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HONESDALE, PA — RiverFolk Concerts will present Ellis on The Cooperage stage on Saturday, May 4 at 8 p.m. After her recent appearance on A Prairie Home Companion, Ellis' music charted in the Folk Top 100 in iTunes and Folk Top 20 on Amazon.com.
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Final ruling is still pending; Judge believes that Samsung infringes, but Apple's patents are questionable
For the
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and world's largest Android phonemaker, Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
) some good news finally came in its lawsuit war [
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] with Apple, Inc. (
). After seeing its flagship Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned from sale
in Germany
(on the grounds of design patent infringements) and
in Australia
(on the grounds of technology patent infringements) it has scored an early victory in arguably its most important court battle in the U.S.
I. U.S. Federal Judge to Apple: No Injunction for You!
On Thursday,
Judge Lucy H. Koh
, a justice in the
Northern District Californian federal court
, denied Apple's request to ban sales of Samsung's product for now, on one of its four patent claims.
Specifically Judge Koh commented that an injunction was not warranted based on Apple's sole technology patent in the case,
U.S. Patent No. 7,469,381
. She called her decision on the patent, which covers document scrolling "tentative" and said she would issue a final ruling "fairly promptly". She comments, "It took a long time to make that distinction"
' court reporter
that the judge commented that she felt Samsung did infringe on Apple's patents, though the report does not clarify whether she indicated which patents she felt were infringed -- the three design patents, or the sole technology patent. On the other hand, the report says the judge complained that Apple is having problems establishing the validity of its patents.
II. Apple's List Scrolling Patent and Samsung's Violation
The technology patent by Apple claims ownership to temporarily displaying a non-active region to a document, such as a webpage or list, when scrolling, zooming, or rotating. Our testing indicates that in Android 2.3 Gingerbread -- the OS on the Galaxy S smartphone named in the suit -- that such a capability is indeed present in some places.
In the Gallery app when you scroll downward part of a black empty row is shown when you reach the end of the list of pictures and keeps scrolling. When you release, the list bounced back to the last row.
Samsung/Google's "slavish" infringement [Gallery App]
This scrolling feature is
found, based on our testing, on webpages in the built in browser. However, a similar feature -- also covered by Apple's patent -- is present. When you zoom out, you will see gray around your webpage when you reach the edges of the document. Releasing the zoom pinch will bounce the document back to full screen, as mentioned in the Apple patent.
Samsung/Google's "slavish" infringement [Browser App]
This patent seems relatively obvious in that it basically covers an animation and if GUI animations were broadly patentable video games as we know them couldn't exist today, software would be litigated into oblivion, and the web would be a ghost town. That said Samsung will need to follow the path of obviousness and invalidate Apple's patent in court, as it clearly does use the animation technique covered in this patent.
If Samsung cannot do that for some reason, it should be relatively trivial to remove this feature as the animation does not significantly improve the Android experience in our opinion.
(As a technical note it is operating system maker Google, Inc. (GOOG) who created the infringing design, but Samsung uses Google's OS so is being sued by proxy.)
III. Apple's Design Patents
Now that Judge Koh has tentatively denied Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction regarding the utility patent, the question becomes what she will do when it comes to the design patents --
U.S. Design Patent No. D618,677
, and
The first two patents cover the design of the iPhone 4 and iPhone (original), respectively.
The validity of these patents could be question mainly from the perspective of Apple's broad application of them.
Below we have diagrammed the differences between the iPhone designs and Samsung's Galaxy S, which Apple claims "slavishly" copied the iPhone. Specifically note that the folowing features are different:
Button count and placement
Side profile of phone (note the lip on Samsung's design)
Size of screen and general phone size.
Logo/name placement on body
Similar differences can be found between the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the iPad, an early version of which is covered in the final patent. We've detail these differences between the patent, the actual iPad, and the Galaxy Tab 10. below, which include:
Only Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a camera (compared to the original iPad).
The thickness in the design patent doesn't match the thickness of the iPad or Galaxy Tab (please measure this in an imaging software, in pixels, if you don't believe us).
Bezel sizes don't match between any of the three designs.
Connectors and buttons on the side are different.
Screen sizes and aspect ratios are different.
Only the iPad has a home button.
All tablets are clearly and unambiguously branded.
The back color doesn't match.
Really when you look carefully from an artistic perspective (presumably the criteria for merit on a design patent) in both the tablet and smartphone cases the biggest visual similarities are simply the general form factor (thin rectangles) and the color scheme. In this sense the devices are somewhat similar in looks.
There was a bit of court room drama that's gathered much attention in which Judge Koh held up the Tab and iPad and asked Samsung's lawyer Kathleen Sullivan to identify her company's product. Ms. Sullivan reportedly could not tell them apart at that distance (it was unclear if Judge Koh was covering the iPad's home screen button).
At that point Judge Koh asked, "Can any of Samsung's lawyers tell me which one is Samsung and which one is Apple?"
At that point one of Samsung's other lawyers finally coughed up the correct response.
While the incident was certainly humorous, it's important to not put too much weight in such court room drama, lest it leads one to misleading conclusions. One need only remember the controversial O.J. Simpson/Johnny Cochrane "if the glove doesn't fit" showmanship to realize that.
While the designs are somewhat similar in a very general sense, it seems a slippery slope to grant Apple broad ownership of such a design for two reasons. First, it would create ambiguity of exactly how broad Apple's design ownership is. Second, it would essentially grant a monopoly on the state of the art smart phone and tablet form factor to Apple.
Given the radical differences in the designs, it would seem if the designs are found to "infringe" that only Apple can make thin rectangular smart phones and tablets. This kind of ruling could have a catastrophic effect on many emerging electronics markets. After all, if this kind of standard was applied to the PC industry, Dell, Inc. (
) and Hewlett-Packard Comp. (
) could be suing each other and Apple for copying each others' "general form factor".
Clearly this kind of broad design ownership hasn't been granted in other electronics markets, so it seems doubtful that Judge Koh will rule this way. But stranger things have happened.
