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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Both defenses were as dominant as advertised on Saturday in Philadelphia but special teams play doomed Harvard as the Crimson fell to league-leading and 18th-ranked Penn, 34-14, at Franklin Field.
Harvard (6-3, 4-2 Ivy) finishes its season next week as it plays host to Yale (7-2, 5-1 Ivy) in the 127th playing of The Game at Harvard Stadium. Yale enters the game with a chance at the Ivy title and Harvard will look to play the unfamiliar role of spoiler at The Stadium.
Special teams miscues by Harvard led to the first 17 Penn (8-1, 6-0 Ivy) points as the Quakers claimed a 10-0 halftime lead. Early in the second quarter, a muffed punt gave Penn the ball inside Harvard's 10 with the Quakers settling for a field goal. Later in the second, a blocked Harvard field led to a Penn touchdown as the Quakers used a short field and momentum to take a 10-0 lead.
Harvard outgained Penn on the day, 410-278, but the Quakers benefitted from outstanding field position all afternoon. Penn's average starting position was its own 41 yard line and the team started inside its 30 yard line just four times all day with three of those coming after Harvard turnovers.
Gino Gordon paced the Harvard ground game with 110 yards on 21 carries (5.2 ypc) to give him his sixth 100-yard game of the season. He also had four catches for 22 yards. Adam Chrissis had six receptions for 67 yards. Josue Ortiz led the defense with eight tackles, one for a loss, and a fumble recovery. Jonathan Mason chipped in with seven tackles.
In the first quarter, Penn moved deep to Harvard's territory twice only to be thwarted, once on fourth down from the Crimson 28 and once with a drive ending at the 33. On its second drive, Harvard began to move the ball but, after picking up a pair of first downs, a 30-yard completion to Chrissis was called back due to an illegal motion call and the Crimson was forced to punt.
Later, Penn fumbled Harvard's third punt of the quarter with Bobby Schneider falling on it to give the Crimson possession at the Quaker 48. Harvard was unable to move the sticks however, and was forced to punt once more. At the start of the second quarter, the first special teams breakdown cost the Crimson after its defense had forced a punt.
Penn's bouncing punt hit up-man Dan Minamide in the back and Penn recovered the fumble at Harvard's nine yard line. The Crimson defense stuffed Penn but an easy 19-yard field goal gave the hosts a 3-0 lead at 12:22.
Midway through the second, Harvard went with a no-huddle offense and methodically moved the ball to Penn's 26. Harvard was stopped at the 22 and David Mothander came on for a 39 yard field goal but his low kick was blocked to keep Harvard off the board while providing Penn with great field position. Penn moved the ball once again, using a big QB keeper from Billy Ragone to eventually move into the red zone where Brandon Colavita ran it in from one yard out on a quick snap from second and goal.
Early in the third quarter, a bizarre special teams moment hurt Harvard and gave full control to the home side. Alex Gedeon punted a rocket, nearly 60 yards to Penn's one yard line. The ball bounced sideways and, after a Harvard player batted the ball to keep it in play, it inadvertently touched a Penn player, who then picked it up and scampered up the sideline to the 38. Again with great field position, Penn swiftly moved into Harvard territory and Ragone completed just his third pass of the game, a 25-yard screen pass to Jeff Jack that went for a touchdown and a 17-0 lead.
Following a controversial personal foul call on the Crimson, Andrew Sampson converted a 44-yard field goal for a 20-0 lead at the 6:30 mark.
From that point on, Harvard was forced into a series of fourth down situations and could not break through against the talented Penn defense as the Quakers ran away for the win. Ragone converted a third and four with a six-yard QB keeper for a touchdown at the end of the third quarter and a 27-0 lead.
Harvard scored early in the fourth on 4th and seven from Penn's 31 as Collier Winters evaded two pass rushers and found Mike Cook, who out-jumped his man to pull in the pass. Penn answered as Harvard's onsides kick went out of bounds and Colavita ran around the end on a sweep for a 35-yard TD run. Gordon completed the day's scoring with a three-yard run late in the quarter.
Winters finished his day 21-of-44 for 219 yards but was intercepted three times.


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Your live blogger for this game will be the multifaceted Andy Hutchins from The Arena, who will live blog just about freaking anything.
This is the only game of the first two days that is alone in its time slot. (Yay!) But it's likely to be pre-empted by local news wherever you are. (Boo!) So check out CBS' moneymaker or your favorite feed provider for your viewing pleasure. Your official Deadspin preview is here; your ESPN preview has an interesting headline.
My unofficial, lightly researched (I looked at the U-Dub and MSU rosters, so now I know how to spell Jacquiese Holcombe) preview: Washington's got a decent inside-outside game with big man Jon Brockman and a triumvirate of height-deficient guards, and Mississippi State plays four guards around their defensive terror, Jarvis Varnado. Varnado had his national coming-out party last year against Memphis in the second round of this tournament, swatting five shots as the Bulldogs nearly upset the Tigers.
MSU's been a trendy upset pick in this one, steaming into this game on a six-game winning streak, but it should be noted that only two of those wins came against tournament teams. The only common opponents these teams had were Florida and Washington State, but U-Dub lost to Florida and beat Wazzu twice, while MSU fell to the Cougars and beat the Gators. That muddies the water.
As always, no one knows anything. (For the record, I picked Washington, and my Final Four is the same as Nate Silver's, which means I'm probably horrifically wrong.)
If anyone can make bingo on Suss' card, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, put it in a comment and I'll get you a prize. It's true that I will live blog nearly anything, and true that I'm serious about this little gimmick. I've done it before.
And I leave this question to you, commentariat: Should the updates ascend or descend?
5:04 PM: We're live from the Rose Garden. Mississippi State leads, 5-4.
5:06 PM: A Bulldog misses a breakaway dunk. SEC basketball: A legacy of almost being competent.
5:09 PM: Because when I think "printers," I think "desert island."
5:12 PM: Jon Brockman's soft hands and sharp passing get U-Dub two points inside.
5:13 PM: Kodi Augustus is probably not the best basketball player in his family; his older sister is the Minnesota Lynx' Seimone Augustus, who led LSU's women to a national title.
