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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT women's volleyball team fell to Springfield College, 25-11, 25-21, 25-23, in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) match on Tuesday. The loss lowered the Engineers' ledger to 8-6 on the year and 2-1 in conference play.
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Nelly's Bodyguard Murdered!
"A murder investigation is hitting close to home for St. Louis rap star, Nelly. Multiple sources close to Nelly tell FOX 2 news the victim was one of Nelly's bodyguards. The victim is 36 year old Michale Johnson sources describe him as Nelly's left hand man, or someone who was by the rapper's side providing security. St. Louis county police responded to a home on Nola, near north Hanley Wednesday night just before midnight. Johnson was shot several times. Police say he was either walking in or walking out of the home when someone opened fire. They're not sure if Johnson was targeted or if he interrupted a burglar who then shot him. Police say they are retracing the victim's steps from the previous 24 hours to try and find out where he was, and what a possible motive might be. No one has been arrested at this point. Thursday afternoon Nelly didn't want to talk about Johnson's murder. The rap start was busy giving out scholarships at Lindenwood University. Two high school students received full tuition scholarships. This is the second year Nelly has made such a donation to the school. " - St. Louis
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"I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but I could'nt see where you were going or what you were going for. This early seventies thing did'nt get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Dealney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are. Then you play this long winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves. And that noise without a beat and sounds like someones being pinched. Then you play a reggae song, I think you called it Dub, to what, be cool? You seem to really fetishize the whole folk thing too which is obnoxious to us who don't even care. I liked it when you played that punk song though. I like Joe Belock a lot." (Visit homepage.)
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text: I just walked through the "How to Create A Raid1 setup on an existing Centos/Redhat 6.0 system". The raid is up and functioning, it boots but the problem is when I try to log in. When I type in the password and hit return the screen blanks out and then comes back to the login screen. I have check using single boot that permissions and directories are still there but I'm at a loss as to what is missing. I get no errors, just a blank screen and then the login screen reappears. -- This is a test system, thankfully but I do need to do the raid1 setup on the production system. Lost the raid disk and it will not rebuild. But that is another story thanks for your help


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Spanish stars join Real Oviedo fight
Spanish stars Santi Cazorla, Juan Mata and Michu have put their hands into their pockets in an effort to save their former club from financial crisis.
Real Oviedo, who currently play in the Spanish third division, are in danger of going out of business if they do not raise €2 million in the next fortnight.
The Premier League midfielders have all purchased shares to help raise the money needed to rescue the club at which they started their careers.
"Myself, Mata and Cazorla have all bought shares, but it would be wrong of me to say how much. We just wanted to try and help save the club we all played for," Michu said.
"The economy in Spain is very bad and the club needs around €2 million to survive. A lot of people have bought shares and hopefully it will be enough by the closing date of November 17. It's my local club, a club I love, so I hope it will be enough."
Michu has enjoyed a stunning start to Premier League life with Swansea and hopes his former club can enjoy a similar revival to the Swans, who also embarked on a share sale when they were in danger of going under.
"Swansea fans should know how much it means to me and the Oviedo supporters," he said.
"I remember reading up on the history of Swansea when I first arrived here. I remember reading how the Swansea supporters bought shares in this club when it was in trouble 10 years ago - and again many years before that.
"And look at the club now; in the Premier League and winning at places like Anfield. Hopefully this SOS can have a similar reaction."
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Rise and Shine Breakfast" Host Christopher Kimball discusses the science behind scrambled eggs with science expert Guy Crosby. Then, test cook Becky Hays uncovers the secrets to perfect Scrambled Eggs. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews the best toaster ovens in the Equipment Corner. D
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Simply Ming "Kf Seetoh & Street Hawker Food" On this special episode of Simply Ming, Ming Tsai tours the famous hawker stalls of Singapore and experiences the myriad of tastes that Singapore street food has to offer. After trying the best of the best, Ming and KF Seetoh make their own version of their favorite street food right in the middle of all the action.on the fly in Singapore. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Asia Express" Joanne embraces teaching traditional recipes and then showing new ways to use them. She and her student Reggie make mayonnaise and create an Asian inspired meal of tuna burgers with wasabi mayonnaise and Thai cabbage and grapefruit slaw, leaving Reggie wondering if he will ever buy mayonnaise again. Recipes: Grilled Yellowtail Tuna Burgers with Wasabi Mayonnaise and Thai Cabbage and Grapefruit Slaw. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Paris: Regal and Intimate" Rick cruises the Seine River, visits Napoleon's tomb, and takes in the Louvre. He also shops in village-like neighborhoods, attends church in a grand pipe organ loft, and celebrates with a big, patriotic Bastille Day bang.G


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Welcome to the N1H1L
So far this season three players have tested positive for the H1N1 virus. Patient zero was Peter Budaj of the Colorado Avalanche, more recently Ladislav Smid of the Edmonton Oilers and today news of Quintin Laing of the Washington Capitals. Colorado and Edmonton have met recently, but this was after Budaj had already been quarantined. The Caps have yet to play either team, so this isn't just cross contamination.
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NASHUA, N.H. - Kameron Klauber notched a hat
trick and Katie Kauffman added a goal and two assists guiding MIT
past host Daniel Webster College, 7-0, in regional field hockey
action Wednesday at Harvey Woods Field.
Kim Barker, Anna Teruya and Danielle Smith added single scores as the Engineers (10-4) halted a two-game skid.
Amy Prince sparkled in goal for the second-year Eagles (5-5), making a career high 16 saves as MIT outshot their hosts 30-3 overall.
Keri Dixon made two saves for MIT to record her third shutout of the year.
Klauber notched two strikes in the first half including the opening score off a Kauffman feed 12:50 into the contest. Teruya upped the lead to 2-0 on a penalty stroke in the 22nd, and Barker added her team leading 12th of the season in the 25th minute.
