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questioning Freeh? No. And as people note, PSU accepted the sanctions. But that doesn't mean there aren't unanswered questions. A lot more will come out in several upcoming trials.
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questioning Freeh? No. And as people note, PSU accepted the sanctions. But that doesn't mean there aren't unanswered questions. A lot more will come out in several upcoming trials.
This story has several more chapters.
No, some people have political cover now and are trying to use it, but even if Paterno isn't guilty of enabling Sandusky, I think it can be proved the athletic department of the university was. As far as Clinton getting involved, no politics just an observation, PA has a lot of electoral votes and Hillary seems to be plotting a run for '16.
Everything in this case has reeked of self interest. The University trying to pin the problem on Paterno to make the governing body less culpable, the Paterno family for commissioning the report and using every method possible to clear his name, the former PA governor working the Paterno report who could also be reasonably accused of malfeasance in the whole business and reporters trying to burnish their credibility by offering the "thoughtful take".
The truth of the matter may lie somewhere in between, but until Curley(sp?) and Schulz(sp?) take the stand and say exactly what happened under oath, I'm inclined to believe JoePa enabled Sandusky's bahavior due to his outsize power and influence at State College. If he can veto his own firing it seems to me there isn't a whole hell of a lot else he didn't have control over.
Good points. Im not sure we can rely on Curley and Schulz to tell the truth but it will be interesting to hear their take. I'd be shocked if they don't throw Paterno under the bus. Self preservation is the reason these guys are in this position in the first place.
How does throwing Paterno under the bus help Curley and Shulz? What does the prosecution have to gain from that testimony that would facilitate such a deal? Or what does Curley/Shultz have to gain from throwing Paterno under the bus in front of the jury? Can they possibly raise as a defense "Joe said not to do it?"
Yes? I mean, what else can they do at this point? Might as well make themselves look a little bit less evil and make Joe out to be the dictator and claim that whatever he says goes. Ultimately, theyre screwed no matter how they spin it.
I think Louis Freeh is going to have sell some more jerseys (like hotcakes, even) to turn the tide back.
"My main part of the Freeh report I was interested in was the recommendations to change our governance and policies so this can never happen again," - Carl Shaffer, PSU Trustee, quoted in the article
You would hope that this is one of the things the school would focus on - it was indeed tasked to do this by virtue of having an ethics monitor as a result of the sancitons. Fighting over whatever remains of Joe Paterno's reputation, which seems to be essentially what his family wants this to become since they cannot separate the man from the school, still would not answer to the breaksdowns which allowed the systematic abuse of children to occur on the Penn State campus and at the hands of Jerry Sandusky. I do not understand how the Paterno family could possibly think they would win the argument with a report which is literally a rationalization of Joe's role in the case.
Penn State officials, fans, and alumni are absolutely delusional. It all boils down to the fact that Joe Paterno was effectively the most powerful man on campus, not the President or Trustees or anyone. Saying he did his job by reporting up the stream is a joke. Anyone who doesn't believe that Joe Paterno had the power get a proper investigation going just hasn't been paying attention to college football the past 20 years.
I believe they need to take a "if PSU does these things..." line, and reduce the bowl ban and scholarship cap. Emmert's statement about cultural was a laughable remark, and he needs to remember from whench he came. I look at it like reckless driving: big fine, probabtion, driving skills course, still can function as a normal person.
Honestly, I think hitting them with 60 mill fine was best move I have seen the NCAA make as far as sanctions go. If Universities AD's only care about sports revenue, then hit them with financial fines, even windfalls amounts. How doesn't that punitive measure make institutions step back and say, "wow, losing those resources hurts everyone, not just the young men on the football roster". I respectfully disagree with any notion that scholarship reductions fairly or equitably treat institutions on a punitive level. If you need freshman walk-ons/run-ons to play, you basically are doing more long term harm by crunching the rosters. Also, you punish innocent people rather than the wrong doers. I could see bowl bans up-to four years, a significant fine and only slight scholarship restrictions for less time (e.g. OSU example) as a better overal punishment. I am not defending PSU, but I think what the NCAA did was another in a long line of mis-steps.
My epinion is that most BIG and college football fans sort have a thread in their minds that since we all felt PSU and Paterno presented themselves as morally superior to everyone else, that when this horrible crime unveiled itself, we all had a "gotcha" complex. We wanted them to be punished since we were tried of their meme. Well, Sandusky is a criminal, and was punished. PSU had a major failure in leadership, they are being punished (frankly, cost Paterno his life and legacy). Yet, the institution, players, fans and many associated with that campus and school did nothing wrong.
Why should they suffer? Does a few really dictate terms for the many?
The problem with the financial penalties is that the fans, the ultimate source of power in sports institutions, don't give a crap. The rich alumni will pony up some money to help them out. You've got to hit the fans where it hurts -- wins and losses. Make the fans' teams lose games or miss out on the postseason, and it makes them hate the activity that caused the sanctions. If anything, I think that the NCAA needs to abandon fines and levy scholarship penatlies on a much greater scale than what they do now. Cheating programs should be punished in a manner that exceeds the competitive advantage that they gain from cheating.
