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If you thought invisible cloaks were just used by Harry Potter, think again. Two independent research teams have created carpet cloaks that allow you to experience an object vanishing. The researchers discovered this with the use of crystals, called a calcite prism. The crystals are placed in a precise location so that when the correct light hits the cloak and the crystals' "optical properties" kick in, the object you are viewing disappears before your eyes.
They are currently only able to make smaller objects disappear, such as an ant or piece rice. Scientist still have a lot of work ahead of them in advancing the invisible cloak, making it 3-D and making larger objects disappear, but they are on the right track. Where does the future lead? Instead of hiding objects, scientist would love to reveal them, a new kind of ABRACADABRA!
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Douglas and Bec – A Family Business.
Douglas and Bec is a design studio and store.
We are based in Auckland, New Zealand with a location in Collingwood, Melbourne.
Our Story
Douglas and Bec - first established under the name Workroom Design - has been producing furniture and lighting since 2006. Designer Bec Dowie started the business with her father Douglas Snelling, and the pair were later joined by Bec's husband Paul Dowie.
All of our furniture and lighting is handmade by Douglas, in his Clevedon workshop, with help from some very talented local artisans. Our collection features materials such as oak and American ash and has grown to include spun metals, copper, brass, linen, leather and blown glass.
We work closely with architects and designers on exciting commercial work worldwide from restaurants and hotels to fashion retail stores.
Our online store and retail locations in Auckland and in Melbourne stock the Douglas and Bec range along with art and design pieces from around the world, with a focus on creators with an artisanal ethos who produce thoughtful, innovative work.

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Right atrium
The Evolution Deceit
The Human Miracle
The Body's Transport Network:
The location of the heart in the chest cavity.
The veins and arteries that surround and nourish the heart.
The tissues of the heart muscle are too thick and tight for nutrients and oxygen to pass through them, and are therefore unable to benefit from the blood pumping through it. However, like all other organs, the heart's cells need blood. In fact, since it is a constantly functioning muscle, the heart needs even more oxygen than any other organ.
This need has, once again, been resolved thanks to a most incomparable creation. The blood arriving from the lungs to the left part of the heart is the cleanest, most oxygen-rich in the body. Two specialized arteries, known as the coronary arteries, emerge from the aortic arteries by which the blood is pumped out to the body. These arteries do not lead to the body, as do all the other arteries, but return to the heart. In this way, the most oxygen-rich blood is thus forwarded directly to the heart, without going anywhere else first.
Another feature can be perceived in the way the coronary arteries are laid out. As these arteries head towards the heart they make intermediate connections with one another, which connections serve as insurance against any one of the arteries becoming blocked. If one of the arteries does suffer an occlusion, the blood courses on through the other artery, by-passes the blocked area and reaches the heart muscle. This same feature is employed by urban planners when laying out networks of water distribution. In order that the city should not be left without water in the event of a fault in one of the existing pipes, this age-old network system of the human heart is copied on a far wider scale.
Even these connections made between the arteries nourishing the heart exhibit such reason and planning as to leave chance as no explanation.
Before moving on to other structural features of the heart, it will be useful to issue a reminder. Just bearing in mind the features described so far, you can see that the heart's features could never have formed one by one, as evolutionists would have us believe—and furthermore, that all these stages could never have come into existence by chance.
In all regards, the heart exhibits a flawless and complete creation. It is impossible for this organ, or even any one of its components, to have come into existence by itself. In addition, even if we were to assume that such a perfect organ did emerge by itself—no matter how impossible that might be—it would still serve no purpose. Whatever ideal properties a heart might possess, in the absence of a circulatory system and blood to pump, it would have no bodily function. Again according to evolutionist logic, an organ with no function is doomed to become "vestigial" and disappear. But as you have seen, just one single example reveals the major contradictions in evolutionists' claims.
If you extract a living heart from the body, it will continue working independently until it has consumed the last of its energy. If provided with the necessary oxygenated blood, the heart will still beat for hours, even if all its nerve connections are severed.
In order to examine this interesting situation, let us briefly review how the muscles work: For a muscle to contract, it first needs a command from the brain or the spinal cord. That command is in reality an electrical signal forwarded by means of the nervous system. Since the heart's structure is composed entirely of muscle tissue, then a heart that beats some 70 times a minute needs to be electrically stimulated that many times.
Then how can a heart still continue to beat for a while even if all its nerve connections are severed and it is removed from the body? This leads us to ask where these commands to contract come from?
When scientists investigated this question, they encountered something most surprising. In the heart, there is a generator that produces its own electricity—a generator made of flesh, itself one of the components of the very heart it supplies.
An artificial generator goes into action in the event of a cut in the external electrical supply, and continues producing electrical current to prevent machinery from shutting down or being damaged. The heart, one of the most crucial organs in the body, is also similarly protected in order to ensure it is never harmed in the event of any interruption to its energy supply. For the heart to stop even for a moment could lead to grave damage to the brain and the rest of the body, and could even have fatal consequences. The electrical system operating the heart must therefore work without ceasing.
