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Charles Moore's piece in the Daily Telegraph's gone viral. It's created a debate of over 4000 posts and has hundreds if not thousands of views on facebook when I found it.
And I have a response. See what Charles Moore has constructed is a straw man. In fact? It's so strawmanny I am surprised it doesn't wander off with a girl from Kansas, her little dog, a tin man and a cowardly lion in order to look for a brain.
Atheism is a sad business is a genuinely daft argument built on denigrating atheists.
The point of such arguments is simple. If we make atheists "the other" or as a monolith, then it is easy to simply character assassinate us. It is easy to portray us as all of the same thing and easy to make us look the same and think the same.
Sure we KNOW we are all different but imagine looking from the outside in. Imagine going to a secular conference and hearing 30 odd speakers of ex-Christianity and ex-Judaism and 1 ex-Muslim. Hell? Most of us would rather listen to anti-Islamic speakers who know precious little about Islam bar right wing talking points than the men and women who have left the faith. It's even worse for Hinduism.
I joked about how when atheists deal with Christianity we are Bible Scholars. When atheists deal with Islam we are Fox News anchors. It's the same with other faiths. We have a very homogenised core to atheism and that harms us when we need to portray a universal idea or a global front or indeed diversity.
And it enables such arguments.
You often meet them for the first time at secondary school. The typical teenage atheist is more likely a boy than a girl, stronger on science than the arts, and at the high-ish end of the academic spectrum. He tells you that he has studied the nature of matter, the universe etc, and can prove that God does not exist.
No. No one can disprove the existence of anything. We can just reasonably say that the existence of something is highly unlikely.
I cannot disprove the existence of T-Rexes in the Amazon but I can say the chance of one existing there is highly unlikely. A vanishingly small chance. The same thing with Vampires, Unicorns, Fairies and Gods.
The chances of something like a god existing are improbable. It would require incredible changes to the way the Universe works and indeed remarkable evidence. So far there is no evidence that any such being exists beyond the tired speculation and wishful thinking of people who also consider there to be a literal super powered creature whose sole job it is to tempt us into doing things that are bad. It's like using the entire power output of the Earth to burn a single ant. It is stupid as an idea. So we question the evidence.
And yes, most atheists are generally male. That's changing though. See, it may have to do with more men being in the sciences than women and the hand in hand nature of science and skepticism. Atheism is just skepticism applied to the belief in the supernatural. Specifically the gods of our fathers.
The character assassination here is simple and elegant. Atheists are Nerds. Well Mr. Moore. The problem here is that Nerds were once a hunted breed. We aren't anymore. Lest you forget? We are now awesome. Big Bang Theory made us hot. Our shows are now everywhere. Buffy? Battlestar Galactica? Supernatural? We are cool.
Not many people are going to be appalled by the fact you portray us as intelligent and scientifically minded. It isn't an insult mate. The world functions through science. Art's nice and indeed many of us are artists too. I cook. Like I "seriously cook", not "cook for food". I can play music. I shoot photos. They aren't super great (to be fair? I just started so don't have a massive portfolio to pick from). Hell photography is 1/3rd Art, 2/3rd Science and it doesn't somehow detract from the beauty of it all.
But I get it. It is in your interest to portray us as spotty hormonal teenage nerds belonging to a boys club. Girls clearly are too smart to be part of our little clique.
But it is also part of our problem. We don't represent women at our highest levels. To an outsider looking in we are effectively "Richard Dawkins" and his band of merry men. Nearly all white and from Jewish and Christian backgrounds. That's partly our fault and partly the general issue of atheism. The most vocal and organised atheists and secular groups are American and the majority of people in America come from Christian and Jewish backgrounds so are more likely to be represented. However the problem is not equal representation. Not even proportional. At this point minority groups are desperate for any real exposure and platforms.
The majority of vocal atheists come from Christian backgrounds. This doesn't mean ex-Muslim/Hindu/Jewish/Sikh atheists don't exist but that they are often quiet, hidden and simply not noticed. It doesn't help that we often misrepresent and apply a very ignorant view of their religions. The best example is Taqqiyah. A Muslim "rule" that allows you to break the rules of Islam under duress without a negative effect. In short? In order to save your life under threat or the lives of others you can break the laws of Islam provided there is no profit or benefit to you.
So to lie about your involvement with ISIS is a sin. But lying to save another life is not. Then again? Ex-Hindu. The lie doesn't matter so much as why you tell it. To save another life? Then to not lie is sinful and wicked. But we would not know this if not for the fact I was allowed a platform and people sent readers my way. That is the value of signal boosting. You get to see ideas that weren't mainstream. Some of them are good.
But it means listening once in a while. Something I fear Dawkins is poor at. He's been at the top for decades. He hasn't realise that there is a new sort of atheist out there who simply notices that no one's talking about their problems. Yes yes yes… we all know about the Hobby Lobby. But are you aware that the health minister of India thinks Sex Education is harmful rather than helpful to fighting HIV and thinks Indian Medicine is the key to fighting it? That's 1.2 billion people with their proper sex education and medicine under threat.
It is just that when we want to discuss this we don't see the drive to oppose a loss of rights in the USA gets compared to roughly 1 in 6 people who are alive. I get it. It's something important to you, but when we wish to discuss things important to us we are told that we are distracting from the issues. The entire USA is just 300 million people. A far cry from the billion in India. On what basis is that more important? Are the people more valuable? 4 times more valuable? At what point does the suffering of these people make their problem a valid one?
See that's the problem with a movement centred in the first world. We end up saying stupid things like the above requiring an answer demanding the calculation of suffering. I get it. You can't fight all the battles.
