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ORIX Rent a Car is a leading rental car company operated by ORIX. There are sales offices near major stations and airports in 47 prefectures across Japan, which is very convenient when renting or returning a rental car. Also, it offers bargain products specialized for areas, such as a "Drop Off Plan" (You can return the car at another sales office) and so on.
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ORIX Rent a Car is committed to providing high quality car rental services to its customers through the ORIX Group network. ORIX Rent a Car offers a wide range of popular models, such as Toyota's hybrid vehicles (AQUA, PRIUS), Honda's FIT and Nissan's SERENA. In addition, because it provides the latest car models as soon as possible, they tend to be high quality vehicles that are close to new vehicles.
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The prices that are often displayed in the Tabirai website are "reliable price" that includes Collision Damage Waiver fees, car navigation systems, ETC (Electronic Toll Collection System) in-vehicle devices (ETC cards are non-standard equipment), and consumption taxes.
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We strive to offer the lowest price range among ORIX Rent a Car.
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ORIX Rent a Car offers a wide range of rental cars and special offers, which only Tabirai provides.
ORIX Rent a Car has strict rules for vehicles when we rent and check of everything from the engine to the tires and scratches. Another advantage is that most of the vehicles we rent are less than two years old.
ORIX Rent a Car offers a variety of cars from each Japanese car manufacturer. Since there is a wide range of cars from light cars to ordinary cars, RV / minivan types, and eco cars, you can find a rental car that meets your needs.
In addition, there are many hybrid vehicles with high fuel efficiency, and ORIX Rent a Car is rapidly introducing popular new models.
You can use VISA, Mastercard, DINERS CLUB, AMERICAN EXPRESS, UnionPay, or JCB credit card. You can also pay with electronic money such as Suica, or a traffic IC card.
It is very convenient because you don't have to change currency when you arrive in Japan, so you can pay as soon as possible.
Because there are rental car counters at almost every airport in Japan, you can use a rental car as soon as you arrive at the airport. However, if you use a rental car counter, you have to make a reservation in advance.
Regardless of the car size and type, all vehicles are equipped with navigation system available in English, Chinese and Korean. You do not have to worry even in unfamiliar places so you can enjoy driving at ease.
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ORIX Rent a Caralways offers rental cars at the lowest prices, and rental car fees vary depending on the location, date, and car class. Please select your preferred car class according to the number of people inside the car and the way of using the car. In addition, for all Orix Rent a Car rental cars, which are displayed in the Tabirai Car Rental Reservation,
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In order to ensure that customers use the rental car safely in the Tabirai Car Rental Reservation, we offer a product with a Collision Damage Waiver in case of an accident. Furthermore, cars are equipped with a navigation system that makes you feel at ease even in unfamiliar travel destinations.
Yes, you can. ORIX Rent a Car provides a Drop Off Service (One Way). So, you can return the car to a different sales office from the office you rented from. (The fee should be confirmed).
Tabirai often shows rates for all rental cars that include insurance and Collision Damage Waiver fee. However, it does not include Non-Operation Charges (NOC), so you can individually register for NOC compensation system at the rental car sales office. (Non-Operation Charge is the customer's voluntary subscription)
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Depending on the area and sales office, ORIX Rent a Car provides Toyota hybrid vehicles (AQUA, PRIUS), Honda Fit, Nissan SERENA, etc. It provides a wide range of popular car models from light cars to wagons by Japanese Car Manufactures. In addition, because ORIX Rent A Car provides the latest car models as soon as possible, they tend to be high quality vehicles that are close to new vehicles.
If "〇〇 similar type " is displayed in a plan, you can not specify the car model. The car will be one of the eligible vehicles in your designated class and will be decided by the rental car company on the day of departure. Please make a reservation by selecting the plan described as 【Car model designated】.
The number of days you can cancel your reservation without any ORIX Rent a Car cancellation fee, vary depending on the area.
In addition, if you made a reservation of the rental car in Tabirai Car Rental Reservation, it is necessary to log in to "Reservation information box" and to perform the cancellation procedure. The reservation number and password are required to log in to "Reservation information box", so please enter the reservation number or confirmation email after making a reservation of the rental car.
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Please confirm the cancellation policy list if you cancel close to the day of use. After that, please send a message to the rental car company from "Reservation information box" and press the Cancel button.
If you are in an accident,・Medical relief of injured people・Report to police( Call 110)・ Confirm the other partyAfter doing the above three, please contact the rental car sales office which you rented the car from, and the Tokio Marine & Nichido claim line.
※ Contact information is in the documents given at the sales office which you rented from.
All vehicles at ORIX Rent a Car booked in Tabirai Car Rental Reservation are equipped with ETC in-vehicle device as standard. Although ETC cards are not standard equipment, they are rented at some offices. You can apply by phone after making a reservation in Tabirai Car Rental, or apply directly on the day of rental.
※ There are a limited number of shops which lend ETC cards, and cards.
Drop-off is a service that allows you to return a rental car to another sales office instead of the office you rented from. If you select a return office that is different from the office which you leave from, in the search box of the Tabirai Car Rental Reservation, the available rental car offices which you can drop off at will appear in the search list. Please note that the charge for drop off will vary depending on the rental car company and area.
In an accident, most of the expenses incurred will be covered by the insurance, but there are two types of expenses for the user to pay. One is the Collision Damage Waiver and the other is the Non-operation Charge. Tabirai Car Rental Reservation displays a stated price that includes the registration fee for Collision Damage Waiver, but does not include the Non-operation Charge (NOC). However, major car rental companies listed in Tabirai Car Rental Reservation have their own insurance where you do not have to pay for this NOC, and you can join at the car rental office.
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When traveling on snowy or icy roads, it is essential to be equipped with snow tires for safety. In Tabirai Car Rental Reservation, there are a number of cars with snow tires as standard, and as an option. Check the weather forecast on the day of the trip and book a rental car with snow tires in advance if there is a risk of snow.
