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Christopher Marlowe's translation, Lucan's First Book, was entered into the Stationer's Register with Hero and Leander in September, 1593, and not printed until 1600 as Hero and Leander: begunne by Christopher Marloe: whereunto is added the first booke of Lucan translated line for line by the same author (STC (2nd ed.) 17415). There are obvious parallels between Lucan's text and Marlowe's philosophical interests in Book I, but it is difficult to affix a date of translation. Some have argued that the translation was probably written during the time when the theatres in London were closed in 1592-3, while others argue for an earlier date, placing the translation within Marlowe's Cambridge years. Both the …
Ward, Allyna. "Lucan's First Book". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 February 2011
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VIENNA (Reuters) - "The Sound of Music" has faded in the Austrian city of Salzburg, which has blocked plans to turn the original von Trapp family villa portrayed in the Hollywood favorite into a hotel, says the company behind the idea.
The 1965 film is based on the true story of how trainee nun Maria wins over Baron von Trapp and his seven children through her singing and good nature, and its fame draws hundreds of thousands of tourists to Salzburg, and the villa, each year.
But Salzburg's planning council is standing in the way of the hotel project because residents are worried the city, close to Austria's idyllic Alps, will be overrun by more tourists, according to the Villa Trapp company.
"Salzburg bites the hand that feeds its tourism," the developer said in a statement on Wednesday.
"It could be thought madness that a new tourism venture is being blocked when global financial problems could result in far fewer tourists for Salzburg," it said.
No one from the local government was available for comment.
The hit movie, which starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, has inspired musicals worldwide and healthy sales of Sound of Music merchandise.
In Austria, visitors can get married at the villa, which was home to the real von Trapps from 1923 to 1938 before they fled the Nazi takeover of Austria.
Nazi Germany's security chief Heinrich Himmler used the villa, just outside Salzburg, as a home close to the Austrian Alps until 1945. Some opponents of the hotel have accused the developers of wanting to build a memorial to Nazism.
The developers want to provide 14 hotel rooms for guests to the villa and say they have a solution to the traffic problems which extra tourists could cause. They are looking to appeal the decision but the whole process could take up to three years.

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So, why approach this topic again? Well, while I was shopping for some new reading for my Kindle, I came across a few particularly interesting books. First, I saw the cover of a book titled Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper. On its cover was a sort of distorted silhouette of Jesus hanging on the cross. Looking at that title and cover, I got excited. "Haha, awesome, how blatantly disrespectful. Don't waste your life praying to an imaginary friend and going to church to worship something that doesn't exist. I love the premise!"
Well, then I read the synopsis:
John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .' Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.' That is a tragedy.
"God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives."
Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying to avoid sin. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that counts for nothing. It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the cross of Christ and making the glory of God your singular passion. If you believe that to live is Christ and to die is gain, read this book, learn to live for Christ, and don't waste your life!Hrm, not what I was expecting at all. That's not to say that it wouldn't be an interesting read, but man were my hopes up for a kickass de-conversion book.
It's funny, because if they truly were devout Christians, Piper would be right. If they truly believed in God and in the validity of His words in The Bible, they shouldn't be concerned with seashells, or cruising the ocean, or franky anything of this Earth. Everything they do should be geared toward glorifying their jealous, attention-hungry god and ensuring their ticket into heaven. What's 80-100 years of an Earthly existence entirely spent worshiping God and adhering to his rules compared to an eternity of either perfect bliss or continuous torment? (Setting aside, for the moment, that heaven is described as an eternity of worshiping God some more ... which, for many, is also torture.)
The couple Piper describes are acting just like closet atheists. They realize, at least subconsciously, that they'll die one day, so they should make the most of what little life they have. No, not by praising God from sunup to sundown, but by living -- truly living. So, they have fun, they love others, they collect experiences, and they otherwise spend their lives on what Piper calls "trivial diversions."
To Piper, that's sad. To me, well, thank God. Take the likely scenario that there is no heaven -- at least not as described in any of today's mainstream religions. If Piper had his way, this sweet couple would spend their entire lives seeking "passion" from glorifying a non-existent being, and then they'd die and that'd be it. They'd truly have wasted their lives.
