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Giuliani v. Egan
Not to distract anyone from the other highjinks (and lowjinks) on the blog today, but an interesting smackdown is brewing between Rudy Giuliani and Cardinal Edward Egan over Giuliani's decision to take communion atthe papal mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral on April 19. We were allsurprised to see Giuliani--twice-divorced (once annulled), thrice-married, pro-gay rights, pro-abortion rights--receive, especially in such a context.Rudy hadn't done this before, in my experience--neither at the Central Park Mass in 1995 with John Paul, nor at Cardinal O'Connor's funeral in 2000. So to take communion in the cathedral at a mass celebrated by the pope was, well, Rudy being Rudy.Now Cardinal Egan has reacted, with a very measured but direct statement released today:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 28, 2008The following is a statement issued by Edward Cardinal Egan:"The Catholic Church clearly teaches that abortion is a grave offense against the will of God. Throughout my years as Archbishop of New York, I have repeated this teaching in sermons, articles, addresses, and interviews without hesitation or compromise of any kind. Thus it was that I had an understanding with Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, when I became Archbishop of New York and he was serving as Mayor of New York, that he was not to receive the Eucharist because of his well-known support of abortion. I deeply regret that Mr. Giuliani received the Eucharist during the Papal visit here in New York, and I will be seeking a meeting with him to insist that he abide by our understanding."
For all of Egan's bad press, he was never one to pick a public fight with public figures. Indeed, he often said he counted people like Giuliani and Hillary Clinton as "friends," an embrace that angered many in the church. But Rudy left him no choice here. He apparently abrogated a very judicious and pastoral private agreement with his bishop, and did so in front of Egan's boss and under the full glare of the media klieg lights.What was Rudy thinking? Here's all we know, from his spokesperson:
STATEMENT FROM GIULIANI SPOKESWOMAN SUNNY MINDEL ON EDWARD CARDINAL EGAN."Mayor Rudy Giuliani is certainly willing to meet with Cardinal Egan. As he has previously said, Mayor's Giuliani's faith is a deeply personal matter and should remain confidential."
"Deeply personal?" Not when you score a coveted invite to St. Patrick's with the pope, and take communion. Then again, it is certainly true that Giuliani might have gone to confession beforehand. He has said that his spiritual confidante is a longtime friend, Alan Placa, a Long Island priest who has been suspended on allegations that he molested children. Giuliani gave Placa a job at his consulting firm.I don't think this signals any major change of approach by Egan or other bishops in the wake of the pope's visit. Egan, like most bishops, has always played these things quietly, in confidence, and on a case-by-case basis. But you never know. This was a real in-your-face move by Giuliani, in front of the pope.What is interesting, I think, is that Egan made no mention of Giuliani's apparently irregular marital status as a cause for refraining from communion. Is that because Giuliani has regularized his status? Or perhaps Egan did not want to draw attention to a huge pastoral challenge for the church--namely, the communion ban for divorced and remarried (without benefit of annulment) Catholics, of whom there are so many--and so many of them faithful in every other way. It's a pastoral headache priests, and bishops, generally like to avoid.
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David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Blogettes will be interested, perhaps, in the speculation that the whole thing began with a column by Robert Novak attacking Cardinal Egan and Archbishop Wuerl for not smacking down politicians who received Communion during the pope's visit to DC and NYC. Guiliani is in Novak's dark view among many erring politicians. The column is full of various errors and dubious claims. Count how many:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR200804...
If you don't want someone generally recognized as a Catholic to receive communion on an occasion such as the one at St. Patrick's, it would be prudent not to invite her/him. Or so it seems to me.
Good point, Joseph Gannon. Thanks also Peggy, for the Novak column. (Converts--gotta watch out for them.) Novak's attack may explain the delayed response by His Eminence. PS: Is "blogette" correctly gendered even for moi?
Interesting post, however, I think you are missing something quite important David. Regardless of whatever agreement existed between these two men, the core issue is clearly in Giuliani's favor although conservative Catholics and moral theologians would disagree.I've never understood, as a matter of moral theology, how the idea that individuals could be denied or should voluntary abstain from taking the Eucharistic simply because they sincerely disagree on a matter of prescriptive morality such as abortion can be squared with post-Vatican II moral theology on the whole. In particular, with the idea that sin describes subjective culpability while objective morality is an entirely different, but related, matter altogether. If Giuliani, or anyone else, has reached a sincere decision of conscience to disagree with a particular moral teaching of the Church, there's no sin on their part. That's the whole idea behind having meaningful moral culpability for an act rest on the notion of freely and knowingly doing something that is wrong. Their position might be held to still be objectively wrong or evil in the Church's view but that's irrelevant for receiving communion I should think. I know that some in Church would like to deny that one can ever in good faith, and with a truly well formed conscience, come to a moral prescription that differs from the one taught by the Church. And, of course, this can be a excuse for not engaging in serious moral discernment. However, millions of sincere Catholics know that one can both faithful and in disagreement on particular moral issues with the Church. It's time that bishops and the Vatican acknowledged this as well.
I wonder why Egan focused only on abortion, when Giuliani is one of the most vigorous defenders of Bush's torture policies-- also intrinsically evil acts. You see, if we drew this point to its logical conclusion....
Oh brother, this is Guiliani's lame attempt to be considered for McCain's running mate nothing more. Guiliani new he would be in the Media spot light and begin to establish more credability among conservatives. This stunt by Giuliani has very little to do with faith or moral conviction but everything to do with pure politics.
"Prescriptive morality" is a curious term. It seems [as used by Mr. Tigue] to mean that I may make my own morality. Per contra, Cardinal Newman was quite clear and firm about the necessity of Catholics to accept determinations by the Magisterium on matters moral, even if we don't like them; and perhaps especially if we don't like them. To do otherwise, leads us directly into the pit of self-determination of what evil is and what good. If Cardinal Egan is correct [and I see no reason to doubt it], he and Mr. Giuliani had an agreement about the matter. Mr. Giuliani broke the agreement. But then he broke his agreement with his wife. All the talk about personal. personal doesn't change the fact. As Harry Truman asked "if you won't keep your word with your wife, with whom will you keep it?". For Morning's Minion, torture is certainly a nasty business. But infanticide is nastier. It does not much matter by which of the mortal sins you choose to go to hell.
