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Michael Showalter is an actor, comedian and filmmaker best known for his work on films and TV shows such as MTV's The State, Wet Hot American Summer, Stella and The Baxter. But can he blog? In order to promote his hilarious new album Sandwiches & Cats, Mr. Showalter spent all of yesterday guest-blogging for our friends at Stereogum, The Apiary, PopWatch, Brooklyn Vegan, Deadspin, Jewschool, My Old Kentucky Blog and Culture Bully. But can he handle the blogging heat here at BWE.tv? There's only way to find out, and the rules are simple: Michael and I each came up with 5 random topics for the other one to blog about, which you can read below, then determine who is Blog Champion in the comments. Ladies and gentlemen, it's A Blog-Off!
Arm wrestling
BLAGG: As someone who believes that the true worth of a man should not be measured by the color of his skin or the content of his character, but instead by the size of the muscles in his arm, Arm Wrestling is not just a sport: it's a way to determine which human beings are The Best. When I'm not building my own muscles, admiring the muscles of others, or looking at this website while trying to hide my erection, I'm training my arms for their next wrestling match. Because it could happen anywhere, at any time, and if you lose the match, you lose your dignity as a tough person with big muscles. Sometimes you can even lose your estranged son, or worse, your 18-wheeler truck. And if there's one thing I refuse to be in this life, it's some dude with small muscles and no truck whose son thinks he's a total wuss.
Luis Guzman
SHOWALTER: Luis Guzman was in "Boogie Nights." Heather Graham was naked in "Boogie Nights." I was naked when I watched Heather Graham's naked scene in "Boogie Nights." But, and this is very important, I was naked not because I was masturbating. I was naked because I was protesting clothes. I was not, I repeat, not masturbating. It was purely coincedental. I was also naked during all of Luis Guzman's scenes. Ironically, I was fully clothed during all of John C. Reilly's scenes. My protest hadn't begun yet. My protest didn't last very long because there was a bad draft and I got very cold. As it turned out, the window was wide open and I didn't even know it. Normally, I like a little breeze but it was eighty degrees below zero and with the windchill it was even colder than that. Did I mention that I was watching "Boogies Night" at an ice station in Alaska? I was there doing Tectonic Plate research which sucked because I have no background in that field and was woefully underqualified. I barely even passed freshman biology in H.S. How I am supposed to lead a team of scientists from all over the world? Badly. It didn't go well at all. I mean, I got through it. I think we won a few grants for our work but overall I felt very crappy about the job that I did and morever wound up with a viscious flu from being naked all the time.
The 1980's
BLAGG: The 1980's are ten years falling between 1979 and 1990 that – despite my own TV network's incessant celebration of each and every part of the decade's popular culture, and despite this being the period of time during which I was born – I find to be terribly overrated. In fact, everything that needed to be said about the 1980's was said by Billy Joel, in the 1990's, in his historical hit "We Didn't Start The Fire":
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore
An entire decade has never been so poignantly and concisely summarized. But that's why he's Billy Joel, right?
Moo Shu Pork
SHOWALTER: Let me start by asking the obvious question: "What is there to say about moo shu pork that hasn't already been said?" Moo shu pork is like Shakespeare. It's been written about, dissected, debated, and discussed for literally hundreds of thousands of years. People were talking about moo shu pork before moo shu pork even existed. That's not to say that aspects of moo shu pork did not exist. Moo shu pork is food and Man has been eating food ever since the dawn of man. Some say that without food man could not survive. One thing is for sure: I need food to survive. Cyborg's don't. They don't eat food. They eat metal and electricity. Or that's what I'm led to believe. Let's put it this way: all of the cyborg's I know don't eat food. In conclusion: Moo shu pork is food.
