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AN investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner is now focusing on a suspicion of foul play, as evidence suggests it was diverted hundreds of miles off course.
Military radar plotting suggests that an unidentified aircraft, which investigators suspect was missing Flight MH370, appeared to be following a commonly used route when it was last spotted early on Saturday, northwest of Malaysia.
The course - headed into the Andaman Sea - could only have been set deliberately, either by flying the Boeing 777-200ER manually or by auto-pilot.
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The last sighting of the aircraft on civilian radar came shortly before 1.30am, less than one hour after take-off from Kuala Lumpar, flying, as scheduled across the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand on the eastern side of peninsular Malaysia, heading towards Beijing.
However, Malaysia's air force chief has said an aircraft that could have been the missing plane was plotted on military radar at 2.15am, 200 miles off Malaysia's west coast.
The fact that the plane - which analysts are trying to identify as the MH370 or not - had lost contact with air traffic control and was invisible to civilian radar suggests someone on board had turned off its communication systems.
A source close to the investiation said inquiries were now focusing on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane diverted the flight hundreds of miles off course.
"What we can say is, we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards," said the source, a senior Malaysian police official.
Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said he could not confirm the last heading of the plane or if investigators were focusing on sabotage.
"A normal investigation becomes narrower with time as new information focuses the search, but in this case, the information has forced us to look further afield."
The latest radar evidence is consistent with the expansion of the search to the west of Malaysia.
However, if the jetliner did enter the Andaman Sea heading toward the Indian Ocean, a vast expanse with depths of more than 23,000 feet, the task faced by searchers becomes daunting. Winds and currents could shift surface debris tens of nautical miles within hours, dramatically widening the search area with each passing day.
There has been no trace of the plane nor any sign of wreckage as military aircraft and vessels of more than a dozen countries scour vast areas of south-east Asian seas.
"Ships alone are not going to get you that coverage, helicopters are barely going to make a dent in it and only a few countries fly [long-range search aircraft] P-3s," said William Marks, spokesman for the US Seventh Fleet.
"So this massive expanse of water space will be the biggest challenge," he added.
China, which had more than 150 citizens on board the missing plane, has deployed four warships, four coastguard vessels, eight aircraft and trained 10 satellites on a wide search area.
Chinese media have described the deployment as the largest Chinese rescue fleet ever assembled.
An already difficult search has been complicated in some areas by dense smoke caused by burning forest and farmland, which has enveloped much of Malaysia and spilled into the Strait of Malacca.


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I have had domains with no keywording or phrasing in them rise to the top of the pile while others with the same keyword or phrase in the domain have been kicked down.
Maybe some others have some ideas on this.
Those that had the url formed like:
FrequentKeyword1-FrequentKeyword2.com or .nation had absolutely fantastic rankings in major search engines.
The best one had one of those ridiculous "Welcome! Click here to enter"-pages where the code broke every single SEO rule. Poor title, no description, no keywords, no header, no keywords in text or link text, no img alt:s, no nothing.
That page had 7 #1 placements and another 22 page one placements for FrequentKeyword1 involving engines like AltaVista, Fast, AOL, Direct Hit, Excite, GoTo, HotBot, iWon, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Netscape (ODP), Northern Light and Yahoo.
The client had other sites, whose url:s were formed in the same way, and they too had faboulous rankings, in spite of clear deficiensies in the code.
From this experience, and some systematic research to verify the finding, I have concluded that keywords in url play a major role these days.
Would the following be a good approach in your opinion?
1. Establish the theme of your index.html page.
2. Get an address where the theme is the keyword (or the first keyword before the hyphen in case you need to construct a two word address).
Let me see if I can sort this out. I believe that Yahoo in now counting Yahoogle clicks, if my domain draws the clicks based on its 'eye-appeal' this might eventually be used in a ranking algo. SOooo, what first appears to have low ranking weight might positively affect the rank -perhaps substantially, depending on the SE- at some later date. I KNOW this happened with my site in Snap Live Directory, the public liked the domain/url/title, they clicked, and subsequently ratcheted a sizeable chunk of the site into the main directory.
So the site draws huge crowds both due to the appeal of the url and to its great ranking. The resulting click statistics would then keep pushing it up and up, right?
(A bemused aside on the ways of the world: The reason why I was asked to analyze the sites was that an HQ type wanted to take complete control over all the far flung sites that the folks in foreign subsidiaries had opened on their own and to merge their pages into the company's main site - which places lower in SE:s than anything I have ever seen. Fortunately, the top man wanted a second opionion and brought me in.)
This is not as appealing to the viewers and it makes the domain name harder to remember...but, so long as the domain name is not horrible, that shouldn't be a major hindrance...Especially because domain names by themselves are not as important because over 70% of internet users rely on the search engines and directories to find what they're looking for.
So, I think it's a safe strategy to choose a keyword...include it in the URL with hyphens...and then have the site revolve around this theme and its major keyword...while, if possible, incorporating 4 or 5 other keywords in the text.
Beyond the engines, there is something to be said for the surfer seeing the appropriate words in your domain name. Somehow I think that a surfer faced with buying baby shoes would rather go the baby-shoes.com, or baby.shoes.com than click over to www.heresamallthatsellseverything.com
Here is the thing: search engines are becoming (or have become) spidering-directories. They are building vectors and organizing sites into term categories just like directories do but their system is automated to allow for a greater number of sites. The problem for most sites is that they want to show up under alot of keyword phrases that are sometimes unrelated. That is real tough. SEs don't care how many terms you show up under, they just want to satisfy queries right? Of course they want to give the authority on a topic top position to give the searcher the most information possible. What kind of site will they choose for keyword search, say "mp3"? Joe blow's site that lists his favorite mp3s along with video games, nostalgic toys, and past girlfriends or will they post first a site with the most information possible on mp3s? This is the same for corporations that sell alot of unrelated products but why would any search engine want to put up a site in the top 10 with 1 page about mp3 products versus a site with 1000 pages about mp3s? Back to the url, no company is going to name their URL after only one product, that is foolish. Sites that have the keyword as the URL are mostly focusing just on that term throughout the site. However, this can be scammed and checks and balances must be implemented. In come titles, body text, in and out going links and voila, themes and the perfect check against the domain name.
Rencke, this info came from following up on the hints Brett has dropped in the past few months and reading a whole lot of SE engineer papers. Know what the engineers are thinking and it gives you a much tighter box to work with and eliminates a lot of conjecture. The rest is all about testing (which is my weak point). You don't have to have the perfect domain name, themes can work on their own but the site with the more consistent, focused phrase throughout and links to match will beat you.
Sorry to post so much...better stop writing so much on company time (glad my boss doesn't read here often ;))
Right now, I think a filename itself is more important than the domain name with Alta and Google.


