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Eye on Culture: The Crusade Against Faith
"Thousands of atheists, agnostics and other non-believers turned out in the US capital on Saturday to celebrate their rejection of the idea of God and to claim a bigger place in public life," wrote Agence France-Press of the "Reason Rally" on the National Mall March 24, 2012.
The Reason Rallyers carried crucifixes with profane statements on them, and signs like "So many Christians, so few lions." They cheered the headline speaker, militant British atheist and scientist Richard Dawkins. Dawkins stressed that, "I don't despise religious people. I despise what they stand for ..." But he went on to exhort the crowd to "ridicule and show contempt" for believers and their faith.
The Reason Rally was just the most obvious action in a long campaign that's been intensifying – the secular war on faith and its traditional place in American culture. The secular left has grown bolder and more strident in its attempts to marginalize belief in politics, society and pop culture. That's why, on CNN, anchor Kyra Phillips thought so little of Church doctrine she asked a Catholic bishop, why not get on board with the 43 percent of Catholics" who favor gay marriage. A recent episode of the TV show "Glee" had no problem attacking the Bible while pushing the gay agenda. "You know what else the Bible says is an abomination?" said one character. "Eating lobster, planting crops in the same field, giving someone a proud look – not an abomination? Slavery. Jesus never said anything about gay people. That's a fact."
In 2012, the nation faces stubbornly high unemployment, an anemic economy and skyrocketing gas prices. Overseas America is in an unpopular war in Afghanistan and the specter of a nuclear armed Iran looms. And liberals and the media want to talk about … religion.
Specifically, they want to talk about Christianity and Mormonism, skewing their beliefs and twisting issues and positions to make orthodox Christians and practicing Mormons look like intolerant moralizers, out of step with modern America.
So when actor Kirk Cameron states his faith-based opposition to gay marriage, it's "hate speech." NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is called "polarizing" and told to "S.T.F.U." [shut the f*** up] because he publicly lives his evangelical Christian beliefs. An entire new comedy-drama series on network TV is dedicated to painting Christians as foolish and hypocritical.
The secular left has always had plenty of actual hatred for religion and religious people. But in an election year, their animosity is useful tool to help President Obama further his agenda and secure reelection.
To that end, liberals have combined Rick Santorum's personal orthodox Catholic views on birth control with the Church's opposition to the White House contraception mandate to create a conservative "war on women." A Huffington Post blogger said Santorum was part of a "Jesus-eating cult, while former New York Times Editor Bill Keller accused Santorum of "creeping up on a Christian version of Sharia law." Salon's Joan Walsh and the New York Times' Charles Blow felt free to openly mock Romney's Mormon faith on Twitter, she sneering about the Mormon belief in "baptism by proxy," he about Romney's "magic underwear."
In the meantime, in Afghanistan, Muslims engaged in violent protests and murdered each other and American soldiers over the accidental burning of Korans that captured terrorists had already desecrated by writing secret messages in them. But American liberals see moral equivalency between such killers and Christians who oppose abortion or object to paying for birth control. In the words of one, the only difference between the Taliban and orthodox Catholics "is the type of faith they would impose on others."
The Media Research Center's Culture and Media Institute looked at media coverage of relgion as it relates to politics from December 2011 to March 2012, and documented four ways liberals and their media allies have been smearing traditional Christians and Mormons in their crusade against faith.
1. Whipping Up a War on Women
Jobs and the economy are far and away the most important issues to American voters. A March 28 Gallop poll showed 71 percent of Americans worried "a great deal" about the economy, and 65 percent about gas prices. Not coincidentally, these are precisely the areas where President Obama's record is weakest. It would make sense for liberals to try to change the subject.
In an early January GOP primary debate in New Hampshire, ABC's George Stephanopoulos unveiled what it would be: contraception. Apropos of nothing, since contraception wasn't in the news, Stephanopoulos demanded whether Romney and Santorum thought states had a right to ban contraceptives, citing something Santorum had said years before about the constitutionality of the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that found a "right to privacy" that trumped states' rights to ban contraception. The audience booed Stephanopoulos. For his part, Romney, clearly blindsided, called the line of questioning "silly."
On January 5, MSNBC's Chris Matthews played video of Santorum on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News Channel show. Asked if states had the right to ban contraceptives, Santorum said they did, but they "shouldn't do it. I wouldn't vote for it if they did. But that doesn't mean they don't have a right to do it."
