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Joe Lieberman, taking inspiration from the frat brothers at Delta House -- "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody´s part!"And we pay them how much for this?
Good thing he is an Independent. /s
Since gerrymandering seems to be okay to set up safe minority house districts, lets do the same for the Senate and combine Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Cleveland and which ever other cities want to join into one big happy state called Urbantopia.
Not just no, but HELL NO! There was a reason the founders created the federal capitol as an independent district and limited its residents´ control over the government. This decision seems very wise, especially given the current level of corruption of the place.
Turn the District of Columbia back to Maryland and Virginia. Then, residents of DC will have full representation in the House and Senate.What? That´s not really the objective? It´s really guaranteed seats for the Dems??? Oh.
I´m OK with it, IF we also grant statehood to Salt Lake City.
It is a city, not a state.
Does Lieberman fool anybody besides Hannity?
Hey, Joe,Whatever happened to ´uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States´?
LIEberman is good at appearing to be a sheep when he is really a wolf on the prowl.
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Thank you #8. That was my thought too.
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Michael wrote:"God has always been temporal"?
Tom: God is also described in Scripture as the God "who was, and is, and is to come." That sure looks like a straightforward ascription of temporal existence to God. God has a past, a present, and a future
TGB wrote:Stellar: I understand what he stated, but I was talking about the pseudo-problem that seemed to rise as a result. There was a seeming issue that said, 'once' God decided to become temporal, he couldn't take it back anymore because that would be logically inconsistent.
Tom: Right. But he has a good point here. If a temporal reality comes into being and endures for some time, then God subsequently annihilates it and returns to a pre-creation state in which God is the only reality there is, then it would be the case that this final state 'followed' the closure of time, or more simply, the 'temporal' status of the creation God created and then annihilated would remain temporal and, as such, be known by God temporally. That is, the temporal status of the annihilated world as "past" would by definition be "remembered" by God and THAT is something a timeless God cannot do. It's Craig's argument (and he's convinced me) that temporal truths and temporal realities can only be 'known' (i.e., experienced) temporally.
TGB wrote:Stellar: So, since there was no point in time, no 'once' in which God decided to create time, it always was, and is thus an essential part of his being.
Tom: Craig would disagree that God's decision to create IS the first temporal moment (and not timeless), so that there was a point in time (namely, the first moment of time) at which point God chose to create, and this choice of course brings the world into being.
Here's the thing (and Craig argues this as well). Let G = God. Let d = God's choice to create. Let C = the coming into being of creation. Here's the argument:
Gd ---> C (If Gd then C, or IF God chooses to create, then creation comes into being).
It seems just that simple to me. If God chooses or determines to create (that is, if God says "Let there be…") then it follows necessarily that what he calls into being comes into being. God cannot call X into being (as an act of creation) and X fail to come into being. So if God's calling X into being (or his creative command) is a 'necessary' or 'essential' part of his being, then so does that which he calls into being exist necessarily.
TGB wrote:Aquinas tries (succeeds some think) to argue that God's creative command or decision to create can be an essential or necessary part of his being while creation exists contingently. I can't get it to work, so it's not an option for me.
TGB wrote:Stellar: Yes, perhaps God does choose the nature of his own existence…
Tom: But choice itself PRESUMES a concrete nature and set of dispositions BY WHICH one chooses.
TGB wrote:Stellar: But my point is that God's timelessness is not a past attribute even while being a present one. God's timelessness, even his timelessness in 'the past' is always NOW. It cannot be past tense because there IS NO past in the timeless realm. It is ALWAYS NOW…
Tom: The problem is, Stellar, that in a timeless realm there is no "now" either (no past, no present, no future).
Those who employ the "eternal now" perspective talk about divine timelessness, but what they really mean is something more like Hugh Ross's 'supratime' in which God has a real temporal existence that somehow incorporates the entirety of our past, present, and future. But at some point I just have to ask myself why come up with such elaborate schemes? What's motivating it? Are we multiplying explanations needlessly?
TGB wrote:Stellar: …thus why He is called the I AM and the God of the resurrection and the life and why Jesus said that Abraham saw His day, because in God, ALL is alive, and all is NOW.
Tom: God is also described in Scripture as the God "who was, and is, and is to come." That sure looks like a straightforward ascription of temporal existence to God. God has a past, a present, and a future. When I think of God as the great "I am" I don't imagine at all that the writer is speculating on the temporal status of God's essence or anything like that. I think, far more simply, God wants to reveal himself as an ever-present, abiding and sufficient reality for his people.
TGB wrote:I don't at all get your reasoning for (first) 'why' the Father should exist timelessly but the Son temporally and then (secondly) 'how' the relation is real and experienced by the Father. Can you tell me again what this is supposed to explain?
If we know God is REALLY timeless and has no past, present or future, then shouldn't that truth prevail and determine our faith? I think so. But once we're given over to the truth that God is timeless, it's difficult to see the relevance in describing him as the GOD WHO was, is, and is to come. If divine timelessness works for a person, I wouldn't try to take it away. But it jus doesn't solve any problems for me.
