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Only the US Can Effectively End the Iranian Nuclear Threat
by Noah Beck
With Iran stubbornly spinning its nuclear centrifuges, despite nearly a decade of diplomatic efforts and sanctions, time is short to avoid another Middle East conflict that could spin disastrously out of control, leave many dead, and send oil prices skyrocketing. But the U.S. can still resolve this combustible crisis by using much bigger carrots and sticks to convince Iran to change course before it's too late.
Only a credible threat of devastating force against Iran will peacefully prevent a potential doomsday scenario from becoming reality, and only the US can deliver such a threat. Unlike the Israeli military, the overwhelming power of the US military can completely destroy — rather than merely delay — Iran's nuclear program and Iran's ability to retaliate.
Unfortunately the signals of weakness out of Washington have only emboldened Iran.
Last August, Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a dangerously counterproductive message to Iran when he said, referring to an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear program, "I don't want to be complicit if they choose to do it." According to reports last summer, the US used diplomatic back channels to ask Iran not to attack the US should Israel choose to strike unilaterally.
More recently, President Obama has nominated former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense. The Senior Republican Senator from Texas, John Cornyn, detailed Hagel's abysmal voting record and stated positions when it comes to Iran and Israel in a CNN op-ed titled "Why I can't support Hagel." Senator Cornyn concludes that "the president has sent the worst possible message to our closest Middle Eastern ally and our greatest Middle Eastern enemy."
Thus, rather than projecting unity and strength, the US has signaled division and weakness to Iran.
If Israel must act alone, the odds are far higher that a regional conflagration will result because Iran's retaliation will be that much more easily supported by one or more of its regional allies: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza, and possibly even Syria. Such an explosive regional war would undoubtedly draw in the US, notwithstanding its meek diplomatic requests to the contrary.
Paradoxically, if Iran believes that the US is about to launch a massive attack, it will back down, and no force will be needed. But if Iran doubts American resolve, the Islamic Republic will continue on its nuclear warpath.
The threat of force should be used to achieve something far more effective than the illusory "arrangement" settled on with North Korea in 1994. The goal with Iran must be a Libya-style total disarmament, removing equipment and material from Iran's nuclear weapons program, with independent verification by the IAEA.
Such a disarmament is the only way to eliminate the many risks posed by the Iranian nuclear program. These dangers potentially include: (i) nuclear proliferation, because other countries in the volatile Middle East will feel threatened into wanting their own nuclear programs; (ii) the transfer of nuclear materials from Iran — the world's chief sponsor of terrorism — to terrorist organizations and/or states; (iii) bolder attacks by terrorist groups protected by an Iranian nuclear umbrella; and (iv) an even more belligerent Iran that flexes its nuclear arsenal to: export its radical Islamic ideology, acquire disputed territories and resources from neighboring countries, and/or undertake actions like blocking the Strait of Hormuz to increase the price of oil.
Iran violently quelled the democratic aspirations of its citizens in 2009 and has actively supported the brutal crackdown on Syrian protesters. The Islamic Republic directly and through its proxies threatens stability in Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Iraq, and the Gulf area. Iran is also responsible for many deaths of American and coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As clear as it is today that a nuclear weapon in the hands of the Third Reich would have spelled catastrophe, so should it be clear with the Iranian theocracy. Even reformers with the best of intentions would need time to transform Iran's governing system and political culture. The world must wait for major changes before concluding that Iran can be trusted with the world's most dangerous weapons.
In the interest of fairness and good faith, the threat of overwhelming military force for non-compliance should be complemented by generous rewards for co-operation. In exchange for the verifiable dismantling of Iran's entire nuclear program, the US should compensate Iran financially for related losses, offer adequate guarantees for Iranian security (adopted by the Security Council if needed), and provide economic benefits (like replacing economic sanctions with US and EU free trade agreements) that are collectively far more advantageous than a nuclear weapon would be. If the Iranian regime is peaceful (or rational), then it should readily accept such an attractive bargain. Otherwise, the regime clearly has bellicose intentions for its nuclear activities and must be stopped by the only world power that can do so swiftly and decisively.
Iran has frequently called for the destruction of Israel and has — despite the sanctions against it — actively worked to acquire the means to annihilate Israel whenever it chooses. Thus, every day the Middle East moves closer to an Armageddon-type showdown that could force Israel's hand. Only the U.S. has the power to resolve the matter peacefully, with a grand bargain, and decisively, if necessary, with overwhelming force. Our world depends on such an intervention, and history is watching.
Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis, a doomsday novel about the Iranian nuclear threat. His editorial is largely based on the epilogue to that book.


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Why recreation trails
Trails are not only the way most people connect with nature, they also add to America's outdoor recreation economy. We work to make sure trails are maintained and protected.
Keeping trails open
The hundreds of thousands of miles of trails on wildlands all need to be kept up. Not only do closed trails stop people from getting where they want to go, but they can harm surrounding lands and waters.
National Forest trails
Within our national forests are trails that allow people to connect with and experience nature. The US Forest Service is making outdoor recreation a higher priority.
Trails on Bureau of Land Management lands
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands do not have many trails for hiking, horseback riding or bicycling. At Wilderness, we're working to make trail recreation a priority for the BLM.
Wilderness is a precious resource with many human, natural and economic benefits that we need to protect.
Each day, thousands of acres of our wild places are lost to development. You can help save America's last remaining wilderness by joining The Wilderness Society with a gift of $35 or more today!
Hear artists, activists and adventurers share what the ownership and legacy of these American wildlands means to them.

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However with WLST or ANT the SOA Suite comes with two options to undeploy composites via script. In this article I'd like to explain you both ways.
Undeployment with WLSTYou can test the steps below on Oracle's Pre-built Virtual Machine for SOA Suite and BPM Suite 11g.
1) Change to the WLST directory under MIDDLEWARE_HOME/Oracle_SOA1/common/bin.
cd /oracle/fmwhome/Oracle_SOA1/common/bin/
2) Open WLST
3) Connect to the SOA server
wls:/offline> connect('weblogic','welcome1','t3://soabpm-vm:7001')
Connecting to t3://soabpm-vm:7001 with userid weblogic ...
Successfully connected to Admin Server 'AdminServer' that belongs to domain 'dev_bpm'.
Connecting to t3://soabpm-vm:7001 with userid weblogic ...
Successfully connected to Admin Server 'AdminServer' that belongs to domain 'dev_bpm'.
4) Run the delete command for the appropriate partition
wls:/dev_bpm/serverConfig> sca_deletePartition('test')
partitionName = test
Partition was successfully deleted.
Please take into account that the command deletes all composites as well as the partition itself. If you need the partition for future deployments just recreate it with the sca_createPartition WLST-command. Also check the Oracle Fusion Middleware WebLogic Scripting Tool Command Reference for a complete list of SOA Suite Custom WLST Commands.
Undeployment with ANTAnother option is to use ANT for the undeployment of multiple composites. The key here is to reference the file ant-sca-mgmt.xml within your custom ANT-target. The file comes with SOA Suite as well as JDeveloper. See my quick example below:
<target name="sca_deletePartition">
<echo>Undeploy Composites</echo>
<ant antfile="/oracle/fmwhome/Oracle_SOA1/bin/ant-sca-mgmt.xml"
inheritall="false" target="deletePartition">
<property name="host" value="soabpm-vm"/>
<property name="port" value="7001"/>
<property name="user" value="weblogic"/>
<property name="password" value="welcome1"/>
<property name="partition" value="testPartition"/>
Again this command deletes all composites of the given partition as well as the partition itself. See the Developer's Guide - Managing SOA Composite Applications with Script for more details.
Update: After reading this article Christoph Burmeister from our Build Management team created a pom-snippet for this to make the maven fans happy as well :-) Many thanks Christoph!!


text: Corning City Police arrested a Second Street resident Monday evening after an investigation into alleged sex abuse of a minor. Michael A. Nicholson, 18, of 389 E. Second St., was charged with two counts of first-degree felony criminal sex act, one count of first-degree felony attempted criminal sex act, one count of first-degree felony attempted sexual abuse, two counts of misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree misdemeanor sexual abuse, police said. Nicholson allegedly sexually abused a minor over the last six to eight months, police said. Police began their investigation in February; he was arrested at about 6:30 p.m. Monday near East First and Steuben streets, police said. Nicholson was taken to Steuben County Jail without bail. He will appear in Steuben County Court at a later date.


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Battling artists craft new agreement for building
By Lincoln Anderson
In a unanimous vote, representatives of the feuding artists groups in the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center on Suffolk St. recently decided to bury the hatchet and form a new nonprofit corporation with a new board of directors and management structure to operate the building as an artists co-op.
The Sept. 23 vote saw about two-thirds of the members of Clemente Soto Velez and Artists Alliance Inc. cast ballots. The new bylaws for the center in the city-owned former school building were created through the efforts of Councilmember Alan Gerson and legal mediators. The bylaws go next to the Department of Consumer Affairs for approval.
Luis Cancel, C.S.V.s executive director, called the vote and approval of the new bylaws a victory for the center for the whole building saying this is the path everyone should follow. Cancel said the most important aspects of the agreement are that C.S.V. will be recognized as the sole leaseholder for the building and that the board of directors will be appointed by a vote of all the members from both groups. In addition, he said, once the building is unified, it will be eligible for government funding for repairs, so that, for example, the scaffolding around the exterior can finally be removed. Hes hoping for money from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Now that the Freedom Center is not going to be down there [at Ground Zero], they may have more money, he said. Millions of dollars will be freed up.
