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New Non-Antibiotic Approach For Treating Urinary Tract Infections
by Rukmani Krishna on June 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM General Health News - G J E 4
A potential new approach for treating urinary tract infections (UTIs) without traditional antibiotics is being reported in ACS' Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. UTIs affect millions of people annually. This approach involves so-called FimH antagonists, which are non-antibiotic compounds and would not contribute to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance bacteria.
Beat Ernst and colleagues explain that antibiotics are the mainstay treatment for UTIs. Bacteria, however, are developing resistance to common antibiotics, with the emergence of "superbugs" that shrug off some of the most powerful new antibiotics. Thus, the scientists decided to try a new approach developing substances that target bacteria virulence factors, inhibiting them from sticking to the inside of the urinary bladder. Hence, microbes are not able to launch an infection and, furthermore, this new class of antimicrobials is expected to exhibit less selection pressure and, therefore, a reduced potential for the emergence of resistance.
AdvertisementThe scientists describe the development of anti-adhesion molecules that specifically interfere with the attachment of bacteria to human bladder cells. The most potent of the substances, an indolinylphenyl mannoside, prevented a UTI from developing in mice (stand-ins for humans in this kind of experiment) for more than eight hours. In the in vivo treatment study, a very low dose of 25 µg per mouse reduced the amount of bacteria in the bladder of the animals by almost 10,000 times, which is comparable to the standard antibiotic treatment with ciprofloxacin.
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Given the spring weather experience here in Vermont, there will be days that will limit any sort of outdoor activity. And if you don't have a gym membership, these are the days to fine tune and experiment with your home workout routine. One exercise you'll definitely want to consider is planks. Not only are planks rated as one of the top exercises for adding strength and stability to your core, but they also have yoga roots and are beneficial to anyone who can spare a few minutes a couple times a week.
Planks target the stabilizing muscles and helps with definition within the core area, especially your abs. Also if done properly, planks will raise your heart rate enough to help you burn extra calories and burn more fat as fuel.
One of the many great things about planks is that they don't require a ton of space to do. If you're one of many people who are holding off on outdoor activity until this cooler weather blows over, planks could be done in the comfort of your own home. In fact you can do them right on the floor in your living room or bedroom as well as outside on the grass if you prefer the outdoors.
So how do you do it? Lie face down on either a floor of your preference or exercise mat. With your palms face down and legs extended lift your body off the floor, resting your body weight on your forearms and toes. Keep your knees off the ground, your abs sucked in towards your spine and your back straight. Focus on a controlled breathing pattern and never hold your breath. Hold this position for 20-30 seconds for the first set and adjust the duration of the remaining sets according to your fitness level. 4-5 sets twice a week is a great starting point to help you see results and gain confidence with your technique. These are considered front planks. Side planks have the same idea except your body weight is held up with one side of your body and one forearm as opposed to two.
Great technique and breathing are the keys to success with planks. The progressions and variations planks offer will help keep you challenged and motivated. But it all starts with the foundation.

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Watch: Israeli Navy Eliminates Hamas Infiltrators
New footage illustrates role of naval forces in preventing an attack by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated the border by sea.
By Ari Soffer
First Publish: 7/9/2014, 4:16 PM
Hamas terrorist in Gaza City (file)
Flash 90
The IDF has released new video footage of the elimination of four Hamas terrorists who attempted to carry out a deadly attack after infiltrating the border by sea, on the first day of Operation Defensive Edge.
The terrorists were killed not long after landing ashore, in a joint operation between ground, air and naval forces.
They were on their way to Kibbutz Zikim, located roughly a kilometer and a half (around one mile) north of Gaza along the coast, when they were intercepted by Israeli forces.
Previous footage was taken by IDF ground forces from the Givati infantry brigade.
The new footage highlights the role played by the Israeli navy in the operation:
Previous footage:
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We'll warn you: Push ($10) is an emotionally challenging, gut-wrenching read. We wanted to read it before going to see the much buzzed-about movie, Precious, starring Gaboury Sidibe and Mo'Nique, and aren't sorry we did. Written from the point of view of the main character, Precious Jones, the dialogue is halting and poetical all at once, as she endures almost unthinkable abuse at the hands of her mother, father, and nearly everyone around her. Precious is finally offered hope in the form of a teacher who helps her learn to read, encourages her to put her feelings down in a diary, and enrolls her in a basic skills class. We could easily write a thesis-length post on the many layers of meaning in this intense book, but suffice it to say, if you haven't read Push, go do so. Now.
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Home entertainment was centered on living room TV, Set Top box and other AV equipment. With more and more user(s) creating and sharing content as well as downloading content from internet, multimedia content tends to be spread across various devices at home like laptop/desktop computers, mobile phone, NAS storage etc. This also results in disparate content experiences and device interoperability issues.
EAFT's Digital Home shares vision of a wired and wireless interoperable network of consumer electronics (CE), personal computers (PC) and mobile devices in the home and on the road enabling a seamless environment for enjoying and growing new digital media and content services.
In the Digital Home, it will be common for consumers to:
- Easily acquire, store and access digital music from almost anywhere in the home
- Effortlessly manage, view, print and share digital photos
- Carry favorite content anywhere to enjoy while on the road
- Enjoy distributed, multi-user content recording and playback
- Enjoy the media played on big screens at home
EAFT excels with Digital Home solutions and tools, which helps service providers and customers to manage the home environment. EAFT's Digital Home Complaint Software services makes the end-user Digital Home experience very engaging and fun filled. EAFT has developed key competencies in Plug and Play and other Convergence standards to allow a multitude of personal gadgets to talk to each other thereby allowing it to completely digitize the modern home and allow users to seamlessly control all aspects of the home.


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01.03.2011 / The Jays are on a Roll. Posting by Brian Kooienga, Creighton Mens Basketball Graduate Manager
In just over 2 weeks from my last post, so many things have happened on and off the court in our lives, I am not sure where to begin, but bear with me and lets get everyone caught back up on the Creighton University Mens Basketball team!
5 In A Row
In case you missed it, our team is on what I like to call a roll. Finishing off the non-conference slate with big home wins over Saint Joseph's, Idaho State, Western Illinois, and finally Samford, the squad headed home for a brief, but well deserved Christmas break. While our coaching staff does not want to give all the credit to any one player, but the addition of transfer Gregory Echenique has been a perfect addition to the team. When Kenny is tired, throw Gregory in. When Doug gets into risky foul trouble, throw Gregory in. When we need a shot blocked halfway to the Old Market, throw Gregory in the game. To downplay his arrival would be foolish, and this blog isn't about jokes or witty sayings, so to put it bluntly, Gregory is going to help us a lot, especially in areas we didn't even know we were lacking his aggression and hunger for the game.
Moving out of the non-conference schedule and into the "18 Most Important Games of the Season" the staff hopped on a jet on Tuesday afternoon after a good practice at the Old Gym, and flew over to Bloomington-Normal for Wednesday night's matchup against the Illinois State Redbirds. With a business-trip like feel to it, the guys knew what had to be done, and the opportunity that presented itself. Here are the facts:
- The seniors had never won at Redbird Arena (The home of Illinois State Basketball)
- Creighton has not faired well in conference road openers in the past 5 years
- The Illinois State team that they faced on Wednesday night is a tricky team to diagnose (lots of wins, easy non-conference schedule, tough to play at home, first road trip for the guys, etc etc)
- Finally, Osirius Eldridge graduated from Illinois State, thus their kryptonite-esque powers they have had over the Bluejays had finally vanished and we were finally able to function like normal basketball players when competing against Illinois State
That being said, any and all attempts at humor will officially be abandoned, and the following will provide a recap of the Illinois State game and preview of the conference home opener against geographical rival the Drake University Bulldogs…
Illinois State Recap
Let's just cut to the chase. Creighton has a terrible history in games played in Normal, IL. There might be something in the water, the court might not be regulation size, I don't know what it is, but the Jays just haven't found a way to stack up wins in Redbird Arena. That all changed Wednesday, on a cold and foggy day in central Illinois. Shots fell, plays were made, defensive stops were plentiful, and the Bluejays and first year head coach Greg McDermott found a way to get that elusive victory on the road. The seniors on this team had not experienced a victory at Illinois State in their entire Bluejay careers, and this seemed like the yet another chapter in what could be a fairytale season for this team.