After Don't Waste Your Life, I came across another book that looked promising -- and again, I was disappointed. This book was called The Christian Atheist by Craig Groeschel. Again, this book looked promising, and even the synopsis started out as the sort of preaching-to-the-choir diversion I love to read. Here's how it started:
Growing up, all my friends would have described my family as a Christian family. I assumed all my friends were Christians as well. We all believed in God. We occasionally attended church. We were good people. Even though we believed in God, we didn't know his word, didn't understand the gospel, and didn't pursue his will. We believed in God, but we lived as if he didn't exist.After pastoring for eighteen years, I've noticed a large percentage of people in my church living similar lives. Some seem to be Christian in name only without a lot of visible spiritual fruit. Others boldly claim Christ is Lord while living lives diametrically opposed to the teachings in scripture.The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere. While it is often easy to spot the hypocrisy in others, it is generally more difficult to see in the mirror. One day in an honest moment, I painfully admitted that although I unquestionably believed in God, I was leading the church as if he didn't exist.OK, good so far. It's a book by a pastor who realizes that everything he is preaching is empty, and that he's lying to himself and to his flock. But then he gets into this weirdness:
I wrongly depended more on my own abilities than on his Spirit. Sadly, I dangerously cared more what people thought about me than what God thought about me. And although I preached about putting your whole faith in God, I still lived as if everything was up to me.Erm, so he's saying you shouldn't take charge and have faith in your own abilities? You should simply rely on God to do things for you? And what's the deal with this: "I still lived as if everything was up to me." Everything is up to you, even if you believe in God. He allegedly gave you free will, so it is all up to you. He's basically discouraging having faith in yourself and your own decisions, and discouraging living your own life. In fact, he is quite literally encouraging being a sheep and joining the flock. How appropriate -- and how very sad.
The book Christian Atheism reflects my personal journey toward a more authentic God-honoring life.Doh. So there it is. Don't rely on yourself, don't rely on others, simply sit around and wait for Him to do with you what He will, and don't worry what others think about it. That's how you get to a more God-honoring life.
Well, have you considered the alternative, Craig? Have you considered that the feeling you eventually got about your life and your faith -- the same thing you were observing in others -- might be fine? That it was all a natural progression of all of the small experiences and feelings within you that were telling you it all was bullshit? Why revert to cognitive dissonance instead of embracing the fact that you no longer have to live a lie?
Just go out into the world and live a fun, fulfilling life as a good person. If there really is a God, wouldn't the kind of God you'd hope to be worshiping also be the kind of God who would let you into heaven if you led that kind of life?
It's just amazing to me the mental hoops Christians jump through in order to maintain their faith in the face of every instinct they have telling them to just fucking go out and live their lives already.
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Exiled Author Ma Jian Banned from Visiting ChinaAuthor Ma Jian has been refused entry to China on a book-buying trip to Shenzhen. Given the country's current political climate, he says, this was a development he had feared. From Tania Branigan in The Guardian: Citing the imprisonment of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo and the two-month detention of Ai Weiwei, he warned: "There are echoes of the Cultural Revolution, when no sounds could be heard other than the deafening voice of the Communist party. This current
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Join us Tuesday, November 10, for Inner Revelations: A Performance and Conversation on Dmitri Shostakovich's deeply personal String Quartet No. 8, Opus 110, composed in 1960.
Violinist Maria Sampen and violist Timothy Christie are joined by cellist Kevin Krentz and violinist Linnea Johansen to discuss and perform this masterful string quartet by one of the 20th Century's greatest composers.
Often in disgrace under the Stalin regime for his "bourgeois decadence" and Western influence, Shostakovich's works are marked by strong emotion, wit and parody. This event, 7pm in Slavonian Hall, is not one to miss!
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- You make ANY mini you want!! You don't start with a partner, you don't have an inspiration mosaic to go off of, you simply make whatever you want. You can make 1 OR 2 minis.
