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This page provides answers to the most relevant and most commonly raised issues about our Governance Indicators contained in the paper: Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002.
GENERICWhat is meant by Governance?What are the 6 dimensions of Governance?How frequently are the Governance Indicators updated?Will you go further back in time to compile Governance Indicators for years previous to 1996?How many countries are covered by the Governance Indicators?What options do I have to access the data?What are the underlying sources for the Governance Indicators?What is the criteria used to assign different colors to countries in the interactive charts and worldmaps?It may be useful that governance can be measured, but does it really matter?
MORE ADVANCEDWhy are margins of errors important?Why do you use subjective measures as opposed to objective indicators?How do I interpret changes in countries' estimates over time?In simple terms, how is the aggregation methodology carried out to produce Governance estimates?Can we infer any global trend over time from the Governance Indicators?How confident can we be that over time changes are indeed significant?Why do you distinguish between representative and non-representative sources?How can I see what variables were actually used to compile the Governance Indicators?What implications can we draw in regards to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)?How have potential ideological biases in poll agencies' ratings been addressed?How confident can we be that rankings drawn from point estimates are accurate?How confident can you be that sources are independent from each other, as assumed in your aggregation process?What is the best use I can make of these Indicators?Why are there countries with ratings above 2.5 or below -2.5?
What is meant by Governance?
Governance can be broadly defined as the set of traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised. This includes (1) the process by which governments are selected, monitored and replaced, (2) the capacity of the government to effectively formulate and implement sound policies, and (3) the respect of citizens and the state for the institutions that govern economic and social interactions among them.
For more information, consult the paper (pages 3-5).
What are the 6 dimensions of Governance?
The six dimensions of Governance are: Voice and Accountability; Political Stability and Absence of Violence; Government Effectiveness; Regulatory Quality; Rule of Law; and Control of Corruption.
Voice and Accountability includes in it a number of indicators measuring various aspects of the political process, civil liberties and political rights, measuring the extent to which citizens of a country are able to participate in the selection of governments.
Political Stability and Absence of Violence combines several indicators which measure perceptions of the likelihood that the government in power will be destabilized or overthrown by possibly unconstitutional and/or violent means, including domestic violence and terrorism.
Government Effectiveness combines responses on the quality of public service provision, the quality of the bureaucracy, the competence of civil servants, the independence of the civil service from political pressures, and the credibility of the government's commitment to policies.
Regulatory Quality instead focuses more on the policies themselves, including measures of the incidence of market-unfriendly policies such as price controls or inadequate bank supervision, as well as perceptions of the burdens imposed by excessive regulation in areas such as foreign trade and business development.
Rule of Law includes several indicators which measure the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society. These include perceptions of the incidence of crime, the effectiveness and predictability of the judiciary, and the enforceability of contracts.
Finally, Control of Corruption measures perceptions of corruption, conventionally defined as the exercise of public power for private gain.
For further details, consult the paper (pages 4-5).
How frequently are the Governance Indicators updated?
The Governance Indicators are updated every two years. All relevant information (including data, methodological papers, interactive charts, and world maps) for the last round of updates (2002) is already posted on the web at: http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/. The next round of Governance Indicators will be posted in early 2005.
Will you go further back in time to compile Governance Indicators for years previous to 1996?
No, 1996 will remain our starting year. As we go back in time, we would have to drop several of our sources as they became available only in recent years. Dropping sources would decrease both the precision of our estimates (i.e. higher standard error) and the interpretation of changes over time (as a country relative position could be affected by the subtraction of sources rather than an actual change in its performance).
Why are margins of errors important?
Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which each country appears.
In spite of the considerable number of individual sources used (which tends to decrease the extent of measurement error), there are still substantial margins of error associated with governance estimates. This implies among other things that it is difficult to assign many countries to a definitive performance category according to their estimated level of governance, and even more difficult to compile precise rankings.
For a more thorough discussion, consult the paper (pages 12-15).
Why do you use subjective measures as opposed to objective indicators?
The primary reason for this choice is that for many of the key dimensions of governance, such as corruption or the confidence that property rights are protected, objective data are almost by definition impossible to obtain, and so there are few alternatives to the subjective data on which we rely.
For a more thorough discussion, consult the paper (pages 22-24).
How do I interpret changes in countries' estimates over time?
A change over time could be attributed to 4 factors. First of all, it could come from a change in the score assigned to a country by the same source over time. This is the most common and relevant factor, directly reflecting changes in perceptions of the country's performance. A second factor is the addition of new sources whose ratings might be different from the average ratings from pre-existing sources. Changes over time in relative performance may also reflect the addition of new countries to the aggregate indicator. If for example we add a country with a governance rating that is high relative to those countries already in the index, then by construction all the countries which rank lower than this country will receive lower scores. Finally, a change in a country's performance could derive from a change in the weights in the aggregation procedure. Overall, however, these last two factors typically have only very small effects on changes.
For more details, consult the paper (pages 16-19).
What are the underlying sources for the Governance Indicators?
We use 25 sources from 18 different organizations.
For more details on these organizations, click here.
In simple terms, how is the aggregation methodology carried out to produce Governance estimates?
We use an Unobserved Component Model (UCM) to aggregate the various response in the broad 6 clusters. . This model treats the "true" level of governance in each country as unobserved, and assumes that each of the available sources for a country provide noisy "signals" of the level of governance. The UCM then constructs a weighted average of the sources for each country as the best estimate of governance for that country. The weights are proportional to the reliability of each source. The resulting estimates of governance have an expected value (across countries) of zero, and a standard deviation (across countries) of one. This implies that virtually all scores lie between -2.5 and 2.5, with higher scores corresponding to better outcomes.
For technical details, consult the paper (pages 8-12).
How many countries are covered by the Governance Indicators?
Coverage varies depending on the indicator and the year. In 2002, Voice and Accountability has the largest coverage (199 countries), Political Stability has the smallest (186) while all other dimensions have same coverage (195).
For a complete list of countries for each Governance Indicator, consult Appendix C of the paper (pages 89-106).
Can we infer any global trend over time from the Governance Indicators?
