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Praise for Trusting God
"Reading this devotional feels like you're chatting with your best girlfriends over lunch! These women make you feel like they know you—that they know what it feels like to be you. I love the variety and short length of each daily entry—you can read one in the time it takes to finish your morning coffee! Practical, sweet, and inspiring, Trusting God will help you do just that. And by the last page, you too will have some new girlfriends—Mary, Gwen, and Sharon!"
—Jennifer Rothschild, author of Self Talk, Soul Talk and Lessons I Learned in the Dark
"Girlfriends in God—Gwen, Sharon, and Mary—are some of the wisest women I know. My friends make trusting God seem simple, possible, and attainable. A girlfriend is someone who watches out for you, encourages you, and provides opportunity for you—and that is exactly what you will experience from these Girlfriends in God. If your life is feeling unstable, unsure, unreliable, or the path feels unknown, Trusting God will keep you under God's umbrella of
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"Trusting God in this world of uncertainty and economic upheaval isn't easy. We all need to learn, relearn, or be reminded daily of the truth that God can be trusted for each day's problems. True to their real and relatable style, this wonderful Girlfriends in God devotional is just what you need to encourage your heart and refresh your spirit."
—Georgia Shaffer, licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and author of Taking Out Your Emotional Trash


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Concentration levels in the soil were up to 20 percent in some spots, when they should be at zero
By Verena Dobnik
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NEW YORK — Federal investigators say underground tests conducted in the hours after a deadly New York City gas explosion detected the presence of natural gas.
NTSB team member Robert Sumwalt says the latest information seems to support the hypothesis that the explosion, which killed eight people, was caused by a gas leak.
Sumwalt said Friday that the utility Consolidated Edison dug 50 holes about 18 to 24 inches deep around the blast site and measured gas levels in those cavities soon after the explosion.
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Chicago-area grandmother allegedly kills baby with sledgehammer
OAK LAWN, Illinois – A suburban Chicago woman is charged with murder in the death of her 6-month-old granddaughter.
Authorities said Monday that 61-year-old Alfreda Giedrojc of Oak Lawn used a sledgehammer and knife to kill baby Vivian Summers on Sunday morning. Prosecutors say the grandmother placed the baby on the floor and hit the baby repeatedly with the sledgehammer. They say the woman then retrieved a kitchen knife and slit the baby's throat.
Giedrojc is charged with first-degree murder and held without bond in the Cook County jail. A message left at a phone listing for Giedrojc in Oak Lawn was not immediately returned.
Oak Lawn Police Chief Michael Murray called the baby's death "a tragedy."


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The sellout crowd, the standing ovation at the end and the playoff chants were all fitting for a team and franchise that achieved against all odds this season.
Late Tuesday night in Oakland, one of the NBA's most rabid fan bases was rewarded when the Golden State Warriors clinched the franchise's second playoff berth in the past 19 years. Nobody celebrates these things better than the Warriors, who cashed in on their last playoff appearance in 2007 by shocking the Dallas Mavericks in the first round.
Warriors coach Mark Jackson has been a believer in his team all season and that faith has been realized now in the form of a team that won six of its past eight games to strut into the playoffs, as opposed to slipping through the back door.
"We celebrated, and rightfully so," Jackson told reporters afterwards, fighting back the tears that flowed in a reportedly emotional and raucous postgame locker room celebration. "People questioned us, and they should have. People doubted us, and they should have. But they underestimated the heart, the desire, the work ethic, the determination, the willingness to put in the time and then the favor of God."
Much like fellow Tuesday night playoff clincher Houston, the Warriors have arrived to the surprise of many. They've done it without the hype-train that has accompanied the Rockets' rise. There's no James Harden or Jeremy Lin headliner on this Warriors team (although an All-Star like David Lee and shooting star like Stephen Curry certainly deserve whatever plaudits come their way).
The Warriors' front office doesn't have a figure like Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, the Wizard of Advanced Metrics Oz, to point to. Warriors general manager Bob Myers has gone about his business without a ton of fanfare. He's plotting the course properly. The Warriors roster is sound. And they are built not just for a momentary playoff flash this time, but for a sustained period of playoff contention that Warriors fans have not experienced before.
It's the vision that Warriors owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber have talked about non-stop since taking over the franchise. They have a long-range plan, one that includes being a playoff regular and eventually a contender. When you're a lottery tea, it's just fantasy basketball … pipe dreaming, if you will. But when you are a playoff team, the vision is tangible.
"We should enjoy this," Lacob said after Tuesday's playoff-clinching win. "We've got to celebrate the little moments, too. Every step counts. This is an important first step for this franchise and this ownership group and for all of these guys and the coaches."
How soon the Warriors take that second step remains to be seen. The playoffs provide all sort of opportunities for upstarts to attempt to "shock the world."
One thing seems certain, though, and that is the Warriors shouldn't have to endure another six-year wait between playoff trips.


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Lenovo ThinkVision LT1421 Portable Monitor Review: A Second Display for Road Warriors
Introduction, Design and Display Quality
I'm a multi-monitor addict.
My addiction started many years ago. I had a rather lame customer service job, and as part of my job I needed to manage spreadsheets with customer interactions while also filling in data on a separate, large window. To accomplish this, two monitors were required. I was amazed at the efficiency of the setup, and I bought a second monitor for home use within a few months. Now, I can't imagine using my desktop with a single display.
Laptops, however, are a different story. Multiple displays can actually be even more useful for road warriors because of the limited resolution of many laptops, yet there are issues with using multiple monitors on the road. Carrying around even a relatively small desktop monitor is out of the question, leaving few options.
Enter the Lenovo LT1421. This unique mobile monitor has a 14" panel and, according to Lenovo, it's portable enough to be carried about with minimal hassle. Has the company managed to create a unique, must-have product for mobile productivity, or is multi-monitor use with a laptop still a concept that's better on paper than in reality?
Continue reading our review of the Lenovo ThinkVision LT1421 Portable Monitor!!
In order for a mobile monitor to make sense, it needs to be really, really small. This is where the idea of carrying about a small standard monitor falls flat on its face. Though you might be able to fit a 15" display in a bag, it will be so thick and heavy that carrying it will be impractical.
Lenovo made every effort to avoid this problem, and they're largely successful. This is one slim piece of kit. Though the visible panel is a 14" widescreen, the thickness of the display is only about .85 inches. In addition to this, the display ships with a somewhat cheesy, but effective, plastic panel that provides protection when the display is in a bag or briefcase.
As a result, you won't notice much extra bulk, although it is there and will be noticeable in smaller bags. A messenger bag designed for a 13 inch laptop, for example, usally won't have enough room. On the other hand, my backpack with a laptop compartment can easily hold the LT1421 and my MacBook at the same time, and the extra weight is not noticeable when I have both backpack straps over my shoulders.
To keep this display upright, a built-in stand can be found attached to the back. It swivels outwards, effectively operating like the stand on a picture frame. This means there is no height adjustment available, but adding that would obviously increase the stand's weight and size. Lenovo made the right choice by keeping things simple. A VESA mount is also not included.
