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The Da Vinci Code: Part 1 of 3
Announcer:The 21st century has ushered in events and issues that cause us to ask, where is God in today's world? In response, Dallas Theological Seminary presents DTS Dialogue - Issues of God and Culture: The Da Vinci Code. Written by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code is a fictional thriller that has captured the coveted the number one sales ranking at Amazon.com, camped out for 40 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List, and inspired a one hour ABC news special.
Along the way, it has sparked debates about Western culture and Christian history. While the ABC news feature assessed Dan Browns fascination with an alleged marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The Da Vinci Code contains many other false claims about Christianities historical origin and theological development.
The following dialogue, hosted by Dr. Mark Bailey, took place with Doctors Jeff Bingham and Darrell Bock, both of whom participated in the ABC special. Dr. Bock's own book on the topic, Breaking the Da Vinci Code, also was a New York Times best-seller.
Listen in on their discussion about the novel, the opportunities that it's created, and the problematic history and theology proposed within its pages.
Mark Bailey: Well, it was number one on the best seller list for 13 weeks. It's the number one seller at Amazon.com, and a one-hour long ABC special treated this book and they asked both of you to come in.
I thought it would be great to get the three of us together and to let me ask the two of you some questions as relates to how people are responding to this phenomenon that is exemplified by The Da Vinci Code book, and I understand it's going to be a movie. I also understand that introduces a broader scope of discussion.
Darrell, you've been writing about this. Talk to us about what the book is about, and why has it spurred such interest?
Darrell Bock:Well, the book is actually a pretty entertaining murder mystery. The problem is the book with a statement that the skeleton underneath it is based on fact, and it makes several comments about Christianity in the process.
The basic theory of the book is that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus, and that she and the children went to the south of France, where there was produced a royal line culminating in the Merovingians, and that this knowledge was known to a select few. The information on it was buried in documents that are in the sarcophagus of Mary Magdalene, and part of the quest is to find the location where this is, where these documents could be found.
The church, that is the Catholic Church, worked hard to suppress this knowledge because it really exposed the idea that what Christianity is, and is generally understood to be, is really not what Christianity is.
This is where the book gets its interest for us because it's making certain claims about Christianity and the history of early Christianity, that on the surface give the appearance of being true, when in fact, that's not the case. When this book and ideas like it are generated, it leaves the impression with people who read it that this, in fact, is accurate history.
Mark:As I said, this is an example of a wider movement of thought. Jeff, talk to us a bit about the wider thoughts that are coming into our culture that are coming through the literature of the scholars that have similarities to some of the claims that underlay this book.
Jeff Bingham:I think what you have, in The Da Vinci Code, is a novel -- attempting to write a mystery novel. But, it does reflect a group of assumptions that are common within larger New Testament and church historical scholarship. That group of assumptions, I think, can be connected both with a movement of modernism, stretching until about 1965, and then a movement of post modernism, which came after that.
With modernism, developed this huge skepticism about the reliability of the past, of the reliability of what was received and the reliability about what had been passed down. And the modernists then claimed that they were able to be the best judge as to what was true by employing their own criteria of reason.
They were skeptical about church authority, skeptical about the importance of what had come down, really until the 18th century. And so there's this very large doubt about the reliability of traditional Christianity and traditional Orthodoxy.
In post-modernity the same skepticism remains, but that skepticism is based not on an overwhelming hope and trust in reason, but rather the belief that disunity is more the case of REAL history than unity. So, that deconstructionism comes in and begins all thought with the presupposition that things are not unified, that there is more diversity than there is unity, and so this is applied to Christianity. There is more diversity in earlier Christianity than there was unity. There were more heretics than you actually thought there were, than the church has allowed you to see. And so, if Christianity was this diverse, we really need to give more attention to those who are on the fringe who may not really have been on the fringe.
And so the book, The Da Vinci Code, plays off of this huge skepticism about the past. Don't trust the past, it screams at you. Don't trust the tradition. Don't trust what has been passed down to you because it's not reliable. As a matter of fact, then the novel says, "I'm going to show you a more trustworthy, I'm going to show you a more accurate way, because you can't depend upon the institution. You can't depend on the authorities of the past."
Mark:There seems to be undergirding this a real cynicism toward the church, acceptable Orthodoxy, and almost, it seems, an attack on the authority of the Scripture and the authority of the gospel records.
Darrell, what misconceptions do you think are proposed as it relates to the integrity of the gospel records themselves?
Darrell:Well, the major problem here is that the whole theory leaps off, really, a very thin strand of material coming out of the Gospels. The whole idea that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus is something that's not attested anywhere in these documents.
We have 11 passages in the New Testament that address who Mary Magdalene was and it is a very limited description. She was a beneficiary of exorcism, she was present at the crucifixion, she was present when Jesus was laid in the tomb, and she was present when the tomb was discovered to be empty, and she also was the beneficiary of one of the earliest appearances of the Lord to anybody. That is all we know about her.
Her name is Mary of Magdala. It's a little bit unusual in that most names of women in the Scripture are tied to males to whom they are related, she is not connected to anyone. If she had been married it would have been very easy to say, Mary, wife of Jesus, or connect her to some other male, but that's never done. She's only connected to the place she lived, which is Magdala. So out of this vacuum of information is spun out this theory about her being married.
There also is a lot of work with the centuries just after the time of scripture. So I don't see this so much as a direct attack on scripture, as much as being an attempt to extrapolate on those matters that scripture itself doesn't talk a lot about. I think the scripture assumes, if I can say it that way that Jesus was unmarried because there was no reason to think otherwise.
Really, the novel is exploiting that element of the biblical record.
Mark:The cynicism of the inability to accept the historical reliability of the Scriptures, while not an overt attack, there is still the suspicion that what you have in the Gospels was edited much later, at the time of Constantine, therefore you cant trust that as representing what was historically true in the first century. But all of that revolves then around a question of Jesus identity and his deity.
The claim that is put forth in the book is that the deity of Jesus was not asserted until after, or at least until, the time of Constantine. With the legalization of Christianity in the fourth century all other thoughts that Jesus was divine were premature, probably not even in existence and it was during Constantine's era and finally at the Council of Nicaea that the divinity of Christ gets affirmed and asserted. We obviously don't hold that.
Jeff tell us, what evidence do we have for the divinity of Christ prior to the Council of Nicaea?
Jeff:That claim is just absurd; it's just pure nonsense that we have no substantial evidence for the deity of Christ before 325. We have it, of course, in the Gospels themselves, a topic which Darrell is much stronger to address than I am.
But just take the testimony of the Apostle John, where in the very beginning of his Gospel he proclaims to us that the Eternal Word, who has been with the Father eternally, is God.
The gospel writer Matthew proclaims the incarnation as an event which brings God present with us. We have the triune statement, the baptismal statement in Matthew 28 where the Son and the Spirit are linked equally with the Father in this great antique Christian rite of baptism.