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The first to arrive at the scene of the accident in which Mark Staddon, 33, died were were Marlborough GP Richard Hook and Simon Routh-Jones, Wiltshire's chief fire officer, both of whom were off-duty.
Police say Mr Staddon, of Bath Road, was walking along the A4 at Fyfield near his home on Monday at 7.20pm when he was in collision with a Jaguar car being driven towards Marlborough by a 59-year-old man.
Dr Hook and Mr Routh-Jones found Mr Staddon, who was the son of driving instructor Lavinia Staddon, unconscious and in cardiac arrest.
Both administered 'bystander CPR' until the emergency services arrived.
Dr Hook advised the ambulance service to call Swift Medics, a group of medical doctors who attend serious medical emergencies on a voluntary basis.
Three members of the team – doctors Jonathan Glover, Dan Bawden and James Mapstone – were at a meeting in Marlborough and were there ten minutes after the call.
Dr Jonathan Glover, of Swift Medics, said: "The pedestrian received the very best medical care under the circumstances – he had a full hospital-style resuscitation team until the arrival of the air ambulance.
"Sadly, his injuries were catastrophic."
Medics administered CPR for 25 minutes until the Wiltshire Air Ambulance landed on the A4, but Mr Staddon was pronounced dead at the scene at around 8pm.
The A4 was closed for three and a half hours to allow police to investigate. Any witnesses are asked to call PC Ecclestone at Wiltshire Police on 101.


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CC Pace announced today that two of their executive leadership team members, Philippa Fewell and David Patton, will be participating as conference session presenters at the Potomac Forum, Ltd.s AGILE Development in Government Training Workshop. The keynote speaker for this event is Mark Schwartz, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Since joining USCIS, Schwartz has introduced such practices as Agile and Lean development, continuous delivery, and DevOps. He has also taken on the lead role across DHS in introducing Agile approaches.
Fewell, Managing Director of CC Paces Enterprise Solutions, will be presenting,Putting it All Together An Agile Roadmap. She will discuss how to do a readiness assessment of an organizations current ability to implement an Agile approach. Fewell will address the importance of providing adequate customized training and when to take advantage of seasoned expert coaches. She will also outline how to determine what approaches under the Agile umbrella will work best with an agencys goals.
Patton, Director of CC Paces Federal Practice, will be presenting,Whats on the Agile Horizon and Why it is Important for Government? This presentation will explain Agile and the dynamic techniques for continuous improvement. Patton will discuss approaches for scaling Agile to the enterprise. He will also introduce Kanban for O&M and DevOps.
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Chris Koelling recently had a customer cancel her lawn care service with his company, giving him no explanation.
"I never knew why," says Koelling, the owner of Mt. Vernon, Ill.-based Lawn Perfection. "I thought it was to save money."
He caught up with her and discovered the real reason she cancelled her service was that she didn't like chemicals.
"I jumped on that and said we'd be happy to put you on an organic program that has no chemicals," he says. "She signed up like that."
Lawn care operators are hearing from more clients who are saying they enjoy having an alternative to traditional synthetic fertilizers and other lawn care products.
Biofertility programs – which use living microorganisms to enhance the soil structure – are organic and can reduce the need for pesticide use on the lawns, lawn care operators say. Some LCOs have just begun using the program this year, so it's still too early to tell what the customer satisfaction level will be. But early word suggests they might be on the right track.
"A customer just called and thanked me," says Eric Greenwood, owner of Heritage Lawn Care in Ann Arbor, Mich. "She has pets and liked the idea behind (organics). She always worried because she had a grub control program and needed to treat it without harming the pets. We were able to lower the amount of grub control by 80 percent in a year."
Koelling has received positive feedback as well.
"We have a client who has a daughter with a lung disease and didn't want any chemicals on the lawn," he says, adding the client was glad to hear there was an organic program. "The feedback I'm getting is, 'This is great you're doing this; I didn't know there was another option (besides synthetics). I didn't think we could have a nice lawn.'"
Customers like the fast-acting nature of the biofertility program, Greenwood says. "It's the only product available in organic form that can take effect immediately," he adds, citing many products that need warm temperatures to be activated – something northern climates sometimes lack.
Then there's another portion of clients that just want to be better stewards of the environment.
"Some people are conscious about what we're doing, as far as the environment is concerned. I think environmental concerns are going to play a bigger role," says Koelling, who adds Illinois doesn't have the stringent regulations regarding pesticide and fertilizer use that other states have been adopting.
Other customers might be leaning toward organics, but want to wait for visible confirmation of effectiveness before jumping on board.
"Customers ask if you have proven results, but my education says it's going to work," says Greenwood, who just started a biofertility program this year. "Everyone's trusted my judgment so far. I've had no callbacks in the first two weeks."


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Although I got into this business to cover news, I learned a long time ago that, to many readers, the utility aspects of a newspaper are as important as the current events it covers.
Features like stocks, TV listings, comics, puzzles and calendars of events are, to many readers, essential elements of a newspaper that help them stay informed and entertained and allow them to plan their days. And let's not forget advertising and coupons, which point us toward products we need and save us money.
So this week I was not surprised a bit when readers expressed their displeasure with the company's decision to stop publishing the TV Week section on Saturdays.
Many of you called me, and others e-mailed, using terms like "disappointed" and "disgraceful" to describe your feelings about the change. Some of you noted that you subscribed to the paper just to get TV Week.
You also had questions. Why, you wanted to know, did you discontinue the TV Week? And where are you supposed to get TV listings now?
First, we discontinued TV Week because it was losing money.
The costs of publishing TV Week are significant: They include the paper, the printing and the cost of buying the listings from a vendor. The small amount of advertising that supported TV Week wasn't enough to offset those costs.
At a time when all newspapers, including the Star-Banner, are struggling through a bad economy, we simply couldn't afford to continue publishing a product that loses money.
It's also becoming increasingly difficult to fit all the channels into a book without creating a confusing mishmash.
A typical cable subscriber gets dozens � even hundreds � of channels. They simply don't fit on a page.
So we discontinued TV Week and replaced it with expanded listings in Thursday's paper.
The front of section D this past Thursday featured some short stories about television programs. Inside, you got the Thursday prime time listings, as well as the daytime listings for all the weekdays and the weekend. To top it off, we gave you a half-page look at movies showing in the week ahead.
What you didn't get were the prime time listings for the entire week and weekend. The prime time listings for each day appear daily in the Star-Banner.
To recap: All the daytime listings are in Thursday's paper; the prime time listings appear every day in the Star-Banner.
Now, some of you told me you only get the paper Thursday through Sunday, so you miss the prime time listings Monday through Wednesday.
At the risk of irritating some of our readers who don't have a computer and don't want one, I will tell you that you can get complete TV listings online. You simply go to www.ocala.com/tvlistings.
I know we've upset many of our loyal readers with this change, and I'm truly sorry that we've inconvenienced you.
I only hope you understand our reasons and that you find the Thursday listings useful.
And, as always, call me if you want to chat about it. You can reach me at 867-4013.
What's up with what's on TV
Although I got into this business to cover news, I learned a long time ago that, to many readers, the utility aspects of a newspaper are as important as the current events it covers.


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Commercial Property Services started as a small two man framing contractor and has grown into a commercial construction company with a history of successful projects. Our clients know us as a contractor that delivers a level of value and professionalism that is unsurpassed. We believe in a team approach where the owner, architect, engineers, and contractor become intimately involved in the successful completion of the project through total commitment to the owner's needs along every step of the design and construction process. On every project, we utilize the fastest and safest execution of the project with a clear cost and benefit solution, yielding the best final cost every time. We realize that our commitment to meeting our clients' needs and exceeding their expectations is key to the success of our business.
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At Commercial Property Services, we will always maintain our focus of exceeding expectations and maintaining strong relationships with our customers, our subcontractors and suppliers, and our community.