It would just be nice if some of the battles fought by mainstream atheism as a movement included things that weren't just American or British. Everyone needs that Conch to speak and if we just let one group of people speak all we get is their issues while the rest of us struggle to even be taken seriously as atheists.
When I corrected atheists about Taqqiyah the response was that I wasn't a real Atheist. I was a pretend one. Sad right?
Already, you are plunged into the thick of the problem, which is one of category. The teenage thinker treats the existence of God as a scientific matter, but it isn't. Science can certainly disprove some claims that believers make about their God – or, to be more exact, it can prove that these claims are incompatible with science – but it can have nothing to say about something that lies outside its realm.
I fear this is a cop out made by the religious to protect their gods from the blowtorch of science. It's like declaring yourself to not get shot while playing cops and robbers because you were the only one who thought about wearing the imaginary bullet proof vest.
The fact that science has found no evidence for a god or no rational reason as to why one exists is being held as a declaration of the power of said god. See? He doesn't want to be found. No matter how many curtains we throw open, no matter how many monsters we unmask as Old Man Struthers and no matter how many real wonders we describe there will be people who look at those things and go back to thinking that the collections of nuclear fire dictate our love lives.
Or that there is a man in the sky who cares about whether gay people get married or not.
The fact is? The idea of a god who actually sits around telling you what to do is rather silly. And turns out what god seems to tell most people is to harass others, make oppressive laws, do things for personal gain and generally act the fool. Chances are when someone says that they are doing something because a god told them to do so it usually doesn't end well for a lot of people.
The only reason the gods are outside the realm of science to the religious is because they have to accept the capacity to break the laws of science. In other words? They have to rely on magic for their gods to exist.
A few atheists realise this, and so, while trying to devise concepts of a good society without God, they give the subject of God's existence a wide berth. Charles Darwin followed this cautious approach. For the most part, however, they devote themselves to the wearisome and surprisingly difficult business of trying to prove a negative.
Who are atheists, and where did they come from? Nick Spencer is research director of the (excellent) "religion and society think tank" Theos, and so he views the subject with a quiet Christian scepticism. But it is not his purpose to attack atheism. Instead, he wants to tell its history as it has developed, chiefly in Europe, in the past 500 years.
He points out that atheism often starts in disputes about authority. In a thoroughly Christian society – and indeed, in some Muslim societies today – rejection of God was seen as a threat to public order. Quite recently, a British judge said that the law of England has nothing to do with Christianity. He may wish that to be true, but, historically, it isn't.
One may point out that the world's progress towards greater equality and indeed a more humane society has been through constant rejections of religious views held dearly at the time.
The notion here is that religion is the sole cause of the laws of mankind, which is rather comical considering it is impossible to create a social group without law.
Cats. We need to look at cats. See kittens learn to hunt by play. They pounce and jump over each other, they learn the skills to kill. Cats are tiny little lions we can pick up and cuddle. They are killers. Just of pests and indeed innocent squeaky animals. So much so we bell our cats and keep them indoors because of the havoc they can cause on eco-systems. But all that from an animal that learnt to hunt by playing with toys and each other.
Humans do that too. Except we go through stages of play. There is a stage where we play on our own. Where we have "our toys" and we just sit and bash them together to make noises. Most of our play is designed to look at our hands. Manual dexterity just as the cats is to hunt. Except for the fact that there are games within games. There is a stage where we have group play. Where a child plays around other children. They both play solo but in the same area. Then there is group play. Where a toy is shared between two people.
Our toys have always been there to teach us. Toy swords and Dolls are among the oldest things we have found because swords make good young boys into good young men and dolls make good young girls into good young women who will have good young babies of their own and care for them while keeping them safe. It's just that our toys have gotten more esoteric because "babies and swords" aren't all that is needed any more. But at one point in a child's life there is a stage where kids play together. Where they communicate and cooperate. If we don't teach them games and the rules of the game then they make new rules and new games. And these games are alive and changing. When unexpected scenarios occur kids get together and make new rules to deal with that. They may not be fair rules or sensible rules or even good ones but they are rules.
Humans Crave Rules. It helps bind our society together. It gives us structure. The quality of the rules has never really mattered so much as the fact that everyone follows them.
The rules that bound a society helped make it a cohesive force. The Aztecs had bad rules. Human Sacrifice. Their entire society was so enthralled by it that it played a huge role in how they acted alienating their neighbours making it easy for the Spanish to garner local support initially.
The rule was fine as long as there was no third party to create the power imbalance. The rules are unfair to the victims of the sacrifice but the thing is it kept the Aztec society stable while all around them were fractured city states that simply lost their wars to the Aztec. Survival trumped "good rules".
We hit a turning point with the rise of humanism. Initially? The rule of law was dicated by a few arbitrary people and religion supported their claims. It was a tool of domination. With the rise of free thinking as a whole, people began to question the rules. The rules were often just to support the jerk in power. Some of it was daft, the sanctity of the human body for example was used to hold back the study of medicine. Some of it was harmful like the usage of the Bible to support slavery. Some of it was just downright deadly such as the pogroms against the Jews. But the fact was the greater part of society survived because of these rules.
It's just that humanism looks at the rules critically and tries to get people to follow rules for the benefit of humanity as a whole rather than just the guy at the top. And that is the society we live in.
Even the Aztecs had rules and laws against murder and theft. That gory scene was worship. A real version of the blood and body of Christ. You can't build gigantic pyramids in a society where crime was rife.
The modern humanist societies of today may have their roots in religion, but that is like suggesting a house is a tree just because it is made out of wood. Secularism and Humanism have taken the chainsaw to religious rules and keep trying to cut out the bad and the harmful.