Display Quality
The panel on the LT1421 offers a resolution of 1366x768 and is coated with Lenovo's typical anti-glare treatment. Reflections are not a problem, even in outdoors settings, where only the shadows of objects are visible. With that said, however, I wouldn't call this display comfortable to use in bright rooms. The backlight isn't strong, even at its highest setting.
Image quality is another weakness. Although black levels are fine, contrast is poor, and gradient test images revealed significant banding throughout the entire image. These downsides were visible in images and video clips as well. This is obviously a monitor that focus a productivity rather than entertainment.
Indeed, most laptops have superior image quality, which isn't a compliment to the LT1421. This portable monitor can only really be recommended for text editing and web surfing. Attempting to edit video or create images would be a pain.
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Can you give the dimensions of this portable Lenovo LCD monitor?
Do u know where i could buy this monitor (in europe)?
1. Does it draw power from USB or is there another connection?
2. Is the USB cable molded, or connected and if so what size?
3. How bright (nits) is the screen? Daylight viewable?
Do u know where i could buy this monitor (in indonesia)?
What about video playback capabilities? Have you tested that?
Wonder if you could peel out the crappy 1366x768 panel and put in a Full HD one.


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Humans are generally a actual aloof and egoistic species. For instance, bodies accept that they are afar from the Primates for a amount of reasons. Abounding accept they can appearance affinity and added animals cannot do this, but this is a complete aberration and it has been accurate over and over afresh that abounding animals appearance affinity and some of these animals accept IQs of beneath than 20. Others say that bodies are acute because they plan ahead.
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She Laughed!!
There is something about the arrival of spring that brings on a nesting instinct in me and my oldest daughter, Anna. As the days grow longer and the temperatures grow warmer, we get this urge to make our house more homey – inside and out. Yesterday afternoon, as the younger kids played with neighborhood friends, we sat in the sun and dreamed up the things we would like to accomplish to make the yard look better and the interior more attractive. We dream big. Never mind that her spring break is over now and she's in for the busiest six weeks of the semester. Never mind that we're in the middle of Lent, with Holy Week and Easter right around the corner – something sure to fill my time for the next month. By the time we both come back up for air, the weather will be hot, the humidity high, and our nesting instinct extinct. But this weekend – look out! We hit the ground running. (No pun intended, but you may want to keep in mind the "hit the ground" part.)
We started inside. As most homes do – I pray ours isn't the only one – clutter piles up in every corner. The clutter had to go. With trash bags in hand, we chucked any possible sentimentality for objects we've collected into the bags along with the objects themselves. We made our new vacuum cleaner work overtime. We made multiple trips from our upstairs to the trash can outside. On one of those many trips (once again, no pun intended) I had a trash bag in my hand as I started down the stairs. I was wearing my favorite old flip-flops. (Emphasis on "old." The bottoms are worn slick. And maybe I need to add another qualifier – my former favorite old flip flops.)
Somehow, I'm not sure how since it happened so fast, my slick-bottomed flip-flops slid off the edge of one of the steps about halfway down the staircase. I landed on my bottom – hard – but I didn't stay there. After a very brief pause, I continued my bump-bump-bump journey down the steps, unable to get any traction with my feet. Apparently there was a smidgeon of sentimentality left for the trash in that bag, because I managed to hold it up safely during the entire ordeal.
I know what you're thinking. Anna came running to make sure I was okay, right? Only half right. She came running, all right, and arrived in time to witness my final bumps down the stairs. But instead of checking to make sure that dear old mom was in one piece and okay, she rolled in the floor (literally) at the top of the steps, laughing so hard that she couldn't breathe nor talk.It's a sickness in my family. Really, it is. It comes from my mom's side of the family. Whenever witnessing a fall, certain members of my family (my mom and my daughter, for example), dissolve in laughter.
I remember going with my mom to the Holiday Inn in Anderson for a reception of some sort back when I was a preteen. A woman tripped on the steps in front of us and fell. I was mortified because my mom laughed.
Years later I worked with my parents, my grandfather, and an aunt and uncle to demolish an old tenant house on the farm. We were on top of the house, removing the tin from the roof with crowbars. My grandfather, pushing 80 at the time, stepped off one of the rafters, The wood beneath him gave way. He would have fallen all the way through, only he was straddling a rafter beam. Yeah – ouch. My mom and my aunt laughed!
They aren't being mean or rude or heartless when they laugh, although I'm not sure that a bystander would get that. I think it is a reflex reaction to anxiety, sudden unexpected happenings, and maybe even pain. Back when we lived in Landrum, our family doctor said he wanted to be in the delivery room on the day Anna gives birth to her first child. He said this because every time he treated her for an athletic injury, and there were many, many of those in the ten years we lived there, she laughed her way through the examinations. He said she would probably be the first woman ever to laugh her way through labor and delivery and he wanted to be there to see it.
No, I wasn't hurt too much in the fall. Yes, I laughed, too. I guess I have at least some of the genes in me as well. I survived with a skinned elbow, a bruised foot, and a very sore tailbone.
Anna didn't go to church today, which may have been a good thing. Something tells me that each time I gingerly took my seat during worship, she would have remembered yesterday's bump-bump-bump debacle and would have giggled her way through church.
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A Dialogue with the Tempter
At the end of a long and weary day, with the last drops of twilight bleeding out of the darkening midsummer sky, I turned my key in the lock of my front door. I set my bags down, stepped inside... and paused, one foot on the threshold. I was certain I had shut off all the lights before leaving that morning, but my home wasn't fully dark. From the door of my office came the unmistakable blue glow of a computer screen, and in that harsh light, I could see a long shadow thrown on the wall.
Gathering my courage, I stepped into the room. There was a stranger sitting at my desk, silhouetted in the glow of the monitor, his eyes and teeth visible as bright glints in a face full of shadow. But his profile was familiar, and it took me only a moment to recognize it as so very like my own... and then he swiveled his chair to face me, smiling over steepled fingers.
"Good evening," said the Tempter.
My first heart-pounding jolt of adrenaline had already melted into the peaceful familiarity of dreams. "Make yourself at home, why don't you," I said dryly.
"Thank you, I already have." He chuckled. "You've been working late. I thought I would do you a favor."
He beckoned at the screen. I glanced at it and saw what he had typed. "This is... you want me to publish this?"
"But of course. I know how you hate to fall behind on your writing."
"Some of this phrasing looks familiar," I said, scanning his half-written essay. An uncomfortable realization was creeping over me. "I think you had a hand in some of my last few essays. I think you were holding the pen sometimes."
He grinned, saying nothing. The light glinted white off his teeth.
"I should have known," I muttered. "I've encountered you too many times not to realize when it's your hand on my shoulder."
"And yet," the Tempter said reasonably, "what have I said that was untrue? Didn't I tell you the last time we met that elections don't bring change? And now, a few years later, look where we stand. Was I right, or was I right? I know you consider me your enemy, but I'm really not. Think of me as the part of you that tells you the hard truths you don't want to hear. I'm your inner skeptic, the one who keeps you from straying into self-delusion."
"And what is this truth that I don't want to hear?"
