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It's Was The Atheist
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From: "BernardJ.hahn"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Sent: February 06, 2004 5:21 PM
Subject: Positive Atheism, Cliff's Columns
Positive Atheism? What a joke! How come you're so called organization in not growing? You have to offer that's why.
Even AA can outgrow you're organization. We have millions in every country. Being an Atheist is only for just right now. It's only a matter of convenience. When is the last time you saw an Atheist in a foxhole. It's was the Atheist in the foxhole who where praying the loudest when the bullets where flying everywhere. Get real asshole. You know the real reason you're an Atheist is because you know your headed for hell as anything else.
From: "Positive Atheism Magazine" <email@example.com>
To: "BernardJ.hahn"
Subject: Re: Positive Atheism, Cliff's Columns
Date: February 13, 2004 12:28 PM
To our readers:
What is it about the religion of the Twelve Step movement that turns so many of its adherents, both willing and conscripted, into the most consistently unthinking, the most consistently hostile, the most consistently arrogant, the most consistently self-flattering group to write to the Positive Atheism project?
What is it about the religion of the Twelve Step movement that leads its followers (who write to our Forum) to seemingly recoil from anything even remotely resembling the truth? In other words, how can one group be so consistently wrong about so many of the things upon which they pontificate?
Dear BernardJ.hahn:
Positive Atheism? What a joke!
Some people who laugh at our name would laugh at any name we might have created. These people make no pretense about the fact that they are bigots.
Other people laugh at our name simply because they think they can convince us that a word such as positive can have but a single meaning -- what they want it to mean -- rather than the 23 different meanings we counted in Encarta World Dictionary. These people are dishonest bigots, tending also to blame others for their own self-inflicted troubles.
Both people can change, but it is not our burden to try to change them or to even encourage them to change. Our role is both to support atheists in their quest to be seen as normal members of society and to encourage atheists to change their behavior to this end (if necessary).
The "joke" has been on the atheists for too long. It's time to shout "enough!" to the bigotry and abject greed of the Christians and the Twelve Steppers. Of the religious groups that we've dealt with in the past 16 years (half of that time being in the form of this web site), no other groups have displayed the degree of greed and arrogance that we have encountered from the members of these two groups who have contacted us. With Christians, there are many exceptions, though they constitute a minority; with Steppers, this experience of ours is almost without exception.
How come you're so called organization in not growing? You have nothing to offer that's why.
I assume you meant to write, "How come your so-called organization is not growing? You have nothing to offer, that's why."
If so, then I offer this in reply:
Nothing to offer?
Our "hits" statistics show otherwise and they have been doing this for several years. Twice we have been "nudged" off of this or that server, it turning out that our meager web site accounted for one-third to one-half of the web host's total traffic.
Our ranking on Google and on Netscape, the only two search references that we've bothered to pay attention to, continues, on both ends, to outrank all other web entities of this nature. All this while, for the past two years straight, I've been too ill to do much of anything around here. Positive Atheism's growth as a web site, in terms of pages of material posted, has come to a standstill. And yet we remain one of the most popular atheistic web sites online. I don't think web sites that "have nothing to offer" can accomplish a goal such as this.
For the past three years, our e-mail Inbox has never dipped below 300 incoming pieces of mail. For the past year or so, it has not dipped below 350 e-mails. This year (due in part to this virus, but even that speaks volumes), our e-mail traffic maxes out at a "comfortable" 3,400 pieces of e-mail per day.
Apparently somebody is getting something from the Positive Atheism web site. In fact, a lot of somebodys are getting a lot of whatever it is they're looking for when they come here.
And calling the publisher of Positive Atheism Magazine "an organization" is akin to calling BernardJ.hahn "an Alcoholics Anonymous group."
Even AA can outgrow you're organization.
I assume you meant to write, "Even AA can outgrow your organization."
If so, then I still have one more question:
Do you suppose that the initials "AA" mean only one thing, or that they mean only one thing to me?
If so, then I offer this in reply:
AA? I assume you don't mean or our associates, the American Atheists. They may be bigger than we are, but our web site often enjoys a higher level of traffic than theirs does, so in this sense, I wouldn't know what you mean by "outgrow." Thus, I doubt you are referring to American Atheists when you say "AA."
And you certainly don't mean the type of battery or the grade of eggs or even the shoe size. Your ability to string words together one after the other shows that you can't be one of the Academy of Aphasia people, despite your pathetic attempts to make a complete sentence out of those strings of words. The seeming Authorized Absence of English skills makes your familiarity with formal education doubtful, so you can't be talking about the Associate in Arts or Associate in Accounting degrees. Along those lines, chances are that you're oblivious to how African-Americans or Asian-Africans fare in the Affirmative Action hiring plan at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum.
I don't think that you're the Administrative Associate of any Advertising Agency, an Acquisition Agent for American Airlines, or an Administrative Assistant for the Anaheim Angels (or their Athletic Association). You certainly aren't an Anesthesiologist's Assistant for the Alzheimer's Association, the Assistant Administrator of an Assembly Area at Alcoa Aluminum, or even an Airman Apprentice in the Australian Army.
You could be threatening me with Aggravated Assault for refusing to shout, "Allah Akhbar" (Arabic for "God is Great!"). Could it be that you feel this way due to an Anal Aneurysm?
Perhaps it's time to say "Adiós Amigo" to this whole subject (before the Average Audience accuses me of Acronym Abuse).
I will therefore assume by your self-centered arrogance that you're just another Alcoholics Anonymous member who is too hung up on the pursuit of Absolute Abstinence and is thus in need of a little Attitude Adjustment. This is clearly shown by the fact that you've written to our Forum solely for the purpose of harassing us. Like all who do this, your sense of self-worth appears to be derived from "Stepping" on others who have actually made something of their lives. (That is, after all, what the Twelve "Steps" are about, isn't it?)
