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I love making this roast and/or the Rosemary-Grilled London Broil (page 159) on Sunday afternoons, then later in the week slicing them to use in sandwiches and salads, or even to cube them for healthy munching. This turkey is not only flavorful, but with 248 milligrams of sodium per serving, it's a very low-sodium option.
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 pounds Jennie-O Turkey Store Boneless, Skinless Turkey Breast Roast
- 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce (7 grams carbs or less per 2 tablespoons)
- 1/4 cup water
Preheat the oven to 350˚F. Lightly mist an 8" x 8" glass baking dish or nonstick baking pan with olive oil spray. In a small bowl, combine the garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
Place the turkey on a cutting board. With a fork, pierce each side deeply about 25 times. Drizzle on the oil and rub to coat evenly on both sides. Sprinkle on the reserved seasoning mixture. Rub to coat evenly on both sides. With the smooth side of the breast down, drizzle on half of the barbecue sauce, rubbing to coat. Place the turkey, smooth side up, in the prepared pan. Rub the remaining barbecue sauce over the smooth side of the breast. Pour the water into the pan, taking care not to pour it over the turkey.
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a thermometer inserted in the thickest portion registers 160˚F and the juices run clear.
Remove from the oven. Let stand for 10 minutes. Place the turkey on a clean cutting board. Carve, against the grain, into thin slices. Serve immediately.
Make 5 (4-ounce) servings
Per serving: 160 calories, 34 g protein, 2 g carbohydrates, 3 g fat (trace saturated), 54 mg cholesterol, trace fiber, 248 mg sodium
Slice only the portion you are eating for one meal and refrigerate the remainder. Just before using, slice the turkey as thinly as possible for sandwiches or cube it for munching or to use in salads.
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The reason people predict things not working, won't fly, etc. is quite simple -- we have walked this path before. Duh! Our government has wasted time, money, and effort on so many hair-brained ideas and projects the national debt could be non-existent. You see, some things just don't work out, but the difference is private money won't attempt many risky endeavors, but the government usually ignores the risk, at least the monetary risk. Other people's money, you know?
The hotel in Portland may be needed, but what wasn't said was the fact that the cost of the project is partially subsidized by taxpayer money. If this is such a needed addition (and will be profitable as stated), why are those such as the Hilton's not building it?
Politicians and leaders? None of ours may be evil, but if one takes money in campaign support (or other perks) for favorable legislation, then yes, they are corrupt. It used to be called bribes, but our society has forgotten what a bribe is, with all the 'political correctness' slathered about.
But these are just my opinions and observations, which may differ from others. That's life!
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With a stay at Holiday Inn Darling Harbour, you'll be centrally located in Haymarket, steps from Sydney Entertainment Centre and Market City.
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For a list of organizations that award scholarships for students studying actuarial science, click here.
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Allstate?s actuarial internships offer a variety of independent projects, daily coaching and interaction with experienced professionals in a dynamic team environment. Features such as a comprehensive training program and an established mentoring initiative ensure that interns finish the summer prepared and invigorated for their future career.
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The Divisions of Research and Statistics and Monetary Affairs offer summer paid and unpaid project internships for undergraduate and graduate students. Internships last ten to twelve weeks and while at the Board, interns are assigned to particular research projects.
These positions are available to students majoring in economics, finance, statistics, mathematics, or computer science. Internship selections are based solely on academic records and references and interviews are conducted by phone.
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Gallery Talk and Reception:
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Sandra Steinbrecher will be on campus for the opening of her photography exhibit in the CFL Gallery. Her "Educator Project" includes beautiful and sensitive portaits of students and teachers. Sandra will lead a gallery walk, a panel discussion about teaching in inner city schools, a brief ceremony welcoming Luther students into the teacher education program, and a reception. Accompanying Sandra on her visit to Luther will be Liz Dozier, the principal of Fenger High School, a "turn around" Chicago school that is featured in Sandra's portaits.
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Children from the SACC programs at Belle View, Bucknell, Bush Hill, Cameron, Clermont, Groveton, Hybla Valley and Rose Hill created beautiful holiday wreaths for senior citizens residing at the Gum Springs Glen Senior Apartments, a retirement community for active seniors. The 60 residents enjoyed a holiday tree trimming social where they were able to choose their favorite wreath to decorate their door for the holidays. A total of 70 unique wreaths were hand-made by the SACC children.
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Children at Laurel Ridge SACC enjoyed a presentation by Randall Miller, a Smithsonian volunteer and SACC parent, of exhibits borrowed from the Insect Zoo of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The children used magnifying glasses to examine the interesting collection of insects as Mr. Miller explained about their characteristics, habitats and behavior.
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Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
The issue of information security has been on the UN agenda since the Russian Federation in 1998 first introduced a draft resolution in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly. It was adopted without a vote (A/RES/53/70)
Since that time there have been annual reports by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly with the views of UN Member States on the issue:
- 2013 — A/68/156 and A/68/156/Add.1
- German submission to the 2012 report of the Secretary-General
- 2011 — A/66/152 and A/66/152/Add.1
In addition there have been three Groups of Governmental Experts (GGE) that have examined the existing and potential threats from the cyber-sphere and possible cooperative measures to address them. A first successful GGE report was issued in 2010 (A/65/201).
In 2011 the General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution (A/RES/66/24) calling for a follow-up to the last GGE. The GGE was tasked to continue to study existing and potential threats in the sphere of information security and possible cooperative measures to address them, taking into account the assessments and recommendations contained in the 2010 Report and was asked to report to the 68th session of the General Assembly in September 2013. This third GGE had three one week meetings, the first was held in New York in August 2012, the second in Geneva in January 2013, and the last in June of 2013 in New York.
The following Member States participated in the GGE: Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Canada, China, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, UK and USA. Ms. Deborah Stokes (Australia) was unanimously elected to Chair the Group.
The report of the 2012/13 Group of Governmental Experts was issued as document A/68/98*
In his forward to the new report, the UN Secretary-General notes "I appreciate the report's focus on the centrality of the Charter of the United Nations and international law as well as the importance of States exercising responsibility. The recommendations point the way forward for anchoring ICT security in the existing framework of international law and understandings that govern State relations and provide the foundation for international peace and security." He adds "As the group notes, the United Nations plays an important role in promoting dialogue among Member States on the issue of security in the use of ICTs and in further developing international cooperation in this field."


