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Christine Rouse is honored on the “Today Show”
The executive director of Acting Without Boundaries (AWB), Christine Rouse, was featured on the NBC Today Show with “Kathie Lee and Hoda” on March 1, 2012. The monthly segment, called “Everyone Has A Story,” features one ordinary person that has had a life-changing experience in their own life. Christine submitted an essay describing her life’s mission of increasing awareness of and support for people with disabilities. She described the process of creating the two non-profits she manages – “Kids are Kids,” which provides disability awareness workshops and AWB which provides theater arts opportunities for children, youth and young adults with physical disabilities . Christine talked about the importance of both in increasing inclusion for people, especially young people, with physical disabilities.
The March “Everyone Has A Story” segment featured Christine, her mother, and her brother. Christine’s mother read a letter she wrote about Christine’s life and the pride she takes in her many accomplishments. John Tartaglia, a Broadway performer sang a song written for Christine – “Different is Beautiful”- by Kathie Lee Gifford and David Freidman. The song has a powerful message and will be performed by AWB actors in the near future.
To cap off this exciting experience, the Today Show honored Christine’s work with $1000 donations to each of her organizations, Kids are Kids and AWB.
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Taylor Swift Promises Reinvention & Collaborations On Next Album
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Following the success of her last album, Red, Taylor Swift says she’ll be working with several prominent songwriters once again. In an interview with Billboard, the “Sweeter Than Fiction” singer revealed what fans can expect from her fifth release.
“I’m really loving collaboration right now,” said Swift. “I see it as a bit of an apprenticeship. I want to be around people who love writing songs and have done it for years. Every time I’m in a studio I’m learning, like how to build a drum track, and getting a new perspective on things. It’s so thrilling to keep learning on your fifth album.
“As soon as [an album] comes out I’m figuring out what the next one will be,” she continued. “It’s gotten to the point where each one is a reinvention, which is what I like best. I like it when it sounds new and people don’t know where you’re going to go next.”
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for reference. The original video has been deleted and is no longer available. Manuel returns to practiceORCHARD PARK, N.Y. Buffalo Bills quarterback EJ Manuel returned to practice Sunday after missing two weeks because of a left knee injury.Manuel participated in warm-ups and individual drills during the portion of practice open to the media. He moved well and did not appear to show any effects from the injury. He was wearing a small brace on his left knee underneath his black spandex.Manuel had been out since being hurt Aug. 16 in Buffalo's second preseason game. He had what the team referred to as a "minor procedure" on the knee on Aug. 18.The Bills have remained hopeful that the first-round pick would return in time to start the team's season opener against New England.Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/09/01/5126154/bills-qb-ej-manuel-returns-to.html#storylink=cpy | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/2 | {"url": "http://13wham.com/template/cgi-bin/archived.pl?type=basic&file=/sports/features/local-sports/stories/archive/2013/09/sHpqN5Qp.xml", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "13wham.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:45:36Z", "digest": "sha1:2IE72NFBICQTZXEUAJ5RGGOSYKCLRFD2"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 896, 896.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 896, 7508.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 896, 1.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 896, 44.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 896, 0.97]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 896, 223.2]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 896, 0.33165829]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 896, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 896, 0.02216066]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 896, 0.0201005]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 896, 0.22110553]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 896, 0.75555556]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 896, 5.34814815]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 896, 0.00502513]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 896, 4.4635136]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 896, 135.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 896, 135.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 896, 0.02219626]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 896, 0.03794643]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 896, 0.87630993]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 896, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 896, 0.1740191]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 896, -74.17587257]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 896, -3.27833443]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 896, -16.36193549]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 896, 17.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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Ciara danced to Michael Jackon’s “Billie Jean” during Vh1 Divas. She earned cheers from the crowd when she moonwalked in the late pop icon’s style. Ciara went on to perform her single, “Got Me Good.”
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Brain Fog Causes and Cloudy Thinking
Created by Drew | : New Brain Information You should know that brain fog is very common to experience for people of all ages. Brain fog can happen to anyone, young or old, and is recognized by symptoms of disorientation, lack of mental accuracy, and forgetfulness. A person suffering from brain fog will begin to forget things and cut themselves off from the world. This isolation can easily lead to low spirits and feelings of despair.
Brain fog influences literally thousands of different people and can cause serious difficulties on the job, in the classroom, and at home. People suffering from brain fog often develop feelings of low dignity and low self-worth which can harm their personal relationships. Some people claim that brain fog can cause you to become so depressed that you begin engaging in illegal and destructive activities.
Brain Fog Causes
Although brain fog happens fairly often, the medical and psychology fields aren’t very quick to diagnose or admit that it occurs. There are a lot of people that have been affected by brain fog for many years and still can’t get a doctor to diagnose and treat them. It has been pointed out by certain groups, who believe it should be diagnosed as a medical problem, that some individuals have experienced it for so long that they believe it is a normal and healthy way of life.
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hide Positive outlook in heart disease tied to fewer deaths
Friday, September 20, 2013 9:20 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with heart disease who are more upbeat and excited tend to live longer than those who don't have such a positive outlook, a new study suggests, possibly because they are often more active.
Researchers surveyed people with ischemic heart disease - when the heart doesn't get enough blood due to narrowed arteries - and found earning a high score on measures of "positive affect" was tied to a greater chance of being a regular exerciser and a lower risk of dying over the next five years.
"It adds to the body of literature suggesting that there may be relationships between positive affect … and all-cause mortality," Richard Sloan, who studies psychological risk factors and heart disease at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, said.
But, "It's going to take more than this to be confident that there's a link in the way we're confident there's a link between depression and (a higher risk of) heart disease," Sloan, who didn't participate in the new research, told Reuters Health.
The new study included 607 heart patients who were seen at one Danish hospital.
Susanne S. Pedersen from Tilburg University in The Netherlands and her colleagues asked the patients about their quality of life, mood and lifestyle habits including physical activity in 2005. Then they used death and hospital records to track participants through 2010.
On a mood scale ranging from 0 to 40, where higher scores indicate feeling more relaxed, self-confident and excited, half of participants scored a 24 or above. (Negative affect was measured separately - so a person could score high or low on measures of both positive attitude and insecurity or helplessness.)
During the follow-up period, 30 of the high positive affect patients died of any cause, compared to 50 people with a lower positive attitude score.
Some of that association appeared to be driven by exercise habits, the researchers found. People with high mood scores were more likely than other participants to say they exercised at least once a week, and exercisers were half as likely to die as non-exercisers.
There was not a clear difference, however, in how often people were hospitalized for heart-related conditions, based on their positivity. During the study period, about half of all participants were hospitalized for a heart attack, heart failure or chest pain, for example, according to findings published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
The researchers said past studies also found a link between having a positive outlook and better heart health, but it was unclear what explained the association.
"There is some evidence to suggest that even among people who are already ill, who already have heart disease or diabetes or related conditions, that those people who are happier also have better outcomes," Julia Boehm from Chapman University in Orange, California, who has studied psychological wellbeing and heart health, said.
Health behaviors such as exercise are one possible explanation for that link, she told Reuters Health. Some researchers have also proposed another mechanism, suggesting optimism may affect physiologic processes in the body that would ultimately influence heart health, such as inflammation levels.
Pedersen and her colleagues noted that they did not have information on participants' type or intensity of exercise. The researcher also said the study can't say how exercise and positive affect may be linked.
"We do not know what comes first (also known as the ‘chicken and egg' problem) and thus cannot make any conclusions about the direction of causality - is it exercise that increases positive affect or positive affect that leads to more exercise with an effect on mortality or both?" Pedersen told Reuters Health in an email.
"Irrespectively, it cements what we already know - namely that exercise is good for the heart."
Boehm, who wasn't involved in the new research, said there isn't enough evidence to tell people with heart disease to be happier or more optimistic in order to improve their outcomes. But she agreed with Pedersen that there are data to support recommending exercise to those people for heart health.
"Hopefully you would have the added benefit of feeling more happy (and) optimistic," she said.
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hide U.S. rethinking lowest-priced contract rule for guarding embassies
Friday, March 22, 2013 1:08 a.m. EDT
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers are reconsidering a 1990 law that makes the State Department accept the lowest bids for contracts to provide private security at most U.S. diplomatic posts, a requirement that can lead to the hiring of thousands of guards based on how cheap they are rather than their quality.
Concerns about the policy, which was aimed at cutting costs, were heightened by the assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September, in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. None of the local guards was outside the lightly defended complex when it was overrun by militants, according to the results of a U.S. government inquiry.
Fifteen months earlier, at the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy in Pakistan - a walled compound within a gated diplomatic enclave - dozens of local guards refused to work for three days. The strike over pay and benefits potentially put security at risk, the U.S. State Department inspector general's office said in an audit in February 2012.
A government spending bill, which passed Congress this week, gives the State Department the flexibility to hire local guards for Afghanistan, Pakistan "and other hostile or high-risk areas" on a best-value basis, allowing for the appropriate trade-offs between cost and quality, a Senate aide said, although the provisions are due to expire at the end of September.
Senators Robert Menendez and Bob Corker, the leading Democrat and Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, are also discussing whether to propose permanent changes to the way local guards are hired as part of embassy security legislation in the coming months, aides to both men said.
Many people think of the Marines, the sentinels at the front doors of many U.S. embassies, as the buildings' protectors. But they are there mainly to safeguard classified documents. There were no Marines at the Benghazi mission, a temporary facility.
It is the host country - and when it cannot or will not, the locally hired guards - that the U.S. government typically relies on to help keep its diplomats and buildings safe.
'POORLY PAID AND MOTIVATED'
One of the last things former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Congress to do before she left office on February 1 was to change the law requiring that most local guard contracts be awarded on a "lowest price technically acceptable" basis.
The money-saving requirement applies in "dangerous places like Libya," she said.
"We have requested a change in the legislation that would allow us to use some discretion to try to deal with the varieties and vagaries of these local guard forces," she told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in January.
Corker heard complaints about the lowest-price rule from U.S. embassies during a recent trip to several African countries. He visited war-torn Mali, as well as Senegal, Algeria and Tunisia, all of which are confronted with the spread of weapons from Libya after Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow.
The lowest-priced bid requirement encourages companies to snatch a contract from a competitor by lowering the embassy guards' pay, Corker said. "You're just cutting wages of people who actually have performed well and been on the front lines," he said.
The State Department inspector general's office says that changing the law would probably end up costing more - a tough sell in the current atmosphere of fiscal tightening. There are about 30,000 local guards protecting roughly 285 U.S. diplomatic facilities worldwide, the State Department says.
During the past several years, about $500 million has been spent annually on the guards. That does not include Iraq and Afghanistan, which have been budgeted separately.
In December, a State Department-ordered inquiry into the Benghazi attack cited numerous failures, including serious leadership deficiencies at the department that led to insufficient security.
But it also labeled as "inadequate" the responses of the local guards, who worked for a British company called Blue Mountain Group. None was keeping watch outside before the attack, and it was unclear whether they sounded any alarms, the review said.
Since the Benghazi attacks, the company has repeatedly declined to comment in response to Reuters' inquiries.
The lowest-priced rule for local guard contracts "often results in poorly paid and motivated guards," Michael Raynor, former executive director of the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs, wrote last year.
"Paying guards less than living wages" not only has security costs, Raynor wrote to the State Department inspector general, but also "undercuts our Missions' broader engagement in championing human rights."
"What it allowed was cheap guarding ... from the local population, or inexpensive Third World guarding from elsewhere," said Charles Tiefer, law professor at the University of Baltimore and member of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Contracting, which examined spending in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Last year's audit by the inspector general's office related one particularly large problem at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa. The embassy had to issue 60 "deficiency notices" to its local guard contractor for performance problems.
Over two-thirds of 86 U.S. diplomatic posts surveyed reported some problems with guard forces, such as absenteeism and turnover, the audit said.
UNAPPROVED GUARDS POSED SECURITY RISK
The June 2011 guard strike in Islamabad, Pakistan, posed a security risk because although the contractor replaced the strikers, it did so with unapproved guards who had not undergone required background checks, another audit from the State Department inspector general's office said last year.
The strikers had been hired under a 2007 contract awarded to G4S Secure Solutions International Inc on a lowest-price basis. The protest ended when the contractor agreed to increase the guards' pay, the audit said.
Their salaries were not revealed in the unclassified version of the report. A spokeswoman for the company, a subsidiary of the British-based G4S security services firm, declined comment.
Cameron Munter, who was ambassador to Pakistan during the 2011 guard strike, said, "The obvious end result that any ambassador wants is a motivated guard force that can be depended on in a crisis to do the things it's been trained to do."
But Munter also warned that changing contracting rules was not a panacea for safety.
"If all we learn from Chris Stevens' death is that we have to spend money differently, we haven't addressed the real issue - which is, we need to be informed and we have to think hard about how we are best informed, in order to protect ourselves. This is a question of smart security," Munter said.
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Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
Ricardo Cruciani, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center Hi, my name is Ricardo Cruciani, I'm an M.D. and Ph.D., a pain specialist and I'm the Vice Chairman and Director of the Research Division at the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center.
I'd like to take this opportunity to discuss with you some of the research projects that we are conducting in our department right now. As you can tell from the name of the department, we do mostly pain and palliative care. So those are the big areas where we are conducting all our research.
Pain, it can be acute pain or can be chronic pain. Within chronic pain, it can be cancer pain or non-cancer pain, for example, osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. The type of studies that we do, it could be with opioids or without opioids. In general, as a concept, all these medications can be used either in one disorder or the other. What we do is we look, what are the best doses, what are the best drug combinations, what are the side effects, how to work with the side effects.
We have at any given time about 15 studies going on. If you are interested in knowing more about the type of research that we are doing please contact us at Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care. Thank you. -- This embed didnt make it to copy for story id = 4593238.
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How to Conquer Recession Depression
Oct. 7, 2008 By KATE BARRETT Listen in at a coffee shop, stop a stranger on the street or strike up a conversation at the bus stop and you'll likely hear a story like Marie Moore's.
Struggling to pay her bills and concerned about her husband's prolonged unemployment, the 31-year-old human resources assistant said the recession is taking an emotional toll.
"I stay up worrying and not being able to sleep very well, I'm constantly thinking," Moore told ABCNews.com. "He kind of tends to shut down a bit and sleep a lot."
The Moores' story is not unusual. The couple moved from Harrisburg, Pa., to Danville, Pa., during the summer for a job opportunity, but Moore's husband was laid off shortly thereafter when his employer restructured. Today, the former general manager of a banquet facility finds himself in a situation he's never faced before as he waits tables and looks for work.
"I try not to skip my credit card bills, but the electric right now is three months' late. The telephone is two months' late," Moore said.
When Mental Health Plummets With the Stock Market
With the stock market plunging and Americans losing their homes and jobs, it's no surprise that mental health can take a nose-dive as well. In tough economic times, hopelessness and depression can encroach on our energy and optimism.
"It isn't your normal kind of recession, which makes it more fearful and it paralyzes people," said Harvey Brenner, a public health professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, who has long studied the relationship between mental health and recession.
Brenner also said suicide rates can almost become economic indicators.
In Virginia, a suicide hot line said suicide-related calls in July and August were up 62 percent from the same time last year. Though the hot line's operators said the rise is not all due to the economy, call logs indicate that's part of what's going on.
Crisis hot lines around the country have reported recent increases of people concerned about their finances. ComPsych, the largest provider of employee assistance programs, said calls from people asking for help because of stress from financial problems jumped 21 percent in July 2008, from a year earlier. ValueOptions, which also runs employee assistance programs, said people calling to ask for help with financial problems have jumped 89 percent.
"I think the general tone is this sense of despondency," Marlene Zetzer, a psychiatrist from St. Simons Island, Ga., told ABCNews.com this week. "Most people are kind of feeling just a little discouraged and helpless, overwhelmed at what the next step is. They don't know what's going on."
Zetzer, who consults patients in the southwest Georgia health system, said that during the last six months, she's noticed an exponential increase in the number of people who immediately bring up their financial stress, even before they refer to the medical conditions that brought them to the hospital. She said the doctors and nurses she works with are also feeling the blues.
But for those whose finances and lack of job stability are the root of their concerns, it can be exceedingly difficult to pay for the health-care resources that could help them pull through.
In Atlanta, psychologist Erik Fisher said a lot of people who have money stress can't afford therapy. And other patients have had to cut back on their sessions to save money.
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Live PHOTOS: Tattoos in the military
Tale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body Ink
David, who asked that is face not be shown because he is with Special Operations, has his left arm almost entirely covered in tattoos. The designs include rays of light, angels and religious parables about the narrow and wide gates to heaven and hell.
Tale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkDavid, who asked that is face not be shown because he is with Special Operations, has his left arm almost entirely covered in tattoos. The designs include rays of light, angels and religious parables about the narrow and wide gates to heaven and hell.ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkDavid, 26, received his first tattoo when he was 18. He had it covered up with this large cross, which was created to look like it was carved in "old worn wood."ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkRob Laffery, 35, is a tattoo artist at Performance Tattoo in Fayetteville, N.C., and knows where the sensitive spots are for his needle. He had one spot marked on his own wrist. "Yeah, that was a painful spot," he deadpanned.
ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkJeffrey York, a veteran of the Afghan war who is currently assigned to Ft. Bragg, says he wears this statement from Theodore Roosevelt on his leg because it's about "people on the outside judging without being in the arena."
ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body Ink"As my travel and experiences grew, the tattoos grew with them," says Ray, another soldier who's in Special Operations. The burning sun represents life and the tree without leaves represents death. Ray said he saw this tree -- a "perfect tree in the middle of Baghdad" -- and the Kurdish writing below it translates to "I make my living by my weapons."ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkRob Laffery tattoos soldiers at Performance Tattoo in Fayetteville, N.C., which is close to Ft. Bragg. Trends come and go, and lately "zombies are big," he said. He's been tattooing tribal prints for 18 years.ABC NewsTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkAmy Smith, 29, is currently based at Ft. Bragg and has been in the Army for four years. "No place I've been [stationed] has winters so I'm bringing the snow with me," said the native of upstate New York referring to the large blue and black snowflakes tattooed across her back. Smith described the two colorful patterns on her arm as "two finials of fire and smoke--the ying and yang."
Karen Russo/ABCTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body Ink"I wanted my family tattooed on me, but I didn't want a list of names," saidChristina Dion, 33, public affairs specialist at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. So she tattooed the Chinese zodiac characters of her three children's birth years (the years of the snake, ox and goat) onto her back. "They're my everything. They're it. The hard work, determination, motivation and drive. The suck-it-up attitude because I don't want them to have to suck it up. I didn't have the easiest life. I don't want them to grow up like I did."Karen Russo/ABC Tale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkRob Laffery, 35, tattoos soldiers at Performance Tattoo in Fayetteville, N.C., which is close to Ft. Bragg. Trends come and go. Nowadays "zombies are big," he said. "Ouch" is tattooed on his inner wrist: "Yeah that was a painful spot," he deadpanned.
Karen Russo/ABCTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkA soldier who did not want his face shown or be identified beyond his first name of Zach because he is in a special operations had his daughter's feet photocopied from her birth certificate and tattooed onto his arm. "So if I'm not around my family I have a piece of them with me," the 23-year-old soldier from Ashville, N.C., said.
Karen Russo/ABCTale of the Tat: U.S. Military Body InkZach also paid homage to his wife on his arm. "She has a classic beauty to me and I wanted to represent that in a pin-up... And she's so firey. That's why she's on the ammo and the big ol bomb. She's my bombshell," he said smiling. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/9 | {"url": "http://abcnews.go.com/International/Afghanistan/photos/photos-tattoos-military-9269824&page=18", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "abcnews.go.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T09:44:20Z", "digest": "sha1:B4KU5AT33TAD2OIJVRXGCET2732EL2FG"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 4016, 4016.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 4016, 4214.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 4016, 9.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 4016, 28.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 4016, 0.98]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 4016, 295.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 4016, 1.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 4016, 0.37366167]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 4016, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 4016, 0.18012223]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 4016, 0.3805082]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 4016, 0.35863622]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 4016, 0.34737858]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 4016, 0.3049212]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 4016, 0.24605983]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 4016, 0.02251528]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 4016, 0.0308781]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 4016, 0.03859762]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 4016, 0.05567452]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 4016, 0.20235546]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 4016, 0.40883191]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 4016, 4.42877493]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 4016, 0.00107066]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 4016, 5.13881968]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 4016, 702.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 77, 0.0], [77, 329, 1.0], [329, 1100, 1.0], [1100, 1372, 0.0], [1372, 2460, 0.0], [2460, 3344, 1.0], [3344, 3731, 1.0], [3731, 4016, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 77, 0.0], [77, 329, 0.0], [329, 1100, 0.0], [1100, 1372, 0.0], [1372, 2460, 0.0], [2460, 3344, 0.0], [3344, 3731, 0.0], [3731, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 37, 6.0], [37, 77, 8.0], [77, 329, 44.0], [329, 1100, 137.0], [1100, 1372, 47.0], [1372, 2460, 187.0], [2460, 3344, 149.0], [3344, 3731, 69.0], [3731, 4016, 55.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 77, 0.0], [77, 329, 0.0], [329, 1100, 0.00815217], [1100, 1372, 0.0], [1372, 2460, 0.00388727], [2460, 3344, 0.00485437], [3344, 3731, 0.00542005], [3731, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 77, 0.0], [77, 329, 0.0], [329, 1100, 0.0], [1100, 1372, 0.0], [1372, 2460, 0.0], [2460, 3344, 0.0], [3344, 3731, 0.0], [3731, 4016, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 37, 0.21621622], [37, 77, 0.175], [77, 329, 0.01587302], [329, 1100, 0.05706874], [1100, 1372, 0.06617647], [1372, 2460, 0.05882353], [2460, 3344, 0.06108597], [3344, 3731, 0.05167959], [3731, 4016, 0.06315789]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 4016, 0.72646588]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 4016, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 4016, 0.89668846]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 4016, 59.85731812]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 4016, 87.7666784]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 4016, -50.27878859]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 4016, 74.0]], "is_duplicate": false} |
Protests in Turkey
Chaos in Istanbul
Erdem Gunduz stands in a silent protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, June 18, 2013. Gunduz staged an eight-hour silent vigil in Taksim Square, scene of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in recent weeks, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead. Gunduz said he wanted to take a stand against police stopping demonstrations near the square. Marko Djurica/Reuters
Chaos in IstanbulErdem Gunduz stands in a silent protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul, June 18, 2013. Gunduz staged an eight-hour silent vigil in Taksim Square, scene of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in recent weeks, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead. Gunduz said he wanted to take a stand against police stopping demonstrations near the square. Marko Djurica/ReutersChaos in IstanbulTurkish choreographer Erdem Gunduz, center, stands in Taksim square, June 18, 2013. The man stood for several hours unnoticed before his presence on the flashpoint square went viral on the social network Twitter. He was then joined by hundreds of others who in solidarity decided to join his protest by also standing silently.Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/10 | {"url": "http://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/protestors-police-clash-istanbul-19381992?page=2", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "abcnews.go.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T09:30:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BE4FBQR4LBA3EJDKXNJ6V4F64K5LVZGE"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1220, 1220.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1220, 1456.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1220, 4.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1220, 24.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1220, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1220, 275.9]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1220, 0.31696429]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1220, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1220, 0.61033797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1220, 0.05964215]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1220, 0.02982107]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1220, 0.02982107]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1220, 0.00446429]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1220, 0.15625]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1220, 0.4516129]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1220, 5.40860215]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1220, 4.18905562]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1220, 186.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 19, 0.0], [19, 37, 0.0], [37, 434, 0.0], [434, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 19, 0.0], [19, 37, 0.0], [37, 434, 0.0], [434, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 19, 3.0], [19, 37, 3.0], [37, 434, 61.0], [434, 1220, 119.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 19, 0.0], [19, 37, 0.0], [37, 434, 0.01554404], [434, 1220, 0.01564537]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 19, 0.0], [19, 37, 0.0], [37, 434, 0.0], [434, 1220, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 19, 0.10526316], [19, 37, 0.11111111], [37, 434, 0.03274559], [434, 1220, 0.04071247]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1220, 0.98415017]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1220, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1220, 0.74245656]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1220, -50.93588305]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1220, 16.16356805]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1220, 32.5320797]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1220, 10.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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Reporter's Notebook: One Face From Tahrir Square, Cairo
CAIRO, Feb. 3, 2011
By DAVID MUIR
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Sherief Gaberf shows his injuries after being struck in the face by pro-Mubarak forces in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Feb. 2, 2011. He left his studies at the University of Texas to travel to Egypt this week and check on his grandmother and join his friends in protest. Courtesy Sherief Gaber
As so many people tried to get out of Egypt this week, we traveled to Cairo Tuesday on a nearly empty flight.
In the back of the plane, there was a young man from Texas who'd told his university professors that he just had to get home.
"I have some family there, and I want to check on grandma," Sherief Gaber said.
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When our plane landed, Gaber asked us for a ride from the airport, explaining that he had tried to get word to his grandmother and wasn't even sure if she knew he was coming.
On the highway into town, we passed lone cars braving the streets well past curfew time. There were flashing lights, and then the stops -- checkpoints enforced by a citizen's army that had taken hold here.
Neighbors have armed themselves with guns and bats, stopping cars to check IDs and passports.
"I think everyone got afraid of the looting, and so they took to the streets themselves," Gaber said.
"You've never seen anything like this?" I asked him.
"Never, anywhere," he said.
In Climate of Fear, Citizens Set Up Checkpoints
We were stopped more than a dozen times before we finally reached Gaber's grandmother's home. We followed Gaber as he made his way through a familiar iron gate and pressed the buzzer.
"Nonna? It's Sherief," he said.
As we made our way up the stairs, frightened neighbors began shouting from their balconies: Who are you, and who are you here to see?
When we reached Gaber's grandmother's door, she saw her grandson and greeted him with a giant hug. She welcomed the crew from America into her house, too.
Just a short time later, our visit was interrupted by a man who barged in carrying a gun. It was a neighbor, checking up on the grandmother.
Gaber Involved in Clash in Cairo's Tahrir Square
"Has this been a difficult time for Egypt?" I asked the grandmother.
"Very, very," she said. "I can't open or anything. You can't open the door. You act like you're not here. You pretend like you're not home."
Her grandson's visit brought a smile, but he told her he wanted to meet up with friends who had marched in protest that day and were still together that night. Before leaving, Gaber gave his grandma a kiss goodbye.
Today, we heard from Gaber again. He'd e-mailed a photo of himself, his face battered and bloody, but still bearing an unmistakable smile. He told us that he had gone with his friends to Tahrir Square, the epicenter of clashes between anti-Mubarak protesters and crowds who support the embattled president, Tuesday night, .
Gaber told us that he was on the fringe of the square when he was attacked, struck in the face with a stone by a pro-Mubarak demonstrator.
The young man who'd come to Egypt to check on his grandmother was now being cared for by his family. He said he wouldn't go back out again tonight.
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Hurricane Isaac Videos: Anderson Cooper reporting in Louisiana As Tropical Storm Isaac gained strength in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend Anderson flew from the Republican National Convention in Tampa to New Orleans.
On Tuesday, shortly after 11 a.m. CDT Isaac was upgraded to a Category 1 storm according to the National Hurricane Center. At 6:45 p.m. CDT the National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated that Isaac made a first landfall along the coast of southeast Louisiana in the marshland of Plaquemines Parish, southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. After wobbling back over the water near the mouth of the Mississippi River, Isaac then made a second landfall at about 2 a.m. CDT near Port Fourchon, 60 miles southeast of New Orleans, according to an early morning update by the National Hurricane Center.
Watch Anderson's reports below...
7:22 p.m. CDT
10:41 p.m. CDT
Post by: Anderson Cooper Filed under: Hurricane Isaac • Hurricanes • Isaac
Hi Anderson,
Hope you guys are staying warm in the storm. I never did understand something by these media folks. I am sure you guys are paid really well, but do you really have to struggle so much to get the news. Why do you'll stand in the rain and cover the news – I never did understand the concept. You sure are going to show the wind blowing and the rain sweeping....whatever .....but it never makes sense to stand in the pouring rain and talk. I mean, you'll can stand in a room etc and still show us the storm. Never did understand that concept...it is scaring for us and I dont think the public demand is so bad that we want to see you'll being swept in the rain....take care and come back home safe...
August 31, 2012 at 9:05 am | Miseka
Hi Anderson, I wish you can get out before this election and come vist the people that are not spoke about, the people that are not even talked about unless they are speaking about the poor people in the USA! I dont consider myself poor, I work every day. I have a daughter that starts her first year of college this fall and I am pushing on because I would love to see someone from this poor family become successful in the USA. My grandmother worked all of her life and at the age of 87 she cant get a homehealth aid under her health insurance. I have 4 generations of college Grads in this family and why is it that we are still waiting for that American Dream. I pray that someone I am reaching out to will visit my community and see the struggel we the poor people go threw on a daily basis and I dont belive thier is no Rep or Dem that will ever understand or have a clue about we the so called middle class or poor people go threw on a daily basis. AC I think this will be a great story for you and the world to open thier eyes to.
August 29, 2012 at 10:55 pm | Nancy
Great job, as always, CNN! All of you are doing a great job covering the convention AND the hurricane. No one does it better! Keep up the great work!
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2010 Patriarchal Encyclical on Great and Holy Lent
Beloved brothers and sisters, children in the Lord,
Tomorrow, we enter the period of Holy and Great Lent. In the Lenten vespers of Forgiveness chanted this evening, we shall hear the sacred hymnographer urging us to "begin the time of fasting with joy, submitting ourselves to spiritual struggle" in preparing to welcome the great Passion and joyful Resurrection of our divine-human Lord Read more...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Appear on 60 Minutes Program Sunday Dec 13, 2009 Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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Hosted by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the conference will include young men and women from all of the Holy Metropolitanates of the Ecumenical Throne from all around the world, from sister Orthodox Churches, from various Monastic Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods, form other Christian Churches and Confessions, from Orthodox Theological faculties, Academies, Institutes and Seminaries, from International Ecclesiasical Organizations, from International Youth Associations and Cultural Institutions, as well as from the local Christian Churches. The theme of the conference will be "Members of the Church - Citizens of the World." Read more...
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Maryland Public Service Commission says utility customers are getting a break after an unusually cold winter.more Previous 30 Articles Headlines
April 12, 2014 - OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County police say a man is dead after FBI agents opened fire on the person in a busy shopping area in Owings Mills.more Ralph Matthews, Jr. Former AFRO Managing Editor, 86
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April 11, 2014 - Ralph Dawson Matthews Jr., a top-flight journalist who followed in the footsteps of his father as a managing editor of the AFRO American Newspapers, was a friend to Malcolm X and Miles Davis, among others. He died on April 3 at the Adelphi House, an assisted-living facility in Adelphi, Md. He was 86 years old.more Baltimore’s Douglass High Principal Faces Federal Prison for Stealing Food Funds
April 11, 2014 - Antonio T. Hurt, Frederick Douglass High School principal who made national headlines for a dramatic turnaround of the drop-out and suspension-plagued West Baltimore school, pleaded guilty April 10 to stealing nearly $2 million in federal money intended for breakfast and lunch for poor children.more Christopher’s Law Finally Passed This Year
April 09, 2014 - Christopher's Law was passed by the Maryland General Assembly and is awaiting the governor's signature. The legislation requires police officers to be trained in CPR, cultural sensitivity, the proper use of force, and interacting with the physically and mentally disabled. "This is an umbrella of protection," said Chris Brown, 40, for whose son the bill (HB0294/ SB0542) was named.more Chuck Stone, Former AFRO Editor, Civil Rights Journalist
April 09, 2014 - The journalism fraternity is mourning the loss of a veteran newsman, multi-Pulitzer Prize nominee, journalism professor and founder of the National Association of Black Journalists Charles Sumner “Chuck” Stone Jr., who died April 6 at an assisted-living facility in North Carolina at the age of 89.more BLESSING OF THE CITY
April 09, 2014 - Baltimore’s Mayor, Stephanie Rawlings Blake and other political leaders and will be in attendance at the 11th annual ecumenical Palm Sunday event. more Eta Phi Beta Charters Epsilon Epsilon Chapter in Maryland
April 09, 2014 - On March 30, Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Epsilon Epsilon Chapter was chartered at a luncheon at the DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel in Pikesville, Md.more Pumpkin Theatre presents 'Jack & The Beanstalk - The Story of Jack and Daisy'
April 09, 2014 - Pumpkin Theatre continues its 46th season, “Discovering New Friendships Through Familiar Tales,” with Jack & The Beanstalk - The Story of Jack and Daisy. more The Resurrection of State Center
April 09, 2014 - Many argue a large swath of Old West Baltimore –once one of the most vibrant Black communities in America – was dissected and diminished by the city’s attempts at urban renewal from the 1950’s to the early 1970’s. Now the State Center Project some say once the sight of failed public policy hopes to breathe new life into some West Baltimore neighborhoods.more Previous 30 Articles NEWS | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/16 | {"url": "http://afro.com/sections/news/Baltimore/index.htm/story.htm?storyid=80307", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "afro.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:29:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RFFS4WRGK5YR7FILIEZHF3TRWLBJQU3D"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 3248, 3248.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 3248, 5704.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 3248, 13.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 3248, 146.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 3248, 0.92]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 3248, 279.1]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 3248, 0.25310559]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 3248, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 3248, 0.02899657]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 3248, 0.01602442]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 3248, 0.02518123]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 3248, 0.01983976]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 3248, 0.03416149]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 3248, 0.2189441]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 3248, 0.57309942]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 3248, 5.10916179]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 3248, 5.28141805]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 3248, 513.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 35, 0.0], [35, 189, 0.0], [189, 355, 0.0], [355, 579, 0.0], [579, 592, 0.0], [592, 1006, 0.0], [1006, 1367, 0.0], [1367, 1828, 0.0], [1828, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2396, 0.0], [2396, 2636, 0.0], [2636, 2845, 0.0], [2845, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 35, 0.0], [35, 189, 0.0], [189, 355, 0.0], [355, 579, 0.0], [579, 592, 0.0], [592, 1006, 0.0], [1006, 1367, 0.0], [1367, 1828, 0.0], [1828, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2396, 0.0], [2396, 2636, 0.0], [2636, 2845, 0.0], [2845, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 35, 5.0], [35, 189, 22.0], [189, 355, 24.0], [355, 579, 40.0], [579, 592, 3.0], [592, 1006, 69.0], [1006, 1367, 53.0], [1367, 1828, 70.0], [1828, 2169, 53.0], [2169, 2396, 35.0], [2396, 2636, 39.0], [2636, 2845, 31.0], [2845, 3248, 69.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 35, 0.0], [35, 189, 0.0], [189, 355, 0.01234568], [355, 579, 0.03773585], [579, 592, 0.0], [592, 1006, 0.02255639], [1006, 1367, 0.02571429], [1367, 1828, 0.03644647], [1828, 2169, 0.02727273], [2169, 2396, 0.0361991], [2396, 2636, 0.03539823], [2636, 2845, 0.04040404], [2845, 3248, 0.04020101]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 35, 0.0], [35, 189, 0.0], [189, 355, 0.0], [355, 579, 0.0], [579, 592, 0.0], [592, 1006, 0.0], [1006, 1367, 0.0], [1367, 1828, 0.0], [1828, 2169, 0.0], [2169, 2396, 0.0], [2396, 2636, 0.0], [2636, 2845, 0.0], [2845, 3248, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 35, 0.14285714], [35, 189, 0.16883117], [189, 355, 0.11445783], [355, 579, 0.14285714], [579, 592, 0.15384615], [592, 1006, 0.07729469], [1006, 1367, 0.04709141], [1367, 1828, 0.06073753], [1828, 2169, 0.09677419], [2169, 2396, 0.07048458], [2396, 2636, 0.10833333], [2636, 2845, 0.09569378], [2845, 3248, 0.0471464]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 3248, 0.02983052]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 3248, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 3248, 0.90974164]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 3248, -218.70719814]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 3248, -10.84132737]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 3248, 0.28912356]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 3248, 24.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
Black Church ‘Keeper of the Flame’ Gala to Celebrate Obama Second Inauguration
by AFRO Staff African American Church Inaugural Ball (Courtesy Image)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The leaders of African American churches will, once again, convene in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Weekend to commemorate one of the most extraordinary events in American history – the second term and inauguration of President Obama, America’s first president of African descent.
In an inaugural ball to be held Jan. 20, the gala celebration will mark the historic event and honor the Keepers of the Flame recipients, individuals whose lifetime achievements and contributions to society and culture have contributed to the realization of this moment in time.
“For certain, the African American Church must mark this moment with great pride, honor and power. For today, we stand on the shoulders of so many who bled and died for this moment of witness, of which we consecrate with our joy and commitment to continue to fight for equality and justice for all,” according to the organizers’ mission statement on the African American Church Inaugural Ball website.
The ball, to be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington, is a sequel to the premiere event in 2009 and will feature leaders from the religious, civic, business, arts, and entertainment communities.
Themed, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the ball will honor those leaders with the “2013 Keepers of the Flame” Award. The recipients are individuals who have sustained an unshakable commitment to our future and who have earned an undeniable place in the African American book of history. Confirmed honorees include: Muhammad Ali; Bishop George E. Battle, Jr.; Bishop Philip R. Cousin, Sr.; Andraé Crouch; Ed Dwight; Joycelyn Elders, MD; Bishop William H. Graves, Sr.; Rev. Dr. Cynthia Hale; Hugh Masekela; Rev. Dr. Otis J. Moss, Jr.; Jessye Norman; Beny Primm, MD, and Cicely Tyson.
Other honorees to be confirmed include: The Honorable Andrew Young, Hon. William J. Clinton, Ruby Dee, Aretha Franklin, Rev. Dr. Cain Hope Felder, Rev. Dr. Katie Cannon, and Dr. Vernon J. Jordan, Sr.
In 2009, distinguished honorees included: Dr. Maya Angelou, Donna Brazile, Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Dr. Marian Wright Edelman, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Earl Graves, Sr., Rev. Dr. William H. Gray, III, Bishop Barbara Harris, Dr. Dorothy I. Height, The Honorable Alexis Herman, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Congressman John Lewis, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Marc Morial, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Gardner Taylor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker Sr.
“This inauguration is an extraordinary mark in American history, punctuated by those who so gallantly served so we could see such a time,” said Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, II, Inaugural Ball Chair and pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Mt. Vernon, NY. “This is certainly a time when the African American church community can be proud of its contributions to this great country and honor the work that has been done and those who have made an indelible footprint in the sands of history.” The executive producer is Pernessa Seele, founder and CEO of The Balm In Gilead, Inc., the gala’s fundraising beneficiary. The Balm In Gilead, a nonprofit, international organization, is committed to a dynamic, community-driven approach, contributing a lasting response to health disparities and ensuring that African Americans will become fully knowledgeable about the Affordable Care Act. “This African American Church Inaugural Ball not only celebrates history and President Obama’s second term, it also honors the work that he has enacted, such as The Affordable Care Act, an essential tool for decreasing the rates of preventable diseases in African American communities,” Seele said in a statement.
For more information on the African American Church Inaugural Ball, visit www.AACIB.org. For more information on Pernessa Seele and The Balm In Gilead, visit www.balmingilead.org. The Media should contact UniWorld Group, Inc. – Teresa Lyles Holmes, (212) 219-7239, [email protected]; or Camille Gray, (212) 219-7121, [email protected]. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/17 | {"url": "http://afro.com/sections/news/washington/story.htm?storyid=77120", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "afro.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:27:22Z", "digest": "sha1:J4HFMPNJKPH6WZCO6PCHE24RK2ZQRV4N"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 4097, 4097.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 4097, 7206.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 4097, 11.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 4097, 155.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 4097, 0.91]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 4097, 234.3]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 4097, 0.24378698]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 4097, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 4097, 0.04455294]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 4097, 0.02380226]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 4097, 0.02380226]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 4097, 0.04119622]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 4097, 0.0384498]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 4097, 0.03661886]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 4097, 0.02721893]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 4097, 0.23550296]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 4097, 0.53125]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 4097, 5.1203125]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 4097, 5.32736286]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 4097, 640.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 79, 0.0], [79, 149, 0.0], [149, 453, 1.0], [453, 732, 1.0], [732, 1134, 1.0], [1134, 1327, 1.0], [1327, 1907, 1.0], [1907, 2107, 1.0], [2107, 2556, 1.0], [2556, 3751, 1.0], [3751, 4097, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 79, 0.0], [79, 149, 0.0], [149, 453, 0.0], [453, 732, 0.0], [732, 1134, 0.0], [1134, 1327, 0.0], [1327, 1907, 0.0], [1907, 2107, 0.0], [2107, 2556, 0.0], [2556, 3751, 0.0], [3751, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 79, 12.0], [79, 149, 10.0], [149, 453, 44.0], [453, 732, 45.0], [732, 1134, 68.0], [1134, 1327, 32.0], [1327, 1907, 94.0], [1907, 2107, 33.0], [2107, 2556, 69.0], [2556, 3751, 188.0], [3751, 4097, 45.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 79, 0.0], [79, 149, 0.0], [149, 453, 0.0], [453, 732, 0.00729927], [732, 1134, 0.0], [1134, 1327, 0.02162162], [1327, 1907, 0.00735294], [1907, 2107, 0.0], [2107, 2556, 0.00977995], [2556, 3751, 0.0], [3751, 4097, 0.06289308]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 79, 0.0], [79, 149, 0.0], [149, 453, 0.0], [453, 732, 0.0], [732, 1134, 0.0], [1134, 1327, 0.0], [1327, 1907, 0.0], [1907, 2107, 0.0], [2107, 2556, 0.0], [2556, 3751, 0.0], [3751, 4097, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 79, 0.11392405], [79, 149, 0.17142857], [149, 453, 0.08223684], [453, 732, 0.01433692], [732, 1134, 0.02487562], [1134, 1327, 0.02072539], [1327, 1907, 0.09827586], [1907, 2107, 0.135], [2107, 2556, 0.14699332], [2556, 3751, 0.04769874], [3751, 4097, 0.08959538]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 4097, 0.11022538]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 4097, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 4097, 0.65863073]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 4097, -196.55252342]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 4097, 10.95319504]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 4097, -44.92389651]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 4097, 74.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
ShareThis AFT and members strongly support Chicago Teachers Union
The AFT and our members around the country stand firmly with the Chicago Teachers Union and will support its members in their efforts to secure a fair contract that will enable them to give their students the best opportunities, AFT president Randi Weingarten says.
CTU members went out on strike Sept. 10, marking the first time in 25 years the union has taken such an action. "No one wants to strike, and no one strikes without cause," Weingarten says. "In this instance, it comes on the heels of numerous steps that left CTU members feeling disrespected, not the least of which was the district's unilateral decision to strip teachers and paraprofessionals of an agreed-upon 4 percent raise. The strike comes only after long and intense negotiations failed to lead to an agreement that would give CTU members the tools they need to help all their students succeed.
"CTU members—the women and men who spend every day with Chicago's children—want to have their voice and experience respected and valued. They want to be treated as equal partners in making sure every student in Chicago succeeds. That has been the CTU's guiding philosophy throughout these negotiations, and it remains so on the picket lines.
"The Chicago Teachers Union is the AFT's Local No. 1. The AFT was founded in Chicago 100 years ago by teachers determined to have a voice in the quality of their workplace and the quality of the instruction provided to their students. They knew then, as CTU members know now, that collective action was the only way to improve their schools, their communities and their students' education. We know that the members of the CTU are prepared to stay on the picket lines. We also know they would rather be on the job, in the classroom educating their students.
"CTU president Karen Lewis has made clear that the CTU is prepared to continue negotiations during the strike. Mayor Rahm Emanuel echoed that sentiment on behalf of the district. The students, teachers and educational support staff—and the city of Chicago—deserve a school system that works for everyone. In the end, that is what this strike is all about."
AFT members can show their solidarity with their colleagues in Chicago in a number of ways:
Wear red on Sept. 12 to show your support for the CTU and strong public schools in Chicago. Email us photos of your group.
Send expressions of support to CTU members by posting a message on the union's Facebook page.
Letters can be sent to:
Karen Lewis, President, Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1Attention: Audrey May222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 400Chicago, IL 60654
Donations to the CTU Solidarity Fund can be mailed to the address above or made online.
If you are interested in volunteering your time to help CTU, sign up here.
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...catching myself at Recoleta Cemetary
...tweeting
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...linking
My Yelp Page
UCLA Extension
L.A. Conservancy
...blogging
Belated resolutions for 2011
(posted here in order to make them real)1) Travel more.Last year was a banner year for me in this area (10 trips, 2 of those long-haul international ones), but I'm still not feeling like this is enough. Maybe there is a magic number that creates the perfect equilibrium between being home and being away, but so far, I haven't hit it. And actually, I kind of hope I never do. The day I am not up for a trip is the day I am not alive.2) Speaking of home, change where that is.I love L.A., but I think I'm done with it. I've been here for 12 years straight (this is alarming), and I'm bored and need a challenge. One of the things I learned from my Japan trip is how exhilarating (and sometimes, frustrating) it is to be in a place that you don't know so well, figuring it out as you go along and reinventing yourself in the process. In any event, I want that and I want it BAD. I've got some possible solutions in regards to this, and I'll reveal more as they become more concrete.3) Strengthen my relationships with the people I care about.The first two resolutions seem to counter this one, especially since most of you know how awful I am at staying in touch on a regular basis. (sorry) But, this is a perennial resolution because it's important. I tend to get caught up in my own head too often and really, it's the other people in my life who keep me balanced and happy. To be more specific, the people who matter to me know me well and somehow still manage to love me for who I am. They are positive forces in my life and will support me completely despite numerous missteps and errors, and I will give all my love to them in return. Full stop.4) Think less and create more.There was a time when I spent every waking moment in front of a typewriter (yes, that long ago), writing and editing stories and essays until every word and sentence and paragraph was perfect. A few years later, I dedicated all my energy and resources to learning how to photograph pictures as I saw them in my head. After that, I lost hours and days while my eyes were glued to a computer screen, figuring out how to make words and images come together in a meaningful graphic package. In each of those times, I was in a constant state of creative flow and spent the least amount of time thinking myself into a corner. And I was happy because I had a purpose in those moments. Here's to finding that again.5) Get enough sleep, drink more water, and continue to eat meals that also qualify as food porn.I joked that the first half of last year was like the foodie version of having only six months to live. This was in anticipation of the austerity measures that I thought were going to be necessary in the wake of graduate school. But, a funny thing happened--I didn't stop. Sure, I wasn't going to Providence every night, but I was finding ways to make meals memorable. Whether that just entailed a perfect drizzle of honey on a roasted fig at home or a multi-course splurge at an actual restaurant, I made it work and will continue to make it work into 2011. Posted by
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This past Saturday, I checked out the Renegade Craft Fair at the California Market Center downtown. In addition to a vintage typewriter key pendant, I picked up a poster by graphic designer, Frank Chimero, which really resonated with me in so many ways:I love the style and colors (it's pretty much the palette of my bedroom, where it already hangs), and the clever design and message is spot on. Sometimes, I really do have to remind myself that the only thing keeping me from my ideal career/life is actually ME.
Note: Hiking, on hold
For the past several weekends, I've been in the midst of moving, so I haven't had a chance to embark on any new hiking adventures, but I hope to start up again soon, especially since the June Gloom is keeping the temperatures pretty moderate without too much sun exposure. The hike that's next on my list is in Griffith Park (the one that starts in lush Ferndell and ends at the Observatory). I saw it (along with The Trails cafe) featured on "Visiting ...With Huell Howser" and have been wanting to hike it ever since. As a teaser, a couple of weeks ago, I stopped at the cafe and had a huge slice of apple pie, which didn't wow me (not sweet enough and a little dry), but I still want to go back and try the other pastries (I hear the scones are great) and food items (lots of veggie options, including an avocado sandwich that sounds amazing). The location is very pretty and peaceful (as long as there aren't too many screaming children), and I like the idea of sitting on the picnic benches enjoying some nouvelle snack bar food under the trees.
Huell Howser,
Cannoli Watch: Masa
I had heard so much about the chocolate croissant bread pudding at Masa that I was determined to have it. However, after consuming lots of cuban rolls and a couple slices of the Chicago-style pizza (see Must Try), I couldn't even bear to think about having more bread. But, me being me, I still wanted to have a sweet cap to my meal, especially since the other dessert on the menu was a chocolate chip cannoli (!):This cannoli was no bijou reimaging; it was 5-6 inches of the real deal. The ricotta filling was very good and not too heavy (for ricotta), and while I wish there were more chocolate chips to add a little texture and more interest to the filling, chocolate was fully represented in the generous glazing. I really liked this and it definitely whets my appetite for Masa's hallowed bread pudding.
cannoli,
Must Try: Chicago-Style Pizza at Masa
I went to Masa on Friday night, and the Chicago-style pizza has been on my mind as strong undercurrent since then. I have shared my experience with as many people as possible, extolling the tastiness of the cornmeal crust, which only got better after reheating on the second day. I have had daydreams about the garlicky tomato sauce and the layer of cheese peeking out from underneath. And I think that if I decided to ever really let myself go, I couldn't think of a better way to do it than to eat this pizza everyday. (Actually, the best way would probably be a weekly routine of Masa, Pie 'N Burger, Honey's Kettle, Hurry Curry, and Cici's.)I had the California Vegetable pizza, which had Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomatoes, and next time, I'd like to try the Mushroom and Olive. I suppose it's a good thing that I don't eat beef/pork, since I can only imagine how filling the meat pizzas are. The key is to try not to eat too much before the pizza. This proves to be a bit of a feat, since it takes 40 minutes, during which you have to resist various appetizers, salads and freshly-baked Cuban rolls (which thankfully, don't come automatically.) Good luck with that.
Must Try,
Hike #7: Echo Mountain via the Sam Merrill Trail
Two weekends ago, I (along with TB) went on the toughest hike yet (at least, for me): Echo Mountain via the Sam Merrill Trail in Altadena. This hike is about 2.5 miles one-way up a sunny and switchback-heavy trail with a total elevation gain of about 1,400 feet:When you get to the top of Echo Mountain, you can explore the ruins of a turn of the century (1900s) resort:...and the railway that took guests up to it:Before descending or continuing the three miles further to the top of Mount Lowe, you can read both the historic and intepretive signs scattered around the site and relax in several shady picnic areas:My favorite part was this:It's not everyday that you get to hear your own yodeling echoing throughout the San Gabriel Mountains:One of the best things about doing a strenuous hike is that you really have carte blanche to eat as much as you want for lunch. We did just that at the plain-looking Pie 'N Burger, a Pasadena institution. I had been meaning to go there for quite a while since I found out that they did turkey burgers (I don't eat regular burgers) and that it was mostly counter seating (I love eating at counters!)After 3 hours of hiking, my burger definitely hit the spot. TB said the burger reminded him of a Big Mac, but better. (I don't think I can even remember what a Big Mac tastes like, but I'm assuming that they would be similar because of the Thousand Island dressing.) Anyway, the showstopper (and possible heartstopper) was the Dutch Apple Pie: crumbly cinammon topping, warm and not too sweet apple filling, buttery crust and generous scoops of French Vanilla ice cream. (TB got the rhubarb pie.) In any event, they have more than a dozen kinds of pie (depending on what's in season) at Pie 'N Burger, and I can't wait to try every single one.
Hikes #5 & #6: Franklin Canyon Park Hastain Trail and Elysian Park Wildflower Trail
Two weeks ago, I went to Franklin Canyon Park to try out the Hastain Trail. Unfortunately, I didn't complete this trail. All I'll say regarding this is don't ever try to do a hike when you're hungry, thirsty and hot with no way of fixing any of those conditions. It wasn't a total loss as I still got a good hour of hiking in (most of it spent getting to the actual trailhead since I parked in the upper park as opposed to the lower park.)In any event, last weekend's hike at Elysian Park was much more successful. The weather was cloudy and mild, plus I was much better prepared. As someone who is supposedly very knowledgeable about L.A., I'm ashamed to say that this was my first time in the actual park (of course, I've been to many, many Dodgers games) and that I had no idea how nice it is, despite being so close to the rest of the city:I'll definitely come back especially since I want to check out the small arboretum on the grounds. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/19 | {"url": "http://aimlessidling.blogspot.com/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "aimlessidling.blogspot.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:14:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7VPL7ZPHOP6TLGCDJDHWDLGLRSIJX22A"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 9762, 9762.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 9762, 11001.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 9762, 25.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 9762, 154.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 9762, 0.98]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 9762, 316.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 9762, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 9762, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 9762, 0.0]], 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Rogue 5-string
redwoodmike
NewUsername: redwoodmikePost Number: 6Registered: 9-2008Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 11:11 am: Hello...I have a 1996 Rogue 5-string that I want to sell. I put it up on Craigslist in the SF Bay area at a price of $1,700 and was told by a couple of people that my asking price was too low...also got some guys in Russia who wanted to buy it on the spot... I've had a difficult time determining the value of this instrument. It's in great playing condition, however there is some buckle rash and a small ding here and there...can anyone give me some advice here, or steer me in a direction? Your help is much appreciated...
stout71
Intermediate MemberUsername: stout71Post Number: 151Registered: 7-2011Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 11:37 am: I'm no Rogue expert, but I'd guess that's too low as well. I just did a search in the Swap Shop section and the most recent entry is from around 2008. In 2006 there was a post with a reasonable asking price reference of $2500, but I didn't check to see if it was a 4 or 5-string. It's no secret that Alembics hold their values about as well as a new Ford pickup (has absolutely nothing to do with quality - well maybe the Ford), but if it was $2500 then, it's probably the same or more now. Demand drives the price. You're only going to get what someone else is willing to pay for it, but if you're getting immediate offers (from anyone) step back and re-evaluate. If nothing else, start high and step it down in small increments. My two cents.
manbass7
JuniorUsername: manbass7Post Number: 33Registered: 10-2010Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 11:41 am: Hi I bought an used one two month ago for 1850 usd from www.jivesound.com But there is another to sell in Germany for 4300 EUR www. station-music.de Could we have some pics pleasr ? Txs
NewUsername: redwoodmikePost Number: 7Registered: 9-2008Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 12:07 pm: Here are some photos as requested...
jagerphan84
Advanced MemberUsername: jagerphan84Post Number: 314Registered: 10-2003Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 2:15 pm: Nice bass! I haven't watched eBay/craigslist too closely lately, but I would think $2000-$2800 depending on condition for a Rogue 5. Yours looks to have a very nice grain on the top wood, which might command a few extra bucks as well.
MemberUsername: ojoPost Number: 71Registered: 3-2008Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 3:29 pm: FWIW, I think $1700 is low for one of these, but I'm getting the impression that the market has changed for these. From what I remember, up until I picked up mine early last year, Rogue's were rare on the used market, and were tough to touch for under 3k. I got mine for less than that, and thought it was a great deal. Two were up for sale on Talkbass at the end of last year. One went for $2700 on ebay, the other was $1900. So, who knows what they're going for now. Based on what I've seen lately, including the post above, I'd guess you could probably price it around $2000, and see what happens. Heck, post it for $2500, and see what happens. If you get no interest, drop the price.
xlrogue6
Advanced MemberUsername: xlrogue6Post Number: 265Registered: 8-2002Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 3:43 pm: Used instrument value varies both geographically and chronologically. Craigslist can tell you what their readership in your area will pay for it, i.e., list it at your ideal price and see if you get any real responses. If not, drop the price and try it again, repeat until you get response. My experience with Craigslist is that you'll tend to net something at the (very) low end of the market.