IV. Looking Ahead
In the U.S. patent battle, a final ruling on the preliminary injunction request with respect to all patents will soon be issued. Given the pressure from wireless carriers Verizon Communications, Inc. (
) and Deutsche Telekom AG's (
) T-Mobile USA [
], and Judge Koh's previous statements, it seems likely that Apple's request will be denied.
The question then will become whether Samsung can successfully invalidate Apple's patents, or at least escape a design infringement ruling (as the utility patent's infring features could easily be removed). Also pertinent is whether Samsung can succeed in its counter claim, which sues Apple on the grounds of infringing on many of its 3G communications patents.
There's also been recent action in the Netherlands and Australian arenas, we will update you on this shortly.
"If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it." -- SCEA President Jack Tretton
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A major component of the project is to gather information on the texts, dictionaries, compiled notes, and treatises on shipbuilding in existence, and share it in an easy and organized manner on the NAPWiki, both for quick searches and more in-depth studies. Many of these texts are difficult to access, handle, copy, and understand. More information can be found on the Treatises page of the NAPWiki.
Although a small number of texts about shipbuilding dating to the early and mid-15th century have survived in Italy, it was not until the late 16th century that writing about the building, rigging, and handling of oceangoing ships seems to have become fashionable among scholars and intellectuals.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0534314. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.1
- Monroy, C., Parks, N., Furuta, R., and Castro, F., "The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library," in Gonzalo et al. (Eds.), European Conference on Digital Libraries 2006 LNCS 4172 :544-547, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006.
- Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Castro, F., "A Multilingual Approach to Technical Manuscripts: 16th and 17th-century Portuguese Shipbuilding Treatises," ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2007) :413-414.
- Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Castro F., "Ancient Technical Manuscripts: the Case of 17th-century Portuguese Shipbuilding Treatises." Digital Humanities 2007 Conference. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, June 4-7, 2007.
- Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Castro F., "Texts, Illustrations, and Physical Objects: The Case of Ancient Shipbuilding Treatises." 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries ECDL, Budapest, Hungary, 2007.
- Monroy, C., Furuta, R., and Castro F., "Ask Not What Your Text Can do For You. Ask What You Can do For Your Text (a Dictionary's perspective)" Digital Humanities 2009, College Park: University of Maryland, 2009.
This work was also supported by Dr. and Mrs. Peter Amaral, Mr. Mauro Bondioli, Mr. Lars Bruzelius, and the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation at Texas A&M University (CMAC).


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text: My LO turns 5 months in a week and I know i should wait till she turns at least 6 months ( My Ped agrees, he's very good ) but I was just wondering how BSL works. She very curious about everything i'm eating/drinking ( or anyone else for that matter)... she tries to reach for my plate and gets upset when i don't let her grab it, she needs to eat when i'm eating but then gets preoccupied by me eating that she won't nurse and gets upset. I've tried waiting till she's done nursing to eat, but doesn't matter she still wants what/or anyone else has. Also she'll look at me when i'm eating and move her mouth up and down, but she has started to mimic people now. I started giving her a spoon of her own when i'm eating to try and occupy her and she naws on that(she has very good hand eye coordination, or i should say hand to mouth). Is this a sign that she'll be ready for solids soon? what are the signs i'm looking for when she's ready?


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2002 Dodge Ram 1500 (Page 1 of 2)
CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2002 has the well-known and documented problem with their dashboards falling to pieces, but it also has engine failure from oil sludge. That's a doube shot of awful in your morning coffee.
2.1hardly worth mentioning
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Others have gone before us who protected Grandmother Earth and did not poison her land, air and waters.
Others have gone before us who respected Grandmother Earth and all of her birds, fish and animals, people who, to feed themselves, took these creatures' lives with deepest reverence and a sense of gratitude for having food today.
Others have gone before us who treasured Grandmother Earth, not for her gold and silver or black diamond coal or oil that we plunder, but for her ability to sustain us. Knowing this, they humbly took only what they needed to sustain themselves.
Others have gone before us who valued a personal relationship with Grandmother Earth, and did not rush along in such busy lives, too busy to stop to warm their hearts in the glow of a red-orange sunset and let its light wash over their uplifted faces.
Others have gone before us who honored Grandmother Earth in their prayers and sacrificial ceremonies, not worshiping in the church of materialism but in the cathedral of our forests, and on our plains and grasslands, embracing the sky.
Others have gone before us who felt responsible to sustain Grandmother Earth as they would care for their own grandmothers and cherish their own children.
What has our world become? We have created a way of life dependent upon the manufacture of toxins that we spray or scatter or dump on our land, and pour into our air and our water. We eat and breathe these poisons every day and consider it the cost of the modern life we have come to value.
We raise animals in the cruelest conditions, turning a blind eye to their sadistic treatment to put beef, pork, chicken and eggs on our tables.
We push down mountaintops to mine coal for electricity and we clear-cut forests destroying the homes of wild creatures and even of native peoples, all to support our own comfortable way of life.
Many of us live in cities and suburbs, far removed from the pulse of nature and so we feel totally separate and detached from such blessings as smelling the soil when it rains, seeing the stars at night. Feeling disconnected from Grandmother Earth, we feel indifferent to her destruction.
Our greed and materialism to acquire more, always more, are self-destructive addictions. And to hell with whomever we hurt with our arrogant attitude and our actions of bottomless consumption.
How long can we keep walking this path before Grandmother Earth is ruined? Or Mother Nature pays us back?
Why do we think we are the Masters of the Earth and that we are entitled to exploit and plunder her bounty for our own benefit and to hell with Grandmother Earth's other creatures, her streams and rivers and wetlands, her air?
Less than 500 years ago, man believed the Earth was the center of the Universe. Today, he believes he is the center of the universe. After Copernicus and Galileo rewrote cosmology, establishing the sun as the center of our little space in the universe, people at first were outraged. Only slowly did we change our old beliefs. Today, every schoolchild knows that we revolve around the sun, and that there are many suns and many galaxies.
New thinkers (hearkening back to the beliefs of the ancients) are talking of another new cosmology. They ask us to know that man—that we—are not the center of the universe or masters of earth, that we are part of the sacred whole, that the universe is not a "collection of objects but a communion of subjects," that the earth is not an "it" but a living, breathing, spiritual gift. Others have gone before us who knew what we have forgotten.
