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But your choice of Handheld device should reflect the type of games you want or your style of gaming. If you want Pokemon X, then get a 3DS, if not go with the VITA. If you want to kill some time, or have a casual gaming experience, go with the DS. :o
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Posted 26 January 2013 - 08:47 AM
3DS has the Pokemon, Mario, Zelda, Fire Emblem franchises, a Tales game, Kid Icarus, a pretty good Resident Evil and MGS, Dragon Quest, Ace Attourney and Monster Hunter coming up... and a huge library of DS games you can play, of course.
I don't have too much knowledge about the Vita, however.
There you got Uncharted, Little Big Planet or Disgaea for example... I'd list more games, but I don't know which ones are good on the Vita
Posted 26 January 2013 - 04:48 PM
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You should look into what games are coming into both consoles though and see which ones you are more interested with.
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Posted 26 January 2013 - 05:53 PM
The whole platform exudes an air of extremely high polish. It is a precision engineered device, designed purely for the most ideal translation of your console gaming experience into a handheld. For all intents and purposes, it is a handheld PS3.
Still, there IS that damn lack of software.... they need to get their asses in gear and start getting third parties producing content for this thing. The 2013 release schedule right now looks awfully sparse, with Killzone Mercenary being one of the only remotely interesting things I see on the horizon. I've heard Assassins Creed Liberation for it is pretty decent.
Oh, and I guess i am technically a Sony Fanboy.... just keep that in mind. Still, all the things i said about the platform are true. I really must stress the lack of software though. Unless you are totally cool with only having a half dozen or so really good games to pick from for at least a year, you might not find it an ideal platform.
Posted 28 January 2013 - 07:22 PM
When it comes to the 3DS, it does everything the original DS did (except play GBA games) and more. This platform also does not have many games developed for it yet, although there are a lot of great titles coming this year. Personally I find the 3D function to be rather gimmicky, and I tend to turn it off. I've only played a few games specifically for the 3DS, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Bros., and Star Fox. For now it is just a replacement DS but I am looking forward to the new Pokemon as well as Etrian Odyssey and Fire Emblem. I'm pretty sure there's a Shin Megami Tensei game for it too I've been meaning to check out.
All in all, look at the games and decide which one would suit your preferences most.
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VA has yet to close on long-delayed Western New York cemetery
Four years after the Obama administration agreed to establish a national veterans cemetery in Western New York, and 17 months after Sen. Charles Schumer revealed Veterans Affairs had selected a site, the federal government has yet to purchase the land.
The VA has an agreement to buy 132 acres in Genesee County for the cemetery, which would be located about halfway between Buffalo and Rochester and would serve the 180,000 veterans who live in those areas.
But the extensive archaeological tests required because of Native American artifacts buried on the Town of Pembroke property, coming on the heels of the initial difficulties in finding a suitable site, have delayed the development of the cemetery.
VA officials told The Buffalo News the agency hopes to close on the purchase this spring.
But they cautioned that design and construction of the cemetery will take an additional four or five years, and Congress still must appropriate the money for the project.
"We're doing everything that we can to make sure that the veterans in that area, Western New York, are taken care of and that we can provide them the final resting place that's a national shrine and a lasting tribute to their service. But sometimes that takes time," said Kristen Parker, a National Cemetery Administration spokeswoman.
Local veterans have waited years for a national cemetery in or near Erie County, arguing that the closest such site, in Steuben County, is too far away.
The veterans are frustrated the cemetery is taking so long, but they look forward to the government's building a cemetery worthy of the men and women who will be interred there.
"It's never too late to honor our veterans," said Roger Woodworth, who heads the Veterans One-Stop Center in Buffalo. The national veterans cemetery in Bath, serving both Western and Central New York, is about 100 miles from downtown Buffalo. Area veterans have argued for years for a more conveniently located cemetery.
In 2010, the Obama administration agreed to a change that made the region eligible for one. The VA initially looked for 200-acre sites between Buffalo and Rochester but later broadened its search to accept smaller parcels.
By 2012, the VA had narrowed its choice to a trio of sites – two in Pembroke and one in Lancaster – and Schumer that fall declared the VA had a site in mind. The VA itself has never confirmed which site it prefers, even after The News last March revealed that the agency's choice was a parcel at Route 77 and Indian Falls Road.
The property is well-known in Pembroke and is described as pastoral by neighbors.
"It is a beautiful, rolling hill, very much like an Arlington cemetery," said Pembroke Assessor Deborah Conti, referring to the national cemetery in Virginia.
The land for decades has been leased to a farming operation, most recently for winter wheat, but farming on the property ended last year, said Lee Veenendaal, whose late father, Leroy, bought the land.
Lee Veenendaal told The News he has a contract in place with the VA and expects the sale to close within three months. The VA will pay the market rate for the property, which is assessed at $160,000.
The VA said extensive archaeological digging at the site has held up the closing on the sale. The property previously was part of the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, Conti said.
"That was all Indian land. No matter where you dig over there, you will find something. I find stuff in my yard," she said.
Officials with the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians did not return phone messages.
The state Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation oversaw the cultural-resource survey at the site. Now officials are waiting for the VA to send along a revised agreement.
"They're doing a lot of due diligence to make sure everyone's happy," Veenendaal said.
The VA expects to close on the property in the next several months, though officials are ready to proceed with their second choice if the purchase falls through, said Jessica Kaplan, a VA real-property manager.
"It has been a long, bumpy road to get Western New York a national veterans cemetery, and we are finally coming close to a deal," Schumer said in an email.
The VA next would hire a firm to design the cemetery, with the planning process taking as much as 24 months, said Mark Tillotson, a top VA cemetery construction official.
Then, the agency would seeks bids for the construction of the cemetery. Work on the first phase, which would meet the burial needs of area veterans for a decade, could take 2½ years, but the first burials could begin after one year of construction, Tillotson said.
That assumes, however, that Congress will appropriate the money needed for construction.
Veteran advocates say they wish the project had moved along faster because the need here is so great.
"Would I like to have gotten it done yesterday? Yeah," said Fran McLaughlin, director of the Erie County Veterans Service Agency.
This area isn't alone in dealing with cemetery delays caused by real estate and other issues, said Richard A. Wannemacher, a retired VA deputy undersecretary who is vice chairman of the One-Stop Center.
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Olivier Award-winner Kathryn Hunter returns to the Arcola Theatre in Leyla Nazli's evocative new play, The Mare Rider. The production runs Tuesday 22 January - Saturday 16 February 2013, with press night slated for Friday 25 January at 7.30PM.
Elka is the Mare Rider, subversive and vengeful baby-stealer, a timeless creature of myth, who inhabits our dreams. In this potent new work, directed by Mehmet Ergen, Nazli weaves classic mythology with fears of child-birth and issues of identity into a dazzling piece that is both unsettling and deeply moving.
In the maternity ward of a London Hospital, Selma is stuck between other people's reality and her own. She's visited by Elka from afar, who takes her on a fantastical journey of dreams and fears - stealing wine, meeting seahorses and mermaids, and riding mares across meadows.
Kathryn Hunter's previous work at the Arcola includes Tell Them I am Young and Beautiful and Yerma. Her other theatre credits include Kafka's Monkey (Young Vic), The Diver at Soho Theatre, and Peter Brook's Fragments at the Young Vic. She won an Olivier award in 1990 for Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit at The National Theatre. Her film credits include Mike Leigh's All or Nothing and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. As a director her credits include Othello with the RSC, The Birds for the National and Pericles at Shakespeare's Globe.
Leyla Nazli was selected to be one of 'The Royal Court Fifty' to celebrate the theatre's 50th Anniversary year, where her play Silver Birch House had its first reading. The play later premiered at Arcola in 2007. She is currently Executive Producer at the Arcola Theatre.