Gabriel: yes, but the point is that if you public support, and lobby for, an intrinsically evil act then you could be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and that is the basis for denying communion. You cannot simply just say: abortion is worse than torture. To establish formal cooperation, you need to know whether the politician really supports abortion in his/her heart, or merely does not think it should be criminalized. The former position can never be justified; the latter can. Plus, one can argue that the fact that a certain politician mouths off for abortion does not affect abortion one bit (the proximity is remote) but a torture-supporting politician is far closer to the evil act of torture-- after all, without the advent of Bush and Cheney, we would not be having this discussion.Of course, the Bob Novaks of the world completely missed the memo from Benedict about the excess division and partisanship in the US church.
Isn't Egan just doing a Captain Renault in expressing shock over Guliani presenting himself for communion? I would love to be a fly on the wall at the private meeting.
Alan, thanks for that and I would add, a glimpse into the real world without the phony moralizing that goes on in chanceries and high places. At least in Casablanca we have a love story, great dialogue and sterling movie making. Fantasy does trump a lot of ugly reality. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/quotesCaptain Renault: Ricky, I'm going to miss you. Apparently you're the only one in Casablanca with less scruples than I.
David raises the possibility that Giuliani has "regularized" his marital status with church authorities - that his marriage to Donna Hanover was annulled. Isn't it also possible then that Giuliani has (again) changed his mind on abortion, as he awkwardly tried to imply during his election campaign? As I recall, he said "it would be OK" to apeal Roe v. Wade. I don't know if we have the full story yet. Perhaps he will someday be another Hugh Carey, who supported abortion rights at a crucial time while he was governor of New York, then changed his mind after he left office and went on to build a warm relationship with Catholic leaders.In addition to whatever discussions he had with Cardinal Egan in 2000 or so, Giuliani had ample and more recent warning about receiving communion at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Daily News reported last year that the cathedral's rector declared that if Giuliani "comes to my church, he would be refused communion," but added that if the cardinal invited him, Giuliani would be counseled in advance not to receive the sacrament so as to avoid "public embarrassment." So he had to have thought a lot about what he was getting into.For much more on the subject, see Wayne Barrett's article in the Village Voice at http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0726,barrett,77041,6.html ...
Let's get with it. The current story is Obama and Rev, Wright... Eagan is going going gone. Guiliani is out of politics and will be a lobbyist at best.
Whilke many of the posts here have focused on the at this point pitiful Rudy , I think it speaks volumes that the Cardinal Archbishop of New York had a on the quiet arrangement with Rudy. Of course like any PR anxious supermanager, when bad publicity hit the press, damage control became the order of the dya.I must say though I may be prejudiced since wheneever I think of Cardinal Egan, i'm reminded of Oscar Levant's line about Zsa Zsa Gabor "doing good social work among the rich."
The federal, not state of New York, constitution affirms the right to an abortion. So Giuliani's opinion about abortion are purely academic, no?Giuliani is a philanderer and a jerk (the latter of which is not grounds to deny communion last time I looked), but unless he has actively supported a state measure to make abortions easier, assisted someone in procuring an abortion, pressured someone into having one, or is out demonstrating with pro-choice factions, I don't see where he's unfit to receive communion because of his beliefs about abortion.One of the reasons I've moved away from Catholicism is that some elements in the church seem to feel that refraining from sin oneself and not tempting others into same are no longer enough. We must be holy warriors proving our faith by publicly agitating against sins listed in the CCC.I'm sorry, but working for secular laws that would criminalize homosexual acts, masturbation, using artificial birth control, and failure to attend Mass regularly--all of which the church tells us are grave sins--are not high on my Things To March in the Streets About list.
Jesus invited all of us who are heavily burdened to come to him.He told his disciples to let the children approach him.What would Jesus say about this ban on communion?(...to say nothing about freedom of conscience...)
In response to Jean Raber:1) The Federal Constitution does not affirm any right to abortion, pace Roe v. Wade. If you consult the text, I think you will find it quite silent on the matter.2) Personally, I think Giulani's consistent and manifest support of abortion in two campaigns for federal offices counts as tempting others to sin. But, at the very least, it is clear that it was Giulani who has made an issue of this, by joining his cause with what you call "pro-choice factions", even if he has not been out demonstrating with them.3) It would have sufficed for Giulani to have avoided supporting a right to abortion. I think Cardinal Egan would agree that it would have been unnecessary for him to become an anti-abortion crusader, much less a holy warrior against all the other sins listed in the Catechism. 4) Perhaps it is true that some elements of the Church may be demanding that secular laws make crimes of every grave sin, but this is not the Church's Creed, nor the teaching of the Fathers and Doctors, nor the sense of the faithful. Please reconsider whether this is really a reason for you to move away from Catholicism!
Kim,Insofar as the Constitution means what the Supreme Court says it does, which is my understanding of how it works, the Constitution guarantees the right to abortion. We had a lot of decisions that we all have to live with, like it or not, that were decided 5-4. The vote on Roe v Wad was 7-2. (Having said that, I think it was probably wrongly decided, but with five Catholics on the Supreme Court, that's not my problem.)One of the issues that is very unclear to me is which Catholic teachings are supposed to be made the law of the land, and which are not. It looks very much like the Catholic Church believes its position on stem-cell research, gay marriage and gay rights, and abortion must be translated into law. If not those, why not others? Why not capital punishment, or just war theory? Why doesn't the Catholic Church campaign to have fertility clinics shut down?
Kim, you make some good points that deserve further thought.In general, I can see where someone like Giuliani is an embarassment to the church--divorce, seemingly cavalier attitude toward abortion, etc. Whether he is fit to receive communion is only for his confessor to say.It sounds to me like Bishop Egan has excommunicated Giuliani--told him not to receive anywhere. He has done so because of Giuliani's "support" for abortion. In my view, Giuliani doesn't support abortion so much as he declines to support anti-abortion legislation. To the extent that this tempts people into having them is debateable.
Faith is not a purely personal matter, at least not for Catholics. Receiving communion is certainly a public act. This brings us to the contradiction inherent in Giuliani's response. To wit: a purely private faith is fine, just practice it in private.More than the his public stance on abortion, which was a major reason why, contra the pundits who hoped otherwise, along with his misguided political strategy, he was never a viable national Republican candidate, is his irregular marital status, which prevents him from As to freedom of conscience, while we have it, conscience can malformed and misguided. I suppose this goes to the whole private faith argument. Jean: Somebody in Mayor Giuliani's irregular martial state cannot go to confession, or receive any sacraments. Therefore, he cannot have a confessor. A confessor is not free override canon law. The Church is a communion. Receiving communion is a public act of faith. Hence, it is important to be in communion to receive/share communion.
