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Call of Duty: Black Ops II broke retail records a mere 24 hours after the public debut of the single-player campaign. An impressive feat, considering that multiplayer, the franchise's bread and butter, wasn't even shown off until just a week ago.
It's a good thing for fans that Treyarch isn't a studio who would just settle for minor refinements, then. They very well could have, but instead, the team has rebuilt the multiplayer system so much that you would be forgiven for thinking they're insane.
The Create-a-Class system as you've known it from past Call of Duty games -- and pretty much all first-person shooters these days -- is dead. Treyarch challenged the assumptions of what multiplayer in an FPS should be and has created something that makes the Call of Duty experience feel fresh again.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 [previewed])
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision
Release: November 13, 2012
Pick a number between 1 and 10
The Create-a-Class system up to this point has followed a pretty simple formula. You've always had to pick at least one primary, secondary, attachment, lethal, and tactical, and multiple Perks and Streaks to craft your custom character. Well, forget this system completely, as you now have total freedom over what you want to bring in.
The new system is referred to as "Pick 10," and it's exactly what it sounds like. Players are now allocated ten points and have the choice of taking any ten pieces of content they want, each of which takes up an allocation point. For example, you don't have to bring in a secondary gun and can instead use its allocation point on something like an extra attachment for your primary or an extra lethal grenade.
To further drive home what this means, players can literally jump into a game with nothing but a knife and just use all of their allocation points on beefing up their character with Perks. Of course, that's an extreme example, and you'll be relying on pure luck to find a gun on the ground quickly. Still, it's something you could do if you're crazy enough.
Perks are no longer "absolutes"
Perks have also been completely redefined. For starters, Perks only impact the player's traits now, and don't give any enhancements to the weapons -- those have been relegated to the attachments. Pro Perks have been completely killed as well, so now the system is simply a matter of what you get from the start.
Most important of all, Perks aren't "absolutes" anymore, as game design director David Vonderhaar referred to them. The example David gave was the Ghost perk, which in past games would completely hide a player from UAV detection. In Black Ops II, Ghost will hide a player from UAV detection only while they're on the move.
It's crucial to note that what I saw was in alpha state, so some things can and likely will change before release. With that said, here are the Perks that were available during my hands-on time:
Greed is good
The Pick 10 system has all your traditional weapon slots for creating your class, but it also adds three new slots called Wild Cards. This feature lets you "break the rules" of the traditional system by allowing you to stack your character like crazy.
There were six Wild Cards that Treyarch showed off, with choices like being able to take a third attachment, an extra lethal, two primary weapons, an additional attachment to add to your secondary, or an extra Perk 1, Perk 2, or Perk 3. Each Wild Card will of course use up one of your allocation points, as will whatever extra ability you take from the Wild Card menu.
Welcome to the grid
Black Ops II simplifies the customization presentation by putting everything right in your face. Before, you'd have to move about multiple sub-menus, which made the process of customizing cumbersome. Now when you select something like the Assault weapons category, a visual carousel comes up that lets you scroll left or right so you can see all of your options.
Not feeling an Assault gun? Then simply press up or down to navigate to the shotguns, machine guns, pistols, rockets, and so forth. It's now very easy and, more importantly, fast to jump to all of the different sections when you want to equip your character.
The system is also about keeping the door always open. Say you've used all ten of your allocation points but you try to pick something else anyway. Rather than graying out all of your options, the game simply shows you your currently equipped items so you can easily swap one out.
Black Ops II's multiplayer is set in the year 2025, which means you get FUTURE GUNS! Here's a list of the weapons I saw, but note that it's not the final list:
Again, this isn't the final list. One developer told me that the crossbow will be back, much to my delight. Also, notice the lack of Riot Shield? It's been replaced by the Assault Shield, which does the same job but can also be literally planted in the level to provide mobile cover on the fly. It can be picked back up, and it will die off with the player too.
Another new weapon mentioned in the Tactical list is the Shock Charge. It's a stick that you throw to plant into the ground. Once an enemy steps within its proximity, the stick will immobilize the player with an electric shock. It's non-lethal but can kill someone if their health is low enough.
Pimp my gun
There are a lot of fan favorite attachments returning to Black Ops II, but there are also a ton of new ones that take advantage of the 2025 setting. One of my favorites is the "Select Fire" Attachment, which makes the first couple of rounds from your gun fire at a faster rate over the rest of the clip when you hold the trigger down. Players who can feather their triggers will have a real advantage here.
On the more futuristic side, there's the Millimeter Scanner, which is kind of like the evolution of the Heartbeat Scanner. As you look through the sights, a pulse wave is sent out that shows you the silhouette of stationary enemies who are hiding in smoke or are behind a wall. Another one, the Laser Sight, increases hip fire accuracy. Sound familiar? This used to the be the Steady Aim Perk from past games.
Here's the full list of Attachments I saw that work for either all or some weapon types: Reflex, Target Finder, Hybrid Optic, Fast Mag, Fore Grip, Laser Sight, Adjustable Stock, Quickdraw, Millimeter Scope, Grenade Launcher, Select Fire, ACOG, FMJ, Extended Clip, Dual Wield, Tactical Knife, Rapid Fire, Variable Zoom, and Ballistics.
Killstreaks are dead, long live Score Streaks
The old Killstreak system has been kicked to the curb in favor of the new and improved Score Streak. Everything you do nets a certain point value now, which goes towards filling up your Score Streak meter located on the bottom right of your HUD. Reaching a certain point threshold will then unlock one of your three Streak rewards.
David gave a great example where a player grabs a flag (100 points), kills a guy (200 points for a flag kill), and then scores the flag (150 points). With the 450 points accumulated, the player is able to unlock two of his low-level Streak rewards, one that cost 375 points and the other 400 points. That's right, rewards aren't mutually exclusive.
This system is able to better reward offensive and defensive players. One prime example of the defensive reward is with the UAV, as the player who calls it in now earns 25 points for every kill their teammates are able to get thanks to the spot assist. So much for just ignoring the UAVs, eh?
"Using score lets us reward desirable gameplay behavior," David told us. "Tying the reward system directly into score is one of those assumptions we challenged pretty hardcore and said, 'Wow, duh!' There was a real obvious moment where we were like, 'Of course, that makes perfect sense!' We need granularity here, let's use something better than strictly kills or the equivalent of one point."
There's going to be somewhere around 20 Score Streaks rewards, including returning rewards like K9s, Death Machine, and more. Some of the new ones include:
Early on, I found my perfect Score Streak setup: a combination of the UAV, Lighting Strike, and any of the higher-tier aerial vehicles. UAV and Lightning Strikes were both great ways to quickly stack up the points for whatever heavy reward I had in the line-up. Oh, and keep in mind that the Score Streak meter resets every time you die.
Black Ops II does not have CoD Points. Instead, you earn an unlock token every time you level up, which can be used on weapons, Perks, equipment, Wild Cards, Score Streaks -- everything, basically. However, while you get to chose what you want to unlock, not everything will be on the table right away.
Content will revealed to you in small bursts every time you accomplish a major rank change, such as going from Lieutenant to Captain. This way, players won't be totally overwhelmed by all the options. Plus, this gives players something to look forward to through their multiplayer career.
"This is a lesson from Black Ops I," David told us. "Something that CoD Points, in my opinion, suffered from. Whereas CoD Points were really awesome, I could just buy everything I wanted by level 33, and I'd start to tap out at that point cause I got what I want."
So yes, this means content is gated by rank changes, of which there are 55 ranks in all. However, there are over 100 pieces of content, which means you won't be able to unlock everything by the time you have to Prestige, of which there are 10 levels of. That said, Prestige-ing will also play a part in unlocking content, and Treyarch will be revealing more on that at a later date, promising that it "will all make sense."
Modes and maps
Treyarch showed off four maps: Aftermath, Turbine, Cargo, and Yemen. Aftermath was set in the ruins of downtown Los Angeles. Turbine felt a little like the Afghanistan map from Modern Warfare 2, though it offered more verticality. Yemen had an urban setting with a nice chokepoint in the middle, perfect for CTF games. Cargo was the most interesting, as the center of the map was always changing due to shipping crates getting placed/removed by a giant crane.
Two of the new modes we got to play were Multi-Team and Hardpoint. Hardpoint was a King of the Hill gametype with a constantly moving hot zone that the player needed to hold and dominate to score points. Multi-Team is the first time that more than two teams can fight each other on a map, up to six teams in all. Plus, Black Ops II supports a max of 18 players in a lobby now.