Scientists investigating this electrical system made even more astonishing findings. The heart functions not only with a micro-generator, but also thanks to an assembly of interconnected, programmed and systematic electronic circuits. This electrical management system works together with a number of elements, from the kidneys to the brain, and from the arteries to the hormonal glands.
Of course, this flawless creation in the heart, discovered only very recently by scientists, has been working non-stop for millions of years. Without exception, this system has been present in all the many billions of people who have ever lived, and in all those who will ever live in the future. This is Allah's flawless creation.
The energy wave that causes the heart to work is initiated by the S.A. node in the atrium and with the help of the coronary artery, passes to the A.V. node, and from there to the right and left fibers. A special electrical system in the heart allows these processes to take place. The force that permits a piece of tissue to produce electricity belongs to Allah, Who has no partners in His creation.
When examined closely, the upper wall of the heart's right atrium can be seen to contain this generator that supplies electricity to the heart. In an adult at rest, this generator, a knot of tissue known as the sinoatrial (SA) node, emits 72 low-frequency electrical impulses a minute.19 Each of these impulses causes the most perfect pump in the world to contract once.
To better witness the creation in this mechanism, let us now examine one heartbeat, which takes place in less than one second.
The energy wave emitted by the SA node spreads over the tissues that make up the heart's small pumps (valves). Blood passes from the smaller atria to the large ventricles at the bottom of the heart.
Under normal conditions, however, one would expect the situation to be very different. The energy given off by the SA node, or generator will first stimulate the large pumps. Yet since the electrical wave moves very fast, both pumps will contract at almost the same moment and the heart's working mechanism should be impaired. Yet such an electrical circuit must be constructed that the electrical energy must first stimulate the small atria, after which it must pause for an instant before stimulating the large ventricles. After the electrical signal has been emitted, it must pause until the small atria have performed their function. The necessary circuit needs to be a marvel of engineering.
In fact, after stimulating the atria, the electrical wave emitted by the generator moves to another tissue mass known as the atrioventricular (AV) node. This tissue holds onto the electrical signal for a very finely regulated interval of time, as short as 1/14th of a second. At the end of that period, the small atrium has finished its task. The electrical signal then continues on its way and stimulates all the ventricle cells in as little as 1/16th of a second. The larger pump, whose turn it now is, thus contracts and blood is pumped out to the body. All these processes take place in less than one second. 20
When the main generator in the heart fails to work, the spare generator immediately goes into action. It is Allah Who created this protective system.
The AV node, which halts the electrical waves emitted by the main generator for a short while, has another very important function. In the event of a problem in the main generator, this node steps in and works like a spare generator. It cannot produce signals as strong as those from the main generator (it produces only 40 to 50 signals a second), built they are still sufficient to let the heart keep working. If the main generator is damaged for any reason, the spare AV node undertakes an absolutely vital task. People have been observed to live for up to 20 years, even though their main generator has failed to function for various reasons. 21
To grasp what we have described so far, the reader needs a certain consciousness and understanding—which you, reading this book, do indeed possess. On close inspection, however, the components constituting the heart must also exhibit consciousness in order to function. For example, the reserve generator needs to be aware of everything that goes on in the human body in order to know when to assume its function, and needs to set the necessary system in motion in the event of any emergency.
Yet how do these components in the various parts of the heart carry out these processes, which we need to have awareness in order to understand? Can the nerve nodes in the heart be considered to have consciousness? Can it be claimed that these nodes calculate the seconds, and perform these calculations non-stop and always totally accurately? On their own, of course, these structures in the heart clearly cannot perform the complex processes necessary for the heart to function. These nodes are merely collections of cells that cannot be regarded as having decision-making mechanisms, will, or calculating ability.
Any cell being able to produce electricity is by itself a great miracle, because such production takes place as a result of thousands of very complex chemical processes. At this point, there are even more questions to be considered:
Why should a cell seek to assume the task of producing electricity? What force obliges it to do this? How does the cell know that the heart needs electrical signals in order to contract, and that the cells that bring about those contractions cannot function without electricity?
In addition, it is not sufficient for just one cell to produce electricity. It needs other cells producing electricity too, and these cells need to combine in the correct order. It is not enough for them to be present together. They must produce electricity together, as if they had signed an agreement to do so. Furthermore, that production needs to take place within a particular rhythm: Each cell has to possess a chronometer, and these cells need to accurately function once every 0.83 of a second. Additionally, the cells must be able to continue with this production tirelessly, for an entire lifetime. They must also know the level of electrical current that causes the heart to function, and must produce just the right amount of electricity—neither too much nor too little.
The untiring muscle cells in the heart must also possess a characteristic allowing them to function when the electrical current arrives. They must respond to every signal reaching them and respond to each one of the signals produced, 72 times every minute.