Exactly. I never understand when people break out the hurting "innocent kids" line. So short-sighted. It's about punishing the institution. The poor kids on the football team can transfer wherever they would like if they want to go to a bowl game.
Do you remember what happened to our basketball program? Granted, there were plenty of issues (coaches/facilities) but did Lavell Blanchard deserve to have a post-season ban?
Let me say, that if the tide turns on public opinion back to giving Joe Paterno the benefit of the doubt, then this country truly is doomed. How is it that the BigTen hasn't booted PSU out, as fast as they let them in, is beyond me.
All of this posturing on the part of the Paterno's & their unofficial mouthpiece ESPN is laughable given that in a month or so the actual trial of Curley, Spanier & Schultz will begin. And you don't need to have graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard Law (or Michigan for that matter) to know that the most likely defense of both of these guys will be to pin EVERYTHING on Joe. Under oath.
And that my friends should bury this revisionist history nonsense once and for all.
It's been asked above by others but I'll ask it here too: how does "our subordinate told us to do it" provide a defense?
I have little doubt that's what they'll say, mostly because I don't have much doubt that it happened. But I don't know what legal difference it would make, or how much it would influence a judge's sentencing decision.
A last ditch effort by a desperate family to clear Paterno's name. At this point, they're really doing more harm than good to what's left of their reputation. Child sex abuse is an extremely polarizing subject, and people with opinions of Paterno based on the scandal will likely never change their opinions. I honestly don't know what they think they can accomplish.
This is just journalists fishing for article clicks. At the end of the day you have Sandusky in jail on multiple counts of rape, no matter what reports the Paterno family pays people to write. A criminal conviction speaks much louder than a tailor made report purchased by someone to clear their family's name.
About the only way the sanctions could ever be reversed is if the prejury charges against various PSU admins completely come apart in court. The DA would likely need to 0 for 3 in court against Curley, Spanier, and Schultz for PSU to open the door for appeals.
I just don't understand people who act like the reports are definitive legal rulings. The Freeh report was ordered by the PSU BoT to discover how bad their posistion was. It's like talking to a lawyer and hearing him say "Yeah, take the plea bargain man, take it!". The Paterno report was clearly done to clear the Paterno family name. Yet people think this report cleared Paterno and PSU, despite the fact three of their admins still face multiple charges and the DoJ is still digging around up there for failure to report issues.
The "this was overblown side" is 0 for 1 in court, with Sandusky gone on multiple convictions, and unless they have a run of good luck with the other guys, no report they release is going to change anything.
In Happy Valley, the bare minimum is next to godliness.
The evidence stands. The Leadership at PSU stepped aside and let a pedophile run wild from 1998 to 2012. The fact that people are pretending that somehow it isn't as bad as that is .... well, repugnant.
Doesn't matter, IMO. The AD, President of the university, et. al were aware of damning allegations brought forth by a graduate assistant of rape of young men happening by one of their staff members on PSU property and they either failed to act appropriately or actively covered it up. Either way, they are deserving of what they got, and I think it really is that simple. Whether or not Paterno's name should be "cleared" is sort of trivial in the scheme of things, don't you think? It misdirects the focus from the victims of a tragic story.
I also think it is peculiar that everything seemed "go ahead" with the Freeh report until they turned up bad info about Joe Paterno, then it became negligible and we've got to start over? Please.
I share the feelings of many about Sandusky's heinous crimes. I am equally disillusioned about Joe Paterno and the shameful behavior of Penn State. I also recognize that I am not well informed enough to prejudge this case and I lack the "moral expertise" required to determine whether and how Penn St should be punished by the NCAA.
At the same time, I have had some doubts raised in my mind after I read the link below about the checkered career of the investigator, Mr. Freeh. Many questions are raised in this link about how judicious and impartial Mr. Freeh has been in the past.
To be sure, based on his findings, I can see a rationale for NCAA punishment vs. PSU. At the same time, I am not sure that the NCAA, with its purportedly limited resources, should be spending its time prosecuting such cases. It seems to put the NCAA on a slippery slope regarding where it should draw the line. When should the NCAA investigate possible university supression of other information about other embarassing moral or legal offenses? I don't know.
Additionally, if the NCAA does not draw some clear lines, I fear that it will be even more distracted from investigations, which are more clearly germane to its mission. Witness the effect the Penn St affair had in distracting attention from the ongoing investigation of Ohio. IMO, the NCAA did a pretty shoddy job in their own "investigation", leaving countless questions poorly evaluated or completely unanswered.
(eg Clarett's admitted illegal benefits, other players allegations about free cars, valuable memorabilia, and no-show jobs, not to mention the relations of Tressel, Sarniak and Pryor, in part impeded by Ohio's refusal to release emails )
In the case of Ohio, I even wonder if any major penalties would have been forthcoming if Goodell had not prodded Pryor into releasing further details about Sarniak and about illlegal benefits given to him and his teammates at a charity function.
Here, as well as in embracing the opportunity provided by the Freeh report, the NCAA looks a little like the drunk who was seen searching for his key under a spotlight in the alley. Asked if that's where he dropped his key, he said "No, but that's where the light is." Similarly, the NCAA often seems to look only at problems after light has been cast on them. To often, it fails to shed much light on many other possible violations.
