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Lakewood church theft surprises, saddens parishioners
By Jayme Fraser | March 16, 2014 | Updated: March 16, 2014 10:04pm
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FILE - Flags fly in front of Lakewood Church in this June 28, 2005 file photo. A service at 11 a.m. April 27 will honor military caregivers. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
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Lakewood Church seats 16,800 people at its central campus, which previously was the Compaq Center, a basketball stadium. File photo: ( Nick de la Torre / Houston Chronicle )
Joel, left, and Victoria Osteen, right, co-pastors of Houston's Lakewood Church, visited Morocco for the filming of "Son of God," a feature film that tells the story of Jesus. The Osteens' friends, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, are the film's producers.
Photo By James Nielsen/Houston ChronicleBum Phillips' widow Debbie Phillips and his son Wade Phillips, and Wade's wife Laurie Phillips attend Bum Phillips Memorial Service at Lakewood Church on Oct. 29, 2013.
Photo By Eric Kayne/For the ChronicleLakewood Church is a nondenominational Christian megachurch along Houston's Southwest Freeway. It hosts the largest congregation in the U.S. and its pastor, Joel Osteen, is a national celebrity. (Eric Kayne / Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleBritain's Got Talent star singer Susan Boyle is receives a cowboy hat after arriving to Bush Intercontinental Airport on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, in Houston. Boyle will perform two concerts at Lakewood Church Sunday.
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Joel Osteen preaches during a worship service he leads with his wife, Victoria, Sunday, at Lakewood Church, the congregation he took over 8 years ago after the death of his father, John Osteen, founder of the institution. Osteen moved the congregation from its outgrown northeast Houston established site to the building formerly known as the Compaq Center and before that as the Summit, where the Houston Rockets won two championships, circuses entertained with clowns, tigers and elephants and numerous rock stars had packed audiences on their feet, not unlike today's service. Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007, in Houston. (Steve Ueckert / Chronicle)
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Oprah Winfrey on stage with Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen during Oprah's Lifeclass in Houston, Texas. october 2012 10 5 2012 - LIFECLASS- Houston Texas. A Show - Joel Osteen
Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen, gives his sermon to his 11 a.m. sermon, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Houston. Olsteen's church averages about 40,000 people in attendance per week. ( Nick de la Torre / Houston Chronicle )
Joel Osteen at the new Lakewood Church construction site 09/20/04 (Houston Chronicle)
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Photo By Tiffany Brown/FRELakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen, left, leads prayer with Nik and Erendira Wallenda ahead of Nik's 1400 foot walk across the Grand Canyon for Discovery Channel's Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda on Sunday, June 23, 2013 at the Grand Canyon, Calif. (Tiffany Brown/AP Images for Discovery Communications)
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Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen greets the congregation. File photo: ( Nick de la Torre / Houston Chronicle )
Photo By Nick de la Torre/.Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen, left, stands next to his wife Victoria Osteen, who's the Church's Co-Pastor, as singers and the band perform on stage during his 11 a.m. service, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Houston. Olsteen's church averages about 40,000 people in attendance per week.
Parishioners attending services at Houston's Lakewood Church on Sunday lamented the theft of $600,000 in cash and checks from a church safe just a week earlier.
"It's a disappointment," Larry Zavala, a five-year member, said. "Even in the House of the Lord, it's not safe."
The Houston Police Department is investigating the theft of $200,000 in cash, $400,000 in checks and some handwritten credit card numbers from an office safe sometime March 9 or early March 10 when an employee discovered the money was missing.
"The funds were fully insured, and we are working with our insurance company to restore the stolen funds to the church," Lakewood officials said in a statement last week.
With more than 40,000 members, the nondenominational megachurch led by pastor Joel Osteen boasts the largest congregation in the country.
One parishioner who declined to give her name said her surprise lessened the more she thought about it.
"When good people come to church, the devil comes, too," she said. "You can't say everybody who comes to church is a good person."
The Garcia family from Victoria, who left home at 6 a.m. for the drive to Houston, said they, too, had heard the news.
"They think of it as a rich church. They ain't gonna miss it," Jess Garcia said. "Obviously it's wrong."
His wife, Kim Garcia, added: "All you can do is pray about that person because you don't know what people go through or why they'd do something like that."
As their son, 3-year-old Jesse James Garcia, hugged Kim's leg, she said she was grateful the money was insured so ministries and outreach would not be affected.
"Everybody's gonna want to throw the book at 'em, but if they knew Christ, they wouldn't do that," she said.
