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The Avs announcers were saying it was closer to 40 minutes a game. That's incredible and seems like they're playing with fire there. Guys get worn down and injured.
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Thank God for Budaj. That's all I have to say about that game.
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Some ugly, ugly goals in the Preds/Red Wings game ... first Vokoun lets in an absolute howler from Zetterberg and is replaced only for Hasek to return the favor a minute later.
Dead Things won 5-3 with Zetterberg scoring twice.
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Sakic, Shanahan named All-Star captains
DALLAS (AP) -Joe Sakic of the Colorado Avalanche and Brendan Shanahan of the New York Rangers will be the captains in the NHL All-Star game Wednesday night.
Sakic, the West captain, will be playing in his 12th All-Star game and his fourth as a starter. He was the MVP of the 2004 game, which is the last one because of the lockout in 2005 and an Olympics break last year.
Shanahan, the East captain, is an All-Star for the eighth time. At 37, he's the oldest player on either squad.
Sakic made his All-Star debut 17 years ago Sunday.
"It's a relaxed environment," he said on a conference call Thursday during which his captaincy was announced. "Guys are having fun, joking around on the ice. I don't think anyone takes it too serious. ... You just talk about your teams, what you've done, see old friends and meet new friends."
The All-Star break begins Sunday. The All-Stars will practice in Dallas on Monday night. The YoungStars game and skills competition will be held Tuesday night.
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Way to go, Joe!
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There's a new Forsberg to the Avs rumor on spectorshockey.net. It's a real beauty too. I don't think Thomas or Millen would be stupid enough for this one.
"Paul" and "Steve sent in the following: "Just watched 110% (French language sports talk show) and Michel Bergeron claimed that the Avs are going to trade Theodore to Philly in return for Forsberg." "Michel Bergeron said, a close friend of him from colorado (Goulet??) The Avs Could deal Theodore to the Flyers for Forsberg, one for one."
Obviously something like that won't happen...but it sure would help the Avs out a lot.
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then we could have somebody (not playing) and counting his money that we like on the team that would chip in productively (when he does play).
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Hockey is skating on thin ice and losing grip as 'major' sport
The NHL is back and, actually, a much better game than before that nasty work stoppage, which stole a full season.
Scoring is actually up.
Attendance is technically up.
Sponsorship dollars are very much up.
Shhhhh, just nobody mention the gigantic elephant in the room, the one covered in fine print... that nobody seems to care.
Thriving hockey markets such as Dallas are suddenly finding themselves fighting indifference. And what is happening with the Stars isn't an anomaly.
Sidney Crosby -- an honest-to-goodness answer to the long-asked "Who is the next Gretzky?" question -- doesn't seem to capture the imaginations of casual fans.
Neither shootouts (a universal success) nor parity (a chance for every team to really have Stanley Cup aspirations) nor rule changes (fewer traps and more hat tricks) have led fans to spend more time watching, much less embracing hockey.
For all of the improvements, a league that used to sell itself as one of the "four majors" is in danger of becoming one of the "minors." No-shows belie the bloated attendance figures. News outlets cover it briefly, if at all. And the network the NHL calls its American flagship isn't as popular as the Food Channel -- and harder to find on the remote.
What is even more ironic is, amid this madness, NHL execs seem content to act as though "If we do not talk about the problems, they cease to exist," instead of aggressively searching for ways to make fans fall in love with hockey all over again.
Mavs owner Mark Cuban was bang-on when he said the NHL has an identity crisis. What it needs to do is sell what makes hockey great and fix what doesn't.
How is the NHL to know what to do? We talked to players, team execs, broadcasters and generally people who care desperately about the game of hockey for their solutions on how to bring hockey back.
Ken Hitchcock
Columbus coach
When Hitchcock coached the Stars, they were one of the hottest things in town. Stars, Stars and more Stars were what fans wanted. Games were sellouts, and hockey had established a pretty nice niche behind the Cowboys. Nowadays, in many cities games go half sold and hockey fights apathy, Hitch has an idea why: Nobody knows who they are rooting for.
Hitchcock's take: The thing that was the buzz in Dallas, for years, was the personalities of the players and the team. The characters of the game were embraced; [Craig] Ludwig and his shin pads or [Brett] Hull and what would he say next, or [Mike Modano] and when was he going to get married, or [Ed] Belfour and his idiosyncrasies. The players and the drama around the team made it very interesting. We sold ourselves, which, in the end, sold the game of hockey. That is something we should get back to. There is too much coachspeak now, same old, same old. All we talk about is the game, the game, the game, the game, the game. We don't talk about the people in the game.
Mike Modano
Stars center
Modano has been a vocal critic of his sport at times. He also has done more than almost anybody to help sell hockey. And while he likes this improved game, he would like to see Sidney Crosby come to Dallas more than once in a million years.
Modano's take: My biggest beef has been with the scheduling.
Go back to the old one. Play everybody in the East twice; once at home, once on the road. I think people are tired of seeing the Ducks or the Kings or the Sharks every other night. I mean, look at the top 10 scorers. They're all in the East. People never see these guys around here. The best players in the West are the goalies. The public has no understanding of who these guys [in the East] are. I'm talking about guys like Sidney, and [Alexander] Ovechkin and [Martin] St. Louis and [Vincent] Lecavalier. You go to Canada, and Sidney is on TV more than Peyton [Manning] is down here. It's amazing.
Brian Burke
Anaheim general manager
Burke remains somewhat of an anomaly in hockey in that he's willing to talk openly and honestly about his sport (in a sport so desperate for publicity, it's a problem in itself that so few seem willing to talk). He believes hockey needs... a better TV product.
Burke's take: To lose a whole season is pretty drastic and pretty damaging to your fan base. I think we brought them back nicely last year. And I think this game sells itself. My feeling is, if you get a person to buy a ticket once, you can probably get them to come back again. So we got to work on the TV product. We have to give a better TV product to grow the ratings. I think HDTV is going to help immensely... but right now a lot of people do not have HDTV and a lot of the games are not broadcast in HDTV. And that alone is not going to do it. We've got to look at where we put the cameras and put a better product on TV.
