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Jon Mead summed it up just about right.
"At the end of the day, this is going to be one of the most bizarre Briers," the sharpshooting Manitoba third said on the weekend. "We've seen everything this week now, no question about it."
Bizarre but compelling works as a descriptor for the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier.
It began with defending champion Glenn Howard looking unbeatable and with four-time champion Kevin Martin unable to win at all, so flummoxed by new rocks that curled inconsistently - either too much or not at all.
It finished with Martin on a six-game winning streak that still wasn't enough for him to overcome his 1-4 stumble at the beginning. It enabled him to compile a respectable 7-4 won-lost mark, and leave with his game intact, his dignity, and a bit of momentum to finish off the cashspiel circuit.
The Brier ended with Howard sliding from a 100 start to a three-game losing streak on the weekend that dispatched him into the bronze-medal match against 2006 Olympic champion Brad Gushue of Newfoundland. Howard won that game 7-6 with an 11th-end draw to the button to at least finish on a winning note, although certainly not an upbeat one.
"It's two words - absolutely ridiculous that we're playing that game," Howard said Sunday. "That's the bottom line, we shouldn't be out there right now, but the bottom line is we want to curl, we go out and play and we both tried very hard and want to win the game, and that's what we did."
Martin was a spectator to it all on the weekend, which clearly depressed the attendance at Rexall Place somewhat. Still, the final tally - just north of 190,000 - was impressive.
The biggest crowd - 11,855 - showed up on a wild Friday night, the final round-robin draw that was a perfect storm for melodrama, as it turned out.
With Martin needing both a victory of his own, and a loss by either Brad Jacobs' Northern Ontario rink or Jeff Stoughton's Manitoba team, the fans had three dogs in the fight, in effect, which produced a wacky cacophony of cheering for hits by Martin, misses by Jacobs and Stoughton, with an assortment of jeers thrown into the mix, just for fun.
In the end, there were no upsets that night, just powerful drama, and some superb shotmaking, including a Stoughton final-rock draw in the 11th end to beat B.C. and overcome the fans cheering lustily for a miss that would have propelled Martin into a tiebreaker.
"Pick your poison," Mead said the day after the Friday follies. "If we want to play in front of huge crowds, for lots of stuff, you get both sides of that sword. If we want it sterile, don't invite people into the building."
The 2013 Brier was neither sterile nor static.
It saw the emergence of the young, muscular Jacobs rink, Brier veterans but still in their 20s, except for Ryan Fry, their shotmaking third, who is 34.
Northern Ontario fashioned a solid 8-3 won-lost record in the round robin, including a 9-4 thrashing of Manitoba. Then Jacobs beat Newfoundland and Ontario to advance to Sunday night's final. Fry curled 93 per cent against Gushue and 94 per cent in the semifinal, while Jacobs was a superb 90 per cent in both playoff games.
The final was the old guard of Stoughton facing the new guard in Jacobs, which seemed appropriate in a sport that embraces change carefully, slowly.
A big change, one many believe is overdue, will be implemented in 2015, when the Brier champion from 2014 in Kamloops, B.C., will qualify automatically as Team Canada.
So, for example, if Kevin Martin were to win in 2014, he would return for the 2015 championship, with the Alberta playdowns also delivering a provincial champion. Two teams from Team Canada's province or territory, in other words.
In addition, the Canadian Curling Association will implement a four-team play-in mini-tournament in 2015 that would involve the last-place finisher from 2014, and separate teams from Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
The winner of that four-team play-in will be added to the Brier draw to keep it at 12 teams. Each year, the last-place finisher would be relegated to the play-in event the following year, not unlike, say the world hockey championship.
As competitive as the 2013 Brier was, it still was a tournament that went only six deep in terms of real quality. By adding Team Canada, organizers deepen that pool of elite talent to seven teams. Or so they hope.
By adding the relegation process, they hope to provide a major incentive for the weaker teams to elevate their game.