In an email to members and statements to the press, church leaders emphasized no electronic information was stolen and that the theft did not affect people who donated online or in drop boxes at the church. They asked that anyone concerned about their donation to monitor their bank accounts for fraudulent activity and to call Lakewood's customer service line at 713-491-1506.


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In case you ever wondered if OCD was hereditary, I bring you the handiwork of the boy whose mother alphabetizes her spices. (And occasionally talks about herself in the third person.)
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Hahahaha! Classic!ReplyDelete
Here's another OCD test. When I look at this picture and read about alphabetized spices, I get the urge to organize. The question then is, is that failing or passing the OCD test?ReplyDelete
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What's the complete opposite of that? Wait? What are spices?ReplyDelete
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Love the ten little toes off to the side...Bob admiring the beauty and order of his work, as he should.ReplyDelete
Could Bob Rosenberg please come and help me arrange my spices?ReplyDelete
The Boy is tidy! I see future project manager potential here =o).ReplyDelete
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A boy after my own heart! Go, Bob, go!ReplyDelete
Go Bob! This is totally what my kid is going to be like when she's old enough to organizize (it's a word honest)ReplyDelete
Ha! Bob and Levi should meet. We joke that Levi is OCD, but now that he's started trying to organize everything within his reach at stores I'm starting to believe it.ReplyDelete
Does Bob do closets...or cupboards? I could use some serious help.ReplyDelete
In what way is this organized -- by Star Wars movie?ReplyDelete
You know, I can have everything crazy and out of order, put in all different places.. But when it goes to my bookshelves, i am very ocd, they have to be in a certain order and nobody better change it, LOL Great BlogReplyDelete
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- H.CramerOctober 16, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Bob's rad! I love how he organized these.ReplyDelete
Been there done that, Bob. Been there. Done that. Like you wouldn't believe.ReplyDelete
(A message from my husband. I did not see Star Wars until we started dating.)
- Rox NicholsonOctober 17, 2010 at 12:13 AM
Doesn't everybody alphabetize their spices???ReplyDelete
Bob is just a brilliant kid really. He has quite a lot of fans though, fairly earned.ReplyDelete
Wow. Pretty sure we gave birth to the same childReplyDelete
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Archaeopteryx, sometimes referred to by its German name Urvogel ("original bird" or "first bird"), is the earliest and most primitive bird known. The name is from the Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος archaios meaning 'ancient' and πτέρυξ pteryx meaning 'feather' or 'wing'; .
Archaeopteryx lived in the late Jurassic Period around 155–150 million years ago, in what is now southern Germany during a time when Europe was an archipelago of islands in a shallow warm tropical sea, much closer to the equator than it is now.
Similar in size and shape to a European Magpie, Archaeopteryx could grow to about 0.5 metres (1.6 ft) in length. Despite its small size, broad wings, and ability to fly, Archaeopteryx has more in common with small theropod dinosaurs than it does with modern birds. In particular, it shares the following features with the deinonychosaurs (dromaeosaurs and troodontids): jaws with sharp teeth, three fingers with claws, a long bony tail, hyperextensible second toes ("killing claw"), feathers (which also suggest homeothermy), and various skeletal features.
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Specimens of Archaeopteryx were most notable for their well-developed flight feathers. They were markedly asymmetrical and showed the structure of flight feathers in modern birds, with vanes given stability by a barb-barbule-barbicel arrangement. The tail feathers were less asymmetrical, again in line with the situation in modern birds and also had firm vanes. The thumb, however, did not yet bear a separately movable tuft of stiff feathers.
The body plumage of Archaeopteryx is less well documented and has only been properly researched in the well-preserved Berlin specimen. Thus, as more than one species seems to be involved, the research into the Berlin specimen's feathers does not necessarily hold true for the rest of the species of Archaeopteryx. In the Berlin specimen, there are "trousers" of well-developed feathers on the legs; some of these feathers seem to have a basic contour feather structure but are somewhat decomposed (they lack barbicels as in ratites), but in part they are firm and thus capable of supporting flight.
There was a patch of pennaceous feathers running along the back which was quite similar to the contour feathers of the body plumage of modern birds in being symmetrical and firm, though not as stiff as the flight-related feathers. Apart from that, the feather traces in the Berlin specimen are limited to a sort of "proto-down" not dissimilar to that found in the dinosaur Sinosauropteryx, being decomposed and fluffy, and possibly even appeared more like fur than like feathers in life (though not in their microscopic structure). These occur on the remainder of the body, as far as such structures are both preserved and not obliterated by preparation, and the lower neck.