In his Commentaries on the Laws of England in the 18th century, William Blackstone argued that the oath in court was the necessary foundation for justice: "All moral evidence… all confidence in human veracity must be weakened by irreligion, and overthrown by infidelity." An atheist was therefore not only mistaken, but failed in his duty as a citizen. Laws against the preaching of atheism resembled those against the preaching of racism today: it was thought intolerably injurious to society. What God had revealed, the state had a duty to uphold.
Yes, Atheism is like Racism.
Which is why religion was one of the prime weapons of racism particular Christianity and Islam which were "crusader" religions that spread by brutal destruction of other cultures and religions.
The rationale for the death sentence for apostates in Islam is that atheists and conversion out of Islam weakens the structure of Islam and so is worthy of death. William Blackstone is luckily long dead. 18th Century England was not a nice place for people like me, not just due to my atheism.
Let us just say that white Christians have a very selective memory about the history of Christianity and indeed atheism. It pays to ignore history, but those who forget history are doomed to die by the geography.
Gradually, "atheisms" – there was never a single form – advanced to challenge authority. Some arose from questioning Scripture ("a heap of Copie confusedly taken", wrote one brave man at the end of the 16th century). Some, often stemming from priests who had seen appalling abuses themselves, concentrated on the wickedness of church power rather than on metaphysics.
That's cute. The earliest Hindu skeptics on record would pre-date Christianity. I do like the fact that the author thinks atheism is a concept that is relatively new. The day the first man said that lightning and thunder were the gods at war was the day the first man said that "it probably wasn't". Atheism is as old as religion is.
Other non-believers, usually among the grandest in society, saw themselves as bathed in the light of reason. David Hume wrote of "the deepest Stupidity, Christianity and Ignorance". Percy Bysshe Shelley linked atheism with intellectual superiority: "Let this horrid Galilean [Jesus] rule the Canaille [the rabble]… The reflecting part of the community… do not require his morality." In the current era of Richard Dawkins and the New Atheism, many atheists call themselves the "Brights", pleased to make the rest of us out as dullards.
Here is the thing? You lot never considered my old gods real. We were just savages to convert to your ancestors. Now you are just too polite to say it in open conversation, but you think it is your duty to turn us from our heathen ways onto your gods. Somehow Shiva's appearance as a gigantic penis is horrifying but the cannibalism of Communion is divine?
And the whole Brights thing is pretty much Richard Dawkins who doesn't speak for us all. In fact a lot of people wish he used his powers as the pop culture head of Atheism and actually help spread the word about atheists from non-traditional societies. Many Christians call themselves the chosen of (a) god and believe they are going to an eternal paradise while we are tortured forever. Something tells me that a little snootiness and calling oneself "Bright" is a far cry from wishing those who don't agree with you suffer eternal torture.
Some atheists – Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, AJ Ayer – resemble, in essence, that clever young schoolboy. They believe they have brilliantly proved religion to be a load of hogwash. In their minds, it seems an advantage that their creed does not appeal as much to women or the poor and ignorant. Indeed, Friedrich Nietzsche saw more deeply how European society's moral order would collapse with the destruction of faith – but welcomed it. Christianity was a "slave morality", he said, celebrating weakness and preserving "too much of what should have perished". People such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler took up such thoughts with deadly enthusiasm.
Eurgh no… Really? You went so far… So close without Godwinning it! Oh dear!
1. Lenin – Dear Comrade, the Russian Royalists were Dick Weasels. No Seriously. If you are going to claim Lenin as super duper evil you are assuming the people he replaced were epitomes of morality. Newsflash. The October revolution would not have occurred had not the people of Russia been satisfied. They were angry. They had a religiously supported monarchy that lived in luxury while the people starved to death.
2. Stalin – A dictator and a cult of personality no different from Kim Jong Il. Only on a major scale. It wasn't a lack of belief that created him but the overthrow of Monarchies without being replaced by a system that empowers the common man to make political decisions. Stalin was a dictator and like all dictators he sought to stabilise his power through violence. His religion had nothing to do with it. Tiso, Franco and Salazar didn't kill fewer people because they were Christians, but because they never had the reason to kill as many as Stalin. He had WW II and the mismanagement of agriculture and the paranoia to rack up that death toll. Frankly? The others didn't have the population to cause such fatalities nor had the sort of cruel warfare that established the Eastern Front of WW II.
3. Mao's fatalities are less due to his atheism but more due to his gross incompetence as an administrator. Great leap forward and Cultural Revolutions were in fact stupid ideas. You don't need hindsight to see that. Anyone could have told you that you wouldn't expect your plumber to be a good electrician and vice versa so why would professors of Literature be good Farmers? Or Farmers be good Iron workers?
4. Hitler – Was pretty damn religious. And again you kind of ignore the "bad" bits of your Christianity when you forget that Christianity was the main driving force for anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe for nearly 2000 years. Hitler's holocaust was nothing different from the Pogroms, the only difference was that it wasn't an angry mob that raped, murdered and pillaged but a dedicated industrial murder machine. The only reason Hitler went too far according to Christianity is because the allies won.
The thing is these people didn't act like atheists. They acted like kings. Because that is what they were. A dictator is just a secular king. They were the absolute law and there was no checks and balances and control over the legislative. The power resided in a handful of people enforced by a cult of personality.
But precisely because religion, though theologically grounded, is much deeper than an intellectual theory, it tends to regenerate when attacked. The author quotes one Soviet persecutor of Christianity: "Religion is like a nail, the harder you hit, the deeper it goes in." Spencer believes that the New Atheism is an expression of anger at the curious phenomenon that all over the world, except among white Westerners, God is back.