Some purists will grouse about this change but, as Mead said, "Pick your poison."
You want to improve your sport, that means change, even in tradition-bound curling.
jmackinnon@ edmontonjournal.com Check out my blog at edmontonjournal.com/ Sweatsox On Twitter: @rjmackinnon Facebook.com/ edmontonjournalsports
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Jaguar, the new generation
2005-09-01 20:18:51
It looks like the end of the Jaguar of Britain and the arising of US Ford's Jaguar. Especially the front of the car in grey colour gives me the association of many of Ford's earlier and recent models, like the Ford Mustang. 'Cheap' in a way and therefore lacking in that traditional Jaguar class. At its best, the exterior design got a sweep of Aston Martin.
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2005-09-05 20:25:43
I love the outgoing XK. It is as timeless as the E-type and XJS it succeeds. This new car is equally beautiful, but in a different way. I can't see it being as timeless as the previous generation.
2005-09-08 12:13:07
I own an XKR; not a sports car and not very rigid. But very beautiful! The new one... I just don't know. It seems a big, heavy, American car. I would like to love it once it must be a very much better car then the current, but I just don't know.
2005-09-14 09:44:44
As a life long Jaguar fan this is a car they should have built a long time ago. It is stunning, a technological masterpiece. It is about as British as you can get no American car comes close and indeed its rivals in Europe pale in comparison. It sounds amazing and in standard form it will leave the current XKR for dead so it is seriously quick. Anyone in Britain or parts of the US that has seen the BBC series Top Gear, will know the current XK despite its faults is a great car and it feels special where so many rivals do not. The new model takes that bar and raises it. Only British companies understand how to build chassis for our and indeed more uneven roads in general. We design and make the best GTs in the world. The interior options are beautiful, lots of space as well. This is a driver's car, a true sports car like the series 1 E-type and the cars before it.
It looks good, sounds good, has great technology and will drive like no Jag has for decades. What more could you want. We're back to 'Grace, Space and Pace'. I want to be first in line!
2005-09-18 10:41:57
Great, but a bit weary of the back edge of headlights and me thinks the grille could be a bit deeper [open wider].
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Video Blog #5: NetBeans 6 on the EEE PC
By reckstei on Feb 07, 2008
(Note: the 2G EEE models may have their RAM chips soldered onto the main board. Be sure to check the online product documentation before removing the bottom panel and possibly voiding your warranty.)
As mentioned in the video, here are the instructions for the actual installation.
Step 1: Download the Latest JDK
Using Firefox on the EEE, go to the Java Download Page.
Download the latest JDK for Linux self-extracting (32-bit) file into My Documents. Once this file has downloaded, open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and cd to the My Documents directory you saved the binary in.
Once in that directory, make the binary executable.
chmod +x jdk-(…version…)-linux-i586.bin
Then, execute the file:
Press the space bar to scroll down through the license agreement. Enter yes to continue. Then, move the JDK directory (here we're assuming 1.6.0_05) to the /usr directory and create a symbolic link. You can use this approach later if you want to install a newer version of Java.
sudo mv jdk1.6.0_05 /usr/ sudo ln –s /usr/jdk1.6.0_05 /usr/java
Next, update your bash profile to include the path to the Java directory.
cd ~ nano .bash_profile
Add the following to the end of the file:
# set PATH so it includes java if [ -d /usr/java/bin ] ; then PATH=/usr/java/bin:"${PATH}" fi
Exit the editor, restart the machine, and reopen another Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T). Then type:
which java
The response should be:
Step 2: Download NetBeans 6.0 for Linux
Go to the NetBeans Home Page and download the smallest version of NetBeans for Linux. Again, save it to "My Documents." Then, like before, cd to "My Documents" and change the permissions to make it executable, and run it.
chmod +x netbeans-6.0-javase-linux.sh ./netbeans-6.0-javase-linux
Go through the installation process as usual, and install NetBeans in /home/user/netbeans-6.0.