That much is Craig's view too. No more atemporal anything since creation.
Michael wrote:Any theology (be it process or open) that would require us to believe in a God who exists only in time, and already existed for an unending eternity before He decided to create anything (when the logical difficulty here has been recognized for millennia) would in effect shut the door of heaven to anyone who was able to see the difficulties.
God's sans creation mode of existence IS gone because there is no sans creation existing for God now that creation is here and experienced by God.
There's no mistaking his view on this
M: It's like saying "forget Gallileao, you must believe a stationary earth is at the center of the universe." That's what you're doing here Tom.
T: I don't want to do that and don't think I am doing that
T: But M, what you seem reluctant to even countenance is how impossible it is to express the view that God is atemporal AND the fullness of love without (in MY view) a contradiction in terms—an atemporal consciousness, a loving relation that is not a felt experience of satisfaction?
Would you like me to become an atheist? I could suggest that this is what you're asking me to do.
Jump in anytime Jason. I don't know that I have anything more to add.
Michael, I appreciate the so-called evidence from drug-induced visions.
but those are anything but "atemporal" states. They are entirely temporal. They began in time, endured for a time, and then ended at a later time. If the subject lost a "sense" of time, that does not constitute a short spell of timeless existence.
Sorry about mis-stating the place of drugs...and about your friend.
I think Michael and I are stuck in a timeless debate! Ha.
I'm happy there are a multiplicity of views out there on this stuff to show that theism doesn't require any particular positoin on it.
Zimmerman's position is basically the same as Alan Padget (Luther Sem, St. Paul). Both argue NOT for atemporal divine existence sans creation (Alan for some of the same reasons I oppose atemporal existence) but for what Alan terms "amorphous time" or metaphysical time. When they unpack it, it's basically what Dean describes--divine psychological time that is not absolute timelessness but an unmeasued flow of consciousness. There's no "sense" of time because one is so caught up in the "moment." And if there is no "metric" or measurement, ther are no "discrete" moments. Nothing to count, so to speak. So no actual infinite is generated by saying God is temporal in this sense. It's qualified temporality to be sure, not qualified timelessness. It's timeless in the sense that no measurement of time is taken or perceived (by God). But it's temporal in the sense that there is conscious self-awareness and the perception/experience of personal loving being.
I suppose one could add that in this case the CONTENT of God's self-perception (the only perception or experience there would be) is unchanging. There's a past, present and future to it but no measurement of it. The content of the present is identicle to that of the past (and to what the future shall be), and because the content is unchanging, and that content is all there is to speak of, there is no change, though--technicaly speaking--there is the unchanging flow of conscious experience.
If Dean or Padget or somebody can really make this work, all the better. But it's been out there for some time. Padget has written quite a bit about it, and Craig treats it pretty thoroughly. I'm not sure it works...
TGB wrote:Tom: What's wrong Michael? Why so upset with me? I haven't suggested we not get into these questions or do our very best trying to answer them.
TGB wrote: I have offered real thoughts
TGB wrote:What I have said here is that after one has done all one can to answer a question and one still cannot claim to "know" (i.e., possess justified true belief), then one will have to live with the tension of not having the certainty one would like to have
TGB wrote:If it was absolutely necessary to our faith that we have certain answers...
TGB wrote:But what not knowing the answer to "time" doesn't do is trouble my faith and experience of God, and I've tried to suggest that it need to trouble or shipwreck anybody's faith.
firstborn888 wrote:Thanks for a really interesting thread Michael.
Well, I can't let my former post be my final one now
Tom: I haven't "boasted" about my faith at all, Michael.
Tom: I offered (and not just in my previous post, but earlier) what I thought was a completely rational option: when faced with two contrary claims both of which appear to have their own independent evidence for being true, then you have to hold them in tension and suppose either that there are other options you can't perceive or that one of the two options before you isn't true
there really are other respected and accomplished thinkers and persons of faith who have taken just as much time to think about this as anyone else and who yet reject divine timelessness.
you'll have to excuse me for not being able to take you seriously after accusing me of suggestig we turn our brains off, shelve them, and ignore intellectual questions.
T: How did I 'boast' about my faith?
M: You've said more than once that you can only conceive of a personal God existing temporally, and if that implies He transversed an actual infinite (despite the logical incongruity you now say you recognize) it doesn't disturb your faith at all.
T: I qualified it just tiny bit differently (that is, it included what I said about assuming there's a resolution between contradictory options that I can't see)
but never mind that. How in the world is this "boasting"? How am I "boasting" if I say I cannot conceive of a personal God existing atemporally? I don't get it. You can't conceive of a God traversing an actual infinite but your faith doesn't seem to have a problem with atemporal personhood. Should I accuse you of boasting about your faith?
