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There are 3 Asherah...Mary Mother of Lord, Mary mistress/female disciple Mary MAgadeline, and a last mystery wife who be a consort to the Lord in the return of Lord in last days and in the New Jerusalem with a NEw Heaven New Earth. I read ancient writings of the Asherah wives mystery....
Published April 10, 2014
Did Jesus have a wife? A controversial papyrus scrap making that suggestion dates to the eighth century A.D., assert a series of just-released scientific reports, which may point to earlier Christian beliefs.
Announced at a 2012 conference in Rome by the Harvard Divinity School's Karen King, the "Gospel of Jesus's Wife"—a scrap of papyrus with Coptic writing—contained some intriguing lines. (Related: "Jesus May Have Had a Wife, Ancient Text Suggests.")
The words "Jesus said to them, My wife . . . she is able to be my disciple . . ." are written on the center of the fragment. Initially dated by King to the fourth century, the message from the past resonated with ongoing debates about the role of women in Christianity, as well as echoing themes from Dan Brown's popular thriller, The Da Vinci Code.
The claim also attracted skepticism from religious scholars, who saw the fragment as a likely forgery. But in the series of reports released by the Harvard Theological Review, various experts report analyses of the chemistry and ancient handwriting of the fragment. They conclude that the fragment's ink is consistent with ancient inks and that its papyrus fibers date from the seventh to eighth centuries. King suggests it is a copy of an earlier text.
"All of the evidence points to it being ancient," King said in a telephone briefing. "As historians, the question then becomes, what does it mean?"
Clever Forgery?
The new results say nothing about whether the historical Jesus indeed had a wife, King notes. But similarities to other papyrus gospel texts from the centuries after Christ point to the long-running debate on the role of women in churches.
And the results do not conclusively prove the papyrus isn't a very clever forgery, caution the scientists. Instead, they remove previously raised objections to the text, finding no evidence of it being a fake.
Yet there is still skepticism. One report in the journal, by epigrapher Leo Depuydt of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, claims grammatical errors dog the text and concludes, "The author of this analysis has not the slightest doubt that the document is a forgery, and not a very good one at that."
Overall, he suggests that the papyrus was forged from a copy of the ancient Gospel of Thomas text, discovered less than a century ago in Egypt.
King refutes those criticisms in a response in the journal, arguing that the grammar errors are misinterpretations by Depuydt. She also argues that writings similar to the Gospel of Thomas were then prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean, so words from that gospel would not necessarily be a sign of forgery.
Ancient Papyrus
Troves of ancient papyrus documents have long emerged from sites in Egypt, seen as the likely source of the fragment, which is only 3.2 inches wide by 1.6 inches tall (8 by 4 centimeters). But its origin and author are a mystery, as it is owned by an unnamed private collector, with bills of sale going back only to 1999, according to King.
King says the owner may donate the fragment to Harvard, possibly for later display.
In the journal reports, a chemistry team led by MIT's Joseph Azzarelli concluded that the age of the papyrus scrap matches that of a verified Gospel of John papyrus from antiquity. The team relied on microspectroscopy of the papyrus, which found the fragment only slightly less oxidized—aged by exposure to air—than the verified gospel.
Likewise, Columbia University's James Yardley and Alexis Hagadorn looked at the pigments in the ink on the fragment. They found it similar to "lamp black" ink used on other ancient texts.
Crucially, the scientists find no evidence of the ink being applied to the papyrus in recent times, which would have led to it pooling in damaged sections of the fragment. They also did not find any signs that the word for "wife" in the text was changed from "woman" by a later writer, as some skeptics suggested (King points this out in an online commentary).
Carbon dating puts the age of the fragment at between 659 and 869.
The debate over the grammar of the Coptic text partly reflects the writing style of the author of the papyrus, who perhaps was not a professional scribe but an untutored member of the lower classes, suggests Malcolm Choat, an ancient writing expert at Australia's Macquarie University.
Choat compares the writing to brush-drawn "magical" texts of the era, ones that often featured invocations asking for blessings or curses.
"I have not found a 'smoking gun' that indicates beyond doubt that the text was not written in antiquity, but nor can such an examination prove that it is genuine," Choat writes. But he says it's certainly not a simple forgery, as critics have suggested.
Women in Church
Women were among the strongest early supporters of Christianity when it was gaining converts in an often hostile Roman Empire. Christian writers were initially silent on the marital status of Jesus, King says, with claims that he was unmarried starting only in the late second century.
If the papyrus fragment reflects religious writing copied from earlier texts, perhaps ones in the fourth century, it would speak to early Christian concerns about the role of the family in the early Church, which famously called upon its adherents to put aside family and civic loyalties, she suggests.
"This is not evidence that Jesus was married. We don't know," King emphasized. "But early Christians were extremely interested in questions about whether they should be married or be celibate."
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What is a wife? Is a wife a female who has the strongest connection in min, body and spirit to a man? A woman who believes, trust, respect, understands and is willing to sacrifice self for this man? When a sexual connection can not be kept, does the other feelings no longer exist or count? Is she no longer a wife? Perhaps, Jesus knew and experienced all of the devotion Mary had for Him. Mary was His best female friend and above all the other females who followed Him. Therefore, He called her His wife. These are just my thoughts. Not wrong or not correct Just my theory, just my thoughts..
very interesting
Was Jesus married? Why not!
Kind of wonder what Adam first said to Eve...You did what !?
Jesus needed Mary's Wisdom to support G-d's Plan to save man and woman. Thank G-d neither a patriarchal system or Satan, can keep a woman of G-d down. And thank G-d for Israel, a Light unto the world: if only they would repent and return to G-d, on the path He has provided by the sacrifice of a perfect Hebrew, His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, as so many of their Prophets called to the people of Israel to do. Amen.
Whatever the text says and whoever he author of the original may be: it is meaningless, trivial, for today's life. Old wisdoms are based on limited insights and knowledge. We live in a different world today, and have enough challenges to make our cultures survive. No need to worry about the old. We need concentrate on the simple truths and do not need distractions from the tasks on hand. Let us live by the golden rule, let us replace superstition with knowledge and love.
Religion may preach all that but much hate and intolerance is practiced instead.
Many men say don't get married. Generally the married whom advise it.
Have they figured out what it says?
Jesus took a Nazarene Vow like most spiritual men of his day,,which requires abstinence from money, sex, liquor, meat, and requiring keeping long hair and beard for energy purposes however after taking the Nazarene vow you had the option of three years yes and three years no in case you wanted to have a wife and family.
What difference does it make if Jesus is married or had multiple wives. What is important is his teachings, sacrifice and walking the talk. Imagine the times - comforting lepers, prostitutes and the importance of forgiveness.
He could have escaped crucifixion isn't it ?
What about his parents suffering from the time Mother Mary conceived him and culminating in the agony witnessing her Child's crucifixion.
Why this family had to undergo such suffering and torture yet their humble life transcends time and space guiding a section of world population with spiritual strength and comfort.
Even in this modern age of Face book and twitter if people draw a cross and kneel in front of their images sums up the family's true significance and relevance.
It is impossible, Jesus could not have been married. It says that no where in the Bible and He was not supposed to get married. He was supposed to be pure and holy.
it is impossible jesus was a one man saint
The celibacy thing comes from Paul. but back in the day, and even today, it would be most unusual, if not unacceptable if a Rabbi were not married.