Bob McKenzie
The Hockey News editor
McKenzie chuckles when he hears folks talking about what bad shape the game is in, forgetting, of course, the ugly '80s, when teams were swapping cities and nobody was watching. But if McKenzie could go back, he would undo the deal with Versus.
McKenzie's take: The single most important thing for the NHL is to get the game to more people. I don't think you do that overnight. The whole OLN deal, I know why they took it. There was money on the table. That said, there better be strong evidence on the table that says they can grow their viewership. I'm going from hotel to hotel to try to find a game. You can't expect the NHL to increase its base if you can't find the game on TV.
Teemu Selanne
Ducks forward
Selanne is in his 15th NHL season, so he has seen both ends of the NHL spectrum. And if he had a magic wand to wave, he would remake the New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angels Kings into wildly competitive franchises.
Selanne's take: What I just think we need is for the big markets to have success now. If you look at the teams that won the last couple of years, Tampa and Carolina, they are not big-market teams. They had great teams and they deserved to win. But hockey needs the big franchises in the hockey cities to have success. I think that is the biggest thing.
Daryl Reaugh
Stars TV analyst
"Razor" Reaugh is best known for his witty Razor-isms. He also has plenty of ideas on how to "fix" hockey. A lot of them. Good and crazy ideas, too, about turning ice and boards blue while playing with a fluorescent orange puck and cutting the schedule and removing the netting. But if he were commish for a day, he would also employ a "foreigner" limit.
Reaugh's take: You cannot really fall in love with a league that 78 percent of its players are from a foreign country. If you don't know much about a sport but you know somebody who is in it, you watch. We get hurt by that. There should be a limit on Europeans. You can't tell me that some of the guys playing on fourth lines right now from Scandinavia are that much better than somebody coming out of Omaha, Neb., for the 4-6 minutes a night. Europeans are tough to sell from a marking perspective. Sports directors can't pronounce names so they say, 'We'll cover NASCAR.'
This fan's take
I was a hockey fan long before I was a sports columnist. I remember going to games at the Checkerdome in St. Louis and, later, as a college student, buying partial view tickets at Kiel Center because they were cheaper. I had a poster of Brett Hull hanging on my wall for a good portion of my youth. So I am a P1 for hockey, a loyal and semi-happy customer and, if I were commissioner for a day, I'd get a new commish. Yes, I'd fire Gary Bettman or at least send him away with a golden parachute.
This is the really, really big pink elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about, because Bettman actually did exactly what he was hired to do. He did what lawyers do, breaking the union and bringing financial stability and unparalleled player-owner cooperation to a league in desperate need of both.
What this league needs now is a marketer, somebody who believes in the product, somebody who lives and breathes and loves hockey, somebody not named Bettman.
My vote would be for Mark Cuban. Or Razor. Or both. Whomever the NHL chooses needs to be willing to listen to the Razors and McKenzies and Hitches and, yes, fans like me.
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's killing hockey. It's the determined indifference of the major television networks.
The rest of that stuff is mostly hooey. Except the scheduling. Trying to force rivalries by playing every team in the division 40 times is stupid. Why don't they tell the truth? It saves on travel costs.
You don't need big market teams to win the Stanley. Maybe he meant to say Canadian...
I actually like the foreign influence in the NHL. That people don't watch because of that is pure nonsense.
What is hurting the league is a second rate bush league channel like VS and a big boy like ESPN doing everything they can to squash the sport. Thats what I don't understand. The don't have to broadcast the sport but they don't have to have their announcers showing their disdain and indifference.
Marketing is everything. Bettman has no clue.
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The league has NO idea of how to market itself.
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Bettman has no idea you mean hes proven it with allowing the lockout if you ask me the NHL was riding a big wave prior the lockout. The lockout killed the NHL and the casual fan they need to start this cluster**** over and regain those fans lost and they can start by airing games on free (local) TV as it sits right now you have to have cable/Pay to watch your own home games.
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I agree with addressing the clutching and grabbing but his all angles attack was and is a joke of epic proportions.
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This is another joke. So maybe the large market teams should just get automatic playoff berths regardless of their records. I mean, it's for the good of the league, right? Screw teams like Nashville & Atlanta. The owners lined their pockets with the expansion fees to bring these teams on board (and subsequently watered down the league), but how dare they not know their roles and just stick to serving as fodder for the large market teams?
I have to tell you, it gave me a great deal of satisfaction to see Tampa & Carolina skate the Cup the last two seasons while Calgary & Edmonton fans were left to whine about how they deserved it so much more and how it would have meant so much more to them.
That's the typical xenophobic attitude of some "hockey purists." These are the same rocket scientists that loved the clutch & grab hockey we were subjected to before the lockout. The problem wasn't that the game was painfully boring, it was these gutless Russians and chicken Swedes complaining about it (nevermind that there were plenty of North Americans complaining about it, too).
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Here's a link to a story about the NHL sabotaging the campaign to get Rory Fitzpatrick elected to the all star game.
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Article Last Updated: 01/21/2007 11:14:06 PM MST
Saguenay, Quebec - Former Avalanche star Patrick Roy is facing possible assault charges after allegedly getting into a shoving match following a major junior hockey game in Chicoutimi, north of Quebec City.
Roy, a Hockey Hall of Famer who owns and coaches the Quebec City Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, is accused of hitting an opposing team's owner.
Police say about 50 fans of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens prevented the visiting Remparts players from boarding their team bus after a Friday night game.
Roy reportedly then got off the bus and attacked the Sagueneens' owner.
Police say they will interview witnesses before meeting with Roy in the coming days.
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The Sagueneens' owner is a baby, it is an honor to be shoved by patrick roy.
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Players will have the EDGE in 2006-07
DALLAS -- The air was peppered with "lution" talk Monday as the NHL entered into the evolution of uniforms that should produce revolutionary results.
The NHL and Reebok are partnering to create a technologically advanced uniform system that is designed to meet the demands of NHL players.
The Rbk EDGE Uniform System will debut at the 2007 NHL All-Star SuperSkills and All-Star Game (Jan. 23 and 24, 8 p.m. ET, Versus, CBC, RDS, NHL Radio) and be worn by all NHL players, beginning with the start of the 2007-08 NHL season in October.