No, it's not. Penn State got what it deserved. These are the types of misdeeds the NCAA should be punishing, not free sandwiches for football players at the corner deli. The fact that the NCAA had to step outside of its normal enforcement procedures to impose the Penn State sanctions says more about how out of whack the NCAA's priorities are than whether or not the sanctions were proper.
The NCAA should have rules that punish an athletic department for covering up child rape to avoid tarnishing the reputation of its football program. The NCAA should not have rules that prevent John Beilein from interacting with his own son at basketball camps.
"I have had some doubts raised in my mind after I read the link below about the checkered career of the investigator, Mr. Freeh"
This isn't about Freeh. It's about a culture that supported JoPa and PSU football above all else. After looking at the timeline, I'd believe the Devil hisself over PSU, the Paternos and their lackeys.
Not having all the evidence at hand, part of my opinion is influenced by the new information I just read about the credibility of the investigator.
Perhaps, as you say, Penn St does deserve its punishment--maybe even more. What they did was terrible. I agree with this. Also, perhaps as others suggest, this will serve as a warning to other schools that cover up information.
On the other hand, the more dishonest schools may draw the opposite conclusion. Seeing the consequences at Penn St, these schools may be less inclined to hire an "independent" investigator that cannot easily be controlled. Recall that, rather than hire a former FBI guy like Freeh to evaluate allegations against them, Ohio hired a consulting firm run by multiple former leaders of Arthur Anderson--the corrupt accounting firm that was involved in the coverup of accounting crimes at Enron.
Penn State deserves the sanctions because of the cover up from top to bottom. But unfortunately in our society money talks. Penn State, NCAA and BIG 10 want the revenue of not destroying the football program for 5 years. A lot of the facts aren't being disputed by the Paterno's. They are just adding a different spin on it. If they drop the sanction against Penn State they should put Old Joe's statue back up and we can all pretend like nothing happened.
I disagree with, but know why the Paterno family is doing what they are doing. Having grown up with a father who was a high ranking college administrator, the part that gets me is the absolute and continued lack of control the leadership of PSU has over this issue. You should not have board members publicly making comment about this issue for PR and legal reasons. Why they did not make the board members and any other school officials sign a gag order until all trials are over is beyond my comprehension of stupidity.
PSU is more than a football institution. College football is not the only lens through which life is viewed for the majority of our population (yes, that is true). All those "leaders" associated with PSU should remember that.
Here is a related thought....
Imagine that Canham's first choice was Paterno, who turned us down... and Bo was second.
And it was Paterno who even said that success without honor is akin to a steak without seasoning.
Thank goodness that we got Bo.
If the prosecution goes 0-3 in the upcoming trials against Spanier, Curley, and the guy who I cannot remember I believe the NCAA will be forced to look at the sanctions on Penn State because of public pressure.
If all 3 are convicted, it will be case closed and Penn State can eat a lump of excrement until the sanctons are over.
Anything inbetween and the clarity of the situation will remain as it is now with two distinct sides to the issue.
Personally I'd have no problem with them getting schollys back after 2 years but extending thebowl ban to 6 or 8.
to tell you what you want to hear. You can get it almost every time.
So because one person at ESPN liked the content of the report = tide turning? You can easily find hundreds of articles that vehemently disagrees with Van Natta's opinion, a few of which were also published on ESPN.
I believe these are the same Trustees that just got elected in last year, and have called for the sanctions to get dropped immediately. They're Joe Paterno disciples that think he could never do any wrong.
So no, this won't change anything.
It was said above, but it bears repeating:
The NCAA did not punish Penn State for what Joe Paterno did. The NCAA punished Penn State for what Penn State did.
The Paterno Report does not challenge the Freeh Report on the facts of what Penn State University did; it only questions how involved one particular individual was in the decision-making behind Penn State's actions. The problem here is that it doesn't matter why Penn State University behaved as they did--the facts not in dispute are enough to justify the consent agreement. There are no new facts in the Paterno Report that contradict anything in the NCAA's release of the consent agreement. Therefore, there is nothing that will change that agreement.
I never agreed with the Paterno witch hunt. AFAIC, they can put Jerry Sandusky in general population for his prison term, but I still think Joe's only "crime" was not wanting to believe that an old friend was a POS.
The first quote in the OP fundementally misrepresents the two respective reports. The Freeh report was not an "opening statement." Freeh was hired by PSU to provide an objective report on just what happened to allow Sandusky to continue to utilize his PSU connections to act as a predator. The only people who saw this as an opening statement in the trial against Joe Paterno were the Paterno family and a certain segment of the PSU fan base who, defying all logic, thought Penn State had an incentive to bring their entire football empire crashing down.
The "Patern Report" was a defense's opening statement against a non-existant opening statement. It didn't seek to find the truth, it only sought to flaunt what it saw as "weaknesses" in the non-existant "prosecution" of Joe Paterno. It's not meant to represent truth, it's only meant to deny any potential wrong doing by Joe Paterno.
