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ADP - Live From Disney World
Posted 02 April 2008 - 07:49 PM
Preliminary Trip Report
Hi Everyone -
ADP is back for another live trip Report. Well, in reality I'm still sitting in my kitchen waiting for tomorrow, but this is a preliminary report.
So here I sit in blustery Central Indiana awaiting tomorrow, April 3rd. Spring Break has arrived at DD7s school system and soon we will be off to Balmy Orlando for 8 days and 7 nights of fun with Mickey and pals. And don't forget Buzz, Woody...You know those Pixar characters who crashed the Disney party about 2 years ago.
Our Family -
Me ADP Aaron
Kim - Wife
Anna - Daughter (celebrating her 8th B-Day)
I hope you will be able to follow along these next 8 days with me as I give you our daily adventures and dining experiences from the parks and resort; pictures included.
We will be staying at 2 resorts during our trip. We are DVC members, but will not be staying on points the first 3 nights. I've booked a standard room at AKL with an AP discount and the Dining Plan. We will then move over to Old Key West for the last 4 nights of our vacation using DVC points.
This trip will mark 2 new firsts for our family. It will be the first time we've used Magical Express and relied only on Disney transportation. We've always rented a car during our previous trips. It will also be the first time we've used the Disney Dining Plan. I always thought the Dining Plan provided too much food for guests; however, I believe everything is worth a try at least once.
Here are the table service restaurants where we will be dining at during the week:
Chef Mickey's - Dinner
Tusker House - Dinner
Sci Fi Dine-In - Dinner
Tutto Italia - Dinner
Ohana - Breakfast
Kona Cafe - Dinner
One more table service to be named later.
I should also note that prior to our trip I was on a strict diet. Its been a wild ride over the past 4 months but I managed to shed nearly 50 pounds and 4 waist sizes from my physich. The one thing you will not hear me say on this trip is "I'm watching what I eat". Sorry, but I'm on vacation! This pilgramage to Disney World will not see me cut calories; especially on the Dining Plan. The diet thing can wait until I get back! "Hey! Can you pass me that Dole Whip"!
We have a tradition in our household that one week prior to our trip to Orlando we create a countdown calendar. Each day DD7 puts a sticker on the calendar noting we are one day closer to our departure. It creates additional excitement prior to our trip....Yea, right, like we need anymore excitement!
As you can tell we are pretty well packed and ready to go. "Hey! Where's the suitcase!!!!" :?
Anna is excited and ready to roll!
I'll post daily updates mostly at night while everything is fresh in my cranium, but sometimes I might post in the morning before heading out to the parks. I hope you enjoy this report as much as I enjoy bringing it to you. If any of you wish to hookup just let me know and we can meet over at the Studios; maybe at the Tune-In Lounge...I'll even buy!
Tomorrow's Adventure -
Anna's 8th Birthday
AKL Check-In
The Magic Kingdom
A Trip to a Disney Salon
Dinner @ Chef Mickeys
Posted 02 April 2008 - 09:20 PM
Posted 03 April 2008 - 10:27 PM
Hi Everyone!
We arrived at Indianapolis International at approximately 8:30AM. The weather was supposed to turn ugly later in the day, so we were very anxious to get off the ground ASAP. As it turns out the first hour of our flight was rather bumpy, but tollerable. the last 50 minutes was smooth.
Kim and Anna were excited to be at the airport.
At Indy
At Orlando
Its really amazing we can be in to different places so quickly.
After we landed we headed straight for the Magical Express check-in desk. I must say I was impressed with the speed of DME. After a 5 minute wait in line I checked-in in less than 90 seconds. The nice CM said to head for the red carpet. What?! Red carpet? What is this the Oscars?! So we headed for the red carpet where we were greeted by another cast member who asked us what resort? We replied AKL and he said line 3 please. Once we got to the line we were called by a DME driver who said "right this way". Our bus was waiting...Awesome!
Our bus had to make 3 resort stops. Unfortunately, our resort was last. First was Pop Century, second was CSR, and third was AKL.
The bus we rode was a Disney Cruise Line bus. It was very nice and spacious. I could actually stretch out which was a nice change of pace from the plane.
Now onto my only DME complaint. The bus was moving very, very slow. I don't think we broke 45MPH the entire trip while on the Greenway. Once I looked out the window and saw a turtle keeping pace with us. Total trip time from the airport to AKL was 50 minutes. Considering we were the last stop it wasn't too bad.
I'd give DME a 7.5 out of 10. My only complaint was the slow speed of the bus and we had a bus driver who was in training. Eveything else went well. Our bags were in our room waiting for us when we returned from the Contemporary.
Check-in at AKL went pretty smooth. We did not have to wait at all for a CM. During the check-in process the CM presented Anna with a birthday card signed by her favorite princess and a birthday button to wear to the MK.
After the CM gave us our room number she sent us on a safari. She gave us directions to our room which seemed odd, but I followed the directions. Come to find out later all we had to do was walk down the steps in the back of the lobby to the second floor and take a left. This was much, much easier. We received an obstructed savanna view room on the Kudu Trail; which was fine by us since we paid for a standard room. Here's the view from our room.
So on we went to the AKL bus depot to head to the MK. This got interesting. The bus was at the depot when we arrived. We hopped on the bus and were the only passengers. One minute later a mother and son jump on the bus and tells the bus driver her husband is in the bathroom and we need to wait for him. The bus driver was ready to pull away before she jumped on. I'm sorry, but why should we have to wait for someone else's breakfast movement...LOL? So we waited about 7 minutes before he finally shows up. I should have asked him if he was feeling ok.
Once we arrived at the MK we were a bit hungry, but since Chef Mickey's was a little later we decided to keep it light with treats from the Main Street Ice Cream parlor. We found a great spot at the Tomorrowland Terrace Noodle Station in the shade and enjoyed our root beer floats and rainbow sherbert.
Our Treats
We then headed for Tomorrowland and rode the TTA. We then experienced the Laugh Floor. The MK was crowded today. Getting on headliner attractions would have been tough. Here's the midway between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland.
It was now 5:00PM and we needed to get over to the Grand Floridian as we had made a hair appointment for Anna. Since today was her B-Day we let her get her hair braded. The salon at the GF is called Ivy Trellis. They've done Anna's hair before and did a wonderful job. This experience was no exception. Here are a few shots of the appointment with before and after photos.
Once we finished up at Ivy Trellis we headed for the monorail to go to the Contemporary. Our reservation for chef Mickey's was for 7:15. We had some time to kill so we wandered in the game room. At 7:00 we checked-in at the front desk. After our photo with the plate and silverware we waited for 10 minutes before getting seated. I must say the food at the buffet was very delicious. I was very impressed with the prime rib, so much so I had to have another piece. It may have been the best I've ever had.
Prime Rib...YUM!
Serivce was a bit above average but not spectacular. We had to ask for refills a couple times and our server seemed rushed. The characters did pretty well with Anna since it was her B-Day. They did give Anna a cute placemat for her birthday she got to keep.
After we stuffed oursleves like wild pigs we left the Contemporary and took the walking path to the MK bus depot. We waited about 10 minutes for the AKL bus to arrive. We came back to our room to a close-up view of 2 giraffes eating leaves off a tree right near our balcony. It was a perfect end to a wonderful day!
Here are a few more photos from our day.
Pirate Mickey in front of the MK
Share a Dream Come True Parade
Glass Blower Main St. Glass Shop
Marshmellow Rice Krispy treats in the MK Confectionary
New YOMD Signage
Up Next:
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom Lodge Pool
Dinner @ Tusker House
Victoria Falls
Posted 04 April 2008 - 11:08 AM
Posted 04 April 2008 - 02:38 PM
We just returned from our morning at the Animal Kingdom. First let me say, I'm soaking wet thanks to Kali River Rapids. I was one of the 4 who went backwards down the 25ft hill.... but it was fun!
We started our morning at the Mara. When we walked in around 7:45 it was busy.
We ate very light since we knew we'd be having a counter service lunch later and dinner at Tusker House later tonight. We paid for breakfast out of pocket since it was light and cheap. Of course, I had my Nescafe coffee and it woke me up .
We then headed for the bus depot and arrived at the Animal Kingdom before the park opened. At 8:45 we were allowed to enter the gates. We waked up to Discovery Island where we had to wait until 9:00AM, rope drop. Mickey and Pals did a little skit which opened the park for the day. Afterwards Mickey headed for the Tree of Life and waived to guests entering Discovery Island.
Rope Drop Crowd...A sea of humanity!
Can you see Mickey in front of the Tree of Life waiving a flag?
We headed back to Africa for Kilamanjaro Safaris and got fast passes. The line was already long. I never believe the wait times posted since its so early in the morning, but I could tell from the line it would have been at least a 20 minute wait.
We then headed back through Africa and Asia and went to Dinoland. We experienced Triceritops Spin and Primevil Whirl with very little wait. We then went to Everst and got fast passes. It took 10 minutes to receive a fast pass. It was now time for our Kilamanjaro Safari fastpasses. Here is a pictures of the Ankole Cattle.