Matthews told guest Robert Traynham, a former Santorum staffer, "Let me tell you what he said. He's said 'My religion should dominate, should trump issues of the Constitution.' He was saying, 'Bill O'Reilly, you and I are of the same religion, therefore we should deny a woman's constitutional right to buy birth control or a male to buy birth control.' Isn't that what he said? We just showed the tape." Traynham heard no such thing and said so. "He just did. Okay? He just did," asserted Matthews. "And that's what scares me. He thinks we should have a theocracy."
The theocracy accusation seems common among liberal pundits. Radio host and columnist Bill Press wrote in March that, "Santorum is, at heart, a religious zealot: a religious extremist, who wants the laws of the land to be bound by the tenets of his faith. Sound familiar? It should. Because it's the same kind of dangerous, religious extremism we've learned to fear in the Middle East. The only difference between Santorum and the Taliban's view of religion's role in government is the type of faith they would impose on others."
When the Obama administration delivered its contraception mandate in late January, it's religious exemption was so narrow that only actual places of worship were exempt. Despite the friendly engagement of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan as head of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, Obama decreed religious hospitals, schools, universities and charities would have to offer contraception, sterilization and abortifacient coverage to employees or pay huge fines.
In The Washington Post, columnist Michael Gerson that "Obama chose to substantially burden a religious belief, by the most intrusive means, for a less-than-compelling state purpose — a marginal increase in access to contraceptives that are easily available elsewhere."
And Gerson saw the mandate as a direct slap at religion. "Both radicalism and maliciousness are at work in Obama's decision — an edict delivered with a sneer."
Initial outrage even from some on the left forced the president to offer an "accommodation" that many rightly called an "accounting trick." (The burden of payment for the disputed products and services would be on the insurance companies. But by definition, for-profit companies don't provide anything "free." And many religious entities "self-insure," meaning they'd end up paying anyway.)
When the Bishops rejected the fig leaf compromise, they immediately became the authors of the "war on women," and paid the price.
On his radio show a couple of days later, Press (a former Catholic seminarian) expanded his condemnation to the Catholic bishops.
There is a war on women going on. It's a war on women that's being conducted by Republicans in the House, you expect that. By Republicans in the Senate, you expect that. But, it's also being led by the Catholic bishops of this country, which is outrageous and which is wrong. Well you might say of course the Catholic Bishops are part of the war on women, you know they won't allow women to become priests in the Catholic Church. They won't allow Priests to get married because there's something wrong with living with a woman, or having sex with a woman. I mean they've got this anti-woman thing built into them.
Again, the bishops object to providing birth control as a matter of religious conscience. They currently are not obligated to cover contraceptives for employees and simply want that to continue. But the liberals have pushed the story of the bishops and conservatives as aggressors, as MSNBC's Rachel Maddow did in a Washington Post op-ed that was accompanied on-line by a video cartoon of a bishop and a politician playing ping-pong with a miniaturized woman's body.
On Feb. 16, in the Washington Post's invariably misnamed "On Faith" blog, Lisa Miller dripped contempt for Catholicism as she advised President Obama how to fight his 'war on religion.' The bishops' defense of their "so-called freedoms" was "a red herring, an election-year ploy to make the president look un-American." Miller exhorted the president to stand up "to the zealots."
The New York Times blamed religion for what it called the GOP's "casual cruelty," in a March 7 editorial. "Republican candidates are so deep in the trenches of cultural and religious warfare that they aren't offering any solutions … There are finally signs that they may pay a price for the casual cruelty with which they attack whole segments of society. Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican of Alaska, said on Tuesday that the Republicans have left people thinking they are at war with women. Women are right to think that."
2. Old Fashioned Anti-Catholicism
Because the HHS Mandate primarily affected Catholic institutions, the Catholic bishops and their defenders quickly became the most visible villains of the phony war on women.
As an orthodox Catholic, Santorum joined the bishops. The most vile attack came from a blogger at the Huffington Post. In "The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum," Larry Doyle called the pope a "former Nazi," and the Catholic mass a "barbaric ritual" where followers eat the Jesus meat and drink his holy blood in a cannibalistic reverie not often seen outside Cinemax."
Santorum, Doyle wrote, planned to "implement his leader's dicta on allowed uses of vaginas and anuses, but has said little about what additional dogma he will be compelled to obey."
