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Anti-Gay Activist Nominated For Vatican Slot
Anti-gay marriage activist Mary Ann Glendon may be getting a new gig.
President Bush nominated the former Harvard professor to be America's ambassador to the Vatican. The 69-year old pro-lifer previously worked with the Vatican when Pope John Paul II appointed her to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which helps the Vatican formulate its social and cultural policies. Those policies, of course, aren't terribly progressive or gay friendly.
Glendon's most recently been using her time to help Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. Upon hearing of the nomination, which must be approved by the Senate, Romney lamented his campaign's loss, but celebrated Glendon's "values":
She will serve our country with the honor and dignity we expect from those who represent our country's values abroad. While I may have lost her trusted counsel to our campaign, our country has gained an extremely gifted ambassador.
As for representing our country's values, here's what Glendon had to say about an anti-gay marriage amendment:
President Bush's endorsement of a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage should be welcomed by all Americans who are concerned about equality and preserving democratic decision-making.
What same-sex marriage advocates have tried to present as a civil rights issue is really a bid for special preferences of the type our society gives to married couples for the very good reason that most of them are raising or have raised children.
It would be tragic if, just when the country is beginning to take stock of the havoc those erroneous ideas have already wrought in the lives of American children, we should now freeze them into constitutional law.
Those don't sound like American values. Those are clearly demented, discriminatory, short-sighted conservative ideas.
Perfect for the Vatican!
Debrar…yes thank goodness people still care about the health and well being of the family.
The family is the single most important issue that our country faces today. I am so happy to hear that Mary Ann Glendon is supporting Mitt Romney for 2008! Mitt Romney shares many of the same values that Mary Ann Glendon shares. I pray that Christians will support Mitt Romney and put aside doctrinal differences and build upon our common values! Lets make change happen!
Why in hell do we need an ambassador to the Vatican???
allen — I totally share your puzzlement on this one. Seems like a waste of time and money to me. On the other hand, it gets this particular witch out of the country, which can only be a good thing.
And then there's this bit of stupidry:
"What same-sex marriage advocates have tried to present as a civil rights issue is really a bid for special preferences of the type our society gives to married couples for the very good reason that most of them are raising or have raised children."
So by all means let's dissolve the marriages of the childless. Failure to propagate the species should logically result in the removal of the special preferences given to those who spawn. If they don't reproduce annually, then their sex is purely for pleasure, just like the nasty homos!
Love how they always bring up "democracy," but we don't live in a true democracy because our founding fathers were wary of "mob rule," we live in a democratic republic.
If it were up to these people, we would have had a national vote on ending slavery, allowing women to vote, permitting inter-racial marriage…and none probably would have passed.
And why are they judges only "activist" when they make rulings these people don't like.
It's been said more than once, activist judges put Bush in the White House…TWICE!
With tongue-in-cheek, I propose a constitutional amendment that restricts marriage only to those who have given birth regardless of the genders of the couples with an initial grace period of say three years to get a bun out of the oven and that those marriages automatically end as soon as minor children leave the household and no further pregnancies leading to live birth occur within 18 months. Since those who oppose gay marriage generally use procreation of the species to support restricting marriage rights to a special class, there is no point in allowing those rights to continue when procreation is no longer possible. Anyone think those who want to restrict marriage as a special right to those who procreate would go for it?
Homosexuality is a perversion, an act against nature. Because some choose to follow this lifestyle does not negate this fact; and I am sure that those practicing this lifestyle know this "before", "during" and "after". Sometimes we choose to ignore the things we do not want to hear.
Once again: History has shown that civilizations crumble when homosexuality is running rampant– take a closer look at some of the recent happenings in San Francisco alone.
If homosexuality is a perversion, an act against nature, then what are you doing reading a Gay web site and no less posting in it?
shouldn't you be going to church for repenting for your sins instead of expressing hatred in a web site.
God loves all his children and makes us each special, Gay or str8…and even loves you as you spew hate.
Yes Debrar, and sometimes we choose to ignore homophobic asshats such as yourself.
are you a retard? How can homosexuality be "an act against nature" when it happens all the time in nature? It has been observed in almost all species of mammals, many birds, even life-long same-sex couples among those that bond for life.
And where in history does homosexuality cause a civilization to crumble. You jokers use the roman empire for an example a lot but if you look at history, the roman empire rose to the height of its power as a pagan state, tolerant of homosexuality, and fell shortly after becoming christian and intolerant. "Sometimes we choose to ignore the things we do not want to hear."
Yep, and there you have it: Denial is one of the first things to appear.
Debrar: what are some of the recent happenings in San Francisco?
Please, don't play naive.
The happenings in San Francisco alone is yet another example of anti-family … all rolled-up with the rest of this perversion.
We need an Ambassabitch to the Vatican so that Priest can continue to molest little boys and keep it swept under the rug. She can also help negotiate the multi million dollar settlements that are awarded to these guys, and Mary Ann is as tight as that hair on her head.
Also, her and the Pope share a passion for red dresses.
It is clear that Debrar has a little lady crush on Mary Ann so we better cool it with the bashing of this lady or Debrar's muff will explode…..and God/Buddah/Allah knows we don't want that.
Jack Jett
Humor, or juvenille, Jack Jett? Most likely the latter.
Thank God Debrar is here to monitor us Faggety Ass Faggots. Debbie Girl – please tell us MORE about how horrible we are!
And why in HELL are you reading a blog called "Queerty" in the first place?
Where is Right Reverend Whatshisname when you need him?
It is a combo….Adultlescents.
And you? Are you for real..or just really frustrated?
Cause, you know I love you.
Jack Jett
No, I'm for real. I see cause and effect. Jack, although confused, you seem like a nice guy.
Debrar craves attention, that is why he/she/it is here. You'll notice that when no one responded to the first obnoxious post, he/she/it had to return with yet another, hoping someone would rise to the bait. To ignore Debrar is the best way to deal with Debrar. If he/she/it can't have any fun, he/she/it will eventually go away. Such a sad and pathetic creature Debrar seems to be.
Well Bob R, you are such a psychologist. If that is what I was doing (NOT), then it looks like I caught your attention. So, you must have read comments. Good job, I need more of your attention Bob, so stay tuned in case I write something else. Too bad that you had to mislead, reality is a hard thing to grasp.
Have you ever had your face in a muff? Do you dream about muff? Do you worship the muff?
Are you a woman? You have to give us more honey because as it stands right now, you are just a chicken shit hiding behind a name.
What is your beef with gay men? Did one steal your boyfriend…girlfriend?
Go ahead, come out of the closet so we can send you your toaster.
Jack Jett
Yeah, you're so smart, you must be on to me — you've discovered that I'm the one who is really hiding behind a name here. Talk about a brain at work, I'm so impressed with you. Yep, I recognized that this truly is a wonderful place to get honestly acquainted with each other – as I can see the rest of you are doing. I especially love the assortment of insults, profanity, and perversion. Plus, the splash of humor, although a bit on the disgusting side – I guess you are trying to come up with some kind of kinky ice breaker here, but "No", I don't have any of those issues .. I leave those to you.
So now that we've gone down that little "do you kiss your mama with that mouth?" side-track, back to the topic at hand:
Thank God people still care about the health and well being of the family. History has shown that civilizations crumble when homosexuality is running rampant– take a closer look at some of the recent happenings in San Francisco alone.
P.S. Bob R., don't forget to read all my comments. However, I sure hope that they don't upset your balance.
Pull your tongue out of your cheek, leomoore! I say we go for it, and collect signatures for a law banning marriage for men who've had a vasectomy.