MemberUsername: ojoPost Number: 72Registered: 3-2008Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 3:47 pm: Agreed, there is a (mostly) unspoken expectation that the craigslist is meant for deals. If you want top prices, hit ebay, or other forums. Doesn't stop me from trying though. Joe
NewUsername: redwoodmikePost Number: 8Registered: 9-2008Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 2:38 am: Thanks, everyone...I really appreciate your input. I'm going to try my luck with Craigslist and have relisted my Rogue here http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/msg/3900981018.html | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/21 | {"url": "http://alembic.com/cgi-bin/alembic-club/discus.cgi?pg=prev&topic=393&page=156851", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "alembic.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:25:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ML7WJZBKJMFLI5JU6JOPRVEZA2BAHPJ7"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 4179, 4179.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 4179, 4834.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 4179, 15.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 4179, 43.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 4179, 0.97]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 4179, 326.3]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 4179, 0.3869969]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 4179, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 4179, 0.06294354]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 4179, 0.0382598]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 4179, 0.02468374]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 4179, 0.03455724]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 4179, 0.03949398]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 4179, 0.02373581]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 4179, 0.13333333]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 4179, 0.28379773]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 4179, 0.48359486]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 4179, 4.62339515]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 4179, 0.00722394]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 4179, 5.39706087]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 4179, 701.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 15, 0.0], [15, 27, 0.0], [27, 655, 1.0], [655, 663, 0.0], [663, 1524, 1.0], [1524, 1533, 0.0], [1533, 1823, 0.0], [1823, 1962, 1.0], [1962, 1974, 0.0], [1974, 2325, 1.0], [2325, 3110, 1.0], [3110, 3119, 0.0], [3119, 3626, 1.0], [3626, 3903, 0.0], [3903, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 15, 0.0], [15, 27, 0.0], [27, 655, 0.0], [655, 663, 0.0], [663, 1524, 0.0], [1524, 1533, 0.0], [1533, 1823, 0.0], [1823, 1962, 0.0], [1962, 1974, 0.0], [1974, 2325, 0.0], [2325, 3110, 0.0], [3110, 3119, 0.0], [3119, 3626, 0.0], [3626, 3903, 0.0], [3903, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 15, 2.0], [15, 27, 1.0], [27, 655, 113.0], [655, 663, 1.0], [663, 1524, 156.0], [1524, 1533, 1.0], [1533, 1823, 46.0], [1823, 1962, 18.0], [1962, 1974, 1.0], [1974, 2325, 55.0], [2325, 3110, 147.0], [3110, 3119, 1.0], [3119, 3626, 83.0], [3626, 3903, 43.0], [3903, 4179, 33.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 15, 0.07692308], [15, 27, 0.0], [27, 655, 0.04222973], [655, 663, 0.28571429], [663, 1524, 0.04645477], [1524, 1533, 0.125], [1533, 1823, 0.09926471], [1823, 1962, 0.128], [1962, 1974, 0.18181818], [1974, 2325, 0.08787879], [2325, 3110, 0.04993252], [3110, 3119, 0.125], [3119, 3626, 0.03726708], [3626, 3903, 0.06225681], [3903, 4179, 0.09960159]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 15, 0.0], [15, 27, 0.0], [27, 655, 0.0], [655, 663, 0.0], [663, 1524, 0.0], [1524, 1533, 0.0], [1533, 1823, 0.0], [1823, 1962, 0.0], [1962, 1974, 0.0], [1974, 2325, 0.0], [2325, 3110, 0.0], [3110, 3119, 0.0], [3119, 3626, 0.0], [3626, 3903, 0.0], [3903, 4179, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 15, 0.06666667], [15, 27, 0.0], [27, 655, 0.03343949], [655, 663, 0.0], [663, 1524, 0.029036], [1524, 1533, 0.0], [1533, 1823, 0.05862069], [1823, 1962, 0.0647482], [1962, 1974, 0.0], [1974, 2325, 0.04273504], [2325, 3110, 0.03566879], [3110, 3119, 0.0], [3119, 3626, 0.02761341], [3626, 3903, 0.0433213], [3903, 4179, 0.04710145]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 4179, 0.019629]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 4179, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 4179, 0.03227562]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 4179, -364.43314952]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 4179, -131.56935186]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 4179, -451.31232918]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 4179, 49.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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History of The Eagles
The Story of an American Band
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Category: Personality DVD
Format: 3 Blu-ray Discs
This 3 Disc Blu-ray in 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo is packaged in a six-panel digipak with accompanying photo booklet. It includes 4 hours of never before seen material from the past 40 years. Part One explores the creation and rise to fame in the 1970’s through their breakup in 1980. Part Two details the band’s reunion in 1994 through the Hell Freezes Over tour to present day. The bonus disc includes an exclusive concert: Eagles Live at the Capital Centre March 1977. Directed by Alison Ellwood, along with Producer and Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This disc is a high-definition disc and is compatible only with Blu-ray players. It will not play on a standard DVD player. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/22 | {"url": "http://alfred.com/Products/History-of-The-Eagles--40-581799.aspx", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "alfred.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:22:55Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5C5F6SI4VFN3I6EKYW6A3D4QJF4PIVL"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 864, 864.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 864, 1960.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 864, 7.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 864, 55.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 864, 0.91]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 864, 199.2]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 864, 0.27374302]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 864, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 864, 0.02582496]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 864, 0.03443329]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 864, 0.05164993]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 864, 0.02234637]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 864, 0.20670391]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 864, 0.70833333]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 864, 4.84027778]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 864, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 864, 4.42779454]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 864, 144.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 29, 0.0], [29, 51, 0.0], [51, 81, 0.0], [81, 97, 0.0], [97, 123, 0.0], [123, 147, 0.0], [147, 864, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 29, 0.0], [29, 51, 0.0], [51, 81, 0.0], [81, 97, 0.0], [97, 123, 0.0], [123, 147, 0.0], [147, 864, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 29, 5.0], [29, 51, 4.0], [51, 81, 6.0], [81, 97, 2.0], [97, 123, 3.0], [123, 147, 4.0], [147, 864, 120.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 29, 0.0], [29, 51, 0.0], [51, 81, 0.0], [81, 97, 0.61538462], [97, 123, 0.0], [123, 147, 0.04761905], [147, 864, 0.03142857]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 29, 0.0], [29, 51, 0.0], [51, 81, 0.0], [81, 97, 0.0], [97, 123, 0.0], [123, 147, 0.0], [147, 864, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 29, 0.13793103], [29, 51, 0.13636364], [51, 81, 0.13333333], [81, 97, 0.0625], [97, 123, 0.19230769], [123, 147, 0.125], [147, 864, 0.06834031]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 864, 0.0337671]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 864, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 864, 0.08807462]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 864, -91.30245395]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 864, -16.54000349]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 864, 4.17547219]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 864, 9.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
algebraicthunk.net/ blog/ entry/ Close Encounters of the Automotive Kind
I got run over by a car on Wednesday.
Well, that's an exaggeration. My foot got run over by a car on Wednesday. I was trying to cross, in a crosswalk, in front of a red SUV that was stopped at a stop sign (my first mistake), when the driver suddenly decided to make a quick right turn. Luckily, I saw him start to do it and was able to jump out of the way of his vehicle -- except that I couldn't get my left foot out of the way in time. THUMP. And a few seconds later there was a SMACK as his passenger-side mirror creamed me, snapped off, and fell into the road.
The driver immediately realized what had happened and stopped to apologize. He offered me a ride; after quickly checking that my foot was NOT a mess of broken bones or a bloody pulp, I asked him to drive me to the bus stop. I was pretty shaken up from having just escaped death or major bodily injury by a matter of inches, so I didn't get his insurance information, name, phone number, or even license plate. Second mistake.
So, I got on the bus, flipped open my laptop to see if I could play a video game or something to calm down, and discovered that the screen of my practically new laptop was smashed. Probably it got hit by the passenger mirror -- and since I have no idea who hit me, I can't even politely ask him to pay for replacing it, let alone demand.
That's the bad news. The good news is that I went to a doctor and got a confirmation (with xrays) that no bones are broken in my foot. My foot and back are sore, but they're already quite a bit better than they were (I'm barely limping at all now) and the doctor said they should be fine in a week or two if I take it easy.
I suppose the whole thing was my fault, really; yeah, I had the legal right-of-way, but I should know by now that this is a meaningless concept; a driver who isn't signalling to you is always a potential hazard, especially in Seattle at rush hour.
The upshot of this, for people seeing this on Planet Debian, is that I probably won't be doing as much Debian work in the near future. I was using my laptop on the bus to catch up on emails and work on "easy" bugs, and I don't have the money to replace it right now (I probably won't until at least January, according to my back-of-the-envelope figuring). I can get some work done on weekends, but at an even more reduced pace than I've been able to since I got a paying job. Last edited Wed 28 Nov 2007 04:01:16 PM UTC | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/23 | {"url": "http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/2006-11-12--10:21:00/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "algebraicthunk.net", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:38:46Z", "digest": "sha1:POIVFBPF7OIAJASYZ6FT6P5JTBHVD4PO"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 2493, 2493.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 2493, 2534.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 2493, 8.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 2493, 8.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 2493, 0.99]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 2493, 249.3]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 2493, 0.48217317]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 2493, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 2493, 0.028125]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 2493, 0.028125]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 2493, 0.028125]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 2493, 0.028125]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 2493, 0.0125]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 2493, 0.01041667]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 2493, 0.0125]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 2493, 0.05093379]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 2493, 0.15110357]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 2493, 0.54132231]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 2493, 3.96694215]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 2493, 5.09869724]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 2493, 484.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 73, 0.0], [73, 111, 1.0], [111, 638, 1.0], [638, 1064, 1.0], [1064, 1402, 1.0], [1402, 1726, 1.0], [1726, 1974, 1.0], [1974, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 73, 0.0], [73, 111, 0.0], [111, 638, 0.0], [638, 1064, 0.0], [1064, 1402, 0.0], [1402, 1726, 0.0], [1726, 1974, 0.0], [1974, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 73, 9.0], [73, 111, 9.0], [111, 638, 106.0], [638, 1064, 78.0], [1064, 1402, 67.0], [1402, 1726, 68.0], [1726, 1974, 45.0], [1974, 2493, 102.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 73, 0.0], [73, 111, 0.0], [111, 638, 0.0], [638, 1064, 0.0], [1064, 1402, 0.0], [1402, 1726, 0.0], [1726, 1974, 0.0], [1974, 2493, 0.02409639]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 73, 0.0], [73, 111, 0.0], [111, 638, 0.0], [638, 1064, 0.0], [1064, 1402, 0.0], [1402, 1726, 0.0], [1726, 1974, 0.0], [1974, 2493, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 73, 0.05479452], [73, 111, 0.05263158], [111, 638, 0.0398482], [638, 1064, 0.02112676], [1064, 1402, 0.01775148], [1402, 1726, 0.01851852], [1726, 1974, 0.01612903], [1974, 2493, 0.03853565]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 2493, 0.26368332]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 2493, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 2493, 0.04433215]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 2493, 25.93885441]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 2493, 19.30024393]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 2493, -235.20033159]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 2493, 22.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
This blog is dedicated to those that truly bring a story to life: The Villains! In movies, comics, games, books, even in real life, villains make everything possible. So now we've decided to pay tribute to all the great villains of the world. We've come together to showcase the creativity and imagination that only great villains can inspire.
To the villain in all of us.
3:25 am - Thu, May 2, 2013
Hela : by Adi Granov | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/24 | {"url": "http://all-about-villains.tumblr.com/post/49408798689/hela-by-adi-granov", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "all-about-villains.tumblr.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:14:53Z", "digest": "sha1:RGDIX63RHFQHKJR42GOFHWQCPRFKZBEO"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 420, 420.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 420, 640.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 420, 4.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 420, 13.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 420, 0.93]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 420, 261.2]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 420, 0.35416667]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 420, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 420, 0.0797546]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 420, 0.22916667]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 420, 0.73333333]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 420, 4.34666667]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 420, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 420, 3.83806776]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 420, 75.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 344, 1.0], [344, 373, 1.0], [373, 400, 0.0], [400, 420, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 344, 0.0], [344, 373, 0.0], [373, 400, 0.0], [400, 420, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 344, 58.0], [344, 373, 7.0], [373, 400, 6.0], [400, 420, 4.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 344, 0.0], [344, 373, 0.0], [373, 400, 0.38095238], [400, 420, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 344, 0.0], [344, 373, 0.0], [373, 400, 0.0], [400, 420, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 344, 0.01744186], [344, 373, 0.03448276], [373, 400, 0.07407407], [400, 420, 0.15]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 420, 0.04159027]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 420, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 420, 0.00011384]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 420, -20.09373336]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 420, -6.21615321]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 420, -38.56625815]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 420, 6.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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No Ben means no win for Steelers
By Buck Frank ([email protected])
Save | PITTSBURGH - It was a typical Steelers-Bal-timore Ravens game Sunday night. Neither team was able to muster much offense, the defenses delivered big hits and didn't allow many points, and several players left the game bruised and battered. And, in what also has become the norm, the Steelers couldn't deliver a victory with starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger out of the game. Article Photos
All Mirror photos by J.D. CavrichByron Leftwich gets sacked by the Ravens defense.
Ben Roethlisberger watches from the sideline.
The Ravens strengthened their lead in the AFC North Division, improving to 8-2, by stopping the Roethlisberger-less Steelers, 13-10, at Heinz Field. The Steelers had their four-game winning streak snapped and fell to 6-4. "Tough football game - nip and tuck,'' Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. "The difference is obviously that we didn't find a significant play, particularly in the waning moments and in any of the three phases to be the difference, to put points on the board and allow us to get out of the stadium with the win.'' The Steelers offense looked helpless at times with Byron Leftwich under center and minus Roethlisberger and receiver Antonio Brown. Leftwich completed less than 50 percent of his passes (18-of-39) and finished with a quarterback rating of 51.3. The running game provided a little help with the rotation of Jonathan Dwyer and Rashard Mendenhall gaining 88 yards on 23 carries. But the Steelers were unspectacular on third down, converting just five of 17 chances against a Ravens defense that was ranked 28th out of 32 in the NFL and was without leader Ray Lewis. "We didn't execute on third downs as we could have,'' Steelers left tackle Max Starks said. "We missed little assignments and had some mistakes, more so than what [the Ravens] did in this game.'' The Steelers defense delivered a quality performance by holding the Ravens to just 200 total yards and stopping them on 11-of-14 third-down chances. Baltimore's offense only scored six points, and both of the field goals came after the Steelers offense committed turnovers. But as well as the Steelers defense played, Pittsburgh's special teams unit gave up the big play of the game by allowing Baltimore's Jacoby Jones to return a punt 63 yards for a score in the first quarter. The touchdown by Jones was his third of the season and second in the last two weeks. "Our special teams guys are upset about it,'' Steelers linebacker Larry Foote said. "We will look at it tomorrow and go to work.'' The Steelers offense actually got off to a good start and wasted little time putting points on the board. They received the opening kickoff and immediately gained 42 yards when Baltimore cornerback Cary Williams interfered on a deep pass to Mike Wallace. After a 7-yard David Gilreath run on an end-around, Leftwich escaped out of the pocket and outran Terrell Suggs down the right sideline, splitting two defenders and stumbling into the end zone for a 31-yard scoring run. The Ravens, though, cut their deficit to 7-3 a little later on a Justin Tucker 26-yard field that was set up by a Wallace fumble that Baltimore's Ed Reed scooped up and returned 17 yards to the Steelers' 12-yard line. The Ravens then gained a 10-7 advantage before the first quarter ended when Jones fielded Drew Butler's punt, sprinted up the middle and outran Butler to the end zone. "They did a nice job,'' Tomlin said. "They double-viced our gunners there, and when they do that, the tackle has to come from the core of the punt formation and it didn't. But nice execution by them - obviously a significant football play.'' The Ravens missed a chance to build on their lead at the beginning of the second quarter when Tucker was wide right on a 41-yard field-goal attempt, and the Steelers trailed by three points at halftime. A promising Steelers drive at the beginning of the third quarter was abruptly ended when Baltimore's Corey Graham picked off Leftwich in Ravens territory. The Ravens didn't waste the opportunity, and Tucker's 39-yard field goal extended their lead to 13-7. The Steelers offense seemed to gain some momentum near the end of the third quarter. Backed by strong runs from Jonathan Dwyer and a 31-yard play in which Leftwich connected with Emmanuel Sanders and Reed was called for a helmet-to-helmet hit, the Steelers marched 80 yards and cut their deficit to 13-10 with a 22-yard Shaun Suisham field goal. The Steelers settled for the field goal after they just missed a touchdown when Wallace couldn't get both of his feet inbounds in the end zone on a 4-yard pass. "I thought it was good,'' Leftwich said. "I thought it was a touchdown when I let it go.'' But the Steelers never got into scoring position again, having two fourth-quarter drives ended near midfield by Ravens sacks. The Steelers, out of timeouts, couldn't pull out a miracle when they had the ball with one minute remaining in the game and lost for the fifth time to the Ravens with Roethlisberger on the sideline. "I think it's two teams that play very similar styles,'' Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "They're two very rugged teams. They're always two good defenses. We're still in that category now. It's a great rivalry.'' The rivalry will continue in two weeks when the teams meet again in Baltimore. Whether or not Roethlisberger will be able to play in that game is still questionable. The Steelers play in Cleveland next Sunday. "We are just focused on correcting our mistakes from tonight and getting back on the field next Sunday and getting a win,'' Steelers tight end Heath Miller said. © Copyright 2014 The Altoona Mirror. All rights reserved. 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Africa in Western media
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Question: Where did dale earnhardt jr finish in todays nascar race? Answer: Earnhardt started and finished in 20th place. Jeff Gordon came in 1st. AnswerParty
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Jeffery Michael "Jeff" Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He drives the No. 24 Chevrolet SS for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.Gordon started his racing career in the Busch Series with Hugh Connerty Racing, followed by Bill Davis Racing, winning three races, and joined Hendrick Motorsports in 1993. From 1995 to 2001, he has been a four-time Sprint Cup champion, and has won the Daytona 500 three times. He is third on the all-time Cup wins list, with 88 career wins, and has the most wins in NASCAR's modern era (1972–present). Gordon's 74 pole positions lead all active drivers, and is third all-time; Gordon won at least one pole in 21 consecutive seasons, a NASCAR record. He is also the active iron man leader for consecutive races participated in. In 2009, Gordon became the first NASCAR driver to reach $100 million USD in career winnings.
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Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing or automobile racing) is a sport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. There are numerous different categories of auto racing.
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Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Traditionally, races are run on oval tracks measuring approximately 0.25 to 2.66 miles (0.4 to 4.3 kilometers). NASCAR is the world's largest governing body for stock car racing, and its Sprint Cup Series is the de facto premier series of stock car racing. Top level races are 200 to 600 miles (322 to 966 km) in length.Average speeds in the top classes are usually 70–80% of comparable levels of open wheel racing at the same tracks. Some stock cars may reach speeds in excess of 200 mph (322 km/h) at tracks such as Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. These tracks have come to be known as "restrictor plate tracks", a name that is derived from the "restrictor plate" device that was designed to limit top speeds to approximately 192 mph (309 km/h) on such tracks.
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Dale Earnhardt Details
1979 Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year
2001 Winston Cup Series Most Popular Driver (posthumously)
Named as one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers (1998)Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001) was an American race car driver and team owner, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR. Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series (later the Sprint Cup Series).
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Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Details
From 1980 to 2009, Dale Earnhardt, Inc. (DEI) operated as a NASCAR-related organization in Mooresville, North Carolina, United States. The company was founded by Dale Earnhardt and his wife, Teresa Earnhardt. Earnhardt was a seven-time Winston Cup champion. He died in a crash on the closing lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. Despite his ownership of the DEI racing team, Earnhardt never drove for his team in the Winston Cup; instead he raced for his long-time mentor and backer Richard Childress at RCR. In the late 2000s, DEI suffered critical financial difficulties when Dale Earnhardt, Jr. left and Anheuser-Busch and the United States Army moved their sponsorships to Gillett Evernham Motorsports and the then newly formed Stewart-Haas Racing, respectively; consequently, DEI merged with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2009 to form Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.DEI continues to celebrate the life and legacy of Earnhardt through an annual celebration of his birthday, April 29 (Dale Earnhardt Day). DEI maintains a showroom where fans can purchase memorabilia and other goods and pursues partnerships which bring tribute to Earnhardt's memory. The DEI campus is open to visitors from Monday to Friday (in most weeks and on some weekends when there are races). Fans can also join the official "Dale Earnhardt fan club" (Club E), to garner insider information and 'behind the scenes' experiences.
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Daytona 500 Details
First Annual 500 Mile International Sweepstakes (1959)
Second Annual 500 Mile International Sweepstakes (1960)
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Daytona 500 by Dodge
Daytona 500 by Toyota
(2007)The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long (805 km) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series motor race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is one of four restrictor plate races on the Cup schedule. The first Daytona 500 was held in 1959, coinciding with the opening of the speedway, and since 1982, it has been the season-opening race of the Cup series.
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRalph Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (born October 10, 1974) is an American stock car racing driver and team owner. He is the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt, Sr.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins Daytona 500 - ESPNDale Earnhardt Jr. won the Daytona 500 on Sunday night ... As he crossed the finish line in his No ... NASCAR's senior vice president of racing ...
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Throttle back: Patience gets Dale Earnhardt Jr. through MartinsvilleDale Earnhardt Jr. moved back atop the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points standings with a hard-fought third-place finish behind Kurt Busch ... we seen longer runs here than we saw today," Earnhardt said after the race. "None of the runs went past 80 laps ...
Dale Earnhardt Jr. crashes, car catches fireFORT WORTH — Hendrick Motorsports teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr ... race in 42nd after several pit stops for repairs – just ahead of Earnhardt, whose team was trying to fix the damage to send his car back on the track. Texas will mark Earnhardt's worst ...
Interview With Dale Earnhardt Jr. And Jimmie Johhnson At DarlingtonDale, you’ve had such a hate-love relationship with this place, a career best second place finish ... today kind of – how do you go from where you were in qualifying to finishing top three? DALE EARNHARDT JR.: I felt like my car was great in race ...
Junior stays upbeat despite texas debacleDARLINGTON, S.C. -- A test session at Michigan helped sooth the wounds of Texas, Dale Earnhardt Jr. said Friday at Darlington. That's a lot of mileage logged for an incident that occurred barely a dozen laps into Monday's rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup ...
NASCAR Sprint Cup: Kevin Harvick passes Dale Earnhardt Jr late to win at DarlingtonWhen the race went green it was Johnson in first, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Earnhardt made a run but Johnson was ... out for long but it still set up a green-white-chequered finish - NASCAR's version of extra innings. 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Jacob Lawrence American 1917 -2000 Born:
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States Studied:
Harlem Art Workshop American Artists School, New York Exhibited:
Lawrence One-Man Show, Museum of Modern Art, New Y Examples of Work:
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin Museu de Arte Moderna, Brazil Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York City Philips Collection, Washington DC Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC Specialty:
RealismAbstract Decorative Design
African-American Experience
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Code of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, 1930
350 ARTICLE 2.
ANNAPOLIS.*
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 28. 1898, ch. 370. 1914, ch. 156. 1914 Code, sec. 29.
1. The boundaries of the City of Annapolis shall be as follows: Be- ginning at the corner of the wall of the United States Naval Academy at
the eastern terminus of King George Street and following the said wall
in a westerly course, along said street, to the corner of the wall where it
intersects with said King George Street; thence along the enclosure of
the Naval Academy in a northerly direction to the north side of Hanover
Street; thence following the wall of the Naval Academy in a westerly
direction to the west side of Wagner Street; thence following the wall
of the Naval Academy in a southerly direction to the north side of King
George Street; thence in a westerly direction, following the wall of the
Naval Academy, and in a straight line to the west, shore of Dorsey's
(College) Creek; thence following the meanderings of the west shore of
said creek, to a monument there placed; thence in a straight line to the
northeast corner of the stone wall enclosing the National Cemetery; thence
following the said stone wall to its southeast corner; thence in a straight
line to a monument planted on the south side of West Street where the
building line of said street intersects with the railroad tracks leading
to Bay Ridge; thence in a southerly direction, following the west rail of
said track to the south shore of Spa Creek, to a monument there placed;
thence following the meanderings of the south shore of said Spa Creek
to Sycamore Point at the mouth of said creek; thence in a straight line
to the outer corner of the long wharf at the United States Light House
(Old Fort Madison); thence in a straight line to the place of beginning.
And the said city shall be divided into four wards by the corporation of
said city, and the citizens of Annapolis qualified to vote for members of
the General Assembly of Maryland, and otherwise qualified by the regis- tration and election laws for such cases made and provided, shall elect by
ballot, in every alternate year, accounting from the year 1915, on the
second Monday of July, a Mayor and a Counselor, and the voters in each
ward shall at the same time elect by ballot two residents thereof as
Aldermen, who shall constitute the corporation of the said city under
the name and style of the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of
Annapolis.
Smith v. Annapolis, 97 Md. 736.
1922, ch. 523.
2. Whenever twenty per cent, or more of the registered voters resid- ing in any area of Anne Arundel County directly adjacent to the City
of Annapolis, but not a part of the same shall petition the Mayor, Coun- selor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis to hold a special election to
determine whether or not such area shall become a part of the City of
Annapolis, the said petition to set out definitely the limits of such area,
*Annapolis has been authorized to issue bonds as follows: 1924, ch. 4, $100,000
for public Improvements.
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Despite Everything, Tiger Will Always Be No. 1
by: Frank Deford, NPR, April 16, 2014 2:04:00 am
Frank Deford says there'll never be another Tiger Woods of any sport. // AFP/Getty Images, Karim Sahib
Tiger Woods hasn't won a major in six years, and at 38, says commentator Frank Deford, he's past even a golfer's prime years. Still, no one can touch the reigning king of golf.
Most famously, Babe Ruth has been credited with saving baseball after the Black Sox scandal. Riding on the wave of the women's movement, Billie Jean King more or less created women's professional tennis. And Muhammad Ali kept boxing alive for its last hurrah.But really, especially over a sustained period of time, has any one athlete ever mattered so much to a sport as Tiger Woods to men's golf?Anyone? Ever?Click on the audio link above to hear Deford's take on the issue. Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/30 | {"url": "http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/npr1368219978-President-Asks-Moms-For-Help-Promoting-Obamacare.html", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "app1.kuhf.org", "date_download": "2014-04-16T08:02:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UUIJHHA5W3NKMDP52ACK65PWRFI3FJB4"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 911, 911.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 911, 3608.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 911, 5.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 911, 188.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 911, 0.94]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 911, 308.1]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 911, 0.3255814]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 911, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 911, 0.04654443]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 911, 0.01395349]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 911, 0.2372093]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 911, 0.7483871]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 911, 4.57419355]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 911, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 911, 4.62069779]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 911, 155.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 47, 0.0], [47, 96, 0.0], [96, 199, 0.0], [199, 376, 1.0], [376, 911, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 47, 0.0], [47, 96, 0.0], [96, 199, 0.0], [199, 376, 0.0], [376, 911, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 47, 8.0], [47, 96, 9.0], [96, 199, 16.0], [199, 376, 33.0], [376, 911, 89.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 47, 0.02272727], [47, 96, 0.26190476], [96, 199, 0.0], [199, 376, 0.01197605], [376, 911, 0.00782779]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 47, 0.0], [47, 96, 0.0], [96, 199, 0.0], [199, 376, 0.0], [376, 911, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 47, 0.14893617], [47, 96, 0.12244898], [96, 199, 0.10679612], [199, 376, 0.02824859], [376, 911, 0.04485981]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 911, 0.02426636]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 911, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 911, 0.43316817]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 911, -42.28036749]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 911, -13.46997678]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 911, -43.96470324]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 911, 15.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
RCW 51.48.210Delinquent taxes.
If payment of any tax due is not received by the department by the due date, there shall be assessed a penalty of five percent of the amount of the tax for the first month or part thereof of delinquency; there shall be assessed a total penalty of ten percent of the amount of the tax for the second month or part thereof of delinquency; and there shall be assessed a total penalty of twenty percent of the amount of the tax for the third month or part thereof of delinquency. No penalty so added may be less than ten dollars. If a warrant is issued by the department for the collection of taxes, increases, and penalties, there shall be added thereto a penalty of five percent of the amount of the tax, but not less than five dollars nor greater than one hundred dollars. In addition, delinquent taxes shall bear interest at the rate of one percent of the delinquent amount per month or fraction thereof from and after the due date until payment, increases, and penalties are received by the department.[1987 c 111 § 8; 1986 c 9 § 18.]Notes: Conflict with federal requirements -- Severability -- Effective date -- 1987 c 111: See notes following RCW 50.12.220. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/31 | {"url": "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=51.48.210", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "apps.leg.wa.gov", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:19:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJVTQ2UXE6R2XRK5EAGATHFBAQP65CLY"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1191, 1191.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1191, 1848.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1191, 2.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1191, 22.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1191, 0.94]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1191, 258.3]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1191, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1191, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1191, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1191, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1191, 0.43621399]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1191, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1191, 0.0844773]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1191, 0.35163675]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1191, 0.33051742]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1191, 0.23231257]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1191, 0.23231257]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1191, 0.15839493]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1191, 0.04751848]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1191, 0.06335797]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1191, 0.07602957]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1191, 0.00823045]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1191, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1191, 0.17283951]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1191, 0.41904762]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1191, 4.50952381]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1191, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1191, 4.09205694]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1191, 210.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 31, 1.0], [31, 1191, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 1191, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 31, 3.0], [31, 1191, 207.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 31, 0.25925926], [31, 1191, 0.02570922]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 31, 0.0], [31, 1191, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 31, 0.12903226], [31, 1191, 0.01034483]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1191, 0.8762657]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1191, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1191, 0.07072645]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1191, 5.37641795]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1191, 21.65029445]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1191, 16.90331887]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1191, 11.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
Al-Qaida Arm In Yemen Flexes Its Muscles In Nigeria
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Listen An unusual terrorism case started in Nigeria late last week. Prosecutors in the capital city of Abuja accused two local men of being members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. They were charged with accepting thousands of dollars from the group to recruit potential terrorists inside Nigeria and then send them to Yemen. Olaniyi Lawal, 31, and Luqman Babatunde, 30, have pleaded not guilty. U.S. counterterrorism officials have been watching the case unfold with alarm because it suggests that al-Qaida's most aggressive affiliate, a group that has targeted the U.S. on numerous occasions, is seeking to boost its presence in Africa. The Next Battlefront? "For them to have reached into a country as far from Yemen as Nigeria is highly unusual and it is indicative of its new strategy in Africa," says Peter Neumann, a professor of security studies at Kings College London. "Al-Qaida's leaders have, for some time, been on the lookout for a new hot battlefront where they can implant themselves." He says for a time that battlefield was Somalia. And Yemen. "And of course, Nigeria is something that has popped out of nowhere, really," Neumann says, "and they are trying to capitalize on that, trying to turn this into a conflict essentially that is part of the global jihad." In other words, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is trying to join forces with local Islamists so it can add to the ranks of its war against the West. Nigeria has been in the throes of a violent Islamist insurgency for more than two years. An Islamist group called Boko Haram — which literally means "Western education is forbidden" — has been trying to trigger a civil war in Nigeria. The conflict pits the Muslim population, which largely lives in the north, against the Christian population in the south. The ultimate goal, as the group sees it, is to build an independent state in northern Nigeria and turn it into a Muslim caliphate. Al-Qaida's 'Global Ambitions' Sam Rascoff, who teaches law and national security at New York University, says AQAP has always thought big. "Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula doesn't confine its recruitment to Yemen and certainly doesn't confine its operational vision to the Arabian Peninsula," he says. "They're an organization with an increasingly global recruitment platform and global ambitions for where they are going to strike, and they see Nigeria as one of the places that will help them get there." Al-Qaida's core leadership has had its eyes on Nigeria for years. Osama bin Laden himself had singled out Nigeria as fertile ground for terrorist recruitment back in 2003. In fact, U.S. officials found correspondence between bin Laden and leaders of Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgent group in the compound where bin Laden was killed. AQAP's breakout terrorist attack against the West happened in 2009, when it sent a young Nigerian man on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with explosives in his underwear. The bomb misfired, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is now serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison. Local Presence This new case in Abuja's high court may be just the latest indication of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's focus on Nigeria. U.S. military officials say AQAP may have some competition, however, from another al-Qaida arm, this one based in Africa itself. It's known as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. The general in charge of U.S. military operations in Africa talked about the group just last month during a speech to the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. "We're increasingly concerned about al-Qaida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb," Carter Ham said. "Most notably, I would say the linkages between al-Qaida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram are probably the most worrisome in terms of the indications we have that they are most likely sharing funds, training and explosive materials." Neumann, the London terrorism expert, says that could be dangerous not just for Nigeria, but for the West as well. "So far, really, it is a local, Nigerian conflict," he says. "But the influence of al-Qaida could turn this into a sort of global confrontation between the West and Islam as they see it." Al-Qaida has done this before. It offers money and training and recruits to local groups, and in exchange, those groups swear allegiance and join the fight against the West. Counterterrorism officials are monitoring whether al-Qaida will be able to reprise that scenario in Nigeria.Copyright 2013 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Nigeria is facing an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency. For several years, an Islamist group called Boko Haram has been trying to trigger a civil war in Nigeria. Its name means Western education is forbidden. Now there are new indications that Boko Haram is joining forces with affiliates of al-Qaida. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston has the story. DINA TEMPLE-RASTON, BYLINE: An unusual terrorism case opened in Nigeria last week. Prosecutors there charged two local men with being members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. That group is based in Yemen. The two men have pleaded not guilty. But their alleged crime: that they received thousands of dollars from al-Qaida to recruit potential terrorists in Nigeria and then send them to Yemen. PETER NEUMANN: For them to have reached into a country as far from Yemen as Nigeria is highly unusual. TEMPLE-RASTON: Peter Neumann is a professor of Security Studies at Kings College London. And he says leaders of al-Qaida have been following the situation in Nigeria very carefully. NEUMANN: They've, for some time, been on the lookout for a new hot battlefront where they can implant themselves. And for a while, that was Somalia, for a while that was Yemen. And, of course, Nigeria is something that has popped out of nowhere, really, and they are trying to capitalize on that, trying to turn this into a conflict, essentially, that is part of the global jihad. TEMPLE-RASTON: So conflict in Nigeria provides a new opportunity for al-Qaida. And Sam Rascoff, who teaches Law and Security at New York University, says this is no surprise. AQAP, more than any other al-Qaida affiliate, has always thought big. SAM RASOFF: Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula doesn't confine its recruitment to Yemen and certainly doesn't confine its operational vision to the Arabian Peninsula. They're an organization with an increasingly global recruitment platform and global ambitions for where they are going to strike. TEMPLE-RASTON: Al-Qaida's leaders have had an eye on Nigeria for years. Osama bin Laden himself singled out Nigeria as fertile ground for terrorist recruitment back in 2003. U.S. officials found correspondence between bin Laden and leaders of Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgent group, in the compound where bin Laden was killed. And of course, the famous Underwear Bomber of 2009 was a Nigerian man. This new court case may be the latest indication that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula sees Nigeria as good ground for recruiting - though the group may have some competition from another al-Qaida arm, this one in Africa. GENERAL CARTER HAM: We're increasingly concerned about al-Qaida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb. TEMPLE-RASTON: That's General Carter Ham in a speech last month, talking about al-Qaida's affiliate in North Africa. General Ham is in charge of U.S. military operations in Africa. HAM: Most notably I would say the linkages between al-Qaida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram are probably the most worrisome, in terms of the indications we have that they are likely sharing funds, training, and explosive materials which can be quite dangerous. TEMPLE-RASTON: So there are two different terrorist connections to Nigeria, one from the al-Qaida group in North Africa and now one from the al-Qaida group in Yemen. London terrorism expert Peter Neumann says that could be dangerous, not just for Nigeria, but potentially for the West as well. NEUMANN: So far, really it is a local Nigerian conflict. The influence of al-Qaida could turn this into a sort of global confrontation between the West and Islam, as they see it. TEMPLE-RASTON: Al-Qaida has done this before. It offers money and training and recruits to local groups. And in exchange, those groups swear allegiance and join the fight against the West. Counter-terrorism officials are monitoring whether al-Qaida will be able to reprise that scenario in Nigeria. Dina Temple-Raston, NPR News. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MONTAGNE: You're listening to MORNING EDITION from NPR News. 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Tunisia, Egypt and ElBaradei
In the Guardian, my friend Jack Shenker talks to Mohamed ElBaradei about the risks of a Tunisia-like uprising in Egypt — which ElBaradei does not want:
"What has transpired in Tunisia is no surprise and should be very instructive both for the political elite in Egypt and those in the west that back dictatorships," ElBaradei told the Guardian. "Suppression does not equal stability, and anybody who thinks that the existence of authoritarian regimes is the best way to maintain calm is deluding themselves."
The Nobel peace prize winner repeated his call for the Egyptian government to implement urgent political reforms, claiming that the citizens of the Arab world's largest nation were "yearning desperately for economic and social change" and that without drastic improvements, a "Tunisia-style explosion" in Egypt would be unavoidable. Nearly half of the country's 80 million citizens live on less than £1.25 a day, and despite record GDP growth the majority of the population has become poorer in real terms over the past 20 years.
Yet on the heels of six reported incidents of self-immolation and large anti-government demonstrations planned for next week, ElBaradei refused to throw his weight behind street-level protests, instead expressing concern at the "general state of instability" engulfing the country.
"These things need to be organised and planned properly," said the 68-year-old. "I would like to use the means available from within the system to effect change, such as the petition we are gathering demanding political reform. The government has to send a message to the people saying 'yes, we understand you', and of course, if things do not move then we will have to consider other options including protests and a general strike.
"I still hope that change will come in an orderly way and not through the Tunisian model," he added. "But if you keep closing the door to peaceful change then don't be surprised if the scenes we saw in Tunisia spread across the region."
Grassroots activists accused ElBaradei of timidity. "From day one ElBaradei has proved himself not to be a man of the street," said Hossam El-Hamalawy, a prominent journalist and blogger. "He comes from a diplomatic background and the kind of change he wants is peaceful and gradual, something that will not shake the foundations of the establishment. But unfortunately for him the Egyptian people have far more radical demands than the ones he is articulating: this is not just about creating a clean parliament and a fair presidency, it's about the daily bread and butter of the Egyptian people."
I'm not surprised this is ElBaradei's position. This has been most Muslim Brotherhood leaders' position for a while too, as well as secular parties like the Wafd. There is widespread fear, as I touched upon in my op-ed yesterday, that an Egyptian uprising would awaken some terrible impulses that lie not far beneath the surface of Egyptian society: sectarianism, class revanchisme, and populism. Of course the regime is largely to blame for these potential outcomes, and thus far has not showed any sign of having a political (as opposed to economic) response to what's happened in Tunisia. But this debate — change from within vs. revolutionary change — is likely to intensify in the next few months, as we get closer to September presidential race.
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Can religion and environmentalism find common ground in the 21st century? This week marks the publication of Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson’s new book, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth. Written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist minister, Wilson argues that the gravest environmental threats facing the earth today, such as global warming, can be solved only if science and religion join forces. To this end, he calls for conservative evangelical Christians—one of the country’s biggest and most powerful constituencies—and environmentalists to form a mutually respectful alliance. But can these two disparate groups, which have fundamentally different worldviews, find common ground? If anyone can speak to this, it would be Richard Cizik, a prominent conservative Christian and evangelical leader who, in recent years, has become a high-profile advocate for the environment. Cizik is the political point man for the 30-million-strong National Association of Evangelicals (see “The Holy & the Hawks,” Audubon, September-October 2005). Audubon asked Cizik and Wilson to discuss how evangelicals and environmentalists can team up to save the planet, a core theme of Wilson’s book. Additionally, we asked Stuart Pimm, a leading conservation biologist who has recently coauthored an essay titled “The Christian Ethics of Species Conservation” (in the book Religion and the New Ecology, also published this week; click here to download a PDF of the essay), to join the conversation. What follows is their online exchange, which will play out all this week.
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Friedmanite Anarcho-Capitalism and the Chicago School
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posted on Thu, Nov 22 2012 6:38 PM rated by 0 users
I need some clarification here. I recently read that David D. Friedman aligns himself with the Chicago School, and not the Austrian School. He seems to have a...I don't know how else to put it other than a dislike for Rothbard. How is it possible to subscribe to the Chicago School (which, correct me if I'm wrong, employs statist functions) when you are, at the same time, anarcho-capitalist? His legal system seems to be much more anarchist than Rothbard's, though.
Thu, Nov 22 2012 7:00 PM rated by 0 users
Maybe this would help
He's much more nihilistic than Rothbard in his morality. He adheres to the Chicago School economically, this does not mean that you don't necessarily think that government failure is a much bigger problem than market failure. This is why I think that public choice theory, when combined with even straight up neo-classical economics can lead to anarchism.
If you're lucky Friedman himself will answer your question. He shows up on these forums once and a while which I think is mega awesome.
Chicagoites don't believe in many things critical to the Austrian way of thinking, such as the business cycle.
Correct. So what?
Milton Friedman argued very firmly that the Federal Reserve caused one of the single greatest economic catastrophes in the history of man: the Great Depression. He also advocated abolishing the Federal Reserve.
And why was that?
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i think a lot of it also has to do with dealing with the realities of the world. Even Greenspan said he thought the gold standard was better and believed in free markets yet look at his actions. Same goes for Milton and the Chicago school. If the government is going to act, this is the way they should act. So I believe they were just willing to make deals with the slave masters, either help them make the best decisions possible or go the Mises' route and call them all a bunch of socialists.
Eat the apple, fuck the Corps. I don't work for you no more!
It just seems to me that the Chicago School is moderate, and that the only real anarchistic school of economic thought is provided by the Austrians.
i think you are considering they are moderate for my reason. They are willing to make adjustments in government action for the good of the country, where the Austrian school doesnt. I think if Mises would of bent a knee and helped government we would be looking at the Austrian School being very similar to the Chicago school.
There are ways to tax people to lessen the burden of an economic downturn, so Milton was willing to help find those ways. Where Austrian's call them a bunch of socialists.
"The stock of money, prices and output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the Reserve System than before. The most dramatic period of instability in output was, of course, the period between the two wars, which includes the severe (monetary) contractions of 1920-1, 1929-33, and 1937-8. No other 20 year period in American history contains as many as three such severe contractions.
This evidence persuades me that at least a third of the price rise during and just after World War I is attributable to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System... and that the severity of each of the major contractions — 1920-1, 1929-33 and 1937-8 is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities...
Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes — excusable or not — can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic — this is the key political argument against an independent central bank...
To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the central bankers."
"The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of money in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933"
-Milton Friedman
How can a school of thought be inherently moderate or radical? These are relative terms. And how can a school of economic be inherently "anarchistic" or even support any ideology as such?
Fri, Nov 23 2012 10:01 PM rated by 0 users
Neodoxy:
Implying the Federal Reserve has complete control over the size of the money supply... If I recall correctly, Bob Murphy refers to the Fed figures in his Politically Correct Guide to the New Deal that the Fed more than doubled its treasury holdings within the first month and pursued an expansionary stance, apparently not expansionary enough in the face of bankruptcies and the shrinking of money supply on the 'private' end.
Sat, Nov 24 2012 1:34 PM rated by 0 users
Chicagoism, aside from its neoclassical influences, also incorporates Keynesianism and tries to turn it on its head. Between Austrianism and Chicagoism I see no reason really to opt for the latter, but petty squabbles over which brand of economics is more "anarchist" are pointless. For methodological reasons, I don't see Chicagoans as any different to other mainstreamers. They get a lot of things right, but not necessarily for well-argued assumptions. Nor does Chicagoism pretend otherwise, being an instrumentalist school of economics. So it's useful, to a degree, but in my view obsolete.
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Arbuthnot Date:
Jan 7, 2008 4:28pm Forum:
Re: The Jerry Question i'm pretty sure i've mentioned it previously, but if i had to choose between the GD & Jerry's side projects, i'd easily choose the latter, even though i ever only got to see the JGB the once in '84 at Caldwell College in NJ; however, like staggerleib mentioned, you really have to distinguish between the artist and his/her art; i guess what i'm trying to say is that i'm quite a fan of Jerry's music, but like pretty much every entertainer, performer, artist, celebrity even, i'm not really much interested in the individual, only their creations and how it assists me in achieving some level of enjoyment; at least with Jerry, whatever his personal demons/faults may have been, there was something inexplicable about the way he came across, whether with one or a few people, or in a packed stadium; his art (and his spirit) was just so far-reaching and profound Reply to this post
spacedface Date:
Re: The Jerry Question While there may be no Grateful Dead without Jerry, Jerry outside the GD wasn't great. The level of excitement just wasn't there.
That's not to say it wouldn't have been different if he quit them and formed another unit. His first solo record was as strong as any GD studio record.
For me the question is why they toured so much when he was obviously tired and needing health. I recently watched the DVD "End of the Road" and the last of it was odd, esp the message from the GD.
That DVD did have a nice reading of Hunter's eulogy poem read by Wavy Gravy in the extras, and had the whole tape of people on stage at the public gathering in GG Park.
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Utah State football: Joe Hill poised for significant role at running back
USU notes • Soph won't start, but will be a big contributor.
By Tony Jones The Salt Lake Tribune Published August 9, 2012 4:41 pm
Logan • Through two seasons at Utah State, seven carries and 24 yards defining his career as an Aggie, Joe Hill finally seems ready to make an impact for coach Gary Andersen.
He won't start as a redshirt sophomore. That distinction goes to Kerwynn Williams, another who has patiently waited his turn for a bigger role. However, Andersen is confident that Hill will be his No. 2 running back when the season starts in three weeks against Southern Utah.
Pass protection used to be a big issue. It isn't anymore. His lack of experience led to a redshirt year in 2010. But Hill's long been on the minds of his offensive coaches, as his speed and running ability have impressed over time, even when he was on the scout team.
Now, Hill seems poised for his biggest season in Logan.
"We've been impressed with the way he's carried himself during camp," Andersen said. "He's busted his tail and he's played well. It's still not set in stone, but if I had to say right now, Joe would clearly be the second guy."
That's not insignificant at all. The second guy in 2011, Michael Smith, was drafted in the seventh round in April by Tampa Bay. And Hill has, so far, had to fight off stiff challenges from the likes of Robert Marshall and Joey DeMartino.
Point being, it looks like Hill will receive plenty of work in the next few months. He was impressive in spring ball, and has picked up on that in the last week.
"I tried to sit back and learn all that I could," Hill said. "I played behind some really good backs, and I just want to go out and help my team in any way possible."
The Keeton watch
Sophomore quarterback Chuckie Keeton practiced on Thursday, but didn't participate in any of the live scrimmaging with his left knee (tendinitis) still on the mend. Keeton will practice on Friday, and is expected to be in action for Saturday's scrimmage.
A return
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Utah State football: Aggies' defense challenged but hold up vs. UNLV
By Tony Jones The Salt Lake Tribune Published September 29, 2012 7:58 pm
Logan • Utah State went scoreless in the first quarter, surrendered a first-half touchdown for the first time this season and saw its strong defense get challenged by UNLV on Saturday night.
And yet, the Aggies still dominated for much of the first two quarters no small part in their eventual 35-13 victory.
USU is playing with the swagger of a good team, and doing what good teams do: responding when needed. When the Rebels drove the length of the field in the second quarter for a touchdown, the Aggies drove right back to reclaim a lead.
When UNLV drove and threatened to score at the end of the first half, Utah State's Terrence Alston came up with a drive-killing interception. And with 31 seconds dictating the Aggies take a knee, they instead drove for a field goal as time ran out.
The Aggies led 20-7 at the end of the first half, with Chuckie Keeton throwing for 242 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Four receivers have multiple catches, and Kerwynn Williams has 123 all-purpose yards.
Utah State put up 304 total yards in the first half, had 15 first downs and punted just twice.
Junior cornerback Nevin Lawson left the game in the second quarter with a lower leg injury and didn't return for the remainder of the half. Lawson pushed a receiver out of bounds and slipped on the chalk. He was helped up, but didn't re-enter the game.
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Junior tight end D.J. Tialavea caught his first two passes of the season, including the touchdown pass that gave USU the lead for the remainder of the first half. Tialavea missed the first two games of the season with a leg injury. He's returned, but Saturday night was the first time he's been actively targeted by Keeton. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/39 | {"url": "http://archive.sltrib.com/printfriendly.php?id=54993428&itype=cmsid", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "archive.sltrib.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:38:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7CPPAX3Q2UIJPE4LVSIDY42XLIJLB33A"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1824, 1824.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1824, 2288.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1824, 11.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1824, 15.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1824, 0.97]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1824, 249.0]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1824, 0.39175258]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1824, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1824, 0.05793103]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1824, 0.03034483]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1824, 0.03034483]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1824, 0.04965517]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1824, 0.02758621]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1824, 0.02896552]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1824, 0.02061856]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1824, 0.16237113]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1824, 0.5382263]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1824, 4.43425076]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1824, 4.71223426]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1824, 327.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 69, 0.0], [69, 142, 0.0], [142, 333, 1.0], [333, 453, 1.0], [453, 687, 1.0], [687, 936, 1.0], [936, 1141, 1.0], [1141, 1236, 1.0], [1236, 1489, 1.0], [1489, 1501, 0.0], [1501, 1824, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 69, 0.0], [69, 142, 0.0], [142, 333, 0.0], [333, 453, 0.0], [453, 687, 0.0], [687, 936, 0.0], [936, 1141, 0.0], [1141, 1236, 0.0], [1236, 1489, 0.0], [1489, 1501, 0.0], [1501, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 69, 11.0], [69, 142, 13.0], [142, 333, 32.0], [333, 453, 22.0], [453, 687, 44.0], [687, 936, 45.0], [936, 1141, 35.0], [1141, 1236, 19.0], [1236, 1489, 46.0], [1489, 1501, 3.0], [1501, 1824, 57.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 69, 0.0], [69, 142, 0.12857143], [142, 333, 0.0], [333, 453, 0.03448276], [453, 687, 0.0], [687, 936, 0.00826446], [936, 1141, 0.04545455], [1141, 1236, 0.05434783], [1236, 1489, 0.0], [1489, 1501, 0.0], [1501, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 69, 0.0], [69, 142, 0.0], [142, 333, 0.0], [333, 453, 0.0], [453, 687, 0.0], [687, 936, 0.0], [936, 1141, 0.0], [1141, 1236, 0.0], [1236, 1489, 0.0], [1489, 1501, 0.0], [1501, 1824, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 69, 0.10144928], [69, 142, 0.12328767], [142, 333, 0.04188482], [333, 453, 0.01666667], [453, 687, 0.02564103], [687, 936, 0.04417671], [936, 1141, 0.03414634], [1141, 1236, 0.02105263], [1236, 1489, 0.01976285], [1489, 1501, 0.33333333], [1501, 1824, 0.03405573]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1824, 0.13756895]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1824, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1824, 0.69116062]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1824, 19.88256663]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1824, 56.08647005]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1824, 36.82705642]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1824, 19.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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Just Plain Interesting: Springboards for Research on the AmishJune 4th, 2013 by MelissaPublished with PermissionWritten by Karen Robuckwww.TOSMagazine.comI see them on major streets and country roads in my northeast Mississippi hometown. Black flat-top buggies with orange reflectors. Black hats. Distinctive beards. Solid, dark clothes. Women and girls with full head coverings. I’ve heard them speak their unique German dialect. I’ve bought their baskets, baked goods, and fresh produce. I have a general idea of what the Ordnung, rumspringa, singings, and shunning are. My father admires their work ethic so much that he has hired them for non-mechanized day labor on the farm. I admire their ability to live without what most of us think we must have. They are the Amish.No longer found only in Pennsylvania and surrounding states, they have migrated south and west, to Ohio,Maryland,Indiana,Missouri,Tennessee,Mississippi,Texas,Montana, and fourteen other states. By the time you and your children finish your research on the Amish, your curiosity about this unique religious group may be satisfied. Then again, you may have more questions. Regardless of the outcome, have fun.Who Are the Amish?The Amish church began as part of the Anabaptist movement in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Anabaptists rejected the doctrine of infant baptism, believing instead that only adults who had confessed a personal belief in Jesus as Savior should be baptized. They also did not believe in war and tried to live peaceably with their neighbors. Because of these beliefs, they were severely persecuted by both Protestants and Catholics.In 1693 a group of Mennonites led by Jacob Amman broke away over issues of doctrine, primarily the use of shunning (excommunication, including avoidance of all social interaction). The Amish practice shunning, based on their understanding of passages such as 1 Corinthians 5. The group led by Amman fled to Switzerland and southern Germany, where they became farmers and began having services in their homes. Eventually they heard of William Penn’s colony in the New World and his promise of religious freedom. Many left Europe and settled in what would become Pennsylvania.What They BelieveThe Amish are devout in their faith, believing in the literal interpretation and application of Scripture. Their devotion to their families, their farms, and their way of life are second only to their devotion to God. They believe separation from the things of the world is not only commanded by God but also strengthens their relationship to God. After all, the things of the world can be distractions. They value simplicity and self-denial over comfort, convenience, and leisure.Their belief system is even evident in how they dress. Their plain clothing represents humility and separation. Men do not grow mustaches because they associate them with military service.One of the ways the Amish literally interpret Scripture is their interpretation of the Second Commandment: Thou shalt not make any graven images. They will not allow their photographs to be taken (although some tourists and reporters do so secretly). For this reason, Amish dolls do not have faces.They believe that church membership is a choice every young adult should make with full knowledge of what he or she will be giving up if he or she chooses to remain in the community. Therefore, when Amish teens reach the age of 16, they informally enter what is known as the Rumspringa, or running-around time. From this time until they make a decision about “joining church,” they are allowed to experiment with English ways, their parents more or less looking the other way unless the teen is being particularly careless. For some youth their Rumspringa may last only a few months before they make their decision one way or another. For others, the decision may take years. At the end of that time, they either join the church and are eligible for marriage within the community, or they leave for the English world and are allowed contact as usual with the community. They cannot marry within the community if they leave, however.They also practice church discipline in the form of shunning. Shunning takes place when rules are broken in such a way that the church leadership feels it necessary to publicly make an example of it. The most severe reason for shunning is leaving the Amish ways after baptism has occurred. As noted above, leaving prior to baptism will not bring about shunning. 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Hundreds of mutton birds found dead along Craignish beach
HUNDREDS of dead mutton birds have been discovered on Craignish beach at the end of Petersens Rd.
The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection had received many reports about dead short-tailed shearwaters, or mutton birds, being found on Queensland beaches, a spokesman said.
“The shearwaters are on their annual migration from northern Russia to rookeries in Victoria and South Australia,” the spokesman said.
“Unfortunately, the birds can succumb to exhaustion along the way.”
The spokesman said it would probably not be the last sighting of dead birds across Queensland this summer.
Anyone who sees the birds is advised, as a precaution, not to handle them.
Thousands of short-tailed shearwater birds were found dead around Moreton Bay in 2011 and Fraser Island in 2006.
Thanks for all the dead fish
Builder Paul VeJesus on the bank of the creek behind his Coconut Grove home where a lot of fish have died. Picture: PATRINA MALONE
AUTHORITIES are investigating the deaths of several hundred baitfish found washed up in mangroves near a Darwin suburb.
The NT Environmental Protection Agency and the NT Fisheries Department have taken samples and have been investigating.
Builder Paul VeJesus, who lives in Coconut Grove, said he found the bait fish by the horrible stench from the sea near his Orchard Rd home yesterday morning.
“It was just a sheet of white fish,” the 43-year-old said.
“At 9am the sun was out more and you could really smell them.
“I went down the creek and just saw millions of dead fish. “I’ve closed all the windows in the house.”continue
Massive Thanksgiving storm heads East effecting Millions
The wicked wintry weather that pummeled the West Coast is now barreling across the country, threatening to wreck millions of holiday travel plans just before Thanksgiving. The storm has already contributed to at least 10 traffic fatalities. Nearly 400 flights have been canceled in the Dallas-Fort Worth area — not exactly a bastion for snowstorms. Sleet and freezing rain will keep blanketing parts of the Southern Plains and Southern Rockies on Monday. And after the storm deluges parts of the South with rain Monday evening, it’ll start zeroing in on the Northeast, the National Weather Service said. And that could spell more travel nightmare.
