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"There is no reason a person should go hungry in our community," said ETJP director Bonnie Collett.
Collett has been helping with the program since it started and she said unemployment is the main reason for the lack. Sixty percent of the food recipients are families who just can't make their dollars stretch to the end of the month. Twenty-five percent are elderly persons who receive a small social security check that barely covers their housing costs. The program delivers food to two federally assisted senior citizen apartments, one in Laurie and one in Camdenton. Some of the weakest recipients are the handicapped who fall between the disability cracks and can't work to earn what they need, even if they wanted to.
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The unique thing about the ETJP program, that sets them apart from other food pantries, is that every person is given the opportunity for prayer and comfort.
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We live in an age of information, an era in which countless statistical measures are available with which to evaluate players.
The danger during this age, however, is that when presented with an abundance of information, sometimes we become so supersaturated that we rush to judgment without a thorough understanding of said information.
An example: A friend recently raised a question about Matt Kemp's BABIP, which at .380 was second-highest among qualified hitters in baseball last season. His contention was that Kemp is due to regress, because players whose BABIPs vary so wildly from the established league averages in one season are bound to revert to traditional league norms in the next.
"Kemp is due to regress" was a rational hypothesis. But his conclusion was flawed.
Perhaps more than any other statistic, BABIP is misinterpreted, and in fact overused, in the fantasy baseball community. Too many bright minds make flippant judgments based upon the simple number, this surface ".380," failing to recognize its underlying influences. The result, unfortunately, is a statistic as likely to present pitfalls as benefits in your player evaluations.
As baseball statistics, pitch tracking and play-charting continues to advance and gain greater detail, so advances the lessons of BABIP. This is the third year for which we've published a "BABIP Primer" in our Draft Kit, and in each of those seasons the metrics we use to evaluate the category have advanced. You are never too seasoned for a refresher course on the category.
Welcome to the 2012 edition of Understanding BABIP, designed to provide you with everything from a beginner's to advanced owner's knowledge of its use.
What, precisely, is BABIP?
Developed more than a decade ago and widely attributed to Voros McCracken, BABIP, or Batting Average on Balls In Play, measures both a hitter's success producing hits or a pitcher's success preventing them only on batted balls put into the field of play. It's effectively a calculation of a hitter's batting average, or a pitcher's batting average allowed, only on balls in play. Walks and strikeouts do not count in the calculation; those are not batted balls. Home runs do not count either; those might be batted balls, but they do not land within the field of play.
The formula: Hits minus home runs, divided by at-bats minus home runs minus strikeouts plus sacrifice flies (H - HR)/(AB - HR - K + SF).
What purpose does BABIP serve?
Here is where we reach that aforementioned pitfall. Too many fantasy owners equate BABIP with "luck," as if the category itself is the consummate measure of how lucky the player was. It's that assumption that fuels conclusions like the one in the Kemp example; many feel that he was as "lucky" as about any hitter in baseball because of his .380 BABIP, just as they might feel that Justin Verlander, the reigning American League MVP and Cy Young award winner, was as "lucky" as any pitcher in the game because of his .236 BABIP allowed, second lowest among ERA qualifiers.
While it's true that BABIP can represent to a certain degree a player's fortunes, it should never be regarded the authority on the matter, a one-size-fits-all measure of luck. The reason is that there are several factors that influence a hitter's BABIP or pitcher's BABIP allowed which must be considered, because each might provide a more reasonable explanation for the player's performance in the category than mere "luck."
You must first understand how the player got to a certain BABIP and why he might or might not repeat his result, before simply deciding that he will or will not repeat his results. But with a proper understanding, yes, the lessons of BABIP can help you identify hidden fantasy values.
What is the major league average for BABIP?
In 2011, the major league average for BABIP was .295, the lowest number in six seasons. At times during the 21st century it has ranged as high as .303 and as low as .293, and before the "Steroid Era," it was commonplace for it to slip beneath .290. For example, exactly 20 years ago the league BABIP was .285.
