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Deliver Us from Evil
Three thoughts came to mind after watching Deliver Us from Evil, the latest horror film based on a nonfiction book.
First thought: It is not good to be alone—especially on nights when I return to an empty apartment still quivering with mental visuals of demonic possession, splitting foreheads, and, in one curdling scene, self-cannibalism. Second: Neither is it good to be greeted by a hungry, yowling cat, so soon after seeing a mummified, crucified, gutted tabby on a 70-foot-wide screen. Lastly: Demons are real. But somehow, they're not so terrifying when their theatrical antics make their presence so tangible.
If the above-mentioned snippets from Deliver Us from Evil have you quaking, good—that's what director and screenwriter Scott Derrickson wants. He's a vocal Christian and Biola University alumnus who defends horror as "a genre that explores certain truth, because it's about confronting and reckoning fear." Fear, he says, is "the most powerful human emotion, which probably drives more behavior than any other singular emotions."
Deliver Us from Evil will make you familiar with fear. The movie starts in an Iraqi desert with three U.S. Marines creeping down an underground chamber. They scream. The scene then cuts to the South Bronx of New York City, where a series of strange things happen: A mother (Olivia Horton) suddenly goes crazy in the Bronx Zoo and tosses her baby into the lion's den. An immigrant family takes turns keeping watch in the living room each night, because they claim their house is possessed. Their basement later dumps out a gut-bursting corpse of an ex-U.S. Marine.
More bizarre, linked cases arise, all of which NYPD Sergeant Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) investigates with his wisecracking partner Butler (Joel McHale). A fallen Catholic, Sarchie's initial skepticism peels away to a raw conviction that something very, very evil is working. He finds a spiritual partner in Joe Mendoza (Edgar Ramirez), a faith-tested Latino Jesuit priest who specializes in demonology.
Beware of both the disturbing and the gimmicky. Some parts of the film resort to cheap scare tactics designed mostly to make the audience jump. And for those looking for a few fun jolts on a Friday night, Deliver Us from Evil does the job. But it's also a dark, thought-provoking work with surprisingly complex characters, especially that of the priest. Ramirez brings to life with convincing intensity a troubled clergyman whose hands perform both the profane and the divine. "There are two types of evil in this life, Officer Sarchie," Father Joe says. "Secondary evil, the evil that men do. And primary evil, which is something else entirely."
Primary evil is Derrickson's artistic obsession. Several of his films deal with themes of demons and satanic rituals, such as The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hellraiser: Inferno, and Sinister. Derrickson likes to call his creative choice "the genre of non-denial," because horror film "forces you to put yourself in the pathway of things that frighten you."
Some of the actors apparently no longer deny, especially after watching a clip from Derrickson's VHS collection of real-life exorcisms. Olivia Munn, who plays Sarchie's wife, Jen, told me she entered her role as a non-believer, but now she realizes "it's narrow-minded to think things only exist to your fingertips." Munn, who said she was raised Christian but stopped believing as an adult, echoes several other actors like Bana and Ramirez who, after watching the nonfictional video clip, lost many nights of sleep. Their conclusion: "Wow. There are some things you simply cannot explain or understand"—and they leave it at that.
But such is the limit of cinema. Deliver Us from Evil may introduce some credibility to the existence of the spiritual realm, particularly since many supernatural elements of the movie are apparently based on true accounts of the real Ralph Sarchie. Yet knowing the devil is real because one of his minions is up to mischief does not equal actually knowing what the devil is and does, or how to defeat him. Visible demonic possession is certainly scary, but it can also distract from the other horrors that we take home with us after the credits: the invisible, shrewder evil that plants disbelief, guilt, envy, worry, pride, and other devil crafts aimed at blinding us to the true gospel of Jesus Christ.


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Ford Focus Coupe-Cabriolet (2006 - 2011)
Last updated 9 June 2015
Good looks. Huge boot with the roof up and still quite roomy when it's lowered. Solid to drive and a comfortable cruiser.
Rear legroom is a bit tight. 2.0 petrol engine not lively. Had a leak problem at screen top seal, but seemed to be fixed by 2011.
Updated 9 June 2015
Roof of 2009 Ford Focus CC would open but only closed halfway. Local Ford dealer identified the need for a new pump with an eye watering price tag of £3,500 which is about half the value of the car....
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A bit colour sensitive. It's a matter of "does my bum look big in this colour." It doesn't in Acqua Blue. But it can do in 'Iris' or 'Luna'. And, like the 207CC, tan leather suits its Italian styling very nicely.
It's listed cheaper than the Astra Twintop and Eos. And though Ford only expects to sell 6,000 in a full year, it will have built in a margin that allows for discounting. There's also a launch offer of free dual climate control and leather on CC-3 versions, so it's off to a good start.

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This week, one in three respondents to a poll posted on Emirates 24/7 voted in favour of imposing a "fat tax" on overweight airline passengers. Last year, travel website Skyscanner found that the figure in favour amongst its users was as high as 76 per cent.
While the issue has rumbled around for years, it's particularly pertinent to expats, many of whom use aeroplanes like others use trains, commuting to and from different countries for work, flying to and fro to attend to family commitments abroad, and often needing to cram their whole life into a 20kg suitcase.
The arguments for and against a fat tax are obvious, but airlines have so far resisted charging large customers who can still squeeze into an economy class seat extra because they don't want to be seen discriminating against those who can't help being overweight. Many airlines already operate a policy that requires those who can't fit into one seat to buy an extra seat at a discounted price, but nothing's been done to address the issue that it costs more to fly heavier people.
However, I suspect we're drawing ever-closer to the reality of some sort of a surcharge for heavier customers as struggling airlines become increasingly desperate to shave costs. Three years ago Emirates Airline did away with the footrests and in-flight magazines in economy class in order to save weight – will the Gulf's carriers, I wonder, soon be considering a supplement for chubby passengers?
To get away with it, they'd have to get around the perceived unfairness of making bigger people pay more. But, given that we're used to paying per unit for our usage of utilities such as water, electricity and petrol, is it such a huge jump to apply the same logic to the oil used by airlines?
It uses more fuel to fly a 100kg person with a 20kg suitcase and 6kg of hand luggage to their destination than it does to carry a 60kg person travelling with 6kgs of hand luggage – is it fair that slimmer people with lighter bags subsidise the fares of larger people? With passengers already feeling the pinch of increased taxes and surcharges, the idea of paying a "one size fits all" ticket price may soon start to rile.
The answer could be a "price per kilo" rate, whereby passengers pay for the total weight of themselves and their luggage. It's a diplomatic way to even out the cost of flying, and it also gives passengers a way to reduce their ticket price (take less luggage) on a scheduled airline. You never know, it could even be the motivator that many people need to shed their excess kilos.
Annabel Kantaria is a journalist who moved to Dubai long before most people knew where it was. She doesn't ride a camel to work; has never seen a gold-plated golf buggy and only rarely has pink champagne for breakfast.


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All during November we have been hunting down some of the best t-shirt printing companies in the country, and I think it's safe to say, we found them.
I just want to make it clear that this is NOT a sponsored post, and we have actually made no direct contact with any of these companies. How do we know they're to best? Well have you heard the term "tire kicker" before? We did a lot of that during November and this article will be a review based in their customer service and response times. We believe that if a business provides quality in their customer service, they're going to produce a quality product.
We have made this list quite diverse, so we're not just listing a bunch of companies that do the same thing. Let's get started.
24 Hour T-shirts – Sydney, Australia
24 Hour T-shirts responded within the first few hours with multiple quotes for me to choose from. I received different budget ranges within the email. The clearly stated that each price was based in the quality of the t-shirt and the print would be the same quality. This business will provide a full product with screen printing. No dropping off your garments.
