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The Belivers Concept Of Bible Debate
V HAD written these points (and I responded to them): I think I as a Christian just included in my responses to you how I could see the justness of (God) condemning Hitler.
G: But Vitac, IF Hitler, at the last minute, according to Christian dogma, could do what is necessary to be saved and forgiven, how JUST and FAIR is the penalty of Eternal Torment in condemning thinking / non-believing Atheists? I, for example, have never killed anyone and I've never spent a night in jail. But, because I don't approve of and I do take issue with an insane Biblical God's murderous rep-sheet, I face the same Eternal Torment as someone like an unsaved Adolf Hitler? What rational human being could consider that to be JUST and FAIR? Point blank, would you send us to Eternal Torment for JUSTLY taking issue with God's heinous and insane rap-sheet? God's rap-sheet is documented throughout the Bible, C&V.
V: On the other hand as for condemning atheist, the reason Christians hold that they are lost is simply because God's universal law is that all sins must have the punishments taken.
G: If worshiping Jesus amounts to paying a bribe for special favor, I do not find that to be JUST and FAIR. Do you?
V: Since atheist are just the same as every other human being, a sinner, that like all people they have punishments coming for their sins. If that atheist dies without the benefit of having Jesus having been counted as the punishment for his sins in his place, then that atheist, like all sinners in the same situation, while have to take their punishments for themselves.
G: Another great difference between my values and a Christian believer's - I do not view it JUST and FAIR for another to pay for my sins, errors or mistakes. A Christian believer is trained to look to another or others to pay for their mistakes / sins. Can you not see that to be a severe mental / emotions / character flaw? It is delusional.
V: However the punishments for sins and the need for Jesus' intercession is not an Atheist issue, or a Jewish issue or a Buddhist issue, or an issue confined to any group. It is a universal issue of all humanity, that all are sinners and all need salvation from the punishments that are to be requited to them for their crimes.
G: That "international issue" is a bad model for humanity. Can you not see that? G: So, Hitler could get a second chance with God by renouncing his former behavior?V: That's the deal God is offering to humanity in general.
G: So, to do .000000001% bad compared to what Hitler did gains you the same JUST and FAIR Eternal Punishment? And, Hitler, last minute can just repent and go to Heaven? Sorry V, I don't buy into that super-corrupt agenda and I do not respect the tyrannical author of that agenda - and I stand against the gullible, fearful believers who support, promote and finance such a tyrannical agenda. Reality and sanity would claim that believers of such nonsense are dead wrong!
V: By presenting humanity with HOPE despite their admitted mistakes before God, God is using amnesty as a source of encouragement for them to reform and make the world a better and more loving place.
G: Seriously V, look at the world and its ugly history. The wars - the tyranny - the greed - the murders - the pain. That's the reality of this insane God's pre-destined, super-sick, amnesty / salvation agenda. There is no supernatural God to sacrifice to. There is only a ridiculous, irrational belief in sacrificing to this fictitious God.
V: God is showing the benefits of mercy in this opportunity, that mercy given to the deserving is very productive in bringing about the good of all.
G: About 1 out of 130 US mostly Judeo-Christian citizens are in the prison system. That's a higher percentage than any other nation on planet Earth. That best describes the "benefits" of God's opportunistic mercy. It has NOT and does NOT work – does it?
V: Now if any sinner thought he had gone beyond God's ability to forgive, then that sinner would not only be unmotivated to reform, but also the world would be diminished as a result of not having one more person become a starlight of goodness in the world.
G: Again, the criteria of Christians being "better" does NOT exist in reality.
V: We cannot therefore imagine there is a limit to Jesus ability to settle the account of a sinner, no matter how bad his conduct had been. Jesus didn't take the punishments of such severity for mankind, just so that it wouldn't work.
G: Jesus and God's batting averages are very low, V. Atheists are no more evil than the believers. "I believe" means "I don't know" 100% of the time. Most Atheists don't believe as we prefer to know. If something is not worth knowing, I'm not much interested.
V: This very point of trust is where we actually place faith in Jesus and say in our guilty ridden heart, Jesus can save me and it will work. Jesus does not lie and Jesus can be trusted to come through for me. This is the faith we must have and the hope we promote to sinners.
G: Matthew 9:18-25 While Jesus spoke, there came a certain ruler who worshipped him, saying, my daughter is dead, but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. Jesus said the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. They laughed at him. Jesus went in, took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
If the ruler's daughter was dead, then, Jesus lied. If she was not dead, then Jesus performed no miracle. C. Dennis McKinsey
Matthew 10:5-6 Jesus said: Go not into the way of the pagan (Catholic) gentiles (KJV), but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
What? Jesus loves Jews more than others? Did Jesus lie?
Matthew 12:40 The Son of Man (Jesus) will be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth.
Was Jesus actually put in the heart of the Earth? How can "Good Friday" afternoon to before sunrise Sunday morning qualify for 3 days and 3 nights? Did Jesus lie?
Luke 19:27 Jesus said: But My enemies, who would not have Me reign over them, bring them before Me and slay them.
If the no-name King Jesus referred to in his parable is Himself, did Jesus lie?
If you don't accept Jesus you will suffer Eternal Torment is the parallel teaching.
Revelation 2:23 Jesus (The Son of Man) said: I will also kill her children... KJV
Did Jesus lie here in Rev 2:23?
Mark 10:18 Jesus said: Why do you call Me good. No one is good but God alone.
Did Jesus lie about himself not being good?
Luke 10:19-20 Jesus said: I have given you the power to tread on serpents and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will hurt you.
Did Jesus lie?
Mark 10:26-27 Who can be saved? Jesus said: For human-beings, it is impossible…
Obviously, all Christian believers believe Jesus to be a liar here - as they try to convert you.
Mark 16:15 Preach the gospel to every creature…
Does this qualify to be a lie?
John 3:13 Jesus said: No one has gone up to Heaven except the One who has come down from Heaven, The Son of Man.
But, when Jesus said this, Jesus, Himself, had not yet gone up to Heaven. If Jesus, Himself, is the only one to have gone up to Heaven, doesn't that contradict and eliminate Enoch's going up to Heaven in Genesis 5:22-24 and Elijah's going up to Heaven in a whirlwind in II Kings 2:11 and Angels going up and down, to and from Heaven on "Jacob's Ladder" in Genesis 28:12? So, did Jesus Christ utter a falsehood here? Did Jesus get caught in documenting another lie?
John 4:22 Jesus said: You people worship what you do not understand. We worship what we understand, because salvation is of the Jews. KJV
What? Salvation is a racial thing? Didn't Jesus make a racial statement? Or, did Jesus lie?
John 5:21-22 As God raises the dead and gives life, so does the Son give life to whomever He wishes. Nor does God judge anyone, but He has given all judgment to His Son.
God judges no one? Did Jesus lie?
John 8:15 & 12:47 Jesus said: I judge no man. KJV
Which lie do you prefer?
John 5:34 Jesus said: I do not accept testimony from a human being… Catholic
If you pray to Jesus, then you must judge that Jesus lied about not accepting human testimony.
Matthew 5:29 Jesus said: If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out, throw it away.
John 5:31 Jesus said: If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. KJV
Does Jesus admit to being a liar?
John 5:41 Jesus said: I do not accept human praise… Catholic
Why would you praise Jesus Christ unless you view that Jesus lied about not accepting human praise?
John 5:45 Jesus said: I will not accuse you. The one who will accuse you is Moses…
Is there an honest, truthful Christian who would say that Jesus lied about this? Would you, V?
You said, Sir V: "Jesus does not lie and Jesus can be trusted to come through for me." Do you now still hold to that claim?
V: You know the woman who was the plaintiff in Roe vs Wade, which made it legal to get abortions? I forget her real name, but at any rate she became a Christian and accepted Jesus as her savior. Even though she was facing the just punishments of so many millions of innocent deaths, Jesus took that punishment for her.
G: Because you now know that Jesus is documented Bible C&V to have lied about things, are you using questionable dogma to support your claim?
V: She stated that after she renounced her past, that she felt the weight of the world lift off her shoulders. Not only that there was joy in heaven and among those Christians who accepted her as a reinvented soul.
G: Come on, V. There is no way you could KNOW that. You can believe, visualize and fantasize that you can walk through walls. You absolutely KNOW that does not make it so. Here's the kicker – if it is not so, it is a lie.
V: The world has become a better place because one more person has adorned themselves with the light of goodness. So you see that condemnation of evil is not the actual quest of the Christian message, but the offering of hope to sinners and the propagation of goodness in the world through the offering of HOPE and Salvation.
