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When it comes to streamlining your online business building efforts, you can literally go to town when it comes to choosing the best online tools and apps to help you save time and money.
The thing is though, you really only need a few core tools to run your online business successfully. I've spent years testing and trialling a lot of tools and I often come back to my favorite few to run my business from my suitcase.
The following recommendations are particularly useful if you're wanting to sell online products or programs. Setting yourself up with these key tools (or similar versions of them) should allow you to save yourself time and effort while strengthening the foundation of your business.
After my previous hosting company took down my website when I went over my storage quota, and effectively shut down my business, I've been really careful about who I entrust my website and blog hosting too. Hostgator simply rock my world as they get that my business is growing.
They give you a variety of plans to chose from and allow you to upgrade at any time. For example I went from their Hatchling plan of $3.95 per month to their Baby Plan when my traffic increased. Hostgator is one of the best choice for the small to medium-sized business owners and blogging websites because they deliver website templates, great customer support and other useful services.
LeadPages claim to be the easiest way to create beautiful landing pages, launch pages, sales pages and squeeze pages for your website that actually convert.
After using them for 6 months now I have to agree. Building any of these types of pages on your website used to be a tricky thing that stalled a lot of my clients as it involved understanding which software to install, knowing some basic code and figuring out the design.
But then along came LeadPages which I think has personally changed the way in which we do online marketing by making software that's so simple to use (think drop and drag solutions to sell your products online).
This is my number one recommendation to people starting out online who want to set up shop quickly and easily. For $5 a month e-Junkie lets you sell your digital products and programs simply by creating a new product, uploading a digital file or pointing to a page on your site for a program and naming your price.
Then you can choose from a range of payment methods like Google Google Checkout or PayPal and embed that code straight into your blog or page you've set up with LeadPages, to ensure people can `buy now' and setup a simple affiliate program.
If you want something even more simple, that doesn't even require PayPal and works in seamlessly to your page you can check out Gumroad for selling digital products by just uploading your file and letting them take care of the rest. I really like what they offer through this platform.
This may seem astoundingly simple but the easiest way to start selling your goods or services online is with PayPal. You set up a free account, link it to your bank account and then you're off and running. You can accept payments via email or through creating email links directly to a PayPal checkout page. Or you can embed simple `Buy Now' or `Add to Cart' buttons on your site or blog.
People can also pay by credit card and they accept over 20 currencies which makes doing business internationally much easier. In addition with a Pro Account – which really just requires going through some extra security checks, you can then offer recurring payments (great for memberships or group programs) or subscriptions and free trial periods. The world is your oyster.
I've been extolling the virtues of Hootsuite ever since I started using it in 2010.. It's made my life on Twitter immeasurably easier. It's my number one most used tool for managing not only my two Twitter accounts but also post to LinkedIn LinkedIn, Facebook Facebook – both my page and my profile and even more.
With my Pro account, I can manage multiple accounts, set up columns for keyword searches plus see and track all mentions of my twitter handle or my blogs so that I can easily respond back to those people. It's so useful for sorting your your Direct Messages (DMs) from your Retweets to your list and top people to follow plus much more. There's a free plan too.
Mailchimp makes sending out a newsletter amazingly easy – design and send beautiful emails, manage your subscribers and track your campaign's performance.
I recommend it to anyone starting out in email marketing because it's so simple to use, and easy to navigate. You can create campaigns easily and setup autoresponders to go out automatically each time you get a new subscriber to welcome them.
I love this service because it's like your one-stop shop to finding and hiring your first virtual assistant, website developer, content writer or SEO specialist. Virtual Staff Finder helps you find your perfect match for a one off setup fee and then you work with them independently from as little as US$400 per month full time!
Running an online business requires you to manage and maintain so many moving parts, that having the right people on your team to assist you in covering every aspect is one of the smartest and best investments you'll ever make.
When it comes to using these tools, or the combination that you like the most, remember to actually implement the tools into your schedule, and set yourself up to use them consistently and your business like a pro in no time!
In the comments below let me know your three favorite tools you use when it comes to running your online business and selling your products and services?
Natalie Sisson is a Suitcase Entrepreneur who is on a mission to ensure others create freedom in business and adventure in life using online tools, social media and outsourcing to build a thriving online business you can take anywhere. She shares exactly how to do this in her No #1 Bestselling Suitcase Entrepreneur book on Amazon
This is awesome info Natalie! I'm a HUGE fan of hostgator as well and you said it best! I had the same thing happen to me with my site, though they (Homestead)"accidentally deleted" my files! Great thing to happen in the middle of a recording artist's national tour! Thanks for the post, I snagged a couple new leads on services from it! Connect with me on all networks via my website www.HamptonsCorp.biz
Thank you really great information ! Keep us informed please….
Hi Natalie, I used to be a fan of Hostgator, but, since Brent Oxley(the founder) sold the company to Endurance International Group for $225 Million recently, I've noticed customer service taking a dive. I am finding I am more satisfied with Inmotion Hosting, now. Also, have you tried Checkout by Amazon(an alternative to PayPal)? I've heard that many people are moving to it, after having problems with PayPal.
It was sold about six months ago. Can't take issue with Brent's decision- he started it from a college dorm in Florida and wishes to spend more time with his family. Pity that the transition has affected customer service, though.
Love the list Natalie, and thanks for the shout-out!
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The best advantage that online business have is that wherever you are, no matter how far you are, you can still do your business any time and any where. Your blog is very helpful to us, you have added knowledge and learning to us.
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I like Mail Chimp it makes email campaigns easy.
Great article! I use or have used most of these (granted, I think everyone uses Paypal now). Theres a business management solution software t hat I use that isn't listed. It's called PayPanther. Definitely worth checking out, Natalie. http://www.paypanther.com/


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Learning your next language is always a great idea. English and Spanish are almost equally spoken in the US. You'll very often hear English messages repeated into Spanish. That is a good reason for learning Spanish. But a lot of people have difficulty with learning new languages. Here are a few useful ideas and tips that will help you if new languages are a bit difficult. For me I need to learn Spanish because I am moving to Colombia Project Freedom
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PDawg, if she had no units available I would have preferred her to tell me the truth, and/or just passed me to Plano (which in 20/20 hindsight would have probably been the safest bet, since we were like 3 minutes from Plano and headed that direction). Plano probably would have had units lining the freeway waiting for him lol
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Well, PDawg and Operator make good points.
I think the LEO's make good points
And TXCharlie makes good point
Charlie....next time, change your wording when asking the dispatcher questions.No one has greater love than this, to lay down ones life for ones friends - John 15:13
"The Wicked Flee When No Man Pursueth: But The Righteous Are Bold As A Lion".
We lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
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Good point
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02-15-07, 08:18 AM #24No one has greater love than this, to lay down ones life for ones friends - John 15:13
"The Wicked Flee When No Man Pursueth: But The Righteous Are Bold As A Lion".
We lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
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Anyone care to explain how TXCharlie would have been liable..?
TxCharlie was drunk. The vehicle he was following/pursuing was a figment of his image. He was really swerving and everything else was still.
