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About the Author: Robert Sauers serves at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A large crowd of cricket enthusiasts watched today as Finance Minister Mohammad Omer Zakhiwal and United States Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry laid foundation stones to inaugurate the renovation of the Kabul National Cricket Stadium.
Because of the national team's exceptional success in many international tournaments, cricket in Afghanistan is gaining popularity. The growing number of players includes not only men, but women as well. More than 100 young women are currently playing cricket in Kabul and the Afghanistan Cricket Board is about to create a National Women's Cricket Team for the 2011 Asian Elite Cup Tournament in February 2011.
"Cricket in Afghanistan is more than a game. It is a means for bringing Afghan youth from different backgrounds together. It has become a source of pride for ordinary Afghans and an example of their resolve and determination. It is a game that can contribute positively to peace and stability in our country. That is why, today, we are so very grateful to USAID in supporting the construction of the Kabul National Cricket Stadium," said Minister Zakhiwal. Minister Zakhiwal is also the Chairman of the Afghan Cricket Board.
With an estimated completion in July 2011, the renovation will include a new boundary wall, pitch, sprinkler system, and seating. The renovated stadium will serve as the main hub for hosting both domestic and international events and will accommodate more than 6,000 cricket fans. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the project will employ labor-intensive construction methods to provide short-term employment for unemployed Afghans.
"I am honored and proud to be part of this project that will rehabilitate this cricket stadium and provide a safe venue in which Afghan youth and the Afghan National Team can play for years to come," said Ambassador Eikenberry. "I am looking forward to working together on future projects that enhance the lives of Afghanistan's young people through sport."
This project is an excellent opportunity for the governments of Afghanistan and the United States to work closely together to meet the needs of Afghans, especially youth. This project will be implemented under USAID's Community Development Program (CDP) with additional support from the Local Governance and Community Development (LGCD) project. These USAID projects are designed to assist the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to extend its reach into unstable areas, engage at-risk populations, create an environment that encourages local communities to take an active role in their own stability and development, and address the underlying causes of instability.
You can find photographs of the event here.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
North Korea...
Even if all the hype and consider the conditions in North Korea, South Korea, responding to fire blows open and impossible to repair the damage that is considered offensive. Humanitarian aid for North Korea claims, but support for an unconditional dialogue to the contrary. Primary source of support for people starving in North Korea a precondition for the denuclearization of North Korea's openness and think positive.
About the person you choose to believe that an attack is possible. Conversations with the people who say that we bear the thought impossible to exchange. The best of condolence, the offender went to a direct attack I think.
A difficult story, but if possible the unification of the peninsula to take this opportunity also for the thoughtful discussions I think we should plan. War by other means not think it's possible to attack. China also does not think the absolute opposite is the.
In this situation, does not oppose an attack on North Korea.
(Provocation by North Korea is considered a prerequisite.)
Palgye in South Korea writes:
I do not know about the world economy, Asia is responsible for the economic recovery, I think one of the largest spirit by nature. Many internal problems exist, but I do not think the reality is impossible to ignore. However, one problem that is important in Asia, is not clear about the territorial dispute around the conflict as an obstacle to cooperation for development is likely to be big. Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, pilripindeung .... However, the North does not adequately respond to fire, completely change the power structure is likely to be big. Everything about each other's military strength and willingness to defend the territory and the opportunity to wait for the check, do not adequately respond in the camp of democracy (the U.S.), to consider the opportunity to take bold action is likely to be big. Features of this incident and similar incidents in the past, and perhaps South Korea has been linked with the specific powers suspect is likely. I think we should choose. Prevent the wrong choice, is thought to take preventive measures. And, I go to Seoul .- perhaps, unfriendly to the United States, go to a concert of Baek -Gi Wan.
How dirty is too mean and think. Apart from South Korea's economy and democracy in Burma would like to contribute to the development will crave.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Think about how many times you have, Yeonpyeongdo shelling incident and planned to do stonning people, the bombing of North Korea is thought to be
Palgye in South Korea writes:
I went to Seoul, while going home. People I thought - I think my predictions were completely wrong. Did not predict who think they have shown interest to me.
Today, Sharp the commander, saw the news Yeonpyeongdo visit. That's about the courage ...
Ashim K.C. in India writes:
As soon as foundation is laid, Afghanistan wins the Asiad cricket title...good omens for great things to come...
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Before talking about this tragedy, the political situation in North Korea and I think we should talk. No, that previously, the North is really heading in the bombardment of the global economy - in particular, the stock market - the recovery is hated in the North made the bombardment. (In the past, I can develop a nuclear North Korea for humanitarian aid argued for.) Moreover, civilians die, their house was burned down, residents refused to return to the island and permanent residence on the land that the government is demanding. Most elderly people who lived on the island for a long time ...
North Korea's political situation, unprecedented in the history of the third hereditary efforts to stabilize wrists, but the failure of a new monetary system and the distribution of communist dictatorship, not a complete failure of the economy, the expected collapse of the regime, but with the help of China, barely was maintained through them, the backlash against the hereditary system is expected, political and economic fields, is all I think it was a difficult situation.
Then, Korea (South) compared to the situation in North Korea did much good? The economy, quite good in number, but only for the rich and the vested interests in the allocation of centralized economic performance, economic and social stratification intensified, so that time, regular workers in the field of labor and thought that the deepening of the conflict. In addition, the cost to the social, housing and home mortgage loans to the near lack of collateral, training costs and continued increases in medical costs to cover the increased difficulty of social disadvantaged, ...... These issues of social problems thought to be disadvantaged, but, due to the collapse of the middle class, to the emergence of social problems is thought to have been.
Still, sticking to the global economic crisis, it said I could talk about, but politically and morally incumbent government had laws on the substantial issues, but largely the opposition of irregularities brought to light for a small bribe to think that. Regime against civilians have occurred since the initial eavesdropping and surveillance that violate the law, turning out - the Blue House to the Prime Minister provided the other person is registered in the name of the illegal cell phone (used by criminals to do in Korea), etc., WERE small practices, which prevent the opposition from prosecutors started an investigation for corruption, and then again I expect lawmakers in Congress to start fighting among, this time, the government and the ruling party, a significant political blow to the president was expected to ,
South Korea and North Korea from the traditional, if politically difficult, to help each other to create a strong case - primarily, related to national security, under a strong media attention, making the case - to maintain the regime, all interested to focus on the security, bury their misdeeds, how to achieve their goals was maintained, so also is the case, personally, I think personally. And, "S" company?
Without North Korea's artillery, a few big politicians and businesses in our memories away, to spend the winter in jail, I was thinking, too exquisite timing, I think their sins are buried. To survive a difficult situation, sometimes you need a play, but civilians and soldiers (the army in Korea is still a mask is believed that the poor and powerless people.) Died, I do not know why. Now, Korea is the pretext of economic crisis gave many restrictions on the civilian population, which was based on economic growth, it needs an allocation, but the government and parliament, the rich are still under their mokmaneul grabs As in the Allocation is considered stingy. Caused to be expressed anger at the moment of the bombardment of North Korea and South Korea's government promised to you, and you are trying to overcome their crisis does not play?