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October 4, 2010, 07:33 PM
I'm curious if owners of the M1A have any preference between the original wood stock, and the composite stock offered as an option by Springfield Armory. Yes, of course, the wood stock LOOKS better, but wouldn't the synthetic be more accurate (since it doesn't warp in moisture or heat)? And wouldn't the synthetic be lighter as well? What say you owners???


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The Regnum Christi Movement offers its members some guidelines of a gospel-based spirituality as an ideal of Christian life. The spiritual path that Regnum Christi members walk mainly consists in knowing, loving, imitating, and proclaiming Christ. This is the path and these are the goals.
Below, we offer some resources that can help nurture the spiritual life of Movement members and of any Christian.
Daily Prayer 2014-05-18
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Father Patrick Langan, LC
John 14: 1-12
"Do not let your hearts
be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father´s house there are many dwelling places. If
it were not so, would I have told you
that I go to prepare a place for you? And
if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and will take you to
myself, so that where I am, there you may be
also. And you know the way to the place
where I am going." Thomas said to him, "Lord, we
do not know where you are going. How can
we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I
am the way, and the truth, and the life. No
one comes to the Father except through me. If
you know me, you will know my Father also. From
now on you do know him and have seen
him." Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the
Father, and we will be satisfied." Jesus said to him,
"Have I been with you all this time, Philip,
and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen
me has seen the Father. How can you say,
´Show us the Father´? Do you not believe that
I am in the Father and the Father is in
me? The words that I say to you I
do not speak on my own; but the Father who
dwells in me does his works. Believe me that
I am in the Father and the Father is in
me; but if you do not, then believe me
because of the works themselves. Very truly, I tell you,
the one who believes in me will also do
the works that I do and, in fact, will
do greater works than these, because I am going to
the Father.
Introductory Prayer: Lord, thank
you for allowing me to spend this time with you.
There are things in life, Lord, that attract me,
but you attract me more. I hope in you, and
I love you. Maybe I don't really understand what
it means to love, and maybe I don't love
the way I should, but I do love you.
Petition: Lord, help me to be patient
and to accept your timing.
1. Nostalgia: Few of us feel at home in this world.
We are exiles, often homesick, waiting for news from
a faraway land. We have heard of this land many
times, but have never seen it. To compensate for
our homesick emptiness, we work hard to fill our
existence with material goods. When we have them, we suffer
from boredom. When we don't, we suffer from ambition.
"Vanity of vanities and all things are vanity!" (Ecclesiastes
1:2). We long for something that can fill that
2. Right Now: Lord Jesus,
I know that you are hidden behind the veil of
the Eucharist and that you are in your Father's
house. In your Father's house there are many rooms. Right
now, as I pray, you are preparing a place
for me. Lord, may I tell you how I
would like my room to be? (Imagine being an interior
decorator and being able to make that room any
way you like.)
3. One Day: One day, when I least expect it, you will
come and take me home. When I get there,
I will know it is the place I have been
mysteriously longing for all my life. In some way
it will be as I imagined, and yet, it will
be different. It will be a place of no
more nostalgia, no more pining. I will be able to
meet many friends there again. Each day will get
better and better. Yes, it is important to dream
about that day and what it will be like, because
that keeps me motivated in my struggle to attain
eternal life.
Conversation with Christ: Meanwhile,
Lord, I am here, right here, and I have work
to do. Some of today's tasks don't excite me;
however, I will do them for you. In those moments
of my day when I don't feel you, I
wait. I know you are coming.
Resolution: I will be patient and accept the Lord's timing,
because those who love learn the hard lesson of
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Youth sports organization brings hope and shelter to Haitians
Boby Duval is a Haitian native with an interesting and varied career. During the 1970s he made a name for himself playing soccer and basketball. Later, he became an outspoken defender of human rights.
Now, he's best known for his youth sports organization Athletics of Haiti. It originally sprang his desire to find a soccer club for his son.
Since its founding in the 1990s, the organization has grown to include five sports facilities for kids around the country. Some have gone on to play for Haiti's national soccer team and for clubs in Europe.
After the earthquake, Duval says his fields became home for thousands of displaced Haitians.


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Could you please gimme the name of the hospital in Beijing that does the rhinoplasty?
How Much is the Cost for Rhinoplasty in Beijing, China?
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Unfortunately, I do not know of a particular hospital in China, however the International Federation of Facial Plastic Surgery Societies lists the Taiwan Facial Plastic Surgery site, tafprs.org.tw/ as a potential resource. I hope this is of assistance.
Learn more: http://www.gothamplasticsurgeryny.com/rhinoplasty.html
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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education and training
- MD. University of Missouri at Columbia 2002
- BA. Harvard University 1997
Dr. Lowenhaupt is currently the Associate Director of Training for both the Combined ("Triple Board") Program in Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital. She also co-directs both the Psychiatry & Neurosciences Clerkship and the Brain Sciences Course for Brown Alpert Medical School.
Dr. Lowenhaupt conducts most of her clinical work within the child welfare and juvenile justice settings, currently serving as Consulting Medical and Psychiatric Director at the Rhode Island Training School (the state's only juvenile correctional facility under the direction of the RI Department of Children, Youth, and Families). She has also practiced on the Children's Inpatient Unit at Bradley Hospital and at Harmony Hill School, Inc., a residential treatment facility and therapeutic school for boys with behavioral disorders. Her areas of interest include the treatment of children and adolescents in foster care and the juvenile justice system, moral development and disruptive behavior disorders, and medical education.
Dr. Lowenhaupt completed the Combined Training Program in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry here at Brown University in June of 2007, after receiving her medical degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia and her undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College (Magna cum laude).


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JERUSALEM (Jul. 27)
A special mixed commission including representatives of the Catholic Church and the Israeli Government will proceed tomorrow to the Mt. Zion area of the Old City to assess the amount of damage done to Church property during the war, it was announced here today.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Army today returned to the Order of Franciscan Sisters the Italian St. Antonio Convent, which is located in the new city. The mixed commission assignment resulted from the opening of negotiations between the Israeli Ministry of Religion and Msgr. Thomas J. MacMahon, special Vatican representative.
United Nations headquarters here deny press reports that the Conciliation Commission has come to the conclusion that partition represents the only possible solution for the Jerusalem problem. Instead, U.N. sources continue to attempt to drive home the doctrine that "internationalization is the most practical solution." Partition, they say, raises almost "insurmountable" difficulties such as the fate of Arab property in Jewish Jerusalem and the economic weakness of the Old City.