"You cherish the thought of a world in which the wealthy will be benevolent, in which power will be freely shared. It doesn't work like that; it never has and it never will. The wealthy want to accumulate more wealth, the powerful want to gain more power. That's the one great truth of human nature you persist in denying. Ironic, isn't it, since you so often excoriate religious theology for being built on a false conception of human nature?" He smiled lazily. "All I ask is that you acknowledge this. Doing anything else is like repeatedly sticking your hand into a fire. You'll get burned every time. You can help a few people, your family and friends, maybe. I'm not denying that. But to cling to the hope of making any larger change, that's just a fool's dream."
"We went through this last time, didn't we?" I parried. "Not even you can deny that progress does happen. People do change their minds. From an individual vantage point it seems glacially slow, but on the time scale of history, it's incredibly obvious."
"I don't deny that change happens in unusual and isolated cases," he said. "When the time and the place are right, when a thousand other random factors line up in just the right way, it can happen. But we neither understand, nor can we create, the conditions that bring it about. And when we try to force it, all we get is chaos and disaster. Look at what's going on in the Middle East. They rose up to demand democracy, and what has it brought them? Civil war and disintegration, people being beaten or slaughtered or raped, economies even more depressed and stagnant than before, and Islamic theocrats winning elections when they hold them. You call this progress? Defenders of free speech being shot down in the streets. You call this progress? Skeptics and atheists being punished and imprisoned for debunking people's comforting delusions, or even just for existing. You call this progress?"
"I would be foolish to claim that there's no evil in the world," I acknowledged. "I see things every day in the news that depress or outrage me. That's why I'm driven to write in the first place, as you well know. Nor did I ever say that social change was as easy as riding an escalator. There are always setbacks, local reversals. There's a lot in the Middle East that doesn't look hopeful, it's true. But then again, democracy is a hard thing to get right. Every other country that's become a democracy went through convulsions just like this. Sometimes it took several tries. Some of them, including this one, had civil wars!
"But I think people, in general, are more good than evil. The biggest obstacle to our progress is superstition - false beliefs about the nature of the world that persuade them to do evil in the mistaken belief that they're doing good. In almost every case I've seen, when they shed those beliefs, people really do treat others better. That's what you always miss - evil comes from ignorance, and ignorance can be corrected! It's not going to end all our problems, but it's a big step forward, and I think it's one that's worth fighting for."
The Tempter let out a long, slow breath. "Ahh. I'll grant that the majority of people aren't actively malicious; you and I both know we could never build a stable society if that were the case. But I think what you miss is that they aren't actively good either. By and large, they're simply apathetic. They don't care about injustice, as long as it's not happening to them, and even then, they'll usually rather put up with it than try to change it. You noticed yourself - maybe with a little help from me," he added with a low laugh, "that so many of them don't even bother to vote. Why do you think that is?
"You think they don't have the time? You think they mean to, but forget? Year after year, they forget? How very unfortunate." His tone was singsong now, mocking. "Please. Don't be naive. It's because they just don't care: either they've given up, or it never mattered to them to start with. Face it, all the political issues you're so passionate about - they're a niche interest. The majority of people think of politics as weather - things in their life just change from time to time, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, but not predictably or for any reason. They don't know the real causes of what's going on, and they don't want to know. They're not involved because they don't want to be involved."
"In times of prosperity, I think people do tune out of politics," I admitted. "But when things get bad, when the times demand action, they rise to the challenge. Just look at the headlines these last few years. Sure, we're seeing disappointments. We're seeing oligarchies cracking down, old guards trying to reassert themselves. But we're also seeing people, ordinary people, take to the streets and take a hand in shaping their own destinies, in ways they haven't done in decades. They're realizing how much power they have if they choose to exercise it."
The Tempter scoffed. "Those democratic protests, whether they're crowds in the Middle East or people sitting in city squares in the U.S. and Europe, aren't the will of the people. It's not a tidal wave of ordinary citizens ready to rise up and change the course of their democracy, as I know you imagine. In reality, it's a tiny minority of the disaffected making noise, and even they have no real plan for what they want to accomplish. Disgruntlement isn't a political platform. And if by some miracle they did seize power, they'd soon descend into squabbling and authoritarianism just like their precursors did. It's not an unfortunate fluke that this keeps happening, it's inherent to your psychology. Face it: human nature is something you can't change. The more you struggle against this, the worse off you'll be."
And just like that, I saw through him. "Oh, you wily Tempter," I said, almost with admiration. "I see what you're trying to do. You attack people in so many ways. If you can't appeal to their pessimism, you appeal to their optimism. Raise their hopes high so you can dash them. Persuade them they can pick up the world so they'll be crushed when they can't budge it. Encourage them to take every evil as a personal affront, so they'll be devastated by the ones they can't prevent.
"I know I can't change the world singlehandedly," I went on. "How could I? No one can do that, not billionaires, not people with much bigger platforms than me. The world is a huge place, with a lot of inertia, and it takes a heavy shove over a long period of time to change its course. I can't move it myself, no matter where I stand or how long my lever. All I can do is join in when I see other people pushing, add to their effort however I can, and not torture myself with all the things that are beyond my power. Sometimes I forget this, I know, and when I do, I need to be reminded of it. If I ever fail to temper my optimism with realism, if I ever fall into the trap of believing I can fix everything myself, I trust you'll be there to disabuse me of that notion. But for now, you've taken your best shot, and I don't have to answer you any further. It's time for you to leave my house."
"You can't get rid of me forever, you know," he said menacingly. "Whether you see me or not, I'll always be whispering in your ear. I'll always come back, and when you least expect it, I'll find my way in again."
"I'm well aware of that," I said. "Now get out."
In mid-glare, the Tempter flickered, and the room was suddenly empty. My computer monitor was dark and quiescent, and I was alone in a silent house.
With a sigh, I sat down in the chair so abruptly vacated. I turned on the lamp, instantly filling the room with warm light. With the press of a button, my computer screen shimmered into life, and I slid out the keyboard and began typing. There was much more that had to be said before I could rest.
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- Patients from low-income neighborhoods are most at risk of negative health impacts.
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- Warren also touches on other parallels between the show and our modern world, such as inequality, political favoritism of the elite, and the dire impact of different leadership styles on the lives of the people.
- Her review serves as another example of using Game of Thrones as a political analogy and a tool for framing political narratives.
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Randy Yorks N-sider
To "Respond to Randy" click on the above link and choose "Randy York's N-sider" under "Area of Interest" on the new screen. Please include your name and hometown and share your thoughts on your experiences with Tom Osborne. Your ideas may be published on "Randy York's N-sider" page on Huskers.com. Please check back for updated comments.
Tom Osborne: That Was The Week That Was
The minute I looked at front page feature stories on Tom Osborne in both The Omaha World-Herald and The Lincoln Journal Star on Sunday, I thought of a satirical television comedy program that originated in the 1960s on the British Broadcasting Company and later became popular in the United States.
It was called That Was The Week That Was, and David Frost used those six words to sign off after every episode.
I'm relatively sure that Tom Osborne, with a bit of satire in mind himself, would like to tell everyone that the week that was will never be again, and no one is happier about that than he is.
The Week That Was
The Week That Was
I understand where Coach Osborne is coming from . . . I really do, and anyone who tried to keep up with him in his first week on the job would understand his position as well.
But after 255 wins, three national championships, six years in the U.S. House of Representatives and taking over an athletic department in one of the most crucial times in Nebraska history, stepping outside the limelight becomes a bit more difficult.