Authenticity of some books in the bible is still debated over, just because its ancient doesn't mean its authentic.
The amount of biblical illiteracy inherent both on the internet and in popular belief seriously undermines the credibility of such controversial claims made by those who have neither fully read the scriptures, nor actually investigated them, nor held them to the tests of historical analysis. More than 24,000 ancient New Testament manuscripts survive, of which 5,686 extant were written in the original Greek, the earliest copy being made only 25 years after the original. No other ancient text comes anywhere near that amount of documentation and textual preservation. Homer, with the second highest amount of extant, and earliest, manuscripts, clocks in at 643 manuscripts, the earliest of being written 500 years after his lifetime. Considering that few of the ancient Roman historians approach anywhere near the kind of documentation, it seems reasonable that we should seriously consider the reliability of the New Testament
And as for the earliness of the New Testament, current biblical scholarship concludes, in the words of preeminent biblical archaeologist William Albright, "every book of the New Testament was written by a baptized Jew between the forties and the eighties of the first century AD (very probably sometime between about AD 50 and 75)." Again, in the words of Dr. Peter Stuhlmacher of Tübingen, "as a Western Scripture scholar, I am inclined to doubt these [gospel] stories but as a historian I am obliged to take them as reliable." Such is the view of accredited biblical scholars from across the spectrum of belief, that the New Testament is both early and reliable (some scholars even place the synoptic gospels to within 5 years after Jesus' reported Resurrection). Considering that the Resurrection event was supposed to have happened around 33 AD, these are remarkably early dates, unparalleled in the ancient world, and much too early for the formation of legends; there were simply too many eyewitness alive who could have squashed any attempt at fabrication (indeed, the Apostle Paul encourages his readers to verify his teaching
with those who had actually seen Jesus and heard him preach, "most of
whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep [died]. 1 Corinthians 15:6), such as the Jews and Romans, who had political and religious motives (and the means, if they could present Jesus' body) to squash such Resurrection theology. It pains me to see so many people believing spoon-fed legends about the supposed unreliable nature of the New Testament when, in view of the actual evidence, the New Testament is the most impeccably attested set of documents in the entire ancient world. Indeed, in light of ancient bibliography, it is not separated from other texts by a small margin, but by orders of magnitude. Gratuitous orders of magnitude.
Now, on to the subject of later "gospels" and controversial papyri such as this seventh-to-eighth-century suggestion of Jesus' marriage. If we applied the same scrutiny and criticism to these later writings to which we have subjected the Bible for the last few centuries (which not only did not debunk, but indeed gave even more credence to its reliability -- regardless of personal belief), the case for these later creations would crumble under the burden of evidence. I think it is both intensely hypocritical and embarrassingly unscientific to apply a different standard of investigation to the Bible, and an almost infantile acceptance of legends and fables written centuries after-the-fact. So, why ought we to reject the claims of the New Testament (despite the support of textual and historical evidence), and at the same time freely accept the later "gospels" and legends (once again, despite the textual and historical evidence against these writings) as if the simple plurality of contrary copies and counterfeits undermines the reliability of the original? Why does the popular view seem to invariably accept the fanciful, non-accredited writers of the following centuries, rather than the early, multiple, independent eyewitnesses collected in the New Testament? I think it is simply a cultural skepticism spoon-fed to us by popular custom and group-think. But this popular view can be considered in no way reasonable or unbiased. Indeed, it seems to be intensely biased, as bias is the only explanation I can think of for such willful suppression or ignorance of evidence.
So, to whomever had the patience to read such a long post in the age of 140-characters-or-less, I implore you, for your own sake and the sake of truth, to investigate these claims in the light of evidence, reason, and truth. Some good authors on this subject are N.T. Wright, Josh McDowell, Gary Habermas, Norman Geisler, and William Lane Craig, to name a few. "Evidence for the Historical Jesus" is an excellent resource for textual investigation, not only of the Bible itself, but extra-biblical references and textual preservation of testimonies as well. But please, for the sake of simple common sense and reason, do not be swayed by the faulty philosophy of Indifferentism, nor be mistaken that these things do not matter. Indeed, the claims of Jesus, if true, are of eternal significance; and if false, are absolutely meaningless. If true, then life has purpose, meaning, and an ultimate goal; if false, then the meaninglessness of existence proposed by Nietzsche and Sarte and other antitheistic philosophers must necessarily be true. The one is hope, life, and meaning; the other, the cold death of eternal insignificance. I am convinced that an honest, unreserved investigation of the veracity of Jesus' claims leads the investigator to accept him to be who he claimed to be. But, whether or not we agree on the truth of his claims, let us not pretend that there is no evidence, nor that the evidence is inconclusive at best. To do so is both intellectually dishonest and historically ignorant; and neither trait can be considered reasonable, rational, or even realistic.
And don't you think that after Jesus was cruxified, his wife and his family may have also been in danger being so closely connected to Jesus? Since we don't really know that much about them? Isn't that strange?
It would make sense if Jesus had a wife. Being Jewish, especially then, it would be very odd for a man to be unmarried at his age.
Christianity, as well as other religions, are made up by humans like you and me because the convenience of authority, a reference to judge conflicts, and hope for eternal salvation. The pattern is visible in most cultures around the world, man's explanation for early life on this little blue planet, which seems insignificant compared to the endless space, but the egocentric population believed everything was designed with us in mind. All these evidence-less explanations for our world may arguably have been useful at one point, but now we should discard them along with thousands of other faiths. It is a hindrance in our quest for truth, which is probably sad, but we have to grow up someday (:
If He did have a wife would that mean He is not the Son of God or make the New Testament untrue in some way? As a Christian believer, I think people tend to get sidetracked on things that are very interesting and should be studied--but as it relates to a life of faith and the divinity of Jesus, just don't really matter. But to people who don't know Jesus, the "controversy" can be just another unsubstantiated reason to disregard God/Jesus or the Bible without even trying to know them, when it doesn't mean that at all. So it's kind of sad to me in that aspect.
Actually the more naturally question is not " did Jesus have a wife" but "did Jesus died bachelor".
Isn't it possible Jesus was talking in a parable? In the Bible He is referenced to as the bridegroom and the church as the bride of Christ. In Revelation it speaks of the bride/the Lamb's wife.
Why couldn't Jesus have had a wife? Well I think he did have a wife and it wasn't the church either because that came later. Much has been covered up because of how women were treated at that time. Men thought they were superior to women and that women had no place in politics or religion. Even Jesus' disciples thought this way. So why is it such a surprise that everything remotely suggests Jesus was married is disregarded as false? Open your minds. Everthing you thought was true about the New Testament may not be actual fact either. Do some research!
Constantine's mother, Helena, converted to Christianity after being repudiated by her husband and Constantine's father, Roman Emperor Constantius I. According to tradition, Helena was a devoted Christian, who even carried out a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Constantine had a very close relationship with his mother; not only did he restore her imperial dignity after becoming emperor, but when she died, he renamed her native town "Helenopolis" ( The city of Helena) in her honor. Thus, some have argued that he adopted Christianity because of his mother's influence. However, although Constantine was exposed to Christianity by his mother for a long period of time, he was more than 42 years old when he was baptized.
