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Selling Our Souls
Confronting the twentieth century, Catholicism stood fast. This was its mission: church as bulwark against the disorders afflicting the age. The excitement of Vatican II (I was a teenager when the council convened) derived from the sense that the church possessed a hitherto unsuspected capacity to adapt its witness. Rather than merely standing in lonely opposition, the church intended to engage—and then redeem—modernity.
Catholics in the twenty-first century find it increasingly difficult—perhaps impossible—to sustain any such expectations. The problem is not simply that the institutional church today stands dishonored and discredited, but that it has misconstrued the problem. The ramparts it persists in defending—a moral order based on received, permanent truth—have long since been scaled, breached, and bypassed, and have fallen into ruin.
What went wrong? The great American historian Henry Adams—dead nearly a hundred years—offers a more cogent answer to that question than any we are likely to hear from Rome. Recalling his return to New York City after a lengthy stay in Europe in The Education of Henry Adams, the historian rendered this verdict: "The two-thousand-years failure of Christianity roared upward from Broadway," a panoply of false gods clattering in its wake. That failure had created a vacuum. The heresies that were filling that vacuum filled Adams with foreboding.
Worse, he could see no reason to consider Christianity's demise as anything other than definitive and irreversible. Yet a century later we remain largely oblivious to its implications. We still don't understand what hit us.
Not himself conventionally religious (watching his sister suffer an excruciatingly painful death, he had concluded that God might be "a Substance, but He could not be a Person") Adams was referring to Christianity not as a belief system but as an organizing principle. Christianity as project—reference point, narrative, and source of authority—imparted to history a semblance of cohesion and purposefulness. So, at least for centuries, Europeans and Americans had believed or at least pretended to believe.
For Adams, writing in the first decade of the twentieth century, even the pretense had become unsustainable. While attending the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and then the Exposition Universelle seven years later in Paris—subjecting each to intense inspection—he found himself face-to-face with ominous new forces to which he took an instant dislike and from which he expected more ill to come than good. Subsequent events amply vindicated his low expectations.
The preeminent symbol of the age (then in the final throes of disintegration, as he saw it) had been Mary, the Mother of God. The preeminent symbol of the age then dawning was the dynamo. If the Virgin embodied a conception of truth as fixed and singular, the dynamo implied the inverse: constant change and multiplicity. In place of coherence and unity, fragmentation and anarchy beckoned. "Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude," Adams wrote.
The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.... Prosperity never before imagined, power never yet wielded by man, speed never reached by anything but a meteor, had made the world irritable, nervous, querulous, unreasonable, and afraid.
The machines providing the source of this never-before-seen power, prosperity, and speed (along with electrical generators, Adams cited locomotives and automobiles, "a nightmare at a hundred kilometers an hour") were displacing God, replacing him with objects more worthy of worship. Standing in a gallery at the Paris exhibition,
he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross. The planet itself seemed less impressive...than this huge wheel.... Before the end one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force.
Detached and sardonic, Adams was ideally suited to assess the implications of this emerging dystopia. He had no stake in the outcome. He merely observed, his interest reflecting his perpetual if futile quest for education.
For just that reason, Adams was quick to discern who profited from this transfer of divine attributes. The principal beneficiaries were the "Trusts and Corporations" with which his friend President Theodore Roosevelt was even then engaged in epic battle. "They were revolutionary," Adams wrote of these engines of enterprise, "troubling all the old conventions and values, as the screws of ocean steamers must trouble a school of herring. They tore society to pieces and trampled it underfoot," engineering a transformation of human existence rivaling that which Jesus had wrought through his death and resurrection. The great mechanisms of wealth creation were unscrupulous, obnoxious, and irreligious; but as TR and all his successors would learn, they were also wily, resourceful, and persistent. Trustbusting was a fruitless exercise.
When Adams composed these observations, of course, America itself embodied that ongoing transformation. In the United States, novelty and impermanence reigned. There factories and fortunes were bigger, machines faster, buildings taller. Yet Americans were oblivious to all that the onslaught portended. According to Adams, "They were wandering in a wilderness much more sandy than the Hebrews had ever trodden about Sinai; they had neither serpents nor golden calves to worship." Rejecting the commonplace charge of a country seduced and corrupted by Mammon, Adams leveled an even more severe indictment.
Worship of money was an old-world trait; a healthy appetite akin to worship of the gods, or to worship of power in any concrete shape; but the American wasted money more recklessly than anyone ever did before; he spent more to less purpose than any extravagant court aristocracy; he had no sense of relative values, and knew not what to do with his money when he got it, except use it to make more, or throw it away.
At best, money helped prop up the pretense that in America Christianity was alive and kicking. Were not pious plutocrats like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller even then engaged in their mammoth philanthropies, endowing churches and concert halls, universities and libraries, hospitals and art museums? Meanwhile, at Sunday services from one week to the next droves of ordinary citizens dutifully dropped their nickels into the collection basket. By such measures, fin-de-siècle Christianity seemed to be thriving.
Adams intuited that this was mostly hokum, a tacit collaboration of the powerful and the largely powerless distracting attention from the havoc then bearing down on the world. Christianity as a personal ethic or as a medium through which to seek individual salvation might survive, but Christianity as a formula for ordering human affairs had breathed its last.
Adams lived long enough to glimpse what was in store as a consequence. By the time of his death in March 1918, Christendom (as it had once been known) was tearing itself apart in a war that produced unspeakable carnage. At the various places that made the twentieth century such a horror—Katyn, Auschwitz, Dresden, Hiroshima, and so on—worse was to come. The dynamo had been merely a portent. With World War II, the furies that Adams had presciently detected slipped their leash.
Scripture no longer provided an adequate explanation of these events—even to consider situating the Holocaust in what Christians called salvation history seemed obscene. Unwilling to own up to their own complicity in all that had gone awry—unwilling, that is, to acknowledge the implications of opting for dynamo over Virgin—nominally Christian Americans sought refuge in ideology. Framing the twentieth century as a contest between fascism, communism, and a third camp variously described as liberal, democratic, or simply free restored clear-cut boundaries between good and evil. That the Free World, alone among the three competitors, refrained from open hostility toward religion further clarified the apparent issue. The tattered remnants of Christendom found sanctuary under the protection of the Free World's acknowledged leader, the United States. Here, it seemed, was moral order restored.
Defining the issue in ideological terms allowed Cold War–era American statesmen to play dirty without compromising the righteousness of their cause. Of greater significance, however, was the way that ideology dulled sensibilities and narrowed choice, making it unnecessary (perhaps even unpatriotic) to assess critically the moral implications of the dynamo's offspring. Americans saw—or had been persuaded to see—flying machines, radio, motion pictures, television, nuclear power, guided missiles, computers, and all sorts of other gadgets and gewgaws as conducive to the exercise of authentic freedom.
In his all-but-forgotten "Kitchen Debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, Richard Nixon made the point with clumsy effectiveness: real freedom implied access to whatever was the latest in the material world. "American houses last for more than twenty years," Nixon told the Soviet leader, but "after twenty years, many Americans want a new house or a new kitchen…. The American system is designed to take advantage of new inventions and new techniques."
As long as the Cold War persisted, thinking critically about the freedom provided by this American system remained difficult. Giving credence to warnings that Adams had issued decades before was nearly impossible.