The only reason people say this is because people of colour in atheism are often invisible or poorly represented at the most visible levels.
This leads to the question: "Is atheism parasitic on religion?" There is something unsatisfactory about building your thought around an anti-faith. Some atheists – amusingly catalogued here – have noticed this, and set up Cults of Reason, secular societies and atheist chapels, trying, rather unsuccessfully, to reproduce the communal creativity of faith. Hamlet says: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Any imaginative atheist must sometimes be troubled by this thought, and worry that his ideas are so dependent on the very thing he opposes.
Except religion has forced atheists to be anti-faith. It's like asking why Protestantism hates centralised faith and overt wealth. Or why Buddhism and Jainism pride simplicity in worship.
It is a response to the excesses of religion. Atheism opposes political and harmful religion. Your derision of it being a negative force ignores the reality. That some of the biggest threats to civil liberty comes through enshrining religion as a law.
It is as if someone were to devote his energies to telling people that they did not really love one another. He might be right, of course, but it would be a sad business. Love, indeed, is a subject that atheists find hard to discuss interestingly. Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great philosopher, who understood religious belief throughout his life, mostly without quite sharing it, wrote: "Faith is faith in what is needed by my heart, my soul, not my speculative intelligence… Only love can believe the Resurrection."
Rather amusing. The assumption here is that only if you truly love Jesus can you believe in the Resurrection. Sure, by that logic all incredibly superstitious beliefs can be categorised as love.
This is no different from every religion that tries to set itself up as the one true faith and better than all the rest by classifying it's faith by that certain je ne sais quoi that no other faith has.
Love being a purely chemical feeling doesn't make it worse. Adrenaline is purely chemical yet it's still effective and we have no problem with endorphins being chemical. Love being chemical doesn't cheapen it any more than flying being due to aerodynamics rather than pixie magic cheapens the fact that human beings can fly.
Atheists don't have a difficulty understanding love, it's just that we attribute magical capacity to it and fill it with cupids and destiny and the stars being aligned. The fact is none of these things happen. Love makes you think you are the centre of the universe. But we aren't. That's the reality.
But it is nice to think you are the centre of the universe for just that little while. .
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Today I'll be monitoring the situation with Tsuyoshi Nishioka, as the Twins push to get him signed this week at the winter meetings. The sides exchanged multiple proposals on Monday.
The Twins have until Dec. 26 to sign him, but I get the sense that they would like to get this done and move on to other things.
Meanwhile, I agree with this thinking as a way to help Nishioka settle in while boosting the bullpen.
Keep hearing about plenty of interest in Jesse Crain and Matt Guerrier from other teams. Toronto might be a destination for Crain.
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The Twins are still looking at several six-year minor league free agents but won't sign anyone until after the Rule V draft this week. Why? One reason is that if a team signs a player to a minor league deal he could be eligible to be taken in the draft. That actually happened a few years ago when the Orioles announced the signing of Chris Gomez before the winter meetings and lost him him the draft.
That Joaquin Benoit deal with Detroit (three years, $16.5 million) has really shaken up the reliever market. Don't think the Twins are ready to shell out $5 million a year for relief help. They are looking at free agent relievers but also are hoping that Glen Perkins and Pat Neshek can step up after having rough seasons.
It's very possible they can. And in Neshek's case, he just might have needed a break after working so hard to come back following Tommy John surgery. We've seen that with Francisco Liriano.
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While working inside the English Lab of the Venice ARC building (room 409), I received a couple text messages from my friend Tony, an SGA officer on our campus. I wanted to bring these text messages to your attention because they provide great info on upcoming stuff; one of which is coming up this Friday!
Starting at 6pm on the Venice campus, and in the Selby Room, there will be a talent show. It is free to attend, however, a donation of at least one or two dollars towards SPARCC will be greatly appreciated.
Also coming up is another SCF sponsored trip is coming up on April 9th. This trip is available for both campuses if I understand correctly. To reserve a spot, stop by your Club Hub. Tickets are $20 with only 15 spots remaining as of 9.57am Tuesday morning (to be almost perfectly accurate).
In addition to that tid bit of information, Wednesday, April 14th, Tim Dorsey will be visiting on the Venice campus. I believe the time for that will be around 2pm. Don't quote me on that, even though the club that I am president of is hosting the event. I told you in my last blog that I am overloaded. Give me a break… haha In any case, I met Tim Dorsey last year and he is a great guy to listen to and meet. He is a leading author in a fairly new (at least fairly new to popularity) genre of literature: Florida Weird. It's an interesting genre. I have no other way to explain other than it includes some of the weird things that happen in Florida.
Also on Wednesday the 14th of April, and carrying over to the following day, are the SGA officer elections for the Venice campus. If anyone is interested in running for a position, I highly advise you to go into the Club Hub and find out exactly what the positions are, entail, and what is expected of you at this point.
Lastly, for now, Thursday, April 15th, at 7pm, and in the Selby Room of the Venice campus, there will be another Slam Poetry competition. It will not be exactly like the one in the Fall semester that produced over 100 people in attendance (and when SCF defeated FGCU and USF). This time the competition will be just among SCF poets. If you wish to compete, see either myself (you can find me in one of three places on the Venice campus – room 409, room 333, or Dr. Ford's office) or Dr. Ford. basically, for those of you who have no idea what a Slam Poetry competition is, it is the performance of poetry through spoken word as opposed to written word; and you are judged on your reading/performance by peers. It truly is a wonderful experience. If you have never been to a poetry reading, or even if you have, a Slam competition will quite possibly change your opinion of poetry and poetry readings. (Speaking of poetry readings, this year has been amazing on the Venice campus. We just had a reading last week, and I will provide some feedback on that one and others.)
