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The (Politically Incorrect) Nicene Creed
There's something in the creed to offend every contemporary sensibility. Does saying it reflect intellectual failure?
BY: Luke Timothy Johnson
Many Christians know that deadly moment at a party when their friends realize they actually believe something everyone has merrily been belittling. They recall their stammered reassurances, their tortured reinterpretations, their relief when the conversation moves on, their self-contempt. They may never have heard of Nietzsche, may not be able to define Modernity, and may think of the Enlightenment as a chapter in a first-year college textbook. But their embarrassment at being seen as believers reveals them to be Christians whose view of the world has been shaped less by the Christian creed than by its cultured despisers.
For Modernity, belief in a creed is a sign of intellectual failure. Creeds involve faith, and faith makes statements about reality that can't be tested. Everyone knows that statements can be true only when they don't really say anything about the world or when they have been empirically tested. Creeds are therefore structures of fantasy. One cannot be both a believer and a critical thinker. Creeds also express convictions held by a group of people, and for intellectual elitists, the many is always a herd, and a herd will always believe what it is told. A creed negates the need for individuals to seek truth as a quest for authenticity. To be authentic, people must own each statement they make passionately and personally, and must accept nothing on the basis of outside authority. Better to stay silent than to speak a single word that is not a personal testimony.
For intellectuals in the West, it is the Christian creed that most offends. Christians are pitiable not only because they live by faith rather than by evidence, but because the faith they declare has so thoroughly been demolished by the evidence. This is the conviction lying behind all the raised eyebrows, averted glances, and embarrassed silences when the cultured cognoscenti find a committed Christian in their midst.
Isn't it obvious, these gestures suggest, that science has disproved each and every Christian claim? Adherence to them can be attributed only to an ineradicable (and probably insincere) social conservatism, invincible ignorance, or stupidity-and we thought you were one of us! If the Christian creed has been shown to be false, and even its adherents know that it is false, their willing submission to its herd mentality must come from intellectual laziness or psychological weakness.


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NORMAN, Oklahoma (Ticker) -- After a first half of futility, seventh-ranked Oklahoma State figured out the defense of its archrival.
Ivan McFarlin scored 14 of his 21 points in the second half and Joey Graham sparked a key run as the Cowboys pulled away for their 10th straight win, a 65-52 Big 12 Conference triumph over Oklahoma.
Oklahoma State looked like it was in trouble after scoring a season-low 26 points in the first half. But the Cowboys trailed by just one at the break and seemed to solve their offensive woes in the locker room.
John Lucas opened the second half with a 3-pointer to spark a 14-4 run for Oklahoma State (20-2, 10-1 Big 12). Graham scored seven points during the spurt, completing a three-point play to give the Cowboys a 40-31 cushion with 14:52 left.
The Sooners struggled in the second half, going more than nine minutes without a basket until Jason Detrick made a layup with 9:35 left.
"The first four minutes of the second half were crucial," Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson said. "We had some shots that were great shots but didn't go in."
Oklahoma (16-5, 6-4) climbed within 44-40 with just under nine minutes left, but Oklahoma State scored 17 of the next 21 points to put away the game, highlighted by seven from McFarlin.
"In the second half, I just wanted to come out hard. I did not want to let my teammates down," McFarlin said. "My shots were just falling at the right time. I knew we needed a spark and I provided that."
Lucas also scored seven points during the stretch, starting it with a 3-pointer and capping it with a pair of free throws for a 61-44 edge with 3:10 remaining.
Oklahoma State matched its first-half total less than 14 minutes into the second half. It made 15-of-24 shots and 7-of-9 free throws in the final 20 minutes and swept the season series.
"In the second half, we played much better," Cowboys coach Eddie Sutton said. "It was a good win. You don't sweep these guys too often."
"We weren't tough enough defensively in the second half," Sampson said. "That's a toughness issue right there. My hat is off to Oklahoma State."
McFarlin made 10-of-12 shots from the floor and Graham had 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting as the Cowboys finished at 55 percent (26-of-47).
Lucas totaled 18 points for Oklahoma State, which scored 40 in the paint and held a 36-28 rebounding edge.
Jabahri Brown scored 16 points and Detrick and De'Angelo Alexander had 11 apiece for the Sooners, who shot just 31 percent (17-of-55), including 4-of-19 from 3-point range.
"We just played bad," Brown said. "Our shots were not falling and our defense was very poor. We never could get a stop when we needed it."

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The address of Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, to Leadership Victoria.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - The Grand Valley was invaded by high horsepower hidden in tiny cars all weekend long.
Flyin' Miata, a Palisade company, that handles only Mazda Miata modifications hosted a four-day Summer Camp here in Grand Junction as a way to thank its loyal customers.
You probably saw them flying around the Valley as they tested their cars to the max.
The camp has been running for 13 years, and what started out as a small gathering, has grown significantly. Bringing in people from all over the world.
"Yeah, we have people from 13 states, one customer from Scotland and one from Britain. About 100 people overall," says Flyin' Miata Owner Bill Cardell.
The Summer Camp ran from Thursday to Sunday and included a day at the track, test rides in Flyin' Miata company cars and cruises around town.


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The Sixth Sense
El Sexto Sentido
70 Min
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Carmen is happy. She is in love with Carlos, a young man filled with optimism, the exact opposite of his taciturn and tormented friend Leon. On Carlos's advice, Leon pays a visit to Professor Kamus, whose invention reveals the truth about beings and things. This invention is none other than the cinema, which he presents as a sixth sense. From then on, an unfortunate misunderstanding puts Carlos and Carmen's love in danger.
Too modern for its time, this 1926 drama was never even distributed. —Europa Film Treasures


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Michelle Grau is on her knees, doing her best imitation of a fearless chicken who gets quite irritated if it doesn't receive its treat right after Diane Denman, right, clicks. Camp starts off with a series of "be a chicken" exercises to improve timing with the clicker.
Above left, Susan Reeve (left) tries to click whenever Lynn Balsiger (right) taps the pad. Debbi Davis listens to report if the click was early or late. Above right, Mandy McLean works on a little Doggie Zen (to get the treat you must leave the treat) with Callie, a BARC rescue pup.
At left, Judy Hall clicks when Lucas resists her pull on his leash. Rewarding the dog for the "oppositional force" is one way Shirley teaches rock-solid stays. Above, Salsa learns to settle in a down for his owner, Debbi Davis.
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Ofgem Slaps British Gas with £2.5 million Fine
British Gas has been slapped with a fine of £2.5 million from energy regulator Ofgem. This is in response to the company's poor handling of customer complaints and failing to let customers know they can appeal to the energy ombudsman. Ofgem says the energy provider didn't reopen complaints when customers indicated the issue hadn't been resolved, while it also didn't provide customers with key details about the energy ombudsman's redress service if their complaint wasn't resolved.
British Gas has called the £2.5 million fine 'totally disproportionate.' A spokesman says that the breach was minor compared to the 16 million accounts served by the company. However, they acknowledge their service wasn't what is expected of them - particularly in regards to their micro-business customers. The company knew of the issue, which is why it flagged it to the regulator. They are more confident of meeting the regulator's requirements after investing £4 million.