Customer Service: 5/5
Response Time: 5/5
URL: http://www.24hourt-shirts.com.au
Phone: (02) 9559 2400
QTco – Brisbane, Australia
This company does provide a nice quoting engine on their website with a fast response time. The website is hard to understand if you're not web savvy, but a phone number is provided. They also have a section where you can do your own mockup, ie "make your own" t-shirt. I'm assuming that would be a DTG printed t-shirt.
Customer Service: 4/5
Response Time: 4.5/5
Phone: (07) 3861 7888
Mammoth Merchandise – Sydney, Australia
This company I believe are great with Tour & Event merchandise, which could be an alternative to the first listing 24 Hour T-shirts. Excellent response time you do need to get the information from them. I say they would more specilise in music tours because they call themselves a merchandise agency. Brilliant!
Customer Service: 3.8/5
Response Time: 4.6/5
URL: http://www.mammothmerchandise.com.au
Phone: (02) 9698 3656
That's all the companies we want to list in this article, in order or of preference. We only contacted 20 businesses during November (which is why we didn't post anything). I hope you find this extremely useful as we've done the hard work for you.
If you have any other t-shirt printing companies you think should make the list, then comment below or use the contact form, we might even do another one in 2015.


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Hello everyone, I did my fifth century or greater group/event ride this year on Saturday.
The temps started in the mid 70s and it was 85 at the end. Humidity went from high nineties to mid seventies at the end. Pretty flat where the ride was but there are no trees and the winds were gusting up to 35+.
I was supposed to make it a just a finish ride with my three other buddies ....but as they say 'when you have a number on your back it's a race'!
Anyway we really pushed the ride and the last 40 miles were very tough against the wind....oh the cramps!
When I finished and checked my time I realized that I had bested my personal best for a century (actually 102 miles) by almost 45 minutes Not bad for someone who's been riding only 1.5 years and had hernia surgery 11 weeks (correction) ago! Time was 5:45 for 102 miles.
My riding buddy, who is 74 beat me by eight minutes.....remember it was not a race
One more goal for the year and that is 7,000 miles. Should have it by next week.
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I just can't get enough of this cobalt blue! This rich deep color is perfect not only with the soft pinks and lavenders of early spring, but the vivid oranges and yellows of summer. And yes, I did say summer! I know we normally plant Lobelia erinus here in the early part of the spring, before the real heat sets in. Older, seed-grown varieties of lobelia tended to give up the ghost in May or June when it really feels like summer. But this series, Techno Heat, is much more heat-tolerant. If given proper care, you can ease into July and August with Techno Heat.
Lobelia 'Techno Heat Dark Blue' is a moderately trailing plant that is ideally suited for containers. Although you can plant it in the flowerbed with other spring annuals, it really shines in hanging baskets or spilling out of the edges of pots. Containers provide better drainage during our intense spring downpours and allow you to keep the soil more evenly moist.
Right now, when the sun is not that strong, lobelia thrives in your sunniest location, but as the spring progresses, I find it does better with light shade in the afternoon. (Don't we all?) If planted in full sun, pay particular attention to watering. Don't allow lobelia to dry out completely between waterings. Keep the soil a little on moist side and you'll have this vivid blue to keep you company until the end of summer!


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[ Information | Background | The CyberTeaser | Quantum News | Miscellaneous Stuff ]
Contents of the January/February 2000 issue of Quantum
Feature articles
Fluids and Fault Lines
by G. GolitsynWhy large earthquakes are rather rare.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (part II)
by S. GindikinMore about this "prince of mathematicians."
The eye and the sky
by V. SurdinThe art of seeing distant objects.
Physics Contest: Tunnel trouble
by Larry D. Kirkpatrick and Arthur EisenkraftNew twists on classic gravitation problems.
Kaleidoscope: Do you know atoms and their nuclei?
by A. LeonovichGetting down to basics.
Digit Demographics: Repartitioning the world
by V. ArnoldPopulation and the powers of two.
At the Blackboard I: Fuel economy on the Moon
by A. StasenkoA practical problem of no use (at present).
At the Blackboard II: The Markov equation
by M. KreinDiophantus, Vieta, Pythagoras ... cameo appearances galore.
Informatics: Cantor Cheese
by Don PieleA new column by an old friend of Dr. Mu.
How Do You Figure?: Challenges in Physics and Math
Brainteasers: Just for the Fun of It!Check out this sample!
Crisscross ScienceScientific crossword puzzle.
Bulletin BoardReport on the 40th International Mathematical Olympiad.
Answers, Hints & Solutions
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1 Park near Perry, Oklahoma
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A lot of money for nothing but a site. True the sites are long and not too much off level but no table, bar-b-que no nothing.
What really is bad is that the water hookups were under water making hooking up to them a health hazard as both the camp and RV would end up with a contaminated water system.
Would not come back. - Brian & Corky
Jun 2011 - $18.00
This is a city park. It is clean and quiet. The road in needs resurfacing, so be prepared to bounce and dodge potholes. The sites are very long and level and easy to get in and out of. The sites are nicely paved concrete and very spacious with nice grass plots between. There are no showers; the bathrooms are 3/4 mile away at the boat access ramps. The lake is nearby and there is swimming, fishing and boating allowed. Reasonably priced, about a mile from town. The caretaker home has a really tight circular driveway, park and then pay. Or park near the boat access and pay. We would stay here again. - Joann26


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Cellulite: Fighting it, 'Jean' Therapy to Creams (cont.)
What Is Cellulite?
From a medical standpoint, the fat in cellulite is just fat, the same as any other fat on your body. The term cellulite has only been used in the U.S. for about 30 years -- it was popularized in 1973 by a book-writing spa owner. The term refers to the dimpled appearance of the skin seen in areas of the hips, thighs, and buttocks. It is more commonly seen in women because of the way a women's body distributes fat. Experts estimate that about 85% of women develop cellulite.
"You often see it at times of hormonal surge, like pregnancy or puberty," says Elizabeth Tanzi, MD, co-director of laser surgery at the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery in Washington.
Tanzi says that men may be less likely to have cellulite because they have thicker skin, which is much better at hiding the fat beneath.
While many look at cellulite as a disease -- a harmful build-up of toxins that must be healed -- it's no such thing. It's a perfectly normal and natural way of carrying fat.
The Treatments
Even though cellulite isn't an illness and doesn't need a cure, there are plenty of cellulite treatments nonetheless. Here's the rundown:
Exercise and Diet
Getting regular exercise, eating a healthy diet lower in calories, and maintaining a normal weight may work as a cellulite treatment for some people. No special diet is necessary: just a commonsense one that's high in fruits and vegetables and low in fat.
But exercise and diet won't necessarily solve the problem. Losing weight will reduce the proportion of fat in your body, and hence a proportion of the fat that's trapped in cellulite.
However, the appearance of cellulite is really genetically predetermined. "I always recommend exercise and a good diet as a way to deal with cellulite," says Tanzi. "But it's true that in some women, exercise and diet don't do a thing."
There are countless creams available as cellulite treatments. Many are over the counter and a few are by prescription. Most have some eye-catching ingredient -- prehistoric mud, the pollen of the most rare Alpine weed, and so on.
Do any of them work? According to some doctors, these cellulite treatments may work in some people. However, even proponents caution that the effects are modest and not permanent.
"I don't recommend creams, but if patients want to try one, I generally don't have a problem with it," Tanzi tells WebMD. She suggests looking for creams that contain caffeine or theophylline. There are some studies that show these ingredients might have an effect on cellulite, causing fat cells to dissolve. Other studies disagree.
