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Set in the near future, a successful businessman finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find her exact duplicate. But their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone.'
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BUIES CREEK, N.C.-Summer collegiate baseball is in full swing across the country, and five Camels are honing their skills in four leagues.
Jimmy Brenneman (Hamilton Joes / Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League) – Brenneman led Hamilton to a 15-5 mark in its last 20 games, locking up the No. 2 seed in the GLSCL South Division Playoffs. The Joes are slated to take on the No. 3 Xenia Scouts on Tuesday, Aug. 2, with the winner advancing to play Southern Ohio, who won the South Division title. Brenneman batted .323 through the end of the regular season, good for 10th in the league. The rising Campbell senior also led the league in runs (35), while ranking second in triples (3), second in walks (27), second in stolen bases (17), third in on-base percentage (.460), third in times hit by pitch (9) and 15th in hits (41). The Joes were 24-18 during the regular season.
Erick Gaylord (Watertown Wizards / Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League) – Gaylord continues to have a standout summer, competing for the PGCL triple crown. The rising Campbell senior is leading the league in home runs (10) and RBIs (41), while ranking third in batting average (.358). Gaylord also leads the league in runs scored (36) and total bases (94), and stands second in stolen bases (19). Watertown is 17-26 this summer and wraps up the regular season on Aug. 3, hosting Newark.
Matt Marksberry (Hamilton Joes / Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League) – Marksberry and the Joes qualified for the GLSCL playoffs as the runner-up in the South Division and will play the No. 3 seed Xenia Scouts on Tuesday, Aug. 2 with winner advancing to play Southern Ohio, who won the South Division. The Joes closed out the regular season on a 15-5 streak, finishing 24-18 overall. The rising Campbell sophomore tossed a gem in his last outing, picking up a win over the Cincinnati Steam. Marksberry tossed 5 1/3 shutout innings, allowing five hits with three strikeouts and no walks. The Batavia, Ohio native is 2-3 on the season with a 3.49 ERA and one save.
Ryan Mattes (Peninsula Pilots / Coastal Plain League) – Mattes fashioned a 2.00 ERA in four appearances with a 1-0 record for the Pilots. The rising junior fanned eight and walked only one in nine innings.
Jake Smith (St. Cloud River Bats / Northwoods League) – Smith was charged with a loss in his last appearance, a July 31 start, allowing three runs on three hits with a strikeout and two walks against the Rochester Honkers. The rising Campbell senior is 2-4 over the summer in nine games that include seven starts, adding a 5.51 ERA and one save. The North Augusta, S.C. native has fanned 19 in 32 2/3 innings of work for the 28-29 River Bats.
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Tell Me a Story
I think were all just a little bit off, says Abbe Stutsman, executive director of Stories on Stage, and so it was easy to pull together Stories on Stage: Eccentrics Unlimited, the first full-length program for this years edition of the series. We put a program together about folks that were just a little weird, perhaps a little different, slightly unhinged or nutty as fruitcakes.
In other words, people like you, me and the man on the street.
And theres a special surprise this round: Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, the real-life married couple who played married lawyers Ann Kelsey and Stuart Markowitz on NBCs L.A. Law. Theyll be reading stories by Dorothy Parker (But the One on the Right), Lorrie Moore (The Jewish Hunter) and William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily); the fourth selection will be from the winner of a Lighthouse Writers Workshop contest. Were in the throes of picking the story right now, notes Stutsman.
Its a way for people to engage in theater of the mind, she adds. "Theres a sense of community among the audience, and an intimacy that you dont really get in regular theater. Its a chance to use your imagination but still be part of a community.
Eccentrics Unlimited runs at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. today at Su Teatro at the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive; admission is $15 to $25, with sliding-scale and pay-what-you-can prices also available. And dont forget the post-stories milk-and-cookie reception! Visit www.storiesonstage.org or call 303-494-0523 for more information.
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Mini Rooter vs. drill-powered snake.
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The drain for my kitchen sink is clogged. The clog is down in the basement floor slab. I've got one of those hand crank snakes but it only gets about 4 or 5 feet before stopping. I metal ribbon snake does the same thing. I'm not sure if it's the clog stopping it, or a bend in the line (see pic below.) The main sewer stack is off to the right, so the line from the kitchen drain must bend to the right at some point.
So anyway, I'm debating between renting a mini rooter from Home Depot or buying a drill-powered one with a trigger advance. See the youtube video below and fast-forward to 3:15 to see one. Does anyone know what brand it is.
I'm looking for input comparing the two. Is the auto-advance feature of the drill-powered one worth it, or is it no better than pushing by hand? The drill and the mini rooter are both 1/3 hp.
Steve S
Emphasizing the use of a reversible variable speed drill motor, preferably of a low RPM. I don't see where the auto feed is beneficial or necessary but hey...that's your decision.
Also notice in the video that the guy got lucky and didn't knock out any of his teeth or cause any eye-damage when he allowed the snake to coil and whip uncontrollably due to triggering with way too much snake played out in the middle of no where.
I would suggest a person wear safety glasses and gloves when performing this type of surgery.
I would replace that old castiron to kitchen sink with plastic while doing that will be able to access floor clog and install a clean out for future acess...
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I have two possible solutions for you to think about and check out; replace the cast iron portion or a pressure washer sewer jetter.
Last year I replaced some cast iron venting from a bathroom to the roof with a short piece of plastic and a cleanout. The cast iron was easy to snap and get the piece out to replace with plastic. I rented a cutter from a local rentall and it only cost about $15, I think, as the job for that part took an hour from getting the tool getting the job done with it and returning it. The drive is only five minutes so it took little time.
I spent about $100 on the tool, plumbing supplies like the rubber connections and PVC fittings. The cost was good and I did not count the wood used to create a nice looking surround for it as it was stuff I had lying around. Working with cast iron is unnerving if you never have before but it was actually pretty easy.
From your picture it looks like you have enough room to work and it would probably be an easy job but I would start at the hub right below the cleanout about three feet off the floor to ensure you have plenty of working pipe. If you cut below the bottom hub and the pipe breaks enough to not allow a tight fit with a rubber connection you would need to dig into your concrete floor and that means lots of work and more money.
Its up to you but I also have a possible tool if you have a pressure washer, I used a Clog Hog to jet my sewer drain and cleared clogs out of the floor drain that runs from my kitchen sink, a bathroom and washing machine. I reviewed the Clog Hog here, I am not just plugging their product and my article though.