But outside the New Testament what we immediately find is that the early church is right on key with the New Testament. So, in 110 A.D., Ignatius, the Bishop of Antioch, a man who finds himself chained to a cart as he is being taken from Antioch, in chains, and guarded by Roman soldiers, proclaims to us in one of this letters the following statement. Let me just read it to you, because it is such an early and poignant statement as to the deity and the humanity of Christ side by side. Here's what Ignatius says:
"There is one physician composed of flesh and spirit, generate and ingenerate, God in man, authentic life in death, from Mary and from God, first passable and then impassible, Jesus Christ our Lord."
Ignatius is the same one who referred to the Crucifixion as the event in which we witness the blood of God, the Crucifixion as the event in which we witness the suffering of, and he uses language, My God. We will find him declaring that it was God who was born of the Virgin Mary. A statement, by the way, which anticipates a theological statement that will come forward centuries later at the Council of Chalcedon, where the council picks up this very notion.
After Ignatius, we have testimonies from Melito of Sardis who proclaims that Jesus is both God and man. We have statements from Justin Martyr, an early apologist somewhere in the middle of the second century, who makes the same kinds of statements, "He is God and man."
We find Irenaeus writing about 180 who proclaims that, "He is the eternal Son of the Father who has become human at the incarnation on our behalf." He uses the phrase over and over and over again that Jesus Christ is "one and the same." He is the eternal Son of God who shares with the Father deity, and yet this Jesus who appears to us in humanity is the same person who was eternally with the Father.
What we see happening at Nicaea is not the creation of the doctrine that Jesus Christ our Lord was divine. This is what many would have you believe, that the councils are moments of the creation of doctrine. So Nicaea is the time when they create the doctrine of the Trinity. Chalcedon is the moment when they create the doctrine of the hypostatic union of Christ. Nothing can be further from the truth. What we see happening at the councils is that Christians are making explicit what the church had believed implicitly all the years before.
Mark: This is a formal statement of a doctrine that has been articulated for many, many years.
Jeff:Absolutely. It is being brought out at a particular moment in history because a group of heretics have risen to challenge the thought, but we are just making explicit what was implicit.
My students might find this hard to believe this, Mark, but you get me outside of a classroom where I am extremely opinionated or out and around a table like this and I can be very quiet person. This can irritate my wife, Pamela, to no end. So we are on a drive home and she will turn to me and say, "Well, how is your day?", and I'll turn to her and say, "Fine". And I think that was a long conversation with her. So Pamela, bless her heart, after 14 years of marriage to me today, Mark, 14 years today, she has learned the art of drawing me out; so that on the way home she will ask penetrating questions which bring out the events of my day. They were always there, but Pamela has learnt the artistic skill of drawing me out. This is the way we should understand the councils.
The councils are going into the church, into this confession of the church, which has been historically solid and continuous; and they are drawing it out and making explicit at a particular moment in history in order to confront a particular set of heretics.
Darrell:And if I may, if we think about the New Testament and the way that it does this, it does this in a variety of ways. This is important to appreciate about the way that the New Testament works. We have the very explicit texts out of John, John one in particular, where we talk about an incarnation, someone being sent, if you will, from above to enter into our world, to have the Word tabernacle amongst us, as John one put it.
But we also have other things going on in very important sets of texts. We have texts in the New Testament where language is used from the Old Testament that was applied to Yahweh, to the god of the Old Testament, where now every knee is going to bow before the Lord, in effect, and the Lord is clearly Jesus who is meant.
We have -- so this is the use of the Old Testament and the New -- we have confessional statements, like in 1st Corinthians chapter eight, where Paul is making the observation that in the culture around the Romans are worshipping all kinds of gods and lords, but we only worship one God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, putting them right together, side by side in a confessional kind of statement.
Now these documents are documents that come right out of the first generation after the time of Jesus. They pre-date all the councils that we are talking about, and in that process you're seeing the roots, the theological roots of where this idea came from. And the point that I like to make is that we're in a period that's almost three centuries before Nicaea. So this idea was, by the time we got to Nicaea, this was an ancient idea, and was well established in the church. And so the idea that Nicaea is responsible for this is really, as Jeff suggested, a bad reading of history, it's poor history.
Mark:The early Church Fathers, their view of the gospel records, they sure don't doubt the authenticity in their statements about Christ as not being final and official until the time of Constantine. All of them are teaching and preaching and basing that teaching and preaching upon the gospel records, are they not?
Jeff:Absolutely. What you find in the writings of the early Church Fathers is nothing more than a very competent, praiseworthy, devotionally centered, pastorally controlled exegesis of scripture. This is not a group of Christians that are going into Hellenism to find their faith or going into the mystery religions to find their fate. This is a group of pastorally centered Christians gifted by God's Spirit, who are focusing, meditating, contemplating on the Scripture.
Darrell:Now it is the case, when we think about this period, that there was a period in which the Scripture didn't circulate in the way that it does today in a bound volume, etc. You have the discussion of Jesus operating in the church; at least in its earlier stages in oral tradition, it was circulating through the churches. But that tradition was rooted in -- and this is going to very important for the subsequent discussion, was rooted in an apostolic testimony in people who had been with and experienced directly in the ministry of our Lord on the earth.
The reason that's important is because we are kind of in a transition. When we come of out the period of Jesus and the Apostles were in a transition between talking about Jesus through this oral tradition and the enscripturion of this apostolic tradition into Gospels. Which then themselves area also circulating along side some of this oral tradition that is working through the churches. So that when we come to the next generation of writers, for the next hundred years, we are getting a mixture of what is circulating in the church in these oral reports out of this transition and what is extant in the Gospels.
By the time we get to the end of the second century, however, four of these writings, the four gospels that were are familiar with: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, have risen to the top, if you will, as being the sources that the church is relying upon, so much so that they would talk about the four fold gospel being the one gospel.
And in doing so, making the point that there are four Gospels and there are not any others. Some of the gospels that are being discussed today in these so-called secret gospels, like the Gospel of Philip and the Gospel of Thomas, are explicitly excluded when these points are being made. So that we see this combination -- and I think it's important to appreciate -- between an affirmation of what the Gospels are as scripture and their value as apostolic testimonies to Jesus Christ. And it is this wedding of those two concepts that is the early church's statement for their authenticity.
Mark:You raise a question in terms of other accounts, other gospels that are being proposed to having authoritative background for discussion. Are these called Gnostic gospels? Is that the term that's used for these other records?
Darrell:Well, there actually is debate on whether the term Gnostic should be used or not. But they are extra biblical gospels. They are a collection of a variety of texts. Actually some of these extra biblical materials aren't even gospels. There are things like the Apocalypse of Peter, the Apocalypse of John, and they don't even belong in a gospel genre, that is setting forth this alternative theology, that you're hearing about.
They are being popularized today in books -- and this is important -- They're being popularized today in books that have titles like "The Secret Gospels Unveiled," or something to that effect. Almost giving you the impression that something has been hidden from your sight for centuries, and now we've finally stumbled upon it, and we can finally figure out what is going on. And that kind of mystery excites people.
