be respected for who they are: good mothers, smart birds, and interesting animals.
You understand so well that African-Americans, women, and members of the LGBT community have been poorly served throughout history, and now I am asking you to consider other living beings who are ridiculed, belittled, and treated as if their sentience, feelings, and very natures count for nothing.
Um, wow. I have total respect and admiration for vegetarians, and I get the whole meat-is-murder thing, though I love meat so I'm okay with the crime. But this is crazy. It's PETA we're talking about, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Still, wow.
There's no indication from the White House that they're going to cancel the turkey pardon. So tune if you're so inclined, or go check your tofurkey if not.
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billsfan1104November 21, 2012 at 8:44 AMI cant wait for Turkey. Yummy.
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EmmaFromEireNovember 21, 2012 at 9:25 AM
And PETA wonder why nobody takes them seriously....
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Happydad73November 21, 2012 at 9:58 AMPETA: people eating tasty animals. Nuff said.
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PETA is whacked. They could be using their influence to truly advocate for animals that are actually being abused but they do this kind of stuff and no one takes anything they do seriously.
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DaniNovember 21, 2012 at 12:09 PMThank you 2manydiapers! peta kills more animals than they save, that's why i don't take them seriously.
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jagamama0710November 21, 2012 at 12:48 PM
PETA is such a joke.
My bird is in my fridge, ready to be cooked, sliced, and eaten tomorrow. I named her Teresa. She is going to be delicious! No pardons in this house.
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CeliaceliaNovember 21, 2012 at 4:50 PMI understand what PETA is saying. We shouldn't make light of how we get our delicious turkey. When I was taking anatomy and PHYS 2b my instructor would have us put a little towel over our cat cadavers face to show our respect for it. I love that philosophy, I think that's what they may have wanted people to get out of that.
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AnnNovember 21, 2012 at 5:20 PMUm... Wow. Is all I have to say. Animals are on this earth for people to eat. Otherwise the earth would be way overrun with animals.. Vegetarians are definitly respected by me though. To each their own. But PETA is way off on the 'smart animal' thing. I have seen baby turkeys look up at the sky while it is raining and drown themselves. Not very smart to me! (p.s... After I saw it happen I got the others under shelter so they wouldnt die as well)


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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mt. 6:21 & Lk. 12:34
Greetings Friends,
What is your greatest treasure? Is it a material item like a rare baseball card, a beloved token from someone special, or something that you have worked really hard to achieve? Or is it a person, like your spouse, your child, or a dear friend? We all have something or someone that we treasure, and that is a blessing. The trick is not to allow that something or someone become the entire focus of our lives.
My son Ben and I recently read the J.R.R. Tolkien book 'The Hobbit.' The character Gollum is a wonderful example of obsession. His 'precious,' a ring with magical properties, rules his very existence. His life is nothing more than a dark, lonely, and miserable quest to guard his treasure and when it is lost, so is he. While I sincerely hope none of us has fallen into this depth of obsession, it is still something that we need to guard against. We need to be careful about where we place our heart.
October is the month in which our church focuses on stewardship. Stewardship is the act of managing our time, talents, gifts and, in fact, our entire lives. As Christians, we believe that everything that we are and everything that we have is a gift from God. We also believe that God has given us these treasures to be used in the service of God's kingdom here on earth. I can't think of a better place for our hearts to be.
When we join the church, we make a solemn pledge faithfully to participate with our prayers, presence, gifts, service and witness. These are the foundational blocks upon which God builds our church. As we get ready for Consecration Sunday (October 27), might I suggest we all make a special effort to refocus on our commitment? Here is what I'll be focusing on in the weeks to come:
• October 13, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm — Flu Shot Clinic
• October 13, 12:15 pm — Second Sunday Lunch Bunch
• October 16, 8:00 am — Caring Connection
• October 17, 2:00 pm — Pastoral Care at Porter Hills
• October 19, 8:30 am — Feeding America Distribution
• October 19, 6:00 pm — Jazz Vespers: Fred Knapp Trio
• October 20, 4:00 pm — James Croom Opera Singer in Concert
• October 21, 12:00 pm — 60+ Luncheon
• October 27 — Consecration Sunday
• October 27, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm — Fellowship Brunch
• November 3 — Eastern Standard Time begins
• November 3, 12:30 pm — Willing Friends Luncheon
• November 5, 5:30 pm — Moms' Group: Tacos & Turkey Project
• November 6, 6:00 pm — Taizé Sung Prayers
• November 7, 9:00 am — Prayer Quilters
• November 12, 7:00 pm — Infertility Support Group
• November 16, 6:00 pm — Jazz Vespers: Wonderland Jazz Ensemble
• November 17, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm — A Different Kind of Christmas Fair
• November 18, 12:00 pm — 60+ Luncheon
• November 20, 8:00 am — Caring Connection
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**Worship bags and Children´s Pages are available in the narthex with activities that allow for children to participate in worship at their own level.**
Please contact Annette Erbes at 451.2879 or firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions.
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SECOND SUNDAY LUNCH BUNCH will meet Sunday, October 13 after the 11:00 am service for lunch at New Beginnings Restaurant (1455 Michigan St NE). Because we reserve space there, please let us know you are planning to join us by calling Sherry Gates at 942.8527 by Friday, October 11.
FLU SHOT CLINIC Mark your calendar! Spectrum Health Visiting Nurses will provide flu shots from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm on Sunday, October 13 in the parlor. Medicare and many insurances billed directly for you. No reservations needed!
LIBRARY In conjunction with Pastor Bob´s sermon series this fall, we have a "library" set up in the narthex. Books on prayer are available for church members to check out.
• Don Merrill will be 93 on Oct 6
• Kathryn Olson will be 91 on Oct 22
• Leola Hathaway will be 94 on Oct 26
If we have missed listing your 90+ birthday, please call the church office at 451.2879 with your name and birthdate and we´ll list it!
SUBSCRIBE! Missed church? Never go sermon-less again. Our pastors´ sermons are now available on YouTube. Simply search for GRFUMC and click the subscribe button. Printed copies are also available in the north lobby rack.
DON´T FORGET YOUR SWEATER Outdoor temperatures are fluctuating like mad! How are we supposed to dress? The outdoor temperature has a direct effect on how the church building feels inside. When the temperature is going back and forth, church can be very warm or very cool. During this time of temperature uncertainty, please wear layers. In this huge building, it´s difficult to get the temperature favorable for all, so please come to church prepared!
PHOTOGRAPHS During the course of the year, photographs of children are taken during children´s ministry activities. These photos may be used occasionally for church publicity. If you prefer that your child´s photos not be used publicly, please contact Annette Erbes, Director of Children´s Ministry at firstname.lastname@example.com or Monday through Wednesday at 451.2879. Thank you!