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coming from dispatch for 5 yrs with 2 different agencies, we've never told callers not to follow the intoxicated/ reckless drivers. i would rather you follow them in a safe manner so we can keep a visual on where they are going and get units to find them and get traffic on them. its up to the complainant if they want to keep following the veh.
we dont want a disturbance to come out of it, or try to stop the veh on their own, thats what we're here for.
we do get people sometimes who att to stop the vehs and end up in a verbal argument and then the whole reckless driver call turns into a bigger call than intended.
my biggest concern when i get these calls is what kind of vehicle,lp, direction of travel, and if the veh has been involved in any hit and runs.
thats my 2 cents!
"yes you have a right to your opinion, and i have a right to think you're stupid."
I would have kept on following him, but from a distance. Atleast that way if the dumbass does crash into somebody I can be there to help the other people involved, screw the drunk guy. I've had no tolerance for drunk drivers ever since a cousin of mine was hit head on and killed by a drunk. I never really thought much about it until it hit home...Calm Like A Bomb...
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Ok here is where the liability comes into play. The drunk; whom is already paranoid from being DWI, notices a car following him and taking the same turns he does.
He thinks its a cop and does something really stupid to try and get away killing some poor single mother of 3 on her way home from working a 12 hours shift at the local greasy spoon so her infant kid can have fresh diapers and something to eat.
The driver states he thought was was being chased by the police because he was drunk and he was concerned about going to jail so he shut off his lights and took a sharp corner to try and duck the suspected cop and didn't see the car coming at him because he was watching his mirrors rather then the road.
Now the operator of the following vehicle can be found liable for that accident much like the bar tender that knowingly over serves a highly intoxicated patron knowing he will get into his car and attempt to drive home.
There is always liability in everything we do; its just knowing how to manage it that is harder to over come then the liability itself.
I had an incident last spring where I was driving through one of our backwater towns and had a red Ford F-550 pull out of a side street and strike the guard rail on the opposite side of the street a few yards a head of me and then attempt to pull back into the proper lane of travel and continue on his merry way. Right down both sides of the road alternately.
I picked up my cell and called the local PD and gave them the information and location of the MVA and direction of travel. The dispatcher; a UPO, advised me all his units (the 2 of them they have on at night) where tied up doing traffic at a house fire and he would pass the information on to State Police.
With that I slowed down to give the driver lots of room and he eventually disappeared out of sight around a curve. About 3 miles later I found the truck wrapped around a tree about 25 feet off the road right across from the PD. The driver was out cold and laying on the dash board.
I called 911 once again to request a rescue for the driver and got chewed out for following the guy and was told I may have caused the crash.
I had lost sight of him about 10 minuets prior having stopped at the gas station to get some soda before continuing on my way and finding him; and attendant verified this for the Officer.
If I hadn't stopped at the gas station I may have been held liable for his accident because he said he thought a cop was following him and he didn't see the tree in the middle of the highway. In that area most of the patrol vehicles are mid to full size SUVs and I drive a black S10 Blazer.
When I got there I didn't see another car on the road and the nearest cruiser was parked about 100 yards away at the PD.
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And the paranoid drunk who assumes that late-model sedan behind him is a cop, with no reason to think so other than the fact they're going the same way is also going to be able to blame the guy in the sedan by your reasoning. I think that liability argument's a stretch. What proactive steps did you take to suggest to the person that you might be a police officer following him? You called the cops. How does he know? You maintained a reasonable distance? That's just driving! What did you, Charlie, or our hypothetical guy do to make anyone think that you're a cop and you're following them?
Hell... that argument would make it possible to blame someone else for anything that happens on the road! Any cheating spouse that has a wreck can blame a hypothetical PI behind him or her...
I could maybe see it in a very rural area... but I just don't think it'd be an argument that would hold water for long. I know if I was investigating a crash, and the driver told me "I thought a cop might be following me so I was watching behind me" I wouldn't be very sympathetic... The driver is responsible for the safe operation of the car; you can't be responsible for the conclusions some other person that you've had no direct contact with makes!
Now, if the following driver were to be exceeding the speed limit or otherwise doing something other than simply driving within the law behind the possible drunk -- then I could kind of see the argument. But, even then, I'd say that it's more support that they're guilty of multiple traffic infractions than that they're liable for the actions of the drunk!
I agree and in a common place this would be true; but, there are so many chestier lawyers out there that will take any case to make a dime or name they don't care.
How many times have you read in the papers or seen on the news that granny Johnson was sued for $250,000.oo by a burglar who injured himself while entering, or or leaving the house and the juries sided with him. And the burglar won!
In criminal court the accused has more rights then the victims and in a civil court its more so; the burden is on the defendant to prove himself and the accuser only needs to say something happened. It's a he said she said deal.
Just look at O.J. Found not guilty of criminal charges but a civil court found him guilty of wrongful death and awarded a hefty sum to his late wifes and boyfriends families in their murders.
I have had the privilege of setting on a federal court jury and we found the guy innocent by a narrow vote I'm sorry to say. It was a Lt. in the Latin Kings up on weapons charges.
I know people who have set on a jury in a civil case and found in favor the the partitioner over the respondent and later said if it was a criminal case it would have gone the other way.
I don't know; welcome to America I guess!Everybody is entitled to MY opinion!
I suppose, then, she'd probably say "no" if I asked her permission to take him out with a PIT maneuver? I saw it on COPS once and it looked easy
With that I'll just say Reno911 starts Friday!!!
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Not liable here either - it's pretty routine that I'm dispatched to a drunk driver with the caller following. Dispatch advises me if the caller is still following or not, and if so, their vehicle description also. Often I'll get behind the subject vehicle, and dispatch will have the caller tell them if I'm behind the vehicle they are calling-in, and relay that to me.The opinions expressed in this post do not reflect the opinions, views, policies, and/or procedures of my employing agency, Police Chief, or any other member or employee of my department or municipality.
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Its not a question of Liability.
Its risk vs. reward.
The risk of somebody following a drunk outweights any (Im not sure if there is any) benifit that could come from it. Lets also not forget you have no way of knowing he is drunk.
Risk: Guy being followed alters his driving pattern as he is being followed, and crashes.
Risk: Guy is spooked by the car following him and pulls over, produces a gun and shoots you in the face. Im sure somebody will say "But i'll pull out my CCW and shoot him first".
Was getting into a shootout and possibly getting hurt or killed worth it? Remember, were talking about a civilian here. If you want to play cop then go be a cop.
Benifit: You are able to give updated direction of travel of the vehicle. This does not mean the cops are gonna get there any quicker, if at all.
What if the guy pulls into a gas station or walmart? Are you gonna go into survelance mode across the street? Are you going to block him in and wait for the real Police? Are you gonna follow him into Walmart?? You laugh but it happens. And when it does, we still dont respond.
But i'll pull out my CCW and shoot him firstEverybody is entitled to MY opinion!
Believe me, if he/she wasn't either drunk or had severe medical problems, then it must have been a 5-year-old kid driving - He couldn't hold a lane.