Player input has been important in the development of the Rbk Edge Uniform Systems. Sidney Crosby, who endorses Reebok equipment, made several suggestions which were incorporated in the design, as did officials from the NHLPA.
"I used the pants all summer," Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby said. "I'm pretty picky about my equipment, so I'm probably a good one to test it on. The jersey is a lot lighter and tighter, but it moves with you. Hey, it's a new era for the NHL, it may as well be for the uniform too."
The Rbk EDGE Uniform System was developed after nearly three years of study and development with the accent being on performance and player protection.
Two of Reebok's moisture management systems have been incorporated into the EDGE system to make the uniform lighter. PlayDry technology was used to move moisture and quicken evaporation. Reebok then added Bead Away, a water-repellency system to get rid of water from sweat, water bottles and the ice.
"It had to be about improving performance on the ice," Reebok's Matt O'Toole, the company's president and CEO of Reebok-CCM Hockey. "We believed we could make the uniform better. Over the years, the biggest change was the move from woolen sweaters to synthetic materials. And the jerseys got bigger as the players looked for a wider range of motion.
"We've applied technology from other sports to help improve the hockey uniform."
The result will be seen more in terms of performance than appearance. While the jersey is smaller than those presently in use, the look hasn't been changed radically. In other words, players aren't going to look like Spiderman, as some feared.
"This is evolution, not revolution," NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said. "It took three years to get this right."
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The new uniforms utilize four unique fabrics which keep players lighter, drier and better protected while maintaining durability. Stretch mesh provides ventilation and greater range of motion. 4Way Stretch Pique employs Rbk's Bead Away water-repellent technology. X-trafil provides durability. A stretch fabric in the collar features Reebok's PlayDry moisture-wicking technology to maximize comfort and breathability.
PlayDry's wicking capability and Bead Away's water repellency combine to reduce NHL sweater weight by 14 percent while wicking 76 percent more moisture away from the body. Players stay warmer, drier and fresher while avoiding the energy-draining effect of wearing a wet sweater at freezing temperatures.
The Eastern Conference version of the Rbk EDGE uniforms.
X-trafil makes the sweaters twice as durable as the current sweater being worn by NHL players.
Reebok used the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct wind tunnel tests on the new uniform design and Central Michigan's test labs to conduct heat mapping of the new design to see how much cooler the new design would be.
"We had hundreds different versions of uniforms," O'Toole said. "The uniform is 14 percent lighter, 25 percent lighter after games. There is nine percent less drag and it is 10 percent cooler. Plus, there is 60 percent more hip protection."
While much focus has been paid to the jersey, the Rbk EDGE Uniform System is just that, a system. Considerable attention has been paid to the body core, with a pad system for the hips and thighs that figures to provide considerable more protection to NHL players.
"The biggest thing is it's lighter and doesn't absorb water," New York Islanders forward Jason Blake said. "I like that it's tighter around the legs. It feels good to me."
"I especially like the idea that I'm going to be faster," Detroit Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom joked. "I'm glad the players had input into the process. They created a great product. It gives and stretches on different parts of the body."
"The bad thing is it's all advantageous for them to move," Dallas Stars goalie Marty Turco joked. "That's the downside for the goalies."
The up-side?
"Water weight and it's cooler," Turco continued. "The way we hydrate, it's great to get the water off the equipment."
The EDGE System promises a world of change for hockey, with players better protected and outfitted to better show off their skills in terms of speed and range of motio
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I read somewhere that the NHL was planning on fining players who make "alterations" to their new uniforms...which many do now. Cutting, and sewing and the like.
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NHL won't change schedule for 2007-08
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The NHL will stay the course and will not change the regular season schedule for at least one more year.
That was the decision made the the league's board of governors on Tuesday in an effort to deal with its much-debated scheduling concerns.
A plan to switch back to the schedule the leagues used prior to the lockout, featuring six divisional games and 18 games against the other conference, received 19 of 30 votes. A two-thirds majority, or 20 votes, was needed to make the change.
Edmonton Oilers chairman Cal Nichols was frustrated by the league's decision.
''The politics seem to always enter into it,'' Nichols said after the meeting. ''I think we should be more concerned about the future of the game than specific interests or, 'It's going to cost me a few more thousand dollars to travel a few extra miles.' This shouldn't be about that. It's about the game.''
As it stands, the current format has teams playing eight divisional games, four games against each conference opponent outside the division, and selected teams from the other conference once each season.
It is believed the Montreal Canadiens may have been the only Canadian team to vote against the change.
''I'm very comfortable with the decision that was taken,'' said Canadiens president Pierre Boivin. ''Let's finish the cycle and take the time to carefully think about a solution.''
The schedule issue was debated earlier by the board this season in Palm Beach. A strong majority of teams were reported to want changes and did not want to see more divisional play.
For many teams in the Western Conference, there was added concerns about a heavier travel schedule and less opportunites to draw fans for Eastern Conference stars like Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin.
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Way to go, West.
I still can't help but laugh over Ryan Miller. I thought Jose was vain, but I'm thinking Miller has him beat. I wonder how long it took him to have his hair done before his intro tonight. I wonder if he endorses someone's products....say Paul Mitchell. Actually now that I think about it, if it's anyone, it has to be for the Big Sexy Hair line.
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The other problem is strong divisions where really good teams just end up knocking other really good teams out of the playoff picture.
Bettman is just clueless.
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The originators of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, John Baur ("Ol' Chumbucket") and Mark Summers ("Cap'n Slappy") originally picked June 6 as the date, as this was the date on which the racquetball game between Summers and Baur where they first had the idea took place. However, as June 6 is also the commemoration of D-Day, out of respect for the observance of this occasion, they instead chose the birthday of Summers's ex-wife, as it would be easy for them to remember (Sept. 19).