To say that Antione Young played well is an understatement. When we needed a basket, Antione hit the shot. When we needed a defensive stop, it always seemed that he was there to tip a pass, steal the ball from behind, or turn up the pressure on the opposing player, and essentially wreaking havoc on the mindset of every player he guarded. Over the last 5 games, Antione is shooting exactly 50% from the field and from 3PT range as well. Bested only by two other teammates (Doug McDermott's 52% and Gregory Echenique's 70%) Antione has played tireless minutes and has really become a great leader for this team, and if he continues to play at the level he has demonstrated so far this season, we are all in for a treat as we watch him develop and grow into one of the league's premier players.
A brief recap of the game would go something like this: Creighton started out slow, down multiple times in the first half by as many as 7. They then fought back and regained the lead. Utilizing a potent attack with both Kenny Lawson and Gregory Echenique on the floor at the same time, the duo pushed Creighton out to a 4 point lead, one that would not be relinquished the rest of the game. Up 11 at halftime, the Jays put the game on cruise control in the second half and squeaked out an eleven-point win on the road. Winning the rebounding battle and taking full advantage of clutch free throw shooting (100% club shoutout to Kaleb Korver, Ethan Wragge, and Jahenns Manigat!) were keys to success and led to a Bluejay victory.
There are many things that happen in sports. Wins, losses, points scored, shots missed, and nearly every emotion can be felt while in the heat of competition. The one thing that can be agreed upon is that the feeling after a win is that while driving, riding, or flying home, the trip is SO MUCH BETTER than coming home from a loss. (This may be the point where every reader thinks to themselves, "Well duh, that's the most obvious statement of all time…") But seriously, it's not nearly as cold as thermometers say, traffic simply does not exist, jokes are funnier, food tastes better, early morning practices are enjoyable, and the hard work and preparation that goes into the win are fully appreciated and recognized. The staff has worked their tails off getting all the film cut up and broken down, scouting reports are in depth and 100% accurate, and the game plans, when actually executed by the players, have been the perfect recipe for success. If everyone in the program keeps working as hard as they have been so far, this season should be a memorable one.
Go Jays! Brian Kooienga
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JWC TO MARY RUSSELL ; 1 May 1843; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18430501-JWC-MR-01; CL 16: 145-148
5 Cheyne Row / Monday [1? May 1843]
Dearest Mrs Russel
I am wearying to have some news of you— Absolutely; willing or unwilling, busy or lazy, you must sit down and write me a letter! How are you? and what are you all doing there in Thornhill? Where is Margaret;1 and what sort of industry is she following? And old Mary?2 Is she still able to creep about? And have you any money for her remaining? My husband says you were to give her two shillings a week which you considered would suffice for her with what she had— Maybe so—but two shillings a-week would not keep a London poor woman in "beer"! A woman whom I found lately lying on a little mouldy straw with not a single blanket over her—only an old cloak—and sharing that and the straw with three children—owned to having ten shillings a-week allowed her,—besides some bread and cheese from the Parish,—while her eldest child received both food and clothing at a charity school—and—the youngest being only five years old could not consume very much— Tho' I never tried living and keeping two children on ten shillings a-week, I could not but think I would have made a better job of it than she seemed to be making, and took pains to ascertain how the money went—four and sixpence went to the grocer for tea and sugar! "And then" said she "As long as I live I must have my pint of beer (Brown stout) in the day— I cannot wa[nt] my pint of beer for anything." And so she lay all thro' the winter in the state I have mentioned—with a bad cold too—which turned to consumption and the other day she died!3 And I am afraid this is no exceptional case of unthrift— A woman to whom I gave some money to get her children flannel petticoats out of pawn went home and within a quarter of an hour's time had fried herself a panful of mutton-chops off it!—mutton being at that time ninepence a pound—and ever so many instances of the same improvident spirit have come under my own observation— But tho' old Mary may get more good of two shillings than a London woman of ten—still even in Scotland, and under your good care, it is a very slender amount of capital to front the world with! And if she fall sick or become quite helpless I trust to your getting her whatever is necessary, and applying to me for money whenever she wants it—not that I doubt but you would be ready to help her yourself— My Mother often told me how good and charitable you and your husband were— But this old woman is my concern—not yours— I cannot supply to her the place of the friend she has lost4—but it is both my duty and my pleasure to do it as far as lies in my power—
Did you hear of the sad fright which we had with my uncle in Liverpool? He was taken ill one night, just as She was last year, and in the same week of the same month— Tho the daily accounts I received of him were always that he was a little better and a little better, for a long while I could not open their letter without terror— I remembered always how all her betterness had terminated, and made little doubt but his would prove alike fallacious—now however, months having passed without any new attack I begin to trust that he may be spared a few years longer to his poor children, who are too young to find themselves orphans in the world. His Drs tell him that he must live very sparingly—must guard himself from all sorts of excitement—leave off card-playing &c &c—and he does their bidding—for the present—while the danger he has run is still fresh in his mind— But God knows whether his patience and docility may not wear out! and then!—Poor children! They have quite got up their hearts again—are dancing away at balls, and all the rest of it, as if there were no drawn sword suspended by a hair over their heads!— For me who see both the dancing and the sword it is an anxious spectacle!
I shall probably go to Liverpool for a week or two in the course of the summer. There was a talk at one time of summer-quarters to be taken somewhere in Cheshire—but my Brother-in-law John—who has a particular knack—like the pigs—of "running thro"5 things came to live in the house till some new employment turned up for him; proposing to my husband this and that excursion on the continent—till we are all at sea again with our plans — Wherever John is—there is uncertainty also!
Only think! I have still the same little maid! Indeed I need never speak of her going again till she be actually gone. Nothing could be more determined than I was to part with her that time when I wrote for Margaret.6 But she absolutely would not go! would not seek herself a place! She seems really to have much the same notion of the indissolubility of our relation—that the old scotch Butler had of his and his masters—in whose service he had been forty years—when his Master told him, his temper was become absolutely insufferable, and they two must positively part—he answered with a look of disdainful astonishment; "and where the deevil wud ye gang to?" Helen did not exactly ask me where I wud gang to? but she asked me in a tone of the most authoritative remonstrance "What would become of me, I should just like to know—fancying you ill—and me not there to take proper care of you?— I think that WOULD be a farce!!"— To tell her what would become of her under such astonishing circumstances, quite exceeding my gift of prophecy; what could I do but just to bid her "stay where she was then; only trying whether she could not behave herself more like a reasonable creature." And to do her justice, she has been a little more reasonable latterly—
I have kept quite free of Influenza this Spring—for a wonder—and since I gave over swallowing my Brother in laws blue pills which had no effect but that of making me uncomfortable all over—I have been pretty much in my average state— The pain in my side still sticks there—better and worse—and I have not much strength to speak of— But I am able to keep on foot—and my mind is quieter—and on the whole I have reason to be thankful—
I hope you have got my husband's new book by this time—he sent it to you by a bookseller's parcel two weeks ago— To think that he should have finished a book and no copy sent to Templand!— When I saw him writing your name instead I could do nothing but cry. He asked "is that all the congratulation you have to give me on having got to the end of it"?— But I also had got to the end of so much! I enclose half a sovereign for a pound of tea to Mary and another to Margaret. God bless you all and believe me always gratefully and affectionately yours
Jane Carlyle
Be sure when you write, to mention when more money will be needed for Mary— Do you ever hear of Mary Milligan?7 Has she any child vet?


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Otis Grant
Position: WR
Height: 6-3 Weight: 197 lbs.