Mark: What's their date of origin?
Darrell:Their date of origin -- Most of these documents are 2nd and 3rd century documents. A lot of them were discovered at a place called Nag Hammadi, in Egypt. They're in Coptic. They do reflect a significant movement within the fringes of Christianity in the second and third centuries. The reason many people call them Gnostic is because of the kind of theology that they have within them. It's a dualism, this kind of opposition theology, where you have an opposition between the pure spiritual world, that is the REAL place of REAL knowledge, and the material world which is corrupt. That's the dualism.
They've been highly publicized, particularly the Gospel of Thomas. The Jesus Seminar's "The Five Gospels." That is five; four plus one makes five. The fifth gospel is the Gospel of Thomas; that's what they're talking about. It is one of the earliest of these documents.
It certainly is, from the standpoint of Christian history, a very important document to understand and appreciate, but it is not at all the same kind of document like the other Gospels, the other four Gospels that are a part of the four-fold gospel. But they have been relied upon to develop some of this theology and this new emphasis and this effort to redefine Christianity.
Mark:One of the themes in Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code is elevation of Mary to a status of apostle, you know, informer of the apostles, the 'apostle of the apostles' kind of a category. One of the quotes comes from one of these gospels that the author asserts the Aramaic term of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene is an intimate term and he says the Aramaic term in this book makes that statement. In reality, weren't those gospels written in Greek and not Aramaic?
Darrell:Well, actually, they were probably originally written in Greek, but the copies that we have are in Coptic, which is a variation, a distinct language from Greek and from Aramaic, for that matter.
These texts do suggest a little bit of an unusual relationship for Mary to Jesus. They are exceptional in that regard. There are only a handful of texts that we're talking about. The phrase that you mentioned earlier, 'The apostle to the apostles' is actually an expression that comes from, interestingly enough, not one of these texts, from one of the church fathers who theoretically is supposed to be suppressing this idea in the early church, Hippolytus, and he's making the point that the term "apostle" in this passage is not being used in its most technical sense, although when you listen to people talk about this passage you would think that that is how it is being used.
This passage is simply a way of saying that Mary Magdalene was one of the first witnesses to the risen Jesus, and she was sent to tell the other apostles that Jesus was risen from the dead. So "apostle" is being used in, actually, its everyday usage. It's not a technical church term here. That simply means that she's a sent one. She was commissioned by Jesus to announce the resurrection. There's no church office involved. There's no leadership involved. There simply is her role in relationship to the resurrection.
It's affirming a truth, interestingly enough. But it's not quite the truth that The Da Vinci Code is telling you. The truth simply is that Jesus is raised and we can know about it. There's one other important point about this detail that shouldn't be missed. And that is, the fact that this appearance took place with reference to a woman is important because in the first century culture a woman did not have any value as a witness.
So if you were creating a story which is oftentimes what people who distrust the Bible claim, you wouldn't create a story in which the woman would be the first witness because she wouldn't have any value as a witness. That suggests that the event itself actually happened and the reason this is in the early church's memory is because it was women to whom Jesus first appeared and actually ends up being one of the strongest testimonies to the credibility of the resurrection that we have in scripture -- the fact that he appeared to someone like Mary Magdalene.
So when I hear the phrase 'apostle to the apostles' I don't get upset, I...
Mark:She is a spokesman who takes that message to the disciples and Peter, that there's no reason to base an elevation of Mary above all the other church leaders in the early church based upon that kind of a test.
Darrell:That's right. Now there's a flip point that's important, and maybe Jeff can elaborate on this as well, and that is the reason that Mary is being extolled in our culture and elevated in our culture -- I almost want to use the word morphed, in our culture is because she, in this morphed form, represents something important to some people in our culture.
She represents a woman who is said to have a complete equality in the function of the church, who has a leadership role. One of these texts has Peter complaining that Mary has had a revelation of the Lord that he has not received. There's kind of a jealousy and a conflict between them and this text is trying to expand and support the fact that Mary has the right to her revelation. So she becomes attractive as a kind of symbol for this liberated woman in the early church. I think that is why she has been grasped onto, even though, as I've already suggested, that's really not the portrayal that is represented in these texts.
Mark:Darrell, we've been talking about the Gospel texts, but how was the teaching of Christ, and how was Christian faith understood, disseminated, before we had the Gospel texts?
Darrell:That's a great question, because it's very different from the way most people experience and come to learn about Christ today. Today we're used to having a scripture, a bound Bible, opening it up, going to a gospel, finding out about Jesus.
Generally speaking, that isn't the way it happened for the earliest Christians. They were engaged in worship service, the Gospels as they were produced may well have been read in those church services, but there also was oral tradition moving through the churches.
That oral tradition was rooted in the testimony of eye witnesses and apostolic witnesses. Luke eludes this in Luke Chapter one, verses one to four, where he is in his prologue, and he talks about the testimony that has been circulating through the church.
Mark: So the Gospels weren't the first pieces of material.
Darrell: That people were exposed to? Not at all.
They would have learned this teaching through this repetition and in relationship to their worship service. They would have heard it rather than read it, all those kinds of things. Now, what is important here is that one of the reasons Jesus had the Twelve, and there was an Apostolic circle, was because he wanted the people closest to him, who spent the most time with him, to be responsible for this development of the teaching of Jesus, what we sometimes talk about today as oral tradition.
And in the earliest century, I would say, of the church, this was the predominate way in which most people would have been exposed to the teaching of Jesus. It would have been through what they heard in exhortations, in letters, in sermons, it would have drawn off this tradition. And then finally what happened was that this tradition, if you will, incriptureated. It was put in written form in what became the Gospels. The Gospels were seen as testimonies to this tradition that came to us through the Apostles or those who knew the Apostles.
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Tribe's future rises with the Captains
Slew of top-flight prospects should play for Lake County in '12
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | April 2, 2012 9:30 PM ET
The big league club fared better, but also finished the year with a losing record and failed to make the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year. Both trends could take a drastic turn for the better with the continued growth of the team's top prospects in 2012.
Cleveland's organization is largely bottom-heavy. The number of prospects making their way from the lower rungs of the system should leave the team in a great position in the coming years. So much so that at least half of Cleveland's Top 20 prospects are expected to play in the Midwest League in 2012.
"It's exciting. With the trades the team has made, most of the top prospects are in 'A' ball or at the lower levels," Captains manager David Wallace said. "For someone like me in the early stages of their managerial career, I could not have walked into a better situation."
Leading the way is shortstop phenom Francisco Lindor, the most highly touted of three or four shortstop prospects creating a healthy logjam at the Class A level.
Lindor, ranked as baseball's No. 32 prospect by MLB.com, projects well on both sides of the ball, and he figures to be one of the key pieces in Cleveland's infield further down the line.