This isn't to say that the Freeh report was perfect or should be taken as gospel. The report couldn't be perfect when Freeh wasn't allowed to interview any of the key participants. What you can say is that the Freeh report presented plenty of evidence that several people at PSU, through their actions or inaction allowed Jerry Sandusky to continue to be the Monster that he is. Unfortunately, this group of people almost certainly includes Joe Paterno.
At this point, both sides seem to be arguing at the edges. A bunch of kids were sexually assaulted by Jerry Sandusky, and there is rather conclusive evidence that other people at PSU either had direct and/or significant evidence that he was acting inappropriately. Yes, maybe Joe Paterno didn't know as much as the Freeh report stated, but this feels like quibbling, a bunch of men and women arguing about how far on the wrong side of history they are.


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Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J., has been using AEI's model and digital animations of a proposed multipurpose athletic center to publicize and raise money for the project. Last year, the American Red Cross used AEI's 3-D multimedia technology to hold a ''virtual groundbreaking'' in Los Angeles for a blood-processing center -- the largest in the nation -- in nearby Pomona.
And in Philadelphia, AEI's digital views of the Phillies' new ballpark two years before groundbreaking were a ''very nice component'' in introducing the park to the city as well as selling advertising, sponsorships and actual seats, said Mr. Weber, the sales director.
He said the digital presentations had helped, so far, in selling 69 of the park's 70 luxury suites, which cost $115,000 to $200,000 a year. For season ticket holders who were unsure where their seats in the old park would be in the new one, a Web-site click and a glance at their virtual vantage points by way of AEI's model eased the transition.
Phil Castellano, vice president for visitor services at the National Constitution Center, which opened in Philadelphia in 2002, said AEI's virtual representation of the $185 million center was not only ''stunningly'' accurate ''but critical to all aspects to getting its doors open.''
''It's very difficult to describe or sell, if you will, a facility that's going to have the impact that a place like this has,'' Mr. Castellano said of the 160,000-square-foot center, dedicated to the study and celebration of the United States Constitution. He said the virtual tours of the center during the building's 26 months of construction helped potential donors as well as the general public see the project's value.
''You can't bring around the plans with you and expect everybody to be able to read schematic designs,'' he said.
In the case of digitally visualizing the surgical equipment made by Getinge USA, a subsidiary of a Swedish company, AEI departed from pure architectural forms to create virtual operating rooms in which equipment could be manipulated in what video-game designers like to describe as ''on the fly.''
The equipment, which includes ceiling-mounted booms and surgical lighting systems, can be moved about in 3-D space on a computer screen with a mouse, demonstrating what AEI officials say is some of its most advanced interactive imaging.
''Now our products can be shown, how they reach and rotate,'' said Brice Kaleski, marketing manager for surgical lights and ceiling pendants for Getinge in Rochester. He said that AEI's digital models not only helped its sales staff present the company's products to better advantage, but could also be used to better plan operating rooms.
Mr. Schuldt said the virtual model of Getinge's surgical systems could be copied onto CD-ROM discs and left with clients to explore, rather than have Getinge's salespeople transport expensive dioramas of operating-room scale models to help explain how the equipment might be used.
But working with billions of bites and bytes presents its own problems.
When the Phillies organization wanted AEI to build a 40-foot-wide panoramic view of the ballpark from a full-size physical mock-up of a luxury suite, AEI designers discovered that the virtual crowds it created to fill the seats were not detailed enough.
''Representing digital people can be far more challenging than portraying the buildings they inhabit,'' said Adrien Knowles, AEI's managing director. A program designed to create forests of digital trees was reconfigured to create swaths of people, some even clothed in Phillies T-shirts.
Now, Mr. Schuldt said, the challenge is to exceed the expectations that the new technology has already created. ''People are expecting a photorealistic still or an animation,'' he said. ''We would like to figure out how to make it more engaging.''
Photos: PREVIEW -- Which scene at left is virtual and which is a physical mock-up of luxury suites at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia? Michael Schuldt, above, and his firm, AEI Digital, used digital imagery to help the Phillies woo buyers. (The virtual scene is at the far left.) (Photo by Tim Shaffer for The New York Times)(pg. G1); SIMULATION -- Jonathan Sawyer, left, AEI's director of visualization, with an aerial photo of Philadelphia, where the firm helped design a ballpark. Adrien Knowles, right, AEI's managing director, working on a modeling program. Below, a virtual view of the National Constitution Center before its 2002 opening. (Photographs by Tim Shaffer for The New York Times)(pg. G6)

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Rassie answers: Hi KP – obviously the most of the players we're looking at short term will come from the Vodacom Super Rugby franchises, as the natural progression for players in their careers is to get there from the lower levels up, but we're also planning ahead for years to come and in the end we monitor players from as low as U16 level up, through high school, university and club level and then at the various provincial unions.
Your Question: Hi Rassie. Congratulations on your new role. Unusual question for you: I was an officer in the army in Kroonstad from July 1985-1986. There was a Rassie Erasmus (Officer) there at the same time who also trained as a 'parabat'. When I see your name in the media I always wonder if its you? Kind regards, Michael Eckersley.
Rassie answers: Thanks Michael. No, it wasn't me - jumping from airplanes has never been my thing!
