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Joe Reeder has the kind of roof local archaeologists dream about.
Actually, he has two, but it's the one hidden from sight — covered by a slightly younger roof — and accessibly only by a second floor crawl space that gets historians excited.
In 1784 the owners covered the building at the corner of St. Asaph and Prince streets with a larger enclosure, but left a portion of the original roof where it remains today. It's like Disneyland for researchers, said city archaeologist Pamela Cressey.
"You look through this little door that looks like a closet, but you're looking out at the original roof," she said. "Wood doesn't last very long in Virginia and usually when you build up you take off the original roof. This roof was encapsulated within [the home]. It's like a doll house or something — you can't believe it's been left that way."
It's one of dozens of historical quirks in the unassuming home nestled in the shadow of the city's courthouse. To the best of Cressey's knowledge, the home, now on the market, was built sometime around 1775 when the property was just beyond Alexandria's city limits.
Reeder, who had tree rings of the original beams tested, believes the home dates to 1772. Either way, several buildings stood on the lot when Patrick Murray built it: the home and a separate structure housing a kitchen and eventually laundry, smokehouse and overseer's room. And then there's the outhouse complex, with separate enclosures for slaves and free men, as well as for women and infants.
As further improvements were added, the home slowly enveloped the outbuildings, which eventually led to the house's eclectic floor plan. Narrow hallways take a visitor to one of two parlors looking out onto Prince Street, the dining room with a view of a the rear lawn and St. Asaph St., an interior bedroom suite and the original kitchen where Reeder keeps the massive wood-fired hearth crackling.
After buying the home for about $850,000 in 2001, Reeder set about tearing up the old kitchen's floors — laid down in later eras — in favor of the original wood surface, removing modern appliances and demolishing a relatively recently added bathroom among other renovations.
Though difficult and expensive at times, the work didn't bother Reeder, who felt an immediate attraction to the place. Almost from the moment he stepped in the door, Reeder knew he would buy the home.
"It didn't take very long," Reeder said, recalling he spent about 20 minutes in the house before making an offer. "I liked the character of it; I liked the antiquity of it … I had a sense of it being exceedingly old."
But after a decade of work, the home's become too expensive for Reeder. The tech bubble's burst combined with the recent recession has forced the former Marine, real estate dabbler and businessman to cut costs and possibly relocate.
If he had it his way, Reeder would spend his final years in the farmhouse. But he doesn't and the centuries old building is back on the market.
Reeder's realtor, Paul Anderson of McEnearney Associates, expects an aficionado of American history with a passion for entertaining visitors will fall for the $1.8 million historic home. He wouldn't be surprised if the new owner already lives in Old Town.
"There are other people living in 18th century houses in Old Town that have kept rooms or entire floors of the house completely true to the period … Somebody like that will be interested," Anderson said. "It's got, basically, historic fabric from all the eras. You can see vestiges from the people who have lived in the house through years."
In the meantime, Reeder hopes a change in fortune will let him keep the home or an area historical organization will take him up on the offer of a discounted sale — with the caveat of allowing him to spend his remaining time there.
"I prefer to give it away and live here," Reeder said simply, rocking back and forth in front of the hearth.


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The Supreme Court today agreed to hear oral arguments in a Texas affirmative action case that has, as NPR.org's Liz Halloran wrote last fall, "the potential to rewrite law on how or whether public colleges and universities may consider race and ethnicity as a factor in admissions."
And because the case will be argued this fall, it could be among the hotly debated issues in the presidential and congressional campaigns.
"The Texas case began in 2008," Liz reported, "when two white female applicants, Abigail Fisher and Rachel Michalewicz, were denied entrance into the state's largest university. They challenged the university's race-conscious admission policies, arguing that they were not 'narrowly tailored' " as required by the Supreme Court's 2003 decision in Grutter vs. Bollinger, a case concerning the University of Michiga's "use of race in assessing law school applicants."
The court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld Michigan's policy in that 2003 Grutter ruling. But since then, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor — who wrote the majority opinion — has been replaced by more conservative Justice Samuel Alito.
A federal appeals court, as The Associated Press reminds us, has upheld the Texas program. The Obama administration favors the program. The president's potential Republican opponents do not. So watch for much discussion.
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Before being treated with soothing vitamins, the luxurious shadows in Tarte's TEN Limited-Edition Collector's Eye Shadow Palette ($44) are softly milled from natural mineral pigments for rich color payoff and silky application. The liners are infused with antioxidant-rich and free-radical fighting carnauba wax, shea butter, and cocoa seed butter. The deep black and plum are sure to complement every look. Housed in a refillable palette studded out to embody a little bubbly, this masterpiece is the perfect way to celebrate the last decade of Tarte's welcome existence. Here's a toast to the next TEN. Cheers!
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- Bottom row (L-R): shimmering deep plum, matte almost black, deep shimmering chocolate, deep shimmering forest green, vivid shimmering teal
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When we drew up a preliminary list of films for this subject, we were struck not only by how many titles fit the criteria, but also by how many were genuinely good movies. Night of the Living Dead, Dazed and Confused, Glengarry Glen Ross, Halloween, Training Day, Rope, Mystery Train and A Hard Day's Night to name just a few. (It Happened One Night, you should remember, actually unfolds over several nights—and days.)
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How to use a Portable Power Bank
A power bank is essentially an external battery in a sealed case. Powerbanks come with a USB cable; you connect it to a power source such as a laptop to charge the powerbank. Some charge via flip out blades for plugging into the wall. In either case, you carry the charged up powerbank – and the cable – in your pocket, purse, backpack, briefcase or whatever and use it to charge the phone (using the same USB cable) when you see the battery meter sinking into the sunset.
We've all been there – you're out, you've got a million things on the go, and you need your smart phone to make a call, send an email, or look at a map, or the real classic—you need to locate a message with the info as to where it is you're actually supposed to be going…and, alas, your battery's dead. Damn.