G: V, with all due respect, you are preaching and preachers are such great liars. V: For the world to actually become a better place, the sinner needs to recognize his mistakes and turn away from them. This is why Christianity focuses on sin in the sinner and calls him to repentance.
G: But, in reality, it is all based on lies – and, it does not work.
V: Then he needs the Hope of forgiveness so that he will be encouraged to continue on his quest of being an agent of goodness. This is where Jesus comes in for the sinner. In all respects it is a consistent and inter-working message of repentance and forgiveness toward the goal of filling the earth with those who exhibit and extend the love of God toward all humanity.
G: You can debate me, V – but, do NOT preach to me!Gary: Eternal Torment is a misrepresentation?Vatic: Gary, if we are to trust the words attributed to Jesus, and I think in this case we can, then it is patent that Jesus spoke of various degrees of punishments for sinners according to the severity of their offense. He spoke of "Greater condemnation", "Lesser condemnation", "required more stripes", "required fewer stripes", etc etc.. So yes, it is a misrepresentation of God to suggest a person who sinned little will be dealt the same punishments as those who did great offenses. God is just and we must trust that basic principle. Nevertheless we see from punishment examples, that it is severe and includes mortality. This is why even the mildest sinner needs salvation in order to repeal, if nothing more than his mortality, and thus be raised to eternal life as Jesus was.
I personally have no desire to share Eternity with those lying, deceiving, tyrannical characters not the clergy / believers who promote them. BTW Gary, in reviewing my own responses to you, I saw I was just as guilty of digressions from the topic as I stated you were. So if you would, by virtue of this admission, please excuse me.
G: No sweat, V.
V: As you see, I did refocus on the topic and left the asides for other times. And as promised, I did get back to you on your message and I hope you will acknowledge that, and believe it, now that you have seen it, even though you might think it out of character for a Christian to do such, as you stated.
G: You are appreciated because - I luvs ya man!
Regards, Gary DeVaney
Matthew 15:22-28 A Canaanite woman asked Jesus to heal her daughter. Jesus ignored her. His disciples asked Jesus to send her away. Jesus replied that He was only sent to the lost sheep of Israel. Jesus then said: It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs. She appealed to Jesus: Please Lord, even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from their master's table. Jesus healed her daughter.
What? Did Jesus, in Matthew 15:26-27, refer to this woman and her poor, sick daughter as "dogs"? Jesus rejected the woman because she wasn't Jewish. Then, after the woman groveled like a dog, Jesus healed her daughter. Does this documented model of Jesus require all, or at least some of us, to beg Him to save us like groveling, begging dogs?
What defines the characteristics of a name-calling racist? Weren't Jesus' initial comments to her those of a stubborn, name-calling racist? How did Jesus respond to the woman before she outright begged Him? Are there self-admitted Christians who are stubborn, name-calling racists? Does this Jesus model inspire Christian racism? I'll bet that today if Don Imus or any on-camera politician said that to a poor woman and her sick daughter, they would be publicly condemned to be a name-calling racists.
Gary had said:
Hi L. Thanks for your input. It is one of the wisest perspectives I've seen to get God off on murder charges. Our President George W. Bush is counting on this kind of defense to clear him of international crimes and mass-murder. According to the Bible, God appointed him, you know. I'll share this exchange with our panel.
L asked: Where in the Bible is GWB appointed by "God" ?? This I have to see!
Gary's answer: In the Bible-
Romans 13:1-7 Let every person be subject to governing authorities. God has appointed those who exist in authority. Rulers are only a terror to your bad conduct. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Do what is good and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your own good. If you do wrong, be afraid. He does not wear his weapon for show. He is a servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrong-doer. For the same reason, you must also pay taxes, respect and honor to all who are due.
This is a great Biblical source as to the why and how this wrathful God was created by tyrants. This same Biblical God is still used today as a tool, a weapon to greedily oppress, blackmail, subordinate, manipulate, enslave, and to extort the lives from God-fearing, naïve believers.
Gary DeVaney
Hi Gary, We will just have to disagree on what Paul meant in Romans 13.
G: Hi L. Ok.
L: True, none of what happened to Jesus would have happened if the Jews had not arrested him, but that misses the entire point under discussion. My point was that Paul was not in league with the civil rulers of his day (Roman or otherwise) and would not have written Romans 13 regarding them. Civil rulers are not the "ministers" of God.
G: Romans 13:1-7 Let every person be subject to governing authorities. God has appointed those who exist in authority. Rulers are only a terror to your bad conduct.
"Governing authorities" are civil rulers, L. It says:"Those who exist in authority / rulers". Paul, a Roman citizen and a Benjamite Jew, described Governing authorities and civil rulers here - not Jewish religious leaders or ministers of God.
L: Only God's called men in the church are that. Even most of them are pretenders. Civil rulers in Rom. 13? Sorry Gary, no way!
G: Again, it appears that we will just have to agree to disagree.
L: I am not sure why you mention "Augustus", I did not.
G: Correct. I mentioned Augustus. I am participating in an intellectual dialog. I am not subject to an authoritative lecture.
L: I do not know if Augustus was personally responsible for persecuting Christians per se, but Rome did not tolerate any disturbance in the empire and the Christian church was a diametrically opposed organization to the structure of Roman culture and philosophy; I.e. Christians would not worship the emperor, etc…
G: Augustus was the tyrant at the time (like George W. Bush is now) and the Bible says nothing of his participation in Jesus' crucifixion. He was the over-all governing authority. It says that God has appointed those who exist in authority. Rulers are only a terror to your bad conduct. Ergo, It qualifies. There is no Biblical C&V that says Augustus even knew of Jesus Christ.
L: You ask, "like George Bush?" George seems to be a recurring theme with you. I have never brought him up and I don't think he is "God's man" any more that Billy Boy Clinton was. I care not for either and I don't know why you keep mentioning him. It seems irrelevant to me because (as I said earlier) I think Satan has a lot more to do with civil rulers in this present age than God does (Luke 4:5, 6).
G: Thanks for bringing that up, L. Much, if you've noticed, of my site is dedicated to our tyrannical, murderous, god-like President George W. Bush. "Praying is obeying" and George W. Bush wants you and all Christians on your knees begging God for a "sign" so that Bush, an "assumed" authority, can easily step-in and be zealously obeyed by these God-fearing sheeple. So far, it's worked like a charm for him - hasn't it?
L: You (Gary) said: "The God of the Bible is NOT a good God and the Bible is NOT a good model for humanity."
G: I certainly did, Sir L.
L: I might ask a Clinton-like question: "It depends on what the meaning of "good" is.
G: "GOOD": Beneficial, the right thing to do, "to not do to others what you would not want done to you" - for starters. That's really a good question, L, because in this "Christian Nation" 1 out of every 137 Christians are incarcerated in the US prison system and, obviously, they did not know the definition of "Good". L, outside of the "Myth of Creation", can you list C&V what the Biblical God did "GOOD" for someone without hurting someone else? I'm betting you won't list anything - or that it would be a short list. Whatcha think?
L: I can only say that if you feel this way it is because you are not on His side and do not have long term view of what God is really doing.
G: Hummm. You suggest that I'm not on the Biblical God's or George W. Bush's side. Hummm.
1. I was not on God's side when He murdered all the first born babies of Egypt - just to let everybody know who was God around there.
2. I was not on God's side when He ordered the murdering and destruction of scores of cities in order to steal their lands.
3. I was not on God's side when He marched His {about 3 million} "chosen" (Torah notes) around the desert until they died to punish them for not murdering and stealing for the land that God "promised" them.
4. I am not on George W. Bush's side when he broke Constitutional law, US law, International law, and the Geneva Convention laws to wage an illegal and immoral pre-emptive war on a country that could not defend itself. Bush did this so to control an area with the largest known world-oil-reserves. That oil is theirs, L - not ours. If the USA can not compete, shame on us. The USA's action amounts to armed-theft of another country's goods. If you support that, you are an accomplice. We assume "might makes right" entitlement. That's seems popular among God-fearing believers. These zealous believers seem deeply committed to a "kill them all" mentality? They claim entitlement and demand not to be disobeyed nor disrespected! Right, L? Sig-heil!
It appears, L, that you side with God and Bush on these listed atrocities. Long term? Look at God's long murderous history. Look at the future by seeing what George W. Bush has forced the current and immediate US generations to face. Look at what the middle-east now has to face. Would you have killed those 1,000,000 Iraqis, L? Are they bad people and should die just because they don't believe like you? Do you personally feel "entitled" to what those dying and suffering Iraqis have? Whatcha think, L?