It's times like that though that I do wish I was already a cop... I'm sure when you light 'em up, there's also a danger that you'll spook them too. I don't know how you'd resolve that, but I hope I can get thru the process of Field Training and find out.
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March debut for Hydrophobia
Blade Interactive's Hydrophobia has been out of the limelight for some months, the potentially innovative action title seemingly taking a back seat while bigger festive debutants strut their stuff.
However, we learn today that the game is still very much on the way, Eurogamer.net reporting that Blade will actually publish the game themselves come March 2009.
The third-person shooter is set aboard a ship, and will be built around realistic water and physics, among the best in the business, apparently. Puzzles will be key, the player forced to move around the wet stuff in order to reach inaccessible areas.
The game is being made for the PC and next-gen consoles (I hate that phrase), and looks visually lovely. It was originally due out this year. More soon.


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In the meantime, Bill and Alison spoke. Alison told Bill Deacon held Hope up as long as he could. Alison explained Hope was on her way to the church and Bill ordered her to prevent her from getting there. Alison sent Deacon back to the farm-house, made a few phone calls and wrote a note which she left on the mirror in Hope's hotel room. The gardener driving that pickup truck ran into a road block and was unable to go any further. Hope decided to run to the church.
Elsewhere, Liam arrived back at the hotel. Steffy knew he was coming thanks to Bill. Liam entered Hope's suite and read the note on the mirror. The note said I love you but I just can't do this. A crushed Liam couldn't believe Hope dumped him again. He flashed back to the great times they had in Puglia together. Steffy showed up wondering what was going on. Liam told her he Hope dumped him again. He said he 'was done.' Steffy didn't get it. Liam left Hope a video message on her tablet and angrily tossed it across the room after finishing the message. In the meantime, Hope told Ridge and Brooke about Deacon. Brooke warned her to stay away from Deacon. Hope didn't want to talk about him now. She just wanted to get married.
Katie heard Marcus and Dayzee chatting about Hope and Liam and some type of sabotage. She tried to get the story out of Marcus, but had no luck. She called Bill and ordered him not to interfere with Hope and Liam's wedding. Bill dodged her advice and told her he loved her.
On today's episode, A devastated Liam has Steffy by his side. He begins ranting about how everything his father said about Hope was right. He cannot believe this just happened to him. Steffy finds it strange and has to wonder if Bill was behind this whole thing. Steffy offers Liam comfort. Later, Hope tries to track down Liam. Take a look at this CBS video preview for today's episode.
Also on today's episode, Liam begins to wonder if he should have listened to his father. Bill puts part two of his plan into action. He calls Liam, tells him to grab Steffy and meet him at the plane. He tells his son they are leaving. Elsewhere, Ridge begins to wonder if Bill Spencer had anything to do with the wedding going bust. Take a look at this second CBS video preview for today's episode.
Don't miss today's episode of The Bold and the Beautiful and do share your thoughts in the comments section below. Do you think Bill Spencer has gone too far this time?


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I've got my SurroundBar (model SDA) connected to my PS3 via component cables. I've selected the proper audio output settings on my PS3. My bar and my sub are set to the same channel, but all I'm getting is a red flashing light on the bar and a solid orange light on the sub. What gives?
This happened the first time I hooked it all up together, and a specialist got it working for me, but for the life of me I don't remember what he did. Any ideas?


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I've failed miserably with my photos over the past few days - just not felt like it and had a quiet weekend. This challenge is harder than I thought.
Today I have some pretty flowers and pearls to show you in the form of three stunning bracelets made for me by MummyBird Pretties. Claire made these up in my own colour preferences. I also bought some pretty bobby pins, too. I came upon her lovely work by chance through blog hopping. Thanks Claire - I love them all and a perfect fit.
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Layered Spinach and Pot Sticker Salad
Pot stickers add a Far East touch to this delicious spinach salad recipe. Try the strawberry vinaigrette dressing drizzled over grilled chicken or vegetables.
- Yields: 12 side-dish or 6 main dish servings
- Start to Finish: 30 mins
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13 ounce packages frozen chicken pot stickers or two 16- to 19-oz. pkg. frozen cheese-filled tortellini
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cups fresh whole strawberries, hulled
cup red wine vinegar
cup strawberry jam
cup olive oil
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teaspoon cayenne pepper
5 ounce bag baby spinach (8 cups)
recipe Spiced Chips (see recipe below)
- In 4- to 5-quart pot cook pot stickers or tortellini according to package directions; drain. Rinse gently in cold water; drain well and set aside.
- Meanwhile, for vinaigrette, place 1-1/2 cups berries in large trifle bowl. Crush with masher; whisk in vinegar, jam, oil, ginger, and pepper. Layer pot stickers or tortellini and spinach. Quarter or slice remaining berries; layer on spinach. Refrigerate, covered, up to 1 hour. To serve, top with Spiced Chips. Makes 12 side-dish or 6 main-dish servings
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In the News
Appalachian Cultural Museum to remain closed
Appalachian State University has announced that the Appalachian Cultural Museum will not reopen.
The museum was displaced from University Hall, located off Blowing Rock Road, in March 2006 to make room for ASU's Institute for Health and Human Services.
Efforts from stakeholders, a building search committee, community members and local government, including the Boone Town Council, which considered housing the museum on the Horn in the West property, yielded little success.
Artifacts from the collection that were not reclaimed by their donors remained in storage in the old Belk Library.
According to an ASU news release, the university will instead move some of the collection's pieces to other campus collections and strategically place other artifacts with regional non-profits.
"Our focus and plan will provide a clear strategy for the future study and preservation of Appalachian mountain culture," said Dr. Anthony Calamai, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "We realized some things could not continue as they had in the past, and there are positive and important opportunities to be gained through the changes.
"Some objects from the collection can be employed by campus programs in living history demonstrations or as teaching tools for students interested in careers in museums or historic sites. Partnering with other regional museums will ensure artifacts will be available to an even wider and more diverse audience."
Officials said the plan "reaffirms and extends (ASU's) commitment to the study and preservation of Appalachian culture," focusing on the university's efforts and resources on academics and specialized collections, and that the museum's collection "will have a new life and a strong impact."
Former Appalachian Cultural Museum curator Chuck Watkins declined comment.
ARHS and UNC Cancer Resource Network team up
Appalachian Regional Healthcare System has entered into an affiliate agreement with University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's UNC Cancer Resource Network.
This agreement allows the Seby B. Jones Regional Cancer Center to participate as a study site for clinical research trials, which may afford cancer patients in the High Country more treatment options.
One of the advantages of the affiliation is the use of UNC-CH's Institutional Review Board, which provides the essential elements of experienced research support staff, technology and principal investigators, as well as a variety of potential clinical research studies based on specific patient population and cancer types.
In the past, patients that have been interested in pursuing treatment options offered via clinical trials, needed to travel "off the mountain" to participate in such alternatives.
For more information, contact research nurse Teresa Callahan at (828) 268-5526.
To learn more about Seby B. Jones Regional Cancer Center, visit http://www.apprhs.org/services/cancer-center.