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Krystal Looney of Tullahoma was recently honored by Tennessee Tech University for her studies in Spanish.
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AcademicsJoseph Mazur— Mathematics
Learning mathematics at Marlboro is learning to spot the reflections of one course in another, Joe Mazur maintains. "One finds that a mathematical form that represents competition in an ecology course is often the same one that represents a chemical reaction or a knight's move on a chess board."
Joe likes to tell his students that the notice over Plato's academy -- "Let no one unversed in geometry enter these doors" -- was not some whimsical administrator's plan for a balanced curriculum but an example of the early understanding that mathematics and knowledge are inseparable. It is no accident, he says, that in Aristotle's time the word mathematics meant "any subject worthy of knowledge." This revelation often surprises students. But according to Joe's vision of mathematics, it is no surprise. "Mathematics does not exist only to serve science as a language," he claims. "The fact is, mathematics was an integral part of life. Today, too, it pervades everything."
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Ians corner???
how in the hell did you get a whole column named after you.
what did you do get cookie banned?
I do agreee with you,
let the federal reserve print all the moeny they want to ...
.. its all a joke anyway
The $14.3 trillion debt ceiling has already been exceeded and will expire on 2 August. If it is not increased, there might be a default and interest rates could rise. When the economy and housing markets are already as bad as they are...
This is a problem.
But some of you would rather whine and whinge about passing debt on to your children....even your grandhchildren.
Well, here is a message from them beyond the womb. They'll take care of the debt if we take care of their health, education and employment opportunities.
Besides, your parents passed their debt on to you.
So ignore the hype, don't treat your kids as victims and raise the debt ceiling. If you're that worried about the deficit then close the tax loopholes on the wealthy and tax the rich.
The only people complaining about higher taxes on the rich are....the rich. And there are not many of them.
So Man Up America!
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Ians corner???
how in the hell did you get a whole column named after you.
what did you do get cookie banned?
I do agreee with you,
let the federal reserve print all the moeny they want to ...
.. its all a joke anyway
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Thanks Mark. This country needs more liberals like you.
I am not sure why Cookie left.
I got my own part of the forum after Don and Redwood suggested I should have my own spot.
They're big fans you know.
Well you have hit the nail squarely Ian. 14 trillion is a huge number. If you were to gather all of the currency in the world from every country you could not come up with 14 trillion dollars. It is a staggering amount of anything. It is for all intents and purposes a fictional number that has no meaning to anybody except those attempting to gain political advantage. This is why all the hype over buying gold is a crock. Gold has no more value than what investors decide to give it, paper money's only true value is in the faith that the holder has towards the government issuing it. The simple truth is that sooner or later cash will be totally useless. I say take that 14 trillion, draw a big x through it and start over again. when I was much younger and still in school a billion was a very very big number. There were only a handful of corporations worth that kind of money, now we speak of trillions as though having a trillion dollars is common. I think that while your comments may have been in jest you are closer to the truth than you may think. Go ahead and raise the debt, raise it to a trillion trillion and let the chips fall where they may because whether it's 100 trillion or 14 trillion it is a debt that will never ever actually be paid down, hell the interest alone keeps that from happening.
it amazes me that one group of people on this planet has
the rest of us by the balls...... and we say thanks to them
the elite families that feel it is their birth-right to
print money out of thin air and sell it to the governments
of the world are the ones who are collecting the interest.
they run this planet, and all your politicians are just pawns
and stooges who do what they are told to do.....
watch this video about fractional=reserve=banking if you
want an education on who we are in debt to.......
I watched that awhile back, kept me up for three nights
It is hard to eat money or gold. We will need food, and water. Salt is needed also.
"Raise the debt ceiling, kick the can down the road and let our kids pay"
How many children do you have Ian ?
Send lawyers guns and money...the shit has hit the fan
Master Plumber Mark -
Thanks for posting that web site - I want to learn more about that.
If you go to Money Masters web site, they have a great set of quotations from Jefferson, Lincoln, and others about this - worth a read:
No, I don't think you do want to learn more about that, well unless you have a good stock of booze or weed in the house at the time. It's the stuff that despair is born of.
A little despair is good for the soul, especially if it can lead to taking charge of a situation. At least the Money Masters web site speaks optimistically of changing the situation of fractional reserve banking, "if we have the will" as the site says. If enough Americans would wake up about this, feel a pang of despair over the situation, and then insist on having the wrong righted, true change could happen (I think).
It's thanks to the things you guys are moaning about that most of you now own your own homes.
I doubt Don could have bought his house for cash.
Lending is good. And Banks' ability to lend is good. But the whole process needs to be properly regulated and it was not.
So we need bigger Government to regulate.
Look. We just have to realise that the world ten years from now is going to be very different from the one we live in today.
Sorry Conservatives. You'd best liberal up.
China will be the largest economy.
Global warming (caused mostly by Americans) would have happened with all sorts of consequences for agriculture.
And there will be an acute shortage of natural resources - water for example.
The key is to adjust. American innovation will shine through but we need to start raising taxes, especially on things like American gasoline.
And coal-powered electricity generation should be taxed. Renewables. That is what we need.
As for the $14 trillion debt, I am not too worried just yet.
The people that hold that debt (the Chinese) do not want to see the value of what they hold reduced. So nothing crazy is going to happen. If your neighbors owed you that much cash, I'm sure you'd keep them sweet as well.
So, yes - kick the can down the road. With a bigger Federal Government. Washington telling people in the rest of America how to live because, let's face it, they are cleverer.
Last edited by Ian Gills; 07-09-2011 at 05:45 PM.
I never got a Free ride, never expected to.
I worked all my life, and enjoyed it. I could sleep well at night, unlike free loaders in the USA.
Do you hold it against me that I bought my house for cash ?
I worked hard for my money.
Enjoy your weekend. I hope you stocked up...