Since a specific understanding is required in order to grasp the functioning of this miraculous system, it would be irrational and unscientific to claim that it came into being through blind chance. Such a flawless system cannot be explained in terms of coincidences. The fact that such an electrical circuit has been placed inside the human heart is yet another proof that we have been created by Allah.
We created you, so why do you not confirm the truth? Have you thought about the sperm that you ejaculate? Is it you who create it or are We the Creator? We have decreed death for you and We will not be forestalled. (Surat al-Waqi'a:57-60)
The nervous system, the hormonal system and the organs attached to them--parts of the mechanism that regulates the heart's functioning--all work together in great harmony.
This section shall examine a very special system that regulates the working of the heart. We shall see how a piece of flesh immediately beneath the rib cage receives information, analyzes it and automatically carries out measures that need to be taken.
As a reminder, in examining the structures in the human body or in other living things, the most important thing is to ask whether they could have come into existence by chance. It's of course impossible to pose this question with every description provided herein. But with this or any other book about the body, you should constantly ask yourself this vital question, because the answer will let you better appreciate the infinite might of your Creator.
Now, let's examine the heart's rhythm-controlling system, while keeping the above question.
The heart beats constantly to a regular rhythm. You can compare this to a car on a fixed-speed highway. Under certain conditions, however, the heart's tempo needs to speed up or slow down. This is analogous pressure being applied to a car's throttle or the brake pedal. The brake that decelerates the heart's rhythm is the vagus nerve, and the accelerator that speeds it up is the sympathetic nerves. 22 The hormone acetylcholine sets the brake (or vagus nerve) into action.
The sympathetic nerves are components of the autonomous nervous system that work outside your free will and regulate the working of your internal organs. They raise blood pressure by narrowing the arteries and help form the hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine by stimulating the medulla region above the kidney. These hormones increase the heart's work rate. The hormone thyroxin, secreted by the thyroid, also affects the working of the heart by raising the metabolism.23
So how do these accelerators work? How is the decision to speed up or decelerate taken? Such a regulatory and information exchange system has been constructed within the human body that no artificial information- processing network is nearly as perfect.
That this system functions within your body without your being aware of it, even at this very moment, is evidence that you were created.
Let's now examine how the controls in question are depressed, and how the decision to accelerate or decelerate is taken—while still asking the necessary questions.
When you perform a movement requiring force, the muscles around the veins accelerate the flow of de-oxygenated blood. This means that more blood goes to the heart and the right atrium. The atrium muscles then contract, and nerve signals formed as a result of that contraction are transmitted via the central nervous system to medulla in the spinal cord, which analyzes these data and immediately sends a command to the heart. The heart's rhythm is accelerated. This allows more fresh blood to reach the muscles.
A key question: Is it rational and logical that this system could have come into being by chance? People who make such a claim are definitely unable to answer the following questions:
How are those receptors aware that de-oxygenated blood has increased and of the contraction created have been sited in the correct region of the heart, the right atrium where the dirty blood is found?
How did the network that carries the information from these receptors to the spinal cord and the medulla come into being?
How did the spinal cord and medulla—the data-processing center that analyses this data and is able to take the correct decisions—come into existence?
How does the medulla realize that the message reaching it signifies that oxygenated blood has decreased? With what consciousness does the spinal cord decide that the heart must beat faster in order to send more blood through the lungs?
How did the elements comprising this system come together as one and at the same time, exactly?
Such precise order cannot of course have come into being by chance. Not even a single component of this system—let alone the system itself—could have come into existence by happenstance. In addition to proving the invalidity of the theory of evolution, the above questions also clearly demonstrate Allah's creation.
Let's now examine another safety system created by Allah, and witness another proof of His creative artistry.
In addition, the heart needs a special safety mechanism to keep it from beating too fast and damaging itself. Inside the aortic artery emerging from the left-hand part of the heart are receptors that measure blood pressure. As the heartbeat rises, so does the pressure of blood reaching the aortic wall. When this pressure exceeds a certain level, the safety mechanism goes into operation. The receptors that detect the increasing pressure send warnings via the spinal cord to the medulla. This analyses the situation and sends a new command to the heart. This slows down the heart rate, and blood pressure is lowered. Let us now reconsider the pressure gauges inside the aorta and the heart's braking mechanism.
Is it an unconscious coincidence that the heart is aware that too rapid a heartbeat will damage the body and that it should take measures to counteract this?
Did the receptors that measure blood pressure come into being by chance? And were these then located in the right place—in the aortic wall membrane—by also chance?
Did the nerve link between the receptors and the spinal cord come into existence by chance?
How do the receptor cells recognize that blood pressure has risen, and with what consciousness do they transmit news of this rise to the spinal column?
By what criteria does the medulla analyze the data reaching it? With what consciousness does it realize the importance of the situation?
How did some of the spinal cord's cells come to assume the role of regulating the heartbeat? Why did they assume that responsibility?
How does a spinal cord cell decide to send a command to the heart? How does it know what form the command it sends must take, so that the heart cells can understand it?
Why do the heart cells obey signals from the spinal cord?