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Born on February 15, 1978 in Seoul, South Korea, pianist Yiruma (real name: I Ru-ma) has released a string of successful albums in the 2000s and managed to land a number one hit with his composition "River Flows in You." Additionally, he was the first Korean artist to be invited to perform at the 2002 MIDEM in Cannes, France. Yiruma began playing the piano at the age of five and then moved to London in 1988 to study at the Purcell School of Music, where he graduated in July 1997. In June 2000, he completed a composition major at King's College London, and from 2001 onward he released a number of albums that can be categorized somewhere between the "contemporary classical" and "new age" genres. His 2001 album First Love contained the composition "River Flows in You," which subsequently became a number one hit in several countries, especially when it was briefly considered to be included on the soundtrack of the movie Twilight. Even though the producers ultimately did not use the piece, a series of YouTube videos appeared online where Yiruma's cut was put into the corresponding scene, boosting the track's popularity and resulting in it being remixed by German DJ Alex Christensen in 2010. Yiruma also composed the scores for the movie Oasis (directed by Lee Chang-dong) and the stop-motion animated film Doggy Poo (directed by Kwon Oh-sung). ~ Christian Genzel
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Nothing more clearly shows that atheism belongs to religious belief, as the candlesnuffer does to the candle, than the rise of the so-called "new atheism." In recent years, a resurgent evangelical Christianity, marked by Biblical literalism, belief in a "personal God," hostility to scientific rationality and progress, and a deeply conservative politics, has, strangely enough, been contested by a resurgent atheism, marked by its own kind of Biblical literalism, hostility to faith in a personal God, a deep belief in scientific rationality and progress, and, typically, a committed liberal politics.
Atheism is structurally related to the belief it negates, and is necessarily a kind of rival belief; indifferent agnosticism would be a truer liberation. For Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, among others, the God most worth fighting against seems to be a hybrid of a cheaply understood Old Testament, a prejudicially scanned Koran, and the sentimentalities of contemporary evangelicalism: He created the world, controls our destinies, resides in Heaven, loves us when He is not punishing us, intervenes to perform miracles, sent His only son to die on the Cross and save us from sin, and promises Heaven for the devout. This God is not very Judaic, or very philosophical: He is not the bodiless and indescribable entity that Maimonides or Aquinas ceaselessly circumnavigates, or the slightly chilly and unapproachable divinity one finds in the work of the Protestant theologian Karl Barth. Nor is He the Buddha. Hinduism is mentioned only when it is fundamentalist—when it approximates monotheistic literalism.
For the new atheists, as for many contemporary American Christians, faith is assumed to be blind—an irrational closing of the eyes to evidence and reason, a leap of faith into an infinite idiocy. The new atheists do not speak to the millions of people whose form of religion is far from the embodied certainties of contemporary literalism, and who aren't inclined to submit to the mad mullahs and the fanatical ministers. Indeed, it is a settled assumption of this kind of atheism that there are no intelligent religious believers (the philosopher Daniel Dennett has advocated that non-believers call themselves "brights"—the better, I suppose, to contrast with dullard philosophers like Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, or the late Leszek Kolakowski), and that any working scientist who professes to believe in God is probably lying, or is distinctly subpar. Darwinism is presumed to invalidate any religious belief, despite Stephen Jay Gould's concession that "either half my colleagues are enormously stupid, or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs." (As the non-believing son of an academic zoologist who became a priest in late middle age, and practiced both professions, I am inclined to think that Gould had a point.)
Since belief in God is clearly madness or weakness, the new atheists must scrabble around for quasi-biological explanations of this stubborn malady. Human beings, for instance, apparently have very good "simulation software" in their brains, and this encourages them to invent religious and visionary experiences. Both Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins like to talk about our mental HADD, or Hyperactive Agent Detection Device, whereby "we hyperactively detect agents where there are none, and this makes us suspect malice or benignity where, in fact, nature is only indifferent." Thus we convince ourselves that God sends us a tsunami in anger, or a pay raise in blessing. In Dawkins's popular book "The God Delusion," he reaches into the archives of "Fawlty Towers" to explain HADD. Think, he says, of John Cleese getting out of his car, which has just broken down, and manically hitting it, blaming it for its uselessness. That is the great illusion of religious belief: we have been HADD.
But the Oxonian guffaw backfires. For one thing, the car is not a piece of indifferent nature. It is man-made, and so to assume a causal, if rather obscure, link between human agency and the car's breakdown isn't insane—surely, sometime in the nineteen-eighties, Dawkins owned a badly made English car? And, whether you believe in God or not, the history of that belief is our history. The God that J. S. Bach believed in is greater than John Cleese's car because nobody wrote the St. Matthew Passion or the B-Minor Mass—narratives as well as musical compositions—about that car. Even if the European cathedrals are monuments to an illusion, the illusion is, at the very least, a large and awful one, and the monuments tragically impressive.
What is intended to be an insult to the varieties of religious experience is also an unintended insult to the varieties of secular experience. When the pianist Andras Schiff says, as he did recently, that, while Beethoven is human, "Mozart was sent from Heaven, he's not one of us," is he merely making use of a post-religious language, or is an actually religious language using him? Abolishing the category of the religious robs non-believers of some surplus of the inexpressible; it forbids the contrails of uncertainty to pass over our lives. What is most repellent about the new atheism is its intolerant certainty; it is always noon in Dawkins's world, and the sun of science and liberal positivism is shining brassily, casting no shadows.
Oddly, despite God's general discrediting, theology is thriving. Serious theological argument is being done by literary and cultural theorists like Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Zizek, Giorgio Agamben, and Alain Badiou. Of these men, Terry Eagleton is probably the only one to profess formal religious belief, but the others share a sophisticated relation to their unbelief. Eagleton's "Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate" (Yale; $25), attacks the new atheism as a kind of secular counter-fundamentalism, reserving special scorn for its unrefined notion of God—"the primitive, Philip Pullman-like view of those who cannot wean themselves off the idea of God as Big Daddy." It makes a sharp, limited case against Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens—concertinaed by Eagleton into the unappealing compound "Ditchkins" (a very drab English town?)—better than any previous book of its kind has. But its own incoherence is symptomatic of the frailty of what might be called the new anti-atheism.
Terry Eagleton is a Marxist Catholic literary theorist, who taught English for many years at Oxford. His Catholicism used to be obscured by his Marxism, but, as he has aged, his religiousness, like a limp, has become more pronounced. Some might say that to be committed to not one but two questionable orthodoxies is to be symmetrically hobbled, but Eagleton's Marxism is vividly cogent, while his Christianity is militantly opaque. In his new book, he writes wittily about arriving at Cambridge University in the nineteen-sixties and discovering a politically radical Catholicism, which he stumbled upon "with the aid of a few maverick Dominicans and rather more pints of bitter." As he explains, this supposedly new theology went back to Thomas Aquinas, who "did not see God the Creator as some kind of mega-manufacturer or cosmic chief executive officer, as the Richard Dawkins school of nineteenth-century liberal rationalism tends to imagine."