It’s not just the bad timing that has travelers riled up. In many of the places, this kind of weather isn’t supposed to happen. ”This is not Texas weather, man,” driver Ron Taylor told CNN affiliate KTVT. “This is Alaska, or Idaho.” Even parts of Lubbock, known for its warmth and flatness,turned into a snowboarding park as several inches of snow covered the western Texas city. An Arctic air mass will probably keep temperatures 15 to 20 degrees below normal along the East Coast through Thursday. But even if the system fails to deliver heavy snow, fierce winds could still hamper air travel, forecasters said. Airlines flying in and out of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport “pre-canceled about 300 departures to reduce the number of stranded travelers” Sunday in anticipation of the harsh weather, the airport’s official Twitter account said. And 10% of flights at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport were also canceled because of the weather Sunday. More
Great Lakes Waterfowl Die-Offs on the rise as experts seek source
A deadly menace stalks the loons, gulls, and other water birds of the Great Lakes region: Type E botulism, a neuromuscular disease caused when birds eat fish infected with toxin-producing bacteria. Cases of the disease are on the rise, killing approximately 10,000 more waterfowl in 2007 than when it was first reported in 1963. To understand die-off origin and distribution, ocean engineers from the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Institute for Ocean Systems Engineering in Dania Beach, Florida are using their expertise in experimental hydrodynamics. They have teamed with the U.S. Geological Survey to help develop a novel way of tracking waterfowl carcasses to determine the source of lethal outbreaks that infect fish eaten by waterbirds. Monitoring the drift of waterbird carcasses associated with marine oil spills is another potential application. At the annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, held Nov. 24 26 in Pittsburgh, Pa., the team will present experimental measurements conducted to support the development of tracking software that will better determine the origin of waterbird die-offs. More
T-MINUS 3 DAYS: Comet ISON’s Close Sun Encounter This Week Has Scientists Fired Up
The promising Comet ISON’s close pass by the sun this week has amateur astronomers on the edge of their seats, but professional scientists are anticipating the celestial encounter with perhaps even greater relish. Comet ISON is set to skim just 730,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 28). The comet has brightened considerably as it has zoomed closer and closer to the sun in recent weeks, thrilling stargazers who have captured amazing photos of ISON and giving researchers interested in comet composition a lot to look forward to in the coming days. ”We’re going to see primitive solar system material outgassing and sublimating when it’s right close to the sun,” said Karl Battams of the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., who studies “sungrazing” comets like ISON. “So that right there gives us a huge chunk of valuable information.” It’s not particularly rare for a comet to zip close to the sun, or even dive straight through our star’s sizzling-hot atmosphere. But Comet ISON is special, researchers say. For starters, Comet ISON is bigger than most other sungrazers, with a core estimated to be about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide, Battams said. Further, Comet ISON is likely making its first trip through the inner solar system from the distant, frigid comet repository known as the Oort Cloud. So its volatile components have not been baked off already by previous encounters with the sun, giving scientists a rare look at a relatively pristine comet. More
Australian Passport Offices to deepen use of facial recognition
The Australian Passport Office (APO) seeks to expand its use of biometric technology, according a request for tender published today. The APO has use facial recognition in the passport production process since 2005, but wants to enhance that capability and potentially use other kinds of biometrics, the APO said in the tender request. The APO said tenderers should have expertise in facial, fingerprint, iris (eye), voice and signature recognition and analysis. The winning companies will provide biometrics equipment, analysis software, system integration and training for APO staff. “The APO has requirements for the provision of specialised biometric support, particularly in relation to the facial recognition system/s and is looking to further develop its capabilities in this area with a view to achieving business improvements,” the APO wrote. “It is also investigating the potential utilisation and integration of other biometric technologies into its passport issuance and analysis systems.” The existing facial recognition system contains facial images from late 1999. It was introduced to combat identity fraud and facilitate travel using ePassports. More
Federal judge rules Clergy tax-free housing allowance is unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that an Internal Revenue Service exemption that gives clergy tax-free housing allowances is unconstitutional. The exemption applies to an estimated 44,000 ministers, priests, rabbis, imams and others. If the ruling stands, some clergy members could experience an estimated 5 to 10 percent cut in take-home pay.
U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb ruled on Friday (Nov. 22) in favor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, saying the exemption violates the establishment clause because it “provides a benefit to religious persons and no one else, even though doing so is not necessary to alleviate a special burden on religious exercise.” The case, decided in the District Court for the Western District Of Wisconsin, will likely be appealed to the the 7th Circuit, which could reverse the decision. If the 7th Circuit lets the ruling stand, then it could become precedent for courts in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. Earlier this month, the 7th Circuit barred the enforcement of the contraceptive mandate, a church-state issue being considered by the Supreme Court. If the court decision stands, it could have a significant impact on clergy income. Clergy that earn an average of $50,000 per year, may receive another a third of income, or $16,000, from a tax-free housing allowance, essentially earning $66,000. The cut in taxes ($4,000 in this case), would mean an 8 percent cut in salary. The Hosana-Tabor v EEOC case decided last year that a teacher could be considered a “minister,” so the exemption could extend beyond traditional members of the clergy. The exemption is worth about $700 million per year, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation Estimate of Federal Tax Expenditure. Judge Crabb ruled that the law provides that the gross income of a “minister of the gospel” does not include: “the rental allowance paid to him as part of his compensation, to the extent used by him to rent or provide a home and to the extent such allowance does not exceed the fair rental value of the home, including furnishings and appurtenances such as a garage, plus the cost of utilities.” More
Vatican Puts ‘St Peter’s Bones’ On Display
A handful of bone fragments that allegedly belonged to St Peter have been displayed in public by the Vatican for the first time. The nine pieces of bone, which were once kept in a shoe box, were displayed in a bronze case and placed on the side of the altar during a Mass at St Peter’s Square led by Pope Francis. The pontiff, who prayed before the fragments at the start of the service, later clutched the case in his arms for several minutes. Experts disagree on whether the fragments, which were found during excavations under St Peter’s Basilica in the years after Pope Pius XI’s death in 1939, belong to St Peter. Archaeologists working beneath the building discovered a funerary monument with a casket built in his honour, as well as a Greek engraving which read “Petros eni” or “Peter is here”. However, no pope has ever declared the fragments belong to St Peter. Pope Paul VI came closest, announcing in 1968 that they were “identified in a way we can consider convincing”. Margherita Guarducci, the late Italian scholar, said the relics were given to one of the basilica workers, who stored them in a shoe box in a cupboard. They were presented to Pope Paul VI in 1971 but have not been seen in public since. Sky News HD
U.S. Generals Now Take Action To Watch Obama
After one of them called for the “forced resignations” of President Obama and congressional leaders in response to multiple grievances, including the alleged political purge of hundreds of senior military officers, two retired U.S. generals are creating a citizens’ commission to scrutinize Obama administration actions on national security and economic issues. “America’s Provisional Leadership Council” will look at major concerns, as outlined by Army Gen. Paul E. Vallely and Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Jones, in an eight-point paper titled “The Americans Project.” Vallely told WND he sees The Americans Project as a “citizens’ commission” of prominent Americans to provide advice to legislative and executive branches of government. America’s leaders, he said, will be “held to high standards of performance to solve the nation’s problems of governing. We will scrutinize and provide guidance to federally elected officials on behalf of the citizens.” The Americans Project, Vallely added, is a “movement, not a new party necessarily. We want candidates to run as Americans first before being a Democrat, Republican or Independent.” Vallely, who today is chairman of the organization Stand Up America, served as the deputy commanding general of Pacific Command. Jones, who is vice chairman of The Americans Project of Stand Up America, held numerous Air Force command positions including a tactical fighter wing, a strategic airlift wing and a special operations group. In calling for the forced resignations of Obama and the leadership of Congress, Vallely outlined suggestions for nationwide rallies and said a peaceful “civil uprising is still not out of question.” The current crop of leaders, he said, must face a “demand resignation” process, which he explained requires massive grassroots protests and social networking which he envisions can be undertaken through his organization. And example of a “forced resignation,” he said, was that of President Richard Nixon. “Our federal government continues down the path of destroying America,” Vallely said. “Americans must now stand up and put America back on the right track.”More
Indonesian volcano erupts eight times within hours
A volcano in western Indonesia has erupted eight times in just a few hours, “raining down rocks” over a large area and forcing thousands to flee their homes. Mount Sinabung has been erupting on and off since September, but went into overdrive late on Saturday and early Sunday, repeatedly spewing out red-hot ash and rocks up to eight kilometres into the air. Several thousand people left their homes overnight, taking the total number of those who have fled since the volcano rumbled to life to about 12,300, said the national disaster agency on Sunday.
“People panicked last night as the eruption was accompanied by a loud thunderous sound and vibrations. Then it started raining down rocks,” said local government official Robert Peranginangin.”They ran helter-skelter out of their homes and cried for help.” He said there were no known casualties from the latest eruptions. The volcanology agency raised the alert level for the volcano, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, to the highest point on a four-stage scale, meaning a hazardous eruption is imminent or under way. National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the government was calling for people living within five kilometres of the volcano to leave their homes. Sinabung, one of dozens of active volcanoes in Indonesia which straddles major tectonic fault lines known as the “Ring of Fire”, erupted in September for the first time since 2010. In August five people were killed and hundreds evacuated when a volcano on a tiny island in East Nusa Tenggara province erupted. The country’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010.
Secret direct US and Iran talks preceded deal in Geneva
A series of private, bilateral meetings between US and Iranian officials preceded public rapprochement between the two nations, Obama administration officials acknowledged on Saturday night. The resumption of direct talks between the two governments — after a hiatus of over three decades — led to an interim deal announced Sunday that will freeze much of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. ”We’ve made clear that we were open to having bilateral discussions with the Iranians,” one senior US official said on a conference call with journalists. “When President [Hassan] Rouhani was elected and indicated a new direction, we decided to take that seriously and to to test it.” The senior US official said that four of the secret US-Iranian meetings took place since Rouhani’s August inauguration, a sign that the United States was trying to exploit the opportunity presented by the Iranian official’s ascent. Most US-Iranian interaction had been made “quite public,” the official said, and the number of talks that were kept private have been “limited.” US officials briefed their Israeli counterparts on substantive conversations on an individual basis. Contrary to the statements from US officials, Channel 2 reported on Sunday evening that Washington tried to hide the talks from Jerusalem at first, but that Israeli intelligence quickly found out about them. This, according to the report, caused an outrage in the Israeli government. More
Saudi prince warns Iran! “We won’t sit Idly By”
In an acerbic interview shortly before the Geneva interim deal was signed, a senior Saudi diplomat issued a rare direct threat to Iran, warning that “all options are available” should the international community fail to rein in Iran’s alleged drive to acquire nuclear weapons. The statement from Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi ambassador to London, came as talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers were in full swing in Geneva. In his interview with the Times of London (paywall) on Friday, Prince Mohammad also voiced unusually abrasive criticism of the West for what he said was a too-soft approach to Iran, calling Washington’s “rush” to engage with Tehran “incomprehensible.” Still, he was adamant in dispelling reports that common interests had driven Riyadh to ally itself with Israel. Still, he was adamant in dispelling reports that common interests had driven Riyadh to ally itself with Israel. “Appeasement hasn’t worked in the past, and I don’t think it will work in the 21st century,” he was quoted as saying. “That is why the frustration really is toward the main players within the United Nations Security Council, that’s their responsibility.
And they will share also the blame, whatever deal comes out, they are responsible for it.” The prince, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah, invoked the prospect of a confrontation with Iran, saying, “We are not going to sit idly by and receive a threat there and not think seriously how we can best defend our country and our region.” He would not deny a report to the effect that one of the West’s greatest fears – a regional nuclear arms race – is already in play, with Saudi Arabia inking a deal with Pakistan to acquire nuclear weapons, only saying, “Let’s just leave it there, all options are available.” Prince Mohammad did, however, deny a recent report in the Sunday Times according to which his country had granted Israel leave to use its airspace, and would even provide Israel with tactical support, should the Jewish state decide to launch an airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “There was “absolutely no approval” for Israel to use Saudi airspace, he reportedly said, before affirming that his country demanded that Israel’s nuclear facilities be subjected to the same treatment as Iran’s. “The whole region will suffer from producing these weapons,” he was quoted as saying. “It happens everyone is talking about Iran, but Israel also has to prove that their program is a peaceful program, as we are demanding from the Iranians.” The Times Of Israel
Iran deal could affect talks on Syria and Palestine
The nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers could pave the way for normalization of ties between Tehran and the West. That prospect alarms Iran’s rivals, including Israel and Saudi Arabia, which argue that Tehran is only being emboldened in its quest for regional dominance. How this plays out depends on whether — for the sake of closer ties with the U.S. and Europe — Iran eventually ends some of the policies that have disturbed the West, such as backing proxy militias in Middle East hot spots. So far, there are no signals from Tehran. Here’s a look at Iran’s regional involvement and the potential impact of the nuclear deal.
SAUDI ARABIA -The Saudi monarchy and other Sunni Muslim rulers in the Arab Gulf are eager to counter Shiite Muslim-led Iran. The Gulf countries view any normalizing of ties between Tehran and the West as a direct threat to their own stability. Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of funding Shiite rebellions in the Gulf countries of Yemen and Bahrain and whipping up fervor among the kingdom’s Shiite minority.
SYRIA - In Syria’s civil war, Iran is siding with President Bashar Assad, while Saudi Arabia is backing rebels trying to topple him. Iran has given significant financial support to Assad and is also believed to have sent military advisers to Syria, trained pro-government militiamen and directed one of its proxies, Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group, to fight alongside Assad’s troops. Saudi Arabia has sent weapons and money to the rebels, most of them Sunnis. It’s unclear what effect the precedent of successful nuclear negotiations will have on Syria’s civil war and on efforts to broker a political resolution to the conflict. The West acknowledges that Iran is a major player in Syria, but the U.S. and the Syrian rebels remain opposed to Tehran taking part in a proposed peace conference that Washington and Russia are trying to convene. Assad ally Russia, meanwhile, wants Iran at the negotiating table. It may all be a moot point, since it’s unclear whether the peace talks will even take place. Assad’s government and the rebels disagree on the ground rules.
IRAQ - Iran and the United States have considerable influence over Shiite and Sunni political groups, respectively, in Iraq. If they were to reach an agreement on Iraq, as they did on the nuclear issue, they could play a major role in defusing sectarian tensions. Such tensions have been running high, with sectarian attacks, including assaults on Shiite and Sunni mosques, taking place almost daily.
ISRAEL – PALESTINIANS – The issue of Iran has loomed in the background of U.S.-mediated negotiations on the terms of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The talks resumed in late July after a five-year break. Israel has argued that it cannot take security risks in a deal with the Palestinians because it faces a potential existential threat from Iran. It could now make that point more forcefully, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintaining that the nuclear deal endangers Israel’s security. The nuclear deal has also strained Israel-U.S. ties and might make it more difficult for Washington to exert pressure on Israel on the Palestinian issue, should it decide to do so. Palestinian negotiators on Sunday praised the nuclear deal as a precedent in which the international community came together to solve a difficult issue. They said the major powers should do the same to try to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has festered for decades. However, the U.S. has been unwilling to share its role of mediator with others, and Israel has been staunchly opposed to broader international involvement in the negotiations. Yahoo
Black ‘hail’ rains down on Italian town after eruption
ITALY – An Italian photographer has filmed a town being blanketed in stone and ash as it fell from the sky like hail stones after Mt Etna erupted again on Saturday. Footage shows the town covered in inches of black ash spewed out by the volcano and pushed hundreds of kilometers across the Strait of Messina from Sicily to the mainland. It rained down from dark cloud above and spread over the town’s streets and cars. Some residents used umbrellas to shield them from the chunks of ash that were almost 2cm in size. Mt Etna has erupted several times this year, one as recently as Saturday 16 November, but its last major eruption was in 1992. There were no evacuations from yesterday’s eruption, but a highway was closed for half-an-hour and four air corridors that service Sicily’s Catania Airport, south of the volcano, were closed for some time. Extinction Protocol
National Day of Prayer Against Pornography Scheduled for December 10th
A Washington-based Christian ethics organization has scheduled a national day of prayer against pornography on Tuesday, December 10th. Morality in Media (MIM) recently announced the day of prayer, urging Christians across the nation to join thousands of others to stand in the gap on behalf of those that struggle with or are affected by porn. “The war on pornography can only be won with the blessing of almighty God, and we humbly join together to seek that blessing,” said MIM President Patrick Trueman. “This day is set aside to help those who are struggling with pornography addictions as well as their families, and to inspire and encourage those involved in this fight.” The organization has listed a number of prayer points on its event page, including that those who are struggling with porn use will receive help, that the spouses of those who view porn will find strength, that children will be protected from exposure, and that those who have been exploited and abused due to porn will find support and comfort. A Washington-based Christian ethics organization has scheduled a national day of prayer against pornography on Tuesday, December 10th. Morality in Media (MIM) recently announced the day of prayer, urging Christians across the nation to join thousands of others to stand in the gap on behalf of those that struggle with or are affected by porn. “The war on pornography can only be won with the blessing of almighty God, and we humbly join together to seek that blessing,” said MIM President Patrick Trueman. “This day is set aside to help those who are struggling with pornography addictions as well as their families, and to inspire and encourage those involved in this fight.” The organization has listed a number of prayer points on its event page, including that those who are struggling with porn use will receive help, that the spouses of those who view porn will find strength, that children will be protected from exposure, and that those who have been exploited and abused due to porn will find support and comfort. More
Supreme Court Orders Obama Admin to Respond to Christian Homeschooling Family’s Appeal
The United States Supreme Court has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Justice to respond to a petition to appeal from a Christian homeschooling family that is fighting deportation to their homeland of Germany. As previously reported, Ewe and Hannelore Romeike have been battling the matter in the courts for several years while continuing to raise their six children in rural Tennessee. The Romeike family fled to the United States in 2008 after German authorities demanded that they stop homeschooling in violation of national law. Homeschooling was made illegal in the country in 1938 under the dictatorship of Adolph Hitler, and the law has never been repealed, but rather strengthened. In 2007, the German Supreme Court ruled that the country’s mandate that children be sent to public school is necessary to “counteract the development of religious and philosophically motivated parallel societies.” German officials have been cracking down on families that keep their sons and daughters at home, and have threatened them with fines, imprisonment and even the removal of the children from the household. The Romeike children were taken from their parents for a time before fleeing to the United States for refuge. More
Sixth Graders Polled On Gay Marriage, Abortion And Gun Control
Parents of a sixth grade student at the Milam Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi were shocked when their daughter brought home a political beliefs worksheet that teachers told students to fill out. The in-class assignment entitled “Are you a Democrat or Republican?” was posted to the “Stop Common Core in Mississippi” Facebook page with a message alleging that the young female student was told not to talk about or take the assignment outside of class, although some parents refute the claim. Regardless, the assignment, written for 11-year-old children, asks students what their beliefs are on such issues as abortion, gun control and gay marriage, before having them tally up their “D” and “R” answers to determine which establishment party they belong to. The worksheet, which has a clear bias towards more government control, goes on to frame such topics as healthcare as supporting care for everyone including the poor if your a Democrat, and essentially denying care to those who cannot afford it if you are a Republican. The paper gives no historical context of the incredible failures of government run healthcare, the millions currently losing their health insurance due to government intervention, or the government’s direct relation to dwindling quality, skyrocketing costs and loss of charity care as the push for government monopoly by both parties’ leadership continues. The section regarding beliefs on military spending attempts to paint the Democratic party as more anti-war and pro-veteran with Republicans supporting more military intervention and bare minimum aid for those who served. Despite the so called anti-war left becoming nearly non-existent as President Obama expands his drone program and foreign entanglements, the reality of the Republican and Democrat leadership’s continued support of groups who kill our soldiers, while ignoring our veterans perils at home, is unsurprisingly absent.
Many parents not only found the assignment highly inappropriate, but question if the assignment was an attempt to gauge families’ political affiliations given the fact that many sixth graders would likely repeat what they heard at home, not having a true personal understanding of the listed topics. The assignment also clearly attempts to push children into the mindset that there are only two political parties and two mainline opinions to hold on any important topic. Just last month, 12-year-old students in Colorado were given a similar assignment as well. A quiz entitled “Righty or Lefty?” had near-identical questions, clearly leading children towards the assumption that government is the answer to all issues facing the country. In similar fashion, parents in Arkansas were shocked to learn that their sixth grade students were being asked to revise the “outdated” Bill of Rights after an assignment informed them that the U.S. government decided that it “may not remain in its current form any longer.” Other outrages, such as fourth grade students in Illinois being forced to read a biography of the president that labels all white voters as inherently racist, have contributed to the rise in homeschooling as parents reject the MSNBC talking point that all children belong to the “collective” and not their parents. Info Wars
Nuclear Agreement May Result in Israel and Saudi Arabia Attacking Iran
WARS N RUMORS OF WARS: Israel and Saudi Arabia may cooperate in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities following the announcement of a six-month interim agreement between the P5+1 and Iran on Sunday in Geneva. Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, characterized the agreement as a major success. He said Iran will cooperate with the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Iran’s recently elected president, Hassan Rouhani, said the agreement is evidence the world now recognizes Iran has nuclear rights. “While today’s announcement is just a first step, it achieves a great deal,” the Obama administration said in a statement. “For the first time in nearly a decade, we have halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program, and key parts of the program will be rolled back.” Obama added a caveat. He said the United States will “ratchet up” sanctions if Iran fails to follow the agreement. Secretary of State John Kerry, who represented the United States at the conference in Geneva, said Iran has yet to demonstrate that it is not seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
The agreement stipulates that Iran will stop enriching uranium over 5% and dismantle its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium. A nuclear weapon requires uranium enriched over 90%. In addition to IAEA inspections, Iran has also agreed to stop construction on its heavy water reactor at Arak. Officials in Israel reacted predictably after the deal was reached. “What was concluded in Geneva last night is not a historic agreement, it’s a historic mistake,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned. “It’s not made the world a safer place. Like the agreement with North Korea in 2005, this agreement has made the world a much more dangerous place.” The Saudi royals also expressed outrage. Earlier this month, the Sunday Times reported that Saudi Arabia agreed to allow Israel use of its air space. The Saudis said they would provide drones, tanker planes and helicopters for an Israeli attack on Iran. The newspaper said Mossad was working closely with Saudi intelligence and they were making preparations in the event a deal was reached in Switzerland. “Once the Geneva agreement is signed, the military option will be back on the table.
The Saudis are furious and are willing to give Israel all the help it needs,” a source said. Netanyahu and Israeli officials attempted to persuade the United States to reject a compromise. The Israeli president said any agreement would directly threaten the existence of his country. “It is highly unlikely that the Saudis and Israelis would want to attack Iran because at the end of the day both countries would be losers, they would be seen as aggressors and obviously the Iranians would retaliate,” Iranian political analyst Seyed Mohammad Marandi said after the Sunday Times published its report. “It would create an economic catastrophe for the world and only the Saudis and the Israelis would be to blame.” Egyptian officials, according to WorldNetDaily reporter and blogger Aaron Klein, confirmed that Israeli personnel recently visited Saudi Arabia and inspected military bases. “The officials said Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and other Arab and Persian Gulf countries have been discussing the next steps toward possible strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites,” Klein writes today. Klein also notes the United States told Israel and the Saudis it controls radar capabilities over Iran and that no strike should be launched without permission from the Obama administration. MoreDevastating effects of antibiotic overuse strike Europe as ‘superbugs’ develop resistance to last-line antibiotics
The most powerful class of antibiotics known to man appears to be losing its ability to fight deadly infections in Europe, says the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). A recent announcement by this European Union (EU) monitoring agency warns that carbapenems, an extremely powerful class of antibiotics typically used as a last resort when all else fails, are simply no match to the many emerging “superbugs” that have developed resistance to them. This latest round of warnings, which follows several years’ worth of previous warnings, draws fresh attention to the continued overuse and misuse of antibiotics all around the world. With each passing year, more and more infection types are failing to respond to carbapenems, which means that all available conventional options for treating and defeating them have basically been exhausted. ECDC also says there has been a sharp uptick in resistance rates just within the past four years, especially in Southern Europe. ”Carbapenems are the last-line class of antibiotics, so the situation is really worrying,” says ECDC director Marc Sprenger. “Since 2009, it has become increasingly common for hospitals to be faced with treating patients that have carbapenem-resistant infections, often meaning that old and toxic drugs are used.”
According to the latest data gathered by ECDC, almost every European country now has documented cases of carbapenem-resistant infections at hospitals. In some areas of Southern and Eastern Europe, including in Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Romania and Slovakia, as many as 5 percent of Klebsiella pneumoniae infections are resistant. And as for the Acinetobacter bacteria, as many as 25 percent of infections in at least eight of the 18 reporting countries are resistant. ”We need to find ways to use valuable antimicrobial drugs more wisely and to develop new drugs and treatments,” says Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science. The EU recently approved funding for a joint project between Switzerland-based drug giant Roche and Polyphor to develop and commercialize an experimental antibiotic that the two companies say might be able to help fight hospital superbugs. Since most of the world’s major drug companies are focused on other projects unrelated to antibiotics, the goal is to help fill this gap and develop new therapies to overcome the superbug epidemic. More
Israel vows ‘whatever is necessary’ to stop Iran
Israel will do “whatever is necessary” to stop Iran from going nuclear, declared Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon in a radio interview Sunday. Speaking on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s WABC Radio, Danon warned all options are on the table after Iran and six world powers reached what is being described as an historic deal. “We were not part of the negotiations,” he said. “We have not signed this agreement. And we will do whatever is necessary to protect Israel.” Danon said, “We cannot allow ourselves to make a mistake. If it is a bad agreement and Iran is playing with the world, maybe the Western superpowers can afford to make such a mistake. It is not the case for Israel.” Israel will do “whatever is necessary” to stop Iran from going nuclear, declared Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon in a radio interview Sunday. Speaking on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s WABC Radio, Danon warned all options are on the table after Iran and six world powers reached what is being described as an historic deal. “We were not part of the negotiations,” he said. “We have not signed this agreement. And we will do whatever is necessary to protect Israel.” Danon said, “We cannot allow ourselves to make a mistake. If it is a bad agreement and Iran is playing with the world, maybe the Western superpowers can afford to make such a mistake. It is not the case for Israel.” WND
Obama briefs Netanyahu on Iran nuclear deal, seeks to reassure PM
US President Barack Obama called Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu on Sunday from Air Force One to discuss the interim agreement struck between world powers and Iran over its controversial nuclear program. In the call, Obama told Netanyahu that the P5+1 — the US, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany — would use the next several months to forge a “lasting, peaceful and comprehensive” solution to the slow-motion nuclear crisis causing consternation throughout the Middle East. ”The president told the Prime Minister that he wants the United States and Israel to begin consultations immediately regarding our efforts to negotiate a comprehensive solution,” the White House said in a readout of the call. ”The President underscored that the United States will remain firm in our commitment to Israel, which has good reason to be skeptical about Iran’s intentions.” While the White House said both leaders expressed their mutual desire to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, it did not acknowledge any disagreement voiced in the phone call. Netanyahu on Sunday called the deal, hailed by the US, a “historic mistake” that would make the region more dangerous tomorrow than it was before. After a hard series of negotiations, Iran agreed late Saturday night to pause much of its nuclear program, including construction on its heavy-water plutonium reactor in Arak and the installation of advanced centrifuges made to efficiently enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels. Iran also agreed to allow unfettered access to its nuclear sites and to dilute stockpiles of uranium already thoroughly enriched. In exchange, the Islamic will attain relief from financial sanctions from the international community valued at up to $7 billion. Jerusalem Post
Calm solar cycle prompts questions about impact on Earth
The surface of the sun has been surprisingly calm of late — with fewer sunspots than anytime in in the last century — prompting curious scientists to wonder just what it might mean here on Earth. Sunspots have been observed for millennia — first by Chinese astronomers and then, for the first time with a telescope, by Galileo in 1610. The sunspots appear in roughly 11-year cycles — increasing to a daily flurry and then subsiding drastically, before amping up again. But this cycle — dubbed cycle 24 — has surprised scientists with its sluggishness. The number of spots counted since it kicked off in December 2008 is well below the average observed over the last 250 years. In fact, it’s less than half. ”It is the weakest cycle the sun has been in for all the space age, for 50 years,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association physicist Doug Biesecker told AFP. The intense electromagnetic energy from sunspots has a significant impact on the sun’s ultraviolet and X-ray emissions as well as on solar storms. More
West braces for more Severe Weather
The U.S. West faced more stormy weather Saturday after a powerful system buffeted several states, stranding drivers in Nevada, forcing the postponement of sports games in Arizona, causing water rescues in California, and leading to the deaths of four people. The system was expected to head east and reach the opposite coast by the middle of next week, but not before hitting the Southwest again with rain, snow and wind, forecasters said. Parts of northern New Mexico have already received a dusting of snow, but forecasters say the latest storm to bear down on the state is far from over. The National Weather Service in Albuquerque said the brunt of the storm is expected to cross into New Mexico on Saturday, bringing widespread snow through the rest of the weekend, frigid temps and gusty winds. The fierce weather was linked to three deaths in California. Officials and news reports said the death of a person Thursday near downed power lines and a tree was being investigated in Oakland, another person died in Oakland after the man crashed into a fallen tree while apparently trying to avoid debris, and a 52-year-old woman died in Yuba County when a tree fell on the parked car in which she was sitting. More
Police getting armored vehicles left over from Iraq…
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. — Coming soon to your local sheriff: 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass that were once the U.S. answer to roadside bombs during the Iraq war. The hulking vehicles, built for about $500,000 each at the height of the war, are among the biggest pieces of equipment that the Defense Department is giving to law enforcement agencies under a national military surplus program. For police and sheriff’s departments, which have scooped up 165 of the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPS, since they became available this summer, the price and the ability to deliver shock and awe while serving warrants or dealing with hostage standoffs was just too good to pass up. ”It’s armored. It’s heavy. It’s intimidating. And it’s free,” said Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, among five county sheriff’s departments and three other police agencies in New York that have taken delivery of an MRAP. But the trucks have limits. They are too big to travel on some bridges and roads and have a tendency to be tippy on uneven ground. And then there’s some cost of retrofitting them for civilian use and fueling the 36,000-pound behemoths that get about 5 miles to the gallon. More
US banks warn Fed interest cut could force them to charge depositors
Leading US banks have warned that they could start charging companies and consumers for deposits if the US Federal Reserve cuts the interest it pays on bank reserves. Depositors already have to cope with near-zero interest rates, but paying just to leave money in the bank would be highly unusual and unwelcome for companies and households. The warning by bank executives highlights the dangers of one strategy the Fed could use to offset an eventual “tapering” of the $85bn a month in asset purchases that have fuelled global financial markets for the last year. Minutes of the Fed’s October meeting published last week showed it was heading towards a taper in the coming months – perhaps as soon as December – but wants to find a different way to add stimulus at the same time. “Most” officials thought a cut in the interest on bank reserves was an option worth considering. Executives at two of the top five US banks said a cut in the 0.25 per cent rate of interest on the $2.4tn in reserves they hold at the Fed would lead them to pass on the cost to depositors. Banks say they may have to charge because taking in deposits is not free: they have to pay premiums of a few basis points to a US government insurance programme. More
Kerry defends Iran deal: ‘It’s not a question of trust’
On the morning after President Obama announced a breakthrough in international talks in Geneva to halt Iran’s nuclear program, Secretary of State John F. Kerry hit the Sunday-morning talk-show circuit to defend the deal. Mr. Kerry pushed back at critics, including U.S. lawmakers and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have said the proposal will allow Iran to continue to make progress on a nuclear weapon. Asked on CNN if he trusts Iran, Mr. Kerry said: “None of this is based on trust. It’s not a question of trust.
It’s a question of having the verification and the intrusive inspections … so that you are in fact creating a fail-safe mechanism by which you are making your judgments.” Mr. Kerry said the agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for a gradual easing of economic sanctions takes a realistic approach and will make the world safer for allies such as Israel. “This negotiation is not the art of fantasy or the art of the ideal,” he told ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.” “It’s the art of the possible, which is verifiable and clear in its capacity to be able to make Israel and the region safer.” He said Iran’s 3.5 percent uranium stock will be “frozen” at its current level and subject to daily inspections, although critics say the United States is not being aggressive enough. More
State confirms health website security breach
Officials overseeing the Vermont Health Connect website confirmed Friday there was a security breach on the system last month in which one user got improper access to another user’s Social Security number and other data. A report from state to federal officials overseeing the health insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act said a consumer reported the incident with the Vermont Health Connect website on Oct. 17. The consumer, whom officials would not identify, reported that he received in the mail — from an unnamed sender — a copy of his own application for insurance under the state exchange. “On the back of the envelope was hand-written ‘VERMONT HEALTH CONNECT IS NOT A SECURE WEBSITE!’ This was also (written) on the back of the last page of the printed out application,” said the incident report. The report was prepared by Greg Needle, privacy administrator with Vermont Health Connect, and filed with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Associated Press obtained it after a request under the state public records law to the Department of Vermont Health Access. More
More than 11,000 Syrian children killed in civil war,
More than 11,000 children have been killed in the nearly three-year civil war in Syria, including young boys and girls who were tortured and executed, according to a report from a London-based think tank. The Oxford Research Group said that most of the 11,420 children reported dead were killed in explosions, and many others were shot to death. Teenage boys were most likely to be the victims of targeted killings, according to the report, entitled “Stolen Futures: The Hidden Toll of Child Casualties in Syria.” ”What is most disturbing about the findings of this report is not only the sheer numbers of children killed in this conflict, but the way they are being killed,” co-author Hana Salama said in a statement. More than 1,000 children were either summarily executed (764) or killed by snipers (389), the report foundSome 112 children, even infants, were tortured before being killed. And what’s worse, deaths of children are “mounting,” the report said. Both Syrian troops and rebel groups have been blamed for targeting civilians. ”The world needs to take a much closer interest in the effects of the conflict on Syria’s children,” Salama said. The report authors called for the warring sides to stop using explosives in places where children live and play. The Oxford Research Group said Aleppo Governorate was the site of the most child deaths, with 2,223. The statistics are taken from the casualty lists of Syrian organizations from March 2011 to August 2013 and include only named victims. In June, the United Nations said at least 6,500 children had been killed since the start of the war. ”There are … well-documented cases of individual children being tortured and executed, and entire families, including babies, being massacred,” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said at the time. The overall death toll topped 100,000 in late July, the U.N. announced. The U.N. says that more than 2.1 million people have fled Syria, which has about 22.5 million residents. CNN
Japan warns of ‘unpredictable events’ over China’s new air zone
Tokyo – Japan warned Sunday of the danger of “unpredictable events” and South Korea voiced regret following China’s unilateral declaration of an air defence zone over areas claimed by Tokyo and Seoul. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said his country was considering making stronger protests “at a higher level” after China announced Saturday it was setting up the zone over an area that includes Tokyo-controlled islands claimed by Beijing. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Saturday they were “deeply concerned” at China’s move and were committed to defending Japan. China said it was setting up the “air defence identification zone” over an area including the islands in the East China Sea to guard against “potential air threats”. It released a set of aircraft identification rules that must be followed by planes entering the area. Kishida told reporters Japan cannot accept the Chinese measure, calling it “a one-sided action which leads us to assume the danger of unpredictable events on the spot”. More
Iran Launches ‘Massive’ War Drills
Iranian military forces launched a series of “massive military drills” across nine provinces on Wednesday following an order by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to state media reports. The drills, codenamed “Towards Jerusalem,” will continue over the coming days and throughout the rest of the year. At least three battalions of Iran’s “fast reaction” Basij Force participated in the drills, which come as Western nations and Iran try to finalize a deal aimed at halting the country’s contested nuclear program. A lieutenant commander of one of the volunteer fighting battalions said that the drills are meant to show off Iran’s ability to confront enemies at key points across the country, according to Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency. “The main purpose for these war games is to retain preparedness and increase the combat capability of the forces to confront any possible move by domestic and foreign enemies,” Hossein Karimi, lieutenant commander of the Golestan’s Neynava Corps, was quoted as saying. Additional fighting brigades will enter the war games over the next few days and at other points throughout the year, according to Karimi. State-run media published multiple pictures of the armed Iranian forces battling through explosions and taking enemy forces hostage. The “Towards Jerusalem” military drills began on the same day that Iran dispatched a destroyer, helicopter carrier warship, and heavy submarine to East Asian waters. These military maneuvers also come just a day after back-to-back blasts at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 23 and wounded more than 100 others. More
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Moretti Fine Art shows fine works by Italian masters in Shanghai for the first time
The Master of Memphis (Florence, active c.1500-1510), The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and two shepherds. Oil on panel, diameter: 112 cm.
SHANGHAI.- Exhibiting at the Shanghai Fine Jewellery and Art Fair (Stand G5) at the Shanghai Exhibition Center (SEC), China, from 3 to 11 November 2012 for the first time, Moretti Fine Art presents fine works by masters of the Italian Renaissance and other periods to this new and exciting market.
One of the highlights is a Florentine tondo, depicting The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and two shepherds by The Master of Memphis (active c.1500-1510). When this panel appeared at auction in 1961 it was catalogued as by Filippino Lippi (c.1457-1504), son and pupil of Fra Filippo Lippi (c.1406-1459), but scholars, including Everett Fahy, Jonathan Nelson and Patrizia Zambrano, have subsequently attributed this tender devotional image to the anonymous Master of Memphis. The latter, an unidentified assistant to Filippino, has been dubbed the Master of Memphis after a work in the collection of the Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee. His paintings can be identified by the characteristically long and slender fingers and toes of his figures, their rather abrupt gestures and voluminous drapery, with numerous folds and pleats, all of which are evident in this work. This tondo is similar to works attributed to Filippino himself, and thus also demonstrates the influence of Fra Filippo Lippi and Botticelli. There is a particular, obvious delight in the details of the landscape in the background, the tiny plants and grasses in the foreground as well as the hazy blue mountains and towers of the town in the distance that is typical of Filippino.
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Home→Collections→CrossroadsIN THE NEWSCrossroadsFIND MORE STORIES ABOUT:LoveDelray BeachBandMeetingYoung People| MoreFEATURED ARTICLESLIFESTYLETeaching at the crossroadsAugust 24, 2012Meet another member of South Florida's many-sided faith community. This week we're talking with Wendy E. Lockard, eighth grade teacher at St. Jerome Catholic School Fort Lauderdale. Q: Isn't it hard to teach eighth grade? It seems to be a difficult period of life. A: They face many challenges. They're emerging adults with their own ideas. I like to be at the crossroads and help them decide what's best for their lives. Q: Yet you went into dance for awhile? A: For its freedom.ARTICLES BY DATEHOMECrossroads Financial golf tournament to benefit March of DimesOctober 9, 2013Crossroads Financial invites executives to participate in its fifth annual golf tournament Oct. 25 at Delaire Country Club in Delray Beach . Proceeds from the event will benefit March of Dimes, a 75-year-old organization that assists mothers to have full-term pregnancies, and researches the problems that threaten the health of babies. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m., and a lunch buffet will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by a shotgun start at 1 p.m. The cost is $225 for an individual golfer, or $900 for a foursome. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/44 | {"url": "http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/keyword/crossroads", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "articles.sun-sentinel.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:43:38Z", "digest": "sha1:54224JTQGEWSVY2UN7DHDZGRJ77MZ4ZI"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1295, 1295.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1295, 1354.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1295, 1.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1295, 3.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1295, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1295, 253.3]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1295, 0.33207547]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1295, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1295, 0.00954198]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1295, 0.02671756]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1295, 0.04528302]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1295, 0.22641509]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1295, 0.72222222]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1295, 5.29292929]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1295, 4.77298112]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1295, 198.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 1295, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 1295, 198.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 1295, 0.02329317]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 1295, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 1295, 0.0988417]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1295, 0.03268749]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1295, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1295, 0.15909773]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1295, -73.78974357]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1295, -9.45144042]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1295, -58.31732317]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1295, 23.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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The School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies is based at the Caulfield campus and houses the Journalism program, the National Centre for Australian Studies and the Monash Indigenous Centre.
The School has an innovative teaching and research culture with strong performance in competitive grants and publications. It has a particularly strong record in collaborative research with partners from government and industry, and staff in the School have leading roles in three of the Faculty of Art’s ten Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grants. Examples of current projects include:
a centenary history of ANZAC Day, led by Professor Bruce Scates (in partnership with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs);
a major biography of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, by Professor Jenny Hocking (in partnership with the National Library of Australia and the National Archives);
a detailed study of heritage tourism and the historical landscapes of Australia, Asia and the Pacific by Monash Fellow Dr Keir Reeves; and
an ARC Discovery project on Aboriginal visual histories by Professor Lynette Russell and ARC Future Fellow Dr Jane Lydon.
The School is highly interdisciplinary, with research strengths including: areas of media practice; journalism and democracy; investigative journalism; the media reporting of climate change; Indigenous history and contemporary issues; Australian studies; biography and biographical studies; tourism and heritage; sport and society; publishing studies; dance and fashion; cultural policy and creative industries.
The School has a strong commitment to public engagement, staging major public events and contributing regularly to public forums, journalism and media commentary. The National Centre for Australian Studies has a program of National Conversations, the Journalism area has established a high profile in public journalism and the Monash Indigenous Centre plays an important role in public engagement around indigenous issues. Recent books published within the school have gained major public attention, notably Professor Jenny Hocking’s Gough Whitlam: People, Party, Politics and Dr Tony Moore’s Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868, both of which were listed for non-fiction book prizes. Research fellow, Dr Tim Soutphommasane is a senior project leader at the think tank Per Capita and a regular columnist for the Weekend Australian.
International collaboration is also seen as a key aspect of the school’s activities in particular through Journalism’s Global Environmental Journalism Initiative linking eight Australian and European universities and through the international collaborative teaching engagements fostered by Journalism and the National Centre for Australian Studies.
The success of JAIS in its mission to provide excellent teaching in its wide range of programs is measured by student enrolments, which are very strong across all of the School’s offerings, and by student satisfaction as measured by regular surveys conducted independently by the University.
The School’s strong commitment to teaching has seen a number of staff recognised for their efforts at both University and Faculty level. Associate Professor Philip Chubb, for example, received a Dean’s commendation in 2010 for his teaching of Environmental Journalism, which is a popular third year unit that provides students with the knowledge and skills to write on climate change at the local and global level. The 2011 students went one step further and the unit was evaluated as such a success that it was placed in the top three per cent university-wide.
National Centre for Australian Studies
The National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS) is Australia’s leading research and teaching centre in Australian Studies with a proven reputation for excellence in teaching, quality research supervision and significant staff and graduate student publication. Our teaching is distinguished by an interdisciplinary approach, innovative use of experiential field trips within Australia and overseas, and industry engagement within our post-graduate programs. NCAS offers a growing interdisciplinary research program for students undertaking PhDs in Australian Studies, Communications and Media Studies, Tourism and Publishing and Editing, and is a centre for research on war and memory, sport, creative cultural industries, Australia’s relationship to the world, political movements and the national project. Tourism and travel research is a growing specialisation through our new Australia-International Tourism Research Unit (AITRU). NCAS fosters national and international research collaborations with partners right across Asia and the world, attracts highly competitive research funding from leading national and international agencies, builds linkages to industry and the wider community in innovative and successful research collaborations and boasts a team of internationally acclaimed experts in the field of Australian Studies offering quality supervision to quality students.
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Journalism at Monash is the largest and most stimulating undergraduate program in Australia. It combines a practice-based approach with rigorous professional and intellectual standards. Students are taught by journalists who are at the top of their field, including permanent staff members who between them have won all of Australia’s most prestigious journalism and television awards. Members of staff have experience at senior levels in all media: newspapers, radio, television and the web.
Journalism students have access to a vast range of electives from the Arts Faculty and other parts of Australia's largest university and can create a degree that suits their own interests and aspirations.
Monash Journalism is an exciting place to be, both for students who want a career in journalism, and for those who are still deciding their futures but want excellent research and communication skills.
Journalism is an essential component of a free, democratic society, holding to account powerful vested interests such as governments, corporations, unions, churches and other institutions. Through a vibrant journalistic culture, citizens can make informed choices about how they live their lives, how they vote, what they do with their money, how they live in their environments and which movies and sports they go to see.
Huge structural changes enabled by the internet are taking place in the media worldwide. While these will test some media outlets, they will also create exciting opportunities and new jobs. Whatever the fallout, the world will still need well-trained journalists to produce hard news stories, features, and intelligent analysis.
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Monash Indigenous Centre
The Monash Indigenous Centre is a multi-purpose centre engaged in research and teaching of Indigenous Studies and support of Indigenous students. It is a centre to bring together Monash University’s Indigenous research and education and community engagement in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
The Centre promotes interdisciplinary approaches to improve understandings of Indigenous cultures, languages, history, colonialism, reconciliation, post-colonialism and decolonisation.
Staff members of MIC have received awards for excellence in teaching and research supervision and researchers are internationally renowned for their interdisciplinary approaches to Indigenous Studies in anthropology, archaeology and history.
A monthly seminar series, publications, conferences and public talks all contribute to the commitment of the Centre to promote Indigenous Studies in Australia and overseas.
The Monash Indigenous Centre offers undergraduate subjects that can be taken as Minor or Major towards an Arts Degree. Individual units can be taken as elective subjects. The Centre also offers Honours, postgraduate coursework, Masters by research and PhD degrees.
Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students are welcome.
Monash Country Lines Archive
Housed within the Monash Indigenous Centre is the Monash Country Lines Archive project. This archive has been developed in conjunction with Monash University’s Faculty of IT. The Archive’s primary aim is to record and preserve Australia’s Indigenous languages through the medium of animation and to develop ways to assist in the cross generational transfer of knowledge. The Centre will work to promote, preserve and celebrate Indigenous histories, stories and narratives via internationally significant research; and present these in national and international forums, primarily through advanced virtual technologies such as 3D animation, as well as academic outputs and its collections.
Indigenous students are encouraged to consider tertiary study as an option for their future through Monash University’s entry options for Indigenous students.
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May 4, 9:40 am Winning Isn’t Everything: ‘Lombardi’ to Close on Broadway
By PATRICK HEALY Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Dan Lauria in the title role in “Lombardi.”
“Lombardi,” the play that tried to draw men to Broadway with a story about the legendary Green Bay Packers coach, will close on May 22 after a total of 30 preview performances and 244 regular performances, its producers said on Tuesday night.
Previously scheduled to run through June 19, “Lombardi” is leaving the field after receiving only one 2011 Tony Award nomination, announced Tuesday morning, for best featured actress in a play for Judith Light, who plays Vince Lombardi’s wife, Marie. The production took in $155,898 for its eight performances through Sunday, just 21 percent of the maximum possible and the lowest dollar total earned by a Broadway show last week.
Despite mixed reviews from critics in October, “Lombardi” survived the relatively fallow winter months on Broadway as the only brand-new drama of the fall season to keep running.
The producers, which included the National Football League, had hoped to capitalize on the Packers’ victory in the Super Bowl in February. The play was praised by game commentators, and the actor Dan Lauria, who plays Lombardi, made an appearance in character in a taped segment during the Fox Sports coverage of the game.
A press representative for the show said that the producers had no comment on whether it would earn back its capitalization, believed to be in the $2 million range, before closing. Few Broadway plays turn a profit.
Some “Lombardi” producers are now working to bring another sports-oriented play to Broadway in 2012: “Magic/Bird,” based on the lives of the basketball players Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. Feb 8, 11:40 am Producers Hope Packers’ Championship Glow Shines on ‘Lombardi’
By PATRICK HEALY The producers of the Broadway play “Lombardi” are hoping for a halo effect at the box office from the Green Bay Packers’ victory in Sunday night’s Super Bowl, ordering championship T-shirts to display at the theater, inviting Packers players to see the show, and planning a springtime media campaign linking the play to that storied N.F.L. franchise’s fourth Super Bowl win.
Tony Ponturo, one of the lead producers of the play about the legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi, said in an interview that his marketing team would highlight the Super Bowl win on new fliers, e-mail blasts and signage in the lobby of the Circle in the Square Theater. He also said that the show’s spring advertising buy on television and radio would almost certainly include references to the Packers’ victory in Sunday night’s second-half nail-biter against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The N.F.L. is a producer of the play, as is a group called Friends of Lombardi, which includes many Packers’ boosters.
Written by Eric Simonson and directed by Thomas Kail (“In the Heights”), “Lombardi” is the only brand-new drama from the fall 2010 Broadway season to remain on the boards this winter, an indication that the producers have been earning at least enough to cover weekly running costs. Last week was slow at its box office (and across Broadway), though, with “Lombardi” grossing $274,019 — about 38 percent of the maximum possible amount that the play could have earned during the run. Read more… | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/46 | {"url": "http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/lombardi/?scp=22&sq=simonson%20lombardi&st=cse", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:48:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PJDCQ35PR4NS4BZCHFXWMPROCYXX7RMJ"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 3346, 3346.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 3346, 5523.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 3346, 12.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 3346, 59.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 3346, 0.96]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 3346, 210.9]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 3346, 0.3480826]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 3346, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 3346, 0.04189636]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 3346, 0.0183756]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 3346, 0.01874311]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 3346, 0.01396545]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 3346, 0.01917404]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 3346, 0.08333333]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 3346, 0.18584071]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 3346, 0.52545455]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 3346, 4.94727273]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 3346, 0.00147493]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 3346, 5.13919221]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 3346, 550.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 27, 0.0], [27, 100, 0.0], [100, 194, 1.0], [194, 437, 1.0], [437, 868, 1.0], [868, 1047, 1.0], [1047, 1370, 1.0], [1370, 1585, 1.0], [1585, 1854, 0.0], [1854, 2246, 1.0], [2246, 2854, 1.0], [2854, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 27, 0.0], [27, 100, 0.0], [100, 194, 0.0], [194, 437, 0.0], [437, 868, 0.0], [868, 1047, 0.0], [1047, 1370, 0.0], [1370, 1585, 0.0], [1585, 1854, 0.0], [1854, 2246, 0.0], [2246, 2854, 0.0], [2854, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 27, 4.0], [27, 100, 12.0], [100, 194, 16.0], [194, 437, 42.0], [437, 868, 69.0], [868, 1047, 28.0], [1047, 1370, 54.0], [1370, 1585, 37.0], [1585, 1854, 41.0], [1854, 2246, 64.0], [2246, 2854, 100.0], [2854, 3346, 83.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 27, 0.0], [27, 100, 0.05797101], [100, 194, 0.0], [194, 437, 0.02941176], [437, 868, 0.03333333], [868, 1047, 0.0], [1047, 1370, 0.0], [1370, 1585, 0.00478469], [1585, 1854, 0.03448276], [1854, 2246, 0.0], [2246, 2854, 0.0], [2854, 3346, 0.02505219]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 27, 0.0], [27, 100, 0.0], [100, 194, 0.0], [194, 437, 0.0], [437, 868, 0.0], [868, 1047, 0.0], [1047, 1370, 0.0], [1370, 1585, 0.0], [1585, 1854, 0.0], [1854, 2246, 0.0], [2246, 2854, 0.0], [2854, 3346, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 27, 0.33333333], [27, 100, 0.09589041], [100, 194, 0.23404255], [194, 437, 0.02880658], [437, 868, 0.0324826], [868, 1047, 0.02234637], [1047, 1370, 0.04334365], [1370, 1585, 0.01395349], [1585, 1854, 0.06319703], [1854, 2246, 0.07397959], [2246, 2854, 0.03618421], [2854, 3346, 0.02642276]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 3346, 0.61884898]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 3346, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 3346, 0.98304719]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 3346, -169.90631371]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 3346, 91.11341892]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 3346, -24.18769618]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 3346, 23.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
Who was Robert Filliou?
Born January 17, 1926, Sauve, FranceDied 1987, Les EyziesRobert Filliou, a member of Fluxus, the 1960's performance group that specialized in esthetic nonevents, believed that art didn't have to express itself in the form of objects. He saw it as a form of play that could even occur as unrealized notions. His minimal-impact works are apt to be made of string, cardboard and wood, the vehicles for stray, vaguely poetic ideas and images. Filliou's ephemeral works undermine heavy notions of what art is or should be. Filliou said "I am not just interested in art, but in society of which art is one aspect. I am interested in the world as a whole, a whole of which society is one part. I am interested in the universe, of which the world is only one fragment. I am interested primarily in the Constant Creation of which the universe is only one product." For him, the work of art was a means of direct action on the world. Filliou attempted to integrate all the acts in life with artistic duty, "without worrying about whether the works are distributed or not": "When you make , it is art, when you finish, it is non-art, when you exhibit, it is anti-art."Robert Filliou was part of the Resistance movement organized by the communists and became a member of the French Communist Party during the war; he worked as a labourer for Coca Cola in Los Angeles; achieved a masters in economics; had a dual French-American nationality; while working as a United Nations advisor he was sent to Korea for three years to help write the Constitution and take part in the programmes for economic reconstruction of the country; from there, he travelled in the Far East; he lived in Egypt, Spain and Denmark, where he met Marianne Staffels, the woman with whom he would share his life and his artistic activity. This exceedingly accomplished man and world travellere was not attached to any country and said of nationality " nationality = poet, profession = French".In 1960, Robert Filliou designed his first visual work, Le Collage de l'immortelle mort du monde [Collage of the Immortal Death of the World], a transcription of a random theatre play comparable to a chessboard on which all sorts of individual experiences are expressed 3. In 1961, at the Addi Kôcpke gallery (Copenhagen), his first personal exhibition, Suspens Poems, was organized, made up of poems in the form of postal dispatches.In 1962, determined to remain outside the exhibition circuit, Robert Filliou carried his gallery in his hat. He became his own exhibition space: "La Galerie Légitime" [The Legitimate Gallery]. His works, gathered together in his beret and stamped "Galerie Légitime Couvre Chef d'Oeuvre" [Legitimate Gallery Masterpiece Hat], circulated in the streets with him (the idea is reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp's suitcase). He then met George Maciunas, the centralizer of the activities of Fluxus. "La Galerie Légitime" invited several artists to exhibit in it. This was an art made up of attitudes and gestures, rather than saleable works.In 1963, with the architect Joachim Pfeufer, he created the Poïpoïdrome 4 project, a meeting place and centre for "Permanent Creation" located at the crossroads between two currents: action and reflection. There was nothing to "learn" in order to participate: what the users knew was enough. In 1965, with George Brecht, Robert Filliou founded the gallery "La Cédille qui sourit" 5 [The Smiling Cedilla) in Villefranche-sur-Mer, although it was usually closed because the artists were at the local café: "In my opinion, that's where you get your best ideas". They then founded "Eternal Network, La Fête Permanente" [Eternal Network, The Constant Festival]: "The artist must be aware that he is part of a larger social network, part of the "Constant Festival" which surrounds him everywhere and elsewhere in the world."After the filmographical experiments of "La Cédille qui sourit", he made Hommage à Méliès [Hommage to Méliès] with George Brecht and Bob Guiny to express their delight in their wonderment at the simplicity of the old silent films and, with Emmett Williams, Double Happening, Contribution for Happening & Fluxus, a performance staged in the women's toilets at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. with the König publishing company in Cologne, he published a "pluri-book", Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts: happenings, events, action poetry, environments, visual poetry, films, street theatre, non-instrumental music, games, exchanges of letters, etc.In 1971, he created "la République géniale"[the Republic of Genius]: people enter its territory to develop their genius rather than their talent. Research is no longer the privileged domain of the person who knows, but of the person who does not know. In Le Petit Robert Filliou, he defined, among other things, the principles of Poetic Economics for which a scale of values had to be worked out.His films are above all made of humour, derision and random elements, closely linked to the spirit of Fluxus.On January 17th 1973, with the idea of uniting people of all times, he celebrated the 1,000,010th Anniversary of Art at the Neue Galerie der Stadt in Aachen. "Art must return to the people to which it belongs." As 10 years had gone by since Filliou had begun his "Histoire chuchotée de l'art"[Whispered History of Art], 1,000,010 years corresponded to the arbitrary date of Man's appearance on Earth. The artist was working on the search for the origin and proposed a new concept, "The Prebiological Genius".In 1977, Robert Filliou was living in Canada, where he made several videos. It was not the medium itself which interested him. The artist, who never worried about creating "works of art", chose any material as long as it conveyed his ideas and thoughts, and as long as it linked the territories of geniuses one to the other. It was in this sense that he used video, not only to keep a record of his performances as many artists have been doing since the 1960s, but also so that he could circulate his work: "To contact the audience that we want, I think it's video that will do it". He imagined a "Video-Universe-City" 6 project as a means of propagating Constant Creation.With his wife Marianne, Robert Filliou withdrew for 3 years 3 months and 3 days to a Buddhist centre at Les Eyzies in the Dordogne (France). In 1987, he produced his last work, Time is a Nutshell, made up of several walnuts emptied so that they could contain a few words. in December 2nd, Robert Filliou died, like a Buddhist, after seeking enlightenment through the texts of the Veda and through Fluxus. Posted by
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Hi! Thanks for the great information you have provided! You have touched on crucuial points! artistic
Bonjour,Une amie possède plusieurs "tableaux", manières de grande photographies qui représentent des sortes de bordereaux d'envois de la Poste. Ils sont signés Rt Fillion. S'agirait-il du Robert Fillion (Fillou?) que vous évoquez dans l'article? Si c'est le cas, auriez-vous des informations sur cet artiste, svp. A l'avance merci.Philippe Lacoche ([email protected])
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Atheism's 10 Commandments
p>I saw a display recently on “Atheism’s 10 Commandments.” In fact, it was brought to my attention by somebody who asked if I had been involved in creating it because it sounds so much like me. When I listened to it, I was horrified to think that people would see that and think of me.