However, there is no indication of feathering on the upper neck and head. While these may conceivably have been nude as in many closely related feathered dinosaurs for which good specimens are available, this may still be an artifact of preservation. It appears that most Archaeopteryx specimens became embedded in anoxic sediment after drifting some time on their back in the sea — the head and neck and the tail are generally bent downwards, which suggests that the specimens had just started to rot when they were embedded, with tendons and muscle relaxing so that the characteristic shape of the fossil specimens was achieved. This would mean that the skin was already softened and loose, which is bolstered by the fact that in some specimens the flight feathers were starting to detach at the point of embedding in the sediment. So it is hypothesized that the pertinent specimens moved along the sea bed in shallow water for some time before burial, the head and upper neck feathers sloughing off, while the more firmly attached tail feathers remained.
Archaeopteryx wings were relatively large, which would have resulted in a low stall speed and reduced turning radius. The short and rounded shape of the wings would have increased drag, but could also have improved Archaeopteryx' ability to fly through cluttered environments such as trees and brush (similar wing shapes are seen in birds which fly through trees and brush, such as crows and pheasants). The presence of "hind wings", asymmetrical flight feathers stemming from the legs similar to those seen in dromaeosaurids such as Microraptor, would also have added to the aerial mobility of Archaeopteryx. The first detailed study of the hind wings by Longrich in 2006 suggested that the structures formed up to 12% of the total airfoil. This would have reduced stall speed by up to 6% and turning radius by up to 12%.
In 2004, scientists analyzing a detailed CT scan of Archaeopteryx' braincase concluded that its brain was significantly larger than that of most dinosaurs, indicating that it possessed the brain size necessary for flying. The overall brain anatomy was reconstructed using the scan. The reconstruction showed that the regions associated with vision took up nearly one-third of the brain. Other well-developed areas involved hearing and muscle coordination. The skull scan also revealed the structure of the inner ear. The structure more closely resembles that of modern birds than the inner ear of reptiles. These characteristics taken together suggest that Archaeopteryx had the keen sense of hearing, balance, spatial perception and coordination needed to fly. Archaeopteryx continues to play an important part in scientific debates about the origin and evolution of birds. Some scientists see it as a semi-arboreal climbing animal, following the idea that birds evolved from tree-dwelling gliders (the "trees down" hypothesis for the evolution of flight proposed by O.C. Marsh). Other scientists see Archaeopteryx as running quickly along the ground, supporting the idea that birds evolved flight by running (the "ground up" hypothesis proposed by Samuel Wendell Williston). Still others suggest that Archaeopteryx might have been at home both in the trees and on the ground, like modern crows, and this latter view is what today is considered best-supported by morphological characters. Altogether, it appears that the species was not particularly specialized for running on the ground or for perching. Considering the current knowledge of flight-related morphology, a scenario outlined by Elżanowski in 2002, namely that Archaeopteryx used its wings mainly to escape predators by glides punctuated with shallow downstrokes to reach successively higher perches, and alternatively to cover longer distances by (mainly) gliding down from cliffs or treetops, appears quite reasonable.
The richness and diversity of the Solnhofen limestones in which all specimens of Archaeopteryx have been found have shed light on an ancient Jurassic Bavaria strikingly different from the present day. The latitude was similar to Florida, though the climate was likely to have been drier, as evidenced by fossils of plants with adaptations for arid conditions and lack of terrestrial sediments characteristic of rivers. Evidence of plants, though scarce, include cycads and conifers while animals found include a large number of insects, small lizards, pterosaurs and Compsognathus.
The excellent preservation of Archaeopteryx fossils and other terrestrial fossils found at Solnhofen indicates that they did not travel far before becoming preserved. The Archaeopteryx specimens found are likely therefore to have lived on the low islands surrounding the Solnhofen lagoon rather than been corpses that drifted in from further away. Archaeopteryx skeletons are considerably less numerous in the deposits of Solnhofen than those of pterosaurs such as Rhamphorhynchus, the group which dominated the niche currently occupied by seabirds, yet are common enough that it is unlikely that the specimens found are vagrants from the larger islands 50 km (31 miles) to the north.
The islands that surrounded the Solnhofen lagoon were low lying, semi-arid and sub-tropical with a long dry season and little rain. The flora of these islands was adapted to these dry conditions and consisted mostly of low (3 m [10 ft]) shrubs. Contrary to reconstructions of Archaeopteryx climbing large trees, these seem to have been mostly absent from the islands; few trunks have been found in the sediments and fossilized tree pollen is also absent.