Sarah Harrison, an Ofgem senior partner, said that the finding highlights the basic failures in customer service at British Gas - especially with its small business customers. The regulator warned the industry earlier this year that it would be taking a tough approach to enforcement, backing up its plans for reform. This £2.5 million fine, along with the other £10 million worth of fines against the energy industry this year so far, is a clear message for energy providers. The fines also show the commitment of the authority to use its power to ensure that suppliers treat customers transparently and fairly.
Consumer groups welcome the decision, as 9 of 10 complaints to the energy ombudsman are redressed in some way. Richard Lloyd, the executive director of Which?, says that customers should be told that they can take an unresolved issue to the energy authority. It's well worth pursuing, as 7 of 10 redressed complaints get financial compensation.


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Cost Estimate for Commerce, Justice, Science Approprations Bill
The Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill (H.R. 2847) has a cost estimate – and it's heading for the House floor today, or at least this week.
The bill would spend about $685 per U.S. family on operations of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, and various science-related agencies.


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Thursday Edition
As if all the blogging he's doing here is not enough, Tom has been posting as a guest on worthwhilemag.com. Take a look. Halley at Worthwhile saw the opportunity to add a gorgeous photo of flowers to Tom's flower blog—a variation of one he posted here on Tuesday.
We love these connections. Halley posts here, Tom posts there, and the conversation caroms between the two sites. Expand the conversation.
Actually I did notice that TP was active there too..and Halley has become (more!!) active here -- the more the merrier !!
What is noteworthy is the essense of the community between Worthwhile and Tp.Com...read the tapestry of comments and make your opinion. The social dynamics between these are very interesting ...
Posted by /pd at February 4, 2005 8:01 PM
As a recent recruit to blogging I have to say I just love it ....
Clearly those who do not get involved are missing the joy of exchanging views with like minded and non like minded folks across the planet.
In the UK I am not sure blogging is yet as big as over there in the States but I for one am totally hooked and can't wait to get on at least three blogs I visit daily to keep in touch.
As well as fulfilling a social need it ...blogging is a cracking way to exchange business thoughts.
Keep blogging!
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After dating Jamie Kennedy for almost a year, Jennifer Love Hewitt is now single again. People Magazine says
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy have broken up.
Though some called them an unlikely couple, Kennedy and Hewitt regularly gushed over each other.
Kennedy told Ryan Seacrest [in 2009], "I'm in love! It's like, 'Wow, you are hot. You can sing, you can dance, you're like, so smart and, wow, you can cook pasta fagioli, too.'"
Jennifer not showing her ass (tsk, tsk) with Jamie at the Twilight premiere last year, plus some of her at the 100th episode of Ghost Whisperer:
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Top 50 companies for board room diversity
The companies listed made DiversityInc's list for excelling in diversity efforts. The determination was made by looking at each company's board of directors, which governs the business.
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An annual ranking of best colleges by U.S. News and World Report magazine identified Northeastern Illinois University, located on the city's North Side, as the most ethnically diverse university in the Midwest.
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Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature
Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat
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Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature provides readers with an excellent introduction to recent Haitian literature, one of the richest literary traditions in the Americas. Martin Munro focuses on works written after 1946, a period in which exile has become the dominant theme in Haitian literature. Using this notion of Haitian writing as a literature of exile, Munro analyzes key novels by the most important figures of each generation of the past sixty years, including Jacques Stephen Alexis, René Depestre, Émile Ollivier, Dany Laferrière, and Edwidge Danticat.
A. James Arnold
"The most sophisticated and up-to-date study of contemporary and recent Haitian literature… [Munro's] theoretical insights are matched by his excellent close readings of the major authors. Munro's book should make a significant contribution to postcolonial theory."
-- Professor A. James Arnold, University of Virginia
Introduction: Inhabiting Haiti
1. Jacques-Stephen Alexis - Janus in Limbo: Urbanization, Exoticism, and Creolization
2. René Depestre - Internal Exiles and Exotic Longings
3. Émile Ollivier - Passing Through
4. Dany Laferrière - Master of the New
5. Edwidge Danticat - Home Is Where the Hurt Is
Conclusion - The Missing People: Theorizing Haitian and Caribbean Exiles
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can you make me a big big pleasure ?
i need for my xbmc on apple tv 2 a keymap file type your, but when i press "down" go back movie of 2 second for reread a subtitles.
can you make for me this ?
thanks a lot
Keymap for Apple remote with big step (download link)
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I just did a quick google search and the 2nd result gave us the answer. See if it works for you:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=715062&postcount=3 Create a text file with the following code: Code: <advancedsettings> Then sftp over to you ATV2 box to the following location: /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/advancedsettings.xml Reboot XBMC and it should read those custom values and use them. Make sure to change the values to 2/-2 if you want to skip forward/backwards only 2secs. |
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Thanks for all information, I finally solved the problem for use the big step but I want to use the remote exactly as the XBOX REMOTE and so I need to use the ZOOM function on the center KEY. I see that are a lot of function for ZOOM but I don't know which to use exactly. Could you help me ?
Other question : is possibile to use the XBOX REMOTE direct with the ATV2 ? Thanks XBMC 1 : XBOX + HD 2,5" 160Gb + Case SILVERSTONE LASCALA LC04 + Logitech Harmony ONE remote XBMC 2 : ATV2 NAS server : CPU Intel ATOM 1,6Ghz + MB ECS 945GCT-D + 1Gb RAM + Storage 160Gb 2,5" for O.S. and 1Tb 3,5" for data + Windows XP |
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Thanks for the heads up, Ill look over that post and see if I can get this thing working and get back to you.
As for where I found the scroll commands, in a previous post when I was trying to figure out how to do this I was pointed to the actions page on the wiki, http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Keymap.xml#Actions , and those seemed to fit my purpose accurately (of scanning up and down a zoomed in comic in the pictures module). |
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pedal2metal Wrote:Other question : is possibile to use the XBOX REMOTE direct with the ATV2 ? The atv2 won't pickup the signals from the original XBOX remote. Something about the IR receiver isn't compatible with that remote. This question has come up a few times but all that I've seen is a) it doesn't work and b) a new IR receiver would be needed. Not sure why exactly it doesn't work... only because I don't know anything about differences in IR receivers... thought they were all more/less equal. |
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The link is no longer located on the site indicated in the 1st post, so i uploaded one that does exactly what he described. http://www.mediafire.com/?k4c62l834q7valv
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hpman247 Wrote:The link is no longer located on the site indicated in the 1st post, so i uploaded one that does exactly what he described. http://www.mediafire.com/?k4c62l834q7valv Thanks ! |
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FYI, this messes up Navi-X a bit for me (on ATV2). It seems to see the MENU button as the LEFT button when trying to go to previous menu (i.e. when you are in a subfolder). Haven't tinkered with it much - watching a movie right now.
EDIT: Never mind - I may have imagined that. Or at least I cannot replicate it now. And it was doing it with both my white and aluminum remotes - just after I copied over the Joystick.XML file. Weird.
