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There's always something big happening in Beaumont, Texas! With our well-known fairs and festivals, each change of season offers another must-see event. And when it comes to food & shopping, we get serious. We don't like to brag or anything, but our food is worth planning an event around - which is why we have food festivals for all of our favorite dishes in southeast Texas. Beaumont also has an eclectic mix of museums that celebrate everything from art to energy. Our quirky-ness is portrayed throughout these museums that offer a variety of arts & culture exhibits and events. Parents, the kids will love Free Family Arts Day offered quarterly by the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Plenty of other events just for kids can be found happening year 'round as well.
In Beaumont, we tend to do things a little bigger than other places in Texas. That's especially true of the performing arts you'll find here. Spread throughout the city are world-class concert halls, theaters and arenas that bring the best in performing arts to Beaumont. These same great facilities, along with nightlife hotspots, also support a host of live entertainment acts that can be enjoyed regularly.
Fan-friendly Beaumont has a true love for the game. From watching the Lamar University Cardinals football team bring home a win, to experiencing the hard-hitting action of the Spindletop Roller Girls roller derby team, there are plenty of sporting events to be found in Beaumont. Beaumont may owe its prosperity to oil, but it's not the only natural resources we're blessed to have. With dense forests, sandy beaches and shallow wetlands, southeast Texas is overflowing with outdoor activities. So what are you waiting for? Get yourself down to Beaumont, and experience Texas with a little something extra!

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BLUEWATER BAY — Every day for half a century, Dominick Careccia has worn the same ring.
It's seen him through three tours of duty in Vietnam, four helicopter crashes and a 20-year journey back to the woman who gave it to him.
Last week, it fell off his finger.
This week, it remains missing.
"I always had that on my hand," said the 81-year-old, who felt dizzy and nauseated when he discovered his wartime talisman was gone. "That's what kept me going — that's what gave me the adrenaline to help me survive.
"To me, that ring was everything."
Dominick received the gold and ruby ring as a gift in January 1960 from a young Greek woman named Liza.
The two met at a beach party just before the then-Army master sergeant was leaving his post in Athens.
The conflict in Vietnam was heating up. Both knew he'd be going to war.
Liza, a devout Greek Orthodox, wanted to give him something to keep him safe. The moment the 18-year-old saw the ring with a cross carved into its stone, she stopped looking.
She consulted with the jeweler to guess Dominick's size and borrowed money from friends to give a gift to a man she doubted she'd see again.
Fast-forward 20 years, Dominick was still wearing the ring and back in Greece.
When he called and asked to see her two days before he was set to leave the country, she almost said no. She was nearly engaged to a wealthy shipbuilder, and Greek women of good families didn't date Americans.
Her mother urged her to see Dominick anyway.
Their eyes met again for the first time when she stepped out onto a balcony at her home.
She was hesitant.
He was in love.
"He hugged me and he was shaking like a fish," Liza recalled.
He showed her the ring she'd forgotten and six months later, in December 1979, he convinced her to leave everyone and everything she knew to be with him.
They were married Feb. 7, 1980, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Last week, one month shy of their 34th anniversary, he realized the ring was missing. The couple believes he lost it on Jan. 7 while shopping around 1:30 p.m. at the Winn-Dixie in Bluewater Bay. It likely slipped off his pinkie as they argued who'd carry the heavier grocery bags.
Now, the Careccias are trying to stay strong for each other. They're hoping and praying someone found it and is willing to return it to a man whose heart is breaking from the loss.
"He looks tired, he can't sleep," his wife said. "I wish if someone find it, just give it back to him, to be alive again."
Anyone with information about the ring can contact the Careccias at 897-6611. The couple is offering a reward for its return.
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Our Small Kitchen Appliances (Non-Cooking) in Romania report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2008-2012, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they new product developments, format trends or distribution issues. Forecasts to 2017 illustrate how the market is set to change.
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UFC women's bantamweight Sara McMann (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has withdrawn from UFC Fight Night 27, and the UFC currently is seeking a replacement opponent for Sarah Kaufman (16-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
Multiple sources close to the promotion today informed MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) McMann was forced to withdraw from the fight for undisclosed reasons.
UFC Fight Night 27 takes place Aug. 28 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. McMann vs. Kaufman was slated for the event's FOX Sports 1-televised main card.


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Boundary Stela of Sety I
This stela marked the boundaries of two areas of land. The income from the land was intended to support rituals and offerings for a type of royal statue called a "protected image." The figure in the upper portion of the stela represents the protected image of Sety I, through which pious Egyptians worshipped the divine aspect of this king. Unlike temple statues of gods, such stelae are examples of Egyptian popular religion, for they stood in fields where they could be approached by all members of society. The fan behind the figure is a symbol of protection intended to guard the image.
- Medium: Limestone
- Place Found: Kom el Lufi, Egypt
- Dates: ca. 1294 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XIX Dynasty
- Period: New Kingdom
- Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (64.8 x 39.4 x 17.1 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 69.116.1
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Boundary Stela of Sety I, ca. 1294 B.C.E. Limestone, 25 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (64.8 x 39.4 x 17.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 69.116.1. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: Round-topped limestone stela bearing a representation of, and inscribed for, King Sety I (Mn-ma'at-r'). The king is represented, on the upper portion of the stela, standing and wearing the Blue Crown. Below the king are three lines of inscription: the inscription dates the piece to Year 1 of Sety 1. Both figure and inscription are executed in sunk relief. The stela was cut off at the bottom in modern times; the other edges and the rear surface are rough. The piece is somewhat wider near the top (at the springing of the round top) than at the bottom. Condition: Numerous chips and scratches.
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How to Set Artistic Goals and Collaborate Effectively
Casting director Paul Russell shares the best way to collaborate on creative projects.
How to Set Artistic Goals and Collaborate Effectively
Casting director Paul Russell shares the best way to collaborate on creative projects.
Actors encounter many obstacles in their career. Rejection. Job-insecurity. Job-market shrinkage.
Far too many actors have been coming to me near to tears while recalling personal horror stories of agents.
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Meryl Streep's Best Actress win was the evenings biggest surprise, while Octavia Spencer and Christopher Plummer both landed expected wins.
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Josh Gad, Roseanne Barr, Mindy Kaling, Becki Newton, Sarah Silverman, Rebel Wilson, Reba McEntire and more lead this season's pilots.
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Casting columnist Pete Keeley breaks down which of this season's pilots are likely to get full season pick-ups at the network up-fronts in May.
Well, as it turns out, it actually takes a little bit of "Trying" to "Succeed" on Broadway and land in a long-running musical. I have been blessed with this experience three times in my career so far.
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Does keeping a gun not require a license in the US! Its a bad idea to allow anybody and everybody to have a gun.