The lifestyle of Archaeopteryx is difficult to reconstruct and there are several theories regarding it. Some researchers suggest that it was primarily adapted to life on the ground, while other researchers suggest that it was principally arboreal. The absence of trees does not preclude Archaeopteryx from an arboreal lifestyle; several species of extant bird live exclusively in low shrubs. Various aspects of the morphology of Archaeopteryx point to either an arboreal or ground existence, the length of its legs, the elongation in its feet; and some authorities consider it likely to have been a generalist capable of feeding in both shrubs, open ground and even alongside the shores of the lagoon. It most likely hunted small prey, seizing it with its jaws if it was small enough or with its claws if it was larger.
Over the years, ten body fossil specimens of Archaeopteryx and a feather that may belong to it have been found. All of the fossils come from the limestone deposits, quarried for centuries, near Solnhofen, Germany.
The initial discovery, a single feather, was unearthed in 1860 and described a year later by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer. It is currently located at the Humboldt Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. This is generally assigned to Archaeopteryx and was the initial holotype, but whether it actually is a feather of this species or another, as yet undiscovered, proto-bird is unknown. There are some indications it is indeed not from the same animal as most of the skeletons (the "typical" A. lithographica).
Soon after, the first skeleton, known as the London Specimen (BMNH 37001) was unearthed in 1861 near Langenaltheim, Germany and given to a local physician Karl Häberlein in return for medical services. He then sold it to the Natural History Museum in London, where it remains. Missing most of its head and neck, it was described in 1863 by Richard Owen as Archaeopteryx macrura, who assumed it did not belong to the same species as the feather. In the subsequent 4th edition of his On the Origin of Species (chap. 9 p. 367), Charles Darwin described how some authors had maintained "that the whole class of birds came suddenly into existence during the eocene period; but now we know, on the authority of Professor Owen, that a bird certainly lived during the deposition of the upper greensand; and still more recently, that strange bird, the Archeopteryx, with a long lizard-like tail, bearing a pair of feathers on each joint, and with its wings furnished with two free claws, has been discovered in the oolitic slates of Solenhofen. Hardly any recent discovery shows more forcibly than this how little we as yet know of the former inhabitants of the world."
The Greek term "pteryx" (πτερυξ) primarily means "wing", but can also designate merely "feather". Von Meyer suggested this in his description. At first he referred to a single feather which appeared like a modern bird's remex (wing feather), but he had heard of and been shown a rough sketch of the London specimen, to which he referred as a "Skelet eines mit Federn bedeckten Thiers" ("skeleton of an animal covered in feathers"). In German, this ambiguity is resolved by the term Schwinge which does not necessarily mean a wing used for flying. Urschwinge was the favored translation of Archaeopteryx among German scholars in the late 19th century. In English, "ancient pinion" offers a rough approximation.
Since then nine specimens have been recovered:
The Berlin Specimen (HMN 1880) was discovered in 1876 or 1877 on the Blumenberg near Eichstätt, Germany, by Jakob Niemeyer. He exchanged this precious fossil for a cow, with Johann Dörr. Placed on sale in 1881, with potential buyers including O.C. Marsh of Yale University's Peabody Museum, it was bought by the Humboldt Museum für Naturkunde, where it is now displayed. The transaction was financed by Ernst Werner von Siemens, founder of the famous company that bears his name. Described in 1884 by Wilhelm Dames, it is the most complete specimen, and the first with a complete head. Once classified as a new species, A. siemensii, a recent evaluation supports the A. siemensii species definition.
Composed of a torso, the Maxberg Specimen (S5) was discovered in 1956 or 1958 near Langenaltheim and described in 1959 by Heller. It is currently missing, though it was once exhibited at the Maxberg Museum in Solnhofen. It belonged to Eduard Opitsch, who loaned it to the museum. After his death in 1991, the specimen was discovered to be missing and may have been stolen or sold. The specimen is missing its head and tail, although the rest of the skeleton is mostly intact.
The Haarlem Specimen (TM 6428, also known as the Teyler Specimen) was discovered in 1855 near Riedenburg, Germany and described as a Pterodactylus crassipes in 1875 by von Meyer. It was reclassified in 1970 by John Ostrom and is currently located at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It was the very first specimen, despite the classification error. It is also one of the least complete specimens, consisting mostly of limb bones and isolated cervical vertebrae and ribs. The Eichstätt Specimen (JM 2257) was discovered in 1951 or 1955 near Workerszell, Germany and described by Peter Wellnhofer in 1974. Currently located at the Jura Museum in Eichstätt, Germany, it is the smallest specimen and has the second best head. It is possibly a separate genus (Jurapteryx recurva) or species (A. recurva).