Others will come after us, but what will they inherit? What kind of planet will we leave behind?
[J.C.B. Huggard lives on a dead end dirt road in Dyberry Township, PA with black bears, wild turkeys and other country creatures.]


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The Curry County Canvas Board finalized the votes of the Nov. 4 general election on Friday, according to Election Manager and County Clerk-elect Coni Jo Lyman.
She said the final tally of votes totaled 14,506. The final tally included 20 absentee in lieu of and two provisional ballots the board approved.
The additional votes did not change election results, she said.
She said there were 12 provisional ballots, but 10 were disqualified because the voters were not registered.
Lyman said the New Mexico Secretary of State will declare all state-wide results final Nov. 25.


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Mr. Swinnea was born Nov. 11, 1949, in Robstown to Thomas H. and Bessie (Hearn) Swinnea. He served in the U.S. Army and was sent to Vietnam, where he was wounded and permanently disabled.
A private family burial was held Saturday at Glenwood Cemetery.
Arrangements were under the direction of Buffington Funeral Home in Gonzales.


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Italian fashion scion Vittorio Missoni is shown in a 2009 photo from Milan, Italy. The chief of the Missoni fashion house has been missing along with five others since Jan. 4, when his plane vanished after taking off from the Los Roques resort area en route to Caracas.
Wreckage that may be remains of the missing plane carrying Italian fashion executive Vittorio Missoni and five others has been found on an island off the coast of Venezuela, an Italian official said Friday.
"I can confirm that the wreckage of an airplane has been found off the coast, but we don't know yet whether this was the same airplane that was carrying Mr. Missoni," an Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
The wreckage was spotted along a rough stretch of unpopulated coast on the north side of the island of Curacao, said Norman Serphos, spokesman for the Curacao Public Prosecutor's Office. Because of rugged terrain and strong currents offshore, the island's coast guard was called in to assist with the recovery, which was completed Thursday afternoon, he said.
In the past two weeks, bags belonging to Missoni have been found on the same north coast of Curacao as well as on the neighboring island of Bonaire, Serphos said.
Venezuelan Government / AP, file
Venezuela National Civil Aviation Institute search Jan. 9 for a plane that went missing near Los Roques, Venezuela, five days earlier carrying Vittorio Missoni, his wife and four others. Wreckage has been found, but it was unclear early Friday whether it was that of the Missoni's plane.
He said the material recovered Thursday was in the early stages of scrutiny, and he was cautious about saying whether what was found was indeed part of an aircraft.
"There is an investigation going on to determine with experts what kind of material it is," Serphos said. "Even if it is from an airplane, then you still have to determine if it's from that aircraft that Mr. Missoni was on. We have a lot of things to do, probably [talk to] the maker of the airplane, the owner of the airplane and [check] the registration. A lot of things have to be confirmed. ... The minute that it's determined that it's an airplane, then the department of aviation will be involved."
The plane carrying the 58-year-old head of the major fashion house, his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, two Italian friends and two Venezuelan pilots has been missing since Jan. 4, when it took off from the resort area of Los Roques on its way to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
Minutes after the plane took off, it disappeared from radar.
The Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman said more information about the wreckage was being eagerly awaited in Italy, where the Missoni name is iconic.
"We got the news early this morning from our embassy there [in Venezuela]," he said. "The investigations are ongoing. We are checking whether this was the plane."
The Missoni family has asked for privacy and the company has not issued a statement since Jan. 7, when Angela Missoni, sister of Vittorio, said the family was "moved by the affection and help we've had so far from the whole world and thankful to the authorities for their tireless search and rescue efforts."
"We will not give up," Angela Missoni said in the statement.
This story was originally published on Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:07 AM EST


text: Arlene and Stan Ginsburg, two longtime Main Line Reform Temple members, will have an ambulance dedicated in their names prior to Shabbat Evening Services. This will be the first ambulance sponsorship by the Ginsburgs, who are longtime Israel supporters. Main Line Reform Temple has been a strong supporter of AFMDA through community partnerships, member involvement, and co-sponsorships. Magen David Adom is Israel's government-mandated - but not government funded - national emergency-response, ambulance, and blood services organization. All are invited to join in this special occasion honoring the Ginsburgs and celebrating our support for Israel. We will gather together for a reception at 6:00 pm, followed by the ambulance dedication outdoors (weather permitting).


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An Israeli policeman stands above shoes and clothes from a victim at the scene of an explosion on a bus in central Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 21.
Israeli authorities arrested an Israeli Arab on suspicion of planting a bomb in a Tel Aviv bus that wounded 15 people hours before Israel agreed a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza, police and security officials said on Thursday.
The Arab citizen of Israel was detained on Wednesday night, they said. Also arrested, police said, were a number of Palestinians affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on suspicion of having recruited the Israeli Arab to carry out the bombing.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld did not give names or an exact number of how many people were in custody.
He said the Israeli Arab notified his Palestinian handlers in the West Bank when the bomb was in place on the commuter bus, and they then detonated the device with a mobile phone.
"The investigation is still under way, and other arrests are expected," the Shin Bet internal security service said in a statement.
Wednesday's bus bombing had raised the possibility that Palestinians had slipped in from the nearby West Bank to carry out the attack.
Some residents of Israel close to Gaza say deals brokered with Hamas in the past have fallen through, and they worry this one will, too. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
While Hamas rules Gaza, a fenced-off enclave under Israeli blockade, the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority governs in parts of the West Bank not under Israeli occupation. But many of its residents are sympathetic with his Islamist Hamas rivals who govern Gaza and reject permanent peace with the Jewish state.
After cease-fire, both sides claim victory
Earlier on Thursday, the Israeli army said that 55 suspected Palestinian militants had been arrested in the West Bank, citing a need to maintain calm after a truce ended the Gaza fighting.
The detainees were from various armed Palestinian factions and included "senior operatives," the army said in a statement, adding that it would "continue to maintain order ... and prevent the infiltration of terrorists into Israeli communities".