Smith made it 4-0 with her sixth of the year in the 32nd minute and Klauber made it 5-0 on a penalty stroke with 42 seconds to go before the break.
Kauffman converted a penalty stroke in the 38th and Klauber completed her trio with an unassisted score in the 58th.
The Eagles return to action Saturday hosting Wheelock in an NECC matchup at 1:00 p.m. MIT visits Smith College Saturday at 6:30 p.m., in a game to played at Fermi High School in Enfield, Conn.


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Photography as Meditation
Thinking of a photography as a means of meditation, a way to see the world before you, to really get a good look and pay attention to it, can improve your work and add sensory bounty to your life. Here's how I think about it…
Photography can be a means to go deeper into everyday moments.
Instagram and our phones have taken over in this realm and that's fine, but equally fine is taking your camera "out for a walk." Whatever tool works for you! This can be an intentional practice where you tune in to your surroundings. You could try and photograph the way the leaves look in your neighborhood, the way your cup and its perfectly articulated coffee stains cast a shadow at your work desk, a stack of favorite books near the bedside or a loved one packing his lunch for school. These tiny, seemingly unimportant details can create a quiet body of work full of rich, personal texture and story. It can also be a good way to get out of the way you usually shoot. Change is good.
Taking pictures can help you become a better observer.
If you are thinking in photographic terms, the curve of the zucchini in the bowl, the whisper of hair on your friend's cheek, the striped shirt thrown onto the floor can all become fascinating moments of shape and color. Everything seems to have potential when you turn your 'photo brain' on. I encourage you to contemplate the forms that surround us, and capture them with your camera. Stop and smell the roses, but shoot them as well!
Try photographing an abstract emotion.
It's a challenge to think more emotive and illustrative, but I find it a restorative and creative endeavor to push through ruts. By formulating an idea such as a feeling or gesture and seeking out moments I believe represent that indefinable essence, things can get interesting. We can make quiet, unique images in this way and touch upon our link between abstract thought and visuals.
What do you think about the practice of creating an image? Do you ever find the process meditative?
(Images: 1, 5 and 5 by Leela Cyd Ross, 2 Bethany Nauert, 3 by Marlous Snijder for Apartment Therapy)


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Magazines are one of my favorite things to get. They are full of inspiration, tips and ideas. I love my magazine stash! I've said before my favorite quilt magazine is Quilts & More. It's published by Better Homes and Gardens. You can't subscribe to it (darn it!), and it's quarterly. So if I see one I just pick it up. It has lots of simple quilts and fun little projects. Check one out if you can.
This magazine is dated Spring 2008: I was searching for ideas to make a two color quilt. Then, I happened upon this photo. I love this quilt, isn't it pretty?
The green fabrics varied in value, lots of dark greens and light greens. I think it would have looked a little better if the greens had all been darker, but I still like how it turned out. There was no way I was buying more green!
The quilt size is: 80" x 80" So, yes it's bigger than a twin size. I don't ever make a small quilt… it's hard for me! I backed the quilt in a green flannel, and put some of my leftover tan flannel stash in the center strip. I stipple quilted it using my domestic sewing machine. The thread color is tan. It's really soft and snuggly.So, I got all 3 quilts from my stash completed in time to give as Christmas gifts, I am thrilled about that. It was a lot of work, but the people I am giving them to are worth it :)


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Table Talk 012: Planet Narnia
Michael Ward
- Michael Ward is an expert on the works of C. S. Lewis. A former Warden of The Kilns, C.S. Lewis's Oxford home, he is now Chaplain of St Peter's College in the University of Oxford. View all resources by Michael Ward
Michael Ward, author of 'Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis', talks with Mike Reeves about what we can learn from Lewis's use of medieval cosmology in his writings.
Table Talk 012 - Michael Ward - Planet Narnia
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - Police are investigating a suspicious package that was delivered to a home in Westchester that had several pounds of marijuana concealed by a children's toy.
Police officers were dispatched to a Gatehouse Road residence in Scarsdale on Oct. 5 when a homeowner reported that a suspicious package had been delivered to the house.
Upon arrival, the homeowner told police that he had received the package, and upon opening it, determined that there was a large amount of marijuana, prompting him to contact law enforcement officials.
Police said that they took custody of the package, which was described as a solid brown cardboard box with no exterior labels. Inside the cardboard box was a child's chest with the letters of the alphabet. Upon further inspection of the toy chest, officers identified five bags of marijuana, which were sealed with two layers of vacuum sealed bags and had dryer sheets between those layers.
Officers proceeded to weigh the bags, which were approximately one pound each. Three of the bags had the word "berries" on it, one was labeled "black diamond," and the last read "indoor black diamond." The suspicious package and marijuana are under investigation, and police increased patrol on Gatehouse Road.
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In Living Motion: Imaging Cellular Function in Live Tissues
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Subcellular motions inside live tissue are sensitive indicators of cellular health and cellular response to applied drugs. Digital holography volumetrically captures these motions in tissue dynamics spectroscopy for live-tissue drug screening.
When coherent light scatters from displacing objects, the phase of the light shifts according to the direction and magnitude of motion. When there are many scattering objects, moving in random directions, the phase shifts are added randomly, leading to intensity fluctuations in the scattered light. These intensity fluctuations have statistical properties that relate to the type of motion, with different fluctuation signatures for diffusive vs. directed transport, and with different frequency content for faster or slow motions.
Tissue-dynamics spectroscopy (TDS) combines dynamic light scattering with short-coherence digital holography to capture intracellular motion inside multicellular tumor spheroid tissue models. These spheroids are grown in bioreactors and have a proliferating shell of cells surrounding a hypoxic or necrotic core. The cellular mechanical activity becomes an endogenous imaging contrast agent for motility contrast imaging. Fluctuation spectroscopy is performed on dynamic speckle from the proliferating shell and the hypoxic core to generate drug-response spectrograms that are frequency vs. time representations of the changes in spectral content induced by an applied compound or an environmental perturbation. We have studied a range of reference compounds and conditions applied to multicellular tumor spheroids (MCT) to generate drug fingerprint spectrograms with potential applications in early drug discovery.