BLAGG: I'm not gonna lie to you guys and try to pretend to be some kind of smart liberal hippie who reads books. I believe in America, voted for Bush, and have never read anything written by Karl Marx. But I own every album ever released by Richard Marx, and I can assure you that his music taught me everything I need to know about the guiding philosophical principles necessary to create a successful functioning society. The song "Hazard" is not just an anecdotal tale about a girl who may or may not have been murdered near a river – it's an allegorical fable about moral decline and the threat it poses to the lost innocence of small-town America. Go listen to the aching ballad "Right Here Waiting" and see if you don't come back a converted Richard Marxist.
SHOWALTER: Ben Gay. One word: Ben Gay. I looked up "Ointments" in the Oxford English Dictionary and it had only one definition: Ben Gay. It also said that "Ben Gay" is one word even though in every way it appears to be two words. I was also surprised to discover that "Ointments" is four words. That's surprising considering that there aren't even four syllables in the word "Ointments." I mean, in the four words "Ointments." Here are some other words that look like one word but are actually four words: "egg"; "brethren"; "lollipop"; and; "fnerful". "Fnerful" is an interesting case because it's four words and also not a word at all. You'd think that wasn't possible but I didn't think it was possible for people to think that Jordin Sparks deserved to win American Idol either. "Jordin Sparks" is also one word. "American Idol", and I found this fascinating, is four pages long (roughly 3000 some odd words.)
BLAGG: Jellyfish are far and away the gayest fish in the entire ocean. That's why they're usually found near the shore – because they've been ostracized by the rest of the intolerant creatures of the sea. In fact, catching a Jellyfish is a hate crime in California and some of the more progressive islands in Southeast Asia. Jellyfish are so gay they're not even considered to be "real fish" – they're invertebrates. God hates Jellyfish.
SHOWALTER: Salvation means being saved spiritually. It's also an abbreviated name for the place where I go to buy cordoroys. Or sometimes I just like to say, "Sal-vay". "I'm going to the the Sal-vay to buy some cords." Sometimes I buy my cords at J. Crew. Sometimes I think that J. Crew is my salvation. Not like the Salvation Army. It's literally my spiritual salvation. Nothing brings me closer to God than a nice blue J. Crew wool sweater. In those moments, when I'm wearing a blue J. Crew wool sweater, I actually feel, and it's strange to talk about it, but I feel like I'm being enveloped in warmth. It's possible that the warmth is being provided but it's also possible that God is providing the warmth. Who am I to say He's not? Yes, I said He. Not because I think that God is a He but because "sHe" looks weird on paper.
Legionnaire's Disease
BLAGG: This is a degenerative brain disease (often caused by a previous night's worth of heavy drinking) in which those who are afflicted become pathologically incapable of looking away from a matinee screening of Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1998 film Legionnaire on TNT. While this condition is still a mystery among the medical community, many doctors have speculated that it draws its hypnotic power from the viewer's subconscious desire to see Van Damme doing karate moves (epsecially the slow-mo stuff where he's doing the splits or whatever) while also wearing that silly French hat of his. As a longtime sufferer of this disease, I don't think we should be making fun of it on a blog.
SHOWALTER: Blogging about blogging. Now that's meta. I think therefore I am. I blog therefore I…am? To be or not be? That really IS the question! Am I blogging or am I being blogged? Maybe the Matrix is real! Maybe we're all living in one big blog and we just don't know it! Maybe UFO's are real! Maybe Big Foot is too! And the Loch Ness monster! Maybe the Loch Ness Monster isn't a monster! Have you ever considered that? Maybe the Loch Ness Monster comes in peace? What about that? Maybe Big Foot's feet aren't that big but there's still a half-man half-beast out there! Maybe UFO's are real but they're not disc shaped! Maybe they look like normal airplanes! Maybe everytime you see an airplane you're actually seeing a UFO! And everytime you see a UFO you're just tripping on acid and think it's a UFO but actually it's a frisbee and you're just playing frisbee and trippping on acid. Maybe we're always tripping on acid EXCEPT when we actually ARE tripping on acid. When we really are tripping on acid THAT'S reality! Maybe the time I saw that tree singing Beatles songs it was REAL! Maybe God is dead but a DIFFERENT God is alive and it's all the same thing! Holy shit I'm freaking out.