5:15 PM: It seems like every other possession devolves into Calvinball. "Tremendous intensity" looks to me to be sloppiness. 10-6, MSU, with 12:59 left in the first half.
5:16 PM: Have we mentioned that Washington is Krypto-Nate Robinson's alma mater? No?
5:18 PM: Considering Patrick Dempsey's recent brooding turn on Grey's Anatomy, I'm not so sure I want him selling me car insurance. That I watch Grey's and can live blog this just proves that I am in touch with my inner Sandra Oh.
5:21 PM: No, the highest per-second harassment average belongs to Eric Devendorf. Be honest.
5:22 PM: Brockman catches a rebound under the hoop and sinks a reverse under waving arms. He's been quite good early.
5:23 PM: I'm not usually one to care about names, but Ravern? What, were you deciding between Raver and Wyvern?
5:25 PM: I thought Pondexters were supposed to wear goggles and play Strat-o-Matic? Or does that rule not apply when you spell it without the i?
5:27 PM: Color me unimpressed by Dee Bost's stats. I'm the only sophomore in college averaging 32 Twitter updates and 11 live blogs a week. Washington 21, Mississippi State 16.
5:30 PM: Sonic, stomping Coke Zero in the commercial race.
5:33 PM: Speaking of Twitter, here's Jon Brockman's. The most recent pearl of wisdom? "CAN YOU DIG ITTTTT??? Lets go dawg fans hope your ready to cheer! Lets get this one done together!!!!!!!" No time for apostrophes, I see.
5:35 PM: If Isiah Thomas were still a GM, is there any way he wouldn't pick Isaiah Thomas?
5:37 PM: Verb of the Day: "Ramrodding." Thanks, Kevin Harlan! Washington 29, Mississippi State 19, 3:26 left in the first half.
5:42 PM: Not only is setting a screen through an elbow a foul, it is, if my interpretation of that official's gesticulations was correct, quite offensive in several Polynesian cultures.
5:43 PM: Actual Analysis Alert: Washington seems content to give up the baseline drives to MSU's guards, but the 'Dogs have no answer for U-Dub's transition shooting. Also, Quincy Pondexter's been excellent, especially with frontcourt mate Brockman in foul trouble.
5:46 PM: There's the three. Phil Turner bombs away.
5:47 PM: Ravern Johnson will probably hear some "AIR-BALL" chants from the partisan Portland crowd. Washington 35, Mississippi State 27, with 32.0 seconds left in the first half.
5:50 PM: It is important to note that neither of those women was actually touching Tony Stewart.
5:51 PM: Quincy Pondexter, still doing exactly what you wouldn't expect him to based on name alone. He scores and converts the and-one, has 15 points, and leads Washington into halftime with a 38-27 lead over Mississippi State.
5:55 PM: With the demise of Raycom Sports, it's good to see fine sports outfits like CBS' March Madness On Demand halftime crew upholding the mantle of awkward sports coverage. Apparently, Matt Painter is a Gene Keady "deciful." Someone look that up.
6:00 PM: You know, I don't think Mississippi State will be all that shattered if they lose this one. They're in Portland, after all, and that's about infinity times the culture that exists in Starkville, if this documentary footage is correct:
6:08 PM: Why is Jarvis Varnado's name pronounced "Var-NAR-do?" One, that doesn't even make phonetic sense, and two, it eliminates the easy promotion for the Starkville Smoothie King's "Varnado Tornado." (One part Hasheem Thabeet, one part Stromile Swift, if you want the recipe.)
6:11 PM: Pondexter and Brockman are just too much down low. U-Dub is pulling away, leading Mississippi State 44-27 with 17:29 left in the second half.
6:15 PM: "They just can't get anything open." On cue, the Bulldogs knock down an open three.
6:18 PM: Hey, look, a Windows advertising campaign with the same title as another one of my forty blogs on the web of Internet tubes!
6:20 PM: Brockman was a "load" earlier. Now he's "clearing out." You may make the joke.
6:22 PM: Brockman is fouled, and it's Varnado's fourth. He'll sit.
6:23 PM: Venoy Overton believes he can be Tyus Edney. Baseline to baseline, weaving through defenders, and twisting for the leaping lay-in, his coast-to-coast conversion may be the prettiest play of this game.
6:26 PM: Remind me, how did Florida beat Washington and lose to MSU this season?
6:29 PM: I'm supposed to want Star Points?
6:30 PM: The Bulldogs require three tries to put the ball in the basket on a trip, which actually helps their dismal 25% shooting. Prior to that possession, they were 10-of-40 from the field. No wonder Washington leads, 52-35.
6:33 PM: "OVERTON! His NINTH...THREE...of the season."
6:36 PM: Varnado slithers around Brockman and lays one in, pushing his point total to four, which, finally, equals his tally of fouls.
6:41 PM: Brockman looks like John Krasinski was thrown in a blender with Derek Vinyard.
6:43 PM: We just dipped under the five-minute mark. U-Dub is up big, 61-46, on Mississippi State.
6:45 PM: Varnado just notched his fifth block, but, unless his vanguard of gunners starts smoking some threes, it will be for naught.
6:49 PM: See, Axe, Sonic shows that you can do weird without having geyser of armpit sweat.
6:52 PM: "It's hard to shoot when all the ammunition is gone." (Sorry for getting topical humor in your Deadspin.)
6:54 PM: The comments inform me that Raycom is only done with SEC telecasts, and still has a while left on its ACC contract. This should be used in all SEC recruiting pitches.
6:55 PM: Isaiah Thomas' Chris Paul impression is convincing. Washington leads, 68-54, with just under two minutes remaining.
6:58 PM: Washington triumphs, 71-58, sending the SEC Tournament champion Mississippi State Bulldogs home. Huskies Quincy Pondexter and Jon Brockman dominated the vaunted Jarvis Varnado inside, and Washington's little men hassled the Maroon and White snipers all day. Washington will play Purdue Saturday for a Sweet Sixteen berth, and Mississippi State loses its best chance this year to escape from the crushing boredom of Starkville. I feel sorry for them.