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…so don't make any assumptions about the season based on one game. Sure, it wasn't pretty, despite some great performances by Andre Stringer, Ralston Turner and Aaron Dotson. Sure, there's a lot of guys that need to play better. But I hear a lot of grumbling about players (particularly Eddie Ludwig) whom people think will never be any good. And to that I say hold your goddamn horses.
Friday night was not Eddie Ludwig's finest performance. He did score 4 points with his still-gorgeous free-throw shot, and he did grab three steals to outdo his 2 turnovers, but he fouled out after just 18 minutes on the floor. Despite his foul trouble, he needs to play more aggressively. He did not attempt a field goal. On one play, Andre Stringer tried passing the ball to Eddie wide open in the paint, but Eddie wasn't ready, and the ball went out of bounds for a turnover. That's the kind of thing that he needs to be ready for. He also made a bad in-bounds pass.
Speaking of Andre, the rookie had 21 points, sank 4 3-pointers and gathered 5 assists and 3 rebounds. He did have 6 turnovers and 4 fouls, but this is a freshman's first game. I'd say there's a lot of promise.
Ralston Turner looks like LSU's best player. He too had 21 points along with 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, but he didn't nearly have problems with turnovers or fouls that the others had.
As for the other rookies, Matt Derenbecker did little with his six minutes while Jalen Courtney made a nice basket on 3 minutes. I didn't see either of these guys play in the second half, and I wasn't too sure about that decision because Jalen looked good and the sooner we get D-beck going, the better.
Malcolm White and Garrett Green both played well at center. White scored 12 points, nabbed 4 rebounds and blocked 3 shots, while Garrett Green sank his only field goal and led the Tigers with 6 rebounds. White had 4 turnovers and 4 personal fouls, while Green limited mistakes to 1 turnover and 2 PFs.
Aaron Dotson played very well, and, yeah, he's a new man out there. He made all 5 of his field goals, shot 7-8 from the line, got 2 steals, 3 boards and a blocked shot, while only turning it over once. It looks like Trent Johnson's patience with Dotson's struggles will pay off for the Tigers.
Defense was another story. NSU's Will Pratt played great all night, essentially carrying the Demons with 29 points, 5 boards and 5 steals. The demons didn't shoot wonderfully, but they did get 21 offensive rebounds, and were able to capitalize on that.
LSU needs to play better at the boards. The Tigers also need to stop turnovers (we had 25 total compared to NSU's 17) and limit personal fouls (30). NSU shot just 13-27 from the line. Other teams won't be as bad.
But LSU has young talented guys who can shoot the three. Offensively, we're loads better than we were last year, but LSU is not a complete team yet. But, once again, it's the first game of the season.
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July 24 "Clark Through The Decades Family Day" Offers Fun Blasts from the Past
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June 09, 2005
"Through the Decades at the Clark Family Day" on Sunday, July 24 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute celebrates 50 years of art in nature with a day of fun activities looking back at the past five decades and into the future. This free fun-for-all-ages event will be held both indoors and outdoors on the Clark campus from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the galleries will also be free on this day.
Test your skills at Hula-Hoop, a climbing wall, a Velcro jump, and other games from the past and present, available all day. Feeling nostalgic? Vintage TV shows will play in the courtyard all afternoon and vintage cars of the past 50 years will be on display on the grounds. Ongoing art activities will include creating Dick and Jane puppets, love beads, and money mobiles under a tent on the South Lawn. Memory graffiti boards, one for each decade, will invite guests to reminisce with their words, phrases, and drawings. Looking ahead to the next 50 years, a psychic will offer fun future forecasts all day, available at $5 for a 10-minute session.
From poodle skirts, hot pants, and tie dye, to neon and high-tops, the Fifty Years of Fashion show at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. will bring to life the popular styles of the past five decades. At 12:45 and 3:15 p.m., enjoy the sounds of Broadway musicals from the past 50 years in the auditorium.
The South Lawn area will host dance lessons beginning at 11 a.m. Learn the Jitterbug at 11 a.m., Twist at noon, Hustle at 1 p.m., break-dancing at 2 p.m., and don't miss the 1990s ever-popular Macarena at 3 p.m.
Capturing the material world of pop culture will be a Time Capsule Boutique offering music, vintage fashion, and videos. The boutique will be open for shopping throughout the family celebration.
Pizza, hamburgers, sushi and more will be available from local food vendors Hot Tomatoes, Spice Root, Helen's Place, Tupelo Honey, Lickety Split, Taconic Restaurant, and Jae's at the Clark on the grounds all day.
The Clark is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a year-long program of special exhibitions and initiatives, including the establishment of a new prize for arts writing and the first national tour of masterpieces from its permanent collection. The program also encompasses several special exhibitions including Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (through September 5, 2005), the first exhibition to examine the artist's post-Revolutionary years, and Little Women, Little Men: Folk Art Portraits of Children from the Fenimore Art Museum (July 4-October 9, 2005) featuring 11 paintings of children by American itinerant portrait artists including Ammi Phillips, Erastus Salisbury Field, Joseph Whiting Stock, William Matthew Prior, and others (part of the Berkshire-wide collaboration "American Traditions"). In summer 2006, The Clark Brothers Collect Renoir to Matisse, Homer to Hopper will explore the collecting history of Sterling Clark and his brother Stephen, bringing together works from their acclaimed collections for the first time. Celebrations and programs are planned for area residents throughout the 18-month festivities.
The Clark is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (daily in July and August). Admission June 1 through October 31, is $10 for adults, free for children 18 and under, members, and students with valid ID. Admission is free November through May. For more information, call 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu.


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Kilbride native likely to join Rochester Americans at Spengler Cup
If there is an upside, perhaps it's that Luke Adam will very likely get to spend Christmas in a beautiful town in the Swiss Alps.
As part of the latest shuffle to the Buffalo Sabres' roster, Adam has been demoted from the NHL team to their American Hockey League affiliate, the Rochester Americans.
Adam had one goal in nine games during his recall to the Sabres, giving the 23-year-old forward from Kilbride a total of 15 goals and 11 assists in 84 games with Buffalo over parts of the past four seasons,
Despite only having played 15 games in Rochester this season, Luke Adam returns to the Amerks as the team leader with 13 goals and fourth in scoring with 18 points in just 15 games.