Yes the license is required to have a gun. Without a license, you shoot, you will be sent to the jail or get a ticket depends on the state law (no matter if it was a self defense or not). Even carry a gun without a license, you'd get a ticket or jailtime and probably getting your gun taken away. But if you shoot someone who broke in your home with your dad's gun, I am sure it would be ok since you are in self-defense depends on gun law in your state. If you got the gun from someone else, you might be in trouble depends what the cop finds.
When you buy a gun at the store, you won't get the gun on same day... you will get a gun in a few days after the purchase. Maybe 3 days I think. I couldn't remember.


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Every backyard looks better with resin garden statues. It's important to keep this in mind with spring being right around the corner. Once that warm weather comes back to town, we can put our favorite stone garden angel on display, and showcase our latest additions to our animal garden statue collection. However, while getting ready to decorate the green space outside the home, don't forget to spruce up your living space with unique and exciting decor. One such type of decor is the mounted trophy fish. This unique interior animal decor shows off the beauty and impressive size of your latest catch as well as a reason for entertaining guests with some tall fishing tales.
Put the "Swordfish" Wall Mount Trophy Sculpture on display and you can tell guests how it took five long hours to battle and land this five foot long trophy as a distant Gulf Stream storm rocked your little fishing boat to and fro. Or, buy the massive "Barramundi" Wall Mount Trophy Sculpture and tell how this four foot monster nearly pulled you in to the crocodile infested waters of an Australian billabong. Or, you could always just tell the truth and talk about how you picked out these incredibly life-like fish sculptures at the Design Toscano site.
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for the most part it comes down to hardware costs. smart phones are getting to the point where they're almost as powerful as normal computers in some ways.
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Personally, no. I can afford it which in my mind means it isn't over priced. Would I like it if the cost dropped? Yes. I nearly bought a Kindle Fire the other day just because of how cheap it was, and I'd be more inclined to do the same thing with a phone if the price was lower. Instead I carefully try and decide on the phone that will last me the longest time.
Are Cell Phones Over Priced?
Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:16
read my post again, I said they're getting CLOSE in SOME ways (sure I used the word almost, but you're completely missing my point by debating the power part of my post)
How about no.
The fastest ARM soc is nearly catching up with Intel's slowest Atom (Which on the other hand already says everything, Atom's suck out of the box)
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If you're referring to a gaming console, they sell for so little cuz the companies make up for it selling the games.
So they cost less to build than a console, and yet sell for a bit more than twice as much, in some cases.
And people want to say they're not overpriced?


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The negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia treaty lasted 1,400 days – this was the start of Osnabrück's long career as a conference destination. Today, it is both easy to get to and easy to get around and offers a free, creative congress service.
The historical Friedenssaal in the town hall will forever be remembered as the venue of this first international congress which was attended by all the great European powers. History is brought to life in the narrow, cobbled lanes of the old quarter of Osnabrück, making it a deserving member of the Historic Highlights of Germany. The Erich Maria Remarque Peace Centre and the Felix Nussbaum House (designed by award-winning architect Daniel Libeskind) pay homage to the town's most famous sons.
A compact town that is best explored on foot, Osnabrück is also an eco-friendly congress location. In conjunction with the region's most important service providers, the conference and convention bureau founded the 'Green meetings in Osnabrück' initiative.
Universities, institutions such as the German Foundation for the Environment (DBU) and the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF), and the dynamic economy all provide stimulus for trade conventions. The main station (served by ICE/IC trains), Münster/Osnabrück international airport and three motorways make travelling to the town very straightforward. The choice of conference venues includes OsnabrückHalle, modern conference hotels and a number of unusual locations such as museums, an abbey, the planetarium and Osnabrück zoo.
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Moreau House Men Grow Through Community, Service and Prayer at St. Edward's
This year, eight St. Edward's University students made a trade: the comforts and familiarity of their current home for the chance to experience communal living with St. Edward's University Holy Cross Brothers. This unique on-campus living environment is exclusive to young men interested in exploring their faith through the Congregation of Holy Cross. The Moreau House Collegiate program was established by Brother Larry Atkinson, CSC, and Brother Michael Winslow, CSC, in January 2001. Since then, 60 students have called Moreau House home. Collegians usually reside there for one or two years with Candidates who are studying to be Holy Cross Brothers or Priests.
"It is rewarding to see students continue to remain friends and keep in touch long after they leave Moreau House and to keep in touch with us," Brother Larry said. "Social media and email certainly have helped."
It's not unusual for former Moreau House residents to stop by when they are back in town. One has coined the term "Moreaunians 4 Life."
"The original group of four Collegiates are still in touch with us and with each other, even as they have gone on to receive advanced degrees, to get married or have entered priesthood or religious life," Brother Larry said. Two of them have now returned to be Graduate Assistants guiding current Moreaunians. Former Moreaunians say that it was a particularly formative part of their college experience.
The relaxed requirements for participation make this experience accessible to a diverse range of students and allow the Holy Cross Brothers to meet students where they are in life and their spiritual journey — an important characteristic of Holy Cross education. These young men come from different backgrounds, a variety of religious traditions and are typically in their junior or senior year at St. Edward's. The program is open to traditional undergraduate students who are doing well in school, although there isn't a required GPA.
"The Moreau House program leads me to believe in the true potential of young adults when they are given parameters, expectations, responsibilities and an opportunity to form relationships," Brother Larry said. "It is very rewarding to be part of their self- discovery and growth into responsible, spiritual adulthood."
"Our founder, Basil Moreau, would be pleased to see his ideals lived out with these young men."
There are two St. Edward's University Brothers who live with the young men in Moreau House — Atkinson and Brother John Perron, CSC. Since Moreau House is a wing of St. Joseph Hall, the Brothers' residence on campus, the students have the opportunity to learn from the other 16 brothers living at St. Joseph Hall or those traveling through Austin. The Collegians share meals, household chores and service ministries.
"The Moreau House has provided me an opportunity to live in a deeper community than traditional residence halls," Mason Simmons '12 said. "I live with guys who are like-minded as me, spiritual and academically committed. Thanks to them and the Brothers, I am further along in my personal development than I thought possible."
"Seeing the students grow through their experiences in community living, spiritual search and commitment to service enriches me and deepens my own vowed commitment to community, prayer and service," Brother Larry said. "They develop a sense of family and respect for one another and diversity."
The Holy Cross values of Moreau House are lived through three pillars — community, service and prayer:
Community is achieved through working on chores around the house together, taking turns cooking dinner for each other and attending house meetings once a month. All the young men in the program eat dinner together daily. They also participate in a retreat at the beginning of the year.