In 1989, the ideological twentieth century came to an abrupt and happy conclusion. Freedom had seemingly prevailed. The United States, freedom's chief exemplar, reigned supreme. Yet if Americans felt any sense of vindication, it proved surprisingly short-lived. Although much had seemed to hinge on the outcome of the Cold War, that outcome settled remarkably little.
The "end of history"—the triumph of liberal democratic capitalism—did not restore moral consensus. Adams for one would not have been surprised. The forces actually driving history—their power measured now not in kilowatts or megatons but in gigabytes—were no closer to being harnessed than when he had taken their measure a hundred years earlier. Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil might not rule the roost, but Microsoft, Apple, and Google appeared in their place. In their pursuit of profit, corporate leviathans continued to call the tune.
As successor to the Machine Age, the so-called Information Age promises to empower humanity as never before and therefore to complete our liberation. Taking the form of a wireless handheld device, the dynamo of our time has truly become, as Adams wrote, "a symbol of infinity." Rather than spewing masses of stone and steam, it offers instant access to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The Information Age does something else as well, however: it displays in stark terms our propensity to bow down before freedom's reputed source. Anyone who today works with or near young people cannot fail to see this: for members of the present generation, the smartphone has become an amulet. It is a sacred object to be held and caressed and constantly attended to. Previous generations fell in love with their cars or became addicted to TV, but this one elevates devotion to material objects to an altogether different level. In the guise of exercising freedom, its members engage in a form of idolatry. Small wonder that aficionados of Apple's iPhone call it the Jesus Phone.
So the frantic pursuit of self-liberation that Adams identified and warned against enters yet another cycle, with little sign of anything having been learned from past failures. If the God of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament exists, then it must be that he wills this. Yet his purposes remain inscrutable.
Ever the cool observer, Adams might have posited two possible explanations. Either humankind's quest for freedom in the here and now, achieved through human effort and ingenuity, represents the ultimate heresy and offense against God—in which case we invite his continuing punishment. Or belief in God's existence represents the ultimate illusion—in which case the chaos humanity has inflicted on itself as it careens from one dynamo to the next may be merely a foretaste of what is to come.
Related: History, Hope & iPhones, an exchange between (Rev.) Robert P. Imbelli & Andrew Bacevich
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About the Author
Andrew J. Bacevich is the author of America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (April 2016).
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This very day I exchanged several text messages and photos with my children, using the Iphone that Mr. Bacevich considers such an item of depravity. Indeed, I've been formulating a letter to Steve Jobs to congratulate him on having devised such a marvelous device. I have never heard of the apparatus being called a "Jesus phone"; that seems disrespectful. On the other hand. I can imagine that Jesus would have liked one; he could have rung up Mary and Martha and explained that he'd be late for the funeral, but would put things right when he got to town. St. Paul, surely, would have found use for the technology.
Smart phones have in recent weeks conributed to the "Arab Spring", and can be expected to have liberating effects worldwide as they enable information to travel unsuppressed.
Your author seems to find this new technology demonic and depraved. I think just the reverse. I think every grandfather should be issued one on the birth of his first grandchild. Maybe Mr. Bacevich is still too young for that experience. Live and learn, Mr. B., and lighten up!
Brilliant piece! I think Dr. Bacevich is correct on the particulars of the multiplying effect of technology on human desire; however, he is certainly not correct about the implied irrelevance of the Christian world view and I find it strange that he takes Adam's essential Protestant view of our apocalyptic course (i.e. we are punished by vengeful, cruel god or there is no god at all)
Has Dr. Bacevich never heard of Rene Girard?? Or his latest book "Battling to the End" - a look at mimetic theory and the writings of Clausewitz?
It is quite a complex theory, but it essentially states that Christianity destroyed the effectiveness of older archaic and sacrificial religions that keep human violence in check. After exposing the illusion of the sacrificial scapegoat, humanity had to make a choice between imitating God - i.e. Christ - or imitating man. We all know which we choose.
Girard posits that Christianity is the only religion to predict its own failure via the book of revelation and the coming unmitigated violence. However, this does not prove the irrelivence of Christ's message, only that we have rejected it and will, as mimetic creatures, will escalate imitation and conflict on a global scale (war, consumerism, terrorism etc.) until we simply tear our world apart.
In any case, here is a sample from the back cover of "Battling to the End":
"More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning, and that its meaning is terrifying. As Holderin writes: But where danger threatens, that which save from it also grows."
Also, if we talk about the idol of technology, we need to talk about facebook (the ipod is simply a delivery system for content). And if we talk about facebook (viewing friends, liking posts, presenting personal image etc.) we need to talk about mimetic theory.
PS - the first major investor in facebook was Peter Thiel - a Girard protégée from Stanford.
I think we are hearing in this essay portentous echoes of Ned Ludd and his adherents. Any technology is an exploitation of the patterns and promise of the material world--a tool. Any tool can be used for evil or for good. We use iPhones because they connect us to one another. The network is the goal; de Chardin's noosphere presupposes and calls for an intensely networked world. We're on the way there.If one proposes an iPHone as an idol, it's likely a brand new one. Newer models, in their improved evocation of networks immediately devalue the old ones almost to irrelevance. If Mr. Bacevich misses that point, he's trying too hard to be profound.
Yes, iPhones are made of metal and are themselves mass produced. But their main product is communication, varied, and often important in the lives of their users. Being connected to the internet it also informs, and as a photographic implement is can produce art, and It plays music and even allows one to make music, not to mention being a writing implement for writing poetry as the fancy inclines one.
I"m an old woman, and i won't go into details, but mine is helping keep me out of a nursing home. What more can you ask from a mere machine? Oh, yes, and it makes it very easy to call the cops or ambulance if necessary.
So I actually continue to pray for the health of Steven Jobs, who, unlike the industrialists who produce schlock, insists on producing beautiful, finely-made machines that serve life. In my opinion it is the most remarkable machine ever invented, a most remarkable servant, not a master.
I don't think Bacevich is being a Luddite, simply opposing technology because, like Mt. Everest, it is there. Surely he's opposing the misuse of information technology, and the siren call that confuses "information" with knowledge, or even worse, with wisdom.
Hmm. Isn't it wiser to condemn the message, not the messenger? But, yes, it's true that iPhones are themselves a delight in ways that other machines aren't. That to me is a mystery inviting analysis -- why should a mere machine inspire such admiration, even loyalty? At first I thought of mine as a servant, then as sort of pet, and now I think of it as a friend. Weird, I grant you.
I awoke sleepily this morning - late - as I am wont to do on Sundays when choir is on hiatus and my church companion is working. No devotee of coffee, I chose to awake to the marvelous prose of "Selling our souls." No better way to come and feel alive.
As a scientist, life-long IT person (5 decades and counting) yet Christian, I wonder if Mr B could rise to the occasion for an encore. If machines have driven us to where we are (pun intended), and if as I am certain we are at the peak of a cheap-energy hydrocarbon-driven civilization (to debase the word but name a thing for what it is), what is the future when we can no longer do "miracles" because we can't afford the cost of the energy?
I have been thinking about this and am using as my icon the memory of that first MacIntosh commercial shown during the 1984 Super Bowl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh - things are about to be smashed that will change the way we look at the world.
A now classic and more precise historic study on relation between technology and religion can be found on David Noble's The Religion of Technology: the divinity of man and the spirit of invention. (1999). There, Noble accounts that there is a religious spirit embedded on those gadgets, but not in opposition to a christianity heritage. Instead, it was the idea of construction of new world similar to eden that pushed the seek of technology on industrial revolution and today. It could help Ms Bacevich articulate better religion and technology than just put them in opposite sides. But nice article anyway: we need more on that.
