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Self-made woman
Why aren't there more powerful women in gaming? Jan Jones wonders too
By Emmily Bristol
Jan Jones as murdered prom queen.
This is one of Maura Lasater's favorite memories of her mother, the former mayor of Las Vegas.
As Lasater remembers it, she was in high school and her mom was mayor. It was Halloween, and Jones and family decided to deck out the house in full spooky trimmings. "She got this old, old white dress and she got this big, huge, long blond wig," says the 25-year-old Lasater, the oldest of Jones' three children. "And my mom had a fake knife sticking out of her chest. And every Halloween my mom makes her chicken chili and cornbread and everybody comes over. I had just started school at [Bishop] Gorman and I remember some people came by, and out comes my mom with her knife in her chest and blond wig and murdered-prom-queen fake blood.
"My friend was like, 'That's the mayor?'"
The scene is layered, like Jones herself. It reveals Jones' ability to make fun of her own image. At the time, many considered Jones to be as credible and important as an 8x10 glossy, especially considering her gender and appearance as an attractive, feminine, leggy blond. An exaggerated wig and a phony dagger through the heart are almost a metaphor for her plight in trying to be taken seriously as a woman in what until then had been a man's position.
But Jones, 55, doesn't play the victim in real life. And she's never been afraid to use any of her talents, as when, before her political career, she dressed up in silly costumes in various Fletcher Jones auto dealership TV ads. That was when she was married to the dealership's namesake's son, one of four marriages Jones has had.
At the time of Lasater's memory, Jones was one of the city's most high-profile mayors and its first leading lady. She was in the process of elevating the office from glorified ribbon-cutter to spokesperson for America's favorite playground--something current Mayor Oscar Goodman openly thanked her for when he followed her into office in 1999.
But her political life was full of controversy. She is the kind of public figure people either love or hate. There are few Las Vegans who are ambivalent about her years as mayor from 1991-99.
This makes the family memory perhaps more poignant, or more bizarre. Jones faced at least eight different ethics charges while mayor. Unlike both her predecessor Ron Lurie and successor Goodman, Jones' ethics complaints were all either dropped or beaten.
"I knew I was under attack and I was tried in the press," says Jones, now an executive at Harrah's Entertainment. "I'm not sure you can be mayor, or an elected official of anything with high visibility, without an ethics complaint. It's just part of the territory because it's not always about doing something wrong. Sometimes it's just your political opponents looking to bring you down. There's a lot of reasons it can happen.
"Ethics is murky water," she says. "We used to look up to our elected officials. Now you're considered a crook until proven otherwise."
But the experience taught her at least one thing about herself: "I always knew I was tough. Now I'm really tough."
If the shoe fits
We sit at a small round table in the corner, a part of the room more elaborately decorated than the rest of Jones' tidy, elegant but sparse office. In the corner there is a mix of mementos and strategically placed pieces: Half a dozen photos of her with President Bill Clinton are interspersed with framed, school-era art pieces from her children. A large frame holds mayoral memorabilia, including photos from her first meeting, a gavel and council chambers nameplate.
On a pedestal next to an arrangement of dried roses sits a tiny glass slipper, no larger than a pen cap. The shoe reflects Jones' love for shoes. The native Californian confesses to having never thrown out a pair. This sort of feminine iconography is just the sort of thing that was frowned upon when Jones was taking business courses at Stanford. (She earned a bachelor's in English.)
"Back then, they taught you that if you stand out [as feminine], you can almost be more of a target," Jones says.
Today Jones actively seeks to promote "smart, aggressive, visionary women." And she speaks often on the issues facing women in the business world in public speeches as a member of the Women's Leadership Board at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
"I get frustrated sometimes because I will listen to both men and women say, 'You don't need feminism because it's all equal. We fixed it.' We haven't fixed anything. It's exactly the same as it was 20 years ago," she says. "Women get to a certain level in management and stop. I have to tell you, if I hadn't been mayor, I might have been considered for this position but I'm not sure. Young women avoid going into business because they know it's very hard to get to a significant level."
This makes her image as a headshot mayor all the more irritating to her. Jones said she feels she was unfairly targeted by the press and her detractors because she was both a woman and attractive--and made no effort to conceal either.
"There's no question that there's a double standard," Jones says. "I'm not a wallflower."
The anger still seems fresh when she recalls how she was portrayed in the media while mayor. Jones says it seemed to her that the reporters and photographers were always looking to catch her in a weak, stereotypically feminine moment. For instance, she remembers an August 1998 Review-Journal photo of her crying during a speech by Tipper Gore.
"That really plays to type," Jones says of the photo and headline attached to the story: "Jones brought to tears at Tipper Gore speech."
This, too, highlights how difficult it was to go through breast cancer treatment while mayor. Gore's speech took place at a time when Jones was undergoing chemotherapy, following a lumpectomy. Last month, Jones celebrated her five-year anniversary of beating cancer.
"She is a force," Lasater says. When her mother had breast cancer, Lasater says it was important for the family to show a united, strong face to the world, especially while the usually private issue was playing out in local front-page headlines. "That was very difficult," Lasater says.
And while Jones' children mostly kept up the strong family front, Lasater says she sometimes found herself defending her mom to school friends and teachers. Or, as in a Nov. 16, 1997, R-J letter to the editor, she defended her mom to the community, writing, "[S]he is not the idiot whom you like to portray. ... You can't find anything that is truly bad about her so you have to make things up and report stories that have no newsworthy content."
Jones says she has always taken strength from her biggest role model--her father, whom she calls an extraordinary human being. When times get tough, Jones says, she remembers a defining moment in her childhood when she was playing football with her two brothers in the back yard. She got knocked down and hurt, which sent her to the sideline. Instead of coddling her, Jones' father told her to get back in the game when she felt better. To this day, that philosophy has guided Jones.
"I don't focus on [the negative]. I just try to keep going," she says.
Self-made woman
From her top-floor office overlooking the Strip, Jones says she doesn't think she would have been considered for her position as Harrah's Entertainment's senior vice president of communications and government relations if it hadn't been for her achievements as mayor.
And that irks many. There are still plenty of people who see Jones' past and present roles in Las Vegas as controversial. Bill Thompson, an outspoken UNLV public administration professor and gaming expert, says Jones may have been a little too friendly with the gaming industry while mayor. "She was ingratiating herself with gaming while being mayor," Thompson contends.
In some ways, the question in Nevada is, who doesn't? After all, Thompson himself points out that Goodman actively promotes gaming businesses downtown, which are clearly in his jurisdiction.
But Thompson, like others, found Jones a little too cozy with gaming executives. She came under fire for co-owning a store in the Stratosphere while mayor. Further, she was aggressive in using the power of eminent domain to condemn private property downtown to ultimately assist private companies to create the $70 million Fremont Street Experience, launch the construction of Neonopolis and help the Stratosphere to expand.