We then headed back to Everst as it was time for our fast pass there. After we rode Everst we headed for Kali River Rapids. As I mentioned earlier, well, wet is what we got. But on an 80 degree day today it felt good to get wet. I should mention the weather this morning was beautiful. Clouds have now built up from the heat and humidity of the day, but its still pretty nice out.
After we rode Kali I decided I wanted to try the new Yak & Yeti counter service. I purchased the sweet and sour pork and a piece of mango pie for dessert. I must admit the food was not very good. They serve it to you in a cardboard box. The pork is on top of the white rice. I found it to be tasteless. I should also mention the seating on the side and in the back was completely full. People were standing next to trash bins eating. This is just my opiinion, but I would stear clear of this place for counter service fare.
Here is a shot of the food.
Kim and Anna decided to head to Pizzafari for their lunch....Lucky them! I walked to meet them after I finished and found them in the restaurant. Their dishes looked very good. Kim said her chicken parmasean sandwich was delicious.
We headed to the bus depot and waited 30 minutes for our bus. It really shouldn't take that long to run buses from AKL to Animal Kingdom, but for some reason it did.
We are now about to head down to the pool for a quick swim. I'll post more later.
Couple more photos of the morning:
Devine. She is awesome!
Tree of Life
Posted 04 April 2008 - 03:40 PM
I guess the best alternative would be to grab an order of the green beans to go, and then take it over to Flame Tree for ribs.
Posted 04 April 2008 - 04:57 PM
Posted 04 April 2008 - 06:04 PM
Jeanine said:
I guess the best alternative would be to grab an order of the green beans to go, and then take it over to Flame Tree for ribs.
I think that is a great description. I never thought of it that way, but I'd agree, the coating on the pork tasted like chicken nugget coating.
Posted 04 April 2008 - 10:42 PM
Hi again everyone.
After our morning trip from Animal Kingdom we went outside to the Uzima Springs pool. If you've never been to this pool it is very, very large. We really enjoy the fact you can swim and a few yards away is a savanna viewing area. The pool slide is fun but certainly not the best on property. There are several chairs and areas to relax.
Photo of the pool this afternoon
The other element of the expansive pool area is the Uzima Springs pool bar. In my opinion this is the best pool bar on property. I love the thatched roof and it is rather large. Large enough to acommodate many guests. The atmosphere is usually festive probably because of the number of people who can sit at the bar area.
Uzima Springs pool bar
After our time at the pool we needed to head back to Animal Kingdom for our 5:00PM dinner ADR at the Tusker House.
On our way to the bus depot our real ride pulled up. We rode to the Animal Kingdom in style....No, not really, but its nice to dream, isn't it.
Let me start off by saying this restaurant is very "Bomaish". For those of you who've dined at Boma at AKL you know what I mean. The flavors of this restaurant are similar. Before checking in we watched the Jammin Jungle parade in Harmbe Village (Africa). Just to let you know I think watching the parade from Harambe provides the best viewing; specifically near the Dawa Bar.
The service we received during our dinner was wonderful. Our waitress Kelly was always available to refill drinks and continually asked us if we needed anything. We found the food to be "adventureous". All of the food was spiced to the "flavors of Africa". I was a little disappointed in the food selection. It seemed limited in my opinion, but the food was good. I would rate the service a 9 out of 10 and the food a 7.5 out of 10.
Our waitress found out it was Anna's B-Day yesterday and she brought her out a very unusual birthday card. This card looked funny to me because it did not have the icon of the 4th Disney World park, the Animal Kingdom. The 3 others were there, but not the Tree of Life. I asked her about that and she said it was an old card. It was made before the Animal Kingdom was built.
Here's the birthday card.
My plate of food from the buffet. The string beans were very flavorful.
Here are some other photos from the restaurant. The buffet area resembles a marketplace and is very expansive. I like the fact the dishes are underneath the food.
Restaurant Signage
After we finished dinner we were going to head for Dinoland, but the heavens opened up on our way. I'm not talking about a simple rain shower, I'm talking monsoon! Think intro to Gilligan's Island when they first got shipwrecked .
We let the rain pass and decided to head back to AKL. It was about 6:30 when we got back. We spent some time walking around the resort. I began thinking about how much longer it would be before visiting Victoria Falls. This is the adult lounge/bar at AKL. I really like this lounge. It's located on the 2nd floor and is somewhat isolated; however, you can hear the noise from Boma one floor below. The decor in the lounge is, in a word, different. It presents itself as a casual bar/lounge and it truly is such.
Bar Signage
Here are a couple photos I took from the 3rd floor lobby looking down. Sorry they are a bit dark
The bar area.
Frozen Margarita with Salt
After the trip to Victoria Falls I decided to call it a night. Tomorrow morning would be here before we knew it.
Up Next
EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Dinner @ Sci-Fi Dine In
A Check on Pixar Place & Toy Story Mania
Posted 05 April 2008 - 06:36 AM
ADP said:
Here's the birthday card.
I got the same kind of birthday card. I can only imagine that it was printed somewhere in the early 90's, long before Animal Kingdom was a glimmer in the Disney developer's eyes, and they must have printed more of those kind of cards than they know what to do with. I mean let's face it, when was the last time you saw Roger Rabbit in a Disney promotion?
Posted 05 April 2008 - 09:19 AM
Posted 05 April 2008 - 10:22 AM
(Lowell's Mom)
Mad, Mad, Mad about Disney!
May 21-28, 2013
Wilderness Lodge
Posted 05 April 2008 - 02:08 PM
QuickGold said:
"Happy Birthday! From the Land of Retired Characters!"
Posted 05 April 2008 - 08:26 PM
Hi Everybody!
We are back from our EPCOT and Hollywood Studios visits. Our day was cut a bit short do to some storms that are currently moving through the area.
We started this morning grabbing a light breakfast at the Mara before making our way to the bus depot. Something interesting I'd never seen at a resort bus depot happened this morning. There were 2 cast members at the bus depot interacting with kids in an unusual way. They had a box with secret holes. Inside the holes were mystery items like dinosaur fossils and other bones. The children had to try and guess what they were feeling. I asked one of the cast members when they started doing this and why. She replied "just recently and because some wait times for buses can be long this helps pass the time."
Here's a photo of the experience
We arrived at EPCOT just after the park opened. The topiaries at the entrance to Future World are larger than I expected. This years Flower & Garden festival theme is "Fun in the Sun", but I think it should have been "Bigger is not Necessarily Better." There are fewer topiaries this year than I remember in past years; however, the topiaries are much larger than I remember as well. Unfortunately, we never made it over to the Wonders of Life pavillion where the Flower & Garden festival acitivities take place.
Flower & Garden Program
Here are some shots of the topiaries
Beach Mickey & Minnie with Surfer Goofy
Here's me with beach volleyball Donald and Daisy Duck
Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
I should also mention the park looks beautiful. The flowers are very abundant and well placed. I especially loved the flower patterns and formations along the twin lakes between Future World and World Showcase.
Flowers bordering the lake
Pluto's dog house. I've been in the dog house before!
Probably my favorite Flower & Garden festival element is Minnie's Butterfly Garden. I really enjoy the number of butterflies in the garden/tent. They are some very pretty and unique butterflies as well. I don't know what it is, but when I'm in the garden/tent its leaves me with a very tranquill feeling.
Minnie's Butterfly Garden
Some of the attractions we experienced at EPCOT this morning were Figment, The Seas with Nemo & the Seas Aquarium. We also used fast passes for Soarin and Test Track. I should also mention we just missed dream fast passes from the Dream Squad. As were were exiting the tunnel from the Seas aquarium the Dream Squad just finished handing them out. In fact, I thought we were going to get them since we had exited the tunnel and then the Dream Squad member made the announcement of no more dream fast passes. But, no big deal since we already had fast passes for Soarin and Test Track.
Once we finished in Future World we began making our way around World Showcase. We rode the 3 Cabilleros starring Donald Duck. Once we finished the ride we were getting hungry. I wanted to try the Tangerine Cafe (counter service in the Morocco pavillion) while Kim and Anna chose the Liberty Inn (counter service in the America Pavillion).
The Tangerine Cafe is setup like a cafeteria. There are two lines left or right; however, only one was in operation today. I chose the chicken wrap with a side of Cous Cous, lentel bean salad and Baclava for dessert. All of the food was very spicy, but flavorful. I really enjoyed it. You will need an adventurous pallet for this food. I particularly liked the pita bread served with the chicken wrap.
Here's the food. It looks like a bomb went off in my chicken wrap
Anna, Kim and I met at the Morrocco pavillion and took the boat back to Future World to catch another ride on Test Track. Before riding Test Track we stopped in Mouse Gear (EPCOT's main souvenier shop). Anna found a sparkly silver backpack. When we went to purchase it the Cast Member behind the counter allowed Anna to ring up the sale. She walked her through how to scan it in, push the buttons on the cash register, and scan our credit card. She also received a magical moment certificate for helping out.