Your Question: Hi, I would like to know your thoughts on a posibble 'VICTOR MATFIELD' return to International Rugby ? I believe his experience in a 'consultancy' role will be absolutely invaluable , but what kind of message will it send to the MANY up and coming and VERY capable Locks that we have in this Country , if He makes the starting line up ? Thank You, Garth van Tonder.
Rassie answers: The Victor issue is one that has been discussed quite a lot recently and while I can't speculate too much on what will happen in the end, I can say that I've mentioned to Heyneke that it might be a good idea to get him involved, as a player or as a lineout consultant. When it comes to lineouts, he's the best there has ever been. I've played with, played against, coached against and coached with him and I only have the highest regard for Victor. Time will tell what will happen to him in the coming weeks, but I do think we need to involve him with the Boks.
We must always do what is best for South African rugby and if that means bringing Victor back, we must do it. He will also add a lot of value to our younger locks coming through the ranks.
Your Question: Rassie- What will the rationale be behind the inclusion of Victor in the Springbok team its over and over proven that players when they come back after a decision has been made to hang up the shoes that they not performing or is as good as they were. There are more than enough capibilities with other players to be a leader of the Bokke? (Your honest view) - Ian Swarts
Rassie answers: Ian, see my answer above here to Garth. What I can add is that Victor is probably one of the best captains world rugby has seen in the last decade. His knowledge of the game and his understanding of what to do in certain situations is nothing but brilliant. He was great for the Boks last year. On the leadership question, we do have a lot of good captains in South Africa, but if you look at the SA Vodacom Super Rugby teams, four of our captains are loose forwards and three of those are No 8s. We've lost a core of leaders, but we will build one up again, of that I'm very confident.
Remember, Jake White also brought back Os du Randt in 2004 and he played the full 80 minutes in the Rugby World Cup final in 2007, so there are success stories of players returning from retirement.
Your Question: Congrats on the new appointment! I know that you will embrace this opportunity with all your rugby heart and that your wealth of knowledge and expertise will ultimately benefit the well-being of this beloved sport. My question is: "Who will typically attend your meetings?" Thanks & Good Luck! Sykes Terblanche.
Rassie answers: Thanks Sykes. Your question is an interesting one - if I understand correctly, I will work mostly with coaches, technical analysts, talent identifiers, referees and so on. At the Boks, we've got a team of great coaches who will sit in on meetings, as well as our medical staff, admin staff and obviously the players.
Your Question: Hi Rassie, I fear our game is becoming dated and has not moved on since 2007. I think young Goosen from the Free State at 10 could change this and re-ignite our backs. Do you think he will ever get selected under Heyneke Meyer? Regards, Chris Sysum.
Rassie answers: I don't agree with you 100% Chris, but I understand what you mean. Teams become more organised every year and it gets more difficult to score tries, but the real good teams will always find ways to get more points on the board than their opponents. Johan Goosen is a superb player and while I don't want to speculate on team selection, I'm pretty certain he will feature at the highest level sooner rather than later.


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"The news is really bad. You guys were the ultimate couple. I am really upset, I really wish that you guys get back together soon," a certain Sanya Grover posted on Hrithik's Facebook page.
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Monty White wants creationism taught in British schools. "We do get the students to question what they're being taught about evolution," he says.
LONDON -- After the Sunday service in Westminster Chapel, where worshipers were exhorted to wage "the culture war" in the World War II spirit of Sir Winston Churchill, cabbie James McLean delivered his verdict on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
"Evolution is a lie, and it's being taught in schools as fact, and it's leading our kids in the wrong direction," said McLean, chatting outside the chapel. "But now people like Ken Ham are tearing evolution to pieces."
Ken Ham is the founder of Answers in Genesis, a Kentucky-based organization that is part of an ambitious effort to bring creationist theory to Britain and the rest of Europe. McLean is one of a growing number of evangelicals embracing that message -- that the true history of the Earth is told in the Bible, not Darwin's "The Origin of Species."
Europeans have long viewed the conflict between evolutionists and creationists as primarily an American phenomenon, but it has recently jumped the Atlantic with skirmishes in Italy, Germany, Poland and, notably, Britain, where Darwin was born and where he published his 1859 classic.
Darwin's defenders are fighting back. In October, the 47-nation Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog, condemned all attempts to bring creationism into Europe's schools. Bible-based theories and "religious dogma" threaten to undercut sound educational practices, it charged.
Schools are increasingly a focal point in this battle for hearts and minds.
A British branch of Answers in Genesis, which shares a website with its American counterpart, has managed to introduce its creationist point of view into science classes at a number of state-supported schools in Britain, said Monty White, the group's chief executive.
"We do go into the schools about 10 to 20 times a year and we do get the students to question what they're being taught about evolution," said White, who founded the British branch seven years ago. "And we leave them a box of books for the library."
Creationism is still a marginal issue here compared with its impact on cultural and political debate in the United States. But the budding fervor is part of a growing embrace of evangelical worship throughout much of Europe. Evangelicals say their ranks are swelling because of revulsion with the hedonism and materialism of modern society. At the same time, attendance at traditional churches is declining.