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Dexx1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a marketing consulting company that specialize in creating unique marketing plans for local businesses using proven marketing strategies that are guaranteed to increase their profits.
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Our target audience will be business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing teams, and similar positions of decision making ability when it comes to business profit growth decisions.
The logo design should represent our specialty in automated (or nearly automated) profit-generating marketing systems.
The logo should reflect our systems being simple to understand, and easy to implement...basically the logo should be simple...not complicated in its design.
The logo will be used on websites and within videos, but also will be used on business cards, letterheads, and possibly even clothing. As such the design and colouring should not be overly complicated.
The logo should also give a feeling of being exciting, new, vibrant, different...think professional but fun (as opposed to some boring law office-type logo)
Colour selection is open for now, however keep in mind that we are targeting businesses and wan't to reflect a professional ability to generate a great deal of money for them...so the colour selection should reflect this.
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Ashlee Simpson: Bikini Babe in Hawaii!
Ashlee Simpson shows off her flawless bikini body while taking a dip in the water with her son Bronx on Saturday afternoon (December 29) in Oahu, Hawaii.
The 28-year-old entertainer wore a mismatched swimsuit and a New York Yankees hat on the sunny day out.
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Earlier in the week, Ashlee and Bronx built sand castles on the beach.
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Microsoft Presents "Virtualization and Cloud Computing"
Microsoft completed its first monthly "Live and Virtualized" LiveMeeting series yesterday, December. 9th, 8:00am PST. The first LiveMeeting topic was titled "Virtualization and Cloud Computing" presented by Mike Neil, general manager of virtualization strategy, Microsoft, Deepak Patil, general manager of communications and storage, Microsoft Global Foundation Services, which hosts the Azure Services Platform, and Dominic Foster, Chief… Read more


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Yes, but
Is It Safe?
Yes, but
Is It Safe?
and does it decompress fast (read: fast + low cpu usage) on a normal (read: non-development) machine?
AFAIK, dean edward's packer at max js compression also results in max decompression time.
ok, i run into problems with Dean Edwards 's Packer. Everything worked well: Layouts, dialogs, Accordion - but grid failed.
Dean Edwards' Packer mungs the semantics of the code in some situations.
Check Julien Lecomte's blog entries about the yui compressor.
It does seem like YAHOO is the best option.
does mootools use Dean Edwards' Packer ? May be they only linked to it.
I think YUI-compressor works best atm. Anyway i will inform Edwards, may be he fixes something.
be careful when compressing with the latest yuicompressor-2.2.1.jar.
one new feature was added
which for some strange reason, turned this line in ext-all-debug.jsOriginally Posted by http://www.julienlecomte.net/yuicompressor/
intoCode:document.write("<s"+'cript id="ie-deferred-loader" defer="defer" src="/'+'/:"></s'+"cript>");
which killed the minified script.Code:document.write("<s"+"cript id="ie-deferred-loader" defer="defer" src="/"+"/:"></s"+"cript>");
i've tried to inform the author of this. let's hope he replies soon.
did some more testing.
this works (i.e. yui-compressor-2.2.1 doesn't mess up when minifying ext-all-debug)
but the minified version gets cleverly optimised toCode:
document.write("<s"+"cript id='ie-deferred-loader' defer='defer' src='/"+"/:'></s"+"cript>");
looks like the only way to preserve the original string is to do thisCode:
document.write("");
@jack/brian, any thoughts?Code:
document.write(["<s",'cript id="ie-deferred-loader" defer="defer" src="/','/:"></s',"cript>"].join(""));
scratch all that.
yuicompressor-2.2.2 is out.


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NOVA "Great Cathedral Mystery" The engineering behind the dome that crowns Florence's cathedral of Santa Maria del Fione, a Renaissance masterpiece and the world's largest masonry dome, is still debated among historians and engineers. Now a team of U.S. bricklayers helps build an experimental "mini-Duomo" using period tools and techniques to try to unravel how architect Filippo Brunelleschi managed it.G
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Super Skyscrapers "Building The Future" Commonly known as "the cheese grater," the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of London's avant-garde architecture. The tapered tower with a steel exoskeleton is the tallest skyscraper in the City of London, and the teams behind the project had to radically rethink every aspect of the traditional building model. Part 2 of 4G
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Wild Caribbean "Secret Shores" This miniseries explores the Caribbean's rich mix of natural life. The final episode journeys from the rainforests of the Panama Canal to the Barrier Reef of the Americas, the world's second-largest coral system. Part 4 of 4G
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Chris Mooney | March 14, 2012
By Chris Mooney • Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 09:04
Last week, we were treated to one of those facepalm moments that make those of us who care about the future of planet intensely frustrated. Or worse.
Senator James Inhofe, climate conspiracy theorist, was on a Christian radio program talking about his new book The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future. And here's what he said (audio at link):
Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in [the book] is that "as long as the earth remains there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night." My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.
Okay, forget about the biblically-based climate denial for a moment. I'm kind of fascinated by Inhofe's statement that God is still "up there." Really? Like, in the sun? Directly over our heads?
Is Inhofe a pre-Copernican as well as a global warming denier? Does he not realize that while "up" might have meant a great deal to Ptolemaic Christians, it has no real significance in the context of modern physics and cosmology?
What's most frustrating, though, is this bizarre invocation of Scripture to justify the idea that we don't need to worry about climate change. For those of us who are secular in outlook, it's not just that this makes no sense. The idea that such sectarian notions—arguments or motivations that cannot be proved by rational argument or discussion with those who do not share Inhofe's religious premises–could be influencing U.S. policy is, frankly, shocking.