Photo of Anna behind the counter at Mouse Gear
Once we finished our ride at Test Track we decided it was time to walk through EPCOT's back entrance in World Showcase and take the boat to Hollywood Studios. We had a 5:00PM ADR at Sci-Fi Dine In plus we wanted to experience a few attractions before dinner.
It was really amazing how it worked out, but from the time we entered the boat to the time we arrived at the Studios it poured rain. When we got off the boat it stopped raining. The crowd at the Studios wasn't light, but not heavy either. I think the rain drove some guests away from the park. Our first stop would be Muppets 3-D, but on our way we got fast passes for Star Tours. I must say I really love the Muppets 3-D preshow. It maybe the best preshow on property. It always seems to pass the time well while waiting for the theater doors to open.
As we heaed for Star Tours I told Kim and Anna I wanted to head for the soon to be Pixar Place and snap a few photos. Kim and Anna went on Star Tours without me while I checked out Pixar Place, the arch entering Animation Courtyard, and the crowd on Hollywood Blvd.
Here are the photos.
The crowd on Hollywood Blvd this afternoon
The arch entering Animation Courtyard is still empty
The construction walls for Pixar Place are still up. I think it was Ronald Reagan who said "Mr. Gorbechav TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS!"
It was now time for our 5:00PM ADR at Sci-Fi Dine In. The theme of this restaurant is similar to an old fashioned outdoor drive-in movie complete with replica cars you actually dine in. There is one large movie screen that shows old horror clips from years past. There are also several movie posters throughout the lobby and inside the main dining area. It is a very unique dining experience. I should warn you the restaurant is very dark. I'm not sure if its so you can't see what you are eating or not... Walking around the restaurant can be dangerous so I would suggest remaining seated in your car.
I ordered the BBQ ribs with french fries and cole slaw. Kim had a grilled chicken sandwich with fruit. We all agreed our food was above average. We wouldn't call it spectacular, but it wasn't bad either. One note, if you wish to order from the lunch menu you may do so during dinner. The lunch menu is much different than the dinner menu. For dessert Kim had the cheescake and I had a chocolate tart which was just ok. I only had 2 bites and left the rest.
Here are some photos from our dining experience.
Front enterance sign
Lobby poster signage
The car you dine in. I was dining shot gun in the back seat.
My plate of food. The BBQ Ribs
While we were dining it was raining outside. As we were about to exit Sci-Fi it was still raining, but it appeared to be slowing down. Lucky for us it did slow down. We were able to walk to the bus depot, hop the bus back to AKL and call it a night. After I finish this report I'll be heading back down to Victoria Falls in hopes to catch the end of the 2nd NCAA National Semifinal game.
Thanks for following along everyone.
Next Up:
Checking in to Old Key West
Another trip to Hollywood Studios
Another trip to EPCOT
Dinner @ Tutto Italia (Italy Pavillion)
Posted 05 April 2008 - 08:59 PM
Posted 06 April 2008 - 08:27 AM
Posted 06 April 2008 - 01:21 PM
DebWDW said:
I love the on vacation reporting. There is something about knowing you're there, while I'm reading this, that makes me feel all good inside. I think you need to get back to the Studios; you're time there was say to short. Try to catch the Hollywood Public Works guys, they start there day in the afternoon. Or the Citizens of Hollywood; they're there all day.
Thanks for sharing.
(Lowell's Mom)
Mad, Mad, Mad about Disney!
May 21-28, 2013
Wilderness Lodge
Posted 06 April 2008 - 05:40 PM
Posted 06 April 2008 - 07:46 PM
By the way, the one thing I meant to tell you is I'm planning on goint to Mousefest solo this year. If you need help with anything I'm basically volunteering my services with setup, etc. just let me know.
Posted 06 April 2008 - 08:04 PM
Hi Everyone,
We've checked into Old Key West. Here's an update to this mornings activities.
The weather has turned sour this afternoon. It started raining at about 1:30PM and has continued until now.
We started our morning at the Mara again for a light breakfast. After we finished breakfast we went back to our room at AKL for the last time. I called Bell Services to come pick up our luggage and have it transferred to Old Key West.
For those of you who split your stay between resorts this is the best way to get your luggage from one resort to the other. Just keep in mind you may beat your luggage to your next resort. Our luggage did not arrive at Old Key West until 2:45PM. It was funny, but when we were checking in we saw our luggage being unloaded from the AKL van. Anna saw it and yelled "THERE'S OUR LUGGAGE!!" Thanks for announcing it for the whole lobby to hear.
Anyway, we arrived at Hollywood Studios just after it opened around 9:15AM. The park was not crowded at all yet.
Here's a shot of some cement patchwork drying alongside of Hollywood Blvd. As you can see Hollywood Blvd was not very crowded yet.
Attractions we experienced this morning were The Great Movie Ride, Star Tours, Muppets 3-D, Lights, Motors, Action Stunt Show. and Honey I Shrunk the Playground. The wait times we experienced were minimal. None longer than 15 minutes.
I did bump into Matt, Josh and Sarah today outside of Star Tours. I didn't even notice him, but I heard Matt call my name as I was walking by them. Good thing Josh, Sarah and Matt have better eyes than I do. I really need to start wearing my Studioscentral.com t-shirt in the Studios.
We also caught the High School Musical 2 Pep Rally.
We also saw Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable.
The umbrella seems to be working just fine.
Construction walls on the old ABC theater. Doesn't seem like there's much happening.
For lunch today we chose to dine at the Backlot Express. Let me just say the food was very delicious. In my opinion its the best counter service food at the Studios. I had the Turkey & Swiss sandwich with french fries and a sugar free strwberry parfait for dessert. I apologize, but I got more than half way through the sandwich before I realized I needed to snap a picture. Trust me, it was very good!
The bread was toasted and I believe it is wheat bread. The sugar free strawberry parfait was also very good and very refreshing. I highly recommend this place for quick service dining at the Studios.
So, that's it for now. Quite honestly, I'm not sure we are going to make it to Tutto Italia tonight due to the weather. We may end up cancelling and trying to dine here at Old Key West. I may try and get a last second reservation at Olivia's; which is the sit down restaurant here at the resort.
I'll be posting another report soon.


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LORAIN -- Bryan Neiding, 19, of Vermilion, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia after Lorain police found him unresponsive in a parked car following a suspected heroin overdose about 8 p.m. Thursday. LifeCare used Narcan, a drug to counter opiate overdoses, to treat Neiding, police reported.
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I think its share to post the menu both here and on the forums.
I was thinking cupcakes with ballet shoes on it or tutu shaped cookies? And bear paws to represent Emmett's (Kellan) favorite hunting animals. For desserts, at least.
Maybe we can have "blood" smoothies to mimic the fight scene in the studio, only it will be fruit punch or something.


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Arkansas Republican gubernatorial candidate Curtis Coleman will be in Russellville today to talk about the U.S. Constitution and the state of Arkansas. He will answer the question, "Can Our Constitutional Republic Be Saved?" at noon at Western Sizzlin' in Russellville. For more information, visit the website www.curtiscoleman.com.
YCWF to host fundraiser
The Yell County Wildlife Federation will host BBQ fundraiser Friday on Dardanelle Wal-Mart parking lot. They will begin serving by 10-10:30 a.m. until all is gone. There will be smoked chicken, baked beans and corn. The cost will be $5 per plate.
YCWF will also sponsor a tailgate party at the Dardanelle High School football game. The game starts at 7 p.m. and will be serving by 6:15-6 p.m. All Proceeds from the tailgate party will go to Dardanelle Football Booster Club.
Trail dedication rescheduled
The Wildlife Observation Trail dedication scheduled for today has been postponed due to the weather. The dedication of the Wildlife Observation Trail has been rescheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 7. The trail is located at 6630 U.S. Highway 64 West in Illinois Bayou Park. The trail was funded by a grant from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The public is invited.
Senior Center hosts Halloween dance
The Pope County Senior Activity Center will host a Halloween dance from 6:30-9 p.m. today. Costumes are encouraged but not mandatory. Cost will be $5 each and all ages invited.
Enactus's E-Waste Drive set Nov. 7
The ATU Enactus's E-Waste Drive will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 7. The event will be hosted at the Pope County Fairgrounds parking lot. The event is sponsored and ran by ATU Enactus, ATU Computer Club, and eSCO Processing and Recycling, LLC.
This project is focused on helping the public recycle their old or unused electronics responsibly. Accepted items will be computers, printers, digital cameras, stereos, A/V equipment, cell phones, telephones, VCR, DVD and CD players, microwaves and vacuum cleaners. TVs and monitors will required a $10 charge to drop off. Items with freon or gas are not allowed.
