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Professor Bernard Golding, Newcastle University
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For a .de address or a .com address there is only the requirement of paying the money and providing a billing address with a presumed ownername.
For a .no address there is a purgatory to go through, with really paranoid documentation of owner identity, and with draconic conditions.
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German-Russian Christmas of 1880
Russlanddeutsche Weihnachten
by [the late] Erwin Schneider
Volk auf dem Weg, Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland,
Stuttgart, Germany, December, 2001, pages 21 - 22
Translation from German to English by Alex Herzog, Boulder, Colorado
Steppental lay under a mid-December cover of snow. Gardens, woods, meadows, farmyards and shrubbery -- all were covered in white. The farmers had laid in a rich harvest, although their everyday concerns remained a part of their lives. Yet, compared with the hard days of the harvest, this was almost like "den Maeuslein gepfiffen," as we used to say [an untranslatable saying meaning something like leaving some of the cares to the mice ...].
The men were keeping everything in their farmyards and barns in good order, looked after the horses and cows, and made sure that feed and heating materials were in ample supply. The farmers' wives, for their part, had lots of work to get done in their homes. Rooms were whitewashed, cleaned and polished. Curtains, tablecloths and bedding were changed.
The kitchen played an especially important role before Christmas. There the women would be mixing dough, baking, frying and cooking. Many a basket and many a bowl would be filled with baked goods.
While the women were preparing mountains of gifts for the holidays, the men were getting the trees, which would later be placed in the center of the "great room." Christmas trees were adorned with shining figures, toys and multi-colored flowers. On the branches there were placed small candles, which would be lit on Christmas and on New Year's and until then they exuded a mysterious glow. Evergreens had to be obtained from far away, because that sort of tree did not grow in the Central Volga area where the farmers lived.
The candles were lit with festive ceremony on Christmas night. But before that, other things, such as candies, apples, and other sweets had also been hung on the tree. As a rule the younger children would help parents and older siblings in trimming the tree. This was one way to nurture love for the feast, to maintain and transmit traditions to a new generation.
* * *
Anne Marie Schmidt was talking in great earnest, saying to her husband: "It's getting close to Christmas and our shelves are still empty. I have been able to scratch together only two bowls of flour, the stores are filled with wheat, yet we have no flour! What am I supposed to bake peppermint kuchen, gingerbread, hoernchen [croissants], or sweet milk rolls? Our grandchildren are coming to see us on Christmas morning. What am I supposed to offer them? We have barely four days left for baking ..."
"Anne Marie, there is only one solution: we'll have to go to the mill today and grind some wheat into flour. Well, that's a nicer job for me than hauling building lumber ..." Adam smiled. Then he put on his sheepskin coat, put on his sheepskin hat that tilted a bit toward one ear, and went outside.
In the barn he found his sons Wilhelm and Christian and said: "Boys, fill 20 sacks with wheat grain. We must hurry and go to the mill. Your mother has no flour for baking."
Adam went into the yard and moved a shafted sled in front of the storage area. His two sons filled the sacks, he himself poured two bucketfuls of oats into another sack and placed it onto the sled. Then he hitched two horses up to the sled and drove the heavy load toward the mill. How many of these loads had he taken to the mill and had brought home during his marriage with Anne Marie! As head of the family, he felt it his responsibility to take care of his family. His wife and children were not going to live in poverty. That was certainly the rule for Adam, and he made sure he set a good example in following it.
He said to Christian: "Go and put on your felt boots. You're going with me. William will stay here."
Christian plopped himself down onto the wheat sacks in the sled and urged the horses out through the gate. On the street he asked his sister: "Date, should I go to the windmill or the watermill on the millpond?"
"To the watermill. Mama needs really good flour for Christmas. The watermill grinds more slowly and steadily, so the flour is better. The windmill grinds in spurts, all depending on how the wind blows."
At the watermill, Adam needed first to chat with the miller in private: "Mornin', Hankarl."
"Mornin', Adam. About time you showed your face here again!"
"Hankarl, you must know why I came today."
"Yes, yes, Adam. Right over here I have ten sacks filled with flour. You won't find any better today."
"I thank you for that. I have brought twenty sacks of what. I'll take your ten sacks, but I'll grind an additional ten sacks of my what. The rest I'll leave with you, and you can do with it what you want."
"Understood, Adam. But do give your horses some fodder. And now we must wait a bit till Gottfried Stoessel is finished grinding his grain."
* * *
Three days later the women in Adams home were kneading dough for various baked goods. On a large tablecloth on the sofa there were many, longish and also broader-shaped, colorful figures fashioned out of dough. Also there were all sorts of candies that Adam had ordered from Schiller, the merchant. On a table in the smaller room there was streusselkuchen, in the pantry there were boiled meats and cold brawn, which the Steppentaler people called "Gallert." Hanging from hooks were cooked and smoked sausages. Lastly, in the cellar, canned watermelon, apple, and sauerkraut were waiting to be served.
The Schmidts and other prosperous farmers lacked nothing. The had prepared very well for Christmas and the welcoming of the new year. The grandchildren could now come and would be richly showered with gifts. And for adult guests there was champagne, red wine, and no one would say no to a bit of brandy.
* * *
On Christmas Eve Adam, Anne Marie, Christian and little Elvira dressed in festive clothing and walked to services at the beautifully decorated church. From its walls candles in chandeliers were glowing for the village residents, the ceiling had been brightened up, and the pulpit area that had been made into an altar looked especially festive.
The church filled very quickly, to the very last seat. When Joergpeter Sperl arrived with Amalie and his large family, Christian and little Elvira rose to give up their seats for their Sperl grandparents and stood next to the decorated Christmas tree, and its candles glowed throughout the building. And still people kept streaming into the church building that had been filled much earlier.
Then the time had come. The bells in the bell tower stopped ringing, the schoolmaster entered the altar area and began his Christmas homily. The people inside became as quiet as a mouse.
The preacher recounted the Biblical story of the birth of Christ in the stable in Bethlehem, at times reading a few passages from the New Testament. The children's choir sang such songs as "Ihr Kinderlein kommet' ["O come, little children"], "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" ["Silent night, holy night"], "Kling Gloeckchen" ["Ring, little bell"] or "Oh, wie wohl ist mir am Abend, wenn zur Ruh' die Glocken laeuten" ["How wonderful it is in the evening when the bells ring in the end of the day"].
On the following morning, Christmas celebrations took place in the individual homes. During the first day of Christmas the children wandered from neighbor to neighbor to gather up gifts.
[NOTE:] Excerpted from the unpublished manuscript "Die wolgadeutschen Bauern" ["The Volga-German Farmers"] by Erwin Schneider (1923 - 1997), from which eight pages were printed in the Heimatbuch 1997/98.
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Yeah, Legilis was completely wasted. Considering how powerful it was in the fight against Sid this battle looked like a bad joke.
But whatever. Zeheart having mental breakdown probably was the only way for Asemu to defeat him with any semblance of realism. Still better the watching another "Omg he's so powerful I can't read him he isn't supposed to be x-rounder!" crap.
