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Mango Moon Recycled Silk Yarn
Each skein of Mango Moon's recycled fiber yarn is a unique, handspun creation. These yarns retain the beautiful colors of the saris and sarongs they came from, so no two skeins are exactly alike. Colors will vary since each skein is unique. Handspun in Nepal.
Note: Handspun yarn varies; suggested gauge is only a guideline.
- Content:
- 100% Recycled Silk
- Care:
- Hand Wash, Dry Flat
- Weight/Yardage:
- ~5.9oz/150yd
- Gauge:
- 3 sts = 1" on US 10
- Knitting Weight:
- Bulky
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- Hides mistakes (5)
- Knits quickly (3)
- Nice texture (3)
- Unravels (4)
Best Uses
- Scarves (5)
- Reviewer Profile:
- Artist (4), Enthusiast (3)
- Was this a gift?:
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Reviewed by 7 customers
(1 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
By Sue the yarn freak
from El Cerrito, California
About Me Very Experianced
- Hard To Work With
- Horrible Stuff
- Snags
- Twists Up
- Unravels
Best Uses
- Nothing
Comments about Mango Moon Recycled Silk Yarn:
You can't wind it into a ball, it sticks to itself, tangles, it's the worst thing I ever used. I managed to make a hat with stocking stitch, lace was impossible. Even an SSK didn't work. I'll never use something like this again.
- Was this a gift?:
- No
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
(1 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
Gourmet Eyelash
- Knits Quickly
- Nice Texture
- Soft
Best Uses
- Scarves
Comments about Mango Moon Recycled Silk Yarn:
I made a simple capelet with this yarn and it is drop dead gorgeous. I get compliments every time I wear it. I used size 11 needles and a simple garter/stockinette stitch. Paired with a deep, cobalt blue cotton, the colors vibrate. The yarn has a nice weight to it and is perfect for this summer accessory.
- Was this a gift?:
- No
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
Weaves in beautifully
By pauliev
from Cookeville, TN
About Me Artist
- Hides Mistakes
- Nice Texture
Best Uses
- Scarves
Comments about Mango Moon Recycled Silk Yarn:
I am a weaver, not a knitter and stumbled upon this product when looking for something to use with some other silk yarns from my mom's stash. The colors worked and I grabbed it. I wove this into a warp of linen & hemp, the sett was 24 epi. In addition I was doing a Bronson Lace pattern. All of the yarns were larger than I normally use, including the Mango Moon. I did mix the fibers as I wove, sometimes using a fine tencel to anchor the larger fibers. I couldn't be happier with the results. The final shawl has a wonderful drape, nice handfeel and is unexpectedly soft. I will be purchasing more in the future...I think the key to sucess with this is to mix it in with other yarns which allows the colors and textures to really impact the whole project.
- Was this a gift?:
- No
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
(13 of 13 customers found this review helpful)
Requires patience/careful pattern choice
By Knit Nan
from Colorado
About Me Artist, Enthusiast
- Hides Mistakes
- Huge Color Variety
- Knits Quickly
- Soft
- Sheds
Best Uses
- Scarves
- SmallLight Items
- Trim
Comments about Mango Moon Recycled Silk Yarn:
I love the idea behind this yarn: recycling fabric, providing jobs where needed. The colors and sheen are truly amazing, as well.
Color: The colors in each hank are put together well. Beware, however, if you want to make any project requiring more than 1 hank. Getting any 2 to match up well is challenging. If you like variety and surprises, this is a great yarn for you!
Texture: It's quite soft overall, though varies greatly in coarseness. I've knitted 12-15 hanks of this in the last year, so am very familiar with it. Some sections are as thin as lace weight yarn, others as thick as super bulky. I don't find this to be a problem, but it was surprising the first time I used it. Sometimes there are bits of paper or plastic entwined with the silk but I've never had trouble pulling them loose. I've not had trouble with the twisting that others mention, but do be prepared to have 1-2 breaks per hank. I use a weaver's knot to secure those.
Weight: This yarn is *extremely* heavy!! It makes interesting accents against solid colors (cuffs, collars, bottom trim) but for a full garment, even something as small as a vest, I wouldn't suggest it. It doesn't drape at all, or hold any kind of shape.
Scarves: I find that a single hank makes a beautiful scarf in a very simple lace stitch (like k2, YO, p2tog). It does *not* make fringe well, so don't bother trying. I have found that somewhat large silver beads (inexpensive from a hobby store) make a nice finsh at both ends of the scarf. I thread them on the yarn before CO, then add 1 at about every 1-1.5 inches in my first row and the same in the last row before binding off. The silver really stands out against the bright colors of the silk. On a scarf, the beads also help the ends to lie more flatly against or towards the body and give it a more finished look.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
(13 of 13 customers found this review helpful)
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
Trade off: Pretty and fun, not perfect
By Reebo95
from Easthampton, MA
- Hides Mistakes
- Knits Quickly
- Nice Texture
- Unravels
Best Uses
Comments about Mango Moon Recycled Silk Yarn:
I used it to make a cap sleeved Cardi- kinda risky considering how heavy it is, but that was my risk to take :). I did find that there was a lot of debris woven into the yarn- mostly slivers of wood or what looked like pine needles or rosemary. Because of it's recycled nature, it unspun a couple times, but only 2-3 times in 3 skeins. It still has a nice feel and I don't regret the puchase.
- Was this a gift?:
- No
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
Interesting but Impractical
By Kaypee65
from Anchorage Alaska
About Me Artist, Novice
- Gorgeous sheen and color
- Hides Mistakes
- Coarse
- Debris entwined in yarn
- Unravels
Best Uses
- Scarves
Comments about Mango Moon Recycled Silk Yarn:
I love the concept of the Nepal Women's project and the breathtaking sheen and color of this yarn. However I found it unpleasant to use. First, there is a cacaphony of color, so this yarn is best used as an accent. Next it is so heavy you have to be mindful that it drops/sags instead of draping unless it's added in sparingly. Lastly, I found myself unwinding the yarn frequently because it was so tightly spun. Plus it was necessary to twist out mysterious debris that had spun in with the silk as I went.
The scarf I made is for a very socially conscious young woman, and I know she'll love the piece, it's both elegant and causal. I used the silk as a chain link pattern over royal blue Araucania Azapa. However I really didn't enjoy knitting this yarn. As easily as my head is turned by shiny fibers, I will not buy this particular yarn again.
- Was this a gift?:
- No
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
By Fancy
from Benicia, CA
About Me Artist, Enthusiast
- Fair trade item
- Hides Mistakes
- Comes apart easily
- Twists Up
- Unravels
- Unspin spun to tight
- Very time comsuming
Best Uses
- Scarves
Comments about Mango Moon Recycled Silk Yarn:
I love the idea, but it is tiring, constantly having to stop and let the fabric unspin as you use it, and do not unspin it too much, as it will come apart and you have to make a knot to continue.
It is beautiful when made up, but not satisfying to use.
- Was this a gift?:
- No
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
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December 3, 1998
A school-record five UCLA women's soccer players were named to the 1998 NSCAA/Umbro All-Far West team today. UCLA's five honorees rank only second to second-ranked Santa Clara. Junior defender Skylar Little (Pacific Palisades/ Marymount HS) received UCLA's only first-team selection and earned her first- ever All-Far West selection. Little helped lead UCLA to a school record 11 shutouts this season.
Freshman forward Staci Duncan (San Jose/Archbishop Mitty HS), UCLA's leading scorer this season, finished the season ranked second in points (31) and assists (9) and third in goals scored (11) in the Pac-10. With only one year of collegiate action under her belt, she already ranks fifth all-time on UCLA's career scoring list.
After posting a career-high 0.82 GAA and leading the league all season in goalkeeping, junior goalkeeper Lindsay Culp (Santa Rosa/Santa Rosa HS) was named to the All-Far West third team for the first time in her career. She is the school-record holder in season wins (17), career wins (45), season shutouts (10) and career shutouts (26.5). Culp becomes the first-ever UCLA goalkeeper to receive this honor.