What are the above posts talking about? Bacevich's essay is bout Christian morality, not iPhones. He's telling us that Christian morality has been redefined and replaced by technology that struck Henry Adams by the 1893 Westinghouse dynamo. The iPhone is a metaphor representing the latest in technology. It represents what modern man worships. It's our 'amulet'. We aren't able to analyse the reality of today's Christianity because of blindness caused by it's addiction. But still, it's only a metaphor that only holds significance until its replaced by a later technology. When Obama took office he highlighted his dependence on the Blackberry, no longer the summit of technology. Today it's information as defined by corporations. It's morality defined by corporations. It's government and educational institutions following up with knee jerk reaction.s It's education educated by technology, not the reverse.
So what's the big deal about who defines morality? Take a stupid comment that greed is good. Greed works. Then look at all the Americans who have been fleeced by corporate corruption. Americans without jobs, medical, homes and too little food. And we see only iPhones in Bacevich's essay? Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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Dr. Mulrooney: " . . . I think every grandfather should be issued one [Apple device] on the birth of his first grandchild. Maybe Mr. Bacevich is still too young for that experience. Live and learn, Mr. B., and lighten up!
Dear Dr., when you yourself have lost a child - or grandchild for that matter - in an American war adventure abroad as Mr. B has, then you will be qualified to lecture him about "lightening up."
I trust that Mr. B has more than one child, and will enjoy being a grandparent, if he isn't already one. But for the death of a child he might otherwise sooner be a grandparent, eh?
Will you yourself be offering up your progeny for military service? If you somehow fancy yourself and your extended clan entitled to be exempted from such a duty, then who do you think should take up the slack?
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So that the children will stay awake and be interested. Along the lines of K'day Sheyisha'alu Hatinokos(so that the children will ask).
What is the source and significance of stealing the אפיקומן? It comes from Yackov stealing the ברכות from Eisav. It has a whole other level we tell the חכם a Halacha that אין מפטירין אחר הפסח אפיקומן why this Halacha? The answer illustrates the connection between Birchas Yitzchak and Pesach once more it was this Halacha that Yackov used when stealing the ברכות when Yackov brought the Meat from Korban Pesach Yitzchak was no longer able to eat because אין מפטירין אחר הפסח. We know that Yitzchak told Eisav "Go Prepare me food so I can eat and Bench You" .This means now that Yitzchak cant eat Eisav's food he cant give him a ברכה..Then too throw in one last connection from Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld When Eisav came in and asked for his ברכה his father told him בא אחיך במרמה ויקח את ברכתך and if you calculate the Gematriah of במרמה it is exactly אפיקומן


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2. The Royal Wedding
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3. So You Think You Can Dance Canada
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Once the fall schedule kicked off, it was all fairy tales all the time with "Grimm," (a show that had Lindsay jumping out of her skin and screaming aloud while watching it in the office) and "Once Upon a Time," which even won these two very skeptical reporters over thanks to a very cute Sheriff/Huntsman (who we're really hoping makes a comeback after the mid-season finale shocker!).
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10. Flashpoint
Lindsay had not one, not two, but three incredible interviews with "Flashpoint's" Sergio Di Zio about his live theatre work and the Season 4 finale episode (and yes, it made her cry!)
And things are looking just as exciting for the New Year here at CTV with premieres of the musical-inspired "Smash," the scary-looking "The River," the edgy adult drama, "The L.A. Complex," and "Up All Night" moving over to CTV's Thursday night lineup. (We've even started signing off our emails with Ava's catch phrase: "Keep watching and growing!")
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Lindsay Zier-Vogel has been working for CTV.ca since 2008. In addition to interviewing the famed American choreographer Bill T. Jones and Canadian prima ballerina Karen Kain, Lindsay's highlights include criss-crossing Canada on four SYTYCDC audition tours and covering the Juno Awards. Follow her on Twitter!
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Sheri Block has been covering entertainment for CTV.ca since 2008. In addition to covering Will and Kate's Royal Wedding in London, Sheri's highlights have included going on tour with "Canadian Idol," being a stand-in on "Canada's Next Top Model" and meeting Colin Farrell at the Toronto International Film Festival.Follow her on Twitter!


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How often do you hear yourself instructing your students to "take a deep breath"? Well, as it turns out a Russian physiologist Dr. Konstantin Buteyko believes most people consume five to ten times more air than their bodies require. Called "over breathing", it creates an insufficiency of carbon dioxide in the lungs and bloodstream, which impacts metabolism and blood chemistry, leading to abnormal neuromuscular function. This carbon dioxide deficit also affects respiratory gas exchange and diminishes the amount of oxygen carried by the blood to the brain, heart and kidneys. Over breathing is believed to cause asthma, allergies, high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, heart problems, etc. After years of research, Dr. Buteyko came to the conclusion that about 150 of all known diseases are the result of "over breathing" (hyperventilation).
Diseases aside - over breathing effects performance. Breathing rock star Ian Jackson who worked with 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist Alexi Grewal has developed the ultimate tool for learning to control breathing on the bike. Grewal said of Jackson's method, "the most powerful tool that can be imagined."
Breathing is both learned and automatic. The antidote to over breathing is to slow breathing down so that it matches our level of exertion. This is where Ian comes in - his upside down breathing technique does just that. Originally called BreathPlay it emphasizes breathing actively out and passively in.
By exhaling as if to "flicker a candle" and then allowing the inhalation to happen on its own we are able to maximize our breathing efficiency and reduce the chance of "over breathing" (when you have to gasp or suck air in - you're over breathing…).
Jackson's method also organizes each breath cycle into rhythmic patterns, or breathing gears, so that breathing is always harmoniously integrated with movement, no matter what the work rate. This rhythmic focus allows "body to follow mind" and is a perfect complement to any Energy Zone Ride.
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- Inhale for 3 downstrokes of your pedals, letting the air flow in.
- Exhale long and slow for 6 downstrokes, slowly forcing the air out with an audible "sss-sss" or through pursed lips. Draw your navel towards your spine on each exhalation.
- Inhale again for 3 downstrokes, letting the air flow in. Place the tongue on the roof of the mouth to support the neck and to allow most of the air to come in through your nose.
- Exhale for 6 downstrokes with the intentional and audible, "sss-sss."
- Continue for the duration of class - challenge your students to slow their breathing to match their exertion level and varying terrain.
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If this isn't the best answer to the New Atheists I've seen, it's certainly the best three-minute-and-fifty-nine-second answer I've seen.
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It's a good explanation for the tone taken by the New Atheists. The most important thing pointed out here is that their tone is a reaction to an even greater bullying tone and attitude taken by a very coarse American religiousity. An occasional magazine column by Hitchens or an occasional book by Dawkins is nothing compared to the Texas school board rewriting textbooks, George Bush calling for a Crusade, Pat Robertson blaming Haitians for being cursed, millions paranoid about the President's religion, and Cardinal Law retreating to the legal protection of a sovereign theocracy to avoid justice.When it comes to spreading bad ideas, don't worry, the New Atheists are no threat to us.
