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Edward Albee and Sam Shepard, arguably America's finest living playwrights, were both represented in OC by rarely-staged plays opening last weekend. But where Shepard's "True West" (running at Costa Mesa Playhouse through Apr. 27) has endured as one of his best, Albee's "The American Dream" (at STAGEStheatre in Fullerton through Apr. 26) doesn't hold up well.
Albee's attack on the emptiness of our society was hailed when it debuted in 1961 as a "promising and brilliant… contribution to the Theatre of the Absurd" by Martin Esslin, who coined the term. But its bite has been weakened by the passage of time. STAGES' effort is admirable but tough to endure, despite Phil Brickey's capable direction. Still, Lynn Gallagher gives a standout performance as Mommy and Jill Cary Martin is a hoot as Grandma. Call 714-525-4484.
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Shepard's savage Pulitzer Prize winner is like "Dream" an absurdist take on family but the resemblance ends there, as the play pits brother against brother in a battle royale. Where Albee employs Ionesco-like use of clichés, Shepard gives free reign to his incisive and original wit. If he owes something to Pinter or Beckett (to whom he and Albee both bow down), his venomous jabs at the mythology of Hollywood and the American West seem even sharper than they did when the play premiered in 1980.
Michael Serna's attentive direction is almost invisible at times; he pulls no punches and smartly stays out of the way. His own performance (as Austin, an Ivy League-educated writer) may suffer a little under his direction, but he and Peter Hilton (as Lee, his hot-headed hustler of a brother) make their sibling rivalry so believable, it's almost scary. Hilton is a powerhouse onstage and funny as hell to boot, as he insinuates himself into Serna's life. Jeff Bickel (as Saul, a producer) and Ilona Honeyman (as Mom) offer fine support. Serna's kitchen set is a marvel. Call 949-650-5269.
Hot tip: The Long Beach Shakespeare Co. is celebrating the Bard's birthday all month. Events include Twain vs. Shakespeare in a one-man show (Apr. 11-12); a party with actors performing sonnets, followed by a reception with cake (Apr. 23); and Richard Armour's Twisted Tales From Shakespeare (Apr. 25-26). Richard Goad Theatre, 4250 Atlantic Ave., LB. Info at LBShakespeare.org or 562-997-1494.
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1970 Marshall Player: Spared For A Reason
Courtesy: BCUathletics.com
Release: 02/19/2014
Anyone and everyone involved with the Marshall football program considers the fatal plane crash of November 14, 1970 as one of their defining days.
Ed Carter escaped death that day, but the former Thundering Herd standout considers March 10,1974 as the most important day of his life.
Carter acknowledges that day as the one he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Since then, he has travelled as an evangelist, preaching the Gospel and making the most of each and every day of a life he firmly believes was spared for this reason.
"There was a plan for me," Carter said when he addressed the Bethune-Cookman football team this past Tuesday night. "God has watched over me. I turned my life over to him that night in 1974 If I hadn't, I'd be dead or in an institution right now" he told over 100 student-athletes, coaches and administrators..
B-CU already had a connection with Marshall and Carter as he was joyfully reunited with one of his former team mates, Wildcat offensive coordinator Jim Pry. Pry was one of the players for the 1971 team that helped restart the program. Pry even had a cameo in the move "We Are Marshall" and still gets emotional when the subject arises including Tuesday night when he had the chance to greet Carter and hear his testimony.
Carter would have been on that plane had not he returned back home to Texas to attend his father funeral. His mother had a premonition that it was going to crash.
"A couple of weeks before, another team [Witchita State] had been involved in a plane crash," Carter said. "I thought my mom was just being silly."
Carter was still in Texas when the DC-9 carrying the team back from East Carolina hit trees just short of the runway in Huntington, West Virginia, killing all 75 on board. In addition to dealing with the death of his teammates, Carter had to spend the first days telling the world he was still alive.
"I read my own obituary in the newspapers," Carter said.
Returning to West Virginia by bus, Carter spent the next few months attended funerals and dealing with the tragedy. That kept him busy. It wasn't until Spring practice in 1971 that it really hit him.
"I saw all those new faces, all those new players," Carter said. "All my friends were gone…and they never were going to come back."
Carter had a brief fling with the pros, earning an offer to the Buffalo Bills training camp, but a hamstring injury impeded his progress. He entered the workforce, first at a steel mill and then as a teacher. He earned his degree in 1974, but he had the feeling that his life wasn't complete.
It became complete that night in March.
"God told me I was a sinner," Carter said. "Right then and there, I accepted."
Carter's story and life including and beyond football is one to be appreciated, noted B-CU Head Coach Brian Jenkins.
"It's a great opportunity for us for to hear this," Jenkins said. "This what we needed to hear tonight."
Carter's appearance on campus was a part of the ministry objectives of athletic director Lynn W. Thompson working in conjunction with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

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To whisper from your heart, the thrums of a humming bird,
The truths that sing in your soul like a chorus, bristling with mesmerizing melodies,
Unfettered passions, unchecked, like a herd of stallions loose among lush green grasslands,
Would be madness, insanity, a foolish play performed by a foolish jester guised as an actor,
Yet is that not love?
It is, yet it isn't.
Love is a complicated mistress, complicated yet simple,
Complex but not in a mechanical sense,
Love is exactly what it means to be, and it finds each of us precisely when it means to, or never at all,
For love is like a lonely partner at a dance, alone yet surrounded,
It waits for each of us to find it, and join in the dance that we will revel in for the rest of our lives,
And if we miss it then it awaits for another who can match its rhythm, whether a little less than perfect, or more perfect than before,
We are beasts of burden bound to desire, and yet gods of passion,
All we can do is live, live and try to find the one, who's heart beats to the same rhythm as our own,
The one who can hear the song that sings in the depths of our soul,
And all we can do is, to do the same for them, to hear that song, and to nurture it like a flower,
Giving it all the love it deserves,
All we can do is whisper from our hearts, the thrums of a humming bird, the thrums of a song being sung like it will never be sung again,
Madness, yet sanity,
Complex yet simple,
That is love.


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College Hockey:Kampfer to bring Stanley Cup to Ann Arbor Thursday
Steve Kampfer, a former Michigan defenseman and member of the 2011 Boston Bruins, will be sharing his day with the Stanley Cup with the Ann Arbor community on Thursday as the trophy will be on display from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Michigan locker room at Yost Ice Arena.
"I'm excited to bring the Cup back to the place that has made me the player I am today," said Kampfer in a statement. "Coming back to the place I wanted to play at since I was the age of four is a dream come true. I couldn't be more excited to share it with the great fans of Michigan as well. Without them, we wouldn't have the best rink to play college hockey in. I want fans to be able to see the Stanley Cup and enjoy the day with my family and friends."
Kampfer, who was a Wolverine from 2006-2010, will be signing complimentary autographs. Pictures with Kampfer and the Stanley Cup are $10, with all proceeds being split between C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the Michigan hockey program.