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Legilis was bound to be destroyed anyway. Zeheart is blinded by rage, and Asemu's word has gotten into his mind during the battle, that's why the DH had the chance to tear it up. It already shown all its skill on the past episodes so there's no point for it to be flashy on this episode.
Diva, Grodek and Millais will be proud of you. You've done a big part in this story.
Obright, Woolf will also be proud of you. Defeating non-grunt units F-yeah!
Also, good to see the 3 Gundams/Asunos escaping during the firing of the Digmazenon canon.
10/10 epsiode for me.
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So.....so what's the point? Obviously they aren't going for Genocide end, but as far as I'm concerned peace will be empty, because all the named Vegans are dead except the one guy who's been frozen hasn't spoken and I could care less about. So the faceless masses survived. Who cares? You aren't supposed to care about them.
God damn it. Destiny dropped the ball, Geass dropped the ball, 00 dropped the ball, and Age dropped the ball. Can they just not do mecha right anymore?
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Geass - Lelouch paid the price for what he did to people and so do Suzaku (granted the others got off but hey). In the end they achieved what they both set out to do since eps 1
00 - Aside from the movie they ended up readying humanity for the incoming alien invasion which they set out to do. In any case I'd say they were paced out alright.
AGE....they're just throwing things all over the place.
I mean the women are treated very poorly and we get characters that serve absolutely no purpose to the plot....on that matter what was the whole point of Zanald's character or even Leglis?
Heck what was the point of some of the Vagan MS to begin with?
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However, 00 was actually pretty good. Setsuna vs Alejandro, Hal/Al vs Sergei and Soma, and then Setsuna vs Graham were all pretty damn good fights. Then S2 had it's ups and downs, Lyle vs Ali was total shit, but Lyle vs Revive, and Setsuna vs Ribbons were damn good.
Zeheart's death could have been much much better. What we got is rather lame and not very effective at making an emotional impact.
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Fram just piloted the cursed unit. That thing didn't exactly do much for Yurin. Though in the end I wonder what was the point of giving her that similar unit? Figured they might play on Flit's past a bit, but he was just kind of 'there' this episode.
Zeheart vs. Asemu really was a 'wait what?' kind of fight. It was over before I knew what was going on. Though suppose it fits symbolically. Asemu is still solid on his path of fighting for those he cares about while Zeheart was an emotional and mental mess. They really did flip positions with one being solid in his beliefs and the other not so much. Of course in the end Asemu couldn't save his friend's life, but at least by the end he was back to himself. The flashback at the end along with his final words I felt was well done. Even though so much had happened that friendship was still there. Zeheart at least made sure to keep Asemu back at the very end.
Rough day for Fram. Unfortunately it wasn't a shock how she went out. Zeheart could gather so much affection and loyalty, but in the end no one was able to step up to him and say "you're going too far."
At least Woolf can look down at Obright and Asemu with pride. Both pulled off some great stuff especially Obright. Proof that skill and effort can overcome an x-rounder when it counts.
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tbh i wished obright have lived. so instead of him fighting fram right away, he could of hop on the darkhound express and let fram chase him and gundams. and then the big lazor beam comes in to finish fram off. this would of make more sense though, yet kind of funny in a bad way.
well at least hes not deadweight :P
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The only guy he'll probably save is frozen dude, who he doesn't know, and the faceless Vegan masses who he also doesn't know.
Meanwhile Fram Girard and Deen, the people he actually tried to understand and save all died.
When you think about it all 3 don't really get a happy ending. Flit lost lots of people and spent most of his life seething in hatred, no matter what he chooses to do next ep. Asemu missed out entirely on his sons childhood, and couldn't save his buddy. And Kio couldn't save anyone he tried to connect to.
Again, this is why a so called happy peaceful ending comes off as insincere when most of the characters died anyway.
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LOL WTF at the rushing this episode.
* Zeheart has gone from a guy who at the very least cares about his own people to raging lunatic who fires on his own fleet. And just a few moments before, he was wondering what the heck he was doing.
* Zanald knew something was up and had plenty of time to get out of the way. He didn't.
* Obright outshines all three Asunos and kills both Leil and Fram on his first try.
* Zeheart was raging so hard that he can't even pilot Legilis properly, using none of its hax abilities, and it gets ripped apart in the shortest, most anticlimactic, and most pathetic boss fight ever. I suppose at least Dark Hound finally gets to shine, but considering that Zeheart was piloting like an idiot, it's not really that impressive.
* Next episode: oh joy, the final boss is a guy who's spent all the time up to now asleep in a tube. It's finally time for AGE-FX to accomplish something after taking down one Danazine this episode.
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It's especially disapointing compared to the game, in which Asemu sends Kio and Flit on ahead (creating drama because he's gonna take on the strongest enemy unit with arguably the weakest Gundam) and he and Zeheart have a climactic duel with Asemu's gen 2 theme playing in the background.
Here he just chops him up without dramatic fanfare. And there's no tension because Flit and Kio are standing right there in case things go south.
If anything it makes Zeheart look even stupider for attacking all 3 Gundam's in a blind rage.
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Kind of similar to that flashback to the 'fight' with SID. Got the result of who won and lost, but that's about it.
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"It's not a man purse. It's a satchel... Indiana Jones has one." Forgive me for quoting The Hangover, but that's the first thing that popped into my head when I saw what Microsoft was giving its IE8 testers as a token of appreciation. Okay, so it's not exactly a man purse or a satchel: apparently it's a "workmate toolkit." Yeah, that's not much better I guess. Internet Explorer 8 was released in March, but only now is Microsoft getting around to thanking its testers with more than just a request for more bug reports and suggestions for IE9. The software giant is known for sending out various types of gifts after some of its beta programs, but I've yet to see something as bizarre as this given away. Here's a quote from the e-mail sent out to testers last night:
Thank you for your hard work during the Internet Explorer 8 Technical Beta Program. Your dedication to making this product the best it can be is truly amazing. We would like to personally thank you by sending you a small token of our appreciation. We will be sending you an Internet Explorer 8 Workmate Toolkits (see attached images). If you do not want this, then simply respond to this mail with "Thanks, but No Thanks."
The e-mail also asks the recipients to update their address on Microsoft Connect (Your Profile => My Home Address => Continue) by Friday June 19, 2009. You've got till the end of the of the work week, so do it now before you forget!
Microsoft has previously given notebook bags, webcams, and even copies of Vista Ultimate to its various beta testers, but never have I seen something that doesn't seem to be directly related to the product that was being tested. I guess you can use the tools for building a new computer; though I still don't see how that is relevant to IE8. What do you think would have been a more logical gift for IE8 testers?


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Exclusive: Miley Cyrus And Jared Leto "Are Hooking Up"
What do Hannah Montana and Jordan Catalano have in common? Probably not that much -- but the actors who played them are two of a kind. Miley Cyrus and Jared Leto "are hooking up," a source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. "She stayed over at his house in L.A. in early February."