- The mini needs to be between 12 inch square and 20 inches square. It does not have to be square, just not smaller than 12" and not larger than 20". It can be rectangle, diamond, circle, square, hexagon, etc. (must be finished, so quilted and bound).
- more details on the requirements can be found HERE.
Once your mini is made, you send a picture to the group mama. They upload all the quilt photos to the flickr pool anonymously! Sounds awesome, huh?! No one has any idea who made what. So that means no sneak peek photos!
Once the deadline for entries closes, everyone gets a form (or however they do it now) and you vote on every quilt, your favorite is number 1, next favorite is 2, etc. maybe that's not right, maybe your most favorite is the largest number? Anyway, they work it out. Whoever's quilt gets the most votes, or is the most favorited, gets their number 1 pick. The next person to get the most votes get their favorite quilt, unless it's already taken and they get their next top pick. So on and so forth. It is a really fun way of organizing it!
The better mini quilt you submit (hint, take really good photos too!) then the more likely you are at getting your top pick!! (If you submit 2 mini quilts then you will receive 2 mini quilts!)
And just had a walk down memory lane! lol. Here is my first entry quilt (embarrassed - it's so crooked. But my now good friend received it and said she loved it! So happy to swap with friends!) :)
Kate Spain's fandango line.
I am actually destashing the rest of this jelly roll if anyone is interested! The only pieces missing are what you see here, about 10" off each print. ($40+shipping). Send me an email with your paypal if you are interested. oops, didn't make this into a selling post...)
Here was my entry for the Christmas swap, I really liked it! and miss it just a little bit now. ;)
Here's the Christmas mini I received. I still love taking this out every Christmas season and hanging it up! :) (I really don't like the way flickr photos are embedded anymore, and that you can browse right from the webpage, but it's kind of cool for now because you can get an idea of some of the minis that were exchanged a few years ago anyway. Visit the group page to see them all!) :)
For the Christmas swap my mini wasn't the highest voted mini, but I still got my number one pick because it wasn't the top pick of the people above me. So if your quilt isn't the most popular, that does not at all mean that you still won't walk away with your favorite mini!! That's the beauty of it since everyone has different tastes. It's great! The other mini I won is perfect in Mabel's room and we use it as a little kitchen rug and keep it with her kitchen set. And the little doggy sleeps on it. :) Perfect. :)
Their current round's deadline for entries just got pushed back to October 30th. They don't have enough participants this round and if they don't get at least 4 more, I think, then it will close and the round will be canceled. I really don't have the time right now to enter, but it's such a fun group so I'd hate for it to close. If you are at all interested, head on over!!!
You could even do double time, make a celestial star mini, finish by the deadline of Oct 5th for my Celestial Star QAL and then swap it in this group!! :) (that might be crazy though... lol.)
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I have spent the last four days on the Microsoft stand at a huge education show (BETT 2010) to field technical questions on Windows 7 and Office 2010. I take my hat off to the IT Pro's working in schools as they have to cope with all kinds of applications and hardware and usually there are only one or two per school.
But don't take my word for it here are some of the more unusual conversations I had:
- Will Pagemaker 5 run on windows 7 as I want to upgrade form windows 3.11? (no idea !)
- Can I save my document in DAISY format? Daisy is an open accessibility format allowing documents to be zoomed in and narrated as audio (like talking books) , and the add-on for this can be found here
- What happened to Producer so I could make a video of my PowerPoint presentation?. This is now built into PowerPoint 2010 (go to backstage i.e. file-> share)..
- Where did Moviemaker go in Windows 7 – it's now a live program and you can download live maker here
In future these guys will be opening up their networks to pupils' laptops and of course there is the 20% turnover in every school every year as pupils form the senior year leave and new ones arrive in the junior year.
Fortunately there are quite a few things to make life a little easier for them , probably the most important being live@edu, which is free Microsoft hosted e-mail and collaboration for pupils and students, so that the IT staff in a school only have to worry about e-mail for the staff.