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Sorry if I am being thick-headed here - but can someome clarify if the Learned Id's (70-78) work on ATV2 (without using nightly builds)?
I was able to make get my old TiVo remotes (love those remotes) working pretty well for XBMC. I used "Learn Remote" ONLY set up "Basic Buttons. When I used "Set up Playback Buttons" - these buttons were not functional in XBMC. What I did to get around this (after deleting all learned remotes) was to set up only "Basic Buttons" then go through Learn Remote again (as though learning a new remote), this time substituting playback buttons on the TiVo remote for up, down, left, right, select, menu. That way I ended up with a remote with functional navigation and playback keys. |
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Putting it in:
/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/keymaps/joystick.AppleRemote.xml Didn't work for me. But editing: /Applications/XBMC.frappliance/XBMCData/XBMCHome/system/keymaps/joystick.AppleRemote.xml directly worked just fine. Thanks! |
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Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman (born Sarah Caroline Colman; 30 January 1974) is a BAFTA nominated English actress, best known for her supporting roles in various comedy shows, such as Sophie Chapman in Peep Show, Alex Smallbone in Rev. and Harriet Schulenburg in Green Wing. She gave a breakthrough performance in the 2011 film Tyrannosaur for which she received ...
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December 5, 2010 Clarice's Pieces: Some Things about Politics I Don't UnderstandBy Clarice Feldman
I have lived in Washington for over forty years. Between us, my husband and I have worked for the federal government, in private practice, in the House, in the Senate, and for nonprofits. In those years, we've learned a fair amount about the workings of this city. But there are some things I never will understand.
The first of these is the utility of relying on political consultants. I am sure there must be some good ones, but I seem never to have met them. The ones I have met seem to be largely glad-handlers, purveyors of conventional pieties, people who make a fair hunk of change getting others to work, and people who are not terribly smart operators except at self-promotion. To give you an example, many years ago I knew a great candidate for the presidency for whom, it was obvious, the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania was going to be key. I knew the campaign manager. In fact, without thanks or compensation, I had already written a couple of speeches for the candidate. As counsel to the reform wing of the UMWA, I knew some coal miners who supported the candidate and had offered to help him. The men were self-starters who had organized themselves earlier to oust the corrupt union leadership. They had raised the funds for their own work, were well-known to the voters in their area, and were trusted and respected. The offer was rejected out of hand with the explanation that the national president of another major union had promised his support and no other labor support seemed necessary. I tried to persuade the candidate (to no avail) that union members no longer just voted for whomever their president endorsed, and the candidate really needed committed troops on the ground. Unsurprisingly, shortly before the primary, the union leader the manager relied on reneged on his offer and backed someone else. The candidate then had no one to do his groundwork. His campaign manager called me back to try to revive the offer. I explained that having been rejected, the men I had in mind had volunteered for another candidate. Needless to say, the manager's candidate lost Pennsylvania and the party nomination...but the manager was nevertheless hired by other candidates. If my recollection is correct, those candidates, like the string of unsuccessful candidates who hired ("I'm going to fight for you") Bob Shrum, also lost their bids. I was reminded of that incident this week when I read that Mike Huckabee's campaign manager in 2008, Ed Rollins, attacked Sarah Palin, saying she was no Ronald Reagan. As Professor Jacobson reminds us, Rollins had a more favorable comparison with Huckabee at the time he was on Huckabee's payroll:
It's amusing, but not astonishing, that who is Reaganesque depends on whom you're backing, but Jacobson's point was more significant than that. He issued a warning, which one would think was unnecessary for anyone who fancies himself a political expert:
Another thing I don't understand is the short memories of those idolizing or demonizing modern political figures. Today, Reagan's popularity is on the upswing, but I remember when he was treated as badly by the political and journalist classes as Sarah Palin now is. Portlandon, a commentator at Hot Air, reminds us what TIME -- then still an important and influential publication -- said of Reagan:
It appears thus that in the critical months before he first was elected president, even Ronald Reagan wasn't always Ronald Reagan. In spring of 1980, he was more like Sarah Palin is today in the eyes of the press and "moderate Republicans." As TIME put it, he was "not the strongest G.O.P. choice " in their eyes.
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On the Oral Health co-insurance plan range, all claims for NHS treatment will now be reimbursed at 100%.
CIGNA's Kirsty Jagielko says: "Our unique dental management information reporting tells us which benefits our members claim for most frequently - and therefore value the most. Twice yearly dental checkups are an important part of a preventative oral care routine and we are encouraged to see a trend appearing which seems to show this can impact on fewer minor and major claims."
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I can't believe I'm admitting this, but I actually enjoyed this. I thought it was a sweet and charming film. Sure, it isn't the best movie I've ever seen, and if I look at this objectively, it sucks, but I thought it was cute and humorous (at times). Gargamel really had me laughing during this film, and they got the actor spot on! However, I thought it went on too long and was overly predictable since it was in New York and the directors had no idea what to do with the Smurfs. I give this movie an EXTREMELY LOW Matinee.
Funny story about that Smurfs episode. Originally the smurfs turned BLACK not purple, but black. It was airred in Europe like that, but here, America banned for obvious reasons.
Here is a snippet of an article from Cracked.com that I found about smurfs:
The creator of the Smurfs, Pierre Culliford, aka Peyo, was born in Belgium in 1928, which means that he spent his childhood under Nazi occupation and, according to Bueno, might have consequently reflected the spirit of those times in his later work, whether he was aware of it or not.
We can all agree that a person's early years can have a great influence on his or her later life. It's like how the creator of Mario allegedly based his design on his annoying landlord, except in this case Peyo drew little blue Nazis. It makes sense.
For one, the Smurfs are all united against a common enemy, the sorcerer Gargamel, whose large nose supposedly makes him look like a Jewish stereotype.
Gargamel also has a cat named Azrael -- a name that comes from Jewish mysticism -- and is the creator of Smurfette, who becomes a vision of Aryan beauty after Papa Smurf "fixes" her with magic.
The most damning evidence, however, seems to come from a comic titled "The Black Smurfs," where the Smurfs get infected, via bites, with a mysterious disease that turns them black, mindless and aggressive, which Bueno interpreted as concerns for blood purity. The book would not have appeared in the U.S. to this day if the color of the sickness wasn't eventually changed to purple
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Awesome Review!!!
But where was NPH
animation where
smurfs were "tearing up his ass"???
C'mon would've been funny!
I just watched it, awesome man!
This is a good movie I liked it ,
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The band's currently released material can be experienced at the link below: https://soundcloud.com/howlinowl
Dude, he sounds like Mat Levin.
I dig it, very old school doom
Wow, Metal Blade has really done an about-face with their roster. They now sign more doom and 70s inspired stoner rock than Whitechapel's hahaha. Digging: Demilich - Nespithe
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This is true. Everyone is doing it. We have a new EP that will be out hopefully soon as well. But not on Metal Blade.
you do sign below on a contract. good job.Digging: Waxahatchee - American Weekend
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Trial of a Poet
Harvest Tale
Jersey Joe
Monitor Lizard Blues
One Night Stand
Queen of Darkness
The Largest Leprechaun
I am here to tempt the fates
Traveling with Patchen
When You're Thin
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COLUMN: Selling student information to credit card companies deceitful
Sean Moyer was a National Merit Scholar. He was headed to law school. After initially attending college in Texas, he had transferred back home to OU. He was 22 years old when he committed suicide in 1998. Yet, he had 12 credit cards and $14,000 in credit card debt.