I feel sorry for you, too; you commenters had to make up for my funny deficit. But you did so admirably, and I appreciate that. I had fun being a part of this ambitious expedition into Blogfrica (thanks to Suss for organizing this and doing the heavy lifting with the bingo cards), and I hope you did, too. Thanks for being part of it.


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McDonald's on Friday reported first-quarter profit that rose but fell short of market expectations, undermined by weaker international sales and U.S. consumers that appeared to dine out less.
The burger giant reported first-quarter earnings excluding items of $1.26 per share, up from $1.23 a share in the year-earlier period.
Revenue increased to $6.6 billion from $6.55 billion a year ago. U.S. comparable sales fell by 1.2 percent, while falling by 1.1 percent in Europe. In both regions, McDonald's cited economic uncertainty.
Analysts had expected the company to report earnings excluding items of $1.27 a share on $6.59 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
"While the company's results for the quarter reflected difficult prior year comparisons and the ongoing impact of global economic headwinds, we continue our efforts to build market share and deliver sustained profitable growth for all stakeholders," said McDonald's President and CEO Don Thompson, in a statement.
Since late last year, the world's leading fast-food chain has struggled amid widespread economic sluggishness and relentless competitors encroaching on its traditional turf. The battle to lure in health-conscious diners has forced McDonalds and its competition to experiment with new menu items and ramp up their ad presence.
In 2012, the company saw monthly sales fall for the first time in ten years. In March, McDonald's unveiled a Fish McBites menuitem that failed to boost U.S. sales as the company had hoped.
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In pre-market trading, the company's stock fell by more than one percent to $100.30.


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thenoname1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
moomeo allows people to share emails with the world by sending the email to firstname.lastname@example.com. After the email is sent to email@example.com, the email that the user wants to share is automatically hosted by moomeo. The user then receives a separate email prompting the user to send a tweet or Facebook status update about the email hosted at moomeo. Twitter and Facebook followers can then view and comment on the email by clicking on the shortlink provided in the tweet or Facebook status update.
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We like the Linux penguin because of it's shape and it's professional appeal. We like the Zendesk guy because we think it's hip/edgy/cool. We like the clipart moose because it's a moose sitting down (this is our initial thought - but we're open to ideas!!) --- although we do think the moose is too clipart-ish.
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Ziggy's and an inebriated sportsman who's mistaken me for a fresher is sharing some wisdom: "I've heard the rowers drown a fresher at random, while the footballers sit in a big circle and practice their crying. That may or may not be true. Still, none of them are man enough to get naked and roll down Clifford's Tower."
Initiation rituals or 'hazings' have been around as long as universities themselves. Upon entry into a society, new members undergo a series of tasks or challenges designed to foster group camaraderie. These are often unpleasant and occasionally degrading in the extreme. Common themes include alcohol, nudity, vandalism and subsequent arrest. Students usually take part in order to demonstrate their allegiance to a particular society or sport's team- their willingness to accept degradation and embarrassment serving as proof of their fervour. As a rule, the more exclusive the society or club, the more extreme the hazing. The secrecy surrounding these rituals creates fertile ground for hearsay; stories with which older students can shock, excite and intimidate the new and innocent in equal measure.
Practices range from the relatively tame to the downright dangerous. In 2006 18 year-old University of Exeter student Gavin Britton died from alcohol poisoning having consumed four vodkas, three pints of cider, a glass of wine and numerous sambucas before downing a pint of spirits as part of his initiation into the University golf club. Even this lamentable incident has not halted the widespread custom of putting new members (predominantly freshers) through their paces with demeaning rites of passage. To be granted membership of The University of Cambridge University men's drinking society 'The Wyverns', candidates must consume a 15 course dinner including a pig's snout covered in wasabi, and a pint of water with a live goldfish swimming in it. If the goldfish is regurgitated and still alive, prospective members may skip the following two courses.
Tragedies like that of Gavin Britton have led to a clamping down on University initiations in recent years. Gloucestershire University launched a formal investigation in 2008 following the release of video footage showing students being marched through the streets by a man in a Nazi uniform and lined up against a wall before several vomited. Another segment of the video, which was filmed by Natalie Sutton, a broadcast journalism student at the university, showed a group being forced to exercise furiously under the observation of men wearing black t-shirts. Hannah, a first year, tells me: "My friend at Newcastle didn't join the rugby team, because new rugby players have to drink out of used bins and shoes. Also people are sometimes dared to dive into shallow rivers – he just didn't want to take the chance."
Reassuringly, it doesn't appear to be the case that sports hopefuls at York must undergo tortuous initiations in order to be accepted onto the teams. Tom Weir, York Rugby Club Press and Publicity officer commented: "We can't use the phrases 'initiation' or 'hazing now, they've really clamped down. It's more fear of a word than anything, but we don't really do anything too hardcore now anyway. It's really more a case of lots of drinking…it's not compulsory, but it does foster team spirit!"
Tom explains: "There are people on the team who don't drink, but that doesn't mean they're not good rugby players, just that they're not good drinkers! We obviously know the difference and I think that goes across the board for the sports teams, you pick the team at training, not at the bar. The way I think about it is, if I didn't want to do something, then I'm not going to turn around and tell someone else to do it"
This is not the case everywhere. I spoke to Flo, a third year studying at the University of Lincoln. Having decided to try out for the Hockey team, and being accepted, Flo and her new team mates were instructed to meet on the pitch after the first practice "wearing school uniform".
"After the expected drinking games involving a disgusting two pence piece and much singing, the existing members of the boys and girls teams took out permanent markers and starting drawing on the potential new members. The men's team basically claimed my boobs, and scrawled horrific things all over them (they pulled my top up for 'ease of access')." Here one can understand the emphasis placed on heavy drinking by the senior members: "The rude words and slogans scrawled across my arms and face might have shattered my confidence if vodka hadn't made up such a large percentage of my bloodstream. I felt completely used and degraded, I couldn't look any of them in the eye for weeks afterwards", Flo added. By the end of this disgusting event, newbies were "vomiting all over each other".
This is disturbing enough; however it appears that when such events are taken beyond the relative safety of a University campus things become further out of hand. I speak to Sam, who signed up for the Hockey Club when he started Sussex University: "It started at the club. There was this awful obstacle course, where we were made to do a series of exercises – running laps, star jumps, push ups and for every set we completed they had to down another drink. A different kind every time too – pints of beer, shots… you name it."