Sophomore midfielder Sommer Hammoud (Cypress/Los Alamitos HS), the 1997 Pac- 10 Freshman of the Year, was also named to the All-Far West third team. This is her first All-Far West selection.
Rounding out UCLA's selections to the All-Far West team is third-team honoree Venus James (Oakland/Bishop O'Dowd HS). James, a sophomore who converted this season from the forward position to the midfield, finished the season ranked third on the team in scoring with 21 points (10g, 1a). This is her first All-Far West selection as well.

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METAIRIE — When the Saints face the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, which quarterback they will go against — Alex Smith or Colin Kaepernick — is the least of their worries on that side of the ball.
Smith missed Monday's game against the Chicago Bears because of a concussion and his status for the matchup with the Saints is in question.
Kaepernick, a second-year pro, took over for Smith and directed the 49ers' easy 32-7 win over the Bears, completing 16 of 23 passes for 243 yards with two touchdowns while posting a passer rating of 133.1.
Saints interim coach Joe Vitt was more concerned Wednesday with the 49ers' top-ranked running game which averages 165.3 yards a game and 5.5 yards per attempt.
"Both of those quarterbacks do a great job of functioning within the system, but this is a run-first offense," Vitt emphasized. "They're running the ball better than anybody in the NFL right now.
"They're proficient at a gap scheme, they're proficient at the toss-crack perimeter scheme, they're proficient at pulling the guard to the front side. And, they have a great wham scheme."
HARBAUGH COY: Niners coach Jim Harbaugh, who said Monday night that he'll go with the quarterback that has the hot hand if Smith is cleared to play this week, wasn't about to let the Saints know who they'll be facing.
"In both guys, we have quarterbacks we're confident in and believe in — and have won for us," he said, "Alex over a long period of 25 games and Colin playing winning football the last two times he's been out on the field.
"Plus, (Kaepernick) has gotten to play this year. Both have displayed that they are guys that we believe in, are confident in, and can win for us."
Vitt said the Saints simply have to be ready for both and that they can't be too consumed with who'll eventually start.
STRIEF RETURNS: The Saints got good news Wednesday when right tackle Zach Strief, who missed the last two games with a groin injury, was able to practice on a limited basis for the first time since being hurt on Nov. 5.
Strief said he had a procedure done by noted sports hernia specialist Dr. William Meyers, who repaired a core muscle injury and not a sports hernia.
Strief said Thursday will be a key day for him to see how he responds to Wednesday's physical activity, but the decision to play or not play Sunday will lie with the coaches and trainers.
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PRACTICE REPORT: Four Saints — DE Junior Galette (ankle), CB Corey White (knee), T Charles Brown (knee) and CB Elbert Mack (concussion) — did not participate in Wednesday's practice.
Vitt said White, who missed last week's game, is getting better quickly. That could be a key because Mack, his replacement in the nickel package, has to go through the concussion protocol before returning to the field.
Strief was the only player who was limited Wednesday.
ROSTER MOVES: With Strief still not at full strength and Brown likely to miss Sunday's game, the Saints signed tackle Williams Robinson to the active roster and released wide receiver Greg Camarillo.
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To help commemorate Easter, the Buffalo Spirituality Examiner will begin a study on a rather unconventional source of the words of Jesus Christ. This source is the Gospel ccording to Thomas, an apocryphal gospel, that this examiner believes should be studied and by more than just scholars.
This is a gospel that is rich in lore and tradition as the canonical gospels, and it also has much to say to the world in revealing the nature of Jesus and his legacy to the world. This gospel has much to say to the world and to Christians. Orthodox Christians ignore it because it is not in the approved reading list or canon of sacred literature. But this gospel may be more authentic than people think. In the spirit of the name of this website, The Examiner, let us now examine this gospel on detail.
Introduction to the study of the Gospel According to Thomas
For many years, it was known to scholars that there were other Christian writings besides the canonical books in the Bible. And there has been much speculation and wonder as to what sort of writings were left out when the Bible as we know it was being compiled. Since some of these ancient books have come to light, many of them have been found to be garbage and they rightly deserved to be left on the cutting room floor. But some writings are at least fascinating and reveal a far more detailed and rich history of our Bible and how our Bible came to be the Bible that we know today. And the Gospel According to Thomas is one such book.
This book, also known as the Logia Iesou, first came to light with the Oxyrrhynchus Papyri found in Greek in Egypt in 1903 by two archeologists Grenfell and Hunt. But this copy of the gospel was badly fragmented and very little survived and only gave a tantalizing clue as to the content of this gospel. It was not until 1945, in Egypt again, in a place called Nag Hammadi, that another manuscript was found, this time in Sahidic Coptic which contained a more complete version of this gospel.
Since then, the gospel has been under much scrutiny. Scholars herald it as a version of the long lost Q or Quelle document i.e. the source document for the sayings of Jesus found in our canonical gospels. This examiner thinks, however, that a simpler hypothesis exists. The Q is actually simply oral tradition and that the Thomas gospel in its earlier versions was probably written contemporaneously with the canonical gospels or perhaps a little later. During the generation following Jesus' ministry on earth, stories circulated about what Jesus said and taught, but it was not until after the earliest followers of Jesus began to die off that the need arose to preserve the traditions, sayings, and teachings of Jesus in their original forms. As stories and sayings got passed around, distortions began to arise, and as the new generation came, they needed a reliable tradition base, and so around 70 CE and after, a flurry of writing began to take place where writers querying earlier generations began to collect the teachings, sayings, and biographical information about Jesus and began preserving them in written form which would help protect them from distortion and loss. And many such gospels were written in addition to our four canonical gospels. This crop of early traditions about Jesus circulated around the ancient world.
Some gospels were written for public consumption such as the canonical gospels. These were written to elucidate and inform readers about the basic teachings and life of Jesus. These were written mostly for unbelievers and recent converts who wanted to know the basic tenets of Christianity and of Jesus. But it is also believed that in this crop of early gospels, that there were other gospels that contained deeper teachings and saying, that were not revealed to the general public, and these gospels were known as private gospels. These gospels were meant for mature believers and were meant for people who were already grounded in the Word and wanted something far deeper and were ready for what the Apostle Paul called the "meat" of the Word (Heb 5:12 -14). Most Christians were only being nourished on the "milk" (1 Pet. 2:2) of the Word, and were like babies in Christ, but there were others that were ready to go deeper into the things in the Kingdom of God.
The exact history of the Gospel According to Thomas is difficult to pin down. If one favors an early date, it is possible to suppose it could have been written in the late first century of the Christian era as a contemporary of the other gospels. Most scholars however favor a mid second century date at around 140 - 150 CE. And many apocryphal gospels were written around that period as well. The manuscripts and fragments that we have in Greek and Coptic were written long after its original writing. The Coptic manuscript believed to have been written in the middle of the fifth century CE, and the Greek fragments a little before that.
It is a known fact that some of these sayings in the Gospel of Thomas are also preserved in a document called the Gospel According to the Hebrews, which was known to even some early Church Fathers. This was an Aramaic gospel that may be representative of the crop of early gospels written in the late first century or very early second century. And some theorists suppose that the Gospel of Thomas is actually an extract of the Gospel of the Hebrews. Irenaeus of Lyons (c 115? - c 202 CE) and Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 - 215 CE ) knew of the Hebrew gospel and even occasionally quote from it and these are the earliest Church Fathers that are thought to have known of it.