Selected eighth overall last summer, Lindor waited until the last minute to ink a lucrative deal worth almost $3 million. This meant that his time in the short-season New York-Penn League with the Mahoning Valley Scrappers was limited, making his upcoming full-season debut more enticing.
"He is just a quality person," Wallace said of Lindor. "It's tough to say that those qualities stand out more than his baseball skills because they are just as impressive, but what I was most pleased with was his character as a teammate and a human being.
"He's a humble kid who sees himself as one of the guys. He doesn't think of himself as a first-rounder. There's nothing that he really lacks, it's all there. There is work to be done to refine his skills, but he has all the tools and we'll look for him to be our cleanup hitter."
Lindor's double-play partner will be Robel Garcia, a switch-hitting infielder from the Dominican Republic who could fill a need up the middle. The Indians have little in the way of prospects on the right side of their infield and, without converting a shortstop, have few pure second basemen.
Garcia -- Cleveland's top infield prospect whose natural position is not at shortstop -- has spent the past two years in the Arizona League, showing a combination of power and speed that makes his plus arm and good plate discipline even more appealing.
But the middle infield isn't the only place where the Captains should be strong this year. Catchers Alex Monsalve and Alex Lavisky, ranked ninth and 12th respectively in Cleveland's Top 20, will split time behind the plate, while LeVon Washington (11th) and Luigi Rodriguez (15th) will see regular at-bats in the outfield.
"We just felt that the Midwest League fits Monsalve and Lavisky at this point in their careers," Wallace said. "Both are hard workers who take pride in calling a good game, blocking balls and doing the grunt work. We want to give them both a chance to develop this year."
Indians' No. 10 prospect Felix Sterling will get the nod as Wallace's Opening Day starter, and hard-throwing 19-year-old Dillon Howard -- the team's top pitching prospect at No. 2 -- will spend the bulk of the year in the Captains' rotation as soon as he finishes extended spring training. Southpaw Elvis Araujo, ranked No. 18, will also begin the year in the Midwest League.
Two stars on two different paths: Lindor may be the one to watch in Lake County, but there are two players in Kane County and Beloit who also deserve attention. Kansas City Royals outfielder Bubba Starling and Minnesota Twins third baseman Miguel Sano are each ranked as the top prospect within their respective organizations by MLB.com, and both will be looking to use the Midwest League as a springboard to bigger and brighter things.
Starling was selected fifth overall in June's Draft and has yet to play a competitive game in the Minors. He cultivated celebrity status in his hometown of Gardner in Kansas City, where he was a standout two-way baseball player, multi-threat quarterback and All-State basketball star, and he bypassed a scholarship to the University of Nebraska to sign with the Royals.
"I just have to work as hard as I can," Starling said. "I want to be a great teammate, but in the back of my head, I have to think about being back in Kansas City in a few years. I'm a winner, I love winning. I don't take losing very well. Unfortunately, in baseball you can fail a lot, but I plan on dealing with that."
Sano, on the other hand, was picked up by the Minnesota Twins as a 16-year-old non-drafted free agent out of San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic. After solid but unspectacular debuts in the Dominican Summer League and Gulf Coast League in 2010, the 195-pound infielder broke through in a huge way in '11.
The third baseman finished second in the Appalachian League in homers (20) and runs scored (58) and he ranked third in RBIs (59) and slugging percentage (.637). He was a two-time Player of the Week and a postseason All-Star, and he was also named as the best-performing third baseman in the Twins organization by MiLB.com.
First impressions: Right-handed flamethrower Robert Stephenson is expected to draw a lot of attention when he makes his professional debut next week. Selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the first round of June's Draft, the 19-year-old -- Cincinnati's top pitching prospect -- is slated to start the season with the Dayton Dragons. The prep prospect out of Alhambra High School in California dominated the baseball scene in his hometown of Martinez last year. He tossed three no-hitters to begin the season, fanned 132 batters and posted a 1.33 ERA over 64 innings en route to being named the San Jose Mercury News' Gatorade California Baseball Player of the Year.
Strength in numbers: One thing that stands out heading into the new season is the large number of right-handed pitching prospects expected to see time in the Midwest League in 2012. While Arizona teen Archie Bradley -- MLB.com's No. 20 prospect -- will warrant many of the early season headlines, you can make the case that more than a dozen other top hurlers will shine just as brightly as the former first-rounder.
Toronto Blue Jays farmhand Noah Syndergaard -- the club's No. 4 prospect -- hopes to log up to 130 innings this year and add a slider to his four-pitch repertoire, and St. Louis Cardinals teen Tyrell Jenkins -- the third-best pitcher in the organization -- will transition to a full-season league after fanning 55 batters in 56 Apply League innings.
In Peoria, Chicago Cubs No. 5 prospect Dillon Maples will likely spend most of the season with the Class A Chiefs despite starting the year elsewhere, while San Diego's Joe Ross will begin the year with Fort Wayne. Elsewhere, Seattle's Carter Capps, Detroit's Brenny Paulino and Milwaukee's David Goforth also have the chance to put up exceptional numbers for their respective clubs.
Last things last: Here's a look at some significant lasts around the Midwest League.
- Last season's championship: Quad Cities over Lansing in three games. MiLB.com Coverage »
- Last back-to-back champion: Fort Wayne TinCaps, 2006-'07
- Last no-hitter: Victor Mateo, Bowling Green vs. Lake County, July 8, 2011
MiLB.com Coverage »
- Last nine-inning no-hitter: Austin Kirk, Peoria vs. Clinton, July 4, 2011 MiLB.com Coverage »
- Last 200-strikeout pitcher: Alan Webb, West Michigan, 1998 (202)
- Last Triple Crown winner: Joseph Meyer, Beloit, 1984 (.320 average, 30 home runs, 102 RBIs)
- Last 40-home run hitter: Jeffrey Jones, Cedar Rapids, 1982 (42)
- Last player to hit for the cycle: Donald Lutz, July 21, 2011, Dayton vs. Peoria. MiLB.com Coverage »
- Last 20-game winner: John Fritz, Quad City, 1992 (20-4)
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Washington : Government Printing Office
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|Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyo. Easements granted U. S., concerning Riverton reclamation project.
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|Bull Lake Dam and Reservoir.
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|Proviso. Amount to credit of Indians.
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|Proviso. Condemnation proceedings.
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|Use of lands, etc., by Indians.
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|Administrative provisions.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted to the United States and its assigns, including its successors in control of the operation and maintenance of the Riverton reclamation project, Wyoming, a flowage easement and an easement for a dam site, together with all rights and privileges incident to the use and enjoyment of said easements, over tribal and allotted lands of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation within that part of said reservation required for the construction of the Bull Lake Dam and Reservoir on Bull Lake Creek, a tributary of the Wind River, in connection with the Riverton reclamation project, Wyoming, and for the impounding of approximately one hundred and fifty-five thousand acre-feet of water, including a ten-foot freeboard: Provided, That in consideration of the said rights insofar as they affect tribal lands there shall be deposited into the Treasury of the United States pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 560), for credit to the Shoshone and Arapaho Indians of the Wind River Reservation the sum of $6,500, from moneys appropriated for the construction of the said Bull Lake Dam and Reservoir, and the said sum when so credited shall draw interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum.