TRCS announces K-8 Spanish program
In a budgetary time when many elementary schools' foreign language programs are facing deep cuts, Two Rivers Community School (TRCS) announces that, as of this year, all of its students (K-8) are now recieving instruction in Spanish.
TRCS kindergarten instructor Vicki Krueger was born in Puerto Rico and has long given her kindergartners all of her native Spanish that she could fit into her daily curriculum.
Last year, two bilingual staff members joined Two Rivers, and director June Gilch saw an opportunity. Middle grades science teacher Jessica Gilway and fifth grade teacher Michael Gelbart taught in a dual language school in South America for three years before they came to TRCS.
Gilch brought the three teachers together and they put together a Spanish language instruction program for all students.
According to longitudinal bilingual education researchers Virginia Collier and Wayne Thomas, learning two languages has many cognitive benefits for children, such as enhanced creativity, analytical thinking and listening skills.
Their work has also shown that learning two languages at a young age makes it easier to learn a third and fourth language down the road. It also opens the door to understanding other cultures and increases employment opportunites in today's globally connected workplace.
For more information on TRCS, a tuition-free charter school, visit http://www.trcsboone.org or call (828) 262-5411.
MTV says WASU rocks
Thousands of votes cast and it comes down to this.
WASU, 90.5, Appalachian's own radio station, is officially in the top five.
It's the Woodie Awards, and MTV aims to recognize one radio station.
If station manager Brittney Tensi has anything to say about it, that station will be WASU.
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Voting ended Monday. Thursday, MTV calls the station to let them know who won.
Listen at 2 p.m. for the official announcement. WASU can be heard on 90.5 FM and around the world at wasurocks.com.


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In a recent post I commented on a remark made in one of the comboxes by a reader sympathetic to "Intelligent Design" (ID) theory. At the ID website Uncommon Descent, Vincent Torley has responded, in a post with the title "Hyper-skepticism and 'My way or the highway': Feser's extraordinary post." The title, and past experience with Torley, led me to expect that his latest piece would be short on dispassionate and accurate analysis and long on overheated rhetoric and misrepresentation. Past experience with Torley also led me to expect that it would simply be long, period, indeed of gargantuan length.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man and The Patriarchy
It isn't news that fathers are often portrayed as doofuses in pop culture. An interesting aspect of the Spider-Man movies is how aggressively they buck this trend. The theme of fatherhood and its responsibilities absolutely permeates the series. The noblest characters are almost all either father figures or those who honor father figures. When father figures are portrayed negatively, it is always because they have failed to live up to the responsibilities of fatherhood, which the series clearly honors. Indeed, once you first note this aspect of the series, you start seeing it everywhere. The Spider-Man movies constitute one big patriarchy-fest.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
Signature in the cell?
In the combox of my recent post comparing the New Atheism and ID theory to different players in a game of Where's Waldo?, a reader wrote:
One can run a reductio against the claim that we cannot detect design or infer transcendent intelligence through natural processes. Were we to find, imprinted in every human cell, the phrase "Made by Yahweh" there is only one thing we can reasonably conclude.
I like this example, because it is simple, clear, and illustrative of confusions of the sort that are rife in discussions of ID. Presumably we are all supposed to regard it as obvious that if this weird event were to occur, the "one thing we can reasonably conclude" is that a "transcendent intelligence," indeed Yahweh himself, had put his "signature in the cell" (with apologies to Stephen Meyer -- whose own views I am not addressing here, by the way).
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Where's God?
Here's an analogy that occurs to me as a way of thinking about some of the main issues debated here on the blog over the years. Suppose you're looking at a painting of a crowd of people, and you remark upon the painter's intentions in producing the work. Someone standing next to you looking at the same painting -- let's call him Skeptic -- begins to scoff. "Painter? Oh please, there's no evidence of any painter! I've been studying this canvas for years. I've gone over every square inch. I've studied each figure in detail -- facial expressions, posture, clothing, etc. I've found plumbers, doctors, dancers, hot dog vendors, dogs, cats, birds, lamp posts, and all kinds of other things. But I've never found this painter of yours anywhere in it. No doubt you'll tell me that I need to look again until I find him. But really, how long do we have to keep looking without success until people like you finally admit that there just is no painter?"
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Sunday, July 20, 2014
Back from Berkeley
Got back last night from the very fine DSPT conference on the relationship between philosophy and theology in Berkeley. The main presenters were Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, Linda Zagzebski, Fr. Michael Dodds, John Searle, Fr. Michał Paluch, Allred Freddoso, John O'Callaghan, and me. Responses to these talks were given by Fr. Richard Schenk, Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn, Fr. Simon Gaine, Steven Long, Fr. Michael Dodds, Matthew Levering, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, and Fr. Michael Sherwin. There were also many excellent talks given during the breakout sessions.
My paper was titled "From Aristotle to John Searle and Back Again: Formal Causes, Teleology, and Computation in Nature." Some photos taken during the talk can be found here. Photos from the other talks can be found by scrolling down here. My understanding is that conference papers will be published in a forthcoming volume. Fred Freddoso's paper "The Vindication of St. Thomas: Thomism and Contemporary Anglo-American Philosophy" is available at his website (along with a great many other works by Fred that you should read). Many thanks to the Dominicans for their warm hospitality!
My paper was titled "From Aristotle to John Searle and Back Again: Formal Causes, Teleology, and Computation in Nature." Some photos taken during the talk can be found here. Photos from the other talks can be found by scrolling down here. My understanding is that conference papers will be published in a forthcoming volume. Fred Freddoso's paper "The Vindication of St. Thomas: Thomism and Contemporary Anglo-American Philosophy" is available at his website (along with a great many other works by Fred that you should read). Many thanks to the Dominicans for their warm hospitality!
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
I link, therefore I am
This week: DSPT conference on philosophy and theology in Berkeley. See you there.
John Searle, who will be speaking at the conference, is interviewed by Tim Crane.
Does Darwinism eliminate teleology and intentionality, or does it explain teleology and intentionality? Some major naturalist philosophers hash it out in a new anthology reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Philosopher Stephen Mumford tweets that he is "really enjoying" and "finding it hard to put down" my book Aquinas. Thanks, Stephen! (Stephen's book Laws in Nature, to which he refers in one of the tweets, is highly recommended.)
Less than three weeks left until Guardians of the Galaxy. Here's the extended trailer. And the flick's got a cool soundtrack. (But it's not all fun and games. Check out "The Glory and Tragedy of Rocket Raccoon" for the sad story of Rocket's co-creator Bill Mantlo, who could use all the help his family can get.)
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Saturday, July 12, 2014
Clarke on the stock caricature of First Cause arguments
W. Norris Clarke's article "A Curious Blind Spot in the Anglo-American Tradition of Antitheistic Argument" first appeared in The Monist in 1970. It was reprinted in his anthology The Creative Retrieval of St. Thomas Aquinas: Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old, which was published posthumously in 2009. I only just read the essay, and I did so with embarrassment and gratification. Embarrassment because I found that something I've been harping on for a few years now had already been said by Fr. Clarke over 40 years ago. Gratification because I found that something I've been harping on for a few years now had already been said by Fr. Clarke over 40 years ago.