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Saint Peter (32-67 AD) -- According to Catholic beliefs, Peter was the first pope and the focus of Roman Emperor Nero's ire. Nero sent an order for Peter's arrest, and although Peter escaped, it is said a vision of Jesus inspired him to return to Rome and accept his martyrdom. He was ultimately crucified.
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Pope Stephen I (May 254-August 257 AD) -- Pope Stephen I is said to have been sitting on his throne, celebrating Mass, when Emperor Valerian's men stormed the room and beheaded him where he sat. The blood-stained throne is alleged to have been preserved by the church until the 18th century.
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Pope Stephen VI (May 896-August 897) -- Fueled by his anger with Pope Formosus, his predecessor, Pope Stephen VI exhumed Formosus' body and put him on trial in the so-called "Cadaver Synod" in January 897. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, had three of its fingers cut off and was tossed in the Tiber River.
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Young Exhibitors Win $35,000 in Prizes, Top Show Calves as All-American Dairy Show Opens
Lucky youth exhibitors took home new show calves from renowned farms and more than $35,000 in prizes during the opening ceremonies of the 10th annual Premier National Junior Events, part of the All-American Dairy Show, which runs Sept. 7-12 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg.
Junior exhibitors won clippers, magazine subscriptions, clothing, cash and gift cards, and other prizes. The ceremonies concluded with seven donated show calves given to junior dairy producers to help promote the longevity of the dairy cattle industry.
Calves donated:
Ayrshire Maple-Dell Burdette Gloria, won by Keenan Thygesen of Tunbridge, Vt., donated by Maple Dell Farm, of Woodbine, Md., owned by the David Patrick Family. This was Maple Dell Farm's 50th trip to the All-American Dairy Show.
Brown Swiss Top Acres Wonder Smile ET, won by Kaitlyn Muncie of Eighty-Four, Pa., donated by Top Acres Brown Swiss of St. Paris, Ohio, owned by Wayne and Connie Sliker.
Guernsey Snider GEO Watchout, won by Hannah Wilson of Middletown, Pa., donated by Snider Homestead Farm of New Enterprise, Pa. This was Snider Homestead Farm's 50th trip to the All American Dairy Show.
Holstein Windy-Knoll-View Proctor, won by Courtney Campbell of Gratz, Pa., donated by Windy Knoll View Farm of Mercersburg, Pa., and owned by the Burdette Family.
Jersey Jemi Getaway From Maltai, won by Catherine Savage of Dickerson, Md., donated by JEMI Jerseys of Newburg, Pa., and owned by Michele and Jeff Reasner.
Milking Shorthorn NIXS Juke Box, won by Madison Wright of Dayden, N.Y. and donated by Jake Skinner of Mercersburg, Pa.
Red & White Del-Hollow Golden Jewel Red, won by Austin Mowry of New Enterprise, Pa., donated by Del-Hollow Farms of Coudersport, Pa., owned by Dana Erway.
The 50th All-American Dairy Show, the world's largest dairy show, runs Sept. 7-12 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg. This year's show features 23 shows in six days, the nation's only all-dairy antiques show, nearly 3,000 animals and 2,000 exhibitors from across the nation. For more information, visit www.allamerican.state.pa.us or call 717-787-2905.


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(Reuters) - Quarterback Tom Brady has agreed to a bargain three-year, $27 million contract extension that will keep him with the NFL's New England Patriots through the 2017 season, Sports Illustrated reported on Monday.
The two-time National Football League (NFL) Most Valuable Player who led New England to three Super Bowl titles, will get a $3 million signing bonus plus salaries of $7 million in 2015, $8 million in 2016 and $9 million in 2017, the magazine said.
Brady, 35, who rose to fame after being taken in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft, accepted about half the future salary commanded by other top signal callers in order to give the Patriots flexibility to sign other players, according to the report.
Brady passed for 4,827 yards and 34 touchdowns this past season with New England, who lost in the AFC title game to the Baltimore Ravens, one step from reaching their sixth Super Bowl with Brady at quarterback.
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Lake Tahoe, CA (July 31, 2002) -- Businesses often offer their sales people incentives to meet sales goals. Nikita Clothing's distributor, Deep Distribution, has raised the bar a level and one buyer is reaping the benefits.
With Nikita Clothing recently launching its first big sales shipment into the United States, Deep Distribution created an incentive program for its eight sales representatives to get buyers to "go deep." As a result of this creative program, the contest winners -- the leading sales representative and corresponding women's soft goods buyer -- won a trip to Nikita's headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Deep Distribution has eight representatives covering the U.S., reaching more than 100 retailers/buyers nationwide. The sales rep that sold the most Nikita Clothing is Stephanie Cannell of Northern California, and her buyer that went the deepest is industry veteran Go Skate. A company with more than 30 years under its belt, Go Skate made Stephanie Cannell's task of winning the contest easy by buying four times more the average of the other U.S. retailers. And, shop owner Dale Smith and his wife Laura Tyler Samuels can hardly wait to buy more!
"Every time we get Nikita Clothing in our store, we sell out of the product within 30 days," says Smith. "Nikita is way ahead of anyone else with respect to women's design of clothing. The designer, Heida Birgisdottir, uses colors today that other companies won't think about using until next year."
"Our reps fought tooth and nail to succeed at this competition, and more importantly, collect their winnings," says Jen McVey Riley of Deep Distribution, Nikita's U.S. representative. "But in the end, our winner, Stephanie Cannell selflessly gave her ticket to the Go Skate husband-wife team so they could enjoy the trip together. That's slick! She's a great rep."
Adds Go Skate's Samuels, "Having the opportunity to go to a country we've never been to is amazing for us and we are grateful for the opportunity. We already know the clothing is incredible--so are the people behind the brand."
Smith and Samuels will be flown to Reykjavik, Iceland where they will meet Heida Birgisdottir, President of Nikita, and given a tour of the headquarters as well as do some local sightseeing of area waterfalls and hot springs. They head off to Iceland in October.
Nikita's sales contest ran the entire fall holiday sales cycle in conjunction with the "back to school" shipment. The next contest begins in August 2002.
For more information on Nikita, visit their web page at www.nikitaclothing.com. For more information on Go Skate, please visit their web page at www.go-skate.com.


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NY cop credits Good Samaritans for saving his life
Officer John Lomonico responded to an alarm going off at a residence when the struggle with an armed suspect began
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UTICA, N.Y. — A Utica police officer is crediting two civilians for saving his life during a scuffle with a suspect.
The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports Officer John Lomonico responded to an alarm going off at a residence Thursday and witnessed a man's legs sticking out of the home's window.
The man – 43-year-old Ronald Flagg – was wielding a crow bar and fled as Officer Lomonico attempted to take him into custody.
Officer Lomonico tackled Flagg after a foot pursuit and began struggling with him on the ground.
Passerby Stanley Markis witnessed the battle and noticed Flagg was carrying a handgun, according to the report.
Markis stepped in – attempting to grab the gun which then fell on the ground. Markis was able to kick the weapon away from Flagg as he attempted to retrieve it.
Flagg then went for Officer Lomonico's weapon, when a second civilian, Jack Carter, jumped in to help subdue the suspect.
Officer Lomonico was treated for a knee injury in the incident and credits the pair of Good Samaritans for preventing a bad situation from becoming far worse.
Flagg was charged with felony possession of a weapon, two counts of felony attempted possession of a weapon, felony possession of stolen property, and misdemeanor resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, according to the report.


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Kate Winslet has bared it all for the cameras before, even coached others through the process. But the star explained recently just how photographer Mario Testino got her to strip down. "You know that his biggest strength without fail is making women look beautiful," she said at the El Museo del Barrio gala Thursday evening in New York City, as she presented the celebrity favorite with an award honoring his career. "When Mario turns to you and says, 'It's beautiful, but I think it would work better naked, no?' How can one refuse?" Winslet, who has talked openly about issues with her body, explained, "No matter what insecurities about oneself a subject may have, Mario makes them go away like a magician." She continued, "One moment you are in the hair and makeup chair fully clothed and wishing you had smoother skin, longer legs and smaller feet and then Mario comes in and in that charming way he takes you by the hand and says, 'Don't worry it's going to be amazing.'" Testino, who also shot the famed engagement portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, says convincing Winslet was as easy as she claims. "I said to her, I want you to pose nude for this exhibition," he said of the "Todo o Nada" exhibit that will open in Rome in July. "And she was like, 'Oh, okay, Mario.' She said yes right away." That didn't come as a surprise to Testino. "Most of them I think trust me. I would never let them down." —Kim Peiffer, with reporting by K.C. Baker


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Free Agency Kicks Off
Free agent signings officially kicked off today and one of the top needs for the Phillies is a third baseman. Although, do not expect them to jump too quickly; it will likely be a while before they settle on a player. The front runner appears to be Mark DeRosa (Cardinals). The Phils have courted him before and he should be within their price range. Plus, DeRosa is from the area, growing up in Passaic, New Jersey and attending the University of Pennsylvania.