However, Shelly McGuinness, executive director of A.A.I., the breakaway visual artists group that occupies the buildings top floors, was less enthusiastic about the agreement and expressed dissatisfaction about how the process concluded.
Unfortunately, the document that Councilmember Gerson distributed at the meeting was a completely different document one that we never saw before, she said. Gersons office has been, frankly, duplicitous during this entire thing. Who would expect a councilmember to do this? But there is Gerson that is what he does.
I will be very happy if the building is in the Department of Consumer Affairss hands and out of Gersons hands, McGuinness added. A.A.I. looks forward to equity and a situation where all are paying their rent equally. If no one gets special deals, if people pay their rent, the building will benefit.
C.S.V. charges that A.A.I. members have been underpaying their rent, while A.A.I. which was on a rent strike for two years several years ago charges that some C.S.V. members are, in fact, not paying their rent at all.
Calling the agreement a consensus document, Gerson shrugged off McGuinnesss complaints, noting that its typical for last-minute changes to be made as negotiations go down to the wire and that A.A.I. had their lawyer present at the vote to vet the changes. Only minor clarifications and improvements were added, anyway, he noted.
This is a major step forward in a feud that rivals the Hatfields and McCoys, to say the least, Gerson said. And it will insure that the building will remain a community arts center and that the art continues. This is a feud that has been going on so long and intensely that there are some people that are not ready to make peace, unfortunately. Not everyone got everything thats the nature of compromise.
The city made it clear they would not tolerate a divided building, Gerson stressed.
After the agreement goes into effect, independent outside arbitrators will handle unresolved monetary and space claims. The next step will be to elect a new board of directors to replace the current appointed board. Providing equal representation, eight board members will be elected by C.S.V. members and eight by A.A.I. members. Another three board members will be appointed by elected officials. The board of directors itself will vote for up to an additional nine art experts to join them on the board.
Under a section on the boards duties and responsibilities, the agreement states: The Board has the duty to preserve the Buildings identity as a Puerto Rican and Latino presence in the Lower East Side and as a center for the advancement and promotion of Latin American heritage through theater, dance, music, film and visual arts, within the context of an inclusive multicultural center
. The Board will provide that Artists Alliance, Inc. (AAI) and Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, Inc. (CSV) are able to continue their programmatic and advocacy work, within current space (subject to arbitration), with reasonable access to common space in the Building. The Board shall, at any event, rent space to AAI for its administrative offices and rotating studio program for as long as AAI fulfills obligations of residency set forth herein.
Flavia Souza, an A.A.I. member who used to be a C.S.V. member and who voted for the agreement, said its time to bring the building together.
The artists in the building would love to see the conflict resolved, she said. Its very difficult with these two parties trying to make the other side look bad
. Its true that its questionable how well C.S.V. manages the building and that A.A.I. is a bit difficult to deal with, lets just say, a little rigid. But in the end we need to work things out so we can stay here.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel promised Israel Tuesday that he will work with Congress to ensure continued funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system, a senior defense official said after the Pentagon chief met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
The two-hour session in the Pentagon was Hagel's first meeting with a foreign counterpart. And it comes less than a week after he took the job amid fierce Republican criticism and accusations from some GOP-leaning outside groups that he was "anti-Israel."
The bruising Senate confirmation hearings questioned whether he has been hard enough on Iran, but he repeatedly said he backs U.S. and international sanctions against Tehran. In addition, outside groups slammed his use of the term "Jewish lobby" to refer to pro-Israel groups. He has apologized and says he should have used another term.
While it is notable, considering the controversy, that Barak was the first allied counterpart to meet with Hagel, it is not surprising. Barak has been one of the most frequent defense chiefs to visit the Pentagon, meeting often with previous secretaries, including Leon Panetta and Robert Gates.
The defense official said that Hagel committed to backing funding for the missile defense system — which is largely aimed at protecting against Iran — despite the ongoing fiscal uncertainty due to the $46 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect last Friday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the conversation between Hagel and Barak was private, said the two men met in private for about one hour and spent another hour in a larger session with staff.
According to Pentagon press secretary George Little, Hagel and Barak also discussed the need for continue cooperation surrounding the ongoing violence in Syria and the need to insure that chemical and biological weapons there remain secure.
Hagel also has been in contact by phone with several of his other foreign counterparts this week, including Afghanistan's defense minister, Bismullah Khan Mohammadi. The Pentagon said Tuesday that the Afghan and others congratulated Hagel on taking office as secretary of defense.
In addition to his conversation with Mohammadi, Hagel spoke by phone this week with the defense ministers of Australia, Canada, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Britain. Little said Hagel expressed his commitment to ensuring strong military-to-military relationships despite the difficult budget constraints.
AP National Security Writer Robert Burns contributed to this report.


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Fernando Torres has made it clear that he has no intention to leave Chelsea for Atletico Madrid any time soon as he wants to respect his current contract with last year's Champions League winners.
Atletico coach Diego Simeone recently hinted at a move for the Spain international at the end of this season, but Torres, who scored twice in his side's 3-1 win over Rubin Kazan this week, is keen to stay at his current club for now.
"There are still many things for me to achieve at Chelsea before I return home. Right now returning to Atletico is not realistic," the striker told AS.
"I've never hidden the fact that I am very grateful for everything Atletico gave me but the reality is that I'm in another team and I have three years left on my contract."
Torres then went on to stress that he has not given up hopes of returning to the national team again after missing out on their previous fixtures.
"My objective is to play well for Chelsea so I can get back into the Spain team," he continued. "If everything goes well the doors of the national team could open for me again. I still want to play for Spain as much as I did when I first started out, I don't want to think that I've played my final game for Spain.
"I think that I've still got a lot of games left to play for Spain. I'm still hoping I will be able to be with my Spain team-mates again, play in the Confederations Cup this summer and the following year in the World Cup."


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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A former State Department official says controlling access to diplomatic cables wasn't a priority in the design of an online database Pfc. Bradley Manning had access to.
Former Deputy Chief Information Officer Charlie Wisecarver testified Wednesday at Manning's court-martial at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. Manning has acknowledged sending sensitive diplomatic cables from the database to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
Under cross-examination, Wisecarver said users with the proper security clearance, such as Manning, could access the database through a broader classified computer network. Wisecarver says any restrictions on a service member's access to the cables would have been controlled by the military, not the State Department.
Manning denies charges that he exceeded his authorized access to the information while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010.


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The add impressed me when they said it used the same material as in babies diapers. I was very impressed with the outer shell as well as the inside of the cover.It was as soft as they said and as sturdy as they said. And it did fit like a glove. Awsome cover


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Texas, how does your garden grow? Our Texas Wildflower Guide shares a behind-the-scenes look at wildflowers along Texas' highways, prime times and places to typically see wildflowers, a regional breakdown of what to expect and a spotlight on 30 of the most common blooms.
What are the most common wildflowers of Texas? Find the top 30 here.
With its sprawling size and diversity of landforms, Texas offers a treasure of spectacular wildflowers for residents and visitors alike. More than 5,000 species of flowering plants are native to Texas. The abundance results from an exceptional multitude of plant habitats and weather conditions.
Texas elevations range from sea level to craggy mountain peaks over 8,000 feet high. More than 55 inches of annual rainfall drench the jungle-like regions of East Texas, while the sun-baked Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas averages less than eight inches of moisture per year. Although Panhandle localities average 24 inches of snowfall a year, the city of Brownsville at Texas' subtropical tip rarely records a single snowflake.
Nation's Largest Gardener
Connecting all the sites and offering sightseeing access is the Texas highway system. Along the roads lie more than 800,000 acres of highway right-of-way. The Texas Department of Transportation cares for every acre. Landscape architects and maintenance personnel carefully groom the roadsides and highway medians—fertilizing, mowing, planting shrubs and trees, and sowing literally tons of wildflower seed yearly. Examples of the department's commitment to beauty are seen in highway medians and roadsides, especially in spring. In addition to wildflowers, attractive cultivated varieties also are planted along highways, a prime example being the miles of crape myrtles, spectacular in spring, on U.S. 271 north of Paris.
Years of beautification experience have yielded valuable knowledge. For instance, the most effective roadside horticulture mimics nature. Plantings of single species don't do well. Roadsides are most stable when natural combinations of grasses, legumes and wildflowers are encouraged. In subtle symbiosis, the varieties complement each other, form better ground cover, and are healthier, hardier and more drought resistant. The result is beauty by the mile.
Prime Times & Places
March, April and May are prime blooming months in Texas. Dogwood festivals in Woodville and Palestine celebrate the season with special events usually held on the last two weekends in March and the first weekend in April. Bluebonnets, too, are in their glory all during April. One of the oldest bluebonnet trails is in Ennis, featuring more than 40 miles of well-marked routes. Trails in Washington County are charted from Brenham and Chappell Hill, while La Grange offers bluebonnet trails in Fayette County. Farther west, the Highland Lakes Bluebonnet Trail loops through the scenic Hill Country, usually on the first two weekends in April. In Northeast Texas, a signed wildflower route on the last full weekend in April showcases dozens of beautiful wild species between the towns of Avinger, Hughes Springs and Linden. A floral treat in mid-March is the Houston Azalea Trail, when the cultivated, manicured gardens of some of the city's prestigious homes are open to the public. Visit a Texas Travel Information Center or write to the address on the back cover for a free copy of each spring's Texas Highways Events Calendar, which gives wildflower and other floral event dates and locations.
