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Harold Newsom, along with members of his band, One Horse Town (OHT), and Glen and Brenda Adkins of Glen's Barn and Grill, will host a benefit to raise money for fellow OHT member Bill Hunter and his family after a recent house fire in which the family lost everything they own. The benefit is set for August 16 at 6 p.m. at Glen's Barn and Grill at Crooked Creek.
Bill is the son of Harry Hunter.
During the benefit, One Horse Town will provide musical entertainment while guests enjoy a hog roast and cookout. Other musicl guests are also scheduled to perform.
"Glen and Brenda have been gracious enough to provide the location and food free of charge," Newsom said.
The event is free of charge for anyone wishing to attend, however, the band will be taking up donations during the night to benefit the Hunter family in their time of need.
The house fire happened nearly a month ago. Bill, along with his wife Nancy and one of their children, lost everything they had in the fire.
"I know a lot of that stuff you can't replace," Newsom said, "but we want to help them out as much as we can."
For those interested in helping the Hunters but cannot attend the event, donations of any kind (monetary or otherwise) can be mailed to Bill Hunter at 9040 Pt. Pleasant Road, Millwood WV 25262.
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SPCA seeks information after dog killed by an axeA dog was severely beaten and left to die on the street on Wednesday, and the Montreal SPCA are looking for any information that would lead to the culprit.
Letters: We need to take better care of animalsMontreal Gazette readers share their thoughts on Quebec's animal-cruelty laws, and believe we must be made more conscious about the treatment of animals in food production.
Fur farmer charged with animal crueltyThe owner of the farm, Jean-Luc Rodier, has been charged with six counts of neglect and animal cruelty. If found guilty, the penalty could be 18 months in jail and $10,000 for each charge.
Buckshot Husky reunited with owners who didn't hurt himThe abused Husky found in St-Bruno with dozens of buckshot pellets in his skin has been reunited with his true owners.
Opinion: In defence of the human-animal bondWe should not walk away from the human-animal bond, as Charles Danten suggested in a recent Opinion article; rather, we should honour it and do our utmost to ensure the welfare of our companion animals.
Letter: Jail time not appropriate for Emma CzornobajIf one believes that the welfare of animals is tantamount to that of humans, one would likely agree and excuse Emma Czornobaj's actions.
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Provincial government launches animal-abuse tip lineEvery year, in the midst of Montreal's July 1 moving-day marathon, people don't just throw out old desks and couches but also unwanted pets. On the eve of the big move, the provincial government has launched a tip line where people can report animal abuse.


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MINNEAPOLIS Adam Wilcox came to the University of Minnesota campus this fall for a job interview of sorts. The freshman from South St. Paul was in a competition with junior Mike Shibrowski to become Golden Gophers' starting goaltender. For the first few weeks of the college hockey season, Minnesota coach Don Lucia played each goalie for one game a weekend to see how they handled certain situations. But there was one game and perhaps even one play in October when Wilcox seized the starting job and made it his own. "There was a particular save up in Michigan Tech where he was sliding one way and the puck got tipped back, and he made just this tremendous glove save off a reaction," said Justin Johnson, a volunteer assistant coach who works with Minnesota's goalies. "That's where we looked at it and said, 'Wow, this kid is really seeing the puck well. He's ready for the types of mishaps and tips and stuff that happen. He's ready to play.'" With that performance, Wilcox became the...
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Islamic State Left 'Booby-Trapped Corpses' in Kobani
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U.S. Blocks Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference Statement Over Israeli Objections
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, or NPT, review conference at United Nations headquarters, Monday, April 27, 2015. Photo by AP
Will the Obama Administration Undercut Israel at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference - Again?
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Forced Sex Camps Prepare Girls for Child Marriage in Zambia and Mozambique
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Saudi Arabia Shelling Hits Yemen Aid Office, Kills 5 Refugees, Injures 10
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UN Failure in Southern Lebanon Will Lead to Future Civilian Casualties
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UN: Israel Worst Violator of Health Rights in the World
Ilan Klein, a paramedic with MDA, treats local residents injured in the Nepal earthquake, in Kathmandu, April 26, 2015. (photo credit: Courtesy MDA)
Submission of Syrian Arab Republic Regarding Resolution on "Health Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, and in the Occupied Syrian Golan"
France Threatens to Recognize Palestinian State if Peace Agreement not Reached in 18 Months
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius speaks to members of the media outside the United Nations Security Council, New York, March 27, 2015. (Photo by Reuters)
Despotic Saudi Regime Lobbies to Chair UN Human Rights Council
Members of Magic Movement stage a mock execution in protest against beheadings in Saudi Arabia (Reuters)
Palestinian Authority Pushes International Criminal Court to Set Dates for Anti-Israel Lawsuit
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki
China Charges Prominent Human Rights Lawyer as Xi Tightens Screw
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Israel: France Pursuing UN Initiative on Palestinians Behind Israel's Back
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius chairs a UNSC meeting on the crisis in the Middle East as the current President of Council at UN headquarters, March 27, 2015. Photo by Reuters
'Girls Raped, Boys Abducted' as South Sudan Battle Rages
South Sudanese soldiers and gunmen have been in the middle of some of the heaviest fighting.(Reuters: James Akena)
Report: UN, European Governments Funding Anti-Israel Groups
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Blogger Hacked to Death in Bangladesh, Third This Year
Ananta Bijoy Das was stabbed to death in the street - in daylight, on his way to work in a bank
Russia Scolds Obama at the UN Rights Council: "Take Urgent Measures to Improve Human Rights"
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North Korea Told UN Meeting on the United States "We are Very concerned by US Rights Violations"
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Court Condemns Cartoon-Activist Atena Farghadani to 14 Years in Prison
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Israeli Cooperation with Nuclear Ban Treaty Diplomats Helped Prevent Bad Outcome
Dimona nuclear reactor (AFP)
Non-Proliferation Treaty - Five Years of Grace
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations. (photo credit:TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
Iran, Lead State Sponsor of Terror and Nuclear Proliferation, Tells UN Israeli Weapons are the Problem
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Argentine Judges Dismiss Rape of 6-Year-Old Because Child Is 'Gay'
Iranian Painter and Women's Rights Activist On Trial For Insulting MPs
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Robert Wistrich's Last Article: We Downplay Antisemitism in the Muslim World and on the World Stage at our Peril
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Record of Vote on Anti-Israel Resolution at World Health Organization
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Inflatables provide stability, carrying capacity and don't bash up your topsides when tied alongside. But they don't row worth a darn in any kind of breeze and are extremely allergic to oyster beds and sharp rock beaches.
Hard dinghies (and there are some beauties) row well, tow well as long as you have an effective drain plug so that spray doesn't eventually fill them up under tow. They can handle any beach, but are a nuisance alongside at night.
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Oak Park is a funny town. There's too much to take in. Expand the Ike or not, give back to taxpayers some of the high school's $112 million slush fund or not, build a new elementary administrative building on the village hall parking lot or not.
And then there are the great moral issues of our day that get special attention here. Gay marriage. Helping the homeless find shelter. Diversity (which in Oak Park means the town's historic role in beginning to end discrimination against African Americans but also never doing it quite right).
What this town needs is a chaplain — someone with moral chops and a strong dose of compassion who can make sense of our uber-activist town, someone who can speak with a clear religious voice in a largely secular community.