That sleepover occurred just weeks after the two were photographed catching up at Clive Davis' pre-Grammys bash on Jan. 25. According to a second source, the 21-year-old "Adore You" singer and the 42-year-old Oscar-nominated Dallas Buyers Club star have "known each other for a while."
Recently, though, their bond has deepened, a third insider says. "They like to have a good time, they love to talk about art and music -- and they're both comfortable with nudity!"
Not so much with commitment, though. "Jared doesn't do girlfriends," a pal tells Us of the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman. Luckily for him, Cyrus, too, is just looking to have fun at the moment. "I'm, like, not trying to jump into a relationship," Liam Hemsworth's ex-fiancee told W.
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Check out this I just made call to Chris, Poker-room manager at The Occidental Grand Aruba Casino. I was told by a confidential source that Russ Hamilton has a piece of the sportsbook and poker room there, and as a hard-hitting news organization I did the digging. Now real publications go clean this up:[audio:http://www.donkdown.com/media/DDRadio-2012_12_17_21_27_25.mp3|titles=Russ Hamilton Works At Occidental Grand Aruba Poker Room & SportsBook|autostart=no]


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Friday, October 22, 2010
Alternate install
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I am interested in iso booting a lubuntu alternate distro using grub2.
I am able to install ubuntu desktop using the following grub menu entries, which does not apply for lubuntu-alternate
menuentry 'lubuntu-alternate ' {
set isofile="/iso/lubuntu-12.04-alternate-amd64.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,5)$isofile
linux (loop)/install/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.gz
Does anyboyd know what should be changed?
- AnonymousJuly 08, 2012 9:47 pm
This post is very old, things have changed a lot in two years. Anyway I'm not an expert on boot issues. You can check the mailing lists, where you will sure find an answer: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-usersReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2012 4:11 pm
Is this alternate an alternate Alternate??ReplyDelete
Explain more/better, pLease. One extra line doesn't hurt anybody and helps A LOT!!
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2012 9:26 pm
It's the same "Alternate Install" common on all *buntus. But, I said "new" because it's been refined and improved. I think the lines oof the article are self explanatory: it's the text installer, the one that doeosn't use the graphical installer.ReplyDelete
I hope it's clear :)
- AnonymousApril 07, 2015 11:16 am
I thought I'd try this distro on an old pc. And the links/info around this site are 5 years old.ReplyDelete
"Friday, October 22, 2010
Alternate install... it's only a test"
still testing after 5 years?
maybe I should stick with windows.Replies
- AnonymousOctober 10, 2015 10:59 pm
Some people seem to be of the opinion that making a move over to Linux should be easy, because "all these Linux projects, want us...right? So they should just make things work for us, with zero effort required by me!"Delete
Sorry, it does require effort and you need to learn respect, you are not being lured over, because the O.S needs users to make it legitimate.
You would be better to look at it as joining a project, that requires you to try, on your own behalf and maybe add your own work too at some stage.
It's to be respected and enjoyed, as we have a choice because of these people's hard work. If you use moving back to windows as a threat, you'll be the only loser, unfortunately.


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Two of the biggest celebrity hair chameleons, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna both tried out the same new 'do recently. While it's not surprise that either changed their hair, we were pretty shocked to see both stars rocking the same statement bob! While Rihanna's version of the do is a bit softer, with slightly longer, whispier bangs, Miley kept things super-short and choppy with her blunt above-the-chin cut and short straight bangs.
Which bob cut do you like best? Are you a fan of Miley and Rihanna's new do's? Let us know in the comments!


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BOSTON, Mass.—Tayla Andrews (Plymouth, Mass.) scored with less than 90 seconds to go in double overtime to lift UMass Boston women's soccer (12-4-0) to their second-straight victory over a regionally-ranked squad with a 2-1 victory over Brandeis University (9-5-1) Thursday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Field.
The Beacons, ranked 10th in New England, picked up their sixth-straight victory and have now won 10 of their past 11. Brandeis, ranked seventh in the region, had their season-high winless streak stretch to four, after dropping their second overtime game in the past three contests.
Andrews took a tremendous lead pass from Sam Cristoforo (Rockland, Mass.) and pushed her second touch past a charging Michelle Savuto, before finishing with her left foot. The goal ended a tense 40 minutes, as the two teams had been tied since the 70th minute of play.
Cristoforo finished the contest with a goal and an assist for her second multi-point game of the year. The goal was the first of the season for the senior, who earned All-Region Honors in 2012 after finishing with eight goals.
Junior goalie Kristen Spain (Quincy, Mass.) made eight stops in the contest for UMass Boston, while Savuto took the loss despite making nine saves on 11 shots on goal.
Sapir Edalati scored the lone goal of the day for the Judges, snapping a 406:02 scoreless streak that dated back to October 8.
The two teams finished with virtually identical team statistics, with UMass Boston holding a slight edge in both shots (22-21) and shots on goal (11-9). UMass Boston did manage a 7-3 edge in corner kicks for the afternoon.
Cristoforo got the Beacons onto the scoreboard at the 33:11 mark when she recorded her first marker of the season. The senior midfielder found a loose ball in the box after an Amanda Pugliese (Pembroke, Mass.) corner and flicked it over Savuto's head for a 1-0 lead.
Brandeis answered in the 70th minute when Edalati scored her eighth tally of the season. Edalati lifted a high floating shot into the wind from 30 yards out that drifted just under the bar to tie the game at 1-1.
Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, Mass.) nearly answered right away for UMass Boston, but Savuto managed to make two sliding saves, to keep the nation's second-leading scorer off the board.
After a quiet final 20 minutes of regulation and first nine of overtime, Ledin nearly put the game away, but sent her last-second shot wide as the horn blew. Junior midfielder Ericka Garufi (Milton, Mass.) forced a turnover just outside the box and snuck by another defender, but by the time her cross arrived on Ledin's foot, the clock was under two seconds, and Ledin's rushed shot was well off the mark.
UMass Boston finally put the game away with 79 seconds to play, thanks to some terrific work from two of their senior captains.
Cristoforo came up with a loose ball just short of midfield and after a few dribbles sent a lead pass to Andrews who was guarded by two Judges; the Beacons senior forward split the two defenders and rushed onto the ball in front of the charging goalie, before sending the ball wide of Savuto on her second touch and netting her 14th career game-winner on the third.
UMass Boston will travel to Plymouth State University Saturday at 1:00 p.m. for a key Little East Conference matchup.


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Actress Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy rather than risk developing breast cancer hit close to home for Melissa DeSantis, a Bel Air mother of three children.
As DeSantis read about Jolie's experience, she began to feel a sense of kinship to the Hollywood star.
DeSantis also made the tough decision to have her breasts removed in a February surgery. Like Jolie, she had one of the inherited gene mutations that leaves many women more likely to develop cancer.