One would assume that this would be enough to prove the new member's mettle. There was however, a further stage to the proceedings. Sam continued:
"Completely intoxicated, nauseous, or post-nauseous, we were bundled into the team's mini van. Then they stripped us, took literally everything we had on us." As if this wasn't humiliating enough, there was one final challenge. "We were driven to an 'unknown location' – though to be honest, we were all new to the Uni, so the local area was pretty unfamiliar territory. Then we were all dumped there, and before the van drove off we were given the challenge of returning to base camp at the uni campus."
The unknown location turned out to be West Street, one of the busiest streets in Brighton centre. It was after dark when they were dropped right outside Wetherspoons – pushed out of the van to make their way back to campus. "Six and a half miles without money, phones… or clothes, or risk losing the respect of the club. You felt like you had to do it, but I wish in retrospect that someone had refused, because I don't think anyone remotely enjoyed it. It could have gone so wrong, imagine being arrested before you'd even finished your first term."
It appears that at York also, hockey is the most infamous sport's club in terms of initiation-type drinking games and 'hazing', though by no means in so extreme a form as Sam's experience at Sussex. First year Graham was present during the hockey president's weekend at the end of last term, when the club celebrated the end of the season. He described: "They did an obstacle course style thing – a different one each for boys and girls. It was pretty grim. Boys had to down pints of Guinness with olive oil, eat raw onion, dog food, and some other pretty foul looking drinks. It was a pretty embarrassing sight all round."
There does nevertheless appear to be a general desire on campus to moderate this behaviour, so unfavourable would be a comparison with nationally publicised incidences such as the Nazi Gloucester. Rugby Press Officer Tom Weir agrees: "I think there's been a clampdown since then. And I think there was a bit of a witch hunt making sure York wasn't going to get dragged in and compared with those horrible people down in Gloucester."
He continues, "I think there's a difference between someone drinking and then being sick and making someone drink with the specific purpose of making them sick. If you have a few drinks, have a bit of a dodgy stomach then it is a possibility, but that's not like forcing someone to keep drinking until they throw up. You occasionally get someone who's had too much them self and then says something out of turn, but not the club as a whole."
What, one might enquire, is the point? If these rituals are nothing but a humiliating means of torturing freshers, how is it that they have endured so long? I put this to Flo: "I think that there may be an element of, well, I had to go through it to 'get in' to the club, so why should these new guys get in for free? Like if you really want to be part of the gang then you should be willing to put up with one gruesome night. And you do feel that in some twisted way you have shared an experience with the other new members that people who weren't there wouldn't be able to relate to. Unless their breasts had been ambushed by drunken hockey players with marker pens."
I ask her how far she would be prepared to go to get into a society. "Well I do think that some of the more extreme things you hear about are absolutely disgusting. I have a friend at Southampton who had to drink a bottle of wine through fish guts to get into a sport's club. To be honest, I wouldn't want to be a member, if that was the kind of thing that was expected, it could never be worth the humiliation. But I think a lot of people don't mind it if it's just extreme drinking – it's just another heavy night out to them."
It is certainly shocking, what to some, might pass for a normal night's drinking. One infamous drinking game 'centurion', is apparently a favourite for welcoming new students into their university careers. The game is simple: one shot of beer per minute until the player passes out. For an eight and a half stone girl, ten units of alcohol drunken consecutively could raise her blood alcohol percentage to 0.38. This would be enough to risk severe depression, unconsciousness, or even death.
Yet every student I questioned agreed that whilst ten units one after the other did seem very excessive, it would by no means be out of the question to consume that amount over the course of a night. Furthermore, although most did not feel under peer pressure to drink, there was definitely a sense that the ability to 'hold one's drink' was something to be envied or even admired. James, a Vanbrugh fresher, eagerly relates "I have a friend who I've literally seen down three pints, one after the other. He's a massive guy but it was still bloody impressive, I'd have chundered after one and a half".
There are some less disturbing, more amusing stories. Clare, a third year medical student at Imperial College, recalls an initiation she witnessed: "Freshers had to bring a hat, kilt, two litre booze bottle and a fish 'suitable for self-defence'. They then did an assault course outside (wearing only hat and kilt) where they had to chug a different drink each time, all mixed up and designed to make them throw up… I think one was Guinness followed by ginger ale followed by milk. They finished off by fighting each other with their chosen fish. To be honest, it seemed more a good laugh than disgusting though!"
Josh, a second year, tells me about a society initiation a friend of his at Edinburgh University apparently went through during his first year: "All the freshers turn up with their passports. They have a big game of five's – similar to rock paper scissors in a way and the loser has to get on a plane to Amsterdam pretty much immediately. There was also a list of tasks they had to do before they were allowed to come home. It may be urban legend but I really hope it's true…."


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 17:10 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
"Yesterday Oracle announced the release of their own version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, simply called Enterprise Linux or 'Unbreakable Linux'. In a remarkably similar move to such projects as CentOS, Oracle have decided to remove all Red Hat specific trademarks and brand it as their own (all quite legit, of course). They will be supplying bugfixes for this new version, and will also be synchronising it with future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We decided to take a peek at what Oracle had come up with. Read on for a first-look, and the Linux Format team's opinions." In the meantime, Mark Shuttleworth said a partnership with Oracle is no longer a matter of if, but when.


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John Wesley Johnston, son of Irvin and Christina (Nelson) Johnston, was born in August 1846 in Pennsylvania and died 16 May 1907 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota. He married Mary Elizabeth Porter about 1867 in Pennsylvania. Wesley and Lizzie had four children: Elmer Porter, James Edwin, William Howard, and Ida Mable.
|J. W. Johnston (1846 - 1907)
Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota
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|Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
James E. Johnston, age 72, died Apr 9, 1943
J. Wesley Johnston, age 59, died May 16, 1907
Mary E. Johnston, age 89, died Dec 13, 1934
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Sexual intimacy is essential to well being. All human beings need to touch and be touched. Yet people living with HIV are often denied touch because of other people's ignorance; or they themselves shy away from touch because of shame, pain, or fear of HIV transmission. It shouldn't and doesn't have to be that way. Honest, informed and safe discussions (especially with yourself!) about desire, HIV, and transmission are the keys to fulfilling sexual intimacy.