Other resources for schools in the UK are on the Microsoft education portal, and the education team's blog including part 1 and part 2 of ICT Money Saving tips, which was a standing room only talk on the Microsoft stand at BETT.


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Tatsuo Miyajima is the kind of artist who stands out, even in the largest of exhibitions. My first glimpse of his work came at the 1988 Venice Biennale where his Sea of Time was the most talked-about piece on display. Amidst all the derivative and nondescript stuff that inhabits the specially curated component of the Biennale, Miyajima had created a literally luminous installation.
Entering a darkened room one was confronted with a 'sea' of tiny red digital counters at floor level. In the pitch-black chamber only the numbers were visible as they clicked on to infinity. It was like looking into the night sky and seeing the stars counting down the seconds to their own extinction. It was beautiful but also apocalyptic, making one conscious of the way each passing second brought both us – and the galaxies – closer to death.
There are few artists willing to embrace such huge themes, and Miyajima soon found himself in demand all over the world. In 1999 he was back in Venice, this time in the Japanese pavilion, with an imposing installation called Mega Death, which has been reconstructed for the survey, Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect with Everything, at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
As the title suggests, Mega Death was even more directly focused on mortality than Sea of Time. A vast, blue room lined with thousands of digital counters suggested an anonymous procession of individual human lives. When all the counters switch off simultaneously it seems that death's triumph is complete: there is only the void.
Curator, Rachel Kent, describes the installation as "a memorial to death on an industrial scale during the Second World War – recalling Hiroshima, Auschwitz…"
But does death need a memorial? Surely it's life that is commemorated in this eerie, blue, room-sized work – those fleeting, insignificant lives of the victims of war who have become statistics in history books.
If this sounds excessively morbid it has to be emphasised that Miyajima's chief preoccupation is time, of which mortality is only a consequence. Mega Death deals with those who were not allowed to live out their natural life span, but this humanistic indignation is offset by a philosophical belief in the Buddhist idea of reincarnation. Rebooting after a temporary shut-down, Miyajima's installation suggests that death is not the end. As the artist puts it: "Death comes after the process of wakefulness during the day as a kind of rest; but once you have rested well, you wake up again and come back to life."
Instead of death per se, Miyajima posits an alternation between existence and non-existence that Kent compares to a computer's binary code with its 1-0-1-0 pattern. By relying on the abstraction of numbers and the emotional resonances of saturated colour, he expresses compassion in an utterly unsentimental manner.
Although he may have developed a philosophical response that robs death of its terrors, Miyajima is still moved by suffering and injustice. He has produced performance pieces in which he repeatedly plunges his face into a bowl of water, allegedly the radioactive waters off the coast of Fukashima.
In another gigantic installation, Counter Coal, he has used nine tonnes of coal to create a black mountain studded with twinkling red diodes. At the MCA he has combined this piece with companion work, Time Train to the Holocaust, which takes the form of a model train looping around the coal mountain. We usually think of model trains as playful, but this piece feels sombre and sinister. The reference is to the trains that transported prisoners to the Nazi concentration camps.
It's amazing to learn Miyajima created the installation for the German town of Recklinghausen. It reveals the Germans' extraordinary commitment to confronting the crimes of World War Two, as seen in the Documentation Centres that have appeared in cities such as Nuremberg, Munich and Berlin. The irony for Miyajima is that Japan has been far less willing to look back openly and honestly on the war years.
The same holds true with the Fukashima disaster, which has become a major theme for Japanese artists even if the general public would prefer not to talk about it or deal with the ongoing consequences.
With his powerful sense of right and wrong one could view Miyajima as a political artist, but his protests are couched in oblique, metaphysical terms. His Over Economy series finds him painting over banknotes as a way of erasing the value we assign to money. He is aware, however, that in his case the overpainting actually transforms the bills into valuable works of art.
Most of Miyajima's works are not so obvious in their intentions, instilling a feeling of wonder that may or may not lead viewers to look for a deeper meaning. His Pile Up Life sculptures take the form of stupas covered in red or blue counters. Kent tells us that "each conical structure pays tribute to the many lives lost across Asia in recent years to natural disaster, including earthquakes, typhoons and mudslides."