Responding to outrage over the column, Doyle refused to apologize, calling the piece satire "of the type of vicious religious ignorance and intolerance I too often see coming from too many so-called Christians, especially Santorum." The vicious ignorance he cited Santorum's "dog whistle references to President Obama's 'phony ideology' and his assertion that it is impossible to be a Christian and liberal."
But Doyle's explanation was no better than the original column. Santorum had referred to Obama having "some phony theology." In context, Santorum was clearly talking about Obama's adherence to environmentalism, which conservatives have long compared to a theology. He wasn't questioning the president's Christianity. But liberal journalists like The Washington Post's Rosalind S. Helderman, decided to spin the incident as an intentional "us versus them" verbal cue to believing Christians.
That Doyle was unapologetic isn't surprising – anti Catholicism is mainstream on the elite left. For example, at a February appearance at Washington, D.C.'s Ford's Theater, MSNBC's Chris Matthews claimed Catholics are bigoted. Talking about political trends in the American South, Matthews said, "If you're really anti-gay, you become a Catholic now." Asked if he wished to he wished to "expand or apologize," Matthews said, "I'm saying that some people who are bigoted against gay people have changed religions. Yes. You got it right."
Profaning Catholic symbolism also makes for entertainment. At the Grammy awards in February, a performance by singer Nicki Minaj caused controversy. Catholic League President Bill Donohue described it:
Minaj's performance began on stage with a mock confessional skit. This was followed by a taped video depicting a mock exorcism. With stained glass in the background, she appeared on stage again with choir boys and monks dancing.
Perhaps the most vulgar part was the sexual statement that showed a scantily clad female dancer stretching backwards while an altar boy knelt between her legs in prayer. Finally, "Come All Ye Faithful" was sung while a man posing as a bishop walked on stage; Minaj was shown levitating.
None of this was by accident, and all of it was approved by The Recording Academy, which puts on the Grammys.
But Donohue, to liberals, was "hyperventilating," in the words of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. Minaj's act wasn't to Dowd's taste. "The only good thing about it, as Marc Hogan wrote in Spin, was the chance that her devilish song might make "Bill Donohue's head spin while spewing green vomit."
3. Ecumenical Hate
It's not just Catholics; evangelicals and other conservative Christians draw plenty of fire too.
When quarterback Tim Tebow almost singlehandedly turned around the Denver Broncos season last fall he became to talk of the pro sports world, and often for the worse. "Tebowing" – imitating the outspoken Christian's practice of dropping to one knee in prayerful acknowledgement of God – became an often mocking phenomenon. Entire websites devoted to hating Tebow sprang up.
Former NFL quarterback Jake Plummer said of Tebow: "I think that when he accepts the fact that we know that he loves Jesus Christ, then I think I'll like him a little better. I don't hate him because of that, I just would rather not have to hear that every single time he takes a good snap or makes a good handoff."
Bill Press put a finer point on it. On his radio show in December, he played audio of Tebow talking to the media after a game and then mocked him. "Oh yeah, all right all right yeah first of all I just have to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and you know what I want to say, S.T.F.U. [shut the f*** up] I'm tired of hearing Tim Tebow and all this Jesus talk."
When the Broncos lost big to Buffalo on Christmas Eve, "comedian" Bill Maher tweeted "Wow, Jesus just f***ed #TimTebow bad! And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere … Satan is tebowing …"
In January, BleacherReport.com pronounced that, "Tim Tebow Is Now the Most Polarizing Figure in All of Sports." When Tebow was traded in March, ESPN reported "Unusually quiet in recent weeks, the New York Jets shattered the calm Wednesday by completing a trade for polarizing quarterback Tim Tebow, the team confirmed."
In sports, "polarizing" is a word usually reserved for athletes who taunt opponents or brag, or whose on- and off-field behavior is outrageous. None of those things apply to Tebow. So the quarterback is polarizing simply for being a practicing Christian.
Another public figure who has paid a price for not just paying lip service to his religion is actor Kirk Cameron. Appearing on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" on March 2, the evangelical Christian was asked about his views on gay marriage.
Cameron told Morgan, "Marriage is defined by God in the garden between Adam and Eve, one man, one woman for life, til-death-do-you-part," and said he would never attempt to re-define marriage – he did not support gay marriage because of his Christian beliefs.