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dh and i are going to renew our vows next year in the US- not florida and i need some ideas- we are only going to have two families join us so it will be a small intimate affair.
when you renew your vows do you still get given away? have a best man? bridesmaids etc?
anyone renewed their vows in the US?

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Hey folks,
I am a newcomer to the analog world -- I've only fired up the old basement darkroom two or three times so far. So please, be gentle!
The paper, if anyone's wondering, is Kodabromide postcard paper, probably from some time in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I picked it up (only 25 cents a pound!) at the local darkroom store. It was my first foray into a graded paper, and it was quite a challenge getting something on the paper that actually looked interesting.
Anyhow, my prints should be out in the mail on Thursday. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoyed making them.


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'Tis the season to be guilt-tripped into saving Africa and dogs and THE WHOLE WORLD
Nothing reminds you that it's Christmas like images of sad African kids or abandoned dogs. That's what Christmas is now, right? It's the time when all the UK's leading charities get together to ruin holiday TV and make us feel bad about feeling good for being snuggled up with our loved ones while watching Jurassic Park and back-to-back episodes of Coronation Street. I'm not saying raising money isn't a great idea, but I'm just fed up with the way these so-called innovators go about doing it at this time of year.
Before anyone gets a bit rowdy and suggests that I'm being selfish and uncaring for not wanting these adverts to ruin my own Christmas, I just want to put it out there that I work for what is generally regarded as being a pretty big charity, Plan International. So it's not that I'm ignorant about the issues at hand or I don't think they're important. I do understand the need to raise money to get this work done and I'm more than happy for this fundraising to go on in the few minutes between The Snowman walking in the air and melting in a puddle on the ground, but for the love of God, the messaging has to change.
Heal the world
I was only at my mum's for about a week and in that time I was bombarded by pleas to save African families, to rescue lonely dogs, to fix the ebola crisis, to deliver clean drinking water for all and everything else you can imagine. There are just too many of these adverts to take seriously. Everyone is after £2 a month to do this and that, to put smiles back on those miserable faces, but how are you supposed to pick who you give money to? That's the key here.
What these adverts are trying to do is make you feel as guilty as possible by showing how utterly shit life can be so that you will pick that particular charity to donate to. Cue camera shots zooming in on the faces of crying children. I HATE this. It's so demeaning and pathetic. It's like we all got in such a fuss about the whole Band Aid 30 thing and then we completely ignored all our own advice and went back to objectifying the subjects as if they're idiots.
We clearly haven't got out of the mindset that poverty porn is what sells. It's like Comic Relief all over again. If we as a sector can be so creative and innovative when it comes to social media campaigns and producing neat little videos for online audiences, why does it all go out of the window when it comes to television at Christmas?
You can throw the argument at me that this is the most effective way to make money. But then we're getting into murky territory and we're essentially no different than a firm like John Lewis, who do most of their yearly business over Christmas off the back of a television advert.
But wait, there's a difference there: the John Lewis advert, and the adverts of every high-street retailer you can think of, was a joy to watch. It captured our hearts and imaginations and made us all want to buy penguins. Well, kind of. But you get my point. This was storytelling at its very best, crammed into a couple of minutes of air time that stays with the audience long after the Rovers Return has called last orders.
Stories to tell
All the charities work with real people (or dogs) who have real stories to tell. These people are their own agents of change. I want to hear from them. These adverts should be empowering. They should be memorable. They shouldn't be the blot on Christmas. There is way more to these people than sad faces, depressing music and serious-sounding voiceovers. This exploitation is just lame.
The message being sent out is that everything is terrible in Africa or wherever else these adverts are filmed. The creativity and spirit that goes into things like Save The Children's Christmas jumper ad is completely lost when the subject matter gets a bit more serious.
Charities across the world do amazing work, but when you reduce it to this whole £2-a-month thing (I know the dollar handles serve a purpose), you oversimplify what is really a very complex issue and this does a disservice to everyone, from the aid workers to the people they are working with to the audiences themselves. We're effectively saying that people won't give money unless they feel extremely guilty.
