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Below is the transcript of the Communiqué from the 2013 Future of Education Summit. Download the official PDF here.
Over January 22-24, 2013, one hundred distinguished thought leaders from around the world journeyed to Austin, Texas to engage in a substantive dialog on the future of education. They represented higher education, K-12, museums, libraries, funding agencies, and industry, in their diversity comprising a gathering unlike any other, and bringing a range of viewpoints that encouraged the exploration of, as the organizers hoped, "learning, writ large."
Dr. Larry Johnson, CEO of the NMC, and Dr. Lev Gonick, VP and CIO at Case Western Reserve University as well as Board Chair Emeritus of the NMC, worked together as Summit co-chairs to plan this very special event, designed to tap into energy and expertise from all over the world. Those in attendance collectively represented every sector of formal and informal education. David Sibbet, CEO of the Grove and widely acknowledged as the world's leading visual facilitator, led the group with imaginative manifestations of the ideas as they flowed in real time. Jeff Conklin's notion of "wicked problems" was used to describe what the group was hoping to articulate: issues that are extremely difficult and even seemingly impossible to solve because of the complex or ever-changing environments in which they arise.
As the NMC explored the nearly two dozen potential candidates for "wicked problem" status identified by the summit participants, Conklin's framework helped reveal overlaps, patterns, and interdependencies between many of the challenges, and ultimately helped determine what surfaced as this set of five essential challenges for education:
> Rethink what it means to teach, and reinvent everything about teaching. All of our notions about teaching were developed for eras in which the oral tradition was the main way that knowledge was transmitted from one generation to the next. Libraries existed, but only the very lucky few had access to the kinds of resources that virtually all of us take for granted today. When most any practical question can be answered in microseconds via the network, and in most cases, with a variety of perspectives and viewpoints also included — what is the role of the venerated teacher? What are the defining attributes of the teachers we need to help the next generations build on (or fix) the work we did? What can and should be the key competencies of a teacher? We know we need education overall to be more experiential and more hands-on. We need to be emphasizing good choices, and ethical decisions. Learning must be global, and more based in the realities of the world as it is. It should be more authentic. What we do not know is how to prepare people to be successful with these very different kinds of skills, and that makes this a wicked problem.
> Reimagine online learning. The demand for online learning is challenging us to rethink what learning via the network can and should deliver — whether the provider represents one of the world's leading universities, a for-profit provider of skills or business training, or a school system trying to meet the needs of increasingly disengaged learners. Simply delivering content is no longer enough. Students expect learning that matters; learning connected in timely ways to the real world; learning that engages their interests; and learning experiences that see them as entire persons, not just consumers of content. Online learning owes its heritage to distance learning, but in today's world, online learning is something even residential students want and expect. How to make online learning realize its full potential is a wicked problem because we are not even sure of the questions we need to ask so we can begin to understand what to refine, and what to improve. More experimentation, more data about every dimension of online learning, and new fresh ideas are needed to even begin to define the directions in which development should be taking place.
> Allow failure to be as powerful a learning mode as success. Learning is all about risk, but learning institutions are anything but risk tolerant. There are good reasons for that, except when it comes to learning. We deceive students when we do not make it clear that not all knowledge is absolute. Truth is the result of generations of exploration, of refinement, of pushing the boundaries of our experience. Truth builds on failure as much as success, but failure is anathema to today's learning institutions. We must instill in students the drive to learn, and to help them see the vital role of failure in discovery. We need to expect our halls of learning to question their own processes and strategies, and their own success. We measure things, but spend little time on understanding what we should be measuring. We know great innovation always comes from the refinement of an initial idea, but we teach in and administer schools as if there are absolute certainties that we must never question. How can we ensure that the next series of great discoveries will be made? That is a challenge whose dimensions and starting places are elusive enough to be considered a truly wicked problem.
> Make innovation part of the learning ethic. Innovation springs from the freedom to connect ideas in new ways. Our schools and universities generally allow us to connect ideas only in prescribed ways — sometimes these lead to new insights, but more likely they lead to rote learning. Why is it that when one asks a first grade class which of them can draw, all of them eagerly raise their hands, but ask the same question of a high school class, and only one or two admit to having artistic skills? What convinced those who decided they could not draw? Why do we not encourage everyone to draw, even if they do so in their own ways? Great artists break the rules — and new ground — all the time. That is how they become great artists. We need schools and universities to be places where innovation happens routinely. Instead we share stories of how the great innovators left school to allow themselves the freedom to pursue their dreams. Turning this around is not equivalent to pruning the branches of the education tree — it is akin to grafting a new root system to it, and we have yet to develop the techniques for wholesale reinvention at that level. We must innovate to even begin to understand where to start, and that recursiveness makes this challenge wicked indeed.
> Preserve the digital expressions of our culture and knowledge. As the world and society shift from capturing and disseminating new knowledge, art, and understanding on fabric and paper, as we have for millennia, to digital formats that are still very much evolving, we are at risk of losing generations of scholarly, cultural, and creative contributions. Already, most of the early digital art and digital publications are lost because the formats they were encoded in are no longer in use. It is a paradox that as we have become far more efficient and productive, due to the digital tools at our disposal, the very product of our work has become something far more ephemeral than we ever imagined. The reality is that most digital materials produced over the last 30 years — and likely decades more into the future — are very likely to be lost. We truly have no idea where to begin to address this wicked challenge, but if we don't, much of the work of humankind is likely to suffer the fate of the irreplaceable papyri that were lost at the Library of Alexandria.
At the first NMC Horizon Project Summit in 2012, thought leaders and education experts specifically focused on the drivers of change in education technology — and reached consensus on ten megatrends (PDF) that will underlie our decision making for years to come — essentially a list of constants amongst the change. This year, the emphasis arced toward understanding equally well the essential challenges we face, and to begin to articulate them.
Taken together, the five challenges outlined above represent a foundational shift in how we think about teaching, learning, and the work of knowledge creation. They overlap in part, but are presented here as discrete concepts in an effort to begin to define them — itself a wicked challenge, and like all wicked challenges, there is no one right answer. As the NMC continues to work with its growing global community of expert advisors — now more than 750 — from understanding the essential trends influencing our decisions to articulating challenges worthy of global attention, to taking action in concert with others around the globe, this list will guide our efforts, even as it continues to evolve.
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The recent completion of the human gene map within the scope of the
Human Genome Project
is an important scientific improvement. However, some results of this project are being distorted in some evolutionist publications. It is claimed that
the genes of chimpanzees are 98 % similar to human genes
, and this is presented as an evidence for the claim that apes are close to humans, and therefore, logical ancestors of humans as claimed by Darwin's theory of evolution. The argument is misleading.
The claim of
98% similarity is deceptive.
To claim that the genetic make-ups of man and chimpanzee bear 98 % similarity to each other, the genome of the chimpanzee also has to be mapped just as that of man and the two have to be compared. No such result for the chimpanzee has been done yet.
This claimed similarity is an exaggerated generalisation grounded on the similarity in the amino acid sequences of some
30-40 basic proteins
present in man and chimpanzee. A sequence analysis has been made with a method named "DNA hybridization" on the DNA sequences that are correlated with these proteins and only those limited number of proteins have been compared. However there are about hundred thousand genes, and therefore 100,000 proteins coded by these genes in humans. The claim that
all the genes of man and ape are 98 % similar is based on the similarity in 40 out of 100.000 proteins!
Moreover, the above mentioned basic proteins are common vital molecules present in various other living beings. The structures of the same kinds of proteins present not only in chimpanzees, but also in completely different living beings, are very similar to that in humans.