But there's something weird going on here too, when you think about it. I mean, usually, we tend to think of climate deniers like Inhofe as not driven by religion, but rather, by money or corporate influence. And indeed, reporting on Inhofe's latest remarks at Think Progress Green, Brad Johnson helpfully added that "In the interview, Inhofe did not mention he has received $1,352,523 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry, including $90,950 from Koch Industries."
So when he denies global warming, is Inhofe trying to appease his campaign funders and the oil and gas industry? Or is he shilling for Jesus? Or are they interchangeable?
This tends out to be an area of endless confusion in U.S. politics, so I want to take this opportunity to address it.
In a prior post here, I wrote about why evolution deniers and climate deniers might be "natural allies," despite the fact that one form of denial has a religious motivation, whereas the other presumably springs from economic or free market convictions. Now, let me go farther.
In my new book The Republican Brain, I discuss in detail the odd phenomenon of the economic and social right pairing up together, again and again–just as they do in James Inhofe, and just as they do in Rick Santorum. Many have remarked on this strange bedfellows allegiance, which is, after all, the backbone of the current U.S. Republican Party. But it is usually treated as an oddity, a strange contradiction: What do pragmatic businessmen have to do with Bible thumpers? Why does Big Pharma want to be in bed with people who are anti-contraception and anti-stem cell research? And so on.
My contention is that we need to stop thinking of this as a mystery or contradiction, and instead come to view it as psychologically normal. Stop listing all the rational reasons why the allegiance shouldn't exist, and start thinking about the psychological reasons why it should.
And what are those? Well, start with this figure from a recent paper by Yale political scientist Alan Gerber and his colleagues. Gerber et al are studying the relationship between personality and political views, and what they find is that economic and social conservatives alike are more conscientious, and less open to new experiences. Economic and social liberals alike, meanwhile, are less conscientious, and more open to trying out new ideas and new things.
In other words, economic and social liberals are just as okay with new adventures and experiments in their personal lives as they are with sociopolitical and economic change. Their opponents on both fronts, meanwhile, are much more wedded to stability, in social structures ("the family"), in economic norms (the "free market"), and day to day life alike.
This is, admittedly, only a brief gloss on this issue, and there is much more unpacking in the book. But my contention is that we need to give up on this odd and incoherent game of sometimes describing climate change denial as driven by money, and sometimes as driven by religion—usually fundamentalist.
The two aren't nearly as distinct as you might think. And the thing that unites us global warming accepters (and separates us from many of our foes) is our willingness to believe that traditional authorities in society—industry, the free market, the church—are just plain wrong about a lot of things….and really could have led us to this desperate point of planetary emergency.
manoskiamos replied on Permalink
Climate does change
Nice article. I think Inhofe is indeed a corporate guy protecting oil and gas companies rights!
I Live in Greece and we had the worst winter for about 30 or more years….a lot of snow…extremely low temperatures….a lot of rain…i mean tropical rain…
It is the first time of my life that i see this kind of weather in Greece….i mean tropical rains can't be explained….
Recently i've read an article from Φαψεβοοκ that claims that the melt of North Pole ice is creating this extreme weather condition…and as far as i see…i can't doubt it...
You can learn more here;
But I recommend that you read more from the IPCC.
As with many things in Climate Change its not always obvious what is going on and it is best that you use good sources for information. I believe that the following article would be close to what you are talking about;
manoskiamos, "oilman" is
"oilman" is inviting you to join the Church of Climatology cult.
Why go with a failing pale imitation? Check out these guys:
At least they've got a "free personality test" and Tom Cruise.
PJ, you are really cementing
PJ, you are really cementing yourself as the new troll of this forum. Nothing but fail & desperate to derail.
I was just trying to put my best foot forward.
As did PJ.
Χαίρετα, manoskiamos!
Never mind PJames. PJ is merely our resident climate science denier. Everybody should have one.
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Tornado Prevention Prayer Squad
Illuminating post Chris, I've come across similar fundamentalist Christian views in deniers I've had long arguments with on the blogosphere, who deny the possibility of any human influence on God's creation in the face of overwhelming evidence.
The psychology of climate science denial is really important to understand, and I look forward to further reports of published work in the field.
Meanwhile, perhaps what we really need is some footage of the Imhofe - Pat Robertson Tornado Prevention Prayer Squad in action?
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
oil is God.
So old-school 20th Century.
Siri is God.
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
Some of the accounts of
Some of the accounts of Inhofe that I have read suggest that his main motive is hostility to regulation. Given this his alliance with oil producers is to be expected. I would think that the religious justifications could be rationalizations to support his other motives. After all it is hardly the only way to interpret the verses that he quotes.
Room for interpretation
Yes, indeed Lloyd. The research indicates a lot of bad stuff, including mass extinctions, crop failures, flooding - it sounds positively apocalyptic!
But even in the worst scenarios, the sun will still rise and harvest will still occur (somewhere). (Can you see a straw man argument set forth by Inhofe?)
But, Inhofe's grandchildren may have to take in the poor refugees from Miami who bought his book, once the city is submerged by the century's end.
I thought that God's charge to man (Adam) was to fill the Earth and subdue it, not to kick it into a fury and make it more hostile to life.
The Inhofe Theater of the Absurd
Within the Roman Catholic Church, for example, we find many who follow the church's teachings as conditioned as children to the best of their imperfect sinful souls, & others who pretty much realize, sooner or later, that the Trinity & BVM are merely a peculiar post-Classical blend of Olympian & Messianic traditions, all hell be damned.
The fervent fall more easily into line, although imperfectly, & appear less likely to challenge the status quo of most any authority, ecclesiastical or temporal. The latter seem to thrive, even revel in serendipitous novelty & perhaps a bite of rebellion.
Of course, there are all those shades-of-greyers betwixt & between.
Perhaps, it's the way our brains are wired genetically & familially & educationally that gives us our propensities towards either bent. Perhaps, the more compliant found their path early on by keeping their crayolas within the lines for a favorite teacher's warm fuzzy, while the unsettled others were busy passing around naughty notes at the back of the class.
