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Proverbs 14:22-24 In a previous devotional we talked about the saying "Loose lips sink ships," which was a by-word in World War II. Those who were working in the war effort were cautioned to be extremely careful about what they shared with others. They didn't want any information to leak out to the enemy. We also have an enemy, and he uses our very own words as ammunition against us. We forget that the devil cannot read our minds, but he can give us thoughts and can hear what we say. A lot of the time we do his dirty work for him just by being careless in our words. read more
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The Earth Is Full of His Riches
Psalm 104:1-24 This psalm is so beautiful in its description of the majesty of God. This would be a great psalm to read when you are at a low point in your life. As I read about the creative power and manifold works of our God, confidence welled up within me, and I knew without a doubt that God could handle my every problem. read more
Just Do It
John 2:1-25 My husband and I lead tours to Israel, and we are about to take our sixth trip together there. We always make sure we do not miss the lovely chapel that now marks the place where Jesus turned the water into wine at the wedding of Cana. The presence of the Lord is always so strong in this place. read more
He Knows You
John 1:29-51 How many times have you called a person, only to receive a taped message? Because of great advancements in the technology of the computer and satellites, we have become a faceless society. At the same time we also have a society in which there is no privacy. Even though my face may not be known to others because I never have face-to-face communication with them, my whole life is known to others. Via the computer and satellite others know all about me—my buying habits, how much money I have in the bank, my age and the number in my family. read more
Jesus Is the Light
John 1:1-28 John begins his letter with the words "In the beginning was the Word." The Word was Jesus. He is the living Word. The Father is a Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the breath of God and Jesus is the Word of God. The Word of God took the form of flesh and came to live here on earth. I like to say God decided to put on an earth suit so He could come live with us. Jesus was with the Father from the foundation of the earth. When God said, "Let there be light," the light of Jesus began to shine on this earth. Jesus is the true Light that lights every man who comes into the world. read more
Quiet Time
Psalm 100:1-5 Every morning I try to have an hour with the Lord. Many people call this time their devotional time or their prayer time, and some call it their quiet time. My quiet time is not very quiet. read more
Joseph: The Provider
Luke 23:44-24:12 This passage tells about Joseph of Arimathea, who provided the sepulchre for Jesus' burial place. Luke describes Joseph of Arimathea as a counselor, a good and just man. He also had refused to condemn Jesus. The name Joseph in Hebrew means "provider." read more
The Inheritance of the Righteous
Psalm 97:1-98:9 Our own righteousness is as filthy rags, but the Lord's righteousness is filled with blessing upon blessing. We can only tap into the Lord's righteousness when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. From that moment on we are considered righteous, not because of our own righteous deeds, but because of the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for us. Because of His blood that provided our forgiveness, cleansing, justification, sanctification, glorification and righteousness (right standing with God), we are now dressed in His robe of righteousness. We begin a life journey of blessing if we continue to abide in His Word and His love and obey His commandments. Of course, we will experience trials and temptations (and probably many of them) before we go to heaven, but Jesus the Righteous One will fight our battles, and the ultimate victory will be ours. read more
A Sinking Heart
Luke 22:55-23:10 This passage in Luke tells about Peter's denial of Jesus. Yesterday we talked about the sinking feeling we experience when we face certain difficult situations. Fear and discouragement can cause the sinking feeling. Today we see an even deeper level of emotional turmoil. When Peter denied Jesus, he had more than a sinking feeling. He had a sinking heart. His heart was broken. When the Lord turned and looked at Peter after the cock crowed, Peter remembered the word of the Lord and how He told him that before the cock crowed he would deny Him three times. Peter left the scene and wept bitterly. read more
That Sinking Feeling
Psalm 94:1-23 Everyone during their lifetime experiences that sinking feeling. It may be fear that usually hits us with a racing heart and a sinking feeling in the pit of our stomachs. It may be discouragement. The saying goes that when the devil created the tool of discouragement, he then ceased from his works. We may have that sinking feeling when we are experiencing the loss of a loved one. When we receive the report we have been turned down for an interview, once again that sinking feeling overwhelms us. The psalmist David was quite familiar with the sinking feeling. Flight and fight were his constant companions during his lifetime. In this psalm he reveals how he was able to survive the sinking feeling. He writes, "Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul-.-.-.- They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge" (vv. 17-19, 21-22, KJV). read more
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Tamil Nadu Has 5.3 Crore Voters for Lok Sabha Polls
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Published: 10th January 2014 07:13 PM
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Around 5.3 crore voters in Tamil Nadu would decide the fate of candidates contesting the 39 seats from the state in the Lok Sabha polls this year.
According to the final electoral rolls after Special Summary Revision, 2014, by the Election Commission of India, Tamil Nadu has 5.37 crore - 2.69 crore males, 2.68 crore females and 2,996 others (transgenders).
In a summary revision, the rolls are published as draft, without house-to-house enumeration, so that claims and objections can be invited. This draft of the rolls has been released after revisions were made, incorporating claims and objections, officials said.
According to a statement issued by the state Chief Electoral Officer here Friday, the net addition of new voters after the revision is 23.49 lakh.
The Election Commission said the total number of electors to total population is 71.24 percent. This is in line with the projected census ratio of 18-plus population to the total population, which is 71.16 percent.
The commission said there is a shortfall in the youth (18-19 age group) enrolment. The enrolment in this group is around 11.99 lakh, against an expected number of around 24.46 lakh.
The commission said efforts are being made to motivate this group to enroll.
The voter identity cards will be given to those who are newly enrolled at the polling booths on National Voter's Day, Jan 25.
The commission said the process of continuous revision of electoral rolls is on, and those who do not find their names on the rolls can apply directly or online.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Indiana Pacers picked up a rare road victory and gained ground on the Milwaukee Bucks in the race for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Jarrett Jack scored 26 points and Troy Murphy had 23 points, 10 rebounds and six assists to lead the Pacers to a 117-109 victory Tuesday night against the Sacramento Kings.
The Pacers, who had only one road win in 2009, pulled within two games of Milwaukee for the eighth and final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference.
"This is definitely a big win for us," Murphy said. "It gets us game closer to Milwaukee and is a great way to start off a West Coast trip."
Murphy was instrumental, producing his eighth straight game with double figures in points and rebounds and his 38th this season. He made four 3-pointers and added two steals and two blocks.