Okay, ‘horrified’ is too strong a word. I was stricken with the need to clarify where I would disagree with these 10 commandments and, in fact, why I would be disinclined to write a set of commandments to start with.
On the issue of having commandments at all, I have often compared atheism to heleocentrism (the view that the sun, rather than the earth, is at the center of the solar system) in that neither has anything substantive to say about morality. To understand morality, you have to look someplace other than the orbit of the Earth around the sun, and you have to look at what does exist rather than at what does not exist. The only implication that atheism has for morality is that no true moral claim requires that the proposition, “a god exists” to be true.
I do have a few moral slogans that I trot out from time to time. For example, I am fond of saying, “The only legitimate response to words are words and private actions; the only legitimate response to a political campaign in an open society is a counter-campaign.”
However, I hold these up as rules of thumb, not as commandments. In the words of the famed pirate Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean, these are . . . more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
By ‘guidelines’ I do not mean that they can be broken on a whim. I mean that they are simplistic approximations of moral truth that are useful in a lot of common situations, but they are not literally true.
The free speech slogan above, for example, says nothing about libel and slander, or of fraud (which basically is a crime using words – lies – to manipulate the actions of others), revealing private information, (e.g., publishing somebody’s credit report online), or violating national security (printing or publishing the plans for the Allied assault on Normandy in 1944).
Another reason why I would not speak in terms of commandments is that I hold that there is a truth value to moral claims, and some of our views are mistaken. If anybody should offer a moral proposition then that proposition – like all propositions – needs to be held up the light of reason, studied, and evaluated. As our understanding of the real world improves, we can expect to discover that some of the moral claims we thought to be true are false.
In fact, I would suggest (require) that any moral claim offer as a ‘commandment’ be closely studied to reveal whether it is true or false – whether it is fact that we ought to do what we are being commanded to do, or whether we should not.
As we engage in this study, we can expect different people to come up with different views on the subject. Just as biologists disagree over whether evolution can function on the level of individuals only or groups, and paleontologists disagree over whether T-Rex was primarily a hunter or a scavenger, we can expect disagreement over the truth of moral propositions. Presenting these moral propositions as ‘commandments’ seems incompatible with holding that they have a truth value that can be questioned.
[I know that there are some moral non-cognitivists who would disagree with the above statement. I can deal with those objections in a separate post.]
So, that’s what I would like to do here. I would like to take these propositions that one commenter said seemed to be something I would have written and evaluate their truth value. Are they moral propositions that I would hold to be true, or would I hold them to be false?
Disclaimer: I do not have space to go through all of the commandments in this post, so I will do some later. For the rest of today’s post, I will look only at the first two.
(1) Try to treat others as you would have them treat you.
This is a nice slogan, comparable to “the only legitimate response to words are words and private actions.” It’s not actually true.
The primary problem with this claim is that it emphasizes the ways that we are similar, but shoves aside our differences. In all likelihood, there are areas in which I do not like to be treated the way that you would have others treat you. Treating me the way you like to be treated – rather than the way that I like to be treated – ignores those differences and assumes that we should all be alike, and belittles our differences.
It would seem, then, that we should treat others the way they want to be treated, not the way that we would want them to treat us.
Yet, this has even greater problems. What the ‘other’ wants is to be treated as a master. He wants total obedience from his slaves whose sole job is to be ready to satiate whatever desire should come up. Certainly, I would not be a moral monster if I refused to treat him the way that he wants us to treat him, and simply insisted that he had no right to that type of subservience.
Actually, the claim to ‘treat others the way you would want them to treat you’ is a statement about the universal nature of moral claims. The statement “X is wrong” implies “Any person in a similar situation would be doing something wrong if he were to do X.” This, in turn, implies, “If I were in a similar situation, I would be doing something wrong if I were to do X.” Do not say that it is morally permissible for you to do X if you would say that it is morally prohibited for somebody else in a similar situation to do X.
The key difference between this version and the original proposed commandment is that this version has nothing to do with likes and dislikes, and only applies to moral ‘ought’ and ‘ought not’. A more sensible version of this proposal is the Kantian imperative, “Act on that principle that you can will to be a universal law.”
Desire utilitarianism, by the way, captures this by looking at morality as a question of promoting desires that it would be good for everybody to have, and inhibiting desires that it would be good for nobody to not have. We are not so much looking at universal principles but universal desires (or the universal absence of certain desires). In fact, since people always act to fulfill the most and strongest of their desires given their beliefs, you can’t get a person to act in accordance with a particular principle unless you make that action one that fulfills the most and strongest of the agent’s desires, given his beliefs. The only way to do that is to alter the agent’s desires.
(2) Be truthful and honest even if inconvenient or uncomfortable.
There should be a love of truth (and reason), and an aversion to dishonesty (and sophistry).
People seek to fulfill the most and strongest of their desires. However, they act so as to fulfill the most and strongest of their desires given their beliefs. False beliefs get in people's way of realizing those states that have value to them. We have reason to promote a love of that which gives us true beliefs, and an aversion to that which gives us false beliefs – where those beliefs are relevant to our actions.
We have a reason to promote a love of truth. What this means is that people are to be encouraged to seek truth for its own sake – not just because it is useful, but because they like truth. Their attitude towards truth should be like their attitude towards chocolate . . . well, for some of us . . . who eat chocolate not only for its calorie and nutrition content (its usefulness), but for its own sake (we like it, and would eat it in the absence of usefulness).
However, our love of truth should not be so strong or indiscriminate that we cannot put it away from time to time. One of the questions we can ask about the proposition above is, “What should you do if the Nazis come to your door, asking if you know of any Jews hiding in the neighborhood. And you do know of Jews hiding in the neighborhood. Should your love of truth be so strong that you reveal where the Jews are hiding?”
Answer: No.
There are two types of exemptions from moral demands; exceptions and outweighing. The difference between the two is that an ‘outweighing’ carries a psychological burden with it, while an exception does not.
A good example of a moral exception is the example of lying to the Nazis mentioned above. The aversion to lying comes with an exception – except when you protect the innocent by lying to wrongdoers.
An example that I frequently use to illustrate how one moral concern can outweigh another is the case of a parent out fishing with a child. The child gets stung by a bee and starts to have an allergic reaction. The parent’s car will not start, but there is another car nearby with the keys in the ignition. He takes the car to get his child to the hospital.
What distinguishes the two cases is that, in the second case, there is still a sense that the agent did something wrong. He did it out of necessity, but it was wrong. We see this by the fact that the father should regret having to take the car and recognize an obligation to make it up to the owner of the car – make up for the fact that he took the car without consent.
However, there is no sense that the person who lies to the Nazi guards should feel any regret and should have to apologize to the Nazi guards for lying to them.
The difference between the two is that the Nazi guard case involves an exception that is written directly into the aversion to lying. We do not promote a simple aversion to lying. We promote an aversion to lying except when one is lying to a wrongdoer in defense of the innocent. A person with this particular desire would have no aversion to lying to the wrongdoer when done to protect the innocent.
On the other hand, the fishing family case involves two conflicting desires that everybody should have but which cannot both be fulfilled in this situation. On desire is the desire to take care of one’s children. The other desire is the aversion to taking the property of another without consent. We want both desires to be operating because we have reason to want people to exhaust other possibilities before taking the car. Taking the car is a last resort. The aversion to taking property without consent motivates agents to look at other, less intrusive options first and to take the car only when no other option presents itself.
One of my objections to a commandment system of ethics is that it is a rule-centered theory of ethics. Rule-based moral theories can easily handle the moral phenomena of exceptions. That is to say, we can write into any rule, “Do A, except under conditions C,” and still have a perfectly good universal rule.
However, rule-based theories of ethics have a great deal of difficulty dealing with the issue of moral weight. It can say, “Do not take another person’s car without consent unless you need to get your dying child to the hospital,” but it cannot account for the moral phenomena that taking the car still has some residual wrongness, it still requires an apology, and it still requires the agent to “make it up” to the victim in some way.
One mark in favor of desire utilitarianism is that it can account for these two different types of exemptions from moral commands – in terms of exceptions being grounded on single complex (good) desires, while outweighing is grounded on two or more (good) desires coming into conflict in unusual circumstances.
I think there is actually a good argument in support of using "10 Commandment"-style moral guildlines.First, not many people have the time or desire to put a lot of energy into moral theory. Having quick and easy rules that provide a good baseline for the most frequent real-life moral issues would be a valuable, if imperfect, tool. And we don't need to worry too much about anyone sticking to the rules too strictly, as the real world has already demonstrated that people are very flexible with their applications of the rules to account for things like neccessity, exceptions, and out-weighing desires.Secondly, - and in my opinion more importantly - people are pre-disposed to like commandments and take them to heart. Perhaps this is due to social conditioning, but based upon their wide-spread use through most (all?) civilizations, there could be a genetic component to this attraction. People generally like having such commandments, they are committed to memory easier than most other things, and are recalled faster. There is an already-present desire to adhere to the commandments to some degree, and people are very happy to share these commandments with others and help to spread them through their communities. In short, a list of commandments could be a good tool for morality in the practical real world.And to help prevent the cementation of rigid and unchangable commandments, either the first or last commandment could (and should) be something to the effect of: "None of these commandments are absolute or without exceptions. None of them is perfect, and as such they should all be evaluated for error frequently." Maybe make the first sentence the first commandment, and the last sentence the tenth commandment. :) A 10% loss of commandments maybe, but an acceptable cost of insurance, and they themselves hold valuable moral instruction, prohibiting unswavering rigidity and promoting a love of truth-seeking.
eneaszI actually do not have any disagreement with what you wrote. I have written that I sometimes use slogans or "rules of thumb" to present moral principles. I do so because they are easy to digest and, though not precisely accurate, are good enough for the purposes I apply them to.Somebody could perhaps identify the ten most common of these phrases and draw up "Fyfe's 10 Commandments of Desire Utilitarianism."I would cringe at this attempt because I suspect I would then have to deal with a lot of misunderstanding as people treated these 'rules of thumb' as absolute and unyielding moral truth. They would, of course, scoff at my failure to defend these claims as absolute and unyileding moral truth.However, my reasons for cringing are not reasons for claiming that anything you wrote was false. Only that there might be more efficient ways to report what is true.
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Symptoms of Infection in Pregnancy
Symptoms of infection in pregnancy vary depending on the infection. Infections such as
cytomegalovirus (CMV),
group B streptococcal disease (GBS),
toxoplasmosis, and some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) may not have any physical symptoms. Or, an infection may cause mild, flu-like symptoms. If you think you have an infection during your pregnancy, it is important to talk to your doctor as soon as possible.
parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
may include:
Rash on the face, trunk, arms, and legs
Symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) may include:
Itching around vagina
Discharge from vagina
Pain during sex
Pain in the pelvic area
Sores or blisters in the pelvic area
Rapid heartbeat (the baby may also have a rapid heartbeat)
A uterus that is tender to the touch
A discharge from the vagina that has an unusual smell
Symptoms of listeriosis may include:
Mild, flu-like symptoms
Muscle aches
If listeriosis spreads to the nervous system it can cause stiff neck, disorientation, or convulsions.
Symptoms of a
(UTI) may include:
Discomfort or burning feeling when urinating
Sense of incomplete bladder emptying
Aching pain over the bladder
Blood in the urine
Need to urinate frequently
If the UTI moves to the kidneys and into the blood stream, it can cause pelvic pain, back pain, vomiting, fever, and early labor.
Symptoms of chickenpox infection may include:
Itchy rash
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http://americanpregnancy.org/pregnancycomplications/bacterialvaginosis-2.html. Updated May 2005. Accessed July 29, 2013.
Chorioamnionitis. Cleveland Clinic website. Available at:
http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/3800/3857.asp?index=12309. Accessed July 29, 2013.
Group B Strep (GBS). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/groupbstrep/index.html. Updated May 23, 2012. Accessed July 29, 2013.
Listeria and pregnancy. American Pregnancy Association website. Available at:
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/listeria.html. Updated June 2011. Accessed July 29, 2013.
Toxoplasmosis. American Academy of Family Physicians Family Doctor website. Available at:
http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/diseases-conditions/toxoplasmosis.html. Updated January 2011. Accessed July 29, 2013.
Urinary tract infection during pregnancy. American Pregnancy Association website. Available at:
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancycomplications/utiduringpreg.html. Updated April 2006. Accessed July 29, 2013.
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Risk Factors for Cervical Cancer
A risk factor is something that increases your chances of developing a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop cervical cancer with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing cervical cancer. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Infection of the cervix with
(HPV), a sexually transmitted disease, is the primary risk factor for cervical cancer. There are more than 70 types of viruses called papillomaviruses. Certain HPV types can cause warts on the female and male genital organs and anus. HPV is passed from one person to another during sexual contact. Large studies have found a particular type of HPV—called HPV C, with types HPV 16, 18, 31, and 45C— in more than 93% of cervical cancer cases.
After the age of 25, the risk of developing cervical cancer begins to increase. But, this cancer, or its precancerous changes, can be diagnosed in young women in their early 20s and even in their teens. After age 40, the risk of developing cervical cancer stays about the same. The risk of dying from cervical cancer increases as women get older.
Women who had sexual intercourse at an early age or women who have had many sexual partners are at an increased risk of cervical cancer. If a woman is with a partner who has had many sexual partners, this also increases her risk.
Women who have never had a
or who have not had one for several years have a higher-than-average risk of developing cervical cancer. This screening tool is quite effective for catching abnormal cell growth early, before it progresses to cancer.
By smoking, you are exposing your body to many cancer-causing chemicals. Tobacco by-products have been found in the cervical mucus in women who smoke. The risk appears to increase with the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the number of years a woman has smoked. Smokers are about twice as likely as nonsmokers to get cervical cancer.
Between 1940 and 1971, doctors prescribed DES, a hormone, to pregnant women who were thought to be at an increased risk for miscarriage. About 1 out of every 1,000 women whose mother took DES when pregnant with them will develop cancer of the cervix or vagina. Almost all of these women who go on to develop cervical cancer as a result of DES have an early cellular pattern change in the cervix that can be detected. Women born between 1940 and 1972 who have been exposed to DES, or who are uncertain about their exposure history, should discuss with their doctor how to determine their risk and best screening measures.
Several reports have shown that women with weakened immune systems—as with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or from immune-suppressing drugs taken after a transplant—are more likely to develop cervical cancer. HIV damages the body’s immune system. This makes a woman more likely to get an HPV infection, which may increase the risk of cervical cancer. In someone with a weakened immune system, a cervical precancer may develop into an invasive cancer faster than it normally would in a woman without a weakened immune system.
Diets low in fruits and vegetables are associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.
In the United States, several racial and ethnic groups have higher cervical cancer death rates. Among African Americans, the death rate from cervical cancer is more than twice the national average. Hispanics and American Indians also have death rates above the average.
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Bombardier Opens Third Service Centre For Commercial Aircraft By Bill Goldston
February 19, 2010 - Bombardier Aerospace announced that it has added a third commercial aircraft service centre to its growing customer support network worldwide. The facility, located in Macon,
Georgia and operated by Bombardier Customer Services complements the two Bombardier-owned commercial aircraft service centers in Bridgeport, West Virginia and Tucson,
Arizona. The facility, which began operations on January 18, 2010, will perform heavy maintenance, including C Check events, on Bombardier CRJ100/200/700/900 aircraft. This new operation is expected to create an additional 180 jobs within Bombardier over the next year, and represents a $2 million investment in Georgia. With the opening of the new facility, Bombardier has signed a 10-year exclusive agreement with Georgia-based Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), becoming the exclusive provider of heavy maintenance services for ASA�s fleet of 150 CRJ aircraft (including 108 CRJ200, 38 CRJ700 and 10 CRJ900 models). Macon
is a strategic location for businesses in the aerospace and aviation sector, and the state of Georgia
is home to more than 500 firms that perform all facets of the aircraft maintenance industry. The opening of the Macon
facility coincides with the announcement of Bombardier�s first wholly owned European service centre for business aircraft, which will begin operations at Amsterdam�s Schiphol
Airport in the first quarter of 2010. With the addition of these two centers, Bombardier Aerospace now operates a total of eight service centers around the world.
"Bombardier Customer Services has proven to be a reliable heavy maintenance provider for ASA's Bombardier fleet and we are pleased to be extending our well-established partnership with Bombardier Customer Services in Macon," said Ken Ashworth, Vice President, Maintenance, Atlantic Southeast Airlines. �The investment in the Macon service centre, as well as the new one at Schiphol, is evidence of Bombardier�s ongoing commitment to improve the maintenance support we offer our customers,� said James Hoblyn, President, Customer Services and Specialized and Amphibious Aircraft, �and the 10-year contract with ASA is a testament to the quality we provide throughout our service centers.�
The 91,808-square-foot (8,529 sq m) Macon facility, previously operated by ASA, will be managed by Bombardier Customer Services and will also provide existing and new Bombardier CRJ operators with additional repair, overhaul and maintenance capacity. The well-equipped, well-stocked facility has a line capability for up to six aircraft at a time. �We have worked hard to maintain and expand industry in the Macon-Bibb County Community and are therefore very pleased to have Bombardier conduct its operations here in conjunction with ASA,� said Cliffard Whitby, Chairman of the Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority. �This success reflects the quality of our skilled laborers and the cooperation and collaboration among community leaders. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.� As one of Georgia�s strategic industries, the aviation and aerospace sector employs more than 80,000 people statewide. In addition, Georgia�s total aviation exports topped $3.2 billion in 2008, ranking the state as the ninth-highest U.S. state in this sector. �As Georgia
continues to pursue excellence in the aerospace sector, the relocation of companies like Bombardier to the state is a great step in that direction,� said Ken Stewart, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. �I join with the Macon community and this vibrant Middle Georgia region in welcoming yet another aerospace industry leader to the state.� Through its service centre network, Bombardier has been offering the highest quality of support to its customers for over 28 years. The legendary CRJ100/200 aircraft, first of the CRJ Series family of regional airliners, was launched in March 1989. As of January 31, 2010, Bombardier had delivered 1,587 CRJ Series aircraft. CRJ Series aircraft are in service with more than 60 operators in 38 countries. About Bombardier a world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from commercial aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, systems and services, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2009, were $19.7 billion US, and its shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD). Bombardier is listed as an index component to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America
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Racine Maintenance School Bond (2008)
The Racine Maintenance School Bond was a bond measure that was on the April 1, 2008 ballot in Racine County. It was intended to use $16.5 million over a five year span for maintenance of the Racine Unified School District. In the 15 years since Wisconsin adopted revenue caps, the Racine School District has sent 16 additional spending proposals to the ballot. Nine of these were approved by voters, adding $59 million to the school's budget.[1]
Democratic Party of Racine County
Teacher's Union
Members of the Racine Interfaith Coalition
The Racine Taxpayers Association officially opposes the measure, but some members of the association have voted to endorse it.
Howard Stacey, a Caledonia Village Board member, voiced his concerns about the measure this way: "Passing this referendum would only reward the School Board, past school boards and administration for not being fiscally responsible in their maintenance of the infrastructure. We're just going to be giving them more money with no guarantees that they'll reform their practices."[2]
Passed.[3]
↑ Racine schools seek support, Journal Sentinel Online, March 22, 2008
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Footnotes have been changed to endnotes and the symbols to numbers. - Jim Duvall
Editor's Preface
Among the transactions which were recorded by the delegates at the ninety-ninth session of the venerable body, whose minutes we herewith present to the public, item twenty-second reads as follows: - " Brother Samuel Jones is appointed to preach the Association Sermon of next year, which is intended to be a Century one, a hundred years having passed since we were first formed."
In editing the following discourse, as well as the foregoing minutes, I have strictly observed the instructions of the Committee, that imposed upon me the pleasant, yet arduous duty of superintending the work through the press, which instructions were: "To preserve, as far as possible, the ancient style of composition, as found in the original minutes."
That the. work now given to the world may do good, and awaken a becoming degree of gratitude to God, in the church, for the lives and labors of the men whose names and deliberations it transmits to our own and future ages, is the sincere desire of one who, in relation to the procuring of the materials and publishing this work, "has done what he could."
A. D. G.
A CENTURY SERMON
Philadelphia Baptist Association By Rev. Samuel Jones, D. D.
Enlarge the place of thy tents, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lenghten thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left. - Isaiah, liv. 2, 3.
I HAVE had it on my mind, that it would be proper for me, before I proceed, to confess openly that I am not going to preach but to read. You may therefore perhaps have remarked, that in addressing the throne of grace I have not dared to ask for assistance in this part of the service. I must however observe, that I think reading is admissible on particular occasions, especially such as the present, when the chief of what is to be said is to be historical; yet such historical facts as have some relation to religion. After saying this much I need not now be at any pains to conceal my notes. I had some thoughts of committing the whole to memory, but I did not like it very well, because I should seem to act the part of a school-boy, or, what would be worse, to play the hypocrite, by pretending to do what I did not. I shall only add in this way, that for the present I shall omit the notes, to preserve the thread of discourse. I will now enter on the subject before us. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left .
These are the words of the elegant and sublime Isaiah, who, on account of the clearness of the discoveries made to him of the gospel day, obtained the name of the evangelical prophet. Indeed in some places his predictions have [p. 454]
the air of a history, rather than a prophecy. (See chapter vii. 14; ix. 6, 7; l. 6; liii. passim.)
The passage before us refers to the implantation of the gospel among the Gentiles. It began to be accomplished in the days of the Apostles, and has been fulfilling in all ages of the Christian church to this day, and will continue so to be to the commencement of the millenium. "Their sound," says the Apostle, "went into all the earth, and their words unto the end of the world." Romans x. 18. But we are now to speak more particularly of the work of the Lord, and the spread of religion in our Society during the last century, and especially within the bounds of this Association: to show that there has been a fulfillment of the prophecy in the text among us; that we have "enlarged the places of our tent, and, stretched forth the curtains of our habitations: have lengthened our cords, and strengthened our stakes, because we have broke forth, on the right hand, and on the left." We shall now, then, apply ourselves, in the first place, to take into view what relates to our body, within the time under consideration. This Association originated in what they called general, and sometimes yearly meetings. These meetings were instituted so early as 1688, and met alternatively in May and September, at Lower Dublin, Philadelphia, Salem, Cohansie, Chester, and Burlington; at which places there were members, though no church or churches constituted, except Lower Dublin and Cohansie. At these meetings their labor was chiefly confined to the ministry of the word, and the administration of gospel ordinances. But in the year 1707 they seem to have taken more properly the form of an Association; for then they had delegates from several churches, and attended to their general concerns. We therefore date our beginning as an Association from that time, though we might with but little impropriety, extend it back some years. They were at this time but a feeble band, though a band [p.455]
of faithful brothers; consisting of but five churches. The church at Lower Dublin, Piscataqua, Middletown, Cohansie, and Welsh-Tract. There were at that time but these five in North America, except Massachusetts and Rhode Island.1
Here it may not be amiss to take some notice of the first ministers in succession in each of the constituent churches, as a brief memorial of those venerable fathers, who were the instruments of propagating the gospel in these parts of the new world. The church of Lower Dublin had for their first minister, Rev. Elias Keach, son of the memorable Benjamin Keach of London. He, returning to England in 1692, was succeeded by the noted John Watts, who departed this life in 1702, in the midst of his days and growing usefulness, the fortieth year of his age, and twelfth of his ministry. So was the will of God. After him they had Samuel Jones, Evan Morgan, and Joseph Wood; and in the, year 1712, came over sea, by invitation, Abel Morgan, who had been pastor of a church at Blaene Gwent, in South Wales. He is said to have been indefatigable and abundantly useful in his ministry. He supplied Lower Dublin and Philadelphia, besides visiting other places. He wrote and published the first Welsh Concordance of the Holy Scriptures, that was ever published in that language. This good man was called home to reap the fruit of his labor, and much lamented, in the year 1722. Piscataqua, had Thomas Killingsworth, Mr. Drake, Henry Loyal, and Benjamin Stelle, sr. Middletown, had James Aston, James Brown, Elias Keach, Thomas Killingsworth, John Burrows, and the incomparable Abel Morgan. Cohansie, had Thomas Killingsworth, Timothy Brooks, William Boucher and Nathaniel Jenkins. [p. 456]
The last of the five was the church of the Welch-Tract, who had for their first minister Thomas Griffith. He came to this country from Wales with the church, for they were constituted there, and was very useful among them to the day of his death, which came to pass in the year 1725. He was succeeded by Elisha Thomas and Enoch Morgan. Besides the above, this church was blessed with four others at the same time, that were men of first rate abilities. Jenkin Jones, who became minister of Lower Dublin, and then of Philadelphia; Owen Thomas, who settled at Vincent in Chester county; David Davis, who succeeded Enoch Morgan at the Welsh Tract; and above all the great Abel Morgan, who moved to Middletown. These were men of shining talents, with whom we have had few, if any since, that will bear a comparison. I will take the liberty to mention as the contemporary of the above, the late Rev. Benjamin Griffith, of Montgomery, who, though he was not of one of the constituent churches, nor distinguished for ministerial abilities, yet was eminent in council, and perhaps more so for the use of his pen. Under the appointment of the Association he wrote our first discipline; and then, a brief account of the first seventeen churches in our connection, which he entered in the Association book, together with their most material transactions to the year 1758. I will add in this way, that a junior class came forward in the churches, who were in a pretty high degree eminent in their day: as John Davis, of Harford, in Maryland, yet living, aged 86; Robert Kelsay, of Cohansie; Peter Peterson Vanhorn, of Lower Dub1in; Isaac Eaton, of Hopewell; Mr. Walton, of Morristown; Isaac Stelle, jr., of Piscataqua; Benjamin Miller, of Scott's-Plains; and John Gano, of New York. These were burning and shining lights, especially the three last. May the God of Elijah grant that a double portion of their spirit may rest on all, that stand as watchmen on Zion's walls.
We have mentioned that our number of churches at first was but five. As the country increased in population, our number, through the blessing of God on the faithful and zealous ministrv of the word, has increased to 38, comprehending 3556 communicants. But we should doubtless be more than treble that number, if we had not detached churches on all sides, to form five or six other Associations,2 that may be denominated our daughters, while some of them, again, have dismissed churches to form still other Associations, that stand as it were in the relation of grand daughters. Now if we suppose, that there are three hearers in a congregation for every communicant in the church, it will give us above 10,000 hearers; and as there does not half the number in the family, on an average, attend public worship, on account of age, infirmities, &c., it will follow, that the population within our bounds must be above 20,000, and above 80,000, taking in the detachments. Thus have we spread to the North and South, to the East and West, and have seen the text abundantly verified among us. Doubtless it is the Lord's doings, and to him be all the glory. It may now be proper to extend our views to our brethren in other parts of the Union: for the work of the Lord was far from being confined to our bounds. He, who gave the word, attended it also with power, and great was the company of those who published it. But here we are at a loss for want of information. Had there been attention paid to the circular address of your committee of correspondence, appointed five years ago; it might be in our power to lay before you a correct statement, of what would be both agreeable, entertaining, and useful: as it is, we are left to wander in. the dark by the aid of uncertain conjecture. [p. 458]
Mr. Asplund mentioned in the above address, to his immortal honor, has given us, at a great expense of labor, a particular account of our state and number, at that time in the United States, which he collected in his travels from characters on the spot, who were competent to give him correct information. But this was done seventeen years ago. Great changes have taken place since. We shall however make use of his calculation for our ground work, and build thereon by a reasonable allowance for those changes. It appears from him, that the number of members, or communicants, belonging to our society in the several States at that time, was 65,233. If we add for the Menonists, Dunkers, and Universalists,3 the moderate sum of 4761, we shall have the round number of 70,000. This was their number seventeen years ago. What may it be now? As we have good reason to think there are in some of the States more than three communicants for every one there was seventeen years ago, one would think we might very safely, for all the States, double the number that there were then: but we will only add three-fourths, which must be allowed to be very moderate. This will give us 122,500, for the present number of communicants throughout the United States. Now as the number of communicants in a church are to the number of hearers in a congregation nearly as one to three; multiplying the aforesaid number of communicants by three, we shall have 367,500 for the present number of hearers. This must be below the mark. For there were seventeen years ago, above seventy churches, that had but from eight to twenty communicants each, who, beyond all doubt, had of bearers not only three times their respective numbers of communicants, but more than ten times. This may serve to show we do not wish to exaggerate. And farther, as we observed awhile ago, since on account of age and infirmity, &c., there does not half a family, on [p. 459]
an average, attend public worship, by multiplying the last number by two we shall have 735,000 for our present population, which is about one-eighth part of the whole population in the Union.
It ought to be remembered, that we have not brought into the account the multitudes, that are fully convinced in favor of our religious principles and practice, and are ready to burst the bands of the prejudice of education, their connections, &c., which are doubtless very binding and strong. But when the small still voice of the Spirit of God shall follow the light of knowledge they have received, and whisper in the ear of conscience, and in the mean time the constraining love of God shall be shed abroad in their hearts, we may expect to receive them with joy. It may also not be amiss to observe, that this remarkable increase, of which we have been speaking, has been chiefly within the last fifty years, and much greater in those States, where oppression for conscience sake has been most severe, except the State of New York.
In Virginia, I think, there was not one church of our denomination in the year 1760; in 1790, only thirty years after, there were two hundred and two. In Massachusetts previous to 1755, there were, as far as I can find, but seven churches, now there are one hundred and ninety-four.4
In the State of New York, there are now I imagine, one hundred and fifty churches; previous to 1770 there were but very few. It is with pleasure I observe, that oppression on account of religion has in Virginia totally ceased; and in Massachusetts also has greatly abated. When the first Congress met in this city, I was one of [p. 460]
the committee under the appointment of your body, that, in company with the late Rev. Isaac Backus,5 of Massachusetts, met the delegates in Congress from that State, in yonder State House, to see if we could not obtain some security for that liberty, for which we were then fighting and bleeding by their side. It seemed unreasonable to us, that we should be called upon to stand up with them in defence of liberty, if, after all, it was to be liberty for one party to oppress another. But our endeavors availed us nothing. One of them told us, that if we meant to effect a change in their measures, respecting religion, we might as well attempt to change the course of the sun in the heavens.
Should any be ready to inquire, if we are so numerous as just now mentioned, and of course entitled to about twenty seats in the general legislature, how comes it to pass, that we seldom have more than three, four, or five? This is easily accounted for by observing, that being scattered and dispersed among those of other societies, and every were in the minority, we cannot have a chance to rise, if we had the ambition. To which may be added, that as we are generally of the middle class, agreeable to Augur's prayer, and, as the Apostle observes, "not many mighty, not many noble are called," these considerations will fully account for the fact. But if we cannot obtain seats for ourselves, we can however give them to others. For doubtless, casting our weight into the political scale must have an effect in turning the beam. This, it is thought, has actually been the case within a few years past. Perhaps some, in accounting for this circumstance, will be ready to mention the want of information among us. Be it so. There may be something in it. But suppose I should suggest a more probable reason. Having been persecuted and oppressed, suffered imprisonment [p. 461]
and alienation of property; it is but reasonable to expect, we should be very jealous of our religious liberty, which indeed is the case: and it has been thought by many that the rights of conscience are safer, in the hands of those who care but little for religion of any kind, than in the hands of zealots, devoted to the interest of a particular sect.6 Let it not be said, that this zeal for religious liberty cannot take place, where persecution has not been felt. For the report of it is gone every where, and although it has not every where excited alarm, yet it has sympathy. And then the thing itself is so horrible: to invade the rights of the Deity, to compel people to obey man rather than God, to do what they verily believe they ought not, and to pay for what they never had, nor wish to have; every feeling of the moral sense, to go no farther, rises against it. It has been often said, that all parties will persecute when they have the power. This may be admitted as a general rule; but I am bold to aver that the Baptists are an exception. They have had the power in Rhode Island,7 if [p. 462]
not in Portland: but not a single instance can be produced of their abuse of that power any where.8
Hoping you will excuse these few political observations, I will now go on to what may be more agreeable. We would not be understood to suppose, that the work of the Lord has been confined to our society. We occupy but a small part of the Lord's vineyard: and we rejoice, that there are so many others engaged with us in spreading and promoting the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour. About the middle of the century a glorious revival took place and spread through the States, wherein that eminent servant of the Lord, the Rev. George Whitefield, bore a conspicuous part. He was the blessed instrument in the hand of the Lord, both in commencing and spreading that wonderful work.
This revival had a happy effect, not only in bringing many thousands out of the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of God's dear Son, but also in being the means of introducing into the ministry many pious and zealous dispensers of the word, especially among Presbyterians in the Middle States, and the Congregationalists in the Eastern States. Without detracting from the merit of those who have appeared since in the ministry, we must be allowed to give a decided preference to the eminent characters that sprung up in the great day of God's power, the names of many of whom are had in precious remembrance to this day, as the Tenants, Edwards, Burr, Davis, Findley, Treat, Beaty, Hunter, Bostwick, Rogers, Rowland, and a long list of others, whose names have not come to our knowledge.9 There have been many, and some of them very considerable [p. 463]
revivals and seasons of the refreshment since the above, and that in many, or rather in all the States, particularly in Virginia, the Carolinas, Kentucky, &c., of which we have not room to speak at large, and shall only observe that there have been within those three or four years, and even now are, considerable revivals in Taunton, Norton, Aurelius, Providence, Addison, Columbia, Stuben, Upper Canada, Marlborough, St. Andrew's, Hamilton, Suffield, Bristol, Colchester, Wardsborough, Windham, Winhall, Straton, Wilmington, Granville, Lyme, Philadelphia, Lower Dublin, Southampton, and in many places in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, &c., wherein multitudes have been baptised. Rev. Henry Taler, in Virginia, baptised above 400 in little better than one year, 135 in one day. Glory to God for those refreshing showers of grace. About forty years ago the Methodist society took root among us, under the labors of Messrs. Pilmore, Boardman, and many others, who, for the time, by their diligence and zeal, have certainly been very successful, at least as to respectability of numbers, and a very considerable reformation of manners, and there is reason to hope, that a real work of grace has taken place among them to a considerable extent. The many other religious societies are also progressing in numbers, weight and influence; serving we hope, our common Lord and Master, according to the light they have received; on whom, as on all, may the Lord shine, to give the light of the knowledge of his glory in the face of Jesus Christ. What shall we say of the missionary spirit, that has for some years, and more especially of late, prevailed in many places, and among different societies, with a view to spread the knowledge of the gospel and the way of salvation among the heathen in various parts, as well as among Christians in places destitute of the means. Whether the latter does not merit the greater attention we pass over, [p. 464]
only observing, that it is thought it has been attended with more success and far less expense.10
Time would fail us to cross the Atlantic and recount the displays of divine power and grace among them, within the period we are speaking of, especially in Great Britain, that favored isle, - so highly favored particularly for the knowledge of divine things, promoted among them by the ministry of the word, and by writing. Whether, with reference to the last, they are not now rather stationary, since that great luminary Doctor Gill has finished his course, we leave. Be that as it may, it would seem that knowledge, civil and religious liberty, and with them religion itself are tending westward. With the sun they rose in the East, after a course of ages crossed the Atlantic, and it is likely will progress westward until they reach the Pacific Ocean, civilizing and making happy this western hemisphere in their course. We mentioned awhile ago the names of some in the ministry, that were eminent in their day for talents, piety and usefulness, who now rest from their labors, and "their works do follow them." At this time also there are not a few among us in the sacred office, of distinguished worth, not so much for their literary acquirements, as for what is of infinitely more value in promoting pure undefiled religion before God - namely, true piety, ardent zeal, ministerial gifts, and indefatigable diligence, and faithfulness in saving the souls of men and promoting the kingdom of our Redeemer.11
Some are Boanerges, sons of thunder, qualified to lay the axe at the root of the trees; to awaken, alarm, and strip sinners of their carnal hopes and self-dependence: while others are sons of consolation, fitted to apply the healing balm of gospel grace, and mercy; to excite faith in the merits and mediation of Christ, and lead the subject of grace to rejoice in hope; fitted to build up, comfort, establish and edify the faithful, leading them on as a peculiar people zealous of good works; while all have a measure of all gifts, as God has distributed to all by the same Spirit. Of these there are a few, especially Southward and Eastward(12) of us, the force of whose natural genius has raised them far above the common level, whose names, for obvious reasons, we for the present suppress, and
Hail the sons of glory when they set. Thus when we look back, as from an eminence, on what [p. 466]
has taken place within a small compass, in the course of the last century, in promoting the kingdom of the Messiah in the world, we see a glorious accomplishment of the prophecy in the text, and if we look forward, a still more glorious prospect lies before us. Before another century will revolve, before another opportunity will offer, of delivering another discourse on the like occasion with the present, we hope and expect, that the latter day of glory, the spiritual reign of Christ, will, commence, in comparison of which, what we have seen, however glorious, can be but a prelude, a faint shadow. We have indeed lately seen a whole church with its ministry,13 as it were a whole town, turn from will-worship to the apostolic practice, in a manner with one consent. This was great and remarkable, I confess, for our day and time. But how much greater and more glorious will it be, when superstition and false coloring of Scripture shall cease, when the Lord Jesus thall [shall] destroy every species of anti-christ with the spirit of his mouth and the brightness of his coming, when his ancient people the Jews shall be brought in, together with the fullness of the gentile world; in one word, when a nation shall be born in a day. Should it enter the mind of any that this is a figurative expression, we grant it may be so: but then if it be, it is such an one as denotes something very great and glorious indeed; nor is there room to doubt, but the power of God is able to bring that saying to pass literally. May the Lord hasten and accomplish his holy purposes to the praise of his glory. The glorious day spoken of will be the time of the Lord's reformation. The reformation, which has been so much gloried in was but a poor piece of business, although it has been attended with valuable consequences. The reformers shook off the Papal yoke, but in the main retained its principles and spirit. They did not establish the right of [p. 467]
free inquiry, liberty of conscience, and the word of God as the only rule of faith and practice: but, on the other hand, opposed, restrained and suppressed every attempt to promote a thorough reformation. They were influenced by worldly motives, connected religion with worldly establishments, were the abettors of tyranny and oppression, and even of persecution by fire and the sword. But we look for a far different reformation. The Lord will come, and will not tarry. Let us wait for him. Having thus, my brethren, laid before you our original state, and the progress made within our compass, and then extended our views to our brethren in the Union; and having said a few words in regard to the state of religion among other societies, it may now be time to draw towards a conclusion. But, before I close, I shall take the liberty to say a few words with reference to the nature of our subject.
Some may say, that we have talked too much about our numbers, and that it looks rather like boasting. I would inquire of such, whether it would not be more candid in them, to consider it as exulting in the riches of divine grace and goodness. If, however, we may not speak of the great things God has done for us, without being charged with boasting, then let us determine with the Apostle, that no man shall stop us of this boasting. In the Lord we will triumph, and in his salvation. That our subject, however, is dry, and does not admit of much fervor and devotion is readily granted. It does not call for that pathos which the common subjects of the sacred desk, not only allow, but often require. To speak of the deplorable state of man under the wrath of God, and the sentence of condemnation; to display the unsearchable riches of the grace and love of God in the way of recovery and salvation through Jesus Christ; to describe the work of the Spirit in taking the things of Christ and showing them unto us, his work of conversion and sanctification; to paint the awful process in the great day, and finally the irrecoverable perdition of the ungodly, [p. 468]
and the glory and felicity of the righteous; these are subjects that will admit, and even call for animation. Here the preacher may well glow, with ardor, and the hearer feel an interest. These subjects, when accompanied with divine power, will melt the affections; bow the will, and mend the heart. But if our subject does not rise to the height of those now mentioned, it is nevertheless well worth while, to devote one hour, once in an hundred years at least, to review the ways and doings of God with his church and people, in accomplishing the purposes and decrees of his grace and goodness. Such contemplation may be of advantage to us, not only for present satisfaction, but because it tends to call forth into exercise the best powers and faculties of the soul, and to excite to action the graces of the Spirit there implanted. Here we are led to exult and triumph in his power and goodness. In this contemplation our gratitude, thanksgiving and praise, those heavenly exercises, will be most powerfully moved. From what has been done in the accomplishment of his promises, we are led to hope for the fulfillment of those that remain, we are led to a steadfast confidence in him, who has said, "And lo, I am with you always, to the end of the world;" and that no weapon formed against Zion shall prosper. Every device of man to unite the church and the world must come to naught. For the Redeemer has said, "My kingdom is not of this world." Human schemes and policy will not long avail. The church will shortly come up out of the wilderness. In the spirit of true piety and ardent affection it is fit we should therefore join in the general chorus of the redeemed throng through all ages, saying, "Come Lord Jesus, come quickly." Let us then unite with one heart and voice in ascribing "honor and glory, praise and power, might, majesty and dominion to him that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever." Amen. __________
1 When the first church in Newport, Rhode Island was one hundred years old, in 1738, Mr. John Callender, their minister, delivered and published a sermon on the occasion. It principally relates to the civil and religious affairs of that province, in connection with the other New England provinces. 2 Ketockton, Redstone, Baltimore, Delaware, New York, and Warwick. To form the Redstone Association, I think we dismissed no churches; but several of our ministers settled in those parts, and were instrumental in forming it. 3 Who then baptised by immersion only. � ED.
4 Rev. John Callender, in his afore-cited centurial discourse for Rhode Island, p. 58, mentions from bishop Sanderson, that the Rev. Archbishop Whitgift, and the learned Hooker, men of great judgment and fame in their times, did long since foresee and declare their fear, that if ever Puritanism should prevail, it would soon draw in Anabaptism after it. That Anabaptism had its rise from the same principles the Puritans held, especially that one principle, that the Scripture was the only and all sufficient rule of faith and practice, so as nothing might lawfully be done, without express warrant, either from some command or example therein contained. 5 This great and good man was dismissed from his labor below to wear a crown of glory above on the 20th of November, 1806, in the 83d year of his age, and 60th of his ministry.
6 An historian observes, that the worst of men made the best emperors for heretics. In regard to the correctness of this maxim, the writer has not the least doubt. Nevertheless, as it may seem strange to some pious minds, that the wicked should be set up on high, and preferred to the religious, he begs them to consider, - First, That by those, who care but little about religion, is not meant the profane, nor those who are professed enemies to revelation, who, it is expected, will never be raised to dignified stations by the people in this country.
Secondly, That there may not be clear evidence, that a zealot has any real religion, though he bears the name. Thirdly, Suppose he should have real religion, and be elevated to the first office in the Union, what security; can the people have, that he will be possessed of such firmness of mind, as to direct his own councils, and escape the influence of religionists, or clergy, with whom he will be encompassed, and who have never been thought to be over-favorable to equal rights and free inquiry in matters of religion. In unison is the observation of the historian, "The worst of men made the best emperors for heretics" - i.e. - for dissenters from the ruling party. Robinson, Ecclesiastical Researches, p. 74. 7 Rev. John Callender, in his aforesaid discourse, (p. l03,) speaking, of Rhode Island, has these words: "Liberty of conscience was the basis of this colony. Our fathers thought it just and necessary, to allow each other mutually to worship God as their consciences were respectfully persuaded; they thought no man had power over the Spirit of God, and that the duty of the magistrate was to leave everyone to follow the light of his conscience. They were willing to exhibit to the world an instance, that liberty of conscience was consistent with the public peace, and the flourishing of a civil commonwealth, as well as that christianity can subsist without compulsion." And he might have added, that it could subsist a great deal better without than with it. 8 When the Quakers in Pennsylvania did something like persecuting the Keithians, Holme, a Baptist Judge or Justice, on the bench, opposed it. � Vide Mr. Edward's Matt. Vol. 1st, p. 56. 9 It is not here meant that those referred to, were greater than those now on the ministerial stage for natural powers of mind, much less for literary improvement, but for powerful evangelical preaching. 10 The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Magazine, published quarterly, and which merits high encomium and support, gives us very pleasing intelligence of the success of missionaries east of Penobscot river, in Nova. Scotia, back parts of the State of New York, Upper Canada, &c. One of their missionaries, Rev. Isaac Case, in a short time baptised 205, and constituted six churches. 11 The Baptists, as a society, have never considered the higher branches of learning as essential to the gospel ministry, and there is no doubt but the sentiment is perfectly correct. They have, nevertheless, held education in high esteem, as a handmaid to grace, and have always had not a few among them, that ranked pretty high for literary improvement and extensive reading. In the year 1756, the late Rev. Isaac Eaton, M. A., of Hopewell, in New Jersey, opened a Grammar School under the patronage of the Philadelphia Baptist Association. In the fall of 1763, the writer of these sheets, on request, repaired to Newport, in Rhode Island, and new-modeled a rough draft they had of a charter of incorporation for a college, which soon after obtained Legislative sanction. The summer following the institution went into operation under the Rev. James Manning, President, at Warren, at which place the first commencement was held in 1769. Two years after, an elegant edifice was erected at Providence, and the institution flourished under its worthy President, the late renowned Dr. Manning, as it did since his death under President Maxy, and does now under President Mercer. At the commencement of last September, twenty- nine were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. It is now called Brown's University, in honor of the generous Nicholas Brown, merchant, of that place. The writer kept a boarding school between twenty-nine and thirty years, at Lower Dublin, in which many were educated, that are now useful in the different learned professions. One of them, the Rev. Dr. Allison, kept a large Academy under his sole direction, at Bordentown, in New Jersey, from whence issued many useful characters. The Philadelphia Baptist Association have a fund for the education of young men promising for the gospel ministry, as have also the Charleston Association. The Baptists, in Georgia, have in contemplation to erect a College in that State, on Mount Enon, at the distance of 140 miles from the Atlantic, in latitude 33 north, on an elevation of 200 feet perpendicular, accommodated with salubrious air, and two fine springs that issue out of rocks on the north and west sides. The business is in some forwardness, as unsolicited donations already amount to about five thousand dollars. This account of Enon College bears date of December, 1806. 12 Of these my good and intimate friend, the late Doctor Samuel Stillman, of Boston, was one, to whose memory, memorable as it was, Doctor Baldwin, in the funeral discourse, has done such ample justice. It would be well, if on such occasions, truth was always so strictly attended to. 13 This refers to the Rev. Daniel Merril, of Maine. That of N. Dodge, at Lebanon, in Connecticut, is not very dissimilar. =============
[Taken from A. D. Gillette, Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, 1851; reprint, 2001, pp. 453-468. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]
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Draft History [-]Drafted in the 5th round (145th overall) by the California Angels in 1996 (did not sign)Drafted in the 2nd round (66th overall) by the Chicago White Sox in 1999 (did not sign) Draft Report [+] Drafted in the 2nd round (43rd overall) by the Chicago Cubs in 2000 (signed for $1,425,000) Draft Report [+] Career Transactions [+] Organizational Rankings [-]Ranked Chicago Cubs #8 prospect after the 2000 season Ranked Chicago Cubs #5 prospect after the 2001 season Top 100 Rankings [-]Ranked Baseball America #48 prospect after the 2001 season League Top Prospect Rankings [-]Ranked Southern League #17 prospect in 2001 Ranked Pacific Coast League #9 prospect in 2002 League Best Tools [-]Rated Best Defensive 2b in the Pacific Coast League in 2002 Company | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/55 | {"url": "http://baseballamerica.com/statistics/players/cards/18500", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "baseballamerica.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:53:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FA3UZAKHDUUMGPL2ZV3KMRLTBSEWE5IS"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 769, 769.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 769, 3872.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 769, 1.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 769, 273.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 769, 0.92]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 769, 251.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 769, 0.22222222]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 769, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 769, 0.08652246]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 769, 0.03327787]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 769, 0.05990017]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 769, 0.04326123]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 769, 0.30065359]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 769, 0.48360656]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 769, 4.92622951]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 769, 0.03267974]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 769, 3.79292609]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 769, 122.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 769, 122.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 769, 0.08864266]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 769, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 769, 0.06762029]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 769, 0.06527251]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 769, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 769, 0.96711671]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 769, -93.72688266]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 769, -13.30333292]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 769, 41.46811044]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 769, 1.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
San Jose Sharks Schedule, Previews, Recaps: Not Time To Panic For Sharks
It couldn't last forever, regardless of how the San Jose Sharks played, they were going to have to lose again at some point. They were going to have to lose two or three games in a row again before the season was over, that's just how it works in the National Hockey League. Unfortunately, they're getting their losing streak right off of their eight-game winning streak. Not directly after, they had a loss in there, but my article is more important than facts.
Last week saw the Sharks add two more wins to their six-game winning streak, and they had a firm grasp of a playoff spot. They still do, but they need to right the course and get a hold of things before they lose control and drift into uncharted waters. Strictly speaking they're not uncharted, the Sharks just ruined the charts when they went into said water earlier in the year on their six-game losing streak from January 3rd to January 13th. Remember that, folks? I know ... you were trying to forget. I'm not sorry.
The Sharks find themselves at the halfway mark of that losing streak, with three. They certainly don't have aspirations to match their season-high, but you wouldn't be able to tell if you watched them take on the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday. San Jose went into the game with the same mindset that they've had recently: the team that scores three points will win the game, that's how coach Todd McLellan put it a few days prior.
They scored three points, with only one caveat: Chicago scored six of 'em. Four of them went to Antti Niemi, who was then pulled in the second period in favor of Antero Niittymaki, who gave up two of his own, stopping 14-of-16 through the end. Joe Pavelski, Logan Couture and Joe Thornton provided the offensive output for the night, but it wasn't nearly enough to put them ahead of Chicago's relentless onslaught.
Marian Hossa put the puck to net twice, while Jonathan Towes, Patrick Kane, Viktor Stallberg and Niklas Hjalmarsson all had a goal apiece for the Blackhawks. Patrick Sharp had four assists. The Sharks had a 2-1 lead going into the second, but gave up four goals in that second frame, and it was officially a rout.
It was only their fourth loss in around two months, so San Jose doesn't need to hit the panic button at this point. Considering the way two of these three straight losses have went, they're actually in pretty good shape. Last week's game against the Vancouver Canucks may have been the best hockey game this season. Tonight, they'll continue their road trip and take on the Dallas Stars, who are looking to rebound from a 3-2 loss at the hands of the Los Angeles Kings.
If there's one thing the Sharks can hang their hat on, it's the inconsistency of the Stars of late. They're not able to build any solid winning streak, though they are limiting their losses to the overtime and shootout variety. It's unclear as to whether Niittymaki or Niemi will be in net for the Sharks.
This stream will carry us through tonights game, along with Thursday and Saturday matchups against the Minnesota Wild and St. Louis Blues, stay tuned for news, recaps and more.
Sharks Not Panicking, Win Another Over The Wild
On the A's playing at AT&T Park ...
Gannon: Hazing in Oakland "sick to my stomach"
Aldon Smith returns to practice
Athletics Nation 2013 Year-End Player Awards
A look at Nnamdi's stats upon his departure
Raiders week 9 Ballers & Busters
Confidence in Dennis Allen back in question
Is it important for teams to be good in shootouts?
Bear Raid Record Breaking: Portland State
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Obituaries 10-25-2011
October 25, 2011By Beacon Hill Times Staff
Barbara Livingston Hally
Contributing writer for Beacon Hill Times
Barbara Livingston Hally of Boston died on October 18. She was 93 years old.
Born to Mary Bolles Livingston and Harry Angus Livingston in Jamaica Plain, she was the loving widow of the late John R. Hally, Esquire.