Palgye in South Korea writes:
I've nothing was meant to, a person would view any misunderstanding
North Korea to sincerely apologize sure, Or, sure an apology because of the size of an aircraft carrier, It is hard, but the right decision. Yeonpyeongdo civilian deaths in China and North Korea and they both apologized for the destruction of the house Mr. President Barack Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton is due to the political, I think.
Turkey, SK Construction in Turkey 698.5 million euros (1.1 trillion won), the size of the power plant construction project contract announced on May 29. National pleasure, but my idea for a few years ago, SK, if you meet someone, to call someone and make junukdeulge me, it's like my best play, while the media seems to have disturbed me the feeling that the intelligent, Personally, I do not think is good news. Strangely, the more difficult during times me and befriended me in front of the camera and trying to look like a think. Personal opinion is, and personally I think it is strung. sorry.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Is an industrial city of Ulsan, Korea. Hyundai Motors is working in a temporary strike olryeotgi news a few times on facebook, I've tried them profusely overshooting.I do not think that is a big meaning. Or never met them or not, the once ... In Seoul, my personal thought, but a lot of people are thought to have been exposed. just exposed...


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Theres one person who doesnt want to hear anything about Anderson Silva vs. Georges St-Pierre and that person is Georges St-Pierre.
The UFCs reigning welterweight champion was in Toronto on Tuesday for a press conference promoting UFC 129 and his upcoming title fight against No. 1 contender Jake Shields. The first question fired his way pertained to a super fight against fellow pound-for-pound contender Anderson Silva. The two are widely regarded as the top pound-for-pound mixed martial artists in the world, although people argue who sits at the top.
St-Pierre, who has stated in the past that if he faces Silva he would have to make an adjustment that would likely see him move to middleweight permanently, had other things on his mind than a fight against the UFCs middleweight champion.
I dont even think about this right now. I never thought about it. I always live in the present moment, and my biggest problem is Jake Shields, St-Pierre answered when talking about a fight with Silva. It would be foolish for me to look past Jake Shields. He poses the biggest threat to my title. Hes a very well rounded fighter, and the UFC brought him in, and Im glad they did because hes the No. 1 guy for the welterweight title.
As a champion, Im a proud champion, and I want to fight the best guys. Im going to fight Jake Shields, and Im happy to do so.
Shields has been almost in this exact spot before. When he was entering the final fight on his Strikeforce contract, the promotion matched him up against Dan Henderson at 185 pounds. Almost everyone thought the Cesar Gracie trained fighter was being led to slaughter.
Shields of course had other ideas, dominating Henderson en route to a unanimous decision win.
Maybe a little, but not really, Shields answered when asked if he felt disrespected by all the GSP vs. Silva talk. Theyve both been so dominant in the UFC the last few years, people are talking about it, but I think its a big mistake to overlook me cause I plan on coming out there and spoiling that fight.
Even though Shields has been on a longer winning streak than Anderson Silva over the last few years, with wins over opponents like Carlos Condit, Yushin Okami, Jason Mayhem Miller, and Dan Henderson, his name is slow to come up when talking about the best fighters in the sport. If there is a definition of underrated in the world of mixed martial arts, Jake Shields is the poster boy.
I love this role. I love getting looked past, same as Dan Henderson. Everybodys talking about Henderson, the next champ, Strikeforce was trying to throw me out on a loss, but I definitely had different plans, Shields commented. Everyones talking about GSP this, and GSP that, which I do think hes a phenomenal fighter and deserves all this, but I plan on going out there and dethroning his title run.
UFC President Dana White is one person that believes in Shields. He knows that the former Strikeforce middleweight champion is as dangerous as they come. There are no doubts in Whites mind that playing spoiler for the big GSP vs. Silva fight is a great motivator for Shields.
People have been talking about this super fight between (St-Pierre and Silva) forever, and one of the things that Ive always said is its a fantasy fight right now. Half of its over, (Silva) just beat Vitor Belfort. That was a very dangerous fight, and now Georges St-Pierres in a very dangerous fight up here in Canada. (Shields) is so stealth, its unbelievable, but thats how hes been his whole career, White said on Tuesday.
The oddsmakers made this fight six-to-one in Las Vegas. Let me tell you what, people have been counting this kid out forever, and Ill admit, me too. He just fought Dan Henderson at 185 pounds and anybodys who ever covered mixed martial arts in this room, and probably even his training camp, didnt think he was going to win that fight. Not only did he win that fight, he dominated Dan Henderson, and beat him.
White was quick to say following UFC 126 that if everything works out, he will match St-Pierre against Silva for his next fight, but thats a big if because Shields is still standing in his way.
Georges has to get through this fight first before we can even talk about an Anderson Silva fight, White said.
One match-up that we wont see when St-Pierre vs. Shields is over, is Shields moving back up to middleweight to challenge Silva. While Shields has said in the past that he would welcome a chance to face the UFCs best middleweight, White thinks that only a GSP vs. Silva fight would make sense at this time.
Jake has been on this run and hes fought at 185 pounds, too, and been dominant there. But the thing is the reason this Anderson Silva/Georges St-Pierre fight makes so much sense is because these two have been consistently fighting in the UFC, and this is more of a legacy super fight, White explained. People argue over who the pound-for-pound best in the world is. Is it GSP? Is it Anderson Silva? If he beats Jake Shields, (Anderson) just beat Vitor, theyve cleaned out an entire division over the last several years and the fight makes sense.
Its like the pound-for-pound championship.
The talk about St-Pierre vs. Silva wont stop just because UFC 129 is around the corner. But if Jake Shields is looking for bulletin board material as he prepares for his title shot on April 30, all the chatter will definitely give him something to hang up.
The thread title is deceiving. It makes it sound like GSP doesn't want to fight Silva at all. He's merely talking about not overlooking Shields.
Come on Miss Foxy that does not mean Georges doesn't want the fight?
All fighters say the same thing when asked about a future fight.
Sorry for making ya guys read... And consider the source . Me!!
Miss Foxy just wanted us to go there.
I actually PM'd a mod to ask to change the title thread. I should remember we are all friends and my attacks on Georges are offensive. Sorry guys..
Meh, attack away. I certainly take anything GSP related that you post with a grain of salt, as I'm sure you must do with the BJ haters.
My son made this for me:
haha .. what was the original thread title?
gsp should focus on shields, beat him and then beat anderson ..
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Shari L. Cave
BROCTON – Shari L. Cave, 48, of Brocton passed away June 7, 2013 at her home after a lengthy illness.
Born September 18, 1964 in Salamanca, NY she was a life member of Sheridan VFW Auxiliary Post 5390, Auxiliary member of Brocton American Legion Post 434, the Conservation Club and Dom Polski Polish Home.
Survivors include her husband Michael P. Cave and her son Joseph (Nola) Santiago, both of Brocton. Her father Lloyd E. (Nancy) Brown of Little Valley and brothers Randy (Brenda) Brown, William (Barb) Brown and Steve Brown. Shari is also survived by six grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her mother, Hazel L. Brown and one brother, Roy Allen Brown and both paternal and maternal grandparents.
She loved to play on the computer, golfing, taking pride in her property, hunting and the outdoors. She loved spending time with family and friends, Jan Davis, Lori Foster, Sue Hoffman and Linda Siragusa.
A memorial service is to be scheduled at a later date. The family asks that any donations or memorials be made to Chautauqua County Hospice and Palliative Care.