And Other Times
While spring hosts lavish wildflower displays, succeeding months offer their own spectacles. Indian blankets may color entire fields with red and orange during May and June. Bunches of brilliant yellow flowers thrive during summer's hottest months. Elegant Queen Anne's lace is a September offering, followed by fall blooms including goldenrod and purple gayfeather. In mid-October, roses are the stars of Tyler's annual Rose Festival. But fall's flowers are rivaled in color by October's autumn trails in Canadian and Winnsboro. In West Texas, colorful blossoms of cacti, succulents and other desert species may erupt following any rain.
Keep this link handy as you travel Texas. It will introduce many beauties seen along Texas highways and enhance the pleasure of your trip.
Like to Know More?
The state's capital city, Austin, is home to The University of Texas Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, a research unit of the University of Texas at Austin, devoted to the preservation and use of native plants. The Wildflower Center is a botanical garden that demonstrates the beauty and importance of native plants. Water features, nature trails, display gardens, visitors gallery, café, gift store and award-winning architecture can be found, along with information on how to plant and grow wildflowers. Spring wildflowers bloom March through June; fall wildflowers bloom September through November.
The Center is at 4801 La Crosse—from I-35 take Exit 227 (Slaughter Lane) and go west six miles. Turn left on Loop 1 South. La Crosse is the first left turn. The Center is down two blocks on the right. For more information: www.wildflower.org or 512-232-0100.
Panhandle Plains
The Texas Panhandle combines the vegetational areas of the Rolling Plains with that of the High Plains, which are the southernmost extension of the Great Plains of the United States. The Rolling Plains consist of juniper woodlands and midgrass prairies, while the High Plains are primarily short grasses. Much of the Panhandle has been converted to cropland and ranches. Sand sagebrush and honey mesquites, along with buffalo grass, various species of grama grass and little bluestem dominate the natural landscape.
Prairies and Lakes
The oak woods and prairies portion of this region is a transitional zone for a number of plants, with ranges extending northward into the Great Plains or eastward into the forests. Early settlers named it Cross-Timbers because of the belts of oak forest crossing strips of prairie grassland they found here. This region also includes the Blackland Prairies, so named for its deep, fertile black soils. The area's once-dominant grass species—big and little bluestem, Indian-grass and switchgrass—are now found only in pockets of land left undisturbed by grazing or cultivation.
Piney Woods
The eastern portion of Texas includes the vegetational areas of the Piney Woods and the Post Oak Savannah. With its abundant rainfall (40 to 55 inches a year), the Piney Woods is characterized by mixed pine and hardwood forests, plus swamps that support unique species such as pitcher plants, orchids and sundews. Flowering dogwoods herald the arrival of spring in moist woodlands. The Post Oak Savannah—dominated by hickories, post oak and blackjack oak—comprises a transition zone between the eastern forests and prairies to the west.
Gulf Coast
This 50- to 100-mile-wide arc of land bordering the Gulf of Mexico consists of cordgrass marshes, which support a rich array of marine life and provide wintering grounds for water birds. Remnants of coastal tallgrass and midgrass prairies with tall woodlands are found in the river bottomlands. Much of the land has been developed into farms, ranches and urban areas. With an annual rainfall of 25 to 55 inches, the Gulf Coast blooms almost year-round with morning glories, sea ox-eyes and beach evening primroses.
South Texas Plains
The South Texas Plains, known as the Rio Grande Plain, is a land of thorny woodlands, shrublands and many subtropical species. Formerly an area of open grasslands, today's South Texas landscapes reflect the changes wrought by agriculture, industry and urban development. Rainfall is sparse, but when it comes—usually in spring and fall—it brings a profusion of wildflowers, cacti and flowering shrubs such as huisache.
Hill Country
One of the richest areas for wildflower displays, Central Texas includes the Edwards Plateau, known more popularly as the Hill Country. This region is primarily an area of oak-hickory or oak-juniper woodlands, mes-quite-mixed brush savannah and grasslands. The scenic area is a rich ecosystem with limestone cliffs, caves, granite outcrops and hidden springs, which create diverse habitats for wildflowers. Favorites such as bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, winecups, Indian blanket and lemonmint paint the fields with bold palettes of color.
Big Bend Country
West Texas, primarily the Trans-Pecos zone, is perhaps the most complex of all of the regions. A land of desert and mountains, the region's annual rainfall can be as little as eight inches. The Trans-Pecos is home to the highest point in the state—Guadalupe Peak at 8,749 feet above sea level. Moist canyons, wooded mountains and desert shrublands offer myriad habitats for unusual wildflowers. Spring rains transform this arid region into a riot of color, as Chisos bluebonnets, desert marigolds and a variety of cacti bloom. An encore comes with a second flowering period in the fall, following late summer rains.


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Nicolas Cotsonika, of the Detroit Free Press, reports undrafted free-agent LS Brian Bury (Michigan State) is participating at the Detroit Lions' minicamp as a tryout player.
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Gil Brandt, of NFL.com, reports Michigan State LS Brian Bury (hamstring) measured a height of 5-foot-11 3/8 and a weight of 246 pounds at his Pro Day. He ran the 40-yard dash in 5.40 seconds, but he could not run the drills because of a pulled hamstring. Bury measured a 31-inch vertical jump, an 8-foot-7 broad jump and completed 27 repetitions on the 225-pound bench press.
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KEITH KNIGHT, Cartoonist of THE KNIGHT LIFE and THE K CHRONICLES posted on his blog:
With suggestions from some of my Boston area homies, I have set up a series of signings coinciding with the release of the first Knight Life collection: the Knight Life, Chivalry Ain't Dead, for my trip back east in early June. Here they be:
Thursday, June 3rd 7pm: FRANK E. CONVERSE LIBRARY-Malden, MA (36 Salem St.)
I will begin my Boston area book tour with a signing directly across the street from myold high school! I am psyched to be signing for my first collection of dailies at the place where I spent hours perusing Doonesbury and Peanuts collections as a kid. Not only that, but I was presented my first (and only) arts scholarship at the historic landmark, which was designed by architect H. H. Richardson. There'll be a slideshow, Q & A, book signing, and then beers at the Dockside! Read more details here.
Saturday, June 5th 6pm: GULU-GULU CAFE- Salem, MA (247 Essex St.)
Next, I'll be signing in the lovely town of Salem, Mass, home of my alma mater, Salem State College. It'll be alumni weekend, AND the Salem Arts Festival that weekend, so there'll be plenty of mischief going on. The Gulu-Gulu cafe looks like a place I would've spent most of my time in, had it been around back in the day. Joining me in this slideshow/book signing will be fellow SSC alum and award-winning cartoonist Mark Parisi!! Beers at Dodge Street following event.
Wednesday, June 9, 6-8pm MILLION YEAR PICNIC, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
I can't make a trip to Boston without a signing at the finest comics emporium in the area, Million Year Picnic. At one signing, Cornel West was walking by outside the shop and my aunt stopped him and took his pic alongside my cousin. She never invited him in and I'm still bitter about it. At the last signing, a guy asked me how much my Knight Life originals were. I said "One twenty five." He proceeded to take one dollar and a quarter out of his pocket to pay me.
What I'm saying is anything can happen at MYP, and it usually does. Beers at Shay's after the event.
Saturday, June 12, 4pm NE Chapter of NCS Cartoonist Dinner, Johnny D's Somerville, MA
I'm the guest of honor at this annual shin-dig put on by the New England Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. It's pretty elaborate with a great dinner, drinks and a presentation by yers truly. The event is open to cartoonists and aspiring cartoonists only. You don't have to be a member of the NCS (you just pay a little more).
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General Practice, Solo & Small Firm DivisionTechnology & Practice GuideThe Compleat Lawyer, Spring 1996, Vol. 13, No. 2
The Chair's CornerJohn W. Clark, Jr.
What does quality of life mean to you? To some people it means a big house and a new car. To others, it means good health and serenity. Like many lawyers, I never took the time to think about what was really going on around me--until about four years ago. I am still trying to figure it out. To me, life is a journey; the decisions that we make along this journey can alter our course dramatically.
I have not turned my back on the need for financial security, but I have concluded that I need to spend more time eliminating my frustrations, accepting life as it comes, enjoying today to the fullest, and striving to do the best I can with whatever ability I have.
When I finished law school, I had absolutely no idea where my life was headed, but it was clear that I needed to make some money. I did not have a single client, but during my first month of practice as an associate to a solo practitioner, I found out that I could make more money handling my own clients than working for "The Man." My first boss was a good lawyer and role model. Many of the things I learned from Douglas E. Bergman were good (although some things I learned were not so good). He is not here now for me to tell him how much I learned, but I wanted to mention him anyway.
After a few years, I was recruited to join a quickly growing law firm, and I stayed on with that firm for many years. It was fun at first, but then the firm grew, began to utilize computers, and split into sections. The fun was gone. I became a very unhappy partner, and the firm became very unhappy with me. The firm no longer exists, even in part. I know now that I am more suited to be a solo practitioner than a "big firm" lawyer.
