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Jesus Film and Faith Comes By Hearing mash-up Bible resources
Faith Comes By Hearing and the Jesus Film group are extending their longtime partnership to mash-up their extensive resources in support of the Bible.
What was unthinkable even a decade ago has now been made possible thanks to new technology and with mobile phones now able to play audio, text and video, the two ministries are tapping into these emerging possibilities by combining Faith Comes By Hearing's Digital Bible Platform and the extensive video inventory of the JESUS film.
Each ministry currently offers access to their own digital content via apps, websites and other digital expressions but in the last year, Faith Comes By Hearing has made it possible for people to access Jesus film content via its app.
With new API technology allowing full sharing of this content between organisations and across digital platforms, the latest collaboration between the two ministries brings together digital Bible text, audio and video in hundreds of different languages.
"By sharing content digitally, ministries and Bible organisations effectively broaden their reach and strengthen their ability to bring the Word of God to the world," states Troy Carl, FCBH vice president and architect of the Digital Bible Platform.
"In this digital era, this is very much the church – the Body of Christ – working together as we are commanded to do in Scripture."
The partnership between Jesus Film Media and Faith Comes By Hearing means that millions of Bible.is users now have access to over a thousand language versions of The Jesus Film.
"We are excited about this breakthrough in both mobile technology and partnership which will resonate throughout the Kingdom and in every user's heart," said Jesus Film.
Carl added: "This is an exciting time to be a Christian and working to fulfill the Great Commission. Today's technology allows unprecedented sharing of content between partnering organizations and across so many different platforms and devices. Most importantly, it provides unmatched access to God's Word for the end user."


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Robert W. Tinsley
Three men had been killed over the last two weeks. The young Kikuyu man standing in front of Inspector Thomas Donnegan's desk at the British East Africa Police headquarters in Nairobi was afraid he was going to be next.
"You are a man," said Inspector Donnegan in KiSwahili gesturing to the young warrior's shield and spear. "Why don't you protect yourself?"
All this was being translated for me by Suleiman, Inspector Donnegan's askari corporal, as I had not been in the country long enough to become familiar with the lingua franca of this part of Africa.
Suleiman, a member of the WaSwahili tribe, stood as tall as I, and was splendidly turned out in the red fez, blue shirt and khaki shorts of his office. Many of the askaris I had seen thus far had been rather slovenly in their dress, but King Edward himself could have found no fault with Suleiman.
"If it were a man I had to fight," said the Kikuyu whose name was Lanana, "I would do so and win. But these are not the deeds of a man. This is the work of a witch."
"What?" I said, unable to keep quiet in the face of this nonsense. "Is this man serious? Witchcraft?"
Inspector Donnegan fixed me with a look that made me wish I hadn't spoken. "Quite serious," he said. "Don't forget, you are no longer strolling the Thames embankment. To these people witchcraft is as real as London fog is to you. I've seen men and women in the prime of life curl up and die because some witch put a curse on them. Now, be quiet, and let's see what else we can learn."
"Why do you believe this to be witchcraft?" asked the Inspector switching back to KiSwahili.
"The men disappeared at night without a sound. On those nights that a man disappeared, we heard hyenas outside the village. We found each man the next morning just outside the boma, half eaten by hyenas."
"You must hear hyenas around your village quite often," said Inspector Donnegan.
"N'dio, Bwana," said the young man. "That is so. Fisi often comes to our village, but always in packs. Those nights there were only two. That is not the way of fisi. These are the warriors of a witch."
After a few more questions and a promise to follow the man back to his village, a two-day walk apparently, Inspector Donnegan had Suleiman show the young Kikuyu out.
I could not hold my tongue any longer. "Surely you don't credit that nonsense."
Inspector Donnegan leaned back in his chair and regarded me over his tented fingers. "Do I appear, in any way, to be an idiot? If so, please tell me."
My heart jumped into my throat. I was certainly making a dog's dinner out of this session. Here I was, fresh from England, and already well on my way to confirming my immediate superior's apparently low opinion of me. My father always said that my tendency to speak without appropriate thought beforehand would be my downfall.
"Er, no sir. Not at all, sir. I was merely trying to ascertain why, in the face of such arrant absurdity, you would agree to investigate these so-called crimes. Likely these unfortunate fellows simply chose the wrong time and place to answer the call of nature."
Inspector Donnegan rose from his chair and stalked around his desk to stand in front of me so closely that I could count the number of threads in the weave of his shirt. I am not a short man by any means, standing a full six feet without my shoes, but Inspector Donnegan topped me by half a head. I could feel his breath ruffling my eyebrows, a nice accompaniment to the butterflies in my stomach.
"The natives in these parts often leave their dead outside the village to be eaten by hyenas, and hyenas, being opportunists of the first water, will eat murdered corpses with as much gusto as a corpse that died of natural causes. Thus hyena attacks are often used as cover for more nefarious deeds.
"I seem to remember," continued Donnegan, "that the alleged purpose of your posting here, boyo, was that I might train you to become a useful member of His Majesty's British East Africa Police. Does my understanding of your orders coincide with yours?"
I realized that sometime between when the Inspector rose from his desk and now I had come to full military attention. I couldn't for the life of me remember having done so. "Yes, sir. Absolutely, sir."
"Good. Then perhaps you will be so good as to remove your sorry carcass from my sight."
"Yes, sir." I executed a smart about-turn and marched toward the door.
"One other thing," said Donnegan. "Be certain to retire early tonight. We'll be leaving at dawn tomorrow. I don't want you collapsing of exhaustion along the way. Should you do so, I'll leave you for the lions. Now, be off with you."
I went.
* * *
I am not a morning person, thus my anxiety over sleeping late overcame my anxiety over being left for the lions, and I got almost no sleep at all. I arrived at headquarters a full half hour before the inspector. This allowed me to watch the preparations for our safari, that being the KiSwahili word for journey.
Suleiman and three of his askaris arrived about the same time I did, each carrying his service rifle, a Martini-Henry .500-.450 single-shot.
The porters arrived next, five WaSwahili clad in the ubiquitous kanzu, a white cotton garment similar to a nightshirt. They were carrying packs that would have driven me to the ground after five steps. These packs contained all we would need on our safari, tents, camp beds and chairs, cooking utensils, non-perishable foods such as rice, grain and biltong, a spicy dried meat that is a positive danger to the integrity of one's dental work. In addition each porter carried a jerry can of water as our trip would send us to the northwest, away from the rivers and streams that surround Nairobi on every other side.
Just as false dawn began to lighten the Eastern sky Inspector Donnegan came striding up to BEAP headquarters. A small Swahili man with a perpetual grin followed him. This worthy, as Suleiman informed me, was the Inspector's gun bearer and cook who went by the name of Tasty.
The Inspector walked right up and ran a dubious eye over me from sun helmet to boots. I had checked myself four times in the mirror before leaving my quarters and knew I was as well turned out as anyone in the country. Why, then, did I begin wondering if I had left some important piece of clothing undone?
"Didn't anyone tell you," said the Inspector, "that in this country starch in one's clothing is not a good idea?"
"No, sir," I said.
The ends of the Inspector's mouth turned up in what I suspect was a smile. I was more than half amazed that the lower portion of his face didn't crack and fall off.
"Never mind," said the Inspector. "Occupational hazard of the new boy, I suppose. Come along then."
With that Donnegan turned and strode off through the dirt of Government Street, puffs of dust exploding into the first golden rays of the sun at every step. Tasty, carrying the Inspector's service rifle paced him at his right elbow. I followed, carrying my own rifle, with the others stringing along behind.
We were just out of site of the town when we came upon a curious figure standing beside our line of march. From a distance he looked like an enormous stork, standing on his left leg with his right foot resting on his left knee.
This extraordinary figure became even more so as we approached. Drawing even with the stork-man the Inspector stopped. They greeted each other with some familiarity.
Their greeting allowed me to examine this curious creature. The man was as much taller than the Inspector as the Inspector was of me. He was lean and well muscled. I could tell due to the fact that his only clothing was a red bolt of cloth draped under his left arm and knotted above his right shoulder. His hair was plaited into narrow rows and plastered against his skull with red clay. He carried a spear almost eight feet long, just under half of which was a head of narrow double-edged steel that flashed in the sun like a diamond, so well polished was it. In addition he carried a long knife or short sword hung on a cord draped around his neck.
"This is Uliagurma," said the Inspector, "though I call him Deadly. He is Maasai and will serve as our guide."
"Why do you call him Deadly?" I asked.
The Inspector fixed me with his gimlet eye and replied. "Because he is."