I mean, if AA is an "anonymous" organization whose Twelve Traditions compel the organization be the cultural equivalent of an innocuous background noise, then why do you assume that both I and our readers are familiar with what you mean when you use the abbreviation "AA"?
Ah, but I have a question:
What does flattering yourself like this accomplish?
Alcoholics Anonymous grows because of its horde of uncompensated propagandists who are given access to a captive audience of impaired people. These unpaid recruiters, working literally on the threat of death ("Work the Steps or DIE!"), indoctrinate their captive audiences with a false doctrine that many people, restricted from the means of researching the truth of the matter, think they must accept or die physically. Others are mandated to attend regular indoctrination sessions by courts of law under penalty of imprisonment, the loss of employment, the loss of child custody, the loss of disability compensation for which they otherwise qualify, and other "offers" that the victim simply "cannot refuse." (Ahem!) Ah, but I have covered this extensively in my "Recovery Watch" section and I refer you to it if truth is what you're looking for (rather than simply to abuse somebody you don't even know).
As for outgrowing our "organization," first "we" are not an organization; I am but a single individual. "We" is a common style of self-reference used by publications when pronouncing the editorial policy of said publication. (Of course you saw the little box on our FAQ page which lists all the people involved in this project before you shot your mouth off like that!)
Secondly, who said anything about growing? You did, of course! Here you castigating us (me) for failing to meet your expectations.
When is the last time you saw an Atheist in a foxhole.
I assume this is a question, rather than the incomplete statement that it appears to be when the sentence structure is taken at face value.
If so, then I offer this in reply:
I've never been in a foxhole. I've met many atheists who have and have watched several atheists march boldly toward their own demise without caving in to the indoctrination of fear that they received when they were way too young to have developed the skills to resist that indoctrination.
By the way, when is the last time you saw an atheist in a foxhole?
Have you ever seen an atheist in a foxhole?
It's was the Atheist in the foxhole who where praying the loudest when the bullets where flying everywhere.
I assume you meant to write, "It was the atheist in the foxhole who was praying the loudest when the bullets were flying everywhere."
If so, then I offer this in reply:
Were you there?
Did you see this with your own eyes? hear it with your own ears?
Or did some lying preacher tell you this, some wannabe Sky Pilot, 4F, who himself wasn't there, either?
How did you know that the person you thought was an atheist was, in fact, an atheist and not simply an immature sourpuss just trying to get attention?
How do you know that this one atheist you (allegedly) saw in the foxhole was the only atheist in the foxhole you (reportedly) were in?
How does your (alleged) experience with this (one and only one) atheist give you enough certainty regarding the nature of all atheists to make the above wholesale and sweeping judgement against all atheists -- to the point where you boldly make this prediction about ME without ever having met me?
I've got news for youse: Very few atheists will tell others that they are atheists. Only a handful of people are stupid enough to do this, and I'm not one of them (yes, I keep quiet about my own atheism in my private life).
Do you know why this is? Do you know why the vast majority of atheists will go ahead and let a person be wrong in his assumption that they're atheists?
We are afraid of Evangelical Christians and certain other theists. We've watched what Evangelicals and Roman Catholics and Muslims and Jews (and Wiccans and neo-Agnostics and even unthinking atheists) do to those of us who have called ourselves atheists, and we are afraid that this will happen to us as well -- if we openly admit that we are atheists.
We are not afraid of death, because we know better than to believe that yarn about the Christian Hell. (Bwa-ha-ha-ha-haaa!)
We are not afraid of death, but we are afraid of bigoted Christians.
We have discovered that Christians are among the most consistently intolerant groups of people in existence today. Muslims run a close second, failing to exceed the Christians only by being smaller in number.
Many of us have also learned not to say anything bad about Alcoholics Anonymous, though every word of what we say be true.
Get real asshole.
I assume you meant to write, "Get real, asshole!"
If so, then I offer this in reply:
This proves that you are not looking for truth. Rather, you seek only to hurl abuse and spew forth hatred. The case against you even speaking in truthfulness becomes quite compelling by this one act of yours.
You know the real reason you're an Atheist is because you know your headed for hell as anything else.
I can't make sense of this one at all.
It sounds like you're saying that I am so terribly afraid of being cast into the Christian Hell that instead of repenting, thus guaranteeing myself the real-life equivalent of a "Get Out Of Hell Free Card," I instead remain an atheist, thus ensuring that I will sizzle, pop, fry, and be roasted alive in the Flames of Everlasting Mercy prepared by Jesus and His Angels.
I find it hard to imagine even you being stupid enough to say something like that!
If you are, in fact, threatening me with an eternity of "wailing and gnashing of teeth" for not going along with what you say, then I rest our case regarding both your moral vacancy as well as your intellectual ineptitude.
The need to coerce or threaten your ideological opponents with physical violence demonstrates that you are yourself clearly aware of the vacancy of your position. You don't even trust what you're telling me might be self-evident, but must rather instill fear in order to coerce me to agree with your ideology.
No wonder we long ago banned Twelve Steppers from writing to our Forum. I tried it just this once, wondering if perhaps I'd been too hasty. Oh, well, nobody's perfect!
Have a nice life. I sincerely hope that you find something that makes you happy.
Cliff Walker
Positive Atheism Magazine
Eight-and-one-half years of service to
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NEW ORLEANS - The Green Wave defense posted a school-record 24 steals and held next-door neighbor Loyola without a field goal for the first 10:12 of the second half as the Tulane University women's basketball team wrapped up the non-conference portion of the 2012-13 season with an 81-41 victory over the Wolfpack on Monday evening in Devlin Fieldhouse.
After taking a 43-26 lead into the locker room at halftime, the Green Wave outscored Loyola 20-4 over the first half of the final stanza with all four of the Pack's points coming via free throws. The win was the fourth in a row for Tulane, which improved to 11-2 on the year. The Green Wave open Conference USA play on Thursday when they close out a six-game homestand against SMU at 7 p.m.
