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LONGMONT — Police on Thursday afternoon served a search warrant at a Longmont massage parlor as part of an ongoing Fort Collins police investigation into prostitution activities.
Sgt. Jason Pitts said Longmont's Special Enforcement Unit and Gang and Crime Suppression Unit assisted Fort Collins officers and federal agents serve the warrant at Therapeutic Massage, 1132 Main St.
"This is an ongoing investigation," Pitts said. "This is a Fort Collins case, and we are just assisting them with it."
Rita Davis, spokeswoman for Fort Collins Police Services, said Fort Collins residents complained to police late last year that two massage businesses were providing prostitution services in the city.
Investigators began investigating the claims and developed probable cause. Warrants were also served at SH Massage, 4031 South College Ave., and FCT Massage, 111 West Prospect Road, in Fort Collins. Davis did not know if the businesses are run by the same owner or company.
Jeffrey Justice, manager for Bike-N-Hike, a cycling store immediately adjacent to the Longmont massage business, said that he has never spoken to anyone at the massage business after nearly five years working so close by.
"I was surprised because I never saw much traffic at this place," he said.
A large Penske truck was parked outside the door of the business, which occupies the second floor of a brick building on the east side of Main Street. Officers removed evidence from the business onto the truck.
Pitts and Davis said no one was immediately arrested.
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US Patent Boss Completely Clueless: Insists That Patent Fights Show The System 'Wires Us For Innovation'
from the oh-come-on dept
Except to Kappos, all that dead weight loss is a sign that the system is working. Why? I have no idea.
Indeed, Kappos suggested that the volume of patent litigation in the smartphone industry was a sign that the patent system was working as intended. "The explosion of litigation we are seeing is a reflection of how the patent system wires us for innovation," Kappos said. "It's natural and reasonable that innovators would seek to protect their breakthroughs using the patent system."Note the giant and very questionable assumptions in the middle of that one: that it's "innovators" seeking to "protect" "breakthroughs." I'd argue that none of the three things in quotes is accurate. Quite frequently it's lawyers who haven't actually innovated at all looking to shakedown actual innovators for broadly worded patents that never should have been granted, and which are being interpreted to cover things they don't really have anything to do with. That's not innovation. It's extortion... backed up by the US government. It's a travesty.
Even worse, Kappos is still relying on the absolutely ridiculous "study" that the USPTO put out earlier this year, despite the fact that its methodology has been widely debunked for including grocery store baggers as "IP innovators." Sorry. And, if you look at what their actual report shows, it suggests that patent-intensive businesses aren't doing so well. Somehow he ignores that. Of course, perhaps that's why his office rejected a promised interview with me earlier this year, and could only defend the patent claims by arguing the most bizarre correlation argument in the world, that because Steve Jobs was innovative and had patents, therefore, patents worked.
Rather than address any of the real and well documented concerns with the patent system, Kappos apparently just decided to spin a fairy tale. He insists, as he's done in the past, that stronger patents automatically create more incentives, even as the evidence suggests that's not even close to true.
It's sad that Kappos sends his lackeys to Silicon Valley to claim that he's "listening" and then spews such pure crap. The system is broken and either Kappos is lying or clueless. Neither reflects well on him.
More recent research has estimated that litigation by patent trolls costs the economy at least $29 billion per year, and that figure may be as high as $83 billion.
Rather than engage in this empirical debate, or even acknowledge its existence, Kappos acted as though it was self-evident that stronger patents always create a larger incentive for innovation.
"To those commenting on the smartphone patent war with categorical statements that blame the so-called broken system on bad software patents, what I say is: get the facts. The facts don't support your position."
With all due respect, Mr. Kappos, we do have the facts. And they support the position of software patent critics.


text: Legal Advocacy Project Established to End Barriers to Care for Millions NAMI Treatment Action Center Seeks To Reverse Policies That Restrict Treatment For Those With Most Severe Brain Disorders Nov 05 1997 Arlington, VA - The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) today announced the establishment of a first-of-a-kind center that will push for timely and effective treatment for the estimated 2.2 million individuals with severe psychiatric disorders who don't get care when they most need it. The NAMI Treatment Advocacy Center will support education, research, legal, and legislative efforts to promote treatment for individuals with the most serious brain disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In announcing the Center, NAMI Executive Director Laurie Flynn noted that current policies and practices hamper treatment for people who are most at risk for homelessness, arrest, or suicide. "It's a national disgrace that, in this age of remarkable progress in brain research and treatment, so many individuals are left out in the cold," said Flynn. "If NAMI doesn't stand up for those who are the most ill and most vulnerable, who will?" The principle activities of the NAMI Treatment Action Center will include the following: educating policy-makers and judges about the true nature of severe mental illnesses, available treatments for those illnesses, and the necessity of court-ordered treatment in some cases; researching factors that affect the ability of persons with severe mental illnesses to make informed decisions about their treatment; . working within states to promote laws that enable individuals with the most severe brain disorders to receive treatment; and promoting innovative approaches to diverting people who have the most severe brain disorders away from the criminal justice system and into appropriate treatment. The NAMI Treatment Advocacy Center is being established as a supporting organization of NAMI, with its own executive director and board of directors. Initial funding for the Center is being provided by the Stanley Foundation, which has contributed generously to research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. A search for an executive director for the Center is currently underway. With more than 168,000 members, NAMI is the nation's leading grassroots organization solely dedicated to improving the lives of persons with severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders. NAMI has more than 1,140 state and local affiliates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Canada. NAMI's efforts focus on support to persons with serious brain disorders and to their families; advocacy for non-discriminatory and equitable federal, state, and private-sector policies; research into the causes, symptoms, and treatments for brain disorders; and education to eliminate the pervasive stigma surrounding severe mental illness.


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Amazon AWS Will Sign HIPAA Business Associate Agreement
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
Amazon has finally issued guidance on their support for HIPPA/HITECH applications on AWS. They now sign BAAs. http://t.co/1EcXIM8Y7i
— Ian Eslick (@ieslick) June 18, 2013
Thanks to Ian Eslick for catching this piece of news. This is really big news, because there were a lot of companies and organizations that were building healthcare applications on the back of Amazon AWS. I'm glad that Amazon has finally put together a policy related to HIPAA.
Here's their new section describing their compliance with HIPAA:
AWS enables covered entities and their business associates subject to the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to leverage the secure AWS environment to process, maintain, and store protected health information and AWS will be signing business associate agreements with such customers. AWS also offers a HIPAA-focused whitepaper for customers interested in learning more about how they can leverage AWS for the processing and storage of health information. The Creating HIPAA-Compliant Medical Data Applications with AWS whitepaper outlines how companies can use AWS to process systems that facilitate HIPAA and HITECH compliance. For more information on the AWS HIPAA compliance program please contact AWS Sales and Business Development.
Obviously the devil is in the details on this. I'll reach out to one of my HIPAA lawyer friends to see what they think of this. If you're a healthcare organization or vendor that's on Amazon AWS, I'd love to hear your thoughts as well. The fact that Amazon is now willing to sign a BAA is really big news and a great step forward for anyone wanting to develop an application covered by HIPAA on Amazon's AWS.


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'Breaking Down the Barriers' improves outreach to community
An Ames/Iowa State University committee that works to improve multiculturalism and diversity in the community has new information to assist anyone involved in a bias incident.
Promotions, new staff in Student Affairs Division
Vice President for Student Affairs Tom Hill has announced promotions and new staff in administration, enrollment services, financial aid, the Department of Residence and the Memorial Union.
ISU food scientists on History Channel
The History Channel's "Modern Marvels" program Feb. 15 will feature the work of George Washington Carver and modern day ISU food scientists Jay-lin Jane and Perminus Mungara. The program airs from 9 to 10 p.m.
Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Conference Feb. 25
Students may attend the fourth annual Collegiate Entrepreneurs Iowa Conference at North Iowa Area Community College, Mason City, for free. The conference is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25.
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Iowa State's annual modern dance concert, Barjche, will be held at Fisher Theater Feb. 10-12 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. It's been a tradition at ISU since the early 1940s. The diverse performance features the talents of more than 60 students who serve as dancers, choreographers, lighting designers, costume designers, stage managers and crew. Tickets are $6 and may be purchased at the Stephens Auditorium box office or through Ticketmaster.
Scholarships for entrepreneurs
ISU students interested in entrepreneurship programs may apply for $1,000 Pappajohn Scholarship awards.
Court: ISU Foundation subject to open records laws
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Free public creative writing symposium Feb. 20-22
The Iowa State University Creative Writing Program will hold a free public symposium on "Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination" in the Memorial Union Sunday to Tuesday, Feb. 20-22.
Private fund-raising up 71 percent
Private fund-raising at Iowa State is up 71 percent halfway through the fiscal year, Iowa State University Foundation officials report.
Flaxseed growth offers market opportunities
U.S. consumption of flaxseed and flaxseed oil is on the rise, offering opportunities for Iowa growers.
$1.5 million gift to ag entrepreneurship program
A $1.5 million gift from Roger and Connie Underwood, Ames, will establish an entrepreneurship program for students in the College of Agriculture.