L: Some would say that thrusting a knife into the belly of child is a cruel act perpetrated upon the innocent; others (who know what is really happening) would understand that the surgeon's scalpel is removing a life threatening tumor from the child's liver and is ultimately going to save its life.
G: Sell that scenario to the families and loved-ones of the 1,000,000 Iraqis that Bush has murdered and to the millions that he has injured. George W. Bush had Americans do to others what Americans would not want others to do to us. Didn't he? If your God ordered and approved of this atrocity, your God is as insane as Bush.
L: In regards to God, many atheists (and theists for that matter) are in the first category. I feel you are criticizing something that you do not understand and actually know very little about. That does not necessarily make you a bad person, it does however, make you wrong. It, also, is not altogether your fault if God does not let you in on His secrets, that is up to Him. I do feel your sincerity and I am of the opinion that your beliefs are at least from an honest heart. I also understand that I could be the one who is wrong, but I (like you) am simply voicing my opinion of things the way I see them; nothing more.
G: L, I work with you on what you believe. Everybody learns at their own pace. Believing is always short of knowing. I'm always trying to learn so that I may know - not believe. My web site openly displays what I think, perceive and presume to know. I've not written "I believe" once on it. If you find something on my site that is in error, please send in the correction. If the error and its correction proves to be valid, I assure you it will be corrected and you will be sincerely thanked for finding and offering the correction.
Dear Gary D.,
G: Hi L.
L: I cannot help noticing when reading your e-mails that you are not responding to me but to your own agenda.
G: I almost daily receive e-mails concerning the content of my web site. I am accustomed to responding to any debate on the site's content - which is my agenda. I have little time for much else.
L: You don't really seem to be listening, only talking.
G: I try to respond to each point of substance that the write-in posts. Even yours, L.
L: I, like you, am not subject to an authoritative lecture.
G: Good. Because, I try even harder to recognize, analyze and respond to every point you post.
L: If you are an atheist, then obviously you cannot think that "god" appointed GWB.
G: Religious believers respond to the Bible's concept that: "Our leaders are to be respected and obeyed because God put them there over us." Of course, that's not true, nor real - it's just an another religious, authoritarian belief (and assumption of obedience) that logical, reasonable and realistic people have to put up with. When it comes to believer's expectations - outside of enforceable civil and criminal laws - I don't do obedience.
L: I agree with you that God did not appoint "W", I think I told you who I think is in charge of such things.
G: Satan? There is no evidence that Satan exists any more than does the Biblical God. The Book of Job, chapters 2-3, displays that the (fictitious) Satan character can do no more than what the (fictitious) God character allows him to. Doesn't it? God said to Satan: You enticed Me against him (Job). God took the "hit" on the murders of Job's children and servants and what happened to Job. And this was also Biblical C&V evidence that God was enticed / tempted by Satan. These Bible C&Vs, that stubbornly won't go away, prove that your Biblical God hasn't got much real character. And, this God / Character judges us? What hypocrisy!
L: In my opinion you are blaming God for the actions of others.
G: Na, the Bible uses C&Vs to explain what specifically God did throughout the Old Testament. You obviously did not absorb or probably did not get through "The God Murders". It appears that the strongest believers prove to be the weakest when trying to get completely through "The God Murders."
L: Perhaps you would like things better if Osama bin Laden were in charge.
G: Check out the official FBI wanted poster for Osama bin Laden. He is not wanted for 9-11. How do you account for or explain that, Sir L? After suddenly wanting to research that extremely important claim, when you find it valid, let me know your spin, Sir L.
L: He would love to get his hands on all the atheists and lop off their Allah-disbelieving heads. Ha ha… I am not in love with "W" but your I don't think he has called for the demise of any significant number of Atheists lately.
G: Granted, in the middle-east and other Islamic countries, I would probably be dead due to my outspoken web site. That may eventually happen here. Come on. Don't get your hopes up! You'd miss me, L.
L: You said, "That oil is there's, L - not ours." Did you mean "That oil is theirs …not ours"?
G: Gasp! Sorry, thanks for the correction. I'm so embarrassed. I have corrected it.
L: And by the way, are we "stealing" their oil? I haven't heard that and I cannot find any evidence to back up your remark.
G: News flash: The US troops have killed 1,000,000 Iraqis in the conquest and occupation of Iraq. Nothing happens in Iraq's inter-workings - including its oil industry - without US consent.
L: It looks like to me that the oil coming out of Iraq is being sold by Iraqis and it seems to me that we are trying to give back the country to the people instead of the tyrant.
G: That suggests that the US murdered 1,000,000 Iraqis just to overthrow 1 man. That's kinda heavy-handed, illegal and immoral politics, isn't it? Saddam was once our "bastard"- remember? The US gave Saddam all the WMDs that he used on his Kurds and on Iran, didn't we? "The biggest, little discussed, reason that Saddam was "taken out" was because of the selling of Iraqi oil for Euro-dollars instead of selling Iraq's oil for US dollars. If Saddam had not done that, he would still be in power today": "Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man" by John Perkins. (Great book!) This is backed-up by statements made by our former head of the Federal Reserve Bank, Alan Greenspan, and some retired military Generals, officers, enlisted men and retired CIA operatives, who were in "hands-on" positions.
L: Would you feel better if Uncle Saddam were back in power?
G: Yes, because a million Iraqis, a few thousand Americans and some foreign allied troops would still be alive. Bush has killed many more Iraqis and US troops than Saddam. Shouldn't Bush go? Even General George Patton pissed-off President Harry S. Truman by deciding to leave the Emperor of Japan on the throne after Japan surrendered so to keep Japan politically together. It worked. Patton wisely prevented in post-war Japan the political fiasco that Iraq is going through.
L: I am not sure who the oil belongs to, it seems that in the history of the world that the land belongs to he who can take it.
G: Sorry L - but that is spoken like a true thief.
L: I am not saying that is right,
G: Phew! I'm so glad. You had me worried for a nano-second.
L: I am saying that that is the way that it is, and if there is no God then the only law that exist is the law of the jungle "might makes right".
G: I wrote a page on "Might Makes Right": http://WWW.thegodmurders.Com/id101.HTML There's no sense being redundant on this post when I've already done the work.
L: But, I know God exists, therefore I believe that "right makes might" and not the other way around.
G: You still support the Biblical God knowing that He ordered His "Chosen" to murder scores of cities so to steal their land? Sorry L - but that is spoken like one who has the heart of a true murderer and a thief. That's nothing new. That's just another example of what believing in the Biblical God does to the true character of believers.
L: As far as the 1st born of the polytheistic Egyptians are concerned, I suppose you would have preferred that they should have been allowed to use the Hebrews as slaves forever! They were murdering, raping, abusing, and using them for centuries.
G: Yes, slavery was condoned by God. Might made right determined as to who served who. Early America brought that Bible / God-approved slave-model to this land. It was the getting away from that God-model that helped eliminate legal slavery in this country.
L: I guess that was OK though. How many of the Hebrew firstborns were killed by the Egyptians? Do you remember why Moses was put into a basket on the Nile?
G: Yep. Always "in-control" God fought evil with more evil. The (evil) Bible orchestrated the Moses story so that God arranged for all those Hebrew children to die. Dare you say that God was NOT in control of these events?
L: I say that if it took God going to war with the Egyptians and if it took killing their firstborn in that war to get Pharaoh to release the Hebrews, then war is war.
G: LOL. You are conveniently forgetting that your "do-right" God forced Pharaoh to disobey him between each and every plague. God "hardened Pahraoh's heart" / made him disobey - 10 times.
Exodus: http://WWW.thegodmurders.Com/id29.HTML covers that in more detail than you'd like.
L: At least Pharaoh was warned beforehand and given a choice; that is more than he gave the poor crying Hebrew mothers when his soldiers came to take the firstborn of his slaves. All he would have had to do was to release the Hebrew slaves and he could have spared all his own firstborn. Pharaoh gave no such options to his slaves. He and Egypt got what their slave driving asses deserved.
G: So, what you have proved here is that the Biblical God was just as evil as the earlier Pharaoh. And God took it out on people who had nothing to do with the earlier Pharaoh's decision to murder those Hebrew children.
L: I assume the "Sig-heil!" was included for prevocational purposes? Pssssst… its not working. Wasn't Uncle Adolph supposed to be like the "Atheist-in-chief" or something?