None of this is immediately obvious as we stand in front of these works, watching the tiny counters ticking away. One assumes that the stupas signify Buddhist resignation to the power of nature which we foolishly believe we can control.
There is a high degree of theatricality in those installations that are immersive in nature. Floating Time uses video projections of numbers that invite us to catch them like insects. In Arrow of Time we lie on the ground staring at a firmament of twinkling red diodes. With this work some viewers are in and out within seconds, while others settle down in anticipation of an altered state.
Presentation is everything with such pieces. The Art Gallery of NSW owns a large installation by Miyajima called Region No 126701-127000 (1991), which is habitually placed above the escalators that descend to the contemporary galleries. Stuck on the wall in broad daylight it resembled an arrivals and departures board at the airport. To be displayed to best advantage Miyajima's digital counters require the cover of darkness.
The artist may be known for his engagement with hi tech devices, but – unless you're an electrical engineer – there is nothing especially attractive about a lot of counters and wires. It is not the technology itself that makes Miyajima's work so compelling, it is the way he uses technology to express a range of ideas and emotions that would take very different forms in more conventional media.
What this survey reveals is the depth of Miyajima's commitment to a humanist politics. Even as he aligns himself with Buddhist quietism he comes across as surprisingly passionate and committed.
The show also tracks his growing willingness to sacrifice complete control over his works, inviting various groups to contribute to the final form of a project. For instance, in the second incarnation of Sea of Time (1998) on the island of Naoshima, Miyajima set his tiny counters in a pool of water inside a traditional house. More than a hundred villagers were invited to choose a counter and determine its speed.
In recent years, whether it be a matter of planting trees or installing counters within separate shells, he has treated his works as collective endeavours in which the details are decided by a range of collaborators. To willingly cede control of his or her own creation may be one of the hardest things for an artist. For many the great joy of art is that it enables one to play God, crafting a world of one's own imagining. Yet as Miyajima has learned it can be even more satisfying to stand back and surrender to chance – not imposing one's will on the world but letting the world speak through the medium one has created.
In Miyajima's evolving career one can imagine the technology becoming increasingly intelligent and autonomous, able to create its own patterns and sequences. The artist's role will be to provide the moral and spiritual dimension that distinguishes us from the machines. In an ideal world technology would only ever be a means to an end – the problems arise when we forget what that end might be.
Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect with Everything
Museum of Contemporary Art, until 5 March
Published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 28th January, 2017.
Tatsuo Miyajima is the kind of artist who stands out, even in the largest of exhibitions. My first glimpse of his work came at the 1988 Venice Biennale where his Sea of Time was the most talked-about piece on display. Amidst all the derivative and nondescript stuff that inhabits the specially curated component of the Biennale, Miyajima had created a literally luminous installation.


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4:00 pm 2 September 2011
Had too many loose ends/was a bit all-over-the-place. was enjoyable, but certainly not one of his best works. my two favorites are still Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard-Biiled Wonderland.
4:00 pm 2 September 2011
A lot of environmental books/movies leave me feeling hopeless and terrified (a la McKibben's Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, the movie The Future of Food, etc.) - but this book provided a high-level overview of how to implement the necessary infrastructural changes to allow society to proceed in a sustainable, non-destructive way.
It deals with the topics of how goods are manufactured both from the perspective of how we expect them to be made (a cradle-to-grave mentality, if they even last that long) and how the manufacturers cater to a population satisfied with disposable goods. It addresses energy infrastructure, and the sometimes dubious methods involved in producing energy for a developed/developing world.
It uses relate-able examples that simplify the task of visualizing such a world.
And the most important thing, for me, was simply that it is so hopeful, without being naively optimistic. It provides for a groundwork for implementing these ideas in a manner that's economically feasible, a requirement in today's increasingly capitalist present-centric (with an increasingly blind eye towards the future) world.