"She did make decisions favoring the Stratosphere and made decisions favoring the Fremont Street Experience," Thompson says. "And right after she was mayor, she got a very lucrative job with Harrah's. She has been very tight with the casino industry."
In fact, while fighting breast cancer in 1998, Jones married her third husband, Richard Schuetz, who was the president of a gaming consulting company. They met during meetings regarding the decline of the neighborhood surrounding the Stratosphere, while Schuetz was CEO of that casino.
"I think it was bad public policy," Thompson says of the property seizures.
Jones has admitted to making mistakes in how she handled the issue of eminent domain in downtown. "Everything that happened downtown happened under my watch," Jones says, adding that she paved the way for Goodman's downtown projects.
Even though Thompson criticizes Jones for many of her decisions, he does think she may be the most powerful woman in gaming. This may change if a prediction in the Feb. 25 R-J holds true. Following the approval of the $8.7 billion MGM Mirage buyout of Mandalay Resort Group, MGM Grand CEO Terry Lanni said current company executive Renee West may become the first female president of a Strip property.
For now, Jones is not only one of the highest-ranking women in her industry, she's one who has done it on her own terms. She is not a gaming executive's wife or relative. Certainly, Jones is not the American fairy tale of a poor girl growing up to be a powerful business executive (and politician), but she is one of the most self-made women in the industry. And who knows how her role may change as Harrah's inches closer to a $9.4 billion merger with Caesars Entertainment?
Jones herself has a lot to say about the industry and Las Vegas. When she was hired at Harrah's, she was one of two female executives in decision-making roles in the company. She is proud of her company, calling it "very gender-neutral" in management--but she's not afraid to dish out tough love when it's warranted.
Case in point: The recent flap over Darlene Jesperson, a bartender with a Harrah's property in Reno who was fired for not adhering to what some have called a sexist dress code.
"That was a mistake," says Jones, who called the Reno office after she heard that Jesperson was fired for not wearing makeup (as defined in the dress code at the time); Jones told them to make it right by hiring her back. Jesperson sued the company for discrimination, lost at the state level and at a panel hearing at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She was offered her job back, but declined because of her personal principles, Jesperson said.
See Jan run?
Ever since Jones left office in 1999, there has been speculation that she may run for office again. While mayor she ran for governor twice and lost. She also ran for Democratic National Committee chair in 2001 and lost to Dina Titus. Jones has said she will not rule out politics in the future.
But the only thing she hasn't done yet is slow down. She routinely works 70-hour weeks and flies across the country and the world at least two weeks out of each month. This includes as many weekend commutes as possible to Greenville, S.C., where her husband of 10 months, Dana Blackhurst, lives.
Blackhurst, Jones' fourth husband, is the headmaster of the nationally known Camperdown Academy, a private school for dyslexic children. He also works with the Andre Agassi Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas. Blackhurst, severely dyslexic himself, is known as an expert in the field of dyslexia education. Several high-profile Las Vegas families send their children to his South Carolina private school, he says.
Jones jokes that she doesn't look for husbands anymore. "They just keep asking me to marry them." And the gaming executive admits that her hectic schedule and high-profile job make relationships difficult. "It's cost me three marriages."
Her failed marriages taught her to value her children above all else, she says, because you can't always count on men to be there. In the past, her husbands have been threatened by her power in the community and wealth, she said.
Maybe that's why she speaks with measured optimism about the role of men in her life now. However, she and Blackhurst find time to talk on the phone (no matter how briefly) each day.
"She's amazing. She's a hurricane and I'm a hurricane, too," says Blackhurst, 49. "It's amazing when the eyes cross paths. I admire her. She's my best friend and my hero."
Despite their busy schedules, the couple manages to find time for vacations together. Last year they traveled by motorcycle through Canada and Alaska up the Alaska-Canadian Highway. When they met up to embark on their trip, Blackhurst balked when Jones showed up with piles of luggage. Of course, she had to leave them behind and pare it down to one bag--no suits, no makeup, no cell phones, no titles. Just Jan.
"She's a better mother and human being than anything else she's ever done," says Blackhurst. "She's just real and genuine. There's a totally other side to Jan that no one ever sees."


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We loved these! The sauce is excellent. After marinating overnight, they were then very easy to fix. I sprayed the foil lightly with cooking spray before baking them so they just slid off the sheet. I used 3 lbs of wings, but made the whole recipe of sauce, glad I did, they were just dripping, so good!! I will make this one a lot.
Voted the all time number one, best of the best, chicken wings by my familly - and they are the experts! The only thing I would do different is to lower the oven temp after the first 15 minutes to 325°F to keep them from burning - but, maybe my oven cooks hotter.
Absolutely terrific! My family and I loved these chicken wings. The sauce was so delicious. Followed the recipe exactly as stated. I wouldn't change a thing. Definately the BEST!! Thanks for posting.
I found your recipe in the 'Reviews' forum. I tried it tonight for dinner and they were so tasty. There were only two of us eating, and I thought we would have leftovers for lunch the next day ( I cooked 1kg of wings ), but no way, all gone...thanks.
Manda, these are AWESOME! We usually cook them on the grill and they always get rave reviews from my husband, daughter, and me. What a Delicious recipe, we LOVE THESE, as they're so moist and flavorful. Needless to say this is one of our favorite top ten recipes! Many thanks for sharing this recipe. ;)
I no longer have to drive down to Chinatown for my BBQ chicken wing fix. These are spot on. I made the marinade as written, then left them in the fridge for about 10 hours. Then, I read all the reviews, or, well, most of them, and I lowered my oven temp to 325° (my oven runs hot). I lined a medium-large roasting pan with heavy-duty foil, lined up the wings and then doused them without about half of the marinade, then roasted them for 1/2 hour. Then, I turned them, again dousing in the marinade, and roasted again for another 1/2 hour. I turned and roasted and doused for 1 1/2 hours and ended up with completely beautiful, carmelized and wonderful chicken wings. I'm so happy and full of chicken wing meat. Thanks so much Manda for this recipe....I'm going to try it on other stuff, like ribs and bananas (kidding)
These were great! We made exactly as posted (...well.. OK we had 5 lbs of wings...). Needless to say there were no leftovers and I probably should have made a double batch! I let the sauce reduce until it was almost a glaze then tossed with the wings after they cooked. These were oooey gooey fall off the bone perfection!
I tried this recipe for a get together and it came out really good. After reading someone's review of it being salty, I was not sure if I should use the recommanded amount of soy sauce. But in the end I decided to use that amount and I have no complaints. It came out good and it was not salty at all.
These were really good. I used 4 1/2 lbs of wings, and clipped off the loose fatty bits of skin before marinating. I omitted the water and the vegetable oil and used a bit more pineapple juice. I baked the wings at 375 for a little over 1 1/2 hours, turning a couple of times, until the sauce got very thick and the wings were very dark brown and tender.
