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How fun is this idea?!!?
And it took just one day... not even a whole day.
I love bracelets so this was a perfect way to keep me motivated!
I've also finished the back and the front left of my sweater! Just have the right front and the sleeves now! Woohoo!
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Knitted Bracelet!
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- kitkat said...
That's cute. I'm looking forward to getting back into knitting once I get more moved in. I'll actually have some free time again!
- Saturday, June 13, 2009 8:01:00 PM
- Tracy said...
I'm really knitting away! I just finished two scarflettes (one in seed stitch which was new for me) that now need buttons... and made three coasters with the little bit of leftover yarn! Still need to cast on for the right side of my sweater though...
I can't wait to see what you do once you are more settled!
- Sunday, June 14, 2009 3:12:00 PM
- Brennee said...
Love the bracelet...you really did a nice job, even sans purls. Very cute idea (would make nice Christmas gifts, too). LOVE the photos, too. Woof!
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:03:00 AM
- Hannah said...
Very nice! :)
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Monday night's season finale of Desperate Housewives was not, as many expected, the most-watched program on TV this year. But it went close.
With 2.29 million viewers nationally, it was 40,000 behind the final of this year's series of Dancing with the Stars.
But that's neither here nor there. Desperate Housewives' biggest claim to fame is that it is the most successful new drama on Australian TV in more than a decade.
Since February, the year's water-cooler show has averaged 2.13 million viewers a week. To put that in perspective, it has been even more successful here, per head of population, than in the US, where it averaged almost 20 million viewers a week.
Over there, it was not even the most successful series of the year - American Idol, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Survivor: Palau beat it.
On Monday nights, Desperate Housewives has been seen by 59 per cent of viewers aged 16 to 39 watching commercial TV.
Among those 25 to 54 it averaged 53 per cent. And therein lies its secret - to dominate the teenage market, young adults, home-makers and the middle-aged is a rarity, and advertisers have been falling over themselves to get a 30-second spot on the show.
What a pity, then, that the season finale was such a disappointment. A few questions were answered, including why Mary Alice Young topped herself in the first episode, and what was in the toy trunk beneath the Youngs' swimming pool.
And in the tradition of all good soaps, there was a cliffhanger ending. (The next series went into production in the US a few weeks ago but we will have to wait until February to discover what happened after Mike walked into the house where Susan was hostage.)
But it was all so dull and humourless. And there was that irritating promo during every ad break for an allegedly secret scene that the show's producers had left out of the series for unknown reasons but which Channel Seven would show during the following program, the season premiere of its new US medical drama Grey's Anatomy.
I did not stay up to watch it but I'm told it was a scene that suggested that Bree, often described as Martha Stewart on steroids, and George, the pharmacist who had been dispensing her husband Rex's medication, might have been having a secret affair and had plotted to kill the late Rex by overdosing him with potassium.
At least that's one interpretation - I have had quite a few in recent days, which means the scene only served to confuse even loyal fans. It also seems that it was not much of a secret.
Apparently it was shown on Channel Ten recently during an Oprah Winfrey Desperate Housewives special.
It was an obvious trick to encourage Desperate Housewives viewers to stick around after the show finished and try Grey's Anatomy, and you cannot blame Seven for trying. (It didn't work very well - Grey's Anatomy averaged about 800,000 fewer viewers.)
Anyway, there's no denying the show's success. It is reported in the US that perfume manufacturer Coty is developing a Desperate Housewives fragrance, although I cannot imagine who would want to smell desperate.
Some of the show's stars are said to be working on their own fashion ranges. And now the company that produces the show, Disney's Buena Vista International Television, is negotiating to develop clones of the program around the world.
Franchising successful formats is not new. Channel Nine's 60 Minutes has been produced here for more than 25 years under licence from the American CBS Network.
The European creators of Big Brother and Who Wants To Be a Millionaire receive millions of dollars in royalty payments from the Ten and Nine networks for local copies of their programs.
Now franchising is moving into TV drama. Last week the producers of Law & Order: Criminal Intent signed a deal with France's TF1 Network for a French version of the New York-based show.
According to US business magazine Broadcasting & Cable, Buena Vista has begun negotiations with networks worldwide - India is said to be the first - for local clones of Desperate Housewives.
An Australian version is unlikely; our market is too small to finance such an expensive project. And anyway, given Australian viewers' thumbs down to local drama in recent years, it would be a gamble.
No, despite the disappointment of Monday's season finale, Desperate Housewives has set all sorts of new benchmarks in TV drama and I, for one, cannot wait for the new series in 2006.
My biggest query concerns the new housewife in Wisteria Lane, played by Alfre Woodward.
When serial divorcee Edie Britt went a-calling on Monday night, didn't you get the impression that she and her son had something to hide?
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"Everyone knows who Macklemore is. But not many people know who Ryan Lewis is, or, even what he does," Jimmy Fallon said as he introduced a clip on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" Monday night, June 2. In the video, Ryan Lewis of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis interviewed music fans to find out what they knew about him.
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Boris Johnson argues in the Daily Telegraph that the exodus of FTSE-100 firms from London is in part the result of Labour regime.
In the Financial Times Peter Thal Larsen explains the perils that recapitalisation may pose for banks.