Clinic offers online "relationship check-up"
An online "relationship check-up" for couples is available on the Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic web site.
Black History Month events
Lectures, food tastings, a history quiz bowl and a pageant are among several Black History Month activities at Iowa State.
Veishea town hall meeting March 7
ISU students faculty, staff and Ames officials are taking steps to improve community relations, following the November release of two Veishea reports. Activities include a March 7 "town hall" meeting.
Search begins for dean of new college
The search for the first dean of Iowa State's College of Human Sciences is under way. Two current ISU colleges (Family and Consumer Sciences and Education) will be combined into the new College of Human Sciences on July 1.
Students design storefronts
ISU students in graphic design studio classes recently presented design proposals to businesses in the Ames Main Street Cultural District. The 23 students re-designed new identities, signs and storefronts to bring an updated, inviting look that would enhance the district's revitalization efforts.
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With America at war, Hollywood follows
USA Today
Military themes in TV, movies and video games reflect the current conflict in Iraq. Doug Gentile, ISU assistant professor of psychology, says games with scenarios ripped from the headlines could have a "profoundly different effect ... for a generation now growing up under the threat of terrorism and at war. It's not going to be an exercise in nostalgia."
Study: Students see video games as harmless
Washington Post
ISU psychology professor Craig Anderson is among the top scholars studying video game violence. He says a recent study at the University of Maryland confirms his sense that young video game players consider themselves immune to the mayhem depicted in today's technologically sophisticated, gory games. "Any of us who do this kind of research certainly face the wrath of the ubiquitous 14-year-old who doesn't believe there's anything harmful in anything that they do," Anderson said.
Police lineup flaws spur new approach
Chicago Tribune
A Wisconsin man imprisoned nearly two decades for a crime he didn't commit was positively identified in a police lineup, but later freed on the basis of DNA evidence. ISU Distinguished Professor Gary Wells says traditional police lineups are flawed, because they allow victims to confidently pick the wrong person. Instead, Wells advocates a "sequential" lineup, in which suspects are brought in one at a time.
Cyclone men top Texas Tech
The Cyclone men defeated No. 25 Texas Tech, 81-68, Saturday.
Anderson speeds
800 speedster Ada Anderson runs the third fastest time in the nation at the ISU Classic.


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Talk:Acer Aspire One
- 1 Complete re-write / split needed
- 2 Article formatting and contents
- 3 Deletion of section "How to install kernel26-one?"
- 4 Suspend with mounted SDHC
- 5 More on SD Card Reader
- 6 Eee 900HA
- 7 fdisk -l
- 8 microphone
- 9 networking
- 10 webcam
- 11 Removal of the userspace fan control solutions
- 12 Framebuffer
- 13 ArchOne
Complete re-write / split needed
I believe this article needs to be completely revised to account for the new 10.1" models, which don't seem to require half the adjustments or concerns included here. Perhaps we should split this into two articles--SSD and HDD versions, or AOA150s and AOD150s. I will work on my own notes as time permits and make the appropriate changes.
Thayer 13:49, Mar 15, 2009
Does the AOA110 really need that extra attention? Does SSD's really get worn quicker than HDD's? Any sources on this?
--Trontonic 19:35, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
I alluded to this below, and in my _OPINION_, no, they don't. There is an AWFUL amount of FUD about how SSD devices wear out quickly if you write to them at all. Mind you, various vendors are shipping SSD for RAID devices now, in server systems; so there's at least one conflicting opinion to the common "ZOMG NO NEVER WRITE TO THE SSD DRIVE!" However, it _is_ a valid choice, and I honestly think it would be best to put some sort of 'SSD' notes up on a separate page for general SSD use (as SSD will become more prevalent and less expensive in the coming decade.)
I haven't had time to do that yet.
I, myself, now have _both_ models, and the real difference is SPEED. The SSD is _slow_ compared to the HD. Really slow. So in THAT regard, the SSD model should have some notes about it, speeding up writes, etc.
Lastebil 15:08, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
Article formatting and contents
There are now more than 2 models of the Aspire One...
Thanks to whomever (I should check history but... things to do) edited the start of the article to reflect choice based on knowledge, not FUD about SSD, and to explain the various options concerning filesystems and how they can affect you as a user.
Deletion of section "How to install kernel26-one?"
This section is totally unneeded. First, everyone using Arch should be able to know about "pacman -U", can't be that difficult. There is also no initrd needed as was falsely suggested by the section. And more importantly we have a section about the custom kernel. Expand that if you feel you need so.
What I was thinking about maybe adding a sub section how to get kernel-one installed right away during initial installation process. Like with "pacman -U -r /tmp/install kernel26-one-22.214.171.124-1.pkg.tar.gz". Ideas about this? --Inkaine 22:40, 6 December 2008 (EST)
Suspend with mounted SDHC
Is there a proper way for suspending while having an sdhc card mounted without configuring and compiling a kernel myself? Doesn't work here, once it ruined my FS... Lobotomisator 15:00 09.12.08
Using XFS for the filesystem solved the issue of corrupted SD-cards for me. --Trontonic 18:10, 13 April 2009 (EDT)
More on SD Card Reader
As I was getting an error on boot when using the 'setpci -d 197b:2381 ...' command, I tried as root and lo and behold, you get a 'No Devices Selected' error - IF you don't have cards in the slots. The Debian wiki NOW states reasons why they don't reccomend this anymore. (Basically, the hardware doesn't show these devices AT ALL if there's nothing in them, no matter what you do outside of inserting a card into either slot.) They have some scripts, but I haven't tested them, and as half of the scripts are the pciehp bits that are already in the wiki - hotplug may be solved.
In addition, hotplug may not make any sense when using this wiki as is for setting up - as it suggests mounting /home on an SD card. Removing /home while it's mounted will confuse users who aren't used to Unix/Linux. (That doesn't mean we can't teach them, we can - by writing this in a way that makes sense.)
Which again I don't have time for right now ): (I am setting up the AO110 again, after attempting some tests.)
Lastebil 15:15, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
Eee 900HA
Regarding the proper frame buffer (1024x600 natively), I can confirm that this works on a Eee 900HA if anyone would like to put that on this page. ( I don't want to as I just signed up for this and I don't want it to be marked as spam.)
fdisk -l
The fdisk -l at the bottom has a swap partition, despite the advice towards the top of the page not to use one. Maybe there should be separate ones for the HDD and SSD models? Or perhaps the SSD advice should be split into a different article - not necessarily AAO specific, something like "Arch on SSD"
One needs a swap partition in either case if Hibernate is to work, as I understand it.
--Trontonic 19:37, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
Anyone made the microphone (internal or external) work with the regular or the kernel26-one kernel? I can't make it work. Thanks.
--Trontonic 19:38, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
Is this line needed or just overcautious?
If you have problems with r8169, try r8101.
I did not need to modprobe uvcvideo as the directions said I would. At least I don't recall doing so. Have others? Electron 23:23, 15 December 2009 (EST)
Removal of the userspace fan control solutions
As the userspace fan control solution (acer_ec.pl) has possible race-conditions, which can damage the hardware, the kernel module acerhdf should be used instead. Acerhdf uses atomic kernel functions to prevent those race-conditions. That's why I think only the kernel module solution should mentioned in the wiki. What do you think? piie 19:22 14.02.09
I had no problems with the userspace fan control and weren't too worried about the race-conditions either, as my AAO isn't an important server to me. However, if acerhdf works better, then that's great. I switched to acerhdf too, and it works fine here. So, in essense, we don't need the non-acerhdf method anymore. Actually, I'll be so bold that I remove that outdated information right now. If I hurt anyone's feelings, just undelete the text please. :)
--Trontonic 19:46, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
Added stuff about using grub2-915resolution and intelfb for the framebuffer... hope this is alright :s (i'm more than happy if anyone changes/fixes/...s it :p )
If someone wants to mention it, archone allows you to try and install archlinux already configured, for people who have no time for configurations


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The huge increases in U.S. grain production only highlight the need for a strong program for maintaining and upgrading the nation's systems of locks and dams to facilitate barge transportation on the Mississippi River and inland waterways, says producer-ginner R.D. James, A.C. Riley Cotton Co., New Madrid, Mo.
"When 70 percent of the nation's soybeans, 62 percent of the corn, and 22 percent of our domestic petroleum are transported by barges, we need a strong federal commitment to keep this system open and functioning," he told Rep. Travis Childers, D-Miss., at the summer meeting of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association at Biloxi, Miss. "It's unfortunate that some of our ports and harbors may have to close, when agriculture is one of the few positive contributors to this nation's balance of trade."
The newly-elected congressman was invited to attend the sessions to hear concerns of farmers and ginners.
James serves on the seven-member oversight committee for flood control of the Mississippi River Commission, established in 1879, which provides water resources engineering direction, and policy advice to the administration, Congress, and the Army in a drainage basin that covers 41 percent of the United States and parts of two Canadian provinces.
The commission is charged with overseeing the comprehensive river management program known as the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, the largest flood control project in the world, covering the 36,000-square mile lower Mississippi Valley. It also seeks to facilitate navigation and promote commerce on the vital water artery.