Born: August 13, 1961 in Atlanta, GA
Died: May 29, 2011 in Roswell, GA
High School: George Washington Carver
College: Michigan St. (school history) (Grant college stats)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the 5th round (134th overall) of the 1983 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 5 (9377th overall since 1950)
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Lady Lions look to contend in Div. IV
The Lady Lions came up a game short twice last season, missing a division title by one game, and losing to Old Forge in the district championship.
This season, Trail will use those defeats as fuel to its fire in its quest to be the best team in the league.
"If we're not contending for the league and district title it will be a little bit disappointing," head coach John Brander said.
Though Trail lost three seniors to graduation, Brander feels that his offense will still be a potent part of the program.
"We didn't really lose any of our big sticks," Brander said.
Those sticks include Shelby Croasdale, Mackenzie Duffy and Gabby Truesdale at the top of the order, as well as Tunkhannock transfer Meghan Healey who should also be a factor in the team's success this season.
As far as competing for a league title, Brander expects that one of the battles his team will face this season will come against Montrose, this year's defending champ.
"I'd say we have a pretty good rivalry with them for the past couple year," he said. "They've been at the top of the league so we want to knock them off."
Brander also mentioned that what he teachers his girls on the field will also come in handy during their time off of it.
"I hope I can teach them that hard work pays off and to take the game seriously but have fun while doing it," Brander said. "It's not just about the wins or losses but it's also about growing as a person, knowing what it means to be a teammate and coming together for one goal."
Roster: Seniors Shelby Croasdale, Meghan Healey, Shannon Jones, Nicole Rosa, Janine Strauch and Emma Vasky; juniors Kasey Buck, Kerrigan Buck, Daria Lewandowski, Taryn Matti, Aimmee Melnikoff and Gabby Truesdale; sophomores Mackenzie Duffy, Breanna Halter, Carli Kalinoski and Alyssa Sohns; and freshmen Cassandra Brown, Natalie Cocchini, Alyssa Fiehl, Madison Lee, Madison Peoples, Elizabeth Rodenbach, Rachael Rosengrant, Allison Strauch, Emily Van Fleet and Sarah Weisenfluh.
March 26, at Mid Valley, 4:30 p.m.
March 28, Scranton Prep, 4 p.m.
March 31, at Riverside, 4:30 p.m.
April 1, at North Pocono, 4:30 p.m.
April 3, at Susquehanna, 4:30 p.m.
April 7, at Mt. View, 4:30 p.m.
April 10, Forest City, 4:30 p.m.
April 14, Elk Lake, 4:30 p.m.
April 16, at Blue Ridge, 4:30 p.m.
April 22, Montrose, 4:30 p.m.
April 24, Riverside, 4:30 p.m.
April 26, Susquehanna, 10 a.m.
April 28, Mt. View, 4:30 p.m.
May 1, at Forest City, 4:30 p.m.
May 5, at Elk Lake, 4:30 p.m.
May 8, Blue Ridge, parents' day, 4:30 p.m.
May 12, at Montrose, 4:30 p.m.
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Pwn2Own 2013
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Overview HP's DVLabs Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is expanding the focus of its annual Pwn2Own competition beyond vulnerabilities in the web browser this year. Over the last several years, we have seen browser plug-in vulnerabilities become increasingly popular in exploit kits and malware. These vulnerabilities affect a large percentage of the Internet community and are quickly weaponized by attackers. That being said, we are not forg ...
2012: Year in Review
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As we sit back and reflect on the year, we wanted to highlight some of the work going on in DVLabs and reveal some of the statistics from what has truly been an interesting year in the Zero Day Initiative program.


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Groomers reporting in this Monday morning at 5am with snow lightly falling. There's a bit of SW wind on top moving light snow round, but once on the north facing runs it is calm and the lights of Kalispell visible. Snow started in the evening and continues falling lightly which is predicted to be the case today with current temperature of 26 degrees. Powder snow with pillowy soft stashes in places and groomers sporting great carving corduroy. Come up and enjoy terrific conditions 100% open everyday through the holiday season.
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Thirty-four Hawkeyes earned winter academic all-Big Ten honors.
March 28, 2007
IOWA CITY, IA -The Big Ten Conference has announced that 34 University of Iowa student-athletes have been named to the 2007 winter Academic all-Conference team. The list includes student-athletes from men's basketball (2), women's basketball (3), men's gymnastics (6), women's gymnastics (5), men's swimming and diving (7), women's swimming and diving (7) and wrestling (3).
To be eligible for an academic all-Big Ten selection, student-athletes must be letterwinners and be in at least their second academic year at the institution. They must also carry a career grade point average of 3.0 or better.
Men's Basketball (2)
Adam Haluska
Brett Wessels
Women's Basketball (3)
Wendy Ausdemore
Jenee Graham
Krista VandeVenter
Men's Gymnastics (6)
Jacob Becker
Jacques Bouchard
Bryan Bourland
Tom Buese
Drew Ignoto
Diego Mercado-Austin
Women's Gymnastics (5)
Katie Burke
Beth Dilick
Danielle Legeai
Kara Pinjuv
Ally Zipse
Men's Swimming and Diving (7)
Drew DeLashmutt
Nick Divan
Nathan Keeling
Andrej Lenert
Andy Miner
Jacob Moore
Seth Tweedy
Women's Swimming and Diving (7)
Alison Gschwend
Heather Hall
Emily Hoefler
Nicole Nemmers
Erin Petty
Robin Samples
Meghan Sievertsen
Wrestling (3)
Eric Luedke
Lucas Magnani
Joe Uker
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Ken Chertow is a US Olympian and 3x NCAA All American. He was also a highly successful coach at Ohio State University and Penn State University. In these two clips you will learn how to drill the re-shot correctly. These drills will allow your wrestler to score off of his/her opponents shot. These are great drills that will make any wrestler more aggressive and offensive minded.
The first drill is a classic re-shot drill shown by Coach Ian Assael, Chertow Camp Director. Coach Assael emphasizes that you should keep your hands on your opponent and hit your level change and shot as your opponent rises.
The second clip is a sprawl & re-shot shadow drill shown by Coach Chertow. This is a great drill to reinforce the re-shot drill without having a partner.
Another clip from this DVD can be viewed at "Ken Chertow's Favorite Wrestling Techniques". Check out our Wrestling DVDs and more quality instructional DVDs from Ken Chertow!
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Information in the game database is updated periodically. Below, you'll find that information compiled as pertains to Micro World. The company may be involved as a publisher, developer or both.
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Best of the Best: Championship Karate [1992]
Best of the Best: Championship Karate [1993]
StormLord [1990]
Todd's Adventures in Slime World [1991]
Edo no Kiba [March 12, 1993]
International Tennis Tour [November, 1993]
Baby Jo the Superhero [August 28, 1992]
Builderland [April 1, 1992]
The Davis Cup Tennis [April 1, 1992]
Jim Power [March 19, 1993]
The Kick Boxing [July 31, 1992]
Slime World [October 9, 1992]
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Here's another way you can help Thien Nhan --
by owning a Chew On It! T-shirt.
Made of 100% cotton, it has a print of the three kids from the
Tan household (the family on which my Sunday comic strip is based).
Production of this T-shirt is sponsored by The Straits Times and SingTel,
hence the logos.
Available in Heather Grey or White,
and in sizes M and XL.
Sizes S & L no longer available.
Each T-shirt costs a minimum S$15.
Singapore Press Holdings is footing the shipping cost.
Please pay more if you can.
All proceeds will go to Thien Nhan.
To order by post, write a cheque made payable to:
and mail it to:
Lee Chee Chew
ST Art Dept
Singapore Press Holdings
1000 Toa Payoh North
Podium, 2nd storey
Singapore 318994
Please indicate your name, e-mail, address, T-shirt size and colour choice
clearly at the back of the cheque.
Alternatively, you can order through e-mail and make your payment
by bank wire transfer, either online or via a DBS/POSBank ATM.
(This is the preferred method -- faster than cheques and saves trees too!)