Rachel Sylvester discusses the prime minister's "shock and awe" reshuffle in today's Times.
In the Guardian, Polly Toynbee has more advice for the prime minister as she explains why now more than ever the poor should come first.
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Catwoman, Bane & Batman! New 'Dark Knight Rises' Trailer Emerges (VIDEO)
Christian Bale reprises his role as Batman (aka Bruce Wayne) while some new faces and characters appear in the film including Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, Tom Hardy as the villain Bane and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake.
The film is set eight years after Dark Knight (which came out in 2008 and featured the late Heath Ledger as the Joker), and in the newest trailer, shows Batman beat up and held captive by Bane.
Dark Knight Rises begins after Batman took the fall for Two Face's crimes, and now a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham, and the superhero resurfaces to protect a city that brands him an enemy.
The new cast members in DKR have worked together and alongside Nolan before. JGL, Tom and Marion Cotillard (who plays Miranda Tate) all starred in the director's psychological 2010 hit thriller Inception.
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WEST NORRITON Ś At his home in Norristown, Sonny Termine lives a quieter life than in days of old. During the TNT championship years of the Æ90s, the basement of his corner row home was packed with winners Ś hard working players, friends, family Ś who gathered Friday night for cold-tapped beers and rounds of pool.
Like the Chicago Bulls of their era, TNT was the softball team of the decade. They won five Norristown Softball League titles from 1993-99 (and again in 2009) with the 1994 team named the fifth best NSL team of the 20th century. In 2005 and 2010, they were senior softball champions on the National, World and Olympic level.
The team was TermineÆs baby. He went out and got the best players possible, because he wanted his team to win, and they did. There have been 50 TNT players inducted in the Norristown Softball Hall of Fame.
After winning every honor, every trophy, every tournament and every championship possible, TNT disbanded. And yet at 67 Termine still plays and yes, Termine still wants to win. In March 2014 Termine will be inducted into the Amateur Softball League Hall of Fame as a player-manager, the greatest honor on a national level that a softball player can receive.
ōWhen I was a young kid, I wanted to play the game and I wanted to win,ö Termine said. ōI didnÆt care about playing with a bunch of friends, it didnÆt matter.ö
Termine stands about 5-foot-6 with a messy head of grey hair plastered to his forehead from wearing one of his hundreds of ball caps he stows away for the right time and place. He is light on his feet and has the energy of a man half his age and heÆs just seven years off of quadruple bypass surgery that sidelined him for ōmaybe six weeks.ö Wrinkles form around his eyes and mouth from years of smiling and laughing, but his muscles remain tight and defined. On the outside of his calves are two tattoos: on the right is the symbol of his famed TNT ball club, and on the left calf is a bat making contact with text that reads ōPlay Hard or Go Home.ö
Early on in his career, Termine found a sport he could really play. The pace of the game, the big ball he could hit ōa country mile,ö and the competition were all factors in his passion.
Sitting alongside his youngest of six children, Joseph, and longtime friend and competitor Sully ōHeelsö Gelet, who at 82 runs and maintains the NSL through meticulous attention to detail, the three laugh about past games and about TermineÆs incessant need to be the best.
ōWeÆve always been very highly competitive,ö Gelet said. ōItÆs always been a friendship Ś adversarial on the field and friends off the field.ö
Gelet and Termine, who were both pitchers, competed against each other for over 40 years on the field or from a coaching standpoint.
ōHe did everything within the rules to win a game,ö including a game in which Gelet had recently come off knee surgery with Termine playing the style of ōletÆs hit the ball back at Heels,ö Gelet said.
ōItÆs more about being friendly with people and having a smile on your face. Smiling is contagious,ö Termine said. ōWinning was always number one, but when you went through the line shaking hands, the game was over.ö
Gelet said that despite any issues on the field, they always discussed any transgressions over a beer and moved on.
ōEvery day is another day,ö he said.
An intense rivalry fueled his passion to be victorious, and thus when he formed TNT, Termine wrangled up all the talent he could find. When he was 36, Termine would have his team show up in the rain and made the umpire sign the sheet that said his team showed up and the other team didnÆt. At one point, he played in seven different leagues which would find him driving from one game to another to another in a single evening, but always playing his hardest.
Over the course of 50 years, the bad taste of losing was something Termine could never settle for. One year Termine had some of the softball players enter into a flag football league, but not just any flag football league Ś these were tough dudes whoÆd break your nose, pick you up, slam you down, pluck the flag and kick you for good measure as told by Steve Dimitry, a longtime player and friend of TermineÆs.
ōHe told all the softball players after we got killed that first season to æjust stay home and stay healthy,Æö Dimitry said, who was the victim of a vicious clothesline that broke his nose that year. ōHe then went out and got all the biggest, baddest football players and won that league the next year.ö
Bowling and darts were no different.
ōIÆd just come out for a couple beers and Sonny would be trying to bowl 300,ö Dimitry said. ōThey won the dart league, the bowling league, but he never sacrificed his friendships with people to win.ö
Five years ago on June 10, 2008, SonnyÆs wife Linda passed away. Together they had three children Ś Sunshine, Augustus and Joseph Ś to go with the three children they had from previous marriages, Charles, Peter and Michael. She was his biggest fan, always at the field. He helped create a womenÆs TNT league in which she played and after their second win in ten games the girls would ride around town beeping the horn in celebration.