Our indicators measure governance in units where the average score for the world as a whole is zero in every period. Therefore, the Governance Indicators are only meant to capture countries' relative position vis-a-vis the others. We can however use our indicators jointly with our underlying sources to draw conclusions on broad global trends. For instance, since many of our individual sources show a deterioration over time in worldwide averages, then we can safely infer that a country's deterioration in its relative position cannot be attributed to an overall improvement in other countries, but rather is likely to reflect a poorer performance by the country.
For a more detailed discussion, consult the paper (pages 8-12).
How confident can we be that over time changes are indeed significant?
The margins of error associated with levels of governance are substantial. Since changes over time are in most cases small relative to levels of governance, it is safe to assume that most of the observed changes over time are neither statistically nor practically significant. However, there are some cases where the changes over time are large enough that the 90% confidence intervals in the two periods do not overlap. This rule of thumb helps to identify cases of changes over time that are likely to be of practical significance.
A more detailed discussion of confidence intervals, standard errors and changes over time can be found in the paper (pages 14-19, see also figure 3 on pages 49-51).
Why do you distinguish between representative and non-representative sources?
This distinction allows for minimization of the imprecision of point estimates due to measurement errors in underlying sources. First of all, non-representative sources are more likely to be subject to higher measurement error given their more limited scope (for instance, a source rating only rich countries might give them lower ratings than other sources covering a more balanced panel of low and high-income countries). On a more technical note, the distribution of unobserved governance in the subset of countries covered by these smaller-scope sources is not the same as that in the world as a whole. As a result, for these sources we cannot make the assumption that unobserved governance in the countries covered by these surveys follows a standard normal distribution, as is required by the maximum likelihood procedure.
How can I see what variables were actually used to compile the Governance Indicators?
Appendix A of the paper (pages 54-81) lists all the sources that were used, along with a brief description and weblink to the respective homepages.
Appendix B of the paper (pages 82-88) instead provides details on how we have assigned individual questions from each of these sources to our six governance clusters.
What options do I have to access the data?
Appendix C of the paper (pages 89-106) provides a printout of all the data. For each indicator, it shows for each country the estimate level, the standard error and the number of sources used in each year.
Alternatively, you can download the complete dataset in excel format directly from this website. To do so, click here.
To download only specific data tailored to your needs, try this new user-friendly feature of the interactive website.
What implications can we draw in regards to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)?
The proposed MCA allocation rule is designed to ensure that MCA funds will be allocated to low-income countries with relatively sound policies and institutions. A group of 74 countries that are eligible for concessional IDA lending from the World Bank, and which have per capita incomes less than $1435 in 2001, will potentially be eligible for MCA funds in its first year. According to the MCA eligibility rules, this set of countries will be rated according to 16 performance criteria covering three dimensions of performance: "governing justly" (6 criteria), "investing in people" (4 criteria), and "promoting economic freedom" (6 criteria). Four of the Governance Indicators we have constructed (voice and accountability, government effectiveness, rule of law, and corruption) have been proposed as performance indicators under the MCA's "governing justly" performance dimension, with the remaining two for this dimension being measures of civil liberties and political rights constructed by Freedom House. In addition, a fifth governance indicator, Regulatory Quality, is included under "promoting economic freedom". In order to qualify for MCA assistance, countries must (a) be in the top half of all potentially eligible countries according to the corruption rating from the governance indicators, and (b) must be in the top half of all potentially eligible countries on at least half of each of the performance criteria under each of the three dimensions of performance. This rule is designed to ensure that resources are channeled towards countries that are performing well in a variety of dimensions of governance, and in which corruption especially is relatively low.
However, it is important to note that the substantial margins of error associated with governance estimates mean that it is difficult to assign many countries to a definitive performance category according to their estimated level of governance. This point applies to any of the MCA criteria. Given the presence of non-trivial margins of errors, some countries ranked under the median might in fact belong to the top half of the distribution. Classifications based on individual indicators, or even on a single aggregate indicator, inevitably run the risk of mis-classifying countries due to the margins of error inherent in all indicators.
This underscores the need for a certain degree of flexibility in the MCA allocation rule, in light of the importance of caution when using governance indicators to classify countries into groups. To reduce the risk of misclassification, it is important to look at a variety of indicators and additional sources of data, especially for borderline cases.
For a more detailed discussion, consult the paper (pages 26-29).
How have potential ideological biases in poll agencies' ratings been addressed?
We address this issue as follows. Our identifying assumption is that surveys of firms or individuals are not tainted by ideology, since they reflect the views of a large number of respondents in each country. In contrast, it is possible that the views of a smaller number of raters affiliated with a particular institution may reflect the ideology of that group. We can therefore identify the effects of ideology by looking at the correlation across countries between the ideology of the government in power, and the difference in the percentile ranks assigned to countries by a poll of experts and a survey of individuals and firms. We implement this idea using the World Bank's Business Environment Survey for 2000, and an indicator variable that takes on the value 1 if the government in power is left-of-center, 2 if it is center, and 3 if it is right-of-center, taken from the database of political institutions constructed by Beck et. al. (2001). The coefficient on the ideology variable will therefore capture the extent to which a given poll of experts rates countries countries with left- or right-wing governments systematically differently from a survey (a positive coefficient indicates that the poll in question tends to rate right-of-center governments more highly relative to a survey). Our results showed that we find only one source which appears to have a consistent ideological bias, with the Heritage Foundation assigning relatively higher scores to countries with right-of-center governments than the corresponding survey and this "ideology bias" is fairly modest in magnitude.
For a more detailed discussion, consult the paper (pages 24-25).
What is the criteria to assign different colors to countries in the interactive charts and worldmaps?
Each country color pattern follows a simple quartile distribution (for illustrative purposes): the best quartile (over 75th percentile) is in green (with top 10% colored in darker green), the second best quartile (over 50th) is in yellow, the third (over 25th) is in orange, and the fourth is in red (with bottom 10th in darker red). Please note that this simple color coding does not account for the size of the confidence intervals; the color mapping is based on the point estimates.
To access interactive charts and/or maps, visit our interactive webtool.
How confident can we be that rankings drawn from point estimates are accurate?