Email me for more info. Thank you.
PS: If you already have the T-shirt and book, please donate anyway! :)
Chew On It! T-shirt
Here's another way you can help Thien Nhan --
5 comments:
- casio_888 said...
Chee Chew,
I have been always a huge fan of your comics strip... "Chew on it" is always be the first comics strip I read in Lifestyle every Sunday...
Was really touched when I come across your bloglink on 04h May Sunday Times and get to know you are doing all you could to help a toddler whom you have never met... You really have a heart of Gold indeed...
Had sent an email to you to order some T-shirts and book... But kind of wish that the feature characters on T-shirt will be the father and mother characters from your comics instead...
Anyway, it's fine, it is for a good course...
Will attempt to get my frens n colleagues to do likewise...
May all your great effort pay off and the donation drive will be a great success...
All the best!!!
- May 4, 2008 at 8:17 PM
- Beng Yee said...
Hi Chee Chew,
I will look forward to the T-shirt having the cartoon that is featured on the main page of your blog - "You can help Thien Nhan" (print on the back of the shirt would be great). This way people can wear it and remind others who wants to donate but have not done so!
Anyway, emailed you to order a book.
You are a good man too :)
Beng Yee
- January 8, 2009 at 12:27 AM
- ecym said...
Just a thought - if you have printed a comic strip on the T-shirt instead of characters, you might attract more buyers.
- August 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM
- zoomhee said...
yea casio. me too. mine favourite 2 is foxtrot n baby blues.
- September 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- Alan Chow said...
Hi chew,
i loved your comics on Sunday Times. been catchingthem since my O levels , on and off.
do you have plans to include them from Mondays to Sats, especially on Mon blues?
where can i buy your comic book?
and my heart goes out to Thien Nhan after readin g your blog.
How can i make a S$30 contibution via you by "PAYPAL"?
- October 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM


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On Saturday May 10th Tegan and Sara made a stop in Indianapolis, Indiana on their Lets Get Physical Tour. The tour has been in support of their latest album Heartthrob. Tegan and Sara are a Canadian indie rock/indie pop duo, composed of identical twin sisters Tegan Quin and Sara Quin. This tour they have brought out 2 bands that are very close to them, The Courtneys and Lucius.
The Courtneys are a 3 piece Slacker Pop group from Vancouver, Canada. The girls have often been compared to the likes of The Clean, Dinosaur Jr, and Sonic Youth.
Lucius is a five piece indie pop band from Brooklyn, New York. They have tons of energy on stage and have great percussion laden tracks.
As Tegan and Sara took stage Saturday night in Indianapolis the room went absolutely nuts. These 2 have been making music and touring since 1995, and nearly 20 years later they are still filling rooms, gaining new fans and doing what they love to do. The crowd was quite diverse in age ranging anywhere from about 12 years old to 40+, which was great to see the type of draw that the girls could produce on a headlining tour. The girls opened the set with 4 tracks from their back catalog Back In Your Head, The Con, Walking With A Ghost, and Monday Monday Monday. All of the tracks were at one time their biggest hits and widely recognized by the fan base that was in attendance. As the set progressed they began to play some of the tracks of their latest release Heartthrob.
Known for their on stage banter, conversations, and storytelling they spoke about a few of the songs prior to playing them, giving a little background on the song meaning or when/how it was written. Perhaps the funniest part of the evening came when between songs Tegan looked at her sister Sara and said "Do you ever get on stage and then have to use the restroom?" to which the crowd got a kick and Sara responded "Are you saying you need to use the restroom?". Tegan replied simply "Well, yeah. Do you guys mind if I run to the rest room?" the crowd all cheered and Sara said "Just go. I'll just tell a story." And Tegan ran off stage to the restroom as Sara began to tell a story.
The night was incredibly fun and filled with songs for both new fans and older fans alike. I Couldn't Be Your Friend and Sentimental Tune struck a chord with everyone in the room. On Directing and Nineteen were cleverly put together in the set list. Closing out the set were Drove Me Wild and Closer both off of their latest release and everyone in the room was dancing and singing along with these tracks. The 3 song encore was expertly crafted featuring Call It Off and Living Room, and to finish the night was a cover that epitomizes the girls perfectly, Let My Love Open The Door by Pete Townshend.
This show is definitely something everyone needs to go see if they have the opportunity. You can find the remaining tour dates here. And you can see exclusive photos from the Indianapolis date here.


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Re: NAS for Macs?
- From: Scott Ellsworth <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:55:55 -0700
In article <u1123605251@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
transfigur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (transfigure) wrote:
> > Are you using Netatalk because you still have OS 9 clients? If you are
> > using all OS X, couldn't you just use native Unix filesharing, NFS?
> Sorry, I subscribed to this thread, but I'm not getting email from
> it, apparently.
> Yes, this is why we're using AFP. We're running OS 9 currently. We
> were going to upgrade to OS X, but Apple's announcement of switching
> to Intel processor has caused us to put such plans on hold. When we
> upgrade, we want our new machines to last at least four years. Apple
> claims that they will support G5 for two years after the new
> processors are released, but what about software? From what I
> understand, software will need to be rewritten for the new
> processors. Apple's already provided development packages for
> software mfrs. But that is a different topic.
In most cases, the rewrite will produce software that runs on PPC as
well as on Intel. Nobody wants to lose the customers that will be
buying the first intel machines, but nobody wants to lose the customers
still running the G5 desktop machines Apple is likely to keep selling
until mid to late 2006. (Those benchmarks are true - it is very hard to
beat a G5 at memory bandwidth and vector processing. Intel likely will
eventually, especially if the do some of the things SSE3 promises, but
it is not going to happen right away.)
So, if these are portables, then I quite agree. Those are going to be
revved within a year. Desktops, though, and especially servers, are not
so likely to be revved that fast.
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By Elizabeth Keach
A blind man walks towards me as he whispers prayers through broken teeth and parched lips. His kaftan skirts the dust before him, sweeping rhythmically left to right through the seething Medina market, undisturbed. Heaped spices tumble next to chopped and feathered fowl, and leafy mint bundles are tossed into vats of boiling sweet tea water.
"Amerikya" I say, with a diffident smile as some teenage boys start to follow me, joyfully shouting out nationalities.
I pass the turtle stall where three different sizes of turtle can be purchased, then the jellyfish and carpet shop to my right, the pajama stall, the date, nut and raisin man with the moustache, the olive vendor… For several moments, time is irrelevant and I witness what hundreds of years in this ancient city of Rabat have barely changed. One dusty, veiled woman squats before her pottery. Three skinny boys chase fruit flies with palm fronds through the maze of a thousand white stucco façades that stretch skyward, encasing mosaic windows and hidden riad interiors.
Here I am in Morocco. For three months, I'll be working for Al Amana, the largest microfinance institution (MFI) in the country. Despite Morocco's status as a middle-income country ($3,800 GDP per capita), its poverty rate is a shocking 19% due to the expansive rural zones where 65% of the population live on less that $2 a day. Due to the dire conditions, local NGOs began to take interest in development via microfinance the 1990s, following the lead of successful implementation of other microfinance ventures such as the Grammeen Bank in Bangladesh that pioneered microfinance in the 1970s. Answering the call for a Moroccan-based microcredit system, Al Amana was founded in 1997 with help from a hefty grant from USAID. Today, it serves nearly half a million active clients offering loans ranging from 1,000 Dirhams, ($125.00) to 50,000 Dirhams, ($6,200) with the goal of improving working and living conditions throughout the country, facilitating social and economic development for the poor of Morocco. Roughly half of Al Amana's clients are women.