Scott, thanks for clarifying the point about the confessor.
The exclusion of divorced and remarried Catholics from the Eucharist has always seemed heartlessly punitive to me, especially in the light of the little announcement in the front of our Oregon Press missalettes to the effect that members of the Polish National Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church are invited to partake of communion, and urged to follow the guidelines of their own denominations. Both groups allow divorced and remarried couples to receive the Eucharist.
Excommunication isn't a punishment, though, is it? It's something you've done by breaking faith with the Church.I suppose some people who continue to take communication even though they've effectively left the church--as Giuliani has by virtue of divorce and remarriage--have to be declared excommunicated if they don't cease taking communion.Exactly what faith with the Church IS, however, strikes me as pretty gray area. Giuliani's marriage seems to put him clearly beyond the pale. More ambiguous is his stand (or failure to stand against) abortion. Kim, and possibly Cardinal Egan, believes that what she sees as Giuliani's support for abortion (by his toleration of pro-choice advocates and failure to lobby against abortion) can be construed as tempting people to commit abortion. At least that's what it sounds to me like she's saying. She can correct me if I'm not seeing the nuances.But I think this principle of being excommunicated by "tempting people to sin" can get pretty fuzzy. Say you have a brother who's divorced and remarried. Say you welcome your brother and his new wife into your home. Are you tempting them to continue to sin by allowing them to cohabit in your home?Or say your cousin is gay and brings her partner to family gatherings. In failing to remonstrate with them about their "lifestyle," are you tempting them to continue to sin by your toleration, which could be construed as tacit approval?Or say a close friend tells you she has a medical condition that would make bearing more children dangerous and that she plans on being sterilized. If you don't try to talk her out of it by urging her to live as brother and sister with her husband, are you tempting her to sin?If so, a lot of Catholics should get out of the communion line.
Don't forget: excommunication is not the same as refusing to administer the sacrament of the Eucharist.Excommunication is in fact a penalty (i.e. CIC canon 1331) which the Church applies when someone commits an ecclesiastical crime and which prohibits a person from receiving all the sacraments (i.e. Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Confirmation, Holy Orders, and Marriage), among other things. The penalty is medicinal, i.e., the withdrawal from the sacramental life of the Church should be serious enough to cause the offender to realize the error of their ways, apologize, and stop doing the crime.Giuliani, so far, has committed no ecclesiastical crime. Despite his support of abortion, he has not procured an abortion (CIC canon 1398). Divorcing a wife is not an ecclesiastical crime either. I am unaware of anything else he has done that would qualify as an ecclesiastical crime.What Cardinal Egan is referring to is that, according to CIC canon 915, a communion minister should refuse to administer the Eucharist to a person who obstinately persists in manifest grave sin on the grounds that the person is not properly disposed to receive the sacrament. According to Cardinal Egan, supporting abortion politically is obstinate persistence in manifest grave sin. That's all. No excommunication.So, to conclude, Giuliani is not excommunicated. He's just, according to Cardinal Egan, publicly not disposed to receive the Eucharist.
Ms. Raber:In those hypothetical situations that you bring up, no one is excommunicated. However, depending on the circumstance, they may not be able to receive communion.Maybe some of the parties are obstinately persisting in manifest grave sin. If that were the case, and the local pastor knew it with moral certainty, the local pastor under canon 915 could refuse to administer the Eucharist to them.Maybe some of the parties are committing mortal sin but it's such a private matter that no one knows about it. In that case, the local pastor could not deny the Eucharist to them, but those individuals should refrain from receiving as they are not properly disposed and they know it.Finally, some of the parties may not be sinning in a mortal manner at all, in which case they can receive the Eucharist and no one can stop them licitly.I do not know if those examples are serious sins. There are some moral theologians that blog here. Perhaps they can help.
Jean, perhaps a canonist can weigh in at some point, but I'd reiterate what others have said, namely that excommunication isn't the same as not being able to receive communion, or even being barred from receiving communion. Excommunication is rarely used these days, and usually for matters of internal church discipline, like ordaining a bishop when you shouldn't, or physically attacking the pope, which you should never do. (My own writings come dangerously close, perhaps.) In any case, I know the 1983 Code of canon law (revised from 1917 version) reduced the penalties for automatic excommunication from a fairly large number to a fairly small number. I thought it was 7 or 8, but this Wikipedia entry (as good as canon law, no?) lists 10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication#Automatic_excommunication
Paul, the Vatican's 1994 declaration on communion for the divorced and remarried speaks of contravening God's law by remarrying (civil) after divorce. That sounds like a they think it is a criminal act.The document goes on to say that being excluded from the reception of the Eucharist is not the same as excommunication. I know people who come to mass every week, offering themselves with Christ in his sacrifice, but who do not receive the Eucharist consecrated by that sacrifice. Clearly they share in the life of the Church, even if they cannot receive.But I am not a canonist, or any kind of lawyer. I just think it mighty strange that Egan frames this question in terms of something under discussion, rather than in terms of something recently reaffirmed as contravening God's law.
Forty years after Vatican II and we are still talking juridically. Catholic Hispanics who came from other countries were not welcome in the American Church for a long time, never mind blacks. Black Catholics still stayed in the back in the South and the Jesuits nicely held onto hundreds of slaves as they landed in North America. The holocaust was generated from people who were Christians. Civil rights came to blacks 80plus years after the Civil war. Yet we still distinguish about what is a valid marriage, and who is excommunicated. De Jure, De Facto. But get real.Our parishes are still far from communities and our universities have no clue as to why and how to fix it. ......
Thanks for cutting all those fine lines between actual excommunication and being told not to receive communion, or removing oneself from the communion line.My question remains unanswered because I don't hopefully understand the difference between excommunication and being told not to take communion. So let me rephrase: In the previous post I asked whether a person who fails to protest sinful behavior on the part of another (who may or may not be Catholic) is tempting them to sin (as Kim suggested Rudy Giuliani is doing by his stand on abortion) and ought to remove themselves from the communion line.