Because of margins of errors, we cannot make precise rankings. However, we can still make inferences based on confidence intervals. If we for instance divide the distribution of countries' estimates into two categories (low-high governance rating), we can calculate the probability that any given country might indeed belong to the opposite side of the distribution.
A more detailed discussion of confidence intervals, standard errors and rankings can be found in the paper (pages 11-14, see also figure 1 on pages 45-47).
How confident can you be that sources are independent from each other, as assumed in your aggregation process?
It is true that an important assumption of our Unobserved Component Model is that the errors are independent across sources. This assumption in particular imposes the identifying assumption that the only reason why two sources might be correlated with each other is because they are both measuring the same underlying unobserved governance dimension.
We have taken several steps to ensure that this assumption would hold. In the first place, we have avoided including sources which were themselves constructed upon other indicators used in the aggregation procedure. For instance, we did not include the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International because the CPI is itself an aggregate of a number of individual sources, all of which were included separately in our corruption indicator.
Secondly, we were very cautious in flagging risk rating agencies who would base their own assessments on the assessments of other agencies included in our sample. We have to the best of our knowledge excluded any source of governance data where we found it was explicitly based on another one of our sources.
If errors are positively correlated across sources despite the precautions we have taken, this would likely have little effect on the governance estimates we construct. However, it would imply that the margins of error we have constructed are quite conservative, and that the true level of imprecision of the indicators would be even large than we have estimated.
For more details, consult the data section in the paper (pages 4-8).
What is the best use I can make of these indicators?
Notwithstanding the substantial increase in data collection for this round, which has both expanded country coverage and improved the precision of the aggregate indicators, margins of error remain. We hope that in the future the availability of additional data will enable further improvements in precision. However, the presence of margins of errors imply that we cannot make precise rankings of the countries solely based on the point estimates.
The Governance Indicators however can serve the purpose of providing individual countries with a set of monitorable indicators of governance they can use to benchmark themselves against other countries and over time. We recognize there are limitations to what can be achieved with this kind of cross-country, highly-aggregated data. Therefore, this type of data cannot substitute for in-depth, country-specific governance diagnostics as a basis for policy advice to improve governance in a particular country, but should rather be viewed as a complement tool.
A more detailed discussion of confidence intervals, standard errors and rankings can be found in the paper (pages 11-14 and pages 45-47).
It may be useful that governance can be measured, but does it really matter?
It matters enormously. We find that a country improving its quality of governance from a low level to an average level can in the long term quadruple the income per capita of its population, and similarly reduce infant mortality and illiteracy. And the direction of causality is clear: it goes from better governance to higher incomes, and not vice versa In other words, governance is not a 'luxury' good that only wealthier countries can afford; is not the automatic result of development. To the contrary, it requires continuous political will and commitment, and difficult work.
For a more detailed discussion, consult the papers Governance Matters I and Growth Without Governance.
Why are there countries with ratings above 2.5 or below -2.5?
Given our assumption about governance being normally distributed, there is a 99% chance that a country's rating would fall between -2.5 and 2.5. However, under very specific circumstances, a country's rating might exceed these thresholds. This simply means that the country has an extremely poor record (below -2.5) or extremely good record (above 2.5) in that specific governance indicator.


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Genome analysis suggests there was interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and an unknown archaic population. Updated genome sequences from two extinct relatives of modern humans suggest that these 'archaic' groups bred with humans and with each other more extensively than was previously known.
The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a member of an archaic human group called the Denisovans, were presented on 18 November at a meeting on ancient DNA at the Royal Society in London. The results suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago, including an as-yet-unknown human ancestor from Asia.
All modern humans whose ancestry originates outside of Africa owe about 2% of their genome to Neanderthals. Certain populations living in Oceania, such as Papua New Guineans and Australian Aboriginals, share about 4% of their DNA with Denisovans.
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Do the origins of civilization on Earth reach back significantly farther than we have realized? Discovery reports:
Remains of the oldest known stone-tipped throwing spears, described in a new paper, are so ancient that they actually predate the earliest known fossils for our species by 85,000 years.
There are a couple possible implications, and both are mind-blowing. The first is that our species could be much older than previously thought, which would forever change the existing human family tree.
The second, and more likely at this point, is that a predecessor species to ours was extremely crafty and clever, making sophisticated tools long before Homo sapiens emerged.
The new paper, published in the latest PLoS ONE, focuses on the newly identified stone-tipped spears, which date to 280,000 years ago. They were found at an Ethiopian Stone Age site known as Gademotta.
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A lead curse tablet, dating back around 1,700 years and likely written by a magician, has been discovered in a collapsed Roman mansion in Jerusalem, archaeologists report.
The text is written in Greek and, in it a woman named Kyrilla invokes the names of six gods to cast a curse on a man named Iennys, apparently over a legal case.
Kyrilla asks the gods to ensure that "he in no way oppose, so that he say or perform nothing adverse to Kyrilla … but rather that Iennys, whom the womb bore, be subject to her…"
To obtain her goal Kyrilla combined elements from four religions. Of six gods invoked, four of them are Greek (Hermes, Persephone, Pluto and Hecate), one is Babylonian (Ereschigal) and one, Abrasax, is Gnostic. Additionally, the text contains magic words such as "Iaoth" that have a Hebrew/Judaism origin.
Origins of Civilization at Gobekli Tepe with Graham Hancock, Andrew Collins and Hugh Newman
Graham Hancock, Andrew Collins and Hugh Newman discuss the origins of civilization at Gobekli Tepe on the September 2013 'Origins of Civilization' tour organised by Megalithomania.
Neanderthals Ate Stomach Contents Of Dead Animals (Tastes Like Cream Cheese)
Apparently the stomach contents of dead animals tastes like cream cheese. I may have to seek something else to spread on my bagels from now on… Robin McKie reports on the real diet of Neanderthals for The Observer:
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It was the tell-tale tartar on the teeth that told the truth. Or at least, that is what it appeared to do. Researchers – after studying calcified plaque on Neanderthal fossil teeth found in El Sidrón cave in Spain – last year concluded that members of this extinct human species cooked vegetables and consumed bitter-tasting medicinal plants such as chamomile and yarrow.
These were not brainless carnivores, in other words. These were smart and sensitive people capable of providing themselves with balanced diets and of treating themselves with health-restoring herbs, concluded the researchers, led by Karen Hardy at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies in Barcelona.