Testing positive for HIV forces many women to really think about, and talk about, sex for the first time. While this may feel hard, it's actually really good! It can get you in touch with your health, your history, and your sexual desires. This is an incredible opportunity -- one that many women, positive and negative, simply miss.
Our desire for sexual intimacy changes over time depending on many factors, including our environment, our opportunities or where we are in our lives. Stress, illness, depression, low self-esteem, poor body image, hormonal changes, sickness, and how we have been treated in relationships can diminish our interest in sex. HIV itself can be a deterrent for sex, as sex is often associated with getting HIV. Recognizing that sex needn't stop after an HIV diagnosis is an important part of facing and adapting to one's HIV status. This often takes time.
There are things that can rejuvenate our interest in sex, including the emotional healing, strong self-image, health, and just missing physical intimacy. Becoming informed about safer sex and, if possible, having safe and open discussions with your sexual partner(s), can enhance sex. This can be hard at first. But safer sex, with or without disclosure, is a necessary fact for everybody.
For more information on safer sex, read the article in Wise Words #4 entitled "Sex and Transmission: A Continued Concern for HIV-Positive Women."
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Comfort, Safety, and outstanding energy-efficiency are the focus for UTC Climate, Controls & Security in India.
A world leader in aerospace and buildings systems, United Technologies has created a portfolio of smart and sustainable solutions to meet India´s growing needs. For instance, its group company UTC Climate, Controls & Security (UTC CCS) delivers safety, security and energy-efficient technologies in heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, refrigeration, building controls and automation, fire and security.
Making for India
Carrier installed its first air-conditioner in India in 1936 and in the last few decades has emerged to be the leading player in the Indian HVAC market. Over the years, it has also significantly localised its operations through its manufacturing set up and created a strong portfolio of products made in India. As Arun Bhatia, Managing Director, UTC Climate, Controls & Security (India Region), says, ¨Our investment in terms of generating employment and manufacturing started much before Make in India was born. So Make in India is a logical growth path and not just an option to us.¨ Further, Carrier´s HVAC and Refrigeration factory in Gurgaon manufactures HVAC products for commercial and light commercial applications like ducted split systems, cassettes air-cooled screw and water cooled screw chillers with an AHRI certified test bed, air-handling units besides chest freezers, cold room systems and Food retail display cases. Moreover, through its Intelligent Building Systems (IBS) group, it provides security solutions (Chubb Alba), building management systems (Carrier Race) and remote monitoring services to its customers.
The gain game
In February 2012, UTC CCS acquired Sauter Race Technologies to reinforce its position in the integrated building management systems (IBMS) segment - offering more comprehensive end-to-end building management systems (BMS) including controls, fire and security solutions. The same year, Carrier India and Midea formed a JV to manufacture and distribute residential air-conditioning systems.
The company also formed a global JV with Toshiba back in 1999.
Chiraj Baijal, Director-Sales Commercial Business, UTC Climate, Controls & Security, says, ¨We service and sell Toshiba air-conditioning products everywhere outside Japan. Majorly for India, we source VRF and inverters for light commercial use from Thailand and Japan.¨ In 2015, both companies signed a new JV to localise HVAC operations. Baijal updates, ¨There is a lot of focus on three markets - the US, Europe and India - and we are talking of sales engineering centres for ¨local fit¨ products. This will lead to different options for manufacturing or outsourcing. It´s a significant step-up to grow the business.¨
Managing the building
UTC CCS is now sprucing up its BMS business. ¨BMS becomes integral to running a building efficiently,¨ says Bhatia. ¨We get all the utilities in the building onto a common platform and there is a central command or control centre to monitor functioning.¨ He elaborates, ¨We need to build up capabilities in India. We have Carrier Race and Chubb Alba for Intelligent Building Solutions (IBS); the idea is to provide life-safety, security and BMS in a building.¨ While the entire security system in the Mumbai airport has been done by Chubb, Infosys has implemented the BMS software through which it has hooked up its 70-80 buildings on one platform to monitor performance and ensure energy-efficiency.
Saving energy
Apart from BMS, one of the company´s recent innovations is Advante3c - a specialist team that audits existing buildings and suggest energy-saving interventions. For example, when Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon asked the company for one more chiller, the audit team found it was not required. The result: In one year, the company saved 5 lakh units of power and significant amount of money. ¨The building must be designed considering parameters to conserve energy,¨ says Bhatia, adding that the scenario changes in case of smart cities.
¨Different buildings will perform differently; if there is a common district cooling plant room, things can be regularised better.¨ Other than air-conditioning, controls also play an important role to ensure efficiency.
Products to protect
UTC CCS also offers a variety of products and services to improve building performance. Its TruVision megapixel IP cameras provide reliable video surveillance with integrated motion detection and audio capabilities. From hardwired control panels to high-end life safety and emergency communications platforms, Edwards EST life safety systems protect customers worldwide. Additionally, the company offers a range of fire-safety systems; it has supplied to energy infrastructure projects across India, including the Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Plant.
The company has also invested significantly towards its R&D as well as engineering efforts in the country. UTC´s engineering centre in Hyderabad develops, localises, and integrates fire and security products, among other cutting-edge technology initiatives. The company has also consistently invested in localising its product that are well-suited for the Indian market and operating conditions. Its recent launches include a localised water-cooled chiller range with larger capacities. On the fire side, the company unveiled the cabinet protection system. And, according to Baijal, a new VRF system from Toshiba called SMMSe was recently launched in India to great response from customers.
Partnering with government
Ten years ago, when the star labelling programme was not made mandatory for India, UTC was among the few companies to pledge to the government that it would partner for the same. Baijal shares, ¨We are partnering for the inverter labelling, VRF standard and chiller standard programmes, and actively involved in the BEE-driven Energy Conservation Building Code.¨ The company is also engaged with the Bureau of Indian Standards and several state governments. Bhatia adds, ¨We are partnering with states to contribute to smart cities by offering city-wise surveillance, fire solutions, IBS and HVAC for buildings.¨
UTC CCS is also significantly active with different government bodies like CII, where Bhatia chairs the Haryana state chapter as well as Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), of which he is the chair for Delhi region. Apart from working closely with organisations like CII and IGBC, UTC CCS also works closely with TERI on a long-term research project centered around energy-efficiency in existing buildings.