That's why, over the last six days, among other important things, Osborne has accommodated a small army of local, state and regional media. He has done national interviews with the Jim Rome Show, ESPN College GameDay, ESPN Radio with Mike Tirico and Kirk Herbstreit and with Fox Sports Radio Nationwide.
Coach Osborne even squeezed in an interview with a USA Today writer on Saturday shortly before speaking at the Chancellor's Pregame Tailgate Party at the Student Union Ballroom. On Sunday, another national publication informed us that a writer is en route to Lincoln and will be camped out here all week.
In other words, The Week That Was looks like Another Week That Will Be.
While Coach begins to rebuild the process that will produce the type of positive national attention Nebraska fans traditionally enjoy, let me make a few observations relevant to his first week on the job.
- Bill Callahan and his coaching staff are embracing their relationship with Osborne, who insists that "I'm here to serve you; you're not here to serve me."
- Nebraska's football players are also enjoying their new relationship with the legendary coach. They've given him loud ovations both times he's addressed the team. And Head Athletic Trainer Jerry Weber says they love having pictures of Nebraska's All-American players hanging outside the locker room.
- Even though Coach was anointed a King at the recent Ak-Sar-Ben Coronation Ball in Omaha, he insists there are no magic wands for coaches or athletic directors. "I am not a genius, and I don't have a crystal ball," he says. "And I think most everyone knows that in athletics, there are no quick fixes."
- Osborne will continue to talk about the only culture he knows – organizational loyalty, work ethic, unity and sacrifice. He believes intensity and chemistry grow out of those four qualities.
- Osborne is in the process of meeting individually with every men's and women's team in the athletic department and will speak to prospective recruits in all sports when they are on campus.
- Last Thursday afternoon, Osborne addressed Doc Sadler's basketball team. Sitting at the training table for dinner that night, three of those players described Osborne's speech as "life changing." They said his insight also gave them a different focus on how to handle competitive demands.
- Jack Lemke, an NU sophomore middle distance runner who won three Nebraska Class A 800-meter titles at Omaha Benson and ran the second fastest 800-meter time in Nebraska prep history, must have heard the basketball players talking about Coach Osborne. A few minutes later, he asked: "When is Coach Osborne going to talk to the track team? Everyone who's heard him this week said he makes the hair on your arm stand straight up. I grew up idolizing that man, and now he's our athletic director. How cool is that?"
I understand why Coach Osborne wants to stay out of the limelight, so he can devote more time to inspiring our coaches and to helping the more than 500 Husker athletes he now leads and serves.
I also understand why so many fans are touched when they see or hear Coach Osborne. If you've had a personal experience with him, I'm interested in hearing about it. And even if you haven't had a personal experience with Coach, I'm sure that something he has said, or done – or even stands for – means something personally to you.
Let us know what you think. We just might share it with others.
The Voices of Husker Nation
"Over my years as a devoted fan of Nebraska football, I wrote several letters of support to Coach Osborne. I particularly admired the fact that he maintained his same steadfast perspective whether times were tough or triumphant. Living in the Chicago area, I was excited when I heard that Tom would be at a book signing for "Faith in the Game," which contained so many poignant personal revelations As the line moved forward, I heard Tom in his ever polite manner, as he welcomed each person and accommodated requests for special messages while signing their copies of the book. When it was my turn, he asked my name. When I told him, he remembered my letters of support and thanked me. I was stunned that with all of the people he met in his life, he remembered me. It is I who am thankful for his unselfish, humble service to the state and university he loves. I am ever proud of the academic and athletic accolades the program has received, so many of which are a direct result of Tom Osborne's leadership. Welcome back Dr. Tom". - Rich MacMillan
"My acquaintance with Tom goes back to the '60's when I met him while jogging over the noon hour in mushroom gardens. I would have to say that Tom, in his own decent and honorable way, is the most competitive person that I have ever known." - Charlie Wright
"I have never met Tom Osborne but one thing stands out more than anything is his story about winning the national title in 1970 over LSU. He was an assistant with Bob Devaney and his recollection that it wasn't that big of a deal. I think this was a story told by Nancy Osborne when at the time, she was questioning him about why he wasn't more happy about winning. His response was "It's more about the journey than the destination." I think this story was described in his book "More Than Winning," but it made me realize that this man is much more than a football coach and his life and the way he leads it is a perfect example of why he should be in the position he is currently in. I was at the Orange Bowl in Miami with the Cornhusker Marching Band the night he decided to go for two points to win the national title instead of "back into it" against the Miami Hurricanes. I remember thinking, win or lose, Coach Osborne did a great job of keeping the Huskers in that game. That game plus the 1994 Orange Bowl against Florida State that we lost 18-16 on a missed field goal made me realize that win or lose, effort means just as much as the outcome. In my opinion, there was no other logical choice for the Athletic Director position. I am grateful to Coach Osborne for his efforts and wish him all the best in his new job." - Jay Haden, Lincoln
"My experience with Tom began 60 years ago when I played against him in a YMCA flag football game. I later played all the high school sports with him along with being the student body treasurer when he was student body president. He has always been a leader and an inspiration to follow. There is no one who can bring the Husker program to where it needs to be better than Tom." - Don Kleiber
"I think you may have heard of Tom Osborne. He coached a few years ago.He wrote a book entitled "More Than Winning." He lost many big games....for the championships in 1983, 1994, and I'm sure there were others People said he couldn't win the big one. In four years he won three national championships. He didn't talk smack. He let the players play and the scoreboard at the end of the game did the talking. People in Nebraska like to win, but striving for Excellence and demonstrating great Character and competing doing your very best on and off the field was what Tom coached and mentored throughout his life time. He became a congressman. He ran for Governor....and lost. With the same character and humility (a quiet man of faith) he moved on. He taught a few classes on leadership on campus at Nebraska, and when the state of Nebraska needed him he didn't say, 'This job is below me and someone else's responsibility,' he stepped up to the plate and said, 'My friends and neighbors need my help, and I won't let them down. I will do my very best to help as much as I can. Even though it is a big job, and I don't know how things will turn out. I will do my very best. It's More than Winning." - Chris Pestal, Wahoo
"I've never formally met Tom Osborne, but I have had many opportunities to hear him speak and have seen him out in public. His words are always inspirational, but for me, I have been most moved by his actions. I was in the Lincoln High School Media Center one day several years ago, when Tom Osborne entered with two Subway sandwich bags in his hands. He crossed the room to an empty conference room and waited. A few minutes later, a high school student came in and entered the room. I asked the Media Specialist if Tom was meeting with his TeamMate. She said, 'Yes, whenever he's in town, he meets with his mentee.' Tom was a Congressman at the time, but could find time in his busy schedule to meet with this young man. I decided right then and there that I would become a TeamMate Mentor and have cherished the relationship I have with my TeamMate ever since! Tom Osborne is a man that not only 'talks the talk' but 'walks the walk.' What an inspiration! Thank you Tom for being the man that you are and leading by example!" - Cynthia Wehland-Falk
"My experience with Coach Osborne goes back to 1994. In Grand Island ,every Fall, right before the first football game a coaches breakfast is held at Fonner Park where the local high school coaches, plus coaches from Hastings College, UNK and Nebraska are invited to talk about their teams. When I arrived at Fonner Park the line to get in already stretched outside the arena. It was a cold Fall morning, still dark outside, but everyone was excited because Coach Osborne was going to be the main speaker that morning. As I stood there visiting with friends I turned around and low and behold there stood Coach Osborne. Shortly. the organizers, who were in a panic came rushing out looking for the Coach. They asked him why he was standing in line, that as the main speaker he was at the head table. Coach Osborne's response was that he didn't think it was right to cut ahead of everyone in line when all these other folks got there ahead of him. The organizers said, 'But Coach, you are the main attraction here, you don't need to stand in line.' Coach Osborne said, 'Well, OK,' and then he apologized to everyone standing in line about going ahead of us. That made a big impression on me and showed me the true nature of THE GREATEST COACH OF ALL TIME." - Kim Marco


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Ontario Researchers Look at Gonorrhea in the Throat
May 7, 2009
Infection with bacteria called N. gonorrhoeae is a problem among sexually active people, including men who have sex with men (MSM). Moreover, because gonorrhea can cause inflammation in the wet tissues of the genitals, rectum and throat, this inflammation can weaken these tissues and increase the risk of transmitting and getting HIV.
