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By Jason Miks
GPS digital producer Jason Miks sits down with renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of the Selfish Gene and An Appetite for Wonder, to discuss readers' questions on religion, its role in society and whether children can be described as "Christian."
A number of readers noting your skepticism over religion's role in society ask whether an absence of religion would leave us without a moral compass?
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't. We shouldn't, because if you actually look at the bible or the Koran, and get your moral compass from there, it's horrible – stoning people to death, stoning people for breaking the Sabbath.
Now of course we don't do that anymore, but the reason we don't do it is that we pick out those verses of the bible that we like, and reject those verses we don't like. What criteria do we use to pick out the good ones and reject the bad ones? Non-biblical criteria, non-religious criteria. The same criteria as guide any modern person in their moral compass that has nothing to do with religion.
So the moral compass of any person is very much a part of the century or even the decade in which they happen to live, regardless of their religion. So we live in the early 21st century, and our moral compass in the early 21st century is quite different from 100 years ago, or 200 years ago. We are now much less racist than they were, much less sexist than they were. We are much kinder than non-human animals than they were – all sorts of respects in which we are labeled with a moral compass. So something has changed, and it certainly has nothing to do with religion.
You've been travelling to the States from the U.K. for a number of years. Have you noticed much of a change in the place of religion in the two countries over that time?
Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is. In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't. In Western Europe generally, Christianity is dying. Even in America, the figures show that religious adherence is being steadily reduced, and the people who now record themselves as having no religious affiliation is something like 20 percent. Many people don't recognize what a high figure it is, and so politicians here who feel they have to curry favor with religious lobbies should maybe take a look at those statistics and realize that not everyone in this country is religious.
You say it's a bit of a mystery why America is so much more religious than other advanced countries. Do you have any thoughts on why it might be? Tied to that question of disposition, several readers also wondered if there is a genetic predisposition toward faith?
There probably is, but I don't think that really explains why America is so different from Britain. The least implausible suggestion that I've heard is that Britain and Scandinavian countries, which are also very non-religious, have an established church, and that kind of makes religion boring. Whereas in America, there is constitutionally a bar against an established church, and that could be one reason why religion has become so popular – it has become big business, it has become free enterprise, rival churches vie with each other for congregations and especially tax free ties.
Some readers see you as very evangelical in your atheism. Do you feel it a duty, just as some Christians might to share the word of God, to spread an atheist point of view?
Duty is a funny word. But when you say evangelical, I like to think that I don't shout or shriek, but employ a quiet, sober voice of reason. And reason is on our side.
You've talked about feeling uncomfortable with the impact of religion on children. In fact, one reader asked whether you would prefer to see no under-18s at church. What's your take?
I certainly wouldn't wish to prohibit parents influencing their children. However, for the rest of the world, to label a child a Catholic child simply because its parents are Catholic, seems to me to be a form of child abuse. The child is too young to know.
You can see the absurdity of talking about a Catholic child of four when you think what it would be like if we talked about an existentialist child of four, or a logical positivist of four. In other words, we wouldn't accept the labeling of a child based the parents' belief, so why do we accept it when it's religion? Why does religion get a free pass when it comes to labeling children in this way?
religions must not be based on common sense and knowledge but on transcedence. you see how successful iskam is becoming not relying on inquiry and common sense?
yes,, religions have changed over the times,, thank secular society for that. Odd that people can't see the complete transition of religion making its roots less valid
Realist: You say you have no sin...you lie, for all have fallen short of the glory of God.
thankfully,, your witchcraft doesn't work on most of us. We also raise our children to be good and caring,, we don't destroy them by calling them sinners.
I really hope you are not around children.
John 3:16
"Religion: Together we can find the cure."
yes,, religion can use their magical powers while science cures.
Cures what????.........nothing in over 50yrs......
Sure science can cure all diseases but you cant use science , a pathway to heaven Jesus is the living bridge to heaven Thats the only way to get to heaven To know God is to know Jesus to begin with. Amen
yet no proof of god or heaven exists.. How delusional a post you made.
The cure is no religion at all. I guess Jimmy Swaggert and all the rest of thos religious hucksters caught with their pants down, or disgusting individuals like billy grahm who has made a very nice living telling us what god wants or doesn;t want, all must have lost their compansses. Religion is just BS wrapped up in more BS.
youre a BS in the first place. I rather be humble before God. We forgive you for you not knowing what youre saying Satan has been using you to do his works Repent!!!
You seem to be the source of BS with your judging and disrespect for others you disagree with spiritually!
David,could you explain why you do not worship Allah?Your prospects for an afterlife are in jeopardy if you have chosen the wrong path.Repent and follow the teachings of the Koran,before it's too late.
gee,, I hope David's god is a good god. From what I've read about him,, he's one unfair and angry dude.
stoning people to death was very common back then, our version of stoning people today isn't with 3 lb rocks but with words that put people on their knees. one example is his comment saying that religion is a disease and that we are all sick. idk about you but that's a brick to the face, there is nothing wrong with believing something so powerful could make man, animal and the universe. i can tell you its alot better than a germ desiring to grow 4 legs and leave a lake or a big bang that instead of destroying everything in its path it created millions of planets, stars, and life. btw im sick so you may get infected by this comment.
The only reason religion survives is through the incideous, bending of impressionable young minds which are unprepared to resist the powerful, inculction (read- brain washing) their parents and religious leaders insist is "The Truth"! I agree with Mr. Dawkings wholeheartedly; it is the worst form of child abuse! We should instead present children with accepted scientific proofs, teach them to think logicically and thereby endow them with the only tools they will need to protect themselves from charlatans and make informed, educated choices throughout their lives.
not only is it accepted child abuse,, but clergy rap=es and the cover ups, destroying children's lives, are also accepted by the religious???
Why didn't the other christians demand the government make the catholic church accountable? Guess kids don't matter to them. After all, it's only wrong when others do it.
Except you're discounting the people who found their faith themselves. Oops. Your bias is showing.
Throughout history there has been more blood shed and abuse in the name of religion than for any other reason. Isn't this enough to declare that religion should not in any way shape or form be a viewed as a moral compass? In fact, if we were logical and intelligent about it, seems to be reason enough to declare it a criminal activity?
most recently are the revelations of child abuse and the worst crimes of cover ups by the catholic church.
One might ask,, what has the church done to help those abused by their clergy?
The answer to that question isn't a good one as they will;
1) lobby to stop laws that would expose pedos and cover ups of pedophilia,, harming the once victims again. In fact denying all victims no matter who abused
2) deflect by saying others did it too
3) calling children liars,, those who lived traumatic lives of escape and isolation,, lost lives. Many children became mentally ill and others committed suicide due to the cover ups, rather than receiving needed help
Then again, we must all remember that religions and dictators are the same in managing their followers. They love to control, create stories they expect you to beileve and use fears to make you believe.. Just look at christians, muslims, mao, stalin
'We don't see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this or a place that has a bigger problem than anyone else,' said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children."
From the Guardian in the UK:
"Certainly the safeguards against paedophilia in the priesthood are now among the tightest in the world. That won't stop a steady trickle of scandals; but I think that objectively your child is less likely to be abused by a Catholic or Anglican priest in the west today than by the members of almost any other profession."
the extent of Communist (to further their Atheist agenda) abuse of Children will probably never be known:
"The true extent of child abuse in former Soviet bloc countries is at last being recognized, after years of its existence being completely denied, paediatricians and psychologists at a Budapest conference heard last week."
"Officially, child abuse didn't exist under the Communist....concept of a perfect society," said Dr Owen Lewis, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at New York City's Columbia Medical School and cofounder of the Children's Mental Health Alliance. "Soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, it became very evident abuse was rampant."