G: Sorry. Incorrect again, Sir L. Adolf Hitler was Catholic and most of his speeches included God in much the same way that Bush does. I can send you a few dozen of his speeches for your verification from my computer library - but only if you generate enough desire for the information to request those "God-inspired" speeches.
L: It seems to me I read where he was a vegetarian atheist who couldn't get it up and that the whole "Eva Braun" thing was just for show.
G: I agree that Hitler was a heinous, evil and a somewhat "unusual" piece of work. So is Bush! But, Bush is our bastard, right? NO! The Bush gang has got to go NOW before he does more damage to the USA and to the world!
L: Let's see, something "good" God did? Hmmmmmmm… Oh, I've got it! He let you live another day.
G: Yes! But, that appears to hurt believers. Next? Something that God did GOOD from God's diary, the Bible, please.
L: He is verrrry patient…. Ha ha ha… ;-) (now who is provoking who?)
G: Do you have Bible C&V evidence of God being patient?
L: I guess if God doesn't even exist then there is nothing either good or bad that He has done.
G: As predicted, that's a pretty short list, L. Are you sure that your God is the Biblical God? That sounds like your defining a human ego more than the Biblical God, concerning patience. Is it your patience that you feel is being tested? The difficulty you feel here is in the Biblical side of our debate, I pretty much stay on Bible C&V to prove my side of the debate - while you are winging it all over the place. But, then again, no believer can debate my selected Bible C&Vs on behalf of God and appear sane.
L: I agree with you 100% that much of the evil in the world can and should be laid at the feet of religion.
G: Amen! And the "God of Abraham" (Koran / Bible) is the foundation of most religious believers on planet Earth. That's your God, the "God of Abraham"- isn't it, L? It is also Islam's Allah.
L: I think that one of the places that we go a parting of the ways is that I do not believe that "God" is responsible for most of "religion". I think "Old Nick" rules most of that too, unbeknownst to the deists who presume to represent Him. They are no better than the religious Pharisees who crucified their own Messiah.
G: "Old Nick" is not mentioned C&V in any Bible I have. Who is this heinous entity? My friend Bart Floyd once asked: Throughout human history, how many gods have there been? The answer is obvious: "Almost one god for each human ego." Almost - because Atheists admit to having no god - just an ego.
L: I am hoping you are having another great day,
Thanks, L - you too.


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"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Carlton Gebbia has been a part of this season, but she has managed to stay on the sidelines when it comes to Lisa Vanderpump's feud with the other ladies. She didn't go to Puerto Rico with the ladies, which was where much of the drama happened, but she was there to comfort Lisa Vanderpump when she returned home. According to a new Bravo report published on March 17, "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Carlton Gebbia is now revealing that Lisa does have a special sense of humor because she does come from the UK.
"Listen, Lisa's sense of humor is wickedly British to the core. Unfortunately some women in this group take offense to it because they don't understand it. Maybe they're looking for a reason not to. Possibly? From my own personal experience with Lisa whenever we are around one another we are constantly taking the piss out of each other -- without being dramatically insulted or offended. That's because it doesn't come from a bad place. So lighten up and take the sticks out your arses ladies. Maybe my broomstick got lodged up one of their derrieres," Carlton reveals.
During the reunion, Carlton seemed to be a little split when it came to the ladies. On one hand, she understood that Lisa's humour may have kept some of the ladies at bay, but she also understood why she was hurt by the other ladies' comments in Puerto Rico. It sounds like she is rather split on everything.
What do you think of Carlton's comments?

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Renowned for our Seafood Chowder, we also serve a wide selection of dishes to cater for everyones tastes. We are proud to serve only the finest freshest food from local sources & of course all beef is of Irish origin.
Relax in the friendly atmosphere of a large open pub or the newer propose built dining area to the side. Savour a cup of fresh coffee and enjoy the fantastic sea views.
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Secret Recipe Clam Dip
After many requests, I have posted my "secret recipe" ~ Enjoy!
Secret Recipe Clam Dip
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This clam dip, which is a highly sought after recipe by everyone who tries it, is so rich and creamy, even the kids love it!
- 1- 8oz pkg Regular Cream Cheese (softened)
- 1/2 cup Sour Cream
- 1/2 cup REAL Mayonnaise
- 1 small can Gorton's Chopped Clams (save juice from can in seperate container)
- 1/4 cup Chopped Green Onions
- 1/2 teas. Worcestershire
- 1/2 teas. Lemon juice
- Seasoning Salt
- Pepper
- *optional: finely chopped red bell peppers- to taste
- In large mixing bowl, mix together softened cream cheese, sour cream and Mayo, adding a little clam juice at a time, until smooth and creamy.
- Add the whole can of chopped clams *optional, you can slice the clams into smaller pieces if desired.
- Next, add green onions, worc sauce, and lemon juice. Mix well.
- Now you may want to season to taste, by adding a dash of Seasoning salt & pepper *be light on the salt, as this dish "sets" it will become stronger in flavor!
- Can be served right away, but I recommend covering with plastic wrap and refrigerating, for at least 30 min.
- *Recommended chips to serve with this dip: any (thick) potato chips- flavors that go well with it are sour cream & onion, sour cream & cheddar, plain, and Baked Lays are good also.
- *My kids decided they like my dip spread over Ritz crackers and Triskets as well…
- Yield: approx. 10-12 (1/4cup) servings


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Borderlands iLCP
Artist Statement
The images in this gallery are part of the Borderlands RAVE, a photography project organized to raise awareness about the impact of the US border wall on wildlife, ecosystems and people. All proceeds from the sale of these prints will go toward furthering the work of the Borderlands RAVE.
Background on the Borderlands
The borderlands of the United States and Mexico harbor a hidden gem. These remote wildlands that stretch from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico across the belly of North America provide safe haven for many wild species of plant and animals.
Because much of the landscape around this international border has remained isolated for so long, many relatively intact and continentally rare ecosystems endure here—including Arizona's last free flowing river, the San Pedro; some of the last undeveloped grasslands on the continent in the Janos/Hidalgo area along the New Mexico border; the single most diverse birding area in the United States along the Lower Rio Grande river, and habitat and migration corridors for some of both nation's most imperiled species including the jaguar, Sonoran pronghorn, ocelot, bighorn sheep and Mexican gray wolves.
The International League of Conservation Photographers sent a team of world-renowned photographers, with writers, filmmakers and scientists to the borderlands of the United States and Mexico to document the wildlife, ecology, and effect of immigration and the border wall on this landscape. This region is a shared conservation treasure of international importance that harbors some of the most biodiverse landscapes on the continent.
Photographers who participated in the rave and whose images are shown here include Jack Dykinga, Santiago Gibert, Ted Wood, Claudio Contreras, Kevin Schafer, Wendy Shattil, Miguel de la Cueva, Jeff Foott, Christian Ziegler, Cristina Mittermeier, Ian Shive, Roy Toft, Chris Linder and Krista Schlyer,.
In our gallery, we've presented a small selection of the images from the iLCP Borderlands Rave. To learn more about our Borderlands project and exhibition, please contact Krista Schlyer at email@example.com.
5% of the profits from my work goes to support the International League of Conservation Photographers.
Restless Flora by Miguel de la Cueva
Life by Krista Schlyer
Conservation Cowboy by Ian Shive
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On Friday, February 21, 2014, Adobe made the Camera RAW Release candidate 8.4 available for download over at Adobe Labs and Lightroom Journal blog. A release candidate is basically a beta version of software that's almost ready for prime-time. The release candidate offers the software's more advanced user base the opportunity to play with the software a bit before final release. The reason is simple. The software engineers feel the program is ready to go, but want to have it looked at with a fresh set of eyes. Users can often spot problems the engineers overlook because advanced users will actually use the software in their varied workflows. This allows Adobe to tweak the program before its final release.
Camera manufacturers are producing new cameras all the time. With each new camera model there are new feature sets and senor considerations. Also, each camera manufacturer creates their own specifications for their proprietary RAW file. So, for Photoshop or any other software company creating a photo editing package, they need to modify that software so it will recognize that camera's RAW file. Now, this almost made sense fifteen years ago because the digital imaging industry was new. In 2004 Adobe introduced the Digital Negative (DNG) as an open source solution. But only a few camera makers adopted the idea of a "universal" RAW file. So Adobe must respond by constantly updating their Camera RAW converter in Photoshop and Lightroom to handle the new cameras that are being produced.