Now the old solution was maybe go sit in your car in some parking garage to use your car charger, or maybe sit and wait in a food court somewhere where you miraculously found an outlet to plug into. You don't like to admit it, but in many cases you're screwed without your smart phone. So what's the new solution to the, oops I'm out in the world with a dead phone and no charger, problem? Portable power banks.
If you're the type who winds up standing in the street under an umbrella late for something or other and staring at the little Apple symbol on a black screen as your iPhone powers off just before the email you needed to look at loaded, then listen up. Let's talk 21st century solutions. Lets talk accessories that solve modern life's little problems.


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Bold ideas and unique collaborations are goal of Dean for Research innovation funds
The monetary push that new and exploratory research needs to blossom can be hard to find in the highly competitive world of grant funding. Princeton University researchers, however, now have additional University resources for pursuing those ideas and collaborations that push the boundaries of conventional research.
The University's Office of the Dean for Research will roll out this fall the first in a series of competitive "innovation funds." Three initial competitions will encourage bold research in the natural sciences, collaboration between artists and scientists or engineers, and new partnerships with industry. Initiatives to support research in the humanities and social sciences are being planned. Faculty — who will receive information about applying for the funds via email — will have their ideas reviewed by a committee of Princeton peers knowledgeable in the discipline being explored. Each committee will make funding recommendations.
The funds are meant to encourage breakthrough ideas coming out of Princeton, as well as to attract and retain faculty with a mind for innovation, explained Dean for Research Pablo Debenedetti, the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and professor of chemical and biological engineering. The initiative is a University-wide extension of Debendetti's previous work as vice dean of engineering, where his responsibilities included the administration of innovation funds with an eye toward identifying and promoting research with great potential that explored unfamiliar frontiers.
"If these initiatives are successful, we are enhancing the research enterprise at Princeton," Debenedetti said. "If Princeton has a mechanism to support innovative proposals that make a difference, that has an effect on the quality of faculty and research done at the University."
The benefits of a successful proposal extend beyond an individual researcher, Debenedetti said. "In the sciences and engineering, a lot of research is done by graduate students, so the moment you enable research you provide more opportunities for graduate and postdoctoral research," he said.
One of the funds soon to debut will support "high-quality exploratory research" in the natural sciences, Debenedetti said. These are promising and original concepts that at the moment have limited research results to back them up. Projects at this stage can be difficult to fund through traditional avenues such as federal grants, Debenedetti said.
"Especially in times when funding is tight, faculty tend to be cautious in proposal writing and become more risk-averse," he said. "I'd like to provide this mechanism for funding research so that colleagues can be bold."
An example of such research in engineering — where funding mechanisms exist to support exploratory research — is a project that began with a hunch that bacteria found in a New Jersey wetland held promise for treating water polluted with agricultural runoff. Peter Jaffe, that project's lead investigator and a professor of civil and environmental engineering, received a grant to pursue his idea from Project X, an innovation fund in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Jaffe, also the associate director for research in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, helps administer the Andlinger Center's various innovation funds. Without seed-grant programs such as Project X or those being launched by the Office of the Dean for Research, his project might have struggled for support, Jaffe said.
"With seed funds, you can say, 'I have an idea and let's see if it works.' That really would not fly with your typical federally funded project. They want something that is innovative, but also has a high chance of working," Jaffe said. "If I have a brand new idea, I can use these innovation funds to work on it for a year or so, then I have enough data to go and build a more credible proposal for more traditional federal funding. Seed funds facilitate pursuing new directions and ideas with a little bit more risk."
A second fund coming out this fall will support collaborations between artists and scientists or engineers, Debenedetti said. Cross-disciplinary research allows experts in seemingly unrelated fields to unify and expand their respective knowledge into new ideas that benefit both disciplines, he said.
An example is Flock Logic, a collaboration between Naomi Leonard, the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Susan Marshall, a professor of dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts and director of the dance program. In a series of performances in 2010, the project used dance to demonstrate the mechanics of group-movement in a real but responsive setting. As art, the laws of group dynamics served as the basis for advanced choreographic tools. As engineering, the movement of individual and groups of dancers played out principles of flocking used to understand human crowds, animal groups and robotic networks.
"That was a very natural way in which you got more than the sum of the parts," Debenedetti said. "In an unorthodox collaboration such as between the artist and the engineer, I think there is much to be gained from people bringing very different perspectives, but it can be difficult to find funding for such projects."
The third innovation fund promotes and supports industrial partnerships with the potential to bring the ideas of Princeton researchers to fruition. For the three-year grant, the University fully supports the first year of research provided that the researcher secures a letter of intent from an industry partner. The University will match funds provided by the project's industry partner during the second and third years. This generous arrangement is unique on campus, said Debenedetti, who has frequently collaborated with companies.
"Companies can get more bang for their buck because the University is matching their investment," he said. "For the University, the existence of a funding opportunity that could result in new collaborations with industry can enhance the breadth and scope of the research enterprise. As a faculty member, it enables you to tackle a broader range of problems than you would otherwise."
Other innovation funds at Princeton include the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, which supports groundbreaking work in the humanities, and the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund that funds technology with the potential to transform research in the natural sciences and engineering.


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"There would have been George dead had he not acted decisively and instantaneously in that moment when he was being disarmed," the brother of George Zimmerman told CNN's Piers Morgan last night in one of the most extensive interviews yet with someone from the family of the man who shot and killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26.
Robert Zimmerman Jr., saying he was basing that conclusion on what his brother has told the family about what happened, said it's his understanding that 17-year-old Martin had threatened his brother and was trying to get the 28-year-old man's handgun as the two struggled.
Zimmerman Jr., CNN adds, "also called the shooting a tragedy but warned that some of the responses have not been healthy. 'This is a tragedy. Her son was lost,' he said trying to send a message to Martin's mother. 'I feel very badly about that and I want, in the end, not for her son's memory to be seen as how we degraded our system and turned it into mob rule and went into a hate speech. Ultimately, we all wish that this was a different situation.' "
And he said that medical records will show that his brother did suffer a broken nose and cuts to the back of his head during the incident. Zimmerman Jr. said, as we noted was possible yesterday, that a police video of his brother was taken after George Zimmerman had been treated at the scene — which could explain why there are no "clear signs of injuries" on the tape, as CNN says.