"The biggest lesson I've learned while living in Moreau House is that people depend on one another," Ryan Grundy '12 said. "We rely on each other to keep a positive energy around the house, or to pick someone up when they are feeling down. The essence of a human community is that every single person matters. When one is hurting, we all hurt. Together we can help each other to be the best people we can be."
Service is put into action every Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. by participating in the Egg Ministry, a service project which supplies the homeless community on 7th Street outside the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless with coffee and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They are joined by others who provide hard boiled eggs and tortillas. Each Tuesday evening, half of the Moreau House men make the sandwiches. The other half wake up early Wednesday morning to distribute the food to the homeless. They trade "jobs" the next week. Many of the students are also actively involved with other service opportunities offered on campus.
Egg Ministry comes from the name given to Lynn Goodman-Strauss who, in an article in the Austin American-Statesman, was dubbed "The Egg Lady." In the late 1980s, she would bring hard boiled eggs and tortillas to the day laborer pick-up location on the property of what is now the Austin City Hall. Eventually others, including several Holy Cross Brothers (Joseph Harris, William Dunn, Louis Coe and Larry Atkinson), joined in the ministry. When Brothers Larry and Mike began the Moreau House program, they included it as their house service opportunity.
Prayer at Moreau House is open to everyone and is led by either of the two resident brothers or by one of the Collegians. Community prayer takes place each weekday evening after dinner, and Mass is celebrated by a Holy Cross priest each Friday afternoon. They also attend Sunday Mass and services on campus or other places of worship.
Since 1984, Moreau House has been a Candidate program for those studying to be Holy Cross brothers and priests. In response to the decreasing numbers of men entering the Candidate program, Moreau House expanded into the Collegiate program to include students who are not Candidates. This type of on-campus experience is now rare at Catholic schools across the country, although the University of Notre Dame has two similar programs — Old College and Bessette House. Old College is for students interested in joining the Holy Cross priesthood. Bessette House is similar to Moreau House, welcoming both candidates for Holy Cross Brothers as well as Collegians.
"Year of the Brother"
This year is the "Year of the Brother." On Oct. 17, 2010, the Congregation of Holy Cross celebrated the canonization of Brother André Bessette, CSC, by Pope Benedict XVI — the congregation's first-ever saint. In honor of Bessette's achievement, the congregation kicked off the "Year of the Brother" last October. It would be 12 months dedicated to honoring the vocation and ministry of service lived out on a daily basis.


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Q: We know that paint quality has a big impact on coverage, but what role does paint color play?
A: All colors have different degrees of opacity or transparency, which determine the way they reflect light. Opaque paint colors tend to obscure the color of the surface, while transparent colors tend to allow the surface to show through.
Q: So which paint colors are more challenging in terms of coverage?
A:Bright, clean yellows, oranges and reds. Those pigments tend to be more transparent in nature.
Q: What about a bright, clean blue?
A:It's the same issue. Any primary color that's really clean tends to be more transparent. You get more hide when you add muted colorants, such as iron oxides or black. In general, muted, grayed-off or duller colors have better hide.
Q: What should designers keep in mind when choosing paint colors?
A: Some colors can cover a surface in one coat, but many can't. If you look at some paint companies' color palettes, often the colors have been "dirtied up" for optimized hide. If a company says its paint can hide in one coat, the colors generally are not bright and clean.
Q: If you want to use a bright, clean color, what can you do to maximize hide?
A: Sherwin-Williams Color Prime® System is the best way to ensure the best possible hide. The Color Prime System includes six gray shades for tinting primers that have been matched up scientifically to optimize color.
Q: What about primer that has been tinted with the topcoat?
A: Conventional wisdom says you should use a white primer or one tinted with the topcoat color. But primer tinted to the right shade of gray creates the ideal balance of light absorption and reflection, which gives you superior hide. Bold, vivid hues reach their true color in fewer coats when applied over a gray-tinted basecoat.
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A: Just check the back of your Sherwin-Williams color chip. If a gray-shade primer is recommended, it will be coded – P1 for the lightest gray, through P6 for the darkest – to tell you which shade of gray your primer should be tinted.
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Basketball History
In early December 1891, a unique sport known as basketball was invented by the Canadian born Dr. James Naismith. He was also a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (YMCA), which is today known as Springfield College and located in Springfield, Massachusetts. In an effort to keep his students active on rainy days, Naismith created the vigorous indoor game to keep the young men occupied during the long New England winters. Legend has it that after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, Dr. James Naismith wrote the basic rules of the game of basketball, in which he nailed a peach basket onto the ten-foot elevated track, creating the first basketball hoop. The first official basketball game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine players, on a court just half the size of a present-day NBA court. The name "Basket ball" was suggested by one of Naismith's students and was popular from the beginning of its creation.
Basketball's early adherents were dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United States, and it quickly spread through the country. Eventually, women's basketball emerged and began in 1892 at Smith College when a physical education teacher named Senda Berenson modified the rules created by Dr. James Naismith to appeal specifically to women. By 1896, basketball was extremely widespread and also well-established at several women's colleges. While the YMCA was responsible for initially developing and spreading the game, within a decade, it discouraged the new sport as rough play and rowdy crowds began to detract from the YMCA's primary mission. However, other amateur sports clubs, colleges, and professional clubs quickly filled the void. In the years before World War I, the Amateur Athletic Union and the Intercollegiate Athletic Association vied for control over the rules for the game.
The first professional basketball league was formed in 1898, in which players earned $2.50 for home games and $1.25 for games on the road. Not quite 100 years later, Juwan Howard, a star player for the Washington Bullets (now called the Washington Wizards ) had competing offers of more than $100 million over seven seasons from the Bullets and the Miami Heat. Many teams in the National Basketball Association now have foreign players, who return home to represent their native countries during the Olympic Games. The famous "Dream Team", made up of the top American professional basketball players, represented the United States in the Olympic Games during the 1990's and is often referred to as the greatest collection of basketball talent ever assembled. In 1996, the Dream Team trailed some opponents until fairly late in the games, an indication of basketball's growing international status, but managed to bring the United States is second consecutive Gold Medal at the Olympic Games. In Athens in 2004, Argentina dethroned the three-time champion United States and took home the gold as the first time a Latin American country won the basketball honor.
1891 Basketball is invented by Dr. James Naismith, an instructor at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1895 The backboard is introduced to prevent fans from interfering with play (baskets were often hung on balconies).