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There are a few things I love about starting a new month, and one of them is that my mint.com account resets itself. I love having a fresh new budget to
break work with.
I've said it before, but it's true: I spend too much money on groceries.
Don't get me wrong, I know fresh produce and healthy foods often cost a little more, and I absolutely think it's worth it. The problem is, I waste a lot of food. It goes bad before I can eat it (like the bag of lemons I threw out yesterday) or I eat part of it and then forget about it (like the bag of pretzels buried deep in the back of the pantry, until so stale, they can't be saved).
I really stink at meal planning, because my schedule is usually pretty random. Plus, it feels weird meal-planning for one. Someone else is usually involved at dinner, but you never know. I'm on the go, I'm bad at packing my lunch, and I often end up at the grocery store every other day, buying more and more things!
So instead of drastically overhauling my spending, I'm going to attempt a few small changes:
-Only buy what I know I will eat within the week
-Avoid going to the grocery store for "just that one thing"
-Buy foods that can EASILY be a packed lunch for work
-Catch up with friends by walking, running, shopping, doing something, rather than just over dinner
And if your goal is to eat more fruits… try these!
Baked Apple Chips
I sliced a fuji apple on a mandoline slicer, spread out on a baking sheet, sprinkled with stevia and cinnamon, and then baked at 250 for about 45 minutes. You have to flip them every 15 minutes or so, so they don't stick to the pan, and get slightly crispy. These are SO easy, and for some reason, the simple texture change makes all the difference! I'm back to being an apple addict.


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Vestre Kjørstad 1 quarry, Kjørstad (Kjørrestad), Bamble (Bamle), Telemark, Norway
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Name(s) in local language(s): Vestre Kjørstad I feltspatbrudd, Kjørstad, Bamble kommune, Telemark, Norge
Today the quarry is situated on a small hill just south of Bamble Golfpark which includes most of the previous farmland of the Kjørstad farms.
Mineral List
12 entries listed. 7 valid minerals.
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Andersen, O. (1931) Feltspat II. Forekomster i fylkene Buskerud og Telemark, i flere herreder i Aust-Agder og i Hidra i Vest-agder. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse 128b, p. 13


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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Dany Heatley is a lot like what we've come to expect from the Minnesota Wild.
After 14 shots and three goals in his first three outings, the winger didn't have more than two in his next six games and has scored just once in that span. And while great things are expected with the offseason additions of free agents Ryan Suter and Zach Parise, the Wild have already held a closed door players-only meeting, have yet to win on the road and are juggling their lines. They're also 26th in scoring with 2.22 per game.
On Wednesday, Heatley was dropped down to the second like with Matt Cullen and Pierre-Marc Bouchard while rookie Charlie Coyle joined the top unit of Mikko Koivu and Parise.
"I don't feel like I'm fighting it," said Heatley. "I wouldn't say it (line change) is unexpected, but I'm playing with two real creative guys and hopefully we can get something going. A lot of it is the power play and when it's not clicking you're not getting enough chances. I feel good, but I've got to keep skating."
Which, of course, begs the question: Who are these guys?
Last season, the Wild won 20 of their first 30 games and were leading the league by December before imploding and missing the playoffs by 14 points. Heatley led the club with 24 goals and 53 points.
"When pucks don't start going in the net for you, you start to press more and quite often you drift further and further away," said Wild coach Mike Yeo. "You've got to make sure you're not hurting yourself and getting back to what you want to accomplish and being strong on the puck. Heater is so difficult to contain around the net, that's how his goals are going to come. We have to find a way to get pucks to the net."
When asked to describe the identity of the Wild, Heatley was all over the place. Minnesota traded for giant winger Mike Rupp on Monday and he'll make his debut on Thursday against the Vancouver Canucks. He can get to the net and maybe help the offence with screens and fish for rebounds.
"We want to be a team that's tough to play against," added Heatley. "We're not going to blow many teams out and we're going to be in tight games. We have those kind of players who are tough to play against and we can't give up much. But we have to score more than two goals a game."
Or have another meeting to figure it all out."
"You have that meeting in an 82-game year, too," stressed Heatley. "After the additions we've made, we feel like we have a real good team here. I believe there's urgency with the short season because in the last 15 or 20 games you're not going to move much in the standings up or down. These next 20 are huge for us."


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The Pi Manifesto claims that the Tau Manifesto contains selection bias and uses that as its main argument against the Tau Manifesto's validity, even going so far as to say that the Tau Manifesto is "wrong" because of it. However the Tau Manifesto does not ignore formulas that are simpler with pi as the Pi Manifesto claims; it addresses area of a circle, which is even its coup de grace. What's even worse, though, is that the Pi Manifesto is absolutely loaded with selection bias, containing much more of it than the Tau Manifesto, so its claims are extremely hypocritical.
1. The Pi Manifesto talks about the area of a circle over and over again because it's the only good argument for pi, but this argument was already preemptively refuted by the Tau Manifesto. The Pi Manifesto ignores most of the Tau Manifesto's rebuttal of this argument, only briefly mentioning the connection to other quadratic forms, which was only a small part of the Tau Manifesto's area of a circle argument.
2. The Pi Manifesto completely brushes over the Tau Manifesto's main point on radian angle measure and pretends it isn't important. Radian angle measure is used throughout mathematics, especially in trigonometry, and circular area is used very rarely, but the Pi Manifesto pretends they are of equal importance.
3. nsin(π/n)cos(π/n) is "clearly a win for pi," really? I think you mean 1/2 n sin(τ/n) is clearly a win for tau.
4. The Pi Manifesto mentions interior angles of a polygon but never mentions exterior angles, which always sum to tau, and the formula for the sum of interior angles simplifies to nπ-τ, which is equally simple with either constant, making it a marginal win for pi at best.
5. The Pi Manifesto mentions the zeroes and undefined values of trig functions because they occur twice every period, but it doesn't mention other special values.
6. The quotes from mathematicians in favor of pi were cherry-picked. There are also quotes in favor of tau.
7. In the section on Euler's identity, the Pi Manifesto just conveniently asks a question with pi as the answer. We could also ask "What is the smallest possible positive solution so that e^ix is a positive number or so that it is a natural number?" or "What is the period of e^ix?" or "What value of e^ix corresponds to a full rotation in the complex plane and gets you back where you started?" or "What is the first positive value of e^ix that is equal to one?" The answer to all of these questions is tau. In fact, pi is sometimes defined using that last question and then dividing by 2.
8. The list of "well-known" formulas is extremely cherry-picked. I would also say that, with the exception of the gamma function, none of them are as well-known as the Tau Manifesto's examples. Here's a list of common formulas which is not as selectively chosen. Some are simpler with tau, some with pi, some with eta, and some with neither, but the overwhelming majority are simpler with tau: http://www.harremoes.dk/Peter/Undervis/ ... page1.html
9. The Pi Manifesto cherry-picks definitions that are simpler with pi, but in reality, many of the definitions of pi involve multiplying by 1/2 at the end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi, and there are also other definitions of tau.