For Aquinas in his Aristotelian mood, God is far more abstract and impersonal than, say, Joel Osteen's favorite Intercessor. He is what Aquinas humbly calls "the First Efficient Cause of things." He is not even what we imagine as the Genesis Creator, because Aquinas thought that it did not particularly matter in what order God created things. But this bodiless entity outside our universe sustains our existence; He is, in Eagleton's words, "the condition of possibility of any entity whatsoever. Not being any sort of entity himself, however, he is not to be reckoned up alongside these things, any more than my envy and my left foot constitute a pair of objects." Accordingly, Aquinas believed that we can talk about God only indirectly, through analogy. The Jewish philosopher Maimonides, who influenced Aquinas, took a severer line, and argued that it was impossible to know God by assigning Him human attributes. "Silence is praise to Thee," Maimonides wrote, quoting from Psalm 65. (Melville does an ironic version of this theology in "Moby-Dick," whereby the white whale is bombarded with masses of descriptions, and freighted with allegory, but remains gigantically unknowable.)
For Maimonides, as for Aquinas, God is not needily parental, like the evangelical model, but superbly self-sufficient. God "fashioned us just for the fun of it—he is not neurotically possessive of us," Eagleton writes. "Unlike George Bush, God is not an interventionist kind of ruler." He is the power that allows us to be ourselves; He is "pure liberty." Eagleton shows little interest in the central claim of Christian belief, that Christ was God incarnate, sent to earth to die for our sins and to secure us eternal tenure in Heaven. Jesus is less important to him as the Son of God (if, indeed, he was that) than as a proto-Marxist. Salvation is not so much about saving our souls as "a question of feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrants, visiting the sick, and protecting the poor, orphaned and widowed from the violence of the rich." We are saved, he writes, "not by a special apparatus known as religion, but by the quality of our everyday relations with one another." Heaven is not really about a world to come but about the transformation of the world we have: "Only by a readiness to abandon our dished-up world can we live in the hope of a more authentic existence in the future." Jesus is an example, a symbol: "The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains."
An eloquent defender of the necessary relevance of the Gospel message, Eagleton concludes his book by discussing progressive and charitable religious activity (he mentions the resistance of the Buddhist monks in Burma); taking a swipe or two at scientific rationalism (the Apocalypse, if it ever comes, is "far more likely to be the upshot of technology than the work of the Almighty"); and savaging the kind of liberal Enlightenment that Dawkins and Hitchens defend so vehemently. The two English atheists are politically complacent, Eagleton charges, in proportion to their lack of faith in faith itself. By contrast, he is a socialist for the same reason that he is a socialist Christian; he still has faith that the world is radically improvable. He writes:
It is also because one cannot accept that this—the world we see groaning in agony around us—is the only way things could be, though empirically speaking this might certainly prove to be the case; because one gazes with wondering bemusement on those hard-headed types for whom all this, given a reformist tweak or two, is as good as it gets; because to back down from this vision would be to betray what one feels are the most precious powers and capacities of human beings; because however hard one tries, one simply cannot shake off the primitive conviction that this is not how it is supposed to be.
It's easier to disagree with Eagleton's political solutions than with his political diagnosis. Humanity, as Cardinal Newman put it, is "implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity." It is not Eagleton's radical politics that bewilders but his radical Christianity, and, in the end, his shiftiness about his religious belief has the remarkable effect of pushing the reader back onto the stout deck of the dreadnought Ditchkins.
To begin—and end—with, it is never clear what degree of divine authority Eagleton grants Christ's mission on earth. At one moment, he airily writes that though the account he has given of his own Christian belief "may not be true, it is not, in my opinion, stupid, vicious, or absurd. And if it evokes no response from Ditchkins at all, then I think his life is the poorer. . . . But even if the account I have given of it is not literally true, it may still serve as an allegory of our political and historical condition." Of course, the truth claims of religious belief are precisely what the new atheists so loudly dispute. If all Eagleton can now say to them is that their lives are the "poorer" for not responding to a moving "political and historical" allegory, he is just being finely sentimental. He might as well have written a book about Anton Chekhov or Walter Benjamin. Yet, eighty or so pages later, he is serenely discussing the way that religious faith is not the same as empirical knowledge. He has an analogy. No one has seen the unconscious, he argues, yet "many people believe in its existence, on the grounds that it makes excellent sense of their experience in the world." Religious faith is like that. The question of faith and knowledge, he says, "is a good deal more complex than the rationalist suspects." Then comes this concession:
None of this is to suggest, as Dawkins seems to suspect, that religious claims require no evidence to back them up, or that they merely express "poetic" or subjective truths. If Jesus's body is mingled with the dust of Palestine, Christian faith is in vain.
At the same time, he cautions, in matters of faith "the evidence by itself will not decide the issue."
But to say that Christian faith is in vain if Jesus' body is mingled with the dust of Palestine is to provide a case in which evidence by itself would decide the issue—it would nullify faith, which is just what St. Paul meant when he said that, if the Resurrection never happened, then, of all people, Christians are the most pitiable. The theologian Herbert McCabe, one of the "maverick Dominicans" who influenced Eagleton, writes in his book "God Matters" (1987) that "a historical discovery that Jesus never lived would invalidate pretty well all Christian doctrine," as would "an archaeological discovery that the body of Jesus rotted away in Palestine." To him, it is "essential to the Catholic tradition that the resurrection of Christ is bodily; that is to say that it is Christ himself, this human bodily being who is risen." This is forthright and plausible. But Eagleton prefers to leave his position on the matter altogether cloudy.
The revolutionary Jesus who wanted to help the poor is easy enough to believe in. But if Jesus really was God incarnate it becomes harder for Eagleton to mobilize, against Dawkins and Hitchens, his Thomistic God—bodiless as vapor, distant, sublimely indifferent. If God is such a ghostly and un-needy entity, why did he send his son to save us? That seems rather . . . involved of Him, no?
Eagleton recoils from the idolatrously human appropriations of the televangelist or the mullah. ("God wants you to make more money!" "God hates the infidel!") But Christianity is a form of idolatry. Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook? Yes, thou canst: God emerges from the whirlwind and reveals a highly personalized version of Himself in His incarnated son. Christians tend to apprehend God through His revelation in Jesus, and feel quite happy to talk about God's sacrificial loving-kindness, His mercy, His gentleness, His power to move mountains and heal wounds, His ability to number every hair on our heads—and, by implication, to help us get our next job or save Aunt Jane from cancer. (Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, in their book "Dialectic of Enlightenment," blame this idolatry of the man-God for Christian anti-Semitism. For them, the Incarnation brings the absolute closer to the finite, and makes the finite absolute; it turns spirit into fleshy magic.) Indeed, the Princeton philosopher Mark Johnston argues, in a suggestive and cunning new book, "Saving God" (Princeton; $24.95), that most religious belief is idolatrous. The very notion of a supernaturalist creed, with its devoted faith in the permanent solutions of the afterlife, is, to Johnston's way of thinking, idolatrous—it is the forcing of God (whom he calls "the Highest One") into the role of ally and patron, instead of letting God appear as "the wholly Other, the numinous One who transcends anything that we can master by way of our own efforts."