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World War II London Blitz Diary: A Woman's Revelations Enduring War and Marriage by Ruby Thompson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This diary is a very illuminating look at what life during the London Blitz was like. Life-long diarist Ruby talks about both the external events of WWII and her personal experiences on a day-to-day basis living through the Blitz, as well as general family and society events and opinions. Being able to read something that was being written each day, without the benefit of hindsight as to what was historically significant, was very refreshing. The sheer repetitiveness with which the various air alerts each day are recorded gives you a real sense of what it might have been like - without going through the lack of sleep and shattered nerves, of course!
Ruby makes particular comment about how she fully intends her children to read the diaries some day so that they know a bit more about who she really was - the impact of various societal constraints meant she felt unable to truly be herself. This also gives the reader permission to experience her sometimes harsh comments about life and her husband without feeling that you are intruding.
The diaries have been edited by Ruby's great-granddaughter. She has let the content stand as is, and accordingly some comments will likely make modern readers cringe a bit, but thankfully there has been no editing to make the diary more dramatic, as a novelised version might have been. The copyediting could definitely be improved, for example there are a couple of sentences in two entries that were duplicates of other entries, and there are apostrophes where there shouldn't be. While Ruby's family members are listed at the beginning of the book, I felt it would have been more useful to the narrative to add these as footnotes or editorial parentheses as each new person (or place/issue of significance) was mentioned, to explain who they are and their significance in Ruby's life.
The content itself and the fact the diaries survive is a true gift to Ruby's descendants, and now to us as well. This is volume 1 of an intended 4-volume WWII set.
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Bookshelf: World War II London Blitz Diary by Ruby Thompson
I recently read a book that you, my dear readers, may also be interested in so I'm interrupting my Moving Target series to bring you my review from Goodreads:
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2 comments:
- Victoria said...
Hi Alex!
Happy New Year and thanks for the review I so appreciate it. Just want to let everyone know that I have since republished both in print and kindle this volume so there are no longer errors or mistakes.
- 5/1/12 12:58 am
- Alex Coles said...
Hi Victoria. Good to hear that those glitches have been fixed up. I'll be reading the second volume shortly.
- 5/1/12 8:13 am


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Thanks for the chapter and verse on that line - I never knew there was such a direct claim in there.
I know about the different connotations of son, but sacrificing your only son is quite different than being the/a 'son of Gawd'.
The thing is, Heather, that the Temple sacrifice of "the perfect lamb" was made by Jewish priests as an homage to god, therefore, the sacrifice of Yeshua, supposedly the son of god, was made (just as Issac was scheduled for), to god -- god ordained the sacrifice of his own son, to himself!
Yes - but my point is that if Jesus IS Yahweh, then Yahweh sacrificed himself to himself to appease his own anger - there is no father/son relationship.
Not to dispute you Physter, but the "we" and "us" in the OT, are there because royalty (ask Stega, who's British), speaks of itself in the third person - which may make no sense, but it's true.
Third person, or plural as in "we are not amused"
Well, maybe YOU'RE not, but WE are!
In fact, when amusement eludes us, we make funny faces in the mirror --
Please cite the verse where it is 'prophesied' that 'Jesus would come'. Please then explain how one could know that Jesus was the one spoken of and not just a man about whom the stories were adjusted to make it seem that he was the one.
You can be a mother and a daughter - but you can't be your own daughter. The mother/daughter relationship, like the father/son relationship, requires two distinct individuals. In the old testament, Yahweh is not described as being a three in one deity. Don't you find it odd that he changed his mind so many times? First requiring that only a certain tribe be his chosen people, sacrificing animals to him like so many other tribes sacrificed to their imaginary gods - then deciding that there was an afterlife in heaven for those who believed he came down here to be tortured, well, not him, his son, who is him - gah, so hard to keep straight.
I don't really know specifically Heather, I'll have to look into that further and get back with you. I just know there are verses in the old testament, like in Isaiah and Jeremiah...I don't know which ones off the top of my head. I'll have to find them. Sorry I don't memorize the Bible as much as I should. Especially the Old testament. Our church focuses a lot on the New Testament.
I find it interesting that you would devote your life to a belief without doing much investigation. I mean you suggest your views must be correct because they've all been prophesied and proven true - but then you aren't familiar with a single specific prophesy.
Christians like the New Testament better than the Old Testament because, I think, it is better. There's more love, and less firey judgement. Christians talk as if the New Testament can supersede or wipe away all the problems of the Old Testament. But you remember Jesus said "I did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it" and that not one jot or tittle of the law would pass away.
If you accept the Bible, you have to figure out what to do with the whole thing. When Jesus said he came to fulfill the law, did he really mean that the law would radically change after his resurrection? If so, what does "not abolishing" the law mean? Are all the books of our Old Testament included in Jesus' statement? If so, why does God accept human sacrifice or order the death of someone who gathered sticks on the Sabbath?


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BALTIMORE—UMBC head women's soccer coach Alyssa Radu today announced that Tiffany Williams and Josh Osit have joined the Retriever staff as assistant coaches.
Williams returns to college coaching after spending the last three years as an account representative and territory manager at Moulding & Millwork. Radu's college teammate at Rutgers, Williams spent three seasons on Radu's staff at New Jersey Institute of Technology, including a record-setting 2005 campaign, when the Highlanders earned their first-ever postseason berth, advancing to the six-team ECAC Division II Tournament.
"I'm very excited for the opportunity to reconnect and work with Tiffany," Radu said. "She brings a high level of experience both as a top-level student-athlete at Rutgers and as a coach at the Division I level. I'm very fortunate to have someone with her intelligence and experience on staff as we work to take this program to the next level. She has been successful at everything she has been involved in, and that is exactly what we know she will bring to the UMBC women's soccer program."
Williams began her coaching career as an undergraduate at Rutgers when her playing career ended prematurely in 2001 due to an injury.
As a player, Williams was a part of the Eastern Pennsylvania ODP for seven years, including three years on the Region I team and a year in the national pool. She was part of five state cup championships and a regional finals appearance. In addition, Williams was a 1998 high school All-American at Downingtown High School in Pennsylvania, and she also played for FC DELCO, one of the top club teams in the country, and was later inducted into the club's Hall of Fame.