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On the other hand, the analyses done on some proteins show man as close to some very different living beings. In a survey carried out by the researchers at Cambridge University, some proteins of land dwelling animals were compared. Amazingly, in nearly all samples,
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The next closest relative was the crocodile. (
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is the presence of 48 chromosomes in chimpanzees and gorillas and 46 chromosomes in man.
Evolutionists regard the closeness of the number of chromosomes as indication of an evolutionary relationship. However, if this logic were true, then man should have an even closer relative than the chimpanzee: the potato!.
The number of chromosomes in a potatoe is exactly equal to the number of chromosomes in a human: 46
These examples show that genetic similarity does not constitute evidence for the theory of evolution. This is because the genetic similarities are not in line with the alleged evolution schemes, and on the contrary, they yield completely opposite results.
Not surprisingly, when the issue is evaluated as a whole, it is seen that the subject of "bio-chemical similarities" does not constitute an evidence for evolution, but on the contrary leaves the theory in the lurch. Dr. Christian Schwabe, a biochemistry researcher from the Medical Faculty of South Carolina University, is an evolutionist scientist who has spent years to find evidence for evolution in the molecular domain. He particularly did researches on insulin and relaxin-type proteins and tried to establish evolutionary relationships between living beings.
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"Molecular evolution is about to be accepted as a method superior to palaeontology for the discovery of evolutionary relationships. As a molecular evolutionist I should be elated.
Instead it seems disconcerting that many exceptions exist to the orderly progression of species as determined by molecular homologies;
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"Each class at molecular level is unique, isolated and unlinked by intermediates. Thus, molecules, like fossils, have failed to provide the elusive intermediates so long sought by evolutionary biology…
At a molecular level, no organism is "ancestral" or "primitive" or "advanced" compared with its relatives…
There is little doubt that if this molecular evidence had been available a century ago… the idea of organic evolution might never have been accepted."
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, London; Burnett Books 1985 pp.290-291)
It is surely natural for the human body to bear some molecular similarities to other living beings because they all are made up of the same molecules; they all use the same water and atmosphere; and they all consume foods consisting of the same molecules. Certainly, their metabolisms and therefore genetic make-ups would resemble one another. This, however, is not evidence that they evolved from a common ancestor.
"common material" is not the result of an evolution but of "common design", that is, their being created upon the same plan.
It is possible to explain this subject with an example. All building constructions are done with similar materials (brick, iron, cement, etc.). This, however, does not mean that these buildings "evolved" from each other. They are constructed separately by using common materials. The same is true of living beings as well.
Darwinists are distorting the results of the Human Genome Project. Life did not originate as a result of unconscious coincidences as evolution claims, but as the result of the creation of God, the Almighty, the Owner of infinite knowledge and wisdom.
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Subject: [FOX] Evansville Courier & Press, Obits, 1998-99.
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:32:49 -0700
Evansville Courier & Press, Obituaries, 1998-99. (extracts)
Source Information: ProQuest Information and Learning.
Evansville Courier (IN), Obituaries, 1998-99.
[database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000.
Publication Date: January 14, 2000
Obituary: Ardith Moberly, 89, formerly of Evansville, died Thursday,
Jan. 13, 2000, in Montgomery, Ala. Surviving are two daughters,
Patsinell Kohlmeyer and Evelyn Lucille Maveety, both of Evansville; a
son, Dean of Montgomery; and a brother, Martin D. Fox of Florida.
Publication Date: February 28, 1999
Source: Evansville Courier & Press
Obituary: BRIDGEPORT, Ill. -- Barry R. Fox, 62, died Saturday morning at
his home. Surviving are his wife, Penny (Carter); five daughters, Lynn
Fox of Springfield, Susie Seed of Lawrenceville, Peggy Volkman of
Bridgeport, Angie Clark of Vincennes, Ind., and Jody Steber of
Claremont; a son, Richard of Bridgeport; a brother, Del of
Lawrenceville; and seven grandchildren.
Publication Date: June 24, 2000
Obituary: BRUCEVILLE -- Harry L. Fox, 69, died Friday, June 23, 2000, at
his home of cancer. Surviving are his wife, E. Aline (Williams); two
sons, Joe and Bob, both of Indianapolis; two sisters, Helen Julian of
Vincennes and Mary Roberson of Avon Park, Fla.; two brothers, Bruce of
Franklin and Milton of Evansville; a half brother, Byron Wood of Gates
Mills, Ohio; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Publication Date: February 06, 1999
Obituary: DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. -- Berdie Steadman Fox, 88, died Thursday
afternoon at New Dawson Springs Nursing Home. In 1987, she published
the Fox & Steadman family genealogy book. Surviving are a daughter,
Gwyn McDonald of Dawson Springs; a son, John E. of Milpitas, Calif.; a
sister, Methyl Aldridge of Huntsville, Ala. Her husband, Jess F., died
in 1971.
Publication Date: August 25, 1999
Obituary: ELDORADO, Ill. -- Jack R. Watson, 67, died Monday, Aug. 23,
1999, at St. Mary's Health Care Service/Welborn Campus of complications
of leukemia. Surviving are his wife, Helen (Fox); his mother, Pearl
(Draper) Watson of Eldorado; a sister, Barbara Phelps of Bethalto; and
two brothers, Fred and Leland, both of Eldorado.
Publication Date: January 07, 1999
Obituary: ELDORADO, Ill. -- Nathaniel Sinks, 77, died Tuesday at Ferrell
Hospital. Surviving are his wife, Pearl (Fox); and a son, Stanley of
Big Rock, Ill.
Publication Date: April 25, 2000
Obituary: HARRISBURG, Ill. -- Meredith Fox, 84, died Sunday, April 23,
2000, at Harrisburg Medical Center. Surviving are two sons, Roger of
Lake of Egypt and Tom of Harrisburg. Her husband, Ellis, died in 1995.
Publication Date: December 28, 1999
Obituary: HENDERSON, Ky. -- Mildred Oliver Fox, 84, died Monday, Dec.
27, 1999, at Methodist Hospital. Surviving are two sons, Frank of
Henderson and Happy of Jerseyville, Ill. A son, James T., died in
Publication Date: April 18, 2000
Obituary: LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill. -- Helen Fox, 90, died Sunday, April 16,
2000, at United Methodist Village. Surviving are her husband, Stoy; a
son, John R. of Lehigh Acres, Fla.; a sister, June Dollahan of
Publication Date: March 29, 1999
Obituary: LOOGOOTEE, Ind. -- Lorena P. Taylor, 81, died Saturday at
Memorial Hospital in Jasper. Surviving are her husband, David "Henry;" a
daughter, Anna Darlena Rees of Jasper; three sons, Kenneth W. Fox of
Shoals, John P. and Gary L. Fox, both of Loogootee.
Publication Date: April 09, 2000
Obituary: MADISONVILLE, Ky. -- Philip Robinson Fox, 89, died Friday,
April 7, 2000, in Madisonville. Surviving are his wife of 65 years,
Maggie (Morgan); two sons, Tony of Madisonville and Michael of
Spencerport, N.Y.; a sister, Imogene Cato of Huntington, W.Va.
Publication Date: November 24, 1998
Obituary: Mary Catherine Fox, 86, of Evansville, died Monday morning at
Little Sisters of the Poor. Surviving are two daughters, Linda Pruitt
of Newburgh and Barbara Borries of Evansville; a son, Larry of Gillette,
Publication Date: February 21, 1999
Obituary: Mary O. Fox, 75, of Evansville, died Thursday evening at
Deaconess Hospital. Surviving are a daughter, Barbara Andrews of
Evansville. Her husband, Wilford, died in 1996.