It is widely assumed that a typical league-average BABIP is .300; this is not true, as it can vary by several points in either direction.
What are these factors that influence BABIP?
Among the most notable are the innate ability of both hitter and pitcher involved in the at-bat, quality of contact, speed of the hitter, quality of the defense on the field (most relevant to pitchers' BABIPs allowed), ballpark dimensions and weather factors, to name a few.
Let's take a closer look at each.
Raw hitting skills: There isn't a person out there who is going to tell you that Joey Votto and Darwin Barney are equals as hitters, as Votto slugged .531 and generated hard contact on 39.7 percent of his batted balls in 2011, while Barney slugged a mere .353 and made hard contact on only 20.1 percent. Votto makes solid, consistent contact (36.6 percent hard contact on batted balls from 2009-11), drives the ball with authority (.246 isolated power from 2009-11) and lacks any significant platoon split (.319/.423/.583 triple-slash rates versus righties, .310/.401/.516 versus lefties, from 2009-11), while Barney possesses none of those skills (19.8 percent hard contact on batted balls, .074 isolated power, .267/.304/.333 versus righties, .288/.336/.392 versus lefties, from 2009-11). And in what should come as no surprise, Votto's BABIP (.349) was a full 39 points higher than Barney's (.310).
Simply put, the better the hitter, the greater the prospect of success in BABIP.
To that point, six of the top 10 hitters in terms of batting average (minimum 1,500 plate appearances) the past three seasons combined also ranked among the top 10 in BABIP during that time. Only one of the 19 players who have batted .300 in 1,500-plus PAs in the past three seasons combined, meanwhile, had a BABIP beneath .315 during that period: Albert Pujols, who batted .314 with a .294 BABIP.
The upshot is that you should never look at a player's single-year BABIP and make flash judgments. If the player has an established track record of success in the category, he's more likely to continue that success into the future.
Raw pitching skills: The similar lessons to hitters also apply to pitchers -- Roy Halladay and Livan Hernandez hardly can be termed equals -- but in the case of pitchers, the type of pitcher also has a bearing on his eventual BABIP. For example, Jered Weaver had a .252 BABIP allowed last season and Josh Tomlin a .254, but that doesn't necessarily mean the two were "equally lucky." Weaver generated fly balls (50.1 percent of his balls in play) at the highest rate of any qualified pitcher, and line drives 20th-least frequently (16.6 percent). Fly balls -- at least fly balls that remain within the field of play (i.e. non-home runs) -- are the batted-ball type most likely to be converted into outs, so Weaver's BABIP should be below the major league average.
Tomlin, meanwhile, allowed the ninth-highest line drive rate (20.8 percent) among qualified starters, and a fly ball rate (39.9 percent) more than 10 percent below Weaver's. Tomlin also afforded hard contact on 26.4 percent of his balls in play, significantly higher than Weaver's 19.3 percent rate.
Always consider the type of pitcher -- ground baller, fly baller -- as well as the major league average BABIPs on specific types of batted balls:
Ground balls (45.6 percent of all balls in play last season): .233 BABIP
Fly balls (35.9 percent): .152 BABIP
Line drives (18.5 percent): .707 BABIP
Quality of contact: This is where those "hard contact" numbers, as in the Votto/Barney example, come into play. The harder the contact, the greater the potential results for the hitter. Sure enough, the league average BABIP on batted balls judged as "hard contact" in 2011 was .600. On every other ball in play, the league average BABIP was .195. In other words, hard-contact batted balls are more than three times as likely to result in hits than soft contact.
The following chart lists the top 15 qualified hitters in terms of BABIP in 2011 and where they ranked in terms of percentage of balls in play judged hard contact:
Now take a look at where the bottom 15 in BABIP finished:
Speed of the hitter: The faster the runner, the more likely he'll leg out ground balls for infield hits, boosting his BABIP. Seven of the 12 batting-average qualifiers to manage a BABIP north of .350 stole bases in the double digits in 2011; the Nos. 1 (Matt Kemp, .380), 3 (Emilio Bonifacio, .372) and 4 (Michael Bourn, .369) in the category all stole at least 40. And if you look at the charts above, Bonifacio and Bourn are two players who ranked highly in BABIP but low in terms of rate of hard contact, with their speed helping explain the disparity.