The big free agent name at third appears to be Chone Figgins. However, Figgins also appears to be out of the Phillies price range. Placido Polanco is an option, but the Phillies would have to give up a 1st round draft choice to sign him. Adrian Beltre is another option, but he is defensively weaker than DeRosa. So, odds are pretty good on DeRosa, but who knows.
As for bullpen help, the pickings are slim. A few good options may be Mike Gonzalez (LHP) and Rafael Soriano (RHP), both from Atlanta. Rafael Betancourt, Jose Valverde, Octavio Dotel and Bob Howry are all good right-handers, but each is getting up there in age. Left-handed help is even scarcer, so let us hope Scott Eyre will return.
More Awards
You probably know by now that Charlie Manuel came in 6th place for the Manager of the Year voting. That's right, 6th place for taking his team to back-to-back World Series. But this is just one more revealing award that shows the idiocy of the voting process for these honors. No shock there. Jim Tracy of the Rockies took home the prize.
But if you would like to voice your opinion this awards season, log on at MLB.com and vote for the This Year in Baseball awards. Candidates include Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, JA Happ, Jayson Werth and even Emily, the cute little girl who tossed the ball her Daddy caught back towards the field. And of course, you can give props to Manuel for the TYIB manager award.
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Kenneth Howell Responds A Third Time
As I indicated earlier I came away from the debate against Dinesh with some new Christian friends. Kenneth Howell is one of them. Friends are more important to me than most everything else, and I do like learning from one another. He's previously responded to some comments and I appreciate his thick skin to do so again.
Okay, now that I am initiated to the world of AAF blogging, let's get down to brass tacks.
Let's clear away a few preliminaries:
1) I am a guest in John's house (blog) and as a guest I have a responsibility to refrain attributing to him the attitudes and feelings of others who happen to be there too.
2) Irrelevant topics at this point: Bible, Transubstantiation, the honesty and integrity of AAFs and Christians.
3) Things to keep in mind about me: a) I don't assume that Christians are morally or intellectually superior to AAFs. The behavior of Christians in the past should be ample evidence to anyone who is willing to look. Neither do I assume the converse. b) I am not a Bible-toting Creationist and I reject categorically any God-of-the-Gaps explanation c) I believe in intellectual engagement for the purpose of understanding truth and am willing to question the cherished assumptions of religion and science. I have been doing it my whole life.
4) I am going to work at not psycho-analyzing my interlocutors. As some have rightly pointed out, such attempts are irrelevant to the issue of truth.
What then are the issues? Unobservables in science and the nature of explanations. Secondarily, how these issues bearing on formulating a worldview.
On the matter of electrons, it was not, of course, about electrons per se but about unobservables in scientific theories. As several entries pointed out, all proposed entities in science must submit to empirical tests. This is the nature of science. So, when unobservables (dark matter, electrons, black holes) are postulated, science devises tests to verify or falsify them. Understood long ago. But, as Paul Wright and others pointed out, a scientist can take at least two positions on the ontic status of unobservables. One is the realist; the other is the instrumentalist. As far as I have been able to detect, many working scientists take the pragmatic position expressed by Richard H. Richard said,
"We're using different definitions of "true".
So in the context of the science, "X is true" is really, "X describes observable reality in a consistent and useful way, such that I'm willing to accept it with a very high degree of certainty." Howell seems to be using a philosophical definition of True. As a scientist, my answer to, "Is it True that electrons exist?" is "I can never know. Knowing wouldn't alter any of my decisions. So I don't care."
KJH: Absolutely! But then, on Richard's view, science becomes not the pursuit of truth but a useful tool for prediction. This was the position of logical positivists in the first half of the 20th century. In other words, all we know is that theories predict the observable results. I do not accept this view of science. I understand that scientists need to get on with their work and so must, at times, desist from the truth question. But my studies of the writings of the great scientists of the Scientific Revolution (e.g. Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Newton) taught me that they all viewed science as truth about the universe. At the origins of modern science there is a deep commitment to Truth. What do I mean by true? Finding the one theory that will predict the data properly AND offer an explanation for the laws (empirical regularities) we have discovered. Example: Einstein's relativity theory. It overturned the Newtonian notion of absolute space and time for a concept of spacetime. (please correct any real deficiencies in my understanding).
How do we know when we have arrived at the True theory, the theory of everything? I don't know and I have doubts that any human being can know this. But it seems to me that the search for a final theory conceptually presupposes (demands) belief in the possibility of the Truth of scientific theories, not just their pragmatic utility. I am realist in the sense that I am looking for truth, not pragmatic "truth" but the True Theory of the universe. To me, science makes no sense without that assumption.
How does this bear on AAF-Christian discussions? Simple. If anyone, AAF or Christian, does not believe in the pursuit of Truth in science and in every human endeavor, I cannot have any conversations with him/her. They would be pointless. But if anyone professes to be pursuing truth, the other danger to avoid is the assumption that our current knowledge of science (or anything empirical) does not involve unproven assumptions. Honest skeptics should be willing to examine unproven assumptions. Right? Of Course. And your entries show that you are willing. But we cannot be selective in our critical pursuits. And more importantly, a truly critical thinker cannot make grandiose claims for science or anything else that is not justified by the data. To me, this is what AAFs seem to being doing when they invoke scientific theories as substitute explanations for God. This last sentence leads to the point of my second post about levels of explanation. But since this way too long already, that will have to wait.


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Championship: Derby in talks with Norwich about extending Chris Martin's loan
Derby are in talks with Norwich about extending Chris Martin's loan spell at Pride Park.
Last Updated: 21/03/13 2:32pm
Martin's initial month-long deal expired following Derby's 2-1 home win over rivals Leicester on Saturday evening, in which the Canaries striker scored his first goal for the Rams.
Clough hopes to have the 24-year-old back on loan when Derby resume Championship action after the international break at home to Bristol City on March 29.
"We are trying to keep Chris. We have been trying in the past week to sort something out and, hopefully, we are not too far away," said Clough following the victory over Leicester.
"I think he wants to stay and that is the main thing. He has done well for us. He is a calming influence. He gets hold of the ball, keeps it simple and retains possession."
Asked if Martin's loan could lead to a permanent deal for next season, Clough added: "That will purely depend on what Norwich's plans are for him."
Martin is out of contract at Carrow Road in the summer, although the Premier League club have a one-year option on the player.


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Giants 5, Indians 3: Burriss' early exit a precaution
Emmanuel Burriss showed off his versatility again Wednesday by getting the start in right field for ailing Nate Schierholtz.
But after getting a walk in two plate appearances, Burriss made a quick exit after three innings, which was curious.
As it turns out, Burriss felt a tweak in his hamstring and decided to let trainers know. Then the decision was made to remove him.
"I've got a good thing going," Burriss told CSNBayArea.com. "Might as well speak up if you don't feel right. I've played a lot of innings. It's nothing serious at all."
Burriss, who is hitting .417 this spring, likely will sit out a couple of games, which works out OK for the Giants. Look for Ryan Theriot to get starts at 2B the next couple of days.
Theriot played in a minor-league game Wednesday as he tried to find the timing in his bat. The Giants need to make a call by next Thursday on whether or not to keep Theriot. Henry Schulman of the SF Chronicle had a nice story about Theriot's situation. To read it, click here.
- LF Brett Pill, who has been quiet lately, made some noise with a three-run home run in the fourth. Just as noteworthy, he took his first walk of the spring.
- DH Buster Posey went 2 for 4, raising his spring average to .294.
- C Chris Stewart went 1 for 2 with a walk. He also gunned down Asdrubel Cabrera trying to steal second.
- C Hector Sanchez kept swinging the hot bat, going 2 for 2, with a double, bumping his spring average to .480.
- P Eric Surkamp continues to give the Giants confidence that they have some depth in the rotation. Surkamp would be the No. 1 option to fill in if there is an injury or if someone (read: Zito) struggles. He gave up two runs in five innings, both runs scoring on a two-run homer to Shelley Duncan.
Tim Linecum faces Jamie Moyer as the Giants meet the Rockies at 7:10 p.m.


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This is part two in a four-part series adapted from a 2006 Science & Christian Belief articleby Oliver Barclay. Part one can be found here. Having described the biblical claim that God is both creator and sustainer of creation, Barclay now turns to compare this view with what he calls the "semi-deism" of the Intelligent Design movement. Please see the full paper for references and complete text.
Scientific evidences of design?
Discussions about design by God in the natural world have in recent years tended to be dominated, as they were in parts of the nineteenth century, by those features of the world that are currently thought to be scientifically inexplicable. For example, Michael Behe has suggested that there are biological entities, such as complex biochemical pathways, that display 'irreducible complexity' in the sense that, in his view, they could not have come into being by gradual Darwinian processes and therefore display the properties of 'design'. A considerable body of literature has been generated by the 'intelligent design' controversy. The main advocates of this school see the evidence for design especially in those scientifically describable features of the world that at present have no convincing scientific explanation.