In spite of the public outcry over the abusive tactics of the financial industry, college students continue to be targeted by credit card companies throughout the nation.
Last year, Sallie Mae, an education company, reported that over half of all college students had four or more credit cards. Sixty percent reported being surprised at how high their balances had reached, and 40 percent admitted to charging items knowing that they did not have the money to pay the bill.
While the state Legislature and the OU Board of Regents have repeatedly expressed concern about the marketing of credit cards to college students, OU continues to sell student information to credit card companies under a lucrative $10 million affinity agreement with FIA Card Services — a subsidiary of Bank of America.
The university's first affinity agreement was initially devised as a way to generate additional money for student activities by Richard Hall, the former vice president of Student Affairs.
It was originally negotiated with a small local bank that the administration could control to ensure that certain practices were maintained and students would not be exploited.
However, when it was discovered that much more money could be made, that bank was pushed aside and the contract was shopped out to the nationwide chains. All funding for student activities from that contract also disappeared.
There have been a series of attempts to prevent colleges and universities from selling student information. However, OU continues to circumvent many of these restrictions by claiming that students have consented to the release of their directory information.
The university does not mention that it sells student personal information anywhere in its policies regarding the release of student information.
However, it automatically assumes that students do not have a problem with selling their personal information to credit card companies and other commercial entities.
Students can go through an elaborate process to put a hold on their directory information. However, it is only an all-or-nothing option. They are repeatedly discouraged with warnings that these steps will prevent the institution from releasing information to potential employers and that the university will not even be able to verify the student's attendance and enrollment.
The university's current contract with Bank of America lasts until April 30, 2017. So, the institution cannot arbitrarily terminate this agreement. However, if OU insists upon selling students' personal information to credit card companies, it should at least try to come clean about it and behave responsibly.
OU should fully disclose its policies to all students and afford them with the opportunity to opt-out of the system without making dire warnings and forcing an all-or-nothing choice.
It should include a personal finance course as an option in the institution's core curriculum requirements. And it should earmark the proceeds from this contract to student activities.
— Nicholas Harrison, law and business graduate
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Star-Spangled Banner Back on Display
After a decade's conservation, the flag that inspired the National Anthem returns to its place of honor on the National Mall
- By Robert M. Poole
- Smithsonian magazine, November 2008, Subscribe
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High winds and rain lashed the city throughout the night, as did the man-made storm of iron and sulfur. Fort McHenry's fate remained undecided until the skies cleared on September 14 and a low-slanting sun revealed that the battered garrison still stood, guns at the ready. Admiral Cochrane called a halt to the barrage about 7 a.m., and silence fell over the Patapsco River. By 9 a.m. the British were filling their sails, swinging into the current and heading downriver. "As the last vessel spread her canvas," wrote Midshipman Richard J. Barrett of HMS Hebrus, "the Americans hoisted a most superb and splendid ensign on their battery, and fired at the same time a gun of defiance."
Major Armistead was absent from celebrations inside the fort that day. Brought low by what he later described as "great fatigue and exposure," he remained in bed for almost two weeks, unable to command the fort or to write his official account of the battle. When he finally filed a 1,000-word report on September 24, he made no mention of the flag—now the one thing most people associate with Fort McHenry's ordeal.
The reason they do, of course, is Francis Scott Key. The young lawyer and poet had watched the bombardment from the President, an American truce ship the British had held throughout the battle after he negotiated the release of an American hostage. On the morning of September 14, Key had also seen what Midshipman Barrett described—the American colors unfurling over the fort, the British ships stealing away—and Key knew what it meant: threatened by the most powerful empire on earth, the city had survived the onslaught. The young nation might even survive the war.
Rather than return to his home outside Washington, D.C., Key checked into a Baltimore hotel that evening and finished a long poem about the battle, with its "rockets' red glare" and "bombs bursting in air." He conveyed the elation he felt at seeing what was probably Mrs. Pickersgill's big flag flying that morning. Fortunately for posterity, he did not call it Mrs. Pickersgill's flag, but referred to a "star-spangled banner." Key wrote quickly that night—in part because he already had a tune in his head, a popular English drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven," which fit the meter of his lines perfectly; in part because he lifted a few phrases from a poem he had composed in 1805.
The next morning, Key shared his new work with his wife's brother-in-law Joseph Nicholson, the artillery commander who had been inside Fort McHenry throughout the battle. Although it is almost certain that the flag Key glimpsed at the twilight's last gleaming was not the one he saw by the dawn's early light, Nicholson did not quibble—Key was, after all, a poet, not a reporter. Nicholson was enthusiastic. Less than a week later, on September 20, 1814, the Baltimore Patriot & Evening Advertiser published Key's poem, then titled "Defence of Fort M'Henry." It would be reprinted in at least 17 papers around the country that fall. That November, Thomas Carr of Baltimore united lyrics and song in sheet music, under the title "The Star-Spangled Banner: A Patriotic Song."
Key's timing could not have been better. Washington was in ruins, but the war's tide was turning. On September 11, as Baltimore prepared to meet Admiral Cochrane's assault, Americans trounced a British squadron on Lake Champlain, blocking its invasion from Canada. With Britain's defeat in New Orleans the following January, the War of 1812 was effectively over.
Having won independence a second time, the nation breathed a collective sigh of relief. As gratitude mixed with an outpouring of patriotism, Key's song and the flag it celebrated became symbols of the victory. "For the first time, someone put into words what the flag meant to the country," says Sheads. "That is the birth of what we recognize today as a national icon."
Major Armistead, showered with honors for his performance at Fort McHenry, had little time to enjoy his new fame. Although he continued to suffer bouts of fatigue, he remained on active duty. At some point the big flag left the fort and was taken to his home in Baltimore. There is no record that it—officially government property—was ever transferred to him. "That is the big question," says Sheads. "How did he end up with the flag? There is no receipt." Perhaps the banner was so tattered from use that it was no longer considered fit for service—a fate it shared with Armistead. Just four years after his triumph, he died of unknown causes. He was 38.
The big banner passed to his widow, Louisa Hughes Armistead, and became known as her "precious relic" in the local press. She apparently kept it within the Baltimore city limits but lent it out for at least five patriotic celebrations, thereby helping to lift a locally revered artifact into the national consciousness. On the most memorable of those occasions, the flag was displayed at Fort McHenry with George Washington's campaign tent and other patriotic memorabilia when Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette visited in October 1824. When Louisa Armistead died in 1861, she left the flag to her daughter, Georgiana Armistead Appleton, just as a new war broke out. That conflict, the bloodiest in America's history, brought new attention to the flag, which became a symbol of the momentous struggle between North and South.
The New York Times, reacting to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, railed against traitors who fired upon the Stars and Stripes, which "shall yet wave over Richmond and Charleston, and Mobile and New Orleans." Harper's Weekly called the American flag "the symbol of the Government....The rebels know that, as surely as the sun rises, the honor of the country's flag will presently be vindicated."