That compensation to the individual Indian owners of the allotted lands within the area described in section 1 shall be made from moneys appropriated for the construction of the Bull Lake Dam and Reservoir at the appraised value of the easements: Provided, That should any individual Indian not agree to accept the appraised value of the easement as it affects his land, the Secretary of the Interior be,
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and he is hereby, authorized to acquire such easement by condemnation proceedings.
The easements herein granted shall not interfere with the use by the Indians of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation of the lands herein dealt with and the waters of Bull Lake Creek and the reservoir insofar as the use by the Indians shall not be inconsistent with the use of said lands for reservoir purposes.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to perform any and all acts and to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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Jenna from The Cat Ball whipped up these two gorgeous creations just for our special holiday giveaway. The winner will get to choose either the "Lump of Coal" Cat Ball in black fabric trimmed with floofy black and white faux fur, or the "Snowball" Cat Ball made of beautiful off-white crushed velvet and trimmed with white faux fur.
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'"I got the puck in our zone and I put my head up and saw Alfredsson, being a forward, and I thought I'd give it a shot," he said. "I had a step on him and I pulled it to my forehand, saw the net and just put it in there."'
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Brevard, N.C. - Brevard College cyclist Tristan Cowie was selected to the USA Cycling's Mountain Bike National team, a part of USAC's National Development Program, as reported by Asheville Citizen-Times' Karen Chavez this morning.
Cowie, a 2008 National Champion in the Short Track and Cross Country races, is one of six cyclists younger than 23 who will represent the United States at international races in Europe, including the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup No. 2 this upcoming Sunday.
Brevard College Cycling Coach Thad Walker had the following to say about Tristan, "He's really passionate about riding his bike," Walker said. "He's also very humble. He recognizes what the sport has done for him and he's willing to mentor the younger athletes. He's super nice during training, but once it's time for racing, he gets his game face on and is very focused."
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A desk is a type of item introduced in Generation III, debuting in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. In those games, desks can be used to decorate the player's secret base. They can be used to hold dolls or cushions. Every desk has a corresponding chair.
All desks can be bought in Fortree City, except for the Pretty Desk, which is made by the glass blower on Route 113 in exchange for 8000 ashes.
Small Desks
These two desks cannot hold any dolls or cushions:
- Small Desk - 3000
- Pokémon Desk - 3000
Medium Desks
These three desks can hold three dolls or cushions:
Large Desks
These four desks can hold six dolls or cushions:
- Pretty Desk - 8000 ashes
- Brick Desk - 9000
- Camp Desk - 9000
- Hard Desk - 9000
Generation V
- Main article: Décor
In Generation V, desks make a return. However, they are used to customize the Pokémon Dream World, and can be bought from Berries.
In the anime
A Pokémon Desk was one of the decorations seen in Keanu's secret base in A Three Team Scheme!. It was destroyed by Team Magma after they forcibly took the base from Team Rocket.
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This is Mark Rivard and those are his skateboards…
Let's begin with a little education for all you non-skateboarders out there. Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or just skater. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an artform, a job, or a method of transportation (so says Wikipedia). A report by American Sports Data found that there were 18.5 million skateboarders in the world — 85 percent under the age of 18, and 74 percent male.
Alright. So now you know. But as the always curious Sharpie blog readers that you are, let's take a look at the art side of this skateboarding thing, specifically at one of the artists out there creating skateboard art like the world was going to end tomorrow.
Meet Mark Rivard, a talented skateboard artist and one we love times inifinity because he has figured out how to manipulate Sharpie markers like a paintbrush to create some amazing skateboard art, complete with the kind of nuanced brush strokes and shading that makes a Sharpie blog editor proud. He describes his foray into the business side of skateboard art as a "life-size game of poker" – he wants to serve as proof that people can make their craft their career.
"The actual process of putting Sharpie ink down on skateboard with the intention of creating art changed my life forever," says Mark. And I love this: "Moral of the story is follow your path, the one that's going to make you happy. Risk is fun…" Yes! See Mark's passion come to life in the images below, and read about how he discovered skateboard art and made it his life's work.
How did you get started as a skateboard artist?
My path into the art world was formed at a very young age. I remember being a third grader setting up an isle on my deck in Minnesota painting pictures in celebration of Van Gogh's birthday. Ironically it was a drawing course my senior year of high school that almost kept me from graduating. With a bad taste in my mouth for art education I skipped art school altogether and moved to Colorado to pursue a career in the ski world and basically lost touch with art. During this time I found skateboarding. Skateboarding changed who I was; I learned a more mature sense of aesthetic value from skateboarding. It was February of 2004 when art struck back and came into my life in a dramatic fashion. I was back home in Minnesota following a knee surgery and picked up my first skateboard. I painted it black and white and started sketching for the first time in years. What followed was a burst of creative energy I had never experienced, within the first five months between picking up a pen and my first show I drew 15 skateboards. In June 2004 I had a show with some friends at a night club in Minneapolis and from there art was a part of life in major way.
Tell us a little about your genre. Are there lots of artists who do what you do? Where are they concentrated? What makes your work stand out from the rest?
I guess I would be considered a skateboard artist. It's certainly not all I'm into but my skateboard illustrating is definitely the cornerstone of what I do. It's interesting how many people are doing skateboards, when I started I didn't have a computer or any clue about what was going on in the art world, but as time went on and I began to investigate the internet I learned that skateboards are a very popular canvas. I think it's a pretty obvious canvas choice for a lot of skaters. Skate graphics have an incredibly rich history. Now through outlets like MySpace I've learned of hundreds of skateboard artist located all over the world. Skateboarders and people in this particular corner of the art world know that there is really nothing too unique about using skateboards as canvas', but in retrospect that community of artist is tiny so when I put up my boards on wall covered in art they tend to pop. I feel like skateboards allow an artist a true freedom of all the rules spoken or unspoken in the art world. That's why people skate; it is an activity and lifestyle that has no rules. When you go to an art opening at a upscale gallery for contemporary art it can be a lot like a funeral, quite and dark clothed people discussing politely the art, but when you come to an opening of an artist that is skate oriented you'll find a DJ and most likely several kegs. My opening for a show in Belgium ended up in a game of SKATE (like the HORSE version of basketball for skateboarding) in the rain on the street in front of the show. That's what makes this kind of art stand out, what makes my particular art stand out I'm not sure. Very traditional artist has told me that it has a fresh feel, like any schooling hasn't tainted it.
How would you describe your style?