Into the Throat
Researchers in the U.S. have found that gonorrhea-causing bacteria can infect the penis during insertive oral sex. Also, other U.S. researchers have found that gonorrhea of the throat (pharyngeal gonorrhea) can occur because of receptive oral sex.
To study pharyngeal gonorrhea, researchers collaborated at these Canadian institutions:
The team reviewed medical and laboratory records of men who attended the Hassle Free Clinic -- Toronto's premier clinic for STI (sexually transmitted infection) diagnosis and treatment -- for the management of gonorrhea. The results suggest that gonorrhea is a relatively common STI and that studies assessing effective treatment of throat gonorrhea are needed.
Study Details
Researchers reviewed the clinic's medical records between 1995 and 2008. During this time, clinic staff took swabs from the throat, rectum and urethra of men who entered the study so they could be tested for gonorrhea and Chlamydia. In this report we will focus on gonorrhea.
Results -- Testing
In total, 178 cases of gonorrhea in the throat were detected. However, not all of these people returned to the clinic for further aspects of the study. Other key findings were as follows:
These findings suggest that a substantial proportion of men with gonorrhea in their throat can also have this problem in their genitals or rectum.
Results -- Treatment
More than 99% of people who had pharyngeal gonorrhea received antibiotics, usually cefixime (Suprax). Researchers encouraged participants to return to the clinic to undergo further testing to confirm that treatment worked -- their gonorrhea was cured. However, only 122 out of 176 people returned for repeated testing. Among these 122 people, 9% (or 11 people) continued to test positive for gonorrhea of the throat, despite having received a course of antibiotics.
Nine of these 11 men returned for further study. Ten of the men were initially treated with cefixime and the 11th with ofloxacin (Floxcin). The N. gonorrhoeae that could be grown or cultured from these people was still susceptible to cefixime despite its apparent treatment failure. In the case of the 11th man, he had been infected with a strain of ciprofloxacin-resistant gonorrhea.
The nine men were retreated with either cefixime or ofloxacin. Eight were cured. The 9th man received another dose of cefixime and was subsequently cured.
Key Findings
Over the course of this study, N. gonorrhoeae was regularly found from throat swabs of men attending a major STI clinic. Moreover, throat infections would have been missed if urine samples or urethral swabs had been relied upon as the sole sample for analysis.
In about 9% of cases of pharyngeal gonorrhea, repeated bouts of antibiotics were necessary to achieve a cure. Clinic records indicate that the men who needed repeated treatment were abstaining from sex, suggesting that these cases represented apparent failure of treatment and not re-infection from the same partner.
Because of these cases of apparent treatment failure, the study team calls for the development and testing of specific antibiotic treatment regimens for pharyngeal gonorrhea.
Gonococcal, Chlamydia and Syphilis Infection Positivity Among MSM Attending a Large Primary Care Clinic, Boston, 2003-2004
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Comment by: Sol (Earth) Thu., Sep. 17, 2009 at 7:52 am UTC
If you can get infected from insertive oral sex, then it stands to reason you can get infected while deep kissing. If so, dont you think more people should be made aware of this? Perhaps then more people will test for it.
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I agree. This is why the subject cannot be left up to science.
Dave C
PS, I've also taken the position in the past that invoking what is
essentially a soul as the explanation of a design detector is
supernatural. In that case I was objecting to it of course, and thus
I may appear to be at odds with myself.
My objection isn't to the supernatural - it's to the supernatural
being first choice without any examination via science whatsoever.
It seems like those who attribute design detection recognizers to God
give up too early. We don't know that design is not instrinisc to
nature. Jumping to the supernatural as an axiom doesn't seem
warranted. So I tend to argue both sides of the fence, which may be
frustrating to some.
On 3/16/09, Alexanian, Moorad <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> David,
> C.S. Lewis indicates that reasoning is supernatural, which I also believe
> and was stated by Descartes that "matter cannot think." It is this
> supernatural element that is the essence of personhood and closeness to God,
> which is also the element that exercises the free will in man.
> Moorad
> ________________________________
> From: David Clounch [email@example.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:09 PM
> To: Alexanian, Moorad
> Cc: Christine Smith; firstname.lastname@example.com
> Subject: Re: [asa] scientific fact vs. ideology?
> Alexian,
> Good question. Please note the fertilized egg is indeed different that the
> skin cells of the parent. They themselves (the creature constituted by the
> egg) won't have skin cells for a long time.
> But, as others have mused, what does one need in addition to genetic
> uniqueness in order to be a person? My own personal answer is I'd say
> persons have souls. In other words the potential to join a soul (and mind)
> with a body is the important question.
> Human souls only go in human beings (not other creatures). And individual
> human souls only go into one individual human being. Not another.
> I think if we lose the concept of soul as a civilization, well then
> Christianity is essentially dead.
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Alexanian, Moorad
> <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>> wrote:
> Is the DNA of a fertilized egg the same as the potential adult that it will
> develop into? If so, then since the DNA is what constitutes or characterized
> a person as purported by most scientists, then a fertilized egg is in
> essence a person.
> Moorad
> ________________________________________
> From: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>
> [email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>] On Behalf Of
> Christine Smith
> [email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>]
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:59 PM
> To: email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>
> Subject: Re: [asa] scientific fact vs. ideology?
> Hi all,
> I've been following this thread with great interest and was contemplating it
> over lunch. It occurred to me that regarding the notion of potentiality and
> personhood, perhaps a different distinction would be more helpful. The point
> of contention seems to be that anything that has the potential to be a
> person should be protected from destruction, but as demonstrated by this
> thread, this notion can become controversial when you try to define both the
> term "potential" (does a cell, or a sperm, etc. constitute potential?), and
> the term "person" (is it cognizance, a heart beat, etc.?). It seems to me
> that some of this debate could be alleviated if you introduced a third
> "category" if you will, or intermediary step - the term "human".