Usually occurred in "re-education" schools for kids who rebelled against communism.
Deflecting??? No...perspective... yes....
And lumping communist atheists with religion like it's the same thing???...now that's deflecting....
It is true that wars have been fought "in the name" of religion. But what this really amounts to are wars fought over resources, racism, xenophobia, or regional power, that perpetrators try to justify with religion. Any serious student of history can easily find the true causes of wars, and can understand that even if religion was claimed as a point of conflict, this isn't truely the case, and war would have occurred even in a vacuum devoid of religion. To say that religion was the source of conflict in past conflicts, where warring christians/jews/muslims fought one another, is to ignore that the perpetrators of these conflicts were hypocrites to their own creeds.
I doubt Dawkins himself can point out a single conflict where religion really was the sole motive, devoid of greed or xenophobia.
ah.. but the enabler to gather people to fight the war was done via moral persuasion.
The Crusades
Realist has put his finger on it. Every warring assemblage must convince the masses to die for "a cause". This is skillfully done so as to induce the peasants to fight, while sparing the aristocracy the inconveniences of war. Ideology, typically the unification achieved through the belief in a god, OR belief in patriotism, nationalism, racial purity, revenge or take your pick, is the binding force used to coalesce and motivate army. I agree that the true motive for going to war typically has nothing to do with anything beyond power, wealth, resources and maintaining the ruling class.
You're completely missing the point....these grand dictators used religion as a rallying cry to motivate them to slaughter one another....religion is the catalyst.....and it's still going on today, why don't you drop by Syria with your bible and see how far you get waving it around?
Yes, I don't believe religion was the reason for these wars, but rather a rationale for the territoriality of (mostly) male humans. Like males of other species, humans have a powerful, biological and genetic drive to acquire and defend territory. The origin of this, it seems obvious, is to impress females and to secure food within the territory. Humans are no different from lions or even reptiles or fish in that sense. Becauwe of our large brains, we can cloak our territoriality with excuses such as religion, national defense, "lebensraum" or the glory of conquest but it's the same old urge to acquire and defend territory. Animals mark their borders by urinating; we do it with passports, checkpoints, etc. We make a religion out of nationalism; sacred flags and so forth. We're just big smart mammals still imprisoned by our biology.
I guess you mean like those religious fanatics Hitler and Stalin, the greatest murders of our times.
False analogy. Hitler was not an atheist and never claimed to be one. He even cloaked his speeches in religious symbolism. Although he sparred with the Catholic church, it was only over their political activities. Stalin's religious views are immaterial. He killed people because of political motivation, not a lack of belief in a deity.
Actually, these atrocities have to deal more with money and power. Religion is just a convenient excuse but actually has nothing to do with faith. It's amusing how so many people cry for "reason" cannot make the simple distinction between religion and faith.
I thought the baby killing big government takeover tax the rich out of the nation, "let's have an A-" credit rating party was courting them? Nobody remembers this headline from 9/4/11? "Democrats remove 'God' from DNC platform, insert Obama's name over 100 times", if that's not "courting" atheists then what exactly is? Now yes they reversed course because they would have lost the election by alienating all their "foolish" (I think that would be a term Dawkins would apply) religious minorities. Blacks and Latino's are very religious generally. I think we need to find a cure for the intellectual narcissism and cultural/moral relativism who's rise is directly connected with the destruction of the family. This is the cause of the worst of our social problems. I suppose the atheist democrats can be appreciative of the fact the the demolib support of planned parenthood is wiping out the presidents strongest religious minority support at a rate three to five times that of any other ethnicity. Bet it makes him grin and think of bacon. See "twitter" "dawkins" "fetus" "adult pig". His comparison of what we should assure is the beloved and nurtured future of our species only proves that he is indeed a pig though given the outrageous things he says to get attention I'm not sure the term adult could apply as perhaps he never grew up. I'm betting there was some serious childhood trauma on that man.
it's rather an insult to human intelligence to put god in the political arena. Let's keep the witchcraft in churches and away from kids,, please!!!
Electing a Christian is not the same thing as courting atheists. Now if they wanted to take god out of the pledge of alliegence, do away with swearing in on a bible, take away the tax exemption status of churches, rewrite the blue laws still on the books in some states which say atheists can't be elected, stop endorsing prayer at government meetings, admit when they themselves are atheists so that the stigma of atheist politicians might go away, stop using people's atheism as a qualification to take their children away in custody battles, stop engaging in holy wars, not using slurs against Jessica Ahlquist, etc. THEN maybe they'd be closer to "courting" atheists.
Where oh where to begin. Dawkins claims that since the OT condones stoning, the BIble offers no moral compass. Conveniently he ignores the fact that Christianity follows a new covenant expounded by Jesus which has as its main commandment(s) to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves. No stoning condoned here. Yes, some (and even one is too many) Christian has disobeyed the "love" commandment and/or twisted it around. But one can hardly say that the NT provides no "moral compass" because the OT has verses that condone violence. Dawkins seems to think that we have moved past stoning simply because we live in the new, enlightened 21st century. So, I ask him, why is this new century "enlightened"? Because the Judeo-Christian (N.B.: Judaism does not follow the 'stoning' rules any longer, either. Jesus was not the only Jew to use the positive commandments as the moral center; he simply universalized the old covenant to apply to everyone, Jew and Gentile alike) ethics he so despises have become our moral compass. They did not spring full-grown from the forehead of Zeus or any of the "Enlightenment" pantheon of secular "saints" folks like Dawkins worship. They became commonplace because society was steeped in the moral/ethical soup of Judeo-Christian morality and ethics.
moral compass has always come from secular society.. Religions still can't get it right.
That's why in the USA, US laws trump religious ones. In fact religious rule is no more important than kids tree house rules in the USA. Odd,, they seem so similar,, little kids and religion with big stories.
Is sending people to hell for eternal torture for having the wrong belief moral? The concept is actually discussing.
point well made, one one.. and calling innocent children 'sinners'? Scaring children with fiery hell with monsters? What a wonderful bunch.
hence his point is well made, as the "morals" which are spelled out in the bible are quite contradictory and easily open to misinterpretation and abuse.
The fact that recognized scientific are venerated by society make them abuse the fields they talk about. Mr Richard Dawkins you might be authority about biology but not about moral. ! Shoe Maker go to the shoes !.
morality is a construct of civil society. it varies by location and throughout time, existing in every culture regardless of religious affiliation.
even the writers of the bible and the foundations of religions found their roots from the minds of secular society. yet the religions and bible never seem to get it right.
NP as secular society will continue to step in correcting religions.
Who was the great philosopher in Rome that spoke out against murdering people for fun and enjoyment in the Colosseum? Oh yeah, I forgot there wasn't one. It wasn't until Constantine converted Rome to Christianity that it stopped.
and Constantine used pagan symbols on his shields (the cross) to get the pagans to fight in the war with him. That is why the cross is now a symbol of christianity. Kinda makes Constantine sound like a bit of a faker, using relgion to push people to die for him.
Didn't Constantine rule the eastern part of the divided Roman empire in 300 AD from Constantinople, long after the games were used as a political ploy to gain votes? Nonetheless, your position is full of ignorance. Most of the buildings in Rome that survive were TEMPLES, the basilica's where the tribunes sat were based upon temple plans, and not all events were executions of political enemies. The first spectacle at the Colosseum was a naval battle.
Most of the events were sanctioned by or dedicated to a religious deity. Historians dispute that any Christians were killed in the Colosseum or at least there is no Roman records of the ritual killings, same for the alleged execution of Jesus. And the Romans kept records. You will have to get a better source for your info than Hollywood or right wing propaganda.
Morality is social construct combined with biological adaptations for behaviors such as empathy, compassion, altruism, protecting the group and nurturing. There's a reason we see universal patterns in morality cross culturally.