T: You're quite right. But if you'd look at what I actually said you'll see that I didn't say A and B cancel each other out and there must be a C. Once more…
Let's say we have independent support for thinking that both A and B are true. Fine.
Let's then say we have good reasons to suppose that A and B can't BOTH be true. They're either contradictory or contrary propositions, but we don't know which. If they're truly contradictory, then by definition (I know you like logic!), and given bivalence, one is true and the other is false. If they're contrary propositions, then by definition they may both be false but may not both be true.My point, Michael, is that if A and B can't both be true but we have independent reasons for thinking they're both true, THEN either a) we're mistaken in thinking they can't both be true (and they both are). This isn't likely to be the case with temporal vs atemporal existence, or b) both are false (because they're contrary and not contradictory propositions) and some other option we haven't even considered yet might be what's in fact true, or c) they're contradictory props, in which one of A or B is false and one is true but we can't yet adjudicate which is which
M: I'll take Zimmerman as evidence of that (but I had to point out how he avoided the problem of an actual infinite, and you still do him an injustice here.)
T: I did Dean an injustice? Dude, I can't even nail his view down. I said it seems to me like he's arguing the same thing I know Padget argues—i.e., an amorphous (i.e., non-metrical) time. Conscious experience 'flows' and there's a before and an after, but there is no measurement taken of it or even an awareness of it.But that much does him no injustice.
Michael wrote:Kudos to you for reaching into this deep thought process. It's a noble endeavor for sure
There's nothing noble about it, but there are times when we all question our faith (and at such times it's sometimes necessary to delve into things you've comfotably shelved in the past.)
I wish to God I still had other, more important things to do.
Copy that. I never thought I would experience the level of doubt I have experienced because of the fact that my rebirth was so real and profound/supernatural. Plus the many many confirmations in corporate worship etc.Michael wrote:If I didn't believe in a personal God who has a purpose for all this (and that "all live unto Him"), I believe I'd end my life right now.
As I understand Zimmerman and Padget (Padget's easier to understand than Zimmerman), they're basically offering a qualified version of temporal being, not a THIRD option in addition to 'temporal' and 'atemporal' modes of being. And their qualification is that sans creation God is psychologically unaware of the passage or flow of conscious experience. There are no clocks or any discrete 'moments' of experience that could serve as 'countable'. So the actual infinite is avoided and God still gets enough flow to his experience. I might be understanding them wrongly, Bro
M: …(and if you understood the alternative offered by Zimmerman or Padjet, you made no attempt to enlighten us.) That amounts to "suggesting we turn our brains off, shelve them, and ignore intellectual questions."
T: It doesn't amount to that actually. You chose to understand me that way, but my not saying more, or as much as you wished, might be explained in other ways. For example, it might be that I simply assumed you understood that if 'atemporal' and 'temporal' are contradictories and I was rejecting one (atemporality), then my alternative was to hold that God is temporal. If you offer me A or ~A and I reject ~A, then by definition I've affirmed A. I didn't know I 'had' to spell it out. But nevrtheless, that may be poor communicating on my part. But it doesn't amount to suggesting that we turn our brains off, shelve them, and ignore intellectual questions.
if being a person requires feeling, knowing, and willing, and these can constitute the fullness of personal existence while being absolutely unchanging in every respect, then what ARE your problems with atemporal personhood? You say first here that you did (or do?) have a problem with atemporal personhood. Just what problems do you have with it? In other words, if unchanging feeling, knowing, and willing are not problematic qualities, what qualities constitute the objectionable sort of atemporal experience that you do have problems with? Hope my question here is clear.
Do you take temporal and atemporal to be contradictory or contrary modes of being?
Given the fact that you agree that 'atemporal' and 'temporal' are contradictory [and so by definition incompatible] modes of being
given your understanding of Zimmerman's psychological time (etc.)—would you say Zimmerman is promoting the view that God is 'atemporal' or 'temporal'? In other words, this 'psychological' or 'amorphous' time that Zimmerman (and I think Padget) promotes—is it in your opinion essentially 'temporal' or 'atemporal' existence?
It's at least traditionally believed that angels as immaterial beings were created prior to the pysical world. It's conceivable at least. But this would mean a genuine temporal before and after prior to there being ANY physical laws. So "temporal passage" doesn't by definition require a physical world at all (if angels are immaterial spirits and precede the creation of matter).
TGB wrote:Tom: That helps, Michael. Thank you. This is a point on which we'll differ, and on which (my guess is) you'll differ from Zimmerman, for he surely believes that temporal and a-temporal are mutually exclusive states. This was Craig's point too.
TGB wrote:One can try to affirm that God is in one sense timeless/atemporal while also being in another sense temporal, but a) that's just to admit their mutual incompatibility it seems to me, and b) I'm happy to say that I'm not the only one who thinks the marriage of both in one undivided being is a meaningless supposition.
there is nothing in the Unconscious that corresponds to the idea of time, no recognition of the passage of time and no alteration in its mental processes
TGB wrote:I'm happy to say that I'm not the only one who thinks the marriage of both in one undivided being is a meaningless supposition.