While Adobe must keep track of these new camera models they also, tweak and improve the abilities of their ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) engine. So some of the new enhancements in the ACR release candidate are, a new preview mechanism for better before/after image comparisons and an improved set of color matching profiles for Fujifilm X-Trans cameras; it also corrects issues reported from the Camera Raw 8.3 release and a list of new Lens Profiles, "Check All" and "Check None" buttons to synchronize custom ACR presets, and changes to Local Corrections. There is of course the usual set of bug fixes. In all, this seems to be a major update to the ACR engine, which is the same one used in Adobe Lightroom. So there should be a release candidate for Lightroom on its way very soon.
If you you think you would like to see what's coming to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5, you can check it out at Adobe's Lightroom Journal blog for the list of new features and enhancements. Also, if you are one of those people still sitting on the fence about the Creative Cloud, and just bought a Fujifilm X100s, then download the 8.4 DNG Converter. This will allow you to convert RAW files to older versions of Photoshop CS. However with ACR 8.4, Adobe no longer supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS 10.6.x (Snow Leopard).


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Two hundred years after the framers ratified the Constitution, the Net has taught us what the First Amendment means.
– In re J.J., No. D055603 (Cal. Super. Ct. Oct. 15, 2010) (quoting In re Stevens, 119 Cal .App. 4th 1228, 1235 (2004), quoting Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace 10 (1999)).
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Brief history of Shelburne
|The town of Shelburne was first chartered on August 18, 1763. At the time, Vermont was a territory over which New Hampshire and New York struggled to assert control. The charter establishing Shelburne was signed by Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire, one of many such charters issued in an effort to populate western Vermont with settlers that favored the New Hampshire government.
The charter stated that Shelburne should consist of a six-mile square, covering 23,500 acres. However, the already-established boundaries of Burlington to the north and Charlotte to south precluded such an orderly arrangement, and so Shelburne took on the angular shape still seen today (the town now covers around 14,000 acres).
Early settlers were required to perform several duties in exchange for their lots of 200-300 acres, such as cultivating a certain minimum number of acres and reserving all worthwhile pine trees for use by the Royal Navy as masts. The first settlers actually arrived in 1768, and began cutting lumber for shipment to Canada.
During the American Revolution, northern Vermont was a restless frontier, uncomfortably close to British Canada, and most settlers fled south for the duration of the war, eventually returning to begin clearing land and building a real town.
Map of Shelburne in 1869, noting major land features and transportation routes. Burlington lies just to the north. Map courtesy of Shelburne Place Program.


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PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (WTSP) — A teenager is recovering after
police say he shot himself in the penis and testicle while cleaning a gun he just bought.
It happened Thursday morning at a home on the 200 block of Verada Street in Port St. Lucie.
Police say 18-year-old Michael Smeriglio first lied to police saying someone shot him while he was walking down the street. After being questioned by police he admitted to accidentally doing it himself.
Doctors say the bullet went through his penis, his left testicle and then lodged itself in his thigh.
Smeriglio told police he bought the gun last month at a party.
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Southeast Sector Settlement, A Stucco Statue, and Substantial Survey:
The Caracol 1997 Season
Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
University of Central Florida
January 1, 1998
The thirteenth season of the Caracol Project ran from the end of January through the beginning of April 1997. Excavations began the second week in February and continued through the last week in March. Major support for the 1997 field season came from the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI) and from private donations to the University of Central Florida (UCF). The 1997 season had three major foci:
(1) the investigation of open/collapsed/looted tombs from residential groups in the southeast sector of Caracol;
(2) the investigation of the area excavated by Satterthwaite at the rear of Structure A1 for the removal of Caracol Stela 1 and Caracol Altar 1 (now in the Bliss Institute);
and (3) the enlargement of the recorded part of Caracol's central area through transit-mapping.
Substantial accomplishments were made relative to each of the above three goals during the 1997 field season.
Southeast Sector Investigations
Between 1994 and 1995 a new episode of extensive looting occurred in the southeast portion of Caracol. In an attempt to better understand Caracol's internal settlement prior to continued destruction from looting, the 1997 investigations focused on Caracol's southeast sector. Previously, only limited work had been undertaken in this portion of the site. Open and/or collapsed tombs had been excavated in two groups and one eastern structure had been trenched. Thus, it was not clear to what degree the settlement in this area was similar to other areas more intensively investigated. The research undertaken in 1997 focused on testing 4 residential groups in this part of Caracol with 6 open/collapsed/looted tombs.
The four groups that were selected for excavation had all been identified by the 1995 or 1996 mapping teams as having either collapsed or open features that appeared to be tombs. These groups also contained a great diversity in domestic architecture and ranged in overall form from larger hilltop building complexes to smaller groups of low structures situated amid terraces in low-lying (almost bajo) terrain. Two groups were adjacent to the South Causeway while two were sited well away from this causeway. Given their combined architectural sizes and spatial distribution, it was felt that these groups would constitute a fairly representative sample of southeast sector settlement at Caracol.
The group nicknamed "Saraguate" is located 2.1 km distant from Caracol's epicenter (as represented by Structure B1) and approximately 350 m east of the South Causeway; it is in the west-central portion of Map Quad 3I (Chase and Chase 1987:63). The group is one of the largest architectural complexes in the southeast sector. It is situated on a small hill that bounds the eastern side of a low-lying terraced area that extends west to the South Causeway. In its final form, Saraguate was a "double-plaza" group, one of only a half dozen mapped settlement complexes of this kind at Caracol.
Saraguate had been the scene of extensive looting, which had gutted three eastern and one northern buildings. Although the looters' trench through the north building in the northern plaza was drawn, the majority of the 1997 work focused on the southern plaza of Saraguate. Here both eastern buildings had been gutted by looters' trenches. The exposed sections through these structures were recorded. Within each trench the looters had cut through at least one tomb. The looted southern east tomb (Figure 1b), occupying 3.08 m3, had been sliced in half and emptied of everything save a few bone fragments. A Preclassic vessel, however, had been placed in backdirt later dumped into this disturbed chamber. A test-pit to the front of the southern-most east building revealed the burial of a single supine female with head to the south (Figure 2). She was between 25 and 35 years of age at death. Two Late Classic vessels had been placed tangent to her right leg.
The largest building at Saraguate was the central east building, which rose some 3.5 meters above the southern plaza level. Here again, the looters had sliced completely through the building at plaza level. Within their trench in the middle of the structure the remains of 3 adults (one female; two male) were found; one had inlaid teeth. A single partial Early Classic ceramic vessel was found in association with this bone. In the front part of the structure beneath the stairway, the looters had happened upon the capstones of a two-room tomb that was set into the underlying bedrock (Figure 1a). The chamber measured 3.76 m3. Although they had searched throughout the entirety of the area and then dumped dirt into the chamber through their entry point, there were still bone and artifactual remains within the tomb. The remains of 4 individuals (two adults, a 2-year old, and a sub-adult) were recovered in association with 3 Late Classic ceramic vessels and many small artifacts, especially shell beads; the adult teeth were both inlaid and filed. A test-pit placed in front of the lower step of this central east building produced a single face cache of Late Classic date.
An undisturbed tomb (Figure 1c) was excavated in the building which separated Saraguate's two plazas; in actuality, the structure in which this chamber was located faced the southern plaza. The chamber encompassed 1.46 m3. Although some human bone was found in the chamber, this intact tomb proved to be largely sterile.
In summary, excavations at Saraguate recovered information relating to 3 tombs, 2 other burials, and 1 cache. Additionally, 3 section drawings were made of looted buildings. The artifactual material indicates that Saraguate goes back to the Late Preclassic era and was occupied through at least the Late Classic Period.
The group nicknamed "Flattop" is located 1.9 km south of the Caracol epicenter in Map Quad 3J. It is sited approximately 200 m east of the South Causeway in an area of extensive low terracing. The buildings in this group were quite low, none rising above 0.5 m in height. A collapsed area was evident on the southern end of the eastern building. Investigation revealed that the capstones of a small tomb had fallen inward, causing a depression. Excavation of this small chamber, only 0.75 m3 in area, showed that it sat directly upon a chultun, 1.28 m3 in area - technically making this a "double-decker" chamber (Figure 3a). Human bone fragments, but no associated in situ artifacts, were recovered from within the chultun; cranial fragments were recovered within the upper chamber. A test-pit exposed the front steps of the east structure, but found no associated deposits. All recovered sherd material was of Late Classic date.
