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Should Catholic schools open their doors to everyone?
Requiring parents to pass the test of being "sufficiently Catholic" to enroll their kids in our schools fails to follow one of Christ's most important teachings.
By Father Bill Tkachuk, pastor of St. Nicholas Parish and co-pastor of Pope John XXIII School in Evanston, Illinois.
[Sounding Boards are one person's take on a many-sided subject and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians.]
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In May of 2010 the Boston Globe reported that St. Paul Elementary School in Hingham, Massachusetts had withdrawn its acceptance of an 8-year-old boy when the pastor and school principal realized that the boy was the child of two lesbian parents.
"There are many different non-traditional families that fall under the umbrella of the Catholic Church, and I guess we assumed we would fall under one of those," the boy's mother told the Globe. Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley supported the pastor, saying, "He made a decision about the admission of the child to St. Paul School based on his pastoral concern for the child." At the same time, the archdiocese offered to help the family find another Catholic school in the diocese for their child.
In January of 2011 the Archdiocese of Boston announced a new policy for Catholic school admission, stating, "Our schools welcome and do not discriminate against or exclude any categories of students." The policy also says that parents and guardians of students in Catholic schools "must accept and understand that the teachings of the Catholic Church are an essential and required part of the curriculum."
Who "belongs" in a Catholic school? On what basis do we exclude a specific child or family from a Catholic school? Can a Catholic school become too "catholic"? These are some of the questions that arise from the recent controversy in the Archdiocese of Boston and the subsequent decision that adherence of families to Catholic teaching and practice will not become a criterion for admission to Catholic schools.
I am one of two pastors who support Pope John XXIII School in Evanston, Illinois. Pope John is celebrating its 25th anniversary as the offspring of two long-standing parish schools that united in order to thrive. The school is an important ministry, a powerful presence, and a valuable resource in our community. It is a National Blue Ribbon School with a student body that is diverse in race, ethnicity, and social background. As part of its mission, Pope John welcomes students of Christian and non-Christian families. I believe that the mission of evangelization and outreach is at the heart of the Catholic school system in general.
The call of the apostle Matthew challenges the status quo of his time (Matt 9:9-13). Jesus calls this tax collector to follow him while Matthew is practicing the sinful act of collecting taxes for the Romans. Matthew responds by hosting a dinner to which he invites other practicing "sinners"; he brings them Jesus to discover what he has found.
When the religious authorities grumble that Jesus is associating with the "unclean," Jesus responds by clarifying the mission of God's kingdom. "Go and learn the meaning of the words, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Jesus soon names Matthew (still called "the tax collector") as one of the 12 apostles. In the roots of what will become the institutional church, Jesus seems to balance the call to ongoing conversion with tolerance of imperfections.
During my two years as a pastor of Pope John XXIII School, I have witnessed the power of this attitude of Jesus when we extend an invitation to people without pre-judgment or exclusivity. Last year, several children in our school requested baptism and Eucharist after years of learning about Jesus and the Catholic faith. Their parents were not yet ready to make a commitment to the Catholic faith but were willing to support their children. Local Catholic adults, friends, and relatives of the families agreed to sponsor the ongoing faith development of the children as practicing Catholics. The parents in one family have since assumed responsibility for bringing their children to Sunday Mass; they challenge and witness to our Catholic parents.
Conversion of families to Catholicism is not the primary purpose of opening Catholic schools to families who do not practice the Catholic faith. Nevertheless, these families–Catholic, non-Catholic, and nominally Catholic–have chosen our school because it is Catholic. Our mission is to evangelize them and their children by word and example.
Matthew the tax collector was judged a sinner by "religious" Jews. He did what was forbidden; he accommodated the "pagans" who had occupied Israel. As a result he was excluded, shunned, and discounted by his "righteous" Jewish brothers and sisters. He was offered no path to acceptance or reconciliation; no hope of ever belonging among the "holy."
Jesus, on the other hand, offered Matthew both reconciliation and acceptance. He did not require Matthew to undergo an immediate and complete conversion. He embraced Matthew as he was and then led him into the mystery of God's love. Jesus criticizes neither Matthew nor the other "sinners" at the table. On the contrary, he reserves his criticism for those who consider themselves righteous and deny a need for reconciliation. They judge themselves to be in good health and so separate themselves from the healing that Jesus offers everyone.
Each family who becomes part of a Catholic school community, each man or woman who teaches or volunteers and every principal or priest who serves in a Catholic school needs God's healing in each and every moment. We strive to follow the call of Jesus, but we are imperfect witnesses to the faith. The most powerful witness that we offer our children is that we strive to grow in the understanding and practice of our faith and are willing to admit our imperfections and seek God's grace.
I am not suggesting that a member of a Catholic school community has the right to contradict church teaching and so create disharmony or confusion. I am suggesting that any adult who supports the religious curriculum that is presented in a Catholic school is on a path to holiness, regardless of what I know or presume to know about his or her personal life.
There is a significant difference between denouncing church teaching as wrong and acknowledging the imperfection of my attempts to live by this teaching. The lost in the gospels are those who refuse to admit the imperfections in their behaviors and practices. The challenge is to strive honestly toward a holiness that remains just beyond our reach.
So what do we do when the reputation, behaviors, or lifestyle of a school parent stir controversy among the school community? I accept that, in specific instances, the pastor, principal, and school board may need to make a pastoral decision to refuse admission to a specific family in the best interest of that family and that school community. However, I oppose any general criteria that exclude types of families or presumes that controversies always will be resolved by excluding the "unfaithful" family.
I can envision situations in which the resolution most consistent with church teaching will be to ask a family to leave because of the intolerance they display and model for their children and the community. My experience has been that these situations can be resolved by the reassurance of the pastor and principal that children will be taught both Catholic teaching and values and tolerance for the beliefs, practices, and imperfections of others.
The Pope John XXIII community comprises a diversity of families and family models. I have been approached by single, divorced, and same-sex parents about whether they can enroll a child at Pope John XXIII. One family headed by two mothers feared that they would not be welcomed or that their children would be ostracized. These women have since become active supporters of the school, the parish, and the archdiocese; they participate with their children each week at Sunday Mass; their children are thriving within the school community.
Some parents have expressed a concern that the lifestyle of a non-traditional family will confuse their child. They have asked how to teach tolerance for others while also teaching Catholic values. I believe and have shared that learning to deal with these tensions will help in a variety of situations in which the values we teach will conflict with the perceived behaviors of relatives, neighbors, friends, and public figures. This is part of being Catholic in a pluralistic culture.
Those who would attempt to certify parents as "sufficiently Catholic" based on a preconceived list of perceived faults place us all on a very slippery slope. Do we extend this judgment to our business practices, our treatment of neighbors and extended family, our stewardship of creation, our generosity to the poor, our attachment to possessions, or other aspects of our behavior? If so, then who will be left in our Catholic schools?
Thank you, Boston, for echoing the teachings of Jesus and making the ongoing evangelization of both the faithful and the imperfect a core value of Catholic education. Thank you for placing Catholic education at Mathew's open dinner table rather than among those who would make the banquet exclusive. Thank you for continuing to place Catholic education at the service of the mission of Jesus and of his "catholic" church.


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In the ever-more-impatient NFL, huddles are being dominated by quarterbacks barely old enough to remember the Y2K scare. This year, 49ers rookie Alex Smith and Bills sophomore J.P. Losman will join a group of precocious passers that includes the Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger, the Giants' Eli Manning, the Ravens' Kyle Boller and the Bengals' Carson Palmer.
But down in the dusty Southwest, a couple of old-school coaches are partying like it's 1999. That was the season Kurt Warner led the Rams to a Super Bowl championship and Drew Bledsoe threw for just shy of 4,000 yards for the Patriots.
Since then, each quarterback has ridden his share of dramatic ups and downs.
Ignoring downward trends, the Cowboys signed Bledsoe, 33, to be their starter. The Cardinals signed Warner, who will turn 34 on June 22, to compete for their job, then coach Dennis Green anointed him the starter in late May.