Interesting. I have a few books by the "New Atheists," and I have not bothered to read them because I have assumed (without looking at them very closely) that they don't grapple with the philosophical issues that Wieseltier thinks they should. But of course what is provocative about Wieseltier's assessment isn't what he says about the New Atheists. It's what he says about the "new theists" (a term he doesn't use, of course). The reason why the New Atheists should be dismissed is that their attitude toward religion is the same as the prevailing attitude of contemporary religious people (as exemplified by George Bush). As someone observed in another thread, the New Atheists aren't arguing with Thomas Aquinas. They're arguing with Pat Robertson, Billy Graham, and the like. I think Brian (above) has said what I am trying to say better than I am saying it, but I want to get my 2 cents in anyway.
I can't hear the clip, but if Wieselthier is saying that the New Atheists of the Hitchens/Dawkins stripe give some of the old ones a bad name he's right. Non-belief has often been a matter of great sorrow for many atheists. I think the theologians need to re-think or at least re-articulate the matter of belief, just what it is and what evidence there is for it, which justifies belief in spite of the problem of the suffering of innocents.Perhaps I should add that philosophers are giving renewed attention to the latter problem, and, I think, their new perspectives have made a bit of progress with it. See "The Problem of Evil" (Oxford Press) edited by Marilyn McCord Adams. She's an Episcopalian priest and fine medieval scholar. Of course, one prominent Catholic theologian thinks it's a sin even to consider the subject, but pay him no attention.
Sorry to be off topic, but just when did "Crusade" become a naughty word? "Crusade in Europe," Eisenhower called his book about the last years of WWII. "Mao's Crusade" is the title of a scholarly work of 2001 about Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward. (Have I read it? No. Amazon lists it for $150.00, tho it does have free shipping). And the Atheist Foundation of Australia is, even as we speak, calling for an Atheist Crusade (I'm not making this up) against Tony Abbott, the new leader of that country's Liberal Party (he's allegedly in the Vatican's pocket). Perhaps there are good crusades and bad ones. Who's to judge?
There seems to be a problem with the host server for this video. After many tries, I was able to view it once. But when I tried to view it again, I couldn't get it to work. It's featured on the front page of http://fora.tv )the original source), but nothing works there either. I am sure they will fix it soon.
Ann, Who is the theologian who thinks we should not think about evil? I missed that. A wonderful (and perhaps well-known to everyone here) discussion on the topic of atheism can be found on the BBC Atheism Tapes. It consists of an interview with Denys Turner and is really excellent, but it is closer to 30 minutes than 3. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4655574614978358368#Anthony
Nicolas,George Bush using the word Crusade to describe a war in a Muslim country was clearly aimed at maintaining and boosting the support of Religious Right voters. The fact that such a word would gin up fanatical opposition and undoubtedly further imperil the lives of US soldiers was acceptable to the re-election politics of the first Bush term. It's not the same as General Eisenhower calling D-Day a great crusade. To answer your question - in the religious sense of the word, Crusade has been a bad word since 1096.
Mr. Sciglitano ==I misstated the author's position. What he says is that to theodicize is evil, that is, to produce a theodicy is to produce an evil. He thinks he cannot make a judgment that those who do theodicize are guilty. Unless one has God's eye-view it is impossible to do so. However, one "could have an opinion about the morality of theodicy. . ." (Terrence W. Tilley, "the Evils of Theodicy" p. 248 (originally published by Georgetown, reprint by Wipf and Stock, 2000).He gives various reasons, e.g. Job cautions against theodicizing, to theodicize could justify torture, to theodicize inevitably misrepresents the evil nature of evil. Can't say I read the whole book. It's truly weird.
Nicholas --Just recently (I forget where) I read a short revisionist history of the first Crusade. Not inspiring. What started out as a religious event ended in terrible atrocities, including the slaughter of Muslim women and children. if I'm not mistaken these days revisionist historians take a very dim view of the claimed idealism of the Crusaders.
Here's a good article on understanding the motives of the crusades by Thomas Madden: http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/05/inventing-the-crusades-124319..., seems to have it backward about revisionists. I thought Crusade was a code name for some operation. I don't believe Bush used it on the campaign trail.
"Code name for some operation."You must be kidding.George Bush on Sept. 19, 2001.This is a new kind of, a new kind of evil. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while. And American people must be patient. Checkout the Hoover Institute's web site, which contains a transcript of an interview with Hamblin and Peter Robinson, athttp://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uk/2994821.htmlScroll down to the section entitled: "It Takes a Pillage"Peter Robinson: Amin Maalouf, author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, describing the Christian conquest of Cyprus in 1156, quote, "All the island's cultivated fields were systematically ravaged, women were raped, old men and children slaughtered, rich men taken as hostages, poor men beheaded." Pope Innocent III to participants in the Fourth Crusade, "Nothing has been sacred to you. You have violated married women, widows, even nuns." Things were pretty rough. By the standards of their day, how savage were they?Bill Hamblin: I think they were about average. [Ed. Note: !]
Ann, I thought you were referring to Tilley's book--I read it in Grad. school and remember it well and fondly. I didn't ask directly because I thought there was some sort of reason for dissembling as to the author's name (even though I couldn't fathom it!). I believe what he is trying to do in the book is establish (a) that "theodicy" is an 18th century rationalist phenomenon, and (b) that it tends to explain suffering so as to make it part of a larger system. In doing so, theodicy makes evil into something else, that is, a part that fits into a whole (and thus is justified and perhaps even intended). In this way, it silences the victims of evil and suffering. If I remember, Tilley does a lot of work with speech theory in the beginning to establish that certain sorts of speech perform actions ("I do", for instance, or the epiclesis) rather than merely giving voice to some intention or describing something after the fact. Theodicy, he thinks, is an effort to perform a speech-act of justification, but that speech-act is, for him, immoral in its disregard for human suffering and its inability to be silenced via system. Walter Lowe's The Wound of Reason is a fine example in the genre also. Thanks, Anthony
Ann, I guess I did ask directly!Anthony
JC ==It seems we have a time problem here. When I was in school ('36-51) the Crusades were taught as an honorable movement to protect the Christian interests in the Holy Land. It was only latter, well after I was in college that Runciman et al saw them as horrendous land grabs. Those are the historians I was thinking of as revisionists. Now you say they are being revised -- so we have a revision of a revision.I"d say it was just the Catholic schools that had the positive view, but my college (graduated in '51) was a secular one, and I don't remember my history classes putting down the Crusades. But maybe that was just a local phenomenon.
Antonio,Thanks for the quote. I didn't know that Bush did that. I was 21 in 2001. Ann,Thanks. You are right. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a Catholic, who teaches at Cambridge University, has demolished Runciman. His studies of the motivation of the Crusaders have been well accepted by unbelieving scholars also. The crusades began as "armed pilgrimage."I do not, by any means, intend to deny the many horrible things the crusaders did. It's just that there is more to the story.
JC --There seems to be so much going on in early medieval and medieval history right now who knows what's being revised and which revisions are being revised. Fascinating, though. All I'm ever sure of is that nothing is ever simple.
Anthony -The reason I didn't mention Tilley's name was because his thesis is so weird I wasn't sure I had read him right. I don't think he thought theodicy was some sort of 18th century project. Job plays too large a part in his system for him not to know the subject is of abiding interest. But I agree with you about b). He does seem to think that we falsify the evil of evil by trying to absolve God of His apparent guilt.I just don't see how we can do without a theodicy regardless of how badly it limps. To do so is to accept a brutal God, and to accept a brutal God is to falsify the teachings of Jesus.However, I do applaud Tilley's attempt to use some of the tools of the analytic tradition. It has so very much to offer theology. I can't imagine, for instance, N. T. Wright writing so forcefully if he weren't in the analytic tradition. Same with Rowan Williams to some extent. Not that I've read much of any contemporary theologians, but the analysts do attract me. Too bad more American theologians haven't followed Tilley's example.