The Solnhofen Specimen (BSP 1999) was discovered in the 1960s near Eichstätt, Germany and described in 1988 by Wellnhofer. Currently located at the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum in Solnhofen, it was originally classified as Compsognathus by an amateur collector. It is the largest specimen known and may belong to a separate genus and species, Wellnhoferia grandis. It is missing only portions of the neck, tail, backbone, and head.
The Munich Specimen (S6, formerly known as the Solnhofen-Aktien-Verein Specimen) was discovered in 1991 near Langenaltheim and described in 1993 by Wellnhofer. It is currently located at the Paläontologisches Museum München in Munich. What was initially believed to be a bony sternum turned out to be part of the coracoid, but a cartilaginous sternum may have been present. Only the front of its face is missing. It may be a new species, A. bavarica.
An eighth, fragmentary specimen, the Bürgermeister-Müller Specimen was discovered in 1997 and it is currently kept at the Bürgermeister-Müller Museum. Other than the above remains discovered, a further fragmentary fossil was found in 2004.
Long in a private collection, the Thermopolis Specimen (WDC CSG 100) was discovered in Germany and described in 2005 by Mayr, Pohl, and Peters. Donated to the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, Wyoming, it has the best-preserved head and feet; most of the neck and the lower jaw have not been preserved. The "Thermopolis" specimen was described in the December 2, 2005 Science journal article as "A well-preserved Archaeopteryx specimen with theropod features"; it shows that the Archaeopteryx lacked a reversed toe—a universal feature of birds—limiting its ability to perch on branches and implying a terrestrial or trunk-climbing lifestyle. This has been interpreted as evidence of theropod ancestry. The specimen also has a hyperextendible second toe. "Until now, the feature was thought to belong only to the species' close relatives, the deinonychosaurs." This tenth and latest specimen was assigned to Archaeopteryx siemensii in 2007. The specimen itself, currently on loan to the Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg in Frankfurt, is considered the most complete and well preserved Archaeopteryx remains yet.
Some reports claim that they provide evidence to prove that Archaeopteryx is a fake. However, such reports are not confirmed. The issue is further discussed below.
Today, the fossils are usually assigned to a single species A. lithographica, but the taxonomic history is complicated. Dozens of names have been published for the handful of specimens, most of which are simply spelling errors (lapsus). Originally, the name A. lithographica only referred to the single feather described by von Meyer. In 1960, Swinton proposed that the name Archaeopteryx lithographica be officially transferred from the feather to the London specimen. The ICZN did suppress the plethora of alternative names initially proposed for the first skeleton specimens, which mainly resulted from the acrimonious dispute between von Meyer and his opponent Johann Andreas Wagner (whose Griphosaurus problematicus—"problematic riddle-lizard"—was a vitriolic sneer at von Meyer's Archaeopteryx). In addition, descriptions of Archaeopteryx fossils as pterosaurs before their true nature was realized were also suppressed.
The relationships of the specimens are problematic. Most subsequent specimens have been given their own species at one point or another. The Berlin specimen has been designated as Archaeornis siemensii, the Eichstätt specimen as Jurapteryx recurva, the Munich specimen as Archaeopteryx bavarica and the Solnhofen specimen was designated as Wellnhoferia grandis.
Recently, it has been argued that all the specimens belong to the same species. However, significant differences exist among the specimens. In particular, the Munich, Eichstätt, Solnhofen and Thermopolis specimens differ from the London, Berlin, and Haarlem specimens in being smaller or much larger, having different finger proportions, having more slender snouts, lined with forward-pointing teeth and possible presence of a sternum. These differences are as large as or larger than the differences seen today between adults of different bird species. However, it is also possible that these differences could be explained by different ages of the living birds.
Finally, it is worth noting that the feather, the first specimen of Archaeopteryx described, does not agree well with the flight-related feathers of Archaeopteryx. It certainly is a flight feather of a contemporary species, but its size and proportions indicate that it may belong to another, smaller species of feathered theropod, of which only this feather is so far known. As the feather was the original type specimen, this has created significant nomenclatorial confusion.
The last 4 taxa may be valid genera and species.