There are more events coming up, but I do not want to get ahead of ourselves. Remember to check the SCF calendar on the homepage. And what is that about the Guinness Book of World Records coming to our campus? Hmm…http://www.scf.edu/Administration/AdministrativeDepartments/PublicAffairsMarketing/NewsReleases/2010/20100325_01.asp
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The legality of recently disclosed U.S. government surveillance activities was debated at a July 9 public workshop convened by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).
Among other questions, the PCLOB heard feedback from experts on the scope of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, a so-called business records provision that was used by the government to justify the bulk collection of U.S. customer phone data.
"I think it's pretty clear that, until this past month, the American people had no idea that Section 215 ... was being used to collect all of telephony 'metadata' on Americans' phone calls," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, an advocacy group in Washington.
At the end of the workshop, PCLOB Chairman David Medine said the agency will use input provided at the event to prepare a report for the White House and Congress.
Meanwhile, the Electronic Privacy Information Center July 8 filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a review of whether the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) exceeded its "narrow" statutory authority by issuing a sweeping order that required Verizon Communications Inc. to disclose records to the National Security Agency.
In the wake of recent press reports, the administration has acknowledged using Section 215 to gather vast amounts of metadata related to Americans' phone calls, such as numbers dialed. The administration has also confirmed the existence of a controversial web-monitoring program, known as PRISM, which was authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and House Judiciary ranking member John Conyers (D-Mich.) are among members of Congress who have called for legislative action to address privacy concerns related to the programs.
President Obama has vigorously defended the surveillance programs and has said he welcomes a debate over the issue. After a June 21 meeting with the president, the PCLOB issued a statement saying that it was undertaking a review of the programs as a top priority.
As part of the effort, the board said it was scheduling a full-day public workshop to seek input from invited experts, academics, and advocacy organizations about the legal bases for the administration's programs and potential options to address privacy and civil liberties concerns.
Section 215 allows the FBI to compel U.S. businesses to turn over "any tangible thing" that is relevant to a terrorism investigation, when an FISC order has been presented.
Steven Bradbury, a former Department of Justice official during the George W. Bush administration, told the PCLOB that relevance is a concept that is applied broadly in various law enforcement contexts, including federal grand jury investigations.
"I think it's reasonable [to conclude] that that's what was incorporated into [Section 215]," he said.
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I have a a problem first I wanted to buy a Colt 1911 .45 but I already have a .45. An XDM .45 which I love. I went to my gun shop yesterday and I was looking around and I need a gun where I can shoot more because as we all know 45 Caliber Ammo is not cheap. So I have a little dilemma. I looked at the Glock 19 Gen 4 sweet gun and I also like the M&P9 and the M&P 9 pro. Now since I have an XDM and I like Springfield maybe I should get an XD9. All these guns to choose from. Should even get a 9mm some people say get a .40 its not much more for the ammo.
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All good options.
I don't need No stinking signature.
For cheap ammo 9mm is the only way to go.
Get a 1911 in 9mm problem solved
Instead of a new gun, buy a reloading setup with some .45 dies.
Ammo cost issue sorted.
I personally would stay away from the XD or XDM until they solve the problem of the breaking striker retaining roll pin. It this is just a range toy OK, but this is not a handgun I would bet my life on. If the pin breaks the gun will not fire. Houston Police have removed these guns from service.


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Close shave brings luck for Ross Brawn
June 23rd, 2011
F1 has its quirky side, as Tim Collings reports Mercedes team chief Ross Brawn this week revived his 'lucky haircut' habit ahead of Sunday's...
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A worker was killed by a tree stump grinder outside a home on Gosport Road on Thursday afternoon, according to emergency officials.
Crews were notified about the accident just after 2 p.m. They said the worker from Urban Tree Services was pronounced dead at the scene.
A grinder covered with a tarp could be seen through some trees near the scene.
In a statement, the president of Urban Tree Services called the incident a tragic accident.
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10 years after introducing 43 Things to the world, we have decided we have met our last goal: completing the incredible experience that has been 43 Things. Please join us in giving one last cheer to all the folks who have shared their goals with the world, as well as all the people who have worked at The Robot Co-op to build this incredible website. We won a Webby Award, published a book, and brought happiness to a lot of people.
Starting today, 43 Things users can export their goals and entries from the site. Starting August 15, we will make the site "read only". 43 Things users will still be able to view the site and export their content, but we won't be taking any new content from users. We hope to leave the site up for folks to see and download their content until the end of the year. Ending on New Year's Eve takes us full circle.
It has been a long ride (one of our original goals was to "build a company that lasts at least 2 years" - we beat that one!) While we wish the site could live on, it has suffered from a number of challenges - changes in how people use the site, the advertising industry, and how search engines view the site. We wish the outcome was different – but we've always been realistic about when our goals are met and when they aren't.
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Invergarry is located centrally in the Scottish Highlands and as a result there are many places of interest within easy travelling distance. To east a 15 minute car drive gets you to the shores of Loch Ness, further on is Urqhart Castle, Glen Affric and Inverness, within one hours travelling there is to the south, Ben Nevis, Glen Coe, Fort William and on to Ardnamurchan. To the west there is of course the much photographed and filmed iconic Elean Donan Castle, a bit further is the Isle of Skye. There is more information on places to visit is on on the Places to Visit page.
