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The It-Was-My-Twin-Sister Excuse
Posted by The Curator on Thu Aug 19, 2004
Aylar's career as a finalist for Miss Norway was about to come to a crashing end when her secret past in the adult film industry was revealed. The rules of the Miss Norway competition clearly forbid contestants from having posed nude for money. But luckily Aylar had an explanation ready at hand. That woman doing all those things in those movies wasn't her, even though it looked exactly like her. It was her twin sister. (Wasn't there an episode of Friends where this happened to Phoebe?). Unfortunately for Aylar, a quick investigation revealed that she had no twin sister. She's now the ex- an ex-finalist for Miss Norway.
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Irish Personal Ads
Posted by The Curator on Tue Aug 17, 2004
A collection of Irish personal ads, supposedly culled from the Dublin News, is doing the email rounds. They're in the genre of Brutally Honest Personal Ads (I've reported on examples of this genre before). In this case, I'm guessing that the ads, if they really did appear in the Dublin News, were meant to be tongue-in-cheek (though I haven't seen the paper, so I can't really tell). But whatever the case may be, they're definitely quite funny. Here they are: Heavy drinker, 35, Cork area. Seeks gorgeous sex addict interested in a man who loves his pints, cigarettes, Glasgow Celtic Football Club and starting fights on Patrick Street at three…
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Paper Napkin Rejection Service
Posted by The Curator on Mon Aug 16, 2004
Almost two years ago I posted an entry about the Rejection Hotline, which is a service that provides you with a phony number to give to losers in clubs (or elsewhere) who are trying to get your phone number. When they call it up they hear a message telling them that they've been rejected. A new internet version of the Rejection Hotline is called Paper Napkin. It provides you with a phony email address to give to people. When they write to it, they automatically get this response: "This email is a rejection notice directed toward yourself from someone who gave you this bunk email address. That lovely person wants to communicate a message to you.…
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Where to Stay in Athens
Posted by The Curator on Thu Aug 12, 2004
The Olympic Games are about to start and a lot of people are probably thinking that it would be fun to go to Athens to check them out. But where to stay? Well, if you're "a girl, aged between 18 and 32, reasonably good looking and open-minded, you can stay in Athens in a beautiful house, free of charge." (Some language might make it NSFW). Oh yeah. There are just a few rules: "1. You cannot stay for more than 4 days. 2. You cannot bring any males with you. 3. You've got to be the landlord's lover for a night." Sure, this could be real. People do far more outrageous things. But what makes me think it's…
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Devirginize Marc
Posted by The Curator on Tue Aug 10, 2004
This falls under the category of 'could easily be true, but seriously, you've got to be kidding.' It's DeVirginizeMarc.com. Marc (if that's his real name) is 26 years old and a virgin. Or, as he puts it, "My name is Marc, and I'm a virgin... and I'm okay with it." But he's obviously not that okay with it, because he's soliciting applications from the public to help him change his situation. Maybe it's just me, but Marc looks like he's closer to his late 30s than his mid 20s. Could he be lying about his age? I immediately checked to see who the website was registered to, but it's registered…
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Posted by The Curator on Thu Aug 05, 2004
The Arizona Daily Star reports that Cingular Wireless is preparing to debut an Escape-a-Date feature on its phones. It will allow you to prearrange a phone call to interrupt you during a date, providing you with a convenient out, should it be necessary. Excuse messages offered up will include "my friend is having some trouble with superglue and needs some help" and "my friend was looking in his fridge and found some pudding that's shaped like Elvis." That second thing about Elvis really happened to me, except it wasn't pudding. It was a potato chip. (via BoingBoing)
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Boyfriend Arm Pillow
Posted by The Curator on Thu Aug 05, 2004
For those women who don't want to sleep with a real man, but like to have an arm wrapped around them at night, Japanese manufacturer Kameo has come out with the Boyfriend Arm Pillow. A Kameo spokesman says that, "It has been so successful we have had to draw up a waiting list. Women of all ages have been queueing round the block to take one home." Kameo also plans to introduce a Girlfriend Arm Pillow later. But this is my question: If you're married would it be considered cheating to sleep with a boyfriend/girlfriend arm pillow?
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Nude Photos Required to Enter Canada
Posted by The Curator on Tue Jul 27, 2004
The Toronto Sun reports that exotic dancers applying for a visa to enter Canada are now expected to submit photos of themselves performing in the nude... to prove that they really are exotic dancers. Immigration lawyer Mendel Green claims that the rules are quite specific: "They can't be partially nude. If they don't have pictures in the nude, they are not going to wiggle their bottoms in Canada." This sounds very weird. Could the Toronto Sun be the victim of a joke? Are they pulling our leg? Or have Canadian immigration officials just figured out a great way to get their hands on lots of free pictures of naked women? I'm not sure, but given how many other…
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Sperm Race TV
Posted by The Curator on Sat Jul 24, 2004
Reality TV shows just keep getting weirder and weirder. The latest one being developed in Britain (unless it's all a hoax, like Lapdance Island or Quarantine) is Sperm Race TV, in which a group of guys get to compete for the prize of fathering a child. Two finalists are chosen, one chosen by the mother on the basis of romantic attraction, the other chosen by the show's producers on the basis of 'genetic compatibility' with the mother. The two guys will then compete in a sperm race, filmed with special fiber-optic cameras, to see whose sperm can inseminate the mother's egg first. To me this sounds hoaxy on a number of different levels. First…
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Misleading URLs
Posted by The Curator on Tue Jul 20, 2004
Jim Terr submitted this hoax website of his own creation: willingchicks.com. It offers "world-class companionship If you can afford it!" It belongs in the genre of sites with misleading URLs, in the same vein as nice-tits.org and supermodelswithseethroughtops.com (all very safe for work). Misleading URLs are similar to Unfortunate URLs, the difference being that the former are intentional whereas the latter aren't.