In Oak Park/River Forest, in my humble and Catholic opinion, that person is Dean Lueking, pastor emeritus of Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest, where he served as pastor for 44 years.
Why do we need Lueking as our chaplain?
Take the issue of peace (and war). When Oak Parkers speak about peace, it sometimes comes across as a '60s slogan, on the same level as eating organic or buying hybrid cars.
Last spring, Lueking wrote a letter to the Wednesday Journal following the death of Anne Smedinghoff, the River Forest-born State Department employee killed in Afghanistan. Lueking saw the white ribbons hanging all over town as "a defiant symbol against the insanity, the sinfulness of war." Good, if standard, words from a pastor.
But his main reflection was on forgiving the shooter, not giving in to the temptation to view him as a mere "terrorist" and resisting our inclination to see victims of violence in Afghanistan as "abstractions." As for Smedinghoff (and us), he bent a beatitude: "Blessed are the peacemakers, past, present, and ongoing."
And so Lueking fills the role as town chaplain by saying the right thing in times of trouble.
But he is a moral compass — not just about big things but little things too, like helping a neighbor. Roughly a month ago, Lueking wrote to Wednesday Journal with a complaint. It was not about nighttime street parking.
He was annoyed at Chicago police officers making it hard for a recently released convict he was assisting to register his address at the police station and bureaucrats who created Byzantine procedures for the ex-con parishioner to register for food stamps.
I am sure he intended this story to be about the perseverance of the ex-con. But for me it was more of a challenge from an 80-plus-year-old former pastor, modeling for a very busy, upwardly mobile community on the need to accompany the poor. He was not scolding. He was leading by example.
T.S. Elliot wrote that "old men ought to be explorers," and Lueking must have read this because he (and his wife Beverly) are explorers of the first order,
Lately, I have been reading Lueking's book, Through Their Eyes (2010). In it, he relates his post-retirement experience visiting Lutheran faith communities in 32 far-flung countries on five continents, many of which faced persecution.
He tells their stories, like a Palestinian Lutheran pastor in the West Bank town of Bethlehem being harassed by Israeli border guards, or a group trying to re-establish the Lutheran faith in formerly atheist Russia, or a Lutheran church in Shanghai that was shut down during the Cultural Revolution. In all these stories, Lueking is the student and the people he encounters are the teachers.
And maybe that is the key to being the successful chaplain of Oak Park, leading without appearing to do so. Telling other's stories in order to get your message across.
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He certainly would have my vote. In true Chicago tradition, my 2nd vote, my 3rd vote, and so on.
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British PM Cameron's ex-media chief Coulson to face payments re-trial
Published on Jun 30, 2014 5:51 PM
LONDON (REUTERS) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief Andy Coulson will face a re-trial over whether he sanctioned illegal payments to a public official while editing a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, prosecutors said on Monday.
Last week a jury at London's Old Bailey failed to reach a verdict on whether Coulson and the News of the World's former royal editor Clive Goodman were guilty of making illegal payments to a police officer to obtain telephone directories for Britain's royal family.
Coulson was however found guilty of conspiring to hack into voicemail messages to generate front-page news at the now defunct Sunday tabloid and he is likely to be sentenced later this week.
Three other journalists and a former investigator from the mass-selling paper also pleaded guilty before the trial began and they will be sentenced along with Coulson. "For a period of years there was industrial scale phone-hacking at the News of the World," prosecutor Andrew Edis said at the opening of the sentencing hearing.
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In a quest to tell the stories of the people and the projects that make the iHub community what it is today, we have a series of blog posts that have been running every week. These are stories about The iHubber -The People and The Projects we see at the iHub on each passing day! This week, we talked to Charles Kithika. An innovator at the iHub and a hardcore techie.
Briefly tell me about yourself, How your day starts and How you get your inspiration? I am a software developer. I completely suck at design so I usually outsource that to people who know what they are doing; I however do pride myself in a few Photoshop skills like cropping photos.
I start my day from around 6.30am - 7.30am depending on how late I slept the previous night. I'm not much of an early breakfast person so I never eat breakfast at home; I prefer a snackor a cold Coke later on in the office. I usually start off by responding to emails and schedulingmy tasks for the day and meetings if any, then lastly follow up with the rest of my team onwhat is pending, what needs to be done etc. I get inspiration from seeing other people's work and how they are making a difference in business and in people's lives.
When and how did get into programming? Surprisingly, I wasn't much of a coder in university up until my final year project where I began to take it seriously and quite enjoyed it. My first job was the eye opener to the software development business; I had to learn on the fly most of what I know today, more like baptism by fire. It was a great learning experience though!
Tell me about you latest projects I'm a techie at Rupu, where we support businesses in marketing theirproducts/services online and at the same time give some amazing discounts to new andexisting customers. I work alongside some brilliant minds so each day is a new learningexperience.
What are your guiding principles? I believe in getting involved in aproject that you believe in, that way you give it all your attention. Secondly, sometimes sayingNO can be the best decision to make. This can be because you have enough on your plateor you do not have the technical skill-set to undertake the project.
Whats the one aspect of programing you give the highest priority to? Always trying to see where I can improve the user experience - if users don't like it, there is something that you are not doing right.
Whats the one thing you wish programmers would understand in this industry? For some of us programmers/designers, being nocturnal is not our fault, blame it onthe passion.
What do you love the most about being a programmer? And what led you to start using the iHub? I love being a programmer because you develop applications that other people use andseeing them enjoy using your applications gives you a very satisfying feeling. Being at theiHub is a great experience because I get to meet individuals who have done some amazingwork and it is very inspiring to see how they do it.
I first came to the iHub for an Ushahidi Dev meet-up, way back before Pete's Coffee. It was the first place where I had been to with so many developers/designers in one place at the same time. I learnt quite a lot from the meet-ups over time and soon became a regular at Pete's Coffee.
What can other programmers do to take advantage of the iHub space? The iHub is a great place to network with like-minded individuals; I've met a number of very talented people and quite exceptional ones with amazing visions of what they love doing and projects that they are involved in. I'd really doubt it if you told me that it can't be done at the iHub! I believe the perfect learning environment is one where learning is done through and with the help of other people- interacting with them or even working on similar projects.In this respect, the iHub is a really awesome place!
What one piece of advice would you give someone wanting to start a career in design/programming? If a single bone in you is iffy about coding or designing, don't do it! And if not then do it because you love it and not because of the money.
What trends do you see being big in 2011? Mobile is definitely going to be a big trend this year, the mobile device has become more than a tool - it's a way of life. Everyone in tech is thinking of how the mobile device can be integrated into every aspect out our lives.


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Runner's World Review
Even with a Vibram-rubber outsole covering its entire bottom, the Road Glove 2 remains surprisingly light. That's because there's very little else to this shoe. Your foot sits a mere 10.6 millimeters (less than 1/2 inch) away from the road surface—it's the only true zero-drop shoe in this guide. That doesn't leave much room for a cushy midsole, though testers say there's enough padding to soften hard roads and protect against debris like rocks and sticks. The upper is so thin, you can see your socks through the mesh.
BOTTOM LINE: A firm and level platform, suited for runners with experience in minimal footwear.