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|NIGHT MONITOR (S551) (Two Part-Time Positions Available)
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Wayland Baptist University - San Antonio Campus
Lackland AFB
Site Coordinator
The Night (Building) Monitor serves as duty monitor for all facilities used by Wayland Baptist University for weeknight and weekend classes on Lackland Air Force Base.
1. Arrive at site by 5:30 pm in order to begin unlocking classrooms and inspecting for readiness for 6:00 pm classes.
2. Unlock classroom doors, turn on lights and inspect classrooms to insure they are ready for class (clear trash from tables and floor, erase boards, straighten tables and chairs)
3. Set-up all audio-visual equipment, computers, overhead projectors, etc.
4. Insure instructors have all of the necessary equipment.
5. Assist students and instructors in locating classrooms.
6. Check ID's at entry during appropriate periods.
7. Monitor security during class.
8. Secure classrooms when classes are over.
9. Make a security, safety and fire check each hour of all pertinent classrooms in the building while classes are in session.
10. Be prepared to respond appropriately to emergencies. During severe weather alerts, keep instructors informed and, using best judgment, coordinate with instructors regarding class dismissals. Under emergency situations, make sure all individuals vacate to designated rooms. Inform all school representatives of early dismissals or other emergencies.
11. Insure that students in each classroom are in compliance with the Lackland policies regarding facility use.
12. Ensure furniture is restored in classrooms at end of class.
13. Conduct a security check of all buildings, including all offices, classrooms and restrooms to verify that they are vacant, following the end of class sessions.
14. Record activities as required prior to departing.
Other duties to be performed:
1. At all times the monitor will represent the school in a professional and courteous manner and assist instructors and students in any reasonable manner.
2. Coordinate any expected absences and time sheets with site coordinator.
3. Advise site coordinator of any defective equipment, lights not working, fire hazards, plumbing problems, etc.
The above statements are not a complete list of all responsibilities and duties performed by employees in this job. Employee may perform other related duties as assigned by the Site Coordinator.
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|Wayland Baptist University is a four-year liberal arts university. The institution is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. The Wayland Baptist University System is comprised of the Plainview campus, which is predominately a residential campus, twelve external campuses, and the Virtual Campus offering courses in a broad range of academic areas.
Applications may be submitted online or you may download it from the top of this web page by clicking on Application for Employment.
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Walcott a doubt for Spurs clash
Arsenal forward Theo Walcott faces a fitness test ahead of Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with north-London rivals Tottenham at Emirates Stadium.
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The 23-year-old pulled out of the England squad for the midweek friendly in Sweden after suffering an injury to his buttock muscles in last week's 3-3 draw against Fulham.
Arsenal will also assess goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who could be back in the side for the first time since September after recovering from an ankle problem, while midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is another who will be monitored.
Manager Arsene Wenger said on the club's official website, www.arsenal.com: "They all have a chance to be in the squad.
"Walcott came off against Fulham and will have a test, so will Szczesny."
Wenger, though, revealed there were concerns over whether to throw Bacary Sagna into action once again following the France full-back's return from a broken leg.
He added: "It is just for general fatigue. Sagna has played three games quickly, but before that he didn't play for six months."
Midfielder Jack Wilshere should come back into the side after he was suspended for the Fulham game, provided he shows no ill effects from his England appearance in Stockholm, where full-back Carl Jenkinson made his debut, also as a second-half substitute.
Wenger will be hoping his jet-setting squad show few signs of wear and tear from this week's travels, which included a trip to Panama for Santi Cazorla, who was not used by Spain.
"I believe he didn't need games," Wenger told Arsenal Player. "He was overloaded with games so on that front I was happy that he got a little breather.
"It is not a complete breather because 20 hours travelling is of course not what we want. It's the advantage and the disadvantage of being called up in a squad. At least he didn't get injured and hopefully will recover before Saturday."
Arsenal slipped 11 points behind Premier League leaders Manchester United last weekend, as the ability of Wenger's squad to mount a serious title challenge was again brought into question.
Chief executive Ivan Gazidis maintains the often-criticised shrewd financial management of the Gunners will soon show rewards on the pitch rather than just the balance sheet.
He told BBC Sport: "We are at the stage where some of the commercial deals that were tied into the construction of the stadium, and enabled us to take that first big step, will be renegotiated.
"When that happens, we will take the second big step forward and that will be comparable in magnitude to moving to the stadium itself.
"At times it's been a challenging project, but we will have catapulted ourselves into the elite clubs on the European scale and that, for us, has been what the last 10 years has been about.
"Very clearly, it will push the club forward and put us into the top five clubs in the world in revenue terms, which will be a fantastic position to be in."
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During the month of March, de Young Artist Fellows Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth exhibit their triptypch of tapestries, The Conflicts, which explores and illustrates the fundamental themes of conflict in literature. Their final piece, created during their yearlong fellowship at the museum, addresses the theme of "Human vs Him/Herself" by focusing on how human evolution has been driven by a combination of cooperation and competition in the face of conflict. Allegory of the Prisoner's Dilemma focuses on a massive Tower of Babel and other iconic examples of architecture that present a historical timeline from the dawn of mankind to the present day, and into the uncertain future.
The Conflicts lecture series
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Saturday, March 16, 2 pm
Nathaniel Corum
Architecture Archi-torture Agri-tecture
Tuesday, March 26, 6:30 pm
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From Digital to Woven Image: Making a Jacquard Tapestry
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The Stories We Live In: Architecture, Literature, and Ideology
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Stefanie Sobelle received her PhD from Columbia University and her BA from Stanford University. She has taught at Gettysburg College, Sarah Lawrence College, Barnard College, Columbia, and Cooper Union. In addition to her teaching and scholarship, she has been a fiction editor at the Brooklyn Rail, and her book reviews have been published in Bookforum, the Financial Times, BOMB, Words Without Borders, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction, among other publications. Her research brings together literary and material history, focusing on the intersections of art, architecture, and literature in the late nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century culture. She is currently working on a book that employs concepts drawn from architectural thoery and practice to understand developments of the American novel throughout the twentieth century.


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When my app goes to deployment, if one user changes the data it changes the data for all users looking at the page, this is bad and I do not want this. What is the general rule for creating new instances of the rails app for each user?
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This is an interesting hairstyle as this woman has her long hair entirely crimped. The long lengths fall long at front and at back. At the top, the crimped hair falls in different directions and the overall look is romantic.The hair has been cut very long.This hair colour is a near baby breath blonde.
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Here are some of the more notorious serial killers that we know of:
Ted Bundy: serial killer, rapist, kidnapper and necrophile who confessed to 30 homicides across 7 states, but is believed to have killed many more.
Ted Bundy accepted Jesus Christ and became a born-again Christian just before he was executed in 1989.
Ted Bundy is in Heaven with Jesus Christ right now.
Jeffery Dahmer: murdered 17 men and boys and those murders involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism.
Jeffery Dahmer became a born-again Christian while in prison and was beaten to death by a fellow inmate in 1994.
Jeffery Dahmer is in Heaven with Jesus Christ right now.
David Berkowitz: the "Son of Sam" killer who killed 6 people and wounded several others over the course of 8 shootings in the 1970s. He claimed that he was commanded to kill those people by a demon that had possessed his neighbor's dog.