Even if these ingredients might cause fat to dissolve theoretically, slathering it on the surface of your skin isn't going to do much, Donofrio says. Your skin is designed to keep things out, after all. Expecting a topical cream to "soak into" the fat is kind of like placing a sandwich on your belly and expecting it "soak into" your stomach. The cream will never get near the fat deposits.


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"Let's pray."
The leader of the community center in Petersburg, Virginia, ordered everybody to stand up and join the prayer circle. Between all the Afro-American attendants, a white man doubted for a second, before finally joining the circle.
He had a powerful reason to join the prayer: he was running for Congress, and this evening he was campaigning in the community center. But he also had one powerful reason to doubt: he is an Atheist.
His name is Wynne LeGrow, and his story explains the struggle of non-religious persons in American politics.
"African American communities don't separate politics and religion," LeGrow explained. "In my Congressional District (Virginia's 4th), the Democratic Party is largely Afro-American, and the party meetings always start with a prayer."
For an Atheist candidate in the United States, a campaign is full of awkward moments. "It was expected that I went to black churches, presented myself and delivered a political speech. So I went to four churches on Sunday mornings, and everybody assumed that I was a Christian," LeGrow recalled. "In the last one, the Reverend called me out to the front and asked me to speech. I was so uncomfortable that I decided that this will be the last time. So I wrote a public letter, explaining that I am an Atheist."
The letter undermines LeGrow's campaign. But, in the first place, why should anyone care about a candidate's beliefs, in the country that invented the freedom of religion?
In God We Trust
Think about a democracy in which a religious minority represents 15% of the population and is growing quickly, but is virtually excluded from the exercise of power. For half of the country, just being a member of this distrusted minority disqualifies a person for holding public office.
No, we are not talking about oppressed Christians in some Muslim country. We are talking about non-religious persons in the United States of America.
Freedom of religion is one of the greatest contributions from the United States to the world, since the First Amendment. And religious minorities are well represented in the most relevant public offices.
The first minority (Roman Catholics, 24% of the adult population) comprises 29% of the Congress. Jews and Mormons are overrepresented in the Senate and the House. In the current primaries, two Mormons (two, 8% of the population) are running for President. It is a matter of debate if their faith could hurt their campaigns, but it doesn't seem to be the case: one of them (Mitt Romney) is widely seen as the front-runner for the GOP nomination. Americans elected their first Catholic President (John F. Kennedy) fifty-one years ago. In 2000 an Orthodox Jew (Joe Lieberman) won the plurality of votes to be the Vice President of the Union.
But there is an exception to the tolerance: non-religious Americans, or "none." In 2006, a Gallup Poll asked if America was ready to have an Atheist President; a stunning 84% answered "No."
Another Gallup Poll, in 2011, asked a more personal question: If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for President, who happened to be an Atheist, would you vote for that person? 49% recognized that they would not vote for his party's well-qualified candidate (other 49% said that they would). Americans would rather vote for a gay or lesbian (67% would) than for an Atheist.
This level of bigotry is similar to discrimination against Afro-American before the Civil Rights Act; in 1958, 53% of the citizens said they would not vote for a Black candidate. Or against women before World War II; in 1937, 64% said they would not vote for a female candidate.
Americans are now considerably more tolerant about race, gender, sexual behavior and faith. But not too much about the lack of faith.
In one of the GOP Presidential debates, the candidate Newt Gingrich emphasized that only deeply religious persons are fit to exercise the Presidency.
"How can you have judgment if you have no faith? And how can I trust you with power if you don't pray?" asked the former House Speaker. "The notion that you are endowed by your creator sets a certain boundary on what we mean by America."
"In the United States, religion serves as a proxy for morality. The way we try to figure wherever or not a political candidate is good, trustworthy and honest, is we ask if he or she is religious," said professor of American religious history Randall Balmer. "Is a bad question, because it assumed that someone who is not religious cannot be a moral person, and that is demonstrably false. But we don't have any other way to answer the question."
"Atheists are at the bottom," admitted Herb Silverman, President of the Secular Coalition of America, an umbrella association for nontheistic organizations, which acts as a pressure group in Washington, D.C. "Many Americans still think that if you don't believe in God, you will not have any moral standard. And they are wrong; the less religious countries, like the Scandinavian, are very ethical countries," said Mr. Silverman.
Coming out of the closet
Pete Stark is the 0.2% man. The one and only of 535 members of the US Congress who recognized in public that he does not believe in God.
But this full disclosure was not easy. Congressman Stark spent his first 34 years in Congress in the closet -- in the religious closet, I mean. Since his arrival to the House of Representatives, in 1973, he defined himself as "Unitarian." In 2007, he added a supplementary description about his beliefs: "I am a Unitarian who does not believe in a Supreme Being." With these twelve words, Mr. Stark made history: he became the first U.S. Congressman ever to describe himself as non-religious.
"It is our hope that Stark will become an inspiration for others who have hidden their conclusions for far too long," said a 2007 statement of Roy Speckhardt, director of the American Humanist Association. But four years later, his hopes are still only hopes: no other Congressman followed Stark's steps.
"We know that other 27 members of Congress are Atheists. But they are afraid to recognize it in public, because of the reaction of his constituencies," said Mr. Silverman. "Most of them are in the Democratic Party, but we also have some Republicans." However, he refused to be specific about their party identification or the states they represent: "My job is not to force people out of the closet."
"If an openly Atheist or Agnostic person run for political office, that person is going to find a lot of suspicion about whether or not he or she is qualified for office," said Mr. Balmer.
If someone could afford this risk, it was Mr. Stark. By 2007, he already had won 17 consecutive elections, the last five of them with more than 70% of the votes. He represents a district in San Francisco Bay, likely one of the most liberal (and less religious) areas in the entire United States. And even so, he waited until his 75th birthday for disclosure.
"I received over 5,000 e-mails from around the world, 4,900 of them congratulating me," Mr. Stark recalled. And in his liberal district, he was not at all hurt by the revelation; he won easy reelections in 2008 and 2010, and will seek his 20th. consecutive term in 2012.
As Mr. Balmer joked: "For sure he can survive. It's California!"
God and the market
Outside the Golden State, the situation is different. Let's go back to Wynne LeGrow (paradoxically, the son of a Protestant minister), who in 2010 challenged incumbent Virginia Representative Randy Forbes, the founder and chairman of the Congressional Prayer Caucus. Mr. Forbes had proposed legislation to designate the United States as a Judeo-Christian nation. He also pushed for a formal declaration of the Congress, affirming that "the Holy Bible is God's Word."
LeGrow's campaign felt apart after his disclosure as an Atheist. The key Democratic leaders gave him the cold shoulder. One of them, Lionell Spruill Sr., refused to campaign for his party's candidate. "I can't take him to churches as an Atheist," Mr. Spruill said. "That would hurt me." Another influential Democrat, Rev. Jake Manley Sr., said: "I could not vote for a man who doesn't believe in some power higher than his."
With a huge lead on the polls, Congressman Forbes didn't attack Mr. LeGrow personally. But he accused non-believers of trying to exclude people of faith of government. "We have to make sure they don't succeed," Mr. Forbes said.
At least in Virginia, they didn't. Mr. Forbes won by a landslide: 62% to 38%. As Mr. LeGrow discovered, it is not easy to conduct an effective campaign being a "none," in a country in which a lot of the community life is organized around churches and religious communities. "American organize themselves by religion rather than by politics," said Mr. Balmer. "It is part of the culture. If you move to the South, probably your neighbor will knock on your door and invite you to the church on [the] following Sunday."
Why is the United States different than almost any other developed country in the world? For Mr. Balmer, the reason is the free market. Contrary to Europe, the freedom of religion and the lack of an official Church "set up a free market place for religious life, so many people are competing which one another for religious followers."
But, even in a religious culture, the God-centered politics is a new phenomenon. "Religion has become a major issue in politics over the last twenty or thirty years," said Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University.