I am now eligible to join the American Association of Retired Persons and the ABA's Senior Lawyers Division. Soon I will probably do both. (Both groups offer valuable programs and benefits to their members.) I wish now that I had listened earlier to those who tried to tell me about "quality of life" issues and about being happy, joyous, and free.
Many solo and small firm practitioners do not think that the ABA fits their needs. They are wrong. The ABA is an inherently good organization that has come a long way from its silk stockings beginnings. Unfortunately, only recently has the ABA begun to reach out to solo and small firm practitioners as well as general practitioners. I am not sure that the paid staff of the ABA really understands what I am talking about when I speak of the needs of the practicing bar, but I think the members of the General Practice Section understand.
I have been a sole practitioner for the past several years. I have a secretary, a computer, a small library, a few good clients, and plenty of time to play golf. My clients are loyal to me, at least so far, and I try to do a good job for them. All of this seems pretty normal. During the past two or three years, I have spent an average of two or three hours each day working with you trying to improve the financial affairs, membership numbers, and the image of the General Practice Section of the ABA. Over the years I have enjoyed my work with the ABA, but this it the first time I have had a column to express my own personal point of view. This is my "penultimate" column. I like the word "penultimate" but I don't get the chance to use it often. I learned this word when I was with a big law firm.
I am very proud to be a solo practitioner. I am very proud to be a lawyer. I get upset when I hear our profession described as "the legal industry"--a term frequently used now by vendors with whom we do business. I don't like mandatory regulations, but I do like reasonable goals. The legal profession in this country should be proud of its heritage and its present role in society. It doesn't really matter to me that the public finds fault with some jury awards, but it does matter to me that it takes so long to get to trial and that discovery procedures are so complex and expensive. I think the law schools are turning out too many lawyers, but I also think there is plenty of room for a good lawyer.
I hope that many of you will be in Puerto Rico to listen to the speakers that Stu Baron has arranged. Yes, folks, we are going to talk about stress, lawyer burnout, alcoholism, drug abuse, and related issues. We are going to have a golf tournament, tennis tournament, and similar events to raise money for our pro bono efforts. We need your help, and we are going to keep the lights on this year.


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Jennifer L. Pozner's Twitter account says she's a: Media critic. Public speaker. Anti-racist feminist. Fiend for cocoa. Founder/E.D., Women In Media & News. Author, Reality Bites Back. She is also adding to her list a speaking engagement at Rochester Institute of Technology's E. Philip Saunders College of Business during the fourth annual Power Your Potential Women's Leadership Conference on Monday, March 25, in RIT's Louise M. Slaughter Hall.
The event, which is sponsored by the Saunders College and KeyBank, begins at 11:30 a.m. and includes lunch and the conference, as well as campus transportation and elite seating at "An Evening with Maya Angelou." Emcee for Power Your Potential is WHEC-TV news anchor and reporter Rebecca Leclair, who will introduce women commentators from business and education in the community.
"Power Your Potential is a wonderful conference that connects RIT alumnae, local business executives, entrepreneurs and RIT students by providing them activities designed to help them support and implement business with each other and learn innovative ideas and strategies for surpassing their business and professional objectives," says Saunders College Dean dt ogilvie.
Pozner, who founded Women in Media & News in 2001 to increase women's power and presence in public debate through media analysis, education, advocacy and reform, will discuss "Ladies First, Leaders Later... or Never? Media, Sexism and Power."
The former staff writer for Extra! magazine and organizer of the national Feminist Coalition on Public Broadcasting is a widely acclaimed journalist and media critic. Pozner has published in Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Ms., Arizona Republic, Hartford Courant—and appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, ABC News Now's Top Priority, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Fox News Network's The O'Reilly Factor.
"I focus on news media, entertainment media, advertising, the way these forms of media frame our understanding of what women are supposedly capable of—and not capable of—their biases against the men in businesses and where it comes from, what kinds of representations are more authentic and more open to women's real experiences."
Pozner grew up in a lower-income family living in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. Her father worked at a power plant for Con Edison and her mother was employed as a legal secretary. She says her first act of advocacy was at age 14. "I kept seeing my friends of color getting mistreated by police just for walking down the street. I've always been on a quest for fairness, and having these friends who were all smart, funny and compassionate, I wondered why some people are treated so badly and some aren't."
A graduate of Hampshire College, she believes laughter is both a powerful weapon and an activist's best medicine. "Without accurate, independent, non-biased journalism and creative cultural entertainment we can never move forward as a democracy. The progressive community must be involved in the fight for media reform."
Additional speakers include Linda Murphy, professor at RIT's Saunders College of Business and former owner of Flex Enterprises Inc.; Karen Magnuson, editor and vice president/news at the Democrat and Chronicle; Margaret Bailey, RIT professor of mechanical engineering and faculty associate to the Provost for Female Faculty at RIT; Shalini Khazanchi, associate professor of management in RIT's Saunders College; Kathy Turiano, co-founder and owner of Joe Bean Coffee Roasters; Jennifer Posey and Zahra Langford, co-owners of Hedonist Artisan Chocolates; and Leslie Berkowitz, executive director of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester.
The cost to attend Power Your Potential is $10 for students, $35 for RIT alumni, faculty and staff, and $40 for the general public, and includes lunch. To register, go to http://www.rit.edu/womensconference or contact Dana Pierce at 585-475-2199 or email@example.com.


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"Even Christ Himself, as long as He was in the flesh, and until, in the rending of the veil of His flesh, the dispensation of the Spirit took the place of that of the flesh, could not by His words effect in His disciples what He desired. 'It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.'"
- the Rev. Andrew Murray (The Spirit of Christ, p. 44)
*Re-post from 1/19/15
"The historic Christ as the New Testament portrays Him will remain, the starting-point in history of the new life-offer, all the more real....because on the present He IS what the history declares Him to have been. And the supernatural Christ, given not merely as a truth to the mind, but as a dynamic reality to the inner experience—the experience of Him being actually....an experience of His constant creative power--remains the same yesterday and to-day and for evermore." - Henry William Clark
The Universal Christ
"The resurrection gives us a Christ who is spiritually present; the Holy Spirit gives us a Christ who is universally present. By the coming of the Holy Spirit the risen Christ is made omnipresent, and the whole process of revelation here and now completed. Nothing higher can be looked for until the veil is dropped on the other side. Momentous consequences follow the acceptance of this truth. If the age of the Spirit under which we are now living marks the final outgoing of God to man; if the God who is manifested in Christ is every-where present in the Spirit; if through the medium-ship of the Spirit he dwells in the inner sanctuary of the soul; if he is not only with man, but in man; if through the Holy Spirit his presence within the soul is realized as the presence of Christ, then the time foretold by Jesus has come when temples and shrines are no longer indispensable, when every man has immediate access to God as the Father, and when every humble receptive soul may become "an habitation of God in the Spirit." "
- James Mann Campbell (The Presence, p. 89)
The New Covenant Gift of the Spirit
"Let us recall the three considerations that have been mentioned. First, that our Lord Himself in His Divine-human nature was on earth, and is now in heaven, possessed of the fulness of the Spirit, and this in such a manner that the Spirit entered into all He was in the one sphere, and enters into all He is in the other. Secondly, that the Spirit given us by our Lord in His glorified condition is His own Spirit in the most definite and particular meaning of the words. Thirdly, that when the Spirit is bestowed upon us He must be made inwardly and experimentally ours, entering into all that we are in a manner similar to that in which He entered into all that Jesus was and is. Let us fix these three points distinctly in our minds, and it will follow that the Spirit promised as the chief gift of the New Covenant is pervaded by human as well as Divine elements. As the Spirit of the exalted and glorified Lord, He is not the Third Person of the Trinity in His absolute and metaphysical existence, but that Person as He is mediated through the Son, who is human as well as Divine. It is on this particular aspect of His being that He diffuses Himself through the members of Christ's body, and abides in them. Only as human, entering into and coalescing with what is human, can He be also our Spirit dwelling in a living and real way within us."
- William Milligan (The Ascension and Heavenly Priesthood of Our Lord, p. 189)
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Since Andy Reid announced his decision to start Michael Vick on Tuesday evening, several different theories have been offered up, trying to explain his rationale.
One of them is that the offensive line is so shaky right now that Michael Vick and his mobility give the Eagles a much better chance to win than Kevin Kolb. In other words, Kolb has no chance to grow as a QB because of the protection issues.
Sorry, but I'm not buying that one.
Has the offensive line been good this season in pass protection? No. But one reason I like re-watching the games is because I'm able to see things I missed the first time around. Such as Mike Bell and LeSean McCoy failing to pick up opposing blitzers. Such as Vick pump-faking twice and holding the ball too long. Such as the Eagles going with an empty backfield, thus facing more defenders than they can account for.
Those are isolated examples, but the point is that the pressure Vick faced on Sunday was not all the offensive line's fault.
If the Eagles believed in Kolb over Vick, they could do things to make sure he was protected better. They could call more screen passes or three-step drops. They could keep Brent Celek in to block. They could go with two tight ends.
The play of the offensive line is not why Reid decided to go with Vick. He was blown away with Vick's play through six quarters, and maybe, just maybe, for the first time in his career as the Eagles' head coach, he's feeling pressure to stray from his plan and win right away.
