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Adan Salazar
January 30, 2013
A young man who visited Virginia's Richmond International Airport and presented an abridged version of the Fourth Amendment on his shirtless chest can sue the TSA for violating his First Amendment right to free speech, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
After being detained and questioned at the airport for over an hour, Aaron Tobey put forth a civil rights lawsuit against a host of defendants seeking $250,000 in damages.
Tobey approached the Richmond airport terminal in December 2010 and opted out of the radiation-firing nude body scanner; instead, he chose the enhanced pat down where he stripped down to his shorts and staged a silent protest via his body.
What Mr. Tobey had written on his body is likely what incited consternation among the screeners. On his chest and gut, Mr. Tobey had inscribed in black marker the words, "Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated."
Circuit Judge Roger Gregory, in his majority opinion, offered a more precise version of events:
In anticipation that he might be subjected to enhanced
screening, Mr. Tobey had written the text of the Fourth
Amendment on his chest as he believed AIT scanning was
unconstitutional. Before proceeding through the AIT unit, Mr.
Tobey calmly placed his sweatpants and t-shirt on the conveyor
belt, leaving him in running shorts and socks, revealing
the text of the Fourth Amendment written on his chest. Agent
Smith advised Mr. Tobey he need not remove his clothes. Mr.
Tobey calmly responded that he wished to express his view
that TSA's enhanced screening procedures were unconstitutional.
At this point, Agent Smith radioed for assistance. As commanded
by her supervisor, Appellant-Agent Jones, Agent
Smith ordered Mr. Tobey to remain in front of the AIT unit.
Agent Jones and unknown Appellant-Agent Doe then asked
RIC police for assistance. At no point did Mr. Tobey refuse
to undergo the enhanced screening procedures. Nor did he
decline to do anything requested of him. In fact, Mr. Tobey
alleges that he "remained quiet, composed, polite, cooperative
and complied with the requests of agents and officers.
The lawsuit claims that Tobey, "in the exercise of his rights to Free Speech and to petition the United States government for the redress of grievances, was arrested without probable cause, falsely imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted for the partial removal of his clothing and display of the text of the Fourth Amendment on his chest…"
The TSA had originally moved to dismiss Tobey's lawsuit claiming that his "bizarre behavior gave rise to further police inquiry" and provided a reasonable basis for detention; however, they weren't able to dismiss the claim that his First Amendment had indeed been violated, a complaint that was validated by the Circuit Court of Appeals.
Aaron's father, Robert Tobey, reportedly says he's proud of his son and argues there was nothing bizarre about Aaron's behavior whatsoever: "Bizarre behavior in an airport to me is someone jumping up and down you know causing a ruckus. This was just the opposite."
Wired.com noted, "In sending the case to trial, unless there's a settlement, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 and reversed a lower court judge and invoked Benjamin Franklin in the process," referring to Judge Gregory's published opinion where he stated:
While it is tempting to hold that First Amendment rights should acquiesce to national security in this instance, our Forefather Benjamin Franklin warned against such a temptation by opining that those "who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." We take heed of his warning and are therefore unwilling to relinquish our First Amendment protections—even in an airport.
Wired further noted that TSA had questioned Tobey "about his affiliation with, or knowledge of, any terrorist organizations, if he had been asked to do what he did by any third party, and what his intentions and goals were," a disturbing detail that will not come as a shock to a majority of Infowars readers.
According to Newsplex.com, "The circuit court's opinion will either be appealed by the government to the entire Fourth Circuit or it will be ordered back to the U.S. District Court."
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10 Year Milestone for PREP Program at Tufts
October 29, 2009
By Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP student and PREP-AIRED blog moderator
The Pain Research, Education and Policy Program at Tufts University has reached an important milestone by celebrating its first ten years of existence. In the Fall of 1999, the first two students were welcomed into the new master's program, the first of its kind in the United States, founded by two prominent pain specialists, Daniel Carr, MD, an anthesthesiologist-internist, and sociologist Kathryn Lasch, PhD; and housed within the Tufts University School of Medicine. Recent MS-PREP alumna, Xu Cheng, discovered an archive edition of the Tufts Daily announcing the MS-PREP program's launch on October 26, 1999.
Click here to view the Tufts Daily 1999 article
In 2009, the PREP program remains an innovative, multidisciplinary program that has grown and evolved since its launch a decade ago. As one of the foremost experts in the field of pain management, Dr. Daniel Carr continues to be a guiding presence in the growth and direction of the Pain Research Education and Policy program. On the occasion of the 10 year anniversary of the program, I asked Dr. Carr to share his reflections about the PREP program with the PREP-AIRED blog community. Dr. Carr's remarks appear in the italicized text below:
"Ten years ago, a front page article in the Tufts Daily announced the launch of a new Masters of Science degree program in Pain Research, Education and Policy ("MSPREP"). Kathryn Lasch PhD, a medical sociologist now with an international outcomes research consultancy, and I were its co-founders. The inaugural class had 2 students. Shahnaz Turkistani, a physician, returned to her native Saudi Arabia after graduation and now treats women with pain. Ewan McNicol, a Tufts-based pharmacist now on the PREP faculty, is known internationally for systematic reviews of pain therapies with the Cochrane Collaboration and others.
The first of its kind in the United States, our program remains unique and has grown slowly and steadily since 1999. We now offer a shorter, certificate track in addition to the original MS track. We owe much to the Sackler family, whose initial and ongoing support has been indispensable, the Hermanson family for funding scholarships, and the Saltonstall family for supporting pain research in the Department of Anesthesia at Tufts Medical Center, the source of many PREP faculty. Jeanne Connolly-Horrigan combined a marketing background and passion for pain control to help us grow enrollment during the mid-2000s. Richard Glickman-Simon MD, now its Director, brought a career-long interest in complementary and alternative medicine and built a successful dual degree program between PREP and the New England School of Acupuncture.
Our faculty have taught students, treated patients, advised policymakers and professional organizations, and authored many articles and books. Our next book is a guide to pain treatment for busy clinicians practicing in the current era of health care reform. The editors of this volume are Ewan McNicol MSPREP, Carol Curtiss MSN RN BC, a distinguished nurse educator and PREP faculty member, and me; other contributors include Richard Glickman-Simon MD, Libby Bradshaw DO, MS, PREP's Associate Director, and Steven Scrivani DDS PhD, another valued faculty member. We 6 faculty comprise PREP's Steering Committee. Given pain's burden upon public health, it is most appropriate that PREP is housed within the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, capably led by Dean Harris Berman and more recently, Dean Aviva Must.
For me, the best thing about the first 10 years of PREP has been seeing our students succeed as they extend and enhance their careers, helping those with pain and becoming educational resources for their new colleagues. Students have come to PREP from across the US and from many countries, with diverse healthcare and non-healthcare backgrounds, and from other graduate programs at Tufts and affiliates. They have been MDs, RNs, DDSs, pharmacists, PTs, OTs, EMTs and others interested in pain, whether making a mid-career change from another field or beginning their graduate training immediately after college. One is the principal pain nurse educator in a large urban medical center. Another works with a world-famous outcomes research consultancy, on pain. Yet another accepted a high-profile advocacy position at a major pharmaceutical company. Another works in a hospice. Others have proceeded to medical or osteopathic school or to seek a PhD.
Our students are a very special group of altruistic people. We are proud of all they have achieved. We look forward to serving more and more students as society at large and the health professions increasingly understand how fundamentally important pain control is for quality of life, and accept pain control as a basic human right."
Thank you to Dr. Carr and the PREP faculty for their vision and passion in the field of pain control, may the PREP program continue to blaze the trail for many years to come.
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Can anyone suggest me good universities to do my pg in medical course?
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Good to see programs that produce quality students. The profession needs more experienced hands..
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[Update] Video Game Makers, The NRA, And The Vice President Planning To Meet
Update: Until now, it wasn't clear who would be representing the video game industry in a series of meetings being conducted by Vice President Joe Biden's task force on gun violence. We now have confirmation that Entertainment Software Association CEO Michael Gallagher will be attending the summit to represent the video game industry.
We emailed the ESA's vice president of media relations Dan Hewitt about whether or not the ESA would be appearing at the series of meetings and received the following response:
"Just confirming that, yes, Mike Gallagher, CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, will be participating in tomorrow's meeting."