@Evelyn Gil There is no evidence he took a Nazarite (non Nazarene) vow, or that the Nazarite vow forbade money, sex, or meat. (See Samson) The vow did forbid cutting the hair, touching dead bodies and drinking grape juice in any form. Jesus is recorded on several occasions drinking wine and/or grape juice, and eating fish. Also, the Nazarite vow had nothing to do with energy, but was a form of sanctification and holiness. Jesus was a Nazarene because he came from the town of Nazareth, not because of any Nazarite vow.
@Goan Journey Very well said. Couldn't agree more.
The actions of Jesus is what is important.
Live as he lived. Be good, be happy, love yourself and others.
It's as simple as that.
@Abraham Mani You are correct in that nowhere in the Bible does it mention Jesus being married. However, marriage does not defile a man either. I know a lot of married men who live pure and holy lives (don't forget St.Peter.)
Thank you, everyone, for your respectful and insightful replies. However, due to the sheer volume of response, and the inevitably endless exchange that tends to occur over internet, I respectfully encourage you to investigate the evidence for yourselves, and keep searching for the truth. Thank you for your time.
-- Michael
Very long essay. Did you do research?
@Michael Frack
Unfortunately, as much as you may like to believe that your "string of logic" is logical, your premises are mostly false and assumed.
Let's start first with the fact that the Bible was written AFTER Jesus' presumed death. How long after does not matter, but already numbers 11 and 12 in your list of "logical deductions" is false. Jesus never read the Bible, nor would Jesus have ever preached a text that was not in existence during his ministry..or lifetime on Earth. Jesus was not reading Matthew 5 to anyone, nor professing that Matthew 5 was the word of God.
If God exists, miracles are possible. We can accept that premise, however your presumption is not that miracles are possible, but that miracles are fact and are things that happen.
It may be possible for me to have one million dollars, but that possibility does not, in turn, validate the claim that I have one million dollars.
This is not a logical statement, it is a presumption that is reached on empty premises.
Your if/then statement of Jesus or nihilistic meaninglessness is so far beyond the realm of an illiterate view of existence that I don't know I can even address it fully.
My actual reason to responding to this article was to say that we have already skipped an incredibly important step in the process of Jesus to present day...The Catholic church.
I would implore anyone on here to study the history of the Catholic church. I have found that the foundations of today's Christianity is not at all within the confines of "the word of Jesus" nor "the word of the believers of the time". A majority of beliefs, creeds, and rituals in the church today were subject to popular vote amongst the hierarchy of the church leaders who happened to be alive and present at the given council. These councils have been held since the 4th century C.E.
Now you may be saying, 'I'm not Catholic'...it doesn't matter. Until the schism of 1054 C.E., the dominant Christianity was Catholicism. You had Gnostism and other branches that held their own beliefs, but the Orthodox church and the Protestant church were direct descendents of the Catholic church and a church breeding of nearly 700 years.
So now, the fundamental question. If (or when) Jesus makes the triumphant comeback to Earth, would he be a Catholic? Would he be a Lutheran? Would he be Orthodox? Would he associate fully with any church of today? After my own research, the answer I came to was "no"..it still is "no". So the next question is, if Jesus wouldn't be Catholic, then why would you be? If you're "following the word of Christ," then how can you accept something that you don't think he would accept?
I don't find this post conceited. I find it humbly informative and educated. Why are we so emotionally charged when science meets religion? The answer to ur question @Michael Frack..... why is it scrutinize unlike the rest of the bible? Politics, it was not handed down and forced on a people for ages by hypocritical Kings.
Paul wasn't a Jew and wrote half the Bible.
@Michael Frack So "the claims of Jesus, if true, are of eternal significance; and if false, are absolutely meaningless. If true, then life has purpose, meaning, and an ultimate goal; if false, then the meaninglessness of existence proposed by Nietzsche and Sarte and other antitheistic philosophers must necessarily be true. The one is hope, life, and meaning; the other, the cold death of eternal insignificance."
If this is what you believe then how can we trust that your bias. Also, to assume non-belief in the stories of the Bible mean life loses meaning an significance is very, very wrong.
The Bible says nothing about his wife
He was supposed to be holy
@Thomas Banbury You are absolutely correct. It would have been quite unthinkable, for a rebbe especially, to remain unmarried. Furthermore, if you want to get truly inclusive about Yeshua and (ay-yi-yi) sex and of course, marriage, do admit that as a divine emanation incarnate, and one who manifestly addressed and embraced all of humanities facets (as well as foibles),Yeshua would have had to extend that emanation to include and embrace (sorry for the unintentional pun) sexual, male-female, fleshly and passionate Love.
Jews of his day -- while not condoning licentiousness at all and certainly having taboos -- did not suffer the repressive sexual restrictions inflicted upon humanity by the later, warped, and politically-motivated, misogynistic Christian Church. Sexual relations between a man and wife were, and are still among Orthodox Jews, encouraged on the Sabbath in particular, so that God can reunite with his Shekinah, without Whom he is lost.
These same sorry gender issues are still imbedded in Western Civilization to this day; that is one reason why it is so terribly painful for some men to come to terms with a married Yeshua. Scholarship, schmolarship, I say.
@Mike Brown And what alternative does you "truth" reveal to you for the existence of this world and all that is in it, including mankind? What evidence do you provide for your alternative. I would say it is more egocentric to believe mankind does not need God.
@Cherree Wellman Cherree you are so right! We tend to focus on the minors and ignore the majors. Like one preacher said "The Main Thing is to keep the Main Thing the Main Thing." Even the scripture talks about "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do." 1 Timothy 1:4
@Pamela Schaming Pamela, you misunderstand the place of men and women in scripture. It is true that many cultures, including Middle Eastern, are patriarchal. However, God gives clear direction of how women, wives, etc are to be treated. Men are to love and cherish their wives, other women are to be treated as sisters, widows are to be provided for, etc. Even in the Old Testament there are many examples of women being praised and exalted. Deborah was even a judge over Israel. Some of Jesus' closest disciples were women. Men and women are equal but different.
@Pamela Schaming Yes, yes, yes. You are 100% on track. If you read the Gospel of Mary (the Magdalene), you will find an extremely moving exchange between Peter, his brother, and Mary -- Peter says (in effect), "Why should we listen to a woman? Why would the Teacher (Yeshua) tell her things he didn't tell us?" Whereupon Mary begins to cry, and answers, "Peter, do you think I would lie? Do you think I made these things up? Let me tell you these words of the Teacher's, so you too can understand..."
Quite a remarkable read. But what can I say; all those scholarly guys out there who discredit those passages; discredit Mary the Magdalene and her relation to Yeshua; discredit the credibility of the Gnostic Gospels themselves. So read Charlene Spretnak, and some of the more reasonable, open-minded, scholars out there. Marvin Meyer, for example.
@Don Ritchie Actually, Paul like the rest of the Apostles was not only Jewish, but was one of the most learned of the Jewish leaders of the sect of the Pharisees. (Acts 26:4-5)
@John McLean @Michael Frack First, the presence of bias is no indication of truth. Of course I am biased; it was my very bias that inclined me to search for the truth in the first place. That said, if the position from which I speak is true, it stands alone, apart from my bias, as true; and if false, it is false, regardless of my bias. The belief that bias is an indication of falsehood cannot be true, since it is a bias against those with bias, and therefore false on its own terms.