> In the context of the debate, "human" and "person" has been used
> interchangeably it seems to me, but the term "person" carries with it much
> deeper connotations about spirituality, emotions, rationality, etc. The term
> "human" however, doesn't necessarily convey these additional concepts -
> fundamentally, it merely distinguishes us from say, a cat. In this
> particular context, the term "human" retains the idea that a person could be
> the end result of the process, but it also succeeds at setting it apart from
> something such as a sperm, or a cell, or any of the other raw materials
> which our bodies are composed of. These latter things may be thought of as
> "human" only in as much as they are parts of a human, but they are not human
> in and of themselves. Whereas, a fertilized egg can be said to be a new,
> unique human living and growing within another human. Thus, if you make the
> argument that life starts at conception and that it deserves our protection,
> you are
> essentially arguing that though it may not yet be a *person*, it is
> nonetheless *human* and this constitutes enough of a basis to make a moral
> judgment in favor of protecting it. (does this make sense? I'm not sure I'm
> articulating this well...)
> Anyway, just my two cents. :)
> In Christ,
> Christine
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> --- On Thu, 3/12/09, Stephen Matheson
> <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Matheson <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>
>> Subject: Re: [asa] scientific fact vs. ideology?
>> To: "David Opderbeck" <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>
>> Cc: "ASA List" <email@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>>
>> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 8:05 PM
>> David, you're right that there was too much crap in my
>> response, and I'm sorry about that. Personal invective
>> was not my goal, but my frustration was all too evident and
>> you shouldn't have had to deal with that.
>> Let me make the wildly foolish assumption that you might
>> still be interested in some of my comments. :-)
>> 1. I have objections to some of your comments, and
>> disagreements with some, and those shouldn't be
>> confused. I don't disagree with the notion that
>> "potentiality" can contribute to consideration of
>> moral significance. Perhaps I disagree with the extent to
>> which you and I emphasize it...hard to say. But I do object
>> to flat assertions regarding such matters, and was
>> attempting to point to the fluid nature of many of the
>> distinctions that form the basis of the assertions. Yes, of
>> course ethical concerns arise once an embryo has been
>> "created" by a "manipulation"; my point
>> was that the actions that can "actualize the
>> potentiality of personhood" are not as simply
>> delineated or circumscribed as some seem to suggest.
>> 2. When it comes to science-related discussions among
>> Christians, I'm mostly focused on issues of integrity.
>> Secondarily, I'm interested in topics that are used as
>> faith barometers in evangelicaldom and beyond. I tend to
>> worry a lot about the attachment of spurious ideas (bogus or
>> brilliant) or positions (laudable or ludicrous) to the
>> gospel or to the church. This leads me to worry about the
>> extent to which serious Christians are free to question
>> dominant evangelical views on abortion or evolution or
>> politics without facing suspicion regarding their faith
>> commitment. You don't do this, not at all, but
>> simplistic assertions of the type that I saw in the
>> discussion of "personhood" does remind me of those
>> who do.
>> 3. Much of this friction between us is, I think, purely a
>> consequence of our choice to use the inferior medium of
>> email to explore our ideas. I typed that just to remind
>> myself. :-)
>> 4. My own view is that we (society, Christendom, whatever)
>> should take a somewhat different tack on this subject.
>> Instead of focusing on those things that don't have
>> moral significance (sperm, skin cells) and talking about why
>> they don't, we should focus on those that do and why
>> they do. I'm talking here about the things that
>> everyone acknowledges to have "personhood":
>> neonates and beyond, say. Then when we've agreed on
>> what those things are, we build a generous moral fence
>> around them and agree not to threaten anything inside the
>> fence. (Sort of the RvW emanation thing in reverse.) We
>> can then freely acknowledge that we're protecting some
>> things that few people would identify as morally complete
>> but that we agree to protect so as not to anywhere near
>> those things that we want to protect at almost any cost.
>> I'm not suggesting that this is even achievable, but I
>> am proposing it as a better way to think about personhood.
>> 5. I see nearly all arguments for "personhood"
>> or even potential personhood during very early human
>> development (i.e., at least till the morula stage)
>> foundering on the issue of twinning, and I believe the only
>> way to reasonably ascribe moral signfiicance to such embryos
>> is by admitting that one is invoking a moral buffer zone
>> like I mentioned in the last paragraph. This is why I have
>> little or no sympathy with claims of dramatic moral status
>> for such embryos, and do not oppose disaggregation of such
>> embryos for the isolation of ESCs. This is not to say that
>> I find such activities to be as morally innocuous as killing
>> bacteria, nor is it to say that I am oblivious to the
>> disturbing nature of certain arguments in favor of the
>> practice.
>> 6. The scary thing about HESCs is not, in my view, the
>> ever-diminishing potential that demand will cause
>> large-scale destruction of human embryos. As others have
>> noted here, it will soon be easy enough to create custom
>> pluripotent stem cells, a far better therapeutic asset that
>> can be established with almost no ethical complications. If
>> you want to worry about pluripotent stem cells, I think you
>> should worry about their very real potential utility in the
>> practice of genetic engineering. For a hint as to why, see
>> my symposium talk at the ASA meeting in 2006.
>> Steve Matheson
>> >>> David Opderbeck <email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>
>> With an embryo, some action has already been taken to
>> actualize the potentiality of personhood, whether by
>> ordinary sexual reproduction, artificial insemination, or
>> IVF. The question then becomes whether and under what
>> circumstances it is ethically permissible to stop that
>> potentiality. With any other cell in the body, before any
>> analogous action has been taken, the termination of that
>> cell is not the termination of any actuated potentiality for
>> personhood. If the technology existed to clone a human being
>> from somatic cells, once that technological process had been
>> initiated, similar ethical concerns would arise. But absent
>> the initiation of such a technological process, there is
>> zero actual potential for any somatic cell to become a
>> person. "Potential," even in an Aristotelian
>> sense, involves chains of causation, not just any
>> theoretical potential.
>> You all seem to be assuming that I have argued that the
>> potentiality principle necessarily results in absolute
>> protection to the embryo. I have not. What I've argued
>> is that the potentiality principle, together with the
>> precautionary principle, complicates any utilitarian /
>> consequentialist approach to human embryonic stem cell
>> research. That argument was in response to a claim that a
>> utilitarian / consequentialist view would certainly favor
>> continuing the research.
>> Nor have I claimed that my ultimate view about this
>> question is infallibly correct. I do, in fact, think that
>> the arguments I've made so far, together with some
>> specifically religious arguments, render the current
>> practice of research on embryonic stem cells unethical. But,
>> I don't suggest that my position is beyond cavail.
>> In short, up until now I've made very modest claims
>> that are common in the literature debating this issue. Some
>> of you seem to think that warrants invective, ad hominems,
>> efforts to intimidate, ridicule, and the like. I don't
>> get it; frankly, it's lame.
>> David W. Opderbeck
>> Associate Professor of Law
>> Seton Hall University Law School
>> Director, Gibbons Institute of Law, Science &
>> Technology
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Stephen Matheson
>> <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>>
>> wrote:
>> "Further manipulation?" You mean like
>> successfully implanting into the uterus, constructing a
>> placenta, and evading the immune system of the host? If any
>> of these processes is aided by other humans, have they then
>> been "manipulated?" These glib platitudes just
>> won't do.