That simple statement, which would have been unremarkable a generation ago, drew a storm of outrage from gay activists and their liberal allies. Cameron was a "bigot" and "homophobe," according gay gossip columnist Perez Hilton. Actress Roseanne Barr tweeted that "kirk or kurt or whatever cameron is an accomplice to murder with his hate speech. so is rick warren. their peers r killing gays in uganda." That's Rosanne Barr the anti-Semite who recently called for beheading the rich right here in the U.S.
Lest there be any mistake that the Hollywood left is particularly hostile to Christianity, they've created an entire TV show to prove it. In just the first three episodes of ABC's "G.C.B." (short for "Good Christian Bitches" – it's original title), there were more than 100 instances of mocking or attacking Christians and their faith. The characters are drunken adulterers or secretly gay, materialistic, dishonest and treacherous.
4. Mormon Magic
If, as seems likely, Mitt Romney becomes the Republican nominee, liberals have already shown they'll go after his Mormon faith, whether in tweets, jokes or under the guise of "journalism."
An example of the latter was provided by MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Feb. 3. Under the guise of discussing "misconceptions" about Mormonism, the panel helpfully reminded viewers that, in the words of co-host Willie Geist, some people believe "there's something weird, something odd about Mormonism." They brought up polygamy and "strange religious rituals." Author Matthew Bowman suggested pop culture depicts Mormons as "still not a group to be taken seriously, not a group of people who can actually look and say, yes, this is somebody I might want to elect president."
During a televised debate in which Mitt Romney made mention of the importance of two-parent homes, Charles Blow of the New York Times tweeted "Let me just tell you this Mitt 'Muddle Mouth': I'm a single parent and my kids are *amazing*! Stick that in your magic underwear."
"Magic underwear" is a derogatory reference to a garment Mormons hold sacred and keep throughout their lives.
Twitter seems to be where liberal journalists let their disdain for Mormons hang out. Salon's Joan Walsh did on Feb. 28. "Romney's saving the soul of America – so he doesn't have to baptize us after we're dead." Mormons believe that a living person can have a baptism by proxy for someone that has died without having gone through this ritual.
From spinning the ObamaCare attack on religious conscience into a "war on women," to screaming "theocracy" when a conservative talks about faith, recent examples of the liberal media's contempt for faith are too numerous to adequately catalog. These are just the most glaring examples. And they're echoed in other ways in other parts of culture. The last acceptable discrimination targets Christians, and the evidence appears almost weekly.
Christian groups objected recently to Vanderbilt University's "all comers" policy that "requires organizations on campus to comply with its all-comers policy, which requires groups to extend membership and leadership positions to all who show up at meetings," according to the Christian Post. "In other words, organizations cannot require that leaders share the group's beliefs, goals and values." In response to Christian protests, American United for the Separation of Church and State Executive Director Barry W. Lynn told them to "stop whining" and have their meetings in private homes like their brethren in communist China.
In Cranston, R.I., an atheist group paid a high school student a $40,000 "scholarship" for successfully suing her high school to have a 50-year-old prayer banner removed from the walls. In Harrisburg, Penn., Ernest Perce V, the Pennsylvania director of American Atheists, recently demanded state lawmakers rescind a decision to celebrate 2012 as the "Year of the Bible," according to FoxNation. The Bible, he said, is "barbaric." In December, CMI documented the 2011 campaign of the ongoing "war on Christmas."
Such hostility toward traditional faith is facilitated by a media that doesn't understand people of faith, and is eager to use religious and cultural issues as a weapon against conservative policies and politicians while pays lip service to the religious claims of liberals.
The liberal media's innate disdain for religion has never been more useful in achieving their political goals. As a result, 2012 is the year of the Crusade against Faith.
- Matthew Philbin's blog
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I'm not Catholic, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 3:31pm.
... but I am seriously thinking of becoming one.
I was impressed today with the little bit of reporting about what the Pope said on his recent visit to "Cuber." He was polite enough to not call out the regime by name, but apparently made it quite clear that religion may be the only thing left that can save them and, by extension, us from the evils of secularism and communism.
I like the way that he says what he believes and isn't worried about the reaction of the world, especially the secular world.
I am also impressed with Cardinal Dolan. He seems like my kind of man. He will not sit down, shut up, and be silent in this country as the RBFSOB and his commie buddies try to walk us off the cliff. I have a feeling that as they ramp up their attacks against Christians, or anyone of faith, that he will ramp up his call to follow God and Jesus Christ.