The Gospel of Thomas itself is unusual in its content. The gospel is simply a list of Jesus' sayings. One hundred and fourteen sayings are recognized in this gospel, but there were likely more, and some sayings appear to have been fused together as one. Unlike traditional gospels, it contains almost no biographical information about Jesus except what appears in context of the sayings. The synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) are almost purely biographical, starting with his birth or, in the case of Mark, his ministry, and going chronologically until his death, and then follows with his resurrection and ascension. (Mark ends abruptly with his resurrection, and some additional material describing his ascension was added later.) The Gospel of John is thematic, but still contains a great deal of biographical information and then at the end goes chronologically through his death and resurrection and some events after his resurrection. In the Gospel of Thomas, there is no mention of his death, resurrection, his ministry, or birth, or any details about his life. In the beginning of the Gospel in the introduction, we have merely Jesus described as "the One who lives forever, " or more literally, "the ever living Jesus." It also describes itself as having a catalogue of "secret" teachings of Jesus. This was a literary device of Gnostic Christians to indicate that there were layers of knowledge that were to be obtained in Christianity, and as before mentioned, even Orthodox Christians might have had layers of knowledge containing public and private teachings of Jesus based on the maturity of the Christian.
And the gospel as it stands now has much more Gnostic content than the canonical gospels, which was the reason why it was rejected and not included in our Bibles. But it may not have begun as a Gnostic gospel. If it belonged to the early crop of gospels, it might have been an Orthodox gospel and early Christians might have used the gospel.
Now we should note that the word "Orthodox" is a loaded word and is relative to the one using it. It should be understood that every religion and every sect regards itself as orthodox and other sects and religions as unorthodox. Here it is not being used to indicate that one religion is "true" and others "false." But here this word is being used to simply distinguish what might be labeled as traditional or accepted Christianity as we know it today versus other variant sects that existed in the early days of Christianity. These sects will be labeled as "Gnostic."
Gnostic and Orthodox Christianity had many beliefs in common, but also had some widely differing teachings. In this study there will be given both Gnostic and probable Orthodox renderings and interpretations of the sayings.
Now here we should put a basic primer about Gnosticism.
Gnosticism is an umbrella term for many sects which included not only Christian groups, but also Pagans, and Jews. They varied widely in beliefs, teachings and traditions, and morality. Some were very strict and uptight, emphasizing asceticism, sexual chastity, and others were very libertine engaging in sexual orgies as a means of reaching God. But central to practically all of them was a series of core teachings which can be summarized as follows.
1) The material world is an illusion and evil. It came not from the true God, often called the Father, the One, the Whole, or other names, but from an evil and corrupt being who himself is deluded and wishes to delude others as the imposter for the true God. This evil imposter being is often called Yaldabaoth (Child of Chaos), Saklas (Stupid One), Samael (Blind God) or the Demiurge (The Craftsman).
2) The only true reality is the spirit which is good and pure. All else is sinful and evil and must be rejected.
3) Some or all of the human race were created by the Father as beings of spirit who live in purity and light. But somehow the human race (or that part of it which is pure) was deceived by the imposter and corrupted and is thus now trapped in the material world of evil.
4) The only path to salvation is knowledge -- hence the name Gnostic, which comes from the Greek word "gnosis" which means knowledge. This includes knowledge of one's true heritage as beings of spirit, knowledge of the true God, as opposed to the imposter, and knowledge that this material world is an illusion.
5) In Christian varieties of Gnosticism, Jesus is often regarded as either a literal incarnation of Seth, or a direct descendant of the Sethian line. Seth representing that part of the human race that still retains some knowledge of their spiritual heritage. There are various interpretations of Jesus. Some regard Jesus as the Son of the Father, who was sent into the world, from the realm of the Light. And some even say that Jesus is the Son of God, but keep in mind that Gnostics have quite a different idea of God than Orthodox Christians. In Orthodox Christianity, God and the Father are considered synonymous, but in Gnostic Christianity, God, the one who created the universe, is often thought of as the imposter, and the true God is the Father.
6) In Christian Gnosticism, Jesus is said, in most sects, to have entered into the world in either a purified body or in an illusory body, since the pure cannot come into contact with the sinful. Some did believe that he had a material body though. For those who believe that Jesus had a literal material body, they believe that Jesus took on the impurity to dispense with it. Jesus died on the cross to kill the mortal body and thus break the bond that the imposter has on the spirits and souls of human beings. Jesus thus opened the gateway to the Heavenly Realm (often called Barbelo, the Fullness, the Unity) and became the first fruits of all those who would awaken to the knowledge of the truth. For those who believe that Jesus had an immaterial body or a purified body, the crucifixion is a farce -- high drama. The crucifixion was just merely a symbol of the lies and the hypocrisy of the imposter that he thinks he can kill the Son of the Father and the truth.
7) Gnostics had many different interpretations of the structure and form of the universe and reality and a whole list of characters and beings that populate the Netherworld and the material world. A typical system, though by no means the only one, believed that there was the One, or the Heavenly Father, who created a series of angelic beings called the Powers and these powers rule the realm of the Spirit and often have many dominions and subdominions below them. From them or created separately by the Heavenly Father, was also created a series of beings called the Ancient Ones (Archons) who created and rule various heavenly dominions or universes called Aeons. Some Gnostic systems maintain that there are seven of these Aeons or universes and each universe was created in sequence from another universe. Sometimes the series of universes are called emanations, because they come one from the other. But each of these universes created is further degraded from the one which proceeded it. In other words, the further removed from the Father and the realm of the spirit the universe is, the more corrupted it becomes. The first level was pure, the next level less so, the third even less pure than the first two and so on until you get to the seventh level. The seventh and most corrupted universe was created and ruled by the one called Yaldabaoth (or sometimes some of the other names mentioned above.) And of course, the most corrupted universe is the material world. Some systems mention an eighth universe or emanation, which corresponds to the Orthodox Christian Hell.
This is a basic overview of Gnostic ideas, and is by no means comprehensive. Of course, it should be noted that many Orthodox and Gnostic ideas overlap, and some ideas are similar, but may have different interpretations and meanings.
Although many readers, especially in Europe, North and South America and in the Westernized world will be likely familiar with Christianity, we should still also note for those who are unfamiliar with Christianity, or do not know exactly what is meant by Orthodox Christianity, the basic and general tenets of what is called Orthodox Christianity.
1) In Orthodox Christianity, there is one God, the Ineffable, Absolute Supreme Being, who created the universe, including all the heavens and the earth. He is one Supreme Being, but is manifested in three distinct elements called the persons of the Godhead. They are God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
2) The Father is said to be the creator and sustainer of the universe including all the heavens and the earth and the things below it.
3) There is an angelic being, of the order of the Cherubs, who an antagonist of God, called Satan or Lucifer, who fell and now is the tempter of the human race. He corrupted the world and the universe and now the universe is under his dominion and is thus evil and fallen as he is.
4) The Son of God is equal and one with God the Father, but is a distinct manifestation of God who came to earth to live with mortal human beings. This manifestation of God is called Jesus Christ, that is, Jesus the Messiah, who was spoken of by the Hebrew prophets as the one who would redeem Israel and would save the Gentiles.
5) Jesus, the Son of God, is called the Son because he was born into the earth as a baby, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born to Mary who was a virgin when she conceived Jesus Christ.
6) Jesus was absolutely perfect and sinless, though as a human being, he had the potential to sin. However, he was tested in every possible way, but did not sin.
7) Sin entered into the world through Adam, the first human being, when he and his wife Eve were tempted by the Serpent (Satan in disguise) and they disobeyed God and fell. Since then sin is a condition of every human being, in that every human falls short of the glory of God and God's perfection and thus is condemned and will enter into judgment. Human beings can thus never enter into communion with God and are separated from God, and can never enter into the heavenly realm and are condemned to the realm of Hell, the place of fiery torment.
8) Jesus was condemned by evil men, both of the Jews and the Romans (symbolically representing the whole world) and was hanged on a cross and he died, to atone (that is, to make it right, and to offer payment) for the sins of human kind, so that human beings are no longer condemned and thus can obtain eternal life and enter into the heavenly realm with God, and achieve communion with God.
9) Jesus rose bodily from the dead on the third day after he died, he then ascended into heaven, and now is at the right hand of God the Father, and will someday return to earth to judge the world, both the living and the dead.