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The Plucking Rainbow Orgy
Posted by The Curator on Wed Jul 14, 2004
Viewers of British tv might remember Rainbow, a children's show starring the puppet characters Bungle, Zippy, and George, and hosted by Geoffrey Hayes. Recently a movie has been circulating around the web (you can also see it here) purporting to show an episode of Rainbow that's heavily, heavily laced with sexual innuendo. Way too much innuendo to possibly be accidental. It's been dubbed the 'Rainbow Plucking Orgy' tape. It's very funny, but is it real? Was it ever really broadcast? According to the Planet Gromit site, the tape is real, but it never aired. It was created as a joke and was not meant to see…
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Viagraholics Anonymous
Posted by The Curator on Wed Jul 14, 2004
Sex addiction can be real enough, but Viagraholics Anonymous, a site dedicated to helping men who are addicted to Viagra, seems a bit tongue-in-cheek. For instance, take this testimony from Ben, a recovering Viagraholic: "I turned to the Internet and ordered more Viagra online, from two or three sites at a time, to maintain my supply. The days that followed are just a blur. Mornings I'd wake up on the couch, my pants around my ankles with another damned erection, then take a cold shower and stagger into work. I'd be walking around with an obvious erection in my pants, unaware that people were laughing at me behind my back."…
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Gay Fuel Energy Drink
Posted by The Curator on Thu Jul 01, 2004
Gay Fuel is the bright pink energy drink that will get you 'Fired Up'. When I first saw this site I figured it had to be a spoof. After all, a special drink just for gays? It seems like a natural lead-in to all kinds of jokes (for instance, what happens if you drink it straight?). But after some quick research I'm quite sure that Gay Fuel is very real. It's available for purchase from a number of online vendors ($12.95 a six-pack!), and a lot of other sites discuss it. Andy Towle, the artist who designed the can for it, says that it tastes like "something between…
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Clueless Childless Couple Follow-Up
Posted by The Curator on Sat Jun 26, 2004
Back in May I posted an entry about a German couple who went to a fertility clinic to find out why they couldn't produce a child. The reason: they hadn't realized that you first have to have sex in order to get pregnant. Supposedly they both came from very religious backgrounds and had never been taught about the birds and the bees. The clinic was said to be planning to conduct a survey to find out if there were other similarly clueless couples out there. This story was widely reported in the news, even though it seemed a little far-fetched, to say the least. At the time I noted that a case kind of like this…
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To Hermione on her 18th Birthday
Posted by The Curator on Thu Jun 24, 2004
Donald Nyffington, 37-year-old UNIX programmer, is in love. He's in love with Hermione Granger... or rather with Emma Watson who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter movies. And Emma, unfortunately for Donald, is only 14. So he's started the 'Official Countdown Website to Hermione Granger's 18th Birthday.' The site is convincing enough that you really might start to believe that Donald and his unrequited passion for Hermione are for real. But they're not. The picture on Donald's 'About Me' page gives it away. It comes from an old Onion article titled 'Creepy Middle-Aged Weirdos Swept Up In Harry Potter Craze.' (via Scattered Pieces)
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by Taline Voskeritchian, guest contributor, with photos by Tamar Salibian
The road may be — and almost always is — made of our footsteps, as Antonio Machado said, but there are places in the world, sacred sites, where arrival is at least equal to the effort of getting there, where our beginnings and our ends do actually know each other. The Camino du Sacromonte, which we recently climbed all the way to the Abbaye du Sacromonte at the very top of the trail is such a place.
We had begun rather unambitiously, meandering up and down through the alleyways of Albaicin, until we suddenly found ourselves on the Sacromonte trail. On one side was the lush landscape atop which sat the Alhambra; on the other side, and at a sharp elevation, we could make out the Abbey. It was a grey afternoon. We walked slowly and quietly, for there was not much sound around us save for a few tourists and locals, and the dogs of which there are an unusually large number in Albaicin. We stopped here and there, the landscape taking our breath away — literally. And then on a little bit more, and then another stop.
View of the Alhambra from the road to the Abbey of Sacromonte.
Then, it began to rain — first softly for a while, the droplets of whispers. The rain stayed with us all the way to the top, sometimes a mere hint, at other times a downpour. We continued walking for a long, long time, and then the rain became more ferocious as we made our way up the arch of the abbey. The path became more treacherous, but we persisted, stopping to catch our breath and then start again. For more than ten minutes, we ascended, our feet muddied, our hearts beating fast, our ears alert to the tiniest movement. But most of all, we were sustained by the smell of the absorbent landscape — the earth saturated with that moist fragrance, the vegetation holding the water in its roots but also on its surface.
Entrance to the Abbey of Sacromonte
It was not fear that seized me for that instant, though I may have expressed it in those terms. We're alone, there's no one around, just these two little women from Boston, speaking a foreign language, huddling against each other. It was awe, and awe is always mixed with an undercurrent of terror as though at any moment invisible figures — the ghosts of the gypsies for whose "education" the abbey was originally constructed in the seventeenth century — would suddenly jump out in an ambush. But it passed, that terror, leaving in its trail an unfamiliar but sweet sense of being gathered together, of being held, by the invisible hands and secret thread of the gods and their shadows, propelled by something transcendent.