Publication Date: July 18, 1999
Obituary: PALESTINE, Ill. -- Pauline M. Fox, 93, died Saturday, July 17,
1999, at Crawford Memorial Hospital. Surviving are two daughters, Paula
Backemeyer of Indianapolis and Lee Vehling of Oaktown, Ind. Her
husband, Roy, died in 1989.
Publication Date: January 23, 2000
Obituary: PRINCETON, Ind. -- William H. Fox, 76, died Friday, Jan. 21,
2000, at Gibson General Hospital. Surviving are his wife, Wanda Sue
(Deaton); a daughter, Salelia Yvonne Kilburn of Bowling Green, Ky.; a
son, William David of Somerville.
Publication Date: November 05, 1998
Obituary: ROBINSON, Ill. -- Mildred L. Fox, 89, died Wednesday morning
at Crawford Memorial Hospital. Surviving are a daughter, Janice
McCarter of Robinson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Guy R.,
in 1974 and a son, Maurice, in 1988.
Publication Date: April 15, 1999
Obituary: SHOALS, Ind. -- Kenneth W. Fox, 58, died Monday at Gentlecare
of Loogootee. Surviving are his wife, Sheilda; a daughter, Cathy
Moulton of Washington; a son, Mickael W. of Loogootee; a stepdaughter,
Rhonda Holt of Shoals; and five brothers, John and Gary Fox, both of
Loogootee, and Erwin, Jeff and Mark Foxx, all of Shelbyville. He was
preceded in death by a son, David "Swompy" Fox.
Publication Date: June 17, 1999
Obituary: SMITH MILLS, Ky. -- Basil Moffitt House, 79, died Tuesday,
June 15, 1999, of heart failure at Methodist Hospital in Henderson.
Surviving are two daughters, Phyllis Bradley of Poole and Melanie Rust
of Louisville; two sons, Charles Fox of Smith Mills and Larry Fox of
Henderson. His wife, Eloise Carrie, died in 1991.
Publication Date: July 07, 1999
Obituary: WAVERLY, Ky. -- Travis Scott Fox, 11, died Monday, July 5,
1999, at Methodist Hospital in Union County of an accidental gunshot
wound. Surviving are his parents, Tammy and George Scott Fox of Waverly
and Jacqueline Fox of Sturgis; two sisters, Lauren and Paige Alvey,
both of Morganfield; three brothers, Shawn Lawless and Ethan and Branson
Fox, all of Waverly; grandparents, Larry and Evelyn Melton, David and
Liz Lawless and Richard and Joanne Hansbrough; and great- grandparents.
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NRO's Whelan Suggests Civil Rights Work Doesn't Qualify Attorneys For Appointment To Important Court
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In a blog post yesterday, National Review Online's Ed Whelan reported that "President Obama is on the verge of nominating NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer Debo P. Adegbile to the D.C. Circuit," a court that is often called the second most important court in the land. Whelan then proceeded to suggest that Adegbile is unsuited to the job, based solely on Adegbile's having been a lawyer at a prominent New York law firm and then an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
After noting that Adegbile had worked for seven years for the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and has since spent a decade working for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Whelan acknowledged that he had "never heard of Adegbile." He then pronounced it "odd" that Obama had nominated Adegbile and another person to the D.C. Circuit, both of whom he described as "New York lawyer[s] with no significant background in federal administrative law (and no judicial experience to offset that deficiency)."
Whelan concluded his short post by saying that "[t]his may well be a pick more designed to excite Obama's left-wing base than to produce a confirmation."
Why should someone with seventeen years of experience as a litigator, including a decade as a civil rights attorney, not be considered the right fit for the D.C. Circuit? After all, Adegbile is no stranger to federal court litigation. A Lexis search shows that he has worked on cases at all levels of the federal system throughout the country -- including in D.C. -- since at least 1996.
Can one really say Adegbile is less qualified than Judge David Sentelle, a D.C. Circuit judge nominated by President Ronald Reagan who, at the time of his nomination, had worked for roughly 10 years in private practice in North Carolina, four years as an assistant U.S. attorney in North Carolina, three years as a North Carolina state trial court judge, and a little more than a year as a federal judge in North Carolina?
What about Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a D.C. Circuit judge nominated by President George W. Bush whose experience consisted almost exclusively of work as a California state employee and California state court judge? Did that really prepare her for the D.C. Circuit?
Or is just that Adegbile's civil rights experience is particularly disfavored in Whelan's view?
If so, history is not on Whelan's side.
Judge Spottswood Robinson, the first African American appointed to the D.C. Circuit, had never been a judge at the time of his appointment. Furthermore, Robinson, like Adegbile, was an NAACP-LDF lawyer for a portion of his career. Robinson also worked for the NAACP. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a New York lawyer who had never been a judge before she was nominated to the D.C. Circuit and spent a significant portion of her pre-judicial career as counsel for the ACLU's women's rights project and general counsel for the ACLU.
Whelan appears not to be a fan of Ginsburg, but few would argue that she was unqualified for the job.
Finally, Whelan raises one more red herring that should be addressed: the fact that Adegbile is not a D.C. resident.
For all the other circuits, Congress has stated that "each circuit judge shall be a resident of the circuit for which appointed at the time of his appointment." But Congress has explicitly said that this rule does not apply to the D.C. Circuit. That's why President Ronald Reagan was able to appoint a University of Colorado professor of law, a North Carolina judge, and a University of Chicago professor of law (albeit, with significant D.C. experience) to the court. It's why President George H.W. Bush was able to appoint a South Carolina judge to the court. And it's why President George W. Bush was able to appoint a California judge to the court.
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Tragedy and disaster have the peculiar ability to produce a backdrop upon which common people can become unexpected heroes. 300 soldiers at Thermopylae hold off wave after wave of Persians; they're slaughtered in their duty and become immortal. Fire fighters run into flaming skyscrapers, knowing they may never come out, but trying to pull one—just one—more person from the choking flames. And when two lunatics detonate a pair of bombs at the Boston Marathon, ordinary folk perform deeds that make the stuff of statues and paintings.
There was Carlos Arredondo, who was photographed in a cowboy hat, pinching the exposed artery shut on a man who had both his legs torn off by the first blast. By his side were those who ran towards the explosions instead of away from them, fighting their survival instinct for the sake of those injured. Under the spotlight of this insanity, some people showed they were made of nothing less than refined steel and pure gold.
Amidst all the chaos of the event, there was one such story that slipped largely beneath the public's notice. It wasn't especially brave or remarkably heroic—it was just simple compassion. I myself would not have heard of it if the man involved had not been from my home state of Alaska.
To recap a long story, Brent Cunningham had previously tried to qualify for the Boston Marathon twice; on his third and final attempt, he barely squeaked out the necessary time. After finally making it to the Boston Marathon, he crossed the race finish line a half hour before the bombs went off. He received his finisher's medal—an achievement few will ever accomplish, and one that he would almost certainly never replicate, and he was on his way back to his hotel when he heard the explosions.
Brent and his wife came across a young woman sitting on a curb sobbing. Laura Wellington had been a mere half mile from the finish line when the race officials stopped the race because of the blasts. Her family had been near the finish line, and she had just gotten word they weren't injured, and she had collapsed onto the curb in overwhelmed tears. Brent and his wife approached her and offered her the only comfort they had: kind words and a blanket around her shoulders. As they got up to leave, he asked her if she had finished the race. She said no. Brent took his finishing medal off and slipped it over Laura's head. Then he walked away, without even getting her name. If it wasn't for the vast reach of social media and attempts by Laura to track him down, he would have never been heard from again.