"I am extremely excited to return to college soccer and to reunite with Coach Radu," Williams said. "Our vision for this program is to excel and reach national prominence. Part of the reason I decided to get back into the college game is to help contribute to the student-athlete's overall development. I believe in following your passion, and this opportunity has allowed me to do just that. I would like to thank (athletics director) Dr. Charles Brown, Coach Radu and the rest of the UMBC athletics staff for this opportunity. I look forward to working with all of them."
Williams earned her bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers in 2004.
A former collegiate goalkeeper, Osit will work primarily with the Retrievers' goalies. After playing his freshman season of 2004 at UMBC, the New Jersey native transferred to NJIT, where he finished his playing career as a two-year starter for the Highlanders.
"We are very excited to have Josh join the staff," Radu said. "He brings a lot of energy and passion. He will primarily be responsible for our goalkeeper development. He has played the position at the Division I level, and now as a coach he will look to share his experience with the team and specifically the goalkeepers. I was fortunate to see Josh develop as an undergrad, and now to have him come on board and help build this program is exciting. I look forward to having him on staff and helping him develop as a coach."
Osit has served as a coach of Plantation (Fla.) Eagles FC, Newark Academy Middle School and the Jersey Knights Soccer Club, his own club team. As a player, he led the Knights to three straight New Jersey state cups, the 2003 Region 1 finals and a top-10 national ranking.
"I am thrilled about joining the women's soccer coaching staff at UMBC," Osit said. "UMBC is a tremendous institution, and I am looking forward to working with Coach Radu and Coach Williams. This is a great opportunity for me to work with quality Division I student-athletes and learn from two excellent and experienced coaches."
Osit earned his bachelor's degree in history from NJIT in 2009.


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I would rather have 30 chapters of tobi being explained as an obscure character with actual motivation and purpose then, duur duuur im obito duuur im retarded duuur that girl i liked when i was 11 died so i want to take over the world duuuur duuuur is this dumb enough for everyone to understand?
Obito being tobi is the biggest fail in manga history
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Tobis character is completely ruined can we just kill this guy off now, i cant even take him serious anymore. Kakashi should be laughing at him for being such a lil bit!h.
The akatsuki wouldn't even let him in their crew if he told them his story, he'd be hanging out with tenten somewhere for being this lame.
Obito i finally understand why u wore a mask and pretended to be an ACTUAL villain. I would do the same thing if i was as LAME as u.....
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It really doesn't add up since Obito was kinda weak when he "died", I don't see how he could have went toe to toe with the Fourth and Madara is too strong to be defeated by just the Fourth alone. Something is up.
Would be nice if they have us more info on what happened there and when Rin "died". Would be horrible if Obito "died" than came back evil and super strong because Rin never loved him.
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Still something bugs me about Tobi. Assuming that his dimensional teleportation sharinhax is only Obito's eye jutsu, why then in the fight against Minato did Tobi praise him for his strength even though Obito should already be aware of that. I mean the guy was his teacher....
Also around the Gaara capture/rescue + 2 arcs he acted like a retard... why the heck would he. Was it just some act to throw people off?
There's a lot more that's out of place making his character and background even more disconnecting. This chapter's comments about himself makes it even harder to understand what/who the heck he is. I will wait till Kishi concludes this story to make a final conclusion but up until now it's really bad writing.
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Maybe this is the real reason why Oro left the organisation - he could not be seen hanging round with such a gimp as Obito.
Tobi/fake Madara/Obito - The guy is so fucked up over this Rin chick he doesn't even know who he is. Oh no, he just wants to destroy the world and is able to manipulate some of the strongest ninjas ever known to his cause... Assballs!
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Or if it really was Madara why he was so weak against the Fourth but seems to be godmoding all the current Kage's without exerting any effort.
Obito is just being spiteful. The dead have no right to question the choices and actions the living make after their passing.
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A sharp increase of strength is par for the course, especially when you start with powerful tools (the Sharingan, the Kyuubi, etc).
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What's more disconcerting is how in the world does Madara himself is familiar with him? A seemingly good-for-nothing-below-average ninja that was born a 100 years after his death?
In any case, I love this chapter and this whole arc in general
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So it was all for a girl after all however in the end doesn't really matter to me, I stopped caring about all that nonsense and what not when god makes his appearance!
Madara is making the story now and I really really hope we do get one hell of a epic showdown here.
This is now the defining part of the series, I expect to see Kishimoto's best work here, I won't be forgiving at all at what's to come, EPIC SHOWDOWN HAS TO BE EPIC SHOWDOWN!
Just wondering who else is gonna join this fight.
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Stopped reading when Itachi died the second time because of all the retconning, but read last chapter just to lawl at all the mistakes because of what I heard. Read this chapter just to see if all the things from the previous chapter were meant to trick us again before a big reveal, but no. Can't read Naruto anymore--it's changed far too much from what it was and too much disregard for certain things...eh. I'm done =/ nice try Kishi.
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I disagree, Sasuke was always a genius and we have seen Naruto training. Even when he went with Pervy Sage he wasn't that ridiculously powerful. Obito was weak up to his death and was missing an eye by that point. It's very hard to image when Madara and Zetsu may have done to make him suddenly as strong as the Fourth in such a short time. We don't even have any idea how long i took Obito to recover or when he started being trained or when he snapped because Rin died... Whenever that is. There's simply too many blanks here and it's annoying. It's highly doubtful we'll ever received any hard details over what happened. At most we'll get a flashback showing Obito being "saved" and maybe a few panels of his training and/or Rin dying.
Well Orochimaru has Anko, Kabuto, and Sasuke all gathered up together. It's only fair he throws them a wild party.
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I agree that this chapter sucks, but I also think you guys are jumping the gun. there's clearly going to be a lot more to this story than has been revealed yet. I remember not caring about nagato's backstory for the first few chapters, but then when all was said and done I liked it. so I guess we'll see. if left at just this then yea, it sucks, but i highly doubt this is all there will be to obito's character. we may have to watch a fight (although probably awesome) before we get our answers though. naruto doesn't even want to talk right now.