STEPHEN MINISTRY MEET AND GREET Meet and greet your Stephen Ministers after both worship services on Sunday, October 13 in Wesley Hall. Learn about Stephen Ministry, what the ministry is, whom we care for, and how you might become one! Look for the people in the blue shirts.
NICARAGUA FEEDING PROGRAM The Coffee Can offering on Sunday, October 13 will benefit the Nicaragua Feeding Program. Our medical mission partner, Dr. Mir, feeds children who are in need from her own home. Children are fed on Tuesdays and Thursdays, milk is provided on Sundays. $10 feeds one child for a month. 40 children are currently being fed with available funds. Additional funds will allow Dr. Mir to expand to include other children. The need is great!
SHOWING IN OUR FIRST CHURCH ART GALLERY is an exhibit by FUMC member Barbara Groat. A native of Grand Haven, Barb holds art and design degrees from MSU and Aquinas. She has served on our Celebration of the Arts Committee as well as winning 4th Place in our 2012 show. Barbara shares that through her work she "celebrates life." Let´s take this opportunity to celebrate with her as we enjoy her art.
GIVE TO JFON THROUGH THE UNITED WAY JFON has been registered as a Donor Choice Agency of Heart of West Michigan, since 2008 and can accept donations through this program. This is particularly timely as United Way pledges are being collected in the fall. Donors can elect to choose Justice for Our Neighbors to receive their funds. Please consider JFON when you pledge, and spread the word with family and friends!
FACEBOOK CONNECT Make sure to visit our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/grandrapidsfumc) for fun things to do and new activities.
PORTER HILLS FRIENDS Please mark your calendar to meet with your Pastoral Care team on Thursday, October 17 at Porter Hills. We will meet in the 2nd floor library area at 2:00 pm for fellowship and snacks. Please join us! – Pastor Bob, Pastor Tish and Parish Nurse Marj
FAITH TRAVELERS' MISSION OFFERING FOR HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: Our Faith Travelers program will be taking a voluntary offering each Sunday morning during their 9:30 am church school classes. Our goal is to purchase a share of a heifer cow ($50) from Heifer Project International. Children are encouraged to do chores or read at home to raise their offering money. (If each Faith Travelers child were to bring in just $1, we would meet our goal!) Our purpose is to teach children that by working together, they can make a difference in the life of another child. Thank you for supporting families around the world that they might have regular meals, a stable income, and likewise pass on this gift to their neighbors. Please contact Annette Erbes at email@example.com with any questions.
DID YOU KNOW? The Pastor Parish Relations Committee (PPRC) is a committee of church members who meet regularly with our pastors. This committee supports our pastors with educational and spiritual growth opportunities and by providing guidance in setting yearly goals, giving on-going constructive feedback, celebrating achievements and successes, and facilitating meaningful communication within the church family. In order to achieve these goals, the PPRC welcomes communication that might consist of affirmations, reflections, concerns or suggestions. Church members may have direct contact with the PPRC via a confidential form on the church website at www.grandrapidsfumc.org/ pastor-parish-relations. Only the current chairperson will have access to your information and your comments will be shared only with permission.
MARTIN LUTHER KING ~ FUMC GIFT OF GIVING CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Each year our church embraces the families of MLK at Christmas in a wonderful way.
Concerns & Prayers for:
• Donna Anton (Trillium Woods)
• Don Far
• Charles Fry
• Jim Hoff
• Lois Moseley
• Alan Norton (Metro)
• Robert Newell
• Lea Tobar
• Helen Williams
Service Personnel
• Chris Bolhouse
• Scott Grifhorst
• Stephan Mathos
• Jesse Mounts
• Trevor Norton
• Shawn Seher
• Peter Taylor, Jr
I'd like to say "many thanks" to Gary, Marj, and my Stephen Minister for the very appreciated support given me when I lost Frannie. Each of you were there when I needed you most.
- Roy Nixon
Congratulations to April and Steve Hulst on the birth of a daughter, Victoria Cecelia Hulst, born September 5; and to Liz and John James on the birth of a son, John Andrew Ensor James, born October 4. Proud grandparents are Karen and Bill Lott.
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Worship Services
9:15 & 11:00 am
Lord, Teach Us to Pray!
Sunday, October 13
"Learning the Art
of Prayerful Listening"
Dr. Bob Hundley
1 Samuel 3:1-10; James 1:19-25
Coffee Can Offering
Ministry Focus: Stewardship
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• A Disciple´s Path You are invited to take this six-week class based on the Wesleyan understanding of our growth in God´s love and grace. Learn the practices of spiritual disciplines outlined in our membership vows to uphold the church with our presence, prayers, gifts, service, and witness. Meet Sunday evenings (5:00 - 6:30 pm) in room 3109. It will meet from October 27 - December 1. Books are $10 and can be picked up at the north lobby reception desk.
LEARN ABOUT THE WORK PROGRAM, an outreach ministry of FUMC that works in collaboration with several Heartside Neighborhood agencies to provide temporary employment for people who are homeless or living in extreme poverty. Striving to be an agent of Christ´s love, we are committed to helping the needy achieve hope, pride, dignity, and grace, and learn to become self-sufficient. Each Tuesday morning at 7:00 am, volunteers greet participants and help them select two-hour jobs for the week. The Work Program volunteers welcome anyone who would like to have a better understanding of the program operation to come and observe. You´ll be glad you did. RSVP to Richard Johnson at 451.2879 or richardj@ grandrapidsfumc.org.
FUMC AND THE SOCIAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE will be collecting toilet paper for Westminster Food Pantry every Sunday during the month of October. Our goal is to collect over 800 rolls of toilet paper over the next several weeks. Please drop off your donation in the collection bins in the north lobby office.
• Navigating the Medicare Maze If you are new to Medicare (at or near age 65), please join us November 3 for details, answers to your questions, and other useful information. For those who are over 65 and need to enroll for 2014, join us November 10. Classes will be led by Bob Callery, the Regional Coordinator with the Area Agency on Aging in West Michigan. Meets Sunday 9:30 - 10:30 am in room 3107.
• Coming Soon: Immigration and the Bible Led by Laura Rampersad. The Bible was written by, for, and about migrants, immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. It gives directions for responding to sisters and brothers from around the world who come to a land seeking safety, sanctuary and sustenance. Join this class to learn what the Bible teaches us about immigration. Meet Sunday mornings (9:30 - 10:30 am) in room 3109. It will meet from October 27 - November 17. Books are $7.
• Coming Soon: If Christians Were Really Christian Led by Dr. Bob Hundley. In the world today churches and church members are often diverted from their central mission of loving others and interpreting life through the vision of Jesus Christ. If Christians Were Really Christian shows that with the message we have been given and the spirit of God to lead us we should have led everyone to the kingdom of God. Meet Sunday evenings November 3 - 24 in room 3107. Child care provided. Books are available for $10 in the north lobby (there are only twenty copies, pick up yours today) or purchase your ebook online.