Finally, delete the installation file that you downloaded.
Step 3: Add Support for NetBeans in the Easy Menu System
Download the graphics files here.
Next, unzip the file and go into the AsusEEENetBeansIcons directory, and move the contents to the Asus Launcher resource directory.
cd AsysEEENetBeansIcons sudo mv \*.png /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/
Finally, edit the simpleui.rc file in that directory to reference the NetBeans executable.
sudo nano /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/simpleui.rc
You can do this by placing the following text at the end, but inside the closing simpleui XML element. So, for example, the end of your file should look like this:
<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/home/user/netbeans-6.0/bin/netbeans" icon="netbeans_norm.png" selected_icon="netbeans_hi.png"> <name lang="en">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="zh_TW">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="zh_CN">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="es_AR">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="de_DE">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="es_ES">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="fr_FR">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="it_IT">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="nl_NL">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="pt_PT">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="ru_RU">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="th_TH">NetBeans 6.0</name> <name lang="tr_TR">NetBeans 6.0</name> <desc lang="en">NetBeans 6.0 IDE</desc> </parcel> </simpleui>Save the file and restart the system.
Step 4: Adding Subversion
First, it helps to enable full desktop mode. Follow the instructions at this page
Next, look further down the same document at the instructions for using the Synaptic Package Manager. After you get familiar with it, add the following package repository:
deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2/ etch main contrib non-freeAfter that, hit the Reload button, and look under the main "Development" group for the subversion package 1.4.2 or greater. Mark it for installation, and install it. Don't worry if the system complains that the package is not verified. After it is finished, restart NetBeans and verify that you can use subversion with the Versioning->Subversion menu.
(Note that this is an official Xandros repository, unlike the ones I used when I was creating the video blog.)


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Our Mobile App of the Day is Fish Fury for iOS.
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Ivy League Play to Resume Saturday at Columbia for Women's Soccer
Princeton (8-3-1, 3-0 Ivy) at Columbia (6-6, 2-1 Ivy)
Saturday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m. at Columbia Soccer Stadium, New York, N.Y.
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Winners of six in a row, the Princeton women's soccer team will head to Columbia for a 7 p.m. match Saturday.
Both teams are in the thick of the Ivy League race, which will pass its midpoint this weekend. Princeton and Penn are each 3-0 with nine points in Ivy play to lead the league, while Dartmouth and Columbia are next at 2-1 with six points.
Princeton leads Columbia 19-5-3 all-time since the series began in 1985, including 7-4-2 at Columbia's home field. The Lions, however, won the last match there by a 2-0 final in 2010. In the last meeting overall, Princeton won 4-1 on Oct. 15, 2011 at Myslik Field, getting two goals from Jen Hoy and one each from Melissa Downey and Lauren Lazo.
Princeton is 3-0 in the Ivy League for the second time since its last 7-0 Ivy League season in 2004, winning the first three contests in 2007 and 2010. Both times, however, getting to 4-0 was the hurdle, as the Tigers were stopped in 2007 at Harvard and in 2010 at Columbia.
Pregame notes:
• Princeton's six-match win streak is its longest since a seven-match streak in 2007.
• Princeton senior Jen Hoy had her third hat trick of the season Wednesday night against Lehigh, giving her an Ivy League-best 14 goals on the season. That total is twice as many as the runner-up in the league.
• Princeton remains the league's top-producing offense, leading the Ivy in points (98), goals (33), goals per game (2.75), assists (32), assists per game (2.67).
• Hoy's points-per-game lead in the Ivy is tremendous, standing at 2.42 to runner-up Emma Brush of Dartmouth at 1.42. Hoy also leads the Ivy in points (29),
• Jessica Haley leads the Ivy with six assists, getting her most recent one on Hoy's third goal against Lehigh.