1898 The first professional league, the National Basketball League, is formed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
1908 The dribbler is permited to shoot the ball, and the NCAA eliminates the double dribble.
1914 NCAA, Amateur Athletic Union and YMCA rules are standardized.
1920 Players are allowed to re-enter the game.
1925 The first major professional league, the American Basketball Association is formed. (The ABL is the first league to sign players to exclusive contracts and it's teams are located in many of the major cities in the country)
1930 Professional leagues eliminate the double dribble.
1931 The American Basketball League disbands.
1932 The midcourt line is introdued to eliminate stalling.
1937 The center jump ball after each score is eliminated.
1937 The National Basketball League is formed. (The Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers and Sacramento Kings can all trace their heritage beck to the the NBL, and the league featured many future NBA stars such as George Mikan, Jim Pollard, Dolph Schayes, Bob Davies and Red Holzman)
1946 The Basketball Association of America, a forerunner of the NBA is formed. (Three of the league's orginal 11 franchises are still playing today- the New York Knickerbockers, Boston Celtics and Philadelphia (now Golden State) Warriors)
1948 Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Rochester jump to the BAA from the NBL
1949 The BAA merges with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association.
1950 The NBA begins racial integration when Earl Loyd, Nat Clifton and Chuck Cooper join the league.
1954 The NBA introduces the shot clock to curtail stalling tactics.
1960 The Minneapolis become the first team to move to the West Coast as they become the Los Angeles Lakers
1961 The rival American Basketball League begins play and introduces the three-point shot.
1962 The ABL disbands
1967 A rival to the NBA, the American Basketball Association is formed. (The ABA would go on to develop some of the most exciting players in pro basketball, including Julius Erving, George Gervin, David Thompson, Connie Hawkins, Artis Gilmore, George McGinnis, Roger Brown and Moses Malone)
1976 The NBA expands to include the ABA's surviving franchises. (the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets and San Antonio Spurs)
1992 Professional basketball players are allowed in the Olympics and the "Dream Team" (featuring Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson) is born.


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Should Israel go all out?
Israel clearly exists as a nation on the basis of its claim to have been given its traditional land borders by the revelation of the one true God. Compromise therefore doesn't make sense. "In for a penny, in for a pound." Should Israel just chuck in its tiptoeing around the various international and Arab demands, take its original borders, and let its very existence rest on the promise of God? To me, this is the only rational option, given the very identity of the Jewish people. What say you?
Nov 23 2012: If your God does not respect the sanctity of human life, no matter what race, creed, colour, sex or religious persuasion, then he is no God - he's a politician.
Using the bible as a political manifesto is the reason why religion and politics have both seriously lost their way.
Nov 23 2012: Again I'm not espousing anything in particular but perhaps from a strictly rational perspective, you are also guilty of an artificial compartmentalization of human nature-- if human nature is to be treated with integrity, should not all its aspects (religion AND politics) be holistically, and not separately considered?Nov 22 2012: "by the revelation of the one true God"
israel was created by political powers, god has nothing to do with it.
"given the very identity of the Jewish people"
instant racism, well done.
Nov 22 2012: I don't consider it racist at all. It is quite simply the truth.
The Jews exist as a culturally distinct people on the basis of the Biblical claim--which is only widely known due to their scriptural popularity and success historically. If I were a Jew, I'd either renounce my ethnicity altogether, or rest on its claims. Otherwise, I'd only be a coward and nonentity, worse than a man without an ethnicity.
Nov 22 2012: "The Jews exist as a culturally distinct people on the basis of the Biblical claim"
well, if you believe in that statement, you are not racist indeed. you are merely ignorant.
Nov 22 2012: Well, do educate me, good man.Nov 22 2012: most jews are jews because their parents were jews, and they grew up in jew culture. just as germans are germans for a similar reason. they don't identify themselves with ancient german hordes. israel's policy is not originated in the bible in any way. nor the thinking of many people in israel or anywhere on the earth. strangely, religious reasoning prevalent in all other countries in the middle east, and unfortunately the USA too.
Nov 22 2012: Wouldn't you say that if the Germans decided to take over parts of England because of their ancestral and ethnic claim to those lands, that in the very act, they are opening themselves up to logical criticism (not necessarily criticizing) pertaining to all the elements of such ancestral claims? By acting on the biblical basis of Jerusalem in founding Israel as a nation, should not the Jewish people open themselves to all the ramifications of their underlying assumption of biblical legitimacy?Nov 22 2012: neither ancestral nor ethnic claims are religious.and can only repeat that israel's gaza policy is not based on religion, as you keep saying.
Nov 22 2012: The difference with Israel is that its national claims ARE ethnic, and its ethnic claims ARE religious. I don't think YOU grasp this.
This is what is unique about the Jews.
AND IN CASE YOU DIDN'T GET IT ALREADY, I AM A BELIEVER IN THE TRADITIONAL JUDEO-CHRISTIAN GOD, SO I AM NOT ANTI-SEMITIC.Nov 22 2012: no the claims are not religious.Nov 26 2012: Seriously we are human beings before we this or that race, ethnicity and culture overlays.
Actually Christians have been some of the most anti semitic groups ever.
East Roman Christians kicked the JEws out of the Levant. Christians persecuted JEws are the murders of Christ for centuries in Europe and Russia. Finally, Christians in Germany, mainly Catholics, murdered European Jews on an industrial scale, along with Roma and homosexuals etc.
The evangelical Christian take on Israel etc is not the primary Judeo Christian theme for the last 2000 years.
Grace Greene
Nov 22 2012: War creates war. For as long as people want to fight, they will find something to fight about. In this case, it's whether or not God gave the land to some or all of Abraham's children. Tradition was always that the inheritance went to the oldest son. That would be Ishmael, the father of the Arabs. So the land really belongs to them if there is a god-given land-grant.
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Why not stand for peace rather than war? It's much safer and far more pleasant to watch.
Nov 22 2012: Truth is, I'm not asserting any option personally--I'm just having a rational exercise...
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Nov 22 2012: No, you're having a mental exercise. Your position is certainly not rational.
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Nov 22 2012: By the way, Ishmael gave away his birthright for a bowl of soup. So I don't suppose the Arabs have any basis in their squabble with their Jewish family.
But if you take, say, an alien from outer space, and present him with the Jewish history. As an objective outsider, he would agree about my ultimatum.
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Nov 23 2012: Sorry, but Easu lost his birthright for a bowl of soup. Not Ishmael.
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But now all can see that you were not attempting to use logical argument. You have an agenda. That explains the lack of rationality in your argument.
Nov 23 2012: My mistake about the soup, but it is not integral to my basic premises.
Gail .
Nov 23 2012: If Easu could exchange his birthright for a bowl of soup, thus lose it, did not the Jews exchange their birthright for food provided as a result of their selling themselves into slavery in Egypt? When they pledged their lives to the Pharaoh, they actively rejected God's gift. Thus, by your logic, they lost their right to the land.
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Why are you fixated on one part of the text but refuse to read the rest?