DRIFTING "My wife and I seem to be drifting apart, but I love her and hold our vows sacred." For information about marriage issues, call your Church Assistance Program (CAP). Just dial 455.6210 and make a CAP appointment today. As a member or friend of First Church, you will receive 2 one-hour sessions with a counselor at no charge to you.
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Wednesday, October 2
Taizé Service 6:00 pm........25
Sunday, October 6
Worship 9:15 am..............160
Church School....................10
Worship 11:00 am.............257
Evening Activities...............62
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Their article, available online from SSRN, is titled "Judicial Backlash or Just Backlash? Evidence from a National Experiment" and will appear in the May 2012 issue of the Columbia Law Review.
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You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link.
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Friday's edition of The New York Times will contain an article headlined "Judge Says Protesters Can't Rally at Courthouse."
Friday's edition of The New York Daily News will contain an article headlined "Occupy the Courts gives up legal fight to protest at Manhattan Federal Court; Occupy Wall Street splinter group says it will demonstrate against corporate political donations in Zuccotti Park instead."
And Bloomberg News reports that "'Occupy' Group Loses Bid to Compel U.S. to Issue Courthouse Rally Permit."
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And The Hartford Courant reports that "Komisarjevsky Motion For New Trial, Acquittal Denied; Judge Rules From Bench; In Similar Hayes Motion He Issued A 12-Page Ruling."
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And at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times," Mike Scarcella has a post titled "Appeals Court Examines Constitutionality Of Voting Rights Act Provision."
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In today's edition of The Birmingham News, Mary Orndorff has an article headlined "U.S. Supreme Court says paperwork mishap cannot block death row appeal."
The Decatur (Ala.) Daily reports that "US Supreme Court restores appeal rights of Morgan murderer."
And Ariane de Vogue of ABC News has a blog post titled "Supreme Court: Death Row Inmate Abandoned by Elite Law Firm Entitled to New Hearing."
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And The Denver Post reports today that "Supreme Court nixes Denver professor's suit over copyright protection for foreign works."
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By IndiaTimes | May 17, 2013, 11:00 am IST Cricket
IPL 2008: Mumbai Indians' stand-in captain Harbhajan Singh slaps Kings XI Punjab's S Sreesanth after losing a match in Mohali. A sobbing Sreesanth is caught on camera. After investigations, BCCI hands Harbhajan an 11-match suspension. Sreesanth rakes up the issue in the ongoing edition only to be reprimanded. (Text: PTI, Photo: AFP)


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Daily Archives: October 19, 2013
Halfway Through- A Review of the First Half of the Semester
Posted on October 19, 2013 by StephanieN
The semester is already half over! I thought this would be a good opportunity to share some of my observations about MSPP's Clinical Psy.D program up until this point. I have to admit I didn't really know what I was … Continue reading →
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Which agencies run National Monuments?
The president can make the decision and more than one may be involved. Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument in Arizona is co-managed by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management.
A presidential proclamation does not affect the state's jurisdiction with respect to fish and wildlife management or existing rights such as oil or gas leases.
What are some famous national monuments?
Devil's Tower, Wyoming; Petrified Forest, Arizona; Bryce Canyon, Utah; Casa Grande ruins, Arizona; Fort Pulaski, Georgia; Giant Sequoia, California; U.S. Virgin Islands Coral Reef.
See the Hampton Matters blog at dailypress.com/hamptonmatters
Want to know more?
For more information about national monuments in the United States and its territories, go to the website of the Bureau of Land Management at http://www.blm.gov or the National Park Service at http://www.nps.gov and search for National Monuments. You can search by region or state.
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Most consumers by now have heard all the reasons why they should buy a 4K TV, and many are probably asking, "But where can I see some examples of this 4K technology at work today?" If you're watching this weekend's broadcast of professional football's championship game, look closely. There will be more than 100 Sony […]Read More
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We hope you had a great holiday! Didn't get the gadgets you were hoping for? Today we've launched some post-holiday sales for you. Most of the following deals end on December 28th, 2013 so get them while you can. Not seeing what you're looking for? There were so many deals we couldn't post them all […]Read More
You've heard about Sony 4K technology, but in case you need a refresher, let me break it down: Watch anything in 4K, and your eyes will be rewarded with four times the detail and clarity of Full HD. It's one of those things you have to see to believe. So if you haven't yet, head […]Read More
1985: Maddie and David finally gave in, the Titanic's final resting place was discovered and we were all brought Back To The Future. What better way to memorialize all of this joy and excitement than with the Sony CCD-V8. Announced to the press on January 8, 1985 and first sold in Japan on January 25th […]Read More
"Searching for Sugar Man," a film that was shot on the Sony PMW-EX1 XDCAM camcorder and documents the search by two South African fans for legendary musician Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, is nominated for a Best Documentary Academy Award tonight. Rodriguez is an enigmatic music artist from Detroit who entered the music scene in the 1970′s […]Read More
The PDW-F800 is a camcorder that's packed with a lot of advanced features. Having all of the options that this camcorder has to offer committed to memory is tough. That's why Doug Jensen of Vortex Media created the PDW-F800 Field Guide, and now with and iPad version it's even easier to take along with you. […]Read More
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Post-Baccalaureate Program
The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers a post-baccalaureate program designed to prepare students for graduate level study in the fields of speech pathology or audiology. This program is intended for students who already have a bachelor (or a master degree) in an area other than communication disorders*.
This is a "lockstep" program, meaning that the series of pre-requisite courses must be taken in the specific sequence as listed. The first year of the post-baccalaureate program consists of 52 credits spread over 4 successive quarters (a quarter is 13-15 weeks).
The program is administered by WWU Extended Education (EE). It is important to note that acceptance into this post-baccalaureate program does not guarantee acceptance into the graduate program. These are two separate programs, and you will need to apply to the graduate program the following year.
If you are interested in applying to the post-baccalaureate program, please feel free to do so by contacting Jenny Hebert, 360-650-7780, firstname.lastname@example.com for an application form.
For your convenience, the application materials and full program details are provided here:
Program information
Extension program undergraduate application for admission
International Supplement for Extension Undergraduate Application
Sincerely yours,
Karen-Margrethe Bruun
Internship Director
Graduate Student Coordinator
Post-Baccalaureate Program Director
* Please note: If you have a BA or BS degree in Linguistics or Speech Science: while this offers you a wonderful background, it is NOT a substitute for a bachelor degree in CSD/speech pathology/audiology for the purposes of prerequisite information. You are still required to complete the post-baccalaureate program.
Acceptance into the program does not constitute any guarantee of acceptance into the graduate program.