Now we get to find out if either of these guys still can throw and thrive. Both were displaced recently by younger athletes -- Warner by Manning in New York and Bledsoe by Losman in Buffalo.
In appraising the veterans' chances for 2005, you have to start by looking at their supporting casts. Both quarterbacks are as mobile as cacti, which means they won't be creating a lot of their own opportunities.
"Both have a tendency to hold the ball," an AFC pro personnel director says. "If they can get a line up front to protect them, they have the throwing ability to be dangerous."
Both lines were upgraded for 2005. The Cardinals signed Oliver Ross to play right tackle, and the Cowboys landed free-agent guard Marco Rivera. And both quarterbacks should have ample targets. Arizona has a talented young trio of receivers in Anquan Boldin, Larry Fitzgerald and Bryant Johnson, and Dallas has a more seasoned combination in Keyshawn Johnson and Terry Glenn. The Cowboys have an edge in the running game.
Then there are the quarterbacks themselves. Bledsoe was mediocre in Buffalo after a big 2002 debut. Warner led the Giants to a winning record through nine games last year but was sacked 24 times in his last four starts. They seem to be at similar points in their careers.
But another pro personnel director sees the two quarterbacks in different lights. He believes Bledsoe has several productive years left. "You can feel Drew," he says. "You know he can still throw the ball. You know he won't fumble it away. You have a better sense of his direction, and he is in a better environment."
In contrast, the personnel director just can't shake the memory of the game that altered Warner's career. In the Rams' 2003 season opener, he suffered a concussion, fumbled six times and more or less came unglued. Warner hasn't been the same quarterback since.
"In first grade, you probably knew some kid who peed in his clothes," the personnel man observes. "When you see him in high school, it might be years later, but you still say, 'He peed in his clothes.' In this league, once they sense what you are, they go after you."
The green flag won't come down on the 2005 season for three months, but based on the offseason moves, we can tell you which teams are getting in gear -- and which are just clogging up traffic.
Bears: They stood pat on defense but revamped their offense -- especially if you include the return of injured quarterback Rex Grossman. Performance should go way up at wide receiver (Muhsin Muhammad replaces David Terrell) and tackle (Fred Miller instead of Qasim Mitchell), and rookie running back Cedric Benson gives Grossman another weapon. Grade: A
Chiefs: They rode their late-season momentum (4-1 in the last five games) into the offseason, boosting their defense by signing veteran free agents (linebacker Kendrell Bell and safety Sammy Knight), trading for cornerback Patrick Surtain and defensive end Carlos Hall and drafting linebacker Derrick Johnson. The losses were minimal, even though wide receiver Johnnie Morton was released. Grade: A
Raiders: After years of claiming they were younger than people contended, the Raiders truly have traded in their motorized carts in 2005. Seven of their nine new starters likely will get their jobs through promotions. Granted, many hardly are upgrades, such as Nnamdi Asomugha for Phillip Buchanon at cornerback and Travian Smith for Napoleon Harris at inside linebacker. That hardly matters because Oakland's two major offeason acquisitions, wideout Randy Moss and running back LaMont Jordan, were whoppers. Grade: A-
Lions: If Detroit can keep its receivers healthy, it might finally be able to turn a good offseason grade into victories. Tops on the list of improvements were the signings of left guard Rick DeMulling (replaces David Loverne) and strong safety Kenoy Kennedy (for Bracy Walker). At tight end, replacing Stephen Alexander with Marcus Pollard probably is a wash. Grade: A-
Vikings: It seems absurd that a team could unload the most dominant big-play threat in the game and wind up looking astute. The Vikings didn't necessarily come out ahead in the Randy Moss trade; it was what they did afterward that made the difference. Minnesota is another team that focused on defense, adding four veteran starters: cornerback Fred Smoot, nose tackle Pat Williams, middle linebacker Sam Cowart and oldie-but-goodie free safety Darren Sharper. Grade: A-
Browns: They might be the most altered team in the league, with new coach Romeo Crennel having displaced more than half of last year's starters. On defense, the secondary now includes cornerback Gary Baxter and safeties Sean Jones and Brian Russell. On offense, Trent Dilfer takes over for human voodoo dolls Jeff Garcia and Kelly Holcomb. The biggest upgrades? Rookie Braylon Edwards for Antonio Bryant at wide receiver and free-agent pickup Joe Andruzzi for Paul Zukauskas at left guard. Grade: B+
Cardinals: Most of the new starters -- such as tight end Eric Edwards and middle linebacker Gerald Hayes -- are uninspiring, but the Cardinals now have an interesting mix of crafty new vets (quarterback Kurt Warner, free safety Robert Griffith) and rookies (running back J.J. Arrington, cornerback Antrel Rolle). It's the young guys who ultimately could make more noise. Still, signing Oliver Ross to play right tackle is the move that drives up the Cardinals' grade. Grade: B+
Chargers: Get this: The Chargers have become the NFL's most stable franchise. Two rookies, outside linebacker Shawne Merriman and lineman Luis Castillo, could take over as starters on defense -- and that's all the changes. Grade: B
Cowboys: Drew Bledsoe seems to be an aging risk at quarterback -- until you remember he's replacing Vinny Testaverde, 41. Bledsoe will have a better line than Testaverde did, thanks to the signing of Marco Rivera. Cornerback Anthony Henry and defensive tackle Jason Ferguson fill two primary needs, but the quickness of linebacker Dexter Coakley, a free-agent defector, will be missed. Grade: B
Falcons: One of 2004's surprise teams, the Falcons are showing more incremental improvement at left guard (Matt Lehr in place of Roberto Garza) and, especially, middle linebacker, where free-agent pickup Ed Hartwell is more physical than Chris Draft. Keion Carpenter is a suitable replacement for Cory Hall at strong safety. Grade: B
Giants: Kurt Warner was better than Eli Manning last season, but handing the ball to Manning in Year 2 seems like the right thing to do. Wide receiver Plaxico Burress will be a bigger target for him than Ike Hilliard, and tackle Kareem McKenzie will solidify the offensive line. On defense, the acquisition of middle linebacker Antonio Pierce balances the loss of defensive tackle Norman Hand. Grade: B
Seahawks: The Seahawks did a good job of plugging holes. Defensive end Bryce Fisher and cornerback Andre Dyson were brought through the free-agent "in" door as Chike Okeafor and Ken Lucas were leaving through the "out." The Seahawks also pounced on outside linebacker Jamie Sharper as a replacement for Chad Brown. Grade: B
49ers: Alex Smith frequently will look like an overmatched rookie at quarterback, but he will be a slight improvement over Tim Rattay. Another rookie, David Baas, might have a harder time replacing Kyle Kosier at right guard. But the 49ers look better at offensive tackle (Jonas Jennings for Scott Gragg) and defensive end (Marques Douglas for John Engelberger). Grade: B-
Panthers: Health concerns have affected the Panthers more than economic issues. Defensive tackle Kris Jenkins, wide receiver Steve Smith and running back DeShaun Foster appear healthy again, but outside linebacker Mark Fields' lymphoma has recurred. The loss of wideout Muhsin Muhammad is painful but is eased somewhat by the additions of guard Mike Wahle and cornerback Ken Lucas. Grade: B-
Saints: The team made solid moves by bringing in free agents Jermane Mayberry (at right guard) and Dwight Smith (free safety), but shouldn't the league's worst defense have received more attention? Grade: B-
Bengals: The only changes are on defense. Bryan Robinson is a step up at defensive tackle, but will rookie linebacker David Pollack be more effective than Kevin Hardy? Grade: C+
Jaguars: Coach Jack Del Rio must like his young team because the Jaguars stayed pretty quiet. Free-agent defensive end Reggie Hayward should add some energy. Grade: C+
Redskins: The big news was swapping possession receivers, Laveranues Coles for Santana Moss, but we suspect they are actually the same person. Most of the improvement will come from the returns of injury casualties right tackle Jon Jansen and defensive end Phillip Daniels. But we're skeptical that middle linebacker Lemar Marshall and cornerback Walt Harris will adequately replace Antonio Pierce and Fred Smoot, both free-agent losses. Grade: C+