Hamas declares a national holiday after the cease-fire with Israel, but sees the halt in fighting as a temporary solution. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
Israel launched an air offensive against Hamas and other Gaza militant factions on Nov. 14 with the declared aim of stopping their rocket fire into the Jewish state. The sides entered an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire on Wednesday night.
During the Gaza conflict, two Palestinians were shot dead during anti-Israel demonstrations in the West Bank that turned into confrontations with the army.
According to NBC News, some 162 Palestinians died and more than 1,200 were wounded in the conflict; five Israelis were killed and 240 were wounded.
NBC staff and Reuters contributed to this report.
Bernat Armangue / AP
Israel's military said it had accomplished its objectives while Hamas claimed victory after the two sides exchanged deadly airstrikes and rocket attacks for over a week.
More world stories from NBC News:
- Amid the ruins, Gazans say pity the living, not the dead
- China's latest supermodel? A 72-year-old farmer
- Despite US woes, Twinkies reign supreme on the Nile
- Analysis: Why Hezbollah sat out the Gaza conflict
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DS in 6 months old. I just started working 20 hours a week, 5 hour shifts, and pumping twice during my shift. The past week or so, my nipples have become very sore. Not so much while pumping, but when ds latches on when we are together.
Could this be from too much suction while pumping. Or is ds latching differently since he is teething?
I have never had problems with sore nipples in the past. Is there anything I can do?


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Kate Upton says that she wishes she had smaller breasts
. Do you think she means it? Do you think she would ever do anything about it?
LIES!!!!!!! Upton is FULL OF SHIT. My boobs drive me insane & hurt my back too but I wouldn't give these golden globes up for shit!!! If she wasn't already filthy rich, maybe she would appreciate that her titties= her careerReplyCancel
Her tits ARE her career, but I can understand she sees how women with smaller ones can run easier,and wear certain clothes without looking trashy…big boobs are very pretty, but in everyday life, they have to be a big pain! I like my B's. 🙂ReplyCancel
absolutely not. They're the reason why she got on the cover of Sports Illustrated to begin with. They've been her 'bread & butter.. Her Left One's Bread & Her Right One's ButterReplyCancel
You forgot about golf! Nothing funnier than stacked ladies trying to get in a good swingReplyCancel
She needs those boobs. She may not like 'em, but she needs 'em.ReplyCancel
34DDD here. I wish my back pain would become severe enough that I could get a reduction. I'd love to go back to just being a D cup. I haven't been able to wear cute little sundresses since the late 90s.
That being said… boy do I love the power I wield with these things, tough. I pretty much never wait for a drink at a bar with a male bartender.ReplyCancel
She needs them to distract us from the fact that she's shaped like a refrigerator box.ReplyCancel
You ladies are making me crazy talking about your big tits. Here's Kate's.ReplyCancel
If she were over a D cup I could believe this, but she's not. She's made her career off being curvy & those boobs, like JHo & her butt.ReplyCancel
God, I hope so. Nothing worse than full, creamy breasts. Especially if they have a smattering of freckles. Simply awful!ReplyCancel
I am a 32E, natural, and I hate it. They're down south, esp post baby, bras that support well for that size cost a fortune, I'm petite everywhere else but have to wear large shirts that then are baggy. No cute string bikinis or strappy tops. I hate it. It's not the easiest on my bad back either (heavy).ReplyCancel
smaller boobs mean you can do high fashionReplyCancel
that said she is probably too old to pursue that line of fashion at this stage anyway and now she is known for swimsuit/lingerie and there she will stay I'd guessReplyCancel
echo @dime
if she got smalled boobs, she would have to lose her flabby gut and maybe actually get in shape.
i like my b-cups and while i don't have cleavage, i can actually wear plunging necklines and not look soft/porny. sternum > cleavage
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Oh SNAP @dime!!!!ReplyCancel
I'll be the judge of that, Violet. Send me a selfie.ReplyCancel
I'm only a 34D. It's definitely more on the manageable side size-wise but still causes me back pain. Either way, she's lying if she says she hates them.ReplyCancel
I had mine reduced a few years ago and it was the best thing I ever did. For those of us who have/had a need for it, it's definitely something to wish for. Given her situation and career there is no way she means what she says.ReplyCancel
DD here and I love mine. She lies.ReplyCancel
I don't know. A few broads I know had breast reductions and they said it was the best thing they've ever done. But this Kate Upton makes her dollas from her boobies, so she should probably cash in and then get it taken care of.
My 112 pound B-cup self does not understand this situation. But Ds sound painful. Yikes!ReplyCancel
Maybe when she is out of her peak earning years and has hooked a rich husband she might get them downsized a little. Probably would look and feel better also since they will be hanging down to her waist when she hits her 40s.ReplyCancel
It's totally her calling card. She'd be a yacht girl if she downsized. She has a weird waistline. Boobs up gorgeous, legs down great…but midsection is sumpin else. I agree w parissucksReplyCancel
Wow – I made a comment one time about how she is close to being a plus sized model and everyone jumped down my throat. I guess timing is everything.ReplyCancel
Well, I have 36G's. All natural and still high up where they should be, but damn if they don't hurt like a mofo. There are days when I would happily hack them off to wear a beautiful simple dress.
But I'm like Disco. They are my power. My (not so) secret weapons and I love every bit of them.
Kate probably meant it when she said it, but maybe not all the time.
What she said was she wished she could remove them with velcro at times. I think she does know they earn her $ but truly if she wanted to do high fashion larger breasts are a hindrance.
I used to be a lovely 34C but age and a little weight has increased the girls exponentially (36DDD). What I wouldn't give to have them that manageable size again.
I've also known women who've had a reduction and no one has ever been sorry they did it. Losing the ruts in your shoulders where your bra digs in would be a dream come true.
IJU..You're a lovely girl but that G would be too much for me. Glad you're embracing them and I hope you're using them for good and not evil! LOLReplyCancel
Her "dates" won't pay her nearly as much if she downsizes her tits.ReplyCancel
Some women hate their boobs for many reasons, wonder what the ratio of breast reductions to breast augmentations are….and many women have small boobs and are quite content with them. After all men were chasing models long before they started getting boob jobs.