[Original Story]
After the recent shooting in Connecticut, gun control has become a volatile issue and many fingers have been pointed towards video games and other similarly violent media. President Obama has created a task force to discuss the issue and it involves the Vice President Joe Biden, the NRA, and video game makers, along with a number of other groups and representatives.
It's unclear who exactly will be representing the world of video games during these meetings, but they are planning to begin the discussion next next week. The task force is gathering in an effort to come up with a ideas and hopefully a solution to help end or at the very least curb gun violence in the United States.
Reuters is reporting the story and said, "Biden's task force is examining legislation that would ban assault rifles, but is also looking at the role of violent movies and videogames in mass shootings and whether there is adequate access to mental health services."
On December 21, the National Rifle Association held a press conference where it specifically called out video games for being a contributing factor to the violence seen in America.
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Bowlus 1-S-2100 Senior Albatross "Falcon"
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- Manufacturer
- Bowlus-Dupont Sailplane Company
- Physical Description
- Monoplane glider with strut-braced, gull-type wing mounted high on monocoque fuselage; wooden construction with steel and aluminum fittings and controls; fuselage and wing leading edge covered with mahogany plywood. Fuselage skin applied over laminated Spruce bulkheads. Landing gear consists of single-wheel and .... [size?] tire mounted beneath forward fuselage, spring-steel tail skid beneath rudder.
- Cockpit covered with hood made from laminated Spruce bulkheads and covered with Mahogany plywood. Circular openings cut into hood on either side of pilot's head. Instrumentation: altimeter, airspeed, variometer plus a bank-and-turn indicator powered by low-speed venturi tube installed on retractable mount beneath right wingroot.
- Areas aft of wing spar and all control surfaces covered with glider cloth. Cloth is doped directly onto ribs and plywood skin without stitching for smooth finish. Constant-chord wing from fuselage to mid-span, tapered profile from mid-span to wingtip; constant-chord,
- split-trailing edge flaps and high-aspect ratio ailerons. A Gö 549 airfoil is used at the wing root, becoming symmetrical at the tip.
- All-flying elevator mounted on duraluminum torque-tube, rudder hinged to box-beam post, both surfaces built up from Spruce and covered with glider cloth.
- Summary
- Hawley Bowlus developed the Senior Albatross series from a design he called the Bowlus Super Sailplane. In Germany, designers and pilots led the world in the building and flying of high-performance gliders, and Bowlus was strongly influenced by their work. He and German glider pioneer, Martin Schempp, taught courses in aircraft design and construction at the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute in Glendale, California. The two instructors led a group of students that built the Super Sailplane in 1932. The Super' served as a prototype for the Senior Albatross.
- In May 1934, Warren E. Eaton acquired the Senior Albatross now preserved at NASM from Hawley Bowlus. Eaton joined the U. S. Army Air Service and flew SPAD XIII fighters (see NASM collection) in the 103rd Aero Squadron, 3rd Pursuit Group, at Issoudon, France, from August 27, 1918, to the Armistice. He was credited with downing one enemy aircraft in aerial combat. After the war, Eaton founded the Soaring Society of America and became that organization's first president.
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- Long before he designed and built the Bowlus-du Pont "Falcon," William Hawley Bowlus had contributed to aviation history. In 1926, T. Claude Ryan hired him as factory manager at the Ryan Airlines, Inc., at San Diego, California. Late in February 1927, Bowlus and twenty Ryan workmen, supervised by chief engineer Donald A. Hall and Charles A. Lindbergh, built a long-range monoplane based on the Ryan M-2. Lindbergh christened the modified M-2 the "Spirit of St. Louis." It is said that Bowlus suggested several design features that Lindbergh approved and incorporated in the finished airplane. Bowlus renewed his friendship with Lindbergh late in 1929. He taught the ocean flyer and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to fly sailplanes and in January 1930, both Charles and Anne completed their first solo glider flights.
- Hawley Bowlus developed the Senior Albatross series from a design that he called the Bowlus Super Sailplane. In Germany, designers and pilots led the world in building and flying high-performance gliders and Bowlus was strongly influenced by their work. He and German glider pioneer Martin Schempp taught courses in aircraft design and construction at the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute in Glendale, California. The two instructors led a group of students who built the Super Sailplane in 1932. The wing of the Super was nearly a copy of the wing used on the German "Wein" sailplane designed and flown with great success in 1930 and 1931 by Robert Kronfeld. Both the Super Sailplane and the Senior Albatross employed the same Goettingen 549 wing airfoil and even the tips of the control surfaces curved to almost identical contours. When Bowlus built the Senior Albatross series, the cockpit enclosure closely resembled another record-setting and influential German sailplane called the "Fafnir" and designed by Alexander Lippisch specifically for pilot Gunther Groenhoff.
- Richard C. du Pont was also an important character in the history of the Senior Albatross. By the time he finished high school, this heir to the Delaware-based chemical empire could fly gliders with some skill. During his first year at the University of Virginia, he founded a campus soaring club. His passion for motor-less flight drew him farther away from traditional academics and in 1932, he transferred to the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute. Mr. du Pont was probably among the students who built the Super Albatross.
- In 1933, du Pont teamed with Hawley Bowlus and the two men set up shop in San Fernando, California, to build gliders. Bowlus furnished the design expertise and performed much of the construction while du Pont supplied enthusiasm, financing, and additional labor. The Bowlus-DuPont Sailplane Company became an official entity in 1934, not in California but in Delaware. The firm folded in September 1936 but during its short life, the small factory built four examples of the Senior Albatross. No two were constructed exactly alike. All four sailplanes did have 'gull' wings (each wing was bent down slightly at about mid-span) and this feature differentiates these airplanes from the prototype Super Sailplane. Bowlus fitted two with wing flaps, rather than spoilers, for better speed and altitude control during landing. Mahogany plywood skinned one and spruce plywood covered the other three aircraft. Bowlus sold each of these handcrafted airplanes for $2,500.
- In 1935, Hawley Bowlus began work on a two-seat Senior Albatross built from aluminum but other distractions delayed completion until 1940. In 1939, Ernest Langley and Jim Gough built another Senior Albatross at the Bowlus ranch in California.
- Performance calculations revealed a best glide ratio of 23:1 when flying at 64.4 km/h (40 mph). If it became necessary, the pilot of a Senior Albatross could push his mount well over 161 km/h (100 mph) as long as he never exceeded a speed of 241.5 km/h (150 mph). With an accomplished pilot at the controls, the Senior Albatross could fly better than any other American sailplane and they were very pleasing to look at, too. A quotation from the July 1934 issue of "Aviation," a popular aviation periodical of the day, sums up one writer's impressions of the Senior Albatross:
- "Few flying machines have ever exhibited such an extraordinary combination of workmanship, finish, and aerodynamic refinement, so that it seems quite safe to say that the new ships represent the ultimate in soaring design practice in the United States, if not the world."
- The pilots who flew the Senior Albatross nearly dominated American competitive soaring. In September 1933, Richard du Pont flew the first Senior Albatross at the fourth U. S. National Soaring Championships held at Elmira, New York. On September 21, du Pont set the American sailplane distance record by flying 196 km (121.6 miles). On June 25, 1934, he flew to within 3.2 km (2 miles) of New York City and established a new world distance record of 254 km (158 miles). On June 30, 1934, du Pont set the U. S. altitude record for sailplanes by climbing to 1,892 m (6,223 ft). The following year, Lewin Barringer soared his own Senior Albatross parallel to the ridges of the Allegheny Mountains for 250.3 km (155.5 miles).
- In May 1934, Warren E. Eaton acquired from Hawley Bowlus the Senior Albatross that is now preserved at NASM. Eaton was already a veteran aviator. He had joined the U. S. Army Air Service and flown SPAD XIII fighters (see NASM collection) in the 103rd Aero Squadron, 3rd Pursuit Group, at Issoudon, France, from August 27, 1918, until Armistice Day, November 11. He was credited with downing one enemy aircraft in aerial combat. After the war, Eaton founded the Soaring Society of America and became the organization's first president.
- Eaton had commissioned Bowlus to build a Senior Albatross after he saw Richard du Pont fly the second Senior Albatross at the U. S. Nationals the year before. Eaton asked Bowlus to fit flaps to his aircraft and to skin it with mahogany plywood. He christened it "Falcon" and it bore the federal aircraft registration number G13763. Several gold decals edged in black also appeared at various locations on the fuselage. "Warren E. Eaton" and "Falcon" appeared on both sides of the nose. A stylized albatross and the company motto "On the Wings of an Albatross" were applied to the vertical fin above the words "Bowlus-du Pont Sailplane Company."