The 34-year-old DeSantis has the BRCA2 gene mutation, giving her a 40 percent to 60 percent chance of developing breast cancer by age 70, according to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, a breast cancer advocacy group. For BRCA1 carriers, like Jolie, the chances of getting breast cancer range from 40 percent to 87 percent. Women in the general population have about an 8 percent to 12 percent chance of developing breast cancer.
Doctors, counselors and nurses who specialize in breast cancer say they are seeing more women with genetic mutations turn to mastectomy as a way to prevent the disease. It can be a controversial topic that draws criticism from some who think removing both breasts goes too far. But women who go through with the procedure say they are driven by a need for stability in their life, a way to stop the constant worrying of when they might develop cancer. They want to live to watch their kids grow up and have families of their own.
Breast removal doesn't guarantee that a woman won't ever develop cancer, but it significantly reduces the risks.
"To me it was not a hard decision," DeSantis said. "I felt better knowing because I knew there was something I could do about it."
DeSantis began constantly worrying about developing breast cancer in her 30s. Her mother first developed the disease when she was 38, and eventually died from it. Her grandmother also died from the disease. DeSantis fretted that it might be her fate as well if she didn't do something drastic.
"There has been a lot of breast cancer in my life, and I was not prepared to die from that," DeSantis said.
Jolie, whose mother died from ovarian cancer at 56 and never met most of her grandchildren, also wanted to better ensure a longer life. In an opinion piece in The New York Times on Tuesday, the actress wrote that her risk of developing cancer is now 5 percent.
"I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer," Jolie wrote.
A woman's choice to have a double mastectomy before she develops cancer is one that does not come easily for many. Doctors say it is a very personal decision.
First, women have to decide, with the help of a doctor, whether they should be tested for a gene mutation. Doctors recommend that women should get the gene mutation test if they have long family histories of breast cancer, a male family member who has had breast cancer or a family member under age 45 who has had breast cancer. Those who are of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer also should be tested because they have a high incidence of breast cancer.
Some don't want to take the test because they fear the results.
Many doctors recommend genetic counseling, in which patients talk about how they might feel if they test positive for a gene mutation. They also explore what they might do if they test positive, asking whether they would consider a mastectomy or do more screenings.
"A woman might not always know for sure what they would do in the situation," said Jessica Rispoli Joines, a certified genetic counselor with the University of Maryland Medical System. "But there is value in making sure a woman knows of all the options there would be."
Counselors say they don't want a woman to think about the options right after a mutation diagnosis when they may react out of fear.
"The decision should not be done in haste," said Lillie Shockney, administrative director of the Johns Hopkins Breast Center. "Women need to understand that, though it will certainly reduce the risk, some women will mourn the loss of their breasts to the point that they get clinically depressed. On the other hand, some people are so petrified of getting the disease, they are better off getting a mastectomy."
There are options for those women who decide a double mastectomy is too drastic. While it is the most effective prevention method, women can also choose to get more screenings or turn to hormone-blocking drug therapy.
"There is no one right answer for everyone," said Dr. Kristen Fernandez, director of the Breast Center at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore. "This has to be a thought-out discussion between the woman and doctor. It shouldn't be a rash decision made easy. It shouldn't be one made out of fear."
Jolie said she shared her experience to bring attention to the issue.
"I chose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer," she wrote. "It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options."
Women with those gene mutations also need to consider getting their ovaries removed because they also have a high risk for ovarian cancer, a disease that is hard to detect. Some women wait until after they have children and are closer to menopause to do this. Jolie said she started with her breasts because it is a more complex operation. She didn't say if she would eventually have her ovaries removed.
Cheryl Corbin, who had a double mastectomy in the 1990s, said Jolie's experience has the potential to help women around the world.
"As much as I hate that Angelina Jolie had to go through this, I am so happy that someone who is so high-profile, who has such a voice worldwide, can tell her experience firsthand," Corbin said.
Corbin, project manager for the University of Maryland Women's Health clinic, discovered she had a gene mutation after an oncologist suggested she get tested because her mother and grandmother had breast cancer.
She had a hunch the test would return positive. "I just have too much cancer in my family," she said. While she waited for the results, she had decided on a double mastectomy.
"In my own mind, I needed to get rid of my breasts," she said.
Corbin said the double mastectomy was the best decision she could have made. A doctor said there were precancerous cells in her breast tissue and she would have likely developed cancer in a few years.
"I still get choked up thinking about that," she said.
Jolie believes that more women can be saved from a potentially deadly cancer diagnosis.
"Life comes with many challenges," she wrote. "The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of."


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I decided to join Code Name Mama on her March of Kindness back at the beginning of the month. I have been doing little random acts of kindness all through the month. I haven't blogged about it but it has been happening.
And I'm coming in on the very last day with a book to give away! Woot!
The book is "Radical Unschooling. A Revolution Has Begun" by Dayna Martin-and it's signed!
It is a lovely book all about the radical unschooling philosophy and how her family puts it into practice.
Worth a read to those both new and old to the concepts of this way of life.
The competition is open to Australian readers only and will be drawn-name out of a hat style-this Sunday afternoon. That gives you a few days to leave a comment (make sure to include your email address) telling me an act of kindness you performed to your children.
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INTERNET: MediaPass' paywall services help publishers put price on content.
The Internet isn't the free-for-all it once was.
As news organizations realize that online ad revenue alone is not enough to support news-gathering operations, many have begun imposing so-called paywalls.
From community newspapers to online radio shows and blogs, publishers large and small are now charging for their content, a trend West L.A. startup MediaPass LLC is trying to capitalize on.
MediaPass, founded in 2010, designs and manages paywall systems for content providers and already this year has announced deals to process subscription services for the online sites of tabloid Weekly World News and conservative radio talk show "Right Wisconsin." The site of CBS Sports radio personality Jim Rome is now also using MediaPass to charge its subscribers.
What links these disparate content sites is a desire to increase revenue beyond advertising.
"We wanted (content providers) to try it and get addicted to the money and that's what happened," said Matthew Mitchell, a co-founder of MediaPass. "We had to make it so easy that a publisher would say, 'Why wouldn't I try this?' "
The company has 15 employees in its West L.A. offices, developing software for processing log-in information and payments, as well as designing the appearance and features of the paywall.
The company does not charge an upfront fee for developing the payment system, taking instead a split of subscription revenue ranging from 16 percent to 30 percent.
MediaPass won't disclose its revenue, which is tied both to the percentage it charges as well as the ability of its clients to convert readers to the pay model. The Rome show, for instance, has an annual subscription rate of $39.95 a year while Weekly World News has a base online subscription rate of $19.95 a year. The number of paying subscribers for those sites was not available.
The challenge, however, is clear, since many readers still scoff at the thought of paying for online news and entertainment.
Many newspapers are happy to convert just 4 percent of their unique online visitors – the number of people who visit a webpage, not counting repeat visitors – to paying subscribers, said Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University.
Still, certain features, like a "leaky" paywall that allows visitors to read a handful of articles before paying, show promise.
The preference for a nuanced, rather than brick-wall, approach could add up to more business for MediaPass and other service firms, he said.