Market map
UTC believes in organic growth on the existing business front as well as building a new portfolio. The HVAC vertical, supported by established brands like Carrier and Toshiba is bigger than the newly established IBS. However, Bhatia reveals, ¨We have been growing at double digits in the past two to three years.¨ Crediting this to a successful marketing strategy, he adds, ¨This year is going good in terms of profits across business segments.¨ And, Baijal says, ¨We continue to grow profitably to sustain ourselves. There is a complete value chain of not just selling a product but installing and servicing it as well.¨ And, while UTC CCS continues to invest in people, boasting 1,000 employees across India, the company enjoys a strong network base with over 300 exclusive channel partners. With such a strong foundation to support the future of India, growth is a given!
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Michelle Horton of Early Mama is all about redefining what it means to be a young mom and her writing is so good and beautiful we all want to take the journey with her.
See her Mother's Day post below:
Noah is obsessed with magic wands, which he makes from just about anything that's long and skinny. Just in my eye shot, I see two tree sticks, a plastic golf club, a drum stick, and an empty paper-towel roll — all his magic wands. And that's only a fraction of his wand hoarding.
But these aren't Superhero wands or even magician wands, but fairy wands. As in the Three Good Fairies and Fairy Godmothers. After a love affair with Sleeping Beauty (make it pink! make it blue!) and Cinderella, his new favorite wand-related source of music and happiness is the Rodgers & Hammerstein version of Cinderella with Whitney Houston and Brandy. Remember that ABC special? Back in '97?
He loves it. (So do I.)
And, naturally, because he's a human with a pulse, his favorite song to sing around the house is Impossible. He especially likes the part where the lyrics change to say It's Possible (because of the zanies and fools who don't believe in sensible rules).
So do I.
I like to think I'm "grown up" now — what with a marriage certificate tucked away in an organized filing system, butted up next to my child's Social Security card and our insurance policies.
But — c'mon. I'm not. I'm not.
And instead of sticking my fingers in my ears screaming la la la lalalalala I'm mature! I'm different! LALALALA, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about and accepting where I am.
Sure I'm not stumbling home on a Saturday morning only to find 47 unflattering photos tagged on Facebook from a night I can barely remember. Just hearing someone use the word drama instinctively causes my eyes to roll — as if I shot back through time, to the high school cafeteria, and are you people still doing this? I pay my bills, cook family dinners, tuck my son in every night, healthy and clean and well-cared for, with a soft whisper of sweet dreams. And if the whisper doesn't work, I rock and console him — promising to always protect him. And meaning it in the most primal of ways.
But that's just surface maturity.
In all honesty, I'm still in a primitive state of adulthood. When it comes to not only parenting and (especially) marriage, but life in general, the leaves fall off trees and I wonder if they'll ever grow back. I have the experience, the perspective, of a 25 year old — and that's okay. I'm okay with that. I still have to live through more of life's many, many cycles — the ups and downs, the highs and lows, the dark times that feel insurmountable yet you somehow come out on the other side.
And that's what ultimately quiets the self-doubt and minimizes the missteps while we fumble around in the dark. Perspective. But thankfully I have a reason to stay on course — a fast-track course. I have a reason to make the big changes, to prioritize my life, to become the kind of person that might have taken years of life lessons to become.
Yet what I lack in perspective, I make up for with possibilities.
With blind ambition and positivity.
With leaps of faith and time to spare.
With impossible hopes that can easily be possible.
One day I'll be 42, sitting down with my 20-year-old son at the same dining room table that we've eaten dinners at for decades. He'll ask for advice — the kind of nitty-gritty advice that can only be answered with serious life experience. And I'll have it. I'll be 42 and have already raised a family to adulthood, navigated through the lowest points of marriage, made the right moves, made the wrong moves. I'll have the perspective of someone who's watched a little boy take his first wobbly steps all the way to the dining room table where he wants to know if she's the one for him.
I'll have the perspective, and I'll give the advice.
But right now he needs magic.
And that I can do.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: edge of my dream in the land of twilight...ZzzZzZ
Pita Ten Questions [Spoilers?]
I recently just started watching Pita Ten and so far I really enjoy the anime. I got a question that's been on my mind when I finished watching episode 3... or was it 4? I forget which one it was, but it was where Shia broke her staff. Does her staff have any significant importance?
|2004-03-04, 15:51
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annoying white bat
Join Date: Jan 2004
Nothing of any importance happens to Shia until much later in the series. I don't specifically remember the scene you mention but I can assure you that it is nothing to be too concerned about.
|2004-03-04, 17:47
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White Dragon
Join Date: Dec 2003
|2004-03-05, 03:18
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HnK founding lunatic
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Maryland, USA
Age: 36
The manga story can't really be correlated to the anime story in this fashion. They've proven themselves to be VERY different - Shia's personality and motivations especially.
In the anime, the staff doesn't really seem to have any importance whatsoever. It just made it impossible for her to carry it around all the time. =P
|2004-03-05, 03:27
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lost in wonder forever...
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: edge of my dream in the land of twilight...ZzzZzZ
Is that so? I thought breaking her staff caused her to lose her powers or changed her personality. The scene where she broke her staff seemed so dramatic that I thought it was an important item for Shia. Oh yeah, Star I like your group subbing for Pita Ten, although the font colors are a little hard to see.
|2004-03-06, 02:55
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Fate/ Stay Night
Join Date: Jun 2003
The manga of Pita Ten is much, MUCH darker than the anime.
It starts off all happy go lucky, but after vol4, it starts becoming darker and darker.
The manga version goes much deeper into the story than the anime (mainly because the anime had to end when the manga was still running). It finally explains just what is going on with Misha, Shia and Kotarou.