Broncos: The way coach Mike Shanahan plugs in running backs, you can expect Tatum Bell to match former Bronco Reuben Droughns yard for yard. Bringing back swift outside linebacker Ian Gold after lending him to the Buccaneers for a year is a boon, as is welcoming back a healthy Trevor Pryce at defensive end. Strong safety Kenoy Kennedy was a physical presence in the secondary -- his replacement is Nick Ferguson -- and brittle Courtney Brown will be hard-pressed to outdo Reggie Hayward at end. Grade: C
Patriots: Giving Bill Belichick and Scott Pioli a mediocre grade is like telling God he's doing an OK job with the oceans. Subtract the injury-related shifts (tackle Tom Ashworth and corner Tyrone Poole return; linebacker Tedi Bruschi might be out), and there isn't much to go on. Replacing Joe Andruzzi at left guard will be a challenge for rookie Logan Mankins. Grade: C
Rams: The Rams should have eight new starters, including five who are new to the roster. The changes don't appear to be sweeping, though. Free-agent additions Chris Claiborne and Dexter Coakley are expected to fill two of the linebacker spots, and coach Mike Martz is hoping rookie Alex Barron can jump in at right tackle. The team will miss end Bryce Fisher. Looks like 8-8 again, eh? Grade: C
Texans: The Texans went with youth at linebacker, letting Jay Foreman and Jamie Sharper go in favor of Antwan Peek and free-agent pickup Morlon Greenwood. Grade: C
Buccaneers: It's hard to picture a turnaround in Tampa when the big free-agent purchase was tight end Anthony Becht and a former undrafted free agent, Anthony Davis, is slated to start at left guard. The biggest loss could be right guard Cosey Coleman, who left the job to Jeb Terry. Grade: C-
Dolphins: The worst team in the AFC is in line for plenty of change, but you have to wonder what the impact will be. Rookie running back Ronnie Brown is sure to provide some spark, but quarterbacks A.J. Feeley and Gus Frerotte look a lot like Jay Fiedler. And Miami might have regressed in the secondary, with cornerback Reggie Howard and strong safety Tebucky Jones replacing Patrick Surtain and Sammy Knight. Grade: C-
Eagles: Warning: This team might suffer significant loss of viscosity if Reggie Brown has to start in place of Terrell Owens at wide receiver. Grade: C-
Jets: The Jets got younger and smaller -- and maybe worse -- at nose tackle (Lance Legree in, Jason Ferguson out) and right tackle (Adrian Jones for Kareem McKenzie). Grade: C-
Ravens: The Ravens worked hard to find a new model for each machine that drove off the lot, but they might have come up short. Yes, Derrick Mason is more productive than Travis Taylor or Kevin Johnson at receiver, but Keydrick Vincent is a notch below Bennie Anderson at right guard, and Samari Rolle is a bigger gamble at cornerback than Gary Baxter. Grade: C-
Bills: Two of the Bills' best linemen, Jonas Jennings and Pat Williams, departed, and unproven J.P. Losman is the new quarterback. Grade: D+
Colts: Is this any way to catch the Patriots? It's hard to see improvement at any position, unless rookie corner Marlin Jackson turns out to be a fast learner. The team might still re-sign middle linebacker Rob Morris, but offensive tackle Rick DeMulling, tight end Marcus Pollard and free safety Idrees Bashir are gone. Grade: D+
Packers: Brett Favre decided to limp back for another 3,000 yards, and Ahman Green still is there. But starting guards Marco Rivera and Mike Wahle were allowed to escape, and the players expected to compete for their spots (Adrian Klemm, Grey Ruegamer and Matt O'Dwyer) are unheralded. Safety Earl Little should compensate for the loss of Darren Sharper. Grade: D+
Steelers: Pitsburgh brought in only one free agent, wideout Cedrick Wilson -- and he can't imitate Plaxico Burress. Max Starks is no substitute for Oliver Ross at right tackle. Grade: D
Titans: You hate to kick a Titan when he's down, but the salary cap finally flattened these guys. Several of the players who made Tennessee a contender from 1999 to 2003 were dismissed to create cap room. And though coach Jeff Fisher typically breeds overachievers, wide receiver Tyrone Calico is no Derrick Mason, offensive tackle Jacob Bell is no Fred Miller and cornerback Andre Woolfolk is no Andre Dyson. Grade: F
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The situation in Wisconsin has taken yet another fascinating turn, as (unionized) police officers have joined the ranks of the protesters in the Capitol. It doesn't quite have the same substantive impact as Libyan army units defecting to join the anti-government wave but it's an intriguing development nonetheless. Police are not exactly a profession that one associates with anti-government protests, obviously, and moreover some police organizations actually endorsed Walker just a few short months ago (N.B.: the media's allusion to "the police" endorsing him is incorrect – of over 300 police labor organizations in the state, four of them did). Well, I guess they're un-endorsing him now.
What changed? Even Republican elected officials aren't stupid enough to mess with law enforcement, what with all the War on Drugs, Tough on Crime rhetoric and the constant emotional appeals to our various Heroes in Uniform(s) in place of actual arguments. Indeed, Walker's various Gilded Age union-busting proposals have repeatedly and explicitly excluded police and firefighters (Heroes! 9/11! Bald Eagles shitting red-white-blue chemtrails!) Given the presumption of special treatment and the natural antagonism that exists between cops and dirty hippie protesters, why would they take the unusual step of becoming protesters themselves?
For once and once only I am going to assume that the correct answer is "Cops are not idiots."
I've written at length before on the progression of inter-class victim-blaming in this country since 1980. First they convinced the blue collars to scapegoat the Welfare Queens. Then the suburbanites scapegoated the blue collars and their cushy union factory jobs (hence NAFTA). Then the suburbanites started to cannibalize themselves: first the greedy retirees with their sweet benefits were redefined as Leeches, and now it's the teachers and public sector workforce. While Americans in general have failed to notice how this game of "Find a new scapegoat every 3 years until there's no one left with benefits or a salary over $10/hr " has progressed methodically for several decades, the cops appear to have no illusions about what is happening. They are waking up to reality: "They're going to come for us next."
Yes, they are. Though cops and firemen are left out of
the Kochs' Walker's plans for the time being, imagine that he succeeds in crushing the teachers/public sector unions now. In two years they will need a new scapegoat. It is already well established that the right wing media machine and Teabag-o-sphere can demonize anyone, so why not America's Heroes? Can you imagine a lot of salutes to the bravery of our police and fire departments followed by caveats about deficits, austerity, and "tough choices"? By the time 2013 rolls around and the public has acquiesced to the public sector being crushed, there's absolutely no reason that another manufactured budget deficit couldn't serve as an effective burning Reichstag to rally the timid, scared, angry public behind the whitest "Fuck the Police" movement ever seen.
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Yesterday the Google Analytics team announced an important improvement to their In-Page Analytics report: enhanced link attribution.
The In-Page Analytics reports provide, in a page basis, the percentage of clicks from page to page in a website. The reports are a great way to analyze patterns of behavior, and can provide important insights to web designers and UX professionals. For example, they can be used to understand if specific links on a page are used or not and by which segments of visitors. A great case would be to check how often mobile users click on specific links as opposed to non-mobile users. As we can see below, by using Advanced segments we would see for each link the percentage of mobile vs. non-mobile clicks (learn more about advanced segments and how to create them).
However, as we can see in the screenshot below, two separate links that send visitors to the same page are aggregated in this report, meaning that we wouldn't be able to measure the success of two different links in driving visitors to another page. In addition, JavaScript buttons and actions could not be tracked using In-App Analytics up till now.
According to the launch post:
Before now, In-Page Analytics was limited to showing clickthrough information by URL and not by the actual link on the page, and was limited to showing information only on links, and not on other elements like buttons. The most common complaint about In-Page Analytics is that if a page has two or more links to the same destination page, we show the same statistics for both links, since there was no telling which link the user actually clicked.
Therefore, Google has worked to improve this feature in a way that three important aspects are now possible:
- See separate information for multiple links on a page that all have the same destination.