ōI remember one of the championship games and she was in the bleachers with all of the kids. She was rooting for me, and I could clearly hear her holler, æCome on, Sonny! You can do it! DonÆt pop up this time!Æö Termine laughs. ōIÆll never forget that, but that was Linda, sheÆd root for you but she had her own words.ö
In years since, TermineÆs passion for the game has only gotten stronger. Whereas at one time heÆd plan out a day with his wife around his softball games, now he just gets up and goes. Recently, TermineÆs son Joseph called up his dad minutes before a game in which they were a man short and in danger of forfeiting. Termine came right out, went 4-4, and they won the game.
ōItÆs a long and hard journey, but to be as successful as he is, is just amazing,ö Joseph Termine said. ōHeÆs always stayed a champion.ö
Currently, Sonny Termine plays on the Marshalls softball team in the 60-plus Montgomery County Senior Softball league. He stretches under the shade of a tree for 45 minutes in preparation for the seven-inning contest. On the field he pitches and is as nimble as a jackrabbit on grounders up the middle in which he fields with precision. In the particular game he was pitching he got hit around, and after an outfielder misplayed a fly ball that allowed two more runs to score, Termine took a moment to rest his hands on his hips before throwing the next pitch. In the top of the next inning, Termine cheered that same player on at the plate with great enthusiasm, and after suffering the loss he greeted the opponents with hugs and handshakes.
ōI understand losing now. I used to take a loss home with me, or IÆd be up all night before a big game,ö Termine said. ōNow itÆs not all about winning, itÆs more about having fun and staying healthy.ö
In March when Termine will be inducted into the ASA Hall of Fame, he had the option of being inducted as a sponsor, a player or a manager. After much deliberation heÆs decided to go in as a manager.
ōThe greatest gifts in life are friends,ö Termine said. ōWhen you go in as a manager, it speaks a lot for everybody who you had the relationship of being their coach and their friend.
ōIn my situation I think it would be selfish to go in as a player. I wasnÆt a superstar, but I always gave 100 percent effort and when a guy gives me 100 percent effort, heÆs on my A-team.ö


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Forget stuffy and boring. Poetry is fun! That is the message Australian poet Steven Herrick is spreading with his books and his performances for school groups.
He did a two-day tour of Christchurch City Libraries, read some of his work to students, teachers and library staff and had everybody laughing out loud.
"People think poetry is about really static, old, boring things like a tree or a river," says Steven.
"My poetry is about a boy who jumps in the river. I don't write descriptive poems. I write stories in verse. I try and write the way I speak and I write about things that have really happened. That's what I think poetry is all about."
During his library tour, he read several of his popular poems, including 10 Things Your Parents Will Never Say to You ("Children, don't be so quiet. Start yelling, turn the TV up. Start arguing now!" and "Yes, I know today is Monday, but why don't we stay home from school anyway"), To My Son Joe, Lost in the Mist, Toenails and Mum and Dad are in Love.
"I have a great job. I stand up for 45 minutes and hopefully get the children interested in poetry or at least go away with a different view of poetry.
"My poetry is all about family and how they interact. It is about community, the community of family, the community of school, of sports and the local community. They can recognise something in my poetry."
Steven was born in Brisbane on New Years Eve, 1958. He says his love for poetry developed at an early age.
"I was in Year 10 and we had a really pretty teacher who used to read us poems."
At the age of 18, he wrote his first poem, Love is like a Gobstopper, and was paid $5 when it was published.
"I started writing poetry for adults, but then I had children and what better audience than your own kids. Children give you lots of things, but mine gave me a new career.
"I wanted to write poems for them and I also had their experiences from which I could draw."
Writing poetry comes easy to Steven. He says it takes him between 10 to 30 minutes to write a poem, but about a week to edit it and make sure it is just right.
"After I have written it, I stand up at home and read it out loud. If I stumble over any of the words, I change them."
Steven has published 15 books and is preparing another three to be released in the next two years. His books have been short-listed for several awards and he has twice won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award.
These days, he lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, north of Sydney. He loves playing soccer and writes his books at home when he isn't travelling around performing at schools or libraries.
For more information about Steven Herrick, visit his website.
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Dr. Janice McIntire-Strasburg got her Ph.D. in English
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1998. Her dissertation
was on Mark Twain, and her research interests include both American
and Native American Literature, and technology and writing.. Currently
she is working on theories of humor. For more information on her
teaching and research see her personal webpage here.
M.A. University of Nevada (1994)
Ph.D. University of Nevada (1998)
Computers and Writing, Mark Twain, American Literature, Native
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Modern Chivalry, Parts I and II, University of Virginia
Electronic Text Center, completed August 2002. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER2/Chivalry/index.html
Mark Twain at the Buffalo Express, Joseph B. McCullough,
co-editor. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999)
"Persona and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Theory of Humor,"
Under consideration, Studies in American Humor.
"Mark Twain: A Son of Missouri and the Midwest," Encyclopedia
of the Midwest, invited submission, forthcoming.
"Modern Chivalry and the Case for Electronic Texts,"
The Writing Instructor, http://www.writinginstructor.com/essays/mcintirestrasburg1.html
July 2002. Reprinted. Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed.