These questions are very important for lifting the curtain of familiarity that forms over the course of time and keeps people perceiving the miracles right before their very eyes.
Most people realize that some situations make their hearts beat faster. When you climb quickly up a staircase, run, or becomes excited, you can feel that your heartbeat has increased, and that later, it returns to normal. No one, however, realizes what a great miracle this truly is. They never understand that the rate of their heartbeat is regulated by a computer-like system inside the heart. Even if they are aware of the existence of a system, still they spend little time thinking about how their bodies' miraculous systems came into existence, and even strongly avoid doing so. Some even believe that thinking too much about such matters is psychologically unhealthy.
The fact is, however, that Allah wishes us to think deeply. He commands people to ponder what He has created and thus, to better understand His might and power and to fear Him more. In one verse of the Qur'an Allah has revealed how believers should behave, how they should think about the entities created by Him—and how their fear of Him should increase as a result:
Those who remember Allah, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the Earth: "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire." (Surah Al 'Imran: 191)
16. Regina Avraham, The Circulatory System, The Encyclopedia of Health, p. 13.
17.Solomon, Berg, Martin, and Villee, Biology, Saunders College Publishing, USA, 1993, p. 890.
18.Marshall Cavendish, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of The Human Body, London: Michael Cavendish Books Limited, p. 70.
22.Curtis and Barnes, Invitation to Biology, New York: Worth Publishers, Inc., 1985, p. 415.
23.Vander, Sherman, and Luciano, Human Physiology: The Mechanisms of Body Function, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990, pp. 255-279.


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Saturday Sermon: John Piper on Genesis 1:26-28
In this message, John Piper, one of America's most loved pastors explores the sense in which creation "begs for completeness."
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In this message, John Piper, one of America's most loved pastors explores the sense in which creation "begs for completeness."
Dr. Keller explains several crucial implications that result from the radical idea that humans have been made in the image of God.
In this paper, MIT professor Ian Hutchinson addresses the question of how to engage arguments put forward by the New Atheists. In doing so, he offers a critique of scientism, the assumption that scientific knowledge is all the real knowledge there is.
Science and religion scholar Michael Ruse gives a personal account of his experiences as an author and public speaker on the compatibility of Christianity and biological evolution.
Giberson's essay makes the case that scientific fundamentalists are not merely arguing for the supremacy of science but also presenting science as a quasi-religious replacement. The agenda of the "New Atheists" is not merely to refute mainstream religion but to replace it. Unfortunately, the scientific community is poorly represented by these aggressive public figures.


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Holy Motors
Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine "appointments," transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by Céline, his trusty chauffeur on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine. Inside a digital production facility, he?s a ninja warrior transformed by cutting-edge technology into a reptilian sex god. Next he?s a gibberish-spewing troglodyte who kidnaps a fashion model from a photo shoot in Père-Lachaise cemetery, ferrying her to his underground lair in the sewers. Then he?s the melancholy father of a teenage daughter, followed by a shadowy assassin sent to kill his own doppelgänger, a dying old man, and finally a thwarted lover revisiting a flame from his past atop a decaying Right Bank department store next to the Pont-Neuf. Monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, futuristic sex fantasia HOLY MOTORS is all of these and, then again, none of these. It is a ravishing, shape-shifting, fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. From celluloid magic to the digital data stream, Monsieur Oscar's epic journey of the soul is all of our dreams.
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Are American taxpayers funding the persecution of Christians and murder of civilians in war-torn nations?
(Posted by Bryana Johnson on August 25th, 2013)
President Obama didn't respond in agreement. Indeed, shortly afterwards, he cancelled a scheduled summit with the Russian President. However, Putin's statement resonated deeply with many Americans who have been working to call attention to the plight of Christian minorities worldwide.
The trouble is that, far from doing our part to end these atrocities, extant American foreign policy seems calculated to exacerbate them. Rather than making an end of the bloodshed, our influence has been making things worse.
Last week, Syrian rebels opened fire on a Christian village during the celebration of a feast day and killed 9 Christian villagers and 2 others. Women and children were among the dead.
Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Syria's population, know this is no isolated incident. Since the beginning of the conflict between Sunni Muslim rebel forces and Syrian President Bashar Assad, thousands of Christians have been forced from their homes or brutally murdered. Several Catholic priests and clerics have been beheaded or gunned down in their churches.
Radical Muslim groups, who back the rebel Free Syria Army, see Christians as supporters of Assad's regime and enemies of their religious belief system, even though many Christians who have been targeted took no active part in supporting Assad.
Open Doors spokesman Jerry Dykstra warned in July that young, Christian women are bearing the brunt of the civil war, with widespread reports of rape in Christian communities. Of the war's 100,000 casualties since 2011, as estimated 5,000 have been children under 16. A disproportionate number have been Christian women and girls.