Debrar cracks me up … Who knew inanity could be so amusing?
Pretty amazing there scarecrow — what a complete surprise that you would ignore crude, off-the-wall, nonsense and just focus on me. Thank you for the great compliment of being personally addressed once more; however, please be more careful, you may upset Bob R. You are definitely right about inane things being a bit amusing.


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Steve Murphy (percussion) and Jeff Johanson (acoustic guitar) have been performing in bands together for quite some time.
The two long-time friends, both lead vocalists with unusually high ranges, have now come together to find that less is more in their new duo project called the Two Tenors of Rock. Listeners of TTR are often shocked to find only 2 men on stage comparing the sound of the duo to that of a full band.
These factors in conjunction with their combined vocal strength give the duo a unique sound and novelty effect.
Their repertoire includes literally hundreds of songs.. many of which are re-interpreted versions of rock classics such as Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and "Immigrant Song", "Africa" by Toto, as well as their own original songs. The boys have spent every Tuesday evening the past 2 years perfecting their sound at NYC's trendy night-club, Prohibition. TTR has also performed at numerous private events including holiday parties for the cast of ABC's "All My Children" & "One Life To Live", the CBS Early Show, at college campuses (NYU, Brooklyn College), and as a "strolling duo" at Belmont and Saratoga Racetracks.
The boys are also quite comfortable with each other as well as with accommodating random song requests which makes for a memorable interactive experience between audience and entertainers.

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[Assessment 1107] Re: No Questions or Comments?!
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We have been funded for an ESL Transition to College program over the
next three years by a private foundation. There is a need in CT to
streamline services and to connect what our adult ed public school based
programs do with community colleges. We need to avoid duplication of
services and move forward with best practices. Our current program
(Regional Service Center entity) is more intensive in services 15-20
hours a week with internships and close support services - this is a
major factor in bridging the route to higher ed and referrals to the CC
ESL program. If students complete our program they usually skip a level
at the CC and avoid using some federal assistance for non-credit
courses, which is itself a controversial issue. The school districts
have free programs. PD is extensively provided in CT through a
centralized service. A next step here is further developing the linkages
with the private sector - more VESL on site - we have an increasing
number of these programs. Some funding is being provided through the
Labor Dept. incumbent worker funds and some by the companies. This is a
real growth area for services.
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Subject: [Assessment 1103] No Questions or Comments?!
Hello everyone,
I'm so surprised! No one has anything to comment on regarding your
program's effectiveness at helping ESL students advance?? I was very
curious to know if subscribers experience the same types of issues that
Dr. Chisman and Dr. Crandall found in their research: a lack of
intensity of instruction/few protocols for transitioning students/few
opportunities for professional development.
What are the issues in your program that you feel inhibit the ESL
student from advancing? What do you try to do about that?
Please post your questions and comments now.
Marie Cora
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You're here because as much as you tried to persuade them otherwise, your dog drank more salt water than they should. Now you're either experiencing the wrath of Poseidon, or trying to anticipate it, but either way you've come across a page full of helpful tips!
Before you read the rest of this, get out the plastic furniture covers cause it's about to get messy.
When any dog, or other mammal for that matter, drinks salt water they become dehydrated by all the extra sodium now in their system. This throws their electrolytes out of wack and in most cases causing vomiting and diarrhea. In our experiences with Finlay (our beagle puppy), even 10 seconds of sea-water-slurping can result in a whole day of disgusting. He vomits without any heaving, it just comes up suddenly, and has lots of gas followed by fairly runny stool (sorry if that was TMI, but you're most likely about to experience it first hand).
For most dogs this is a 24-hour or less ailment, but it can be fairly serious and sometimes fatal so use your best judgment– if your dog looks like he's on death's door don't be a fool, take them to the vet.
In the mean time, while you're trying to determine if this is a life or death situation, here's a few things you can do to help your sea-sick furry-friend pass the time.–We are NOT vets and the information below is just a compiling of things we've gathered around the internet and tested on our dog. Once again, we are not vets and you should use your judgment/consult your vet on all of the suggestions listed below–
#1 Keep them Hydrated
I know, this is more fuel for them to fire at you, but your dog needs water, especially if he's expelling food and/or liquid from his body. Give your dog small amounts of water every 1/2 hour, even if it means you'll be cleaning it up, and monitor how long it takes/ how much of it is being vomited. Keeping him hydrated is #1 because if you don't he can get much sicker very quickly.
If he's vomited but is able to keep water down for 2 hours, he can then have apple juice diluted 50:50 with water, or water from a can of tuna diluted 1 part tuna water to 10 parts plain water. Again, give the fluids in small, frequent, amounts.
#2 Don't get Mad
If your dog is throwing up it's because he's not feeling well, so try your best to keep calm. You can set them up for success by keeping them off the carpets, on an easy to wipe down surface. We don't suggest putting them outside alone, if your dog is really sick you probably need to monitor him, plus he'll feel like he's done something wrong if you exclude him from the pack.
#3 Quarantine
Just in case he's vomiting from something other than sea water, you may want to take your other, well-feeling pets somewhere else. Your dog may try to eat its own vomit and as we all know it's easier to keep one dog from eating something, than 3. You're also going to want your dog to rest, and without their mates around you may have a better chance of this happening.
#4 Make them a comfortable, washable place to lie down
I recommend bunching up a sheet or old towel on an easy to clean floor surface. This way if they continue to get sick you can just toss it in the wash, mop down the floor, and press on.
#5 WITHHOLD FOOD until it has been 24 hours since they last vomited.
This gives the intestines a chance to rest and heal. After 24 hours without vomiting, you can start your dog back on a bland diet. Many vets online recommend a mixture of 75% cooked white rice, and 25% low fat protein. For the protein you could use extra lean ground beef, boiled with the fat scooped off, or chicken breast boiled with fat scooped off or even scrambled egg cooked without fat in the microwave. Feed small frequent meals, avoid anything salty. Day 3 post incident, if there is still no vomiting, your dog can go back to normal dog food.
We also saw a lot of people saying you could give your dogs a few different over-the-counter meds, but we're not into that so you'll have to find that information on your own.
Our dog has never gone to the vet after drinking saltwater, but there are a lot of really sad stories about owners who thought their dogs were fine and their animals ended up dying (because of salt water, or because something else they ate). Saline saturation causes swelling which can lead to all kinds of complications. We don't want to scare you, but we also don't want to assure you that everything will be fine. Use your judgement and sorry about all the sick you'll be cleaning up!


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Oleaceae Family
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Seasonality: evergreen
Size: 20-30ft with equal or slightly less spread
Leaves: lancolate, narrow, opposite, to 3in long, stiff, gray-green on top, underside lighter
Flowers: axillary clusters of small creamy white flowers; bloom in spring; allergenic
Fruit: edible olives, 1.5in across; green in late summer maturing to black; drops when ripe
Stems/Trunks: attractive trunk; gray; gnarled, bumpy and contorted
Range/Origin: Mediterranean; in cultivation for millennia
Hardiness: to 15°F, some injury below mid-teens
Olea europaea
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- Exposure: full sun, reflective light
- Water: low; none in winter, 1-2 times per month in summer
- Soil: deep, uniform
- Propagation: vegetative cuttings
- Maintenance: high; allergenic pollen, flower drop, messy staining fruit drop, pruning of basal suckers
curing fruit (to make edible) is complex process
outlawed in Tucson due to allergenic pollen
susceptible to Texas root rot
cultivars "Swan Hill" and Wilson's Fruitless" are legal and almost fruitless, also have wider leaves.
chemical sprays can successfully prevent fruit set
long lived; specimens known to be several centuries old
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as follows or as follow?