Not everyone is suited to work with clients in the clinical fields of speech-language pathology and audiology even though the student may maintain a satisfactory academic record. The faculty and staff of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders thus reserve the right to counsel students with this in mind, and to recommend a change of academic focus for the student who appears to have personality traits that would prevent the student from being successful in the discipline.
Post-Baccalaureate Preparation Program Courses (pdf)
Admissions Requirements:
- An undergraduate degree in a major other than speech pathology/audiology
- A completed application form
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- A copy of a sealed official transcript from each college or university attended
- Three letters of recommendation
- A one-page statement of purpose
- A non-refundable $55 application fee made out to WWU
- Review and recommendation by the faculty
Departmental priority deadline is February 15
WWU admissions deadline is March 1
Other Important Documents:
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Helpful Hints for Incoming Postbacs (pdf)
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"Core Program" pre-requisites (pdf)
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Category Archives: Sports in America
Michael Sam: A Pro Football Player or Pro Gay Instigator?
The truth is that Michael Sam seems more interested in being professionally gay
than being a pro-football player; so Tony Dungy's right to say he'll be a circus.
In fact, the reaction to Dungy's innocuous comments prove it. People said the same sort of thing about Tim Tebow a zillion times and guess what? Tebow is out of the league even though Tebow's popularity, position, and talent level made him much more of an asset to a team than Sam. Yet, you have liberals going nuts because Tony Dungy said what 31 teams in the league probably think of Michael Sam.
— John Hawkins | Right Wing News
Found at AD: http://americandigest.org/
12 Offensive Trademarks That Are Ok
12 Trademarks Declared Less Offensive Than Redskins (Blake Neff And Jonah Bennett)
12 Trademarks Declared Less Offensive Than Redskins – Blake Neff And Jonah Bennett
. In a ruling Wednesday morning, the United States Patent and Trademark Office cancelled six federal trademarks for the name of the Washington Redskins.
Currently, federal trademark law does not allow the registration of any names that bring individuals or groups into contempt or disrepute. The PTO cited this rule in their decision regarding the Redskins' name.
Here are twelve other trademarked names that apparently didn't come up on anyone's offense radar.
Figgas over Niggas: This pending trademark seeks to cover a line of "Apparel for dancers, namely, tee shirts, sweatshirts, pants, leggings, shorts and jackets." "Niggas," of course, is a slang version of the word "nigger," a term considered highly offensive towards black Americans.
Kraut Kap: Another recently-filed trademark, this one for a line of plastic lids. "Kraut" was made famous in World War II as a derogatory term for opposing German soldiers, as well as Germans in general.
Dago Swagg: A label created for a line of clothing. "Dago" is a corruption of the common name Diego, and is used in English-speaking countries as an offensive term for those of Italian descent, and occasionally people from other Mediterranean countries as well.
Cracka Azz Skateboards: Unsurprisingly, this trademark was taken out for a line of skateboards and longboards, as well as associated clothing such as bandannas. While the USPTO helpfully notes that "The wording 'cracka azz' has no meaning in a foreign language," "cracka" is a slang version of "cracker," which in this context is a term of derision for whites, used primarily within the black community.
You Can't Make A Housewife Out Of A Whore: This trademark for T-shirts and hats appears to imply that women involved in prostitution can never transition into the domestic role of a housewife. Such an accusation would certainly "bring them into contempt or disrepute," the stated reasoning for eliminating the Redskins trademark.
Blanco Basura: A seemingly innocuous phrase, Blanco Basura, rendered into English, is actually the highly offensive slur "white trash." White trash is a derogatory insult that typically refers to poor, white Americans, who have a penchant for crime and a patent disrespect for authority. Apparently, they thought they could go unnoticed designing a hateful beer.
Home Cookin Biscuit Head: Intentionality, as we well know, is not required in order for something to be highly, highly offensive. They should've done their due diligence before designing this logo for the restaurant industry. The term "biscuit head" has its origins in the Korean War, when American GIs picked this unseemly term to describe the shape of Koreans' heads.
'teensdoporn.com': This is a classic example (Safe For Work) of a harmful stereotype used to justify condescension toward teens in the form of countless hours of sex-ed in high school. It wrongfully supposes that all teens are sex-crazed maniacs, who given the chance, will opt for trading their sexuality on a website for fame and fortune.
Gypsy Soule Women Who Live By Their Own Rules: This line of makeup containers and tote bags is a double whammy. "Gypsy" is a term for the itinerant Romani people that derives from the erroneous belief they originated from Egypt, rather than India. In addition, the "Live by their own rules" component hearkens to the common stereotype that Romani routinely ignore the law and engage in criminality.
Mammy Jamia's: A company going by the name of A & S Cairns Limited has decided to attach its good name to an antebellum slur used to refer to an enslaved black woman who was in charge of household affairs, particularly caring for white children. The product? Frozen fruits and vegetables. Was it really worth it, A &S?
Uppity Negro: Intended to be imprinted on mugs and apparel, this trademark references the frequently used adjective "uppity" to describe blacks who agitated for greater respect and civil rights in the Jim Crow-era South.
All Natural My Dadz Nutz Carmelized Jumbo Redskins: Available at MyDadzNutz.com, this line of savory peanuts is unlikely to run into trouble for applying "redskin" to a line of peanuts. One might argue the two terms describe different things, and so the overlap does not matter, but that hasn't stopped the old name for Brazil nuts from fading away. Kaffir limes, meanwhile, are a discouraged name in the Oxford Companion to Food, as "kaffir" is a highly offensive term for blacks in South Africa.
Found at TDG: http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/
Matt Walsh Sums Up the Michael Sam Furor
This is my homophobic rant against Michael Sam
Let's just cut to the chase. We've all read this script before.
If you do anything less than fall to your knees weeping tears of jubilation that a man who is sexually attracted to men was picked to play a game for a living — you're a homophobe.
It doesn't really matter why you aren't joining in the celebration, or why you aren't using words like 'historic' and 'revolutionary' to describe a scenario where a homosexual fellow plays a sport with some other fellows, and is paid handsomely and applauded loudly for doing so.
It doesn't matter what reasoning you provide, or what sort of logic you employ, when attempting to explain why Michael Sam's likeness shouldn't necessarily be etched into Mount Rushmore just because he took it upon himself to alert the media of his sexual habits a few months before being selected in the 7th round of the NFL Draft.
It doesn't matter what you say when trying to articulate why the President of the United States of America probably doesn't need to release an official White House statement to congratulate someone for being gay and athletic.
It doesn't matter. None of it matters. Nothing is acceptable but complete and total adherence to the prevailing cultural dogma. You are only allowed to think a certain way about these kinds of things. Any thought, or statement, or phrase, or utterance that deviates from the zeitgeist by even the slightest degree will earn you the label of homophobic bigot, and that's just all there is to it.