Detailed Scribbling. Fast. Unforgiving. A clean mess. Abstract realism. I never sketch anything out ahead of time; it's Sharpie straight to the board. When I'm doing a skyline or something that needs accuracy line for line it's a stressful style. There is no planning, no grids, just do or die style. That's probably why I've drawn six skateboards with the Minneapolis skyline; it's taken me six attempts to get it right. The cool thing is in the process of getting it right I created five other pieces of art that all were worthy works. I would sum up my style as improv unrehearsed art.
How did you come to use Sharpie markers in your work?
I started my first board with ball point pens and that wasn't working then I think I used some other type of marker that would smear, then I found and Ultra Fine Black Sharpie and it was the only thing that would not smear and stuck to the boards. Eventually I started to figure out that my Sharpies could be manipulated like a paintbrush. They could shade and created different consistencies in lines. Sharpies have become the only pens that I can use on anything, they draw on canvas, and wood, paint, plastic, glass, and you name it you can draw on it with a Sharpie.
What about Sharpie markers makes them your medium of choice? Is it the variety of tip sizes, colors, other? Please describe how you use Sharpie as an art tool.
Sharpies have become my medium of choice because of consistency. They write on anything. I have learned to use my Sharpies like paintbrushes; they can change their ink distribution over time with use. I still have that first Sharpie pen I ever drew with. The tip is basically gone but I still use it to shade. Sharpie tips can be used as a tool long after the ink has run dry. I never throw a pen away; sometimes I'll ever burn the tip a bit to reduce the ink flow for a dryer more of a grayish look out of a black pen. The other unique thing I've discovered with Sharpies is the only thing that can lift the ink once it's been laid is another Sharpie. You can actually move the ink around with different pens as you draw, for instance if you were to open a fresh Sharpie and start to draw but wanted a little less ink and a lighter look you can take an older Sharpie or a burnt tip Sharpie and move that ink around even after it has dried. This creates a lighter look and enables black and white shadowing with only a black Sharpie!
What are your inspirations?
Inspiration comes in an endless amount of formats. I am always inspired with travel and new places. Europe makes me want to create and create and create. Something about being there and just the little things about the lifestyle over there makes me want to write and draw. I think I could live in Europe without a TV. The simple process of creating art and seeing what kinds of opportunities are presenting themselves in my life because of art inspires me. I know that this doesn't sit well with a lot of people but I love the business side of this crazy idea of having a career in art, I love it, it's life size game of poker. I love to think that I am doing something so many people told me wasn't going to work because of lack of an education or experience. Having something to prove has always been the biggest source of inspiration for me. I've found no matter what you do or what your path someone out there is always going to drop marbles on your sidewalk. Critics are inspiration.
What statement are you trying to make, if any? What do you want people take from your art?
I don't know if I'm really trying to make any sort of statement but I do want to send a message. I want my art to serve as proof that people can make their craft their career, that the path that seems the most logical doesn't always make it the right path. I once had a great upper level job at what was then the fifth largest snowboard company in the world. I had a job that where I'm from would have been considered a dream job by most of my peers. Benefits, great office, salary, I loved the industry but I left that job to wait tables for $2.13 an hour and have more time to get back to focusing on my art. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Moral of the story is follow your path, the one that's going to make you happy. Risk is fun…
Sharpie's tagline is "Write Out Loud!" Does this apply to your work and if so, how?
Absolutely! That actual process of putting Sharpie ink down on skateboard with the intention of creating art changed my life forever. All the work I've done with Sharpies is prime example of "Write Out Loud!" it's what I do!


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Construction on the NewsRadio 1290 WJNO home with Habitat for Humanity of Palm Beach County is right on schedule to have the Izor family move into their new home for the holidays. The goal is Thanksgiving, and it's looking that way, thanks to all of the volunteers who have heard our call to help, and have been hammering nails.
We have also been asking for financial donations to help build these 19 homes at the Kennedy Estates II community in Jupiter.
Paula Portch is the Finance Director with the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. She says donations are the main way they get funding, not through the taxpayers. "When we get money from the government, it is a competitive grant and we compete against every other non-profit in either the United States or the state."
Paula says you, as an individual or an organization, have the opportunity to sponsor a home just as we are doing. "We have individuals who sponsor a house a year. We have individuals who sponsor a half a house a year. We have individuals who just make a $1,000 contribution each year."
If you have a corporation, Paula tells us that there is a tax program where you cna get 50 percent of the appraised value of the house, less the land, back from the contribution.
Click Here to find out more about donating and/or sponsoring a home.
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ByJohn W. Pilley
The best way to communicate with your dog is during play that recruits the self-reinforcing energy of your dog's instincts. That's what made it possible for Chaser, my family's Border collie, to acquiring the biggest vocabulary of any animal and achieve other unprecedented language learning.
All domestic dogs share a set of instincts that are part of their evolution from wolves. But certain instincts are stronger in certain breeds or individual dogs (including mixed breed dogs) than in others.
For example, all domestic dogs have an instinct for chasing, and practically every dog will enjoy chasing and fetching games. That's especially true of herding dogs like Border collies. Likewise, all domestic dogs have amazing sensitivity to smells, and practically every dog will enjoy games based on tracking scents, like following your smell to where you've hidden a toy. That's especially true of scent hounds like Bassets, Beagles, and Coonhounds. But mixed breed dogs may also have the full range of canine instincts to a very strong degree.
Whether or not your dog is purebred or a mix of breeds, spend time getting to know what his or her own strongest instincts are. And then tailor your play together accordingly. Getting to release his or her instinctual drives in play is the most positively reinforcing thing your dog can experience and will make any learning that occurs in that context extraordinarily memorable.
To teach your dog anything, start small and keep on taking lots of little steps, just as with toddlers learning their ABC's. Dogs are eternal toddlers and remain puppies at heart their whole lives. That can sometimes be hard to see in an older dog who's had some rough experiences, but play can almost always reawaken the puppy within and ignite a dog's latent curiosity and problem-solving ability. With a playful approach, you can definitely teach an older dog new tricks.
Another key is that soft beats harsh. You can and should be firm when necessary to keep your dog safe from running into the street and other dangers (a scary incident in pursuit of a speeding car is how Chaser got her name). But try to make your words and physical interactions with your dog soft and gentle, again just as you would with a toddler.
Food treats are helpful at the beginning of training, and I used them with Chaser when she was a puppy. But you don't want to depend too much on food treats, because they satiate and lose their effectiveness. That's why play that releases a dog's instinctual drives can create such a powerful learning situation. Instincts never satiate and are more positively reinforcing than the yummiest treat. The more you play with your dog in this way, the more you yourself, and your affectionate praise and pets, become positive reinforcers for your dog's learning.
As far as teaching your dog words goes, start with the verbs for the basic obedience behaviors. If your dog doesn't understand, or isn't willing to heed, the obedience verbs "sit," "stay," "come," and so on, you won't be able to teach them much.