Johnston is humane, and philosophically nimble, but his rarefied and almost scholastic definition of the ideally non-idolatrous God is not obviously very helpful to anyone but a rarefied scholastic: "The Highest One = the Outpouring of Existence Itself by way of its exemplification in ordinary existents for the sake of the self-disclosure of Existence Itself." As he concedes, idolatry is a natural human impulse. In daily religious life, God is always being laden with human attributes. Even Eagleton glues whatever human qualities seem most desirable onto his apparently impersonal God. This deity, he says, is not "a celestial engineer . . . but an artist, and an aesthete to boot, who made the world with no functional end in view." He made the world as a gift, as pure superfluity, Eagleton says, and may indeed have long ago "bitterly regretted" doing so. God "hates burnt offerings and acts of smug self-righteousness, is the enemy of idols, fetishes, and graven images of all kinds—gods, churches, ritual sacrifice, the Stars and Stripes." Well, how convenient. Quite apart from the awkward fact that the God of the Hebrew Bible clearly enjoys the right kind of burnt offerings (after the flood, Noah's smelled particularly agreeable to Him), one wonders how Eagleton can possibly know that his spectral and not-of-this-world God is also an unneurotic aesthete who may regret His creation, and dislikes the Stars and Stripes. This is just idolatry posing as anti-idolatry.
The Christian God is personal—that is precisely the stumbling block for many of us who cannot persist in belief. And how does one go from the idolatryhating God of the Old Testament to the fleshily incarnated God who died on the Cross? The bridge between the two seems not to stretch all the way across the river. This dilemma must be still more acute for Terry Eagleton, whose idea of God is not even Yahweh, the capricious, meddling reality of the Hebrew Bible, but an aristocratic philosophical vapor. How did a vapor birth a son? The obvious solution is to downplay Christian idolatry. God's embarrassing Incarnation as Jesus must just be switched off, as you might hastily turn off the kids' TV when your parents arrive for dinner.
If, on the other hand, the Gospel story is mere political allegory, it no longer has any power to command belief; Christ's imperatives dribble into the dust of Palestine. Eagleton finds an inspiring model in Jesus, but someone else might prefer Oprah. And the Jesus who was the son of God is not only the inspiring political revolutionary of the Sermon on the Mount (the rabble-rouser of Pasolini's great film "The Gospel According to St. Matthew") but the imperious theological commander who tells a puzzled Nicodemus that, unless he is born again in spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
This is the point at which modern quasi-believers like Eagleton turn to the philosopher Wittgenstein, who spoke of religion as a form of life. Religion, Wittgenstein thought, is a matter not of holding certain propositions (as in, say, "I believe that Christ sits in Heaven at the right hand of God") but of inhabiting certain religious practices (charitable activity, turning the other cheek, playing the organ in church). One of his examples is of kissing the picture of a loved one. This is not based on a belief that it will have an effect on the person represented, he says; we do it because it satisfies us. Wittgenstein is useful to those who remain attached to the traditions of their upbringing but no longer credit any of the tradition's truth claims. He gets people like Eagleton off the hook of belief. Religion becomes an embedded experience, a structure of feeling. Eagleton follows Wittgenstein when he criticizes Hitchens and Dawkins for their literalist notion of religious belief. There is a more complicated, more unconscious kind of belief, Eagleton insists. "God does not 'exist' as an entity in the world," he writes. This kind of faith is "not primarily a belief that something or someone exists, but a commitment and allegiance—faith in something."
Yet is it really the case that religious belief is not propositional, that no one starts or stops believing in God over the terrible hazard of a proposition? Surely, millions of people have drifted away from the religion of their forebears after consideration of such matters as the problem of evil, the unreliability of Biblical accounts, the silence or absence of God, the uselessness of petitionary prayer. These are certainly embedded experiences—they are experiences of the failure of certain religious propositions. One assumes that Hitchens and Dawkins, as young men, made their journeys along such dusty routes. A posthumous publication by the political philosopher John Rawls, "A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin & Faith" (Harvard; $27.95), allows us to see how a very intelligent believer, who once considered the priesthood, lost his Christian faith as a young man. Rawls fought in the Army during the Second World War, and a brief memoir in the new book, written five years before his death, recounts three occurrences from that time. One day, a Lutheran pastor gave a sermon in which he claimed that God "aimed our bullets at the Japanese while God protected us from theirs." This infuriated Rawls, for whom these were simply "falsehoods about divine providence." The second event was the death of a friend in battle. The third event elapsed over several months: the dissemination of the news of what had happened in the death camps. Rawls's faith was shaken. He began to question whether prayer was possible: "How could I pray and ask God to help me, or my family, or my country, or any other cherished thing I cared about, when God would not save millions of Jews from Hitler?" To interpret history as expressing God's will, Rawls says, "God's will must accord with the most basic ideas of justice as we know them. For what else can the most basic justice be? Thus, I soon came to reject the idea of the supremacy of the divine will as also hideous and evil."
This familiar recoil from belief—it has the typicality of a case study—is surely as propositional as it is performative. Daily religious belief is full of such implied propositions (e.g., "God is just"; "God saves my soul"; "Christ was God made man"). It is no good for Eagleton to turn on Rawls and say, in effect, "But I don't mean your kind of belief in God, or even your kind of God; I mean something much more sophisticated and ethereal. There is really no such thing as what you call 'the supremacy of the divine will,' because God doesn't 'exist' as an entity in the world." Theologians and priests are always changing the game in this way. They accuse atheists of wanting to murder an overliteral God, while they themselves keep alive a rarefied God whom no one, other than them, actually believes in. (Years ago, the Anglican bishop of Durham, formerly a liberal professor of theology, caused a scandal when he seemed to refer to the Resurrection as "a conjuring trick with bones." He was talking like a professor, not like a pastor, apparently unaware that many believers expect their bishops to believe the basic doctrines.) They denigrate ordinary belief as a set of benighted misconceptions, while, out of the other side of their mouth, they can praise ordinary belief as a set of non-propositional practices. ("It's not about the proposition that the resurrection happened so much as about doing good, preparing the flowers at church, kissing icons, and so on.") Sure enough, Eagleton engages in this dialectical chicanery, too. He can do so because Christ's divinity seems to have no palpable value for him. That is why the word "prayer" does not occur in his book. Prayer is a practice (a private and public ritual) and a proposition (the proposition that God exists and hears me).