I now own a hundred year old home and understand the problems with fixing things, I want to make sure I do things right but I also don't want to spend so much money at one time when I can't afford it. That is one reason why I review products like this. The Clog Hog worked well with my floor drain and bathroom sink using my pressure washer, just an electric one but they sell hose sewer jetters for higher pressure washers and gas operated as well.
I did do the work on my upstairs vent pipe, picture is below, as you can see I did not have a lot of room to work with. I am leery of cutting cast iron close to the floor as I worry about cutting off or breaking too much and having to cut into the floor. I am worried a lot when working on several different areas of my home especially with plumbing that is old and of breaking things and having to wind up doing a lot more work than I planned or can afford at the time.
I have had clogs repeatedly and looked for a solution that did not require a two to three hundred dollar auger, calling a plumber or something else that also cost a lot. I do own those water hose bladders in two sizes but they did not clean out the pipe but merely blowing some of the clog out enough to get water through. I built a sewer camera from an auto backup camera to use with the Clog Hog and saw the results after a little cleaning. I did more cleaning after the video taping but will also do some more over the upcoming holidays when I have gotten caught up on more work.
Good luck with your project.
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Cee Lo Green Protege V. Bozeman Shares Cover of "Free Bird"
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Cee Lo Green's protege/artist V. Bozeman shared another powerful visual for her new single "Free Bird," which is a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover! She shared is this week due to the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Read her open letter about the song, video and her upcoming EP below.
I wanted to write this open letter to connect with you all on a personal level. I recently put together a body of work called The Visitors Collection EP that features "Free Bird," a song originally recorded by Southern American Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I fell in love with the lyrics and thought it would be a great song to cover. When I discovered the band's previous connection with the confederate flag, I was even more compelled to re-record this song and give new life to it. Music is so powerful, it's important for artists such as myself to use our platform to make a positive impact on the world.
When I first heard the lyrics in this song, I could relate to its overall message, as I too have the desire to be a "Free Bird." The beautiful and most riveting thing about Art is that it speaks to the individual and everyone gets something different from it.
To me, the overall message in "Free Bird" is LOVE! Something the world needs more of!
Something we ourselves need more of!
LOVE is accepting and understanding...
It's healing; amongst many other powerful things...essentially, it's FREEDOM!
Through my expression of "Free Bird," I wanted to send a visual message to break the chains of negative stereotypes, racism, poverty, war, sexism, self hatred, etc. that holds us back as a people, as a nation.
I decided to release this visual during President Barak Obama's Inauguration because the significance of this historic moment aligns with the overall theme of the song. As an artist I've always had a perspective and a voice and it's important to me to always be authentic to not only my fans, but myself in my expression. We are living in perilous times and it is my strong belief that we should use our voices or whatever talents we have to be a source of inspiration...to plant strong seeds of Love and positive change and nurture those seeds so that our garden might one day be the change we all truly hope for!!!
"Free Bird" will be on my upcoming The Visitors Collection EP, which is still in the works. I want to thank all my Visitors/fans for being patient with me, while encouraging and supporting this movement. You are adored and loved. I'm putting the finishing touches on my EP and I can't wait to share it with you! Music is a universal source of inspiration and I am truly grateful for the gift of song and the blessing I've been given to visit and touch all of you! From my soul to yours…
All of my love,
V aka The Visitor
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The wooden seats from the Legendary Blue Horizon are being sold off by the pair through Archer Seating. For $350, you get the seats that "were installed in 1914, made by Heywood Wakefield and have their ORIGINAL varnish on them," according to Archer's website. Now that's old school.
The price includes the wooden floor feet, which allow you to use them without having to actually bolt them into the floor. The website reminds us why these seats have become available for purchase: "No seats have ever been removed before from this venue before, the building is being renovated for other uses and will never see another fight or concert." Read more »


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Call of duty Black ops is just a remarkably popular first-person shooting gaming. This sport may be the sequel of the first someone to be occur the cold-war and also the Phone Call of Obligation sequence. Launched on November 9, 2010 for nearly all of the gambling systems, this game smashed all prior documents of purchase, promoting significantly more than seven-million copies inside the first a day of its launch, establishing a report of the start of an amusement organization.Curiously, the overall game gained two times as much as one of the Deathly Hallows and the most recent popular movies: Part One. Just five times following its discharge, the overall game gained $ 650m a $100m significantly more than the prior sport within the sequence, Modern Combat 2, which gained $550m throughout its launch's five times. These numbers undoubtedly show how large the gambling market is becoming.
Today, let just how it's performed and I provide some details about the tale of the overall game. The black ops 3 aimbot is placed throughout the war using the story turning around covert CIA operations performed behind enemy lines particularly in Spain, the arch-rival of America throughout the Cold War within the 1960s.The ball player within the sport is just a foot-soldier who is able to bring crossbows in addition to numerous guns in the same period and blades. A person attempts to destroy him and may also combat actually without guns by having an enemy gift if he's in variety. from numerous special agents, to pick his account, the ball player may select within the sport. The surgical he believes most match, the ball player may decide to be that operative within the sport.Call of duty Black-Ops facilitates 3 D imaging with enhanced lighting. The overall game functions motion capture engineering, recently used in the Character which catches facial words intelligibly of James Cameron, showing them precisely on screen. The game's Wii edition features a program for online talk within the sport as well.
Certain artwork appear a little better and also the tale is just not a bit same however, you follow carefully within the footpath your designed to. Any person who's discovered to possess unauthorized or unpleasant information within their live-stream is susceptible to fee. Inside a 45-minute interval, obtaining 20 head shots online for instance. General, I toss my cash in a sequence that appears to be stagnating and truly cannot relax is simply bleeding their followers dried (I actually purchased Call of duty Elite, that was completely damaged following its launch for weeks.


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My ///E12 535i Turbo project
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My ///E12 535i Turbo project
Just over 3 years ago, I bought this very rusted E12 535i. The car was in a horrible condition. My objective was to build an extremely fast street racer and to do everything myself. This was a bit of a problem as I am a chemist and have never worked or done anything on any car in my life. I am nearing completion on my project and I must say that I am very proud of the outcome.
I took section by section and removed all the rust and dents.
This is the car after all the dents and rust was removed. Body is now primed.
As already mentioned, I am a chemist and have never even held a spray gun in my life. I have gone through a lot of trial and error but was eventually happy with the outcome of the white base coat
I then decided to add some color to the car. This was a mistake and later I removed the colors. (follow the thread?)
After a year, I finished the first phase of the project and this was the outcome.