We then resumed our trek with Deadly in the van. I had, of course, read of the Maasai, an exceedingly warlike tribe until just recently, though they are still not a people to take lightly. To become a moran or warrior, the only males eligible to marry and own cattle, a man has to kill a lion single handed with nothing more than his spear and shield. Yes, I should think twice about giving such a man offense.
Throughout the day we were never out of sight of one great herd or another. The sheer number and variety of wildlife here is incredible. We saw wildebeest, hartebeest, impala, Grant's and Thompson's gazelles and eland. We even saw a pride of nine lions gathered about a kill they had made last night. The male was a huge specimen with a bushy black mane. We passed them at a distance of no more than two hundred yards. I must admit my heart was in my throat the entire time, expecting a charge at any minute. The lions merely watched us until we were out of sight. No one else in our little caravan gave them more than a passing glance.
We made camp about an hour before sunset. As soon as the tents were up, Tasty began preparing dinner. This was to be my first taste of impala as the Inspector had shot one just before we reached our campsite.
This deed elicited some excitement among our askaris and porters as fresh meat is apparently a treat for them. So much so in fact that during the butchering each of them could not resist slicing off a bloody handful of the flesh and eating it then and there without benefit of cooking.
After witnessing that I wasn't sure I was going to have much of an appetite for dinner. However the aromas wafting over from Tasty's cooking fire soon had my stomach growling like a hungry lion. I discovered that Tasty had been well named.
After dinner I settled into one of the folding camp chairs before the fire. The Inspector ducked into his tent and emerged with a bottle of Bushmill's Irish whiskey and two glasses.
"Would you care to join me in a wee dram?" he asked.
"Yes, thank you, Inspector."
It was full dark now and the moon was not yet up. We sipped our whiskey in silence. Then there came a sudden cacophony that could have originated in Bedlam itself. Such a concatenation of snorts, hoots, giggles, guffaws, and shrieks I had never heard before. It made the hair on the back of my neck rise and chills run down my spine.
"It sounds as though the hyenas have had a good hunt tonight," said the Inspector.
"Hunt?" I asked. "I thought the hyena was a cowardly scavenger."
The Inspector grunted in amusement while splashing another "wee dram" of whiskey into his glass and then mine. "Don't believe everything you read, boyo, especially about Africa." He paused for a moment listening to the calls of the hyena pack. "If you were to come upon a ten-pound note lying on the ground, would you pass it by?"
"Certainly not."
"A rotting corpse is no different to a hyena than a ten-pound note is to you. It's a meal she didn't have to work for. The fact that they scavenge doesn't mean they are averse to working for their tucker. Hyenas are quite skillful hunters. And brave as well. It is quite common for a pack of hyenas to drive a pride of lions away from their kill."
I sipped from my glass. "I had no idea."
"Most people don't. And, by the way, boyo, has anyone told you about puff adders?"
"No, sir," I said.
"One of the deadliest vipers in Africa, so I shouldn't move just now if I were you." The Inspector pointed, moving nothing more than his index finger, at the ground by my right side.
I looked down and my heart fairly stopped in my chest. There on the ground illuminated in the flickering firelight was the largest snake I had ever seen. The details seared themselves into my mind. The snake was a yellowish color, not much different from the dust along the game paths we had been following all day, and as thick as my forearm. It's head swung back and forth, it's tongue questing out.
The glass was quivering in my hand as though I had the palsy. "What should I do?" I croaked. Just then Deadly's spear flashed out of nowhere and pierced the snake's head, pinning it to the ground.
"What you should do, boyo, is finish what's in your glass, then let me pour you another," said the Inspector without any sign of quaver in his voice.
It was advice that I followed with some haste.
Deadly retrieved his spear with the snake still dangling from its point. He flipped the spear with a short twist of his hands, flinging the snake's corpse out into the night, then returned to his fellows without a word.
"My God," I said. "Does this happen often?"
"Not much more than once or twice a trip," said the Inspector, grinning. "You're lucky Deadly hates snakes rather than simply fearing them as do most natives. Our other lads over there, fatalists all, wouldn't have stirred a stump, letting the gods decide what would happen."
The Inspector stood and stretched. "Well, you should finish your drink and get to bed. Breakfast is before dawn. We'll be moving at first light."
With that pronouncement he ducked into his tent. It wasn't five minutes before the sound of snoring reached my ears. I, meanwhile, with the adrenaline still rushing through my veins, was wondering if I would ever sleep again.
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We resumed our march as soon as the sun lightened the eastern sky enough for us to see our path. We traveled on through the heat of the day and finally reached the village about mid-afternoon. There must have been close to a hundred thatched huts surrounded by a fence of cut thorn trees called a boma.
Most Europeans have no concept of what an African thorn tree is really like. The thorns of holly and roses are children's playthings next to this beastly bush. The thorns themselves are three to four inches long and sharp as a seamstress' needle. The branches grow in such a manner that the thorns often interlock.
Natives cut branches from these trees and pile them in a fence around their villages to keep out wild animals. During the day one or two openings are left to allow comings and goings. At night these openings are closed with more thorn tree branches. It forms a very formidable barrier.
We left our porters and two of the askaris to set up our camp outside of the village while Inspector Donnegan and I, accompanied by Deadly, Suleiman and the remaining askari, a fellow named Jomo, paid a visit to the village chief.
We found that worthy seated on the ground in front of his hut. An older man, his hair was sprinkled with white. Four mature women, presumably his wives, and numerous children ranging in age from infants to late adolescence wandered about engaging in either work or play.
Inspector Donnegan asked Chege, which was the old man's name, about Lanana.
"That one has gone on," said Chege in KiSwahili.
"Where has he gone?" I asked after Suleiman translated for me.
The Inspector spared me a withering glare before returning to his conversation with the chief.
"This means that the man is dead," said Suleiman.
"When did this happen?" asked the Inspector in KiSwahili.
"Last night. Hyenas took him. His hut was empty this morning. We searched for him and found him there." Chege pointed off to the North.
"Where is his body now?" asked the Inspector.
Chege merely pointed in the same direction as before. Apparently the old chief was going to let the hyenas and jackals finish what they started.
"Hyenas have been bad around here. Isn't this the fourth young warrior your village has lost to them?"
The old man shrugged. "It happens," he said.
"How can the man be so uncaring?" I said.
Donnegan glared at me. "Be quiet and listen," he said.
"Since we are here, Chief, perhaps we will kill these hyenas for you. There are only two after all."
The chief shrugged again. "There are two, and you may try to kill them if you wish. But I think you will not succeed."
"Why not?"
"These two are not just hyenas. They are devils, witches' warriors. They cannot be killed."
After Suleiman told me this, I was about to let my mouth run again, but the Inspector anticipated me and raised his hand for silence.
"I wish to see the body," said the inspector.
"My son will show you," said Chege indicating a boy no older than 12 or 13.
The Inspector turned to us. "You and Jomo will come along," he said to me. "Suleiman, you and Deadly will stay here and see what you can find out." With that he gestured to the boy and we followed him out through the gap in the boma.
We found the scene of carnage no more than a 20-minute walk from the village. On coming upon this horrible sight my gorge rose immediately, and it was only by quick action that I did not vomit on my own shoes. I was quite mortified, but the Inspector didn't seem to notice.
Parts of the man's body were scattered everywhere. There was little flesh left, and many of the bones had been chewed and broken in the hyenas' powerful jaws. The head had been completely detached from the spine. It stood upright, and the profile toward me looked untouched. It was only as I moved around that the rest of the horror was revealed. The hyenas had eaten away all of the flesh on one side of the head.
I glanced over at the boy. He was gazing at the scene with an aplomb that I could only envy. "Should the boy be seeing this?" I asked.
"I'm sure he's seen worse," said the Inspector. "You must remember that Africans do not have the reverence for life that is found in the London drawing rooms you so recently left behind. Life here is ugly, bloody and short. These people have learned to deal with that in their own way."
The Inspector surveyed the scene once more, and then dismissed the boy. "It's time we returned to camp. I'm sure Suleiman and Deadly have news. Africans will talk to other Africans before they'll talk to a white man."
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"There is a very pretty girl in the village coming of age to marry very soon," said Suleiman. "There are many suitors. The old men say one of the young warriors hired a witch to eliminate the competition."
"Do they know who the witch is?" I asked.
"They know," said Suleiman, "but they will not say. They are not civilized like we are. They are afraid."
"What about the man that hired the witch?" said Donnegan.
Suleiman shrugged. "Each one we talked to believed it was someone different."