Rochester plays three more AHL regular-season contests before leaving for Davos, Switzerland to participate in the international Spengler Cup tournament, beginning Dec. 26.
The Sabres also sent defensemen Mark Pysyk and Brayden McNabb to the Amerks in their latest move, while recalling forward Kevin Porter and rearguard Chad Ruhwedel.
That makes 11 different players who have moved between Rochetsr and Buffalo since Ted Nolan and Pat LaFontaine were hired last month in an effort to turn around the Sabres, who were 2-9-1 in their last 12 games heading into Tuesday's home game against the Winnipeg Jets.
Nolan and Lafontaine took over when head coach Ron Rolston and general manager Darcy Regier were fired.


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Huntington Hartford's old Gallery of Modern Art—the white marble bonbon that stood at 2 Columbus Circle from 1964 until a couple of years ago—was a hard building to love but became an even harder one to hate. Excoriated by critics when it went up, then championed by preservationists when it was threatened with destruction, the building provides an object lesson in the inexorable march of architectural fashion and may point to an even more basic truth about people and buildings: we get used to things we don't like and then come to like things we've got used to. The eventual decision to refurbish the building entirely has also provided a young Oregon architect named Brad Cloepfil with a dauntingly controversial commission.
The Gallery of Modern Art, one of several quixotic cultural projects launched by Hartford, an heir to the A. & P. fortune, who died earlier this year at the age of ninety-seven, was originally intended to house his collection of figurative works and to stand as a riposte to what Hartford saw as the reign of abstraction at the Museum of Modern Art. The architect was Edward Durell Stone. Stone had been a leading American exponent of the International Style, but, in the fifties, his new wife, a fashion writer he met on an airplane, encouraged him toward elegance and decoration, and he began to fill his buildings with glitter and marble and screens and gold columns.
As a museum, the Columbus Circle building was a disaster. The galleries, tricked out with expensive wood panelling and brass fixtures, were cramped, and the institution closed after five financially ruinous years. And yet somehow the structure's dainty columns, tiny portholes, huge arches, and vast windowless expanses of flat, unadorned white marble embedded themselves more deeply into the consciousness of New Yorkers than many better buildings. So what if it looked like a Bauhaus version of the Alhambra—or, as Ada Louise Huxtable, then the architecture critic at the Times, put it, "a die-cut Venetian palazzo on lollypops"? Amid the austere glass boxes of the nineteen-fifties and sixties, it seemed to strike a blow for quirky individualism. Huxtable's harsh judgment gave rise to a nickname—the Lollipop Building—that was as much affectionate as mocking.
The building eventually wound up in the hands of the city, which, in 1998, decided to sell it to the highest bidder. The city repeatedly refused to have its own Landmarks Preservation Commission consider giving 2 Columbus Circle landmark status, a move that provoked outrage but kept the building salable and more or less sealed its fate. Whether or not the building deserved landmark status depends on what you think a landmark should be: it wasn't great architecture, but it had unique qualities and some historical importance. In 2002, the city agreed to sell it to the Museum of Arts and Design, formerly the American Crafts Museum. The museum was eager for an architect who had never built in New York before, and hired Cloepfil, whose firm, Allied Works Architecture, in Portland, was just completing its first major project, the sharp and serene Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. Cloepfil started work on his design while the legal struggle to preserve the building was in progress, but in 2005 the preservationists lost in court, and construction began. The building will open next month.
Cloepfil ended up all but demolishing the original building and creating a new one of exactly the same shape and size, and almost the same color. He kept the gentle curve reflecting the shape of Columbus Circle but changed just about everything else. To let light into the interior, he made long linear incisions, two feet wide, in the façade. These glass channels—Cloepfil has called them "ribbons of light"—make a number of right-angle turns across the façade. In place of Stone's marble are twenty-two thousand terra-cotta tiles specially made with a slightly iridescent glaze. Depending on the light, they look white or off-white or sparkle with tiny hints of color. Cloepfil told me that the use of ceramic and glass tied the new building to its role as a museum of craft, while its echo of the original marble's color would suggest continuity with the earlier building. Fair enough. But that dual goal encapsulates the building's main problem. Cloepfil is trying as hard as he can to be different while trying also to be the same. Rarely has an architect been pulled so completely in opposite directions.
In some respects, he probably didn't have much choice. He couldn't make the building taller, because of zoning laws, and he couldn't make it bigger, because it already filled every inch of its site. And, since museums require mostly solid, windowless walls, he was stuck with those, too. Cloepfil is a sophisticated architect who, at his best, can endow simple geometries with a powerful dignity. His style couldn't be more different from that of Edward Durell Stone's late period, which dances on the edge of kitsch, and he has tried to transform Stone's fussy marble froufrou into something serious and tasteful. Sometimes, as in the long, turning lines of glass, he manages to assert himself firmly enough to keep the old building at bay. At other times, like at the base of the building, where he has kept all but one of Stone's lollipop-shaped columns and put them behind glass, he seems to have given up altogether and settled for a curatorial role. Ultimately, Cloepfil has been trapped between paying homage to a legendary building and making something of his own. As a result, if you knew the old building, it is nearly impossible to get it out of your mind when you look at the new one. And, if you've never seen Columbus Circle before, you probably won't be satisfied, either: the building's proportions and composition seem just as odd and awkward as they ever did.


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This guy is preaching the old time Baptist (hate everyone but themselves and sometimes themselves too) religion.
Tim Tebow backs out of Church appearance amid 'new information'
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow took to Twitter on Thusday morning to announce that he is cancelling a speaking engagement with the First Baptist Church of Dallas in light of "new information that has been brought to my attention."
It's unclear what the "new information" is that caused him to back out of the April 28 appearance. As the Dallas Morning News points out, the Church is led by Dr. Robert Jeffress who has been known for making controversial comments:
Jeffress has been outspoken against homosexuality, said Islam and Mormonism are "heresy from the pit of hell" and tied Catholicism to "a Babylonian mystery religion" that corrupted the early Christian church.