Tres Gradas
The group nicknamed "Tres Gradas" is also located 1.9 km distant from the Caracol epicenter. It is sited in Map Quad 2I, some 100 m west of the South Causeway on the side of a hill. A large east building, rising 2.0 m above the associated plaza, had a collapsed summit and an open rear passageway (Figure 4). The collapsed tomb was entered through a 4 m long entryway from the rear of the east building (Figure 5). The entrance terminated in a bee-hive-like chamber in the shape of a "D." The southern capstones of the tomb had fallen inward. Like Flattop, Tres Gradas was also double-decker chamber with a 7.34 m3 tomb atop a 2.56 m3 chultun cut into bedrock. The remains of a 7-year old child and three ceramic vessels were found in the upper chamber. The chultun (Figure 6) held the remains of an adult and another 7 to 8-year old child along with eight ceramic vessels. The adult's teeth were filed. Shell and jadeite artifacts (Figure 7) were also recovered from within the chultun. The use of this double-decker chamber dates to the Terminal Classic era (post A.D. 790), making this one of the latest known chamber from Caracol. A test-pit in front of the east building produced Late Classic sherds and an unembellished ceramic cache vessel.
Insectos de Amor
The final southeast sector group investigated during the 1997 field season was nicknamed "Insectos de Amor" and is located 1.25 km distant from the site epicenter in Map Quad P. It is 100 m east of the South Causeway. The group is located on low, gently rising land between two terraces systems. The maximum height of structures within the group is 1.4 m. A collapsed tomb (Figure 3b) was evident within the core of the east building. Excavation proved it to run north-south and to have double benches separated by a narrow alleyway. The chamber enclosed an area of at least 3.63 m3 and had a formal northern entryway. The extreme width (1.5 m) of the chamber relative to its vault height (ca. 1.2 m) had probably led to the collapse of the roof. Although there was little accompanying artifactual material, the remains of at least five adults were recovered from within the tomb. A test-pit to the front of the east building produced two superimposed multiple burials. The upper interment was associated with 3 Late Classic ceramic vessels and contained the remains of 2 individuals, an adult with filed teeth and a 5 to 6-year old child. The lower interment also contain 2 individuals (an adult male and an adult female), 1 of whom had inlaid teeth. No artifactual items accompanied the lower burial.
Investigations in the Vicinity Structure A1
Excavations were also carried out in the Caracol epicenter behind Structure A1 (Figure 8). Caracol Stela 1 and Caracol Altar 1 had been excavated and removed from this area in the 1950's. A line of stone was noted washing out of the side of Linton Satterthwaite's excavation area. Further excavation revealed that this feature was actually the eastern edge of a tomb that had once enclosed 3.63 m3 of space, but that subsequently had been purposefully filled in and buried by the Maya (Figures 3c and 9). The cremated remains of three individuals (an adult, a 2-year old, and another sub-adult) were recovered from within this late 6th century interment along with parts of some 41 broken, but largely reconstructible, vessels (Figures 10 and 11) and approximately 150 obsidian lancets. Excavation behind (to the west of) the tomb recovered two elaborate caches dating from the end of the Early Classic era. A lidded pottery barrel from the first cache (Figure 12) contained spondylous shells, "charlie chaplins," a mirror, and a large carved jadeite figure (Figure 13) - among other things. A second cache consisted of an intact ceramic box (Figure 14) containing a jadeite hunchback figure, a large rectangular jadeite breast pendant, and two oversize obsidian points (Figure 15). Ceramic boxes are relatively rare with only limited excavated examples from the Maya lowlands (such as in water-logged Quirigua stelae caches; Morley 1935). Sub-flooring the Structure A1 rear tomb uncovered an intact, upright stucco foot. Further investigation to the west of the tomb - beneath the two western caches - revealed the base of what had once been a free-standing stucco statue of an individual seated on a throne (Figures 16 and 17). The figure and throne were some 2 m deep by an estimated 1.2 m wide by an estimated 2.8 m in height. The statue was created, modified, and used in the later part of the Early Classic era (ca. A.D. 500). The ceramic box had been located in the chest area of this statue. Nothing was found beneath the statue itself. This free-standing stucco statue is extremely unusual; only one other example is known and this comes from recent excavations at Bonampak (Tovalin A. and Velazquez de Leon C. 1997); however, the Caracol example precedes the one at Bonampak by over 250 years.
Mapping was also carried out in the southern and western parts of Caracol in an effort to increase the surveyed central area of the site. Almost 2 km2 of settlement were added to the Caracol map during the 1997 field season. The Pajaro-Ramonal terminus in the southeastern part of the site was embedded in a 1 km2 block of settlement and a strip of settlement 500 m wide by 3.0 kilometers in length filled in the sparsely represented western edge of the Caracol central map (Figure 18). At this point, over 16 km2 of Caracol's core settlement has been recorded. Overall, approximately 17 km2 of the site have been transit mapped. Over 4,400 documented structures occur within this mapped area.
The 1997 season succeeded in producing additional new and useful data about Caracol. Investigation of looted/collapsed/open tombs in the "endangered" southeast sector of the site verified the existence of pan-Caracol caching and burial practices during the Late Classic Period. However, these data also point towards the possibility of micro-variations in these patterns within the site - particularly in the presence of specific types of caches in residential complexes - potentially suggesting the possibility of intra-site neighborhoods or barrios (as has been suggested for the Postclassic Period [D. Chase 1986; D. Chase and A Chase 1988]). The 1997 southeast settlement investigations also provided needed coverage of this part of the site in terms of settlement history and longevity. Excavations encountered evidence of occupation that spanned the Preclassic through the Terminal Classic Periods. The 1997 work also provided the best evidence yet encountered for Terminal Classic occupation outside the epicenter and strongly suggested the continuation of Late Classic patterns into this era.
Investigations to the south of Structure A1 encountered an area with 50 to 100 years of concentrated and continued ritual activity in what is generally considered to be a non-traditional locus for ritual - the back side of a major pyramid. The excavations provided a series of unexpected finds - a tomb, a free-standing stucco statue, and two elaborate caches - that put the odd location of Caracol Stela 1 and Altar 1 into better (and more complex) context. The ceramic box and stucco figure also stand out as extremely unusual finds. However, the Structure A1 rear investigations also point to the need for further research in the vicinity of the A Plaza.
Finally, the 1997 survey added to previous seasons' work to create 16 km2 of Caracol's central area that have been transit mapped, out of about 17 km2 overall of the site's settlement. This mapping is critical for greater interpretation of the residential settlement and overall layout of the site as these data allow for comparisons to be made with other large Classic centers, such as Tikal and Calakmul, and firmly demonstrate both the greater scale and density of occupation at Caracol during the Late Classic Period.
References Cited
Chase, Arlen F. and Diane Z. Chase
1987 Investigations at the Classic Maya City of Caracol, Belize: 1985-1987. Monograph 3. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute.
Chase, Diane Z.
1986 Social and Political Organization in the Land of Cacao and Honey: Correlating Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Postclassic Lowland Maya. In Late Lowland Maya Civilization. J.A. Sabloff and E.W. Andrews V, eds. Pp. 347-377. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Chase, Diane Z. and Arlen F. Chase
1988 A Postclassic Perspective: Excavations at the Maya Site of Santa Rita Corozal, Belize. Monograph 4. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute.
Morley, Sylvanus G.
1935 Guide Book to the Ruins of Quirigua. Supplemental Publication 16. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Tovalin Ahumada, Alejandro and J. Adolfo Velazquez de Leon Collins
1997 Anatomia de Una Estructura: El Edificio 15 Bonampak. In Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 5. R. Encalada Argaez, ed. Pp. 55-70. Mexico: Universidad Autonoma de Campeche.
Figure 1. Saraguate Tomb Sections: (a) Central East; (b) Southern East; (c) Northern.
Figure 2. Saraguate Photograph of Burial in Front of Southern East Building.
Figure 3. Tomb Sections: (a) Flattop; (b) Insectos de Amor; (c) Structure A1 rear.
Figure 4. Tres Gradas Eastern Structure Section and Tomb Plan.
Figure 5. Tres Gradas Photograph of Tomb Entrance.
Figure 6. Tres Gradas Photograph of Vessel.
Figure 7. Tres Gradas Photograph of Composite Earflare Assemblage.
Figure 8. Structure A1 Photograph of Excavation Area.
Figure 9. Structure A1 Photograph of Tomb.
Figure 10. Structure A1 Polychrome Vessel from Tomb (Heavily Burnt).
Figure 11. Structure A1 "Flowerpot" Vessel from Tomb.
