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The Kai Project Charity Ride
Sunday, March 10, 2013 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
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Come ride with us!
The Kai Project is excited to announce we are teaming up with Cyclehouse for a Charity Ride on Sunday, March 10th! Get ready to work up a sweat in this 45 minute class led by Aaron Hines. The ride will begin at 2pm, and will be followed by refreshments in the Cyclehouse courtyard.
The mission of The Kai Project is to provide resources such as funding, consultation, and training to facilitate financial stability and independence for individuals in need, in order to promote and cultivate entrepreneurial ambition. 100% of the proceeds from this ride will go towards resources needed to launch our first project, which is to start a small business for a worthy applicant living in poverty in Tijuana, Mexico. We are currently in the process of selecting this applicant, so please continue to check our website www.thekaiproject.org as we get more information!
After you purchase your ticket, please be sure to visit www.cyclehousela.com to create an account before the ride. Your purchase will reserve a bike for you in the row you selected, but the specific number of the bike will be first come, first serve. A seating chart can be found on the Cyclehouse website.
If you have any questions, please email email@example.com and we will be happy to help! Thank you for your support, and we hope to see you at the ride!
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I really wish a company would step up and take smartphones and tablets to the next level by offering an usable replacement for the carriers minute and text plans. Imagine if the carriers simply offered apps that you could log into on any device that allowed you to make and receive phone calls using only data. I use talk tone and google voice for this now on my 3G ipad, and it works fine for me, but is not nearly reliable enough for mainstream use. Or how about a Bluetooth headset that has your subscriber info programmed in so it auto connects to which ever of your devices is in range and has the best signal and battery so your calls get routed through your ipad in the case that your iPhone battery died.
I wonder if this study factored in the new shared data plans that are on the horizon. From what I've read it only costs an extra $10 or so to add a device to the shared data plan. if that's the case I expect an increase in the sales of 3G/4G/LTE tablets. I chose the WIFI only iPad because I didn't want to pay $100 extra for the 3G capability plus $30/month for data. If making data available on the iPad is only $10/month I will rethink that decision whenever I get my next one.
Of course people prefer free wifi over ridiculously high priced data plans. I am lucky enough to have AT&T unlimited plans on all my iPhones and one of my iPads. If I didn't I would have to drastically change my usage while on 3G as I travel quite a bit. Another bonus with a 3G iPad is the GPS function. Wifi pads have no true GPS capability and that sucks. I use Navigon on mine often. I will always choose 3G/LTE or whatever is current if I have the option.
Frustrates me that people are being ripped off by such data plans today. I have unlimited on my iPad and phones however I bought my first iPad wifi only and when ATT announced they were not going to offer it anymore I went out and bought another iPad just so I could get the unlimited on it. So bought two iPads in a very short time to have unlimited.
If the demand is not there for the next four years maybe just maybe they will be forced to change the data plans. If not looks like they will be loosing.
The one thing I like now is that most if not all the cable tv/internet providers in new york city have hotspots... So as long as your paying for your home cable/internet service, they have wifi in selected spots around the city and are free [you just need your ID info].. Im in the Bronx which is mostly Optimum or Verizon provider, but still see Time Warner Cable under my wifi, which is only manhattan and brooklyn, im not sure about queens. but they are putting up more hotspot as we speak in all boro's. Now people aren't going to be crazy about a cellular connectivity until an unlimited plan was to ever come out [likely no time soon] and for a decent price.
Remember the days when mobile data was free..thanks to our beloved smart phones we now pay out the ***** for data and it is only going to go up. I believe i've stated before that before we know it, data charges will outweigh voice charges..only a matter of time. Supply and demand i guess..maybe we should stop using data? How can we..we are all already addicted to it haha!
If the way billing worked made and sort of sense, I think people would be open to paying. But as it stands, you pay $20+ per month and whatever you don't use gets taken away. As such, you are required to babysit your plan. If you are not using it one month, you must cancel everything and set it back up for when you do plan on using it. Why not just charge a flat rate for the data that is being used? Or require that a couple GB of credit be purchased at a time, and once that credit is used up, you are automatically billed for another chunk of data. The wireless carrier has nothing to lose and everything to gain here. They are not dealing with subsidizing the product or dealing with lengthy contracts or even credit checks.


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The Message in the MeaninglessBy Lilly Lampe
Late last year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China," the institution's first survey of contemporary art from the country. Situated within the museum's Chinese art galleries, the exhibition interspersed the old with the new, adding context—or, perhaps, simply conserving space. In the permanent Ming Scholar's retreat, an aubergine rubber scholar rock by Zhang Jianun cast a long shadow over its limestone brethren, while unusable furnishings by the artist-activist Ai Weiwei—a wobbly stool constructed like craniopagus twins, and a table folded at the middle so its four legs have become two legs and two arms—seemed poised to animate and wander away from their sixteenth-century predecessors. Resistance to tradition is a prominent theme in Ink Art, as is the importance of writing in—subtext, of course—a country with an active policy of censorship.