Breaking down BABIP to only the number on ground balls, of the nine batting-average qualifiers to manage a .300 BABIP or greater only on grounders, six managed at least 20 stolen bases: Drew Stubbs, who was 2nd with .314, 40 SB; Cameron Maybin, 3rd with .308, 40 SB; Chris Young, 4th with .306, 22 SB; Jose Reyes, 6th with .301, 39 SB; Dustin Pedroia, 7th with .301, 26 SB; and Emilio Bonifacio, 9th with .300, 40 SB.
Conversely, of the 11 qualified hitters who had a sub-.180 BABIP on ground balls, eight ranked among the least efficient base stealers: Carlos Santana, who had the worst at .144; Adam Lind, 2nd-worst with .152; Logan Morrison, 3rd-worst with .157; Ryan Howard, 4th-worst with .159; Alfonso Soriano, 5th-worst with .168; Raul Ibanez, 8th-worst with .176; Carlos Pena, 9th-worst with .176; and Evan Longoria, 10th-worst with .179.
Quality of the defense: Here's where careful examination of a pitcher's BABIP allowed is critical; that number might be as likely -- and perhaps more likely -- to demonstrate the quality of the defense behind him than it will how lucky he was. For instance, a pitcher wasn't necessarily "unlucky" to have surrendered a hit because the opposing hitter managed to hit the ball just far enough outside of Derek Jeter's limited range at shortstop for it to sneak through; he was only "unlucky" in that his shortstop at the time was Jeter, rather than a shortstop with the range to get to that ball, like J.J. Hardy.
To illustrate this point, seven of the top 10 teams in terms of lowest pitching BABIP allowed last season allowed also ranked among the 10 best in FanGraphs' Ultimate Zone Rating, which measures a defense's performance converting batted balls into outs. Those 10 teams featured, among ERA qualifiers, the No. 1 pitcher in BABIP (Jeremy Hellickson, .223), No. 4 (Josh Beckett, .245), No. 5 (Jered Weaver, .250) and No. 8 (James Shields, .258) and all of those four pitchers in fact played for teams ranked among the top five in the game in UZR.
Ballpark dimensions: Ballparks can influence BABIP, which makes sense considering no two are the same; in terms of area, the field of play varies depending upon the measurement of the outfield fences and four territory.
For example, San Diego's Petco Park has an expansive right and right-center field, while Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum has the most spacious foul territory in baseball. Sure enough, the collective BABIP of all players at Petco Park last season was .277, at the Coliseum it was .283, and those numbers ranked third- and fifth-lowest, respectively, among the 30 venues in baseball.
These were the BABIPs at all 30 major league ballparks in 2011:
Is BABIP a more valuable evaluation tool for either hitters or pitchers, or is it about as relevant a statistic for each?
BABIP is a more valuable evaluation tool for pitchers than it is for hitters, primarily because pitchers have less control over the outcomes of individual plays than hitters -- at least the ones that end in a batted ball being placed into the field of play. Once the ball leaves a pitcher's hands, its fate can be influenced by any of the above. A hitter, meanwhile, has control over the placement of the ball with his swing, no matter by how small a degree, slightly increasing his chances for success.
These numbers help illustrate the difference: The highest recorded BABIP by a qualified hitter in 2011 was .380 (Adrian Gonzalez), and 12 hitters managed a BABIP of .350 or greater. The lowest hitter BABIP was .214 (Vernon Wells), and seven finished beneath .250.
The highest recorded BABIP by a qualified pitcher, however, was a mere .331 (Ricky Nolasco). The lowest was .223 (Jeremy Hellickson), and only four finished with a BABIP beneath .250.
So what conclusions can we can draw from BABIP?