Waterborne commerce on the Mississippi River has increased from 30 million tons in 1940 to nearly 500 million tons today.
The 4,267 miles of commercial waterways and locks/dams are a vital component of this country's transportation system, James says.
"Barges are a far more economical method of shipping than rail or truck; the nation's shippers save $3 billion a year by moving their goods by barge. The typical barge can move 750,000 bushels of corn; that same amount would require 870 trucks."
Barge traffic will be increasingly important for transportation of petroleum and other energy forms, he says. "Pipelines and railroads are already at maximum capacity, and building new facilities is difficult because of environmental and other regulatory requirements.
"There's a lot of room to grow traffic on the Mississippi and other inland waterways," James says, "but maintenance and improvement of locks, dams, and other facilities are critical to insure the most efficient barge usage."
Of the 29 locks and dams on the upper Mississippi, he says, "27 are past their design life and in varying stages of disintegration. It's disheartening what's happening to the infrastructure on the Mississippi River."
Childers, whose district abuts the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on the eastern border of Mississippi, said, "The Tenn-Tom and the Mississippi River are two of the nation's finest waterway systems and a vital part of this country's transportation network.
"For 14 of the last 17 years, I've served on the Yellow Creek Inland Port Authority of the Tenn-Tom. I have a keen interest in the nation's waterways, and I'm committed to supporting this vital system."
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Best Farmstay
Nação: Port Macquarie, Australia
Ano: 2010
Avaliação emitido por: Nyomie
We stayed at Poggiacolle in October 2010 with three teenagers and it was the most relaxing fabulous week of our two-month trip. Even they wound down, which says alot. Great location, excellent host, beautiful farmhouse apartments, we hardly did much other than go shopping locally for food, cook and wander around the farm. Was a good location for our day trips to Florence, Siena, Volterra, Pisa etc. Roads are good - local supermarket is fabulous in San Gimignano near the roundabout - get there early on a Sunday morning though if you want fresh bread as it's family lunch day and it sells out!!!!


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Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads won't spend much time dwelling on the blowout loss to Baylor.
Instead, he'll pause to consider his next move at quarterback.
Bryce Petty threw for 343 yards and two touchdowns, the Baylor defense came within a minute of its first Big 12 shutout against a shuffling pair of quarterbacks and the No. 12 Bears tied a school record with their 10th straight win, beating Iowa State 71-7 on Saturday night.
Iowa State (1-5, 0-3 Big 12) replaced starter Sam Richardson with redshirt freshman Grant Rohach while Baylor pulled away in the second quarter. Richardson came back in the second half, but it didn't matter much.
The Cyclones had nine first downs and three turnovers, although they spoiled Baylor's shutout with 47 seconds left on a 27-yard pass to DeVondrick Nealy from Rohach, who replaced Richardson again in the second half.
"Neither was the winning edge, and there's 10 other guys out there on the field, too," said Rhoads, adding that he went into the game thinking Rohach would play. "There's a lot that wasn't done. It's not just that quarterback position."
The late Iowa State touchdown opened the door for Baylor (6-0, 3-0) to get its fourth 70-point game of the season when Corey Coleman returned the ensuing kickoff 97 yards — the second special teams score of the game for the Bears.
"We have a complete team," said Petty, who has the Bears off to their best start since 1980 on a winning streak that matches one from 1936-37. "We've got to keep doing it."
Antwan Goodley had 11 catches for 182 yards and two touchdowns, and Lache Seastrunk had 112 yards rushing a week after his streak of 100-yard games ended at eight.
Petty, the nation's leader in passing efficiency, was 23 of 31 without an interception and ran for a touchdown before he and the rest of the starters were pulled early in the fourth quarter with the Bears leading 51-0 on the way to their 17th win in their last 18 home games.
"You don't have to tell them much," Rhoads said. "They know they just got whipped and I know I just got whipped."
Playing their first game as the highest-ranked team in the Big 12, the Bears got their offense cranking again a week after needing two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to pull out a 35-25 win at Kansas State.
Now they go back to Kansas to face the Jayhawks next weekend, already eligible for a bowl game for a school-record fourth straight year.
"That's a big deal," Baylor coach Art Briles said. "Our goal has been 'six after six' since last spring, and our players accomplished it."
Baylor's first big play was actually a backward pass from Petty to Levi Norwood, who pulled up and threw a left-handed floater that Jay Lee had to wait for and thus was pulled down from behind after a 41-yard gain. Goodley got the Bears' first touchdown on a 4-yard catch three plays later.
The Bears scored again a minute later after just the second lost fumble of the season for the Cyclones at their 29. Aaron Wimberly dropped the ball as he was thrown to the turf by Byron Bonds, and Eddie Lackey recovered.
After a 26-yard pass to Tevin Reese, who had 105 yards receiving, Seastrunk scored for a 14-0 Baylor lead.
The Bears went up 20-0 on a 90-yard drive to a 21-yard field by Aaron Jones, and the Cyclones looked like they were in trouble on the next possession when Rohach came out to take the first snap of his career.
Wimberly went 18 yards on Rohach's first play, but that was the only first down before a quick 17-point burst to finish the half by the Bears, who came in leading the nation at 715 yards and 63 points per game.
Richardson and Rohach combined for just 133 yards passing with an interception apiece and five sacks between them. Richardson went down three times, and Baylor had 10 tackles for loss.
The Cyclones finished with just 41 yards rushing because they had 47 yards in losses. They had 174 yards total offense, with 57 coming on the late scoring drive.
"It was very apparent, the first two drives nerves kind of got to me," Rohach said. "As the game went on, I got more reps, they slowed down for me, which is nice. I didn't like the outcome."


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September 23, 2016, 11:52 am, Fri Sep 23 11:52:14 UTC 2016 #397I discovered yesterday that Psalm 35 is sometimes known as "Prayer for Victory." That's important because of "Victory! S.B.T.C" at the end of the ransom note
September 24, 2016, 9:54 am, Sat Sep 24 9:54:07 UTC 2016 #398In 2006 I took a summer Photoshop class at a community college. I had a student license for Photoshop CS, Patsy Ramsey had just died, and since we hadn't worked with Photoshop filters in class, I decided to play around with the cheek and back marks at home.
The cheek mark became my avatar. I could generate it with just a few clicks. The back marks gave me less joy--or so I thought. I zoomed in on a small portion of the upper figure and worked with that. I applied a Gaussian blur and an edge-finding function. I did this and that. Because zoomed in the image didn't look like much I didn't even intend to save my work, but I inadvertently did. When I opened the file again the next day and zoomed out, I had the rather ghostly image that I'm including here.
Our version of Photoshop CS did not provide a history which survived the closing of the file so I didn't know exactly what I had done and in what sequence. I knew I had confined myself to blurs, an edge-finding function and maybe some sharpening functions. I thought the results were interesting enough to contact BPD, Beckner, I think, who referred me to the DA, who had an investigator contact me. I talked to (or emailed with) a guy I recognized from TV. At the end I assumed that someone with expertise would do an enhancement of at least the back marks. So I was surprised when I read about Kolar's train track theory years later. (If memory serves, in his book Kolar described the marks as "circular and somewhat rectangular." I thought that was interesting because my enhancement more or less agrees, though I didn't see that in the crime scene photo.)
The back mark image is below. I added the line and text yesterday.
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January 15, 2018, 11:45 am, Mon Jan 15 11:45:33 UTC 2018 #399I was looking through tv guide Dec. 21-27, 1996, for something else (which turned out not to be there) when I noticed a show called Victory! With Billy Joe and Sharon Daugherty. (The listing includes the "!.") It's a religious program which showed several times that week.
DrollForeignFaction on websleuths posted in 2017 that Andrew Hodges said that Patsy watched that program. (I don't see that he attributes the remark to Judith Phillips, though.) It does seem like a show like that would be up Patsy's alley.
January 17, 2018, 11:54 am, Wed Jan 17 11:54:34 UTC 2018 #400I'm including a photo of Psalm 57 in the 1985 NIV Study Bible, the Bible (and edition, I think) that was open on the desk in the study adjoining the bedroom. Visible is Patsy's magical verse and nearby is the cross-reference to Ps 35:17. It's a cross-reference to a similar line in Psalm 35 describing enemies as lions. Visible also is the verse about the pit digging, net spreading and pratfalling of enemies into the pits they've just dug. While there's no cross-reference in 57 to that same imagery in Psalm 35, it does exist there.
(Psalm 35 doesn't include any cross-references to Psalm 57.)
March 4, 2018, 5:45 pm, Sun Mar 4 17:45:50 UTC 2018 #401Many have noted that John used phrases from the ransom note in other contexts. In his '98 interview he used "100 percent" five times, "95 percent" twice, "80 percent," "99.9 percent," "98 percent," "70 percent," and "10 percent." These are not exactly what you find in the ransom note, but it's a lot more "percenting" than most people engage in. In part 2 of an A&E documentary, at 4:35 in, John said "to withhold her body for proper burial was barbaric." In an October 2000 interview he said, "The justice system is a government organization, and hence should be looked at with some degree of skepticism." It's not surprising that many people who think the Ramseys were responsible think that both were involved in writing the note.