Martin's death has become a national story because his family and supporters have made the case that the African-American teen was a victim of racial profiling — first by neighborhood watch volunteer Zimmerman and then by authorities who declined to arrest the shooter. There have been marches and rallies in various cities, and calls from Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill for Zimmerman's arrest. There have also been calls for changes to the "stand your ground" laws, in Florida and 16 other states. Those statutes make it easier for citizens, such as George Zimmerman, to claim self defense.
George Zimmerman, who had called police to report a "suspicious" person in the neighborhood and had been following Martin, told authorities he was walking away from Martin when the teenager approached him. Zimmerman says Martin knocked him to the ground and slammed his head on to the sidewalk.
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I'm off to see an expo of watercolors by sketchbook artist par excellance, Fabrice Moireau from his new book Toits de Paris on 5, rue St.-Romaine 75006 at his publishers.
Exquisite views in shades of Paris greys.
You come out and automatically look up to those rooftops.
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Here I am,with my 300th post on Easycooking along with my 2nd Bloggiversary.Two joys in one post..wait there's more!!
What started as a just-like-that blog has become two years old and has 300 posts in it.It is only because of YOU,my readers and fellow-bloggers who have made this possible.I wouldn't have come this far if not for your appreciation and encouragement.I've gone from posting what I cooked for our meals to making dishes exclusively for the blog.Thanks to blogging,I learned to bake and can confidently say I can whip up a few baked dishes with ease.While saying that,let me also thank my dear taste testers-Ajay's friends who eat whatever I bake with full gusto.With a licked clean box which comes back to making requests for the next cake-Thank you folks..:)
While thinking of the anniversary post,many things crossed my mind trying to decide on what to cook for the big day.After a lot of thinking I decided upon a Chocolate Cake.[Now I won't tell you that was my first choice to begin with..psst].That got me thinking.We love Chocolate cakes and I have a couple of "go-to" chocolate cake recipes when hit with a craving.But,everytime I come across a new one,I scribble it down or bookmark it hoping to try it out next.I do try new recipes but invariably,come back to the old ones.
Do you have a safely guarded Chocolate cake recipe up your sleeve?Do you feel you have the best recipe for the Ultimate chocolate cake?Or have you tasted a cake so good and have been trying to replicate the taste??
Send them all to me for the "The Best Chocolate Cake" event.
It could be the one you have been baking for ages or it can be a new recipe you tried out recently.With eggs-without eggs,with fruits or with nuts,frosted or plain,baked-microwaved-steamed-pressure cooked.You get the drift don't you?
Rules for the event-
1.Bake a Chocolate cake and post it on your blog between March 1st -April 1st.[Round-up would be posted soonafter]
2.If you already have the Best Chocolate Cake recipe posted on your blog,you can do a repost with a link back to this event.But it would be fun to try out something new,isn't it?
3.Send me the entries to firstname.lastname@example.com with The Best Chocolate Cake in the subject line with
*Your name
*Blog name
*Blog Url
*Post Url
How about tempting you with a giveaway?
I've been so impressed with the book "1 mix,50 Cakes" by Christine France that I've decided to give it away to one lucky winner.A random winner* will be chosen from the entries and the winner will be announced during the round-up.[Pssst,the winner would be chosen by a special guest].
So what are you waiting for??Don your aprons and pull up your sleeves and bake the Best Chocolate Cake:)
*Shipping only within India.
Here's one of my Best Chocolate Cakes.I tried this from Hershey's site-Appropriately titled Celebration Chocolate Cake.One of THE BESTEST cakes I have baked so far.Ajay's thumbs-up with both hands and half the cake consumed by both of us clearly explains the fantabulous taste of the cake.Oh-so-soft,melt in the mouth and intensely-deeply chocolatey-My first three layered cake..YAY!!!
Hershey's Cocoa – ¾ cup [I used Cadbury's-I had no choice-we don't get Hershey's Cocoa here.]
Boiling water – 1 cup
Butter or margarine – ½ cup+ 2 tbsp[I used Butter]
Sugar – 2 cups
Eggs - 3
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
All-purpose flour – 1 ¾ cups
Baking soda – 1 ½ tsp
Salt – ¼ tsp
Milk – ¾ cup
Dairy sour cream – ¼ cup [ I used Yogurt]
Heat oven to 350°F.
Grease three 9-inch round baking pans. [I used 8' pan]
Line bottoms with wax paper-grease and flour paper.
Mix cocoa with boiling water in small bowl-stir until smooth. Set aside to cool.
Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Frosting
So what are you waiting for..send in your entries and let's have a bash!!


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Computers control a very large percentage of engine functions. One very important function is how much fuel is delivered to the engine. The computer calculates the amount of fuel that's needed and when to deliver it. An important part of that calculation is the proper air and fuel mixture. That's based on the volume, temperature and density of the air.
The Mass Air Flow sensor measures all of those things and reports them to the computer, which makes adjustments to keep your engine performing efficiently. Outside air enters the air intake system, passes through the engine air filter, and then flows through the Mass Air Flow sensor, and then into the engine. When your air filter is dirty, dust and other contaminants get through and end up on the Mass Air Flow sensor.
The resulting problem is that the sensor can become contaminated affecting its measurements. The computer is sending out instructions based on false readings which can affect drivability, your catalytic converter, exhaust emissions, trigger a check engine light, and could even prevent your engine from running.
This brings us back to the engine air filter: it's truly the first line of defense against some pretty expensive problems. Should your Mass Air Flow sensor become contaminated, it may be possible to clean it during an air induction cleaning service. If the sensor has been damaged, it needs to be replaced.