The First Ancient Human Artists Were Women
Did women invent art? National Geographic reports:
Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists were predominantly men, so the finding overturns decades of archaeological dogma.
Archaeologist Dean Snow analyzed hand stencils found in eight cave sites in France and Spain. Snow determined that three-quarters of the handprints were female. Women tend to have ring and index fingers of about the same length, whereas men's ring fingers tend to be longer than their index fingers.
"People have made a lot of unwarranted assumptions about who made these things, and why," said Snow, whose research was supported by the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration.
Because many of these early paintings showcase game animals, many researchers have proposed that they were made by male hunters. The new study suggests otherwise.
Is This What The Proto-Indo-European Language Spoken 6,000 Years Ago Sounded Like?
Linguists have recently reconstructed what a 6,000 year-old-language called Proto-Indo-European might have sounded like. This language was the forerunner of many European and Asian languages, and now you can listen to how it may have sounded. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was spoken by a people who lived from roughly 4500 to 2500 B.C. The question became, what did PIE sound like? As linguists have continued to discover more about PIE, this sonic experiment is periodically updated to reflect the most current understanding of how this extinct language would have sounded when spoken some six thousand years ago. Since there is considerable disagreement among scholars, no one version can be considered definitive.
Priestess Tomb Confirms That Women Ruled In Ancient Peru
A society in some respects more advanced than our own? Phys.org reports:
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The discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago, archeologists said.
The remains of the woman from the Moche—or Mochica—civilization were discovered in late July in an area called La Libertad in the country's northern Chepan province. In 2006, researchers came across the famous "Lady of Cao"—who died about 1,700 years ago and is seen as one of the first female rulers in Peru.
"This find makes it clear that women didn't just run rituals in this area but governed here and were queens of Mochica society," said project director Luis Jaime Castillo. "It is the eighth priestess to be discovered," he added. "Our excavations have only turned up tombs with women, never men."
The priestess was in an "impressive 1,200-year-old burial chamber" the archeologist said.
Ancient Egyptian Sphinx Mysteriously Unearthed In Israel
Things not where they are supposed to be? Historical strangeness via CNN:
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A recent discovery of part of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian sphinx has been a most unexpected find in Tel Hazor in northern Israel.
Inexplicably buried far from Egypt, the paws of a sphinx statue, resting on its base, have been unearthed with an inscription in hieroglyphs naming King Mycerinus. The pharaoh ruled in 2500 BC and oversaw the construction of one of the three Giza pyramids.
"This is the only sphinx of this king known in the world – even in Egypt. It is also the only monumental piece of Egyptian sculpture found anywhere in the Levant," said professor Amnon Ben-Tor, the director of the excavation, referring to the region spanning the east of the Mediterranean Sea.
Tel Hazor was the capital of the city of Canaan 4,000 years ago. The question of how the sphinx got to Tel Hazor will likely remain a mystery.


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Lyman won two games Tuesday night at
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The girls defeated Crazy Horse 25-3;
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Israelites (a.k.a. Poor me Israelites) (Desmond Dekker & the Aces)
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Everything crash (the Ethiopians)
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Java dub (Impact All Stars)
Hypocrite (the Heptones)
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Cherry oh baby (Eric Donaldson)
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Many rivers to cross (Jimmy Cliff)
The sun shines for me (Bob Andy)
Marcus Garvey (Burning Spear)
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Lady with the star light (Ken Boothe)
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Police and thieves (Junior Murvin)
Ram goat liver (Pluto Shervington)
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One two (Sister Nancy)
Pass the dutchie (Musical Youth)
I'm getting married in the morning (Yellowman)
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Push comes to shove (Freddie McGregor)
Love has found its way (Dennis Brown)
Cottage in Negril (Tyrone Taylor)
Every time a ear de soun' (Mutabaruka)
Electric boogie (Marcia Griffiths)
Under me sleng teng (Wayne Smith)
Greetings (Half Pint)
No way no better than yard (Admiral Bailey)
Wild world (Maxi Priest)
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Wild Gilbert (Lovindeer)
Pocomania day (Lovindeer & Chalice)
Good thing going (Sugar Minott)
One blood (Junior Reid)
Twice my age (Shabba Ranks & Krystal)
Hello Africa (Garnett Silk)
Murder she wrote (Chaka Demus & Pliers)
Disc four. Putting up resistance (Beres Hammond)
You don't love me (no, no, no) (Dawn Penn)
Murderer (Buju Banton)
Tour (Capleton)
Lord give me strength (Luciano)
Untold stories (Buju Banton)
Fed up (Bounty Killer)
Sycamore tree (Lady Saw)
Black woman and child (Sizzla)
Who am I (Sim simma) (Beenie Man)
Down by the river (Morgan Heritage)
Virtuous woman (Warrior King)
Gimme the light (Sean Paul)
Pon de river pon de bank (Elephant Man)
Welcome to Jamrock (Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley)
She's royal (Tarrus Riley)
True reflections (Jah Cure)
Roots (Etana)
Boombastic (Shaggy)
Lioness on the rise (Queen Ifrica)
I'm on the rock (Mavado)
The harder they come (Jimmy Cliff)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The United States clinched its seventh straight World Cup appearance, beating Mexico 2-0 Tuesday night on second-half goals by Eddie Johnson and Landon Donovan before a raucous red-white-and-blue-clad crowd that stood and chanted from start to finish.
After withstanding Mexican pressure for the first 20 minutes, the U.S. settled in the match and got the breakthrough in the 49th minute when Johnson outjumped defender Diego Reyes to meet Donovan's corner kick 8 yards out and head the ball past frozen goalkeeper Jesus Corona.
With Mexican shifting to an offense-minded 3-4-3 formation, the U.S. scored in the 78th following a throw in when Mix Diskerud threaded the ball across the middle. Clint Dempsey got the slightest of touches as he slid into the goalmouth, and Donovan poked the ball in from 2 yards.
The U.S. (5-2-1) moved into first place in the North and Central American and Caribbean finals with 16 points, one ahead of Costa Rica (4-1-3), which was held to a 1-1 tie at last-place Jamaica and also clinched.