9) Salvation of the human being comes from knowledge of Jesus Christ and accepting his gift of his sacrifice on the cross. Denominations differ as to exact method of how one accepts and receives this sacrifice, but the basic concept is the same.
These are a basic summary of Orthodox Christian beliefs. There are different interpretations from various denominations, as to how salvation is achieved, for example, but these beliefs stated above are common to Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and fundamentalist Protestant denominations.
In this study, we will not take so much a scholarly approach. Scholars have already dissected the Gospel of Thomas. Instead this is an attempt to truly discern the meaning of the Gospel of Thomas, and to understand the secrets in the Gospel of Thomas. We will explore the different meanings attached to the sayings from both a Gnostic perspective and from an Orthodox Christian perspective. In some cases the meanings will be the same, and in some cases they will diverge widely.
It should also be understood that this will not be an exact translation or interpretation of the Gospel of Thomas. Rather, it will be a reinterpretation of these sayings. Scholars study the sayings in an attempt to ascertain their history and their relationship to our modern Bible. Scholars ascertain meaning, but only in relation to history, society, and culture, but not how it might actually apply to a person's life. But we will take the sayings and try to understand their meaning as they stand by themselves and how people can actually apply them to their lives.
It is likely that many of the sayings are corrupted, parts may have been lost or altered. So here there will be conjecture as to probable reconstruction of the sayings as they might have originally stood, but notes will be given as to the probable reconstruction versus what the manuscripts actually say.
Notes will then be given to explain and interpret the meaning of each of the sayings, one by one, and what they mean to Gnostic and Orthodox schools of thought. Some history and overview may also be included to give detail and information that may be useful in understanding the material.
In the next article, we will then begin to analyze and study the Gospel According to Thomas.


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Is anyone really surprised? Really? Don't get me wrong, I've been a Laker fan as long as folks have known me, (for those who do), but I certainly cannot defend Kobe to the nines, for this, (another in a long line), spouting off of a spoiled child. Some may see it as just an opinion which he is entitled to. However, when he goes out and says the organization was too cheap to go and get a point guard, I wonder how much of his cheap salary he was willing to cut to get one? Even in this past year, the attempt to get Chris Paul makes his "cheap" assertion a bit ridiculous and irresponsible. If he really feels like the organization was too cheap, then why continue to play for an organization apparently not interested in investing in winning? His childish commentary reflects on the organization, which in my humble opinion is a great organization and happens to be bigger than him, (but perhaps not his ego).
Well, at least we know that Kobe will never suffer a heart attack. He ain't got one. But he may have a roaring case of hemorrhoids because he is one big ASSHOLE.
I don't mind if you come down on Kobe, but please don't forget his rape trial. Shaq is a character. Kobe has no character.
This fucker sure does have a great PR guy. Pardon me while I slip on my hip boots.
When it's all said and done , what will Smush's career amount to ? We know compared to Kobe's it's like night and day !
The Lakers need this plotline about as much as Rex Ryan needs to put on more weight to add to his already massive girth .
Has Shaq actually stopped taking his pot-shots at Dwight Howard as of yet ? Because that bull-crap is all so asinine !
I can't wait for the NBA regular season to start at the end of this month !
NHL fans , are they still griping on about whether or not they'll have a season ? Lightning owner Jeff Vinick really does need to look at his sporting investments and gauge whether or not they're worth s##t !
Dwight Howard fires back at Shaq
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — There appears to be room for only one Superman in Los Angeles.
Lakers center Dwight Howard called out Shaquille O'Neal on Thursday, responding to the former Lakers star and TNT analyst's comments that both the Philadelphia 76ers' Andrew Bynum and the Brooklyn Nets' Brook Lopez are the best true big men in the game today.
"I don't care what Shaq says," Howard told reporters after practice. "Shaq played the game. He's done. He's gone. It's time to move on."
Speaking in a roundtable discussion with fellow TNT analysts on NBA TV's Open Court and posted on NBA.com last week, O'Neal placed Howard below Lopez and Bynum because of his "pick-and-roll" style of play.
"We as players, we always watch people before us," O'Neal said. "When I came in, it was Patrick Ewing and Hakeem Olajuwon, guys who played like true centers who played inside. What we have now are centers that are going to the European style, which is a lot of pick-and-roll. Dwight Howard, who's a pick-and-roll player, some people say he's the best center in the league, but me being an old-school center, I'm going to go with Robin Lopez and Andrew Bynum because they play with their back to the basket."
O'Neal later corrected himself to say he was speaking about Brook Lopez and not his brother, Robin, who plays for the New Orleans Hornets.
Howard, who practiced without any limitations for the third straight day as he recovers from offseason back surgery, pointed out what he perceived as O'Neal being a hypocrite.
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Whatever Chump, Kobe is a shit teammate. Their problems did start with Kobe and that's why they had to get other guys to build the team around. LAL won 2 more titles with their size. Not Kobe.
I hear Mike Brown has been on the line , to a list of noted psycho analysts , from Jeff Gardierre to Drew Pinsky and Dr Phil (McGraw). It seems there are no takers with any of the trio being interested in assisting Brown with issues and the Lakers . I wonder why ?
Look , Brown is no Phil Jackson, by any stretch of the imagination . He's certainly not one of the top 5 or 6 coaches in the NBA , and that's even based on his resume` .
If Shaq were to un-retire and make a return to the NBA , where would you rank him amongst the current crop NBA centers ?
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I see that Peyton got the Broncos back to winning ways last night . Get the feeling that if the Chargers don't have a successful season , Rivers will want out ? At the same time the front office have to get rid of Norv Turner and GM A J Smith . Look at the lack of success that the franchise has had over the past six years never mind that they haven't had a flat out bona fide successful draft pick in that time-frame that literally has you saying " wow !
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My mother always told me "if you don't have anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all" so ………
Sometimes, the truth and being a dick intersect.
Does Goodell really have something to hide ?
Judge wants to see NFL's bounty evidence
The four players who were suspended as a result of the league's investigation into the Saints' bounty program have always said they want to see all the evidence. Now a judge has said he wants to see the evidence, too.
Magistrate Daniel Knowles has told NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to provide the court with documents related to the bounty case, and the NFL has confirmed that it will comply and give Knowles all the information he is asking for.
Knowles' order is something of a compromise: Lawyers for Jonathan Vilma had asked the judge to order the NFL to give the evidence directly to Vilma, but Knowles said he'll look at it first before determining whether the league is required to let Vilma see it.
The documents include transcripts of interviews with witnesses, and may provide a fuller picture of exactly what the NFL has on Vilma. The question now is whether the judge will be the only one to see that picture, or whether Vilma — and possibly the public — will get to see the complete picture as well.
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hmmm I think this said it all…"Parker, who now plays professionally in Venezuela." There is a reason the guy isn't in the league any more.
I'm as good a writer as there is, been doing it 45-years, my forte is fiction, but whether someone is as good as me, better, or worse, I never badmouth them, if I'm giving them asked-for advice I always tell them you better have a thickskin cause I can't help you pulling punches but that stays between me and them, to publicly criticize someone the way Kobe does is low class, vile and serves nothing other than his ego. When I lost the NGS2 in an 11th-round upset, mostly I was upset, I posted one key thing that eluded most, "If you can't recognize greatness in others, you'll never recognize it in yourself"
This is some great scribble, how can you kick a guy named Smush and Kwame, didn't they scribble that great tune, "Way Down Upon the Kwame River" for him?
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Which way is correct? Is there any rule for such cases?
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[Making this into a new answer, following comments on Jimi Oke's.]
In summary: both forms are widely used. More authoritative sources (e.g. governments and newspapers) tend to favour the adjectival form, eg "Canadian visa", but the web at large seems to favour the noun form, eg "Canada visa".
Very detailed background follows below, since this partially contradicts the currently accepted answer.