I urge anyone who has any sort of curiosity in these matters to read the book. It's not long, nor a tough read (unlike
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays which had me pausing after every few paragraphs to digest it!) One could even approach it as a whimsical sci-fi book, a portrayal of a not-TOO-different world in which we're not slowly burying ourselves in a rapidly heating world towards a government-sponsored oblivion. Whimsy indeed - we need not all live in yurts to survive the next century.
4:00 pm 21 August 2011
Thought this was a great read. Was a refreshing perspective on suicide, which is a loaded and taboo subject, and so makes for difficult serious discussion thereof. Reminded me a bit of The Stranger for its narrative quality, and perhaps a little easier to digest. Am going to look into some of Levé's other works - specifically his photography.
4:00 pm 25 April 2011
Even slower than her first book, but very good... else I wouldn't be 500 pages in, not knowing EXACTLY what's going on, but still eagerly reading. She's a great author, although I'm pretty sure I liked the Historian more.
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|0 comments • Feb-28-2017 11:46 AM
|Does anyone have any more information on what happened earlier today ? I know that an Orange County deputy has been shot in the arm and leg . Does anyone know anymore about this situation ?
|Water issue in Ivy Tech Northeast forces classes out
|Fort Wayne, IN
|0 comments • Feb-23-2017 11:20 AM
|There seems to be some sort of water issue and everyone is being moved out of Harshman hall, does anyone know when this will be resolved ? I know that all facilities are closed there but was wondering if anyone has more information ?
|Nerlen Noels to the Dallas Mavericks what do you think about it
|Dallas, TX
|0 comments • Feb-23-2017 11:14 AM
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|serious car accident on chapman highway and Linford
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|0 comments • Feb-22-2017 09:13 PM
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|FBI raid in psychiatrist's office in Jacksonville
|Jacksonville, FL
|0 comments • Feb-22-2017 06:25 PM
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|Jimmy Butler to Celtics what do they have to give up
|Boston, MA
|0 comments • Feb-22-2017 06:18 PM
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|Why are the Orlando magic so awful this is unbelievable
|Orlando, FL
|0 comments • Feb-22-2017 06:09 PM
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|World Snowshoe Championships coming to Saranac Lake
|Saranac Lake, NY
|0 comments • Feb-22-2017 05:55 PM
|This Saturday February 25th, 2017 the world snowshoe championship will take place in Saranac Lake . There will be hundredth of athletes on hand and there will be 2 races a 10K one and a 5K race . Everyone is welcomed to attend and there is no doubt that this will be a big event !
|Restoring hearing loss might finally be a possibility
|Boston, MA
|0 comments • Feb-22-2017 05:44 PM
|Good news there might finally be a way to restore hearing and it has to do with scientist discovering how to regenerate the hairs that we have in our inner ears; which are crucial to hearing . This was a coordinated effort by researchers in MIT, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Brigham and Women's Hospital . They found a way to regrow hairs in primates . Human trials should begin sometime next year .
|Seattle cop leaked victims information to tv anchor
|Seattle, WA
|0 comments • Feb-22-2017 04:03 PM
|This story is horrifying a Seattle Cop is being accused of leaking victims personal information to a local TV anchor. The cop in question is Robert Marlow and he has been giving personal victims information to the TV anchor David Rose . The policemen is also being charged with drug possession which the FBI corruption unit busted him with .


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- All Ungodliness and Unrighteousness – Romans 1:18-20 (Wisdom of Solomon)
- Does Paul Teach "Natural Revelation"? (Wisdom of Solomon)
- The Foolishness of Idolatry – Romans 1:21-23 (Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs)
- What are "Dishonorable Passions" in Romans 1:26-27? (Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Philo of Alexandria)
- God Gave Them Over: The Sin List – Romans 1:28-31 (Wisdom of Solomon)
- God Shows No Partiality – Romans 2:11 (1 Enoch, 2 Baruch, Psalms of Solomon)
- The (non) Value of Circumcision – Romans 2:25-29 (Jubilees, Odes of Solomon, 1QS, 4QBarki Napshia)
For attitudes toward same-sex relations in ancient Judaism, see here and here.