"I think Murph has been like that the last month. He has been our best player for a while," said reserve guard Travis Diener, who scored a season-high 18 points. "He's a double-double every night, you can almost count on it."
Jack has averaged over 20 points the last 10 games and has also been a key player in the Pacers' recent surge. They have won two straight and five of seven.
Jackso scored 11 fourth-quarter points, including two late baskets that silenced a Kings' rally. He added seven rebounds, three assists and four steals.
"He is leading us over the last six games, he is being very aggressive," Indiana coach Jim O'Brien said. "Jarrett is spacing the court and really attacking the basket. More importantly, he is our voice out there on the court."
Marquis Daniels scored 18 points and T.J. Ford had 11 points and nine assists for the Pacers, who meet Portland on Wednesday and finish the three-game road trip Saturday against the Clippers.
Kevin Martin scored 21 points for the Kings, who have dropped two straight and five of six. Rashad McCants scored 20 points and Spencer Hawes tied his career-high with 19 points. Jason Thompson scored 13 points and Bobby Jackson had 12.
Trailing by 15 points entering the fourth quarter, the Kings cut the margin to 110-101 on a driving layup by McCants with 2:45 remaining. Following a timeout, Diener connected on this fifth and final 3-pointer and Jack followed with a pair of baskets to put Indiana ahead 117-101.
Afterward, the Kings, who own the NBA's worst record at 13-49, weren't bemoaning their failed comeback. They were more upset with their lack of overall effort and defensive intensity, traits that have followed them throughout what could be the worse season in franchise history.
"Well, needless to say our defense was atrocious tonight," Kings coach Kenny Natt said. "It's on the first unit of guys that was out there that really gave the game away from the start in regards to effort and lack of defense."
Accompanied by Larry Bird, president of basketball operations, the Pacers arrived in Sacramento hoping to halt a trend that had seen them lose 12 of 13 on the road since a victory in Phoenix on Jan. 7. They picked the right place to do it because the Kings hadn't beaten an Eastern Conference team all season and are now winless in 24 games.
The Pacers, who made 11 of 21 3-point shots, played their seventh straight game without All-Star Danny Granger, who is recuperating from a partially torn tendon in his right foot. Indiana was also without Mike Dunleavy, who is out for the season and contemplating knee surgery.
The Pacers are 5-2 without Granger, who could return on this road trip.
"We've had a pretty favorable schedule lately," Murphy said. "But it is nice to know guys can step up when we need them. The Kings have traded a lot of guys, half their team is new. We felt we had to jump on them early and we were able to do that."
Ford scored seven points in the third quarter for the Pacers, who built the lead to 20 points and went into the fourth with a 93-78 advantage.
The Kings had no answer for Murphy in the opening half. The veteran forward hurt the Kings on the perimeter and inside, getting 20 points and six rebounds for Indiana. The Pacers benefited from the Kings' marginal defensive effort in taking a 65-51 halftime lead.
"We take strides and then we take three steps back," Hawes said. "We definitely have to figure something out, put a combination together and get some kind of consistency on the defensive end of the floor."
- Thompson is the only Kings player to have played in all 62 games this season. Bird watched the game in a lower level seat with former Pacers player Sam Perkins.
- Kings rookie Donte Green played power forward for the first time all season.


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Nintendo is now less profitable than SONY PART 2: Electric Boogaloo
PUNCHOUT1116 3 years ago#91
I would even go as far as to call it what it really is: mentally ill. I mean, thats the only way I could really describe this kinda thing.
If you believe in Jesus Christ, have accepted Him as your Lord and Savior, and are 100% proud of it, put this in your sig.
sonic777 posted...
AceMos hasn't yet figured out that if Nintendo has Payables, it has debt.
you are so ignorant its sad
debt is money you OWE
as in you pay it off over a set amount of time like if you get a loan from the bank you have to pay it back
nintendo dont have any of that
they buy all things up front with a full payment
3 things 1. i am female 2. i havea msucle probelm its hard for me to typ well 3.*does her janpuu dance*
DiscostewSM 3 years ago#93
AceMos posted...
sonic777 posted...AceMos hasn't yet figured out that if Nintendo has Payables, it has debt.
I guess trolls consider spending money on a new building part of debt by that logic....
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DiscostewSM posted...
AceMos posted...sonic777 posted...AceMos hasn't yet figured out that if Nintendo has Payables, it has debt.
To them, that building doesn't count. Don't you know? It was made with last-gen bricks using underpowered construction equipment.
Beatperson14 3 years ago#95
So many mad drones ITT
*Looks at Nintendo's annual report*
*Looks at "Current liabilities" in the report*
*Sees numbers in both ACCOUNTS PAYABLE (owed) and NOTES PAYABLE (owed)*
Well, lookie there, they have to PAY money to an entity. If you borrowed 5 dollars from me, and hadn't paid it back yet, it would be a 5 dollar PAYABLE to me, and you'd be in debt to me 5 dollars.
Why is this so hard for you to understand? Does that muscle problem affect your basic reading skills? Because your brain isn't a muscle, ya know.
Every company has debt. Just because it's not for a building or real estate or machinery doesn't mean they don't have debt.
Holy crap.
I love my PS3 and Wii U equally. Enough of these garbage Sony is better than Nintendo and Nintendo is better than Sony. Can't we all just get along?
PS3 Platinums: Heavy Rain, Infamous 2, Lego Indiana Jones 2, Resident Evil 5+6, Skyrim, DBZ: Budokai HD
gokaury posted...
I love my PS3 and Wii U equally. Enough of these garbage Sony is better than Nintendo and Nintendo is better than Sony. Can't we all just get along?
Apparently, many think they have to pick one console and wage a total war against all others. They can't be fans of more than one, especially when they're seen as opposites, nor can they come to the conclusion that fighting the console wars are silly because success/failure is defined by sales history over time, not by fans squabbling online and they would be better people for discussing things they actually were interested in. Imagine if there was a tv show people hated and they camped forums trolling and attacking the fans of it. Same goes for a movie. It would seem absurd, wouldn't it?
dennis941012 3 years ago#99
From: Beatperson14 | #455
So many mad drones ITT
and so many delusional ponies
that "profit" is from selling 2 buildings
not only is gaming division losing money
all of their other divisions are in trouble too
if anyone is going to die its going to be sony
and not because of nintendo but because of
sonic777 posted...