These were excellent. Made as directed but ended up marinated for 3 days. Didn't matter the flavor soaked in nice and good. Use about 1/4 cup marinate in baking dish then broiled for about 5 minutes of remainding cooking time. This helped make the wings crisp. Everyone enjoyed. Thanks for the recipe


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Thrasher's fries their fries in peanut oil for just the right amount of time. Golden brown on the outside with a perfect taste on the inside. They are always fresh and HOT!
Their customer service is always great. They are fast! There may or may not be a long line, but it moves very quickly. If the customer at the counter is finishing up, the person manning the fries might ask what size you want. By the time you are up there handing over the the money, your bucket is waiting for you.
They provide salt and vinegar which is excellent. Thankfully, no ketchup!
So why don't we visit every time we are at the beach? You could buy a sack of potatoes for the price of one bucket. Here are the current prices:
Small $4.50
Medium $6.50
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People gladly pay the price for these delicious fries. They are filling. We typically enjoy sharing a bucket maybe once per season.
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If you purchase a large drink, keep the plastic cup. You can return for a $1.25 refill (it was $1.00 up until this season) even in future years.
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Electronics in the Sauna?Posted on October 25th, 2010 by Chris in Guides, tags: battery, Blackberry, electronics, iPad, iPhone, iPod, mp3 player, sauna, Zune
They've become extensions of us. Our cell phones, smart phones, Blackberries, iPods, iPhones, iPads, mp3 players, Zunes and the like. They're always there, holding the latest Facebook or Twitter updates, that critical email, or entertaining us with a limitless supply of music or a game like Angry Birds. They've redefined our work life, and also how we relax.
So when you're relaxing in a sauna, can't you bring your electronics in with you?
Sure you could. But it's not very good for them.
All of our modern gizmos are designed to perform best when they operate as close as possible to room temperature. As you increase their temperature, things start to deteriorate, and quickly.
Batteries are the most susceptible. You've probably noticed that a device when it's brand new lasts a lot longer than one that's a year old. When you get to about two or three years old, those things barely work unless they're constantly plugged in. That's because the insides of the batteries oxidize or rust. This is especially true for lithium batteries common in today's electronics. As the temperature goes above 105°F (40°C), that rusting kicks into overdrive, dramatically shortening the battery's life. As shown in the graphic here, Apple likes you to keep your devices under 95°F (35°C).
Batteries aren't the only things though. The display can also be damaged by heat. Most of these devices have either LCD or OLED display screens. When the temperatures of these exceed 158°F (70°C) things start to get ugly, with fading, dead pixels, or worse occurring.
When things get hot, they get bigger and when they cool down they shrink. Bridges are designed to grow and shrink with the change in the environment, but circuit boards usually aren't. They're also made of lots of different things that grow and shrink at different rates. Just getting something hot and cooling it down again can stress one of the thousands of interconnections in your gadget to breaking.
Electronic gadgets don't like to get wet. Water corrodes their insides, discolors displays, and generally turns them into paperweights. Everyone knows that. That's why almost all of them have those little color change labels on them that let that Nerd Herder tell you, "Sorry. You got it wet, which voids the warranty. You can pay us a thousand dollars to fix it, or go buy a new one."
"But wait a minute," you might be saying, "I'm going in a dry sauna, and that's got only 5% humidity. That's at the bottom end of my device's operation specs."
That is true, a typical dry sauna has about a 5% relative humidity. Even if you're throwing water on the rocks, the humidity rarely gets above 25%. Remember that as the temperature goes down, the humidity goes up. So when you cool that 5% humidity air at 180°F (82°C) down to 71°F (22°C), you'll exceed 100% humidity and the water inside will start to condense. If someone threw water on the rocks, you'll get liquid water at 125°F (52°C). Colorado State University has an online dewpoint calculator.
Another thing to remember is when you were in the sauna, your device got hot. Maybe not a lot, but a little. That will cause the air to expand and rush out of your device. When you get outside the sauna and things cool down, outside air will rush in, even in waterproof devices like watches. Think about the area surrounding your sauna. Many are placed near showers or pools where the humidity is already very high.
Normal waterproofing for a device won't cut it. To keep the steam from condensing inside, you need a sealed waterproof case.
Your Sauna Companions:
If it's your own private sauna, of course you can do whatever you want in it. However, most people take saunas in a health club, spa, or other public venue where others will be with them. The sauna is a place for relaxation and quiet meditation. It's difficult to achieve when someone is tapping away on a device next door, or your soothing sounds are leaking out of your earbuds into the space around you.
Don't forget about privacy issues too. Sure you may just be sending text messages to a friend about where to have dinner later, but how do I know that you're not taking pictures of me?
So do us all a favor, and when do you take a sauna, leave those electronics outside.


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Linux and the Euro Currency: Toward a Global Solution
Starting in 1999, each European be using this new currency in his everyday life. Even if cash is not yet available, most prices, wages, invoices, etc. will be labelled in euro as well as in national currencies.
In 2002, each local currency except for the British pound (£), Danish krøner (kr), Swedish Kroner and Greek drachma will be replaced by the Euro. This is a major move for a real European union, which will create a market of 300 million people, from Finland to Portugal and Ireland to Greece.
Figure 2. Various currency symbols
Euro and year 2000 support are currently the biggest problems for computer scientists. On UNIX systems where a kind of Y2K bug will not occur until 2038, the euro is the major problem. On Windows machines, Y2K is the major problem since Microsoft has already integrated support for the Euro in Windows 98 and NT. A new proprietary norm was created, called cp1252, which makes these systems the first to properly support the Euro.
Figure 3. Key table with the Euro symbol
The transition from local currencies to the euro also implies mathematical conversions in financial programs: one euro equals 6.55957 French francs, for example. One euro is approximately one dollar U.S. The European Community created a "Euro Workshop" and "Euro Project Team" to find any possible solution for all types of platforms, even cellular phones. Most of the documents can be found at http://www.stri.is/TC304/Euro/. I used some of their euro symbol pictures to illustrate this article.
UNICODE was a good candidate for supporting national characters, but X Window System font management would have made it a pain to implement. For example, see plan9 difficulties at http://www.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/9term/. Moreover, the numeral console-mode applications could not take advantage of UNICODE: even today, video-card memory is too tight to hold this wide range of characters. Clearly, a solution was needed for UNIX and other 8-bit systems.