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
Carroll on laws and causation
People have been asking me to comment on the remarks about causation made by atheist physicist Sean Carroll during his recent debate with William Lane Craig on the topic of "God and Cosmology." (You'll find Craig's own post-debate remarks here.) It's only fair to acknowledge at the outset that Carroll cannot justly be accused of the anti-philosophical philistinism one finds in recent remarks by physicists Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Indeed, Carroll has recently criticized these fellow physicists pretty harshly, and made some useful remarks about the role of philosophy vis-à-vis physics in the course of doing so.
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Monday, June 30, 2014
SCOTUS and Oderberg
Today, with Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court of the United States has partially redeemed itself after its disgraceful 2012 Obamacare ruling. Readers of this blog will be particularly interested to learn that the work of the esteemed David Oderberg (specifically, his article "The Ethics of Co-operation in Wrongdoing") is cited in footnote 34 of the decision. Also cited are two other, older works of traditional Thomistic natural law theory: Thomas Higgins' Man as Man: The Science and Art of Ethics and Henry Davis's Moral and Pastoral Theology.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Pagden on the Enlightenment
Prof. Anthony Pagden's recent book The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters has much to say not only about the Enlightenment itself but also about the Scholasticism against which it reacted. My review of the book appears today at Liberty Fund's Online Library of Law and Liberty website.
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
The last enemy
There are two sorts of people who might be tempted to think of death as a friend: those who think the nature of the human person has nothing to do with the body, and those who think it has everything to do with the body; in short, Platonists and materialists. Protestant theologian Oscar Cullmann summarizes the Platonist's position in his little book Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? as follows:
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Monday, June 16, 2014
Summer web surfing
My Claremont Review of Books review of John Gray's The Silence of Animals is now available for free online.
Keith Parsons has now wrapped up our exchange on atheism and morality at The Secular Outpost.
The latest from David Oderberg: "Could There Be a Superhuman Species?" Details here.
Liberty Island is an online magazine devoted to conservatism and pop culture. Music writer extraordinaire (and friend of this blog) Dan LeRoy is on board.
James Franklin asks "What is mathematics about?" (See also his new book An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics.)
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Sullivan's cavils
I thank The Smithy's Michael Sullivan for his two spirited further installments (here and here) in his series of posts on my book Scholastic Metaphysics. (I responded to the first of his posts here.) Sullivan says some very kind things about my book, which I appreciate. He also raises some criticisms which, though I disagree with them, are reasonable. But unfortunately, some of his remarks are unjust and intemperate. Let me comment on those first.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Judging a book by what it doesn't cover
In his encyclical Aeterni Patris, Pope Leo XIII called for a "restoration of Christian philosophy." He was quite specific about what he had in mind:
[D]aily experience, and the judgment of the greatest men, and, to crown all, the voice of the Church, have favored the Scholastic philosophy.
Indeed, he was even more specific than that:
Among the Scholastic Doctors, the chief and master of all towers Thomas Aquinas…
We exhort you, venerable brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defense and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences… Let carefully selected teachers endeavor to implant the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas in the minds of students, and set forth clearly his solidity and excellence over others. Let the universities already founded or to be founded by you illustrate and defend this doctrine, and use it for the refutation of prevailing errors.
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Review of Gray etc.
Readers of the Claremont Review of Books may want to look for my review of John Gray's book The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths in the Spring 2014 issue. At the moment the review is behind a pay wall, but subscribing will fix that problem.
On another matter, readers keep asking me how to get hold of Scholastic Metaphysics, which was released on April 1, somewhat ahead of schedule. Apparently the book sold out very quickly because supply could not meet all the pre-orders and Amazon has been out of stock for some time. I have been told that a new shipment arrived at the U.S. distributor's warehouse a week or so ago and that the book should once again be available from Amazon this week. So, sit tight, and many, many thanks for your patience and interest.
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Friday, May 30, 2014
Sexual cant from the asexual Kant
Kant never married and apparently died a virgin. He is sometimes described as having had a low opinion of sex, on the basis of passages like this one from his Lectures on Ethics:
[S]exuality is not an inclination which one human being has for another as such, but is an inclination for the sex of another… The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires. Human nature is thus subordinated. Hence it comes that all men and women do their best to make not their human nature but their sex more alluring and direct their activities and lusts entirely towards sex. Human nature is thereby sacrificed to sex. (Louis Infield translation, p.164)
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Linked in
Two new papers from David Oderberg: "Is Form Structure?" and "The Metaphysics of Privation."
Donald Devine and I have been debating the merits of John Locke for years. Don offers his latest thoughts at The Federalist in "The Real John Locke -- And Why He Matters."
Stratford Caldecott -- Catholic writer, G. K. Chesterton Research Fellow at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford, and Marvel Comics fan -- has cancer. Marvel has stepped up to grant him a dying wish, and the stars of the Marvel movies have given him a touching tribute. Fr. Z has the story, as do The Independent and the Catholic Herald.
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Saturday, May 24, 2014
This is philosophy?
This is Philosophy is a new introduction to the subject by Prof. Steven Hales. A reader calls my attention to the book's companion website, which contains links to some lecture slides keyed to topics covered in the book, a dictionary of terms, exercises, and so forth.
I've got a little exercise of my own for the reader, which has three steps. Here's how it goes:
Step 1: Read this blurb from the website:
The text's scholarship is as noteworthy as its hipness. Hales clearly explains important philosophical ideas with a minimum of jargon and without sacrificing depth of content and he consistently gives a fair and accurate presentation of both sides of central philosophical disputes.
Step 2: Read this set of lecture slides on the cosmological argument, holding before your mind the highlighted words from the blurb while doing so.
Step 3: Try not to laugh.
Ha! Knew you couldn't do it! Me neither.
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
New Scholastic books
The old Scholastic manuals of the first half or so of the twentieth century are often hard to find, though fortunately many are now being made available again by Editiones Scholasticae, Wipf and Stock, and TAN Books, as well as by public domain reprint publishers like Kessinger, HardPress, and Literary Licensing. Still, many remain out of print, and many have never been translated into English. For some reason, the large older manuals of Catholic dogmatic theology seem harder to find than the philosophy and moral theology material.
Fr. Kenneth Baker has undertaken the project of translating Joseph Dalmau's mammoth Sacrae Theologiae Summa (or Summa of Sacred Theology), originally published in 1955, into English. It is being published by Keep the Faith, which puts out The Latin Mass magazine. The first volume was recently published and advertised in the magazine. Appearing out of sequence, it is Sacrae Theologiae Summa IIA: On the One and Triune God. At the moment I do not see it advertised on their website, but I imagine that if you contact them by email you can find out how to order a copy. (I ordered one after seeing the magazine ad -- the price was $35 -- and it arrived yesterday.)