David Berkowitz became a born-again Christian in 1987 and is still currently serving his time in prison; but when he dies he will be in Heaven with Jesus Christ.
Every sin that those men committed has been wiped clean. That's the power of Jesus Christ. It also means that we aren't allowed to put ourselves above these people because of what they've done. If you refuse to associate with murderers and rapists, then Heaven will not be the place for you.
Wow, I had no idea! Praise the Lord! I think! I still hope I don't run into any of those suckers when I get to heaven!
Regardless of what horrors and evils they committed you would suppose they were destined for Heaven prior to birth...I suppose it was GODs plan to reveal himself to them, and for him to do that, they needed to commit all those crimes in order to see they needed saving?
What about if you "refuse to associate yourself" with liars, adultorers, homosexuals. Most of us will never come into contact with murderers, and probably not with rapists...but we all come into connection with people whose lifestyles in some way involve committing sin. If we associate ourselves with them...will it not spoil our witness? How can we witness to the world, if we then become friends with those knee deep with sin inpepetua?
If you have to keep up a reputation of being GODly and Christian, and you deliberately go out of your way to avoid them, so as to appear more Christlike...is that a sin Nathan? Where do we draw the line between wanting to witness to the world, if that is the ministry GOD has selected for us, and doing his Will, which may also consist of engaging with, and be seen with, those the world would consider not good company for Christians?
Here is another thing...Those people had their "conversions" whilst safely locked up. Would you have been willing to have let them out as an act of forgiveness, to proove that they would be able to "go and sin no more"
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You may reply that as you can not distinguish the criteria and whose in and whose out, you can not assume you are better then others, incase it turns out they are chosen to.
You may also say that as all deserve to be discarded we should be grateful that he calls anyone.
Both are true...but both do not rule out the main point.
IF GOD has chosen, their is a heirachy, a criteria and a benchmark...those that make the grade and are called, and those who do not. Ergo...to be chosen is to be of worth.....and to be eternally damned is to be devoid of value.
Does your God really do that Nathan?
Did you think those murders Jeffery Dahmer committed happened while GOD was somehow asleep at the switch? In your second post, you ask "Does your God really do that Nathan?" Well, I would say that my GOD is the GOD of the Bible and He would never fall asleep at the switch. So, I guess that just leaves the question of would "your God" do that?
Anyways, the Bible tells us to refuse to associate with people who claim to be believers and live immoral lives. So, a man who claims to be a Christian but is actively cheating on his wife should be confronted and ultimately kicked out of the church if he refuses to confess his sins and ask GOD for forgiveness. A man who thinks that he can live an active life as a homosexual and still be a Christian, should be similarly shunned by the Church. That's pretty clearly commanded in the Bible.
However, we are not supposed to refuse to associate with non-believers just because of their lifestyle; but they cannot become Christians unless they first leave that lifestyle behind.
David Burkowitz is still alive and believes it is his duty to serve out his sentence. He is probably doing more good for the Kingdom of GOD inside prison than he would be outside of prison.
I believe anyone who truly converted to Christ in prison, should be resolved to serve out their sentence and pay their debt to society. If a convict becomes a Christian and immediately says, "Okay, I'm a Christian now, I'm a different person, you should let me out now." Well, then that is the first clue that their conversion was not real and they are simply looking for a loophole to get out of paying for their crimes.
So, if GOD decided to run a meritocracy, then it would be fine, because He's GOD and that's His prerogative. However, GOD is no respecter of persons, so GOD doesn't run a meritocracy. In fact, GOD tends to choose those who we would consider to be the scum of the earth:
I Corinthians 1:26-29
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
That's grace and the complete opposite of a meritocracy.
Why also would you think that GOD, IF he ordained people to Murder, would ordain them to Murder Heathen...after all Ezekiel says he does not desire the death of any sinner, but that they turn and repent (something they cant do under your guise of Christianity...but you get the idea) If GOD did command murder, then would he not command the death of the Ellect...no harm done that way...
2) Knowing, and Causing are two different things. I KNEW you would reply to this thread...I didnt cause you to do it. Why cant GOD be the same?
3) No...I do not hold to the Enlightenment view of God...which is as absurd as your Calvinism, but for other reasons. I believe that GOD knows all, but doesnt cause most...what he does is, despite knowing they are against his will, he permits them to occure. He does this because he would rather someone do something really horrible and later repent...then someone be forced to love him...why? because GOD understands that you can not force Love without it being false.
He wants to be Loved because we want to Love, not because he commands us to Love. He has Faith that some of his Creation can see through the fallen and sinful world and turn to him, he has hope that they might come to Love him for who and what he is...and regardless he loves them all. He just wouldnt make people with no ability to choose, nor would he create people destined for failure.
What he might do is create people he knows will fail, and not stop them.
4) So...if those murderers had their conversions, were released and killed again...were they never Ellected in the first place? did they lie about being Ellected? did they honnestly think they were, but actually werent? What if they keep offending, but then keep repenting...at what stage do we judge that they are not saved, rather then just keep falling into temptation?
5) according to you noone "becomes" a Christian. They either are Ellected or they are Not Ellected. "Become" implies they have an ability to do it by themselves, or an ability to choose christ and leave sinful lives. Your Philosophy allows for neither. We are all to sinful to leave sinful lives behind...thats why some are Ellected...and they leave their sinful lives only because Christ basically removes it for them.
6) now re-read the original question and answer it.
7) GOD is Holy...therefore he is more bound by The Law then us. He CREATED the Law and he must abide by that Law because to be GOD has nothing to do with his level of power. It has to do with him being Holy. He can suspend Judgement...but he can not reverse it. This is why Christs Death HAD to happen...SOMEONE had to die, because no matter how much he loves...he has to Judge First...if he fails to Judge he can not be Holy, and he MUST be Holy.
You can therefore expect his Judgement to always be Just according to his Word and Law. The Law outlines to MEN what GOD has to live with permanently. He told man what they had to do to bypass his security system frankly...You may get close to me...but because I am Holy you must do this to be able to stand in my presence.
Yet his Will superceeds he Law all the time...for his Want actually circumvents sin. Why should a Holy GOD crave Love from a sodden sinful creation? If you could answer that Question, "what is man that you care for him so" you could properly understand something special about GOD that goes beyond his Judgement....You will never get that understanding through the man made dogmatism of Calvin, because it misses the one thing that is at the heart of GOD...the thing that would make him go to extraordinary lengths and great personal expense to try and unify the unGodly with the absolute Holy. You would also find...without a bias to freewill which writes off any "ellect" (unless given to Ancient Israel, Those Credited with Righteousness, The Remenant of Isreal, or a direct reference to those who are saved through personal choice) you write off that love, that motivation to save all who will come to him, and ultimately, goodness knows why GOD bothered with such elaborate hoax as the Scriptures, revealing the Law, and the death of Christ...when clearly, he has no motivation to save any but a few chosen who he didnt really need to put through the temporal realm in the first place.
Calvinism produces a loveless GOD. Is your God loveless Nathan?
8) im quids in if he's looking for sinful scum My sin is henous and outlawed by name in both testaments of scripture ...but that might disqualify yourself Nathan... not sure your really that bad
9) its Grace only to the Ellect...and as they are Ellect...its not even Grace...its a simple selection, nothing special is being sent to them, they were just decided for Heaven rather then Hell.