>> As far as we know, every nucleus in the body does indeed
>> have the potential to become a person. The distinction
>> you're making (between improbable events that lead to a
>> live birth and "manipulation" by other humans) is,
>> in my view, nothing more than a preference for
>> "natural" processes over "manipulated"
>> (read: unnatural) processes. I am unimpressed by the efforts
>> to translate such preferences into moral fortresses. And we
>> haven't even addressed the failure of such distinctions
>> when the process in question is a perfectly natural disease
>> and healing comes as a "manipulation." By the time
>> the "potentiality" argument is amended to patch
>> its numerous holes, it looks so hopelessly ad hoc as to seem
>> ridiculous.
>> The fact is that it will soon be easy enough to make a
>> human "zygote" by returning a somatic nucleus
>> (perhaps from a tissue stem cell with intact telomeres) to
>> totipotency (or at least pluripotency). We'll need
>> something a whole lot better than "manipulation"
>> or its absence to figure out how to respect life. The
>> potentiality argument will fail spectacularly. Ditch it now
>> while there's still time. Or...transform it into one way
>> of describing the wide boundary around which one might seek
>> to build moral protections.
>> Steve Matheson
>> >>> David Opderbeck <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>
>> No, Jim, every cell in our body does not have the
>> potentiality to become a person until, as you note, an act
>> of cloning is done. In contrast, a zygote (and even more so
>> an embryo) has the potentiality to become a person without
>> further manipulation.
>> David W. Opderbeck
>> Associate Professor of Law
>> Seton Hall University Law School
>> Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Jim Armstrong
>> <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:email@example.com>>
>> wrote:
>> I think the "potentiality" argument is
>> particularly weak. In short (and admittedly oversimplified),
>> every cell nucleus in our body has the
>> "potentiality". Just transfer that nucleus into a
>> suitable cellular context and it can (and does in cloning)
>> become a living entity. But we slough millions of such cells
>> every day, ...with their potentiality. But we don't even
>> have to go there, because ova are likewise mostly sloughed
>> by the body. Ah, but that leads us to the fertilized ovum.
>> The point of conception is latched onto by many at the
>> initiation of a person. But that is simplistic and fuzzy
>> too, IMHO. An unfertilized ovum can be teased into beginning
>> mitosis without any fertilization. Quite a few creatures in
>> fact do that spontaneously (chickens, sharks, etc.). So it
>> seems to me that might cast a bit of a shadow over the
>> adequacy of the conception definition of personhood .
>> But there is also the matter of a high degree of natural
>> attrition of such zygotes, as well as after the cellular
>> cleavages (mitosis) begin. [As I understand it, it is after
>> some 2 weeks of these cellular multiplications that one
>> might refer to the organism as an embryo]. So this at least
>> might ask for some thought as to the "value" of
>> any given zygote or even embryo, since many (most?) embryos
>> do not successfully mature to a born baby. Is any given one
>> of them then effectively of some fractional value from a
>> pragmatist view? Does this significant natural attrition of
>> potential humans nuance the argument at all in the tradeoff
>> of potential life vs potential benefit to current and future
>> generations?
>> So, as you say, David, the analysis is truly "not by
>> any means obvious", but these considerations (among
>> others) cause me to lean in the direction voiced by Burgy.
>> This embryonic stem cell controversy may be a transient
>> issue at the end of the day, because so much research is
>> also being done with non-embryonic cells, and many
>> researchers are not insensitive to the ethical concerns. Dr.
>> William Hurlbut's ANT (altered nuclear transfer) work,
>> for example, was inspired by human cellular structures that
>> develop naturally (teratomas), but have developed in a
>> flawed way such that they cannot develop into a viable baby.
>> He is a practicing and articulate Christian. [ANT summary
>> here (
>> http://www.alterednucleartransfer.com/?page=4a&view=1
>> ).]
>> JimA [Friend of ASA]
>> David Opderbeck wrote:
>> I don't think the ethical issue is quite so simple,
>> Burgy. For example, if one is agnostic on the personhood of
>> a human embryo, as you and probably most other people are,
>> or if even those who say "no" here have to admit
>> some uncertainty, then the precautionary principle comes
>> into play. Curiously, the same people who strongly assert
>> the precautionary principle as a backstop for global warming
>> mitigation often completely blow it off when it comes to
>> embryonic stem cell research (and vice versa!).
>> Also, the options aren't just the polar "person
>> vs. non-person." Many opponents of human embryonic stem
>> cell research argue from "potentiality." If
>> embryos are not "persons" in a full sense -- e.g.,
>> if personhood relates to existing cognitive functions --
>> they are at least "potential persons." In such a
>> case, one mode of ethical analysis might be to weigh the
>> potentiality of an embryo's personhood against the
>> potentiality of the research program. The result of such an
>> analysis is not by any means obvious.
>> Finally, all of the above assumes that a consequentialist
>> ethic is necessarily the right and only appropriate kind of
>> ethical analysis to employ in this case. Why? Many ethicists
>> would argue that consequentialism ends up being incoherent,
>> and therefore favor deontological and/or virtue perspectives
>> -- a position with which I'm quite sympathetic.
>> David W. Opderbeck
>> Associate Professor of Law
>> Seton Hall University Law School
>> Director, Gibbons Institute of Law, Science &
>> Technology
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, John Burgeson (ASA
>> member)
>> <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>
>> wrote:
>> Doug posted, in part: "public policy should be based
>> on scientific
>> facts not ideology.
>> I think this is an awful statement. It's a false
>> dichotomy.
>> Scientific "facts" don't make public policy;
>> they form a necessary
>> informational base, but every action based on that
>> knowledge also
>> requires a moral/ethical/ideological decision."
>> I don't see it as "awful," but a simple
>> factual statement. If one
>> takes it to mean "based ONLY on scientific
>> facts," then, of course,
>> I'd agree that it is "awful." I'd
>> probably use a stronger term.But it
>> does not say that.
>> Relative to the stem cell issue, it really boils down to
>> the question
>> "does a frozen embryo have personhood -- a soul?"
>> For those asserting
>> "yes," the issue is clear; stem cell research is
>> immoral. For those
>> who assert otherwise, stem cell research in morally OK.
>> Having read a lot on this, I tend toward the latter
>> position, but I do
>> NOT claim certainty. I don't know that any of us can
>> claim certainty
>> on the issue.
>> It is a classic case that whichever side of the issue you
>> choose, you
>> run the risk of doing harm (or not avoiding harm).
>> jb
>> On 3/10/09, David Campbell
>> <firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>>
>> wrote:
>> > Yes, in the case of embryonic stem cells there is
>> little disagreement
>> > about the science, and the self-identified
>> "scientific" policy is
>> > merely one ideology among many.
>> >
>> > In other cases, such as environmental or evolution,
>> there is denial of
>> > the science that could be described as disagreement
>> about the science.
>> > Nevertheless, even in such cases, science is still
>> descriptive.
>> > Science cannot be morally prescriptive, as that is
>> outside its scope.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> > 425 Scientific Collections
>> > University of Alabama
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>> acres of clams"
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It seems a sad and worrying fact
That people follow trends
They leave the basics far behind
In suiting their own ends
The gospel is the platform
On which we all must stand
For if we go a wandering
Our lives get out of hand.