I haven't managed to find any style guide or dictionary that gives a pronouncement on this question; so the best authority I can suggest is usage — especially the usage of English-speaking governments and embassies. So, I did site-specific google searches of US, Canadian and UK government sites (under the domains
The raw results have to be taken with a slight pinch of salt, for several reasons. Firstly, many hits aren't really examples of the phrase in question: e.g. Japanese visa regulations and Travel in France: visa information are both erroneous. Secondly, in some cases a single piece of boilerplate text has been re-used across multiple pages, skewing the hits like in this example (
However, the results pretty conclusively favour the adjective form. On raw hits, it wins in almost every case (the exception was
Some sample hits: Canadian visa, from Canada; Brazilian visa, also from Canada; Israeli visa, from the UK.
On the other hand, googling more generally gives gives the opposite slant. Using the same phrases/countries as before (eg
In particular, third-party sites giving visa information for multiple countries seem to strongly favour the noun form; for instance, VisaHQ uses it consistently. (Among other reasons, I'd imagine this simplifies their searching/sorting.)
Edit: Some slightly more carefully-controlled and authoritative sources seem again to favour the adjectival form. In the Corpus of Contemporary American English,
The New York Times and the Guardian (using site-specific searches again) also prefer the adjectival form, almost without exception. For instance: Canadian visa vs. Canada visa at the NYT.
To my ear, Taiwanese visa sounds correct. It could be that this is incorrect according to some rule that got written down at some point but language is determined by its users and not grammarians. The fact that this "incorrect" usage has become so widespread is probably an indication that it's correct after all.
At any rate, it makes perfect sense. Visa is a noun. I see no reason to form a compound noun instead of using an adjective to describe its point of origin. Would one say "Taiwan tea" or Taiwanese tea? Why should visa be different?
Alternative: visa for Taiwan sounds just fine to my native English-speaker ears and removes any ambiguity.


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2013 Mythopoeic Award Finalists Announced
Posted on May 14, 2013
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2013 Mythopoeic Awards. Download the press release in PDF format. For more information about the awards, visit the Awards section of this site; the finalists for the literature awards, text of recent acceptance speeches, and selected book reviews are also listed in this section. The winners of this year's awards will be announced during Mythcon 44, to be held July 12-15, 2013, in East Lansing, Michigan.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- Alan Garner, Weirdstone trilogy, consisting of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins), The Moon of Gomrath (Collins), and Boneland (Fourth Estate)
- Caitlin R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl (Roc)
- R.A. MacAvoy, Death and Resurrection (Prime Books)
- Tim Powers, Hide Me Among the Graves (William Morrow)
- Ursula Vernon, Digger, vols. 1-6 (Sofawolf Press)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
- Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado, Giants Beware! (First Second)
- Sarah Beth Durst, Vessel (Margaret K. McElderry)
- Merrie Haskell, The Princess Curse (HarperCollins)
- Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (Walden Pond Press)
- Sherwood Smith, The Spy Princess (Viking Juvenile)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
- Robert Boenig, C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (Kent State Univ. Press, 2012)
- John Bremer, C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 (Lexington Books, 2012)
- Jason Fisher, ed., Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2011)
- Verlyn Flieger, Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien (Kent State Univ. Press, 2012)
- Corey Olsen, Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
- Nancy Marie Brown, Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
- Jo Eldridge Carney, Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
- Bonnie Gaarden, The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2011)
- Michael Saler, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012)
- David Sandner, Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831 (Ashgate, 2011)


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Somalia occupies the northeastern corner of Africa, often called the Horn of Africa. It is bordered on the west by Ethiopia and on the south by Kenya.
It extends from 2°S to 12°N and has a long coastline on the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.
For a country so near the equator, it has a surprisingly dry climate. Much of the country is desert or desert scrub. Almost no part has an annual rainfall exceeding 625 mm/25 in and much of it receives less than 250 mm/10 in.
In the north some rain occurs during the season of low sun when temperatures are a little lower, but this area is very dry for the rest of the year (see the table for Berbera). Elsewhere the rainy season is the period of high sun from April to September as in most of Ethiopia.
The rains are very variable from year to year and drought is a constant problem for the nomadic pastoralist.
Temperatures along the east coast from Cape Guardafui southwards are prevented from rising too high by a cold offshore current which makes the sea surface temperature in this part of the Indian Ocean surprisingly low for tropical waters.
This cold water may be one of the reasons for the very low rainfall in much of the country. The table for Mogadishu shows that temperatures vary little from month to month and relative humidity remains high.
By contrast, along the north coast very high temperatures are experienced between April and September as the offshore waters here are very warm. This part of Somalia and the adjoining areas around the Gulf of Aden have a most uncomfortable climate at this time, being very hot and also humid on the coast.
Inland it is even hotter but with lower humidity. Some places here have the highest mean annual temperatures in the world and there is a serious risk of heat exhaustion or even heatstroke during the hottest period.
Sunshine amounts are high in most of the country, averaging eight to ten hours a day around the year. They are lowest on the east coast during the rainy season, when there is more cloud and some coastal fog as warm air passes over the cold sea surface.
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SyFy will be releasing the fifth and final season of "Warehouse 13" in summer/fall 2014. There will be only six episodes compared to the previous 13 and 20 episode seasons.
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"Warehouse 13 has been an incredible signature series for us. We are grateful to the loyal and passionate fan base and know that Jack Kenny, his gifted creative team, and outstanding ensemble cast will give them an amazing finale season."
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For Being "Non-European," Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google May Face Tax in Europe
Carol Kopp
A French proposal suggests that the tech giants may have to pay for their success.
It's no day at the
operating a giant, successful, multinational American company, once you've run up against some very un-American notions about tax policy from abroad. Such as the "data tax" on
(NASDAQ:FB) and
(NASDAQ:GOOG), about to be proposed by France for adoption by the European Union.
Apparently, France would like to impose a data transmission tax on those companies -- and only those companies -- because they are the dominant platforms for Internet usage in Europe just as they are in the US, but they are "non-European," that is, American. Their dominance therefore prevents European competitors from emerging from obscurity. (How taxing the most popular sites will make other sites more popular with consumers is not clear.)
A French member of the European Parliament
tells the
Wall Street Journal
that a data tax should be imposed because the European nations have become "just the puppets of financiers and multinationals."
Or, as Forbes puts it in
a now-classic headline
: "Gibbering Nonsense From France About Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon."
The tax plan is just one piece of a proposal that would establish a new Internet regulatory agency within the European Union. In part, the agency would be empowered to impose other rules aimed at leveling the playing field for European competitors, such as forcing the American companies to enable portability among devices for digital purchases.
French Technology Minister Fleur Pellerin told the
Wall Street Journal
that the absence of such regulations is effectively "blocking innovation from all of the other actors," and making it difficult for European companies to emerge.
The call for regulation gets real impetus from another issue that has entangled US technology companies in Europe: data privacy. The issue gained a great deal of heat after revelations of the US government's continuing collection of private data on a massive scale, and with the cooperation of some of its biggest technology companies.
The proposals are expected to be presented in late October at a summit of European leaders.
At this point, the data transmission tax is the part of the proposal that seems least likely to succeed.
For one thing, it's not clear how such a usage-based tax could be imposed, though Pellerin
told the
Financial Times
that her agency is looking at data transfer, traffic, and interconnection to work out how the big Internet companies make their money and, therefore, what part of their (free) services could be taxed.
In addition, it appears that
Great Britain will oppose
the idea, according to the British newspaper
The Telegraph
, not least because the European Union does not currently have the power to levy taxes.
The proposal appears to have the support of European telecoms, which have long resented the low tax rates enjoyed by American companies that are, after all, using the physical networks the telecoms built.
In an opinion piece for the
Financial Times
, British technology executive Joanna Shields argued that regulating the Internet would inevitably harm European startups as much as American businesses.
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Tulane linebacker Noel Ellis was named the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Defensive Player of the Week, the organization announced Monday.
