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The Latin Kings are said to have roots that date back to the 1920s or 1930s in New York city but under a different name. In the early half of the 20th century, many Puerto Rican immigrants moved to the city of New York, and as they arrived some began to form gangs and/or political movements that followed many ways of old Puerto Rico movements. Some prominent groups were the Young Lords, FLN, and the Noble Knights (the likelihood that these Noble Knights have any relation to the Noble Knights from Cicero is minimal). The most likely group that had any ties to the Latin Kings that arrived in Chicago later was the Noble Knights. Oral traditions have stated that "Papa King" who was Latin King founder in Chicago was either a member of the Noble Knights or Young Lords. The Young Lords did indeed arrive in Chicago and had a stronghold in Lincoln Park. Either case the new Latin King Nation that was to arrive later would have connections to both Noble Knights and Young Lords. There was another gang that formed in the early 60s known as the Noble Knights as well in Chicago on the corner of Noble and Huron; however, this was a white gang and more than likely had no ties to the Noble Knights of New York. The Noble Knights of New York were a Puerto Rican political group while the Noble Knights in Chicago were a white greaser gang. Some time more than likely in the late 1950s, Latin Kingism was started here in Chicago more than likely by Papa King. Instead of using the old names from NYC, Papa King created "Kingism" which would become a new doctrine for his young soldiers to abide by. I do not know the date of birth of Papa King but I do know that he was in his 40s when he was killed in 1988 which would make him born in the 1940s. If he was born in the late 40s (1947-1949) then he could not have possibly formed LK in the late 50s on the account of him being only 8-12 years old. (If anyone knows Papa King's true date of birth hit us up at firstname.lastname@example.com so that maybe I can figure a founding year for LK in Chicago).
The Latin Kings were formed by Papa King also known as Papa Santos and his main counterparts: Jose Rivera AKA: Cadillac Joe, Eddie Rodriguez AKA: Tiger, Joe Gunn, and Fast Eddie. These men had the title of "King of Kings." This is the most OG title you can have in the LKN. The first faction of LKs was formed on the Southside on the corner of 18th and Wabash by Papa King according to oral stories. It is true that Papa King did have residence on the Southside in those days on that corner. Before that Papa King lived and originated in the city of New York and he was in a gang called the Young Lords until he came to Chicago. After he left the Southside, he took up residence on Leavitt and Schiller which began the main LK story/faction in Humboldt Park. According to some older members of the LKN in interviews, the LKs grew out of the Noble Knights. One of the very first trends of the LKN was to grow your hair into a very large afro; a Latin Kings had to do this back in the 60s. The last known LK that had one of these large afros was LK named "Crow" Rivera who died in prison from a drug smuggling attempt that went terribly wrong. The drugs were smuggled in a balloon that he put in his mouth, the balloon busted and he died. Rivera was the rank of "Inca" from Armitage and Kedzie. He died in Menard. The Latin Kings became a bigger success by the mid-60s; by 1964-1965 they had expanded further on the north side. By 1966 they were well recognized. One may ask how was it known about the LKs Well during the 1960s, Chicago was in the infancy of understanding street gangs. One method was to offer charity to street gangs. Government funded non-profit organizations were set up to send out counselors to find Gangs and talk to their leaders in order to get the gang members some help.
The Latin Kings were first discovered in 1961 but were worked with to a more wide scale amount by 1966 because they were growing larger and becoming more organized than ever. There are absolutely no records or evidence of any kind of the LKs existence before 1961. But that does not mean they absolutely did not exist, but it is more than likely they didn't. The Latin Kings and other gangs were willing to work with social workers because they received government benefits from meeting with the social workers. The way it worked was if a gang was seen as a threat and acted real bad, they would get more benefits and other nice things (a real flaw in the system at that time); therefore, the Latin Kings took full advantage by acting real bad and then gaining more sympathy from the government. The more you acted the more special things you received is the best way to summarize it. Of course nowadays this system no longer is existent government no longer gives money or other goodies to gangs anymore. They even used to receive fun activities paid for by the government like boating, trips to other states, horseback ridding etc… Soon the Latin Kings spread influence to the South Side streets. Some gang researchers believe that the South side LKs came from the Royal Kings that was a gang that fought with Ambrose in the early to mid-60s. Then the LKs soon found beef with Ambrose. By the 1970s the LKN had grown considerably and was engaging in many major crimes and organized criminal activity. It was because of this the leader of the South side LKs known as "Baby King" or Raul Gonzalez and "Lord Gino" Gustavo Gino Colon leader of North side LKs, were incarcerated in 1972 for RICO charges.
In 1977 or 1978 the Latin Kings were suspected of robbing an armory (whether this true or not is unknown) The FBI arrested a top ranked gang member who was an LK for 20 years he was forced to inform on the LKs so he flipped and told the story while he was in another gang he said that in 1977 or 1978 the LKs robbed an armory and stole lots of high powered military weapons on North AVE and Kedzie. Whether this true or not is unknown but it was rumored that this was how the LKs ended up becoming heavily armed, they then traded some guns to the Insane Unknowns and the Spanish Lords because they were and still are close allies of LKs. In 1978 the Latin Kings not only joined but also helped form the people alliance along with the Vice Lords and the Elrukns. Throughout the 1980s the LKs convinced many white and Latino street gangs to join the people alliance. The LKs were heavily credited for convincing the Gaylords and the Insane Deuces into the people nation at the same time. In 1988 Papa King was killed leaving Lord Gino as the leader of the LKN in prison and Baby king as leader on the streets after his release. There have been many suspicions that Lord Gino ordered Papa King's death because the two could not agree upon how the gang should be run. In 1991 the LKs began to engage in a wide scale of interalliance wars with other people nation gangs. One very well known interalliance war is the one between them and the Latin Counts. Even though the LKs don't have many allies, they are still the third largest gang in Chicago and the largest Latino in Chicago and possibly the world.


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Were. The cruelest word sometimes.
Darren Gallup was heading to Harvard to study and play football. His sister, Lisa, would dedicate her life to comforting the sick as a nurse. They had dreams, and they had purpose. And so little time.
Darren died in 2003, on a slippery road on a wintry night, in a car accident not far from his Wellesley home. He was 18.
Lisa died last Wednesday, the chemo and radiation no longer weapons against the cancer that invaded her. She was 26.
And so Barry Gallup Jr., 25, has eulogized and buried both of his siblings. You think of the cliché: God doesn't give us anything we can't handle. Really? Really?
The Gallup family has shown us how it is done. The price has been high. At Lisa's funeral Saturday at Wellesley Congregational Church, Barry Gallup Sr. and Jr. were heavy-hearted, yet spoke with humor and courage as they shared stories about Lisa that only a family could know.
To her last breath, her hand entwined with her family's, Lisa would not make dying about her. The cancer had been in her for 14 months. She treated it like a nuisance. She could fall weak, she could lose her hair, the treatments could make her sick, but she had things to get to still.
Things to do. The sick to comfort. She was a nurse in New York, ever the giver, never the taker. When she got really sick, Barry Jr. switched jobs and moved in with her, just as she had moved in with him at their Wellesley home after Darren died.
The Gallups were and are a sports-nutty family. The dad was a football player at Boston College, a head coach at Northeastern, and is BC's associate athletic director. The sons were sports stars at Belmont Hill, the daughter a three-sport standout at Wellesley High. She captained three sports.
Being captain of one sport can be just a popularity contest. When you wind up captain of three, it gives you a better idea how special Lisa Gallup was, the effect she had on people. She knew how to lead, naturally, without thinking about it. She went on to graduate from BC's Connell School of Nursing.
How special was she? How about, in her sickest, chemo days, working the night shift in the intensive care unit — the zenith of hard, emotional work for a nurse — at New York Presbyterian Hospital. She received her master's degree from New York University, as well as an award for scholarship, service, leadership — and there was one more thing the award was for, and it is the saddest: potential for future achievement.
Shortly before Lisa died, she ran a half-marathon in New York City and plunged through the Boston Triathlon, damn the treatments. She dictated the terms of her life, took what came, and kept moving just as she had always done.
A tremendous family of five is now three, and they are a powerful three — Lisa's mother, Vicki, Barry, young Barry. Lisa to the end made them even stronger. Even as their hearts felt like a blacksmith's fist was squeezing, even as their tears could flood the backyard, even as they understood, or tried to, how wrong this all was.
The Gallups have put their trust in the power of the great beyond. They want to believe Lisa and Darren have caught up with each other in a better place. They need that faith.
When Darren died, Vicki said in an interview, "What kind of God takes a child from me, my beautiful child?"
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Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a surgically planned siege, and the 50 patrons and staff become unwitting pawns in a
At New York City's Manhattan Trust Bank, a Wall Street institution established in 1948, Dalton Russell and three accomplices, referring to one another as Steve, Stevie and Steve-O, enter the building wearing white painters' coveralls. Using an infrared device, they surreptitiously disable the closed circuit television, then don masks and sunglasses. After Russell declares he is robbing the bank, the gang members draw automatic weapons and order the bank's fifty occupants to the floor, then throw a smoke bomb near the entrance, alerting beat patrolman Sergeant Collins. At a police station, Detective Keith Frazier is on the phone with his girl friend Sylvia, talking about her drug-addicted brother who lives with them, and explaining they must delay marriage for financial reasons. Under suspicion because of money missing from a drug arrest, Frazier, who is innocent, is surprised when his superior, Captain Coughlin, puts him in charge of the hostage crisis. Meanwhile, inside the bank, Russell orders the hostages to hand over their cellphones. Upon finding that one bank employee, Peter Hammond, has withheld his cellphone, Russell beats him behind the wall of one of the offices. The hostages are then ordered to strip to their underwear and don hooded dark blue coveralls and masks. Humiliated, grandmotherly Miriam Douglas refuses to undress, but Stevie, a female, takes her into another room and forces her. Outside the bank, the Emergency Service Unit, headed by Captain John Darius, blocks off adjacent streets, stations snipers and surveillance cameras in key locations and diverts the bank's phone lines to the Mobil Command Center van. Upon learning about the situation, the bank's founder, elderly Arthur Case, calls Madeleine White, a discreet, high-priced power broker and corporate fixer, asking for her assistance in retrieving heirlooms in his safe-deposit box in the bank. When White diplomatically suggests Case is not being honest, he assures her that the box's secret is dangerous only to him if disclosed, and she agrees to help him without further questioning. Meanwhile, Russell and his group separate the hostages into different rooms. With well-planned, coordinated precision, Russell's people take turns harassing the hostages while secretly digging a small hole in a basement storage room. Intermittently, various hostages are moved from room and to room, allowing some of the robbers to spend brief periods pretending to be captives. Russell sends one hostage, a Sikh, Vikram Walia, out of the bank with his hands tied, still wearing the dark blue coveralls, a mask and sunglasses. Russell's demands for two buses and a jet plane are written on a safe-deposit box attached with rope around Vikram's neck, but Frazier, his partner, Detective Bill Mitchell, and Darius agree that they cannot accede. After another demand is made for food, Mobil Command Officer Berk, a surveillance expert, suggests they order pizzas and insert transmitters into the containers. After the pizzas are delivered with the transmitters in place, the police receivers pick up a man speaking in a language they cannot identify. Upon learning from one of the surveillance team that the language is Albanian, Frazier recruits the man's Albanian immigrant ex-wife Ilina to translate. After first insisting that her many parking tickets be excused, Ilina identifies the transmission as a tape of a speech delivered by a now-deceased Albanian president. Realizing that they have been hoodwinked, Frazier phones Russell, who asks him to solve an irrelevant riddle. After hasty discussion with his colleagues, Frazier answers the riddle and Russell orders that the next meal be sandwiches. One of the hostages, Brian Robinson, an eight-year-old Brooklyn boy who was with his father when the gang took control, is separated from the others, but remains naïvely unafraid as he concentrates on a portable electronic game. When Russell gently asks to see it, he is shocked by its graphic violence and says that he will talk to his father about it. Later, inside safe-deposit box number 392, Russell finds several bags of diamonds, a large diamond ring and a document bearing a Nazi seal. Meanwhile, after calling in past favors, White has had the mayor introduce her to Frazier and insist that she be given carte blanche . When Frazier objects, White smoothly suggests that she could have him fired over the missing money issue or assure his promotion, forcing Frazier to allow her permission to enter the bank. Inside, she offers the masked Russell a light sentence and $2,000,000 in exchange for the contents of Case's safe-deposit box. Refusing, he shows her the Nazi document and tells her that an American Nazi collaborator was able to start a bank by taking advantage of Holocaust victims. When Russell declines to give her the document, White promises him a large remuneration for it, if he manages to escape. He assures her he will leave by the front door. Afterward, White tells the skeptical Frazier that she does not believe Russell is a murderer. Frazier guesses that the robbers have been stalling for time and, calling their bluff, phones that their plane is ready, but first insists on proof that the hostages are alive. Russell allows him to enter the bank and, while escorting Frazier through rooms containing the captives, offers him a stick of gum. During their conversation, Frazier mentions that he cannot afford to marry his girl friend because of the cost of a ring and Russell unexpectedly says that, if he is in love, money is unimportant. When Frazier threatens to have the ESU storm the building and arrest him, Russell says he will walk out the door when he is ready. Impulsively, Frazier tackles Russell, but is interrupted at gunpoint by Steve-O. Because Russell did not retaliate, Frazier later tells Mitchell that Russell is not violent, but then, through a second floor window, they see a hostage shot through the head. Frazier demands that Russell say what it is he really wants, but Russell answers that the detective is "too smart to be a cop." Displeased by Frazier's performance, Coughlin now places Darius in charge and, relieved of responsibility, Frazier chats with Collins, whose casual comment prompts him to realize that Russell has been listening in to their plans via a recording device contained within the box attached to Vikram when he was released. As the ESU prepares to break into the building, Russell's people briskly herd the hostages toward the front door. After bursting it open with explosives, they blend into the group, although Russell is not among them. Outside, the police roughly corral and handcuff the hostages, and then bus them to the station, where they are interrogated. Inside the bank, the ESU finds no one, living or dead, no booby-traps and no evidence of a robbery. Instead, they find the white coveralls with fake blood and toy guns, and conclude that the perpetrators have taken refuge among the hostages and that the murder was faked. After the interrogations, when Frazier reports that the hostages were unable to identify their captives, Coughlin says to "bury" the case, because, having neither evidence of a robbery nor major injuries, no one is pressuring him to solve it. Dissatisfied, Frazier and Mitchell cannot stop thinking about the case and eventually notice a discrepancy in the bank's safe-deposit box inventories, which list boxes numbered 391 and 393, but not 392. Without drawing attention to her actions, White restores Frazier's reputation by arranging for the missing drug money to be found and sets in motion his promotion. Regarding the mystery of the deposit box, she suggests to Frazier that many Fortune 500 executives have profited from chaotic times. However, when she informs Case that he will have to pay blackmailers to regain the document containing his secret, she also confronts him about his alliance with the Nazis. He confides that he betrayed a close friend and has since tried to compensate for that and other sins through philanthropic deeds. Instead of being indignant, White jokes that she is currently funding a co-op for the nephew of Osama bin Laden. About a week later, Russell, in disguise, emerges from his hiding place, a small cell behind a wall in the bank storage room where the robbers had been digging. Crossing paths with Frazier and Mitchell in the lobby, he bumps into Frazier, who does not recognize him, and they make brief apologies. Outside, when Russell reunites with his four accomplices, he has most of box 392's contents, but not the ring, and tells his partners that the ring is "in good hands." Later, armed with a search warrant, Frazier and Mitchell discover box 392 contains the ring, gum wrappers and a note, reading: "Follow the ring." Presuming a connection between Case and the box, they inform Case they will look into the ring's history. Frazier tells White and the mayor that the ring was connected to a wealthy Jew who died in a concentration camp and indicates that he is communicating with the War Crimes Unit. Approvingly, White offers to get Frazier coverage on the front page of the New York Times . Later, when he is with Sylvia, Frazier finds a large diamond in his pocket and smiles as he realizes that Russell slipped it in there, as he bumped into him walking out the bank's door.
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Ok, I am going to attempt to revive my poor neglected blog. Don't get your hopes too high... one post per month would be a step up for me... baby steps. So here is a little treat for you. It's a woodlands print I made to hang in my half bath. Something lovely for the house guests to ponder on while taking care of their business. I almost drew in some little deer droppings, but thought the better of it. I'm trying hard to class up my act and become more ladylike. Besides, the teacher at my kid's school taught him that "poo, crap and butt" are bad words. So now I'm forced to change my entire vocabulary.
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SOCORRO, September 27, 2004 – Penelope J. Boston, a research associate professor of cave and karst science at New Mexico Tech, will be featured prominently in the second segment of the "NOVA" four-part miniseries, "Origins," which is scheduled to be broadcast tomorrow evening on PBS television affiliates throughout the nation.
"Origins: How Life Began," hour two of the groundbreaking miniseries, will air locally at 8 p.m. on Albuquerque station KNME, Channel 5.
Boston, a noted expert on cave geomicrobiology, also has been asked to participate today in a NASA Administrator's Symposium on "Exploration and Risk." The symposium will be carried live this afternoon on NASA TV and simultaneously webcast on www.nasa.gov, beginning at 3:30 p.m. (MDST).
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Charles Marion Russell, one of the greatest artists of the American West, is born on this day in St. Louis, Missouri.
According to family lore, Charlie Russell displayed an aptitude for art from a young age, reportedly drawing pictures and modeling in wax when he was a small child. At 16 years old, Russell's parents sent him to Montana under the care of a sheepherder. The independent young man struck out on his own soon after, finding work as a cowboy in the booming Montana ranching industry.
During long, often tedious days watching over cattle on the open range, Russell sketched the scenes around him. In the winter, when many cowboys were unemployed, Russell lived in various frontier towns and painted pictures to pay for his food and lodging. Friends said Russell also began carrying modeling clay with him during this time, making small sculptures during his spare moments.
Russell likely would have continued as an itinerant cowboy and amateur artist for the rest of his life had he not met a young woman named Nancy Cooper. In 1896, the couple married, and Russell's new wife began to guide him toward a serious career in art. Russell found there was a growing market, especially among wealthy East Coast residents, for images of the disappearing American frontier. By 1920, he was making frequent trips to New York to paint western pictures for an increasing number of supportive patrons.
Russell rarely painted or sculpted from models or from life, relying on memory to recreate scenes from the life he had experienced. He had no real art training and little interest in the formal aesthetics of art. Though critics often ignored or derided his work, the public loved it. Initially, Russell's paintings and sculptures documented his early life as a cowboy, but later in his career, he also began to depict scenes from the lives of American Indians and historical figures. Many of his later paintings express Russell's melancholy attachment to the unspoiled West and his dislike of the "progress" that had plowed under the Great Plains and fenced in the open range.
Russell spent his final years in Great Falls, Montana, where he continued to paint until his death in 1926.


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Mathieu Perreault moved onto the Ducks' top line to replace Getzlaf for Sunday's game against the Vancouver Canucks, skating between wingers Dustin Penner and Corey Perry. Frederik Andersen filled in for Hiller, who was too woozy to sit on the bench.
Instead of folding like a warm tortilla, the NHL-leading Ducks combined their ever-growing confidence with their customary skill to seize a 3-1 victory from the Canucks at the Honda Center. The Ducks (15-3-1) won their fifth consecutive game and improved to 8-0-0 on home ice.
Perry scored the Ducks' first goal thanks to a header that would have made Lionel Messi proud, assisted on their second strike, and later said this season is starting to feel a lot like 2006-07, when the Ducks bolted from the gates with a 12-0-4 mark en route to the Stanley Cup.
"You look around this room and there are a lot of new faces, but there are a lot of guys in here with a lot of character, who want to win, who want to prove (themselves)," Perry said. "So, they go out there each and every night and work as hard as they can."
Twenty-nine other teams in the league are trying do the same, but what has set the Ducks apart so far in 2013-14 is their winning combination of raw speed, exceptional skill and something new — a belief they can win in any manner against any opponent, no matter the circumstances.
"I think confidence comes into everything," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "I've been on teams before, whether playing or coaching, that when they believe they're always going to win, they've got a better chance than the team that doesn't."
When the Canucks outplayed the Ducks in the first period and rallied to tie the score 1-1 on Tom Sestito's first goal of the season at 14:09 of the second, there was no letdown. The Ducks stayed with the game plan and we were rewarded with Nick Bonino's go-ahead goal at 19:09 of the second.
Andrew Cogliano added an empty-net goal in the final minute and Andersen made 35 saves for his sixth victory in as many games, the first goalie in the NHL with wins in his first six games since Damian Rhodes of the Toronto Maple Leafs from March 22, 1991 to Dec. 2, 1993.
Perry's team-leading 11th goal gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead 8:30 into the middle period. He watched Francois Beauchemin's perimeter deflect off the skate of Vancouver's Jason Garrison, then off the shoulder of goalie Eddie Lack before he headed the puck to the ice.
Perry then swept it behind Lack.
"It's speaks to our resilience," Bonino said of outlasting the Canucks despite being outplayed at times and outshot by game's end 36-23. "We finally got a couple of goals and then we shut the door. You've got to win every way in this season, and we did it tonight."


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Christianity is the largest religion in the world with approximately 2.14 billion adherents (though other estimates show the numbers could be quite higher). A Christian is someone who follows the precepts of Jesus Christ. The foundation and principles of Christianity come from the New Testament of the Bible, along with its early history. During the life of Jesus, his disciples were exclusively Jews. After Christ's death, Gentiles or non-Jews were brought into service, which now dominate Christianity. His disciples were known among themselves simply as "brethren", "the faithful", "elect", "saints", or "believers." The name "Christians" was first given by the Greeks or Romans, probably in reproach, to the followers of Jesus ("little Christs").
The name "Christ" is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός, Christōs which means "anointed one," which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word משיח, Māshīakh ("Messiah"). The name "Christian" appears only three times in the New Testament. In Acts 11:26 it says that "the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch". Other mentions can be found in Acts 26:28 and 1_Peter 4:16 . "Christians" are now universally known by this name that characterizes them as followers of Jesus Christ, and distinguishes them from the multitudes without.
|Any candidate for conversion should believe that (1) God exists as a holy being before whom all humans are held morally accountable for their transgressions (sins); (2) the malady of sin is so deep and pervasive that any rectification of the problem must come from outside of our wounded and rebellious beings; (3) God, the loving and just author of salvation, sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, to live the prefect life we cannot live and to make atonement for our sin in order to provide the way of reconciliation between us and God; (4) the reality of this work was vindicated by Christ's unflinching obedience to the Father, his death on the cross and his death-defeating, life-affirming resurrection from the dead. The path of forgiveness and restoration is open to all, but only by faith alone and only through the finished work of Jesus Christ alone.[1]
Jesus Christ
- Main Article: Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (Hebrew: יהושע, Yehōshūaʻ; Aramaic: ישוע, Yēshūaʻ; Greek: Ίησους, Iēsous; Latin: Iesus; "Name means::YHWH is Salvation") is the Hebrew Messiah and the physical incarnation of God—the Son of God (meaning that he is God the Son, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, of the same essence of and co-eternal with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, but distinct in Person), who came to earth as a man, yet being both fully Man and fully God, to provide salvation and reconciliation by His death for the sins of mankind. He was born in the reign of Augustus Caesar (about 5 BC) in Bethlehem, Judea to the virgin Mary and was raised in Nazareth in Galilee by his mother and foster-father, Joseph, whom He followed in becoming a carpenter. He was executed by crucifixion in about April 34 AD, after condemnation by Pontius Pilate, the fifth procurator of Judea. Through Jesus' incarnation, life, death and resurrection He began what is now the largest religion in the world, Christianity.
John 1 refers to Jesus Christ as "The Word", as in "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us".
- Jesus is the Christ
- Jesus is the Son of God
- Jesus is the Creator
Christianity is founded upon the belief that Jesus Christ was sent to Earth by God, and that faith in His life, death and resurrection is where salvation lives. He suffered under Pontius Pilate and was crucified for the sins of the world.
Redemption / Atonement
Jesus is considered to be God Himself who not only suffered and was crucified, but that He also rose from the dead to atone for all the sins of mankind, thus making it possible for people, by accepting the free gift of salvation He offers, to gain eternal life. Christians believe that Jesus Christ is "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6 ), and that only by accepting His offering of salvation can one be accepted into heaven.
Eternal life in Heaven is the promise of the Crucifixion of Christ, and its testimony is found in the Resurrection. That event sparked a raging fire in the Apostles, that began a worldwide spiritual revolution, exploding in the events of the Upper Room (Acts 2 ).
Christianity, like all monotheistic religions holds to one sacred doctrine: God is one and there is only one God. During Biblical times, this view was in stark contrast to the polytheistic religions (many Gods) practiced by the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians.
The covenant established between God and Israel is reliant upon the recognition by His people that He is the one and only God, and strong warnings were given in the Old Testament against making and worshipping idols (a practice which was common at the time even among the Israelites) Leviticus 19:4 . The importance of this law is illustrated by it being the first command of the Ten Commandments given to Moses.
"You shall have no other gods before me." - Exodus 20:3
The New Testament echoes this central theme within Corinthians.
"we know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one." - 1Corinthians 8:4
It should be noted that the, "other gods" warned against here are not gods at all, but substitutes for God, or simply mythological beliefs that have been adopted by the Israelites from the surrounding pagan cultures.
- Main Article: Trinity
The Trinity of God is central to Christianity. The word "Trinity" is from the Latin Trinitas, meaning "threeness". Neither that word nor any equivalent occurs in the Bible, but the doctrine is logically derived from many statements spread throughout the scripture. It is used to describe a basic Christian belief based on the biblical teachings that one God is manifested as a Father, a Son and a Holy Spirit.
Christian Apologetics
- Main Article: Christian Apologetics
Christian apologetics is a branch of Christian studies dealing with the defense of the Christian faith which is a Biblical activity as advised and demonstrated in the Bible. For example, Peter wrote: "Always be prepared to make defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you" 1_Peter 3:15 . Making a defense of one's faith is a part of a Christian's spiritual duty. The word "Apologetics" comes from the Greek word απολογία, apologia translated as "defense". Apologetics is a defending of the faith, not the making of apologies as might be wrongly concluded from the English word "apologetics".
A good definition of the character and function of Christian apologetics can be found when Paul says: "We live in the flesh, of course, but the muscles that we fight with are not flesh. Our war is not fought with weapons of flesh, yet are strong enough, in God's cause, to demolish sophistries, and the arrogance that tries to resist the knowledge of God; every thought is our prisoner, captured to be brought into obedience to Christ." (2_Corinthians 10:3-6 )
The book of Job is an apologetics justifying God's dealings with man. In the face of opposition from his friends and family, Job shares the reasons for his loyalty and confidence in the Lord. He makes it very clear that the Lord of Israel was not like the gods of pagans around them; rather, the Lord of Israel is a faithful God who would never fail those who trust in Him.
Psalms 14 and 19 are also apologetic in character. Romans 1:20 adds apologetic confirmation by saying that the marvels of nature are enough to indicate the existence of an intelligent and all-powerful God. In Acts 17 Paul's message is another example of apologetics being used to preach the gospel to skeptical unbelievers.
Historical Context
- Main Article: History of Christianity
The Time of Jesus
When Jesus was born, the land of Israel had seen tremendous upheavals for hundreds of years. The Jews had surrendered to Alexander the Great without a fight in 332 BC. At first, life as part of the Greco-Macedonian Empire had been relatively pleasant, because Alexander had allowed the Jews to continue to live under their own laws. But with Alexander's death and the partitioning of his empire, the Seleucid kings began to impose Greek values on the people, a process called "Hellenization." The culmination of this was the disgraceful sacrifice of a pig in the Temple of Jerusalem by Antiochus IV Epiphanes. This prompted the revolt against Antiochus and all things Greek by Judas Maccabaeus in 165 BC.
But the political life of the Holy Land was far from settled. The arrival of the Idumaeans, and especially the family of the Herods, prompted a dispute between two priestly families. This left the land vulnerable to conquest when another great empire-building general, Pompey the Great, arrived in the Middle East, initially on another mission. Pompey captured the Holy Land and settled the disputes—his way. Naturally the people resented this imposition.
Rome itself would suffer its own upheavals that would affect the Holy Land as well, if only peripherally. Julius Caesar conquered Western Europe for Rome, and then in Rome's Civil Wars he destroyed all of his meaningful opposition and stood at Rome's head. Then in 44 BC he prepared to march in what would have been his greatest war of conquest—against the Kingdom of the Parthians, the successors to the Persian Empire. But on March 15 of that year, twenty-four Senators assassinated him. The Roman Empire plunged into renewed civil war for fifteen years. Herod initially made an alliance with Marcus Antonius but eventually pledged his loyalty to Augustus when the latter had defeated Antonius in battle and chased him to Alexandria, Egypt, where Antonius and Cleopatra VII committed suicide.
Social background
The Holy Land, now under Roman rule for six decades, was a restive and miserable place. The Romans did not collect their taxes directly; instead they hired local collectors, called publicani, to collect the taxes for them. These men had license to collect whatever they could and keep whatever the Romans did not command them to remit to Rome, and "tax collector" became a by-phrase for larceny and ethnic treason.
As bad as this was the festering ethnic rivalry between actual Jews and Samaritans, descendants of the peoples whom Shalmaneser V and his successors had relocated into the Northern Kingdom after conquering it many centuries before. The heightened nationalistic sentiment prevailing at the time led the Jews to despise the Samaritans even more and regard them as interlopers.
The priests of the Jews had divided into three prominent sects. The Pharisees were the "conservatives" of the era, strict observers of Jewish law and custom. The Sadducees were the "liberals" of their era, thoroughly Hellenized and no longer believing even in any spiritual concepts central to Judaism. The Essenes were a dedicated and sequestered community of archivists, and modern man has them to thank for the preservation of many Old Testament manuscripts among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Essenes retired from political debate, but the disputes between the Pharisees and the Sadducees were habitual and rancorous.
But by far the most salient sentiment of the era was Jewish nationalism. The Jews had been looking for their promised Messiah since Isaiah and Daniel made their prophecies. But they looked for this Messiah to be a political leader, one who would lead another Maccabee-like revolt, this time against Rome.
Life of Jesus
Jesus was born during the reign of Emperor Augustus, and in fact during one of three occasions when Augustus took a systematic census of all the Roman world. When Jesus was perhaps eighteen years of age, Augustus died of poison in his bed, and Tiberius succeeded to the headship of the Roman Senate and thus to the headship of state of the Roman Empire. Tiberius had been in office for fifteen years when Jesus was baptized and began His public ministry.
Jesus did not conform to the expectations of the people. He befriended tax collectors, and though He inspired them to abandon their dishonorable careers, the people still regarded Jesus' actions with suspicion. (One of those tax collectors, however, wrote the longest of the Gospels and the one most directly addressed to the Jews. His name was Matthew.) More to the point, Jesus gave no indication of planning to stir the people to revolt.
The Pharisees considered Jesus a direct Threat to their position of power and privilege. For that reason they were determined to destroy His credibility. Thus they instigated the chain of events that culminated in the Crucifixion.
The Resurrection caught the Pharisees completely off guard—so much so that they actually bribed Roman guards to confess to their superiors that they had been asleep on watch on the night that Jesus "disappeared"—an offense that would normally have been punishable by swift execution.
History After Jesus
The twelve apostles met with martyrdom in scattered parts of the ancient world, reaching India, China, and many other places. This, and the writings of church fathers that followed them that refer to official Roman records, attest to the reality of the events as related in what is now the New Testament.
Throughout the first three centuries there were many waves of persecution, under which Christianity spread, based on the eyewitness testimony of the Resurrection of Christ as reported by the apostles and five hundred others, and subsequently other miracles that followed them as promised signs.
These persecutions against all Christians ended with the ascendancy of Constantine to Emperor of Rome, which he credited to bearing the sign of the cross. Later centuries of course brought a mixed history of persecutions of some groups of Christians by others, but almost none reaching the scale of the Roman ones.
Saint Patrick, a Romano-British youth captured into slavery in Ireland, escaped after a vision of the boat that later returned him to his native Britain. After studying some years as a priest in France, he brought the message of salvation to Ireland. In one generation, the entire island abandoned its Druid practices of witchcraft, human sacrifice, and slavery, and turned to Christianity. This was typical of a history that was to be repeated many times again in later centuries.
Saint Patrick also brought literacy to the Irish, and with it an avid enthusiastic love for books that later reverberated back into Britain and then Europe, where waves of tribes from the east had devastated libraries and monasteries and burned books everywhere. These scribes saved many Greek and Roman writings which we still have today, and Charlemagne and other French rulers used their students to establish the centers of learning that became the universities of today. Groups of Christians also began ministries of care and healing in later centuries, which became the modern clinics and hospitals of today.
With Gutenberg's invention of the printing press making the Bible much more available to all, there built up a momentum of learning fed by a larger population of people writing and reading, that later provided a fertile base for the blooming of scientific inquiry. The best known example of this movement today is Isaac Newton, generally regarded even today as the foremost scientist who ever lived. There have been a great many other scientists, well known today, founders of fields of scientific inquiry, and creationists in the sense of a literal reading of Genesis One. See - historical creation scientists, for a list of other scientists from the time of the beginnings of modern science up to today who profess belief in the Genesis One account as the true story of the beginnings of the world.
Christianity followed European expansion throughout most of the second millennium. Where it went its influence generally meant an end to the immoral practices of many native groups, such as infant sacrifices, cannibalism, infanticide for convenience, and other behaviors now counted as taboo. In general, the establishment of the church by Jesus Christ facilitates the unified outcry against evil in the world by Christians. This can be seen throughout history, that Christians are a vital part in fighting for what is good. William Wilberforce, for example, dedicated his life to biblical principles and became one of the chief proponents for the abolishment of slavery. Such is the legacy with which Jesus Christ and Christianity has gifted the world.
- ↑ Douglass Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (IVP Academic 2011), pg. 40
- Prophecies Fulfilled by Christ Simply Christians Australia Bible Study Resource


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Design patterns are well-trusted and reusable paradigms that allow you to solve common problems present in software development. This is not the only benefit to using design patterns. Many design patterns have intuitive names that permit you to grasp fairly easily what they do or what kind of issue they attempt to address. This is especially useful when exchanging ideas and thoughts between members of a development team (or expressed in other terms, the so-called ubiquitous language, also present in domain-driven design).
A good example of a pattern whose name reflects quite faithfully the task that it performs is Registry, As you may have guessed, the implementation of a registry permits you to save a given resource, be it a string, an array or an object, to a predefined storage mechanism in a part of an application, later retrieve the resource at another point in the same application.
Due to its underlying logic, however, the registry pattern has always been the subject of heated debates. Many people, especially in the PHP field, see it as an elegant replacement for global variables, which is a bad, deprecated programming habit.
What's more, some have been even more rigorous in their judgments and consider the Registry to actually be an antipattern. Well, in my opinion there's no need to be that rude; indeed, a measured and conscientious implementation of a registry can be really beneficial in certain use cases. Anyway, my intention here is not to add more flames to the existing controversy; that would be pretty pointless.
Instead, it'd be useful to analyze the topic from a didactic point of view. With this premise in mind, in this article series I'm going to demonstrate how to implement the registry pattern in PHP. You'll be able evaluate the pros and cons and learn how to use it (when applicable) in your own object-oriented programs.
Ready to get your hands dirty and start learning how to create flexible registries in PHP? Then jump forward and start reading right now!
{mospagebreak title=Defining an abstract registry class}
As I said in the introduction, the goal of the registry pattern is simply to provide client code with a mechanism which allows you to save and retrieve resources across different points of an application. Even though its implementation in PHP (and other languages) may vary from case to case, in general creating a basic registry using an object-oriented approach demands that you build a class containing the methods required to perform the saving/retrieval tasks.
In consonance with the previous concepts, first I'm going to demonstrate how to apply the pattern in question by of creating an abstract registry class, whose concrete implementations (read: their eventual subclasses) will be tasked with storing and fetching resources by means of different persistence mechanisms.
Having said that, here's the definition of this abstract registry. Look at it, please:
abstract class AbstractRegistry
protected static $_instances = array();
// get Singleton instance of the registry (uses the 'get_called_class()' function available in PHP 5.3)
public static function getInstance()
// resolves the called class at run time
$class = get_called_class();
if (!isset(self::$_instances[$class]))
self::$_instances[$class] = new $class;
return self::$_instances[$class];
// overriden by some subclasses
protected function __construct(){}
// prevent cloning instance of the registry
protected function __clone(){}
// implemented by subclasses
abstract public function set($key, $value);
// implemented by subclasses
abstract public function get($key);
// implemented by subclasses
abstract public function clear();
If you closely analyze the above "AbstractRegistry" class, you'll see that it's nothing but a Singleton that defines a basic interface, whose methods must be properly implemented by all the concrete registries derived from it. I decided to make this abstract class a Singleton to restrict the point of access to each concrete registry; this small constraint, however, doesn't prevent them from being used globally at different points of an application. Again, a word of warning is in order here: due to the global nature of the pattern, it should be applied with caution and responsibility.
In addition, you may have noticed that the previous "getInstance()" method calls internally the "get_called_class()" function, available from PHP 5.3, which uses Late Static Bindings to determine at runtime which registry class should be invoked in a static context. This function makes creating hierarchy of Singletons a breeze, but if you still haven't made the upgrade to that version of PHP, you'll either have to implement this method within each concrete registry (a very annoying and inefficient approach) or make those registries non-Singletons.
So far, so good. With an abstract registry neatly accommodated on top of the hierarchy, we now need to derive a concrete class from this parent, which permits us to save and fetch resources from a specific storage mechanism.
With that idea in mind, in the following section I'm going to create a concrete registry that will save and retrieve a given resource from a plain array. To see how this whole new class will be defined, click on the link below and keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Building an array-based registry}
To be frank, building a Singleton array-based registry is indeed a straightforward process that can be mastered with minor hassles. Still not convinced of this? Well, in that case take a look at the definition of the following class, which hopefully will make your doubts vanish. Here it is:
class ArrayRegistry extends AbstractRegistry
private $_data = array();
// save new data to the array registry
public function set($key, $value)
$this->_data[$key] = $value;
// get data from the array registry
public function get($key)
return isset($this->_data[$key]) ? $this->_data[$key] : NULL;
// clear the state of the array registry
public function clear()
$this->_data = array();
There you have it. As you can see, creating a class that stores and fetches resources from an array is a painless task, one that you may have done many times before. In this case, this concrete registry not only implements the abstract methods declared by its corresponding parent, but it also inherits from it the "getInstance()" Singleton, thanks to the functionality of Late Static Bindings. That was really simple to grasp, wasn't it?
If you're planning to build a registry that fits more specific requirements, the one shown above should be enhanced accordingly by adding to it some constraints, especially within its "set()" method. For instance, you might want to make the registry only suitable for storing/retrieving objects; in a case like this, make sure to include the appropriate validation code into this method, and everything should work just fine.
Well, now that we have a concrete registry available for testing purposes, it's time to give it a try and see if it really works as expected. So, in the next segment I'm going to set up an example that will show the registry's functionality in a few simple steps.
To learn more about how this example will be developed, jump forward and read the lines to come.
{mospagebreak title=Putting the array-based registry to work}
Without a doubt, the best way to see how the previous array-based registry class does its business is by example. In consonance with this idea, below I coded a basic script that shows how to use the registry for saving the full name of a fictional user, and then for retrieving the data at a later point. Here's how this script looks:
// include source classes
require_once 'AbstractRegistry.php';
require_once 'ArrayRegistry.php';
// get Singleton instance of the ArrayRegistry class
$arrayRegistry = ArrayRegistry::getInstance();
// save some data to the array registry at one point of the application
$arrayRegistry->set('user1', 'Linda Smith');
// get data from the array registry at some other point of the application
echo 'Full name of user1 : ' . $arrayRegistry->get('user1');
Even though I have to admit that its logic is somewhat simplistic, the above example shows how to employ this sample array registry class in a pretty useful fashion. In this particular case, the resource being saved and retrieved at a later time is a plain string, but it's possible to do the same thing with other types of data, including arrays, objects and so forth.
Again, it's clear to see here that the registry pattern provides global access (with some restrictions) to one or multiple resources at different places in an application, so at the risk of being redundant, make sure to implement it only when you really need to take advantage of its functionality.
Feel free to edit and introduce your own improvements to all of the sample classes shown in this tutorial. In doing so, you'll acquire a better understanding of how to more efficiently apply the registry pattern in PHP using an object-oriented approach.
Final thoughts
In this first part of the series, I provided you with a basic introduction to implementing the registry design pattern in PHP. In this particular case I decided to accomplish this process by defining a simple hierarchy of classes composed of an abstract registry, and a concrete implementation of this, which uses a private array to save and fetch resources across different points of an application.
For obvious reasons, creating an abstract registry and deriving a single subclass from it is a pretty pointless process that doesn't take full advantage of the benefits offered by Inheritance. To address this issue, in the following tutorial I'm going to spawn yet another registry class from the parent, which will behave like a simple session handler.
Want to see how this brand new registry class will be created? Then don't miss the next part!


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By now you should know that the first beta versions of the Release 260 drivers for Nvidia-based video cards did also include beta support for the 3DTV Play software and with the recent release of the first 260.89 WHQL drivers it is now out of beta. Of course in order to take advantage of the additional 3DTV Play functionality you need to already have the 3D Vision glasses kit with the IR transmitter plugged in in a free USB port on your PC (laptop or desktop). But today Nvidia has officially announced the 3DTV Play software as well as it's future plans – how and with what it will be distributed, as well as when to expect the standalone release that will be sold to customers that do not own the 3D Vision kit.
What the 3DTV Play software does is to allow you to connect your computer to a 3D-capable HDTV by utilizing the HDMI 1.4 standard (and not yet the revised 1.4a version, but that is not an issue at all) and of course give you the opportunity to play 3D photos, 3D Videos and Movies and most of all play games in stereoscopic 3D mode on your big-screen television instead on a smaller 3D LCD monitor. Of course the software has some limitations, but they are implied by the HDMI 1.4 specifications fro stereo 3D content and the major one is the support for 1080p at 24 frames per eye and 720p at 50/60 fps per eye in stereo 3D mode. This is something that was built-in the stereo 3D specifications for the HDMI 1.4(a) standard as the 1080p resolution was meant for playing back 3D movies and for the gaming in stereo 3D you have to go for 720p (although you might play games in 1080p with 24 fps per eye too).
So the 3DTV Play software is available or going to be soon in three different ways:
1. As a free upgrade to the current owners of computers that also bought a 3D Vision kit and a 3D-capable monitor additionally for their computers, or who purchased a desktop or mobile computer with integrated 3D Vision support, because the 3DTV Play functionality is already built into the latest video drivers as I've already mentioned above.
2. Available with the purchase of a 3DTV Play PC, as the 3DTV Play software is going to be bundled on pre-configured PCs and notebooks that might not have a 3D-capable display, but can be used for 3D content if connected to a 3D-capable HDTV. For now these includes select Dell XPS notebook models, and home theater PC (HTPCs) models from ASRock and Zotac with more to come.
3. Available for purchase in mid to late November 2010 as a standalone product with a price of $39.99 USD. The 3DTV Play software will be available for sale next month at NVIDIA.com as an upgrade for existing PCs that include an NVIDIA GeForce GPU, but don't yet have a 3D Vision kit and don't want to purchase such as they are going to directly use a 3D HDTV as a 3D display.
As already mentioned, the Nvidia 3DTV Play software is going to be bundled with the new family of Dell XPS laptops announced today, which also includes high-performance NVIDIA GeForce 400M GPUs and battery-friendly NVIDIA Optimus technology. The new systems, which come in 14-, 15- and 17-inch screen sizes, provide a powerful multimedia system for consumers to enjoy their 3D content on 3D HDTVs.
"The new family of XPS systems provides the best sound and video ever offered in Dell laptops," said Sam Burd, vice president, Dell Consumer & SMB Product Group. "And now with the addition of NVIDIA's 3DTV Play software, we can bring the thrilling 3D experience to an entirely new market by enabling consumers to enjoy life-like, 3D entertainment in the comfort of their living rooms."
So, if you've postponed the purchase of a 3D HDTV like I did, until an easy to use solution to allow you to connect you computer to a 3D-capable television set, then you can say the wait is over (if you already use 3D Vision on a computer monitor) or almost over if you don't have the glasses and want to purchase the standalone version of the 3DTV Play software. As I'm in the first group, I'm yet again starting to check what offers for a 3D HDTVs are currently available, and while the availability of other 3D content is still lagging behind the PC games are going to be pretty much enough fro me for a while… ;)
– For a complete list of NVIDIA 3DTV Play software-supported 3D HDTVs and A/V receivers…


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2010-11 Season (Sophomore)
Played in three games ... Scored a season-high eight points against Vanguard (11/20/11).
2009-10 Season
Redshirted after transferring from San Diego State ... Named CSUN Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... During the Fall semester, Smith chalked up a perfect 4.0 GPA as a Kinesiology major.
San Diego State (Freshman)
A reserve guard who helped the Aztecs to an NIT berth in 2008-09.
Taft High School
During his senior season, helped lead Taft to a 29-4 overall record and a perfect 10-0 mark in the West Valley League ... Taft won the City Section title before losing in the CIF Division I regional semifinal ... The Toreadors finished the 2007-08 season ranked #4 in the Los Angeles Times Top 25 and #4 in the state of California by MaxPreps.com ... Was a McDonald's All-American nominee, a first team all-league pick and team captain ... Also an honorable mention all-state selection for two seasons ... Averaged 11.4 points per game during his senior campaign ... Posted 13 double-figure scoring games as a senior including four 20-plus point performances ... His top scoring effort during his senior season came against Los Angeles Manual Arts when he scored 25 points in a winning effort ... The team's leading scorer (15.0 ppg) during his junior campaign ... Also on all-league selection on the volleyball team.
Matador Memo
Born March 28, 1990 in Northridge, Ca. ... Parents are Marty and Neal Smith ... Has one sister (Kelley, 20) and one brother (Geoffrey, 22) ... Enjoys watching the Los Angeles Lakers ... His favorite athletes are Michael Phelps, J.J. Redick and Tom Brady ... Also enjoys the acting of Mark Wahlberg, Vincent Chase and Eva Mendes ... His favorite movie is The Sandlot, and his favorite television shows are Entourage, Prison Break and House ... Enjoys sushi and eating Subway sandwiches, but will not eat fast food ... Favorite musical artist is Eminem ... Transferred to CSUN from San Diego State to get a fresh start, be closer to home, compete in the Big West, and help the team go to the NCAA Tournament ... His greatest sports moment was winning the city championship over Fairfax HS at the Los Angeles Sports Arena ... The best athlete he ever played against was former UCLA guard Jrue Holiday ... His best friends from another college team are Garrett Green (LSU basketball) and Larry Drew (UNC basketball) ... The best thing about being a student-athlete, according to Smith, is the competition and the pressure to get better every day" ... The toughest part is "taking care of your body and preventing injuries ... If Bryce was NCAA president for one day, he would more clearly define "bubble teams" and clarify why certain teams get into the NCAA tournament ... His favorite website is YouTube ... The most famous persons he has met are Kobe Bryant, Will Smith and John Wooden ... The persons Bryce would most like to meet are Michael Phelps, Vincent Chase and Steve Nash ... Would most like to be stranded on a desert island with Mia Nunez ... Would like to switch places for a day with Tom Brady and Vincent Chase ... Would like to have dinner with Steve Nash and Phil Jackson ... If he was forced to listen to one CD for the rest of his life, it would be "NeYo: Year of the Gentleman" ... If he had a million dollars, he would "try to save it in the bank, but probably end up spending it on food" ... His advice to young people - "never give up, and do not let others limit your potential" ... Bryce says in the eighth grade he was ranked #2 in the country in the high jump ... The title of his autobiography would be - Work Harder Than The World ... Mark Wahlberg would be the lead actor if a movie was made about his life ...Bryce says he can't imagine going a week without eating at Subway ... Years from now, Bryce says he will still laugh about the time his girlfriend ran face first into a sliding glass door ... If he could change one thing about the world, it would be "to end racism" ... The biggest obstacle he overcame was "barely playing my sophomore year in high school, and becoming the leading scorer by my senior year" ... Always smiles when he sees his city championship ring ... His greatest hero is Tim Tebow ... Respects Tim Tebow because he is persistent and finds a way to lead and make plays despite not being the biggest, fastest or strongest ... Kinesiology major.
Bryce Smith - Career Highs
Points - 8 vs Vanguard (11/20/10)
Field Goals - 2 vs Vanguard (11/20/10)
3-Point Field Goals - 2 vs Vanguard (11/20/10)
Free Throws - 2 vs Vanguard (11/20/10)
Rebounds - 1 vs Vanguard (11/20/10)
Assists - 1 vs Vanguard (11/20/10)
Blocks - 0
Steals - 1 vs Vanguard (11/2/10)


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American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields
by Rowan Jacobsen
–Reviewed by Christine C. Chen
If foodies have "organic," "local" and "slow," then wine-lovers can claim "terroir" as their buzzword. Yet the use of terroir needn't be so restricted. In American Terroir, James Beard Award-winning author Rowan Jacobsen brings the concept out of the wine cellar and onto the table.
As with so many other things in the gastronomic galaxy, the English-speaking world adopted the term from the French, who had more than just geography and geology in mind when they coined it. Terroir, from the Latin for "earth," signifies more than "a taste of place." It also conveys "a partnership between person, plant, and environment to bring something unique into the world." Terroir is more than just the soil in which the grapes are grown or the village which lends its name to a wine; it's the fullest, most concentrated expression of a person's interaction with the land on which he or she lives.
Jacobsen explores the concept of food terroir in twelve lively chapters that each focus on a particular food – from the humble apple to the exotic oyster – the environment that creates it, and the people who grow and produce its most prized, sought-after incarnations. "Coax" and "craft" might be better at describing the process. As Jacobsen emphasizes throughout, the creation of such ambrosial food does not require human interference or tinkering, but rather, it requires an awareness of and respect for place, and for the plant or animal. To adopt a one-size-fits-all approach – to produce mass quantities of Red Delicious apples or generic Iowa potatoes – is to ignore the very essence of the food.
Not every plant or animal thrives under the same conditions, even those conditions we tend to think of as ideal – good light and rich soil. There turns out to be a surprising connection between struggle and excellence among plants. Grapevines and sugar maples often produce superior wine and syrup under poor soil conditions, which force the plants and trees to concentrate their scant resources and develop large root systems that can absorb more minerals, and hence more flavor.
This insight has implications for more than just taste. As Jacobsen shows, by understanding how a living thing adapts to a place, we come to understand ourselves as inhabitants as well. It's difficult to think of the hardy sugar maple without thinking of the hardy people who have carved out a life in harsh northeast climes, and Jacobsen keeps them in mind. But he also knows that American identity is only partly about roots. In describing that most American of fruits – the apple – and its long journey from the mountainous forests of Central Asia to the arid eastern plains of Washington state, Jacobsen writes, "It makes an important point about terroir: Mimicking nature is not always the goal, (as Europe's winemakers learned long ago). Sometimes, like William Faulkner, a thing achieves its best expression in its native landscape. Sometimes, like Cormac McCarthy, it has to head west to find itself."
Jacobsen is hardly the first to broach the subject of artisanal and local food, although he might be the most unpretentious. His message is a simple reminder that we should pay attention to where our food comes from, not necessarily from faddish motivations or environmental concerns – although the environment certainly benefits when we buy what's in season locally. Food simply tastes better, he shows, when it doesn't come in a shrink-wrapped package shipped from halfway across the world. Jacobsen isn't concerned with the socioeconomic issues raised by what he calls "good eating." The accessibility and affordability of such food for the average consumer is beyond the scope of his book. His book is, he writes, a romance about good eating, and what makes eating good, and most of all, a love story about our vast and varied land.
Buy the Book: Skylight, Powell's, Amazon, Borders
Further Reading: A Geography of Oysters by Rowan Jacobsen and Four Fish by Paul Greenberg.
Christine C. Chen teaches humanities at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is also a professional violinist.
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The infant's first few hours of life were marked by an episode that left many in the community shocked.
A newborn girl who was supposed to be left at a DeBary fire station because her mother didn't want her, but instead was rescued by a newspaper carrier, has been in state custody for the last few weeks, a spokesman with the Department of Children & Families said.
DCF spokesman John Harrell said he cannot divulge the whereabouts of the child — dubbed "Baby Doe" — for her own safety, but said the 6-week-old girl was in good health after having stayed at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Orlando for several days after her birth Dec. 16.
The infant's first few hours of life were marked by an episode that left many in the community shocked because the 53-year-old man that was dating the baby's mother told deputies that he had found the child wrapped in newspaper at the door of a DeBary convenience store in 40-degree weather.
The story unraveled after Ralph Garlick was interviewed by deputies and people learned that the infant's mother simply didn't want her and had asked Garlick to leave the girl at a fire station or hospital, an act that is permissible by Florida statute.
The baby, however, was rescued by a News-Journal carrier driving to his route when he was flagged down by Garlick on South Charles R. Beall Boulevard in DeBary.
Garlick — who had wrapped the baby in his own shirt — told carrier Anthony Ackeridge that he had just found the infant. He asked Ackeridge if he had a phone so he could call for help. Ackeridge, who was in his minivan, told Garlick to get inside and he turned on the heater. Then he called 9-1-1 and a deputy responded. The baby was taken to the hospital and the case was referred to DCF.
When deputies interviewed Garlick, he admitted that he had fabricated the tale about finding the infant at the door of a convenience store. He told investigators that his girlfriend did not want the baby after delivering her earlier that morning in the bathroom of a friend's apartment where they had been watching a football game the night before.
The child's mother asked Garlick to take the baby to a fire station or a hospital. Florida law states that unwanted newborns may be left at a fire station, hospital or emergency medical station, without legal repercussions. The law is called Safe Haven.
Garlick said the friend whose apartment the baby was born in drove him to the fire station at 93 S. Charles R. Beall, but then left him and the newborn there. Garlick said he knocked on the doors and windows of the firehouse, but no one answered. He then wrapped the infant in his own shirt and started walking in the cold along South Charles R. Beall looking for help.
DCF spokeswoman Carrie Proudfit said at the time that if Garlick had left the girl at the fire station as allowed by state law she would have gone straight to an adoption agency and given to a family. However, because of the strange set of circumstances that developed and Garlick's story about finding the child at the convenience store, the baby was placed in DCF custody. She said dozens of people inquired about adopting the baby.
Volusia County sheriff's deputies charged Garlick with providing a false report to law enforcement and resisting arrest without violence, court records show. A not guilty plea was entered by Garlick at his first appearance. He has not been formally charged by the State Attorney's Office.


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Vote for Babe of the Month – Dessie, Destiny, Wendy, Mikki, Courtney, Bethanie
We've got a cluster of beauties with lower back problems (you know, 'cause of their boob-busting bosoms) for Babe of the Month.
Dessie Mitcheson wowed us at the end of April with her lengthy resume of beauty contests and bikini pics, but will she be able to blow us away again? Don't forget we've also got Mikki May, who might have been born to be the babe for the month of May.
Then there's Destiny Monique, who's "destiny" it might be to win; Wendy Fiore with a chest capable of giving people black eyes; Courtney Walker and her skills at modeling bikinis; and finally Bethani Badertscher, our latest Babe of the Week.
Which of these ladies has what it takes to represent Babe of the Month? As always, take a closer look at the contestants by clicking on their photos below, and be sure to vote for your favorite in our poll.
Dessie Mitcheson
Destiny Monique
Wendy Fiore
Mikki May
Courtney Walker
Bethanie Badertscher
Here's the deal: At the end of the week, each Babe of the Day will compete for your votes and the winner will become Babe of the Week. Each week's winner will then face off to become Babe of the Month, and those winners will then duke it out for – you guessed it – the Babe of the Year title. Only those lucky ladies will be inducted into GuySpeed's Hall of Fame, an honor reserved for the hottest of babes.


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BOSTON — Mayor Thomas Menino and team officials have announced plans for a celebration on Saturday of the Red Sox' World Series championship.
Players will climb aboard the amphibious duck boats at Fenway Park at 10 a.m. The so-called ''rolling rally'' will travel down Boylston Street and will also be on the Charles River for a time.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced plans to increase commuter rail service into Boston for fans traveling to the parade by train, excluding service on lines that do not normally run on Saturdays.
Additional trains will depart Fitchburg at 6 a.m., 6:50 a.m. and 7:40 a.m. and Worcester at 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.
The Red Sox, Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins and New England Patriots have all celebrated previous championships with duck boat parades in the last decade.


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Schurter, Fumic and Hermida use SRAM XX1 and AVID XX to take Gold, Silver and Bronze in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa at the 2013 UCI World Championships.
As Pietermaritzburg hosted the first ever Mountain Bike World Championships held in Africa, Nino Schurter (Switzerland - Scott Swisspower) defended his rainbow jersey with a commanding victory that gave him his second consecutive XC Elite Men's World Championship title. Schurter, who has dominated the 2013 World Cup season, led the race right out of the start, establishing a clear gap to his closest competitors that no one would be able to close.
Manuel Fumic (Germany - Cannondale Factory Racing) and Jose Hermida (Spain - Multivan Merida) would closely battle it out behind Schurter for the entire race. Recovering from an early season injury that left him out for the majority of the World Cup, Fumic would slowly grow his lead in the later part of the race eventually finishing a marginal 14 seconds ahead to claim the silver medal, with the 2010 World Champion Hermida joining Schurter and Fumic in celebration right at the finish line. Schurter's victory marks the second World Championship title for SRAM XX1, and the first ever podium sweep by athletes racing on XX1 and Avid XX brakes.
The XC UCI World Cup has one more round in the series that will take place in Norway on September 14th. Schurter, who leads the World Cup series will surely be ready to defend his overall lead in hopes of becoming the World Cup Champion once again.
Elite Cross Country Men:
1st - Nino Schurter (Switzerland - Scott Swisspower) - SRAM XX1, Avid XX
2nd - Manuel Fumic (Germany - Cannondale Factory Racing) - SRAM XX1, Avid XX
3rd - Jose Hermida (Spain - Multivan Merida) SRAM XX1, RockShox SID, Avid XX
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Pennsylvania girl, 12, survives being swept through flooded drainpipe
FRACKVILLE, Pa. -- A 12-year-old eastern Pennsylvania girl is home from the hospital with bumps and bruises after being swept several hundred yards through a flooded drainpipe.
Taylor Russell, of Frackville, says she was checking out flooding at the drainpipe late Monday. She didn't notice a drop in the ground and got pulled under.
She tells WNEP-TV it was "just scary, dark, scary." She says she held her breath the whole time, afraid she would drown.
Police and public works officials told The Republican-Herald in Pottsville the girl was underground in the pipe for about 200 yards before emerging into Little Mahanoy Creek. She was washed several hundred more yards downstream before her rescue.
The girl says she came out of the pipe thinking, "somebody pinch me, I'm still alive."


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Quincy Amarikawa landed in Denver from California at 9:30 a.m. local time on Friday morning, kicking off one of the longest days of the 22-year-old's brief soccer career.
The newest Colorado Rapids forward was traded from San Jose on Wednesday and worked out with the club for the first time Friday, then returned to the airport to join the club on its flight to Kansas City.
The Rapids put their unbeaten record on the line against the Wizards on Saturday night.
Amarikawa is unlikely to walk into a starting lineup that possesses two of the league's better forwards in Omar Cummings and Conor Casey. But after a stint with San Jose that saw him gradually fall down the pecking order before he was shipped out of town, he's content to know where he stands in Denver.
"In some ways, it's better to know your role rather than be kept dangling," he said. "The San Jose coaching staff wanted to get in more veteran players. I am looking forward to learning from [Casey and Cummings]."
Though he's not a projected starter now, he could get a shot up top this summer. With Casey possibly going off to the World Cup and the potential injuries that usually befall teams during the season, there will be opportunities.
"I'm really competitive and I think I work really hard," Amarikawa said. "I don't care if we're down 10-0 or up 3-0, I just love to play."
Just how much he will play remains to be seen, but he appears to be a genuine option off the bench in Kansas City and beyond.
Fellow new signing Claudio López, with whom Amarikawa trained Friday, could end up playing together with Amarikawa for some part of Tuesday's U.S. Open Cup game at Kansas City. Rapids coach Gary Smith has said that López could play a role for a half-hour or so against his old team next week.
López didn't travel with the team Friday as his visa processing continues and as he battles back to match fitness.


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The Kansas City Flying Disc ClubWhen: Monday Evenings Sign-up at 5:00pm Tee Time 5:30pmWhere: Rosedale Disc Golf CourseWhat: A free Developmental League for players of all Skill levels, including Women and young adults.If you've ever wanted to play Disc Golf in an organized setting but, didn't think your skills where up to Par then this is the league for you. This league is geared towards developing your skills in a competitive setting while having a good time. We will be recording everyone progress with scores and averages so you can see how you improve. It is open to anyone and everyone, with prizes for most improved average, most attendance and other fun prizes. There is no cost to play, however we will have a season long ACE pot that is an optional $1. Come join us this year starting March 10th 2008 at 5:00pm and visit www.kcfdc.org for more details, or contact Steve Harris at 816-985-1884.
New players league has been moved back to Monday nights. I will be out at the course Monday, March 12 at 5:00pm to start things off unofficially. I will be getting people out as fast as I have a card to start them. Yes, the sun will be setting around 7:30 but we still have approximately 30 minutes of twilight to finish the round or, because it is unofficial, decide to call it a night. We may even just start off with some random draw doubles. We had some great numbers last year and I hope to build on that this year. I have some ideas that should make this year even better than last year, but the only thing I can post right now is more mini clinics.


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Author: Emma Lang
Series: #1 in the Circle Eight series
Review copy donated by author
A man learns to hold what is his
It is a vast spread in the eastern wilds of the newly independent Republic of Texas, the ranch their parents fought for … and died for. To the eight Graham siblings, no matter how much hard work or hard love it takes, life is unthinkable without family…
In the wake of his parents' murder, Matthew Graham must take the reins at the Circle Eight. He also needs to find a wife in just thirty days, or risk losing it all. Plain but practical, Hannah Foley seems the perfect bride for him . . . until after the wedding night.
Their marriage may make all the sense in the world, but neither one anticipates the jealousies that will result, the treacherous danger they're walking into, or the wildfire of attraction that will sweep over them, changing their lives forever
I've been a fan of Emma Lang's writing since I discovered her stuff under her other name (Beth Williamson), but until now, I hadn't actually picked up any of her books. So when she offered up ARCs of book 3 in the Circle Eight series on Twitter, I jumped on the opportunity. As a bonus, since I hadn't read the previous 2 books in the series, she sent me signed copies. So while I was in bed this past weekend, feeling sick and sorry for myself, I dug into book 1.
It was to me the ultimately comfort read and by that I mean, it went down easy – there wasn't a lot of conflict within (although some of the females, especially Olivia were major brats – or insert other expletive here) and there was a satisfactory conclusion – although, I do feel that everything was figured out early in the series – I had kind of hoped to see the mystery behind Matthew's (et al's) parents death continue through a couple of books, rather than being solved at the end of this one. However, the mystery behind the missing brother still needs to be solved, so maybe that will be the common plot through-out.
I liked the romance between Matt and Hannah – it was sweet with a mail-order/marriage of convenience theme that seemed common in the time period that the book was set in. Hannah's grandmother was a hoot – I can't wait to see her in future book (or at least, I hope she is in future books). The introduction of Brody (who it appears is going to be the hero in the next book was intriguing – I mean, you have to have the darkly handsome, stand-off-ish law enforcement type).
I would note, however, that in a few places that language and writing just felt a bit forced – like it didn't really flow. But it is hard to place it. I don't know – just something that I noticed – will be interested to see if I notice anything similar in the next book. Overall, I would give Matthew 3 stars with a recommendation to anyone who likes historical romances with a western theme.


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Deadline to back Cardinals in voting near
ST. LOUIS -- With the deadline for All-Star fan voting quickly approaching, Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter is still very much in the mix to join teammates Yadier Molina and Carlos Beltran among National League starters.
In the latest All-Star voting results, released on Tuesday, Carpenter (3,186,423 votes) is within reach of the top spot, currently occupied by Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips (3,411,839). Carpenter leads the NL with 33 multihit games this season and is second on the team in batting with a .322 average.
ST. LOUIS -- With the deadline for All-Star fan voting quickly approaching, Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter is still very much in the mix to join teammates Yadier Molina and Carlos Beltran among National League starters.
In the latest All-Star voting results, released on Tuesday, Carpenter (3,186,423 votes) is within reach of the top spot, currently occupied by Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips (3,411,839). Carpenter leads the NL with 33 multihit games this season and is second on the team in batting with a .322 average.
Fans can cast their votes for starters at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- online or via a mobile device -- using the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot until Thursday at 10:59 p.m. CT.
Molina and Beltran are not only tops among NL catchers and outfielders, respectively, but both lead all NL vote-getters, with Molina in first at 5,093,645 votes and Beltran not far behind at 5,013,806. Beltran appears to have run away in the outfielder race, with the nearest player, Colorado's Carlos Gonzalez, trailing by more than 2 million votes.
With 2,697,608 votes, Holliday has climbed into contention for the third outfielder spot. Holliday is fifth, behind the Nationals' Bryce Harper (2,902,393), the Braves' Justin Upton (2,917,659), Gonzalez and Beltran.
Cardinals Allen Craig and David Freese remained in third place at first base and third base with 2,525,399 and 2,376,121 votes, respectively. Craig needs more than 1 million votes to catch Reds first baseman Joey Votto.
Pete Kozma maintained the fourth spot at shortstop, and Jon Jay came in at 11th in the outfield.
For a fourth straight week, every St. Louis position player is represented on the ballot's leaderboard. If Carpenter is able to surpass Phillips by Thursday's deadline, the Cardinals will have three starters, more than any other NL team. They are currently tied with the Reds and the Rockies, with two starters apiece.
Fans may submit 25 online ballots during the voting period but can also earn a one-time bonus of 10 additional online ballots. To access these additional online ballots, fans must be logged into an MLB.com account when submitting any online ballot. To obtain an MLB.com account, visit www.mlb.com and register in accordance with the enrollment instructions for a free MLB.com account.
Fans can also once again participate in the Home Run Derby Fan Poll. Fans will have the opportunity to select three players in each league whom they would most like to see participate in the Home Run Derby. The 2013 Home Run Derby -- part of Gatorade All-Star Workout Day -- will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Radio in the United States beginning at 7 p.m. CT on Monday, July 15.
Rosters will be unveiled Saturday at 5:30 p.m. CT on the 2013 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show presented by Taco Bell. The show will be televised nationally on FOX.
From Saturday through Thursday, July 11, be sure to return to MLB.com and cast your 2013 All-Star Game Final Vote Sponsored by freecreditscore.com for the final player for each League's All-Star roster.
And the voting doesn't end there. The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday, July 16. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.
(as of July 2)
Joey Votto, Reds 3,622,608
Paul Goldschmidt, Diamondbacks 3,035,114
Allen Craig, Cardinals 2,525,399
Brandon Belt, Giants 1,804,152
Freddie Freeman, Braves 1,494,604
Brandon Phillips, Reds 3,411,839
Matt Carpenter, Cardinals 3,186,423
Marco Scutaro, Giants 3,142,783
Daniel Murphy, Mets 1,598,297
Chase Utley, Phillies 1,355,750
Troy Tulowitzki, Rockies 4,072,834
Brandon Crawford, Giants 2,383,248
Jean Segura, Brewers 2,072,083
Pete Kozma, Cardinals 1,867,781
Andrelton Simmons, Braves 1,192,066
David Wright, Mets 4,452,282
Pablo Sandoval, Giants 3,610,096
David Freese, Cardinals 2,376,121
Chris Johnson, Braves 1,234,095
Ryan Zimmerman, Nationals 1,072,563
Yadier Molina, Cardinals 5,093,645
Buster Posey, Giants 4,674,847
John Buck, Mets 1,446,565
Miguel Montero, Diamondbacks 997,791
Brian McCann, Braves 997,322
Carlos Beltran, Cardinals 5,013,806
Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies 2,928,606
Justin Upton, Braves 2,917,659
Bryce Harper, Nationals 2,902,393
Matt Holliday, Cardinals 2,697,608
Andrew McCutchen, Pirates 2,510,614
Hunter Pence, Giants 2,379,606
Ryan Braun, Brewers 2,331,774
Angel Pagan, Giants 2,016,370
Shin-Soo Choo, Reds 1,960,385
Jon Jay, Cardinals 1,825,513
Carlos Gomez, Brewers 1,746,318
Gregor Blanco, Giants 1,717,194
Jay Bruce, Reds 1,454,721
Domonic Brown, Phillies 1,427,696
Chad Thornburg is an associate reporter for MLB.com.