2nd edition. TK3 Book. Ed. Kate Agena, et al. West Lafayette,
IN: Parlor Press, 2003.
"Building a Better Mousetrap: Essays in MOOSpace,"
Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments,
Fall 2002.
"Reading the Writing Process on the Web," Practice
in Context, Moore, Cindy and Peggy O'Neill, eds., Urbana,
"The Flash or the Trash: Web Portfolios and the Evaluation
of Student Writing," Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of
Writing in Webbed Environments, http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.2/binder2.html?coverweb/assessment/strasburg/
November 2001.
"William Reed Huntington," Library of America Companion
edition to American Poets, Fitzroy and Dearborn Publishers. March
Book Review: Pearson, Michael. Shohola Falls,
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Mark Twain Forum
Online. 23 April 2004
Book Review: Cooley, John. How Nancy Jackson Married Kate
Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women.
Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. pp. xvi
+255, Paper, Dimensions (in inches): 0.55 x 8.98 x 5.03. ISBN
0803294425. Mark Twain Forum Online, December 2001
Book Review: Krauth, Leland. Proper Mark Twain. University
of Georgia Press, 1999. Pp. 258. Notes, bibliography. Cloth, 1.07
x 9.26 x 6.30". $30.00. ISBN 0-8203-2106-0. Mark Twsain Forum
Online, April 2000.
Book Review: A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court, Heck,
Peter. Mark Twain Forum, Online, March 16, 1998.
"Gretta's Angels: The Significance of Naming in `The Dead,'"
Notes in Modern Irish Literature. January, 1997.
Book Review: Florence, Don. Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's
Early Writings, University of Missouri Press, 1995. Thalia:
A Journal of Literary Humor. 1996.
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Boosting investment in infrastructure and logistics, further liberalising the network industries, improving investment in human and knowledge-based capital to allow upgrading in the global value chains will be essential to enhance export performance.
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This guide provides recommendations that can be implemented in the short term and focuses, amongst others, on formalities dealing with business start-ups, obtaining construction permits, registering property in Mexico
This paper provides analysis of the regulatory governance of network sector regulators in electricity, gas, telecommunications, rail, airport and ports within the OECD as it stood in 2013.
The SME Policy Index is a benchmarking tool designed for emerging economies to assess SME policy frameworks and monitor progress in policy implementation over time. The Index has been developed by the OECD in partnership with the European Commission (EC), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the European Training Foundation (ETF) in 2006 for the Western Balkans. The South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (SEECEL) joined as an additional partner in 2014. The SME Policy Index has since 2006 been applied in four regions and nine assessment rounds overall.
The SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Turkey 2016 presents the results of the fourth assessment of the Small Business Act for Europe in the Western Balkans and, since 2012, Turkey. The assessment framework is structured around the ten principles of the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA). It provides a wide-range of pro-enterprise measures to guide the design and implementation of SME policies based on good practices promoted by the EU and the OECD.
The Index identifies strengths and weaknesses in policy design, implementation and monitoring. It allows for comparison across countries and measures convergence towards good practices and relevant policy standards. It aims to support governments in setting targets for SME policy development and to identify strategic priorities to further improve the business environment. It also helps to engage governments in policy dialogue and exchange good practices within the region and with OECD and EU members.
The APEC-OECD Integrated Checklist on Regulatory Reform is a voluntary tool that APEC member economies may use to evaluate their respective regulatory reform efforts.
The OECD has a long standing engagement with Southeast Asia on regulatory reform, both regionally through APEC and ASEAN and bilaterally with individual ASEAN member states.
Una regulación de calidad es clave para el crecimiento incluyente y el bienestar de la población. Contar con marcos regulatorios de calidad resulta imperativo. La crisis financiera y económica ha puesto al descubierto que el descuido de los procesos regulatorios provoca que se mine la confianza en las instituciones públicas y privadas.
One of Chile's biggest strengths is its very sound macroeconomic framework that reinforces its economic resilience. This is partly based on a prudent regulatory and supervisory framework governing the financial system. Furthermore, the government's Agenda for Productivity, Innovation and Growth, co-ordinated by the Ministry of Economy with the participation of other ministries and state services, constitutes a good opportunity to use regulatory policy as a driver to reform the policymaking framework of Chile. For example, Chile has already made substantive progress in making regulations more accessible and communicating administrative requirements. However, while in Chile national regulations provide the general framework for administrative procedures and an efficient state administration, the lack of a comprehensive regulatory reform programme has reduced the possibility of achieving even better economic outcomes and unleashing resources to boost productivity. The regulatory policymaking framework lacks some key features seen in other OECD countries (e.g. stakeholder engagement, regulatory impact assessment, oversight body) that would make sure that regulations are designed in the best way. Good practices in rule-making procedures are also rather limited. This review presents the way forward for improving the government's capacity to ensure high-quality regulation in Chile.
This report assesses the Republic of Kazakhstan's significant efforts to improve water supply and sanitation (WSS) services over the past 15 years, notably in terms of ambitious target-setting, implementation of a sound water tariff policy, and significant investment in the rehabilitation and development of relevant infrastructure. Generally speaking, the absence of updated data on WSS institutional development is a limiting factor for further policy and programme development in the field, including in Kazakhstan. The monitoring and evaluation system proposed in this report aims to help assess progress in the WSS sector and serve as a basis for any necessary corrective measures.