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La Giaconda
- 9 Denmark Street
- www.giacondadining.com
- 51.515046,-0.129642
- 9 Denmark Street
La Giaconda
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A delicious and jolly dinner was had last night to celebrate our friends wedding anniversary.
Giaconda has a special place in our hearts and stomachs. We've been coming right from the start. It's almost second home, or certainly, second dining table!
It has been through a physical transformation of late and that took a bit of tweaking but now the final touches of the beautiful liberty patterned tablecloths and planting really make this much larger and more comfortable space come alive
The food was splendid- we ate everything- and more- and the Champagne and Condrieu befitting the occasion were perfect - there were food orgasms all around the table of our ten strong group.
Highlights include- the artichoke and vinigeratte, (my gourmand 4 year old needs one of these for himself) chicken liver mousse ('extra' lightness detected to the mousse tonight- it could have flown away...) crab bisque, creamy and crabby is how i would describe this- one of the best I've had, the sizzliest garlickiest field mushroom just waiting to be soaked up
Laura Smith Sun Jun 30Rated as: 5/5 -
Mum's The Word
After hearing that the Giaconda Dining Room was open for business again. I raced to make a booking
Success! I got one for Friday night which was only 2 days away
Then total deflation when I read the current review on Time Out
Surely there must be some mistake, is this same restaurant that won "Time Out's best new Restaurant 2009"?
Surely this can't be the same restaurant that Time out has raved about for years?
Surely this can't have happened to my favourite restaurant in London. What do I do now?
Then I remembered what my mother always told me "You can't believe everything you read"
We turned up slightly early for our booking and were welcomed with huge smiles from the familiar faces at the Giaconda
The room was as we remember it, just better, much more room between tables and warmer and more handsome (no sign of any dentist lights)
But a dilemma, where to sit………….. they have built a new dining room further back though the restaurant , all that comes to mind is "swanky" very different from the front part
Exposed brick wall and Tropical plants (must be an Australian thing) stunning I say
After we finally settled on a table we were then faced with the same problem we have always had here, what to order, we want everything on the menu
But I settled for my favourite. Baked eggs with spinach and mixed cheeses, rich, creamy and bubbling hot "sublime"
My partner had Marinated Raw fish with cucumber and some of the tinniest little salad leaves and a dressing that just managed to just change the colour of the fish, so elegant and delicious
I Followed with Rack of "perfect pink" Lamb with accompanying dishes of Gnocchi Al A Romana and Baked Aubergine, I had no intention of sharing this when it arrived at the table, but my partners Lemon sole with Parma ham and saffron risotto was irresistible
The very knowledgeable waiter helped us choose a stunning Pic St Loup, so keenly priced I wished I had of got one to take home
Deserts …. All we could only manage is one to share, Angel Pie. I will keep you guessing you will have to go and try it for yourself
The prices seemed have stayed the same and some even seemed a bit less expensive, but as for value for money 10 out 10
So I am still confused is this the same restaurant in the above review?
Not to us, it is just got better
All I can say is Thank you Mum. You are always right "you can't believe everything you read"
A very Happy Fine Diner
fine diner Mon Feb 11Rated as: 5/5 -
Tucked away off charing x road, round the corner from soho and 5 mins from Leicester square you can choose from cafe rouge, chipotle or or Aberdeen Angus steakhouse (following a rebrand I think they're now called Angus Steak. Or mutton dressed as lamb) or one of london's locals, which really seems more suited to Barnes or Hampstead or another suburban metropolis. Not that that is an insult, but I don't think London tourists realise what a gem they have right in the heart of London's theatreland (trademark English tourist board) whereas the aforementioned middle class outliers would welcome this place with open arms. This is a truly great restaurant, made even better since the refurb in November, with an expanded dining room, more elbow room and new toilets (believe me if you've been before you'll appreciate that).
Since the decor upgrade the food is thankfully as good as ever, with exceptional mainstays like the shallot and mushroom crumble with horseradish cream still there as a starter, although sadly no crab bisque in this visit. My friend had a cold salad of leeks in red wine with crab meat which she really enjoyed. I can't comment - she didn't offer me any, I'll take her word for it.
Plenty of other choice on the menu, mostly French influence, and a lot for such a small place - beetroot and cheese salad, mushroom and garlic risotto, carpaccio - and most priced at £6-£6.50.
Mains are heavy on the meat and paticularly offal - although there are usually 3 or 4 fish options like fish cakes or scallops - my friend opted for veal t-bone with saffron risotto, I had rack of lamb (perfectly pink and tender) with gnocchi and aubergine parmeggiano. And it was a lot of food. I mean a lot. We still managed to polish it off though. The chef (and the owner I think) gets good food. Simple flavours, excellently cooked and no messing.
Service, as always, was excellent. Plenty of time, much needed, between courses, friendly and enthusiastic but not cloying.