The exhibition looked at the evolution of China's calligraphic traditions, but its most powerful statement came with works that play on an idea of language, rather than on actual words. Song Dong's 1996 performance Printing on Water (Performance in the Lhasa River, Tibet), in which the artist futilely stamped the water's surface with a large wooden seal, alludes to the hopelessness the act of writing can evoke, particularly if it leaves no trace. The final two works in "Ink Art" are also concerned with meaningless writing—but they combined to create a more comforting message. Xu Bing's installation Book from the Sky filled the last room with scrolls covered in block-printed Chinese characters. The text cascaded in soft arcs across the ceiling, wallpapering the room and coming to rest in neat piles on the floor. The careful organization evokes a calm—which is abruptly displaced when one learns that the text comprises four thousand nonsense characters. Most Western viewers wouldn't be able to read the text anyway, but the realization that no one can is transformative. An expanse of gibberish becomes an inhabitable space of words: the viewer is absolved from the act of reading. Read More


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These treats are so versatile! Though the recipe calls for flaked corn cereal, substitute any favorite cereal. For even more peanut taste, stir in some chopped peanuts!
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Judicial Council Seeks Budget to Keep Courts Open and Serve Public
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San Francisco – Recognizing that cumulative budget reductions of $653 million over the past four years are unsustainable, the Judicial Council of California today agreed that its top legislative priority in 2012 will be to advocate for a judicial branch budget that will protect critical services to the public and keep courts open.
"State courts are on the frontlines of the economic crisis," declared Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chair of the Judicial Council. "It is essential that judicial branch funding be stabilized in order to keep our courtrooms open and protect the public. To cut the budget further almost certainly will have unwelcome consequences for public safety and the viability of order in our communities."
This fiscal year, the final judicial branch budget included $350 million in reductions for trial and appellate courts and $750 million in loans and redirections to the General Fund. Therefore, the total budget contribution by the judicial branch was $1.1 billion. Funding allocations to the judicial branch this fiscal year amount to only 2.4 percent of the total State Budget and 1.4 percent of the General Fund.
To restore part of the budget, the council will seek a combination of solutions including General Fund restoration, legislation to implement cost savings and efficiencies, new revenue, and the use of existing revenue, including statewide funds as well as trial court fund balances.
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Although some say the buzz about sustainability has begun to die down, green building is here to stay. During a presentation at World of Concrete, PCA Chief Economist Ed Sullivan included green building in his list of growth opportunities.
Citing increasing global demand for construction materials and high oil prices, Sullivan predicts green building practices such as using recycled materials "will continue to grow not only because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes economic sense."
Concrete producers are often frustrated trying to keep up amidst a sea of research, articles, and news articles. Fortunately, there are a growing number of online communities specifically for our industry. The following websites help producers and their customers brush up on the latest sustainability issues.
Houston-based U.S. Concrete prides itself on being a supplier of green concrete technologies. The producer has created a portal for news, industry events, project profiles, and expert opinions related to sustainable construction. Visitors can read blogs and browse articles by topics such as research, education, architectural concrete, and pervious concrete.
"The blog's goal is to be relevant, reach a new level of engagement, and provide value to customers and prospects," says Wally Johnson, vice president of sales and marketing. Users can post comments and request the weekly Concrete Green Building newsletter.
The producer invites industry bloggers and editors to contribute. Contact Wade Khalil, email@example.com.
Ozinga Brothers Inc. is making a name for itself in sustainability throughout Chicago, Indiana, and Michigan. The Chicago-based ready-mix producer uses its website to answer customers' questions about going green with concrete.
The site covers U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system, including an overview, a list of credits concrete can earn on a project, and Ozinga's products that can help: Filtercrete pervious concrete, recycled materials, and decorative concrete flooring.
The Concrete vs. Asphalt section arms customers with in-depth research about concrete's environmental benefits, such as reducing urban heat islands.
For producers and contractors too busy to scour the Internet for updates, environmental and sustainability consultants Resource Management Associates in Forked River, N.J. post weekly blog entries about environmental issues relating to concrete, aggregates, and other construction materials.
The Resource page compiles articles about crucial topics for producers, such as plant operations, reclaimers, environmental regulations, and more.
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Many associations provide resources to help engineers, architects, and designers understand concrete's sustainable qualities.
PCA compiles sustainable concrete solutions, applications, and case studies. A SimCity tour showcases sustainable solutions. Also, find green specification guidelines for concrete products, tech briefs, and energy performance results. The bimonthly "Concrete Thinking" newsletter provides updates.
NRMCA's sustainability portal covers concrete's environmental benefits, with micro-sites on specific topics, including pervious pavement, green roofs, and concrete parking lots. Specifiers can access a series of related webinars.
The National Precast Concrete Association provides resources such as The Little Green Book of Concrete with practical examples of sustainable precast design, a LEED credit reference guide, and a LEED calculator.


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to effect an exchange of approximately one and eight-tenths acres of tribal Indian land of the Santa Ysabel Reservation, California, for a tract of privately owned land of approximately four and three-tenths acres of equal value: Provided, That such exchange shall be effected only when the Indians enrolled on said reservation shall have expressed their consent thereto, either in general council or through action of their duly recognized tribal governing body.
Title to the land received in the exchange shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior and shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Santa Ysabel Tribe of Indians; said land shall not be allotted to individual Indians and it shall remain nontaxable until otherwise provided by Congress. Title to the Indian land conveyed in the exchange shall be by patent in fee.
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Hilton Head, S.C. - Brevard College had little trouble with Stonehill College Tuesday, dispatching the Skyhawks, 8-1, in Hilton Head. Four Tornados won both singles and doubles points for Paul Thomson's team.