• With 64-plus scoreless minutes in goal Wednesday night against Lehigh before giving way to sophomore Darcy Hargadon, Princeton senior Claire Pinciaro has dropped her goals-against average to 1.20 this season. During the six-game winning streak, her GAA has been 0.47.
• All 13 meetings between Columbia and Princeton on the northern end of Manhattan have been decided by two or fewer goals (including ties).
• Ten of Columbia's 14 goals this season have been scored by two players, juniors Beverly Leon and Coleen Rizzo, while four of their teammates have one goal apiece.
• Columbia sophomore Grace Redmon has been in goal for all but six of the Lions' 1,100 minutes this season and has a GAA of 0.99.


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Christians have never been a static group. From the very beginnings of the religion, different members have had different ideas on what Jesus said and what Jesus meant. From the Gnostics to the Roman Catholics to the Protestants to the Mormons, the debate has raged and will always rage. So the recent attention to a group of people calling for an "emergent" church reflects yet another in a religion's rich tradition of debate and disagreement.
The emergent church is difficult to define, but its adherents all point to the need for Christianity to find a new voice in global society, and they all express a dissatisfaction with the way today's churches engage with the world around them. But they are not the first Christians to experience these challenges. Take, for instance, the case of John Calvin, 16th-century theologian and Protestant Reformer. Calvin, born on July 10, 1509 (500 years ago Friday), faced a crisis of epic proportions in Geneva and across Europe.
Martin Luther, the German monk who had ignited what became known as the Protestant Reformation, helped to crack the foundations of European society – the notion that there was one church and one state (albeit full of fractious nobles). By the time Calvin arrived on the scene, the issue was no longer how to tell the Roman Catholic Church that you disagreed with it. Now it was how to construct a new model for the relationship between church and state. Enter the "early modern" era.
Calvin had ideas about how that relationship would work in the early modern period, even if he didn't know it was the early modern era. He laid out a plan for Geneva that gave lip service to the separation of church and state, but in practice looked more like the state was the subject of the church. The model for Geneva worked well enough, and in the process, Calvin's ideas spawned even more groups of Protestants. One such group, the Pilgrims, separated themselves from the Church of England and sought refuge in the New World.
How the colonies became the United States and how the Old World model of church and state vanished in North America is a tale too long and too complex for this space. Suffice it to say that the shining city on a hill became a model, if occasionally flawed, of religious freedom. But the second half of the 20th century saw changes neither Calvin nor his immediate followers could have foreseen. The end of the Cold War and the emergence of a global economy, the rejection of racial categories, and the interest in "non-Western" religions – all of these factors challenged the way traditional Christian denominations saw themselves and their mission.
And so enters the "emergent church." In many ways, this movement has numerous parallels in Christian history. From the Disciples of Christ, which formed as a way of ending denominations and became a denomination itself, to the What Would Jesus Do? Movement, based on a book, "In His Steps," an 1896 novel by Charles Sheldon, American Christians in general have seen the world as threatening their work and sought a way to redefine a more "pure" version of Christianity.
Postmoderism emerges
The emergent church faces the dilemma of something called "postmodernism." If Calvin championed an early form of modernity, postmodernism argues that all the rules of modernity are no longer valid. Religious modernity, for the postmodern, often means the domination of Christianity in any attempt at dialogue with other religions. But what does the Christian do if the rules have changed? How to hold fast to absolutes when other faiths have the audacity to argue back, or, even worse, walk away?
The answer, for members of the emergent church, is to motivate the believer in dialogue, to urge members to do mission work but often on a more local level, and to evangelize. The various emergent churches springing up in the last 20 years do not always share theological or political views. Indeed, they range from the conservative to the liberal-leaning. But even in those divergent ideas, they can agree that they dislike the way that current Christian denominations go about their business.
The adherents of the emergent church are often described as "anti-church," that is, that they believe organized Christianity today does not speak truth to power and fails to spread the Gospel effectively. Much like the 19th-century originators of the Disciples of Christ, they disdain traditional denominational politics.