Earlier this week, a disturbing video surfaced, purporting to show the execution of two young boys by Syrian rebel forces. The boys, who were accused of supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad, are shown blindfolded on their knees beside each other as a masked man hastily reads off what sounds like a list of charges behind them. The video then continues to roll as the boys are riddled with bullets and left lying prostrate and immobile on the ground. Viewer discretion is advised.
In another incident in June, a 14-year old boy in the Northern Syrian city of Aleppo, who was accused of blaspheming the Muslim prophet Muhammad, was flogged and executed by rebel forces. Reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claim the boy was first taken by the rebel gunmen to an unknown location where he was beaten and tortured. He was returned with his body slashed with the marks of a whip and a shirt tied around his head. He was then shot repeatedly in front of a crowd. Grisly photos were released of his bloodied body, a gaping hole all that remains of his nose and mouth.
The Islamists claim that the shockingly violent acts which have been committed by their army are nothing compared with the "genocide," that has been conducted by Assad's regime, but it seems the gap is narrowing, as the rebels continue to stack up more and more incidents against themselves. And, obviously, these are only the incidents that have been reported to western news outlets. Who can know what is really going on in the dark recesses of the war-torn nation?
Of course, the last thing anyone would expect is that a civil, respectable, tolerant, and progressive society would be willing to fund such a malicious, vengeful war, or take any part in providing assistance to either side of such a vicious conflict. You wouldn't expect America, a nation already trillions of dollars in debt, to be giving $250 million in defensive combat supplies to Islamist rebels who violate Christian girls and torture young boys and shoot them up in front of their parents.
But you would be wrong.
Catholic Franciscan Friar Pierbattista Pizzaballa warned Vatican Radio in June,
"Unfortunately Syria has now become a battleground not only between Syrian forces, but also between Arab countries and the international community. And those paying the price are the poor, the young and the Christians. The international community must put a stop to all this. The world must know that the support of gunmen by the west is helping extremists in killing Syrians."
Syria isn't the only place where "Arab Spring" violence has resulted in increased persecution of Christians. Following widespread violence in Egypt this week, CNN reported over 52 churches have been torched and looted by Islamists since Wednesday, along with uncounted Christian homes and businesses.
The unrest began when supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi launched a protest against the military-imposed state of emergency. The protest, which is backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, culminated in a "Friday of Rage" yesterday, which left over 600 people dead and over 4,000 injured.
"What we're seeing right now in Egypt is literally a pogrom," said Middle East expert Eric Stakelbeck, "where Christians are systematically being targeted. Right now there is a bulls-eye on the back of every Christian living in Egypt."
One lawmaker in DC has come to the conclusion that what is occurring is unacceptable. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a longtime critic of US foreign policy and foreign aid spending, introduced a bill at the end of July to redirect approximately $1.5 billion in foreign aid from Egypt and use it to rebuild US infrastructure. "In our hour of need in our country, why are you sending money to people that hate us?" Paul asked.
His remarks are reminiscent of another speech he made in June, when he called for an end of foreign aid to countries that persecute Christian people.
"It angers me to see my tax dollars supporting regimes that put Christians to death for blasphemy against Islam, countries that put to death Muslims who convert to Christianity, and countries who imprison anyone who marries outside their religion," Paul said in June, at a conference in DC.
"There is a war on Christianity, not just from liberal elites here at home, but worldwide. And your government, or more correctly you, the taxpayer, are funding it."
The bill failed to pass, with only 13 Senators voting in favor of it. Senator John McCain argued that cutting the foreign aid to Egypt would harm Israel, and that other nations would quickly step in to fill the "vacuum" left by the cuts. The ponderous list of things Sen. McCain doesn't understand just got a lot longer. Added to it is the fact that choosing to support a murderous society for the reason that someone else will be sure to step in and do it if you don't, is no reason at all.
The web of the world is a great, impenetrable mass of humanity, ideology, corruption, violence and faith. To attempt to summarize in a few short paragraphs the state of the planet is more than a trifle arrogant. Who of us, out of our limited understanding, can say who is responsible for all of the deaths and the decapitations of the past few months in nations seething with sectarian differences, and violent values systems? Who can tell which side is more evil in a conflict where unspeakable atrocities are being perpetrated by both sides?
Thankfully, it is not the place of the American people or elected officials to make these judgments, or to choose which murderous regime to depose, which to support, and which to instate. When our government does step in to make these kinds of calls, one outcome is guaranteed: the American taxpayer comes out of it with blood on his hands. The blood, perhaps, of young children, of uninvolved bystanders, of peaceful Christian families. The American taxpayer doesn't want that.
When Americans all across the country found themselves in eager agreement with Putin's call for an end to the persecution of Christian people, did they realize one of the first steps towards achieving that end might be cutting the funding that we give to the persecutors?
It's time to realize it.
As a closing note, for those that remain unconvinced of the evils of indiscriminate US foreign aid to troubled war zones and terrorist organizations, one final piece of evidence is shrieking loudly, demanding to be heard.
America doesn't have any money.