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Can you clarify my confusion regarding the usage of the phrases, "as follows" and "as follow"?
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AnonymousResponse is:I don't think so. Please have a look at the posts above yours in this thread and at the following usage note from The Columbia Guide to Standard American English .
I have witnessed cases where people used "as follow, " like this (eventhough not in these exact sentences)
Two explanations you requested are as follow:
Not, two explanations you requested are as follows:
I might be wrong but it seems to me when one item or thing is being mentioned in a sentence as a subject, it follows up with "as follows", but when you are making a sentence with multiple items or things, it is right to use "as follow" with no "s" in the end of the verb. Right or WRONG?
To my mind, the "as follows" doesn't relate to the content of the following text, but the text itself as a whole, i.e.
1. The two explanations you requested are as (in the text that) follows...
So I would call "as follow" incorrect. But other posters may have other opinions!
Usage Note: As follows (not as follow) is the established form of the idiom regardless of whether the noun that precedes it is singular or plural: The regulations are as follows.
Please read the explanations from Nona, MrPedantic and Tanit in this thread.
The standardly used expression is "as follows".
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Skip to comments.Backward, atheist soldiers!
Posted on 06/22/2007 9:07:12 AM PDT by Caleb1411
Books: Notable anti-religion and anti-Christian books of the past yearparticularly Christopher Hitchens God Is Not Greatmake something out of, well, nothing.
Nineteenth-century novelist Gustave Flaubert used to joke about archaeologists discovering a stone tablet signed "God" and reading, "I do not exist." His punch line had an atheist then exclaiming, "See! I told you so!"
These days, nothing stops atheistic caissons from rolling along the bookstore aisles. Maybe that's because atheists on average have small families and lots of discretionary doubloons jingling in their pockets. Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation (Knopf), Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell (Penguin), and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin) all hit bestseller lists during 2006and a new book, Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great (Twelve), has ascended this year.
Last year's trio emerged alongside anti-Christian books purportedly based on hard reporting. Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (Norton) typified the genre's misreporting when she wrote that Christian pregnancy counseling centers "usually" present false or exaggerated informationbut there's no indication that she visited even one center, let alone the 3,000 or so that exist throughout the country. (Here's some evidentiary trivia: In four pages about me she makes five clear factual errors, along with many questionable interpretations.)
This year it's the same: a new screed by Chris Hedges has as its title not "Mistaken People" or even "Lying Liars," but American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press). The genre is old, with new villains appearing as necessary. Ten years ago Frederick Clarkson's Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy stated that the sky was falling, with Promise Keepers as the spearhead of Christian dictatorship.
The ferocity of these books is sometimes astounding. Here, for example, is Dawkins' view of God: "arguably the most unpleasant character in fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
Even Publishers Weekly noted concerning The God Delusion, "For a scientist who criticizes religion for its intolerance, Dawkins has written a surprisingly intolerant book, full of scorn for religion and those who believe. . . . Even confirmed atheists who agree with his advocacy of science and vigorous rationalism may have trouble stomaching some of the rhetoric: 'The biblical Yahweh is "psychotic," Aquinas' proofs of God's existence are "fatuous" and religion generally is "nonsense."'
Happily, Alister and Joanna Collicutt McGrath have just come out with an effective response, The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (IVP). The McGraths note, "Until recently, Western atheism had waited patiently, believing that belief in God would simply die out. But now a whiff of panic is evident. Far from dying out, belief in God has rebounded."
The McGraths also point out the folly of believing that if religion were eliminated wars would cease: After all, conflicts often reflect human desires to declare some people as "in" and others as "out," sometimes on the basis of religion, but at other times on the basis of race, ethnicity, tribe, class, gender, or whatever.
Christianity is above all others the religion that seeks kindness to those in the out-group: Jesus told us to love our neighbors and even to love our enemies. When Christians fail to live up to His teachings it's because of sin, not Christianityand scapegoating religion delays efforts to deal with the real problems of social division.
Scapegoating is also evident in the writing of Sam Harris, who frequently forgets to use reason and instead falls back on words like "preposterous." He asserts certainty about what he admits not knowing: "How the process of evolution got started is still a mystery, but that does not in the least suggest that a deity is likely to be lurking at the bottom of it all."
He complains not only about ignorance but about moral failings: "An average Christian, in an average church, listening to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse."
Yet Harris, for all his attacks on Intelligent Design, does not even understand the distinction between macro-evolutionone kind of creature changing into anotherand micro-evolution. One of his proofs of theistic obtuseness is that "viruses like HIV, as well as a wide range of harmful bacteria, can be seen evolving right under our noses, developing resistance to antiviral and antibiotic drugs."
The one good aspect of Harris' work is his understanding that theology has consequences: "There is no escaping that fact that a person's religious beliefs uniquely determine what he thinks peace is good for, as well as what he means by a term like 'compassion.'" Harris at least understands that the biblical theology he hates makes obnoxious sense in a way that liberalism does not; given a suffering world, "liberal theology must stand revealed for what it is: the sheerest of mortal pretenses."
Harris also criticizes the niceties of political rhetoric concerning Islam: "The idea that Islam is a 'peaceful religion hijacked by extremists' is a fantasy." Too bad he and other atheistic authors are determined to believe that Christianity is inevitably hijacked by hate, and that they pick up support from reviewers like Natalie Angier, who wrote in The New York Times that "Harris writes what a sizeable number of us think, but few are willing to say."
Harris' work has also engendered several Christian responses this year. Doug Wilson's Letter from a Christian Citizen (American Vision) points out that Harris uses morally loaded words like "should" and "ought"; Wilson rightly asks Harris, "What is the difference between an imposed morality, an imposed religion, or an imposed secular ought? Why is your imposition to be preferred to any other?"
Wilson notes Harris' fondness for Eastern religions, and in particular the "utter non-violence" of the Jains in India. Letter from a Christian Citizen correctly notes that "Devout Jains will wear a mask to avoid breathing in and thereby killing any insect," and then asks whether Harris would commend evangelicals who "forsook the use of antibiotics because of the genocidal devastation it was causing to the microbes within."
Wilson also points out that the litany of religious folks fighting each other that Harris recites "is beside the point. We don't believe that religion is the answer. We believe Christ is the answer." Harris' list of religious messes merely confirms "one of the basic tents of the Christian faith, which is that the human race is all screwed up."
And what about this year's champion screed, offered by Christopher Hitchens? His scorn"monotheistic religion is a plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents"oozes off every page of God Is Not Great, with its extraordinary subtitle, How Religion Poisons Everything.
"Everything"? That sounds improbable. Are 1.3 billion Muslims all murderers? Might Christianity have produced 50 percent evil and 50 percent good? If not, how about 40 percent good? Thirty percent? Twenty percent? Ten percent? Will not Hitchens relent from his anger if we can find 5 percent that's good?
God Is Not Great has received extraordinary publicity, including an adulatory review in The New York Times, so it's worth going page by page to see what Hitchens is selling and many atheists are buying:
*On Page 4 he writes that religion produces a "maximum of servility." Islam, maybe, but were Abraham, Moses, and Job servile when they argued with God?
*On Page 5 he writes, "No statistic will ever find that without [religious] blandishments and threats [atheists] commit more crimes of greed or violence than the faithful." Prison Fellowship and other organizations can show that prisoners who go through evangelical programs have much lower recidivismcommitting new crimes after release from prison, leading to new sentencesthan others.