I've spent the day visiting the "antennes" or branches of Al Amana, which are scattered around the city limits of Rabat. These are the forgotten slums of the city, where diseased cats feast on strewn waste, and poverty is as apparent as the Arabic graffiti that's scribbled across the destroyed façades of colonial villas. Each Al Amana branch has five employees and serves up to 400 clients, offering services such as prêts solidaires (group loans), prêts individuals (individual loans), and prêts de logement (housing loans). Aicha Oufel is one of four women who have taken on a group loan, each guaranteeing one another, each pursuing different micro-businesses. A seamstress, Aicha has come to pay a third month's installment on the 7,000 Dirham loan she has taken out to purchase more material. She tells me that she hopes to get a housing loan next but that it may be difficult since she has no residence papers. When I ask her how her family responded when she took out a microloan, her wrinkled face turns serious. Glancing at me hesitantly for a moment, she admits in a whisper, "my husband doesn't know."
It may seem strange that a microfinance institution would provide housing loans as one of their main services, but the reality is that most Moroccan women at this level of society are not encouraged to venture out of their homes to find jobs. Thus women tend to take up work that can be easily done at home, and if her house is not properly built and secure against theft or the elements, a woman could lose both her home and her business.
This is also why Al Amana, like many other microfinance institutions, wishes to expand its services: it wants to adapt to its clients' needs. By 2011 Al Amana hopes to obtain full status as a bank in order to provide its client base with services such as deposits, savings accounts, money transfers and electronic accounting while at the same time keeping its non-profit tax benefits. Regardless of Al Amana's profitability and wish to transition to bank status, its directors feel that its particular social mission should still exempt it from taxation as a for-profit bank. In Morocco, as in other countries, there has been considerable grey area in categorizing MFIs as for-profit or not-for-profit institutions. Al Amana is categorized as a non-profit organization with a social mission yet it has, over the past decade, turned into a self-sufficient multi-million dollar institution, issuing bonds to banks it borrows from and facilitating for-profit transactions.
Al Amana is also in direct competition with the 11 other microfinance institutions in Morocco. However, yesterday, I came across a term on Al Amana's Web site that captures what it claims to strive for: "co-opetition." To achieve its goal of alleviating poverty in Morocco, the organization plans to increase transparency and relay information across the Moroccan microcredit sector so that all institutions can learn from one another. The more the merrier, Al Amana's CEOs seem to be saying. And yet, Al Amana is still eager to be the first to reach the estimated 5 million impoverished Moroccans who have yet to take out a microloan.
Whereas some Moroccan institutions charge interest rates that are as high as 80%, Al Amana has kept its rates low. While some say these predatory rates are necessary to cover high transaction costs and build the organization so that it reaches the maximum number of clients, I wonder if these institutions have lost sight of microfinance's original purpose. Meanwhile, major investment banks such as Citigroup and Deutsche Bank are starting microfinance programs, which makes me wonder what their true motivation is. As I see it, any form of exploitation on their part would erode the social mission of microfinance, and would only serve to undermine positive outcomes in the long term.
In the afternoon, I go with Muhammad, a former banker from Montreal, to the ancient town of Salé to shadow him as he visits the studio of a carpenter who crafts intricately carved pieces of furniture with traditional Moroccan designs. Mohammad introduces me to Omar the carpenter, who tells me in broken French that his other job is "actor" and that he hopes I will take him to Hollywood one day because he loves America. We sit down, and I watch as Muhammad go through his list of questions in Arabic and takes inventory of saws, chisels, hammers and nails lying about his work space. Omar passes us some photographs of a recent project: a carved cedar bed frame that he has just sold to a shop in the medina.
Several days later, I find myself alone in Rabat's Kasbah at sunset. I stumble upon a ruined cemetery and make my way into its midst to watch the fading colors play over miles of tombstones stretching into the sea. After another busy day of meeting with clients, I am once again able to have my own thoughts, to feel my own two feet on the warm Moroccan earth. A bone-thin man crouches near by, smoking. To my relief he gives me a brotherly, toothless smile as if to say, "this is my cemetery and you are welcome here, you strangely unaccompanied, western woman." I smile a silent "thank you" and seat myself on the warm granite stairs leading down the cliff. The sea air blows lightly across my face. And at this very moment of hushed splendor, a thunderous boom splits the air around me—the cannon from the Royal Palace signaling f'toor, the breaking of the Ramadan fast at sundown. Over the ancient PDA system comes the now familiar chant, "Allahhhhhhhhhu akbar! Allahhhhhhhu akbar!" God is great!
Though three months in this country is hardly enough time to make even the smallest dent of a difference, my appetite has been whetted, my curiosity ignited, and I am thrilled to be part of this emerging and cutting-edge sector. Microfinance may or may not halve poverty by 2015 as the UN Millennium goals have called for, but I do believe that within this smart sector of banking lies the answer to much of what global aid programs have been trying in vain for decades to achieve. In the words of Muhammad Yunus, "Poverty is caused by the failure at the conceptual level, rather than any lack of capability on the part of people." If we can continue in this direction, evolving our concepts of banking to the needs of the world's poorest people, our potential for eradicating poverty is unprecedented, enormous and very exciting.
Elizabeth Keach is a Seattle native and a recent graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she earned her degree in International Relations.


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The wall of mistrust will exist as long as the current Iranian regime is in place. The regime has the capacity to do precisely as the article quotes Mr Freeman as pointing out: be clandestine in regard its uranium stocks. So the author's proposed deal is a laughable non-starter. Iran could make plenty of enriched nuke material, give back the required amount for international sale, but keep building up a clandestine surplus.
What makes Iran nuke weapons threatening is the regime's clear intentions, ratified by 30 years of consistent performance, including recent boastful furnishing of rockets to Hamas and Hezbollah. A different sort of regime - one that looked forward into the 21st century and respected the liberty and advanced culture and sensibilities of millions of Iranians, not to mention those of the world's majority who are not Shia Moslems - would and could be regarded quite differently; but the present regime, repressive domestically and prime sponsor of terror abroad, complete with genocidal boasts and incitements, is correctly seen as a threat to the peace - and a much great one with nuke weapons in hand.
The author is correct in implying that sanctions aren't working to do much else than complicate Iran's economic challenges and problems of ordinary folks, when anyhow the ayatollahs' real focus is unaffected: keeping on the nuke development path.
As it happens - and is clear from observing the detailed record - Obama is NOT the sanctions 'villain': the 'villain' is the US Congress, which wants something to be done, but is powerless to do much more than order up sanctions. Obama doesn't want sanctions. He would be happy with potentially endless talks, which in his book will be a success as long as, while he is in office, Iran doesn't claim or obviously display that it already has nuke weapons.
The author has his special pleadings which sound cool - until you think twice. Here are three. (1) He envisions a Brave New World Pipelineistan, the basis of a new Great Game. That Great Game, like one envisioned here in North America, would indeed be GAME OVER for the climate. (2) He imagines that somehow the 2007 re-assessment of Iran regime intentions, which concluded that Iran had stopped a nuke development program in 2003, is somehow (5 years later) got to be the latest up-to-date and good-for-all-time evaluation of what the regime wants and is doing - even as meanwhile all sorts of further activity and operations - some at first successfully concealed - have emerged. (3) He also imagines that Mideast countries should be and are ready to be the world's leaders in spontaneous nuke non-armament or disarmament. Note that in Israel's case nuke weapons - or anyhow perception that she likely has them - is an almost indispensable deterrent for defense of a country which is all of 60 miles across at its widest, and far less on average; not to mention outnumbered in almost all conventional measures of military power by the combined forces of countries which are or long were her enemies.


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A historian of Christian martyrdom attends a Christian Right strategy session in the "War on Christians.
By Elizabeth A. Castelli
A ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., was the setting last week for a conference called "The War on Christians and the Values Voter in 2006," sponsored by Vision America, an organization committed to the project of "restoring the original American vision." As Vision America's president, Rick Scarborough, put it in his welcome letter to participants, "The goal of this conference is to contribute to a genuine revival of the Christian faith in America and to advance a proper understanding of the role of the church in American life." There to help 400 Christian conservative activists achieve this understanding was Tom DeLay along with fellow Texan Senator John Cornyn and a stageful of conservative Christian powerbrokers, among them Rod Parsley, Phyllis Schafly, and Gary Bauer. Senator Sam Brownback was scheduled to speak but couldn't make it, forcing former presidential candidate Alan Keyes to fill his time.