Konstantin Savelyev and Cole Altizer opened the afternoon with a doubles win over Michael Mashkevich and Tim Fayed, 8-5 in the No. 1 spot. Jarred Fisher and Heikki Riikonen folowed with an 8-3 decision in the second spot, over Williams Herchel and Jason Allegretti, 8-3. Andrew Thompson and Nate Lyles finished the pairs sweep with an 8-2 win over Mike Leone and Jon Burke, 8-2.
Brevard (7-2) lost only one point in the individual section of the match. Stonehill's (5-3) point came in the top flight, where Fayed beat Savelyev, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3. The rest of the points were Brevard's: Riikonen over Mashkevich, 6-0, 6-0, Altizer over Leone, 6-0, 6-4, Thompson over Allegretti, 6-1, 6-3, Fisher over Herchel, 6-3, 6-2, and Shane Apps over Burke, 6-2, 6-2.
The Tornados play their next-to-last spring break match Wednesday against West Liberty State, while the Skyhawks have a day off before facing Malone on Thursday.


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ANNOUNCER: In a world where no one will protect you
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August 19...
*sound of hammer and anvil*
The Baltimore Ravens visit the Kansas City Chiefs...
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Two warriors
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Two men enter
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Well, I mean if he feels like it, and isn't busy or something
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On the gridiron it's lack of talent versus lack of work ethic
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*still shot of Cousins fighting with his own teammates*
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Re: If Gaither showed up to practice...
He is simply HATED by the average Baltimore fan. It doesn't matter what he does, it's wrong.
He's skinny, and the fans complain he sat on his ass, and that his frame would require him to work hard to stay at 340 or higher.
This year, he's back up to ideal playing weight, and the jealous Ravens fans call him fat....
It's pretty humorous sour grapes. Wait until he plays well against us this week, the board as a whole will find a way to slam him down, even if he grossly outperforms Quentin Aaron.
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Seriously, where are his legs, because I do not see legs. I see twigs."Please take with you this final sword, The Excellector. I am praying that your journey will be guided by the light", Leon Shore
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When I think of a Baltimore Raven - we go in there, we take your lunch box, we take your sandwich, we take your juice box, we take your applesauce, and we take your spork and we break it. And we leave you with an empty lunch. Thats the Baltimore Raven way. - Steve Smith Sr.
Call me a Special Teams coach again. I dare you! I double dare you, MFer!
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I guess I'm not using enough smileys/emoticons!
Honestly, I don't hate Gaither, I don't think he's fat, I don't know what his true issues were/are, I just want a guy who can play well on the O-line at one of the tackles. In fact, there was another thread discussing Gaither where I posted that maybe we'll get to learn the real truth behind all of the stories, rumors, innuendo and whatever that surround the guy. If his timing of a bad back and mysterious spasms coincides with training camp and/or contract negotiations, that makes me wonder about certain things. But if he couldn't pass a physical by an NFL franchise's team, that makes me ask other certain questions. If he's barely able to walk/practice with the Ravens, then becomes Jim Parker with the Chefs, I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what's going on.
I'd just be interested to know what's what with Gaither.
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Who here "hates" Gaither?!?!
Or is this one of those times if you criticize someone, you're labeled a hater?
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Re: If Gaither showed up to practice...
Onto this post, hater is being thrown around in an internet bully way. No one probably HATES the guy to the point where they are actually trying to take food off the man's table. I will give you that.
But the entire board and Ravens fandom to a much lesser extent, is so hell bent on being pro-Oher and anti-Gaither that it has become silly. It's a mad rush toi judge against Gaither, and make excuses for Quentin Aaron's shortcomings.
The only thing I really know or care about, was that on Sundays, when they both suited up, there was no comparison who the better player was. Yet that never seemed to matter to anyone else(FO , coaching staff included).
Wouldn't it be amazing if we had someone in house so that Oher could start at RT and possibly be the best in the league there, while also being the very best backuop LT in football? To have two affordable LT's under 25, both on the rise? In March and April of last year it seemed very attainable. Now I never see a situation that good in Baltimore ever again. A lot went on in between, including Jared acting like an infant, but it was positively a two way street that is not recognized by most.
Put simply, wasn't EVERYONE complaining about Gaither weighing 20 pounds under known ideal playing weight? So what is the problem when a lineman gets back to that weight with some slop before camp? These guys are GOING to drop weight once the practices begin. He will trim down, he has no choice.
I understand it would have been better for him to go to the gym and pack 20 on the right way, but there are very few linemen in the league that trim and disciplined. It's also to the point that shear mass was a step in the right direction for Jared, adding weight of any kind would both help him anchor in pass pro and exert more force in the running game.
I know he's not Mother Teresa but give him a little bt of a break. We don't know what ever was up with his back, and he may have turned over a new leaf or six with the change of scenery.
In this case, you can't have both sides of the coin. Many of you calling him fat were the same people complaining about the weight drp[ last year. You can pick one, not both.
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This board has been brutally honest with BOTH Gaither and Oher so I am not sure you can make that claim hold water.
As to Gaither, a modest review of news articles and scouting reports of him coming out of college state he's lazy, a malcontent, etc. Nothing he has done in the pros counters that observation that has been made by dozens of people.


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A racial feud between two families in Queensland's south-east has ended in handshakes and hugs.
The Aboriginal and Pacific Islander families - in the multicultural city of Logan, south of Brisbane - on Wednesday settled the enmity that had engulfed Douglas St in suburban Woodridge.