We made it to the top and into the abbey, which was completely devoid of sound and sight. We sat in the foyer, looking out at the landscape ahead of us through the small iron gate. In the distance the Alhambra of the Muslims extended across the entire top of the mountains, and here, in this spot, the Christian abbey built on the grottos of the gypsies: a quintessential moment of faiths in violent embrace.
We sat for quite a while, looking ahead and inward, waiting for the rain to subside, which it did not. No sense of triumph, no sense of victory, but something else, pure and of this place, at this moment. Perhaps this is what faith feels like, we said. This sense of being on top of the world, held — contained is a better description — by something invisible, something beyond this religious edifice. But ask the question and you've subverted the sentiment, you've sullied the faith. But if not faith, then what?
There are places in the world where you can go down on your knees — even if you are a card-carrying secularist — and rail and curse and bless and thank your gods. Such places are removed from the push and pull of everyday life, from the noise and verbiage of human chatter. You can go down on your knees and when you come up again, you are less vulnerable, more resilient, at least for a little while — and a bit less wet. Camino du Sacromonte is such a place.
After some time, we decided to go down to the main road and find a way to get home. We did not have the foggiest idea, except that we had heard that bus #35 passed from the main trail.
We made it back to the main trail, and within five minutes, bus #35 came speeding through the narrow street. It was going in the opposite direction, up to the Abbey, but the driver motioned to us to jump in. Inside the bus was a rowdy, laughing bunch of passengers whose noise turned wilder with each jolt and turn of the bus. They all seemed to know each other, or acted that way, which is more likely. Before we made it to the top, the self-appointed "leader" of the gang asked if anyone was going to the abbey. No one was, and so with a rather wild turn of the steering wheel our driver took a right downhill turn, which I thought would land the little bus at the base of the ravine on its side and throw us into an accident from which we would be delivered to the community of ghosts that inhabit these mountains. But nothing of the sort happened though the swerve was pretty precipitous.
We made it back to the main trail and to the Albaicin. No doubt the gods and the ghosts were on our side, all of them that roam these lands — Christians, Muslims, Jews, the gypsies, the heathens, the believers, the kings, the commoners. Those who were burned at the stake, those who were occupied, those who were expelled, and those who built their monuments on top of the destruction, the mayhem.
The ashes. All in the name of faith. But if not faith, then what?
Taline Voskeritchian is a translator and teaches writing at Boston University. Her work has appeared in many publications, including The Nation, BookForum, London Review of Books, Agni Review, and in Alik (Iran), Warwick Review(UK), Daily Star/International Herald Tribune (Beirut). She also blogs at Passages Home.
Tamar Salibian holds degrees in film and photography from Cal Arts and Mass Art. She is pursuing a doctorate in media studies at Claremont Graduate School in California.
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May 18, 2011
(1pm CT/2pm ET)
In the Room with Walter Brueggemann
Minnesota Public Radio ~ Saint Paul, Minnesota
Krista Tippett will be speaking with Walter Brueggemann, a "provocative, interesting, challenging, and imaginative" voice in the Protestant mainline tradition who is best known for his book Prophetic Imagination.
The renowned Old Testament scholar and Professor Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary is credited with shaping generations of ministers and sermons with his prolific interpretations of Hebrew text and his poetic books of prayer. In this interview, Krista will draw out his passion for using ancient texts to guide our modern human experience.
by David P. Gushee, guest contributor
"Do not rejoice when your enemies fall,
and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble."
—Proverbs 24:17
Photographs of firefighters killed on 9/11 are seen outside the World Trade Center site after the death of accused 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden was announced May 2, 2011 in New York City. Bin Laden was killed in an operation by U.S. Navy Seals in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
We feel compelled to respond today to the killing of Osama bin Laden by the United States and to the jubilant response across the nation.
A nation has a right to defend itself. From the perspective of the fundamental national security of the United States, this action is legitimately viewed as an expression of self-defense.
But as Christians, we believe that there can no celebrating, no dancing in the streets, no joy, in relation to the death of Osama bin Laden. In obedience to scripture, there can be no rejoicing when our enemies fall.
In that sense, President Obama's sober announcement was far preferable to the happy celebrations outside the White House, in New York, and around the country, however predictable and even cathartic they may be.
For those of us who embrace a version of the just war theory, honed carefully over the centuries of Christian tradition, our response is disciplined by belief that war itself is tragic and that all killing in war, even in self-defense, must be treated with sobriety and even mournfulness. War and all of its killing reflects the brokenness of our world. That is the proper spirit with which to greet this news.
This event does provide new opportunities for our nation.
President Obama's respectful treatment of Islam in his remarks, and his declaration that Osama bin Laden's body was treated with respect according to Islamic custom, offers all of us an opportunity to follow that example and turn away from the rising disrespect toward Muslims in our nation.
A second opportunity is for the United States to reconsider the questionable moves we have made in the name of the war on terror. From our perspective, this includes the indefinite detentions of scores of men at Guantanamo Bay, the failure to undertake an official investigation of detainee interrogation practices, the increase in Predator attacks in Pakistan, and the expansion rather than ending of the ten-year-old war in Afghanistan.
We also now have the opportunity for national reflection on how our broader military and foreign policies — including the placement of our troops throughout the largely Muslim Arab world, our posture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and our regular military interventions around the world, create a steady supply of new enemies.