Ellis, a 6-foot-1, 241-pound junior from New Orleans, La., registered 11 tackles in the 48-32 win over Louisiana-Lafayette, including a sack for a loss of seven yards. It was the second consecutive week, and the third time this season, that Ellis had10 or more tackles in a game.
Ellis is currently tied for the team lead with 55 tackles.
It is the first time in his career that Ellis has been honored by the LSWA.
The Tulane football team (3-3, 1-1 C-USA) will next be in action on Saturday, Oct. 23, as the squad takes on No. 20 East Carolina in Greenville, N.C. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. (CDT) and will be televised on Fox Sports Net South.


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Patriot has some nice playing cards for Computex this year. The strong standing storage and memory maker is readying up some super fast DDR3-2500MHz "Sector 5 Edition" memory kits under its Viper II Series that will be available in both 4 and 6GB kits. Their 2500MHz speeds will be possible with timings of 9-11-9-27T at 1.65v.
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Up until now Android tablet users have had to make do with an upscaled version of Twitter's mobile app, and it looks like that will continue, as the firm's newly outed Android tablet app is only available on Samsung's latest Galaxy Note 10.1.
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Bizarre Police Stop, Cop Can Only Sit Back and Shake Head
An officer responded to a possible DUI and pulled the driver of the vehicle over. When the driver stopped his car, instead of staying seated he decided to get out with hands held over his head. The problem? The driver forgot to put the car in park and for some reason put it in reverse.
Realizing the error, the inebriated skullbrow then drunkenly leaps back into the car to stop catastrophe, but it was too late. His car had already slammed into the police cruiser.
Instead of intervening, the officer just crossed his arms and let fate continue to play out. The drunk driver got behind the wheel again, and instead of simply placing his car in "Park", proceeded to put it in drive and accidentally hit the gas pedal. This shot the car forward, into the gas station's air dispenser for tire pressure.
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I like some of them. Got a few of them in my family.
I certainly like them.
They get a bad wrap. They can be overly opportunistic, piranhic and parasitic, exploitative and counterproductive. Not as much as conventional wisdom says, though, I don't think.
But in the boxing realm, I have to say, their presence can tend to gum up the works, and their presence in a room, in a situation, oftentimes portends ill things. Ill things, like big bills for the people using their services, at the very least.
Now, I don't know any of the folks tasked with sorting out Andre Ward's promotional situation, I'm guessing they don't kick their dog, and read to their kids before bed, and are good for a healthy donation to the collection plate on Sundays...but as someone who wants the biggest and best matches to be made, I do sort of wish they'd not be involved in Ward's life.
Of course, Ward plots his own course, and has his reasons for enlisting them, and attempting to dis-engage himself from a promotional deal with Goossen-Tutor.
I'm not privy to the inner working of Ward's thinking, it goes without saying, but I was scratching my head on Saturday night, after watching Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. serve notice than Bryan Vera hadn't leaped onto a new level of competence last year. I heard Junior talk post-fight about wanting a scrap with Gennady Golovkin, and I saw the buzz uptick on Twitter, and it got me wondering what the heck is up with Ward.
We saw him in action three months ago, winning a UD12 from Edwin Rodriguez, but as someone who appreciates his exemplary skill in the ring, I have to say he hasn't been active enough the last couple years. Part of that is his body rebelling, injuries...but a large element is also his case to disentangle with Dan Goossen, so he can latch on to another promotional driver, or, perhaps, more so steer his own ship. The Ward deal will play out, and who knows how much longer it will take, but as of today, the lawyers are the ones winning. Instead of fights with Chavez Jr., or Gennady Golovkin, or Bernard Hopkins or even Carl Froch again, the now 30-year-old Ward (27-0) is more focused, it looks like, on the legal calendar, than the fight calendar. I mean, some serious buzz could be manufactured if Ward found a bullhorn and announced that he's tabling his legal beef, and wants a fight with Adonis Stevenson, or Sergey Kovalev, ASAP, to prove he, not Floyd Mayweather, is the best pugilist on the planet. Am I wrong, people?
Two fights in 2011, one in 2012, one in 2013. I'm sorry, but time's a wastin.
Floyd Mayweather can do the two and out schedule and make it work for him, at $33 to $80 million per bout. But for everyone else, frequency of fighting has to, in my opinion, be aimed for.
Now, I do see the potential value in severing a deal, and hashing out a new deal with someone who perhaps can offer a bigger platter of gold. But what about the gold that has been left on the table the last couple years, especially in the last year or so, since Ward has actively tried to dislodge himself from the Goosen stable? You'll recall that in June 2013, the California Commission rebuffed Ward's attempt to break from Goossen. Then, in December 2013, Ward filed suit against Goossen to break the contractual bind. The grapevine says the wheels of justice are grinding slowly for another court date, while the stopwatch for hours billed by attorneys keeps ticking. Hey, maybe it's all worth it for Ward whenever this thing gets settled. But I do wonder if he will look back on this period and just wished he'd played his hand differently.
We never know how a man's body ages, if his vessel will cooperate with him. It would be a tough break to have his fighting infrequency coat him with rust, leave him prone to more injuries, and have him irked, in a few years, that he wasted time on a task that didn't need to be embraced.
Hey, I'm no lawyer, but the advisory part of me can't help but offer this counsel to the pound for pound ace--that Ward finishes the legal wranglings, and gets back to doing what he does best, in the arena best suited for him, the prize fight ring.
He already has lawyers and unless they can erase the original contract ward has no case . Ward got $550,000 signing bonus , ward had training expenses and travel expenses paid for , goosen has paved his entire career , got him into the super six and ward was happy with each payday . Ward is on the shelf because of his injuries not goosen . Goosen got him 2 million to fight that b level guy in the last fight . Ward might be best boxer but he is not a good moneymaker . The Cali commission sided with goosen for a reason . Ward needs to stay healthy and get in the ring against top guys . Chavez Froch ggg Stevenson Sergei k are all more popular . Get in the ring or dancing with the stars but shut it until the contract expires .
There are MANY great fights for Ward, I did not realize he has been that inactive the last few years.
I enjoy watching him, hope to see him step up his activity.
I read up on the dispute about 8months ago after Ward stated his case on the jim lampleys show.
And I wondered why he would want to kick against the pricks.... So I read a few articles. Everything I read said the contract with Goosen was iron-clad.
And signing with James Prince didnt invalidate his original contract.
boxing promoters have never been known to be a sympathetic lot when comes to losing revenue.
.. You can't just divorce your promoter for psychological pain and suffering.
Wards ability to fight and earn a profit in the ring is a tangible product that is at least on a tempoarary basis,..the current property of Goosen.
But its understandable that a fighter would want to cut out the middleman and be his own boss. Or at least be able to alter his own course.
Even though Mayweather is a free agent he is still dependant upon GB Promotions vast infrastructure to distribute and market his fights. But Floyd also single handedly injected Showtime with $75mil in cash while raising their subscription viewedshp to the point to where the cable giant has suddenly become a serious competitor to HBO.
Ward lived up to his potential of becoming an elite fighter. But no promoter worth his weight in front row tickets would allow a catch like Ward to just walk away like a jilted lover.
Well I guess all that has already been said several times over
Nothing personal just business.
After GGG takes care of Chavez Jr...I can sense a Ward /GGG clash brewing in the future.
Hehehehe! The Shadow, you are a funny dude. Holla at "Random Topics" and smell Bradley. Al Ha€¥€m would paid him to wash his arse at least a couple of days before a bout. Have ever smell Big Foot coming down that aisle? Holla!
Agree totally - there is only Kovalev or Stevenson for him to fight unless he goes for the Froch-Groves winner. Perhaps the fact that he might have to go to Canada or England is the real reason. Ward is a helluva fighter but remember when a whole host of guys lost their titles and unbeaten records in the Super 6 travelling across Europe and the Atlantic. Ward had home advantage every time and he's maintained it since. Perhaps like PBF his 0 means more than his legacy?