The way to avoid BABIP pitfalls is to put a player's number in the category into perspective. What kind of hitter or pitcher is he? How did his 2011 BABIP compare to his career performance in the category? If it has changed, was there some other aspect of his game that changed which might serve an explanation, say, a noticeable shift in his batted-ball rates?
Evan Longoria might be the ideal example of such a hitter from last season. He had a .239 BABIP in 2011, nearly 100 points below his 2010 number (.336) and 61 beneath his career number in the category (.301), despite his line-drive, ground-ball and fly-ball rates scarcely having changed during the course of his major league career. Longoria also made hard contact on greater than 30 percent of his balls in play for the third consecutive season. If you're looking for any example of unexpected, inexplicable shifting in BABIP performance, he's the guy to look at.
Another consideration is to break down a player's BABIP by batted ball type, then compare the number to the averages listed above. In Longoria's case, his BABIP solely on line drives dipped from .737 in 2010 to .639 in 2011, effectively a six-hit swing only on line drives. That further supports the case that Longoria was particularly unfortunate, and a bounce-back candidate in 2012.
In order to help fantasy owners better identify such candidates, consider calculating a player's expected BABIP, then compare it to his actual number. This is no new concept -- it has been discussed in this space each year -- but is one that helps put the player's actual number in the category into perspective. Opinions on the proper formula for expected BABIP vary -- some argue you can just add 10 percent to a player's line-drive rate, which seems awfully arbitrary -- but I've found that the most effective ones calculate the major league average BABIPs by batted ball type, multiplied by the player's batted-ball percentages.
This season, however, I've added a new wrinkle: I now use BABIPs on both hard and soft contact on each batted-ball type.
For example, my "expected BABIP" formula: Hard contact ground balls times .562, plus soft contact ground balls times .178, plus hard contact fly balls/pop-ups times .391, plus soft contact fly balls/pop-ups times .100, plus hard contact line drives times .722, plus soft contact line drives times .677, plus bunts times .410.
Remember that this formula does not account for a player's speed; there isn't any clear way to include that in the calculation yet.
These were the hitters who had the most significant differential between actual and expected BABIP last season (minimum 400 plate appearances):
And these were the pitchers whose differentials were greatest (minimum 100 innings pitched):
Before we close, I'll reiterate one important rule, one I constantly make in this space: BABIP can never, and should never, be regarded as the driving force behind your draft-day preparations. As with many peripheral statistics, it's merely another tool designed to help unearth hidden value, but it's not the perfect tool, much the way you should never draft a fantasy team solely off a list of players in contract years, players aged exactly 27 years old, players in their third major league season or players who like oatmeal. These are all factors for your consideration, but should not be the sole decision-makers.
BABIP is just another tool -- a valuable, underrated and often misunderstood tool -- to help you make your decision. Hopefully, with this column's -- as well as its predecessors' -- help, you've now mastered it.
Tristan H. Cockcroft is a fantasy baseball analyst for ESPN.com, a two-time champion of the League of Alternative Baseball Reality (LABR) experts league, and a 2011 FSWA award winner for Best Baseball Article on the Web. You can e-mail him here, or follow him on Twitter @SultanofStat.


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MARKET REPORT: City jitters over William Hill bet
The godfather of bookies currently has more balls in the air than Andy Murray.
Ralph Topping, chief executive of the world's biggest bookmaker William Hill, faces a crucial week after which he could have agreed to spend a shed load of shareholder's cash on two major deals.
The shares lost 4.1p to 330.5p after recent strength amid fears that Topping, along with GVC Holdings, will pay too much for Sportingbet, flat at 51p, and a hefty fund-raising could be on the cards.
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CINCINNATI -- Here's a quick look at the a Chicago Cubs' 2-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday:
How it happened: Ryan Sweeney and Luis Valbuena hit solo home runs in the second and third innings, respectively, and they held up as pitcher Travis Wood and two relievers shut down the red-hot Reds. Wood lasted seven innings, giving up six hits without walking anyone. He struck out six in yet another dominant performance, which lowered his ERA to 3.05. Bronson Arroyo was good for the opposition but couldn't match Wood pitch-for-pitch as his two mistakes were the difference in the game. Pedro Strop pitched the eighth inning and Kevin Gregg the ninth to earn his 31st save.