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Sunshine, minimal fabrics and rockin' hot models: This is what Mercedes-Benz Swim Week — the Holy Grail of all that is beach-appropriate — is all about. And while we're still in the midst of this year's steamy summer, we can't help but rave about next season. With Mara Hoffman doing tribal prints and Cia Maritima using gauzy fabrics for wraps, prints and brights made their presence known on the runway. Bright solids and the bustier forms popped up at shows like Nicolita and Poko Pano. And, southwestern-influenced swimwear was just as present as whites (which is the must-have color next season). While the bikinis looked great on the runways, we can't help but count down the days until we can snatch these beachy beauties for ourselves.
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Senior Adam Gibbons scored 20 points to lead the Engineers. With 1,212 career point, Gibbons caps his MIT career ranked 12th all-time in scoring. He also retires among the career leaders in steals (3rd - 134) and assists (5th - 234).
Mike Huhs also closed out his MIT career with a tremendous game, narrowly missing a double-double. Securing 13 points and a team-best eight rebounds, Huhs also had two blocks that moved him into a tie for fifth on the all-time career blocks list (70).
Other Engineers making last-season moves that will etch their names in MIT lore include Danny Kanamori and Mike D'Auria. Kanamori scored eight points and grabbed six rebounds in last night's tilt, but his 331 assists push him to second in the all-time rankings. With one season still left to play, D'Auria also is among the career leaders in assists, ranking fifth with 240.


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Rumor and speculation abounds in regards to the next Xbox, but outside of what we know from Microsoft's leaked 2010 document in regards to the future of the brand, little is known for sure. It's hard to tell what its future plans are by tracking Microsoft Game Studios developers even. New studio Black Tusk is reportedly working on the company's next big franchise, but that game is for the Xbox 360. One of its studios is clearly working on the next Xbox, though: Rare Ltd. The Kinect Sports and Banjo Kazooie developer continues to staff up for projects headed to the next Microsoft console, whether it's called Durango or Xbox 720.
Rare is hiring for three positions. First and foremost is the gameplay engineer position. "In this role, you will be a crucial part of a passionate team of gameplay engineers, working with designers and producers to create stunning, groundbreaking game entity reactions & input interpretations," reads the job description, "During prototyping you will occasionally be working with extremely early prototype hardware co-developed with teams located off-site."
The prototype hardware in question is likely not just the next Xbox but the Kinect 2 that's rumored to go along with it. This is reinforced by the job listing for a principal network services engineer whose primary job will be to "push the boundaries of the Kinect hardware with our exciting new project." Rounding out the list is a principal physics engineer who requires experiences managing physics-based online gameplay.
This is just the latest round of hiring at the UK-based studio this year. Back in May, Rare started hiring for multiple next-gen projects. These latest job listings suggest projects closer to the family-oriented Kinect games it's made over the past three years, but the other jobs Rare was looking to fill were for a game closer to what it made during its years with Nintendo.
To wit: The software engineer Rare was hiring in May was "joining at a time when the studio is looking to move into new areas and develop new IPs for future platforms. You will have a successful history of releasing exceptional AAA games and these will ideally be in the Action/Adventure or FPS genre but this is not essential."
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DOTHAN, Ala. (March 9, 2006) - The Lady Bucs scored just two field goals in the final 16 minutes of play, allowing Mercer to creep back to an overtime victory, 59-56, in the first round of the Atlantic Sun Tournament, Thursday in the Dothan Civic Center.
Senior B.J. Banjo (Baltimore, Md.) netted a game-high 20 points in the loss, while classmate Candace Gibson (Warner Robins, Ga.) pulled down a game-best 14 rebounds. The Lady Bucs finished the season at 18-10, the most wins since the 1994-95 season.
Mercer (14-14) out-scored the Lady Bucs, 8-5, in the overtime period, including a perfect four-for-four performance at the free-throw line. Erin Keller netted a team-best 15 points in the win, scoring two points in overtime and four in the final 1:30 of regulation. Keller's jumper with 26 second remaining tied the score at 51, and took the contest to overtime.
The Bears will meet Florida Atlantic in Friday's A-Sun semifinals.
ETSU allowed Mercer to cut the lead back to single digits, netting only two field goals in the first 8:14 of the second half. Wilhoit scored ETSU's first bucket in nearly six minutes, draining a foul-line jumper at the 11:46 mark, making the score 42-33. Mercer's Megan Lewis answered with a three at 11:25, but Wilhoit would respond again, hitting a clutch three with 11:06 to go.
The Bears would continue to battle, however, cutting the ETSU advantage to 45-41 with 8:43 to go, thanks to two free throws from Keller and another from Lewis.
Banjo then sank a runner in the lane to put her team ahead, 47-41, with 6:35 remaining, but Keller would respond, slicing through the ETSU defense to can a layup at the 5:50 mark. The Bears then got another layup from Tanya Kessenich, lessening the Lady Bucs' lead to 47-45, the smallest margin of the half.
ETSU then got a much-needed bucket from Jenny Norman (Peachtree City, Ga.), who converted on a feed from Banjo to make the score 49-45 with 3:57 to go. Norman would then make the front-end of a one-and-one, before Russell drained a pair of free throws to get within a possession at 50-47 with 1:48 to go.
Keller continued to spark the Bears, beating the ETSU defense for another layup at 1:29, making the score 50-49. Another Keller bucket with 25.6 second remaining would knot the score at 51-51. A last-second runner from Banjo would rim out, taking the Lady Bucs to their first overtime game of the season.
ETSU finished the game shooting a dismal 27.3 percent, while Mercer made 36.2 percent of its attempts. Mercer out-rebounded the Lady Bucs 45-44. The Bears scored 21 points off of turnovers to ETSU's 20.
The Lady Bucs started slow out of the gate, falling behind 9-5 by the 17:43 mark. ETSU would get its engines started after that, out-scoring Mercer 26-14 for the rest of the half, taking the 31-23 lead into the locker room.
ETSU got solid first-half shooting performances from both Banjo and Brooke Wilhoit (Sevierville, Tenn.), with Banjo netting a trio of three-pointers, and Wilhoit adding a pair of long bombs. Wilhoit, a junior, finished with 13 points on the game.
Both Flucker and Sarah Russell scored four points for the Bears. Kessenich accounted for six of Mercer's 21 rebounds.