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Equipment builders and plant personnel are trying to achieve three goals simultaneously:
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As the world's leading industrial Ethernet, EtherNet/IP converges the physical framework offered by Panduit, logical framework by Cisco and Rockwell Automation and toolsets from Fluke Networks, enabling equipment builders and plant personnel to design and deploy robust, secure and future-ready networks utilizing common infrastructure assets.
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Hassell, Bazemore And Carter Pace ODU In Win Over Tribe, 69-53
By ODU Athletics
Feb. 9, 2011
WILLIAMSBURG, VA-- Senior Frank Hassell scored 21 points with 11 rebounds, while Kent Bazemore added 14 points and a career high 12 boards along with senior Keyon Carter 12 points off the bench to lead the Monarchs of ODU to a 69-53 victory over the Tribe of William and Mary Wednesday night.
For the 6-9 Hassell, it was his ninth double-double of the season. The Chesapeake, VA. native also blocked two shots and dished out three assists. He is now averaging 13.4 points and 9.4 rebounds per game.
The Monarchs (19-6, 10-4 Colonial Athletic Association) led 33-25 at halftime after shooting 46.4 percent from the floor (13 of 28) in the opening half. Old Dominion started the second half on a 21-7 run, taking its largest lead, 54-32, with 9:37 left to play. The Monarchs tough defense held W&M only to just seven points the first seven minutes of the second half.
The Monarchs dominated the boards, 44-21 and held the Tribe to just one offensive rebound for the game, while ODU had 14 and got 21 second chance points. Senior Ben Finney joined Hassell and Bazemore in the rebound parade as he pulled down seven boards and dished out four assists. Quinn McDowell led W&M with five boards.
ODU finished the night shooting .452 (28-62) from the field, while W&M was just .386 (17-44). The Tribe did hit 12 of 27 treys led by Julian Boatner who was five-of six and finished with 15 points.
Bazemore, the CAA's leader in steals came up with three more on the night as did Trian Iliadis. Bazemore is now averaging 2.3 per game with a total of 57 which ranked him 25th nationally coming into the week.
The victory was ODU's sixth straight at W&M Hall and sixth straight over the Tribe. The Monarchs have also won five of their last six games.
ODU returns to action for their third straight road game on Saturday when they take on VCU at 2 p.m. on ESPN2.


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"Second Nature" A Documentary Film About Janne Saario
Second Nature is a 18-minute documentary on Element team rider and budding landscape architect, Janne Saario of Finland.
The short film allows a glimpse of Saario's thoughts and dreams, which float between design, art and skateboarding. Though it also reveals the important concurrence of post-industrial areas, sustainable concepts and natural environments, and unfolds the demanding obligation, towards today's generation and those to come, to create positive and inspiring, local communities.
Over the past two years, filmer Yves Marchon's keen eye reels in the various aspects and angles of Janne's life and creates the perfect portrayal of what Element is most proud of and strives to constantly stand for through their products, artists and team riders: to bring progress to skateboarding in the most honest and ethical way.
The film was premiered in Janne's home town of Helsinki, Finland which was named 'World Design Capital 2012'. The film has received great feedback so far so check out the film and let us know what you think!


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FACT: Washington's Letters to Family and Friends who lost spouses and children to tragic circumstances present an amazingly grasp of theology that puts Washington ON PAR with Calvin, Wesley and Spurgeon!
FACT: If you or any Bible college Professor out there think 700-plus 'Theologically Correct' Names/Titles for God is a simple task: TRY IT!
FACT: No other writer, whether Jewish Scholar, Biblical Author, Reformation or modern Scholar, has even devised ONE-TENTH as many ORIGINAL Names/Titles!
"O eternal King of men and angels, elevate our minds! eachlow and partial passion thence dispel! till this great truthin every heart be known, that none but those who aid thepublic cause, can shield their country or themselves fromchains. LEONIDAS.
IN this grand republican virtue we can with pleasure compare our Washington with the great worthies of ancient or modern times.
The patriotism of the Roman emperor, Alexander, has been celebrated through all ages, because he was never known to give any place through favour or friendship; but employed those only whom he believed to be the best qualified to serve his country. In our Washington we meet this great and honest emperor again. For in choosing men to serve his country, Washington knew no recommendation but merit--had no favourite but worth. No relations, however near-- no friends, however dear--stood any chance for places under him, provided he knew men better qualified. Respecting such men, he never troubled himself to inquire,whether they were foreigners or natives, federalists or democrats. Some of the young officers of his native state, on hearing that Colonel Washington was made COMMANDER IN CHIEF, were prodigiously pleased, expecting to be made field officers immediately. But in this they weres outterly mistaken, that some of them have foolishly said, "it was a misfortune to be a Virginia." Indeed, his great souil was so truly republican, that, during the whole of his administration, he was never known to advance an individual of his own name and family.
The British, with good reason, admire and extol Admiral Blake as one of the bravest and best of patriots; because, though he disliked Oliver Cromwell, yet he fought gallantly under him; and, with his dying breath, exhorted his men, "to love their country as a common mother; and, no matter what hands the government might fall into, to fight for her like good children."
Of the same noble spirit was Washington. Often was he called to obey men greatly his inferior, and to execute orders which he entirely disapproved. But he was never known to falter. Sensible of the infinite importance if union and order to the good of his country, he ever yielded a prompt obedience to her delegated will. And, not content with setting us, through life, so fair an example, he leaves us at his death, this blessed advice: "Your government claims the utmost confidence and support. RESPECT for its AUTHORITY, compliance with its laws, acquiesence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of TRUE LIBERTY. The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution, whic at any time exosts, until changed by anexplicit and authentic act of the whole people, is SACREDLY OBLIGATORY UPON ALL.'
History has lavished its choicest praises on those magnanimous patriots, who, in their wars for liberty and their country, have cheerfully sacrificed their own wealth to defeat the common enemy.
Equal to this was the spirit of Washington. For, during the war, while he was with the army to the north, a British frigate came up the Potomac, to Mount Vernon; and threatened to lay the place in ashes, if provisions were not instantly sent on board. To save that venerable mansion, the manager sent aboard the requisite supplies. On hearing the matter, Washington wrote his manager the following letter:
" Sir--It gives me extreme concern to hear that you furnished the enemy with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me, to have heard, that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had laid my plantation in ruins. --GEORGE WASHINGTON."
But, among all his splendid acts of patriotism, there is none which, with so little noise, may do us more good, than his "Legacy, or Farewell to the People of the United States." In this admirable bequest, like a true teacher sent from God, he dwells chiefly on our union and brotherly love. This, the first birth of true religion, appears to him as the one thing needful, the spring of political life, and bond of perfection.
On this topic he employs all the energies of his mind: and, in words worthy to be written in gold, emphatically beseeches his countrymen to guard with holiest care "the unity of the government," as the " main pillar and palladium of their liberty, their independence, and every thing most dear to them on earth."