But Jeffress contends it is simply his job to preach what he believes the Bible says is the truth:
"I think as pastors we have a duty to preach 'the whole counsel of God,' and not just discuss those that are politically correct. It's my role to speak clearly on the issues on which the Bible speaks clearly. It's my role to preach what the Bible says, and that includes the controversial issues. [T]he reason for this firestorm is not because the word of God has changed. It's because society has changed."
A rep of the Church gave TMZ a little more color as to why they think Tebow cancelled on them:
"We are saddened that Mr. Tebow felt pressure to back out of his long-planned commitment from numerous New York and national sports and news media who grossly misrepresented past comments made by our pastor, Dr. Robert Jeffress, specifically related to issues of homosexuality and AIDS, as well as Judaism."
While I was looking forward to sharing a message of hope and Christ's unconditional love with the faithful members of the historic…—
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… First Baptist Church of Dallas in April, due to new information that has been brought to my attention, I have decided to cancel my…—
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…upcoming appearance. I will continue to use the platform God has blessed me with to bring Faith, Hope and Love to all those…—
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…needing a brighter day. Thank you for all of your love and support. God Bless!—
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"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear-
I will choose Free Will."
Rush "Free Will"
The cause of most of the death and destruction in the history of the world can be attributed to religion. i.e. my god is better than your god. I find many religious people to be narrow minded, uneducated and of low tolerance to other people of differing religions. Again, a case of my god is better than your god. Reminiscent of children in grade school with the "my dad can beat up your dad". Religion still has its place in the world but that is only in the history books for humanity to look back on and say "how stupid were we back then". The modern world has no need for old time religion as science has overtaken the backward views and attitudes of the uneducated humanity.
I rely on no "celestial voice" to govern my actions.
I take responsibility for my actions and decisions in this life.
Religion is just an opinion. Charismatic people throughout history have swayed the uneducated, the desperate, the downtrodden, the underprivileged and the racist toward their own personal views and opinions.
There is no "proof" confirming the existence of any deity, no more than there is any "proof" of the existence of alien visitors and UFOs. Frankly, I would be more inclined to believe in the existence of ET than a god. In fact, I would be more inclined to believe that the deities of religion were, in fact, alien visitors to this planet in historical times.
"I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Free Will."
Sadly, Christianity has become a religion of hatred. Hate gays because they do things we don't think they should be doing. Hate other religions because our religion is the one true religion. Hate scientists doing embryonic stem cell research because it goes against what we believe in. Hate abortionists, hate this hate that. Everyone who does not believe in what we believe in will burn in the imaginary fires of hell. Whatever happened to live and let live?
God was created by man in his own image to help us overcome our fear of death. We created god in our own image because we don't want our god to be radically different from us, such as the Great and All Knowing Flying Spaghetti Monster. But the Flying Spaghetti Monster is just as real as god.
Timmy needs to focus all his energy on finding a CFL or NFL team that needs someone to block for the punter. His career in pro football is on very shaky ground.
Whether or not one believes in God, I think most folks would recognize this action by Tim to be positive-- emphasizing not a God of punishment and judgement, but one who is patient, kind and other-focused... yeah, like "Love." Thanks, Tim. ;-)
Wonder if Tim will realize that the platform of God is overflowing with crazies like this Jeffress idiot. It can't help but be so when the platform is built upon the belief in a long-dead person talking to people and a book written but ancient nomads.
Timmah! is smart enough to know he shouldn't soil his "brand" while it is still somewhat lucrative.
I look foward to the day when a story like this involving Tebow isn't on the sports page. Leave this stuff to TMZ or whomever covers stuff like this. I'm all Tebow'd out.
Call me when he does something sports related.
This is a smart move. Finally his management team is connected to reality. Tebow is a great guy, and I hope he's starting to surround himself with better people.
Sweny: Do you believe in judgement? If God is just he will judge us all. Those who die without Christ will suffer forever in a lake of fire. That is simply Biblical. Those who accept Christ's death as payment for their sins will live forever with God. Christ is either God, The Way, The Truth, and the Life or He is not. He said "Before Abraham was born I Am." You can't have it both ways. He was God or a complete nut. How is stating that hateful? Is it not more hateful to know your neighbor is going to suffer forever, with no hope of getting out, and failing to warn him?
I don't know what bible this pastor is reading and quoteing from, but my bible reads " Judge ye not lest you be judged. To condemn anothers faith I don't think is written anywhere. As for Judaism, Christ himself was a Jew and I haven't found anywhere in the bible that says to hate or condemn them. Christ teaches love, compassion, and tolerance. He also teaches us to despise sin but love the sinner for he or she is our brother and sister. All believers sin and that is why we shold pray for forgiveness. I think this preacher has been misguilded somewhere in his life and has now come to preach hate and intolerance. I don't feel this is the right course to take if your truly searching for the right path to our heavenly father. This preacher needs our prayers and forgiveness. I pray that our lord and savior Jesus Christ will forgive him and set him on the right path' AMEN.
@Realistic29 Sorry BUB, but Christianity is the most tolerant religion on earth. Jesus raised the status of women from that of second class property but you dont hear the feminists praising him. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Some have been forgiven is all. I laugh at your calling it hateful!
@Realistic29 God is not mocked; remember that about one millisecond after your brain waves cease my friend.
@Realistic29 Hey, The GREAT and ALL KNOWING Spagettis Monster is not to be made fun of,,,
Don't make me call for a Jihad of meatballs,,,
And the Great Flying Spahhetti Monster also tastes better with a good sauce and grated cheese.
@cybergrace So let's avoid anything which might hurt someone else's feelings? Uh, no thanks. I have no problem w/ what the Dallas minister said. At least he has convictions and is obviously not a politician.
@The Dude Obviously someone who is so old he saw everything first-hand, right? ; )
Another radical right wing nut job. Do you realize that if you were born Jewish you wouldn't be talking about Christ? If you were born in Asia you would not be talking about heaven and hell, but about reincarnation? Do you know that the bible you are quoting is roughly the tenth version of the bible written since the time of christ? All other previous bibles are said to be corrupted and untrue by the current christian churches? Don't you wonder why if god is all knowing, he has had to be involved in ten different bibles and still can't get it right? To answer your question. He was a complete nut. We created god in our image because we dislike the possibility of dying and nothing good happening after death such as reincarnation or heaven and we need to manufacture hope. It's our pathetic way of dealing with death.