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The Yungang rock cave (Yungang Grottoes) located at the Shanxi Province Datong's Yungang rock cave, has hole niche 252, statuary 51000, has represented the 5th century to the 6th century when Chinese outstanding Buddhism rock cave art . In which shines cloudy five holes, the topological design rigorous unification, is the Chinese Buddhism art first peak classical masterpiece. the Yungang rock cave is also one of world-famous stone carving art treasure houses. in 1961 the State Council announced for the nation key Cultural relic preservation organ, in 2001 is listed as the world culture inheritance. on May 8, 2007, Datong Yungang rock cave by National Tourism Administration official authorization for national 5A level tourist scenic zone. Has become the important place which the domestic people from all walks of life visit tour, is also the tourist attraction which the foreign friend adores and yearned. the Yungang rock cave has recorded Indian and the Central Asia Buddhism art vividly to the Chinese Buddhism art development historical path, reflects the Buddhism statuary in China gradually the secularization, nationality's process. Many kinds of Buddhism art statuary the style has realized unprecedented achieving mastery through a comprehensive study in the Yungang rock cave, from this forms "the Yungang pattern" becomes the Chinese Buddhism art development the turning point. Dunhuang Mogao Caves, in Longmen Grottoes' Northern Wei Dynasty time statuary the varying degree receives the Yungang rock cave the influence.
Shanxi located at Mt. Taihang west, east of Yellow River. Name of the Shanxi, because of occupies Mt. Taihang west to acquire fame. Was called since old times ?Biaolishanhe?. Spring and Autumn Period time, most districts for Jin all, therefore abbreviation ?Jin?; The Warring States initial period, Han, Zhao, Wei three divide the Jin, because and calls ?the Three-Jin?. The entire province total area 156,000 square kilometers, the total population nearly 34,000,000 people, presently govern Taiyuan, Datong, Shuozhou, Yangquan, Changzhi, Xinzhou, Luliang, Jinzhong, Linfen, Yuncheng, Jincheng and so on 11 locally administered levels, altogether 85 counties, 11 county-level cities, 23 municipal districts. Provincial capital Taiyuan, provincial government in the Taiyuan Municipal government east street. Rich tourism resources in Shanxi Province, historical monuments, scenic spots more. There are more famous Yungang Grottoes, Mount Temple group Jinci, Yingxian Wooden Tower, Yongle Palace,Xuankong Temple , Hukou Waterfall, Temple state solution, such as Hongtong large tree.


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The STOCK Act, a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stock based on nonpublic information they get because they're lawmakers, has 61 co-sponsors and counting. And after years of languishing with only one hearing, the measure is getting one in the House Financial Services Committee.
What's remarkable about this is that the STOCK Act had just nine co-sponsors last week. What changed? The CBS news magazine 60 Minutes did a story about congressional insider trading.
The report focused on several members of Congress, including Rep. Spencer Bachus, a Republican from Alabama. This week, NPR looked into his stock trades as well.
Think back to September 2008. The financial system was in crisis. Lehman Brothers failed on Sept. 15 and all that week confusion and fear reigned.
On Thursday, Sept. 18, the Treasury secretary and the chairman of the Federal Reserve gave congressional leaders a closed-door private briefing. Bachus was among those in the room. At the time, Bachus was the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee.
'Is That A Sin?'
The next day Bachus bought options betting the markets would fall — and they did. He sold about a week later with more than $5,000 in profit.
"Does that make me guilty because I'm a good investor," says Bachus, defending his trades. "Apparently I am one of the better investors around. Is that a sin?"
Bachus says in earlier years he paid for law school and bought a car by investing in the stock market. He insists as a member of Congress he has never traded on nonpublic information. And Bachus says he didn't need a top-secret briefing from the Treasury secretary to decide to short the markets.
"The market had come from 15,000 down to 12,000," says Bachus. "The headline on Sept. 17 was 'Markets in Turmoil.'"
There's probably no way to know what really drove the congressman's trades. But it's almost certain that even if he had used insider information, what he did was legal.
"There's no law against it," says Alan Ziobrowski, a business professor at Georgia State University. "There's nothing to prohibit them from doing it, and so I mean people will do what they're allowed to do."
Ziobrowski, who has studied the investment behavior of Congress, found that in the late 1990s, members of the Senate earned 12 percent more than the average investor. A more recent study of House members found a 6 percent annual advantage.
"The problem is of course as long as this continues, you'll never be certain whether or not congressmen are voting for their portfolio or they're actually voting for the benefit of their constituents," he says.
An Issue Of Appearances
Another study found different results.
"It seems in our study, on average, members of Congress would be better just owning index funds anyway," says Andy Eggers, a lecturer at the London School of Economics and co-author of the study.
He says, if nothing else, congressional stock trading just looks bad.
"For the sake of appearances, I don't see why Congress shouldn't make it required that members of Congress only own broad index funds or put their investments in a qualified blind trust."
Today fewer than 20 members of Congress have their investments in a qualified blind trust.
In comes the STOCK Act. It doesn't require blind trusts or ban trading. But it would, among other things, ban members and their staffs from trading on nonpublic information and require them to report stock purchases and sales over $1,000 within 90 days. Currently, it can take more than a year for information about trades to come out.
"We get information all the time that the outside people don't have," says Rep. Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat who has been pushing the STOCK Act since 2006. "We have no business trading on that."
For his part, Spencer Bachus says he stopped trading individual stocks a year ago and divested from the markets entirely. His committee will hold a hearing on the legislation Dec. 6.
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The threat of apocalypse no longer holds consequence enough; for director Don Coscarelli's latest gonzo genre blend, "John Dies at the End," fabricated realities sit worse with its cast of misfits, slackers, and interstellar beings than the so-called "End of the World as We Know It."
In this adaptation of author Jason Pargin's novel, the comic horror extends in many directions, but addiction is chief among them. Soy Sauce, a dimension-bending designer drug, ensnares slacker friends David Wong (Chase Williamson) and John (Rob Mayes). One dose produces an onslaught of nightmarish effects, beginning with hyper-acute psychic abilities, and ending with summoned hellspawn from portals tucked in the shadows. Rationality? Never heard of it.