I see none of the mainstream protestant religious "leaders" getting into this battle. They seem to be extremely tentative, or timid, or so disorganized that they can't even agree among themselves if there is a problem.
Lord only knows what is wrong with the Jews. More than half of them can vote for the RBFSOB, while the ones that choose to fight back are condemned as "radicals" who really care more about mean old Israel than they do about secular America. Do they not have a clue what will become of them if the commie/secular Obama regime wins out in this war?
Anyway, where do I sign up? They do allow Happy Hour, right?
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Are you being serious?
Submitted by GW on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 5:31pm.
If so, PM me. I went through that journey myself in 1999.
The reasons you cited are good, but not necessary or sufficient. There's more to the story if you're really interested.
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Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 5:32pm.
Before you convert, drive by a Catholic church's parking lot on a Sunday. You'll be shocked at the number of Obama bumper stickers you see.
My fellow Catholics can pray for aborted babies but vote in a man who doesn't want his own daughters punished with a baby.
We're all sinners, but I'm still amazed at this kind of thing.
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The Great and Spacious Building...
Submitted by Slyrr on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 3:31pm.
In the Book of Mormon, the love of God was symbolized in a prophetic vision as fruit from a tree, which was desirous to make one happy - a fruit which, when partaken of, make the person desirous to share it with others. In the vision, there were some who partook of this fruit, and then 'cast their eyes about as if they were ashamed'.
The prophet receiving the vision then saw, '..a great and spacious building; and it stood as it were in the air, high above the earth. And it was filled with people, both old and young, both male and female; and their manner of dress was exceedingly fine; and they were in the attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers towards those who had come at and were partaking of the fruit. And after they had tasted of the fruit they were ashamed, because of those that were scoffing at them; and they fell away into forbidden paths and were lost.'
The vision was later interpreted, and the Great and Spacious building was shown to be, '...the world and the wisdom thereof... And it came to pass that I saw and bear record, that the great and spacious building was the pride of the world... the vain imaginations and the pride of the children of men.'
It also added a dire warning. '..and it fell, and the fall thereof was exceedingly great...'
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Matthew Philbin it's a Fatw─ü of Hate, Not a Crusade
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 3:43pm.
The Crusades were a defensive action, many years ago... Fatw─üs are an ongoing offensive actions happening today.
Liberals athiests and moslems and holding hands and singing to future Fatw─üs to come.
Get ready for this:
If, as seems likely, Mitt Romney becomes the Republican nominee, liberals have already shown they'll go after his Mormon faith, whether in tweets, jokes or under the guise of "journalism."
Even though the Mormon Church has ditched the Blacks as devils in 1978.
Mitts only way out of that is to have a Black VP.
My suggestion Vernon Robinson.
Content of their character, ha not in 2012 America.
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Matthew, this is a very good
Submitted by celator on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 5:15pm.
Matthew, this is a very good summary of the current rampant mainstream bigotry (here and in Europe) against Catholic and non-Catholic Christians. it is the "smart" thing to do, as considered by the faculty lounge crowd and lefty intellectual rabble. It will always be so, as predicted. But you give us a good reminder.
These bigots are described well in Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5
They are, each one,
"a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Sorta describes the whole stable of commentators at MSNBC, as I think about it.
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Atheism IS a religion!
Submitted by IdahoJim on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 5:46pm.
No doubt about it. Atheists are absolutly sure of their beliefs.
It is a religion of hatred for any other religion.
Gee, where have we seen that before?
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These "crusaders" are NOT atheists....
Submitted by Kawliga on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 10:58am.
True atheism needs no "buddy system" to make themselves feel not alone. These demonstrators are simply haters that are no better than any religion that hates other religions or any "religious" person who is intolerant of those who believe differently or those that simply do not believe.
Buddha said, "ŌĆ£Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.ŌĆØ
Doing something that is "agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all" is not Christian, Buddhist, Mormon or atheist. It is logical.
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Hitler's reason and logic
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 11:50am.
told him to kill six million Jews. Man is inherently evil, so is his reason and logic.
If you're not getting flak, you're not over the target.
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Hitler???? really???
Submitted by Kawliga on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 12:14pm.