Mrs. Hally was a graduate of Holyoke High School and received an associate’s degree from Becker College in Worcester. During World War II, Mrs. Hally was assigned to Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee as confidential secretary to the base commander. She was executive secretary to the late Erwin N. Griswold, former dean of the Harvard Law School, from 1946 to 1952. Mrs. Hally was an accomplished painter who exhibited her work at the Boston Athenæum and was a member of the Wellesley Artist Society in the town where she lived for 23 years. She was also a contributor to various charities and wrote about life on Beacon Hill, where she lived in her later years, for the Beacon Hill Times. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/57 | {"url": "http://beaconhilltimes.com/2011/10/25/obituaries-10-25-2011/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "beaconhilltimes.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:18:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GYBKGCMJ5MGM5UODFBKHOW7QHVHWXZ4H"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1037, 1037.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1037, 2295.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1037, 7.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1037, 75.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1037, 0.98]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1037, 164.1]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1037, 0.32352941]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1037, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1037, 0.0477327]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1037, 0.05369928]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1037, 0.01470588]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1037, 0.16176471]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1037, 0.58757062]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1037, 4.73446328]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1037, 4.37706316]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1037, 177.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 65, 0.0], [65, 90, 0.0], [90, 132, 0.0], [132, 209, 1.0], [209, 346, 1.0], [346, 1037, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 65, 0.0], [65, 90, 0.0], [90, 132, 0.0], [132, 209, 0.0], [209, 346, 0.0], [346, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 22, 2.0], [22, 65, 7.0], [65, 90, 3.0], [90, 132, 6.0], [132, 209, 14.0], [209, 346, 24.0], [346, 1037, 121.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 22, 0.42105263], [22, 65, 0.14634146], [65, 90, 0.0], [90, 132, 0.0], [132, 209, 0.05405405], [209, 346, 0.0], [346, 1037, 0.01477105]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 22, 0.0], [22, 65, 0.0], [65, 90, 0.0], [90, 132, 0.0], [132, 209, 0.0], [209, 346, 0.0], [346, 1037, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 22, 0.04545455], [22, 65, 0.13953488], [65, 90, 0.12], [90, 132, 0.0952381], [132, 209, 0.07792208], [209, 346, 0.09489051], [346, 1037, 0.05788712]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1037, 0.27705669]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1037, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1037, 0.91832972]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1037, -11.31934491]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1037, 5.28331181]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1037, 45.99320291]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1037, 13.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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"Conclusions and the Way Ahead"
Book Chapter By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
A new economic vision for Africa's agricultural transformation� articulated at the highest level of government through Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs)�should be guided by new conceptual frameworks that define the continent as a learning society. This shift will entail placing policy emphasis on emerging opportunities such as renewing infrastructure, building human capabilities, stimulating agribusiness development, and increasing participation in the global economy. It also requires an appreciation of emerging challenges such as climate change and how they might influence current and future economic strategies. January 2011
"Entrepreneurship"
The creation of agricultural enterprises represents one of the most effective ways to stimulate rural development. This chapter will review the efficacy of the policy tools used to promote agricultural enterprises, with a particular focus on the positive, transformative role that can be played by the private sector. Inspired by such examples, this chapter will end by exploring ways in which African countries, subregional, and regional bodies can create incentives that stimulate entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector. The chapter will take into account new tools such as information and communication technologies and the extent to which they can be harnessed to promote entrepreneurship. January 2011
"Human Capacity"
"Nowhere is the missed opportunity to build human capacity more evident than in the case of women and agriculture in Africa. The majority of farmers in Africa are women. Women provide 70%�80% of the labor for food crops grown in Africa, an effort without which African citizens would not eat. Female farmers make up 48% of the African labor force. This work by women is a crucial effort in nations where the economy is usually based on agriculture." January 2011
"Enabling Infrastructure"
"Enabling infrastructure (public utilities, public works, transportation, and research facilities) is essential for agricultural development. Infrastructure is defined here as facilities, structures, associated equipment, services, and institutional arrangements that facilitate the flow of agricultural goods, services, and ideas. Infrastructure represents a foundational base for applying technical knowledge in sustainable development and relies heavily on civil engineering. This chapter outlines the importance of providing an enabling infrastructure for agricultural development." January 2011
"Agricultural Innovation Systems"
"The use of emerging technology and indigenous knowledge to promote sustainable agriculture will require adjustments in existing institutions. New approaches will need to be adopted to promote close interactions between government, business, farmers, academia, and civil society. The aim of this chapter is to identify novel agricultural innovation systems of relevance to Africa. It will examine the connections between agricultural innovation and wider economic policies. Agriculture is inherently a place-based activity and so the chapter will outline strategies that reflect local needs and characteristics." January 2011
"Advances in Science, Technology, and Engineering"
"The Green Revolution played a critical role in helping to overcome chronic food shortages in Latin America and Asia. The Green Revolution was largely a result of the creation of new institutional arrangements aimed at using existing technology to improve agricultural productivity. African countries are faced with enormous technological challenges. But they also have access to a much larger pool of scientific and technical knowledge than was available when the Green Revolution was launched in the 1950s." AP Photo
"Stop Demonising Foreign Investors in Agriculture, They're Not Grabbing Land"
Op-Ed, The Daily Nation By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
"Nearly 60 per cent of the world's available arable land is in Africa. What is needed is a vision among African leaders that would help the continent to contribute to global food needs while fostering local prosperity. Efforts to achieve this have already been started through foreign investments in agriculture." White House Photo
"Trends in Investments in Global Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration"
Journal Article, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, issue 3, volume 2 By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Laura Diaz Anadon, Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Associate Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Co-PI, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Ruud Kempener, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2009�2011 and Charlie Wilson
Recent national trends in investments in global energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) are inconsistent around the world. Public RD&D investments in energy are the metric most commonly used in international comparative assessments of energy-technology innovation, and the metric employed in this article. Overall, the data indicate that International Energy Agency (IEA) member country government investments have been volatile: they peaked in the late 1970s, declined during the subsequent two decades, bottomed out in 1997, and then began to gradually grow again during the 2000s. AP Photo
"Juma Mwapachu: Legacy of an Entrepreneurial Leader"
Op-Ed, The East African By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
"Mwapachu will be remembered as a true entrepreneur with a passion for creating new institutions that improve the lives of the majority of people. He operationalised the EAC Customs Union, led negotiations for the EAC Common Market that came into force in 2010 and laid the groundwork for the forthcoming EAC Monetary Union. He also oversaw the admission of Rwanda and Burundi into the EAC." AP Photo
"Growing the Economy"
Op-Ed, Public Service Review By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
"Sustaining African economic prosperity will require significant efforts to modernise the continent's economy through the application of science and technology in agriculture. In other words, agriculture needs to be viewed as a knowledge-based entrepreneurial activity." 904 items
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AMD Powers the Heart of the Next Console Generation
By Nihar Patel -
AMD, INTC, NVDA
Nihar is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
AMD (NYSE: AMD) isn't joking when it comes to a turnaround. I expected the company to sit on its hands and have success come to it. Sarcasm aside, I'm surprised that AMD’s good news came from winning a place in the Playstation 4 and the Xbox 720. I'm even more surprised that it will utilize a Radeon GPU instead of something from NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA). As someone who thinks that AMD has massive turnaround potential, while also believing NVIDIA has been stuck where it is for too long, I'm in a bind. NVIDIA is in the PS3, and I'm really very shocked that Radeon will be in both the Playstation 4 and the Xbox 720.
Traditional processors are driving AMD higher. Really?
AMD has positive news, and it's coming from the processor side, which is surprising. I knew the graphics side was doing well, but I wasn't expecting something like this. It's fairly good news, and AMD investors have something to cheer about. It's not really known what this will mean for the company, financially, but it probably won’t hurt. NVIDIA seems to have passed on the PS4 due to margins. Sony wants to keep cost as low as possible, considering that the PS3 was an epic money-loser on hardware, even compared to other consoles.
The development is a good one, but the next console generation is going to be more fractured than ever. I feel like PC gaming might make something of a resurgence. The next-gen consoles will be using off-the-shelf components, which will make them high-end computers. This is done to make it easier on developers, who will find it easy to create games to run on those systems, as well as port them to other systems and the PC. On top of all of this, Valve’s Steam platform will also probably make an appearance on the consoles. Consoles will see increased competition from the Ouya or the Steam Box from Valve.
The PC-like architecture is good news for traditional processors, like those manufactured by AMD, because it means there are more places for them to be used. Devices that are plugged into the wall don't need ARM-based chips because power isn't an issue. I had suggested that AMD might want to call it quits on processors. Instead, it scores a big win in that very area, and the kicker bonus is getting in with the Radeon GPUs. The heart of the next console generation will be powered by AMD, which is a far cry from calling it quits, even if margins are sub-par.
Competitors demurred
I think it's a major broadside against rival Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), because Intel has x86 processors, too. But, it's nowhere to be found with these consoles. I'm not sure if Intel hated the margins and walked away, like NVIDIA, or if AMD just made an offer that couldn’t be refused.
I like some of the stuff NVIDIA is doing, but its stock does not reflect the strength of the business. Project Shield is interesting, but will be facing stiff competition. I still see handheld gaming devices mostly for children, but the bigger money is with older gamers.
Intel is facing a shrinking PC and notebook market. Both companies should be doing everything possible to generate more demand for their parts, and make use of their expensive manufacturing equipment. Intel has its foundry business, which makes chips that others have designed, but the company was built with its own chips.
I'm a dedicated PC gamer, though I do have consoles, and I will probably always own a desktop. I have powered my computers with Intel chips, but I know that PC gamers are a minority. After getting myself a tablet, I questioned whether I would get a notebook ever again. Intel might be making a push to mobile, which would explain why the company let AMD have consoles. I don't think Intel is so focused that it can't try for a spot in consoles. Demand is demand, even if it's at a lower price. The alternative is making less money, and even the foundry business might see shrinking margins over time.
My planned trade
I think I'll drop my consideration of NVIDIA calls. I haven't bought them yet, but I was considering them. I think I will move to something crazier, like January 2015 calls for AMD. I would avoid Intel until I figure what it's going to do, and if it will be successful. I don't think I'm jumping the gun on AMD, since consoles are expected out by the end of the year. In the meantime, there's plenty of time for build-up and additional news regarding sales projections for the consoles and what it means for AMD. If they catch fire, then there will be more production runs and different versions, like the slim editions. AMD will be with the consoles for the entire generation.
One year ago, AMD was over $7. I have over a year and half for AMD to do something more substantial. I'm considering a strike price of $7, because that strikes me as cheap, while still being in the realm of possibilities. On the other hand, even $5-$6 is double, so my reasoning actually suggests buying AMD. The news is good and my target is very high, but it allows me to invest less money. In return, the probability of success is lower. It will be a week or more before I take a position.
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on Mar 20, 2011 at 2:30 PM
AT&T, the nation’s second largest wireless provider, has just announced that it will acquire T-Mobile USA from parent company Deutsche Telekom in a cash and stock deal worth approximately $39 billion. With all of the talk of Sprint and T-Mobile joining up, the AT&T news comes out of the blue — though strategically it makes more sense due to both carriers’ spectrum and network technology. It has been widely reported that Deutsche Telekom was looking to get rid of T-Mobile USA for various reasons. AT&T has also committed to delivering LTE to an additional 46 million people with the T-Mobile acquisition, promising to cover close to 95% of the U.S. population with LTE wireless services in the future. The deal is expected to close, pending regulatory approval, within the next 12 months. The full press release is after the break.
DALLAS, TEXAS AND BONN, GERMANY — March 20, 2011— AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom AG (FWB: DT) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $39 billion. The agreement has been approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies.
AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA provides an optimal combination of network assets to add capacity sooner than any alternative, and it provides an opportunity to improve network quality in the near term for both companies’ customers. In addition, it provides a fast, efficient and certain solution to the impending exhaustion of wireless spectrum in some markets, which limits both companies’ ability to meet the ongoing explosive demand for mobile broadband.
With this transaction, AT&T commits to a significant expansion of robust 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) deployment to 95 percent of the U.S. population to reach an additional 46.5 million Americans beyond current plans – including rural communities and small towns. This helps achieve the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and President Obama’s goals to connect “every part of America to the digital age.” T-Mobile USA does not have a clear path to delivering LTE.
“This transaction represents a major commitment to strengthen and expand critical infrastructure for our nation’s future,” said Randall Stephenson, AT&T Chairman and CEO. “It will improve network quality, and it will bring advanced LTE capabilities to more than 294 million people. Mobile broadband networks drive economic opportunity everywhere, and they enable the expanding high-tech ecosystem that includes device makers, cloud and content providers, app developers, customers, and more. During the past few years, America’s high-tech industry has delivered innovation at unprecedented speed, and this combination will accelerate its continued growth.”
Stephenson continued, “This transaction delivers significant customer, shareowner and public benefits that are available at this level only from the combination of these two companies with complementary network technologies, spectrum positions and operations. We are confident in our ability to execute a seamless integration, and with additional spectrum and network capabilities, we can better meet our customers’ current demands, build for the future and help achieve the President’s goals for a high-speed, wirelessly connected America.”
Deutsche Telekom Chairman and CEO René Obermann said, “After evaluating strategic options for T-Mobile USA, I am confident that AT&T is the best partner for our customers, shareholders and the mobile broadband ecosystem. Our common network technology makes this a logical combination and provides an efficient path to gaining the spectrum and network assets needed to provide T-Mobile customers with 4G LTE and the best devices. Also, the transaction returns significant value to Deutsche Telekom shareholders and allows us to retain exposure to the U.S. market.”
As part of the transaction, Deutsche Telekom will receive an equity stake in AT&T that, based on the terms of the agreement, would give Deutsche Telekom an ownership interest in AT&T of approximately 8 percent. A Deutsche Telekom representative will join the AT&T Board of Directors.
Competition and Pricing
The U.S. wireless industry is one of the most fiercely competitive markets in the world and will remain so after this deal. The U.S. is one of the few countries in the world where a large majority of consumers can choose from five or more wireless providers in their local market. For example, in 18 of the top 20 U.S. local markets, there are five or more providers. Local market competition is escalating among larger carriers, low-cost carriers and several regional wireless players with nationwide service plans. This intense competition is only increasing with the build-out of new 4G networks and the emergence of new market entrants.
The competitiveness of the market has directly benefited consumers. A 2010 report from the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) states the overall average price (adjusted for inflation) for wireless services declined 50 percent from 1999 to 2009, during a period which saw five major wireless mergers.
Addresses wireless spectrum challenges facing AT&T, T-Mobile USA, their customers, and U.S. policymakers
This transaction quickly provides the spectrum and network efficiencies necessary for AT&T to address impending spectrum exhaust in key markets driven by the exponential growth in mobile broadband traffic on its network. AT&T’s mobile data traffic grew 8,000 percent over the past four years and by 2015 it is expected to be eight to 10 times what it was in 2010. Put another way, all of the mobile traffic volume AT&T carried during 2010 is estimated to be carried in just the first six to seven weeks of 2015. Because AT&T has led the U.S. in smartphones, tablets and e-readers – and as a result, mobile broadband – it requires additional spectrum before new spectrum will become available. In the long term, the entire industry will need additional spectrum to address the explosive growth in demand for mobile broadband.
Improves service quality for U.S. wireless customers
AT&T and T-Mobile USA customers will see service improvements – including improved voice quality – as a result of additional spectrum, increased cell tower density and broader network infrastructure. At closing, AT&T will immediately gain cell sites equivalent to what would have taken on average five years to build without the transaction, and double that in some markets. The combination will increase AT&T’s network density by approximately 30 percent in some of its most populated areas, while avoiding the need to construct additional cell towers. This transaction will increase spectrum efficiency to increase capacity and output, which not only improves service, but is also the best way to ensure competitive prices and services in a market where demand is extremely high and spectrum is in short supply.
Expands 4G LTE deployment to 95 percent of U.S. population – urban and rural areas
This transaction will directly benefit an additional 46.5 million Americans – equivalent to the combined populations of the states of New York and Texas – who will, as a result of this combination, have access to AT&T’s latest 4G LTE technology. In terms of area covered, the transaction enables 4G LTE deployment to an additional 1.2 million square miles, equivalent to 4.5 times the size of the state of Texas. Rural and smaller communities will substantially benefit from the expansion of 4G LTE deployment, increasing the competitiveness of the businesses and entrepreneurs in these areas.
Increases AT&T’s investment in the U.S. The acquisition will increase AT&T’s infrastructure investment in the U.S. by more than $8 billion over seven years. Expansion of AT&T’s 4G LTE network is an important foundation for the next wave of innovation and growth in mobile broadband, ensuring the U.S. continues to lead the world in wireless technology and availability. It makes T-Mobile USA, currently a German-owned U.S. telecom network, part of a U.S.-based company.
An impressive, combined workforce
Bringing AT&T and T-Mobile USA together will create an impressive workforce that is best positioned to compete in today’s global economy. Post-closing, AT&T intends to tap into the significant knowledge and expertise held by employees of both AT&T and T-Mobile USA to succeed. AT&T is the only major U.S. wireless company with a union workforce, offering leading wages, benefits, training and development for employees. The combined company will continue to have a strong employee and operations base in the Seattle area.
Consistent with AT&T’s track record of value-enhancing acquisitions AT&T has a strong track record of executing value-enhancing acquisitions and expects to create substantial value for shareholders through large, straightforward synergies with a run rate of more than $3 billion, three years after closing onward (excluding integration costs). The value of the synergies is expected to exceed the purchase price of $39 billion. Revenue synergies come from opportunities to increase smartphone penetration and data average revenue per user, with cost savings coming from network efficiencies, subscriber and support savings, reduced churn and avoided capital and spectrum expenditures.
The transaction will enhance margin potential and improve the company’s long-term revenue growth potential as it benefits from a more robust mobile broadband platform for new services.
Additional financial information
The $39 billion purchase price will include a cash payment of $25 billion with the balance to be paid using AT&T common stock, subject to adjustment. AT&T has the right to increase the cash portion of the purchase price by up to $4.2 billion with a corresponding reduction in the stock component, so long as Deutsche Telekom receives at least a 5 percent equity ownership interest in AT&T.
The number of AT&T shares issued will be based on the AT&T share price during the 30-day period prior to closing, subject to a 7.5 percent collar; there is a one-year lock-up period during which Deutsche Telekom cannot sell shares.
The cash portion of the purchase price will be financed with new debt and cash on AT&T’s balance sheet. AT&T has an 18-month commitment for a one-year unsecured bridge term facility underwritten by J.P. Morgan for $20 billion. AT&T assumes no debt from T-Mobile USA or Deutsche Telekom and continues to have a strong balance sheet.
The transaction is expected to be earnings (excluding non-cash amortization and integration costs) accretive in the third year after closing. Pro-forma for 2010, this transaction increases AT&T’s total wireless revenues from $58.5 billion to nearly $80 billion, and increases the percentage of AT&T’s total revenues from wireless, wireline data and managed services to approximately 80 percent.
This transaction will allow for sufficient cash flow to support AT&T’s dividend. AT&T has increased its dividend for 27 consecutive years, a matter decided by AT&T’s Board of Directors.
The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals, a reverse breakup fee in certain circumstances, and other customary regulatory and other closing conditions. The transaction is expected to close in approximately 12 months.
Greenhill & Co., J.P. Morgan and Evercore Partners acted as financial advisors and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Arnold & Porter, and Crowell & Moring provided legal advice to AT&T.
Conference Call/Webcast
On Monday, March 21, 2011, at 8 a.m. ET, AT&T Inc. will host a live video and audio webcast presentation regarding its announcement to acquire T-Mobile USA. Links to the webcast and accompanying documents will be available on AT&T’s Investor Relations website. Please log in 15 minutes ahead of time to test your browser and register for the call.
For dial-in access, please dial +1 (888) 517-2464 within the U.S. or +1 (630) 827-6816 outside the U.S. after 7:30 a.m. ET. Enter passcode 8442095# to join or ask the conference call operator for the AT&T Investor Relations event.
The webcast will be available for replay on AT&T’s Investor Relations website on March 21, 2011, starting at 12:30 p.m. ET through April 21, 2011. An archive of the conference call will also be available during this time period. To access the recording, please dial +1 (877) 870-5176 within the U.S. or +1 (858) 384-5517 outside the U.S. and enter reservation code 29362481#.
Transaction Website
For more information on the transaction, including background information and factsheets, visitwww.MobilizeEverything.com.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile broadband and emerging 4G capabilities, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T │DIRECTV brands. The company’s suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising.
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About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 129 million mobile customers, approximately 36 million fixed-network lines and more than 16 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2010). The Group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in over 50 countries and has around 247,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 62.4 billion in the 2010 financial year – more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2010).
About T-Mobile USA
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG. By the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, approximately 129 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group – 33.7 million by T-Mobile USA – all via GSM and UMTS, the world’s most widely used digital wireless standards. Today, T-Mobile operates America’s largest 4G network, and is delivering a compelling 4G experience across a broad lineup of leading devices in more places than competing 4G services. T-Mobile USA’s innovative wireless products and services empower and enable people to stay connected and productive while mobile. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile USA as a leader in customer care and customer satisfaction. For more information, please visit http://www.T-Mobile.com. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG. For further information on Deutsche Telekom, please visitwww.telekom.de/investor-relations.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this news release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. In addition to these factors, there are risks and uncertainties associated with the T-Mobile business, the pendency of the T-Mobile acquisition and the ability to realize the benefits of the integration of the T-Mobile business. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update or revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise. This news release may contain certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations between the non-GAAP financial measures and the GAAP financial measures are available on the company’s website at www.att.com/investor.relations.
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by Dan Graziano
Huawei announces global availability of the Ascend P1 smartphone
By Dan Graziano on April 18, 2012 at 10:45 PM. Huawei announces global availability of the Ascend P1 smartphone
Huawei on Wednesday announced global availability of its flagship Ascend P1 smartphone. The Android 4.0-powered handset will be available in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Australia by May, in Latin America by June and in Europe for the summer, with availability in other markets to follow. “The global availability of the Ascend P1, which combines smart features and a sexy design, represents a significant milestone for Huawei Device,” said Richard Yu, Chairman of Huawei. “We are sending strong signals of our intention to transform into a consumer-facing brand and extend our market leadership globally by strengthening our range of flagship products. We are also expanding our sales and distribution channels to move beyond a focus on operators.” The Ascend P1 is equipped with a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, a dual-core TI OMAP 4460 processor clocked at 1.5GHz and an 8-megapixel rear camera. Read on for Huawei’s press release. More →
European carriers say Lumia phones can’t compete with iPhone and Android
By Dan Graziano on April 17, 2012 at 2:05 PM. European carriers say Lumia phones can’t compete with iPhone and Android
Nokia’s attempt to regain the traction in the mobile market is turning out to be more difficult than the company once thought. Four major wireless carriers in Europe have said that Nokia’s Lumia smartphones are “not good enough” to compete with Apple’s iPhone or Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Nokia bet big on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform last year, however the gamble has yet to pay off according to the report. “No one comes into the store and asks for a Windows phone,” said an executive in charge of mobile devices at a European operator. The company is now playing catch up with Apple and Google after suffering a huge decline that hurt its image in the high-end market, and according to Reuters’s sources, Windows Phone might be making matters worse. “Nokia have given themselves a double challenge: to restore their credibility in terms of making hardware smartphones and succeed with the Microsoft Windows operating system, which lags in the market,” the executive said. “If the Lumia with the same hardware came with Android in it and not Windows, it would be much easier to sell.” More →
European Commission approves Google’s Motorola acquisition
By Zach Epstein on February 13, 2012 at 1:30 PM. European Commission approves Google’s Motorola acquisition
Google on Monday announced that its proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility has been approved by regulators in Europe. “We’re happy that today the European Commission approved our proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which we announced in August,” Google Vice President & Deputy General Counsel Don Harrison wrote in a post on a company blog. “This is an important milestone in the approval process and it moves us closer to closing the deal. We are now just waiting for decisions from a few other jurisdictions before we can close this transaction.” United States regulators are expected to follow suit and approve the $12.5 billion deal later this week. More →
Samsung faces antitrust investigation in Europe over use of mobile patents
By Dan Graziano on January 31, 2012 at 10:55 AM. Samsung faces antitrust investigation in Europe over use of mobile patents
The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it has opened a formal investigation into Samsung’s competitive practices. The Commission will assess whether the Korean manufacturer “used certain of its standard essential patent rights to distort competition in European mobile device markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules.” Samsung has used a collection of its patents to launch a series of lawsuits against rival companies, such as Apple. The technology giant maintains, however, that these patents are essential to implementing European mobile telephony standards. Samsung may now be in violation of a promise it made in 1998, when the company gave its “irrevocable commitment to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to license any standard essential patents relating to European mobile telephony standards on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.” Read on for the Commission’s full press release. More →
Motorola announces new RAZR with an unlockable bootloader
By Dan Graziano on January 30, 2012 at 11:30 PM. Motorola announces new RAZR with an unlockable bootloader
Motorola promised that a bootloader unlocking solution would be made available for its recent phones in late 2011 but as the year came to a close, the company’s self-imposed deadline came and went with no release. To make matters worse, the manufacturer launched the RAZR with an unlocked bootloader overseas while the American version was locked and encrypted. Motorola blamed Verizon, claiming the carrier requested the device be locked even though other companies were offering unlocking solutions. On Monday, Motorola announced the RAZR Developer Edition on the company’s community blog. The device is essentially the same as the current RAZR, but with one special feature: an unlockable bootloader. The European handset is priced at €499 and will be sold without a warranty, while a U.S. version will become available through MOTODEV “in the coming months.” Read on for the announcement. More →
Apple’s mobile web share reportedly slid in Q4 as Android took No.1 spot
By Dan Graziano on January 27, 2012 at 5:05 PM. Apple’s mobile web share reportedly slid in Q4 as Android took No.1 spot
Although Apple outsold all Android vendors in the fourth quarter, the Cupertino-based company’s share of mobile internet usage is reportedly beginning to slide. An analysis of last year’s Internet usage shows that in the United States, the proportion of Android mobile web visitors overtook Apple users by the end of the year, according to 51Degrees.mobi. The share of Apple’s iOS web traffic in December fell to 34.1%, while Android increased to 36.6%. In Europe, Apple remained ahead with 42.6% however, despite an increase in Android traffic that pushed the platform to 25.5% by the end of 2011. RIM’s BlackBerry devices remained stable in both regions with roughly 9% of all mobile web usage. “The battle for mobile operating system dominance is far from over”, said 51Degrees.mobi CEO James Rosewell. “Apple experienced record sales of iPad2 and iPhone devices, yet its share of mobile web traffic declined in the US and Europe – indicating just how many more Android based products were used online in the same period.” The firm’s full press release follows after the break. More →
Panasonic to launch Android smartphone in Europe in March 2012
By Todd Haselton on December 9, 2011 at 8:30 PM. Panasonic to launch Android smartphone in Europe in March 2012
Panasonic announced Friday that it intends to expand its smartphone business into Europe in March 2012, and it hopes the move will be a stepping stone into the global smartphone market. Panasonic didn’t name its first smartphone, but did say that it features an ultra-slim form factor with a 4.3-inch qHD OLED screen. The phone is also waterproof and dust-proof, and will be manufactured in one of Panasonic’s Malaysian factories. Panasonic hopes to sell 1.5 million smartphones in Europe next year, and by 2016 the company aims to be selling 15 million phones cell phones annually, 9 million of which it expects will be smartphones. Panasonic’s full press release follows after the break. More →
Sales of Apple’s iPhone, iPad banned by German court [updated]
By Zach Epstein on December 9, 2011 at 8:45 AM. Sales of Apple’s iPhone, iPad banned by German court [updated]
A ruling handed down on Friday by the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany could see sales of Apple’s iOS devices banned across Europe. The judgement relates to a patent infringement complaint filed by Motorola last April, when the company accused Apple of infringing a Motorola-owned patent covering “a method for performing a countdown function during a mobile-originated transfer for a packet radio system.” Friday’s ruling is preliminary, however, and according to Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, it is only enforceable against Ireland-based Apple subsidiary Apple Sales International. The injunction formally pertains to the iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2, though the iPhone 4S is likely covered as well. Apple must now remove the infringing functionality from its iOS devices or successfully appeal to Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court in order to avoid the ban.
UPDATE: A press release from Motorola Mobility has been added below.
Motorola wins injunction against Apple in Germany? [updated]
By Jonathan S. Geller on November 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM. Motorola wins injunction against Apple in Germany? [updated]
FOSS Patents is reporting that Motorola has won an injunction related to a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany, Europe’s largest market. According to the ruling by a Mannheim Regional Court, Apple is barred from selling any mobile device that infringe on two Motorola Mobility patents filed in April of 2003. Motorola is also reportedly owed for past damages. One of the patents in question relates to GSM, UMTS and 3G, and it is unclear what the second patent covers. If Motorola Mobility actually has won an injunction against all of Apple’s mobile devices in Germany, it would be a huge win for the company and Google’s Android platform as well. We’ll keep you updated.
UPDATE: It looks like Motorola’s win was scored against Apple Inc. rather than its local subsidiary, Apple Germany. As Apple Inc. doesn’t sell anything in Germany, it looks like this is an empty victory for Motorola, but under the ruling, this affects “new goods” which means that Apple can’t deliver new products to Apple Germany. We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out.
BlackBerry outage affects millions for third day [updated]
By Zach Epstein on October 12, 2011 at 7:25 AM. BlackBerry outage affects millions for third day [updated]
After having initially said the issues were resolved following one day of service interruptions, millions of BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and even some areas in South America still find themselves without access to the Wen or messaging services for the third consecutive day. Research In Motion confirmed earlier that a bug on a Blackberry server was responsible for knocking millions offline on Monday, and the Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone maker elaborated on Tuesday that the continued interruption was caused by a core switch failure. RIM now says the outage has caused a large backlog of data that must be cleared before service can return to normal. No firm timeline has been issued.
UPDATE: Our inbox is starting to get hit with reports of service interruptions in the U.S. and Canada as well. Is your BlackBerry not working this morning? Leave us a comment below and let us know.
BlackBerry EMEA outage spills over to second day [updated]
By Zach Epstein on October 11, 2011 at 12:30 PM. BlackBerry EMEA outage spills over to second day [updated]
BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa again find themselves without service on Tuesday as a bug that knocked millions of users offline on Monday has seemingly resurfaced. Research In Motion announced early Tuesday morning that BlackBerry service across the EMEA region had been restored, but the Associated Press later reported that Internet and messaging services for users across the region are again offline. The report was later confirmed by several carriers including T-Mobile UK, Vodafone UK and Etisalat in the United Arab Emirates. The cause of the outage is unclear, however a report on Monday attributed the massive service interruption to a bug on a RIM server in England.
UPDATE: RIM has stated that Tuesday’s outage was due to a core switch failure. More →
BlackBerry bug knocks millions of users offline in Europe, Middle East and Africa
By Todd Haselton on October 10, 2011 at 12:01 PM. BlackBerry bug knocks millions of users offline in Europe, Middle East and Africa
BlackBerry users in Africa, the Middle East and Europe have been without service since 11:00 a.m. Monday, The Telegraph reports. A bug on Research In Motion’s server in Slough, England is to blame and it appears to have impaired all users, independent of carrier or device. RIM has not issued a statement on the matter. “There is an issue with BlackBerry services at present,” a T-Mobile UK representative said on Twitter. “RIM [is] investigating this at present.” Additionally, Batelco, a wireless carrier in Bahrain, issued a statement that confirmed the service was out in the entire country and explained the issue is being “dealt with by BlackBerry providers in Canada.” More →
Feds investigating Motorola Solutions for alleged bribery
By Todd Haselton on September 26, 2011 at 4:00 PM. Feds investigating Motorola Solutions for alleged bribery
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating Motorola Solutions on suspicion of bribery, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Motorola Solutions, not to be confused with Motorola Mobility, reportedly paid bribes to foreign officials, including Austrian count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, in an attempt to increase business in Europe. If the allegations are true, Motorola Solutions will have been in violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and will likely be required to pay a fine. The company opened up its own investigation in 2009 after a “suspicious transaction” was made in Turkey and has since asked the U.S. government to aid in the investigation, The Wall Street Journal said, noting that the company is providing federal investigators with internal documents “voluntarily.” Mensdorff-Pouilly was charged with bribery in 2010 after the U.S. government looked into allegations that BAE Systems was also paying off foreign officials in return for business.
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Nothing "Is What It Is"
Question: Which will come first, the completion of the Second Avenue Subway or the next Mets World Series victory? Christine Quinn: Well I can’t actually answer that question honestly because my father is 84, and he remembers the day his mother sent him and his brother out of the apartment to go watch the men who were going to build them a new subway. And he has claimed he is not going to die until he gets to ride the Second Avenue Subway. So, I might, you know, I have a slightly skewed allegiance as it relates to the finishing of the Second Avenue Subway. Question: What idea has most inspired you? Christine Quinn: You know, when I was a kid, I read every biography in my school library about a political leader or a famous woman. And the idea in all of those books were that you could change things was that, you know, everyone uses this phrase nowadays, “it is what it is.” I hate that phrase. Nothing "is what it is." Things can always change to what we want them to be and to be better. And as a kid that’s the idea I got out of those books. That people can change things and people can make situations that aren’t good, better. And to me that is the only real idea that matters.
Question: Who is the greatest or most inspiring New Yorker of all time? Christine Quinn: Probably the greatest or most inspiring New Yorker of all time would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His wife a close second.
Recorded on October 28, 2010 Interviewed by Andrew Dermont
Directed & Produced by Jonathan Fowler
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LOVE, Francis Johnson, (1901 - 1989)
LOVE, Francis Johnson, a Representative from West Virginia; born in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, on January 23, 1901; attended the public schools; Bethany College at Bethany, W.Va., A.B., 1924; principal of Warwood High School in Wheeling, W.Va., 1926-1929; West Virginia University Law School at Morgantown, J.D., 1932; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Wheeling, W.Va.; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; resumed the general practice of law; delegate to Republican National Conventions in 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; was a resident of Wheeling, W.Va., until his death in October 1989. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/64 | {"url": "http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000454", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "bioguide.congress.gov", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:15:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IRE4GBZKRI4TDFT75IEG2N62LB7NRX75"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 780, 780.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 780, 830.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 780, 2.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 780, 3.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 780, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 780, 69.2]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 780, 0.20571429]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 780, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 780, 0.05436573]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 780, 0.05930807]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 780, 0.05714286]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 780, 0.37714286]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 780, 0.66101695]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 780, 5.1440678]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 780, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 780, 4.19922464]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 780, 118.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 780, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 780, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 37, 5.0], [37, 780, 113.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 37, 0.26666667], [37, 780, 0.08080808]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 37, 0.0], [37, 780, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 37, 0.16216216], [37, 780, 0.06998654]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 780, 0.13142478]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 780, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 780, 0.45744598]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 780, -31.13178044]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 780, -19.74048413]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 780, 38.45848991]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 780, 13.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
Steven M. Smith
25 Breaking Away from a False Dilemma
With a high-school level understanding of science and theology, I was convinced by this "either-or" argument and, to my knowledge, became the first Young Earth Creationist in my local Nazarene church. I knew the enemy and the enemy had a name. It was Evolution.
Shea Zellweger
0 Take Scripture Seriously
I had spent so much time using the Bible as evidence to prove my point that I hadn't bothered to consider its intended purpose. It was as if I had been given a nice new pair of shoes, but instead of wearing them and letting them take me where I needed to go, I had been using them to kill bugs, prop open doors, and fix wobbly table legs. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/65 | {"url": "http://biologos.org/resources/find/Blog/sort-by-Newest/any/Astronomy+&+Physics,Earth_+Universe+&+Time,Biblical+Interpretation", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "biologos.org", "date_download": "2014-04-16T08:20:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJ66H4M4PM5TRAO4BX6BVEBIPW2FZM7D"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 696, 696.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 696, 10441.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 696, 6.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 696, 214.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 696, 0.98]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 696, 251.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 696, 0.42666667]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 696, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 696, 0.02181818]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 696, 0.02909091]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 696, 0.05333333]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 696, 0.13333333]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 696, 0.71317829]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 696, 4.26356589]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 696, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 696, 4.33382484]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 696, 129.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 16, 0.0], [16, 54, 0.0], [54, 316, 1.0], [316, 331, 0.0], [331, 358, 0.0], [358, 696, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 16, 0.0], [16, 54, 0.0], [54, 316, 0.0], [316, 331, 0.0], [331, 358, 0.0], [358, 696, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 16, 3.0], [16, 54, 7.0], [54, 316, 44.0], [316, 331, 2.0], [331, 358, 4.0], [358, 696, 69.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 16, 0.0], [16, 54, 0.05405405], [54, 316, 0.0], [316, 331, 0.0], [331, 358, 0.03846154], [358, 696, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 16, 0.0], [16, 54, 0.0], [54, 316, 0.0], [316, 331, 0.0], [331, 358, 0.0], [358, 696, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 16, 0.1875], [16, 54, 0.10526316], [54, 316, 0.03435115], [316, 331, 0.13333333], [331, 358, 0.11111111], [358, 696, 0.02071006]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 696, 0.82579315]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 696, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 696, 0.01182216]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 696, 25.96379423]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 696, 6.03595509]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 696, -29.93008676]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 696, 6.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
0 Scientists Tell Their Stories: Owen Gingerich
When it came time to go to graduate school, one of Owen Gingerich's science professors told him “If you feel a calling to go to astronomy, you should give it a try, because we shouldn’t let atheists take over any particular field.” February 22, 2012
Richard Colling
3 Possibilities and Second Chances
In today’s video, Dr. Rick Colling states that evolution is not merely the imposition of death and destruction and survival of the fittest. Rather, it is about second chances. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/66 | {"url": "http://biologos.org/resources/find/any/Genetics,Miracles,Astronomy+&+Physics/Video", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "biologos.org", "date_download": "2014-04-16T08:33:33Z", "digest": "sha1:F7ZPUSDOQAIWHAN5GAC4RYX6HXYHQNEO"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 524, 524.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 524, 3170.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 524, 5.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 524, 75.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 524, 0.92]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 524, 210.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 524, 0.40566038]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 524, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 524, 0.01882353]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 524, 0.02823529]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 524, 0.17924528]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 524, 0.79545455]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 524, 4.82954545]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 524, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 524, 4.16018525]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 524, 88.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 48, 0.0], [48, 298, 0.0], [298, 314, 0.0], [314, 349, 0.0], [349, 524, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 48, 0.0], [48, 298, 0.0], [298, 314, 0.0], [314, 349, 0.0], [349, 524, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 48, 7.0], [48, 298, 45.0], [298, 314, 2.0], [314, 349, 5.0], [349, 524, 29.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 48, 0.02173913], [48, 298, 0.02469136], [298, 314, 0.0], [314, 349, 0.02941176], [349, 524, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 48, 0.0], [48, 298, 0.0], [298, 314, 0.0], [314, 349, 0.0], [349, 524, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 48, 0.125], [48, 298, 0.02], [298, 314, 0.125], [314, 349, 0.08571429], [349, 524, 0.02857143]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 524, 0.49619353]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 524, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 524, 0.00284606]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 524, -19.82826268]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 524, 8.2924461]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 524, -40.21176628]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 524, 4.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
This week in origins news: Inflation of a cosmic kind, new theories about the Higgs particle, a lively collection of links from favorite spots in the blogosphere, and a few interactive items for those who enjoy playing as much as they do reading around the internet. April 9, 2014 | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/67 | {"url": "http://biologos.org/resources/find/any/Pastors,Science+as+Christian+Calling,Worship+&+Arts,Astronomy+&+Physics", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "biologos.org", "date_download": "2014-04-16T08:33:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6B2K7HEDXVIQGFCY4WGOI7OOZRWT5WSV"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 280, 280.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 280, 8719.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 280, 1.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 280, 204.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 280, 0.97]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 280, 318.5]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 280, 0.43636364]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 280, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 280, 0.14545455]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 280, 0.85714286]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 280, 4.6122449]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 280, 3.67242118]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 280, 49.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 280, 49.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 280, 0.01824818]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 280, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 280, 0.01428571]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 280, 0.56237239]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 280, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 280, 9.06e-06]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 280, -7.75455185]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 280, 2.44810183]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 280, -2.36096548]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 280, 2.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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Blackstone honored at the 2011 inMotion Commitment to Justice Awards
The Blackstone Group received a special honor as the top fundraising team for inMotion’s Story by Story—Climbing to End Domestic Violence! event. A gala ceremony was held on February 8th for inMotion’s Commitment to Justice Awards at New York City’s Lincoln Center. inMotion, a New York City non-profit organization that provides pro-bono legal services for indigent women and children, held the inaugural Story by Story event at 1411 Broadway, an Equity Office Properties (EOP) building that is part of Blackstone’s real estate portfolio. Participants climbed the 42-story skyscraper in the heart of Manhattan’s Fashion District and Times Square to raise financial support and awareness for inMotion. The event included over 900 climbers with more than 3,700 individual donors raising over $449,000 to bring crucial legal protections to the women and children that inMotion serves.
Through their months of planning and fundraising efforts as well as a generous contribution from The Blackstone Charitable Foundation, the Blackstone team raised more than $66,000 for inMotion. The team, captained by Erik Lisher (inMotion Junior Advisory Board member) and Lauren Buxbaum, and assisted by head cheerleader Tim Coleman (inMotion board member), consisted of over 40 climbers. Along with the support of dozens of 1411 Broadway staff members and EOP building management—including Adam Goldenberg, Roxanne Osborne, Mary Pietropolo and Neal Troiano—they helped to make this inaugural event a huge success! Founded in 1993, inMotion provides free legal services to low-income, underserved women to help them free themselves from abusive relationships, stay in their homes and win financial support for them and their children. Last year, inMotion assisted nearly 4,700 women and children, and its volunteer attorneys donated over 74,000 hours valued at more than $24 million.
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Power Ranking the NFL's Top 50 Active Offensive Linemen
By Cody Swartz
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It’s notoriously difficult to grade offensive linemen, especially considering there are very limited statistics to evaluate their performance. The Pro Bowl voting doesn’t always accurately reflect the true superstars, and it’s often said that the best linemen are the ones whose names are never mentioned. Like a long snapper, an offensive lineman prefers to live in relative anonymity, doing his work without calling attention to himself. The following 50 deserve recognition though; they’re fine blockers that allow their quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers to break records and score points.
No. 50 to No. 46
Stephen Dunn/Getty Images 50. Andre Smith, OT, Cincinnati Bengals He spent the first two years of his NFL career on pace to go down as one of the worst busts in the last decade. Andre Smith struggled to keep his weight down and broke his foot twice in his first two years. Smith turned it around in 2011, posting by far his best year yet. He played 14 games—after playing in just five combined in 2009 and 2010—and gave up just three sacks. Smith still isn’t the franchise tackle the Cincinnati Bengals hoped they were getting when they picked him sixth overall in ’09, but the team has to be feeling good about the major strides Smith made. 49. Jared Gaither, OT, San Diego Chargers The San Diego Chargers got a steal when they picked up the 6-foot-9, 345-pound Jared Gaither off the waiver wire. Gaither had been released by the Kansas City Chiefs for committing a costly false start in place of usual left tackle Branden Albert. The Chiefs said Gaither lacked the explosiveness he had displayed in Baltimore; he went on though to start five straight games down the stretch for the Chargers without giving up a sack. Gaither played more like the All-Pro he had been in the middle of the decade, at one point handling Baltimore Ravens pass rusher Terrell Suggs with ease. 48. Jermon Bushrod, OT, New Orleans Saints Jermon Bushrod took over as the blindside protector for Drew Brees when Jamaal Brown went down with a season-ending injury in 2009, and Bushrod played well enough the team viewed him as their left tackle of the future. He struggled at times that season but helped the New Orleans Saints go on to win the Super Bowl championship over the Indianapolis Colts.Bushrod earned his first Pro Bowl selection in 2011 after helping Brees set the single-season record for most passing yards. 47. Jonathan Goodwin, C, San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers made an underrated offseason acquisition when they went out and signed center Jonathan Goodwin to a three-year contract. Goodwin had been a Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion in New Orleans, blocking for Drew Brees and the Saints’ record-setting offense. As a veteran on a relatively young offensive line in San Francisco, Goodwin earned another Pro Bowl appearance and helped the Niners to a 13-3 record and NFC West division title. That’s pretty good for a guy who spent his first two years in the NFL as a backup guard, struggling to find playing time. 46. Ryan Clady, OT, Denver Broncos Let’s be clear: Ryan Clady is nowhere near as good as people think he is. He had his worst year as a pro by far in 2011, giving up a sack in six separate games, as well as countless quarterback pressures. He didn’t deserve his Pro Bowl selection, his second such he has received in four years in the league. Clady still makes the list because he had a great season as a rookie in 2008 and good seasons in 2009 and 2010. He gave up just half a sack in his initial season in the league, prompting Sporting News to call him the best offensive tackle in the NFL prior to the ’09 season. The potential is there and when he is on his game, Clady plays among the best linemen in the game.
Karl Walter/Getty Images 45. Harvey Dahl, G, St. Louis Rams Per Pro Football Focus, Harvey Dahl is one of just eight guards in the NFL to have rated as an above-average player in each of the previous four seasons. Dahl is a top run blocker and a solid enough pass blocker. The Rams made the right move inking Dahl to a four-year contract prior to the season; he should help to provide stability to an offensive line that isn’t giving Sam Bradford any time to throw the football. 44. Chris Snee, G, New York Giants He’s Tom Coughlin’s son-in-law; hope that doesn’t make it awkward if he continues the decline he has shown the past several seasons and Coughlin has to part ways with him. Chris Snee has been one of the best guards in the NFL since he took over as the starter eight years ago; his time with the New York Giants has coincided with Coughlin’s tenure as head coach and Eli Manning’s time as quarterback. Snee was a key part of the Giants team that won the Super Bowl in 2007 and led the NFL in rushing offense in 2008. Snee’s play has dropped off at a steady rate over the years; in fact, 2011 was his worst season as a pro. He was overmatched in the NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers, giving up two sacks and three quarterback pressures. He gets major points for his durability though, as Snee has missed just one game in the last seven seasons. 43. Nick Hardwick, C, San Diego Chargers He’s gone from a defensive tackle on the scout team at Purdue University to a Pro Bowl center for one of the NFL’s highest scoring offenses. Nick Hardwick was at his best as a pass blocker in 2011, giving up just seven quarterback pressures and no sacks throughout the entire season. He’s actually gone 26 games without giving up a sack. 42. Bobbie Williams, G, Cincinnati Bengals The former Philadelphia Eagles guard is arguably the most underrated offensive lineman in the NFL. Bobbie Williams isn’t flashy and few people outside of Cincinnati even know his name, but the reality is that he’s been one of the best guards in the league in recent years. Williams has been an anchor of the Bengals line for eight seasons, during which he’s helped the team to the playoffs three times. He’s been instrumental in the development of 2009 first round draft pick Andre Smith, and has served as a veteran presence for the Bengals. 41. Maurkice Pouncey, C, Pittsburgh Steelers His most memorable moment as a rookie was not being able to suit up for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Super Bowl appearance, a move that may have contributed more to the Steelers’ loss than anything else. Pouncey probably isn’t quite as good as people think he is, but that absolutely devastated the Steelers in the game against Green Bay. His backup, Doug Legursky, didn’t play very well, and the Steelers may actually have won with Pouncey. Pouncey was inconsistent this year but earned his second Pro Bowl selection in as many years. He’s actually been named to the All-Pro team in both of his NFL seasons, and he should be an anchor for the next decade for a Steelers team that lacks a strong offensive line.
Whitney Curtis/Getty Images 40. Todd McClure, C, Atlanta Falcons Even at 34 years old, Todd McClure is still one of the top centers in the game. He played nearly 1,000 snaps in 2011 and didn’t give up a sack. McClure has lost some of his physical skills but he’s as sharp of a player as ever. McClure missed three games early this season—the first time he missed any games since 2001. He rebounded strong, and the Atlanta Falcons averaged 0.8 more yards per rush with McClure in the lineup than when he was injured. 39. Trent Williams, OT, Washington Redskins The fourth overall pick in the 2010 NFL draft struggled as a rookie, looking overmatched from the day he entered the league. Williams gave up a whopping 11 sacks, and let up at least one in eight different games. He made major strides in 2011. Williams allowed two sacks in the opener against the New York Giants, but then didn’t let up a sack for his final 11 games before a suspension for illegal drugs ended his year prematurely. 38. Todd Herremans, OT, Philadelphia Eagles He displayed his versatility in 2011, moving from the left guard position he had played for the previous five seasons to right tackle. Todd Herremans started 15 of the 16 games at right tackle. The one time he was needed elsewhere was when he filled in for Jason Peters at left tackle against the Washington Redskins, and he turned in arguably his best all-around performance of the season. Herremans isn’t a terrific pass blocker, but he is a road grader in the running game, and he was largely influential for LeSean McCoy’s breakout season on the ground. Herremans is also a dynamic pass catcher, as he has two career receptions, both for touchdowns. 37. Eric Winston, OT, Houston Texans Many people fail to realize the talent the Houston Texans have at their offensive tackle positions with Duane Brown on the left side and Eric Winston on the right side. Winston has been a Pro Bowl caliber right tackle for several seasons now. He was a key contributor in both the running and passing game in the 2011 season, helping quarterbacks Matt Schaub and T.J. Yates have time to throw the ball while paving the way for Arian Foster and Ben Tate on the ground. 36. Eugene Monroe, OT, Jacksonville Jaguars Eugene Monroe was a highly touted offensive line prospect coming out of college who struggled as a rookie in 2009. He wasn’t much better in 2010, but finally played to his potential in 2011. Monroe still lets up too many sacks but he is a fine run blocker and was a key reason why running Maurice Jones-Drew was able to lead the NFL in rushing yards.
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images 35. Mike Iupati, G, San Francisco 49ers He’s still one of the NFL’s more underrated guards but a few more seasons like the ones he’s been having and Mike Iupati will be known nationally. He was a first round pick of the San Francisco 49ers in the 2010 NFL draft and played well right from the start. Iupati didn’t allow a sack or commit a penalty until Week 5, and he was voted onto ESPN’s 2010 All-NFC West Team. He followed that up with an even stronger season, helping Alex Smith finally put together a breakout season at quarterback. 34. John Sullivan, C, Minnesota Vikings John Sullivan took over as the starting center for the Minnesota Vikings when Matt Birk left for the Baltimore Ravens via free agency. Sullivan was mediocre for his first two seasons before establishing himself as a Pro Bowl caliber player in 2011. Sullivan rated as the third best center in the NFL, according to Pro Football Focus. 33. David Stewart, OT, Tennessee Titans He combines with Michael Roos to give the Tennessee Titans a very solid pair of bookend offensive tackles for young quarterback Jake Locker. David Stewart rated as the second best offensive tackle in the NFL in 2011, behind just Jason Peters (according to Pro Football Focus). Stewart is a phenomenal pass blocker and he’s been very durable for the Titans—missing just four games due to injury in the last six seasons.
32. Eric Wood, C, Buffalo Bills
Rick Stewart/Getty Images Eric Wood’s best value to the Buffalo Bills may be his versatility: He started at right guard in his first two NFL seasons before switching to center for 2011. The former first round pick is a Pro Bowler in the waiting, as he didn’t give up any sacks, and he also excels in the running game and on screen passes. Wood has played through some gruesome injuries. He suffered a compound fracture of both leg bones as a rookie in ’09 when Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Montavious Stanley turned Wood’s two leg bones into four (warning: very graphic). He rebounded in time to play all 16 games in 2010, a phenomenal accomplishment considering the severity of the injury he sustained, and he was selected to USA Football’s All-Fundamentals Team. Wood then tore his ACL in Week 10 this season, and the Bills went just 1-6 without Wood after going 5-4 with him in the lineup. He still rated as one of the top centers in the game, despite playing just a little over half the season. Wood may miss the start of 2012, but he will be a key part of the Bills for the future—assuming he can just avoid the fluke injuries.
31. Ben Grubbs, G, Baltimore Ravens
Larry French/Getty Images He finally made the Pro Bowl in 2011, a much overdue honor for one of the game’s top guards. Ben Grubbs has been a staple on the Baltimore Ravens since the team drafted him in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft.Grubbs was initially a defensive tackle at Auburn University before switching to tight end and then finally to offensive guard. Grubbs began his NFL career as a left guard and moved to right guard in 2008, where he’s been ever since. Grubbs was a Pro Bowl alternate in 2009 and finally made the team in ’11, even though he missed six games with a toe injury.
30. Steve Hutchinson, G, Minnesota Vikings
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images He’s clearly on the downside of his NFL career, but Steve Hutchinson is still one of the top guards in the league, even at the age of 34. Since being taken in the first round of the 2001 draft, Hutchinson has made seven Pro Bowl teams, earned five All-Pro selections, and been chosen on the 2000s NFL All-Decade Team. Strictly by the numbers at Pro Football Focus, Hutchinson in 2011 had his best overall year since 2008. He rated as the eighth best guard in the game, and he helped running back Adrian Peterson have another strong year running the football.
29. Sebastian Vollmer, OT, New England Patriots
Elsa/Getty Images The New England Patriots have one of the more underappreciated players in the league in Sebastian Vollmer, a second round pick in 2009 who has played very well at the right tackle position. Vollmer missed the majority of 2011 with a right foot injury, starting just five of the team’s 16 games. When he is healthy, he’s a strong pass blocker. He was voted onto the AP All-Pro Team for the 2010 season, and also earned recognition on ESPN’s All-Underrated Team.
28. Duane Brown, OT, Houston Texans
Rob Carr/Getty Images Duane Brown is the answer to a trivia question: Who was the only offensive tackle to start all 16 games in 2011 and not surrender a sack? He’s a key player as the blindslide protector for Matt Schaub (and T.J. Yates down the stretch). That’s especially impressive considering how poorly he began his career—Brown gave up 10 sacks in his first 10 NFL starts, prompting many to speculate the 2008 first round pick was a bust. He began to show major improvement in 2009 and 2010, and finally turned the corner into stardom in 2011. He began the season with a strong performance against All-Pro pass rusher Dwight Freeney, holding Freeney to no tackles or sacks for 60 minutes. Brown teamed with right tackle Eric Winston as one of the more underrated tackle tandems in the game.
27. Alex Mack, C, Cleveland Browns
Christian Petersen/Getty Images He’s been remarkably durable since the Cleveland Browns picked him in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft. Not only has Mack started all 48 games since joining the league, he hasn’t missed a single snap. Mack played in the Pro Bowl following the 2010 season, and although he missed out this past year, he had another fantastic campaign. Mack is a strong pass blocker, as he gave up just eight quarterback pressures in 2011.
26. Kris Dielman, G, San Diego Chargers
Stephen Dunn/Getty Images The San Diego Chargers will greatly miss Kris Dielman if he retires this offseason, as he has said he may do. Dielman suffered a concussion midway through the 2011 NFL season, and then a seizure on the team’s return flight to San Diego. The scare of permanent injuries may force the 30-year old Dielman into early retirement. It would be a shame for the Chargers and Philip Rivers if Dielman does retire, considering the remarkable career he’s had against all odds. In 2003, Dielman was an undrafted free agent out of Indiana University, and the Chargers converted him from defensive tackle to offensive guard. Dielman started 14 of the team’s 16 games at left guard in 2005 and was a Pro Bowler by 2007. He went on to make four consecutive Pro Bowls, earning All-Pro honors twice. Dielman was terrific in the six games he started in 2011 before suffering his concussion; he gave up just four quarterback pressures and no sacks.
25. Tyron Smith, OT, Dallas Cowboys
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Dallas Cowboys got a major find in Tyron Smith, a player they can pencil in on their offensive line for the next 10-12 seasons. Smith was a right tackle as a rookie, but may move to left tackle considering the struggles of Doug Free (10 sacks allowed). Smith allowed eight himself, but he should only improve after his rookie season, and he was good enough in run blocking that PFF still rated him as the fourth best offensive tackle in the league. He will need to improve against his division foes: Smith gave up four sacks in two games against the Philadelphia Eagles, but he should only get better with age. The Cowboys may have the kind of player in Smith that will be to eight or more Pro Bowls when it’s all said and done.
24. Evan Mathis, G, Philadelphia Eagles
Jim McIsaac/Getty Images For the first six years of his NFL career, Evan Mathis was a journeyman guard for the Carolina Panthers, Miami Dolphins, and Cincinnati Bengals. He signed with the Philadelphia Eagles and won a job as the starter in training camp this past August. Mathis ended up having the single most dominant season of any lineman in 2011, according to Pro Football Focus. He was phenomenal as a run blocker but also didn’t allow a sack the entire year. In fact, since PFF was founded in 2008, Mathis hasn’t allowed a sack in 1,846 snaps. He’s a free agent as of this coming March but given the production he gave the Eagles this past season, the team should do everything in its power to re-sign Mathis to a long-term deal.
23. Ryan Kalil, C, Carolina Panthers
Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Carolina Panthers franchised Ryan Kalil for the 2011 season, and then signed him to a six-year, $49 million deal that will keep him in uniform with the team through 2016. Kalil has started 16 games each of the past three seasons, and he’s been to three Pro Bowls. He rates as the NFC’s best center during that span, and his skills as both a pass and run blocker will be vital for young quarterback Cam Newton.
22. Andy Levitre, G, Buffalo Bills
Rick Stewart/Getty Images In their first two picks of the 2009 NFL draft, the Buffalo Bills chose center Eric Wood and guard Andy Levitre, two players who will be a cornerstone of the offensive line for the next decade. Levitre was named to the Sporting News All-Rookie Team in ’09 and has shown steady improvement in each of his three NFL seasons. He has played all 48 games and played his best ball in 2011. He rates as the best blocker against screen passes among any guard in the league, and he played exceptionally well against the pass too.
21. Brandon Moore, G, New York Jets
Rob Carr/Getty Images He’s been underrated across the NFL for many years, and Brandon Moore was finally rewarded for his outstanding play in 2011 when he played in his first Pro Bowl. Moore joined the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2003 and won a starting job as the right guard by 2004. He has started every game for the Jets since ’05, and in fact, his 121 consecutive starts lead all active guards. Moore didn’t give up any sacks in 1,116 snaps in 2011. In fact, he only gave up one sack in each of the prior three seasons, prompting ESPN to vote Moore the most underrated member of the Jets.
20. Michael Roos, OT, Tennessee Titans
Brian A. Westerholt/Getty Images Michael Roos is a mammoth of a man at 6’7”, and he has been the cornerstone of the Tennessee Titans since being drafted in 2005. Roos hasn’t missed a start, clocking in at 112 straight regular season games. He was voted to the Pro Bowl following the 2008 season and has been named an All-Pro twice. Roos rebounded from a poor 2010 campaign to give up just one sack in over 1,000 snaps in 2011.
19. Bryan Bulaga, OT, Green Bay Packers
Al Bello/Getty Images Like Eugene Monroe, Bryan Bulaga was a major liability as a rookie, and in fact, was one of the worst players on the 2010 Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers. Bulaga started at right tackle and gave up more sacks (12) than any other offensive tackle in the league. He showed an incredible turnaround this year, yielding just one sack in 12 games while helping Aaron Rodgers turn in one of the greatest seasons by a quarterback in NFL history. The Packers spent their past two first round picks storing up bookend offensive tackles in Bulaga and Derrick Sherrod, players that should be instrumental in the next decade or more for the Packers.