Obviously this is a huge, huge evening for all of us, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. It's a huge milestone whenever you make it to a World Cup.
The top three teams qualify, and the U.S. had to wait an hour after the final whistle to learn it was assured of a spot in the 32-nation field for Brazil next June. But when Honduras (3-3-2) held on for a 2-2 tie against Panama (1-2-5) in Tegucigalpa, the Americans had grabbed a berth with two games to spare.
We're continuing the growth of the game here in the sport, we're improving, getting better and we've got to make sure we do well in Brazil to keep it going, Dempsey said.
Mexico (1-2-5) dropped into fifth on goal difference and seems likely at best headed to a playoff against New Zealand.
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Russian fashion illustrator Lena Ker uses watercolour paint so delicately, yet still manages to bring attention to the finest details in a garment whilst creating eye-catching pieces. Her accessory illustrations are just as inviting as those with people pictured. I also particularly like the way her work looks in print, as editorials; it sits so beautifully next to the text.
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Riccardo was born in Alexandria in 1975 and now lives in Casale Monferrato in Italy. His influences include Picasso, Munari and Rodari.
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Polish illustrator Ada Buchholc graduated from the Poznań University of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and also studied Illustration at Academy Minerva in The Netherlands. Her power-packed style has attracted many clients including Wprost, Przekrój, Newsweek, Heineken Music, IKS Magazine and Warsaw Uprising Museum.
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"Canadians. They walk among us."A 1995 geopolitical comedy film written and directed by Michael Moore, starring John Candy, Rhea Perlman, and Alan Alda.In the wake of the unexpected end of the Cold War, the sitting President of the United States, a milquetoast bumbler played by Alan Alda, is faced with a shrinking economy and high unemployment at home. Believing, rightly or not, that restarting the Cold War and the associated military-industrial complex at full steam will be just the right kind of economic stimulus, the President's advisors, in cahoots with a shady weapons contractor, try to get the Russians to play ball. When they say no, they decide to invent a fictitious conflict with their neighbor to the north, Canada.Meanwhile, Sheriff Bud Boomer (Candy) of Niagara Falls, New York, has to deal with the unpleasant realities of the loss of his town's primary employer; he, his deputy, and all his friends lost their factory jobs when the Cold War ended. When the government spin doctors put out the news of the Canadian menace, he buys it completely, and sets about fortifying his town as a border defense against the coming invasion.The film is notable as John Candy's last starring role and Michael Moore's only non-documentary feature. Plus a magnificent throwaway line, especially considering the director, about the absurdity of a situation as comparable to declaring war on terrorism. Which they wanted to do to increase the approval rating of the president. In 1995!Following the huge critical and commercial success of Moore's first movie, Roger & Me, Canadian Bacon represented something of a Sophomore Slump (getting mostly mixed to negative reviews and fizzled out of theaters three weeks after its arrival, during which time it grossed less than $179,000), and along with Kevin Smith's Mallrats (another big-budget flop made by another member of the "Indie Film Boom" crowd of the late 1980s and early '90s) helped nearly bankrupt Gramercy Pictures (until they quickly got back on their feet with Dead Man Walking).
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Mohali, India – The Windies were asked to take first strike after Ireland won the toss.
The Caribbean team suffered a major blow, losing the services of power hitter Chris Gayle who is suffering from a slight abdominal strain. Fast bowling allrounder Andre Russell has come into the side for his first One-Day International, while Shiv Chanderpaul has moved up the order to partner Devon Smith.
West Indies are third in the Group B standings on four points from three matches while Ireland are fifth on two points from three matches.
Mohali, India – West Indies captain Darren Sammy walked into the main hall at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium on Thursday and something immediately caught his attention.
There, in the room, was a larger-than-life photograph of West Indies legend Sir Garfield Sobers. Sammy paused, had a long look before taking his seat to speak to journalists.
Kandy, Sri Lanka – Brilliant centuries from Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga helped Sri Lanka to a comprehensive 139-run win over Zimbabwe at the new Pallekele Cricket Ground on Thursday.
Dilshan hit 144 at better than a run-a-ball while the left-handed Tharanga (133) added 282 for the first wicket – the highest partnership for the opening wicket in the history of the ICC Cricket World Cup, and the fourth highest ODI partnership of all time.
Mohali, India – The West Indies team has formed a strong brotherhood as they continue their campaign at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, skipper Darren Sammy outlined that all members of the team were supporting each other and working extremely well together as they prepare to face Ireland in their fourth Group B match at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium on Friday.
It will be the first day match for the Windies. First ball is 9.30 am (12 midnight Eastern Caribbean Time/11 pm Thursday Jamaica Time).
Mohali, India – Ireland could be without inspirational player Trent Johnston for Friday's ICC Cricket World Cup Group B match against West Indies.
The right-arm new ball bowler and former captain picked up a knee injury against India on Sunday in Bangalore and could bowl only five overs during which he picked up two wickets for just 16 runs. If he is unavailable it would be a major blow to the Irish.
The 36-year-old Johnston has been his side's most successful bowler for Ireland with six wickets from three matches.
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Oakland Tribune Examines OraQuick Rapid HIV Test That 'Could Alter' HIV Diagnosis, TreatmentThe Oakland Tribune on Monday examined the use of OraSure 's OraQuick rapid HIV test, which can deliver a result in about 20 minutes, saying that the test "could alter diagnosis and treatment for thousands." An estimated 25% of the almost one... Read more »
OraQuick Rapid HIV Test for Oral FluidWhat is the significance of the FDA's approval of the OraQuick rapid HIV test for oral fluid on Mar. 26, 2004? What is the difference between the new OraQuick rapid HIV test for oral fluid and the OraQuick rapid HIV-1 test for blood approved by FDA... Read more »
Early Expiration May Be Cause of Unusually High False-Positive Rates on OraQuick Rapid HIV Tests, Study FindsThere's nothing like hearing the results of studies directly from those who actually conducted the research. In this interview, you'll meet one of these impressive HIV researchers and read her explanation of a study she presented at CROI 2009. After... Read more »
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OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV I Antibody Negative TWICE ... but Still PetrifiedDr. Bob,I believe I sent you an e-mail a month ago about my situation. I've had two "risky" encounters with female prostitutes (the first encounter was in March '07, the other was on June 6, 2007). I say "risky" because...