I remember a girl getting her boobs reduced in senior year high school, long tine ago, she was a star athlete and her nickname was double bubble which she despised nor did she like the creepy attention of some malesReplyCancel
I just read she said she sometimes wishes she were smaller so she could braless. This I totally get! Even though I adore mine, I've had that thought before.ReplyCancel
texas rose that is because high fashion models need to be almost anorexic, tall and skinny with almost no curves
Victoria Secret models are curvier as a rule but just as skinny as most high fashion models and many have augmented boobs , because they have made a decision they want to do lingerie and swimweasr, there are very few that can successfully do both. Boobs and booty get in the way when you need to fit Size 0 or 2 sample sizes yet also be 5 foot 10.
I think Alessandra Ambrosio who is VS also does some high fashion runway work for example but not like a Coca Rocha but she probably makes just as much money if not more with all her endorsements etc.ReplyCancel
This thread reminds me of THIS amazing moment of cinema historyReplyCancel
Yes…I do think she means it. They get in the way, you ALWAYS have to wear a bra (and bras aren't always comfortable), you can't wear certain cute little tops, you can't hide them. You get mega stretch marks on them as you age and they start to sag.
At least a girl with small breasts can pad if she wants to be bigger one day…and if she wants to go bra-less the next day, she can. Small breasted women in a cute strappy sundress on a hot summers day is sexy. I'm not enormous, but I'm not small. I love mine. They're awesome.ReplyCancel
I'm a 34DD and frankly I wish they were smaller. Not that I'm going to have surgery or anything but try training for a marathon – you really have to lock those puppies DOWN.
Plus I broke my left collarbone in a cycling accident years ago, and when the bone healed that natural groove for the bra strap was gone – and so the left strap is always falling down. I finally went with racerback bras because I couldn't stand having to hike it up a gazillion times a day.
A guy called me once (blind date setup) and had the nerve to ask me my bra size over the phone. I said "DD" – then I added "but think National Geographic rather than Playboy."
He never got to see them in real life 🙂ReplyCancel
Can't blame her. Being endowed has its privileges, but also its responsibilities. Because THIS!!ReplyCancel
I was Kates boobage size and I had a breast reduction several years ago. Best thing I ever did for myself.
I think she's being honest that they're a pain (literally) to deal with, but she'll never do anything about it. They make her career.ReplyCancel
I know Sprink. I would love to have her body, personally. She is far far far from fat or plus sized. GMAFB *Shrugs*ReplyCancel
I'm not sharing my bra size, but I've been wearing one since I was 10 so I'll say two things:
1. A friend with an hourglass figure had a reduction, and the change in proportions made her arse look huge
2. I can think of only one large-breasted woman whom people would call 'elegant'–Sophia Loren
Being stacked is hard, y'all.ReplyCancel
I had one very lovely honey who was a 34DDD. Couldn't exercise normally, had lots of back pain. I sympathized with her desire to eventually get a reduction…but I still don't see how a woman could actually go through the procedure. They saw your fucking nipples off!
I guess it must not be that big of a deal in actuality, but having direct experience with how sensitive most women's nipples are, the idea of having them surgically re-sited on your breasts seems crazy to me.ReplyCancel
Just had a breast reduction. Total fiasco, tissue that died, massive staph infection that had me on my deathbed, and a 2nd breast reduction to cut out the surgery and tissue that died. Don't do it, unless you are willing to have massive scar tissue and nerve damage all over your chest and arms until the day you die.
I also understand that my outcome happens often. I only regret not going to Dr. Rey whom I inquired with in the first place. I just wanted to use insurance and not cash. It ruined my body.ReplyCancel
Yup, Victorias Secret doesn't even sell that big in the storesReplyCancel
I think the fact that fake boobs are everywhere gives people unrealistic impressions of what natural, D or larger breasts look and feel like. They're much softer and jigglier that the fake ones, I think.
If you could see me right now. I keep looking down at my chest pulling my bra out and staring at my cleavage. I just realized I never look at my own boobs – I just strap 'em down every morning and get on with it!
I am oddly fascinated by boobs at this moment (in a completely non-erotic way that is).ReplyCancel
Sometimes, I worry that my balls are too big. They need a size chart for balls, so we can feign annoyance at having double D's, whilst secretly boasting about our maracas being so large.ReplyCancel
I just had my implants (C++ size) reduced about six months ago. I felt they were too big and restricted my clothing choices.
Now I'm a C- and really miss my old girls, wish I could split the difference but after paying for everything I don't care to do it AGAIN.ReplyCancel
They actually do have size charts for balls. A friend of mine had testicular cancer and had to have one testicle removed, and he told me they fit you with a fake one so you look normal. They come in small, medium and large.
Also, and I think the market for this is strictly limited to men, if you do the right thing and get your dog neutered but you want him to still look studly (which – why? but that's another thread) … you can implant Neuticles.
The decline and fall of Western civilization right there. In other countries they worry about being hacked to death by a machete, clean drinking water, and having enough to eat and maybe if they're lucky, sending their children to school. Here? We implant fake balls in our dogs.ReplyCancel
What an enjoyable thread! I actually read through it a couple of times. Thank you all for contributing!ReplyCancel
I agree with Di, Kate has to squeeze every dollar she can out of the years between now and when she turns 30 or has a kid.
(NSFW)Here is an empowering site for those self conscious about their boobs. Women submit pics of their tits and tell what their breasts mean to them. There is a no pregnancy page and a page for women who have gone through pregnancy.
Now I have to go update my spread sheet. Only 2 columns left to fill out after this one. Hopefully my Your Turn submissions of "Shaved, Trimmed or Natural?" and "How many Sharpies can you fit in your butt?" go live soon.
Anything more than 13 Sharpies is over kill. NSFWReplyCancel


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'Glee' Recap: 'Dynamic Duets'
Blaine assembles a meeting for The Secret Society of Superheroes Club, put in order to "fight injustice, to right all that of which is wrong and to preserve truth, justice and peace in the halls of McKinley High." The roll call includes: Blaine as Nightbird, Tina as Asian Persuasion, Sam as Blonde Chameleon, Joe as Tarantula Head and Sugar as Sweet 'n Spicy! The new members are: Artie as Dr. Y, Becky as Queen Bee and Brittany as The Human Brain. Yes you read that correctly, Brittany as The Human Brain.