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Pre-Christian apologetics
Christianity did not arise in a vacuum. The very first Christians debated with their opponents in a cultural context within which everyone knew that there is a God and that he had revealed himself through Moses and the prophets. The question, given that background, was what to think of Jesus of Nazareth. Hence the earliest apologists were, in effect, apologists for Christianity as opposed to Judaism, specifically. That didn't last long. As Christianity spread beyond Judea into the larger Mediterranean world, the question became whether to accept Christianity as opposed to paganism. Much less could be taken for granted.
Still, significant common ground for debate was provided by Greek philosophy. In Book VIII of The City of God, Augustine noted that thinkers in the Neoplatonic tradition had seen that God is the cause of the existence of the world; had seen also that only what is beyond the world of material and changeable things could be God; had understood the distinction between the senses and their objects on the one hand, and the intellect and its objects on the other, and affirmed the superiority of the latter; and had affirmed that the highest good is not the good of the body or even the good of the mind, but to know and imitate God. In short, these pagan thinkers knew some of the key truths about God, the soul, and the natural law that are available to unaided human reason. This purely philosophical knowledge facilitated Augustine's own conversion to Christianity, and would provide an intellectual skeleton for the developing tradition of Christian apologetics and theology.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Dominicans Interactive reviews Aquinas
Dominicans Interactive is a new online initiative of the Irish Dominicans. (Check out their Facebook page and website.) Today the website reviews my book Aquinas. From the review:
The chapter on natural theology deals with all five of Aquinas's proofs for the existence of God… as well as containing a short treatment of the divine attributes (God's simplicity, perfection, goodness, immutablity, and so on). The reader will encounter in this chapter one of the most robust defences of the validity of every one of the arguments for the existence of God (Five Ways) available in the English language… This chapter is a tour de force and bears witness to Feser's deserved reputation as a master of natural theology. Both students and established scholars ought to acquire a copy of the book for the sake of this chapter alone.
Very kind! The review also warns: "[A] note of caution: Feser's book, while it ought to be required reading for any introductory course on Aquinas's philosophy, is nonetheless very challenging for the neophyte." That's worth emphasizing. The book's subtitle "A Beginner's Guide" is a bit misleading. It was not part of the original title when the book was contracted, and writing a "beginner's guide" was not something I had in mind when working on it. What happened is that after the book was finished the publisher decided to fold it into their "Beginner's Guides" series. In fact most readers will find it more challenging than The Last Superstition, though not as challenging as Scholastic Metaphysics.
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Love is a Science, But Not An Absence of Faith
March 29, 2012 § 9 Comments
Did you ever have your heart broken?
Did you ever sit alone after you knew it was over and pray that you could stop obsessing over every little thing that reminded you of your ex? The shows that you watched together, his or her favorite food, the good morning text message. The reminders aren't just painful, they're annoying. They make you feel like you'll have to wipe the slate of your life clean and start from scratch because now all of a sudden, everything is a reminder.
I sat in this position a couple of years ago. I'm not ashamed to admit it, because most of us have. If you've ever been in a relationship, you've probably been through something similar if you are a person. A human being. If you are a chair, you might not have ever felt this, but you're also a chair that can read so I won't make any assumptions about reading chairs.
But as people, this is what we experience. It's what I was experiencing and I grew sick of it quickly. I didn't want to feel like that anymore so I turned to the one place for support that I always know will be there for me; the internet.
Scouring message boards, articles, and studies, I came across other people whose hearts had been torn apart like a Choo Choo Choose Me Valentine's card. The stories of pain, disenchantment of love, and the underlying feelings of regret from losing their partner spread across the world wide web like pictures of Pamela Anderson and LOLCATZ. I read through them for hours and came across a singular conclusion: My feelings weren't only painful, but they were tirelessly unoriginal.
On a certain level I felt validated for feeling what I felt. I wasn't alone. It was like these other people were inside my head, saying the things that I had not yet said. It's always nice to know that even if you're crazy, you're normal. Yet on another level I felt stupid. I felt stupid for thinking that my situation was different than anyone else's or that I had let my emotions get the better of me. That's when I started to think of heartbreak not as a Katherine Heigl rom-com that existed in a world of "true love" and "destiny" but as a science problem. Heart ache was closer to Bill Nye than it was to Say Anything.
That's not to diminish the feelings you feel when your partner in crime becomes your ex-P.I.C., but all I cared about was getting over it and if I could think of it as a math or science problem, then I could get over it quicker. It's like finding out the stages of grief and then finding out how to skip past them, or moving through your 12 step program at a steady but furious pace.
The Stages of Heartbreak would go something like: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance, Moving On. It's just like the seven stages of grief, except I just named six.
How to move through them quicker:
- Denial. Well, this one is easy. It IS over. Come to that realization quickly and move on to step two. Being in denial is dumb and the word alone should tell you so because when you hear the word "denial" your first inclination is "You're wrong to think this isn't happening because it clearly is." Don't discount the fact that you're feeling it, but know that it's incorrect and the quicker you realize it's real, the better.
- Anger. We want to punch something in the face and call the ex a "good for nothing so-and-so" but probably in nicer words than that and I'm sorry for my foul language! So what do you do? Get all your anger out immediately. Punch pillows. Hell, punch a wall because the pain from that will last longer than the anger you're feeling and you'll realize how stupid it was that you actually broke your hand over this. Get the anger out though. Go running, go watch Chipwrecked, get mad so that you can get happy and go onto step three.
- Bargaining has never worked before and it will never work in the future. "I'll change" and "I won't make you watch 162 baseball games next year, only 149" isn't the problem. The problems are probably much deeper than that. Bargain with a gypsy, not with yourself.
- Depression. Well, this is sort of a tough one because depression is potentially the deepest emotion that we feel and it leaves us numb. I could try to give ways to be not depressed, but short of drugs there really isn't much we can do BECAUSE we are depressed. "Do this" or "do that" won't matter because your brain is telling you that life sucks. Depression is sort of like burning your hand on the stove; we can find ways to numb the pain but we can't change the fact that we just burn our hand really bad. It happened and the only cure is time. Just time. However, if we can move past Denial, Anger, and Bargaining quicker, then we've time-travelled right into depression. WOOHOO!
- Acceptance. Okay, so you've done it. You woke up this morning and you felt good. It's 1:30 PM and you've just realized for the first time today that you DIDN'T ONCE think about that person. Until now… and now you feel kinda crappy, but it's okay because you feel less crappy today than you did yesterday. And then one day you'll realize that it's been three days since you felt crappy and now you've hit the home stretch. Good job!
- Moving on. Awesome, this is basically not even a step because you've accepted that the relationship is over and that's honestly the hardest part. Nobody said that getting back on the horse is easy, but I think you'll find that it can be quite fun. "Playing the field" and whatnot. (Everything is a sports metaphor.) You're ready to move on. You can actually watch Survivor and not get sappy because that's what you and so-and-so used to always DVR together. You can drink your favorite wine again. All of your favorites are your favorites again because you don't miss that person anymore. This feeling is the bomb, yo.