Hey, TC:
And, by golly, we've seen that Sony is willing to do that in order to post a profit on their fiscal year. At this rate, that may be precisely what they end up having to do in order to post a profit for the next year.
Btw, when the heck in between posting for hours, arguing about the financials of various companies do any of you guys find time to actually PLAY GAMES? Seriously.
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'Mumbai gangrape suspects raped two others in same area in past six months'
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The Shakti Mills gangrape suspects have allegedly told interrogators that they had once targeted a couple who ventured into the abandoned premises seeking privacy, and had molested the girl. They had allegedly threatened her that they would circulate her photographs.
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The accused also allegedly raped a commercial sex worker and a ragpicker inside Shakti Mills, and were emboldened by the fact that both cases were not reported to the police. "All three previous attacks took place in the past six months," a police source said.
Related: Mumbai gangrape accused was a police informer
The Mumbai Police Crime Branch Tuesday said while it was yet to trace a ragpicker who had witnessed the gangrape on August 22, it had located a person who would be able to testify that suspect Salim Ansari called his accomplices Mohammed Qasim Shaikh alias Bengali, Siraj Rehman Khan and the juvenile suspect to the crime scene.
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"We have got an important witness who was sitting with Qasim, Siraj and the first arrested suspect around 5.30 pm on August 22, when Qasim received a call from Salim. The trio left to join Salim after the call. The witness and the three suspects were playing cards at a shanty near the crime scene. The call between Salim and Qasim has been confirmed by Call Data Records of the suspect," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy.
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Michigan State's Adreian Payne should've 'scuffled' years ago
|Coming off a brouhaha with his teammates earlier this week, Payne was a pain for OSU. (US Presswire)
I have no idea which school will win the Big Ten.
Neither do you.
But one thing I know is that the eventual league champion will almost certainly be somebody that steals a road game or two and holds serve at home, which is why what Michigan State did Saturday was huge and important. The 18th-ranked Spartans beat No. 11 Ohio State by a 59-56 margin at the Breslin Center when Shannon Scott threw up a confusing shot that missed badly at the buzzer.
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So now Michigan State is 16-3 overall, 5-1 in the Big Ten.
That's good enough for first place.
(At least for now.)
But the more important statistic is that the Spartans are 3-0 in Big Ten games played inside the Breslin Center, which is crucial to their longterm goals because, my lord, have you seen what's next on their schedule? They're at Wisconsin on Tuesday, at Indiana next Sunday. In other words, Michigan State -- a team ranked in the top 20 that owns victories over No. 4 Kansas and No. 11 Ohio State -- will be lucky to win one of its next two games because life on the road is tough when you're playing in a league where 50 percent of the members are ranked in the Associated Press poll.
That's why the Spartans needed this one.
They got it thanks, in part, to
So good scuffle, guys.
And good win, Spartans.
And good luck on the road this week.
I'm not sure how the next eight days will go.
But you'll be fine in the end long as you keep winning the ones at home.


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Books that celebrate bookstores and books
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A spate of new books celebrate bookstores and books themselves. Two of them will be featured in a "Celebrate Indie Bookstores" love-in at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 at Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Ave. Both feature Milwaukee writers who will take part in the evening. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
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There were only three games on Wednesday's Orlando Summer League slate, but there was still plenty to learn from the six teams that took the floor.
Utah Jazz forward Jeremy Evans stole the show with an impressive athletic display; the Oklahoma City Thunder got a breakout game from the all-but-forgotten Jeremy Lamb, and Boston Celtic rookie Kelly Olynyk certainly made the most out of his minutes.
The play was sloppy at times, but a few trends have already developed amidst the mess. Without giving too much away, let's just say that the Philadelphia 76ers might very well shoot their way to the bottom of everybody's power rankings.
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Papers from the annual conferences of the International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM) are now available in OnePetro. Content from the US Dept. of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has been indexed into OnePetro. When NETL content is found, an Open Access link direct customers to the PDF available at no charge on the NETL site. Continue reading
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The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has continued its efforts to establish internationally accepted guidelines for the evaluation of petroleum reserves and resources by heading an effort sponsored by five industry organizations to develop Guidelines for Application of the Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS). Continue reading
Make plans to attend Teaching of Petroleum Engineering in Angola
Universidade Católica de Angola (UCAN) and SPE Talent Council Conference will present "Teaching of Petroleum Engineering" in Angola on 18 – 19 November in Luanda, Angola. Continue reading
E&P Professionals From Around the World Gather For an Historic SPE Annual Conference
RICHARDSON, Texas, USA (22 September 2010) – The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 2010 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) was held this week in Florence, Italy, and brought together approximately 4,700 oil and gas professionals from 70+ countries around the world.
For the past 85 years, ATCE has been the leading technical conference in the upstream oil and gas industry, bringing together current best practices and emerging technologies to the engineers, scientists, managers, and executives in attendance.
It is the first year that the conference has been held outside of the United States. Approximately 60% of this year's attendees were from Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, the Russia and Caspian area, Africa, and South America.
This year's conference received 1,800 paper proposal submissions, the largest number ever submitted for an SPE event. Of those, more than 400 were selected for presentation.
More than 250 exhibiting companies from 17 countries, utilizing approximately 4,000 sq meters of exhibit space, featured the latest products and services in the E&P industry.
Panelists in Monday morning's Opening General Session, "Gas Market Variables In The Global Energy Equation," discussed how worldwide demand for natural gas likely will continue to soar, but the oil and gas industry faces challenges in meeting that demand.
Moderator Andrew Gould, chief executive officer of Schlumberger, noted the spectacular growth of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the rise of unconventional resources spurred by drilling and completion innovations. A diverse group of panelists echoed these remarks and provided examples of how their companies have been involved in LNG developments, shale gas, and clean technologies to support future demand.
Panelists included:
• Sara Ortwein, President, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
• Michael Stoppard, Managing Director, IHS CERA
• Yan Cunzhang, President, PetroChina Company Ltd.
• Howard Paver, Senior Vice President, Global New Business Development, Hess Corporation
Also on Monday at the ATCE Chairman's Luncheon, Claudio Descalzi, chief operating officer for E&P of Eni, shared his insights on how operators must refocus on improving competencies, relationships with producing countries, and corporate culture in order to succeed in the future. He noted that, with global demand predicted to soar, international and national oil companies must become smarter, more effective, and more efficient in their production operations.