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"I think this is a great shoe for people that are wanting to slowly progress to minimalist shoes. There is still a surprising amount of arch support and foam midsole but provides the zero drop design that allows your foot to feel the road and respond to the ground forces. This is my new go-to running shoe!"—Kristen Price, East Lansing, Michigan
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It depends on what area of Pasig you are.
1. If you come to Antipolo from Ortigas Extention Avenue to Simbahan (=Antipolo Church), jump out at USA88 gas station, along Oliveros st and take a tricycle. If your bus/fx/jeepney is going to direction ShopWise/Teresa/Morong etc, jump out at Hamaka park, in front of Ynares Center, and take tricycle.
In any case, you will pass from USA88 gas station, that is Oliveros st corner Ninoy Aquino.
If you drive your own car, follow Ninoy Aquino up to the crossroad, then turn left at Daang Bakal.
2. If you are coming from Marcos Hiway/Sumulong Hiway, jump out at Sumulong Hiway corner Sumulong Memorial Circle and take tricycle along Daang Bakal st.
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The drug company Merck is suspending sales of its cholesterol drug Tredaptive and asking doctors not to prescribe it due to the drug's ineffectiveness and some non-fatal side effects. What's most interesting here to me is that U.S. consumers have nothing to fear: the drug was available in the European Union, but not here. FDA scientists rejected it in 2008. Read More
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December 12th, 2012
If you want to see what a world without regulatory safeguards looks like, you don't have to look far. The current and evolving outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to one large compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts is a case study in what happens when state and federal regulators fail. It also shows what can happen when conflicts of interest get in the way of regulation based on the best available science. Read More
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Obama administration's decision to prevent the FDA from using the best available science in evaluating the emergency contraception drug Plan B. It was a setback in the Obama administration's pledge to restore science to its rightful place and listen to scientists "even when it is inconvenient–especially when it is inconvenient." In the interim, evidence has been mounting that the administration's decision has placed unnecessary barriers to access to Plan B. It's time for the administration to allow the FDA to revisit the decision. Read More
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Today, Congress did something good for the American public and good for science. After a 14-year struggle, the House and Senate approved a bipartisan whistleblower protection bill that will make a difference to all federal workers, but that should be especially welcomed by federal scientists. Read More
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In our fight for a better quality of life for all Americans, we need storytellers. We need to reach people through personal anecdotes, through editorial cartoons, through songs. We need to arm people with narratives of what is possible, so that together we may be successful in spurning the cynicism that supports the status quo and disillusions the disempowered. And few have done this better than the man who would have turned 100 years old tomorrow: songwriter and American folk hero Woody Guthrie.
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Pair detail allegations by several women
There was a great deal to discuss. In her mind it was like picking up the conversation with an engaging friend, and the mayor spoke freely about numerous issues. As they were leaving, the conversation suddenly shifted. "I want to kiss you. You are so beautiful," Bob Filner said.
Caught completely off guard by the comment, they exited and walked across the street. On the sidewalk the mayor suddenly, in clear view of anyone who might pass by, grabbed and kissed her, jamming his tongue down her throat. She was completely shocked. First by the suddenness of it, and second or maybe concurrently that he didn't care that he was the mayor and trying to kiss someone who was not his fiancee on the sidewalk in plain view.
She quickly pushed him away, stunned. Her car was nearby and she had agreed to give the mayor a ride home and felt it would be extremely awkward and rude to just leave him standing there.
In hindsight, she should have never let him into her car. She really didn't want to come off as rude. She wanted herself and her issues to be relevant. She was in no way willing to sacrifice values or to use the desires of another to advance her goals, but this was the mayor who had just tried to kiss her. She was unnerved.
While sorting this out and about to drive off, the mayor quickly had his hand on the inside of her bra and was again trying to put his tongue down her throat. In reflection, she now feels guilty and ashamed for not more forcefully rebuffing his flirtations and his groping. She feels that if she had done so, maybe things would have gone differently, maybe he would still be interested in her issues and maybe he would have not done this to someone else.
This is a woman who generally admired the mayor. And she has been made to feel that in order to be heard, to have access to the mayor, she would have to accept the unwanted flirtations, private meetings and possibly eventually sexual relations.
Marco Gonzalez:
I'm going to talk to you about an employee of the mayor's office. I'm going to tell you some examples of what she had happen to her and what she witnessed repeatedly in the office place. There's a term — it's disgusting — it's called the Filner Headlock. This is what's used to describe a pattern that our mayor has with women. It occurs in the office, it occurs at fundraisers, it occurs when there is a … woman present who the mayor would like to sequester and have a private conversation with. He puts his arm around their shoulder, pulls it in tighter around her neck. The woman believes that the mayor just wants to talk to her and gets pulled away from the group where she can't be overheard, where he can't be overheard.
And then he begins, as Donna mentions in her story. Are you married? Do you got a boyfriend? He'll oftentimes pull in close to their face and tell them you're wonderful, you're beautiful, I want to kiss you. His goal is to get them out of the way and he says things, come on you know you love me, just give me a kiss, let's go up to my office, no one will know. This isn't a one-time thing, this is in the office The mayor did this to my client, she saw him do this to numerous times to other women, to get them alone, to proposition them.


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Vietnam bloggers face 'propaganda' trial
HANOI – Three well-known Vietnamese bloggers face prosecution for "propaganda against the state" after being accused of posting political articles on a banned website, state media said Sunday.
Phan Thanh Hai, Nguyen Van Hai and Ta Phong Tan were accused of contributing material to the online "Free Journalists Club" of Vietnam, the Thanh Nien newspaper said.
The report said the bloggers posted 421 articles on the site between September 2007 and October 2010 and accused them of "distorting the truth, denigrating the party and state".
"Phan Thanh Hai and Nguyen Van Hai also attended training in Thailand to overthrow the regime of Vietnam in March 2008," the newspaper added.
The bloggers, who are already being held in custody, face a maximum of 20 years imprisonment for the charges.
Phan Thanh Hai's blog dealt with issues deemed sensitive in Vietnam, such as a dispute with China over maritime sovereignty, controversial bauxite projects, a scandal around a debt-ridden state-owned shipbuilder and cases of famous dissidents.
He was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City in October 2010 and police confiscated his two computers and numerous documents and articles printed from the Internet.
Nguyen Van Hai was set to be released from a 30 month jail term for tax evasion in October 2010, but was kept locked up under the new charge.
Before his arrest in 2008, he had participated in anti-Chinese protests linked to Vietnam's maritime territorial dispute with Beijing.
Former policewoman Ta Phong Tan used her blog to denounce corruption and injustice in Vietnam's legal system.
In a January report, US-based Human Rights Watch said Hanoi had "intensified its repression" of dissidents last year.
Dozens of bloggers, peaceful political and religious advocates, and land rights activists were jailed in 2011 under "vaguely defined articles" of the penal code, the right group said.
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Sermon Ideas for August 7, 2011
2011-08-04 by David von Schlichten
August 6 is the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. August 9 is the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing. August 7 would be a fitting date on which to reflect on violence and the Christian call to end it.
Genesis 37: The beginning of the Joseph saga. How does God use family dysfunction and evil in general for good?
1 Kings 19: Is God in the still, small voice (the passage doesn't say)? Regardless, it is clear that God is not necessarily present in the storm, earthquake, etc. (although people are quick to think that such events are Acts of God). More importantly, Elijah, who thinks all is lost, is reassured that all is not.