But this whole conversation is a digression. All archeologists, egyptologists, and Jewish sholars agree that the exodus could not have happened as recorded. It's just not possible. If the Jews were walking 10 abreast, the line would have been 150 miles long. People and their animals at the end of the line would have been dying of thirst as they awaited their turn at the next oasis, and there are no skeletal remains. There should be lots of them along the entire route - especially in the encampment area where the Ten Commandments were allegedly given. But remnants of Jewish campfires in the land of Canaan have been found, and they pre-date the exodus. Furthermore, Noah's flood is not mathematically possible. You can do the math yourself. There are many more impossibilities in the texts.
There are so many problems with the Biblical texts that they cannot be used as a history. It's not rational to do so.
Jewish scholars agree that the story of the exodus is a myth or a morality tale and not to be taken literally.
Nov 23 2012: Again, I'm just doing a playful logical exercise here-- not espousing anything (I have to say this in almost all my posts now).
So let me give to you, whether true or not, that there is no really logical and rational ground behind Israel's occupation of its present nation. Why don't you therefore agree to have them dissolve their nation and melt into the Arab people for peace's sake?Nov 26 2012: Actually, who were the first inhabitants of the Levant. They were not Jews, before Jewish culture and tribes existed.
Maybe the preJewish peoples had their own gods who gave them the land. Why not them.
Why everything through a Judeo Christian lens?
Gail .
Nov 22 2012: Well, if you can prove that God gave the Biblical land of Israel to the children of Abraham, and that Abraham's God still wants modern-day Jews to own the land - meaning: show me your God - then you could stand firm in your position and have my support.
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If you can prove that by breaking (rejecting) the covenant - Jews leaving the land and selling themselves into slavery in Egypt - they are still entitled to the land, you could get me to listen.
If you can explain why God kept removing the Jews from the land (as in Babylonian exile), I would also listen.
Israel exists today because England went back on its word. That land was promised to the Arabs in exchange for their help in the Ottoman War. Because Jews were so hated in Europe and elsewhere, Europe wanted them to move, so England reneged on its promise and gave Jews land that had not been theirs for thousands of years. Seeing as Germany lost WWII (and in such a vile way), why didn't the powers that be give Germany to the Jews as their homeland? Why give them land that was populated by another people.
You appear to be unaware that Jews and Arabs lived peacefully on that land for 1400 years. Now it's a hornets' nest. Is that the doing of your God as well, or just of the view of the Nazi-like Xtians who have helped make it so?
If you are willing to allow Israel's existence to rest on the promise of God, then you should be in full support of our not giving Israel any more money and our staying out of Israel's business. Break the treaty that is endangering us. Let God defend it if God wants it defended.
Nov 22 2012: Regardless of the details of how Israel came to be as a nation again, I go back to the original Jewish texts of God giving these lands. When Israel kept loosing its land, you might say this is proof that God is not with them, or you might take their prophets' words on face value--that it is because they failed to adhere to God absolutely. So this is all the more reason that they should adhere to God absolutely today, and go all out. And prove, once and for all, if God is really with them.
To be a real Jew would be to have the biggest cajones in all the earth! I repeat, this is only LOGIC speaking...
Gail .
Nov 22 2012: What LOGIC????? I don't see any in your post or in your response.
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Nov 22 2012: Logical train of thought:
IF God gave the Jews such and such land, AND God is the one true God, then the Jews should take Him on face value, and not let any amount of HUMAN opinions and pressures dictate their compromising.Nov 23 2012: If you are going to use the Bible as a basis, then god gave that land to the children of Abraham - which includes the Arabs.
If God gave Israel to any group of people, then God should sort it all out. Do you agree with stopping all foreign aid and breaking our defense treaty with Israel, so that God can do his own handiwork?
Nov 23 2012: Again, I'm not personally espousing any action in particular--only taking things to a logical conclusion. In this respect, yes, all the premises would line up to leaving Israel to it's own devices-- inasmuch, again, it rests on the supposed promise of the one true and omnipotent God.Nov 26 2012: Actually you can not even prove the god of the bible exists, or any other gods or goddesses.
Its all apparently a sad delusion, a human conceptual construction.
If there is an god and it happens to be correctly interpreted by one group on people and it gave some land to them.....not a great starting premise is it?
What if the Buddhists have it right, and gods are irrelevant to our escaping the cycle of reincarnation?
If the Buddhists are correct, then the Israeli government would be better to deal with reality and not base their actions on their cultural myths.Nov 22 2012: Yes!
Israel should go all out, or rather they should all go out!!
Get the hell out of other people's business.
Get the hell out of there.
If there is a God, it isn't them.
In lieu of there being no God, it isn't them.
Stop using the Nazi's as an excuse to act just like Nazi's.
Nov 22 2012: I personally would not consider a people acting on their oldest and most ancient and sacred texts and traditions, Nazis. But I do see how they are faced with a very logical alternative-- either go all out in believing in themselves in their full roots, or renounce their identity as a people.
Your statement is anti-Semitic, mine is not...
Lejan .
Nov 22 2012: Your 'only rational option' would be true If Israel could prove its 'one true God' in legal terms to justify its claim. The fact that they can't is one reason of this never ending story...
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Nov 22 2012: Surely this proof would trump the legal, that they boldly take what they claim was promised to them, and let the action of God--either to protect them, or let them be destroyed-- decide the case?
Nov 22 2012: What would you think of me if I would claim some of your belongings because my God told me they belong to me? If we were neighbours, you probably would have at home what's in the hand of that man in your profile picture... :o) And rightly so!
The decisions made and those which will be made on this topic in the future are not actions of any God and of people only. Wise would be to de-escalate and to compromise on all sides involved. Only this can bring a peaceful co-existence, which, as far as I know, actually is what this God want's his 'children' to live like...Nov 22 2012: If you look at the history of my conversations, and my real words, perhaps the picture might not throw you off, as we are all tempted to judge a book by its cover.
Nov 22 2012: I did not judge you by 'the cover'. I just referred to it. Or do you picture me as a white cat in a black circle? Meow? ;o)
Nov 22 2012: No I didn't, although I can similarly refer to you as likely seeing yourself as a sweet and harmless against the backdrop of a dark world, lol...Nov 22 2012: Now that is poetic! I like that! Meow! ;o)Nov 26 2012: What about the majority of the world population that don't believe in the one god? From their perspective Israel is a piece of land being claimed by the decree of a comic book character.Nov 25 2012: Roger,
You seem to have a personal agenda, which has been mentioned at least a couple times by participants on this comment thread. I am very surprised TED has allowed this discussion to continue.