And I have come to the conclusion that anything apart from Jesus is absolutely (not simply relatively) meaningless in the long-run, cold, lifeless, and utterly insignificant, through the writings of Nietzsche, Camus, and other anti-theistic thinkers who realized the absolute meaninglessness of life without God; as well as through the writings of Ravi Zacharias, William Lane Craig, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and other theistic writers who gave me reasons to believe that Jesus is who he said he is. To give all my reasons for this belief would take a lifetime, as it is an ongoing process of seeking after that which is true, not that which is comfortable. But, long story short, I saw that, as Norman Geisler lays out:
1) Truth About Reality is Knowable
2) The Opposite of True is False
3) It is True that a Theistic God Exists (we know this from arguments such as the Cosmological Argument, Moral Argument, etc. that theists such as William Lane Craig have successfully defended in academic situations, debates, and are reasonably sound. I encourage you to read William Lane Craig's work or watch his videos, as well as Ravi Zacharias and Lee Strobel)
4) If God exists then Miracle are Possible
5) Miracles can Confirm a Message from God (since an omnipotent God is able to interact with matter He created)
6) The New Testament is Historically Reliable
7) The New Testament says Jesus Claimed to be God
8) Jesus' Claim to be God was Miraculously Confirmed
9) Jesus is God
10) Whatever Jesus Teaches is True
11) Jesus Taught that the Bible is the Word of God
12) It is True that the Bible is the Word of God
@Judith Mitchell @Thomas Banbury Actually, that is not true. many of the great prophets and teachers in the Bible never married. It stands to reason that had Jesus been married there would have been some reference to it in the scriptures. The absence of a wife at the crucifixion is also telling as the other disciples and his mother are clearly mentioned.
Who knows? As Socrates talked about awareness of one's own ignorance, it is the same in this situation. I don't claim to know anything, I'm just saying you don't either.
@Daniel Petersen @Michael Frack@John McLean I would argue that a lack of absolute morals is responsible for the astounding amount of atrocities throughout history. When morals become relative then a person can justify themselves in pretty much anything. It is more conceited and arrogant to think that man who has limited intellect and wisdom is the arbiter of right and wrong. Even the Bible says everyman is right in his own eyes.
Christianity is only true religion. I take it quite offensive that you said it is " laughably false".
@Michael Frack @John McLean, et.cetera, et al. -- Great Goddess; did you left-brainers ever learn about PARAGRAPHS???
@Michael Frack @John McLean A religion of absolute morals is responsible for an astounding amount of atrocities throughout history. Your conceited view of the world through your religion is exactly the sentiment that allowed and contributed to these atrocities. It is a curse of arrogance of ignorance compounded by the arrogance of power.
@John McLean @Michael Frack(continued)
So, from that position that God exists, that Christianity is the best explanation given the evidence, and is the only one that contains both those things we hold meaningful, as well as reason itself, then if Christianity is false, any hope of eternal significance is absolutely shattered. I say this because Christianity provides the only logically consistent and existentially coherent answer to the question of meaning --- one does not have to sacrifice one's value, love, or joy to believe in Christ, nor does one have to destroy one's intellect in order to adhere to Christ (on the contrary, both Head and Heart experience redemption and restoration). But the Bible is the only worldview that can consistently (meaning, without contradiction) command intellectual honesty, personal desire for truth,and meaning, virtue, morality, love, and all the other things we desire at their core. All other belief systems must either deny a number of these, or else borrow these and rename them in order to fill up either an intellectual or existential lack that is simply a logical outworking of the worldview. I mean, adherents to other worldviews must either believe in these things in spite of their worldview, or flatly deny them because of their worldview; both of which fly in the face of reason, and what we know to be true. Thus, since Christianity is the only worldview with a logical conclusion that fits the facts, I believe it; and if it is false, then the greatest hope for mankind is utterly false; and any hope of meaning, virtue, morality, and all good things that can only stem from the character of a perfect, personal, loving, omnipotent, and omniscient being (God) would be without meaning. As Paul writes, "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) And if the only reasonable hope for mankind is shattered, what hope can there possibly be, except for a petty existence of pragmatism and survival of the fittest, of meaninglessness and despair? Disagree with me if you like, I will neither disrespect you nor malign you. But if you would really learn the full reasons why I write this, research the evidence yourself, and do not yield to comfortable falsehoods. For in the end, if something is not true, no matter how comfortable or good-feeling it is, it cannot last, and cannot bring lasting meaning. And, as I wrote earlier, an honest investigation of the evidence points to Jesus' being who he said he is. I hope that covers enough.
@John McLean @Michael Frack(continued)
It is a cumulative case, from all the works that I have read/seen/heard, but basically, Christianity is the only religion (biblical Christianity, I mean; Gnosticism and the Manichees, and other unorthodox mystery religions don't really count) that gives a logically consistent, empirically verifiable, and existentially coherent worldview. If you don't agree, then research it yourself. But this is from whence my bias springs, and it is also from whence I say that apart from Jesus, there is no hope of lasting significance. Sure, we may experience some sort of contentment and happiness in the short-run; many people have had spiritual or religious experiences aside from Jesus; and we may even achieve some level of happiness or meaning in life, all on a different worldview from the Christian worldview. But Christianity is the only worldview in which its own ultimate conclusion logically and necessarily leads to value and meaning. All other worldviews must either stop short of annihilation through intellectual dishonesty, or else borrow from the biblical framework, in order to preserve some sense of meaning. For example, naturalistic materialism, if carried out to its final, logical conclusion, ends in ultimate meaninglessness and despair, leading to French Existentialism, which must borrow meaning from the Judeo-Christian idea of the uniqueness of the individual. Of course there are more examples, but that is the shortest one I could think of. But only classic Christianity, or as C.S. Lewis calls it, "mere Christianity," if followed to its logical conclusion, not only is empirically verifiable, logically consistent, or existentially coherent, but it gets to the very source of any meaning in our lives. If we were created in the image of God, then the sanctity of human life necessarily follows, being based on a transcendent foundation; on the other hand, the logical outworking of naturalistic materialism, or any other atheistic philosophy, cannot allow for any sanctity of life at all, if we are intrinsically no different than bacteria or minerals or any other unconscious object, being simply a quantum ripple. Without a transcendent basis of morality, discovered not determined by Man, there is absolutely no reason to treat anyone decently, let alone lovingly, at all, except for selfish gain; but this is merely pragmatism, and can have no truth value whatsoever, as it does not deal with truth but only immediate, selfish gain. But if objective morality exists, then our worldview must take it into account. Atheism by necessity cannot. But this only leads to Theism, the general belief that God exists; and it is at this point that the arguments for the Bible and Christianity come into play. If you would like a full explanation, please read "Christian Apologetics" by Norman Geisler. It contains far too much information to be relayed over internet comment.
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Edgar Poe was born to itinerant actors in Boston in 1809. He was orphaned by age three and raised by foster parents, The Allen's of Richmond, Virginia. His life was short and full of troubles, but he is regarded as one of the great American writers.