I have gone through these feelings multiple times in my life, but the time that I decided that love and heartbreak was as much science as it was metaphysical was the time that I got over it the quickest. My point isn't to discount your feelings but to give validation to the fact that we are human and because we are human that means that chemicals and biology are as much a part of life as feelings and emotions. They are intertwined. That's the beauty and the curse of being human.
In the same way that we can end love on a scientific note, we can begin it. According to Helen Fisher of Rutgers University, there are Three Stages of Falling in Love: Lust, Attraction, and Attachment.
- Lust: It takes between 90 second and 4 minutes to decide if you are into somebody upon first meeting. This is driven by the hormones that give you boners and make women feel tingly: testosterone and oestrogen.
- Attraction: This is when you can't stop thinking about the person. You want 'em bad. Monoamines are neuro-transmitters that hit your brain and mess you up: Dopamine, Adrenalin, and Serotonin. These will make you hyper, get your heart racing, keep you alert, and make you a little crazy. When you fall head over heels, it's because serotonin is encapsulating your senses and, well… fucking with you.
- Attachment: You want to do more than rub your membranes together, now you want to have kids, get a dog, and buy color-coded toothbrushes. Oxytocin is now pulsating through your brain and that's basically the bonding drug. It's the same one that hits you when your mom first pops you out and holds you and feeds you from her bosom. It also gives women emotion-boners when you have sex. Oxytocin and Vasopressin are big components to why you'll never forget your first love or the first person that you entered/entered you. It's crazy, huh?
Every one of your emotions is more than just a recess of your mind. It's not just things you think because you have a soul, but things you think because chemicals are always moving around your brain and body and making you do things and think things whether you like it or not. That's love, that's hate, that's anger, that's depression, that's life… it's chemicals, science, biology, and hormones.
As humans we can only control so much. Sometimes our body is going to do what our body wants to do and the idea of things like "Love at first sight" or "Gut-wrenching heartbreak" are inevitable chemical reactions that we can't necessarily resist. But we can reason with it. We can use our power of knowledge to combat the power of hormones, of chemistry, of science.
I used knowledge that I gained through other people's experiences to help overcome a time in my life when I was very low. By reasoning with myself and with my emotions and knowing that even if I was only at the beginning of a tunnel, there was still an end to it (there is ALWAYS an end to the tunnel) and I'd do my best to run through it because while a soul might be unexplainable, math and science are basically the opposite because they do give meaning and reason to everything.
But is it always that simple?
This is part one: Love is a Science. Part two will be next week: But Not an Absence of Faith.
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I like this! I will keep this in mind the next time I get into another relationship, as they never seem to work out for me lol. I think I let my brain chemicals get the best of me.


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Friday, December 18, 2009
12/18: Aeros 2, Texas 5
The win against them on Tuesday in their barn was... maybe not a fluke... but that certainly wasn't the Texas Stars you get on most nights. And they knew it and you can bet they were looking to redeem themselves like a book of S&H Green Stamps. (How much did I just age myself?)
On top of that, the Aeros are playing 4 games in 6 nights and they looked a little tired. I thought the Stars had the edge on speed and sharpness all night, even though the Aeros seemed to be giving it all the gas they had.
One of the guys will probably give you the full quote, but after the game, Constantine said the goals against were Team Goals Against. Indeed they were. Breakdowns started upfront and rolled back to the net. Man, that second goal on Dubie by Peters was just sick. Sure Gunderson got beat badly on it, but it was a sweet goal finding the hole over Dubie's shoulder.
I continue to be impressed by Cody Almond. He just has terrific vision and hockey sense and does the "little things" coaches always talk about that make a big difference.
Brandon Rogers is another guy who really seems to have that ability to dig deep and find energy when others seem to be lagging a bit. He was terrific tonight. And really, you can't say enough about a guy who goes from being a cornerstone of a team's defense to being the STARTING CENTER. This isn't just like John Scott filling in on the wing. That's still a tough transition, but centers have more responsibility, a LOT more skating, and then to be the starting center? Wow.
We always have a laugh about it and shake our heads when he's announced as such each night because of what it says about the team as a whole, but it says nothing but really great things about Brandon.
This isn't going to be popular, but I'm going old school with the stick figure today. Well, technically there's no stick figure at all, but this is the kind of thing where a string of photos from Fred would probably give us some proof one way or the other as to that no-goal call.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter, but we all felt like based on replays that it was not a goal. It looked like it hit the back of the post and out, but I really don't believe if you could look down from above, that the puck was ALL the way over the line.
This drawing conclusively proves that T3I needs Fred taking pictures for us, because that is just craptastic and proves absolutely nothing.
Speaking of Fred, be sure and tell him HAPPY BIRTHDAY because he turns 29 today (Saturday)! Happy Birthday Freddycakes!
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- artandhockey said...
DICCO(the word).. that says it all to both your postings.... agree with some disagree with some.
Most definitely..hard working team,individually good to great skaters..... but no oomph, NO MAGIC!!!
- December 19, 2009 at 9:25 AM
- artandhockey said...
No Defense, despite what was so bruited about at the start of the season!
No offense that gives results!
Hard working BUT....
Good skating BUT....
Put it all together and what do you get: NOTHING exciting!
One can't get too upset, can't get too excited, there are no nail biters, no heart stoppers-in a word NO MAGIC.
Entertainment, perhaps, but then so are many other events! still, am learning a lot by seeing what could be, should be and isn't. ;-).
- December 19, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Fred Trask said...
Awww, thanks for the warm wishes H. While I'm not 29 I'm glad you aren't simply dyslexic nor did you accidentally transpose the digits. :-)
It looked pretty clear on AHL Live (as you'll be able to see shortly) that there was no goal. Also, if you know anything about physics you'd know a puck can not hit that post on the inside, and be all the way over the goal line, and still come out at the resulting angle that it did. Clearly it was not over the goal line. It was a good hard shot that went past Climie and into the net area and very quickly off of the post and back out at almost the same angle it went in. It was easy to think it went in though with the tape on the knob of Climie's stick being dark one could easily mistake that for the puck.
Why on Earth would the goalie want to have a dark tape job? For no better reason than to avoid confusion, I'd have to go with a white tape job.
- December 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Ms. Conduct said...
Fred, I completely agree. I don't even like when goalies have the black toe of their sticks untaped with white because that can REALLY look like a puck.
- December 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Fred Trask said...
That's why many goalies used to wear white skates. I don't notice that as much any more though.
- December 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Most would agree that the Aeros are on their way to a forgettable ("boring" per John Royal) season .....following the memorable and quite remarkable 2008-9 Calder Cup campaign. This tracks and correlates with the prediction of the T3I SAGES in September.
Notwithstanding, win or lose, those fans who truly love hockey should feel very fortunate that they have a Team in Houston, with an opportunity to enjoy the game, first hand, and improve their knowledge about this great competitive professional sport.
- December 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Okay, I agree with some of you and don't agree entirely with others, but let's not forget we are dealing with a MINOR league team and developing players. I'd still go to the games and support them even if they were dead last behind SA. I know I sometimes gripe about them and as fans we have the right to do so but this team is what we've got. Individuals have to decide to continue to be STH and fans of the team or go fish.