Romans 10 reminds us of the importance of sharing the Good News. In what ways can all of us function as preachers? How do we share the Good News with someone without trying to convert them? When should we try to convert someone?
Matthew 14: How does Jesus come to us in the midst of storms? Do we sometimes mistake him for a ghost? How does Jesus enable us to walk on water, i.e., to do what we thought was impossible? What/who causes us to sink? How does Jesus reach out and rescue us?
What are your ideas? Feel free to send me an email or to submit a post for publication here.
Yours in Christ,
David von Schlichten, Lectionary Blog Moderator
Initial Thoughts for August 7, 2011
2011-07-31 by David von Schlichten
Genesis 37: Who doesn't love the story of Joseph? In this passage we have a dysfunctional family and the beginning of the unfolding of God's plan. Soap opera a la Bible.
1 Kings 19: This is the alternate first reading and tells of Elijah on Horeb feeling despair over his perilous state. People are quick to make fun of Elijah for feeling sorry for himself, but I don't blame him one bit. I've pitied myself over far less. He has Jezebel after him!
People are also quick to say that God is present in the "still, small voice" (or however we should translate that), but I'm not so sure. The passage IS saying that God is NOT present in the usual theophanies, but I don't know that it is saying that God IS present in the still, small voice. Maybe that's why Elijah seems unaffected by the still, small voice. That is, maybe the dynamic is not that he is dense. Maybe the dynamic is that the still, small voice is nothing special. It's just the calm after the theophanies. After all, the phrase could also be translated as "the sound of sheer silence" (reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel).
In any case, one thing is clear: when we feel like all is lost, it is not. God assures Elijah that he is not the only believer left and that God will empower him to continue. When we're thinking that no one cares anymore about the Church, we are to think again.
Romans 10: Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. What exactly does it mean to call on the name of the Lord?
The passage also exhorts people to share the Good News. How do we evangelize in a postmodern, pluralistic context? In other words, how do we evangelize without being jerks?
Matthew 14:22-33: In what ways does Jesus empower us to walk on water? If the water represents chaos or danger, then in what ways does Jesus enable us to walk on that, enable us not to sink but to do the miraculous in the face of the terrifying?
Ramadan starts August 1, so this would be a good time to speak a positive word about our Muslim sibs.
Also, the ever dysfunctional Washington has managed to reach a debt agreement. Thanks be to God! How does the dysfunction of Washington reflect our own? How do we citizens enable that dysfunction among our politicians? How do our readings address this set of dynamics?
What are your thoughts? Feel free to email me or to submit a post for publication here in the Tub.
Doing VBS this week, I am
Yours in Christ,
David von Schlichten, Lectionary Blog Moderator
Semon Ideas for July 31, 2011
2011-07-28 by David von Schlichten
1. What did they do with the baskets left over from the feeding of the over-five thousand?
2. If Christ feeds us so much, why are billions starving?
3. Genesis 32: How do we wrestle with God? How does God bless us in the wrestling? (We need to have a care here, lest we fall into blaming God for our suffering.)
4. Compassion: Psalm 145 (one of Sunday's options) speaks of God's compassion. Jesus shows compassion on the people in Matthew. Paul has compassion for his fellow Jews. How does God show compassion in our lives, and how are we to share compassion with each other?
5. In what ways does God feed us physically and spiritually? Is there overlap between the two? (Remember that physical and spiritual are not really opposites. People just THINK they are.)
6. Does Paul's argument in Romans 9-11 about Israel's rejection of Christ being part of the plan open the door to the possibility that the rejection of Christ on the part of other religious groups might also be part of the plan? If these rejections are part of the plan, then maybe these other groups, like Israel, will eventually be saved (see Romans 11).
7. How are we in exile? How does God bring us home?
8. In Matthew, we hear that Jesus ordered the people to sit on the grass. I am reminded of the Shepherd making us to lie in green pastures.
What ideas do you have? Feel free to send me an email or to submit a post for publication here.
Yours in Christ,
David von Schlichten, Lectionary Blog Moderator
READER SUGGESTION: Does Romans 9-11 Open the Door to Muslims?
2011-07-25 by David von Schlichten
A reader sent me an email in which s/he suggested that Paul's inclusion of the Jews in the plan of salvation in Romans 9-11 could be applied to Muslims. This is a compelling idea indeed.
Think about it. Paul argues in these complex chapters that Israel's rejection of Christ is part of the plan because it opened the door for the Gentiles to hear and receive the Gospel. Moreover, God has not turned God's back on Israel, - they remain the Chosen People - and God will eventually save Israel, as well.
Muslims are our theological relatives who believe in roughly the same God. Could it be that they, like the Jews, will be included in salvation?
Fascinating! What do you think? Feel free to submit an email to me or to submit a post for publication here.
David von Schlichten, Lectionary Blog Moderator
Initial Thoughts for July 31, 2011
2011-07-24 by David von Schlichten
Norway: This horrible event reminds us that it is not Muslims who are a threat but violent extremists who are.
Genesis 32: Jacob wrestling at Peniel is fascinating and mysterious. Is he wrestling with an angel, God, river demon? The passage does not say. Jacob seems to think that he has wrestled with God.
Part of the strangeness of the story is that Jacob is winning, so the supernatural wrestler stoops to knocking his hip out of joint. A mortal is doing better than this supernatural being? God or an angel is dealing a low blow? Strange.
From all this comes blessing and renaming. How do we wrestle with God and emerge blessed, renamed? Does God inflict pain upon us? Hmmm. Puzzling text.
Isaiah 55: This passage uses feast-imagery to speak of God feeding us wisdom. This lesson, of course, goes well with the Feeding of the Five-thousand-plus in the Gospel.
We have food and feeding as a motif in the readings. There is feeding of the body and feeding of the soul. God does both. We are not to see God as only addressing spiritual hunger but as addressing BOTH physical and spiritual hunger.
Romans 9:1-5 begins a long discourse in which Paul explains Israel's salvation situation. Paul stresses the blessed status of Israel. Israel may have, to an extent, rejected Christ, but the nation still remains God's chosen people. God is faithful ever.
I'll share more on Wednesday. You may email me with your thoughts, or you may submit a post for here.
Praying for Norway and Somalia, I am
Yours in Christ,
David von Schlichten, Lectionary Blog Moderator
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The United States is intensifying its push to build an international campaign against Islamic State jihadist fighters in Iraq and Syria, including recruiting partners for potential joint military action, Obama administration officials said on Wednesday.
Britain and Australia are potential candidates, US officials said. Germany said on Wednesday it was in talks with the United States and other international partners about possible military action against Islamic State but made clear it would not participate.
"We are working with our partners and asking how they might be able to contribute. There are a range of ways to contribute: humanitarian, military, intelligence, diplomatic," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.
It's unclear how many nations will sign up. Some such as trusted ally Britain harbor bitter memories of joining the US led "coalition of the willing" in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that included troops from 38 nations. Others such as France refused to join the action. The claims of the existence of weapons of mass destruction which spurred the coalition to act were found to be false.
The United States, the officials said, could act alone if necessary against the militants, who have seized a third each of Iraq and Syria, declared open war against the West and want to establish a hub of jihadism in the heart of the Arab world.
Senior White House aides met this week to discuss a strategy for expanding its assault on Islamic State, including the possibility of air strikes on the militants' stronghold in eastern Syria - an escalation that would almost certainly be riskier than the current US campaign in Iraq.