"People are looking for spirituality," White said in an interview at his office in Leicester, 90 miles north of London. "I think they are fed up with not finding true happiness. They find having a bigger car doesn't make them happy. They get drunk and the next morning they have a hangover. They take drugs but the drugs wear off. But what they find with Christianity is lasting."
Other British organizations have joined the crusade. A group called Truth in Science has sent thousands of unsolicited DVDs to every high school in Britain arguing that mankind is the result of "intelligent design," not Darwinian evolution.
In addition, the AH Trust, a charity, has announced plans to raise money for construction of a Christian theme park in northwest England with a 5,000-seat television studio that would be used for the production of Christian-oriented films. And several TV stations are devoted to Christian themes.
All this activity has lifted spirits at the Westminster Chapel, a 165-year-old evangelical church that is not affiliated with nearby Westminster Abbey, where Darwin is buried.
In the chapel, the Rev. Greg Haslam tells 150 believers that they are in a conflict with secularism that can only be won if they heed Churchill's exhortation and never give up.
"The first thing you have to do is realize we are in a war, and identify the enemy, and learn how to defeat the enemy," he said.
There is a sense inside the chapel that Christian evangelicals are successfully resisting a trend toward a completely secular Britain.
"People have walked away from God; it's not fashionable," said congregant Chris Mullins, a civil servant. "But the evangelical church does seem to be growing and I'm very encouraged by that. In what is a very secular society, there are people returning to God."
School curricula generally hold that Darwin's theory has been backed up by so many scientific discoveries that it can now be regarded as fact. But Mullins believes creationism also deserves a hearing in the classroom.
"Looking at the evidence, creationism at the least seems a theory worthy of examination," he said. "Personally, I think it is true and I think the truth will win out eventually. It's a question of how long it takes."
Terry Sanderson, president of Britain's National Secular Society, a group founded in 1866 to limit the influence of religious leaders, said that the groups advocating a literal interpretation of the Bible are making headway.
"Creationism is creeping into the schools," he said. "There is a constant pressure to get these ideas into the schools."
The trend goes beyond evangelical Christianity. Sanderson said the British government is taking over funding of about 100 Islamic schools even though they teach the Koranic version of creationism. He said the government fears imposing evolution theory on the curriculum lest it be branded as anti-Islamic.
The Council of Europe spoke up last fall after Harun Yahya, a prominent Muslim creationist in Turkey, tried to place his lavishly produced 600-page book, "The Atlas of Creation," in public schools in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain.
"These trends are very dangerous," Anne Brasseur, author of the Council of Europe report, said in an interview.
Brasseur said recent skirmishes in Italy and Germany illustrate the creationists' tactics. She said Italian schools were ordered to stop teaching evolution when Silvio Berlusconi was prime minister, although the edict seems to have had little effect in practice. In Germany, she said, a state education minister briefly allowed creationism to be taught in biology class.
The rupture between theology and evolution in Europe is relatively recent. For many years people who held evangelical views also endorsed mainstream scientific theory, said Simon Barrow, co-director of Ekklesia, a British-based, Christian-oriented research group. He said the split was imported from the United States in the last decade.
"There is a lot of American influence, and there are a lot of moral and political and financial resources flowing from the United States to here," he said. "Now you have more extreme religious groups trying to get a foothold."
In some cases, the schools have become the battlegrounds. Richard Dawkins, the Oxford university biologist and author of last year's international best-seller "The God Delusion," frequently lectures students about the marvels of evolution only to find that the students' views have already been shaped by the creationist lobby.
"I think it's so sad that children should be fobbed off with these second-rate myths," he said.
"The theory of evolution is one of the most powerful pieces of scientific thinking ever produced and the evidence for it is overwhelming. I think creationism is pernicious because if you don't know much it sounds kind of plausible and it's easy to come into schools and subvert children."
White, the director of the British Answers in Genesis, is well aware that the group's school program is contentious. The group has removed information about it from its website to avoid antagonizing people.
The group operates a warehouse with $150,000 worth of DVDs, books and comics promoting creationism, but he says he only sends speakers and materials into schools that invite Answers in Genesis to make a presentation.
White, 63, said he was reared as an atheist and, after earning a doctorate in chemistry, embraced evangelical Christianity in 1964.
He says that when he is asked to speak to science classes, he challenges the accuracy of radioactive dating which shows the world to be thousands of millions of years old and says that the Bible is a more accurate description of how mankind began. He personally believes the Earth is between 6,000 and 12,000 years old.
"Usually I find the discussion goes on science, science and science, and then when the lesson is finished one or two students say, 'Can we talk about other things?' and I sit down with them and usually they want to talk about Christianity," he said. "They want to know, why do you believe in God? Why do you believe in the Bible? How can you be sure it's the word of God?"
Dawkins feels the effect. He said he is discouraged when he visits schools and gets questions from students who have obviously been influenced by material from Answers in Genesis. "I continually get the same rather stupid points straight from their pamphlets," he said.
White is getting ready for a visit by Ken Ham, who will preach at Westminster Chapel this spring. Meanwhile, he is pleased that small groups of creation science advocates now meet regularly in Oxford, Edinburgh, Northampton and other British cities.