Taken overall, the major stages in design arguments may be summarized as follows.
- There are many features in nature that powerfully suggest that they were designed by an intelligence. Even so skeptical a writer as Richard Dawkins agrees, although of course he speaks of 'apparent design'.
- Many people go on from there to believe that the universe is indeed designed by God. Christians have no difficulty in taking that step, as noted above, viewing the whole panoply of the universe, with all its processes, whether scientifically understood or not understood, as reflecting the intentions and purposes of God. In this more traditional understanding of design it makes no difference whether something is currently understood or not at the scientific level.
- Enthusiasts for intelligent design, however, are making a very different kind of argument, suggesting that 'design' can be detected by mathematical and other arguments, claiming that there are scientific features of the world that are such that we cannot conceive how they could have come into being by material processes alone. Therefore it is logical to accept the activity of a designing intelligence as responsible. Their main target is usually large-scale evolution and its perceived weaknesses, and other areas where scientific explanations are currently incomplete, such as the origin of life, the information encoded in DNA, and so forth.
It is not the purpose of this article to provide an extensive critique of ID, which has in any case been thoroughly done by others, but rather to achieve the less ambitious goal of examining the differences between concepts intrinsic to ID and the main themes of the biblical literature. These differences may be summarized as follows.
- ID arguments have a tendency to separate the created order into the 'natural' and the 'designed'. Indeed, implicit in Dembski's suggestion that 'design' can be detected by strictly mathematical arguments is the assumption that there must be a backcloth of 'nondesign', otherwise the argument makes no sense. This is very different from the biblical insistence that the created order in its entirety reflects the creative and providential actions of the living God.
- This lack of a strong view of providence in the ID position can easily merge into semi-deism. Indeed, even if ID design arguments were accepted, they could by themselves lead no further than a deistic or semi-deistic position. Their aim is to encourage belief in a divine power or intelligence that has influenced the world directly only from time to time, and then only in highly limited and particular aspects, such as the origin of the genetic code or the Cambrian explosion in evolution. Thus Bradley and Thaxton argue that since all the attempts to find a way in which life could have arisen by natural processes are inadequate, and life is incredibly complex, 'the most reasonable speculation is that there was some form of intelligence around at the time'. And as Dembski writes: 'The question, then, that requires investigation is not simply what are the limits of evolutionary change but what are the limits of evolutionary change when that change is limited to material mechanisms...The best evidence to date is that these factors are inadequate to drive full scale macroevolution. Something else is required – intelligence.'
But Dembski would have done well to say that he means all the material mechanisms that we at present know about, as his point sounds remarkably similar to the disastrous 'god-of-the-gaps' argument. The phrase 'we cannot conceive how...' recurs repeatedly in the ID literature, and cannot escape the criticism that it depends on what we do not currently know or cannot understand or conceive in the present state of knowledge. That point is frequently implicit, when it is not explicit as in the above quotations, and can easily give the impression that belief in God is somehow dependent on scientific evidence. This is very different from the biblical approach, which depends basically on what we do know and can see all around us, however it may have been made by God.
There is a danger in thinking that the present state of science is almost final. But one hundred years ago, who would have conceived of sequencing multiple genomes, including our own? Even a few years ago we had no idea that genomes could be modified by imprinting in an inheritable manner, nor that micro-RNA is encoded in the genome, with its power to modulate protein synthesis by regulating mRNA. In science it is wise to 'never say never' when it comes to guessing what might be understood or possible in the future.
- There are real theological dangers in the concept of the 'Great Designer', and they can only be avoided with considerable care. If God is perceived as essentially the Great Designer, that is greatly to diminish our idea of him, because it concerns only one limited aspect of his character. It is also a comparative term, so that he is seen as doing things only rather better than we can, as when Freemasons call him 'The Great Architect'. Indeed it has the danger of defining a 'god' who is made in our own image. That is perhaps why ID arguments are acceptable to many non-Christians. But in reality the biblical God is infinitely other than that, the living and active Creator. God is no doubt the great designer, architect, mathematician, physiologist, environmentalist, etc., etc., but he is so much more than all of these put together. The Bible portrays God as the personal, triune, Creator and Providential Ruler of all things, the God who is living and active today.
Design arguments can detract from, or sideline, that biblical perspective. One is reminded of the way in which that great mathematician and scientist of the seventeenth century, Blaise Pascal, came to a revolutionary change in his outlook on God when he wrote of the 'God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and scholars'. The God of the Bible is not to be thought of as merely a great designer and it is an empty victory to have persuaded people to believe merely that. The history of Deism warns us that making such a view prominent can be a barrier, and not a help, to faith in the living God.


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Our energy future? 'Too Much Magic & Wishful Thinking'
Robert Magyar, Examiner
There is a new book out this summer called, 'Too Much Magic, Wishful Thinking, Technology And The Fate Of The Nation' by James Howard Kunstler. The book deals with American's core belief technology can solve all our problems and how this is at odds with the future of energy supplies. Kunstler, a believer in Peak Oil and Peak Capital, writes that our industrial society as we know it is about to undergo significant and radical reorganization due to the end of cheap and abundant oil and an upcoming lack of capital needed to maintain our standard of living.
… In his new book, "Too Much Magic", Kunstler updates his prior writings on Peak Oil stating how Americans long held ill-conceived belief new technologies can always conquer our problems is leading us into a period of great denial and subsequent anger. He covers the current financial crisis of the last several years in the U.S. and Europe as further evidence of capital destruction due to cheap financial credit and reckless complex financial derivatives and shows its relationship to energy supplies.
Kunstler writes this underlying destruction of our financial markets is resulting in serious upcoming capital shortages just at the time we need to be investing in rebuilding our railroad, mass transit and water transportation systems. Such transportation systems he argues are far less oil dependent than trucking or cars and because of this, they will be a key part of our future. Instead of such actions taking place, he believes we are receiving instead a barrage of feel good messages that technology and energy independence will solve all our problems.
He points to rapid changes throughout the European euro financial community including Greece France and Spain as to what the future might be as limits to economic growth increasingly become hard stop realities. He believes much of the civil strife occurring in Europe will soon become a fact of life here in America and for the same reasons.
(27 June 2012)
To pre-order Kunstler's new book (coming out in July), see the book's website. -BA
El tercer principio ético de la permacultura
Holger Hieronimi, Tierramor
El tercer principio ético de la permacultura, ha sido expresado de diferentes maneras por diferentes autores, diseñadores y facilitadores de cursos. Aquí intento trazar un poco la historia de los principios éticos en la literatura permacultural, a través de los últimos treinta y cinco años. La idea es articular un entendimiento actualizado del tercer principio:
"Compartir con Equidad"
Veo esta reflexión como parte de un proceso más amplio, que busca profundizar en nuestros valores fundamentales como activistas y entusiastas en torno a la permacultura. Más allá de todo el trabajo práctico, hermoso, importante e inspirador, que estamos realizando en nuestros proyectos, estas cuestiones "teóricas", quizás "filosóficas", también tienen su importancia. En tiempos de cambios rápidos y sistémicos, la articulación de nuestros principios y valores, evoluciona respondiendo a las realidades dentro de las cuales vivimos y tenemos que desarrollar nuestros proyectos. Pocas veces nos tomamos el tiempo para revisar este proceso. –
En los primeros dos libros referentes a la permacultura ("Permaculture One", 1978, de Mollison/ Holmgren, y "Permaculture Two", 1979, Mollison), no hay mención explícita de principios éticos. En el segundo tomo, Mollison hace referencia a Masanobu Fukuoka y los cuatro principios del cultivo natural (expresados en "La Revolución de una Brizna de Paja") cuando habla de la base filosófica de la permacultura.
Fue hasta la publicación del "Manual de Diseño de la Permacultura", en 1988, cuando Bill Mollison hace referencia a principios éticos, con el siguiente texto (traducción provisional HH):
"Al principio, varios de nosotros investigamos éticas comunitarias, buscando principios universales para guiar nuestras propias acciones. Aunque muchas de estas guías incluyen hasta dieciocho principios, la mayoría pueden verse expresados en estos tres que vienen abajo (el segundo y el tercer principio se derivan del primero)
- CUIDADO DE LA TIERRA: Provisión de todos los sistemas vivos para que continúen y se multipliquen
- CUIDADO DE LA GENTE: Provisión para que la gente tenga acceso a los recursos que necesita para su existencia
- PONER LÍMITES A POBLACIÓN Y CONSUMO: Al hacernos responsables de nuestras necesidades, podemos dirigir recursos para cumplir con los dos principios anteriores."
Muchos consideramos la expresión original del tercer principio ético un tanto desafortunada. Puede mal-interpretarse, cuando no queda claro el marco de acción que propone la permacultura: "De abajo hacia arriba"-
Aplicamos los principios primero al nivel personal, en la familia, con los vecinos y en las comunidades donde vivimos, de la misma manera como también lo sugiere el concepto de las zonas.