I drove the car for a couple of months and then decided to go to the second phase of the project. In this phase I wanted to remove the ///M colors and do the motor.
Removing the M colors.
Rebuilding the motor took a lot of time, but with the help of Google it was easier said than done. Forged Mahle pistons was used and the bottom end was balanced. Compresion ratio was dropped to 8,0:1. Head was also flowed.
With a lot of elbow grease, I managed to polish some engine parts.
Motor was then put into the engine bay and I started with the turbo plumbing.
I then decided to make my own turbo header. This job is not for the faint hearted. It took me 6 days to build this header.
After all the welding was cleaned, the header was now ready for ceramic coating.
The header after ceramic coating.
The header in position.
The turbo now in possition.
From a different angle.
I also changed the trunk area slightly.
As the E 12 is very heavy and power to weight plays an extremely important role in racing, I decided to shed some weight by replacing the hood with a light weight fibreglass unit. I used the original hood as a plug and made the mould from it.
The finished fibreglass hood.
Looking good on the car.
Another couple of weeks and the car will be done. I am hoping to get around 300wkw and 600wnm from the motor. Please wish me luck???
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards Jury
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awardss has posted this year's jurors:
- Terry Harpold, University of Florida, USA (Chair)
- Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University, India
- Dale Knickerbocker, East Carolina University, USA
- Leith Morton, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Helen Pilinovski, CSU-San Bernardino, USA
- Lisa Raphals, UC-Riverside, USA
Interview with Carmelo Rafala of Immersion Press
Over at SF Signal, I interview Carmelo Rafala of Immersion Press. His latest anthology, The Immersion Book of SF, includes international contributors like Jason Erik Lundberg, Aliette de Bodard, Gord Sellar, and Lavie Tidhar.
Interview with Nnedi Okorafor
Over at Amazon's blog, Omnivoracious, Matthew Cheney interviews Nnedi Okorafor. Here's an excerpt:
Amazon.com: Sure, that makes a lot of sense. Now, to completely change topics, I'd like to talk about a particular section of the book. The Red People live in the eye of a perpetual storm — it's an extraordinary image, and it conveys a lot about both the attraction and peril of a group sealing themselves off from the world. How did the concept of the Red People occur to you?
Okorafor: Honestly, I don't know. I do know that once in Nigeria — no twice, at two different times — I saw a woman walking down the road who was African looking but her skin was just…red. I don't know if these two women had rubbed palm oil on their skin or something but their brown skin had this very strong tint of red. Both women were really beautiful. Over the years, I've thought about these two random women a lot. I've asked relatives and Nigerian friends if they've ever seen such women, the only person who had was my sister Ifeoma (who was there when we saw the first red woman). When something fascinates me it almost always makes it into my stories.
As for the culture of the Red People, that just came as I was writing. That's one of those writer things where the story blows in from some other place and you just write it down. Even the giant sandstorm they live within, I don't know where that came from (though I do have a fascination with violent winds- tornadoes, hurricanes, sandstorms, etc) but once it was there, the metaphor made so much sense to me.
Nevertheless, I believe that much of the Red People's culture came from some of my own views. I believe our society has too many labels that are rigid and cause problems for families. I feel like we focus more on fitting labels than cultivating and nurturing love. And I also believe that those who are different, those who are "other" often have to hide, "contain" and separate themselves in order to survive.
Looking for South Asian SF Authors
In Mary Anne Mohanraj's latest blog entry, she mentions that she's looking for South Asian SF authors for an academic article she and Anil Menon are working on. If you have any suggestions, comment there.
Anil Menon and I are working on a short academic article about South Asian SF authors. To that end, any names you could throw our way would be very helpful!
The article will cover both local and diaspora writers, and is writing in English, local languages — any language, really. So for example, if there's a Pakistani-Swiss diaspora author writing science fiction in Swiss-German, we'd love to know about her.
Aliette De Bodard on Science Fiction and Non-Western/Non-Anglophone Countries
Aliette De Bodard currently has an essay up on Asimov's entitled Thought Experiments: The View from the Other Side: Science Fiction and Non-Western/Non-Anglophone Countries. Here's an excerpt:
Given all of this, it is not surprising that science fiction (in the way we usually mean it—I will come back to this later), a genre steeped in progress and what it would all mean for the future, is so deeply Western in its beginnings. Works of genre in this time period include H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (a tale of an Englishman going forward into the future) and Jules Verne's novels (meant both as thrilling adventures and didactic books, where it is common to find an entire chapter of scientific infodumping).
Of all the countries that might have challenged the Western domination, the biggest ones—China and Russia—were mired in various political and economic difficulties that prevented them from ascending as world powers. There is, however, one notable exception to the Western domination of science.
Japan reached a crisis point in the second half of the nineteenth century. Beset by foreigners and in danger of being swallowed politically, the country found itself a new leader in the person of the Meiji Emperor, and a new government that believed that the key to the Japanese future lay in the understanding of Western science and methods. To that end, the Iwakura Mission toured Europe and the US for two years, studying the Western system. In the wake of this, commissions were set up to decide which parts of the Western modernization were in keeping with the Japanese spirit, and which needed to be modified.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Japan has a history of science fiction almost as old as that of the West. The scientific romances of Wells and Verne find their counterparts in those of Shun¯o Oshikawa and other writers of the era.
Gord Sellar Interviews
Gord Sellar, currently residing in Korea, has been interviewed in two venues. The first is in the Seoul SF & Fantasy Library, and you can find the English translation (in PDF) here. The interview was conducted by translator Hong Insu.
The other interview is by SF critic Ko Jangwon and published in his blog. The interview is available in both Korean and English.
Gord Sellar on Boyran, a novel by World's Youngest Fantasy Writer Wonje Song
Gord Sellar shares his opinion on Boyran, a novel by World's Youngest Fantasy Writer Wonje Song.
"Boyran" by Wonje Song was published in 1995 by the Joong-ang Daily News. The bit in the middle — "a novel by World's Youngest Fantasy Writer" is factually inaccurate, of course: he tied with Jim Theis, author of The Eye of Argon, which Nick mentioned as soon as we started reading through the text.
Well, if you know anything about that latter novel, you know that it's famously baaaaaaaaaad, famously awful indeed — David Langford puts it thus (as quoted inthe Wikipedia page on the text): ""a malaprop genius, a McGonagall of prose with an eerie gift for choosing the wrong word and then misapplying it"– and that it has been circulated mercilessly among SF fans who use it as part of a party game. Thies was also 16 when he wrote The Eye of Argon, and that was a full twenty-five years before Song's book was published.