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|1. *Mark Teixeira, 3b, Charlotte (Rangers)
|2. *Jose Reyes, ss, St. Lucie (Mets)
|3. *Francisco Rosario, rhp, Dunedin (Blue Jays)
|4. *Taylor Buchholz, rhp, Clearwater (Phillies)
|5. *Miguel Cabrera, 3b, Jupiter (Marlins)
|6. *Laynce Nix, of, Charlotte (Rangers)
|7. *Alexis Rios, of, Dunedin (Blue Jays)
|8. *Joel Hanrahan, rhp, Vero Beach (Dodgers)
|9. *Ben Kozlowski, lhp, Charlotte (Rangers)
|10. *Reggie Abercrombie, of, Vero Beach (Dodgers)
|*Has played in major leagues
|Jay Bruce, of, Sarasota Reds
|B-T: L-L Ht.: 6-1 Wt.: 218 Age: 20 Drafted: Reds '05 (1)
hard to decide which part of Bruce's game managers like more: his power/speed
combination that has future all-star written all over it, or his mature
approach which makes it hard to remember that he's only
Baseball America's 2007 Minor League Player of the Year, Bruce has a quick stroke and his knowledge of his swing makes him more effective. A natural athlete, he shows the ability to make adjustments from at-bat to at-bat or even from swing to swing. He has above-average speed and he's an aggressive baserunner, albeit not a prolific stolen-base threat.
There's not much to nitpick about Bruce. He struck out 135 times in 133 games, though it's hard to argue with his production. Most scouts expect Bruce to slide to right field eventually, which leads to plenty of Larry Walker comps, but St. Lucie manager Frank Cacciatore liked his work in center.
"The way he plays defense reminds you of a Jim Edmonds," Cacciatore said. "He gets great jumps and has great hands."
|Cameron Maybin, of, Lakeland Flying Tigers (Tigers)
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-4 Wt.: 205 Age: 20 Drafted: Tigers '05 (1)
|He may be No. 2 on
this list, but Florida State League observers expect Maybin to be a perennial
all-star. He beat Bruce to the majors with an August callup, and he hit his
first big league homer off Roger Clemens.
Like Bruce, Maybin has plus power and plus speed. He's not as an advanced hitter as Bruce, which is why Maybin has yet to match his power production, but that will come as he matures and fills out his athletic frame. His plus-plus speed is readily apparent and he's an above-average defender in center field with the ability to track down drives in the gap.
"He's exciting to watch," Sarasota manager Joe Ayrault said. "Every at bat, he's a threat to hit the long ball or to chop it over the head of the pitcher and leg it out."
|Jake McGee, lhp, Vero Beach Devil Rays
|B-T: L-L Ht.: 6-3 Wt.: 190 Age: 21 Drafted: Devil Rays '04 (5)
|McGee and teammate
Wade Davis have had a friendly rivalry throughout their minor league career. So
when Davis got the call to Double-A before McGee, it fired up the lefty. He
responded the right way, sharpening his command and throwing back-to-back seven-inning
scoreless outings to earn a promotion to rejoin Davis.
The FSL strikeout leader with 145 in 117 innings, McGee is blessed with rare velocity for a southpaw, as he sits at 93-95 mph and can touch 98. His fastball rendered lefthanders helpless—they hit .141/.200/.214 against him in the FSL—and Vero Beach manager Joe Szekely said just one lefty managed to get good swings against McGee: Bruce, who went 1-for-4 but hit the ball hard.
"To watch those two go after each other was a real pleasure," Szekely said. "It was fun because you knew it was a battle that you could see happening for years to come."
McGee's changeup was very erratic early in the season, but he developed more feel and confidence in it as the season went along. His breaking ball has good tilt, though he sometimes struggles to locate it. Both could end up as plus pitches if he improves his command.
|Wade Davis, rhp, Vero Beach Devil Rays$
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-5 Wt.: 220 Age: 21 Drafted: Devil Rays '04 (3)
|Even though he's No.
4 on this list, it's not hard to project Davis as a future front-end starter.
McGee ranks ahead of him because he's a lefty and has a tick more velocity, but
Davis is more polished and has quality stuff as
Davis sits at 92-93 mph and can hump his fastball up to 96 mph when needed. He throws his tight 11-to-5 curveball at any point in the count and his changeup has developed into an average pitch that he trusts. He also throws a cutter that he can drop over for strikes, giving hitters something else to worry about, and shackled righthanders to the tune of .124/.201/.214 numbers.
But Davis' most impressive attribute might be his consistency. He maintained his quality stuff from start to start. He didn't allow more than three earned runs in any of his 13 starts and permitted one run or less in nine of his last 10 outings, including a seven-inning no-hitter against Jupiter.
"You could see Wade was on a mission," Szekely said. "He was lights out from the word go."
|Johnny Cueto, rhp, Sarasota Reds
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 5-10 Wt.: 192 Age: 21 Signed: Reds FA '04
|While Davis towers
over hitters at 6-foot-5, Cueto doesn't look intimidating when he steps on the
mound. In fact, at 5-foot-10, he looks like the average command/deception
righthander who has to baffle hitters with offspeed stuff. But when his
fastball comes out of his hand, it's clear that he's a power
With a free and easy delivery, Cueto unleashes 93-94 mph fastballs and he can reach back to touch 96-97. Just as important, his slider and changeup are potential plus pitches that he's comfortable throwing when he's behind in the count.
His command also is advanced for his age, as he comfortable locating to both sides of the plate and has no problems busting hitters inside. Though he doesn't have an ideal frame, his pitches and his mechanics allow him to project as a No. 2 or 3 starter. Cueto is a more refined pitcher than Homer Bailey, who stopped back by Sarasota on a rehab stint, and his stuff doesn't lag far behind Bailey's.
|Carlos Carrasco, rhp, Clearwater Threshers (Phillies)
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-3 Wt.: 180 Age: 20 Signed: Phillies FA '03
|Carrasco is a long
ways from a finished product, but he does have a pair of major league pitches.
He throws a plus fastball that sits at 91-92 mph and touches 95 with good life,
as well as a quality changeup. His mechanics are nearly picture-perfect, as he
looks like he's throwing an easy side session while popping 92s and
Carrasco's biggest concern is his consistency. When he begins a game with good stuff, he usually leaves hitters helpless. But when he doesn't, he has yet to show the savvy to win with less than his best. He tries to overthrow, which results in him leaving vulnerable fastballs up in the strike zone.
He also needs to refine his curveball. Carrasco shows some feel for it and occasionally snaps off a plus bender, but he struggles to locate it.
|Ian Kennedy, rhp, Tampa Yankees
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-0 Wt.: 190 Age: 22 Drafted: Yankees '06 (1)
|If this list were
based entirely on pure stuff, Kennedy wouldn't make it. If it were totally
dependent on performance, he could be No. 1. His results were no fluke, as he
continued to succeed all the way up the ladder to New
Kennedy doesn't have a plus pitch. His best offering is a changeup that would grade as a 55 on the 20-80 scouting scale, and his 89-91 mph fastball, his curveball and slider are all average. But he has well above-average command, and his feel for pitching and ability to locate all four pitches make them play up.
FSL managers were extremely impressed by Kennedy's approach. He throws all four pitches in any count, he doesn't get rattled and he always seems to be a step ahead of hitters.
|Deolis Guerra, rhp, St. Lucie Mets
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-5 Wt.: 200 Age: 18 Signed: Mets FA '05
|There's still a lot
of projection left with Guerra, who didn't turn 18 until after the FSL season
began, and his present stuff already is solid. He gained an extra 3-4 mph on
his fastball this year, jumping at times to a consistent 92-93 mph with some late
life. He doesn't always maintain that velocity, as he sometimes sits at
Guerra has developed much more confidence in his changeup, which has good deception as long as he maintains his arm speed. He struggles to locate his curveball and it gets loopy at times. His curve has the potential to be a plus pitch, but for now he lacks a true out pitch, which explains his less-than-stellar strikeout rate (6.6 per nine innings in the FSL).
Guerra uses his 6-foot-5 frame well, pitching on a downhill plane that causes problems for hitters. He has a good frame and an easy delivery, though he did miss a month with shoulder tendinitis.
|Jose Tabata, of, Tampa Yankees
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 5-11 Wt.: 180 Age: 19 Signed: Yankees FA '05
|Tabata had a breakout
performance as an 17-year-old in low Class A last year, and added to his
prospect luster with an outstanding at-bat against fellow Yankee Philip Hughes
in the Futures Game. His power numbers were down in 2007, but that can be
attributed to a damaged hamate bone in his right hand. The hand injury makes
his ability to hit .307 in high Class A all that much more impressive.
He showed a good batting eye, and league observers believe he'll develop plus power as he matures and recovers his full health. Though he's still a teenager, Tabata already is getting thick in his lower half, which has sapped his speed. He's now a below-average runner who'll have to watch his weight as he gets older, and he's an average right fielder with an average arm.
|Austin Jackson, of, Tampa Yankees
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-1 Wt.: 185 Age: 20 Drafted: Yankees '05 (8)
|A standout point