*On Page 7 he writes, "Religion spoke its last intelligible or noble or inspiring words a long time ago." Leaving aside the inspiration millions get from daily Bible reading, what about Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches, with all their biblical imagery? Or Pope John Paul II, whose words inspired many people to rise up against Communism in Eastern Europe?
*On Page 17 he writes that religion "does not have the confidence in its own various preachings even to allow coexistence between different faiths." At the annual March for Life in Washington tens of thousands of Catholics and Protestants walk side by side along with individuals from Jews for Life, Buddhists for Life, and so on.
*n Page 32 he writes, "The nineteen suicide murderers of New York and Washington and Pennsylvania were beyond any doubt the most sincere believers on those planes." Todd Beamer, the man who said "Let's roll" on United Flight 93, and made sure it didn't crash into the U.S. Capitol, was a strong Christian believer. So were others who died, stopping the terrorists, when Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania.
Hitchens of course thinks the Bible is nonsense (see also "The world according to Hitch," June 3, 2006). On Page 102 he writes, "It goes without saying that none of the gruesome, disordered events described in Exodus ever took place." Without saying. A slam dunk. On Page 103: "All the Mosaic myths can be safely and easily discarded." On Page 104: All five books of Moses are "an ill-carpentered fiction."
Such pronouncements were repeatedly made in the 19th century, but again and again biblical accounts considered mythical back then have gained new archeological support. For example, scholars at one point said that the Hittites described in the Bible did not exist, nor did rulers such as Belshazzar of Babylon or Sargon of Assyria. Archeologists now have records of all those civilizations and reigns.
Many brilliant people have spent lifetimes studying these writings that Hitchens so blithely dismisses. Princeton's Robert Wilson, who knew 26 ancient languages and dialects and so could read just about all that remains from the ancient Near East, was impressed with the accuracy of those accounts that Hitchens wishes to discard.
Coming to the present, Hitchens on Page 160 calls "the whole racket of American evangelism . . . a heartless con." Hmm. WORLD for two decades has reported stories around this country of compassionate evangelicals who must be dumb, because they've spent their lives in a racket that's yielded them almost no money. They've adopted hard-to-place children, built AIDs orphanages in Africa, helped addicts and alcoholics to turn their lives around, transformed the lives of teens who were heading into drugs and crime, and much besides.
In responding to Hitchens and mini-Hitchenses, it's also worth noting the leadership of Christians over the centuries in setting up hospitals and schools. Historians such as Jonathan Hill of Oxford, Alvin Schmidt of Illinois College, and Rodney Stark of Baylor have described the long-term effect of Jesus telling his followers to love their neighbors as themselves.
The evangelical tendency to help others, not poison them, has even attracted the attention of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who calls America's evangelicals "the newest internationalists" for fighting sexual trafficking in Eastern Europe and slavery in Sudan. As Jewish leader Michael Horowitz has put it, evangelicals "led the way in taking on the slavery issue of our timethe annual trafficking of millions of women and children into lives of sexual bondage . . . led the way in organizing a campaign to end a growing epidemic of prison rape."
Horowitz concluded his message to evangelicals this way: "As you define your human rights successes as central to who you are and what you've done, it will no longer be possible for those who fear your faith to crudely caricature you or to ignore the virtue that Christian activism brings to American life and the world at large." Spoken too soon, because authors like Harris, Dennett, Dawkins, and especially Hitchens, despite all the evidence, still proclaim that religion, or Christianity in particular, poisons everything.
It appears to me that you have must doubts and that you don't believe the Jewish G-d or His Torah can withstand ridicule by non-believers.
Either your Jewish G-d and His Torah can withstand ridicule by non-believers or he can't. Your threatening others isn't an indication of His strength, is it?
But you do admit that Buddhists go to hell, right?
Oh, don't start telling us that we are going to have to start "handling" our Jewish friends differently after all these years. Has multiculturalism really gotten to your soul? The UN will be thrilled to know they were so successful.
It is people like you that help me understand why the religious war amongst the Jews and the Palestinians will never end.
>four pointed back at himself.<
Only three pointed back at himself.
Anyone who refuses salvation in Christ will.
And the thumb at his silly head
It does sound rather like jihad.
There are some real hot headed nuts among the Haredim.
And it brings to mind one of the contradictions of heaven. If you have a mother, father, son, or daughter who does not accept Christ, is it possible to have eternal happiness in heaven knowing that that person is in hell for all eternity.
When men get bored they fight over women and/or religion. It's been that way since the beginning of time and I suppose it'll go on forever.
There's the Puritan/Calvinist theological approach to this which is that God scripted it all, we simply won't care, and don't worry about the rest. Some people find this energizing and simply come up with hotter and hotter descriptions of hell when challenged.
Then there's the C. S. Lewis approach (which I confess to being partial to) that it's a consequence of all people having the power to say yes or no to the spirit of God. If the Buddhist wants heaven, God will arrange for the conversion of his spirit. (Missionaries not infrequently report that the peoples they have gone to preach to, have already had some kind of premonitory revelation about the Lord.) Heaven will view hell as a tragedy, but not as something fundamentally unfair.
I don't find this unreasonable, just a strange and less than perfect way to manage the afterlife.
The only dialogue recorded in the New Testament involving an occupant of hell has this person acknowledging the fact that wrongdoing results in going there, though not directly, as though to signify a perpetual denial concerning his own wrong. The result is almost comical.
Even in this world we consider it strange when a person whose friend is in a fix but he can't do anything about it, just sits and mopes his whole life. And, the truth about God is that one's relationship with God trumps all others.
"Its the constant attacks by the God-haters, calling us stupid and so forth, despite the overwhelming evidence for design in nature (and the complete scientific failure of darwinism and the copernican principle) that provoke this backlash."
Just claiming there is overwhelming evidence and claiming Darwin and Copernicus were wrong does not make it so. Evolution does occur and is an empirically and scientifically reliable theory beyond any comparison to intelligent design. The Earth does move around the Sun and that is not in dispute. Perhaps your dander is simply too up, having had your faith challenged, to engage in rational discourse.
"You do know its perfectly OK to smear feces on statues of Jesus, and other Christian symbols, but how dare you say anything negative toward a transvestite marching in the gay pride parade with its pants down."
I think the double standard stinks, too, and I'm for ALL of those things either being looked down on or ALL of those things being above reproach as free speech generally (though I think smearing feces on anything, and your gay pride parade example, are tasteless behavior, certainly). I would not support censorship of that expression, but I don't understand why America must financially support it, and I have no problem with the originators of such filth being shunned by society and suffering consequences for their actions in that way.
But if there's a backlash against those disagreeing with Christians BY Christians here, why? Aren't you Christians? What's with the complete absence of the application of the golden rule here, and turning the other cheek? Oh, right, you've been provoked, so you can just ignore Christ's teachings.
Are you sure that's wrong?
Faith is not 'knowing', it's 'believing'.
Now I couldn't tell you whether it's 'wrong' to prostelitize, but asserting something as certain when it's really a belief is wrong. It's dishonest.
So you are sure no truth can be arrived at that way?
Speaking of supernatural, transcendent (unprovable) truths: You may 'arrive' at truth, but you can't say for certain you have arrived, or when you arrived at it. You stumble into, around, and out of it, and back again - that's the best you can do.
If I know the truth, why do I need to 'have faith' or 'believe'?
To be internally consistent with your belief that the world is meaningless, nothing must mean much to you (including what teachers teach your kids in science class).