Additionally, challenges will be back with "a twist," Wager Matches will be back in some form too, custom games will offer further customization features, and the emblem editor will provide new opportunities to offend everyone.
And that's a taste of all the new things Black Ops II's multiplayer will be doing. To say I was stunned by all of these changes is putting it mildly. It's without a doubt a game-changer, not just for the Call of Duty series, but for the first-person shooter genre in general. Now more than ever, you really have total control to create the playstyle that will best fit you.
I had a lot to say here, but believe it or not, that's not all Treyarch had to show off to the press. In an industry first, they're adding the ability to livestream your matches online on PC AND consoles, plus they're even providing the tools for you to SHOUTcast matches right from the game itself. This is a huge addition for not only Black Ops II but for the industry as a whole, and you can learn all about it in our SHOUTcast preview .


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Despite the fact that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of Greece is trying to win more time for his country to comply with the budget constraints of its rescue package, German officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, seem to be backing away from earlier hints that leniency would be possible.
Not only is Merkel (left) expected to insist on strict adherence to the terms of the deal, but the country's finance ministry is saying that a flexibility clause in the bailout is not legally binding while at the same time it is studying the costs of a potential Greek exit from the euro.
Reuters reported Friday that, after meeting with President Francois Hollande of France on Thursday, Merkel was expected to greet Samaras with inflexibility—despite Hollande's stance that growth must be provided for as well as budgetary responsibility. While the two met in order to discuss presenting a united front to Greece, Merkel faces pressure at home to adhere to a tough stance, while Hollande was elected on a platform that favored measures to promote growth.
The two released statements of unity prior to a working dinner Thursday night, rather than calling a press conference afterwards; with Hollande's repeated calls for growth rebutting Merkel's insistence on austerity, their relationship is not the easy camaraderie that Merkel had with Hollande's predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy.
However, German officials were not slow to voice their own determination for a hard line on Greece's woes prior to Samaras' "charm offensive" visits to Germany on Friday and France on Saturday. Finance Ministry spokesman Martin Kotthaus said that a clause in the Greek rescue agreement allowing more time for Greece to reach its reform targets in the case of a worse-than-expected recession was not legally binding.
The clause says that, should such a recession occur, negotiations with the so-called troika—the European Union, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)—could be reopened. However, Kotthaus read the clause and then, according to the report, declared it "has no legally binding status." He gave no further explanation.
Other German officials have already aired their opinions that Greece must stick to its obligations and forget about asking for any leniency. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble dismissed Samaras' insistence that Greece being granted more time did not mean that it would also require more money. Schaeuble said that Europe had already provided aid to Greece that had "gone to the limits of what is economically viable" and added, "More time is not a solution to the problems."
Volker Kauder, parliamentary leader of Merkel's Christian Democrats, also dismissed Samaras' plea. Kauder was quoted saying, "It has never been more true than in this situation that time means money, and we cannot make more money available. My position is that neither the time or the content can be renegotiated. Greece must meet its commitments first." He also, when asked if the joint currency could survive a departure by Greece, replied, "It would be no problem for the euro." And in the meantime, a working group led by Germany's deputy finance minister is calculating the costs of a potential Greek exit, even as Merkel insists that she wants the country to remain in the currency bloc. Deputy Finance Minister Thomas Steffen, also a member of the center-right Christian Democrats, is reportedly leading a group of approximately 10 officials from various departments of the finance ministry.
A Financial Times Deutschland report cited ministry sources in saying that the decision to set up the working group indicated a desire by Merkel and Schaeuble to be fully prepared for a possible "negative scenario." It quoted ministry sources as saying, "Colleagues are making calculations about the financial consequences [of a Greek exit] and are considering how a domino effect on other euro member states might be prevented."
According to a Bloomberg report, however, Merkel could lose one of her supporters in the quest for austerity. While the Netherlands has been a staunch backer of tough talk for Greece, it faces elections on September 12 that could see the tide turn away from cost-cutting measures and toward growth stimulus.
While caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands has backed Merkel's continued calls for budget cuts, the way the Dutch political system works, he may have trouble finding enough other parties to form a coalition after the election to continue in that vein.
Dutch support for such measures has waned and in fact the election was called in April after Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, withdrew his party's support for tax increases and spending cuts.
Juergen Michels, chief euro-region economist at Citigroup in London, said in the report, "The September election outcome will be an important indicator of the willingness of one of Germany's most important pro-austerity allies to continue to support eurozone rescue measures." Rutte's party "may struggle to find coalition partners who support their pro-austerity, pro-Europe program."
Samaras was adamant about Greece needing more time, not money. After meeting with Merkel Friday, he was quoted saying, "Greece will stick to its commitments and fulfill its obligations. In fact this is already happening. I want to give three messages: First, we will bring results. Second, we are reducing two deficits at once: a fiscal deficit and a deficit in confidence in the country. Third, economic growth is of crucial importance is order to meet our obligations soon."
He reiterated, "We're not asking for more money. We're asking for breaths of air in this dive we are taking."


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Trying to get back into shape after hiatus. Been back in the pool for two months now, building distance, nothing too strenuous, trying not to pay attention to the clock. Today was a "boring" pair of long sets, but the focus on counting strokes per length really helped distract me. Without exaggerating the glide I was still able to keep the count to 15 strokes or less each length (SCY)... Some of the 100s even totaled 57-58 strokes at the end. Last week I was losing form at the end and bringing the hundreds i'm at 63 strokes.
Here's what I did:
10 x 200 on 3:30 (alt. free and pull)
1:00 rest
20 x 100 on 1:45 (free, nos. 5, 10, 15, 20 we're pull)
Total: 4000 SCY/1:11.00
I mentioned going to Perú in the first week of January. Here is where I spent Epiphany, El Día de los Reyes (January 6):
The altitude at Machu Picchu (around 7k feet if I remember correctly, a little more than a mile above sea level) was a piece of cake after spending several days in Cuzco (two miles above sea level). Coming back to sea level, where we take breathing for granted sometimes, has also meant coming back to the busy-busy of the office... so I haven't been in to swim except on the weekends.
Last week I got in a 3000-yarder on Saturday, and 3200 on MLK holiday. Yesterday I did 2K. Just have to keep getting in when I can, not pay attention to the slow times, and hopefully in a month or so as the busy season (for me at least) starts to wind down, be able to get into the pool more than a couple of times a week.
It's been more than a year since I've posted... wuh? Guess things have been crazy busy. Tomorrow I'm headed to Perú for the rest of the week and through the weekend... Maybe a swim at altitude in Cuzco.
Swimming has been very sporadic, so I'm way out of shape. Today I got in and did:
10 x 200 free on 4:00 (alt. fr/pull w/buoy)
Each of the last two Saturdays I've managed to get in for a distance day. Last Saturday I did 30 x 200 on 3:20... which was pretty brutal at the end.
Yesterday I swam the 6000 breaking it into three 30 or 40 minute segments, thus:
I. 9 x 200 on 3:20 (alternated free/pull; desc. the frees)
1:00 rest
II. 3 x thru:
--3 x 200 fr on 3:10 (2:50-2:59)
--1 x 200 pull on 3:20
:30 rest
III. 6 x 200 on 3:20 (alt. free/pull--try to hold 3:00 for frees, DPS the pulls)
1 x 500 bk on 10:00 (EZ)
100 fr cool-down
400 fr DPS
400 IM (dr, k, dr, swim by 25s)
16 x 25 fr on :30 (desc. 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16)
16 x 25 1IMO on :35
10 x 100 fr on 1:40 (desc. 1-4, etc.)
6 x 100 IM on 2:00 (desc. 1-4)
16 x 50 on 1:15 (1-3 kick, 4 fr DPS, repeat)
I only got through the first two rounds of the final set (I always have to get out at 10 till to make it back to the house in time to get my son off to school), but still made 3600 SCY today and the 100s felt really good... after descending the first 4 I ended up holding about 1:22-1:23 for the rest of the set. My 25s fr were descending from about :19-:20 to :16... maybe even closing in on :15. In just a week, I think the coach has done a really good job of designing workouts that are challenging but are appropriate for the level we're all at (there are four of us swimming now). It's been fun.
...well, new for me. It was fun, only two other guys and the coach today. Nice to swim with someone else for a change, and we seemed all to be swimming in the same time ranges. Here's what we did:
300 fr EZ (coach calls this DPS, I'm not really awake at this point so it's EZ)
200 fly drill
300 br (negative split--I was happy just to finish this!)