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The Robert James Frascino AIDS FoundationHello,First off, polyurethane is not the same material as latex; however, they both protect against HIV.Next, you are definitively and conclusively HIV negative. HIV is not your problem. No way. No how. No additional testing is warranted. If you... Read more »
Please advise on current status. Do I need more testing or is it conclusive with OraQuick Rapid Oral Fluid TestI was communicating with Dr. Bob from The Body just before his passing and I was working in a remote area of South Africa at the time I was exposed and then communicating with Dr. Bob. Since Dr. Bob's passing I am unable to get any info to...
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Test Positive Aware NetworkHi there:None of the symptoms you describe make me think they are HIV related. Your tests post 90 days were conclusive. Oral swabs have a higher incidence of false-positives, but you can trust the results of a negative result, post 90 days.Bottom... Read more »
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The Robert James Frascino AIDS FoundationHi Mr. Liberal,The OraQuick oral fluid rapid test is highly sensitive (99.6%), highly specific (99.7%) and compares favorably to blood tests. A negative OraQuick oral fluid rapid test is considered a definitive negative unless testing occurs within... Read more »
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The Robert James Frascino AIDS FoundationHello,Actually, it was indeed a fabulous evening! I spent it having dinner with two of my favorite people: Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim and New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich!Regarding your ding-dong problem, the blowjob actually bruised... Read more »
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Posted by Anonymous, 1 ReplyYesterday I had ora-quick done at Whitman-Walker in DC (blood/finger prick), very, very much to my surprise, came back totally negative, technician told me I had an 80% chance of being neg for real.
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Posted by Survivor, 2 RepliesFortune Examines Challenges for Over-the-Counter Approval of OraQuick Oral HIV Test
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Fortune magazine in its May 29 edition examines the challenges OraSure Technologies faces in obtaining FDA approval for over-the-counter sales of its... Read more »
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Under the supervision of a board-certified physician, the professional staff at Physician's Weight Loss Centers helps clients work toward overall wellness while shedding pounds with their six specialized weight-loss programs. After a consultation with a certified staff member, each client is assigned to the program best suited to his or her goals, current health, and willingness to put up with a stack of pancake's "I miss you!" text messages. Programs can also be augmented with regimens of supplements and vitamins, including the fat-targeting agents of vitamin B12 injections. Not merely satisfied with supplying menu plans, the staff offers behavior-guidance plans, counselors, and medical consultations to ensure clients fully embrace new, healthful behaviors.
A blue-tiled fountain flanked by palm trees gurgles outside of the Oh Baby Ultrasound studio. Inside, technicians capture video and three-dimensional portraits of baking buns. Mom reclines on the bed in the middle of the ultrasound suite, where up to a dozen family members and friends can gather on leather sofas to watch the baby reenact scenes from kung fu movies on a 55-inch flat-screen. With Sonostream, loved ones back at home can log on with a password to watch the ultrasound session as it happens. Parents can take home CDs, DVDs, and photos of the session to cherish.
Chiropractic doctors Ben Naar and Tina Schechter fill Bentin Chiropractic Wellness Center's 2,000 square feet with the sounds of fountains trickling, joints cracking, and patients sighing with relief. Dr. Naar specializes in allaying the chronic aches of working life, and Dr. Schechter is trained in the detecting spinal disorders through x-rays and poetic descriptions of the spine. With the help of computerized spinal analysis, adjustments, and electrical muscle stimulation, Drs. Naar and Schechter can also treat athletic injuries and trauma caused by auto accidents.


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Using only a loop of cotton thread and a careful eye, the threading specialists at The Brow Shop lift away unwanted hair. They can shape brows into clean arches, defuzz any part of the face, and even thread the arms, leaving them smooth and bare. The process is well suited for sensitive skin, as it adheres directly to hairs rather than to the flesh that surrounds them. Visitors to the salon can also find powders and gels to tint the brows and hold them in place.
With 41 of its 250 beers available on tap, Barley & Hops pours a wide selection of suds to accompany its lengthy, European-style pub menu. Beneath the exposed-beam ceilings of the Old World-y restaurant, patrons succeed starters of gravy-smothered fries ($5) and scotch eggs ($5.99) with slurps of brews from Belgium, England, and Germany. Two flat-screen TVs in the main dining room and three in the ancillary draft room showcase sports, inspiring nearby diners to slam dunk small fish 'n' chips entrees ($12.99) into a neighbor's Avery Maharaja Imperial IPA ($10.99) to claim new ownership. Refreshing gulps of the Ballast calico amber ($6.99) balance out bites of the shepherd's pie ($12.99), whose beefy interior has proven to be the perfect tool for attracting angry, vegetarian sheep.
Ryan Bros. Coffee's attentive owners match discerning tastes with artfully crafted blends of fair-trade coffees and mouthwatering café fare. Classic coffees include featured roasts ($1.75 for 12 oz., $2 for 20 oz.) such as bold Cowboy coffee or the full-bodied Broadway Blues, which are filtered for fuller tastes. Espresso drinks inject caffeine-packed shots into tongue-tickling flavors such as a warm, creamy mocha ($3.55–$3.95) or a chilly, blended Java Lava frappe ($4.25). Chompable menu items grant solid starts to the day, including the chipotle-bacon breakfast sandwich ($5.95), whereas real-fruit smoothies, including the refreshing mango patch ($4.25), rev bodies with vitamin-rich fuel. Salads ($6.50–$7.25) and freshly grilled paninis ($5.95–$6.95) are also available for consumption. Packaged portions of coffee, tea, and comestibles adorn shelves in front of burnt-orange walls and sun-sprayed indoor or outdoor seating areas offer the ideal space in which to enjoy free WiFi.