Galileo suffered to prove that we are totally insignificant! How dare you betray him by acting as if anything were???
Well then, since you insist in believing in something that cannot be scientifically proven (and therefore, according to you, cannot exist), I guess that makes you a hypocrite, doesn't it?
You seem to think that I have some sort of stake in your opinions and spiritual beliefs, which I don't. Please, keep believing in your publicly founded, unincarnate, God, and quit pretending that I care that you do.
I believe that you cannot believe in objective moral system, or that if you do (and you probably do, since you insist on thinking inconsistently), that you have no grounds to do so. On what would such a "morality" be based? Utilitarianism? Altruism perhaps? What would Ayn Rand think of you for suggesting such a thing???!!!
There are a fair number around Chtistiandom too.
No, whatever gave you that idea. I only said that things that cannot be tested and proven scientifically should not be taught in science class. This holds true for alien life forms, leprechauns, and creation myths.
I believe that you cannot believe in objective moral system.
Well, its a good thing that your beliefs have no bearing on whether I hold to a moral code or not. Regardless, my moral system, objective or not is totally unrelated to whether I believe in the literal interpretation of Genesis.
I beg to disagree. When I say I have "faith" in Jesus, that means I take what he says to be absolute truth. I trust Jesus, and His words, more than any man. Our own utterings might be mere opinions subject to error, but Jesus' words literally define truth.
Hebrews 11:1-2 offers the working definition of faith for Christians. It says: "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see."
You see, true Christians KNOW they will go to heaven, not because we deserve heaven, but because we completely trust that Jesus will keep His overly generous promise to save us from the consequences of our sins. I don't just believe this because it's my opinion. My opinion is quite irrelevant. I know this, because Jesus said it.
There's no dishonestly involved. Wouldn't we be more dishonest to treat our certain faith as though it were simply another type of spiritual Prozac to get through the day?
Asserting that I 'really believe something to be true, and have complete faith in it being true' is not the same thing as 'knowing it to be true'.
Faith involves partial blind allegiance, as you describe, in a higher and unprovable entity. When that entity describes its own logic and truth and you accept it at face value, you've made a 'leap of faith'. Once past that leap, people tend to forget they made that leap, and proceed as if they still believe in reason - but their reason is contigent on the 'rules' redefined by the transcendent entity or idea.
You see, true Christians KNOW they will go to heaven, not because we deserve heaven, but because we completely trust that Jesus will keep His overly generous promise to save us from the consequences of our sins.
In the same sentence you equate knowing and trusting, the same mistake made in equating knowing and having faith. You wouldn't have to trust if you knew it to be true. Of course it all makes sense from the standpoint of the internal logic of the Bible, but that doesn't transcend reality as we know it - unless the Bible were hard-wired into our brains so that every person on Earth accepted it as fact and truth.
If there are different gradients of faith, then I'd propose that at the extreme ends, complete faith and no faith, you wouldn't call those faith at all. On the one end would be 'knowing to be true' and on the other 'knowing not to be true'.
Faith is defined by that vast range between the two extremes where there always exists some amount of doubt, and some degree of logical leap.
Yes, we define faith differently.
Well, that would mean you're either a Jew or a Muslim.
If you're a Jew, you don't evangelize, so to you it's not really an attack, just a difference of opinion. It's no danger to your land or your person. Your religion is between you and your God, and He won't give you brownie points for defending Him. So you say "nu, believe what you like", teach your children differently, and move on.
If you're a Muslim, you show the writings to your Mullah. He pronounces a fatwa against the author, and some fanatic shoots the infidel in the chest.
Wrong. Sorry.
If you're a Jew, you don't evangelize,
Since the word "evangelize" is taken from the Greek/Latin word for "gospel," then it means by definition "to proselytize for chr*stianity." This means that by definition, no non-chr*stian religion, however proselytary, can be said to "evangelize."
I am afraid you are very mistaken about one thing, however. Judaism does not proselytize non-Jews to convert to Judaism. It does have a specific mission, however, to "compel" (RaMBa"M's word) all non-Jews to observe the Seven Noachide Laws (the first of which is a prohibition of idolatry, which applies to every human being and is enforceable by the death penalty)--a mission that will be finally completed by Mashiach. While I doubt you have any first-hand knowledge of Halakhah, it may interest you to know that the basis for this future world-wide "conversion" are the laws concerning milchamot reshut, which stipulate that the besieged non-Jewish population is to accept the Noachide Laws and become permanent tributaries or else have the entire male population slaughtered and its women and children reduced to permanent slave status. (The difference between a milchemet reshut, btw, and a milchemet mitzvah, is that in the latter the enemy--specifically `Amaleq and the Seven Nations of Canaan--is to be exterminated.)
You've never read the Book of Joshua, have you? Perhaps we need to teach it in public school history classes.
so to you it's not really an attack, just a difference of opinion.
Now that is really interesting. When you ridicule the Jewish G-d and Torah you aren't attacking Judaism--you're attacking Evangelical Protestants? Is your scientific thinking equally as "logical?"
It's no danger to your land or your person.
Perhaps you are unaware that the Jewish deed to 'Eretz Yisra'el is the book you enjoy attacking and ridiculing as an "Evangelical Protestant" holy book? What do you think they did, flip open an atlas with their eyes closed and put their finger down on a random page? (BTW, Adam and Eve are buried in Hebron [I've been there]; and that isn't something rural white American Fundamentalist Protestants know.)
Your religion is between you and your God,
"My" G-d? Whatever gave you the idea that the G-d of Israel is just one people's G-d or that He is so cavalier as to whether everyone worships Him or not? Perhaps you missed the memo, but HaShem is still a "Jealous G-d," as Mr. Dawkins has pointed out. And Mr. Dawkins wasn't attacking the Baptist man-"gxd" Yushqa but the JEWISH G-d. And you don't notice this? You think Mr. Dawkins (who has attacked Zionism, btw) is just out to defend himself from the Southern Baptist Convention or the United Pentecostals?
and He won't give you brownie points for defending Him.
Now this is really incredible. May I ask how you know this? What do you think He gives "brownie points" for? Defending the shape of the "Jewish nose," perhaps? When Golyat blasphemed the Jewish G-d young David killed him. You don't think that was worth a "brownie point?" Or perhaps you don't consider David Jewish. Perhaps you think he was a "typical bigoted evangelical?" Wow. Was he baptized and everything??? Did he hand out tracts?
Or just maybe Judaism isn't as gentle as you think it is.
So you say "nu, believe what you like", teach your children differently, and move on.
This brings us to the question of why you yourself can't say "nu, believe what you like" and likewise move on instead of attacking other people's beliefs. It does seem that you are a bit inconsistent in whose beliefs you are willing to mock. Let's see . . . there are Yeshivish Orthodox Jews who live in insular communities, don't let their kids read about evolution, won't let them read book espousing the Copernican view of the solar system/universe, and won't let their kids read Charlotte's Web because it's about a pig. And to this you say live and let live. Yet when it comes to "the usual suspects" (ie, rural white [never Black, for some strange reason] American Evangelical or Fundamentalist Protestants) it's open season. Now may I ask why your "live and let live" philosophy is so inconsistently applied? Let's look at the matter scientifically.