Little did that illustrious patriot suspect, that, in so short a time after his death, the awful idea of disunion should have become familiar to the public eye --so familiar as to have worn off half its horrors from the minds of many of our deluded citizens! Disunion! Merciful God! what good man can think of it but as of treason, and as a very Pandora's box, replete with every curse that can give up our dear country to desolation and havoc!
This disorganizing scheme has been three times brought forward, by what Washington terms "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men," making use of a thousand arts to shut the eyes of the citizens on that yawning gulph to which they were so wickedly misleading them. And each time, Lucifer-like, these ministers of darkness have clothed themselves over as " angels of light " with the captivating plea of public good.--"The disadvantages of the union! the disadvantages of the union? " is their constant cry. Now admitting it to be true, that this so much hated union has its disadvantages, (and where is there any human institution, even the noblest, that is free from them?) yet is it not the parent of blessings so many and great, that no good man, as Washington says, "can think of them without gratitude and rejoicing?" and is it not equally true, that these disadvantages of the union would not, in fifty years, equal the ruinous consequence of a disunion, in probably half a year.
At present,* the plea for this most horrible measure, is the mischievous effects of the embargo. (Anno Domini, 1809)--Well, grant that it is mischievous, highly mischievous and painful, for such we all feel it, yet how inexpressibly absurd it must be, to put the loss of trade, for a year or two, in competition with the peace and happiness, the independence and sovereignty of our country! Would not this be an act a thousand times more mad and wicked than that of the wretched Esau, who, to remove the cravings of a momentary appetite, sold his birth-right for a mess of pottage !
At this day, through the great mercies of God, we have cause to consider ourselves the happiest nation on earth.--List ! oh list!
For many years past the greater part of Christendom has been involved in all the horrors of the most bloody and destructive wars. Their kings and queens have been rudely hurled from their thrones: and the "honourable men and the princes," verifying the mournful language of ancient prophecy, have been seen embracing the dung-hill, or flying from their distracted countries: while the mass of the people, unable to fly, have been crushed to the earth with tythes and taxes-- with impressments and conscriptions--with forced loans and arbitrary requisitions--with martial law, ad- ministered by military judges, with the bayonet at the breast of the citizens! On the other hand, during all these horrid convulsions and miseries of other nations, we, thoughtless, thankless we, have enjoyed all the blessings of peace, plenty, and security. Our persons have been free from the violence of impressments and conscriptions; and our lives and property perfectly safe under the nightly staves of a few old watchmen! while other nations have been over-run with devouring armies, and doomed to see their houses in flames, and the garments of their children rolled in blood, we, like favoured Israel, have been sitting under our vine and fig-tree, none daring to make us afraid. We have been advancing in riches and strength, with a rapidity unequalled in the history of man. We have been progressing in arts, manufactures, and commerce, to an extent and success that has astonished the most enlightened Europeans: and even at this moment, while suffering under the privations of the embargo, we are feasted with every necessary, and enjoying many of the elegancies of life.
And yet, with so many substantial blessings in our hands, with so much heaven-sent manna in our mouths, like ungrateful Israel, we are mourning for lack of European luxuries (as they did for the Egyptian flesh- pots), luxuries which we once enjoyed, but are now most unjustly deprived of by our brethren, the nations of Europe, who are stronger than we. And as if that were not a sufficient evil--as if it were not grievous enough to suffer such a hindrance in trade, agriculture, and business of all kinds--we are now threatened with one, in comparison of which our present privations are insignificant--one which of all others, Washington most dreaded, and was most startled at, I mean a separation of the states, and consequently, civil war.
This dreadful consequence is as obvious as it is dreadful. Yes, it is most obvious, that the separation of the states can never take place without civil war. For if the states, disposed to separate, were unanimous in the attempt, the general government could not look idly on their apostacy, but must resist it! and to that end must call out the force of the rest of the union to crush it. And here, merciful God! what scenes are rising before the eyes of horror-struck imagination ? A whole nation suddenly filled with terror; " men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking to those things that are coming on the land "-- the drums and instruments of war beginning to sound-- the warriors' guns and swords preparing; not for cheerful defence of liberty and country, which would make war glorious; but for the gloomy and infernal work of civil discord. Sisters, mute with grief, and looking through swelling tears, on their brothers, as they gird on the hated swords--wives, shaking with strong fits, and, with their little children, filling their houses with lamentations for husbands and fathers tearing them- selves away for the dismal war, whence they are to return no more ! while aged parents, at parting with their sons, express the deep grief only in groans! or, wringing their withered hands, with tearful eyes to heaven, implore a speedy grave to put their griefs to rest.
But all this is but the beginning of sorrows. For who can paint the scenes which ensue when the two armies meet? when they meet, not in the liberal spirit of stranger troops, who, fighting merely for honour and pay, are ready, in the first moment of victory, to sheath their swords, and to treat the vanquished with humanity and politeness; but in all the bitterness and exterminating spirit of a family quarrel, where men, after numberless acts of the blackest slander and of rancorous hate, having done every thing to destroy each other's souls, are now come together to destroy each other's bodies. Hence, the moment the ill-fated parties meet, their fierce revengeful passions take fire: scarce can they wait the trumpet's dreadful signal. Then, rushing on each other, more like demons than men, they thrust and stab, and shout and yell, in the horrid work of mutual slaughter.
And when one of the wretched parties, nearly consumed by the sword, and unable to resist any longer, cry for quarters, they cry in vain.
The furious conquerors feel not the touch of pity; but, regardless of uplifted hands and prayers, continue their cruel blows till all is hushed in death.
This is the horrid fate of all civil wars. The streets of ancient Rome; the fields of Culloden; the plains of modern France; and even the piney woods of Georgia and South Carolina, strewed with mangled carcases, all give awful proof, that when brethren turn their swords into each other's bowels, war degenerates into murder, and battles into butcheries.
Nor can even the grave set limits to their rage; but, like lions, turning from the mangled dead, they fly for new game to the living. All those, who by their wealth had most injured, or by their writings had most inflamed them, are sure to be the victims of their vengeance. Such persons--as was the case in the last war, between the whigs and tories in the southern states--have been dragged out of their houses, and, amidst the screams of their wives and children, have been hung up on the trees, or cut to pieces with swords with the most savage joy; while their furniture has been plundered, their houses burnt, their cattle and slaves carried off, and their widows and children driven out, crying, and without bread, into the barren woods.
Nor does this tragedy (of a free government madly divided and destroying itself) terminate here. Even this, as Solomon says, is but their " way to hell and their going down by the chambers of death," (political slavery). For when nations thus wickedly abuse their liberty, God will take it away. When they will not live in peace, out of virtuous choice, they shall be compelled by brutal force.
And since they would not let God reign over them with a golden sceptre of reason and equal laws, he will set a master over them with a scourge of scorpions and an iron rod: some proud tyrant, who, looking on our country but as his estate, and ourselves as his cattle, shall waste our wealth on the pomps of his court, or the salaries of his officers; destroy our sons in his ambitious wars; and beggar us with exactions, as long as his ministers can invent taxes, or we, by hard labour, can raise money to pay them.