Como directiva para la propia vida, creo que es muy positivo y ético, cuestionarse por ejemplo: ¿Cuántos hijos voy a traer al mundo? ¿Cuántos puedo sostener con mis medios y sin comprometer aun más los ecosistemas?, ¿Cómo será la base de recursos para mis hijos, una vez que sean mayores? ¿Pueden vivir una vida plena y prospera, considerando los escenarios futuros marcados por cambio climático y descenso energético?
Un cuestionamiento similar se hace relacionado con nuestros hábitos de consumo: ¿Cuanto necesito realmente para vivir? ¿Como puedo diseñar mi vida para contribuir a la regeneración en vez de la degradacion de los ecosistemas? ¿Realmente necesito todo lo que creo que necesito? ¿Cual es el impacto real de todas las decisiones que tomo al nivel personal cada día a la hora para cubrir mis necesidades reales y/o sentidas?
… Esta realidad es un choque cultural para el supuesto que sostiene el "progreso sinfín" predominante en el discurso corriente de la sociedad, y en la experiencia real de mucha gente. Estamos tan acostumbrados al crecimiento continuo en todos los niveles: En la tecnología, la economía, la población, en el transporte, en los avances de la ciencia, en la sofisticación y complejidad de las sociedades… crecer fue una realidad (por lo menos en el occidente) durante más de 500 años, acelerándose a partir de la revolución industrial hace 300 años, y entrando a un estado de hiper- aceleración durante las últimas décadas. Es natural que nos cueste mucho aceptar los limites. Por momentos, parece que no los hay. Y muchas personas todavía nos prometen la singularidad, energía libre para todos, o la conquista de otros planetas.
(Junio 2012)
English translation of the cartoon:
1st Panel: Who wants to live in a better and more harmonious world? – (everyone raises their hands enthusiastically)
2nd Panel: Who is willing to abandon the model of unbounded consumerism to achieve it? – (everyone looks down at the ground sheepishly) ]
Holger Hieronimi is a contributor to Energy Bulletin. He lives in Mexico where he teaches permaculture-related courses. His website Terramor is a great resource for Spanish-language material.
The Spiritual Crisis of Capitalism
What would the Buddha do?
Stuart Smithers, Adnusters
When the Dalai Lama announced his Marxist leanings last summer in Minneapolis, the only surprise was how surprising it was. The blogosphere was once again stirred up by this non-revelation. Tsering Namgyal, an Indian-born Tibetan journalist who lives and studies in the US, was tagging along when the Dalai Lama met with 150 Chinese students for a three-hour conference in Minneapolis in June 2011. Writing for the online magazine Religion Dispatches, Namgyal posted that the Dalai Lama surprised the students when he volunteered, "as far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist." And he went on to clarify that he was "not a Leninist." Namgyal's post reported that a student asked about the apparent contradiction in the Dalai Lama's economic philosophy and Marx's critique of religion. The Dalai Lama's understanding was more nuanced than most of the bloggers who jumped on the story: he suggested that Marx was not actually against religion or religious philosophy per se, but "against religious institutions that were allied, during Marx's time, with the European ruling class." (That would be the capitalist class.) The three-hour exchange was probably not designed for political sound-bites.
So what's all the fuss? Marx might still be an inspirational hero for the odd revolutionary in Peru or Nepal, but communism is generally summarized as a failed system that crashed and burned. So why this repeated hysteria about Marx? And why now?
While Joe McCarthy was holding Senate hearings in 1954 and fueling fear of a threatening and subversive communist underground that never really materialized, the Dalai Lama was studying Marx with Mao. Before actually studying Marx, the Dalai Lama was also taught to fear "communists" and representations of communism, with little knowledge of Marx or how China's communist movement related to Marx's theories. In the 1999 TIME interview, the Dalai Lama reflects on these nuanced differences and possibilities of a "genuine communist movement" in Tibet:
I was very young when I first heard the word communist. The 13th Dalai Lama (1876–1933) had left a testament that I read. Also, some of the monks who were helping my studies had been in monasteries with Mongolians. They had talked about the destruction that had taken place since the communists came to Mongolia. We did not know anything about Marxist ideology. But we all feared destruction and thought of communists with terror. It was only when I went to China in 1954–55 that I actually studied Marxist ideology and learned the history of the Chinese revolution. Once I understood Marxism, my attitude changed completely. I was so attracted to Marxism, I even expressed my wish to become a Communist Party member. Tibet at that time was very, very backward. The ruling class did not seem to care, and there was much inequality. Marxism talked about an equal and just distribution of wealth. I was very much in favor of this. Then there was the concept of self-creation. Marxism talked about self-reliance, without depending on a creator or a God. That was very attractive. I had tried to do some things for my people, but I did not have enough time. I still think that if a genuine communist movement had come to Tibet, there would have been much benefit to the people.
Everyone seems to have an opinion about Marx, communism, or capitalism (and sometimes a strong opinion), but whenever I have been able to have a sustained conversation about Marxism with friends or students they usually admit how little they know about Marx's thought, while falling back on the view that Marx was an advocate of communism (true), and Marxism – understood as "communism" – represents a discredited and disgraced economic paradigm (sort of not quite true). In the unlikely event that a friend or student had actually read Marx, it was usually Marx and Engels' very slim thirty-page treatise, The Communist Manifesto. Buddhists in this late stage of global capital might want to get up to speed on Marx.
Marx's most important contribution was not a revolutionary labor movement, but his monumental 18-year study of the capitalist economic system eventually published in three volumes as Capital (Das Kapital). Anyone interested in working through the text should start young – the three volumes weigh in at about 2,500 pages. Most people know the ending anyway: Marx was less than optimistic about capitalism's long-term prospects, but how he gets there is why scholars and writers of all stripes have continually returned to his dense, difficult, logical, detached analysis of the world's dominant economic system. What is perhaps most surprising in the text is the discovery that Marx's cool and methodical deconstruction of capitalism is almost entirely void of moral argumentation or appeals to conscience. And readers hoping to understand or critique the communist mode that will finally appear when capitalism reaches its conclusion will also find a remarkable absence of detailed discussion about our future world beyond capitalism.
There have been few silver linings to the Great Recession and America's own "jobless" recovery, but Marx's return is certainly one of them. Marxists are stepping out of the academic closet in greater numbers, and new life is being breathed into his ideas. Capital is a dish best served cold.
(29 June 2012)
Suggest by EB contributor Mary Logan.
The Emerging Left in the 'Emerging' World
(New openness to smaller scale, democracy and nature)
Jayati Ghosh, Economic and Political Weekly (India)
There is much more dynamism within the global left, especially in the South, than is often perceived. The rejection of capitalism in many of left movements in the South tends to be accompanied not only by imagining alternatives, but also by shifting views about what constitutes the desirable alternative. This, in turn, has meant an interrogation of some previously standard tenets of socialist understanding. This essay reviews several features of emerging left movements in Latin America, Africa and developing Asia that suggest a move away from some traditional ideas associated with socialist theory and practice even as there are two important areas of continuity with the leftist thinking of the past.
Jayati Ghosh is with the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
This is a slightly modified version of the text of the "Ralph Miliband Lecture on the Future of the Left" that was delivered in the London School of Economics, London in May 2012.
… even as resistance to global capitalism builds up in both the South and the North, it tends to be accompanied by gloomy perceptions that grand socialist visions of the future are no longer possible. Indeed, much of the popular protest that is evident today in various places is still essentially about "resistance" rather than "transformation", and involves rearguard action to stem the tide of brutal fiscal austerity measures that deny the social and economic rights of citizens within the existing economic system, rather than conceiving and putting in place alternative systems. A basic lack of confidence in anything other than capitalism as a way of organising economic life still permeates popular protests in Europe and the United States, such that the purpose of the left is seen to be to somehow exert a restraining influence on the worst excesses of current capitalism – the left as a civilising and moderating force, not so much a transformative (much less revolutionary) force.
Imagining Alternatives
But elsewhere, in Asia, Latin America and Africa, the discourse is becoming quite different. There is much more dynamism within the global left than is often perceived, and there are variegated moves away from tired ideas of all kinds. So the rejection of capitalism also tends to be accompanied not only by imagining alternatives, but also by shifting views about what constitutes the desirable alternative. This, in turn, has meant interrogation of some previously standard tenets of socialist understanding. There are several features of emerging left movements in different parts of the world – in Latin America for sure, where they are also associated in several countries with state power to some extent, but also in other areas of Africa and developing Asia – that suggest a move away from some traditional ideas associated with socialist theory and practice.
… On Largeness and Scale
The second relatively "new" feature is the rejection of over-centralisation. The centralising, homogenising state was a central element of "actually existing socialism" throughout much of the 20th century, and even today it remains embedded somewhere in the consciousness of many of those who see themselves as socialists. Indeed, in the classical Marxist view, scale itself, and the tendency of capitalist production to generate larger and larger scales, were seen as paradoxically positive features, since they enabled the combination of large groups of workers who could be mobilised to alter production relations, and allowed for more rapid and effective transformation of such relations to the benefit of all the people.