It gets really, really sad later on
|2004-03-06, 03:09
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: 加拿大
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Pitaten is one of my favorite animes. There's a manga about it? Damn, I didn't know about its existence until now. I'll try to find it the next time I visit the local manga store. Just curious, how sad does it get in the manga? Let me guess:
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Middle of insanity
Pita Ten - What an amazing anime!
For an anime targeted to kids, I have to say I seriously am enjoying this anime!! Took me a while to get to it, and at first I was kinda aprehensive about watching it, but in the 12 episodes I've seen so far I've laughed my butt off, and become very attached to the charecters! Plus, for those who look deeper, there's a LOT of really complex stuff built into this series. It's definately one that both kids and adults can enjoy. I'm very much amazed at how much of the story they've set up in 12 episodes already, and I still got 14 more to go!!
The whole "who's the devil/who's the angel" thing is very intriguing too. It's got me dying to see the ending to get answers to much of what I've see so far. The cat in there is a riot too. I think Misha-san and the little girl with the cat ears (I keep forgetting her name) are my two favorite charecters in there as well.
I definately feel that this is most certainly a family anime. The kids would love the humor and grade school level antics, the adults would love the mystery and complexity that's very well placed in each episode. At some points there seems to be an entirely new plot twist every 5 minutes that really adds to the mystery and story as a whole.
If you haven't downloaded and seen this anime yet, by all means, do so. It's a major 10 in my book so far and will definately be added to my list of top scoring animes! Oh, and the opening song and animation is great too. I love it.
|2004-03-10, 02:24
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annoying white bat
Join Date: Jan 2004
"the little girl with the cat ears"-->You mean the classmate, Koboshi? Shia totally makes this show for me, she is too cute for words. Her cat is actually the best character in the show...
This show has a lot of good points. I enjoyed the relationships of the characters. I was not very concerned with what-all was going on; apparently the manga is a bit different.
|2004-03-10, 09:04
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Junior Member
Pita Ten is truly a very cute anime I liked Misha the most, although Shia is indeed very cute, too.
If your are looking for a deeper and more serious style, i highly recommend you the Pita Ten manga, i think it is even much better than the anime, and i really love Koge-Donbo's art
|2004-03-10, 14:15
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lost in wonder forever...
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: edge of my dream in the land of twilight...ZzzZzZ
Glad to see someone else enjoying the anime as much as I have. I like both Shia and Misha because they both have personalities that l like, and they have such cute PJs.
|2004-03-10, 14:26
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HnK founding lunatic
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Maryland, USA
Age: 36
I would think PitaTen is more for the "teens that love cute" category than the little kids. Especially if you're going by the manga.
The anime seemed enjoyable at first, but quickly dropped to episode after episode of pointless fluff. Combined with Shia's "dumb as a brick" characterization in the anime, it really lost my interest. You're better off reading the manga.
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From the Editor. Enamored by the sensational and exciting as we Western moderns are, a good dose of detailed practicality is always in order. In many areas of modern life order is out of fashion, especially in human relations. Well-run meetings foster healthy relations not only among those in the meeting, but also among those they serve. Alan Strange has become our resident expert on parliamentary procedure. His article "How to Run the Session Meeting" should help us all improve the running of our regular session meetings. The newly ordained minister should especially profit from this wisdom.
Nothing reflects the disorder of our fallen world like death. In Ecclesiastes death is the ultimate vanity or expression that human existence is not according to design. "No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death" (Eccl. 8:8). Brad Winsted brings us the second part of his moving personal chronicle, "A Road of Grief: Hitting the Stone Wall: Reflections on a Biblical Marriage."
Anyone who has followed the unique research of sociologist Christian Smith on teenagers and emerging adults will want to read the results of his latest research. In this issue T. David Gordon reviews Christian Smith's Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood. Our fallenness disorders everything. At certain points in history the disorder is amplified in particular areas of culture. In this case, the problem with emerging adults is that they are not emerging with the adult characteristics that have hitherto defined adulthood.
In another area of disorder, David Booth reviews Anthony Selvaggio's 7 Toxic Ideas Polluting Your Mind, reminding us that not only do the forms of culture alter our thinking but the forms themselves originate in the ideas of those who form culture. The noetic effects of sin call the Christian to bring every thought captive. Selvaggio reminds us, in contemporary terms, of how important this calling is.
The disordered soul is always within the poet's purview. John Donne's "Holy Sonnet 14" is a sharply crafted prayer, asking God to dramatically order our sinful lives anew.
Blessings in the Lamb,
Ordained Servant exists to help encourage, inform, and equip church officers for faithful, effective, and God glorifying ministry in the visible church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Its primary audience is ministers, elders, and deacons of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, as well as interested officers from other Presbyterian and Reformed churches. Through high quality editorials, articles, and book reviews we endeavor to stimulate clear thinking and the consistent practice of historic, confessional Presbyterianism.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- Touted as a safer alternative to traditional smoking, electronic cigarettes are supposed to give smokers their nicotine fix without the cancer-causing side effects of tobacco. But some have serious concerns that the battery-operated vaping devices may actually pose more dangers to users.
Gwynne Chesher lives in Florida, where smoking in most public places was banned more than eight years ago. She's been smoking for more than 40 years.
"In 1965, everybody smoked, it was an acceptable thing to do back then," said Chesher.
At her worst, Chesher was puffing a pack a day and eventually, she tried to stop.
"I tried the gum. It gave me a stomachache," she said. "Tried the patch. It made my heart beat fast and scared me."
So when her son recently suggested yet something else, Chesher signed up.
"You just inhale like a cigarette," said Chesher, as she explained how to use an e-cigarette. "It looks like smoke, but it's water vapor."
E-cigarettes, what some call "vaping," are battery operated. They have the look and feel of a traditional cigarette, without the smell, the smoke and the harmful side effects, say its supporters.
"I was really impressed," said Chesher.
Then her doctor weighed in.
"He was like 'No way! You can't use those!'" she said.
Dr. Mike Feinstein, a spokesman for the American Lung Association said, "People are inhaling some type of chemical vaporized compound into their lungs without really knowing what's in it."
Last year, the American Lung Association issued its own warning about e-cigarettes: "This is a buyer stay away, a buyer health hazard, potentially."