At eighteen, Poe set off for Boston where he published his first volume of poems. He never finished college because he ran up so many gambling debts that his foster parents would not allow him to continue college. He later enlisted in the army for two years, but after that it is clear that he faced a life of struggle and poverty.
As a writer, he became nationally famous upon the publication of his poem The Raven in 1845. Poe is most famous for his short stories and his horror stories. He was the first writer to perfect the detective story.
He married Virgina Clemm in 1835 and continued to write. He became editor of the Southern Literary Messenger where he published many stories. He had trouble keeping jobs because he drank too much alcohol. Virginia's death in January 1847 was a heavy blow, but Poe continued to write and lecture. In 1849, two years after his wife's death, he was found unconscious on a Baltimore street and he died a few days later. In a brief obituary the Baltimore Clipper reported that Poe had died of "congestion of the brain." Most people think he died of alcoholism, because of his life-long battle with the disease, but there is also some evidence that he may have died of rabies.

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March 27, 2009
by Thomas O'Toole
A few days ago a wrote a blog post complaining about how somebody somewhere had decided to make the U.S. Department of Justice's brief in the Tenenbaum case a litmus test on whether President Obama had the right views on copyright policy. Their argument went like this: Draconian statutory damages for copyright infringement are an injustice. President Obama couldn't possibly be in favor of injustice, could he?
The SCOTUSBlog has news that a petition for certiorari was filed today in the case of IMS Health v. Ayotte. In proceedings below, the First Circuit, in a landmark privacy ruling, turned back prescription drug marketers' claim that they had a First Amendment right to distribute data that identified doctors' drug-prescribing patterns. New Hampshire law banned the distribution of this information, based on evidence that it was distorting physician drug-prescribing practices away from generic drugs and in favor of more expensive brand-name drugs. To the detriment of the state's health care budget.
March 25, 2009
Apparently there is a great problem out there with lawyers writing keywords in electronic discovery requests. According to one magistrate judge, lawyers in a construction liability case submitted vague keywords that produced nearly all of the opposing side's e-mail database, redundant keywords, and keywords that were ineffective at producing discoverable information. This kind of bad lawyering put the magistrate in the position of having to design the keyword search himself, something he was neither inclined nor equipped to do.
March 24, 2009
On most days you can learn a lot browsing the Internet. Yesterday probably wasn't one of those days. Consider the following evidence, which I turned up while trying to find out about the latest wrinkle in Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, No. 03-11661 (D. Mass.) -- the Department of Justice's just-filed amicus submission in that case.
March 19, 2009
The RSS feed hauled in this item from the National Journal, As Media Evolves, Hill Tries To Define It: Speaking at a Center for Democracy and Technology gala last week, Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., predicted that federal shield legislation he introduced in February would pass the House and Senate this session. The bill, H.R. 985, would protect reporters from being compelled to reveal confidential sources even under subpoena.
The Sixth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices Conference will take place on June 12, 2009, on the Stanford University campus. Right now, this is probably the best annual event going for learning about cyberlaw topics (in my uncompensated, unsolicited opinion).
The Fourth Circuit released its opinion this morning in Van Alstyne v. Electronic Scriptorium, No. 07-1892 (4th Cir. March 18, 2009). Nutshell: Plaintiffs who sue for violations of the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. 2707(a), must prove actual damages in order to qualify for the $1,000 per violation statutory damages provided by the act. Ouch!
When it comes to college sports, I always root for Michigan, I can't help it. I always pick them to win it all, even though the last time Michigan won anything was when Chris Webber was on the payroll in 1993. The fact that I am wrong, that I have been wrong for 18 years in a row, means less to me than the pleasure I get from picking Michigan to win it all.
March 17, 2009
More than ever before, Internet intermediaries are being asked to shoulder the responsibility of policing bad actors online. With copyright owners, it's "three strikes" proposals for ISPs and legal arguments that ISP compliance with the DMCA's notice-and-takedown provisions are not enough to escape secondary liability. Online publishers are busier than ever beating back attempts to find holes in CDA Section 230's immunity from claims arising from third-party content. And social networking sites, prodded by law enforcement officials, are undertaking new obligations to keep criminals from preying on their users.
A very interesting case involving online publisher immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act came out of Michigan earlier this month in the case of People v. Gourlay, No. 271214 (Mich. Ct. App. March 3, 2009)(unpublished). The CDA 230 issue arose in the context of a criminal prosecution for child pornography tucked inside an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. But even at that procedural distance the court's exploration of how CDA Section 230 might apply to hosting unlawful content is worth reading.
March 12, 2009
An odd case, The Scranton Times v. Wilkes-Barre Publishing, No. 08-2135 (M.D. Pa., March 6, 2009), held recently that obituaries published in a newspaper were not entitled to state-law protection under the "hot news" doctrine. The case involve one local newspaper that allegedly copied the entirety of death notices that were published, in print and online, in the plaintiff's newspaper.
March 11, 2009
CNET has a story about California legislator Joel Anderson's proposal to fine Google $250,000 daily for publishing street-view photos and images of important public facilities. Anderson's A.B. 255 would also punish non-corporate-behemoth violators with up to three years in prison.
March 5, 2009
Thomas Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Ill., filed a lawsuit this morning in federal court alleging that online classified site Craigslist is a public nuisance for facilitating prostitution. The sheriff wants an injunction, compensatory and punitive damages, and his attorneys' fees.
March 4, 2009
The Numerati author Stephen Baker has a fascinating article on Sense Network's location-monitoring technologies in the March 9 BusinessWeek. Aided by location-aware devices carried by many of us, Sense engineers can display people as color-coded dots moving across a city, in real time. They have a pretty good idea what those dots are doing, their employment status, and their age and income level.
Venkat Balasubramani has a post speculating on whether the U.S. Supreme Court will grant certiorari to review the Virginia Supreme Court's ruling that the state's unsolicited bulk e-mail law violates the First Amendment. He thinks the high court will take the case of Commonwealth v. Jaynes. Nobody can really know what the court will do. Just for fun, I'll argue that the court will not take the case.
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"Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity. Through his very bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material world. Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection and can raise their voice in praise freely given to the Creator. For this reason man may not despise his bodily life. Rather he is obliged to regard his body as good and to hold it in honor since God has created it and will raise it up on the last day."- GS, 14Then the Catechism says this about the body:
"The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the "form" of the body: i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body; spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature." - CCC, 365In other words, we are not just spirits and minds "trapped" in bodies, but are humans that are both body and spirit, united into one human being. Thus, to be human is to be both physical and spiritual. In fact, we can say that because the soul is the form of the body, we have either a male or female soul - which is defined by our bodies. Thus, to be transgendered, is not a physical or spiritual problem, it is a mental one.
These kinds of surgeries are not allowed by the natural law, thus the Catechism states:
"Except when performed for strictly therapeutic medical reason, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law." - CCC, 2297I should point out that these kind of surgeries never are able to fully change the sexuality of another person - even physically. A transgendered man who has this kind of surgery will never ovulate or bear children naturally nor will a transgendered woman ever be fertile with sperm. There are also problems with the vast amounts of hormones required, which have been known to cause a number of problems, including cancer and early deaths.
I would recommend that you tell this person to contact someone at The Institute for Psychological Sciences to see if they know a professional who can help. I would also recommend they seek out another priest who knows the Church's teachings in this area, because the priest this person talked to does not.