Desperate journalist Arnie Blondestone (Paul Giamatti) attempts to find some nonetheless, but as present-day David recounts his surreal exploits in a dingy Chinese restaurant, the quest for truth instead leads down a rabbit hole of lunacy and delusion. This is highlighted by the film's title: more theory than spoiler, it assumes a winking, self-aware attitude toward narrative and genre that beckons you to question your expectations of either. And for the first half, it very nearly succeeds.
As director Coscarelli demonstrated in "Phantasm" and "Bubba Ho-Tep," he likes to traffic in scrappy chaos, spicing every dollop of gore with an equivalent dose of laughter. This is nowhere more apparent than in the film's opening sequence, a whirling philosophical riff by David on whether a zombie-skewering axe — thrice repaired — can still be considered the same weapon.
At its finest, "John" glides on this charming fusion of ideas and goofy fun; there are recurring nods to the duplicitous nature of everyday perception — a well-tread avenue in sci-fi, but rarely done with such a vibrant sense of empathy and low-budget charm. How does one react when told they're simply the hallucinations of someone else? As Coscarelli shows, first with a chuckle, and then a creeping realization of horror.
But such epiphanies are mere glimmers in the galaxies of incident that the film presents. Glynn Turman and Doug Jones appear as mysterious figures on the fringe, joining Giamatti (who's clearly having a ball) to filtering exposition through terse monologues. A talking dog serves the same function, but not before a self-help psychic (Clancy Brown) and the orgy from "Eyes Wide Shut" show up as well.
Along with Jones, Turman, and Giamatti, the two leads try their best to rein in the narrative. Relatable yet maintaining an unsteady smirk throughout, Williamson and Mayes are two fresh faces who snugly fit the traditional (and watchable) buddy dynamic. Mayes especially delights, embodying that peculiar quality in your most untrustworthy friend: unreliable for a ride, but essential if the world should ever face annihilation.
When events finally do escalate into urgency, however, Coscarelli pulls back and opts for greater eccentricities and tangential oddities. He's attempting something of grand ambition and scope — sharing the same twitchy vision Richard Kelly displayed in "Southland Tales" — but sacrificing coherence in the process.
As David and John jump dimensions one wisecrack at a time, the narrative disintegrates. Crammed full of asides that reach unresolved plateaus, our main story — David's fight against predetermination and identity — fails to establish any lingering stakes. So, when apparently vital twists occur then later on, any interest vanishes, as significance or gravity are pulverized into pop-culture vapors.
To date, I've remained unexposed to Pargis and his work under the fitting pseudonym David Wong, but what Coscarelli's achieved doesn't feel like an adaptation. It feels more like he seems he skimmed the source material, burned it, and then assembled a vague recollection on film after three days of untold indulgences. It would be quite a shock to hear that the film is entirely faithful to Wong's original story.
A cult following seems to be the audience "John" desires, but more often than not, those pre-programmed genre entries wind up in the nether regions of Netflix. I hope Coscarelli's strange concoction escapes that fate, though. He knows how to exploit horror/sci-fi tropes and adeptly meld a practical effect with a well-timed gag. Many could depict a man's disembodied moustache with the right degree of farcicality, but few can imbue it with such an oddball credibility.
Charlie Schmidlin is a Los Angeles-based writer for Indiewire.com, whose film work has placed him in China, France, and across the U.S.. He is also one of Ebert's Far-Flung Correspondents.
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Seven American democracy advocates who had been prevented for weeks from leaving Egypt and were accused of being there illegally are now on their way out of the country, NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Cairo.
"They are walking through security in the VIP terminal at the Cairo Airport," she just said in an email to our Newscast desk.
As we've been reporting in recent weeks, Egyptian officials had accused the Americans, as well as some other foreigners, of illegally interfering in the country's affairs. The Americans include Sam LaHood, son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The younger man is director of the U.S.-sponsored International Republican Institute.
The Americans have denied the accusations. One charge, that they were in the country illegally, was unfair because the Americans had repeatedly tried to obtain the required clearances but had been ignored by the government, they have said.
Word surfaced Wednesday that Egyptian authorities had decided to allow the Americans to leave. The U.S. State Department had put pressure on Egypt. According to The Associated Press, Egyptian officials are claiming that the U.S. "has posted bail" for the seven.
Nine other Americans who the Egyptians also wanted to charge previously left the country.
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WASHINGTON — Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago.
The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website.
According to the FBI, the number of computers that probably are infected is more than 277,000 worldwide, down from about 360,000 in April. About 64,000 still-infected computers are probably in the United States.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority said about 25,000 of the computers initially affected by the malware were in Canada, but now only about 7,000 machines remain infected there, according to Canadian Internet Registration Authority spokesman Mark Buell.
He said his organization, together with Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, has developed an online site where computer users can check their computers for the malware.
People whose computers are still infected Monday will lose their ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the Internet.
The problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of more than 570,000 infected computers around the world. When the FBI went in to take down the hackers late last year, agents realized that if they turned off the malicious servers being used to control the computers, all the victims would lose their Internet service.
In a highly unusual move, the FBI set up a safety net. They brought in a private company to install two clean Internet servers to take over for the malicious servers so that people would not suddenly lose their Internet.
And while it was the first time they'd done something like that, FBI officials acknowledged that it may not be the last, since authorities are taking on more of these types of investigations.
The temporary Internet system they set up, however, will be shut down at 12:01 a.m. EDT Monday, July 9.
Most victims don't even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their online surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.
But popular social networking sites and Internet providers have gotten more involved, reaching out to computer users to warn of the problem.
According to Tom Grasso, an FBI supervisory special agent, many Internet providers are ready for the problem and have plans to try to help their customers. Some, such as Comcast, already have reached out.
The company sent out notices and posted information on its website. Because the company can tell whether there is a problem with a customer's Internet server, Comcast sent an email, letter or Internet notice to customers whose computers appeared to be affected.