I don't think both of them were. If they had both been involved in the murder they would have greeted the police in their pajamas, clutching teddy bears. That would have been part of the staging. If John took a shower and put on clothes different from the previous evening's, wouldn't Patsy have done the same? She felt the need to explain her lack of showering in DOI. She said that she got up intending to take a shower and then remembered that her shower was "still broken." The floor plan of the house shows three bathrooms on the second floor; wouldn't one of them have a shower? She spent 20-30 minutes putting on her makeup (she tells us) so she had enough time to spend an extra minute to go down one flight of stairs.
The fact that neither of them looked like they'd just gotten out of bed, belying their alibi, actually argues for an intruder. Except that Patsy wrote the note, a rather long one.
If both John and Patsy were involved, they would have presented themselves to the police in a way that corroborated their alibi. But evidence shows that Patsy wrote the note so she was the one who was involved.
Something big was going on in '95 and '96. In September 1995 The New York Times and The Washington Post both published a 35,000 word "manifesto," Industrial Society and its Future, authored by domestic terrorist "group" FC. The publication caused an uproar. This event wouldn't have gone unnoticed by journalism major Patsy. Then in April 1996, FC a.k.a. the Unabomber was arrested because his brother David recognized "cool-headed logicians" in the manifesto as being an expression used by his brother Ted. ("Cool-headed logicians" occurred about 1400 words in.) NYT published more than three dozen articles about the Unabomber and his capture--in April alone. A TV movie, Unabomber: The True Story, aired in September 1996. In it David Kaczynski recognizes the manifesto phrase "you can't eat your cake and have it" as a phrase his brother used, having picked it up from their mother who used it all the time. It might not have happened like that, but if you watched the TV movie, you think it did.
So Ted Kaczynski's downfall was publishing a long essay which exhibited his pet phrases and literary idiosyncrasies for all to see and someone who knew him well recognized them. Patsy would have known this, but still she wrote a long note packed full of what must be family phrases and insider knowledge. What was the idea? The more she wrote, the more she exposed herself to the fate that befell Ted Kaczynski; someone's going to notice pet expressions and phrases.
If the idea of a long note was to frame the housekeeper, what happens when the housekeeper turns out to have an alibi? Would the housekeeper know about the Atlanta Fat Cats or John's fetish for things southern. It seems doubtful so why throw all that stuff in? When the housekeeper turns out to have an alibi, the inside information will point back at someone named Ramsey.
I'm led to believe that Patsy's intent was to fill the ransom note with phrases which would be recognizable as John's. Would that be feasible? I tried to think of signature expressions my own family uses and I can't think of many, though I know we have a lot of them. I can, however, think of many expressions which were used habitually by an uncle I detested growing up. His pontificating was monumentally annoying. Maybe that's the key.
April 16, 2018, 2:22 pm, Mon Apr 16 14:22:38 UTC 2018 #402It's interesting that Victory! was on at 3:30am on December 26 according to TV Guide. It was also on at 8:30am on December 25, but not during the hours when some folks claim an intruder was roaming the house while the Ramseys were at the Whites'. (Patsy said they went to the Whites' about 5 or 6pm.)
The same channel showed the Victory Christian Center Christmas Special at 6:30pm on Christmas day, and it's possible that there were advertisements for Victory! on during the early evening which an intruder might have seen. Or maybe he was just leafing through TV Guide, bored out of his mind.
September 24, 2018, 7:34 pm, Mon Sep 24 19:34:01 UTC 2018 #403
This is a photo of Psalm 34 and the beginning of Psalm 35 in the NIV Study Bible (1984/1985). The note about Psalm 34 being an acrostic psalm, one of only seven out of 150 psalms, is in the middle of the left-hand page. SBTC can be seen at the top of the right-hand page. Psalm 35 has very similar imagery to Patsy's special, life-saving psalm, Psalm 57. (I've talked about this at some length in previous posts on this thread.) Psalm 57 in this Bible contains a cross-reference to Psalm 35. On December 26, the Bible was found opened to the next page, the one with the cross-referenced verse, 35:17.
In TOSOS, John tells us he read Psalm 34 to Patsy when she was dying (and made her cry).
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Skip to comments.Just Another Broadcast Day At Family Radio
Posted on 05/23/2011 7:00:29 AM PDT by raccoonradio
After all the hoopla about Family Radio's Harold Camping preaching of the rapture and the end time on May 21, 2011, today I checked Family Radio's Buffalo FM, 89.9 WFBF... On the air and from what I heard, business as usual. But it makes me wonder, is a hoax such as Camping's preaching and promising an actionable offense before the FCC? Imagine the uproar if Clear Channel, Entercom or Cumulus participated in such a "promotion." Yes, CC has thousands of stations and Family Radio has about a hundred. Still, Harold Camping's advisory cost some members of the listening public their jobs, their life savings and in some cases their families, and maybe even their faith. Is this the sign of responsible ownership and broadcasting in the public interest, convenience and necessity? Should Family Radio be stripped of its licenses?
The discussion thread after this is interesting. I will say that pretty soon broadcast licenses in places like the mid-Atlantic, where Camping has several stations, are due for renewal soon. This non-Rapture may not necessarily be grounds for non-renewal but who knows. The next post, by jas2525, has more details (also it's mentioned the freedom of religion makes it unlikely the govt. could interfere—
as Goat Radio Cowboy puts it, "how are you going to feel when some Federal agency shows up at the religious establishment that your family has participated in for 3 or 4 generations and starts telling you what you may and may not say or write as part of your system of faith.")
If the FCC were to take action against Family Radio's licenses, it would be under the "hoax rule," 73.1217, which reads thusly:
No licensee or permittee of any broadcast station shall broadcast false information concerning a crime or a catastrophe if:
(a) The licensee knows this information is false;
(b) It is forseeable that broadcast of the information will cause substantial public harm, and
(c) Broadcast of the information does in fact directly cause substantial public harm.
Any programming accompanied by a disclaimer will be presumed not to pose foreseeable harm if the disclaimer clearly characterizes the program as a fiction and is presented in a way that is reasonable under the circumstances.
Note: For purposes of this rule, "public harm" must begin immediately, and cause direct and actual damage to property or to the health or safety of the general public, or diversion of law enforcement or other public health and safety authorities from their duties. The public harm will be deemed foreseeable if the licensee could expect with a significant degree of certainty that public harm would occur. A "crime" is any act or omission that makes the offender subject to criminal punishment by law. A "catastrophe" is a disaster or imminent disaster involving violent or sudden event affecting the public.
"Judgment Day has come and passed, but it was a spiritual judgment on the world," he explains. "There is no more salvation. Salvation is over with. The fact is we have 153 days, and on the 21st of October, the world will end."
Doomsday Believers Cope With An Intact World
Yeah, I wonder.
Wonder how many copies of Robert Fitzpatrick's book will be sold? That's the guy from Staten Island you may have seen on the news, who gave away his $140k life savings on promoting the rapture that never came. His book, on amazon and other places, says the rapture begins on 5/21/11 (and Oct. will be the ultimate end). Perhaps people may buy them out of curiosity (and maybe some on Ebay and elsewhere will get
Camping's "1994?" etc.)
As you may have seen there was a wild scene at FR headquarters in Oakland—mostly hippies, atheists, etc but some religious folks, doing everything from launching balloons with mannikins attached to them to dispensing kool-aid a la Jim Jones to preaching that Camping and his followers were wrong but need to have their souls saved, etc. One guy had a shirt similar to the green and yellow "(Oakland) Athletics" logo only it said "Atheists". Videos on youtube etc. (Someone else was playing Camping's radio shows to mock it all, putting a megaphone up to a tape deck.)
That Oscar should be stripped, just like how Milli Vanilla lost their Grammy for fakery.
Mark Steyn's America Alone mentions how in the 70s, etc. there were predictions of global COOLING (hmm, maybe they have a point given this yr in the northeast?), hundreds of millions would die from starvation and we'd run out of gold, oil, and a lot more things by the 80s or 90s. Steyn said these never came true and that people have been forecasting the end of the world "pretty much since the beginning of the world". The old People's Almanac had a section about similar rapture predictions, in a bit called
"Armageddon Out Of Here".
I believe this falls under the doctrine of....
caveat sucker
Ummm, only if you have an inherent tendency to believe that government just doesn't do enough to regulate everything. If you have a deep-rooted desire for government to get involved in every aspect of daily life to protect you from the dangers of a little too much of that nasty old freedom, then by all means this should invite an action by the FCC.
One post on there, by radio expert Scott Fybush, says
There are certain fairly minimal restrictions the FCC imposes on "free speech" when it takes place over a licensed broadcast facility, and I don't see any religious exemption to any of them: you can't use a broadcast facility to transmit indecency or profanity (give or take certain safe-harbor periods), you can't use a broadcast facility for personal attacks, and you can't disseminate hoaxes under the provisions of 73.1217.
If someone kills him or herself due to hearing a Satanic message on an album, does the artist or label get sued?