200 bk hard (this felt pretty strong)
Set 1:
8 x 25 fly on :40
8 x 25 bk on :40
12 x 75 fr on 1:15 (these were consistently at 1:02)
Set 2:
Straight 1000, swum as:
400 fr (negative split--probably went 2:59, 2:58)
300 pull (negative split, I swam harder in the back half, but didn't catch the times)
200 kick (negative split... uh...)
100 fr
Last set (this also served as my cool-down, since I had to get out a little early to get my youngest off to school):
5 x 75 IM (no free) on 1:40
25 EZ fr and out... (set was actually supposed to be 8 x 75 IM on 1:40, but coach said this last set we could leave whenever we needed to)
Coach said my stroke looks good and he was happy with the workout we did, so yay! Seems like a good group, I liked the variety in the workout (left to my own devices I default to all free maybe a little back).
4 x 100 on 1:40 (fr, pull, fr, pull)
4 x 100 on 1:50 (IM, pull, IM, pull)
4 x 50 on 1:00 (IMO)
20 x 25 fr w/ long fins on :30 (:14-:16, mostly :15)
20 x 25 fr on :30 (mostly :17)
30 x 50 fr on 1:00 (mostly :38-:39)
10 x 50 on 1:00 (alt. EZ pull w/ BK)
4000 SCY/79 mins
Today I felt ready to go after a couple of EZ days. The first 12 of the 100s were all around 1:23, then a couple of 1:26s crept in, and finally the pace fell off to 1:27 and 1:29 at the end of the set. Hopefully as the training progresses I'll be able to extend the set out to 20 x 100 (or more?) and drop the interval from 1:45 to 1:40.
5 x 200 fr on 3:20 (evens w/ pull buoy)
20 x 25 fr on :30
--first 10 were with long fins, on the 100 goal pace (:14-:16)
--last 10 w/o the fins were in 1650 dream pace (:18-:19)
1:00 rest
Main set:
18 x 100 fr on 1:45 (trying to hold under 1:25--1650 goal pace)
200 EZ (bk/pull/bk/pull)
3500 SCY/64 minutes
I climbed the ladder 3x today, and was exhausted toward the end of the third one. This gives me a pretty good idea about where my fitness is starting out this year too... from here I should be able to reduce the rest intervals or perhaps even do longer distances (starting with 4 x 50 and ending with 1 x 400), all while trying to get down to that mythical pace of 1:20/100.
400 EZ fr on 7:00
4 x 100 fr on 1:45 (1:25-1:27)
4 x 50 fr on 1:00 (:40-:41)
1:00 rest
8 x 25 fr on :30 (:18-:19)
4 x 50 fr on :1:00 (:39s)
2 x 100 fr on 2:00 (1:22, 1:21)
1 x 200 fr on 4:00 (2:49)
8 x 25 fr on :30 (:18-:19)
4 x 50 fr on :1:00 (:39s)
2 x 100 fr on 2:00 (1:21, 1:20)
1 x 200 fr on 4:00 (2:48)
8 x 25 fr on :30 (:18-:19)
4 x 50 fr on :1:00 (:39s)
2 x 100 fr on 2:00 (1:23, 1:23)
1 x 200 fr on 4:00 (2:55)
4 x 50 EZ fr on 1:00
100 EZ bk on 2:00
TOTAL: 3700 SCY/73 mins
4000 SCY/ 75 mins. Began this one with a hard climb (the kick set) before ascending the plateau and (re)discovering the pyramids.
Warm-up (1200/20:00)
6 x 200 fr on 3:20 (evens w/ pull buoy)
Kick set (600/10:00):
6 x 100 kick on 1:40 (w/ long fins: front w/ board, side, bk streamline, repeat)
Plateau (1000/19:00)
4 x 250 on 4:30 (swum as 200 bk + 50 fr recovery)*
1:00 rest
Pyramid set (1000/20:00)**:
2 x thru:
25 fr on :30
50 fr on 1:00
75 fr on 1:30
100 fr on 2:00
75 fr on 1:30
50 fr on 1:00
25 fr on :30
100 EZ bk recovery on 2:00
Cool-Down (200/4:00):
4 x 50 EZ fr on 1:00
*This was tough, I was way stiffer on this set than when I did it earlier in the week, backstroke just felt labored and not at all smooth, so I had a hard time making the intervals.
**Been a while since I've done a pyramid; tried to hold that 1:20/100 pace throughout, but the 75s were around 1:01 and the 100s came in at 1:22. Again, just feeling a bit off today. Maybe it was the altitude up there on top of figurative mountain.
Today I got up early and headed to the Y at about 5:30; trying to get my schedule back on track since I'm going to have to start getting to work at a normal time toward the end of the week. But this year I'm determined not to put my swims off until after work... I have such low energy in the evenings. So early morning it is!
I was still a little groggy when I pulled up at the Y, but my warm-up felt fairly normal. Then I went into 2500-worth of hard swimming. The 25s and 50s didn't feel nearly as smooth as last week, but until I get acclimated to the time and build my base a little I can't complain... I'm still forcing my body to swim a lot faster than when I do 100s and 200s.
4500 SCY/90 mins
400 EZ fr on 7:00
4 x 100 IM on 2:00
4 x 50 fr on 1:00
4 x 25 fr on :30
1:00 rest
20 x 25 fr on :30 (w/ long fins, trying to maintain 100 pace)
20 x 25 fr on :30 (:17-:19--mostly :18 with 16 strokes, 200 pace)
20 x 50 fr on :20 rest (mostly :39, a couple of :38s--500 goal pace?)
:40 rest
10 x 100 on 2:00
--alternated BK recovery 100s w/ hard fr 100s (1:22-1:24, goal 1650 pace?), I was running out of gas pretty badly on this.
100 EZ bk on 2:00
6 x 50 EZ fr on 1:00
Didn't feel as stiff as I thought I would this morning. Just tired. I did 3000 SCY/53 minutes with a lot of backstroke at the end.
6 x 200 fr on 3:20 (alt. fr/pull w/ buoy)
6 x 100 kick on 1:40 (used long fins and alt: front w/ board, side, back streamline)
4 x 250 on 4:40 (250s swum as 200 BK + 50 pull recovery--200s averaged mid 3:20s)
4 x 50 fr on 1:00 (asc. :40-:43--this was my cool down)
According to my GTD FLOG, I went over 200 miles for the year today (probably at some point during my 1500 at the meet in Rockwall).
Really enjoyed the meet... they have a beautiful facility there and it's pretty convenient to Dallas. I drove up early this morning (leaving Waco around 5:30) and was able to pick up my son north of Dallas (can't believe he's now a sophomore at UT-D), he's been my reliable lap counter and company on so many drives to meets over the last 4 years, it was a great excuse to see him again. I had to pay him back by taking him grocery shopping afterwards.
From UT-D it was only a 30-minute drive over to Rockwall. I got in for my warm-up around 8:10 and took my time, since I knew I'd have a break before my first event anyway... did about 900 and worked on starts.
GOGGLE SAGA... My old vanquishers, which I'd been using since the start of 2013 SCY season, vanished earlier this summer. I've been experimenting with a couple of other models over the last couple of months because every time I run across a sporting-goods store I run in to check and inevitably they don't have "my" vanquishers... today it was the Dick's Sporting good, for example, which had a bunch of different models but somehow only carried the vanquishers and vanquisher 2.0s in "women/femme/damas." Alas, Pink is not my color. Sigh. Anyway, I tried some starts with the Nike remora I've been using for practice... not too bad, but there was a lot of leaking. They just don't fit my face like a well adjusted pair of vanquishers.
100M... So I got to the start of the 100 (after doing some 25 bursts in the warm-up pool, and another practice start off the blocks during the 10-minute break), and half expected to have an eyeful of water coming into the first turn. I was resolved just to suck it up and swim with one eye open if need be. As it turns out, the start went off and the goggles stayed firmly in place. The aura of the remora? Would I be a sucker for the suckerfish-named goggle in symbiotic relationship with my eye sockets? Final verdict to come. My 100-meter free felt pretty good until about 75 m... then, pain fest. Anthony got video of it (accidentally in slow motion mode), so I got to see it... I held form pretty well, but the thighs were screaming for mercy by the end... I'm not used to swimming that pace after a year of "fitness" swimming. I eked out first in the heat and swam 2 seconds faster than my seed time with a 1:19.xx, which converts to around 1:10 SCY (according to the converter on the Swim-Swam site). This is not bad for me at all; it's basically where I started my last (2014) SCY season.