Jesus died upon a cross
To counter death and sin
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The chasm He filled in
To reach the poor and needy
The lonely and the lost
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Look outwards at all cost.
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A new museum, Mercato Centrale, reveals the modern side of Florence. Donald Sutherland explores its many quirks and charms.
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The best places in Italy for first-time skiers
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The KDE Telepathy project aims to integrate real time communication
deeply into KDE Workspaces, and to provide an infrastructure to aid
development of collaborative features for KDE Applications.
This module provides several plugins like auto-away, the infamous 'Now
listening to...' and also an error handler.
WWW: http://community.kde.org/KTp
make generate-plist
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was:
PKGNAME: ktp-kded-integration-module
There is no flavor information for this port.
SHA256 (ktp-kded-integration-module-0.9.0.tar.bz2) = e7fb9cd8770b9c2560f8325ed17c334726c082b932fb17820cc881d49b11419d
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Number of commits found: 20
Shuffle the KDE ktp-* and related ports into a -kde4 suffix.
This is consistent with r462619, which moved most (but not all,
hence this commit) of the KDE4-era ports out of the way for
newer generation KDE.
Approved by: tcberner (mentor, implicit)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14775
Rename KDE4 meta ports
This is done for
* consistency,
* and to simplify the import of the newer KDE Plasma5 desktop and KDE
Bumps the dependencies.
Reviewed by: adridg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12979
Chase ffmpeg 3.3 update (ABI changes)
Submitted by: riggs
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Plasma5 ports
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reasonable to create a new kde.mk instead of adding an bsd.kde5.mk.
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the KDE Test repositories plasma5 branch [1] to only contain the parts relevant
to the current KDE4 ports in the portstree [2].
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Replace USE_KDE4 by USE_KDE [3]
Add USES=kde:4 [4]
Remove expired misc/kdehier4 and update all of its consumers to not reference it
longer. This is a no-op because KDE4_PREFIX is equal to LOCALBASE
Fix up properties for misc/kde4-l10n/files/bsd.l10n.mk to make svn happy.
PR: 209014 (partial)
Submitted by: myself
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6542
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories m, n, o, and p.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Update the KDE Telepathy ports to 0.9.0.
Contains commits by myself and alonso@.
MASTER_SITES cleanup.
- Replace ${MASTER_SITE_FOO} with FOO.
- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.
While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.
Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.
Checked by: make fetch-urlall-list
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Pass maintainership of KDE Telepathy ports to kde@.
Those ports are already maintained by the whole team, so formally adapt the
ports from avilla@.
Approved by: avilla
Update telepathy to 0.8.0
Merge area51's commits 10180, 10181, 10314, 10315, 10485, 10491, 10492,
10500, 10502, 10503 and 10504. Individual revisions can be reviewed at
This commit is based on a patch originally sent to the kde@ mailing list by
T.C.Berner <firstname.lastname@example.com>, and introduces a new port for
Approved by: rakuco (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1264
Cleanup plist
Update the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection from GCC 4.7.4
to GCC 4.8.3.
Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Tested by: antoine (-exp runs)
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Upgrade OpenEXR and ilmbase to 2.2.0.
GCC 4.2 in FreeBSD 8.X/9.X base is now too old to compile OpenEXR, so
GCC-based systems will upgrade to the default ports compiler (GCC 4.7
Add two patches to OpenEXR to permit building it in a live system with
the older OpenEXR version installed. Bug report filed to upstream Github
at https://github.com/openexr/openexr/issues/130
Couple OpenEXR more tightly to ilmbase and require its exact .so
Add UPDATING note, and bump PORTREVISION of all dependent ports.
Proto-STAGE hugin-devel, and mark it IGNORE because hugin is newer.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit for bumping PORTREVISION on unstaged ports)
Convert a bunch of USE_BZIP2 to USES=tar:bzip2
Approved by: portmgr (not really, but touches unstaged ports)
Modernize LIB_DEPENDS
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- Bump PORTREVISION after KDE4_PREFIX change
Support staging
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- Add ports for KDE Telepathy modules.
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Proclamation of Hope
Proclamation of Hope Previous Broadcasts
KQED Life: Sun, Feb 16, 2014 -- 9:00 PM
An original symphonic concert by Grammy Award-winning pianist & composer Ramsey Lewis about the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. This multi-media program includes a 22-piece orchestra with vocalist Dee Alexander, and stunning historical images that serve to inspire reflection and hope with the audience. The concert captures Ramsey's musical style which combines his deep knowledge of jazz along with his passion for gospel and classical music. Composed by Mr. Lewis and scored by Scott Hall, the work honors the life of Abraham Lincoln as the country's 16th, and perhaps, greatest president. This extraordinary concert was produced in November 2010 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
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The Local BrewBy Bryan Harrell
Hansharo Beer, Izunokuni City, Shizuoka
Opportunities for outdoor activities on the Izu Peninsula are countless, but places to visit afterward where they brew their own beer are few. One that's rather easily accessible is Kuraya Narusawa, brewer of Hansharo Beer. The brewery and restaurant are near Izu Nagaoka Station on the Izu Hakone Line, about 20 minutes from Mishima, a stop on the Tokaido Shinkansen.
Hansharo Beer gets its name from the iron furnaces where huge cannons were forged in the mid-1800s. The cannons were shipped to a spot on Tokyo Bay where they were mounted to blast away at unwanted ships. That place is now called Odaiba. The furnace towers are still there, as a peculiar tourist attraction. This later became the site of Kuraya Narusawa, a sake brewery. In recent years, a beer brewery has also been operating.
Of interest here is the Daiginjo Masako, a light, golden ale that is an original of sorts made with sake yeast. While I can't find any distinguishing "sake" flavor, it is a smooth and drinkable beer that pretty much anyone will enjoy.
Other regular beers in their lineup are Taroeimon, a pale ale drier and less fruity than Daiginjo Masako, and Yoritomo, a dark beer made with several varieties of roasted malt. They also make seasonal ales which change every few months. On our visit, we had an India Pale Ale which has since been replaced with Weizen, a German-style wheat ale.
These beers are served in the adjoining restaurant which primarily serves yaki-niku courses from ¥2,000 to ¥3,000, as well as Hansharo Beer. Prices are ¥400 per 320-ml. glass, and ¥1,500 for a 1.4-liter pitcher. To start, I'd recommend the tasting set for ¥800, which includes four small glasses of each beer available. You can also purchase bottles of Hansharo Beer to take home at the gift shop for ¥420 each, with shipping available at an extra charge.
Kuraya Narusawa / Hansharo Beer
268-1 Naka, Izunokuni-shi, Shizuoka Prefecture
Phone: (055) 949-1208
Open: Monday – Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (last order) Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. (last order)
Weekends and Holidays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (last order)
Web site: www.kuraya-narusawa.com (Japanese)


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Tragedy: Missing Girl, Jade Morris Found Dead After Casino Stabbing
From Black Voices
The body of 10-year-old Jade Morris was found in a Nevada desert on Thursday, according to family members.
The discovery was made by a man walking his dog near an unfinished housing development in the northern stretches of the Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas Metro Police said.
Family members told the Black and Missing Foundation that they visually identified the remains for police, who have not yet released a statement positively identifying the body.
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