What it means: If there was any doubt -- and really there should not be -- about Wood's status as the No. 1 pitcher this year, it was dispelled in one of his best games, just when his arm should or might be tiring. The Reds were coming off a sweep of the Dodgers, during which all they did was get timely hits. That was not the case on Monday against Wood, however.
Stat of the night: Wood threw 100 pitches, 70 were for strikes. According to ESPN Stats & Information, that's the eighth best strike percentage for a Cubs pitcher this season.
Outside the box: Before the game, Cubs manager Dale Sveum indicated pitcher Scott Baker would get another turn on the mound after his five-inning shutout performance on Sunday. The Cubs pushed everyone back a day to accommodate Baker's first start, but Sveum said the Cubs hadn't determined how or when they would fit him in again, just that they would. The Cubs' Class-A affiliate in Daytona, Fla., took the Florida State League championship with a 4-0 win over Charlotte on Monday night. CJ Edwards, acquired from Texas in the Matt Garza trade, gave up just one hit in five innings in the clinching game.
What's next: Game 2 of the series with the Reds takes place Tuesday at 6:10 p.m. CT, when Edwin Jackson faces Tony Cingrani.


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Obama amputates our nuclear arms
By: Charles Krauthammer
Under President Obamas new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty, explained Gates, then the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.
Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker is up-to-date with its latest IAEA inspections, well, it gets immunity from nuclear retaliation. (Our response is then restricted to bullets, bombs and other conventional munitions.)
However, if the lawyers tell the president that the attacking state is NPT noncompliant, we are free to blow the bastards to nuclear kingdom come.
This is quite insane. Its like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets hanged or 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.
Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the United States without fear of nuclear retaliation?
The naivete is stunning.
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I suppose the Sharia Law Council & muslim scholars made their case on why it is permitted to kill innocent Christian and Jews, and even innocent bystanders who are muslims.
"If by 'innocent people' the inquirer means Jewish or Christian civilians [who live] in the country [where the jihad operation is to take place], then he should know that these people are fundamentally not innocent. Rather, they are aggressive combatants who are party to [the deeds of their leaders] in money, opinion, and counsel. Even if some of them are innocent, but cannot be separated from the aggressors whom the mujahideen aim to target the [Muslims] scholars have ruled that, in the case of a surprise attack, it permissible to kill all of them [i.e., the bystanders along with the targets]...
Hannity was grilling someone last week over the killing of 3,000 innocent people on 9/11. I suppose we already knew they felt this way. Disgusting animals
Yes, according to moslems only they can be innocent.
Is it Muslim or Moslem?
When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted, Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage. Muslim is preferred by scholars and by English-speaking adherents of Islam. No more. Now, almost everybody uses Muslim.
According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word. But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam. Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the two words are very different. A Muslim in Arabic means one who gives himself to God, and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam. By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means one who is evil and unjust when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z.
Journalists switched to Muslim from Moslem in recent years under pressure from Islamic groups. But the use of the word Moslem has not entirely ceased. Established institutions which used the older form of the name have been reluctant to change. The American Moslem Foundation is still the American Moslem Foundation (much as the NAACP is still the NAACPthe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The journal The Moslem Worldpublished by the Hartford Seminary in Connecticutis still The Moslem World.
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Private sources told the Yemen Post that the second in command of Yemen- based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was killed in a bomb explosion while he was preparing it to be used against Yemeni and foreign targets. (snip)
ok, but I refuse to say Pahkeestahn.
A must read, although you may never sleep again after reading it:
In The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America
The real threat to the United States is not terrorism. The real threat is Islamism, whose sophisticated forces have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but also to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracyfreedom and individual liberty. In The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy offers a harrowing account of how the global Islamist movements jihad involves far more than terrorist attacks, and how it has found the ideal partner in President Barack Obama, whose Islamist sympathies run deep.