1500M... Long story (and event) short: 26:29. I would have been happy with anything under 27:00. It wasn't a PR, but it was by no means the worst I've done in the last 2-3 years. My son Anthony said I looked smooth throughout. When I finished Stewart said I was mr. Consistent... can't wait to see the splits. It's something to build on; and now I know where I am after a year out of competition.
Great to finally meet Stewart and some of his teammates; they had some great swims... really fun to watch!
FINAL VERDICT on the suckerfish goggle? Well, for me it just sucked! It probably works great for some, but I had all kinds of trouble in the first 500 of the 1500 with it (as I have in practice). Had to roll over on my back a couple of times to clear them out and adjust on the fly (using some open water skills here). So I'm going back to vanquisher. I know Nike and Speedo were lining up for my endorsement (not!)... in good conscience I'll have to turn down that big offer I know Nike was going to make for this middle- to back-of-the-packer. Ha, ha. If it's any consolation, Remora, you were the best of the rest of the goggles I tried this summer, and whose names I won't mention here. Of course, as my wife always says... "sounds like a user error to me." Hmm... saga continues.
Felt slow and a bit more ragged today...
3000 SCY/59 minutes
1 x 400 fr on 7:00
4 x 100 fr on 1:45 (1:31-1:35)
4 x 50 fr on 1:00 (:43-:44)
4 x 25 fr on :30 (:20-:21)
1 x 100 EZ BK on 2:00
1:00 rest
10 x 100 fr on 2:00 (desc. 1:31-1:27)*
10 x 50 fr on 1:00 (mostly :43)
6 x 50 EZ (BK, BR, FR, BK, BR, FR)
*These actually felt pretty smooth and not difficult, which is a good thing since that was my previous pace for 1650. I felt stronger as I went along, but during the 50s afterward, I did not have that feeling I had the other day of relative ease. My body needs a break I think.
Updated August 13th, 2015 at 11:03 PM by mcnair
In keeping with the theme of lots of rest and focus on pace and form I decided to go with 40 x 25 on :40 for my main set... the 25s were to be on or a little faster than 1650 dream pace which would leave me just a little over :20 rest. I felt refreshed and energetic for the entire set, in fact my form felt smoother and I even incorporated flip turns in the last half of the work out. The 1:1 work:rest ratio might not be helping my distance/aerobic fitness, but it is helping me lock in form and the feel of a particular pace.
Here's the workout:
Warm-up (1800/32:00):
6 x 200 fr on 3:20 (evens pull w/ buoy)
6 x 100 kick w/ long fins on 2:00 (alt. by 100: front w/ board, side, back streamline)
40 x 25 fr on :40
:20 rest
1 x 50 fr on 1:00 (:39, felt smooth, not hard)
6 x 50 kick w/ long fins on :50 (alt. by 50s: front, side, bk)
1 x 50 fr on 1:00 (:39*)
Cool-Down (300/5:00)
3 x 100 relaxed fr on 1:40 (odds pull w/ buoy)
*Usually toward the end of a 3000+ workout, my 50s can be ragged unless I back off to a :43-:45, especially the day after a sprint day, but this :39 felt pretty smooth and in no way desperate of frenzied.
I think yesterday I was experiencing the delayed onset muscle soreness from the 4600 I did on Saturday with its 30 x 25 followed by 30 x 50. I was definitely stiff on Saturday afternoon and evening, but my shoulder loosened up and I didn't feel particularly out of sorts Sunday. Even got in a short stretch out swim with some drill on Sunday evening. The yesterday the soreness really kicked in, especially in my triceps (I usually feel it more in my lats and shoulders. I probably could have used a quick swim to limber up, but didn't have time (or motivation).
Today I woke up feeling a little more refreshed and headed to the Y mid-morning to see what I could do. I knew immediately where the soreness was coming from... I've been working on long strokes with a good finish and that last bit as my hands pass through the hip region was where the triceps were feeling it. So I guess the sprints, to which my body is still not accustomed, are good for something!
Today I did another 1500+ at dream 1650 pace. Here's what I did:
Warm-up (1200/20:00):
6 x 200 fr on 3:20 (evens pull w/ buoy)
2:00 rest
10 x 25 fr w/ long fins on :30 (mostly :16, tried to focus on hips and extension, minimize kick)
10 x 50 fr on 1:00 (all on :39)
10 x 75 fr on 1:30 (mostly on 1:00, the last 2-3 in the 1:02 range)
Recovery: 300 EZ back on 6:00
5 x 100 fr on 2:00 (odds pull w/ buoy; evens hard--1:21, 1:19)
200 streamline BK kick w/ fins on 4:00
Cool-down (300/6:00):
6 x 50 fr on 1:00 (:43-:46, ascending times, descending stroke counts)
Didn't feel too sore after the workout on Wednesday, though I took it easy the last couple of days (3K easy on Thursday and just messing around in the San Marcos River yesterday with the boys... trying to beat the heat). Got back into Waco this afternoon and headed over to the YMCA where I decided to continue with the theme of swimming my dream paces at shorter reps and with a little more rest than usual. Today's work/rest ratio was back down to 2:1, though, for the 30:00 long set. This was still way more comfortable than the 4:1 work:rest ratio I usually give myself.
Nonetheless, as I got out of the pool and into the shower I could already feel myself stiffening up. Especially the left shoulder. I probably need to do some strengthening and stretching (weights and yoga) since it's been forever since I've done any of that. I know I need to do it for injury prevention, but it's been tough over the last year just to work the swims into the schedule. Now as we're coming out of our transition I need to start reintegrating some of these things into my life... drylands, ugh!
Today: 4600 SCY in 90 minutes. Here's how it went:
Warm-up (1500/27:00):
6 x 200 fr on 3:20 (evens pull w/ buoy)
200 EZ back on 4:00
100 fr w/ long fins
~1:00 rest
30 x 25 fr on :30*
*did these with the long fins at my 100 fr goal pace; so they were coming in at :14-:16 (nearly as I could tell) which gave me :15 rest. I wanted to try stretching out my ankles and give my legs a workout at the same time that I wanted to feel what the 100 goal-pace should feel like, without killing myself... not a sprinter! Then I went straight into...
30 x 50 fr on :20 RI**
150 EZ BK recovery on 4:00
1 x 100 fr in 1:20 (1650 dream pace)
**These I was doing somewhere between my 200 pace and my dream pace for 1650. I wanted to hold under :40. The first five I was just getting my legs back and getting used to swimming w/o fins again... they were wild but all in the :36-:39 range. for these first five, I just went on 1:00 even. After that I held the :20 rest and was very consistently coming in at :39 for the next 22 reps or so, then my pace slowed back down to :40 for the last 2-3. Still, I was very happy with this, because I managed to do 1500 at the dream pace for 1650 (or slightly faster).
3 x 200 EZ (pull, drill w/ fins, pull)
Today I decided to experiment with just swimming my dream pace (1:20/100 for 1650); I've struggled mightily since 2010 to get my pace down to 1:30ish and just maintain that. I'm used to taking really short rests, swimming on really tight intervals... figuring this is the best way to go for distance events. But since I've been in an extended off-season the last 12-14 months, those tight intervals are really daunting and I feel like I'm in a rut... pace going nowhere (except maybe backwards).
So Today I did 25s, 50s and 75s, but being very disciplined about the pace... holding back on the 25s, concentrating on form, bringing them in right at :19, same thing with the 50s, holding pace through the flip and bringing them in right at :39. 75s were tougher at that pace, but despite having to really push the final 25 on most reps I brought the odds in at :58-:59, the evens at 1:00-1:01. The other thing I did was make sure my rest interval was exactly the same as my work interval, so I did the 25s on :40, the 50s on 1:20, the 75s on 2:00... which gave me :20, :40, and 1:00 rests. This seemed like an eternity, but it helped me to maintain the pace and not deteriorate the form.