While Iraq's government welcomed the role of US warplanes to attack the militants, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that any strikes conducted without his country's permission would be considered an act of aggression, potentially plunging any US led coalition into a broader conflict with Syria.
The government of British Prime Minister David Cameron said it has not received a US request for air strikes.
"This is not something under discussion at the moment," a government spokeswoman said. "Our focus remains on supporting the Iraq government and Kurdish forces so that they can counter the threat posed by ISIL, for example with the visit of our security envoy to Iraq this week and the provision of supplies to Kurdish forces."
A spokesman for Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said humanitarian aid in Iraq could continue but declined to say whether Australia would join U.S.-led military action.
"Our response to any request from the United States, or other close allies and partners, will be based on whether there is an achievable overall humanitarian purpose and a clear and proportionate role for Australia as well as on a careful assessment of the risks," Abbott's spokesman said.
US officials hope the relative success of humanitarian aid and recent strikes on militant weapons in Iraq will diminish allied fears over supporting new military action.
"There's been a proof of concept in Iraq that with a limited campaign you can do (things) against these guys," one official said on condition of anonymity. "What we did already (has yielded) 25 to 30 nations offering to help," the official added, referring to widespread international humanitarian aid.


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My Top 5 Kiwi Fruit Recipes
I never realized the healthy benefits of eating Kiwi until I started working out. For one thing, Kiwi doesn't look so inviting to eat on the outside with its green color and slimy texture. But my fitness trainer suggested that I include it in my diet because it can help me achieve the lean and attractive figure that I've always wanted. That's the time I was able to prove that not everything is as it seems. In fact, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, Kiwi has no cholesterol and contains Vitamin C and E, Potassium, Magnesium and dietary fibers that are excellent sources for having a beautiful skin and developing body mass. It even has an anti-mutagenic property with its small glutathione content that reduces the risk of genetic mutation that can cause cancer. Kiwi also tastes good with its uncanny sweet sour flavor. There are other types of Kiwi aside from the Hardy (typical) kind, like the Arctic Kiwi (September Sun). It's called arctic because it's usually planted and grown in autumn, nearing the winter season. But it can also be just as healthy and tasty as the usual type when it's made into a recipe. Here are my top 5 Kiwi Fruit recipes that can be tried at home, scrumptious yet guilt-free.
1. Kiwi Quick Bread
It's a unique twist to the usual wheat bread because of the obvious additional ingredient which is the Kiwi fruit. It takes about 350 degrees to preheat it in an oven and needs to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Kiwi provides an aromatic smell to the bread that is easily enticing. The first time I made this for breakfast, I was a bit hesitant because I wasn't familiar with Kiwi at all. I thought it would taste horrible but it didn't.
2. V's Grilled Jerk Pork Tenderloin and Pineapple Mango-Kiwi Salsa
Okay. This one may not be suitable for those who would go for a strict diet. With its mouth-watering cut of pork meat, it may not look very healthy at first glance but it still is. The pork is grilled over a medium heat of 10 minutes making its texture and appearance soft and dry. The oil reduction brought by grilling also burns and minimizes the fat content. Partner it with a sweet pineapple mango-kiwi as it neutralizes the salty taste of the pork and give it a healthy option. This is a main course and desert in one. I tried it with my best friend and she loved it.
3. Banana and Kiwi Muffins
I'm addicted to the heavenly taste of blueberry and cheesecake muffins. Who wouldn't be anyway, especially when they really have a nasty case of sweet tooth just like me? But banana and kiwi muffins taste just as good as what I have mentioned. These goodies have the rightful blend of sweet, salty and sour blend that is suitable for snacks. They easily make me full.
4. Kiwi Jam
This recipe is very easy to prepare because it only follows four procedures. It involves the use of unsweetened pineapple to lessen the amount of sugar content. The Kiwi fruit should also be finely peeled and chop to avoid residues from settling in the mixture and for easier digestion.
5. Pear, Kiwi, Berry, Flax Seed Smoothie
I've never heard of Flax seeds until I tried making this drink. Flax seeds, according to my trainer, contain lignans or proteins that have anti-tumor qualities that can reduce the risk of cancer among women and enhance sperm count for men. They are also known to lower the blood pressure and cholesterol levels in the body.
Kiwi has a lot of uses and can be prepared in a variety of ways. It may not have a very pleasing appearance but it has an unforgettable taste when combined with other food sources and can make people healthy.


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Chuck Matthews, 66, St. Joseph, Missouri died Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at Heartland Regional Medical Center.
He was born January 21, 1947 to Willard and Helen (Williams) Matthews in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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* ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' raises the Idiot Plot to an art form - the entire concept is that the main character unwittingly becomes the most fearsome gangster in Japan because of the whole cast's inability to communicate properly.
* ''Manga/AoHaruRide'' is an example of characters who are so emotionally broken, their personality disorders are so severe, that they cannot help but continuously make the worst decisions possible in order to make their lives miserable and needlessly complicated. [[spoiler: Kou Avoids loving Futaba mostly due to his [[{{Main/SurvivorGuilt}} Survivor's Guilt]], Futaba persistently chooses to be miserable by obstinately chasing after emotionally-unavailable Kou, and it becomes even ''more'' absurd by Toma, whom knowingly pursues emotionally-unavailable Futaba pretty much because she's ''emotionally unavailable''.]]
* Generally speaking, [[{{Main/ShoujoDemographic}} Shojo]] more than not harbors teenagers whom are Main/TooDumbToLive, generally in order to maximize the amount of character-development.
* Pretty much every time the Central 46 in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' make any kind of decision, horrible things will happen in Soul Society because of their sheer stupidity or {{Jerkass}} tendencies. Most of this occurs in {{Filler}} of course, but some of it is in the manga and thus canon, which means that all of the Council must be clutching an IdiotBall.
* {{Ecchi}} thrives on this trope since FeaturelessProtagonist is [[NecessaryWeasel essential to the genre]]. The protagonist and some/all members of the supporting cast are blind to any development or common-sense regarding basic human interaction and interpersonal relationships, in the name of extending the length of the show. The general formula is to [[ArcFatigue postpone the plot]] by fixating on random {{Filler}} and FanService.
** Related, but many ecchi and similar genres are often filled with characters who are abnormally clumsy, usually just as an excuse to have them landing in compromising positions.
* The ending of ''GundamSEEDDestiny'' hinged on the ''Minerva'' crew acting like complete idiots so that they would fight the [[TheAlliance Three Ship Alliance]]. The crew ignores [[BigBad Gilbert Durandal]] creating a fake Lacus Clyne and his [[OmniscientMoralityLicense plan to control people's destiny]]. They even let slide the fact that Durandal is willing to use his newly acquired doomsday cannon to ''blow away '''entire countries''''' if they don't agree to his Destiny Plan. Actually between all of the characters the idiocy extends to most of the series.
* In ''MobileSuitGundamAGE'', Nora could have been evacuated in advance if Flit just tell Commander Hendrick that UE is about to attack the Colony. Or if ANYONE in the Earth Federation put two and two together and figure out that UE is going to hit Nora next, something even a 14 years old kid can predict.