Promoting competition to enhance productivity at the firm level and resulting income and growth improvement and a lower cost of living is an important economic and social challenge in Israel.


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The Crisis of Biblical Authority in Early America
Posted by Jonathan
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In my post last month, I raised the problem of religious authority in American history. Rather than being a recent development, this has been an on-going struggle in the American context. I also previewed my desire to post further about Michael J. Lee's new book The Erosion of Biblical Certainty.
Lee's book, released late last fall, takes up the topic of how Christians in the late colonial era and then the early republic wrestled with understanding, interpreting, and defending the Bible. It thus touches on apologetics, historical criticism, and hermeneutics. In fact, one way of reading the book is as a description of the early phases of biblical and textual criticism in America.
Lee, an assistant professor at Eastern University, traces the move away from a Puritan and uncritical reading of Scripture. Through chapters that capture moments of transition, Lee chronicles how American Christians decided to answer the rationalist critiques of the eighteenth century: to use the same methods against their opponents. Cotton Mather early on suggested capturing the "cannons" of biblical critics and turning them against those challengers. Following Mather, Jonathan Edwards and John Dickinson argued that reason and history could provide high probability of biblical authority, although faith was still necessary. This tension was lost as lecturers who participated in the Dudleian Lectures at Harvard increasingly emphasized the rational and empirical bases of Christianity, rather than any supernatural character.
This process seemed to be successful for a time, and the story might even have been viewed as a triumph if the clock could have been stopped on the eve of the American Revolution. Tracing the narrative into the early nineteenth century, though, makes it appear a tragedy.
In the second half of the book, Lee shows how German Historical and Textual-Critical thought blindsided America's rationalizing Protestants. The Historicist mindset undermined confidence in first the text of the Bible and then its transhistorical authority. Although the Unitarian Andrews Norton and the Trinitarian Moses Stuart both tried to hold the tension together--the Bible as historical yet not totally subject to historicization--they proved unable to defend biblical authority or restore it to its previous position.
In Lee's telling, this tragedy is ironic. Like James Turner, Lee sees the problems for American Protestants as originating within their own tradition. By choosing to defend the Bible on a rationalistic basis, they opened themselves up for a sudden shift should external standards of rationality and history shift.
As I was reading Lee, I was simultaneously sampling from Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. Taylor describes an important component of secular modernity as the loss of "naive" faith. By this, Taylor means that all belief is now colored by the knowledge of the possibility of unbelief, of the contested nature of any faith claims. Lee's book traces this move clearly in the eighteenth century. Taking critics seriously, American Christians worked to defend the Bible. In their rationalist justifications, though, they ironically lowered the authority of biblical revelation.
For understanding the Bible in American life as well as the contours of American thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Lee's book is an outstanding contribution.
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- Tom Van Dyke at: April 8, 2014 at 9:15 PM said...
In Lee's telling, this tragedy is ironic. Like James Turner, Lee sees the problems for American Protestants as originating within their own tradition. By choosing to defend the Bible on a rationalistic basis, they opened themselves up for a sudden shift should external standards of rationality and history shift.
Exactly, JDH.
The role of "rationalism" has always struck me as problematic especially when regarded as symptomatic/synonymous with [the] Enlightenment.
That which is commonly credited to modernity might indeed be merely the inevitable consequence of "Protestantism"--if by that we mean the rejection of the Catholic Church's claim to magisterium, to being Holy Spirit-guided and therefore infallible as the final word in interpreting the Scriptures.
It's a structural thing--if you will, what happens when you break a barrel full of marbles. Look out below!
For instance, Michael Servetus raises doubts about the Trinity in the mid-1500s [for which he is eventually executed]. The "co-founder" of Lutheranism Philip Melanchthon is unsurprised: The Reformation's rejection of magisterium opens the door to any and all [re-]interpretations of the Scriptures. A Servetus is inevitable, as was the "unitarianism" that was quite the fad at the time of the American Foundign.
In America, before the Unitarian Church sheds the Bible as Holy Writ in the mid-1800s [in favor of "free-thinking"] you get fascinating documents such as 1825's
where the Bible was itself used as self-evident divine argument against the Trinity.
Ah, for the good old days of Bibleism, back when the Bible was deployed as proof against itself, instead of so cynically rejected out of hand.
(Cheers, Jonathan. Enjoyed you playing lukewarm water between the fire of Mark David Hall and the ice of Gregg Frazer over at Tony Gill's place. ;-)


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The official weigh-ins for Golden Boy's stacked Saturday of boxing on CBS and Showtime were held on Friday afternoon. On CBS, Leo Santa Cruz headlines, and defends his title against Alberto Guevara, while USA Olympian Joseph Diaz makes his debut. Later on Showtime, Amir Khan returns to action and meets the undefeated Carlos Molina as he seeks to climb back up the rankings. There's also a whole load of additional undercard fights. Check out the official Santa Cruz vs. Guevera and Khan vs. Molina weigh-in results and photos right here. Weigh-in Pictures Khan vs. Molina Weights on Showtime Amir Khan: 139.75 lbs Carlos Molina: 139.75 lbs CBS Weights Leo Santa Cruz: 117.75 lbs Alberto Guevera: 117.5 lbs Joseph Diaz: 122 lbs Vicente Alfaro: 122.5 lbs Undercard Weights Deontay Wilder: 223.5 lbs Kelvin Price: 240 lbs Alfredo Angulo: 154.5 lbs Jorge Silva: 156 lbs As you can see, it really is a loaded day of boxing action from Golden Boy, airing across three networks - firs...