18. Tyson Clabo, OT, Atlanta Falcons
Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images Tyson Clabo bounced around the league when he debuted in 2004, going from the Denver Broncos to the New York Giants to the San Diego Chargers back to the Broncos and then finally to the Atlanta Falcons by 2005. Clabo became the starting right guard in 2006 and moved to right tackle by ’07, where he’s been the starter ever since. Clabo has started 64 consecutive games for a Falcons team that has made three playoff appearances since 2008. Clabo was named to the Pro Bowl in 2010 and had another strong season in 2011, grading well as both a pass and run blocker. He earned a much-deserved four-year extension in the summer of ’11.
17. Brian Waters, G, New England Patriots
Winslow Townson/Getty Images He had a bounce back season in 2011, playing much like the All-Pro player he was for the middle of last decade. Brian Waters went to six Pro Bowls with the Kansas City Chiefs before parting ways with them. He signed with the New England Patriots on a two-year deal and had a remarkable season, grading as the fourth best guard in the NFL. Waters—who had never won a playoff game with the Chiefs—will be playing in the Super Bowl for the Patriots.
16. Jahri Evans, G, New Orleans Saints
Matthew Sharpe/Getty Images Jahri Evans’ 2009 season is the single top-rated season of any offensive lineman since Pro Football Focus was founded in 2008. Evans graded as a 42.9, which stands as one of just three seasons to ever top 40 on the website’s rating scale. Evans was instrumental in the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl championship that season, earning his first Pro Bowl selection. Evans saw his play drop off in 2010, although he still made the Pro Bowl and earned AP All-Pro honors. He turned in a bounce back season in 2011, helping Drew Brees shatter the single-season record for passing yards. Evans is renowned for his durability, as the former Division-II collegiate player has started all 16 games in each of his six seasons in the NFL.
15. Scott Wells, C, Green Bay Packers
Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images He’s long been one of the NFL’s most underrated players, and 2011 finally saw Scott Wells make the Pro Bowl. A former seventh round pick, Wells played left guard early on for the Green Bay Packers before taking over as the starting center in 2006. Wells ranks as the top NFC center since 2008, having been a key part of an underrated offensive line for the Packers. Wells’ key blocking down the stretch in 2010 helped the Packers capture the Super Bowl title.
14. D’Brickashaw Ferguson, OT, New York Jets
Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images D’Brickashaw Ferguson is widely considered among the top left tackles in the game, as he’s been voted to three straight Pro Bowls now. Ferguson was initially taken fourth overall in the 2006 NFL draft by the New York Jets, and has been a staple in the line. Ferguson is quick and well-coordinated, but the knock on him has always been his susceptibility to the bull rush, making him at times a liability in the passing game. Ferguson gave up just three sacks in 2010 but saw that figure rise to eight in 2011. Still, he had his share of fine moments, such as his Week 1 game against Dallas Cowboys outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware, in which Ferguson stood his ground well for 60 minutes. Combine that with the fact that Ferguson is easily one of the best run blocking tackles in the game, and you have a tremendous all-around player.
13. Matt Light, OT, New England Patriots
Jim Rogash/Getty Images He’s now been on all five New England Patriots teams to have gone to the Super Bowl under Bill Belichick, joining just Tom Brady and Kevin Faulk among players to have done so. Matt Light debuted in the NFL in 2001, as he was taken in the second round of that year’s draft. Light started 12 games at left tackle as a rookie, including the Super Bowl, and found himself a regular on the offensive line for the next decade. He’s started 153 regular season games since joining the league, made three Pro Bowls, and was chosen as the 2007 Tuesday Morning Quarterback Non-QB Non-RB NFL MVP award winner. Light is still a phenomenal lineman, even at age 33. He is good at all the phases of the game—pass blocking, run blocking, and blocking on screen passes
12. Josh Sitton, G, Green Bay Packers
Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images You could make a legitimate case for Josh Sitton as the most underrated player in the National Football League. Josh Sitton was a fourth round pick of the Green Bay Packers in the 2008 NFL draft. He began his career as a tackle, playing sparingly as a rookie, before he earned the job as the full-time right guard in 2009. Since then, Sitton has started 46 of 48 regular season games. He hasn’t been selected to the Pro Bowl, but Pro Football Focus sees his true value: Sitton rates as the fifth best lineman in all of the NFL since ’09, and he’s the highest ranked player to have never made the Pro Bowl. He earned a contract extension that will keep him in Green Bay through the 2016 season.
11. Marshal Yanda, G, Baltimore Ravens
Wesley Hitt/Getty Images Speaking of underrated players, Marshal Yanda may be king of the group. Yanda finally earned his first Pro Bowl selection in the 2011 season, although he’s been deserving for quite some time. Yanda has seen steady improvement in his play since being drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the 2007 draft. He can play both positions on the right side of the line—guard and tackle—although he’s best suited as a guard now that Michael Oher is manning the right tackle position. Yanda is still just 27 years old, and he and Ben Grubbs team to form arguably the best guard tandem in the NFL.
10. Logan Mankins, G, New England Patriots
Scott Halleran/Getty Images Tom Brady has to be thrilled the New England Patriots were finally able to come to terms on a long-term deal with All-Pro guard Logan Mankins. Mankins held out the first seven games of the 2010 season because he couldn’t get his contract resolved, and even publicly requested a trade. He was given the franchise tag for 2011, before eventually signing a six-year, $51 million deal in August that makes him the highest-paid interior offensive lineman in NFL history. The deal is well worth it for Mankins, a four-time Pro Bowler and three-time All-Pro who has been a key part of two Super Bowl teams. Mankins saw his play drop off slightly in ’11, but he is still young enough and talented enough as both a pass and run blocker that he should be a force for many more years.
9. Jordan Gross, OT, Carolina Panthers
Brian A. Westerholt/Getty Images Few players in the NFL have moved on the offensive line as much as Jordan Gross. He was a right tackle as a rookie, playing every snap in 2003 for a Carolina Panthers team that went to the Super Bowl. Gross moved back to left tackle for 2004, then right tackle in 2005, left tackle again in 2006, right tackle in 2007, and finally left tackle in 2008 where he has been ever since. Gross has made two Pro Bowls and been voted First-Team All-Pro by the Associated Press.
8. Andrew Whitworth, OT, Cincinnati Bengals
Al Bello/Getty Images He should be a perennial Pro Bowler, but he still lives in relative anonymity and it doesn’t help that Andrew Whitworth plays the same position in the same conference as Jake Long and Joe Thomas. Whitworth is a stellar pass blocker, and in fact, no AFC tackle rates better since 2010 (per PFF), including Long and Thomas. In fact, Whitworth was voted the Cincinnati Bengals Team MVP for the ’10 season, according to the Football Writers of America. He had another terrific season in 2011, although he did fade off down the stretch. He’s probably the best pass blocking tackle in the league, other than Joe Thomas. Whitworth is extremely consistent, uses terrific footwork, and protects Andy Dalton as well as anyone could in the game, a task that isn’t easy considering the speed rushers he has to face within his division. Whitworth signed a two-year extension this past August, one that will keep him in Cincinnati through the 2015 season.
7. Jeff Saturday, C, Indianapolis Colts
Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images Jeff Saturday has long been one of the top centers in the NFL, a stunning achievement considering he went undrafted back in 1998. The Indianapolis Colts signed Saturday after the Baltimore Ravens released him, and Saturday has started 188 games for the Colts since 1999. He’s been named to five Pro Bowls and the AP All-Pro team twice. Saturday has stated he may retire this offseason, but if he does, the Colts will be missing a terrific player. Saturday can still play with the best of them, even at age 36. He’s a terrific pass blocker, run blocker, and on screen passes.
6. Chris Myers, C, Houston Texans
Thomas B. Shea/Getty Images Chris Myers has been an underrated center for several seasons now, but he emerged as arguably the best in the business with his stellar 2011 campaign. Myers rated as the best at his position on PFF’s ratings, registering a plus 29.8 for the season. He gave up just one sack but was at his best as a dynamic road blocker for All-Pro runner Arian Foster. Myers actually was passed over for the Pro Bowl initially but made it when Maurkice Pouncey’s injury kept him out of the game.
5. Carl Nicks, G, New Orleans Saints
Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Carl Nicks has been vastly underrated during his tenure with the New Orleans Saints, and he should get a big payday now that he is entering free agency. Nicks has started 61 of a possible 64 games since entering the NFL as a fifth round draft pick in 2008. He has made consecutive Pro Bowls and been named to the AP All-Pro team each of the past two years. Simply put, the Saints’ record-breaking offense wouldn’t be the same without Nicks on the offensive line, and the team will greatly miss him if he leaves in the offseason.
4. Nick Mangold, C, New York Jets
Rob Carr/Getty Images Since the 2008 season, Nick Mangold rates as the top offensive lineman in the game, according to Pro Football Focus. His rating of 134.0 is miles ahead of the second best lineman (Carl Nicks, 101.9) and nearly 60 points higher than the next-best center (Chris Myers, 75.7). He entered the league as an immediate star. The New York Jets took him in the first round of the 2006 NFL draft, and he started all 16 games as a rookie, giving up just half a sack. He has missed just two games in his six-year career (both this year with an ankle injury). Mangold has been voted to the Pro Bowl squad for each of the previous four seasons, and he’s been chosen for the AP All-Pro team three straight years. Mangold’s strength is that he’s a natural lineman. He’s terrific blocking for both the run and the pass, and he’s a natural leader for the Jets.
3. Jake Long, OT, Miami Dolphins
Winslow Townson/Getty Images Before the season, either Jake Long or Joe Thomas was probably regarded as the best offensive lineman in the league. Long has been absolutely sensational since he was drafted first overall by the Miami Dolphins in the 2008 NFL draft. He has been to four consecutive Pro Bowls, and he was named on the AP All-Pro team twice. Long is a monster blocker in both the passing and running game. What kept him from ranking higher on the list primarily was his disappointing 2011 season; Long had by far his worst year as a pro. Long gave up just two sacks as a rookie, four in his second year, and six in his third year in the league. He gave up four in the first three weeks of 2011. Although Long settled down and gave up just one sack in his final 10 games before being placed on Injured Reserve with a torn triceps, Long still wasn’t his usual dominant self. He enters the 2012 season in the final year of the five-year deal he signed when the team drafted him in ’08. It’s likely he will be locked up long-term before the season starts, but the Dolphins have to be hoping for better production in ’12 from their franchise left tackle.
2. Joe Thomas, OT, Cleveland Browns
Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Joe Thomas was a phenomenal pick for the Cleveland Browns as the third overall selection in the 2007 NFL draft. He’s been to five Pro Bowls in five seasons and at this rate, it’s safe to say Thomas will go to the Pro Bowl as long as he’s still in the league. Thomas hasn’t missed a start since being drafted. He was named First-Team AP All-Pro each of the last three leagues, and this is for a guy who plays in the same conference as Jake Long. USA Today named Thomas the best offensive tackle in the NFL. Thomas has helped Jamal Lewis record two 1,000-yard rushing seasons and Peyton Hillis top the 1,000-yard plateau in 2010. Thomas gives up more sacks than one would expect from a left tackle of his caliber, but that may be more because of the poor quality of quarterbacks the Browns have had in the last five years than Thomas’s inability to block.
1. Jason Peters, OT, Philadelphia Eagles
Rob Carr/Getty Images You could make a strong case for Jason Peters as the Philadelphia Eagles’ team MVP in 2011. He has been to five straight Pro Bowls now, but really came into his own as an all-around blocker this past season. Pro Football Focus rated Peters nearly twice as high as any other offensive tackle. Running back LeSean McCoy averaged 7.5 yards per carry on his 34 runs behind Peters, according to PFF. McCoy averaged just 4.4 yards per run on his other 239 carries. Watch this video to see how good Peters is at downfield blocking. Peters also was tremendous against the pass, giving up just three sacks in 14 starts, despite playing in a division that boasts a plethora of fine pass-rushers (DeMarcus Ware, Jason Pierre-Paul, Jason Tuck, Osi Umenyiora, Brian Orakpo). Many times Peters kept them as a complete non-factor for the game. Peters did all this as the anchor of an offensive line that thrust two rookies into the starting rotation (center Jason Kelce and right guard Danny Watkins). This is pretty good work for a former undrafted college tight end who initially had to work his way onto special teams on the Buffalo Bills before taking over as the full-time starter. Peters edges out Thomas and Long on this list because of his better all-around season in 2011 as both a run and pass blocker.
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Top Five Stables Ever in WWE/WCW
By Goutham Babu
Ever since the wrestling industry started, there were great teams constituting various great wrestlers. Many of such stables created world wide attraction and accelerated the profit of wrestling industry.
Here, I prepared a list of top five stables ever. So let us go back to see the best stables of wrestling history. Comments are always welcome... Begin Slideshow »
5.The Nation of Domination
Members: Faarooq, The Rock, D-lo Brown, Mark Henry, Kama Mustafa (Now known as The Godfather),Ahmad Johnson, and Owen Hart
This was basically the first all black wrestler stable with the exception of the rock (Samoan) and Owen Hart, who joined later in 1998. The first member to leave was Ahmed Johnson due to injury, and then Faarooq being kicked out of his own faction by the rock which led to a heated rivalry between the two. The only known feud was against D-Generation X, which led to many great matches between the two factions.
4. The 4 Horsemen
Members: Just like the nWo, there have been tons of members, but here are the four originals, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Ric Flair, and Tully Blanchard and Manager J.J. Dillon.
There's not much to say except they were great, but lets just see what I can find out. The Four Horsemen formed in January 1986 with Flair, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew consisting of Arn and Ole Anderson, and Blanchard, with James J. Dillon as their manager.
They feuded with Dusty Rhodes (breaking his leg), The Rock 'N Roll Express (breaking Ricky Morton's nose), Nikita Koloff, and The Road Warriors. They always had most of the titles in the NWA, and they often bragged about their success (in the ring and with women) in their interviews. Other than that little history lesson, I don't know what to say really, except, once again, they're great.
3. D-Generation X
Members: Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Chyna, Tori, X-Pac, Kane, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn, "Ravishing" Rick Rude (First Manager), and Jim Neidhart (For one whole night can you believe it).
As we all know Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Chyna, and Rick Rude (Manager) were the original members until Rude's departure later on due to health. D-X is generally considered one of the most popular stables in pro wrestling history. The group's original run was from 1997 to 2000, undergoing several roster changes during that time. After on-off returns in 2000 and 2002, D-X reformed in June 2006 as the duo of Triple H and Shawn Michaels.
D-X has been believed to be heavily influenced by WCW's nWo (although Vince McMahon has denied this on many occasions), and was created to battle with WCW in the ratings war, and who can ever forget the D-X invasion of WCW, which to this day stands as one of the top 10 moments in wrestling/RAW history.
Back in 1998, Steve Austin was bringing the WWF into the attitude era. But right behind him was the stable D-Generation X. After Shawn Michaels left due to injuries; Triple H recruited X-Pac, Road Dogg, and Billy Gunn to revitalize the stable. Their devil-may-care attitude won them the respect of the fans; and they feuded with Owen Hart, The Rock, and Vince McMahon and his stable the corporation. Their top moment was when they made attacks on the World Wrestling Federation's top rivals WCW. While the stable broke up at the start of 1999, they would come back together months later, but with less success than before. Still, the way they helped the attitude era is what people remember them for.
2. The Hart Foundation
Members: Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Davy Boy Smith (British Bulldog), and "Flyin" Brian Pillman. The Hart Foundation were originally Jim 'the anvil' Neidhart and 'the Hitman' Bret Hart and managed by Jimmy Hart. They won the tag belts on two separate occasions.
After the first time they dropped Jimmy as their manager, then after losing their second tag belts to the nasty boys at Wrestlemania XII they split, after that, Bret won the intercontinental belt against Mr Perfect at Summerslam 1991 and Piper at Wrestlemania XIII.
Jim had formed a popular short-lived team with Owen Hart, naming themselves the new foundation, after that Jim left, and there was no hart foundation for a while.
In 1997, the Hart Foundation reformed bigger and better than ever, for a period of time holding all possible titles at that point. Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog), Brian Pillman, and a returning Neidhart. Then Pillman died (R.I.P) and Bret was screwed shortly after, Owen then died in 1999, then Bulldog in 2002, and Bret had his career cut short by one Bill Goldberg.
1.The nWo
Members: There is so many members in all the nwo stables, I'm only going to name a few, Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash (The Original Members).
According to the storyline, the nWo were representatives of another wrestling organization and planned to take over WCW. The nWo storyline, run by WCW, began on July 7, 1996 at the Bash at the Beach PPV. This storyline involved a faction from "outside" WCW – originally Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan (who would change his name to Hollywood Hogan while a member of the nWo) – "invading" WCW.
Hall & Nash were collectively referred to as "The Outsiders." Both men then took to showing up unexpectedly during Nitro broadcasts, usually jumping wrestlers backstage, distracting wrestlers by standing in the entrance way of the arenas, or walking around in the audience. During Bash At the Beach Scott Hall and Kevin Nash Faced Lex Luger, Sting, and Randy Savage revealing they to had a third partner. Hogan finally comes and everyone thinks he will beat down hall and nash since he worked for WCW and not WWF/E but he turned on WCW and joined Hall and Nash thus forming the nWo, and the rest is history.
The group is widely credited for revitalizing the wrestling industry in the '90s and for several years, they made WCW the biggest wrestling organization in the world. However, while the storyline started with a bang there was never an ending to it and the group and the company died with a fizzle. Through the years, the multiple versions of the nWo had over 50 wrestlers in their ranks.
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What's Next for Dirk Nowitzki After Frustrating 2012-13 NBA Season? By Zach Buckley
Forgive Dirk Nowitzki if he doesn't know how to act right now.It's been a while since he's had to deal with something like this.For just the third time in his 15-year career, his Dallas Mavericks are not playing playoff basketball. The last time this happened he was a lanky, defenseless 21-year-old sophomore. Not coincidentally, that was also the last time he averaged fewer than 21.6 points per game.This wasn't all a complete shock.Mavs owner Mark Cuban's fruitless superstar pursuit left the front office scrambling for productive players, with the caveat that they couldn't eat up the cap space that the dismantling of the 2011 championship team had created. This makeshift roster also opened the season with an uncertainty surrounding its incumbent star as Nowitzki opened the season recovering from October knee surgery.The fact that this club actually scrounged together 41 wins was nothing short of impressive.But the 34-year-old Nowitzki can't afford more seasons of mediocrity. He needs to be on a team built to win now, but are the Mavericks that team? 2012-13 By The Numbers
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No number created more frustration for Nowitzki's camp or the entire city of Dallas than 29. His knee injury, which necessitated a recent precautionary MRI (via Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News), kept him out of action for 29 games this season.It might not sound like much—particularly with injuries stealing entire seasons from Derrick Rose and Andrew Bynum this year. But this was a player who had missed a total of 45 games during his first 14 years in the league.But there was one uplifting number for Nowitzki and Mavs fans: two. After making his 2012-13 debut on Dec. 23, he appeared in all but two of the remaining 55 games. Given the propensity of knee injuries to linger—Ricky Rubio seemed hampered by his all season, albeit with a far more serious ailment than Nowitzki's—this was certainly an encouraging sign.Same goes for the number 20. On Feb. 26, Nowitzki throttled the Minnesota Timberwolves for 21 points and 20 rebounds. And he needed all of 35 minutes to tally those figures.This isn't some world-class rebounder we're talking about here. Don't let his 7'0" frame fool you; he's averaged just 7.1 rebounds per game over his career. But his relentless glass work on that night gave him his first 20-20 game since April 2003 (via BostonHerald.com).And I'd be remiss not to mention 25,000.On April 14 against the New Orleans Hornets, game No. 80 for the Mavericks, he became just the 17th player in NBA history to eclipse the 25,000-point mark for his career with this jumper over Robin Lopez (via Sean Highkin of USA Today).With two games left to pad his stats, the sharpshooter ran his point total to 25,051 (via Basketball-Reference.com). He now stands just 141 points behind Jerry West for No. 16 (25,192). Reggie Miller (25,279) and Alex English (25,613) are also well within his sights for next season. What They're SayingMavs fans can rest a little easier following Nowitzki's exit interview. As long as the front office gets to work, that is.The former MVP didn't hide his disappointment with this season's result, but he declared that he plans to remain with the franchise for the rest of his career (via Tim MacMahon of ESPNDallas.com):Honestly, I can't really see myself going anywhere else but here. Really, the pressure is on Mark (Cuban) and Donnie (Nelson) to get this franchise back to where it belongs, and they know that. Then we're all good, everything's fine...I mean, I belong to this city. That's just the bottom line. I could never see myself playing for another franchise, putting another jersey on. That would be probably the hardest thing I'd have to do in my life. I want to stay here, but I also want to play at a high level with a good team that we can be proud of and represent this city and this franchise.His stance on the organization hadn't changed throughout the season, not even when the frustrations of mediocrity took over earlier in the year. Back in Jan. he questioned the wisdom behind Cuban's star-gazing approach to free agency (via MacMahon). "We tried to sign (Deron Williams), but we didn't sign him," he said. "So we have two options: We either trade everybody and start over or we bring in a bunch of one-year deals—which we did—and try to be a player this summer."Even back then, though, his future intentions were clear. "The only reason I would leave—or would have left—is if we wouldn't have won the championship, and I would have been like a Karl Malone and (Gary) Payton going to join Kobe and Shaq in L.A. like they did at the end," he said. "But now I've got a ring and obviously want to finish my career here."
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Needless to say, the upcoming offseason carries massive implications for this franchise and its biggest star.There are a number of coveted players flooding the 2013 free-agent market (via Hoopsworld.com). But don't expect Nowitzki to be on the negotiating front lines. "I can try, but I'm really not the most positive person," he said. "I guess that's a German thing."Still, he's confident that the pieces in place create an enticing environment for potential additions:We have a great owner and a great GM in place. We have a great coach in place that coached us to win the championship. We've got a couple of veterans (Shawn Marion and Vince Carter) still under contract. We've got some veteran leadership already, and then we've got a lot roster space...Come on in, we'll see how far we can ride it out. Stock Watch
Nowitzki's put a lot of NBA mileage on his body. He's also seen steady declines in his production and playing time in each of the past four seasons.He has never been a player known for his defense, and he looks like he's losing ground on that end. His 106 defensive rating this season was his worst mark in four years and the third-highest of his career (via Basketball-Reference.com).But don't look for Dallas to be selling his stock anytime soon. And don't expect general manager Donnie Nelson's phone to stop ringing, either.Nowitzki's still a potent offensive force. His deft shooting touch hasn't abandoned him.
Nowtizki's 2012-13 shot chart, courtesy of NBA.com
His trademark step-back jumper is mechanical at this point. And coming from a player of his size, it'll be nearly impossible to block regardless of how much lift he can get.And his high basketball IQ can't be overstated. Athleticism has failed many a former star, but that intelligent approach to the hardwood is here to stay.He might not be the kind of player that can carry a franchise anymore, but he'd have a welcome roster spot on all 30 teams. Contract Situation
If we've learned anything from the exhaustive departures of players like Carmelo Anthony (from the Denver Nuggets) and Dwight Howard (from the Orlando Magic), it's been of the grueling effects that a star's uncertain future can plague an organization.Perhaps that's why Nowitzki felt the need to align himself with the Mavericks when he did. He has just one year left on his current deal, with more than $22 million headed his way next season (via Hoopshype.com).Don't be surprised if his production level falls short of meeting that lofty dollar amount, but he earned every penny of it during his masterful championship run two seasons ago.Now there are no guarantees that he'll hold true to his words—this is the NBA after all. And he was careful to leave himself a bit of wiggle room with that statement.But his comments carried no hint of a threatening tone. Rather, they came off more as instructional, tasking the front office with finding productive players over the summer, a necessary action to return this franchise to relevance. Projected 2013-14 Stat Line18.8 PPG / 7.0 RPG / 47.2 FG% / 39.5 3PT% / 32.7 MPGAssuming the results of his aforementioned MRI come back clean, expect a slight bump in his scoring and rebounding numbers next season. If Cuban and Co. fall short in free agency again, those jumps could be more glaring.There's nothing to suggest that his shooting percentages will vary much from his career numbers. His 41.4 three-point percentage this season was actually his third-best perimeter success rate since coming stateside.As for the projected minutes, they would represent the third-lightest workload of his career. But if the Mavs are thinking playoffs entering the year, they'd be wise to monitor his playing time during the regular season. The Crystal Ball Says...
It will be interesting to see how this franchise fares on the free-agent market. It's growing increasingly difficult to see either Chris Paul or Dwight Howard leaving L.A..But even if the franchise only gives him a supporting cast comparable to this year's team, Dallas should have a postseason berth in its future. If Nowitzki could have avoided his knee surgery, I'm not sure Howard's Los Angeles Lakers are still playing at this point.
Do you see another ring in Dirk's future?
Yes, but not in Dallas.
Regardless of the organization's recruitment success, Nowitzki's not going anywhere. Now he might not have more than three years left in his body—perhaps fewer if it starts to fail him—meaning his quest for another ring could be determined at the negotiating table this summer.Frankly, I can't see Dallas finding the type of talent to take this team from the draft lottery to the NBA Finals before Nowitzki's forced to shut it down. When the Indiana Pacers and New Orleans Hornets are matching max contract offers for players like Roy Hibbert and Eric Gordon, even Cuban's deep pockets will have trouble luring productive players away from their current clubs.The bottom line for Mavs fans, though, is to enjoy Nowitzki while he's still here. The league may never see another talent quite like him.
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DogecoinObverseReverseDate of introduction8 December 2013; 3 months ago (2013-12-08)User(s)InternationalInflationApproximately 100 billion coins to be mined by end of 2014. Thereafter, 5.2 billion new coins per year.SymbolÐ,[1] Ɖ,[citation needed] DNicknameDogePluralDOGE, Dogecoins
Jump to: navigation, searchThis article may require copy editing for Grammar and spelling. You can assist by editing it. (February 2014)DogecoinObverseReverseDate of introduction8 December 2013; 3 months ago (2013-12-08)User(s)InternationalInflationApproximately 100 billion coins to be mined by end of 2014. Thereafter, 5.2 billion new coins per year.SymbolÐ,[1] Ɖ,[citation needed] DNicknameDogePluralDOGE, DogecoinsDogecoin (/ˈdoʊɡkɔɪn/ dohgkoyn,[2][3] code: DOGE, symbol: Ð[1] and D), is a Litecoin-derived[4] cryptocurrency featuring a Shiba Inu from the "Doge" Internet meme on its logo.[5][6][7][8] It was introduced on December 8, 2013.[9] Compared to other cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin has a fast initial coin production schedule: there will be approximately 100 billion coins in circulation by the end of 2014 with 5.2 billion coins every year thereafter. As of 1 March 2014 (2014-03-01)[update], over 50 billion Dogecoins have been mined.[10] While there are currently few commercial applications for Dogecoin, the currency is gaining traction as an Internet tipping system, in which social media users grant Dogecoin tips to other users for providing interesting or noteworthy content.[11] Many members of the Dogecoin community, as well as members of other cryptocurrency communities, use the phrase "To the moon!" to describe the overall sentiment of the coin's rising value.[12][13][14]Contents1 Overview and history2 Use and exchanges3 Transactions4 Mining parameters4.1 Block schedule5 Currency supply6 References7 External linksOverview and history[edit] A Dogecoin paper walletDogecoin was created by programmer Billy Markus from Portland, Oregon, who hoped to create a fun cryptocurrency that could reach a broader demographic than Bitcoin. In addition, he wanted to distance it from the controversial history behind Bitcoin, mainly its association with the Silk Road online drug marketplace.[15] At the same time, Jackson Palmer, a member of Adobe Systems' marketing department in Sydney, Australia, was encouraged on Twitter by a student at Front Range Community College to make the idea a reality.[16]After receiving several mentions on Twitter, Palmer purchased the domain dogecoin.com and added a splash screen, which features the coin's logo and scattered Comic Sans text. Markus saw the site linked in an IRC chat room, and started efforts to create the currency after reaching out to Palmer. Markus based Dogecoin on the existing cryptocurrency, Luckycoin,[17] from which it derived its randomized reward received for mining a block, which was later changed to a static block reward in March of 2014. In turn, Luckycoin is based on Litecoin,[4] which also uses scrypt technology in its proof-of-work algorithm. The use of scrypt means that miners cannot use SHA-256 Bitcoin mining equipment. Dogecoin was officially launched on December 8th.[18][19] The Dogecoin network was originally intended to produce 100 billion Dogecoins.[20][21][22]On December 19, 2013, Dogecoin jumped over 300 percent in value in 72 hours, rising from USD$0.00026 to $0.0095,[23] with a volume of hundreds of Bitcoins per day.[24] This growth occurred during a time when Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies were reeling from China's decision to forbid Chinese banks from investing Chinese Yuan into the Bitcoin economy.[4] Three days later, Dogecoin experienced its first major crash by dropping by 80% due to large mining pools seizing opportunity in exploiting the very little computing power required at the time to mine the coin.[25]On December 24, 2013, The Reserve Bank of India cautioned users of Dogecoin and other virtual currencies on the risks associated with them.[26] On December 25, 2013, the first major theft attempt of Dogecoin occurred when millions of coins were stolen during a hacking attempt on the online wallet platform Dogewallet.[27] The hacker gained access to the platform's filesystem and modified its send/receive page to send any and all coins to a static address.[28][29] | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/72 | {"url": "http://blekko.com/wiki/Dogecoin?source=672620ff", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blekko.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T08:46:06Z", "digest": "sha1:3F5JJGQPI6NNCM3VTLXGX77F74XQPC5N"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 4318, 4318.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 4318, 4410.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 4318, 2.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 4318, 6.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 4318, 0.93]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 4318, 230.9]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 4318, 0.2775842]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 4318, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 4318, 0.11435106]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 4318, 0.11435106]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 4318, 0.11435106]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 4318, 0.11435106]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 4318, 0.11435106]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 4318, 0.11435106]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 4318, 0.01143511]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 4318, 0.01286449]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 4318, 0.01543739]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 4318, 0.01045296]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 4318, 0.29036005]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 4318, 0.55267423]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 4318, 5.66936791]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 4318, 5.36922367]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 4318, 617.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 283, 0.0], [283, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 283, 0.0], [283, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 283, 30.0], [283, 4318, 587.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 283, 0.09090909], [283, 4318, 0.04260847]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 283, 0.0], [283, 4318, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 283, 0.07773852], [283, 4318, 0.03519207]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 4318, 0.95902419]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 4318, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 4318, 0.66625965]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 4318, -324.81336748]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 4318, -12.63710246]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 4318, -47.5495631]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 4318, 37.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
GraniteIgneous rockGranite containing potassium feldspar, plagioclase feldspar, quartz, and biotite and/or amphiboleCompositionPotassium feldspar, plagioclase feldspar, and quartz; differing amounts of muscovite, biotite, and hornblende-type amphiboles.
Jump to: navigation, searchFor other uses, see Granite (disambiguation).GraniteIgneous rockGranite containing potassium feldspar, plagioclase feldspar, quartz, and biotite and/or amphiboleCompositionPotassium feldspar, plagioclase feldspar, and quartz; differing amounts of muscovite, biotite, and hornblende-type amphiboles.Granite /ˈɡrænɨt/ is a common type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock which is granular and phaneritic in texture. This rock consists mainly of quartz, mica, and feldspar. Occasionally some individual crystals (phenocrysts) are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic texture is sometimes known as a porphyry. Granites can be pink to gray in color, depending on their chemistry and mineralogy. By definition, granite is an igneous rock with at least 20% quartz by volume. Granite differs from granodiorite in that at least 35% of the feldspar in granite is alkali feldspar as opposed to plagioclase; it is the alkali feldspar that gives many granites a distinctive pink color. Outcrops of granite tend to form tors and rounded massifs. Granites sometimes occur in circular depressions surrounded by a range of hills, formed by the metamorphic aureole or hornfels. Granite is usually found in the continental plates of the Earth's crust.Granite is nearly always massive (lacking internal structures), hard and tough, and therefore it has gained widespread use as a construction stone. The average density of granite is between 2.65[1] and 2.75 g/cm3, its compressive strength usually lies above 200 MPa, and its viscosity near STP is 3-6 • 1019 Pa·s.[2] Melting temperature is 1215 - 1260 °C.[3]The word "granite" comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a crystalline rock.Granitoid is a general, descriptive field term for light-colored, coarse-grained igneous rocks. Petrographic examination is required for identification of specific types of granitoids.[4]Contents1 Mineralogy1.1 Chemical composition2 Occurrence3 Origin3.1 Geochemical origins3.2 Chappell & White classification system3.3 Granitization4 Ascent and emplacement5 Weathering6 Natural radiation7 Uses7.1 Antiquity7.2 Modern7.2.1 Sculpture and memorials7.2.2 Buildings7.2.3 Engineering7.2.4 Other uses8 Rock climbing9 See also10 References11 Further reading12 External linksMineralogy[edit]Orbicular granite, an unusual type of granite, near the town of Caldera, northern Chile The Stawamus Chief is a granite monolith in British Columbia Close-up of granite exposed in Chennai, India. Various granites (cut and polished surfaces) Close-up of granite from Yosemite National Park, valley of the Merced River Roche Rock, Cornwall The Cheesewring, a granite tor on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, CornwallGranite is classified according to the QAPF diagram for coarse grained plutonic rocks and is named according to the percentage of quartz, alkali feldspar (orthoclase, sanidine, or microcline) and plagioclase feldspar on the A-Q-P half of the diagram. True granite according to modern petrologic convention contains both plagioclase and alkali feldspars. When a granitoid is devoid or nearly devoid of plagioclase, the rock is referred to as alkali granite. When a granitoid contains less than 10% orthoclase, it is called tonalite; pyroxene and amphibole are common in tonalite. A granite containing both muscovite and biotite micas is called a binary or two-mica granite. Two-mica granites are typically high in potassium and low in plagioclase, and are usually S-type granites or A-type granites. 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Shenae GrimesBorn(1989-10-24) October 24, 1989 (age 24)Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOccupationActress, photographerYears active2004–presentSpouse(s)Josh Beech (m. 2013)
Jump to: navigation, searchShenae GrimesBorn(1989-10-24) October 24, 1989 (age 24)Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOccupationActress, photographerYears active2004–presentSpouse(s)Josh Beech (m. 2013)Shenae Grimes (/ʃəˈneɪ/; born October 24, 1989) is a Canadian actress. She portrayed the role of Annie Wilson on 90210, a spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210. Prior to that she played Darcy Edwards on Degrassi: The Next Generation. She was also a recurring guest star on the series Naturally, Sadie, and had a cameo role in the horror film Scream 4.Contents1 Early life2 Career3 Personal life4 Filmography5 Awards and nominations6 References7 External linksEarly life[edit]External video Shenae Grimes in Freddie Wong's 7 million view video "Gun Size Matters” posted on September 22, 2010. Shenae Grimes directing the 5 million view video “Are You Happy Now?” by Megan & Liz posted on October 18, 2011Grimes was born in Toronto, Ontario. She has three siblings Aiden, Liam and Maya. She attended Forest Hill Public School for elementary school. She attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, along with her Degrassi co-star, Aubrey Graham (Drake). She interned at Toronto's Fashion Television as part of her high school education.[1] Grimes attended City Academy, a private school for her last two years of high school.Career[edit]Beginning with a recurring role in 2004, Grimes became a lead character on Degrassi: The Next Generation in 2006, playing the role of Darcy Edwards. In 2008, Grimes left the series and Canada after being cast as Annie Wilson in 90210, the CW's spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210.She also appeared in Picture | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/74 | {"url": "http://blekko.com/wiki/Shenae_Grimes?source=672620ff", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blekko.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T08:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:D4GW4HBPUAYDXGUCNEJYI72JNEIRUD5T"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1802, 1802.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1802, 1908.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1802, 2.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1802, 6.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1802, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1802, 176.8]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1802, 0.2010582]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1802, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1802, 0.1717033]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1802, 0.20879121]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1802, 0.1717033]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1802, 0.1717033]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1802, 0.1717033]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1802, 0.1717033]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1802, 0.01854396]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1802, 0.02678571]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1802, 0.04258242]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1802, 0.0026455]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1802, 0.31481481]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1802, 0.59533074]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1802, 5.66536965]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1802, 4.80156781]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1802, 257.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 164, 0.0], [164, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 164, 0.0], [164, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 164, 14.0], [164, 1802, 243.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 164, 0.16216216], [164, 1802, 0.0543826]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 164, 0.0], [164, 1802, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 164, 0.07926829], [164, 1802, 0.06654457]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1802, 0.07251835]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1802, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1802, 0.23824626]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1802, -171.84183474]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1802, -37.03222289]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1802, 31.81031834]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1802, 17.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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Jump to: navigation, searchIn the physical sciences, the wavenumber is the spatial frequency of a wave. It can be envisaged as the number of waves that exist over a specified distance (analagous to frequency being the number of wave oscillations that take place in a specified time). More formally, it is the reciprocal of the wavelength.It is also the magnitude of the wave vector.Contents1 Definition2 In wave equations3 In spectroscopy4 See also5 References DefinitionIt can be defined as either, the number of wavelengths per unit distance, where λ is the wavelength, sometimes termed the spectroscopic wavenumber, or,the number of wavelengths per 2π units of distance, sometimes termed the angular or circular wavenumber, but more often simply wavenumber.Its usual symbols are , , σ or k, the first three used for one definition, the last for another. It has dimensions of reciprocal length, so its SI unit is m-1 and cgs unit cm−1 (in this context formerly called the kayser, after Heinrich Kayser).For electromagnetic radiation in vacuum, wavenumber is proportional to frequency and to photon energy. Because of this, wavenumbers are used as a unit of energy in spectroscopy. In the | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/75 | {"url": "http://blekko.com/wiki/Wavenumber?source=672620ff", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blekko.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T08:27:59Z", "digest": "sha1:EN5NDD367J37DDZOKV37UBJFFR6HNO4F"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1200, 1200.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1200, 1281.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1200, 2.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1200, 5.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1200, 0.88]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1200, 323.8]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1200, 0.4254386]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1200, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1200, 0.03275333]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1200, 0.03377687]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1200, 0.04503582]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1200, 0.00438596]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1200, 0.1622807]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1200, 0.57142857]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1200, 5.16931217]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1200, 4.33467383]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1200, 189.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 11, 0.0], [11, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 11, 0.0], [11, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 11, 1.0], [11, 1200, 188.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 11, 0.0], [11, 1200, 0.00693241]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 11, 0.0], [11, 1200, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 11, 0.09090909], [11, 1200, 0.01850294]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1200, 0.99943125]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1200, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1200, 0.21141279]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1200, -20.1206744]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1200, 11.82210799]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1200, 39.4658734]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1200, 10.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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We are very excited about the launch of our new website a few weeks ago. While the new ADESA.com is user-friendly and easy to navigate, we understand you might have questions when using the new site. We want to ensure that you can quickly find answers to your online remarketing needs—no matter what time, day... | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/76 | {"url": "http://blog.adesa.com/tag/dealerblock", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blog.adesa.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:17:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTI4FV6PEKJCBIUTHCGXRF2HOEO6O3LJ"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 396, 396.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 396, 445.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 396, 3.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 396, 4.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 396, 0.94]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 396, 321.1]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 396, 0.48837209]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 396, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 396, 0.05714286]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 396, 0.08888889]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 396, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 396, 0.02325581]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 396, 0.33333333]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 396, 0.13953488]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 396, 0.79710145]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 396, 4.56521739]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 396, 0.01162791]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 396, 3.88497241]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 396, 69.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 42, 0.0], [42, 84, 0.0], [84, 396, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 42, 0.0], [42, 84, 0.0], [84, 396, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 42, 5.0], [42, 84, 9.0], [84, 396, 55.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 42, 0.0], [42, 84, 0.0], [84, 396, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 42, 0.0], [42, 84, 0.0], [84, 396, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 42, 0.11904762], [42, 84, 0.14285714], [84, 396, 0.02564103]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 396, 0.00025243]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 396, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 396, -2.62e-06]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 396, -40.19641339]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 396, -9.02778231]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 396, -58.61753947]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 396, 5.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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Hear stories of hope — directly from just a few of the people whom Catholic Charities has helped over the past year. This short film premiered at our Annual Gala Benefit on March 21, 2012 in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria.
This year’s gala was a record-breaker in terms of both fundraising and attendance. Nearly 1,000 guests helped to raise more than $2.5 million to provide help and create hope in the lives of our neighbors in need.
Tags: Annual Gala, Archbishop Dolan, Archdiocese of New York, elderly, families, poverty, Waldorf Astoria
on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 4:08 pm and is filed under Events, Feeding the Hungry and Sheltering the Homeless, New York City, Protecting and Nurturing Children and Youth, Strengthening Families and Resolving Crises, Supporting the Physically and Emotionally Challenged, Volunteering, Welcoming and Integrating Immigrants and Refugees, What We Do at Catholic Charities. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/77 | {"url": "http://blog.archny.org/notes/index.php/hear-the-voices-of-help-and-hope/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blog.archny.org", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:19:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TZKFTOT6SDDUGANVUKLG56MGAZ25AX5Y"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 1057, 1057.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 1057, 2469.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 1057, 7.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 1057, 66.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 1057, 0.93]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 1057, 186.3]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 1057, 0.2961165]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 1057, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 1057, 0.01164144]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 1057, 0.20873786]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 1057, 0.68639053]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 1057, 5.08284024]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 1057, 4.50159904]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 1057, 169.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 47, 0.0], [47, 98, 0.0], [98, 131, 0.0], [131, 365, 1.0], [365, 578, 1.0], [578, 684, 0.0], [684, 1057, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 47, 0.0], [47, 98, 0.0], [98, 131, 0.0], [131, 365, 0.0], [365, 578, 0.0], [578, 684, 0.0], [684, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 47, 7.0], [47, 98, 9.0], [98, 131, 7.0], [131, 365, 42.0], [365, 578, 37.0], [578, 684, 14.0], [684, 1057, 53.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 47, 0.0], [47, 98, 0.0], [98, 131, 0.0], [131, 365, 0.02620087], [365, 578, 0.02912621], [578, 684, 0.0], [684, 1057, 0.02493075]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 47, 0.0], [47, 98, 0.0], [98, 131, 0.0], [131, 365, 0.0], [365, 578, 0.0], [578, 684, 0.0], [684, 1057, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 47, 0.08510638], [47, 98, 0.11764706], [98, 131, 0.12121212], [131, 365, 0.05128205], [365, 578, 0.00938967], [578, 684, 0.09433962], [684, 1057, 0.08579088]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 1057, 6.56e-06]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 1057, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 1057, 0.14142388]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 1057, -84.71763528]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 1057, -16.78025427]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 1057, -27.80697817]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 1057, 6.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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I had to turn the heater on in my car this morning. The Colorado mornings are getting chilly: in the 40s and 50s. It’s almost like Fall had been hiding behind the Labor Day corner, just waiting to pounce. Despite the cold (and my cold), I love fall and all that comes with it. Change is definitely upon us. Football is back, the leaves are turning, and everyone’s back in school.
With the coming of school, homework is now running rampant in my house. This is the first year that all three of my kids are in school of some sort. It’s fun and it’s challenging trying to keep up with all the basics that I’ve almost forgotten and that they are learning anew. The other night I sat down with my 9 year old daughter who’s in fourth grade to try and help her with her sudoku math homework problem. Wait. What? Sudoku math homework? I can see the connection, practicing logic and problem solving, but I don’t remember doing this in fourth grade. Do you? I remember Ms. Daniel, her glasses and her reading of Where the Red Fern Grows to our class. I remember multiplication tables, homonyms, workbooks and chase at recess. I remember Ms. Daniel weeping the day of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy and the first time I failed an assignment. But Sudoku for homework? I don’t remember that being a part of my fourth grade.
As I watched my daughter solve the puzzle, I realized that Sudoku for homework wasn’t odd for her. It’s simply part of her reality; part of the life she knows and the memories she’s making. Just like tablet computers and texting and video on demand and charter schools and doing homework on interactive websites. These things are new and fun and show how far we’ve come in the last 20 years for me, but they’re how it’s always been for her and every child after her.
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How do you put your intentions into practice?
posted by Alex Zielinski on March 8, 2013 Filed under: Intentions
Being International Women’s Day, we’d be silly not to highlight a woman who’s working hard to inspire and challenge her gender every day. Although her focus is on young girls and women, her approach can easily apply to anyone at any stage of their life.
“What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
The question, casually brought up by a friend five years ago, took Ann Drew Yu off guard. At the time, Yu was a middle school English teacher in Minneapolis, eager for something new.
She recently had become fascinated by the art of feng shui—specifically the way it uses the physical orientation of a room to spark mental inspiration—and had wanted to find a way to share its intents with her students. But she had never seen it becoming a reality. Until then.
“One thing led to another,” says Yu. “And the idea came for the Intention Box.”
After working first-hand with middle school and high school-aged girls (and having once been a teenage girl herself), Yu saw a need to empower young women through an objective-based tool, dubbed the Intention Box for Girls.
The box set contains a deck of cards asking thought-provoking questions (“What positive thought would help me today?” or “How can I get more comfortable speaking up?”) and a journal to record girls’ responses and own unique goals.
Yu says that her Intention Box for Girls “gives young women life skills that go hand in hand with change.”
Now, two years after Yu’s first box hit the market, the kit is widely popular among young girls across Minnesota, and Yu’s new 8-week public school program based off of the box has attracted interest from a handful of teachers.
But how did she ignite her own intentions to bring the product to this stage?
It all goes back to analyzing her own missed intentions in her youth.
“I would have loved something like this as a girl,” she says. “Imagine being able to explore forgiveness, kindness and self-exploration at that stage. If you learn how to form your intentions in life early on, it sticks with you.”
To understand the real questions that would help pre-teen and teenage girls visualize their goals, Yu met with teachers, parents, and therapists to get inside their heads. But, she says, she found the real answers in working with young women themselves.
“It amazes me how intuitive younger girls are,” says Yu, who test ran her first intention box with a group of 10 to 15-year-old girls. “To hear how they made [the box] their own and what they thought it was missing, that was the most helpful.”
But there were certain parts in the development process where Yu had to rely on her own creativity. To financially kickstart the Intention Box, Yu took out home equity loans on her own house and reached out to already-cemented supporters across the city for a financial push.
“The whole project was very intuitive, driven by passion and creativity,” she says. “And I had to take some chances.”
Yu says that the money put into the project has almost paid itself off. But, she stresses that it was far from easy.
“This was no overnight success story, it took over ten years to bring my intentions into something tangible. But that’s not meant to discourage anyone,” she says. “It’s best to just always have your eye on the immediate future. Take it as it comes, step by step, and you will get there.”
Do you know a young girl who could benefit from the Intention Box? Or have your own questions about setting personal goals? Feel free to contact Ann Drew Yu at [email protected]. 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Social Security Numbers: a Non-Issue
I have written before about the security of the Social Security Death Index and its use as a very effective tool to combat identity theft. Now several newsletter readers have written and have referred to a string of articles that have appeared in the past few days claiming that researchers have "cracked the code to Social Security Numbers" and can now guess your Social Security Number, or SSN.A close examination of the articles show that the articles are VERY misleading. Let me use a stronger term: they are hogwash. I have a still stronger term in mind, but this is a family newsletter.
One example of this "misleading journalism" can be found at http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/145774 although there are numerous other online examples as well. The article claims researchers can now guess your Social Security Number but only briefly mentions that researchers were only able to reverse engineer the FIRST FIVE DIGITS of Social Security Numbers, which are meaningless when it comes to identity theft. Who cares?In fact, you don't need to be much of a "researcher" to guess those numbers: the government will gladly give you that information. Indeed, that information has been plastered all over the web for years.The first three digits are based on the state where the SSN was originally assigned, and the next two are called a group number. The last four digits apparently are assigned at random.One article tells the entire story: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/social-insecurity-numbers-open-to-hacking.ars. It states, "Getting the last four digits right was substantially harder. The authors used a standard of getting the whole SSN right within 10 tries, and could only manage that about 0.1 percent of the time even in the later period. Still, small states were somewhat easier—for Delaware in 1996, they had a five percent success rate."They managed a 0.1% success rate nationwide? And that was after ten tries? And they only had a one in ten thousand chance to begin with? (Guessing the last four digits is a one in ten thousand chance.) Statistically, that means they are using random guesses. You don't need to be a "researcher" to do that.Again, who cares? Let's get real, folks.
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Debate? What Debate?
Well, that seems to be the question regarding the debate on "Baptists and Calvinism" scheduled for October 16 in Lynchburg, VA. The events of the last two days have made the prospect of actually having the debate very slim. The moderator, Brett O'Donnell has unilaterally changed the terms and format that all four debaters had previously agreed upon. I find this whole thing very sad.I am sitting in the Sau Paulo airport in Brazil and only have sketchy wif-i. In fact, it is more like w_-f_. So, this must be brief. For the specifics, click on the Alpha and Omega link at the right and read James White's last few entries.
A cynical part of me want's to say "I knew it" - but the wiser, more optimistic, part of me wished for the best.The important part is that you and Mr. White tried to hash this issue out.Soli Deo Gloria.
It is absolutely inexcusable behaviour on the part of the people of Lynchburg. To unilaterally renege on an agreed format for a debate is beyond my comprehension. How can anyone take anything that comes from the folks at Liberty University with any degree of seriousness? One can only hope that a debate will occur in the future but at the present time and given the poisoness atmosphere created by Drs O’Donnell and Caner that will never happen. Maybe it is a good thing that this farce has finally come to an end. Considering Dr Ergun Caner’s lack of exegetical ability and his total lack of understanding of both Baptist church history and Calvinism I wonder how much the students at liberty would have profited. As a Calvinist I am still waiting for a cogent argument from the other side. So far I have had to put up with the likes of a Dave Hunt. Stephen AtkinsToronto, OntarioAKA Bartimaeus
Arthur Sido
As a relatively newly called SBC pastor (about 3 months), and one who sporadically attends Liberty via the distance program, I am sorely disappointed at the way our dean has conducted himself. The only consolation I take is that this matter will not be ultimately decided in a formal debate setting, but rather if we are truly to reclaim not just a belief in the Bible but a belief in what is in the Bible, it will be won church by church and pulpit by pulpit.
Chessmann
I have followed Dr. White's ministry since the late 90's. I am just newly acquainted with Dr. Ascol.As much as I hate to say this, I truly feel that Ergun Caner was always well aware of what he was doing.- he knows the difference between a Calvinist and a hyper-Calvinist.- he knows that Tom and James are Calvinists.- he knew that this debate would probably never take place, and knew that all steps necessary would be taken to assure this.I would love to be put into a position of needing to apologize for making these statements. But....I can hardly believe what I have seen from the keyboards of the Caner's, particularly Ergun.
After that post a while ago that told about them actually getting on the same page and willing to compromise, I was so glad that tempers were cooled and that there would be no more posting of emails. (mind you, I read them all and thought white was justified) I thought the bravado would end and this would go on quietly leaving any dishonesty or shiftiness, any deceipt or dishonesty hidden from view. It always comes to light. I'm just stunned. Unlike some who will say that they knew it all along, I feared it all along but thought that everyone had come to their senses and realized the error of their grandstanding and dishonesty. Anyone who read the emails saw antagonism and dishonesty. (righteouss antagonism and a clear look at dishonesty). I just thought that there was some humility shining through. But it doesn't appear to be the case. Who will call these men on this? They will continued to be revered in their circles, in the convention...it's just sad. I'm very very sorry to hear this.
Chessman,Those are some pretty hard thoughts concerning the motivation behind another. I can tell you that I personally was with Dr. Ergun Caner within the last two weeks and we spoke about upcoming debate. He was looking forward to it and even stated so much. He gave very nice acolades about Dr's Ascol and White. Never did I hear him one time speak a disparaging word toward either of them. While I do not know Dr. Caner personally, I can tell you we were not in a large gathering but a smaller one around the dinner table. Both Dr's Caner were present and very excited about the debate.Blessings,Tim
Tim,I've no doubt you had a nice time with the Caners but this is a perfect example of actions speaking louder than words. This is both silly and shameful on the part of those involved with the debate from Liberty. Unfortunately, it is representative of many of my Southern Baptist brothers who are in leadership at any given mega church and have a 'my way or the higway' way of doing things. Those of us who have followed this journey towards a debate on Oct. 16th are well aware of which side has went above and beyond in an effort to coordinate this and which side has fallen shy of common courtesy.
Chessman, when you say "I feel that..." that isn't a good enough reason to make the accusations you have made. So Jesus warns in John 7:24, "Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment." May all of us who eagerly desired to see this debate subject our feelings of disappointment to Jesus.With regard to Chessman's post, I agree with Tim that is not wise to speculate about what Dr. Caner "knows" and what are the motivations of his heart. Besides, there is no reason to speculate about what motives "could be" in the Caners' hearts. Both Dr. O'Donnell and the Caners now have a documented history of saying one thing while doing another. And promising one thing and then demanding the exact opposite. These are dishonest and disrespectful actions that speak for themselves. Thus, there is no reason to make accusations about "deeper motives" unless they can be substantiated.That being said, I am really disappointed at this turn of events. I live in Roanoke, Virginia and planned on making the 35 minute drive to Lynchburg. I was going to bring a camcorder and interview students before and after the debate. Oh well.Also - Tim, although your anecdotal experience with the Caners is encouraging, it also flies in the face of what has JUST taken place in email correspondence! I am not saying that it didn't happen - I'm just saying... that's pretty weird! On the one hand the Caners were saying how excited they were about doing the debate, and how Dr's White and Ascol are such swell guys. But at the same time they were allowing and supporting Dr. O'Donnell to sabotage the event. Do you see how your personal experience with the Caners does not even remotely correspond with their other actions regarding this debate?Something else I don't understand: how do you sit with both Dr's Caner at a "small gathering around the dinner table" and also "not know them personally"? Man, if you come chow down with me at the dinner table you will get to know me (and I will know some things about you) before we finish our meal! I jsut can't hold a conversation with the green beens or meat loaf!
Well, this is why I used the word "feel", rather than "am certain".And the reason I "feel" this way :^) is due, in part, to watching a man who calls himself a christian intentionally misrepresent others.Ergun knows that James and Tom are Calvinists, and not hyper-Calvinists. This is beyond question. The man is not unintelligent. Yet, he willfully chose to do so - publically - and in the process intentionally mislead those who take heed to what he says.That, of course, is only one of the issues, sadly.
Andrew,Your point re: John 7:24 is well-taken, and I will endeavor bear that in mind in any future posts.
Tom,sad is not the word. let me pray about it and ask the Lord if He would fill my mouth with the proper word to discribe this entire situation.I hope it don't take place actually and I thank God all of this has been documented. It's just awful the way they have treated the two of you...let them offer somebody else for Jerry to pimp...I still can't get over that phrase being used.
Man, you'd think that a University with the caliber of debate team and department that LU has could manage to put this debate together with virtually no problems and to the satisfaction of all participants. It's not as though they haven't done this before...
All this is disturbing...especially on the heels of some things that are going on in my church of late. It seems that honesty, transparency, and being above board with things is becoming a relic of the past with many across the SBC..and other places as well. A part of me is glad the debate isn't taking place...I was afraid it might turn into a circus atmosphere with the Caners. Another part of me simply wishes that brothers could engage in honest and open discussion and debate, without one or more parties turning things into another episode of Jerry Springer or Maury. It's just sad.
I always thought Tom Ascol was something of a 'wet fish'.His heart was never in it and he wanted out from the beginning.JW has gone down sniping like a gnat as well so Caners win by default.Perhaps a predetermined forordained conclusion to a sorry saga.