* Pretty much the entire second half of the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' anime. It's painfully obvious to the main characters that Eriol is the cause of all the weird happenings, but no one is even the least bit suspicious of him. Most glaring is when Eriol buys a huge bag of sewing thread, cryptically says "There are many uses for thread" and wanders off. About five minutes later Shaoran is turned into a PeoplePuppet and forced to attack Sakura with, you guessed it, thread.
* {{Lampshaded}} in the ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' spinoff ''Cr@psule Monsters'':
-->'''Alex "[[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain Definitely Not A Villain]]" Brisbane:''' Step on the map.\\
'''Yugi:''' Make me.\\
'''Alex Brisbane:''' Oh, come on. I'll be your friend.\\
'''Yugi:''' Look. There's no way I'm stepping on any freaking map.\\
'''Alex Brisbane:''' What if I told you there was ''candy'' inside the map?\\
'''Yugi:''' You've got to be kidding me. [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough I'd have to be an idiot]] to fall for that.\\
'''Tea:''' Candy? That sounds pretty good.\\
'''[[TheDitz Tristan]]:''' Yes. Let's go get the candy!
* ''SonicX'' takes this to absurd proportions when ''everyone on the planet'' [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy Fails Astronomy Forever]] for a couple of episodes, except Sonic himself, amusingly enough. Eggman rigs the moon to block out the sun, making it look like the moon pretty much stopped, along with the sun. Nobody finds this fishy because they've forgotten that the moon revolves around the Earth, and the Earth around the sun, not to mention the Earth spins on an embarrassingly wonky axis. Eggman takes the opportunity to try and {{brainwash|ed}} everyone with the lamps he sells, only to have his plan foiled by Sonic yet again, because he was the only one not holding on to the gigantic IdiotBall. The ball in this case being more of an Idiot Moon.
* In ''{{X1999}} TheMovie,'' the seven Dragons of Heaven each guard a magical barrier which serves to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. When the Dragon of Heaven protecting a given barrier dies, the barrier collapses catastrophically, and if all of the barriers are destroyed, humanity will be wiped out. So naturally, almost to a man, the Dragons of Heaven sacrifice themselves [[TakingYouWithMe to kill the Dragons of Earth]]... who are trying to destroy the barriers to wipe out humanity. (The manga and the TV series handle things much better.)
* In the anime of ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', the protagonist is specifically oblivious and thickheaded enough to be continuously embarrassed and ashamed of his female-lead just so hilarity may ensue. By a matter of fact, [[spoiler: In the end of the first episode, the protagonist came to a life-changing, self-aware conclusion that he is merely a cog within the machine, a simpleton that is too afraid to be important; and that conclusion -- [[{{Main/Snapback}} is completely forgotten in the next episode]]; making it possible to repeat the same mistakes throughout the show, looking for the exact answer he had already answered on the first episode through the many hijinks which ensues with it.]]
** Post exposition, it is explicitly shown that the protagonist has dealt with the tough, socially-inept, [[AmbiguousDisorder probably autistic]] heroine for almost a whole month; yet he is still shaken by her quirky, eccentric, abnormal behavior as if he just met her.
* In ''SoraWoKakeruShoujo'', Nami's sisters structurally fail to acknowledge her obvious depressed state, going so far as to kick her down even more, as Kazane does in one episode. Even after Nami's FaceHeelTurn, Akiha simply tells Nami to shut up instead of listening to her during their first critical confrontation. Yeah, that really worked, now did it.
* ''BestStudentCouncil'' in its entirety counts for this.
* ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight'' runs on this to an absolutely unbelievable degree to the point that its predecessor ''Anime/DotHackSign'' is genius by comparison. At least in Sign, the main character Tsukasa is trapped in the established game, and can't leave until he finishes despite how dangerous it is. In Legend however, the main characters learn in the first episode that the game they're in is glitched and dangerous, and unlike Tsukasa they have the ability to leave whenever they want to. So what do they naturally do? [[TemptingFate They continue to play the dangerous game]] simply because they can. This is exactly why the series was criticized so heavily at this point.
* [[Yuria100Shiki Yuria]] doesn't want to have sex with Shunsuke because if she does she'll become his life-long sex slave, being a SexBot and all. She's pretty sure she doesn't like that idea, even after she starts wondering if she's fallen in love with Shunsuke. That's all well and good, but Shunsuke also doesn't want to have sex with Yuria because he is ''bafflingly'' devoted to his [[DefrostingIceQueen chaste, ice-cold]] girlfriend who he rarely hears from and even more rarely gets to see. And anyway what kind of idiot makes a SexBot who is intelligent and emotional enough to decide they don't ''want'' to be a SexBot? [[ButtMonkey (oh right, that kind)]].
* ''MyBalls''.
** Simply put, the protagonist has a powerful demon sealed in his balls and can't ejaculate for a month or humanity will be destroyed. He does away with his PornStash, yes, and manages to deal with the various HornyDevils going after him, but doesn't stay away from his nymphomaniac-when-drunk coworker.
** Which gets even funnier because [[spoiler: he does leave her. AFTER the world is safe.]]
* One of the two major conflicts in the final arc of PhantomOfInferno relied entirely on one of the characters coming to a braindead misunderstanding and the protagonist not only [[PoorCommunicationKills not making any attempts to correct her]], but saying whatever he could to make himself look guilty and egg on the conflict.
* ''Manga/{{Suzuka}}'' would be about a dozen volumes shorter if Yamato didn't find a way to say or do ''exactly'' the wrong thing every single chapter.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The short with the sports competition was an idiot plot. Naruto has a PottyEmergency, but his friends (somehow) fail to see this, and do things like keep prevent him from running to the men's room so they can take a picture, [[AssShove shove a baton up his butt]]. [[MurphysLaw And of course someone decided to close one bathroom for cleaning at *the* worst possible time]], so the other has a huuuuge line. [[PottyFailure This short, to the surprise of no one, does not end well.]]
** And on a much larger scale, the only reason there's any plot at all is because the BigBad apparently never considered personally capturing Naruto ''before'' he became powerful enough to challenge him. Given his teleportation powers, it would have been a simple matter for him to snatch Naruto whenever he wanted, but he doesn't actually try until after Naruto [[spoiler:gained full control of the Kyuubi's power,]] and is actually capable of putting up a fight. It wouldn't even have been hard, just pick any of the dozens of times before he got Jiraiya's supervision where he was either on his own, or only with other low level ninja and snatch him. It's not even in his own home village either, it's his JOB to routinely leave the village on little missions with only one mentor protecting him.
*** Here's your obligatory HandWave: It was because [[spoiler: [[FakeDefector Itachi Uchiha]] was in his way the whole time. Itachi joined Akatsuki to ensure it would not lay a finger on Sasuke or the Leaf. He would have intervened if Tobi tried to attack Kohona in ANY way, shape, or form. That includes going after Naruto. Up until Itachi died, Tobi put on an ObfuscatingStupidity act. When he kicked the bucket, Tobi made his move.]] However that doesn't explain why he didn't do it before then.
*** A possible explanation there verges on VoodooShark. Every other jinchuuriki was successfully captured without significant resistance by their village because none of them cared that their ''walking weapons of mass destruction'' were being stolen by an organization of criminals. The reason Naruto and B were left for last was simply because they were the only ones their respective Kages actually cared about.