The foundation of Christianity teaches that the "sins" of the "guilty" can be absolved by punishing the innocent.
Or, that all future generations of humanity can be punished for the " sins" of two people in the beginning of humanity.
Where is the morality in these teachings ?
even as a child growing up in parochial school the doctrine never made a bit of sense.
This is a ridiculous statement. Adam and Eve may be taken seriously as historical fact by a minority of Christians, but the majority over-overwhelmingly see it as an allegory pertaining to the fact that humans seem incapable of not doing some level of evil to one another. You can say that it is a myth attempting to explain the source of an observed problem.
And this observed problem has never gone away, and it has never faced serious critique from either the majority of the religious or the non-religious because its kinda obvious. The belief of christians is that God chose a people, the jews, and pounded this fact into them for a few thousand years by giving them every opportunity to prove it wrong, and they failed because they live in this state and cannot escape it. Then God came to earth in a humble human state to show that there is hope of defeating this state of failure.
Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life, he told people that loving one another was more important than some obsure laws about not working on sundays and the like, and when he died, it is believed to have been both for a supernatural cleansing of that terrible condition from humanity, and as a symbolic gesture of the compassion, selflessness, and love that humanity can be capable of if it can only fight the human condition.
once the bible is accepted not to be fully historical fact, at what point would one determine the fiction ends?
I find it amusing to hear Christians go through rhetorical gymnastics to explain how their perfect god changed his mind and had to change his relationship with his creations.
Why did a compassionate and intelligent god have to resort to such a bizarre method for communicating his message?It almost seems a little made up-NO?Let me guess-It's a mystery.
There are 2 different stories about a Lazarus in the New Testament. The least known is my only response to the brilliant minds that seek the destruction of Christianity. Luke 16:19-31. Goggling this will protect genius atheists and brilliant humanist scholars from having to soil their hands by picking up the Bible. " I gave you Abraham, I gave you Moses..."
odd how a god is unable to produce himself without the use of 'pretending'
Absurd drivel!
Life is too short and precious to waste it on hoping fairy tales could be true.
Whatever you do with your short life is worthless. You are just fooling yourself to believe that your accomplishments are worth something. So who is living in the fairy land now?
sorry for your depressing life.. you need to see someone, there are people who can help.
You're a blob of accidental stardust. A bag of chemicals. Who cares what you do?
Exactly... This is the root of the Atheist mindset. If we are all animals, randomly formed over time, what difference does it make whether we accomplish "good" or "evil". Animals kill each other for sport so by your simplistic worldview, what wrong is committed by murder? After all, in the end, its all meaningless as you say . The root of the atheism is individualism i.e. every man (animal) for himself... You can try disguise this fact in anyway you want, but atheism is simply intellectual laziness. Prove to me God does not exist! Prove to me that a realm beyond the natural is absent! If science simply ruled out the possibility of discovery such as the atheist does we would still be living in the stone age.
how sad you are.. But I bet it's the anger of those as you who justify the destruction to others with religious support.
How very sad. You are proof of the effects of fear and being reduced as a sinner.. I can understand why you see life and others as meaningless. Maybe you should go into the terrorist business, you seem to have their motives.
yes,, loving and caring people, atheists included,, are the the reason we have good in this world. In fact religion's foundations evolved with the ideas of these good people.
Too bad religions still don't get it right.
John 3:16
Morality is contingent on social interaction with others.
Dawkins is a biologist. I can argue that police officers are more qualified to talk about morality with greater authority than Dawkins.
He attacks religion/spirituality because he believes there is no God. Instead of going back to the lab and delve into what he is trained to do, Dawkins picks up the athiest standard and launches his own anti religion crusade.
Dawkins champions a cause which, if he's right, his prize is nothing. If he's wrong(which he is), his prize will be far worse.
What he fails to mention or even realize, is that Christianity is exploding in countries whose governments are trying to crush it: China, Iran, Egypt, Mayalsia, N Korea.
The choice is everyone's. if any individual think that the tiny sliver of our Existance and experience is enough to explain away God, then they are in need of a serious dose of humility and true enlightenment.
In the name of Jesus.
Morality is product of biology and culture, it is in the domain of science- Dawkins is a Doctor of Science in biology and a Doctor of Public Understanding of Science. He is well respected by other philosophers and scientists in his field.
religion has caused more deaths than anything else
yeah...like Hitler and Stalin
yes, religions and dictators behave quite similarly.. good point. Both like to control, make up stories and use fears to make you believe their stories..
Except for Hitler,, he was a devout catholic too. More so, christians, catholics especially, hated jews back then. hitler visited the vatican, cut a deal with the pope and pronounced his catholic belief on video and writings to his death.
Ignorance & irrational self interest have killed more no matter what cloak they pretend to wear!
Atheists have killed more people in the 20th century than any religious system. Look at the millions killed by Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the Kims of North Korea. These are your examples of atheists in total power.
An oversimplified statement brought by a pedestrian mind.
More deaths were attributed by wars for gain/politcal differences and the diseases that followed than anything pertaining to crusades or religious fervors.
Since the rise of napolean, the death toll of those directly, or indirectly, tied to conflicts far surpasses any of those for religious differences.
Even in this time of 'enlightenment', thousands are being murdered every week for their political differences, and well as their religious beliefs.
In His Name, Juanito.
Greed has caused more deaths than anything else. And if you look at Chinese sweatshops, not much has changed.
Well, you state the obvious...If God is actually God then, yes...he caused ALL death....But if God is actually God he caused ALL life...so your argument really come down to "it is better to exist or not"...and If God is God then the possibility of life after death make you, logically, say "it is better to exist then not"
As far "religion" causing death..you must define your terms...until about the last century "religion" and the state were really not separate..how much of the crusades and the inquisition was political and how much we religious..anybodies guess. But to have religion own it all is just your way of proving your particular agenda.
I fear death as much as I fear general anesthesia. Who wants to have "eternal life"? Who wants eternal consciousness going on and on forever? Give me the peace of eternal blackness that is death! I think it is a fear of death, and a hope of once again seeing departed loved ones, that compels most religious people into convincing themselves of an afterlife. But really. If our memories, personalities and thoughts can't even survive Alzheimer's, how do you think that brain is going to survive death itself? Where did my 92 year old Grandmother with Alzheimer's consciousness dwell for the 15 years it took her body to die? In some celestial holding pattern? When I had to introduce myself every time I went to see her in the nursing home, where did my Grandma go? When the brain dies you die. All your memories are gone. Deal with it.
But you still went there to introduce yourself to your absent-minded grandmother, time and time again. Her memories live on in you and in the others who survive her. You did this because you had "faith" in her memory and believed in the chance that her mental state would return, if not for just a short time at the least. We might be more than just skin and bones, but then so were the supposed creators. God may have existed, but he or she, is as dead as we shall eventually be. Nothing lives forever. Not even the universe we live in... but does that doesn't mean that our lives are meaningless. Death is the universe's way of forcing us to see how precious every moment of life is. My advice to everyone out there: "Just be happy that you were the sperm who won the race!"
Over simplification.
Religion is not the motive for wars it is an excuse sometimes but not the motive. The Bible is not just a guidebook but a history book. So there are things in the bible that seem horrible but it is showing us history and people's movement through that history. It was growth related helping people look beyond themselves Jesus's teachings went more in depth.
Take the Westboro baptist church. They don't believe in their religion as much as their hatefulness for gays. Religion is a cover but that is all it is. Also religion is not about being perfect but striving for a better way of life.