You say you think rural white American Fundamentalist Protestants deserve to be mocked because they don't believe in evolution and don't want you teaching it to their kids (or want their kids taught their religion in school). Very well. But let's take a test group. We see that there are Yeshivish Orthodox Jews who fit every one of these criteria (and much more so, actually), yet to them you say "live and let live." Therefore, since religious fundamentalism is common to both groups (the experimental and the test group), then religious fundamentalism is scientifically eliminated as the reason you enjoy making a target out of rural white American Fundamentalist Protestants. So what is the reason then? Simple. They're the only safe target and you don't have the intestinal or testicular fortitude to attack anyone else. (And watch what you say to me. I'm not a chr*stian. I'm a genuine religious minority, and you better respect my beliefs and demonstrate your "solidarity" with me! It's not like I'm some trailer park Pentecostal you can sail into without fear of being accused of bigotry, now, is it?)
Bottom line--the Jewish G-d is the True G-d of all humanity and every human being is statutorily obligated to acknowledge and obey Him and no other "gxd," and the fact that Jews haven't enforced this on humanity is not because the religion has changed but because they have not been in a position to do so. This is what Mashiach is all about.
And finally (not so much to Physicist as to all the other atheists who jumped into this thread which was started as a critique of contemporary atheist fundamentalism), please understand that atheists can commit mass murder as easily as any religious person (as history makes abundantly clear). And the fault did not lie with Jacobinism or Communism or Marxism or collectivism or statism or any other "ism" per se--the problem lies in the very idea of a non-Theistically based moral/ethical system. All such systems are groundless and their rules therefore arbitrary and tyrannical (since they are imposed for no reason). As atheists are fond of pointing out, "just because there is no G-d doesn't mean there are no rules." So the jails are still full and people are still being fried in the electric chair or gassed in the chamber--but for no reason. This being the case, how does the mere non-existence of G-d make all this more palatable to you? Obviously it is not G-d's rules but His Person you object to. And this means you must base all your moral/ethical beliefs on a non-Theistic basis, which is the very heart of Communism (and Jacobinism, and scientific racialism and collectivism and Randianism etc.). Marxism-Leninism was never anything but a symptom. It has always been non-Theistically based moral/ethical systems that constitute the disease.
Either your Jewish G-d and His Torah can withstand ridicule by non-believers or he can't. Your threatening others isn't an indication of His strength, is it?
Let me try to explain this so you can understand.
"Anti-Semitism" is regarded as a heinous sin of which no one wants to be accused. Yet at the same time, no one seems to have the slightest fear of blaspheming the Jewish G-d.
Now may I ask why attacks on Jewish noses or bankers is so much worse (or so much more anti-Jewish) than attacks on the Jewish G-d? Hmmm? It's almost against the law to attack "Jewish noses." Qal vachomer, attacks on the Jewish G-d deserve that much the more legal penalty, correct?
In case you think that attacks on "Jewish noses" is more indicative of actual physical danger to Jews, kindly allow me to enlighten you about something--when the Nazis (mach shemam!) shoved their victims into the gas chambers or mowed them down over the graves they had forced them to dig, they didn't ask them about their noses. They said "Where is your G-d now???"
Food for thought, I'd say.
I always thought of it more as backward, atheist bureaucrat. Not to say that a bureaucrat us necessarily and atheist but because bureaucrats are often the means of moving forward atheism.
Have you gone through the Truth Project? I work at Focus, and have gone through it, and own a copy of it. Very helpful information....
I do know about the Copernican Principle being far more broad than "The Sun doesn't go around the Earth," but I pointed out what I did to show that the original Copernican Principle is just hunky-dory. That the broader sense of the principle espoused by some is adjudged incorrect simply on the basis that the condition of the Earth is rare (which is the central tenet of "The Privileged Planet") does not follow logically. The odds are stacked insanely against someone winning the lottery, but that is no scientific basis to anoint the next MegaMillions winner as the Second Coming.
An irrelevant point is an irrelevant point whether you think the question is legitimate or not. Maybe you confuse Christian eschatology with hatred? Thinking someone is in danger and telling them so isn't hating them as you seem to be implying. Do rescue workers hate the people they are trying to rescue? (If they did, would they bother with the rescue?) Do the people who run AA meetings hate alcoholics?
You seem to be trying to ascribe to us a hate that just isn't there. That's why it's a red herring.
Hitchens was pointing to the fact that the same Christians that were marching with Jews and Buddhists also believe those Jews and Buddhists are going to Hell if they don't accept Jesus.
I understood exactly what Hitchens meant, I've heard this complaint over and over and over again. And my answer to that is SO WHAT?
If I as a Christian treat you well and am frequently -- as in said case of the Buddhists/Jews/Christians marching together -- willing to work with you on common ground, or maybe babysit your kids while you're gone, call the cops if I see someone burglarizing your home, take you in and clothe you and feed you when your house is destroyed by storm or earthquake, look after you when you're sick, etc., etc., why does it matter so much to you what I think will happen to you -- assuming all us theists are wrong -- after you cease to exist?
What kind of vanity is this that you require everyone to think that everything about you is wonderful and perfect -- even in your non-existent afterlife -- or you're permanently offended? If you're right, what we think about your future past the grave will have zero effect on you, so if we treat you well and show you love while you're here, what more can you ask? Why can't you and Mr. Hitchens just be secure in your own non-faith and just write us off as well-meaning eccentrics and love us anyway instead of freaking out over something you believe won't affect you anyway?
Some folks have been a little snippy but I don't think it's any better to hide our faith and never defend it.
It's better to be kind and lead by example, especially in instances like this.
I don't quite understand -- all we can do in here is put down words to the best of our ability. No-one in this forum can see me leading by example, they can see only my words. While on the other hand, if I remain always and entirely silent in the face of criticism, folks who are watching and may be sitting on the fence may conclude that since I said nothing, maybe the atheists are right after all. Also, Jesus was not always gentle with critics either -- read Matthew 23.
You can't argue someone into believing the way you believe.
As a general proposition, that's not true. If you make a cogent case and your opponent is willing to hear you, you can often persuade someone to your point of view. If that was not so, all forums and blogs and discussions about any disagreement about anything would be futile and people would have long ceased talking to each other except to say hello and pass the salt.
And besides, such discussions are not always just for the folks involved in the discussion -- there is almost always someone watching and listening.
BUT...in the case of Christianity, it is true. The only thing that turns a non-believer into a believer is a direct encounter with the risen Lord, not sheer force of argument. At best, believers can only pave the way in someone's mind for that encounter to take place. But one of the ways to do that is to gently but directly answer critics and not be afraid they'll think we're mean.
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There are many shades of blue in the sadness rainbow. Sometimes, it's characterized by a minor disappointment. Other times, it's full-blown grief.
So far in 2014, MMA has seen sad stories of every stripe, from disappointments in the cage to genuine human tragedies outside it. MMA is just kind of like that. There's a high and constant potential for sadness in all its major and minor manifestations.
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The Vail Jazz Festival is a summer long celebration of jazz with indoor and outdoor concerts presented throughout the summer in the beautiful mountain resort of Vail Colorado. From the free concert series at the Vail Farmers' Market, to the free series in Vail Square, Lionshead, Vail, Colorado, our concerts feature the finest musicians and great music in stunning settings. The Vail Jazz Party is in its 16th year, celebrating the world's finest jazz musicians over five nights and four days; over 24 hours of jazz. So whether you are a casual jazz listener or the most avid jazz fan, the Vail Jazz Festival shares the cool sounds of jazz all summer long in Colorado.
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July 30, 2005
That's my Matsui
I, through the grace of Ari and joined by Peter, watched the Yankees defeat the Angels today. We got sunburns and almost died of heatstroke because, unlike fake Yankee fans who went home when the Yankees were down, we stayed until the end and got to see Hideki Matsui hit a double to win the game. I wore my Matsui shirt home prouder than ever.