Here's the workout:
400 EZ FR on 8:00
4 x 100 FR on 2:00 (1:30s)
4 x 50 FR on 1:00 (:42-:43)
4 x 25 FR on :30 (:20-:21)
100 BK recovery
Main set:
18 x 25 on :40 (under :20)
9 x 50 on 1:20 (under :40)
6 x 75 on 2:00 (:58-1:01)
1 x 100 on 2:00 (1:21)
100 BK recovery
250 EZ (various)
3000 SCY/70 mins
Today I did a set to test my fitness in the 1650 range, and I'm feeling very out of shape... not peak form:
4000 SCY/70 mins
Warm-up (1400/25 mins):
6 x 200 FR on 3:20 (evens w/ pull buoy)
200 BK recovery
1:00 rest
Main Set (2000/35 mins)
12 x 50 FR on :50 (erratic at first but settled into :43 pace)
6 x 100 FR on 1:40 (1:28-31)
3 x 200 FR on 3:20 (3:10-3:11, really losing it here)
200 BK recovery
1:00 rest
Cool-down (600/10:00)
3 x 200 FR on 3:20 (2nd rep w/ buoy)
I'm thinking about going up to Rockwall, TX, for their LCM meet in a couple of weeks, maybe do the 1500... see how bad I've actually gotten with my spotty training over the last year. My pace in the set above seems to indicate I would be in the range of my last two 1500 attempts in meet settings (2013 and 2014); but I felt like I was losing a lot of steam in that last 10-minute segment, so I don't know. And I haven't done LCM in ages.
Pretty EZ workout today, but b/c I haven't been doing much IM lately it was I nice little cardio blast:
400 fr on 8:00
4 x 100 IM on 2:00
2 x 200 IM on 4:00
4 x 100 IM on 2:00
400 EZ fr
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I like them better!
I liked the posts/rep criteria better.
I'm indifferent, can we talk about firing Narron some more?
No money back guarantee's i'll tell ya that.
Like Albert Brooks in "Defending Your Life" -- I feel like a "little brain" -- and evidently BossHog and GIK use around 50% of their brain. I have decided to just hang-out in the Past Lives Pavillion -- the travelling may be a bit more rocky, but you meet much more intersting people there.

I prefered the old system but I am hardly going to lose any sleep over this change.
If the only reason ORG members cant post in the Sun Deck is because certain ORG members bulldoze new members, then my thoughts are if the new members cant handle someone challenging their thoughts in a not so nice way, they really need to seek therapy. I mean this is a simple Message Board on the Internet and if some people are so insecure that they expect everyone to be nice to them at all times even on the internet, then they have much more serious issues to deal with than who Jerry Narron will be batting lead off.
In general I really enjoy the site and I also respect the fact that this is not my house so I dont make the rules. I have contributed money in the past and likely still will.
One thing for sure, this Reds Zone gathering you guys are planning in a few weeks will be awfully interesting!!!!!
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Can somebody video tape it????One thing for sure, this Reds Zone gathering you guys are planning in a few weeks will be awfully interesting!!!!!
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The primary reason was to restore ORG to its original vision. It was under-utilized and no longer provided incentive as a goal for new posters because everyone simply posted in RL and everybody had access to the game thread. Judging by the response of nominations, I'd say ORG is finally the carrot it was originally intended to be but never was.
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I originally paid money to help keep Redszone alive..That got me into the ORG, a forum I read a lot of, but seldom posted to..
Seems I don't have posting abilities to the Big Show anymore, but like I said..I'd rather read than post..
Besides..the owners of this forum board put a lot of time and money into something that we all enjoy and for that reason they should have the right to run it any way they want to..
Once in a while I have a question or something to say..and I'll say it to the great fans of the SunDeck..But I'm more than happy to come here and read the thoughts and comments of all you other great and knowledgeable Reds fans..
The rep system was atrocious and I'm glad to see it abolished. The smooshing and butt kissing to get rep points was nauseating. There were posts said to folks with over 1000 Rep points like "you are my hero" or "I think I have a man crush on you."
I think if we had to have a rep system it should have capped at like 300 pts.
A lot of the folks now out of ORG seem to miss the point of all these changes. The point was to make ORG a more elite gathering. The goal is not like that of a high school diploma, i.e. get everyone in there eventually. So don't base your complaint on "why can't everyone get in". Apparrently the powers that be have meant for it to be a more sparsely populated place than it was before.
And finally, if these changes ruin your day, much less your week, you really need to get a life. This is one of many, many messages boards available on the vast internet. You're still an avid Reds fan. You can still enjoy Reds baseball. But if your primary enjoyment of Reds baseball is internet chatting with people you'll likely never meet, you've got issues...
I hardly ever post, many more people know more about baseball than me. I come on to learn more about the Reds. We can still read both forums, so it doesn't bother me one bit. I am just grateful that this forum exists so I can read (and sometimes post) intelligent views on the Reds (and other topics). I deal with a booster organization of about 150 families and know the headaches with dealing with that many individuals. I appreciate everything the mods etc do to make this site enjoyable and informative, no matter what they do they will be criticized.
Cedric 3/24/08It's absolutely pathetic that people can't have an opinion from actually watching games and supplementing that with stats. If you voice an opinion that doesn't fit into a black/white box you will get completely misrepresented and basically called a tobacco chewing traditionalist...
I dislike the change on several levels.
1. As several threads document, the Sundeck quality has diminished since the ORG can no longer post there.
2. I also think the ORG quantity and quality has dropped since there are a lot of people (like myself) who lost ORG status.
3. On a selfish level, I was very sad to lose my ORG designation. When I joined back in 2005, after lurking for a long time, I worked hard to post decent quality comments. It felt good to get positive rep points, and bad the one time I got negative rep. Last summer when I got over 200 points, I was frankly proud that I accomplished more rep points than I had number of posts. (I purposely avoided posting much game thread type chatter). I didn't post a large number of comments, but I still tried to keep the quality up. For these reasons, it didn't seem fair to be demoted back out of ORG almost a year later.
4. There is now no way to get any feedback in Sundeck from ORG members. You can't tell if you are gaining or losing ground. At least with rep points, you could see how you were progressing toward ORG. Now you sit there and just wonder. This will seriously cut into people's motivation to post on Sundeck as well.
I completely agree that BossHog and GIK own the site, and have right to set the rules. They spend countless hours and dollars on this great site. I will continue to post, and would still like to get back into ORG.
Nonetheless, I still liked the previous system better. I have now read most of the various postings discussing their reasons for the changes. I understand to a certain degree.
It just seems to me that many of the complaints generated by the new system, and the problems with the old system, might have been better handled by creating a third class of membership, and making that class more restricted, while keeping the old set up without game threads. (I understand that those old game threads were very difficult to moderate.) Maybe the new class could still be created for the true old-timers, giving them the right to again post in Sundeck AND ORG. I don't know....just a thought.
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1. They are high in vitamin B6. Vitamin B6 helps reduce the chemical homocysteine in our bodies. Homocysteine has been linked with degenerative diseases, including heart attacks.
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7. Sweet potatoes are naturally sweet-tasting but their natural sugars are slowly released into the bloodstream, helping to ensure a balanced and regular source of energy, without the blood sugar spikes linked to fatigue and weight gain.
8. Their rich orange color indicates that they are high in carotenoids like beta carotene and other carotenoids, which is the precursor to vitamin A in your body. Carotenoids help strengthen our eyesight and boost our immunity to disease, they are powerful antioxidants that help ward off cancer and protect against the effects of aging. Studies at Harvard University of more than 124,000 people showed a 32 percent reduction in risk of lung cancer in people who consumed a variety of carotenoid-rich foods as part of their regular diet. Another study of women who had completed treatment for early stage breast cancer conducted by researchers at Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) found that women with the highest blood concentrations of carotenoids had the least likelihood of cancer recurrence.
9. There are versatile. Try them roasted, puréed, steamed, baked, or grilled. You can add them to soups and stews, or grill and place on top of leafy greens for a delicious salad. I enjoy grilling them with onions and red peppers for amazing sandwich or wrap ingredients. Puree them and add to smoothies and baked goods.
Leesa recommends choosing only organic sweet potatoes!
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When this comes I hope to see USB mouse support. And then support for it in symbos and futureos. And then finally in can sell my symbiface ii and move everything to m4x based expansions.So happy
I wired the CURSOR signal from the expansion port (from the CRTC) so it can be used as a cheap "timer" interrupt (it can trigger when the CRTC scan reaches a particular position on screen).
Hi, sorry for derailing a bit... can you tell more about the CURSOR signal? Is is a constant signal like 1 MHz or is it more complex?
The signal triggers when the CRTC reaches a particular character and line, and it can also be made to blink (on for 16 frames, off for 16 frames). So, by setting the cursor at some position on screen, you can get a kind of "raster interrupt" that triggers when the CRTC reaches that line.
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Maine Democrats, Republicans set to vote on leaders
Democrats vie for majority posts
Maine State House leadership is going to have a much different look in the 2013-14 session due to last week's elections, and its makeup will become much clearer in the days ahead.
The new Democratic majority and Republican minority in the Senate and House are beginning their caucuses, in which they'll elect their respective leaders. That and other organizational business will continue in the run-up to the swearing-in of the 126th Legislature on Dec. 5.