- Eaton first flew the glider at San Diego. In June, he brought it to the national contest atop Harris Hill outside Elmira, New York. At Big Meadows, Virginia, Eaton set the American soaring altitude record, 2,765 m (9,094 ft), during September 1934. Three months later, Eaton died in Florida flying a Franklin primay glider.
- In 1935, Warren Eaton's widow, Genevieve, donated the "Falcon" to the Smithsonian Institution. It arrived in Washington on May 28 and a few days later, museum personnel suspended the glider from the ceiling of the West Hall of the Arts and Industries Building where it remained on display for many years.
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- Gift of Mrs. Genevieve J. Eaton
- 1933
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- CRAFT-Aircraft
- Materials
- Originally skinned with mahogany and covered with lightweight cotton "glider cloth," then covered with a shellac-based varnish. In 2000, restorers removed original fabric and shellac coating, recovered with Grade A cotton fabric followed by several coats of nitrate dope, then lemon shellac, finishing with several coats of Johnson Wax.
- Dimensions
- Wingspan: 18.8 m (61 ft 9 in)
- Length: 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in)
- Height: 1.6 m (5 ft 4 in)
- Weight: Empty, 153 kg (340 lb)
- Gross, 236 kg (520 lb)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
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- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
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- Boeing Aviation Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
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- nasm_A19350058000
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It was 4 a.m., and a new friend and I were finishing our third cup of French press coffee in a dusky room in downtown New York. Maybe it was the setting, maybe it was the caffeine, maybe it was the burgeoning friendship rising up in those wee morning hours, but I suddenly realized that our conversation was turning philosophical. He told me a big part of his life story: disillusioned by his divorced parents' hypocritical profession of Catholic ideals, he left in the dust the church, his faith and God. Then, inhaling deeply from the cigarette he was holding, he studied me keenly before remarking, "So you believe in God. Explain to me, what is faith? How can you believe?" His question hit me between my unsuspecting eyes, and hard as I tried to divine the answer in the coffee grounds at the bottom of my mug, I could not find a satisfying response. I thought of his childhood, of his justified doubt and fell into silence.
A few years later, among sloshing piles of papers to be written and books to be read, I opened a letter from my longtime pen pal. Her previous reflections on time spent in Amsterdam had revolved around revelations of living alone in a foreign country, images of riding her bike along the canals, questions about her future. But this e-mail broke from the typical. She spoke of her horror at seeing neo-Nazis chant outside her local temple, of her familial ache when she passed signs over roads leading to concentration camps, of her disgust at being frisked before she could enter temple for worship. But it was the concluding line—capitalized for emphasis—that still haunts me to this day: How could God have let the Holocaust happen? I closed my computer and turned to the papers, as I waited unsuccessfully for the divine revelation I needed to answer her question.
Then there is the dump. On a recent trip to Nicaragua I came face to face with pain as I had never known it. I was there to study the policy and history of this economically impoverished country. My weeklong experience culminated in a trip to Managua's nearly 70-acre dump, piled with cascading debris and lean-tos—homes constructed of salvage from the dump: brick, vending-machine siding and plain cardboard. Scattered among the families scrounging for valuables were the cattle owned by the dump's landlord. The animals were kept among the refuse to remind the people living in the dump that while they were squatters, the animals actually belonged on the grounds. Not a single person I saw at the dump would look me in the eye. How could they? They were kept lower than the cows.
I wept that night. If there is a loving God, how could that God let those people live in such squalor?
The problem is, I don't think anyone knows the answer to that question. The problem of pain, as C. S. Lewis so eloquently labels it, is a problem every believer must face at some point. It is the issue that validates doubt, that reverberates in more questions, that tempts faith. More than any other human experience, it is suffering that makes a case for atheism and shadows agnosticism. When we lovingly point a finger to the God who saves, the God who loves, that same finger can become a tool for blame because it seems evident that not all are saved, not all are loved. Given the suffering in our world, in our history and in ourselves, few attest unwaveringly that God is present in all that misery.
Denial or Optimism
It is easier to believe God does not exist. But being resilient, we are not willing to give up a hope for better things. We look in the mirror and remind ourselves that we are not going to sit by and watch the world tear itself apart. We will live good lives, lives that alleviate the pain we see. So we join humanitarian aid campaigns, volunteer at the local soup kitchen and visit the sick. Prayers to a gracious God have become concrete moral acts that help our neighbor. We leave behind churches to lend a hand to addicts. God will not help, perhaps, but we certainly will.
Such a philosophical stance is not original. Take the work of Ludwig Feuerbach, the 19th-century author of The Essence of Christianity and an inspirer of Karl Marx. His book urged everyday people to take on what once was God's role. Feuerbach wrote, "To will, to love, to think, are the highest powers, are the absolute nature of man as man, and the basis of his existence." Not monopolized by God, these characteristics come to define humanity. We become, if we choose to take up our responsibility, perfected people no longer beholden to God for salvation. We have mistaken our own power for the power of a phantom God. It is not that God failed us. It is that we failed ourselves. We can come to realize that "the divine activity is not distinct from the human."
His is a beautiful thought. If the divine activity is not distinct from the human, then what humans do can have the same characteristics as the divine, namely perfect reason, love, force of will. But few could attribute the Holocaust to such divine attributes. If humanity perfected is what we have erroneously labeled divine, then the question is not how God could have let that happen but how we could.
There's the rub. Isn't it intriguing that much of the pain we see is inflicted by one human on another? And we are supposed to be the true possessors of perfect reason, love and will. No, we are not perfect creatures maturing into our divine powers. Since Feuerbach's optimistic proclamation of "holy" perfection in humanity, we have seen whole segments of humanity tumbling down into worse and worse conditions. One could argue that we, the generations after Feuerbach, have proved him wrong.
Selfless Love
Yet a humanity-saving, selfless love—even between strangers—does exist in our world. How is that? Knowing the worst we are capable of, whether genocidal camps or weapons of mass destruction, we should not ask, How can God watch so much pain and stand by? but rather, Why is that we don't just stand by? What is it inside us that makes us denounce pain and suffering and work to prevent and overcome it? There is selflessness in such empathy. It is a selflessness that does not come from the same creative place within humanity that dreamed up poison gas, torture or ways to dehumanize the poor. Knowing the worst humanity is capable of, we must admit that such uncharacteristic selflessness seems to come from something other than human. Something apart, beyond. Call it what you will. I call it God.
This case for God is not new. The writer of the First Letter of John tells us that God is love. It is not just a poetic metaphor for God. It is a case.
There is a difference between a proof and a case. While a proof can be laid out and argued over with some movement toward rationality, a case tends to speak beyond the merely intellectual. It speaks to experiences, to emotions, to those unarticulated whispers resting just behind your right ear. And while many good cases are built on sturdy proof, some are relegated to the abyss between reason and intuition. Stirring up sediments of dismissed reflections, these cases challenge us to explore new pathways into territories we might otherwise have sealed off.
St. John the Evangelist wields his one-word description as a case. And the best I can do in the face of suffering is to turn back to that beautiful and enigmatic case: God is love. It is only when I ask challenging questions and let them bounce off that particular description of God that I can begin to reach a glimmer of understanding. The problem of pain and suffering does not disappear, but the problem of love does. We may still have to face challenges from friends and from life itself, but at least now we face them from within this case. And who knows? Love just may be the strongest case we have.
Respectfully, if this email is out of order, I apologize and ask you to simply deep six it. October 1 in the early AM I posted a response to "Looking For Love"but have reason to wonder if the posting was completed, since the web page blanked-out. I don't want to duplicate in case it did go through, so i write asking if you can tell me if the posting was received, or not. Thanks! Bruce Snowden
We are told that God created the cosmos out of love and more than that, according to the First Letter of John, "God is love!" If love is a way to experience suffering, as splendid as love is, is suffering God's way of squeezing the cosmos lovingly, sometimes to death? Is that why, according to Paul, that, "all creation groans?" Much later Francis de Sales speaking from a Christian point of view adds, "Calvary is the Academy of Love." It takes Faith to believe this. As we know, Faith is a dark light sometimes casting shoadows of fright on the jagged walls of the tunnel of life. Fortunately, Faith is, nonetheless, a Light!