An earlier post in Phil Long's Roman's series was also noted here.


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Herb Bread
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 T. plus 1 tsp. dried parsley, divided
1 T. dillweed
1/4 tsp. dried oregano leaves
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1 loaf Italian bread, sliced
2 T. grated parmesan cheese
In small bowl combine butter, parsley, dillweed, oregano and garlic powder. spread on both sides of bread. Reassemble loaf on large sheet of aluminum foil. Brush top with any remaining butter; set aside.
In another bowl, combine 1 tsp. parsley and cheese. sprinkle over bread.
Wrap in foil. Bake 10 minutes or until heated through.
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Date story was published: Tuesday, January 1, 1985
"What more can you say about Kenny Walker?" Joe Hall wondered aloud last night.
The question was rhetorical.
The rhetoric it inspired had to begin with this: Beat the nation's No. 11 team, Kansas, 92-89.
Walker scored a career-high 36 points. He grabbed a career-high 19 rebounds.
Those are the facts, ma'am. They are very similar - make that gloriously similar - to the 32-point, 15-rebound effort Walker gave in Freedom Hall against Louisville earlier in the season.
"I don't know what it is about this place, but I wish we could take it back to Lexington with us," Walker said. "Maybe it's the soft rims. You get a lot of rolls here."
Kansas, Coach Larry Brown in particular, thought UK, which evened its record at 4-4, got a lot of calls in Freedom Hall.
The Jayhawk coach spent much of the evening arguing with the referees. Most irksome was a foul call against Kansas with five seconds to go.
The Jayhawks had fought back from an eight-point deficit (90-82) in the final 43 seconds).
UK was clinging to a 90-89 lead and trying desperately to inbounds the ball with five seconds remaining. Kansas point guard Cedric Hunter stole Bret Bearup's pass, but Kansas' Ron Kellogg was called for holding Walker's jersey on the inbounds.
Walker calmly made both free throws and Kentucky had another victory over Kansas (UK's 16th in 17 meetings) put away.
"I've got to establish some identity as a coach," Brown said of his frequent one-way conversation with the referees.
Even when Brown got an official's attention, he got no satisfaction.
"They've got answers before you get out your questions," the Kansas coach said. "The biggest thing was I saw 90-89 and we come up with the ball and they (the officials) take it away. That's too much to take."
Kellogg, whose outside shooting contributed 20 points for Kansas, admitted bumping Walker but not grabbing the UK player's jersey.
"Kenny was going for the ball and I was denying," Kellogg said. "The ref said I was grabbing him. That wasn't true."
Walker seemed to agree.
"Maybe the ref (Paul Galvan) had a bad angle," Walker said.
While the call was crucial, it was only one play in a game of shifting tides.
There were two constants. The Wildcats ruled the backboards. UK hald a 51-38 rebounding advantage.
And Walker's sustaining excellence.
"I hope he can be SEC (Southeastern Conference) player of the week," Hall said of Walker.
That wouldn't be going far enough, the beaten Jayhawks said.
"Mr. Walker did a great job," Kansas 7-footer Greg Dreiling said. "He played the best game I've ever seen an opponent play."
Does that include Oklahoma's Wayman Tisdale?
"It was as good as anything Wayman's done to us," Dreiling said.
Walker's many contributions included a four-point play that shot Kentucky into the position of having a lead to protect in the closing seconds.
With UK ahead 82-80, Kansas sought the equalizer from a perimeter jumper by Calvin Thompson.
Thompson was standing about 18 feet from the basket, well outside UK's 2-3 zone.
As Thompson, who finished with 15 points, rose for the shot out flew Walker from the zone. "He was quite a ways from me," Thompson said. I couldn't believe he got it."
Walker, who said he was only trying to distract Thompson, deflected the shot to Winston Bennett. Bennett hurled the ball downcourt to Walker who slammed it home just as Thompson grabbed him from behind.
The intentional foul rated two foul shots. Walker made both, increasing UK's lead to 86-80.
UK, which had lost three times to Top 20 teams this season, got a measure of revenge. But it wasn't easy.