Italian lesson plans available on Energy4me.org in time for ATCE 2010!
Energy4me is excited to announce free downloadable Italian lesson plans and activities on Energy4me.org just in time for the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Energy4me, the Society of Petroleum Engineers' (SPE) energy education outreach program, is inviting 50 Tuscany-area science teachers (of students ages 12–18) to their "Energize Your Classroom Teacher Workshop" at their Annual Technical Conference (ATCE) being held 20 – 22 September 2010 in Florence, Italy. Continue reading
Congratulations to the 2010 International Award Winners
The 2010 recipients will be recognized during the 2010 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Florence, Italy in September. The 2011 recipients will be recognized at the 2011 ATCE in Denver, Colorado.
JUST UPDATED: ATCE almost here; more events offered
JUST UPDATED: ATCE offers more chances to connect and share with colleagues
Drilling Systems Automation (DSA) Technical Section
The Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section (DSATS) invites you to a half-day meeting that will be held in conjunction with ATCE in Florence, Italy. This important event will be Sunday, 19 September 12:00 to 5:30 p.m. at Fortezza da Basso, Monumentale, Ground Floor, Sala Della Volta.
12.00 Introductions to team, DSATS and agenda (Geoff Downton)
12.10 Notices of upcoming events and relevant ATCE-Florence papers (Geoff Downton)
12.20 Progress on Factory Drilling and Amsterdam (David Reid)
12.30 Presentation and Open Discussion by the DSATS Automation Communications subcommittee with feedback from the IADC ART Drilling Control Systems subcommittee (Fred Florence)
14.00 Break
14.15 Brief revisit of SPE DRILLING AUTOMATION WORKSHOP held in Galveston April 2010 (Geoff Downton)
14.45 Open discussion – Future subcommittee action – tackling what is really important (Geoff Downton)
15.15 Automation Road Map (Tom Geehan)
15.45 Open discussion – Membership, representation, engagement, future DSATS direction
16.15 Thoughts for Amsterdam – 2011 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference
16.45 All Other Business – DSATS Election of Officers
17.30 Close
Research & Development Technical Section
The Research & Development Technical Section will be hosting a dinner in conjunction with the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Florence, Italy; featuring SPE Regional Director, John Donachie. The dinner will be Sunday, 19 September from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in Scherma in the Monumentale building of the Fortezza da Basso Center. There is no charge to attend this meeting. However, due to limited seating, please RSVP by Wednesday, 30 August if you plan to attend. RSVP now!
About ATCE
For the first time, SPE's flagship meeting—the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition—will be held internationally. With more than 50% of SPE members residing outside of the United States, SPE recognizes how important it is for its annual meeting to be accessible to all members around the world.
Top 5 Reasons to Attend ATCE 2010
ATCE 2010 is one of the best ways that you can gain technical knowledge and make valuable contacts, while saving on consulting and research costs. Here is why you should attend.
- 500 peer-selected technical papers covering current applications and future technologies
- 300 exhibiting companies showcasing the latest products and services
- Networking events
- Student and young professional activities
- Post-show training courses
ATCE also offers the opportunity for SPE volunteers to share best practices for their committees and sections.
Society of Petroleum Engineers' Worldwide Membership Grows to Record 92,100
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RICHARDSON, Texas 3 (February 2010) – Total 2009 membership in the Society of Petroleum Engineers reached a record 92,100 members in 117 countries, a 4 percent increase over 2008. The number of young professional members age 35 and under also increased. Continue reading


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Skip to comments.A New Foundation for Positive Cultural Change: Science and God in the Public Square
Posted on 10/28/2006 3:22:14 PM PDT by betty boop
Moral conservatives were shocked to read a thinly veiled defense of infanticide in the New York Times a few years ago by MIT [now of Harvard] professor Steven Pinker. But they would be even more disturbed if they saw Pinkers justification for his views in a book that appeared about the same time.
In How the Mind Works, Pinker argues that the fundamental premise of ethics has been disproved by science. Ethical theory, he writes, requires idealizations like free, sentient, rational, equivalent agents whose behavior is uncaused. Yet, the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events.
In other words, moral reasoning assumes the existence of things that science tells us are unreal. Pinker tries to retain some validity for ethics nonetheless by offering a double truth theory: A human being, he says, is simultaneously a machine and a sentient agent, depending on the purposes of the discussion.
Its astonishing that anyone, especially an MIT professor, would be capable of sustaining two such contradictory ideas. But in fact, it is quite common, says Phillip Johnson in The Wedge of Truth. Since the Enlightenment, knowledge has split into two separate and often contradictory spheres: facts (science) versus values (ethics, religion, the humanities).
The trouble with this division is that eventually one side comes to dominate. This is the key to understanding why America is embroiled in a culture clash today, Johnson argues and why moral and religious conservatives are losing. The direction in intellectual history since the Enlightenment has been to grant science the authority to pronounce what is real, true, objective, and rational, while relegating ethics and religion to the realm of subjective opinion and nonrational experience.
Once this definition of knowledge is conceded, then any position that appears to be backed by science will ultimately triumph in the public square over any position that appears based on ethics or religion. The details of the particular debate do not matter. For, in principle, we do not enact into public policy and we do not teach in the public schools views based private opinion or tribal prejudice.
Johnson gives a rich description of how the fact/value dichotomy operates. Its origin is generally traced to Descartes, who proposed a sharp dualism between matter and mind. It was not long before the realm of matter came to be seen as more certain, more objective, than the realm of mind. The subject matter of physics is indeed much simpler than metaphysics, and hence yields far wider agreement. This was mistakenly taken to mean that physics is objective while metaphysics is subjective. The result was the rise of scientism and positivism philosophies that accord naturalistic science a monopoly on knowledge and consign all else to mere private belief and fantasy.
Today, Johnson writes, the dominance of the scientific naturalist definition of knowledge eventually ensures that no independent source of knowledge will be recognized.
Darwin, Buddha, Jesus, Fairies
Yet, depending on how scientists judge the publics mood, they are more or less blunt about this epistemological imperialism. When feeling secure in their role as the cultural priesthood, they insist that naturalistic science has completely discredited the claims of religion. Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett, in Darwins Dangerous Idea, says Darwinian evolution is a universal acid that dissolves all traditional religious and moral beliefs. He suggests that traditional churches be relegated to cultural zoos for the amusement of onlookers.