Natural disasters too which have nothing to do with love, also bring great suffering. But wait, maybe they may have something to do with love, with God, who is love itself, who lovingly permits them, "preventing the worst" as Augustine says, whatever that means.Therefore, are natural disasters actually God lovingly embracing the cosmos in all its parts? All of this seems so giddying, leaving unanswered satisfactorily the dilemma that, an all loving God could have any part in suffering, even permissively. This especially true of the blameless calamitous stuff that happens to people, to children. So, "Why?"
In what may seem totally preposterous, I want to suggest, that, suffering is the result of an evolutionary mistake, one foreseen by God but not prevented having given evolutionary development the freedom to evolve unninhibited! God knew full well that, the decision to allow evolution to evolve without interference from him would produce a "felix culpa" situation and as an evolutionary outcome, redemptively useful. So, he let it be showing in yet another way, that, Grace does builkd on nature. But "How?"
In his great article, "The Eye And I," by William J. O'Malley, S.J., (America 12/10/07) we read, "Given evolution's ability to adapt, to innovate, to test, and experiment, sooner or later it would have given to the Creator exactly what he was looking for." What was God looking for? He was looking for a way to connect to an evolving human experience, relative to the evolutionary mistake which caused suffering and in the Incarnation lovingly discovered it. Additionally, according to priest-scientist, Geoge V. Coyne, S.J. "God gave the universe its own creativity, its own dynamism and he's working with the universe rather than dominating it." Also, in a connected way I think, the following words of the holy priest-paleontologist, P.T. de Chardin, S.J., apply. Speaking of evolution he said, "God makes things make themselves." I suggest one of the things that "made itself" is cosmological suffering.
So it would seem, God magnanimously shares omnipotence. Look at the marvels of creation! He does not think of power as something to cling to, just as Jesus did not consider Divinity something to cling to, but humbled himself taking the form of a slave. "Like Father, like Son" one might say! So, too, the Creator not being hooked on power divested himself in an evolutionary way, making himself a servant to creation, by giving evolutionary development a free run to "adapt, to innovate, to test and experiment." By so doing God lost nothing of his omnipotence, sourced as it is in the unfathomable depths of the Godhead!
Thus, I would suggest, had evolution zagged, rather than zigged, or the other way around, the outcome would have been entirely different. There would have been no possibility of suffering anywhere in the cosmos. There would have been an entirely other structure, exhonorating God of responsibility for suffering. An evolutionary mistake did it - don't blame God! Presposterous? Maybe.
Bruce Snowden
For me this article brought to mind a long out of print book by (Rev.) Juan Arias: "The God I Don't Believe In." The only reality for me as I enter my sixtieth year (nearly 30 ordained) is that John got it right and so does M. M. Hubele; that in the face of the overwhelming suffering in the world that God is love! Where love is discovered one can discover God as I have. A wise systematic theology professor once suggested that the last place that one should look for God was in the Church. For me it is that simple: If you find love you'll find God all on your own.


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His mother, then an administrator for the Prime Minister's office, learned of CUNY's humanitarian initiative to award college scholarships to 15 Grenadian students, of which he was one.
Before being awarded the scholarship, Bleasdille had already earned an associate degree in information technology from a Grenadian community college and was working as a commercial teller at a local bank.
"If I hadn't received this scholarship, I would have stayed in my bank job for two more years," said Bleasdille, 24, who now lives in East Flatbush. "Then, I would have taken a loan to try and get into a U.S. college,"
Bleasdille, who will be graduating with a bachelor of technology degree in computer systems, also has a knack for writing.
"I used to write poetry in high school and sometimes perform it," said Bleasdille, who was praised by his first English professor at City Tech on his writing and decided to make it a hobby. For the past two years, Bleasdille has won first prize in the poetry and short story categories at College's Literary Arts Festival competition. But Bleasdille will be setting the bar even higher for himself this year.
"I'm entering all sections of the competition – poetry, fiction, drama, humor and essay," he said. "It's my last semester, I might as well go all out!"
Bleasdille will put his writing skills to good use for his valedictory speech, which he will deliver on June 2, at Madison Square Garden.
"My speech will have two themes," said Bleasdille. "Finding your passion, which is going to push you to succeed, and appreciating the value of negative people in your life as well as the positive, supportive ones. If someone negates what you want to do, it makes you want it more."


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One of my all-time favorite pastas of all time is puttanesca, a tomato-based pasta dish spiced up with red pepper, piquant olives, and capers. When it comes to quick, deeply flavored dishes, it ranks high in my repertoire. So I was excited to try this variation on the dish, from Real Simple, which introduces one of my favorite vegetables of all time into the mix, stretching the recipe into something a little bit healthier.
The key to this recipe is getting as much flavor and color on the cauliflower as possible without overcooking it (this is a general rule for me regarding cauliflower anyway). Since this is a vegetarian version of puttanesca—it doesn't have the nutty base of anchovies melted into olive oil—the cauliflower plays the replacement role. At the beginning, high heat is your friend. Once that flavor is built into the dish, the rest is easy and comes together in no time.
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- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:25 minutes
- 3/4 pound penne or other short pasta
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 small head cauliflower (about 1 1/2 pounds), broken into small florets
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 28-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes, crushed
- 1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives, chopped
- 2 tablespoons capers, rinsed
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- Grated Parmesan, for serving
Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Cook the pasta until al dente, reserving 1 cup of the pasta cooking water before draining.
In the meantime, heat the olive oil in a large (12-inch) skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add the cauliflower and cook, stirring only occasionally, until golden and well-caramelized, 8-10 minutes. Add the garlic, crushed red pepper, and a good pinch of salt and pepper and cook for an additional minute until the garlic is fragrant.
Add the tomatoes with their juices, olives, and capers. Continue cooking until the cauliflower is soft, but not mushy, about 5 minutes more. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
Add the cooked pasta to the cauliflower mixture and toss to combine. Add some of the pasta cooking water and simmer over low heat until the sauce and pasta and cauliflower mixture form into a sauce.Stir in the parsley, then divide the pasta amongst bowls. Serve with Parmesan.
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World premiere 26 September.
He was the last of the Old Masters and the first modernist. The artist Goya is portrayed by Anders Larsson in this season's world premiere.
The Spanish artist Francisco de Goya is the central figure of the work. He has been called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the modernists. Through in-depth studies of various parts of Goya's life, we are able to experience both the outer and the inner world of the artist and to follow his development from court painter to pioneering portrayer of the horrors of war. One of our country's most experienced composers, Daniel Börtz, has written the music. Magnus Florin wrote the libretto with its profuse gallery of characters. Annsofi Nyberg has created almost 200 18th century costumes inspired by Goya's paintings and Lars-Åke Thessman has built up a visually elusive setting with a gigantic camera obscura in the centre.
Watch clip from the performance.
Watch pictures from the performance.
After five years of work the time has finally come for the premiere of Daniel Börtz's Goya. The fact that GöteborgsOperan can present a newly-written opera of this magnitude is a sensation.
"Goya is without doubt the most comprehensive and dense opera I have ever done," says Daniel Börtz. One of his earlier works was "Backanterna" (Bacchae, based on Euripides), with its premiere in 1991 under the direction of Ingmar Bergman. There Daniel Börtz also met the legendary scenographer, Lennart Mörk, who was the first to hit upon the idea of an opera about the artist Francisco de Goya. "It took me a while to understand what an interesting idea it was," says Daniel Börtz. "Goya was a fascinating character and a central figure. He can be compared to Beethoven. It is true that Goya was 24 years old when Beethoven was born in 1770, but they both lived during the same violent period, marked by repression and war." "They also both had such a revolutionary charge, that their respective art forms were fundamentally altered by their achievements," says Daniel Börtz. The libretto for Goya was written by Magnus Florin, author and principal dramaturgist at Dramaten. "Magnus' authorship is exceptionally precise and sharp in profile which is why Lennart and I chose him. Opera text must not be too vague, then there is nothing left for the other art forms," says Daniel Börtz. Emil Carlsson.
Excerpt from article in GO nyheter no. 4 © 2009.
Watch GöteborgsOperan's orchestra rehearsing.
Learn more about Goya.