Bill: To break the divine law is to sin. To commit an offense under canon law is to commit ecclesiastical crime.There are plenty of acts that are against the divine law that are not penalized by canon law. For example, theft, divorce, arson, lying, battery of non-clerics, yelling at someone, being a jerk, etc. The list goes on. While the Church could decide to create laws punishing each of these offenses, it has wisely decided not to do so.Breaking the divine law means transgressing the two fundamental precepts: love God and love your neighbor.Canon law is a different, positive law, which establishes an order in the Church so that those two precepts can be more easily followed. Thus, not every transgression of the two precepts is penalized under canon law, just the really big ones that disrupt order in the Church, for example, punching the Pope, committing abortion, killing people, ordaining bishops without papal permission, breaking the seal of the confessional, etc.I hope that clarifies the distinction between divine and canon law.
Whoops, sorry, my comments were actually directed at Jim McK.


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Carlee Gillespie gets some big air as she splits Harrison Central defenders Katie Ellzy and Jessica Custer. The junior guard lead all scoring with 17 points as the Red Devils posted their first win of the season 55-40 over the visiting Huskies.
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Harrison Central could not overcome the deficit as they equaled the hosts output in the fourth period.
Gillespie finished with 17 points to lead all scoring. Alexis St. Clair put in 14 points with 8 rebounds for the Red Devils. St. Clairsville shot 24 of 46 on action shots and 6 of 12 from the charity stripe with 23 total rebounds.
Ellzy notched another double-double for the Huskies with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Cara Dunfee also netted 13 markers with Jesse Ledger chipping in 9 points, including a pair of treys. Harrison Central netted 13 of 36 from the floor and 10 of 25 from the foul line with 19 team caroms.
Turnovers were fairly even with St. Clairsville giving it back 14 times while Harrison Central committed 15 miscues.
The Huskies fall to 1-3 and will host Martins Ferry while St. Clairsville improves to 1-2 and will host Edison. Both games are on Monday night.
Harrison Central won Thursday's jayvee contest, 45-40.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE (55) - Mick 3, 0-2 6; Skukan 0. 0-0 0; Gillespie 7, 0-0 17; DeFillippo 2, 2-2 6; St. Clair 6, 2-4 14; DelGuzzo 2, 1-2 5; Cenkus 0, 0-0 0; Avila 1, 0-0 2; Moulder 1, 0-0 2; Figura 1, 1-2 3. Totals: 23, 6-12 55. HARRISON CENTRAL (40) - Ledger 2, 3-4 9; Compher 0, 0-2 0; Dodds 0, 2-4 2; Dunfee 4, 3-7 13; Nameth 0, 1-2 1; Ellzy 6, 1-4 13; Custer 1, 0-2 2. Totals 15, 10-25 40.
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If you are using the terminal client, generally you can do things like reset the root users password for mysql or create databases. A simple example can be found at the MySQL docs site, of which I will copy the highlights.
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Thanks everyone. I used the below commands to figure it out.
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I have various functions that export Excel and text files, and need to have them named with a name based on the content of some variables in the function and the time and date. How can this be done with Mathematica?
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Lol. Yeah, like he could handle Q. Heck, even Gandalf could handle Darth Vader.
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Now to bring a fight into my marriage, I will have my wife read this.
Good thing we have Star Gate that brings us together in the geek world.
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Please, please, PLEASE, JJ, don't do to Star Wars what what you did to "Into Darkness." While extremely clever and well written, it was 10% too long, 10% too loud, 10% too violent making it 70% of what it could've been. Just pull it back a little this time, please.
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I noticed that you left the following classic verbatim lines out of your list:
(Imagine this in the whiniest, can't get my way voice possible)
"But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!"
"Around the survivors a perimeter create."
"Love won't save you, Padme. Only my new powers can do that."
"yub, yub"
"Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo."
"You Rebel Scum"
"Nerf Herder. . .Laser Brain"
"Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Gettin very scared and grabbin that Jedi and POW! Mesa here! Mesa gettin' very very scared!" Actually, EVERY word Jar Jar says.
Of course the line that evokes Shakespeare,
I am a fan of both franchises. You will probably find that most people who like one will enjoy the other. Making comparisons is unnecessary.
- 7:56 a.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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Star Wars...better than Star Trek?
JarJar Binks
Pod racers
And for the record ---
JJ Abrams DESTROYED the Star Trek franchise, period!
I'll take the deep DEEP thinking, out of the box, provocative Star Trek TOS [The Original Series] with all it's 1960's cardboard TV sets and cheezy one-liners over all the movie magic SFX and lame story lines of the latest stuff anyday!
Star Trek NG [next Generation] is still my all-time Sci-Fi favorite.
- 8:34 a.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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Yes, give in to your anger, mwhaha.
Also Red Headed Stranger, those power converters were VERY important.
- 10:42 a.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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And the next apples vs oranges debate will be....
- 11:00 a.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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The IDEA of Star Wars is better in some ways...but Lucas DESTROYED the Star Wars
idea and films with the last three episodes. Total and dismal failure.
Here is the right story line: Luke's Father, was taken hostage by the dark side. He was cloned, and Darth Vadar was really not his father, but the first generation clone. The red warriors were first generation clones of the Jedi, and the further down the line, you end up with clones of clones for the white storm troopers.
As far as Jar Jar Binx sp? Really ? Please.
Star Trek, on the other hand, is the original deal. The development of the characters was much tighter as years went by, and now they are endeared to the fans. The original series was hog-tied by technology and budget. Now that money is on even terms for Trek and Wars, I'll take a well-done Trek film over whatever "Disney" is going to slaughter Wars with.
Wars is done. Trek will "live long and prosper".
- 11:29 a.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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What's next Why Marvel > DC?
- 12:22 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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The original Star Wars trilogy beats Star Trek hands down. No contest. Not even
close. Unfortunately, Jar Jar and Episode II were so bad it brings the franchise
down a significant notch. Hopefully JJ can rescue the franchise. Darth Vader =
best villain ever (thank you JEJ). Yoda = much wiser than any Vulcan. Obi Wan =
mentor. Han Solo = swag. Chewy = say anything against him and he'll rip
your arms off. C3PO = annoying in a good way. Jar Jar = annoying in a bad way.
R2D2 = amazing.
Kirk = punk. Picard = awesome. Data = pretty cool.
Star Wars wins
- 1:57 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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As a certain Dr. would say, you are all just so adorable.
Dr. Who: came before either franchise and still going strong (saving all of time none the less).
- 2:37 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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I've been reasonably impressed with everything JJ Abrams has done, but I
don't know if I'm ready to live in a world where the same guy is
responsible for both the Star Trek and Star Wars series. They should have
different feels, and I fear that's going away. I could be wrong, but at the
very least I hope he stays away from overt homages/rip-offs of previous SW
films. I was fine with "Into Darkness" until the direct references to
"Wrath of Khan." It was just unnecessary.