If you ask me, your portrayal of GOD is way off...to me its about as far off as any herasy. Being in a relationship with someone is to get to know them...I will admit he does sometimes do things that I cant fathom, things I didnt think he would condone. But I can not get round the one premise. If he wants Love, then he cant really have pre-destiny...at least not to the extent you claim.
He can be all Knowing, he can Guide, he can conspire events to try and force things...and occasionally, he can pre-ordain...but to white wash the whole point of life...If what you say is absolutely true either I am in a relationship with something else...or else I have been brainwashed into believing I love something that I do not.
Neither of which are appealing, or appear true on a basic level...and I have interaction with Him a lot...he punishes me when I do bad things in really horrible ways sometimes Sometimes I even know what he is likely to do if I do something wrong...and unbelievably...sometimes I actively choose to do wrong despite knowing exactly what he will do to punish me afterwards...He can be soo mean sometimes but then I can be so stupid...I regret it afterwards...always regret it...the cost wasnt worth the sin and I am left feeling far worse then I thought I would be in such a situation
Perhaps I am wrong...but I dont really think so....I wonder how responsible that makes me...Suppose GOD told you that someone you loved would die if you decided to sin a certain way...and you did sin...and that person then did die...
is that your fault for sinning...or his fault for punishing you for the sin?
GOD elected them for salvation before they were even born. Before He even created the universe, GOD knew that Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer would be His followers.
He also knew that their sin nature would lead them to commit horrible crimes prior to their conversion. GOD knows the future and He allowed those sins to be committed. If GOD doesn't know the future, then He's not GOD.
This should be an encouragement to any true Christian, because it only helps to underscore the fact that we are never too far gone for GOD's forgiveness while we are still alive.
Knowing, is not synonomous with creating.Its not in despute what GOD "knew" or his foreknowledge The question is did he make it happen. The English word "ellected" implies strongly that those murderers were appointed. Had No Choice in their Eternal Salvation....Which does begger the question...IF GOD Not only KNEW but MADE them Saved...then are we to believe that is the only thing he "made" them do?
If he Ordains ones future it means it is planned out, it means it is predestined to happen. That would include the Murders...infact it would include everything for Everyone.
You can avoid these questions coz you cant reconcile them and act in a hollier then thou hostile I-wont-bother-reading-you attitude. Or, like someone who is not afraid of the truth, believes he knows a certain truth, and knows if that truth is truth it cant be undone through vigorous interogation, then like a mature adult, feel free to continue this discussion with me any time you like.
But suffice to say you've countered perfectly your own arguement. GOD "ellects" people to salvation through predestiny CAN NOT be reconciled with GOD cant ordain one to sinful action (which of course is true) Ergo...this predestination ellected popycot is nothing but calvinist dogmatic twaddle invented by man
It's such a comfort to know we can be forgiven for our sins. I guess the part that's hard for me to wrap my mind around is how those mass murderers - who are/were such evil people - can truly be saved but that is what God promises us. So I guess it's the transformation from evil to being saved (not God's forgiveness) that seems difficult to accept. For me, anyway.
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Swerb wrote:What I want to do is money line Memphis with everything in my account, pray for the win, and then go buy a new Macbook and a laser printer after I just leave $300-$400 in there to mess around with baseball.
Sure ya don't wanna play 'Guess How Many Fingers I'm Holding Up' for all of it?
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The Best of Kass
Among his posts this past week, Kass explained why investors should get behind the wheel with Ford and why the media are inflating fears about the fiscal cliff.
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Ford Is Still a Katch
Originally published on Friday, Nov. 30 at 1:21 p.m. EST.
I have always thought that the bond market crowd is smarter than the stock market crowd.
That said, it is often helpful to watch the price of individual company credit default swaps as a potential precursor to a move (higher or lower) in a company share price.
As most are aware, a credit default swap (invented by JPMorgan's Blythe Masters 18 years ago) is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the instrument will compensate the buyer in the event of a loan default or other credit event. The buyer of the credit default swap makes a series of payments (the "fee" or "spread") to the seller and in exchange receives a payoff if the loan defaults.
The charts below display Ford's (F) five-year credit default swap spreads against Ford's equity price.
These charts demonstrate that:
- Ford's five-year credit default swap spreads are the lowest in more than two years; and
- the price performance in Ford's shares are lagging the credit improvement.
I expect the credit ratings agencies to upgrade Ford's debt rating by two notches in the months ahead -- the improvement in credit default swaps indicate they are getting late to this party.
Ford is one of my largest long equity holdings and still a Kass Katch.
I see less than $1 a share of risk (to $10.50 a share) but more than $3 a share of upside (to $14.50 a share).
I like these odds.
I have also bought calls in Ford recently (January 11s and 12.5s and Feb 10s).
At the time of publication, Kass was long F common stock and calls .
Don't Believe the Hype
Originally published on Friday, Nov. 30 at 12:00 p.m. EST.
"Disaster has a way of not happening."
-- Byron Wien, vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners
The media's obsession with fiscal cliff fears is comparable to Carrie Mathison's preoccupation with Abu Nazir and Nicholas Brody on Homeland.
In a recent series of columns on Real Money Pro I opined that not only are the fiscal cliff fears overblown but so are the economic, political, geopolitical and tax fears overblown. Nevertheless, the earnings cliff fears (which will ultimately limit Mr. Market's upside) are not overblown.


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Flat Marais rue Vieille du Temple G03176
Size30 m²
Floor No.4
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
Apartment's equipments at your disposal:
dvd player, hifi stereo, internet access with WiFi or cable, TV with international channels, clothes line, coffee machine, cooking plates, dryer, freezer, fridge, kettle, micro wave, oven, toaster, vacuum cleaner, washing machine, iron, iron table, household sheets, towels, sofa bed (for 1 adult or 2 children), electric heating.
Living/Dining room approx. 170 sqft, with 2 windows orientation west, furnished with: 1 sofa bed (for 1 adult or 2 children), wooden floor
Bedroom approx. 100 sqft, with a window facing a courtyard, furnished with: book-case, closet, 1 double bed (bedsize 160x190 cm), wooden floor, the television is in the bedroom.
Bathroom: hair-dryer, shower, tiled floor, a washbasin
Additional information: door code, no smoking, wooden floor
Few steps from: This area is known as fashionable and trendy and boutiques seem to spring up daily. It is close to many places like the Centre Georges Pompidou, Place de l'hôtel de Ville, Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Place de la République. This area is the center and the oldest part of Paris, and contains many of its museums, art galleries and historic sites, including the Place des Vosges, Picasso Museum. Many shops and stores are close to the apartment: bakery, butchery, theater, supermarket, open air market, restaurant, cafe, club, laundromat, drugstore.
The nearest metro station is Saint-Paul
If you arrive early or leave late, you can store your luggage in an automatic locker located nearby: City Locker (Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est, Le Marais, Hotel de Ville, Chatelet, Saint-Germain, Saint-Michel, Notre Dame, Opera, Madeleine, Saint-Lazare)
House rulesRegular check-in time is between 2pm and 8pm (after 8pm only self check-in is possible).