The indigenous family at the centre of the stoush moved out of their home and asked for privacy as they rebuild their lives on the Gold Coast.
But community leaders are aware tensions will continue to simmer in what is one of the most racially diverse cities in Australia.
Logan Mayor Pam Parker will next month convene a two-day safety summit, involving community leaders and representatives from state and federal governments, to look at the underlying causes of the clash.
"We have extremely high unemployment in Woodridge and it's been inter-generational," Ms Parker said.
"That's something we'd want to be looking at."
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has even flagged a new national approach, triggered by the Logan clashes, to deal with violence in suburban Australia.
Premier Campbell Newman has rejected the idea, saying police and the state government will deal with the problem.
The confrontations began to subside on Tuesday night after both sides agreed to police-brokered peace deals.
"At the end of it they were joking and laughing," Inspector Dave Nevin, from the Logan district, told AAP.
"There may have been a bit of embarrassment (about their behaviour)."
Tim Briggs, who is relocating to the Gold Coast with his wife and children, said the evening peace talks on Tuesday had been a turning point.
"As we spoke, my young son and their son - there was beautiful communication there with the two of them, and their elders and our elders," he told reporters.
"I just want to be a peacemaker to all my fellow brothers and sisters out there, to move on in life."
Friend Paul Butterworth said the Briggs family was planning a barbecue soon with the Pacific Islander family.
"It's all over now," he told reporters.
"Both sides agree it was the young ones, mainly the teenagers, who were clashing."
The four days of clashes, said to have been sparked by a disagreement at a set of traffic lights, have prompted only a handful of arrests.
Police maintained a presence in the street for most of the time and tried to calm the situation without taking enforcement action.
The situation came to a head on Saturday night after a group of Pacific Islanders besieged the indigenous family's home with machetes, bricks and metal poles, forcing the occupants to cower in a back room.
Retaliatory attacks had continued from both sides since.


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The underlying argument for gun control seems to be that the availability of guns causes crime. By extension, the availability of any weapon would have to be viewed as a cause of crime. What does the Bible say about such a view? Perhaps we should start at the beginning, or at least very close to the beginning-in Genesis 4.
In this chapter we read about the first murder. Cain had offered an unacceptable sacrifice, and Cain was upset that God insisted that he do the right thing. In other words, Cain was peeved that he could not do his own thing.
Cain decided to kill his brother rather than get right with God. There were no guns available, although there may well have been a knife. Whether it was a knife or a rock, the Bible does not say. The point is, the evil in Cain's heart was the cause of the murder, not the availability of the murder weapon.
God's response was not to ban rocks or knives, or whatever, but to banish the murderer. Later (see Genesis 9:5-6) God instituted capital punishment, but said not a word about banning weapons.
Did Christ Teach Pacifism? Many people, Christians included, assume that Christ taught pacifism. They cite Matthew 5:38-39 for their proof. In this verse Christ said: "You have heard not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also."
The Sermon on the Mount from which this passage is taken deals with righteous personal conduct. In our passage, Christ is clearing up a confusion that had led people to think that conduct proper for the civil government-that is, taking vengeance-was also proper for an individual.
Even the choice of words used by Christ indicates that He was addressing a confusion, or a distortion, that was commonplace.
Several times in the rest of the Sermon on the Mount Christ used this same "you have heard it said" figure of speech to straighten out misunderstandings or falsehoods being taught by the religious leaders of the times.
Contrast this to Christ's use of the phrase "it is written" when He was appealing to the Scriptures for authority (for example, see Matthew 4 where on three occasions during His temptation by the devil, Christ answered each one of the devil's lies or misquotes from the Scripture with the words: "it is written").
To further underscore the point that Christ was correcting the religious leaders on their teaching that "an eye for an eye" applies to private revenge, consider that in the same Sermon, Christ strongly condemned false teaching: "Whoever therefore breaks one of the commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven..."
(Matthew 5:19). Clearly, then, Christ was not teaching something different about self defense than is taught elsewhere in the Bible. Otherwise, He would be contradicting Himself for He would now be teaching men to break one of the commandments.
The Bible distinguishes clearly between the duties of the civil magistrate (the government) and the duties of an individual. Namely, God has delegated to the civil magistrate the administration of justice. Individuals have the responsibility of protecting there lives from attackers.
Christ was referring to this distinction in the Matthew 5 passage. Let us now examine in some detail what the Scriptures say about the roles of government and of individuals. Both the Old and New Testaments teach individual self defense, even if it means taking the assailant's life in certain circumstances.
Self Defense in the Old Testament Exodus 22:2-3 tells us "If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed. If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt for his bloodshed. He should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft."
One conclusion which can be drawn from this is that a threat to our life is to be met with lethal force. During the day, presumably because we can recognize and later apprehend the thief if he escapes, we are not to kill him in non life-threatening circumstances.
In Proverbs 25:26 we read that "A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a murky spring and a polluted well." Certainly we would be faltering before the wicked if we chose to be unarmed and unable to resist an assailant who might be threatening our life.
Trusting God Another question asked by Christians is "Doesn't having a gun imply a lack of trust that God will take care of us?" Indeed, God will take care of us. He has also told us that if we love Him, we will keep His commandments. (John 14:15) Those who trust God work for a living, knowing that 1 Timothy 5:8 tells us "But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse that an unbeliever.