So, while I'm not a bigot, and while I'm not 'homophobic,' and while I generally carry about my day very much unconcerned with the sexual proclivities of football players from Missouri, I nonetheless feel the need to be a voice of reason amidst this whole spectacularly ridiculous charade. Therefore, I will be called a bigot, because that's how America has been trained to react to anyone who questions popular opinion.
Read more at http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/05/12/homophobic-rant-michael-sam/#FjrZSGZmAoZEI7HL.99
Another Win for the PC Police, Another loss for America as We know it.
The Demise of Chief Wahoo
Cleveland Indian fans should be saddened to learn that the beloved Chief Wahoo is on his way out, having been designated as politically incorrect by liberals who revel in their ability to ban anything they please on any foolish pretext. In cowardly response to moonbat tantrums, the cheerful cartoon Indian is getting replaced by a boring block C as the team's primary logo.
Chief Wahoo isn't going away. At least not yet. He'll still have a home on the Indians' jersey sleeves.
But the Chief is well on his way to the reservation. From there he will vanish entirely, rendering our culture just a little more drab, and a little more monochromatically politically correct.
For now Chief Wahoo is still on the home caps too…
In that sense, the impact of the logo redesignations would be more symbolic than practical.
But symbolism matters, especially when discussing Chief Wahoo…
[T]he logo redesignations would have ripple effects because media outlets — including "SportsCenter" and newspapers — would start using the block-C, instead of Wahoo, as their visual shorthand for the team.
Wahoo set off on his Trail of Tears a few years ago:
The franchise removed Wahoo from its road cap in 2011 and from its home batting helmet in 2013. At last summer's All-Star Game FanFest — a merch-fest where teams generally slap all their logos on every product imaginable — Wahoo was nowhere to be found. Go to the Indians' website and you'll find the block-C near the top of the home page with Wahoo less prominently used. Several reporters have noted that the block-C has a much larger presence than Wahoo at the team's spring training facility too.
The priggish liberals at ESPN unsurprisingly want the Chief banned immediately on the grounds that "ethnic caricatures such as Wahoo are harder and harder to defend in a modern, diverse society." Next they will demand the team change its name.
Why should anyone care what logo is on the hat of a dying city's baseball team? Because every time the totalitarian Left takes an inch, they move on to take the next inch. No matter how absurd the battles are, if normal Americans keep losing them, we will wake up one day soon to find our culture no longer exists.
On a tip from Shawn R.
From MB: http://moonbattery.com/
America: This is The Depravity of Diversity
Diversity Is Strength! It's Also…A Police State Superbowl
Above, Bronco quarterback Peyton Manning (left); Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson (right).
Today, the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks football franchises will participate in the 48th playing of the National Football League's Super Bowl.
Most Americans will watching, indulging in the ultimate national opiate. Few understand what has happened to the country since the first championship game was held in 1967.
An awful lot has changed since the first playing of the Super Bowl on January 15, 1967, when Bart Starr led the Green Bay Packers against the Kansas City Chiefs in a game that didn't even sell out.
Would even one of the fans then sitting in the Los Angeles Coliseum have believed that the same venue would see the US national soccer team booed in favor of the Mexican —or that a Los Angeles Times columnist would praise this development? [Again, it's red, white and boo, By Bill Plaschke, June 26, 2011]
Would even one fan believe that an elite academic institution, Stanford University, would not only willingly abandon the teaching of Western Civilization course required of all freshmen ("Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture's got to go…"—Jesse Jackson), but consider Richard Sherman's worthy of admission despite his low SAT score just because he runs an above-average 40 time?
How could you convince those fans, who had casually strolled into a stadium with almost no security, that to enter Super Bowl 48, they'd be subjected to an invasive search of their person, presumed a potentially terrorist threat until deemed innocent and worthy to enter the stadium?
More than 30 federal agencies, 100 law enforcement agencies, 700 state troopers, 3,000 private security officers, snipers hidden on among the crowd, US Army Black Hawk attack helicopters enforcing a 10-mile "no fly zone" around the stadium, and US Air Force F-16s on emergency stand-by will protect this XLVIII playing of the Super Bowl.
The America of 1967, when the first Super Bowl was played, was 90 percent white, bursting with social capital and upward mobility for its citizens. But, thanks to the 1965 Immigration Act and the simultaneous collapse of immigration enforcement, the America of 2014 is a country where the majority of births are non-white, the middle class is shrinking—and the state of social capital is devastatingly summed up by the Police State measures required to ensure the safety of a football game.
Fans with tickets to the 2014 Super Bowl can't even tailgate outside MetLife Stadium. [No tailgating at Super Bowl, By Jane McManus, ESPN, December 9, 2013] You can't even walk to the stadium, with the NFL devising "Fan Express Zones" (at a cost $51 per ride), where you can board a bus and be shuttled to and from the Broncos-Seahawks game. [You Can't Walk to the Super Bowl Because You Are the NFL's Personal ATM, By Sean Conboy, Sports Illustrated, January 28, 2014]
What would one of those 1967 fans have thought if they'd be able to see Super Bowl 48? (Mind you, the number of black players on the field in that first game resembles the number of white players on the field in today's game.)
You don't have to be InfoWars.com's Alex Jones to understand something is seriously wrong, as police state measures are implemented not just in the NFL and at the Super Bowl, but across all of America. [NFL wants pat-downs from ankles up at all stadiums, USA Today, September 15 2011]
Jones, whose webzine is one of the fastest growing media organizations precisely because so many Americans are becoming increasingly worried about their freedoms, has called for a boycott of the NFL, arguing that the league's TSA-style security at stadiums is just another way of conditioning fans to accept the encroaching police state. [NFL Faces National Protest, Infowars.com, December 4, 2013]
Purses and backpacks have been banned from games, with the Department of Homeland Security providing a stamp of approval for the NFL's safety measures. [NFL Bans Purses and Backpacks, Limits Fans to One Gallon-Sized Baggie, By Zenon Evans, Reason, August 6, 2013]
Jones noted, in announcing his decision to call for a boycott of the NFL, that the league vetoed a Super Bowl commercial by rifle manufacturer Daniel Defense:
The company's "offensive" ad depicts a former marine arriving home to greet his wife and child, accompanied by a voice over stating, "no one has the right to tell me how to defend them."
The ad supposedly violates the NFL's advertising guidelines, which bar ads featuring "firearms, ammunition or other weapons," even though the ad doesn't actually show any of the above, aside from an illustration of their popular DDM4 rifle featured below Daniel Defense's logo.
[National Movement to Boycott NFL Launched: Pro-Obamacare NFL launches war on Second Amendment, InfoWars.com, December 4, 2013]
How could you tell the America of John Wayne that, one day, several U.S. states would be waging war with the 2nd Amendment and that the NFL—with Bob Costas of NBC's Football Night in America leading the way—would be an active participant?