Brent Cunningham is the Young Life director for Sitka, Alaska. Alaska is not the most 'refined' state, and Sitka is barely noteworthy, even for Alaskans; anybody who has actually been there will attest to it. It is a tiny, water-locked fishing town, home to little else than a couple fisheries and a refueling port for passing cruise ships. When I was told, "Did you hear about that guy from Sitka at the Boston Marathon?" my immediate reaction was, "How on earth did a guy from Sitka end up at the Boston Marathon?" Sitka is such a small, nondescript place—barely a smudge on the map. There's a reason that the film The Proposal was set in Sitka, but filmed in Maryland.
It's fitting that one of the least recognized stories of kindness and gentleness during the recent tragedy comes from a man in a desolate little town people barely know. Jesus himself had a similar background—to the point that John records two instances that highlight Jesus' less than humble origins. The first instance is when the Apostle Nathaniel is told about Jesus by his brother Phillip, and sarcastically responds, "Can any good thing come from Nazareth?"[1] The Pharisees were even harsher with their judgment; Nazareth was a single city—they apply their contempt to the entire region when they remark, "Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee."[2]
It wouldn't be pressing the contextual bounds of Scripture to suppose that Jesus' reputation as a Galilean plagued him throughout his ministry. Many folks probably considered it a great joke. After all, what of worth did come from Galilee—let alone Nazareth? It was barely a smudge on the map. Jesus was a hick carpenter; how could he be preaching to all those educated city folk in Jerusalem?
But this hick carpenter turned water into wine and preached a Gospel of love that the world had never heard before. He healed men and women of their blindness and affliction. And he gave away his Boston Marathon medal only moments after receiving it, for no reason other than he thought it would bring some small measure of comfort to a scared, hurting young woman.
The love of Christ transcends the borders of regional stigma. It surpasses the horrendous tragedies that shake our faith. The love of Christ even overcomes our limits of self, so that it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us.[3] So it was that Jesus Christ manifested himself to the Ethiopian eunuch and revealed himself to the dying in Calcutta. When he saw one of his daughters sobbing on a curb in Boston, he appeared to her in the same manner.
Christ is made known through his human emissaries; he loves through his people. It could be that every simple act of kindness is a direct extension of the love of the Father, whether through the common grace and goodness of human nature, or through the relentless, explicit love of Christ. It could be that every time a Christian chooses love and mercy in the name of Christ, they are allowing themselves to be nailed to a cross beside their Savior.
It could be that every time a man from a no-name town in a no-name state offers up the only comfort he has, he is, for a brief moment, expressing the infinite love of God to his children.


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Cell phone ownership hits 91% of adults
For the first time, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has found that cell phone ownership among adults has exceeded 90%. Cell phones are now being used by 91% of adults, according to the survey conducted between April 17 and May 19 of 2,252 adults.
While the adoption figures are stunning by every measure—the cell phone is the most quickly adopted consumer technology in the history of the world— there are some demographic groups whose embrace of the cell phone is somewhat less avid than others.
Those groups are: people ages 65 and older; those who did not attend college; those living in households earning less than $30,000; and those in rural areas. In this survey, it is even the case that women are statistically significantly less likely to own cell phones than men—though this pattern has not been evident in all of our previous surveys.
Pew Internet reported yesterday that a big part of the cell adoption story is the rise of the smartphone. In this same survey, we found that 56% of American adults have smartphones.
Our fall survey of youth ages 12-17 put their cell phone adoption at 78% (and 37% of all teens have a smartphone). Non-owners were younger teens (especially boys), Hispanics, and those living in poorer households.
Why this matters: Aid, comfort, interruptions, distractions, and time shifting
The Pew Research Center began asking separately about cell phone ownership in late 2004 and began to ask about the special ways people might be using their phones in March 2006. At the time, it was clear that texting was becoming popular (35% of cell owners were texters then). Moreover, it was evident that people were using their cell phones under different circumstances and for different purposes than the way they used their landline phones.
In that early research we uncovered a lot of the tensions that mobile connectivity has introduced to modern life: We found that 74% of cell owners had used the phone to get help in an emergency and that 86% of cell owners were irritated at least occasionally by loud cell users in public places. In our early work we saw that 41% of cell owners said they were beginning to use their phones to fill in free time with phone calls while they were traveling or waiting for something. Some 28% of cell owners at that time admitted that they didn't drive as safely as they should. And 22% reported that "too many" people were trying to get in touch with them.
Since then, phone ownership has risen sharply.
Pew Internet has documented a wide range of impacts related to this nearly ubiquitous mobile connectivity and a compendium of the most important findings can be found here. A few favorites:
- Our best compilation of the pluses and minuses of cell ownership came in this report, which showed that many constantly check their phones; keep them by their bedside; think their phones make life better because they connect with pals more often; think their phones make life easier to plan; and think their phones make them more productive.
- Cell phones have become integral to key activities, such as people getting health information and using them for political and civic purposes.
- Two-screen "connected TV viewers" are on the rise.
- More and more people use their phones while they shop to compare prices and read reviews.
- Some connect to libraries via cells.
The most recent rundown of how cell phones have become the Swiss Army Knife of communication and all the activities they perform on their devices is here.
Us, too
Of course, the world of Pew Research has been directly affected by the rise of cell phones. We need to connect to cell owners as we do our surveys. As of June 2012, 35.8% of American homes have become cell only and another 15.9% of people receive all or almost all their calls wirelessly, even though they still have landlines.
So, most of the time in our national surveys we conduct 50% of our phone interviews on cell phones and that has greatly helped reach younger adults, African-Americans, Hispanics, and those in poorer households. And that has helped us maintain our capacity to get nationally representative samples.
At Pew Internet, we recently added a question about mobile internet connectivity to our core questions identifying who uses the internet. Last year, we found that 17% of cell owners do most of their browsing on their phone, rather than a computer and we noted that 25% of teens fall into that category. We'll be updating that figure for adults in a few weeks.
Topics: Technology Adoption
Lee Rainie is director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center.
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Such good sampling technique! Read the fine print: They called people on their cell phones! GEEZE!
theses are some really good facts
owwaw! great post man. love it. 15% people really call wireless? I read a post from mobileinfoshop.com but they said it differently
That was cool learning about cell phones
I am also atypical. I am college grad, 65+ and still work, manage property, and stay busy. But I do not have a cell phone. I get laughed at a lot. People do not know how I "manage" without one. I have a land line, and when I come home, I return my calls. I am in and out much of the day, so no one has to wait too long to hear from me. I don't want people calling me all the time when I am out. It can wait. If it can't, then I couldn't be much help anyway.
I own an old just dial out and in cell phone. I have no use for any and rarely know where my old cell phone is. But, I have some college and a higher income and am a white widow female not yet 65. So, I don't think I fit your data, but I actually hate the fact so many own cell phones because they are very uninteresting people because their nose is stuck in the phone all the time.
Hi Mr. Rainie, I really like the research here, but I do have a question for you. In your opinion, do you think that cell phones have impacted our society in a negative way. I have a research project that I am doing for my high school, and the topic is how cell phones have impacted our society. Most of the opinions that I have found say that they have negatively impacted society. Would you agree, and if so why?
I'm only a kid but this really helped me a lot. Thanks for the information!
I agree
well think about it
Where did the persons who have been the subject of this study come from? All the continent of America, United States only or a particular city? And how have they been choose? Methodology is missing!
Thank you.
Hello Valérie. These findings come from a representative sample of all U.S. adults age 18 and older.