The Senate Republicans started things off Friday, and House Republicans will elect their leaders Wednesday.
On the Democratic side, the newly elected House members plan to caucus on Tuesday. Democrats have a four-way race going on for House speaker.
In the Senate, Portland Democrat Justin Alfond is likely to be elected president.


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[Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from The Immigration Crisis: Immigrants, Aliens, and the Bible by James K. Hoffmeier (Crossway).
Chapter One: Crisis at the Border You only need to turn on the news to realize that we have a problem. Some might even label it a crisis. It is not just an American issue—illegal immigration has become the major social and legal challenge facing the western world in the twenty-first century. By the middle of 2006, over eight thousand West Africans had sailed in small boats to the Spanish Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco, hoping to settle in Spain.1 On June 20, 2006, a group of Afghan asylum-seekers took sanctuary in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin and began a hunger strike to draw attention to their demands, threatening suicide if the police tried to remove them. Neighboring Britain believes there are more than a half million illegal immigrants within its borders. And in Germany reports indicate there are more than one million "illegals." Even distant Australia is experiencing what CNN.com called "a tide" of illegal immigrants.
But in America the numbers are even more staggering. An estimated twelve to fifteen million (some reports are as high as twenty million) now reside illegally in the U.S.A. In one border state, Arizona, 10 percent of the population is now made up of illegal aliens.2 In April and May of 2006, millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets of New York, Los Angeles, and other American cities to demand the rights of citizens. In the eyes of many, this was a polarizing development because illegal immigrants came out of the shadows in droves to press Congress for legal recognition and to protest a law passed by the House of Representatives that made entering America illegally a felony.
In 2007 the Senate, with the prompting of President George Bush, tried to pass a comprehensive immigration bill that sought a legal solution to the undocumented millions. That summer, however, the measure failed due to an outcry from angry constituents who did not want to give "amnesty" to those who enter America illegally, while others thought that the path to legalization was too severe and would pose excessive financial hardship on poor people. These polar opposite positions indicated just how divided the American people are on the problem of illegal aliens.
This is not the place to debate the problems or the merits of immigration for America. The pressing issue is what to do with the millions of illegal aliens already here. Furthermore, politicians have had a difficult time agreeing on how or whether to defend the southern border, although a consensus has emerged that defending that border is a necessary first step. The world's longest undefended border, that between Canada and the U.S.A., has not been an issue because there has not been an onslaught of illegal entries from the north. Consequently, most of the current debate surrounds the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
While some argue over the economic issues of immigration, that is, whether it is good or bad for the economy, others focus on the moral and legal questions. As a result, the nation as a whole and politicians in particular are divided. Republicans in the House and the Senate support diametrically opposing bills on how to handle the status of illegal immigrants—amnesty versus none. Democrat leaders are less divided, but there are differences among them nonetheless. Similarly, the Christian community is also at odds regarding the proper response to the immigration problem. Christianity Today magazine in a recent article offered this gripping subtitle: "Evangelical leaders divided over moral, policy questions on immigration."3 No doubt people who consider the Bible to be a source of moral and ethical authority want to know what it has to say on how the nation should respond to the presence of illegal immigrants.
We live in times when the clamor to separate church from state has become shrill. Appealing to the Bible to help arbitrate the rather hostile national discourse may not seem like the obvious thing to do at this time in our nation's history. After all, some might appeal to the Bible because they wish to impose "biblical" law on America, an anathema to secularists who represent the opposite extreme and don't want the Bible to have any role in public policy or law. Such objections notwithstanding, the reality is that various communities, human rights organizations, and churches are appealing to teachings, laws, principles, and practices from the Bible or are quoting Scripture as the basis for the positions they advocate regarding immigration and the treatment of illegal aliens.
As already mentioned, some churches offer sanctuary to illegal aliens within their walls, and some individuals occupy churches in hopes of obtaining asylum. One well-publicized case in the U.S. was that of Elvira Arellano, a woman who had been ordered deported by a judge because of her undocumented status. Along with her son who was born in the U.S.A., she took sanctuary in a Methodist church in Chicago for a year. The pastor of Adalberto United Methodist Church, Rev. Walter Coleman, posted a lengthy statement on the church website condemning American immigration laws and suggesting that Ms. Arellano's sanctuary was divine protection. He explained that "God has protected Elvira from deportation so that the light of truth and love might come into this debate and replace both the vicious self-degradation of hate and the arrogant self-righteousness of paternalism." In August 2007, however, she emerged from the precinct, was arrested a short time later, and was expatriated. The reaction was telling: some wept, others cheered.
Some city councils—San Francisco, Denver, Minneapolis, New York, New Haven to name a few—have declared their community to be a "sanctuary city." This means that the city will not cooperate with or assist federal officials who want to arrest and deport aliens. The practice of sanctuary—a place of legal protection—is rooted in laws of the Torah or Old Testament law. Sanctuary is not a modern practice invented to aid illegal immigrants. It goes back over three thousands years! So whether people realize it or not, the Bible is influencing the immigration debate and even inspiring the actions taken by some individuals, organizations, and municipalities. A crucial question must be asked, however: Is the Bible being used correctly by those who offer and practice sanctuary? This matter will be addressed in Chapter 4.
Those who support illegal immigrants on moral grounds, like Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and the Sojourners, appeal to Bible verses like "When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the stranger. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you. You shall love the stranger as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God" (Lev. 19:33-34). In fact this verse is posted on their website.4
Meanwhile the law-and-order camp appeals to St. Paul's teachings in Romans 13:1: "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities"—i.e., the laws of the land. As noted already, the sanctuary movement originates with the practice of taking sanctuary in the cities of refuge as established in the Old Testament law. However, sanctuary advocates seem totally unaware of the conditions prescribed in the Bible for receiving sanctuary protection. Then, too, most Americans simply do not know that the Bible has much to say about immigration and immigrants. Clearly what we need is a fair and balanced treatment of all relevant biblical material to examine how it addresses these issues and to see what wisdom it might offer us. The fact is, the Bible records many stories that deal with immigrants as well as containing many laws and ethical principles that could guide America, its people, organizations, churches, and even lawmakers as this nation wrestles with one of the most vexing issues of our time.
In this book we shall carefully examine the relevant biblical texts that bear on the issue of immigration and aliens. The narratives and laws of the Bible did not take place in a cultural and historical vacuum. Consequently, we will need to look at other ancient texts from the world of the Bible to understand what was going on during the days of Abraham, Moses, and David that shaped the teaching of Scripture. In my view this contextual approach is essential for establishing the setting of biblical stories and laws, thus providing the basis for understanding them.
Migrations of peoples did not begin with the Americas in the early seventeenth century. They have been a part of human history since God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and they settled east of Eden (Gen. 3:22-24). When Cain murdered his brother Abel, he went in search of a new home, fearing that someone would avenge the death of Abel. So he immigrated to the land of Nod ("wandering"), where he built himself a new home (Gen. 4:14-17). From the early pages of Genesis onward, there are reports of families, clans, and tribes migrating to foreign lands. For example, the people who built the tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1ff.) had emigrated from the east and settled in the land of Shinar, present-day Iraq. Centuries later, Abraham and his family migrated from the same region to the land of Canaan (Gen. 11:31-12:9), and this is where the story of ancient Israel's ancestors begins.
What can we learn from these stories? What do the biblical laws dealing with immigration say regarding the alien that could help us today? On the one hand they protect the immigrant, while on the other hand they safeguard the nation receiving the new aliens.
In the following chapters we shall look at the biblical stories and laws, while at the same time we must consider their cultural, social, and legal settings in order to glean information about how ancient peoples dealt with the age-old quandary of immigration and aliens. The intended result is that readers will have a handle for opening the Bible and using it in a responsible way when considering the policies toward and treatment of aliens and illegal immigrants in America. Of course, the issues treated here will be germane to citizens of any nation who have to face these issues and are looking for some direction on one of the most complex ethical dilemmas of our time.
Warning! When I began thinking about this issue, I thought an easy answer would emerge—a single verse or teaching, a silver bullet to solve the problem once and for all. Well, it is not that easy. I was pleased to discover that the Bible goes further than I had expected to address some of the issues we face regarding immigration. It is also clear that Scripture can critique misguided positions that some people have taken. Furthermore, it clarified some questions I had not expected it to address, such as what constituted an alien and the circumstances under which one could settle in a different country. The passages we will consider have something to say to the judicial system, to religious and political leaders, to employers, and to immigrants, legal and illegal. These do not offer a simple answer to our thorny problems, but they do provide some helpful guidelines that can inform the debate and perhaps move the national discourse in a constructive direction.