Two things that make me laugh . . claims that Abrams "ruined" Trek and corresponding claims that TOS was a super-deep philosophical classic. It wasn't. I liked it plenty and have seen every episode 3-4 times, but it's just another show.
Final observation . . fears that Abrams will wreck SW imply that George Lucas didn't smash it all up real good already. You really think JJ can make worse films than the last three?? The absence of George Lucas alone makes the worst-case scenario for these movies about 50% better.
- 2:53 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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Oh come on?
That whole blowing up Vulcan so you can change all future events for a re-boot?
[BTW - red goop that is like black hole matriel could not be sucked into a syringe...even in the future.]
What about beaming into green coolant in a clear tube while in hyperspace ala,
Willey Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
Captain Kirk is too over the top.
As a Veteran - he'd NEVER earn a commission even in the French army.
and not to be all negative,
Spock and McCoy played it - dead on.
Star Wars IV - a new hope.
Best of them all, but all down here from there.
CWEB Orem, UT
Kudos to you --
That was the right story-line.
Why Lucas deviated reamins a complete and utter mystery to this very day.
[Why else would Luke Skywalker find HIS face inside of Darth Vader's helmet? ref Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back?]
- 3:34 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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Totally agree. Star Wars beats Star Trek. That said, it was a great day when I
discovered that there was room in my heart for both worlds. I used to think
that to like one was to put down the other. Not so.
But if forced to choose, Star Wars any day. (Original trilogy, that is. I don't consider the prequels cannon.)
Speaking of the original trilogy, by the way, I noticed that the video clips were from the unaltered originals, not the Lucas-ruined special versions, etc. Thank you. I would actually probably enjoy the prequels a bit more had Lucas not felt the need to go and alter his earlier, superior work to conform to his later, inferior prequels.
- 4:10 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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Let's see, Star Trek has more movies, more TV shows/episode, and it's obvious more thought put into the writing of the overall series because the ideas in the show have started to appear in our lives. I'm not saying Star Wars is bad, it has a lot of good ideas in the story telling as well but Star Trek pushes new and controversial topics before bringing us back to good human values. Star Wars basically exploits our feelings for the familiar with a new story line about good vs. evil. Star Trek is more complex and more like real life. You could almost say Star Trek is like the U and Star Wars like the Y.
- 6:28 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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I think that some people will love the new Star Wars movies and some people will
hate the new movies regardless. It's just a fact of life.
I am definitely a Star Wars fan, so I would have to say SW is better. That being said, there is something in this article I disagree with. I personally think episode II was worse than Phantom Menace. I think if we took a poll I would be in the majority with this one. I also think think that the Duel of the Fates in Phantom Menace is perhaps the best lightsaber duel of any of them in all the movies (followed by Battle of Heroes between Obi-Wan and Vader in ROTS and Luke's duel with Vader in ROTJ).
I completely agree with the statements about Jar Jar: an attempt at comic relief went too far and ultimately detracted from the whole thing. R2 is comic relief enough, along with Han's and Leia's bickering.
"You could almost say Star Trek is like the U and Star Wars like the Y." Exactly why Star Wars is better. :)
- 9:10 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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We all need to get a life....
- 9:48 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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22 reasons and you barely acknowledge that the Star Wars prequels exist. Are you
serious about #16? The worst Star Wars movie is better than the worst Star Trek
movie? I hope this was meant as a joke.
Star Trek has plenty of warts, but ONE HALF of the Star Wars movies are barely watchable. I'd even say cringeworthy!
The only way I could bear to watch AOTC again would be to skip each and every "love story" scene.
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere." Just like Anakin. And George Lucas' edits.
Really though, I say enjoy what you like and hope that future additions to either franchise are worthwhile.
- 10:47 p.m. Nov. 12, 2013
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LDS Liberal says: "Captain Kirk is too over the top."
You're saying Chris Pine's Kirk is over the top? As opposed to WILLIAM "Dramatic Pause" SHATNER?? I hope I'm misreading you.
"As a Veteran - he'd NEVER earn a commission even in the French army."
Sorry; your status as a veteran is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Having done a tour in Iraq or wherever does not grant you extra cachet as a film critic.
As for the implausibility of events involving red goop, green coolant, yadda yadda yadda, my I direct you to virtually every other Star Trek episode/movie ever made. If I cared to take the time, it wouldn't be hard to come up with, say, 25 moments in TOS episodes that are equally as loony. I mean, Kirk teamed with Abraham Lincoln to fought Genghis Khan once. "Spock's Brain," anyone?
If we're being honest, "Star Trek: Implausibility" would be the most honest title for any of the Trek movies every produced. Again, I LIKE the movies, for the most part. I just don't get how you can think that elements from the new films are too out-there considering the series' history.
- 7:26 a.m. Nov. 13, 2013
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I got one to check. Which franchise has the most alien species that speak
perfect American English. That has always bugged me, but I guess it is better
than having to read subtitles all the time. At least Star Trek I believe had
some kind of translater system. Not sure about Star Wars.
And, for all the great stuff in Star Wars, how did anyone ever allow Jar Jar Binks to get past the editing room floor? Sometimes George Lucas script writing has been a little less mature, and more oriented to kids than the writers of Star Trek movies. JJ Abrams has done a pretty good job of taking Star Trek to places where the origional TV show had not gone before. I can't even watch the origional TV show now it is so crude in production values compared to the later TV shows and movies. Looking forward to any more Star Trek movies and the upcoming Star Wars episodes.
- 9:18 a.m. Nov. 13, 2013
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Both are good.
Not a fan of alternate time lines. Why remake Kahn?
Star Trek TV series has shown many story lines, Romulans, Klingons, Dominion, Borg.....to build from.
Star Wars has the Empire and Rebels. I wonder how things would be had Star Wars become a TV series with spin-offs?
I will take a dozen or so doomsday machines and Borg cubes against the Empire fleet any day.
- 2:39 p.m. Nov. 14, 2013
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It seem more scientists reference Star Trek than Star Wars. Just an observation.
- 6:00 p.m. Nov. 15, 2013
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I agree that Star Wars is preferable to Star Trek, but for more subtle
Star Trek is a traditional science fiction story with fitting sci-fi themes and ideas. Exploration of space and the human condition, contemplation on life and its purpose, and futuristic idealism. It's nice, but it's almost ironically more out-of-touch with reality than Star Wars.