Once your dog understands "sit," etc., you can advance to two- and three-word phrases, such as "Fetch ball," that involve his or her favorite games and toys. From the simple obedience verbs, Chaser has progressed to a proper noun vocabulary of more than a thousand uniquely named toys, more than a dozen common nouns (conceptually much harder to learn than proper nouns), lots of verbs, and even prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives. Most recently she has learned to understand sentences with three elements of grammar, such as "To ball, take Frisbee," and a semantic reversal, such as "To Frisbee, take ball."
Whatever you'd like your dog to learn, the best thing you have going for you is that dogs and people have evolved a unique interspecies social relationship. All dogs come into the world with a social intelligence that prepares them to pay close attention to, and bond with, people. Once again, play is the way to supercharge this and make your dog super attentive to, and super bonded with, you.
Your dog is watching you closely to try to figure out what you want him or her to do. Try to match your dog's amazing powers of observation and get to know his or her individual personality, preferences, and body language. When you see your dog's positive mood or attention falter, it's time to stop formal training and indulge in pure play, to renew a positive frame of mind and a positive relationship with you, and then some quiet time to enable your dog to relax and rest up for the next playful training session.
With this approach your dog has the best possible chance to amaze you with his or her learning. There's no limit to what your dog can learn if you supply lots of play and lots of patience. But the biggest reward of all is how you and your dog become more attuned and in harmony with each other. That is ultimately what has made Chaser such a beloved family member for me and the rest of our family, immeasurably enriching our lives together.
John W. Pilley is professor emeritus of psychology at Wofford College and the author, with Hilary Hinzmann, of "Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).


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Ms. Edreka Nixson, 25, years of age, of Havana, FL, died on Tuesday, Sepember 17, 2013 in Tallahassee, FL. The service will be 2:00 p.m., EST, Saturday, September 21, 2013 at China Hill M.B. Church, of Havana, FL, with burial at Hopewell Cemetery, of Havana, FL. The family will receive friends from 1 to 7 p.m., on Friday, September 20, 2013 at Williams Funeral Home of Quincy, FL. She is survived by her mother, Eddie Mae Mills, of Havana, FL, three brothers, Willie Bush, Jr., Dino Bush, Danny Lee Mills, all of Havana, FL, one sister, Callie Logan, of Havana, FL, grandmother, Nettie Mills, of Havana, FL. Williams Funeral Home of Quincy, Florida in charge of arrangements.
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December 2011
Regents, Anchorage School Board find common ground
ANCHORAGE--The University of Alaska Board of Regents and the Anchorage School Board met together Dec. 9 in a rare session that highlighted the importance of collaboration between the two boards for the benefit of students, the workforce and broader Alaska community.
One-third of entering freshmen at the University of Alaska come from the Anchorage School District, and the Anchorage School District hires many graduates of UA teacher education programs. Those were just a couple common points between the Anchorage School District and university system that were discussed during a wide-ranging session that touched on everything from the high school qualifying exam to the Alaska Performance Scholarship.
The two groups agree better student tracking is crucial. Diane Barrans, executive director of the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education and meeting moderator, noted that the commission, UA and the state departments of Labor and Education are working together on a grant application for a longitudinal database that will track Alaska students from pre-school through high school and on through college. The idea behind a seamless database is comprehensive information, which could ultimately lead to improved public policy.
All agreed improved communication to parents and students is needed to properly characterize the high school qualifying exam as a basic skills test--not an indicator of how prepared a student is for either additional education or the work place.
"I would describe this as a good start. There are a lot of things we can do together for the benefit of Alaska's youth," said Fuller Cowell, outgoing chair of the UA Board of Regents.
Carol Comeau, superintendent of the Anchorage School District, said the district values its connection with the university. "If we can create a more formal collaboration, it will benefit our kids in the state."
UA President Pat Gamble said synergy between the two boards offers tremendous potential for tackling some of the toughest challenges in Alaska's education system—workforce and college preparation followed closely by student success. "If we can't fix this, I don't know who can," he said.
The board took action on several items, including approval of renaming the Fisheries Industrial Technology Center, run by the University of Alaska Fairbanks' School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center. The name change and some organizational changes integrate the center more fully into UAF's School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UAF officials said.
The board also approved a final, critical step for the University of Alaska Anchorage to help solve a space shortage for science programs. The board gave formal project approval for up to $14.5 million to renovate Beatrice McDonald Hall, which houses a number of academic programs. The project, which involves a complete rebuild, will get under way in March 2013. The renovated building will be finished in time for classes in fall 2014, dependent on funding.
Beatrice McDonald Hall, known as BMH, was built in 1970 and needs major mechanical, electrical and architectural improvement and replacement. Most of the building technologies constructed in the building are over 40 years old and at the end of their useful lifespan. Current laboratory furniture and fixtures are in disrepair and not up to date with educational standards.
Regents on Thursday learned about a campaign at UAA called "I am UAA."
A group including alumni, current students, faculty and staff of UAA made short presentations about how UAA has made a huge impact on their lives. Among numerous heart-warming stories was one by UAA alumnus Dan Bigley, who survived a brutal bear mauling in 2003 that required eight extensive surgeries and a long recovery period. The incident left Bigley blind, but he's gone on to earn a master's degree in social work and serves as an inspiration to others.
More "I am UAA" stories can be found at http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/. Click on the "I am UAA" link on the left-hand column.
In other business, the board elected Regent Pat Jacobson of Kodiak to serve as chair over the next year; Regent Bob Martin of Juneau as vice chair; Regent Kirk Wickersham of Anchorage as secretary; and Regent Jo Heckman of Fairbanks as treasurer.
"I am UAA" - Ruth Keino
Ruth Keino, 2011 UAA Athlete of the Year, explains to the Board of Regents how UAA has postively impacted her life as part of the ongoing "I am UAA" campaign. Keino competes for the Seawolves cross-country and track and field teams. Originally from Kenya, Keino came to UAA in 2008 and is a nursing student.
UAA hosts reception for regents, faculty and staff
From left, UAA Associate Professor of Psychology Robert Boeckmann, first vice president of UAA Faculty Senate, and Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya, associate professor and Harold T. Caven Professor of Business in UAA's College of Business and Public Policy, socialize at a reception held at the ConocoPhillips Integrated Sciences Building at UAA Dec. 8. Bhattacharyya is also the current president of UAA's Faculty Senate.
Student governance leaders take a break
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Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College Athletic Department and Coach Paul Thomson are pleased to announce the commitment of Jonathan Alexander Kuhn to come to Brevard College and play on the men's tennis team starting with the 2009-2010 season.
Kuhn, a resident of Guatemala, has lived in San Antonio, Texas for the past two years, graduating from the John Newcomb Tennis Academy. The 6-4 right-handed player achieved a 832 ITF ranking during his time in Texas.
"Jonathan is going to be a tremendous addition to our program," Coach Thomson had to say. "He is a big strong player that is very athletic. Jonathan is also a very outstanding young man."
Kuhm will major in business and join a team that went 15-4, 5-3 in their inaugural season as members of NCAA Division II and the South Atlantic Conference, and was the first Brevard College team to host a SAC tournament event, hosting a quarterfinal round against Tusculum College.