- See when one page element has multiple destinations (e.g. searches performed on a page).
- Track buttons, menus, and actions driven by javascript.
It is important to note that this feature requires additional code, which can be found in this help center article.
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Quote# 89280
[In a possible hate crime, large amounts of bacon were found scattered at an Islamic prayer site.]
Lol.....somedays it is like living in an alternate universe. Right after 911 some friends and I toyed with the idea of putting a greased pig in a gated mosque here...lol. Glad we didn't do it..we could be serving time for a silly prank.
God help this country. Our overlords are restless to destroy freedom.
Free Republic
65 Comments
Fundie Index: 39
Quote# 89275
["Saudis Building Women-Only City"]
This is overly generous of the Muslim men, and most likely destabilizing. By being recklessly chivalrous, Saudi men are introducing a cancer to Saudi society.
If I were the governing forces in Saudi Arabia, I would export Saudi women who wanted to work to other countries; for example, flush the trouble makers into America or Britain and let them slave away.
I would then replace the unhappy exports with new imports who were happy with Saudi life.
I think the Saudi man's inexperience with feminism has caused them to make a decision which will eventually destroy the Saudi family and bring misery to the entire country. This is a big mistake.
walking in hell2,
The Spearhead
42 Comments
Fundie Index: 63
Quote# 89268
In World War II, people died to produce and protect books. Anti-Fascist organizations, American Jewish Groups and writers, editors and journalists launched massive demonstrations in defense of the book, including, on March 10, 1933, the largest march, to that date, in the history of New York City: 100,000 people turned out to express outrage at the burning of books and other events in Germany. In its coverage of the Berlin book burnings, Newsweek used "Holocaust" as its headline.
Today's hi-tech propagandists tell us that the book is a tree-murdering, space-devouring, inferior form that society would be better off without. In its place, they want us to carry around the Uber-Kindle.
The hi-tech campaign to relocate books to Google and replace books with Kindles is, in its essence, a deportation of the literary culture to a kind of easily monitored concentration camp of ideas, where every examination of a text leaves behind a trail, a record, so that curiosity is also tinged with a sense of disquieting fear that some day someone in authority will know that one had read a particular book or essay. This death of intellectual privacy was also a dream of the Nazis. And when I hear the term Kindle, I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit.
Alan Kaufman,
Huffington Post
77 Comments
Fundie Index: 50
Submitted By: Cyclonus
Quote# 89263
[Not a poe]
In conclusion, non-Muslims cannot provide an INTELLECTUAL AND RATIONAL argument against the Islamic law regarding the killing of apostates. They can only provide EMOTIONAL and SUBJECTIVE arguments.
However, Muslims let their rationality overcome their emotions and don't fall for these silly appeal to emotion arguments. That is probably the main reason why we are Muslims.
In conclusion, the Muslim should keep his head up and confidently say:
Bassam Zawadi,
Call to Monotheism
56 Comments
Fundie Index: 90
Quote# 89259
God and the United States are merged very strongly.
This needs a thread all by its self. Some are having trouble in understanding elementary school civics. In elementary civics we teach the "separation o church and state" whereas we do not teach "separation of state and God." As difficult as this concept is for some liberals who try to twist American freedom into some type of humanism and moral relativity, Americans have chosen an absolute God as the bases of government. Why can some of you not see our freedoms folks not grasp the truth that Americans have never given up their faith in God? Americans have used the instructions of God to build on the Rock our freedoms and liberties into our government.
America is unique among democratic countries because we have kept God as a provider of our self-evident rights. If we allow humanist and liberals to take God out of government. as we rightly have done the church. we no longer have an authority for America;s greatness. When God is gone then we are gone as a unique country and our freedoms and liberties are gone.
42 Comments
Fundie Index: 33
Submitted By: Podkayne
Quote# 89257
Actually the mom, Obama's mom, whom Obama portrays as this Midwestern girl from Kansas, but really no, she became an atheist and a leftist and at times even almost a communist, she would say things like 'what's wrong with communism?' and she wanted to marry a Third World anti-American guy and in succession she married two of them. She was the one that cultivated in Obama this sort of anti-capitalist and somewhat anti-American ideology and then of course Obama, once it took, throughout his life would go looking for other guys, mentors, surrogate fathers if you will, who are like his dad and like his mom and then he would study under them and learn chapter and verse of this Third World ideology.
Dinesh D'Souza,
Right Wing Watch
42 Comments
Fundie Index: 47
Quote# 89253
Evolutionists love to omit details in order to make their alternative theory work. There is no evidence for the claimed tranisitional process. It is all read into by unbelievers who do not want God to exist.
Oh and I am still waiting for the scripture that says it is okay to use science over God's word.
Dr. David Tee,
Exploring Our Matrix
37 Comments
Fundie Index: 49
Quote# 89249
It is Dr. Tee to you and no permission has been granted to address me otherwise. First off, those who go with alternatives to the Bible are not Christians unless they are new believers and learning the difference between their old beliefs and biblical ones.
Secondly, You know nothing of scripture. Science is not is not what God said to use. He said--use faith-- as that pleases HIm. So you reject what God says pleases Him to go with something He did not say to use.
the only arrogant one is you.
Dr. David Tee,
Exploring Our Matrix
44 Comments
Fundie Index: 46
Quote# 89248
Your problem Mcgrath is that no divine command or teaching states we are to follow scientists or their conclusions. They are mere humans subject to the sin and corruption that entered the world at Adam's sin.
There are divine commands and teachings to follow God, Jesus, and the Bible. In fact, there are verses teaching us to NOT follow the unbelieving world. Since Darwin rejected God and in his own words stated that his 'conversion' never took, anyone following any form of evolutionary teaching would be following an unbeliever and deceitful teachings.
Your choice is not to repent and turn back to God or continue following lies.
Dr. David Tee,
Exploring Our Matrix
27 Comments
Fundie Index: 43
Quote# 89211
One of the most disturbing effects of the world's fascination with all things supernatural (except for Jesus) is the impact on our children through video games and entertainment based on the ancient influences referenced in the video:
Dungeons and Dragons
Masters of the Universe
World of Warcraft
Innumerable violence/combat games
Werewolves (for teens of course)
Harry Potter
Grand Theft Auto
The Hunger Games
Anybody here old enough to remember "O Mighty Isis" (Saturday morning kid's show)?
It's bad enough that electronics has transformed many of our children into obese, drooling couch potatoes. Edison and Tesla never intended video devil worship.
rapture ready
83 Comments
Fundie Index: 59
Submitted By: Tony
Quote# 89019
Police in Grand Rapids, Michigan say that there was nothing they could do after Bible-preaching protesters threatened to rape and murder pro-LGBT activists at a "Gay Day" event over the weekend.
In a video posted to YouTube, several protesters with Bibles can be seen shouting at a woman celebrating in the inaugural "Gay Day" celebration, an event organized by the human rights group Tolerance, Equality and Awareness Movement (TEAM) to showcase the community's diversity.
"Back in the day there was no free power, there was no going to the mall," one protester tells the woman. "There was, 'sit your ass in this house until I bring my ass home.'"
"And if your ass get to going out there like you said, guess what?" a second protester adds. "You get raped. And that's what's going to happen to you. … Keep your pussy clean, that's all you need to do. Do you understand?"
After one man claims, "the Lord said that," the woman challenges him to find the corresponding Bible verse.
He responds with Isaiah 13: "Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."
"What does 'ravished' mean? It means, we going to rape your ass," the protester explains. "And I'm going to have fun doing that shit. And you going to like that. I promise you."
After briefly arguing that he is misinterpreting the Bible, the woman observes, "Anything I say, you say it doesn't matter."
"It's going to matter right now," the man shoots back. "It's going to matter when your clothes off and I'm going inside of you repeatedly. That's when it's going to matter. Because you going to enjoy yourself."
. . . WWMT reported that the men were part of a Christian black supremacist group called the Black Hebrew Israelites. According to the South Poverty Law Center, the quickly spreading movement preaches "a frightening, racist theology that says Jesus Christ is returning soon to kill or enslave white people, Jews, homosexuals, and others."