Despite feeling slightly nauseous we tackled desserts. I had the peach vacherin - meringue, cream, peach ice cream and sauce, my friend the chocolate and hazelnut mousse with a spot on chocolate sauce and cream (I dug in before she could say no. I'd learnt my lesson after our starters). We cleared our plates.
Should you want to they also have truffles and grapefruit zest, individually priced in pence (60p a truffle), rather than a full on third course. And cheese too - Colston Bassett and Ardrahan on the list tonight.
I love Giaconda dining rooms, and I am so pleased they've now upgraded and are also open on Saturdays. I used to rely on Andrew Edmunds if I wanted a decent meal 'up west' at prices that didn't take the proverbial. No longer. This place offers top notch cooking and is thoroughly recommended. My only quibble is the £1.50 a head cover charge. Why? This is seen so rarely these days, and for 6 olives and two slices of bread (although I'm sure we could have had more if we'd asked) it seems a bit much. I'd rather forego it. I feel bad mentioning it but am hoping, to be honest, that they may read this and rethink. I'd rather spend it on 5 extra truffles.Kate Thu Feb 7 -
I had dinner there last night and it was at least as good ever - and much more comfortable as there is now a lot more space. I had a crab bisque to start which was rich and gutsy followed by an osso bucco which was good it made me want to lick the plate clean. My companion had the "almost boneless" pigs trotters which he declared "superb" and described his duck breast main course in a similarly hyperbolic manner. A huge plus of this restaurant is that you are made to feel comfortable and at home. You might not get amuse bouched up to your eyeballs but you do get really great food.
Warren Wed Nov 14 2012Rated as: 5/5 -
This is a place that probably pleases some but not others, depending on how highly they value a bit of elbow room and some air to breathe. It feels more like a back-room restaurant in Tooting (deep pile carpet) than a popular west end joint, so don't take visitors there for the first time unless these things are unimportant to you. The food is good, but not uniformly so, and it didn't compensate for a service style that was weird at best. Hopefully they will soon find a more comfortable location.
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John Harrigan: Wave the flag, but don't forget Big Brother
Hearing aids are expensive — in my case, around $1,850 a crack — and although many carry a year's worth of insurance after purchase, they are not apt to be covered in most homeowners' policies. The one for my right ear was destroyed by a dog (another story there), and its purchase coverage was still in effect. But if I'd lost the other one, it would not have been covered.
This led me to ask my insurance agent, sort of mildly, about guns. I'm not a gun collector, but I do have a passel of guns, each with a story. Get 'em appraised pronto, she said, and adding them to my homeowners' policy will be cheap. People think about this concerning jewelry, furs, priceless antiques, coin and stamp collections and the family silverware, but I'd bet a lot of people don't think about their guns.
This made me think about the Fourth because I've been in parades where participants were shooting muzzleloaders and the like — including me — (no bullets, of course, just powder), and it made me ponder town ordinances. Most towns have laws against discharging firearms within the village precincts. However, I'd bet that most people don't even have a glimmer of what a "precinct" is, and besides, nobody — town officers and peace officers included — cares on the Fourth of July anyway, just as a blind eye somehow magically gets turned concerning vehicle registrations, fireworks and imbibing certain unknown (and sometimes blatantly known) beverages in full view of the public.
This is where freedom and common sense blend into those wonderful gray areas of the law — and where the practicality and marvel of living together in a sort of decency and regard for others also leaves a lot of room, when the occasion demands and permits, for plenty of fun.
So I cannot imagine anyone giving someone a hard time for much of anything involving a parade or the numerous other law-stretching hijinks that go on over and around the Fourth. All but the most hardened and joyless judges would toss most such cases straight out the window.
It bears mentioning here that we live in a state where it's perfectly legal to walk down Main Street wearing a sidearm or carrying a shotgun, although the latter might attract undue attention unless there's a gun shop nearby or it's bird season.
I'm a libertarian bordering on anarchy. I loathe government intrusion in matters of personal choice and so was gladdened by yet another spate of news reports last week about various towns and branches of state governments relaxing, or doing away with, arcane and impossible to enforce fireworks laws. The two tenets of common sense and not endangering others should suffice, although I'm the first to admit that, given the vagaries of the intelligence scale, they sometimes don't.
This brings me to the rest of the list, which consists of things I may or may not voluntarily do — and in some cases highly recommend doing, but don't want anyone else telling me to do.
I wear hunter orange most of the time but take it off and stuff it into my pack if, for one reason or another, I don't want to be seen, even if only momentarily. Anyone who's spent a lot of time in the woods will think of some of these instances. Big Brother has no place there.
Ditto for motorcycle helmets, although back when I was on the daily paper police beat I saw the carnage and there is the inevitable burden-to-society issue. Still, there is that motto on our license plate. The rest of General Stark's statement being, by the way, "Death is not the worst of evils."