Kampfer became the 17th Wolverine alumnus to win the Stanley Cup when the Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the Stanley Cup final this past June 16. A rookie for the Bruins in 2010-2011, Kampfer played 38 regular-season games, scoring five goals and five assists, earning a +9 plus/minus rating and accruing 12 penalty minutes. He did not make an appearance in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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US by 2....Timmy Duncan will have a monster game...but Boozer gets the big hoop
US by 2....Timmy Duncan will have a monster game...but Boozer gets the big hoop
marbury has a strong game but not as amazing as against spain, duncan gets screwed with foul trouble, us wins by 6
idk i say we blow them out we deff gon win by 10 now everyones got confidence , starbury got his shot back plus there playing argentina, whos there best player Manu Ginobili, who was a reserve 4 the spurs so yeaaa if we beat spain we can beat them we deff goin 4 gold!!! n marbury drops over 20
USA wins by 5
Marbury scores 20
USA win by 9 marbury gets 16 pts and 7 ast
USA win by 10 or 9. 94-85
Stephon goes 14-6as-2st
i think that the refs totally ruined this game, both their phantom foul calls and their no-calls for the US always ruined their momentum and their chance to get back in it, i think its disgusting that in the olympics theyre using secondary european refs, just my opinion, l8r
omg dont get me started with those reffs. i dont have a word i can say about them. they cant call a good game. extremely bad calls!!!
Rady, forgive me for this one, but the Olympic Basketball Commitee is a bunch of *******s!
Do you know the Ref for this Arg-USA match was from Spain!
How stupid is that! Obviously the ref is going to ensure that USA loses after they beat his home country the day before when the sting is still fresh in his mind.
Very disapointing...
I thought they would win this one, I guess it wasn't meant to be. Team USA is gonna get dogged by the press as well as many other people. People have to face the fact that the rest of the world has picked up their game. Ultimately, it lies in the hands of the coach and the players. They couldn't defend against 3 pointers and perimeter shots that other teams were commonly using against them.
I've just read some articles about that game. Europeans are ****ing laughing. Damn, it's total disaster. How come we could lose?! At least Stephon did his best. I'm proud of him.
I can understand your anger about ref but argentina was just better than team usa today
yea probably but if they were playing in the USA under our rules and our reffs. it would be a blow out. i mean come they cant call a FOUL. marbury flew across the floor and no foul
I haven't seen the game. Did any1 catch it? I really need some highlights.
Man, I can't believe those sorry europeans play jokes on our team. In press... Their teams are not worth Iverson's shoe, not even speaking of our players. And all of a sudden they start their **** in the press. That's wrong.
I hate to say this but I don't really blame them for rubbing it in our face a little bit...what I hope is that this reignites an interest in going and playing in the Olympics...but today, Argentina was just plain better. They are the Princeton of the international game...and are really fun to watch. I hope that some of this "flavor" rubs off on the NBA.
It also gives me hope as a Knick fan...you saw how all of those teams handled Duncan without having reallt talented "bigs" themselves...with our deapth in the frontcourt and perimeter studs...it could be a good year!


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Is the Bible true?
Extraordinary insights from
archaeology and history
by Jeffery L. Sheler
U.S. News and World Report
October 25, 1999
The workday was nearly over for the team of archaeologists excavating the ruins of the ancient Israelite city of Dan in upper Galilee. Led by Avraham Biran of Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, the group had been toiling since early morning, sifting debris in a stone-paved plaza outside what had been the city's main gate.
Now the fierce afternoon sun was turning the stoneworks into a reflective oven. Gila Cook, the team's surveyor, was about to take a break when something caught her eye -- an unusual shadow in a portion of recently exposed wall along the east side of the plaza. Moving closer, she discovered a flattened basalt stone protruding from the ground with what appeared to be Aramaic letters etched into its smooth surface. She called Biran over for a look. As the veteran archaeologist knelt to examine the stone, his eyes widened. "Oh, my God!" he exclaimed. "We have an inscription!"
In an instant, Biran knew that they had stumbled upon a rare treasure. The basalt stone was quickly identified as part of a shattered monument, or stele, from the ninth century B.C., apparently commemorating a military victory of the king of Damascus over two ancient enemies. One foe the fragment identified as the "king of Israel." The other was "the House of David."
The reference to David was a historical bombshell. Never before had the familiar name of Judah's ancient warrior king, a central figure of the Hebrew Bible and, according to Christian Scripture, an ancestor of Jesus, been found in the records of antiquity outside the pages of the Bible. Skeptics had long seized upon that fact to argue that David was a mere legend, invented by Hebrew scribes during or shortly after Israel's Babylonian exile, roughly 500 years before the birth of Christ. Now, at last, there was material evidence: an inscription written not by Hebrew scribes but by an enemy of the Israelites a little more than a century after David's presumptive lifetime. It seemed to be a clear corroboration of the existence of King David's dynasty and, by implication, of David himself.
Beyond its impact on the question of David's existence, however, the discovery provided a dramatic illustration of the promise and peril that come into play whenever the Bible is weighed on the scales of modern archaeology. In one moment, the unearthing of an inscription or artifact can shed new light or cast a shadow on a passage of Scripture and in the process shatter the presuppositions of biblical scholarship. One kind of truth is confirmed -- or replaced -- by another.
In extraordinary ways, modern archaeology has affirmed the historical core of the Old and New Testaments -- corroborating key portions of the stories of Israel's patriarchs, the Exodus, the Davidic monarchy, and the life and times of Jesus. Where it has faced its toughest task has been in primordial history, where many scholars find the traces of human origins obscured in theological myth.
Ever since Copernicus overturned the church-sanctioned view of Earth as the center of the universe and Charles Darwin posited random mutation and natural selection as the real creators of human life, the biblical view that "in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth" has found itself on the defensive in modern Western thought. Despite the dominance of Darwin's theory -- that human beings evolved from lower life forms over millions of years -- theologians have yielded relatively little ground on what for them is a fundamental doctrine of faith: that the universe is the handiwork of a divine creator who has given humanity a special place in his creation.
These apparently conflicting explanations have played a divisive role for centuries. In modern times, the supposed incompatibility of the scientific and religious views of creation have sparked bitter clashes in the nation's courtrooms and classrooms. Often the modern debate has amounted to little more than a shouting match between extremists on both sides -- fundamentalists, who dismiss evolution as a satanic deception, and atheistic naturalists, who assert that science offers the only window on reality and who seek to discredit religious belief as ignorant superstition.
Listening to some of the rhetoric today, one might easily assume that the views espoused by creationists -- that God created the universe in six 24-hour days, as a literal reading of Genesis 1 would suggest -- represent the historic position of Christianity and of the Bible, and that it is only in modern times, with the rise of evolutionary theory, that creationism has come under siege. Yet this is hardly the case.