Mr. Balmer is more specific: "Until 1976, there was very little interest in the religion of presidents. But Nixon was so corrupt and so awful, that this year a Baptist pastor called Jimmy Carter comes out of nowhere and said: Look, I am a newly-born Christian, I am a person of faith, I won't lie to you. And Americans said: He is our guy." After Carter's victory, public displays of faith became mandatory for any Presidential candidate.
The last civil rights fight?
Until today, in seven states the law formally excluded non-believers from public office: Arkansas, North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
But in a 1961 unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution prohibits the requiring of any kind of religious test for public office, leading to a de facto repeal of these states' laws.
So, non-religious candidates are authorized to run (and, probably, lose). "The legal barriers do not exist anymore. Now the challenge is being able to win", said Mr. Silverman. At least, "none" won a symbolic victory, when they were mentioned for the first time in an inaugural speech in 2009. President Barack Obama said that "we are a Nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers."
And even if a 39.6% of the population still believes that Atheists "do not agree at all with my vision of American society" (more than 26.3% for Muslims or 22.6% for Homosexuals), maybe the demographic reality will change these perceptions. One in four young Americans is "none" and 660,000 persons added to this population every year, more than in any religious denomination.
In other words, now it is much more likely than an average American has an Atheist or Agnostic neighbor, classmate, friend, or son. And what about a President?
"We are a relevant and growing minority," said Mr. Silverman. "And we have rights. After all, this is one of the last civil rights fights."
"Atheists are at the end of the line. It will change slowly, but probably not in my lifetime," said Mr. Balmer. Then he paused and smiled: "But I never thought that I will see an Afro-American President in my lifetime. And here we are."
Wayne LeGrow also is cautiously optimistic. He plans to write a book about his failed candidacy, to raise money and maybe pay for another run. He laughed and said: "Surely, this time I will not join any prayer circle."


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The Scriptures tell us that God is good, pure, holy and invisible. He created the world and all that is in it, including man. He gave us the ability to possess His Spirit, teaching us that our knowledge of Him calls us to the reasonable duty of worship and thanksgiving, that we may daily give ourselves to Him in service. This is elementary worship.
Scriptures also tell us worship literally means "to be prostrate on the ground before God, glorifying Him with reverence, honor and service". True worship is profound reverence, respect, and willingness to genuinely serve with our mind, emotions, and bodily strength. (See Isaiah 6.)
True worship can be individual or corporate. The Old Testament emphasizes public worship at the Tabernacle and Temple. The New Testament clearly calls for worship to be an essential part of every Christian's daily life (Matthew 6:6) and the character of the local church (1 Corinthians 14:25, 26). When we pray, read and study the Bible, listen to the Spirit's call as the Word is preached, and participate in music that lifts our voices to God, confessing and adoring Him, this is worship.
God's perfection is His spirituality. He could not be infinite, immutable, and omniscient if He were a physical being. We read in John 4:23, 24: "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is Spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
When we see the world as God's creation and consider His power, the order of His wisdom, and the usefulness of the world as His goodness, we discern our need to thank Him for our existence and life. As we ponder all this, His spiritual nature, and His infinite transcendence, we find ourselves in true spiritual worship glorifying Him in the manner that is suitable to His person and His infinity.
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I recently listened to a couple of This American Life episodes that provide an excellent overview of the cost drivers in the US health care system. As a starting point, see this chart.
Ah, but why? I give you episodes 391 and 392.By a mile, we pay more for pretty much everything, and this is a big reason that our overall healthcare costs are the highest on the planet. As a bonus, I've highlighted Switzerland in purple. Aside from the U.S., they probably have the biggest free-market component to their healthcare system in the rich world, and guess what? They come in second or third on all but one of the procedures. You may draw your own conclusions.
On the demand and provider side
• One-third of spending is on unnecessary items. Yes, 33%.
• The US system is decentralized and provides wildly varying standards of care, even from nearby city to city. The hysterectomy rate in one city was so high, for no statistically observable reason, that it was predicted 80% of women would get one eventually.
• The number of providers in an area correlates rather well with the services consumed, regardless of statistical need.
• The system is fee-for-service, not fee-for-outcome, so providers have a strong incentive to provide more often and more expensive services.
• Customer understanding of return-on-investment is spotty at best, resulting in demand for trendy, marginal or negative value things like unnecessary CAT scans. Things like huge marketing campaigns for marginal or negative value prostate cancer screenings don't help.
On the insurance side, or, sympathy for the devil
• Did you know there was a big round of recent hospital and provider system consolidation? As a result, insurance companies often have little negotiation power vs. these big consoliated systems.
• The way the negotiations work out is that the biggest insurance company players get good rates. Everyone else pays sky-high rates because hey, the providers don't need your tiny number of customers.
• There is near-zero pricing transparency. All deals are individually negotiated between insurers and providers. Doctors often have no idea what things cost.
• Did you know that pharmaceuticals introduced those coupons and discount cards as a pushback against the insurance company co-pay system? The co-pays are there to keep you and your doctors from getting the more-expensive, no-difference non-generic versions; the cards are the drug company returning fire to get your costs back down so you'll spend more of the insurer's money.
• In the 1990s HMOs actually controlled costs without lowering health. The health care share of GDP was flat through the 1990s, with no detectable result on overall health. No, really. In retrospect this explains why it fell off the political radar.


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I started in early December really paying attention to what I eat. I am a super good eater, very consistent exerciser but since about 45 years old, I have found that I have added about 10 lbs extra. I was always around 155-160 lbs and when I hit 170 I started to feel like hell. Anyway, I got myself onto fitday.com to register my daily calories and monitor my fat intake versus carb/protein intake. I took myself down from 171 to 162.5 lbs (biked like crazy in dam cold Canadian air all month) to get to this point.
Here is what I find disturbing. I weight myself every morning when I get up and if I go out and have any type of an "off night", like 2 glasses of wine and maybe desert after dinner, I will be like 3 lbs heavier the next morning? Knowing that 1 lb is roughly 3,500 calories, how can this be? I am not talking Big Mac with fries and a shake here,it could be a nice chicken breast with no skin eaten with a side of pasta with a salad. The one item that simply throws my body into mayhem is alcohol. If I drink it, I feel bad the next day and can feel the extra weight in my stomach right away. So, I have learned that totally staying away from booze is critical for me, but still not sure how my weight could fluctuate that much when there is no way I could have posiibly taken in the equivalent amount of calories?
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Thread: Teachers don't...
16-12-02, 14:14 #1Al (belief suspended) LeighGuest
Do any workHave internet access restrictionsBuy forks less than 5 inchesTeach children anything usefulHave any morals when faced with 16 year old girls. (you lucky lucky b@stards)Alledgedly. In a kind of tongue-in-cheek-way. If you can, do. If you can't teach. If you can read this, thank christ you're not blind and in control of a motor vehicle.
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Ooooh...I know the answer to this one...
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Have less than 12 weeks holiday a year.Have to worry about their pension cos it's still a decent final salary one.Have to bunk off early to miss the rush hour - we're already home.
16-12-02, 14:19 #4Al (belief suspended) LeighGuest
That's the ticket.Have to work past 3pmHave to wear tweed patches (or is that still compulsary)Take their work home with themHave any pen colours other than redHave any problem thinking they could do better than anybody else in any industry
16-12-02, 14:20 #5Al (belief suspended) LeighGuest
Apart from Luke. He's really nice. (if you want anymore like that, send MORE money)
16-12-02, 14:20 #6Gavin MoirGuest
Teachers don't........need to work any less, as they were put here to make the rest of the slacking workforce look like the hardest working things since the Phillipines were discovered.