There can never be any moral justification for terrorist attacks on innocent people, such as the terrible deeds of 9/11. But we must recognize that to the extent that our nation's policies routinely create enemies, we can kill a Bin Laden on May 1 and face ten more like him on May 2. Might it now be possible for us to have an honest national conversation about these issues?
May we learn the right lessons from the news of this day. For Jesus' sake.
This statement was originally published on the website of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good on May 2, 2011.
David P. Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. He is the co-founder and board chair of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, a columnist for the Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Associated Baptist Press, and a contributing editor for Christianity Today. Dr. Gushee also currently serves on the Church Relations Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has published 12 books, including Kingdom Ethics, Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, Getting Marriage Right, and Only Human.
by Kate Moos, executive producer
William Blake, the English poet and engraver, wrote two poems entitled "Holy Thursday" — one a "song of innocence" and one a "song of experience."
Each of them decry the wretched realities of children in poverty but tell different stories, in different tones. The Song of Experience begins, in outrage:
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduc'd to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
The Song of Innocence presents a picture of orderly and gentile charity to which the British class system condemned the poor. The poem ends with a sarcastic exhortation to "cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."
Both poems recall yet another Song of Experience, "The Human Abstract," which begins:
Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody Poor;
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
Blake himself, of course, lived in abject poverty for most of his life and was actually buried on borrowed money in a graveyard reserved for dissenters and nonconformists.
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by Pádraig Ó Tuama, guest contributor
Police officers carry the coffin containing the remains of Constable Ronan Kerr to the church of the Immaculate Conception in Beragh, Northern Ireland on April 6, 2011. The First Minister of the British-controlled province, the Protestant Peter Robinson, broke with decades of tradition to attend his first ever Catholic mass as Constable Kerr was laid to rest. (photo: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images)
While working with Holy Family Parish in North Belfast over the last few weeks, I have encountered much wisdom. One woman, Ann, quoted one of her university professors who said, "Any ideology carried to its logical conclusion is a dangerous thing."
Now, I am sure that there are library shelves worth of arguments that could add nuance and subtlety to this statement. However, the death of Constable Ronan Kerr on April 2nd has given us something more weighty than a library to consider when reflecting on Ann's quote.
Ronan Kerr was 25, involved in Gaelic Games and a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). A Catholic, he was part of the growing sea change in the active members of the Police Service that was set up in response to the reports and enquiries and settlements and agreements of the 1980s and 90s. The organisational predecessor of the PSNI had a significant imbalance — for a 52 percent Protestant to 45 percent Catholic population, there was at times over 90 percent representation from the Protestant community. In an effort to redress this, the PSNI (formed in November 2001) had, up until two weeks ago, a 50-50 recruitment policy. A huge majority of Catholic/Nationalist/Republican groups have given backing to the organisational structure of the PSNI — but a fractionally small minority, allegedly including those who planted the bomb that killed Ronan Kerr, objected.
Ronan Kerr was possibly understood by this small minority as a traitor — someone who had abandoned the values of what it means to be Irish by joining the police service that serves a jurisdiction of Ireland that is not part of the Republic. I am guessing that this combination of Gaelic Games, formed with the dual purpose of promoting traditional Irish sports and culture, with active service as a policeman was considered a juxtaposition too far, and a contradiction that needed to be met with force.
The force that met him was placed under his car, in a small plastic container, and it exploded, killing him. The following day, on Mother's Day, I thought about his mother. She spoke out last Monday with dignity, strength, and conviction.
Thousands of people walked in the "March for Peace" rally in Omagh, Northern Ireland on April 10, 2011. Commemorating the death of Ronan Kerr, a woman holds a sign reading "Not in My Name" with a photo of the murdered police constable. (photo: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images)
It is Lent and, as part of my work, we are looking at unusual relationships in the gospels. This was how I met Ann. She is part of a parish group examining how Jesus of Nazareth related to people who were different, people who were marginalised, people who were on the fringes, whether because they were lowly or because they were haughty. As we meet together to discuss these narratives, we examine the characters involved and consider the question of to whom these stories might speak today, and how we might demonstrate the subtlety of relationship depicted in the interactions of the text.
Last week, a group of us considered Judas. Judas is depicted as a traitor. Matthew and Mark's gospel accounts introduce Judas as the one who betrayed Jesus. Luke's first mention of Judas paints him as a traitor, and John, in addition to calling him a traitor, calls him a devil.
It is safe to say that the writers of the gospels inherited the outrage of the original disciples — that one of them should betray Jesus. Yet, there is a story of Judas that we must consider. When he betrayed Jesus with a kiss, Jesus called him "Friend." Following the death of Jesus, Judas repented, saying, "I have sinned in betraying innocent blood" before ending his own life.
As we discussed Judas, we thought that his agenda may have been a more political one — to begin a revolt, to start a flame with the small spark of an arrest of Jesus of Nazareth. That he was disappointed by the outcome of death is evident. And so, we gave time to widen the character of Judas in our imagination, seeing him beyond categories.
Irish society, north and south of the border, has at times been characterised by people who have loudly declaimed each other as traitors. In order to consider the question of who the character of Judas is in the gospel, we have had to pay attention to his own actions and his own words, not just the words of those who caricature him. If we are to apply something from a close narrative reading of the text, we must recognise that the term "traitor" is too easily used, and too easily thrown.
Ronan Kerr was not a Judas, he was not a traitor. With his life, words, and body, Ronan Kerr was holding within himself identities that are symbolic of a shared and peaceful future for all on the Island of Ireland. He was one of many, Catholic and Protestant, who embody within themselves the delightful and radical combination of identities that one time were considered juxtapositional.