In Baltimore, a Union city seething with Confederate sympathizers, Major Armistead's grandson and namesake, George Armistead Appleton, was arrested attempting to join the rebellion. He was imprisoned in Fort McHenry. His mother, Georgiana Armistead Appleton, found herself in the ironic position of decrying her son's arrest and pulling for the South, while clinging to the Star-Spangled Banner, by then the North's most potent icon. She had been entrusted to protect it, she said, "and a jealous and perhaps selfish love made me guard my treasure with watchful care." She kept the famous flag locked away, probably at her home in Baltimore, until the Civil War ran its course.
Like other Armisteads, Georgiana Appleton found the flag both a source of pride and a burden. As often happens in families, her inheritance generated hard feelings within the clan. Her brother, Christopher Hughes Armistead, a tobacco merchant, thought the flag should have come to him and exchanged angry words with his sister over it. With evident satisfaction, she recalled that he was "forced to give it up to me and with me it has remained ever since, loved and venerated." As the siblings squabbled, Christopher's wife expressed relief that the flag was not theirs: "More battles have been fought over that flag than were ever fought under it, and I, for one, am glad to be rid of it!" she reportedly said.
With the end of the Civil War and the approach of the nation's centennial in 1876, Georgiana Appleton was pressed by visitors who wanted to see the flag and by patriots wishing to borrow it for ceremonies. She obliged as many of them as she thought reasonable, even allowing some to snip fragments from the banner as souvenirs. Just how many became obvious in 1873, when the flag was photographed for the first time, hanging from a third-floor window at the Boston Navy Yard.
It was a sad sight. Red stripes had split from their seams, drooping away from white ones; much of the bunting appeared to be threadbare; the banner was riddled with holes, from wear and tear, insect damage—and perhaps combat; a star was gone from the canton. The rectangular flag that Mary Pickersgill had delivered to Fort McHenry was now almost square, having lost about eight feet of material.
"Flags have a hard life," says Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss, chief conservator of the Star-Spangled Banner Project at the National Museum of American History. "The amount of wind damage that happens in a very short time is a major culprit in the deterioration of flags."
Thomassen-Krauss suggests that this banner's fly end, the part that flies free, was probably in tatters when the Armistead family took possession of it. By the time it reached Boston for its 1873 photo op, the ragged end had been trimmed and bound with thread to contain further deterioration. According to Thomassen-Krauss, fly end remnants were likely used to patch more than 30 other parts of the flag. Other trimmings were probably the source for most of the souvenirs the Armisteads handed out.
"Pieces of the flag have occasionally been given to those who [were] deemed to have a right to such a memento," Georgiana Appleton acknowledged in 1873. "Indeed, had we given all that we had been importuned for, little would be left to show." Contrary to widespread belief, the flag's missing star was taken out not by shrapnel or rocket fire, but most likely by scissors. It was "cut out for some official person," Georgiana wrote, though she never named the recipient.
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Comments (26) |
I have a black and white picture of 1812 flag. I was told it was a picture to be put in the newspaper in tthe 1920s I found it between two boards of a music stand i bought .The stand came from.Baltamore I would like to know more about it
Posted by Sonja Whitlow on July 22,2013 | 09:37 AM
this is a good website to get info thanks
Posted by tori on February 20,2013 | 10:07 AM
Wow that is really cool because I want to learn more. About it,,,,,
Posted by Runderhill on May 10,2012 | 11:12 AM
wow it is so so so so old
Posted by on April 25,2012 | 06:50 PM
the topic was good and inpresing i enjoyed it so much thank u for the view
Posted by sheila dithate on February 24,2012 | 04:01 AM
I brought my boys to DC from Phoenix, I was thrilled to see the flag back on display today (flag day) Thank you for this great article.
Posted by Kerrykenney on June 14,2011 | 11:43 PM
I visited the museum 7 years ago and will be going back again in two weeks. I was mesmerized at what I saw, that beautiful flag looking so fragile and to know what it has gone through and what it symbolized. I'm proud to be an American.
Posted by Gloria Zielinski on July 26,2010 | 08:39 PM
it should totally have a timeline in here so we dont have to look at it
Posted by Anissa Henry on February 23,2010 | 01:09 PM
I found what appears to be very very old copy of the Star
Spangled Banner. It was behind a picture frame that I bought from a very old estate in Winter Haven Florida...
It is crumbling and very fragile....Very dark....May be a lithograph copy...Many of them were printed ....but how old is it and why was it hidden behind a picture frame that owned by a Navy Admiral that was a friend of Francis Scott Key's....
Posted by Phil Millner on July 24,2009 | 06:42 PM
In the late 1990's i aquired, I blieve a lithograph 1907, and a certificate from the Francis Scott Key Association.
I have alway tried to find info on them. Today, I found a one of the certificates on-line for sale, $199.95
Both, art and certificate (1908) I gave to my son when he returned from Iraq (2006). He is currently in Germany and the items are in storage; therefore I may no tbe able to get more info until he returns home July. They have the same persons name of membership on both pieces. do you have any info on the portrait.
Thank you
Posted by Sharon Staub-Minor on June 21,2009 | 09:57 AM
who took the missing piece from the flag
Posted by sarah on May 5,2009 | 04:09 PM
Does anyone know the history of or why there are eight flags behind the President when he makes speeches?
Posted by Vincent Knight on February 19,2009 | 10:26 AM
this is cool. i like the history about this pce!
Posted by tiffany on January 26,2009 | 12:23 PM
The 2 flags for Ft. McHenry were ordered in 1813. Why did the flag maker use the 15 stars and stripes version? TN had come into the Union in 1796. OH was admitted in 1803 and LA in 1812. If Congress had authorized the 15 stars and stripes flag, surely it did so prior to 1796. Did Congress not act again on the flag until after the War of 1812? So why does the Star Spangled Banner have 15 stars and stripes?
Posted by Donald White on January 11,2009 | 04:30 PM
It is truly a honor and a priviledge to stand in the presence of this piece of American History. People that don't understand what this Flag (or any other American Flag) represents need only to stand in its presence and ponder its history. Our Flag is a very expensive piece of cloth. Those that have served in the United States Military understand what I mean. "Freedom Isn't Free".
Posted by Tom Moore on November 26,2008 | 03:08 PM
I am thrilled as an American to know that this original symbol of our great country has been been preserved for all time. I do wish to say that the preservation was only able to take place because of the magnanimous donation of 13 million dollars by Ralph Loren. It was by a drive spear-headed by Senator Hillary Clinton. I think this should have noted in this article, otherwise, there would have been no article to write. More importantly, without Mr. Loren's generous help, we would have lost one of our greatest treasures. Kind Regards, M Beth O'Malia
Posted by Mary E O'Malia on November 21,2008 | 05:05 PM
Jeff, You are certainly correct that the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed and as such had no bearing on the outcome of the war. Although some might argue, that given the incomplete nature of the treaty, the Battle of New Orleans had an impact on the future actions of the English. I do quibble with your assertion that the author's quoted "paragraph is misleading in its incompleteness." You quoted the author's statements that "Washington was in ruins" and "the war's tide was turning", clearly indicating the author's understanding that the events of early September 1814 marked a demarcation in the events of the war. Pricipally English victories before, American after. Each of the English victories you cite occured well before the author's noted turn of the tide.