16-12-02, 14:22 #7
...spend most of their free time marking work, planning lessons, writing reports, marking exams...Oh, hang on, they do. My mistake.
16-12-02, 14:24 #8Al (belief suspended) LeighGuest
Oy, at the BACK, yes, you Carlson, as usual disrupting the class with your exageration and lies. You're ruining it for everyone. I don't know why I bother, I really don't.100 lines. I will not pretend to believe teachers do any real work" or you'll be feeling the back of hand."
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Do they? Sure this isn't just a spurious rumour to justify the holidays?Few more:...know they're on to a good thing....understand that striking is actually welcomed by their clients....really have foreign holidays subsidised.
16-12-02, 14:31 #10Gavin MoirGuest
...have to put up with clients who think they know better, but in reality know nothing at all.Wait a minute, - another mistake!
16-12-02, 14:32 #11Al (belief suspended) LeighGuest
Fantastic!Where do I sign? And can I choose a girls only school with nyphomaniac 17 year old girls with long legs and mandatory short skirts? Is that the kind of thing I can put on an application form?
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I'm moving you to Set D Gavin...I think you faked your exam results.
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Alex - www.roedean.com ...I THINK this is the school website...?
16-12-02, 14:35 #14Al (belief suspended) LeighGuest
<just come back from a lie down>*whhhooooaahhh. I'm applying for the position of biology teacher.
16-12-02, 14:42 #15Gavin MoirGuest
I did fake my exam results (as yet undetected) however I did get a kosher A for Aggression, Beatings and Cruelty A-Level. Right through to a phd in Far Eastern Advances Torture.So mess with my GCSE grades at your peril!I'm not afraid of teachers.........anymore!
16-12-02, 14:42 #16Anne BrownGuest
Teachers, Don't!
16-12-02, 14:47 #17Gavin MoirGuest
... as in Teachers, know your limits!"?"
16-12-02, 14:56 #18Dr Dolittle - Pimpy bike, portly riderGuest
..... get to spend much time on BM anymore But at least I get nice long holidays
16-12-02, 17:39 #19Si McNallyGuest
Who let that gerbil out of it's cage?
16-12-02, 17:40 #20Dr Dolittle - Pimpy bike, portly riderGuest
Grrrrr!I'm on holiday. One of the (very few so far) perks of the job....
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New Jersey Obituaries - November 23, 1898 - DeMaris Carlton Morris
DeMaris Carlton Morris, son of Daniel Morris of Eatontown, died last Thursday of pneumonia. The boy was eleven months old and had been sick but a few hours. The funeral was held on Sunday at one o'clock at the house and at half-past one o'clock at the Methodist church. The service was conducted by Rev. F. A. DeMaris and the body was buried at Little Silver.
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Scott Twp. board finalizes 12 percent sewer rate increase
SCOTT TWP. - The sewer authority finalized a 12 percent sewer rate increase Tuesday that calls for township residents to pay the highest sewer bill in Lackawanna County.
The decision was made despite pleas from residents who argued such a hike would only increase the number of delinquencies and hurt those already struggling to make ends meet.
"What do you think is going to happen in the winter when people have to decide between paying their sewer bills and electric bills?" resident Steve Pritchyk asked. "They will heat their house. More people won't pay."
Board members voted 4-0 at the special meeting to approve the 2013 budget, which includes a jump in the sewer rate from $78.40 to $87.91 a month. The money will be used to help pay costs associated with the $23.8 million sewer project. Roaring Brook Twp. has the second-highest sewer rate in the county at $80 a month.
"I know it's a lot of money, but unfortunately, if we don't do it, we will be bankrupt," authority Chairman Mike Grant said. "We don't have another solution at this point."
The monthly sewer rate could have been set lower years ago, board member Michael Giannetta said, had board members asked residents to pay more upfront.
Instead, the authority borrowed more money to cover the cost of every grinder pump - $2,500 each - and tap fee - another $2,500 each.
"We didn't think it would be reasonable to ask people to come up with $10,000 on the spot," said Mr. Giannetta, who included the average cost of hooking up to the system. "We decided it would be more reasonable to spread that cost out over a 40-year term."
Still, residents weren't satisfied with the solution.
"Why doesn't every resident have to help pay back the township's loan?" resident Jack Crotti asked. "It benefits everyone, but only the residents along the central sewer line have to pay."
Mr. Giannetta said the authority "legally can't ask those who aren't connected ... to pay back the loan."
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PD: Homeowner shoots, kills intruder in Phoenix
PHOENIX - Police say a Phoenix homeowner shot and killed an intruder Friday morning.
Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson said the shooting happened inside a home near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road.
The suspect has been identified as 30-year-old William Thomas Mackey.
Thompson said officers responded to the home around 3:20 a.m. where the 77-year-old resident told them someone had burglarized his home the day before and that he was awakened on Friday by an intruder.
He said he realized the intruder was not a family member and got a shotgun. He told police he feared for his life and fired one shot at the suspect who was struck and fell to the ground.
Thompson said Mackey was pronounced deceased at the scene. A pickup truck he drove to the scene was found in front of the residence, according to Thompson.
Neighbor Sandi Corbin, who has lived in the neighborhood for 26 years, said she heard the shot. She told ABC15 burglaries are not uncommon in her neighborhood.
"I've been robbed six times," Corbin said.
Jeffrey Gabriel lives just a couple of houses away. As he watched Mackey's father take away the pickup truck he was trying to make sense of what had happened.
"My attitude is it happened, I feel bad for the family that lost him. I feel bad for my neighbor because he's got to live with himself but he was protecting his stuff. I can't judge him for that," Gabriel said.
Thompson said police aren't sure if Mackey was the same person who burglarized the home on Thursday. He said it did not appear that Mackey was armed.
Thompson said the scene and interview with the burglary victim were consistent with self defense, however the case will be go to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for review.


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|Scoop'n the News — Dragon boy's basketball team makes community proud
|Written by Brenda Johnson Brandt
Holyoke High School's boys' basketball team achieved runner-up honors in the entire state of Colorado in 2A basketball last weekend, and the size of the Dragon cheering section was phenomenal.
Holyoke turned out in full force to cheer on a team that has won our hearts throughout the season and even before.
Cheerleaders, Pep Band, other students, faculty, former faculty, family, college students, former HHS basketball players, loyal fans with no particular ties to this team and more were wearing Dragon green at Saturday's championship ball game in Pueblo. We're not talking about a one-hour trip, but a real time commitment to support the Dragons.
Timing is perfect with St. Patrick's Day so close to the state basketball tournament. Green wigs, beads, clothing and more were easily accessible, and the fans displayed their loyalty well.
Painted faces, spiked hair, zany costumes—all represented a break from the norm for fans to show their allegiance to a team they believe in.
Understandably, for the players, coaches and all of us, it was a sad ending, with such a close shot at the championship. Trailing by only one point with 50 seconds remaining in the game, the ultimate gold ball was in sight.
But it was not meant to be, and the three-point loss was marked for the written record.
Waiting for team members to emerge from the locker room after the final ball game in Pueblo, I observed so much that continues to make this Dragon team champions in my book.
The HHS basketball players of tomorrow, from preschool through junior high age, all felt the loss as if it was their own. This team has made us all feel a part of their fantastic season.
When the young children waited at the front of the line to greet their heroes, they were not disappointed. Austin Tharp had a smile, a hand shake, a fist-bump or high-five—whatever was appropriate. And his response maintained his "champion" status as he moved on to share deeper emotions with family.
Hugs of support from dads, moms, siblings, grandparents and friends sealed family connections and displayed a community camaraderie that is nothing but healthy.
It was heart-wrenching, at best, and as one fan standing by me said, "I learned a long time ago that it feels a whole lot better to win." Witnessing the disappointment of a team we love made all of us cry.