For years, McCarthy warned of Americas blindness to the Islamist threat, but in The Grand Jihad McCarthy exposes a new, more insidious peril: the governments active appeasement of the Islamist ideology. With the help of witting and unwitting accomplices in and out of government, Islamism doesnt merely fuel terrorism but spawns America-hating Islamic enclaves in our very midst, gradually foisting Islams repressive law, sharia, on American life. The revolutionary doctrine has made common cause with an ascendant Left that also seeks radical transformation of our constitutional order. The prognosis for liberty could not be more dire.
LOL! Me too.
Have not heard of it, fanfan - but I've been a bit out of the loop.
I'm going to check out this NYT article:
Canada Hit by Cyberattack From China
You can find the interview here, I think. I can't listen to it right now, because Mark Levin is streaming.
It's currently the 3rd one down.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
China attempts to hack our government
Madely in the Morning - 8:10am -— Steve Madely is joined by Michel Juneau-Katsuya, President and CEO of The Northgate Group, and former senior intelligence officer and manager at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, to discuss the CTV report that Chinese government hackers have unsuccessfully attempted to break into the Canadian finance department's computers to obtain secret economic data.
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I've heard nothing about counterfeit chips.
"Canada: New attacks from China on two government departments"
By Daniel Kennedy | February 16, 2011, 11:32pm PST
Hubby said that he understood the report to say that the counterfeit Chinese chips were installed in the computers that control the US misiles. The chips could be disabled from Bejing.
Netherlands threatened via YouTube video
Ping to #914, thanks LG2, nice to see you.
A video briefly appeared on YouTube with a threat of an attack on the Netherlands. The film begins with the text: "Get ready for attack! 4 MAY 2011, a big BOMB for the Netherlands - non-believers will believe!"
Maybe I'll calm some folks, and maybe I'll just worry more of 'em.....
Anyway, I've observed over the years that the loudest threats come from the folks LEAST likely to actually do much but make noise to get attention.
The people you've really gotta worry about just DO things, then maybe not say anything at all.....unless they leave Gone To Allah notes.
If I'm going out to do dirty deeds, the only warning the subject is going to get is the sharp pain before the lights go out.
Not exactly a threat - but heard on the news tonight that 0bama has ticked off the Saudis for his Egypt stance and pushing out Mubarak. They have gone to Russia and China to strike up more business with them.
The threat is probably worse from within these days.
May 4th, 2011.
5+4= 9/11
You want to survive.
The koran says they have to warn the infidel to repent and become Muslim. If the infidel refuses the offer, they can do their worst. If they die killing us, the reward is said to be even greater.
Iirc, they did it before 9/11, and 3/11.
Thanks for the ping fanfan.
The global jihad is 24/7.
The gwot is 24/7.
Nothing has changed over the years except for the number of innocents injured/killed and the number of jihadis captured/detained/arrested/killed.
Still here. Still watching.
Thanks Vel, I appreciate the ping.
Btw, I missed this one...thanks.
Well, that's good news SlowBoat407.
There's a lot to watch, lately.
correction: ooops. your new site 'where anti-terrorism is good and terrorism is bad' and being anti-USA is NOT excused because the MEK terror group was also against the "bad, bad" Shah, which made them freedom fighters in the eyes of the uninformed at best and actually the ignorant purvyors of the Islamic regime talking points.
Derived from second hand knowledge gleaned on the Internet rather than first hand of being in Iran on the ground. And Library of Congress where books published by enemies also reside for easy negative reference.
What a mistake to post on Threat Matrix #1.
Well, gee whiz, FARS...or whoever you are. What a real upstanding guy you are. Takes a whole lotta guts to go behind someone's back with the long knives. What's the matter? Truth bite you in the butt? I don't love your monarchy. Is that any reason for you to do things like this? Shame on you. Or didn't you think anyone would tell me?