The club's first order of business? According to Tina, this entails texting Blaine across the table, asking him why him and Kurt broke up. After that, the club gets down to the real business: the glee club's missing Nationals trophy. We learn that the Nationals trophy was taken out of the trophy case and replaced with a computer, playing a ransom video. The video shows that the thief was wearing (or what appears to be) a Warblers jacket, promising a "great reckoning" while at sectionals. Blaine immediately gets the feeling that someone at Dalton Academy is responsible for this.
Jake approaches Marley in the hallway, asking her if she's going to jump on this superhero bandwagon. She informs Jake there's no way she's putting on a spandex suit, causing him to smile, because "now they'll have time to hang out." Ryder swoops in and interrupts the conversation, telling Jake that "girls don't like it when you pretend you like them then completely blow them off." Ouch - it seems like that love triangle isn't going anywhere anytime soon. After a heated exchange of insults, Jake and Ryder begin shoving each other until Finn comes to break it up, along with some superhero backup from Becky and Jenna.
Finn conducts his first meeting as director, inducting the club's two newest members, Kitty and Ryder. Finn tries his best to replicate Mr. Schue, attempting to write his lesson plans on the white board, which fails miserably when he can't find a replacement marker. Instead, he just tells the club that the theme this week is Foreigner and "everyone will sing songs by Foreigner, in foreign languages, in all the costumes of the world's nations." The club immediately shuts down that idea. Blaine says they need to step their game up and walks out, telling Finn he's going back to get the trophy from the Warblers - the same trophy Finn doesn't know is missing from the case.
Blaine arrives at Dalton Academy, where he's introduced to the newest Warbler leader, Hunter Clarington. Hunter boasts his impressive background to Blaine, telling him that he was highly recruited for this position. The Warblers enter the room and Hunter proposes that Blaine should come back to Dalton as a Warbler - or else he won't give the trophy back. Blaine politely declines, but brings himself to sing "Dark Side" with his former crew. "Everybody's got a dark side…" Blaine, it's pretty obvious you now do, too.
At the glee club's next practice, Finn comes in dressed in his superhero costume - The Almighty Treble Clef - or the "uniter of glee clubs." He tells the club that this week's theme is "Dynamic Duets." Jake and Ryder will be paired up along with Kitty and Marley. Kitty picks out a song for her and Marley to sing, without any input from Marley. Ryder and Jake are automatically at odds because of Marley. During their duet, the two take turns serenading Marley (as a very annoyed Kitty looks on.) It's all fun and games until Jake throws a punch at Ryder, forcing Finn to break the two up.
Finn brings Jake and Ryder to the auditorium to criticize them for their behavior during glee club. The two continue to throw insults at each other because of their feelings for Marley. Ryder tells Jake that Marley deserves better than "someone who's trying to get through every girl in school." Jake insists Ryder has no idea what Marley wants. The love triangle strikes again. Instead of letting the two fight it out, Finn assigns them to sit in a room and tell each other their biggest weaknesses - you know, the thing superheroes consider "kryptonite."
Blaine comes to talk to Finn after his trip to Dalton. He tells Finn he wore the Warbler blazer again and performed a song with them, just like old times. Blaine cheerfully explains that they embraced him and it just felt right. Finn assures Blaine that he belongs here at McKinley, even if Kurt isn't around anymore. Was this too little, too late? Seems that way. Blaine seems pretty convinced that he wants to rejoin the Warblers.
Marley later approaches Kitty after their last talk, explaining to her that she can't participate in the duet because of their costume situation. Marley, who's suffering from body insecurities, cannot fathom the idea of wearing a tight costume. Kitty tells Marley that they'll try on costumes together and if she thinks she looks bad, she'll let her know. The two hug it out in the end - talk about strange!
In the locker room (where Sam has a jockstrap over his face, imitating Bane) Jake passes Ryder a note about his secret, which he blows off, telling Jake he "needs to be a man and say it to his face." Jake confesses he feels like he never fit in because of his bi-racial, Jewish background. Ryder bails once it's his time to reveal his secret, but Jake chases after him. Jake tells Ryder he needs to be a man. Ryder tells Jake he only said that to him earlier because he couldn't read his note. Jake finds Finn to tell him about Ryder's current situation, which Ryder considers the reason why he does so poorly in school. Finn takes Ryder to meet with the district's special education director. After he insists he doesn't need any help, Ryder continues to participate in testing, where he learns he suffers from dyslexia. Finn insists it's going to be fine and offers him some encouraging words. Ryder thanks Finn, who tells him he actually owes Jake a thank you.
Kitty and Marley try on their costumes in the bathroom. Kitty is dresses as a cat, calling her superhero "Femme Fatale." Marley comes out in a costume, resembling Wonder Woman's get up, as the superhero "WF" - or WallFlower. Kitty says Marley looks great and she's no longer a wallflower. The two duet on "Holding Out For A Hero," which turned out to be a great success. At the end of their song, Brittany asks where Blaine is, since she "can't smell his raspberry hair gel." Finn then makes the announcement everyone was dreading: Blaine decided to finish the rest of his year at Dalton Academy.
In the cafeteria, Jake's talking to Marley's mom, telling her there's "something different about her." She tells Jake that she's lost weight, which he applauds. She continues to tell Jake that Marley talks about him "all the time." Jake reassures her that he had his chance with her, but blew it. The jocks start picking on Marley's mom. As Jake defends her, the jocks crowd around him until Ryder jumps in, saying "Jake's my boy and from now on if you mess with him, you mess with me."
Jake calls his half-brother Puck, who's hustling his way dressed as a superhero on Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Jake calls him to get advice in regards to the Marley situation. Puck tells Jake to sit back and play it cool. If he does that, she'll eventually come to him.
Blaine's in the process of cleaning out his locker when Sam approaches him, asking him why he keeps punishing himself for what he did. Blaine explains that the guy he cheated on Kurt with was not a friend or aquantance - he was actually a random guy who added him on Facebook. He explains he only did what he did because it felt like Kurt was moving on with his life without him. Regardless, Blaine cheated and he knows that. Sam insists that even if Kurt doesn't forgive him, he has to forgive himself. He also tells Blaine to give himself time, so he can find out where he really belongs. Before he makes a decision, Blaine recruits Sam for one more mission. The two take back their trophy from Dalton, in true superhero fashion, replacing it with Blaine's Warbler jacket with a note saying "No thanks."