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Not us. Maybe a subsequent generation with more mainstream values.
just watched on our TSN Canada's top 100 ball golf courses, all ranked as to which are the best courses .... they looked tremendous as compared to what we have to play on .... maybe it's a visual thing ... perhaps we need to take over a few 18 hole executive ball courses and install baskets, make them like PS3 Disc Golf ...... no wonder we're not taken seriously the big boys who have been playing golf for 400 years look at what we do and say ... who'd want to do that? .... we just may want to pick it up a bit ..... make some real fine courses in dedicated state parks and rec areas and step it up, I'm just saying maybe that is what it needs.
Ball golf courses for DG are dicey. They look nice but they're very open and not a huge challenge in that regard. If you have an arm, you can do well there. We're a different sport than regular golf. Tight wooded shots are what makes our game a challenge. I think most people are unaware of this and the distances involved so they view DG as wandering around an open field tossing a freestyle lid. It's hard to get the word about our sport out when coverage is difficult to get at least in terms of the mainstream media. The internet is a huge help to this. The average joe can get on youtube and type in disc golf and get a really clear idea of what we're all about. I don't know that we need to become more like ball golf but just become better within our own context.
there's one problem with nice, big, overly manicured courses.. green fees. are we really ready for $30-$60 for a round? I for one am not. call me cheap, I don't care. I don't like the pretentiousness that comes with it either. our sport thrives on community. in most cases its our community that helps upkeep the courses, we grow our sport thru friendly guidance and word of mouth. the "hippy" spirit that started the sport is one of the greatest things about our sport in it's open, giving, ideals, while at the same time it's the bane of our sport in that it's often overlooked and looked down upon by the mainstream sports community as a hippy offshoot of "legitimate" ball golf. everyone's heard of it, but noone knows of the expertise and finesse required to play the game at it's competitive level.
no I don't think facilities are the answer.. education is.
Very well said, hear hear.
I like to think of disc golf as the Chevy Chase of sports.
Exactly. DG'ers are "cheap, thrifty, frugal", or whatever adjective you want to describe, by nature. This happened in literally my own back yard last summer. The OP has probably been there. Two 18 hole courses installed on a ball golf course. Pro shop in golf clubhouse, adult beverages, golf carts, everything we think we want. The greens fees are part of why no one plays. Another might be the dress code
I see allot of tournaments, and none of them are put into the news papers in the local area. Most News papers will publish your tournaments free of charge. We put on a charity tournament, and called the local paper and not only did we get a spread in the sports page, we also got a small pice on the local news channel on T.V. We collected $250 from disc golfers, we also got $500 from people who sent in money. We paid the electric bill for the local teen club in a small town.
So in short. We need to advertise to get noticed in the right way.
Looks kind of cool. And if I could legally drink my adult beverage that would be cool as well. $3 to $5 for a round isn't too bad.
This sport would take off if Innova would just pay to be on a nascar hood!
I live an hour or so away from there, it's distance.
2 courses close to home..... Tuscawilla & Reed Canal
People need to know what it is before they do that. People will not look it up to see what Innova stands for. Up untill 6 months ago I thought you still played disc golf with an ultimate Frisbee by Whaamo.
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LSU opens as a 1.5 point favorite against Alabama... Vegas says LSU or Bama would've opened as 10 point favorites against Oklahoma St...
game wont be the same as last time....
each team will score at least 20.
but these are the best two teams in the nation...period.
thats what the BCS is designed to do put the best two teams in nation in the NCG game.
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Sorry, 'Bama had their shot and lost at HOME. I like 'Bama, I'll root for them but they do nto deserve this title game, they didn't even make their conf title game. CFB is a complete joke.
Bama has 5 All-Americans..Ok St.-one
LSU and Bama are the best two teams....
I'd much rather Bama play Ok.st than LSU...Bama or LSU would drub Ok.St.
Did you guys even watch Oklahoma lay down against Ok. St....I almost want
to believe they threw that game...OU rushed 3 players and played a soft zone
the whole game...and Stoops is defensive genius?
The two best teams in the country play in the same division within the same conference this year. Obviously they can't both be conference champions.
Unique circumstances call for unique results.
had alabama won out im not seeing too many scenarios where it wouldnt be bama vs. lsu anyway.im not sure what all the fuss is about..
The fact is 'Bama had a chance at HOME to beat LSU and they failed.
Again, I don't have anything against 'Bama. I like and respect the program but this is why CFB is such a joke.
If you don't know that Alabama and LSU are the two best teams in the country, then there's not a system they can come up with in order to help you figure it out.
This is as clear cut as it gets.
LSU has already blown out the Pac-10 Champion, the Big-East Champion, and the 5th best team in the SEC (South Carolina) completely dismantled the ACC Champion.
Conference Championships don't have a damn thing to do with who the two best teams in the country are.
LSU has proven it but how has 'Bama?
it's also not fair to LSU who beat 'Bama on the road to have to beat them again, this system is such a joke. It's embarrassing that this is the way they determine a Nat'l Champion. It's one thing if there was a playoff and these 2 teams played again but that's not the case.