But this dislike of denominations may indeed lead the emergent churches into their own denomination-building phase. Their shared dislike of denominationalism is, in itself, a stand on the issues facing Christianity today. Much like Calvin, Luther, and other Reformers, the emergent church movement will soon find itself having to organize to advance its cause.
That organizational process will lead the emergent church movement to define more concretely its aims and values. And this new organization will be part of a long, and, for Christianity, a completely normal process. There is no straight line back through history to Jesus; there is a series of unfoldings of human understanding, or, in other words, an emergence.
Mary Beth Mathews is assistant professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. Readers may send her e-mail at email@example.com. She wrote this for the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star.
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I Miss All The Pixels: Crytek's New CryENGINE 3.4 Trailer
This is a teaser demo of CryENGINE 3.4, Crytek's latest gaming engine. So yeah, these are some of the sick graffix you can expect to see in the upcoming Crysis. Unless we're talking about my upcoming personal crisis , in which case it'll probably be a lot more long showers, crying, and not wanting to get out of bed in the morning. I'm a delicate flower.
Hit the jump for the eye candies.
Thanks to Torry and Bamboozed, who agree the future of video game graphics is 8-bit. 16 tops.


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A Century of Experience
Three retiring Trinity University professors amass more than 100 years in the classroom, in theaters, and overseas
SAN ANTONIO - Three Trinity University professors are taking advantage of a one-time early retirement program announced last May by University President Dennis A. Ahlburg. Together, the trio of faculty members has taught for more than a century - 112 years, to be exact.
Professors eligible for the early retirement program had to be at least 63 years old and have taught at Trinity for a minimum of 10 years.
Russian professor Sarah Burke, department of modern languages & literatures, is leaving with 38 years of service. While she plans to rekindle an earlier love for art, she said she will "miss the laughter, fun, and challenges of the classroom."
Steven Gilliam, professor of human communication & theatre, has taught for 30 years and plans to focus on his professional design career. "I am closing a door of opportunity to find a new door of discovery." Emblematic of the transition, he will teach his last class at Trinity and head for the Majestic Theater, where, later that evening, he will open the national tour of "Fiddler on the Roof."
Philosophy professor Lawrence Kimmel, leaving after 44 years, said, "As teachers we are most of all honored by what our students become."
Before their exit at the close of classes in December, the professors answered the following five questions:
1. What year did you come to Trinity? How has the campus, your department, or your scholarship changed over the years?
2. What are some of proudest achievements as a Trinity faculty member?
3. What will you miss most about Trinity?
4. What is next for you?
5. Please provide your preferred e-mail address.
Sarah Burke
1. I came to Trinity in the fall of 1973, but already had been teaching since 1965. At that time Trinity was known as "The University in the Sun." We had masters programs, a home building program, and there was talk of creating a doctoral program. My department was then called the Department of Foreign Languages and included all of the current languages except for Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic but did include Latin. It was chaired by Dr. Jean Chittenden, who was marvelous. At the time, Trinity was known for its Division One tennis teams and its drama productions. When I arrived at Trinity, only two years of Russian were being offered, and my job was to build a Russian program. That I did, gradually over the years, until we were able to hire a second tenure-track faculty member and create a major. I came to Trinity as primarily a scholar of Russian literature from the turn of the 20th century but was also moving toward Russian art of the avant-garde from that period. During the 70's, I traveled to the USSR almost yearly, making contacts with unofficial dissident Russian artists, who were subsequently incorporated into my research.
2. I am particularly proud of developing a solid Russian major program at Trinity and the trips I made with students to the USSR during the late 70's and 80's. I was also proud of my role with others in creating the First Year Seminar program, my five years as an Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, and most recently, the opportunity to teach a seminar in HUMA 1600. I am most proud, however, of the exhibitions that I facilitated for the Russian unofficial artist Evgenii Rukhin at various venues on the East Coast and at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C.