On either side & all along the spectrum, there also appear those who are particularly astute at calculating their demeanor, you know, like attorneys-at-law, hired-guns, & Mother Superiors.
Republican U.S. Senator James Mountain Inhofe of Oklahoma strikes us as one of these calculators. Whether or not he truly believes in global warming hoaxes or the authority of scriptures or laissez-faire government may not be what propels his theater of the absurd; rather, his adamant denial of climate science may be driven more by money & reelection campaigns, & how best to seduce & indulge his constituency & benefactors many of whom just happen to be religious fundamentalists & fossil fuel magnates.
If the conservative mind hates change...
and prefers stability, then the message should be expressed in those terms. That is, if you want the climate, the harvests and the coastlines the way they are, here's how to make sure of it.
I don't think the conservative mindset is averse to action. The case must be made that change is inevitable. There is a choice: change your energy sources or accept a less hospitable Earth.
"less hospitable"
Change your energy or Extreme Mother Nature will change your entire world. Your choice.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
22 Biblical Injunctions
I saw a list of Biblical passages that urge people to preserve the environment. Should have kept the bookmark.
"I saw a list of Biblical
"I saw a list of Biblical passages that urge people to preserve the environment. Should have kept the bookmark."
The bible is contradictory. It has one stance, but within a page or two has a contradictory position. People manipulate the text to suit their own confirmation bias and personal agenda's. Same with the Quran/Koran. They were written for people several hundreds of years ago that have no relevance at all in todays world. Many still have a limited understanding of the world around us today. Let alone several hundred years ago.
The only passage I remember from my religious teachings was:
"Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful (do what you need to do to get ahead) and multiply ( have 7 children) and fill the earth (with rubbish) and subdue it ( destroy as much as possible for personal gain) and have dominion over the fish (leave only things you cant sell) of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves (kill those who oppose your views) on the earth.""
I can't remember which phrase...
but in South Africa they claimed that the Bible told them it was OK to oppress blacks.
I'm sure its stuff like this that prompted XTC to write Dear God;
Ahem, gentlemen.
If GingerLadySlipper is all for preserving our inhabitable climate & irreplaceable biodiversity, our majestic mountains & life-giving running waters & life-teeming oceans, our spectacular natural resources & our awe-inspiring natural heritage for our children & grandchildren & all posterity on this pale blue dot, then it's alright by us wherever she finds her inspiration.
As far as we're concerned, anyone can believe whatever they want so long as they don't try to force religion of any flavor, in any disguise upon our public schools, our health care, our local, state, or federal governments, or any of our basic human rights & constitutional liberties.
Among the wisest things JC is supposed to have said is:
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."
Clearly an enlightened Hellenistic plug for separation of church & state, echoed many centuries later by Thomas Jefferson in his letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802.
"Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
btw, some of the most educated & smartest, savviest &, yes, delightful people we've ever had the pleasure of knowing are people of faith, including a few Jesuit priests who did their god-darnedest to educate yours truly in the ways of the world long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
That's a rather loaded interpretation...
of Genesis 1:28, Phil.
I always read it as:
And God blessed them (spoke well of them). And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth (populate the earth, fill it with the image of God) and subdue it (take charge to make it habitable for your descendants) and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves (consider all living things and exercise your powers to manage them responsibly for God) on the earth."
The word "dominion" merely means "supreme authority" and that implies nothing about the quality of that authority. But those of the Jewish and Christian faiths will understand that the charge follows "in His image" indicating that Adam and Eve were God's representatives, God's expression on earth. Thus, they should constantly be reflecting God's nature in their behavior.
So, you can ask your denier friends of faith, "Okay, let's presume that God won't let man go extinct no matter how much we foul our nest, does that give us the justification to do so? Isn't it the same as forgiveness not justifying a life of crime?"
Further, the fact that Adam and Eve's sin caused more misery for them and their children (pain in childbirth, man's got to sweat to get food, they were expelled from their comfy home) shows that God allows consequences and suffering to follow bad behavior.
Regardless of our political or religious affiliations, we should be trying to build bridges and build consensus to build momentum and to foment action.
Won't that be more satisfying than scoring points?
Considering loaded interpretations.
Dug into both Hebrew & Christian traditions time & again & never found any mention of extracting & burning gigatons of Alberta tar sands to totally pollute the planet, although Athabasca certainly does sound more Babylonian than Cree.
However, upon a closer reading of Genesis 1:29-30, the taking of herbal supplements by both man & beast is clearly part of the Her plan for all of creation.
So Yahweh is a Shaklee distributor? Damn!
"And God blessed them (spoke
"And God blessed them (spoke well of them). And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth (populate the earth, fill it with the image of God) and subdue it (take charge to make it habitable for your descendants) and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves (consider all living things and exercise your powers to manage them responsibly for God) on the earth."
Had I have still been religious, that is the way I would have taken it also. I was being sarcastic. It was a facetious attempt at showing that there is many interpretations of the same words. Many who advocate turn the other cheek also advocate bombing 'terrorists'.
"Further, the fact that Adam and Eve's sin"
What fact? I regard the bible as a work of fiction, so it's hard to me to reconcile any facts there. There is no fact that Adam & Eve existed. Their story is a metaphor, afterall, who did their kids have kids with?
"Regardless of our political or religious affiliations, we should be trying to build bridges and build consensus to build momentum and to foment action."
I apologize if I sound over militant in opposition to religion. As they say, reformed smokers are the biggest critics of smokers & smoking. I agree though, that we should be trying to build bridges. I do try.
Speaking of Oil and Climate Change...
Hot weather is hurting Canada's Natural Gas Exports;
"The vast majority of U.S. natural gas imports arrive via pipeline from Canada (see chart below). Significant increases in U.S. natural gas production have led to decreased U.S. demand for Canadian natural gas. Imports from Canada for 2011 were significantly below the previous five-year range, and have been lower for much of 2012 so far (some of this decline, however, can be attributed to warmer-than-usual weather across much of the United States)."