I witnessed the same attitude at a conference last April at Baylor University: Nobel prize-winner Steven Weinberg lumped together all spiritual teachings, whether of Buddha or Jesus, as talk about fairies. A few months earlier he had told the Freedom From Religion Association, I personally feel that the teaching of modern science is corrosive to religious belief, and Im all for that. If science helps bring about the end of religion, he concluded, it would be the most important contribution science could make.
Using a sports metaphor, Johnson calls these outspoken scientists the offensive platoon, brought out as needed to invok[e] the authority of science to silence any theistic protest. At other times, however, when the public shows signs of restlessness at this imposition of naturalistic philosophy under the guise of science, the defensive platoon takes the field. That is when we read spin-doctored reassurances that many scientists are religious (in some sense) . . . and that science and religion are separate realms which should never be mixed.
But separate-but-equal in principle invariably means unequal in practice. For example, a report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) says, whether God exists or not is a question about which science is neutral. But a survey of NAS members by Larry Witham and Edward Larson in Scientific American found that 90% of scientists dont believe in a supernatural God. Witham and Larson conclude: The irony is remarkable: a group of specialists who are nearly all unbelievers and who believe that science compels such a conclusion told the public that science is neutral on the God question.
Or perhaps worse than an irony, Johnson comments; it may be a noble lie that the intellectual priesthood tells to the common people to conceal their own nihilism.
Keep the Public In the Dark
Similarly, Harvards Stephen J. Gould proposes a peacemaking formula he calls NOMA (non-overlapping magisteria), granting science and religion each its own distinct authority. This sounds fair enough but it all depends on where one draws the line. Consider Goulds assessment of the 1996 statement by John Paul II, in which the pope tentatively supported evolution while emphatically rejecting any theories that consider the spirit as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter.
How did Gould treat this affirmation of the reality of the spiritual realm? He condescendingly granted that such a quaint notion might have some metaphorical value, but added that he privately suspected it to be no more than a sop to our fears, a device for maintaining a belief in human superiority within an evolutionary world offering no privileged position to any creature.
In other words, Gould reduced religion to mere emotion at best at worst, to the sin of speciesism. This was a bit much even for John Haught of Georgetown University, himself an ardent evolutionist: He complained that Gould never concedes the slightest cognitive status to religion that for Gould religion merely paints a coat of value over the otherwise valueless facts described by science.
Precisely. For the modern Darwinist, Johnson explains, the only role left for the theologian is to put a theistic spin on the story provided by materialism. Theology does not provide an independent source of knowledge; all it can do is borrow knowledge to put a subjective interpretation on it.
Clearly, the function of the defensive platoon is merely to keep religious folk content with their subordinate status. Darwinists understand that it is sometimes more effective not to press the logic of the fact/value split to its unpalatable conclusions too adamantly, lest the public catch on and raise a protest. Instead of arguing that religion is false, by relegating it to the value realm, they keep the question of true and false off the table altogether. As Johnson says, religion is consigned to the private sphere, where illusory beliefs are acceptable if they work for you.
Thus the fact/value split allows the metaphysical naturalists to mollify the potentially troublesome religious people by assuring them that science does not rule out religious belief (so long as it does not pretend to be knowledge).
Once this division is accepted in principle however, Johnson warns, the philosophical naturalists have won. Whenever the separate realms logic surfaces, you can be sure that the wording implies that there is a ruling realm (founded on reality) and a subordinate realm (founded on illusions which must be retained for the time being). Hence, the formula allows the ruling realm to expand its territory at will.
Epistemological Imperialism
The expansion of the fact realm into theology can be traced in the work of scientists such as Harvards E.O. Wilson, who seeks to explain religion itself as a product of evolution. Religion is merely an idea that appears in the human mind when the nervous system has evolved to a certain level of complexity.
In Consilience, Wilson says religion evolved because belief in God gave early humans an edge in the struggle for survival. Today, he says, we must abandon traditional religions and develop a new unifying myth based squarely on evolution a religion that deifies the process itself, where no teaching, no doctrine, is true in any final sense because all ideas evolve over time.
A similar expansion can be traced in ethics, where sociobiology and evolutionary psychology now presume to answer moral questions. In the notorious New York Times article mentioned above, Pinker argues that since infanticide is widespread in human cultures, it must be a product of evolution. As he puts it, the emotional circuitry of mothers has evolved to include a capacity for neonaticide. It is simply part of our biological design.
Accept this logic, Johnson warns, and you will be pressed to the conclusion that killing off babies is not a moral horror but a morally neutral act, a genetically encoded evolutionary adaptation, like wings or claws.
Pinker does not draw this conclusion yet. But when the time seems ripe to overthrow the traditional moral view, Johnson predicts, doctrinaire naturalists will complete the logic by observing that the moral sphere is as empty as the religious realm, and therefore has no power to stand against the conclusions of science.
Shortly after Johnson finished his book, his forewarnings were confirmed by the appearance of a book titled The Natural History of Rape, which argued that, biologically speaking, rape is not a pathology; instead, it is an evolutionary strategy for maximizing reproductive success: In other words, if candy and flowers dont do the trick, some men may resort to coercion to fulfill the reproductive imperative. The book calls rape a natural, biological phenomenon that is a product of the human evolutionary heritage, akin to the leopards spots and the giraffes elongated neck.
The book roused sharp controversy, but as one of the authors, Randy Thornhill, said on National Public Radio, the logic is inescapable: Since evolution is true, it must be true, he said, that every feature of every living thing, including human beings, has an underlying evolutionary background. Thats not a debatable matter. Every behavior that exists today must confer some evolutionary advantage; otherwise, it would not have been preserved by natural selection.
The fact realm has even expanded into the philosophy of mind, where consistent Darwinists tell us there is no single, central self, residing somehow within the body, that makes decisions, holds opinions, loves and hates. Instead, in the currently popular computational theory, the mind is a set of computers that solve specific problems forwarded by the senses. The notion of a unified self is an illusion, Pinker says an illusion selected by evolution only because our body needs to be able to go one direction at a time.
Of course, computers operate without consciousness, so the question arises why we are conscious beings. Some neuroscientists conclude that we arent that consciousness too is an illusion. Philosopher Paul Churchland says mental states do not exist, and suggests that we replace language about beliefs and desires with statements about the nervous systems physical mechanisms the activation of neurons and so on.