I get that poverty porn works, but it's sending all the wrong messages and signals out, and these are messages and signals that the development sector has been bending over backwards to try and change in recent years. It just all comes undone at Christmas when the voices that matter get well and truly lost in the sludge. If we can't think outside of the box at Christmas, as we seem capable of doing the rest of the year, then we're just going to perpetuate stereotypes.
Isn't it time we changed the channel?
If those pop stars are so wonderful and talented, get them to write another bloody song, Bob
Every few years, the bastions of British music get together to graciously donate a few hours of their invaluable time so they can sing a couple of lines of a 30-year-old pop song. Not only do they donate the minutes and hours it takes to rattle off those famous lyrics, they also donate their voices, their breath, the very essence of life, you might say, and they do it all to save Africa.
The dust has now settled on the monstrosity that was Bob Geldof unveiling #Bandaid30 on last week's X-Factor. I mean, what better way to galvanise public support than by having a rambling, white-haired Prefessor Weeto tribute act come on live TV and tell the good people of Great Britain to "give us your fucking money". That may not have actually happened, but you get the point: PEOPLE ARE DYING.
This is clearly illustrated in the #BandAid30 video as the first 15 or so seconds are devoted to the horrors of ebola. The harrowing images show health workers equipped with Go-Pro cameras swarm into a dying woman's house. The first shots of the woman show her lying on her bed topless, breasts exposed. In the next shot, which is closer to the woman, someone has placed a bra over her chest. She lies on the soiled mattress, writhing in agony, before being carried out by two health workers.
It is horrific, like something out of a movie. But that is the image Bob Geldof and his mates decided would be the best way they could SHOCK the public into donating money. Whatever happened to moving aware from such demeaning and deceitful tactics? Who is that woman? Did she survive? Does she have a story to tell? Who gave Bob Geldof permission to show this near-naked lady at her very lowest, for the world to gawp at? I've yet to read anything about her. She gets about 17 seconds before the video shifts its tone to give those generous pop stars the remaining 4:33 of airtime.
Fuck. That. How is that empowering for the boys, girls, women, men, individuals, families whose lives have been ripped part by ebola? How is this telling their story? All these pop stars are doing is rehashing a terrible song that should have been laid to rest years ago.
All right, so they're making a lot of money, and presumably the £1 million in pre-sales was all it took to convince Bob, Bono et al that they were doing the right thing, but at what cost does that money come? We're 30 years into Band Aid now and some people still haven't figured out that the song and everything it stands for is patronising, insulting, offensive.
Let's not get too much into who is singing the song. African singers aren't well-represented, that much is obvious, but that's not the main problem with the song itself. The problem is that it's always been a shit song. The lyrics were as ignorant 30 years ago as they are now — and that's after someone apparently took the time to "rewrite" them, although whomever that person was, I won't be hiring him or her to rejig any of my Christmas songs. Here are some of the new lyrics:
No peace and joy this Christmas in West Africa
The only hope they'll have is being alive
Where to comfort is to fear
Where to touch is to be scared
How can they know it's Christmas time at all
Who are these ignoramuses to say there will or won't be joy in the WHOLE of West Africa this Christmas? Who are they to say the only hope "they" have is being alive? How arrogant is that? That's what the whole song is like. That's always been what the whole song is like. It presents Africa (or West Africa in this updated version) as a single entity in which there is no hope, no joy, no happiness, only misery and despair, where everyone is a victim and helpless, in need of our support.
Hasn't Bob learnt anything in 30 years? Does Bono not have an inkling of these things after all his extra-curricular activities?
So if the song is so inhenerlty shit, why couldn't this group of apparently the most talented, exciting and current British music stars do something radical like, oh, I don't know, writing another song? They're professionals in the music industry and there are rather a lot of them, so presumably between them they could maybe put a bit of effort into it all and come up with something that isn't three decades old.