Nnedi Okorafor on Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor, author of Who Fears Death, has a lengthy post on reactions she received during and after writing the novel in The Witch Strikes Back. Here's an excerpt:
In my novel, Who Fears Death, there is a scene where some girls are…cut. In this future world, the mythos behind the practice has been forgotten but a girl is still expected to have the cliterectomy done. If it is not done, then the girl is not considered marriageable. Still, no girl is forced. It is her choice to have it done. ;-). Clean medical tools are used and the girls receive proper medical care afterwards. In other words, in this African future, girls do not die from this practice as they do today. The scene strips the practice down to exactly what it is.
Back in the early stages of this novel, I workshopped this scene in my novel writing class during my PhD program. My class was all white, from what I recall. After reading it, two women became particularly upset with me. During the critque, I sat there quiet as they accused me of defending female genital cutting. I guess they wanted me to demonize the culture and shout "Barbaric! Barbaric people! Look at what they are doing to their girls and women!" Over the years, the circumcision scene in Who Fears Death has not changed much. So now here I am being accused of the opposite, publically disrespecting traditional African culture.
Jay Rubin on Translation
Over at the Haikasoru Blog, Nick Mamatas has a short post on Jay Rubin's (known for translating Haruki Murakami's fiction) approach at translation:
In one of the appendices, he talks about the challenge of translating Japanese, and offers up two sample translations of a paragraph in the Murakami short story "The 1963/1982 Girl from Ipanema." He notes that while one version is awkward and the other smooth, both are linguistically equidistant from the original Japanese. The awkward version just has an "illusion of literalness" simply because it isn't as good.
Then Rubin offers up a real literal translation of the same paragraph. English loan words are in italics. I'm keying this in from the UK edition, thus the alternative spellings of the words "color" and "meter."
High school's corridor say-if, combination salad think-up. Lettuce and tomato and cucumber and green pepper and asparagus, ring-cut bulb onion, and pink-colour's Thousand Island dressing. No argument high school corridor's hit-end in salad specialty shop exists meaning is-not. High school corridor's hit-end in, door existing, door's outside in, too-much flash-do-not 25 metre pool exists only is.
When I think of my high school's corridor, I think of combination salads: lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, asparagus, onion rings, and pink Thousand Islands dressing. Not that there was a salad shop at the end of the corridor. No, there was just a door, and beyond the door a drab 25-metre pool.
JAXA interviews Housuke Nojiri
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency interviews science fiction writer Housuke Nojiri. Here's an excerpt:
I had written some stories around girl heroines previously, but not about high school girls becoming astronauts. There is this stereotypical image of astronauts, established in the time of the Apollo missions, where they are believed to be very outstanding and heroic people, with the highest intelligence and the best physical ability. So people around me often said that there was no way girl-next-door-type high school teenagers could become astronauts. But, after studying the possibility very carefully, I was convinced that high school students are capable of going to space. The heroines of Rocket Girls go through a very intensive astronaut training program on a southern island, and succeed in space flight, even landing on the Moon. I believe that, if she is isolated from the rest of the world and forced to concentrate on training because there is nothing else to do, a high school girl can learn how to operate a spacecraft. With good instructors, it would also be possible for her to understand all the mechanics of spacecraft.
In fact, Akita University is holding the Rocket Girls Training Program, where high school girls can learn how to build a satellite and a rocket. In the beginning of the program, they just sat and listened to the instructors talk. But two months later, their faces began to change; you could tell that they were trying to figure things out for themselves. These students, who used to always ask, "what should I do here?", soon started suggesting ideas and making progress, asking, "I did this here. Is that correct?" In the end, unfortunately, after its successful launch, the satellite couldn't separate from its two-meter rocket.
They had so much pressure to make the one-time-only rocket launch successful. But building something with colleagues through trial and error is very similar to the real world of space development. Having such an experience at that age must have a great influence on their future. In fact, some of the girls have already decided to study science and technology at university. For space education, I think it's very important to give the younger generation exposure to the world of space development.
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I wanted to have a rhinoplasty in a few months and I wasn't planning on telling anyone because I know no one would support me getting a nose job. So I thought I would get a subtle surgery; but everyone says if I'm going under the knife I should go all out.
I'm not sure what to do. I really want to change the appearance of my nose but I don't want my parents to know. My nose is pretty wide and there's a bump in it that can be seen in the picture.


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Instant Analysis: Five takeaways from A's first road sweep of 2017
Instant Analysis: Five takeaways from A's first road sweep of 2017
The A's sprung to life offensively in the late innings Sunday and polished off their first road sweep of 2017.
They scored all five of their runs over the final three innings to beat the Chicago White Sox 5-3, continuing an odd stretch of streakiness. The A's swept the New York Yankees in four at the Coliseum, then turned around and dropped four in a row to the Houston Astros before arriving in Chicago and taking all three from the Sox. It's their first sweep on the road since they won four in Kansas City from Sept. 12-15 of last season.
The weekend's events provided a morale boost for a team that began the series an American League-worst 9-25 away from home. The sweep also featured numerous contributions from a pack of recently promoted young players fresh from the minors.
The A's had no answer for left-hander Derek Holland through six-plus innings, mustering just four hits off the veteran. But trailing 2-0, they got on the board with Jed Lowrie's pinch-hit RBI double in the seventh. The next inning, Khris Davis singled home the tying run and Yonder Alonso followed with a go-ahead single down the left-field line to put the A's up 3-2.
They tacked on two insurance runs in the ninth on back-to-back homers from Adam Rosales and Matt Joyce.
Sonny rebounds: Sonny Gray (3-3) avoided the early trouble that plagued his last start, working seven innings and being rewarded with a victory thanks to the A's eighth-inning rally. He struck out seven and walked just one. That was a key as Gray had issued seven free passes combined in his previous two starts. Adam Engel hit a 2-1 fastball for a homer in the third, then Jose Abreu scored on a passed ball in the fourth to give Chicago a 2-0 lead. But Gray held the Sox to just four hits over his seven innings.
Sign of things to come? Franklin Barreto got a look as the No. 2 hitter in the order Sunday, a spot that some scouts feel he'll be well suited for as his career unfolds. He singled to the opposite field in his first at-bat, then struck out looking in his next two trips to the plate. In the eighth, his broken-bat single to left jumpstarted Oakland's two-run go-ahead rally. Barreto is 4-for-10 in his first two games with the big club.