@Sweny Through most of history, the most-quoted verse in the Bible was, "for God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." In our day, "judge not lest ye be judged" has replaced it. That verse is taken completely out of context by people like you. In many places in the Bible, we are told to be aware that the world is evil, to discern false practices and false religions, and most importantly, the spread the good news of Christ's redeeming love. We ARE to judge, and to figure out what is false and what is true, and to warn the unbelievers of their fate if they don't accept Christ.
All religions claim that heaven (or something like heaven) is the reward for believers, and all others are condemned. Therefore, all religions are mutually exclusive. Only one can be right. Christianity is the most loving, forgiving, and tolerant of all religions. It is the only one in which God sought to reach mankind, instead of laying down a set of rules and requiring mankind to earn God's favor.
The Bible doesn't teach us to hate or condemn anyone, but to love everyone as Christ loves us. If someone knew the cure for cancer, would it be loving to withhold that information lest he be criticized as being intolerant of others' disease? Of course not. In the same way, Christians hold the key to eternal life in the presence of God, and it is more loving to share this information than to keep it a secret.
@Sweny He's reading from the Bible where Jesus say's I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father, except through me. And I would suggest that you look further into what the Bible teaches about "judging" because it never says that you can't judge, in fact it commands to judge righteously. And if you want to know where judaism is condemned, read Hebrews. We are no longer under the old covenant but under the new. Love is not watering down the truth, as you seem to think it is. Love is sharing the truth, in hopes that the Holy Spirit will open up hearts. Do you believe that Jesus is the only way, yes or no? If so, where do people go that are not in Christ? Ask yourself that question, and then ask if you care enough to tell them.
@tekwrite @Realistic29 Most tolerant? Sure, Jesus was, not his followers. A case in point is how the Catholic church continues to treat women as second-class citizens. Nowadays, "christian" and "tolerant" do not go together. Try "righteous".
@stabmasterarson21 @cybergrace I have a lot of problems with what the minister say's, but, like you pointed out, he is at least not backing away from it and owns it,, unlike Timmy.
Nice built-in mechanisms you have there for being judgmental and forcing your religion on others, much like Christianity was forced on the Romans when Constantine converted and forced it upon the whole of the empire (imagine the State today trying to force a religious belief system upon the populace; I doubt it would go well). Thankfully not every religion is like that, else there would be even more religious strife and intolerance in the world.
Your religious education seems to be sorely lack, so a few points are in order:
"All religions claim that heaven (or something like heaven) is the reward for believers, and all others are condemned."
Wrong. Buddhism doesn't speak of heaven, condemn other religions, or reward followers, other than giving them the gift of being able to think freely and open-minded.
"Therefore, all religions are mutually exclusive."
No. Again, refer to Buddhism, among other various religions not part of the Big 3 (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism). Not only that, a lot of the people who practice these beliefs also recognize or practice elements of other religions/beliefs, much like early Christianity assimilated much of the pagan beliefs of the time.
"Only one can be right."
No, actually none have to be right.
"Christianity is the most loving, forgiving, and tolerant of all religions."
Not by a long shot, sorry. As exhibited in this little thread, there is little love, tolerance, or forgiveness in Christianity. Since you guys want to get all Biblical, why not complain that we're no longer allowed slaves, since the Bible clearly outlines their proper treatment, as well as the ability to have your children put to death should they disobey. Yeah, lot of love and tolerance in that message. Buddhism and a host of other religions easily have Christianity beat when it comes to love, forgiveness, tolerance, and compassion. (although you seem oblivious to any beliefs beyond the "big 3"). Your ignorance about other religions would be astounding were it not countenanced by your ignorance of your own.
As for your hypotheticals, morality has nothing to do with religion. As pointed out above, Christianity condemns children to death for speaking back to their parents, and instructs on the proper methods for beating your slaves. Half the 10 commandments have to do with the proper worship of god, not things like rape, slavery, child abuse, etc. So yes, if someone discovered a cure for cancer, it would be morally wrong, but that has nothing to do with your religion.
And no, I'm not Buddhist.
@chris77 Do you honestly believe the stuff you are spewing out here chris77? First of all. the Bible DOES say,"Judge not, that ye not be judged," whether you like it or not. And second of all, who, or should it be Who, ever gave you the right to believe that you could EVER know enough about ANY situation to be able to judge it righteously? And, thirdly, your last comment about Judaism is just ignorant and anti-Semitic. Please enlighten us further so we can see more evidence of your religious stupidity.
@ivy @tekwrite @Realistic29 Christianity shouldn't be classified as "hateful" because Dr. Robert Jeffress chooses to say something. His views don't reflect those of all Christians with Tebow obviously being one of them. Plus righteous is defined as "(of a person or conduct) Morally right or justifiable; virtuous." so I'm not sure what you were going for there. Maybe you meant "self-righteous."
@SelfRidge @Realistic29 I wouldn't know, better call Saul on that one. Most likely the reason anyone chooses to abandon one religion for another.
I would need to see some actual, verifiable, physical proof of a god's existence. Preferably said god in person (in deity?).
Sure, if there was a god, I'd love to know. It would be nice to settle things once and for all, and people can abandon all these ridiculous religious beliefs. I certainly hope it isn't the petty, egomaniacal, and childish god that is portrayed by Christians, though. I would hope for a being that is more pragmatic and open-minded. I know there are mere mortals that are more tolerant and open-minded than the god of the Bible.
I apologize for not being thorough and going back to the post with old testament references to see that it was @Realistic29 not you.
Jesus is talking about the law. If he was talking about the punishment for lawbreakers we would all be dead. Not everything in the OT is law. Paul does not claim that human slavery is good. He just says be content with where you are because you now serve Higher Power. But he also said if you can gain your freedom, do it. The breakup of the family is not because Jesus does it, but because choosing Him will cause others in the family to distance (or worse) . Would you condemn your brother, sister or any other member of your family if they chose to believe?
I will admit that many human beings have done terrible things in the name of God, including many so-called Christians. I will further admit that I have not always acted consistently with my beliefs. That fault does not fall on Jesus, just me.
