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Action platformer with a heavy emphasis on breaking stuff. As Spanx, a weasel, you are chained to Redmond, a rabbit, and your mission is to escape from the evil Genron corporation. Slated to be fused into one weasel-rabbit thing, Spanx and Redmond break free from the genetic combinator and are on a mission to take Genron down on their way out. Redmond can be used as a whip to attack, as a grappling hook to swing over obstacles or even as a makeshift plug to flood toilets. Soak him in poisonous waste and he becomes a deadly weapon, or set Redmond on fire and hurl him at enemies for a more direct and flammable approach.
Anyone who decries the supposed "liberal bias" in the media should steer clear of Eidos Interactive's new platformer Whiplash. Its jabs at animal testing and Enron, among other witty chidings, are this game's clear selling point. The premise chains a weasel named Spanx to a rabbit named Redmond, which sounds like the beginning of a groaner of a joke. Despite this, there's a palpable sense of fun in Whiplash right from the get-go. While it's far from a perfect game, that sense of fun will probably help gamers forgive Whiplash's less charming qualities. Read More »
I love a game with a strong social conscience. I applauded Return to Castle Wolfenstein for its daring "anti-occultist Nazi" stance and I tipped my hat to BMX XXX for its unwavering "freedom of expression" theme. And now there's the soon-to-be-released Whiplash. Published by Eidos Interactive and developed by its Crystal Dynamics studio, it's an action/platformer with a courageous "animal rights" message that'll have the activist in you getting ready to put down the Dual Shock and form your own not-for-profit agency. Well, sort of. Read More »
Also known as: Spanx, Chain Gang
Release Region: United States
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Also available on: PC, PlayStation 2
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In the general population, women go to church more regularly than men, pray more often, read scriptures more frequently and are more likely to describe themselves as "spiritual." By any measure, women are more religious than men except in Mormonism (and the more traditionalist wing of Judaism).
"LDS women and men have the same level of 'religiosity,' " political scientist David Campbell said Saturday, while addressing more than 300 women and a handful of men at the Fort Douglas Officers' Club on the University of Utah campus. "They are equally likely to describe themselves as 'active,' attend church, attend the temple, read the scriptures, pray ... say that religion is important in their life, that they accept all church teachings, pay tithing and hold a calling."
Campbell, a Mormon who teaches at the University of Notre Dame, was reporting some of the findings of a 2012 poll of 500 self-described Mormons. The researchers did find unexpected gender differences on the question of the all-male priesthood. Women were much more likely to strongly disagree with the statement, "Women do not have enough say in the LDS Church."
Mormon men and women, though, are "far more likely to endorse a traditionalist perspective on women and the workforce," he said.
Campbell was one of only two men among a dozen speakers at a one-day conference, titled "Women and the LDS Church."
The conference was organized by Kate Holbrook, women-studies specialist at the LDS Church History Department, and Matthew Bowman, who teaches history at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. It was sponsored by the U.'s Tanner Center for Humanities, along with the LDS Church, Utah Valley University, Brigham Young University and Utah State University.
The extraordinary collaboration brought together LDS and other scholars to discuss the issue of Mormon women and their choices. In essence, all the speakers considered how women who belong to a religious institution with clearly delineated gender roles could exercise agency. Susanna Morrill, who teaches religious studies at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Ore., discussed how 19th-century views of a Heavenly Mother set the stage for modern understanding of the divine feminine.
Holbrook described the work of Aurelia Rogers, who came up with the idea of Primary, a program for Mormon children that she believed came to her from God.
Quincy Newell of the University of Wyoming laid out details from the life of Jane Manning James, an early black convert and her decision to stay within the Mormon faith, though she was repeatedly denied access to LDS temple ceremonies.
Other speakers took on the questions of contemporary Mormon women how to be more involved, bring about policy changes without disputing doctrine, and how to change the conversation around female sexuality.
The final panel addressed the differences between American Mormon women and those in other countries, including Africa and Europe.
Mary Farrell Bednarowski, a Catholic feminist in Minneapolis, spoke eloquently about the similar problems faced by women in "male-dominated, hierarchical religious institutions."
Bednarowski said that it is worth asking feminist questions because "they open up the depth and breadth of our traditions, testifying that there is living water in the well."
Quoting another author, the Catholic writer said, "A tradition does not have to be infinitely dear. It has only to be inexhaustible."
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The Oldest Cave Paintings in the World at Leang Leang Cave
On 05, Nov 2014 | No Comments | In Indonesia, Travel | By kanannie
Sometimes I'm in the right place at the right time. It usually involves food. Like that time many years ago when I first moved to NYC and my friend and I decided to use our day off to go to the Chelsea Piers driving range. We were walking on 23rd Street and as we approached a Krispy Kreme my friend excitedly pointed at the illuminated "Hot Now" sign. At that time I wasn't familiar with this KK phenomenon, but my very knowledgeable friend walked right into the shop and I followed him. As we approached the counter, an angel disguised as a Krispy Kreme employee asked us if we wanted a free sample of the fresh, hot donuts. We both managed to drool an affirmative response. The Krispy Kreme angel handed us each a fresh, hot glazed donut. Say WHAT?!?!?! A free, fresh, hot donut?!?!?! Talk about being in the right place at the right time. If you don't see the magic in this then you need to re-evaluate your life.
Anyway, I recently found myself in the right place at the right time again and this time it didn't involve food. Crazy, I know.
We were in the town of Makassar where most people only spend a day or two before heading up to Torajaland or down to Bali or Flores. We didn't have plans to stay long, but we both fell ill at different points during our stay so we ended up spending a lot more time than we had planned. Before we had arrived in Makassar we read in the news that a huge discovery was made regarding the cave paintings at Maros-Pangkep on Sulawesi. These cave paintings were thought to be no more than 10,000 years old, but very recent research now dates them back to around 40,000 years old. This makes them the oldest cave paintings in the world! We don't know shit about archaeology, but the possibility of seeing the cave paintings with our own eyes was something that we couldn't pass up. I mean, how often are you in Sulawesi and close enough to see cave paintings from 40,000 years ago? Exactly.
We asked the manager of the hotel if he knew about the caves and how to get there. He was familiar with the area and knew exactly where we needed to go, but he couldn't understand why we wouldn't want to go rafting or do something touristy in the area instead of just going to see the paintings. He said he could take us there, but wanted to charge us quite a bit to be our driver and tour guide for the day. Since we were only interested in seeing the paintings we negotiated the price down and met him after lunch to head over to the caves.
The drive to the Leang Leang caves was about 45 minutes through the city. It wasn't a pretty ride at all because, like many cities in Indonesia, the roadside litter is quite appalling. They haven't quite figured out a waste management system yet and most people don't see a problem with tossing a plastic bottle right out of their car window.