No, it is that simple.
Indeed, as the saying goes be careful what you wish for. Want more govt regulation, you may very well get it. This is why personal responsibility matters— in case someone goes out and kills a bunch of people then says "(Radio talk host) told me to do it!" (i.e., the person mis-interpreted what the host said). So if people harm themselves after the Rapture that didn't happen, is it their fault or Camping's?
The "shouting fire in a crowded moviehouse" argument can pop up but do we want the govt to step in, in such cases? We'll see if Camping/FR's stations get denied a license renewal due to this.
Indeed...as it would be with anyone who buys Gore's carbon credits etc.
>> In New Yorks Times Square, Robert Fitzpatrick, of Staten Island, said he was surprised when the six oclock hour simply came and went. He had spent his own money to put up advertising about the end of the world. I cant tell you what I feel right now, he said, surrounded by tourists. Obviously, I havent understood it correctly because were still here. I did what I had to do, I did what the Bible said. And as the clock ticked past 6pm, he tried to shrink into the jeering crowd.
Speaking to the paper, David Silverman, of the American Atheists group, said: Doomsday cults are money-making enterprises.
'I wonder what is going to happen on May 22 when people no longer have their possessions or their savings and we are all still here and they don't have their rapture.
Blame The (Non)-Rapture:
Palmdale (KTLA) — A woman slit her daughters' throats before slitting her own early Friday evening, claiming that "the Tribulation" was going to occur and she wanted to prevent them from suffering through it, officials said.
Lyn Benedetto, 47, reportedly told her daughters to lie on a bed and proceeded to take a knife to their throats.
The suspect then took the knife to her own throat before driving the victims to an unoccupied friend's house to die.
(I note that was back in March but the "Tribulations" etc are mentioned)
Supposedly War of the Worlds broadcast helped to inspire the FCC's so-called "hoax rule"
And the "memos" from the "Raptured" to those "Left Behind" are all ready to go:)
You wrote: "David Silverman, of the American Atheists group, said: Doomsday cults are money-making enterprises."
Sadly, he's right. The proof is in the pudding:
No End in Sight
Carl E. Olson (2007)
Only two more Left Behind books to go and well finally know how the world ends. I can hardly wait.
I feel fortunate that I live at a time when someone finally figured out what the Book of Revelation really means.
That someone is Tim LaHaye, creator and coauthor of the Left Behind novels, the best-selling works of Christian fictionever.
As a surprisingly kind story in Time (Meet the Prophet, July 1, 2002) explained, LaHaye believes that the Scriptures lay out a precise timetable for the end of the world, and the Left Behind books let us in on the chronology.
Since the first book was published in 1995, the series has sold nearly forty million copies. The most recent addition, The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon, had a first printing of 2,750,000 copies.
Thats a serious number of people learning the secrets of the Book of Revelation. Unfortunately for them, the secrets are stale, recycled, and false.
My skepticism results from having spent twenty-five years learning and hearing the teachings of popular Bible prophecy expertsmore formally known as premillennial dispensationalists such as LaHaye, Hal Lindsey, Jack Van Impe, and countless others.
Reading quotes by Left Behind enthusiasts who are convinced The End is nigh, I recall how many Ends have come and gone in my short lifetime.
The signs of the times were many and varied: the fledgling modern state of Israel, any and every Middle Eastern conflict, the European Market, Jimmy Carter, the energy crisis, Ronald Reagan, communism, the Persian Gulf Warthe list goes on.
Of course, September 11 was no different. Within hours, the event was being examined by Bible prophecy teachers and enthusiasts in light of the Book of Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel, and Matthews Gospel.
There were the remarks, made in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Other fundamentalist leaders also took up the I told you so posture. Todd Hertz, in a September 19, 2001 article in Christianity Today, quotes Jack Van Impe, noted Bible prophecy guru and TV evangelist: I have been warning the nation and the world . . . for the past two years that terrorists would soon strike America. That moment has arrived. Jesus predicted this rise of terrorism just before his return to set up his kingdom on earth.
Of course, the inevitability of it allJesus predicted this rise of terrorismmakes such a warning a rather moot point. How does one turn back biblical fate?
Paul Boyer, author of the excellent When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief In Modern American Culture and an insightful observer of the apocalyptic culture in America, says, I suspect that with the passage of time these events will be assimilated into the prophecy popularizers end-time scenario, as everything is.
It will be an interesting assimilation since the exact role, if any, the United States plays in dispensationalist end-time scenarios is vague. The standard belief is that the United Statesapparently of little interest to the biblical prophetswill suffer a rapid decline in fortune, the victim of a massive stock market implosion and the uncontrolled rise of hedonism and secularism.
Some interpreted the September 11 attacks as key events in the fast- approaching decline and fall of the American Empire. The Los Angeles Times reported that a North Carolina pastor has linked the attacks in New York City to Isaiah 30:25, which speaks of the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
And the irrepressible John Hagee, a fervent premillennial dispensationalist and best-selling author based in San Antonio, flatly states: I believe World War III actually began Sept. 11, 2001.
Of course, Hagee made similar comments after Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995, but thats already ancient history.
[Interjection: Read more about Hagee's heretical "beliefs" here: http://www.biblewheel.com/RR/Hagee_Defense_of_Israel.asp ]
September 11 provided the sort of horrific material that mixes well into the potent dispensational brew of sensationalism, biblical sooth-saying, and sci-fi storytelling.
Dispensationalism is a theology of crisis, without much patience for peace and ordinary life. It has never been about the growth and advancement of civilization; its adherents tend to stay off to the side, looking for their chance to triumphantly announce to the masses, I told you so! when times turn bad.
Thirty years ago, when the world was threatened by the Cold War and the nation divided by the Vietnam conflict, an unknown youth minister named Hal Lindsey shocked the publishing industry by selling several million copies of The Late Great Planet Earth, the biggest selling nonfiction work of the decade (with sales now totaling close to forty million).
At that time the forces of evil were as obvious as the printed Word of Godor so Lindsey said. They were those aligned against Israel and Christianity: the Soviet Union, Egypt, China, and Mystery Babylon, a one-world religion fast forming around an eclectic blend of astrology, narcotics, ecumenism, and the Catholic Church. For several years it was a winning combination.
But the late 1980s were not kind to the movement.
Longtime dispensational strongholds such as Fuller Theological Seminary, BIOLA (the Bible Institute of Los Angeles), and even Dallas Theological Seminary, long considered the spiritual and academic heart of the movement, began distancing themselves from the more popular, rigid forms of the controversial theological system. Lindseys thinly veiled prophecy that the 1980s would bring the Rapture and the end of the world (hence his 1981 bestseller The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon) failed to materialize.
This was followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union, making Lindseys deduction in the early 1980s of a possibly imminent Communist takeover appear naive and paranoid. Suddenly the world found itself relatively safe, with freedom spreading and pessimism relegated to the trash heap of history. A new age of tranquillity had arrived and dispensationalism seemed out of fashion.
[ Interjection: Read more about the fallout of this HOAX here: http://www.mtio.com/articles/aissar69.htm ]
But theres nothing like a war to light the apocalyptic fires once again. Of course, it couldnt be just any war; it had to involve the Middle East, home to Israel, the central and essential entity of the dispensational system. For Lindsey and his many imitators, Israel was not simply a lone democracy in a part of the world known for despots and totalitarian regimesit was the key to the prophetic puzzle.
Israel was also, Lindsey wrote, the Fuse of Armageddon. Its reestablishment as a nation in 1948 meant that the prophetic clock, on pause since the Jews rejected Jesus as the Messiah, was about to restart with a bang. The Persian Gulf War was the breath of fresh air that the gasping dispensational movement needed.
Suddenly, within a few weeks, the prophetic iron went from cool to red-hot. Who would strike it? Among many others, John F. Walvoord, former president and longtime professor (now retired) at Dallas Theological Seminary, made the most of the opportunity. Although widely respected in the dispensationalist community for his relatively sober and academic work, Walvoord had never tasted the sort of success Lindsey was accustomed to.
However, his publisher, Zondervan, was up to the task. Smelling sales, the fundamentalist publishing house dusted off his 1974 book, Armageddon, Oil, and the Middle East Crisis, and republished it in 1990. Within a year it had sold over a million copies.
Although Walvoord still gave Russia her due, the focus of popular dispensationalists had turned to the Islamic world, especially Iran and Iraq. Saddam Hussein became the most likely candidate for the position of Antichrist; Gorbachev, Reagan, and a host of lesser-known potential Men of Sin were long-forgotten.
Babylon was no longer a code word for the Catholic Church or a worldwide system of apostasy (although it would still be all of that, dispensationalists said); it really was Babylonancient Babylonrebuilt and renewed by a murderous Iraqi dictator. The driving force behind the intended destruction of Israel was not communism, but radical Islam. The ancient battle between Jacob and Esau had resumed.
Lindsey and others such as Grant Jeffrey, Tim LaHaye, and John Hagee unearthed passages of Scripture supposedly proving this prophetic truth. Their books during the 1990s pointed to the growth of terrorist groups operating with the goal of destroying Israel and Israels powerful supporter, the Great Satan, the United States.