As for life jackets — "personal flotation devices," in the jargon of the times — I can't stand them and refuse to wear one, although the law (pointed out to me once in his best drill-sergeant fashion by always-a-Marine, veteran Pittsburg conservation officer and longtime friend Carl Carlson) is that you have to have them within reasonable reach in your boat.
So I do, and it makes sense, because I should not make the personal-choice decision for passengers. Besides, I've never sat while paddling a canoe, instead always kneel and life jackets make great kneepads.
Considering all of the above, I just can't wait to see Monday's mail. In the meantime, Happy Fourth, and let's all sing "Happy Birthday for Us," but keep one eye over a shoulder for the ever-looming figure of Big Brother.
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Regarded by millions as the paragon of on-air trustworthiness, intelligence, professionalism, and unabashed integrity,
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This four-part, eight-hour PBS miniseries was the first production of the Ted Turner Foundation's documentary division. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, the series focused on weapons of mass destruction: how they came to be developed, who has them, who might first use them, how the average person can "understand" them, and what to do to prevent the end of humankind. Individual episode titles included "Silent Killers: Poisons and Plagues," "Nuclear Nightmare: Losing Control," "The New Face of Terror: Upping the Ante," "Confronting Terrorism: Turning the Tide." When Avoiding Armageddon was originally telecast from April 14 through 17, 2003, each episode concluded with a discussion moderated by series producer Frank Sesno. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Sony becomes the first third-party manufacturer to open an Android development site based around the Google TV platform. The development site launch coincides with Sony's demonstration of its first line of Google TV-powered products. Sony is the first television manufacturer to incorporate Google's television search indexing and Internet browsing platform directly into their televisions with four HDTVs in 24-, 32-, 40-, and 46-inch models. Sony has also announced a Blu-Ray player with Google TV onboard that costs around US$ 400.
With Google TV running a modified version of Android 2.2, the platform features its own, specific apps such as a Netflix, CNBC, NBA Game Time, and an Amazon.com app for streaming media, but the platform is also compatible with smartphone apps, which can be downloaded from an Android user's phone onto the platform via the cloud. Google TV apps can also be purchased from the App Marketplace on a desktop and pushed directly to the platform.
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12:47pm Thursday 24th May 2012
By Chris Kirwan
NO PAIN, no gain is an adage that Newport Gwent Dragons will hope rings true after a troubled 2011/12 campaign.
And former forwards coach Danny Wilson is hopeful that his former charges will reap the rewards from a host of young pack members being thrown in at the deep end last term.
Earlier this month Wilson brought an end to his two-year tenure at Rodney Parade.
He will take up a role with the Scarlets when he finishes his duties as Wales Under-20s head coach in the Junior World Championships next month.
The 35-year-old looks back with pride at his spell at Rodney Parade but admits that last season was a challenging one.
The retirements of tightheads Nigel Hall and Ben Castle and hookers Lloyd Burns and Tom Willis combined with a chronic injury list in the second row put great strain on the tight five.
Wilson believes the efforts of an inexperienced set of forwards – props Nathan Buck, Dan Way and Nathan Williams, hooker Sam Parry, lock/back row Jevon Groves and flanker Darren Waters played their first full seasons of regional rugby – will stand them in good stead.
"They had to go through a lot of pain and often had to learn the hard way," said Wilson. "It wasn't easy but the great thing is that these guys came through.
"It's testament to their work rate and determination that those young forwards grew and put in some terrific performances.
"There were a number of good experienced pros that we just couldn't get on the pitch enough but the flip side of that was that young players were developed.
"They were thrown in at the deep end and worked so hard in both training and in the game.
"That work rate needs to continue but they will have learnt so much from those on-field experiences, so much more than from training."
Of course the set piece remains an area of concern for the Dragons, a fact hammered home by a late-season pummeling at the hands of an Adam Jones-inspired Ospreys.
But Wilson is in no doubt that the region is on the right path.
"There was a definite improvement in both the lineout and the scrum – the stats back that up," he said.
"That improvement was down to really focusing on the set piece and I am sure that will continue next season.
"There is still a long way to go but over the last few seasons real strides have been made and not only that, they have been made with young Welsh players.
"The likes of Sam Parry, Nathan Buck, Nathan Williams, Jevon Groves, Andrew Coombs all took their chances.
"A lot of inexperienced guys have been thrown in at the deep end but have developed because of their hard work and determination."
Now Wilson will be plotting the downfall of those players instead of helping them progress after swapping one region for another with a reputation for a shaky set piece.
"I am thankful to the Dragons, and especially Paul Turner and Rob Beale, for giving me an opportunity," he said. "There are some great people there working really hard both on and off the field. "But I am excited to have a new challenge and I look forward to getting my teeth into the job at the Scarlets when I come back from the Junior World Championships."
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LADY luck has smiled upon mayoral hopeful Reg Pierce.
His name will top the mayoral ballot paper after the official ballot paper draw on Wednesday.