" For a man not to work, yet expect to eat because he was "trusting God" would actually be to defy God. King David wrote in Psalm 46:1 that God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. This did not conflict with praising the God "Who trains my hand for war and my fingers for battle" (Psalm 144:1). The doctrine of Scripture is that we prepare and work, but we trust the outcome to God.
Those who trust God should also make adequate provision for their own defense even as we are instructed in the passages above. For a man to refuse to provide adequately for his and his family's defense would be to defy God. There is an additional concern to taking the position that "I don't need to arm myself. God will protect me."
At one point, when Satan was tempting Jesus in the wilderness, he challenged Jesus to throw himself off the top of the temple. Satan reasoned that God's angels would protect him. Jesus responded: "It is written again, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" (Matthew 4:7) It may seem pious to say that one is trusting in God for protection, and we all must, but it is tempting God if we do not take the measures that He has laid out for us in the Bible.
Role of Government The Bible records the first murder in Genesis 4 when Cain killed his brother Abel. God's response was not to register rocks or impose a background check on those getting a plough, or whatever it was that Cain used to kill his brother. Instead, God dealt with the criminal. Ever since Noah the penalty for murder has been death.
Nowhere in the Bible does God make any provision for dealing with the instruments of crime. He always focuses on the consequences for an individual of his actions. Heaven and hell only applies to people, not to things. Responsibility only pertains to people, not to things.
Resisting an attack is not to be confused with taking vengeance which is the exclusive domain of God (Romans 12:19). This has been delegated to the civil magistrate, who, as we read in Romans 13:4, "is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil."
Private vengeance means one would stalk down a criminal after one's life is no longer in danger as opposed to defending oneself during an attack. It is this very point that has been confused by Christian pacifists who would take the passage in the Sermon on the Mount about turning the other cheek (which prohibits private vengeance) into a command to falter before the wicked.
Let us consider also that the Sixth Commandment tells us "Thou shall not murder." In the chapters following, God gave to Moses many of the situations which require a death penalty. God clearly has not told us never to kill. He has told us not to murder, which means we are not to take an innocent life. Consider also that the civil magistrate is to be a terror to those who practice evil.
This passage does not in any way imply that the role of law enforcement is to prevent crimes or to protect individuals from criminals. The magistrate is a minister to serve as "an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil." (Romans 13:4)
This point is reflected in the legal doctrine of the United States. Repeatedly, courts have held that the government has no responsibility to provide individual security. One case (Bowers v. DeVito) put it this way: "there is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered."
Self Defense in the New Testament The Christian pacifist may try to argue that God has changed His mind from the time that He gave Moses the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20 or the provision for justifiably killing a thief in Exodus 22. But the writer of Hebrews makes it clear that this cannot be, because "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews 13:. In the Old Testament, the prophet Malachi records God's words this way: "For I am the Lord, I do not change" (Malachi 3:6).
Paul was referring to the unchangeability of God's Word when he wrote to Timothy that "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Clearly, Paul viewed all Scripture, including the Old Testament, as useful for training Christians in every area of life.
We must also consider what Christ told his disciples in his last hours with them: "...But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a sack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one" (Luke 22:36, emphasis added). Keep in mind that the sword was the finest offensive weapon available to and individual soldier - the equivalent then of a military rifle today.
The Christian pacifist will likely object at this point that only a few hours later, Christ rebuked Peter who used a sword to cut off the ear of Malchus, a servant of the high priest in the company of a detachment of troops. Let us read what Christ said to Peter in Matthew 26:52-54: Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more that twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?
It was not the first time that Christ had to explain to the disciples why He had come to earth. To fulfill the Scriptures, the Son of God had to die for the sin of man since man was incapable of paying for his own sin apart from going to hell.
Christ could have saved His life, but then believers would have lost their lives forever in hell. These things only became clear to the disciples after Christ had died and been raised from the dead and the Spirit had come into the world at Pentecost (see John 14:26).
While Christ told Peter to "put your sword in its place" He clearly did not say get rid of it forever. That would have contradicted what he told the disciples only hours before. Peter's sword was to protect his own mortal life from danger. His sword was not needed to protect the Creator of the universe and the King of kings.
Years after Pentecost, Paul wrote in a letter to Timothy "But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever" (1 Tim. 5:. This passage applies to our subject because it would be absurd to buy a house, furnish it with food and facilities for one's family, and then refuse to install locks and provide the means to protect the family and the property. Likewise it would be absurd not to take, if necessary, the life of a night-time thief to protect the members of the family (Exodus 22:2-3).
A related, and even broader concept, is found in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Christ had referred to the Old Testament summary of all the laws of the Bible into two great commandments: "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and your neighbor as yourself'" (Luke 10:27).
When asked who was a neighbor, Christ related the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37). It was the Good Samaritan who took care of the mugging victim who was a neighbor to the victim. The others who walked by and ignored the victim's plight were not acting as neighbors to him.
In the light of all we have seen the Scriptures teach to this point, can we argue that if we were able to save another's life from an attacker by shooting the attacker with our gun that we should "turn the other cheek instead?" The Bible speaks of no such right. It only speaks of our responsibilities in the face of an attack-as individual creatures made by God, as householders or as neighbors.
National Blessings and Cursings The Old Testament also tells us a great deal about the positive relationship between righteousness, which exalts a nation, and self defense. (See footnote a.)