When we arrived at the cave, our hotel manager tour guide fella took us to the office to sign the guest book and pay the entrance fee. Of course, the tourist rate was double the local rate, but it was still under $2 per person if I remember correctly. We paid and signed the guest book which we noticed had about 10 names in it. I guess the cave paintings aren't that popular yet. An unenthusiastic security guard walked us over to the painted caves. The cave where the paintings were found are behind a locked fence because there are people who don't appreciate history and think it would be so much fun to etch their names into the walls. Fools.
The walk to the caves was easy and short and within minutes we were face-to-face with hand stencils and pig-deer paintings from 40,000 years ago. Our hotel manager and the security guard weren't nearly as impressed as we were. Both were standing around, smoking cigarettes and chatting about whatever Indonesian people chat about when they are waiting for tourists to hurry up and look at old cave paintings. Like I said, we're not archaeology buffs and our combined knowledge of archaeology wouldn't even fill a thimble, but come on! This is some cool shit! The cave art was surprisingly well preserved and being able to see something that other humans created over 40,000 years ago was quite thrilling. Well, it was for us.
I think the experience would've been even better if I got a fresh, hot donut at the end. Alas, I was without donut, but it was still memorable and I know we were incredibly lucky to be able to see the paintings.
Check our Flickr album for more photos from our amateur archaeological exploration.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Play Time: Mini Play-Doh Lands
The Frog Princess enjoyed
some last week of summer play dates
this week.
One of them was with a neighbor friend of hers.
They decided to make mini worlds on plastic trays
(so they could transport them around the house)
with Play-Doh landscaping and mini trees.
I had to grab my camera when I saw
what they were working on.
Her friend "A" chose Dinosaur Island as his theme.
The Frog Princess stuck with mini polly pockets.
I see a large home-made batch
of greens, blues, browns, and tan dough in my future.
If you want to see a REALLY COOL
play dough scene hop over to Filth Wizardry
and check out this Mermaid Table!!
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These dice roll random numbers just like clockwork. Intricately carved like it came out of a Victorian engineering workshop, these seven polyhedral dice will help you stay in character and immerse you in your setting. The next time you're flying through the air in a wood-panelled zeppelin or slashing zombies with swords and muskets, you'll wish you had these dice.
These black dice have glow-in-the-dark ink and have been designed with gear, cog, and steam pipe motifs around the numbers.
A 7-piece black & glow-in-the-dark RPG dice set. This set includes the following dice:
- One Four-Sided D4 Die numbered 1-4
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Here is what you will need:
Scraps of Fabric
Needle and thread
Hot glue and glue gun
scraps of felt
Fabric covered button supplies (or you could place a regular button or other item in the center.)
love, love, love! Piper Jane needs some headband action and these would be perfect! :)
What a great way to make these! My sister-in-law asked me to help her figure out how to make these...your method is much better.
Adorable! I'm so bookmarking this.
Cute! That purple fabric is way fun!
Love these, they're so cute! Thanks so much for sharing the How-To!
Thank you!!! You rock!!! Can I be you when I grow up? :)
What a cute flower! Thanks for the tutorial.
So cute. I am not great at sewing and I think I could even do this.
Thanks for sharing the tutorial. I have been wanting to make these. You are so sweet!
Way cute!! I'll definitely be making these. :)
These are so cute!
Super cute. Great tutorial!
I think these are so cute! However, what size button did you use? I really like the sizing together that you used. Thanks!
Beautiful! A great way to use up scraps!
Super clear tutorial! I've been wondering how to make these!!! Thanks! :)
Very neat flowers and a very good tutorial. Thank you for sharing.
Cute Cute!!! I'm going to try them now.
Thank you so much for taking the time to post these! I can't wait to get started!
These are fantastic. I must try them!
Just found your blog! These are so cute! How easy to make, too!
Just came across our blog from another as you do and I liked whar I saw. I have been lookingfor a flower tutorial for awhile as I have project to do for September, so loads of time to make lots of these flowers. thanks and I will drop by again
Love it! I am going to sew a small rubber hair band on and then slip it onto my dogs collar! Voila!
totally adorable and doable too! thanks for the tute, I love it!
They are so lovely...
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Thank you for this. How pretty! I was wanting to learn something new, so this is it. It seems so easy. I can't wait to try to make one now. :)


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On Friday, Lucas Catton former president of Narconon Arrowhead, author of 'Have You Told All?', and our good friend Colin Henderson will be catching us up on the remarkable happenings at Narconon Arrowhead Scientology's flagship rehab facility in located here in Oklahoma.
Catton came out of the shadows in the wake of the 3 Narconon patient deaths in a 9 month span that have led to criminal investigations and civil lawsuits against Narconon Arrowhead.
'It was Catton who explained to us that Scientology officials have spent considerable resources lobbying and schmoozing state officials, worried that they would take a hard look at Narconon Arrowhead's certification.
"When I left in 2006, they were eagerly trying to get some type of amicable relationship with the Department of Mental Health," he says.' . . . "They were worried that they had to get their entire program certified by the state, or get the law changed, or they would not be allowed to operate at all," . . .The Village Voice, August 18, 2012 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_lucas_catton_narconon.php
Gabriel Graves,32, Hillary Holten, 21, and Stacy Murphy, 20 years old all died at the Narconon Arrowhead facility. Read more Narconon Rehab Deaths
Lucas Catton also recently published a book on his experiences as a Scientologist and the figurehead and PR specialist at Narconon Arrowhead called 'Have You Told All?'
NBC's Rock Center did a feature on Narconon Arrowhead last August and will be airing a very powerful piece on April 5th at 10pm EST/9PM CST featuring Lucas Catton and former staff member at Narconon, Eric Tenorio. There will be a promo during the Rock Center's show Friday March 29th show.
Axxiom For Liberty has been covering NN Arrowhead, the largest Narconon facility in the United States, since 2010 prior to the tragic deaths of at least 3 young people who were seeking help for their addictions that has set off a firestorm of media activity.
Much thanks to the sincere and tireless efforts of Colin Henderson who since his own dangerous experience with the facility in 2007, has been trying to warn others not to seek help there.
Here are just a few of the recent news items on Narconon Arrowhead;
-Legislation to curtail the dangerous practices at NN has been filed and has passed the Senate
Oklahoma Drug Rehab Bill Passes Senate: Scientology's Narconon Days Numbered?
. . .history showed that the state had resisted Scientology's plan to open the large rehab center in the late 1980s, and refused to grant it a license. But Scientology found a loophole in the law that allowed them to open based on a certification by a national nonprofit organization, bypassing state regulators.
In his bill, Ivester is trying to close that loophole.