"It's been a while since we've played so it's good to have a game under our belt," Tulane head coach Lisa Stockton said. "I thought we did some good things, especially in the second half. The intensity was very good defensively and the defense really created our offense in the second half.
"The message this week has really been to use this game to make us more consistent going into conference play because all of the games count. There's not a game that you're going to play that you're not going to regret later if you don't win it. We start off with the tough part of our (conference schedule). SMU is a very, very good team and we're going to have to play well. They shoot the ball very well. We're not going to be able to miss on our rotations. We really challenged ourselves more defensively tonight than offensively to correct the mistakes that we've made."
Tulane's theft total was two more than the previous mark of 22 set against UNC-Greensboro on Dec. 28, 2002. The steals helped the Green Wave hold a 33-6 advantage in points off turnovers and an 18-0 edge in fast-break points. Tulane's 81 points were a season high and the most by the team since defeating the University of New Orleans, 86-39, last Nov. 21.
As a team, the Green Wave shot 47.1 percent from the field (32-of-68), including a 18-for-35 performance in the first half (.514). Loyola converted at a 34.0 clip (16-of-47) overall, but the disparity in the second half was large as the Wolfpack hit just 5-of-23 shots (.217) after halftime.
Twenty of Tulane's 41 rebounds came off the offensive glass to help the Wave post 19 second-chance points and the team's size advantage led to a 50-16 margin in points in the paint. In addition, Tulane had a season-best 26 assists, which is tied for the seventh-most in the school's single-game record book.
"I thought we were just more aggressive (in the second half)," Stockton said. "We were more aggressive on the ball, we took some things away and it was one shot and they were done. We created quite a few turnovers and we were able to start our fast break off of that."
All 12 players to take the court for the Green Wave on Monday scored at least two points and redshirt-sophomore forward Whitney Bibbins led the way with 12 to go with three rebounds, a pair of assists and a steal. Sophomore forward Adesuwa Ebomwonyi and senior post Brittany McDonald were next offensively with 10 points each off the bench while sophomore guard Danielle Blagg added nine.
Sophomore guard Tiffany Dale, who had eight points of her own, led the team with seven rebounds to go with three blocks and a theft, sophomore guard Jamie Kaplan tied a career high with seven assists and senior guard Tyria Snow led the record-setting steals effort with four.
Ebomwonyi, Kaplan, senior guard Olivia Grayson and senior wing Janique Kautsky had three steals apiece, Blagg and fellow sophomore guard Katye Magee each had a pair.
"When we put five players on the floor as starters, they're not necessarily always our best players," Stockton commented on her bench players, which combined for 49 points, 21 rebounds, 13 steals, 10 assists and seven blocked shots. "Our bench has played great all year. I thought Brittany McDonald had a great game today and added a lot of leadership to it. It was good to see her play with such confidence."
Loyola scored the game's opening basket on a layup by Shayne Charles, but that would be the lone lead of the night for the Wolfpack as Tulane answered with an 8-0 run to take a six-point lead it would not relinquish. The Pack hung tough for a while and kept it a seven-point affair at 29-22 when Janeicia Neely nailed a jumper with 5:25 left to play in the first half.
Tulane outscored the visiting squad 14-4 the rest of the period and put the game away with its staunch defensive effort in the second half. Loyola's first basket of the final frame did not come until the 9:48 mark when Charles sank a jump shot. By that point, however, the Green Wave held a commanding 63-32 lead.
The Tulane advantage swelled to as many as 43 points at 78-35 with 4:03 to go and Westby accounted for the final tally with a pair of free throws inside the final minute of play.
Charles was the lone Loyola player to tally a double-figure scoring total against the Green Wave and led the Wolfpack with 12 points. Neely was next with nine while Callie McNally came off the bench to score six. Jasmine Brewer and Megan Berner shared team-high rebounding honors with four each, Neely paced the squad with four assists and Berner led the defense with a pair of steals.
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The Mary Pappert School of Music's Budapest on the Bluff series at Duquesne University will conclude with the performance Hungarian Harmonies. The finale in the five-concert series will highlight works by composers Franz Schubert, Zoltan Kodály and Johannes Brahms.
Performers include Adjunct Professor of Viola/Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) artists Marylene Gingras-Roy; international concert artist Cynthia Raim; former PSO concertmaster Andrés Cárdenes; PSO Principal Cellist Anne Martindale Williams; and David Allen Wehr, the Jack W. Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair and artistic director of the concert series.
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MADISON, Wis. — WCHA associate commissioner Sara Martin affirmed that written league policy did not guarantee Minnesota-Duluth coach Shannon Miller a tape of the Minnesota-Wisconsin semifinal during the women's WCHA Final Five tournament in March, despite Miller's claims last week that she had been victimized by league officials after waiting until 1:15 a.m. the morning of the final to receive the tape.
Miller was suspended last week by the WCHA for her actions during the tournament, the details of which are still in question.
Miller told the Duluth News-Tribune that she had been seeking Martin to complain about the league's failure to provide her with the tape, when she accidentally knocked on the door of a sleeping Minnesota player. Miller said that action resulted in the one-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct. She said that, given the circumstances, she was stunned to receive the suspension.
"We were the victims, not the accused," Miller said to the News-Tribune.
But Martin said the tournament manual specifies that game tapes are provided only to the two participating teams of each game. She said that prior to Miller's complaints, no team in the Final Five had received a tape for a game in which it did not participate.
According to Martin, Minnesota received a game tape of UMD's semifinal game versus Ohio State from the night before at around noon the next day, seven hours before the WCHA final between the two teams.
"We ended up getting Minnesota a tape of the Duluth game to make it fair," Martin said.
Martin said that a communication breakdown led to Miller's complaint.
"There was confusion," Martin said. "Duluth had asked for a tape. Although it was contrary to the policy, we had tried to get a tape and couldn't. They were told yes at some point, and somehow communication broke down and they didn't get the message that there wasn't a tape until late."