Robert Hughes' biography from 2003 is rated as one of the finest works written about Goya. At least three films have been made about Goya. In Milos Forman's great film "Goya's Ghosts" the leading part is played by our own Stellan Skarsgård. In Spain there are several Goya museums. In the house of his birth in the village of Fuendetodos on the outskirts of Zaragoza, a number of graphical works are displayed. In the chapel San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid there is a mausoleum and brilliant frescoes. At the Prado museum in the same city, several of Goya's most important paintings are on display. Emil Carlsson.
From GO Nyheter no 4 2009.
Other rewritten, newly-written operas.
Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen reaped great success this spring among both the public and critics with the opera version of P.O. Enquists novel Livläkarens besök. (The Visit of the Royal Physician). Enquist wrote the libretto to Bo Holten's music. July saw the opening performance of the singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright's opera Prima Donna about an ageing diva. At the premiere in Manchester the author appeared dressed as Verdi. In August The British Opera House invited the general public to write an opera libretto with contributions from the micro-blog Twitter.
From GO Nyheter no. 4 2009
From the libretto.
Act 1, Scene 4. A well-lit duchess in a dark land / Witches are merely funny
(Goya, The Duke of Osuna, The Duchess of Osuna).
Don Pedro Tellez Giron de Alcantara.
The Duchess of Osuna.
Doña Maria Alonso Tellez and Borjia Markisinna of Pimentel, duchess-countess of Benavente, eighth duchess of Osuna.
Duke of Osuna.
Marquis of Penafiel, ninth duke of Osuna.
Your most humble... (interrupted)
The DUCHESS OF OSUNA
Stop...I am a well-lit duchess in a dark land. Pamphlets are conveyed from Paris to my golden halls Voltaire and Diderot... I believe in the revolution and I ooze yesteryear. Paint me with Rousseau in my right hand. Man is born free! In my left hand a fan of ivory. Ownership is the root of all evil. Silk, velvet, gold embroidery. President of the women's section of the Economic society. Paint carefully the collar's fine lace. Now I am a shepherdess and you a donkey. GOYA
Your most loyal... (interrupted)
A donkey frisky and jolly took a bath in the stream by golly. And the sun it shone so warm on the donkey that bright morn. A shepherdess followed the shoreline with the hem of her skirt in her hand. Then along came the donkey swimming. The shepherdess shrieked blue murder... (hesitates) Tell me, painter, why do I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night?
Your most obedient... (interrupted)
I look men straight in the eyes. I speak of the questions of the age without blushing. Portray me so strong, certain, clear. But when I light the lamps all is black. A sorceress stares, bats screech. I hide myself in a silk drapery. Then you see me and paint. My face is not mine; it is sharp, frozen, like iron in the cold. Why do you go? I thought you went to the duchess of Alba. Watch out for her, she is... Stay in my comedy, stroll with me in the park. I am in my salon and everyone speaks freely of freedom. But my guests look at me and whisper is she not with the shadows? I wished to be light, but am heavy like A grain of lead that falls.
Your most loyal...
Don Pedro Tellez Giron de Alcantara. Marquis of Penafiel, ninth duke of Osuna.
Your most humble...
It was just a game, witches are funny. Reason. I.


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Hope College jazz ensembles will perform on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, in a concert that will feature a world premiere.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concert will include three ensembles. The Contemporary Ensemble features Brian Coyle as coach, guitarist Michael Hobson, bassist Zach Pedigo, and drummer Stephen Hobson. The Mainstream Ensemble features Steve Talaga as coach, pianist Larry Figuerao, bassist Jeff Hatcher, and Ben Oegema as drummer. Both groups will perform compositions drawn from the jazz repertoire and music composed for the ensembles by the faculty and students.
The final group of the evening, Jazz Arts Collective, features Brian Coyle as director. The collective is a new ensemble that experiments with jazz "crossover" styles. The group will perform four compositions, including two by members of the jazz faculty. The center piece of the concert is the world premiere of "Trafalgar Morning" by Hope College faculty member Steve Talaga.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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SMART-1 views the edge of Luna Incognita: Mars on the Moon?
SMART-1 has investigated lunar areas at the edge of Luna Incognita. This area near the lunar poles can be used for lunar science studies, or even to prepare for human bases on the Moon and on Mars.
Mankind did not see the land called Luna Incognita, until the first probes sent images of the lunar farside.
Plaskett crater sits close to the Moon's north pole, on the edge of Luna Incognita. Plaskett has a diameter of 109 kilometres and displays a central peak. This peak was formed during the crater's formation and is composed of rocks, originally from beneath the Moon's surface, which were melted and thrown up by the impact. As they rose above the surface they 'froze' and formed the peak. By analysing such central peaks, planetary scientists can deduce the vertical composition of the Moon's subsurface regions.
Plaskett crater could play a key role in preparing humans for their eventual journeys to Mars. On such a mission, Earth would dwindle to a point and the astronauts would lose the familiar view of their home planet. From the lunar near side the Earth is a brilliant object, four times wider than the full Moon seen from Earth. The Earth seems to wobble in the sky due to a lunar motion called libration. From the lunar poles libration takes the Earth below the horizon for about half the month.
From Plaskett, on the far side of the Moon, the Earth can only be seen from the crater's northern rim for just a few days during a few months every year.
"A human outpost there, on the edge of Luna Incognita, would allow us to study the effects of Earth-deprivation on a crew in a controlled way," says Bernard Foing, SMART-1's Project Scientist.
"It will allow us to simulate Mars operations and isolation, on the Moon, at a safe distance from a human base at the north pole."
Note to editors
Launched in September 2003, SMART-1 ended its mission through lunar impact on 3 September 2006. The huge data sets it provided are and will be analysed by lunar and planetary scientists, and provide a very important legacy in the history of lunar exploration.
For more information
Bernard H. Foing, ESA SMART-1 Project Scientist
Email: bernard.foing @ esa.int
Jean-Luc Josset, AMIE Principal Investigator, SPACE-X Space Exploration Institute
Email: jean-luc.josset @ space-x.ch


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We Each Have A Castle To Gaurd.
This is Dunrobin Castle in Scotland. It is a majestic thing of beauty and yet it represents all the strength and fortitude a castle should. Many of us will never get to travel to an authentic ancient castle, but we each have our own castle to gaurd…it is whatever God has entrusted to us on this earth.
He loves us enough to give us the resources that we need to defend our castles. Castles have high walls and many are built on high hills or mountaintops so that the view upon the enemy is an advantage. If we are his child, our castle is built high upon a rock, the ROCK WHICH IS CHRIST. He is an unmoveable, unchangeable, solid Rock.
Castles have many windows and vantage points. These serve the dual purpose of letting in the light of the sun (they didn't have electricity back then) and providing a view of the surrounding grounds and terrain. From such a vantage point, an approaching foe or friend could be identified from miles away. Our castles have windows to let in the LIGHT of God's direction. If we keep a vigilant watch, He will show us any approaching enemy and he will allow us His perspective and view on the surrounding world.
Castles often have protective features of a controlled approach and entrance. Many even have drawbridges and moats. A moat is the water that prevents the enemy from being able to get ladders against the walls of the castle or otherwise provides a barrier to challenge the enemy's ability to get close enough for a full fledged assault. This forces the enemy to keep a distance in attack and makes it easier to defend the castle. In biblical terms, WATER represents the LIVING WORD. By staying in the Word of God, we add a protective defence to help us gaurd and defend our treasures and to keep the enemy at a distance. The Word teaches us the battle plan and strategies for living a safe, protected and honorable life. The Word keeps us holy, pure, and seperated from the world around us that is full of ungodly living, and wrong choices. We need to monitor carefully what we allow to enter our castle for the enemy can often sneak in through something we allow, and then have the advantage of launching an ambush from within.
Did you also know that the castles of Medieval times had dungeons. I think our castles should have a dungeon as well. What goes in the dungeon? The wrong thoughts, the wrong influences, the wrong associations, anything that is contrary to God's will for our life, that would hinder our relationship with him and dishonor Him.casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ 2 CORINTHIANS 10:5
What are my treasures? My home, my family, the Earthly blessings I have been given to be a trusted steward over, and most importantly…
My relationship with my Heavenly Father, the most high King and gaurdian of my life…for I am his castle to gaurd.


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Just on the outskirts of Vilnius, Lithuania, a line of cars stretched for miles, waiting to get into the cemetery for Sunday's national holiday, All Souls Day.