Read more TonyOrtega.com
5 new suits have been filed against Narconon Arrowhead
"Narconon Arrowhead's program "has the appearance of being nothing more than a pyramid scheme and sham" that operates to extort money while acting as a recruiting tool for the Church of Scientology, according to one of the lawsuits filed Thursday in Pittsburg County District Court. "
–National counseling certification has been revoked for CEO, staff members of Oklahoma drug rehab Narconon Arrowhead
March 9, 2013
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Narconon Arrowhead's top executive and several of his employees have had a counseling certification revoked by the National Association of Forensic Counselors, officials say.
Read more: http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/narconon-officials-lose-counseling-certifications#ixzz2OfpR2hhj
And this is nothing new but something parents might want to watch out for, Narconon continues to do anti-drug presentations in public schools;
March 18, 2013
ASHER, Oklahoma –
Several parents say they are concerned over an anti-drug presentation at their school. The organization making the presentation and handing out literature is the controversial Narconon Arrowhead, which News 9 has been investigating here for several months. Read more at NewsOn6
The curriculum provided by Narconon for grade and high school students is linked in the News 6 article and seems to diverge from scientific understanding of human biology. This was a point of contention in California over Narconon's anti-drug presentation to public school kids.
Schools urged to drop antidrug program / Scientology-linked teachings inaccurate, superintendent says
February 23, 2005
State Superintendent Jack O'Connell urged all California schools on Tuesday to drop the Narconon antidrug education program after a new state evaluation concluded that its curriculum offers inaccurate and unscientific information.
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A brief list of Common Core educational materials
Here is a link to our one page information sheet called, "What Oklahomans Need To Know About Common Core State Standards". If you're not in Oklahoma and wish to have something more generic, please use this handout from our friends at the Truth in American Education website.
Here is the paper that really helped to spread the word about CCSS, "Common Core State Standards, An Introduction To Marxism 101" This should help you put the background together on where the Common Core came from – it's political background and who's behind the push.
For those of you interested also in the data collection aspect, our paper, "How Much Data Is Enough Data? What happens to privacy when bureaucracies exceed their scope?" might be of interest. We also have another one page information sheet called, "What Oklahomans Need To Know About The P20 Council" that you can hand out to those seeking information.


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MINNEAPOLIS - When it came time for top 2013 prospect Christopher Rivera to verbally commit to a college where he might someday continue his baseball career, he didn't have to look very far from home.
Rivera, the country's No. 2-ranked shortstop prospect (No. 6 top prospect overall) lists his hometown as Fullerton, Calif. And not far from his home in Fullerton is California State University at Fullerton - commonly known at Cal State Fullerton - an institution with as rich of a college baseball history as any other on the West Coast.
"I've always been a California guy and I didn't want to go (to school) outside of California; Cal State (Fullerton) was like a second home to me," Rivera said Thursday morning from the playing field at the Metrodome. "I used to go to all the games over there and I used to watch all the players. Once (the coaching staff) said they wanted me to go there, that was my No. 1 verbal. I didn't look anyplace else."
Rivera was half-a-country away from his "California guy" roots on Thursday while taking part in the nationally acclaimed 2012 Perfect Game National Showcase.
Close to 300 of the top prospects in the class of 2013 (with one from the class of 2014) will participate in PG National workouts and have the opportunity to play in three nine inning games by the time the National wraps up its five-day run Monday afternoon.
"I'm feeling really great this morning," Rivera said right after taking part in the infield arm velocity workout. "I came in a little late last night but I got my rest and I'm feeling really good.
"Being involved in this event is a real big deal to me," he continued. "It's the best of the best out here, and everybody's ranked and you come out here and you see the best players and you hit against the best pitchers and it's a big deal and it means a lot to me."
Rivera will be a senior in the fall at El Dorado High School in Fullerton and has wasted little time in rising to the top of most of the scouts' lists of top-notch shortstop prospects since playing in his first PG event the summer before his sophomore year in high school.
Perfect Game's David Rawnsley and Allan Simpson rank him as the No. 14 overall prospect in the 2013 MLB amateur draft, and No. 4 among the potential draft-eligible high school seniors. He trails only right-hander Clinton Hollon, outfielder Austin Meadows and shortstop Oscar Mercado on that list, and all three of those prospects are also here this weekend.
Mercado, in fact, is a teammate of Rivera's on both the PG Green squad here at the PG National and also with powerhouse travel ball outfit Marucci Elite.
Rivera's first experience with Perfect Game came at the 2010 PG WWBA South Qualifier in Austin, Texas, when he was playing with the Houston Banditos 17u Black. He played in the 2010 PG WWBA Underclass World Championship with Marucci Elite, then skipped that event in 2011 to play with Marucci Elite in the PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla.
Marucci Elite, with head coach Chad Raley, won that tournament championship.
"That was a great week. We all just played the best that we knew how to play and things happened and we just happened to win the championship, Rivera said, adding that his association with Baton Rouge, La.-based Marucci Elite has been a blessing.
"Chad Raley has been a great help to me ... and he takes care of me like my own dad," he said. "Marucci is just a great organization."
Raley reciprocated with some kind words of his own.
"He's one of the most respectful kids I've ever coached," the Marucci Elite coach said Thursday. "He's extremely humble and he works hard. He's a great kid and he comes from a great family."
And then Raley spoke about the challenges of having the country's two top-ranked shortstops on his summer and fall roster. "Defensively, it just comes real easy to both of them," he said.
Raley said he was initially apprehensive about approaching Rivera and asking him to slide over to second base so Mercado could play short at the PG WWBA World Championship.
"In Chris' case, like down in Jupiter, he was fine with moving to second," he said. "We had Oscar, and Oscar's a great shortstop and so is Chris, but he was just basically, 'Coach, I'll play where ever you need me to play for us to win. Whatever the team needs.' He just wants to win."
Rivera will take part in the USA Baseball Tournament of Stars 18u team trials in the coming weeks and then will prepare for a long summer of action in various PG WWBA and PG BCS Finals with Marucci Elite. His only goals this summer are simple ones.
"I want to have fun and stay healthy; not have any bad injuries that causes me to miss any games," he said. "Staying healthy is probably my number one thing right now."
Rivera made the trip from southern California to Minnesota for the PG National by himself. He's a self-assured young man, seemingly ready to keep moving through life and building on what looks to be a promising future on the baseball field.
On Thursday, he was only concerned with performing well on a national stage. He threw 87 mph across the infield, ran a 6.99-second 60-yard dash and had an excellent batting practice session, according to first-hand reports.
"I'm just trying to play the best baseball the way I know how to play it and try to stay within myself and not try to do too much," Rivera said. "I want to let my game (speak) for itself and see how it plays out."


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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Cleveland Police Chief Mark McGrath announced on Tuesday that following an 11-month investigation his office will issue suspensions for 63 of the 104 officers involved in a 25-minute high-speed car chase that resulted in the fatal shooting of the driver and his passenger.