Nov 25 2012: I bet as soon as I mentioned "Jesus Christ" you jump on personal agendas and censorship. But again, whether you are willing to believe or not, I am putting out fodder for reasonable people who will not jump to name calling and censorship. If anything can't be on the table in a forum of reason, then it is not longer a forum or reason, but a forum of another AGENDA. No?
Nov 25 2012: Roger,
If I wanted to "jump" on anything, I would have done it days ago, when this discussion started. I've been watching it unfold.....or not. It seems to be a forum of YOUR agenda.
I observe that rather than facilitating a discussion, you are promoting your own ideas over and over again. You keep saying you are "putting out fodder for reasonable people....", and there have been several very reasonable people who chose to comment on this thread. You continue with your own agenda, rather than facilitate any kind of discussion, and when someone disagrees with you, they are, as you say...unreasonable or not logical.
You seem to be accepting only YOUR perceived "reason" and logic. Based on your comments, you seem to be emotionally invested in the challenges of Israel. Your comment ..."To me, this is the only rational option, given the very identity of the Jewish people", seems racist to me. Again, you speak of YOUR "only rational option". and with that, you leave no room for discussion.
As I said, I am very surprised TED has allowed this to continue.
Nov 25 2012: I might just as well object to TED that you are calling for censorship, and introducing into a community of hopefully open-minded that this is an acceptable option. I'd rather say, censor censorship. I wondered whether I should flag your comments to TED as someone espousing censorship, but then, I'd be guilty of the same thing.
No. As a reasonable person, I urge you to put censorship off the table.
That being said, I appreciate your feedback about me. Some things are inaccurate, but as long as we can dialogue, time can cure all. Or would you rather kill me in the spirit of genocide, and see me on TED no longer?
In fact, this just gave me an idea: Could all genocide and warfare begin first in the human mind, with the spirit of censorship?Nov 25 2012: Do what you will Roger. I'm certainly not the only one on this thread who brings this to light:>)
Nov 25 2012: Coleen, please believe me that I love all people. If you are wondering if I have an agenda, look at my New American Spring organizational movement idea-- posited on bi-partisan, good-will community building (my profile).
"TO ME, this is the only rational option, given the VERY IDENTITY of the Jewish people."
The TO ME is an invitation to reason. It says I am putting myself up for consideration along with my premise.
VERY IDENTITY of the Jewish people, if offensive, should rather be dealt with by arguments, no? Otherwise, if it is indeed racist, how am I to grow and change as a person? By being labeled and censored?
I knew, Coleen, that I was bringing up controversial subjects when I opened up the Israeli-Palestinian debate, but only because I like lively and thoughtful conversation. This topic is played out by now for me, though. I recently put in for a more philosophical topic on whether our universe is perhaps a universe of beings, rather than a universe of things, as our modern scientific paradigm suggests. Hope you can join in...Nov 25 2012: People who believe these fairy tales and promote war because of them freak me out.
Some times its hard to believe we are in the 21st century.
Nov 25 2012: Whether you like it or not, I believe that Israel is acting on this ethinic and religious mandate in the innermost of its government. Perhaps the word for this is Zionist-- frankly, I don't know much detail about the whole thing. I just have good gut feelings, and I feel Israel is trying to reclaim all the borders of its scriptural promise...
I personally will not endorse or condemn this. I don't have authority to speak. I'm just throwing out considerations for reasoning people.
Nor do I think that labeling anyone "nut" does any good among reasoning people, no matter how unreasonable you think your other side is. Using derogatory words is a sign that you are either too lazy to seek out the human level of your opponent (and there is ALWAYS a human level), or you are just a species of that which you are calling your opponent.
Nov 26 2012: I'm not privy to the internal workings or motivations of the most powerful people in Israel.
Who are the key movers and shakers in your view, why do you think their drivers relate to particular superstitious religious beliefs and not more pragmatic concerns about the safety of their citizens and winning the coming election? Any evidence to support your view.
My understanding of Judaism, Israel, and it's government is that there are many different religious and political factions. In Judaism you have atheist Jews through to fundamentalist Jews, even Christian Jews.
I guess some are looking at this from a pragmatic political, social, economic and military perspective – a real threat to Israeli citizens via the missiles, to win an election, and determine what is the best course of action based on the natural world. This would include consideration of of the relevant social/political groups with supernatural beliefs.
Others might believe they have a god given right to all of Israel and see the conflict in some supernatural context. Not just Jews but evangelical Christians.
"Nut" is your word, not mine.
RE: "Israel clearly exists as a nation on the basis of its claim to have been given its traditional land borders by the revelation of the one true God. " - It might be my misinterpretation, but I interpreted your your headline comment that Israel has some divine right to exist, which makes you sound like one of the nuts that you allude to, whoever or whatever they are.
I suggest the modern state of Israel exists because of more mundane reasons. I note Jewish control has been in the minority for the last 4000 years. I also note after centuries of Muslim control Jews were only about 10% of the population at the turn of the 20th century - WW1 and Ottoman collapse, ineffective British occupation, Zionist migration, Western guilt and maybe evangelical motivations and you have one of the biggest mistakes of the 20th century, the formation of 2 states in the Levant.
Nov 26 2012: I am prostrate on the floor. I breathe the dust. You clearly know much more than me. I'm glad my trowing this subject out there got some education in the mix.Nov 26 2012: Sarcasm. Hmm. Shame, I was hoping for a mature response, better understanding your view in response to mine, even pointing out where you think my view is wrong and why. Well, never mind.Nov 23 2012: Gods are imaginary. If Israelites acted upon the words written in an old book, a book filled with barbaric and imaginary stories, they would be acting on imprudent and incalculable stupidity. Other countries would have the humane duty of stoping them. No barbaric books, no imaginary entitlements, no imaginary gods, can justify genocide.
Nov 23 2012: Well even in my logical exercise, I wouldn't imagine genocide. I'm just referring to expanding Israel's national sovereignty to the full scope of the original territory promised by God. As far as I know, the ancient scriptures lead the way in global morality in prescribing ethical treatment of the foreigner in Israel. So the Arabs caught up in this territory would enjoy these protections.
But again--logical exercise-- not recommendation...
Nov 23 2012: And how would you think such a thing could be accomplished if not by genocide? In any event. I do not care if the books have anything about treating foreigns ethically or not, taking over territories is taking over territories. Taking them over for imaginary promises by imaginary beings is still insane and overly stupid. No amount of believers in this imaginary character would change reality one bit. Such action would be exactly like hindus taking over something because of a promise by Vishnu. Suppose their respective gods disagree? What would make one right and the other wrong? These things have to be treated with reason, not superstition.
So your logical exercise is anything but logical. It makes no sense to act upon imaginary promises by imaginary beings.
Nov 24 2012: I find that modern people continually mix up logic with reason. Logic is a mere exercise of IF, THEN. Reason can bring into the mix belief. So you are really saying I'm not being reasonable. But I am being logical.