Mehmet Ergen is the founder and Artistic director of the Arcola Theatre. Directing for the Arcola includes most recently The Sweet Smell of Success, The Painter , The Cradle Will Rock, Release the Beat, Silver Birch House, Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Jitterbug, Chasing the Moment and An Enemy of the People.
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Mare Rider is being performed as of Europe Now, a theatrical collaboration between four of the most innovative theatre in Sweden, Turkey, Holland and Germany.
Arcola Theatre is located at 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL. Rail: Dalston Junction and Dalston Kingsland (London Overground). Buses: 149, 243, 488, 67, 76, N76, 242, 277, 30, 38, 56, N38.
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Youth's Christian Companion
Youth's Christian Companion, founded in 1920, was until the end of 1956 an 8-page, 9 x 11.5 in. and thereafter a 16-page 5.25 x 8.5 in. weekly devoted to the interest of young people, ages 16-24, published and printed by the Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, PA. Until 31 December 1954, Clayton F. Yake was its continuous editor from the beginning of the paper. On 1 January 1955, Urie A. Bender became editor.
The periodical endeavors to serve young people in all areas of Christian life, with Christian fiction, feature articles, poetry, missionary messages, information of church activities, such as Mennonite Youth Fellowship (MYF), Mennonite Relief and Service Committee (MRSC), I-W, news for youth, schools and colleges, articles on nature and science, vocational guidance, and other inspirational messages for the development of Christian character and the devotional life. The 1958 circulation was about 34,000.
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(This is a classic case of illegal missionary activity. Missionary activity on visitor or business visa is illegal)
Source: Commercial Appeal Nov 25, 2007
By Trevor Aaronson (Contact)
Sunday, November 25, 2007
HYDERABAD, India -- They come at night.
More than 600 Indian women -- old and young, unmarried, married and
widowed, all poor -- travel from villages across the southern Indian
state of Andhra Pradesh: Pathikomba, Konala, Koyyada, Suddapalli,
Magaluru. Their destination is the same, a walled compound in southern
Hyderabad known as the National Training Institute for Village
They come for a one-week conference -- underwritten by the largest
congregation in Memphis -- on how to evangelize to and convert Hindus
in some of the most remote areas of India, where less than 3 percent of
the population is Christian.
Most travel by bus across miles of bumpy, dirt roads. They hold
their saris over mouth and nose to block the plumes of dust that pass
through open windows.
For some, such as Yadamma Alloju, the journey is more difficult
emotionally than physically. A slender 45-year-old with a gold nose
ring and a warm smile, Alloju lives with her husband and two sons in a
small concrete-block house around the corner from the compound. She is
the first Christian in her family, and when she told her husband and
sons of her plans to attend the seminar, they forbade her. During the
day, she pleaded. At night, she begged. Finally, her husband relented
on one condition: She not be baptized.
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More than 600 women, led in prayer by Pastor Edgar Sathuluri, join
Bellevue Baptist Church missionaries at a conference for women in
Hyderabad, India. The women, mostly from India's poorest social class,
had their transportation, expenses and meals paid for by the Memphis
megachurch fostering Christian conversion in the largely Hindu nation.
"I cannot tell my husband what happens here," Alloju says as she
stands in front of the compound gates wearing a purple sari and black
What happens here is funded entirely by Bellevue Baptist, a
30,000-member church in Memphis, the nation's second-largest Southern
Baptist congregation. Every year, Bellevue shells out $5.5 million --
one-fourth of its $22 million annual budget -- for missionary work
around the world. At any given time, Bellevue is supporting
missionaries in more than two dozen countries, and annually sends its
Memphis congregants on international mission trips to Central America,
South America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
India is particularly important for the congregation. The country is
at the center of what Bellevue and other evangelical churches refer to
as the "10/40 window" -- the area 10degrees to 40degrees north of the
equator, from North Africa to Japan, where 95percent of the people are
"unevangelized" and where only 8percent of evangelical missionary
dollars are spent.
"It's really called 'The Last Frontier,'" says Steve Marcum, Bellevue's minister of missions.
In July, with the help of Indian Pastor Edgar Sathuluri, who named
the women's conference after his mother, Grace, Bellevue covered the
transportation costs for the hundreds of women and paid for their meals
during the five-day religious gathering in Hyderabad.
Bellevue officials declined to specify how much money they've paid
to Sathuluri, saying only that his organization represents one of the
church's most significant international investments in 2007.
Additionally, Bellevue supports Sathuluri's organization by making
monthly contributions.
mark: Satyavati, a Hindu temple keeper, places a tilakam, or red mark,
on the foreheads of two men riding a motorcycle. She then blesses their
motorcycle and asks Kali to protect them from harm in their daily
life: Thorona, a 20-year-old Christian convert, loads granite into
containers at a quarry for 12 hours a day for just over $1.50. Iswar,
30, (left) holds the couple's 3-year-old child. In a culture where
women perform much of the backbreaking labor, Thorona earns the
family's wages before taking a break to breast-feed the child and make
lunch for her waiting husband.
Donna Gaines, the wife of Bellevue Pastor Steve Gaines, led the
summer mission to Sathuluri's compound. A tall former beauty queen with
a mini-bouffant, Gaines speaks in a thick southern accent about
Bellevue's work in the "10/40 window."
In India, Bellevue and Sathuluri have for years targeted a specific
group for their evangelism: the poorest women in a crowded, complex
country of more than 1billion people.
"Edgar doesn't invest in fields where there is little return, and
there is such a hunger and such a desire for Jesus in these villages,"
she says.
Bellevue puts faith -- and millions of of dollars -- in
international partners. But by investing money and people in central
India, the megachurch has entered a world vastly dissimilar to its
Cordova surroundings. Bellevue has put its members at the center of
increasing religious tensions amid allegations of persecution and fraud.
* * *
On a July afternoon, a day before the compound is set to host the
600 women, Edgar Sathuluri escorts around the site a dozen women and
several men from Bellevue. A soft-spoken 49-year-old with a mustache
and pronounced limp, Sathuluri invited the Bellevue missionaries to
India as part of the Grace Sathuluri Conference for Women.
In years past, this conference has been supported by money from
several churches, including Bellevue and Grace Evangelical Church in
Germantown. This year, as part of its expanding missionary work in
India, Bellevue became the sole sponsor of the conference and
dispatched to the region a group of seasoned and first-time
Sathuluri takes the group into a small building near the edge of the
compound. The women, dressed in loose-fitting clothing, crowd shoulder
to shoulder in a small room.
As Sathuluri introduces his nephew, Aaron, and tells the women about
how treacherous conditions are for Christians in India, three Hindu men
walk up to the compound, as if on cue. Dressed in kurta pajamas,
a traditional Indian outfit consisting of a baggy cotton shirt and
bottoms, the men peer into the building and eye the Memphis
"Excuse me, please," Sathuluri says as he walks outside.
The men amble over to an area where three dust-covered sport utility
vehicles are parked. Aaron continues the discussion as the Bellevue
women sneak glances outside, trying to figure out what's happening.
Sathuluri and the men talk in Telugu, the language of Andhra Pradesh,
for several minutes before Sathuluri raises his voice and points to the
gates. The men walk away, into the surrounding neighborhood.
"They know Americans are here," Sathuluri tells the women as he
returns to the building. It's as if Sathuluri was given the
introduction he needed.
For the next 10 minutes, he talks about the religious persecution
Christians face in India. He tells a story of how people he refers to
as "radical Hindus" from the neighborhood once stormed his compound,
turned over tables of food and vandalized cars.
offering: At the Narasimha Swamy Temple, a Hindu man has his head
shaved as an offering. Many people come to offer their hair for good
health, business success or family welfare.
Local women offer prayers to Jesus with the Bellevue Baptist
missionaries at Grace Church in Atmakur. Built by Edgar Sathuluri, the
church provides vocational training for women in the village.