Though Panini & Hops may be called a fusion restaurant, it is not because the chefs blended two different cuisines. It's because the restaurant itself is a fusion of two prior endeavors, the Belgian?centric beer store Barley & Hops and the food truck, Paninis on Wheels. By joining up together, they two restaurants have created a single spot where guests can sip on more than 100 varieties of local and Belgian beers while sampling one of the house's unique paninis. These include everything from a cross-section of Thanksgiving fixings to meatballs in a red sauce or veggies with pesto. In addition, chefs can turn any of these paninis into thin-crust pizzas to make dishes more easily sharable without just uninviting everyone else at a table.
It's always a party at House Bar & Grill, an upscale American restaurant that transforms into a hopping nightlife spot as the evening sails forward. In the early evening, candlelit tables and a roaring fireplace lend a cozy-and-intimate feel to the dining room as servers flit between suede booths carrying trays laden with juicy burgers, marinated steaks, and thick-cut fries. After eight o'clock, however, the restaurant pulses with a DJ or live music, including dueling pianos and fist-fighting bassoons.
Across the 20 lanes at Universal Strike Bowling Center, the rolling thrum of bowling balls prefaces the clattering of pins. As guests hunt strikes and spares, automated scoring tallies each felled pin, and pours of beer and platters of pizza from the sports bar sate competitors' appetites.
Away from the lanes, Universal Strike Bowling Center houses other venues for friendly competition, including a large arcade, and pool tables. In three banquet halls that can host up to 500 guests, the sprawling facility puts on wedding receptions, corporate gatherings, quinceañeras, and other festive events.


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On Sunday, Boeing and Dubai-based Emirates Airline announced an order for 50 Boeing 777-300ERs planes. The order, worth $18 billion, makes this the single largest commercial airplane order in Boeing's history by dollar value. The deal also includes an options for 20 additional airplanes valued at $8 billion.
This new order makes 2011 the best-selling year for the 777 program. Over the year, Boeing has received orders for 182 of the popular twin-aisle commercial jetline.
Emirates is the world's largest 777 operator with a fleet of 94 777s through direct purchase and lease. It is also the only airline in the world to operate every model in the Boeing 777 family, including the 777 Freighter.
"This is an extremely proud moment for us as it not only underscores Emirates' ongoing confidence in the 777 but also makes this the single largest order by dollar value in Boeing's history," said Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "As the largest operator of the 777 in the world, Emirates has played an important role in development of the airplane and its input over the years has been invaluable in the development of the 777 program."
The Boeing 777 is the world's most successful twin-engine, long-haul airplane. The 777-300ER carries 365 passengers up to 7,930 nautical miles.
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Talk about friendly exes! Jennifer Lopez gets a hand on stage from ex-hubby Marc Anthony during her concert Friday night in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The two reportedly performed a duet, "No Me Ames."
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Emirates Sky Cargo, the freight unit of Dubai-based airline Emirates, boosted first half revenue 48.4 percent from a year ago to $1.2 billion.
Cargo volume grew 23.7 percent to 897,000 metric tons in the six months to Sept. 30 from 725,000 metric tons in the same period in 2009.
Emirates said cargo is posting steady gains in revenue, now contributing around 17.8 percent of the state-owned carrier's total transport revenue.
By The Numbers: Middle East Air Freight.
The strong cargo performance helped Emirates increase first half net profit more than fourfold to $925 million from $205 million a year ago on a 35 percent increase in revenue to $7.2 billion.
The airline expanded its cargo coverage in the first half adding freighter flights to Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
Emirates Sky Cargo launched a new weekly service between Dubai and Sao Paulo over the weekend with a 747-400 freighter with 117 tons capacity.
The new service to Sao Paulo Viracopos-Campinas airport will operate via Frankfurt on the outbound flight and return through Dakar, Senegal, the most recent addition to Emirates global network.
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Emirates has been operating a passenger service to Sao Paulo Guarulhos International airport with a weekly bellyhold cargo capacity of 105 metric tons each way since 2007.
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The Air Force is launching the first of a new generation of Global Positioning System satellites expected to last longer and perform better.
The satellite is scheduled to lift off Thursday at about 11:30 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral.
GPS uses 24 satellites beaming signals to Earth that can pinpoint a location using a receiver tuned to the satellite frequency. It's widely used by the military and civilians.
The satellites are overseen by Air Force Space Command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
The new satellites, known as Block IIF, have a design life of 12 years, faster processors, more memory and a new signal for civilian uses.
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After six great years at the Dallas Observer, they're dragging me out kicking, screaming and, yes, grateful.
Last week's cover. Irony is funny.10. As of this morning, the Dallas Observer is out of the sports business, at least on a full-time basis. Though I'm not technically being fired ("laid off" is supposedly less damning), the paper and its owner, Village Voice Media, have decided to el ... More >>
Pope Benedict XVI, like you didn't know that Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States has provoked an examination of the relationship between Roman Catholics and evangelical Christians, who share a similar social agenda. Southern Baptist scholar, author and commentator Al Mohler points respe ... More >>
Bishop T.D. Jakes Dallas' Bishop T.D. Jakes has launched his own blog, and he steps right into the fray with a lengthy post about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy. True to form, Jakes avoids political hard lines and instead gives insights designed to provoke the consciences of blacks as we ... More >>
Mark Donald, the new editor of the Dallas Observer The Dallas Observer will begin the new year with a new editor: Mark Donald. His should be a very familiar name to longtime readers of the paper version of Unfair Park: Mark -- who now demands to be called Mr. Donald, how unfortunate -- began writin ... More >>
So tomorrow, if you're cruising the Internets looking for work, you might come across something that says, oh, I don't know, "Help wanted: Dallas Observer is looking for an editor." And it won't be a joke. I'm outta here. And no, I wasn't fired. Heads didn't roll; blood didn't spill. It was all pai ... More >>
What a racket. Two years ago, my son tossed a ping pong ball in a glass bowl at his school carnival, and he was awarded -- ha ha, awarded -- a tiny goldfish in a plastic bag. A brown goldfish, no less. Evidently a certain pet store was cleaning out its inventory of crummy brown goldfish and hit on ... More >>
In 1991 -- "eight years before my conversion," she says -- Dawn Eden was 23 and, ahem, sharing a bed with Buzzcocks Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle. Dawn Eden is taking the train to Washington, D.C., and we are talking about masturbation. Just before the connection goes bad, she suggests that we tone ... More >>
Lower Greenville was on fire at the Observer Showcase
This week, guest writer Renea Overstreet, a third-year law student at Texas Wesleyan and author of the novel Always a Bridesmaid, talks about her uneasiness as an African-American visitor at predominantly white churches. The very first Bible Girl quiz immediately follows.