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Pete Lopiccola Memorial Foundation Makes $120,000 Gift to UCSD Cancer Center
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The Pete Lopiccola Memorial Foundation has just given $120,000 to fund cancer treatment and research at the UCSD Cancer Center. The non-profit organization's gifts to UCSD Cancer Center over the past decade total nearly $750,000.
The money comes from the proceeds of the annual Captain Pete Lopiccola "For Pete's Sake" Memorial Marlin Tournament, which is held in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Pete Lopiccola was a boat captain and avid fisherman who lost his life to leukemia in 1988. The tournament, which has become the largest charity marlin tournament on the West Coast, was founded to honor his memory and raise money to support cancer research.
"We're pleased with the outcome of the 1999 tournament and hope to continue to raise donations to higher levels," said Chuck Faith, board chairman of the Lopiccola Foundation.
This year's check was presented on April 14 at a reception at UCSD Thornton Hospital. Guests heard brief presentations by four UCSD Cancer Center research fellows whose projects were funded by the Lopiccola Foundation. Yixue Cao, M.D., Ph.D., Isan Chen, M.D., Semi Kim, Ph.D., and Paolo Vigneri, M.D., Ph.D., gave overviews of their research fellowship projects, and expressed their gratitude to the Lopiccola Foundation whose generosity made their studies possible.
David Tarin, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the UCSD Cancer Center, who accepted the check on the Center's behalf, acknowledged the Lopiccola Foundation's support with an engraved plaque.
Bill Comer, Ph.D., president of the UCSD Cancer Center Foundation, said, "The presentation of this gift is exciting not only for the monetary donation but for the opportunity it gives to Lopiccola Foundation supporters to directly interact with the individual researchers whose critical work they sponsor. 'From lab bench to bedside' is the concept behind this project, and supporters can readily see the relationship between finding what causes cancer and doing something about it. In addition to the research money, other Lopiccola funds benefit many children from the Cabo San Lucas area needing medical care."
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The Colorado Mammoth roster already included one former NLL Most Valuable Player in John Grant Jr. On Wednesday, the team announced that it signed another: Athan Iannucci, who won the award in 2008 when he shattered the league record for goals scored in a season with 71. The contract is pending league approval.
"Athan's a big, dynamic goal-scorer," said president & general manager Steve Govett. "We're not going to stand pat. We need more scoring."
The Mammoth was held to a season-low six goals in a road loss to Edmonton on Saturday.
Iannucci's resume speaks for itself – 196 goals in just 79 games played. The six-year NLL veteran also has 148 career assists.
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The local detective connects the new crimes to a twenty-year old cold case, and Madison's long-trusted contractor emerges as the leading suspect. As the body count piles up like a stack of plush pillows, Madison uncovers a Soviet spy, a campaign to destroy all Doris Day movies, and six minutes of film that will change her life forever.
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Microsoft has announced Forza Motorsport 5 for the Xbox One. The game, developed by Turn 10 Studios, will be available exclusively on the new Xbox One, and will be available when the console launches later this year.
A short trailer for the game showed the fast, frenetic action and great cars the series is known for, but in even higher definition.
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It was an enormous international scandal, one of the biggest of the 20th century. It may or may not have been a great love story. Edward, Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VIII after the death of his father, George V, famously abdicated in December 1936 to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American woman. Now English historian Anne Sebba has written a book, "That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor" (St. Martin's Press) that aims to portray her in a more sympathetic light than the one in which she has generally been shown in the British Isles. In the U.S., as Sebba says, Wallis Simpson is seen as "a local girl [who] made good," whereas, to the British, "to give up on what was your duty was something that could never be forgotten. The British have never forgiven [the Duke]."
"In England, there was an intense disrespect of a man who gave up his duty — the words duty and pluck are very strong words in England in the 20th century," Sebba says. "People sacrificed an awful lot and saw a lot of men, lovers or husbands, killed or maimed for duty. It was OK to fall in love, but Edward gave up on his duty for what he perceived as his personal fulfillment."
In America, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were seen as having an extraordinary romance; after all, what greater passion could there be than one that made a man give up a throne? Then there's the matter of Wallis' impeccably groomed, streamlined style, with her Mainbocher clothes and big, dramatic jewelry, which show up beautifully in photographs. Only in recent years has more information come out here about the Windsors — that their lives were empty, that they were paid to go to parties, that Wallis could be extremely sharp and cruel to the Duke in public, that she was anorexic and so on. What's distinctive about Sebba's take on this much-written-about subject is that she has gone back to many primary sources and read newly available letters and diaries to explore the psychological underpinnings of the relationship.
In "That Woman," Sebba tells the story of a woman who grew up as Bessie Wallis Warfield, a poor relation in an aristocratic family in Baltimore. Her bachelor uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was a millionaire; he had said he would pay for her debut, then demurred when World War I broke out. At one point, her mother, whose first two marriages had failed, ran a boardinghouse. "An aspect of this story is avenging her mother's hard life; she lost all her money in the Great Depression," Sebba notes.
Wallis, who was known early on for her original clothes, made a rather hasty marriage to Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a dashing World War I flier who turned out to have a serious drinking problem. After years of a volatile relationship, Wallis made plans to divorce him, then went to Shanghai and Washington. In both places, she was surrounded by admiring men. When she did get the divorce, which her Uncle Sol didn't approve of, he wrote her out of his will.