Joyce provides a lift off the bench: Joyce entered as a pinch runner in the seventh and connected for his 10th homer, right after Rosales had gone deep himself. Joyce became the fourth Athletic to crack double figures in homers, and the A's improved to 31-26 when they hit at least one home run (they're 3-16 when they don't).
Doo does it again: Lefty reliever Sean Doolittle continued to deal since coming off the disabled list. He threw a scoreless eighth with two strikeouts and has allowed just one hit over five innings in six appearances since his return.
An unwanted milestone: The Sox scored their second run on a passed ball by Josh Phegley, which accounted for Oakland's 50th unearned run, most in the majors. They had just 43 unearned runs all of last season.
Former A's catcher Stephen Vogt claimed by NL Central team
Former A's catcher Stephen Vogt claimed by NL Central team
A new team believes in Stephen Vogt.
The former A's catcher, who was designated for assignment on Thursday, was claimed by the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
The A's announced the transaction shortly before their game against the White Sox.
News of the Brewers making the waiver claim was first reported by ESPN.
The Brewers were the only team to place a waiver claim on Vogt, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
Vogt, a clubhouse leader and one of the longest tenured A's, hit just .217 with four home runs and 20 RBI in 54 games this season.
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State police in Indiana charged Mark Cessna, 37, of Homer City, with fleeing or trying to elude an officer around 1:20 a.m. March 30 on Route 119 South at the Sheetz exit, according to police reports. The charges were filed Monday.
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Police said Scott Garbera, 21, of Bridgeville, was cited with trespass and resisting arrest.
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Latics boss keen to play down expectations
Reporter: MATTHEW CHAMBERS
Date online: 10 December 2012
SECURITY is the name of the game for Athletic.
Manager Paul Dickov has sought to put a lid on expectations despite another victory at Colchester.
Jean-Yves Mvoto's header and a Brian Wilson own goal gave Paul Dickov's side a 2-0 away win.
But the result could easily have been more heavily weighted, as Athletic dominated.
Having now taken 12 league points from a possible 15, this weekend's home clash with Swindon — the last of Matt Derbyshire's loan from Nottingham Forest — is teed up nicely.
But Dickov isn't getting swayed by a patch of good form.
He emphasises the team's priority: to reach 50 points, traditionally ensuring safety from relegation.
"We need to keep our feet on the ground," said Dickov.
"We have a tough game against Swindon coming up and it is one that we are capable of winning.
"They have spent a lot of money and are a good footballing team. But we think we are as well, when we do things right.
Athletic have 26 points after 21 games and remain 16th.
Plenty more rewards are on offer during a busy festive programme, which after Swindon and up to the New Year will not feature Derbyshire due to his loan expiring.
"I have just got to wait and see what happens come January," said the 26-year-old on a possible return to the club once the transfer window re-opens.
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While it is good to have these expectations once more, it is prudent to keep in mind what has happened previously. Hopefully, Derbyshire will return in January, if not, then we have to face up to it (plus the possible loss of Baxter) and Dickov will have to use his negotiating skills once more.
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NovAtel Announces MEMS IMU for Pairing with OEM6 Receivers
NovAtel Inc., supplier of OEM GNSS components and subsystems, has announced the addition of a new commercially exportable MEMS IMU to its line of SPAN GNSS/INS products. Available for immediate shipping, this custom Analogue Devices MEMS inertial sensor is exclusive to NovAtel, and can be paired with an OEM6 receiver card to provide continuously available position, velocity and attitude (roll, pitch, yaw) in a small, single-unit form factor.
SPAN tightly couples NovAtel's precise GNSS technology with highly accurate inertial measurement technology to provide a robust, stable and continuous 3D navigation. The new OEM-ADIS-16488 sensor is designed to be coupled with NovAtel's OEM6 receivers via the MEMS Interface Card (MIC), providing integrators with a compact, powerful GNSS/INS engine, NovAtel said.
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Barbara Weiland was laid off from her reporting job at the Lansing State Journal in June, along with 700 other Gannett employees.
Now she's marching with the crew of Occupy Lansing.
The American Independent reports that after Weiland's severance ran out, she began to struggle to pay her mortgage and credit card bills. She stopped by the protest HQ to drop off hand-knitted hats and scarves and ended up joining the march.
She told TAI her experiences of covering poverty in the Lansing area were nothing in comparison to living in poverty. "It's like America hates its own people," she told TAI.
But what stings the most: Former CEO Craig Dubow's retirement package of $37.1 million in retirement and disability. Dubow resigned in October, citing medical problems. His disability retirement package is significantly more than if he had retired under normal circumstances.
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Want to learn more about the engineering miracle that is London's underground? Here's some of our favourite websites about the world's first subterranean rail network
There are dozens of great tube websites, queen of which is Annie Mole's brilliant london-underground.blogspot.com a daily underground diary.
Diamond Geezer has an annual tube week packed with facts at diamondgeezer.blogspot.com.
Clive's Underground Line Guides (www.davros.org/rail/culg) is a scarily detailed history of each London tube line.
The London Transport Museum (www.ltmuseum.co.uk) does the official thing well, while TfL's own tube section (www.tfl.gov.uk) is very useful, with great stats hidden in its 'corporate' section.
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Why do ambulance chief executives need this new organisation?
There has been an informal network for the chief executives of NHS ambulance trusts, but we recognised the need for a formal organisation to co-ordinate national policy work and to influence strategy. [The organisation launched in September]. We also recognised that there are national issues around energy resilience and home security where it would be very helpful to be able to work at a national level with bodies such as the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Chief Fire Officers Association.
How many chief executives have joined Aace?
Our full members are the chief executives of all 11 English NHS ambulance trusts – 12 including the Isle of Wight. We've also offered associate membership to the chief executives of the ambulance trusts in the devolved administrations, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
How will the new organisation be funded?
Ambulance trusts will pay a subscription. Historically, they have paid on an informal basis to enable their chief executives to meet up – now we will catch all those costs and put them in one place.
What's top of the Aace to-do list?
We will co-ordinate some key national projects. A lot of work on developing leadership capability is taking place within ambulance trusts and they will now work with Aace to co-ordinate that. There's also a large national radio system being procured for ambulance trusts; that's clearly important for national resilience and interoperability, so we want to be involved with that programme, and also with the development of the 101 [non-emergency number] services. Ambulance trusts also have a challenging agenda to make the transition to become foundation trusts and to work with our colleagues in other services on national resilience.
What's the mood among ambulance chief executives?