Some fear the NFL's Police-State measures amount to something far more pernicious: The NFL's Role In the Coming Martial Law, By Dave Hodges, Lew Rockwell.com, December 10, 2013]
But 2014 America is radically different from 1967 America precisely because of the racial composition of the country. With such drastic changes, the social capital that once held the country together is in short supply. And with such changes come consequences.
What was it The Economist just published about diversity? Something about the downside of diversity based on research on "ambient cultural disharmony" by Roy Y.J .Chua, of Harvard Business School, I believe:
Tension between people over matters of culture, he says, can pollute the wider environment and reduce "multicultural creativity", meaning people's ability to see non-obvious connections between ideas from different cultures. "Ambient cultural disharmony" persuades people to give up on making such connections because they conclude that it is not worth the trouble.
The downside of diversity, January 21, 2014]
The security measures required at Super Bowl 48 are a metaphor for the changes in America. A Police State is required to keep the peace in—to paraphrase Chua—the "polluted wider environment created by tension between people over matters of culture"?
There were plenty of seats available at the first Super Bowl in 1967, when America was a homogeneous nation of European-descended people.
Symmetrically, there apparently will be plenty of seats available ("18,000 Super Bowl Seats Still Available") for the 48th version of the game as well, now that the US is an increasingly heterogeneous empire, with a Police State required to hold it together.
Paul Kersey[Email him] is the author of the blog SBPDL, and has published the books SBPDL Year One, Hollywood in Blackface and Escape From Detroit, Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White and Second City Confidential: The Black Experience in Chicagoland. His latest book is The Tragic City: Birmingham 1963-2013.
From VDare: http://vdare.com/articles/diversity-is-strength-it-s-also-a-police-state-superbowl
Thugs Be's Thugs. That how It Be. (that be ebonic)
Richard Sherman Thuggishly Applies the Race Card
If you want to find a real bigot, look for someone who excuses the appalling behavior of Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks on the unspoken grounds that you can't expect blacks to show any dignity or sportsmanship. Such narrow-minded racists include Sherman himself:
Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said he was bothered and disappointed that he was called a "thug" after his crazed post-game rant on Sunday because he said it seems like "thug" is the "accepted way of calling somebody the N-word nowadays."
The thuggish rant that appalled the nation after Seattle's playoff win over San Francisco last weekend may have been contrived. Sherman rose out of the sewers of Compton to get high grades at Stanford. The enraged gorilla demeanor on display probably doesn't reflect the real Richard Sherman.
Uh oh, now I've done it. No one is allowed to compare blacks to enraged gorillas, even when they go out of their way to act like them. If it's up to Sherman, we won't be able to call them thugs either. Any extreme of poor behavior must be tolerated, lest we be accused of political incorrectness.
Hopefully no one is missing the irony that this bizarre attitude encourages blacks to behave like thugs, or the even greater irony that the politically correct are the true bigots by implying that barbarous behavior is so inherent to blackness that to criticize it in a black is racist.
Say a Korean went off like Sherman and people observed that he was behaving like a thug. Would that be a thought crime? No, because PC thought police don't secretly associate Koreans with thugs.
Sherman added, "You fight it for so long, and to have it come back up and people start to use it again, it's really, it's frustrating."
Here's an idea: if you don't like being called a thug, stop acting like one. When you do act like one, say you are sorry instead of thuggishly trying to intimidate people with the race card into accepting the unacceptable.
Graphic compliments of Stormfax.
From MB: http://moonbattery.com/
Unbelievable Pandering to Homos from of all places – The NFL?
Celebrate Diversity! NFL Players Union Selling Gay Pride T-Shirts…
The amount of pandering to such a minuscule fraction of the population (1-2%) is mind boggling.
NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) – The union that represents NFL players has launched a line of LGBT pride shirts.
The NFL Players Association announced the launch on Wednesday in conjunction with LGBT Pride Month, which is June.
One Team Pride shirts feature the name and jersey number of an NFL player, including: Brendon Ayanbadejo, Connor Barwin, Domonique Foxworth, Scott Fujita, Steve Gleason, Chris Gocong, Chris Kluwe, Donté Stallworth, Terrell Suggs and Eric Winston.
The organization says the goal is to raise awareness around important issues of respect and acceptance.
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
Kraft on Tebow: Cannot Have Too Much Spirituality and Winning Attitude Around
Patriots Owner Says Tebow's "Spirituality" A Big Reason Why They Signed Him…
Libs everywhere are recoiling in horror.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It turns out the Patriots signed Tim Tebow in part because their owner thinks the team's "spirituality" was lacking.
That was the surprising word today from Robert Kraft, who is more than happy to fill in the numerous blanks left by tight-lipped coach Bill Belichick when it comes to explaining New England's surprise decision this week to sign the polarizing ex-Jets quarterback.
"For me personaly, having Tim Tebow on this team, he's someone who believes in spirituality, he's very competitive, works hard and has a great attitude," Kraft said at a charity event at Gillette Stadium honoring his late wife.
"He's a winner, and the fact that spirituality is so important to him is very appealing to me," Kraft continued.
Kraft also labeled Tebow's openly religious nature "an added dimension" that helped convince the Patriots to sign him to a two-year deal (with no guaranteed money) after five weeks on the NFL unemployment line.
Kraft even echoed the infamous comment by Jets owner Woody Johnson last summer that "you can never have enough Tebow" — a comment Johnson came to regret after the Jets barely used Tebow during the regular season and then released him in April.
"You can't have enough good people around you, and [Tebow] has the added dimension of spirituality being so important to him, and that personally appeals to me a lot," Kraft said.
From Weasel Zippers:http://weaselzippers.us/
Woe to America…
Isaiah 5:20
Via Christians United for a Conservative America, on a tip from G. Fox.
Found at Moonbattery: http://moonbattery.com/
Know What? I Don't Give a Shit.
From Mad Medic: http://maddmedic.wordpress.com/
Redskins is Racist? Really? Commies Crawl BAck Under Your RoCk and STFU.
D.C. Democrats Want To Force NFL's Redskins To Change "Racist Name" To The "Redtails"…
No, they don't have bigger problems to worry about.
Via WaPo:
A D.C. Council member is preparing to introduce a resolution calling on the Washington Redskins to change its name, perhaps to the Washington Redtails.
Council member David Grosso, an independent elected last year, said he plans to pursue his non-binding resolution because the current name is "a derogatory, racist name."
"It's been a long time that we've had this name associated with Washington, and I think its time we take a stand and change it," Grosso said.
Grosso is circulating his resolution to other council members to try to get co-sponsors. So far, he said, council members Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) and Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) have agreed to sign on to it.
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
No More "Redskins?" OMG – That's Racist. Liberals Go Crazy. Griffin Speaks Truth.