For arrival on Sunday/bank holidays, 50 euros will be charged.
An early check-in between 10am and 2pm is available for an extra charge of 50 euros (if the apartment is available).
Regular check out time: before 10 am
For departure on Sunday/bank holidays, 50 euros will be charged
Based on availability and at least with a 24 hours notice, a late check-out between 10am and noon is available for an additional cost of 50 euros.
We will ask you to sign a rental agreement, to respect your obligations and not to smoke in the apartment.
For rentals over 21 days, you will have to pay your consumption of electricity and gas (on meter reading).
The security deposit is equal to the amount of the rent for rentals of less than 21 days (Possibility of taking an imprint bank card with Visa or Mastercard).
For rentals between 21 days and 6 months, we charge one month's rent, and 2 months rent for rentals of more than 6 months.
|Weekly rate for up to 3 guests
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|€ 1984
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Everything in the apartment worked perfectly, it is exactly as it is in the pictures. Very close to many great places to eat, the metro/RER, grocery stores, shops, and most major attractions are walking distance
The only complaint is also a plus. The apartment is right in the middle of everything, but it can be noisy later at night (especially weekend) and mid morning with tour groups going by. It did not bother me, but I could see how a light sleeper might have a problem with it.
Marvelous apartment, the landlady Diane is extremely pleasant and efficient. Everything worked smoothly.
Highly recommended
We rested a large company - 3 family of 4 people in each. Very fortunate that the 3 apartments are located in the same building. Very beautiful apartment, match the photos on the website, it is fully equipped.
Great place, the center! In walking distance - attractions, a large number of restaurants with delicious and very affordable price, shopping, subway, taxi and city loker - in our case it was very convenient option.
Мы отдыхали большой компанией - 3 семьи по 4 человека в каждой. Очень повезло, что 3 апартамента находились в одном доме. Очень красивые апартаменты, соответствуют фотографиям на сайте, полностью оборудованы.
Прекрасное место, центр! В шаговой доступности - достопримечательности, большое кол-во ресторанов с вкусной и очень демократичной ценой, шопинг, метро, стоянка такси и city loker - в нашем случае было очень удобным вариантом.
The flat was pleasantly decorated and clean. Good location, just by Notre Dame and Boulevard St Michel, and this is a very good asset of course. Unfortunately a very noisy musical bar underneath in the street played loud music until the early hours in the morning. Three of the rings in the cooker did not work from the very beginning of our stay, and the handbook instructions about this particular appliance were not too precise, so we had to work out how to operate the only working ring, it took a while. We indicated this to the agency, but the cooker was not repaired during our stay. The coffee machine did not work from the very beginning of our stay, but it was replaced a couple of days after we arrived. The area is full of restaurants of all types and prices. For us a good point was bookshops nearby, and walking distance from the Centre Pompidou library. The flat was well furnished with plates and pots. The shower cubicle is rather comfortable in size, and the main bed is big and provided with a comfortable mattress. The heating system was efficient. There is a big television set. Wifi internet worked only sporadically for the first half of our stay, but it was fine in the last few days. All in all, we had a pleasant stay despite the problems indicated here.
Around the corner from a nice, busy shopping street towards Les Halles. A 10-minute walk from Pont Neuf.
Small but nice apartment on the third floor. Everything is there.
Everything well organized.
Om de hoek van een gezellige, drukke winkelstraat richting les halles. Op 10 minuutjes wandelen van pont neuf.
Klein, maar leuk appartement op de derde verdieping. Alles is aanwezig.
Alles goed geregeld.
recommendable !
The apartment is in a great spot and is spotlessly clean. Although not see employees of the company until the last day, the call is implecable.
I recommend it without any hesitation!
El apartamento está en un sitio magnífico y está SÚPER limpio. A pesar de que no ves a los empleados de la empresa hasta el último día, la atención telefónica es implecable.
Lo recomiendo sin ninguna duda!
The apartment is simple but simpático.Ainda did not send the receipt.
O apartamento é simples mas é simpático.Ainda não enviaram o recibo.
Although we did not experience personally Diane, we can ensure that our family stay in this apartment was wonderful. This is the first time we rented an apartment abroad and everything went well: we grab the keys easily, everything is shown organized. The apartment is great, close to everything, a bit noisy at night, it's true, but it is worth it. It is in excellent condition, clean. Access to the building is a bit twisted but eventually used to.
100% recommended.
To retain the City Locker service, offered by Wimdu. It is simple, convenient and cheap. We can leave the business in the instructions without drawbacks.
Quoiqu'on n'ait pas connu Diane personnellement, on peut assurer que notre séjour en famille dans cet appartement a été formidable. C'est la première fois qu'on loue un appartement à l'étranger et tout s'est très bien passé: on récupère les clés facilement, tout est indiqué, organisé. L'appartement est super bien placé, près de tout, un peu bruyant la nuit, c'est vrai, mais il vaut la peine. Il est dans un excellent état, bien propre. L'accès au bâtiment est un peu tordu mais on s'habitue finalement.
100% recommandable.
A retenir le service de City Locker, offert par Wimdu. Il est simple, pratique et pas cher. On peut laisser des affaires dans les consignes sans inconvénients.
nice apartment, with an excellent location. It was fully equipment and an adorable furnitures. No noisy, even been in the latin district, but no views and weak wifi. To summ up, we recommend the apartment.
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An overflow crowd, which included two current and one former rector of Rome's pontifical universities, enthusiastically turned out on November 29 to support the winner of the Acton Institute's Novak Award. Students, professors, journalists, entrepreneurs and politicians alike packed the Aula delle Tesi auditorium at the Pontifical University of Thomas Aquinas to hear Prof. Giovanni Patriarca deliver his lecture "Against Apathy: Reconstruction of a Cultural Identity".
The Novak Award, a $10,000 prize named after the American theologian and social philosopher Michael Novak, is given annually to a young international professor whose distinguished research advances a deeper understanding of theology's connection to human dignity, the importance of limited government, religious liberty, and economic freedom. The recipient delivers a formal presentation at the award ceremony known as the Calihan Lecture. (more…)


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Devlin's Angle
January 2001
Well it's here at last: the year 2001, a date that for most of us who were coming of age in the 1960s can mean only one thing: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's celebrated futuristic science fiction movie 2001, A Space Odyssey. Just how correct has Clarke and Kubrick's vision of the future turned out to be?
In the movie, a team of new millennium space explorers set off on a long journey of discovery to Jupiter. To conserve energy, the team members spend most of the time in a state of hibernation, their life-support systems being monitored and maintained by the on-board computer HAL. Though HAL controls the entire spaceship, it is supposed to be under the ultimate control of the ship's commander, Dave, with whom it communicates in a soothingly soft, but emotionless male voice (actually that of actor Douglass Rain). But once the vessel is well away from Earth, HAL shows that it has developed what can only be called a "mind of its own." Having figured out that the best way to achieve the mission for which it has been programmed is to dispose of its human baggage (expensive to maintain and sometimes irrational in their actions), HAL kills off the hibernating crew members, and then sets about trying to eliminate its two conscious passengers. It manages to maneuver one crew member outside the spacecraft and sends him spinning into outer space with no chance of return. Commander Dave is able to save himself only by entering the heart of the computer and manually removing its memory cells. Man triumphs over machine -- but only just.