As early as the fifth century, the great Christian theologian Augustine warned against taking the six days of Genesis literally. Writing on The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Augustine argued that the days of creation were not successive, ordinary days -- the sun, after all, according to Genesis, was not created until the fourth "day" -- and had nothing to do with time. Rather, Augustine argued, God "made all things together, disposing them in an order based not on intervals of time but on causal connections." Sounding like an evolutionist, Augustine reasoned that some things were made in fully developed form and others were made in "potential form" that developed over time to the condition in which they are seen today.
Now, a growing number of conservative scholars embrace theistic evolution -- a view that considers evolution, like all other physical processes known to science, to be divinely designed and governed. They understand Genesis as speaking more of the relationship between God and creation than as presenting a scientific or historical explanation of how and when creation occurred. "Creation and evolution are not contradictory," explains Howard Van Till, a professor of physics and astronomy at evangelical Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. "They provide different answers to a different set of questions."
Much the same may be said of disputes over the meaning and intent of the biblical story of the Flood. Those who take it as literal history believe that God unleashed a worldwide deluge that destroyed all air-breathing life on Earth except for those creatures taken aboard the ark in divine judgment against a creation gone bad. When God finally allowed the waters to recede, the ark was emptied and the world was repopulated by the creatures that disembarked. Based on biblical genealogies, all of this would have happened less than 10,000 years ago.
While most biblical scholars consider the story of the Flood a myth, many conservatives have little difficulty imagining that God could pull off precisely what the Genesis story describes. As with the Creation narrative, however, the evidence and arguments from science stack up overwhelmingly against a literal interpretation of the Flood story. Where, for example, would such a volume of water have come from, and where would it have gone afterward? How would mammalian life have re-emerged on isolated islands and landmasses that emerged from the receding flood waters? While some scholars allow the possibility that a catastrophic regional deluge may underlie the flood legends of the ancient Near East, conservatives argue that there is, indeed, geological evidence consistent with a universal deluge. But such arguments have found little support within the scientific mainstream.
The book of Genesis traces Israel's ancestry to Abraham, a monotheistic nomad who God promises will be "ancestor of a multitude of nations" and whose children will inherit the land of Canaan as "a perpetual holding." God's promise and Israel's ethnic identity are passed from generation to generation -- from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob. Then Jacob and his sons -- the progenitors of Israel's 12 ancient tribes -- are forced by famine to leave Canaan and migrate to Egypt, where the Israelite people emerge over a period of some 400 years.
Modern archaeology has found no direct evidence from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1500 B.C.) -- roughly the period many scholars believe to be the patriarchal era -- to corroborate the biblical account. No inscriptions or artifacts relating to Israel's first biblical ancestors have been recovered. Nor are there references in other ancient records to the early battles and conflicts reported in Genesis.
Moreover, some scholars contend that the patriarch stories contain anachronisms that suggest they were written many centuries after the events they portray. Abraham, for example, is described in the 11th and 15th chapters of Genesis as coming from "Ur of the Chaldeans" -- a city in southern Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq. But the Chaldeans settled in that area "not earlier than the ninth or eighth centuries" B.C., according to Niels Peter Lemche, a professor at the University of Copenhagen and a leading biblical skeptic. That, he says, is more than 1,000 years after Abraham's time and at least 400 years after the time of Moses, who tradition says wrote the book of Genesis.
Yet other scholars, like Barry Beitzel, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill., are neither surprised nor troubled by the apparent lack of direct archaeological evidence for Abraham's existence. Why, they argue, should one expect to find the names of an obscure nomad and his descendants in the official archives of the rulers of Mesopotamia? These are "family stories," says Beitzel, not geopolitical history of the type one might expect to find preserved in the annals of kings.
While there may, indeed, be no direct material evidence relating to the biblical patriarchs, archaeology has not been altogether silent on the subject. Kenneth A. Kitchen, an Egyptologist now retired from the University of Liverpool in England, argues that archaeology and the Bible "match remarkably well" in depicting the historical context of the patriarch narratives. In Genesis 37:28, for example, Joseph, a son of Jacob, is sold by his brothers into slavery for 20 silver shekels. That, notes Kitchen, matches precisely the going price of slaves in the region during the 19th and 18th centuries B.C., as affirmed by documents recovered from the region that is now modern Syria. By the eighth century B.C., the price of slaves, as attested in ancient Assyrian records, had risen steadily to 50 or 60 shekels, and to 90 to 120 shekels during the Persian Empire in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. If the story of Joseph had been dreamed up by a Jewish scribe in the sixth century, as some skeptics have suggested, argues Kitchen, "why isn't the price in Exodus also 90 to 100 shekels? It's more reasonable to assume that the biblical data reflect reality."
The dramatic story of the Exodus -- of God delivering Moses and the Israelite people from Egyptian bondage and leading them to the Promised Land of Canaan -- has been called the "central proclamation of the Hebrew Bible." Yet archaeologists have found no direct evidence to corroborate the biblical story. Inscriptions from ancient Egypt contain no mention of Hebrew slaves, of the plagues that the Bible says preceded their release, or of the destruction of the pharaoh's army during the Israelites' miraculous crossing of the Red Sea. No physical trace has been found of the Israelites' 40-year nomadic sojourn in the Sinai wilderness. There is not even any indication, outside of the Bible, that Moses existed.
Still, as with the patriarch narratives, many scholars argue that a lack of direct evidence is insufficient reason to deny that the Exodus actually happened. Nahum Sarna, professor emeritus of biblical studies at Brandeis University, argues that the Exodus story -- tracing, as it does, a nation's origins to slavery and oppression -- "cannot possibly be fictional. No nation would be likely to invent for itself . . . an inglorious and inconvenient tradition of this nature," unless it had an authentic core. "If you're making up history," adds Richard Elliott Friedman, professor at the University of California-San Diego, "it's that you were descended from gods or kings, not from slaves."
Indeed, the absence of direct material evidence of an Israelite sojourn in Egypt is not as surprising, or as damaging to the Bible's credibility, as it first might seem. What type of material evidence, after all, would one expect to find that could corroborate the biblical story? "Slaves, serfs, and nomads leave few traces in the archaeological record," notes University of Arizona archaeologist William Dever.
The dating of the Exodus also has long been a source of controversy. The book of 1 Kings 6:1 gives what appears to be a clear historical marker for the end of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt: "In the 480th year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord." Biblical historians generally agree that Solomon, the son and successor of David (and the builder of Israel's first great temple) came to the throne in about 962 B.C. If so, then the Exodus would have occurred in about 1438 B.C., based on the chronology of the 1 Kings passage.
That date does not fit with other biblical texts or with what is known of ancient Egyptian history. But the flaw is far from fatal. Sarna and others argue that the time span cited in 1 Kings -- 480 years -- should not be taken literally. "It is 12 generations of 40 years each," notes Sarna; 40 being "a rather conventional figure in the Bible," frequently used to connote a long period of time. Viewing the 1 Kings chronology in that light -- as primarily a theological statement rather than as "pure" history in the modern sense -- the Exodus can be placed in the 13th century, in the days of Ramses II, where it finds strong circumstantial support in the archaeological record.