They face exactly the same pressures as the rest of the public sector. We believe that's why an organisation like Aace can help. We may be able to look at how procurement is carried out for things like uniform. Another key aspect of Aace is that because we have been set up as an external company, we can be a potential spokesperson for ambulance services and speak on their behalf.
What's your own background?
I've been in the ambulance services for 26 years. I'm a trained paramedic. I've worked for several different ambulance trusts and for the past 15 years as director of operations. I came to London two and a half years ago to work with Peter Bradley, chief executive of the London NHS Ambulance Service. I was offered the opportunity to work on revising national performance standards and reviewing the state of our clinical quality indicators, so looking at outcomes beyond just response times. Having done that we began to look at what the chief executives need.
What new skills do you require for this post?
This post is about relationship building and about influencing national policy, so it is very different from the role of director of operations, where you have the direct power to make things happen. This is about trying to develop new ideas. I have an MBA, but this is about doing the job – and I've already learned a lot.
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The idiocy of Great Britain's new point system which determines if an immigrant can enter the nation was illustrated by introduction of an English-speaking test for immigrants. Under the new regulations, South African, African and other non-European footballers will be barred from joining Premier League clubs. The new Engllish-speaking test, covering everyday phrases and simple conversation forms a part of a package of tougher rules for skilled immigrants from outside Europe who seek work in Britain. Immgration Minister Liam Byrne argued: "Our new point system means that British jobseekers get the first crack of the whip and that only skilled immigrants we actually need will be able to come." Byrne insists that footballers and other sport people should not be exempt from the regulations. "It is a basic requirement that they have some command of English."
Perhaps, Mr. Byrne might take a trip to the United States where numerous major league baseball players from Latin American are swinging bats, throwing balls and lack much command of the English language. As far as I know, throwing a 90 mile-an-hour baseball to a hitter does not require knowing how to speak English. It is in the wrist, not the mouth.


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California Faces Lawsuit Over Nursing Homes
California is being sued for not keeping a closer eye on nursing homes and the people who live in them.
Claiming the state of California takes far too long to investigate complaints against nursing homes, a Sacramento-based group called Foundation Aiding the Elderly is suing.
Carole Herman is president of the foundation, and she tells the Sacramento Bee this is the only way to get the state's attention.
According to court documents, Herman's group is asking the judge to impose deadlines for inspecting nursing home complaints and enforce existing deadlines. The suit alleges the Department of Health take "months and sometimes years" to conduct investigations.
Herman cites personal experiences with the department as one of the reason for the suit.


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Will church go the way of the bookstore?
…in the Meantime author, David Lose, asks if churches and bookstores are on the same path:
When I read an article by Seth Godin on the woes of book publishers recently, I couldn't help but think about the similarities between the situation he describes and the challenges facing our congregations.
His summary statement of the problem is striking:
…the challenge the big book publishers are facing is that a perfect industry is being replaced by one filled with chaos and opportunity.
What does he mean by "perfect"? Simply that book publishers – and the stores that depended on them – enjoyed a monopoly on the means of producing and selling books. As he writes,
Limited shelf space plus limited competitors plus well-understood cost of creation and production meant that stability reigned. The industry was polished and understood.
For three hundred years or so, book publishing had nothing in common with technology businesses where the underlying economics of the business were questioned regularly.
Substitute "church" for "book publishers," make just a few contextual adjustments, and you're almost there. We, too, operated within a near "perfect" industry in that as long as a significant percentage of people went to church we enjoyed something of a monopoly. While we might have competed with ourselves (Methodist vs. Lutheran vs. Presbyterian, etc.), our culture placed a high value on church attendance – think of the "blue laws" that governed most states. This ensured that we had very little competition on Sunday mornings. For that reason, for about three hundred years or so (at least in this country), we in church leadership also had little reason to question our practices.
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Not many brick-and-mortar bookstores anymore, but people still read.
Fewer brick-and-mortar churches, but people will still pray and gather in community.
New technologies are not limited to simply adding a few bells and whistles to the brick and mortar experience. Some of us are reaching into new frontiers and being church in virtual worlds, and leaving the brick and mortar behind all together.
But does it substitute for in-the-flesh human contact and community?
From the St. Matthew's website:
What We Are Not
We are very intentional in maintaining a presence in Second Life which is true to our individual calling to ministry in Real Life. We do not "play church" or pretend to receive or administer sacraments. The roles we undertake and the forms of prayer we use are those which are appropriate for laity who wish to pray together. Since all of our worship leaders are lay people in Real Life, we do not assume clergy titles or vestments, nor participate in Second Life "weddings" or other forms of role play.
Our building is a "chapel" vs. a "church" for the same reason. We do not presume to represent in an official way any Real Life religious denomination or province in Second Life other than as individual members of our respective faith traditions.
I would argue that brick and mortar may not be essential for church, but in-the-flesh human contact ultimately is. No matter how good the technology gets, virtual worlds are, by definition, just that.
Good question Richard, and thank you for actually visiting our blog to see what we are up to rather than dismissing out of hand. The reason we state what you quoted on our blog is that there are those in Second Life who role play clergy, and if someone is taken in by that and believes the person really is a clergy person, then great harm can be done. Additionally, many people in Second Life form partnerships and some consider them to be marriages and like to have them in virtual church settings. The statement on the blog is simply to indicate what we are about and that we do not role play church or role play being clergy. It is also a response to another Anglican group that has presumed to represent in Second Life the real life Anglican Communion.
Having said that, I will agree with you that what we do in Second Life cannot be a replacement for church in "real life", but it can definitely be a supplement to or perhaps a door to the church. For some it is the only healthy way for them to engage with and connect with a Christian community.
Most of us are very involved in real life communities and what we do in Second Life is a part of our life as Christians. One member, who is very active in her real life congregation, is unable to leave the house during the week due to family obligations, and yet is able to engage in prayer and Bible study with fellow Christians using the technology.
Just as important, I have found in my 4 years of experience in Second Life, there are many people who use Second Life who find the idea of darkening the door of a brick and mortar church to be terrifying or downright difficult for a variety of reasons. Some deal with physical or emotional health issues (virtual worlds draw many people on the Autism spectrum) and find the accessibility of virtual worlds to be invaluable ways to connect to a larger world. There are huge LGB and Transgender communities in Second Life that are valuable for people who cannot be out in real life for a variety of reasons or who are testing the waters in a safe environment. One of the focuses of our St Matthew's group and several other Christian groups is to provide an avenue to connect to the church for people who have been alienated from the church or who see the church as hostile to them. This is very big in the transgender community. When we connect with people who don't have a real life church home, we do try to help them find one, using tools such as the Believe Out Loud website.