Martin said the league voted back in April to change the videotape policy of the first four WCHA tournaments. Next year, all four teams that advance to the league semifinals will receive tape from both semifinal games. As before, the top seed will not receive a tape of the game between the four and five seeds.
Miller filed an appeal of the suspension, which was denied back in April, according to Martin. She said Miller was notified of this at the time, but a public release was not made until July, for no particular reason.
Miller told the News-Tribune that she had asked for an independent group to investigate the league's actions during the Final Five. Martin confirmed that such an investigation was ongoing, but it would have no effect on Miller's one-game suspension.
Martin also said the league is investigating more with regards to Miller than her actions during the Final Five.
"We actually are looking into a couple of things that may or may not have happened, really not specific to this," Martin said.
Martin did not agree with Miller's view that a suspension was being handed out for accidentally knocking on a door.
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Miller was out of her office on a recruiting trip for the week and could not be reached for comment.
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5000 people attended the maiden voyage screening on the beach and the all day event into the night. Families brought their kids and blankets, mingled with visitors who sat in awe of one of the world's great entertainers, Don Ho, in one of his rare major public performances in the last decade, followed by the premiere of a film that documented a thousand years of Waikiki's history.
The event was hosted by the Hawaii Tourism Authority, the City of Honolulu, organized in great part by professionals from otherwise competing hotels, the Sheraton Hotels Hawaii - Starwood Luxury Collection and Outrigger Hotels and Resorts; and with tremendous support by the Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau it was a coming together of people who love Waikiki and who were eager to put aside daily business to create something that was truly a public service. We worked with many people who had collectively spent hundreds of years working in Waikiki. Whether they were in management or housekeeping, if they cleaned the beaches and the park or they were HPD officers who walked the beat for 20 years, or concierges who greeted a good number of those 7 million travelers who visit our islands every year, we all worked together to create an event that did no harm to the environment and whose centerpiece has remained focused on the arts. The Grammy-winning acapella group, Take Six, had agreed to record Andy Cummings' magnificent composition, "Waikiki" for the film (mahalo to former Warner Bros. Records - Nashville President, and Kohala resident, Jim Ed Norman). Their rendition of Waikiki is what you hear in this video clip taken on that evening. So the entire experience was a hui of many people both in the making of the film and creation of the event.
Today this popular event is hosted by the Mayor of Honolulu and it remains free to the public. I "happens" near the "strand" at Kuhio beach. So when we think of how times are tough for so many we need to be reminded of life's possibilities and how a place such as Waikiki can inspire. It has inspired artists and lovers, great athletes, and visitors who may never experience a place as welcoming nor as beautiful as these shores.
Waikiki in its name speaks of "spouting healing waters" where Native Hawaiians harvested the sea rich with lobster, shrimp, fish and limu; and where they found healing at a place where three streams flowed from the great Koolau Mountains down to Waikiki and out to sea.
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Jim Zub joins us in front of a live audience at GenCon Indy to talk to us about writing for comics. He's the writer and creator of Skullkickers, writes the newly-launched Pathfinder comic book for Paizo, and has been writing, illustrating, and managing projects at Udon for the better part of a decade now. Jim is an expert's expert when it comes to this.
He starts by talking about the overall process, and how his original script fits in there. Jim and Howard then talk about brevity. Jim also points us at his five-part series on writing for comics (so yes, you have homework.) We talk about the writer-artist collaborative process, and how those collaborations change shape over time.
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U.S. sanctions Malaysian bank, Senate drafts new bill on penalties against Iran
By Sara Rajabova
The U.S. slapped on Thursday financial penalties on an Iranian businessman, a Malaysian bank and a network of companies it accused of attempting to evade international sanctions on Iran's nuclear program through money laundering.
The Treasury Department blacklisted businessman Babak Zanjani, Malaysia's First Islamic Investment Bank (FIIB) and Dubai-based Sorinet Commercial Trust Bankers along with Swiss-based Iranian oil trading company National Iranian Oil Company, Reuters reported.
According to the report, Zanjani and a network of companies had moved billions of dollars on behalf of the Iranian government, including tens of millions of dollars to an engineering unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
"As international sanctions have become increasingly stifling, Iran has resorted to criminal money laundering techniques, moving its oil and money under false names and pretenses," Undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at Treasury, David S. Cohen, said.
The sanctions prohibit US citizens and companies from doing business with the entities and freeze any assets held in US banks.
Last month U.S. Treasury imposed financial sanctions on Dimitris Cambis, a Greek businessman it said secretly operated a shipping network on behalf of Tehran to evade the oil sanctions.
U.S. Treasury also blacklisted a Swiss-based Iranian trading company, Naftiran Intertrade Company, which it said was owned or controlled by the National Iranian Oil Company (NICO), Reuters reported.
U.S. Treasury said any global company that does business with NICO is subject to being cut off from trade with the United States.
New sanctions on Iran
Moreover, according to media reports, the U.S. Senate is preparing legislation that would place further sanctions on Iran after the fail to end the deadlock over Iran's nuclear program in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The package is expected to target a range of Iranian government officials for human rights sanctions, including global travel bans and personal asset seizures, a congressional aide said.
The legislation would impose a de facto arms embargo on Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan. It would also close loopholes in existing sanctions including Iran's access to foreign exchange reserves, money exchange houses, and vessel-to-vessel oil transfer programs.
Meanwhile, member of the Iranian National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Evaz Heidarpour said that the bill submitted to the U.S. Congress to expand anti-Iran sanctions has increased Tehran's distrust toward direct talks with Washington.
"The United States' imposition of illogical sanctions against Iran while offering direct talks will put off negotiations," he said.
Heidarpour further described the Western sanctions on Iran as "cruel and unfair," saying that such measures will fail to bring the Iranian nation to its knees.