If the new atheism offers an inadequate account of the varieties of religious experience, so does its most vigorous critic, Eagleton, because the kind of religious experience he approves of turns out to be barely religious at all. Both Eagleton and the new atheists have, finally, an incomprehension of the actual faith that people lead their lives by, the idolatrous forcing and appropriating of God, the desperate and faithful submission to divine will and succor. I am talking here not of evangelicalism or fundamentalism but merely of the divine assistance that millions daily request and daily picture in variously literal forms. For both sides, this kind of belief is seen as intellectually primitive.
What is needed is neither the overweening rationalist atheism of a Dawkins nor the rarefied religious belief of an Eagleton but a theologically engaged atheism that resembles disappointed belief. Such atheism, only a semitone from faith, would be, like musical dissonance, the more acute for its proximity. It could give a brother's account of belief, rather than treat it as some unwanted impoverished relative. It would be unafraid to credit the immense allure of religious tradition, but at the same time it would be ready to argue that the abstract God of the philosophers and the theologians is no more probable than the idolatrous God of the fundamentalists, makes no better sense of the fallen world, and is certainly no more likable or worthy of our worshipful respect—alas. ♦


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Notes, notebooks, some correspondence, annotated offprints, lantern slides and a small number of photographs and negatives.
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Robert Thomas Rundle Clark Collection
Notes, notebooks, some correspondence, annotated offprints, lantern slides and a small number of photographs and negatives.
Clark, Robert Thomas Rundle
Card indexes used in compilation of the Coptic Dictionary, photographs, photostats, notebooks, notes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, negatives, and casts.
Crum, Walter Ewing
Correspondence, notes, unfinished lecture, small number of casts from Egyptian and Assyrian objects, portrait painting (oil on canvas, 79 x 104 cm, 107.5 x 133 cm with frame) by Richard Hooke (1820-1908), and a hand copy made by W. R. Dawson of Hincks, On Certain Egyptian Papyri in the British Museum, published in 'Transactions of the British Archaeological Association at its Second Annual Congress held at Winchester, August 1845'.
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Charles Gordon Jelf Collection
Jelf, Charles Gordon
Card indexes, photographs, notebooks, notes, copies, correspondence, typescripts, and negatives.
Kahle, Paul Eric
Kom Ombo Photographs Collection
20 albumen prints of scenes from the Temple of Haroeris and Sobek Triads at Kom Ombo.
Index of Late Egyptian Grammar, index for Egyptian Dictionary, and various other indexes. 18 notebooks containing copies of hieratic papyri and ostraca. Small watercolour. 2 boxes of family papers and ephemera, including personal correspondence, certificates, photographs, notes for Peet's books on Neolithic Italy, a couple of pages from an inaugural lecture, newspaper cuttings, a travel record small notebook, a Latin and Greek classes notebook, etc.
Peet, Thomas Eric
Eugène Victor Dévaud Collection
A card index for a Coptic etymological dictionary and notes on Coptic etymologies (apparently not published).
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Visitor's book of the G. Foucart family, Cairo, for 1925 to 1948.
Foucart, Georges
Kate Griffith (née Bradbury) Collection
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Griffith, Kate
Alan Henderson Gardiner Collection
Notebooks, notes, card indexes of the Pyramid Texts and Late Egyptian, copies of inscriptions, corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, drawings, correspondence, copies of his own publications, and portraits.
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Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection
Griffith, Francis Llewellyn
Henry Francis Herbert Thompson Collection
Greek dictionary card index, used in the compilation of W. E. Crum, A Coptic Dictionary (Oxford, 1929-39).
Thompson, (Sir) Henry Francis Herbert
107 postcards collected in Egypt between 1900-1906 by Miss E. Blyth (objects in Cairo Museum, sites, Cairo views, and Nile views) and 1 postcard of Bethlehem in Palestine.
Blyth, Evelyn
Peter Webb and Ron Davey Collection
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Webb, Peter
Godfrey Rolles Driver Collection
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Driver, (Sir) Godfrey Rolles
Laurence Patrick Kirwan Photographs Collection
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Edward William Lane Collection
Drawings, notebooks, notes and correspondence.
Lane, Edward William
John Gwyn Griffiths Collection
Miscellaneous papers.
Griffiths, John Gwyn
Geoffrey Spurrell Mileham Collection
Mileham, Geoffrey Spurrell
Original drawings for The Temple of Deir el Bahari.
Naville, (Henri) Édouard
Griffith Institute Photographs Collection
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Jacobus Johannes Janssen Collection
Transcribed hieratic documents, photographs, annotated photocopies, notes on Deir el-Medina, unpublished material, etc.
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Prints and negatives of scenes in Theban tombs, notebook and notes (some by W. B. Emery and E. J. H. MacKay).
Mond, (Sir) Robert Ludwig
Three notebooks.
Gell, (Sir) William
Complete papers, including notes (DPhil), some photographs, small group of correspondence, etc.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Tigers made a waiver claim, but it wasn't a highly speculated move. Instead, they claimed right-handed reliever Evan Reed from the Marlins and optioned him to Triple-A Toledo.
The big 27-year-old went 3-1 with a 2.34 ERA and 12 saves at Double-A Jacksonville, striking out 43 batters in 34 2/3 innings while allowing 24 hits. Reed went to Triple-A New Orleans and those totals flipped, with 27 strikeouts and 43 hits allowed over 32 2/3 innings.
Though Reed has some starting experience in the low levels of the Minor Leagues, the Mud Hens will use him out of their bullpen.
Reed was in big league camp with the Marlins, competing for a bullpen spot, but he was optioned out on March 11. Miami designated his contract for assignment at the end of camp to open a 40-man roster spot.
The addition fills the last opening on the Tigers' 40-man roster. If Detroit ends up making another claim or otherwise adding another player, it would need to remove somebody from the roster to make room. One potential addition could include outfielder Casper Wells, whom the Mariners designated for assignment on Sunday. The Tigers would almost surely have to move a player who is out of options anyway if they were to add Wells, so the roster question would be moot in that situation.


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"Who Wants to be a Millionaire" in Denver?
It's a silly question. Who, in this economic climate, doesn't want to win magic money?