Figure 12. Structure A1 Photograph of Easternmost Cache Vessels In Situ.
Figure 13. Structure A1 Photograph of Central Jadeite Figure from Easternmost Cache.
Figure 14. Structure A1 Photograph of Ceramic Cache Box.
Figure 15. Structure A1 Photograph of In Situ Contents of Ceramic Box.
Figure 16. Structure A1 Photograph of Basal Part of Stucco Statue Undergoing Excavation.
Figure 17. Structure A1 Stucco Statue: (a) section; (b) plan.
Figure 18. Caracol Site Plan as of the Conclusion of the 1997 Field Season.


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The applications I will be running off of this are written in PHP, and use MySQL. Eventually, there might be a need to scale this up - and I'm wondering if that will be easier to do from a VM environment or a physical one.
I'm planning on using SLES 64bit as the OS - for both guests and hosts.
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Recently one of our portfolio companies was hiring a CXO, and there was a discussion around compensation. The CXO was offering a healthy ESOP package + 80% of the base salary he was currently making. In turn, he was negotiating for a 110% of the base salary he was currently making and was willing to take 50% of the ESOPs offered in return. Given that this person was coming in at a senior level, it was clear the compensation being offered was healthy enough and that the negotiation from 80% to 110% of base was not to "meet" his living expenses, but more of a belief that the 30% increase in monthly cash flow is worth a lot more than a % of the company. It is surprising that this trend is very common across the startup world in India today when there have been real examples of wealth creation across the country with employee stock options. Indian employees in our own portfolio hvae seen stock option gains on the exits of Dimdim, Netmagic, OLX, Gluster, etc. let alone the examples of Naukri, Makemytrip, Baazee, Infosys, Cognizant, WNS, SKS, etc. I believe part of the problem lies in the value of ESOPs not being understood. The onus lies on the entrepreneurs to spend more time educating their employees on what stock options mean, what they believe could be the various exit opportunities and various values at exit with probabilities attached to those outcome along with the risks. While there is no gaurantee at the end, it is helpful for the employees to really understand how the entrepreneur is thinking and what the entreprenuer believes are the probabilities and risks attached. The entrepreneur also needs to work on building excitement and trust with potential employees pre-hiring where the employee believes in the company's vision and dream and is viewing the company as an owner and not just an employee where he or she is contributing to the wealth creation of company and self. This is especially critical at the senior levels.
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The BayesStore Project (BayesStore)
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Eirinaios C. Michelakis, Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael Franklin, Minos Garofalakis and Joseph M. Hellerstein
Several real-world applications need to effectively manage and reason about large amounts of data that are inherently uncertain. For instance, pervasive computing applications must constantly reason about volumes of noisy sensory readings to accomplish tasks like motion prediction and modeling of human behavior. Another example arises in information extraction systems that try to convert textual information from multiple sources into structured data. In information extraction, it is important to record probabilities from the extracted and integrated data, because all the missing data and errors occur in the extraction and integration pipeline.
Such probabilistic data analysis requires sophisticated machine-learning tools that can effectively model the complex correlation patterns present in uncertain data. Unfortunately, to date, most existing approaches to probabilistic database systems have relied on somewhat simplistic models of uncertainty that can be easily mapped onto existing relational architectures. In those works, probabilistic information is typically associated with individual data tuples, with limited or no support for effectively capturing and reasoning about complex data correlations.
BAYESSTORE is a novel probabilistic data management architecture built on the principle of handling statistical models and probabilistic inference tools as first-class citizens of the database system. Adopting a machine-learning view, BAYESSTORE employs concise statistical relational models to effectively encode the correlation patterns between uncertain data, and promotes probabilistic inference and statistical model manipulation as part of the standard DBMS operator repertoire to support efficient and sound query processing.
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The Wilmington City Council held a special meeting on Friday morning. Council considered a resolution awarding a construction contract for another portion of the Cross City Trail. The resolution passed unanimously.
The project is funded through federal stimulus dollars and the contract had to be awarded by Dec. 31. Failure to meet this deadline would have resulted in the loss of approximately $16 million in federal stimulus money.
The bids for the project came in after City Council had their one and only regular meeting for this month, which is why a special meeting was held.
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Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Movie Reviews
Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
Release Date: Feb 08, 2013
Genre: Comedy
Rating: (R)
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As much as I don't like Charlie Sheen (I mean, really - ick!) I must admit that I do have a soft spot for the unusual storytelling methods of Wes Anderson, which have clearly influenced the writer-director of this movie called "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III" - it's just so weird and bizarre and charming and endearing that you can't help but like it. That being said, the writing is pretty weak which means that the movie, for all of its cleverness, doesn't have much to say, which lead me to like it but never really love it. The performances are all great - from Charlie Sheen, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman - but their characters at times seem to be weird just for the sake of being kooky. They don't have much to say besides "hey, look at me, i'm wearing a funny costume." I think this movie will come and go pretty fast, so you better catch it while you can.
Um, yeah...forget Channing Tatum: Jason Schwatrzman is what it's all about! If you agree, holla y'all, because he makes beefy lunkheads look like yesterday's lunch meat, lol! Seriously, Schwartzman is just SO adorable in this movie, just like he usually is in pretty much everything he plays. He is like the walking, breathing personification of neuroses, and he obviously relishes playing this part. I hope that the academy and other awards givers take note of his performance because it really is superb. Charlie Sheen plays the title character but frankly I didn't find him that interesting. Probably because Sheen finds himself way too interesting. I wish that they had cast someone else in the part who doesn't seem so obviously self-satisfied...maybe that Matthew Fox guy from Lost. He might have been a good fit. I still loved this movie just for Schwartzman who is like the cutest working actor today.
I thought this movie was wicked awesome yo! So hip, so hep, so totally full of fun and whimsy. I think a lot of people will probably be turned off by the fact that it stars Charlie Sheen, but frankly he is the glue that holds this almost-masterpiece together. He plays a wild child (like always) whose mind is occupied by brilliant things and very flawed things. He sees beauty in everything but he doesn't always understand that what he's looking at is in fact beautiful. A lot of time he seems to think that just because he sees things a certain way, that they must be that way, because why else would anyone choose to look at it differently? He's aware of everything around him except himself. I personally loved Jason Schwatrzman's performance. He really takes neurotic to a new level and he is always super hilarious. Ditto Bill Murray who plays every role like it was written for him. Special mention also goes to Patricia Arquette for her stellar turn. I smell an award for her...
Okay, so sue me: I still laugh at the reruns of "Two and a Half Men". Yes, Charlie Sheen is a megalomaniacal looney toon who done lost his mind years ago...but you gotta hand it to the guy: he knows how to play smarmy! It's second nature to him because, well, it's his first (and possibly only) nature. The thing I liked about this movie was that it was one of those ironic self-aware stories about self-destruction and self-revival. The whole idea is that no one really knows who or what they are or what they are capable of unless they've been put through the grinder and that's what happens to Charles Swan. Sheen is good in his part (he's basically playing himself) but the show belongs to Patricia Arquette who really makes the movie feel heartfelt and sad and more than just an exercise in cleverness. She is a superb actor, and I think she should get a nomination for her role. She steals every scene she's in.
My initial reaction to the first 15 minutes of A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Swan III was that it reminded me of something Wes Anderson would have directed. In film school. Before he really knew what he was doing. By the end of the film, my initial hunch was proven correct.
This is the story of an amazingly gifted and successful graphic artist named Charles Swan III (Charlie Sheen) whose life looks idyllic from the outside. Everything is there (money, success, love, sex, art, beauty) and it all fits together seamlessly. And then, suddenly, his lady love picks up and leaves. She has had enough. Enough of what? Of the nothingness of perfection.
Swan is then forced to look at his life and learn the tough lessons that are clouded by what he and the world around him identifies as success. Turns out he's not so much a golden boy as he is prisoner of a gilded cage of ideas. Point noted.
We've seen this story before; life as it is, instead of as it is perceived to be. But the movie relies on too many gimmicky cutaways and musical jaunts (note: this is not an episode of Family Guy) to be taken seriously. The fact that it attempts to be an ironic commentary, complemented by fine work from Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and (above all) Patricia Arquette, doesn't suffice for the weak writing. Sans all the gimmicks, there's nothing much here except Charlie Sheen being snarky and bizarre.
Which, surprisingly, is nowhere near as interesting as you would imagine it would be.