A possible solution was creating yet another encoding format for 8-bit systems, which even today do not support the whole range of national characters. For example, it is impossible to create an "oe ligature" or an "s caron" in iso-8859-1, even though they are widely used in several European languages:
"oe ligature": the French words boeuf, coeur, oeil, the German poet Goethe
"s caron":koda cars
I can hardly imagine a computer where not all 26 alphabetic letters were available, or where u had to be used in place of v because it had not been implemented in its character set. Yet many non-English speaking people face this problem each day when using keyboards without characters such as the "oe ligature" (
Taking advantage of this situation and lack of the euro symbol in iso-8859-1 latin1 (ISO 8859-1 latin1 is the UNIX encoding format, i.e., a correspondence between letters and codes, also used for email encoding), a new encoding format project was started, which would support:
the euro
"oe ligature" in both upper case and lower case
"s and z caron" in both upper case and lower case
"y diaeresis" in upper case only since (ÿ) already exists in latin1
To avoid breaking compatibility with the widely used iso-8859-1 latin1, it was decided that this new encoding would be based on it. However, there was still a big problem—each of the 255 possible characters existing in an 8-bit encoding had already been assigned in iso-8859-1. Therefore, it was decided that less frequently used characters should be removed to allow integration of the missing ones. In addition, the following changes were made:
The euro replaced the "international currency sign" (¤): the symbol the former Soviet Union had wanted to replace the dollar sign in 7-bit ASCII encoding format.
"oe" and "oe ligature" replaced the one-half fraction mark (½) and one-quarter fraction mark (¼), respectively.
"s caron" and "S caron" replaced "broken bar" (¦) and "floating diaeresis" (¨), respectively.
"z caron" and "Z caron" replaced "floating acute" (') and "floating cedilla" (¸), respectively.
"Y diaeresis" replaced "three quarter" (¾).
Since the cedilla (¸) looks like a comma (,), the diaeresis looks like a double quote (") and the acute looks like a single quote ('), they could easily be replaced; compose tables would need a minor update. For example, on French and Dutch keyboards, the (") key is used to get äëïöüÄËÏÖÜ but not "Y diaeresis", which is missing. One must simply press it, release it (nothing happens) then press a vowel key to get a "vowel diaeresis".
If there is any other character but a vowel, (") shows up. Here, adapting to the new encoding would simply mean replacing the latter case by a (") and adding composing possibilities for (sSzZ). This new encoding is called iso-8859-15 latin9 (nicknamed latin9) to show it is 97% compatible with iso-8859-1 latin1. By the time this article is published, it should already have been approved by ISO.
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Here's the deal in Los Angeles: Every waitress at the Charthouse is an actress, every barista at Starbucks is a screenwriter and every magician is a producer.
"But I already was a producer,'' says Scott Lazar, a poker player/magician/Hollywood type who lives in the appropriately named Southern California town of Studio City.
To name drop a little, Lazar worked as a set production assistant on the Colin Farrell movie "Phone Booth,'' the Woody Allen film "Hollywood Ending,'' and the 2004 comedy "Duane Incarnate.'' He also was first assistant director for "Nail Polish'' last year and had a role in "Fading'' in 2003.
But his best-known role likely was as the sixth-place finisher in the World Series of Poker main event last year, good for $1.5 million.
"It was humbling,'' Lazar says when asked how his WSOP experience affected him. "Understanding the importance of friends and family. The money is just a tool. I got so much attention from the experience that I felt bad, like, 'What about you? Stop asking about me. What about you?' So it made me understand. People were excited for me, but I didn't want all that attention. I just wanted to be the same guy.
"I did well. I made some money. But I'm just the same guy. So I didn't really like all the attention.''
The business opportunities, however, he liked. Liked a lot.
"The phone rang and it was a producer I worked with before and it was a poker film,'' Lazar says. "He said, 'I'd like you to look at the script and if you like it, I'll make you a co-executive producer and consultant on the film.'''
Lazar liked it. That's how he cut a deal to have a hand in "Deal,'' the poker movie starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison of Fox's "The Loop,'' and Shannon Elizabeth, the electrifying foreign exchange student from "American Pie'' and a regular at legit poker tournaments.
The film's premise features Reynolds as an ex-gambler who teaches hot-shot Harrison how to play the game. They have a falling out, and, this being Hollywood, they meet at the final table. Think "The Color of Money'' with chips.
Timing being everything, Lazar was not only playing in the L.A. Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino last month, but also directing a film crew shooting celebrity-laden tables.
Lazar would be the right guy to direct a film crew in a poker movie. He has played for about 20 years, half of that as a full-time grinder.
"I'm a one-trick pony,'' Lazar says. "Hold'em was my best game, and I played that at the $30-$60, $40-$80 level. And played tournaments since the start of my career.''
Truth be told, I had no idea who this guy was until he made the final table, but once I saw him -- more specifically, once I saw what he was wearing -- he became my favorite.
Showing up to compete for the $7.5 million first prize, Lazar wore a T-shirt that read: "You played that crap?''
Hollywood would dress up. Lazar dressed for poker.
"I love the game of poker,'' Lazar says. "It's appropriate because I play that crap sometimes.''
Indeed, Lazar played some crap at the final table. Did it twice, as a matter of fact, following a crushing hand that he didn't play. He would go on tilt. He would leave in tears.
"What happened was,'' Lazar says of the pivotal hand, "it got raised and I looked at my hand (A-5) and made an instantaneous decision. It got raised and called. I didn't really contemplate the size of the pot and what the chances were of somebody else holding an ace in that situation because we were down to six-handed. And the moment I released the hand, I went, 'Aaahhhh, what did I do that for?'
"And sure enough, the flop came A-A-2, and I got this feeling in the pit of my stomach. I went, 'I hope one of them has an ace and I made a good laydown here.'
"On the turn, sure enough, it comes another ace. Then I was just sick to my stomach. And on the river I watched Andrew Black, who was a very aggressive player, take down over a $2 million pot that would've for sure been mine. I believe that the way I would've played it, I would've made money from it. I don't think he would've put me on the ace if I had continuously bet into him, and I would have. I would've made a lot of money.
"So I was really distressed after that hand. As soon as we got dealt the next hand, while I'm busy watching him rack up those chips and [tournament director] Johnny Grooms is announcing that $2.2 million pot he won, I picked up an above-average hand in the small blind and made a small standard raise and Joe Hachem moved all-in in the big blind. I had K-9 of spades. Joe had A-Q of spades and reraised all-in there. Again, there was no thought process that went into my decision. It was bang -- call -- 'I'm not laying down anymore hands; this is a good hand.' It was stupid. I lost half my stack.''
But wait. There's more.
"On the very next hand,'' Lazar says, "I picked up a raising hand on the button, but I didn't have to commit all my chips to it because the blind [Black] did wake up with pocket jacks and he went all-in, and without thought, I called.''
All-in, all out.
"I just went berserk,'' Lazar says.
He broke down. Just lost it.
But Lazar says he has learned from the experience and is a different player now.
"For sure,'' he says. "Every tournament I play, every hand in every tournament, I learned to stay focused and concentrate on the game at hand. If I feel myself getting tired, I'll get up, take a break, walk around, even if it means missing a few hands. Get some fresh air, think about everything I'm doing, getting everything else out of my mind.''
Interesting switch here: The behind-the-scenes Hollywood gets was on-screen in a starring role when ESPN broadcast that episode of the final table.