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Activists are planning a training session on how to stop a giant iron mine in far northwestern Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday a group of 80 to 90 activists are planning to gather in the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest north of Wausau to learn "peaceful resistance techniques."
The training session is expected to begin Friday and end on Monday. An online agenda calls for sessions on blockades, climbing, protesters rights and a presentation from the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, who adamantly oppose the mine.
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Steiner Elementary School was locked down Wednesday for 20 minutes after a man walked into the secretary's office and stole her purse, according to Portales police.
Police Capt. Lonnie Berry said around 9:30 a.m., a man entered the school when the secretary wasn't in her office.
"The guy walked around and stole the secretary's purse out from under her desk," Berry said. "He walked in and noticed that she was gone. The secretary returned and found him. She and another employee of the school chased the purse snatcher out."
Berry said the school was locked down as a security precaution to make sure the man wasn't still in the school.
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Crane Merchandising Systems, a leading provider of technologically advanced, automatic vending equipment relies on SanDisk® to help turn collected data into actionable business information.
Crane Merchandising Systems is a leading provider of high quality, technologically advanced automatic merchandising equipment and payment systems utilizing integrated vending management software and wireless communication technology with its full line of vending equipment.
Randy Cottingham, Network Services Manager for Crane Merchandising has 15+ years as an IT professional with a focus on storage and virtualization technologies for the past 10 years. Randy and his team track emerging technologies that enhance vending operations and the user experience to deliver Crane's uncompromising commitment to innovation and engagement.
In the emerging trend of the "Internet of Things," intelligent devices collect data and communicate it automatically, to provide richer, more timely data, enabling applications and processes that improve business performance. But this means that many of today's data centers receive large amounts of data constantly–data that must be readily available for analysis and action. Behind the Internet of Things lies the burgeoning explosion in data storage needs.
Crane Merchandising's vending machines are equipped with monitoring software and wireless communications, to report activity back to the company's five globally distributed data centers. Crane aggregates data from across its network to generate reports for the company's customers, to optimize route scheduling and service needs, maximizing efficiency and product availability. Because the reports communicate the most up-to- date payment and inventory information, it's critical to the business that reports be generated and delivered to customers several times per day.
Customers' analytics reports are generated from a 1TB MS-SQL database, accessed by servers on virtual machines hosted on VMware® vSphere® hypervisor. The company's business operations require maximum performance from its back end systems, but storage I/O latency presented a significant problem. Generating a single, routine report from the large amount of data typically required more than 20 minutes. One employee's entire day would be consumed simply collecting and dispatching the reports for the company's customers.
Randy and his team investigated adding memory to the servers to reduce latency, but this was very expensive; and because additional memory doesn't fundamentally address storage bottlenecks in VMware environments, more memory only increased performance by about 20%. Randy tested server-side solid- state caching solutions from different vendors, but one proved too expensive and another was incompatible with the storage in Crane's IT environment. Randy found FlashSoft was cost-effective and compatible with his environment. When Randy evaluated FlashSoft for VMware vSphere with a standard Intel® 250 GB SSD he saw an immediate improvement.
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Randy found that he could tune FlashSoft for optimal performance with his SSD and data workload, so reports that previously took 20 minutes are completed in only 10-11 minutes.
The I/O latency of the reporting application was reduced and overall VMware performance on his servers was improved by as much as 45%. Randy and his team also noted that FlashSoft software moved 90% of their I/O workload off their existing storage system and onto the server-side SSD. This enabled Randy to get the benefits of flash performance, while continuing to use his existing storage infrastructure. "I wasn't forced to upgrade my storage which would have been an expensive undertaking," states Randy.
Given his experience with storage and virtualization, Randy noticed other advantages in FlashSoft for VMware vSphere. Because FlashSoft does not require proprietary SSD controller software, Randy knew it would work with the solid-state devices he chose to deploy. Unlike other solutions Randy evaluated, FlashSoft does not require modifications of vmdk files or the config file of the host. This means that Randy could continue to manage his VMs the way he always had – vMotion and other VMware capabilities work just as they should. FlashSoft fit easily into Randy's VMware deployment process, so he can continue to use the same template across all the hosts throughout his five data centers across the US and internationally. "I don't have a large team, so I need a 'set and forget' solution; we don't have time to fuss with it. FlashSoft installs and just works; if it required overhead I wouldn't use it," said Randy.
FlashSoft software eliminated storage I/O latency for its reporting applications, enabling more efficient processing of large amounts of data; so Crane employees could deliver critical information to the company's customers more efficiently, without an expensive overhaul of the storage infrastructure.
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In today's economy, information is the key to efficiency and business value. Increasingly that information comes from enormous amounts of data generated by the machines we use every day. But for the data to become useful business information, it must be aggregated, analyzed and reported. As the volume of data grows and time-to-decision shrinks, storage bottlenecks must not get in the way. FlashSoft software enables the IT infrastructure performance improvements and storage efficiencies necessary to keep the lifeblood of information flowing freely.
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Dr. Mona Chitre, an adjunct faculty member in the Wegmans School of Pharmacy, was recently promoted to vice president of pharmacy management at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.
Chitre's primary responsibilities include clinical and operational oversight of all aspects of Excellus BCBS' pharmacy program, which spends $1 billion annually on members' prescription medication. She will also handle clinical program development, formulary and medical management, employer group support, and vendor management.
She has worked at Excellus BCBS for more than 12 years, and most recently served as director of clinical services, strategy, and policy. Chitre earned her undergraduate and doctoral degrees in pharmacy from Rutgers University, and did her primary care residency with the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System in Buffalo. She was one of the first certified geriatric pharmacists in New York State.
Chitre has published several papers and abstracts in scientific journals on topics including diabetes, infectious disease, managed care trends, and medication therapy management.
In addition, Chitre is a member of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, serves on the board of directors for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Rochester, and volunteers with the Victor Central School District.
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September 30, 2006
Weekends are clearly made for trivial blogging
In a lot of ways, I'm a total girlie girl. I like having painted nails, wearing skirts, rocking the high heels. But upon closer inspection, you'd learn that I choose my manicurist based on her speed, find skirts easier, and more comfortable, to wear than pants and my high heels are Aerosoles–it's practically cheating.
One thing that I can never seem to girl up for is the handbag obsession. I have three hand bags in my rotation.
There is the black Gucci bag that I wear to work. My brother bought it for me in Italy three years ago (that's like 15 years in the lifespan of other clothing items) particularly because he felt I lacked a good bag.
Then there's a velvet Prada bag that has had the straps fixed and refixed so often because it too is something like 3-4 years old.
Finally, my favorite bag: a small white one with Billie Holiday's face on it. I love it, despite the fact that it fits hardly anything, certainly not my blackberry AND my cell phone, because it's so different and I've never seen another person carrying it.
Anyway, it's time for a new bag and I've been surfing EBAY. I just can't do the typical Christian Dior saddlebag or the cheesy Louis Vuitton pochette. I likely wouldn't want a Balenciaga, even if I could afford it, because everyone and their mother has one (although I've never seen anyone carry one like this).
So, ladies reading Alarming News, what do you recommend? I like simple, black, without the designer name all over it and it can't be worn by every third girl on the upper east side of Manhattan. Whattya got?