I believe that the character of Judas had lost his own self. He had forgotten what it meant to be in relationship with real people because his relationship with his ideology had become supreme. In some ways, I consider those responsible for the death of Ronan Kerr, who as yet have not yet claimed responsibility, to be addicted to the chaos that for so long dominated the life of society in the north of Ireland.
In light of Ronan Kerr's death, we spent a long time speaking in a congregational group about how Jesus would speak to the bombers. We have outrage, fear, protest, desires for justice, and desires for peace each speaking loudly within us. If we are to learn from Judas, we can learn that an ideology, taken to its logical extreme, removed from the narrative of everyday, ordinary people who wish to live a peaceful life, is a frightening and dangerous thing.
About the image, middle: Members of the public write in a book of condolence for police constable Ronan Kerr. (photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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"This is like heaven for us." These are the words of Satish Kharchane who was traveling with his father Prabhakar to the Holy Land this month. Their family hails from Pune (Poona), India and were visiting the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, built on what is believed to be the site of Jesus' birthplace.
Prabhakar, 77, whose health is declining, is visibly frail. He steadies himself on his son's forearm as he walks with halting steps through the church's nave. Both father and son are members of the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal Protestant denomination. As Satish, 37, explains, their trip was the culmination of a dream delayed by family tragedy:
Growing up, Satish and his late brother Manesh learned about Israel through daily prayer and Bible lessons from their father. "We had seen Israel from the imagination of our father," Satish writes. "What my father saw in his imagination, he [Manesh] wanted to show him in reality."
Reflecting on his family's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Satish describes the experience as a "trip of collecting blessings." Later on in our email correspondence, Satish says of his father:
"He felt that as if his biggest goals of life have been achieved. By visiting Israel, he feels that he is so blessed as he had almost given up due to his poor health condition. In fact, many times during the trip he cried and shared his feelings of contentment and satisfaction. It was an experience like going to heaven for him."
Like the South Korean Evangelical Christians we witnessed singing Jesus' praises on the Mount of Olives a few days before, Satish and Prabhakar are living reminders of Christianity's vast reach across time and geography, and that people around the globe cherish these holy sites with heartfelt and enduring reverence.
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What you first start hearing is a group of Evangelical Christians from South Korea singing a classic hymn. But, within a minute, just as these pilgrims finish, a new wave laps up the side of the ridge. A muezzin calls Muslims to prayer. Then, in stagger-start style, the muezzin's call from Al-Aqsa Mosque summons another group of Muslims. The recitations float freely and nimbly, almost as if you could waft the layers of sound at your choosing.
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Tupac Enrique Acosta speaks at march to the Arizona State Capitol Building on Cinco de Mayo 2010. (photo: ©Charles Dee Rice Photography/Flickr )
I did not go to jail expecting to meet a theologian. But jail was where I met Tupac Enrique Acosta. Tupac, like me, was arrested in front of one of the Maricopa County Sheriff's offices for protesting against Arizona's anti-immigrant law SB1070 on July 29, 2010. Unlike me, Tupac had an analysis of the bill's place in history that put it firmly within the context of the ongoing repression of the indigenous peoples of North America.
Tupac, who would probably reject the label theologian, is the leading figure behind the Phoenix-based Nahuacalli, an organization that describes itself as "A Cultural Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples." He is also closely linked with Puente, the grassroots organization behind many protests against SB1070 in Phoenix, and Puente's leader Salvador Reza. Understanding his views on SB1070 illuminates that, for some, the struggle over immigration is about something larger.
In Tupac's view the history of SB1070 does not begin in 2010. It begins in 1492 with Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Western Hemisphere. Columbus's "discovery" of the Americas prompted European political and religious leaders to develop what indigenous activists refer to as the "Christian Doctrine of Discovery." This is the belief that because the lands of the Western Hemisphere were without Christians prior to 1492 they were free for the taking upon "discovery." For activists like Tupac, the issues as stake in SB1070 are not so much political as theological.
Tupac shared his analysis with me as we waited to be processed through the legal system in holding cells and, later, when we were bunkmates in the cell block. More than once our conversations were interrupted when we were moved, it appeared arbitrarily, between cells. They were also interrupted when the Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio came into our cell to "talk" with us. Sheriff Arpaio, who is currently under investigation by the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, runs what he likes to call "America's toughest jail." He is known for his tactics of intimidating and dehumanizing prisoners, including trying to humiliate male prisoners by placing them in pink underwear and pink handcuffs.
Rather than intimidate us, Arpaio served as an unwitting example for our impromptu seminar on the Christian Doctrine of Discovery. Tupac suggested to me that the logical outcome of a legal system grounded in such a doctrine is laws like SB1070 and men like Sheriff Arpaio. SB1070 would not exist without the doctrine. Arpaio exists to enforce it.
As we sat together in jail, Tupac traced the history of the Christian Doctrine of Discovery from its origin to its often unacknowledged presence in contemporary debates about immigration. He suggested that the doctrine was first articulated in Pope Alexander VI's 1493 Papal Bull Inter Caetera and the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal. Together these documents created a theological and legal framework that justified the expropriation and division of indigenous lands by Spain and Portugal.
In the view of Tupac and many indigenous legal scholars the framework created to facilitate the seizure of indigenous lands continues to form the core of much of federal property law today. This is particularly true as it relates to indigenous property claims. The indigenous legal scholar Steven Newcomb, for example, has found traces of the Christian Doctrine of Discovery within U.S. Supreme Court cases as recently as 2001.