Ryder tells Marley he has to cancel their scheduled date on Friday because he needs time to study and he has his first appointment with a dyslexia specialist early Saturday morning. Kitty swoops in, telling Marley that Ryder's cancellation means he's not into her. Kitty rudely says to Marley that if she wants to keep his attention she should "hit the eliptical." (What happened to being friendly, Kitty?) Marley insists she's not going to stay home alone on a Friday night and asks Jake what he's up to, when he responds "Going on a date with you." Puck's brotherly advice worked out - patience!
Once Sam and Blaine return the Nationals trophy safe and sound, they tell their story to the whole club. Blaine admits he owes everyone an apology for the way he acted. The glee club presents Finn with a "superhero utility belt," disguised as a fanny pack, consisting of magic markers, antiacids, a Treble Clef pin and a doll head from Brittany. After a team huddle, the glee club performs fun.'s "Some Nights."
Memorable Quotes:
Ryder: "Nothing says I'm a badass like riding a Razor scooter."
Artie: "Isn't MS a degenerative nerve disease?"
Finn: "I thought it was a girls' magazine."
Kitty: "I've already decided I'm Femme Fatale, 'cause in French that means kill women."
Marley: "No, it doesn't."
Kitty: "Which I'm going to do when we perform."
What did you think of the episode? Who was your favorite superhero?


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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Milwaukee Bucks have signed free-agent center Joel Przybilla, maintaining an offseason push to beef up their frontcourt.
The 7-foot-1 Przybilla returns to Milwaukee for his second stint with the Bucks after beginning his career with the franchise.
The ninth overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft by Houston, Przybilla was dealt to Milwaukee in a draft-night deal in exchange for Jason Collier and a future first-round pick.
The 32-year-old Przybilla has averaged 4 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in 580 career games split between Milwaukee, Atlanta, Portland and Charlotte.
Earlier this offseason, the Bucks added center Samuel Dalembert in a trade and drafted North Carolina power forward John Henson in the first round.
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According to the arrest report, the suspect has one charge of motion to revoke-burglary of habitation in Wilson County, one charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle in Live Oak County, one charge of evading arrest detention with a vehicle in Live Oak County and one charge of evading arrest with a previous conviction in Live Oak County.
According to a Live Oak County Sheriff's report, Reyes was originally pulled over about 2:30 p.m. on IH 37 just south of Love's Travel Stop and U.S. Highway 281 for speeding.
While Sheriff's Deputy Cpl. Carlos Martinez ran his driver's license, name and date of birth, Reyes fled the scene on foot, leaving behind a female passenger, according to the report.
Martinez requested a tracking dog and was advised the Floresville Police Department was sending an officer with a dog and San Antonio was sending a police chopper.
At approximately 3:30 p.m., authorities in the chopper said that Reyes was spotted and was running back toward the patrol unit and the Floresville unit that was then on scene.
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Crispy, Old School Rice Cookie Goodness. Sorta.
Sunday seems to stir up all kinds of sneaky devils and hungry ghosts in the guise of food nostalgia. I dreamed up my last post about Zucchini Gratin on a Sunday, stirring up a bread crumbed casserole of desire fraught with secret emotions and sticky attachments. Food as familial. Food evoking a warm embrace. Food as a way to connect our twenty-one grams of soul to this earth. The ground of being.
I think I know why I'm tip toeing in the garden of nostalgia lately.
My tribe is expanding.
The family my husband and I created when we held hands and promised I do through a veil of mutual tears is now plus one. I have a new daughter-in-law I regard with deep affection. She brings a fresh focus to our four-squared history. And I see us in a slightly altered light, looking at our shared quirks and wrinkles and dreams with renewed optimism. Our clan now feels stronger. Our humble, wacky tribe feels enriched.
And more than a tad sweeter.
Which brings me to a 1950's baby boomer favorite. Rice Krispie Treats. Which, Dear Reader, I am sorry to tell you, I have absolutely no recollection of ever eating. I have wracked my cranium and come up with nada. No bars of snap, crackle, pop. Apparently my mother was not a Rice Krispie fan. Which may explain my deep abiding love for peanut butter toast.
So why the sudden nostalgia for this gimmicky no-bake treat? I have no idea. But I became a woman obsessed. I absolutely, positively had to make them.
Then I read the recipe.
Butter. Marshmallows. My heart sank a little. (Dairy. Gelatin. Corn syrup. Not on my Love List.) My dream of a crispy rice treat was going to need more than just a gluten-free version of Rice Krispies. It was going to need a little postmodern reinvention. A little vegan love. A little boost in the wholesome aspect. A little less spun corn syrup fakery and little more genuine yummiosity.
So forgive me if I've tinkered with your mini-marshmallow dreams, Darling. But there's no corn or animal byproducts binding these delectable morsels of light and crispy rice goodness. Nope. You'll just have to read the recipe to discover my secret caramel stick-to-it-ness.
Oh. And I almost forgot to mention. My beautiful daughter-in-law?
She's vegan.
GFG Gluten-Free Rice Crispy Treats RecipeRecipe posted September 2011 by Karina Allrich.
These easy no-bake treats are free of gluten, dairy, corn (use corn-free vanilla extract), and soy. But flavor? Flavor they got. Big time. Lovely, sticky caramel almondy deliciousness.
1 1/4 cups gluten-free organic brown rice syrup
3/4 cup organic almond butter
2 tablespoons organic coconut oil
2 teaspoons bourbon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
6 cups gluten-free crispy brown rice cereal
Line a baking pan with a piece of parchment paper that extends up the long sides. Set aside.
In a saucepan, heat the brown rice syrup over medium heat, and stir until it begins to bubble a bit. Remove from heat and stir in the almond butter, coconut oil, vanilla and almond extract. As you stir the mixture, it should thicken and become glossy and elastic, much like caramel taffy.