Redskins QB RGIII Blasts "Tyranny Of Political Correctness"….
Amen to that.
As Twitchy notes, libs aren't happy with this:
It goes on and on…
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
One Asshole to Another
Tiger Woods Gushes Over Dear Leader: "He's Just A Wonderful Person To Be Around"…
Only if you like pompous a-holes.
Via The Hill:
Tiger Woods said Tuesday that his weekend golf outing with President Obama was "pretty cool" and that he and the president teamed up for a win against a pairing of U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Houston Astros owner Jim Crane.
"He's just a wonderful person to be around. And we won," Woods said at a press conference ahead of the Match Play Championship, according to Sports Illustrated.
Woods also joked that Obama was "an avid golfer, and so am I."
From Weasel Zippers:
Would You Have Aborted The San Francisco 49ers Quarterback?
Would you have aborted the quarterback?
His birth mother watched, from a distance, with pride.
She gave her son life, and a chance, by giving him up for adoption.
She didn't end his life with an abortion.
She gave him a chance at life – more of a chance than 55 million babies have had since 1973.
She gave the 49ers a quarterback and hopes of an NFL title.
Wonder if the San Francisco fans appreciate this fact?
Or are they stuck thinking abortion helps women from being "punished with a baby."
Two Real Men of Integrity after A Hard Fought Contest – Peyton Manning Congratulates Ray Lewis
This is How We ROLL in Alabama – Roll Tide!
From ESPN and You Tube
Alabama Wins The National BCS Title For The Second Straight Time! The Luck of The Irish Didn't Show Up – Tide Trounces Notre Dame – ROOOLLLL TIDE!
Robert Griffin III – A Man of Character
Black Like Me
Racial snobbery is so unlike football.
Quarterback Robert Griffin III, who leads the Washington Redskins on Sunday to their first home playoff game in more than a decade, isn't an ordinary rookie, according to teammate DeAngelo Hall. According to ESPN commentator Rob Parker, Griffin isn't an ordinary African American.
"Is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother?" Parker infamously asked last month. It's strange how the question on nobody's mind suddenly becomes the question on everybody's mind once a cretin appears in front of a television camera. "I keep hearing these things," Parker continued. "We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he's a Republican, which, there's no information at all. I'm just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue."
If only Griffin had executed dogs or used the nom-de-herpes "Ron Mexico" he might have escaped Parker's racial naughty list as deftly as he escapes defensive ends. Instead, he graduated from Baylor a year early, places God at the forefront of his life, and conducts himself as a gentleman on and off the field.
Fifty seasons after the Washington Redskins became the final NFL team to integrate, there's still an ugly expectation for blacks to behave badly. Few common denominators exist between ESPN's Rob Parker and the late Redskins owner George Preston Marshall. But the notion that African Americans conform to the stereotypes assigned to them seems one that this odd couple could have agreed upon.
Jeff Davis, biographer of the NFL's most important commissioner, noted in Rozelle: "When he formed the Redskins in the '30s, Marshall, an avowed racist who never changed his views, drew the color line and, in league councils, forced his fellow owners, especially [Chicago's George] Halas and Pittsburgh's Art Rooney, to not hire black players." Davis perhaps lets the other owners off the hook here. Surely they had free will to defy Marshall, particularly when he was a neophyte owner in the 1930s. But it's certainly true that Marshall spearheaded the de facto ban on African Americans that governed the NFL from 1934 through 1945.
Racial snobbery is so unlike football. African-American players were present at the creation of the NFL. Native American hero Jim Thorpe served as the league's first commissioner. Fritz Pollard, who led the Akron Pros to the inaugural NFL championship in 1920, became the league's first African-American coach in its second season. By way of comparison, the National Basketball Association saw its first black head coach in 1966 and Major League Baseball waited until 1975 for a black manager.
Long after the Rams reintegrated the league as a condition of its lease of the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1946, Marshall stubbornly refused to sign black players. When a reporter queried the owner in 1960 about when he might desegregate his roster, Marshall quipped, "We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters sign whites." Alas, the Globetrotters won while the pale-faced Redskins played the Washington Generals of the NFL for many, many years.
In 1963, a year after the Redskins integrated, Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech just a few miles west of DC Stadium. A half century later, it's strange not just that the speech's modest sentiments still evoke controversy but who finds them controversial.
Griffin unwittingly stirred this maelstrom by conceding that he preferred to be judged as an individual rather than as a member of a group. "For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin," Griffin remarked. "You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality."
Robert Griffin, and hundreds of other African-American players as virtuous but not as famous, proves just how wrong George Preston Marshall was for embracing stereotypes. The occasional thug athlete proves just how wrong Rob Parker is for embracing stereotypes, too.
From The AMerican Spectator: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/01/04/black-like-me
Bob (Not commie Costas) Shares Some Thoughts and Commentary on The Bob Costas Gun Rant, Sports, and NFL Demi-gods
Fox Sports writer Jason Whit[less]lock was the fool quote by Bob Costas in his smug little commentary during a halftime on Sunday.
In an TV interview, Nit Whit had this to say [via Tim Graham and Jeff Goldstein]:
Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world when sports lends itself to that and try to open people's eyes. You know, I did not go as far as I'd like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America's gun culture – I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at heart].
I think it's obvious if you've traveled abroad, and traveled to countries where they have legitimate gun laws, that we don't have to have what we have in America, where people somehow think a gun enhances their liberty, and that people somehow think a gun makes them safer. It just doesn't. A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene. And uh, you know, if you don't have a gun, you drive home. You know, kids listening to some loud music, you don't like it, you go home and complain to your wife. But when you have a gun, you open fire, potentially, and take the life of a child.
Jeff has published a very informative post on this whole subject, which includes a long quote from Stefan B. Tahmassebi that appeared in the George Mason Civil Rights Law Journal in 1991. A highlight from it:
The history of gun control in America possesses an ugly component: discrimination and oppression of blacks, other racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and other "unwanted elements," including union organizers and agrarian reformers. Firearms laws were often enacted to disarm and facilitate repressive action against these groups.
The first gun control laws were enacted in the ante-bellum South forbidding blacks, whether free or slave, to possess arms, in order to maintain blacks in their servile status. After the Civil War, the South continued to pass restrictive firearms laws in order to deprive the newly freed blacks from exercising their rights of citizenship. During the later part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, gun control laws were passed in the South in order to disarm agrarian reformers and in the North to disarm union organizers. In the North, a strong xenophobic reaction to recent waves of immigrants added further fuel for gun control laws which were used to disarm such persons. Other firearms ownership restrictions were adopted in order to repress the incipient black civil rights movement.
Another old American prejudice supported such gun control efforts, then as it does now: the idea that poor people, and especially the black poor, are not to be trusted with firearms. Even now, in many jurisdictions in which police departments have wide discretion in issuing firearm permits, the effect is that permits are rarely issued to poor or minority citizens.