Your ability to parse a sentence is not praiseworthy, nor does show any intelligence. How was the Holocaust for the god and benefit of all? If man were truly "inherently evil" neither you I would be here today posting. We would have become extinct thousands of years ago. To make the claim that mans reasoning and logic is "evil", you are placing us on the level of animals which have no reasoning or logic.
Whether you think Hitler was an atheist or a Christian is irrelevant if you were referring to what Hitler thought or did.
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Well, I'm going to have to say
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 11:44am.
the people behind these attacks on us are not really attacking us. We are just the messengers and are thus convenient for lances and barbs. the one they really hate and despise is God Almighty and His only Son, Jesus. They don't like Jesus because Jesus is here and in their face. He demands accountability and an accounting. And just like Old Testament Israel, every man wants to do what is right in his own eyes.
But what they don't understand is, their attacks on us are meaningless, because the are not accountable to us. They deny the one to whom they are accountable because of fear that he may really exist. Then what? The Almighty One said HE will judge those on the outside. So when they attack Christians, they are demonstrating their abject fear of judgment by God. We used to call this whistling past the graveyard.
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The Z boson is an electrically neutral subatomic particle that mediates the weak nuclear force. It has a mass 182,000 times that of the electron. Unlike the other weak force mediator (the W boson), the Z boson does not change particles it interacts with into other types of particles.
In November, Los Alamos researchers participated in data collection at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. The CMS experiment consisted of lead-lead collisions at the unprecedented energy of 2.76 GeV (a factor 14 higher than at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Their goal is to understand the quark gluon plasma on a quantitative level.
On November 9, the CMS heavy ion dilepton group, convened by Subatomic Physics postdoctoral researcher Catherine Silvestre, found the first Z boson ever produced and reconstructed in heavy ion collisions. The Los Alamos team was responsible for including the Z0 measurements in the CMS heavy ion Technical Design Report, enabled by Laboratory Research and Development (LDRD) funding that began in 2006. Preparation for the current dilepton analysis was made possible by a second LDRD project begun in 2009. Part of the funding supports theoretical predictions of Z0 and hadronic jet productions. A CERN seminar on the first results from heavy ion collisions was held on December 2nd, 2010. The CMS talk featured a preliminary dimuon mass spectrum with 27 identified Z bosons. The manuscript in preparation, "First Unambiguous Measurement of Jet Fragmentation and Energy Loss in the Quark Gluon Plasma," includes LDRD Principal Investigator Gerd Kunde.


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Lyle Shane Johnson, 45, of Lubbock County was arrested last week after police responded to a complaint at the Wal Mart, 4215 South Loop 289. He bonded out of jail on Tuesday afternoon. But Friday night he was re-arrested and booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center.
The specific charge is not listed, but instead his booking sheet says "hold for U.S. Marshals." Among the state charges Johnson faced last week was possession of child pornography. Police claim they found the pornography on Johnson's phone when they arrested him.
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The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has now issued a warning to local bars and clubs. This comes after agents say a local bar was caught serving minors, as well as customers already considered legally intoxicated. TABC says it will not stand for such violations, and Graham Central station faces possible consequences.
What often starts as a night of fun can lead to extreme situations on the road. Mothers Against Drunk Driving reports that alcohol caused over 3,500 traffic deaths in 2003. Which is why TABC officers will now target what they believe to be the source of the problem. They want to stop bartenders from serving those who are already legally drunk.
"Every intoxicated person we can take off the street is one less DWI and hopefully one less person getting hurt in crashes," said TABC Enforcement Officer, Lt. Harry Schreffler.
From June to July, TABC issued Graham's two citations for serving customers who were already legally intoxicated, and another for serving a minor. After three violations within a year, TABC can legally take away a facility's license, however Graham's has chosen to contest the citations through a hearing.
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In the meantime, Schreffler says because of those who worked at Graham's at the time, the facility is not on his good side.
"We're at the mercy of our employees, if our employees do a bad job out there, then the public looks at them terrible. Same thing with bar owners, if their employees do a bad job, we look at them terrible," said Schreffler.
As for the bartender, the penalty for serving someone illegally is up to two years in jail and a $4,000 fine.
"That's a lot of time, effort, and money to spend for some guy you served a beer to," said Schreffler.
The owner of Graham's wasn't available to talk to us on camera today. However, he has told us he's fighting the violations because he doesn't think his employees are at fault.