Cedric the Entertainer, the new host of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," will be in town with producers next week, looking for contestants for the syndicated series. Auditions will be held Friday, July 12, at The Seawell Grand Ballroom, in the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
The new season premieres Sept. 2, locally at 2 p.m. on Channel 7. Meredith Vieira left the hosting gig in May after overseeing some 2,000 episodes.
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And so I've decided to explore the seacoast communities and their historical societies. The first one I chose to visit is Hampton, because its historical society has a complex of buildings called the Tuck Museum located right across the street from Founder's Park. I am descended from a dozen of the families commemorated on plaques here, so I certainly wanted to see this landmark. I also noted that the museum complex included plenty of exhibits on tools and things to occupy Hubby whilst I spent some time in the library. If not, it is near enough to the beach so a companion could check out the seashore if you wish some time alone with the collections. The museum complex has five buildings, including a barn, fire house, and one room school house.
|President Franklin Pierce's walking cane
(he married local girl Jane Means Appleton,
born in Hampton March 12, 1806)
The first thing I did upon hearing some wonderful comments about Tuck Museum was to check out the website. There you can find the hours, days, directions, and general information to plan your trip. If you are coming from far, this is valuable and timesaving. Fortunately for me, the Tuck Museum is less than an hour from Londonderry. There was a map of the family stones at Founder's Park, and I printed this out to find the stones I wanted to photograph. I also checked their genealogy link to see if there was information on the families I wanted to research (thirty three surnames are listed on the website, but the collections contain many more families).
The Tuck Museum was well staffed the Sunday afternoon I visited, with five volunteers manning the tours and the research room. At one point, Hubby and I were the only folks there, so we had plenty of people to answer questions and help us find books and materials. They also sold many good resources there such as burial ground guides, books, maps, and gifts. Some of these are also available to purchase online, such as the cemetery guides, and History of Hampton: The Early Settlers 1630 – 1730, by Edmund Willoughby Toppan, which I bought online through the Tuck Museum. It is not available on Amazon. This store page also has a link to many downloadable maps.
|Volunteer Eleanor Becotte and Yours Truly
in the Tuck Museum library.
Ellie's new book about the poet Whittier is out this month!
My visit was on the first weekend of October, and the museum shop was out of some material I wished to purchase, but I was able to order it online. The staff was very helpful about giving addresses and information about the historical society holdings and locations in nearby communities such as North Hampton and Seabrook. They also knew where historic houses and cemeteries were located, and were able to give decent directions. For example, I wanted to see the 1691 grave of Edward Gove in Pine Grove cemetery, and the docent also told me that there was a historical marker in the center of the cemetery with information about Edward Gove, but the two were not adjacent to each other (this could have been confusing if I wasn't warned ahead of time!) It is definitely a place I will be revisiting soon, since there are many more things I would like to see in the research room and more nearby cemeteries and historical sites to see. Best of all, admission is FREE!
Hampton Historical Society http://www.hamptonhistoricalsociety.org/index.htm
The genealogy page describing holdings in the Tuck Museum library: http://www.hamptonhistoricalsociety.org/genhist.htm
The Founder's Park page, with a link to the map showing the family surname stones: http://www.hamptonhistoricalsociety.org/foundpk.htm
The Tuck Museum blog "History Happens" by Betty More http://tuckmuseum.wordpress.com/
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Minneapolis SWAT team leader found guilty in bar assault
MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis police SWAT team leader was convicted Saturday of assaulting a man while off-duty at a bar.
An Anoka County District Court jury decided that Sgt. David Clifford was not acting in self-defense when he punched Brian Vander Lee, 44, on June 16 at Tanners Station in Andover. Jurors found Clifford, 48, guilty of first-, third- and fifth-degree assault.
"It's just a very sobering moment when a police officer is convicted of a crime, but we felt we had to pursue justice," Anoka County Attorney Tony Palumbo said after the verdict.
Clifford will be sentenced May 29. A seven-year sentence is recommended under Minnesota sentencing guidelines, Palumbo said.
The incident was captured on a dark and sometimes grainy surveillance video. Clifford testified he approached Vander Lee, who was sitting at the next table, and told him to curb his loud and abusive language.
He and his attorney, Fred Bruno, claimed throughout the two-week trial that Vander Lee, who was drunk, then stood up, cocked his left arm and attempted to throw a punch. Clifford reacted with a right, and Vander Lee fell backward and cracked his head against the outdoor patio floor. Vander Lee later needed three brain surgeries.
Closing arguments concluded Friday and the jury deliberated for several hours.
Bruno did not immediately respond to requests for comment made Saturday afternoon.
Assistant Anoka County Attorney Blair Buccicone said he called Vander Lee immediately after the verdict and described him as "emotional."
"He's always just wanted it over. If you think about it, your whole life changes, you're thrown into the public eye, there's a video," Buccicone said. "Some of the things that were being said about him on message boards and things like that were just awful. He just feels relief. He hasn't been vindictive at all."
On the Minneapolis police Facebook page, Police Chief Janee Harteau released a statement calling the situation tragic for everyone involved.
"The actions of David Clifford, although off-duty at the time of the altercation, are not consistent with our department core values and high standards," Harteau wrote.


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LONDON — Cheap candy or finest nougat truffle?
Reviewers gave their verdicts Wednesday on a new stage musical version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," after its rapturous reception from a star-studded opening-night audience in London.
The Sam Mendes-directed musical, based on Roald Dahl's much-loved and twice film-adapted children's book, was cheered Tuesday by a packed house of theatergoers that included actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Uma Thurman and members of the Dahl family.
The show features new songs by "Hairspray" duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, along with extravagant sets and costumes designed to bring to life the magical confectionary factory run by the flamboyant yet secretive Willy Wonka.
Reviews were generally positive, with critics in the Guardian, Independent and Daily Mirror newspapers and Time Out magazine all awarding "Charlie" four out of five stars.
Many reviewers had praise for the deft direction of Oscar-winner Mendes — in his follow-up to James Bond thriller "Skyfall" — and for Mark Thompson's spectacular design.
Thompson draws on a bag of tricks that ranges from animation to puppetry to shadow projections, and fans of the book will find its most amazing flights of fantasy recreated onstage, from the factory's chocolate waterfall to Wonka's great glass elevator and his workforce of diminutive Oompa Loompas.
"The sets are massive, the special effects amazing," said Daily Telegraph critic Charles Spencer. "If you want to see a fat boy sucked up a transparent tube or a girl metamorphosing before your very eyes into a giant blueberry, this is undoubtedly the show for you."