"Archaeopteryx" vicensensis (Anon. fide Lambrecht, 1933) is a nomen nudum for what appears to be an undescribed pterosaur.
Charig et al. pointed to the presence of hairline cracks in the slabs running through both rock and fossil impressions, and mineral growth over the slabs that had occurred before discovery and preparation, as evidence that the feathers were original. Spetner et al. then attempted to show that the cracks would have naturally propagated through their postulated cement layer, but neglected to account for the fact that the cracks were old and had been filled with calcite, and thus were not able to propagate. They also attempted to show the presence of cement on the London specimen through X-ray spectroscopy, and did find something that was not rock. However, it was not cement, either, and is most probably from a fragment of silicone rubber left behind when molds were made of the specimen. Their suggestions have not been taken seriously by paleontologists, as their evidence was largely based on misunderstandings of geology, and they never discussed the other feather-bearing specimens, which have increased in number since then.
Nonetheless, Archaeopteryx is so often used as a model of the true ancestral bird that it has seemed almost heretical to suggest otherwise. Several authors have done so. Lowe (1935) and Thulborn (1984) questioned whether Archaeopteryx truly was the first bird. They suggested that Archaeopteryx was a dinosaur that was no more closely related to birds than were other dinosaur groups. Kurzanov (1987) suggested that Avimimus was more likely to be the ancestor of all birds than Archaeopteryx. Barsbold (1983) and Zweers and Van den Berge (1997) noted that many maniraptoran lineages are extremely birdlike, and suggested that different groups of birds may have descended from different dinosaur ancestors.
Archaeopteryx is the best known early bird and has thus received widespread attention. Its easily recognizable appearance and the intense public interest in dinosaurs have caused Archaeopteryx to become a feature of worldwide popular culture. For example, the second book in the Time Machine series, Search for Dinosaurs, takes the reader on a journey to the Mesozoic to find and photograph an Archaeopteryx. In one of the "strangest" appearances of Archaeopteryx in popular culture, Alfred Jarry's play Ubu cocu, ou l'Archéopteryx ('Ubu cuckolded, or the Archaeopteryx') includes an Archaeopteryx as an important character. The iconic appearance of the Berlin Specimen has been adapted into the logo of Arc'teryx Equipment Inc. The company's name is a contraction of Archaeopteryx. A main belt asteroid discovered in 1991, 9860 Archaeopteryx, was named in honour of the genus. The name is mentioned regularly in the children's novel, Skellig. In Neil Cicierega's Dinosaurchestra album, there is a song named after and written about Archaeopteryx.


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GSMA VoLTE initiative
The GSMA VoLTE (Voice over LTE) initiative was formally announced on 15th February 2010. In establishing the VoLTE initiative, GSMA has adopted the work of the One Voice Initiative* as the basis of the work to lead the global mobile industry towards a standard way of delivering voice and messaging services for Long-Term Evolution (LTE). Using IP Multimedia Subsystem specifications developed by 3GPP as its basis, GSMA have expanded upon the original scope of One Voice work to address the entire end-to-end voice and SMS ecosystem by also focussing on Roaming and Interconnect interfaces, in addition the interface between customer and network.
GSMA VoLTE is built upon some key, underlying principles.
Single implementation promotes scale – the GSM community of around 4 billion connections is built based on a single technology being used across all networks and all phones and devices. This has led to a diverse range of GSM-enabled devices, and massive choice of form factor for the end-user. Similar principles have driven the movement of HSPA from phones to dongles, and now to be embedded in laptops and consumer electronics. For a Voice over LTE implementation to continue this model, it must be applicable to the entire LTE industry, and not subject to fragmentation or undue diversity.
Single implementation reduces complexity – when many ways of implementing a single service are deployed into networks, to allow customers to communicate with one another in an interoperable and inter-network fashion is very complex. Interworking functionality is required which can affect the overall quality of service by inserting delay, potentially being a point of failure and not always guaranteeing the compatibility of the two service implementations. It is better to have a single implementation that is adhered to by all so that messages and media flow smoothly from one customer to another, wherever those customers are and whoever they happen to be a customer of.
Single implementation enables Roaming – the GSMA has long held a role in defining the way in which Roaming takes place in the mobile telecommunications world. For Roaming to work, every device must implement the interfaces between itself and the network it is trying to connect to in exactly the same way. Similarly, every network must accept devices that are attaching to it because of the common implementation of interfaces between the two entities. This only happens when everyone adheres to a single common standard.