I wouldn't think most of the people on this thread would appreciate this. At least not if they had a sense of fairness. The difference of opinion was between you and me. Coward.
My assumption, understanding is
that you both love liberty and truth.
. . . yet . . . are so locked into your own experiences and perspectives . . .
as to be at each other's throats.
I think only the enemy of both of you wins in that situation.
IF you want a place eternally with Jesus, The Christ,
you MUST 'kiss and make up.'
There is NO OTHER OPTION.
That doesn't mean you have to necessarily agree with one another . . . but the bitterness, hostility, anger, unforgiveness, vengeance, etc. must be repented of and lain aside. MUST BE.
Forgiveness MUST BE extended, one to another.
HE gives all of us no other choice.
AND, it IS the least we can do as thanks to Him for our eternal Salvation and Forgiveness.
And WISDOM keeps in mind . . . that we ALL see through the glass darkly . . . REGARDLESS of how much we truly know
and certainly regardless of how much we THINK we know.
I love both of you. It grieves me to see you at each other's throats.
thank you!
Thank you for what?
for starting the new threads and keeping them going!
Oh thanks, but that's not me — it's Velveeta.
Yes, true.
Nice to see you.
And we are still bombing Libya despite having passed these actions to NATO. Does the Obama ever tell the truth?
Syria's political immunity from Obama
Why would he start now?
Point made, point taken! Hope springs eternal that this thug has some redeeming feature! But then again that would make me a hopey, changey I could not manage to be about him!
Thanks for the ping!
Poor chap! Must have been born yesterday!
Got the intended reply /reaction (smile), thanks April.
Pardon the poor syntax. Thanks for getting it!
Thanks FARS.
No, the truth is not in him.
0bama would self combust if forced to tell the truth!
Having woven in and concealed about $105 BILLION in one slush fund and another $20 billion slush fund in the Health Department, scattered around the 2,000 plus page ObamaCare bill - both amounts hidden and passed by Pelosi in "you've got to pass it to know what's in it" fraudulent shove it down their throats, Democrat single party control, Obama feels secure that he has the money ALREADY PASSED and not required to be reconfirmed by Congress, to operate his Health care bill.
And Health Secretary Sibellius' $20 billion slush is being used to fund and pay off some LameStream Media as well as others to provide support for Obama's re-election and promote his narcisstic desires, even when it is against the will of "we the people" .
As the child in the first video states "Obama does not care".
in case you missed it - check this out
Thank you!
Our 'Free fall' just keeps on. . .
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Suicide Awareness
A dead child lay in a sealed coffin. A funeral is held at a local funeral home. As the audience is clouded with a hanging atmosphere of sorrow, a preacher speaks to the crowd. "Before he took his own life, this boy thought to himself, 'no one would miss me if I was gone'. But look at all the people who miss him today." Crying faces and tears are buried in arms. There are three possible forms of harassment that could lead to this situation: bullying, obsession over self-image, and tension in relationships.
Bullying is one of the most major issues America faces today. It is a widespread "disease" that plagues schools across the country and is possibly the number one cause of adolescent suicide or self-abuse. Bullying is the act of derogatory behavior from one person to the next, and it can seriously harm the victim in ways that are often overlooked. You don't want to bully this boy at school consistently, and then find out that he took his own life, do you?
Another cause is obsession over self-image, and it's also a popular reason. Unfortunately, many students are a victim of self-image obsession every day. Adolescents around the years of Middle School evaluate themselves according to the latest fashion or fad. They don't stop to consider just being themselves, and most often, they might end up in a sealed coffin just like the other boy.
The third reason of suicide is tension in relationships. Everybody knows them, whether it is with a boyfriend/girlfriend, brother/sister, friend/friend (uncommon), or mom/dad. Tension is caused by fights, quarrels, and even disagreements. It all tends to end up damaging both people in the relationship if tension is involved, and to a lesser but still saddening extent: suicide or self-abuse.