In Washington, she met Ernest Simpson, who was then married with two young children. Simpson was a dual national, and when he and Wallis started an affair, he left his marriage and got a divorce. The couple married and moved to London, where before long Wallis met the Prince of Wales. Wallis became involved in a flirtation with the prince, but he fell madly in love with her and soon didn't want to let her out of his sight. What started out as simple social climbing became a compelling, even coercive, romance. At one point, Wallis believed that she would lose Simpson and be left all alone. Later, she was attacked in the American and British press and received death threats. She eventually had to leave the U.K. because the police said that they couldn't guarantee her safety.


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How's this for a profile on a dating site? "Enjoys travel, long walks on the beach, fake potential dates that really are subscription solicitations, and illegal negative option programs, in violation of the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA)." If that's your idea of a dream date, have we got a site for you!
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We are interested in those capabilities that must be put in place to support nomadicity. The desirable characteristics for nomadicity include independence of location, motion, computing platform, communication device, and communication bandwidth, and widespread presence of access to remote files, systems, and services. The notion of independence does not refer here to the quality of service, but rather to the perception of a computing environment that automatically adjusts to the processing, communications, and access available at the moment. For example, the bandwidth for moving data between a user and a remote server could easily vary from a few bits per second (in a noisy wireless environment) to hundreds of megabits per second (in a hard-wired ATM environment); or the computing platform available to the user could vary from a low-powered personal digital assistant while traveling to a powerful supercomputer in a science laboratory. Indeed, today's systems treat radically changing connectivity or bandwidth/latency values as exceptions or failures; in the nomadic environment, these must be treated as the usual case. Moreover, the ability to accept partial or incomplete results is an option that must be made available because of the uncertainties of the informatics infrastructure.
The ability to automatically adjust all aspects of the user's computing, communication, and storage functionality in a transparent and integrated fashion is the essence of a nomadic environment.
Some of the key system parameters of concern include bandwidth, latency, reliability, error rate, delay, storage, processing power, interference, version control, file synchronization, access to services, interoperability, and user interface. These are the usual concerns for any computer-communication environment, but what makes them of special interest for us is that the values of these parameters change dramatically as the nomad moves from location to location. In addition, some totally new and primary concerns arise for the nomad such as weight, size, and battery life of the portable devices as well as unpredictability and wide variation in the communication devices and channels. The bottom line consideration in many nomadic applications is, of course, cost.
Many of the key parameters above focus on the lower levels of the architecture, and they have received the most attention from industry and product development to date. This is natural since hardware devices must focus on such issues. However, there is an enormous effort that must be focused on the middleware services if nomadicity is to be achieved. We identify a number of such services below, but we must recognize that they are in the early stages of identification and development.
There are a number of reasons why nomadicity is of interest. For example, nomadicity is clearly a newly emerging technology that already surrounds the user. Indeed, this author judges it to be a paradigm shift in the way computing will be done in the future. Information technology trends are moving in this direction. Nomadic computing and communications is a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional effort. It has a huge potential for improved capability and convenience for the user. At the same time, it presents at last as huge a problem in interoperability at many levels. The contributions from any investigation of nomadicity will be mainly at the middleware level. The products that are beginning to roll out have a short-term focus; however, there is an enormous level of interest among vendors (from the computer manufacturers, the networking manufacturers, the carriers, and so on) for long-range development and product planning, much of which is now under way. Whatever work is accomplished now will certainly be of immediate practical use.
There are fundamental new research problems that arise in the development of a nomadic architecture and system. Let us consider a sampling of such problems, which we break out into systems issues and wireless networking issues.
One key problem is to develop a full system architecture and set of protocols for nomadicity. These should provide for a transparent view of the user's dynamically changing computing and communications environment. The protocols must satisfy the following kinds of requirements:


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Faith is the human response to divine revelation. The catechesis on Jesus Christ which we are developing in the current series of reflections refers to the creeds, especially the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. Through them the Church expresses and professes the faith which from the beginning was formulated within her as a response to God's revelation in Jesus Christ. Throughout this series of reflections, we have had recourse to the word of revelation to extract the truth revealed in it about Christ himself. Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah announced in the old covenant. The Messiah, the Christ—true man (the Son of Man)—is in his own person Son of God, true God. This truth about him emerges from the ensemble of his words and deeds, which culminate definitively in the paschal event of his death on the cross and his resurrection.
This living complex of the data of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ meets with the response of faith, first on the part of those who were the direct witnesses of the Messiah's life and teaching, those who have seen and heard and have touched with their hands the corporeal reality of the Word of life (cf. 1 Jn 1:1), and later in the generations of believers in Christ who followed in succession in the community of the Church. How was the Church's faith in Jesus Christ first formed? We wish to devote the following reflections to this problem. We shall especially seek to see how this faith was formed and expressed at the very beginning of the Church, in the course of the first centuries. They had a particular importance for the formation of the Church's faith, because they represent the first development of the living Tradition which comes from the apostles.
All the written testimonies on this subject date from after Christ's ascension into heaven. Certainly they reflect firsthand knowledge of the definitive events of Christ's death on the cross and resurrection. At the same time, however, those written testimonies cover the whole of Jesus' life and activity, beginning with his birth and infancy. Moreover, those documents provide evidence that the faith of the apostles and that of the earliest Church community was already formed in the prepaschal stage of Christ's life and ministry, and was manifested with definitive power after Pentecost.
A particularly significant expression of this fact is found in Peter's reply to the question which Jesus one day asked the apostles in the neighborhood of Caesarea Philippi, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" He later asked, "Who do you say that I am?" (Mt 16:13, 15). Peter replied, "You are the Christ (i.e., the Messiah), the Son of the living God" (Mt 16:16). This is the reply recorded by Matthew. The other Synoptics speak of the Christ (cf. Mk 8:29) or of the Christ of God (cf. Lk 9:20). These expressions correspond to John's words, "You are the Holy One of God" (Jn 6:69). The reply in Matthew is more complete: Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ, that is, the Messiah, the Son of God.