"You're not giving any credence to this witchcraft nonsense, are you, sir?" I asked.
"As I said before, hyena attacks are often cover ups for wicked deeds. But since any evidence we might have had has been eaten, all we can do is sort out these rogue hyenas."
Accordingly we ate our dinner and made preparations to return to the kill site. Our party consisted of the Inspector and myself, Deadly, Suleiman and Jomo.
We arrived an hour after a spectacular blood-red sunset and spread out in a line 30 yards downwind from the site. The Inspector had brought a large electric torch that he set on the ground close to hand.
We waited in silence for over two hours before hearing the giggles and whoops that heralded the approach of our quarry. Standing, we checked our weapons by feel, as the moon had not yet risen.
I couldn't see my hand before my face. My heart was thumping so loudly I feared the hyenas would hear me and take flight.
Finally I could hear the sound of bones breaking, and I knew the brutes had resumed their grizzly meal.
"Be ready," whispered the Inspector.
I raised my rifle and pointed it in the direction of the feeding sounds even though I could not see my front sight.
The Inspector flipped the torch on, revealing the dreadful scene before us. Both of the huge brutes lay on the ground gnawing bones that not 24 hours before supported a living man as he went about his business. At that point events stopped progressing as expected.
Normally when one shines a sudden light on an animal at night, that animal will freeze for several seconds allowing the hunter to fire a telling shot. Not so these devilish beasts.
As soon as the light hit them, they were up and charging us in that half-crippled gait of theirs. As odd as it looked, their progress was remarkably quick.
After a moment of stunned inaction, we all fired. The ground erupted all around the charging brutes, but not one bullet struck home. As the Inspector and I were the only ones armed with repeating firearms, it was up to us to stop them. By the time we were ready to fire again, the beasts were only 15 yards from us. I seemed to be unable to take a breath, and it was becoming imperative that I do so.
The Inspector and I fired almost as one. The Inspector's quarry stopped as though it had run into a wall and fell over quivering. My target merely ducked its head and continued on undeterred. I began to believe I would never take another breath except to scream when Deadly's spear saved my life a second time within as many days.
I finished jacking a fresh round up the spout and discovered that I could breathe again.
"Close thing, that," said the Inspector.
"Asante, Deadly," I said to the red-painted giant. He nodded his head with all the presence of royalty.
Examining the dead beasts we discovered that they were both females, the larger of the two sexes. My hyena, or rather Deadly's, had a bloody crease down the top of its head bisecting the distance between its ears. That must have been my bullet causing the brute to duck its head. I had overshot though I had been sighting at the base of the hyena's neck. I checked my rifle and discovered that my 200-yard rear sight was up. No wonder I had overshot.
The Inspector noticed me changing the sight. "In future," he said, "I suggest that you use the long distance sight for long distances."
Since that statement required no response, I resumed examining the dead hyena. Deadly's spear had severed the hyena's spinal cord. As I was looking at the wound I noticed a flash of reflected light amongst the stiff bristles of hair along the beast's withers. Looking closer I found four glass beads woven into the animal's coat, red, blue, yellow and red again.
I drew the Inspector's attention to this, and we examined the other hyena. The same types of glass beads in the same sequence were woven into this beast's hair as well.
"How in the world could that have happened?" I asked.
At just that time an apparition appeared from the dark to the considerable consternation of our little party. The apparition resolved itself into a wizened old black man naked except for a tiny loincloth. His body was painted all over with white spots. He immediately launched into a long tirade in KiSwahili.
He and the Inspector went back and forth for some time. At the first appearance of this man all our civilized natives faded into the dark, so I had lost the translation services normally provided by Suleiman.
After a lengthy discussion in which voices were raised on both sides, it seemed that negotiations were finally concluded. From his dejected mien it appeared that the old man came out the worse for it.
"Corporal," called the Inspector.
Suleiman materialized out of the dark with Jomo at his side. "Sah!"
"Corporal, accompany this man back to the village and cut out ten head of his best cattle. We will be taking them back to Nairobi with us. The money from the auction will serve to pay his fine."
"Sah," barked Suleiman saluting. He and Jomo gathered up the little man and disappeared into the darkness.
"Sir," I said. "If you don't mind me asking, what the devil was that all about?"
"That man is the witch that started this whole donnybrook."
"A witch? Him?"
"Indeed," said the Inspector. "He saw us kill the hyenas, and came in here demanding payment for the loss of his property. I asked him if he could prove they were his. He said, of course he could prove it and proceeded to describe the beads woven into their coats. For a moment, I was at a loss over what to do. I couldn't arrest him for murder, no evidence, and I certainly couldn't arrest him for practicing witchcraft. I realized, however, that I could punish him financially, so I fined him 10 head of cattle and told him that the next time the fine would be double."
"You fined him? For what?"
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ORLANDO, Fla., March 16 (UPI) -- Tiger Woods sank a 24-foot putt on the 72nd hole to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational Sunday, his seventh straight victory worldwide and 64th on the PGA Tour.
Woods tied Ben Hogan for No. 3 on the all-time win list and trails only Sam Snead, who won 82 titles, and Jack Nicklaus with 73.
The 32-year-old Woods notched his latest win in dramatic fashion, rolling in a curling putt for a final-round 66 that gave him a total of 10-under-par 270 and a one-shot win over Bart Bryant, who had 67.
Cliff Kresge (67), Vijay Singh (69) and Sean O'Hair (69), who played in the final twosome with Woods, tied for third.
Woods has won five straight tournaments on the tour, going back to last fall. He has won nine of 10 worldwide. He had passed Palmer on the all-time win list before catching Hogan.
"It's pretty amazing to be in that kind of company," Woods said.
Bryant, a three-time PGA winner, watched Woods sink the winning putt from the clubhouse, where he awaited a possible playoff.
"That's why he's Tiger," Bryant said. "He has an incredible way of pulling off the shot ... He's done it before and he'll do it again."


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Ultimate Surrender – Jun 5, 2015 – Lea Lexis and Savannah Fox
Savanna Fox is our Rookie cup champion this season. She is one of the most impressive light weights in the division. She takes on Lea Lexis today. Lea wants so badly to make it to the finals of the light weight championship so she can redeem herself against Darling. Who ever wins today gets the chance to fight Darling for the light weight championship. Extra BTS footage at the end
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For "Jackass" and "Viva la Bam" co-star Brandon Novak, Ryan Dunn's death last June hadn't completely sunk in until recently.
"It's still honestly surreal," Novak said. "I was incarcerated when it happened, and they wouldn't let me have a furlough for the funeral."
Released from jail last winter, Novak said he only recently took the time to visit the spot in West Goshen where Dunn's Porsche 911GE veered off the road and killed him and friend Zachery Hartwell last June.
"It was actually on his birthday a few weeks ago, June 11," Novak said. "I went to the site and just sat there. It's insane, he went way before his time."
Novak added that while his group of friends may still participate in so-called risky behavior – Bam Margera recently went over an Oregon waterfall in a kayak and ruptured his hernia – there is an awareness that wasn't there before.
"It changed us in the sense that, you never know when your time is up," Novak said. "It made me realize that you have to take advantage of every day and live life to its fullest. I think everyone of us had that perspective, that second lease on life."
Dunn's reputation as a nice guy, Novak said, still remains to this day whenever Dunn is mentioned.
"Everyone in town loved him. The guy had a heart of gold, seriously genuine. He would take a minute away from what he was doing to talk to anyone," Novak said. "Whenever we saw each other it wasn't handshakes; we gave each other hugs."
Novak said the extended crew also remains in contact with Angie Cuturic, Dunn's longtime girlfriend, giving her support in whatever way possible.
"We're still there for her, she's still big-time a part of the family," he said.
He also said that Dunn would likely enjoy the continued attention even after his untimely death.
"He would've been stoked over the fact that no one is forgetting," he said. "And he would have done the same thing for any of us."
Novak, 33, is a lifelong friend of Margera's and has appeared in nearly every one of his works, including the "CKY" series and "Haggard."
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Arsenal scouts tracking Mario Mandzukic
Gunners' scouts have been watching VfL Wolfsburg striker Mario Mandzukic in action, and it seems that Arsenal are poised to make a bid for the Croatian striker at the end of the season. The 25 year old is reportedly available for transfer for around €14 million.
The Gunners are currently locked in contract talks with star striker Robin van Persie, and are hopeful that the Dutchman will sign a new four year deal at the Emirates at the end of the year.