Anthony S.I did not know the tape of Turner, and trusting your recommendation, I spent a half-hour watching it.Splendid! Thank you for alerting us to it.
Ann, Yes, I am finding that the Analytic folks can be very helpful, especially, I think, in the field of Theology of REligions. William Christian Sr. wrote a very sharp book a number of years ago called something like Doctrines of Religious Communities: A Philosophical Study, and the Yale School was certainly influenced strongly by analytic categories such as "grammar," which you can see in people like George Lindbeck and Hans Frei. Paul Griffiths too has benefited from analytical sharpness. Add Kathryn Tanner, Cyril O'Regan (who also does Contintental stuff), Nicholas Wolterstorff, Gene Outka, and Plantinga (philosopher, I guess) and you have a decent number of people using analytical methods as useful tools. It does come slowly to the Catholic field b/c so often analytic is opposed to metaphysics (not always, of course!). I don't have Tilley's book at home, but I could have sworn he works with a technical definition of "theodicy" and then uses Job as a critique of rationalist theodicy. In the end, I'm with you--I think we need a theological response to suffering (the paschal mystery, for one), and perhaps even a kind of ontodicy rooted in metaphysics, but Tilley's critique served as a cautionary tale for me at least. Is it not the case that he uses Job as a critique of theodicy, the comforters in the role of theodicists? Father Imbelli, I am glad that you liked it. I show it to classes at Seton Hall. Anthony
Anthony -Yes, indeed Tilley does use Job to criticize the theodzers (what a word!). My point about Job was only that Tilley's use of Job belies his contention that theodicy really begins in the 18th century. Though ultimately Job gives up looking for a justificaiton. he begins by questioning God severely about the inequities he has suffered, I guess I should go back and read all Tilley says about Job. But I doubt Tilley will change my view of Job. After all, at the very end God blesses Job again for having told the truth about Him, which tells me that God does want us to question His behavior. that is, theodicize.
My thanks too for the link provided by Anthony Sciglitano to the interview on BBC of Denys Turner by Jonathan Miller. The 30 minutes was far too short a time for the interview, and I would have liked to have listened to Turner and Miller for a more extended period of time. While much of the half hour was spent on an interesting discussion (in reality, a very polite debate) about something-from-nothing, the exchange became even more interesting IMO in the last five minutes when Turner speaks about revelation and what in nature reveals the existence of God to him. There was likely much more to the interview; too bad it's not available.


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The 5 Weirdest Sixth Senses Humans Have (Without Knowing It)
Every attempt to prove that humans have some kind of telepathic sixth sense shows it to be complete bullshit. But we still shouldn't sell ourselves short -- we have all sorts of "extra" senses that we either never use or don't notice when we do. And some of them come pretty damned close to mind reading. For instance ...
#5. We Can Smell People's Personalities and Emotions
In a perfect world, you'd never judge someone until you got to know their personality inside and out -- you know, the whole thing about judging a book by its cover. This is not a perfect world, however -- this is a world where sometimes we need to judge the intentions of a stranger in a split second. Thankfully, evolution has given us all sorts of tools for doing it, whether we know it or not.
"You sort of smell like you might wear my skin as a shawl."
See, there is a reason you can get a feel for some people before they even say a word: Part of it is the way they smell. And no, we don't mean "That guy gave me the creeps because he smelled of human feces and burnt matches." We're talking about subconscious signals you didn't even know were coming from your nose. Researchers actually conducted a study where they asked participants to wear the same shirt every night for three consecutive nights, and during the study they weren't allowed to use soap, deodorant or anything that could mask their natural smell. Afterward, they made another group smell these shirts, and then asked them to guess which personality traits its wearers had most: dominance, neuroticism or extroversion.
Incredibly, the accuracy rate was just as high as when the same participants were asked to gauge people's personalities from watching a video of them. That's right -- your body odor is just as indicative of who you are as your speech or mannerisms. But it goes further than that. Researchers are discovering that each person's individual smell is so unique that it's almost like a fingerprint, unique enough that it could serve as a really unpleasant alternative to DNA analysis. Here's hoping that whatever detection method they come up with involves a machine of some kind so we don't have to conduct lineups by sniffing a bunch of underwear.
"So what are you in for?" *sniff* "Lifting Taylor Swift CDs, huh?"
Or maybe we could just sniff the suspects and see which one seems the most nervous. Yeah, your nose can do that, too -- researchers did another study where they strapped a bunch of gauze pads to participants' armpits to collect their sweat while they watched horror movies. Then they taped the fear-sweat-soaked gauze under the noses of a second set of participants. Those subjects were then shown pictures of faces with completely blank expressions, and scientists found that people exposed to the "fear" sweat were more likely to guess that the expressionless faces were fearful.
Another study was done where they collected the sweat from treadmill runners and compared it with the sweat from skydivers. The skydiver sweat, presumably loaded with terror essence, was shown to light up areas of the brain associated with fear, while the runners' sweat simply smelled awful. At this point we assume that everyone went home and showered for three hours.
#4. Some of Us Can See Impossible Colors
Here's a challenge for you: Try to imagine a new color. One that you've never seen before. Just straight invent one. Can't do it, right? You probably figure it's because you've already seen all the colors that are possible. Well, prepare to have your mind blown -- there are lots of new colors out there, we just don't ordinarily have the ability to see them, so describing them to you would be like trying to describe sight to a blind person. And we say you can't ordinarily see them, because science has figured out a way.
"Orangenta's pretty badass, but you really can't beat purpilver."
In their incessant quest to break reality in ever more interesting ways, scientists successfully managed to show some people a "bluish yellow" color. We don't mean green. We can't really show you what we mean, because the way our eyes work is that when we see blue, the parts of the eye that detect yellow switch off, and vice versa. So it's not supposed to be possible to see a true mix of blue and yellow. Green is something else, the closest thing your brain can offer when you show it something that gets it all confused.
But scientists discovered that we can sense these and other colors that don't show up in the rainbow by fooling our eyes with certain composite patterns. For instance, when you see an image like this ...
Still not seeing the sailboat.
... and cross your eyes like it's a Magic Eye puzzle, some people can see an entirely new color that is neither blue, nor yellow, nor green. Then again, some people just see a gradient blob of yellow and blue and assume they're the victims of some prank.
If you think we're just messing with you, there's an example of one such impossible color that most people can perceive without playing complicated tricks on their brain. We call it pink. Pink is an unholy mixture of red and violet that doesn't appear on the rainbow any more than bluish yellow does. Seeing pink is basically the color equivalent of seeing ghosts.
Suck it, Haley.
And then, most amazingly, there are the very rare people who are born with the ability to see this world of new colors that the rest of us can't even imagine. These people are called tetrachromats, because they have four cones in their eyes instead of three like the rest of us. Each cone is responsible for seeing about 100 shades, so for us normal folk, that's about a million colors. But for tetrachromats? They see a hundred million colors. We should be thankful that it's rare, since it would make art class harder than AP history.