It is the same survey that also yielded this report pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Cel…. The methodology section is here: pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Cel…


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VOLUNTEERS braved the weather on Saturday to give a Worcestershire village a much-needed makeover.
Led by a team from the Worcestershire County Council's highways contractor Ringway, the group took to the streets of Martley to widen a footpath, realign a safety barrier, clean signs and reflective bollards and trim hedges and verges as well as pain a bus shelter and generally clean up the village.
This was the first in a series of similar works across the county agreed when Ringway was again awarded the highways contact for another six and a half years earlier this year.
The company's regional divisional manager Dave Rowley said: "As a company, Ringway is extremely keen to assist with local community projects, charities and good causes and I am delighted that six of our dedicated staff gave up their Saturday to spend time working in Martley.
"The feedback has been very positive and the parish is looking much cleaner and smarter now."
Malvern Hills district councillor Barbara Williams said the team had done a "fantastic" job.
"I am really grateful for what they achieved, especially considering the weather," she said.
"The operatives kept forging ahead regardless of the rain and I am sure I can speak on behalf of the residents of Martley by thanking Ringway very much for what you have done for the village."
Ringway has been running highways services in the county since 2005.


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Congrats to our winner Mommyfriend!
Now that I've lost 20 plus pounds I am so ready to shake my thang and get all sexified and take pictures. Not just for my husband– but for me! I guess the fact that I'm turning 39 (on August 25th GULP)… I'm not quite sure how much longer my body will actually look decent in a Boudoir shot and so I know it's NOW or NEVER!
So in honor of my weight loss- and in celebration of the launch of Bride Bop – The Ultimate Bride Guide (which will keep you up-to-date on the latest wedding trends with tips from their in–house experts and help you plan your dream wedding) and their upcoming launch event in Los Angeles, on 11am-3pm August 19th- featuring a top notch celebrity wedding panel, Bridal Gown Boutique from JLM Couture, an opportunity to taste hand-selected confections from LA's most creative bakers, hors d'ourves, cocktails, a glamorous goodie and a chance to peruse and sample goods and services from CA wedding pros and big day Cosmetic Consults To purchase tickets, please visit: http://bridebop.com/
If you are not familiar with this new trend in sexy portraiture, Boudoir is a French word whose original meaning was "pouting room" and involves you wearing a lot less then your gown. Although boudoir is typically shot in the bedroom, the goal of the the team at Photography by Helene Cornell is to come up with creative ideas that are fun, fashionable, comfortable, and personal to you that you can then present to your man later. If you have no intention on showing this off to your mate, why not celebrate your own form and life accomplishments with a fashion forward photo shoot that you will remember for a life time?


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Old Man Shoots Armed Robbers [VIDEO]
Two men tried to rob a cafe in Ocala, Florida. They didn't get much, except trouble.
71 year-old Samuel Adams couldn't just stand by and watch a robbery take place. He was concerned about his wife being injured.
He then took matters into his own hands – literally. He grabbed his gun and shot the two armed thugs. They were later arrested when they sought treatment for their gunshot wounds.


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Tams-Witmark Music Library Launches Young Performers' Edition
Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH MY! Tams-Witmark Music Library has launched its Young Performers' Edition collection of titles with the release of The Wizard of Oz, Young Performers' Edition, now available for licensing, it was announced today by Sargent L. Aborn, President of Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. The hour-long musical was adapted for young performers by iTheatrics under the supervision of its founder and CEO, Timothy Allen McDonald, in collaboration with Deena R. Harburg. Schools and musical theater groups interested in licensing the musical should visit the Tams-Witmark website, www.tamswitmark.com, or phone 212-688-2525 or 800-221-7196.
"The Wizard of Oz is a beloved story that teaches a beautiful lesson: sometimes your heart's desire is in your own backyard. It seems only appropriate that this musical treasure should be the first Young Performers' Edition title in Tams-Witmark's new collection for children," says Aborn. "We are looking forward to seeing the creative ways in which children and educators will tell this wonderful story from their own backyards," he adds.
Tams-Wimark selected iTheatrics to create the student version of the show as well as accompanying support resources for educators – which are designed to make sure that anyone, anywhere has the tools and information necessary to successfully stage a musical production with students. These resources include a production guide for directors, a sing-along recording for rehearsal, a recording of the performance music and a choreography DVD which takes schools and educational groups step-by-step through the process of creating and staging engaging musical numbers.
"The launch of Tams-Witmark's collection of Young Performers' Edition musicals will offer even more young people the opportunity to experience the transformative power of musical theater, and it will give more schools the ability to create cost-effective and sustainable musical theater programs," says McDonald.


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Guardians of the Galaxy hits theaters in Japan on September 13th, and the trailers airing over there for the Marvel film are the best. They're focused on Rocket and Groot, and one of them includes images of actual raccoons before the Guardians footage. I wish they were subtitled in English, but the trailers still manage to be funny without that. Man, now I want to watch Guardians again.
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02 May 2010
Summer time - and the living is easy.
We thought that might get your attention - and, yes indeed, we know that Suns fandom isn't really living "easy". Instead it is quite tense in the Land of the Desert and plenty of fingernails have been bitten to the quick.
Sure our Suns wiped the floor with an emotionally charged but physically hobbled Portland Trailblazers squad and we did it with efficiency and style as Phoenix grabbed 4 of 5 games. Yep - the Suns looked like they wanted it - and actually played like it made a difference as they won those four games by an average of 19 points.
So what's all the worrying about?
Well - now we are getting ready to take the court against the hard nosed San Antonio Spurs on Monday evening. That's the same Texas team that has buried the Suns in many a play-off graveyard and San Antonio has jelled since the beginning of March as Tim Duncan & Company have finally gotten serious about winning the Western Conference. And a Spurs team that is mentally ready to play will be tough.
But we have reason to be upbeat - and optimistic going into a Monday game that is slated to start at 10:30pm EST - or 7:30pm PST for you locals.
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The reason for optimism can be encapsulated in the names of two Suns scoring phenoms - Amar'e Stoudemire and Jason Richardson.
An unlikely pair, the veteran duo hit for a combined average of 46.4 points per game against Portland (J-Rich 25.4 ppg and Amar'e 21 ppg) for an offensive onslaught that accounted for nearly 45% of the Suns points all series.
The unlikely combination included extraordinary outside shooting by J-Rich as he nailed 3-pointers with incredible accuracy ( 80% in Game #1, 66% in Game #2, and 62.5% in Game #5) and Stoudemire doing his thing inside as he hit 38 of 66 from the field for 57% of his shots from the field.
If the Suns new Dynamic Duo can continue spreading the floor - and Steve Nash can get his Hall-of-Fame game back on track - the Suns starting unit can be deadly even against the vaunted San Antonio defense. And if Grant Hill continues his stalwart defense and shot blocking - well - the Suns will be bound for the Western Conference finals.
So get the popcorn ready and grab a seat on the couch because - despite the caution of my colleague here at www.sunsstufft.com - optimism is the order of the day going into Monday evening.
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VW Transforms Beetle Into A Working Spa Jacuzzi [Video]
For its "Beetle Caravan Campaign," the car company transformed the iconic car model into an "open-air hotspring."
As part of its Beetle Caravan Campaign, Volkswagen Japan transformed a 2013 convertible Beetle into an "open-air hotspring."
The concept was created by Mr. Maekawa, a contestant who entered and won a design contest.
To transform the car into a "hotspring," the rear seats were converted into a space that could house a fully-functional jacuzzi. The transformed Beetle also had a cedar enclosure and a hot water heater.