Piling example upon example, Johnson illustrates the epistemological imperialism of the fact sphere. This explains why moral and religious conservatives seem to have little effect in the public square: Their message is filtered through a fact/value grid that reduces it to an expression of mere emotional attachment and tribal prejudice. To turn the tide of the culture war, conservatives must challenge this definition of knowledge, and make the case that religion and morality are genuine sources of knowledge. We must assert the existence of such a cognitive territory, Johnson writes, and be prepared to defend it. [Emphasis added.]
Of course, others have offered philosophical arguments to undercut the fact/value dichotomy, notably Michael Polanyi and Leo Strauss. What makes Johnsons approach unique is that he takes the battle into science itself. He proposes that Darwinian evolution itself can and should be critiqued, since it functions as the crucial scientific support for philosophical naturalism. For if nature alone can produce everything that exists, then we must accept the reductionist conclusions described above. If, to take the last example, the mind is a product of material processes at its origin, then we must concede that it consists of nothing more than material processes that our thoughts are reducible to the firing of neurons.
How Information Changes Everything
In science itself, the cutting-edge issue is information, Johnson says. Any text, whether a book or the DNA code, requires a complex, nonrepeating arrangement of letters. Can this kind of order be produced by chance or law? The answer, he argues, is no. Chance produces randomness, while physical law produces simple, repetitive order (like using a macro on your computer to print a phrase over and over). The only cause of complex, nonrepeating, specified order is an intelligent agent. [Emphasis added.]
Ordinary laboratory research implicitly assumes the reality of intelligent design, Johnson notes. Biologists talk of molecular machines and evaluate their engineering design. They conduct experiments that are described as reverse engineering to determine what functions biological structures perform. They talk about libraries of genetic information stored in DNA, and about how RNA translates the four-letter language of the nucleotides into the 20-letter language of proteins.
All this implies that information is real and information in turn implies the existence of a mind, a personal agent, capable of intention and choice. Thus purposes and ends [e.g., formal and final causes, to use the Aristotelian language] are real and objective, and the value realm is restored to the status of genuine knowledge.
Johnson only hints at what this would imply for a revival of traditional theology and ethics. But he suggests that it would begin with the many-layered verse in John 1:1, In the beginning was the Word, the Logos reason, intelligence, information. These simple words make a fundamental statement that is directly contradictory to the corresponding starting point of scientific materialism, Johnson writes, and they open the door to a much richer definition of knowledge and of reason itself.
This conclusion is certainly suggestive, though not well developed. Johnsons greatest accomplishment is to give a deft analysis of the imperialism of the fact sphere. Unfortunately, he barely touches on the opposite dynamic the incursion of the value sphere into the fact realm which is well advanced in many fields. It is called postmodernism, and it reduces all knowledge claims to social constructions at best, to power plays at worst. Johnson devotes a chapter to the impact of postmodernism on the humanities, but it is the thinnest chapter in the book, and it is clear that his greatest concern is with the scientific fields where the older Enlightenment rationalism still reigns.
For the rationalist, Johnson is no doubt correct that the only approach that carries weight is a scientific one. Only a demonstration that the scientific data itself has theistic implications bridges the sphere of objective, public, verifiable knowledge. Johnson includes clear and readable discussions of standard anti-Darwinian arguments. (There has long been skepticism within the scientific community about the enormous extrapolation from minor variations within living things to explain the origin of living things.) He also gives a deliciously witty account of the Kansas controversy.
The strength of the book, however, is to show the wide-ranging implications of intelligent design theory in other fields, and to trace its relevance for nonscientists indeed, for all who are concerned about preserving a free and humane society.
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Though I do not speak in any official capacity for FR, as a member of this forum for nearly nine years, I have to say FR isnt anti-science at all; its anti abuse of science that is, to say, any use of science dedicated to political and social change purposes. The scientific method itself allows no scope for such proclivities/activities.
Personally, I strongly object to this "disenchanted evo" mischaracterization. And Nancy Pearceys article well documents the reasons why in logic and reason I feel justified in objecting to the baseless claim that FR is "anti-science."
In the end, science must confine itself to the elucidation of the physical. When it starts treading on metaphysical territory, it is illegitimately going beyond the scope of its mission, and trespassing on territory that its method is not designed to engage. That is to say, trespassing on philosophy and theology: It simply has no warrant there. And perhaps the time has come when certain scientists need to be reminded of that.
FYI and welcome to the party, should you choose to show up.
FYI - will read it later tonight. Looks interesting.
FYI, just in case you might find this interesting....
I think you have to distinguish between real science, and scientism.
Darwinism is a parody of science, which tends to be a kind of secular religion.
Science is a good deal more open minded and willing to adjust to the realities if a hypothesis proves to be wrong. Darwinists simply cannot get themselves to agree that they possibly could be wrong. Their position is that Darwinism is true, scientific, factual, period, end of conversation. If you disagree, they will call in the activist judges to shut your mouth, because you are deemed unscientific and therefore not worthy to be heard.
I was a math and physics major at Harvard before I changed fields, and I have studied the history of science and philosophy for most of my lifetime. Descartes's mind-body problem is certainly one source of the difficulty. But it goes back even further to John of Ockham's nominalism. This is the illusion that if you can't see and touch something, it's not real. Therefore there is no such thing as a tree, or a maple, or an oak. There are only individual trees, maples, and oaks. The individual is more real than the universal. But paradoxically we can only think in universals.
That soon leads to theories like those mentioned: that we have no free will, no real consciousness, no real intelligence, that all our ideals are really illusions, and so forth. But as Samuel Johnson said, while kicking a stone, "Thus do I refute Berkeley." Anyone with even a dash of sense knows that he has free will, intelligence, choice. It takes a brainwashing education to make people think otherwise, and of course that's why Darwinists want to impose brainwashing educations in the public schools, with no opportunity to discuss whether they are actually real or scientific.
History tells the same story. Science and technology grew up in the west to unprecedented heights BECAUSE of Christianity, not in spite of it, as the pseudoscientists would have people believe. Philosophy, or the love of knowledge, thrived under Christianity long after it died in Greece, and philosophy died in the West precisely because Christianity weakened in intellectual circles.
Such materialistc determinism is the cornerstone of Marxism.
From my point of view, there is exactly not a single word you wrote that I can disagree with.
Certainly I appreciate the distinction you make between science and scientism -- the latter a bastardized, reduced version of human reason and insight.