This guy is over simplifying such a complex issue. It is very tragic. I am not telling you how to believe but at least make the realization things are complicated and find your own way.
its historical fiction
So you are saying that, historically speaking, a pair of 3 toed Sloths walked off Noah's Ark and proceeded to make their way to South America, crossing an ocean and a desert, at a whopping 6.5 FEET per minute...in between 22hr naps? And it is an historical fact that light did not refract through water droplets in the air until AFTER the flood when God made Rainbows as a promise to never again drown everyone?
Brilliant man in that he communicates in a logical and facts based way the fallacy of 'sky people' running the world. Eloquent and humorous speaker. The truth is always refreshing. Although science still has some 'faith' in its theories...until we actually figure out how gravity works...
It isn't that it's wrong to be Christian, but that "mainstream Christianity" has often got it wrong. We can and should rely on scripture as a moral gauge – but never out of context. For those of us who have received solid information, on a personal or public level, from the "other side" there is no denying the reality of a spiritual world beyond our own physical experience. You don't need to have a smart phone to be in God's social network! But to be there, you need a deeper understanding of the message intended to give us that.
Religion has done great harm as predicted by Buddha Gautama . He dealt with the reality of experience...personal, direct experiences of the senses. Senses aren't something to be appeased. They are signals from a conscious process that is the universe. No personality, no anthropomorphism, no faith, no belief...direct and immutable wisdom from experience. But people confuse his teachings with "Buddhism", so they write it off as just another religion. Only one way to find out is to experience it through the method(s) he left behind. Buddha never wanted followers. He wanted people to walk with him side by side to help spread what he has experienced...the release from suffering that is inherent in life. Not with a 'punishment' for non-practice, but as a reward for the diligent.
Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians".
Of course, no good at all was ever done by people of faith. Just harm, harm, harm...
I find it interesting that a lot of these posts talk about a civil society, people working together, commonality, etc.
I'd like to ask these people a question. Do parents teach their children how to lie? Do parents teach their children how to take away toys from their siblings or another child? Do parents show their children how to smack their little brother or sister over the head with a toy?
NO we don't. It is inherent of a sinful nature. I have 4 children and not once did I tell my oldest daughter that it's OK to smack her little sister if she takes her doll away. I never taught my son to lie about not cleaning his room or cheating on a test.
Every civilization has some form of the 10 Commandments. You don't want to believe in God – fine. That is your right. But to bully other who do is abominable. The intolerance is hypocritical. People who keep quoting that "religion is the cause of more wars" does not know their history, and therefore makes them sound like fools. Over 20 million Christians were killed in the 20th century for their faith. Google it – the facts are there.
I am proudly a Christian. I have seen people's lives to a complete 180 after believing in Jesus. I've seen wife beaters become humble men. I've seen drug addicts clean after years in secular rehab that never works. I've seen Christian organizations still in the Gulf Coast 8 years after Hurricane Katrina, helping out when the Red Cross and FEMA left 5 years ago. I see churches feeding the poor, opening day care centers and providing activities to keep youth off the city streets. Say what you will, but Jesus is real and I've seen Him change lives. I also believe the Bible when it says that "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord". Sorry to say, many on here will be doing this in His presence when it's too late, and that is a tragedy.
Well said, and The Lord bless thee!
In His Name, Juanito.
laws to protect people from harm have always been around in civilizations where religion wasn't know. It's good people who created these, just as we watch over religions in this country to keep them on a less destructing path.
Remember, it was good people, atheist included, who do good deeds. It's pretty sad that religions steal the good works of others and claim it as their own.
Truth is, nobody courts them, because many atheists, are REPUGNANT to folks. This isn't because they don't believe in God, that's their right. It's because so many of them are RABIDLY ANTI-RELIGION and spend a lot of their time trying to shove their "non-beliefs" down everyone's throat, with insults and vilification.
I believe in God, but I don't go around constantly disparaging, and insulting Atheists. In fact I truly support their right to believe or not believe whatever they wish. I just wish they'd treat me the same way. Every time I see Bill Maher on TV I'm reminded how insulting atheists can be.
Right on. Atheists judge others for judging others.
Churches, with their roadside billboards, aren't for shoving belief along? And BTW, bring your children, we have classes for them . . .
It is too bad that people think they have to obey a sky fairy in order to be good people. They would rather go by some 2000 year old book, or some dead prophet. People should do good things for the GOOD of it, not because they are afraid of some future hellfire (which does not exist anyway). I hope that someday we can do away with these religions. They aren't helping anyone except the weak, the very weak. They think they can't be good people unless they follow these archaic rules and worship some non existent being. GOOD people don't: lie, cheat, steal, kill, commit adultery etc. You don't have to have a sky fairy telling you not to. You act right because it is the right thing to do.
Oh, and I forgot to mention. The fervor with which many atheist support (or defend) their system of non-belief, indicates, at least to me, that their confidence level is on the SHAKY side . . . "Methinks the lady protesteth too much", if you get my drift.
They are the opposite of Jehovah's Witnesses, who can't seem to stop proselytizing for Jesus, long enough to draw a breath!
That's because while atheists quietly go about their daily business, religious fanatics do anything to get elected into positions of power and then immediately begin to change the laws and rules to suit their imaginary belief system.
Take a quick lesson in history and look what atheists did to the countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe when they gained total power. Go on a trip through the Gulag to find what atheists in power accomplish.
You write like a good bigot.
Some of the worst people I know also constantly claim to be the most religious. I've learned that when they are banging on about their faith, they are shouting about how they want me to behave...not how they themselves behave.
Or, what is more likely, you look for correlations between the "worst" people you know and religion. Just like racist look for crimes committed by blacks to justify their prejudices. Or xenophobes looks for problems created by immigrants.
Why should they court you? You do not have anyone to pray to in order to help them.
Rainbows happen just as much in parts of the World that are overwhelmingly, Muslim, Hindu, Shinto, etc.
So if that "covenant message" can be directly communicated and "heaven sent", why have a bible created in just one place, in one old disused language, needing a bunch of missionaries to take it around over a coupla thousand years?
I've got a better idea.
Why not everyone just shut up about what they believe or don't believe?
Pray in private.
Don't pray in private.
But everyone keep their divisive opinions and name calling to themselves.
But, I guess the lure of the internet stage is too compelling...
great!! and let's get god off our dollar and such. Agreed.
You go bit too far. You would have to shut down every church in the land and quite a few schools. Am an atheist and I don't believe in such radical move.
Yea, good point.
How about just a civil dialogue?
"Oh, you believe such and such? Cool. How about we catch a movie now?"
OK, but can we not let people who believe in magic vote on issues that will effect others?
Would that include you primadonna, that believes a pool of elements was randomly amd magically given life by lightning? You're a joke. Amd You're a rude pig that has no respect for others beliefs.
Whether religion is the basis of our moral compass, and every other question he addressed ... none of it is relevant to the question of the existence of God.
A question based on zero evidence and just about the lowest possible probability versus other explanations.
So who in their right minds would even ask suich a question
Yeah, that's EXACTLY what this country needs: More Godless leaders without fear of consequences. Awesome. Great place to raise my children. F THAT!
As opposed to what, George W. Bush? We have yet to see the real consequences of his foolishness, invading Iraq going against the UN security council, just wait until Russia or China decide to use his actions as a precedent. The UN's only real purpose is to prevent a nuclear war between the powers that be, if it ever fails in that job we all die.
yeah,, instead they need voodoo and witchcraft of chirstianity..
and let's not forget the child abuse cover ups and the leaders who protected themselves first over destroyed children's lives.
Yes,, and in our government with politicians who need catholic votes and suppress the destruction to children's lives. The tell all??? if the catholic church were a national day care center, the pope, bishops and cardinals would be all rotting in jails today.