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May 14, 2013 at 02:22:41 May 14, 2013 @ 02:22
at first i thought this was just some lame confusing video that totally rips off "i'll be missing you" with kendrick wearing an all white suit dancing in the middle of a field like it was 1997 all over again.
then my friend explained that this is a continuation of the "poetic justice" video where kendrick dies at the end. basically everyone dressed in white is already dead and they're at a reverse funeral in heaven. the person in the casket died, so everyone is sad at the beginning, but then they're parting in the end because that person is joining them in heaven.
that's what's going on... right?


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by Kelly Crawford of Generation Cedar - The Mission Field of Motherhood Another major problem is that we all fight that part of our flesh that wants to do something important, barely able to comprehend the importance of being faithful in the mundane. We struggle with the sin of pride, wanting to be recognized. … [Read more...]
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Korn Guitarist Drops Details On New Book
We've had three full length and very personal books from Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch, and we'll add another book to that list in due time.
With three successful collages of inked pages down, the fourth may just be his best yet, as he's released the new name of the book: With My Eyes Open.
He's written Save Me From Myself, Washed In Blood, and most recently, Stronger: 40 Days of Metal and Spirituality that all connect his musical life with his spiritual life and how he balances and weaves both together.
Not only a savant of the strings, Welch is a Pulitzer-worthy penman so when his new book With My Eyes Open drops, do yourself a favor and grab a copy.


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Hi, i've begun some code so that there can be one repository (named AppStore) that can aggregate addons from every repository.
I probably won't finish it, but its a nice proof-of-concept.
PS. I will be updating this post
The idea is that we give it to a trusted xbmc fanboy to run all the time non-stop on an old computer.
Its a script that auto-runs a check of other repositories addons.xml.md5 for changes every five or ten minutes (this control can be modified).
If it sees a change, it will check the addons.xml for what exactly changed (by comparing it with a local copy) and then dl the new addons via http. (new plan is to not use git or svn checking-out). it will also re-download the md5 and addons.xml so it can now use them to compare to the online copies.
It will then use the datadirzipped=... parameter to check if all the addons conform to the xbmc zip specification (if not it will run a script to do this), and put them into to a special AppStore local repo, which it will then auto-magically commit via SVN to an AppStore googlecode page.
It also gets the repos from the Unofficial Repo wiki page, and watches it for changes, so as to add new repos. It also every 12 hours completely redownloads all the repo files, in case a coder makes a change to their repo file....
Voila! A single Unofficial repo that contains all addons not provided in the official repo, whilst still allowing coders to maintain their independent repo.
This is mainly drawn from a frustration at there already being tens of repos floating around, some of which only contain a few addons (mine is no exception), and the fact that its often hard to get committer access to someone elses. This way, you make your own repo, add it to unofficial repo wiki and it will then show up in the aggregate.
I'm now hosting the POC at collabedit, because i will update it from time to time. Feel free to make any changes as long as they conform to what the purpose of the script is meant to do. (see above^^) and also please bump the version number if you do, so i can see that changes have been made.
Have begun some example code for an aggregate repo
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2011-04-27 08:09 Post: #2
Why do You need to checkout SVN/clone GIT? and then commit it to SVN again? (or I missundersood the idea). Simple file downloading wouldn't be enough? Every repository provides path to addons.xml and directory containing addon files:
<extension point="xbmc.addon.repository"
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2011-04-27 08:41 Post: #3
and the cry of thousands of sysadmins was heard as their servers were unnecessarily raped by thousands of users.
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2011-04-27 09:59 Post: #4
hmm actually that sounds like a better idea than doing checkouts, and should make the code less hacky.
aha, well the idea is that it would only be run on 1 computer, and that it would check for new versions before doing downloads. and if it maintains an aggregate repo, it should ease the load on individual repos (presuming people begin use the aggregate)
if using grajen's idea, it should only be as heavy as xbmc.
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2011-04-27 10:01 Post: #5
sure, i wasn't all that serious.
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2011-04-27 10:57 Post: #6
spiff Wrote:sure, i wasn't all that serious.no worries, server raping is one of my greatest skills
i have already be accused by icefilms as their main bandwidth problem
(although i think it was some1 elses addon actually)
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2011-04-27 13:32 Post: #7
But did not someone make a repo installer that cover most of the need and have none of the potential issues?
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2011-04-27 13:59 Post: #8
vikjon0 Wrote:But did not someone make a repo installer that cover most of the need and have none of the potential issues?yes they did, but as the days go by, more people are creating new repos. i don't want to have to keep checking the repo installer for new repos
anyway, there won't really be issues with this, as i've got it pretty well worked out. once its done, some1 can just leave it sitting on an old computer running 24/7 and it will do it all automagically.