However, Arsenal are not happy with the development of Marouane Chamakh and will let the Moroccan leave at the end of the year. Subsequently, the Gunners will turn to Croatian international striker Mandzukic next summer and there are even suggestions that Chamakh could be sold as part of a swap deal.


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Firstly, can I just get something out of my system? PND... what an absolute bastard.
My partner is a brilliant mum to our nearly-four-month-old, and most days are really great, but I guess every third day or so there'll be a little trigger point - just something going wrong, stressful, whatever - and it'll turn into a really bloody horrible day for her. It's really tough on her (she'll feel like a complete failure as a mother, which is so far from the truth) and on me (I feel i get on the receiving end of a lot of anger over stuff that really doesn't warrant it. I'm not perfect, sure, but it's very hard when small things cause big explosions). Despite all the bad feelings our little baby is the smiliest happiest little boy imaginable and has a really great mum.
What I'm finding hard is that neither of us has been much impressed by the health visitors, and she's worried all the doctor will offer is antidepressants, which I think she might have had bad experiences of in the past. Hence we've never really spoken about it with anyone.
I think I'm doing an okay job with it and I'm helping okay, but it's very, very difficult to cope with at times... having to stay calm and supportive when occasionally it'd just be nice to have a big yell (not at her, just at the world). I have a demanding job on top of all that, so my life is basically the job and this...
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STARKVILLE, Miss. – (WCBI) Mississippi State honored their Rhodes Scholar this evening.
The reception for Donald "Field" Brown was held in Griffis Hall on MSU's campus.
University President Dr. Mark Keenum was on hand to recognize Brown for his dedication to his studies.
The academic achiever says his family and friends helped him along the way.
"I couldn't have done it without them. They gave me the confidence to believe in myself to even go after such a daunting task. Family,friends and the university have been so great. To take such individualized time with me, it's a big honor. It is humbling," said Brown.
Brown's portrait now hangs on the Honors College Wall of Fame.


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Grandparents are to be given legal rights to access to their grandchildren after family breakdowns under new proposals to be set out by Whitehall.
The plans will require separating parents to draw up an agreement which will enable grandparents to keep in touch with their grandchildren. The courts will then have the power to step in if access is not forthcoming.
Figures suggest that around half of grandparents lose touch with their grandchildren after separation or divorce, with the dad's parents being the most likely to be cut off.
A Whitehall source told reporters that parents will be encouraged by mediators to work with grandparents to reach an agreement over arrangements, adding that grandparents 'will be encouraged to contribute to the arrangements and engage with their grandchildren.'
The new proposals will also call for children to have the right to choose which parent they live with after a break-up.
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I have been watching a lot of college softball on TV and I was so fired up today. I was ready to go. We needed a win, and I brought what I could. —Belle Stoddard, Bountiful softball
Bountiful used an eight-run fourth inning to bury Westlake, 14-1, in the first round of the state 4A tournament.
"We were good today, not great," Braves assistant coach Russ Stoddard said following the win.
"We did a lot of things well today. We ran the bases well. We pitched well and played good defense. But we can be better," Bountiful head coach Butch Latey added.
The Braves, who scored in every inning, were led offensively by Kristi DuBois. She finished with two hits, including a double to deep left field to key the fourth-inning offensive explosion. DuBois drove in two runs with the blast. Sydney Austin and Landi Hawker scored three times apiece to contribute to the effort.
Defensively for Bountiful, it was all Belle Stoddard. The Braves' ace struck out 10 batters in five innings and scattered four hits to earn her 22nd win of the season.
"I have been watching a lot of college softball on TV and I was so fired up today," Stoddard said. "I was ready to go. We needed a win, and I brought what I could."
"(Stoddard) threw good, but she knows she can throw better," coach Latey said of Stoddard's performance.
Westlake threatened several times but was never able to produce a big inning. "We hit the ball well. We had some heads-up base running and some good catches. Now we just need to put it all together," Thunder head coach Kim Jex said.
Center-fielder Felecia Romero was particularly effective for the Thunder, reaching base three times and smacking two singles. "(Stoddard) is a faster pitcher. I just focused on the ball in her hand. When I get two strikes, I focus more," Romero said. "I had two strikes each time, so I was really focused," she joked.
Sarah Petersen also added a hit for Westlake and scored its only run.
Despite the loss, Jex was pleased with Westlake's progress. "We lost every starter from last year so we are rebuilding," she said. "It was huge for us to make State. The experience is a big deal. We need to get over the excitement of just being here. We still want to win this year," Jex added.
As the playoffs progress, Bountiful knows it needs to play better. "We lacked intensity at the beginning of the game. It seemed like we were all moving in slow motion," Braves co-captain Caramae Fackrell said.Comment on this story
Payton Hart, who drove in two Bountiful runners, agreed. "We didn't come out as hard as we like. We didn't jump on them like we can. We can get better."
"Today's game was a team effort, just like all season. Our JV team has pushed us all year. They have made us better. We are all one team, and those girls have worked so hard to make us better," coach Stoddard said following the win.
With the win, Bountiful moves on in the winners' bracket and faces Mountain Crest in the second round of the playoffs. Westlake looks to extend its season against Maple Mountain on Thursday.
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Felipe Massa not worried by recent poor run and insists pace is there to return to form
Brazilian targeting more consistency; welcomes tyre revisions
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Last Updated: 22/07/13 1:42pm
What had been a promising start to the season for the long-time Ferrari driver has given way to difficulties over the last two months, which have yet again served to kick-start speculation over the likelihood of him getting a contract renewal at Maranello.
Since finishing on the podium at the Spanish GP in early May, Massa has scored just 12 points and crashed at least once during the course of each of the four subsequent race weekends - including race-ending accidents in Monaco and the Nurburgring.
Massa's was only awarded a one-year contract extension last Autumn but Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo made clear after the last race in Germany that the Brazilian retained their "total confidence" and they were in no rush to reach a decision over his future.
Speaking to reporters after his morning of tyre testing at Silverstone on Friday, Massa himself appeared relaxed about the task ahead of him.
"I know what I have to do. I'm just concentrating on good results," he said.
"The pace is there so I'm not worried because I showed in most of the races to be honest [on] the pace. Things have happened not to finish the race and we just need to concentrate and try to keep the pace and just finish the race. I know if nothing strange happens I will finish in a good position."
The 2008 title runner-up acknowledged that he needed to deliver strong results on a more regular basis - even if he still feels luck hasn't been on his side.
"I need to improve a little bit my consistency - just finish the race, that's the most important thing," Massa added.
"Not just finish the race but also I was not very lucky, like here in the race with the tyres, in Bahrain with the tyres. Also myself, just trying to finish the race in a consistent way."
While lead Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso opted not to appear at the Silverstone test this week, Massa's participation had always been considered a given in wake of his recent difficulties, once the FIA allowed race drivers to run.
The Brazilian said he had welcomed the opportunity to drive the car outside a race weekend mid-season.
"It's always important to test. We know that it's always difficult to test during the season," Massa admitted.
"We have also three weeks from one race to the next, so happy to be here testing and just doing some understanding as well on the tyres. So I hope that can be interesting for the next race."
Having had to focus exclusively on testing Pirelli's revised tyres during his 69 laps on track on Friday, Massa said the situation was certainly much improved from the British GP race weekend three weeks ago, when the race was marred by a succession of high-speed blowouts, and that the new-look tyres also appeared to have a lower working range.
"It's difficult compared to the tyres we were using two races ago, but I think it's more or less the direction of the race last," he explained.
"Last race we had already the Kevlar on the construction, so the tyre's a little bit more consistent. We could see here the consistency on the long run is a lot better than the race here in Silverstone, so I think the tyres work in the lower temperature so it makes the car more consistent. Not so much for the first lap - the first lap isn't a big difference.
"But for the consistency and the safety at least it's better. Nothing happened here on the tyres, [no] blowing, punctures that we were seeing in this race. That's the most important thing to be honest."


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TENNIS: Rockmart teams have had a busy week
The Rockmart High School tennis teams have been busy this week.
After being rained out on Monday, the Rockmart tennis teams returned to the court on Tuesday to face Douglass in a pair of Region 4-AAA matches.
Neither Rockmart teams had any trouble with Douglass, with both teams winning 5-0.
Morgan Thompson started things for the Lady Jackets at No. 1 singles by beating Brittni Turnispeed 6-0, 6-0. Kristin Stone won at No. 2 singles over Tytiana Pendleton of the Lady Astros, 6-0, 6-0. Savannah Hudson kept the momentum going at No. 3 singles, beating Junia Pepiner 6-0, 6-0.