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From "Hanging: From a Business Point of View," a chapter in James Berry's My Experiences as an Executioner (1892). Berry was a renowned hangman in England from 1884 to 1891; he refined the "long drop" method pioneered by William Marwood, and once famously failed to execute John Babbacombe Lee, "The Man They Couldn't Hang," when the scaffold's trap door repeatedly stuck.
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sorry to all who wanted to be in on this battle, only enteries pmed to me by yesterday were posted, good luck to all and please remember the people in this battle are all toys and have only been writing half a year
constructive critisim only plz
Katze was the only half decent one...I'm with vegimite on toastOriginally posted by vegimite on toast
errrrrrr...... epod? these are very Toy
oh my god cess did a throwie surprise surfuckinprise
Homer: Marge? Since I'm not talking to Lisa, would you please ask her to pass me the syrup?
Marge: Dear, please pass your father the syrup, Lisa.
Lisa: Bart, tell Dad I will only pass the syrup if it won't be used on any meat product.
Bart: You dunkin' your sausages in that syrup homeboy?
Homer: Marge, tell Bart I just want to drink a nice glass of syrup like I do every morning.
Marge: Tell him yourself, you're ignoring Lisa, not Bart.
Homer: Bart, thank your mother for pointing that out.
Marge: Homer, you're not not-talking to me and secondly I heard what you said.
Homer: Lisa, tell your mother to get off my case.
Bart: Uhhh, dad, Lisa's the one you're not talking to.
Homer: Bart, go to your room.
yea! someone voted for me! ( i did a null vote like i usually do when i am in a battle)
edit: oh! i just realized this battle is for 1/2 year writers. i thought it said 1/2, like 1 OR 2 year writers. imm like a 3/4 year writer.
epod you need to steady your hand and you dont need to use prismas yet, save some money and use crayolas or something. thats what i use half the time. i voted katze he actually had some letter structure. people need to start breaking down their letters into pieces and then you will progress way faster
Epod, you suck ass.
Internet crews are played out.
Personally i liked trance,DNA,and Rise One..
I think he used Sharpies. There was no need. It looks etchy because you didnt layer it right. To make a sketch look clean you first 1. draw out the basic rough sketch, then erase bad lines. 2. darken and detail after erasing bad lines and cleaning up. 3. Go over in BIC. pen. Let ink dry. 4. Erase sketch leaving only ink, no pencil lines. 5. Darken detail in pen.
I think he actually did it in Sharpie with no pre-sketch, that's why there are no steady lines.
You can see a pencil outline in his attempt to make a D, which he failed horribly in doing. Pen sketches aren't hard.
Internet crews are played out.
I know they aren't hard, but sharpies arent the best for outlining, mainly filling.
some have potential ome r just weak\
but i voted cess i dunno why
"some beef is big and some beef is small but what yall call beef aint beef at all"
haha, cess' looks like onions.
why do you alllll insist on battling? you need to preactice first. and get out of the toy forum. and you mustdo that by painting something and then someone who has not been told to post in the toy forum says you can leave the toy forum judging by your work. or something. and then when you get out of the toy forum you will still be toy but you can start battles. i feel like im just typing and not thinking so this probably wont make sense.
peaceclose your mouth and open your eyes.peace
i dont know how to piece..so i just do bombs all the time.. my black books are loaded with them
rise ones was clean and crisp. looks stylish


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Huma Defends Weiner: 'I Believe in Him'
(NEWSER) – Huma Abedin didn't just stand by husband Anthony Weiner's side today as he fessed up to sexting even after his resignation from Congress—she personally defended him as he announced he was staying in the race for New York City mayor. "Anthony's made some horrible mistakes, both before he resigned from Congress and after," she said, as per the Epoch Times. But "I love him. I have forgiven him. I believe in him, and, as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward." She added that their marriage has survived thanks to a "whole lot of work and a whole lot of therapy," reports the National Review.
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Black Star Riders -- the band that evolved out of Thin Lizzy -- is making plans for their second album. The group has tapped Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott to produce the disc.
Singer Ricky Warwick says they wanted Joe for the job because he's a friend whose passion and enthusiasm for music is "unquestionable," both as an artist and as a fan.
Elliott will be at the helm with Ronan McHugh, who joined Def Leppard in producing their 2008 album, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge. Ricky adds that he's worked with both Joe and Ronan before, so "it was a no brainer" when they agreed to produce the new Black Star Riders album. Elliott says he's also looking forward to the collaboration, adding that they're "aiming to make a serious leap forward with the next album."
But it will be a while before they get together to work on the album. The band plans to begin recording their new slate of songs in a studio in Dublin in October, and release the new disc in the spring of 2015.
Black Star Riders released their debut effort, All Hell Breaks Loose, last May.
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Showcasing a crisp and striking pale lavender star sapphire of 2.75 carats, the color combination is magical. A grouping of four (4) single cut diamonds (.08 carats total for all 8) and a natural sapphire cut en cabochon are set on each side. Featuring impeccable style with fine mille-grained edge work throughout the setting, the hues and shapes blend seamlessly. Stylized wheat sheaf patterns appoint the entire breadth of the lightly tapered platinum shank. This simply must be seen to be believed.
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August 5, 2010: The U.S. Tennis Assn. has signed a deal with online-based auto insurance company Esurance to become an official sponsor of the 2010 U.S. Open. The 2010 U.S. Open will be played Aug. 30-Sept. 12 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, NY.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Esurance is a subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. and is headquartered in San Francisco.
USTA said the alliance would include on-site presence and ring signage in Arthur Ashe Stadium, a booth on the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, media support of tournament TV broadcasts and a presence on the official Web site of the U.S. Open.
In addition, Esurance will support the U.S. Open's Green program by sponsoring distribution of New York City Subway MetroCards at select times during the two-week tournament. The USTA said it has a wide-ranging green program at the US Open, "one component of which is to encourage attendees to take mass transit to the competition."
"From the very start, we've worked hard to make Esurance a green company and the bigger we grow, the more important this objective becomes," Gary Tolman, president and CEO for Esurance, said in a statement. "We are proud to partner with the USTA, an organization which shares our commitment to increasing awareness about the small things each of us can do to help protect our environment for years to come. We look forward to an exciting tournament this year from some of the top names in tennis."
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i'm doing a presentation about wireless security for my study. right now i'm trying to crack my WPA-PSK secured WLAN. i'm capturing the eapol handshake with wireshark with a filter for eapol. in the tutorials if read people talk about 4 frames. but i get six eapol frames.
when i start aircrack with the file i get the following:
i found out that the first 4 are for the pairwise master key and the other two for the group key. i tried with the first 4 but got the same error.Code:$ sudo aircrack-ng -a 2 -w words.txt eap4.cap Opening eap4.cap This file is not a regular 802.11 (wireless) capture. Read 0 packets. No networks found, exiting.
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