This woman, claiming to be possessed by Kali, marches with followers to
Jai Kali Temple in Hyderabad, where they sacrificed a goat to release
Kali's spirit from her body. One form of the goddess is believed to
protect the villagers from mosquito-born diseases common in the monsoon
season, while another form protects the fields and farms from
On another occasion, Sathuluri explained, he and his older brother,
Mohan, also a minister, were preaching in a small village in Andhra
Pradesh when a group of locals charged toward them. A Christian family
took them in, barricading the brothers in the house until police
arrived to break up the demonstration.
"The men had sticks, clubs," Sathuluri says. "They wanted to kill us."
Craig Stockdale, owner of a Memphis landscaping company who came to
India to escort his wife and the other women, shakes his head. "The
persecution he faces here is unbelievable," Stockdale says.
Sathuluri has been unafraid to market that alleged persecution. On
Jan. 11, six months before the Bellevue group arrived in India, he sent
an e-mail to the church, which was posted on its Web site. In the
message, Sathuluri described how his compound was attacked by members
of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a political party that advocates the
strengthening of traditional Hindu culture.
"There was total mayhem as they were beating up the little children,
kicked their rice plates from their hands and threw all the food on the
ground," Sathuluri wrote.
Although questions exist about the legitimacy of Sathuluri's claims,
Hyderabad and other parts of India can be religiously volatile.
Tensions among the Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities are common
and at times have turned violent. In May, for example, a cell
phone-triggered pipe bomb exploded at Mecca Masjid, a large mosque in
central Hyderabad, as more than 10,000 people worshipped inside.
Sixteen people were killed.
Conflicts between the dominant Hindu community and the growing
Christian community aren't infrequent in India. Christian Solidarity
Worldwide, an organization that publicizes persecutions of Christians,
regularly reports the arrest and detainment of Christian missionaries
in India. Some are detained unnecessarily and illegally -- India's laws
provide for freedom of religion -- while others are harassed by
authorities for resorting to unjustifiably brash tactics, such as
distributing Christian materials inside and around Hindu temples.
Most Christian missionaries in India, including Bellevue's, refer to
Australian Graham Stewart Staines to illustrate the dangers they face.
In January 1999, Staines and his two sons were burned alive while
sleeping in their car in Orissa, 620 miles southeast of New Delhi.
Police believe Staines and his sons were murdered by members of Bajrang
Dal, a radical group affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
But that political party has long claimed it is not responsible for such attacks.
The offices of the Bharatiya Janata Party are in a cavernous,
marble-floored building guarded by men with AK-47s. Open windows create
cross-breezes and wind tunnels throughout. The noises of Hyderabad's
congested traffic seep through the walls, creating background choruses
in all the rooms.
On the second floor, surrounded by staff and messengers, is
Vidyasagar Rao. A former Parliamentarian and cabinet member of India's
previous ruling government, Rao is now the chairman of BJP in Andhra
wine: At a Sunday service in Atmakur, a local woman drinks communion
wine, the Christian rite in remembrance of the Last Supper, in which
Jesus likened his body to bread and his blood to wine.
of God: Leelarani Chitti Prolu and Pradeep Banothu, both 9, portray
Adam and Eve in a skit while their pastor fathers attend the Grace
Sathuluri Conference for Women in Hyderabad. According to the book of
Genesis, Adam was created by God from the dust of the earth and brought
to life with God's breath. Eve was made from Adam's rib. Both are
cursed and cast out of the Garden of Eden after eating the forbidden
fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Their children
then populate the Earth.
Rao, a Hindu, is accustomed to mixing religion and politics in
conversation. Here, in a state of 76million people, politicos joke
about the religion of the chief minister -- he's Christian -- the way
Americans laugh about a U.S. senator being nabbed by police in an
airport bathroom.
Those who snicker the loudest in Andhra Pradesh tend to come from
BJP, which is partially responsible for laws that prohibit Christians
from using gifts and money to induce conversions. Owing to the party's
political assaults on organizations they believe are encumbering
traditional Hindu culture and values, BJP is often blamed for physical
attacks on Christian groups in India.
"As a state and national party, we are not responsible for any attacks on Christians," Rao says. "These are lies."
While the party chairman supports Christian groups' freedom to
operate in India, he questions how many are obeying the country's
inducement laws since Christian conversions in India happen
disproportionately more among poor people than middle-class and wealthy
"BJP is in the forefront to highlight these issues -- that there are
certain missionaries who are trying to convert people to Christianity
by doing things that are illegal, such as giving money or gifts," Rao
He believes most claims of persecution are fabricated by Christian
organizations hoping to pull at the purse strings of wealthy American
churches. "These people will do anything for American money," Rao says.
Asked about Sathuluri's and Bellevue's claims of BJP attacks, Rao
denies having any knowledge of Sathuluri's organization. "But I can't
assure you these attacks didn't happen," Rao says. "For that, you would
have to talk to the local party activists."
Those local activists worship in a temple around the corner from
Sathuluri's walled compound. On a July evening, Ramreddy Kolanu is
standing barefoot on the steps of the temple. He wears a tilakam,
a red mark, on his forehead. Inside the temple, a priest is standing
near a statue of Ganesha, the Hindu deity with the head of an elephant.
"I've lived here for years," Kolanu says. "I know what happens here,
and I can you tell you that attacks have never happened over there. I
would know if they did."
Kolanu says he and his neighbors don't care what goes on inside the walls. "Everybody's faith is their own," he says.
Sathuluri isn't as easygoing as his neighbor. When he discovers that
an interpreter, who is Hindu, is in the compound the day he is to
perform baptisms, Sathuluri threatens to call police to remove her and
a Commercial Appeal reporter and photographer from the property. He
says the interpreter hired by the newspaper could be a "spy" for the
"I could be killed," Sathuluri says in front of several Bellevue missionaries.
"India is a strange place in that any day the radical Hindus can get
upset and attack a church or a known group of Christians when
technically by government standards people have freedom, the right to
worship," says Ellie Marcum, wife of Bellevue minister of missions
Steve Marcum and one of Bellevue's most seasoned missionaries to India,
as if to explain Sathuluri's hostility.
How much of the Indian pastor's reaction is out of fear for his
safety or trepidation about an independent interpreter is unknown. Some
evidence suggests the latter: Sathuluri consistently exaggerated facts
he would give the Bellevue women, claiming, for example, that the 600
women who attended the conference were so poor they only had one sari
when, in fact, many said they were better off than Sathuluri suggested.
Others, who would talk openly of being beaten by husbands and sons
for converting to Christianity, said they had never heard of attacks on
Sathuluri or his compound.
climax: Late one evening, as part of a large ceremony, Darlene Stroud
washes the feet of Indian women. This was the spiritual climax for the
Bellevue evangelists attending the conference.
This Indian woman cries after her feet were washed by the hands of
women from Bellevue Baptist Church, an act of humility in emulation of
in saris: Shari Ray (from left), Jerri Nelson, Donna Gaines and Susie
Wright pray with a number of other Bellevue missionaries at Grace
Church in Atmakur, south of Hyderabad.
Yadamma Alloju isn't thinking about her orange sari as she steps
into the water. Mohan Sathuluri, wearing black pants and a white
button-down shirt, is chest-deep in the small pool in the middle of the
religious compound. He takes Alloju by the hand; she steps forward,
deeper into the pool as the sari's light fabric wafts in the water.
Positioned to the side of Alloju, Sathuluri prays. He gently places
one hand on her back, the other on her forehead, and pushes her beneath
the water's surface. A second later, he pulls her up; she emerges, wet
and crying.
The Bellevue missionaries watch from a viewing area next to the
pool. Some offer tears, others camera flashes. None get close to the
baptismal pool and wet women.