Inside Siemens Arena, there was a different celebration of souls taking place Sunday night.
But first, Franklin Graham posed a simple question to the 8,500 in attendance.
"Tonight, I want to talk to you about your soul," Franklin Graham began his message on the final night of the Lithuania Festival of Hope. "Is your soul secure in the hand of Almighty God?"
The direct line of questioning hit many like an artic blast of wind, walking off a Vilnius city bus in the middle of January.
"The way he said it," said Jurate about Franklin Graham's opening remarks. "First off, that was really shocking."
But the question prompted the 23-year-old woman to start seriously thinking about her eternal life and by the time the invitation was given, "there was a great thought of getting redeemed and having Jesus in your life," and she came forward and gave her life to Christ.
"The Bible says 'What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?' " Franklin Graham continued. "God loves you. He loves you. And your soul is valuable."
And by the time "Just As I Am" was being sung by a massive 400-member white-and-blue-robed Lithuanian choir, hundreds had their soul stirred up, and like Jurate, came forward to settle things once and all, asking Jesus into their hearts.
After leading a packed stage area in a prayer to receive Christ, Graham told those making decisions: "Your soul is now secure."
For many, this was Eternal Souls Day.
And several thanked Franklin Graham's direct, no-nonsense approach.
"He preaches like he believes it. And that makes a difference," a 21-year-old bio-chemistry student said. "He preaches with conviction, passion and power."
Those three words could also be used to describe many of the musical performances Sunday, from Jamaica pianist Huntley Brown to a Belarus worship band to the Latvian Three Tenors.
But most notably charging up the audience was the Newsboys, which based on the post-Festival comments around the arena, may have a new legion and region of followers after a passionate and charismatic set in their first trip to Lithuania.
Lead singer Michael Tait, who mixed in a spirited acappella version of "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus," was performing for the 24th time at a BGEA Festival or Crusade, dating back to his D.C. Talk days and his first 1994 Cleveland Crusade.
"We never get tired of seeing the altar call at the end of the message," Tait said. "To watch the sheep come in, watch them come forward. It's unbelievable."
Renata Ramanauskaite would sum the weekend up the exact way. After working 15 years with Campus Crusade for Christ (Agape) in Lithuania, to see 28,000 people come out to hear the gospel message in one single weekend and then watch hundreds make commitments in three different services, she wonders if this is some sort of dream.
"Even for Christians, it's hard to believe that God can work in this way," Ramanauskaite said. "It's hard to believe. You see the impact, but it's hard to believe this is happening."
Ramanauskaite is part of the microscopic percentage of evangelical Christians in Lithuania, a country of 3 million where only one-tenth of one percent are believers, an estimated 3,000 Christians. But after seeing nearly half that number come to Christ making first-time decisions, she can only imagine what might be ahead.
"I would hope for an explosion among Christianity," she said. "I hope this is an inspiration to Christians that God can do miracles."
Already, Ramanauskaite witnessed one work of God personally this weekend. On Sunday night, as she was counseling a 32-year-old Russian woman to accept Christ, she asked who invited her and she answered her sister.
Only later, did she realize that her sister, a 25-year-old named Arena, was a woman Ramanauskaite had led to the Lord two years ago and was now impacting her family.
"For me, it's wonderful that Arena can have an influence and her family members can be changed," Ramanauskaite said. "God can change hearts. Miracles can happen."
Used with permission from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
By Trevor Freeze.


text: NORMAN—Everett Golson threw for 177 yards and plunged in for the decisive 1-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, Manti Te'o bolstered his Heisman Trophy candidacy with a late interception and No. 5 Notre Dame beat No. 8 Oklahoma 30-13 on Saturday night to remain undefeated.Te'o, the standout linebacker who has a penchant for causing turnovers, dove when Landry Jones' pass ricocheted off of Jalen Saunders and got his gloved hands under it. Kyle Brindza tacked on his third field goal soon after, and Theo Riddick added a late touchdown run as the Fighting Irish (8-0) put it away with 20 fourth-quarter points. Jones threw for 356 yards with no touchdowns for the Sooners (5-2), who were still clinging to hope they could get back in the national title race before the loss. Saunders caught 15 passes for 181 yards.Notre Dame is off to its best start in a decade, doing so as the only team in the country with four wins against Top 25 teams — including two on the road against top 10 foes.The game revived a rivalry that had been largely dormant since the 1960s, with only one meeting since then — in Bob Stoops' first season as the Sooners' coach in 1999. The Irish won eight of the first nine meetings, including three times when they handed Oklahoma its only loss of the season — most notably in 1957, when the Sooners' NCAA-record 47-game winning streak was snapped.This meeting between two of college football's two traditional powers was no different, and Notre Dame's throwback defense gave the game a taste of days gone by.Te'o and the second-ranked Irish defense frequently gave up underneath passes but prevented them from turning into big gains, making the Sooners snap the ball over and over while the Irish waited for a mistake that would snuff out the drive. Oklahoma's first two red zone possessions ended with field goals, and the Sooners turned to backup quarterback Blake Bell and their "Belldozer" short-yardage run package to finally punch one in and tie it at 13 with 9:10 remaining.Golson, who had to come out for the final play of the third quarter after getting flattened by Oklahoma's Tony Jefferson, answered on the very next play with a 50-yard post pass to freshman Chris Brown – his first career reception.It took five more plays for Notre Dame to punch it in from the 15-yard line, with Golson taking a shotgun snap for a quarterback draw and diving into the line from the 1 for the score.Jones tried to rally the Sooners, but linebacker Dan Fox slammed into Saunders as the pass arrived and Te'o – seemingly always around the ball – was right there to pick it off. The Irish, who were giving up just 9.4 points per game, haven't allowed more than 17 in a game this season. That remained true when an instant replay review wiped what appeared to be a 34-yard Jones-to-Kenny Stills touchdown pass off the board on the game's final drive. Stills was called for offensive pass interference by shoving KeiVarae Russell down in the end zone on the next play, and Jones was sacked by Prince Shembo to deliver one final blow by the Irish defense. "It's just the way we play," coach Brian Kelly said as the Irish celebrated, their marching band playing the school's familiar victory march.An Owen Field record crowd of 86,031 responded to the university's request to "stripe the stadium," with a candy-cane look of alternating red and white sections – appropriately so with a cold snap running through Norman.The Sooners' offense never could get their offense – averaging 44.7 points – producing, and Stoops was denied his chance to tie Bud Wilkinson for second-place in school history with his 145th career win.It took just two snaps for the Fighting Irish to respond to Michael Hunnicutt's 28-yard field goal that opened the scoring in the first half.Cierre Wood took a handoff and raced untouched right up the middle for a 62-yard touchdown, allowing the Fighting Irish to play from ahead as they have almost all season. Te'o racked up 11 tackles in the first half, plowing through Jones for his first sack to end one drive.The Irish plodded 13 plays afterward, eating up nearly 6 minutes while driving for Kyle Brzinda's 28-yard field goal and a 10-3 advantage.The Sooners thought momentarily they'd tied it up on a 4-yard touchdown run by Bell, but a holding penalty against guard Bronson Irwin kept the Irish's run of not allowing a rushing touchdown intact for a couple more quarters


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made with Epsom salt floating around blog land for a while now,
but I thought I'd share my version which utilizes simple things most of us have lying around our homes.
Here is what I had and you'll need if you're going to make these.
1. Styrofoam balls
2. Candle
3. Paint
4. Mod Podge or Glue
5.Epsom Salt
I made this project for mere pennies because every thing I used I already had in my home.
Three styrofoam balls - from a "free" box at the local thrift store.
Paint (deco art) given to me by a friend who no longer had a use for it.
I didn't have any Mod Podge in the house, but
you can substitute glue watered down with a few
drops of water as a homemade version.
Begin by painting the balls.
Next, a rubber band was placed about 1/3 of the way from the top
of an old candle (left over from our daughter's wedding)...
.....and the bottom two thirds painted
(the rubber band acting as guide/stopping point for the paint).
After painting all the items, I coated them with glue followed by sprinkling Epsom salt on them.
(Removing the rubber band after everything is totally dry.)
I added some left over silver elastic ribbon to the top of the candle...
...and placed all the items on a heirloom tray
from my grandparents 25th wedding anniversary.
I'm linking this post to...
The DIY Club
I received a note from the Single Nester warning to use cation when
the candle burns down to the salt area...could cause fire.