Of course they could. If they actually gave a shit about ebola or Africa or anything else other than their precious egos. To make a big deal about these pop stars taking time out of their "hectic schedules" to come to London for like one day just underscores how lazy this whole #BandAid30 thing has been.
#BandAid30 is selling by the bucketload. It's going to be Christmas number 1 and it's going to make millions of pounds, but the backlash against it, and there has been a considerable backlash, should be enough to prove once and for all that it's in everyone's best interests that this never happen again. Where are those millions of pounds going to go anyway? There's no info on the website so we can only hope that it does get put to good use.
But once Christmas is over, let's retire Band Aid to the annals of pop history — forever.
This song is much better. Buy it.
Putting together my first youth delegation
At the tender age of 31, I still consider myself a "young person" or "youth", if you will, even though the United Nations uses a pretty strict 15-24 definition. So when I get to work with other young people on things like youth forums and conferences, it feels less like work and more like doing something amazing with a group of friends.
Being a part of the Youth Skills Forum in the Philippines and the Asian Youth Forum in Kazakhstan have definitely been the highlights of my time with Plan International, especially as I got to learn a great deal from colleagues like John Trew, Plan's Youth Employment Specialist in Asia.
Now I have a new challenge: I'm leading a project putting together a delegation of young people who will be part of the upcoming Ministerial Meeting on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS). It's both exciting and daunting at the same time.
I have seven young people from around Asia and two from Germany signed up and raring to go. Everyone has started getting to know each other through Skype, conference calls and a Facebook group. That means they can get comfortable working with each other and start developing their knowledge of the issues.
This group of young people – Team CRVS – will define their own roles at the conference and take ownership of everything they do. Their primary objective is to ensure that youth voices are heard and taken into account when governments think about civil registration and vital statistics. In Asia, this is a big deal as civil registration will be high on the post-2015 agenda.
Team CRVS are going to be involved in a number of activities, first and foremost the Youth Call To Action. This is where they will state their case to highlight the issues affecting unregistered children and young people, and call governments and relevant stakeholders to action. All this will take place at a special youth event during the conference, which will also feature a youth panel discussion led by the UN Secretary General's Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi, who the group will get to work closely with.
As if that weren't enough, two members of Plan Germany's Youth Advisory Panel will also be there to present their experiences advocating for greater investment in birth registration. This campaign saw them travel across Germany collecting fingerprints as a kind of petition to present to their governments to call for greater investment in civil registration systems.
Then there will also be all kinds of youth reporter activities (blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, filming, interviewing) that will give the young people the chance to really make their voices heard across Plan's online platforms, as well as the channels of our United Nations partners.
So there's a lot to organise to put everything together. Obviously I'm not doing it entirely on my own and I have the unwavering support of my boss, Nicoleta Panta, the Plan Asia Regional Office (my trusted allies), and a bunch of other people who are helping me out on this journey. But it's hard to escape the feeling that I really don't want to let these young people down.
I'd love to hear from those of you who have worked on similar projects. What are your top tips for ensuring everything goes smoothly?
You can meet the young people we are working with on the Team CRVS portal on the Plan website.


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|By: Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon; ©{{{copyright}}}
|Could the Evidence Stand Cross-Examination in a Modern Court of Law?
Ed. note: This article is based upon the transcript from programs produced by the John Ankerberg Show. Additional material has been added for this print version.
In Part 1, we indicated that the historical evidence for the Resurrection of Christ was sufficient to convert even skeptics. In Part 2, we will examine what leading lawyers have concluded about the evidence for Christ's Resurrection.
In Acts 1:3, the historian Luke tells us that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead by "many infallible proofs." The Greek en pollois tekmariois is an expression which is defined in the lexicons as "decisive proof" and indicates the strongest type of legal evidence.[1]
Lawyers, of course, are expertly trained to deal in the matter of evidence. Skeptics can, if they wish, maintain that only the weak-minded would believe in the literal, physical Resurrection of Christ, but perhaps this only reveals their own weak-mindedness when it comes to taking the evidence at face value.