The officers will serve suspensions totaling 178 days, with the longest suspension 10 days, McGrath said, saying the officers were very honest and professional during the investigation.
The officers are being disciplined because of excessive speed, insubordination and failure to request permission to join the pursuit, he said.
On November 29, 2012, Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams fled a traffic stop and led police on a chase that ended with 13 officers firing 137 rounds at the car Russell was driving. The chase involved 63 police cars, according to the investigation.
The 13 officers directly involved in the shooting of Russell and Williams were not among those suspended and still may face discipline and possible criminal charges.
McGrath said many of the officers involved told the investigation they joined the chase because they thought Russell and Williams were shooting at police and they thought "a police officer was in trouble."
Officers involved reported shots fired from Russell's car that investigators now believe were the sound of his 1979 Chevy backfiring.
They also thought Williams, the passenger, had a weapon in her hand during the chase, according to the investigation. The investigation found no weapon and no gunshot residue on Williams's hands.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said on Tuesday that county prosecutors have not yet decided whether to bring criminal charges against the 13 officers directly involved in the shooting.
Jackson also said although the investigation had taken 11 months, "justice was not delayed for the victims" and that his office was "not throwing officers under the bus for political reasons and we're not covering anything up."
A lawyer for the families of Russell and Williams could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.
In March, the U.S. Justice Department launched a review of Cleveland police policies over the possible use of excessive force by officers.
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A little push might not hurt, as there's no evidence he's clearly ahead of Nick Foles at this point. So Vick's taking the competition as a challenge.
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De rerum natura
De rerum natura (Latin: [deː ˈreːrũː naːˈtuːraː]; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through richly poetic language and metaphors.[1] Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, "chance," and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.[2]
Epicurus maintained that the unhappiness and degradation of humans arose largely from the dread which they entertained of the power of the deities, from terror of their wrath, which was supposed to be displayed by the misfortunes inflicted in this life, by the everlasting tortures that were the lot of the guilty in a future state, or where these feelings were not strongly developed, from a vague dread of gloom and misery after death. To remove these fears, and thus to establish tranquility in the heart, was the purpose of his teaching. Thus the deities, whose existence he did not deny, lived forevermore in the enjoyment of absolute peace, strangers to all the passions, desires, and fears, which agitate the human heart, totally indifferent to the world and its inhabitants, unmoved alike by their virtues and their crimes. To prove this position he called upon the atomism of Democritus, by which he sought to demonstrate that the material universe was formed not by a Supreme Being, but by the mixing of elemental particles that had existed from all eternity governed by certain simple laws. The task undertaken by Lucretius was to clearly state and fully develop these views in an attractive form; his work being an attempt to show that everything in nature can be explained by natural laws without the need for the intervention of divine beings.[3]
Lucretius identifies the supernatural with the notion that the deities created our world or interfere with its operations in some way. He argues against fear of such deities by demonstrating through observations and arguments that the operations of the world can be accounted for in terms of natural phenomena—the regular, but purposeless motions and interactions of tiny atoms in empty space. Meanwhile, he argues against the fear of death by stating that death is the dissipation of a being's material mind. Lucretius uses the analogy of a vessel, stating that the physical body is the vessel that holds both the mind (mens) and spirit (anima) of a human being. Neither the mind nor spirit can survive independent of the body. Thus Lucretius states that once the vessel (the body) shatters (dies) its contents (mind and spirit) can no longer exist. So, as a simple ceasing-to-be, death can be neither good nor bad for this being. Being completely devoid of sensation and thought, a dead person cannot miss being alive. According to Lucretius, fear of death is a projection of terrors experienced in life, of pain that only a living (intact) mind can feel. Lucretius also puts forward the 'symmetry argument' against the fear of death. In it, he says that people who fear the prospect of eternal non-existence after death should think back to the eternity of non-existence before their birth, which probably did not cause them much suffering.
The poem consists of six untitled books, in dactylic hexameter. The first three books provide a fundamental account of being and nothingness, matter and space, the atoms and their movement, the infinity of the universe both as regards time and space, the regularity of reproduction (no prodigies, everything in its proper habitat), the nature of mind (animus, directing thought) and spirit (anima, sentience) as material bodily entities, and their mortality, since, according to Lucretius, they and their functions (consciousness, pain) end with the bodies that contain them and with which they are interwoven. The last three books give an atomic and materialist explanation of phenomena preoccupying human reflection, such as vision and the senses, sex and reproduction, natural forces and agriculture, the heavens, and disease.
The poem opens with an invocation to Venus, whom Lucretius addresses as an allegorical representation of the reproductive power, after which the business of the piece commences by an enunciation of the proposition on the nature and being of the deities, which leads to an invective against the gigantic monster superstition, and a thrilling picture of the horrors which attends its tyrannous sway. Then follows a lengthened elucidation of the axiom that nothing can be produced from nothing, and that nothing can be reduced to nothing (Nil fieri ex nihilo, in nihilum nil posse reverti); which is succeeded by a definition of the Ultimate Atoms, infinite in number, which, together with Void Space (Inane), infinite in extent, constitute the universe. The shape of these corpuscles, their properties, their movements, the laws under which they enter into combination and assume forms and qualities appreciable by the senses, with other preliminary matters on their nature and affections, together with a refutation of objections and opposing hypotheses, occupy the first two books.[3]
In the third book, the general concepts proposed thus far are applied to demonstrate that the vital and intellectual principles, the Anima and Animus, are as much a part of us as are our limbs and members, but like those limbs and members have no distinct and independent existence, and that hence soul and body live and perish together; the argument being wound up by a magnificent exposure of the folly manifested in a dread of death, which will forever extinguish all feeling.[3]
The fourth book is devoted to the theory of the senses, sight, hearing, taste, smell, of sleep and of dreams, ending with a disquisition upon love and sex.[3]
The fifth book is described by Ramsay as the most finished and impressive,[3] while Stahl considers that its "puerile conceptions" indicate that Lucretius should be judged as a poet, not as a scientist.[4] This book addresses the origin of the world and of all things that are therein, the movements of the heavenly bodies, the changing of the seasons, day and night, the rise and progress of humankind, society, political institutions, and the invention of the various arts and sciences which embellish and ennoble life.[3]
The sixth book contains an explanation of some of the most striking natural appearances, especially thunder, lightning, hail, rain, snow, ice, cold, heat, wind, earthquakes, volcanoes, springs and localities noxious to animal life, which leads to a discourse upon diseases. This in its turn introduces an appalling description of the great pestilence which devastated Athens during the Peloponnesian War, and thus the book closes. The abrupt ending suggests that Lucretius had not finished fully editing the poem before his death.[3]
Lucretius wrote this epic poem to "Memmius", who may be Gaius Memmius, who in 58 BC was a praetor, a judicial official deciding controversies between citizens and the government.[5] There are over a dozen references to "Memmius" scattered throughout the long poem in a variety of contexts in translation, such as "Memmius mine", "my Memmius", and "illustrious Memmius". According to Lucretius's frequent statements in his poem, the main purpose of the work was to free Gaius Memmius's mind of the supernatural and the fear of death—and to induct him into a state of ataraxia by expounding the philosophical system of Epicurus, whom Lucretius glorifies as the hero of his epic poem.