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HA! right up my alley. hobo, hobo, hobo all the way. they have the loveliest interiors and the greatest feel to their leathers. and i wouldn't recommended it if i didn't think their stuff was just as much "karol" as "candy girl." they're high -quality and hip without being too, i don't know, standard designer-y.
you can find them in boutiques and nordstrom's; not sure about saks.
here's their site:
i'm obsessed with the 'madeleine' clutch:
and i just got my new hobo wallet (last one is getting icky after being tossed around for two years) from onlineshoes.com, which does free shipping:
good luck, darling!! and whatever you do, don't dare dignify dooney & burke.
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My favorite bag was a Ballys. Black, long shoulder strap, medium size, textured leather so scratches do not show. Alas, they no longer make the style. I also liked their faux crocadile leather pumps in different colors. Conservative and comfortable and wouldn't be destroyed in 90 days. (I'm tough on shoes.)Posted by: jane at September 30, 2006 at 6:11 pm
I am the very poorest excuse for a girl in this sense. I seriously got a meme last week that called for me to dump out my purse and blog the contents. I had to pass. I don't even carry a purse anymore. I have a wallet, but I usually just carry an ID and a credit card in my back pocket and lip gloss in the front.
That being said, I love for other people to carry cute bags. I just have never been able to do it. I bought a friend of mine the Balenciaga motorcycle bag you linked as a wedding present, and she LOVES it. In fact, it was so gorgeous, it almost turned me into a purse girl. Almost.
It has a very unprissy feel, lots of room, but it's still beautiful. Of course, she lives in ATL, so not that many people have one of them. The story may be different for you.
'Fraid I'm too out of the girly girl game to helpfully comment on this, but what the hell. I carry a black leather Kenneth Cole my sister gave me as a hand-me-up. i don't know how old it is, but it looks good and is functional–a lot like what jane just described above. Have fun shopping!Posted by: Anwyn at September 30, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Normally, I don't like logos all over bags, though the Coach signature look enough like a regular pattern that it doesn't look like I'm saying, "Look, I can buy designer!" And Coach's plain leather bags are also really cute.Posted by: Kazmin at September 30, 2006 at 8:00 pm
A laugh for Mary Katharine–until I had my son and started carrying my wallet in his diaper bag, I just carried the wallet and my keys. And when I was going somewhere I didn't want to take the wallet, I was an ID-back pocket, Chapstick-front pocket girl myself.
I wouldn't be carrying one now had my sister not given me hers, and I wouldn't remotely care what brand it is as long as it fit my stuff and looked okay.
I know this is a chick thread, but I had no idea girls 'wear' handbags. I thought you 'carried' them.Posted by: Barry at October 1, 2006 at 11:50 am
I didn't know girls 'wear' handbags. When did you stop 'carrying' them? And are they still full of way too much extra 'stuff'?Posted by: Barry at October 1, 2006 at 11:51 am
There is a saying from ancient Mesopotamia:
"It's just my old bag, dad!"
As a professional desigher, I'm getting so fed up every workday with watching what I select and demonstrating impeccable taste for money, I make a point do not look at the labels when shopping for clothes and accessories.
All I know about
-my black "suit" bag is that it is Italian;
-my yellow summer clutch is that I bought it for peanuts at French accessories place on 32nd street that was going out of business
-my red-and-black "vampire" evening purse was acquired at Duffy's for mere $50, and you would never believe how much it can hold
-any formal "legal paper-size" bags i might need for carrying work-related printed materials I successfully substitute with cotton trophy bags presented to me by my carpet and furniture vendors.
Oh, and another thing – I would never buy a bag with so many unnecessary pockets, zippers and latches that it resembles a safari jacket; be it Dior, Vuitton or Couch.
I love love Lucky brand bags. Check out this black suede number.
tod's. i am a huge huge fan of their bags, even though they are ridiculously expensive, but i think given their quality and low-key look are worth every penny. it's also not a bag everyone else is sporting.Posted by: writersbloc gal at October 3, 2006 at 4:51 pm
I love to ride on bike then read this, and you?
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intro to my first "blog". wanted to find info about "hobo international wallets". ordered a clutch from nordstrom and may prefer a regular old wallet instead. anyone know if hobo even makes the regular wallet or just the clutch? great leather and very affordable by the way.Posted by: Linda Jean at October 25, 2006 at 9:53 am


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Note that there probably will not be more updates to Vocoditor, as I think it's a clumsy program and other programs have become more usable than this. I recommend EasyTAG and amaroK which have become the ultimate tagging and player software combination in my opinion - amaroK alone is a great tagger and EasyTAG sweeps the floor with the rest of the features, like renaming. - w4, 2005-10-09
Guarantee: Vocoditor is only good for editing Ogg/Vorbis file comments. It won't make coffee.
Vocoditor is a quick-and-dirty Ogg/Vorbis file comment editor. It was written in Perl, and uses vorbiscomment tool to read and write the actual values. The user interface has been made using Glade UI builder and Perl-GTK+.
I love Ogg/Vorbis. One of the reasons was that the comment format it provides is vastly superior compared to ID3 tags, which were essentially a hack with severe limitations and support woes. Most players I've seen still seem to use ID3 v1 tags. Pathetic. Ogg/Vorbis 1.0beta4 came and changed all that. But, my Player of Choice, XMMS, doesn't allow all Vorbis tags to be edited too detailedly... and it screws up UTF-8 in most heinous way imaginable!
Vocoditor version 1.1.1 (released 2002-11-06) is an ItWorksForMe™ release. It seems to work nicely. It supports all fields specified in Ogg/Vorbis documentation. It does not, however, support custom tags, and will happily ignore all custom tags! (What you see is what the file will have!)
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Gtk::GladeXML module. I'm not sure where you can get it
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There are some astounding statistics from the city of Amarillo that show that the bunch who inhabit Amarillo City Hall haven't the guts to rein in the nitwits who are wasting so much water.
Sixty-five million gallons is roughly 325 gallons per day for each man, woman and child in the city. That would be incredible, even if we had surplus water.
How does your city compare? What do these wastrels think their grandchildren are going to think of them when our meager supply of water is gone?
We have gone from spring-fed streams to dry wells in my lifetime. The freak flood that filled Lake Meredith may never occur again.
It is time for each individual to do what is correct, and not wait for God or elected officials to do it for you.
For some statistics, go to http://water.amarillo.gov/index.php?page_id=20.
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With the 2010 Fifa World Cup only eight months away, the tournament's organising committee has invited the media to register for accreditation, a process that will run from 5 December to 31 January 2010.
The newly launched African Media Hub, located in Johannesburg, aims to boost the international profile of African arts and culture while providing a welcoming space for media professionals to work and network.
South African children are learning early about the benefits of saving electricity, and having fun at the same time, thanks to a new internet- and mobile-based game distributed by the national Department of Energy.
The upcoming fourth annual 2010 National Communications Partnership Conference is set to generate up to three integrated communication campaigns in which all stakeholders in the 2010 Fifa World Cup, including sponsors, host cities and the government, can easily and effectively participate.
The world needs to start seeing Africa, and South Africa, as a place of many shades, of many contradictions, of many triumphs and many failures. Like Europe, like any other place on earth, writes Justice Malala.


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When you think of playing hockey in the arcade - the Enforcer is the table you will remember. Full aluminum rails for the quickest rebound-dual blower motors for real "air" hockey puck speed and extra large framing make this table the most well built table in its class. The Extreme Hockey blind adds another layer of fun to the game with easy removal for standard play. Extreme Hockey is a simple yet slick way to speed up standard table hockey. An adjustable visual barrier hides your shots from your opponent until the last second making it a faster and more challenging game. The lower the Extreme blind is positioned the less time you have to react and the faster the game plays.
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