"The U.S. dual behavior toward Iran has existed since the victory of [the 1979] Islamic Revolution up until now, and the Americans are not honest in their words," the Iranian legislator added.
Heidarpour also called on the Western countries to end their enmity against the Iranian nation, saying they will never benefit from their sanctions, spearheaded by the U.S., against Iran.
The Western countries and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program, with the US and European Union using that claim as excuse to impose sanctions against Tehran.
Iran has categorically rejected the allegation, noting that as a committed member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty it is entitled to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.


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The Dallas Art Fair is back for its sixth year with more art than ever! More than 70 prominent national and international art dealers and galleries converge for this annual affair, exhibiting a pallette of eye candy- from paintings and sculpture to prints, drawings, and photographs by modern and contemporary artists. The Preview Gala on Thursday, April 10 offers art patrons and Dallas' top collectors the opporunity to preview and purchase exhibited works prior to the public opening of the fair.
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IBAN? I have never heard of Iban and I have made several transfers between many many banks. Get a translation, the Swift code all banks have she just asked the wrong person.
I would like to send some money to my girlfriend. She being in Indonesia, and me in France. My bank asks her Iban and Swift number, but my girlfriend tells me she has no IBAN number. Her bank is BCA in Sukabumi. Do you think it's possible, or she just asked the wrong person?
Thank you in advance if you can help me..
IBAN? I have never heard of Iban and I have made several transfers between many many banks. Get a translation, the Swift code all banks have she just asked the wrong person.
Perhaps it was meant to be her ROUTING and ACCOUNT numbers ?....never heards about IBAN..
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague..
Tristan, your gf was asking a wrong person, my dad send me fr USA and every BCA Bank must have IBAN and switch code, tell your gf to ask the bank manager
IBAN means International Bank Account Number
My girlfriend gave me a SWIFT code and her account number, but my bank is really asking for that IBAN...
I will ask my bank again because this doesn't seem right...
If that is what the IBAN means then I would assume that the IBAN is sorted via the SWIFT code in to the right bank's account and then downward to the personal account of the person. BUt I have never been asked for an IBAN.
Tristan, je fais régulièrement des virements de France sur nos comptes à la BCA, la BII, ou d'autres banques indonésiennes. Je me sers uniquement du numéro de compte courant et du code SWIFT de la banque, qui s'apparente à l'IBAN que nos banques françaises utilisent. La BCA de ton amie le lui fournira. Tu n'as besoin de rien d'autre.
Torang samua basudara
Kami harus melakukan sesuai dengan persyaratan dan peraturan yang berlaku untuk Indonesia lebih baik.
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Does two + two = four?
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Flames Defeat Milwaukee, 84-70, For Fifth Straight Win
Jan. 29, 2014
MILWAUKEE - The UIC women's basketball team (16-4, 5-2 HL) won its fifth straight game Wednesday (Jan. 29) with an 84-70 road victory over Milwaukee (6-13, 2-4 HL) at the Klotsche Center. Rachel Story (22), Terri Bender (22) and Ruvanna Campbell (21) all scored over 20 points for the Flames. Campbell also picked up her 12th double-double of the season with 12 rebounds.
UIC's 16-4 overall record is the program's best mark through 20 games in the Division I era (1980-present). The Flames' 5-2 Horizon League record through the first seven conference contests is the second best mark in program history. The 1995-96 squad started 6-1 in Mid-Continent Conference (MCC) play.
UIC collected 12 steals, forced 16 Milwaukee turnovers and turned those miscues into 20 points. The Flames also took care of the ball with a season-low seven turnovers.
The Flames are now 16-1 this season when out-rebounding their opponent (42-33) and 13-1 when attempting more free throws (22-10). UIC grabbed 17 offensive rebounds and scored 17 second-chance points.
"We responded well to Milwaukee's sagging defense that was designed to contain our post players and keep the ball out of Rachel's hands," said UIC head coach Regina Miller. "Terri (Bender) was allowed to roam free most of the night and she hit quite a few big shots for us. Our offensive rebounding opened up the paint and Rachel used her craftiness to create shots for herself."
"We did a better job of forcing turnovers and scoring off those turnovers in the second half," Miller continued. "We created a lot of havoc for their offense and limited their secondary scorers with our defensive pressure. Off the bench, Gisselle (Truiett) did an excellent job defending Angela Rodriguez and we wore her down as the game went on."
With 13:16 left in the first half, UIC broke a 13-13 tie with a 12-0 run that included triples from Bender and Story. The Flames limited the Panthers to 37.5 percent shooting (12-of-32) in the first half and held a 42-29 lead entering the locker room at halftime.
Milwaukee started the second half on an 8-0 run before Regina Miller called a timeout with 17:04 remaining. The Flames responded with a 13-4 run to take a commanding 55-41 lead with 13:52 left on the clock. UIC's largest lead of the contest came at 77-61 following Bender's layup with 4:46 remaining in the game.
Campbell tied career highs with three blocks and four steals. She had 15 points, eight rebounds, two blocks and two steals in the first half. Campbell owns six 20-point efforts and 13 double-digit rebound performances this season.
Bender tied her career high in points set against Valparaiso last season (1/19/13). She scored 13 points in the second half, including 11 with under eight minutes to play. Bender also collected three steals and owns 32 steals over the last ten games (3.2 spg). It is her second 20-point performance of the season and fourth career 20-point effort.
Story, coming off a career-high 34 points against Cleveland State, played all 40 minutes for the sixth time this season and picked up her team-high ninth 20-point performance. She hit 3-of-5 three-pointers and 5-of-6 attempts from the charity stripe.
Redshirt senior Katie Hannemann was 5-of-7 from the floor and scored 13 points in 25 minutes of action. Hannemann (844 career points) needs three more points to enter the program's Top 20 scorers.