[Interjection: If you want your brain to bleed, you can see more on those date-setting end-times grifters here: http://www.raptureready.com/who/whos-who-of-prophecy.html ]
The horrific attacks on America seemed to validate, to a certain degree, these authors repeated warnings about militant Islamic groups. But popular dispensationalists are not content with validationthey apparently want Armageddon and the end of the world. Its difficult to conclude otherwise. Just read some of the book titles of the past few years: Armageddon, Countdown to Armageddon, Israels Final Holocaust, Final Signs, Beginning of the End, Foreshadows of Wrath and Redemption, Apocalypse Now, The Final Battle.
Instead of interpreting and analyzing current events in the light of political, cultural, and social realitiesa complex and difficult taskthe authors of these books interpret Scripture according to currents events, an approach that is as dangerous as it is subjective.
Thats the approach taken by LaHaye, whose goal with the Left Behind books is to disseminate his understanding of the Book of Revelation to as large an audience as possible. He writes in Revelation Unveiled, The Book of Revelation is easily the most fascinating book in the Bible, for it gives a detailed description of the future.
In his 1970s commentary on the Book of Revelation, Theres a New World Coming, Lindsey explained that modern readers could finally understand John the Revelators mysterious work because it is written in such a way that its meaning becomes clear with the unfolding of current world events.
However, not just anyone can understand the Apocalypse, but only those embracing the dispensationalist system as taught by Lindsey, LaHaye, and a select group of other enlightened Bible prophecy experts. The key is the dispensational systemwithout it one simply cannot rightly divide the Word of God.
Thus dispensational eschatology becomes a litmus test for orthodoxy.
Rejecting the system raises questions about ones commitment to biblical inerrancy, literal interpretation of Scripture, and the belief in the pretribulation Rapture. In addition, those less than enthusiastic about dispensationalism are suspected of antagonism towards Israel. Lindsey has made it clear that those who do not embrace dispensationalism are especially vulnerable to anti-Semitism.
The allegorical method of interpreting Scripturebadly misrepresented and maligned by most dispensationalistsis roundly condemned for draining all meaning from the Bible. Amillennialism, generally embraced by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and most Protestants, is denounced as heretical, even demonic.
The fact is that authors such as LaHaye and Lindsey teach that the vast majority of Israelites will be killed during the seven years of Tribulation sandwiched between the Rapture and Christs Second Coming. There will be so much fighting around Jerusalem, Lindsey writes, [that] blood will flow for two hundred miles.
He acknowledges that this is hard to believe, but states that this is exactly what God predicts, and He always fulfills His Word. In other words, this supposed friend of the Israelites believes that God has willed the bloody death of millions of Jewssimply because He must keep His word.
Prophecy isnt for the weak of heart, but someone has to let the world know.
Dispensationalisms popular leaders could not be more confident of their own prophetic powers. They vehemently deny this is the case, but what other conclusion can one reach after reading their books?
Commenting about the Book of Revelation in The Apocalypse "Code", one of his more recent works, Lindsey remarks, I believe that the Spirit of God gave me a special insight, not only into how John described what he actually experienced, but also into how this whole phenomenon encoded the prophecies so that they could be fully understood only when their fulfillment drew near. . . . I prayerfully sought for a confirmation for my _apocalypse code theory_.
In the introduction to his subsequent work, The Final Battle, Lindsey makes another audacious claim:
You wont find another book quite like this one. We will examine why and how the world is hurtling toward disaster. . . . My background as a student of prophecy allows me to place all this information in perspective in a way that is sure to lead many people to the ultimate truth about the coming global holocaustand, if they are open, to a wonderful way of escaping it. Read this book. Learn from it. Pass it on to your friends. It may be the last chance some of them will ever have to avoid the horrible fate this book describes.
This pragmatic, matter-of-fact pessimism is both the source of dispensationalism and, oddly enough, the cause for its flourishing within so many fundamentalist groups. John Nelson Darby, the ex-Anglican priest who constructed the premillennial dispensational system in the 1830s, based it on three premises:
Jesus Christ failed in his initial mission, the Church has become apostate and is in ruins, and the Old Testament promises to the Israelites have yet to be fulfilled.
Inevitably and logically this meant that the Church is not connected to Old Testament Israel, nor is she even as important, at least in earthly terms. The Church is, Darby taught, a heavenly people meant for a Christ who was relegated to a heavenly status once he was rejected by the Jews, Gods earthly people.
Fast forward to the future millennial reign, complete with a new Temple and reinstituted animal sacrifices. During this Davidic reign the Church will exercise authority from heavenpossibly in a huge, cubed New Jerusalem hovering over the earth.
Meanwhile, the earth will be occupied by those non-Raptured and non-glorified believers, mostly Jewish, who accepted Jesus as Savior during the Tribulation. After all, that horrific time will be for punishing an evil humanity and will be a means of bringing the Jews back to God in an ultimate display of tough love.
How odd to think that Christians who believe that the Church is composed of Jew and Greek alike (Romans 10:12) are sometimes suspected of anti-Semitism by those who believe that in the future, earthly millennium the Jews will be rewarded with earth while pre-Rapture Christians will achieve heaven, the grand prize.
The popularity of such a system does not exist despite its pessimism, but feeds off it, as the success of the Left Behind books seems to indicate. Once the doctrines of the utter depravity of man and his inevitable slide into ever-increasing evil are accepted, the desire for escape and the hope of Gods vengeful judgment naturally follow.
Instead of being incarnational, history becomes fatalistic; instead of being sacramental, the material realm is cursed, even evil. This dualism is both startling and familiar, neo-Gnostic and Manichaean.
While fighting against the New Age movement and its dualistic errors, dispensationalists unwittingly embrace a similar error, pitting the spiritual against the physical and the heavenly against the earthly, as though they were never reconciled in the person of Jesus Christ.
The apostle Paul may have fought his fleshhis fallen, wounded naturebut he never tried to escape the physical pains his commitment to Christ brought upon him.
Undoubtedly the idea of a pretribulation Rapture would have angered him: For to you it has been granted for Christs sake, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake (Philippians 1:29).
You dont see that on too many bumper stickers.
Even as dispensationalisms discontinuity with centuries of historical Christian teaching is being exposed, its selling power continues to impress.
The Left Behind books have mushroomed into an entire industry, replete with CDs, tapes, videos, comic books, apparel, calendars, and a thriving website community. Sales for the books increased by 60 percent after September 11.
There is no doubt that apocalyptic fever is easily caught and passed along in America.
So dont be surprised if the Left Behind series extends its successful run to fourteen, fifteen, or twenty books.
After all, The End is approaching, but the presses will keep on turning until the final seconds of time vanish into eternity. bttt
Rapture Ready's "Approved"
Who's Who of Prophecy bttt
John Ankerberg — http://www.raptureready.com/who/John_Ankerberg.html Dispy involved with Dave "the Catholic Church sits on the Beast" Hunt (enuf said)
Dave Breese — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Dave_Breese.html - Dispy "prophecy expert" cited in LaHaye's book
JR Church — http://www.raptureready.com/who/JR_Church.html - Holy Grail "Dispy expert"
Jimmy DeYoung —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Jimmy_DeYoung.html -Dispy expert on Daniel's "calculations" for the coming of the Messiah
Russ Doughten — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Russ_Doughten.html Father of the Modern Christian Movies -end-times Dispy "expert"
Daymond Duck — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Daymond_Duck.html - A Dispy "prophecy expert" -wrote the end-time survival handbook
Gary D. Frazier —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Gary_Frazier.html Dispy prophecy "expert" and a key Tim LaHaye associate
Arno Froese — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Arno_Froese.html End-times Dispy editor of Midnight Call magazine -how the antichrist will be elected.
Phillip Goodman —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Phillip_Goodman.html -End-times Dispy who "knows" the genealogy of the antichrist
John Hagee — http://www.raptureready.com/who/John_Hagee.html End-times Dispy founder and Pastor of Cornerstone Church -God's 2 min. warning, Jesus didn't come to be the Messiah of the Jews, etc. http://www.biblewheel.com/RR/Hagee_Defense_of_Israel.asp
Ed Hindson —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Ed_Hindson.html -Earth's final hour /another endtimes "Dispy expert"
Dave Hunt — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Dave_Hunt.html -Catholic church the great whore and other "expert Dispy interpretations"
Thomas Ice —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Thomas_Ice.html End-times Dispy guru -defender of the pre-trib view & partner of Tim LaHaye the failed date-setter.
Terry James — http://www.raptureready.com/who/William_Terry_James.html Another Dispy "prophecy expert"
Grant Jeffrey — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Grant_Jeffrey.html -A Y2K - Bible Code Dispy failed date-setter nutcase
David Jeremiah —http://www.raptureready.com/who/David_Jeremiah.html Dispy "expert" on Book of Revelation
Gary Kah — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Gary_Kah.html Dispy "fringer" but, quote: "The only conspiracy speaker that makes sense."