Yeah he could, but I thought HBO was not working with GB? Unless they're softening on that stance. If Al Haymon signs Manny that would probably severe his relationship with TR.
I like your rationale Shadow ... Near flawless as always... Only Bradley signed the rest of his boxing youth away to fight Paq... And would Paq leave his cozy nest at TR to become a target on the firing squad of a group of fresh hungrey young lions...your thoughts?
Back to Ward, he and his trainer have been verbally critical of a few fighters as of late.
They have been slandering GGG for possibly moving up to fight Chavez Jr saying he is scared to fight Ward at 168. However, two things, one, Ward said he would come down to 160 to fight Floyd, but wont to fight GGG, and secondly GGG's trainer clearly stated that team GGG want to win ALL belts at MW first before moving up...however, if these fights can not be made then they would consider a jump up.
and lets be honest, JR is a cash cow, Ward is not.
I am a fan of Ward but he has been verbally hurting himself the last few months.
He needs to get back in the ring.
No crime there Shadow...
Also regarding GGG, There are at least 4 Top fighters between 160 and 175 Who want Chavez Jr ... A fighter who gets the highest non PPV ratings on HBO...not only will GGG get scene....he will get PAID... Ward can wait... And when they do fight GGG will be selling the lions share of the tickets ...but its a fight the world will watch.
Intersting article. I was not aware that Ward was not busier. I believe he is one of the best P4P and hope he and my personal P4P best Gennady Golovkin do not clash at this time. GGG will probably never get Mayweather to come in at 154 like Canelo but there is always hope. Mayweather has 5 fights left on his HBO contract and probably hopes to finish at 50-0 surpassing Rocky Marciano's 49-0. Ward could easily move up to 175 where more exciting matches could be had since he fought that high in the amateurs.
Maybe his TV work means more to him than boxing. It may be part of the problem but who knows? His promoter isn't the best known to handle a super champion but they certainly have the vehicle in Ward. Let's hope he can at least fight 2x per year.
Good points kenhissner... Ward and his trainer Hunter have also predicted that Ward would eventually compete at Heavyweight.
But at this point in Time Ward looks like a medium sized super middleweight.
And I doubt he goes up to cruiserweight.
I think he feels confident calling out GGG and Chavez Jr... But he's not mentioning having any potential fights with Kovalev or Shumenov. I think his silence says a lot.
And it is prizefighting for the BIG bucks. Not pride fighting for the muck-a-mucks. Holla!
Good Doc.. I think you all make an excellent point (RG and Shadow too).
Not guts and glory but cash flow.
Good Doc.. I think you all make an excellent point (RG and Shadow too).
Not guts and glory but cash flow.
Lol...that's true about Hagler , Duran or Holmes versus anybody. Bad intentions
Who will win the Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward fight?


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Nope. Nothing Ken Ham says will convince me that dinosaurs piled onto Noah's Ark.
Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and founder of the Creation Museum, where lightning struck last week and injured a staffer, is used to fighting an uphill battle against science. Unlike many Christians who actually have scientific expertise, Ham and his organization argue that evolution doesn't explain the origins of life and that the sun and the Earth are only about 6,000 years old.
But his recent statement in the spot "What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs," which can be heard in the above video, doesn't just challenge scientific understandings. It defies logic.
Via HuffPost:
"Evolution has claimed dinosaurs evolved over 200 million years ago, that nobody ever lived with them," Ham says in the ad. "But the Bible gives a different history. God tells us that he created all land animals the same day he created man, about 6,000 years ago. What's more, there are even dinosaurs on Noah's Ark because God told Noah to take pairs of every land animal."
Let's start with the fact that the Bible makes no mention of dinosaurs. Anywhere. Not just in the account of Noah's Ark. That, though, could be said of zebras and ferrets and koala bears.
But logically how are we going to reconcile anything, and certainly two of it, the size of a dinosaur being on the Ark?
The Ark was massive--300 cubits (or about 137 meters) by 50 cubits by 30 cubits. But a brontosaurus along is 23 meters long; the longest dinosaur was almost triple that length. A few dinosaurs alone would fill the whole thing.
And Ham should know that: A full-size replica of the Ark is planned for the Creation Museum.
Turns out, also, this isn't a new statement from Ham, just a new radio ad. In fact, it was mentioned in news reports when Answers in Genesis announced the creation of the Creation Museum. And it then generated responses like this:
"Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden, and Noah's Ark? Give me a break," said Kevin Padian, curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley and president of National Center for Science Education, an Oakland group that supports teaching evolution. "For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."
Christians could reasonably disagree on what Genesis really says about creation (e.g., six days or six eras, all at once or evolving over time). But it's difficult for me to imagine many of my co-religionists believing that Noah piled a couple tyrannosauruses and friends on the Ark and riding it out with them for 150 days.
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Raise your hand if you want to see a Floyd Mayweather-Victor Oriz rematch.
Better yet, head to our Forum, vote yeah or nay, and explain your choice, please.
We now know with certainty that Ortiz and his promotional outfit, Golden Boy, are in the "yeah" camp. "Golden Boy put together a conference call on Monday to make their case for a rematch. I wasn't alerted to the call, so I cobbled together what I could from the Golden Boy Twitter feed.
Ortiz said, "I think a rematch between who u guys think is the 'best' pound for pound champ of all time and myself is what should happen. That was an unfair way to take a title from a champ. It was not sportsmanship at all."
De La Hoya took a shot at Mayweather, who ended the night with a legal-but-unsportsmanlike one-two in round four, a quick-hit scenario off a sloppy break called by ref Joe Cortez.
I myself saw Floyd owning Ortiz, smiling at him when Ortiz tried to unload on him, and thought it was a matter of time before Floyd broke him down in total. But De La Hoya thought things were going to get better for Ortiz. "Everyone was cheated from a great fight," he said. The fans were cheated, @VICIOUSortiz. This had the potential to be a great fight. @VICIOUSortiz was coming from behind, he was coming on strong and we were cheated from what could have been a great fight."
That's up for debate, but I'm all in with Oscar regarding his take on Cortez. "I think the referee needs to have control of the fight and I personally feel that he lost control in that fight," he said.
To close, Oscar called for a re-do. "Call it legal or call it illegal, it was bad sportsmanship plain and simple & if Floyd has any sort of honor he will give @VICIOUSortiz a rematch."
So, TSS Universe, what say you? Do you want to see a sequel? Is there an appetite for another tangle between these to? Did we see enough from Ortiz to think things would go any better for him? Give us your two cents, heck, make it three, it's the internets, and space is infinite!
Absolutely Ortiz deserves a rematch. if Floyd got DQ'd for what he did there would've been an instant rematch. Regardless of how dominant you think Floyd was up to the point of the sucker punch, it wasn't the right way to win the title. Besides who else is out there for Floyd to fight? Let me rephrase that, who else is out there that Floyd is WILLING to fight? Saul Alvarez? He's been exposed big time by Alfredo Gomez (what was that guy's name again? lol?). Andre Berto? If Floyd truly feels like he was on his way to stopping Ortiz (which he wasn't), then go ahead and take the easy money and school Ortiz and stop him fairly and convincingly.
The better question is: Who would pay for it? It was an active fight up until the headbutt, but not a very good one. If it weren't for the silly hugs and kisses and Floyd's sneaky one-two, it probably would have been a Mayweather KO/TKO victory by round 8 or 10 at the latest. I wasn't surprised by anything Floyd did. He's a bad boy who has never pretended to be good. But Ortiz was just weird. First he's a nice guy, then he headbutts like a bad guy, then he's apologizing too much. He can't have it both ways. That hugging and kissing was overdone and inappropriate. This a boxing ring not a Fire Island barn dance. Next time around, Victor will probably start a big wet sob-fest like Oliver McCall or Cris Arreola when things don't go his way. Plus, at age 34, Floyd needs to fight Manny now or choose his second best payday. Floyd's body is going to stop cooperating soon. I think he's losing a little speed already. At his weight, nobody is forever young.