Certain cultures practice "corrective rape" to "correct" the sexual orientation of Lesbian women.
Unnamed Protestors,
Raw Story
78 Comments
Fundie Index: 100
Quote# 88828
The leader of a group of black pastors opposed to gay marriage lashed out at President Barack Obama during a Tuesday appearance at the National Press Club. In his remarks, Rev. William Owens accused Obama of being "unprofessional" for ignoring him and insinuated that Obama had condoned child molestation by endorsing gay marriage.
"For the homosexual community and for the president to bow to the money as Judas did for Jesus Christ is a disgrace and we're ashamed," said Owens, the president and founder of the Coalition for African American Pastors.
"If you watch the men who have been caught having sex with little boys," said Owens, "you will note that all of them will say that I was molested as a child. A man molested me in my home, wherever they will say they were molested. And for the president to condone this type thing knowing the full facts is just irresponsible."
Owens added that the "president is in the White House because of the Civil Rights movement, and I was a leader in that. And I didn't march one inch, one foot, one yard for a man to marry a man and a woman to marry a woman. So the president has forgotten the price that was paid … where they gave their blood to have equal rights in the United States."
Owens said that Obama endorsed gay marriage "because of money" and bellowed: "there are more people that want marriage to be right than there are homosexuals, I assure you, in this country, and I think he's going to learn that lesson."
Rev. William Owens ,
Daily Caller
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Submitted By: Sergeant343
Quote# 88787
Christians are the new blacks...being discriminated against and attacked with impunity.
Amazon.com Christianity Discussion Forum
51 Comments
Fundie Index: 52
Quote# 88769
I think there could be some truth to that. Porn encourages perversion and sexual deviance. When it comes to that point, anything is game. Animals, other men, etc. Crossing that line from straight porn into the gay kind is only a fine line. Trannies is usually what they start with. That leads into "circle jerks" and before ya know, it the whole enchilada.
Fairfax Underground
49 Comments
Fundie Index: 43
Quote# 88733
Allah is an extremely powerful demon. He is a demon God. What Muslims are worshiping is actually a demon. They think they are worshiping God, they're deceived, they've been fooled, so I don't want to be hard on them, the Muslims have been fooled, they've been lied to, they've been deceived, they think they are worshiping the true God but they are worshiping a demon-god, this is according to the New Testament. You may disagree with me but there is no question that this is what Christianity teaches. So it's fine if you take a different view, that's fine, you're entitled to your view, this is America; we have freedom of speech and freedom of thought. But from a Christian stand point, from a New Testament stand point, there's no question that Muslims are worshiping a demon. Allah is a demon God. Remember Jesus himself believed in the existence of Satan, he took Satan very seriously, Satan is a very real being according to the New Testament, he's out there, not some kind of shadowy, vague, powerless figure but he is the dark 'prince of the power of the air,' as the New Testament describes him, so that's who Muslims are worshiping.
Bryan Fischer,
Right Wing Watch
46 Comments
Fundie Index: 33
Quote# 88612
Straight Rights
Thousands of people are mourning the death of Mr Clementi, an 18 year old college student who committed suicide after being taunted about his homosexuality.
I wonder how many people are mourning the deaths of straight people infected with HIV by homosexual men.
Imagine for a moment that you had a twenty eight year old daughter. She is diagnosed with AIDS and tuberculosis and is expected to soon die. Her husband and her two small children, have tested HIV positive. Researching into this, it turns out that when she was 18, your daughter had unprotected sex with an 18 year old boy. That boy unknown to her was HIV positive after having had unprotected anal sex with a man who, unknown to the boy, was HIV positive. Such tragedies can and do happen in America and Europe today.
If we would follow the Torah's commandment to put to death any man who has anal sex with another man, those tradegies could be prevented.
jewish philosopher,
Torah Philosophy
68 Comments
Fundie Index: 64
Submitted By: Wykked Wytch
Quote# 89239
[CNN] actually tried to justify the 'hate group' label that was placed on the Family Research Council by this anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, Marxist organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is just an evil group of people. They actually tried to justify this "hate group" label that they gave FRC.
These people are dangerous, they are evil, and my question is, Glenn [Beck], who are they to have any authority to declare anybody a 'hate group.'
And remember, they also called Hitler right-wing, as well. I don't mean SPLC, but people today on the left refer to Hitler as right-wing and compare conservatives to Hitler. Hitler was anything but right-wing. Remember he was National Socialist Party.
Jerry Boykin,
Right Wing Watch
61 Comments
Fundie Index: 60
Submitted By: Aspergus
Quote# 89234
An official from Missouri's Republican Party on Monday defended Senate candidate Todd Akin after he suggested abortions should not be allowed in any case because victims of "legitimate" rape victims could not get pregnant.
GOP 4th Senate District Committeewoman Sharon Barnes told The New York Times "that abortion is never an option."
In an interview with KTVI-TV over the weekend, Akin had said that "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," referring to pregnancy after so-called "legitimate rape."
Barnes "echoed Mr. Akin's statement that very few rapes resulted in pregnancy," according to the Times, and she added that "at that point, if God has chosen to bless this person with a life, you don't kill it."
"That's more what I believe he was trying to state," she insisted. "He just phrased it badly."
During an interview with Akin on Monday, Fox News host Mike Huckabee noted that "forcible rapes" had created some "extraordinary people."
"Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape," Huckabee pointed out. "I used to work for James Robison back in the 1970s, he leads a large Christian organization. He, himself, was the result of a forcible rape."
"And so I know it happens, and yet even from those horrible, horrible tragedies of rape, which are inexcusable and indefensible, life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things."
Sharon Barnes & Mike Huckabee,
The RAW Story
54 Comments
Fundie Index: 57
Quote# 89233
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, a conservative Christian group, said that Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) was "absolutely right" to claim that women cannot become pregnant from "legitimate rape."
The host of the talk radio show Focal Point said that the trauma from a "real, genuine rape, a case of forcible rape" would make it "difficult" for a woman to conceive a child, Right Wing Watch notes.
"There's a very delicate and complex mix of hormones that take place -- that are released -- in a woman's body, and if that gets interfered with, it may make it impossible for her or difficult in that particular circumstance to conceive a child," Fischer said during his show Monday.
"That's all Todd Akin is saying...and he's absolutely right about that," he continued.
Akin came under fire this week after he attempted to justify his extreme anti-abortion stance by arguing that "legitimate rape" does not causing pregnancy.
"From what I understand from doctors, that's really rare," Akin said in an interview with KTVI-TV on Sunday. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume maybe that didn't work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist."
According to the New York Times, this is not the first time that this line of reasoning has been used by anti-abortion advocates.
However, leading experts on reproductive health have dismissed this logic as unfounded.
"There are no words for this -- it is just nuts," said Dr. Michael Greene, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. David Grimes, a clinical professor in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina, told the New York Times that "to suggest that there's some biological reason why women couldn't get pregnant during a rape is absurd."
Bryan Fischer,
Huffington Post
42 Comments
Fundie Index: 61
Quote# 89232
"This is another case of 'gotcha politics' against a conservative leader. Todd Akin has a long and distinguished record of defending women, children and families. He has fought against forcing taxpayers to subsidize abortion giant Planned Parenthood, which is the bedrock of Claire McCaskill's base of support. When speaking about the issue of rape, let's not forget the cover-up of statutory rape by Planned Parenthood, which to my knowledge has not been addressed by Senator McCaskill.
"Throughout his twelve years in Congress, Todd Akin has supported legislation that honors all human life. He has opposed the commodification of women in contrast to his opponent, Claire McCaskill, who has a long record of promoting the abortion industry while ignoring how abortion harms women. We know Todd Akin, and FRC Action PAC enthusiastically endorses his candidacy," Mackey concluded
Connie Mackie,
PR Newswire
21 Comments
Fundie Index: 41
Quote# 89230
I am reminded of a story told to me last year about an 11-year-old girl, Kyla, by her mother, Cyndee:
"My daughter, Kyla, who was 11 last year, at the time she was carried into the Spirit by the Lord. It was 3 in the morning and she was up and weeping and told me she had been with Jesus and he had told her some things. A lot was personal for the family but there was something Jesus told her that was amazing. She, to this day, still says Jesus told her, 'I am coming some September.' Now I received this! What it means I don't know for sure, but I will say this, SOMETHING very spectacular is fixing to happen and I am excited and Jesus is in IT!! God also told her that her family, meaning her siblings, and me, her Mother and her Dad, would not die until they all see the coming of the Lord."