Posted by Jon on November 16,2008 | 09:33 PM
I saw this flag in 1978 and was in awe of its magnificence in spite, or maybe because of, the deterioration and all that it represented. I spent 10 days in Washington DC visiting the Smithsonian and saw most of the museums, but every morning, before visiting any other museum, my Aunt and I would have to stop by the lobby of the American experience museum and pay our respects to the wonderful flag and all the brave souls who have fought for it and for our freedom. It was an experience I shall never forget.
Posted by Jo on November 6,2008 | 07:29 PM
Re: "Washington was in ruins, but the war's tide was turning. On September 11, as Baltimore prepared to meet Admiral Cochrane's assault, Americans trounced a British squadron on Lake Champlain, blocking its invasion from Canada. With Britain's defeat in New Orleans the following January, the War of 1812 was effectively over." With the utmost respect to my many American friends, the above paragraph is misleading in its incompleteness. I would refer you to our capture of Detroit without a shot being fired, our victory at Queenston Heights, our victory at Crysler's farm, and many other battles that can charitably said not to have gone America's way. It was most certainly not as onesided as the above paragraph suggests. Even more importantly, the war had ended *before* the Battle of New Orleans was fought, which happened due to the slowness of communications in those days. Neither side of that battle knew the war was over and fought thinking there was still a war on. Britain's defeat in that battle had *zero* effect on the end of the war because it was already over. Not many countries have gone so long without armed conflict or troops stationed on their borders and I'm very glad the unpleasantness of 1812-14 are far in our collective past and that our countries remain such good friends today.
Posted by Jeff on November 6,2008 | 06:03 AM
What a thrill, it must have been ,to see that wonderful flag fling over Fort sumpter. My heart just flutters at the very thought. How I wish our schools would in still the bauty and feeling for our wonerful country and what it REALLY means to be an American.
Posted by virginia budd vail(hofstad) on November 6,2008 | 05:05 AM
In 2005 we visited New York and Washington DC from Australia and although we experienced many highlights during that visit the one that remains uppermost in our minds is the visit to the Smithsonian Museums. Our visit to the National Museum of American History was a visit that we found difficult to end and we were particularly impressed with the size and treatment of the Star Spangled Banner which was under repair at the time of our visit. Congratulations to all involved in preserving such a fine national icon.
Posted by Ron and Robyn Cross on November 5,2008 | 12:25 AM
Only a Veteran can fully understand the symbolism that the American flag stands for. The flag to them,is more important than life itself.
Posted by Paul C (Bud) Covel on November 5,2008 | 10:21 PM
I have been the provost marshall for my local veterans orginizational post as well as the A State Provost Marshall in the same capacity.Flag etiquette is A huge part of this office and over the last 20 years I have seen an enormous amont of concern given towards our flag,for the most part greatly positive for it and the respect it should be shown .Little has been published such as I have just read about its begining the original battle and motivateing conditions surrounding the creation of the flag which should be A part of the standards of learning for middle-high school students to have by being; thoroughly taught and tested for when these children become adults it is important that they have the metal to stand up and be A part of the pledge of Allegiance knowing the various ways the cost of freedom has been paid for by there forefathers &mothers.The flag of the United States and its evolvement as our National Symbol is very important to the full unabridged knowledge of who they are before they answer the call for mature adulthoods many challenges as citizens of the free United States of America.
Posted by Davis S Luck on November 5,2008 | 08:39 PM
i saw this flag after i was honorably discharged from the service in '73. i was humbled. i'm glad i served my country, if only to protect this "flag of flags."
Posted by thomas on November 1,2008 | 05:05 PM
My husband and I took 4 of our children to Washington in 1989. The Smithsonian was, of course, at the top of the list of things we wanted to do. When the Flag was unveiled and our National Anthem played it literally brought me to tears. Thank you so much for preserving this very special piece of our history.
Posted by Kathy Christian on October 28,2008 | 01:10 PM
In June, 1965 my family drove to Washinton D.C. for our first visit. When we walked into the National Museum of American History and saw the Star Spangled Banner Flag hanging there in the main lobby - it was absolutely breathtaking to see it. We have never forgotten that moment. In the fall of 2003 I was with a tour group to Washington and was able to see the magnificent flag being in the state of repair and so thankful that it has been preserved for all Americans to view.
Posted by Mrs. Ross Bright on October 27,2008 | 10:33 PM


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August 21, 2013
Guy Longshore remembers the deafening sound of the "Show of Victory" flight over the USS Missouri as the Japanese officially surrendered to the United States in Tokyo Bay.
As the 68th anniversary of the September 2nd surrender nears, Longshore once again recalls his participation in the victory flight. As a gunner on one of the 200 B-29 Superfortress planes that was stationed in the Pacific, Longshore and the ten other members of his crew were part of the American show of force at the surrender.
"Our pilot called to us and told us to tune in on a certain channel and we heard the sound of all those aircraft engines picked up by the microphone on the ship, sent to the States by short wave and back," he recalls.
"We knew about the surrender a day or two before because we were asked to fly in the formation," he recounts. He remembers thousands of planes gathering over Tokyo and getting into a huge formation to fly over the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. After passing over the ship where the surrender was being signed, the nearly 1,500 planes broke formation and flew home.
Longshore has been speaking out a great deal recently reminding our youth of history. He's spoken at high schools in the region and at LaGrange College sharing his experiences.
But perhaps his war photos have had the biggest impact. From his gunner's seat atop the mighty fortress of a plane, Longshore had an unfettered 360 degree view of the world which he captured on a $12 Argus camera that he'd been given by his father.
While many of Longshore's photographs are in the typical black and white of the period, he did take a series of pictures using a roll of color film — certainly something that was somewhat a rarity at the time. A few years ago, when he shared his color photographs of B-29s on combat missions, he was lauded for having the only color pictures in existence.
His marvelous photographs, in both black and white and color, capture B-29s in formation on both bombing and humanitarian missions. He writes in his memoir, "World War II: The Good and the Bad," of the humanitarian missions to drop supplies on prisoner of war camps where American and other allied soldiers were interned. As they flew over one camp, soldiers had spelled out with white rocks, "THANKS 300 MEN."
Often, as his plane flew low over the town of Sakata near one of the POW camps, he would see people spilling "off streetcars and falling bicycles" as the planes flew low overhead.
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One extraordinary drive we did was on rough mountain roads from Al Hamra to Al Awabi, a road that frequently required first gear in the low gearbox. Slow speeds are prudent on these roads, particularly since parting from the road would probably result in tumbling several thousand feet, and the end of the holiday!
In order to benefit as much as possible from the experience, we like to stop frequently and to explore on foot. So often we find the interesting and unexpected, giving us overall a rich experience.
At one point we looked down on a little village, nestling among date palms. Some of the old mud-brick houses of the village were still standing, although they had been abandoned.