Thank you ever so much for your illuminating essay/post!
You're welcome, RunningWolf! Hope to see you again later.
As always, Cicero, your wise comments are worth re-reading. My grandmother always said our troubles started at the turn of the 20th century when so many intellectuals (so-called) rejected God.
Personally, I think of the afterlife as analogous to the profit motive - - most humans are pretty selfish and the only reason they behave themselves is because they expect to have to answer for it eventually.
So very glad you noticed that, too, Tailgunner Joe.
Of course, an allegation like that seems to make many of our neo-Darwinist friends squirm.... But it seems to me, if "the shoe fits, wear it."
Thanks for so much for writing, Tailgunner Joe!
Cicero is right. The "isms" try to simplify our world by amputating what doesn't fit, all for the sake of power.
Science by it's very nature is amoral.
In science anything that is possible is permissible.
Science not tempered by morality is a very dangerous place..
Who said, "Without God, everything is permissible."
Free Republic in my experience is an expedition of herding cats.. Mothers and even Mothers Apple Pie could be debated from many different angles.. To say there is an anti science animus on FR could easily be true... and also UNtrue at the same time.. Depends on which thread you are reading at the time and the time you are reading it..
Its that way with "Cats"... Freepers are just "scratching" for some truth.. and howling for "red meat".. What amazes me is that a conversation about "the Observer".. goes wanting.. Many think their observation post is the best.. and compared to others it might be, but to yet others it could "suck"(the observation post)... Cats are not very humble creatures..
Nevertheless, I like Cats...
What we have is a reference to a claim that quantum mechanics doesn't happen.
"...Moral conservatives"
...as opposed to all those immoral conservatives...
I don't know the author but he was correct.
The marxist left has always falsely claimed that their anti-religious viewpoint is rooted in "science." Their "scientists" push marxist "global warming" doomsday hysteria and other nonsense and are supposed to be just as unquestionable as Michael J. Fox's support for "scientific" experimentation on human beings.
"Without God, everything is permitted." -- Dostoevsky
I'm going to like this article, thanks for posting it.
I suppose you could see it that way. I myself am put off with this altar status of amorality and content neutrality bit floating around nowadays. They push it in the courts, you know. I don't trust it, no, not at all.
To put it straight, there is no science without thought. We do science. We think it. No thought, no science. Remember your old Latin, scientia. It means knowledge. In a real way, science is the scientia of the human person. And isn't the human person a moral being? When knowledge is thought to be amoral, I think there is a serious misunderstanding. It begins to bifurcate or life, to split it. And then we become alienated from the world we know we loved.
This problem is related to the fact-value distinction that is raised in the article (not to mention the fact-value-truth distinction).
So what do you mean then, by saying it is amoral? It sounds as if science is a Mr. or Mrs. who is exempt.
The three great nineteenth century exponents of what was to become the Hermeneutics of Suspicion were Darwin, Marx, and Freud.
All of them had some interesting things to say, even Marx. But they all thought that everything could be explained by their "scientific" systems, and they were wrong about that.
Marx has been discredited among sensible people, but he is still immensely influential in academia. Freud also has been generally discredited. Darwin is still holding on by his fingernails, largely with the strategic help of activist judges, who remember the famous Scopes trial and think they are manning the barriers against ignorance and superstition.
Not very democratic. Darwinists have a natural tendency to believe that they belong to a superior race of beings, higher up the evolutionary scale than the rest of us. Freudians, too. Anyone who questioned their theories was "hostile." Therefore, like good Marxists or Freudians, Darwinists think it's their job to tell the rest of us how to think, and more especially how to brainwash our children.
Yes, you are right. "Science" means knowledge, and only took on a more particular meaning, previously denoted by the term "natural philosophy," in the late Renaissance.
Pope Benedict has been pointing out the dangers of splitting rational thought from religion. Ultimately, it is theology and philosophy that lay the groundwork for science, and when scientists casually dismiss this ancient, hard-won knowledge, they are cutting away the very foundations of their work.
"Amoral" in this sense refers to value-free situations, making it a synonym of "nonmoral" (neither moral nor immoral).
For example, physics would be an amoral discipline, neither moral nor immoral in itself. However, isn't there an ethical code attached to the practice of each discipline? And when this ethical code is breached, isn't the science therein in danger of becoming "perverted" science?
Nevertheless, philosophy should encompass science and religion, both at the same time. This can be done, or a move can be made in that direction if we realize that philosophy itself has been a process in evolution. There is a Cartesian dualism of some kind, at least that of subjective and objective, or private and public. Science deals with public matters and religion with private to some degree. A cause is something that if present will have the same result every time--the basis of science. Morality is the power to choose, and ethics has come to mean making legal choices where the law itself is bifurcating partially from logic as the ethics of the community mature. These distinctions were not always present but are being evolved morally--by us.
Yes, Cicero is right. Absolutely right. And for the exact reasons you cite.
May God ever help his struggling children.
Thank you ever so much for your reply, dear cornelis!
I agree. It is a way of thinking that dictates what science is.
This means that even though a particular science restricts itself to particular objects (as betty boop says, "science must confine itself to the elucidation of the physical"), scientific thinking is not neutral with respect to the very position it takes to dictate its method and object.
So my dearest friend hosepipe, when did you decide to be given over to the proposition of "moral equivalency" in arguments that purport to deal with essential Truth?
Honestly, dear friend, you have perplexed me greatly in recent times.... I just don't know where you're coming from. Please clear up this mystery?
Nice to see you on 'my' side of this issue Betty..
Our Constitution is based on an unscientific philosophy of human ideas & principles, -- principles that most of us can agree are 'natural laws'.
At one point Nancy noted:
" --- The expansion of the "fact" realm into theology can be traced in the work of scientists such as Harvard's E.O. Wilson, who seeks to explain religion itself as a product of evolution.
Religion is merely an idea that appears in the human mind when the nervous system has evolved to a certain level of complexity.
In Consilience, Wilson says religion evolved because belief in God gave early humans an edge in the struggle for survival. --"
I have no doubt that Wilson is right about the fact that about our beliefs in a 'Golden Rule' gave us an "edge in survival" ..
-- But to claim that these beliefs are "merely an idea" is belied by his own reasoning. -- Political freedom is a necessary precursor to scientific freedom - to my way of thinking.
Without the golden rules of religions, our freedom to pursue science could never have grown past those of pagan Greek & Rome.