Dr. Robert Greene treats lung cancer patients at the Palm Beach Cancer Institute and said the product is potentially a health hazard.
"There really is no information about whether they're safe or not, and that's part of the problem," said Greene.
He says with no real data on e-cigarettes, the three-year-old tobacco alternative may actually be more harmful that traditional cigarettes.
"The doses of nicotine that you get could conceivably be higher than what you would get in a typical cigarette," said Greene.
Ray Story is an e-cigarette distributor and CEO of the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association.
"To make that claim is obviously ludicrous," he said. "At the end of the day when you look at an e-cigarette, is it addictive? Nicotine is addictive."
Authorities don't necessarily know what's inside of e-cigarettes, but the FDA tested a small sample just a few years ago and found a number of toxic chemicals including diethylene glycol, the same ingredient used in antifreeze.
"I understand they found all kinds of stuff," said Story. "At one point in time you may have found whatever you want to find. If it cannot be substantiated by the other side, you have to question their motive."
The findings forced the Food and Drug Administration to issue a nationwide health warning.
Meanwhile, Chesher says she's decided to wash her hands of anything to do with electronic cigarettes.
"I have no problem throwing them in the trash," she said.
According to the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, e-cigarettes contain just five ingredients, all approved by the FDA. Recently, the FDA announced it will begin to regulate e-cigarettes as a tobacco product.


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Dr. E. George Heus, FACS, a former resident of Amityville from 1952 until 1987, died Jan. 19, 2014 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. He was 95 years old. A graduate of Cornell University and the University of Buffalo, he was a veteran of the United Stated Air Force and served during World War II as a lieutenant.
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Grasshopper Completes Half-Mile Flight in Last Test
On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude, hovering and returning back to the launch pad. The test lasted 78.8 seconds and was conducted at SpaceX's rocket development facility in McGregor, TX. The video is filmed from a single camera hexacopter drone, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight.
Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up on atmosphere reentry, SpaceX rockets are being designed not only to withstand reentry, but also to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing. The Grasshopper VTVL vehicle represents a critical step towards this goal.
Grasshopper consists of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage tank, Merlin 1D engine, four steel and aluminum landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure.
This was the last scheduled test for the Grasshopper rig; next up will be low altitude tests of the Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) development vehicle in Texas followed by high altitude testing in New Mexico.
During the most recent Falcon 9 flight, SpaceX successfully initiated two engine relights of the rocket's first stage and recovered portions of the stage after atmospheric reentry. Along with the Grasshopper tests, this further informs our efforts toward achieving full recovery of the Falcon 9 first stage.


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Judge Roy Moore wins as Alabama chief justice
Promises to 'acknowledge God' just like state constitution
Judge Roy Moore, who made headlines when state officials removed him from his position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2003, has been re-elected to that very post.
In a race that was called some hours after polls closed tonight, Moore was declared winner over Bob Vance, a Jefferson County circuit judge. The victory margin was 52-48 percent.
After the race was called, Moore told WND he will concentrate on assessing the case load, the budget and other administrative tasks as soon as he takes office early in the new year.
"It was a wonderful victory," he said.
In a recent editorial asking for votes, he explained that the controversy that resulted in his removal nearly 10 years ago was not primarily about a Ten Commandments monument he had had installed in the court building.
"I will … lead the judicial system of Alabama to uphold constitutional principles and moral values contained in our law and will resist all efforts to disparage or destroy our beloved constitution," he wrote then.
"Perhaps most Alabamians remember me because I displayed a monument of the Ten Commandments at the Supreme Court when I was Chief Justice. But what many do not understand is that it was a constitutional issue, not about the Ten Commandments or a monument – but whether the state of Alabama could acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, and government," he wrote.
"In fact, the federal district judge specifically stated in his order, 'While the Chief Justice is free to keep whatever religious belief he chooses the state [of Alabama] may not acknowledge the sovereignty of the Judeo Christian God and attribute to that God our religious freedom," he said.
But he pointed out that that order itself "contradicted the United States Supreme Court, which declared in 1931 and 1946 that our religious liberty is given by God."
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"The true issue is whether we can acknowledge the sovereignty of Almighty God over the affairs of our state and our law," he has said.
He told WND that he has no plans to reprise that argument during his coming term.
In the election campaign, he won the endorsement of legendary martial arts champion and film tough guy Chuck Norris.
Norris, the star of the recently released "Expendables 2," a shoot 'em-up that also features other Hollywood tough guys, made a radio ad to promote Moore's candidacy.
Norris said America "is at a tipping point."
"We need true patriots to get us out of the mess we're in," he said. "I know Judge Roy Moore, and he is a true patriot."
Norris' wife, Gena, adds that Moore "fought the ACLU and liberal judges to preserve our rights and freedoms."
Chuck Norris said, "He knows our liberty is given by God, not government."
In a statement posted by Human Events, Norris wrote: "Gone are the days when patriots such as Isaac Shelby, Charles McDowell and Elijah Clark led attacks against loyalist posts during the Revolutionary War. But present today are many other great patriots, aside from the one in the presidential race – such as Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Rep. Allen West, R-Fla.; Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz, R-Texas; Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo.; Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, "Joe the Plumber," R-Ohio; and Judge Roy Moore, R-Ala. – who are fighting worthy battles in state election arenas at this very moment."
Norris endorsed Moore's campaign in 2010 for governor, noting, "More than just an amazing legal mind, he is first a true patriot and passionate family man."
He said then Moore is one of the "constitutionally abiding legal eagles who walk in the legacy of our Founding Fathers and who we need serving in every state across our union."
Moore told WND it would be a "significant statement" for voters to return him to office, "knowing what I stand for."
He even earned the endorsement of the state AFL-CIO.
Since his removal from office a decade ago, Moore has served with the Foundation for Moral Law and surprised political observers by taking a majority, 51 percent, of the primary vote in March against two other contenders.
As WND also reported, Moore lit a fire in the hearts of tea partiers at the first national convention in Nashville, inspiring four impassioned standing ovations with his reading of a "bill of particulars" against President Obama.
He also told a cheering crowd, "We're tired of liberal Republicans who don't hold the principles of their party."
He's the author of "So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom."