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|For the gang featured in Grand Theft Auto V, see Ballas (HD Universe).
- ― Ballas member.
- "Wears color purple. Thought to denote respect on the streets. Or is it Roman? Origins shrouded in mystery. Heavily involved in cocaine trade. Thought to be developing ties with Mexican gangs (drugs) and Russian Mafia (weapons). Lawless, mindless. Attempts to infiltrate have mainly failed. Thought to be uncontrollable."
- ― GTA San Andreas Official Website.
The Ballas are a gang featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. They appear as the secondary main group of antagonists in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, serving as the primary threat and becoming the main enemies of the game.
The Ballas have been around since the 1970s[1] Specific information regarding where or how they formed is unknown. However, it is likely that the Ballas evolved either from Glen Park or Jefferson since Idlewood and possibly Willowfield were controlled by the Grove Street Families prior to 1987 and since East Los Santos was split between the Grove Street Families and the Vagos prior to 1992.
The Ballas have a history of a traditional, intense, and bloody rivalry with the Grove Street Families. Specifically when the gang war started is unknown, but the rivalry between the two gangs was in full swing as early as 1987.
Prior to 1992, the Ballas used to control the area of Temple - which is under control of the Temple Drive Families in 1992. This is evidenced by the fact that the game references a fourth Ballas set known as the "Temple Drive Ballas". Graffiti referring to the Temple Drive Ballas can also be found in Temple. However, the Temple Drive Ballas become active again after the Grove Street Families are weakened and took back their former territory of Temple from the Temple Drive Families.
During 1992, the Ballas attempted to assassinate Grove Street Families leader Sean Johnson ("Sweet") in an attempt to take over Grove Street territories. Using a green Sabre, the Ballas performed a drive-by shooting on the Johnson House. However, instead of killing Sweet, the Ballas instead killed his mother, Beverly.
Events of GTA San Andreas
By 1992, the Ballas are the largest and most powerful street gang in Los Santos, and control most of the streets of Los Santos with the Grove Street Families being driven back to Grove Street itself and a few surrounding neighborhoods. The Ballas become major influential players in the crack-cocaine business in Los Santos and establish ties with the Loco Syndicate, Big Smoke, the Vagos, and the San Fierro Rifa for narcotics (especially cocaine). The Ballas also establish ties with the Russian Mafia for weapons. Despite their business relationship with the Vagos, they will still react with hostilities on the streets. It is possibly only the higher-ranking OG's of the Vagos and the Ballas are involved in the business relationship.
The Ballas (in addition to Big Smoke) maintained a large influence over their Grove enemies by distributing crack cocaine into their territory to weaken them. However, upon the return of Carl Johnson, the Ballas and their drug influence slowly deteriorate and the Grove Street Families slowly gain back power and influence over them as the player progresses throughout the early missions.
The player is first introduced to the Ballas during the introduction, in which C.R.A.S.H. dumps CJ in Jefferson which is enemy gang territory since it belongs to the Rollin' Heights Ballas. The player must travel to Grove Street safely. Thereafter, CJ and Big Smoke meet up with Sweet and Ryder upon attending the funeral of Beverly Johnson. After the funeral ends, the Ballas attempt a drive-by shooting on the remaining OG's but are only successful at destroying Big Smoke's car. The remaining OG's successfully travel back to Grove Street on bike while avoiding the Ballas car.
One of the main strategies that the Ballas use against the GSF is the spread of crack-cocaine in GSF neighborhoods such as Ganton and Grove Street, Big Smoke is also partly responsible for this. The spread of crack into GSF territory is part of their strategy to wipe the Families out. Spreading the drug into their territory turns gang bangers and potential gang bangers into hopeless addicts while influencing the OG's with the money that can be made from the drugs - drawing them away from the Grove Families and gang banging, and more into selling/pushing (this is especially the case with ex-Grove OG B-Dup who is supplied with crack-cocaine from the Ballas).
The first loss that the Ballas experience (especially the Front Yard Ballas) is that one of their main crack houses in Idlewood is destroyed by CJ and Ryder for the Grove Street Families in an attempt to decrease the crack influence in their neighborhoods.
The Kilo Tray Ballas attempted a retaliation drive-by shooting as revenge for the destruction of the Front Yard Ballas' Idlewood crack house and the attack of the Balla dealers during the previous "Cleaning the Hood" mission. However, CJ, Sweet, Big Smoke, and Ryder catch them on the way to Grove Street from Willowfield as they were coming out of a drive thru at the local Cluckin' Bell restaurant. They are able to destroy the Ballas car and kill the Ballas during a shoot-out/car chase. Much to the dismay of the other OG's, Big Smoke plays no part in destroying the car and is more concerned with eating his food - providing one of the early in-game hints of Smoke's true relation with the Ballas.
The Ballas eventually suffer a major loss (especially the Rollin' Heights Ballas and Kilo Tray Ballas) at the hands of a retaliation drive-by shooting from Sweet, Big Smoke, CJ, and Ryder during the mission Drive-By.
The Ballas eventually lose their dominant position and adopt a more equal position with the Grove Street Families when CJ is ordered by Sweet to take over Glen Park (Kilo Tray Ballas stronghold) for the Grove Street Families. Little Weasel (ex-GSF member and a high-ranking Ballas OG and drug dealer) is also killed by CJ.
In retaliation for the Glen Park gang war and the destruction of the Kilo Tray Ballas during the mission Doberman, the Ballas attempt their own gang war right on Grove Street. Fortunately, Sweet, CJ, and many other Grove members are able to defend their territory.
A Ballas weapons deal with the Russian Mafia at a Willowfield warehouse is then crashed and disrupted by CJ (who is tipped off by C.R.A.S.H.) CJ is able to kill the Russian Mafia shot-caller of the deal - which suggests a possible (but only temporary) end to the arms dealing relationship between the Ballas and the Russian Mafia.
Yet again, the Ballas suffer another loss when CJ, Sweet, and other Grove Street members engage with the Ballas in a large shoot-out at the Vinewood Cemetery during a Ballas funeral. In particular, many high-ranking OG's die at the funeral and the Front Yard Ballas suffer a major hit when a well-respected OG called Kane is killed at the cemetery.
After a gang war between the Ballas and Grove Street Families, Sweet is gunned down and arrested. CJ is forced to abandon his city of Los Santos, and is dumped in Angel Pine by C.R.A.S.H., while being told to stay away from Big Smoke and Grove Street. At this point, Big Smoke and Ryder have completely defected against the GSF and moved into the crack-cocaine trade full-time. This leaves the Grove Street Families with no leader or OG's, and many members either die during the gang war or are in hiding. The Ballas then control the entirety of what had been Grove Street territory - including Ganton and Grove Street itself, Santa Maria Beach, Temple and Playa Del Seville (in addition to re-capturing back Glen Park). The Ballas then cement their control over the area of Grove Street by distributing crack cocaine through the area again, which is further fueled by their drug/supply and protection relationship with Big Smoke's cocaine empire. The Ballas and the Vagos then control all the gang territories in Los Santos.
During this stage of the game, the Ballas become the most powerful and dominant gang again, which they maintain throughout the rest of the game's middle story while building on their business relationships with Big Smoke's crack empire, the San Fierro Rifa, the Loco Syndicate, and the Russian Mafia. They are also hired by Big Smoke to provide protection in return for crack-cocaine and money (as are the Los Santos Vagos).
The Ballas make no major presence and have no more significance in relation to the game's story for the rest of the middle game chapters. However, the Ballas do make one minor appearance during one of the middle game missions. During Pier 69, CJ, Cesar Vialpando, and the San Fierro Triads ambush a drug deal between Ryder (on behalf of Big Smoke) and the Loco Syndicate in San Fierro. Ballas gangsters make a presence during this mission to provide protection for Ryder. CJ and Cesar are successful at disrupting the drug deal and Ryder is killed. For the rest of the middle part of the game, the Ballas make no more appearances until the "Return to Los Santos" missions/chapter is unlocked towards the end of the game.
Following the release of Sweet from prison (due to Mike Toreno's actions) and the return of CJ, the Grove Street Families win back their territory from the Ballas (specifically Ganton, Glen Park, and parts of Idlewood) during the missions Home Coming, Beat Down on B Dup, and Grove 4 Life and put an end to the remaining drug influence in Grove Street by killing the dealers. That same year, the Crack Palace operated by Big Smoke is destroyed and Smoke is killed in the final mission, End of the Line, causing the Ballas to lose a lot of drug influence on the streets. If the player chooses, they can take over all of their territories in Los Santos (as part of the gang war mini-game), completely wiping out the Ballas for good.
The Ballas are an African-American street gang based in Los Santos. Most of their territory can be found in the poorer/run-down neighborhoods to the far east of the city. They are involved in gangbanging, gang warfare, street violence, prostitution, gang-related homicide, murder, drug trafficking/manufacturing (especially the crack cocaine trade), gun-running/arms trafficking, vandalism, and degeneracy. They are easily identifiable by wearing purple clothing as their gang color.
They are the Grove Street Families' sworn enemy. They are enemies with all sets of the Families and the rivalry has been going on for several years as part of the Ballas-Grove Street War. The Ballas are also enemies with the two Los Santos Mexican/Latino gangs - the Los Santos Vagos and the Varrios Los Aztecas, though the rivalry is not as intense as it is with the Grove Street Families. It is unknown why their feud with the Mexican gangs exist, though it is likely that the Aztecas and Ballas (especially the Front Yard Ballas) developed a rivalry due to the close proximity of their territories (Willowfield/Idlewood and El Corona/Unity Station).
Despite their rivalry with the Los Santos Vagos on the streets, influential members from the Ballas and the Vagos maintain a business partnership for the interest of money and drugs. Both gangs provide protection for Big Smoke's Crack Empire.
The Ballas have ties with the San Fierro Rifa, Big Smoke, and the Loco Syndicate for narcotics (mainly crack cocaine), and the Russian Mafia for weapons. The Ballas also collaborate with C.R.A.S.H. Unlike the GSF, the Ballas have no reservations about making money by selling drugs; the spread of crack cocaine into the Grove Street community is part of their strategy to wipe the GSF out.
Like all gangs in GTA San Andreas, the Ballas have three skins that walk and drive around their territories.
- The first member wears a black beanie, a purple ProLaps jacket, beige khaki pants, sunglasses and black and white hi-top sneakers and when looking closely using a camera, he seems to have facial hair.
- The second member is overweight, wears a purple bandanna, a Chore Coat (similar to what ex-GSF member B Dup wears), black jeans and white sneakers.
- The last member wears a purple bandanna, white T-shirt, purple khaki shorts, knee high white socks and sandals.
On the streets, they are either unarmed or carry a Micro Uzi sub-machine gun or a 9mm pistol and in some missions, Pump Action Shotguns, AK-47s, MP5s, baseball bats, and Tec-9s. During a gang war, the Ballas also carry the MP5, Pump Action Shotgun, Baseball bats, and the AK-47 assault rifle in addition to the 9mm pistol and the Micro Uzi. They are often seen smoking marijuana and drinking malt liquor. They will also often flash Balla gang hand signs while talking and hanging around in groups. Ballas will often get into violent confrontations upon spotting a Grove Street, Azteca, or Vagos gang member (especially for Grove Street members) in addition to posing a threat to Carl if he is spotted walking or driving through their territory (especially if wearing green clothing). Sometimes (especially if CJ is not wearing green), Ballas may ask where he is from. If the player chooses to respond positively, CJ will announce that he is from Grove Street and the Ballas will start attacking. Hanging around or driving through their territory can be dangerous and they will often aim at the car's tires and pop them if Carl is driving. Also, when the Ballas members spotted Carl driving along with Sweet, Big Smoke or Ryder (during the missions Ryder, Tagging Up Turf, Nines and AKs etc.), they'll chase down Carl's vehicle and will start to shake, tackle or kick it while throwing some insults, in an attempt to make Carl exit his vehicle.
There are four sets of Ballas:
- The Front Yard Ballas (FYB) Territory located in Idlewood and a part of East Los Santos
- The Rollin' Heights Ballas (RHB) Territory located in Jefferson, a part of East Los Santos, and a part of Willowfield
- The Kilo Tray Ballas (KTB) Territory located in most of Willowfield and in Glen Park
- The Temple Drive Ballas (TDB) (largely defunct/inactive, controlling only Verona Beach, makes a minor return and takes Temple and Santa Maria Beach from the Temple Drive Families after completion of The Green Sabre)
Each set is differentiated into different territories and neighorhoods. Apart from this, they are all the same and are all represented under the "Ballas" banner, all wear purple attire, are all enemies of all Grove sets, and are all heavily involved in the drugs trade. All sets are also strongly allied throughout the events of San Andreas - unlike the Grove sets at that beginning of 1992.
The Front Yard Ballas are the largest and most active set. The Front Yard Ballas are also Los Santos' most notorious drug dealers, the primary enemy of the Grove Families. The FYB are also the primary source of spreading drugs into Grove Street territory from their crack houses in Idlewood.
The Ballas employ a drug/hit strategy to wipe out their main enemy - the Grove Family sets (especially the Grove Street set). This strategy involves the Front Yard Ballas supplying their territory with large amounts of drugs (mainly crack cocaine) to weaken them, while the other sets perform hit and run tactics such as drive-by shootings.
The Ballas primarily make money by selling drugs (especially crack cocaine) - which they primarily get from the San Fierro Rifa, the Loco Syndicate, and Big Smoke. They then use this money to acquire various weapons; primarily from the Russian Mafia. Any remaining drug supply is then sold to other dealers who have no gang affiliation in the Grove territory in an attempt to weaken them (as it would be too dangerous for a Balla to sell in enemy territory).
In addition to being a regular street gang, the Ballas are also hired by Big Smoke to provide protection for his drug empire in exchange for money and crack cocaine. This protection duty is one exception in the game where the Ballas and Vagos cooperate with each other despite being enemies on the streets.
Gang Cars
Although they are seen with Voodoos in some missions (IE Sweet & Kendl and Drive-Thru), the Ballas only have two gang cars, the Tahoma and the Majestic. The Tahoma is a lowrider and sometimes appears with Hydraulics. The Ballas prefer to use the Tahoma for drive-by shootings due to its four-door capability as opposed to the Majestic which is only a two-door vehicle. In the mission Catalyst they use also a Greenwood which is unusual as it's the Grove Street Families gang car. In the mission Los Sepulcros they use a unique black and blue Greenwood for backup. On one very important occasion the Ballas use a green Sabre to murder Beverly Johnson in a drive-by shooting. In the Sabre and Voodoo's Cases, it is implied that they used these cars to avoid too much suspicion. The Ballas' favorite radio station is Bounce FM.
Terms and Slang
- Ball-sack/Ball-sacks: Disrespect term
- Ball-Pushers: Disrespect Term
- Ball-Suckers: Disrespect Term
- Ball-less: Disrespect Term
- Balla: Greeting
- OG/Original Gangster: A high-ranking, influential and well-respected member. One who has put in a lot of work.
- GK/Grove Killer/Grove Killa: Disrespect term used by Ballas for Grove Families
- VK/Vago Killer/Vago Killa: Disrespect term used by Ballas for Vagos
- AK/Azteca Killer/Azteca Killa: Disrespect term used by Ballas for Aztecas
- RHBK/Rollin' Heights Balla Killer/Killa: Disrespect term used by other gangs for the Rollin' heights set specifically (seen as non-interactive graffiti only)
- Homie/Home Boy/Home Girl: Contemporary street slang - refers to a friend
- Hood: Neighborhood
Members and Associates
- Kane: High-ranking OG of the Front Yard Ballas set. (deceased)
- Little Weasel: Former member of the Grove Street Families before joining the Kilo Tray Ballas in Glen Park. Drug dealer. (deceased)
- Big Smoke: Hires Ballas for protection and security for his cocaine empire, also supplies them with crack-cocaine (deceased)
- Ryder: Hires Ballas for protection and security and works with Big Smoke's cocaine empire (deceased)
- B-Dup: Hires Ballas for protection and security for his drug-trafficking operations.
- C.R.A.S.H.: Provides street intelligence (all deceased)
- Loco Syndicate: Enters business relationship for narcotics/drugs (all deceased except Mike Toreno)
- Alan Crawford: Former manager of gangsta rapper Madd Dogg. Claims to know Ballas OG's and that they are "like brothers". (deceased)
- Dope: Crack-cocaine dealer and addict. Supplied by the Ballas. Sells crack-cocaine in Grove Street during the later stages of the story.
Mission Appearances
- Introduction
- Sweet & Kendl
- Tagging Up Turf
- Cleaning the Hood
- Drive-Thru
- Drive-By
- Catalyst
- House Party
- Doberman
- Los Sepulcros
- The Green Sabre
- Pier 69
- Ice Cold Killa
- Home Coming
- Beat Down on B Dup
- Grove 4 Life
- End of the Line
- In "The Introduction" there is a scene where Ballas gang members are in an alley near Grove Street smoking marijuana, discussing Grove Street's weakening and that they'll become the top gang in Los Santos. One of them pulls out a bag of crack and says that "this shit changes everybody, even OG's wanna slice of this!". The members have very different facial appearances (while wearing similar clothing) than Ballas in the game.
- One of the aforementioned Ballas members that wears the white tee and holds the crack bag looks very similar to the in-game Grove Street member that wears the green jersey and black hat. The GSF member's facial appearance also slightly changes in mission cutscenes looking exactly like the mentioned Balla member. This could mean that either he was switched at the last minute to GSF during game development or that he's implied as a snake and contributed to Sweet falling into a trap and causing GSF to fall out.
- Their rivalry with GSF is based on the rivalry of Los Angeles gangs the Bloods and Crips. Violence hit a peak in Los Angeles in the early-nineties due in part to the crack cocaine epidemic.
- The Ballas gang member with the purple shirt, the black beanie and black glasses resembles the car jackers that killed Kane's cousin in "Menace II Society".
- When CJ wears a full green attire representing the Grove Street (as said by Sweet after the completion of Nines and AKs "Go get yourself some family colors".), Ballas gang members in the area will immediately attack CJ when seen and would comment on his green attire, and whenever CJ's in a vehicle they will also attack it. Unarmed Ballas members, however, will just simply run away whenever they see CJ.
- The Ballas were originally going to be called The Flats.[2] *The beta Ballas dressed different than they did in the final version.
- The first member wore a white T-shirt, purple khaki shorts with white knee-high socks and sandals - much like one of the members in the final version does. However, he did not wear a purple bandana on his head and his White T-shirt was tucked into his shorts. He also sported a thick goatee.
- The second member was slightly overweight, wore a purple sweater, purple khakis, a purple bandana on his head, another purple bandana tied around his face, and white sneakers.
- The third member wore a purple plaid/flannel jacket, gray khakis, a black beanie, sunglasses, and white sneakers. He also had more noticeble facial hair. At some point, his beanie was recoloured to a bright purple.
- The Balla skin with the white T shirt, purple khaki shorts, purple bandana, and knee-high white socks/sandals originally also wore a chain around his neck in addition to a bracelet/watch. This was quite a late skin and Rockstar likely removed the chain and bracelet for some reason just before the final phase of development finished.
- There was also an additional three Balla skins featured in "The Introduction".
- The first member wore a white T-shirt, a gold leaf chain, purple khaki shorts with knee-high white socks and sandals, a backwards black baseball cap and facial hair. His head was taken from the third Grove Street member.
- The second member was slightly overweight, wore a dirty purple chore coat, black jeans, a forwards dirty purple baseball cap, and white sneakers. His head was borrowed from Bogman's model.
- The third member wore a purple jacket, a forwards purple baseball cap, beige khakis, white sneakers, and had facial hair. His head was borrowed from Dope's model, with the green baseball cap being recolored to purple.
- Sometimes, a pedestrian will drive a Balla vehicle. He may look normal, but Grove Street will shoot at his vehicle and blow it up. If the ped dies, he will drop a Micro Uzi. He also appears if the Ballas have no more turf.
- Their name is a play on the street slang term "baller" which means a thug that has made it big-time.
- Balas (without an 'l') means bullets in Portuguese and Spanish, which does make sense, considering they are a gang.
- The Ballas are based on The Bloods, but their gang colors are based on The Grape Street Crips.
- If the player recruits a Ballas gang member after enabling the recruit anyone into your gang cheat and starts a gang war, the recruited Ballas gang member will instantly attack the player. (you can do this to any San Andreas gang.)
- Also, the recruited Ballas member will ask CJ if where's his turf or if he's gangbanging and if CJ replies positively, the recruited Ballas member will instantly attack him. This also applies to other rival gang members.
- After the mission The Green Sabre, Ballas have all of Grove Street Families' territories, same with Los Santos Vagos that have taken over Los Aztecas' territories but during Home Coming, Sweet and CJ get their turf Ganton again.
- The Ballas and Grove Street Families are based on Heart of Midlothian F.C. (who are actually maroon) and Hibernian F.C. (who are green) respectively. Hearts and Hibs are both soccer teams based in Edinburgh, Scotland who have a great rivalry. Edinburgh is also the location of Rockstar North, which is why they chose these two teams.
- Interestingly, the Ballas will be neutral to CJ when he is doing the Pimping missions, even if they are hostile to him already. They won't shoot at his car or chase after hím. It is unknown why are they neutral to the player while he is doing these missions. It is possible that this is done to make the mission easier. This is also the case with the Vagos.
- ↑ GTASanAndreas.net Gangs page. GTA Net. Retrieved on February 9, 2007.
- ↑ data/pedgrp.dat> BALLAS1, BALLAS2, BALLAS3 # Gang 1 (BALLAS - Rival Black Gang - AKA FLATS)


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This lost landscape, where hunter-gatherer communities once lived, was swallowed by rising water levels at the end of the last ice age.
University of Birmingham researchers are heralding "stunning" findings as they map the "best-preserved prehistoric landscape in Europe". This large plain disappeared below the water more than 8,000 years ago.
The Birmingham researchers have been using oil exploration technology to build a map of the once-inhabited area that now lies below the North Sea - stretching from the east coast of Britain up to the Shetland Islands and across to Scandinavia.
"It's like finding another country," says Professor Vince Gaffney, chair in Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics.
It also serves as a warning for the scale of impact that climate change can cause, he says.
Human communities would have lost their homelands as the rising water began to encroach upon the wide, low-lying plains.
"At times this change would have been insidious and slow - but at times, it could have been terrifyingly fast. It would have been very traumatic for these people," he says.
"It would be a mistake to think that these people were unsophisticated or without culture... they would have had names for the rivers and hills and spiritual associations - it would have been a catastrophic loss," says Professor Gaffney.
As the temperature rose and glaciers retreated and water levels rose, the inhabitants would have been pushed off their hunting grounds and forced towards higher land - including to what is now modern-day Britain.
The rising water levels began to remake the coastline. "In 10,000 BC, hunter-gatherers were living on the land in the middle of the North Sea. By 6,000 BC, Britain was an island. The area we have mapped was wiped out in the space of 4,000 years," explains Professor Gaffney.
So far, the team has examined a 23,000-sq-km area of the sea bed - mapping out coastlines, rivers, hills, sandbanks and salt marshes as they would have appeared about 12,000 years ago.
And once the physical features have been established, Professor Gaffney says it will be possible to narrow the search for sites that could yield more evidence of how these prehistoric people lived.
These inhabitants would have lived in family groups in huts and hunted animals such as deer.
The mapping of this landscape could also raise questions about its preservation, says Professor Gaffney - and how it can be protected from activities such as pipe-laying and the building of wind farms.
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Donors' frustration with GOP mounts
Republican donors were horrified in November after pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigns for president and Congress with nothing to show for it. A year later they're appalled by how little has changed, angered by the behavior of Republican lawmakers during a string of legislative battles this year capped by the shutdown, and searching for answers.
In conversation after conversation, donors express growing frustration with the party and the constellation of outside groups they've been bankrolling. After getting squeezed last year by an array of campaign committees, party committees and disparate super PACs, many of them are still sitting on their checkbooks — a worrisome sign for the party with the 2014 midterm elections fast approaching.
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Some donors are looking to take matters into their own hands.
( WATCH: Who won the shutdown? Top 5 quotes)
New York City GOP mega-bundler Paul Singer has held a series of informal, and a few very formal, discussions in recent months with other extremely wealthy donors about how best to spend their cash in 2014, including debating the idea of forming a new entity to play a serious role in the midterm races. Its focus would be on improving the quality of Republican candidates in the hopes of avoiding more Todd Akin-like candidates who blow eminently winnable races.
"He wants to win," one donor who attended a session said of Singer. The donor stressed that the hedge fund billionaire's meetings, like other informal gatherings among the monied class this year, were taking place well prior to the government shutdown.
Still, some donors think the reluctance about giving among their ranks may have reached an inflection point over the way a number of Republicans in Washington acquitted themselves the past few weeks.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP blame game: Who lost the shutdown?)
Donors and business leaders, whose words used to carry great weight with candidates ever worried that the money spigot might be turned off, now face a new reality. It's a Frankenstein syndrome of sorts, in which the candidates they've helped fund, directly or indirectly, don't fear them, and don't think they need them.
Many business leaders are exasperated by their diminished influence among congressional Republicans since the 2012 election, and by the rising clout of groups like the Senate Conservative Fund, which have run ads against incumbent Republican senators for not taking enough of a hard line on the shutdown.
Where there is agreement — as is the case with donors who believe the Republican National Committee should be shored up — there is also dissatisfaction with the slow pace of progress.
At issue is not just the shutdown, but legislative battles earlier this year, such as the stymied attempt at immigration reform. Several Republican donors said watching that effort run into headwinds among conservative House members, combined with the tortured standoff over the government shutdown and potential debt default, had left a sour taste in their mouths.
Some expressed frustration that the national party has not taken a strong stand. That sentiment extends to the RNC, whose chairman, Reince Priebus, wrote shortly before the shutdown that he would "stand with Ted Cruz any day" against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
Fred Zeidman, a Texas-based bundler who supported Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, is among those who don't want to give to party committees right now.
"Why do I want to fuel a fire that's going to consume us?" he asked.
Singer, meanwhile, is considering a do-it-yourself approach.
( Also on POLITICO: Assessing shutdown damage)
At a meeting convened by the executive of 30 to 40 donors over dinner in New York City late last month, major donors discussed how to prevent a repeat next year of the devastating 2012 cycle. One idea broached is to form a new entity — probably not a super PAC — that could be a driving force in midterm races, according to sources familiar with the discussions.
Harold Hamm, a onetime energy adviser to Romney, was among the meeting's participants, who were strongly encouraged to keep the discussions confidential, according to two sources. People familiar with the meetings stressed that no decisions have been made, and that these were among a number of discussions various groups of donors have held over the past 10 months.
Despite his business background, Singer's issue is not with the tea party per se — he has been a major donor to the Club for Growth, which has backed Cruz, a progenitor of the movement to defund Obamacare — but with the GOP at large losing race after race.
Singer is also still a major supporter of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, hosting events for it recently. But the committee has been struggling mightily since 2012, outraised by its Democratic counterpart and hit even harder amid the shutdown.


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[Intro: Consequence]
Man, I know a nigga seen me how my Timbs was leanin kid
I got cursed or somethin man but
Wasn't even like that kid, it's just
It's just the trials and tribulations you go through in life
Ain't nothin kid, ain't nothin a soldier can't handle, y'knahmean?
Uhh, uhh, uhh, uhh
[Hook 2X: Consequence]
Cause yo, who knew my luck would change?
Who knew my luck would change?
I thought a year from now, it be like here and now
And no one would hear me now, hear me now
Listen, I used to have to stay in this clogged up basement
Now I'm gettin calls just for product placement
They say that song "Spaceship" gave my career a facelift
Now I'm on the comeback trail to make a statement
Cause who I put my faith in ain't no four-leaf clover
Or if your birthday fall between June and October
So I don't read no horoscopes or go to astrologers
Or clutch a rabbit's foot when I'm Twist'n like Oliver
While others grab tarot cards and shuffle the deck
I'd rather hit the road hard and go hustle a check
It wasn't nothin to 'Quence, when them haters didn't wish me well
Cause now they all throw me they money like a wishing well
And when I slipped and fell, it ain't made me superstitious
It proved my prayer changes, now I got that Coupe edition
But they all figured only way he make a Porsche cruise
Is if I ate blue diamonds, pink hearts and horseshoes
[Hook] + Tony Williams singing and ad libbing
Now if you knew my situation probably thought a mirror shattered
Or mighta even said that I had walk beneath a ladder
'Til I made 'em envy/N-V me like the initials for Nevada
But once you turn to God, none of that should even matter
But to see how niggas scatter when I lost my cash
You woulda swore, a black cat had crossed my path
They either lost my math, or I missed they call
But now I see right through 'em like a crystal ball
If it was up to y'all, I would never get discovered
But I chose to evolve and got myself up out the gutter
But they tryna pull me back, the way they did to others
Who told us grip the pole and dance, say bread and butter
Well you tell them motherfuckers, so much for the jinx
Cause now we're Loius Vuitton dressed shirts from Pink
And if they had to nerve to think that I would ever give up
Well homie let 'em know that they shit out of luck
[Hook] + Tony Williams singing and ad libbing
Sing it
[Tony Williams - repeat 2X]
Who knew, that my luck would change
Who knew, that my luck would change
I got cars, I got cribs among other things
But this here's from the heart so my love won't change
Who knew, that my luck would change
Who knew, that my luck would change
I thought a year from now
No one would hear me now
[Hook] + Tony Williams singing and ad libbing
[Tony Williams]
Who knew...
Off of Don't Quit Your Day Job. Explains how his luck changing was really due to his hard work, persistence and faith.
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An auction May 13 in eastern Colorado of 2,984 acres proved interesting in terms of how the auction developed. The farm featured 1,932 acres of dryland cropland, 55 drip-irrigated acres, 830 acres in CRP and 111 acres of pasture and a 10-acre farmstead. Fifty percent of the mineral rights were reserved by the sellers for 10 years.
The bidding was active, states auctioneer Marc Reck, Reck Agri Realty & Auction, Sterling, Colo., who handled the sale. There were 74 in attendance and another 34 viewing the auction on line. There were 26 registered bidders. The bidding went 12 rounds between the parcels, combos and the single unit. The single unit buyer purchased the entire unit by upping his bid $10,000 above the combined bids of the parcel and combo buyers.
In terms of valuation, based on the top bids for various parcel and combos, 326 acres of dryland cropland reached $1,535 an acre, 487 acres of dryland cropland reached $1,540 an acre and 1,297 acres of dryland cropland reached a value of $1,326 an acre. The CRP parcels ranged from $984 to $1,083 an acre.
Total selling price was $3,840,000 or about $1,287 an acre. The buyer was a local farmer. Interestingly, the single unit buyer then allowed a neighbor of his who had been bidding on a quarter section next to his property to buy that property at his last high bid. In addition, the father's children, who are actively farming with their dad, are buying several of the parcels as well.
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Gary Anthony Williams & Lauren Cohan open the season with Let's Make a Date, Dubbing, What's in the Bag and Living Scenery.
Games include Scenes from a Hat, Song Styles, Sideways Scene and Helping Hands with Heather Anne Campbell & Kevin McHale.
Keegan-Michael Key & Candice Accola guest for games like Hollywood Director, Song Styles, Dating Profile and Living Scenery.
Skits include Weird Newscasters, Props, Dubbing, Sideways Scene and Helping Hands. Jonathan Mangum & Kyle Richards play.
Special guests Jeff Davis, Mary Killman & Mariya Koroleva play Hollywood Director, Duet, Forward Reverse and Sideways Scene.
Weird Newscasters, Songs, Newsflash, What's in the Bag and Living Scenery are played by Heather Anne Campbell & Lisa Leslie.
Keegan-Michael Key performs in Questions with Wigs, Sideways Scene, What's in the Bag, Scenes from a Hat and Helping Hands.
Funny guests Jeff Davis & Laila Ali play games including Scenes from a Hat, Dubbing, Props, Greatest Hits and Helping Hands.
Nyima Funk & Maggie Q have a zany time hosting Hollywood Director, Dubbing, Newsflash, What's in the Bag and Helping Hands.
Hosts Jonathan Mangum, Chloe Butler & Monique Gaxiola play Hollywood Director, Duet, What's in the Bag and Scenes from a Hat.
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Tricia Butynskyi is the site manager for Good Shepherd Physical Therapy-Macungie, located at 6465 Village Lane, Suite 5, in Macungie, Pennsylvania. With 11 years of clinical experience, Tricia has successfully treated a wide variety of neck, back, hip, knee and shoulder injuries, as well as arthritis, neurological disorders and work- and sports-related conditions. Tricia received her bachelor's degree in general science, her master's degree in physical therapy and her doctorate in physical therapy, all from College Misericordia.
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While owning a business was once considered a men-only undertaking, entrepreneurship is now quite gender-neutral.
There were 7.8 million female-owned businesses in the United States in 2007, when the most recent Census' Survey of Business Owners was conducted. That's up more than 20 percent since 2002 and nearly 45 percent since 1997.
The National Women's Business Council reports that the growth rate has been twice as fast as that of male-owned businesses, and in the decade between 1997 and 2007, female-owned businesses added about 500,000 jobs while other privately held firms lost jobs.
The National Women's Business Council released new data this month showing that the number of women awarded federal patents and trademarks, often considered an indicator of entrepreneurial activity, is also growing at a rapid pace.
Eighteen percent of all patents went to women in 2008, compared with 14 percent a decade earlier and just 9 percent 20 years before, while the share of trademarks granted to women also increased dramatically, nearly doubling within a 30-year span.
To get to this point, there have been a number of women entrepreneurs who helped pave the way for today's female innovators. In honor of Women's History Month, here's a rundown of some famous companies that boast female founders.
Cisco— Co-founded by Sandra Lerner
Sandra Lerner founded what would become technology giant Cisco alongside then-husband Len Bosack, after the pair was unable to email each other from offices in different buildings while working together at Stanford University. Lerner's desire to connect with her beau led to them designing the multi-protocol router — the platform that launched Cisco in 1984.
While she was eventually ousted from the company in 1990, Lerner reportedly walked away with $170 million from the sale of stock options. She went on to start Urban Decay, a cosmetics company, and today she's running a certified organic and humane farm in Virginia.
Flickr— Co-founded by Caterina Fake
At age 35, Caterina Fake, who had worked as the art director for Salon.com, founded the popular photo-sharing website Flickr in 2002. The site was actually an offshoot of a game Fake was developing with Stewart Butterfield, her husband at the time. While the game quickly went bust, the photo-sharing technology they designed was a hit.
In 2005, Fake and Butterfield sold Flickr to Yahoo for a reported $35 million in cash and stock options. Fake has since co-founded the website Hunch, a site that makes recommendations based on detailed user preferences, and been named to the board of directors of the handmade online marketplace Etsy.
Liquid Paper — Founded by Bette Nesmith Graham
Liquid Paper was the brainchild of executive secretary Bette Nesmith Graham, who in the 1950s began using white, water-based tempera paint and a thin paintbrush to cover her typing errors. She sold her first bottle, originally called Mistake Out, in 1956. Graham later patented the must-have officeproduct and renamed it Liquid Paper.
After starting out with just 100 bottles a month in sales, Liquid Paper was selling 25 million bottles a year when Graham sold it for a reported $47.5 million in 1979. She passed away six months later at age 56. (And, yes, the rumors are true, she was the mother of Mike Nesmith of The Monkees).
The Body Shop — Founded by Anita Roddick
After trying her hat at running a hotel and a restaurant, Anita Roddick started The Body Shop in 1976 in England to create a livelihood for herself and her two daughters while her husband was traveling the globe.
The bath-and-body-product concept caught on, and she opened a second shop within six months, and soon launched the The Body Shop's franchise program, which has opened stores all across the world.
The company went public in 1984 and in 2006, 30 years after its founding, Roddick sold The Body Shop to L'Oréal for a reported $1.4 billion. Today, there are more than 2,500 stores in 61 different countries.
Ruth's Chris Steak House — Founded by Ruth Fertel
Following a career that included teaching and horse training, Ruth Fertel mortgaged her house in 1965 to buy a little restaurant, Chris Steak House, on the corner of Broad and Ursuline in New Orleans. A fire ravaged the restaurant in 1976, forcing her to open in a new location under a new name, Ruth's Chris Steak House.
That same year, Fertel agreed to let Tom Moran, a regular customer, open the first Ruth's Chris franchise location. Today, there are more than 130 company and franchise-owned locations around the globe.
Fertel, who passed away in 2002 at age 75, sold her majority interest in the chain to private equity firm Madison Dearborn in 1999 for an undisclosed amount.
PC Connection— Co-founded by Patricia Gallup
Seeing a significant business opportunity in the emerging personal computer industry, Patricia Gallup and co-founder David Hall established PC Connection in 1982. Using their personal savings, the duo purchased $8,000 of inventory for their direct computer supply business and placed a small ad in Byte Magazine. The ad worked, sparking a company that would grow to more than $1 billion in sales by 1999.
The company went public in 1998 and trades today on the Nasdaq Exchange. Gallup, who remains the chairman of PC Connection, has appeared on Fortune Magazine's list of top young entrepreneurs and for three years has been named to Working Woman's list of the top 50 women business owners in the United States.
Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc.—Founded by Maxine Clark
Maxine Clark came up with the idea for Build-A-Bear Workshop after shopping with a 10-year-old who questioned why she couldn't just make her own stuffed toy when she couldn't find one she liked. Clark turned the idea into a business when she opened the first Build-A-Bear Workshop in St. Louis in 1997.
Today, more than 400 stores worldwide have churned out more than 100 million furry friends. Clark, who remains the company's "Chief Executive Bear," was inducted into the Junior Achievement National Business Hall of Fame in 2006 and named one of the 25 Most Influential People in Retailing by Chain Store Age in 2008.
Proactiv — Co-founded by Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields
Classmates studying dermatology together at Stanford University, Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields felt strongly about finding a better treatment for acne because both of them had lived with it at some time in their lives. After starting separate practices, the pair noticed the problems acne posed for people of all ages. The realization led them to start working on a new way to treat facial blemishes. Over a five-year period, Rodan and Fields developed a comprehensive acne skin care system, Proactiv Solution, which combines acne medicine with soothing botanicals to create an acne-fighting system designed to leave skin smooth, clean and clear.
The product, which has found success via 30-minute television infomercials, has become the top-selling acne medication in the U.S. Fields and Rodan are now working on their next project, a line of anti-aging skincare called the AMP MD System, which is currently under patent review.
Discovery Toys— Founded by Lane Nemeth
Former preschool teacher Lane Nemeth founded Discovery Toys in 1978 after becoming frustrated that she wasn't able to purchase the same educational toys that day care centers had access to. Using a $5,000 loan from her grandmother, Nemeth purchased her first batch of toys to start the direct sales company.
Over 22 years, Nemeth grew Discovery Toys into a company with $100 million a year in sales and 40,000 sales representatives.
She sold the toy company to Avon in 1997 for an undisclosed sum. Since then, she has gone on to start another direct sales company, Petlane, which offers products for all kinds of pets, including rabbits, birds and ferrets, with an emphasis on natural ingredients.
Chad Brooks is a Chicago-based freelance writer who has worked in public relations and spent 10 years working as a newspaper reporter and now works as a freelancer business and technology reporter. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter @cbrooks76.
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Matt is a writer, director and actor who grew up near Cleveland, OH. At an early age, he realized his natural talent for making others laugh. Throughout his school years, he made classmates and friends laugh, earning his reputation as "class clown" and "Most likely to be on SNL." He honored this reputation ever since the time he purposely fell down the steps in front of a lunch mom that reported him to the principal, to the time he conducted "fart fests" during Iowa Tests. Matt began writing at an early age, winning various awards for his short stories, as well as producing a monthly comic book with a classmate. After earning his bachelor's degree in marketing at John Carroll University in 2003, Matt founded his website, ClevelandClowns.com, and really began focusing on his comedy career and showcasing his talents. He began by performing stand-up and sketch comedy at various comedy clubs around Cleveland. He also started producing, directing, writing and acting in his short films, working as an on-camera & voiceover actor for animation, commercials, TV and films, and also writing feature films & TV pilots. In early 2007, Matt and his wife relocated to LA with plans of gaining more exposure in the comedy world. While in LA, he attended the famed Second City and IO West and has since relocated back east to Wilmington, NC.
Matt's next major career goal is to write and direct a full-length feature comedy film. He gets his inspiration from prominent comedians, directors, writers and producers of the past and present, including Bill Murray, Trey Parker, Chris Farley, Oliver Stone, Denis Leary, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, The Coen Brothers, The Farrelly Brothers, John Hughes, Tom Hanks, Quentin Tarantino, John Candy, Frank Capra, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ivan Reitman, Dan Akroyd, Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Jack Black, Tex Avery & Harold Ramis among others.
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Toby Keith offers his daughter some fatherly advice on singing.
Kelly Clarkson gushes to People about her new love.
The Lumineers take a moment to consider how far they've come.
Willie Nelson takes viewers behind the scenes of "A Horse Called Music."
The Mountain Music Project finds connections between Appalachia and Nepal.


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The residency team is pleased to announce the draft release of the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror v7.2 for AIX Updates, SG24-8278 publication which provides details on the latest features and updates of IBM PowerHA SystemMirror v7.2.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX
Chapter 2. IBM PowerHA SystemMirror v7.2 for AIX new features
Chapter 3. Planning considerations
Chapter 4. What's new with IBM Cluster Aware AIX (CAA) and Reliable Scalable
Clustering Technology (RSCT)
Chapter 5. Migration
Chapter 6. Resource Optimized High Availability (ROHA)
Chapter 7. Using the GLVM Configuration Assistant
Chapter 8. Automation to adapt to the Live Partition Mobility (LPM) operation
Appendix A. SCSI reservations
Appendix B. PowerHA: Live kernel update support
The draft can be found at the following website:
Recent demonstration videos:
Video #1 - PowerHA 7.2.0 w/Live Kernel Update Support Demo
Video #2 - Rootvg failure detection of PowerHA for AIX v7.2
I would like to announce the opening of the next IBM PowerHA residency to continue architecting, exploring, and developing content on high availability and challenging business continuity requirement scenarios. The goal for this residency is to continue to develop technical content to:
1. Convince you, if you have not adopted PowerHA yet, to consider it for your next IBM Power System and applications high availability requirements.
2. Help you understand, use, deploy and manage your PowerHA environments, convince you to think about upgrading your PowerHA version to take advantages of the latest features.
3. Provide you with the most comprehensive technical documentation, complementing the IBM PowerHA manuals to help you keep your environment highly available.
The residency announcement including time table, requirements, and nomination form can be found at the following website:
Note: Your feedback is welcome. Thus I am collecting feedback for the residency team on high availability topics that lack documentation taking into account the current line up of IBM PowerHA Redbooks and Redpapers available at the IBM Redbooks website: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
What is the best way to get an accurate prostate biopsy when you do not have a rectum due to surgery for colitis?
Alan J. Wein, MD, Professor and chair of the Division of Urology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Chief of Urology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
In patients who do not have a rectum a prostate biopsy can be done by using an ultrasound probe to visualize the prostate and guiding the needle which is inserted through the skin of the perineum (area between the scrotum and anus). The ultrasound probe is generally applied either just above the pubis or against the perineum. It is helpful to have a radiologist or an urologist who is experienced in this procedure to obtain optimal results.


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Few can identify with the greatness of a running back the way Jim Brown can.
And Brown said Wednesday that what Adrian Peterson's doing now is nothing short of a "miracle."
The Hall of Fame running back, in an interview with Brian Murphy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, said he's still as impressed with Peterson's character, and his ability to come back from last year's knee injury, as any feat on the field.
"I think — of course, like everybody else that has eyes — he is doing a tremendous job and he's showing so many things about greatness," Brown said. "One of them is that a man like Adrian, he has overcome a very devastating injury, and to come all the way back from that to do what he's doing now just shows so much character because it takes hard work and dedication behind the scenes to come from point-zero to where he is at this particular time.
"We should have nothing but admiration for it. And only a person of great character could do it, so I'm glad that I saw his greatness early. (Laughs) This isn't the first time I have expressed my respect for him. It's a miracle to really accomplish what he's accomplishing now."
Not only is Peterson back from last year's torn ACL and MCL, but he's on the verge of breaking the league's single-season rushing record.
Peterson has 1,812 yards, leaving him 294 yards short of breaking Eric Dickerson's old record of 2,105 set in 1984.
For Brown, that achievement stands on its own merits, as he wasn't comfortable comparing.
"I don't deal with who's the greatest," Brown said. "That's very limited, I'm sorry to say, and I think this is an example of it. Why would anyone want to say that what Adrian has done this year isn't what someone else did years before? It's what you do when you do it, and it should not be compared. We don't have to compare it. It's unnecessary. And it's taking something away from someone to give someone else something. You don't have to do that. Because what Adrian is doing now doesn't hurt anyone else who's ever run the football.
"I'm not going to look at Walter Payton and take anything away from Walter. I'm not going to look at John Riggins and take anything away from him. I'm only going to look at the positive things of each individual.
"What I've said about Adrian is about as much as you have to say. I'm not here to evaluate running backs against each other. I can tell you every kind of move Adrian has. I can tell you about his size and about his speed, his quickness, his balance and maybe most of all his determination. I can tell you about those things, and those things are outstanding in every way. He has the size, he has the speed, he has the quickness, he has the balance, the intelligence. He has the determination, the will, and so he has a combination of those skills that are fantastic to watch."
Brown has been, at times, hesitant with his praise. So the clear respect he had for Peterson's feat represents another accomplishment for the Vikings running back.


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My first encounter with Machen was in 1973, when I began studying Greek using his rather stilted, basic textbook (since revised). I thought Greek would kill me; if it didn't, Machen surely would. But I had no idea he had written, or done, anything else.
What Is Faith? The title raised quite a live question for me, and to find (A) an entire book devoted to the subject, (B) by a man as scholarly as Machen, was intriguing.
The Lord had saved me out of a cult called Religious Science, or Science of Mind. It was 1973, and I was seventeen, when the Lord saved me. The bulk of my early growth and fellowship was in a loose, earlier form of Charismaticism. My conversion to faith in Jesus Christ was grounded in the Word of God, and in deep conviction of sin. Becoming a Christian meant a radical overhaul in my way of thinking and living -- "Root and branch," Treebeard might have said.
I struggled to find my way. Very soon after conversion, I came to believe I'd been gifted to be a pastor; and so within the year, I began studying Greek. In fact, I could have said "began studying," and just left it there. I'd been a thoroughly lazy and indulgent student until Christ saved me. I was articulate and smart(-alecky), but not a disciplined student in any sense of the words. The process of learning how to learn began the day of my conversion, and it was grueling. My memory is that I literally sweated as I started learning the Greek alphabet, and practicing it by reading a Greek New Testament aloud in the public library.
Many of the Christians I came to know were Charismatics whose attitude towards study and doctrine ranged from suspicion to open hostility. It was "carnal" to study too hard. Doctrine and "head-knowledge" was "of the flesh," not of the Spirit. Study made one proud, boastful, unspiritual.
But I had been powerfully brought to believe that Jesus was exactly who He said He was, which necessarily involved believing everything Jesus said. God worked this in me by using the Word itself, and leading me to think through its implications. So how could I believe what Jesus said, and how could I walk and grow in that faith, if I didn't understand His Word? And how could I understand it if I didn't study it? Jesus made so many categorical, propositional statements! What's more, He pointed me back to the Old Testament which, itself, was chock-full of categorical, propositional statements, things that were either true or false, and which had to be fit together in some fashion and applied to my world....
And none of this was going to happen if I just "let go and let God," collapsing into spiritual Jello.
What, then, was the relationship of faith to my mind? And what was the relationship of faith to study, to analytical thought? Were they fellow-combatants, or just combatants?
Along came Machen, and what he said started fitting everything together for me. It made sense of the Bible, and it made sense. He'd lived 1881-1937, but what he said was so contemporary that it was positively startling.
For instance, Machen said, "Thinking cannot be carried on without the materials of thought; and the materials of thought are facts, or else assertions that are presented as facts" (p. 20). I knew that I was to love the Lord my God with all my mind, with all my understanding (dianoia; Matthew 22:37). So that meant I needed to fill my mind with God's truth, with facts, with true assertions. Not only was it okay to think and study -- it was literally mandatory. I could not love God otherwise. That made sense.
But what of all my friends who said that Christianity wasn't a religion, it was a relationship? What about them saying that doctrine didn't matter, but what mattered was just loving Jesus? Machen spoke to that as well:
All personal communion seems to be a simple thing; yet it is in reality very complex. My friendship with a human friend, for example, depends upon years of observation of my friend's actions. So it is exactly in the case of the communion of the Christian with his God. The Christian says: "Lord, thou knowest that we are on the same old terms." It seems very simple and very untheological. But in reality it depends upon the whole rich content of God's revelation of Himself in the salvation which He has provided through His Son. At any rate, pure feeling, if it ever exists, is non-moral; what makes our relation to another person, whether a human friend or the eternal God, such an ennobling thing is the knowledge which we have of the character of that person (p. 37)I came to realize that anything that comes after the word "Jesus" is doctrine. The only issue is whether the doctrine is true, or false.
Therefore, the learning of Biblical doctrine, so far from being opposed to my knowledge of God, actually is foundational to it. I am not learning arid theories to puff up my head; I am learning and observing facts and truths about God from His Word, so that I can know Him and love Him (Deuteronomy 6:4ff.; 1 Samuel 3:21; Psalm 103:7). They do not oppose a vital relationship; they are essential to a vital relationship with God.
But I knew that my friends would think ill of me, and look fish-eyed at me. They'd think I'd gone cerebral, intellectual. They'd despise me for trying to be a brainiac. They'd find my growth in doctrinal understanding "divisive." Oh well; as Machen said, "Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted censoriousness and intolerance and disputing" (p. 41). Besides,
In the first place, religion is here [Hebrews 11:6] made to depend absolutely upon doctrine; the one who comes to God must not only believe in a person, but he must also believe that something is true; faith is here declared to involve acceptance of a proposition. There could be no plainer insistence upon the doctrinal or intellectual basis of faith. It is impossible, according to the Epistle to the Hebrews, to have faith in a person without accepting with the mind the facts about the person (p. 47)If it was a by-product of pursuing the knowledge of God with all my being, any rejection or slander could be borne. I later learned that, when Machen spoke of dissension and controversy, he wasn't speaking in the abstract. His insistence on truth, and on specific truths, led to his being defocked by the PCUSA, and ultimately resulted in the founding of a new denomination, and of Westminster Seminary. Machen was a theoretician, but he was not a mere theoretician.
Since I wanted to know God, I would need to know things about God. And that would mean study, learning, thought -- and doctrine.
Machen settled that for me, some thirty years ago. I remain indebted to him, and to the God who used Machen's hard-won wisdom to put my feet on solid ground. This is why, when asked which books apart from the Bible have been most influential in my life and thinking, What Is Faith? usually heads the list. Machen's Biblically-grounded farsightedness makes his words as relevant today as when spoken.
Thinking of Machen, I'm tempted to rephrase the KJV of Hebrews 11:4 as "he being dead yet naileth."
Some Online Machen Resources:
- Transcript of John Piper's talk, J. Gresham Machen's Response to Modernism
- MP3 of the same talk
- Christianity and Liberalism, by Machen (ephocal work, farsighted, razor-sharp, splendid)
- Sean Richardson's Machen links (some broken links)
- PCA Historical Center's Machen page
- Henry Coray's personal remembrance of Machen


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Friday, January 22, 2010
Family and Friends Newsletter Friday 22 January 2010
Helpful Census-Takers
As I was examining the census entry in 1900 Garland Co. Arkansas for Mitchell and Susan (Norman) Blackburn, I saw that the census-taker helpfully added "Sec." (second) to "wife" for Susan. Thanks, Joseph E. Flemester!
This week I have been working on the family of JMC Norman's oldest child with Mary Patterson – Susan "Sudie" Norman, who married William A. Cannon and then Mitchell Blackburn.
There is turning out to be quite a bit of information, clues, etc. on the various branches of this family; in addition to the Cline history there are many different family trees on Ancestry, lots of these people were buried in Peak Cemetery, and many of the branches appear in the book Garland County, Arkansas: Our History and Heritage.
It is beginning to get confusing, however. There was a lot of intermarriage.
Sudie and Lige Norman were siblings. Sudie's grandson Elmer Milholen married Lige's daughter Olive Nancy Norman (first cousins once removed).
Callie and Simon Tallent were brother and sister. Callie married Jessie "Judge Spivey" Norman and Simon married Josie, daughter of Jessie's half-sister Sudie.
The question is asked by Gena Philiberta Ortega of Gena's Genealogy: Does Your Genealogy Have a Mountweazel?
I don't think so. I don't import or copy gedcoms (may use them as tips, though) and try to cite sources as I enter information into my genealogy program (my citations may not be pretty, but they're there). But, you know, maybe I'll add a Mountweazel in there….
Music Recommendation of the Week
CD: Telemann: The Baroque Gypsies, by Ensemble Caprice, directed by Matthias Maute. Telemann was generally faithful to the original Gypsy tunes, and the performance by Ensemble Caprice captures the Gypsy zest and inventiveness. The Youtube clip above features parts of two songs from the CD. Some of the tunes were easily recognizable from recordings I have of performances by Gypsies of the present day.
The liner notes include the following excerpt from Telemann's own words describing his reaction to Gypsy music:
"One can hardly believe what wonderful imaginative ideas these pipers and fiddlers have as they improvise. In only a week, a composer could be inspired for an entire lifetime. I have written several major concertos in this style."
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A prestigious group of Texas business men and women who have raised "several billion dollars" for University of Texas programs urged the UT Board of Regents to re-affirm its commitment to research.
The letter, signed by 16 current and past Chairs of the Chancellor's Council Executive Committee — a fund-raising organization – was prompted by a controversy over the hiring of a $200,000 a year "special adviser" to the regents whose anti-research views represent a departure from the university's current mission and goals.
Rick O'Donnell, a senior analyst for the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, was reassigned after key lawmakers and UT stalwarts questioned why he was hired in a position that conflicted with Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa's duties. O'Donnell has written policy papers characterizing research as a waste of taxpayer money.
Thursday, Austin businessman C. Patrick Oles, the current chair of the Chancellor's Council Executive Committee, sent a memo to 310 Chancellor's Council members advising them of the letter to the regents. Here are some highlights:
"Yesterday, sixteen current and former Chairs of the Chancellor's Council Executive Committee spanning some thirty years delivered a letter to the UT Board of Regents. The letter was intended to be constructive, yet quite clear in conveying our alarm over these events and statements. Following is a brief summary of the letter:
The 12,000 plus member Chancellor's Council and its 310 member Executive Committee composed of business, professional and civic leaders, have provided several billion dollars of private philanthropic support to the 15 institutions of the UT System and to the Office of the Chancellor over many years. Preserving and strengthening this critical source of funding depends upon trust and confidence in the leadership of the UT System. We believe this confidence has been shaken and we are deeply concerned.
While we respect the important role of the UT System Board of Regents, it appears that some of the ideas and proposals being discussed may detract from our predominant mission of creating the "University of the First Class", undermining our ability to recruit and retain world class educators, researchers and administrators within our Universities and Health Institutions.
While great institutions must embrace change and continually seek to improve efficiency and accountability, to be positive, the new ideas and changes must be credible in the eyes of the broader academic community. Indeed we applaud the efforts of our outstanding Chancellor Cigarroa and previous boards to substantially reduce costs ($1.4 billion 2006-2010) and improve transparency and accountability.
We support the statements of the UT Board of Regents in their response to the recent letter from the Texas Exes wherein the Board affirmed their strong support for the value of academic research, and disavowed the notion of substituting low cost "contractors" for distinguished tenured faculty and rating individual professors on their revenue generating ability. These unproven concepts appear to conflict with the Texas Legislature's desire to create more Tier 1 research universities."
According to the UT website, former chairs of the Chancellors Council Executive Committee include philanthropist Frank Denius, former Austin Mayor Roy Butler, noted attorney Morris Atlas and UT benefactor Mike A. Myers, for whom the university named a track stadium.
This week, another group of business leaders formed "Texas Business for Higher Education," to "improve both teaching and research, improve access and lower costs," Justin Keener, the group's organizer, told the Austin American-Statesman.
Keener, who formerly worked for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, also told the newspaper that his organization considers research vital to universities.


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Friday, April 18, 2008
love those lawyers
Oh, and I can marry a dude there.
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Whatever happened to holding people accountable for their actions? Now days everybody wants to blames someone else. Get in a car wreck? You just won the lottery! I'm sure we can find someone to sue!ReplyDelete
Why don't you just read the PDR entry to each patient for every drug that you prescribe? That shouldn't take but 30 or 40 minutes a drug and you can document that you properly warned them of the side effects.ReplyDelete
Tort reform in Texas has been a HUGE success. Bush should have pushed for it nationally when he had the chance (Republican Congress). Now that the trial lawyers are back in charge of Congress, it'll never get done.
It seems that the "reasonable physician" standard for malpractice has no reasonable relation to reason or sanity.ReplyDelete
Is the case where the guy went blind? Do you know the case ref?ReplyDelete
i can marry a dude in massachussets? i'm moving!ReplyDelete
Add their gun laws, and you've got a Cliffs Notes-ing of "why exi will never live in massamotherfuckin'pooshits."ReplyDelete
- Dr. Carty2:48 PM, April 20, 2008
Check this out. The American Trial Lawyer's Association has changed its name to The American Association for Justice. Does that come with a shovel?ReplyDelete
And don't read the PDR to the patient; have them listen to a tape of it, and then take a test on it (passing grade is 95%) before getting a prescription. Safety demands it!
the PDR is better than ambien for insomnia.ReplyDelete
But Mass. is home to my two favorite inventions: Birth control pills and Fig Newtons.ReplyDelete
I'd just like to remind you that our lovely "REPUBLICAN", and I use the term loosely, governor signed the universal health care coverage bill into existence.ReplyDelete
He also shoveled an inexorable amount of funding into that leaky, traffic-clogged pit of despair. Those funds were then funneled to some of the most corrupt officials to the Turnpike Authority in the history of the state that he, incidentally, helped appoint. I'm willing to bet that he had some of those very same funds funneled back to his campaign for president.
didn't know they had any republicans in mass? i must admit here that while i call myself a republican i find it hard to find anyone whose profession is politics to admire. i'm a conservative and forty years ago would have voted for JFK.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:52 PM, April 20, 2008
Taxachussets isn't that bad, Reagan carried the state in 80' and 84'. Never understood how it came to be so liberal. My Uncles from Wooster, I swear he came south because he likes arresting Blacks. Hmm maybe thats why Mass votes so reliably for democrats, the republicans all moved to Georgia.ReplyDelete
careful or the aclu will shut us down and picket outside our offices which are right next to dr deborah peel's offices where she practices.
Holy crap you're right, they're the American Association for Justice at justice.org. Thank God there's finally an address, now we can all find what we need from this bleak universe of despair!ReplyDelete
BTW, I just stumbled on your site and it's like coming home to the family I never had (sob).
That's because my parents sell therapeutic magnets for a "living" while I spend ninety hours a week studying the various causes of painless jaundice.
Y'all are awesome, keep it up. Thanks for doing your part to pre-jade a soon to be intern.
- Anonymous10:14 PM, April 20, 2008
Well "Justice League" was already taken. What a lineup, Superman, Batman,Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter.ReplyDelete


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How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. Joe Tedesco, who has a knack for finding shoddy electrical work, did the dirty work and found this mess. Now it's your turn to identify the violation.
Find the Answer
Plumbing fittings can't be used for electrical installations. You must use electrical conduit for this type of installation. A lack of locknuts on the outside and inside of this installation presents a bonding problem.
The following 2005 NEC rules are just a few that can be cited for this installation:
Per 300.10, "Metal raceways, cable armor, and other metal enclosures for conductors shall be metallically joined together into a continuous electric conductor and shall be connected to all boxes, fittings, and cabinets so as to provide effective electrical continuity. Unless specifically permitted elsewhere in this Code, raceways and cable assemblies shall be mechanically secured to boxes, fittings, cabinets, and othe enclosures."
Per 110.8, "Only wiring methods recognized as suitable are included in this Code. The recognized methods of wiring shall be permitted to be installed in any type of building or occupancy, except as otherwise provided in this Code."
Per 250.4(A)(3), "Non–current-carrying conductive materials enclosing electrical conductors or equipment, or forming part of such equipment, shall be connected together and to the electrical supply source in a manner that establishes an effective ground-fault current path."


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Woman arrested again at LAX trying to sneak on plane
A homeless San Francisco woman released from jail Wednesday for stowing away on a flight from San Jose to Los Angeles was rearrested Thursday at LAX while trying to sneak aboard another flight, authorities said.
Marilyn Hartman, 62, described as a serial stowaway, was detained at 11:15 a.m near Terminal 7, a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman said. The terminal handles flights from United Airlines, United Express and TED Airlines.
No other details were immediately released.
She was arrested lessa than 24 hours after she pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of trespassing and was ordered to stay away from Los Angeles International Airport. She was also placed on 24 months' probation.
Monday night, she boarded L.A.-bound Southwest Airlines Flight 3785 in San Jose by sneaking past security with a family, federal officials said. At least three previous attempts failed.
Personnel did not discover she did not have a ticket until the plane landed.
The breach was the second this year at the San Jose airport and has prompted a review of security. In May, a teenage boy climbed into the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines and miraculously survived the five-hour flight to Maui.
The San Jose Mercury News reported that Hartman had tried seven times to board a plane at San Francisco International Airport before heading down Highway 101 to San Jose. She had already been banned from the airport for trying to illegally board flights.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Hartman blamed her escapades on being homeless, regretted what she had done and vowed not to stowaway again.
"I've been in some pretty awful situations so I took desperate measures," she said.
"I am an American first and foremost. I believe very strongly in the security of this country, and so in that regard that was very stupid. I certainly have no idea or could give no hints to anyone that would be interested in doing that because it was wrong," Hartman added.
The Mercury News reported she has lived alone in women's shelters and single-occupancy motels on the West Coast for a decade. She had been in a mental health program, and a judge found her to be suffering a "major mental illness."
KCAL-TV in Los Angeles said that she claims to be a Chicago native and a retired teacher, and that she had $4.25 to her name after being bailed out of jail Wednesday.


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I say Chevy, you say Ford.
I say apartment, you say house.
I say Christianity, you say atheism.
I say conservatism, you say liberalism.
Lets think for a moment if we were to truly live and let live..............now that's a concept. Build off that model. I have friends/relationships with all that I've listed above and get along with everyone of them. That's living the dream.
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I admitted to being confused sooooooooooo ... yeah.
I say speak coherently , you say don't. :)
I'm a mechanic. I am attached to my vehicles. Aside from that I think you miss the point. I can go to the Ford/Chevy/Honda (choose you're poison) blogs and read about the haters of each. They all break down. I've owned at least 1 of each over the years
I'm not sure how a post can be wrong.
I stated in a reply above on the bygones, live/let live. Sorry for mix up
I don't believe them to be false. I can direct you to some sites if you like?
Let people believe or not, like what they will. I will search for something more simple to relate. Sorry about the confusion.
Now that I look at it I can see your confusion in that Christianity/atheism is to believe or not in something, the other 3 being a difference in belief/opinion and not existence. I'm sure this won't do it for you either. Again, I apologize.
don't have time to look up what a thesaurus is either I see, considering by utilizing one, you'd just be searching for a different word for HATE.
lol, sorry, had to be done...