"I had a party the night it aired,'' Lazar says. "All my friends came over and we turned it on. Of course, I knew what was going to happen when I raised with the K-9 and Joe went all-in. I yelled out, 'Don't call, don't call!' But of course, we already know what happens.
"It was fun seeing Norman Chad commenting. He said I had a brain bubble, and of course, all my friends laughed and enjoyed that.
"I'll have to live with it for a long time.''
But with $1.5 million as a lovely parting gift, a guy can learn to live with it.
"Yeah,'' Lazar says. "For a little while. I have expensive tastes.''
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Despite admitting to taking pride in remoulding himself as a Cat.1 mountain pace-setter and water-carrier extraordinaire, Cavendish told reporters: "But I'm a sprinter — it's kind of like putting Wayne Rooney in defence. You know, I was kind of lost."
It has certainly been a surreal sight seeing the world champion stretch those famous rainbow stripes with water bottles for his Team Sky lieutenants battling it out for the maillot jaune. While sprint rivals Andre Greipel and Peter Sagan had notched three wins apiece, Cavendish must have been pedalling around the Pyrenees hoping for a call from Oleg Tinkov.
"Physically it's been hard," Cavendish said after notching only his second win of the race. "To be part of a team that's going to win the Tour is a massive honour but I did put my sprint chances on the back foot."
As we know, Rooney, however, can use both feet — and Cavendish turned things round with cycling's equivalent of gathering the ball in his own box and running the length of the field before sliding the ball into an open net.
Whether or not the similarities with Rooney extend to celebrating on Friday night in with a visit to a 'bordel' specialising in the more mature lady, we'll probably never know. Perhaps he'll wait until he matches his rivals with a third win on the Champs Elysees on Sunday.
Should Cavendish win in Paris then it would cap off an extraordinary Tour for Team Sky, who are all but guaranteed a one-two in the GC, plus victory for Wiggins on Saturday in the final time trial.
Six stages — two for Wiggins, one for Froome and three for Cavendish — as well as Briton's first ever Tour winner and — heck, why not — second place for good measure, would mark an astonishing clean-sweep for the British team. One which could be completed with an Olympic gold medal for Cavendish on The Mall in London in 10 days' time.
Should this happen, it would certainly put all the pace-setting and water-carrying into perspective. If Cavendish can win three stages (and remember, crashes kept him out of two other bunch sprints) during a race in which Team Sky can top the GC with Wiggins and Froome — then what are all the complaints about?
"On the bus, Sean Yates [Sky DS] was like, 'Okay boys, let's take it easy today', but I was like, 'Oh please, let me have a chance!'. Then Brad came up and said, 'Look, we're going to ride today. We'll make a sprint," said Cav.
And the yellow jersey did just that. In a touching display of generosity and team spirit, Wiggins led out the sprint for Cavendish. Seeing the race's maillot jaune do such a thing two days away from Paris was surely an unprecedented sight in the Tour — but came as no surprise from a man who did exactly the same thing a week earlier en route to Le Cap d'Adge.
"It's been a difficult couple of weeks for Cav," Wiggins said, moments after mistaking French President Francois Hollande for someone off French reality TV (and before laying into another over-zealous cameraman). "We've had to put his goals and aspirations aside really and no one likes that. He's the world champion at the end of the day so it was nice that we could all do that for him today."
With friends like these, Cav may not need to answer that call from Tinkov after all.
Dog days for PhilGil
Saddles always thought France's native bear population was confined to certain inaccessible valleys in the Pyrenees but an incident 100km from the finish on Friday proved that not to be the case when a rogue bear rampaged into the peloton and sent a dozen riders sprawling.
Luckily it emerged that the pet bear was very tame. In fact, it soon became clear that it was in fact no bear, but rather a huge dog of uncanny ursine appearance. A Newfoundland. Renowned for their friendly nature and clumsiness. Popular in Canada. (Perhaps a present from the absent Ryder Hesjedal?)
Anyway, Philippe Gilbert was one of the riders to hit the deck. And seeing the colossal mutt lollop around before being finally put on a leash by its owners on the side of the road, the Belgian couldn't hold himself back.
"Then and there, all I could think about was punching the owner. Fortunately John Lelangue was there to stop me," the Belgian admitted after the stage. With the excitable dog now cowering in guilt behind a small girl and her two parents, Gilbert paced up and delivered a rally of abuse before being ushered away by his BMC manager. (It was a bit like Tyler Farrar's failed remonstrations with the Argos-Shimano bus.)
Gilbert then almost got himself run over by the Katusha team car before continuing on his way. "He hurt his elbow and knee — the dog was much bigger than him," said Lelangue. Still, making a small girl cry would be seen as a win of sorts for Gilbert in what has been an entirely fruitless campaign so far.
Valverde wins … a helicopter ride
It was a day of positives for the Tour top 20 (as well as Frank Schleck) after it emerged that the leading riders in the GC would be given a helicopter flight to Bonneval, Saturday's start town, after the stage.
All those placed 21st or below had to make the 400km journey by bus — but those in the top 20 could sit back and enjoy the view from a chopper. It must have made Alejandro Valverde's stage 17 all the sweeter: in taking the victory in Peyragudes, the Green Bullet leap-frogged Jerome Coppel into 20th place in the GC, saving himself one long bus ride.
Andre Greipel, predictably, took the train.
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OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Viktor Yushchenko and his wife, Kateryna, greet their supporters during a massive rally at the Independence square in Kiev, Ukraine, early on Monday. Yushchenko claimed victory Monday in Ukraine's fiercely contested presidential election, telling thousands of supporters that they had brought their nation into a new political era.
AP Photo KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych refused to accept defeat in the country's presidential election and vowed Monday to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the result, claiming that millions of his supporters were disenfranchised and that there was systematic fraud.
"I will never admit defeat," Yanukovych said at a Monday evening news conference, where he sternly rejected suggestions that he should give up. "It's an appalling fact when millions of citizens didn't vote. They were stripped of that right to vote."
With 99.84 percent of the ballots counted, opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko had a commanding lead, with 52 percent of the vote to 44 percent for Yanukovych. Early Monday Yushchenko claimed victory while speaking to his supporters as a mood of resignation swept Yanukovych's camp.
The Central Elections Commission cannot declare Yushchenko the official winner until all legal challenges are heard by the country's Supreme Court. That process could take several more weeks. Yanukovych has seven days to file a challenge.
The prime minister said 4.8 million potential voters couldn't cast their ballots because of new electoral laws that restricted voting by the disabled and the use of absentee ballots by people unable to make it to the polls.
Those measures, adopted by parliament before Sunday's runoff, were designed to limit fraud, but Yanukovych said the new regulations violated the constitution and became an insurmountable barrier for the disabled. He claimed eight sick people died after arriving at polling stations.
"Who will take responsibility for the people who perished?" he said.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said that despite some shortcomings, the elections were largely fair.