UIC, currently in second-place in the Horizon League, starts a three-game homestand Saturday (Feb. 1) against third-place Wright State (15-6, 4-2 HL). The contest is set to begin at 7 p.m. CT inside the UIC Pavilion.


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Gambol with goats, float like butterflies or be a shrinking violet this weekend and do nothing.
With the weather so fine, how can you not be jumping for joy that it's finally spring?
The pursuit of weekend fun will take you the length and breadth of Greater Jacksonville, but mostly won't cost you more than gas money.
May the spirit of spring fill you with a charitable spirit.
- 5th Annual Spud Run & Cabbage Crawl Spud Run – Sat., Mar., 29, 7 a.m. HHS Community Building, 6195 S. Main St., Hastings, Fla. Admission: $25 5K, $35 10K. Raise awareness about our area's contributions to agriculture throughout the state of Florida and get some exercise, too. Beautiful countryside plus live entertainment for the whole family. Proceeds to benefit the South Woods Elementary School PTO. South Woods Elementary School is a Title 1 school, in which over 80% of our student body is economically disadvantaged. For more information, and to register online, please visit www.racesmith.com/races/spudrun.
- 9th Annual West Nassau Historical Society Railroad Days – Fri., Mar., 28, 1-8 p.m., Sat., Mar. 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Historic Train Depot, 45383 Dixie Ave., Callahan, Fla. Admission: FREE & open to the public. The 1881 Callahan Train Depot and 1856 railroad bed is your destination for fun. Opening ceremony, raising of the flag and "Hobo Day" on Friday. Shriner-led Railroad Days Parade on Saturday. Two days of fun, food and live entertainment. For more information, please call 904-879-3406 or visit www.wnhsfl.org.
- Butterfly Festivus – Sat., Mar. 29 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Greathouse Butterfly Farm, 20329 NE State Rd. 26, Earleton, Fla. Admission: $5 per person, kids 4 & under FREE. Walk through butterfly houses, explore the gardens, hand-feed the butterflies, and browse through our one of a kind butterfly gift shop. Tons of fun for the whole family – live music, delicious food, art and crafts, children's activities, butterfly releases and much more. For more information, please call 352- 475-2088.
- Choral Evensong for Lent – Sun., Mar. 30, 5 p.m. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 4129 Oxford Ave., Jacksonville, Fla. Admission: FREE & open to the public. Evening service featuring classical choral and organ music as well as hymns. Liven up the fourth Sunday in Lent with festive song.
- Dog Day at Ravine Gardens – Sat., Mar. 29, 9 a.m. Ravine Gardens State Park, 1600 Twigg St., Palatka, Fla. Admission: $5 per carload of 8. Free trail walk with a ranger with park entry. For more information, please call 386-329-3721.
- Finders Keepers Children's Consignment Sale – Thurs., Mar., 27 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Fri., Mar. 28, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sat., Mar. 29, (half-price day) 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Morocco Shrine Center, 3800 St. Johns Bluff Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. Admission: FREE & open to the public, FREE parking, $12 fee to consign, payable when you register. Credit cards & cash accepted. For more information or to register as a consignor, please call 321-355-2905 or visit finderskeepersjax.com.
- Joke Fest – Sat., Mar. 29, 11 a.m. Southeast Regional Library, 10599 Deerwood Park Blvd., Jacksonville, Fla. Admission: FREE & open to the public. A morning of laughs at our celebration of children's humor. Parents and children are invited to choose a joke to share from our joke box. Our celebrity hosts are the Greenfield Elementary School "Joke Masters" who have been chosen by the school to show off reading and public speaking skills they learned from studying jokes and humor. For more information, please visit jaxpubliclibrary.org.
- Living History Day – Sat., Mar. 29, 10 a.m. Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, 20 Aviles St., St. Augustine, Fla. Admission: Adults $7, Students $5. Presented by the Girls Scouts of Gateway Council. Features Girl Scouts from the Black Creek and Manatee Service units in Clay County portraying the lives of six women who operated, worked or visited the museum during the early years of Florida's statehood and tourism industry. For more information, please call 904-829-3575 or visit ximenezfatiohouse.org.
- O'Leno Ole' Chili Cook-Off & Springs Celebration – Sat., Mar. 29, 9 a.m. O'Leno State Park, SE Oleno Park Rd., High Springs, Fla. Admission: FREE & open to the public, $20 per team to compete. Please bring donations of non-perishable food items for our local food bank. Bring your favorite chili recipe and compete with the best during this CASI (Chili Appreciation Society International) sanctioned chili cook off. Prizes for 1st - 10th place in the cook off, and 1st - 3rd place for showmanship competition. Or compete in the open category where anything goes. Prizes for 1st - 5th place winners in the open category. Contestants must be 18 years or older. For more information, please call 386-454-0723 or 386-454-1853.
- Reddick BBQ Festival – Sat., Mar. 29, 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friendship Baptist Church, 15115 NW Gainesville Rd., Reddick, Fla. Admission: FREE & open to the public. If you love BBQ, good deals, and live music, come "downtown" for the 3rd annual Reddick BBQ Festival. Bring your appetite, as there will be a big BBQ battle between local churches, a huge community yard sale, arts & crafts vendors, clowns and fun for kids and Christian music all day. For more information, please call 352-258-4604.
- River City Violets – Fri., Mar. 28, Noon-6 p.m. & Sat., Mar. 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. San Jose Church of Christ, 6233 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville, Fla. Admission: FREE & open to the public. The Heart of Jacksonville African Violet Society's salute to violets, America's number one houseplant. Entries judged by standards of the African Voilet Society of America. For more information, please call 904-536-4182, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit jacksonvilleviolets.org.
- Sheriff's Round Up – Sat., Mar. 29, 5:30-10 p.m. Hyatt Regency Jacksonville, 225 E. Coastline Dr., Jacksonville, Fla. Admission: $125 per person, $75 for young professionals (40 & under), $1250 Table of 10. Wear your best Western attire for this charity fundraiser benefiting the children participating in the Police Athletic League's programs. Cocktails and Silent Auction at 6 p.m with dinner and dancing at 7 p.m. For more information, please visit jaxpal.com.