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GRAY — After flirting with disaster on Tuesday, Science Hill left nothing to chance in the Region 1-AAA championship game.
Senior point guard Will Adams piled up 21 points and six steals, helping the Hilltoppers roll to their third straight regional title on Thursday with a 70-48 defeat of Sevier County at Snyder Gym in Gray.
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Maryville (27-7) lost 71-54 to Oak Ridge (27-5), which will host Sevier County (28-5) on Monday.
The Hilltoppers' postseason life momentarily hung on the rim in the form of Jefferson County's potential game-winning buzzer-beater on Tuesday, and though already assured of living to see another day, Science Hill was motivated to secure one more home game in its new gym's debut campaign.
Science Hill forced 24 turnovers while committing 10 against the Smoky Bears. Sixteen steals fueled the transition game, and they came in flurries from the get-go. Senior C.J. Good (14 points, five assists, four steals), junior guard Calvin Songster (14 points) and Adams each had a steal and transition basket in a 20-second span which Adams capped with a pull-up 18-footer that made the score 8-3 after the Smoky Bears had opened the game with a Cody Underwood 3-pointer.
"We talked about how we were lucky to get that win the other night," said Adams, who was named regional MVP for the second straight season. "Tonight, we just wanted to come out and make sure we got it under control."
Another Underwood trey capped a 5-0 run that got Sevier County within 24-18 with 5:32 left in the first half, but Adams responded with two straight baskets that ignited a 22-3 run which stretched the lead to 46-21 with 7:17 left in the third quarter.
Freshman point guard Patrick Good (four assists) fed Adams on a baseline cut for the run's first basket, and C.J. Good assisted Songster's left-handed lay-in for the 46-21 lead.
Adams, C.J. Good and Songster each accounted for two of Science Hill's eight treys.
"Shooting the ball well makes a big difference, because then when we knock down shots early we're able to get in that press early," Hilltoppers coach Ken Cutlip said. "And I thought our press was real productive. It got us some steals that led to good shots and we knocked those down."
Sevier County, playing its second game since leading scorer Devin Schmidt was dismissed from the team following his arrest for domestic assault on Saturday, spewed turnovers during the decisive run that silenced its large, boisterous following.
"You've got one day to prepare with a bunch of kids that were nervous and they don't understand that they're matching up, they're not trapping you," Sevier County coach Ken Wright said. "So it's five on five. And we kept trying to pass the ball instead of dribble it up and force the rotation. … The nerves got to them. …
We let them get happy with steals. When you're throwing the ball away it's hard to be methodical, you know?"
Reed Hayes had 17 points and six rebounds for Science Hill. Fellow senior Marc Aples had a team-high seven rebounds and beat the halftime buzzer with a 3-pointer that gave Science Hill a 41-21 lead.
"We were able to close the quarter hitting that shot," Cutlip said, "and it kept the momentum going for us."
Logan McCarter led Sevier County with 18 points. Underwood added 14.
Wright was happy to see his team play Science Hill almost evenly (29-27) in the second half.
"We're a player down," Wright said, "but we haven't lost our heart. … They (the Hilltoppers) have got great players. They've got basketball players that can play the game."
Indeed, Science Hill has won 37 games this season after winning 35 last season and 34 in 2010-11.
"Whoever shows up in the 'Topper uniform for us year in and year out, they wear that with pride," Cutlip said. "And I think that's evident by how they go out night in and night out and compete. An amazing run by these guys."
Another solid performance against Maryville will be necessary to reach the state tournament.
"They return everybody from that team last year," Cutlip said. "They gave us all we wanted last year."


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As of today, they've all moved on to Madrid, where Woodward-Granger visits tonight for high school football action.
But one week ago, the crew for Mediacom's MC22 Central Iowa Game of the Week was pulling into Creston shortly after school was dismissed, to set up for their tape-delayed broadcast of the big homecoming matchup with Harlan.
The last airing on MC 22, the local cable channel, was 7:30 a.m. today. It was shown multiple times over the past week. But, it remains available to Mediacom customers for "a month or two" on its Video on Demand (VOD) service, according to Lance Herbold, MC22 producer.
The production is well-done for a local broadcast. The wide shots are steady and follow the action, and the close-up replay shots are crisp, with some nice slow-motion effects on the crucial phases of the replay.
Herbold said the quality of the telecast starts with all of the preparation work in the days leading up to the event.
"We meet in July and try to schedule the first five or six weeks of our games," Herbold said. "We leave the last four weeks open in hopes that we can pick some games that might be compelling from a playoff standpoint.
"Once we're into the season, I usually contact the schools and verify the date, to make sure they know that we are coming. We make sure we have the ability to bring our truck onto the facility and that they can accommodate our on-air talent set up with our spotters and statisticians, and cameras."
The busy week is full of collecting statistical information on the teams, figuring which players might be talked about at the top of the show, conducting conference calls with coaches for background, and writing scripts and "formats" for game night.