Besides Pacquiao who else is the public willing to pay to see a Mayweather fight? People are tired of seeing Mayweather against washed up has beens. Two things Ortiz got going for him in terms of marketability for the rematch is that #1, he's in his prime, #2, the controversial ending. Those are pretty good selling points if you ask me.
i concur i think a rematch is in order..
if it were 4 rounds of floyd vs shane where floyd dominate to the point where we were bored then i would say no rematch.
but to be honest, ortiz won 2 of the 4 rounds....
floyd did what he does, is accurate, lands the straight right and has good D.
ortiz did what he does, sets up his combos to move you back and throwing 6 punches lands 2 good shots to buzz you.
if ortiz had the audacity and mental focus to step back during those combos and go for the body instead of fall over floyd aiming high then he scores more and lands more cleanly...
if ortiz brings his vicious attitude and not his apprehensive one afraid to make a mistake then win lose or draw we may have a very good fight...
i think floyd is done though, he wont fight martinez or pac because he will lose...
he will take 18 months off and wake up and be 36, and it will be too late for him.
I watched the fight about 25 times already,... from every angle, in slow motion, with and without volume, you name it. Ortiz did land a few more punches than I initially thought, but even his best shots landed on a target who was fully aware... which takes a lot away from the force of the punch...
Ortiz had no chance of catching a tired Mayweather down the stretch.. Floyd is a genuis at preparing for 12 rounds in addition to being a master at marshalling his strength and stamina,.. even if he were to get tired... Ortiz would never know it. Floyd began pulling something new out every round, it was clear he was going to use Ortiz as Showpiece to hit back at his many critics..
Ortiz needs to go back and beat a Mike Jones, Kell Brook, Thomas Dulorme, Amir Khan, Andre Berto or the many good fighter is Europe whose names I either can spell or remember. Ortiz must build it up... 1 or 2 fights against the biggest names he can find will put him right back in the thick of it.
But even a die hard Mayweather fan like myself wouldn't watch him fight Floyd next week...
Floyd to Kellerman " I'm fixin' to destroy this kid".
truth be told,... and all due respect to the multitudes of Pacman Fans... I think Otiz would do better to try and get a fight with PAC,.. he's bigger, stronger, has quickness, and is a pretty decent boxer. under the right tutalege I'd even put some "underdog" cash on Ortiz to upset Pac. But first Ortiz MUST get an impressive win on his books before he can even dream about fighting with the hard gambling Pinoy. Hey... baby needs a new pair of shoes......if Ortiz is not percieved as a threat Pac can't be bothered with hauling in small chips.
My sentiments are with the erudite and Statesman of TSS, Brownsugar.
Floyd has more than a little left. If that's rusty, imagine what he does when he's on a roll. And it was on its way. Brownsugar mentioned earlier that the ending was a blessing for Victor. I agree. I'm a huge VO guy. He's a great young fighter, and he's a guy that can walk the Earth and say he fought Floyd. And he's likable. Good guy. But way too green for Floyd, who's a boxing mensa, even at 30 and change.
Anyway, I think we're going to get Floyd-Manny within 12 months. I'm going with Floyd, but NOT confidently. This is the great fight of our time. I think it happens.
Peace to TSS (please forgive typos).
Wow! Okey, B-Sug! I think that Money May would get his arse _____ if he gets a fight with Da Manny. Da Manny is not a boy from Garden City, Kansas. Da Manny was born hearing and seeing fights and bullets weezing by his head. He sometimes had to fight his way through the jungles from the dangers of warring men, vicious animals and deadly insects. I'd love for Money May to grow some cojones and take on Da Manny. Money May is full of syet. He had a good life provided for him by his drug-pushing pops. Everyone and his cousins know or should know how well the children of drug pushers live. Another race myth will be squashed if the bout between Da Manny and Money May ever take place. There will be some shock, crying-arse _____. And the jive about Pinoy "A-side Meth" is BIG TIME GIGGLES. Holla!
@Bobby C, suckas are born every minute. IMHO they'd line up to see this bout again. And with Ref JJ Kotex -- I mean Joe Cortez -- refereeing and repeating the same jive.
@B-sug, in your 25 times in rewatching the bout, did you catch how Money May was holding and pulling Vicious Victor's inward by the arms, and evening bear hugging and squeezing VV's arms. The game is full of Hoodini and Bundini trickery. As they said, the hands are faster than the eyes. VV was shock that he could hit MM, and surprised that MM was holding and pulling his arms and bear hugging them to halt the hitting. Da game is so full of tricks that the average -- or even seasoned -- fan will never catch until told. Than again, if he goes into self denial, he still won't see it. MM is master of the craft. No matter how anyone spins naviety. But VV wasn't frustrated from not being able to tag MM, because he did tag 'em, but it was no way that he was gonna bag 'em. Holla!
Radam,.. I knew if I mentioned Pac's outrageous gambling habit,.. you couldn't resist the urge to comment.... LOL!! ....But Mayweather always fights clean... he instinctively knows how to configure his body against his opponents in a manner that's always conducive to Floyd being in a better defensive/offensive possition. he uses the forearm and elbow like a heart surgeon,.... gently yet meticulously..and never with intent to harm...(that honor is reserved for his fists).... untill eventually.... the oponents heart is ultimately removed.
As far as his dad being a drug kingpin,... I think he was probably his own best customer... and violated the first rule of hustlin'.... never do ya own product. But your right,.. between Rogers purses,.. his dads... and his working Mom...Floyd never had to miss any meals... What makes him interesting is that he learned how to fight at a very early age yet only had 96 amateur bouts and still was the first american to beat a cuban in 20 years.... Mayweather was also a roommate of deadly puncher Randall Bailey in their early pro years... Floyd had to take it easy on him even thought he was a couple weight classes below Randall. Mayweather used to visit gyms across the country like an evil martial artist dropping in to ruin a dojo during his amateur days... so his talent is no mistake... maybe I'm sounding over dramatic,.. but many eye witnesses say he would come into these well known pro gyms and sparr with middleweights, like it was nothin.
But if Pac's duckin bullets... slaying ravenous jungle beasts,.. and outrunning demonic insects... all without A-side Meth,.. then I have developed a new respect for the diminutive giant killer... hopefully after Marquez they(floyd and pac) can get it done.
@ Condor,.. I heard Floyd mention the same thing on a BoxingScene article. Floyd mentioned that he respected the accomplishments of both Klitschko's and that they participated in the same Olympic Venue... that's a long time to be in the game... but that just shows you what dilligence, dedication, and devotion to the craft will do... it works for the KBrothers as well as it works for Floyd.
Who will win the Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward fight?


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We have several SLES 9 servers with KDE desktops. We need to remove a couple of the icons that are in the panel on the bottom left of the desktop next to the "Start" button.
I'd like to push out a little bash script to delete them but I can't find them. They don't seem to be in the ~/.kde directory or anywhere else I've looked. Any idea where these little suckers are kept?


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Let $V=\mathbb C^n$ be a vector space with (linear) maps $P_1:V\rightarrow V$ and $P_2:V\rightarrow V$ that are projectors , i.e. they satisfy $P_i^2=P_i$.
It is not hard to understand the structure of such a pair. One could see that $P_i$'s can be simultaneously block diagonalized with blocks of size $2$. For this see, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_angles and also for example paper of Halmos with the title "two subspaces".
My question is about a generalization of this to pairs of $P_1, P_2$ where $P_i$'s satisfy a different (simple) algebraic relation say $P_i^3= P_i$.
I want to see whether they can be block-digonalized with blocks of size $O(1)$ independent of $n$.


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Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs that consist of one color or shades of one color. The world around us is full of rich, saturated colors and our senses are constantly bombarded with color to attract our attention. Strip away the color and you are left only with form, structure, and texture—what I consider as the essence of the image.
I created this collection of monochrome images over the past four years from various parts of the country. My goal is to share my monochromatic vision of the world.
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