It's a good story. (There's a lot more to it than I just described.) But how realistic is the behavior of HAL? We don't yet have computers capable of genuinely independent thought, nor do we have computers we can converse with using ordinary language (except in some fairly narrowly constrained domains). True, there have been admirable advances in systems that can perform useful control functions requiring decision making, and there are working systems that recognize and produce speech. But they are all highly restricted in their scope. Despite the oft-repeated claims that "the real thing" is just around the corner, the plain fact is that we are not even close to building computers that can reproduce human capabilities in thinking and using language.
But back in the 1960s, when 2001 was being made, there was no shortage of expert opinion claiming that the days of HAL were indeed just a few years off. The first such prediction had been made by the mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing. In his celebrated article Computing Machinery and Intelligence, written in 1950, Turing claimed, "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."
Though the last part of Turing's claim seems to have come true, that is a popular response to years of hype rather than a reflection of the far less glamorous reality. There is now plenty of evidence, from psychology, sociology, and from linguistics, to indicate that the original ambitious goals of machine intelligence is not achievable, at least when those machines are electronic computers, no matter how big or fast they get. (I present some of that evidence in my 1997 book Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind.) So how did the belief in intelligent machines ever arise?
Ever since the first modern computers were built in the late 1940s, it was obvious that they could do some things that had previously required an "intelligent mind." For example, by 1956, a group at Los Alamos National Laboratory had programmed a computer to play a poor but legal game of chess. That same year, Allen Newell, Clifford Shaw, and Herbert Simon of the RAND Corporation produced a computer program called The Logic Theorist, which could -- and did -- prove some simple theorems in mathematics.
The success of The Logic Theorist immediately attracted a number of other mathematicians and computer scientists to the possibility of machine intelligence. Mathematician John McCarthy organized what he called a "two month ten-man study of artificial intelligence" at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, thereby coining the phrase "artificial intelligence", or AI for short. Among the participants at the Dartmouth program were Newell and Simon, Minsky, and McCarthy himself. The following year, Newell and Simon produced the General Problem Solver, a computer program that could solve the kinds of logic puzzles you find in newspaper puzzle columns and in the puzzle magazines sold at airports and railway stations. The AI bandwagon was on the road and gathering speed.
As is often the case, the mathematics on which the new developments were based had been developed many years earlier. Attempts to write down mathematical rules of human thought go back to the ancient Greeks, notably Aristotle and Zeno of Citium. But the really big breakthrough came in 1847, when an English mathematician called George Boole published a book called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. In this book, Boole showed how to apply ordinary algebra to human thought processes, writing down algebraic equation in which the unknowns denoted not numbers but human thoughts. For Boole, solving an equation was equivalent to deducing a conclusion from a number of given premises. With some minor modifications, Boole's nineteenth century algebra of thought lies beneath the electronic computer and is the driving force behind AI.
Another direct descendent of Boole's work was the dramatic revolution in linguistics set in motion by MIT linguist Noam Chomsky in the early 1950s. Chomsky showed how to use techniques of mathematics to describe and analyze the grammatical structure of ordinary languages such as English, virtually overnight transforming linguistics from a branch of anthropology into a mathematical science. At the same time that researchers were starting to seriously entertain the possibility of machines that think, Chomsky opened up (it seemed) the possibility of machines that could understand and speak our everyday language.
The race was on to turn the theories into practice. Unfortunately (some would say fortunately), after some initial successes, progress slowed to a crawl. The result was hardly a failure in scientific terms. For one thing, we do have some useful systems, and they are getting better all the time. The most significant outcome, however, has been an increased understanding of the human mind: how unlike a machine it is and how unmechanical human language use is.
One reason why computers cannot act intelligently is that logic alone does not produce intelligent behavior. As neuroscientist Antonio Damasio pointed out in his 1994 book Descartes' Error, you need emotions as well. While Damasio acknowledged that allowing the emotions to interfere with our reasoning can lead to irrational behavior, he presented evidence to show that a complete absence of emotion can likewise lead to irrational behavior. His evidence came from case studies of patients for whom brain damage -- either by physical accident, stroke, or disease -- has impaired their emotions but had left intact their ability to perform 'logical reasoning', as verified using standard tests of logical reasoning skill. Take away the emotions and the result is a person who, while able to conduct an intelligent conversation and score highly on standard IQ tests, is not at all rational in his or her behavior. Such people often act in ways highly detrimental to their own well being. So much for western science's idea of a "coolly rational person" who reasons in a manner unaffected by emotions. As Damasio's evidence indicated, truly emotionless thought leads to behavior that by anyone else's standards is quite clearly irrational.
And as linguist Steven Pinker explained in his 1994 book The Language Instinct, language too is perhaps best explained in biological terms. Our facility for language, said Pinker, should be thought of as an organ, along with the heart, the pancreas, the liver, and so forth. Some organs process blood, others process food. The language organ processes language. According to Pinker, we should think of language use as an instinctive, organic process, not a learned, computational one.
So, while no one would deny that work in AI and computational linguistics has led to some very useful computer systems, the really fundamental lessons that were learned were not about computers but about ourselves. The research was most successful in terms not of engineering but of understanding what it is to be human. Though Kubrick got it dead wrong in terms of what computers would be able to do by 2001, he was right on the mark in terms of what we ultimately discover as a result of our science. 2001 showed the entire evolution of mankind, starting from the very beginnings of our ancestors Homo erectus and taking us through the age of enlightenment into the present era of science, technology, and space exploration, and on into the then-anticipated future of routine interplanetary travel. Looking ahead forty years to the start of the new millennium, Kubrick had no doubt where it was all leading. In the much discussed -- and much misunderstood -- surrealistic ending to the movie, Kubrick's sole surviving interplanetary traveler reached the end of mankind's quest for scientific knowledge, only to be confronted with the greatest mystery of all: Himself. In acquiring knowledge and understanding, in developing our technology, and in setting out on our exploration of our world and the universe, said Kubrick, scientists were simply preparing the way for a far more challenging journey into a second unknown: the exploration of ourselves.
The dawn of the new millennium (which most of Humanity celebrated a year ago, twelve months before the calendar event itself) sees Mankind about to pursue that new journey of discovery. Far from taking away our humanity, as many feared, attempts to get computers to think and to handle language have instead led to a greater understanding of who and what we are.
Devlin's Angle is updated at the beginning of each month. If much of this article seems familiar, there's a good reason. I adapted it from a column I wrote four years ago. I don't normally do that. But with the arrival of the prophetic year 2001 coinciding with the inauguration of a new US President who seems committed to putting the defense of the nation -- and with it all life on earth -- in the hands of a computer-controlled missile defense system, it seemed worth saying the same thing again, and reminding ourselves that mathematics and the technologies based on mathematics have their limitations.


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When out looking for a rainbow to capture for posterity, or at least until next week, all I saw were pokeweeds rustling in the wind, and starlings gone ragged thanks to Time and rough weather.
Then I looked up and saw a sundog.
Here it is, not the real sundog of course, but an image of the, ah, aerial canine that visited the western sky for a few moments a few days ago, only to disappear.