"This is why I am here," Alloju says as dozens of other Indian women
wait in line to be baptized. Against her husband's instruction, Alloju
was reborn in Christ. But in her excitement, she hadn't thought to
bring a second sari, and if she were to return home wet, her husband
would know what she'd done. He'd beat her, she says.
Alloju runs off to borrow an extra sari from another attendee and let hers dry in the sun.
For five days just like this one, 600 women crowd into the compound.
Each morning and night, they gather under a large pavilion built weeks
earlier by Bellevue volunteers and with Bellevue money. They listen to
hours of sermons in Telugu and English. In the afternoons, they break
into smaller groups, each with a Bellevue missionary, to discuss the
Bible and its teachings and how they can more effectively talk to other
women in their village about the Bible.
The conference is particularly moving for Susie Wright, a
52-year-old Memphian who was born in Kerala, a state in south India
whose Christian community dates back to the arrival of St. Thomas on
the Asian subcontinent in the year 52.
As with other Bellevue members who believe their religion is the
only way to a peaceful afterlife -- Donna Gaines, for example,
describes Hinduism's holiest city, Varanasi, as "the darkest place I
saw in India" -- Wright sees her native country as a much bleaker place
than the one she adopted.
"It is dark with sin," she says of India. "Satan has blinded the
eyes of every person, Hindus, here. The only way the darkness can go
and the lightness can come is through Jesus Christ. ... But God is
going to raise a lot of Christians here. The Christians here in India,
they are the most devoted, humble, godly, fire-for-the-Lord Christians.
With their prayer, with their eagerness to bring this country to the
Lord, one of these days God is going to raise these people."
But these people, the 600 sleeping in open-air pavilions at Sathuluri's compound, have little in common with Wright.
While she has a master's degree in microbiology from an American
university, many of the women at the conference are either illiterate
or read at rudimentary levels. The Telugu-language Bibles they carry
are for many more symbolic than useful, and determining whether their
Christianity is comprehended or recited is at times difficult.
Most speak in a rough, uneducated Telugu, but when asked why they
believe in Christianity, some answer, "When God has given His life for
me, I must do at least that much," in perfect Telugu. Others admit they
know little of Christianity and came to the conference for the free
meals and the new sari they receive for attending -- inducements
potentially illegal under Indian law.
Donna Gaines sees only the hope, the mission, in Sathuluri's and
Bellevue's work in India. "Edgar's doing for women what Christ did for
women in his time," she says. "And, really, India, in the primitive,
remote areas, reminds me so much of what Biblical times must have been
like, looked like, smelled like."
villagers: Missionary Donna McFarland jokes with women in Atmakur as
she learns how hard it is to carry a heavy bowl on her head. The women
transport goods to and from nearby cotton fields.
At home: Guno Sadan, 7, was abandoned after her mother died and her
father left. She lives with Jayanti Kanto, 20, a Christian who is
sweeping the floor of her concrete home.
Gaines and other Bellevue missionaries see great purpose in their
presence in India. Not only are they sharing their religion with
others, they believe, but they are saving others from what they term a
"pagan religion."
In Hinduism, the world's third-largest religion behind Christianity
and Islam, followers worship a variety of deities and incarnations.
Although Hinduism has its fringe sects -- some, for example, worship
Kali, a violent deity with a blood-soaked tongue -- many of its
believers consider Hinduism more of a way of life than a religion.
However, Gaines sees Hinduism as nothing more than idol-worship.
"It's sad, actually, because we were and are created in the image of
God," she says.
"God placed, Ecclesiastes said, eternity in our hearts. So we have
that longing. I call it the God-shaped vacuum, the hole in our heart.
We're searching and we try to fill it. Every other religion is simply
man's attempt to work his way up to God, and it's only in Christianity
that God came down to man, through his son Jesus Christ."
That's the message Gaines is trying to deliver in India. "Because
America is so saturated (with Christians), you realize there are places
in the world with a much greater need," she says.
But conversion to Christianity is a complicated matter in India,
particularly for the poor women Sathuluri and Bellevue target. These
women are at the bottom of India's ancient caste system, which
organizes society according to birth.
Brahmans, at the top of the caste system, are society's priests and
thinkers, while Dalits, at the bottom of the caste system, are
subjected to society's hardest and dirtiest jobs. The women attending
the conference make a living performing backbreaking work, doing
everything from climbing coconut trees to collect fermented liquor
(known as "toddy tapping") to breaking and lifting rocks at a quarry.
Their conversion to Christianity is so discouraged by the Indian
government that Bellevue's missionaries are forced to enter the country
using tourist visas.
Since lower-caste Indians are marginalized by Hindu society, they
are the most susceptible to Bellevue and other Christians, whose
missionaries peddle equality and sin-cleansing.
Yet in modern India, accepting Christ and giving up Hindu caste
identity, while legal, can have severe consequences for lower-caste
Indians. Legislation similar to affirmative-action laws in the United
States affords Dalits and other lower-caste Indians places at companies
and universities. By becoming a Christian, they lose those benefits,
though Indian courts are currently debating the issue of extending
benefits to lower-caste Christians.
However, many of the women Sathuluri and Bellevue convert are not
sophisticated enough to understand the implications of becoming a
Christian in India. Poolamma Gyana, a 16-year-old from Suddapalli who
was baptized a few days before the Bellevue-funded women's conference,
shakes her head upon learning that she has lost the special benefits
provided to her caste.
"Is this true?" she asks.
The answer to that question isn't something Sathuluri and Bellevue offer to their converts.
"In my charitable interpretation of this, either the people at
Bellevue didn't know about the caste benefits, that they themselves are
ignorant of this, or theologically they are predisposed to thinking
that converting to Christ is the highest good and any kind of material
benefits one receives in this world tails behind the benefits one would
receive in salvation," says Mark Muesse, a religious studies professor
at Rhodes College.
"If people are given full understanding of what this conversion
might mean, it might give them pause to make that commitment. They
still might make it. You really would hope that people who commit to
Christianity would do so with the understanding of what that means for
them and the benefits they might lose from the government."
Late one evening, as part of a large ceremony, the Bellevue ladies
and the Indian women gather in about a dozen circles. The Indian women
sit at the circles' edges as the missionaries, in the centers, wash the
feet of each woman.
"It's a spiritual picture, obviously, of what Christ did for His
disciples but also of us being willing to humble ourselves," Gaines
says. "It's one of those paradoxes of Christian life: When you humble
yourself, you'll be exalted."
accomplished: Edgar Sathuluri (from left), Donna Gaines, Ellie Marcum
and Jean Stockdale laugh along with the other Bellevue missionaries on
the last evening of the Grace Sathuluri Conference for Women in
Hyderabad.Uncertain future: Yadamma Alloju disobeyed her family's
wishes by being baptized at the Grace Sathuluri Conference for Women.
She says if her husband finds out, he will beat her.
Many of the Indian women break down, tears falling from their eyes,
as their feet are being washed. And when they do, their counterparts
from Memphis begin to cry as well.
"They become very emotional. It's understandable," says Aaron,
Sathuluri's nephew. "Who would bend down to wash another's feet? This
means a lot in India, where unlike in America, we do not wear shoes; we
wear sandals. But for many of these women, they usually do not even
wear sandals. Their feet are hard and cracked."
For Bellevue's representatives, the foot-washing ceremony is a departure from their weeklong, arms-length missionary work.
During the conference, the Memphis women drink from separate
communal cups. During lunch and dinner, they eat different food in a
separate area, away from the stink and flies that complement the meals
of the women they are in India to reach. And at night, they sleep in a
three-star hotel in neighboring Secunderabad, an hour's drive from the
heat and mosquitoes that accompany the Indian women's rest.