The "beet-ju" was then parked on an area overlooking Mt. Fuji to emphasize the comforts that the newly-converted car can give.
Check out the videos below for more about the campaign and how the Beetle was transformed.

Source: DesignBOOM
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In the ninth leg of 'The Amazing Race', tension occurred between team Margie and Luke and team Kisha and Jen, but the latter managed to finish first by hair.
Mark and Michael could only survive until the ninth leg of "The Amazing Race" 14. The stunt men brothers were almost out last week but were saved by the non-elimination round which took impact on this week's leg of the race. Performing a speed bump, they were not able to catch up with the rest and again checked in last.
First to depart from Bangkok, Thailand to Guilin, China were Margie and Luke who got into the first flight by themselves. Tammy and Victor got into the same flight with Jamie and Cara a couple of hours later but the connecting flight was delayed, causing Kisha and Jen to be able to overtake all of the teams. Mark and Michael meanwhile, left late in the afternoon.
In Guilin, the first clue required the teams to find a barber shop. Kisha and Jen were lost while Tammy and Victor had the privilege of speaking Mandarin. Both Jen and Luke found the place first, and soon the war between the two teams occurred. Jen called Luke 'bitch' because he shoved her aside when reaching for the clue.
Road Block. The teams must take a boat to the middle of a river and one member would train Cormorants birds to dive and retrieve ten fishes for them. Arriving at the road block, Jen shoved Luke the way he pushed her earlier and war of words happened again. While the team members trained their birds, Mark and Michael had to clean and dry two customers' hair for the speed bump task.
Jamie finished the bird challenge first followed by Jen. They then had to race to Ancient South Gate where they performed a detour. It's between Choreography or Calligraphy. In the former, teams will learn a native dance and perform it while in the latter, they must copy four Chinese characters. Jen and Kisha did the Calligraphy while Jamie and Cara did the dance. Margie and Luke as well as Tammy and Victor opted for Calligraphy. Mark and Michael, had just arrived on the Road Block.
Turned out, the dance was not an easy one. Jamie and Cara were denied twice by the judges but when they were about to give up and do the Calligraphy, they decided to give it one more shot. First to finish the Road Block were Tammy and Victor, tailed by Margie and Luke and Jen and Kisha. However, first team to arrive at the pit stop at Banyan Lake were Jen and Kisha. And they won a trip for two to Barbados.
Close behind them were Tammy and Victor who finished second and Margie and Luke who took the third position. Phil Keoghan asked Margie and Jen about the rift and they defended their own sides. Margie was particularly pissed when Jen and Kisha laughed, thinking that they were laughing at her deaf son while in fact they did not.
Jamie and Cara checked in fourth and therefore, Mark and Michael were gone from the competition. There will be three more leg of races, and next week, the remaining four teams will go to the country's capital city Beijing.


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Elimination nights on MasterChef are like horror movies. This is the part where that character you barely even noticed in the first reel suddenly becomes a fixture for five minutes before meeting a grisly end, usually after saying something very un-PC or having sex.
There's plenty of rump on MasterChef but no rumpy-pumpy (for the camera anyway), and neither Kumar Pereira (Sri Lankan-born 62-year-old design teacher) nor Andrew Henderson (37-year-old South Australian youth worker) is likely to offend good taste tonight.
Taste buds, though, are another matter entirely.
These two have left a trail of destruction behind them, and tonight one of them will pay. The question is, will we finally get to see Matt fulfil his evil-panto-villain destiny with a hand-wringing "mwah hah hah", while George briefly trades his Tigger act ("Tiggers love to bounth") for a spell as Igor. "Shall we kick him out, master? Master, shall we? Oh, shall we?"
Andrew used to be a bus driver, he tells us while gazing out over the sort of view no bus driver can afford. "Six years ago, I went through a major workplace accident which crushed my soul." We've heard this before and no more details are forthcoming, but I feel for him. I once dropped a brick on my foot and that shoe was a total write-off.
Andrew tells us he should win because he wants to run a restaurant that will train and employ underprivileged kids. From what we've seen of his cooking, I reckon someone needs to call the child protection people right now.
Kumar delivers his plea bargain in a garden, where he's looked over by a stone Buddha. Former Hare Krishna Sun comes over to chat and show her devotion; is this the mystical east corner by any chance?
Kumar wants to run a cooking school too, apparently, somewhere in the country. A long way from transport, so no one can get away, I'd be guessing. Wolf Creek is kinda nice this time of year, they say.
The mood is sombre, Hayden tells us, because someone won't be coming home tonight. That'd be Shannon, whose prize for winning last night's challenge is dressing up as a Christmas tree bauble. She's off to a fancy-pants restaurant with chocolate king Billy, travelling via helicopter. As you do.
Kumar says he hasn't shown us all he's capable of; Andrew says he has become stronger, which is lucky because that suitcase he's stuffing in the back of the Limo of Doom looks mighty heavy.
Up in the balcony, Michael predicts it's going to be a tough battle. "They're both pretty determined, hard-working guys," he says, neglecting to add that neither can cook.
And so to the lightly spiced elephant in the room: which of these two will make the least terrible dish tonight?
And so to the lightly spiced elephant in the room: which of these two will make the least terrible dish tonight?
But first, let's cut to Shannon in the chopper, telling us she can't imagine anyone better than Billy to share this trip with. But hang on; you just told us how much you love Andrew, who is "like my big brother". Even for a Christmas decoration, that's pretty damn fickle.
Back to the MasterChef kitchen, and the challenge starts with a big pot being brought to the table. Matt asks what they can smell; Gary says the smell is "permeating everything"; Kumar and Andrew feebly pretend they can smell something other than fear, but fail.
Everyone's nose is twitching - they're like so many mice trying to get at a wedge of gruyere - and then Gary says: "It's time to put you out of your misery. The dish is …"
Pffft. Flambéed misery.
While we're waiting for someone to put a stop to all this needless suffering - more morphine, nurse, NOW - Gary appears in an ad to tell us about the wonders of very old dried spices. Then George appears to tell us how to make butter even better by blending it with oil AND salt (big Heart Foundation tick there). Then Matt's hand appears to sell us paper towels. (He's so hot right now they couldn't afford his whole body.)
But still no one has told us what the damned stench in the pot is and we're all practically suicidal now.
At last, here comes Gary to put us out of our prolonged misery by finally telling us what the mystery dish is.
"This is a make-or-break dish," he says. "Can you smell anything?"
What? It's a dish of make-or-break? What the hell is that?
"Everyone's eaten one of these," he clarifies. "Massaman curry."
It's not like any curry Kumar has ever made, though. "I've never made one before," he says, screwing up his face in disgust. "I've tasted some, but I don't do it by choice."
Andrew says he cooks it at home, fairly often. Well, that's a nice bit of expectation flipping right there, but only a fool would predict Andrew has this one in the bag no matter what his apparent advantages.
This is one of those Bob the Builder challenges. They've got a dud curry. Can they fix it? Probably not.
Andrew dips a spoon in for a taste. "It's just a soupy, horrible mess," he says. Er, and that differs from your typical offering how?
"It's like slop water," says Kumar, who at least has the decency to admit he has no idea how to fix it. Here's a tip: don't add detergent.
The rules: they each get to make eight moves, and each move can use just one ingredient and take 10 minutes. And they can only use each of those ingredients once.
Andrew says for the millionth time that he's terrified to be going up against Kumar because … well, he doesn't say it but you know what he's thinking. Clearly he hasn't read the MasterChef website, where Kumar makes it pretty clear he doesn't even like curries.