*** The canon explanation is that the Kyuubi has to be sealed last, so it makes sense to leave it last- though, admittedly, that does run the risk of losing the Kyuubi if Naruto is fighting somewhere else and dies (the Kyuubi will eventually be reborn, but after an indeterminate time). It is also established that Tobi wanted Naruto and Sasuke to fight each other first (for reasons unknown, but possibly related to his obsessions- [[spoiler: since he is Obito, Naruto reminded him of his old self, so he wanted Sasuke to beat him to prove his old way of thinking wrong...as a wild guess]]). Its later established that he doesn't need the Bijuu ''per say'', just a certain amount of their chakra, though the full Bijuu is preferred. He manages to get both without capturing either B or Naruto, because sources of their Bijuu's chakra was elsewhere (in a lost limb of the 8-tails and with two deceased villains for the 9-tails, respectively).
** The Blood Prison movie, Naruto is sent to prison in order destroy the villain Artifact. However, Naruto was never told about any of this.
* "Stink Bomb", from the anime anthology movie ''Memories'' is about a salaryman at a pharmaceutical company who takes some experimental pills - thinking they're cold medicine - and becomes the vector for a chemical agent that kills everyone within several hundred meters from him. From then on, everyone just gets dumber. His immediate superiors call him out of a quarantine zone to deliver the pills to them. The JSDF try to kill him, but are so incompetent they just cause massive property damage and only exacerbate the problem. The American military screws things up even more by trying to capture him alive to get access to the chemicals. And throughout all this, the salaryman just '''can't figure out''' that he's the source of the obnoxious stink and no one EVER bothers to try explaining it to him. It's played for laughs, but galling all the same.
* In ''LostBrain'' the entire plot is basically one when FridgeLogic kicks in. The plot is based off [[VillainProtagonist Hiyama's]] plan of using hypnosis to remove human weakness with him controlling them having no chance at working, which any amount of additional research would have told him. The plot get even more stupid with the fact that [[ArchEnemy Kuonji]] and the police never seems to even try to investigate Hiyama even though all the trouble happening can pretty much be linked to him.
* ''Manga/LittleJumper'' would be a lot shorter if [[KidFromTheFuture Chimari]] had thought to look up her mother's name before going back in time. But then again, the IdiotBall ''is'' an Ichinose family heirloom.
* ''InfiniteRyvius'' would have been resolved if they had transmitted what happened to the rest of civilization, and definitely would have if they simply landed or had somebody leave the ship.
* In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' a lot of trouble would be avoided if the [[CoolShip Argama]] crew could control the catapult deck traffic better.
* ''GuiltyCrown'' episode 15 suffers from this. The entire plot for that episode depends on Souta and a few other unnamed characters acting like complete idiots, which eventually results in [[spoiler:[[TearJerker Hare's death]].]] [[FromBadToWorse From that point onwards it all goes downhill.]]
* The very first arc in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' hinged on ''the entire cast'' failing to have the common sense to question or search out a reason for why one character was being unseen and forgotten by more and more of the school and town. One member decides to investigate alone, and [[spoiler:then immediately forgets and becomes unable to see said character.]] After that, they explicitly avoid this. [[spoiler:[[TearJerker It's not enough.]]]]
* Any pre-Unova ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode is guilty of this, as Team Rocket would show up in ''every episode'' wearing [[PaperThinDisguise easily transparent disguises]] and the protagonist would ''always fall for it'', then act surprised when Team Rocket tries to escape with their Pokemon. ''Post-Unova'' sees the light of day dawn on a loads more competent version of the Team Rocket Trio.
** A handful of later episodes have some dumb plots. [[TakeOurWordForIt Naming how many may take up too much space on this page.]]
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' brushes up against this with multiple characters refusing to divulge information that would be beneficial to all involved. Some of it's easily brushed away, such as [[spoiler:Kyubey not wanting to say anything since sitting back and letting things work themselves out tends to work out in his favor]], but [[spoiler:Homura only trying to explain the situation to the girls ''once'', and in a panicked state to boot, can make some viewers want to tear their hair out]].
* ''Guardian Force'', the latter half of ''Anime/ZoidsChaoticCentury'', features a truly spectacular idiot plot in which Hiltz, TheStarscream BigBad, wants to revive the [[SealedEvilInACan Ultimate Death Saurer]] to KillAllHumans until only his race, the Ancient Zoidians, remain. In order to do so, he needs [[MysteriousWaif Fiona]] to open the door to [[McGuffin Zoid Eve]]. The sensible thing to do would be to [[ManipulativeBastard trick]] her into doing so at the beginning of the series, when the Ultimate Death Saurer would be [[HopelessBossFight unstoppable]]. Instead, he goes on a totally pointless tangent, building the [[SuperRobot Death Stinger]] and using it to go on a [[ArcFatigue seven episode rampage]], giving the main characters plenty of time to build the superweapons and develop the skills and experience needed to defeat him. Hiltz didn't ''need'' the Death Stinger for his plan; in lieu of the revelations made during the final four episodes, everything which happened before comes across as ForTheEvulz in-universe, and [[MerchandiseDriven To Sell Toys]] out-of universe.
** There is however a very good reason why Hiltz didn't simply wake up the Death Saurer ASAP: The heroes have already killed a Death Saurer once before and they can do it again. The true purpose of the Death Stinger was to be a SacrificialLamb to power-up the Death Saurer. Given that the powered-up Death Saurer could no-sell a direct hit from the ''Gravity Cannon'', where even the Death Stinger died (temporarily) to it, it is reasonable to assume that the Blade Liger couldn't penetrate the Death Saurer's new armor to hit its core on its own power. The point about the Death Stinger's preceding rampage being For the Evulz still stands, though.
* The entire short "break-up" arc in the ''Anime/SailorMoon R'' anime could have been resolved by Mamoru ''telling Usagi the truth.'' Yes, he had prophetic dreams that she would die if they stayed a couple, but that did ''not'' require that he toss her to the curb and dump her. Then it gets resolved when Usagi finds out anyway and he completely caves. The real kicker? The dreams were being sent by the ''future'' King Endymion (Mamoru's future self) to try and strengthen the couple's love. That's right -- he broke them up to make them love each other more.
* ''Manga/BioMeatNectar'' is a rare dramatic example.
* ''Manga/BGataHKei'' is a story about a beautiful high-school girl [[HaremSeeker who wants to have sex with one hundred guys]]. If she could open her mouth and tell anyone that, the plot would have been over in ten seconds. But it wouldn't have been anywhere near as funny. In fact, in one omake chapter her boyfriend loses her memory of ever knowing her, and she still almost solves the plot in about five minutes just by asking for sex.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:Envy is eventually reduced to a powerless form]] and May Chang has to return to her home country. Trouble is, the plot requires them both to be in Central for the climactic battles. Arakawa's solution is to have the older and wiser people around May [[spoiler:put manipulative, sadistic Envy in a jar so that May can get the secret of immortality from him... the hideously nasty secret that ''they have all refused to use''. What's worse, she's supposed to take him to the Emperor of Xing, a man who she said five episodes ago should never know about philosopher's stones because he would happily perform the required slaughter! Envy talks her into going back to Central in about five minutes]].