"It's all about hitting the ground running, so you have everything you need for a good broadcast," Herbold said.
Setting the scene
The opening of the Creston/O-M vs. Harlan broadcast indicates the preparation was thorough on these southwest Iowa rivals.
"The tornado that came through Creston last spring came virtually without warning. Luckily, no lives were lost. But the damage would be severe. Today, the city and the school continue to rebuild and repair. Amidst the construction, the Panther football team is building what it hopes is a winning tradition.
Harlan is no stranger to success. Very few schools can boast having the success on the field of the Cyclones in the Curt Bladt era. Despite an altered offensive philosophy, Harlan continues to be one of the state's most dangerous teams.
Tonight we bring you to one of the best districts in all of Iowa high school football. Next on MC 22."
As that on-air opening began, Creston News Advertiser photos of the April 14 tornado aftermath on the school campus were shown on-screen.
Typically, the broadcast focuses on something involving the host school during halftime. In this case, they were interested in following up on the updates still under way at the school's athletic facilities from the tornado damage. Jeff Bevins, CHS activities director, did an on-screen interview during the halftime segment.
Broadcasting the game itself is a very busy enterprise by numerous people on one of five MC22 games across the state on a typical Friday night. There are four cameras shooting the action.
Two were located at the very top corners of the home bleachers, so some space was set aside on a packed homecoming night. Those two high cameras follow the full game, while two other cameras feature "isolation" looks. One was a hand-held camera following along the sideline, while the other one was stationed atop a scaffolding in the south end zone.
Since team personnel were on a scaffolding there already, and MC22 tries to work alone in those areas to avoid unnecessary movements, Akin Building Center of Creston provided an additional scaffolding for the broadcast. That camera angle gave some terrific replay angles, especially on scoring plays such as Brandon Phipps' exciting 87-yard interception return early in the game.
While it's not high-definition quality on the basic game action, the close-up replay looks were crystal clear.
"We're still using some standard def equipment," Herbold said. "But we're constantly stringing together new pieces of equipment that are at least HD compatible, or up-gradable. The tighter shots do look better. We are also making some updates within the system locally that will hopefully improve our picture quality."
Herbold is the producer in the truck speaking into the ears of broadcasters B.J. Schaben and Kirk Darrow, while the director calls out the changes in shots and communicates with videotape people.
Broadcast duo
While those production folks are kind of the unsung "offensive linemen" behind the scenes of a successful broadcast, the attention of viewers typically falls on the "quarterback and running back," as in Schaben for play-by-play description, and Darrow for analysis and interviews.
Schaben, a seed corn salesman by day, has an extensive background in radio and television work. In fact, the week of the Creston game, it was announced he'd won an Upper Midwest Region Emmy Award in Minneapolis.
Representing Mediacom's MC22 and Cyclone Television Network, Schaben's award was for on-camera sports play-by-play.
Darrow is a retired high school football coach. Most of his career was spent in Ames, but he actually started not far away at Earlham. He is in the Iowa Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and knows many of the coaches he deals with on Friday nights now.
"We brought him on a few years ago," Herbold said. "He and B.J. used to do some radio broadcasts together at KASI in Ames. He gives us that knowledge base, that information base, you just can't get from everybody."
As I watched the live-to-tape broadcast, I was impressed. Sure, there were a few mistakes — Creston's last win before last year was not in 1975, but actually 1997 — and a few names were misspelled in the lineup graphics. But, overall I was impressed with the conversion of graphics, camera shots and on-air broadcast.
In fact, the broadcast team in the booth was much better than what I listened to the next day on ESPN2 for the Iowa-Minnesota game. Certainly, they were better prepared with background on the two teams.
It was a treat for the community to watch their kids on TV like that, and especially for the kids themselves to have that opportunity. My wife and I remarked how neat it would have been to have that to save when our kids were playing.
"To have them come in for a big game with Harlan, a quality opponent, and to have Creston seen by the entire state of Iowa is outstanding for our program," coach Brian Morrison said.


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Head for a trek through some beautiful rock formations in the rainforest. This area is full of wildlife and you will find many tracks here.
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This is the project website (includes a lot of examples, screenshots, link to the download, etc.):
I like to make collages to summarize albums of photos that I have so I can post it on my blog, use as my desktop wallpaper, use for scrap booking projects, etc. I was never satisfied with the collages created using Picasa and other programs because the photos are just randomly placed in the collage, the photos do not optimally cover the area of the collage, and many of the photos are covered up by other photos. I used to use Photoshop to manually create the collages, but this would take forever. So, I created a program that automatically creates photo collages and attempts to optimally place the photos in the collage using a machine learning algorithm that I developed. I then realized that my program was not restricted to merely creating rectangular collages like every other collage making software or website, and so, Shape Collage was born.
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Scroll to the bottom of the Most Recent feed and click Edit Options. You can adjust the friends in the modal dialog that comes up.
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