Lawyers are not weak-minded. Hundreds of lawyers are represented by The National Christian Legal Society, The Rutherford Institute, Lawyers Christian Fellowship, Simon Greenleaf University, and other Christian law organizations, schools and societies. Among their number are some of the most respected lawyers in the country, men who have graduated from our leading law schools and gone on to prominence in the world of law. The law schools of Cornell, Harvard, Yale, Boston, New York University, University of Southern California, Georgetown, University of Michigan, Northwestern, Hastings College of Law at U. C. Berkeley, Loyola, and many others are all represented.[2]
Among the Board of Reference or distinguished lectureships given at Dr. Weldon's alma mater, Simon Greenleaf University, we could cite Samuel Ericsson, J.D., Harvard Law School, Renatus J. Chytil, formerly a lecturer at Cornell and an expert on Czechoslovakian law, Dr. John W. Brabner-Smith, Dean Emeritus of the International School of Law, Washington, D.C., and Richard Colby, J.D., Yale Law School, with Twentieth Century Fox.[3] All are Christians who accept the Resurrection of Christ as a historical fact. In actuality, the truth of the Resurrection can be determined by the very reasoning used in law to determine questions of fact. (This procedure is also true for establishing the historical reliability and accuracy of the New Testament documents.)
So let us proceed with specific examples of noted legal testimony concerning the Resurrection.
Lord Darling, a former Lord Chief Justice in England, asserts: "In its favor as a living truth there exists such overwhelming evidence, positive and negative, factual and circumstantial, that no intelligent jury in the world could fail to bring in a verdict that the resurrection story is true."[4]
John Singleton Copley (Lord Lyndhurst, 1772–1863) is recognized as one of the greatest legal minds in British history. He was Solicitor General of the British government, Attorney General of Great Britain, three times the High Chancellor of England and elected High Steward of the University of Cambridge. He challenges, "I know pretty well what evidence is; and I tell you, such evidence as that for the Resurrection has never broken down yet."[5]
Hugo Grotius was a noted "jurist and scholar whose works are of fundamental importance in international law," according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He wrote Latin elegies at the age of eight and entered Leiden University at eleven.[6] Considered "the father of international law," he wrote The Truth of the Christian Religion (1627) in which he legally defended the historical fact of the Resurrection.
J. N. D. Anderson, in the words of Armand Nicholi of the Harvard Medical School (Christianity Today, March 29, 1968), is a scholar of international repute, eminently qualified to deal with the subject of evidence. He is one of the world's leading authorities on Muslim law, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of London, Chairman of the Department of Oriental Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London.[7] In Anderson's text, Christianity: The Witness of History, he supplies the standard evidences for the Resurrection and asks, "How, then, can the fact of the resurrection be denied?"[8] Anderson further emphasizes, "Lastly, it can be asserted with confidence that men and women disbelieve the Easter story not because of the evidence but in spite of it."[9]
Sir Edward Clark, K. C., observes:
Irwin H. Linton was a Washington, D.C. lawyer who argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In A Lawyer Examines the Bible, he challenges his fellow lawyers "by every acid test known to the law…to examine the case for the Bible just as they would any important matter submitted to their professional attention by a client…."[11] He believes that the evidence for Christianity is "overwhelming" and that at least "three independent and converging lines of proof," each of which "is conclusive in itself," establish the truth of the Christian faith.[12] Linton observed that "the logical, historical…proofs of…Christianity are so indisputable that I have found them to arrest the surprised attention of just about every man to whom I have presented them…."[13] He further argues the Resurrection "is not only so established that the greatest lawyers have declared it to be the best proved fact of all history, but it is so supported that it is difficult to conceive of any method or line of proof that it lacks which would make [it] more certain."[14] And that, even among lawyers, "he who does not accept wholeheartedly the evangelical, conservative belief in Christ and the Scriptures has never read, has forgotten, or never been able to weigh—and certainly is utterly unable to refute—the irresistible force of the cumulative evidence upon which such faith rests…."[15]