By taking these principles as its bedrock, GSMA VoLTE will develop the function and technical definitions for the way in which Voice and SMS will work in the future, and will define the interfaces for an end-to-end calling structure that will take into account interconnect and roaming (see diagram).
By taking these principles as its bedrock, GSMA VoLTE will develop the function and technical definitions for the way in which Voice and SMS will work in the future, and will define the interfaces for an end-to-end calling structure that will take into account interconnect and roaming (see diagram).
This is comprised of three sets of interfaces;-
- The User Network interface (UNI) between the customer's equipment and the operators network.
- The Roaming Network Network Interface (R-NNI) between the Home and Visited Network of a subscriber that is not attached to their normal Home network.
- The Interconnect Network Network Interface (I-NNI) between the networks of the two parties making a call.
The work of GSMA VoLTE will also encompass
- the continuity of Voice calls when a customer moves from LTE coverage to an area where LTE coverage is not available (this is achieved through Single Radio Voice Call Continuity, or SR-VCC).
- Optimal Routing of bearers for Voice calls when customers are Roaming.
- The establishment of commercial frameworks associated with Roaming and Interconnect for services implemented using VoLTE definitions
- Capabilities associated with the model of Roaming Hubbing.
- A thorough security and fraud threat audit
If you would like to learn more about GSMA VoLTE, express your support for the VoLTE initiative and find out how to get involved in the work please e-mail email@example.com.
Come back to this page regularly to get the latest information on progress, announcements and support.


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Use the trackball (up+down) to navigate through the menu, press the trackball to select items. Use the Volume-down key to go back to a previous menu.
Always check recovery.log before posting your issues!
Please make sure that your ROM supports apps2sd if you plan to use the ext-features! (/system/sd MUST be available in the ROM)
- full ADB access in recovery mode
- Awesome Care-Bear version! (Blame packetlss for talking me into it )
- Busybox v1.15.3
- Kernel with ext3 + ext4 support
- HW-Key navigation (Trackball + Volume-key) option
- Extended menu :
- Reboot system now :: reboot your phone
- USB-MS Toggle :: enable/disable USB mass storage (use when the phone is connected to your PC)
- Backup/Restore
- Nand backup :: Make a Nand backup, the following partitions are NOT included :
- Recovery (to avoid restoring old version)
- Cache (no need to backup imo)
- Misc (no need to backup imo + restore issues on some phones)
- Splash1+2 (no need to backup imo + restore issues on some phones)
- Nand + ext backup :: Make a Nand + ext backup
- Nand restore :: Restore a Nand backup
- BART backup :: Make a BART backup (Nand + ext)
- BART restore :: Restore latest BART backup
- Nand backup :: Make a Nand backup, the following partitions are NOT included :
- Flash zip from sdcard :: Flash a zip update file from your sdcard
- Wipe
- Wipe data/factory reset :: Wipe /data and /cache
- Wipe Dalvik-cache :: Wipe Dalvik-cache both on /data and ext
- Wipe SD:ext partition : Wipe the ext partition on your sdcard
- Wipe battery stats : Wipe the battery stats in /data
- Wipe rotate settings : Wipe the sensor settings in /data
- Partition sdcard
- Partition SD :: Interactive SD partitioning
- Repair SD:ext :: Repair the ext partition
- SD:ext2 to ext3 :: Convert ext2 to ext3
- SD:ext3 to ext4 :: Convert ext3 to ext4
- Other
- Fix apk uid mismatches :: Does extacly that
- Move apps+dalv to SD :: Moves all apps and Dalvik-cache to sdcard (This will NOT enable apps2sd!)
- Move recovery.log to SD :: Moves the recovery log file to your sdcard. (Use when you want more detailed recovery log information)
- Power off :: Powers off your phone
- Scripts available via adb :
- Nandroid v2.2.1 : enter "nandroid-mobile.sh" to start.
- BART v1.0.1 (Backup and Restore Tool) : enter "utility" to start.
- switchrom.sh V1.1 : enter "switchrom" or "u" to start.
- sdparted v0.6 : enter "sdparted" to start.
Pre-Requirements :
- unlocked bootloader : How to unlock the bootloader.
- root access : Modaco's superboot.