"The creation movement is certainly growing," he said. "There are more groups than there were five years ago. There are more people like me going out speaking about it, and there's more interest. You have these little groups forming all over the place."
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"The daiquiri is believed to have originated in Cuba. Shake rum, lime juice, and simple syrup with ice and serve."
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1 1/2 fluid ounces
light rum
1 fluid ounce
lime juice
1 teaspoon
simple syrup
1 cup
Delicious! I made it using citrus rum, which worked out well!
Love it!!! Changed it up a bit by using cherry run and adding grenadine in place of the simple syrup- taste like a cherry limeade
4 Ratings
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Daiquiri Cocktail
Serving Size: 1/1 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 1
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 116
Calories from Fat: < 1
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knee in Marathi
translation and definition "knee", English-Marathi Dictionary online
Translations into Marathi:
- गुडघा(noun )joint in the middle of the leg and area around it
Other meanings:
(shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.
(anatomy) In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
act of kneeling
(transitive) poke or strike with the knee
(transitive, archaic) to kneel to
(anatomy) In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection point
(archaic)An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
To go down on one or both knees.
The part of a garment that covers the knee.
A blow made with the knee; a kneeing


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The following pages are designed to help your move to BATUS be as smooth and trouble free as possible, giving advice and information on things that you may need to do in advance of coming, and to answer the many questions you may have about BATUS before you arrive. It also has links to other usefulwebsites, which will give further information on a range of topics that may help your move to Canada. Finally there is a pre-arrivals form available as a PDF document which you can download, fill in and return to the Housing Office, BATUS. If you require more detailed information on any areas, there is also a HIVE Information request form available as a PDF that you can fill in and return to the BATUS HIVE, BATUS, firstname.lastname@example.com
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• Franklyn Antonio Gainey, 29, of 1216 Alston Hill Drive, Cheraw, was charged with public intoxication.
• Daniel Raynard Jackson, 21, of 3128 Rasma Drive, Darlington, was charged with murder.
• Donnie Lane, 56, homeless, of Cheraw, was charged with public intoxication.
• Adam Joseph Faile, 32, of 714 Colonel Cash Road, Cheraw, was charged with shoplifting.
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Snowflake Wine Box
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Giving a "spirited" gift this season? Give a bottle of wine or other liquor in a box dressed up for the Christmas occasion with painted snowflakes.
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- 1" flat brush
- Foam plate
- Coordinating ribbon
- Wine or liquor bottle box
1. Remove box handle.
2. Basecoat box True Blue and let dry.
3. Use Glistening Snow Writer to paint large snowflake shape on lid.
4. Paint dots around rim of lid, snowflakes, swirls, and dots on sides of box below lid area. Let dry.
5. Spray with Americana Gloss Spray; let dry.
6. Replace handle with length of ribbon.
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Li Na in last eight; Jankovic ends her five-match losing streak to Wozniacki
Normal service resumed at the ATP Masters and WTA BNP Paribas Open here on Tuesday when Novak Djokovic safely booked his place in the fourth round of the men's draw and Li Na moved into the women's quarterfinals.
Djokovic had a little hiccup when he dropped the second set of his match with Colombia's Alejandro Gonzalez but was otherwise untroubled in winning 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.
Djokovic survived to fight another day in the Californian desert after the shock losses of world No. 1 Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova on Monday.
20th win
Djokovic's next opponent is the big-serving Croatian Marin Cilic, who recorded his 20th win this season with a 6-4, 6-3 over Spain's Tommy Robredo.
Li, promoted to the women's top seed after winning the Australian Open and in the absence of Serena Williams, beat Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak 6-1, 6-4 but only after an extraordinary final game where she struggled to close out the match.
Li Na raced through the opening set in just over half an hour then recovered from 3-0 down to serve for the match at 5-4 when she suddenly got the wobbles.
The final game lasted 20 minutes as Li squandered 10 match points and took her tally of double-faults for the match to nine before she finally sealed the win.
While Robredo lost to the towering Cilic, three of his compatriots all advanced with Fernando Verdasco upsetting world No. 9 Richard Gasquet of France 7-6(5), 6-1 to leave Djokovic as the only top-10 player left in the bottom half of the men's draw.
Roberto Bautista Agut held his nerve to beat Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(6) to move on before Feliciano Lopez joined the Spanish Armada with a 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan.
In the women's draw, Serbia's Jelena Jankovic ended her five-match losing streak to Denmark's Carolina Wozniacki when she reeled off 10 consecutive games to win 6-3, 6-1 and advance to the quarterfinals.
Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, the second seed, breezed past Alize Cornet of France 7-5, 6-3 while Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova brushed aside the challenge of Petra Kvitova, beating the Czech 6-3, 6-2.
Pennetta beats Giorgi
Italian qualifier Camila Giorgi came back to earth with a thud when she was thrashed 6-2, 6-1 by compatriot Flavia Pennetta less than 24 hours after she stunned Sharapova.
Romania's Simona Halep qualified for the last eight with a hard-fought 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 win over Canada's Eugenie Bouchard after trailing 4-3 in the deciding set.