* [[spoiler:The Black Knights betrayal of Zero]] in ''CodeGeass.'' Several years since the show has ended and it ''still'' is the most controversial element of the series. After [[spoiler:Schneizel reveals that Zero is Lelouch, former prince of Britannia, and a wielder of Geass,]] they take his word for it with almost no argument. They then hold [[spoiler:Zero/Lelouch]] '''at gun point''', demanding a confession from him. While [[spoiler:Schneizel]] was technically telling the truth, he was still their enemy, and no one bothered to question whether he was lying or manipulating them. They also don't figure out that their ability to mutiny proves that [[spoiler:Zero had not, as Schniezel claimed, Geassed them into obedience.]]
* Every single episode of the Island/Africa arc in ''NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''. There are so many holes in the "plots", that one could drive a truck through them.
* The entire plot of ''Anime/TenchiInTokyo'' hinges on the fact that, had this been done in [[Anime/TenchiMuyo another]] [[Anime/TenchiUniverse continuity]], it would not have worked.
* The Cell saga of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' brought out the worst in most of the main cast. Every step in Cell's progress was the direct result of a protagonist's mistake:
** Piccolo's urge to destroy 17 [[HonorBeforeReason and save the day]] provided a huge energy beacon [[SpiderSense to pinpoint their location]].
** Tenshinhan using his [[CastFromLifeSpan Tri-Beam]] to incapacitate Cell would, given that it immobilised Cell for a long while, probably have been used to significant effect against Imperfect Cell - who he'd been observing before Cell absorbed Android 17 and transformed. It also took Android 18 far too long to even consider escaping while Tenshinhan was ''sacrificing his life for her''.
** Krillin's [[LoveMakesYouDumb refusal to destroy 18]] and Vegeta's [[BloodKnight urge to face a stronger opponent]] both allowed him to ascend to his perfect form.
** Cell wasn't immune, either - giving them ten days training could be reasonably considered a bad move on the off-chance they have some massive power-booster than takes a few days, such as, maybe, a YearInsideHourOutside training room.
** Goku dreaming up a ridiculous BatmanGambit in order to get Gohan - ''his ten-year-old son'' - to [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry fly into a rage at Cell]] and tell literally nobody his plan until Gohan was on the battlefield being [[CurbStompBattle utterly crushed by Cell]]. [[spoiler:Subverted since it does end up working...eventually.]]
** Goku feeding Cell a [[EmergencyEnergyTank senzu bean]] and passing the fight to Gohan took out a prime opportunity to finish him off.
** And Gohan's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide blind rage and thirst for revenge]] caused Cell to become [[TakingYouWithMe truly desperate]], leading to Goku's HeroicSacrifice. However, even with all this, the saga is still widely considered to be the MagnumOpus of the series, and at least all characters' mistakes are in line with their established flaws and characterization.
* In all continuities of ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'', many of the protagonists' problems could have been avoided if Shin had simply '''picked up the phone and called Ryoko''' to inform her of his deployment in Asran and Kanzaki's ambitions.
** Asran's civil war could have been avoided if Abdael had simply [[spoiler:shown King Zak the cryogenic chamber in which Soria was housed and explained why funding the country's medical system was vital to curing Soria's cancer.]]
* The encounter with Death 13 in Part 3 of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' could've been resolved halfway through if everyone hadn't suddenly lost their [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] and were unable to believe that a baby was a stand-user (when they'd already encountered a stand-wielding orangutan, [[ArbitrarySkepticism so they've certainly seen stranger things.]]) Even worse is when Kakyoin figures out what's really going on. Instead of trying to calmly and rationally convince the others (which isn't too much of a stretch because he's already one of the calmer members of the group,) he resorts to hysterics and only convinces them that he's lost his mind.
* The plan of the Capulet retainers in RomeoXJuliet is not ''that'' dumb at first glance, since it ''is'' a sound move to hide Juliet aka the SoleSurvivor of their Clan and [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender make her live her early life as a boy]] to protect her from the Montague group. What's unforgivably stupid is to ''not explain to Juliet WHY she's forced into hiding and crossdressing until her DangerousSixteenthBirthday'': that means poor Juliet is completely unprepared to become the leaderess of the group and command them against the tyrannical Montague regime, and it takes a HEAVY mental/emotional toll on her. Not to mention, by that time she has already met the MadDictatorsHandsomeSon [[StarCrossedLovers and is falling for him...]]
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' is a deliberate example PlayedForLaughs. The entire series revolves around a bunch of idiots trying to keep incredibly obvious secrets from each other, or making mundane situations spiral completely out-of-control.
* In ''Manga/AnatoliaStory'', one arc involves [[BigBad Nakia]] arranging for a beautiful peasant girl to pose as Yuri in a town where nobody actually met her, all for the fake Yuri to be as spoiled and selfish as possible and ruin the real Yuri's reputation. The trouble is, the plan is short-term at best and hinges entirely on Kail having more important things to do than go out ''right then and there'' to deal with the matter. Yuri, meanwhile, ''does'' go out immediately... but chooses to do so by riding out on her own, with no proof of her identity or anyone with her who could creditably identify her. As a result, nobody (including, amusingly enough, the fake Yuri) believes her. She does try to meet with the king of the city-state they're in, hoping that he might recognize her, but her plan to get into the palace and meet him fails when she loses her temper at the sight of the fake Yuri's selfishness and, as a result, is basically given a death sentence via being sent to tend to plague victims. Kail, meanwhile, ends the entire thing simply by showing up and confirming which Yuri is the real one. This is lampshaded later, when he says that the entire issue could have been avoided if Yuri had simply presented herself as a princess and served to show that she had to be more comfortable with the fact that she is, in fact, royalty.


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Copyright 2014: Houston Chronicle | May 2, 2014 | Updated: May 5, 2014 9:41am
Photo By Billy Smith II/StaffWorkers continue setting up the exhibition floor at Offshore Technology Conference 2014 at NRG Park, Thursday May 1, 2014 in Houston. OTC 2014 is scheduled for May 5-8. (Billy Smith II / Houston Chronicle)
NRG Park begins its transformation this week from sports complex to ground zero of the oil and gas industry as the Offshore Technology Conference kicks off its 2014 extravaganza. For the past 45 years, OTC has been a gathering of the finest minds in the offshore oil and gas industry. Attendance at OTC last year reached 104,800, a level not seen since the tail end of the oil boom in 1982. That number quickly plummeted with the '80s oil bust, leading to a few industry mainstays recommending at the time that the convention become a biennial, or even triennial, event. By 1984, OTC focused exclusively on technical papers, reserving no exhibition space and featuring zero exhibition companies. Things can change quicker than we would like. The OTC is back on top again, with every inch of space rented out in an industry bonanza that OTC chairman Ed Stokes says will leave people "awestruck." But should we be wary of another collapse?
Renewable energy sources grow cheaper every year, threatening to cross that seemingly impenetrable cost per kilowatt boundary that until now has been the exclusive realm of fossil fuels. Natural gas is a bridge to a cleaner energy future, but perhaps that bridge is shorter than we thought. Is the world ready for what waits on the other side?
The pollution and disasters that come with the oil and gas industry may be far removed from some who visit OTC every year, but those problems are close to home. Even the April 2010 blowout of BP's deep-water Macondo well still lingers in people's minds as BP fights the court's settlement terms. All the while, the world worries about the effects of global climate change.
The oil and gas industry has brought wealth to our city. Fossil fuels have powered one of the greatest technological leaps in human history and allowed billions of people to reach otherwise unachievable living standards.
Yet something new awaits at the end of that energy bridge.