"Then," in the words of Washington, "what a triumph for the advocates of despotism, to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves; and that systems founded on equal liberty are ideal and fallacious! " Then, how will the proud sons of despotism shake themselves with laughter on their thrones; and hell itself, responsive to their joy, clank her congratulating chains, that heaven is defeated, and the misery of man is sealed.
But, O ye favoured countrymen of Washington! your republic is not yet lost; there is still hope. The arm that wrought your political salvation, is still stretched out to save; then hear his voice and live! Hear the voice of the Divine Founder of your republic: "Little children, love one another." Hear his voice from the lips of his servant Washington. "Above all things hold dear your national union. Accustom yourselves to estimate its immense, its infinite value to your individual and national happiness. Look on it as the palladium of your tranquillity at home; of your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; and even of that very liberty which you so highly prize! " To this you are bound by every tie of gratitude and love to God or man. 1st. As to God, no people more than you can be bound to adore that in- visible hand which rules the affairs of men. 'Twas he who fought your battles, and against such fearful odds established your independence; and afterwards disposed your hearts for the reception of a general and equal government. And for what did God per- form all these miracles for you, but that he might glorify himself in your protection and happiness ? And will you now rise up with joy to co-operate with God in the glorious work of beautifying, with the fruits of righteousness, this goodly land, which he has so honoured, that he may place his own great name therein?
And remember, moreover, my countrymen, that you are now the favoured actors on a most conspicuous theatre; a theatre which seems peculiarly designated of Heaven for the display of human greatness and felicity. Far from the furious passions and politics of Europe, you are placed here by yourselves, the sole proprietors of a vast region, embracing all the soils and climates of the earth, and abounding with all the conveniences of life. And Heaven has crowned all its blessings by giving you a freer government and a fairer opportunity for political happiness than any other nation was ever favoured with. In this view, citizens of the United States, you are certainly responsible for the highest trust ever confided to any people. The eyes of long oppressed humanity are now looking up to you as to her last hope; the whole world are anxious spectators of your trial; and with your behaviour at this crisis, not only your own, but the destiny of unborn millions is involved. If, now, you make a wise use of the all important opportunity--if your free constitution should be sacredly maintained-- if honour, if patriotism, if union, and brotherly love should prevail, with all the good qualities which ennoble the character of nations--then the victory will be sure: your triumph will be complete: and the pressure of the present difficulties, instead of weakening will give a firmer tone to the federal government, that shall probably immortalize the blessings of LIBERTY to our children and children's children.
Then rouse! my generous countrymen, rouse! and, filled with the awfulness of our situation, with the glorious spirit of '76, rally around the sacred standard of your country. As good children give her all your support. Respect her authority!--comply with her laws !--acquiesce in her measures! Thus cemented by love, she shall become like the precious wedge of Ophir that defies the furnace; and coming forth from the fiery trial brighter than ever, she shall shed on the cause of freedom, a dignity and lustre which it never enjoyed before; a lustre which cannot fail to have a favourable influence on the rights of man. Other nations, finding from your example, that men are capable of governing themselves, will aspire to the same honour and felicity. Great and successful struggles will be made for liberty. Free governments (the pure mothers of nations) will at length be established. Honouring all their virtuous children alike, jealousies and hatreds will cease, and cordial love prevail, inviting the industry of all, the blessing of plenty will be spread abroad, and shameless thefts be done away. And wisdom and worth (as in the choice of a free people) being called to high places, errors will be rare. Vices, ashamed, shall hide their odious heads, cruelties seem abhorrent, and wars unknown. Thus step by step progressing in virtue, the world will ripen for glory, till the great hour of her dissolution being come, the ready archangel shall lift his trumpet, and sound her knell. The last refining flames shall then kindle on this tear-bathed, blood-stained globe, while from its ashes a new earth shall spring, far happier than the first. There, freed from all their imperfections, the spirits of good men, (the only true patriots,) shall dwell together, and spend their ever brightening days in loves and joys eternal.
May the Great Founder of your holy republic keep you all under his divine protection; incline your hearts to cultivate a spirit of cheerful subordination to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another; and finally dispose you all to do justice; to love mercy; and to demean yourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a great and happy nation.
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Welcome to a new feature: The Bible Geek ! Some of you may be familiar with my podcast with the same title. In it I seek to answer any and every question submitted to me about that ever-fascinating book. My goal is neither to defend nor to attack, but merely to elucidate the puzzles of the text that many of us have wondered about for years. I welcome your questions to be answered in writing here! They can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com . But for this first time out, let me offer an example of a strange Bible text and its "solution."
One of the most notorious passages in the Bible has got to be the infamous 2 Kings 2:23-25, an anecdote from the career of the prophet Elisha. The text is morally repugnant, virtually pre-moral. It doesn't seem to have occurred to the story teller that there is any problem with the tale he tells. It must get less airplay from the pulpit than almost any other portion of the Bible (with the possible exception of numerous snooze-inducing genealogies). Here it is, as rendered in the Revised Standard Version:
He went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys. From there he went on to Carmel, and thence he returned to Samaria.
It is not that there is nothing for the poor preacher to say about the passage. As we will see momentarily, there is in fact much to say. It's just that there's nothing good , nothing edifying or uplifting, to say about it. It goes so far in the other direction that any moral lesson a preacher may try to hang on it will seem so preposterous, so far-fetched, that few will risk the embarrassment. Well, this is no sermon, so we aren't under such constraints. Let's see what we can say about the story of Elisha and the Bears.
First, we are to picture the prophet, the successor to the miracle-working Elijah, making his rounds like one of the circuit-riding preachers of nineteenth-century frontier America. Shortly he will pull into town and receive donations for psychic feats such as finding lost objects, giving oracles, interpreting dreams (like Samuel the seer does in 1 Samuel 9:3-12). And then on to the next hamlet. As we meet him, he is headed up hill along the road to Bethel, where there had been a shrine for centuries (Genesis 28:10-17), originally dedicated to now-forgotten (or suppressed) gods and nature sprites. A local youth gang knows to expect him, because of his regular schedule, and they go out to meet him. There must be some fifty or more of them, quite a party, since at the end we learn that forty-two of them, not all of them, perished, implying others survived to tell the tale. What exactly do they say to the chrome-domed prophet? Are they urging him on his way? "Go up to the shrine at Bethel, baldy?" It would be a strange (p)reversal of the friendly reception Jesus gets centuries later when a chorus of kids cheers his entry into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:15).
But maybe "Go up!" refers to the rumored ascension into the sky of Elisha's mentor Elijah (2 Kings 2:11-12). Maybe these kids belong to the Bethel chapter of Camp Inquiry; they refuse to believe in Elijah's departure into the blue, and they are mocking Elisha: "Can't you do the same? That was bunk, and you're a faker!" And, of course, Elisha does not disappoint them! If it's a miracle they want to see, well, he's got one up his sleeve! Not exactly the one they asked for, but beggars can't be choosers. And, besides, the little creeps did "ask for it," right? I'll come back to this in a moment, but I have to mention another possibility, one representing an earlier stage of transmission of the story.