However, the purpose of the poem is subject to ongoing scholarly debate. Lucretius refers to Memmius by name four times in the first book, three times in the second, five in the fifth, and not at all in the third, fourth, or sixth books. In relation to this discrepancy in the frequency of Lucretius' reference to the apparent subject of his poem, Kannengiesse advances the theory that Lucretius wrote the first version of De rerum natura for the reader at large, and subsequently revised in order to write it for Memmius. However, Memmius' name is central to several critical verses in the poem, and this theory has therefore been largely discredited.[6][full citation needed] Bruns[7] and Brandt[8] have set forth an alternative theory that Lucretius did at first write the poem with Memmius in mind, but that his enthusiasm for his patron cooled. Stearns suggests that this is because Memmius reneged on a promise to pay for a new school to be built on the site of the old Epicurean school.[9][full citation needed] Memmius was also a tribune in 66, praetor in 58, governor of Bithynia in 57, and was a candidate for the consulship in 54 but was disqualified for bribery, and Stearns suggests that the warm relationship between patron and client may have cooled.[9][lower-alpha 1]
Manuscript history and rediscovery
Copies of the poem were preserved in a number of medieval libraries, with two ninth century manuscripts surviving to this day and references to a number of others dating from the tenth through the twelfth centuries. It was rediscovered in January 1417 by Poggio Bracciolini via a now lost medieval copy, probably in the Benedictine library at Fulda. The copy found by Poggio did not survive, but a copy of it by Poggio's friend, Niccolò de' Niccoli, did; it is kept today at the Laurentian Library in Florence ("Codex Laurentianus 35.30"). Machiavelli made a copy early in his life. Molière produced a verse translation which does not survive; John Evelyn translated the first book.[1]
It has been suggested that Dante (1265–1321) might have read Lucretius' poem, as a few verses of his Divine Comedy exhibit a great affinity with De rerum natura, which can hardly be explained otherwise.[10] The Italian scholar Guido Billanovich demonstrated that Lucretius' poem was well known in its entirety among some Paduan pre-humanists during the thirteenth century.[10][11] This proves that the work was known long before the official rediscovery by Poggio Bracciolini.
The first printed edition of De rerum natura was produced in Brescia, Lombardy, in 1473. Other printed editions followed soon after.
Notable figures who owned copies include Ben Jonson whose copy is held at the Houghton Library, Harvard; Thomas Jefferson owned at least five Latin editions and English, Italian and French translations. Montaigne owned a Latin edition published in Paris, in 1563, by Denis Lambin which he heavily annotated.[12] His Essays contain almost a hundred quotes from De rerum natura.[1]
Lucretius' physics
Lucretius maintained that he could free humankind from fear of the deities by demonstrating that all things occur by natural causes without any intervention by the deities. Historians of science, however, have been critical of the limitations of his Epicurean approach to science, especially as it pertained to astronomical topics, which he relegated to the class of "unclear" objects.[13]
Thus, he began his discussion by claiming that he would
explain by what forces nature steers the courses of the Sun and the journeyings of the Moon, so that we shall not suppose that they run their yearly races between heaven and earth of their own free will [i.e., are gods themselves] or that they are rolled round in furtherance of some divine plan....[14]
However, when he set out to put this plan into practice, he limited himself to showing how one, or several different, naturalistic accounts could explain certain natural phenomena. He was unable to tell his readers how to determine which of these alternatives might be the true one.[15]
- Let us now take as our theme the cause of stellar movements.
- First let us suppose that the great globe of the sky itself rotates....
- There remains the alternative possibility that the sky as a whole is stationary while the shining constellations are in motion. This may happen
- because swift currents of ether ... whirl round and round and roll their fires at large across the nocturnal regions of the sky. Or
- an external current of air from some other quarter may whirl them along in their course. Or
- they may swim of their own accord, each responsive to the call of its own food, and feed their fiery bodies in the broad pastures of the sky.
- One of these causes must certainly operate in our world.... But to lay down which of them it is lies beyond the range of our stumbling progress.[16]
Drawing on these, and other passages, William Stahl considered that "The anomalous and derivative character of the scientific portions of Lucretius' poem makes it reasonable to conclude that his significance should be judged as a poet, not as a scientist."[17]
The swerve
Determinism appears to conflict with the concept of free will. Lucretius attempts to allow for free will in his physicalistic universe by postulating an indeterministic tendency for atoms to swerve randomly (Latin: clinamen). This indeterminacy, according to Lucretius, provides the "free will which living things throughout the world have".[18]
The earliest recorded verdict of Lucretius' work is by Cicero, who calls Lucretius's poetry "full of inspired brilliance, but also of great artistry".[lower-alpha 2] However, Cicero is elsewhere critical of Lucretius and the Epicureans, and disparaged them for their omission from their work of historical study.[19]
Cornelius Nepos, in his Life Of Atticus, mentions Lucretius as one of the greatest poets of his times.
Ovid, in his Amores, writes: Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti / exitio terras cum dabit una dies (which means "the verses of the sublime Lucretius will perish only when a day will bring the end of the world").
Vitruvius (in the De Architectura), Quintilian (in his Institutiones Oratoriae) and Statius (in the Silvae) also show great admiration for the De Rerum Natura.
Michel de Montaigne, in one of his Essays, On Books, lists Lucretius along with Virgil, Horace, and Catullus as his four top poets.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry notes Lucretius in Southern Mail / Night Flight on page 20.[citation needed]
Lucretius has also had a marked influence upon modern philosophy, as perhaps the most complete expositor of Epicurean thought.[citation needed] His influence is especially notable in Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana, who praised Lucretius (along with Dante and Goethe) in his book 'Three Philosophical Poets.'
Later works
At the start of the 7th century, Isidore of Seville produced De natura rerum, a book of astronomy and natural history dedicated to the Visigothic king Sisebut. About a century later, Bede produced a work of the same title, partly based on Isidore's work but apparently ignorant of Lucretius' poem.[20]
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- ↑ In particular, De rerum natura 5.107 (fortuna gubernans, "guiding chance" or "fortune at the helm"): see Monica R. Gale, Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge University Press, 1994, 1996 reprint), pp. 213, 223–224 online and Lucretius (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 238 online.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Ramsay, 1867, pp. 829–30
- ↑ Stahl 1962, pp. 82–83.