Religion has no moral compass anymore because it has been mostly taken over by self righteous, sanctimonious hypocrites; that would be our politicians and corrupt leaders. For their own nefarious reasons. Most Americans don't have the intellectual ability to know any better. The U.S. Christian edifice is rotten. I'm glad there are a few people with the guts to speak out the real Truth, like Dawkins. (even though his life could be in danger, from the 'gentle followers of Jesus here in 'mericuh.) I know I'm scared to say much outloud against the hypocrisy here in 'Jesus Land.'
religious acts of 'good' were derived from secular society,, people and that includes atheists.. jesus and the bible writers could never get it right. They should have spent more time with loving and caring families to learn..


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COLUMBIA - President Obama's new plan on gun control brought mixed feelings to Columbia on Wednesday.
The plan includes four main points:
•Closing background check loopholes to keep guns out of dangerous hands
•Banning military-style assault weapons and high capacity magazines; and taking common sense steps to reduce gun violence
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•Increasing access to mental health services
Local gun owners said they agree with two of the four steps, making school safer and increasing access to mental health services. But they do not believe the rest of the plan will help with gun control.
"We don't really see the need for the legislation that we have heard he's proposing," assistant manager at the Black Rifle Mike O'Dell said. He also said there are several gun laws in place, but gun laws do not stop criminals.
"Somebody that's already set to go commit a crime isn't going to care that they're committing another crime by obtaining a gun illegally," O'Dell said.
The language of the plan also concerns gun owners. According to O'Dell, referring to "military-style assault weapons and high capacity magazines" further contributes to people fearing guns and gun usage. He said because of miseducation on guns, a lot of people do not know that military-style assault weapons are not available to regular people. People are only allowed to purchase the approved semi-automatic weapon in stores. O'Dell also said referring to high capacity magazines does not consider the appropriate magazine type for specific guns.
But other Columbia residents said the gun control plan is a good start to addressing a major issue in the community. In Missouri, residents can sell guns to each other as long as they believe the buyer is in "good faith." Tyree Byndom lives in the Douglass Park area of Columbia, and he said the plan is the first step in combating improper gun usage.
"If you have an assault rifle in your car driving around Columbia, there's nothing good that's gonna (going to) come from it," Byndom said.
Gun owners said it is important to encourage proper gun education. They said the current plan does not give people the choice for gun education, and that is not the way to solve gun issues.
President Obama already signed 23 parts of the new law that do not need congressional approval.

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Baytown Christian valedictorian fatally shot in San Antonio traffic stop
A college student from Houston was shot and killed early Friday morning in San Antonio by a University of the Incarnate Word police officer, according to UIW officials.
Robert Cameron Redus, 23, was a student at the school.
The altercation occurred just two blocks from campus while the officer was on duty.Lt. Cindy Pruitt of the Alamo Heights Police Department said at a news conference that the traffic stop occurred when the officer noticed Redus speeding and driving his Ford Ranger pickup erratically.
The UIW officer was in a marked pickup truck.Pruitt said both vehicles drove north on Broadway until they pulled into the parking lot of the Treehouse Apartments at Broadway and Arcadia Place around 2 a.m., at which point they both got out of the vehicles and became involved in a struggle. The officer radioed for help during the struggle and Redus was shot multiple times.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police were investigating whether Redus had a weapon or was threatening the police officer's life, Pruitt said.
"This is really in its preliminary stages," Pruitt said. "This investigation will go on for days."
Redus, who had four brothers, grew up in Baytown, where he graduated as co-valedictorian from Baytown Christian Academy, friends said.
Sara Davis, 20, and her sister Annie Jones, 22, both of Baytown, described Redus as kind, intelligent, compassionate and well-loved within the community.
"He was not an aggressive person at all, so the story doesn't make sense," Davis said.
Family members reached at Redus' Baytown home declined comment Friday morning.
According to UIW, the incident is being investigated by the Alamo Heights Police Department and the Texas Rangers.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the student and officer involved in this incident," said UIW President Dr. Lou Agnese in an UIW statement.
The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave as the investigation continues. Police did not release the identity of the five-year veteran officer, but said the officer is about 35.
Houston Chronicle reporter Craig Hlavaty contributed to this report.


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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Police detained Bahraini human rights campaigner Maryam al-Khawaja after her arrival in the Gulf country on Saturday, her mother said.
Al-Khawaja has dual Bahraini and Danish citizenship. Her mother, Khadija al-Musawi, told The Associated Press that her daughter was refused entry after presenting her Danish passport and a Bahraini identification card, and at one point was surrounded by police.
The activist has said she wanted to visit her jailed father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is on hunger strike to protest his detention.
Lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi told the AP that prosecutors plan to press charges against al-Khawaja that include insulting the king and police. Bahraini authorities had no immediate comment.
The tiny island nation of Bahrain is a Western ally that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. It has faced more than three years of unrest from an opposition movement led by the country's Shiite majority that is seeking greater political rights from the Sunni monarchy.
In July, it ordered U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski to leave the country after he met with a leading Shiite opposition group, leading to a rift with Washington. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki earlier this week cited concerns about the "harassment and imprisonment of persons exercising their rights of freedom of expression" in the country.
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Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow – Cheats
Succubus Glitch
Get up close to a wall. Activate the Succubus soul. Before the animation ends, use a dagger special attack. It needs to be the backstab move. After you do the special, do three normal attacks with the dagger and then do the special again. You will be teleported a few squares forward.
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Worst Ending: During the second battle with Dario Bossi, simply beat Dario.
Bad Ending: During the second battle with Dario Bossi, use the Paranoia soul to enter the mirror. After you beat the new boss, Aguni, go back to the other side of the mirror and get the magic seal. Go to the center of the castle and enter the boss door without Mina's tailsman equipped.
Best Ending: Use the Paranoia soul to fight Aguni, pick up the magic seal, and go back to the center of the castle. When you enter the boss door have Mina's tailsman equipped. You will now get a more extended version of the game and all you have to do is beat it.
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Boss Rush Unlockable Items
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Unlockable How to Unlock Death's Robe Finish Boss Rush Mode under 6 minutes Nunchakus Finish Boss Rush Mode under 7 minutes Potion Finish Boss Rush Mode with any time RPG Finish Boss Rush Mode under 5 minutes Terror Bear Finish Boss Rush Mode under 8 minutes
Chaos Ring
Collect all souls to unlock the chaos ring. It will appear in one of the blue rooms of the abyss. It gives the user extreme MP regeneration (practically infinite) and a stat boost.
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In the left part of subterranian hell, there is a slot machine door, make sure your last 3 digits of your gold are 666, the door will slide back, and you can get the gold ring, making monsters/candle drop more money!
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In the spike maze Tanjelly room in the Clocktower, kneel on the unspiked top area and he will fly towards you.
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To obtain this, go to the left of the Condemned Tower, then down after the Harpy pathway. In this area, there will be a lot of Medusa Heads. If you fall on the right side, you'll find a slot machine with the number "573" on it.
The slot machine will spin to the last three digits of your gold count (if you have 1,945 gold, it'll spin to 945, etc.) If your last three gold digits are "573", then the slot machine will slowly move out of your way.
If you don't have your last digits at "573", go to The Lost Village. All the lampposts you can break, especially the one in Hammer's Shop, are great for collecting money. Blue coins give $1, Bronze give $10, Silver give $50, and Gold give $100. Make sure you know the coin amounts, since the procedure is pretty important.
After you get "573" as the last digits, go back to the slot machine. It'll erode away, and inside will be the Shaman Ring. It increases EXP gain which is pretty useful when you want to level faster.
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In between the Garden and the Chapel is a vertical staircase going down. On the right hand side of the staircase is a golden statue bearing the number 777. In order to get past this statue, the last three digits of your gold amount must be 777. The statue will move, giving you access to a room with the 'Three 7s' clothing, which boosts your Con., Int., and Luck by 7 points each.