He concluded the claims of Christian faith are so well established by such a variety of independent and converging proofs that "it has been said again and again by great lawyers that they cannot but be regarded as proved under the strictest rules of evidence used in the highest American and English courts."[16]
Simon Greenleaf was the author of the classic three-volume text, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence (1842), which, according to Dr. Wilbur Smith "is still considered the greatest single authority on evidence in the entire literature on legal procedure."[17] Greenleaf himself is considered one of the greatest authorities on common-law evidence in Western history. The London Law Journal wrote of him in 1874,
In his book Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice, Greenleaf writes:
Lord Caldecote, Lord Chief Justice of England, observed that an "overwhelming case for the Resurrection could be made merely as a matter of strict evidence"[21] and that "His Resurrection has led me as often as I have tried to examine the evidence to believe it as a fact beyond dispute…."[22] (cf., Thomas Sherlock's Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which places the Resurrection in a legally argued forum and in the words of lawyer Irwin Linton, "will give anyone so reading it the comfortable assurance that he knows the utmost that can be said against the proof of the central fact of our faith and also how utterly every such attack can be met and answered."[23] At the end of the legal battle one understands why, "The jury returned a verdict in favor of the testimony establishing the fact of Christ's resurrection."[24])
But lawyers familiar with the evidence could do the same today either for themselves or an impartial jury. Although admissibility rules vary by state and no lawyer can guarantee the decision of any jury (no matter how persuasive the evidence), an abundance of lawyers will testify today that the Resurrection would stand in the vast majority of law courts.
In conclusion, in these two installments, we have shown that both those who were committed skeptics and those who are expertly trained to sift evidence have declared, on the basis of the evidence, that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a historical fact. Those who ignore the evidence do so at their own risk.


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In 2001, the University of Minnesota wrestling team broke new ground for the program, capturing the first national championship in school history. Minnesota will honor the 2001 National Championship team as it celebrates the tenth anniversary of it monumental win this Friday during the Gophers dual against Indiana. The 2001 NCAA Wrestling Championships will long be remembered as a national tournament with impressive firsts and as a stunning breakthrough for the Gophers. The venue, Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa, was labeled as the "lion's den" and served as an ideal location for the eventual storybook result. That result, an improbable one, vaulted Minnesota into the national spotlight, long reserved for the Iowas and Oklahoma States of the world. And the way in which the Gophers captured the 2001 NCAA crown can be appropriately classified as groundbreaking and extraordinary.
Unorthodox? Yes, the road to the national title for Minnesota was not typical of the path taken in years past by NCAA champion teams. Remarkable? You bet. Fans and followers of collegiate wrestling will look back at the 2001 NCAA Championships as a national tournament with unprecedented qualities. Record breaking? In more ways than one. The Golden Gophers broke several school and national records along the way to the national crown. A full team effort? Without a doubt. The national title was won for the Maroon and Gold grapplers, not on the backs of two or three dominant individuals, but through the hard work, will and determination of all 10 members of the squad.
Minnesota won the national crown by utilizing a full team effort to earn an NCAA-record 10 All-Americans. It was the first time in NCAA championships history that 10 wrestlers from the same team had earned the prestigious All-American honor in one NCAA tournament. In addition, no team in the history of the national tournament had won the team title without a finalist, but Gold Country captures the national crown despite not placing a single wrestler in the championship matches.
"We knew that the only way that we could win the title was to have a team effort. We knew that we couldn't win with a lot of ones and twos, but we thought we could win with 10 All-Americans. And that's what we did," Minnesota head coach J Robinson, now in his 25th year with the team, said. "Everybody earned this championship. Everybody. That was the key."