And so your point, gcruse, would be...????
Some of us are wisening up here. The facts are a liars best defense. Not to get up in a snit, but why point out the amorality of science? Is it an excuse? To me it sounds like license.
Another great read, Cicero. Right on the money. Please keep up your good work.
Thank you so very much for the cites, megatherium! You have my undying gratitude.
It would be better, thinking of contemporary usage, to say non-moral rather than amoral in this case. Amoral has other baggage, while non-moral is baggage-free.
Amen to that, dear tpaine! Though Greece and Rome did provide important initial foundation for the quest that was to follow....
It's so good to see you again!!! It's been a long time, too long....
Maybe TasmanianRed was merely showing us how easy it is for scientists to put their individual philosophy into their work.
The universe is not "pointless" (Steven Weinberg), Earth is not merely "a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark," (Carl Sagan) and human existence isn't "just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents" (Steven Weinberg).
On the contrary, the evidence we can uncover from our Earthly home points to a universe that is designed for life, and designed for scientific discovery.
It's become ~very~ hard [& dangerous] to discuss the philosophy of constitutionalism in some of the forums..
We'll see if it's safe here. -- Thanks for the thread.
It is written
Pr 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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You think that's hard? Try discussing acutal science that the fundies don't like. You would think that witch burning is back in vouge.
From your statement I gather that you are resorting to polemics, and not to rational debate.
Good luck!
You think that's hard? Try discussing actual science that the fundies don't like. You would think that witch burning is back in vogue.
I hear you.. I try to stick to 'political science', but the majority rule crowd always manages to divert discussion to 'moral majority' questions. -- Fancy that.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean, tpaine.
Still, the constitutionalists have to step up to the plate, or else the concept of human liberty will be lost for lack of an adequate, that is reasonable defense against the ideologists who attack the very foundations of a free republic.
And so, from my heart I thank you tpaine for stepping up to the plate....
All I would wish to add is this: friends of liberty -- pass the ammunition, keep your powder dry, and do not fire until you see "the whites of their eyes."
Thanks for writing, tpaine. I really am delighted to see you again.
Delighted to see you too kiddo.. -- Now if we can just keep Voegelin out of the discussion maybe I can keep up ---
We only burn the bad spellers.
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True freshman wide receiver David Ungerer out of Pullman High has turned heads with his speed at wide receiver.
Easily one of the most anticipated arrivals this fall, big defensive tackle Alfonso Hampton started working with the team last week in helmet and shorts. As the week progressed he transitioned into shoulder pads and will battle for a slot in the interior defensive line rotation.
Lewiston High product Justin Podrabsky, a former QB signee who transitioned to tightend last year, goes up for the catch.
Defensive end signee Kaylyn Ayers (92) also started working with Idaho last week as Hampton (91) and Asencio (88) run through drills.
Senior center/guard Sione Maile (68) and true freshman Jordan Rose (76) double-team Alfonso Hampton, who changed to #90 for his jersey after switching with Zach Cable, who will now wear #91.
Senior defensive end Anthony Rice (5) sporting gold kicks.
True freshman Jordan Rose (76) continues to impress this camp, getting plenty of playing time with the No.1 offensive line.
New University of Idaho 125th Anniversary street signage between the Bookstore and Student Union Building.
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MEDC loan sought for new industrial building at A.O. Smith site
The first light industrial building planned for the former A.O. Smith Corp. site on Milwaukee's north side would be financed mainly through a loan from a city-affiliated business lender, under a new proposal.
An investors group formed by Fox Point-based General Capital Group would borrow $3.2 million from Milwaukee Economic Development Corp., a quasi-public nonprofit corporation that operates a revolving loan fund.
That loan and $800,000 from the group, GenCap Century City 1 LLC, led by General Capital President Michael Weiss, would finance a 53,160-square-foot building at the city-owned development site, now known as Century City Business Park. It would be built south of W. Capitol Drive and west of N. 31st St.
General Capital plans to begin construction in September, and hopes to have enough interest from tenants to begin development on the second light industrial building next spring. The first building is expected to have tenants with about 90 full-time employees, according to a city report.
The firm has agreed to buy two parcels at Century City, with plans to develop an identical building just south of its first project. General Capital's option to buy two lots totaling 9 acres for $55,000 an acre is to be reviewed by the Common Council's Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee.
The proposed loan is to be reviewed Tuesday by MEDC's Loan and Finance Committee.
MEDC also will be considering a proposed $10 million loan to help plastics parts maker HellermannTyton North America finance its previously announced plan to add 102,000 square feet to its 92,000-square-foot building at 6701 W. Good Hope Road.
That $18.5 million project would create 50 full-time jobs within two years. HellermannTyton now has 436 employees in Milwaukee, where it also operates its North American headquarters at 7930 N. Faulkner Road and another facility at 8475 N. 87th St.
In addition, MEDC will review loans for two other developments on Milwaukee's north and northwest sides:
■ Pak Technologies Inc. is seeking $1.1 million to help finance a $2.9 million project to buy new equipment and make building improvements to its plant at 3600 N. 35th St., just west of Century City. Pak, which does contract production and packaging of food items, personal care products and chemicals, would add 15 full-time employees. It now has 60 employees.
BMO Harris is the primary lender.
■ Silver Spring Storage LLC is seeking $778,400 to help finance a $2.3 million purchase, demolition and redevelopment of a former bottling plant property at 2727 W. Silver Spring Drive into self-storage units, creating 12 full- and part-time jobs. The group is led by Cris Schroeder, who also operates Humboldt Storage LLC, and plans to later develop a strip retail center at the site.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A woman smashed seven flat-screen TVs at a store in Alaska with a hatchet and later told police that people on the televisions were watching her, according to police and court documents obtained Monday.
ELDERLY MAN WITH PROSTITUTE UNDER BED LOSES HOUSING SUBSIDY: NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say a man living in a suburban Philadelphia assisted-living facility has lost his housing subsidy after officials found a prostitute underneath his bed.
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - One was a decorated "Officer of the Year." The other was a proud recent graduate of the academy who had wanted to be a policeman since he was a boy.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A huge nationwide spike in hospitalizations last month caused by a class of drugs often called "synthetic marijuana" illustrates the potency and dangers of the chemicals used to make them and the shifty tactics authorities believe manufacturers are using to evade regulation.
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