On Friday, March 16, 2012,
On Friday, March 16, 2012, the famous paleoclimatologist Dr. Michael Mann spoke to all the students and faculty at Bishop O'Connell High School, a very large Catholic high school in Arlington,VA. Dr. Mann explained the science of climate change and the possible consequences of not addressing the problem. He showed pictures from his book "Dire Consequences: Understanding Global Warming."
The students, who are studying climate change in science, asked a lot of questions that impressed Dr. Mann. The science teachers were really proud of the thoughtful questions the kids asked.
The Ecology Club all had their pictures taken with Dr. Mann. They were smiling like they were standing next to a rock star!
Just so everyone knows, Catholic educational institutions teach the peer-reviewed science and follow the lead of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which includes scientists who have helped write the IPCC Assessments.
Thanks to Dr. Mann, Bishop O'Connell students will be able to study peer-reviewed science should they choose to continue their studies at a secular state university in Virginia.
The Bible
Galileo was probably quoting the Vatican Librarian Cardinal Baronius when he said, "The Bible teaches us how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go."
This means that the Bible is not a science book.
I don't like it when Mr. Mooney attributes Inhofe's so-called "religion" to all religious people. This is dividing scientists and believers who should be working together. It is playing into the hands of the denialists who are also attacking churches.
Some of the astroturf "religious" organizations such as the Cornwall Alliance are connected to the Dragon Slayers and Monckton. Really, they are trying to bully and confuse Christians.
They really represent Christians about as well as those 1000 scientists represent scientists.
The Cornwall Alliance is disparaging Christians who accept the peer-reviewed science as adherants of a "new belief system that is not Christian.
Here is a fake religious site called "Real Catholic TV" that tries to make it appear that "real Catholics" don't believe in global warming, although the Vatican says officially that there is global warming.
The "Real Catholic" site is nothing to do with the Vatican and even confuses people with a big logo that says CIA at the top. The site exploits the Central Intelligence Agency acronym by calling themselves the Catholic Investigative Agency (CIA), though they have a tiny disclaimer at the bottom saying they aren't the real CIA.
They aren't the real Catholics, either.
The Vatican says there is global warming. Children and college students learn about global warming in Catholic schools. Global warming is viewed as a social justice issue that needs to be addressed by real science, not swept under the rug by energy industry propaganda. The Vatican supports the UN report on climate change, so that's the real Catholic position.
Here is another fake organization that claims to be made of Evangelicals—the Cornwall Alliance. The stupidities of the British religious bigot and global warming denialist Lord Christopher Monckton, who disparaged the University of St. Thomas as an ignorant "Bible college" are posted on this so-called "Evangelical" site.
One of the religious leaders of the Cornwall Alliance, Dr. James Tonkowich, also denigrates Christians who believe in global warming when he makes this bigoted, anti-religious allegation:
"Global warming is the central tenet of this new belief system in much the same way that the Resurrection is the central tenet of Christianity. Al Gore has taken a role corresponding to that of St Paul in proselytizing the new faith …. My skepticism about [anthropogenic global warming] arises from the fact that as a physicist who has worked in closely related areas, I know how poor the underlying science is. In effect the scientific method has been abandoned in this field."
If you only read the home page, it seems that Dr. Tonkowich is claiming that he said these words and that he is a trained physicist, but if you click on the link, Dr. Tonkowich is actually quoting another person: "So wrote Atmospheric Physicist Dr. John Reid, quoted in a new report on more than a thousand scientists who dissent over the claims about man-made global warming."
That seems a very deceptive to me. Also, these one thousand scientists do not represent the scientific consensus. Almost all climate scientists say there is global warming. The National Academy of Science says that global warming is happening.
It is hard to believe that this dishonest clergyman was once a leader of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. Dr. Kent Hill, who led the IRD in the 1980s, would never have misrepresented himself like Dr. Tonkowich does.
Christians who believe in global warming are not cultists who have embraced a "new belief system;" rather, many Christians are educated people who read what our scientists and our religious leaders are learning about global warming. Educated Christians follow the discoveries of modern science and don't swallow the stupid lies of the denialist "scientific" and "religious" organizations.
We know they are often just the mouthpieces of the fossil-fuel industry.
In my opinion, the Cornwall Alliance is really a bigoted, anti-religious site that shamelessly disparages Christians who are concerned about global warming by comparing them to the members of a cult who have replaced the central tenet of Christianity with the belief in global warming.
Characterizing Christians as extremist members of a cult is a tactic the communists used to denigrate and persecute Christians. Since Dr. James Tonkowich used to work at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), he should know that. It is hard to understand how this Dr. Tonkowich was able to work for an organization that used to defend Soviet and East European Christians from religious bigotry.
It should be obvious that if religious organizations were really against global warming, the denialists would not need to make up FAKE religious organizations that deny global warming.
These denialist organizations that masquerade as religious organizations slander both scientists and Christians. They seem to have forgotten what the Ten Commandments says about bearing false witness.
Plenty of religious people look to religion for moral guidance while also maintaining a scientific outlook. Global warming is a moral issue, and educated Christians look to great scientists for guidance about how to solve this problem. I don't think that the great scientists who are researching global warming are trying to "trick" people. I think that the fossil fuel industry, politicians who take their money, and the Russian petrostate are trying to trick people.
Here is what the Vatican says about global warming:
God created our world with wisdom and love and when he had finished his great work of creation, God saw that it was good.
Today however the world is confronted with a serious ecological crisis. The earth is suffering from global warming as a result of our excessive consumption of energy. The extent of forested area on our planet has diminished by 50% over the last 40 years while the deserts are spreading ever faster. Three quarters of ocean life has already disappeared. Every day more than 100 living species die out and this loss of biodiversity is a serious menace for humanity itself. With the apostle Paul we can affirm: creation has been delivered into the power of destruction, it groans as in the pains of childbirth.