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RE: odd behaviour in rule delayed
Thanks to Bob Hanlon, Henry Foley, David Reiss, Allan Heiss, Roland
Franzius,Hartmut Wolf, Tom Burton,Daniel Lichabau, Jahaness Lusteck and
other who helped me with my problem with ruledelayed.
In my message I input a typo (k and kk) in the counter that introduced some
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the abscence of parenthesis,m4.0 interpreted the operation as a division,
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You were all very helpul;thanks again.
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To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg21531] Re: [mg21499] odd behaviour in rule delayed
> list = {1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1};
> k = 1;
> newlist = list /. {1 :> k++}
> {1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 3}
> Bob Hanlon
> In a message dated 1/12/2000 10:00:20 AM, rpena at impsat.net.co writes:
> >I have M 4.0, window 95.
> >I have a list of 0's and 1's, and I want the one's to perform a
> >numeration. For example, transform {1,0,1,0,0,1} into {1,0,2,0,0,3}.
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> >The easiest (and most elegant, I think) way to do it is with a counter
> >and
> >rule delayed:
> >list={1,0,1,0,0,1}
> >kk=0; newlist={1,0,1,0,0,1} /.1:>++k
> >
> >However, the answer I get from this operation is completely
> >odd:{10.,0,10.,0,0,10.}:>++k. I closed my session and re-started my
> >computer, but I keep getting the same stuff. I don't understand what is
> >happening. By the way, this problem didn't appear in M3.0.
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The FA remains convinced that Stuart Pearce is the best man to manage the England's Under-21s despite the team's early exit from the European Championship last night and an FA source has confirmed it has no intention of withdrawing the two-year contract extension that has been on offer to him since before the tournament.
The former Manchester City manager also remains the leading contender to take charge of the Great Britain football team at next summer's Olympic Games.
That backing comes amid criticism of his team's uninspired performances in Denmark and the manager's team selections, particularly in the draws with Spain and Ukraine. His cautious tactics have provoked claims that he failed to make the most of his resources.
England produced a much better performance in their final group game against the Czech Republic on Sunday but lost concentration in the dying minutes to collapse to a 2-1 defeat that knocked them out.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky track and field teams qualified five athletes (four women, one man) for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, the NCAA announced Monday. The NCAA Championships will be held March 8-9 in Fayetteville, Ark.
Competitors must have registered a time/mark, which ranked inside the top 16 in individual events or in the top 12 this season in relays to qualify for NCAAs, which will be held in the Randal Tyson Track Center on the Arkansas campus. Athletes must have then declared their intention to compete to be accepted into the field.
Cally Macumber and Chelsea Oswald enter field as the Nos. 3 and 10 seeds respectively in the women's 3,000 meters. They also qualified as part of a relay team, meaning the women's team will have three scoring opportunities.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Now what have you done? You're in prison again. Will you never learn?
It's an established tradition in Elder Scrolls games to start you off as a prisoner, but to never explain what you're supposed to have done wrong, and Skyrim is no exception. Bethesda likes the idea that, before you've done anything else at all, you're forced to think up your own notions as to how you might have ended up in this situation.
It's a good way to start a game that's arguably all about telling your own epic tale, or at least your own version of one. There are other considerations too, of course. Every open-world game needs a launching point of some sort from which to give you a direction, even if it's not one you choose to follow immediately, and starting you off in confinement makes you appreciate your freedom all the more when it's granted to you.
So what will you be marvelling at as you emerge from your brief, enforced incarceration this time out? Well, at first, mountains. Skyrim is the cold, harsh, high-altitude homeland of the Nords and, as such, its geography is characterised by monolithic peaks, precarious cliffs and deep, cavernous valleys. This results in some striking visuals, both from your immediate surroundings and from distant backdrops, all of which is enhanced by a graphics engine that's come on a long way in the four years since Oblivion's release.
As you're taking in your first dose of Skyrim's spectacular scenery, you might also be wondering when you're going to get to choose a class for your character. What you'll soon learn is that, while you get to choose a race and that will bring certain bonus stats and abilities with it, Skyrim doesn't have character classes.
The reason for this is simple: many players, including us actually, got a few hours into Oblivion before realising that they weren't really using half of their class skills very much at all, and deciding to start again, creating a custom class based around the skills they were using most. It kind of made you wonder why you couldn't just let your character's specialisations emerge naturally as you played, and that's exactly how Skyrim works. The more you use a skill, the better you get at it, and the greater contribution it makes to your overall levelling up progress.
And the more you level up the more you can specialise at a deeper level, thanks to Skyrim's new perks system. This might sound like a nod to Fallout 3, but it's actually more reminiscent of the skills and abilities systems in dungeon crawlers like Diablo and Dungeon Siege. Within each of your character's 18 skills, there are various sub-categories and each of those has its own 'perk tree', with each perk leading to further choices of more specialised, more powerful perks.
So if you want to be a fire mage, you can focus on the fire perk tree within the destruction skill, or if you want to be an all-out melee attacker you'd want to go for the axe perk tree within the two-handed weapon skill. The exact nature of these perks hasn't been established yet, but in the case of your fire mage, for example, expect choices like a ball of fire versus a jet of fire, then a bigger ball versus a hotter one, or a longer or wider jet. You get the picture. The cool thing is you're getting to do more as you progress, rather than just getting stat increases to the things you can already do.