It's a subtly un-PC moment. If the rules of horror are going to apply here, Andrew is now officially a dead man walking.
The two worst best amateur chefs in Australia go to their benches and Andrew momentarily forgets what genre he's in, as he flips Kumar a look straight from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Kumar's first move is to blend some cashews to use as a thickening agent. Andrew flips him a quizzical look that's wandered straight in from an early Tom Hanks comedy and says he thinks Kumar's bonkers.
Andrew's first move is to go for turmeric; the peanut gallery thinks he's bonkers.
Now it's Kumar's move again. He grabs some shallots, blends them to a pulp and leaves them on his benchtop. I think he's bonkers.
It's Andrew's move and he's gone for ginger, a spice he tells us he doesn't like. Excellent choice.
Kumar is psyching Andrew out now, and Matt tells him he's happy to see he's getting inside Andrew's head, a scene I'm sure I remember from Being John Malkovich. Sadly, though, he doesn't say "mwah hah hah". Andrew throws a look last seen on the face of Dolph Lundgren as the Russian boxer in that Rocky film. Or maybe it was on the queen mother in Aliens…
Kumar goes for galangal, which he's going to add to his shallots, which he's still keeping in the blender. At least the bench should be really flavoursome.
Now Andrew's gone for shallots too. He's chopped them and thrown them into the curry sauce without frying them. Dead. Man. Walking.
Kumar: Coriander root.
Andrew: Hubris. "Four steps in, Kumar hasn't added anything to his curry sauce. I'm feeling great." Still, he copies Kumar and takes coriander root.
Step five for Kumar. He picks lime. Sounds like a lemon of an idea.
Andrew goes for palm sugar.
Kumar: Palm sugar. That sounds like a good idea.
Andrew: Fish sauce.
Kumar: Fish sauce. That sounds like a good idea. Andrew says "you're just copying me", and for once he's not deluded.
Andrew shocks everyone by saying he's only got one step left, even though it's only his seventh. He's seriously lost the plot. He chooses lime. Yep, gone.
Kumar is regretting using lime, but he's got one step left to correct it. It's not going to be potato or peanuts, two of the key missing ingredients, though. He touches the tomatoes but they refuse to speak to him. Lemons? No. Tamarind paste? Almost, but no. "I'm thrown and I'm confused," he says, "but I know I've got to use something." He is so on top of this challenge.
Dani on the balcony tries telepathy - apparently she picked up on all those "shut the f--- up" signals the other week - to urge him to pick coconut milk but it doesn't work. Kumar simply explodes in a ball of flame.
Phoenix-like, he's back after the ad break. "I don't want to put a foot wrong," he says, but he could hardly have done so more comprehensively if he were a drunken centipede on crutches.
Finally, he really does latch on to a tin of coconut cream and Dani ramps up the telepathy by jumping up and down on the spot making grunty noises like a happy gibbon. He seems to get the message.
Andrew says he has just cottoned on that this is an elimination challenge. There's only one thing to do: copy. He grabs a tin of coconut cream and adds another pinch of hubris. "My curry is vibrant and bright and tastes beautiful and spicy," he says. "It's a damn good curry."
The dishes go up in front of Gary and Matt. Kumar's looks like pink poo, Andrew's like yellow poo. This is one of those nights when the judges really earn their keep. Lucky George is otherwise indisposed.
Clearly, neither has made a massaman curry, so the challenge is now about who has made the least-awful not-massaman curry.
Andrew's meat is dry but his dish is at least vaguely like a curry. Kumar's meat is well cooked but, Matt says, there's a "squeakiness" from the texture of the cashews. Nothing a little axle grease wouldn't fix, I'm sure. Gary says he'd prefer to eat Andrew's; Matt says he'd prefer to eat Kumar's. I say I would prefer to send them both packing and head down the road to the local Thai place where they actually know how to make a massaman curry.
And the verdict is in. The least-bad-not-right dish is Kumar's.
Andrew valiantly steps over that pile of hubris sitting at his feet and makes Matt and Gary the sort of offer they can't refuse, at least not on national telly. "Expect an invite in the next couple of years when I open my bistro, OK?"
"We'll be down there," says Gary. Matt's pretty sure he's washing his hair that lifetime.
Andrew says goodbye in the interview room, surrounded by dangling meat cleavers. Did Wes Craven direct tonight's episode?
"MasterChef hasn't ended my career in cooking," Andrew says as he is chauffeured away in the Limo of Doom. "It's started it."
As Kumar walks into the house, the Christmas bauble does a terrible impression of someone who's glad to see him. Hayden calls him the Kumarnator. Nice try, dude, but this is a horror film, not sci-fi.
Meanwhile, Andrew has punched a hole in the time-space continuum and is back in Adelaide before Kumar has even had a chance to sit down and lie about how good his curry was. His wife embraces him … and she looks exactly like Shannon.


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Measuring and Reducing the Standards Gap is a new report introducing the ITU-T's current research project on building standards capacity in the developing world.
The document authored by Dr. Laura DeNardis, Executive Director, Yale Information Society Project and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School presents country case studies that answer questions such as; is there a national standards body; is there any participation in international standards development and what level of standards education is available? Based on these case studies it recommends actionable steps for improving national standards capacity in the developing world.
Inequality in national standards capability continues to be a contributive factor to the persistence of the digital divide between the developed and developing worlds and to diminished opportunities for economic development and technological innovation.
The overarching goal of ITU's Bridging the Standardization Gap program is to facilitate increased participation of developing countries in standardization, to ensure that developing countries experience the economic benefits of associated technological development, and to better reflect the requirements and interests of developing countries in the standards-development process. One specific objective of this project is to understand the primary gaps that must be overcome to improve the standards development, implementation, and usage capacities of developing countries.
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Hawley has agreed a three-year deal at Preston, who are resigned to losing England international David Nugent.
The 25-year-old told Preston's website: "It's a big move for me and I'm looking forward to working with Paul again."
Hawley, who was out of contract at Carlisle, scored 51 goals in 137 appearances for the Cumbrians, who signed him from Walsall in July 2004.


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Prep work makes weeknight dinners easier
While it may seem like people are spending more time eating out, statistics point to the contrary. In a 2009 survey sponsored by CBS News, 43 percent of American respondents said they cook 6 to 7 nights out of the week, and 32 percent 4 to 5 nights out of the week.
Those who are still dining out or ordering in instead of cooking may benefit from these time-saving tips.
* Make a meal schedule. Take a cue from schools and office cafeterias by creating a weekly or monthly meal calendar. Come up with items you enjoy eating and combine them for meals. Use magazines for inspiration if necessary. Having a schedule of what you will be cooking enables you to shop for the ingredients in advance and to know exactly what you'll be serving each night -- two time savers.
* Create a detailed shopping list. Use the meal calendar to make a list of the ingredients you will need for each meal. Some ingredients will overlap (i.e. fresh spices, like garlic and parsley), but there may be some ingredients unique to a particular recipe. Buying all the ingredients in advance enables you to have them on hand when it's time to cook, instead of running out for something missing.
* Do preparation work on the weekend. Spend a few hours over the weekend prepping food for the upcoming week. If vegetables need to be diced, do so and store in zip-top plastic bags. Meats that take a long time to cook can be pre-cooked and simply reheated before being served. Certain meals, like casseroles and baked pasta dishes, can be made entirely and stored in the freezer. Having some of the work already done may mean weeknight meals will only entail putting all the ingredients together and heating.