I thought very much like you until my eyes were opened. I have had many conversations with my son about this topic. He is also very much like you.
I would ask you the three questions I have asked him.
Saul of Tarsus was a persecutor/killer of early Christians. What would cause a rising superstar of the Jewish Sanhedrin to reject his religion and choose Jesus?
What would you need to happen for you to believe?
Would you really want it to happen?
@SelfRidge Actually I believe I made that quite clear myself which references were Old Testament. So you're saying that doesn't count anymore? That no longer counts as the word of God? Because if you are, Jesus might disagree with you, since he seemed to think the Old Testament still applied (which I also pointed out). I also pointed out some NT quotes that clearly show calls to violence, endorsing slavery, etc.
There are only 2 reasons I can think for the world to be speeding toward violent confrontation, as you put it: 1) the rich hoarding all the wealth, leading to a revolution similar to France in the late 1700s, or 2) religious nutjobs that constantly insist the end times are approaching and have no problem forcing their views and actions on others.
I do not get your point at all about the source, and since we're likely to disagree about it anyway, I'm not sure I care.
I do not question God's right or authority to do anything He wants. I would point out that your references are all from the Old Testament. Jesus has been given the final authority to save and his commandments are to love God with all your mind, heart, strength and soul and love your neighbor as yourself. Can anyone logically refute these two commandments as being good to follow? (Please don't use the sociopath, psychopath, serial killer (or any other abberation) argument against loving as yourself). You have blinders on if you can't see that the world is speeding toward a seriously violent confrontation. That alone should give you pause.
The source may matter for one to accept or reject the statement's veracity. No matter what the source, the statement is either true or false.
@SelfRidge @Realistic29 @bobbyburke83 I believe you are the one questioning his authority, since you seem to completely ignore or neglect the many, many passages that clearly show your god ordering people to be killed or enslaved for various reasons.
Oh, and yes, the source of the book matters. Particularly if it's a bunch of people in power who get to determine what stays and what doesn't, and create passages from whole cloth.
@bobbyburke83 @SelfRidge Yes,,, but the Book Suess does not suggest evil, nor have any of the Suess followers that I know of commit evil upon others,, so which book TRULEY is the book of peace and love,,, Not to mention Green Egg's and Ham??
@SelfRidge @DanPaslawski See, I'm not wortried because I will not be standing in front of "The God I IMPUNE"!
IF there is a heaven,, It's pretty much going to be like the Keg parties I miss so much,
And if all they have is harp music,, I want to get where ever Jimmi Hendrix went,,, NOW THAT WOULD BE HEAVEN!!!
Oh, and Marijuana would be legal so I could get into my "Meditation" frame of mind on.
I would love to smoke a fat one with JC!
how cool would that be?
Sorry, but I said real Christians. Real Christians do not murder. Both of your responses indicate that you consider your individual intellects greater than God's. At the very least you question His authority. Doesn't matter what the source of the book is. The quote exists and is either true or false. I accept it as true, you obviously accept it as false. I don't think either one of you is an idiot, but it doesn't really matter what I think. I am sad that you are so deceived. Guess that's the difference between you and this nutjob.
I agree with one thing you said. Religion is a sinkhole. Following Christ is not a religion. It is a commitment to love God and Neighbor. Religionists have polluted the message.
@SelfRidge Yeah but your quoting a work of fiction. It is said in the divine book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by the great Dr. Suess that there is not one but two fish AND and a red and blue fish. Stupid ass sentence right? Probably think to yourself what an idiot I am right? well thats how I view you religious nutjobs
Religion is a sinkhole.populated by fools.
Christians have killed nonbelievers for eons. Here in America Christians can no longer get away with murdering nonbelievers so they take a different approach. Just damning to hell others such as gays and anyone else who doesn't follow religious dogma.
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives. (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)
Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood. (Jeremiah 48:10 NAB)
Yep....Christianity....a religion of peace....NOT
Most religions in the world... really proves your point. Stupidity does reign supreme. You will just have a lot of company. Real Christians are not similar to Muslims. We do not advocate killing people just because they don't believe as we do. We don't condemn you, you condemn yourselves. I would rather you all be saved. Jesus is quoted in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by Me. " That statement is either true or it's false. Believing it is false is a sinkhole. Please reconsider your "the earth is flat" belief while you still can.
OMG.....SelfRidge is a complete idiot. Most religions in the world don't consider Christ to be the son of god. Just because your mommy and daddy told you so, does not make it real. The religious Christian right is made up of a bunch of uneducated boobs, very similar to the religious right Muslims. Stupidity reigns supreme.
bet you can your mind before you die,
@quietus28 @SelfRidge @DanPaslawski There are always sinkholes which are not seen, therefore......FAIL!
@SelfRidge @DanPaslawski Not a very good analogy. A sinkhole can be seen and verified objectively. And as pointed out earlier, you could be completely wrong about your beliefs. You could be worshipping the wrong god all this time, and we could easily turn around and try to make you see the light, and beg that you wake up before it's too late.
There have literally been thousands of gods worshipped throughout human history, and you believe in none of them save one. I just believe in one less.
It does not matter a whit, what you say or think. It only matters what is. When you stand before the God you impune and give account for your disobedience and rebellion, you will reap the reality of what you have sown. I pray that you will open your eyes and ears before that time. Anyone who thinks that the Lake of Fire is a laughing matter is a fool. If I warn you that there is a sink hole in the middle of the road and you ignore the warning and drive to your death, you, not I, own the responsibility for the result. God has warned you of the sink hole. His son willingly sacrificed his life so that you would not have to pay the deserved price for your disobedience and rebellion. Time is short, please wake up.
@quietus28 @Loren @texasken @Sweny Sorry to inform you, but There is no God.
End of story
@Loren @texasken @Sweny I think half a billion Buddhists would disagree, and you could make the same argument about Christianity if you want to get ticky tacky like that. They have places of worship as well as organized worship. And there are plenty outside of Christianity that don't view Christ as a deity, nor do their religions require a deity to exist, but rather a prophet or teacher (similar to the role Buddha played). Christianity is the only religion to make the claim that their prophet is divine.