The results:
Men: Third round: Fernando Verdasco bt Richard Gasquet 7-6(5), 6-1; John Isner bt Lu Yen-Hsun 6-4, 6-3; Ernests Gulbis bt Grigor Dimitrov 2-6, 6-1, 7-5; Roberto Bautista Agut bt Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(6); Feliciano Lopez bt Mikhail Kukushkin 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Julien Benneteau bt Dominic Thiem 7-6(4), 6-3; Marin Cilic bt Tommy Robredo 6-4, 6-3; Novak Djokovic bt Alejandro Gonzalez 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.
Women: Fourth round: Li Na bt Aleksandra Wozniak 6-1, 6-4; Dominika Cibulkova bt Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-2; Flavia Pennetta bt Camila Giorgi 6-2, 6-1; Sloane Stephens bt Alisa Kleybanova 6-3, 7-5; Simona Halep bt Eugenie Bouchard 6-2, 1-6, 6-4; Casey Dellacqua bt Lauren Davis w/o; Jelena Jankovic bt Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 6-1; Agnieszka Radwanska bt Alize Cornet 7-5, 6-3.


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Use this free sewing pattern for pets from Dyan Bruneau to turn scraps into a gorgeous scrap fabric dog bed! This free dog bed sewing pattern will make Fido say "woof!"
- Old clothes
- Upholstery thread and needle
- old sheet or nice piece of fabric or even a piece of Fleece on sale
Decide what size you want to bed and then cut out fabric and sew together like a crazy quilt, except there is NO fancy with this crazy quilt.
If you have some old clothes, like Dad's shirts, skirts, dresses, and the like, cut them up into the largest pieces you can, then sew them together like a small quilt, just edges to edges. It doesn't have to be pretty. You will sew enough together so you can cut out big squares. The size squares you want to cut will be to the size of the bed you want to make for your pet. I have Big Standard Poodles so I make about a 2 1/2 foot by 3 foot piece. I usually sew about 5 or 6 of them and place them one on top of the other.
Even up your edges by cutting away the uneven parts. If you have a nice piece of fabric or even a left over sheet you can use that as the pillow cover. I found a sale on fleece in animal print and since I saved so much by using the old clothes, I felt they deserved it.
I made a pillow case a little bigger than the layers of fabric I sewed together and when the pillow case is done, leave one end open so you can insert the layers of fabric. Fold in the edges of the open end and sew them, not sewing all the layers of fabric; that would be too thick.
- Once you have the end sewn, mark about ten even places on the pillow top. This will be where you do the tacking with the thread. Use upholstery thread and tack from one side to the other. Do this a couple time in each marked place to secure the tacking. You could use yarn but it may be too hard to pull through all the fabric and it may also give the pet something to chew on, and we don't want that.
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Feb 24, 2012
This is a good ideal and I am going to make my dog one. I have scrape fabric that can be reused for my dog a new dog bed to sleep on. Thanks a lot for the ideal.
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it is so cool
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i love it
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Oct 23, 2011
What a great idea. I plan to try it. I have been trying to come up with a way to make my own, since my dog has out grown his original. I am an avid reuse, renew and recycle fan so this will certainly make me feel good that I follow my beliefs. Thanks for sharing your dog bed design.
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Television networks are taking the NFL playoffs to the Internet in order to give non-traditional viewers a chance to watch their favorite football teams.
CINCINNATI -- Network television is changing the NFL playoff picture with a new emphasis on free mobile streaming.
While many fans plan to watch the big games in front of a big-screen TV or at a sports bar with droves of friends and fellow fans, some don't have those options. For football fans that don't have televisions or have things to do during the game, streaming the game on a mobile device is an alternative, given the advancement in technology and readily available Wi-Fi connections.
However, while they usually have great video quality, live streams of sporting events are typically expensive and often difficult to set up due to the fact they often require subscription services and special applications or technologies.
But that all changed when the television networks broadcasting the games decided to take their productions to the next level.
The CBS network recently decided to stream coverage of the AFC's playoff games on its website, according to a report on Broadcasting & Cable , a publication dedicated to the business of television.
That means the 1:05 p.m. game between the Chargers-Bengals in Cincinnati will be available on the station's sports website - cbssports.com - in all markets where the game is broadcast.
CBS also plans to stream both AFC Divisional Round and the conference championship game.
Want to know the best part? All you have to do is go to the CBS website on your computer or tablet and click on the media player.
NBC will be doing the same thing for its broadcasts, meaning the entire AFC playoffs will be shown live online. While this is the first time CBS is involved, NBC hosted a live Web stream of several playoff games last year.
Most of the NFC playoffs will air on Fox, which doesn't plan to stream the games for free, according to Variety .
Some cable subscribers will be able to watch online coverage with the appropriate login credentials, but otherwise fans of NFC teams will need to find more traditional means of watching the game.
Fox still plans to stream the Super Bowl live and for free on its website.
It's important to note that the NFL's local blackout policy still applies to all legal online streams. Any games that aren't sold out will be blacked out in their local markets.
Thankfully for fans of the Bengals, Colts and Packers, all three organizations announced Friday their wild-card matchups were sellouts.