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You have got to be kidding "little-p" - in fact - I will assume you were just using satire to make a point. Otherwise that statement was so disconnected from reality that you should probably get some therapy.-JD
I think that Dr. Falwell is responsible. Ergun Caner and Dr. O'Donnell answer to him. Dr. Falwell can make this debate happen if he chooses to. Perhps he is afraid of being embarassed by his own praise of Calvin in a 2001 sermon as pointed out by John Orlando.
XB6 & Brother Andrew,Allow me to begin by saying, I have never been in a formal debate and I pray that God in His Sovereignty never allows it. My heart could not bear the strain.Having said that, you can tell that I do not know how these things are negotiated. I am sure there is give and take on both sides and issues about who speaks first and who speaks last are part of these negotiations.My point being, I am hearing only from Dr's White and Ascol as to the reasons. Dr. White has only posted his email reply to Dr. Emir Caner. ( I believe it was Emir) We have not heard from the Dr.'s Canner as to their reasons or their rational on the issue. In reading Dr. White's email response he references something about the Caner's relying on Dr. Odonnell's decision that the debate structure needed changing. While I truly understand the disappointment the good Dr.'s White and Ascol feel, I cannot understand why this is a deal breaker. If, as we all believe, these men are Christian why can they not all sit down somewhere in a room and work out the details? I just feel that would be better than verbally attacking their character in an email then posting it publicly, and calling the debate off. That tactic gives the appearance that Dr.'s White and Ascol walked away from the debate, IMHO.Also, Brother Andrew, you may sit down with me at a meal and we will speak about anything you desire. I promise that you will not have to talk to the green beans and mashed potatoes. You can ask my wife, my love language is let me talk. However, at the end of the meal you may know some things about my family and myself that you did not know before the meal, but you will not know me personally. I believe that we just are using the word "personally," differently.Blessings,Tim
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Tim Rogers,I think if you read carefully that Drs. White and Ascol are asking the very same questions you are.Why can't these things be discussed and negotiated by Christian brethren in an attitude of charity?That's the point, sir.That sort of reasonable give and take is specifically being bypassed, in favor of having one person (I don't know who, not accusing anyone by name)unilaterally make all the decisions by fiat and then demand that White and Ascol comply. This is done without asking for, or accepting, their input.Why indeed can this all not be reasonably negotiated? Good question. The documentation is irrefutable: one side has always begged for that, and one side has consistently blocked it. Anyone who really cares about the answers to your questions can get them by reading the history of this saga at Dr. White's site.
By the way, Dr. White has taken a lot of heat for meticulously saving all the correspondence he's had with the other side.Now, it's looking like that was a really fine idea.But, judging from the comments of a person like "p" above, there are still those, nevertheless, who will not allow a little thing like factual data to influence their opinions.
Mr. Rogers,I think that your question is astonishing! Dr. White has catalogued all the instances of this mentality displayed by the Caner camp. They have been relentless in their actions not to be reasonable. The emails showed a resounding drum beat of "my way or no way" from the Caners when all White and Ascol have asked for is compromise. It's all there. It's all there! I hate that this is this way, but it is this way and the evidence is overwhelming. Don't discount a man who posted his email response that may only tell part of the story, but it certainly does tell some of the story. And it's the same story. It's just sad. I want nothing more to honor and respect all my brothers in Christ wether I know them or not, but the actions displayed here are inexcusable.
After reading an anti-Calvinist Post from a fellow who calls himself P I wonder if he believes in a Sovereign God who can determine anything. Or Is God captive to the whims of man’s almighty freewill. Actually P touched on the real issue and the heart of the controversy. It is not that God loves everybody equally without exception but rather is God sovereign over all his creation able to make some vessels for honour and some for dishonour.But I am in full agreement with Dr White on this one. The only way that a meaningful debate can occur is at a neutral location. One on one and at least three hours and a period meaningful cross examination. But I doubt if Pope Falwell would ever allow that to happen. The only freewill at Liberty is that of Jerry Falwell Stephen AtkinsToronto, OntariogeW
Brother Gordon,Am I talking to an action hero? :>)You say, "Anyone who really cares about the answers to your questions can get them by reading the history of this saga at Dr. White's site." While I truly believe Dr. White to be a committed believer in Jesus Christ and his character is without question, you have directed me to the point I was trying to make. This is just one side of the issue. While Dr. Ascol did post an email correspondence he had with Dr. Ergun Caner that was contentious in nature, but I understood from a post on this blog those issues were resolved. I believe Dr. Ascol even commended the Dr.'s Caner for their Christian character in resolving their differences. Now Dr. White has posted "Unless I hear back from the other side by 5pm EDT that the agreement which was reached by all four participants in September remains in force (it has been arbitrarily rescinded without discussion by outside individuals), the debate will be canceled." This statement begs to question the openness for negotiations. As I have said earlier, I have never debated publicly, therefore, I do not know what goes on behind the scenes. However, I at one time was involved in sales and would have to negotiate quite often. I knew my limitations and I also knew the limitations the other side had to work within. We could aloways come to a happy medium if we were able to sit down and talk. If we were unable to sit down and talk I knew the deal would not come together. The above ultimatum by Dr. White would suggest to me a refusual to sit down and talk. I am merely trying to say that it is hard to discern truth by hearing from only one source.Blessings,Tim
P,"I always thought Tom Ascol was something of a 'wet fish'.His heart was never in it and he wanted out from the beginning."Well, here's an instance of a man who was keeping his word despite your speculation of his misgivings is. He agreed to debate and was set to debate. After insult and mockery he pulled out only to come back to the table and debate after there was a promise of a fair debate with agreed upon rules that sought not to demagogue and destroy but to build up and enlighten both sides. This was too much to ask apearently. To call any man a 'wet fish' when wisdom calls for caution and discretion is unconscionable. Who cares what his misgivings are or were, he agreed to debate under specific terms. Why does that not matter to you? Why, in your opinion P, does dishonesty and deceipt grant anyone the title of "winners by default?" You say it as if it is an acomplishment or something to be touting which is amazing to me. Thanks for your contribution to the blog, It is important for all of us to be reminded that there are those who do not honor the truth that is plain for all to see who will.
Greetings again Founders!I had chosen to reserve my comments and wait for the upcoming debate but since this is now officially off, I figured its safe to come out and comment. First, however, I do want to reply to Tim Rogers who stated:"Having said that, you can tell that I do not know how these things are negotiated. I am sure there is give and take on both sides and issues about who speaks first and who speaks last are part of these negotiations."Walton answers:Tim, please refer back to the mountains of transcripts that recorded the dialogue between the Caners and Dr. Ascol and Dr. White. What you will see is that there was much initial disagreement in regards to the format and thesis proposed by the Liberty side ( a grammatically incorrect thesis and an obscure format suggested by Dr. O'Donnell unknown to theological debate) which led to Dr. Ascol removing himself from the debate. After Dr. Ascol removed himself from the debate, Emir and Tom spoke and eventually came back with a format for the debate and thesis that was agreeable to all parties. The debate, format, time, place etc was all agreed to by all parties at that time.THEN comes along Dr. O'Donnell behaving as grand poobah a few days ago and apparently wants to change some of the previously agreed to format of the debate 12 DAYS (!!!) before the agreed to date. Tim, quite clearly, this is nonsense. Dr. O'Donnell should live up to the agreement that was decided by all parties months ago. Instead of insisting upon the finalizing agreement, Emir has apparently bowed to O'Donnell's arbitrary changes. On his blog, Dr. White makes an excellent point: "Emir, if Dr. O'Donnell is to be given ultimate, final, and complete authority over the debate (something that was never requested, let alone granted, by us), why did you come to us and ask what we would have to do to make this work? Why not have Dr. O'Donnell do this, since, if you are being consistent now, you did not have the authority to negotiate anyway? If you were negotiating in good faith then, how can you renege on that negotiation now? If you were not negotiating in good faith then, what was your purpose? I cannot begin to understand this behavior on your part."Tim Rogers states:While I truly understand the disappointment the good Dr.'s White and Ascol feel, I cannot understand why this is a deal breaker. Walton replies:Tim, it is a deal breaker because they (O'Donnell and the Caners) are breaking the deal. Make sense??If Dr. Ascol and Dr. White were to travel to Liberty for this debate, what assurances do they have that O'Donnell won't decide to flip a coin to decide who is affirmative and who is negative? Shirts and skins?Which leads to another point, I believe that Dr. O'Donnell has completely misunderstood the process. This is obviously a man who deals in the realm of high school and collegiate debate and believes that, in rather arrogant fashion, that HE is the grand determiner of format etc; REGARDLESS of what has already been decided between the parties. Unlike collegiate debate where the moderater is sovereign over all activities and the students are still, well, students, theological debates (or political ones for that matter) are decided to by parties irrespective of the moderater. The moderater's position to keep time, keep the peace, and get out of the way. The FUNCTION of the debate process is not what is important (as it is in collegiate competition), the CONTENT and veracity of information is what must be the focus. Tim Rogers states: If, as we all believe, these men are Christian why can they not all sit down somewhere in a room and work out the details? Walton replies:They already did. Dr. O'Donnell has chosen to undo the details that were previously worked out. Tim Rogers states: I just feel that would be better than verbally attacking their character in an email then posting it publicly, and calling the debate off. That tactic gives the appearance that Dr.'s White and Ascol walked away from the debate, IMHO.Walton replies:Tim, this is the very reason why the email was posted: to show that Dr. Ascol and White have nothing to hide and are above board in these matters. The question must be asked, Tim: "What good reason to Dr. Ascol and Dr. White have to stay in this debate, seeing that all that they negotiated is being thrown out?" I mean, should they still go ahead with the debate if O'Donnell insists that the Caners dress like Batman and Robin and Dr. Ascol and Dr. White dress like the Joker and Penguin? Quite clearly, men have broken their word. They need to be held accountable.No, it is not Dr. White and Dr. Ascol that need to be held accountable, it is the Caners and Dr. O'Donnel. These men have wrecked havoc on this process after every aspect of the format was decided upon previously. I truly stand amazed that you are not demanding that they live up to their documented agreements.
Mr. Rogers, Dr white's emails are both sides of the issue. he posted his email and theirs, with the exception of his final posting yesterday. What makes you think that after all of the prior debating and agreement that there is an unwillingness from White to discuss this debate openly. Go back to the emails...this has happened repeatedly REPEATEDLY! White asks to sit down, and asks to sit down, and seeks compromise, and seeks compromise and there's silence from the other camp ending in a loud "DO IT OUR WAY" I will repeat, "IT'S ALL THERE! THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT WHAT YOU SAY IS A MISCHARATERIZATION" The evidence of the past interactions in this tumultuous relationship is visible for all to see. (At least from White and Ascol-The caners have never been transparent throughout these negotiations)You can read the emails and see for yourself.
Brother Walton,You have stated exactly what I asked and you appear, by your selected parsing of my comments, to have placed me in a realm of one sided thinking. Allow me to try again. I am saying by Dr. White placing an ultimatum on the table that if he does not hear back from the Dr.'s Caner by a certain time, the debate is off. According to his statement they were still in the process of reconciling their disagreements. However, when a line in the sand is drawn, negotiation has ceased.Blessings,Tim
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Dr. Ascol,I know almost nothing about a scholarly debate, however, is it possible that the changes in format betray an attempt to “level the playing field?” Are the changes, in your opinion, a reflection of the moderators lack of confidence in the Drs. Caner to express their side of the argument against Dr. White and yourself without some modification?
Tim,If I have read everything correctly, James and Rich tried vociferously to contact the Caners over a period of time measured in days, not hours or minutes. So it would seem that there were no negotiations going on, only Dr. O'Donnell's change of format.Emir and James finally connected, and Emir supported Dr. O'Donnell, in effect throwing out what had already been negotiated in good faith.Sometimes a line does need to be drawn in the sand - especially when the other side has given no indication whatsoever that negotiation means very little, and that the results of any negotiation can be thrown out in the manner in which it has in this case.You wrote:"According to his statement they were still in the process of reconciling their disagreements."How can this be if Jame's repeated attempts to contact the Caners had been met with silence?
Tim stated:You have stated exactly what I asked and you appear, by your selected parsing of my comments, to have placed me in a realm of one sided thinking. Walton replies:Tim, I am just answering your own assertions and statements. Your line of thinking is only evident from your own statements. Tim stated:Allow me to try again. I am saying by Dr. White placing an ultimatum on the table that if he does not hear back from the Dr.'s Caner by a certain time, the debate is off. According to his statement they were still in the process of reconciling their disagreements. Walton replies:Holy cow Tim...No. They were not in the process of reconciling their differences. The "differences" were supposed to have been reconciled months ago between all four parties. O'Donnell had come by broken the agreement and said "you'll take it and you'll like it". Apparently, no response to this matter had been offered from the Caner side over a couple of days. Obviously there was an attempt to contact the Caners. No response was forthcoming. Dr. White had to provide a deadline to get an answer. Tim said:However, when a line in the sand is drawn, negotiation has ceased.Walton replies:Once again, the negotiations had already taken place months ago and were agreed upon. This is a case of not making your "yes mean yes and your no mean no" and breaking your word. Again, I am stunned that you are supporting this sort of behavior.I for one am quite glad that the entire affair has been made public. If this were not so, there would be no way that the church could accurately see the behavoir of Caner over the past 10 months. It is documented: and what is documented is shameful.
I have just arrived back home and am sitting in yet another airport, though this one is only 40 miles from the best place on earth to me. I can't answer all the questions raised, but will attempt to give some clarifying comments in the very near future. For now, let me reiterate, we had an agreement--an agreement on format, time, schedule, procedure, that was worked out by negotiations and compromise. The final details of this agreement were agreed upon by all 4 debaters two weeks ago. Dr. O'Donnell, on Wednesday of last week, arbitrarily changed them, stating that his changes were "non-negotiable." He has effectively sabatoged the debate that was agreed upon and only James and I are unwilling for that to happen. Thus my choice of words. Sad.
Tim,If I have read everything correctly, James and Rich tried vociferously to contact the Caners over a period of time measured in days, not hours or minutes. So it would seem that there were no negotiations going on, only Dr. O'Donnell's change of format.Emir and James finally connected, and Emir supported Dr. O'Donnell, in effect throwing out what had already been negotiated in good faith.Sometimes a line does need to be drawn in the sand - especially when the other side has shown that the results of any negotiation can be thrown out in the manner in which this one has, and that prompt communication is to be kept to a minimum.You wrote:"According to his statement they were still in the process of reconciling their disagreements."How can this be if Jame's repeated attempts to contact the Caners had been met with silence?Yes, they could have pressed forward, despite these problems. But in light of what has already occurred, I am in full agreement with James and Tom, despite my strong desire to have seen this debate.
I am very cynical about why the Liberty side suddenly tried to change the debate format (etc). I believe it has more to do with Falwell and Ergun Caner than anyone else. Falwell does not want his "star", "former Muslim", "Dean", and "president" to be embarrassed. I have seen Caner speak in person. He is a powerful preacher however he does not strike me as a scholar. He would have been out matched in this debate and there would have been a good chance he would have been made to look less than great. Falwell, indeed Liberty, cannot allow that to happen. So, they try to control the debate in order to avoid Ergun Caner being put on the spot (so to speak). I would love to see Emir Caner team up with another person and debate Ascol and White at a different location. I think that would be very interesting.My advice to Tom Ascol and James White is simple, stay on your guard. Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty Seminary have been advertising this debate. Now that it is cancelled, according to White's blog, they will have to explain "why" it was cancelled. O, and guess what, they are "not" going to say it was cancelled because they tried to play fast and loose with the format (etc) at the last moment. O, no. That would make them look bad. They will try to blame it on White and Ascol. Mark my word on that. Everyone on this blog needs to be dedicated to keeping the Caner's, and Falwell, honest. Sadly in this situation that may be a very hard thing to do.
I was more shocked 2-3 weeks ago, or whenever it was announced that things were finalized, than I am now. It seemed to good to be true, it was amazing, fantastic and refreshing. I honestly was just shocked that the Caner duo all of a sudden forgot about being bombastic, inflamatory and immature. I was like, "wow, how were they able to flip the switch like that?"I was more surprised a month ago then I am now. What a joke.
For all of you who are trying to defend the Caners/ Liberty camp and blame the "backing out" on Drs. Ascol/ White, I just want to say that your logic is about as unsound and ridiculous as the Caners would have proven to be in this debate!Simple facts would reveal to you that Dr. James White is a virtual PROFESSIONAL at public debate and he DOES IT ALL THE TIME!!! Usually in much more challenging settings than he would have faced at Liberty! He will continue in his ministry to do these debates, and he certainly has a record of being gracious and being able to work out details about his debates ...even with UNBELIEVERS!! To suggest that he somehow "backed down" or "was afraid" of the PitBull's overpowering intellect is absurd. I can also assure you that Dr. Ascol, though not as experienced in debate as Dr. White, was not "afraid" of this event, but welcomed the challenge. Compare Dr. White's debating experience with the thorough debating experience (NOT!) of Ergun Caner... who...to my knowledge, and according to what I have read, has no real experience in serious academic debate. (I admit, I could be wrong here, so I will not be dogmatic about that statement, but it is what I have read.) It is my opinion that the Caners (mostly Ergun) wanted the opportunity to do what he does best...out-shout his opponent, regurgitate straw-men, pepper his opponent with mis-characterizations, and then back it all up with his "pitbull-like" sarcasm and crude humor. Having done this, he would claim victory no matter what. Once it became apparent that this debate was not going to go that way, the "rules were changed," which precipitated this whole cancellation. Just MHO. What an embarrasment this should be to Liberty and Dr Falwell, IF THE TRUTH ABOUT THE AFFAIR REALLY GETS OUT!! (doubtful it will though...it will be spun in true "O'Reilly-like" fashion to make Ascol/White look bad). Wonder how this fits into his "BHAG" vision for Liberty?!#$How embarrasing that Dr White receives better treatment and more courtesy from Mormons than brothers in Christ. Only people really out of touch with reality will call this a "victory" for the Liberty crowd. And BTW...as for "P" and his comments, I say disregard them. I am not willing to listen to the rants of cynics unwilling to stand behind their comments by revealing their identity. Ignore them. They are completely of an ad-hominem nature, and do not deserve intelligent response.
I suppose I am simple-minded enough to have believed that this matter had been resolved weeks ago and would become a certain event. However, perhaps this is for the best. Even back then, I thought a neutral location with an unbiased moderator would be preferable. And I think that should still be a goal.
Tim,I Just dont understand! You have all the evadince of the interaction the key word here is interaction between White/Ascrol& The Caners. Yet you refuse to research them. Allo you have to do is go to aomin.org and look. James maticuoulsly made sure that both sides of the issue was stated. The emails as far as I know are unedited. James had enough forsight to see that if what happend, happend made sure to document the INTERACTION. Opps theres that word agian. I quess If you do not have the will to investigate the issues you should bow out of the converstion until you educate yourself on this issue. Also you should always put your personal feelings about both parties aside, and only base your thoughts on the Facts. Tim, I do see that you are a wonderful brother in Christ and I feel that you are just uninformed or missinformed on this issue. I trust that the spirit of truth will lead you to find out all you can until you speek on this issue agian. In Christian love.SAm
To have the game changed less than two weeks before the event is just ... unprofessional.As a former "debater" I can only say that format is not irrelevant and part of preparation is knowing how the game is played.I don't know any of the ins and/or outs of the game, but how sad to pull such shenanigans ... especially on the verge of the event, and not just for the participants.There's a greater than zero chance many people had made plans to be in attendance.I don't know Dr. O'Donnell or his reasons, but I hope he realizes the magnitude of his "non-negotiables" as they relate to others.
It's too bad. I was looking forward to a debate between brothers in Christ dealing with an important issue. I guess that was too much to expect.
Gunny:You are correct. James has referred to the private negotiations between Emir and me that led to the agreement that all four debaters signed off on several weeks ago. That was a negotiated agreement that involved compromise by both sides. It was also the basis on which I agreed to get back into the debate. After our public declaration that the debate was indeed on and would involve all four of us, weeks went by with no progress on the specific details of the schedule and format to which we had agreed. Because of a heavy travel and outside speaking schedule in late September and October, I initiated dialog on the details by taking taking an earlier proposal from Ergun and simply adjusting it t fit the newly agreed upon length and modifiication of format. This was sent out to all the debaters with the request that if it was not acceptable, then other suggestions be offered. James immediately responded that he was ok with it. When I heard no response from the other two debaters after two weeks, and as I was approaching an overseas trip, I made a private phone call and made an appeal that we settle these details so I could know how to prepare during and around my travels. Within 48 hours I received an email from Emir Caner acknowledging that he and Ergun were also in agreement with my proposal for the details of the schedule and time allotments for the debate. That was September 27, two days before I left for Brazil. While minstering in Brazil, and preparing for the debate with the agreed upon format, I received a copy of an email response from Rich Pierce of Alpha and Omega to Brett O'Donnell, stating that O'Donnell's demands for a complete change in format and schedule were unacceptable. That was the first I had heard of O'Donnell's "non-negotiable" email sent Wednesday, October 5, demanding that the agreed-upon terms of the debate be changed to suit his liking. Since then numeous phone calls and over 30 emails have been exchanged, trying to resolve this completely unexpected and improper derailing of our settled, agreed-upon arrangements. I plan to take some time in the next week or so to explain all of this more carefully in hopes of clarifying for all who care to understand, just what has transpired over the last two week. I have no desire to speculate on motives--motives belong to God. As far as I know everyone involved has acted with the purest of motives. I have no desire to justify myself or my actions in this. I certainly have no interest in avoiding being charged with "losing" the debate by forfeit. Winning and losing were never categories that entered my mind in agreeing to debate in the first place. My concern is to let the facts be known in the interest of truth. Many people, including some friends and church members, have gone to great expense in making plans to be in Lynchburg on October 16. They, as well as others, deserve to know how the announced debate has been derailed.
While I truly understand the disappointment the good Dr.'s White and Ascol feel, I cannot understand why this is a deal breaker. If, as we all believe, these men are Christian why can they not all sit down somewhere in a room and work out the details? I think the point, Brother Tim, is that they had done all of that already. It's just 12 days before the debate. So, a change in time and structure is a change to the overall presentation itself. Consider too that Dr. O'Donnell is in a position to be in closer contact with the Caners. He only returned what, one email to A.O. Min before Dr. Ascol and Emir forged a reproachment that has been in place ever since. For him to suddenly say that "he's in charge" strikes me as disingenuous. If he thinks he's "in charge," of the format, then he should have returned the emails sent to him several months ago, and he should have had a hand in the reproachment rendered by Drs. Ascol and Caner. He abdicated his right to claim he was "in charge" long ago. As you say, "Allow me to try again. I am saying by Dr. White placing an ultimatum on the table that if he does not hear back from the Dr.'s Caner by a certain time, the debate is off." We understand that, but the point is that just twelve days out now the time for "negotiation" has long since passed. They've had since February to do that, and that was completed weeks ago. When you sign the contract, as it were, you do not get to renegotiate the terms twelve days before it takes effect. You may either terminate it or not. Those are your options. What's more, this is happening because a third party chose to intervene and the Caners went along with it. According to his statement they were still in the process of reconciling their disagreements.A. According to that statement, they tried to negoiate for a number of days once Dr. O'Donnell acted the way he did. They were denied this option, so it is not AO Min that is a fault for the lack of negotiation. They made mulitple attempts and were rebuffed.B. According to that same statement, those disagreements had been resolved already, so Dr. O'Donnell's actions were not expected. C. A change in format at this point results in a change in presentation. (i) to give the "home team" first and last position in the debate is a tactic that slants the debate in favor of that team given the nature of the topic. Typically, you give the affirmative the first salvo, the negative the last one. (ii) This is also slanted the wrong way. The opening salvo is typically for the affirmative position, so, based on the topic "Baptists and Calvinism" that confuses the presentation: Are the Caners going to argue "Baptists and Calvinism" in the affirmatiive? I think not. Ergo, there is now even more confusion in the topic. (iii) The selected format is one often used so that a "winner" can be determined, so this makes it at least appear that the home team was trying to slant the results in their favor. (iv) It makes preparation difficult for everybody involved, because their preparation was predicated on a different format, time limitation, schedule, etc. The topic is already exceptionally broad; to cover it would have taken a least 3 hours, and, what's more, the format precluded most if not all cross-examination. I, for one, was hoping to get to ask a question from the floor: "Dr. Ergun Caner, will you please explain your assertion that Moses Amyrault believed in election by way of foreseen faith, as demonstrated by your closing comment: For Amyralt, Ergun Caner: Elected because I selected."
PhotoJoeAZ
Yeah, I'm in the camp with the disappointed folks who were optimistic and encouraged that the four men had reached an agreement and the debate was going forward. I was maybe even going to have some brothers over to watch via webcast if that was possible.I'm just bummed. I would have really loved to see God's glory proclaimed through His Truth. I think that White and Ascol would make a great team-- Dr. White with the focus on the arguments and the facts, and Dr. Ascol with his obvious shepherd's heart. I don't mean to demean either man there; I realize Dr. Ascol is no slouch when it comes to scholarship, and I know Dr. White cares for the sheep as an elder, but if their respective blogs are any indication, each has his own Spirit-given gifts and foci.I still hope that there can be a high-profile debate on the Doctries of Grace within the SBC, and one with more depth and cross-examination than the Patterson/Mohler point-counterpoint.Joe
Tom,Thank you for your gracious tone in your latest post. I look forward to hearing how this unfortunate event unfolded from your words.
I'm glad that James asked so many of us to NOT make plans to drive down to TRBC for the debate. Who knows why he stressed that so much, but, I actually canceled a trip me and three of my church planting buddies were gonna make (from Akron Ohio) for the debate. I was frustrated that James insisted on his blog, several times. I'm glad I went along with what he asked now that this happened 2 weeks out.
So... the question I am wondering about at this point is: does Dr. White press this issue any further (especially considering the blog controversy that precipitated this debate in the first place) or does he simply let it die? ;)Also, I am wondering what some of you might feel that the implications of this mess might be - especially those of you whom (like myself) are striving for reform within the SBC?If this is indicative of anything, it surely helps illustrate the desperate need for conversation amongst Baptists on these matters.
I just came over from AOMIN where James White mentioned that he is reading the comments on this post. So I just wanted to say to you, Tom, and to James, thank you. You two have subjected yourselves to a lot of public scrutiny and have been put to the test regarding the demonstration of God's grace to others. If anything I have learned from these events is how to graciously and humbly handle very difficult situations in a God-honoring way that doesn't apologize the truth but neither does harm to it either. While I am saddened to see the culmination of countless correspondence end like this, I would rather like to think of what God has taught me through you two and thank God for the way he has use the two of you through patience, kindness, and courtesy to our brothers who have not extended the same grace. While there is little to no hope that a debate like this would or could take place in the future, there are a number of reasons to be optimistic about the future of Reformed theology in the SBC, in our seminaries, our churches, and yes, even at Liberty University. May God use these events to sow seeds of passion for the glory of God in His great salvation - a salvation that belongs to the Lord in whom we make our boast.
Timmy:Thank you very much. While there is much I could say about this entire saga (some would say I've said too much already!), in the end, you simply cannot have debates when you cannot trust those putting it on. If they are willing to unilaterally throw out our agreement less than two weeks out, there is no way to guarantee that this entire effort will be available to anyone outside of the immediate audience that evening. And despite what anyone says about me, I debate for the edification of the saints, and the majority of that edification takes place via recording, audio or video. In any case, I do have an even more important debate, to be honest, on the 19th of October on Long Island with Bill Shishko, pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square, where I will be defending credobaptism. I believe it will have significantly longer-lasting benefit than any encounter with Ergun and Emir Caner, to be honest, since Bill will present his case without ad-hominem, yet without compromise, as will I. I know his position inside and out, and I expect he will know mine. Result? Great debate with long lasting usefulness. Then, two weeks later, John Shelby Spong on homosexuality. James>>>
While this certainly does come as a disappointment to many - for many reasons (not to mention the amount of work that went into planning it, and the ongoing troubles that came along with that), it really shouldn't surprise anyone that's been following this from the beginning.For me personally, I would have been more surprised had it actually come to pass as agreed upon, than I am that it's turned out the way it has. The Caners (and now Mr. O'Donnel) have conducted themselves in such a way over the last many months that many people have wondered if they never really intended to go through with this from the beginning. Like others have said here, we do have to be careful about assigning motives to people, but at the same time our actions generally do speak louder than words, and in this instance, those actions have spoken quite a bit.SDG...Carla Rolfe
So Dr. O'Donnel unilaterally changed the rules. Apparently Dr. O'Donnel believes he is sovereign.By the way, this change may have been unilateral, but I think time will show that it was a unilateral decision of one side, not one person. How will one tell, by the response of Caner & Caner to Dr.s White and Ascol pulling out after the change.
Samuel_J
Drs Ascol and White,I'm a sophomore at Liberty University studying philosophy, and, despite some significant concerns, I was very much looking forward to the debate.As a Reformed student, I am grieved every time I have the opportunity to gently explain to someone that what they are referring to by "Calvinism" or "Reformed Theology" is not what I, or any orthodox Reformed person, believe. How can I blame them when they get their information from a charismatic professor and Dean of our seminary? Hence the reason I was eager for the debate to take place, despite the fact that it would have been, to some extent, a debacle: Two godly, knowledgeable, men who believe in the truthfulness and beauty of Reformed theology would have been able to present their position and defend it. Students at LU would have had the chance, for once, in public, to hear "our" side fairly represented. I and some of my reformed friends also wanted ask both of you out to dinner on behalf of the Reformed students at Liberty. I suppose that opportunity is gone as well (if you ever come, it's a standing offer!).Thank you both for your ministries and the way this situation is being handled. In an environment like LU, characterized largely by ignorance of, and therefore to some extent hostility towards, Reformed theology, it is crucial that Reformed students be loving, kind and gracious when they present their views (if they are granted an opportunity). So I am very grateful that both of you men have honored the qualifications of your office and modeled a proper response to a very difficult situation. I greatly looked forward to at least meeting both of you men personally and hope that, somehow, I may eventually have that opportunity. Sempre Reformanda,Samuel J. Loncar(I can be reached at: [email protected])
I join the rest of you who are disappointed that the debate is not going as planned. As a reformed Southern Baptist, I was hoping for an open discussion on the issue of Calvinism in the SBC. I hope a debate of this nature can happen in the near future. I guess until then, we will have to settle for the blog debates. I just started my own blog at http://baptistdoctrinaldiscussions.blogspot.comI hope to have some good theological discussions there with anyone who wants to leave comments.Soli Deo Gloria,Robert
Very sad for us here at Liberty. I think some momentum for a very good reformed turnout was underway, despite Dr. White's prescient warning not to come. Our family was looking forward to this in ways most of you cannot imagine. The oppression here has caused some tender souls to crack under the stress of isolation and peer pressure. It brings grief to my soul that our administration has committed itself to a theology that is a Frankensteinian hybrid of Calvinism and Arminianism. How I wish we could speak as brothers concerning the profound mysteries of God's grace, in humility. Instead, Open Theism and new age psychosurgery are "infecting" the classrooms by way of textbooks. You might say our theology has no immunity to such an attack, lacking as it does the antibodies of the attributes of a truly sovereign God. Could I propose, Dr. White, that you emulate Billy Graham, just this one time, by coming to our modern theological equivalent of "Laugh-In," and just trust God that He will make His own case despite the irreverence of our "show?" No? I didn’t think so. But I had to ask. Limited (Definite) Atonement is the big problem here. The administration is only too happy to invoke the sovereignty of God occasionally as appropriate, but in recent months it has been impressed on us that staying true to the General Atonement is a key mission of the school, literally a part of our identity, to be projected far into the future. Were the debate to go badly for Liberty, it would tend to undermine that perceived mission, which is viewed as critical to the larger mission of world evangelism. Hence, a solid move to Reformed theology would detract from the effort to save the world through the therapy of Open Theism, Feel Good Theism, what have you. Yet just the other day our chancellor referred to the substitutionary atonement of Christ, apparently disregarding the Calvinistic history of that term, not to mention the direct inference that assertion has, that any sin paid for in Christ is a closed account, and cannot be reopened by some theoretical act of human will. There are good intentions here. And I know even now, God will do as he pleases among the inhabitants of Lynchburg.Therefore, we will march on. But know that we are very sad not to have y'all as our guests a week from Monday. The good news is, at least now I won't have to cut class to attend the most famous debate that never happened. Unless ..."...the greatest of these is charity."
Jim from OldTruth.com
Dr. Ascol:Thank you (and Dr. White also) for your willingness to discuss these very important doctrines and defend the truth. I am very sorry that this debate seems to have lost the cooperation of one side. I'm confident that many in the SBC have watched what has just transpired, and recognize that it speaks volumes. Thank you again.
I wasn't going to say anything but I must. For the many (and I mean many) folks who were making plans (or in my case already made plans) to attend, for this debate to be cancelled less than 2 weeks over issues other than illness or family crisis is unbelievable to me. My wife and I still cannot believe this happened. I know Dr. White, you said not to make plans but let me tell you this, after the agreed upon statement by you and the others, many did. I'm not concerned at this point who agrees with me or not, but this is absolutely unacceptable for an event this big, that has been marketed for over 6 months now, to have been cancelled in less than 2 weeks!Elias from California
Samuel,With the assumption that you are not working under a pseudonym, I want to thank you for your courage to speak out on this issue as a LU student. Those of us who are not associated with LU will be interested to know how the administration and faculty treats this debate and more importantly the students who hold to Reformed doctrine. There is a strong anti-Reformed strand of folks in the SBC who, if they can't get rid of you, want to at best demonize you to the rest of the watching crowd. I wish this were not the case, but reality reminds us that there have been and will be witch hunts and straw men throughout the theological and ecclesiological landscape of the SBC. Let me just encourage you, Samuel, and the rest of the Reformed community at LU, to humbly live the doctrines of grace in your lives, never apologizing for God's sovereingty in salvation and prayerfully never having to apologize for any actions or attitudes that would present itself contrary to such doctrines of grace. May your tribe increase, and may God's glory be the central focus of your studies and lives as you live, not as pleasing men, but God to whom we must give an account. Press on, brother, for the sake of the gospel . . .
Step Right Up Folks, Yes, here we go again with Dr. Johnny Hunt. By attending his Bonfire Conference you can win a Hummer, I Pod, and many other prizes. Check out www.fbcw.org and click on Bonfire and register so you can possibly win the Hummer. The cancellation of the debate and now this. Where does it stop Guys? The event will be held at the church. A former member and member brought this to my attention !
Troy Hurdle
Granted, I would have loved for this debate to have taken place in a fair, thoughtful, and humble manner. But now, since the debate has been cancelled, I believe the Lord can and still will use what has transpired to draw others to thoughtfully consider what we call Calvinism. Why? Because there are many humble Southern Baptists out there, who look just as much, if not more so, to behavior as they do arguments (so long as they don't personally have a dog in the fight). Will they see a difference in the way thes two sides have behaved? I believe they will. Will they then give a fair hearing to the side they believe was mistreated? In many cases, yes.
Jlbrightbill
As a junior at Liberty University who has heard Dr. Caner speak on many occasions, it's a shame to see the chain of events that culminated in the debate being called off, but I can't say I'm surprised. Admittedly I have cynical tendencies, but when I first learned about the debate from Pastor Ascol back in May, my immediate mental response was "Caner? He doesn't debate, he rants."I'm going to be careful in my choice of words here, but in 3 years spent here, my personal opinion of Dr. Caner has been steadily declining. I don't claim to know him personally or speak to his character, I'm only speaking to what I have observed. He displays a great level of arrogance and pride; are they outward evidences of an internal disposition or simply his speaking style, I don't know, but I can see the person he presents. Beginning this year he has delivered the message in our Wednesday night campus church services. Just about every message includes some form of slam on Calvinists, beginning with the first message of the year where he addressed the freshman about the types of people they will encounter in college. One of these types was "Calvinist Kyle" who will go out of his way to debate you any chance he gets. On several recent occasions he mentioned the debate with "hyper-calvinists". Most recently in SuperConference in the context of trends in the church and God's unchanging nature among other points. I couldn't hear all of what he said due to applause, but he mentioned something "those hyper-calvinist boys", trends, and John Piper. I haven't found a video to verify the exact quote so I won't say anything further about that particular service. It would be impossible for many reasons, memory not the least, to list three years worth of examples. Every time he gets up to speak I say to myself "Maybe this time will be different", and I have yet to be right.The one thing I'd like everyone to know is that the conduct and views of Dr. Caner do not necessarily and rarely do represent the entire student body. There will always be students who don't think for themselves (I refer to them as the Liberty Lemmings, and their number is far too high) and take Dr. Caner's words as gospel truth, but there are others who attempt to spread truth. At least one professor that I am aware of teaches Theology from a balanced perspective (Being a Presbyterian himself), and I recommend him to everybody who takes the class.With all that said, despite my dislikes about many things that go at Liberty, I still love it here. As a Prayer Leader on my hall last year and a Spiritual Life Director in my dorm this year, (http://tinyurl.com/r7fth if you really want to know that those titles actually mean) my ministry in individual lives remains just as important, and I can't let my opinions of the administration dampen my fervor for the hearts and lives of those placed in my care.If anyone is desirous of further information or a summary of the Caner response which we will no doubt receive fairly soon, my email is Jlbrightbill2 (at) liberty.eduJedidiah Brightbill
Now that this debate is off, I wonder if it might be time to consider having this kind of debate in a written form, in the format that has been used so much to discuss it. What I mean by can be seen by visiting.www.debatingcalvinism.orgDr.s Ascol and White, we are thankful for your attitude and integrtity that you have demonstrated in all of this. I for one am glad that you are representing our side.
PaleoHuguenot
As an LBTS alum and an admiring student of Geneva Jean, I am quite disappointed with my alma mater in how this was handled.BTW, as of 6:39 PM EDT, the LU home page still lists the debate announcement.
vox reformata
C'mon guys!! Did you actually think the Caner's were gonna debate?? Gullibles we are. I can't even imagine how it would go! A free for all? Well, another one bites the dust. Hunt, Geisler and Caner Bros. just can't deliver the goods. SOLI DEO GLORIA
luke geraty
[quote]How can I blame them when they get their information from a charismatic professor and Dean of our seminary?[/quote]Mr. Loncar,Thank you for your insightful post regarding the situation at LU. However, I must respond to the above statement as I found it to include a bit of the same 'ignorance' that you were complaining about:) Firstly, there are quite a few people who are what you would consider 'charismatics' who are reformed. One of the strongest advocates that comes to mind is Wayne Grudem, whose Systematic Theology has become a standard for many bible universities and seminaries. Furthermore, I must make the comment that reformed theology does not necessitate doctrines regarding the cessationist/ continuationist position nor does it require one to be amillennial. There have been virtually thousands of charismatics who have strong ties to reformed theology and Charles Spurgeon most certainly shows that one can be thoroughly reformed and not be an amillennialist. Anyway, that was the only thing I absolutely had to respond too. Everything else you stated I am in 100% agreement with. It is a shame this debate couldn't have gone through. I was looking forward to it. I pray your continued studies go well at LU. Blessings,Luke
I'm fairly sure he used charismatic to describe the engaging and motivational speaking style of Dr. Caner, not in relation to any system of beliefs. I could be wrong but that's the way I took it.
Greetings:I have posted on this topic here:http://aomin.org/index.php?itemid=1572Unless I see documentable falsehoods being promoted by anyone on the other side, I hope to avoid having to post all of the over two dozen e-mails that I was involved in writing over the past few days. I just don't have time for it, and I am personally very tired of the entire situation. However, if push comes to shove, I will most assuredly do so. Let me say a word to the LU students who have posted. I am sorry. I truly wanted to encourage you. I still do. I have invited Michael O'Brien to join me on the DL on Tuesday, so I hope you will be listening. But may I please ask you to pass the word around all those students who have seen the glorious light of God's grace in the gospel and who refuse to mix in man's will and man's actions? Spread the words, my brothers and sisters: do not respond in kind to any of those who will seek to harangue or mock or deride in light of these events. God's grace is not promoted by man's wrath, and though we have stood firmly in the defense of truth, sometimes the best response in the face of mockery is a smile and a gentle word from Scripture. I am not counselling compromise; no, I am counselling grace. Many of us once mocked what we now hold dear, and it was the behavior of grace that stopped us in our tracks and eventually gave us reason to reconsider our man-made traditions. Only God can bring the heart to its knees in adoring wonder of His sovereignty. Please, leave the situation at Liberty in God's hands, pray, work, be the best students you can be, show respect to those in authority, learn from the many good teachers there, and demonstrate by your focus upon Christ and His gospel that you are the ones consistently seeking to bring Him honor by believing all that He has revealed in His Word. I do hope and pray to have the ability to someday speak there in Lynchburg and get to meet, and encourage, many of you. My heart truly goes out to you, but I know our heavenly Father can and will keep you, encourage you, and use you to His glory.In Him,James White
Dr. White, Go to www.fbcw.org and listen to this evening's message by Dr. Jerry Vines( Former SBC President on Calvinism). He was asked to preach it this evening by Dr. Johnny Hunt( Pastor of FBC Woodstock). Click on webcast on the homepage and find the PM service. I watched it live so it might be on it already.
All in all, pride is slipping into the Caner's lives.
Elias:While we are all terribly dissapointed that this debate will not take place, it is also incredibly unfair to insist that Dr. Ascol and Dr. White proceed with the debate under these circumstances. Dr. White had been both saying and writing for months to *NOT* make plans to attend this debate for several reasons. In fact, one could even state that Dr. White has "pleaded" for those interested in the debate to stay home and buy the DVD. Those stated reasons were:1. There was absolutely no gaurantee that anyone other than Liberty Students would actually be able to get into see the debate. As no tickets were actually sold, attendance could not be gauranteed. If all of the staff and faculty of Liberty University were to crowd into the place of venue, there would be *0* seats left available for outside attendance (and this isn't even counting Liberty Seminary and TRBC attendence). 2. No formal contract with statements of liability, harm or force majeure in force was made for this event. Also, this debate has not been marketed for 6 months. Some very basic principals were offered in March of this past year but true formal agreements were not made until June. Don't you remember Dr. Ascol pulling out of this event prior to June?Sorry Elias, but I think that after Dr. White warned folks for months to NOT come to the event to level a charge of "unacceptable" to Dr. White and Dr. Ascol is, in fact, unacceptable.I, for one, had made plans to attend the conference in Orlando, where Dr. White and Dr. Ascol would have been reviewing the Caner debate if it took place. I will enjoy hearing the debate with the Rev. Spong: just as Dr. White advised us to do months ago.
I just want to say an Amen to Dr White's words in terms of the actions of the students at liberty, and share with you the words that Thomas Watson wrote:God sometimes afflicts with reproach. Such as have the light of grace shining in them may be eclipsed in their name. The primitive Christians were reproached as if they were guilty of incest, says Tertullian. Luther was called a trumpeter of rebellion. David calls reproach heart-breaking. Psa 69: 20. God often lets his dear saints be exercised with this. Dirt may be cast upon a pearl, and those names may be blotted which are written in the book of life. Sincerity shields from hell, but not from slander.So if you bear ridicule, you are not the first, and will certainly not be the last. :-)
David Morrow
I think that Dr. White and Tom Ascol should do what Greg Bahnsen did when Michael Martin backed out of his debate at the last moment, and that is have the debate anyway (Bahnsen called it "The Debate That Never Was"). All they would have to do is quote what their opponents have written against Calvinism and respond with a Biblical and exegetical response. I am sure the body of Christ would greatly benefit from it as I am sure many Christians did with Bahnsen's debate with an absent Michael Martin.
David. There might just be a method to your madness with that idea.BlessingsMark
1) chessman offers the following: "As much as I hate to say this, I truly feel that Ergun Caner was always well aware of what he was doing.- he knows the difference between a Calvinist and a hyper-Calvinist.- he knows that Tom and James are Calvinists."2) chessman is taken to task by tim rogers as follows: "Those are some pretty hard thoughts concerning the motivation behind another. I can tell you that I personally was with Dr. Ergun Caner within the last two weeks and we spoke about upcoming debate. He was looking forward to it and even stated so much. He gave very nice acolades about Dr's Ascol and White. Never did I hear him one time speak a disparaging word toward either of them." 3) Mr. Caner posts the following on his website www.erguncaner.com:"Calvinist Debate Cancelled by Hyper-calvinistJames White backs out of the debate. Refused to submit to moderator rules. Details will follow tonight.Posted: October 9th, 2006 under Debate."4) So, either referring to a Calvinist as "hyper-Calvinist" now passes for a "very nice ac[c]olade," certainly not a "disparaging word" or Mr. Caner's knowledge of Reformed theology doesn't allow him to distinguish between Calvinsim and hyper-Calvinism.
Shining and Burning Light
A more accurate posting by Ergun Caner would have been:James White backs out of the debate. Refused to submit to moderator rules. My spin will follow tonight.
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It's Official: No Debate October 16
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A Quote by Patrick Jake "P.J." O'Rourke on animals, children, and purpose
in animals
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.P.J. O'Rourke (1947 -)Contributed by: Zaady Tweet | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/82 | {"url": "http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/pj-orourke/28431", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blog.gaiam.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T08:15:52Z", "digest": "sha1:VELYDZNCS3AL54OU6BWCBHND4FKP6DJ7"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 246, 246.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 246, 406.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 246, 3.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 246, 10.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 246, 0.94]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 246, 217.9]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 246, 0.30508475]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 246, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 246, 0.11864407]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 246, 0.25423729]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 246, 0.8]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 246, 4.775]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 246, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 246, 3.39853938]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 246, 40.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 74, 0.0], [74, 85, 0.0], [85, 246, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 74, 0.0], [74, 85, 0.0], [85, 246, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 74, 12.0], [74, 85, 2.0], [85, 246, 26.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 74, 0.0], [74, 85, 0.0], [85, 246, 0.02631579]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 74, 0.0], [74, 85, 0.0], [85, 246, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 74, 0.10810811], [74, 85, 0.0], [85, 246, 0.04968944]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 246, 0.00112545]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 246, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 246, -7.63e-06]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 246, -3.14444241]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 246, -1.91514061]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 246, 5.46154255]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 246, 6.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
Sex, Politics, and Global Hip Hop
The hip hop feminism hub at the U! My hip-hop life now By and01626 on December 6, 2012 12:00 PM
Before taking this class, I had a certain appreciate for hip-hop but did not spend much of my time immersed in the music or any of the culture. I had friends that I knew were involved in specific Minneapolis hip-hop circles, but never really asked any questions. After taking this class, I feel like I have a better perspective of the meanings and interpretations that stand behind hip-hop. I have a much more expansive view, world-wide, on various types of hip hop and the connectedness of oppression as an underlying theme. Also, this class has been beneficial in so many ways. I had never been enlightened on the Israel/Palestine conflict, and did not expect that my Hip-Hop Feminism class would be the place in which I acquired all of my information. I have further pursued information on the conflict in order to shape my very own view on the on going conflict. I think that this class has really helped me to understand the driving forces in which hip-hop is created and it has led to me to become more involved in my friends' involvement with local hip-hop. I think I have gained a better understanding, and I will now listen to hip-hop with a different ear. I will give more of my attention to the underlying themes to create understandings. I feel like I am better educated on more aspects of oppression and hip-hop as a tool to raise awareness and create safe spaces in which individuals can create and educate on social issues. I have learned about more than just hip-hop culture. I am very happy I decided to take this course for it has bettered me. 2 Comments
burch145
| December 13, 2012 12:06 AM
I completely agree with this post. Hip hop can and does create safe spaces in which individuals can create and educate on social issues. I agree that this class has given me a more expansive view and the connectedness of oppression creates an underlying theme. Thank you for posting a thought-reflecting entry!
huaxx046
I definitely agree with what you're saying. Before it was all judging a book by its cover and not giving a chance to understand it fully. I also give more attention to the underlying themes. It makes me happy to see others have enjoyed the course as much as me, woohoo!
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14 passengers were killed in bus crash in NYC
By yeun0040 on March 13, 2011 11:53 PM
On Saturday night, a serious bus crash killed 14 people when the bus was returning to Manhattan's Chinatown after a quick overnight trip to the Mohegan Sun casino.
According to the Huffington Post, the official said the passengers said they didn't feel anything hit on them and they didn't see the bus get hit either. The driver Ophadell Williams remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday and about 20 passengers were treated at hospitals at St. Barnabas Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center. Most of them were in critical condition.
The New York Times reported the driver told the authorities that his bus was clipped by a passing tractor-trailer, which sped away, but police assert that it was under investigation. Many of victims are older Asian and Hispanic people. Some of the 31 passengers were still asleep when the bus crashed. The crash had a devastating effect in the Chinese community in New York. They said if they did not know someone on the bus, they feared that they did, the New York Times reported. Categories:
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Match.com's Top 10 Cities for Dating Single Moms
In celebration of the single mother, Match.com has released a list of the Top 10 Cities for Dating Single Moms on its official blog Up To Date.The list was compiled using Match.com’s unparalleled data on American singles to pinpoint top locations where women with children have had more success meeting someone through Match.com than those without kids. The number one spot where single moms rule the dating scene was claimed by Yonkers, New York with Alpharetta, Georgia coming in as a close second. Below is the full list of top 10 cities:
Results from a recent study by Match.com showed that single parents in the US are dating more (21%) compared to singles without children (16%). The study also looked at how these singles felt about issues such as the appropriate amount of time to wait before introducing children to your new partner and how to tell a child about a new romance. Specific results include:
Single Parents are dating more than singles without kids: 21% of single parents are currently dating someone versus 16% of singles without kids; 35% of single parents have been on a first date in the past year versus 27% of singles without kids
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Happy 71st birthday to legendary centerman Stan “Stosh” Mikita. Mikita was born in 1940, in the town of Sokolce of the Slovak Republic. Mikita’s birth name was actually Stanislav Guoth, but when Czechoslovakia became a Communist controlled country, Stosh fled to Ontario. Once in Ontario, he was adopted by his aunt and uncle and changed his name to Mikita.
Mikita played an amazing 21 seasons in the NHL, and all for the Chicago Blackhawks. Mikita was an incredible scorer throughout his career, however, he was also well known for his temper in his early years. Upon retiring during the ’79-’80 season, Mikita was third overall in career scoring and seventh overall in career games played. Three years after his retirement, Mikita was elected in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983. Over the course of his 21 season career, Mikita won the Hart Memorial Trophy (League MVP) twice, the Art Ross Trophy (NHL’s leading scorer) four times, the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (league’s most sportsmanlike player) twice and was a Stanley Cup Champion in 1961. Mikita’s number #21 jersey is retired by the Blackhawks.
Happy Birthday Stosh!
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My schedule at the 2009 NAB Show
The convention is about three weeks away, and I’m starting to get full-court press for appointments at the convention. This will be my 21st NAB convention. I have attended every convention since 1989. I know many people have attended many more than that, but I think 21 qualifies for seasoned status.
My typical plan at the convention is to visit as many exhibitors’ booths as I can. I gather information about new products and get ideas for future articles. The exhibitors want to be sure to see me, so many of them call and ask to set a formal appointment.
In the past, I would make as many appointments as I could. I would also try to set the appointments based on booth geography. I hate wasting time by running from one of the hall to the other — or worse, from the South Hall to the North to the Central. I also get some help to visit these booths from Radio magazine associate editor Erin Shipps. In previous years, I have also gotten help from Chris Wygal, Doug Irwin and a few other contributors.
But this year is different. Erin and I will cover the floor alone. I’ll get some assistance from a few people, but Erin and I get the main load. To maximize my time, I’m also not making any booth appointments. The marketing directors for the exhibitors don’t like hearing this, but they are accepting it. Everyone knows that time is money, and money is tight. I’m just going to navigate the floor in a linear path. I’ll stop at each booth and make my rounds without losing time to run between halls.
This means you might not see me as often during the convention. At least I won’t be running back and forth. Still if you see me, say hello. Tell me what you have found of interest at the show. I’ll tell you what I have found. We can help each other make the most of our time this year.
HD Radio: Still low in priority at stores
I visited a Best Buy the other day, and while I was there I stopped in the auto sound department. The sales person immediately greeted me and asked if I needed help. I said, “HD Radio. Tell me about it.”
He said, “Well, it’s HD. It sounds better.”
I said, “What else can you tell me?”
He replied, “What else do you want to know?”
I decided to end the game and play my hand, telling him that I worked in broadcasting and that I know a great deal about HD Radio, but I wanted to see what he knew and what he had available.
He took me to the display wall and showed me the one unit that had HD Radio built in. It was a model from JVC. He said that others were HD Radio ready, but they all required an “expensive interface” to add HD Radio.
Gee, where’s my incentive to buy one of those?
The JVC was priced around $130, which is reasonable for a decent car radio.
As usual, satellite radio had plenty of presence. An aisle-end display was loaded with info, flashy signs and four receiver styles. Several radios on the wall display had obvious Sirius or XM signs.
I saw nothing about HD Radio.
As I talked to the sales person, I mentioned that HD Radio lacked any presence. He agreed. I said that there appeared to be no incentive for anyone to buy an HD Radio receiver, let alone ask for it. He also agreed. When I said that HD Radio should be in every model and not a conscious decision on the part of the consumer, he also agreed.
It’s nice that he agreed with me, but that doesn’t really help move HD Radio forward.
Related Topics: HD Radio
The radio ads for HD Radio (or “What the ??”)
I’m sure you’ve heard the latest round of radio spots for HD Radio. The school teacher-sounding woman who compares HD Radio to the mating cycle of an insect, or the feeding habits of a bat, or some other bizarre idea.
The body of these spots focuses on the odd comparison, which I suppose is intended to pique interest while entertaining. That’s a valid method of advertising. We want listeners to remember the product being advertised, and if they are engaged in the ad, they probably will.
But these ads are just strange. I mean really strange.
When I am in the car with someone not in broadcasting and one of these spots is played, I ask the person with me what he or she thinks. Most of the time the reply is, “I don’t get it,” or “What was that all about?”
Perhaps they appeal to a younger demo, although I doubt it.
I have yet to really see a compelling campaign to spark interest in HD Radio. There are some unique multicast formats available, but I’m not hearing any promotion on the primary channels.
I’m not seeing promotional efforts for listeners to win an HD Radio receiver.
I’m not seeing signage at events promoting multicast streams.
What’s your plan to promote HD Radio? What would your HD Radio promo spot sound like? Go ahead and make one and we’ll post them online. What are you doing to promote HD Radio? Tell me about it and I’ll share it here.
A plea to attend the NAB Show
Speculation abounds about the 2009 NAB Show and the anticipated attendance. I’ve heard predictions on attendance ranging from 80,000 to 100,000. All the predictions say that the state of the economy will affect attendance in some way.
Today, I received the following message from the NAB:
As a leader in the radio business, your presence at the 2009 NAB Show – and that of your colleagues and your organization – is important to the overall success of the event and the association as a whole. The financial success of the show directly impacts NAB’s ability to advocate on behalf of America’s broadcasters in Congress, at the FCC and in the courts; provide educational and professional development programs that help stations grow their businesses and broadcasters enhance their careers; educate policymakers about the many ways broadcasters serve their communities; and invest in future technologies to enhance revenue for the broadcasting business.
The organization is able to provide great value to its members, and has not increased member dues rates, in large part due to the revenue generated by the NAB Show. It is up to all of us to be sure this event continues to be successful.
The NAB Show is also an economic engine for the industry, displaying the most exciting technologies in the business, such as HD Radio, Itunes tagging and radio data system (RDS) services, Internet streaming and incorporating radio on all mobile and handheld devices. The capital spending that occurs at the show fuels future industry growth. It is a positive economic catalyst during a time when our country sorely needs it. Thus, your presence at the show not only ensures that you stay at the forefront of a constantly evolving industry like ours, but also demonstrates the unity of the business in moving forward and doing its part in helping to spur economic growth.
The show is also an important time to celebrate the men and women who have made lasting contributions to radio and television. We hope you join us as we honor renowned comedienne and actress Mary Tyler Moore with the Distinguished Service Award during the Opening Keynote session and induct legendary sportscaster Vin Scully into NAB’s Broadcasting Hall of Fame during the Radio Luncheon. In addition to these events, the show features many other notable speakers and experts in media, entertainment and communications.