* Invest in a slow cooker. If you prefer a hot meal right after walking in the door, a slow cooker can be an invaluable tool that delivers meals-on-demand. A slow cooker works by cooking ingredients at a very low temperature over a long period of time. Ingredients can be added in the morning before leaving for work, and the meal will be ready and hot by the time you return home. There are dozens of different slow cooker recipes and cookbooks completely devoted to meals made in a slow cooker. It is a versatile tool and one that can be an asset in a busy person's kitchen.
* Think outside the meal box. Dinner doesn't necessarily have to be "dinner" foods. Turn pancakes, eggs and sandwiches into heartier meals with the addition of a few ingredients. Omelets can be enhanced with cubed meats and vegetables. Top pancakes with fresh fruit and granola for a more substantial meal. Paninis are hot these days, so take an ordinary sandwich and make it gourmet just by pressing and heating.
Taking the time to plan ahead for meals means that weeknight dinners can be less hectic.


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DC Superhero brawler Injustice: Gods Among Us will receive a meaty Collector's Edition bundle in the U.K. when it launches next spring, Warner Bros and DC Entertainment have announced.
Available in limited numbers, the CE release includes the following goodies:
-Exclusive 25cm Injustice Collectible statue featuring iconic characters Batman and Wonder Woman
-Two issues of a brand new DC Comics series
-Exclusive Steelbook™ casing
-Three exclusive skins based on Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman from DC COMICS – THE NEW 52
Developed by NetherRealm Studios, the same company responsible for 2011's critically-acclaimed Mortal Kombat reboot, Injustice: Gods Among Us sees heroes and villains from DC Comics such as Batman, Harley Quinn, Superman and Cyborg slugging it out in massive battles throughout a series of iconic locations.
Injustice is due out on PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360 in April 2013. Check out a shot of the Collector's Edition packaging below.
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Seedless and sweet, navel oranges have a belly button-like protuberance on the blossom end. (In case you're wondering, it's actually a second small orange.) These citrus fruits are an excellent source of potassium, vitamin C, and folate, which can help prevent neural-tube birth defects. Look for the best ones from mid-fall to early summer.


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A few nights ago, I walked out in the sunshine – almost 80 degrees – in Ft. Lauderdale – to dine with Ellen Soeteber and her spouse, Dick Martins, on their upcoming 40th wedding anniversary. Soeteber, retired editor of the Post-Dispatch, has jumped into the volunteer mode and gardening tropical flora. They sent their holiday greetings to all their friends in our town. . .U.S. Fed. Dist. Court has "judicially enforced several Internal Revenue Services summonses" for quondam real estater Michael Litz to appear in determining the corporate tax liabilities of his Eighteen Investments, Inc. The IRS, via U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan, has directed Litz to provide books, records, papers and other data that are relevant to the investigation from 2009-2013. . Litz has snubbed the summonses. . ."I'm J.B. Bernstein – I'm a sports agent," says our town's Jon Hamm in the new trailer for the movie, "Million Dollar Arm," in which his character has the "Mad Men"-like confidence. The sports drama movie, which bows May 16, has Hamm as an agent, who is shocked when his client signs with another. . . Nike is poised to outfit U.S. athletes for the 2014 Sochi Olympics with slick silver and fleece. . .Ever wonder who in the U.S. may be among the very first to learn the latest goings-on in the Vatican? It could well be a Ballwin man, Matthew Sherry, who translates scoops and articles by one of Rome's long-time premiere Vatican observers, Sandro Magister, who writes for the well-respected Chiesa news. . .A Delaware jury has awarded $2.4 million to a man who was sexually assaulted as a child by Marist Brother Damian Galligan, who now lives in a retirement facility in our town and reportedly is quite wealthy, according to news reports. . .Online tracking, a burgeoning technology: Some stores now have software that tracks smartphones and knows when you entered the store, where you went, whether you bought something or if you stopped at another shop. . .
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Another alleged sick pedophile catholic priest that escaped criminal prosecution and prison??!! No wonder I'm an atheist!!
Tired1…in this time of celebration and good will toward (all) men, even the evil pedophiles and the saintly believers, you too can have a Merry Christmas, just put down your bag of obtuse verbiage, take up the message of Great Tidings of Joy to the World, and rejoice that you can live your life in peace by forgiving others that sin, and someday you may be chosen to enter that supreme solitude known to others that have religious feelings, as heaven, that can be yours but with the utterance of a simple but grand prayer…"Forgive me my Lord, I am a sinner…" and it will be done. Now in your case the "Lord" may be the lone Christmas candle burning hope and peace on your dining table…but you shall have peace, and there is always hope.
There wasn't too much "good will toward (all) men" in America when Indians were having their land stolen and genocide committed against them,blacks were enslaved and discriminated against for over 400 years while being murdered,raped and beaten with no criminal prosecution for their oppressors,women were subjugated to second class citizenry,Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps while white skinned German Americans were not,pedophile Catholic priests were raping thousands of innocent children while being moved from parish to parish to continue their vile acts and being hindered from criminal prosecution by the Catholic hierarchy,bullying wars were waged against smaller countries of brown and yellow people (N.Korea,Vietnam,Iraq,Afghanistan)…all of which your white male privilege in this country makes you blind to the bad will inflicted on those not of your ilk and privilege at the hands of this country!As an atheist I don't celebrate Xmas,again something you are blind to.
It would be nice if Christians were all saints instead of sinners but Christ Himself said that he came to cure the sick and not to pal around with those in no need of a physician.
Since Adam and Eve ate that apple, man has been a problem, some more so than others.
I wish all atheists peace, especially RETIRED1.
I hope the old coot enjoys his Federal Holiday named after Christ…at least while you can.
Yes, even on Christmas, and with my Olive Branch in hand, the cantankerous old coot remains stedfast in his envelope of disagreeable and deeply angry mindset. Whoever (he/she) is…I bet your co-workers were glad to have you finally retire. Oh well, you have no influence on my life, so Merry Christmas, and that bottle of Jim Beam on your bedside table could use some egg to go with the nog. May your day be Merry and Bright.
Towncar could have left out all the UN Christian commentary and just said may your day be merry and bright, but instead, decided to castigate another human being on Christmas.
What's wrong with a simple have a great day instead of all the other negatives?
O NO Anon…you are giving transference of intent to me? Your eyes miss the consistent negativity of the Tired1…I was merely taking the point of view and exemplifying the Tired1's penchant for posting only degrading and insensitive remarks…well I said my piece with a healthy bit of tongue-in-cheek razz…but then you don't get that ad never will.


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President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are at loggerheads over how to form a Palestinian state.
Even within the PLO the different factions are often at loggerheads and maneuver to gain the upper hand.
Money laundering had now become a political issue, and Mexican and U.S. officials remained at loggerheads.
In the next two years, the Republicans and Democrats will often be at loggerheads, mired in the gridlock of divided government.
I don't like to see you at loggerheads, and I don't see any reason for it.
He and the village have been at loggerheads about the Institute, I believe.
The two Americans, distracted by their sweating, cursed the heat and the loggerheads of their situation.
Well, my dear fellow, we shall not come to loggerheads about that.
His ideal was to be more or less at loggerheads with everybody.
For the preceding twenty hours he had been at loggerheads with the crew.
1580s, "stupid person, blockhead," perhaps from dialectal logger "heavy block of wood" + head (n.). Later it meant "a thick-headed iron tool" (1680s), a type of cannon shot, a type of turtle (1650s). Loggerheads "fighting, fisticuffs" is from 1670s, but the exact notion is uncertain, perhaps it suggests the heavy tools used as weapons. The phrase at loggerheads "in disagreement" is first recorded 1670s.


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