guard who would have started for Georgia Tech as a freshman had he not turned
to professional baseball, Jackson was lackluster for 1 1/2 seasons in low Class
A before his promotion to Tampa in late June. He hit safely in 24 of his 25
games and showed why he earned a then-record eighth-round bonus of $800,000 in
When he's locked in, Jackson uses the entire field and shows pop to both gaps. He has bat speed and strength, so he should develop more home run power in the future. Though he's just an average runner and there have been concerns about his defense in the past, FSL managers like his routes and arm strength in center field.
Szekely said Jackson made the best outfield catch he's seen in years, flipping over the fence while stealing a home run from Vero Beach's Rhyne Hughes. Jackson also displayed a fine ability to track balls over his head.
|Chris Volstad, rhp, Jupiter Hammerheads (Marlins)
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-7 Wt.: 190 Age: 20 Drafted: Marlins '05 (1)
|The Marlins planned
on having four first-rounders in the Jupiter rotation. But Sean West was shut
down before the season even began with a torn labrum, Aaron Thompson missed six
weeks with shoulder tendinitis and Brett Sinkbeil had elbow and neck
Only Volstad stayed healthy, and he held his own against older hitters in the FSL before faring better following a late-July promotion to Double-A. His stuff is solid but not overwhelming, as he features a 90-92 mph fastball that he can locate to both sides of the plate.
Volstad never has piled up strikeouts and likely never will, as his game is to keep the ball down and use his fastball and solid changeup to induce groundouts. His curveball ranks as his third pitch. He gives up a lot of hits, but he does a good job of throwing strikes down in the zone and limiting the damage.
|Alcides Escobar, ss, Brevard County Manatees (Brewers)
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-1 Wt.: 165 Age: 20 Signed: Brewers FA '03
|Escobar spent much of
2006 in the FSL, impressing with his glove but leaving major questions about
his bat. A year of maturity, an offseason in winter ball and added strength
made him a much better hitter. He led off for Brevard County, though he's more
likely to hit near the bottom of the order in the big leagues, where his
contact approach and speed will give him some
Escobar's swing is too long for his skill set, especially when he tries to drive the ball, which usually just leads to flyout. He did a better job this year of hitting the ball on the ground, where his 4.1-second speed from home to first gives him a chance to beat out infield singles. He was especially good against lefthanders, hitting .372 against them between Brevard County and Double-A. He needs to work on getting better jumps and picking his spots to run.
His defense is his calling card. Escobar has the consistency to make routine plays, and the range and arm to make highlight plays. His arm is his best tool, as it's extremely strong and accurate and grades as a 70 on the 20-80 scouting scale.
|Tyler Colvin, of, Daytona Cubs
|B-T: L-L Ht.: 6-3 Wt.: 190 Age: 21 Drafted: Cubs '06 (1)
|Colvin showed his
ability to make adjustments as the season went along. Though the statistics
don't really reflect it, several managers felt that he chased too many pitches
early in the year before settling down. He has a nice natural stroke with the
ability to drive the ball to the opposite field.
He stays inside the ball well, though Colvin has yet to pull inside pitches on a consistent basis. For now he's more content to line doubles the other way. He has slightly above-average speed, and he shows solid instincts on the bases to go with good jumps and routes in center field.
While he made it to Double-A in his first full pro year, the athletic Colvin is still very much a work in progress. He needs to learn the strike zone better and show more patience.
|Josh Outman, lhp, Clearwater Threshers (Phillies)
|B-T: L-L Ht.: 6-1 Wt.: 190 Age: 22 Drafted: Phillies '05 (10)
|With Outman, it's all
about control. He struggles at times to control his fastball, which explains
why ranked among the minor league leaders with 77 walks in 159 innings. At
times he struggles to control his emotions, which explains why he overthrows
and is prone to big innings and bad outings.
But there's also a lot to like about the lefty, who led the league with a 2.45 ERA and earned a promotion to Double-A. Outman's fastball sits at 92-94 mph and he pairs it with an 84-87 mph slider. He's working on a changeup that still has a ways to go.
A good athlete, Outman has reworked his mechanics and developed a more conventional delivery since turning pro. He also has added some deception, as he now hides the ball much longer, and his fastball has picked up some life. One manager who saw him in low Class A in 2006 said has made significant strides since last year
|Adam Ottavino, rhp, Palm Beach Cardinals
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-5 Wt.: 215 Age: 21 Drafted: Cardinals '06 (1)
|Ottavino's approach
is simple yet effective. He relies on a 92-93 mph fastball featuring good
armside run and a tight slider, as the fastball rides in on righthanders while
the slider runs away from them. His command isn't very polished, but he gets
enough movement that he can simply aim for the middle of the plate and relying
on the run on his fastball and the tilt on his slider to hit the
Ottavino got FSL hitters to chase his slider out of the zone, though there's some concern as to whether he can throw it consistently for strikes if more advanced players lay off of it. He also throws a below-average changeup and curveball, and he might wind up in the bullpen down the road.
|Brett Sinkbeil, rhp, Jupiter Hammerheads (Marlins)
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-2 Wt.: 170 Age: 22 Drafted: Marlins '06 (1)
|Sinkbeil made just 14
starts in his first full pro season. He missed five weeks early in the season
with elbow tendinitis, and he didn't pitch in August because he came down with
a herniated disc in his neck.
When healthy, Sinkbeil worked to both sides of the plate with a 92-93 mph fastball and a heavy sinker. His average slider also has some potential, but he has yet to show much feel for a changeup. He needs the changeup to battle lefties, who hit .306/.341/.476 against him.
|Frank Cervelli, c, Tampa Yankee
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-1 Wt.: 170 Age: 21 Signed: Yankees FA' 03
|Jorge Posada doesn't
seem like he'll ever relinquish the Yankees' catching job, but Cervelli should
give New York another option behind the plate in a couple of years. He was the
consensus best catching prospect in the FSL, beating out Clearwater's Lou
Marson for that honor.
Managers loved the way Cervelli handles a staff. He frames pitches, blocks balls in the dirt and has a plus arm. He led the league's catchers in fielding percentage (.997) and erasing basestealers (41 percent).
He has a polished batting eye and should become a more productive hitter as he matures. He has good bat speed and a level swing that stays in the strike zone for a long time, though he hasn't hit for much power.
|Eduardo Morlan, rhp, Fort Myers Miracle (Twins)
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-2 Wt.: 220 Age: 21 Drafted: Twins '04 (3)
|Morlan is the rare
Cuban pitching prospect who's not a defector, as he emigrated with his family
to Miami when he was 12. He made an easy transition to a full-time reliever
this season and was rewarded for his solid work with a late promotion to
Morlan has a solid frame with a relatively thick lower half. His high-effort, three-quarters delivery led to the move to the bullpen, where his power stuff should allow him to work as a setup man or closer. He attacks hitters with an 89-93 mph fastball, a plus curveball and an average slider. His fastball has quality life, which allows him to bust righthanders inside with regularity.
|Jeff Samardzija, rhp, Daytona Cubs
|B-T: R-R Ht.: 6-5 Wt.: 218 Age: 21 Drafted: Cubs '06 (5)
|Samardzija struggled
with his command and secondary pitches in the FSL, and the results were ugly.
He had a 45-35 K-BB ratio in 107 innings, and FSL hitters batted .323 against
So why is he on this list? The reality is that Samardzija was over his head in the FSL in his first full pro season after being more of a football player at Notre Dame. He's an outstanding athlete with an easy delivery, long arms and the frame to soak up innings.
Samardzija gained velocity as the season went along, and he threw harder (94-96 mph) after a promotion to Double-A. His two-seam fastball has boring action that should lead to plenty of groundballs once he improves his location.
He needs to sharpen his loopy curveball and refine his changeup so hitters can't sit on his fastball. He may be a long ways away, but his arm gives him the chance to be special.
|Rhyne Hughes, 1b, Vero Beach Devil Rays
|B-T: L-L Ht.: 6-2 Wt.: 175 Age: 23 Drafted: Devil Rays '04 (8)
|The surprise favorite
of managers around the league was a 23-year-old first baseman. Skippers liked
Hughes' batting eye and advanced approach, which resulted in the FSL batting
title (.329). He drew comparisons to Keith Hernandez and James Loney.
Hughes worked counts until he got a pitch he could drive, usually something on the outside of the plate that he hammered to left field. If a pitcher tried to bust him inside, he would foul off the pitch until he got one he liked. He's a below-average runner, but he's fluid and shows soft hands at first base.
The big question about Hughes is whether he'll have enough pop for a first baseman. His all-fields approach isn't conducive to homers, though he has some natural strength and has shown gap power.