- ↑ Walter Englert (2003). Lucretius: On the Nature of Things. Focus Pub./R. Pullins. p. xii. ISBN 978-0-941051-21-7. Retrieved 8 December 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Stearns (1931), p. 67.
- ↑ Bruns, Lukrez-Studien (Freiburg, J.C.C. Mohr, 1884)
- ↑ Brandt (1885) NJbb (31: 601–613)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Stearns (1931), p. 68.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Hortus Apertus – La fortuna – Dante e Lucrezio" (PDF).<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Guido Billanovich (1958). "'Veterum vestigia vatum' nei carmi dei preumanisti padovani". Italia Medievale e Umanistica (in Italian). Padua: Antenore. I: 155–243. ISBN 978-88-8455-089-7. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex (Montaigne.1.4.4)". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 9 July 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Lloyd 1973, p. 26; Stahl 1962, pp. 81–3
- ↑ Lucretius, v. 76–81
- ↑ Alioto 1987, p. 97
- ↑ Lucretius, v. 510–533
- ↑ Stahl 1962, p. 83
- ↑ Lucretius, ii. 251–260
- ↑ Gale (2001), p. 35.
- ↑ Bede: 'On the Nature of Things' and 'On Times' translated by Calvin B. Kendall, Faith Wallis, p 191
- ↑ Lucretius I.140: Latin: sed tua me virtus tamen et sperata voluptas/ suavis amicitiae quemvis efferre laborem
English: But still your merit, and as I hope, the joy/ Of our sweet friendship, urge me to any toil
- ↑ Cicero, QFr 2.10.3.: Lucreti poemata, ut scribis, ita sunt, multis luminibus ingeni, multae tamen artis
- Anthony M. Alioto, (1987), A History of Western Science. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-392390-8
- G. E. R. Lloyd, (1973), Greek Science after Aristotle. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-04371-1
- William Ramsay, "Lucretius" in William Smith (editor), (1867), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Volume 2.
- William Stahl, (1962), Roman Science. University of Wisconsin Press.
Further reading
- Lucretius. On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura. Anthony M. Esolen, transl. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 1995. ISBN 0-8018-5055-X
- Lucretius the Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura. Rolfe Humphries, transl. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1968. ISBN 0-253-20125-X.
- Lucretius. On the Nature of the Universe. R. E. Latham, transl. London: Penguin Books, 1994. ISBN 0-14-044610-9.
- Lucretius. On the Nature of Things (Loeb Classical Library No. 181). W. H. Rouse, transl., rev. by M. F. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1992, reprint with revisions of the 1924 edition. ISBN 0-674-99200-8.
- Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe. Ronald Melville, transl. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0198150978.
- Lucretius. On the Nature of Things (Hackett Classics Series). Martin Ferguson Smith, transl. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Co., 2001. ISBN 0-87220-587-8. (Review; responses to the review)
- Lucretius: The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics). A.E. Stallings, trans. London. Penguin Books, 2007. ISBN 978-0-14-044796-5. Verse translation of De Rerum Natura.
- Lucretius. De Rerum Natura/ The Nature of Things: A Poetic Translation trans David R. Slavitt. University of California Press. 2008.
- Brown, P. Michael (ed.). Lucretius, De Rerum Natura III. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1997. ISBN 0-85668-694-8 (hb). ISBN 0-85668-695-6 (pb). (Review)
- Campbell, Gordon. Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De Rerum Natura Book Five, lines 772-1104. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-926396-5. (Review)
- Sympathetic review of Campbell's book. At page 160, the reviewer concludes the following. "Lucretius on Creation and Evolution offers a bold and sophisticated attempt to come to terms with Lucretius' arguments on evolution in the spirit of the poem's most ambitious commentators. It deserves not only consultation but active perusal. I could not agree more with Campbell's commitment to putting Lucretius and Epicureanism into conversation with the present and with our own attempts to figure out where humans belong in a world of chance and impersonal necessity."
- Fowler, Don. Lucretius on Atomic Motion: A Commentary on De Rerum Natura, Book Two, Lines 1–332. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2002. ISBN 0-19-924358-1. (Review)
- Gale, Monica R (2001), Lucretius and the Didactic Epic, London: Bristol Classical Pr., ISBN 1-85399-557-6<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> (Review)
- Greenblatt, Stephen, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, ISBN 978-0-39306447-6
- Johnson, W.R. Lucretius and the Modern World. London: Duckworth, 2000. ISBN 0-7156-2882-8. (Review)
- Kennedy, Duncan F. Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 2002. ISBN 0-472-11288-0. (Review)
- Sedley, David. Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1998. ISBN 0-521-57032-8. (Review)
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- On the Nature of Things public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- David Sedley, "Lucretius", the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Includes extensive discussion of On the Nature of Things
- Summary of On the Nature of Things, by section
- De rerum natura (1475–1494), digitized codex, at Somni
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NEW YORK — The new Atlantic Division is going to take some getting used to.
It's just a couple of months removed from the Boston Celtics not winning the division for the first time in five years. And now, we have Boston playing a season without Paul Pierce for the first time this century.
In a blockbuster deal that can't go through until July 10, Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry are coming to Brooklyn in exchange for Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, Reggie Evans, Keith Bogans, Kris Joseph and three first-round picks. The deal has to wait until the 10th – the end of the free agency moratorium period – because Bogans has to be signed to a new contract first. (Nets GM Billy King met with the media Thursday night, but when asked about the moves he made, only spoke of draft pick Mason Plumlee.)
After a somewhat disappointing first season in their new home, the Nets are pushing forward and willing to pay a huge luxury tax bill. Their new starting lineup – Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Pierce, Garnett and Brook Lopez – is set to make more than $82 million next season. Mikhail Prokhorov's bankroll knows no limits and King isn't afraid to pull the trigger on major deals.
As long as they're mostly healthy and kept fresh throughout the season, Pierce and Garnett will make the Nets better. Pierce gives them much better spacing and shooting at small forward than Wallace did, and Garnett is obviously a huge defensive upgrade for a team that ranked 19th on that end of the floor last season. Along with new coach Jason Kidd, the old Celtics will give the Nets some much-needed character and toughness.
The Celtics are obviously taking a huge step backward. Danny Ainge has finally hit the reset button on his roster, and rightfully so. Boston was a mediocre squad (and rather dreadful offensively) even before Rajon Rondo tore his ACL in late January. With no guarantee that Rondo will be 100 percent next season, no way to make significant improvements with Pierce's and Garnett's salaries still on the payroll, and a strong draft class coming up in 2014, now is the right time to be bad.
The Philadelphia 76ers are clearly ready to be bad, too, sending 24-year-old All-Star Jrue Holiday to New Orleans for the draft rights to Nerlens Noel (the No. 6 pick in Thursday's draft) and the Hornets' 2014 first round pick. So, Philly will rebuild with (likely) four Lottery picks in two years, including Michael Carter-Williams, who they selected at No. 11 on Thursday and who replaces Holiday at point guard.