But whenever you claim reason, you must also acknowledge the level of BELIEF involved. So, because you don't believe in the Jewish God, only by that virtue do you claim that I am unreasonable.
Again-- just logic here...Nov 24 2012: You are right and I am wrong about the "logic" part (if ... then ...), but for the logic to work the premises have to be valid. So, even if "logical" your question/debate/whatever, is irrational, nonsense, and following it would be irresponsibly stupid.
There's no level of belief involved in my answer. That I don't believe personally in this fantasy does not make my position based on a belief. My position is reasonable because there is no way anybody can demonstrate that their particular gods are real and that their promises should be respected. We know for sure that the people living in some lands are real. Putting them down for the sake of a promise by a character who cannot be demonstrated unambiguously to exist to all parties is pure nonsense. Again and again, incalculable stupidity.
Nov 24 2012: If you were any student of logic or even reason you'd know that human nature has a gaping hole-- we are creatures of belief. Whether you like it or not, your position is based on believe.
Because we are incapable of knowing anything absolutely. Hence we are creatures of faith. Your incalculable stupidity judgment is based on your own brand of faith, unless you are claiming omniscience.Nov 25 2012: I don't need omniscience to know that you cannot show any gods to be real to all parties involved. But let me know the day you convince all those arabs, and the rest of the planet, that the god who promised the Israelites those lands is real, and that it really promised those lands, and that this god actually had the right to give those land to the Israelites.Nov 26 2012: Have you read the old testament. I have, a few times.
The god Yahweh is described as a jealous petty and murderous dictator, who personally killed hundreds of thousands that are enumerated, not to mention the millions of other not numbered in a global flood and destroyed cities. He also order millions killed (enumerated). This is truly a god of genocide. Global genocide. A monster.
Animal sacrifices. A human sacrifice (not talking about Jesus). Laws that command death for witchcraft, homosexuality, working on the Sabbath, adultery, and unruly children. Endorses slavery, women as chattel who must marry their rapist and be killed on their Fathers doorstop if not a virgin when they marry.
Not sure where you get "the ancient scriptures lead the way in global morality " unless you are talking about a brutal bronze/iron age morality. I'm not even sure if they were progressive 2500 years ago. But today they are barbaric.
Fritzie -
Nov 22 2012: Does it seem at all odd to you that in your comments below you are defining for Jews what it means to be a "real Jew" and are proclaiming that they should either not seek peaceful resolution to disputes or renounce their identities, even as peace is such a universally held value among people of all faiths?
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It reminds me a little of the guy on the sidelines at the school grounds trying to get people to fight by saying "are you going to take that from him?" Such a guy is a friend to neither party.
It's unpleasant enough when people of any faith try to define for others what it means to be a "real" person of their faith, but worse when you are not even of that faith yourself. People's own definitions of their faith and values are more relevant and valid, I believe, than your definitions of who they are and what they (should) believe.
Nov 22 2012: All I'm saying is "if your earliest traditional, ethnic records say you are A, then B logically follows." Nothing more, nothing less. Whether a people reserve the right to define themselves other than their earliest historical ethnic records show, that is their prerogative. But you can't fault an outsider from drawing logical conclusions, even if those conclusions are so sensitive that they may inspire unpleasant feelings.
Fritzie -
Nov 22 2012: I agree that it is people's right to define who they are and what they believe- that others should not seek to define them.
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Outsiders' definitions and mischaracterizations- and the spread of those, particularly when they feature negative interpretations of who the people are and what they must logically believe and do, are a major source of hatred in the world.
Nov 22 2012: I don't know if it will surprise you that I am a believer in the biblical God, and the absoluteness of His promise to Israel. I am therefore far from a hater of the Jews. But maybe I should have more faith that peace is possible between Arabs and Jews, given their deep sibling rivalry from biblical days (Isaw and Jacob).
Fritzie -
Nov 22 2012: I made no guess as to the beliefs you hold. My concern, as I believe you understand, is that when people who are not Jews make claims about what Jews must believe or do in order to be consistent with their identities or texts, or when those who are not Muslim make claims of what Muslims must believe or do, or when those who are not Christians make claims about what Christians must logically believe or do, there is a great risk others will believe these assertions as fact and form unfounded prejudices based on them.
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Very much most people, I believe, regardless of faith, nationality, or how anyone interprets their holy writings, want peace and are willing to compromise to get it.Nov 26 2012: Again, you seem to be picking an arbitrary point of what it means to be Jewish and all that implies.
You might say the North American Indians should strive take back their lands pre Columbus.
Or that Christians should strive to follow beliefs before the reformation. No Protestants whatsever. Or go back early enough to when Jesus was alive and his followers were all Jewish. Paul, who never met Jesus, only let non Jews join the club after Jesus died. The letters compiled into the new testament have them arguing about whether non Jews can join up and whether they need to follow the old law and be circumcised.Nov 22 2012: Isreal should act as led by the Prince of Peace.
Nov 22 2012: If you are referring to Jesus, and maybe to Jesus as their Messiah, what action as a nation do you feel would be entailed by this?
Nov 26 2012: Most Jews didn't/don't think Jesus was the messiah, let alone part of a god.
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Nov 22 2012: "Israel clearly exists as a nation on the basis of its claim to have been given its traditional land borders by the revelation of the one true God."
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Are you saying you believe that claim to actually be true (that there exists a god that specifically wants there to be a greater Jewish state) or were you just looking at it from the Israeli (well, the right wing, nationalist/ultra-orthodox Israeli) view? If it's the former I want to know what you've been smoking, if it's the latter my answer would be that the Arabs pretty much claim god wants them to rule over Jerusalem, in fact the world is filled with places that people from two or more religions have opposing claims to, most of the Earth would be a warzone if we let all those groups "go all out" instead of having them coexist or at least negotiate separate territories.
P.S. a majority of Israelis are secular Jews, atheists or Muslims, they do not care for Jewish religious arguments, they'd probably give Gaza away to Egypt in a heartbeat, if only Egypt would accept it.
Nov 22 2012: I'm just approaching this matter as a rational observer. The elephant in the room with regard to Israel's very existence is the widely publicized Bible, claiming the Jewish people's special dispensation from God; their miraculous escape from Egypt, etc. They exist as a people based on this claim. I will not say here--for the sake of objective conversation-- whether I believe or not (although I might or might not)--this is not my point.
Believe me or not, my point is strictly rational.