When we walked through the village, we found that the ceiling-beams of the old houses had been lavishly painted with exotic colours and patterns, in stark contrast to the monochrome exterior of the houses.
Later, we found a well-developed "falaj" serving a village. A falaj is a man-made water channel, used for domestic water and for irrigation. There are hundreds of falaj systems in Oman, many of them over 800 years old and a number of them are recorded as World Heritage structures.
We came across a goat, straddled impossibly between a sheer rock face and a tree that he was grazing on. It was difficult to imagine how he had gained that position – and how he intended to get back to join his friends!
Not too far away we found a young goat-herd, perhaps in his mid-20's, who was a pleasure to talk with. He had a very interesting outlook. In principle, he said that he loved living in the mountains in such a remote area; he knew that he would be able to earn quite good money if he went down to the city and took a job; but he said that his ancestors had survived in that place for tens of generations and that it was his choice to continue his family traditions. Interestingly, he did advise us not to delay too long since it looked as if rains were imminent – his forecast turned out to be accurate since there were dangerous floods across the region a couple of days later!
We later stopped the car and walked a short distance from the track, and found a pre-Islamic graveyard with over a hundred graves marked by vertical stones. There was no habitation within ten kilometres of this spot, and it was interesting to speculate that the graveyard belonged to a period when rainfall was higher and when conditions were therefore less harsh for human survival.
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Kind of a fan of the Splinter Cell games, but Ironsides voice no longer matches this character. It sounds like a drunk rhino trying to find a toilet through the whole thing. Get someone new, Ubisoft!
Kind of a fan of the Splinter Cell games, but Ironsides voice no longer matches this character. It sounds like a drunk rhino trying to find a toilet through the whole thing. Get someone new, Ubisoft!
I have to say that in my opinion its the designers who should be changed – Michael Ironside has always been the Splinter Cell voice, and it wouldn't be the same without him. It just happens that the designers for this game decided to change the way he looked too much, and made him about 10 years younger than he should be (although not quite getting to Old Snake territory).
I love the Splinter series… but in my mind Sam Fisher is Ironside. Even with the novels I hear his voice. LOL… I agree that the designers should have been changed.
I saw Michael Ironside in a movie not too long ago and he didn't seem ridiculously obese to me. I can't speak to his sobriety, though.
I don't agree that they should change the actor, that would take me out of the game completely, kind of like changing the actor playing the main character in a movie when the sequel is released, just doesn't work for me. I do agree that he looks a bit to young in the new game though.
So that's what he's up to. Been watching the new V and keep hoping for him to make a cameo. A very hard working actor.
Michael Ironside is Sam Fisher and much like NeuroMan when I read the novels I too hear Michael Ironside's voice. I'd rather see a new Splinter Cell operative than a new voice actor for Sam Fisher.
I don't know…no matter how old he sounds, Mr. ironside is what identifies Splinter Cell for me. I just wouldn't be the same at all.
i love his voice. it always gives me a chill. i'm currently waiting for the pc version, and i font know if i should be thrilled to play this game. i'm a splinter cell player from the very first minute! and i love the games. but it's very possible, that they changed tooo much in this new game…
no hiding bodys, anna with red hair, only 7h campaign. i would really like to see the old splinter cell, where you have to carefully plan every attack. it seems to me, that this game is just about going in and killing stuff! no tactics.
hope, that in the hard difficulty setting they removed the silouette for the player (so he cant see it) and that they removed the mark and execute. and i hope they will add in a later release the "feature" to hide bodys and i would really love if they would remove the "copy protection".
You know, you don't HAVE TO USE mark and execute?
I have to agree with the comments above – Ironside is Sam Fisher. I hear the voice in the novels, too.
I've seen him look pretty rough before, but he looked okay in Terminator Salvation. Wardrobe definitely helped him there, though…
It just so happens that the first role ironside played was a drunk.
Wow, Scott, you could have went anywhere but there with this one… How could you even suggest that? No Mikey, no Fisher.
I'm just surprised you went this way with it Scott… Or, are we sure it's Scrott? To me it sounded a lot like Yahtzee Croshaw. :-/
Just to clarify, I loooooove Yahtzee Croshaw, but I've never seen Scott be this… mean. We still <3 you tho Scott.
fuck that Ironside is awesome and hes Canadian so there
Wow I don't think anyone agreed.
Ditto. Ironside is classic bad ass.
Scott you play a dangerous game dissing Ironside. …. you know what would be an awesome movie. Jack Nickelson, Micheal Ironside and Kurtwood Smith as ageing mob bosses kiking the hell out of a new generation of hipster douche wannabes…. hell throw Walken in there as well
You sir, win a billion internets for the awesomeness of that post. I'm surprised that someone hasn't actually made a movie with all of them involved.
I have to agree with everyone here. Sam is Michael, Michael is Sam. The only reason I still keep my PS2 is to replay SC games and listen to the voice…


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By Lee Eisenberg
Book Review
Reviewed by Gary W. Silverman,
With millions of baby-boomers nearing retirement, folks are starting to wonder what the last third of their life holds in store for them. Consider the time leading up to your first day at school, first date, entering college, getting married, or starting a new career. All were a combination of fear and fascination. Retirement is no different.
At 52 years old, with a lifestyle-changing (good and bad) job offer on the table, Lee Eisenberg wondered, "Did we have enough? How much is enough? And if we didn't have enough, what compromises, and sacrifices, were we prepared to make?" In other words, what is The Number? In his words, "This book is about money, but ultimately it's about the life you want, the life you don't, and the costs of each."
Eisenberg is not a CFP, CPA, or any sort of money guy. He's a writer, the former editor-in-chief of Esquire, served as the creative director at Lands' End, and was the person who coined the term "power lunch."
Though not a planner, Eisenberg knows "it." The "it" that we try to explain to our clients. The "it" that keeps us awake at night wondering if we've got it right. The "it" that we help our clients plan for, even if they themselves don't know what it is. "…you'll live longer than you ever figured, which is the good news….you'll live longer than you ever figured, which is the bad news." The book is the story of Eisenberg trying to find answers to the same questions we struggle with every day.
So, do advisors come to the rescue in this book? While he does include some words of wisdom from a planner or two, overall he doesn't paint a rosy picture of the financial industry. Eisenberg's view is that the industry is more of a problem than a solution. He seems to think that the main aim of the industry is to get hold of people's money—preferably rich people's money—so they can charge fees for managing it. Hmm—maybe "not a rosy picture" is somewhat true. While he is okay with fee-only and fee-based compensation, Eisenberg is not enthralled with commission-compensated advisors. According to him, unless a client has $5 million or more, forget about getting any help from advisors. He relays to his readers that folks with a mere million or two will only attract sales-oriented brokers and agents. He adds that the only true advice the majority of Americans might get would come from the Garrett Planning Network, or a no-load mutual fund Web site.
Why aren't people planning for the future? Eisenberg concludes, "It isn't so much future shock as future denial." To make it through the new Rest of Your Life, you need to know how to get from point A, perhaps up a creek, to point B, out of the woods.