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It must be nice to be governorMay 25,2013
It must be nice to be governor
It appears that Gov. Shumlin, a millionaire, has received another sweetheart deal regarding the purchase of the Dodge farm (Times Argus, May 22, After sale to governor: regrets) which borders his property. According to The Times Argus, the governor purchased a distressed home appraised at $233,700 for less than $58,000. According to the article, Mr. Dodge did not have an attorney, was a high school dropout, did not know what other options he may have had and, according to a friend, Mr. Dodge did not have the cognitive skills to advocate or even understand the basic elements of the deal.
The governor was also effective in convincing the East Montpelier town to reduce the appraised value of the Dodge home from $233,700 to $140,000. The back taxes owed by Mr. Dodge, $17,000 from 2009, were based on $233,700, not the appraised value of $140,000, which the governor was able to receive. Because of Mr. Dodges condition he may have been unaware that he could have appealed his property taxes being too high. Instead of helping Mr. Dodge, the governor took advantage of his situation to enrich his holdings.
Another sweetheart deal: The governor was able to purchase for $35,000 a 32-acre parcel next to the Dodge farm valued by the town listers at $147,000 in 2012. Tell me where I can as a native Vermonter purchase property as the governor has here, making over $200,000. In the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost, the poet considers the value or otherwise, of boundaries. In contemplating whether good fences make good neighbors, the governor did not want Mr. Dodge as his neighbor he was too near. Must be nice to be in a position as governor where you are able to increase your wealth.
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After these spy shots of the Alfa Romeo 8C, totally without camouflage, the GTA hypothesis must be re-examined. With anything from a birthday present to collectors' requests possible, this example needs to be considered carefully, but we think the magic GTA letters can be re-visited.
The two parallel stripes you can see are meant for protection when loading and unloading this vehicle. But while this can be considered a very insignificant detail, the Fiat Auto test plate, clearly visible in the second photo (after the jump), for us confirms that this is without a doubt the Alfa Gran Turismo Alleggerita.
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TUCSON Ariz.- After trailing No. 15 Northwestern by 36-points in the first half of double-dual meet competition, the No. 4 Arizona men's swimming and diving team posted a 176-165 victory over the Wildcats and an impressive 263-67 win over the Washington Huskies. The No. 4 Arizona women's swimming and diving team also posted two victories today as they defeated Northwestern 189.5 - 151.5 and Washington 200-138.
The men won the first-five events beginning with the 200y medley relay. A team of junior Dave Rollins, freshman Ivan Barnes, juniors Lyndon Ferns and Simon Burnett won the race with a time of 1:31.22. Junior Tyler DeBerry won the 1650y freestyle with a time of 15:46.57 and freshman Matt Biel finished second (15:52.51). A close race in the 200y freestyle resulted in Ferns winning the race, beating Northwestern's Matt Grevers with a time of 1:38.68. Barnes won the 100y breaststroke (55.71) and senior Nate Stevens came in second (57.00).
Freshman Nick Thoman finished first in the 200y butterfly with a time of 1:52.99 and was second in the 100y backstroke (50.13). Ferns took second place in the 50y freestyle (20.13) and Burnett was third (20.90). Rollins finished first in the 200y individual medley with a time of 1:52.70 and Barnes was third (1:53.95). The 400y free relay team of Ferns, Burnett, senior Byron Jeffers and freshman Jonas Persson finished second with a time of 3:00.00.
"I am really happy for the men's team," said head swimming coach Frank Busch. "Yesterday was a wake-up call for them. They came here today and did what they needed to perform at the highest level."
The women's 200y medley relay team of junior Jenna Gresdal, junior Erin Sieper, sophomore Whitney Myers and freshman Lacey Nymeyer took first-place with a time of 1:43.16. Five women swam exhibition races with their final times beating the actual winner of the event beginning with senior Emily Mason who swam the 1000y freestyle in a time of 10:12.38, which beat the first-place time of 10:21.44. Nymeyer swam the 200y freestyle (1:50.71), Sieper swam the 100y breaststroke (1:03.76), junior Marshi Smith swam the 100y backstroke (56.67) and Mason also swam the 200y individual medley (2:05.02). Gresdal finished first in the 50y freestyle with a time of 23.21 and the 400y free relay team of Gresdal, Sieper, Myers and Nymeyer finished third (3:31.17).
The Wildcats will return to the pool on Jan. 21 to host the California Golden Bears at the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center at 2 p.m. (MST).


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Brennan Middleton laced a triple off Alex Byo during Saturday's intrasquad
Jan. 26, 2013
NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane baseball team took to Greer Field at Turchin Stadium to participate in their first intrasquad scrimmage of the spring on Saturday afternoon.
Head baseball coach Rick Jones and his staff split their roster into two squads -mixing starters with role players - to assess their abilities in both the field and at the plate. On the mound, a slew of pitchers got some work in to prepare for the 2013 campaign. Tulane took full advantage of the beautiful weather to practice for the second time this season.
"I thought it was a real good day for us," said Jones. "From a pitching standpoint, I've never had so many guys go out on the mound and touch 90 miles per hour for us. Ian (Gibaut), David (Napoli), Kyle (McKenzie)- they all touched it. I thought Alex Byo threw very well. Tony Rizzotti's command was really good. Andrew Reeves had some command issues, but he's never had that before, so I'm not concerned. I thought it was really impressive to see that many guys have that kind of velocity and stuff."
Catcher Blake Crohan blasted a home run off pitcher Alex Byo in the bottom of the seventh, and senior Brennan Middleton showed his speed on the base paths by legging out a triple early in the contest. Sean Potkay, Garrett Cannizaro, Briggs Barrios and Tim Yandel all collected two hits on the day, as well.
"Timmy (Yandel) had a really good day for a freshman," added Jones. "Blake (Crohan) had a really good day too. I thought that Brennan Middleton did really well in the leadoff spot. Also, Cameron Burns really caught the ball well behind the plate. Briggs (Barrios) is really starting to come on. I was really impressed with them all today."
For the most part, the coaches weren't terribly focused on stats, as they wanted to see how their athletes performed in a game-like setting. The coaches put their hitters and pitchers in special situations - sometimes starting an inning with two men already on base.
"We just wanted to try to put ourselves in situations that we know we will be in," said Jones. "With guys coming out of the bullpen, inheriting runners, we want them to be familiar with these situations. From an offensive standpoint, when you are working on execution, you create those situations so guys are more prepared for it during the season."
The Greenies will return to the diamond tomorrow afternoon for another intrasquad scrimmage. The Tulane baseball squad will travel to San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State Tournament , held Feb. 15-18. They'll participate in their first home contest on Feb. 19 when they host Southeastern Louisiana.
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TC TO C. K. J. BUNSEN ; 7 July 1843; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18430707-TC-CKJB-01; CL 16: 237-238
Llandough, Cowbridge, S. Wales 7 july, 1843—
My dear Sir,
There is or lately was a Thomas Carlyle, once an Advocate in Edinburgh, but who quitted that profession for some form of religious Fanaticism ("Irvingism" is the name of it); who preaches accordingly, as an "Angel" so-called, at Albury in Surrey, under the wing of Henry Drummond the rich Banker, a Patron of that sect, and perhaps an "Archangel" in it. This Thomas Carlyle, besides his Angel-work at Albury, goes now and then to Germany, as I have understood, and specially to Berlin, for the purpose of converting your benighted people to his Doctrine; with what success I cannot conjecture. He is the man, I imagine, who must have written this Book on the German Nobility; and thought it so profound as to deserve the King of Prussia's perusal!1 Another friend2 was already inquiring of me on the same subject; to whom I made answer that I never wrote, or designed to write, or had heard even in dreams of the writing of such a Book;—and this, all except the last clause of it, may stand for a response in the present case too.
T. Carlyle the Angel has more than once got me into scrapes of a similar kind. He is, I believe, a zealous, very well-intentioned man; but narrow, headlong, dim, and probably not without a dash of the [word illegible]—he is an "Angel" at Albury, in short; and I am no Angel anywhere! There is in fact nothing common to us but the Name, and general descent from Adam. Me, I have heard, he considers to be a man of some ability, but "possessed with a Devil": I shall very specially request of you to assure all persons high and low who may inquire of you, that we have "no concern with the other house".3
It was yesterday that I arrived here: a most solitary green region, very rainy too at present;—in which I feel hitherto very much like a man fallen out of the Moon. The people speak inarticulate Welsh or Kauderwälsch [gibberish], and they, and the whole world, except the rain-clouds, seems to be asleep or nearly so. I have Tieck's Vittoria Accorombona, and care for no weather today!
With many kind regards and wishes / Yours ever truly
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