Grasso said other Internet providers may come up with technical solutions that they will put in place Monday that will either correct the problem or provide information to customers when they call to say their Internet isn't working. If the Internet providers correct the server problem, the Internet will work, but the malware will remain on victims' computers and could pose future problems.
In addition to individual computer owners, about 50 Fortune 500 companies are still infected, Grasso said.
Both Facebook and Google created their own warning messages that showed up if someone using either site appeared to have an infected computer. Facebook users would get a message that says, "Your computer or network might be infected," along with a link that users can click for more information.
Google users got a similar message, displayed at the top of a Google search results page. It also provides information on correcting the problem.
To check whether a computer is infected, users can visit a website run by the group brought in by the FBI: . http://www.dcwg.org
The site includes links to respected commercial sites that will run a quick check on the computer, and it also lays out detailed instructions if users want to actually check the computer themselves.
Associated Press writer Charmaine Noronha in Toronto contributed to this report.
To check and clean computers: http://www.dcwg.org
Canadian websites: http://www.dns-ok.ca/
Comcast Warning: http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Security-and-Anti-Virus/DNS-Changer-Bot-FAQ/td-p/1215341
Google: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/05/notifying-users-affected-by-dnschanger.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/notifying-dnschanger-victims/10150833689760766


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Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You know you've made it when the stars of stage and screen begin showing up for your events. But unlike the celebrities in attendance at other sporting events, who are there simply to promote a new film, album, or product, or to be seen by photographers, the celebrity fans who show up to see the UFC are just that – fans. And they're as hardcore as it gets.
You know you've made it when the stars of stage and screen begin showing up for your events. But unlike the celebrities in attendance at other sporting events, who are there simply to promote a new film, album, or product, or to be seen by photographers, the celebrity fans who show up to see the UFC are just that – fans. And they're as hardcore as it gets.
"I was watching back in the Dan Severn days and back when Royce Gracie was runnin' things," said Grammy-award winning recording artist Everlast. "Every UFC that I'm within a three hour radius of, I'm there. I love it."
And despite the fact that the UFC is everywhere these days, most of these true fans were there from the beginning back in 1993. It was that first event that intrigued them and kept them hooked for the next 15-plus years.
"I was so intrigued by what this was, and I remember thinking 'oh my God, it's about time,'" said Chris Meloni, star of the hit television series Law & Order: SVU and Oz. "I had always heard the Kung Fu guys saying they were better than the Muay Thai guys, and finally you had a proving ground. As it evolved, and the time limits came in, and then personalities started to emerge, then it really started to coalesce into something I knew in my gut was gonna be huge."
For a lot of people, it was the mixture of different combat sports styles that made the UFC so intriguing, and having boxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, Muay Thai, karate, and judo all in one sport was the key factor that hooked them for life.
"It's not just boxing, it's not just jiu-jitsu, it's not just kickboxing – it literally is everything in one, and anything can happen," said Laura Prepon, a familiar face at Octagonside who has been in America's living rooms as the star of That 70's Show and October Road. "I just watched a boxing match a few weeks ago and I just kept wanting them to take each other down and submit each other."
Statements like that are common these days, and even an actor like Sylvester Stallone, who is so closely associated with boxing due to his role as the fistic icon Rocky, admits that they're legit.
"I think it's replaced boxing – which breaks my heart - but that's a fact of life because there's a certain kind of vitality and competitiveness and a willingness to gamble that a lot of boxers, when they reach a certain echelon, won't, so yes, I'm a big fan," said Stallone of the UFC.
And when it comes down to it, the sport is all about the athletes, and the UFC is packed with the best of the best. For proof, look no further than action movie hero Jason Statham, who, as a member of Britain's National Diving Squad for ten years who finished 12th in the diving World Championships in 1992, can appreciate what goes into making a world-class mixed martial artist even more than most.
"I just think they're the ultimate athletes, in every sense of the word," said Statham. "I was a competitive athlete for a few years, and I understand the psychology that goes into trying to stay calm when you need to, but this is a completely different level. These guys are looking at a world of pain and they've got to try and have the confidence to overwhelm someone who's out there to absolutely destroy them and make them pay. So they have to be able to remain calm and fully confident, and be in such physical shape to play that game of human chess. And when it goes to the ground, it is a question of who leaves themselves vulnerable by trying to go for the win, because when you go for the win, at that point you are, in some ways, leaving yourself open for a counter. I've only messed around and rolled around, and I've seen how exhausting it is to wrestle, and I know how painful a punch and a kick can be when you're on the receiving end of one. They're the fittest of the fit, and to me, these fighters are the warriors of today, the real gladiators."
Or as Ms. Prepon puts it, "There's a certain kind of honor and integrity with the fighters, and these guys are machines. I don't think Kobe Bryant could go three five minute rounds."
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Normally I don't do all that much with spaghetti squash but this year I have really been enjoying it and in particular in stuffing it with tasty things like lasagna or in this case chicken enchilada filling. The basic idea behind this is that you cut a spaghetti squash in half, scoop out the seeds, roast it, stuff it with chicken enchilada filling, cover it in cheese and then bake it until the cheese has melted. One of the fun things about stuffed spaghetti squash like this is that you can use small spaghetti squash and then just serve it in perfectly individually sized servings in the shell itself!
I kept things nice and simple for the chicken enchilada filling going with shredded chicken, a light and tasty homemade enchilada sauce, black beans and corn and with the melted cheese topping your family will never know just how healthy this is or how many vegetables lurk underneath! What a great light, family fun meal!
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Chicken Enchilada Stuffed Spaghetti Squash
Spaghetti squash boats filled with chicken enchilada inspired filling and topped with plenty of melted cheese!
- 2 small spaghetti squash, cut in half and seeded
- 1 tablespoon oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 pound chicken, cooked and shredded
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- 1/2 cup corn (optional)
- 1/4 cup cilantro, torn
- 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1/2 cup monterey jack cheese, shredded
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- Broil in the oven until the cheese has melted and turned a light golden brown, about 2-3 minutes.