It makes clear that in times of national rebellion against the Lord God, the rulers of the nation will reflect the spiritual degradation of the people and the result is a denial of God's commandments, an arrogance of officialdom, disarmament and oppression.
For example, the people of Israel were oppressed during the time of the rule of the Judges. This occurred every time the people apostatized. Judges 5:8 tells us that, "They chose new gods; then there was war in the gates; not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel."
Consider Israel under Saul: The first book of Samuel tells of the turning away of Israel from God.
The people did not want to be governed by God; they wanted to be ruled by a king like the pagan, God-hating nations around them. Samuel warned the people what they were getting into-the curses that would be upon them *p; if they persisted in raising up a king over themselves and their families. Included in those curses was the raising up of a standing, professional army which would take their sons and their daughters for aggressive wars (I Samuel 8:11).
This curse is not unknown in the United States. Saul carried out all the judgements that Samuel had warned the people about. His buildup of a standing army has been repeated in the U.S., and not just in terms of the military, but also the 650,000 full-time police officers from all levels of government. Saul was the king the Israelites wanted and got. He was beautiful in the eyes of the world but a disaster in the eyes of the Lord. Saul did not trust God.
He rebelled against His form of sacrifice unto the Lord. Saul put himself above God. He was impatient. He refused to wait for Samuel because God's way was taking too long. Saul went ahead and performed the sacrifice himself, thus violating God's commandment (and, incidently, also violating the God-ordained separation of duties of church and state!)
Thus was the kingdom lost to Saul.
And, it was under him that the Philistines were able to defeat the Jews and put them into bondage. So great was the bondage exerted by the Philistines that "Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, 'Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.'
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen each man's plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle;...So it came about, on the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan..." (1 Samuel 13:19-20; 22-23).
Today, the same goals of the Philistines would be carried out by an oppressor who would ban gunsmiths from the land. The sword of today is the handgun, rifle or shotgun. The sword control of the Philistines is today's gun control of those governments that do not trust their people with guns.
It is important to understand that what happened to the Jews at the time of Saul was not unexpected according to the sanctions spelled out by God in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. In the first verses of those chapters, blessing are promised to a nation that keeps God's laws.
In the long second parts of those chapters, the curses are spelled out for a nation that comes under judgement for is rebellion against God. Deuteronomy 28:47- 48 helps us understand the reason for Israel's oppression by the Philistines during Saul's reign:
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of all things; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
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The problem with shopping at a big-box music-instrument retailer happens when, within three minutes of grabbing your dream axe from the wall display and strumming a few licks, you're pounced on by a salivating floorman who immediately refers to you as "bro." As in "I see you got your eye on that axe, bro." The beauty of shopping at a spot such as Rockit Music is it's devoid of a high-pressure sales crew. It's stocked with tons of musical goodies focusing on Fender and Gibson electrics, as well as Fender and Mesa Boogie amps and a large selection of acoustic guitars. Operated by a core group of guys with more than a century of combined musical experience and run by the same owner for the past two decades, it also has a diverse range of drum, bass and guitar teachers capable of taking students in any direction they want to go. Best of all, they shred.
Hope you held onto those Donnie Wahlberg posters: Another decade from the past has become all cool and retro, and this time, it's the 1990s (la vida loca?). Eighties nostalgia is so 10 years ago. It seems like everyone has jumped in on the craze. MTV brought back Beavis and Butt-head and—get this—music videos. The Backstreet Boys and New Kids On the Block got back together to perform for swarms of once-tweens (Justin who?). Newt Gingrich has considered a presidential run. Teen witches replaced teen vampires. Christina Applegate is still hot. It's easy, we suppose, to long for the days when the now-legal, pouty Olsen twins chirped adorable one-liners ("You got it, dude!"), and the only terrorists we worried about were dinosaurs destroying theme parks. Yes, we love the '90s! Now, if only we can bring back the Clinton-era economy and Metropolis in Irvine. . . .
Sometimes, you just have to go with the obvious. If you're gonna go to the mall, you might as well go to the mall, the holy grail of Orange County consumerism, the reason why the words "Costa Mesa" sit beside Beverly Hills, Paris and Milan in designer ads in glossy magazines. It's a place where a concierge will check your bags when your arms get too tired, where personal shoppers are at your service (for a fee, of course), where your electric Jaguar can juice up at the charging station while you shop. Even if you're more, well, recession-chic like us, it's always fun to play Pretty Woman, dressing up (yeah, you've gotta dress up) and prancing around the fancy cluster of shops: Prada, Burberry, Armani, Gucci, La Perla, Hermès, Versace and Chloé. The 2.8 million-square-foot complex houses all the usual mall stores, too, including H&M, Banana Republic and Nine West, as well as the major department stores and a list of eateries from acclaimed gourmet to fast food. Shopping has never looked this good.
Located in a former auto garage, the Captain's Helm exudes hipster chic, yet it skews more thrift store than vintage store. There's a nice selection of graphic tees and polo shirts, some with interesting graphics such as Reagan's face twisted in all sorts of grotesque contortions accompanied by nasty, lovable captions; these run anywhere from $8 to $12. And don't miss the selection of Captain's Helm T-shirts featuring obligatory line drawings of a crusty rowboat guy. Included in the mix are shoes, boots and jeans, as well as—bizarrely—surfboards. And like any forward-thinking secondhand store, there's also a sizable collection of used vinyl. All of which gives the savvy shopper plenty of reasons to check this spot out.