#3. Ovulating Women Can Sense Snakes and Gays
Every month, women have to go through a range of emotional ups and downs due to the maintenance cycle of their portable baby factories. But it turns out that the menstruation cycle has an added function -- it switches on a superhuman ability to sense snakes. And gay dudes.
"Buy me liquor till I turn 21 and I'll be all the beard you need."
As much as we would love to end the entry right there, we realize that it probably needs some explanation. In one study, researchers showed a bunch of women pictures of snakes hiding in a garden, both in color and black and white, in what was basically a terrifying Where's Waldo? What they found was that those women who were in the most fertile period of the month were also the quickest at spotting the hidden snakes.
It probably doesn't have anything to do with fertile women being able to detect the most phallic animals. The theory is that evolution has given women who are ready to reproduce an added cognitive boost when it comes to detecting danger.
And it smells hot.
But that's not the most interesting thing they discovered -- in another study, when they showed women pictures of men's faces, the women who were on their period had incredible gaydar. And this isn't dumb coincidence -- a woman's ability to pick the gay guy out of a lineup peaked at her most fertile point, and then gradually receded until her next time of the month, and it didn't work at all for detecting lesbians.
Remember, they weren't being shown footage of these guys in line for a Celine Dion concert. Women were able to pick who was gay simply from looking dudes in the eyes. Supposedly, evolution figured that gaydar would be a really handy thing to have when you're a woman looking to start a family, just so you don't waste time with a dude who is going to leave you for your brother.
"No way, I totally love vagina! With its ... you know, getting all up in there ... OK, yeah, I'm gay."
This is, of course, an ability limited to women. But the guys don't have to miss out, because ...


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Mike Birbiglia's beautiful, sneakily profound comedy shows a world where "Yes, and ... " is the default.
Mike Birbiglia's beautiful, sneakily profound comedy shows a world where "Yes, and ... " is the default.
The Star Wars-ification of Star Trek continues; better than the others, but still not good enough.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
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Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" wins the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Barbara Scharres on the cats of Cannes 2016.
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Wednesday, July 18, is the 20th anniversary of our marriage. How can I begin to tell you about Chaz? She fills my horizon, she is…
Writers at RogerEbert.com pick their favorite movies featuring star-crossed lovers.
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A look at one of the most important and valuable Blu-ray releases of the year, which brings to light important aspects of black and cinema…
An interview with Kathleen Reinmuth and Cathy Rock, the subjects of "Inquiring Nuns."
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Ana Montes appeared to be a model employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), advancing quickly through the ranks to become its top analyst on Cuban affairs. But for sixteen years Montes sent Castro some of America's most closely guarded secrets and at the same time influenced what the United States thought it knew about Cuba. She is the only member of the U.S. intelligence community ever convicted of espionage for the Cuban government, yet her arrest ten days after 9/11 went largely unnoticed. Carmichael offers readers a front-row seat on that long and ultimately successful spy hunt.
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I keep several large whiteboards at home that handle all of my daily, weekly, quarterly and long-term tasks/projects. I do not want to carry a day planner around given the way my life is, I use my phone. I haven't particularly decided on an electronic to-do list, but I've decided against RTM. Right now I just sort of email myself reminders (from the computer or the phone) and write them down at home. There has to be a better way.
I want to keep my physical listings in sync with my electronic listings. What's the best way to do this? My main goal is to be able to remember tasks assigned to myself during the day so that they can be transferred to my whiteboards at home. I don't want my at-home to-do lists to be electronic, so something like evernote that syncs won't work with to-do, but it is an effective tool for remembering specific things.
Per suggestion from comment, what I do like about RTM/Evernote is that I can manage my lists and tasks via a web interface AND on my android phone. I'm currently trying List Master Pro for Android and what I dislike about it most is the lack of a web interface. I also disliked Tasks N Todos because of that, but I did like that it synced with gtasks.
Cloud-based is good, but subscription based is not, for me. Web interface makes it easy to transfer from the computer to the whiteboards. I guess this is why I've been emailing myself, it meets all of these requirements, but it's difficult to create lists, but as one answer pointed out, it gives me time to prioritize as I transfer


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The January 2012 issue of Environment & Climate News reports on the hefty oil dividend Alaskans will receive this year – $1,171 each, more than $3,000 on average per household. The disbursements come from the Permanent Dividend Fund, Alaska's way of allowing residents to benefit from the oil revenues generated on federal land in their state.
Also in this issue:
- After testing 71 water wells near hydraulic fracturing natural gas production sites, the U.S. Geological Survey reports no evidence of water pollution.
- The chairmen of the Iron County Democrats and Iron County Republicans have sent the chair of a Wisconsin legislative committee a joint letter seeking removal of obstacles slowing the approval process for proposed mining operations.
- Pinellas County, Florida county commissioners voted 4–3 to stop fluoridating tap water for some of the county's residents. The decision has angered health advocates, who say the lack of fluoridation will harm dental health.
- Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama expressing frustration with EPA regulations preventing Kentucky miners from producing coal.
- A growing number of members of Congress are calling for the resignation of Energy Secretary Steven Chu as the Solyndra scandal widens.
- After accepting federal loan guarantees from the same program that funded the now-bankrupt Solyndra corporation, Nevada Geothermal Power, Inc. is poised to follow Solyndra and other failed alternative power companies into insolvency.
Newspaper Articles in this Issue
Global Warming Reducing Temperature Stress on Chinese Rice– December 22, 2011
Banning Epinephrine Inhalers: FDA Making It Harder to Breathe– December 7, 2011
Nova Publishes Chart Showing Climate Alarmism Funding– November 28, 2011
California Warming Law Hurts Job Market– November 27, 2011
California Imposes Unprecedented Chemical Restrictions– November 25, 2011
Arizona Congressmen Fight Uranium Mining Ban– November 24, 2011
Study: Global Warming Not a National Security Threat– November 24, 2011
EPA Proposes Ban on Rat and Mouse Poisons– November 23, 2011
Feinstein, Issa Join Forces to Support Oyster Farm– November 23, 2011
America's Energy Future is Bright, If Government Doesn't Shut It Down– November 22, 2011
Pinellas County Removes Fluoride from Tap Water– November 21, 2011
A Look Inside the EPA's Assault on Common Sense– November 21, 2011
Nevada Geothermal Poised to Follow Solyndra into Bankruptcy– November 20, 2011
EPA Releases Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan– November 20, 2011
Wisconsin County Chairs Send Bipartisan Letter Supporting Mining– November 20, 2011
Feds Target Gas Wells in Pennsylvania State Forests– November 19, 2011
Solyndra Scandal Widens, Chu Pressured to Resign– November 19, 2011
Feds Find No Water Pollution from Arkansas Fracking– November 19, 2011
Kentucky's Leading Democrat Takes on Obama's EPA– November 18, 2011
Alaskans Set to Pocket Hefty Oil Dividend– November 18, 2011
Beacon Power Follows Solyndra into Bankruptcy– November 17, 2011


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Curricular Objectives and Structure
The main objectives of the philosophy major are to:
- provide students with basic knowledge in the main areas of philosophy (theory of knowledge, values, and history of philosophy),
- increase students' awareness of ethical issues,
- improve students' critical thinking and analytical skills, and
- assist students in their development of problem-solving experience in at least one of the main areas of philosophy.
In order to develop problem-solving experience in a minimum of one of the main areas of philosophy, students are required to take at least 16 hours in one Area (see below). This includes a senior seminar which builds on the experience in other classes in order to tackle relatively advanced problems appropriate for graduating B.A. students.