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Enchilada Sauce
A quick and easy homemade enchilada sauce.
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 small onion, diced
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- 1 teaspoon cumin, toasted and ground
- 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes
- 1 chipotle chili in adobo (or to taste)
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- salt and pepper to taste
- Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.
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- Puree the onions and garlic along with the chilies and tomatoes in a food processor and return to pan.
- Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, simmer for a few minutes and season with salt and pepper.
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What is My Motivation in Debunking Christianity?
As I understand it you spent a good portion of your life assenting to Christianity and now with your book and regular articles it appears you plan to spend a good portion of it debunking Christianity.
(1) What is your motivation for this?
(2) It seems that religion will always be a part of our culture. Do you see any good or value in Christianity?
Question #1: My motivation for debunking Christianity on the web is pretty much the same as any Christian apologist, except I don't do it to glorify God, and I'm not taking anyone to heaven with me. Christian apologists want to know that their beliefs are true, and one good way to do that is to get in the ring and argue for them. In doing so, they learn things and find better arguments to defend what they believe. This describes me too. Some want to make a name for themselves, some want the satisfaction of winning an intellectual contest (the competitive urge), while others want to gain some respect from their perceived peers, and still others promote themselves to make some money off what they write. So the motivations of us all are multifaceted.
I personally like an intellectual challenge. Can I describe what I believe in a way that makes some sense to those who disagree? That's quite a challenge, and I like to try since our control beliefs are so diametrically opposed to each other.
I am a teacher, so I'm also against people believing in wrongheaded Christian ideas that I tend to think are based upon ignorance, although that's the stuff that maddens me, since many apologists don't seem ignorant at all! What is it, I ask myself, that makes us believe different things where each side has this strong tendency to think the other side is just plain ignorant? This is where discussing and debating these things intrigues me to the utmost, and so I try again to explain why I see things differently. In the process I get a better glimpse of what it takes to cross that great divide between us, and I test my own explanations of why I see things the way I do. How can we each be so sure the other is wrong? That intrigues me like nothing else I know.
I also believe that life it better from my perspective, having been a former Christian myself. I can be more...well...human. Church people are stuffy people who are so judgmental. I only realized how much this is true after leaving, although I thought it was true while still in the church. There is a life to be lived to the fullest, and Christians are afraid to do this...and once in a while to step out of bounds. I love the freedom to live like I want to without the fear of hell or the judgment of other Christians. Don't get me wrong here, I still am every bit the honest and good person I was before (without the so-called help of the Holy Spirit), but I no longer feel guilty for what I think about, whereas Christians always seem to struggle with thoughts of hate, greed, lust, and the like. I don't have to anymore, for the most part. I only have to be concerned with what I actually do, not what I think about. I no longer have to give of my hard earned money to fund a church building in hopes God will multiply it back to me, I don't have to worry about what Ms. Peabody thinks if I go play pool at the bars, and I no longer have to waste so much of my time attending church, reading the Bible, praying, and evangelizing, and the overwhelming guilt that used to come when I failed in these things. If I see a pretty girl I can imagine what she looks like naked if I want to, and comment on her looks to the guys, so long as I do nothing about it, since I'm a very happily married man. I can drink and get buzzed if I want to. If someone does get in my face I don't have to be a mild mannered man, but I can tell him to get the fuck away from me, and I can say it like I mean it. I can waste away my time watching TV without guilt if I want to. I can drive over the speed limit if I want to without fear of God's judgment, although I don't speed hardly ever. I also love the freedom to think for myself without feeling like I must justify everything I believe in the Bible (have you recently tried to come up with a view of hell from the Bible that passes the moral test?). And I love the fact that my thinking is not hamstrung by fear of being cast into hell, hence I'm a freethinker. I also love being good to people just because I want to, and not because I have to, and I am. Even as an atheist I have reasons to be good without God.
Consider the medieval monks, for instance. They lived ascetic lives on the bare bones of existence, spending their lives reading a Biblical text that was false, rather than living the fullest life possible. Consider modern day Catholic priests, who live life without knowing the warmth of an intimate embrace in the arms of a woman, and the joys of being a father and a grandfather. Lacking this intimacy some of them have resorted to the crime of molesting altar boys, and have received prison sentences and the disgrace of it all. Consider the fundamentalist Baptist minister who never may know what it's like to have a few drinks and get buzzed (or if he does, he will feel guilty for this). Consider the many nights Christians spend evangelizing others, when those same nights might be better spent with their families or friends (and as a result many a man lost his family while he was out winning the world). Consider the time many Christians spend reading the Bible, when they could enjoy the great novels of their day. Consider the joy one might have in alleviating the person who is suffering for the pure joy of it, rather than doing it for some false heavenly reward. Consider the money that was spent in building great cathedrals and temples to this false sense of ultimate reality that could be better spent on the needs of people, or with what is leftover a cruise in the Bahamas.
I also want to help people who are struggling with their Christian faith to know there are others out there like me. As I was thinking my way out of Christianity I did it alone with my books. I read things. Then I thought about them. And I read some other things. But I struggled, and struggled. I didn't seek out anyone to talk to about my doubts, because most all of the people I knew were Christians, and I didn't want to be branded as a heretic, or shunned, nor did I want to create doubt in anyone else, since I wasn't sure what I would end up believing at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. So my book and this Blog are to help people discuss these things. It's to let them know there is light at the end of the tunnel, and that others like me have come out of the tunnel and we're okay. It's okay to doubt. You'll be fine. In fact, I believe it's better over here.
I also believe there are inherent dangers with religious beliefs. They don't always materialize, but they do have their impact in various ways. There are political reasons, which I don't touch on here much at all. There is a large voting block of evangelical Christians in America that help elect our local and state and national governmental officials. This large block of evangelical Christians also participate in letter campaigns to change public policy in ways I don't approve of. Atheists generally think Christian theism inhibits scientific progress, creates class struggles, sexism, homophobia, racism, mass neurosis, intolerance and environmental disasters. There are some dispensationalist Christians in America who believe the Jews are somehow still in God's plan. So they defend Israel no matter what they do, which fans the flames of war between the militant Muslims and the US.