Minnesota Golden Gopher All-Americans:
125: Leroy Vega (Portage, Ind.) - Second at Big Tens, Third at NCAAs
133: Brett Lawrence (Sandpoint, Idaho) - Fifth at Big Tens, Eighth at NCAAs
141: Chad Erickson (Apple Valley, Minn.) - Second at Big Tens, Eighth at NCAAs
149: Jared Lawrence (Sandpoint, Idaho) - First at Big Tens, Sixth at NCAAs
157: Luke Becker (Cambridge, Minn.) - Second at Big Tens, Fourth at NCAAs
165: Brad Pike (Brownsdale, Minn.) - Third at Big Tens, Fourth at NCAAs
174: Jacob Volkmann (Henning, Minn.) - Fourth at Big Tens, Fourth at NCAAs
184: Damion Hahn (Lakewood, N.J.) - Third at Big Tens, Fifth at NCAAs
197: Owen Elzen (Eyota, Minn.) - Third at Big Tens, Third at NCAAs
285: Garrett Lowney (Freedom, Wisc.) - First at Big Tens, Third at NCAAs
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I'm not going to advocate for or against a 'stronger' skid plate.
Something in the machine has to give when there is a significant impact. I agree that the radiator is probably not an ideal place for a 'crumple-zone'. While a skid plate mounted to more rigid points on the bike will stand up to more than one mounted to the oil tank, what part will fail when the hit is too big? I don't have the answer but something somewhere is going to break, the question is where will it fail?
If the engine mounts take the shock are we risking revisiting the side-stand issue with cracked cases? When and if the 'better' designed plate fails or causes damage will it be a design flaw?
All that aside I banged my BDCW skidplate this weekend hard on the same water trough deals Yellow Pig damaged his on and I cringed and then forced myself to slow down....
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Applying an original theoretical framework, an international group of historians and social scientists here explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes. Focusing principally on France. Germany, and the United States, the contributors examine the historically contingent connections between class, as objectively structured and experienced, and collective perceptions and responses as they develop in work, community, and politics.
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Chess teams from Central Falls High School and Calcutt Middle School finished in the top 10 at this week's Chess Supernationals in Nashville, Tennessee.
Coach Frank DelBonis, who is also a history teacher at Central Falls High School, reports the high school team ranked 8th overall, out of 64 teams from around the country. The middle school team finished in a tie for 7th and 9th places out of 54 teams.
Students from Central Falls had to raise the money for their trip to Nashville and got some last minute help from Actor Alec Baldwin to pay for travel and lodging.
The Central Falls High School chess team will be on their way to the National Championships thanks in part to Alec Baldwin.
The team used the online crowd-funding website "go fund me" to raise the $8,000 needed to send eleven students to Nashville Tennessee, where the championships will be held in April.
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VoterID : controversy in Pennsylvania and the nation
VoterID : controversy in Pennsylvania and the nation
Surprise, surprise. A Commonwealth Court judge rejected the challenge to Pennsylvania's voter ID law. I can't even say I'm shocked. Angry? Darned right I am. But shocked?
Josh and Katy Vander Kamp met in drug rehab. In the seven years since, they have been rebuilding their lives in Apache Junction, Ariz., a small town east of Phoenix.
A growing number of conservative Republican state legislators worked fervently during the last two years to enact laws requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. Lawmakers proposed 62 photo-ID bills in 37 states in the 2011 and 2012 sessions, with multiple bills introduced in some states, including two by Democrats in Rhode Island. Ten states have passed strict photo-ID laws since 2008, though several face legal challenges. A News21 analysis found that more than half of the 62 bills were sponsored by members or conference attendees of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Washington-based, tax-exempt organization.
Despite widespread support for voter IDs, polling experts say the public is poorly informed about the controversial laws and their potential impact on the November presidential election.
A nationwide analysis shows that in-person voter impersonation on Election Day was nearly nonexistent.
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Voting laws have been enacted nationwide, including Pennsylvania, which some warn will suppress the vote in the November presidential election.
About this project:"Who Can Vote?" was produced by News21, a national investigative reporting project involving college journalism students across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. News21 is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
For the complete Voting Rights in America project, visit: http://votingrights.news21.com
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