Many biblical characters seem to have begun as mythic personifications of the heavenly bodies. 1 Biblical sun gods include Enoch, Isaac, Esau, Moses, Samson (whose name simply means "the sun"), Elijah, Jonah, and maybe even Jesus. Israelite moon gods include Abraham, Jacob, and Elisha. Often the stories pair them and show conflict between them, one getting the advantage of the other, but only temporarily. This motif reflects the eternal cycle of sun and moon, each dominating the sky in turn. (There's a great Star Trek: Next Generation episode about the same thing, remember?) Well, it is no coincidence that Elijah commands the fire from heaven (2 Kings 1:10, 12), causes drought (1 Kings 17:14), rises into the heavens aboard Apollo's fiery chariot—and has long hair (2 Kings 1:8) representing the sun's rays. He disappears, to be replaced by Elisha, who also "goes up" and is bald . I'm guessing that what we now read as the repeated jeering of the neighborhood toughs was originally part of a ritual chant to summon forth the rising moon. The ancient Israelite nomads, being shepherds, preferred the gentle company of the moon to the blistering scrutiny of the sun, and so it was to the former that they offered the firstlings of their flocks, making sure to finish the sacrificial feast before the moon went down (Deuteronomy 16:4). But the story of the children welcoming the divine moon has been retold, like so many others, once Israel began the slow and unsteady transition toward monotheism. Gods became angels, heroes, judges, just so the stories could continue to be told. And they had to be reapplied to new purposes. One no longer dared glorify the exploits of the old gods.
As we now read it, the story of Elisha and the Bears is a prime example of a "cautionary tale," a scare story told in order to keep the intimidated listeners in their place—as defined by their rulers. Other such biblical scare stories include that of the expulsion from Eden in Genesis chapter 3 (how dare mere mortals covet the knowledge that belongs to God—and his priests—alone?), the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9 (again, it discourages inventive autonomy), Uzzah (2 Samuel 6:6-11) getting zapped for steadying the Ark of the Covenant without ritual preparation ("Men, don't let this happen to you!"), and the death of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11 (don't welsh on your church pledge!). These are all religious boundary markers, warning people not to envy their betters lest God smite them, not to help themselves to the privileges inherited by the sacred aristocracy. Rene Girard explains it all so well in his seminal work Violence and the Sacred . 2 Socio-religious classes or castes constitute a stable social order, no matter how inflexible it may be, and no matter how it may curtail freedom and opportunity for individuals within it. Such order was achieved in the society's red dawn, when the "War of All against All" (Thomas Hobbes) was finally settled, and lines were drawn to the disadvantage of the losers. Whenever the lower castes' envy of the upper castes' privileges threatens to boil over again, these cautionary tales will be trotted out to remind people (albeit in a somewhat disguised form) of the massive violence from which order once emerged and into which it could collapse again. Is it worth risking the return to Chaos and Old Night? Ah… maybe not.
It is obvious that our Elisha story performed this function. It warned the hearers of the prophets not to make mockery of them. Jeremiah and others warned the people not to disdain the prophetic messages lest they face the consequences of foreign invasions from which God would otherwise protect
them, but the Elisha business is slightly different: it seeks to safeguard the public standing of God's messengers. If prophets were a laughingstock (as Catholic priests have become in the wake of the pederasty scandals), then who could be expected to heed God's warnings through them? That's the theological way of putting it. Sociologically, we should say the story is a means of protecting the social esteem in which prophets were held, keeping their hearers cowed—and willing to give them alms. Similarly, such cautionary tales functioned as propaganda against the competing claims of rival institutions who did not want to share power with the prophets. We can see this struggle in Amos 7:12-16; in Zechariah 13:1-7, as well as in Josephus' claim that prophecy had ceased, leaving sacred authority to the scribes and priests—the professionals, the apparatchiks. Something similar is going on in the story of the earth swallowing Korah, a slap-down of uppity temple singers who dared request the same privileges as sacrificing priests (compare Numbers 16:1-11, 15-35 with Psalm 51:15-17). 3
When we look at the story of Elisha and the Bears, we can see its place and its function in sacred literature. That is, however, by no means to say that we have anything positive to learn from it. But neither is it difficult to think of others who would sympathize completely with the story of a mocked prophet invoking deadly violence on the blasphemers. Remember those Danish newspaper cartoons ridiculing the prophet Muhammad. Angry Muslims are still trying to assassinate the cartoonists. Welcome back to the ninth century BCE!
1 Ignaz Goldziher, Mythology among the Hebrews and its Historical Development . Trans. Russell Martineau (NY: Cooper Square Publishers, 1967), pp. 90-169.
2 Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred . Trans. Patrick Gregory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1977).
3 Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1967), pp. 85-88.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office arrested Miami Dolphins legend Mark "Super" Duper, who investigators say punched, body slammed, and choked his son, knocking him unconscious.
Police arrested Duper, 54, Wednesday and charged him with child abuse. He bonded out of jail Thursday afternoon.
According to an arrest affidavit, the incident happened Tuesday in Jacksonville.
Duper got into an argument with his son, who WJXT-TV in Jacksonville reports is 17 years old, when the boy refused to pick his hat up off the floor, police say.
Duper then punched the boy in the face and slammed him to the ground several times, causing him to lose consciousness, police say.
After 10 minutes of fighting, Duper told the boy to leave his house, according to the arrest affidavit. The boy began to leave but walked back inside the house to grab a jacket, and he and Duper again began fighting. Hugh Green, another former Dolphins player, separated the pair when he saw Duper punching the boy in a bedroom.
As the boy left the house, he pushed his bicycle into Duper's vehicle, police say. Duper saw him, punched him in the face, and began choking him while the boy was on the ground.
When Green separated the two again, Duper threatened to kill the boy, police say.
According to the arrest affidavit, the boy had a swollen and cut lip, multiple scratches on his elbow and ear, and a cut on his bicep.
Duper told police his actions were in self defense.
Green told WJXT-TV that the teenager started the fight and the arrest report notes that Duper's assault was not "aggravated in nature." He said that the son became physical first.
The boy gave a different version of what happened.
"He punched me in the face and I fell on the ground. He then he got on top of me and I was like, holding him as close as I could to him, so hew wouldn't punch me again," the boy said. "So he picked me up with his body weight and he, liked slammed me right here like four times on his head. It knocked me out."
The Department of Children and Families is investigating.
Duper caught 59 touchdowns and was inducted into the Ring of Honor following an 11-year career with the Dolphins. He was a three-time Pro Bowl selection.
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The young organizers behind the Egyptian uprising are revealed in this short documentary for Al-Jazeera. Handheld camerawork by reporter Elizabeth Jones captures the suspense and elation inside the ad-hoc headquarters of the April 6th Movement during 10 days early in the protest. We watch as the hopes of years become history. A unique primer for would-be nonviolent revolutionaries everywhere.
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