Prerequisites for the Degree
Philosophy students are required to take at least two classes (no less than 6 hours) as prerequisites for the major: a Critical Thinking (PHI 301) or logic prerequisite, and a general prerequisite (any other class in philosophy). In some cases, students may be conditionally accepted into the major and fulfill the prerequisites within their first year in the program. For Capital Scholars students, the humanities section counts as the general prerequisite. Prerequisites do not count toward the 36 hours required for the major.
Three Main Areas of Study
Students must take a minimum of two classes in each of the following three areas: core analytical philosophy, history of philosophy, and values.
Area 1: Core Analytical Philosophy
In order to gain analytical skills, students must take at least two classes (8 hours) in the area of core philosophy, such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, analytical metaphysics, and logic.
Course numbers ranging between PHI 470 and PHI 479 will fill this requirement.
Area 2: History of Philosophy
In order to gain a comprehensive outlook on the history of philosophy, students have to take one class in ancient and medieval philosophy and one course in the history of modern philosophy or program-approved comprehensive equivalents. Eligible courses for this requirement include PHI 420 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (4 hours), PHI 458 Classical Greek Wisdom (4 hours), and PHI 425 Modern Philosophy (4 hours).
Area 3: Values
In order to gain familiarity with value theory, students are required to take at least two classes (8 hours) in the areas or ethics, aesthetics, or political philosophy.
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Five things to know about Thursday, Day 6 of the London Olympics:
Gabby Douglas lights up the gym with another gold.
One more time: Michael Phelps takes 200 individual medley again.
Ann Romney �thrilled� by horse�s performance.
Quite the host: David Cameron takes Russia�s Vladimir Putin to judo match.
Probe into Olympic badminton flap widens.
Now this is fierce.
Gabby Douglas became the third consecutive American to win gymnastics� biggest prize when she won the all-around Olympic title on Thursday. She finished with a score of 62.232, about three-tenths ahead of Viktoria Komova of Russia.
It�s her second gold medal of the London Games, coming two nights after she and her �Fierce Five� teammates gave the United States its first Olympic team title since 1996.
Douglas brought the house down with her energetic floor routine, and U.S. pals Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross jumped to their feet and cheered when she finished. Douglas flashed a smile, and coach Liang Chow lifted her off the podium.
Ann Romney was on hand to watch her horse in dressage at Greenwich Park and said she was thrilled by Rafalca.
The wife of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in the VIP section of the stadium for Rafalca�s Olympic debut, watching literally from the edge of her seat as the 15-year-old, German-bred mare completed the 7-minute Grand Prix test.
She and Rafalca�s other two owners gave horse and rider Jan Ebeling a rousing standing ovation and a wave as they left the arena. Their score of 70.243 percent put them in 13th place with half the 50 competitors still to go.
Rafalca has been the source of political jokes and Democratic ads questioning how Mitt Romney can presume to know the problems of ordinary Americans when he inhabits the rarefied world of dressage.
Politics also took center stage at ExCel when British Prime Minister Cameron joined Russian President Putin at the judo competition.
It�s not a stretch to describe Putin � an honorary president of the International Judo Federation � as the world�s best-known judo fan. Putin has been a judo competitor since his childhood, eventually gaining the rank of black belt.
�I am delighted to be taking the president to the judo, but note that we will be spectators � and not participants,� Cameron joked as the men left his Downing Street residence. The two leaders, who have squared off over the world�s response to the violence in Syria, traveled in separate cars to see the judo contests in east London.
The Olympic badminton controversy continued for a third day, with the IOC demanding a deeper investigation into the scandal and an embattled Chinese player appearing to quit the tarnished sport.
At age 14,Douglas � the future gold medal gymnast � pleaded with her mother to let her move cross country, certain a new coach could help her get to the Olympics.
Not two years after setting out on her own, Douglas beat Komova for the all-around title, the third consecutive U.S. gymnast to win the biggest prize and the African-American to do so.
�It feels amazing to be the Olympic champion,� Douglas said.
Puts her in a special category, too. Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson and Nastia Liukin are the only other Americans to win the Olympic all-around gold.
The Americans have been looking for their �next Mary Lou� since she won in 1984, and now they�ve got her in the 16-year-old Douglas. Throw in her adorable �Flying Squirrel� nickname and sweet backstory, and Douglas� two gold medals certainly won�t be her only riches.�I haven�t thought about that,� Douglas said.
�I just wanted to seize the moment. You have to learn how to enjoy the moment.�
Her smile alone is enough to dazzle Madison Avenue, and her personality is bigger than she is.
In other action Thursday:
Roger Federer is in his pursuit of his first Olympic singles medal.Federer beat American John Isner 6-4, 7-6 (5) and will play No. 8-seeded Juan Martin del Potro in the semis.
Serena Williams, another reigning Wimbledon champion who is seeking her first Olympic singles medal, advanced by beating former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-0, 6-3.
The U.S. men�s Olympic basketball team beat Nigeria 156-73, shattering scores of records in the process. They led by 26 in the first quarter, had an Olympic-record 78 points in the first half, and Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points, including 10 of 12 3-pointers, to break the U.S. single-game scoring record in less than three quarters. �Our guys just couldn�t miss,� coach Mike Krzyzewski said. They eclipsed the 100-point mark with 5 minutes left in the third.They broke the Olympic record for most points in a game with 4:37 still to play and set U.S. records for 3-pointers (26), field goals (59) and field-goal percentage (71).
In volleyball, U.S. captain Clay Stanley scored 19 points, and the U.S. men�s team defeated Brazil 3-1 in a preliminary-round rematch of the Beijing final.
Germany�s Miriam Welte and Kristina Vogel checked a computer screen several times before erupting in laughter.Yup, Olympic champions.Welte and Vogel won the gold in sprint track cycling after the Chinese duo of Guo Shuang and Gong Jinjie was disqualified for a lane change in the final.
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I am struggling with a problem from classical mechanics. Imagine a massless wheel (to make it simpler) with a mass $m$ fixed to it rolling without slipping on a horizontal ground. If we now try to find the equations of motion of the wheel (for instance the angle $\alpha$ it turns) we will find that all the forces are independent of velocity, so $\alpha ''=f(\alpha)$.
After doing that I decided to solve this problem using Euler-Langrange equations (since friction does no work). I came up with $L=\frac{1}{2} m R^{2} (\frac{d\alpha}{dt})^{2} (1+\cos \alpha)-mgR(1+\cos \alpha)$ which, upon solving, gives $\alpha ''$ as a function of both $\alpha$ and $\alpha '$. What is my problem?


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LACY LAKEVIEW (November 9, 2012)—Lacy Lakeview police Officer Roy Wood, who was shot Thursday evening after responding to a report of a suicidal and possibly armed person at a house in the 100 block of Bobcat Drive just north of the Texas State Technical College campus, was out of the hospital Friday and a 21-year-old man was jailed, charged in the shooting.
Keith McAdams was ordered held Friday in the McLennan County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bond, charged with aggravated assault against a public servant.
A second person who was taken into custody after the shooting was later released.
Wood was one of four officers who were dispatched at around 5:10 p.m. Thursday to the home at 104 Bobcat Dr.
As the officers attempted to make contact with the residents, someone fired from inside the house, authorities said Friday.
As the officers scrambled to take cover, Wood was struck in the back of the upper arm and the bullet exited through his shoulder, authorities said.