Tim LaHaye — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Tim_LaHaye.html A Dispy guru - end-times writer of thinly veiled (failed) date-setting "fiction" books like "Left Behind". Founder of the "Tim LaHaye School of Prophecy" and Co-founder of "Pre-trib Research Center". Partner of Thomas Ice.
Zola Levitt — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Zola_Levitt.html Hal Lindsey loves this end-times Dispy
David Allen Lewis —http://www.raptureready.com/who/David_Allen_Lewis.html Embarrassing "Prophecy 2000" end-times date-setting Dispy
Hal Lindsey —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Hal_Lindsey.html A Dispy giant in the world of end-times "prophecy"."...challenged at every turn for his beliefs as well as his 4 marriages" -Late-Great (failed) date-setter. Oh, yeah we know all about that: http://www.mtio.com/articles/aissar69.htm But "his books are a great place for 'serious students' to study."
Jan Markell —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Jan_Markell.html Dispy with "behind the news" end-times "expert" prophecy
Chuck Missler — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Chuck_Missler.html Bible "codes" end-times Dispy Good friend of Hal Lindsey (and that ain't all)
David Noeble —http://www.raptureready.com/who/David_Noeble.html Dispy fundie (remember "the hypnotism of the Beatles,back-masking, etc."?)
Charles Pack -http://www.raptureready.com/who/Charles_Pack.html- Dispy end-times "expert" says "event time" for rapture shortened.
Donald Perkins — http://www.raptureready.com/who/Donald_Perkins.html Dispy with "prophetic charts" /affiliated w/LaHaye, etal
Randall Price —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Randall_Price.html End-times Dispy archaeology "expert" who knows that "plans to construct a new Temple are being laid."
David Reagan — http://www.raptureready.com/who/David_Reagan.html Dispy end-times "expert" who loves studying "prophecy"
Larry Spargimino —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Larry_Spargimino.html End-times "expert" who attacks those he calls "anti-prophets"
Perry Stone —http://www.raptureready.com/who/Perry_Stone.html Dispy end-times prophecy expert who endorses Benny Hinn and Bible Codes
John Walvoord — http://www.raptureready.com/who/John_Walvoord.html Former head of Dallas Theological Seminary -highly influenced by the Scofield Dispy "Notes" written in the "Scofield Bible"
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Whos Who of Prophecy bttt
What a
motley interesting collection of names.
The people I read don't even register on their radar. Geerhardus who?
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By Lisa Capobianco
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Magic lanterns, ice skates, ferris wheels and tool chests were just a few of the Barnes' family favorite things they received as Christmas gifts.
This year the Barnes Museum will feature these antique items, as well as other gifts during the 31st Annual Open House on Friday, Dec. 6 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. and on Saturday, Dec. 7 from 1-5 p.m. The museum holiday décor will highlight excerpts from 52 diaries of the Bradley Barnes family while displaying hundreds of artifacts arranged throughout the homestead that dates back to 1836.
"It is fascinating to work here," said Marie Secondo, the curator of the Barnes Museum who started decorating November 1. "This time of year is just so special."
Step into the main parlor, where a Christmas tree highlights antique toys that the Barnes family received around the holidays, including a tool chest and ice skates. In a corner lies a Ferris wheel that belonged to Bradley Barnes, the last family member who lived in the home, received at the age of nine as well as a magic lantern he received in 1896. The fireplace in the parlor also displays a picture of Bradley with his mother Alice, as well as antique China dishes with an old image of Southington Park and the former Lewis High School.
"People like to see different things," said Secondo, who decorated the music room with the family's instruments, including the banjo, mandolin and drum set.
Other rooms downstairs also have holiday décor, including the goblet room and the living room, which displays a picture of Bradley wearing snow shoes outside his gazebo in January 1948.
Nearly every room in the museum features a Christmas tree, including the bedrooms upstairs. The tree in the room of Leila Barnes, Bradley's wife, has natural decorations including pine cones, dried roses and milk weed pods. Bradley's bedroom displays a tree decorated with shrunken and laminated pictures of automobiles.
Secondo said Bradley had a passion for vehicles, and even served on the Board of Directors for the Automobile Club of Hartford, which sent him a Christmas card one year. That card is also displayed on the Christmas tree. On Bradley's bureau lies a red bow tie which reads, "Season's Greetings."
The ladies' room, which showcases a tree garnished in lace and flower decorations, also highlights Leila's holiday memoirs. Secondo said one excerpt that stuck out to her was written by Leila in 1938, which read, "Our home all lighted—candles in the windows." Secondo said the holiday décor in the museum will offer something to everyone in the family, especially the children. This year the Southington Orchard Valley Garden Club will feature a Fairy Wonderland exhibit in the porch of the Museum. The exhibit will feature a Christmas tree decorated with fairies, butterflies, and mini fairy wands, each one showcasing its own intricate details. The tree is also equipped with LED lights, which bring out the purple decorations.
The exhibit also features a doll house with fairies and other small Christmas decorations, which the Garden Club started creating since November. Secondo expressed her gratitude for the work that the club's members have put into the project, especially since they have contributed to the Barnes Museum such as purchasing gardening tools.
"They are crafty," Secondo said pointing to the different fairy decorations. "Every one of them is just so unique."
Secondo said the fairy exhibit will add a different touch to the event, especially for little girls who fell in love with the Fairy House Festival at the museum during this past Apple Harvest Festival.
Marjorie Muzyczka, the president of the Garden Club, worked with dozens of members on the decorations, gathering leftover materials from the Fairy House Festival. Using dried flowers, glitter, wooden heads and art pipe cleaners, members of the Garden Club determined which materials worked well together after trial and error.
"We used whatever we had available," Muzyczka said.
The museum will remain decorated until January 13, and holiday tours will continue during regular daily tour hours.
Besides the Open House, the Barnes Museum will also host its annual Holiday Tea Tasting Party on Thursday, Dec. 12 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Enjoy tea sandwiches and desserts donated by some of Southington's finest restaurants while trying a variety of lavish teas in the decorated homestead. Reserve tickets by calling the Museum at (860) 628-5426 or sending an email to Marie Secondo at email@example.com. Tickets cost $10.
Barnes decorated for the holidays
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Grand Junction, Colo. (KKCO) - District 51 is working to get into compliance with a technology law that requires any technology devices at a school be protected from inappropriate web sites.
The law also requires any device that is taken home by students to be protected. The deadline to meet the new requirement is the end of December 2013.
The law covers all devices including laptops, iPads, or anything that can access the internet.
At a meeting Tuesday night, the District 51 school board got an update on the progress.
"We've already started the implementation and have gone through a first round, but there are several devices that we can't protect today, and in those cases, we don't allow students to take them home," says Odus Harwood, director of technology services.
With all the new technology students are now using in the classroom or at home for research and projects, officials say it is a good law to have in place.
Also at Tuesday night's school board meeting, five schools were recognized for receiving the governor's distinguished improvement award. The award is given to schools for their ability to exceed expectations of academic growth gaps.


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European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger was joining the talks Saturday along with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the heads of Ukraine's Naftogaz and Russia's Gazprom companies.
Talks broke off last week after Ukraine balked at Russia's latest price demand.
The dispute has been going on for months. Moscow has threatened to turn off the tap if Ukraine fails to settle its multibillion-dollar debt. Russia also says if the dispute is not solved by Monday it will start demanding payment in advance for gas deliveries from Ukraine.


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Sep. 02, 2013
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Joe Kelly began the season in the St. Louis Cardinals' bullpen with an electric fastball and an identity crisis.
Consider the crisis solved: Kelly has become The Stopper.
The right-hander allowed four hits over six solid innings to win his fourth straight start and the Cardinals moved back into a share of first place in the NL Central with a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.
Kelly walked two and struck out five while remaining unbeaten since being moved to the starting rotation full-time in July.
"He's kind of figured himself out," St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said.
Kelly received plenty of help from the offense, with Matt Holliday and David Freese driving in two runs each while Matt Carpenter, Allen Craig, Yadier Molina and Shane Robinson added two hits each for St. Louis.
Justin Morneau went 1 for 3 in his debut with the Pirates a day after Pittsburgh acquired the first baseman from Minnesota to bolster the club's bid for its first playoff appearance in 21 years.
The NL West-leading Dodgers edged San Diego 2-1 to complete a three-game sweep, their 10th of the season, with Zack Greinke allowing one run over seven innings and Yasiel Puig hitting a homer in the sixth.
Greinke (14-3) won his sixth straight start for the first time since winning nine in a row over the 2008-09 seasons. The right-hander gave up two hits, struck out seven and walked two. Greinke, who came in batting .340, also singled with two outs in the fifth.
At Denver, Todd Helton doubled for his 2,500th career hit, Michael Cuddyer homered among his four hits and Colorado overcame the loss of starting pitcher Tyler Chatwood to beat Cincinnati 7-4.
In other NL games, the Giants beat the Diamondbacks 8-2 with Yusmeiro Petit striking out a career-high 10, the Marlins beat Atlanta 7-0 to end a six-game losing streak and the Cubs had a 7-1 win over the Phillies at Chicago and the Nationals avoided a series sweep by beating the Mets 6-5.