Don't know about y'all, but my neighborhood, in southwest Dallas, looks like a hurricane plowed through. We haven't had power since about 7 p.m. last night, and large trees are in the streets, on cars, on houses and on sheds. Some very large trees were completely uprooted. When the storm hit, you co ... More >>
Pastor Sherman Allen of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ is accused of assaulting at least eight women. Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Melody McDonald had an excellent piece yesterday on the sexual allegations against Pastor Sherman Allen of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Chris ... More >>
I will never forget the first major crime story I covered. The images never go away, and maybe they aren't supposed to. They snap me back to realities about my world. A Seattle-area man had murdered his wife and kids, then traveled south to Tacoma, where he gunned down his in-laws. Then he killed ... More >>
El Greco, "Descent of the Holy Spirit" He called himself Apostle. And many a Sunday morning was punctuated with the skronk-skronk of a saxophone as he blew his rendition of "Amazing Grace." He was a young man, and he'd recently gotten out of prison, where he had some kind of conversion. We were yo ... More >>
Gilbert Patterson, presiding bishop of the Memphis-based Church of God in Christ, died yesterday of heart failure. He had been ill for some time. Patterson was much admired within his denomination, the largest Pentecostal body in the United States, with some 5 million members. He commanded respect t ... More >>
Bible Girl, if it makes you feel any better, distributors don't think anyone else wants to see Dakota Fanning get raped in Hound Dog either. One of us has got to be crazy. One of us has got to be deluded, dumb and blind. It is so very daring to examine the delicate matter of bestiality, to apply one ... More >>
It's a mellow week at the Dallas Observer. We've exchanged gifts. (Yikes--except me. You'll see me running through Target later today.) Right now I'm listening to a heated conversation in the distance about long-sleeved sweaters. We've got the day off tomorrow, and I'll be taking the opportunity to ... More >>
If the Southern Baptists forbid speaking in tongues in order to talk to God, we did find this handy book. More than 100 Southern Baptist leaders gathered today at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington to talk about their denomination's sharpening opposition to speaking in tongues--specifically, wh ... More >>
Conclusive evidence that man and dinosaurs coexisted. If little else happens in a Christian's life, he should develop a certain measure of humility. That, after all, is the character of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of his rights and privileges as God's only son to die for sorry folks like you ... More >>
C'mon. You just knew if there was a book called Can Homosexuality Be Healed? that sooner or later Bible Girl would get around to it. The response to last week's Bible Girl has left me feeling warm and fuzzy all over, so I thought I'd excerpt from my interview with Francis MacNutt, a Charismatic Cat ... More >>
Leave it to Jack E. Jett, a Dallas comedian and cable TV talk-show host who has a love/hate relationship with Bible Girl (the love part: he keeps reading it), to cut right to the heart of the matter. "Just to get things clear," he wrote last week in the wake of the Ted Haggard scandal, "do you belie ... More >>
The election results are a big smack upside the head to American evangelicals--a firm rebuke. Don't explain them away or blame them on gays, the media and godless liberals. Yes, Ted Haggard had something to do with it. Maybe a lot to do with it. Most of all, he exposed our disgusting arrogance. And ... More >>
Levi is a young preacher in the "army of God" depicted in the film Jesus Camp. Oh, I was ready for a fierce reaction to Jesus Camp. Something really extreme--like wanting to cast a demon out of my 27-inch TV. Or declaring that Oprah is the Antichrist. I'd seen the trailer for this new and controvers ... More >>
Till today, most of us heathens thought speaking in tongues was either a Talking Heads album or something Robert Tilton pretended to do. That's why we have Bible Girl on hand, burnin' down the house. A strange noise was coming from somewhere behind me. "Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee..." I looked ... More >>
During Terry Hornbuckle's trial, no one ever disputed his womanizing. His attorney just said he didn't need to drug women in order to bed them. That is not an answer to the question: WWJD? Not at all. When I moved to Dallas in 1990, it took me a while to get a clue about Bible Belt religion. First, ... More >>
He brought down Robert Tilton, W.V. Grant and Larry Lea, three of Dallas' high-flying televangelists in the early 1990s. And when he wasn't diving in dumpsters to pick through preachers' trash, he was entertaining journalists from around the world at "The Block," Trinity Foundation's collection of h ... More >>
Looks like Doyle Davidson read about himself in the Dallas Observer, according to the latest of his "Messages to Lisa," which was posted yesterday. You might also note that he confuses God and himself in his quotation of Scripture--something that happens fairly frequently in his messages, at least i ... More >>
One of the Friends of Unfair Park has this to say about Doyle Davidson's bizarre theology and some stuff I've written in the past about Pentecostals: Funny, this is the opposite side of the Charismatic movement that you wrote about in one of your earlier blog entries. While I thought that it was a ... More >>
This Saturday Lone Star Park's all-time top trainer Steve Asmussen will run two horses in the Kentucky Derby—Private Vow and Storm Treasure—and hope to erase a pretty dreadful record in classic competition. Asmussen, who's based in Texas, topped the U.S. trainer standings last year in wi ... More >>
Lone Star Park opened its 10th season of racing last night, but judging by the horse racing coverage in The Dallas Morning News, a rat peed on cotton somewhere in Grand Prairie. Ten years, folks—at a time when horse racing is struggling to survive as a spectator sport in various parts of the c ... More >>
During the Ring of Honor induction for the Triplets last fall, I asked Michael Irvin about Terrell Owens and the controversy of the moment—T.O.'s stream of negative comments about Eagles QB and multiple Pro Bowler Donovan McNabb. Irvin, of course, is buddies with T.O., who infamously agreed wi ... More >>
"Big Tex is a problem. He's our Mickey Mouse." And with those words, Nancy Wiley, a consultant to the State Fair of Texas, kindly requested that we remove Big Tex's dorky visage from Unfair Park. Turns out Big Tex is a registered trademark--"both his name and his image," Wiley said. "You can't have ... More >>
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