For those of us in the Anglican tradition, the inability to celebrate the sacraments is certainly a part of what it means to be church that is missing in the virtual world setting. Even if one of us were a priest, we still could not celebrate the sacraments. But that does not mean that we can or should give up on an emerging technology to form Christian community in the ways that we can, nor should we abandon a tool for evangelism and mission to the forces of consumerism and self-gratification that are so rampant in both real and virtual worlds.
Second Life will have it's day, but the door has been opened to forming and maintaining relationships through non-physical connections. Would any of us consider a friend who moves away but who we keep in touch with through phone calls, emails or online chats to be any less of a friend? And how would we respond if that friend asked us to pray with them while on the phone? How many of us consider those we only know through the blogosphere but with whom we have lively discussions in comments to be friends or fellow Christians who we care about?
The problem with "virtual community" like Second Life, it seems to me, is that it deals only with the exchange of information, and filtered through artificial personas, at that. People are not just the information that can be communicated through the pretty clumsy avatars available on the web. We are not disembodied information, or intellect, or even spirit. Virtual reality seems as much of a community as the books in a library are, or the letters in the post office - potentially useful for evangelization or keeping in touch with someone, as you say, but equating it in any way with the Church is a stretch.
Many thanks for the fuller explanation of how Second Life supplements the real community. I am reminded in your words of the relationships nurtured by something no more technologically advanced than the parchment that carried the letters of the New Testament!
It is true indeed that brick-and-mortar has always been secondary. Our faith and cultivation of relationship in whatever way we can is our primary offering to God.
Bill - if it does not work for you - don't do it. Many people "hide" behind personas in real time too --
- for those who find it meaningful - great news to find new venues for worship and connection. I find people are often more honest and revealing in virtual settings. We do EfM via online resources -- the depth of sharing goes beyond what I often see face to face. When we do meet up - we are connected more than we could have imagined.
I very much agree with Ann's experience that people are oftentimes more honest and revealing in virtual worlds than in real life settings. I have gotten to know friends in Second Life in ways that are hard to do in real life, some of whom I know their real life identities and some I don't. We also act through our avatars or persona's in real life. I have the work me, the home me, the church me the highway driving me that I present, each of which is subtly different, but none the less expresses a part of myself that is appropriate to the venue.
Touching on the authenticity of what we do in virtual worlds, I will share the experience of having a memorial service in Second Life for a member of our group who passed away in real life. He was also very active in his real life church community, and I patterned the service on the funeral service in the BCP. I very clearly stated that it was for "so and so (real life name), who was known to us as so and so in Second Life", and that it was a memorial for and celebration of the real life person and not the avatar. It was a wonderful opportunity for people whose lives were touched by this gentleman in Second Life to both grieve his passing and celebrate his life and to bring closure since most of his online friends were not able to participate in his funeral in real life.
Good point Richard about Paul's epistles. I am not a NT scholar, but my understanding is that there was a sense that Paul was present with the community when his letters were read in community. I think of the congratulations many of us expressed to Nicholas Knisely on his election as Bishop of Rhode Island. Most of us will probably never have a chance to meet him, but the wishes are still real.
Ann, I live in the western US, with concentrations of parishes in the urban areas and then lots of small congregations spread far and wide. After reading a recent Daily Episcopalian posting about online EFM groups I have been thinking about how technologies like Second Life and other video conferencing tools might be used to bring EFM to such locations. I would be interested in having that conversation with you.
I think people who label church in digital environments as "virtual" and therefore somehow lesser than "real" community tend to overestimate the difference between real and virtual.
All of life is mediated, it's just a matter of what technology mediates it. In the case of church in digital environments, church is mediated through the immersive context of Second Life or other digital platforms.
Real body church is also mediated, through language, gestures, etc. And people "put on" an avatar at "real" church as often as they do in "virtual" church.
Another way of saying this is to say that everything is virtual.
The problem with analogies is that they're only helpful if the analogy is a good one. The recent article in the Atlantic about the comparative brevity of the "golden age" of bookstores might call that into question. We'd do well to think twice before we collectively decide that physically gathering around an altar and sharing physical signs and sacraments is outmoded.
Ann and Caolin have been presenting "virtual" churching as a side add-on to physical church. I'm gonna be a bit more bullish than that, and question why we have to regard it as an add-on.
As I've gotten older, I've come to decide -- for me personally -- there is nothing magic about Sunday mornings, or "church" buildings. In fact, I hate Sunday morning church -- there, I've said it, lol. Come, sit, do nothing, and listen to yet another person's dreary personal spin on a Bible passage. I went to church school with some of these people, and listening to them pontificate now is no more inspiring to me than it was when they did the same back in the lunch hall. When Christ said "wherever two or three are gathered" he didn't add "and sitting on their duffs" -- I feel the gospel was far more a call to action. I think it could be argued that it's us who made Sunday morning church sacred for very human reasons : you had a population who couldn't read the Bible even if they could afford one so it needed to be read to them, for millenia what they learnt was often the only educational venue many had, church provided the only social and healthcare services available, church gatherings were the method by which community and crop news was passed around, church was often the only way to express community and culture (thus the beautiful buildings that people living in mud-floor huts were urged to give their money towards.) Church was also a good way to control what the population thought and did, and various political authorities that came and went over the centuries realized that. In the 1900s, we came to consider Sunday church attendance sacred for more mundane reasons perhaps -- the more bums in the seat when the collection plate is passed, the better for the renewing the roof fund. I know that's a horribly singular and cynical thought, but I'm hard presssed to think of a Sunday morning when money wasn't collected.
I'd argue that the vast majority of the population has voted against such a tradition now, with their feet, by staying away in droves, and they ain't coming back unless we revive the Recusancy Laws of 1593. Maybe what they've voted against is 20th century church: the congregation existing for the sake of supporting a building; dreary (or worse, earnest) pontifications reflecting one person's opinion on a Bible verse more geared to time gone by when people almost literally didn't know how to start thinking for themselves; worship of a weekly time slot when worship was supposed to happen; and change that was designed simply to revive people's interest in the above. (And I sympathize with those who disliked all the 1970s and 1980s tie-dye stuff that was tried: it was like being served Tang instead of orange juice in the name of "getting with it", and it was always the wrong things that were changed -- as the abysmal success rates demonstrated.)