Christian inclusivist scholar, Charles Kimball, argues that certain tendencies within religions cause evil. "Religious structures and doctrines can be used almost like weapons." (p. 32). Religion becomes evil, according to Kimball, whenever religion: 1) has absolute truth claims; 2) demands blind obedience; 3) tries to establish the ideal society; 4) utilizes the end justifies any means when defending their group identity; or 5) when they see themselves in a holy war. He says, "A strong case can be made that the history of Christianity contains considerably more violence and destruction than that of most other major religions." (p. 27) [When Religion Becomes Evil (Harper, 2002)].
According to Bertrand Russell, "one of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will." "Cromwell was persuaded that he was the Divinely appointed instrument of justice for suppressing Catholics and malignants. Andrew Jackson was the agent of Manifest Destiny in freeing North America from the incubus of Sabbath-breaking Spaniards." Of course, such a political program "assumes a knowledge of the Divine purposes to which no rational man can lay claim, and that in the execution of them it justifies a ruthless cruelty which would be condemned if our program had a merely mundane origin. It is good to know that God is on our side, but a little confusing when you find the enemy equally convinced of the opposite." "Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many factors of certainty that have afflicted the human race." "Most of the greatest evils that man has afflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." ["Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind," Unpopular Essays (Schuster, 1950), pp. 146-165)].
As far as the second question of WarrenL goes, yes I do see some good in Christianity. It has saved marriages headed for divorce (although it can create an oppressive family structure where the wife is dominated and must obey her husband). It has changed rebellious teenagers who were hell bent on doing drugs, sex, and crime (but there are other down-to-earth reasons why they should change). It offers a heavenly comfort (even if it is a false one) in believing that God can help Christians and will bring them to heaven (although it also requires believing that our neighbors, friends, mother, father, siblings, and cousins might spend forever in hell, however conceived). Christianity inspires kindness to needy people and motivates them to give to help others out but see this.
However, I just don't see where a Christian society is a better one. And even if Christianity was the main motivator in starting most all early American universities, most all of our hospitals and many food kitchens, and the like, these things still would have been started anyway, if for no reason other than necessity. It just so happened that Christianity has reigned in America for a couple of centuries, that's all. Besides, these things were probably not started by Christian churches out of altruism, or any desire for a better society, but as a way for those churches to convert people. After all, who are most vulnerable to the Christian message? The sick (hospitals), the poor (food kitchens) and young people leaving home for the first time to enter the world as adults (universities). Most of the earlier universities were all started to train preachers who would evangelize.
Christians have a false and irrational hope, but just don't know it. They are simply deluded into thinking their lives have some grand ultimate purpose. So who's better off? Someone who lives a life of delusion, doing things because they think it will matter for eternity, along with the daily guilt for not having lived up to those standards, or someone who lives with his or her feet planted squarely on the ground with the only reality that is to be had? Atheists have offered suggestions why people turn to religion. Sigmund Freud claimed that religion is an expression of the longing for a father figure. Ludwig Feuerbach claimed that God didn't make man in his image, but rather we made God in our image. Karl Marx taught that religion is the opium of the working class people. It is funded and pushed by the rich class in order to numb the working class from trying to right the injustices put on them by the rich class. Religion keeps the working class focused on a hope of bliss in the hereafter. Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that religion endures because weak people need it. For Jean Paul Sartre, God represented a threat to authentic morality. If God is autonomous, in the Calvinistic sense, then human beings cannot be responsible for themselves. He argued that the rejection of God makes morality and freedom possible, for only then can people take responsibility for their own choices.
Listen finally to Robert W. Funk and Robert M. Price's motivations:
Robert W. Funk in his book, Honest to Jesus (p. 19) wrote: "As I look around me, I am distressed by those who are enslaved by a Christ imposed upon them by a narrow and rigid legacy. There are millions of Americans who are the victims of a mythical Jesus conjured up by modern evangelists to whip their followers into a frenzy of guilt and remorse—and cash contributions. I agonize over their slavery in contrast to my freedom. I have a residual hankering to free my fellow human beings from this bondage. Liberation from fear and ignorance is always a worthy cause. In the last analysis, however, it is because I occasionally glimpse an unknown Jesus lurking in and behind Christian legend and piety that I persist in my efforts to find my way through the mythical and legendary debris of the Christian tradition. And it is the lure of this glimpse that I detect in other questers and that I share with them."
Robert M. Price: "We are viewed as insidious villains seeking to undermine the belief of the faithful, trying to push them off the heavenly path and into Satan's arms. But this is not how we view ourselves at all. We find ourselves entering the field as the champions and zealots for a straightforward and accurate understanding of the Bible as an ancient text. In our opinion, it is the fundamentalist, the apologist for Christian supernaturalism, who is propagating false and misleading views of the Bible among the general populace. We are not content to know better and to shake our heads at the foolishness of the untutored masses. We want the Bible to be appreciated for what it is, not for what it is not. And it is not a supernatural oracle book filled with infallible dogmas and wild tales that must be believed at the risk of eternal peril." [The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave (Prometheus, 2005), p. 15].
I hope this helps explain.
To read Part II of why I am debunking Christianity see here.


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Mr. Jeff Ritz
Mosquito Control Office
Environmental Conservation District
City of Stratford, CT
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City of Stratford, CT
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50 Boston Street
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To Whom It May Concern:
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Poinsett County Fair Association
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Greenville Bluesmen
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Stratford, Connecticut
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Orlando, Florida
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(Editors Note: This is very unusual to use so little for such a large area and have it that effective, we recommend using 25 ounces of Mosquito Barrier per acre.)
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June 16, 2003
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Keep spreading the word...I know I will."
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Ortonville, MI