3. I shall miss the students, faculty and wonderful staff at Trinity. I am sure that I shall miss the campus, and I know I shall miss the laughter, fun, and challenges of the classroom.
Since I shall have free time in the spring, I want to travel - maybe to Russia to experience the breaking up of the ice on the Neva River in St. Petersburg and/or to Washington State to walk under the cherry blossoms and visit the tulip fields. In the fall, I intend to see a real fall.
4. I intend to see as much as I can as long as I can. When I am not traveling I shall continue to take courses in art and to make and develop my art. When I started my college studies, I intended to be an art major and put that off to have an exciting life as a Russian specialist; so now I am getting back to my original passion.
5. My e-mail is email@example.com
Steve Gilliam
1.I arrived in 1981. I have served under three presidents, six chairs, and with 27 drama faculty and staff. Over three decades, I have designed 108 productions in the Ruth Taylor Theatre.
2. In 2006, I was honored with the Distinguished Scholarship, Research, or Creative Work or Activity Award. Former students are designing and teaching throughout the country and include Emmy awardees and Broadway designers. My professional credits include designs with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Light Opera, Seattle's Village Theatre, Baltimore's Cockpit-in-Court, Georgia's Springer Opera House, Kansas City Starlight, Wichita Music Theatre, Houston's Theatre Under the Stars, and the St. Louis MUNY. I have over a dozen theme park credits with Opryland, Fiesta Texas, and Time-Warner Six Flags. My current design for "Cannery Row Capers" with SeaWorld opened in 2005 and stars a 2,500-pound walrus. I have designed three national tours of "Fiddler on the Roof" from 2001-2011, starring TOPOL, Theodore Bikel, John Peerce, and Harry Feinstein.
3. Faculty meetings. No, actually, I will miss our amazing students, who never get older. They teach me constantly to reexamine and to explore new possibilities.
4. I have a business with my partner and wife, Sam Carter Gilliam, SLG Design and Creative Talent. We will return as resident designers to the St. Louis MUNY this summer for our 19th season. We have additional design projects throughout the U.S.
5. My e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
Lawrence Kimmel
1. I came to Trinity in 1967. Chapman and the Computer Center were new and there was an open field which now contains Coates Library and Laurie Auditorium. My decision to retire was not an easy one. I continue to have the same passion for teaching as when I began over 50 years ago. Even so, at 76, it is time to move aside for a new generation, one that I hope will have the same dedication to teaching as those they are replacing. My teaching has ranged over many fields and paradigms within philosophy, but my approach has remained Socratic - a conversation among friends and engaging students to think critically about things that really matter. My scholarship and publication have been equally diverse over my long tenure in higher education. In addition to analytic and historical essays in philosophy - on the usual venues of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics - I also have published essays on politics, law, religion, art, and literature. Early in my career I wrote a book of poetry, and I have written two plays for public television. Trinity has been a place open and supportive to creative teaching and scholarship. My colleagues in the department of philosophy have always been critically argumentative to our mutual advantage, and supportive in undertaking additional curricular tasks during my post-doctoral terms as a visiting scholar at Princeton and Oxford universities. Trinity has always had excellent faculty and our students still come to the University full of both competence and curiosity. One change in the task of reaching students in the Humanities is that contemporary students are more narrowly directed toward professional life. This is hardly surprising in these sometimes anxious times that frame their immediate futures.
2. I have received two teaching awards, The Piper Professorship for excellence in teaching and research, and the Z.T. Scott Award for outstanding teaching and academic advising. I have had the experience of teaching in several universities, and I believe Trinity's commitment to advising is singular in its excellence. I have also received two National Endowment for the Humanities awards. Aside from the personal honors for teaching and scholarship any faculty member receives, the fact remains that as teachers we are most of all honored by what our students become.