PS: Even if the one true God did choose a people, this does not HAVE to mean that they are SPECIAL above the rest of humankind. For example, here is a theological treatment of the matter I found once:'
Thus did God seek to reunite with Man, in His great motherly love for all of His Creation. Looking down at man in sin, He did seek a pathway to the salvation of the human race, a pathway which had to begin first with one man, then one people, eventually leading to the whole world....Hence did Abraham, through his utter self surrender in Faith, win his progeny in the Jewish tribe of God—hence did he enjoy the crown gracefully given by the Creator to Its obedient and loving creature...Thence did the legacy of the Jews demonstrate, for the benefit of all mankind, what it means for sinful man to relate again to his Creator. In their myriad failures and disappointments, God showcased, to all of man, the hopeless nature of sin. Thence likewise was the stage set for God's most wonderful action in the Salvation Saga—His very condescension to the lowest rung of his Creation, to the material cosmos, in the Incarnation.


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i have seen Moz more times than I can account for and although I would love to see a Smith reunion Coachella isn't the place for it.
Morrissey has always needed more of a smaller venue in order to get him all fired up and into it.
besides, it's not like he and Marr would be high-fiving and all during the set, as they would probably be on opposite sides of the stage the whole time.
I think it would be a big letdown.
You want ot hear Smiths songs go see Moz.
You want to hear Marr's riffs go see him when he resurrects The Healers.
that's what I meant. It's not worth getting hopes up just to have Morrissey inevitably spoil it in any number of ways.
I already do veg-chella so this works out.
Will there be undercover cops looking for meat products in the camping area?
Or if the ban only refers to the concert grounds, will a black market emerge in the camping area?
I doubt the Smiths would tour the US if they did more than LA it would be NY and if more than that I'm guessing SF and Chicago. Maybe Seattle and Dallas
The Smiths could make out like Sly Stone and I'd still jock.
thank god.
white power?!
never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.
Wwwwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh :.(
Swans @ Terminal West 03/28/15
Drive like Jehu @ The Glass House 04/08/15
Electric Wizard @ Slims 04/17/15
Acid Mother Temple @ BOTM 04/18/15
Faith No More @ the Warfield 04/20/15
John Zorn @ UCLA 05/02/15
Will Bulter @ Slims 05/26/15
Neutral Milk Hotel @ Pappy & Harriets 05/30/15
Mariah Carey @ Caesars palace 06/11/14
Reading this thread would have been helpful prior to my lineup pool entry.
The Roses were denying the reunion when later interviews reveal them giving media the runaround.
Pixies were denying the reunion during the 2 years of ongoing conversations prior to the 2004 Coachella announcement.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Iowa State's Will Clyburn waved his hand, as if making the basketball court his palette.
Key color: Green.
What it meant: Take over, which is precisely what Clyburn did.
The 6-7 senior left plenty of brushstrokes on a late-game, bubble-banishing masterwork, scoring 10 straight points during a rousing run that helped the Cyclones stun Oklahoma 73-66 in a Thursday Big 12 Championship quarterfinal at the Sprint Center.
"I was just caught up in the game," said Clyburn, who scored 10 of his 17 points while turning a 60-53 deficit into a 63-62 lead. "Wanted to win."
Simple as that with plenty of Melvin Ejim-led loose ball scrambling and uncommonly stern defending in the waning minutes.
ISU (22-10) held the Sooners (20-11) without a field goal the final 8:10.
Oklahoma led 58-48 at the time and eventually extended it's advantage to 60-48.
Then the Cyclones, which missed 18 of their first 20 3-point attempts, finally started pushing back.
Georges Niang hit a 3-pointer to make it 60-51 with 7:22 left.
Ejim drained a pair of free throws, as did Clyburn.
It's how Clyburn's personal streak began and part of a larger 25-6 close-out for ISU that came with starting point guard Korie Lucious on the bench for all but the last 20 seconds.
"One of the greatest things about coach Fred (Hoiberg) is he instills confidence in you all the time," said backup point Bubu Palo, who played most of the final 7:42. "I didn't know how long I was going to play."
Turned into a lot, partly because of Lucious's urging.
"Korie came to me out of a timeout and said, 'You keep going with these guys, they've got a great flow going,'" said Hoiberg, whose team ended a seven one-and-done skid in Kansas City. "That's Korie Lucious, who hit a shot to help put a Michigan State team in a Final Four. When you have a guy as selfless as that on your team, that's a great luxury to have."
Lucious simply saw something working and didn't want to alter the formula.
"I was like, 'I'm good,'" said Lucious, who had nine assists but missed all eight of his shots. "'I'll just sit here and keep cheering.'"
Ejim scored a career-high 23 points while grabbing 12 rebounds and hitting all seven free throws.
His offensive rebound and dish to Clyburn set up the lead-changing 3-point play with 3:19 left.
"Melvin's been doing that all year, chasing down loose balls," said Clyburn, who had two points at halftime. "I wouldn't expect anything less from him. Just happy he found me."
The Sooners tied it once after the Ejim-Clyburn connection, but 3-pointers from Tyrus McGee and Chris Babb sealed their fate.
Babb churned his wrist as if spooning food into his mouth after his long-range swish.
"It's just something we do," said Babb, who finally celebrated winning a conference tournament game after going 0-3 in two seasons at Penn State and his first at ISU. "Letting everybody know we've got it going."
Up next: Kansas.
There's a bit of history there.
Heartbreaking history in the form of two overtimes losses fueled by a bank shot and at least two calls/non-calls.
"Games that we shouldn't have lost, that we had in our favor," Clyburn said. "I'm just excited to get some payback."
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Initially she was going to do it for her community only (Baltimore), by creating a kosher buying club. But, demand was so large that she expanded to Philadelphia, then New Jersey, and now sells the product nationally throughout the U.S. In addition, she sells the kosher meat at a local Farmers market in the Washington – Baltimore area.
According to Devora, "small business" organic meat farming is a difficult and complicated field. It is challenging to produce non–industrial kosher meat, since 95% or more of all meat (kosher or not) produced in the U.S. is run by large corporations. "Our animals are a part of eco-systems, not industrial systems. Our Gold Standard: Animals are raised on pasture, enjoying their natural diets, at sustainable family farms where care for the environment, health and community are paramount."
For kosher beef and lamb, it is even more challenging, due to the added necessity of kosher shechting and the required additional internal inspection to be certain that the meat is glatt kosher. Then there is also the need to develop non–kosher buyers for the "waste" that does not meet glatt standards. Devorah indicated that 75% of all grass fed beef cattle is considered non–kosher.
To find organic cattle farmers with grass–fed animals, she visits ranches;searching for those that follow humane specifications. Her ranchers, in turn select the best animals for her, ones that they know will pass for kosher. The selected cattle go to the slaughter house direct from cattle ranch. She also sources lamb; mostly from the Alleghenies. The business has expanded from a part time community "hobby" to a full time job!
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