Pour the crispy rice cereal into a large heat-safe mixing bowl. Carefully pour in the warm syrup mixture, and using a silicone spatula or wooden spoon, gently stir to coat all the cereal.
Scoop the coated cereal into the lined baking pan and spread evenly, gently smoothing out the top surface. Cover the pan with a sheet of plastic wrap or parchment paper.
Pop the pan into the fridge to chill.
When the bars have firmed to the touch, remove them from the pan, gripping the parchment edges and set them on a cutting board. Use a large sharp knife to score and cut the squares.
Wrap and chill. Store in the fridge.
Makes 24 squares.
Read labels, darlings. Not all crispy rice cereals are gluten-free. Choose one that sports "gluten-free" on the label. And if you- like me- are not a fan of the preservative BHT added to the new Gluten-Free Rice Krispies, take heart. There are lovely crispy brown rice cereals sans the yucky additive. Check the natural cereals aisle. And buy organic. Support our organic farmers and their families.
If almond butter is a no-no for you, try cashew butter.
If only a seed butter will do, it will work, but most seed butters have a much stronger flavor than subtle tasting almond butter, so the change will definitely affect the overall taste. It will be more intensely nutty. Maybe add in some mini-dark chocolate chips to cut the nuttiness?
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Is Doubt Essential To Faith?
Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Believers and Doubters.
About Lesley Hazleton's TEDTalk
Writer Lesley Hazleton calls for a new appreciation of doubt and questioning as the foundation of faith — and an end to fundamentalism of all kinds.
About Lesley Hazleton
Writer Lesley Hazleton is the author of The First Muslim, a new look at the life of Muhammad. A psychologist by training and Middle East reporter by experience, Hazleton has spent the last 10 years exploring the vast arena in which politics and religion, past and present, intersect. She's written about the history of the Sunni/Shia split, as well as books on two female figures from the Bible: Mary and Jezebel.
It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And our show today, believers and doubters. Why some people believe, why some don't, and then there are those who are somewhere in between, like Lesley Hazleton. What do you believe? What do you believe in?
LESLEY HAZLETON: I don't believe in. To believe in doesn't really make too much sense to me.
RAZ: Lesley Hazleton writes about the people and the prophets who shape the things many people believe.
HAZLETON: I am a very, very firm agnostic, by which I mean that I am not faithless, but I put my faith in inquiry. And I know this sounds strange, but I do have a very deep sense of mystery. What might be called religious mystery.
RAZ: And it was that sense of mystery, of religious mystery, that prompted Lesley - who, by the way, is an agnostic Jew - that prompted her to spend five years of her life researching and writing a biography about the Prophet Muhammad. And it all started with one question - one question that kept nagging her. Here she is on the TED stage.
HAZLETON: I found myself waking each morning in misty Seattle to what I knew was an impossible question - what actually happened one desert night half the world and almost half of history away? What happened, that is, on the night in the year 610 when Muhammad received the first revelation of the Quran on a mountain just outside Mecca? This is the core mystical moment of Islam. And as such, of course, it defies empirical analysis, which might be why when I looked at the earliest accounts we have of that night, what struck me even more than what happened was what did not happen. Muhammad did not come floating off the mountain as though walking on air. He did not run down shouting hallelujah and bless the Lord. There were no choirs of angels, no music of the spheres, no elation, no ecstasy, no golden aura surrounding him, no sense of an absolute, fore-ordained role as the messenger of God. Quite the contrary. In his own reported words, he was convinced at first that what had happened couldn't have been real.
RAZ: So tell me, what did happen?
HAZLETON: He was terrified. He was in fear for his life. He thought this angelic apparition, this voice was going to smother him, was going to just literally squeeze the life out of his chest. He thought he was going to die. And when he didn't, his first reaction was that he had to have been mad. He had to have been insane. This had to have been a delusion and he was terrified lest other people say this of him.
HAZLETON: In fact, he was so sure that he could only be majnun - possessed by a jinn - that when he found himself still alive, his first impulse was to finish the job himself, to leap off the highest cliff and escape the terror of what he'd experienced by putting an end to all experience. So the man who fled down the mountain that night trembled not with joy, but with a stark primordial fear. He was overwhelmed not with conviction, but by doubt.
RAZ: He was a doubter.
HAZLETON: I think the best of us are. The worst of us are those who never doubt, who are so sure that we possess the absolute truth that we become less human. What struck me about Muhammad, the deeper I went into his life, was how extraordinarily human he was and his ability to acknowledge his own fallibility. We see it there, by the way, in the very last words of Jesus - Father, why have you forsaken me? Wonderful, exquisite, agonizing moment of doubt. Muhammad is not the pope of Islam. He's the prophet. And prophets, too, can doubt. This is what makes him human.
HAZLETON: Too human for some, like conservative Muslim theologians who maintained that the account of his wanting to kill himself shouldn't even be mentioned despite the fact that it's in the earliest Islamic biographies. They insist that he never doubted for even a single moment, let alone despair. Demanding perfection, they refused to tolerate human imperfection. Yet, what exactly is imperfect about doubt? Abolish all doubts and what's left is not faith, but absolute, heartless conviction.
RAZ: So doubt is essential.
HAZLETON: I think it's part of us that we need to cherish. We have this idea that doubt is somehow imperfect, that there's something wrong with doubt. It's this desire for certainty that I see is so dangerous, and the desire for perfectibility. Let's just let go of perfection. Let's just accept that we're human. We're imperfect. That's what makes us interesting. That's what makes the world interesting. If we were all perfect and we were all alike, we would die of boredom.
RAZ: Where does, like - where does faith end and conviction begin?
HAZLETON: I think they're in two separate spheres. The people I know of deepest faith are not convinced. They have faith despite their doubts, in fact, because of their doubts. It's a dance, and they're very, very aware of this. And it goes beyond belief in. They know that this is not rational and yet, they commit themselves. And it's that act of commitment, that existential act of commitment that I so admire. And that very, very deep sense that religion is, in a sense, not even about God. It's about humans. It's about making ourselves better people.
RAZ: Lesley Hazleton. She's the author of "The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad." You can see her entire talk at TED.NPR.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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