Star Wars is a more fundamentally archtypical story that merely happens to involve a science fiction setting, with socially engrained character molds and actual good and evil underneath the political deceptions and "force relativism" that the sith try to throw in against the Jedi order. It's more in-touch with the universal human condition and realities of what truly concerns mankind.
- 11:25 a.m. Nov. 21, 2013
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This article clearly proves that you have never seen Star Trek if these are your arguments. Here's a tip: watch more than one episode of the original series. Here's another tip: focus on more than just the Federation. There's more to it than what you're "aware" of.
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I know some might think this is sour grapes from a member of the media who thinks they should be able to go anywhere at any time ((we don't really think in those extreme terms, by the way)), but a news release Friday really made me frustrated. Jeb Bush will be the guest speaker at the Kansas Chamber of Commerce annual dinner. But unless you buy a ticket, you won't get to hear for yourself what he says. Why? Because the news release notes this restriction: There are limitations for recording Gov. Bush's remarks: only the first 3 minutes and b roll with no audio is allowed.
We asked about it. Yes, we can sit and listen to the speech and write what he says - which is great for a newspaper, but sort of defeats the purpose for television and radio.
It's frustrating to see speakers impose these types of restrictions. I get why organizations will abide by them - they want to get the most recognizable name they can to attract people to their event. The Kansas Chamber isn't the first organization to have this happen. When Sarah Palin spoke at the Salina Chamber's annual event in 2010, media couldn't record her comments. And the Dole Institute has had several guests with the same restriction, one I remember was Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner - we couldn't even get video of her - we had to use a still photo provided by KU University Relations.
I suppose one could argue these are private events (although the Dole Institute would be arguable on that one), but, by not allowing media to record their comments, it gives the appearance they have something to hide. If you're worried about your message being skewed, I'd say it's just as likely to happen in written word - perhaps even moreso because, at least with audio and video, you can "go back to the tape."
Maybe the news release just hit at the wrong time. A few days before that, one of our photographers had a legislative committee chairperson give him some trouble about where and what he could shoot in a hearing. When our news director contacted the House Speaker's office, we were told it is each committee chairperson's discretion how to handle media.
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This was the second year to show off hogs for Little River-Academy High School senior, Courtney Beechem. Last year she placed second and this year she placed eight and ninth. Beechem got involved with showing animals because her agricultural teachers were very positive about it and she spent a lot of time around livestock on her grandfather's farm. "They told me it was the easiest to raise, but it wasn't," said Beechem about raising hogs.
"The hardest part is letting the animals go," said Beechem, who has become attached to her hogs. "The easiest part is getting the hogs out there and having fun every day because they have such a personality."
According the Beechem, she gets nervous because there is so much time spent on taking care of the animals and it's kind of a "make or break" when you get out on the floor to be judged. The animal has to be at the right angle so the judge can view the right parts. "You also have to make sure they don't run off when you are trying to walk or show them."
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Donna Barr is a creator with a rich history in the comics industry. As noted in her Wikipedia profile (which Barr directs people to): "Common elements in her work are fantastic human/animal hybrids and German culture. She is best known for two of her series. One is Stinz (about a society of centaur-like people in a setting reminiscent of pre-industrial Germany). Originally published in 1986 as a short story in a hand-bound book, it was then serialized in the Eclipse Comics series 'The Dreamery,' edited by Lex Nakashima. It was picked up by Albedo creator Steve Gallacci under his Thoughts & Images label, moving on to MU Press and its imprint Aeon Press. It was then self-published under A Fine Line Press.
Her other long-running series, The Desert Peach is about Pfirsich Rommel, the fictional homosexual younger brother of Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommel. Beginning in 1987, it was set in North Africa during World War 2). The first three issues were published by Thoughts & Images. Additional issues were published by Fantagraphics Books, Aeon Press, and then self-published. Other works include Hader and the Colonel, The Barr Girls, and Bosom Enemies.
Barr has also recently published a number of novels, including Permanent Party, An Insupportable Light, and Bread and Swans. The last two of these feature Stinz and The Desert Peach, respectively. Some of her later books take advantage of the new print-on-demand technologies."
Barr and I initially started this email interview to discuss Afterdead, her project currently running at Webcomics Nation. My thanks to Barr for her time and to Joey Manley for helping to facilitate this interview.
Tim O'Shea: While some veteran creators are new to webcomics, you are not–as you've been running your work with Joey Manley's various sites since 2003, I believe. How did you jump into webcomics well before some of your contemporaries and what attracted you to the medium?
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With piracy on the rise and fast becoming a serious global security issue, Admiral Terry McKnight took command of a new multi-national task force in 2009 to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden. As task force commander, he directed operations that disrupted several hijackings and resulted in the capture of sixteen Somali pirates. After running head-on into a U.S. policy of catch-and-release, he realized that there was more to fighting piracy than just catching youngsters armed with AK-47s and RPGs.
McKnight retired from the Navy and began researching the problem. This book, co-written with journalist Michael Hirsh, is a very readable yet authoritative introduction to the subject. The authors explore every aspect of Somali piracy, from how the pirates operate to how their actions have impacted the world economy. They examine various attempts to solve the problem, including placing armed guards aboard merchant ships, and highlight the best ways to outfit ships for travel through high risk areas. But they warn that a consequence of successfully protecting such targets as container ships and crude oil carriers may be that pirates turn to crime on land, such as the kidnapping of foreigners.
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"Pirate Alley, co-written with journalist Michael Hirsh, is a very readable yet authoritative introduction to the subject. The authors explore every aspect of Somali piracy, from how the pirates operate to how their actions have impacted the world economy. They examine various attempts to solve the problem, including placing armed guards aboard merchant ships, and highlight the best ways to outfit ships for travel through high risk areas. It's an interesting and important book!"
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"The authors have produced an entertaining yet businesslike book that exposes the good, the bad and yes, the ugly story of the international effort against piracy on the high seas. It's not quite Terry and the Pirates, but it's close enough."
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"Together with Michael Hirsh [McKnight] presents an authoritative look at the problem [of piracy] and offers potential solutions to the problem and how best to equip ships traveling through high-risk areas."
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"Terry McKnight brings unparalleled experience and exceptional insight to bear on how the Navy can better address the modern piracy issue. Nor does he rest on his laurels; he addresses the issue with comprehensive research and interviews, as well as an open mind, as he looks at all the options. He offers ideas and solutions, and then backs them with well-considered reasoning. A must-read for anyone struggling with this complex issue."