- Slide into Spring Music & Craft Beer Festival – Sat., Mar. 29 Noon – 9 p.m. Main Beach Park, 25 Tarpon Ave., Fernandina Beach, Fla. Admission: $20 Advance, $25 Gate, $50 VIP. Presented by the City of Fernandina Beach. An amazing combination of both delicious craft brew with world class music. Over a dozen breweries offering samples of their finest flavors. Plus one of the best music line-ups to hit northeast Florida: Herd of Watts, Vagabond Swing, The Fritz, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band and headliner Keller Williams. Art walk, interactive kids zone, food trucks, craft bazaar and much more. All proceeds benefit 8 Flags Playscapes, Inc., a local 501(c)(3) raising funds to build one of the area's first fully accessible playgrounds. For more information, please call 904-310-3361 or visit www.slideintospring.com.
- Small Ruminant Forage Field Day – Fri., Mar. 28, 9 a.m. Calovine Farm, 15205 County Rd. 316, Williston, Fla. Admission: $12 per person/$20 a couple, includes dinner and refreshments. UF/IFAS Extension Marion County invite you to Calovine Farm to learn more about grazing strategies for small ruminants and the benefits of winter forages and how they can help you provide good quality feed, reduce weeds, and promote the viability of your small farm operation. For more information, please call 352-671-8400.
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Permanent URL to this publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.5167/uzh-64382
McCabe, Rosemarie; Bullenkamp, Jens; Hansson, Lars; Lauber, Christoph; Martinez-Leal, Rafael; Rössler, Wulf; Salize, Hans Joachim; Svensson, Bengt; Torres-Gonzalez, Francisco; van den Brink, Rob; Wiersma, Durk; Priebe, Stefan (2012). The therapeutic relationship and adherence to antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia. PLoS ONE, 7(4):e36080.
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Previous research has shown that a better therapeutic relationship (TR) predicts more positive attitudes towards antipsychotic medication, but did not address whether it is also linked with actual adherence. This study investigated whether the TR is associated with adherence to antipsychotics in patients with schizophrenia.
134 clinicians and 507 of their patients with schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder participated in a European multi-centre study. A logistic regression model examined how the TR as rated by patients and by clinicians is associated with medication adherence, adjusting for clinician clustering and symptom severity.
Patient and clinician ratings of the TR were weakly inter-correlated (r(s) = 0.13, p = 0.004), but each was independently linked with better adherence. After adjusting for patient rated TR and symptom severity, each unit increase in clinician rated TR was associated with an increase of the odds ratio of good compliance by 65.9% (95% CI: 34.6% to 104.5%). After adjusting for clinician rated TR and symptom severity, for each unit increase in patient rated TR the odds ratio of good compliance was increased by 20.8% (95% CI: 4.4% to 39.8%).
A better TR is associated with better adherence to medication among patients with schizophrenia. Patients' and clinicians' perspectives of the TR are both important, but may reflect distinct aspects.
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Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and Experience / Slatkin, et al
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American Originals / Russell, ProMusica, et al
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American Classics-Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and Experience
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Handel: Messiah (Highlights), etc / Eastman Chorale, et al
2 CD / Vox Classical / 2002-10-02Works: George Frederick Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Oratorio; Water Music Suite no 1 in F major, HWV 348; Handel - Bourée; Concerti grossi (12), Op. 6; Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.6/5, HWV 323
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Lars Gullin (baritone sax)
Summertime 1954-56, Vol. 9 (Dragon Records DRCD-401)
Lars Gullin (baritone sax),
George Vernon (trombone), Arne Domnķrus (clarinet, alto sax), Carl-Henrik Norin (tenor sax), Rune Falk (baritone sax), Rune ųfwerman (piano), Georg Riedel (bass), Nils-Bertil Dahlander (drums).
Recorded: Stockholm, Sweden, April 23, 1956
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
Recorded at the same session as "Ma," this song was written in tribute to Swedish actor/director G÷sta Ekman II, who in his early career directed a play by Tolstoy titled Fedja. Possibly Lars Gullin's hardest-swinging song, "Fedja" is also chockfull of mystery, and might even conjure visions of a prowling, suspicious character darting across streets and disappearing in the shadows of Stockholm's Old Town ¢ or better yet, the forested hills of Gullin's home island of Gotland off the southern coast.
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As with her last book, "The Ashford Affair," Lauren Willig's "That Summer" creates two female protagonists whose lives are separated by many years but whose stories are mysteriously entwined.
Julia lives in New York in 2009, and while looking for a job she learns that she has inherited a house in London that belonged to her great-aunt Regina. Julia's parents were from England, and when her mother died suddenly when Julia was five-years-old, her father took Julia to New York to live. Since that time, Julia has had no contact with her British relatives. She travels to London to pack up the house and sell it.
The other story takes place 150 years earlier and is about Imogen, whose father was a country vicar (his older brother was a baronet). When he grew ill, she married an older man who charmed her. Living in London with that man, Arthur Grantham, was not what Imogen had envisioned. Rather than a life filled with society and books, she was treated as a possession and not allowed much freedom.
The story alternates between Julia and Imogen -- both women with family issues. Julia's issues have to do with her mother's death and her father's reaction to the death. It makes her wary of forming relationships, and what she realizes about her London cousins reinforces that suspicion. She also meets a friend of her cousins whose motives she can't quite trust.
Imogen, living in a loveless marriage, tries to make the best of her life by mothering her stepdaughter. When her husband patronizes some aspiring artists, Imogen realizes what she has been missing -- love and affection.
The story is beautifully told, and the alternating narrative works well. Both characters are developed almost side-by-side as the reader learns more about them and as they, in turn, learn more about themselves.