"Man and woman have been created, which is to say, willed by God: on the one hand, in perfect equality as human persons; on the other, in their respective beings as man and woman. "Being man" or "being woman" is a reality which is good and willed by God: man and woman possess an inalienable dignity which comes to them immediately from God their Creator." - CCC, 369


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Laurence King's Twelve Desks of Christmas
You can keep your five golden rings and arboreally ensconced partridge. We'll take eleven exotic writing utensils, ten action figures a-leaping, and a Sesame Street screen saver. All of these wonders and more await you in Laurence King's "Twelve Desks of Christmas." The London-based publisher behind covetable and creative titles such as Angus Hyland and Steven Bateman's Symbol and 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design by Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne engaged in a little office voyeurism this holiday season, posting photos of 12 mystery desks and inviting the world to guess whose was whose. Here are a few (recently de-identified) highlights, from our desk to yours:
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The Flea Market Style team comprises a talented group of stylists, entertaining and junk experts, bloggers, antiques appraisers, photographers, graphic designers and writers. And more than one of them thinks chocolate is worthy of inclusion on the Periodic Table of Elements. Here's our gang:
Ki Nassauer, Executive Editor
Junker, editor, author, retailer, entrepreneur and lover of comfy jeans and sneakers. In addition to bringing Flea Market Style, Flea Market Style Decorating and Flea Market Style Weddings to a national and international audience, she is the original founder of JunkMarket. Nassauer has served as an editor and columnist of Country Home magazine and co-authored "Decorating JunkMarket Style" and "Junk Beautiful, Room by Room Makeovers." Ki produces Junk Bonanza, a biannual event in MN, hosts the Junk Revolution online community, and runs FleaQuest, a comprehensive online directory for vintage sales and antiques shops. In addition to her television and public appearances, including several current video primers for America Now News, Nassauer has spread the junking gospel as a vintage consultant.
Find her at KiNassauer.com where you can get inspired, shop and connect with like-minded junkers.
Stacey Willey, Art Director
Stacey Willey is a freelance art director, graphic designer, web designer, and photo stylist who has worked with the Meredith Corporation on Better Homes and Gardens, Decorating, Real Life Decorating, Quick & Easy Decorating, Bargain Style, EAT and Country Home magazines. Prior to working for Meredith, she was a graphic and web designer for several Minneapolis-based advertising agencies, helping to re-brand and position clients such as Caribou Coffee, D'Amico & Sons, Campiello, and Leeann Chin. She also served as the lead advertising art director for Arizona Foothills magazine in Phoenix, Arizona, and brings a keen eye and intuitive vision to the magazine.
Find her at staceywilley.com.
Christine Hofmann-Bourque, Senior Editor/Writer
Writer Christine Hofmann-Bourque loves words almost as much as her caulk gun. While on staff at Country Home magazine, Christine collaborated with Ki to produce several features on the beautiful and the repurposed. She recently moved to Washington, D.C., where she happily lives in a charming Art Deco apartment building and has a new favorite running route that passes in front of the White House. Little known fact: Christine was Do it Yourself magazine's Star of the Week, for which she earned bragging rights and, perhaps more importantly, a plastic tiara.
Find her at christinebourque.com
Vanessa Britting, Editorial Assistant
New Jersey native Vanessa Britting headed west to Los Angeles in 2003 where she established herself with roles on The Young and the Restless, Desperate Housewives, Without a Trace and Numbers, among others. In addition to acting, she guest-stars at FMS publications in the recurring role as researcher and expert source on a variety of topics including trends and social media. Vanessa played an integral part in the production of the onetime publication of FMS Weddings, noting that her 2010 wedding at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, and "the five weddings I attended in one year helped, too!" Vanessa grew up scouring flea markets with her mom, and regularly visits the Rose Bowl and the Melrose Swap to source vintage containers for the succulent arrangements she creates. She likes to write music for guitar, and she and husband, David, "are obsessed with" their boxer-mix, Hannah, and cats Monroe and Roxy. Fun fact: Vanessa wasn't able to eat sugar at the time of her wedding and went to great effort to order a vegan cake, which she ultimately didn't get to taste. Her favorite flavor otherwise? Strawberry shortcake.
Find her at: @VanessaBritting
Margo Arrick, Contributor/Blogger
Margo Arrick is a junker who blogs (and a blogger who junks!) Margo's love of flea market finds started as a way for her to add character and charm to her Southern-style farmhouse, but quickly grew into a second career as a junk decor dealer, web publisher and online shop keeper. Her website highlights her designs and creations as well as those of the junking community at large. She splits her time between the family electronics business, her multifaceted junking business and web publishing ventures. Margo lives in East Texas with her husband of 31 years and several rescued greyhounds.
Find her at: robolady.blogspot.com
Kim Yeager, Contributing Editor/Social Media Editor
Kim Yeager explores her love of textiles, interiors and junking through work as a writer, decorator/stylist and furniture repurposer. Kim, a daily journalist for more than 30 years, is a contributing editor for Flea Market Style and Marketing/Communication Director for KiNassauer.com, which produces the twice-yearly Junk Bonanza. She writes and manages blogs for FMS and the Bonanza. Her loves and labors are aggregated as Lark Nest Design in Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband, daughter and geriatric rescue cat. She was voted by everyone who knows her as very likely to find something to do with whatever it was they just tossed on the curb.Find her at larknestdesign.com.
Tim Luke is an accredited antiques appraiser and the familiar star of HGTV's show Cash in the Attic. Luke ventures into hopeful homeowners' attics, garages and basements to discover valuable treasures they can sell to pay for home renovation projects. He was a participating appraiser on the Public Broadcasting Systems' "Antiques Roadshow" circuit, and carries a wealth of knowledge about flea marketing, auctions and other venues for vintage treasures. He co-owns the appraisal firm TreasureQuest with his partner, Greg Strahm. Find him at tqag.com
Cammie Metheny operates 106 Vintage Co., whose tagline is "Rescued and Re-homed." She maintains a vintage warehouse on one end of Broadway in Coleridge, Neb., and is renovating a pre-1900s building on the opposite end of the block. A lifelong junker and salvage addict, she spends at least part of every day searching out stock for the shop and for regular appearances at Midwestern vintage markets. Cammie designs and constructs art and display pieces from found objects, supplying interior designers and wholesaling to retail outlets. Her work can be found on Etsy; she blogs about her work and sales at Daffadowndilly's. Mother to four children who share her appetite for scrapping, Cammie works alongside her husband, David, whom she calls the original Junk Hunk.
Andrew Herrold, Contributing Photographer
An experienced music photographer, Andrew has found a soft spot for things rusty, tarnished, and dented that straddle the line between art and junk. The underlying tone in his images of interesting people, places and things speaks to his inner documentarian. Constantly looking for the new and exciting or the "old and rusted," Andrew never sits idle for long. Find him at: aherrold.com.
Adam Albright, Contributing Photographer
Adam lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with his wife and three boys. He shoots calm, meticulously styled interiors and food, as well as silly, chaotic children for Better Homes & Gardens, DIY, and other titles. When he is not taking pictures or answering his six-year-old's questions, he competes in triathlons, biking and running races. Find him at: adamalbrightphotography.com.