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Ben Konechne (left) of the nationally ranked Liberty University paintball team shows Joseph Parker, 13, proper aiming stance for competition during yesterday's clinic in Caroline. Below, brothers Joseph Worrell, 15, and Thomas Worrell, 14, compare welts after playing a round.
Austin Thompson of Liberty's paintball team demonstrates how to hold a paintball gun.
Empty wire spools turned on their sides, old furniture and piles of tires strewn across a roughly mowed field might look like a mess to a lot of folks.
If you're a paintball enthusiast it looks like a fun place to spend a weekend afternoon.
The popularity of homemade paintball courses, often hidden in neighbors' backyards, got youth leaders at Salem Baptist Church in Sparta, a rural community in Caroline County, thinking about ways to engage some of their younger members.
So for a few hours yesterday, a small group of teenage boys got a lesson in how paintball could take them a lot farther than their own backyards.
Four members of Liberty University's nationally ranked paintball team drove up from Lynchburg to run them through drills, give them a few pointers and talk to them about how you can love playing organized paintball without adopting the trash-talking, hard-living ways for which the sport has become known to some.
"Our main goal is not only to win at paintball, but it's also to shine a light in this lost sport," said Brian Davidson, a senior on Liberty's paintball team.
In a sport where many players crack a beer the minute they step off the field, "we throw them water bottles," Davidson said.
And in place of the swear words that often get thrown around, "We're just like, 'Hey, dude, don't worry about it,'" team member Ben Konechne told the group at Salem Baptist.
Liberty's team finished fourth at the National Collegiate Paintball Association's national championships in Lakeland, Fla., in April.
Yesterday they ran the young men from Salem Baptist through drills and stretches before playing on a private paintball course a few miles from the church.
As they suited up with masks, pads and other gear, 13-year-olds David Chewning, Joseph Parker and Cody Dunn said they liked seeing that there were opportunities to play paintball in a more organized way.
Randy Thomas, a youth leader at the church, said the visit from the Liberty players was a good way to show that your attitude can exemplify your beliefs, no matter where you are.
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Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
Don't be confused that Europe is called a continent without looking like an island, the way the other continents do. It's okay. The Ural mountains have steadily been there to divide Europe from Asia for the last 250 million years. Russia technically inhabits "Eurasia".
Europe is presently uniting into one political and economic zone with a common currency called the Euro. The European Union originated in 1993 and is now composed of 27 member states. Its headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium.
Do not confuse the EU with the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and dates to 1949. These two bodies share the same flag, national anthem, and mission of integrating Europe. The headquarters of the Council are located in Strasbourg, France, and it is most famous for its European Court of Human Rights.
In spite of these two bodies, there is still no single Constitution or set of laws applying to all the countries of Europe. Debate rages over the role of the EU in regards to national sovereignty. As of January 2009, the Lisbon Treaty is the closest thing to a European Constitution, yet it has not been approved by all the EU states.
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Well let's see, Israel isn't a state sponsor of terrorism who considers the United States 'The Great Satan' with the express goal of trying to kill Americans. How about that for starters idiot.
All kinds of countries (in fact the majority) are not state sponsors of terrorism.
Do we have to support everything they say and do?
And you call me an idiot.
With the nomination of Chuck Hagel, President Obama put a thumb in the eye of Republicans and supporters of Israel. Then he nominated Jack Lew to Treasury, a guy who has had a terrible relationship with Hill Republicans, managing to anger both John Boehner and Mitch McConnell during negotiations.
But just as significant are the names of the Cabinet secretaries Obama has asked to stay on: Eric Holder as AG, Kathleen Sebelius at HHS, and Eric Shinseki at VA.
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Three words "I'm Rich B#*$h!" Known for his role as Ashy Larry on the Chapelle Show, comedian Donnell Rawlings is set to perform his hilarious stand up live in Missoula on Feb 28th, live at Stage 112. But this is not your average stand up show, as Donnell teams up with legendary underground hip hop artist Qwel and Maker of Typical Cats and El Da Sensei of Artifacts. Dubbed "Laughs and Lyrics," you will get just that, a good laugh followed by some amazing hip hop.


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Turkish Ministry of Health has formed 84 KETEM's (Cancer Early Diagnosis Screening and Training Centers) in 81 cities of Turkey and is planning to open 200 more by 2015.