At No. 1 doubles, the Rockmart team of Rae Darden and Kaitlin Burns downed Renea Young and Tarica Wilborn, 6-0, 6-0. Rockmart won by forfeit at No. 2 doubles.
The Yellow Jackets, meanwhile, blew past the Astros as well.
Mason Barnette won at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-3 while Matt Giudice won at No. 2 singles, 6-0, 6-0. Rockmart's Tristan Adams picked up a big win at No. 3 singles, winning 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles action, Tyler Baulding-Woods and Steven Dean won at No. 1 doubles, 6-0, 6-0 and Jacob Summerville and Jordan Williams won by forfeit at No. 2 doubles.
"It was a great day for us," Yellow Jackets head coach Wayne Brooks said.
On Wednesday, the Yellow Jackets knocked off Central-Carroll 4-1 in region play.
"We cleared a giant hurdle by beating Central," Brooks said. "The wind was horrific, and it felt like the icy dead of winter out there for the spectators."
Giudice won at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-0.
"Matt played beautifull to keep his unbeaten streak alive," Brooks said.
At No. 2 singles, Barnette remained undefeated as well, winning 6-1, 6-2.
"He battled the wind, but managed to keep the ball deep in the court and just run his opponent around with accurate ground strokes," Brooks said.
Jonathan Badon won at No. 3 singles, 6-2, 6-3.
"Jonathan is normally one of our doubles specialists, but he stepped up and won at singles," Brooks said. "His volleying skills were amazing as he was able to put his volleys on a dime. It was his first varsity win in a singles match."
Jared Brumbelow and Dean won at No. 1 doubles, 6-3, 6-1.
"It was textbook doubles play," Brooks said.
Rockmart's lone loss came at No. 2 doubles when Baulding-Woods and Adams lost 6-4, 6-4.
"This is our only loss of the season so far," Brooks said. "Tyler and Tristan never really hit their stride, though they had times when they looked amazing. The windy conditions were very frustrating."
With the win, the Yellow Jackets improved to 5-0 overall and 3-0 in region play.
"I'm very proud of my boys," Brooks said. "They just keep looking amazing as the talent keeps getting better and better."
The Lady Jackets, meanwhile, lost to Central-Carroll 5-0.
Thompson fell at No. 1 singles to Sydney Stone 6-0, 6-1. Stone lost to Emily Startup at No. 2 singles, 6-0, 6-2 and Hudson stumbled to Denney Meigs at No. 3 singles, 6-3, 6-0.
"I am very proud of Kristin for playing so smart with the wind," Lady Jackets head coach Malin Evans said. "She fought so hard and gave everything she had."
At No. 1 doubles, Darden and Burns lost to Emily Bush and Lauren Bush 7-6, 6-4. Jennifer Badon and Ashmi Jariwala lost to Central-Carroll's Mary Kate Sailors and Elizabeth Minick 6-0, 6-3.
"Our doubles teams played hard and gave their very best," Evans said.
Rockmart is scheduled to play Haralson County on Thursday in another pair of Region 4-AAA matches.


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Cabinet Okays Planning Bill to Dismay of Environmentalists
The cabinet approved a bill yesterday that would substantially alter the existing planning and construction system in the country. The proposal will now be sent to the Knesset for discussion and cabinet members hope it will pass a preliminary reading there in the coming weeks.
The sole minister opposed to the new legislation was Environment Minister Gilad Erdan.
The way was paved to cabinet approval of the bill after the Supreme Court rejected on Friday a petition by environmental groups protesting the short amount of time they had to formally oppose the proposal.
The court accepted the stance of the ministerial committee on legislation, which agreed to review the bill in a month and to respond to any opposition to it.
Environmental and other experts argued yesterday that the current bill is worse than previous versions of it because it grants greater control over the planning process to developers at the expense of public and environmental interests.
According to the Prime Minister's Office, the new legislation would shorten the process of planning and construction, and thus allow increased access to more construction plans, which will then lead to a drop in the prices of housing. In addition, said the PMO, if the new legislation is passed, developers would feel more secure about the chances of their plans being approved. In terms of the citizen, it will be easier to receive the green light for various building schemes.
The PMO also argues that the new bill will facilitate greater efficiency in the dealings between various professional bodies, not only within the civil service.
In his opposition statement, Erdan reflected the views of environmental groups as well as professionals in the planning sector. The environment minister noted that should the legislation be passed, representatives of government ministries will for the first time constitute a majority on the National Planning and Building Council, while the Parks' Authority will not be represented there at all.
He also predicted that his ministry will be severely constrained in its ability to oversee the impact on the environment of construction plans, prior to the granting of their approval.
"The reform of the planning and building is heavily skewed in favor of developers' interests, as opposed to the interests of [environmental] preservation," Erdan claimed.
Among the concerns of environmental groups is that the mainstay of the proposed legislation is the principle of "one plan through one committee": That is, it essentially empowers a single committee to discuss proposals, which will make it difficult to reevaluate and fully discuss them properly.
"Last week the national council canceled a plan to build a gas station in the Dead Sea area, which would have severely damaged the landscape there, [even though] it was approved by a local planning committee," said Eli Ben-Ari of the environmental group Adam Teva V'Din. "If the new legislation had been in effect, the plan would have been approved."
Environmentalists are also concerned that special new panels will be set up as part of the legislation, and that they will approve plans for residential and infrastructure projects too hastily.
Sources at the Health Ministry also expressed concerns last week that the bill might prevent their input and supervision, and lead to the approval of plans that pose public health risks.
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This week's batch of releases on the PlayStation Network should come as a pleasant surprise for FPS fans with a little something old and a little something new. The original and brilliant Bioshock hits virtual shelves alongside the not-as-original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Given the hubbub about current U.S. presidential hopefuls and their fondness for novelist Ayn Rand, it seems oddly appropriate that the Randian Dystopia of Bioshock's Rapture will be a possible destination for virtual shoppers on PSN. You can find out all about the rise and fall of Andrew Ryan and his doomed underwater city of high thinkers starting tomorrow afternoon.
If you prefer your targets to be terrorists rather than deranged, super-powered New Year's Eve party-goers, your tripper finger may be more inclined to get twitchy all over Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 instead. An evil Russian dude is thiiis close to kicking off World War III, and your job is to make sure that doesn't happen. It's a plot that would be right at home in any 1980's action flick only, instead of watching Swarzenegger take out the baddies, you and your fellow crack-shot soldiers are sent in to get the job done.
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The goal of the year. If there was one reason, just one reason to watch the Gold Cup final between Mexico vs USA, it would have to be Giovani Dos Santos's other world goal. Unbelievable skill from the Racing Santander midfielder who kept the ball on a rope drawing out half the US defense and Tim Howard off his line and then in an exhibition of delectable control chips the ball perfectly towards the far post and over a leaping Eric Lichaj. A Play Station goal.
He was brilliant throughout the match. With his jinking runs and tight ball control he reminds one of the earlier Ronaldinho.
El Tri were spades more creative than the USA and with the dangerous Andres Guardado, a flyer down the left and Pablo Barrera churning down the right the rejiggered US defense was torn apart. Bob Bradley was forced into making an early substitution bringing Jonathan Bornstein for the injured Steve Cherundolo while the match was barely 10 minutes old. Bornstein returned to his familiar left back spot while Bradley shunted Lichaj into an unfamiliar right back role. After this match can one safely conclude Bornstein's national career is over.
It was the USA however storming into a early 2-0 lead with Freddy Adu having a hand in both scores. Bradley repaid Adu's scintillating Panama form by giving him a start and rotated Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey up top. Adu's effort earned the USA a corner which he whipped into the near post. Michael Bradley positioned in front managed the perfect deflection. Adu then initiated the move which led to Dempsey finding Donovan cutting in and driving the ball with a left footed finish past Alfredo Talavera. The Mexicans were just about picking themselves up after that early goal.
Surely they were done for. But El Tri, are a team that have shown they play their best football in such adversity. Adding to the early setbacks, Mexico lost Carlos Salcido and Rafa Marquez their two defensive stalwarts to injury. José Manuel de la Torre brought in the less experienced Jorge Torres Nilo and the 30 year old uncapped Hector Reynoso. Both stepped up with Reynoso proving to be a tough customer in the middle and Torres teaming up with Guardado to give even more zip down the left channel.
The Mexicans cranked it up in the last 20 minutes of the first half as they patrolled the US perimeter looking for a way in and coming close a number of times. It was Pablo Barrera providing the breakthrough as Chicharito found him from midfield and the West Ham midfielder sliced past Bornstein to rifle a shot between Howard and the near post. The equalizer came when Dos Santos bursting through the right sent in a splitting cross which found an out of position Lichaj struggling to clear the ball. An onrushing Guardado smashed a shot which a prostrate Howard partially blocked but the ball trickled into goal.