With how bad they'll be next season, the Sixers will have a decent chance to get the much-hyped Andrew Wiggins with next year's No. 1 pick. New GM Sam Hinkie was quick to put his imprint on the franchise and is clearly willing to wait to see his plan come to fruition. Just 10 1/2 months after trading for Andrew Bynum, Philly is going in a whole new direction. And it may be the closest any team has come to replicating the method in which the Oklahoma City Thunder built a championship contender.
For now, the Celtics and Sixers will be buried near the bottom of the Eastern Conference, while the Nets and Knicks reside somewhere near the top and the Toronto Raptors hope that a full season of Rudy Gay can get them back to the playoffs.
It will be a very different Atlantic Division come October, but it's hard to argue with the moves made by the three teams in question. Brooklyn's success obviously hinges on the health of Pierce and Garnett, but they didn't give up much in terms of warm bodies to get them, they upgraded at both forward positions, and the picks they gave up will likely be in the 20s. They're always willing to buy additional picks if they need to.
The Celtics are taking a step backward at the right time. And the Sixers weren't going far with Holiday and Thaddeus Young as their best players. No one knows how good either team will be three or four years from now, but hitting the floor now gives them higher ceilings down the line.
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Hip-hop legend Nas' second week celebration of his classic 1994 album "Illmatic" featured less high profile guests but Lauryn Hill and Damian Marley gave some much needed energy to the show.
Nas performed "Illmatic" in its entirety on Saturday night at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, 20 years to the date that the album dropped on April 19, 1994.
"Happy anniversary to all of us," Nas said to the Outdoor Theatre crowd.
Guests like Puff Daddy and Jay Z did not come out this week for performances, despite Jay Z's appearance for Pharrell Williams' set about 30 minutes prior on the same stage.
Audiences began leaving the Outdoor Theatre area around the time Nas performed "One Time 4 Your Mind," but fans who stayed saw stellar songs like "Made You Look," a repeat from last week, as well as "Welcome to Jamrock" and "Road To Zion," the last two featuring Marley.
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Keith Jeffries,the Assistant Federal Security Director from Orlando International Airport (MCO), will be speaking today on the CCR Travel Panel at the Rebreather Forum 3 in Orlando. This forum brings together the foremost minds in rebreather technology from all over the world.
In conjunction with this speaking event, we wanted publish a post on traveling with scuba gear, so we looked within TSA to see if we had any diving experts. That's when we found Charlie Foreman, a Customer Support Manager in Mississippi. He's been diving since the early 80's and instructing since 1985. He began instructing the instructors in 1990 to teach open water diving as well as underwater photography. He's got over 5,500 dives under his belt and was inducted into Platinum Pro Instructor Foundation as well as the Platinum Pro Diver Foundation.
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- Before you get on that plane that takes you to an exciting destination, you must first think about how you should pack your dive gear for the flight. Here are some suggestions to make sure your expensive equipment arrives safely to your paradise adventure.
- Always pack your expensive dive equipment and accessories in your carry-on luggage.
- Always pack any prescription masks with you in carry-on luggage. If you lose this item it could ruin your whole trip.
- Always pack your dive computers and regulators in carry-on luggage because these items are sensitive and do not need to be tossed around under the plane by baggage handlers.
- Carry any prescriptions with you in your carry-on bag so they will not be lost.
- Now that you have your carry-on bag packed, you can pay attention to packing your dive equipment that goes into the baggage area of the plane.
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- Surround the jacket with your fins to protect it during the flight.
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The West Virginia Big Buck was established in 1964 to recognize sportsmen who bag extraordinarily big antlered bucks. The contest is co-sponsored by the Division of Natural Resources, the Izaak Walton League of West Virginia, the West Virginia Bowhunter's Association, the West Virginia Muzzleloader's Association, the Physically Challenged Advisory Board, and Toyota.
The Boone and Crockett or Pope and Young Club scoring systems are used to score bucks depending upon method of kill. Guidelines for the annual contest are as follows:
A review committee was established, by the Director of the Division of Natural Resources, to consider all deer entries to the Big Buck Contest. The committee has the power to make judgements as to the legitimacy of each entry and to accept or reject any entry in question. The West Virginia Big Buck Contest Review Committee consists of representatives from the Izaak Walton League of West Virginia, the West Virginia Bowhunter's Association, the West Virginia Muzzleloader's Association, the DNR's Wildlife Resources Section and the Law Enforcement Section, and the West Virginia Physically Challenged Advisory Board.
In 2010, 290 hunters had their deer antlers scored at one of the six DNR District Offices, Field Offices, or the West Virginia Hunting and Fishing Show in Charleston (sponsored by the West Virginia Trophy Hunter's Association). There are eight DNR Wildlife Biologists and Wildlife Managers distributed throughout the state that are certified by the Boone and Crockett and Pope and Young Clubs as official scorers. In the 2010 Big Buck Contest hunters took 64 big bucks (Table 1) with gun, muzzleloader (none this year), bow, or crossbow that met the score minimums, the requirements concerning Game Check Tags and Fair Chase Statements, and were not excluded for cause by the Big Buck Contest Review Committee. An additional 11 bucks from former years were scored that met the requirements for a Big Buck Certificate.
It is noteworthy that an additional nine score-sheets that met the minimum score requirements did not have the Game Check Tag verified, or did not have a signed Fair Chase Statement attached. These are the common reasons why hunter's bucks are excluded from the contest list and do not receive a Big Buck Certificate. A good practice is to staple the Game Check Tag to the back of a mounted head so that it is not misplaced. A hunter may only take their rack to be scored by one Official Scorer. Score shopping is prohibited by the WV Big Buck Contest and will be dealt with according to Boone & Crockett and Pope & Young guidelines. It is the hunter's responsibility to work with their official scorer to make sure that all documentation is completed (by the contest deadline of March 15) and sent to the Big Buck Contest Review Committee Chairman.
Twelve bucks killed by gun hunters scored above 140 points typical or 165 points non-typical. In the Typical-Gun category, the winner was Jeffery Whitman from Hurricane, WV with a 10-point buck killed in Ritchie County that scored 157 7/8. There were no entries this year in the Non-typical Gun category; therefore, the Non-Typical Gun category has no winner this year.
Muzzleloader hunters needed to score above 140 points typical or 165 points non-typical to win.
There were no entries this year in the Typical and Non-typical Muzzleloader category; therefore, there were no winners this year.
Bowhunters killed 52 deer that scored above 125 points typical or 155 points non-typical. The winner of the Typical-Bow category was Bucky Sargent of Blair, WV with an 11-point buck from Logan County that scored 163 6/8. There was no non-typical buck taken with the bow this year that met the minimum score; therefore, the Non-Typical Bow category has no winner this year.