Just before 5 p.m. on the final day of the conference, Alloju opens
the gates of the religious compound and walks out along the dusty road.
Wearing her purple sari with gold trim, she needs to get home for her
In the background, she can hear Edgar Sathuluri's sermon from the
pavilion. He's talking about his Christian mother and how she became
the inspiration for the conference. The Bellevue women are there,
listening intently to Sathuluri, the star of the rural religious
revival they've funded more than 8,000 miles from Memphis.
For the past five days, Alloju has come to the Christian conference
against her family's wishes and volunteered to do anything she could do
to help: wash dishes, mop floors, pick up trash. Her husband and sons
know she's here, but they don't know her secret -- about how a pastor
dipped her body into a pool of water and how she re-emerged.
"Someday I will tell my husband what happened here," she says and returns to her life as one of India's hidden Christians.


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Lemon Couscous with Broccoli Recipe
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I combined two recipes to create this side with broccoli and pasta. The splash of lemon adds nice flavor. Instead of toasted almonds, you could also sprinkle servings with grated Parmesan cheese. —Beth Dauenhauer, Pueblo, CO
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 cups fresh broccoli florets, cut into small pieces
- 1 cup uncooked whole wheat couscous
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1-1/4 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon slivered almonds, toasted
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add broccoli; cook and stir until crisp-tender.
- Add couscous and garlic; cook and stir 1-2 minutes longer. Stir in broth, lemon peel, lemon juice and seasonings; bring to a boil. Remove from heat; let stand, covered, 5-10 minutes or until broth is absorbed. Fluff with a fork. Sprinkle with almonds. Yield: 6 servings.
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text: After exiting the stage in some productions of his one-man show, Geezer, Geoff Hoyle stations himself in the lobby. People shake his hand and thank him for bringing humor to aging, and when he listens to their confessions, he starts to feel like a parish priest. "I feel like I should bless them when they leave," he said. The 69-year-old actor and part-time Inverness resident played the first Zazu in the Lion King on Broadway and the clown in the Pickle Family Circus in San Francisco in the 1970s. He begins Geezer, which he will perform after a gala dinner at the Dance Palace Community Center next Saturday, by miming himself playing "Disease: The Video Game," a game no one ever wins. Mr. Hoyle then looks back on his childhood in England and reckons with the choices he made as he grew up; he also imagines himself into the future, as an 88-year-old man living in an "old people's commune." Throughout the show he meditates on what it means to approach death. The show brims with comedy, but Mr. Hoyle said the tone can turn on a dime. "I want to be compassionate and understand where we're all headed. [The show] makes you very aware of the difficulties and the joys of aging. There's a certain wisdom if you can outlive the diseases, the perils: you attain a different state… You become very much more aware of the natural world, and the striving and ambition somewhat fall away," he said. On Sept. 13, a dinner catered by Indian Peach will begin at 6 p.m. at the community center; Geezer will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $100, or $40 for the show only; proceeds will benefit the Dance Palace.


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A NEW system has been introduced in Bury with the aim of making the process of claiming benefits more simple.
People used to claim one or more of six benefits but the government's view was that this was "problematic and confusing".
Now, the six have been replaced with one, called the Universal Credit.
A Department of Work and Pensions spokesman said: "This has made the system easier to understand and administer, and ensures people are better off if they work than they would be on welfare.
"And because it allows job centres to access real-time earnings data, it means that exactly the right level of support is in place to help people on their journey into work."
Minister for Welfare Reform, David Freud, said: "I am delighted that Universal Credit has gone live in Bury as we continue to extend this ground-breaking reform in a careful and controlled way across the country.
"With record numbers of people in work, Universal Credit is destined to play a huge part in helping to build a stronger and more resilient economy for the future as part of our long-term economic plan."
He added: "Claimants can now rest assured that when they increase their hours they will be better off financially, rather than fearing their benefits will be cut as a consequence of taking on more work."
The government has employed "job coaches", to offer a wide range of help to people seeking work and Job Centre computer systems have been improved so people can search for more positions.
Steve Johnson, Job Centre district manager covering Prestwich, said: "We have the latest technology in place and staff have been fully trained to give claimants the best support available to help them move off benefits and into work.
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Christian Ghion (int)
Born in 1958 at Montmorency/France, Christian Ghion decided to study design after taking a degree in law. He graduated in 1987 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la création industrielle (ENSCI) and went on to win the "Grand Prix de la création de la ville de Paris" in 1990 — since then Christian Ghion has been working for prestigious furniture manufacturers (including Cappellini, Driade, Salviati, Ventura, Sawaya & Moroni).
His works can now be admired in the Guggenheim Museum New York, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; they all share a design language which imparts meaning and emotion to their distinctive simplicity.


text: Hi guys, Just bought a new home that has a Vermont Casting Resolute III in it. Previous owners used it regularly so it appears to be in good working condition. Here's my question, Massachusetts has a wood stove upgrade/trade in program where they will give you $1000.00 to buy a new high-efficieny wood stove. Does this sound worth it? Would $1000.00 buy a decent stove? Or am I better off keeping what I have? I don't want to spend much more than the rebate money, so I'm not sure if this is a good idea. The program starts Jan. 17, so any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, all!


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Story on cyber-bullying draws out cyber-bullies
We always love it when an education story ends up being one of the most commented stories of the day.
Yesterday, our story on cyber-bullying was so popular that it was among the most commented for hours on end.
Unfortunately, most of the comments were slightly off target, revolving around the fact that the photo (shown) that ran with the story featured some ungrammatical sentences that had been written on a classroom white board.
Rather than focusing on the effects of cyber-bullying and local school districts' efforts to combat it, most people zeroed in on the errors and never got past them. So it was gratifying to read this comment from "T," who posted at 5:01 p.m.:
"Let the spelling go ... this only shows how much we need bullying education for adults as well! It is awesome to see our children are getting this service ... way to go Family Service Centers - maybe Family Service Centers can hold a class for adults?"
Donna Winchester, Pinellas education reporter


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The first thing you'll notice about MasterChef's 5th season is the diversity of contestants.
This is a show that has always embraced a global spirit, but this year it's a smorgasboard of diversity.
Amongst the 22 finalists are faces with heritage from Indonesia, India, Italy, Laos, Thailand, and Pakistan. There are gay contestants, single mums, Muslims, senior, an opera singer, carpenter, stockman, personal trainer, and student.
Things get underway at the MCG (where the first Amazing Race Australia also began). Those three amigos, Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and a super-slim George Calombaris welcome them to a scene of great sporting battles, dividing them into men vs women teams. Unlike the reception to the show's promo, it's all laughed off and embraced by those at the centre of it. If they're not offended, then maybe this won't be so sexist after all.
After a bit of team bonding in the locker room they race onto the MCG turf -yes, including through an AFL–style flag- where they are given their first team challenge. That will involve them leaving the MCG, buying ingredients from Coles, and cooking a three course meal. But first there's a small matter of some eggs to be sorted, in a challenge not dissimilar to a previous season.
In the supermarket we get all the Coles branding, while tempers begin to rise amongst contestants under pressure. One of the female team is a current Coles employee (now that's what I call product placement) and has a clear advantage in snaffling her ingredients in no time. A promo that included this scene concerned me for its subtle shift in tone, but again in context it's not quite as stark.
The Masterchef kitchen (now housed at the Melbourne showgrounds) looks warm with more trimmings than its former abode in Sydney. During team cooking, the contestants overdo the goading of one another. Either they are overly-enthusiastic, or being prodded by producers. It's a bit hard to know if the Boys v Girls challenge will wear thin across the two weeks it appears or whether it will ramp up the jeopardy.
As is the MasterChef style, we learn more about the backgrounds of each contestant via video packages.
Samira loves her shoes and bags. Noelene is the offal queen. Michael is annoying me already but Daniel C is distractingly good looking (move over Hayden).