Applying the Bible to Present-Day Laws and Issues
How do we apply biblical law to current issues? How do we apply the ancient Hebrew prophets' call for justice in Israel to contemporary western societies? These questions must be thoughtfully considered because the hermeneutical issues are thorny. Four common approaches will be considered here.
One way of applying biblical law to modern issues and laws is to look for literal correlations between the two. While this way of viewing the Bible is common among very conservative readers of Scripture, this approach is seriously flawed. I think most readers of the Old Testament law, Christians or Jews, will agree that the Sinai legislation of Exodus 20-Deuteronomy 34 constituted the legal code for Israel and not for the U.S.A, Canada, the European Union, or any other country, although Christians will affirm with the apostle Paul that the Hebrew Scriptures were "written down for our instruction" (1 Cor. 10:11, ESV) and that God's word "remains forever" (Isa. 40:8; 1 Pet. 1:25), while at the same time concurring with the distinguished theologian Gerhard von Rad that Scripture is "the particular word relevant to a particular hour in history."5 Consequently we must be very careful about literally applying ancient Israelite law to the present without fully understanding the setting and context of the passage in question.
First, we must recognize the vast differences that exist between the cultural, economic, and social milieu of ancient Israel three thousand years ago and present western culture. They are not the same, and it is misguided to make one-to-one, literal correlations. For example, a person considered poor by modern western standards would be viewed as very affluent in ancient Near Eastern economies. A poor person in America may not have medical insurance (although he or she may have Medicaid or access to public clinics), but the commoner in ancient Israel (most people were farmers or pastoralists) most likely never saw a doctor in his entire life, and his children neither had checkups nor received inoculations! The same is true when we go from those considered to be impoverished in western nations to the poor in parts of Asia or Africa today. So applying ancient biblical law and the prophet's message to the modern western context is not a simple task.
A second approach to applying the Bible to current practices is to take seriously the demand for justice found in Israel's prophets. This appeal is taken by some as a call to fairly apply and practice American law. Martin Luther King Jr., in fact, did this. In his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. King quoted Amos—"let justice roll down"—followed by an appeal to the Declaration of Independence when it refers to "unalienable Rights" and "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."6 He rightly pleaded that blacks were not benefiting from the "Rights" guaranteed in the Constitution. Certainly any fair-minded person will agree that the laws of any nation should be consistently and fairly applied to its population.
A third approach is to examine the legal material in the Torah in order to understand the theological or ethical principle behind the Law and use that doctrine to shape or critique federal, state, and local laws. A proponent of this approach is Walter Kaiser Jr.7 In this model one examines biblical injunctions as a standard and extracts the ethical principle at work in the Torah. Armed with the ethical teaching, one can then assess present-day statutes and legal precedents to correct or adjust the law, and where there are gaps in our laws, biblical law can offer ethical principles and moral guidelines for establishing new laws.
A fourth method insists that one take a more comprehensive view of the teaching of the Bible in theological, social, and economic areas and thereby establish a biblical worldview as a way of evaluating contemporary social and legal issues. A champion of this approach is Christopher Wright.8 The advantage to this approach is that one can "preserve the objective" of the biblical teaching "but change the context" to any culture or time.9 Thus we are not time-bound as in the first approach.
The literal, proof-texting method of the first approach should be avoided because it is simplistic and naive. Typically those who want to apply biblical law to the western context do so selectively, accepting laws they personally feel comfortable with and rejecting those that create unease. The second approach of only using the call for justice in the Bible to promote "American" or "Canadian" justice certainly has much to commend to a society where the laws themselves are generally equitable but are being ignored for whatever reason. Limiting "justice," however, to the application of existing law fails to recognize that the Bible can also serve as a moral sounding board for our laws and can serve as an ethical foundation to challenge immoral laws. Certainly we should take the call to justice (social or otherwise) seriously (i.e., apply existing laws), but we must go beyond that.
Where relevant, ethical, and moral principles in biblical law and the application of it by Israel's prophets can serve as a standard by which to evaluate present-day laws, and where the Law is silent, one can employ theological principles in the Bible to shape new laws in a way that would, in the words of the preamble to the American Constitution, "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty." This is the contribution that the system promoted by Kaiser can make. What do we do, then, if the Bible is silent on an issue? For example, the Bible does not mention abortion at all as it was not an issue to ancient Israel. One can indeed make a very strong case against taking life in the womb, but this requires an all-embracing biblical and theological argument.10
Wright's model allows one to look for ethical principles in the Bible. However, it is done in a more comprehensive manner by examining the entire canon of Scripture through the lens of the major biblical themes of creation, fall, redemption, and new creation.11 In the following chapters we shall attempt to use this comprehensive approach especially as it relates to the alien in ancient Israel and then see how it might be relevant to the present dilemma facing people who care about national laws and biblical justice too.
Taken from: The Immigration Crisis: Immigrants, Aliens, and the Bible
Copyright 2009 by James K. Hoffmeier
Published by Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers
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1. As reported in the International Herald Tribune, June 2, 2006, 3.
2. As reported on Fox News, December 12, 2007.
3. See http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/aprilweb-only/115-44.0.html.
4. See the Sojourner's website where this verse is quoted on a press release dated 12/17/2007: www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=action.display&item=CCIR_main.
5. Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament Theology, II (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1962), 129.
6. For a copy of this speech, see http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm.
7. Walter Kaiser Jr., Toward Old Testament Ethics (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1983).
8. Christopher Wright, Walking in the Ways of the Lord: The Ethical Authority of the Old Testament (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995).
9. Ibid., 114-116.
10. For an example see the author's essay "Abortion and the Old Testament Law," in Abortion: A Christian Understanding and Response, ed. James K. Hoffmeier (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1987), 49-63.
11. Wright, Walking in the Ways of the Lord, 14-21.


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Daimler Opens New Production Plant in Chennai for Indian BharatBenz Trucks
- Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) opens its state-of-the-art production plant for BharatBenz trucks encompassing about 160-hectares
- Total investment of DICV is over €700 million, including manufacturing plant as well as research and development
- Initial production capacity of 36,000 units per year, possible to be ramped up to more than 70,000 units per year
- Start of production of BharatBenz heavy-duty trucks already in the 3rd quarter of 2012
Stuttgart / Chennai, India – Following its construction in a record time of about 24 months, the new state-of-the-art production plant of the wholly owned Daimler subsidiary, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd., has been completed in Oragadam-Chennai. In presence of members of the Daimler AG board of management and J Jayalalithaa, Chief Minister of the state Tamil Nadu in South India, DICV inaugurated the around 160-hectare manufacturing site along with the integrated research and development center and the state-of-the-art test track at a festive ceremony held today. The plant is one of only three Daimler truck plants worldwide to combine truck assembly and components production at one location. The total investment of DICV is 44 billion Indian rupees (over €700 million) including the manufacturing facility for BharatBenz brand trucks as well as research and development. The start of production of the BharatBenz heavy-duty trucks are scheduled already for the 3rd quarter of 2012.
In Chennai, Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, explained, "Our new Oragadam-Chennai plant shares Daimler's stringent quality standards with its sister plants around the world and is unique at the same time. It is the only Daimler plant in the world that houses products which combine Indian engineering with German and Japanese DNA under a single roof. This way, we are optimally positioning ourselves for one of the world's strongest and fastest-growing truck markets."
The facility in Oragadam-Chennai will produce the versatile BharatBenz product range for the Indian volume market. While some BharatBenz truck models are based on the Mercedes-Benz Axor platform, others are built on the Fuso Canter series. The plant in Chennai has an initial production capacity of 36,000 units per year and is designed to allow an increase up to more than 70,000 commercial vehicles per year.
Andreas Renschler, Daimler Board of Management member responsible for Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses, emphasized at the plant inauguration in India, "DICV is an outstanding example of Daimler Trucks' Global Excellence strategy. Our worldwide production network and our global research and development efforts enable us to develop, manufacture, and sell trucks in India, for India. We do all of this in close proximity to our customers, for our customers."
BharatBenz trucks are robust and reliable vehicles for the modern domestic segment, which illustrates the consistently increasing demands of the Indian customers. This segment currently accounts for four percent of all trucks in India, but this figure is expected to rise to almost 80 percent by 2020. With a product portfolio of 17 BharatBenz commercial vehicles by 2014, DICV is preparing for the promising Indian truck market, which has developed into the world's third largest market with a volume of more than 330,000 vehicles in the weight classes of 5 to 49 tonnes in 2011.