When the emotion of the moment fades beyond the ball game, it's with much pride that this team's success can be recorded.
Only two losses in a season, and both to state champions, ranks Holyoke right up there.
As a team, the Dragons set a new statewide record by holding their opponents to an average of only 34.30 points per game.
Individual gains were attained throughout the season for the benefit of the team.
At the state tournament alone, there was so much to be proud of.
Austin repeatedly demonstrated his amazing ability to come out of a scramble with the ball, and he hit free throws that made huge impacts on the first two games. He was a well-deserved all-tourney team pick.
Colby Wailes was on target in the semis, starting off the scoring with a trey, then hitting a two-pointer and then another three-point shot for Holyoke's first eight points.
Michal Brown's height and long arms were a force to reckon with, even against some very tall opponents.
Those three seniors will be missed.
Kyle Carper finesses his way to the basket in such smooth style, it's fun to watch. In fourth-quarter action in the state finals, he maneuvered and twisted through two or three defenders and came up with two-point baskets. He earned his selection to the all-tourney team.
Ryan Baumgartner sets up the offense and does a phenomenal job of it. He's steady and smart, reading both his teammates and the opposition with much expertise.
Evan Swanson was on the mark in the finals, hitting three treys and another two-point basket for strong contribution to the team.
Logan Krueger started the season late after a football injury forced knee surgery. He added much depth to the team and was a solid player.
Coaches John Baumgartner and Scott Dille certainly deserve credit, as well, as do other members of the Dragon varsity, team manager and statskeepers.
It may not be on the CHSAA books, but the HHS 2008-09 boys' basketball team members are champions in Holyoke.
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Last spring in New Orleans I met a D.C. lobbyist who had read my piece on John McCain's lack of a visit to New Orleans aside from his private fund-raisers, and we talked about how shortly after that McCain flew down and walked through the 9th Ward. I joked that maybe McCain's staffers were taking direction from the Huffington Post, and the lobbyist answered, "Actually they have to. It's the only way to get out in front of the news cycle as it breaks."
Politico just echoed this, quoting Bryan Rogers who had been McCain's spokesman saying, "HuffPo and [Talking Points Memo] really are the assignment editors for many in the Washington press corps -- particularly the cables. That's not just a Republican hack saying it -- that's speaking as a press guy fielding calls and e-mails daily from the MSM that start with, 'Did you see this thing on Huffington Post?' They were effective and they wasted a lot of our time."
You're welcome. Oil of Delay, McCain Cancels Louisiana Trip after Barge Spill described the 1/2 million gallon oil spill that kept McCain from visiting v.p. contender Bobby Jindal on an oil rig, and Rocky Road: Time Defends McCain's New Orleans Gaffe covered McCain's 'tear it down or whatever' reference to the 9th Ward and the Time reporter who called foul because apparently you can't quote someone on an ice cream run. Ickies' Breakey Heart as the Fight Winds Down called the race for Barack Obama while Hillary Clinton's surrogates wrangled over the final delegates. Clinton's seizing on Mayhill Fowler's Guns, God and Religion Obama post (and its 6,000 comments) is an infamous example of the Internet driving campaigns. Candidate responses were the gifts that kept on giving, and I was tempted to float a test balloon to see if advisers were actually charting their course with punditry. The test? Whether John McCain would rock a full-on Will Ferrell style perm.
First headline: "Why Does McCain Refuse to Get a Perm?"
Followup stories would have included:
"John McCain Still Spurning Perm: Affront to His Base?"
"V.P. Pick Palin: Pro Perm or Lock Blocker?"
"Beltway Beauticians Ponder: Is McCain Curl-Worthy?"
"Clowns Weigh In on Curlgate"
And finally,
"Mainstream Media Scoops Up Permanent Campaign"
We'll never know if Rogers could have talked his candidate into curly locks, but to quote Hemingway, isn't it pretty to think so? The McCains are a web savvy family - Megan McCain is taking on Ann Coulter through the Daily Beast and Cindy could still mix it up with Whoopi Goldberg on Wowowow if they're into Cindy's musings.
But Huffington Post remains the golden mean with 8.8 million readers in April alone. Politico confirms that the right wing is now jumping through whatever flaming hoops it can for exposure here since RedState's approach no longer plays in Peoria.
Speaking of which, have you gotten a good look at Republican Congressman and Huffington blogger Aaron Schock's hair lately? It's like he thinks he's too cool for curls.
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A report on the Japanese site Rocket News reports that there is a catch for bringing a Wii U controller to another region for use. For example, using a Wii U controller from the West in Japan may not "region lock it" (bar you from using it) but it will not allow you to apply any firmware updates. Earlier reports suggested that the controller could not be used with a console that might be from a different region. A translation by this NeoGAF thread of an error message clarifies the problem a little bit:
"The update cannot be completed with an overseas Wii U GamePad," reads the error message.
This simply means that your foreign controller won't be able to take a firmware update in another region. Apparently Wii U controllers have their own special firmware separate from the system's firmware updates. Ultimately this does not matter for now because none of the games available right now in any supported regions are capable of supporting more than one Wii U controller. If that changes then this story will have more relevance, but it's still good to know…
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Ancient cultures, especially the Sumerians, already possessed great knowledge in astronomy, astrology, mathematics and geometry some 5000 years ago. It is also well known that they observed and recorded the synodic cycles of the Moon, Venus and some of the other planets. They were able to predict the occurrence of eclipses for centuries ahead. However, this required awareness about the so-called Saros cycle – a knowledge that originated with the Sumerians. John N. Harris, an expert on Babylonian astronomy, is convinced that the Babylonians and Sumerians not only observed and understood celestial mechanical phenomena, but clearly knew how to compute the various synodic periods.
The Maya, for example, had a Venus calendar and were able to calculate the phases of Venus, as well as its transits. But in order to accomplish that, they had to know by how the much the node line of Venus moves over a certain time period.
Nobody denies that the long term accuracy of the Mayan Calendar is about three times better than that of the modern Gregorian calendar. In order to calculate the leap years, the Mayans knew how to integrate the numbers 13 and 20 into their calendar system. Supposedly they also had a calendar of 260 days (13 x 20). What purpose did that serve?
For the observer (astronomer) on Earth there are only 3 important crossings or nodes for orientation purposes: the equinoxes to determine the tropical year, the Saros cycle for the lunar calendar and for calculating solar and lunar eclipses, and the Venus node line to determine the phases and transits of Venus. It seems that a 260 day-calendar makes little sense, because without a proper reference point it leads into total chaos.
Just as we have the Decimal and the Binary system, the Maya had a numeral system based on the number 20. This leads us back 4862 years (20 × 243 + 8 - 6) to the possible beginning of the calendar of the Maya, or rather the one of their ancestors.
During that period the node line of Venus was approx. 44.47° distant from the Galactic Center, and the upper transit of Venus occurred on the 22nd of April.
John Major Jenkins, Maya expert and author of "Galactic Alignment", offers evidence that in the year 2012 the Maya calendar reaches its end or climax. Apparently in that year the winter & summer solstice will be aligned with the Galactic Center.
And since the next Venus transit will be on June 6, 2012, twenty 251-year Venus cycles occurred since 2856 BC. Except for these two events - the alignment with the galactic center and the Venus transit, which depends upon the synchronous node line movement – there is no other significant celestial phenomenon occurring in the year 2012.
The fact is, as we shall see later, that the synodic motion is 32.88" annually. The movement of the Venus node line is in the opposite direction and according to NASA data the rate happens to be 32.44" per year. This implies that an isolated or central transit occurred about 9000 years* ago. And based on the same data, regular transit pairs occurred again for the first time roughly 7600 years later, after May 22, 554 AD.