Tupac believes that the principles of the Christian Doctrine of Discovery are operative in SB1070 as well. As he told me, "the purpose of SB1070 was to consolidate the perceptions of some white Americans around the idea of an America that is white in a continent that belongs to them." In his view, SB1070 is just another attempt to assert non-indigenous dominance over the continent. After all, SB1070 is designed to enforce a border that divides not only the United States and Mexico but the indigenous peoples who belong to the Uto-Aztecan language group. They have been moving back and forth between what is now the U.S. and Mexico long before either country existed. SB1070 criminalizes their traditional freedom of movement.
As Tupac understands it, the struggle against SB1070 is the continuing indigenous struggle against colonialism. As he said in a talk, "When we did that marching… we didn't come to legalize ourselves before the state of Arizona. We came to legalize Arizona… Now, let's get this clear, colonization is illegal… If we're going to legalize Arizona we have to decolonize Arizona." Elsewhere he has written that "SB1070 is not a law." He makes this claim because he believes that the entire framework of laws governing immigration rest upon the Christian Doctrine of Discovery. For him, the Mexican and Central American migrants are indigenous and those who would keep them from coming to the United States are the descendants of colonizers.
Tupac and I were briefly reunited when I traveled back to Arizona to stand trial. After a day-long trial, which touched on none of these issues, the judge ruled us not guilty. Then Tupac set to work again to educate people about the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and passed around a flyer titled "SB1070 is Not a Law."
Colin Bossen is minister of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland. You can read more of his thoughts on his blog, The Latest Form of Infidelity.
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MU Police Capt. Brian Weimer said that Eric Wichmann and Josh O'Steen were arrested by MU police Friday on suspicion of tampering with computer data. Weimer said they were arrested on suspicion of a misdemeanor violation of the state tampering statute, though tampering can also be a class D felony.* Wichman and O'Steen were released the same day on a summons.
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With a cheerful crowd, a pleasant venue, and plenty of exciting creators and books, this year's MoCCA seems to have been deemed a success. Both Christopher Mautner and I were there, and we decided that rather than write two separate blog posts, we would have a dialogue in which we contrast our impressions of the show. If you're looking for a more comprehensive report on the show, check out the MoCCA report by our CBR colleague Alex Dueben as well as Tim Callahan's writeup of his visit.
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First of all, I loved the locale. I actually used to live a few blocks away, so it was a bit of a homecoming for me to walk through Madison Square Park in the sunshine. The building itself had a nice, open, loft-like feel with plenty of rough edges—it felt artsy.
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Howard Dolgon, the President of the Syracuse Crunch, expressed the organizations excitement to participate in the event and promise to put on a first class show for everyone.
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The Frozen Dome Classic will be an all-day event which will also feature a NCAA Division III game between the Utica College Pioneers and the Oswego State Lakers and a charity game between the Syracuse vs. Utica law enforcement prior to the main event.
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Sweet Misery will have two screenings at the New York Television Festival! They are Tues. Sept. 20th at 9pm and Wed. Sept. 21st at 6:00pm. Both will be held at TriBeCa Cinemas at 54 Varick St. in NYC. Tickets are free ($5 handling fee), but we are paired with two other pilots in the same 60 min block so time is a factor and they do sell out fast. Get your tickets here. We hope to see you there for all the fun and festivities! Drinks and hugs to whoever comes!!
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MONDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Playing a memory-straining
video game can help children solve problems more easily, a goal
that can be difficult to achieve through so-called cognitive
training, a new study suggests.
The research doesn't suggest that ordinary video games have this
kind of power. But it does show how a particular type of training
can boost brain skills even months later, said study author Susanne
M. Jaeggi, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan.
"You have to train, and you have to train well," Jaeggi said. "Effects don't come for free. There is effort involved, just like in physical training when you need to run and not just walk in order to improve your fitness level."
The researchers looked specifically at attention and what's
called "working memory" in children. Jaeggi said that refers to
temporary storage in the brain that's used for such things as
solving math problems. For example, if you're solving a
multiplication problem like 34 times 7, you need to go through
several steps -- 7 times 4, then 7 times 3 -- and briefly remember
the answers, she explained.
"If information is lost during this process due to working memory limitations, then the task cannot be completed," Jaeggi said. "In general, working memory capacity is crucial for our general ability to acquire knowledge and learn new skills, and it has been shown that working memory is even better at predicting scholastic achievement than measures of intelligence."
In their study, Jaeggi and her fellow researchers tried to
stretch the working memory of 62 elementary and middle school
students by having them play a video game in which they had to
remember the previous locations of frogs on lily pads. The game
became harder as children became better at it, but easier if they
Those who improved the most did the best on tests three months
later, even though tests given before the training did not show
that those students had any advantage over the other children,
according to the study, published online in this week's issue of
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jaeggi said it's possible, but not proven, that the brain
training via the video game could help students later in life
because those who score well on tests tend to do well in school and
on the job later in life.
She added that the tests show that the students "improved one
very important part of IQ with our training."
Brain researcher Dr. Torkel Klingberg, a professor of cognitive
neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, said that other
studies of techniques designed to boost working memory have shown
similar effects, and even bigger ones.
And Adrian M. Owen, a cognitive neuroscience researcher who
holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of
Western Ontario, said that his previous research had debunked
claims that commercial "brain training" systems improve cognitive
powers in adults. But, he said, the new study is different: It
looked at children, not adults, and examined intensive training in
one task.