While the characters are compelling, the reader also will be enchanted with the descriptions, the plot and the dialogue. There are many similarities to "The Ashford Affair" in this story: the strong female protagonists -- one of whom is from New York and the other from England; the alternating narrative between the present age and years ago; the mystery of how the stories fit together; and the unveiling at the end to provide a satisfying conclusion.
Why 5 stars? Lauren Willig is a talented writer, and her stories grab readers from the get-go. Readers will not be disappointed by the story line, and they will be moved by the plight of the characters. There are no perfect characters here, just flawed ones. Some rather more flawed than others.
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A collection of poems and paintings, inspired by the authors love of gardening.
Born in Paisley Scotland, Ann McLean immigrated to Canada in 1967. A self taught painter, her interest in visual art led to poetry which she considers painting with words. Ann has written and illustrated six short books of verse and three children's books.
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I left this morning at around 10:30am. The Cat was playing Jump Start World: First Grade.
I returned home around 3:15pm. The Cat was playing Jump Start World: First Grade.
Sure, I know there was some time in there where he and Husband ran a couple errands and got lunch, but the time he was home he was glued to the computer, earning "gems."
Reward for good work is a huge motivator for the Cat. Jump Start World's gem reward system has gotten the Cat very excited about mastering levels and clearing units. We received Jump Start World: First Grade through the Parent Bloggers Network.
The Cat has tried some educational video games before, but they haven't been nearly as sophisticated.
The Cat enjoys "regular" video games and social sites like Club Penguin and when he was younger I picked up some of those educational disks at Best Buy or Fry's, but while he enjoys the purely-adventurous nature of Club Penguin, he never got into the educational stuff.
Conversely, he is very excited about Jump Start World. It is an interactive world, like some of those social games, but then rather than playing a simple game of tic-tac-toe, the ability to place an "X" or "O" hinges upon the user answering a question correctly. Viola - Educational! There are versions of "Frogger," "Tetris," and "Connect Four" (but as "Five in a Row,") all tied to educational concepts.
Initially, I was a bit concerned that the quizzes were too simple for the Cat. Identifying an "uppercase M," for example, is rather simple for a first grader; however, these simple tasks meant that he got the hang of the hand-eye coordination of the game, so when the concepts (hopefully) become more complex, he won't be tripped up by the way the game is played and can focus on the educational concept. Similarly, there was a number identification game that asked for "above 5" but then nearly all the numbers were greater than 5. It was very difficult to make a mistake!
Still, there were some concepts that were surprisingly tricky for the Cat, despite my assumption that it was too easy yet. First, issues of categorization sometimes confused him: instructed to "click on all the colors," no problem! But "click on transportation," and he cried, worrying what that was until I explained, "vehicles: ways of getting places." During a rather simple reading comprehension, the Cat easily answered all the "facts" about the story: "What sentence wasn't in the story?" and "What did the broom turn into?" but he froze when asked, "How did the character feel...?" until he thought it out a bit.
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Aside from this glitch, I foresee the Cat spending a lot of time maneuvering his little cat character through the Jump Start World universe.
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The ego strives to believe that as a gold goblin I can dominate any market I choose. The reality is that where I can excel in different areas, there probably is going to be someone that is a little bit better than me. Considering the timing, undercutting, profit margins and the varied amount of tools that are available to Gold Goblins this is a true fact.
I was discussing with a guide about a new player that had arrived at one of the markets that we work together on. This was obviously a banker to0n (level 2) that we started to keep track of how many times they were logged on. It was incredible because they seemed to be logged on at all times of the day. Putting our research together, I surmised that it wasn't just one person that was playing the toon but probably two people. Everyone has to sleep at some point.
But it did strike me to the idea of just how important is it to be on or off someone's gold radar. Anonymity has its own benefits. When I started writing this journal I put out my main toon's name (Mommar) because I didn't want this to be a phantom journal. The toon you look up in the armory on the Shandris server is the same guy that is writing in this journal.
But here is the part that you might not realize. I will tell you many times of sales that I have done or sales that are occurring. I split all of my sales among my different toons based on what professions they have. I also have a toon that handles my pet collections and one that handles my general sales. I kept these private simply for the same reason that I have my public persona. Those are the sales that I do not want someone to come after me believing they can take a scalp of mine. Call it the belief that I would be a worthy challenger to the throne of King Gold Goblin.
The idea is that most people do not take the Auction House personally. Very rarely do you hear people start to say 'that blah blah person undercut me' and look for vengeance. What will happen is that if a player goes out into the public market, they have a better chance of becoming a target. Barking for sales has become a lost art form on many servers. Many players take a reactionary stance when it comes to providing goods. Players say 'I need this' and people will message back that they have it available. There are still some Gold Goblins that will post up their profession list as well as different methods of sales (your mats = free items etc.). These are the players that are more apt to have to depend on their reputation.
A Nemesis can be considered a valuable psychological boost to your own sales. Knowing that the person you have targeted is sitting there and laughing at you (imaginary or not) can drive you to keep posting items even if you are tired or bored that day. Sometimes the quest for money just doesn't keep driving you day by day, but having that Nemesis can keep you going. Batman had the Joker, Superman had Lex Luthor, Spiderman had Doc Oc. Through the hard times you can keep looking to top the market and have the last laugh.
Whether your nemesis is imaginary or not, it can be a force to keep you on the gold goblin path and put more gold into your pocket.
Now to find the next pretender to my Kingdom and dash his hopes.
Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting
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Can You Know A Country If You Only Visit Its Capital?Whenever anybody tells me that they've been to the UK, my home country, I always prick up my ears and ask them where they've been. Nine times out of ten, the reply is simply, "London," to which I respond, "London isn't really the UK. It's like a whole different country." I know other Brits who say similar things in the same situation. For me, the 'real' UK lies outside of the capital city, in the likes of buzzing northern…
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