*(32.88" minus 32.44" = 0.44"; 32.88 ÷" 0.44" ÷ 2 × 243 years = 9079 years)
How ironic: The Maya and their predecessors could not have known anything about transit pairs, and thus they could at best have been aware about a 243-year cycle (2004). Yet they were able to predict the transit of the June 6th 2012, the end of the 20 × 251 cycle. As they lived before Hipparchus they did not know anything about the Precession of the Equinox, or did they? Evidently, they realized that the node line of Venus migrates in sync with the synodic cycle, which implies that transits always occur in pairs based on tropical time.
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Not since President James Buchanan left America open to secession and civil war in the late 1850s has America suffered a leader so determined to undermine our fundamental interests.(HT: David "Spengler" Goldman) It was a gala affair on the White House Lawn. The POTUS and The President of Mexico stood behind the podium and delivered addresses of mutual friendship and good will. It seems the | Read More »


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It's Friday night, and the sky is cloudless and moonless. I'm cruising the streets of White River Junction, Vermont, with my posse; T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, e.e. cummings and Wallace Stevens. We've got our gang colors on--tweed sport coats--because we're out for retribution. Eliot was making a posthumous appearance at the Bread Stone Writer's Conference the night before, hovering like a brooding omnipresence over a panel discussion on De-Privileging the Dead White Male, when the head of the low-residency poetry program at the University of Vermont-Quechee campus tossed some green tea and honey on his ghostly apparition. Forget what you've heard about the incorporeality of the afterlife; T-Dawg, as he is known fondly among us, has first degree burns on his hands to show for the gross incivility he was subjected to.
"You pointin' that green tea at me, maggot?"
"Can we stop at Dairy Queen?" Stevens says from the seat beside me--typical for the Emperor of Ice Cream.
"Yes if you're going to get something to drink," I say. "No if you want a sundae. You know they give you the runs."
"how come stevens always gets to ride shotgun?" cummings asks from the back seat.
"Because his reputation is the highest at this point," I reply, trying to broker a peace. "It's not my call--talk to the critics."
Stevens: "I could really go for a Heath Bar Blizzard sundae right now."
cummings rolls down his window and flips his cigarette out--a minor act of rebellion against the excesses of the environmental movement.
"You jerk," Frost says. "Just because you're a registered Republican doesn't mean you can be a pig."
"I live in Cambridge, Mass.," Cummings says, momentarily drawing himself up from his normal lower-case orthographic state. "Littering is an inalienable right when you live in the city."
e.e. cummings: "excuse me for smoking."
I pull my car over to the side of the road outside the Writer's Center, and we sit in silence as we wait for the poet who will be our random victim to walk out.
"Did everyone bring a beverage to toss?" I ask. Great poets tend to be world-class wool-gatherers, forgetting even the most important details of a night time terror ride.
"I brought a bottle of cider that I made myself," Frost says. Good old Bob--marginalized as a conservative during his life, he soldiered on until he got his day in the sun at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, that tax-cutting imperialist who accused Richard Nixon of being weak on defense!
"Something there is that doesn't love a tax . . ."
"I brought my martini shaker," Eliot says. "Can I have a sip?"
"It's up to you," I say. "I'd think you'd want to keep your martini dry until you saw the whites of a liberal poet's eyes."
"You didn't stop at Dairy Queen," Stevens says with a dream-like voice. "No root beer float."
"Give him a Gatorade, would you?" I say to the guys in the back, and Frost reaches into my red and white Coleman cooler, the one I've been using since I was introduced to Schlitz Malt Liquor on the night shift at an ice plant when I was fifteen.
Frost hands one forward to his poetic rival, and Stevens jumps a bit when the chilled plastic bottle is placed in his hands. "A frosty cold one from Frost," he says with a thin little smile after he's recovered. I note that he doesn't say thank you; that's Stevens for you, an imperial sense of entitlement.
We had argued over when and how we would retaliate for the indignity that Eliot suffered at the hands of his poetic inferior. We debated whether we should respond in kind with a searing hot beverage, but decided we would take the high road. Liberal poets may scar their competitors with coffee and tea, but we would repay them with an olive branch; cold drinks at worst, lukewarm liquids preferred. We don't have to throw stuff to make a point; we use our words, as our mothers told us to long ago.
cummings--as he is wont to do--is the only one to push the envelope. he's brought along two four-packs of single serving wine bottles, one white and one red, and from the malevolent look on his face my guess is he's going to twist the cap on the cabernet first in order to inflict the maximum amount of damage to some poor poetaster's affected Mexican peasant shirt.
"Why do they hate us?" Stevens asks no one in particular.
"Because you're better than them," I say, "and because you undermine their belief that a poem must conform to a rigid view of the way the world ought to be, instead of the way it is."
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull crap," Stevens says, again as if he's talking in his sleep.
"On the nosey," I say.
cummings shushes me as he sees a man in a Greek fisherman's cap stumble down the stairs and then out onto the lawn. Frost clears his throat, and I can feel a poem coming on.
He's in his cups as he descends
the stairs that lead to the conference
where within I have no friends
and that has made all the difference.
The three poets in the back slip quietly out the street-side door and take their places underneath some overgrown rhododendrons, the kind Virginia Woolf compared to overfed suburban stockbrokers.
Woolf: "I loaned my Black & Decker hedgetrimmer to Marianne Moore, and now she won't give it back."
The poet is humming to himself as he comes down the drive; I believe I detect the strains of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water," which would make him just about my age if he's recalling the monster guitar hits of his youth--SOTW is ranked #12 on Q magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
"Smoke--on the wa-ter/Fire in the skies," the guy sings, and not too well. I see Frost, Cummings and Eliot exchange glances, then pounce on him.
Fuckin' poetry, man.
"What the . . ." I hear the guy say before Eliot succeeds in stuffing some Lilly Pulitzer cocktail napkins in his mouth.
Tres festive!
The trio of nefarious verse-slingers drags the guy to the car where they stuff him in the back seat between Frost and Eliot--the "bitch" seat. Cummings starts to get in the front, but Stevens stops him.
"I have not relinquished my shotgun rights!" he says in a prissy tone.
"come on, wally!" cummings exclaims. We're all getting a bit exasperated at the old man's hyper-formalism.
Stevens ignores him, gets out and waits for cummings to "ride the stick." Thankfully, my car has an automatic tranny on the column, so it's not so bad.
"Where are you taking me?" the poet--and I used the word advisedly, since I recognize him--asks. It is Bendall Plourde, a refugee from a Master of Fine Arts program who claimed "printer's error" when his amateurish attempt at a sonnet in a student newspaper drew derisive letters to the editor. Since I was the outside union typesetter for the paper I threatened to take out a full-page advertisement showing his original copy, with its mistakes of grammar, spelling, usage, syntax, mixed metaphors and pathetic fallacies--not to pile on or anything. I was prevailed upon not to place the ad for a sum in the high three figures--counting the decimal point, of course. Printer's error my ass.
We drive for awhile and once we're out in the country again Eliot removes the napkins from Plourde's mouth and, without missing a beat, throws a martini in his face.
"What'd you do that for?"
"I might ask you and your bien pensant colleagues the same thing, since I was doused with hot green tea at last night's session."
"Well you deserved it, you who said that liberalism was 'a worm eating itself into the traditions of our society.'"
"You dispute that?"
"Sure. All good poets are liberals--right?"
It's cummings' turn to chime in. "good lord, man--wherever did you get that idea?"
"From David Orr."
"who's that?"
"Just the poetry critic of the New York Times."
"He doesn't know his ass from his elbow," Frost says dismissively as he looks out the window at a field lying fallow, trying to wring a poem out of it. The guy never stops working!
"Orr is to Lionel Trilling as a snow cone is to the Matterhorn," Stevens intones with a voice of authority.