Playwright David Greig has adapted Dahl's story of poor but imaginative Charlie Bucket, who finds a golden ticket that allows him a tour of Wonka's top-secret facility — alongside the far less wholesome children Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee and Veruca Salt.
They come to gloriously sticky ends in Dahl's satire-tinged tale, updated by Greig and the songwriters for the era of the Internet and reality TV.
Douglas Hodge, one of Britain's leading musical-theater performers, won praise as a charming and unsettling Willy Wonka, a role played onscreen by Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp. The Times' Libby Purves called him "a clear, beautiful singer and an actor with immense heart ... (who) finds something mournful and damaged in Wonka."
Nigel Planer, a former star of 1980s comedy "The Young Ones," is the cast's other big name as Charlie's Grandpa Joe.
Producers are hoping "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" — which is booking until May 2014 at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane — will be a stage hit to match Mendes' screen James Bond blockbuster.
It's the second Dahl musical running in the West End, alongside "Matilda," which has taken Broadway by storm and won four Tony Awards earlier this month.
Some felt "Charlie," in comparison, fell short of true magic.
Spencer was not alone in finding the songs "serviceable rather than memorable" — "Pure Imagination," the standout song, comes from the 1971 movie — and The Independent's Paul Taylor felt it "doesn't quite produce the inspired sugar-rush of magic that's required."


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A video instructional series on American poetry for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 13 one-hour video programs and coordinated books; also available on CD-ROM
1. Elizabeth Bishop
From childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, this program illustrates the
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2. Hart Crane
Diverse locations and dramatizations of his life illustrate Crane's poetry and his
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3. Emily Dickinson
Dramatic scenarios and New England landscapes illuminate the passionate genius of
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4. T. S. Eliot
Eliot's life, influence, and poetry from the bold originality of "Prufrock" to the
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Frost's image as elder statesman is vividly contrasted with his vigorous, poetic
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6. Langston Hughes
Hughes wrote of the beauty, dignity, and heritage of blacks in America. Interviews,
music, and dance performances convey his work and influence, discussed by James
Baldwin and biographer Arnold Rampersad. Go to this unit.
7. Robert Lowell
Lowell's political passion encompasses much of his greatest poetry. Lowell himself
reads from his work. Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Hass, and others discuss his
development and style as illustrated by "Lord Weary's Castle" and "Life Studies." Go to this unit.
8. Marianne Moore
Funny, formidable, and paradoxical, the poet and her work are analyzed by critics
and friends, including Monroe Wheeler, Grace Shulman, and Patricia Willis. Her
most memorable poems display her power of observation and moral force. Go to this unit.
9. Sylvia Plath
The creative intensity with which Plath confronted her experiences as daughter, wife, mother, and writer is explored in documentary and archival footage intercut with visualizations of her work. Go to this unit.
10. Ezra Pound
The most controversial of American poets — artistic catalyst, legendary confidant, and author of brilliant cantos — Ezra Pound and his poetry and role in the modernist
movement are explored by friends and critics. Go to this unit.
11. Wallace Stevens
Stevens's flamboyant verbal technique and philosophical vision of American life are
beautifully illustrated by archival footage. Go to this unit.
12. Walt Whitman
Brilliant readings of Whitman's poems demonstrate his American vision and style and
vividly convey their poignance and sheer power. Whitman's sources, including
Emerson, the King James Bible, opera, and political oratory, are revealed. Go to this unit.
13. William Carlos Williams
"No ideas but in things," Williams's aesthetic dictum sought to capture, not analyze.
A collage of documentary footage, interviews, animation, and dramatization capture
the poet's often visual work and intense life. Go to this unit.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
- 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Canceled - AHS and GED Commencement Exercises
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AHS/GED Graduation has been cancelled for tonight, Thursday, January 17, 2013 due to the possibility of inclement weather. Further information will be provided when available.
Please join College and Career Readiness in honoring AdultrnHigh School (AHS) and General Educational Development (GED) graduates fromrnChatham, Harnett and Lee counties.
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
This important-sounding quote was spoken by some guy after you die during Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and it still holds true. Weapons in videogames, too, keep getting more and more powerful, yet there are still ones included in games that make us wish we had the raw power of some sticks and stones instead. We're not talking the purposely-terrible joke weapons that show up sometimes (like the mop in Chrono Trigger or the Bubble Gun in Earthworm Jim 2) we're talking the weapons the developers thought you'd actually use at some point. These are the 15 worst weapons in videogame history.
The Needler can actually be a pretty effective weapon in Halo assuming the target is totally still, your aim is on, and you have enough ammo. Unfortunately, players tend to move around in Halo (sometimes in different directions), getting the aim dead-on can be difficult, and if you don't have enough ammo, you're doomed. Hell, it's not like they're not being upfront with us at least to "needle" typically means "to goad, provoke, or tease." Basically, it's a weapon designed to annoy your enemies not kill them. And unfortunately, "killing" is a pretty important thing to do in Halo. Luckily, the Needler was improved in subsequent Halo games, stealing the raw power once held by the mighty Pistol.
Grenades are pretty useful items in the later Fallout games, thanks to a rejiggering of the skills. However, back in the isometric, PC-only Fallout days, there was a skill called "Throwing", only useful for grenades and thrown weapons (like spears and
well, mainly spears). If you put any skill points into the category, you were absolutely crazy grenades were somewhat rare, usually ineffective, and there were about 50 other categories that were more useful to you. As a result, attempting to throw a grenade without a decent skill level would usually result in the grenade blowing up right next to you instead of anywhere near where you meant to toss it. Suddenly your character totally lacked the basic competence to not throw an active grenade right next to his ankle. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if Vic wasn't "accidentally" shooting you in the back at the same time.
There are some truly horrible things about leading a race in Mario Kart: the constant fear of being blue-shelled, the stress of needing to powerslide every turn, but maybe the worst part is that you get the worst items. Odds are you're going to get a single green shell or a single banana peel every time. At least the shell can be shot forwards or backwards and can be pretty useful. The single banana peel? Not so much. A stationary distraction if left behind, a piss-poor shield if held onto, and you're almost definitely going to run into it yourself if you shoot it in front of you.
Fighting vampires is never easy, but the daggers in Castlevania want to make it especially hard on you. They're weak, difficult to aim properly, and you're almost definitely going to switch out a way better sub-weapon for it at some point and be really pissed. It's almost as bad as Alucard realizing his dad just named him his own name backwards.