The second half saw Mexico taking an early lead with Barrera scoring his second goal with a magnificent curling effort with the outside of his right foot. Mexico sealed the win with Dos Santos providing that exclamation point. The USA did have a few good chances with Dempsey's first time shot hitting the crossbar, Bradley's volley just curling away, and Carlos Bocanegra's header flashing wide to keep the match interesting.
The match turned all the FSC pundits prediction of a low scoring match on its head. Why would that be? Two teams that like to attack, have a host of attacking talent, and in a battle for regional supremacy. Except for the 1998 Gold Cup final which ended in a 1-0 win for the USA, the rest featuring these two countries have been relatively high scoring affairs.
Kyle Martino interestingly kept talking of 'posture', referring to the constant switching between Dempsey and Donovan in the striker role. Has he perhaps not heard of 'formation'? He was also premature in predicting no more 'ole's' after the USA took that two goal lead. El Tri fans who vastly outnumbered the US support rubbed that bit of hubris with redoubled vocal fervour. JP Dellacamera in a show of irritating atavism lapsed into baseball parlance to describe equalizers as 'game tying goals'. Stuart Holden was short and concise in his summation but one can take quick power naps when Chris Sullivan goes into drone mode. Then there was the distractingly large caption on the TV screen obscuring most of the action on the wings. The Univision coverage provided better clarity with one far more understated.
Peel away the fog of jingoism and beyond this result lies the inevitable conclusion of a Mexican team superior to their US counterparts. That of course does not mean the US is doomed because Martino rightly points out grit and determination can make a difference. But clearly a talent gap that large will prove difficult to overcome. Chicharito Hernandez had a quiet evening but his team proved they did not really need him to score.


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Melo outscoring the rest of the team 31 to 29, it isn't because he's taking every shot.
It's the Melo show
Cmon Knicks. Just another guy needs to get hot. Get cope in, Jr out. Woody needs to get Melo some shooters cause he is sure to meet double teams now that he is cooking.
Novak and Cope time.
Melo is 12/20 - 31 points / 5 reb
he's delivering like he should .. now just think of it .. if we didn't gave up so many easy layups we would lead in this one ..
I'm so sick of Chandler man. He used to be one of my favorite players but i've lost so much respect for him after this series. What the hell happened to this guy? It's like he doesn't even care anymore
Melo doing all by himself. Why won't anyone else help the damn guy?????
The biggest game of the year and we can't show up...that is so Knicks...When the stakes get high..we fold... :boohoo:
Shumpert is feeling it :gony:
4 point game. Not over guys
Now come on guys
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What I want to discuss briefly is the general subject of constitutions and practical realities in the field of religious freedom. I want to emphasize in particular two areas that I feel are of particular concern when we look at the discrepancy between constitutional provisions and the realities in many countries. The first concern has to do with defining religion, the second with the notion of public order. Most of the constitutions of the countries of the world have a provision that requires religious freedom. In a sense, those constitutions now constitute a sort of international norm with respect to human rights and, in particular, with respect to religious freedom.
We have, for instance, the Republic of China. We heard about all the difficulties facing religious freedom there. But Article 36 of the People's Republic of China Constitution says, "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief. The State protects normal religious activities."
In Cuba, Article 54 of their constitution says it "recognizes and guarantees freedom of conscience and the right of everyone to profess any belief, and to practice within the framework of respect for the law, the belief of his preference." In Germany we have Article 4: "Freedom of faith and conscience and freedom of creed, religious or ideological shall be inviolable. The undisturbed practice of religion is guaranteed."
Greece has a provision that is perhaps closer to the real view held in many countries of the world. Article 13 says, "all known religions shall be free and their rights of worship shall be performed unhindered, and under the protection of law. The practice of the right of worship is not allowed to offend public order or moral principles; proselytization is prohibited." In Japan, Article 20 states that "freedom of religion is guaranteed to all." And so it goes.
From country to country there are these broad declarations of the right of religious freedom in the constitutions. And, of course, in international human rights documents as well, there are requirements of religious freedom. So what our battle is about, it would seem, is promoting the reality of religious freedom as opposed to amending constitutions and trying to encapsulate the general notion of religious freedom that is already very widely accepted.
I want to discuss a couple of problems that arise with respect to the general notion of religious freedom and challenges to religious freedom in countries even with the very strongest provisions. One has to do with the notion of public order. International law recognizes as an exception to the general requirements of religious freedom that religious practice not violate public order. UN documents on the subject of religious freedom say the same. Yet it is this very principle that has been used by many states to severely and dramatically limit the religious freedom of persons in those states.
For instance, in Germany, where I am representing Rev. and Mrs. Moon with respect to the German government's decision that they not be allowed entry to Germany, the primary rationale for that decision is that this will constitute a disturbance to the public order. The general notion of "disturbing the public order" has been used in many different countries in various forms as an excuse—as a basis—for limiting the religious freedom that would otherwise exist.
The problem with this notion of public order is that, while it certainly can be valid, the way it is being used seems invalid. It does not seem to comport with another important international norm, which is the norm of proportionality. There certainly are some situations in which public order is a valid concern. For instance, in Israel, when Muslims and Jews both wish to worship at the same sacred site, it may be necessary to regulate or limit the times of access to that site to preserve the public order, to prevent riots or whatever.
For the state to say, however, that proselytizing efforts disturb the public order and therefore are illegal; or to say that having a particular worship site in a given city may outrage the inhabitants and, therefore, will not be allowed because it will violate public order is very problematic in terms of human rights law. The proper norm that would seem to have to be applied, and which is not being applied, is the notion of proportionality.
There has to be a balancing, if you will, of the state's interest in maintaining the public order with the interest of the religious community in question. That balance does not appear to be accomplished in many cases. As a result, some countries construe any suggestion of interference with the peace of mind of persons as a sufficient basis for limiting the expression of religious freedom.
The problem, of course, almost always arises with respect to smaller religious groups, which are pejoratively labeled cults or sects. Tom Wolfe, I think, defined a sect as "a religion without political power." That perhaps doesn't comport with the general sociological definition, yet it certainly seems to be the operative definition of many western and eastern European nations.
The other problem, besides the issue of public order, is the definition of religion. How does one define religion if one is to extend the benefits of religious freedom. The approaches vary. In many nations, the notion of a deity is very important in defining a particular religion, sect, or organization as being religious.
In some countries, the organization, it would seem, has to have been established for many years or have a certain number of adherents for it to be considered legitimately religious. In some countries, organizations are considered to be political if they have any political ramifications and so they are considered political as opposed to exclusively religious. In other countries, the notion that a religion operates a business activity, even a publishing activity, may throw them into the realm of being a business rather than a religion.
The United States has had considerable experience with the sort of plurality of religion that seems to have become the state in Europe only recently. One has the impression that Europe had a fairly discrete number of religious entities for many years. Whereas, in the United States, essentially founded by a group that was considered an objectionable cult and sect in Europe, we have had a chance to grapple with this issue over many years. I want to give you the benefit of some of the teachings from the Supreme Court and other case law in the United States.
It is interesting to note that in the 1890s the Supreme Court defined religion in basic theistic terms. They said, "the term religion has reference to one's view of his relations to his Creator and to the obligations they impose of reverence for His being and character and of obedience to his Will." That view is common in Europe. I think in France there is a suggestion in some of the case law that a reference to the Creator is important.
That was the view until the 1940s, when in United States vs. Ballard Justice Douglas, writing for the majority the Court, embraced a much broader definition:
"Freedom of religious belief is basic in a society of free men. It embraces the right to maintain theories of life and of death and of the hereafter, which are rank heresy to followers of orthodox states. Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences, which are as real as life to some, may be incomprehensible to others, yet the fact that they may be beyond the ken of mortals does not mean that they can be made suspect before the law."
This is a very broad definition and one that is not generally accepted in European courts. In the Scientology case in Italy recently, the court seemed to accept a much broader definition of religion than seems to be accepted in other nations.
In 1961, in Tercosco vs. Watkins, the Supreme Court elaborated its interpretation of a statute that provided for freedom from the draft for conscientious objectors who based their claim on religious belief. The First Amendment, according to the Court, precluded the government from aiding "those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs." So here they break the theistic mold which still is very prevalent in Europe and elsewhere. The Court noted that "among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, ethical culture, secular humanism and others."