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Pure Storage's Dietzen Says 'Look Out, EMC' after Half-$B Raised
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Scott Dietzen, a tech veteran and currently CEO of storage startup Pure Storage, based in Mountain View, California, was kind enough to swing by Barron's offices this afternoon to chat about the changing world of disk and flash, and about how his firm is already pushing aside EMC (EMC), the dominant storage vendor.
Dietzen was until about 2009 head of application development at Yahoo! (YHOO), where he arrived after the acquisition of another startup he helped run, Zimbra, which was working on an alternative to Microsoft (MSFT) Exchange and other apps. Prior to that, he'd helped to run Weblogic and did a sting with BEA Systems (BEAS) after it bought that company. He worked at another startup, Transarc, later bought by IBM (IBM). He has a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon.
Buckets of funding
Dietzen's sitting on a pile of money. His firm just closed a second round totaling $225 million, including not just venture capitalists such as Greylock, but also public investors such as T. Rowe Price. The company had a pre-money valuation of $3 billion. He wrote a bunch about it on his blog. The total invested now is $470 million. Proceeds are being used to ramp up the staff in all areas, including sales, development, service, etc. Headcount is currently 600, and the company has been expanding overseas, in a hurry to pursue what it sees as its advantage against EMC in every corner of the globe.
Taking down EMC, dumping disk
Pure is one of a host of upstarts in the market, all pretty much with the same objective of taking down EMC, and, in fewer cases, also taking down NetApp (NTAP), on their ways to becoming the next great storage company.
Pure makes what's called an "all-flash array," a cabinet with NAND flash-based drives that can replace the traditional disk-based offerings such as EMC's "VMAX." As such, Pure to an extent competes with Nimble Storage (NMBL), which makes an array that mixes flash and disk, and with Violin Memory (VMEM), another maker of all-flash products. But depending on how one slices things, the competition can be considered to include Fusion-io (FIO), or a number of the other startups -- Coho Data, Primary Data, Skyera, Coraid, etc., etc.
Dietzen was lured to the company by Aneel Bhusri, co-CEO and co-founder of cloud computing apps vendor Workday (WDAY). The two are on the board of another startup, Cloudera.
Storage had always been a point of fascination for him, he says, mostly because of how problematic it was. "I had been around storage for my whole career, and realized it was a mess, just awful to try to get it work."
His interest in being in a storage startup, however, was drawn by what he sees as a massive shift in the IT landscape: "We are in this really profound time, when the big guys are being disrupted, by a bunch of things -- flash, SDD [solid-state drives], cloud, hyperscale."
With respect to storage specifically, "There is a media swap coming, where mechanical disk is going to be overtaken by silicon, in particular flash."
The tipping point
Says Dietzen, "We think the entire market tips to all-flash over next next five years," referring to sales of high-performance, highly reliable enterprise storage of the kind EMC sells with VMAX. He's getting most of his business today from customers ripping out VMAX and the like, in some cases replacing petabytes of existing storage equipment.
"Our customers are going to stop buying disk arrays -- not for performance, anyway."
Dietzen wouldn't disclose numbers save to say revenue was above $100 million last year and is growing by 50% from one quarter to the next. A Valley executive I spoke with last October told me Pure's numbers are "crazy big," a characterization with which Dietzen did not quibble when I brought it up, but merely smiled and seem to imply his ascent. Pure, he says, is growing at least twice as fast in revenue terms as NetApp, Data Domain and EMC were at the same point in their life spans.
As for the product itself, "we are at least ten times the performance of the conventional array, and a 10x improvement in reducing power consumption, at the same price," he boasts.
We offer a product that is plug compatible and comparable in cost to a disk array We're going to cost the same or less than your disk array today, cost competitive with VNX but also with VMAX. You can spend the same or less cash to get our box, and you will actually make back two thirds of that cost in power savings alone over four years. We will actually save customers ultimately over and above the cost they're paying, as the technology [of flash] improves. You've got to buy a new disk array every four years, anyway. Customers on average are replacing 25% of their arrays every year.
Ah, software
It is software, he argues, that sets the company apart.
"I have enormous respect for [Nimble Storage CEO] Suresh [Vasudevan] and Nimble and what they've accomplished," says Dietzen. "But like Violin, they are primarily innovating in hardware, but the thing that separates us is the software."
I point out that just about every company in storage today, including Nimble, argues they have some special sauce in their software. But, says Dietzen, Pure is the only company that can swap out an existing array with complete feature fidelity to the way that array operates today:
It took really sophisticated software to hit same price points as disk. The critical techniques are things such as really fast de-dup and compression. We on average deliver data reduction of six to one versus what the conventional products offer. There is no other vendor besides us that has a disk replacement product today that costs the same and provides all the features [as conventional arrays]. Snapshots, clones, replication -- most flash vendors didn't do all that work to bring that feature set.
More to the point, he argues, proof is in the sales: "Not everyone has 50% sequential growth and is replacing disk arrays regularly. None of the upstart hybrid guys are competing well with EMC in the mid-tier and up," referring to hybrid storage that mixes disk and flash, as does Nimble's gear.
We have a cheaper box is what they'll say, but everything in the data center has gotten 1,000 times faster and disk hasn't gotten any faster. What's needed is to put storage on the same curve as Moore's Law. Each box that we ship eliminates a million hours of latency just based on the average workload on our box.
I asked Dietzen about EMC's contention, in my conversations with them, that they are as good a software maker as any in the world of storage. Maybe so, he concedes, but they're having to start from scratch with flash and are behind:
They just started selling XtremeIO [an all-flash array] for the first time last year, but without the features we offer. They are 18 months to two years away from getting to where we are on the software side, because today it doesn't come close to what we do, which is to offer a completely compatible replacement. Proof is, they are shedding of all the software investment that EMC has made to date. Flash is so different it requires new software. No one said you should bring disk software to the tape backup realm, and it's analogous here. Why is XtremeIO throwing away most of the software EMC has developed? And the same with NetApp.
As for Fusion-io, "we are well cheaper per gig than their model," he contends. Fusion sells flash-memory acceleration boards that live in the server, rather than Fusion's focus on the array, though Fusion has expanded to the array as well.
"Our architecture is giving the SAN [storage area network] a new lease on life," which is bad if you're Fusion-io, he contends.
But what about the principle that one should put flash close to the compute element, the server?
"The argument of putting storage close to compute is BS," he says. "The latency of flash is two times higher than the network latency," meaning flash is the bottleneck, so traveling to an array across the network is not a problem. "There is no latency argument for putting flash in the system, and especially not if it's more expensive to do it!"
Growing the business
Dietzen won't give a customer count. He says the company shipped its 1,000 flash array last year, and that the product has had strong initial take-up in technology companies and large consumer web sites that immediately understand its advantages. Workday is a "strong customer," he says, as are telcos and financial services firms.
But the tech is spreading more broadly now into the general economy with the City of Davenport using it, River View Hospital, and other non-tech entities.
The emphasis with the recent funding is in building the company's reseller channel. It has signed major international resellers such as Datalink, but also smaller boutique firms, says Dietzen.
Pure has not signed any major OEMs such as Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) so far. The problem to date has been "we've had discussions with the likes of Cisco early on, but those conversations are always coming down to their wanting to buy us, which we're not interested in."
Not yet, anyway. The prospect of M&A at some point in future is always there for a company as a "safety net," Dietzen believes.
Valley of hopefuls
I asked Dietzen about other startups, such as Skyera of San Jose, whose CEO and co-founder Radoslav Danilak I have heard referred to with the term "genius."
"Roddo is a genius, yes, but they need to ship product!" he quips. Then he adds:
They are getting very much down deep trying to innovate in hardware, but it's the software that distinguishes storage. Certainly, there are possibilities for innovating in hardware, but without software, you can only play at the margin. It becomes "just a bunch of flash," JBOF. I'll give you an analogy: People were been trying to disrupt the tape market with disk for years and then came Data Domain, and they said, you no longer have to buy that big tape array any more. They are were at half a billion when they were bought [by EMC] and now they are at multiple billions [in revenue] because they got the cost and the capacity right in software.
The shape of clouds to come
Regarding public versus private cloud computing, they will both be around, but there's no question more and more workloads will move to public cloud, he says.