Check if there's no /system/etc/install-recovery.sh script if you keep booting back in the stock recovery (exclamation mark with a little Android).
via fastboot
Copy recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2.img to a location where fastboot can find it. Boot your phone into fastboot mode (power on while holding the trackball) Connect your phone via usb to your pc/mac/... fastboot devices (to make sure that fastboot "sees" your phone) fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2.img
via terminal app
Copy recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2.img to the root of your sdcard start the terminal app su(press enter) flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2.img(press enter) reboot recovery(press enter)
How to boot in Recovery Mode
- Boot the phone while holding down the VOLUMEDOWN-key.
- Navigate to RECOVERY with the the VOLUMEDOWN-key.
- Press the POWER-key to select.
ALWAYS check the md5sum to make sure the zip isn't corrupted.
Click on the Mirror-link if you don't like rapidshare
Latest :
- recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2.img (Click here to download from a Mirror) - MD5Sum: ff5fd441763c238a7c17ac1435b07dc1
- recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2-green.img (Click here to download from a Mirror) - MD5Sum: 6dcb29999d611e47325d759eef87bd02
- recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2-pink.img (Click here to download from a Mirror) - MD5Sum: b2f74ec86cc8e98ddc52edcafe2df2ed
- New unyaffs binary patched by Koushik Dutta and Packetlss to fix the "losing root"-issue and incorrect file-time after a Nandroid restore.
- New unyaffs binary patched by Koushik Dutta and Packetlss to fix the "losing root"-issue and incorrect file-time after a Nandroid restore
- New dump_image binary (by Brainaid) patched by Packetlss to fix the "bad blocks"- Nandroid restore issue. (This will not fix old corrupted Nandroid backups! Please make new backups!!)
- New mkyaffs2image binary
- New flash_image binary
- Reverted to the old green text color
- Switched the Nexus logo to a Green Carebear with Nexus One logo (Thanks Montalbert!)
- Fixed mkyaffs2image-arm-uclibc which will hopefully fix the "losing root" issues after a nandroid restore (a big thanks to packetlss for the help on this one)
- Updated busybox to v1.5.3
- Recompiled kernel to fully support ext3 and ext4
- Added lots of ext-features + scripts to stop the a2sd nagging
- Created a carebear version after the idea of packetlss. Be aware that this version contains some "ultra-secret" features!
- packetlss for all the hours of support and awesome coding skills, THANKS man ^^, donate to Haiti
- Koushik Dutta for the unyaffs binary code fix and help ^^
- Cyanogen for his dedicated work! , buy him a beer!
- JesusFreke for his awesome JFv1.43's recovery , donate
- pensive for adding awesome features to Nandroid
- Bkmo for his utility script!
- Devsk for his switchrom script!
- 51dusty for his sdparted script!
- k4str0 for his fix_permissions v2.03 update.
- Devsk, Dumfuq, Overground for creating BART
- rikupw for the ideas and toggle_ums script.
- http://www.androidspin.com for hosting ^^
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I was wondering if many of you own this version of Issues? It's pretty hard to come by, it isn't usually acknowledged as one of the MTV contest covers.
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Hey Korny, It's actually 100% authentic. I remember seeing it in UK HMV/Virgin Megastores back in '99. Apparently it was only released in Europe and is referred to as the "European Tour" edition.
I've never heard that Untouchables leak, I hear there's some extra interludes on there.
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That's not fake.
That's the cover of the european MTV contest winner.
I remember seeing that cover being sold in stores back in 2000.
Unfortunately I didn't buy that one at the time...but I got the other 4 ones,though.
It's fucking jack o'clock
Re: Issues album art
Hey Korny, It's actually 100% authentic. I remember seeing it in UK HMV/Virgin Megastores back in '99. Apparently it was only released in Europe and is referred to as the "European Tour" edition.
I've never heard that Untouchables leak, I hear there's some extra interludes on there.
ok sweet, cant't know everyting :)
i have the untochables leaks, there are some extra intros on some songs and some songs have one more verse and chours.
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hello KORN band..i just wnt to say that u were far better with ur old albums,from the begenning til the album TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR,besides man i think u have to start using ur growl voice,,its awesome .i hope that u make an album brutal like untouchabales and with ur growl voice and faster drums.thx
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It was 2004, I was in college, it was my final year before entering the "real" world. I was heavily involved with my school's College Republican chapter and I wrote op ed's for the school paper (as far as I knew I was literally the lone conservative voice in the entire campus media, and it was at one of the largest universities in my state).
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Millions acted against Obamacare in the form of protests, now its time to take action against the ENTIRE government we currently have by acting in the form of organizing, donating, calling, knocking on doors, and most of all using the new media to beat back this president and his lapdogs in congress at their own game.
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