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Posted in: General by Christian Scharen on November 26, 2011
While against my better judgment, I had to stop at Menards, a major midwest home building supplies store, to pick up some supplies to hang an advent banner at church. As soon as we walked in, our ears were assaulted with some bad version of "jingle bell rock" (perhaps it was this horrific version by Billy Idol). I'd mostly avoided the shlocky Chrismas rock foisted upon unsuspecting shoppers this time of year (well, actually, since before Halloween, since that holiday doesn't have many tunes save Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London). So my first post in joining the conversation here at Rock & Theology on the cusp of the beginning of the season of Advent has to be about why rock musicians are much better at Advent songs than ones about Christmas.
Of course I could start many places on this one, but the most ready to hand for me is the case of U2. They have done some Christmas songs (the most widely know is Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
Honestly, it IS better than the over-played Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad. But the fact is that rock is better in the mode of desire and lament rather than tinsel and mistletoe. The U2 cover of Greg Lake's lament about consumerism in the Christmas season reaches closer to what I'm after, but its darker lyrics (They said there'd be snow at Christmas, They said there'd be peace on earth; but instead it just keeps on raining, vale of tears for the virgin birth) are overcome by the chiming guitar, sleigh bells, and references to Father Christmas.
It is not too far off to say what divides "American Christianity" (a way to refer to cultural Christianity) and something nearer to the way of Jesus Christ is the little four-week season of Advent. While the masses trample each other to fight over bargin consumer goods, the invitation of Isaiah is to stare at the horrors of the world and cry, "O that you would tear open the heavens and come down." The heart of advent as longing parallels the heart of Jesus' teaching on prayer: to plead for life "on earth, as it is in heaven." Such a prayer starts where God starts in relation to the brokenness of creation; with an ear bent to the cries (Exodus 3:9). U2 has done much better in this regard, singing the brokenness of life as a song before God, knowing that things ought to be otherwise. Thus, they sing versions of the lament titled, "Why?"
One compelling story is the band's work in the Irish peace movement. U2 had sung protest songs along the way, including the powerful "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" written against the horrible violence at Derry in 1972 when marchers were shot by British soldiers. Edge wrote the song to juxtapose the nonviolent death of Jesus, an act that put an end to violence, with the continued use of violence to achieve victory in Northern Ireland. Underneath the song is the ancient Psalmist's refrain, "How long, how long must we sing this song?" The song has expanded as the band has played it over the years, but its most powerful moments remain when it connects to Ireland. At their famous Redrocks concert in Denver in 1983, Bono begins with the cry, "This song is not a rebel song. This song is Sunday, Bloody Sunday." His concern then was to make sure they were heard as a voice for peace, and not for one side or the other in "The Troubles."
Almost 20 years later, in 2001, U2 played Slane Castle in Ireland and turned Sunday, Bloody Sunday into a prayer against the history of violence in Ireland. They had orchestrated a minor miracle in getting David Trimble and John Hume on stage together during a concert in 1998. It was a coup, and helped usher in the Good Friday peace accords later that same
year. That was spring. By late summer, the reactions had traction and a group called the Real IRA set off a bomb in the tiny town of Omagh killing 29 people out for their Saturday shopping. In response Bono said, "I could not comprehend how people could do something like that. The closest I ever came to a crisis of faith happend after that. It was hard to be a believer at that moment. We wrote the song, "Peace on Earth," after that, which is as bitter and as angry a song as U2 have ever written." The song begins, "Heaven on Earth, we need it now/I'm sick of all of this hanging around/Sick of sorrow, sick of the pain/I'm sick of hearing again and again/That there's gonna be peace on Earth." The song itself includes names of those who died in Omagh: "They're reading names out over the radio/All the folks the rest of us won't get to know/Sean and Julia, Gareth, Ann and Breda/Their lives are bigger than any big idea." The song is, by some accounts, a moment showing U2's trajectory towards atheism. Hardly. It is rather a lament in the finest tradition of the Psalms. It is an advent song crying out the quintessential advent cry, Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus!.
The most powerful instance of this I know is a live concert at Slane Castle, September 2001, when Sunday Bloody Sunday becomes a desperate prayer for nonviolence and peace. It is as if Bono and the band say to the crowd, "the lion CAN lay down with the lamb here, now." They invite the crowd to "put your hands in the sky, put your hands in the air, if you are the praying kind, turn this song into a prayer: No more. No more." Bono sings, "Three years after Omagh, turn this song into a prayer. Wipe your tears away." Then, in the most poignant section, he shouts, "We're so sick of it! We've had enough!" Singing the last verse, Bono then joins the band in silence, only to be broken by the insistant pound of the drum, then the bass, then Edge singing "Sunday, Bloody, Sunday," and Bono chanting names: Brenda, Sean, Julie, Gareth, . . ." and he keeps on, even after the music dies away. Voice shaking, he concludes with: "29 people, too many." Could that be our advent prayer? Too many, God. Too many suffer and die. With Isaiah, we pray, " "O that you would tear open the heavens and come down." Edge, U2's guitarist, puts their advent theology this way: "Our stance as a band is that we believe in heaven but live as if we didn't." I'll take that any day over something as thin as Bon Jovi singing a cover of Elvis' Blue Christmas.
Advent peace to you,
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GREAT post! Before reading this I posted on a similar topic–it will probably be put up tomorrow. I find the whole rocker/Christmas song phenomenon to be fascinating. I'm attempting to put a positive spin on it, but my cynical side thinks it is all about money. Your observations about Advent-themed songs opens up a new perspective for me–thank you!
Comment by Dave Nantais — November 27, 2011 @ 8:46 am
Loved your post, Chris. Thanks.
Comment by Mary McDonough — November 27, 2011 @ 12:02 pm
Love it – great read Chris. So glad to see your work as part of the R & T blog and a fellow sojourner in this project.
Comment by Jeff Keuss — November 27, 2011 @ 10:18 pm