… This recognition necessarily means that even in the emerging left, there cannot be a blind or simplistic celebration of everything "small". Nonetheless, most tendencies in this newer left praxis typically foreground the need to generate or enhance the viability of small-scale production. There is a clear reaction against past attempts at centralised control over all aspects of material life, which have been experienced as rigid, inflexible, hierarchical and lacking in accountability, thereby rendering them into the opposite of what was intended.
It is also true that material conditions have changed to make largeness less desirable or necessary in some respects. First, there is the recent experience of the downsides of largeness (such as banks that are too big to fail, multinational corporations (MNCs) that become so big that they are unaccountable and cannot be taxed, and so on). Second, technology – especially the convergence of information, communication and energy technologies – is opening up new possibilities of productivity growth in decentralised settings, which increase the possibilities for a locally managed, decentralised, but globally connected post-carbon economy.
So the emerging left movements and states in which they dominate do not require or expect centralised ownership and control over all economic activities. Smallholder cultivation and small-scale providers of services as well as of manufactured goods are recognised as worthy of direct state support and of being provided sufficient enabling conditions for their activities. This is quite different from the celebration of informality and of strategies like microfinance, which are beloved of the international development industry. Where economies of scale are known to be significant, there is renewed exploration within the left of forms like cooperatives and other combinations in different manifestations. The aim is to find a balance between large and small, which will obviously differ according to context.
On Private Property
It is already evident that this point of view requires a more complex approach to property rights. This constitutes the third major difference of the emerging left from earlier models of socialism that did away with all private property and only recognised personal property. New leftist thinking is generally vague or ambivalent about private property – disliking it when it is seen as monopolising or highly concentrated (for example in the form of MNCs) but otherwise not just accepting of it, but even (in the case of small producers, for example) actively encouraging it. Increasingly there has been explicit recognition or incorporation of other forms of property rights, particularly communal property associated with traditional, indigenous or autochthonous "communities" who in turn are no longer derided as premodern relics that have to be done away with.
… On the Environment Question
Finally, the relationship of human societies with nature is undergoing much more comprehensive interrogation than ever before. Traditional Marxists tended to be technology fans, glorying in the development of productive forces as expression of the forward movement of society and objecting to relations of production that thwarted or prevented such development. Of course this need not require an exploitative and aggressive attitude to nature and to the use of natural wealth, but in actual practice this was only too often the case. The requirements of an organic and sustainable attitude to nature were rarely factored into discussions about accumulation and productive expansion. All this has changed quite dramatically in the recent past. Among the primary contradictions of contemporary capitalism are the ecological limits that are increasingly evidenced not just by climate change but by the pollution, degradation, over-extraction and other destruction shown in nature. These have created undeniably unsustainable patterns of production, consumption and accumulation that are generating open conflicts over resources and forcing societies to change, often in undesired ways. And calls for more humane and just societies therefore have to incorporate these critical concerns.
Today many of those who call themselves socialists see environmental conservation, the protection of ecosystems, biodiversity and the integrity of a country's genetic assets, the prevention of environmental damage, and the recovery of degraded natural spaces as matters of public interest and strategy. Consider this passage from the new constitution of Ecuador, which (like Bolivia) grants rights to nature independent of people:
Nature,… where life is reproduced and occurs, has the right to integral respect for its existence and for the maintenance and regeneration of its life cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes. All persons, communities, peoples and nations can call upon public authorities to enforce the rights of nature… Nature has the right to be restored…, apart from the obligation of the State and natural persons or legal entities to compensate individuals and communities that depend on affected natural systems.
Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates.
(June 16, 2012)
I was interested to see the phrase "Post-carbon economy" in the article. Has Dr. Ghosh been reading Energy Bulletin?
Collapse Fatigue: Prevention And Treatment
Carolyn Baker, Speaking Truth to Power
Someone who lives not far from me inBoulder,Coloradorecently said, "I'm really tired of waiting and preparing for collapse. I keep hoping that something really big will push us over the cliff, but nothing happens, and I keep preparing, and all my friends keep calling me crazy. It's really draining. I just want us to pass the tipping point."
Colorado Burning
Two months later, the state ofColoradois in flames—and as I write these words, at least 12 wildfires here are uncontained. The worst (so far), theHighParkfire west ofFt.Collinsis only 55% contained, has burned nearly 100,000 acres, and will probably burn until the end of July. Meanwhile, a wildfire which exploded this past Sunday inColorado Springshas caused the partial evacuation of the U.S. Air Force Academy and is charring many historical landmarks, and quite ironically, the mountain from which Catherine Lee Bates penned "America The Beautiful."
For years, climate research has been pouring out of this state, particularly Boulder, where I live, which along with the University of Colorado, has produced a number of renowned climate experts. Yesterday, a smaller fire broke out in Boulder, caused by a lightning strike, and again ironically, the National Center For Atmospheric Research was partially evacuated—the venue of some of the most pivotal climate research on the planet.
The climate-related pine beetle infestation has produced millions of dead trees inColorado, and nothing has been done to remove them or to clearcut forests to alleviate the problem. Years ago, fireworks and fires of all kinds should have been banned statewide and recreational wilderness shooting prohibited. Meanwhile, the energy and tourist industries have been carrying on business as usual, ignoring the tinder box which this state has become, especially in recent weeks with record-breaking, triple-digit temperatures and scorching winds, atypical forColoradobut showing no signs of going away anytime soon.
As a result of the current fire devastation in this state, which may have only begun since it is only the end of June, the tourist industry will suffer a huge blow, not to mention the overall economy of the state.
Yes, just when some of us in Coloradowere experiencing "collapse fatigue," climate change kicked us in the butt, and we are now experiencing "wildfire fatigue." This just after another failed UN conference inRio on sustainability and environmental protection.
The reason many people experience collapse fatigue is that they are waiting for a dramatic, off-the-cliff event that will "prove" to themselves and their detractors that collapse is actually happening—and thereby bring civilization to its knees. Moreover, let's be honest: Anyone who has researched collapse and is preparing for it has some last vestige of doubt, however miniscule, that the way of life we have known since birth will actually vanish. Why else do hundreds of people tell me that they feel schizophrenic about collapse as they continue knowing what they know, but interact with countless others who are clueless? Why else do some people confess that some part of them thinks they may be crazy for preparing?


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While Rick Ross and Young Jeezy did not face off in any of the BET Hip-Hop Awards categories, they did get into a scuffle backtstage at the show on Saturday (September 29).
Despite the tribute to deceased artist manager Chris Lighty, in which feuding rappers like 50 Cent and Fat Joe put aside their longstanding beef, the BET Hip-Hop Awards wasn't all about burying the hatchet.
Jeezy and Ross, who have had some bad blood bubbling between them for years, have reportedly knuckled up while at the show. Funkmaster Flex reported, via Twitter, from backstage.
Jeezy and Rick Ross just had words backstage!! Pushing and shoving!!!
— Funk Flex !!!!!(@funkmasterflex) September 29, 2012
But it wasn't just the fight between rappers inside, there was a shot fired in the parking lot that caused the organizers to shut down the door. One man was reportedly arrested for the parking lot shots. And rapper Machine Gun Kelly, who was apparently outside around the time, was caught in the melee.
"I got mase in my eye," MGK tweeted at 7:51. "That beef s**t just got real outside."
Stay tuned as more details emerge. —E. Parker, CBS Local


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HNN114 - Health Assessment
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Jarvis, C., Forbes, H., & Watt, E. (2016). Jarvis's physical examination and health assessment (2nd ed.). Chatswood: Elsevier
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Vickie Branch, 49, and Jason Holderer, 33, died in the early morning on July 6, according to Pope County Coroner (PCCO) Leonard Krout. The State Medical Examiner's Office determined the two succumbed to wounds caused by a fire, which ensued after Branch and Holderer attempted to use fireworks found in a large tub at their home.
"Apparently, they were messing around with fire cracker mortars," Krout said. "It was an explosion. The fireworks ignited in the building the couple were in causing the main structure of their apartment to catch fire."
The fireworks which exploded were the high-capacity, large-ball type mortars, according to Krout.
The State Crime Lab used DNA testing and fingerprints to identify Branch and Holderer. Events like this one are rare, according to Krout.
"Death was sudden," he said. "We don't get these very often. Fireworks deaths are infrequent. It's best no to mess with this stuff. The fireworks were old and should have been disposed of."
Investigators from the Arkansas State Police, Pope County Sheriff's Office and PCCO will continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident, according to Krout and Sheriff Aaron DuVall.
Investigators suspect the fireworks were left in the building by the previous owner, Krout said.
"We think they were possibly attempting to reconstitute the fireworks," he said. "Situations like this always reminds us we never know what's going to happen.
"If a person isn't sure, They shouldn't do it."


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