"Who's Lionel Trilling?" Plourde asks, genuinely mystified.
"The ur-liberal literary critic of the twentieth century," I say. "Author of The Liberal Imagination, who famously said 'liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition' of our time."
"So--that just supports what I said," Plourde says. "Ouch," he cries as Frost administers "Indian sunburn" to his right arm.
"Oh no--not Indian sunburn!"
"Au contraire," Eliot says. "Over and over again Trilling found that the poets he admired the most, the writers he thought would endure, including Proust, Joyce, Lawrence, Eliot, Yeats . . ."
"Yeats?" Plourde says with a note of betrayal in his voice--you can tell that one stung.
"Yes, Yeats," Eliot continues, "Mann, Kafka, Rilke, Gide, Hemingway, Coleridge, Kipling, Faulkner and my esteemed colleagues in this car--to all of them 'liberal ideology has been at best a matter of indifference,' if they weren't suspicious or even overtly hostile to it."
We didn't need any napkins to shut the guy up after that Honor Roll of Scribblers.
"Say it . . . say it ain't so!" he says finally, tears welling up in his eyes.
"I'd like to--for your sake--but I can't," Eliot continues. "Trilling thought you needed to be a part of the traditions of the west in order to effectively perceive and express the social distinctions we lump together under the rubric . . ."
"What's a rubric?"
1978 AMC Rubric
"A subcompact manufactured by American Motors in the sixties," Frost says. I'm pretty sure he's kidding.
" . . . of class," Eliot says. He gives Plourde a Cheshire-cat smile, and at this point everybody chucks their drinks at the guy. Justice prevails.
"Still," Plourde says as he tries to wipe the cheap cabernet off his favorite shirt, "Orr's right about one thing."
"What?" Frost asks.
"He said there weren't five conservative poets, and there's only four of you."
"How about our driver?" Eliot asks. I am so flattered!
"Him?" Plourde asks, snorting with contempt to think that the former printer's devil who took him down so many years ago in Worcester, Mass. would ever rise so high.
"Are you saying he's not a conservative?" Frost asks.
"No," Plourde replies, making a great show of his umbrage. "I'm saying he's not a poet."
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Ive been single for 2 days now.
It feels awesome.
Party tonight.
My sister broke my lip during the sleep with her elbow,how bad is that?
I have 7 days to prepare 4 subjects,not fair.
I've been listening to TFA a lot lately.
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LIVE HOOPS BLOG: UMass At La Salle On CBS College Sports TV
Welcome inside Tom Gola Arena for today's live blog from Philadelphia. This is Jason Yellin from UMass Media Relations bringing today's live blog from courtside. The Minutemen are looking for back-to-back wins in the City of Brotherly Love after knocking off Saint Joseph's last Sunday at The Palestra.
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Well, that's all from Philly! Be sure to check UMassAthletics.com for a complete recap with stats, notes, and more! Have a great rest of your weekend and be sure to head to the Mullins Center this Wednesday for Senior Day vs. GW. It will be a big game, so don't miss it! Stay safe with this big storm on our doorstep...GO UMass!
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Gary Correia hits two free throws and now it's only eight! (87-79)...UMass is getting closer and closer, let's hope there's time left. Just over a minute to go.
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Ricky Harris makes his first field goal after four misses. Bonner draws his 24th charge of the season and UMass is down 20, 72-52 with 9:39 left.
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Now coach Kellogg has shed his coat and is down to a shirt and pants of course.
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The La Salle cheerleaders are out on the court doing a pyramid with about 12 girls. Nice job.
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Right out of the box, La Salle gets and And-1 from Partin, who is up to 14 points. La Salle leads 48-29.
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Starting for UMass: David Gibbs, Gary Correia, Anthony Gurley, Tony Gaffney and Matt Glass.
La Salle has the same starters.
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We have hit halftime, La Salle leads 46-29 as Rodney Green nets a jumper just before halftime. Green has 18 points in the first half alone. His career-high is 26 points.
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Field Goals: UMass 36%, La Salle 52%
Green has 18 points, eight shy of his career high and Partin already has a career-high of 12 points.
UMass has no one in double-figures as Anthony Gurley has seven points off the bench. Tony Gaffney has five rebounds and one blocks....
Tough going!
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5:41 p.m.
Let's take a look around UMass Athletics this weekend, The men's lacrosse team had an impressive 18-6 win over Yale as Jimmy Connolly had a career-high seven goals. UMass softball won two games down in Georgia as Brandice Balschmiter tossed a one-hitter against No. 13 DePaul last night. Both teams should move up in their respective polls from No. 20 and No. 17.
5:37 p.m.
Chris Lowe misses two free throws and UMass just looks out of sync!
Now Tyrell Lynch gets a technical foul! Green makes both free throws. La Salle up 36-21
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La Salle leads 22-10, largest lead of the game 10:00 left. Ricky Harris is called for his second charge of the game. The Minutemen's leading scorer has been in a funk and is scorless 10 minutes into this contest.
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La Salle leads, 19-10 with 11:42 left in the half.
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Tony Gaffney just had a block that was not recorded by the La Salle stat keepers.
5:06 p.m.
UMass wins the tap and Ricky Harris called for a charge right away!
5:00 p.m.
Prior to the line-ups, La Salle's Yves Mekongo-Mbala, who is out with a broken hand, was honored for being the Explorers' fourth-ever Academic All-American.
We are getting ready to tip off as the lineups have just finished.
4:56 p.m.
UMass head coach Derek Kellogg made a late entrance meeting and chatting with some fans on his way to the court.
We are ready to tip it off! About 1,000 fans in a house.
4:50 p.m.
For La Salle, its a new line-up as coach Dr. John Giannini is going with a rewards system to determine his starters
4:45 p.m.
If you are watching on TV check out the ball boys for UMass in this game, as Drew and Jack Kenney are on the trip with their dad Tim Kenney, the UMass Associate AD, who also serves as the color analyst with Josh Maurer on the UMass Sports Network. The game is on the air right now with flagship WRNX 100.9 FM in Western Mass.
4:40 p.m.
Just a few hundred fans here in Tom Gola Arena, this facility holds 4,000 with half bleachers and half chairbacks. They are all blue in color except yellow seats that spell out LA SALLE.
There are huge banners celebrating the great teams of La Salle history the 1954 and 1955 NCAA Champions when Tom Gola played. Also featured is the 1952 NIT Champions and the 1987 NIT Finalists.
The gym is small with walls on each baseline side.
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The TV crew is one of the top ones from CBS College Sports as lead announcer Carter Blackburn, who called opening round games for CBS in the 2008 NCAA Tournament is here to call play-by-play. He is joined for former Xavier player Steve Wolf, who will be the voice of the A-10 Tournament for CBS College Sports in Atlantic City in two weeks. Wolf spoke to coach Derek Kellogg about the match-up about 20 minutes ago.
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I've pretty much realized that in order to drop weight I have to change the amount I eat. I generally eat well. I don't eat junk food - having a pizza is a rare event and I get guilt trips over it anyway. My problem is I eat a lot of what I do eat. I eat rice and wheat pasta until it comes out my ears and vegetables and chicken by the ton. I probably eat too much canned food too - baked beans over rice with hot sauce is a favourite! I don't eat too much red meat and when I do it is extra lean. I eat these foods primarily because I prefer the taste - I'm not obsessed about fat per se; I genuinely don't like fatty foods. The problem is that I can eat a pound of pasta in one sitting without too much trouble. I weigh 177 pounds and need to drop 15 for race season. No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to reduce my portion size.
Is it simply a case of slowly reducing what I eat, or should I fill up on other foods instead? I just don't seem to be dropping any weight no matter how much I ride the trainer. I'm not a big drinker either.