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"The fight against the Somali pirates grabbed the world's attention: it has certainly grabbed the attention of the world's navies, none more so than the U.S. Navy's. It was among the first to deploy ships off the Somali coast and to form a dedicated task force, CTF-151, to curtail the pirates' actions. RADM McKnight was the first commander, and he tells his story—and the pirates' story—well. His recommendations for how we can end this powerful challenge to world trade deserve a wide audience. This is an account that anyone seriously interested in Somali piracy needs to read."
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"Piracy off the coast of Somalia poses a significant challenge to the international community. In just the last five years, Somali pirates have hijacked more than 175 commercial vessels and taken more than 3,000 of their crew members hostage along one of the world's busiest and most vital shipping corridors, potentially disrupting both regional trade and the global supply chain. Moreover, links have emerged between the pirates and transnational criminal networks and terrorist groups, which give cause for even greater concern. Unlike the armchair analysts and pundits—many of whom have pontificated about this threat without ever having set foot anywhere near Somalia, much less ever encountering a Somali pirate—Rear Adm. Terry McKnight has chased the marauders on the high seas and brought some to justice as commander of an unprecedented international task force to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden. However, Pirate Alley is more than the memoir of a tour of duty; it is a comprehensive, but accessible, introduction to an important security issue and has the merit of offering practical policy guidance. . . . Highly recommended."
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Word processors are getting better these days, and I'm wondering if LaTeX was a solution in the past for a buggy Microsoft Word, and it programmatically gave you the options to do formatting. I'm just starting out with LaTeX, and I find it quite good. I don't want to be working or learning an outdated technology (if it is).
There are three aspects.
A question like this is of course open to discussion, and all I can offer here is mo own personal opinion and experience, but IMHO TeX is definitely not outdated.
It is true that word processors are getting better and better, and as they develop they will implement more and more features of TeX. In fact, TeXmacs implements most of the typesetting algorithms TeX does, and you can create certain type of documents in it that are impossible or nearly impossible to recognize from documents created by TeX.
The problem for me is all these tools lack the flexibility and extensibility of TeX. If I want to create a new type of document, or change a look of an existing one, it is relatively easy to do in TeX. I can create new document class, or write a simple or not so simple package, and then I can use it over and over again. Some word processors are also extensible and programmable, TeXmacs for example can be extended in scheme, but you have to learn another language to do that, while in TeX you use the same language to for the extensions as for the actual document, which I believe makes it much easier. Just compare the number of different packages for TeX with the number of plugins for TeXmacs, or layout files for LyX. I generally find word processors very limiting when trying to do new things.
Other great advantage of TeX for me is the fact that I can do all my editing in the same text editor I use to write code.
There are many things about TeX that could perhaps be done better, especially now when we have much more computing power, memory and other resources available. TeX may be eventually replaced by another programmatic system, that will perhaps use a more powerful or more mainstream programming language. Any such system, however, will have an uphill battle to fight, as it will have to replicate huge number of existing TeX formats, modules, document classes and packages, as well as existing TeX development environments (one reason I am not using ConTeXt more is that there is no equivalent of vim-latex for it. Now imagine a completely different language.)
In addition to all that, there is fairly good amount of active development going on in TeX, with new engines (XeTeX, LuaTeX), formats (ConTeXt, LaTeX3), powerful packages (for example pgf/tikz and related tools).
Apart from the things already said, the possibility to split the document into multiple files, reference external sources (e.g. images) and store it in VCS is a huge advantage over binary or even xml based file formats.
One big factor in the future-proofness of TeX is its use in the academic environment. The apprenticeship of young scholars under established ones passes down not just the scientific methods but the technological ones. I realized this when emceeing a recent undergraduate mathematics research symposium. The talks in more biological fields were done in PowerPoint, but the ones in theoretical physics, combinatorics, knot theory, etc., were in LaTeX beamer. Between talks I remarked that it was good to see TeX is safe for another generation.
All answers so far are good reasons to continue using TeX. One advantage not yet mentioned (and which will no doubt be seen as a disadvantage by many individual users) is the fact that it is batch-oriented, and reliably generates the same output from the same input in successive iterations. Hence it is admirably suited to production use for a technical publisher, in particular for journals. When authors submitting manuscripts to such a publisher have followed the publisher's guidelines and used the provided document classes, errors and misunderstandings are minimized and the resulting publication emerges faster and more accurately than when using other tools.
Technical typesetting is such a small niche market that it has always been called "penalty copy". Nobody is going to make a financial killing by developing a commercial tool, so the incentive to do so is very low.
Although it is not polite to answer a question with a question, let me do that.
Just imagine that you want to change the font in your entire MS Word document. How to do that in all the formulas at once?
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The 8 Least Impressive Guinness World Records
#4. Longest Trading Card Marathon
Guiness must evolve with the times. In the modern digital age people tire of actual accomplishments that require physical skill and stoicism. If we want to see the top of Mt. Everest, we'll grab a matinee of the nearest IMAX showing and take a pass on the frostbitten extremities. Or, even better, if you make a video game about climbing Everest, we'll play it.
This is why GBR has finally produced their first Gamer's Edition of the book, paying tribute to the virtual world's unsung heroes. The record for the longest trading card playing marathon is just one of the many profiles in courage.
William Stone, Bryan Erwin and Christopher Groetzinger etched their deeds in the tomes of history when they managed to play The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game for 128 hours from December 27, 2002 to January 1, 2003 at The Courtyard, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game is a game for two or more players, whose deck includes equal numbers of "Free Peoples" and "Shadow" cards. On a player's turn they are considered to be the Free Peoples player and their Fellowship is dork spaz dork, geek nerd lamer dork weenie spaz nerd. You get the point.
Their game play was only interrupted for sanctioned 15 minute breaks to use bathroom facilities, rest, or receive wedgies from bullies waiting in a line adjacent to the table.
#3. Most Functional Folding Knife
Leave it to those ingenious Chinese folks to out-Switzerland the Swiss. The world record-setting Wei Ge knife pictured above includes 87 tools with an intended 141 individual functions. It is the first pocket knife designed to entirely defeat the structural integrity of any pocket that attempts to carry it. Among its many features are a hex screw, carabiner, Wankel rotary engine, flux capacitor, and nail file.