The Court has also determined that whether a given belief that is sincere and meaningful occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by orthodox belief in God is a key question. Whether the belief is sincerely held is a legitimate inquiry under American law because, of course, there are all kinds of people engaged in shams.
There is a case I read about not too long ago concerning a so-called church in California in which the worshipers, primarily men, would enter little cubicles and insert their donation. A screen would rise and they would then see a naked female body. In other words, it was a sort of peep show, but they were trying to have their contributions deducted. There were various items of religious literature depicting the naked female body on display. This was their supposed religion. This example illustrates that there is a role for inquiry into the sincerity of religious belief. What the Court said in Tercosco is that as long as the belief occupies a position parallel to that occupied by the majority religion in the lives of its believers it should be considered religious and subject to the same protections.
The way the courts have attempted to put this into practice have been varied. As I try to bring this to a conclusion, I would like to mention a couple of cases that have discussed this. They say, for instance:
Neither this court, nor any branch of this government will consider the merits or fallacies of religion. Nor will the court compare the beliefs, dogmas, practices of a new organized religion with those of an older, more established religion. Nor will the court praise or condemn a religion, however excellent or fanatical or preposterous it may seem. Were the court to do so it would impinge upon the guarantee of the First Amendment.
This is the kind of broad application of the Supreme Court's teachings that, it would seem, is lacking in the European context. That is, given the explosion of religious pluralism that has occurred in western and eastern Europe and in Russia, religion requires a much broader definition. I suggest that those nations should move in the direction of the model provided by the United States. There is much more to say on this subject, obviously, but we want to move the program along and listen to some concrete examples of the dichotomy between the constitutional provisions and the practices of some of the countries we are examining.


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Fairfield CVB accepting 2013 grant requests; more
Fairfield CVB accepting 2013 grant requests
The Fairfield Iowa Convention and Visitors Bureau is accepting applications for the 2013 grant program through Dec. 14.
The goal of the bureau's grant fund is to assist qualified organizations in providing excellence in cultural, civic and educational programs that attract visitors to the Fairfield area.
The general purpose of each grant is to assist the organization in enhancing the quality of the event experience and increase the number of visitors attracted to the area and further enhancing Fairfield's reputation for providing engaging cultural experiences.
"The bureau is excited to introduce our 2013 grant program that serves Fairfield area organizations and their respective events," said Rustin Lippincott, executive director of the Fairfield Iowa Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The Fairfield and Jefferson County organizations in providing excellent cultural, civic and educational programs which attract visitors, increase the quality of life for our residents and provide exposure for Fairfield as a destination."
The bureau will announce grant recipients by Jan. 2 for 2013 events and activities.
The grant program distributes financial assistance following the submission of receipts and invoices, and review of grantee compliance of conditions set forth in the bureau's grant application. The bureau grant program is supported from Fairfield's lodging tax, created in 2001 by popular ballot.
"This year's CVB grant program will have assisted 33 different events by end of the calendar year, contributing to the quality of life and the Fairfield hotel-motel tax revenue," said Lippincott. "The bureau, along with the grant funds, offers assistance in marketing, public relations and event planning to grant recipients."
For more information and to receive a 2013 Fairfield Iowa Convention and Visitors Bureau grant application, contact the bureau at 472-2828 or visit TravelFairfieldIowa.com under the links section.
Would Iowa fair be same without stick Twinkies?
DES MOINES (AP) — The fate of deep-fried Twinkies on a stick is up in the air now that Hostess Brands plans to liquidate the company.
On Wednesday, a judge in New York approved the bankrupt company's plan to shutter its operations.
The outcome matters greatly to Larry Fyfe, the concessionaire who introduced deep-fried Twinkies to the Iowa State Fair in 2003, a year after the concoction debuted at the Texas State Fair.
Fyfe told The Des Moines Register that he sells up to 7,000 of them each year.
Fyfe says he hopes another company will acquire the Hostess product lines. He says using a knockoff cream-filled spongecake "would not be one of my first choices."
Hostess officials said Wednesday other companies have expressed interest in buying the brands.
Tomatoes recalled
NORWALK (AP) — A central Iowa fruit and vegetable distributor is recalling several lots of cherry tomatoes after the grower notified the distributor that Salmonella was found in random sample testing by the Food and Drug Administration.
Capital City Fruit Inc., of Norwalk says the recalled cherry tomatoes from Rio Queen Citrus are packaged in one-pint containers as Capital Brand Clamshell Cherry Tomatoes. They were shipped to retail stores from Nov. 14 to Nov.18 and sold in stores in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
No illnesses have been reported. Capital City Fruit on Wednesday says it asked retailers to remove the product from their store shelves.
Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
Schultz expects more voter fraud arrests in Iowa
DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa's top elections administrator is vowing to continue to ferret out fraud and to push lawmakers for a voter ID law.
Secretary of State Matt Schultz says the voter fraud cases resulting in arrests so far are only the beginning.
Three more cases involving a Bosnian citizen living in Clive and two Canadians who were living in Shenandoah were announced on Wednesday. They are charged with election fraud for registering and voting in Iowa without U.S. citizenship.
Two Canadian citizens and a citizen of Mexico and two convicted felons who allegedly registered to vote also have been charged.
Schultz says it's likely more arrests will come as the Iowa Criminal Investigation Division works through a list of more than 1,200 people he believes registered to vote without citizenship.
Iowa firefighters battling flames in dry lake bed
BRITT (AP) — Firefighters have been battling flames in the dry lake bed at Eagle Lake, which sits northeast of Britt in north-central Iowa.
Firefighters from Britt and Garner returned Thursday after being called out twice overnight.
Lynn Davis and Lois Whipple told Mason City television station KIMT that flames came within feet of their house.
Area resident Matt Anderson says firefighters devised a fire break on the west side of the lake bed to protect homes and cabins. No structures were damaged.
Britt Fire Chief Pat Trulson told the Mason City Globe Gazette that the lake bed is dry because of the drought and has become a peat bog that will keep burning for weeks. Trulson says passers-by will be seeing smoke in the area.
The fire cause is being investigated.


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Dipity is a chronological timeline builder that takes useful information on the Internet—from social media, traditional search services, and RSS—and aggregates them in a single, easy-to-use, fun-to-navigate interface. These timelines not only cover a wide variety of history and social sciences topics (World War II, environmental disasters, popular culture, and elections), but they are also excellent for encouraging students to edit, evaluate, collaborate, and generate projects that can personalize history.
Getting Started
Dipity timelines use the power of multimedia and social media content with trends like timestamps, geolocation, and realtime updates. You can manually create timeline events, or easily import content from YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr, and Blogspot to your free timeline.
To get started, new users set up a free account and are then directed to the dashboard. The first step in creating a timeline is to provide a thumbnail picture, name, and description to the timeline. This is also the place to establish permissions for the use of the timeline; teachers should consider how to best use permissions for collaborative projects but settings can be changed at any time. Once the timeline is established, adding each event to the timeline is easy enough. Each entry asks for an image, title, date, and description of the event, as well as any web links that are relevant (video, website). Users would be wise to collect all images and research information ahead of time. It should also be noted that when users enter dates for each event, a month, day, and year is required for accurate placement on the timeline (we found that a month and year alone keep defaulting to the year the timeline is created, not the year in history).
Users can also modify timelines using the advanced settings. To access these settings, click the "Topic Settings" link to the right of the site title. Here, users can select the scope of the timeline zoom (which depends on the range of the chronology), the date at the center of the timeline, tags to use, permissions for comments, and the theme style to use for display. Below these advanced settings are tools that make it easy to fetch media—either across the Web or from user accounts—such as blog postings, photos from Picasa or Flickr, videos from YouTube or Vimeo, music from online stations such as Pandora, Twitter or RSS feeds, and more.
Dipity's site contains several examples that demonstrate the benefits of multimedia timeline builders: a fairly thorough
World War II project, a multimedia look at U.S. Presidents, and a look at immigration and deportation policies.
We also tested Dipity by creating a timeline of modern cultural American history related to comic books, designed for a blog posting on this site.
For educators, the benefit of timeline builders is the ability to work with students on developing their decision-making skills. Students constructing timelines have to decide which events to add and which to omit, what text should be displayed, which images to embed, and most importantly why the particular starting and endpoints were chosen on historical merit. In many ways, tools like Dipity provide teachers with an insight into student decision-making processes and open up dialogue about what historical work entails.
Try the official Dipity blog;
Seattle Times' example of a Dipity timeline, as part of a collaborative project on the grunge rock group Nirvana;
Discover Magazine's timeline on the Japan-Fukushima disaster; and
SUNY-Oswego's use of Dipity to create a timeline capturing the institution's history.