In order to make the most of the perk system, Bethesda has made levelling up a much more frequent occurrence. While there was technically no level cap in either game, Oblivion was geared to top out at about level 30, whereas in Skyrim you should be able to reach at least level 50. Each level earns you a new perk, meaning you'll end up with 50 or more perks by the time you're done. That might sound like a lot, but there are about 280 in all, so you won't be able to try out the full range in one, or even five, playthroughs.
This perk tree system should reinforce that sense you got in Oblivion that the more you played with a character the more he or she becomes distinct and unique. And you don't have to tie yourself to particular skills from the off, so your character can adapt as you develop and refine your own style of play. In fact, Bethesda says that the entire character development system was started again from scratch with a rule of thumb that every skill and perk should correspond to and enhance different gameplay styles. Awesome though it was, combat in Oblivion could get pretty samey, with really only three different styles – melee, ranged and magic – to choose from. Now you really can tailor your own style.
Another new system designed to complement gameplay directly is the use of individual hand slots for weapons and spells. Rather than equipping one weapon and one spell, you equip a weapon, spell or shield to each hand, or a two-handed weapon to both. Exactly what limitations there might be to this – whether you can dual-wield or even combine spells on the fly – is still undecided, but hopefully it'll add a tactical dimension to proceedings, and at least make swapping equipped items in and out less fiddly than in Oblivion.
The character creation tools are less fiddly too. While you're essentially creating and developing your character as you play through, you do choose a race and set your appearance right at the start. Bethesda has scrapped Oblivion's multitude of sliders in favour of a mix and match choice of features. The reason for this is that Oblivion's system made it almost impossible not to make a character who was a bit minging – Bethesda has even admitted this flaw by unofficially changing the name of the random button to 'the ugly button'. Now it's actually possible to make a character who looks cool and unique. Not vital in a first-person game, we suppose, but still, it's a role-playing game, and no one wants to play the role of a proper hose beast, do they?
One of the most exciting features in Skyrim is the 'Radiant Story' system, which, to put it simply, means that every quest has a blend of scripted and dynamic elements. So rather than just being a set string of objectives, each quest is designed more like an adaptable template. Certain parts of it might be set in stone, but others will be automatically generated so as to be tailor-made for your character. One pretty clear example Bethesda has given is that if you found a quest where you were asked to rescue someone from a dungeon, it could be set up so that it automatically avoids having you rescue them from a dungeon you've already explored.
Other factors will be more subtle, though, automatically tailoring certain aspects of a quest to suit your character and your playing style. The idea is that you find out how different a quest could have been by talking to other players, in what Bethesda likes to call 'the water cooler effect'. Talking to your friends about what you did in a Bethesda RPG the night before has always been part of the fun, whether you're chatting at a water cooler or not.
The most important dynamic element of the game doesn't necessarily occur within quests at all, though: dragons. Skyrim will be the first Elder Scrolls game to have a proper stab at dragons, and by 'proper stab' we mean the studio hand-picked some of its best staff and put them in a dedicated 'dragon team' that has worked solely on dragons for two years. Dragons can, in theory, attack anywhere at any time and are essentially Skyrim's boss enemies.
Encounters with them should be much more exciting and varied than those ultimately tedious Oblivion Gates and will be rewarded in a similar, but better way. Instead of a Sigil Stone that probably won't make a better-enchanted weapon than one you've already got, you get a Dragon Shout. These are powerful abilities that you're able to use because your character is Dragonborn. They make your perks look a bit wussy.
And Skyrim, as a whole, is already making its classic predecessor look like a bit of an old fart. The perks and Radiant Story systems in particular have us convinced that this will be a much more tighter, more focused experience, while still maintaining the huge scope and freedom that characterises the series. And the coolest thing is it's coming this year, so we're not even in for a painful wait. Hands-on can't be far away – you'll know as soon as we get it.


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April in Florence means one thing for Lady Buffs tennis player Tristen Brunson: A trip to state.
The junior will be making her third consecutive trip to the Class 2A State Tournament after winning the Region II-2A girls singles championship Friday.
"She started the year out expecting to go to state," Florence tennis coach Drake Stanczak said.
Brunson avenged a loss in the District 16-2A tennis meet to Rogers senior Jaycie Talbot with a 6-0, 6-1 straight sets win in the regional final.
The finals match between the district rivals was supposed to be played Thursday but was rained out.
"She had everything working today," Stanczak said.
"She played a quality opponent. Talbot was a state finalist last year — Tristen was just dominant."
Brunson won all four of her regional tournament matches in straight sets and only lost a total of four games during the tournament.
Brunson won the Class 2A singles state title as a freshman in 2012 and made the state semifinals last season.
Brunson and Talbot met for the second consecutive year in the regional tournament. Last season Brunson beat Talbot, but Talbot qualified for the state tournament and was the Class 2A runner-up.
The Class 2A state quarterfinals begin at 8 a.m. April 28 at the Mitchell Tennis Center and Omar Smith Instructional Tennis Courts in College Station. The semifinals begin at 2 p.m. and the state final takes place at 9 a.m. April 29.