Keeping all that in mind, here is the player-by-player evaluation of the Eagles' offensive players against the Lions. Given the news of the day, I am spinning it forward this week, with an eye on how things change with Vick running the show.
Michael Vick- Not much more to say here, since I provided a complete breakdown of his performance yesterday. The abbreviated version is this. He was accurate with the football and could have had a completion percentage over 75 if not for some dropped balls. Vick was very good in the pocket and even better outside the pocket. He spread the ball around and got it downfield. And he hasn't thrown an interception in 58 attempts this season. What needs to get better? He needs to develop a better familiarity with the offensive line so that he can move around in the pocket better, rather than just escape when facing pressure. He needs to avoid taking big hits if he wants to stay healthy the rest of the season. And while he has not turned it over, Vick fumbled twice (both recovered, one on the snap) and threw a ball that very easily could have been picked.
LeSean McCoy- He very easily might have been the Eagles' most impressive player Sunday. A career-high 120 yards on 16 rushes, averaging 7.5 yards per carry. On the 14-yard touchdown run in the second, he took a hit at the 4, but still charged into the end zone. His vision and decisiveness were very impressive. Great job of making the safety miss on the 46-yard touchdown run. As a blocker, McCoy didn't pick anyone up when the Lions sent seven after Vick on a play in the second. It looked like he was expecting someone to break through up the middle, but the cornerback ended up coming untouched from the slot. However, on the very next play, McCoy did a good job as a blocker. Still a work-in-progress there. Only four catches for 8 yards. It's only been two games, but McCoy looks like he's made a big leap from his rookie season.
Mike Bell- He played some fullback and some halfback, and was equally unimpressive in both roles. Four carries for zero yards. And he did a bad job on a third down in the first, failing to pick up a blitzer. It will be interesting to see how limited his role is now that athe Eagles signed another running back. He was on the field for 18 of 63 offensive plays.
Owen Schmitt- He looked OK in his first action. Schmitt also played 18 of 63 snaps and got in the game on the Eagles' first offensive possession. Schimtt had a pair of catches for 21 yards and did a good job picking up a blitzer on the touchdown throw to Jeremy Maclin.
Winston Justice- He'll be the man in charge of protecting Vick's blind side. Justice struggled at times against Detroit in pass protection, which is usually his strength. Turk McBride beat him for a sack and forced fumble in the first, but in all fairness, Vick ran play-action and pump-faked twice on the play. McBride beat him again on the Maclin TD throw, but Vick got rid of the ball quickly. Justice had some good moments as a run blocker. He did a nice job on a McCoy 4-yard run in the first. And he blocked Ndamukong Suh on the 14-yard McCoy TD run in the second. Justice took a linebacker out on McCoy's other touchdown run. He was called for holding, bringing back a 35-yard McCoy gain in the second half.
Nick Cole- He struggled quite a bit with Suh. Wonder if he called him a "juicehead" at any point? Suh went right around Cole, forcing Vick to scramble on a 3rd-and-23. He was beat by Corey Williams on the play where Vick had to slide to his left before finding DeSean Jackson for 53 yards. Cole did a bad job trying to block a linebacker on a screen to McCoy in the third. Suh beat him for a sack in the third, although, again, Vick held onto the ball for awhile. Cole did a good job on Suh on the 46-yard McCoy TD run.
Mike McGlynn- As a blocker, I thought McGlynn did a lot of good things. He did a good job on the McCoy 14-yard touchdown run and the other score in the third. McGlynn also made a good block on an 8-yard screen to McCoy. There was a fumbled snap in the third, although I'm not sure whose fault it was. And Suh went right around McGlynn, dropping Bell for a 3-yard loss in the third. It's pretty much impossible to evaluate McGlynn in terms of making protection calls, but I'll try to ask him about that today at Novacare.
Todd Herremans- Ups and downs for Herremans. Overall, it seemed like the left side of the line did a good job in protection though. Herremans did a poor job on a 2nd-and-1 carry where Williams went right around him to stuff McCoy. He was also beat on the TD throw to Maclin. Herremans made a good block on the 46-yard McCoy touchdown run.
Jason Peters- He had a good battle with Vanden Bosch, winning some snaps and losing some others. Peters left the game twice, but returned both times. Peters did a good job on Vanden Bosch on the first-quarter touchdown throw to Jackson. He delivered a powerful block on an 11-yard McCoy run in the second and a decent job on a 7-yard McCoy run in the third. Vanden Bosch was credited with 1.5 sacks, but in fairness to Peters, Vick held the ball for awhile on one of them, and the other was a screen play where the timing was completely off and Vick had three defenders in his face before he could get the ball to McCoy.
King Dunlap- I guess the Eagles trust him this year. When Peters went out, Dunlap entered the game at left tackle as the coaches opted against sliding Herremans over. Dunlap was (smartly) given some help with Celek staying in to block on the left side.
Brent Celek- The receiving numbers weren't significantly different than Week 1, but I thought Celek had a better game. He provided much-needed help, chipping and blocking in the passing game. As a receiver, Celek was targeted five times and had three catches for 27 yards. Two of those catches gave the Eagles first downs, although he did have a drop. I still think big numbers are coming for Celek in the passing game. Tight end Alge Crumpler had some strong years with Vick in Atlanta.
Garrett Mills- The Eagles went with two tight ends on nine of 63 plays. Mills was given the nod over Clay Harbor as the second tight end. He got in the game on the first possession and lined up both on the line of scrimmage and in the slot, catching the only ball that was thrown his way for 14 yards.
DeSean Jackson- I've written quite a bit about Jackson since Sunday. Three catches of over 25 yards, and it really could have been five. Jackson had a chance on the 35-yard gain in the first that was initially ruled a catch, but was overturned. And Vick underthrew him on what could have been a big gain at the end of the first. Getting the ball to Jackson down the field early in games is crucial and should open things up for everyone else.
Jeremy Maclin- The Eagles have converted five of six red-zone chances into touchdowns in the last six quarters. Three of those have been McCoy runs. The other two have been Vick-to-Maclin TDs. He was Vick's second-most targeted receiver, catching three balls for 26 yards. Maclin had a drop in the third and got away with a hold on Jackson's TD, grabbing a handful of the defensive back's jersey downfield.
Jason Avant- He should have a weekly show called The Little Things With Jason Avant. If you go back and watch McCoy's TD run in the third, take a look at who cuts down 278-pound defensive end Turk McBride. It's Avant, and it was a critical block that helped McCoy get in the end zone. As a receiver, Avant had three catches for 33 yards, although we saw a rare drop on a third down in the second.
Riley Cooper- Cooper was on the field for 12 plays and picked up his first career catch, a 20-yarder on 3rd-and-9. He also had a drop. Oh, and about that onsides kick...
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Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 1:03 am
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I recently aquired a 5x7 Burke & James view camera. It's in fairly rough shape so I want to clean it up and either finish the wood or paint it. I belive that the bellows are glued to the wooden frames. Does anyone know a good way of removing the bellows without damaging them? They appear to be in good shape with no leaks so I'd like to keep them if possible.
Any tips on restoring this would be greatly appreciated.
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It's rare that a company would permanently glue their bellows in, but I wouldn't put it past B&J (Broke & Jamed)
remove the back and take a goood loong look around the inside of the rear frame, usually the bellows are glued to a lightweight frame and the frame is screwed into to the camera. The screws may be covered by a flap of bellows liner fabric so poke gently with an artist's /dentist spatula or butter knife.
As to the finish. If it's painted grey then I suggest D&L hand cleaner to deep clean the painted surface. Wipe on rub around wipe off with tissue or soft paper towel. After it's cleaned, a coat of Johnson's paste wax or your favorite brand of car wax wouldn't hurt.
If it's finished then I'd use either V&HP Naptha and cotton balls or the D&L cleaner again, but with cotton balls. You can use almost any furniture cleaner, but its mostly V&HP naptha and a nice scent. After it's dry, wax
Because you can''t remove the rear frame from the brass yoke without drilling out a brass rivet, I suggest polishing the brass with nevr dull. Try to avoid liquid brass polish as it can get on the wood . Nevr Dull won't be the fastest, just the safest.
To keep the shine, coat with Goddard's shine keeper. It's not permanent but it is effective. Just remember these were NEVER to be polished like a brass door knob. They were simply bright (but matte) brass.
This information comes from three years as a Conservation Technician at the Henry Ford Museum and 30 years of polishing the brass on my father's 1912 Buick.
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The bellows on my B&J Commerical Field 4 X 5 were definately glued on. They seperated from the plastic front standard from normal movements! I used Mostenbolckers Liftoff #2 on the rear where they were glued to the wood standard.
With the standard laying on its back, I applied the liftoff around the edges and let it soak for about 1 minute, I then turned it over and applied the liftoff to the rear edge and let it soak for another minute.
Next I started pushing on the bellows away from the rear standard until I found a weak spot where they were comming loose form the standard and gently pulled them loose from the standard. The stays of the last pleat only came out of the bellows but will be easy to reinstall when and if I get back to finishing the project.
after some experminting I used Jasco paint remover to remove the LEAD based paint and a plastic putty knife. 80 grit on an orbit sander or 100 grit on a palm leaves a surface that is SLOW to take stain. B&J usually used MAPLE to the best of my knowledge.
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Thanks for the tips. I'm eager to strip the paint off and either stain the wood (depending on the condition) or re-paint it.