In the American League, Coco Crisp and Stephen Vogt homered and A.J. Griffin struck out seven in seven innings as the Athletics completed a three-game sweep of rival playoff contender Tampa Bay with a 5-1 victory Sunday.
After Crisp led off the bottom of the first with a home run, James Loney tied it with his own longball in the top of the second. Griffin (12-9) settled in after that to win his second straight outing following a four-start winless stretch.
Griffin allowed one run on five hits and walked one.
At Arlington, Kevin Correia pitched seven strong innings as the Twins clinched their first series victory at Texas in four years, beating the AL West-leading Rangers 4-2.
Correia (9-10) allowed one run and scattered five hits. The right-hander struck out two and got 14 outs on the ground, including a pair of double plays.
J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones hit three-run homers in the seventh inning as the Orioles beat the Yankees 7-3 to avert a sweep in a matchup of wild-card contenders.
Shut out on three singles Saturday, the Orioles were blanked by Andy Pettitte for six innings before their seven-run rally against the 41-year-old lefty and a faltering bullpen.
At Detroit, the Indians had a 4-0 win over the Tigers with Mike Aviles hitting a grand slam in the ninth inning, ending a run of seven straight losses to the AL Central leaders.
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Schools with Sports Management Masters Programs offer top instruction in how to apply business, coaching and athletic education concepts to the sports industry. Within the variety of Masters in Sports Management degrees, students could choose a grad school that favors administration, public relations, sports marketing, sports analytics and beyond.
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To level the playing field in a search for Schools with Sports Management Masters Programs, students often think about what they want to major in, given the broad reach of the discipline.
Roughly, sports management includes all aspects of how athletic teams and programs, facilities and health clubs, recreation services are best organized, managed, promoted and administered to comply with regulations and turn profits.
Schools with Masters in sports management programs often instruct students in the following topics.i
Of course, that's not all. Masters in sports management schools may offer specific areas of emphasis, perhaps in line with faculty insight and practical experience.
Graduate schools with sports management majors could take several points of view. Each program may have distinct requirements, and might suit different goals and interests. Below is a brief synopsis of some of the Sports Management Masters Programs that may have on-campus formats.
Schools with Master of Science (MS) in Sports Management programs often tackle all of the pertinent areas of the sports business. Campus students may be in for a flexible and hands-on curriculum that could include travel abroad opportunities, industry events, research, internships and more.
Some MS programs kick off their program with a class that explores the dynamics of the sports business through the lens of history and into the modern era. From there, students may take a series of compulsory courses that might address both a sport administrative and business management core.
Sport administrative core courses are often all about the operational aspects of management of a sports business. Students might, for instance study strategic sport marketing and contract negotiation. Also, topics such as sport finance and leadership in sport.
Business management courses in a MS Sports Management program could help students learn the basic principles of finance, and the economics of sport as they fit into national and international economies. Students might also take classes in statistics and organizational behavior.
Most MS in Sports Management programs encourage students to tailor their studies through an area of emphasis or electives. These are usually different in each school, therefore could be a differentiator in terms of where one applies.
While by no means a complete list, below are some sample topics that might make for dynamic electives.
Coaching: A focus in coaching theory and strategies might cover coursework in psychology and leadership techniques. Students might investigate the legal risks of sports accidents as much as study effective team administrative and human performance assessment techniques.
Sports Administration: A focus in sports administration might discuss the skills and knowledge needed to manage facilities, human resources and fundraising. Students might also take courses in sports marketing and promotions as well as team development.
Applicants to a MS in Sports Management school may need to furnish a personal essay, resume, letters of recommendation and transcripts. A Bachelors degree in any major with a minimum GPA of 3.0 may be required.
Sports marketing schools with MA in Sports Management programs could see the industry through the lens of the humanities. Students who pursue a MA might, for instance, study to acquire social, artistic and technical skills in professional sports communication and multimedia.
Coursework could cover topics from public relations and journalism and may help students develop strategic and journalistic writing styles. Coursework could be focused around digital storytelling across social media, television and other platforms.
Individuals might have the chance to create real-world multimedia productions for sports teams, broadcast and sports media companies. Two of the potential areas of emphasis for a MA in Sports Communication might include Sports Broadcasting and Athletic Communications.
Sports Broadcasting: A focus in sports broadcasting could explore sport media within the context of the digital age and all the media platforms used to communicate with audiences. Students might learn to ethically and professionally convey ideas in the contemporary sports media industry.
Athletic Communications: A focus in athletic communications and promotions might instruct students in the methods needed to create multimedia content for publication and broadcast of sports teams. Graduates might be able to build a digital portfolio and production reel of their work.
On-campus MA students might learn through a mix of in-class exercises, out-of-class field production work, and internships with sports media companies in their school's community. Internships could provide a forum to showcase production skills and the ability to think critically outside class.
Campus participants might also take regular classes interspersed with workshops, professional development presentations, and orientation sessions. These opportunities could promote hands-on instruction in video production, digital editing and multimedia production software.
Applicants to schools with Sports Management MA programs may need a Bachelors degree (any major), transcripts, personal essay, resume and letters of recommendation.
Reports show that 15% of Athletic Directors have a Masters degree.ii
An MBA in Sports Management typically aims to reinforce well-rounded business executive skills and knowledge that could be applied to the 'business of sport'. Most programs include a broad array of courses and usually, some type of industry-related internship.
Most MBA programs are therefore planned-out to instill basic and advanced theories and techniques in the disciplines of management, marketing, finance, economics, and accounting.
Aside from these compulsory topics, students may study behavioral science, strategy, leadership and policy to prepare for jobs with a sports management degree.
The number of credits it takes to earn an MBA varies, with a range of 36 to 46. That said, students typically take a wide range of core topics before they study to complete their concentration. The course names vary, but below is a sample of what this emphasis could look like in an MBA program.
Students who earn a Sports Management MBA on campus typically take classes at the same time every week, and evening schedules are common. Some universities have part time options, but for students who study full time, it could take about 2 years to complete requirements.
Schools with MBA in Sports Management programs typically require applicants to have a Bachelors degree (in any major or business). Prospective students may need to furnish transcripts, GRE or GMAT scores, current resume and essay. Some schools may ask for an in-person interview.
Graduate schools with Sports Management Masters programs in the U.S. may be regionally accredited as institutions, and/or have individually approved programs. Institutional approval speaks to things such as financial viability and school resources.
Programmatic accreditation by an agency such as the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) evaluates how well the program educates students to prepare them to pursue a career in the sport management industry.
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Manchester mourns loss of state representative, pillar of communityBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 17. 2013 8:51PM
MANCHESTER — Family, friends and some of the city's top politicians are remembering Saghir "Saggy" Tahir, 68, as a pillar of the state's Pakistani and Muslim communities and a devoted family man who was always willing to lend his work ethic and opinion to his business and political ventures.
Tahir, who spent a decade representing Manchester's Ward 2 in the state's House of Representatives, died Wednesday of a heart attack, said his son, Misbah Tahir (see obituary on Page A5).
"He was a great father and a great role model," Misbah Tahir said Thursday.
Misbah Tahir said his father came to the United States in 1972 with no money, but an engineering degree he earned in Pakistan. That said, it was years before Tahir was able to find an engineering job. Instead, he had worked as many as three jobs, including as a waiter and a building security guard.
"He fit some of the stereotypes of first-generation Americans," his son said. "It's kind of a self-made, classic story."
Tahir became a U.S. citizen in 1978. He settled in Manchester and started his own construction consulting business. It grew to include holdings in real estate and a restaurant and convenience store, Misbah Tahir said.
He got involved in the local Pakistani and Muslim communities, including serving as a board member for the Islamic Society of Greater Manchester.
Dr. Salman Malik, who served with Tahir on the board of the Islamic Society, said he was deeply saddened at the loss of his friend and "pillar" of not just the Pakistani or Muslim communities, but the greater Manchester and New Hampshire communities as well.
"It just hasn't sunk in, the finality of it all," Malik said. "It's like we've closed a chapter in a book, and I just wish that book was longer."
Tahir extended his community involvement to state politics and was elected as a Republican representative to the State House in 2000, where he continued to represent Ward 2 until 2010. He ran for office because he wanted to give back to the community, his son said.
"He felt like he owed a lot to America and to New Hampshire for accepting him," he said. "He was a strong example for us."
Mayor Ted Gatsas said he was mourning the passing of "truly a dear friend" who, he said, would "never say no."
"Whenever somebody needed help, Saggy would help," Gatsas said. His death is "an absolute shock. There will certainly be a void (in the community)."
State Sen. Lou D'Allessandro, D-Manchester, remembered Tahir as a good businessman and a "great" family man who would never take a passive role.
"I don't think he was ever afraid to speak his mind," D'Allesandro said. "The community will certainly miss him."
In addition to his business and political interests, Tahir was active in several charities and advocacy groups, ranging from the Hooksett Community Food Pantry to the Americans for Resolution of Kashmir organization.
Misbah Tahir said his father was a devoted fan of the Boston Red Sox and Celtics and took members of his family to see Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals, where the Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers to win the NBA title.


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