The reigns of King David and his son Solomon over a united monarchy mark the glory years of ancient Israel. That period (roughly 1000 B.C. to 920 B.C.) -- described in detail in the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, and 1 and 2 Chronicles -- marks the beginning of an era of stronger links between biblical history and modern archaeological evidence.
Before the discovery of the "House of David" inscription at Dan in 1993, it had become fashionable in some academic circles to dismiss the David stories as an invention of priestly propagandists who were trying to dignify Israel's past after the Babylonian exile. But as Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein observes, "Biblical nihilism collapsed overnight with the discovery of the David inscription."
In the aftermath, another famous ancient inscription found more than a century ago has attracted renewed scholarly interest. The so-called Mesha Stele, like the stele on which the Dan inscription is etched, is a basalt monument from the ninth century B.C. that commemorates a military victory over Israel -- this one by the Moabite king Mesha. The lengthy Tyrian text describes how the kingdom of Moab, a land east of the Jordan River, had been oppressed by "Omri, king of Israel" (whose reign is summarized in 1 Kings 16:21-27) and by Omri's successors, and how Mesha threw off the Israelites in a glorious military campaign.
But the name of another of Mesha's conquered foes may lie hidden in a partially obliterated line of text that, transliterated, reads b[ -- ]wd; the remainder of the inscription is missing. The French scholar André LeMaire, after carefully re-examining the inscription, has suggested that the line should be filled in to read bt dwd -- "beit David," or "house of David" -- a reference to the kingdom of Judah. "No doubt," says LeMaire, "the missing part of the inscription described how Mesha also threw off the yoke of Judah and conquered the territory southeast of the Dead Sea controlled by the House of David."
As significant as they are, these two inscriptions -- both still contested -- remain for now the only extrabiblical references to David's dynasty. And both were written more than a century after the reigns of David and Solomon. Given the grandeur of the Israelite monarchy under the two kings as described in the Bible, how could such an influential and popular regime have attracted so little notice in ancient Near Eastern documents from the time?
The answer, suggests Carol Meyers, professor of biblical studies and archaeology at Duke University, may lie in the political climate in the region at the time, when, she says, "a power vacuum existed in the eastern Mediterranean." The collapse of Egypt's 20th dynasty around 1069 B.C. led to a lengthy period of economic and political decline for a nation that had exerted powerful influence over the city-states of Palestine during the Late Bronze Age. This period of Egyptian weakness, which lasted for over a century (until around 945 B.C.), saw a "relative paucity of monumental inscriptions," says Meyers. "The kings had nothing to boast about."
Similarly, the Assyrian empire to the east was unusually silent from the late 11th to the early ninth century B.C. regarding the western lands it once had dominated. Assyria was preoccupied, says Meyers, with internal turmoil following the death of one of the greatest of its early kings. Another major power in the region, Babylonia, also was uncharacteristically quiet. For centuries following a raid on Assyria in 1081 B.C., it seldom ventured beyond its own borders, says Meyers, "and thus its records would hardly have mentioned a new dynastic state to the west."
The reign of David was a time of territorial expansion for the united Israelite kingdom and was marked, according to the Bible, by a series of military victories. Twice the Israelite armies repulsed invasions by the Philistines, a belligerent horde of pagan marauders who occupied Canaan's Mediterranean coastal plains. While the Bible depicts the Philistines as a frequent nemesis of the Israelites, their name does not appear in ancient nonbiblical sources before 1200 B.C. Some minimalist scholars have suggested that the biblical stories of run-ins with the dreaded Philistines were invented by priestly scribes in the middle of the first millennium B.C. to dramatize the military prowess of the mythical Davidic dynasty.
But modern archaeology has uncovered a wealth of information regarding the Philistine "sea people" thoroughly consistent with their portrayal in the Bible. For example, sources including numerous Egyptian inscriptions indicate that the Philistines most likely originated in the Aegean area, probably on the island of Crete. That fits with biblical passages (Jeremiah 47:4 and Deuteronomy 2:23, for example) linking them with Caphtor, a location most scholars identify with Crete.
Additionally, the Bible depicts the Philistines as expert metallurgists, and archaeologists have found material evidence that the Philistines were, indeed, expert metalworkers. Trude Dothan, a Hebrew University archaeologist who has excavated many of the Philistine sites, says this superior knowledge no doubt gave them a military advantage in their early battles with the Israelites. She notes that in the famous story of the duel between David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17, the giant Philistine warrior is described as wearing a bronze helmet and bronze body armor and carrying a spear with a shaft "like a weaver's beam" and with a head of iron. "The Bible compares Goliath's spear to a weaver's beam," Dothan says, "because this type of weapon was new to Canaan and had no Hebrew name." Once again, the Bible and archaeology are in agreement.
Compared with the earlier eras of Old Testament history, the days of Jesus are a fleeting moment. A life span of just three decades and a public career of only a few years leave a dauntingly narrow target for archaeological exploration. Yet during the past four decades, spectacular discoveries have produced a wealth of data illuminating the story of Jesus and the birth of Christianity. The picture that has emerged overall closely matches the historical backdrop of the Gospels.
In 1968, for example, explorers found the skeletal remains of a crucified man in a burial cave at Giva'at ha-Mitvar, near the Nablus road outside of Jerusalem. It was a momentous discovery: While the Romans were known to have crucified thousands of alleged traitors, rebels, robbers, and deserters in the two centuries straddling the turn of the era, never before had the remains of a crucifixion victim been recovered. An initial analysis of the remains found that their condition dramatically corroborated the Bible's description of the Roman method of execution.
The bones were preserved in a stone burial box called an ossuary and appeared to be those of a man about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 24 to 28 years old. His open arms had been nailed to the crossbar, in the manner similar to that shown in crucifixion paintings. The knees had been doubled up and turned sideways, and a single large iron nail had been driven through both heels. The nail -- still lodged in the heel bone of one foot, though the executioners had removed the body from the cross after death -- was found bent, apparently having hit a knot in the wood. The shin bones seem to have been broken, corroborating what the Gospel of John suggests was normal practice in Roman crucifixions: "Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs" (19:32-33). While one later analysis drew some different conclusions about how the man died, similarities to the biblical account were affirmed.
The discovery also posed a powerful counterargument to objections some scholars have raised against the Gospels' description of Jesus's burial. It has been argued that the common practice of Roman executioners was to toss corpses of crucified criminals into a common grave or to leave them on the cross to be devoured by scavenging animals. So it hardly seems feasible, the argument goes, that Roman authorities would have allowed Jesus to undergo the burial described in the Gospels. But with the remains of a crucified contemporary of Jesus found in a family grave, it is clear that at least on some occasions the Romans permitted proper interment consistent with the biblical account.