The rest of the quote is well-worth a read, as are Jeff's perceptive comments afterwards.
A highlight:
…That Whitlock conflates the NRA's desire to keep men free and protected with the consequences of bad actors who kill using fire arms, is yet more proof that the victim culture — the culture of passing the responsibility off on some historical actor or some white-faced Devil who holds the wrong political views — is what is truly responsible for the plantation mentality of so many liberal blacks. Here's my advice, unwanted, because it comes from a white man's mouth: accept personal responsibility and stop looking for scapegoats. Sure, it will force you to look critically at yourself — which is far more difficult than merely lashing out at all the straw devils that people your fevered, tiny brain — but in the end, it is truly liberating, and it will put you in touch with those in this country who, despite your rank uselessness and your constant attempts to demonize them, nevertheless continue to protect your rights as well as their own.
It's called being a fucking grown up.
Whitless Nitwit is to busy feeling smug and superior to care. Besides, because he's black, his bosses will protect him and let him remain immature, so he has no incentive to grow-up and be a man. Kind of like a certain jug-eared nancy boy of our acquaintance, eh?
Frequent Protein Wisdom commentator palaeomerus left a Righteous Rant in the Comments section that is worth quoting in full [vulgarity ahead — but it's justified]:
Jason, I can't help but notice, that to the new performing imbecile clowns in the press, almost everything is "the new Taliban", "the new Nazi's", "the new rich fraternity party cruising rape gang", "the new child molestation ring", or "the new KKK".
You overpaid hot house flowers don't have the stones to fuck with the real KKK diminished as it is.
You don't have the stones to fuck with four kids on a street corner whether they have guns or not. You lack the balls .
You routinely go after non confrontational, law abiding people, as a substitute, for finding in your fat twisted hearts, the necessary outrage to condemn an actual vicious thuggish criminal murderer who just blew away the mother of his child in front of her own mother, went to a stadium to bother his coach one last time (which you dolts tried to pass off as kind of classy) and then shot himself.
The problem wasn't the gun Jason. Lots of people use guns responsibly because they aren't idiots like you and other the paranoid gun-phobic pussies and cynical political hacks, who think a piece of polymer and steel is a little demon that drives people mad and kills them by itself.
The big problem was that your precious little football player was a violent, piece of shit,. He was a dangerous, over indulged, asshole, and a man-child who should have been locked up or living under close supervision. The people around him KNEW he was a time bomb. They saw the signs. They did nothing.
But there are some little problems too. They didn't cause the event, but they helped to exacerbate it and facilitated it to a certain extent. Can you guess what the little problems were?
The little problems were the NFL and sports writing chumps like YOU, stupidly propping this fucking lunatic up as a hero and a good guy AFTER he did what he did, you spineless pieces of shit.
The little problems were every single one of the vapid, morally confused, delusional assholes who tried to blame head injuries, drugs, society, race, and a gun, for the actions of the kind of sick piece of shit, who willingly would hurt or kill his own family over a potential breakup, because in his dim, bully-thug mind they were NOTHING but a form of chattel property that had no right to live if they chose to leave his violent, always angry, out of control, ass.
You dumb shits even did this when Chris Bennoit killed his own wife and child. You blamed 'roids for it.
The whole sports reporting culture is sick. You portray these pitiful, mentally crippled, unstable, inarticulate "jocks" demigods and glorify them even when you know that they should not be let alone with anybody smaller than them who is not armed. Even when they prove to be frauds and con-men. Even when they spread hateful rhetoric. Even when they get hooked on drugs or spend themselves into bankruptcy, or quit to run a pot clinic in Japan. You portray them as beyond shame, above standards of adult conduct, accountable only for performance in a competition and how they are marketed.
And I doubt a rich NFL player would let a law about hand guns keep him from getting a hand gun anyway. He sure didn't follow the laws against murder did he?
If I had a son or daughter I would not let them watch or listen to you dim witted sports reporter stooges making fools of themselves day after day. You aren't worthy of public attention.
Fuck you. Fuck your articles. Fuck your networks and feature syndicates. Fuck your bullshit careers. Fuck your mouth breathing fans. And most of all, fuck the bully pulpit you jack-offs do not come close to deserving. You can't even understand life well enough to condemn a man who just killed the mother of his child and himself.
Dead solid perfect.
In a follow-up comment, he writes:
You sports press guys loved this murderer and yet you hated Tim Tebow. Think about that for a minute Jason Whitlock, you soulless empty suit, with stars in his eyes for a murder just because he had a sports uniform.
Take heart, palaeo: Whitlock is disabled in that he has a big hole in his soul. You know, deep down, he is one miserable fuck.


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I gently pat the egg whites onto my skin and let it dry for about 10-15 minutes before rinsing. My skin has a tightening feeling when I apply the egg whites and my pores do look smaller, at least temporarily.
I've been battling hormonal acne for the past 18 months and I still have yet to see any improvements but it maybe just a matter of time.
But overall, this is a great, inexpensive mask!
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I used to see my mother doing egg whites masks and thought she was being silly, but I came across some Youtube viodes recommending this and gave it a shot. IT WORKS!
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Egg whites are a natural wrinkle lifter and works wonders in just a few minutes. I break an egg, pour in the egg white in a small container that i keep in the fridge and remove the yellow egg yolk. Every morning after cleansing and moisturizing, I dab with my finger some of the egg white on my '' 11 '' lines in between my brows and a bit on my forehead lines. Make sure not to frown for a couple of minutes. The skin will tighten and suddenly my lines have faded away and stays like that all day. Do not put on too much as it can come off powdery Just dab a little bit on the lines, let it dry - and voila ! Wrinkle free for the rest of the day and the cheapest alternative to Botox. I keep my egg whites in the fridge for about a week and then replace. Good luck !
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I love doing this because it tighten up the pores. and it good for acne.I love to beat the egg whites. and apply it to my face then wait 10mins and the with the egg yolk beat it and apply it to your face as a moisturizer
I can see it works for everyone but me. It makes my dry hair all fluffly and poofy. Eggs not for me :(
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well i cant believe i have never tried a natural mask! i was THAT close to buy a mask but i found this review that natural masks are much better than the ones you buy.
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and also this is like my serum substitute at night. but since i only use this on weekends when i stay at home, i dont really care of the smell :P
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I don't use just the egg white. I just crack an egg into a bowl, maybe add a squirt of honey, and whisk. Then I just slather some on my face haha and let it dry. It smells like eggs, yes, and it doesn't feel too pleasant when it's dry but you skin will be glowing and smooth. I was shocked when I first used it :)
I use the leftovers for a hair mask which i don't see great results like the face mask (may be user error), but that's another review.
I imagine it would work better for oily skin than dry. Highly recommend :)
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