We cannot deny that human beings bear a heavy responsibility for environmental destruction. Their unbridled greed casts the shadow of death on the whole of creation.
Together Christians must do their utmost to save creation. Before the immensity of this task, they must unite their efforts. It is only together that they can protect the work of the creator. It is impossible not to notice the central place which natural elements occupy in the parables and teaching of Jesus. Christ shows great respect even for the smallest of all the seeds. With the biblical vision of creation as affirmation, Christians can contribute with one voice to the present reflection on the future of our planet.
God our Creator, the world was created by your Word and you saw that it was good. But today we are spreading death and destroying our environment. Grant that we may repent of our greed; help us to care for all that you have made. Together, we desire to protect your creation. Amen.
LINKS: http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2011/02/astroturf-religious-organizations-deny.html
Render unto Caesar ...
Without a doubt, Snapple, we have full agreement with Jon Stewart & Colbert Nation that the bible, in any of its varied versions & translations, myriad manuscripts, or arbitrary apocrypha, is not a science book & should never be treated as such.
However, while your cite is probably intended primarily for the ears & eyes & souls of the Catholic faithful, we find it an unfortunate & willful mash-up of religious doctrine with science.
God created our world with wisdom and love and when he had finished his great work of creation, God saw that it was good. [Pure unadulterated religious doctrine, without a hint of science]
Today however the world is confronted with a serious ecological crisis. The earth is suffering from global warming as a result of our excessive consumption of energy. The extent of forested area on our planet has diminished by 50% over the last 40 years while the deserts are spreading ever faster. Three quarters of ocean life has already disappeared. [???] Every day more than 100 living species die out and this loss of biodiversity is a serious menace for humanity itself. [Science without a hint of the divine].
With the apostle Paul we can affirm: creation has been delivered into the power of destruction, it groans as in the pains of childbirth. [Groaning with religious doctrine]
We cannot deny [in the sense of "should not", since there are clearly those who can & do deny the science] that human beings bear a heavy responsibility for environmental destruction. Their unbridled greed casts the shadow of death on the whole of creation. [Creation is a religious doctrine which inserts a divine creator] .
Together Christians must do their utmost to save creation. Before the immensity of this task, they must unite their efforts. It is only together that they can protect the work of the creator. It is impossible not to notice the central place which natural elements occupy in the parables and teaching of Jesus. Christ shows great respect even for the smallest of all the seeds. With the biblical vision of creation as affirmation, Christians can contribute with one voice to the present reflection on the future of our planet. [Chock-full of religious doctrine & sermon, but with a rational call to action].
We find our rational selves much more impressed by & supportive of the "Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene" by the Working Group Commissioned by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences where they lawyerly present the scientific consensus & wisely limit any usage of the word "create" to acts of humanity & any supplication to the supernatural to acts of the faithful.
"We call on all people and nations to recognise the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and by changes in forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other land uses. We appeal to all nations to develop and implement, without delay, effective and fair policies to reduce the causes and impacts of climate change on communities and ecosystems, including mountain glaciers and their watersheds, aware that we all live in the same home. By acting now, in the spirit of common but differentiated responsibility, we accept our duty to one another and to the stewardship of a planet blessed with the gift of life. We are committed to ensuring that all inhabitants of this planet receive their daily bread, fresh air to breathe and clean water to drink, as we are aware that, if we want justice and peace, we must protect the habitat that sustains us."
Amen, brother!
Rendering unto Caesar...
IANVS, I think you're missing the point of Snapple's comment. Snapple is merely reporting the position of the Catholic Church regarding global warming.
The Church is entitled to consider the universe as God's creation. That's basically the whole point of Christianity, and religion in general. So why complain about, for example:
God created our world with wisdom and love and when he had finished his great work of creation, God saw that it was good. [Pure unadulterated religious doctrine, without a hint of science].
Yes, I agree, pure unadulterated religious doctrine…, but so what? Is there anything wrong with the Church's statement, in itself? God saw that it was good. Why shouldn't he? Why shouldn't we also agree wholeheartedly? Is there really anything offensive in the statement?
As to: God created our world with wisdom and love… Why not? Until we started screwing it up, the world seemed to work just fine, so obviously, *if* God created the world, it was certainly with more wisdom and love than we (man) are capable of.
I'm a scientist. I accept the laws of physics, mathematics, chemistry etc. I believe life evolved along the lines proposed by Darwin, and I don't expect to go to hell for these beliefs. As far as Creation is concerned, is it really going to change the world in any way if I believe that it could have been God who lit the fuse that set off the Big Bang? However, as a scientist, I can't prove that there is a God, anymore than you can prove there isn't. So why make such a big deal about it?
As two people who both believe that man is causing global warming, which in the end will totally screw up the planet and just about everyone living on it, can we not both simply be happy that the Catholic Church, and mainstream Christianity, are on our side?
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Somewhere the is a quote by
Senator Inhofe to the effect that he believed in global warming until he saw how much it costs.
That's faith for you.
On the Ides of March on the Rachel Maddow Show,
@ 4:08 in, Inhofe said:
"I was actually on your side of this issue when I was chairing that committee and I first heard about this. I thought it must be true until I found out what it cost."
"I thought it must be true
"I thought it must be true until I found out what it cost."
Perhaps he meant political cost through his funders threatening to withdraw funding.
Disparaging Religion
Bashing religion antagonizes people by forcing them to choose between their faith and science. This sort of bullying undermines our ability to work together to solve the problem of climate change. Remember, the denialists are also trying to bully believers and tell them that Christians can't believe in climate change.
All you do when you bash religion is stoke the culture wars, and that is a diversion that will get us exactly nowhere. Lord Monckton bashed the Catholic Church when he desparaged John Abraham's Catholic university as a "Bible college."