In the second episode you'll peek into the new house, no clues yet on its location.
The next challenge will see them serve up a range of dishes that range from excellent to gross. There's not much cohesion yet, but it's early days.
There's a good rapport between judges and contestants and this group is upbeat if not necessarily grasping the canyons they will have to cross if they have any hope of holding our attention and making it to the end.
Balancing the mix of drama, personality, authenticity and cuisine is the challenge for the producers.
MasterChef is like mum's chicken soup. It will warm your insides just enough for you to think about asking for seconds.
Masterchef Australia airs 7:30pm Sunday – Wednesday on TEN.


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Science in Christian Perspective
From JASA 8 (December 1956): 14-16.
Psychologist Claims Negroes Inferior
In 1772 the Reverend Thomas Thompson wrote a monograph, "The Trade in Negro Slaves on the African Coast in Accordance with Humane Principles and with the Laws of Revealed Religion." In 1952 the Reverend Josiah Priest wrote "A Bible Defense of Slavery." In 1900 Mr. C. Carroll wrote The Negro as a Beast or in the Image of God in which one chapter was entitled "Biblical and Scientific Proofs that the Negro is Not a Member of the Human Race."
In 1956 two articles have been published which, in the context of today's racial understanding, are almost as bad as those mentioned above. One is by a theologian,1 who attempts to prove, on the erroneous basis of the Hamitic ancestry of all Negroes, that absolute segregation of all races is demanded by the scripture. The other is' by a professor of psychology2 who attempts to prove that "Negroes as a group do not possess as much capacity for education as whites," on the equally erroneous basis of a comparison of psychological test scores from the time of World War I to the present day.
Readers of this Journal are well enough acquainted with the arguments against the thesis of the Hamitic ancestry of Negroes, so we will only discuss the second of these articles, which is one of the slickest jobs of "proving" a biased position by means of carefully selected "scientific" data that this reviewer has seen in a long time.Psychologist's Main Thesi s
The psychologist's main thesis is that socio-economic
factors could not be the explanation for the inferiority
of World War I Negro scores because psychological
tests administered to groups of Negroes and whites
of like socio-economic position up to the present day continue to come out in about the same ratio, or even
worse for the Negro. It is explained that although
there has been an obvious improvement in the socio
economic conditions since World War 1, that the
whites have "profited the more from them."
A significant number of crucial considerations for r ing author, this problem are either minimized, explained away, or entirely ignored by the autho r. Basic, entire question of the validity of to measure the differences in native minority group in the first place. It may that all of these tests were composed by whites in terms of their own values and traditions.
It is further quite transparent that the psychologists reported upon, as well as the author, have appreciate the differences between "socio-economic conditions and the "culture", anthropologically speaking, of the Negroes selected. A special attempt was made to construct a test with one-half composed of "cultural questions." The rest were "questions that required a minimum amount of cultural experience for their answers". These were called the "non-cultural" questions! The reader is left to imagine what these questions could possibly be, and just what criteria were used to decide what knowledge does and what does not require "cultural experience."Method Leads to Unwarranted Conclusion
"a white subject was paired with a Negro subject when the white subject was identical or equivalent to the Negro in terms of fourteen social and economic factors thought to be important. This means that, in terms of socioeconomic status, there were no white subjects higher than the highest Negro subject. Also, in terms of socioeconomic status, there was no Negro subject lower than the lowest white subject. Each Negro subject was permanently paired with a white subject so that both subjects were equal or equivalent in terms of fourteen socioeconomic factors."
'Thee readier is not told what these fourteen factors were. That the subsequent scoring of white and Negro students thus paired could prove to have no particular correlation with these fourteen factors may be true. But to derive from this that (a) the socio-economic status of Negro since World War I has improved (we are not told hoe this is measured); (b) so has that of the whites; and (c) the differences in test scores betwee the two groups has not changed in favor of the Negroes. Therefore the Negro does not "have more capacity for education, relative to the whites, than he did in 1918" is an unwarranted conclusion.In the first place, to base educational capacity upon such an extremely limited "equal or equivalent" status judgment leaves entirely undefined all of the multi tude of other factors which would have a significant bearing upon the scores.
In the second place, socioeconomic equality does not necessarily indicate educational background equality. The author's own tests prove his fallacy here, for he chose two sets of matched groups, those with high, and those with very low socio-economic status. According to the
"If social and econonomic forces were so important, there should have been no differences between Negroes and whites in any of these comparisons."
Again, completely ignoring any other cultural factor of mentality or background which might have been responsible for the Negro's lower scores. But he goes on to say,
"As it actually turned out, the difference between Negroes and whites is much greater when both groups are of high socio-economic status than when the racial groups are of deprived socio-economic status," " . . . the performance of the Low Negro Group is identical with the performance of the Low White Group."
This is extremely revealing in view of the author's exclusive focus on a limited aspect of the total cultural environment. Ruth Benedict has pointed out that
"The environmental advantages of the Negro in the United States never equals those of the Whites of the same economic level, but wherever they become more similar the 'inferiority' of the Negro tends to disappear."3
It is easy to understand that the two low groups would possess a far more similar set of environmental advantages than would the two high groups. This serves only to throw into relief the vast amount of cultural diversities to take into account when examining educational capacity through psychological test scores.
The third reason why the author's conclusion is not warranted is that all possibilities for comparison are not explored. The manner of pairing allows only those of "equal" status to be matched, and the scores are presented only in terms of group averages. This tends to ignore completely the individual high scores made by Negroes in spite of their cultural disadvantages. Furthermore, no Negroes of high socio-economic status are compared with whites of lower socio-economic status. This would have to be done in order to prove whether or not such status has a bearing upon intelligence test scores. The author's entire case would seem to rest upon this one consideration. We are not told, for example, how the scores of the high Negro group compared with those of the low white group.1918 Test Fallacies Exposed
Nor are regional differences in environmental opportunity taken into account. One of the most significant criticisms of the 1918 tests was the re-grouping of scores to show that the "inferiorities" tabulated originally by racial and nationality groupings were due to linguistic and cultural circumstances and not due to racial and national differences. The tabulation of median scores for Southern whites as over against Northern Negroes revealed the Negroes above the Whites:Whites
New York.......
Illinois.............. 47.35
Ohio ............... 49.50
The author's attempt to show the Negroes as inferior in capacity for education is the more startling because of the tremendous weight of opinion from psychological as well as anthropological circles against him. Otto Klineberg, with whose opinions the author's admittedly "are markedly at variance," has pointed out that
"Intelligence tests may therefore not be used as measures of group differences in native ability, though they may be used profitably as measures of accomplishment."
Finally, one tends to be sceptical of a psychologist, no matter how unassailable his professional testing proficiency might be, who, after analyzing the conclusions of only six articles on Negro-White test score differences which "presented enough material to permit us to compare the World War I performance of Negroes and whites with latter-day performance," including one of his own, has the temerity to say in his concluding paragraph,
".... it should be remembered that the studies described in this article are not a selection of studies intended to emphasize a point of view. They are the only existing studies that relate to the problem."
Summing up our criticisms of this article, we would say that (1) the value of psychological tests in measuring racial educational capacity has long been questioned on the basis of the virtual impossibility of devising a test which would be "culture free." (2) To compare the results of a basically invalid measurement over a period of time and to find that the Negro-white score ratios have not significantly changed, would seem to have no practical significance for the problems of educational desegregation which face our nation. (3) Within whatever significance psychological testing of racial differences may have, it is hardly realistic, where a minority group is involved, to attempt to I( equate" socio-economic statuses by an arbitrary selection of factors, believing that this alone could even approximate equal environmental advantages and educational backgrounds. (4) The author fails to reveal to the reader all of the specific inadequacies, in terms of regional, , national, racial, linguistic, and cultural considerations, of the original test score tabulations in 1918, with which he compares all subsequent investigations. The analysis as presented, thus takes on the aspect of strictly propaganda-use of an impressive amount of psychological testing data carefully selected and tabulated to present the desired results.