I need to replace 3 of the 4 (or all 4 to get a matching set) of the large knobs on the large back frame. My camera only came with 1. Would anyone know where I might obtain suitable replacments? I realize an exact match would probably be difficult and expensive to find. I'm not sure how to tell exactly what size I need so if anyone knows the measurements and could give them to me I'd appreciate it.
I managed to find this link while searching the forum:
I would like something with a knurled rim.
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They're good ol' 1/4-20 and at least plastic knob ones can be found at hardware stores.
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January 20. 2013 7:21PM
On Martin Luther King Day: Government offices closed; most stores open
Martin Luther King Day will have a mixture of business openings while all government offices will be closed.
Federal, state and local offices are closed, as are banks, and there is no Postal Service delivery or counter service. But UPS and FedEx will operate as usual.
Federal and state courts will be closed. Trash will be picked up as usual today in Manchester, Concord and Portsmouth, but pickup will be delayed a day all week in Nashua.
Public schools will be closed in all but seven communities: Andover, Holderness, Lyme, Pemi-Baker Regional, Plymouth, Rumney and Thornton.
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By Steve Scherer
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti announced on Saturday that he would resign once next year's budget is approved, two days after Silvio Berlusconi's party withdrew its parliamentary support for his technocrat government.
Only hours before the announcement, Berlusconi, who has stepped up attacks on Monti over recent weeks, said he would run to become premier for a fifth time on a platform that attacks the former European Commissioner's stewardship of the economy.
Parliament is already poised to pass the budget by Christmas, and so Monti's resignation probably brings the expected vote forward by no more than a month to February. Elections must follow no more than 70 days after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves parliament.
Monti's move turns the tables on Berlusconi, who seemed to have once again seized a political opportunity to keep his party in the political game just a year after being forced to resign amid a sex scandal and a debt crisis.
It will also increase speculation that he could be eyeing a run as a candidate in the election himself.
At a conference in France earlier, Monti, widely credited with restoring Italy's international credibility after the scandal-plagued Berlusconi era, appeared to take aim at Berlusconi, warning against "populism".
He said Italy should not go back to where it was when he took over for Berlusconi a year ago.
Following a two-hour meeting with Napolitano, he warned that not approving the budget "would render more serious the government crisis, also at a European level," and said that after it is approved, his resignation would be "irrevocable".
Leaders of both Berlusconi's center-right People of Freedom (PDL) party and the center-left Democratic Party (PD), which is leading in the opinion polls, said they were willing to accelerate the passage of the budget.
"Faced with the irresponsibility of the right that betrayed a commitment it made a year ago before the whole country... Monti responded with an act of dignity that we profoundly respect," said PD leader Pier Luigi Bersani.
"We are ready to approve the budget in the fastest possible manner," he said in a statement.
Italians will vote in the middle of a severe economic crisis, with a recession that began mid-way through last year showing no signs of abating, a massive public debt and unemployment at 11.1 percent, a record high.
With the support of a cross-party alliance including both the PD and the PDL, Monti imposed tax hikes and spending cuts to bring borrowing costs under control and undertook a series of reforms to improve the competitiveness of the economy.
But Berlusconi said on Wednesday that the former economics professor's austerity policies had left Italy facing a "recessive spiral without end".
The PDL withdrew parliamentary support for Monti on Thursday, driving up the difference between German and Italian benchmark bonds by about 30 basis points.
"On Monday morning the markets will judge this latest outburst by Berlusconi and they certainly will not judge it positively," PD vice president Enrico Letta commented. Letta added that elections now were likely in February.
Berlusconi's center-right PDL lags the PD by at least 16 percentage points in opinion polls, and also trails the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, which has surged to prominence on a tide of public anger against the mainstream political class.
Monti's move will fuel speculation over whether he intends to run to lead the country next year once he has resigned. So far he has said he will step in only if the election result is unclear, but there has been growing speculation he could join forces with a centrist group.
Financial markets have been closely watching the political upheaval in Italy and many in the business establishment have hoped for a second term from Monti.
However Berlusconi, Italy's most proved election campaigner, said that he would not give in easily.
"I race to win," Berlusconi told reporters at the practice field for AC Milan, the soccer club he controls.
"To win, everyone said there had to be a tested leader. It's not that we did not look for one. We did, and how! But there isn't one... I'm doing it out of a sense of responsibility."
The media magnate has ample resources to back his bid - the country's biggest television network, its biggest magazine publisher and a family-owned newspaper.
Echoing comments by the leader of the 5-Star Movement, Beppe Grillo, Berlusconi criticized the single currency earlier this year and has slammed Germany's influence on European policy.
In his blog, Grillo said Berlusconi is running for office because he knows the average Italian "is literally terrified about the prospects of five more years of Monti-like rule".
(With additional reporting by Elvira Pollina in Milan, Giselda Vagnoni in Rome, and Lionel Laurent in Cannes, France; Editing by Stephen Powell)


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8)Sunday ,5;30 AM we head out fishing. The Boy is driving his truck and pulling my boat, no wind. We had looked on the computer and decided that Bynum Reservoir would be the destination. Even though the forecast said NO wind don't believe it for Bynum. I think all hurricanes use it for some kind of training ground so when they grow up they know what there supposed to do, anyway. The wind was manageable, just a nuisance first from the west then from the east. For the most part it was a very nice day. The lake is still very low the deepest spot we found was 23' right off the face of the dam. A huge flat 10 to 13 feet and then there is the Island, didn't know there was an island, No problem but you can see it under the water and its only 2 feet of water over the top and it's BIG. We fished the dam for two hours and slammed the perch and Daughter-in-law got a BIG rainbow, spanner full of eggs. There was four sets of campers there when we got there but no boats, by the time we left probably 25 boats and 50 or so bank fisherman. The shore fisherman where fly fishing for the big spawning slimers. Most the boats took off and headed across the lake, They all went around the island. We went over to see if the fishing was any different, Nope just a bunch of Perch if you fished the deepest spots. We had to fish on the bottom and jig hard with a small white and green tube body and a peace of worm. Every one seamed to be getting a ton of perch. When we where fishing We noticed a 19 foot bay liner that was having motor problems. They would get it started run a hundred yards and it would stall and they would try again, and again. You know you would think when the got it running they would head back to the ramp, not. Any way with the east wind they just kept getting closer to the wrong shore... You ever see anyone try to use plastic fold up emergency paddles? STUPED !!!! That's why I don't even carry any, I have two long handle shovels at least you can use them, anyway. We had to go and save them, by then they where in one foot of water and we where trapped behind the sunken island. We pull up and one of them stand up on the boat with a five foot yellow plastic rope and ask if we could pull them back. Kristopher and I could tell they wouldn't have anything to help and had gotten our good rope set and just tossed it to them .BOY a 19 foot fiberglass bay liner and 4 big guys pulls hard agents a 15 mph east wind. I couldn't hit the gas to hard or I'd vacuum the bottom with the intake never a good thing. Twenty five long minuets and we had them back ,I gave them a GOOD tug and I flipped my boat away from the bank and we let go of the rope. They drifted right in. We have a fender float on the end of the rope so they tossed it back at us and we picked it up and went back to our first spot and finished fishing there. At the end of the day we had kept 47 eatable perch . We did PERFICT boat trailering and left just in front of all the other boats and missing the thunder storm by 10 minuets. Ha Ha Ha. Just a nice trip, I didn't any Gopro footage and only one picture sorry, to busy fishing I guess.
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May 28, 2013, 09:13:40 AM
That boatload of nitwits you helped were fortunate you happened along and helped, D.
Y'all did pretty good, considering all the delay and weather.
Nice bunch of perch and picture!
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Second Bachmann Adviser Speaks Up
DES MOINES (AP) - A second Iowa campaign adviser to Republican former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says the Minnesota congresswoman improperly paid an Iowa state senator to work on her 2012 campaign in the months before last year's Iowa caucuses.
Andy Parrish is expected to corroborate claims that Sen. Kent Sorenson received $7,500 a month to be Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman in 2011, in violation of Iowa Senate rules.
The complaint was first made in January by Peter Waldron, a former Bachmann campaign staffer. Parrish's lawyer, John Gilmore of St. Paul, said Thursday Parrish has email to back the claim. Sorenson Thursday said he was never paid.
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Debate: Are Catholics Christians?
Absolutely. A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ in a way that benefits their own personal spirituality. If a Catholic does this, he or she is most certainly a Christian. If he does not, however, then he is not. There are Catholics who are Catholics in name only, just as there are many Fundamentalists who most certainly do not behave in a Christ-like manner. Nevertheless, religion is a personal matter, not one for others to judge. --IlTrovatore 23:18, 21 June 2008 (EDT)
No, Christian is not someone who "follows the teachings of Jesus Christ in way that benefits their own personal spirituality". Just because you follow Christ's teachings doesn't make you Christian. An Atheist could follow the example of Christ because he feels Jesus was moral person, yet deny Christ ever rose from the dead. Is that person a Christian? No. To be a Christian, then you must believe various things. (That Jesus rose from the dead physically, that salvation is by grace through faith alone, etc.) If you don't follow those things, then you're not a Christian. It's not about "behaving" in any particular way. Your own works don't save you. Jesus does. Ultimahero 00:32, 22 June 2008 (EDT)
Christ paid for sins so that we might strive to avoid sin, but realize that forgiveness is always possible if we truly seek it. You seem to make it sound as if we can sin and still be saved even if we don't truly repent, so long as we believe that Christ died for us. Do you believe that this is the case? --IlTrovatore 00:45, 22 June 2008 (EDT)
First, sorry my response took so long. "Christ paid for our sins that we might strive to avoid sin". No, that's not how it works. Christ's death does not open up a window of opportunity, that if we stop sinning, we'll be saved. That's not how it works. We're saved by grace alone. Not by grace and works; just grace. Christ's death takes away all our sins. All of them, including the ones we haven't committed yet. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, "For by grace you have been saved by faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast." We see here that it's not based on our own good merits or our own ability to stop sinning. Salvation comes entirely through Christ.