If the reference is to the rapture, let us hope it is this September!
Jim Bramlett,
60 Comments
Fundie Index: 45
Submitted By: Tony
Quote# 89223
[discussing the Global Atheist Convention]
I like the part about basing laws on rational thought and evidence. It echoes a sentiment that is a driving force in the atheist community right now, namely the idea that society must develop a set of moral values that is not rooted in any kind of supernatural belief system. I think it could end up being a really good thing that the leaders of modern atheism are coming together to discuss this, because this is an idea that needs a lot more exploration.
The New Atheists and their brethren in the secular humanist movement like to advocate for a godless value system where acceptance and goodwill toward others are prized, where people are free to be kind and loving out of the goodness of their hearts, and not because some man in the sky tells them to do so. While I appreciate the sentiment behind wanting to add more peace and love to the world, I just don't think this works. And I can't help but wonder if that might become clear to others as well at one of these atheist conventions.
The group of GAC attendees will undoubtedly contain a lot of intelligent, free thinking types, and so I'd imagine that it will only be a matter of time before folks start questioning the assumptions behind these ideas. For example: Yes, you can defend a peace- and love-based moral code from a purely atheistic point of view. You can point to the fact that more humans survive when we live in harmony together, that we may have an "altruistic gene" that makes us want to do nice things for others, etc. But who's to say that harmony and survival for the greatest number of people should be our highest goals? You could just as easily advocate for a values system in which the survival of the fittest is the highest aim, and the weak are considered worthless and expendable. It sounds revolting, and it is. But it's also perfectly defensible from an atheistic point of view.
I imagine that one day someone will get on the stage at one of these conferences, and propose a new moral code in which the the strong exterminate the weak and take all their possessions for themselves, thus ushering in a glorious age where only the most superior genes remain in the gene pool. Everyone in the crowd will gasp and fidget uncomfortably…and then realize that they cannot argue against it without stepping outside of their own atheist-materialist worldview. They'll find themselves tempted to appeal to the transcendent to make their case, wanting to have blind faith in the fact that love should be prized above all else, believing that self-sacrifice is always better than selfishness, regardless of what the latest scientific studies say.
I hope that these events really will provide a forum for questioning assumptions and asking tough questions as much as they claim they will. Because when they do, the nearby churches will be flooded with post-convention crowds.
Jennifer Fulwiler,
National Catholic Register
50 Comments
Fundie Index: 34
Quote# 89220
If there must always be an established religion, what religion is it best to establish? I say Christianity. Not because I am a Christian and think it true, or because its tradents have built the most prosperous, beautiful societies and conquered the world. Christianity does have all those things in its favor, to be sure. But the best practical reason to establish Christianity is that alone among religions it has solved the problem that the cycle of blood sacrifice threatens always to destroy even those societies otherwise most sane. In Christianity alone the logic of sacrifice is turned back on itself: the bloody holocaust of God himself has forever obviated the death either of scapegoats or innocents. Christianity therefore provides the best chance of maintaining a high degree of traditional social order that yet leaves room for creative genius to make its contribution to the endless process of social adaptation to changing circumstances. It offers the best chance at maintaining robust and flexible societies. And only a society that manages to survive has a shot at being good.
43 Comments
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Quote# 89218
I applaud Russian authorities for convicting "Pussy Riot" — the very name suggesting sex and violence — of committing a hate crime against religion. The all girl punk band willfully, maliciously and blasphemously desecrated a Russian Orthodox Church.
Everyone has a right to freedom of expression. This includes those who were attending the religious service in question. These people's rights were obviously denied and violated by the surprise guerrilla invasion. Many of them — especially the older and religiously devout — may actually have been seriously traumatized for life by the devilish antics of these young, radical feminists.
I believe a two year jail sentence is rather harsh for such a crime. I would rather have seen the girls forced to faithfully attend Holy Mass each day followed by an hour of bible school — perhaps for a year. In this way their punishment could be served out in the form of rehabilitation. If the girls were encouraged to understand religion a little more they might actually come to appreciate it more fully. Then their raw and wicked energy could be converted into a more positive and powerful force for good in this world.
Rick Martin,
The Baltimore Sun
38 Comments
Fundie Index: 37
This sounds familiar
I swear I heard this in 2004 and 2008, but that can't be right.
Quote# 89212
Will Obama Keep Power 'by Any Means Necessary'?
Let's go there: if Obama thinks he's losing, will he allow safe and fair elections on November 6? And if he does lose, will he peacefully turn over power to Mitt Romney on January 20, 2013? Or will he cling to power "by any means necessary," as a highly placed insider alleges?
Now, I'm truly sorry to raise such disgusting, un-American, crazy-sounding questions, but, alas, they're not crazy, and I've got a disquieting amount of evidence. The Democrats have already accused Romney of murdering a woman with cancer, financial felonies, and not filing taxes for ten years -- the last charge delivered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor, on the basis of absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
By Democrat standards, I've got enough proof to put away Obama, et al. for life without parole.
Whatever chicanery Obama and his investors may be contemplating, it will probably unfold against some gargantuan crisis, manufactured or otherwise.
Stella Paul,
American Thinker
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Migratory Connectivity in Basking Sharks
Simon Thorrold and Leah Houghton, Biology
Grant Funded in 2007
Animal migrations represent one of nature's most spectacular and yet mysterious phenomena. Movement patterns also have considerable biological significance, determining gene flow among geographically separated populations over ecological time scales and migratory connectivity among populations over ecological time. Unfortunately studies of migration in ocean ecosystems have lagged behind those in terrestrial environments due to the logistic constraints associated with tracking aquatic animals that may travel vast distances in an opaque 3-dimensional environment. We propose to develop a new approach for estimating dispersal and migratory connectivity of basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) based on natural geochemical markers in vertebrae. We will test the validity of 3 hypotheses relating to the technique by reconstructing the bomb carbon curve using specific amino acids in vertebral pair-bands. The results will provide insights relevant to conservation efforts directed at the world's second largest fish species that is globally distributed but listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as vulnerable due to overfishing throughout its' range. The tools will also be readily applicable to other large pelagics that make basin-scale migrations and particularly those that take advantage of high primary and secondary productivity in high latitudes during summer months.


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Choosing a mail server is never an easy task. Email management itself is a complex endeavor, and this is reflected in the wide variety of tools we choose to create, edit, send, organize and reply to the vast numbers of email messages that crisscross the globe on a daily basis.
Email management should be a reflection of the organization's email persona, in terms of how it conducts business with its customers and suppliers, and how its users interact with each other and with outside entities. Organizations with a large, mobile sales force will have vastly different needs than a small company with a local customer base. Each mail server product has its strengths and weaknesses, but it's never a mistake to start by identifying business needs first. This should trump seeking product features for their own sake.
You can greatly simplify email management by forgoing some of the more elaborate accoutrements (such as mobile mail, LDAP and ActiveSync) if you don't need them. If you do need these features, make sure the product has them, and ask for a hands-on demo to confirm. Most importantly, take the time to test.
Read more about lans and routers in Network World's LANs & Routers section.


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VANCOUVER — As the Manti Te'o story has now unfortunately showed us, inspiring background material on bright young athletes needs to be taken with a certain level of cynicism if it can't be quickly and independently verified.
And so we we will tread somewhat warily with the early life and exploits of the phenom that is Kekuta Manneh, the just-turned-18 soccer prodigy out of Gambia whom the Vancouver Whitecaps surprisingly snapped up with the fourth overall pick in Thursday's MLS SuperDraft.