And I don't understand the point of including the old Testament when it comes to Christianity if none of it matters. Sure seems to matter when they want to justify their anti-gay views. Besides, there are references to slavery in the New Testament, too. In several Pauline epistles, and the First Epistle of Peter, slaves are admonished to obey their masters.
Besides which, Jesus said he strongly approves of the law and the prophets and hasn't the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament (Matthew 5:17), including the laws that say you are entitled to put your child to death (Matthew 15:4-7). Jesus also said he will tear families apart (Matthew 10:21), and he condemns entire cities (Matthew 11:20-24). Of course, he also made clear that the majority of the people on the planet will go to hell (Matthew 7:13-14), so I guess that's all consistent.
@quietus28 @texasken @Sweny Buddhism is not really a religion, more a way (perhaps a way of life). The Buddha was a teacher, I do not believe he was a deity. Other than that Q28 you are dead on. I see where the Old testament only applies when a point is to be made. The new testament is used to get out of old testament laws via a new covenant. Christ was a bronze age Joseph Smith.
@chris77 You just made all the points I made for me. First of all, you ultra-religious types seem to always make the same argument re: child molesters, rapists, murderers,etc. etc. Of course that stuff is wrong, on the level of form. Always has been, always will be. But I'm talking about what is beyond form, more than form. Call it Spirit, God,Higher Self, Jesus Christ, whatever. You have to know what I'm talking about here, don't you? Also, what is hypocrisy to one man, may be the truth to another man. Who knows for sure - you? Doubtful. I know I don't. And also the ultra-religious, or ultra-judgmental,have an interesting way of using the Old and New Testament simultaneously to attempt to prove their point. You use the Old to justify your judgmentalism, and the New to justify your antisemitism, or Christ-killers, attitude. I realize this last sentence is judgmental of me, and I apologize for that. You can see how difficult it is not to live in this world without our judgements. I believe God just wants us to recognize this in all we do, turn it over to Him, and ask for Him to show us what "true" forgiveness is. Thanks for the opportunity to respond to your post.
@kirklfThat verse is speaking about hypocritical judgement, clearly. The Bible doesn't say you can't judge, at all. If it did then Sweeny just refuted himself, because he is judging the pastor in the article. As far as who gave me the right, God commands us to judge with righteous judgement, that means according to His word. Are you saying it's wrong to judge a child molester? Clearly it is okay to tell a child molester he is wrong. So not all judging is wrong. And I never said I "hate" jews as your comment seems to imply. I'm just saying they are wrong for rejecting Christ and relying on their own good works to save them.


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I can't recall a similar day since then in my own life, but it makes me happy to know that others experience that same sensation each year on campuses all over the world. I get the joy of reliving it to a small degree each time I attend a college graduation ceremony. Looking out over the sea of black gowns and mortarboards, I am able to forget about unemployment and recession and bask, if just for a moment, in a wave of hope and optimism.
On Saturday, I battled the early morning crowd to attend the University of Nevada, Reno graduation. As I made my way through the traffic, I thought about my own parents fighting the crowd to see me cross the stage and receive my diploma 14 years ago. Given the unlikelihood of finding me in that giant graduation crowd — back in 1998 most people didn't carry a cell phone — it doesn't surprise me that my family left right after the ceremony and I didn't even see them during the course of commencement. They were also with my grandmother, who didn't get around so well so I'm sure that was part of the reason for their quick departure. It must take a lot of love and pride for a parent or feeble grandparent to put up with those insane crowds for the slight chance of hearing their graduate's name called or maybe seeing them cross the stage, or possibly not even see them at all during the melee.
But for the people going through it, any amount of inconvenience is worth it. Not because the graduation ceremony is inherently fun, quite the opposite in fact. Getting up at an early hour to stand around in uncomfortable shoes and wear silly robes and hats while listening to bad speeches isn't high on anybody's bucket list. Fortunately, if you mix in the exuberance of youth, relief of four years (or more) of toil coming to an end and as much alcohol as one can consume without seeing double diplomas, the ceremony turns into a soiree. On Saturday, I saw more than a few folks sipping on beers as they waited with friends to take their seats in the UNR quad. If memory serves, I carried a flask of rum on my graduation day.
I talked to several graduates about their job prospects, expecting the question to serve as an unpleasant and unwelcome reminder of the reality these now-former students would wake up to Monday morning when the booze wore off. To my surprise, about a half dozen or so I talked to had jobs lined up already. There were a couple who were taking time off to "find themselves" or were headed right back to the classroom to pursue even higher educations, but the degree of confidence in the future was surprisingly high in my small sampling. Maybe I just happened to talk to the lucky ones or it was just an extension of the mood of the day, but I would like to think that hopefulness and success were more than buzzwords from the cookie-cutter graduation speeches. It would be nice to think that hopefulness and success will be realities for all of the graduating classes of 2012. It would be nice …
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HCC offers lecture series on ancient Celtic masterpieces
Submitted by Leigh-Anne Mauk on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 12:00am
This summer, Hagerstown Community College's Center for Continuing Education is offering a two-part lecture series on the great Celtic masterpieces of the Mabinogion in HCC's Valley Mall Center.
This summer, Hagerstown Community College's Center for Continuing Education is offering a two-part lecture series on the great Celtic masterpieces of the Mabinogion in HCC's Valley Mall Center.
"Mabinogion" is a term that is generally used to refer to the collection of ancient Celtic stories that date from the early 12th to the early 15th centuries. Taught by HCC instructor, Karen Gray this two-part lecture series will delve into the past of Celtic storytelling, and will explore the sources, language and culture that make up these early tales.
The lecture series is broken up into two separate sections, "The Four Branches," on Wed., July 16, and "The Mabinogion's Arthurian Connection," on Wed., Aug. 13. The first half of the series focuses on the four core stories that make up the Mabinogion collection, collectively known as the "Four Branches." The second half of the series focuses on "Culhwch and Olwen," the earliest Arthurian tale in Welsh, as well as three other Arthurian romances. Course sections may be taken together for a cost of $50 or separately as individual sections for a cost of $20 each. Senior adults age 60 and older may take the entire lecture series for $35.
For more information or to register, call 301-790-2800, ext. 236.