So if one specially designed a video game can help boost the
brain power of some children, might all video games do the
No such luck, Jaeggi said. Strategy games might help boost
intelligence, she said, but shoot-'em-up games don't seem to do
More information
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Silambarasan aka STR along with team 'Vaalu' have left to Hyderabad to complete the talkie portions of 'Vaalu', a laugh riot. It is said that all the talkie portions will be wrapped excepting the songs, remember the film aims at a Diwali release along with Thupaki?
The film by debutant Vijay Chandar stars Simbu and Hansika Motwani in the lead roles with Santhanam providing the comic relief.
The very first look teasers of the movie made several headlines as the dialogues took a dig at Dhanush, however Simbu & Dhanush's surprise bonding at the SIIMA Awards put an end to the rumors.
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"If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment."
- Carlos Santana
DH said he would arrange the day for us, and on Christmas morning he drove us to our local dog rescue where he'd volunteered us for the morning, and the first thing he did was sit me in the rescue shelter's laundry room and release a litter of beagle puppies into the room. I laughed so hard I cried as they climbed and jumped and yipped and squirmed all over me. Their faces! It was ridiculous how cute they were! How could I be sad when these little guys were launching themselves at me?
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"I could have missed the pain, but I would have had to miss the dance." Garth Brooks
Banana #3 was supposed to be a Christmas baby but she ended up being born almost three weeks before Halloween. She was discharged from the NICU a couple weeks before Christmas. Not exactly on the day but that was a pretty good year, I'd say.
We all went the following summer, the only bad part was my sis was preggers so she couldn't scuba with us, and she couldn't drink with us. Otherwise it was tons of fun.
I would love to do it one more time in the next couple of years while the kids are big, and my parents can still go and do whatever they want. Dunno if we can pull it off or not.


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[[Hey, wanna hear the goddamn composers of some of the best Ace Combat tracks play the goddamn tracks live? Yeah. Thought so.]]
Zone Of Endless.
An Artificial Intelligence program initiated by the Belkan Greymen and Gründer Industries that covertly gathered data during the 1997 Usean Coup d'etat.
There is no ADF-1 Falken in Assault Horizon, but the Shinden II works as a nice looking substitute IMO.
Bry's theory:
It is suggested that the Usean Rebels captured the Z.O.E. prototypes, including the ADF-01 FALKEN.
However, I would propose that they were actually still under the control of the Belkans and simply mascurading as Usean rebel forces.
Consider if you will that the Usean rebel pilots don't seem to know anything about them, which is particularly highlighted when the Z.O.E. F/A-18E Super Hornet appears during the engagement between the Scarface and Cocoon Squadrons.
The leader of Cocoon Squadron, Camilla "Catwalk" Almeida specifically asks if the Z.O.E. aircraft is with the allied forces. The only response is that it is using a Rebel IFF code, but that alone does not mean it is actually operated by them.
Super Speculation:
So why is Z.O.E., and by extension the Belkans, so interested in Phoenix?
I would put forth the possibility that Phoenix could, in fact, be Cipher.
The origins of the Z.O.E. program is in the data recovered from the dogfight between Cipher and Larry "Solo-Wing Pixy" Folke at the end of Ace Combat Zero.
Cipher subsequently disappeared completely after the Belkan War, as if he never existed.
The games narrator even states during the ending that its doubtful he actually existed at all.
That's actually unusual for an Ace Combat protagonist.
There are no doubts that Mobius 1, Garuda 1 or Gryphon 1 existed and even continued to serve following the end of their respective games (Blaze and the Razgriz is a bit more ambiguous, but that's all part of the story in itself).
It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that the battle with his former wingman and buddy left Cipher, aka the Demon Lord, troubled enough to abandon this identity.
Enter "Phoenix". A skilled and experienced mercenary pilot who appears almost immediately after Cipher vanishes.
The call sign itself means rebirth.
Now Cipher was possibly the greatest ace to have ever flown the skies of Strangereal. His track record against the elite squadrons of the Belkan Air Force, "A World Without Boundaries" and taking out Solo-Wing Pixy's ADFX-02 Morgan in a lowly F-15C.
Feats that call into question the achievements of the other protagonists in the series.
Z.O.E. needed data from the greatest aces, data that had it's origins with Cipher.
If the Belkan's realised that Cipher = Phoenix, then it would make even more sense for the Z.O.E. to go out of it's way to engage Phoenix and continue gathering data from the pilot that crushed the best that the Belkan Air Force had to offer.
Yet it was never enough to beat the original.
Just a theory
I dunno… History determines the winner.
But there's one thing I can say for certain.
Heroes really do exist.
We've just seen one… and now…
He's coming home.
- AWACS "SkyEye", Independent States Allied Forces.
September 26, 2005
Probably the most revered of all aces to ever grace the skies of Strangereal, at least as far as Project Aces are concerned, Mobius One and his ISAF F-22A Raptor are iconic to say the least.
Aside from being the playable character in a dedicated arcade section of Ace Combat 5, Mobius 1 has made numerous cameo appearances in "Ace of Aces" type missions in other Ace Combat games.
As of February 24th, 2014, Games For Windows Live has been patched out of the PC version of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, being replaced by Steam Works.
Provided you perform the transfer before April 1st, you should keep your save game and achievements (I kept my save, but not my achievements… *Sad Face*)
So the game shall endure beyond the shut down of GFWL.
This pic was taken at 1800p with FSAA, and then downscaled to 1080p for extra clarity and smooth edges.
Demon Lord
Hurray, managed to unlock Cipher (and Pixy's) skins for the PC version of Assault Horizon. Quite a challenge given how dead multiplayer is.