Slightly previous to the author's professional contributions, a man named Cicero wrote:
"Men indeed differ in learning but are equal in the capacity for learning; there is no race which under the guidance of reason cannot attain to virtue."
1. Kinney, Kenneth, "The Segregation Issue", Baptist Butletin, October, 1956.
2. McGurk, F. C. J., "A Scientist's Report on Race Differences." U. S. News and World Report, Sept. 21, 1956, pp. 92-96.3. Emphasis mine. Benedict, Ruth, Race: Science and Poli tics, Viking Press, 1943, p. 77. (All subsequent quoted ma terial except that from McGurk is taken from this volume, pp. 71-96 on "Who is Superior?")


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One of the first things Kevin McGarry did when he became the Aztecs' football director of player personnel in March was usher the football staff into the social media era.
McGarry, 58, experimented with the use of Facebook in recruiting last season and he was blown away by how quickly kids responded to Facebook messages.
He took his initial cue from his own teenage kids who – as he discovered – don't pick up their cell phones when he calls, but somehow respond immediately to his text messages.
NCAA rules prohibit football coaches from texting with recruits but allows the use of Facebook and Twitter. As the Aztecs have discovered, Facebook messenger and Twitter direct messages essentially work the same way text messages do.
"I send someone a Facebook private message and I get some sort of response within seconds of sending it," McGarry said. "If I send them an email, it might be a week before they get back to me. And if we're in a phone call restriction period, we can't call them.
"But you can Twitter direct message and Facebook direct message them. If I say 'hey give me a call.' The phone rings (right after) I just pushed 'send.' …So when I got this position, I said, 'We're all getting on Facebook and we're all getting on Twitter."
In some ways, the Aztecs are playing catch up. Many of the other Mountain West coaches are already on social media. Utah State's Matt Wells, Nevada's Brian Polian, SJSU's Ron Caragher, Boise State's Bryan Harsin and Colorado State's Jim McElwain are all Twitter veterans.
McElwain and Polian, specifically, are very active on Twitter. In May alone, McElwain's tweets included one wishing his mom a "happy mother's day," another congratulating his seniors on graduating and a thank you to all servicemembers on Memorial Day.
Polian chats with his players on Twitter and has a penchant for posting entertaining "#tbt" or "throwback Thursday" photos.
The Aztecs' coaches aren't quite that Twitter-savvy yet. They don't really tweet things about their personal lives, but have mostly retweeted announcements from the Aztecs football main Twitter account and post the occasional update on their recruiting travels.
For them, social media is primarily a tool to communicate with their recruits.
Gone are the days of scrambling to track down a high school coach to get a kid's cell phone number. Safeties coach Danny Gonzales, one of the most tech-savvy coaches on the staff, now talks to his recruits mainly via the Facebook messenger app on his smartphone.
"It's exactly like texting, but it's legal," Gonzales said. "It's easier than trying to find a phone number to call. You search them up, you find them, boom it's done."
Beyond that, social media also provides the coaches with a conduit into recruits' lives. In a business where an entire coaching staff's livelihood depends on how well they identify and develop talent, it's important to know what kind of kid you're bringing into your program.
Tracking recruits' social media accounts is part of McGarry's job description.
"We monitor their accounts and those kids will tell you everything they're saying," SDSU coach Rocky Long said. "They Instagram and Tweet everything. So it makes you check the kid out a little closer and get to know him a little better so there's a good chance you won't make as many mistakes."
Already, there have been instances when the Aztecs' coaches have backed away from a recruit because of what they've seen on his social media accounts.
"Some guys throw up a red flag," McGarry said. "Stuff like references to drinking, language that's kind of hateful."
"Or a lot of cussing, or alcohol pictures," Gonzales added.
They've been up front with their recruits about the pitfalls of social media. At their camp in Long Beach last Saturday, recruiting coordinator Tony White warned kids that when they become friends with the Aztecs' coaches on Facebook, they open their lives to the staff.
The message: Be careful what you write because people make decisions on you based on what they find out.
The coaches are learning too, though. Even though social media has opened a world of recruiting opportunity to them, it also comes with its own dangers.
The NCAA has specific rules about what coaches can and can't do with their social media accounts. The SDSU compliance department gave the coaches a three-page guide sheet on social media use that outlines all the nuances.
For instance, a coach can tweet that he's "going to Oceanside today to watch a game." But he can't Tweet anything that could be considered an endorsement of a recruit, a school or a company.
So: "Going to Oceanside today to watch a great quarterback" and "Going to Oceanside, where they have the best field in the state" would both be considered violations.
The coaches are still navigating all the ins and outs of their new world.
"We just started with this, and I'm afraid of breaking the rules," McGarry said.
The next frontier?
Maybe Instagram.


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Injuries reported in Chisago County Rollover
On Sunday, May 15, at 11 a.m. near the 1400 block of 520th St. W., Nessel Twsp., Chisago County, four teenagers and a 21-year-old from the Braham area received various injuries, reportedly, when the truck they were riding in rolled over near the intersection of Basswood Road West and North Lake Drive West.
One passenger, a Stanchfield girl, age 14 or 15, was airlifted to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale where her condition was not known as of press time. The driver, a 17-or 18-year-old male, and passenger Theadore John Workman, 21, both of Braham, were transported by ambulance to the hospital. The driver was cited for careless driving. Also hospitalized were the two other passengers, between the ages of 14 and 17, also of Braham. Because the teenagers involved are listed as juveniles, the Chisago County Sheriff's Office is not releasing those names.
Assisting at the scene were Allina Ambulance, Braham first responders, Lakes Region EMS, Chisago Lakes Rescue and area law enforcement.
(Article courtesy of North Branch Post Review)
In other law enforcement news:
May 11: A dog was found and animal control was called in from a property along the 3400 block of Essen Rd. N.E., Isanti Township, at 6:17 p.m.
An animal complaint involving two dogs on the neighbor's property and harassing and fighting with their dog, was reported from a residence along the 29000 block of Flamingo St. N.W., Bradford, at 5:46 p.m.
May 12: A combine head trailer was reported stolen from a field at Variolite N.W. & 381st Ave. N.W., Dalbo.
May 13: Fraud was reported from a residence along the 29200 block of Tamarack St. N.W., Bradford. Two Mac computers were ordered from the complainant's Paypal account.
A truck started on fire after it went into the ditch at 2657 Sullivan Woods Trail, N.W., Isanti, at 3:18 a.m. Leaf's Towing removed the vehicle from the scene after the Isanti Fire put the vehicle fire out.
May 14: An animal complaint was reported involving two dogs from a residence along the 27100 block of Vintage St. N.W., Stanford.
No injuries were reported when a juvenile driver lost control of a vehicle and went into a swampy/tree area at Lily St. N.W. & 357th Ave. N.W., Springvale, at 7:45 a.m. The driver was heading southbound on Lily when he was turning the corner at 357th Ave. N.W. and lost control and ended up in the ditch. The driver was unharmed, but issued citations for multiple reasons. The driver stole the car from his father, and was driving without a license.
A Gateway laptop computer, valued at $900, was reported stolen off the night stand in a bedroom at a residence along the 8400 block of Hwy. 95 N.W., Wyanett. The complainant reported his daughter's boyfriend might be suspected, but lives in Florida.
A forced entry burglary was reported from a residence along the 37000 block of Palm St. N.W., Springvale, at 12:22 a.m.
May 15: An ATV complaint was made from the 27300 block of Lakewood Dr. N.W., Stanford, involving riders riding on property not owned by them. The riders were told to keep on their own property or they would receive a citation.