Yes, salvation is possible for anyone. But it only comes by the grace of Christ.
Repentance is a result of salvation not a cause of it. Repentance by definition is to be worry for what you've done and to turn away from it. So, you must feel sorry and turn away from sins to repent. But, as I said before, we're not saved by our ability to turn away from sin or do god. It's all about Christ. So, yes, as long as we believe that Christ (God in flesh) died on the cross for sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead, then we can be saved. Regardless of our works. Note, that doesn't mean we should keep going bad things. The Bible says that we become new creation when we're saved. So we should strive to do good. But that is because it comes from thankfulness to God for what He's already done, not because we're trying to earn our way to Heaven.
But, in theory, you do argue that it is possible for someone who sins repeatedly to be saved, while someone who is virtuous can be damned? --IlTrovatore 23:15, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
Well, I don't believe that anyone is "virtuous". It is my Biblical belief that all people are sinners and all are inherently evil. (Ephesians 2:3). And everyone is a sinner (Romans 3:23). But, in a human sense, yes, there are "good" people, which I assume is what you're speaking of. I also assume that the multiple sinner is supposed to be someone who has done great dead of evil, like murder, while the virtuous person has done relatively less evil. So, if the person who sins all the time and murder, rapes, steals etc. puts his faith in Christ, then he will go to Heaven and be saved. If the virtuous man who doesn't sin nearly as much doesn't trust in Christ, then he will go to Hell. It because it's only through Christ that one can be righteous. Ultimahero 11:05, 26 June 2008 (EDT)
Jesus's Apostles were the first to be called Christians by Antioch citizens. The Apostle Peter became the founder of the modern day Catholic Church with his successor being Pope Benedict. What Catholic really means is Universal. This became the Universal Church for Gentiles and Jews. Christian denominations are just separate branches of the same tree, Jesus. The main difference being the separate denominations don't adhere to the successor of St. Peter. To believe in Jesus as Lord, that individual has a special Grace from God. To know and believe is called Christianity.--jp 00:01, 5 July 2008 (EDT)
- Absolutely. --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 10:25, 9 July 2008 (EDT)
The only way to sensible classify religions is through factors such as their origins, demographics, characteristics, and self identifications. Theological debate over Catholic interpretation of the bible is completely irrelevant to whether they count as Christians.
I don't know a whole lot about catholic doctrine, but I think so. Obviously only God really knows. --Ben Talk 10:57, 3 December 2008 (EST)
As someone with a half dozen first cousins, all catholic, and two uncles, both devoutly catholic, and a devoutly catholic grandmother and grandfather who has attended several catholic funeral rites, marriages, and dozens of Catholic masses (I have never taken communion, just sit and respectfully watch), I think the honest answer--the horrifying truth--is being a Catholic does not in fact guarantee that one is a Christian. The majority of Catholics, I truly believe, are Christians, but ultimately a Christian relationship (a covenant) with God can only be known to the individual. --RickD 11:16, 3 December 2008 (EST)
This is a ridiculous question. Catholics believe a number of things that are completely contra-Biblical, like prayer to Mary or the ability to work for salvation. Salvation is by faith in Christ alone, and anyone who believes otherwise is doomed to spend eternity with Satan. --JosephG 23:21, 21 June 2008 (EDT)
Some individual Catholics might be saved, but it's in spite of the Catholic Church. The official church theology is un-Biblical and not Christian. Jesus paid for all sins on the cross and we are saved by grace through faith lone. We're not "infused with grace" and able to work our way to Heaven. It's entirely through Jesus. Ultimahero 00:35, 22 June 2008 (EDT) Ultimahero 14:38, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
Agreeing with the previous two comments. Some Catholics are saved, but in spite of their church rather than because of it. They may have been truly Christian once, but they have buried Christ beneath a mountain of doctrine, dogma, papal rulings, procedure, ritual, saints, demons and angels so thick that He can no longer be seen through the thicket of false teachings. Even the existence of a Pope is completely unbiblical. - NewCrusader
Read the book of James in the New Testament. Then you bigots will understand that you are saved by both faith and works.--RianB
Yes because of their willingness to follow Jesus Christ.
No when they don't express God's love to all--saying God hates someone because they live a homosexual lifestyle... but that's mainly just the ultra-conservative Catholics. Nate 23:30, 21 June 2008 (EDT)
- Personally, I think Christians are losing their ability to hate, and this is a bad thing. Hate, unpleasant as it is, can be a tool for good. Rightous hate drives people to fight evil, to oppose sin. Hate of sin is one of the things that gives Christians the will to try to end it. Without hate, there can only be tolerance or acceptance. - NewCrusader
- Are you trying to be ironic!!??? That's excactly what Jesus wanted us to do! --Nabroon 10:07, 9 July 2008 (EDT)
Nate, that is an excellent point. Incidentally, the official doctrine of the Catholic Church does not condemn homosexuality, but merely indicates that homosexuals are called to a life of celibacy. As a Progressive Catholic myself, I prefer to believe that a person's most powerful spiritual compass is his own conscience, and that doctrine is nothing more than a codification of established belief. --IlTrovatore 23:36, 21 June 2008 (EDT)
A willingness to follow Jesus doesn't save one. Our willingness to do good works or say a set number of prayers or go to church doesn't save us. Jesus does by His death nd resurrection. It's ll about Christian. And saying hmosexuality is wrong can be expressing God's love to people. God makes it clear from His word that He doesn't approve of homosexuality. Telling them it's wrong and warning them of the consequences can be very loving. It's like pushing someone off the trin tracks when the train is coming. They might not always like it, but it's for their own good. Christians can certainly be unloving in there presentation; we shouldn't insult people or call them names. But we do need to stand up for what's right.
Official Catholic doctrine might not condem homosexuality; but the Bible does. It mke it clear that it's wrong. The most powerful moral compass a person has is the word of God. He tells us what's right and what's wrong. Ultimahero 00:40, 22 June 2008 (EDT)
I know I've had a debate with you before over placing stock in Biblical authority, but on what grounds do you believe what you do about what the Bible really is? --IlTrovatore 00:48, 22 June 2008 (EDT)
Because the Bile is extremely reliable. There were 5600 New Testament manuscripts written within one hundred years of the original copies. That far exceeds anything that you would find in the ancient world. The New Testament is the most reliable document that we have from ancient times. In fact, the New Testament that we have today has been estimated to be 99.5% accurate compared to the original. And most of those difference are simple grammar errors. (Spelling errors, etc.) So I have extreme confidence in the Bible. Besides, we learn about Christ in the Bible. There is no where else to go. So believe contrary things about Jesus would be based on assumption, not our historical evidence. Ultimahero 14:47, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
I trust that copyists have been quite careful in their reproductions of the Bible, but the presence of spelling errors or grammar errors has nothing to do with whether or not we ought to place trust in the Bible as an historical source. I agree that historical evidence does support many claims made about the life of Christ, but this does not mean that it is exempt from the problems faced by any other historical documents. Most scholars agree that the Gospels were written many years after Christ actually lived, and that some of the Evangelists may have drawn on the work of the others in constructing their accounts. While this is not a reason to doubt general conclusions about the time in which Jesus lived, the places that he visited, the messages he preached, etc., it does not mean that we can treat the statements made as verbatim quotes. The dialogue in the New Testament is largely comprised of recollection, a notably unreliable function of the human psyche. --IlTrovatore 23:08, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
Well that's an assumption. We have the Bible and have the words of Jesus Himself. Now, you can say that He didn't really say things like that or that the Bible is just a recollection of what Christ said as opposed to actual quotes, but that's a baseless claim. There is absolutely no evidence to support your claims that Jesus didn't really say that. You are making a tremendous assumption. Ultimahero 11:09, 26 June 2008 (EDT)
There is, however, a great deal of evidence to support the belief of many scholars that the books of the New Testament were written several decades after Jesus lived. I don't doubt that the spirit of Jesus' teachings was faithfully preserved by whoever authored the Gospels, but I think that it is also "making a tremendous assumption" to claim that we must believe these are actual quotes of Jesus unless proven otherwise. Historians must always keep in mind the circumstances surrounding the authorship of a document when evaluating its content. Now, many will argue that this is not the case with the Bible because it was divinely inspired, but on what grounds can one make that claim? Because the Bible says so? That seems to be an incredibly circular argument. --IlTrovatore 13:36, 26 June 2008 (EDT)
Are there scholars that say that the New Testament was written long after the time of Christ on the Earth? Certainly. But there are also scholars which say that the New Testament was written not long after the time of Christ on the Earth. Scholars debate many things, so just to say, "many scholars claim..." doesn't prove anything, since I can give scholars that will argue the alternative. Ultimately, a very good case can be made for the New Testament that it was written within a generation of the time of Christ on the Earth, by the disciples who knew Him, and in the places that Jesus traveled and preached. And, even if that you would dispute that, it is a fact that the New Testament is the most reliably translated document of the ancient world. So to claim that Jesus really didn't say those things verbatim, well, you have no proof of that other than your assumption that He didn't. Ultimahero 13:59, 26 June 2008 (EDT)