ETSU turned 11 Mercer turnovers into 13 points in the first frame, while only turning the ball over seven times on the offensive end.


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i guess, there's a big reason for that, which i am missing. so that's why this topic is not in the suggestions forum. but googling "opengl programmable depth/stencil" gave me only the topics there people desired to sample and write depth\stencil buffer for some reason. but i don't expect it to be accessible from vertex\geometry\fragment programs. i think, depth+stencil should be a separate shader stage. here's an approximation of what i am talking about:
Code :void main() { if( gl_fragDepth < gl_inDepthValue ) { //gl_inDepthValue - current depth-buffer value if( gl_inStencilValue == 3 ) { //gl_inStencilValue - current stencil-buffer value discard(); //do not execute fragment program if possible. or prevent it from writing to color buffer, if gl_fragDepth is modified. } else { gl_outStencilValue = gl_inStencilValue + 1; } } else { discard(); } }
i'm not proposing it as actual syntax, it's just to give an idea. i'm not the person who is capable of writing actual spec. but even if currently there's a reason for not doing this... i'm 100% sure there's gonna be properly programmable depth+stencil. because state-based approach is awful. it's very error prone(it's hell to control all the states affecting stencil and depth in big project with multipass rendering) and ugly. i guess that it's gonna be hard to squeeze the same performance out of programmable section of pipeline. but it's the most straightforward, obvious way to do that. and in many cases, user defined code should be simpler(faster?), than fixed pipeline. sooner or later, hardware should be optimized for that functionality. better be soon, current functionality for depth\stencil looks archaic and out of place.


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It's halftime. Most of the National Hockey League's 30 teams have played 41 of 82 games and for some of the teams, it's been quite a ride. For a load of others, of course, it's been a nightmare.
For instance, the Anaheim Ducks were fourth in the West last spring with 99 points. At the midway mark of 2011-12, the Ducks have only 11 wins and 28 points. Last year, the Atlanta Thrashers were in the midst of a downward spiral, set to miss the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. This year, the Thrashers are now the Winnipeg Jets and after a win in their 41st game of the season on Saturday night, they sit in ninth place in the East, just a point below the post-season line.
This being a website called www.jestnation.ca, we'll stay close to home, but make no mistake, there have been many interesting stories in the first half of the 2011-12 season: the collapse of the Ducks, the emergence of the great young star Claude Giroux, the firing of six coaches, the great play of so many teenaged stars, the league's realignment plans and the NHLPA's rejection of those plans, the incredible mess in Montreal, concussions, Shanahan's justice and the loss of Sidney Crosby.
However, we're here to talk Jets and we will. So without any further adieu, here's a look at the Top 10 Winnipeg Jets Stories at the midway point of the 2011-12 NHL season:
10. At the Halfway Point, the Jets Are Contenders: The Atlanta Thrashers team that arrived in Winnipeg on Sept. 17 was not very good. The team was young and there was certainly hope, but the team had missed the playoffs for four consecutive years and most observers would not have been surprised if the Jets missed the post-season for a fifth consecutive year. They still might, but after 41 games, this club has a chance to be a legitimate playoff contender. They are 20-16-5 after 41 games and are ninth in the NHL, just one point out of eighth. They don't score enough (2.6 goals per game) and they have some wild defensive lapses – especially on the road where they are 6-10-4 — but for the most part, these young Jets have played better than expected.
9. The Emergence of Evander Kane: The No. 1 draft pick of the Thrashers in 2009 (fourth overall), the Vancouver-born son of an amateur boxer (dad) and a university basketball star (mom), Kane was all size, speed an potential when he arrived in Winnipeg. He had 14 goals in 66 games in 2009-10 and 19 goals in 73 games in 2010-11. He was a good player, but not a great one. This year, however, he has 18 goals in the first 41 games of the season and has a legitimate shot at 40. Of course, on a team that doesn't score much, 40 would be a blessing. He's loved by the fans, but he's the Jets leading scorer and yet he's 53rd in the NHL. That's not good.
8. The Name of the Team And the First Draft Pick: On June 24, 2011, the chairman and governor of the new Winnipeg NHL franchise, Mark Chipman, stood on the podium at Xcel Energy Centre in St. Paul, Minn., and announced that the new hockey team in Winnipeg will be called "The Winnipeg Jets." The team's new general manager, Kevin Cheveldayoff, then stepped up to the dais and announced that the Jets had selected Mark Scheifele of the Ontario Hockey League's Barrie Colts as the team's first draft choice.
7. The Play of Ondrej Pavelec: He doesn't have great numbers: his .909 save percentage is 29th in the NHL while his 2.88 goals against average is 34th. Still, Ondrej Pavelec, the 24-year-old goalie from Kladno, Czech Republic, is a fan favorite at MTS Centre. Of course, it doesn't hurt that he has shaky games on the road and outstanding games at home: When he plays at MTS Centre, he brings the crowd to its feet because his GAA at home is 2.34 (3.40 on the road) and his save percentage at home is .923 (.897 on the road). This man has emerged as an important member of the Jets, but he has to pick up his game away from the friendly confines. As it is, Winnipeg fans love him.
6. The Unveiling of the Jerseys: On Sept. 6, the Jets called the media and its closest friends to a landing strip near a hangar at 17 Wing and unveiled the team's new uniforms. The home uniforms would be deep blue and simple. The road jerseys would be white and even simpler. The logo, a team mark that had been released in July, was also a simple button that featured a fighter Jet inside a target with a red maple leaf and a tiny piece of the True North logo at the top. Almost immediately, fans went to the Jets Gear store and started loading up. "The colour is great," Ladd told reporters at the unveiling. "This jersey is going to look sharp on the ice. I think they've done a great job with the patches and the lines on the shoulders. This is our identity. It's what we're going to be wearing every night and what fans are going to be wearing when they come to the rink. I'm excited about it."
5. The Opening of Training Camp: On Sept. 17, 2011, the Atlanta Thrashers existed no more. The new Winnipeg Jets stepped onto the ice at MTS centre and opened their inaugural training camp. It started to feel as if the new team was real.