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Premier Christy Clark has ordered WorkSafeBC and the Criminal Justice Branch to improve their relationship after receiving an internal review she ordered into the deadly sawmill explosion that did not result in charges.
Clark also appointed an independent adviser, veteran Vancouver lawyer Leonard Doust, to ensure review recommendations are implemented and to add others if needed. Recommendations include improved communication, training, legal advice during investigations, and regular information meetings.
Family of the victims and the union representing workers at the mill in Burns Lake in northern B.C. dismissed the findings of the review, and reiterated a call for an independent inquiry.
The premier said Thursday there will be no inquiry.
Clark took exception with WorkSafeBC's handling of its investigation into the Babine Forest Products explosion on Jan. 20, 2012. The wood dust-fueled explosion killed Robert Luggi Jr., 45, and Carl Charlie, 42, and injured another 20 workers.
"I am deeply disappointed with how WorkSafe conducted this investigation," Clark told reporters at a news conference on Thursday. "WorkSafeBC should have known what was required by the criminal justice branch in order to proceed with a case to court."
In a half-page statement issued on its website, WorkSafeBC said it would be "working quickly" toward implementing recommendations from the review.
Criminal Justice Branch spokesman Neil MacKenzie said the office supports building an "enhanced" relationship with WorkSafeBC and will also implement recommendations.
The review conducted by Clark's deputy minister, John Dyble, concluded that WorkSafeBC paid "insufficient attention" to important legal precedents regarding the legitimate gathering of evidence for prosecutions, even though the Criminal Justice Branch had previously shared its concerns on the issue. A key ruling on regulatory investigations was handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2002.
Clark and Labour Minister Shirley Bond met with WorkSafeBC chair George Morfitt on Thursday morning to instruct the agency to carry out all the review's recommendations.
Asked if there would be discipline meted out to WorkSafeBC officials, Clark said she didn't know yet, but all options remain open.
The premier said she has faith in Morfitt, a former provincial auditor general, to carry out the job she has asked of him.
In announcing its decision on Jan. 10 that no charges would be laid in the Babine case, the Crown said some evidence would likely not be admissible in court because WorkSafeBC investigators had not used search warrants or warned those they interviewed of their Charter rights to remain silent. The Crown also noted the mill owners would likely have had a good argument of due diligence.
WorkSafeBC responded that it had conducted its investigation in a similar fashion for two decades, a system that had netted both charges and convictions in court.
But Dyble's 16-page report said that WorkSafeBC was made aware of the need to consider how it gathered evidence, including in 2010 in the deadly Langley mushroom farm case.
But Dyble noted it is clear there were different views between WorkSafeBC and the Criminal Justice Branch on the interpretation of the legal precedents, and that those issues were not resolved before the Babine investigation.
Dyble also noted that WorkSafeBC had not contacted the Criminal Justice Branch for legal advice or consultation until after the investigation into the Babine explosion was complete. Discussion that began in March 2013 could not change how WorkSafeBC investigators had seized evidence or conducted interviews, said Dyble's report.
The families of victims have already called for an independent review.
"Once again, our government failed our working people, namely our families who lost loved ones. I have no faith in our justice system or our government," said Lucy Campbell, Charlie's sister.
The union representing workers at the Babine sawmill say an inquiry is needed because there is a much wider problem in how investigations are conducted that include the police and other safety agencies.
"This is really the premier doing damaging control," said United Steelworkers western director Steve Hunt.
NDP Labour critic Harry Bains said an independent inquiry is needed to "dig deep" into the Babine investigation, saying the government can't investigate itself.
"Right now, no one trusts what's coming out of the premier's office," said Bains.


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500g Oval Lined Wicker Banneton
Bannetons, brotforms or proving baskets are used to support the dough while it rises (proves) to give it improved structure and crust pattern, just before it goes into the oven to bake.
These wicker bannetons come complete with an attractive, removable and hand-washable, linen liner. They need only to be dusted in flour (rye is best) to prevent the dough from sticking. Between use, they should be stacked in a clean and dry place.
Find out more about choosing, using and caring for wicker bannetons on our blog.
Just before the risen dough goes into the oven, it is tipped out of the banneton for baking and it is usual for a pattern to be cut into it for improved crust and enhanced appearance using a tool called a grignette (a handled lame or blade).
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Just because you're in between Alpine treks doesn't mean you can't enjoy the scent of the wild. Inspired by the forest, this masculine fragrance (from the famed makers of the Swiss Army knife) is equal parts woodsy and refreshing. The ruggedly elegant bottle has a base and cap made from wood milled in the Swiss valley of Schwyz.
Reviewing something like this is tough as everyone has different opinions what smells good. I can tell you that i, along with my lady, love this. A little goes a long way which is excellent as it makes it last longer than i expected. I have actually gotten compliments on this from others as well. The monthly birchbox is what helped me discover this, if it wasnt for that i probably would never had bought this.5


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Made these cookies
with these cute little morsels…
Thanks mom for finding these swirled cuties.
i think these little cookies look soooo good! The chocolate chips are so cute. I can't wait to make them and my mom can help me! {my 8 year old daughter wrote this comment and is excited to read your blog}
Hi Rochelle's 8 year old daughter! I hope you enjoy the cookies. You may have to wait until the holidays to find these little chips though!
I just bought two bags of these chips, cant wait to bake with them.
thanks for sharing your ideas
You're welcome!
Bakerella, where do you buy these cool swirly chips?? I need some. Thank you for your awesome cake pops. And I'm baking mini cherry pies even as I type this.
Meg – They are a seasonal item. Check back in stores around the holidays.
Are they minty?
Alia – nope. Just pretty.
Can I have the recipe? They look fantastic!
U r so creative..
good jop..
Very nice idea and easy!
Ditto Deanna! I guess you didn't have recipes on here a few years ago? These look yummy!
hi! could i have the recipe for this? it looks great! =)
oh those look deelish! they remind me of how the grinch stole christmas. I'm glad they're not minty. I tend to use mint around the holidays and also around st. patricks day (for the green) and its a 'turn-off' for most people
I must have this recipe Bakerella PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!! I loveee how they look SUPER DELISH!! As for everything else on this site!! Thanks for sharing the great idea. I would love to make these with my four year old daughter. She loves to bake!! Thanks and I hope you can give us the "SECRET" recipe!!!!
What are these cute little candies called? I want to go searching for them! :)
this is so stupid i wish they were minty i hate this :(
im so sorry i just freaked out on you like that pleases forgive me god bless and good day im just mad because my whole day has gone horribly i broke my bike riding it to school and i just cant take it anymore i want to be in a better mood so please forgive me i feel terrible because you are not doing anything to me that deserves to be critiqued so god bless and good day:)
how did you come up with ur name its so cute love it.
also im looking at u right now haha
just kidding i cant see you i dont even know where you are located and ifi i did which i dont i would keep it secret but trust me i dont because i am only a kid so haha
got u such a great prank
dont you agree jaimie
yes inner voice in my head there again another joke:)
really it just a joke
Those look exactly like those Toll House holiday cookies. SO GOOD!!!
i love these but not as much as i love you
Bakerella, you RULE !!
awesome! how can I make beautiful chocolate chips?
How come I cannot find this recipe? User error perhaps…:)
Where is the recipe when you click on picture nothing is there. Please post again would like to make these cookies!


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Police: Shoplifter causes fatal wreck after fleeing Walmart with Hello Kitty purse
A woman ran a red light after shoplifting a Hello Kitty purse and a few other small items from a Pasadena Walmart early Sunday morning, killing a 50-year-old mother and injuring a teenage girl.