"I cannot express to you how delighted I am to say that in our collective view, Ukraine's elections have moved substantially closer to meeting OSCE and other European standards in such a short period of time," Bruce George, special coordinator for the short-term observers, said at a news conference. "In our judgment, the people of this great country can be truly proud that yesterday they took a great step toward free and democratic elections by electing the next president of Ukraine."
Yanukovych dismissed that judgment, saying "only the blind couldn't see how many violations there were."
A Yushchenko spokeswoman, Irina Heraschenko, said the opposition was not worried by Yanukovych's planned appeal.
"He has the right to go to the courts," she said. "But his appeal should be based upon facts, not disappointment. And we haven't heard any facts."
Yanukovych said he would not call on his supporters to take to the streets and would act within the law. There were signs Monday that his supporters did not have the energy for the kind of popular revolution that followed the Nov. 21 vote. Yanukovych's headquarters canceled a rally it had planned for his home town, Donetsk, on Monday. Outside his headquarters in Kiev, there was only a small group of supporters.
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski also extended his congratulations to Yushchenko.
But other leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was quick to congratulate Yanukovych after the Nov. 21 vote, held back from expressing any judgment.
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BISHOPVILLE — Most people are excited this week for a break.
A break from work. A break from school. A break from whatever's made life mundane or cumbersome.
Bayler Teal is excited for a break this week, too.
Teal, who turned 6 on Wednesday, has a week off from chemotherapy.
Even in that respite, Bayler's dad, Rob, wonders if it's the right call. Take even a day away from treatment? That springs a fountain of what-ifs in your mind.
Doctors reassure the Teals that it's OK. They tell Bayler to enjoy his birthday, Christmas and come in next week.
But there's no real sigh of relief.
See, when you're dealing with cancer, you're constantly looking over your shoulder as you're sprinting away. You're running with your lungs, legs and life to escape.
But it's a monster. It's bigger and fiercer than anything you've ever encountered on this earth.
Cancer is always in pursuit, always chasing. It's the hunter. And the innocent — in this case, a child — are the prey.
There is no break from this.
'A lifelong deal'
On Sept. 17, Rob and Risha Teal — both in their mid-20s — learned that their first-born son had neuroblastoma.
That's an aggressive malignant tumor that had developed in Bayler's abdomen.
The bad news got worse: The quick-moving cancer had already spread to his bone marrow and his lymph nodes.
"It was everywhere," Rob said.
Upon diagnosis, the Teals learned there was a 1-in-3 chance that the disease would kill Bayler.
And that's when they started running.
The first three weeks at Columbia's new Palmetto Health Children's Hospital were hell. There's no other way to put it.
The tumor caused Bayler's stomach to swell to the point where he looked pregnant. He couldn't move well. The powerful drugs going into him were doing all sorts of inexplicable things.
Rob said he was coming to terms with the idea that it might be too much for Bayler.
But things started to turn. The chemo, a mix that was concocted as essentially a trial run, began working.
The swelling subsided. Bayler's energy increased. His parents took a breath and settled in for more of the fight, but at a manageable pace.
Now they spend a week at the hospital every three weeks for Bayler's chemo rounds.
"We don't ever unpack our suitcases," Risha said.
The one time they did? Bayler ran a fever and they wound up back at the hospital a day after leaving. So, no, they don't unpack.
They're always on the go.
"It's a lifelong deal we're in," Rob said.
A familiar chord
Chad and Jennifer Holbrook — both in their mid-30s — understand what it feels like to be chased by cancer. Very well. Too well.
On Sept. 7, 2004, fatigue and some bruising led the Holbrooks to take their 2-year-old son, Reece, to the doctor. He was diagnosed with leukemia, cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
It was a day that threw darkness over a family that had basked in light.
Chad was the assistant coach for North Carolina's successful baseball team. Jennifer was the administrative assistant for basketball coach Roy Williams. She was the right-hand woman to the most powerful man on campus (and maybe in the state).
Reece had grown up inside the Dean Dome and Boshamer Stadium, "playgrounds" as Chad called them. But playtime was over.
On the night of his diagnosis, Reece was receiving his first round of chemo. That was the initial treatment in what was to be a 38-month program. The next three years would be defined by how fast they could run to elude cancer.
The Holbrooks spent the next month in the hospital. At one point, Chad had to level with Reece about what he was facing. He said that's an impossible conversation to explain.
"The thought about your child not making it is hard to describe," Chad said. "It's hard to talk about now. But the feeling never leaves you."
The good news: The treatment, trying as it might've been, succeeded. Reece, 6, is in remission now.
The Holbrooks (including 4-year-old Cooper, too) are blessed that they've been able to slow themselves. But where is the finish line? When can they raise their arms to know they've arrived at a point of peace and rest?
"The struggle, the daily fight continues. Every step, you're looking for it to come back," Chad said. "Every cold, every bruise, every this or that, every sore throat. Your mind just races.
"That's as tough on the family as the ordeal itself."
Roy and friends
Having a child with cancer, spending all those days and nights in hospitals, that sometimes makes you feel isolated.
"It's a lonely, lonely feeling to watch a kid fight for his life," Chad Holbrook said.
So when you can connect to others, and others connect to you without so much as asking, it means something. Especially in times of pure crisis.
Williams came to the hospital the night Reece was admitted.
"I just remember looking at that little boy and thinking how unfair it was. It just wasn't right," he said. "If that doesn't grab you, there's something wrong with you."
It grabbed Williams enough for him to make Reece a big part of his priorities and his heart.
Williams even mentioned Reece in his address after winning the 2005 national champ-ionship with the Tar Heels.
Through an annual golf tournament, sports memorabilia auctions and other events, Williams has given visibility to the fight Reece and so many families like the Holbrooks face.
"They act like I did a lot for them. But I did basically nothing," Williams said. "What they've done, with being examples for others and helping others in need and giving people hope, that's what means the most."
That's modest. Chad said he very nearly walked away from coaching, but was deeply encouraged by Williams.
"Without him," Chad said, "I probably would've quit. Where would I be? What would I be doing?"
In addition to Williams, the Holbrooks credit North Carolina's players and the parents of the baseball team for their great support.
The Holbrooks, with that genuine help, have raised more than $500,000 for UNC's Children's Hospital.
"It's the most meaningful thing I've ever done, my family's ever done," Chad said.
Remember: That's out of the worst thing to ever happen to them.
Paying it forward
Chad is trying to pass along what Roy did for him and his family. Especially now that he no longer has an address on Tobacco Road.
The Holbrooks wanted to move last summer to Columbia, to be closer to Jennifer's family. A job was open on Ray Tanner's baseball staff, but the timing wasn't right because of Reece's treatments.
With Reece in remission, Tanner hired Holbrook this summer. Chad moved in July. Jennifer just moved last month, sticking around to help Williams as long as she could. (She's still going to be employed by UNC on a part-time basis.)