3. The classroom and the students. At the point of retirement, I can easily reflect on what a genuine privilege it has been to engage the energy of young minds as they come and develop in their undergraduate tenure. During all the years of teaching I confess to have felt more the weight of responsibility of the task than the privilege of its occasion. Finally, however, I can truly say that I cannot imagine any other profession, or any other life in which there is an opportunity and imperative to remain young in heart and mind. The life of the mind requires an open and secure space in which to flourish, and the community of scholars and teachers at Trinity has been all that it should be in its commitment to higher learning.
4. I will continue to write and publish, but probably pursue a new set of topics and a broader group of readers in the world at large. We have a beautiful home in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Northern New Mexico with a library full of books. I will not be short on things to think or read or write about.
5. My e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kimmel closed by recounting a parable of Nietzsche's about the three metamorphoses of the human spirit:
One must first become a Camel, whose great strength is endurance, to take up the burden of understanding the whole of the culture that one inherits. Then the spirit must be transformed into a Lion, whose strength is in the confident autonomy of authority - to proclaim the truth as one sees it. But finally the Lion must give way to that strongest of all creatures, the child, who does not know what cannot be done, whose spirit manifests the creative potential for what is yet possible.
The story is, of course, the journey of the human spirit, but it is also an analogue for the journey of education and life-long learning. Students are at the necessary stage of the Camel, they will become Lions, and finally, if they keep the child alive in their souls, they will become not only informed and confident, but creative in ways they cannot now imagine. The point of telling it here is to remind myself to continue to work through the child.


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Super Obama Seeking "Ass To Kick"
You can always tell when someone is desperate, because they start grandstanding. The latest example: Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama has messed up with the BP oil spill. This disaster is literally the straw that broke the camel's back of the American voter.
As if it wasn't bad enough that we've endured Obama recklessly spending our money, aborting our children, giving aide to terrorists such as Hamas and even scrapping NASA itself, now he adds the worst oil spill in American history to his long resume of utter incompetence and being a breathing Judas!
Obama betrays America, but then when the heat gets turned up a few degrees we see he even turns his back on his overlords at BP oil. Even though he's played soft with them in the face of crisis, likely so he can gain favor with oil money, now that we the American people have caught on he is trying to backpeddle and act tough.
In an interview last night, Obama vowed he would seek the "ass to kick" of whoever is responsible for this oil spill. Like he should have been doing months ago.
When America was attacked by Islam on 9/11, our President George W. Bush vowed to 'smoke the terrorists out of their holes, and hunt them down in each of their caves'. He did so. We hunted those lowlifes and they trembled in fear!
President Bush was loyal to America, Obama is not. He's just talking a big game, a big bark that belongs to a double-agent Soviet dog who's really a cat burglar in disguise! Obama is a veil wolf in sheep's skin, with no loyalty to America.
In the following video, Obama tries to sound like he really cares about America and is really biding his time, seeking to find out who spilled all the oil. Guess what, Obamo? I know the answer. BP OIL!
Why is not the ass of each of their executives kicked! President Bush would have already had their to the pyre and in the court of public condemnation! Obama tried to help them keep media away from the spill!
You are not super, Obama, but a dud! Get out of our White House! 2012 is your last year, Judas, because we're voting for a real president who loves America and does not have to grandstand to cover up for his lack of concern for our CHristian nation under God!
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Florida BlueGreen youth benefit is Nov. 17
The Wildlife Foundation of Florida has the inaugural Florida BlueGreen event from 5-10 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Weston home of Ron Bergeron.
Proceeds of the event, which costs a tax-deductible $150 per person and features Otter John performing his animal show at 6, live music, a silent auction, barbecue, drinks and prizes, benefit the foundation's Florida Youth Conservation Centers Network and other programs that encourage youngsters to take up outdoor activities such as fishing, archery, hunting and bird watching.
Among the celebrities slated to appear are Wild Kingdom's Jim Fowler, author Harvey Oyer and Capt. Rick Murphy of Sportsman's Adventures. For information and to see and bid on auction items, visit floridabluegreen.com.