- December 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Happy Birthday, Fred!!! Hope you had a terrific day. We really miss your photographs as well as your comments on the games.
- December 19, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- Fred Trask said...
Thanks Anon! It was a good day for sure.
- December 20, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Happy belated birthday, Fred ... glad to hear it was a good one.
The second paragraph of ICEVET's comment was sooooo right on (as ICEVET consistently is ...). I'm extremely grateful to the Houston Aeros, whatever they prove to be, for giving me the chance to learn and enjoy the coolest game on earth.
- December 21, 2009 at 9:19 AM


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How To Lighten Your Mental Load
"I've started keeping a running list of personal open loops: buying plane tickets, getting my hair cut, getting a chair for the guest room, buying new sunglasses.
I then assign myself one big project, and two smaller projects per week. Three projects is doable, so I don't feel like I'm mentally overloaded. On the other hand, three projects is enough to make progress."
Purpose & Passion
in the past 24 hours, i've picked up 3 related quotes/lessons from 3 different sources that seemed quite unrelated at first. so inspiring that i decided to blog.
1) anything worth doing is worth overdoing
2) if everyone in the entire world followed Catholic teaching, imagine how much struggle & strife would go away.
3) discover your purpose. then only after doing it for 10,000+ hours can you be great at it & accomplish your dream.
lesson #2 came from the homily at a Catholic mass. a little biased, but there may be truth to it. there's the obvious truths of loving one another, turning the other cheek, etc. but then i thought, what about the branches of Christianity? what says Catholicism is THE one religion? so i began to think about the controversial topics that set apart Catholicism from other christian denominations. topics such as pro-choice, birth control, gay rights. if everyone was pro-life, there would be no question of when life begins. if no one believed in birth control, the sanctity of sex and life would be valued more. i'm still stuck on the gay issue; but even if gay emotions are instilled at birth, we could say gay people share the same struggle of sexual temptations that pre-marital couples, priests, and nuns face. the only difference is that married couples eventually get to experience this act of love, whereas the others are called to live a different life. touchy topic.
lessons #1 and #3 relate, except #1 came from an atheist and #3 came from a christian Church sermon (passion city church). oh the irony. your character is not built during your moment of fame. your character is built during the small beginnings of your journey. when money, fame, and recognition are taken away, your true motives are revealed. (BAM!) at first, i thought my passion & purpose was related to my career & business. then during worship, as i opened my heart to God, the Holy Spirit guided me into a different direction. the direction that God's been pulling me in since sophomore year in college. apologetics. defending my faith through information and logic. i need to change my attitude from "i should read this, i should read that" to actually buying the book, reading it, taking notes, and discussing it with others, both believers and non-believers. my faith is worth living. my faith is worth "overdoing".
the speaker said "no matter what job you have, i guarantee that the opportunity to talk about your faith will come up. and you need to be able to let God's word overflow through you." the double lesson here is to be the best worker you can be, so that you have an admirable character rooted in God. otherwise, your lazy example of a worker will destroy any credibility of your religion/values. i want to be ready when that time comes.
What if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you thanked God for today?
(Source: v-i-a-n-c-a, via zelynapascua)
What Really Motivates People
By Jeb Blount
The reality is that motivating people is extremely simple. Psychologists and social scientists have proven time and again that the most powerful motivators of people are achievement and the recognition of that achievement. It is important to note that these two elements cannot be separated. Achievement in the absence of recognition is rarely rewarding, and recognition in absence of achievement is empty.
Recognition, to be effective, must be directed at achievement, big and small. Most leaders find it easy to recognize the big achievements. However, where the top leaders excel is in consistently recognizing the many small achievements required for big things to happen.
One of the easiest ways to motivate people for small achievements is to catch them doing something right and recognize them for it. The secret is paying attention. Recognizing small, everyday achievements is difficult for leaders who are under pressure to produce results because they are often so focused on delivering on plans, tasks, or fixing a problem that it is easy to forget to take time to pat people on the back.
10 Things that can Wreck your Life
1. Not living in the moment. Always wishing you were somewhere else, doing something different with other people.
2. Blaming your problems on your past. Although the past affects us, it need not define us. We can choose, decide and act – and take control…
35 Lifechanging Ways To Use Everyday Objects
a few of these are so simple, you wonder why you didn't think of it!


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2013 and Earlier - Toyota Highlander Prices Paid and Buying Experience
chargermike Posts: 1Just bought in Iowa. 2010 Highlander SE 4WD with options:cargo/mats, blutooth and body molding. MSRP $35,513, Invoice $32,453. I bought at $31,903. I feel this was the best deal I could get and I worked it for a week. I will get my extended warranty at Midwest Superstore at about 1/2 the price. The real deal was on my 2006 Sienna trade-in, they were about $1,000 higher than 2 other dealers I had checked. Very happy, limited number of 2010 Highlanders left, most seem to be Limited and I don't want a 4x2 for the Iowa winter:) Rides smoother than I anticipated and I love the layout of everything so far. Blutooth answer button is blocked by the steering wheel but that is minor. Very impressed with the leg and head room in front and second seat. We have owned only Toyota since 1984 so I hope the luck continues. Prior to this, our Sienna was the best car I have ever owned or driven.
valady1 Posts: 1Hi all. Car-buying novice here. We're in VA (Fredericksburg area) and looking to buy a 2010 SE AWD.
I was wondering if anyone has recent buying experience around Northern VA or Richmond and could tell us a good price to go for. We have no trade-in and were offered $31,000 + taxes and fees (which together totaled 2375) for black leather, black color.
Does this seem like a good deal? It seemed high to me considering the 2011s are out, but again this is my first time buying a car and I feel very much out of my depth. Any help is much appreciated.
raul76051 Posts: 19Is it safe to purchase a car out of state without doing a test drive on that particular car? Also all Highlanders should have the same regular specs/features regards of what region i'm buying the Highlander from, correct? EVP #8 should be the same at all regions, correct? The reason i ask is because one dealer was telling me otherwise.
adjohn Posts: 8Attempted to pickup a 2010 Highlander Limited V6 AWD with EVP #8, but no dice from the dealer.
Their computer showed there was no special finance rates for non-hybrid Highlanders.
They did have $750 cash incentive, but dealer wouldn't accept my offer of $34000 (+TTL).
Guess I'll have to wait til next month and see what my options are...
averagepunter Posts: 1South Boston Area - just picked up a 2010 SE AWD w/mats, crossbars and carpets - MSRP 35,343. Settled at 31,000 + TTL with 1.9% finance. They also offered $350 more for my trade than the next best offer.
Didn't have to negotiate too hard, and think I could have pushed for another $250 in the deal, but I am happy with where I landed.
Just bought this today: 2011 Highlander SE AWD V6 with NV (Navigation), TO (tow package) and CT (carpets). MSRP 38595. Paid 35000 + TTL. I wanted the 2011's because of the 50/50 split 3rd row. Otherwise I could have snagged a 2010 limited for below 35k.
BTW, I'm in SF bay area.