Several interlocking narratives and rhetorics are at work in the Vision America program. One critical piece of the puzzle is a traditionalist, triumphalist historical narrative in which the United States was given to Christians by God to establish a providential nation based on biblical precepts. (No apologies — nor even passing reference — to the land's prior occupants.) Founded as a city upon a hill (the oft-repeated image deriving from John Winthrop's 1630 shipboardspeech to the English colonists he was bringing to the new world) and as a refuge for puritans escaping religious persecution, "America was not an accident," as one speaker at the conference put it.
The historical narrative moves inexorably forward, touching upon the Civil War — but with no mention of the now-inconvenient role of literal biblical interpretation in the feverish defense of slavery. Indeed, by contrast, these contemporary conservative Christians cast themselves as the rightful heirs to abolitionism (and the women's suffrage movement and the civil rights movement and so on). The story passes silently over the closing years of the 19th century and opening years of the 20th — years when American empire was, some would argue, coming into its own — and moves quickly instead into World War II ("when the New World rose up to save the Old," as one conference speaker put it), the Cold War, and America's inevitable contemporary global role, "thrust upon it by history and providence." The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution? Christian documents. The destiny of America? To be a Christian nation in possession of — possessed by? — a special, divine commission. It is, as we learn, a military commission: "God has," as one speaker at the conference put it, "given us our marching orders."
Braided together with this narrative of the story of America as a Christian nation is the story of Christianity as a religion of persecuted innocents and of otherworldliness. Being "in the world but not of it," this form of Christian identity holds the world suspiciously at bay and views "the culture" as a teeming, miasmic monstrosity poised and ready to pounce. Children (including teenagers) are especially menaced by "the world" and "the culture" — the public schools, the mainstream media, the Internet, sexuality tout court — and require constant vigilance and protection from the mounting threat. Public institutions — the schools, the courts — are not to be trusted. Even many church youth groups are suspect: According to Rebecca Hagelin, the author of Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture That's Gone Stark Raving Mad, youth ministers who use the website myspace.com to reach out to their congregants, in the hopes of meeting them where they are, are simply saying to teens: "Meet me at the pornography store, and we'll talk about Jesus."
Ungodly alliances abound — between homosexual activists and Hollywood, between "radical secular fundamentalists" and "Islamofascists," between pornographers and their liberal defenders, between promoters of "tolerance," a dirty word in the parlance of the conference, and the liberal media and professoriate. In this narrative, America is on the verge of a moral collapse — not because of rapacious capitalism or imperial overreaching or the bankrupting militarization of the country for a war without end — but because of homosexuality and other forms of sexual excess, Hollywood, radical secularism and radical feminism, and most sinisterly, because of "judicial activism."
Whereas the left, whether religious or secular, decries the embeddedness of the current administration in the values and commitments of conservative Christianity, the participants in "The War on Christians and the Values Voter" seemed convinced that Bible-believing Christians are not being taken seriously by the politically powerful, despite the presence of so many of them at the conference. The rhetoric here moves back and forth between incommensurate claims — Christians are persecuted and powerless, on the one hand, but constitute an irresistible and unbeatable majority, on the other. Aligning its point of view with that of God and its actions with God's will, this movement must refuse to engage in political compromise because there can be no compromise when absolute truth or God are invoked. Hence the increasing intemperance of its rhetoric, the exuberance of its commitments, the unshakability of its resolve.
It is a movement that resoundingly denies that it is theocratic, dismissing such a characterization as one aimed at provocatively and cynically linking right-wing politicized Christianity to radical Islamism. At the same time, it is a movement that argues that political, social, and moral life must be solely grounded in scripture — that there is no tension between the Bible and the founding documents of American political institutions, and that the separation of church and state demands an unacceptable compromise since, "if Jesus is your Lord, he is the Lord of everything," as one conference preacher put it.
Christian Persecution
The conference focused on the American political and cultural scene, but speakers repeatedly cited the often dire situation of Christians around the globe as an apt analogy for the American situation. Scarborough's welcome letter made the connection: "Every day brings new evidence that Christianity, worldwide, is under assault. This conference will not only document that assault, but will also provide tools and solutions for counteracting that assault, while bringing hope to those who participate or benefit from the information which will be dispersed. . . . May God be pleased to bring new life and renewed energy to the Values Voters of America as we resolve at this conference to continue our fight to restore this nation to the vision of those who made America… 'the land of the free and the home of the brave.'"
Speakers repeatedly juxtaposed "Christianity under assault worldwide" and the American political and cultural situation. For example, Lt. Gordon James Klingenschmitt, a Navy chaplain who has been disciplined for praying in Jesus' name (in violation of Navy protocols) at public Navy-sponsored events, was a panelist in the first session of the conference, "Christian Persecution: Reports from the Front Lines." Klingenschmitt made a striking and explicit argument from analogy by opening and closing his PowerPoint presentation with two paired photographs: a photograph of himself and one of Abdul Rahman, the Christian convert who had recently been on trial in Afghanistan for having abandoned Islam. In Klingenschmitt's analysis, he and Rahman are the same in every way that matters: both persecuted Christians, both equal victims of the suppression of religious freedom, both casualties in the war on Christianity.
Other speakers were more modest in their efforts to connect the situation of American conservative Christians to the circumstances of Christians in other parts of the world, reminding the audience that Christians in China, North Korea, or "the deepest, darkest recesses of the Middle East" are, indeed, worse off. But such admissions also became the ground for dire prophecies: "Things aren't so bad here…yet," Tristan Emmanuel, a Canadian activist and author of Christophobia: The Real Reason Behind Hate Crime Legislation, commented from his post as the moderator of the Christian persecution panel. Yet, when Tom DeLay, the former majority leader of the House of Representatives who is currently under indictment for violations of campaign-finance laws, arrived on the second day of the conference to a standing ovation, Scarborough asserted that DeLay's criminal indictment was simply the result of his being "the target of all who despise the cause of Christ" — in short, DeLay is clearly another persecuted Christian. (Scarborough punctuated DeLay's speech with the comment, "God always does his best work just after a crucifixion," implying that DeLay's prosecution is just such an act of imperial violence and judicial activism.)
The War on Christianity as a Culture War
Meanwhile, Judaism was folded into Christianity by the persistent invocation of "Judeo-Christian ethics." On the panel, "Jews Confront the War on Christians," Don Feder, a former Boston Herald columnist and author of A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America, declared that the choice for the future is simple: "between America under Judeo-Christianity or no America at all." Why are so many Jews so unrepentantly liberal? "Tragically," he explained, the Jewish community was the first to become secular in America, resulting in a terrible alliance between liberalism and secular Judaism. But, he assured participants during the panel on Hollywood, "the people in this audience are more Jewish than Barbra Streisand." As for the larger framework of struggle, the war, according to Joseph C. Ben-Ami (of the Institute for Canadian Values and a former aide to the right-wing Prime Minister Stephen Harper), is not a war against religion but "a religious war" in which Judeo-Christian ethics are pitted against neopaganism.
Homosexuality was singled out for special opprobrium, not only on the panel devoted explicitly to unmasking "the homosexual agenda" ("The Gay Agenda: America Won't Be Happy"), but throughout the entire conference. On the panel on Christian persecution, for example, two of the four speakers devoted their time to the Christian struggle against homosexuality. Tom Crouse, a Massachusetts pastor who has inaugurated a "Mr. Heterosexuality" contest in his town, spoke of his persecution by officials who billed him for the increased police presence required at his contest when "rabid homosexual activists" showed up at the event. (Crouse also characterized persecution as "a blessing and a joy," and advised the audience that, "If you are not persecuted," you have to ask yourself, "are you living a Christian life?") Meanwhile, Michael Marcavage of Repent America testified about the arrests of several Christian protestors who sought to interrupt a gay event in Philadelphia in order "to show the love of God to those who are lost and damned to hell for all eternity."