Well, surprising to some analysts, anyway.
As head coach Martin Rennie noted, the gifted and speedy forward who has been playing youth soccer in Austin, Texas, the last couple of years was on the radar of many MLS coaches and scouting directors.
President Bob Lenarduzzi said Manneh, who moved to the U.S. in 2010, has "unlimited potential. We don't want him to get too carried away with himself, but the raw talent that he has will make him a very exciting player."
The Whitecaps, who took 17-year-old Omar Salgado with the first overall pick in 2011, traded up from the No. 10 spot on Thursday, sending that pick and allocation money to Toronto FC to grab Manneh. They then used the No. 5 selection, acquired last season from Philadelphia, to select Santa Clara University senior forward Erik Hurtado, the West Coast Athletic Conference player of the year in 2012.
Rennie says the Manneh and Hurtado were the two players the Whitecaps had definitively targeted the night before the draft, noting they will add "pace and excitement in the final third (of the field.)
"Speed is something that can't be coached," added Rennie, who didn't have enough of it last season when the Caps improved by 15 points on their 2011 finish but still scored just 35 goals, third-worst in the league.
He said the two players should be able to immediately help the Caps play more attacking and creative soccer and "have huge potential to give us more in the future."
While Hurtado, 22 and a product of the Beaverton, Ore., youth system, is the kind of conventional, college-trained athlete the draft produces in droves, Manneh is an altogether different choice.
He was born in Bakau, supposedly a hot bed of soccer talent in the African country, and an area that has produced a number of professionals currently playing in Scandanavian leagues and in Belgium.
And here is where we're going to have to put some faith in a background piece on him from the website of the Austin Aztex, a Premier Development League team he played on in 2012. Growing up in his grandmother's home — his mom passed away and his father wasn't going to be around much — he learned to play on nearby beaches and dirt roads, using rocks to draw boundary lines and serve as goals.
The Rush Academy, a worldwide youth soccer club, directed him to the U.S. and eventually to Texas after a brief stint in Colorado. He was a prolific goal scorer at the U16 and U18 levels before joining the Aztex, a summer loop for mostly college-age athletes, where he scored 10 goals in 12 games in 2012. Over the last two years, his precocious talent has earned him brief training stints with 2012 MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy and with German and English pro teams, including Chelsea and Liverpool.
While at a recent camp with the Aztex, he reportedly juggled a ball 257 times on his right foot for 60 seconds. There's no video evidence, but a clip on the Aztex site shows him juggling a ball about 140 times on both feet for a minute.
The feature story also suggests he scored a goal last season in which he twice turned a defender to the turf on the same play before scoring, earning a scolding from the referee for "excessive showing of skill." Uh, okay.
Manneh, who visited Vancouver for a week about a month ago to work out with some Whitecaps players, said he's delighted to start his MLS career in Canada and believes, as Rennie does, that he can play immediately.
"I can entertain the fans. I have good speed and I'm technically gifted and have skills to show the fans."
He said it was a tough decision to leave his family and move to the U.S. at age 15, but says he was determined to advance his career either in the States on in Europe.
"It's been my dream to play in the (English) Premier League," he said on a conference call. "I grew up watching the Premier League. It was my favourite league. It's been my dream, I'd like to play there one day."
Manneh, who lived with an American family in Austin, has U.S. residency and is applying for American citizenship, so he does not count as a foreign player. He also signed a Generation adidas contract with MLS, which means his salary does not count against the Whitecaps' salary cap.
Hurtado, who stood out in testing at last weekend's MLS player combine in Florida, said being selected by the Whitecaps is "just the beginning of my dream." He also said he's looking forward to experiencing the emotion-charged Whitecaps-Portland Timbers rivalry and the enthusiasm of fans on both sides.
Rennie said Thursday that with training camp set to begin Sunday in Vancouver before moving a week later to Arizona, he's still keen to do some roster tweaking, perhaps by adding a target striker, some midfield help and some fullback depth.
And he threw cold water on rumours out of Indianapolis, where the draft was held, that he was shopping Scottish designated players Barry Robson and Kenny Miller.
"Those are just rumours you hear this time of year. They're pretty wide of the mark, I would say."
FEELING A DRAFT: The New England Revolution, in a pick acquired Wednesday from Toronto FC, selected Louisville defender Andrew Farrell with the first overall pick … Chivas USA, sticking to its pledge to build only with Mexican-American players, took midfielder Carlos Alvarez second … Toronto used the No. 3 pick to select Boston College midfielder Kyle Bekker, a native of Oakville, Ont. The Reds used a later pick in the first round to take another player with Ontario roots, forward Emery Welshman of Oregon State.
• KEKUTA MANNEH (fourth overall)
Born: Bakau, Gambia.
Age: 18.
Height: 5-foot-9.
Weight: 160.
Position: Striker.
The skinny: Came to the U.S. in 2010, initially to Georgia for a couple of months and then to Austin, Texas … scored 35 goals in 23 games with Texas Rush U16 club in 2010-11… A year later, scored 21 goals in 16 games for Lonestar FC U18, then added 10 goals in 12 games with the Austin Aztex of the Premier Development League, a summer loop for mostly college-age players … also trained with top club teams in Germany and England, including Cheslea and Liverpool.
• ERIK HURTADO (fifth overall)
Born: Fredericksburg, Va; grew up in Beaverton, Ore.
Age: 22.
Height: 5-foot-9.
Weight: 180 pounds.
College: Santa Clara.
Position: Striker/right winger.
The skinny: The speedy forward scored 15 goals in 2012 and leaves Santa Clara, the alma mater of Whitecaps' part-owner Steve Nash, as third all-time in goals (33) and points (86) … West Coast Conference player of the year in 2012 when he was also a third-team All-American … trained with MLS Portland. Timbers' request to sign him to a homegrown player contract was denied by MLS.


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Telmo Cardoso necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 338 diseños de 124 diseñadores freelance.
Company name is JNC (see requirements)
To use on everything company related.
We want a very simple and small logo (size its like 99 from 99 designs, never bigger [talking about proportions off course])
Company name its JNC, but we don't want simple written "JNC" logo, you have 3 things you can work on:
1 - Use JNC, but give more importance to the C; (not inclined to choose from here unless its an amazing work);
2 - Do something just with the C;
3 - Do an original small logo without any (or little) reference to the C;
Company its a construction company, but we are going to try other markets, so the usual roof over letters, etc.. will not work. If you make a mention to construction make it smaller or that doesn't make the idea of just construction company.
Colors to be used: Blue, black and/or white
I would like to get the PSD, JPG (small and big size, white background and black background [any doubts on how I want this contact me]) and PNG with transparent background.
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The U.S. Marshals: A Popular History of the Nation's Oldest Law Enforcement Agency
The fictional Rooster Cogburn, made famous in Charles Portis' novel True Grit, is probably a bit too idiosyncratic—cranky, bellicose, boozy, trigger-happy—to be a successful modern-day U.S. marshal.
But as U.S. Marshal Anthony Gasaway explains, Cogburn's story nevertheless reveals many truths about the professional duties and dangers faced by officers of the country's oldest law enforcement agency. He discusses the history of the U.S. Marshal Service and the role it plays in law enforcement today in a program titled U.S. Marshals: A Popular History of the Nation's Oldest Law Enforcement Agency.
Gasaway is the chief deputy U.S. Marshal, U.S. Marshals Service—Western District of Missouri.


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Broncos' Von Miller will Serve 6-Game Suspension
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — A person familiar with Von Miller's negotiations with the NFL tells The Associated Press that the Denver Broncos linebacker will serve a six-game suspension under the league's substance-abuse policy.
The league wanted a longer penalty for the third-year linebacker, but the sides agreed to less than half the season. Miller's suspension will begin Aug. 30. He is eligible to return for Denver's seventh game, Oct. 20 at the Indianapolis Colts.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Tuesday because no official announcement had been made.


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A multi-million dollar Southern Illinois business development loan program that is seeing success at every turn has one frustration hanging over it--the timely payback of the balance on a $100,000 loan made to Trogolo Enterprises owner Jim Espy.