A security guard at the Walmart in the 5200 block of Fairmont Parkway tried to stop the woman around 1 a.m. as she left with the unpaid merchandise, thought to be worth less than $50, according to Vance Mitchell, spokesman for the Pasadena Police Department.
The woman pushed the security guard to the ground and fled in a pickup truck. She headed eastbound on Fairmont Parkway, running a red light at Nations and T-boning a car headed through the intersection.
The driver, Anita Benton of Baytown, was killed instantly, Mitchell said. Her teenage daughter, either 13 or 14, was taken by Life Flight to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Mitchell said.
The shoplifter was taken to the hospital and will face criminal charges in the next few days, Mitchell said.
"It's senseless for a mother to lose her life over less than $50 worth of merchandise for shoplifting," he said. "It's a very tragic incident."


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To view the 2011 U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team Yearbook, click here.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 10, 2012) – U.S. Men's National Team Head Coach Alan Knipe was honored April 4 during a match between the men's volleyball teams from Orange Coast College and Golden West College that was played at Orange Coast.
Knipe played at Orange Coast College and served as a head coach for Golden West.
"Both of these programs mean a lot to me, so this is a tough match to watch," Knipe said to the large Peterson Gym crowd during a special in-match ceremony.
Orange Coast won the match, 25-22, 25-22, 25-17.
Fans will have several opportunities to see the U.S. Men in action this summer.
It all begins on April 27 and 29 when the U.S Men will play Argentina in two exhibition matches at JSerra High School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Both teams will be preparing for their zonal Olympic qualification tournaments.
Tickets will be available at the door or online at jserravball.eventbrite.com.
On May 7-12, USA Volleyball will host the NORCECA Men's Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament, which will be played at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif. The winner of this tournament will qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
All tickets are now on sale. For more information, click here.
Finally, on June 29-July 1, the U.S. Men's Team will host Italy, France and Korea for the FIVB World League at the Dallas Convention Center in Texas. Tickets are now on sale. For more information, click here.
The U.S. Men's Indoor National Volleyball Team trains at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif., Official Host City of the U.S. Men's and Women's National Teams. Practices re free and open to the public. Visitors are asked to contact Gary Moy or Gary Mathews to make arrangements.
U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and the Russian Super League team Dinamo Moscow won the CEV Cup, defeating visiting Asseco Resovia Rzeszów, the Polish PlusLiga team of U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) in the second of two final matches, 28-30, 25-22, 26-24, 24-26, 15-9.
Lee finished the final match with 13 points on six kills and a match-high seven blocks. Lotman started the first three sets and scored six points on four attacks and two blocks.
To view photos from the match, click here.
As predicted, Lee and Dinamo Moscow will meet U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) and his Russian Super League Zenit Kazan in the finals of the Super League playoffs, which begin April 12.
Lee and Moscow won their best-of-five semifinal playoff 3-1 over Iskra Odincovo.
In the final match on April 5, host Moscow won 25-23, 25-21, 25-18. Lee scored six points on three kills, two blocks and one ace.
Priddy and Kazan won their best-of-five semifinals series against Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, 3-0.
Visiting Kazan won the final match on April 1, 25-19, 20-25, 25-17, 20-25, 15-8. Priddy started the first two sets and scored six points on six attacks. To view photos from the match, click here.
In the semifinals of the fifth-through-eighth playoff, U.S. setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Ural Ufa needed five matches to defeat Gazprom Surgut and advance to the fifth-place playoff.
In the final match on April 8, host Ural beat Surgut, 21-25, 25-14, 25-22, 14-25, 15-13. Ball scored one point with an attack and set his team to a 49.0 kill percent and a .418 hitting efficiency.
Ural will begin the fifth-place playoff on April 12 against Dinamo Krasnodar.
The Italian Serie A league regular season ended with matches on April 1 with 12 of the 14 teams advancing to the playoffs.
Fidia Padova, which included U.S. middle blocker Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.) for its last two matches, finished in 13th place while CMC Ravenna, which included U.S. middle blocker Theo Brunner (Ridgefield, Conn.), placed 14th. The two teams will play in the A2 league next season.
The remaining 12 teams were separated into four pools of three for the playoffs, with the four pool winners advancing to the semifinals.
Andreoli Latina, which finished the regular season in ninth place, is the only team with a U.S. player to advance to the semifinals. U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) is on the team.
On April 7, Latina defeated U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) and Sisley Belluno, 28-26, 25-23, 25-21. Belluno finished the regular season in fourth place in the league.
Troy played as a substitute for Latina and scored one point on an ace. Suxho started all three sets and scored two points on one kill and one block. He set the team to a 45.0 kill percent and a .363 hitting efficiency.
On April 9, Latina beat U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) and Casa Modena, 19-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-23. Modena finished the regular season in fifth place.
Troy started the final two sets for Latina and scored eight points on seven attacks (53.8 kill percent, .538 hitting efficiency) and one ace. Anderson led Modena with 19 points on 16 attacks (61.5 kill percent, .577 hitting efficiency) and three aces.
Latina will begin the semifinal series on April 12 against Itas Diatec Trentino, the team that won the regular season.
U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and his French league team Tours, which won the league in the regular season, has advanced to the semifinals of the league playoffs, where it will play Nantes Rezé beginning on April 11.
Tours won its best-of-three quarterfinal playoff series against Paris, 2-0. In the second match on April 7, Tours won 25-21, 25-17, 21-15, 26-24. Smith scored nine points on seven kills and two blocks.
U.S. outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) and Cannes fell to Nantes Rezé, 2-1. In an April 7 victory, Tarr scored 11 points on 10 kills and one block as Cannes won, 23-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-21.
Tourcoing, the French league team that includes U.S. setter Jonathan Winder (Irvine, Calif.) and outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.), fell to Poitiers in the playoffs, 2-1.
Jablonsky was not able to play in the series due to injury. Winder started every match at setter, including a 28-26, 23-25, 27-29, 25-17, 15-9 victory in the first match of the series on April 3. Winder scored five points, including an ace, and set the team to a 61.4 kill percent.
The German league team Berlin Recycling Volleys, including U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii), defeated U.S. middle blocker Matt Denmark (Edmond, Okla.) and VfB Friedrichshafen in the playoff semifinals 3-1 and are playing Generali Haching in the league finals.
In the final match of the semifinal round on April 1, Berlin defeated Friedrichshafen, 17-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-22.
Touzinsky started the entire match despite suffering an injury in the previous playoff contest and score four points on four kills. Shoji also started the entire match and scored four points on two kills and two blocks while setting the team to a 49.5 kill percent and a .468 hitting efficiency. Denmark started the entire match for Friedrichshafen and scored 10 points on five attacks, four blocks and one ace.
Berlin played its first match of the final on April 7 and lost to host Generali Haching, 25-17, 25-19, 29-27. Touzinsky finished with five points on four attacks and one ace. Shoji scored three points on one kill, one block and one ace. Shoji set the team to a 42.3 kill percent and a .333 hitting efficiency.
Berlin came back at home on April 10 to defeat Haching, 25-16, 25-13, 25-23. Touzinsky started all three sets and scored one point on one attack. Shoji did not play. The next match will be April 14.
U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) and Asseco Resovia Rzeszów have a 2-1 lead over ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle in the semifinals of the Polish Plus Liga playoffs.
In the third match on April 10, host Resovia Rzeszów won 25-23, 27-29, 23-25, 25-15, 15-13. Lotman started every set but the third and scored 13 points on 13 attacks (56.5 kill percent, .522 hitting efficiency). He was also credited with 22 receptions, 64 percent positive. The next match will be played April 11 in Resovia Rzeszów.
U.S. middle blockerRussell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Jastrzębski Węgiel are done with their season after falling to PGE Skra Bełchatów, 3-0 in the playoff semifinals.