Eight people Peter Alley, Peter Besseling, Sharon Griffiths, Lisa Intemann, Bob McGowan, Reg Pierce, Adam Roberts and Keith Wilkinson are vying for the honour of popularly elected mayor.
Mr Pierce said the number one mayoral ballot paper position was advantageous because it would hit people straight in the eye.
"I'm pretty excited about it because I would like to become the mayor as I have some pretty strong ideas on what needs to be done to get the Hastings moving again," he said.
Mr Pierce said ultimately it was the people's choice, not the ballot paper position, that made the difference. The group of councillor candidates headed by Peter Besseling, and ungrouped councillor aspirant Leigh Fitz-Alan, also fared well in the draw.
The grouped councillor candidates' draw resulted in Mr Besseling's four-member team randomly selected first, which means his group will appear on the left-hand side on the ballot paper. Five groups are contesting the councillor election.
Mr Besseling said he thought quite often the position on the ballot paper was overstated.
However, he said, if it made a difference, it was all the better.
"We obviously believe we have a very strong experienced team and we are quite happy to be number one on the ticket," he said.
Mr Fitz-Alan secured the top spot in the ungrouped councillors' draw.
The North Shore builder said he was "stoked".
"I want to get on the council to work with other councillors and the mayor to give the constituents back
what they deserve," he said.
There are two ballot papers - one for the popularly elected mayoral contenders and another to decide the eight councillors.
The 12 ungrouped councillors candidates' names will appear alongside the grouped candidates on the councillors' ballot paper.
Returning officer Ken Raison officiated at the ballot draw.
Some 32 people are in the running for the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council election, which will return a popularly elected mayor and councillors.
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What makes Irish men such a hot commodity in the U.S.? MOLLY MULDOON talks to men, women and some experts, including the Millionaire Matchmaker, Patti Stanger, about the everlasting appeal of the rogue Irish man.
When Patti Stanger was 19 she fell in love with an Irish bartender.
"The accent totally got me, he looked like Gabriel Byrne and I remember he was the best kisser," the U.S. dating expert told the Irish Voice during an interview on Tuesday.
Stanger, a third generation match maker, CEO and star of the hit Bravo TV show Millionaire Matchmaker, says she can easily see why Irish men prove so popular in a U.S. context.
"They are rugged, tall, sexy and they take charge. You feel like a woman next to them," she says.
"I would rather have an Irishman than a pretty Wall Street feminine man who makes a lot of money," she revealed.
The former director of marketing for Great Expectations, the oldest dating service in the U.S., Stanger recalls even in high school in New Jersey that she liked the Irish guys the most. She describes the Kennedy brothers as the "epitome of an Irish American who we all drooled over."
In one of the world's largest melting pots such as New York, an Irishman's brogue will provide endless opportunities with the ladies.
Stanger, who has made her fortune through matchmaking for the wealthy, says her advice for an Irish man wooing that special woman is to "put the whiskey down and don't drink the whole bottle."
Stanger also said she wouldn't mind checking out what's on offer at Ireland's famous matchmaking festival at Lisdoonvarna.
"I always wanted to attend and see that," she said.
"A drinking, fighting, poetic tongued man," is how David Power, a former New York bartender describes your average Irish man in the New York.
The Dubliner, who met his American girlfriend while working as bartender, says Irish heritage is a big windfall on the dating scene.
"We are new, unknown territory with a good reputation for boozing and banter," he summed up.
"We are also polar opposites of American men, so in a way we are a niche market."
Since trading his life behind the taps for a career in finance, Power reflects that most Irish men are equally in awe of American women.
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"You'll also find few Irish bartenders that have Irish girlfriends," he said.
Monaghan man, Brian O'Reilly works as a bartender in Eamonn Doran's bar in Brooklyn and admits he has been known to use his Irish charisma to win over the ladies.
"It helps quite a bit to be honest. They ask, 'Where are you from,' and when I say 'Ireland' it's an ice breaker right away," he told the Irish Voice.
"Basically the big difference is the same type of woman at home wouldn't look at you. Being Irish you have an advantage." O'Reilly, who grew up with five sisters, says from an early age he was taught how to treat his female companions.
"You learn to be polite to women and how to treat them they way you want your sisters to be treated," he said before admitting that "Mammy is number one!"
As he prepared for a date that night with his latest U.S. love interest, O'Reilly reflected that the dating scene in New York is completely different to back home.
"At the beginning it would be hard to get used to the fact that dating was not 'going out' with anybody, but I adjusted really fast," he laughs.
After living in New York for over five years the Monaghan man says he approaches dates with American women in a different way.
"American women don't drink as much as Irish women so I would take them to the park or a movie or to see sites," he says.
After spending a semester studying in Ireland, Megan Lynch from Geneva in upstate New York has come to some conclusions concerning Irish men.
A junior in St. Mary's College Notre Dame, Lynch says Irish guys are very good in social situations.