Jason Walsmith, Contributing Photographer
Jason is a Des Moines, Iowa- based photographer who has worked throughout the United States and many other countries. When not shooting pictures Jason travels as the co-lead singer of a rock and roll band called The Nadas or works on his 1956 Heidelberg Windmill in Handbill, his vintage letterpress printshop. Find him at: jasonwalsmith.com.
John Granen, Contributing Photographer
John clipped coupons from the Sunday newspaper while growing up, mailing away for travel brochures to feed his fascination for the photography of different cultures. He spent weekends in the mountains with his father's Argus C-3, shooting as much as he could afford. He upgraded in high school to an SLR, learning to process film and print black and white photographs to cut expenses. He studied photography in college and today, his career takes him wherever editors dare to send him. He specializes in food and interior shots, and says the best part of his career is meeting talented, creative people. John says the hallmark of a great shoot is when a homeowner says afterward, "I can't believe this is my home!" When not behind the lens, John cooks, gardens, remodels and spends time sea kayaking in his beloved Northwest, close to water, mountains and Canada. His favorite state (after Washington) is Alaska, closely followed by California. Find him at: http://johngranen.com.
Quentin Bacon, Contributing Photographer
Born to American parents in Australia, Quentin's fascination with the camera began at age 8 when he was given one, then "whisked away to travel the world for three months," according to his bio at quentinbacon.com. He got his first photo break through his mother, whom he calls Australia's version of Julia Child, and went on to photograph for Vogue, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Metropolitan Home, Country Home and New York magazine, among others. He describes his working style as patient, not fearing options, working for the best outcome, having fun and never losing his cool.
Kim Cornelison, Contributing Photographer
Kim is a regular contributor to numerous home and garden publications and shoots for numerous commercial clients. She studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and has more than 15 years of experience photographing a variety of subjects, specializing in home, garden, lifestyle and food. Kim and her husband, Alfie Ferreyra, work as a team. When not traveling on assignment, they live in Minneapolis. Find her at: http://kimcornelison.com
John Bessler, Contributing Photographer
John is a native New Yorker who now lives happily in rural New Jersey with his family. His education includes formal training in photography and philosophy as well as apprenticing many talented photographers and studying art and architecture while traveling abroad. He began his career in Home Photography shooting for the B. Altman Catalog in New York, and has since been published in magazines such as Veranda, House Beautiful and Traditional Home. He has done work with several designers, including Jamie Drake, Bunny Williams, Alessandra Branca and Victoria Hagan. His studio is in SoHo, where he has photographed art and artists including Rodin's Eve, and conceptual works by Janine Antoni. John has photographed books for Nate Berkus, Mary Engelbreit, Benjamin Moore, and "Edith Wharton: A House Full of Rooms." In addition to photographing interiors, John is equally at home shooting travel, food, artisan, craft, antiquing and other visually rich stories, while pursuing interests in music, food, wine and zestful living.
Tereasa is the Creative Director / Partner at advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather. Author of Hearst 'A Very Modest Cottage' and Random House 'Found Free & Flea'. Innkeeper of Camp Wandawega which was named 'Travel & Leisure's Greatest hotels in the world 2013'. Styles and writes for home and design magazines. On any given weekend, Tereasa can be found trekking through every flea-bitten flea market from the Midwest to Europe with her three year old daughter in tow. Visit tereasa.com to learn more, shop, and get a daily dose of inspiration.
Julia is a freelance photographer who lives in Los Angeles, CA. She is a lover of succulent gardens, rolling fog, window light, goofiness and leafy greens. She loves her boyfriend, Brian, and the hunt for mid century furniture, salvaged wood and industrial artifacts. She loves photographing the aftermath of a homemade meal, a simple everyday moment and people connecting with their natural environments. Her work can be found in 'Paper Magazine', 'Wilder Quarterly', 'Cherry Bombe', 'Choose Chicago' and look books for local designers and makers. Find out more about Julia and her work here.
Rolinda is a Dutch photographer based in Waddinxveen, The Netherlands, where she works on food, interior and portrait photography for magazines and brands. She loves to work with children and takes any chance she gets to work with them on her own or commercial projects. Rolinda is known for her "blonde" style which is the result of working with a lot of daylight. As a hobby she experiments with her collection of vintage camera's and Polaroids which have surprising and unexpected results. Find her at: rolindawindhorst.nl


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Californians approved Prop 39 in November 2012 closing a corporate tax loophole. Proceeds from Prop 39 - expected to be more than $2B over five years - will fund energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in California's public schools. Governor Brown and the State legislature hammered out an agreement - codified in Senate Bill 73 - on how to spend the funds. SB 73 implements Prop 39 and describes the Legislature's intent on how the money is to be allocated. Criteria for grants and low interest loans are now being developed by the California Energy Commission with input from the California Department of Education and the California Public Utilities Commision. Public hearings will also be held.
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Rosa Parks Elementary PV System Revolutionizes Rooftop Solar
Rosa Parks Elementary in Berkeley is the location of the first "ballasted" PV system in California approved by the Division of the State Architect. Installed by SunPower Corp. the PV system requires NO penetrations to secure the array to the roof. That means no roof leaks, easier removal, and further reduces the cost of solar arrays installed on California's public schools.
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Join us for a year of mindful wellness challenges to support healthy behaviors at work. You are invited to participate in the challenge and be eligible for prizes by completing a short survey at the beginning and end of the month. One employee will be featured in our "spotlight on wellness" column in the Catalyst (with their consent).
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A free monthly fitness class held at the Wellness Center on Courtney Street the third Wednesday of the month. Free day pass to the MUSC Wellness Center for all participants. Please see the membership desk when you arrive for sign-in and directions to the class.
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Monthly Worksite Screenings
MUSC employees and spouses can take advantage of monthly worksite screenings. These screenings include blood chemistry profile, lipid profile, hemogram, body mass index calculation (height and weight), and blood pressure. Certain optional tests are also available. Valued at about $350, this is available for only $15 for subscribers to the State Health Plan including the MUSC Health Plan. Non-subscribers and subscribers receiving the screening more than one time in a calendar year can participate for only $42. To register, click on the worksite screening appointments tab to the left of this page.
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Looking for a convenient way to have your mammogram? The Hollings Cancer Center Mobile Van will be conducting mammograms soon behind the Clyburn Research bldg. Call 792-0878 to schedule an appointment.
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MUSC is a tobacco-free campus. Click on the "Smoking Cessation" tab for information about programs tht can help you with your quitting efforts.
MUSC Farmer's Market
This event, sponsored by MUSC Employee Wellness, takes place every Friday in the Horseshoe
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It was just a matter of time before someone thought of another place to sell ads. The venue this time? ATM screens. After all, during those 10 to 15 seconds when customers are waiting for their transactions to be processed, you might as well get your message in front of them. Plus, people usually leave ATMs armed with more money than they arrived with--ideally, to spend on your product or service.
Pioneering the concept is Vaska Media Inc., an advertising firm in New York City that has already secured a deal with Apple Bank's 56 locations in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to sell ATM advertising and is working on recruiting larger banks.
"[This type of advertising] provides exclusivity that no other advertising medium can offer," says Vaska's president Steven J. Carino. "With television, you're going to see a commercial with 400 others; when you read a magazine, you see a lot of other ads. But when you're at the ATM, you see one ad and one ad only."