The panel on Hollywood predictably attacked Brokeback Mountain and the recently released V for Vendetta, but also featured an especially peculiar excursus: an analysis of The March of the Penguins, which was praised for not featuring a single gay penguin.
"The gay sensibility," one speaker informed the audience, is ironic and characterized by the excessively performative use of "air quotes." Indeed, irony itself is a gay invention, a coping mechanism for gay people who recognize that they don't really fit in with normal society. Moreover, Chris Carmouche of Grasstops.com, the moderator of the Hollywood panel, singled out academic programs in theatre, film, and performance studies as hotbeds of secular and sexual deviance: Students in such programs, he asserted, "want to attack your values."
Conference presenters and audience members seemed convinced that a well-organized, well-financed cabal of homosexual elites are plotting a cultural takeover. Marshalling a wide array of arguments against homosexuality ("it's unhealthy," "it's all lust and perversion," "it's disgusting") and gay marriage ("it's an attack on the family because that's where faith is passed on — the goal is simply the destruction of religion" or "it's an attack on biblical truth and therefore on God"), some speakers advocated for the reintroduction of the concept of "shame" into the culture. Meanwhile, Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition urged the abandonment of the terms "homosexual" and "gay" in favor of adopting terms such as "sodomites" and "the perverted ones." Some speakers read graphically explicit material found on gay websites to the conference, apologizing profusely for the shock and disgust they knew they would be generating but insisting that it was necessary for the participants to confront this material. By the end, one was left with the distinct impression that the organizers and participants in the conference spend far more time than the average gay person thinking about, talking about, and fantasizing about gayness.
Striking for anyone with some knowledge of the history of Christianity are the remarkable parallels between the rhetoric of contemporary conservative Christians and that of their second- and third-century predecessors. Making connections between religious deviance, sexual deviance, and cultural spectacle is nothing new in Christian rhetoric: Such arguments are the legacy of Christian apology going back to Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Tatian, and others. (Jennifer Wright Knust, a historian of early Christianity, documents this rhetorical legacy engagingly in her recent book, Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity) In ancient Christianity, as now, the efforts to connect religious deviance (idolatry, paganism, heresy) to sexual deviance (whether non-procreative sex or, in more extreme versions, any sexual practice at all) and to the dominant forms of entertainment and media (theatre, the circus, arena games) were aimed at producing an idealized and sanitized portrait of Christian orthodoxy. The sex panic of contemporary culture wars is a clear echo of a centuries-old Christian rhetorical strategy.
Fighting Back: Impeaching Judges
But if one experiences a kind of historical echo in many of the arguments put forward at this conference, one also has to acknowledge that there is something both distinctively American about the project here — with the constant invocations of a biblically inspired golden-age history for the country — and particularly alarming about the intemperate targeting of the judicial branch of the federal government in the service of this process of "restoration." The keynote speeches by Phyllis Schlafly (who said she hoped that her book on "the imperial judiciary,"The Supremacists, would be like Tom Paine's Common Sense in its impact and used like Rick Warren's The Purpose-Driven Life to mobilize local study groups geared to action), Tom DeLay, and Alan Keyes all zeroed in on the judiciary and reserved for it their most intemperate rhetoric. On the panel, "The Judiciary: Overruling God," Representative Todd Akin (R-Missouri) mused, "we haven't impeached a judge in a while, it might be fun!" and outlined the strategy whereby conservative activists are beginning to generate lists of potentially impeachable offenses "as a warning" to judges: "Anything is an impeachable offense that Congress says it is, I guess," he observed.
Beginning with the premise that there is a war on Christianity, conference organizers and participants were eager to issue calls to arms in response. "We are under spiritual invasion!" intoned Rod Parsley, an evangelist from Ohio. "Man your battle stations! Ready your weapons! LOCK AND LOAD!" (The audience responded to these imperatives with a raucous and exuberant standing ovation.) Parsley also claimed that those Christian churches not sharing the perspective of the Christians represented at the conference constitute "the devil's demilitarized zone," naïvely and fatally embracing "peace at any price." Meanwhile, Laurence Wright, a Lutheran pastor and co-president of Vision America, announced that the time of a peaceful and contemplative Christianity is over; that Christians have been AWOL ("absent without Lord") in the battle; and that "We must attack the evil now where it is strongest" in order to restore America, the city high on a hill.
But what of the biblical Jesus and his message of nonviolence and nonresistance? As Rick Scarborough explained it at the end of the panel on persecution, all of those demanding gospel values — submission, tolerance, turning the other cheek — are fine in one's private life, but they have nothing to do with the public mission of the church. As for those who draw attention to the gospel's message of nonviolence, this is simply a matter of "the Left using our own tradition against us." (Such hermeneutical maneuvers, which produce a biblical message that is inevitably and completely in tune with conservative political convictions, later came to be exercised by one speaker who interpreted Jesus's "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" by lifting it out of its gospel context in a story about paying taxes and repositioning it in contemporary American society as a positive prooftext for Christian involvement in politics. But I digress…)
Perhaps the most explicit call to arms came from Ron Luce, the president and founder of Teen Mania, a Christian revivalist youth ministry, and the author of Battle Cry for a Generation, a multimedia campaign that deploys military images and language to recruit soldiers in Christ's army. Toward the end of his speech, Luce invoked the biblical story of the Levite's concubine in Judges 19. (In the story, the Levite's concubine is gang-raped by men who wanted to do sexual violence to the Levite. When the Levite's host refuses to deliver the Levite to the assailants, he offers them his own virgin daughter and the Levite's concubine instead. When the assailants reject such an exchange, the Levite simply expels the concubine from his host's house, leaving her to be raped repeatedly throughout the night. The following morning, upon finding the concubine's dead body on his host's doorstep, the Levite dismembers her and sends her body parts out to the twelve tribes of Israel as a provocation to revenge.) "I kind of feel like the Levite," Ron Luce confessed. And then he uttered a battle cry of his own: "CUT UP THE CONCUBINE! CUT UP THE CONCUBINE! CUT UP THE CONCUBINE!"
From Demonization to Condescension
To a person, the conference speakers and panelists divided the world up into simple binary oppositions, and most were content to demonize everyone who does not stand with them in this "with us or against us" war. The occasional invocations of Christian love, offered usually as a conciliatory afterthought, echoed dimly in a room reverberating with loud and unwavering bellicose righteousness. One speaker offered condescension instead of simple demonization: Janet Parshall, a Christian broadcaster who called herself a "war correspondent in Babylon" and who declared that there has been a war against Christians "since the garden," modulated the rhetoric slightly in two different ways. First, she upped the ante, arguing that the war is not against Christians per se but "against absolute truth and God." Then, she sought to complicate the identification of the enemy by suggesting that people who possess "opposing worldviews" are not themselves "the enemy" but rather "they have been captured by the enemy." What was implied here was that all holders of "opposing worldviews" — secularists, non-Christians of all stripes, gay men and lesbians, feminists, among others — are best understood as prisoners of war, captives in thrall to their captor, victims of an epistemological Stockholm syndrome and in need of liberation and deprogramming.
The Values Voters' Contract with Congress: A Declaration of American Renewal
The take-away message of the conference was without question the need to mobilize "values voters" to take the battle to the ballot box. The message is grounded in the assessment — all of the dire statistics quoted throughout the conference that Christians are in crisis in America notwithstanding — that the majority of Americans share the viewpoint of the organizers and participants in this conference. "The Values Voters' Contract with Congress" brings these viewpoints into a one-page declaration of commitments; all conference participants were urged to sign the contract and to demand that their representatives do the same.