"Irish guys are much more forward, they are confident in a less arrogant way," she told the Irish Voice.
"When they approach you it's in a fun, friendly way and you feel comfortable right away, but here in the U.S. guys can be more arrogant about it," she added.
Aesthetically she says American men win over, but it's the Irish charm that really catches the attention.
"Good looking American men are easy to come by, but once you find a good looking Irish man their personality makes them even more attractive, once you are around them and see their true potential," she maintains.
With leading Irish actors such as Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Colin Farrell now household names in the U.S., dating coach David Wygant, says that Hollywood has done a lot to enhance the appeal of modern Irish men.
Wygant says Gerard Butler's portrayal of an Irish man in the film PS I Love You is just one depiction of a romantic Irish man which would make most American women swoon.
"Hollywood is making the Irish man the new flavor of the month," Wygant, who is based in Los Angeles, told the Irish Voice.
"Irish guys are more charming because of their voice.
"You can take the same sentence spoken by an Irish man and an American man, but women will swoon over the accent," he said.
Describing Dublin as "one of the most beautiful cities in the world," the dating expert said he was pleasantly surprised by how Irish men reacted to women in bars.
"The men weren't staring at women like they hadn't seen meat in 14 years,' he recalls. "American guys can be very lecherous."
Dating an Irishman for the past year, Steph King from Virginia says in her experience the drinking stereotype concerning the Irish is accurate.
"Yes, the cliché is actually true. They also drink during the day, more than any American men I've dated or known," says the digital marketer, who is not turned off by her boyfriend's drinking habits.
"I've noticed that sure Irish men drink often, but they aren't half as loud as a group of American men can be," she added.
One drawback she says is their obsession with the American brand Abercrombie and Fitch, something the Virginian adds most U.S. guys grow out of in their teenage years.
"Unfortunately Irishmen wear a lot of Abercrombie. American teenage boys wear Abercrombie, but men do not, so that was something I noticed was very popular with an older age set of Irish guys.
"It would be odd to see an American guy over the age of 20 wearing Abercrombie," she added.
Despite the occasional drunken slur and odd fashion faux pas, it seems the appeal of the rogue Irish man in the U.S. is popular as ever.
Seasoned Irish American matchmaker Maureen Tara Nelson says in recent years she has seen a surge in American women seeking Irish men.
"I would say over the past couple of years we have seen more of a demand for Irish men," she told the Irish Voice.
Winner of Best of Long Island Matchmaker and Dating Service for the third year running and with over 1,000 clients on her books, Nelson admits she can see why her female clients are so attracted to Irishmen and suggests a good upbringing has a lot to do with it.
"One of the great advantages and why they make such great husbands is that they are brought up to be great sons," she says, adding the accent is "the icing on the cake".
Judging from the movies and Americans I know persobally, Irishmen have firmly supplanted Englsihmen as the preferred objects of desire for professioanl American women. So what is it about them that makes them so attractive, and makes the rest of us so jealous?! Well, they are a lot happier than the English and a lot less complicated. They are jovial, light hearted, even tempered, fun loving, very sociable and of course, they are always up for it. But most of all they are not intellectually and professionally accomplished. This is most important, the last thing that the professional woman wants is a man competing with her. What she wants is what the professional man has always wanted, a partner who slots into his life without changing it at all. So don't be so smug young Irishman, it's not a compliment that she wants you, it's the measure of your disposability ... her real realtionship remains with herself! Still you get all the oats you can bury your randy muzzle in so I gues you're happy!
Judging from the movies and Americans I know persobally, Irishmen have firmly supplanted Englsihmen as the preferred objects of desire for professioanl American women. So what is it about them that makes them so attractive, and makes the rest of us so jealous?! Well, they are a lot happier than the English and a lot less complicated. They are jovial, light hearted, even tempered, fun loving, very sociable and of course, they are always up for it. But most of all they are not intellectually and professionally accomplished. This is most important, the last thing that the professional woman wants is a man competing with her. What she wants is what the professional man has always wanted, a partner who slots into his life without changing it at all. So don't be so smug young Irishman, it's not a compliment that she wants you, it's the measure of your disposability ... her real realtionship remains with herself! Still you get all the oats you can bury your randy muzzle in so I gues you're happy!
Couldthe obvious dissimilarities between the DNA of men born in Ireland and those of U.S. birth (including men of Irish parentage) account for the enormous differences between men born on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Having long been married to a W.A.S.P. whose ancestors arrived in New England in the mid-1600s, my own experience my be of interest to Molly and Patti. One of the many reasons why I found my future wife so suitable from the start was because of her keen interest in so many things Irish, including an teanga Gheailge (words and phrases of which we use daily). This dedicated Methodist congregant and active D.A.R. member often accompanies me to Catholic mass, also to county American Legion meetings, where I'm the chaplain. We share the same political views and we equally love America, also the ame moral values in that we both are pro-life and pro-family. God bless America (all 50 states) and God save Ireland (all 32 counties.


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