This place offers nearly all the creature comforts the eco-conscious soul could desire, except for organic produce. Like a subspace passage to Portland, Seed People's Market touts "products with a purpose" and carries countless handmade and recycled items arranged artfully about the shop on whimsical art-installation-like displays. The result resembles a miniature Patchwork Festival operating seven days a week. You'd be hard-pressed to find another establishment in Orange County from which you can walk away with Patagonia outerwear, a package of hand-printed stationery and a pair of decorative bear-eared headbands. Nestled in the heart of the Camp in Costa Mesa, not only does the store offer an array of guilt-free gift-worthy items, but it also has a café and a second-floor crafting studio, with regularly scheduled classes. So if you're feeling particularly productive, you could roll over to Seed, get your birthday shopping done, learn how to repurpose old copper wire into a new birdhouse, grab some coffee and wrap up by chilling out on the patio while shooting the shit next to a campfire.
In the SoCo Corner off Interstate 405 is the home-decorating behemoth known simply as tpt home, pleasing shoppers and infuriating the grammar police. The year-old shop is the size of a giant warehouse—one entire wing is dedicated to fake flowers and faux topiary (look no further to satisfy those artificial-Christmas-tree needs). Calling itself "Orange County's destination for inspired home décor," tpt definitely has an OC aesthetic and is perfect for those Newport Beach residents who had to fire their interior decorator when the market crashed. Any knickknack can be found—need some colored glass balls to finish off the table setting? Maybe an assortment of tin bud vases? A sequined bird statue? Yep, all can be found here.


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The Red Cross Invites You and Your Familyto a Family Day Devoted to
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Who: Women and men who lost loved ones on 9/11 and are now facing the challenges of being single parents are invited to attend to share and provide support to each other.
What: Our May Family Day is devoted to the challenges of single parenting. We invite you to meet with other single parents, discuss issues and share ideas in a supportive and friendly environment. The Red Cross Family Day Program is a series of interactive gatherings to provide information and support. Dr. Barbara Dazzo and Dr. Michael Andronica of the American Group Psychotherapy Association will facilitate the discussion. Food and refreshments will be provided.
When: Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 10 am – 12 pm.
Where: American Red Cross Bergen Crossroads Chapter, 74 Godwin Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
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News and analysis
November 20, 2013
6 Projects That Make Data More Accessible Win $100,000 Each From Gates
Six nonprofit projects that aim to combine multiple sets of data to help solve social problems have each won $100,000 grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The new grants are part of Gates's Grand Challenges Explorations program, now in its seventh year, which aims to spur innovative solutions to global challenges, says Victoria Vrana, a senior program officer at the foundation. Gates is working on the grants with Liquidnet for Good, the grant-making arm of the financial firm Liquidnet.
"With really complex problems, you need the kind of rich insight that comes from multiple data sets combined," says Ms. Vrana. "But making different data sets talk to each other is pretty hard."
Winning Projects
The winners of the grants were chosen from a pool of 400 applicants from 45 countries. The projects are experimental, but the hope is that they will be expanded and reproduced elsewhere.
The winners:
• Pushpa Aman Singh, who founded GuideStar India as an effort of the Civil Society Information Services India. GuideStar India is the most comprehensive database of India's registered charities. It has profiles of more than 4,000 organizations, and Ms. Singh plans to expand that number and the types of information included.
• Development Initiatives, an international aid organization, to support its partnership with the Ugandan nonprofit Development Research and Training. Together, they are trying to help residents of two districts in Uganda identify a key problem the communities face and use existing data sets to build both online and offline tools to help tackle that challenge.
"Data needs to be as localized as possible," says Simon Parrish, a program leader for Development Initiatives. "At the moment, much of the data is global or national, but we need to get it down to local levels to make it useful and meaningful."
• H.V. Jagadish, at the University of Michigan, to develop a prototype that will merge sets of incompatible geographic data to make them comparable. Mr. Jagadish, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, points to crime precincts and school districts as an example. "We want to understand the impact of education on crime, but the districts don't quite overlap with the precincts," he says. "This tool will address the lack of overlap."
• Vijay Modi, at Columbia University, to work with government agencies and charities in Nigeria on a tool similar to Foursquare, the social network that allows people to share their location with friends. Mr. Modi, a mechanical-engineering professor and faculty member of the university's Earth Institute, envisions a tool that will help people find important resources more easily.
"If someone wants to know where the health clinics or water pumps in their own vicinity are, they will be able to easily find them," he says.
• Gisli Olafsson and his team at NetHope, a network of aid organizations. The group is building a tool to help humanitarian charities share their data more widely and in real time—potentially saving more lives during disasters.
"We want to create that glue or central thing that allows the data to flow between the different systems, so as soon as each organization begins to collect data about a situation it becomes available to everybody," says Mr. Olafsson.
• Development Gateway, a nonprofit that assists international development charities with technology, and GroundTruth Initiative, a nonprofit that helps residents of underserved communities learn mapping and media skills. The two groups want to give people living in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, more detailed information about local schools.
It's very difficult to enroll slum children in the public schools in Kenya, says Erica Hagen, GroundTruth's co-founder. She says the project aims to document everything it can about the informal "pop-up" schools poor children can attend in Nairobi's slums, such as the number of students and teachers per school and parents' opinions about those schools.
Says Ms. Hagen: "What we'd like to do is have an interactive system with mobile access that allows the residents themselves to query the data and make use of it."