The Contract opens with expansive and general claims, identifying its signatories as "citizens of the United States of America" and "subjects of the sovereign Creator" who is "acknowledged in the Declaration of Independence as the Supreme Ruler and Judge of the World." Linking American citizenship and Christian subjectivity/subjection, Christian identity with American identity, and the founding document of the nation with the power of God, the Contract goes on to identify "our faith in God" as the motivating force behind the actions for which the Contract calls: joining together "to defend government of, by, and for the people against the greatest assault it as ever faced: the destruction of our constitutionally-mandated republican form of government by judges who legislate from the bench and thereby subvert our liberty and our entire way of life." The document's authors highlight certain words ("We," "God," "marriage," "parents," "life," "liberties," "property," "decency," "just taxes," "national borders," and "Judicial Restraint and an end to Judicial Activism") and set them in an Old English font with a distinctively archaic appearance, in what must be an effort to emphasize the terms individually and to connect them thematically to each other and typographically to an idealized and distant past — that American golden age to whose restoration Vision America is committed.
Within its small print, the Contract switches tone from the lofty to the politically pedestrian: it calls for, among other things, the support of a range of legislative initiatives (e.g., the Pledge Protection Act, the Constitution Restoration Act, the Marriage Protection Act, among numerous others) and opposition to hate crimes legislation, the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and the consideration of international law in the adjudication of cases before US courts. It closes with a grand pledge, also set in an Old English font, which returns to the exalted tone with which the Contract begins: "Above every consideration of selfish passion, ambition, or interest, we hold to the ultimate intention of our Constitution — to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. For this purpose, and in support of the beliefs and actions we have herein declared, we pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our faithfulness. So help us God."
Critics of the conference and the individuals and groups that promote its point of view have suggested that "The War on Christians and the Values Voter in 2006" is simply a right-wing political project cynically framed as a project to protect a persecuted religious group. Such an analysis fails to recognize the sincerity of the 400 people who were gathered in that ballroom in Washington — not that sincerity ought to serve as a bulwark against challenge and critique, to be sure. The menacing part of this project is not that it is political rather than religious, but that it is unapologetically a form of political religion. Which is what makes the calls for Christian militarization, for putting on the armor of God, for rising up in righteous revolution against "the culture" — however metaphorical at this point in time — particularly alarming. Students of Christian history will be well attuned to this kind of rhetoric and its materialization and embodiment in the actions of the righteous. Early Christian historian Michael Gaddis, for example, offers a brilliant and textured analysis of these dynamics in late ancient Christianity in his recent book, There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ": Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire. As Gaddis illustrates, righteous Christian violence in the fourth and fifth centuries — violence against non-Christians and "heretics" — was justified in the first instance by reference to the persecution of Christians. With God on their side, everything is permitted.
The broader threat of this movement is likely not an armed Christian militia marching on Hollywood, the ACLU, or a gay commitment ceremony in your local mainline liberal Protestant church. Rather, it is the targeting of the independent judiciary with incendiary threats of impeachment and calls for a religious revolution. Claims of religious persecution, whether sincere or cynical, notwithstanding, the current executive and legislative branches of the federal government are well-populated — even dominated — by people sympathetic to the views and aspirations of this radical, right-wing theopolitical movement. The judicial branch of government, meanwhile, maintains some level of independence from this movement, and it is this independence that generates the vitriol, the threats, and the calls for a Christian revolution. Such a state of affairs should give all of us pause: When the powerful claim to be powerless and use this claim and a purportedly divine mandate to authorize a no-holds-barred attack on political institutions, we are on dangerous ground, indeed.
Elizabeth A. Castelli, an associate professor of religious studies at Barnard College, is author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture-Making, and co-editor of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence. She was a 2003-4 visiting fellow at NYU's Center for Religion and Media, where she researched "The Persecuted Church: Towards a Genealogy of a Political Program." Her last article for The Revealer was "Shockwave!"


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Early Tuesday morning this writer stood in a dark cul-de-sac at the end of a street in Cocoa, Fla. pointing a camera towards the heavens. Over an hour-long period between 2:15 and 3:15 a.m., a total eclipse of the Moon was photographed with a Canon PowerShot digital camera. Unfortunately, by the time the eclipse reached its final stage, there wasn't enough light to film the effect. The end-result, referred to as a Blood Moon, will not be seen again until the year 2019.
What is an eclipse? An eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth and a full Moon line up so that the Moon or Earth passes through the others shadow. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface. A lunar eclipse happens when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow.
One can compare this natural phenomenon to the spiritual realm where this fallen, finite and fallible world can come between a believer and Jesus, the Son. What are some things that can eclipse a believer's faith? Money is listed in Scripture as competing with God for ones affections. Specifically, it says they will love the one and hate the other. Another biggie is the lusts of the flesh. Whether in the form of escapist behavior through drugs, alcohol and feel good sex outside of marriage, they cast a shadow over our relationship with Him.
Another danger area is what is referred to as "the boastful pride of life." This is when one remains in control of ones life even after surrendering it to God. Faith is scary and trust can be difficult when one comes to God bringing hurts the world has inflicted. However, trying to remain in control is an illusion. Surrender is the only option to lead a successful life in the Son.
Finally, anger and unforgiveness held against family, friends, co-workers and fellow believers will eclipse our relationship. Again, trust can be an issue. As far as forgiveness goes, the best option is to let go and trust God to deal with those who caused hurt.
Around the time Jesus died on the cross, there was a total eclipse of the Sun. "Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud vice, He said, 'Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.'" (Luke 23:44-46 NKJV)
The God who created the Sun, Moon and Earth also does not want the Earth to eclipse the gift of His Son to the people who are created in His image. When the cares of this world try to press a believer into an eclipse, one can resist by trusting wholeheartedly in the One who promised He will never leave or forsake us.
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The Dance Moms fans need to be ready for new faces in the upcoming mid-season finale episode. The young budding stars are going to be auditioning for a spot on the dream team and talent will be overflowing. On Tuesday night there was a major defeat for the Abby Lee Miller Dance Team as the ladies couldn't get by the Larkin team to win. According to Reality Tea on Wednesday, the team came in second and everyone was terrified on how Abby Lee Miller would react. While her response wasn't over the top, this dance instructor knows she needs stronger dancers to beat better teams.
The mid-season finale episode will be the moment when the new girls go head-to-head in competition. The question for fans is will these fresh young faces take a spot of a favorite dancer or are these young ladies going to be part of a new team. Abby Lee Miller knows how to bring out competition in these young folks and her strategy to form her long-awaited dream team might strike the fear of God into some of her more complacent dancers.
While fans have grown attached to the faces seen week to week, this finale will offer a glimpse of what might happen if new faces (and talents) are showcased. Leaving everyone to wonder if Miller is going to make her team sweat it out or if there will be replacements on the current team to compensate for previous blunders during performances.
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The born story-teller, Ray Bradbury grew up as a science fiction fanatic. He soon found a passion for writing, a daily hobby that he would start age 12 and never stop. By 1992, he had written 28 books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, and The Martian Chronicles.
His first book, however, was a collection of short stories called Dark Carnival published in 1949. He was paid a $700 advance, which would cover for his rent for the next two years.
Fahrenheit 451 was one of his most famous pieces. Bradbury tells the story in detail his writing process. He paid 10 cents per half hour that he used a UCLA typewriter. All told, he spent $9.80 over the course of eight or nine days to write this book. He explained he was too poor to have an office, and his home office had too many distractions.
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A year later, Bradbury comes back to talk more about the 40th anniversary of the publication of Fahrenheit 451. The inspiration for the book, he explains, was from an incident in Los Angeles in 1949, during the period of intense censorship and blacklisting known today as McCarthyism. He and a friend were walking the streets of L.A. when a police officer stopped them and asked them what they were doing. The police officer had no reason to do so, and this angered Bradbury.
The incident was the perfect example of the paranoia and fear that overwhelmed the American society at that time. Fahrenheit 451 is described as a cautionary novel against book burning or censoring, which was another characteristic of McCarthyism. At the time of the interview, 1993, Bradbury said this:
"Today, we don't have to burn books anymore, because we don't even teach reading in second, third and fourth grades," he said. "We have graduating high schoolers that don't even know how to read – that's criminal."
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