A find at another Jerusalem site added to the list of Gospel figures whose existence has been verified by archaeology. Workers building a water park 2 miles south of the Temple Mount in 1990 inadvertently broke through the ceiling of a hidden burial chamber dating to the first century A.D. Inside, archaeologists found 12 limestone ossuaries. One contained the bones of a 60-year-old man and bore the inscription Yehosef bar Qayafa -- "Joseph, son of Caiaphas." Experts believe these remains are probably those of Caiaphas the high priest of Jerusalem, who according to the Gospels ordered the arrest of Jesus, interrogated him, and handed him over to Pontius Pilate for execution.
A few decades earlier, the name of another key figure in the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus turned up in the archaeological record: During excavations in 1961 at the seaside ruins of Caesarea Maritima, the ancient seat of Roman government in Judea, a first-century inscription was uncovered confirming that Pilate had been the Roman ruler of the region at the time of Jesus's crucifixion. Italian archaeologists working at the city's magnificent Herodian theater found the inscribed stone slab in use in the theater's steps. Experts say it originally was a first-century plaque at a nearby temple honoring the emperor Tiberius. The badly damaged Latin inscription reads in part, Tiberieum . . . [Pon]tius Pilatus . . . [Praef]ectus Juda[ea]e. According to experts, the complete inscription would have read, "Pontius Pilate, the Prefect of Judea, has dedicated to the people of Caesarea a temple in honor of Tiberius." The discovery of the so-called Pilate Stone has been widely acclaimed as a significant affirmation of biblical history because, in short, it confirms that the man depicted in the Gospels as Judea's Roman governor had precisely the responsibilities and authority that the Gospel writers ascribed to him.
Modern archaeology may not have removed all doubt about the historical accuracy of the Bible. But thanks to archaeology, the Bible "no longer appears as an absolutely isolated monument of the past, as a phenomenon without relation to its environment," as the great American archaeologist William Albright wrote at midcentury. Instead, it has been firmly fixed in a context of knowable history, linked to the present by footprints across the archaeological record.
Just as archaeology has shed new light on the Bible, the Bible in turn has often proved a useful tool for archaeologists. Yigael Yadin, the Israeli archaeologist who excavated at Hazor in the 1950s, relied heavily on its guidance in finding the great gate of Solomon at the famous upper Galilee site: "We went about discovering [the gate] with Bible in one hand and spade in the other." And Trude Dothan notes that "without the Bible, we wouldn't even have known there were Philistines."
Much work remains for the archaeological explorers of the next century, and many more mysteries of the Bible wait to be solved. Where, for example, are the lost "Annals of the Kings" of Israel and Judah cited as literary sources in the Old Testament book of 1 Kings, and the five books of Papias mentioned in early church writings as a collection of the sayings of Jesus? Will further discoveries of hidden scrolls from the Dead Sea reveal new insights into the birth of Christianity? Scholars are convinced there is much more out there waiting to be found. It's just a matter of time.


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My website just got a major overhaul and is now live.Saturday, October 12th, 2013
Check it out at www.ericred.com.
Check it out at www.ericred.com.
Super props and sincere thanks to Cliff MacMillan and Reed Kaplan at Shout Factory for doing an incredible job with the disk…the film transfer picture and sound is magnificent, every single uncut and deleted scene is included, the still gallery is comprehensive. and the behind-the-scenes documentary with cast and crew is lots of fun. I've never had a Blu Ray or DVD of any of my films turn out anywhere near as good as this, and I'm not just saying that. It's the ultimate release of COHEN AND TATE.
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My first picture COHEN AND TATE, a hard-boiled crime flick with Roy Scheider and Adam Baldwin, is being released on Blu Ray in a few months. It's about a little boy who is kidnapped by two hit men driving him back to the mob in Houston. To survive, the kid pits the two killers against each other, using psychological warfare to get them to do what they do best…to each other. The picture is now regarding as a classic modern film noir. Scheider's iconic performance as a bad guy, an icy but honorable contract killer, is not to be missed. The disk will be loaded with special features including a director commentary, uncut unrated scenes, on camera interviews, tons of behind the scenes and production stills, and script pages. Check it out!


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Can you imagine what might happen if you have the power of Google Now with Android apps on your wrist? Google has long promised that we would have computers we could wear and now they are delivering on the promise.
Today Google announced Android Wear. On the official Google Blog they announced this product in the form of watches—smartwatches as it were. According to their blog you will be able to not only tell the time but find the power of Google at your fingertips, even having voice activation.
Some of the obvious benefits of such products including notifications, apps (e.g., fitness, maps) and quick responses while keeping interactions to a minimum. With the voice activation feature all you have to do is say "O.K. Google" and you're on your way.
So, when will you be able to buy this? Right now Google is working with device makers from Asus and LG to Intel and Fossil to start production. LG is currently working on the LG G Watch and Motorola is working on the Moto 360.


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Welcome to the On Grid Solar Panels Web site. Our goal is to provide you with useful information about our company that we hope makes it easier for you to do business with us.
On Grid Solar Panels has been serving the Solar Energy community since 2008. We specialize in Photovoltaic Solar Panels.
At this site, you will discover all about our solar panels, as well as our courteous and resourceful staff.
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Remeber when Sarah shared her wonderful jam recipe? We wanted to show how that delicious little jar of homemade goodness could be transformed into…
Remeber when Sarah shared her wonderful jam recipe? We wanted to show how that delicious little jar of homemade goodness could be transformed into…
posted by Shannon The strangest thing about being a special event floral designer is you are expected to be creative on-command. It can be…
I would like to introduce you to our photographer, Charleton Churchill. I stumbled on to his blog when he was just starting out as a full time photographer and I wasn't even thinking about planning a wedding yet. I have thought from the very beginning that his artistic skills with a camera are amazing and he was the first person we hired when we got engaged.
Have you checked out the post by Amber about her tea staining paper doily adventures? Fun and easy! She was nice enough to send over a round up of projects involving paper doilies.
If you are anything like me, you love DIY projects that require very little set-up, and even fewer supplies. If it requires me to special order a part or piece on-line, or make trips to five different stores for the right supplies… it probably isn't going to happen any time soon. That simple fact is why I love paper projects. Who doesn't have paper lying around?
One of the small details one runs into when planning a wedding in an out of the way location is making sure everyone arrives to that location with minimal u-turns and stops at the gas station to ask for directions. While checking the directions given on the usual mapping sites (lets face it, we've all been given wrong instructions on how to arrive at our destination) I came across Bing.com Destination Maps.
Not all of your wedding guests will be oenophiles and expect to be delicately swirling a mouthful of 2007 Opus One as they discuss how lovely you, the bride looked in your vintage Chantilly lace gown. The average wedding guest just wants to get their buzz on! In this case, the cost per bottle of wine becomes important. Especially when you are trying to quench the thirst of 150 wedding guests.
So in my HOURS of research on all thing wedding related, the thing I have been most surprised about is how much things cost. All things. I was so naïve about how much money goes into each portion of a wedding. But regardless of the reason for my surprise, I have been looking for ways to save pennies any where I can. One of the ways that I have saved some money is by making our own save the dates.