To be fair, you could say the worst weapon in Contra is "anything other than the Spread Gun" because, c'mon, the Spread Gun is maybe the best gun of all-time. But the flamethrower stands out above the rest as the one particularly useless gun in Contra. It's crazy to imagine a flamethrower being the worst weapon in any game, but the Contra one was special. It was essentially shooting a slow, circling fireball at enemies. Even the laser was better, even if it was hard as hell to aim properly. Maybe the next time the government sends in two shirtless dudes to take on an army, at least give them enough Spread Guns to seal the deal.


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Both Republicans and Democrats want to know why there wasn't there better oversight of the Treasury Department, and why Congress was repeatedly misinformed even after asking direct questions. "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory reports.
As the House Ways and Means Committee conducted a hearing Friday on targeted scrutiny of conservative advocacy groups by the Internal Revenue Service, Republicans reacted with dismay to news that the IRS official in charge of the conservative targeting is now leading the IRS office responsible for administering the tax provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
"Absolutely outrageous," said Sen. Roy Blunt, R- Mo. in his Twitter account.
The IRS official, Sarah Hall Ingram, served as head of the office that determined whether certain groups would be eligible for tax-exempt status between 2009 and 2012 and is now director of the IRS Affordable Care Act office.
According to an estimate last year from the Government Accountability Office, total IRS implementation costs for the health care law would reach $881 million through September of this year, with most of that money coming from a fund in the Department of Health and Human Services.
In his budget proposal for the new fiscal year, President Barack Obama requested $44 million in new funding for the IRS to implement the health care law.
While the Department of Health and Human Services is the lead agency for issuing regulations under the new law, the IRS and the Department of Labor have key roles in carrying the law.
Obama's budget proposal said, "Tax provisions play an important role in the health care law's implementation, and many of its provisions are scheduled to take effect in 2014. The Budget provides funding for the IRS to implement these tax provisions and to respond effectively to public inquiries about the Affordable Care Act's new benefits and standards."
Starting next year, the Affordable Care Act will impose penalties for noncompliance on those uninsured people who do not purchase health insurance. It will be the job to of the IRS to determine and collect those penalties.
Also certain individuals, who purchase coverage through the new insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, will be eligible for subsidies or premium assistance in the form of federal tax credits. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 19 million people will receive premium tax credits.
This story was originally published on Fri May 17, 2013 10:31 AM EDT


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Dear Your Holiness Lyrics
Hey mom, they left me here alone
Won't someone save me?
Hey God, I'm out here on my own
So now will you save me?
I think it's funny that you've been quite for so long
When you're quiet no one proves you wrong
Dear Your Holiness, your army's safe and sound
They're down here dying for you
I don't know how they found me here
Maybe You can trick a lot of them
Maybe if you fool the best of them, the rest will come around
We're all scared so they dressed you up in all these different names I've gotta find peace with myself before I give you all
Before I give you anything at all
I've been thinking that there's something more and that you'd come down and tell me yourself
Now I realize it's a waste of time another penny thrown down the well


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Locate target. Eject. Deploy package. Return to your vehicle. Sounds easy, but if your vehicle is a moving jet, and the target is a chopper high above you, things get hard. Even if it's in Battlefield 4. Here's YouTuber ponylion pulling off this pretty cool maneuver like it's the easiest thing out there.
That's a tough one! What's next? Dropping C4 on a jet mid-air?
Chopper Rendeplast - Battlefield 4 China Rising [YouTube]
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PASS SQLSaturday is a free training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. These community events offer content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and more. This event will be held on Nov 09 2013 at University of South Florida (USF), College of Business Bldg., 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, Florida, 33620, United States
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SQLSaturday BI & Big Data Edition is a free training event for everyone interested in learning about Business Intelligence & Big Data with a focus in the Microsoft SQL Server platform and related Microsoft technologies. This event will be held November 9th, 2013 at University of South Florida (USF), in the College of Business building located at 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620 across the Sun Dome parking lot area (see map). In addition to our Saturday free event, we will also host four (4) paid full day pre-conferences with a selected group of SQL Server and BI experts, book authors and MVP. See the complete list of prec-cons below.
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Precon #1: Practical Self-Service BI with PowerPivot for Excel (Thursday 11/7/2013)Presenter: Bill Pearson, MVP, CPA, CITP, CMA, CIA, MCDBA, MCS)Full-day, hands-on introduction to using PowerPivot for Excel to deliver self-service business intelligence. The focus of the course is to help those new to PowerPivot to become familiar with the assembly of data from diverse sources into models that deliver business intelligence upon demand. Participants will gain exposure to accessing and relating data, and to employing the Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) language, to construct and share PowerPivot applications that support analysis and reporting throughout the enterprise.
Precon #2: Build a Data Warehouse in 1 Day (Thursday 11/7/2013)Presenter: Jose Chinchilla, MCITPReady for a full day of fun and interactive learning? Join Business Intelligence Architect and SQL Server expert, Jose Chinchilla, MCITP, for a day of hands-on training on architecting, modeling and developing a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solution. We will start by analyzing the business requirements, then we'll move on to develop ETLs and a cube and finalize with reports and Dashboards.You will have the opportunity to follow along the exercises and create fact and dimension tables, SSIS Packages, SSAS Cube and SSRS Reports.
Precon #3: Fundamentals of Microsoft Data Science (Friday 11/8/2013)Presenter: Mark Tabladillo, MVP, Ph.D.Microsoft provides enterprise-level data mining technology, ranging from supporting individual analysts through scalable server solutions. This one-day seminar provides an overview of advanced Microsoft-based analytics within the context of the applied scientific method. The key technologies demonstrated will be SQL Server 2012 (Analysis Services) and Azure-based HDInsight (Hadoop and Mahout). Some guidance will also be provided for the R and Julia languages. The course instructor brings his past experience in not only consulting but also from teaching statistics at the undergraduate and graduate level (Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Phoenix). The overall goal is to explain data mining in a scientifically accurate way while making the technology practically accessible and even fun. Preview a screencast of this precon at: http://www.screencast.com/t/RRyNLGDigDJU
Precon #4: Real World SSIS: A Survival Guide (Friday 11/8/2013)Pesenter: Tim Mitchell, MVPMoving and transforming data can be a difficult job. Connecting to various endpoints, applying complex transformations, performing validation checks, creating an appropriate audit trail, and other tasks can make the ETL developer feel like he/she is spinning plates. Even with powerful tools such SQL Server Integration Services, designing and maintaining a proper and well-performing extraction/transformation/loading (ETL) infrastructure is a significant undertaking.In this full-day preconference seminar, we'll explore some common (and a few uncommon) challenges facing ETL developers, followed by practical solutions and recommended practices from the field using SQL Server Integration Services.
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