4. The First Pre-Season Game: On Sept. 20, 2011, the Jets played their first pre-season game at MTS Centre against former Manitoba Moose head coach and former Jets and Moose player, Scott Arniel, and his Columbus Blue Jackets. The Jets won 6-1, big Dustin Byfuglien had a goal, a big hit and a fight in his first shift and the crowd was in hockey heaven.
3. The Season-Opener Against Montreal: On Oct. 9. 2011, it all began for real. The Jets 2.0 played their first regular-season game and while 15,004 spectators went absolutely crazy, the Jets lost 5-1 to the Montreal Canadiens. Nobody cared. They were all just happy to be there as the NHL officially returned to Winnipeg. For those who keep track of these things: Jim Slater took the Jets first penalty and Nik Antropov scored the Jets first goal (in this case, the only Jets' goal of the inaugural game). Amazingly, the last game the Manitoba Moose ever played at MTS Centre was against the Montreal Canadiens AHL affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs. The Habs farm team beat the Moose 5-1. What really mattered, however, was that the Jets were back and all was right with the world.
2. The Incredible Crowd at the MTS Centre: The crowd at MTS Centre is so loud, enthusiastic, fun and intelligent that it has become an international story unto itself. Every night, 15,004 spectators show up at MTS Centre and start screaming early and often. It is so loud inside the arena that many workers and media members have taken to wearing ear plugs. When Teemu Selanne arrived in Winnipeg, he said the first thing he wanted to see was "the crowd at MTS Centre because I hear it's unbelievable." It is and it was quite welcoming for Selanne, a player most Jets fans would love to see come back home.
1. The Return of the Winnipeg Jets: It was one of the biggest stories in Canadian sport in 2011. On May 31, Mark Chipman and David Thompson stood at the dais at the MTS Centre and announced that they had acquired the Atlanta Thrashers of the NHL and they were going to move the team to Winnipeg. They sold out the season tickets at the MTS Centre – for five years! – in just 17 minutes. Since then they have won 19 of their first 41 games (19-16-5) and remain a legitimate playoff threat. After 16 years without an NHL team, Winnipeg had its beloveds back again and Canada had a seventh franchise.


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It's no old family secret that the Jewish community has an incredibly rich and multifaceted relationship with food. For many Jews, following the Torah's dietary laws is a rule of life that is not only tied to spiritual beliefs, but cultural traditions as well. In light of ethical controversies spurred by the modern food production system, a new tradition called "eco-kosher" is arising in the Jewish faith—and while it remains focused on rituals, it adds a new twist—a focus on sustainability.
Historically, kosher meat has had a reputation for being ethically produced and of high quality. However, that foundation has been challenged by the environmental and social irresponsibility fostered by commercial agriculture. In 2008 a scandal brought national attention to such ethical lapses: an undercover video produced by PETA spurred allegations that the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse, Agriprocessors, abused workers, animals and the environment. Since the scandal rocked the kosher community, many Jewish leaders and community organizers have taken steps to ensure ethical production and to protect the reputation of kosher food. For example, a group of Conservative rabbis designed an additional food certification known as Magen Tzedek, or shield of righteousness, that sets standards for protecting workers and the environment. The eco-kosher movement espoused by many conscientious Jews, however, has no specific certification program but alters the traditional kosher guidelines particularly where it pertains to meat. For example, the book of Leviticus says that in order for meat to be kosher it must come from animals that chew their cud and have split hooves. For those following eco-kosher guidelines, this law of the Torah only accounts for a portion of what they practice— it is also important that the meat be organic and locally raised.
The eco-kosher movement has been gaining steam in part thanks to conferences held across the country focused on using ethics to unite the issues of kosher and sustainability. In some cases these meetings are held by Jewish organizations (such as The Hazon Food Conference), and occasionally they are held by food vendors themselves in an effort to better understand the needs of their consumers. The response to these community gatherings has been overwhelming. A year and a half ago, Karen Adelman and Peter Levitt, the owners of Saul's Deli in Berkeley, California, decided to commit their traditional Jewish style deli to going sustainable. Well aware that their consumer base had become extremely attached to the food at Saul's, Adelman and Levitt decided to host a referendum and invited a panel of sustainability experts, consultants, farmers and their customers to discuss whether a deli can successfully transition to sustainable practices. Interest in the event was so great that it was moved from its originally scheduled location at the deli to the JCC around the corner to accommodate a sold out audience of 250 attendees paying $10 each (With all of the proceeds going to benefit the Center for Ecoliteracy). The panel included all-star sustainable advocate Michael Pollan (who is also a Berkeley resident and pastrami eating patron of Saul's), the owners themselves, eco-consultant Gil Friend, Farmer Willow Ronsenthal of West Oakland's City Slicker Farm and moderator, restaurateur and KCRW Good Food radio host Evan Kleiman.
At the end of the discussion, Adelman addressed concerns that consumers will reject the idea of changes to so-called "traditional" Jewish deli food. The definition of a traditional deli is constantly being challenged and is sometimes diluted, and often, food production methods that contrast with the ethical aspects of kosher philosophy become the norm in Jewish delis. Many so-called traditional delis still use highly processed products from mainstream manufacturers, featuring hormone- and antibiotic-injected beef and other additives. The truth is that "authentic" Jewish cuisine is of the Diaspora—wherever Jews went, they altered their gastronomy based on the surrounding culture. For the success of the eco-kosher movement, is it essential that people understand that culture is never static, and thus, there would not be current day "traditional" kosher food without change. Adelman said that her ultimate vision of Jewish deli cuisine is one that reaches back to pre-war traditions while also reaching forward to more sustainable approaches.
Thanks in part to the aforementioned scandal and a community banding together in response to it, kosher Jews across the nation are beginning to work towards an ethically motivated hybrid of the terms "sustainable" and "kosher." Sustainable Shabbats and Sedersare on the rise, and online communities and blogs (like The Jew and the Carrot) are gaining popularity as they work to spread the word about how to green the Jewish lifestyle. As delis follow Saul's into the future of traditional, sustainable Jewish fare, and as the eco-kosher movement gains momentum, the Jewish community is helping to motivate not just Jews but all Americans to take back control of their food.