The Teals are the beneficiaries of the Holbrooks' arrival. And not just as big Gamecocks fans.
USC outfielder Graham Couch, a Citadel transfer from Bishopville, told Chad about the Teals.
And Holbrook took it from there.
Rob Teal said he gets a call from Holbrook at least once a week and sometimes three times a week.
"We talk about baseball, we talk about our kids," Rob said. "That's meant a lot to me. I don't know if I could've handled this without him."
Additionally, players from South Carolina's football and baseball teams have been to visit Bayler at the hospital.
On top of that, Holbrook helped spur the baseball team to collect $750 for the Teals for Christmas gifts — for Bayler and their other son, 3-year-old Bridges.
The Teals received the money earlier this week.
(The baseball team did the same thing with another Columbia-area family. And the football team donated more than $1,000 to a non-profit organization called GOoD Works that helps the less fortunate in the Chapin and Columbia areas.)
The dollars aren't the bottom line. Where the teams' hearts are, that's the point.
"We'll do what we can do, I guess," Holbrook said.
Every little bit means a lot. Risha put her real estate career on hold to tend to her son. And, hard as it is to believe, Rob was fired for spending too much time away from his job in insurance.
He has plans to start his own insurance company in the new year, but you can only imagine the stress from being an unemployed couple with a child in the fight of his young life.
"It's a slap in the face," Rob said. "You realize what every second of every day means through everything that's happened."
'Kicking cancer's butt'
They haven't met one another yet, but Bayler and Reece have something in common: Their poker faces are incredible.
Even when they should've been feeling pretty rough, you'd have absolutely no idea.
Both are upbeat kids with energy to burn — despite living in a world of germ masks, needles, nurses, spinal taps and chemo side effects. They're fighters.
"He'll go in the bathroom and get sick," Risha said, "and come out singing a Christmas carol. That's just the way he is."
Added Rob: "He has this peace that can only come from God. There's no other way to explain it."
As doctors leave Bayler's hospital room, they smile and tell him they're "going to go visit a sick kid now" because he certainly doesn't have the demeanor or appearance of one.
When the players visited Bayler, he urged them to go see other kids in the hospital because they needed them. He's also given away some of the gifts — like coloring books and autographed balls — he's received.
"It's easier for us because he's handling it so good," Rob said. "Even when he feels bad, he doesn't complain about it."
Reece has been the same way for years.
There's a YouTube clip of little Reece playing a harmonica and bopping out a version of "I Feel Good" that would make James Brown grin wherever he is.
He used to play baseball in the hospital hallways.
"With these kids it becomes their normal thing," Chad said. "Reece's doctor was his best friend. He used to want to see him."
As much as Sept. 7, 2004 is a date that makes the Holbrooks shudder, Nov. 13, 2007 holds more emotional value. Just the mention of it this week makes Jennifer, who's talked about Reece's situation time and again, tear up.
On Nov. 13, 2007, Reece was taken off chemo and told to go be a kid. Remission was a wonderful word.
Williams said he still remembers being moved by Jennifer's immediate e-mail with the news. To hear it in person was even more stunning.
"The look on her face," Williams said, "it was indescribable."
On the Web site to help keep family and friends up to date, the headline offered by Jennifer was this: "Reece Kicked Cancer's Butt."
A year later, Reece is still cancer-free. Four more years of that news, and he'll be officially cured. So the finish line has been determined, but it's not yet in sight.
Bayler's fight
Meanwhile, despite dramatic improvements, Bayler can only pray for that day. His battle will intensify very soon.
He'll have surgery in January to remove the tumor, reduced in size by the chemo, in his adrenal gland.
Then, in February, he'll go to Charleston to have a stem-cell transplant. It's basically a cleansing of the blood. Rather than take someone else's parts, like you do for most transplants, your own stem cells are replaced after being processed.
It's tough on a little guy like Bayler. He'll need at least two or three weeks to recover from the procedure, which has been in use since 1986.
From there, Bayler will get back on his regular chemo cycle, staying in the hospital for a week at a time every three weeks until the end of the nine-month program.
That's when the Teals hope to hear the same word — remission — that greeted the Holbrooks a year ago.
The Teals said, even though they feel like the answer would be positive, they're afraid to ask the doctors if his 33 percent survival rate has improved.
They'll take the visual positives, and go with it.
Last week, the Teals went to a USC fan function and brought Bayler.
There, they ran into Captain Munnerlyn and Kenny Miles, two of the football players who came to visit Bayler in the hospital just a couple of months ago.
They were in shock to see him walking and talking.
"They thought he'd never get out of that bed," Rob said. "I'm not sure I thought he would, either."
But he did.
Picture Reece Holbrook and Bayler Teal. It's 15, 20 years down the road.
They're happy. They're healthy. Heck, they might even be athletes. And they're comparing notes about how they kicked cancer's butt.
"We can see it," Risha Teal said.
Maybe there is a break from this, after all. A permanent one. It requires hope, the very kind offered by the Holbrooks, Teals and Williams, to see it.
Reach Travis Haney at firstname.lastname@example.com and check out the South Carolina blog at www.charleston.net/blogs/gamecocks.


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Skip to comments.The challenge to Darwins theory of evolution Part 2
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TOKYO -- Why has the Intelligent Design (ID) movement grown so rapidly and with such increasing impact? Considering the relatively short history of the ID movement, such rapid growth is rather remarkable.
The origin of the ID movement was a small meeting of scientists at the California seaside resort of Pajaro Dunes. The meeting, convened by Phillip Johnson, professor of constitutional law at the University of California Berkeley, began as an informal discussion the fundamental issues of the origin and evolution of life. Johnson is the author of Darwin on Trial, published in 1991.
Twelve scientists including Johnson gathered there. Participants included Dr. Michael Behe, biochemist, Dr. William Dembski, mathematician, Dr. Stephen Meyer, scientific and philosophical historian and geophysicist, Dr. Dean Kenyon, chemist, Dr. Jonathan Wells, biologist, and Dr. Paul Nelson, biologistall of whom are leading scientists in the ID movement today.
This serious, face-to-face exchange of opinions about origin and evolution of life became a major turning point for all the participants. Says Dr. Nelson, as each participant shared his doubts about Darwinism, a new way of thinking gradually emerged.
This meeting generated a stream of scientists seriously searching for answers to the origin and evolution of life. The main thrust of the ID movement emerged in November 1996, when about 200 scientists gathered at the Mere Creation conference at Biola University in Los Angeles. Dr. Henry Schaefer, Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, who signed A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism, participated in the conference.
Dr. Behe published Darwins Black Box The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution in autumn 1996, and Dr. William Dembski published The Design Inference in 1998. These two books are recognized as the basic pillars of ID theory. National Review and World Magazine voted Darwins Black Box as one of the100 most important books of the 20th century.