He was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center where he was treated and then later released.
Dozens of officers from area agencies responded to the scene and surrounded the house where the officer was shot.
At one point Thursday evening, as many as 45 officers were at the scene of the shooting.
Some nearby homes were evacuated, officials said.
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Women's Tennis Readies for Newberry in Season OpenerFebruary 7, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – After 2013 saw the Anderson University women's tennis team advance to its first South Atlantic Conference championship match, the Trojans bring in higher expectations in 2014 as they open their season on Saturday against SAC opponent Newberry on Saturday at the Max Grubbs Memorial Courts.
The Trojans
Last Thursday, AU's duo of senior Avery Owens and junior Karen Ching were honored by the conference, being named to the preseason teams as the tandem was picked to the first-team doubles squad, while Owens was named first-team in singles. Owens is coming into a season where she went a perfect 9-0 in conference singles matches and an impressive 15-2 overall singles record. In doubles, Owens and Ching combined for a 15-4 record playing the majority of the season at the No. 1 position.
As a team, the Trojans were picked to finish third behind Wingate and Tusculum. Anderson closed the 2013 season with a 13-6 record, including four straight wins before falling 5-3 in the championship match at last year's SAC Tournament.
Along with Owens and Ching, the Trojans look for junior Lindsay Gregory and sophomores Kayla Bishop, Alexandra Ebner and Lauren Howard to step into starting roles and pick up where they left off a year ago. Ebner finished the season 9-9 in doubles action and 4-5 in her nine singles appearances. Head Coach Joey Eskridge is also excited for newcomers Nikkola Wichenko and Rebecca Bruning as they could see a starting role immediately.
The Wolves
Newberry finished the 2013 season with a 13-12 overall record and fell to the eventual conference champion Wingate in the tournament semifinals. The Wolves earned a 5-4 record and closed the year in a tie for fourth-place with Catawba, which they beat in the opening round of the conference tournament, in the final SAC standings. This season, NC is an even 2-2 after grabbing 9-0 wins over North Greenville and Benedict, but falling to Division I Coastal Carolina and nationally ranked Erskine.
The Wolves return Preseason All-SAC first-team singles and doubles honoree Susana Aguirre as she is joined by Romina Adum on the first-team doubles squad. Aguirre, who played the entire season at the No. 1 position, finished 15-9 in singles action and 20-4 in doubles action alongside Adum. This season, the duo is 2-2 for the season.
With five seniors on the roster, Newberry carries a lot of experience into the season. Senior Ariel Strong is projected to start at No. 5 singles where she is 1-1 for the young season and No. 3 doubles, teaming up with sophomore Tara Lamers as they hold a 2-1 doubles record.
The Series
Anderson has not dropped a match to Newberry since the teams became SAC rivals before the 2011 season. AU captured a 9-0 sweep over the Wolves in 2011 and followed the win with 6-3 and 5-4 victories in 2012 and 2013.


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TOPEKA -- Come to the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library's 15th annual "Silents in the Cathedral" this Friday, October 26th at 7:00pm.
This year we feature "Blackmail" (from 1929,) an Alfred Hitchcock classic, which follows a beautiful blond whose act of self-defense turns into a case of murder investigated by her boyfriend, a Scotland Yard detective.
The film is hosted by Grace Episcopal Cathedral at 701 SW 8th Avenue in downtown Topeka. Parking is adjacent to the Cathedral. Popcorn and bottled water will be sold as a fundraiser for the Cathedral's youth group. Admission is free; no tickets required.
Along with the suspense thriller "Blackmail," you will watch two short films.. "Bewitched Matches," an animated film from 1913, and "Eve's Love Letters," the silent 1927 comedy starring Stan Laurel. to lighten the mood before the Hitchcock film brings it back to a more serious tone.
Marvin Faulwell, noted theater organist, and Bob Keckheisen, percussionist, will provide musical accompaniment to the films. Denise Morrison, film buff and historian, will share the history and little known Hollywood gossip about the productions.
For more information, contact the library's Special Collections department at 580-4510.
This program is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is a partnership program between the library and Grace Episcopal Cathedral, in cooperation with Kansas Silent Film Festival Inc.
Library hours are 9 till 9 on weekdays, Saturdays from 9 to 6, and Sunday from Noon till 9:00pm.


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Do you think TDKR will top The Avengers in the Box Office?
I heard a theory that it won't simply because the second one only did well because of the Heath Ledger effect and a large amount of people watching it only as a tribute to his death.
I don't really think that holds true and the film was superb on its own but what do you think?
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I think that the Avengers brings together fans of all the different characters, and is a family type film (lots of cartoonish violence but nothing that would be likely to scare anybody). The Dark Knight has only Batman fans to call on (which are plentiful, but I suspect the combined fans of Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Nick Fury outnumber them). And it isn't a family film, even if the action sequences are not more realistically violent than those in the Avengers, the overall tone of the Dark Knight is...well...dark, and not suitable for everyone. The previews for it have been extremely sober and dark, suggesting strongly "this is a movie for grown-ups". So it is targeting a narrower demographic. I don't know if the people who brought their 8-10 year olds (in costume, to the 14 hour marathon, and properly behaved the whole time!) to see Avengers are going to be buying them tickets for the Dark Knight. Cutting the kids will have a big impact.
No, even if every person who went to see The Avengers also went to see TDKR, it would not top the Avengers for the simple reason that TDKR will not be shown in 3D. That added many millions to Avengers' gross. Yes, TDKR will be in shown Imax but there are far fewer Imax screens that 3D-capable screens.
As much as I want it to, I don't think it will. The 3D is what really gave Avengers the edge.
Still can't wait to see it. Midnight premier for sure.
So do you suppose its worth the cost to do Avengers in Imax 3D or just stick with regular ?
@djbowman: the 3d was all done in post, so it won't look as good as it could. I saw it in a regular d and it was still a great movie if not a bit long. Can't imagine having those god awful glasses on for 2 and half hours.
@djbowman: I saw it in IMAX 3D and it was pretty damn awesome. Doing regular 3D this weekend because the GF only saw it in 2D
nope. I don't even want to see it. Batman has already been "rebooted" twice, I'm getting sick of the reboots. The Star Trek reboot pissed me off.
We saw The Avengers this weekend (it was awesome!) and one of the previews was for TDKR. Both Hubby and I were incredibly underwhelmed by what we saw. After the preview, I turned to him, asking if he wanted to go it (hoping he said no) and he asked if I was crazy. Worth noting that he's generally up for anything based on anything comic/nerd/etc.
In short, it may do decently, but if people are anything like us, the previews gave us no reason to care that this movie is coming out.
I think it's time they let this franchise die.
PS: Why are they rebooting Spiderman not that long after they did THREE Spiderman movies and a terrible musical? Let. it. go.
@kamikazeken: This isn't a reboot. It is the 3rd film in the most recent reboot.
I'm actually ok with reboots because you can avoid ruining a good character with endless sequels that always have to "top" the previous installment.
That being said, I'll probably wait for DVD for this one. The 2nd film was fine, but I didn't love it.


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Free flu shots, tests at KOB Health Fair this weekend
Posted at: 01/24/2013 11:43 AM | Updated at: 01/24/2013 11:55 AM
Sheena Ferguson of UNM Hospitals talks about how you can get a free flu shot at this weekend's KOB Eyewitness News 4 Health Fair.
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