One of the projects I plan on starting this week is to work on our wedding favors. In my opinion wedding favors should have meaning behind them. I don't think they should be just some cheap little "gift" that you feel obligated to send your guests home with. Especially if most people are going to take that gift home and throw it away or put it in the junk drawer.
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No matter what sport you play or whose uniform you wear, whether you're a pro or a weekend warrior, you're part of an exclusive group of people – you're an athlete. Athletes require a special kind of health care, an elite kind of health care. That's what St. Luke's Sports Medicine provides. And that puts us all on the same team.
We are committed to caring for athletes and other physically active individuals with a multidisciplinary team approach, and we are a leader in advanced treatments for patients with orthopaedic and sports-related injuries. From surgical sports medicine expertise to innovative therapy and athletic injury rehabilitation, our orthopaedic surgeons, primary care sports medicine physicians, rehabilitation specialists, athletic trainers, exercise physiologists and physical therapists provide the region's most comprehensive, technically advanced and responsive treatment for athletic injuries.
As part of the St. Luke's team, your athletes can take advantage of fast track/priority scheduling and care. This means we will expedite the diagnosis and treatment of your athletes' injuries to the best of our ability and get them back to you and back in the line-up.
In addition to Easton Area, Wilson Area, Notre Dame, Marian Catholic, Whitehall, Northampton, Quakertown, Jim Thorpe, Mahanoy Area in Pennsylvania and Belvidere High School, Warren Hills Regional High School, Delaware Valley Regional High School, Phillipsburg School District and Centenary College in New Jersey, St. Luke's Sports Medicine has recently signed contracts to provide both Moravian College and Bethlehem Area School District (BASD) with sports medicine services. St. Luke's Sports Medicine is also the official medical provider for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association's (PIAA) District XI, the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks and the Parkettes.
In addition, St. Luke's is partnering with Moravian College to develop a center for sports medicine that will integrate an academic learning environment with the real-world application of programs and services. The center will be located at 1441 Schoenersville Road in Bethlehem.
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Take a few minutes and check out our play book. We have everything it takes to gut it out with you right there on your field or court. We'll get you back on your feet as quickly as possible.
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High School: St. Xavier
College: Notre Dame (school history)
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Management & Leadership TeamCollectively, our managers hold over 100 years of experience within the industry
Anthony F. Carabello
AR Logix, Inc. CEO & President
"My purpose and passion is to work in partnership with the healthcare community by helping them achieve a high level of success by focusing on education, higher levels of patient satisfaction and revenue cycle management."
Anthony Carabello began his industry career in June 1989 as CEO and President of Berks Credit & Collections, Inc. It was this first start-up company that inspired him to concentrate in the healthcare industry.
While working in the medical industry, Mr. Carabello saw the challenges providers were facing; from purchasing and training with new technology, staffing shortages, higher balances for self-pay patients and the ever changing regulations. It was this realization that inspired Mr. Carabello to start his early-out and extended business office company, OutReach, LLC.
OutReach, LLC was designed to help elevate providers' struggles with decreases in their revenue, resources and capital. As an extension of the provider's business office through OutReach, we are able to create customizable solutions to help manage these challenges. OutReach will examine current practices to help identify inefficiencies and will offer solutions that makes any provider utilize best practices that will generate revenue growth while maintaining patient relationships.
With every new client, Mr. Carabello enjoyed teaching their staff how to collect from patients. By 2004, he was influenced and honored by his own clients to become an educational healthcare speaker and leader in the industry. Mr. Carabello had created Collector University– free seminars and educational training-to share his knowledge with all providers whether a client or not. He teaches through his collections experience to patient account representatives that communication with a patient regarding an outstanding balance does not have to be stressful. In fact, through Mr. Carabello's proven techniques it can make the job rewarding
Mr. Carabello's newest formation of AR Logix, Inc. will allow the company to share resources and synergize new strategies to all our clients who are currently being serviced by OutReach, Berks Credit & Collections and Collector University. With the AR Logix brand of companies, medical providers will be able to use best practices in enhancing recoveries and improving efficiencies.
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Amy Folk Business Operations and Development
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19 October - 2 November 2008
Design Turkey Industrial Design Awards, aims to demonstrate the benefits that good design brings to Turkish society and industry, by rewarding good design which respects user needs, provides added value and competitive advantage to the product.
Above: Press meeting and event launch, held on May 30, 2008.
Above: Press meeting and event launch, held on May 30, 2008.
Award categoriesDesign Turkey Awards are presented under two main categories:
- Product Design Awards: given to the products due to the evaluation of the jury, which meet certain criteria among the products, which are manufactured and launched in the market, and passed the pre-evaluation stage.
- Good Design Awards: Good design is functional, usable and honest. It responds to the users' needs. It does not harm human health, safety and the environment. Its benefit and cost is proportional. It is detailed for a good quality production. Good Design Awards are given as a result of the evaluation on sectional basis considering these criteria.
- Superior Design Awards: If a good design is at the same time innovative or superior in its functionality or visuality, offers new possibilities to its user, contributes to the development of work environment, brand or development of industry, or contributes positively to the society, culture or environment, it is superior in comparison to other designs. Superior design awards are given to the designs, among Good Design Award winners, which fulfil at least one-superiority criteria.
- TURQUALITY® Design Awards: given to the outstanding five (5) designs, among superior design awards winners with a Turkish brand.
- Conceptual Design Awards: given to the design projects due to the evaluation of the jury, which meet conceptual design criteria among the design projects, which are not programmed for manufacture, and passed the pre-evaluation stage.
Online applicationApplication requirements and dates for the award are published on the event website.
Pre-evaluationGroup of experts composed of 30 people evaluate the online applications according to award context, suitability and originality.
RewardingOwners of products that pass pre-evaluation stage are invited to the exhibition in Istanbul. Expert juries evaluate the exhibited real products and presentation boards and present the awards accordingly. For larger products, the jury will examine their scaled models and/or large photographs.
PresentationAwards are published to the press and public through the award ceremony at the exhibition opening. Exhibition is open to the public, press establishments, public institutions, manufacturing companies, high level representatives of business life and all actors of the design world.
ConferenceThe conference in 2008 will place emphasis on contemporary approaches in design practice from practitioners', design managers', educationalists' and strategists' perspective. It aims to demonstrate how design brings success at corporate level through cases of success stories and how it can contribute to the development of national industry and economy.
About Design Turkey Industrial Design AwardsDesign Turkey Industrial Design Awards, is a design evaluation system organized with the collaboration of Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade (DTM), Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) and Industrial Designers Society of Turkey (ETMK), within the framework of TURQUALITY® programme in order to reward good design in Turkey, which provides added value and competitive advantage to the products in local and international markets, and which respects users' needs. Theoretical infrastructure of Design Turkey Industrial Design Awards System is coordinated by ETMK, by collecting views from an advisory board composed of experts from designers, academics and interdisciplinary professionals.