Numerous relevant books and articles, as well as DVDs understandable to high school students, have been subsequently published, expanding the movement further. This led to A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism, a statement signed by 600 doctoral scientists from around the world publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution.
One reason the movement has developed so rapidly in such a short time was the accumulated frustration felt by scientists bound by the limits of materialistic and Darwinian frames of thought. With the dramatic advances in astrophysics, biology and biochemistry in the past half century, many scientists have come to entertain doubts and voice frustration about the idea that the universe and life originated and evolved through a purely materialistic process. This suppressed frustration has erupted in a wake of emerging ID theoreticians.
The history and background of the ID movement shows that ID theory cannot simply be brushed aside as a version of creationism, which seeks to interpret the natural world through Biblical scripture.
Glad to see it made the distinction between ID and creationism though.
Because "you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."
> One of these days, Johnson, Behe, Dembski, Meyer and the rest will keel over dead, and then who will the cornerstones of ID be?
so ... Darwin is still alive?
For later read.
a statement signed by 600 doctoral scientists from around the world publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution.
had to repeat it - it sounds so good
Maybe someone who will find a particle of supporting evidence, since none of the gentlemen has managed it...but I doubt it.
Glad to see it made the distinction between ID and creationism though.
The distinction is purely in the minds of the proponents: IDers put on lab coats and pretend to be scientists. Creationists don't bother.
The rest of us who value real science.
Obviously there will never be supporting evidence for the evolution part of ID. But at least in my mind there is a major hole in the big bang theory. The big bang theory is said to be the "creation of the universe theory" when it only explains the expansion of the universe. It does not explain the creation of matter or energy. The reason they can't explain it is because no event, no matter how large could create or destroy matter. Which means that all the matter and energy in the universe was created along with it.
These Evolution vs. Creation debates come up all the time it seems. Why is it so difficult to come to a compromise and say that God created the mechanism's which spawned the Big Bang and all that sprung from it, including the evolution of life and yes even Science .... give it a rest already and just accept what is here and now
And it never will. Thats the beauty of God's creation, He created such a magnificent riddle for us to figure out that we're all still barking over what is science and what is theology. My take on it is to go with the science end of it, because theology is the interpretation of so-called "Words of God" from mere mortal human beings, passed down thru the eons by word of voice and perhaps somewhat distorted as they were passed along from one to the next.
We can never know what existed before the Big Bang, until we get up there and have a chat with God, then we'll understand it all ... but in the meantime we can play with the magnificent creation that He has given to us and be fascinated with it .....
flame away if ya like, but thats my take on it
I suspect that Creationists have taken to themselves the Intelligent Design label, with the result of confusing the conversation. I think the proper target of your arguments, such as they are, is Creationism and a certain approach to interpretatin of the Bible, not ID.
This is a taxonomic comment, not a comment about merits.
Can you share your evidence for this characterization?
There is no more evidence that life evolved here on the earth than there is for it to have been delivered or engineered by extraterrestrials...
How do evolutionists feel about teaching that life came from outer space? They already teach the Big Bang theory...
There is no more evidence that life evolved here on the earth than there is for it to have been delivered or engineered by extraterrestrials...
How do evolutionists feel about teaching that life came from outer space? They already teach the Big Bang theory...
You don't believe that, do you?
Well, not quite. It could be that the Mother of All Quantum fluctuations also "created" a bunch of "negative matter", or "negative energy" at the same time. There is *some* evidence for that IIRC, and some theory to support the notion.
There you go with the claim that there is no evidence for supporting intelligent design. How many times must I tell you, the evidence is abundant because practically everything in nature is admissible as evidence, and the conflict ensues only over the differing interpretations of the evidence?
No history of ID would be complete without the Wedge Strategy.
This planning document, which somehow escaped from the Discovery Institute, lays out all of the plans and goals for the ID movement. And guess what? The goals are theistic! This business of the designer being unknown is just for the rubes:
Governing Goals
- To defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies.
- To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and hurnan beings are created by God.
My, that's original...
About the same as Phillip Johnson.
"It certainly could be God, a supernatural creature, but in principle it could be space aliens of high intelligence who did the designing."-- Phillip Johnson, Apr 2002 - SFGate.com
This isnt really, and never has been, a debate about science ... Its about religion and philosophy.-- Phillip Johnson, 1996 - World magazine.
Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, before the academic world and into the schools.-- Johnson, 2003 - American Family Radio
Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, before the academic world and into the schools.You mean, they've been lying to us all this time? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
-- Johnson, 2003 - American Family Radio
(Just like it says in the Wedge Strategy.)
In Rick's Cafe, of all places.
Will that be before or after they pass through the gate to eternity? That's the pivotal question.
Haven't heard from you in a while, though I see it's just because you haven't personally pinged me, you've still been active on the forum.
Just like Dembski said in the SanFranChron: "[The Intelligent Designer] could be space aliens. There are many possibilities."
Sounds like creationism to me! Only...not!
That reminds me...
How do you know when a Young-Earth-Creationist is lying?
I give up. How do you know? (/straightman mode)
Well, it makes nice armchair philosophy but it isn't science. A point that eludes you over and over again.
Intellectual compromise between two different points of view is one thing. Certain people, however, believe their particular philosophy of history is entitled to exclusive status in the public arena by law. Their first mistake is confusing a philosophy of history for "science." Their second mistake is in believing their ideas are guaranteed such exclusivity by our Constitution.
The language and intent of the Constitution is uncompromising in guaranteeing a right for all to be heard in public schools, science classes etc., no matter how impractical or offensive such a milieu may be.
Two things are for certain; the earth did not come from itself and neither did anything on it...
The believers of evolutionism feel they are entitled to affirmative action and are on educational welfare...
Everything in nature is admissible evidence both the earth and everything on it came from somewhere else...
And your point is............?
"Remember, we are all His creatures."
Ooooh, some big scary hobgoblin, harrowing displays of blasphemy. Actually, it is an illiterate and simple minded mentality.
Being an atheist, I see evolutionism as a religion on educational welfare and whose adherents want some sort of affirmative action.
The only reason most evolutionists are here is to throw sh*t on the Christians. Screw the evolutionists...
Oh, yeah, MonolithMonkeyBoy, we all know you're about as atheist as the Pope on LSD.
I am not the one with reference to Christian theology in my screen name - - you are.
Get an education... going through life fat, drunk and stupid is no way to live...
Oh no. You might scorch the tomato paste.
how is that any different from believing in a flying spaghetti monster...
Or the Invisible Pink Unicorn, or the Woodland Pixie, or Zeus, or Odin, or Mithra, or Yahweh, or ...
Face it Dishwood, you're just one god away from being an atheist.
Wow! This is a tough question but I'll take a shot:
Theres lots of ignoramuses out there?
Sir Francis...you said..."Go get fisted drip78645"
I hardly know what to say to this...perhaps, merely letting your post speak for you and itself, is sufficient...
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