You may not believe in God, but religion is very real and powerful; and religion is playing a role in getting out the word about climate change.
Fake "religious" denialist websites are trying to undermine churches because the denialists fear religion just as they fear science. The denialists realize that religion must be neutralized lest it become a formidible opponent.
Why are some journalists who write about science more interested in bashing religion than making a coalition to fight climate change? All they do is alienate the majority of Americans. Scientists and churches all need to work together.
Catholic schools teach climate change. They can't be undermined by politicians who deny climate change and persecute teachers like Dr. Mann. Dr. Mann spoke as a scientist when he visited Bishop O'Connell H.S. Nobody asked him anything about his religion.
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is non-sectarian. The head is Werner Arber, a Protestant. There are other scientists who are atheists, but they still work with the Vatican to help them learn about climate change so they can give people accurate information.
Please, we are all in the same boat. Instead of bashing Inhofe for his apocryphal "religious" views, confront him with the evidence of the Catholic and Protestant churches that accept climate change. Have religious leaders on TV who will tell you the position of the churches.
When is a cult not a cult?
Yes, Snapple, we are all in the same lifeboat together, tossing about through the same troubled waters, & the strong hand of every able body & willing soul is needed to man the oars of science & technology to propel us safely to the other side of these self-inflicted, extreme changes in climate.
So let's not fall overboard here.
re: "There is no contradiction between what we know through faith and what we learn through science. There may be tensions or conflicts, but we should not be afraid. The Church must not fear science and its discoveries."
Yes, tensions & conflicts we have with us always, & no, there exists plenty of contradiction between what religion pretends & what science tells us. Science reveals to us the evidence of the natural world for evolution & anthropogenic climate change & beyond, where religion often requires that you suspend your disbelief, along with your reasoning powers, in favor of the supernatural, some might say, the magical or the superstitious. In particular, catholic doctrine & authorities require that you accept with your whole being, sometimes under pain of sin & excommunication – though, thanks to human progress & the sciences, no longer under the pain of torture & death – that priestly incantations transmute sanctified unleavened bread into flesh incarnate & consecrated wine into the blood of the divine, that holy spirits & unholy demons inhabit, sometimes possess our temple bodies, if no longer the skies, & an executed activist of Jewish heritage & questionable parentage arose from the dead &, sans jetpack or hovercraft, arose into the heavens above. (We'll save the angel annunciations of virgin-birth, along with all the Cinderella stories, until after March Madness.)
To many adult men & women who rely on reason & reasonableness to earn their daily bread & solve real world problems, that might sound no less cultish than what Mormons or Heaven's Gate or Branch Davidians would have us believe & accept with all our hearts, & much of our money, as the infallible word of a supernatural supreme authority, compliments of self-anointed intermediaries & inerrant, holier-than-thou books.
For hundreds of years, as you may recall, early christianity was considered, even persecuted, as a cult by the mainstream Roman people & authorities. In the written words of Pliny the Younger, a Roman governor around 110 AD, Christians were a "degenerate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths." And even today, many christians still consider Mormonism a cult, never mind Scientology.
So when is a cult no longer a cult? When it's established as the state religion?
Nevertheless, we can all agree to act on what the science tells us about mother nature & her extremes. So let's all get with the program, put the sweat of our brow to the oar, & all pull in the same direction, all at the same time, to renew our human civilization & preserve our planet, with the rebirth & rapid deployment of clean energy technologies, for our children & our grandchildren, & all of posterity's sake.
A Vatican Scientist on Science and Religion
On May 14, 2008, Jesuit Father Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory and a member of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences gave a really remarkable interview to the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano (LOR):
"I believe that the [Vatican] Observatory has this mission: to be on the frontier between the world of science and the world of faith, to give testimony that it is possible to believe in God and be good scientists."
"[I]t is necessary [for the Church to dialogue with men of science.] Faith and science are not irreconcilable…Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI [have said]: faith and reason are the two wings which elevate the human spirit. There is no contradiction between what we know through faith and what we learn through science. There may be tensions or conflicts, but we should not be afraid. The Church must not fear science and its discoveries."
The interviewer responds, "As was the case with Galileo." http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/interviste/2008/112q08a1.html
Considering Vatican PR about Irreconcilability
Vatican PR & papal encyclicals notwithstanding,
Where religious faith contradicts scientific evidence, they are irreconcilable, unless of course, the religious belief is nullified & superseded by what the science reveals.
And whenever science & its discoveries threaten religious doctrine & authority, as history & heretics bear witness to time & time again, ecclesiastical authoritarians & their faithful flocks often display fear & hostility & sectarian prescriptions & remedies.
So whether agonizing or not, parents & children of any society should be educated to recognize & acknowledge the scientific evidence over contrary religious doctrines & beliefs.


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A three-day conference on issues faced by Catholic advocates of comprehensive immigration reform is scheduled for Jan. 11-13 in Salt Lake City. The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network. The conference's title, "Immigration—A 50-State Issue: A Focus on State and Local Immigration Initiatives," reflects the USCCB's position that immigration is a federal issue, said Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City. He said the conference is a wonderful opportunity for the diocese. "Anytime anything of that size comes in here, it gives us a platform to once again speak of the important immigration issues to our people," he told the Intermountain Catholic, Salt Lake City's diocesan newspaper. Bishop Wester added that immigration legislation created by state governments tends to create a harsh environment for undocumented people, and the conference can help advocates learn how to help these immigrants. "On a broader scale, it allows us to be part of the solution that we hope will come about once the 2012 elections are over," he said. Immigration must be dealt with on a federal level, said Kevin Appleby, U.S.C.C.B. director of migration policy. "If you have 50 different state policies and untold number of local policies on immigration, you're not going to have an effective system. Instead of putting energy into passing bills that are unconstitutional and build fear in communities, we should put energy into getting our federal delegation to do the right thing and reform the immigration system."
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