Alright, assuming it was written shortly after the time of Christ, how does this guarantee that the quotes are authentic? I am not "making the assumption" that they aren't, I am just wondering how you are making the assumption that they are. Historians generally err on the side of skepticism, not unwarranted acceptance. --IlTrovatore 14:07, 26 June 2008 (EDT)
Because the New Testament (and I suppose that were focusing on the Gospels in particular since we're talking about what Jesus said) were written by the people who knew Christ. His Apostles, like in the cases of Matthew and John, or those who were disciples who worked under the Apostles, like Mark and Luke. Because they traveled with Jesus and knew Him, they knew what He taught. Now, on top of that, you have to consider where the Gospels were written and who they were written to. They were written in the same places that Jesus had taught at. They were written in those same areas; Jerusalem, for examples. And they were written to the people who lived there, who had also been alive in the time of Christ. They had heard his teachings, too. So if the Apostles went around claiming that Jesus had said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6), then it had better be true. Why? Because they were telling it to the same people who had already heard Jesus speak at previous times. They would know if the Apostles were lying or not, or if the teachings had stretched into fabrications. So these facts would necessitate that the Apostles quote Jesus accurately. Ultimahero 14:22, 26 June 2008 (EDT)
Two points: firstly, you are making the assumption that the Gospels were in fact written by the people that tradition purports wrote them. I will go ahead and invoke the opinion of "many scholars" once again (I can provide sources if you feel this debate has become too insubstantial) that the Gospels were not even written by those whose names are attached to them. Secondly, much of the doctrine that I have seen you invoke comes from other parts of the Bible, such as the letters of Paul. These do not even claim to be quotations of Jesus. How is it then that you base your vision of salvation on such a text? --IlTrovatore 14:36, 26 June 2008 (EDT)
Please do provide sources. Now, the unanimous opinion of the early church was that the Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Now, why would they lie? Three out of the four were minor individuals with no great reputation. If they wanted to lie about their authors, they would only do so if it was an attempt to improve their standing and bolster their reputation. So, if you were going to lie, you would attribute their authorship to more well-known individuals. Peter, Thomas, Judas, etc. That's what later people tried to do. When the later "alleged" Gospels were written, they attributed their authorship to Peter, Thomas, Judas and other bigger figures. But that's not what the earl Christians did. They attributed the Gospels to minor figures. The only logical reason behind this would be if they were really truly written by these people.
Are you saying that you don't consider Paul's work to be part of the New Testament? Luke, who wrote the Gospel by the same name, also wrote the book of Acts. And Acts details Paul's early persecution of the church, his meeting Jesus and conversion, and his ministry. Throughout the book we see him working with Peter, James etc. Major figures in the church. Peter authenticates Paul's writings as scripture (2 Peter 3:15-16). So Paul is a very legitimate figure to quote.
Oh, and just as a side-note, are you not going to further comment on the above "YES" section? I just ask because I keep looking at it and want to stop wasting time if we're not going to debate that anymore. Ultimahero 14:57, 26 June 2008 (EDT)
"his meeting Jesus..." Where is this mentioned in the bible please? BetsyNewson 10:26, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
Paul's encounter with Christ and conversion on the way to Damascus is detailed in Acts 9. Ultimahero 15:25, 18 October 2008 (EDT)
Apostolic Succession
Iread somewhere that the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are the only two that claim to be valid Christian Churches because they trace their history to one of the original apostles. Of that is true then they would be the only Christian churches, the others being formed by men who may be considered heretics of their original faiths Markr 11:46, 3 December 2008 (EST)
- Agreed. All Protestants were (still are?) considered heretics by the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches. But I thought Martin Luther was originally an ordained Catholic priest. So I always believed that most protestants could easily and legitimately trace a successesion back to Christ, either through Luther or through another originally ordained Catholic priest who broke with the Church during the Protestant formation (not sure if formation is the right word here).--RickD 12:08, 3 December 2008 (EST)
- The Anglican and Methodist churches certainly claim apostolic succession, and I don't think it's widely disputed. I'm not sure about United Reformed or other protestant branches.--CPalmer 12:13, 3 December 2008 (EST)
Luther rejected the Holy Orders as a sacrament and instead taught the equal priesthood of all believers. Apostolic Succession does not exist in Lutheranism because they rejected the Catholic doctrines of the priesthood. Anglicans also modified the form of ordination and destroyed their apostolic succession, although many Anglican priests and bishops today have received valid Succession from small churches like the Polish Catholic Church. Methodists do not claim the same sort of historical Succession as Catholics and Anglicans, and their ordination process also differs from the Catholic. Reformed and other Protestants have fundamentally different doctrines about the priesthood than Catholicism, and they do not even claim a historical Succession. User:AddisonDM 20 December 2008
Turning the tables: What does the Catholic Church think of Pentecostals?
(An apology) It was simply wrong of me to use such colorful terms as "bipolar", "schizophrenic", and "corrupt" in the way I did. It was thoughtless to do so and I should have been far more careful. This is a sensitive debate topic and comments like those could lead to conservapedia being less than friendly place to be--for anyone. Above all, I am sorry to have disrespected User:Jpatt, a fellow Christian.
- As a non-Catholic (as far as my acceptance and confirmation of Sacraments go at least), I decided to find out what the Catholic Church thinks of Pentecostals. To do so, I read Father Killian McDonnell's April 2000 paper "The Pros and Cons of Dialogue With Roman Catholics", Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Volume 8, Issue 16, pages 90-101. In that paper Father McDonnell states that Pope John Paul II refers to Pentecostal Christians among others when he wrote that in "other Communities" "certain features of the Christian mystery have at times been more effectively emphasized" (Quote from Paragraph 14 in Unum Sint (That They May Be One)). On the other hand, Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) has stated "Salvation only in the Catholic Church". I am puzzled and dismayed by this statement. At least on its surface, it seems to be a condemnation of those claiming to be saved, who are outside the Catholic Church and its sacramental system. Yet, I have read a paper by Catholic priest who engaged non-Catholic Pentecostals for 20 years, founded an institute on Catholic-Pentecostal dialoge, and wrote a peer-reviewed paper about it. All that along with a statement by Father McDonnell (written in his paper cited above) "For over 20 years the Catholic Church was the only international church to recognize the significance of the Pentecostals and to enter into formal dialogue with you" is positively promising. Then again, "Salvation only in the Catholic Church" seems less than promising. RickD 10:50, 10 December 2008 (EST)
- I agree. As a Catholic I was absolutely in love with John Paul II, he really made me proud to be Catholic. Benedict XVI on the other hand...while it may not be proper of me to question the decisions of the Vatican or God...I can't ignore my misgivings regarding him. I felt a palpable sense of love for all peoples and ideas from John Paul II (something I think should be central to any Christians mind set). Benedict XVI seems to focus more on what he perceives as the inadequacies of others. Suffice to say: I dearly miss John Paul II.--NicholasT 08:42, 24 April 2009 (EDT)


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everyone's opinion is really great.... I'm sure i'll make a wise decision. I have another question...I was thinking about taking the following courses at a local community college: legal research and legal writing. Will this help on my applications?
Hello Everyone...I have a low LSAT score.
I politely disagree with the previous posts.Law school applications are more than numbers. You get a personal statement. That statement can be a huge boost to an application, and spending some time in that statement talking about taking some college level courses post graduation to show that your UGGPA is not indicative of the sort of student you would be now can be helpful.I wouldn't enroll as a full time student, but it just can't hurt to take a class and do well, especially if it has been a while since you were in academia. I don't disagree that GPA and LSAT scores are integral, nor do I think a retake is a bad idea. You should retake. I do think taking a course and doing well speaks volumes to an admissions board as to the type of student you can be. Applying to law school straight out of college gives you very little wiggle room on an app. Applying after you have a little real-world experience is a different story altogether.Good luck.
Quote from: lawschool2010 on July 08, 2009, 12:53:01 PMHello Everyone...I have a low LSAT score. Don't retake it. Just apply to the schools you want. If they need the money and have seats left, then they'll let you in.
If you speak fluent spanish, then you can go to an ABA approved law school in Puerto Rico with a low LSAT score of 120.
Heres a hint for you ABA Law schools will let you in with a low 120 LSAT score if they didn't fill up all their seats and they have room. They would rather have your $150,000.00 for that one seat, then let it go empty. You have to keep bothering them even after you get your denial letter, to let them know you're still interested in attending. You always have the right to appeal their decision. Even if the school policy is not to allow anybody in below a 150 LSAT, they don't go by that. They just had to put that there so they don't look desperate. I have a friend who attended a T3 law school with a low LSAT in the 120's. He also graduated at the top of his class. I have another friend who had a 172 LSAT score and tried 4 years in a row to get into a T3 law school in the town he lived in. He wasn't willing to move, so he had to attend that one school because he had a family. The school refused to allow him in.