Now more than ever, your leadership is needed. It’s time for us to step up and lead by example. By engaging in the NAB Show and working together, we are proving our commitment to building a strong future for radio.
We urge you to maintain this commitment to our business by participating, attending and experiencing the NAB Show. Please visit www.nabshow.com for details on this year’s show.
We look forward to seeing you in April.
Jack Sander; Joint Board Chair; Senior Advisor, Belo Corporation
Steve Newberry; Radio Board Chair; President and CEO, Commonwealth Broadcasting
I won’t call it a desperate call from the NAB, but you know the show organizers are concerned. Last year’s attendance was 105,259. I think this year’s will be closer to 95,000, but the big difference will not be in raw attendance, but in time spent at the show.
I’m talking to people who in years past have spent a week in Las Vegas. This year, they are only spending 3 or 4 days. That person will still count as an attendee in the raw total, so the number will be high, but there won’t be as many people on the floor at any given time.
What’s your attendance prediction for the 2009 NAB Show?
HD Radio comes to Costco
There’s a new name on the HD Radio receiver manufacturer list: Teac. The new device is also being offered through a popular consumer outlet: Costco.
The Teac HD-1 is an Ipod dock and HD Radio receiver that has an introductory price of $99. Give one point to Ibiquity, the HD Radio Alliance or someone for getting this unit into the megaretailer.
The discount retail path has been used before. Recall that Walmart also offered an HD Radio receiver when it was unveiled. Now Walmart lists eight models on its website.
I usually visit Costco one a week, so I’ll look for the Teac display to see what the HD Radio marketing looks like there. Will I see groups of people standing at a display learning about the technology? Will I see an empty display with no interest? I’ll let you know.
Either way, this is yet another positive step in promoting the technology.
Miami follow-up
This doesn’t really apply to radio in general, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.
I told you about my recent visit to Miami. There were two items that fit the trip very well. They seemed rather kismet at the time.
I told you that my visit to Miami was to talk to the students in the Music Engineering Technology program at the University of Miami. I studied through this program (so many years ago), and I like to return to talk to the current students about radio broadcasting. (As far as I know there is only one other graduate of this program who also went into radio engineering: William Blum, who works for Clear Channel in San Francisco.)
Both items that fit the trip occurred in my hotel. While I was there I stayed at the Hampton Inn in Coconut Grove. Hampton Inns have a decorated style that uses black and white photos throughout the hotel. Each room has a plaque with the room number and a small picture. The pictures are usually nostalgic in some way: a rusty mailbox, a wheel barrow, a child in a pond, an old road sign. What was the picture on my room? A close up of an AM radio dial from an Oldsmobile. How appropriate is that?
The other item? My room number. This one take a little longer to explain.
While in school, the curriculum included a series of specialized audio classes that brought together the electronics, acoustics, physics, business, music and other aspects of music engineering. These four classes were numbered 501, 502, 503 and 504. It was one of these classes that led to me coming to work for Radio magazine.
The 503 class had a final project assigned in the class. The project was to do something that can be put on a resume. At the time, this seemed like an obtuse assignment, but we all charged ahead and thought about what to do.
One suggestion was to write an article for a trade publication. A popular magazine among my fellow students was Mix magazine (another Penton Media title). Some students started thinking of topics to submit to the editor. I liked this idea, but I wanted to do something different.
My interest in radio was strong then, so I turned to the broadcast magazine that I liked to read: Broadcast Engineering. In 1986, Broadcast Engineering still covered radio and TV. (In 1994, the radio content was pulled out and Radio magazine was begun.) I considered some topics and decided to try my hand at a Field Report. I arranged to receive a piece of equipment as a demo, and then I called the radio editor or Broadcast Engineering, Brad Dick (who is now editorial director of the magazine), and offered him the Field Report. He accepted the idea, so I got to work writing.
The piece of equipment? The Pacific Recorders and Engineering Micromax cart machine. The article ran in the Sept. 1987 issue.
That first article led to other Field Reports and then short features. For the next 10 years, I continued writing for Broadcast Engineering and then Radio magazine when it was launched. Then one day in 1997 I was asked if I would like to work for the magazine full time as the editor. I took the job.
But back to the second item from my trip. The 503 class is what started my career in publishing. My room number at the Hampton Inn? 503.
It seems that trip was just meant to be.
Robert Gibbs Will Watch What He Says Now
When White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismisses Rush Limaugh’s comments about President Obama by saying he (Gibbs) does not have a radio, you know he was asking for it. It didn’t take long for Washington-area station WTOP (Bonneville), the Washington-area Clear Channel stations, and the HD Digital Radio Alliance to remedy the problem. They all delivered radios to the spokesman so he won’t be disadvantaged.
All kidding aside, the “I don’t have a radio” comment was not a wise thing to say. He’s the press secretary. He’s the spokesman for the White House. He’s not paying attention to the various media? That’s part of his job.
Broadcasters were rather friendly about the matter, although it could have really blown up in Gibbs’ face.
I doubt Gibbs will repeat a mistake like this again.
The Youth of radio
When I attended the University of Miami, I spent a great deal of time at the campus radio station, WVUM. In the 80s, the station ran a whopping 365W ERP. A few years ago, the station increased its power to 1.3kW.
I visited the station on my campus visit, and I was warmly greeted by some of the students who work there. They gladly showed me their station. They are proud of what they are doing, and it shows in their attitude.
The facilities are modest but functional. Like many college radio stations, it’s a good training ground for the students. They can learn about radio without the pressure of fulfilling ratings goals or sales figures. Is it polished and perfect? No. I can’t say I like some of the music they play. But they are learning about radio, and they’re getting hooked on it, just like you and I are hooked on it.
Keep up the good work, WVUM.
Goin’ Back to Miami
I’m reminded of the song the Blues Brothers played while on my current trip. I am taking a couple of days to visit Miami, FL, and my alma mater, the University of Miami. I graduated from there in 1987 with a degree in Music Engineering Technology. Ken Pohlman was the program director when I was in school, and he held that post until 2006, which is the last time I visited the campus.
I’ve been back here a few times since the 80s, and I usually plan the trip to talk to the students in the Music Engineering program during the Friday morning Audio Forum. I’m always impressed by the projects the students are working on, and I enjoy the chance to talk about a side of audio that many of them don’t think about at all: radio.
While my goal in presenting is to offer some insight into another technical career where their study of electronics, acoustics, digital technology and audio can be applied, I also share some advice in establishing and pursuing a career in general.
In return, I see some young minds taking in information and getting new ideas of their own. I get a glimpse into new thoughts being formulated.
Earned recognition
By now you’ve heard that the NAB announced the recipients of the 2009 Engineering Achievement Award. Congratulations to Jack Sellmeyer and Sterling Davis. They join a distinguished list of broadcasters who have made their mark on broadcast engineering.
I am lucky enough to know many of the radio recipients. Hopefully some of their experience and knowledge will rub off on me.
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TrueDrive: 2011 Kia Optima Hybrid
Tuesday, 08 November 2011 06:00
Written by Brandy Schaffels
0 Comments When the first Kia Optima sedan debuted in the United States in 2000, it was nothing more than a rebadged Hyundai Sonata, which didn’t carry much panache at the time, as Korean sister makes, Kia and Hyundai, were both emerging brands in the United States. Forget anything you might remember about the Kia vehicles of yore: the attractive new 2011 Optima has erased any traces of its mediocre beginnings, replacing them with a high-quality sedan featuring stylish looks, high levels of content and technology, class-leading fuel economy, and an industry-leading warranty. When it was launched at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show, Kia promised that its first-ever hybrid would be a well-equipped four-door sedan that would not sacrifice style, comfort, performance, or value for fuel efficiency. | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/88 | {"url": "http://blog.truecar.com/2011/11/08/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blog.truecar.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:16:29Z", "digest": "sha1:562AEBFYWGVQUZVPHLNTAZTI3OTXTC4P"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 896, 896.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 896, 4198.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 896, 4.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 896, 103.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 896, 0.94]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 896, 281.8]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 896, 0.35028249]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 896, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 896, 0.02469136]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 896, 0.03017833]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 896, 0.04663923]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 896, 0.20338983]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 896, 0.74647887]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 896, 5.13380282]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 896, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 896, 4.52360909]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 896, 142.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 34, 0.0], [34, 66, 0.0], [66, 94, 0.0], [94, 896, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 34, 0.0], [34, 66, 0.0], [66, 94, 0.0], [94, 896, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 34, 5.0], [34, 66, 5.0], [66, 94, 4.0], [94, 896, 128.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 34, 0.125], [34, 66, 0.34482759], [66, 94, 0.0], [94, 896, 0.01668806]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 34, 0.0], [34, 66, 0.0], [66, 94, 0.0], [94, 896, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 34, 0.14705882], [34, 66, 0.0625], [66, 94, 0.10714286], [94, 896, 0.02743142]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 896, 0.030509]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 896, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 896, 0.02689344]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 896, -41.67390323]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 896, 6.36925448]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 896, -7.32635143]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 896, 3.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
12:40 pm January 10, 2014, by John Kessler | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/89 | {"url": "http://blogs.ajc.com/food-and-more/2014/01/10/1kept-takes-up-where-toulouse-left-off/img_9443/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blogs.ajc.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:32:32Z", "digest": "sha1:QS7UMIHSZSWNSIRCFFLYHYRSIOEO5TUI"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 42, 42.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 42, 6529.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 42, 1.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 42, 259.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 42, 0.97]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 42, 128.8]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 42, 0.08333333]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 42, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 42, 0.58333333]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 42, 1.0]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 42, 4.0]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 42, 2.07944154]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 42, 8.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 42, 8.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 42, 0.25641026]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 42, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 42, 0.07142857]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 42, -1.001e-05]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 42, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 42, -1.001e-05]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 42, -10.6835392]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 42, -5.74279537]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 42, -3.53243865]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 42, 1.0]], "is_duplicate": false} |
Posts Tagged ‘Celebrity birthdays’
Celebrity birthdays Feb. 6: Axl Rose, Natalie Cole, Tom Brokaw, Rip Torn, Robert Townsend, Zsa Zsa Gabor
February 6th, 2010 by accessAtlanta
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is 93. Actor Patrick MacNee (”The Avengers”) is 88. Actor Rip Torn is 79. Actress Mamie Van Doren is 79. Actor Mike Farrell is 71. Former NBC news anchorman Tom Brokaw is 70. Actress Gayle Hunnicutt is 67. Singer Fabian is 67. Actor Michael Tucker is 66. Singer Natalie Cole is 60. Actor Jon Walmsley (”The Waltons”) is 54. Actor-director Robert Townsend (”The Parent ‘Hood”) is 53. Actress Kathy Najimy is 53. Drummer Simon Phillips of Toto is 53. Actor Barry Miller (”Saturday Night Fever,” “Fame”) is 52. Actress Megan Gallagher (”Millennium”) is 50. Country singer Richie McDonald (Lonestar) is 48. Vocalist Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses is 48. Singer Rick Astley is 44. Bassist Tim Brown of the Boo Radleys is 41.
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Celebrity birthdays Feb. 5: Bobby Brown, Laura Linney, Sara Evans, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Country singer Claude King is 87. Actor Stuart Damon is 73. Writer-producer Stephen J. Cannell is 69. Singer-songwriter Barrett Strong is 69. Actor David Selby (”Dark Shadows,” “Falcon Crest”) is 69. Singer Cory Wells of Three Dog Night is 68. Singer Al Kooper is 66. Actress Charlotte Rampling is 64. Actress Barbara Hershey is 62. Actor-director-comedian Christopher Guest is 62. Actor-comedian Tim Meadows (”Saturday Night Live”) is 49. Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh is 48. Actress Laura Linney is 46. Bassist Duff McKagan of Velvet Revolver (and Guns N’ Roses) is 46. Singer Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors is 42. Singer and former Atlanta resident Bobby Brown is 41. Country singer Sara Evans is 39. Actor Jeremy Sumpter (”Peter Pan”) is 21.
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Celebrity birthdays Feb. 4: Clint Black, Gavin DeGraw, Natalie Imbruglia, Alice Cooper
Actor Conrad Bain is 87. Actor Gary Conway (”Burke’s Law”) is 74. Drummer John Steel of The Animals is 69. Singer Florence LaRue of the Fifth Dimension is 66. Singer Alice Cooper is 62. Actor Michael Beck is 61. Actress Lisa Eichhorn is 58. Singer Tim Booth of James is 50. Country singer Clint Black is 48. Guitarist Noodles of The Offspring is 47. Country bassist Dave Buchanan of Yankee Grey is 44. “Daily Show” correspondent Rob Corddry is 39. Bassist Rick Burch of Jimmy Eat World is 35. Singer Natalie Imbruglia is 35. Rapper Cam’ron is 34. Singer Gavin DeGraw is 33.
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Celebrity birthdays Feb. 3: Blythe Danner, Temptations singer, Morgan Fairchild, Michele Greene, Sean Kingston
February 3rd, 2010 by accessAtlanta
Comedian Shelley Berman is 84. Actress Blythe Danner is 67. Singer Dennis Edwards (The Temptations) is 67. Guitarist Dave Davies of The Kinks is 63. Singer Melanie is 63. Actress Morgan Fairchild is 60. Actor Nathan Lane is 54. Guitarist Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth is 54. Actor Thomas Calabro (”Melrose Place”) is 51. Actress Michele Greene (”L.A. Law”) is 48. Country singer Matraca Berg is 46. Actress Maura Tierney is 45. Singer Daddy Yankee is 34. Singer Jessica Harp (The Wreckers) is 28. Rapper Sean Kingston is 28.
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Celebrity birthdays Feb. 2: Shakira, Christie Brinkley, Elaine Stritch, Brent Spiner, T-Mo
February 2nd, 2010 by accessAtlanta
Actress Elaine Stritch is 85. Actor Robert Mandan (”Soap,” “Three’s a Crowd”) is 78. Comedian Tom Smothers is 73. Singer Graham Nash is 68. Actor Bo Hopkins is 68. Singer Howard Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers is 64. Actor Brent Spiner (”Star Trek: The Next Generation”) is 61. Bassist Ross Valory of Journey is 61. Model Christie Brinkley is 56. Actor Michael Talbott (”Miami Vice”) is 55. Actress Kim Zimmer (”Guiding Light”) is 55. Bassist Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots is 44. Actress Jennifer Westfeldt is 40. Atlanta rapper T-Mo (Goodie Mob) is 38. Actress Marissa Jaret Winokur is 37. Singer Shakira is 33.
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Celebrity birthdays Feb. 1: Big Boi, Michael C. Hall, Lisa Marie Presley, Lauren Conrad
February 1st, 2010 by accessAtlanta
Actor Stuart Whitman is 82. Actor-comedian Garrett Morris is 73. Singer Don Everly of The Everly Brothers is 73. Singer Ray Sawyer of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show is 73. Actor Sherman Hemsley is 72. Jazz pianist Joe Sample is 71. Bluegrass singer Del McCoury is 71. Actor-writer-director Terry Jones (Monty Python) is 68. Guitarist Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is 60. Actor-writer-producer Billy Mumy (”Lost in Space”) is 56. Singer Exene Cervenka of X is 54. Keyboardist Dwayne Dupuy of Ricochet is 45. Actress Sherilyn Fenn is 45. Singer Lisa Marie Presley is 42. Comedian Pauly Shore is 42. Drummer Patrick Wilson of Weezer is 41. Actor Michael C. Hall (”Dexter,” “Six Feet Under”) is 39. Atlanta rapper Big Boi of Outkast is 35. TV personality Lauren Conrad (”The Hills,” “Laguna Beach”) is 24.
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Celebrity birthdays Jan. 31: Justin Timberlake, Kerry Washington, Portia de Rossi, Minnie Driver
January 31st, 2010 by accessAtlanta
Actress Carol Channing is 89. Actor Stuart Margolin (”The Rockford Files”) is 70. Actress Jessica Walter (”Arrested Development”) is 69. Actor Glynn Turman (”The Wire,” “A Different World”) is 64. Singer Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band is 59. Singer Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols is 54. Actor Anthony LaPaglia (”Without a Trace,” “Murder One”) is 51. Actress Kelly Lynch is 51. Singer-guitarist Lloyd Cole is 49. Actor John Dye (”Touched by an Angel”) is 47. Guitarist Jeff Hanneman of Slayer is 46. Bassist Al Jaworski of Jesus Jones is 44. Actress Minnie Driver is 40. Actress Portia de Rossi (”Arrested Development,” “Ally McBeal”) is 37. Actress Kerry Washington (”Ray”) is 33. Singer Justin Timberlake is 29.
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Celebrity birthdays Jan. 30: Christian Bale, Phil Collins, Jody Watley, Charles Dutton, Gene Hackman
January 30th, 2010 by accessAtlanta
Actor Gene Hackman is 80. Actress Tammy Grimes is 76. Actress Vanessa Redgrave is 73. Country singer Jeanne Pruett is 73. Country singer Norma Jean is 72. Singer Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship is 68. Horn player William King of The Commodores is 61. Musician Phil Collins is 59. Actor Charles S. Dutton is 59. Comedian Brett Butler (”Grace Under Fire”) is 52. Singer Jody Watley is 51. Country singer Tammy Cochran is 38. Actor Christian Bale is 36. Singer Josh Kelley is 30. Actor Wilmer Valderrama (”That ’70s Show”) is 30. Actor Jake Thomas (”Lizzie McGuire,” “AI”) is 20.
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Celebrity birthdays Jan. 5: Diane Keaton, Marilyn Manson, Robert Duvall, January Jones
January 5th, 2010 by accessAtlanta
Actor Robert Duvall is 79. Talk-show host Charlie Rose is 68. Actress Diane Keaton is 64. Actor Ted Lange (”The Love Boat”) is 62. Drummer George “Funky” Brown of Kool and the Gang is 61. Guitarist Chris Stein of Blondie is 60. Actress Pamela Sue Martin (”The Poseidon Adventure,” “Dynasty”) is 57. Actor Clancy Brown (”Highlander,” voice of Mr. Krabs on “SpongeBob SquarePants”) is 51. Drummer Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) is 44. Singer Marilyn Manson is 41. Actress January Jones (”Mad Men”) is 32.
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Celebrity birthdays Jan. 4: R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Julia Ormond, Patty Loveless, Jill Marie Jones
Actress Barbara Rush (”Peyton Place”) is 83. Actress Dyan Cannon is 73. Country singer Kathy Forester of the Forester Sisters is 55. Guitarist Bernard Sumner of New Order (and Joy Division) is 54. Actress Ann Magnuson (”Anything but Love”) is 54. Country singer Patty Loveless is 53. Singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. is 50. Actor Dave Foley (”NewsRadio,” “Kids in the Hall”) is 47. Actress Julia Ormond is 45. Country singer Deana Carter is 44. Harmonica player Benjamin Darvill of Crash Test Dummies is 43. Actor Jeremy Licht (”Valerie”) is 39. Actress Jill Marie Jones (”Girlfriends”) is 35.
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Cyber Cynic
ARMing desktop Linux
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
October 12, 2009 1:43 PM EDT
For a brief time in 2008, Linux actually owned a segment of the desktop industry: netbooks. When netbooks first showed up, they ran only Linux. Microsoft panicked and brought XP back from the dead, offering it for next to nothing to netbook vendors and thus successfully fighting off the Linux challenge. That was then -- this is now. Today, Linux netbooks are still popular, though not as much as they once were. ARM-based netbooks, are on their way and, since these systems can't run Windows, Linux has the potential market all to itself. The real question is: will PC vendors choose to offer low-cost, less than $200 netbooks? ARM Holdings, the company behind the ARM Cortex processor family, wants to see this happen. It's not that ARM sees a big future for itself as a desktop/laptop processor company. According to Simon Segars, executive vice president and general manager of ARM's physical IP division, ARM decided to enter this market mainly to counter Intel's moves in the mobile phone market. "We are more worried about Intel encroaching into the high-end of smartphones, than we are about netbooks," said Segars. "If ARM is successful in devices like netbooks, it will be a nice incremental revenue for the company." This is not exactly the kind of enthusiastic support Linux fans or vendors would like to see. The latest iteration of the ARM Cortex dual-core A9 processor, which runs at 2GHz, is fast enough to go up against Intel's netbook processor of choice, the Atom. With its lower cost and low power consumption -- less than two watts -- the 2GHz Cortex is ideal for low-cost netbooks. That is, if anyone will build them. Freescale has the silicon necessary to take the ARM processors and turn them into netbooks. Pengatron, a Taiwanese OEM, is the only company I know of that actually ships ARM and Linux powered netbooks. It's rather annoying. With the Linux netbook threat mitigated, Microsoft is re-closing the door on XP as fast it can; if Microsoft has its way, the only netbooks you'll be able to buy are deliberately crippled systems with Windows 7 Starter Edition. Don't believe me? I quote Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: "Our license tells you what a netbook is. Our license says it's got to have a super-small screen, which means it probably has a super-small keyboard, and it has to have a certain processor and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." That's so Microsoft. Once the company feels like it's on top, it immediately start dictating to the market how things are going to be from now on. With Linux still around, though, it doesn't have to be that way. I think though there is a market for full-powered netbooks at a $200 price point, and that means Linux. Ubuntu already runs on ARM, and I expect Google's Chrome operating system to run on ARM-powered systems. It's that last option that offers desktop Linux its best chance for not just a come-back, but a real shot at becoming an important desktop operating system. I see a $199 ARM-based netbook with Google's name on it and Linux in the engine room selling well. I'd buy it. More important, I can see millions of users, much to ARM's surprise, buying one. Here's hoping it happens. Print
TAGS:Arm, desktop linux, Linux, Microsoft, netbook, Windows 7
TOPICS:Applications, Hardware, Laptops, Linux and Unix, Open Source, Operating Systems, Windows
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Roger Avary To Direct Bret Easton Ellis' 'Glamorama' In 2012?
by Gabe Toro
October 13, 2011 12:12 PM 6 Comments
The last time Roger Avary directed a film, it was in collaboration with Bret Easton Ellis. Together, the two of them were responsible for the hyperactive 2002 adaptation of "The Rules Of Attraction" and something of a spinoff in the mostly-improvisational "Glitterati" cut together from the extensive footage shot for Victor's European trip sequence. And how did that go? 'Attraction' pulled in less than $12 million worldwide, while "Glitterati" has only been seen by a handful of people and may never obtain any sort of release due to its pornographic content. So, naturally, Avary hasn't directed anything in almost a decade (not to mention his brief stint in jail). And in a perfect example of Hollywood logic, it looks like he'll return to directing with another collaboration with Ellis.According to Ellis' Twitter feed, Avary has finally cracked his long-in-the-works adaptation of Ellis' "Glamorama." "Just finished reading Roger Avary's adaptation of 'Glamorama' which he will direct next year," he writes. "Hilarious, horrific, sad. He's a mad genius." He then added, "And if he can get away with the sex scenes: it's as hot as fucking hell..." You know. For kids.The plot of "Glamorama," fueled (as other Ellis works) by drugs, alcohol and sex, concerns a model who turns to an underground terrorist organization. Where this gets complicated is that Avary and Ellis could be building their own on-screen cinematic universe, given that the model is Victor Ward, played by Kip Pardue in both "Attraction" and "Glitterati." Pardue isn't exactly a leading man any longer, but being that this movie is probably going to come together under the radar pretty quietly, we wouldn't be surprised at that attempt at continuity. Though we would like to see that missing scene from "The Rules Of Attraction" where James Van Der Beek's Sean Bateman calls his brother Patrick, as played by Casper Van Dien (!). Avary was also hired this summer to pen an adaptation of William Faulkner's "Sanctuary," so he's slowly but surely been getting his name back out there and into the mix. So while we wait for both projects to materialize, here's the sequence from 'Attraction' which is the closest you'll probably ever get to seeing "Glitterati." And yeah, it's NSFW. GET EMAIL UPDATES
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DouglasLarson |
Rules of Attraction is an amazing cinematic film. The book Glamorama is a fantastic international spy thriller in the Ellis universe. I can see Avary making an amazing film out of this, especially if the script is everything Ellis says it is. Count me in theaters on day one!
L Richert |
Mr. Avery's "brief stint in jail" was due to him killing somebody while he was drinking and driving. If he didn't have money, he would still be in prison for it. He is a murderer, pure and simple.
Robert Earle Stanton |
That is not true whatsoever. So you not only don't know the story, but what money? You don't know he didn't make his second film for like ten years cuz no one would back it? He won an Oscar for the storytelling of PULP FICTION, also wrote on True Romance and Resevior Dogs. Quentin "produced" Killing Zoe
TheoC |
Kinda hated Rules of Attraction, but I'm a big fan of the book and felt they got the tone right but missed every opportunity to make it interesting.Bret Easton Ellis also had tweeted about meeting Alex Pettyfer who really wants to play Victor Ward (Kip Pardue in R.O.A) in Glamorama, I can see it, but I probably wouldn't pay to see it.
DAIN |
Totally agree with you. Rules of Attraction the film was, well, just off. Although it is impossible to translate any of Ellis's books cleanly onto film, American Psycho was close but it still lacked what the book provided-total insanity (i.e. eating sand, screaming up and down Broadway, making teeth necklaces etc). Glamorama tops American Psycho in terms of scope and scale so I don't think it would even come close to justifying the book. Alex Pettyfer would be spot on though.
October 13, 2011 12:27 PMReply
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She went to prison for her ‘encore career’
December 4, 2013, 12:55 PM ET
By Anne TergesenThis week, Encore.org, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that promotes second careers in the nonprofit sector, is handing out Purpose Prizes, its answer to the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” awards.
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Fennelly: Keeping prison terms from breaking up families.
At a ceremony on Thursday, seven individuals will receive grants of $25,000 to $100,000 in recognition of their efforts to contribute to society during a time of life that, as the organization puts it, was “once seen as the ‘leftover’ years.” (Encore.org is not affiliated with MarketWatch or the Encore retirement blog.)
Last week, we caught up with one of the winners, Carol Fennelly, 64, as she was preparing Thanksgiving pies in her cabin in West Virginia. In 1998, Fennelly founded the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit Hope House, which is dedicated to helping men in prison stay in touch with their children.
Hope House programs include after-school videoconferences, in which children and fathers talk and do homework together. Employees also record fathers reading books and deliver both the book and the recording to their kids. Available in about dozen correctional facilities, this program has distributed 19,000 books over the past 14 years.
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MPR News A fresh eye on the news Anatomy of a news story
7 There was a story floating around this weekend that makes a wonderful exercise in ascertaining the difference between solid newspaper reporting and TV/video news fare. Perhaps the medium really is the message. One story, one news organization. Two different messages and tones — one that is relatively scholarly,and one that is simply meant to scare the devil out of you. See if you can figure out which is which. The Associated Press story documents the increase in routine maneuvers at airports called “go arounds,” which — as the name implies — is when a pilot decides to abort a landing and go around for another crack at it. This can be warranted when another plane hasn’t cleared the runway or the approach just isn’t to the pilot’s satisfaction. Here’s the “print version” carried by many newspapers (the Star Tribune carried a severely edited version of it). Nothing you’re about to read will make any sense if you don’t click the link and read the full story. Here are the take-aways from this version of the story: The “go around” is a routine maneuver. It’s not a tense situation. Go-arounds haven’t been blamed for any crashes or midairs in over 30 years, but air traffic controllers worry that without more safeguards, an accident is inevitable. The sources of knowledge in the story are a pilot, and several air traffic controllers. The main problem is intersecting runways at large airports. The Associated Press also packages a video version of some of its stories for use on Web sites, using the same reporting as the basis of the story. Here’s how this same story was packaged for an online video audience: The “routine maneuver” becomes the “dangerous maneuver” in the video version. The air traffic controller and pilot are replaced with a scared passenger. “It’s a catastrophic accident waiting to happen,” the passenger says. We’re not giving any information about who this passenger is or why he’s considered an expert on flying airplanes. The pilot who says “we’re trained in that maneuver, os it’s not a tense situation,” is replaced by a controller who says, “it gets your nerves going, it gets your adrenalin going, it gets your adrenalin a little too much going than we would like.” The video version blames pressure from the airlines. The original version has no such claim. The video version also leaves out the fact the FAA has changed procedures at several airports and “found no safety issues” with certain practices. The person who did the original reporting is not the person who cobbled together the TV/video version. In the nation’s newsrooms right now, there is some occasional howling from reporters about having to produce their work for multiple “platforms.” The loss of a story’s integrity in this case provides a good reason why they should. Media ‹ Older Energy policy: What do you want? Newer › Keith Kennedy goes home Browse by category
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It’s quite strange.
Essentially the only reason that go-arounds exist is for safety. (As you know Bob, but for other readers…) ATC needs to maintain separation for situations where a pilot may need to do a go-around. It’s like saying parachutes used by fighter jets pilots are dangerous because another fighter jet may hit the parachute.
So yes, to get from the point of an already biased non-story to the kind of content that was in the video is sick.
What do you suppose the early morning TV report for this story would be like? I gave up on early morning WCCO news when I would see the 4 sentence story from 10 pm become a 2 sentence story for 6 am (advertised 4 times earlier in the show with 1 sentence teasers). Sometimes important parts of the original few sentences were cut. Occasionally it was clear that the person reading it seemed confused by the sentence that popped up on the teleprompter.
“The loss of a story’s integrity in this case provides a good reason why they should.”
They should produce their work for for multiple platforms, or resist letting their work go to multiple platforms?
Al: Sorry, they should provide their material to multiple platforms, and they should be the ones to do it.
JohnnyZoom
Just curious: is the anticipated medium of the story the determining factor as to how is is, er, told, or is this more of a reflection on the particular, eh, journalists? Or is there something about video newsclips that attracts certain, um, kinds of journalists? That is, both of the above?
I might suspect the latter: video is a newer media and so-called media bias is certainly on the rise. Of course, it is not that media bias (or its opposite) that I am referring to (they pale in comparison), but rather the bias towards being more captivating and compelling. Attention span and all. That video is a perfect example of this bias.
As it is, “fact” is not synonymous with “truth”. I can understand that journalists might be trained to deal only with “facts” and not try to promote “truth” (whatever that is). I would only hope they would all strive to not offend it, either.
The medium changes HOW the story is told. For example, it doesn’t make sense – imho — for me to jam radio scripts down your throat if I’m writing a blog.
However, it shouldn’t change the story, itself, and that clearly happened here.
A bunch of aviation forums, as you might expect, are chortling about this being an example of how stupid the media is — painting it with a pretty broad brush, of course. Many of the posters didn’t see the printed version, which was very expertly done.
AP video is primarily directed at the online audience and it seems to me that its underpining is the belief that the online audience is incapable or disinterested in the facts as outlined in the printed version, that the story needs “gussying up” to make it truly interesting.
As a frequent flier, and a long-time aviation buff, I’m concerned about the video take. It’s another example of the “man/woman in the situation” shortcut to talk to a passenger who knows little about an issue just to get a great sound bite.
YouTubing? I would hope AP’s videos would be better produced. And Bob as a publisher ourselves we struggle with the multiple platform approach too. In the end the more involvement the original writer has the better.
The video version of this is a little “too” scary. Thanks for sharing it.
http://www.trailblz.com Brian Hanf
Working in Politics I see this story a little different. Since I work with DEM’s and REP’s I hear all the time from both sides how the media bias taints the story for the opposition or against them. I have always, for the most part, thought local (and most national) newspapers and MPR (and NPR) radio did a pretty good job of presenting a whole picture. TV has always seemed hit or miss on coverage, but after this I wonder if it is the media presentation. 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MPR News A fresh eye on the news The “D” word
The economic meltdown is bad. Most of us are pretty scared, more than a little angry, and our ears perk up when we hear people throw the “D” word around pretty loosely. Earlier this week, a poll showed that almost 60% of those surveyed think a depression is likely. “Most of those people don’t know their history,” a guest said Wednesday on MPR’s Midmorning. Elizabeth Schaefer, 86, of Shoreview is as good a history book as any of the thousands she probably touched in her career as a librarian. She was born seven years before the stock market crash of 1929 and grew up during the Great Depression. Elizabeth was born in Chicago. Her mother took care of the kids and kept an eye on the money. Her father worked as a railroad engineer when the railroad had work. “They didn’t talk about their financial problems with us, but they must have saved their money, because my father wanted a place where we could walk to school without crossing the street, so he went out for a loaf of bread one day and came back with a house (See photo),” she told me during my visit at her retirement community in Shoreview. Her parents were strict and kept the kids in the yard and sent them to a Catholic school. “My mother refused to buy the school uniforms so she made them for us. But, of course, it didn’t look like everyone else’s.” “Mom was always saving,” Elizabeth said. “She’d make a little bit of meat and a lot of noodles to go with the soup. You were supposed to add one can of water and she’d add two.” In the evenings, men would knock on the door looking for food. Her mother would share the supper. They’d eat it out on the porch and then move along. “We were fortunate we had a house to live in,” she said. Her mother kept strict track of what it took for her to go to college. “It was $800 and I paid it all back my first year.” She worked as a librarian for 25 cents an hour. She tried to get a job in a library in Chicago, but didn’t realize when she submitted an application to the alderman, she was supposed to include a bribe. After getting married, she says she never had any arguments with her husband over money. “He’d cash his check and put it on the dresser, after putting some in the bank.” She never stopped “saving things that possibly had another life.” At her retirement home, people put things they don’t want anymore in a cart. She pulls things out of the cart and offers it to others. How often do they take it? “Not too often,” she says. She, too, made her childrens’ clothes when they were small. Her kids have grown up to be frugal, but also generous with others through food drives and other charity. How does she view the panic of the last few weeks? “It’s out of my hands and you just have to trust that God’s gonna… whatever happens happens and hope somehow you have what it takes to cope with it,” she said. She says she always talked to her daughters about saving for tough times. “People didn’t do that because they didn’t believe that. They’d make fun of you for being frugal. You never know what’s going to come. I see so many people that… when people get married, they think they have to start out with a house and everything in it, stuff that people worked for years to save for…I’d die before I’d pay finance charges on credit cards. It seems like if you don’t have the money for it, you go without it until you do have it.” Things are bad. Things may get worse. But there’s plenty of evidence that says it’s no Great Depression. Economy Life ‹ Older Making sausage, making news Newer › Reading suggestion: Small-town America from the front porch Browse by category
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The Reality of Bisexuality
By Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
Sex is Not a One-Way Street
I had thought that in writing this long-overdue blog on bisexuality I could offer a straightforward, readily understandable overview of some issues that are very basic to human sexuality. I was wrong. Research, literature, and societal attitudes about bisexuality are all over the board. Part of the issue is that there’s not even a universally agreed upon definition. After doing a lot of reading and thinking, I’ll propose – for purposes of this blog – the following:
To be a bisexual man or woman means having a personally significant and meaningful romantic and/or sexual attraction to both males and females. While some readers will find the definition above to be too broad, others will feel it is lacking. Please note that I fully understand this. This language is posited merely as a starting point for the discussion that follows, and not as the be-all, end-all of what it means to be bisexual.
Men? Women? Both? Either?
Generally speaking (and excluding from this discussion the complications arising from gender identity issues), there are three main categories of sexual preference/orientation. These include:
Heterosexuality (romantic and/or sexual attraction primarily to the opposite sex)
Homosexuality (romantic and/or sexual attraction primarily to the same sex)
Bisexuality (romantic and/or sexual attraction to both sexes)
One does not have to act upon heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual feelings to self-identify as such. Nor does a person have to be exclusively attracted to the opposite or same gender to self-identify as heterosexual or homosexual. Furthermore, bisexuals need not be equally attracted to both sexes. And so the confusion begins.
Simply put, human sexuality is believed to exist on a continuum. As you are likely aware, this “sexual continuum” concept originated with Alfred Kinsey in the mid-twentieth century. Kinsey’s theory has since been expanded and expounded upon by numerous sexologists, most notably Fritz Klein. Today even the American Psychological Association (APA) recognizes and accepts this concept, releasing an official statement in 2005 reading, in part:
Sexual orientation is an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual, or affectionate attraction toward others. It is easily distinguished from other components of sexuality including biological sex, gender identity (the psychological sense of being male or female), and the social gender role (adherence to cultural norms for feminine and masculine behavior). Sexual orientation lies along a continuum that ranges from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality and includes various forms of bisexuality. Bisexual persons can experience sexual, emotional, and affectional attraction to both their own sex and the opposite sex. … Sexual orientation is different from sexual behavior because it refers to feelings and self-concept. Individuals may or may not express their sexual orientation in their behaviors.[i]
Complicating the situation is the fact that some people simply don’t like the word “bisexual.” Other terms sometimes used to describe this same concept include polysexual, queer, heteroflexible, homoflexible, men who have sex with men (MSM), women who have sex with women (WSW), and pansexual. And I’m quite certain that there are more terms to describe this phenomenon, but in these days of Internet-generated terminology and language like “bashtag” and “crowdfunding” (not to mention LOL, OMG, and BFF), it can be difficult to remain current. So please do send along any new terms you may find or know about; I’d love to start an updated list.
The Etiology of Bisexual Identification and Behavior
Just as there seems to be little consensus regarding the definition of bisexuality, there is a similar lack of consensus as to its causes. Proposed explanations include both nature and nurture. As a gay man who was “born this way,” or at least “formed in the womb this way,” I’m inclined toward genetics and the in-utero experience as primary influences for most people becoming bisexual. That said, it is clear that at least some bisexual behaviors are driven by other factors. I am also aware that bisexual activity does not always align with a person’s primary sexual orientation (either heterosexual or homosexual). My esteemed colleague and friend Joe Kort has written and spoken extensively about this.
Essentially, men and women who self-identify as heterosexual or homosexual may feel drawn to bisexual fantasies and behaviors for any number of reasons, several of which are noted below:
Sexual Trauma: Men and women who are sexually abused as children (by adults or other kids) sometimes sexualize their trauma, choosing to re-enact same-sex (or opposite sex) interactions later in life as a way to “control” the situation and their emotions. In other words, heterosexuals can receive a “homosexual imprinting” through early sexual trauma, and vice versa. This sexual trauma can be either overt or covert. (An overlooked form of sexual trauma is the sexualized hazing that occurs on many school campuses.)
Situational Sexuality: Sometimes straight males are sexual with other males because that’s all there is to choose from. Such behavior is relatively common in single-sex boarding schools, prisons, and other same-sex environments. Situational sexuality is more common among males, but women are not immune to the allure.
Cultural Pressure: Some individuals, due to a strict religious upbringing or the norms of their specific culture, will be choose to be sexual with members of the opposite sex as a way to be perceived as “normal” or “acceptable,” even though their primary sexual orientation is to the same sex. In other words, a homosexual person sometimes chooses to behave as a heterosexual, even though he or she is primarily attracted to members of the same sex.
Bisexual Fetishism: Some people have voyeuristic, exhibitionistic, and even cuckold type fetishes. These can manifest bisexually. For instance, a voyeuristic straight male with a cuckold fetish may enjoy watching his wife have sex with another man. If he is also into being sexually humiliated he may even participate in the encounter in some debasing fashion.
Sexual Addiction/Compulsivity: Sex addicts use sexual fantasy and behavior as a way to emotionally self-soothe and dissociate. Typically they are self-medicating underlying psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, or unresolved childhood trauma. Over time, as is the case with all addictions, their behaviors can escalate, and some find themselves engaging in activities that strongly conflict with their core feelings, beliefs, and morality about sex. For heterosexual sex addicts this sometimes means having sex with a gender they’re not truly attracted to, utilizing the “forbidden nature” of such encounters to increase the intensity of the experience. At other times (as seen in the movie Shame) heterosexual sex addicts who are unable to access an opposite-sex partner will simply “settle” for a less desirable but nonetheless better-than-nothing same-sex partner.
Experimental: Experimentation with styles of clothes, music, and attitudes toward government, parents, and even sexual orientation are the norm for many young people. Some may engage in same-sex or opposite-sex activity that does not mirror the essence of who they are, viewing their actions as an enjoyable part of learning about themselves and the world.
Gay for Pay: Some people – men and women alike – will do just about anything for money. ’Nuff said.
The Answers are Complex
It seems likely that many primarily heterosexual or homosexual men and women engage in bisexual fantasies and behaviors for one or a combination of the above reasons. For instance, a heterosexual young man attending a boarding school may engage in some form of same-sex activity while there. He may feel shamed by that activity, resulting in emotional trauma and homosexual imprinting. Later in life he may accept money to engage in sex with other men, both for financial gain (perhaps to finance a drug habit) and for the sense of control it gives him over his childhood trauma and adult sexuality.
That said, as stated earlier, I am of the belief that most people who comfortably self-identify as bisexual are, like most people who comfortably self-identify as either heterosexual or homosexual, “born that way.”
Bi Now, Gay Later?
It’s no secret that we live in a heteronormative culture. And though this now rapidly changing (example: recent Supreme Court decision on DOMA), for the most part our world is still a very hetero-centric place. Thus, it can be difficult for men and women who do not fit the standard mold to comfortably self-identify with their innermost (but often culturally unacceptable) sexual and romantic desires. At present, homosexuality appears to be the most challenging form of sexual orientation in this respect. As such, self-identifying as bisexual can, for some, act as a temporary bridge to an evolving homosexual self-identification. One study of young people found that approximately one-third of the individuals who initially self-identified as bisexual later self-identified as either gay or lesbian. The remaining two-thirds continued to self-identify as bisexual.[ii]
On the other hand, and this is important to note, there are many men and women who find total integrity and authenticity with a bisexual self-identification. For these folks, bisexuality is the only label that fully aligns with their emotions, romances, and sexual fantasies and behaviors. Frankly, there are those who insist that any man who has sex with other men must “really be gay,” and if he self-identifies in any other fashion, he is simply in denial, and ditto for women who have sex with women. These under-informed, biased individuals argue that self-identified “bisexual” men and women are simply too self-loathing to fully accept who and what they are (meaning homosexual), and they point to the “bi now, gay later” phenomenon as proof. This concept is both overly simplistic and non-inclusive. Yes, there are men and women who publicly identify as heterosexual or bisexual who are, in reality, homosexual (and choose to live their lives in the proverbial closet). But to imply that people who are truly attracted to both sexes are somehow wrong, not fully formed, or “in denial” is both shaming and shameful, and displays a lack of understanding as to the endlessly adaptive and flexible range of human sexuality.
As a therapist, it is important to help clients struggling with sexual identity concerns to examine both their sexual behaviors and, more importantly, their emotions. The goal is to put these clients in touch with their core sexual selves, to help them feel comfortable with who they are and what they truly desire. If a client is pretending to be something that he or she is not, that client is likely to experience shame and self-loathing as a result. Similarly, a client who is comfortable with his or her self-identified sexual orientation but engaging in sexual activity that does not mesh with that will also experience shame and self-loathing. The work here is to help such clients learn to integrate their sexual orientation, fantasies, and behaviors – to bring their whole selves into alignment, thereby evolving a more healthy, hopeful, and holistic human being, regardless of who turns them on.
NOTE: The person who fully identifies as bisexual often has a secondary issue that should be fully explored in treatment. And the issue is this: To fully identify as bisexual is, by its very nature, a grief issue, as the man or woman who is truly physically and romantically attracted to both sexes will always be missing one or the other should he or she choose to become monogamous with any one person. Bisexuals may love a man or a woman, be sexual with a man or a woman, and enjoy all the fruits of either of those choices, but ultimately they cannot “have it all” if they wish to be in a long-term, intimate, and monogamous relationship. Therefore, on some level that most of us do not fully share, bisexuals are often left to wonder about, long-for, and even miss the experience they don’t get to have because they decided (at least for a time) to choose one over the other.
Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S is Senior Vice President of Clinical Development with Elements Behavioral Health. He has developed clinical programs for The Ranch outside Nashville, Tennessee, Promises Treatment Centers in Malibu, and The Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles. He is author of Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men, and co-author with Dr. Jennifer Schneider of both Untangling the Web: Sex, Porn, and Fantasy Obsession in the Internet Age and the upcoming 2013 release, Closer Together, Further Apart: The Effect of Technology and the Internet on Sex, Intimacy and Relationships.
[i] American Psychological Association, Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality, http://web.archive.org/web/20070928051520/http://www.apahelpcenter.org/articles/article.php?id=31 (accessed Jun 20, 2013).
[ii] M. Rosario, E. Schrimshaw, J. Hunter, and L. Braun, “Sexual Identity Development Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths: Consistency and Change Over Time,” Journal of Sex Research 43(1) (February 2006): 46-58.
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Eleven Give Million-Dollar Donations to Super PACs
By Kent Cooper Posted at 9:23 a.m. on Jan. 29
Eleven associations, unions and individuals have already given more than $1 million each to Super PACs in 2013, with more to be reported this week.
Super PACs cannot give directly to candidates but they can make independent expenditures for or against candidates. So far in 2013 Super PACs have reported receipts of over $61 million and disbursements of over $46 million. Democratic-oriented Super PAC have collect $38 million and spent $30 million. Republican-oriented Super PACs have collected $23 million and spent $16.5 million.
Super PACs will be reporting their donors who gave money in the last few months when they file their year-end report by January 31st.
The top donor, so far, giving to Super PACs in 2013 was the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), which contributed $7.3 million. The DGA gave all its funds to its own Super PAC, DGA Action.
The second largest donor was former New York City mayor and majority owner of Bloomberg LLP, Michael Bloomberg, who contributed $5.9 million. Almost all of it was given to his own Super PAC, Independence USA PAC. He also gave $250,000 to the Super PAC of former Rep. Gabrielle Gifford, D-Ariz., Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC.
The late Bob Perry of Perry Homes, who died in April of 2013, contributed $3.1 million. Two million went to Texans for a Conservative Majority. One million went to Senate Conservatives Action, and $100,000 went to Kentuckians for Strong Leadership.
Other top donors, so far, include:
United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners $1,897,292.
AFL-CIO $1,806,000.
Thomas Steyer & NextGen Action $1,791,000.
Thomas Jordan (Jordan Vineyard & Winery, CA) $1,700,000.
American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees $1,697,250.
National Education Association $1,403,950.
Harold Simmon’s Contran Corp. $1,000,000.
Jonathan T. Soros $1,000,000.
Others, close to the million-dollar mark, include:
Cooperative of American Physicians $887,695.
J. Steve Mostyn & Mostyn Law Firm $850,000.
A full listing of donors giving more than $25,000 in 2013, as well as the detail on to whom they gave, can be found on Political MoneyLine’s page for Super PACs and Independent Expenditures.
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Sen. Harry Reid’s Fundraiser Gets 2 Years in Prison
By Kent Cooper Posted at 2:23 p.m. on Oct. 2, 2013
A Nevada lawyer and lobbyist who was a fundraiser for the 2010 re-election campaign of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has been sentenced to two years in prison for making illegal contributions in 2007 to Reid’s campaign.
Harvey Whittemore was sentenced by a federal judge in Nevada this week, and his lawyers have appealed the case to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. He was sentenced to two years in prison, plus two years of supervised release, required to perform 100 hours of community service, and fined $100,000.
Whittemore was found guilty in May of one count of making excessive contributions, one count of making contributions in the names of others and one count of causing Reid’s campaign to file a false report to the Federal Election Commission.
In February 2007, Whittemore had met with Sen. Harry Reid and agreed to try and collect $150,000 in contributions March 31, 2007.
In 2007, Whittemore, a lobbyist for gaming and tobacco interests, collected and gave $138,000 to the Friends of Harry Reid campaign committee. Whittemore then reimbursed the 29 straw donors, including employees, relatives and some spouses.
In 2007, F. Harvey Whittemore was an attorney at Lionel Sawyer & Collins.
Last year Reid’s campaign stated it had given some of the Whittemore funds to charity or sent them to the U.S. Treasury. A Reid spokesperson stated, “The Whittemore family gave money to local, state and federal officials over many years. At no time did Senator Reid have any knowledge that Mr. Whittemore was engaging in these alleged unlawful contributions to Senator Reid or any elected official.”
View background on the matter in Department of Justice press release of the June indictment.
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He is a Democrat. This will just get brushed aside like all other Democratic crimes! | 2014-15/0000/en_head.json.gz/98 | {"url": "http://blogs.rollcall.com/moneyline/sen-harry-reids-fundraiser-gets-2-years-in-prison/", "partition": "head_middle", "language": "en", "source_domain": "blogs.rollcall.com", "date_download": "2014-04-16T07:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:NYHVQTQ4WVCKYKTNGYG5HFV3JIVLQYY6"} | {"ccnet_length": [[0, 2314, 2314.0]], "ccnet_original_length": [[0, 2314, 7430.0]], "ccnet_nlines": [[0, 2314, 20.0]], "ccnet_original_nlines": [[0, 2314, 201.0]], "ccnet_language_score": [[0, 2314, 0.95]], "ccnet_perplexity": [[0, 2314, 254.9]], "ccnet_bucket": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_curly_bracket": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_ldnoobw_words": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_lorem_ipsum": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_stop_word_fraction": [[0, 2314, 0.30322581]], "rps_doc_ut1_blacklist": [[0, 2314, null]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_10grams": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_5grams": [[0, 2314, 0.02889246]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_6grams": [[0, 2314, 0.02889246]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_7grams": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_8grams": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_dupe_9grams": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_2gram": [[0, 2314, 0.01337614]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_3gram": [[0, 2314, 0.02086677]], "rps_doc_frac_chars_top_4gram": [[0, 2314, 0.02033173]], "rps_doc_frac_all_caps_words": [[0, 2314, 0.02580645]], "rps_doc_frac_lines_end_with_ellipsis": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_frac_no_alph_words": [[0, 2314, 0.20645161]], "rps_doc_frac_unique_words": [[0, 2314, 0.57671958]], "rps_doc_mean_word_length": [[0, 2314, 4.94444444]], "rps_doc_symbol_to_word_ratio": [[0, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_doc_unigram_entropy": [[0, 2314, 4.98718459]], "rps_doc_word_count": [[0, 2314, 378.0]], "rps_lines_ending_with_terminal_punctution_mark": [[0, 52, 0.0], [52, 103, 0.0], [103, 318, 1.0], [318, 641, 1.0], [641, 881, 1.0], [881, 1011, 1.0], [1011, 1251, 1.0], [1251, 1325, 1.0], [1325, 1725, 1.0], [1725, 1818, 1.0], [1818, 1899, 0.0], [1899, 1959, 0.0], [1959, 2025, 0.0], [2025, 2067, 0.0], [2067, 2119, 0.0], [2119, 2171, 0.0], [2171, 2177, 0.0], [2177, 2220, 1.0], [2220, 2230, 0.0], [2230, 2314, 1.0]], "rps_lines_javascript_counts": [[0, 52, 0.0], [52, 103, 0.0], [103, 318, 0.0], [318, 641, 0.0], [641, 881, 0.0], [881, 1011, 0.0], [1011, 1251, 0.0], [1251, 1325, 0.0], [1325, 1725, 0.0], [1725, 1818, 0.0], [1818, 1899, 0.0], [1899, 1959, 0.0], [1959, 2025, 0.0], [2025, 2067, 0.0], [2067, 2119, 0.0], [2119, 2171, 0.0], [2171, 2177, 0.0], [2177, 2220, 0.0], [2220, 2230, 0.0], [2230, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_lines_num_words": [[0, 52, 9.0], [52, 103, 11.0], [103, 318, 36.0], [318, 641, 55.0], [641, 881, 40.0], [881, 1011, 22.0], [1011, 1251, 35.0], [1251, 1325, 12.0], [1325, 1725, 66.0], [1725, 1818, 15.0], [1818, 1899, 10.0], [1899, 1959, 9.0], [1959, 2025, 9.0], [2025, 2067, 8.0], [2067, 2119, 7.0], [2119, 2171, 7.0], [2171, 2177, 1.0], [2177, 2220, 9.0], [2220, 2230, 2.0], [2230, 2314, 15.0]], "rps_lines_numerical_chars_fraction": [[0, 52, 0.02], [52, 103, 0.17777778], [103, 318, 0.03864734], [318, 641, 0.02884615], [641, 881, 0.0], [881, 1011, 0.1300813], [1011, 1251, 0.05217391], [1251, 1325, 0.05882353], [1325, 1725, 0.0], [1725, 1818, 0.0], [1818, 1899, 0.0], [1899, 1959, 0.0], [1959, 2025, 0.0], [2025, 2067, 0.0], [2067, 2119, 0.16], [2119, 2171, 0.10869565], [2171, 2177, 0.4], [2177, 2220, 0.0], [2220, 2230, 0.0], [2230, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_lines_start_with_bulletpoint": [[0, 52, 0.0], [52, 103, 0.0], [103, 318, 0.0], [318, 641, 0.0], [641, 881, 0.0], [881, 1011, 0.0], [1011, 1251, 0.0], [1251, 1325, 0.0], [1325, 1725, 0.0], [1725, 1818, 0.0], [1818, 1899, 0.0], [1899, 1959, 0.0], [1959, 2025, 0.0], [2025, 2067, 0.0], [2067, 2119, 0.0], [2119, 2171, 0.0], [2171, 2177, 0.0], [2177, 2220, 0.0], [2220, 2230, 0.0], [2230, 2314, 0.0]], "rps_lines_uppercase_letter_fraction": [[0, 52, 0.13461538], [52, 103, 0.09803922], [103, 318, 0.0372093], [318, 641, 0.0371517], [641, 881, 0.025], [881, 1011, 0.05384615], [1011, 1251, 0.025], [1251, 1325, 0.09459459], [1325, 1725, 0.0425], [1725, 1818, 0.04301075], [1818, 1899, 0.12345679], [1899, 1959, 0.15], [1959, 2025, 0.13636364], [2025, 2067, 0.16666667], [2067, 2119, 0.13461538], [2119, 2171, 0.11538462], [2171, 2177, 0.0], [2177, 2220, 0.04651163], [2220, 2230, 0.2], [2230, 2314, 0.04761905]], "rps_doc_ml_palm_score": [[0, 2314, 0.10927546]], "rps_doc_ml_wikipedia_score": [[0, 2314, null]], "rps_doc_ml_wikiref_score": [[0, 2314, 0.6034348]], "rps_doc_books_importance": [[0, 2314, -139.92408533]], "rps_doc_openwebtext_importance": [[0, 2314, 23.82103291]], "rps_doc_wikipedia_importance": [[0, 2314, 8.96267649]], "rps_doc_num_sentences": [[0, 2314, 30.0]], "is_duplicate": true} |
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Gordon Brown hails education as the best anti-poverty program
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This morning, 69 million children would not have gone to school around the world. And of those who did, many did not learn what they should have. It is a good thing that education has such energetic champions as Queen Rania of Jordan and Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister, both of whom made strong statements today in New York in support of universal access to good-quality education.
“I have one goal—to advocate that every child receives a quality education,” said Queen Rania, who is the co-founder and co-chair of 1Goal , a campaign that was founded with the objective of ensuring that education for all would be a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Gordon Brown spoke of education as the best anti-poverty and anti-deprivation program, speaking of successes he had seen recently in Africa. “In Kenya, I saw first-hand the benefit for free education for all,” he said, “There were 1 million children standing in queues waiting to be enrolled.”
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director at the World Bank noted that the International Development Association (IDA) had just pledged an additional $750 million for education over the next five years for countries off-track, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
“These additional resources will be used to improve access to good quality schools, for girls’ scholarships, for conditional cash transfers, for grants to schools—these are proven interventions that are producing results,” she said. “We know what works and so we are scaling up.”
The current Secretary for International Development in the UK, Andrew Mitchell, emphasized that both “output and outcomes” were important in education, explaining that outputs are the number of schools built, and outcomes are the number of children receiving good quality education.
The message of the day on education was most neatly put by Nthabiseng Tshabalala, a 12-year-old from a Soweto school. She called on leaders gathered in New York to ensure that all 69 million out-of-school children also get their chance to be leaders some day. Tags: United KingdomSouth AfricaKenyaJordanSouth AsiaMiddle East and North AfricaLatin America & CaribbeanEurope and Central AsiaEast Asia and PacificAfricaPovertyEducationworld bankUNPovertyMDGs
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