To benefit from India's market potential in the commercial vehicle segment, the plant in Oragadam-Chennai was built for the future local production of BharatBenz trucks. At the celebratory inauguration, Marc Llistosella, CEO and Managing Director of DICV, declared, "Filled with pride and joy, I dedicate today's plant opening to the employees of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles. Our work-force is primarily Indian and has steadily increased to include more than 1,400 employees today."
Llistosella added, "Our focus on localization has resulted in more than 40 percent of our suppliers being located within a 40-kilometer radius of the plant. Overall, our BharatBenz trucks will have a localization rate of 85 percent in India."
Cooperation with local suppliers and the creation of an extensive dealership network
Daimler's Indian commercial vehicle subsidiary cooperates with over 450 suppliers who were selected after stringent quality and due diligence tests. In cooperation with local car and commercial vehicle dealers, DICV has built up a nationwide retail network that will encompass around 70 locations by the end of 2012. The retail network will be expanded to more than 100 dealerships by 2014.
The Daimler subsidiary Daimler Financial Services will offer financing and insurance products for dealers and customers in support of BharatBenz vehicle sales.
About Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd.
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, which is based in Stuttgart, Germany. Starting this year, DICV will produce commercial vehicles for the Indian volume market. The products will be customized to serve all major customer segments, ranging from owner-operators to large fleet operators. The company, which has more than1,400 employees, also handles marketing, sales, and after sales of Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks in India.
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Shadows Of Knight frontman Jimy Sohns will be one of the musicians on hand for the annual Dick Biondi Toy Drive tomorrow from 10:00AM to 8:00 PM at Block Thirty Seven in downtown Chicago. Biondi, a legendary air personality in the Chicago area for decades, will be broadcasting live from the event. Guests are encouraged to bring an unwrapped toy.
Over the years, I've come to recognize musician/journalist Dan Pavelich's indie label Vandalay as a trusted name in Christmas rock compilations. Pavelich produced three volumes of Hi-Fi Christmas, persuading numerous power pop and indie artists to contribute original songs that celebrated the holiday. Proceeds from those CDs helped fund research to find a cure for Von Willibrand's Disease, a rare blood disorder.
Pavelich's most recent effort on Vandalay is Christmas Without Cancer, and it features some of the same artists that made the Hi-Fi Christmas compilations so enjoyable. The Grip Weeds, Lisa Mychols, The Goldbergs, Jeremy, The Click Beetles, and Bill Lloyd are on board, along with newcomers like Mimi Betinis from Pezband and Sgt. Popgrass, a bluegrass Beatles cover band fronted by Graham Elvis. Christmas Without Cancer is available for $12 on the Jam Records website, and 100% of the profits will go to The American Cancer Society.
Sorry I missed this a few weeks back, but Go Time! recently celebrated its fifth anniversary of making hard-edged power pop music. Congratulations to them.
It might be a little early to think about what concerts you'll be checking out next Spring, but Shoes have announced they'll be doing a show at Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso Indiana on May 31st. Hopefully more shows are in the works.
Also, coming up in the new year, The Abbeys will be debuting their new lineup at Redline Tap on February 15th.
The Posies are back in the USA and will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the release of Frosting On The Beater with the band's original lineup at Neumos in Seattle on January 10th.
Rascals fans could be singing, "It's a Beautiful Morning!" on Christmas day if someone gives them a copy of The Rascals A Visual Biography. The 9" x 12" book was sold at the band's performances of its Once Upon A Dream musical, and is now available on the Wicked Cool Records website. The Rascals A Visual Biography, which was written by Joe Russo with a forward by Little Steven VanZandt, has 175 pages over 400 photographs.


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Heyward rests another day, aims to start Sunday
Right fielder taking cautious approach in return from strained hamstring
CHICAGO -- Braves right fielder Jason Heyward probably could've started Saturday afternoon's game against the White Sox, but doesn't want to push his strained right hamstring too far.
Heyward initially hurt the hamstring nine days ago trying to advance from first to third on an infield hit by Justin Upton against the Reds in the first of a four-game series before the All-Star break. He's missed four games, sandwiched around the break -- when he rested and rehabbed it.
Heyward then tested it out on Thursday and Friday with some running work and batting practice, saying before the Braves' 6-4 win on Friday that he still felt something while running. He maintained that he was "very close" to returning, possibly this weekend. That status hadn't changed on Saturday afternoon, but Heyward said it's more likely that he'll start Sunday's series finale.
"The day that I feel like I'm ready to play, give yourself one more day with a hamstring," Heyward said. "You have to be careful. I've been fortunate enough to avoid the DL and I don't want to see the DL with this, because it's something that can nag at you for a long time if you don't let it get right."
Heyward, who was hitting .290 with five home runs and 13 RBIs in his past 36 games before getting hurt, said he might be available as a late-inning defensive replacement Saturday. If so, that would clear the way back to the starting lineup Sunday. Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez and athletic trainer Jeff Porter are monitoring the situation closely, giving Heyward the final call.
"I've just got to let [Gonzalez] know, 'Hey, I'm ready to go,' but [Friday], I let him know that if I felt like I could play [Saturday], then Sunday would be the smartest and he agreed," Heyward said.
The Braves continue inching toward getting most of their everyday lineup intact. First baseman Freddie Freeman, who jammed his thumb last Saturday against the Reds, started on Saturday after entering Friday night's game as a defensive replacement in the eighth inning. Justin Upton also started Friday, going 2-for-4 with two runs scored, after missing the last two games before the break with a left calf strain.
In all, two of the four lineup regulars who were hurt in that series against the Reds are back -- with Heyward on the doorstep and center fielder B.J. Upton on the 15-day disabled list with a right adductor strain.


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9th to 13th September, join the MVP community
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Monday 9th September at the Microsoft Office, Victoria, London
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Join leading MVPs for a two track one day event that tackles the delivery of Enterprise data platforms and analytics solutions.
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• Track 1 will focus on building the modern enterprise data platform. In a series of three presentations we will tackle the issues of architecture, application frameworks, data integration and data exchange; learning all about the challenges faced by the modern data tier developer. Most importantly, we will learn how to creatively overcome them by enhancing our processing efficiency and analytical capability. Register to attend http://track1nextgendata-es2.eventbrite.co.uk/?rank=1
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Sessions will include:
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Join leading MVPs for a one day event to understand how to manage your client devices in a single tool while reducing costs and simplifying management. Best of all, you can leverage your existing tools and infrastructure.
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You want to know what is the best place to live. With the Life Quality Index, or LQI, we make it a lot easier to decide which place is better to live.
The LQI is calculated by combining all our data on transportation, safety, health, affordability, entertainment, demographics, leisure and other essentials for everyday life. All our data comes from very reliable sources, like the MTA, NYPD, Google, Socrata, Foursquare and the U.S. Census to offer you the best information to find the right place to live.
You want to be free to go wherever you want, when you want. So in our LQI we use all the available data on public transport, taxi services, parking places and the distance to the city center or the next borough when calculating the livability of a place.
Life is all about the small things, so if you have everything you need nearby, then that is a great plus! When we calculate the Daily Life for the LQI, we take everything into account. Ranging from the distance to the nearest convenience stores and places of worship to Wi-Fi Hotspots and financial services.
You want to feel safe in your new home, so in the LQI you will be able to find all our data on crime levels and the nearest police and fire stations for that particular place.
Health is important to us all. In the LQI we include everything related to your well-being: the proximity to health and medical facilities, but also pollution levels, the proximity you live to busy truck routes or factories, and even the number of noise complaints.
Let's face it, what would life be without restaurants, bars, cafes, museums and other entertainment venues? That's why we include it in our LQI.
We use data on demographics to calculate our Life Quality Index. We all want to feel welcome in our community and at home in our neighborhood. Things like average income, education levels, and poverty index are all taken into account to create the LQI.
Place I Live was created to aid people in searching data about neighborhoods. All data is in one place and neatly presented in the maps which correspond to Life Quality Index rating and can give you a better background to the areas.
This page can tell you more about Industrial St in San Francisco. Be sure to view the categories on the map as they show different spheres such as public transport stops, stores locations and much more about Industrial St.
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Some categories can give you more statistical data about Industrial St and the area the street is in. You can also compare some of the data with areas nearby and the whole city of San Francisco. Even if you have been living on this street, there might be some data you didn't know before and you can find it all on this page. Don't forget to sign up for updates and leave a comment about Industrial St for others so they would know more about the neighborhood.
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