It is unclear if the manufacturer of this knife is a chinese company called Wei Ge, or if it is the Chinese company Weierman that registered the trademark "Wei Ge" (a statement that translates to "Great Man" and was later licensed to pharmaceutical companies selling drugs for erectile dysfunction).
All we know for certain is that a manly Chinese company that may or may not have boner issues designed a Swiss Army knife so amazingly functional that it cannot possibly be used for anything. There is a lesson to be learned there, but we're not sure what it is.
#2. Most Snails on Face
The record for the most snails to remain on the face for 10 seconds was achieved by Alastair Galpin on October 27, 2007, when 8 gastropods went about their usual business of clinging to things.
This raises many, many questions that Guiness doesn't seem ready to answer. The first of which being, what was the previous record? Seven snails? Two? Zero?
The other question is, of course, was this an intentional record, like the moonwalk thing, or did it just happen? If it's the former, isn't there room for way more snails on his face than eight? If it's the latter, doesn't this guy just need to do a better job cleaning his bedroom?
We're guessing this was done on purpose, as Mr. Galpin is no stranger to the realm of Guiness World Records. At last count, he had officially broken 28 different records.
The esteemed list includes such greatest hits at the Longest Handshake (9 hours), Gluing The Most Rhinestones To The Body (31,680), Wearing Most Socks On One Foot (70), and Licking The Most Stamps In One Minute (57). Despite his better efforts, the record for Biggest Attention Whore is still locked by Paris Hilton, but he isn't giving up hope.
#1. Oldest Male Stripper
Bernie Barker was technically the owner of two different records. Not only was he the oldest working professional male stripper, he was also entitled to 50% of the World's Oldest Onstage Teabagging. The partner in that record could not be reached for comment, as we're guessing she was coincidentally stricken with an unshakable catatonia immediately following the event.
Bernie was a regular performer at Club LeBare in Miami Beach, Florida from the year 2000 to 2007. He began his career at the age of 60. He described it as a way to get in shape after recovering from prostate cancer. We'd imagine his previous job was less supportive of the "therapeutic dryhumping" he had to perform throughout the day. Barker apparently decided that if old age was going to take away his dignity, by God it was going to go down with guns blazing.
Guiness says he won "over 30 contests" before he passed away in March 2007. We're not sure what kind of contests these were, and we don't want to find out.
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What's In A Name? Following Michael Arrington from TechCrunch to UnCrunched
Earlier in September, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington found himself closed-in by an editorial independance stand-off with AOL, and subsequently left both TechCrunch and AOL to focus on his venture capital fund, CrunchFund.
During his last month at TechCrunch, Arrington's articles reached 22% of Summify's total user base (i.e. about 1 in 5 Summify users received something written by Michael on TechCrunch in their summaries). The last piece written by Arrington on TechCrunch is dated Sept 6: Editorial Independance.
Less than a month after leaving TechCrunch, Arrington started his own blog, Uncrunched.com, and posted his first article on Sep 23rd: Here I Am – a simple headline, receiving 538 comments and counting.
In the month of October 2011, 21 blog posts were published on Uncrunched.com, and they've reached a total of 15% of Summify's user base.
Granted, the Summify user base is skewed towards a tech savvy crowd, but it's still stunning to see how a significant portion (68%) of Michael's reach has transferred immediately to his new blog.
This seamless transfer of Arrington's following is testament to the growing force of social media in our society. As content sharing becomes more effortless by the day, individuals are gaining a more powerful voice. Now, no matter where a story comes from, if it's important it will find an audience. In this new time where organic social interactions rule the internet, it's the people who decide what's valuable and it's the people behind an organization that make it's name.
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Postpartum Depression and Adjustment Disorders
The United States has the highest rate of postpartum depression of any industrialized country. While hormones play a major part, postpartum depression is an equal opportunity troublemaker, as one set of gay parents recently told me.
My neighbor John and his partner, Jason, became parents by adopting a child born to a surrogate. They saw the surrogate mom through a first pregnancy that ended in miscarriage, and a second she carried to full-term, to bring home gorgeous Anna with the dark brown curls. Yet, the first weeks with Anna in which they rarely slept, went out, or did anything but figure out how to get Anna to sleep plunged John into a clear-cut case of postpartum melancholy.
John describes his long, fretful nights "I paced the hallway at night, thinking to myself, 'Oprah will have me on her show. I will be the first person ever to have paid $80,000 for a baby, and gone through all the difficulties of adopting as a gay couple with a surrogate, only to have given my baby up for adoption in the first month.'"
If you think new moms are isolated, try being a new gay dad, John says. "None of my friends could relate at all to what Jason and I were going through with Anna. We were at totally different points in our lives."
Indeed, the enormous life adjustments that babies bring can contribute to earthquakes within. Increasingly, psychiatrists report, new moms and dads are being diagnosed with "adjustment disorders" disruptions in mental and emotional health that occur when these budding parents try to absorb this jolting life change. And if you're struggling to find your equilibrium in this new life and your biology is also out of whack, your ability to meet all the needs of your newborn can be dramatically impaired.
Six days into motherhood, after an uncomplicated C-section, Teresa, a school psychologist in Houston, developed difficulties breathing and a quickened heart rate. At first her doctor suspected a pulmonary embolism, which occurs in rare instances after birth, but it turned out postpartum panic attacks were the culprit.
Yet, a subsequent Zoloft prescription from her primary care doctor to tide her over till she could see a psychiatrist contributed to a "downward tail spin." Two weeks into the treatment, Teresa says, "I couldn't function. I had insomnia. I was terribly anxious and mildly depressed. I was hiding in corners of a room, thinking I wanted to drive off a bridge."
Fortunately, Teresa could hand Taylor off to her mother, who moved in and lived with Teresa's family for two and a half months. The expert on postpartum anxiety and depression with whom she met changed the medications and gave her small doses of narcotics that enabled her to sleep. "I could literally feel the stabilization of my body," Teresa says. "I learned that my body could not withstand the incredible hormonal drop that comes with childbirth. In my case, the problem was 99 percent biochemical. Nowhere in the dozens of books I had read was there a description of the magnitude of these side effects."
Eschewing breast-feeding, which she had planned to do, Teresa started taking birth control pills again, which restored her estrogen, a hormone often tied to happiness in women. Teresa actually welcomed her first period, saying, "I felt I was finally in my own body again."
Counseling was also helpful. "I was immediately reassured by my psychiatrist that I was experiencing a time-limited illness, and that my baby would get the love and care she needed from my mother in the meantime."
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