The Champion Communities program has fueled downtown Du Quoin redevelopment and is in place to hopefully play a key role--when the opportunity presents itself--to reload the Kroger store and develop other properties.
Champion Communities is the rock star of business development.
After Trogolo Enterprises, one of the world leaders in distributing large commercial Christmas displays, moved from Christopher to the Turco building in Du Quoin in 2007, Champion Communities and the City of Du Quoin were key players in creating a 54-month, $100,000 loan with payments of something over $2,000 a month until the loan is retired. At this writing, regular payments have not been made, but as the issue resurfaces owner Espy has made large block payments.
Principle and interest put the remaining balance at over half of the original loan.
Du Quoin being part of the feel-good Christmas industry has some positive things about it--employment and last year's project to build Santa recording studios into part of the building to create personalized messages for families and some notoriety. Espy certainly invested a lot in renovating the building and creating new offices. Furthermore, any issues in the marketplace are not of his making. They are part and parcel of an economy from which we hope for better things.
Things are also starting to work out well for the neighboring P.R. Mallory building, now home to the Shawnee Library system.
But. the Champion Communities mindset is clearly "Don't look back. We're not going there." There are new capital redevelopment projects that could use the loaned money when it becomes available.
Bottom line: If the issue is not resolved, Du Quoin will not renew the remaining balance and make a demand for it.


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By Billy Graham • April 3, 2012 • Topics: Money
Like virtually any other enterprise, God's work requires financial support — and there's nothing wrong with that. Even Jesus' little band of disciples was supported by people who willingly provided them with financial support (see Luke 8:1-3).
But you are right about one thing: Money should never become the focus of any minister or ministry — as Jesus Himself made clear. Do you remember what He did when He came to Jerusalem shortly after beginning His ministry? When He entered the Temple area, He discovered that some people had turned the worship of God into a commercial enterprise, and He took a whip and drove them out. He declared, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!" (John 2:16).
I can't help but wonder, however, if there might be a deeper reason for your hostility toward religion — and toward God. Could it be that this is only an excuse you're using to keep away from God? Could your real problem be that you don't want anything to do with God?
Only you can answer this, of course, but I challenge you to do so, honestly and frankly. The most serious mistake any person will ever make is to shut God out of their lives. Don't let that happen to you, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ. He alone can forgive us and change us, and put our feet on the right path in life — both now and forever.


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Harp Department Faculty
With 25 majors, the Jacobs School's Harp Department is the largest in the world.
The department has a sizeable contingent of international students, who represent the finest playing from many countries. In addition to majors, there are many non-majors studying harp and a large pre-college program, so that graduate students have ample opportunity for teaching experience.
The department offers students a comprehensive education in harp, including solo playing, ensemble playing, orchestral repertoire, opera, band, ballet, harp ensembles, and new music performances, as well as a strong emphasis on harp pedagogy. The program prepares each student for all aspects of a career as a professional harpist.
In addition to their private lessons, students attend a weekly harp master class as well as a class in orchestral repertoire performance. The department sponsors a harp concerto competition every other year, and the winner plays a solo with one of the School of Music orchestras.
Among the program's students and graduates are winners of numerous international prizes, including the French International Harp Contest, the Japanese International Harp Contest, the American Harp Society's National first prize, and the USA International Harp Competition, which is held at Indiana University every three years and draws most members of the international harp community to Bloomington.
Graduates of the IU harp program hold key performing and teaching positions in the United States and abroad. Elizabeth Hainen, for example, who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from IU, is principal harpist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and a music faculty member at the Curtis Institute. She has returned to IU for master classes with students.
Harp Department Information
Harp majors receive one private lesson a week with Prof.McDonald, and attend a weekly performance class conducted by Prof. McDonald. In addition there is a weekly orchestra repertoire class. Weekly harp ensemble classes are conducted by Prof. Szmyt. There are classes as well in harp pedagogy, and harp technology. Chamber music coaching is also available with Prof. McDonald, and classes in harp literature.
Each harp major is required to perform in two ensemble concerts a semester. There are also numerous opportunities for ad hoc ensemble appearances. Performance experience is available also in the IU New Music Ensemble, as well as in traditional orchestral and band ensembles. Students also receive experience in opera and ballet performance. There are three recital halls where degree harp recitals are held. Every other year there is a concerto competition. The winner performs with one of the symphonic orchestras in the Musical Arts Center.
Indiana University is also the home of the USA International Harp Competition, held on our campus every three year .
The university owns more than 19 concert harps for student use in designated harp practice studios.


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Fri. Feb. 15: Watch These Stocks
Markets reporter Brendan Conway has details on key stocks and equities that traders will be focused on during the Friday session.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... the high-profile money managers ... gasoline step time of the year four times a year these well-known money managers to disclose ... their portfolios ... Apple dishes this battle you know it the stock fell so so sharply the end of last year ... a lot of folks are warning will who was selling it to its elegant ... well ... among the um um the the the brand name investors to work on and refining work George Soros was one of them he he actually upped his stake a little bit ... of that then you also have folks like Dan Loeb of Third point Capital pretty well known investor ... on sold his stake entirely CUPE Duke Odyssey his portfolio reshuffling going on one of well-known stocks like that I've died so quickly ... and thing about London investors Carl Icahn ... and it was the fact is this is can this is that this is a bit of fun with this idea involving a stock that most people hadn't heard of until the last couple months ... stocks they miss Herbalife its health products company ... bill Ackman hedge fund manager accused of being a pyramid scheme ... in steps Carl Icahn he's got a thirteen percent position ... odd that stock is soaring this morning on hopes that he will either cause them to go private ... or I can take some other stuff to counter the accusations political crisis cost was happening ... gold is in the gold price is is is is is tough lately up for people who ... can think people will act as a hedge ... you know stocks are rising and rising in gold just can't catch a break ... up police thing this morning is George R Us Kak his ETF position ... in gold this also came of those documents last night ... you know the feeling is you know it's it's fear versus greed write as people see stocks rising you know gold doesn't pay dividend goal doesn't have earnings gold as a store of wealth is it's you know ... bulls see it aam ... but the price just isn't doing anything so I think people are are are kind of giving up line ... putting money into stocks to see the works ... we will pave the way I think the Mustang is friendly appreciated the fact ... that it can be watching all those stocks and more as they head into this last ... trading session of the Week wrap it all out


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Sassa is a small village with about 300 inhabitants in Tuscany. About 35km away from the mediterranean sea it is located on the top of a hill, about 390m above sea level. Most of the houses are well preserved old buildings.
The Tuscany, one of the most beautiful Italian regions, is known throughout the world for its Landscapes and for the Works of Art that it houses (It is the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance). Six localities have been designated World Heritage Sites: the Historical Center of Florence, Siena, San Gimignano and Pienza, the Square of the Cathedral of Pisa with the Leaning Tower and the Val d'Orcia. It is in the central Italy and borders with Emilia Romagna (north), Marche and Umbria (east) and Lazio (South). The West coast is bathed from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Sea; here we can find the islands of the Tuscan archipelago including the island of Elba. The regional capital is Florence and the other provinces are: Arezzo, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Massa, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato and Siena.


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Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall would probably like to tell the NFL to back up off his wallet, bro.
Hall was fined three times during the 2012 season, including a $30,000 fine for berating an official which led to his request that reporters back up off him when they wanted comment about the incident. Hall's off to a quick start on the fine front this year as well.
Mike Jones of the Washington Post reports that Hall has been fined $20,000 for a horse collar tackle during the team's Monday night loss to the Eagles. Hall was penalized during the game for yanking Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson down by the collar on a play that helped set up an Eagles touchdown that extended the team's lead to 19-7. According to Jones, Hall plans to appeal the fine.
Hall's night got off to a better start when he returned a backward pass by Eagles quarterback Michael Vick for a touchdown in the first quarter. His three fines last season wound up totaling $65, 750 with the official incident happening against Pittsburgh and the other two resulting from incidents in the Thanksgiving Day game against the Cowboys.