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BELLFLOWER - For nearly 30 years, the stage was Robert Newman's domain - the classroom where he taught hundreds of Bellflower High School students the arts of acting and directing.
"The best part of being a drama teacher is having uncovered their talents and teaching them to experience and discover the talent within them," Newman said recently.
On Saturday, several of his former students, many of whom have gone on to become successes in the entertainment industry, will pay tribute to the 90-year-old with a radio show open to the public based on the famous "War of the Worlds" by Orson Welles, one of his favorite actors.
Newman began a career in radio more than 60 years ago. But when that career choice "didn't pan out," he returned to college where he studied drama, he said.
He began his teaching career at Bellflower High in 1955 and continued there until 1982.
"That's almost 30 years worth of guiding students through the multifaceted world of the theater," said Harry Cason, a former student and director of Saturday's production. "The theater we're now in at Bellflower High was built specifically for him, in 1965, as a testament to the confidence and appreciation the school administration had for him."
The event will also raise money for the school, and already organizers have collected $3,000, Cason said.
"It's about paying back the public school. It's a facility that helped all of us. And it's been hurting," Cason said. "These students deserve to have the experience we had, so in honor of (Newman) we want to make his theater come back to the status it was (in) when we were there 40 years ago."
During his years at Bellflower, Newman personally produced and directed at least four major theatrical pieces each year. "I enjoyed it. I was playing, because I was doing my thing," he said. "I always wanted to be a director. And I liked directing more than acting, so becoming a teacher was right along that line."
Newman's techniques opened a whole new world of drama to students, Cason said.
"His direction and elegant style of teaching reached thousands of students, ... so much so that some of his students found the world he opened up to them so inviting they pursued their own path through the entertainment business," Cason said.
Cason, who graduated from Bellflower High in 1972, went to USC as a drama major. He attended The Julliard School in New York and went on to be an actor and a writer.
"I was on a couple of soap operas, some prime-time television, wrote plays, and am presently writing a feature film script," Cason said. "I still consider (Newman) the best drama teacher I've ever had, and I went to the best schools for the arts.
"He taught us that there was a dignity in drama and that it was possible to go on with that and have a career in it and have an honorable career."
Newman's popularity was the reason so many former students will gather Saturday.
"He was an inspiration to a lot of kids who went there, including my two sisters," said former student Kerry McCluggage, who became president of Universal Television and later Paramount Televison Group.
"You hear this kind of story here and there about different people in high school, and he was one of those teachers who inspired kids and got the best out of them and made them believe they could not just do the play at hand, but anything."
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Treadwell to address inaugural IAAR conference
Henrie Monteith Treadwell will give the keynote address at the first conference of the University of South Carolina's Institute for African American Research (IAAR) March 24–26.
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Treadwell, director of Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, will speak at 6:45 p.m. March 24 in the Lumpkin Auditorium, located on the eighth floor of the Darla Moore School of Business. One of USC's first African-American students to graduate from the university after Reconstruction, Treadwell will discuss the topic, "Criminal Justice and Reentry: Taking a Hard Look at the Costs."
The conference and her talk are free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, go to www.cas.sc.edu/iaar/. The deadline is March 15.
With the theme, "The University of South Carolina and African American Research in the Twenty-First Century," scholars from around the country and the university's campuses will discuss topics relevant to the South Carolina, including public health, education and immigration.
The conference will feature three sessions, each including a keynote address and a panel comprising USC scholars. All three sessions will be held in McKissick Museum in connection with the exhibit, "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art."
- Session I: Public Health. 8:45 a.m., March 25. Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an associate professor of sociology and African-American Studies at Northwestern University, will discuss her research on the social and economic experience of women living with HIV/AIDs. Panelists will include Drs. Sacoby Wilson, Heather Brandt and Deborah Billings from the university's Arnold School of Public Health.
- Session II: Education. 1:45 p.m., March 25. Dr. James Scheurich, a professor and chairman of the department of educational administration and human resource development at Texas A&M University, will discuss his research on race and ethnicity and how schools and school districts can help all students succeed. Panelists will include Drs. Tambra Jackson, Elizabeth Costello and Michelle Jay from the College of Education.
- Session III: Immigration. 8:45 a.m., March 26. Dr. Arlene Torres, director of the Latino Faculty Recruitment Initiative at the City University of New York, will discuss her research. Her talk is titled "The Immigration of Latina(o)s: The 'New' South, Racial Politics, and Afro-Latina(o)s." Panelists will include Dr. David Simmons, an assistant professor of anthropology and public health; Dr. Myriam Torres, director of the Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies in the Arnold School of Public Health; and Dr. Elaine Lacy, a history professor from USC Aiken.
The conference is funded in part by a grant from the S.C. Humanities Council. Sponsors include the university's College of Arts and Sciences and its Institute for Southern Studies, department of history, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and McKissick Museum; the Arnold School of Public Health's Institute for Partnerships to Eliminate Health Disparities and Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies; and USC's College of Education.
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The University of South Carolina's Institute for African American Research was established in 2008 to support research that enhances the scholarly study and public understanding of race and black life in South Carolina, the Southeast and beyond.
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- What: First meeting of the Institute for African American Research
- Who: Henrie Monteith Treadwell, among first African-American post-Reconstruction graduates, to deliver keynote address
- When: 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, March 24
- Where: Darla Moore School of Business, Lumpkin Auditorium


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