To try to get folks out of their malaise, he sounds like most of us do in our meetings with clients who are apathetic about their retirement needs. He gives warnings on the effects of living "too long," the rising cost of health care, and investing too aggressively or not aggressively enough. He quotes Malkiel, Bengen, and Markowitz. The three sections of The Number are easy and surprisingly quick reads: "Chasing It," "Figuring It," and "Finding It."
Readers will certainly come away knowing that they need to plan for a future…a future they must figure out. And that is the value of the book. It does not really get down to helping a person determine the retirement they are seeking. It does not help them determine an investment strategy. It does not cover all the important aspects of risk management. But it does get readers thinking…perhaps with enough energy that they will get started and do something instead of staying in a state of daze and denial.
As such, this book is as much about trying to figure out what life you want your number to support as it is about finding the number to support it. This should be no shock to those reading this review. It's just the retirement part of "life planning." In other words, it's what most true planners have been doing for years before it had a name.
Since many of Eisenberg's examples are from the upper-middle and upper-income ranks of the East Coast community, some readers will have a hard time identifying with several of the examples. One can also get lost in some of the rambling and incomplete thoughts that Eisenberg introduces. For those who can keep a more open mind, this book can be valuable.
I think The Number would be a good recommendation to clients who are just starting to come to grips with the expanse of preparing for that last third of their lives. While not complimentary to most of the financial industry, the highlighted "good" advisors are a reflection of the habits of most of you reading this review. One thing you should be warned about is that some of Eisenberg's language is definitely PG-13. I think he does it to shock readers into listening rather than to offend, though both effects may take place with some readers.
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Harry Reid is a pig.
I live in New York state but have donated money to Brown's campaign.
I don't understand how the Globe poll could show Romney gaining 14 points and yet in this poll, the gap widening. Makes no sense.
Very volatile race.
Not a chance of this happening. By Election Day, things will be back to normal.
Obama's longtime use of "folks" has always annoyed me. To call the terrorists who killed four Americans in Libya "folks" is just nauseating
I am a woman and Independent who not only voted for Obama in 2008 but knocked on too many doors to count in North East Philadelphia for him, in the primaries and general election.
Not this time.
I am going to knock on doors for Romney in Virginia next weekend and will be voting for him on November 6.
I have seen plenty of them here in Dutchess County, New York. 75 mies north of NYC. Have spoken to many, many people here who are voting for Romney.
Yep, I have seen Romney/Ryan signs in uber-liberal Boulder, Colorado this week as well as in my neighborhood of Dutchess County, New York.
Good for you. I just got back from a trip to Boulder, CO. I was surprised to see more than a few Romney/Ryan signs there.
I also flagged Alexia's comment.
Romney robotic? Um, no.
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At that time, the United World Federation had a full-time staff of 40 and chapters all over the U.S. Its most famous cheerleader was Albert Einstein.
The UWF was founded by World War II veterans overwhelmed by the post-Hiroshima potential for nuclear war and both hopeful and skeptical about the newborn U.N.'s ability to head off such a conflict. According to Facing Reality, the 1980 memoirs of key UWF progenitor Cord Meyer (who earlier helped Harold Stassen draft the U.N. Charter), the World Federation was primarily intended to enforce peace, by force of arms if necessary. But it would also have created a legislative entity (based on, but more representative than, the U.N. General Assembly) for other serious international issues. Such as, one might suppose, the environment, trade controversy and labor standards.
After the impressive 1949 House vote, however, the UWF's hopes were swept away in an avalanche of events: the Soviet A-bomb, Chinese revolution, the Korean War, the McCarthy era — all the panoply of the Cold War. By the late 1950s, world federationists were being dismissed in the same breath with flat-earthers and creationists. Worse, the movement was somehow lumped with the People's Progressive Party of Henry Wallace as a quasi-Red front. This was dishonest, since top Stalin stooge Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov had personally excoriated the UWF as "a fig leaf of U.S. imperialism" and Cord Meyer himself was recruited by the CIA, where he spent the rest of his career. (Meyer was succeeded as UWF head by California U.S. Senator-to-be Alan Cranston.)
But if the UWF was invalidated by the Cold War, it's revalidated by the Cold War's ending and the triumph of world commerce. The world faces hundreds of problems either disdained or abetted by the WTO — from catastrophic climate changes to destruction of the rain forests to extinction of species to the broadening employment and pay gaps between the most and least developed nations. Nor has the present U.N. shown itself effective against most of these perils.
By helping to stall this round of WTO agreements, the Battle of Seattle's troops set back the presidential plan to initiate China, the world's largest and most industrially problematic nation, into the organization. Their actions suggested how many people hold what WTO members term "externalities" as intrinsic survival values. But no amount of civil disobedience can, by itself, legislate international reform. For that, you need a governing authority over all the world's nations and corporations. World federation belongs back on the progressive agenda. It's the only rational choice, or as philosopher (and one-worlder) Bertrand Russell used to say, it's "the category that includes all other categories."
What's the chance of our ever becoming one world? Maybe not too bad, once the idea gets around. As Russell further put it, "Men are sufficiently rational to acquiesce in their own survival."


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Before the Cardinal offense even found their seats on the sideline, Hundley ran 48 yards and scrambled for a 5-yard TD to put UCLA back in front, 14-7.
With the Bruins about to go ahead two scores, Ed Reynolds intercepted Hundley's pass and returned it 80 yards to set up Taylor's short TD run.
Officials ruled that Reynolds, who has returned three interceptions for touchdowns this season, was tackled by Hundley short of the goal line and a replay challenge by Shaw was inconclusive. Reynolds moved into a tie with Oregon State's Jordan Poyer for the Pac-12 lead with six interceptions.
Williamson kicked a 37-yard field goal as the first half expired to give Stanford a 17-14 lead. Fairbairn answered with a field goal from 31 yards on UCLA's opening drive of the second half.
Franklin capped a 12-play, 80-yard drive with a 20-yard TD run late in the third quarter. That gave the Bruins a 24-17 advantage and put Stanford on the brink of its first home loss this season.
Instead, the Cardinal came back in impressive fashion.
After shaking off the safety, Hogan heaved the long touchdown to Terrell just over the cornerback's head. Terrell caught the pass in the short corner and pointed to the poncho-wearing crowd.
"We knew we had to remain calm and play our style," Hogan said. "We kept to it. We pounded the ball, got field position, got the TD to tie it."
Stanford stuffed UCLA three-and-out and Terrell returned the punt 18 yards to the Bruins 43. That set up Williamson's tiebreaking field goal.
One last UCLA drive nearly sent the game to overtime.
Tight end Joseph Fauria caught a pass over the middle on fourth-and-7 and lateraled the ball to Jordon James to finish a 17-yard completion. That helped set up Fairbairn's field goal with 34 seconds left, and the kick never looked on target.
"There's a lot of tears and a lot of disappointment but I think they should be proud of what we accomplished," first-year UCLA coach Jim Mora said.
Stanford has won five straight against the Bruins, who were going for their first conference championship since 1998.
The crowd was the smallest at 50,000-seat Stanford Stadium since the Cardinal drew 30,626 against Sacramento State on Sept. 4, 2010.
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