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Random question, how many Apple computer users in the FJC?
We have 3 in our house.
Elegant style, great functionality, high quality materials, and longevity. And with the BOA, intuitive, innovative design. Products seem to go hand-in-hand.
I have a 21.5 inch iMac at home, plus an iPod Touch that I use on the road.
MAC AIR, MAC PRO,2 IPADS, and 3 Iphones, reside in my home. I use the Air and a phone.
I am a WIndows guy. We do however have 2 Ipads, 4 Iphones and a bunch I other devices.
All Mac, all the time.
Yes, I do...multiple apple computers...
iPad is mainly what I use. I need a new laptop, probably pick up a Mac Air soon.
Windows here also......never saw a reason to change....meets my needs.....cz : )
Excuse my manners, welcome JackRock to the community......hope you enjoy the interaction......cz : )
We have a Mac and a Mac Air, and I am still in the dark ages as far as being a techie. My better half also has an I Pad and she insists that if you aren't using an I Phone (which I don't) you aren't using a real cell phone.
Nope, windows here at home. windows at works. we have an ipod and iphone though.
Sensing this our with my new Windows Phone, a Nokia 928. Nice camera for a smartphone and a pretty cool interface. Lots of Apple products on the house, but my laptop is a Windows platform...I have a hard time paying the premium for Apple computers...
Apple guy all the way. Wife and kids are Apple fans also - makes getting the new toys much more fun...
apple all the way -- iphones, ipods, macbook air, ipad and mac desktop. not using but still have the half bowling ball mac and the colored clamshell laptop on a shelf.
Interesting. 9/13 are Mac users in this (totally un-) scientific poll. I switched about 10 years ago and haven't looked back.
Much like FJ gear, I think that price isn't the only key factor in my buying decision. Many people think that BMW is similiar to Apple on the car front, I think the FJ is Apple of the golf shoe/glove industry. I can't offer my opinion for sure on the clothes, yet.
@JackRock -- welcome.


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Legal Question in Administrative Law in California
My city recently passed a zone amendment to allow a specific type of business to operate. Do I have any way to stop that business from opening at this point?
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This is not a legal question but a political one. A writ of administrative mandamus filed in the Superior Court with jurisdiction can review the procedures used to adopt the zoning law change whether it is a conditional use permit or more extensive amendment to the zoning laws. However, the potential result would send the issue back to the city council to correct any defect so unless you have the votes in the council to defeat the measure if remanded it is futile and expensive to pursue.
That is what lawsuits, writs and restraining orders are for. You can try if you are willing to invest the fees and costs of taking such action, and if you have a valid basis for your claims. If serious about pursuing this, feel free to contact me.
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"And this transportation system is pretty fragile. You can have one incident that sends the entire system into gridlock if it's in the wrong place in the network."
I had the unique pleasure of being at the center of one such incident on Tuesday when my E Line RapidRide bus decided to pop out of gear at the worst possible time: Driving up Aloha St toward Aurora Ave. At the time, Aloha street was being used by SDOT to reroute Aurora Ave traffic during Highway 99 construction. The bus wouldn't move and restarting it wasn't helping. Worse, each attempt at getting it into gear resulted in the bus, still full of passengers, rolling back down a steep hill. I was done trying to move the bus without assistance from Vehicle Maintenance. Cars were able to squeeze by my immobilized bus, but all buses that use Aurora Ave had to be rerouted which compounded already substantial delays.
This blockage made an already bad situation worse. I was following the Blanchard/7th Ave/Dexter reroute that all Northbound Aurora Ave buses were using. It was frustrating to see cars parked on Dexter and Blanchard Streets where ad-hoc bus lanes could have been created to give buses priority. Instead, buses were routed into a single lane of traffic with cars and left to sit. Delays were so bad at one point that the control center gave me permission to reroute an E Line trip via Elliott Ave, 15th Ave NW, and N 85th St. (For those keeping track, thats basically the same as driving almost the entire D Line route through Ballard and then using 85th to access Aurora Ave – A very long reroute) Several passengers commented this route was much faster than the previous day's commute. (And even with a 23 minute wait for the next Southbound bus, was likely faster for passengers making their way to points between Lynn & 85th Streets) As I made my way southbound from Aurora Village Transit Center close to 7:30, I saw a steady stream of E Line coaches making their way north after likely breaking free from the Blanchard/7th/Dexter reroute bottleneck.
In short, this 4 day Highway 99 closure seems like a good case study for how our transportation system breaks down under extreme pressure. Hopefully, we can learn from it.


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I give this two thumbs up, a snap, a double twist, a backflip, and a booyah!
Is it just me, or do the BP ad's that advertise 'specials' make you feel like your shopping for a provider at Walmart?!?
Kinda of high mileage gals I dare to say, even gals with 30 reviews here, no thanks
Amazingly enough, 30+ reviews doesn't phase me, unless they're bad or all during the same month
I love an experienced woman!
Not into highhhhhh mileage or the 6th gent of the day! ladies with 20 plus reviews ..ummm well
.... because if you mean high-mileage as in general then you don't want an escort.
exactly! There are some escorts who have been providing for years, have many reviews and are very good, so I've heard!
What the Hell does a gals number of reviews have to do with her volume?!!
Hell, I know ladies with page after page of reviews that really only see one
gent a day and can run circles around 99.9% of the ladies that only half
number of reviews and may very well see as many as they can fit in (no
pun intended) during a 24 hour period.
..... if he's afraid of a woman with a high # if men she's slept with in her lifetime. Even if she's seeing one client a day it sure isn't the same guy (doubt it).
Average volume (due to personal preferences and "real life" commitments) is about 1 - 3 dates a week. Most gents are regulars and extended dates.
If you consider this to be high mileage, try finding women on www.FindAVirgin.com
I have to ask . When you say 30 reviews are you meaning every day for 30 days?
If you look at the dates of the review 30 of them wont make a big difference .
The pages on TER hold 10 reviews per page. But look at the months so many times
guys are not aware that there may only be 3 reviews for that month. That isn't high
rather the Provider herself.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong but this very strategy as well as other ill-willed tactics to knock off the competition that lives in in or visits her/your area.
These facts have been disclosed at great lengths on another board (Best_ _ _) in the area.
On this other board, she/you were banned/kicked off for these similar tactics.
This has gone on for over a decade....yep, that long (do your homework folks)
Bottom line: know who you're fucking with before you fuck with them...I dot take to kindly to being fucked with, k
Also, I owe you, Sweetie....sleep with one eye open!
I give this two thumbs up, a snap, a double twist, a backflip, and a booyah!
.... sometimes lol a lady can put that if it's her normal let's say half-hour or 45 min rate because BP doesn't allow you to outright post rates for anything under 1hr anymore....just throwing that out there.
that times are tough, we are in a recession and business is slow and some of us have to pay the rent. Every other business has been offering specials so why not escorts as well? This is a business and business is slow, so some girls choose to run specials.
And what's wrong with 30 reviews? Even if a girl got 30 reviews in a month, that would equal 1 client a day. We don't exactly see just the one special client and sit home twiddling or thumbs the rest of the month. lol Now, 30 reviews in a week I would be leery of. Seriously though, if an escort has been in the business for awhile, if she's any good, she will be racking up reviews.
..... use "specials" to upsell OR run them for so long they might as well be regular rates..... most other businesses also know when to cut a special OFF. Also...everyone isn't in a recession and it isn't slow for everyone.
I know times are tough, but the escort industry by no means is slow! If anything guys are stressed and are in more need of our services. Any rate under 125 for half an hour is suspect. It could be your location though. You could try the Boston area.
If an escort doesn't do specials, she's harassed by certain gents to lower her rates- if she charges too little or offers specials/discounts, then some gents think she must be "high volume" and they don't want to see her. Guys, you can't have it both ways.
Bottom line here- Escorts see men for a living- they see many many men, whether it be one client a day or 5. If you want a woman who doesn't have alot of partners or reviews, well then....ummmm...get a girlfriend or a wife and be happy with monogamy.
Either they are new or they are not the best escorts! I posted how not to get scammed on backpage today! It just seems like the site is getting worse!
Being on BP is not indicitive of being desperate or a scam artist. I've met a few gems on BP and at
the same time have been screwed by agencies, CV , and other sites including verification sites! I have even had major disappointments from "well reviewed" ladies here on TER! There is no way to really know until you meet someone in person! "reviews" are often fabricated anyways!
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