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Twenty years ago – 1993
Copy Boy Instant Printing recently held ribbon-cutting ceremonies to celebrate the opening of its new permanent location in Dunkirk at 13 West Third St. Fredonia Copy Boy, 70 Water St., joined the Dunkirk store for Grand Opening Week. A 19-inch color television was given away to drawing winner Frank Lisa Sr. Opened on Central Avenue in Dunkirk in 1975, Copy Boy has offered high-quality printing and copying services to the public for nearly two decades.
Thirty years ago – 1983
Thomas M. Huber, a former Fredonia resident and the son of Mrs. Marion Huber, formerly of Fredonia, has been promoted to Midwest advertising sale manager for MONEY Magazine. Prior to his joining MONEY in Los Angeles, Mr. Huber was on the sales staff of Time Magazine in Los Angeles and in New York City, where he joined the firm in 1976. In the summer of his junior year at Kent State, he was employed in the advertising sales department of the OBSERVER.
Forty years ago – 1973
The Patterson Library Members' Gallery in Westfield has added artwork by Robert Harrington of Dunkirk and Charles Fryer of Fredonia to its collection, to be available for rental loan or purchase.
Fifty years ago – 1963
A number of speed boat enthusiasts announced plans for a hydroplane rally and dance at the Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club in Dunkirk to benefit St. Joseph's Home for Exceptional Children on Bennett Road.


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Skip to comments.Lights out: House plan would protect nation's electricity from solar flare, nuclear bomb
Posted on 06/19/2013 8:33:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Amid growing fears of a massive electromagnetic pulse hit from either a solar flare or a terrorist nuclear bomb, House Republicans on Tuesday will unveil a plan to save the nation's electric grid from an attack that could mean lights out for 300 million Americans.
Dubbed the Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage Act, the legislation would push the federal government to install grid-saving devices such as surge protectors to protect against an attack.
"It is critical that we protect our major transformers from cascading destruction. The Shield Act encourages industry to develop standards necessary to protect our electric infrastructure against both natural and man-made EMP events," said Rep. Trent Franks, the Arizona Republican who is offering up the bipartisan bill.
Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, has come into focus because of fears the sun is pushing out unusually big solar flares that can disrupt the electric grid. Defense officials are also worried about a terrorist attack, possibly in the form of a small nuclear bomb exploded overhead.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
>> Yeah, like we need more GOVERNMENT solutions to our problems. Oy ...
Actually, there are tasks well suited for the 'potential' of the US govt primarily in large scale engineering, defense, and postal.
I haven't claimed nothing should be done.
I am stating the legislatures, particularly ones that recommend installing hardware that has already been installed for decades, are not the ones to make the right decisions.
Your insults and assumptions of my expertise are really not germane to the decision. And you are the one that brought that subject up; I merely corrected your mistake.
No, the issue is uniformed legislators making the decisions.
And spending our tax and electric bill dollars while doing so. I don't the want effectiveness and efficiency of the EPA, Post Office and IRS used on the electric utilities.
Have you read and understood this report? Does it match the proposed legislation? It doesn't. It describes very different recommendations and also states:
It is impractical to protect the entire electrical power system from damage by an EMP attack. There are too many components of too many different types, manufacturers, designs, and vulnerabilities within too many jurisdictional entities, and the cost to retrofit is too great. Widespread functional collapse of the electrical power system in the area affected by EMP is possible in the face of a geographically broad EMP attack, with even a relatively few unprotected components in place.
Well, I'm not a big fan of the Federales myself, and Congress is full of ignoramuses who have no idea what they legislate about.
But but this definitely falls under "provide for the common defense" and "promote the general welfare" and we've already seen a few of these this cycle (they missed thank goodness...).
Ah yea I have.
Do you have any idea how much it would cost to protect the country from it. Several trillion at least.
I was hoping that you would respond to post 45.
Due to security of where I work I don't always have daytime access to FR except outside on my phone so I will answer that later. Simple answer: The radios would fine in an EMP burst. They might be interrupted and need to be turned off then on, but they would not be destroyed.
There are two radios, the Danes (and others) which had zero protection and was light weight, and ours which were heavy and well protected from EMP, and our radio was very advanced and used for Special Operations units where weight was crucial.
Were we Americans just building all that EMP protection in because we didn't understand science?
Americans also built TEMPEST systems which they no longer do in most cases. The military isn't any smarter than the average America...duh, because we Americans ARE the military, so it is logic to follow that the military isn't any better than the rest of us.
" we didnt understand science"
And we still don't. We believe in Global Warming and the Ozone Hole, EMP, etc.
We banned a multi billion dollar industry over the Ozone Hole to no effect but no longer care about it because the liberals got their way. Liberals are Luddites and desire man to go back to living in caves. That Ozone Hole is still there, but you don't hear a peep out of anyone about it. The liberals claimed it was man made and we just had to ban fluorocarbons, yet, we did and no change.
I agree the feds need to say out.
The sun will one day hit with a large flare assuming we all survive the power will be out for a while. Should we fix it at that point or put in EMP switch's to handle the load?
I would think at the very least we could have backup systems ready at major electrical plants. Building new ones after an EMP hit would be difficult at best.
You can't protect from a massive solar flare. Hell, that type of thing could be an extinction event. There have been two of those just in the past year, one in front of us by 90° and behind by 90°. Just three months either way and the electrical grid would have been the least of your worries. That 1,000° sunburn would have hurt.
Since you claimed to be an "an expert in EMP effects" I was expecting a better answer to post 45 about military radios, than just nutty ravings about liberals and the ozone layer.
"Nutty ravings"? FU, kid. You're a known troll about these things. The fact is you couldn't possibly understand a scientific discussion of the subject. Since you are already bought into the idea of EMP there isn't anything that could be said to change your mind. I know your type. You have the same mentality as the global warming freaks that swear and be damned it is true because all their friends just know it is and it has been repeated so many times it couldn't possibly not be true.
Since you know so much about EMP why don't you tell us exactly, precisely, in scientific terms how EMP causes failure of electronic devices. Go ahead, see if your google-foo has the ability to actually come up with an answer.
I was writing up a nice explanation but since your GenWhyMe attitude kicked in and your typical impulsive and impatient attitude lead you to be demanding and rude you got that answer instead.
More nutty ravings, post 45 was a pretty simple post and I thought that you would have a response, but I sure didn't expect this raging nutcase stuff.
Read your post and try to figure out where you came up with all those bizarre and radical conclusions and insults and detailed claims about me and EMP beliefs and so on.
You aren't making any sense, what posts of mine are you reading that said any of that?
What triggered this raving insanity?
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Lost and Found
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Handicapped-accessible parking is available, and all entrances have handicapped-accessible doors. Entrances #1 (near JCPenney), #3 (near Applebee's), #12 (the Food Court), and #6 (near Old Navy) have automatic door openers.
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Duluth Transit Authority bus stop at Entrance 8. The DTA offers routes directly to Miller Hill Mall. Taxi services are also available.
Retailer Gift Cards
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Santa sets up him temporary home in the northland each year in Barnes & Noble Court. Santa is available for photos and visits each day from the middle of November through Christmas Eve.
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There are 4 soft seating areas available for our guests to take a break from shopping. The seating areas are located in near Entrances 1, 2, 3 and in front of the mall office.
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Strollers are available near entrances #6 (near Dick's Sporting Goods) and #1 (near jcpenney)
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