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There was an omission in last year's WV Big Buck Contest results due to paperwork that was lost in the mail by the US Postal Service – Fred G. Crawford took a buck with the bow in Jefferson County on 11/16/2009 that scored 136 2/8 typical. Fred's buck should have been 31st place in the 2009 Bow Typical list. Congratulations to Fred for the fine buck he had scored.
The 2010 West Virginia Big Buck Contest had more deer brought in to be scored than last year. The number of bucks killed in 2010 that qualified for Big Buck Citations was down a few entries with the gun and bow, and up one entry with the crossbow from last year. As a reminder, three years ago we added two new weapon categories to the Contest; one to recognize muzzleloader taken bucks, and one for the physically challenged hunters that are using a crossbow with a Class Y Permit to hunt deer. The Big Buck Contest Committee would like to congratulate all the hunters that took bucks that qualified for this year's contest. Thank you to all hunters who participated and had antlers scored this past year!
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Jousting and pageantry
Located at the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip and close to McCarran Airport, this castle-shaped hotel features royal accommodations and a traditional action-packed medieval dinner show.
Pool and restaurants
Excalibur Hotel & Casino features a pool area, as well as 15 restaurants. At night, Australia's all-male strip revue, Thunder from Down Under, takes the stage.
Medieval decor
Excalibur's newly refreshed rooms in the Royal Tower add a modern twist to the medieval flair. Amenities include dining sets, stall showers, and TVs with pay movies, premium channels, and internet access (surcharge).
Languages Spoken
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to the renowned Tournament of Kings dinner, Excalibur Hotel & Casino is home to Camelot Steakhouse, Dick's Last Resort, Buca di Beppo, Baja Fresh, and Drenched, the poolside restaurant. It makes a great place to eat well and relax as well as get in some gaming action at the casino.
The Spa at Excalibur includes relaxation lounges, saunas, steam rooms, and spa tubs. Treatments include the Loofah Scrub, Eucalyptus Steam Wrap, Refresher Facial, and Hot Stone Massage. The spa's fitness center overlooks the pools. Use of spa facilities is available for a daily charge or complimentary with a treatment.
This property charges a daily resort fee which includes property-wide high speed internet access (public spaces and in-room), unlimited local and toll free calls, airline boarding pass printing, and fitness center access for guests 18 and up.
- Casino
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Elevator/lift
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- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Full-service spa
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- Porter/bellhop
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- Steam room
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- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Number of meeting rooms - 6
- Spa services on site
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- Number of restaurants - 15
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- Total number of rooms - 3,981
- Number of floors - 28
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- Wedding services
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Long-term parking (surcharge), Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Highchair
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- Pay movies
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Iron/ironing board
- Changing table
- Number of bathrooms -
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Camelot Steakhouse - This contemporary steakhouse serves prime-grade beef and fresh seafood for dinner. Features include subdued lighting, a glassed-in show kitchen, wine/cigar room, piano lounge.
Dick's Last Resort - Burgers, barbecue, seafood, and more are served in buckets and accompanied with bibs and hats. There is also live music. It is open daily for lunch and dinner.
Drenched Bar & Grill - Casual poolside dining featuring American fare and a full-service bar. Open seasonally for breakfast and lunch. Satisfy your hunger and indulge in your favorite foods including juicy hamburgers, cheesy pizza, and crisp waffle fries.
Castle Walk Food Court - Dining includes Krispy Kreme, Breakfast & Burgers, Popcornopolis, Yogurtland, Pick Up Stix, Popeyes Chicken, Pizza Hut Express, Schlotzsky's Deli, Starbucks, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Cinnabon, Hot Dog on a Stick, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, and Big Chill. It is open 24 hours.
Buca di Beppo - Delicious entrees, pastas, salads, pizzas and desserts are all served family style with portions that each feed 2 to 6 people.
Octane Lounge - Located outside the Thunder from Down Under Theatre, offers drinks and music. Must be 21 or older.
The Lounge - Located on the casino level, offers drinks and live entertainment and music. Must be 21 or older.
The medieval-style Tournament of Kings dinner show (no dining utensils) includes jousting, horseback-riding skill demonstrations, hand-to-hand combat, beasts, fire, and pageantry.
Six or seven nights weekly, Australia's all-male strip revue Thunder from Down Under performs in its own theater. (Guests must be 18 or older to attend. Those 18–20 must be accompanied by an adult).
The Australian Bee Gees Show, A Tribute to the Bee Gees, has become the world's leading Bee Gees show. The group's unbelievable resemblance and sound of the legendary Bee Gees has garnered international kudos from media and showgoers alike. The 75-minute multi-media concert event is presented from a contemporary perspective with state-of-the-art sound, superb lighting, and giant screens featuring video clips, live camera images, and stunning graphics.
Fun Dungeon - The world-famous Excalibur arcade, where guests can save the day on one of the latest arcade games. The Fun Dungeon offers over 150 games, including 16 Carnival Midways, 19 prize redemption games, 65 arcade games, 10 sports games, and 83 redemption games!
The 100,000-square-foot casino includes a poker room and a race-and-sports book.
Nearby Things to Do
2 heated pools and a 25-person spa tub are surrounded by sundecks. 1 pool, shaped like an arrowhead, is 125 feet wide. The other is a 175-foot-wide freeform pool. Between the pools, a massive rock garden includes waterfalls and two water slides.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
Spa Services
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
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- Body treatments
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If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 30.0 per day.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
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You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
- Deposit: USD 50.00 per night
- Resort fee: USD 39.68 per accommodation, per night
- Fitness center access
- Internet access
- Phone calls
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 18.99 and USD 18.99 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 39.68 per night (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: USD 10 per day
- Valet parking fee: USD 16 per day
- Extended parking fee: USD 10 per day
- Early check-in fee: USD 20 (subject to availability)
- Late check-out fee: USD 30.00 (subject to availability)
- Refrigerator fee: USD 25 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 30.0 per day
Hotel Name
- Casino Excalibur
- Excalibur Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
- Excalibur Casino
- Excalibur Casino Hotel
- Excalibur Casino Las Vegas
- Excalibur Hotel
- Excalibur Hotel Casino
- Excalibur Hotel Casino Las Vegas
- Hotel Casino Excalibur
- Hotel Excalibur
- Excalibur Hotel And Casino
- Excalibur Las Vegas
- Excalibur Hotel Las Vegas
- Excalibur Hotel Casino
We should mention
The seasonal pool will be open from March to November. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
Excalibur and Luxor - USD 44.99 Buffet
Book a stay in any room type and enjoy both the Luxor and Excalibur hotel buffets all day for USD 44.99.
Restrictions may apply.