The same expression of this original faith of the Church is found in the first words of Mark's Gospel, "The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God" (Mk 1:1). It is well known that the evangelist was closely linked to Peter. Later we find the same faith in the entire teaching of the Apostle Paul, who from the time of his conversion "proclaimed in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God" (Acts 9:20). Later in many of his letters he expressed the same faith in different ways (cf. Gal 4:4; Rom 1:3-4; Col 1:15-18; Phil 2:6-11; also Heb 1:1-4). It can therefore be said that the princes of the apostles, Peter and Paul, stand at the origin of this faith of the Church.
Moreover, the Apostle John, author of the last Gospel, concluded it with the famous words in which he stated that it was written "that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name" (Jn 20:31). "Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God" (1 Jn 4:15). His authoritative voice informs us what was believed and professed about Jesus Christ in the primitive Church.
Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God. This is the fundamental truth of faith in Christ (the Messiah), held by the apostles on the basis of their Master's words and deeds in the prepaschal period. After the resurrection, the faith was more deeply consolidated and expressed in the written testimonies.
It is a significant fact that the confession, "Truly this was the Son of God" (Mt 27:54) was uttered at the foot of the cross by the Roman centurion who was a pagan (cf. Mk 15:39). In that supreme hour what a mystery of grace and of divine inspiration was at work in the minds of both Israelites and pagans.
After the resurrection one of the apostles, Thomas, made a confession which referred still more directly to the divinity of Christ. He who was unwilling to believe in the resurrection, on seeing the risen one before him, exclaimed, "My Lord and my God!" (Jn 20:28). In this exclamation not only is the "my God" significant, but also the "my Lord." For already in the Old Testament tradition, "Lord" (kyrios) also meant "God." In fact, every time we meet in the Bible the unnamaeble proper name of God, Yahweh, it is substituted with Adonai, equivalent to "my Lord." Therefore for Thomas also, Christ is "Lord," that is, God.
In the light of these multiple apostolic testimonies, the words spoken by Peter on the day of Pentecost to the crowd gathered around the apostles acquire their full meaning, "God has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified" (Acts 2:36). In other words, Jesus of Nazareth, true man, who as such suffered death on a cross, is not only the expected Messiah, but also "the Lord" (kyrios), and therefore true God.
"Jesus is Lord...the Lord...the Lord Jesus." This confession resounded on the lips of the first martyr Stephen while he was being stoned to death (cf. Acts 7:59-60). It is a confession which appears frequently in Paul's preaching, as is evident from many passages of his letters (cf. 1 Cor 12:3; Rom 10:9; 1 Cor 16:22-23; 8:6; 10:21; 1 Thess 1:8; 4:15; 2 Cor 3:18).
In the First Letter to the Corinthians (12:3) the Apostle stated; "Jesus is Lord," and no one can say this "except by the Holy Spirit." Previously Peter, after his confession of faith at Caesarea, heard Jesus say to him, "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father" (Mt 16:17). Jesus had already observed, "No one knows the Son except the Father..." (cf. Mt 11:27). Only the Spirit of Truth can bear him adequate witness (cf. Jn 15:26).
We can therefore say that at the beginning of the Church, faith in Christ was expressed in the words, "Son of God" and "Lord" (that is, kyrios-adonai). It is faith in the divinity of the Son of Man. In this full sense, he and only he is the "Savior," namely, the author and giver of salvation which God alone has power to grant. This salvation consists not only in liberation from sin, but also in the gift of a new life, of a participation in the life of God himself. In this sense "there is salvation in none other," according to the words of the Apostle Peter in his initial preaching (Acts 4:12).
The same faith is found in many other texts of apostolic times, as in Acts (e.g., 5:31; 13:23); in the Pauline letters (Rom 10:9-13; Eph 5:23; Phil 3:20 f.; 1 Tim 1:1; 2:3-4; 4:10; 2 Tim 1:10; Titus 1:3 f.; 2:13; 3:6), in Peter's letters (1 Pet 1:11; 2 Pet 2:20; 3:18), of John (1 Jn 4:14), and also Jude (25). There is also a place for it in the infancy Gospel (cf. Mt 1:21; Lk 2:11).
We can conclude that Jesus of Nazareth, who habitually called himself "Son of Man," is the Christ (the Messiah), that he is the Son of God, the Lord (kyrios), the Savior. This is the faith of the apostles upon which the Church has been built from the beginning.
The Church has guarded this faith with the greatest love and veneration. She has transmitted it to new generations of disciples and followers of Christ under the direction of the Spirit of Truth. She has taught and defended this truth, seeking in every age not only to safeguard in its integrity its essential, revealed content, but also to investigate it constantly and to expound it according to the needs and possibilities of people. This is the task that she has been called upon to carry out until the time of the final coming of her Savior and Lord.


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Verizon Launching Text-to-911 Service – Functionality Should Show up in Early 2013
Verizon has announced that the carrier will soon be allowing users to send text messages to get emergency help from 911 services. The company's new text-to-911 service will use Verizon's existing CDMA SMS network for 911 text notifications, and the company plans to make the functionality available to 911 center public-service answering points, or PSAPs, starting in early 2013. "While consumers should always first try to contact a 911 center by making a voice call, this enhanced SMS service, when deployed, will offer an alternative for customers on the Verizon Wireless network who are deaf or hard of hearing and cannot make voice calls or who could be placed in additional danger by speaking," says the company.
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