The days when everyone in a community in the First World went to one church or another on Sunday mornings are gone, and they ain't coming back. I'd argue though that what some have rejected is the old model of "doing church" (see above), rather than church itself. I personally am far more of the "laborare est orare", call to action, school of thought where Christianity is a verb rather than a noun. Along the lines of what Brian Kiely proposes over here: http://www.davidlose.net/2012/06/churches-and-bookstores/ : Perhaps we might wish to consider surrendering the traditional notion of the Sunday Service as the one central event of church. It might be time to think of other activities and programs as being as significant as the service…which means we may have to measure participation instead of attendance and find other ways to evaluate success.....I have been gathering a lot of anecdotal material about people who participate in the community in other ways – adult programs, participating in the social media side of church, turning out for social justice actions, attending community social events of all kinds and participating in alternative services of various kinds. Can we not consider this as doing church on an equal footing with coming to services?"
None of this is to knock those who still enjoy Sunday morning church gatherings in a physical building; more power to them and long may some services continue for them. Some people attach a LOT of importance to physicality, there's an age-old tension and discussion (often at sword point) in Christianity about that, and I get that. I personally just don't think that Sunday morning church gatherings in a physical building are sacred, (now that we live in an era where you don't get burnt at the stake for saying that) and promoting them as sacred because we like them and are used to them just doesn't cut the mustard anymore. I think that different methods of working such as those being pioneered by Ann and Caolin are valid and hold more promise than ... whatever the right expression is -- trying to get people back into the carriage and buggy shop, or whatever.
I do acknowledge that being able to access a sacred space has always been important to people, right back to the olive groves of the ancient Greeks and before that even. I'm not convinced anymore that it always has to be a physical building with a roof that we call church. I think we made church into something physical because of this age-old impulse, whereas I think essentially church was always meant to be something virtual, an idea, a concept, an action like the wind that is strong even if you can't see it (to use a once-popular but now tired 20th church analogy.) Yes, there's times when it's great to gather in a "temple" for the High Holidays, and for life events, or even just to light a prayer candle as a symbol of hope. I get that. But as for the human construct of bums religiously forced into seats Sunday morning, forget it, no one's buying that anymore. But again, I think we need to look at their rejection of that concept in and of itself, and realize that they might not be rejecting everything else, as we intrepet it to be.
Okay apologies in advance: This is just opinion and just personal opinion at that, and I don't give it any more weight than that and when you blast me, don't put too much effort into it 'cause my thinking ain't worth that much effort lol and I don't pretend to speak for anyone else and have no quick figures and stats to back up any of my opinions.
Nothing against Second Life, but I have to ask that those who post here do so using their real names.
I am in one of Ann's online EfM groups, and I can vouch that, when someone chooses to, the online presence and the face to face (F2F) presence can certainly create a bond that lasts. I find social networking to be the thing that has increased my very deep and real connections in the larger sphere of the Episcopal Church. It's simply a short view to only see the online presence as a separate and false presence, and I can't really explain this to anyone until they also make the choice to let the two spheres intersect like a Venn diagram and live in the center of that intersection.
For once, I find myself agreeing (mostly) with Bill. Just as watching a telecast of church is not the same as going to church, an online discussion forum is impoverished human interaction, avatar mediated worship is no substitute for corporate worship.
And why? Because Place cannot be replaced.
We are more than informabots exchanging information- our bodies are incarnations of Spirit- and they require place and presence- both holy gifts, along with the sacraments. The fact that LGBT people and those on the autism spectrum feel unwelcome in church speaks to the failure of churches to practice the radical welcome of the incarnate Christ, and we can and must do better (including new kinds worship spaces).
That being said, online "communities" can and do supplement a life of faith, in the way that phone calls from church friends, bulletins, sacred music cds. The problem is calling it corporate worship, which it is not.
Josh- my experience tells me you are incorrect in your assumptions. All your "cannot's' do not make our experience false. YMMV but please don't assume universal truth.
Ann, I am glad you are having good results on Second Life (seriously) 🙂
My experience is that something happens in Spirit through physical presence that does not happen in virtual contexts. I could give some examples but you can probably think of many. I am unwilling to follow the many suggestions on this thread suggesting physicality is optional to corporate worship, which, along with the rest of our neurotic culture, denies our social primate identity as well as our larger identity as psycho-physio-spiritual beings. I am interested in wholeness, and I don't think we can reach spiritual wholeness by pretending that we are computers who can choose to interact through a number of "mediums"-physical space being one of the "options."
As I said, the fact the church spaces are not welcoming is the fault of the Church, not the "medium" of space- and we must honor the wholeness of individuals by inviting their whole selves into sacred space with us.


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Explosions near two Sunni Muslim mosques in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli during Friday prayers killed at least 29 people and wounded more than 500, the official National News Agency said.
One blast targeted Al Taqwa Mosque where radical Sunni cleric Sheikh Salem al-Rafei leads prayers. He wasn't harmed, NNA said. The second hit near the entrance of the Salam mosque, not far from the house of caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati, who wasn't in Tripoli at the time, according to NNA.
The explosion at Salam Mosque resulted from a car bomb laden with 100 kilograms of explosives, Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told New TV.
The Salam Mosque blast went off as worshipers were bent in prayer, listening to a sermon by Sheikh Bilal Baroudi, according to footage shown on LBC TV. Worshipers ran out of the mosque amid a thick cloud of dust.
The bombings occurred at a time of heightened tensions between Sunni and Shiite communities as the sectarian war in Syria spills into Lebanon. Tripoli has seen frequent clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The two mosques hit today are led by clerics who have been supportive of the mostly Sunni rebels seeking to topple Assad, who is Alawite, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Al-Rafei has called for a holy war to help oust Assad.
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Officials called for calm, urging people not to let their emotions draw Lebanon into a civil war.
"We should avoid strife," said caretaker Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn, according to NNA. Caretaker Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi said the attackers were seeking to ignite "strife between Sunnis and Shiites" in Lebanon, in an e-mailed statement.
The blasts are "mostly likely a response from a pro-Syrian or Shiite-affiliated group seeking reprisal for what has happened in the past month following explosions in Shiite neighborhoods in Beirut," Michael Stephens, a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in Doha, Qatar said by phone.
The blasts were the third and fourth to hit Lebanon since July. The previous two occurred in the Shiite militant Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut's southern suburb. The first wounded more than 50, while the second killed at least 27 people.
Hezbollah called today's attacks a "terrorist" act aiming at "dragging" the Lebanese into civil war, according to an e-mailed statement. "Hezbollah expresses extreme pain" for the loss of life in Tripoli,'' it said.
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