For official event details, please visit the event website.
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Event updates2008 winners announced
The winners of the Design Turkey Industrial Design Awards have been announced.
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Key dates
May 30 - September 1, 2008
August 18 - September 12, 2008
Pre-evaluation online
September 17, 2008
Notification of pre-evaluation results
October 3, 2008
Submission of into and payment for the exhibition
October 17-18, 2008
Installation of exhibition
October 19-20, 2008
Final jury evaluation
October 21, 2008
Award ceremony and exhibition opening
October 21 - November 2, 2008
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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." -- Mark Russell
I don't wear make-up, so had not heard of her before her death. Rest in peace, sweetie.
I've Been Frosted
Incredibly saddened to hear about this yesterday. Through her videos she always seemed like such a charismatic person, the kind whose mood is infectious. I'm glad she got to experience so much in her life. I believe she has helped a lot of young girls feel beautiful, especially those fighting a similar battle.
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Floridians frustrated by the state's past restriction on access to their lab results, can take heart. As part of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), residents can now get their own test results directly from the lab.
No more hanging by the phone, anxiously waiting for a call from the doctor or her nurse for a report and no more arguing with the lab that as the patient, the results are, in fact, yours.
The new rule, announced earlier this month and published in the Federal Register is part of the administration's belief that patients need more control over their own health care.
"Information like lab results can empower patients to track their health progress, make decisions with their health care professionals, and adhere to important treatment plans," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The rule supersedes state laws like those in Florida and 14 other states (Rhode Island, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Wyoming, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York) that have prohibited labs from releasing test reports directly to the patient without the ordering provider's consent.
Most physicians contacted for this article support the new rule because it encourages patients to be more empowered with respect to their own healthcare. All say they plan to continue to be proactively engaged in monitoring results, reaching out to patients when an ordered test is abnormal.


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Voila! That's French for something and it seems an appropriate way to inaugurate my website Tranifesto here at the all new, fully updated and re-designed PeachesChrist.com. I'm beyond thrilled to be presenting this online world of all things Peaches Christ Productions, and I'm hoping you'll explore everything we have to offer here and become one of us, the children of the popcorn. I should warn you though that as you read this very sentence I'm washing your brain. Peaches is pretty. Peaches is pretty. Peaches is pretty.
Enter the Peaches Universe!
This is a universe that celebrates the cult movie experience, studies it, worships it, and re-creates it. We are movie dorks and proud of it. I've dedicated my life to celluloid worship and am constantly recruiting like-minded film lovers and followers. It's my hope that through the world wide web we will be able to find more of our kind; people who want to get involved in what we do, share their love of the underground world we inhabit, and become their own fully realized embodiment of the cult superstar. A good way to start is by creating your stage / drag name while registering as a PeachesChrist.com user so that you can join our depraved online community.
Enjoy your stay and visit often!
Here at PeachesChrist.com, you the visitor will be able to stay fully up to date on the goings on of yours truly, but most importantly we'll all be able to share ideas and information about the stuff we love, as well as, the stuff we hate. We will be providing fresh content on a regular basis so you'll want to become a daily visitor. This is now your favorite website. Bookmark this website. Bookmark this website. Bookmark this website.
Brand new website. Same old cretins running it.
In creating the new site, I've approached it in the same way that I create one of my Midnight Mass movie events. A group of some of my most talented friends and collaborators came together to create it and I couldn't have done it without them. We will be featuring content from a "colorful" array of contributors including regular submissions from clowns, satanists, women in prison, bad seeds, serial killers, and church leaders. Please, get involved. Join us. Join us. Join us. It's going to be an absolute blast!
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HIGH TIMES Presents "Free Weed from Danny Danko" Episode 8 features an interview with Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Associate Professor Emeritus of Harvard Medical School and author of both Marijuana Reconsidered and Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine. Cultivation info includes cannabis storage tips, Strain of the Week and Dear Danko grow questions and answers. Bonus: Igs from Migs (Maine Indoor Garden Supply) grow guy.
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Santana: Flame-Sky
Welcome (Columbia Legacy CK 85944)
Carlos Santana (guitar), John McLaughlin (guitar),
Tom Coster (keyboards), Richard Kermode (Hammond organ), Doug Rauch (bass), Maitreya Michael Shrieve (drums), Armando Peraza (congas).
Composed by Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin & Doug Rauch.
Recorded: New York, May 1973
Rating: 97/100 (learn more)
For years, copies of the Welcome LP were near collectibles. Long out of print, the album only became available again with its 2003 CD reissue. Without a doubt the tune that made the album so desirable to many fusionphiles was "Flame-Sky." This legendary performance featured Santana with guitar buddy and spiritual guide Mahavishnu John McLaughlin during the apex of their historic collaborations. The recording session took place around the time McLaughlin and Santana were finishing their co-release Love Devotion Surrender.
"Flame-Sky" begins with gentle intentions and the sustained notes of a lengthy soaring Santana solo. The song's midsection devolves into some evil intentions before the pace picks up appreciably. The music becomes a dense mess of conflict and resolution. This is just what every fusion fanatic loves! Organists Tom Coster and Richard Kermode, replacing the great Larry Young from the LDS sessions, provide double-barreled action. Drummer Michael Shrieve, who had also taken on a religious name by this time, pounds away like there is no afterlife. Santana and McLaughlin swap violent entreaties. Bassist Rauch is lost someplace in the mix, but you can feel his presence. Did I mention that McLaughlin and Santana are giving as good as they are getting? Are we delivered yet? Yes. Welcome to the glorious world of "Flame-Sky."
Reviewer: Walter Kolosky
Tags: 1970s jazz · fusion · guitar
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// Mar 30, 2009 at 10:19 PM
When will the next generation re-discover this album, these musicians, this music, and above all this track? Their apogee, no, actually their apotheosis. After 36 years of listening it still bears repeated listening as no other piece of music does.


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I'm saving images on different pages, and I'd prefer to use the alt text associated to the images as file names instead of the default file name (which doesn't mean anything at times.)
So how do I "Save image as…"
alt text.ext automatically?
Right click on the image, and click
Select the text and copy it. Now click on Save AS, paste in the name and click Save.
This of course assumes that there is alt text present.
I know you're using firefox but I couldn't find one that'd work very well. There's an extension for chrome called Pendule. Among other features, it has the ability to show the text of the alt text, there's also a more detailed features that grabs all images on one pages and displays information about each image. Check out the pics and see if it's something that'd work for what you want. I know it's not firefox, but it's a solution that'd be quicker than mousing over each image for instance. You can get it here:


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Height: 6-2 Weight: 195 lbs.