The Wildcats trailed by as many as 12 in the early going and by six (76-70) with less than six minutes remaining.
It was then, however, that the Wildcats' game-long domination of the boards was decisive.
Walker's tip-in of his own miss brought UK to within four points, 76-72, with 5:41 to go.
After Danny Manning, the heralded freshman who led Kansas with 30 points, missed a shot, UK closed to within two. Walker again did the honors, grabbing a rebound off the floor and tucking it home.
After Kansas missed a one-and-one free throw chance, the Wildcats got even when Richard Madison banked home a five-footer on the fastbreak.
UK made its move to victory with less than two minutes to go. Yet another rebound, this one by Bennett, was put in to give the Cats an 82-80 lead.
Walker preserved the margin, first by blocking a shot and then by pulling off the four-point play.
The four points gave UK a seemingly safe 86-80 lead with 1:18 to go.
UK led by eight, 90-82, with only 43 seconds remaining. Then disaster almost struck.
Kansas sandwiched Cedric Hunter baskets around a UK turnover to close to within four, 90-86, with 19 seconds to go. The turnover came when a UK player stepped on the end line against the Kansas press.
When James Blackmon missed the front end of a one-and-one with 16 seconds to go, Kansas got another new life.
Hunter was fouled while shooting and made the first free throw, cutting the Kentucky lead to 90-87. He missed the second free throw and Manning got the rebound and put it home, cutting the lead to one, 90-89, with five seconds to go.
"We're going to make freshmen mistakes," Hall said, "but when we're playing as aggressively as we are, I'm not going to fault the mistakes."
Officially, the opening 20 minutes constituted the first half. Actually, the two teams played two distinct 10-minute quarters.
Kansas dominated the first 10 minutes. Kentucky ruled the the second 10.
Kansas, which brought an 8-1 record into the game, appeared headed for a rousing victory. In the structured opening minutes, the Jayhawks worked patiently and pulled steadily away.
Kellogg's outside jumpers were part of the reason. The freshman guard had nine points in the half. His 18-footer gave Kansas its largest lead, 29-17, with 9:24 remaining at the half.
Manning also played a big part in the half. He scored 10 points and seemed to control the Kansas offense with his high-post passing.
But when Manning picked up his second foul and was removed from the game with 9:10 remaining in the first half, Kentucky made its move.
When Dreiling also picked up two fouls, Kansas elected to play without its big men.
"The whole idea of our game is to go inside to our big men," Kellogg said. "We were trying to be patient without them, but we kept making mistakes."
Thompson had another word for it. "We panicked," he said.
Kentucky, with both its starting guards, Roger Harden and James Blackmon, on the bench with three fouls each, thrived.
The Cats hustled and fought and not-so-slowly worked themselves back in the game. UK outscored Kansas 17-1 in a six-minute stretch to turn the game around. This stretch, which saw Kansas commit six turnovers, pushed Kentucky to its largest lead of the half, 34-30, with 3:15 remaining.
The second half had a similar style. Kansas established its big men early. Manning's three baskets started the Jayhawks on an 8-0 spurt at the start of the half that gave Kansas a 46-40 lead.
UK hung tough, however, getting a lift from Troy McKinley and Ed Davender.
Davender, who had 20 points, and McKinley, who had 12, popped away from the outside to keep Kentucky close. McKinley hit all four of his shots in the half, including an 18-footer that knotted the score at 78-78 with 3:26 remaining.
Even in that, Walker had a hand.
''You've got to give up something," Brown said.
The Jayhawks gave up some perimeter shots in the hopes of holding down Walker.


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Is it bad that I think Jimmy Fallon did a better job spoofing Kate Gosselin's Dancing With The Stars performance than she did actually performing it?
On Tuesday night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the comedian, decked out in a red jacket with black sequins and what looks to be Kate's actual hair extensions (did he sneak into her dressing room?), performed Kate's infamous "Paparazzi" routine.
No angry grimacing though. Boo.
Who did the routine better? Kate or Jimmy?