The duties of KETEMs are; to organize trainings aiming to inform the health personnel and the public on the issue of cancer and to raise awareness, to provide diagnosis in early stages through population based screening programs (on breast, cervical (cervix uteri), colorectal cancers etc.) on identified risk groups in line with established screening standards, to refer the patients diagnosed with cancer to treatment centers with necessary medical guidance, to carry out patient follow-up and evaluations, and to provide as much as possible social, psychological and medical support.
- "National Standards for Breast Cancer Screening in Woman" have been published on 20th July 2004
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Love Label 80 Denier Footless Tights (2 Pack)
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These footless tights by Love Label are an essential in any fashion loving girls wardrobe - they'll do nothing but boost your casual look.
These 80 denier tights will give your skirts, dresses and oversized tees a new lease of life. Giving you warmth and coverage they make a great alternative to leggings providing a smooth silhouette underneath your favourite pieces.
Wear these footless tights with an oversized band tee, hi-tops and a vintage denim jacket for an oh-so-cool look you'll love.
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Join Our Live Video Chat With Howard Baldwin On Friday At 10:30 A.M.
With the run up to the Whalers Hockey Fest Feb. 10-22 at Rentschler Field The Courant and courant.com are taking advantage of the focus on hockey with a series of Friday web video chats. The Courant's Jeff Jacobs and Paul Doyle entertained and interacted with fans last Friday as we got things started. They're back again this Friday - this time with with teh Connecticut Whale's Howard Baldwin. They'll chat and answer questions on any and all things hockey and the Whale. You're invited to pre-submit questions on our Whalers forum or simply log into the chat on Friday beginning at 10:30 a.m. and get in the pipeline. Jeff, Paul and maybe even a guest will be along from 11 a.m. to noon. Either way, don't miss out on this chance to be a part of this great interactive way to talk hockey. Go to /www.courant.com/whalers.
Then on Feb. 19 we'll over a special added feature as Paul sits down with some Whalers past with a live session from The Rent between the end of the Whalers-Bruins alumni game and the start of the AHL game between the Whale and Providence Bruins. More details on that to come.


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1:50pm Friday 17th February 2012 in Car Reviews By Steve Teale, Motoring Reporter
Kia is to launch an all-new flagship saloon, which is expected to establish new standards for design flair. Codenamed KH, the model is Kia's first rear-wheel drive sedan. KH is among the company's most eagerly anticipated new models and will be launched in Kia's domestic market in the first half of 2012. There are no plans to launch the vehicle in mainland Europe and the car will not be coming to the UK.
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Billy Underwood (left) in action against Repton's Jimmy Smith
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Lion ABC's Louis Isaacs dominated all three rounds as he marched through to the Class A Under-63kg divisional final at the England Youth Championships.
Isaacs, who won the NABC London title in October, took on Debden ABC's Yunus Hussain in Friday's North East London semi-final and seized control of the contest right from the start.
Throwing right and left hooks to the head and body, Isaacs forced his opponent onto the back foot and looked the stronger fighter throughout, with the judges awarding him the contest by an overwhelming margin of 30-27, 30-26, 30-25.
"I was always in control in this contest," Isaacs told the Gazette.
"These new rules of three-minute rounds suit me."
Isaacs is due to take on Billy Joe Foster (West Ham) in the final on Thursday.
However, the other Lion entrant in the tournament, Billy Underwood, was eliminated despite giving a good account of himself against Repton's national junior ABA champion Jimmy Smith in the Class A Under-66kg.
Underwood traded punches with his experienced opponent, who had just returned from the European Youth Championships, but he had no answer to Smith's fast hands.
With Underwood forced up against the ropes at the end of the second round, Lion coach Steve Walters retired his fighter – although, under new rules, the result went down as a technical knockout.
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Getting Personal: measuring providers' progress towards personalisation
We have worked with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to develop a tool to help you assess how ready you are to deliver personalised care services and direct you to resources that will help you make improvements. It will be of particular use to social care providers.
The tool is straightforward to use. It will take you through a series of questions under four section headings: Person, Team, Organisation and Market.
Once you have completed the questions you will be given your score. This will be recorded so that you can come back in the future to repeat the questionnaire and measure your progress. Previous scores will be listed at the bottom of this page when you return. Your results are completely confidential. No-one will be able to access them apart from you. You will also be directed to resources to help you make improvements.


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