Born: November 20, 1919 in St. Anthony, ID
Died: May 26, 1992 in Bakersfield, CA
High School: Bountiful
College: USC (school history)
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)
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West of Las Vegas, Nevada
It's not easy to find a wild campsite on the weekend when you're close to a large population center such as Las Vegas. But "Tigie" is a little guy and can squeeze into some of the narrowest places - like this one which was just a few feet off the main gravel road in the Spring Mountains area. These thick pinyon and juniper trees afforded us complete camouflage from passers-by.


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Adding Sprinkler Systems: What You Need To KnowInstalling the right sprinkler system can save time and money, as well as conserve energy and water output. It can also increase the lushness and health of your lawn. Ready to get started?
Working For The Weekend: Post-Christmas EventsChristmas may be over, but that doesn't mean the celebrations are. From Kwanzaa to hockey, WCCO's Natalie Nyhus shows us some great events happening this weekend to check out.
Meet The WCCO Rooftop!The whole WCCO family is excited about our latest addition – the WCCO Rooftop! It has an outdoor kitchen, a working gas fireplace, locally grown plants and an amazing view above Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. There's green, local, lush landscape to use for an array of purposes, including outdoor camping segments and even musical guests. The plants are mostly locally grown, and the soil is locally sourced from Mississippi Top Soils in Cold Spring.


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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz chaired the regular weekly session of the Council of Ministers today, and welcomed the ministers following last Wednesday's reshuffle of the cabinet.
The cabinet was then briefed on the latest international developments, notably the situation in Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories. In this regard, King Fahd informed the cabinet of the results of consultations, meetings and contacts held last week by himself and by Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. The cabinet expressed its satisfaction over the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two neighborly countries of Pakistan and India, stressing that this positive step will contribute to creating an appropriate atmosphere for dealing with the outstanding issues between them and provide a solid ground for the enhancement of stability and peace in the region.
Turning to domestic issues, the cabinet passed a number of resolutions, including authorization for the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources to conclude an agreement with the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden) and Saudi Oger to conduct an economic feasibility study for a phosphates mine and a purification unit in the Northern Borders Province and for a fertilizer factory in Jubail; approval for the formation of a high-level task force of representatives from the Ministry of Transport, the Saudi Arabian General Investment Fund (SAGIA) and the Ma'aden Company, to conclude agreements on technical studies for the project of the north-south expansion of the railway system, the necessary documents to be prepared for international tender before June 30, 2004; authorization for the Secretary-General of King Abdulaziz Foundation for Archives and Research (Darat Almalik Abdulaziz) to sign a draft cooperation agreement with Yemen's National Center for Documents; authorization for the Minister of Interior or his deputy to discuss a draft security agreement with the Republic of Ukraine; and approval for representatives from the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Water and Electricity, and the Ministry of Agriculture to be added to the Board of Directors of the Saudi Arabian Standards Organization (SASO).


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Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses remarks made yesterday by New York Assemblywoman Margaret Markey: Catholics in New York State are very concerned about a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Margaret Markey that would discriminate against the Catholic Church by opening the door to endless claims of sexual abuse while at the same time giving... [Read more...]FREE SPEECH IN CONNECTICUT: CATHOLICS NEED NOT APPLY
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses the state of free speech for Catholics in Connecticut: Three months ago, two lawmakers from Connecticut sought a state takeover of the governing structure of the Catholic Church. This gambit, which we properly labeled a "fascist stunt," lost. The reason it lost is because of the courageous reaction... [Read more...]SCAPEGOATING O'REILLY
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a story in today's New York Times that details how some of Bill O'Reilly's critics are trying to blame him for the death of Dr. George Tiller: In all of Bill O'Reilly's denunciations of Dr. George Tiller, he never once called for anyone to even post his address on the web, never mind call... [Read more...]THE POLITICS OF TILLER'S DEATH
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On Thursday, Alhebayeb (9-2 betting odds) won the Group 2 TNT July Stakes at Newmarket. In securing the victory in the six furlong horserace, jockey Paul Hanagan earned £34,026
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Hanagan found his 8-12 weight runner striving in spite of the hill, and Lewisham appeared to lose momentum in these final stages. Many of the contenders participated in various races at the Royal Ascot three weeks ago. The TNT July Stakes allows two-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings to compete in the event.
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A Time For Everything
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
This weekend was all about graduations...We had a fun weekend going to my nieces' graduations on Saturday and Sunday. Julie Kathryn graduated from the University of Montevallo. It was a bit bittersweet because this was where my mom attended college back in the 50's when it was called Alabama College....back then it was an all girls college. Oh how we wished that Mom could have been there to see her first grand daughter graduate from the college she attended! It was also special for me because Julie and I were both Phi Mus.
Sunday my other niece, Lauren, graduated with honors from Auburn University and that was special too since my dad, my sisters, and I had all attended Auburn. Lauren was a Chi Omega just like my sisters. Mom was such a huge Auburn fan and she would have loved being there to see Lauren graduate! We especially missed Mom this weekend. We were so proud of Julie Kathryn and Lauren and the fine young ladies that they have become...Mom would have been so proud!
THIS was the time to celebrate the younger generations accomplishments, and I thought of this Bible verse about there being a time for all things. Life does go on....
Even though we were not ready to say goodbye to Mom, I guess it was her time to go. She lived a great life and she lives on in our memories, in the faces of her grand children, and in the great legacy she left behind.
It's my time to mourn her passing right now, but someday the grief pains won't be so sharp. Even though I will always miss her, someday life will return to normal.
Even though I wonder how life could possibly go on...it does.
Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds
Turn Turn Turn ( to Everything There Is a Season) was adapted from the book of Ecclesiastes (3:1) by Pete Seeger in 1959. In 1965 The Byrds recording went to #1 on the Billboard 100.
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Lovely song and bible verse. I find myself thinking of it often myself. It helps me to put a positive spin on things that seem not to have one.
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Sending you big hugs...
I lost my Mom back in September. We just found out that grandbaby # 3 is on the way in October and the first thing we all thought was that she would have loved to have met this new little one. All I can say is that I know she IS spending some special time with this new little love up in heaven before he/she arrives.
I pray that God holds you in the palm of His hand and that the beautiful memories of your mom comfort you and bring you peace.
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It's good to see you focus on celebrating the life of your Mom. She IS proud of you and your family. She's still with you and always will be.
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Dads are not mom's but I understand feeling like the pain will never end. My daddy was 49 when he passed. He was my biggest supporter in life. But the pain did fade and was filled with the awesomeness of who he was. It has been over 20 years and I can still well up from time to time and long for his voice or the touch of his hand but overall I am just filled with the peace of knowing he is with the Father and I really will see him again one day. My prayer for you is that your pain days become less and less and that your heart doesn't hurt so much. That God holds you close as you go through the grief to the other side.
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Bonnie, congratulations to Lauren & Julie Kathryn! I am so glad you have such a sweet family. I know this is a difficult time for all of you & it is wonderful you can be surrounded with such a loving family to share your memories of your Mom and to spend special moments with your neices' graduation ceremonies etc.
Please know you all are in my thoughts and prayers. I understand.
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One of my favorite verses.
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