…and the fact I abhor player vs player in Ace Combat…
In my opinion the greatest ace that ever took to the skies of Strangereal,
Using just a 'lowly' F-15C Eagle, Cipher took on the entire might of the Belkan Air Force, downing numerous legendary squadrons and even his former wingman in the vastly superior Morgan.
You can find the full-size 1080p version on my Steam account!
The newest addition to my Ace Combat design/fanart series, plus two of my previous favorites.
Rolling out new info next week!


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I finally beat Contra: Hard Corps.
The final boss is an enormous mutant hybrid alien/worm/human that vomits maggots while hurtling through the air on a nuclear rocket, which is amazing. This game is almost unplayable for most people due to the difficulty level. It's at least on par with, maybe harder, than Sub Terrania. The first time I tried to beat Contra: Hard Corps I was 13, but I eventually threw it against the wall out of frustration. I did use the game genie in order to start the game with 5 extra lives but I still consider this a legit win on account of this being one of the hardest goddamn games ever made for the Genesis. Next up is Chakan the Forever Man.
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I have a number of various music video's on DVD (which are from various sources: downloads, TV, etc); the annoying thing is that some of these videos don't have the same volume level. Does anyone know of a s/w package which can not only clone the DVD, including retain every .bup, & .ifo file but also keep the existing chapter marks; the only change I want to make is to alter the volume of every video clip.
Nero customer service at first claimed it can do this, but everything resulted in one file without chapter marks.
Due to poor IT knowledge can I please request that any replies don't contain confusing computer jargon. Thanks in advance.
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This, that, today. | KENDRA BARTELL
Then to get down in the dark on hands and knees.
Undoing is easier than doing you know—
the unbuttoning of a bra behind the back only
needs one hand, three fingers. Look at me. Unseeing
only needs closed lids, shades
drawn and a thought
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Flyer for the Reading next Tuesday! I will be reading my poem "Domed" at some point!
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Is Rome the True Church?
- Thursday, December 18, 2008
That was so only before Vatican II, which took it out of the footnotes, as it were, and put it in the main text in bold print. There was no change in doctrine, however; only in emphasis. As noted earlier, it stated that "those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation."34 This includes Jews, Muslims, and even sincere atheists. So, what was previously whispered before was said here in a clear voice.
What the Claim to Being the True Church Does Mean
Clearly, there has been a continual claim of some in the church, at least from the time of Cyprian and later by Augustine that "there is no salvation outside the Church." This claim was later made dogma by ecumenical councils beginning with the Fourth Lateran Council on through Vatican II.
In addition, their claim to being the only true church was granted by divine right, given to Peter by Christ and passed on by apostolic succession to the present pope. So it should come as no surprise that the reigning pope declares, "This Church, constituted and organized in this world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and the Bishops in communion with him." The rest of professing Christianity is, at best, not a true church in "the proper sense." There are many "ecclesial communities"35 but not true churches. Such communities are in fact gravely "defective" churches since they cannot trace their lineage to Saint Peter, the first pope. So says Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Benedict's claims are not new. The Fourth Lateran Council accepted these claims as ecumenical, as did Trent and Vatican I and II. Also, in 1302 Pope Boniface VIII made a similar pronouncement: "We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff."
Rome's Claim Means That in the Roman Church Alone, Christian Truth Abides in Its Full and Proper Expression
While Rome admits that some truth can be found outside the Roman Church,36 the fullness of truth is only found within it and by "full communion" with it.37 According to Roman Catholicism, "The fullness of grace and truth . . . Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church."38
Rome's Claim Means the Roman Catholic Church Alone Contains the Fullness of Salvation
The claim that salvation is found only in the Roman Catholic Church means that "where there is Christ Jesus, there is the Catholic Church. In her subsists the fullness of Christ's body united with its head; this implies that she receives from him 'the fullness of the means of salvation.'"39 Again, "the church is catholic: she proclaims the fullness of the faith. She bears in herself and administers the totality of the means of salvation."40 Since salvation is mediated through the sacraments, it means that only the Roman Catholic Church is the repository for all the sacraments handed down by Christ to Peter and on to the present pope by apostolic succession.
Rome's Claim Means Non-Catholic Churches Are Not True Churches
With the exception of Eastern Orthodox churches, both Vatican II and the recent Catechism reserve the word church for the true church whose visible head is in Rome. The other Christian groups are called "separated churches"41 and "ecclesial communities."42 Indeed, it is the church at Rome alone to which Christ referred when he said "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18 ESV). The Catechism of the Catholic Church says clearly that "all Christian churches everywhere have held and hold the great Church that is here [at Rome] to be their only basis and foundation since, according to the Savior's promise, the gates of hell have never prevailed against her."43 Thus, all non-Catholic Christians who have been properly baptized by water in the name of the Trinity, "although imperfect, [are in] communion with the Catholic Church." But "with the Orthodox Churches, this communion is so profound 'that it lacks little to attain the fullness that would permit a common celebration of the Lord's Eucharist.'"44
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Definition of Third World in English:
Third WorldLine breaks: Third World
noun(usually the Third World)
The developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America: levels of literacy have risen in the Third World [as modifier]: measures to reduce Third World debt
More example sentences
- That is the case with regard to many states in the Third World, especially sub-Saharan Africa.
- Few people knew more about Africa or the Third World in general than he did.
- It is really important to take every opportunity to develop links with activists in the Third World.
first applied in the 1950s by French commentators who used tiers monde to distinguish the developing countries from the capitalist and Communist blocs.
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