A fire was reported at 33846 Helium St. N.W., Wyanett, at 3:16 a.m.
May 16: A resident along the 37900 block of Variolite St. N.W., Dalbo reported a fraud complaint. The resident said he received a call from a party claiming to be the FBI and requested a payment on a loan via credit card. Law enforcement advised the party to call the FBI in Minneapolis and to report the incident.


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Hi all! I saw the following bug report in the mailinglist archive, but haven't seen much feedback/bugfix. I'm having the similar problem when I was trying to compile postgresql 6.5.2 on Digital Unix 4.0d. Wonder if anyone has worked out a fix, and kindly post it? Thanks very much, --Yan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Port Bug Report: syntax errors in spinlocks (s_lock.h) From: Unprivileged user <nobody> To: pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org Subject: Port Bug Report: syntax errors in spinlocks (s_lock.h) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:43:28 -0400 (EDT) ============================================================================ POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE ============================================================================ Your name : Jarda Benkovsky Your email address : benkovsk(at)pha(dot)pvt(dot)cz Category : install: compile Severity : serious Summary: syntax errors in spinlocks (s_lock.h) System Configuration -------------------- Operating System : Digital Unix 4.0e PostgreSQL version : 6.4.2 Compiler used : gcc 2.8.1, DEC C V5.8-009 Hardware: --------- Alpha 2100 uname -a: OSF1 shadow.pvt.net V4.0 1091 alpha Versions of other tools: ------------------------ gnu make -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem Description: -------------------- On Digital Unix alphas, msemaphores are defined as a struct of two ints. Neither gcc, nor native do not like constructs like *(lock) = 0; Native cc: /usr/bin/cc -I../../../include -I../../../backend -DNOFIXADE -I../.. -c buf_init.c -o buf_init.o cc: Error: buf_init.c, line 234: In this statement, "0" is of type "int", and cannot be converted to "struct declared without a tag". (noconvert) S_INIT_LOCK(&(buf->io_in_progress_lock)); ------------------------^ GCC: ../../../include/storage/s_lock.h: In function `tas': In file included from buf_init.c:29: ../../../include/storage/s_lock.h:102: aggregate value used where an integer was expected buf_init.c: In function `InitBufferPool': buf_init.c:234: incompatible types in assignment Especially the case of native CC is interesting, as there should not be such case and I was not able to reproduce it in controlled environment - but maybe I did some mistake during the test. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Case: ---------- ./configure; make -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solution: --------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Next: From: Pedro J. Lobo Date: 1999-10-18 09:03:38 Subject: Re: [PORTS] Re: DEC OSF compile fails in buf_init.c Previous: From: mike Date: 1999-10-18 00:45:14 Subject: unlisted successful compilation


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Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool and is in her early 60s. Having trained at Rada, she worked as an actor before writing her first TV series, Widows, which was nominated for a Bafta in 1982. Her subsequent drama series include Prime Suspect, The Governor and The Commander, and she has written nine bestselling novels. The 10th series of Trial And Retribution is currently showing every Thursday at 9pm on ITV1. Divorced, she lives in Surrey with her son Lorcan.
What is your greatest fear?
Losing my mind.
What is your earliest memory?
My nanny holding me up in the air. I was so tiny she thought my feet were on the ground as we were walking along, but she was actually dangling me off the floor! She was taking me to see my mother in hospital, and I remember how beautiful my mother's hands and nails were.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
If you had asked me a few months ago I would have said that amazing lady Jane Tomlinson, who despite having cancer ran numerous marathons and completed lots of challenges for charity. But sadly she passed away.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My low boredom threshold.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Meanness, lack of generosity.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
Too many - I don't want to bore you!
Aside from a property, what's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
A vintage Bentley Continental.
What is your most treasured possession?
My son.
Where would you like to live?
South Island, New Zealand, near the Kahurangi National Park.
What would your super power be?
Telepathy - almost there now!
What makes you depressed?
World poverty.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
The entire package!
Would you rather be clever and ugly, or thick and attractive?
Clever and ugly (but with access to a major plastic surgeon).
Who would play you in the film of your life?
Julia Roberts.
What is your most unappealing habit?
Eating too fast.
What is your favourite smell?
What is your favourite word?
What is your favourite book?
Alice In Wonderland.
What would be your fancy dress of choice?
The same gown that Liz Emanuel lent me for Elton John's birthday party.
What is the worst thing anyone's ever said to you?
'You've begun the menopause at 32.'
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?
Morag Hood, an actress who died before I could give her a leading role.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My son.
What was the best kiss of your life?
My little son one night was sleeping in my bed and before we fell asleep he said: 'Would you turn to face me - I like it when you face me.' And then he kissed me. It was glorious!
Have you ever said 'I love you' and not meant it?
Which living person do you most despise, and why?
No one. Despise is a strong word.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
What is the worst job you've ever done?
Cleaning the toilets in Wimpy.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
My marriage.
If you could go back in time, where would you go?
The Medici era, as long as I was one of them.
How do you relax?
A glass of wine, or two.
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Ridding London of the congestion charge.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
My career.
What keeps you awake at night?
My career! The plots.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Rejection does not mean no.


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I'm relatively new to this--I've been trying to absorb as much as possible for the last few weeks, but I'm sure that getting some expert advice would really help. Origionally I wanted to build a system that I could use as a home theater system and listen to music through... but after some quick research I felt that if I really care about audio quality, then I should scrap the HT aspect and focus on a nice little audio system.
What I'm thinking is:
A pair of bookshelf speakers--with the Dynaudio Excite X12s standing out (I origionally had been looking at the PSB Imagine Bs)
An integrated amp--after looking at the rec components here on stereophile I liked the Exposure 2010S (although when I looked, it seems that Exposure has moved on to the 2010S2--I haven't really found something comparing the 2010s to the S2... any info on this would be most welcome!)
I will probably be playing most of my music through my computer / digital storage, so I'm guessing I should get a DAC... but I'm really not sure about how to match a DAC to an AMP/speakers...
My room is about 12x20 and my budget is $2-3Kish (its somewhat fungable, with my fiancee prefering the low end, but if it's going to make a marked difference then I could go towards the high end--I'm also aware that the X12's and the 2010S/S2 already are well into this range...
Basically, I would love any insight into 1) Am I going in the right direction, or am I really overlooking some obvious choices and 2) I really am not as clear on the DACs...
Finally, I'm in the Washington DC metro Area and I will certainly be trying to audition whatever I can once I have an ideal about a set up/a few different set ups to look at.
Thank you all in advance for the time and thoughts!


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A Pakistani court on Saturday indicted seven people in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, The New York Times reported.
The men charged include five alleged members of the Pakistani Taliban and two police officers, including the former police chief of Rawalpindi, where the assassination occurred.
A prosecutor told the Times that all seven men were charged with criminal conspiracy and murder during a closed-door hearing. All seven deny the charges. The police officers were also charged with failure to perform their duties. They are suspected of ordering the crime scene hosed down just two hours after the incident, of removing evidence and of reducing Bhutto's security in the days before the assassination.
According to the BBC, the five suspected Taliban members have been in custody for four years. They are accused of bringing a suicide bomber to Rawalpindi from Pakistan's tribal areas. The officers, meanwhile, were arrested nearly a year ago.
Reuters reported that Pakistan's former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, also faces accusations in the case, for failing to provide Bhutto adequate security. The court issued an arrest warrant for him in February. Musharraf, who lives in exile, is now considered a fugitive.
A UN report last year said that the investigation of the assassination should "not rule out the possibility that members of Pakistan's military and security establishment were involved in the killing," according to Reuters. After Bhutto's death, Musharraf's government pointed the finger at Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who was later killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2009.