Private companies such as Cloudera, founded by fomer Google Hadoop pioneer Doug Cutting, is trying to bring the advantages of "multitenancy" and other cloud aspects to enterprise IT.
All of these startups are packaging up what Google developed, because it can dramatically reduce the cost of your compute infrastructure for any company's IT. You can take a whole bunch of costs out of the equation and deliver dramatically better experiences. You can also bring fairness. That matters inside of businesses because you are part of a very large organization, and you already live in a multi-tenant world. What cloud technology does is prevent the abuse of shared resources by some parties inside the organization.
However, "Public cloud is a lot more of the future" than is private cloud.
"Many businesses will end up not needing data centers themselves at all, except in some instances where they may have unique intellectual property [that has to be hosted internally.]"
As for selling to cloud computing vendors, "In public cloud, Amazon and Google are the hardest" accounts to crack, says Dietzen, given their penchant for wanting to make everything home grown. "I mean, there were rumors Google were trying to make their own tape!" for tape backup, since they use so much of it.
While he expects to sign lots of those other cloud operators over time, when I ask if he thinks he'll crack Google someday, he smiles and says, "probably never."
To infinity and beyond
Regarding a public offering, about which the company is in no hurry, Dietzen describes the company as having training wheels with big public holders like T. Rowe. "We have very good public market shareholders."
Being private, meantime, presents unique advantages in building the team: the company is flooded with Valley resumes because "as long as we are private and can promise that eventual development" of an IPO, there's promise on the horizon that draws top talent for the stock options they'll be given.
At the end of the day, I point out a contention put forth by EMC and NetApp, namely that there have only been these two large storage companies in the last few decades. What makes him think he can suddenly build a very big third company in the field.
"Never before have the pieces been in place to be a large public company," he says. "I look for this recipe, for a really big market that's ill served, a technology that is about to disrupt it, and a great team. All those things have aligned with Pure."


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18 October 2010
The Strasburg Railroad
- H&M dress
- AA tights
- UO t-strap flats
- vintage wool beret
- vintage Coach purse
Riding the Strasburg Railroad is one of those cheesy touristy things that Tom and I love to do over and over. Every time we have visitors come stay with us, we jump at the chance to ride the train again! The train ride is only about 9 miles long and goes right through the heart of Amish country. On the ride we passed lots of Amish farms, cows and horses grazing in pastures, dried corn fields and a huge pumpkin patch. It was such a beautiful day!
After our train ride we headed to the creamery in Strasburg... another tourist trap! I helped myself to a big scoop of pumpkin ice cream and Tom had chocolate cashew. Yummmm! The creamery also has a little general store in the back where they sell local goods. I'm always a sucker for all the neat packaging. They even have their own colony of bees making honey. You can watch them working through a plexiglass window. I sampled the wildflower honey and the orange blossom honey. I meant to take photos of the store but didn't. Maybe next time! I'm sure we'll go back soon.
39 comments:
- Anonymous said...
that picture of you leaning out the window is gorgeous!! you should smile more :)
- October 18, 2010
- Sara said...
I love those kinds of things! Driving through the countryside and stopping at all kinds of cute touristy traps is so much fun :) It looks like it was such a beautiful day, and your outfit is adorable.
- October 18, 2010
- 13bees said...
more smiles - you are so pretty!
- October 18, 2010
- BaronessVonVintage said...
A train! Pumpkin ice cream! My kind of day. I LOVE that dress so much!!!
- October 18, 2010
- Mariam said...
Beautifull pictures! Just as Your earlier posts:) But in this one You like so shiny smiling!
- October 18, 2010
- Sarah said...
looks like a fab day out! really like your dress too!!
- October 18, 2010
- Katie said...
ohhh that sounds so fun! seems like a perfect outing for fall with the beautiful scenery! some tourist traps are just too fun to be left to the tourists!
- October 18, 2010
- The Purse-a-holic said...
Love the out the window pose!
- October 18, 2010
- Bronzed Humanity said...
Cute dress! and beautiful pictures!
- October 18, 2010
- julia said...
lovely photos!
- October 18, 2010
- LittleRachael said...
Beautiful photos - you look so happy hanging out of that window!! :-)
Your hat is adorable.
Little Rachael Vintage
- October 18, 2010
- Cel said...
I can see why you enjoy riding that train! That looks so enjoyable, and such pretty countryside to see. And I agree with the others, you should smile more :)
- October 18, 2010
- In Kinsey's Closet said...
those are beautiful photographs. i really like your tights with this outfit. that beret was a great find!
- October 18, 2010
- Mei-li said...
aaa this train is so cool !!!
- October 18, 2010
- Kenziefaith said...
Love these pictures! They're beautiful
- October 18, 2010
- Haiyin, Love is three Oranges said...
I like the simple and cute, yet retro-elegant look today, but what I love best is the photo of you looking out of the window =) you have such a beautiful, warm smile!
- October 18, 2010
- Haiyin, Love is three Oranges said...
I like the simple and cute, yet retro-elegant look today, but what I love most is your expression looking outside the window - you have such a beautiful, warm smile!
- October 18, 2010
- hannah, heart city said...
i've heard of this strasburg but didn't know it had a fancy old train! i've never been out there but have a bunch of friends who grew up there. would not have guessed it was so beautiful!
- October 18, 2010
- Kerri @ OldLadyChic said...
Those cheesy tourist things are always the most fun! Looks like you are having a great time (and looking good while doing it)!
- October 18, 2010
- Lexie said...
you have such a pretty smile! these pictures brightened MY day! :)
- October 18, 2010
- Miss Claire said...
Sounds like a beautiful day! I tried pistacio ice cream a little while ago-it was divine!! And Oh my gosh, I love your dress.
xx Claire
- October 18, 2010
- Mandi Johnson said...
It's like our Cuyahoga Valley train. It goes from Akron down through Canton and into Amish country. I haven't ridden on it since I was a child, though. Good date idea? :)
Also, your big grin is so lovely.
- October 18, 2010
- A Little Brighter said...
Oh! the photos are so beautiful and you look so lovely in them! I wish we had a train like that where I live! I would almost be certain i'd be on it every spare second!
Adore that dress too! H&M needs to be here! You always post the loveliest outfits!
Ayesha x
- October 18, 2010
- callie said...
Such gorgeous photos!
- October 18, 2010
- Collette Osuna said...
SUPER great pics...I love gingham...you look gorgeous as always...love the pic of you in the window!!!
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- October 18, 2010
- Fabiola "Fab" said...
ooh a gingham dress is perfection!
Lovely photos on a lovely day!
- October 18, 2010
- Jersey Stretch said...
nice pictures!!!
- October 19, 2010
- Victoria / Justice Pirate said...
I really want to ride a train so much now. Looks like there is nothing like being in PA on a train. gorgeous outfit and shots. I love them all.
- October 19, 2010
- À LA MODEST said...
My husband and I have only been on the Strasburg once. You're right, it was a really quick ride, but it was a good first time experience for us on an old-fashioned train!
Cute dress! I actually wore a similar dress around that time we were in PA, and when we got back from the area, my dad told me I looked Amish!
- October 19, 2010
- Nadia Kamballa said...
Pretty pictures! I'm wondering why I just found your blog now.. You have such a great style. Am following you from now on :)
The November Girl
- October 19, 2010
- Elise said...
Love that dress, must get down to H&M! :)
- October 19, 2010
- Helga said...
What a stunning smile you have!
I'm curious-you don't wear makeup at all,do you?Is that for any particular reason,or you just don't like it?
- October 19, 2010
- natalia said...
Aww, that happy-smiley train photo of you is super cute!
Also, these photos are awesome. Nothing like a gingham dress on a picturesque train.
- October 19, 2010
- Sara said...
I love your dress. Also what perfect scenary. :)
- October 19, 2010
- Sarah with an "h" said...
How neat! I've never been on a train or seen any Amish country. You are so blessed to live in a place like that. :)
- October 20, 2010
- Bea said...
These are truly gorgeous. I would just love to ride a train and see all that lovely scenery. Thank you for sharing :)
Bea from A plus B
- October 20, 2010
- Samantha said...
These are really lovely photos, the scenery looks beautiful :)
- October 20, 2010
- FidgetFinds said...
Oh my gosh! Love the super smiley pic out the train window, you look so pretty!
- October 20, 2010
- E. said...
I LOVE the picture of you leaning out the window and smiling! It's beautiful!
- October 27, 2010