Exclusivity has its price, however: about $25,000 a month, in Vaska's case. But keep in mind that price includes about 370,000 impressions per month per bank network. Multiply that times 12, and you've got a year's worth of great exposure. Entrepreneurs who want to go whole hog can generate a coupon that is dispensed just above--and at the same time as--the customer's withdrawal. Talk about perfect timing.
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Connecting classrooms through ICT - projects, sharing, networking for teachers and students
Because it's NEW! School-to-school linking via technology. Free to set up, lots of support to do it, friendly teacher community of innovative linkers. Why do it? Meeting teachers worldwide (through funded planning visits with other schools), excitement (students really do enjoy it), learning outcomes (more effort made with shared projects), project-based (curriculum enrichment), funding for the school (£20M a year is available), accreditation, cutting edge (global classroom, flat classroom, 21st-century classrooms etc), leads to exciting overseas opportunities for students leaving school, VERY POPULAR.


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Saatchi & Saatchi's 'Miraculous Hen' Launches Andes Barley Wine
What could be more appropriate than a beer post on a Friday afternoon?
Saatchi and Saatchi Del Campo's new spot launching Andes Barley Wine features a most enviable bird: a hen who lays beer (specifically Andes Barley Wine) instead of eggs. Who wouldn't want to own one of those?
First, a little terminology for the uninitiated. Barley wine is a strong, top fermented ale originating from England in the 18th century. It typically has around 8-12% alcohol by volume. Translation: This shit is strong and will get you crunk if you drink it like you would a lager. The word "wine" is meant to indicate that the ale has similar alcohol content to a wine, not that it tastes like or resembles wine.
"Miraculous Hen" was shot in Uspallata, Mendoza and directed by Agustín Alberdi. The scenic location makes an excellent backdrop for the spot, a lighthearted and humorous 1:11 devoid of dialogue. When a man finds that his chicken lays beer instead of eggs he is, predictably, very happy. He hops on his motorcycle to show an understandably skeptical friend the miracle and chases off a dog who is after the bird. Soon he's sharing the beer with a group of friends, as there's plenty to go around. When the bird suddenly starts laying eggs again instead of beer, the man cooks up the hen with the fresh laid eggs. It's a simple spot that succeeds at being memorable without any dialogue whatsoever. I've never had barley wine before, but as someone partial to strong ales, this spot makes me want to try Andes Barley Wine. So, mission accomplished. Credits after the jump. Read more


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Darel DeCounter, 52, of White House, Tenn., died Friday, May 1, 2009.
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas over at New York City's Grand Central Terminal. Sharp helped deck the halls by sponsoring the Grand Central Terminal Kaleidoscope Light Show, which lit up the main concourse with a holiday-themed laser light show set to cheery Christmas tunes.
Sharp's biggest contribution? A 26-foot-tall, Christmas-tree-shaped stack of 43 LCDs of varying sizes (from 19 inches to 52) — and each TV is up for grabs. For every person who enters the giveaway to score a free Sharp Aquos TV, the electronics giant will donate $1 to the HOPE Program. Jump in there and start registering: Sharp will donate up to $100,000, which could really do well by HOPE, a program that helps folks get back on their feet and promotes environmentally-sustainable employment.
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HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA -- I spent $162 and some cents on a two month supply of Natural Medicine Associates total body cleanse product for both myself and my husband. They offer a 60 day, no questions asked refund of the "purchase" price.
Within the first month of taking the product I developed an allergy to it and started having trouble breathing. For one week I couldn't hold any food down. Ultimately, I ended up having an anxiety attack, with the fire dept. at my house and all.
I quit taking it, and two days later felt good as new. So naturally I boxed everything up and mailed it back. After almost 2 months they just credited my account last week, $44! When I called they told me they only received 2 items from the kit. B.S.!
I had to hunt down the tracking number from the post office. After that long things like that aren't easy to find. Then I called the place back with the number and gave specific detail as to what I mailed back.
Three days passed and I still hadn't heard from them. I called again, told them again, what I sent. Someone confirmed that's what their records showed too. So what? Does that mean they were trying to lie the first time so they wouldn't have to give all my money back? The person said I'd have the money, "the rest of the refund," credited to me two days ago. Never happened. I called again today. They credited me $70! That's still almost $50 short of the full purcase price. Not to mention it cost almost $10 to mail back AND it made me sick.
I asked politely. I know the kit I mailed back was missing an empty bag of tea and an empty bottle of parasite cleanse, but.....
When a customer asks a company to honor a guarantee, it should be honored in full. They were made aware that the product made me very ill and still chose not to compensate me in full. One would think, a company wouldn't want to piss off a customer because then they just might go and do this. Pretty bad business. I just wish $162 was worth taking a place to court over, but that's stupid.
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HaroldSays on 12/22/2006:
You might want to file a complaint with The Consumer Safety Commission, Call (800) 638-2772 as this product appears to be unsafe. Their fax number is (301) 504-0051. Also contact the Florida Attorney General Office- Broward County Consumer Affairs Division, 115 South Andrews Ave, A460, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Phone (954) 357-5332 and Fax 954-765-5309. That is, if this is the company located in Florida. If you have company information you can provide me I can get you more information that might help you get a refund as well. Let me know if I can be of further assistance to you. Harold Cameron, Chief of Helping People, email@example.com
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"I just wish $162 was worth taking a place to court over, but that's stupid." That is what they are counting on that you will not go to court. If you add the fire dep. bill and days lost to sickness then it ads up to a lot more. But that is your choice. I hope you will at least take Harold's advice and Thank you for passing this information on to us.
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Just to add to HaroldSays' reply: In the future do not purchase these type of 'body cleansing' products. They are, in fact, NOT healthy (can be very bad for you as you found out), and NOT something your body needs.
Linda Dietz on 03/02/2008:
I would like to speak to the customer who purchased our Internal Klenz. Our goal as a company is to serve our customers and make necessary exceptions to our very liberal return policy.I am sorry she had a negative experience and would love a chance to speak to her.
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I loved this product and I am ordering it again. It was fast and effective. I do believe we all need this type of product. If the use of this product makes you sick, it is a sign of your bodies' reaction to detoxification.
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The Frankfurt Motor Show is just around the corner, and with it a slew of new prototypes and vehicles for the green market. Like the cars shown on our Top 5 Greenest sports cars list, "green cars" are no longer the ugly boxy vehicles of the past, but rather sleek, stylish, beautifully designed cars that will finally make it desirable to buy green. Case in point: The Nissan Mixim. Still at prototype stage, the Mixim is expected to be the evolution of the Nissans supermini, the Micra. It will be small and short, as in 3.7 metres short, though according to Nissan, it'll give you the power that you want. As usual for concept vehicles, the Mixim has a wonderfully bizarre interior, with the driver sitting in the center of the vehicle and game-inspired controls to boot.
Powered by Nissan's brand new electric 'Super Motor' the completely electric vehicle uses a brand new type of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which were developed in conjunction with NEC, as part of their initiative to catch up with Toyota and Honda in their development of greener vehicles. Here's hoping that the lessons learned in the design of the Mixim get applied to an actual in production vehicle soon.
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