In the final match on April 10, host Jastrzębski Węgiel fell 23-25, 25-19, 21-15, 28-26, 15-12. Holmes finished with eight points on five kills, two blocks and one ace.
To view photo galleries from Plus Liga matches, click here.
U.S. outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and his Spanish league team Unicaja Almeria have advanced to the finals of the Spanish league playoffs after defeating Ciudad del Medio Ambiente Soria in a deciding semifinal match on March 31.
In the deciding match, Menzel and Almeria defeated Ciudad del Medio Ambiente Soria, 25-22, 20-25, 25-23, 25-22. Menzel finished with 18 points on a match-high 17 attacks (60.7 kill percent, .536 hitting efficiency) and one ace.
Almeria is facing Caja 3 Voleibol Teruel, which includes U.S. outside hitter Matt Webber (Brentwood, Calif.) in the best-of-five final round. Teruel has won the first two matches at home.
On April 7, Teruel defeated Almeria, 25-22, 26-24, 25-21. Webber led all scorers with 24 points on 21 kills and three blocks. Menzel scored 15 points on 14 attacks (.519 kill percent, .481 hitting efficiency) and one block.
To view photos, click here.
On April 8, Teruel beat Almeria, 30-28, 25-20, 25-19. Webber scored 11 points on nine attacks and two aces. Menzel finished with seven points on seven attacks (46.7 kill percent, .467 hitting efficiency).
To view photos, click here.
The next match will be April 14 in Almeria.
U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Arkas Spor along with U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Istanbul B.B. will participate in an eight-team playoff with two pools of four teams.
Arkas Spor will play Istanbul B.B. on April 16 and then play the other two pool teams on April 17 and 18. Pool winners will advance to the semifinals on April 20.


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[tp no_translate="y"]TAUS Asia Translation Summit 2012[/tp] was organized by [tp no_translate="y"]Translation Automation User Society (TAUS)[/tp] in cooperation with [tp no_translate="y"]China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID)[/tp] and [tp no_translate="y"]Translators Association of China (TAC)[/tp]. 80+ attendees from both product companies such as Adobe, Baidu, EMC, Google and Microsoft and LSPs participated in the summit held in Beijing on April 24 – 25, 2012, as well as the complimentary half day event [tp no_translate="y"]TAUS Open Source Machine Translation Showcase[/tp] held in the same venue on April 23. The summit provides attendees an excellent platform to share knowledge and experience in MT domain.
I was invited by TAUS to give audience an introduction of what Adobe has done on open source MT. In my presentation, I shared how Adobe makes use of the open source MT tool [tp no_translate="y"]Moses[/tp] in its localization workflow. We developed a set of tools called [tp no_translate="y"]Moses Tool Set[/tp] to simplify the usage of Moses. By using this tool, the training process of Moses can be done in an easier and intuitive way. It consists of 4 features: [tp no_translate="y"]Corpus Clean Tool, Corpus Splitting Tool, Moses Training Harness[/tp], and [tp no_translate="y"]Moses Scoring Harness[/tp]. Each feature can not only work independently but be combined into a job which enables users to complete the whole training process in one click.
Many audience especially those from LSPs that just started their adventure of open source MT showed strong interest on the Moses Tool Set. It's happy to see that seeking for ways to improve localization productivity is no more the responsibility only for the language service buyers. Some LSPs have also started their attempts in MT field. [tp no_translate="y"]Moses[/tp] is a good option for them because of its lower entrance cost. In the offline discussion, however, I got a lot of complaints from these potential Moses users about usage of Moses. For those who don't dive deeply into statistical machine translation, Moses is too complicated to start with. Many parameters are required to generate a trained MT engine. Lack of a friendly user interface is another headache for them. No wonder the very first thing audience eager to know is where they can find and download [tp no_translate="y"]Moses Tool Set[/tp].
Actually, [tp no_translate="y"]Moses Tool Set[/tp] is an open source project. Both its installer packages and source codes are available in Google Code.


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The American Legion – January 12, 2010
Minnesota Legion family members are requesting help in rounding up global positioning system units to donate to U.S. servicemembers deployed to the Middle East.
The American Legion, Auxiliary and other organizations have been buying and donating Lowrance iFINDER GPS units to U.S. servicemembers; through Operation Waypoint, the St. Augusta American Legion Post and Auxiliary Unit 621 have given away over 200 of these units to date. But with new technology, Lowrance has improved its handheld GPS units, so the sale and distribution of iFINDERs has been discontinued. The company's new handheld Endura does not have the chip developed for navigation in the Middle East at this time.
With the deployment of 30,000 U.S. troops in the next few months, Operation Waypoint is asking that anyone with a Lowrance iFINDER, H2O, Hunt, Expedition or Pro GPS unit in working condition consider donating them to the troops. The GPS units can be dropped off at any American Legion post or Gander Mountain store. The donor will receive a note of appreciation from the American Legion Auxiliary, with a statement of donation value for tax purposes.
Those donating GPS units (Lowrance only) need to provide their name, address and phone number. The GPS units, along with the personal information, should be shipped to the St. Cloud Gander Mountain store. Store employees will inspect the units and then load the Middle East details on a chip before shipping the units and chips to the deploying troops.


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PAS DE CALAIS, France - Relatives of two British soldiers killed during World War I have attended a moving service for their uncle and great uncle who served in the 23rd (County of London) Battalion, and a third unknown soldier who served in the same regiment, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Hermie Hills British Cemetary in Pas De Calais, in France.
Margot Bains, the niece of Private Henry Wallington, together with Paul and Chris Mead, great nephews of Private Frank Mead attended the service which was conducted by the Reverend Martin Wainwright CF, reserve Chaplain to the 4th Battalion, The Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, whose current serving members formed the bearer parties for their three former comrades.
The Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), also known as the 'MOD War Detectives' organised the commemoration and funeral with full military honours, after they successfully identified Pte's Wallington and Mead and traced their surviving relatives.
"It has been a very moving ceremony and a great honour to name these two men and it has been fantastic to see the families here too," Nicola Nash, who led the work to identify the soldiers said. "We will continue with our research to name the third soldier."
Research shows that Pte Wallington and Pte Mead were killed on 3 December 1917, during the Battle of Cambrai, the battle which marked the first large scale use of tanks. The only artefact found with these men that gave a clue to their identity was a single 23rd (County of London) Battalion shoulder title.
After painstaking historical research, the JCCC narrowed the candidates down to 9 possible names and used genealogy to trace surviving members for DNA analysis to be conducted.
Two DNA samples returned positive results, identifying Henry Wallington and Frank Mead. Although the third soldier was found with the other men, all other DNA tests have come back negative, but the JCCC says it will continue investigating in the hope a future identification for him can still be made.
"We have never been to a military funeral before. It was beautifully done with military precision and it was so moving and to see the French people here too," Margot Bains, niece of Pte Wallington said.
Chris Mead, great nephew of Pte Mead said: "I am absolutely amazed the time and the trouble the MOD JCCC, the soldiers, everybody involved have gone to has been fantastic. We couldn't have asked for any more. It has been emotional."
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission have now provided three new headstones at the Hermies Hill British Cemetery bearing the names of Pte Wallington, Pte Mead and the Unknown Soldier of the 23rd (County of London) Battalion.
"It was a great honour to recover these 3 casualties from the battlefield when they were discovered near Anneux in 2016. It is a privilege to be here today to see them laid to rest in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Hermies Hill British Cemetery alongside their comrades from the 23rd Battalion, London Regiment. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission will proudly mark and care for their graves, together with all of those who served and fell, in perpetuity," Paul Bird, the Commission's Recovery Officer said.