There are many impurities in the world, and suicide is a very depressing one. If we could all help stop the causes from occurring, we could also help stop suicide and self-abuse. The world can be a better place if we can cease bullying, obsession over self-image, and tension in relationships. If those causes end, that boy in the sealed coffin may still be alive today.
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This was an awesome essay, hope it won you awards as well as an A+ from your English Teacher.
Awesome!!! I love this essay and I really think that the topic is really good. Bulying in all forms(such as cyberbullying) is a famous way to cause suicide and I agree that it should be stopped. Again. I loved the essay. :)
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Japan sure loves its ghosts. Especially when they rake in lots of cash. Back in 1998 Hideo Nakata's Ring became a worldwide phenomena, and faster than you can scream "banzai," theaters were flooded with evil longhaired spooks again. One of the first films out the door was Shikoku, which was rushed out on a double-bill with the highly anticipated Ring 2.
The story concerns Hinako, a woman who returns to visit her childhood village on the island of (*drum roll*) Shikoku. Upon arrival, she learns that Sayori – her former best friend – drowned in the river many years ago. To make matters worse, ghosts suddenly begin popping up in the village and several people believe the long-dead Sayori to be behind the hauntings. As the town grows more frightened, it's up to Hinako and her old friends to learn the island's secrets and stop Sayori's evil mother from making a reverse-pilgrimage that will trigger…
Aw, screw it.
How can you properly explain Shikoku when the filmmakers themselves can't? While there are plenty of good ideas on the surface, this mixture of mystery, religion, and mythology is so inept, the whole thing crumbles under its own weight. It would be easy to blame this all on cultural differences, but the problems with this convoluted story stem more from horrible pacing, piss-poor exposition, and an over-complicated script. Amidst the lifeless direction, Shikoku also contains long stretches of inactivity. Wooden characters mope around and act tragic as they blandly go through the motions of clue hunting. The performances are equally dull, save for mega-babe Chiaki (Battle Royale, Kill Bill) Kuriyama, who delivers a few nice moments as the lead specter.
Which leads us to the ghosts themselves: You would think that a story full of angry Japanese spirits would contain a high creep-out factor. Not here. Director Shunichi Nagasaki tries desperately to imitate Ring's subtlety but only succeeds in creating totally ineffectual scares. To add insult to injury, the entire thing climaxes with a sappy "romance from beyond the grave" ending that would cause Steven Spielberg to gag.
The only real strength in Shikoku lies within…well, Shikoku. The overcast island locale is absolutely stunning and lends the film an atmosphere it doesn't really deserve. The rickety villages, ancient shrines, and dark caverns give off a creepy Lovecraftian vibe while making you wish they were used in a better film.
Shikoku is a movie that wants to be many things but ultimately fails in every department. Since Hollywood has taken upon itself to remake just about all the good Asian horrors, maybe they should give this one a spin as well. It certainly wouldn't hurt.
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Directed by Shunichi Nagasaki
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Humanity is still terrifying close to wiping itself out, according to one of the world's most senior group of experts.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which sets the widely-respected "Doomsday Clock", said that it was making no change to the time of three minutes to midnight. When that time was set in a meeting last year, it became the closest to oblivion that humanity has ever been.
The group of senior scientists, formed in the wake of the Second World War and the threat of nuclear oblivion, said that nobody should take solace in the fact that humanity has moved no closer to oblivion.
""Three minutes (to midnight) is too close," a statement from the Bulletin read. "Far too close.
"We, the members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, want to be clear about our decision not to move the hands of the Doomsday Clock in 2016: That decision is not good news, but an expression of dismay that world leaders continue to fail to focus their efforts and the world's attention on reducing the extreme danger posed by nuclear weapons and climate change.
"When we call these dangers existential, that is exactly what we mean: They threaten the very existence of civilization and therefore should be the first order of business for leaders who care about their constituents and their countries."
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"Promising though it may be, the Paris climate agreement came toward the end of Earth's warmest year on record, with the increase in global temperature over pre-industrial levels surpassing one degree Celsius," The Bulletin's statement says.
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