I'm liking Sting's, If on a Winter's Night, during this Advent season. Not at all grossly over the top Christmas or schmalzy songs other rockers have done. It's very reflective and some beautiful old Advent type hymns put to modern melody. Especially nice are Gabriel's Message, There is No Rose of Such Virtue, Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming and Cherry Tree Carol. Very nice.
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William C. Marra is a student at Harvard Law School.
In September 1787, the Constitution was submitted to the states for ratification. The Pennsylvania Assembly met to pass legislation creating a convention that would decide if the state should sign on to the newly reconceived United States. But something was missing: a quorum. Several anti-Federalist lawmakers, determined to defeat the new Constitution, refused to show up for work, paralyzing the assembly.
The Federalists were displeased. The anti-Federalist flight, they said, was "the conduct of an unmanly minority." And so an intrepid mob went down to Major Boyd's Tavern, ferreted out two recalcitrant legislators, and dragged them to the statehouse. A quorum restored, lawmakers passed their resolutions as the mob rained "the most insulting language" down upon the erstwhile absconders.
The Wisconsin and Indiana state legislators now holed up in Illinois are not the first to skip town and deny their political adversaries a quorum to do business. Even Abe Lincoln once defenestrated himself from the Springfield statehouse in a botched bid to deny the majority Democrats their numbers.
Supporters of the Wisconsin 14 invoke this history of quorum busting to justify, and even to praise, the Badger State exodus. But the fact that it's been done before doesn't make it right. The better questions to ask are why we have quorums in the first place, and whether quorums are designed to encourage, or to prevent, defiant minority blocs from bolting the state.
A useful place to start is the document that led those Pennsylvania anti-Federalists to flee in 1787. Article 1 of the Constitution states that a majority of each house constitutes a quorum to do business. And just as importantly, it provides a tool to combat quorum busting, permitting a smaller number of legislators to "compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide."
The Constitution is famously brief — under 4,500 words. Yet the framers thought the quorum issue so important that they dealt with it explicitly, declining to delegate the responsibility to the House and Senate. Why did they think quorums were so important?
In his interesting look at the history of the Quorum Clause, John Bryan Williams shows that quorums are a vital reed of representative democracy. Quorums are designed to protect the majority: without it, a tiny minority could quickly call a meeting and pass laws before the other party shows up. This threat would have been particularly salient to the Founders, who lived in a time when transportation and communication were both very slow. The real specter of shotgun legislative sessions was troubling for reasons of both democratic legitimacy (the majority does not rule) and deliberative democracy (swiftly passed law is shoddy law).
Nancy Pelosi recently said she is "very proud" of the quorum busting Democrats. But the Founders saw quorum busting not as a virtue to be promoted, but as a vice to be neutralized. Gouverneur Morris told the convention that quorum busting was fundamentally antidemocratic because it might permit a minority to "extort, by threatening secession, some unjust and selfish measure." This concern is why both the federal and the Wisconsin state constitutions empower legislators to compel, by force if necessary, attendance at legislative sessions. And writing in Federalist 58, James Madison criticized the "baneful practice of secessions" as "subversive of all the principles of order and regular government; a practice which leads more directly to public convulsions, and the ruin of popular governments, than any other which has yet been displayed among us."
The trick, as Williams explains, is properly calibrating the number of lawmakers you need for a quorum. Set the number too low (say, less than 50 percent), and you risk making it too easy for small blocs to assemble hastily and pass their laws. But set the number too high (say, two-thirds), and you run into the problem of quorum busters: The more noses you need for a quorum, the fewer noses it takes to bust that quorum. Alert to this concern, the framers rejected calls for a supermajority quorum, and settled instead on Article I's simple majority.
Which brings us to the Badger State. In Wisconsin, the quorum for non-spending bills is 50 percent, or 17 of 33 lawmakers. But spending bills require a supermajority quorum of 60 percent, or 20 legislators. Because Republicans hold 19 seats and Democrats hold 14, the Democrats can only hold up spending bills. Wisconsin proves the framers right: the supermajority rule made the difference; without it, there would be no quorum busting in Madison.
The loser in all of this is democracy. By fleeing to Illinois or escaping to Major Boyd's Tavern, dissenting lawmakers abuse the quorum rule, and they seize an unjustified veto over legislation supported by a majority of duly elected representatives. The quorum rule, designed to ensure majority rule and prevent a minority from co-opting the legislative process, is twisted to serve the very evil it was designed to combat, a tyranny of the minority. The recourse from controversial legislation like that in Wisconsin ought to be found at the ballot box, not in the dusk drive across state lines.
In the contentious times ahead, our leaders in Washington and statehouses across the land are certain to face that same temptation indulged by 14 senators in Wisconsin. These leaders would do well to remember that quorum busting undermines the quorum's true purpose of preserving democratic legitimacy. They must ensure that our sporadic history of quorum busting does not become a revered precedent of which we count ourselves "very proud."


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Identity theft case examined in 'The Imposter'
January 24, 2012
Speaking with The Park Record from San Antonio, Texas, as he prepared to fly to Utah for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, British documentary filmmaker Bart Layton very carefully chose his words as he attempted to convey the many convoluted aspects that surface throughout his new documentary, "The Imposter."
One got the sense that he still couldn't quite believe that such a story had intersected his creative arc. The words came hesitantly as he told the tale of a blonde-haired blue-eyed 13-year old Texas boy who disappears for a few years, only to return years later with a thick accent, olive skin, dark hair and dark brown eyes and, more or less, to be accepted by his family.
Marveling at the sequences that led him to making his film, Layton attempted to spell out the plot without including some of the more idiosyncratic aspects that make it such a special work. "As a documentary filmmaker you could wait a lifetime to happen upon a story such as this."
"From the moment we heard about it, it sounded like something that couldn't possibly have taken place in the real world. A French-Algerian man successfully steals the identity of a missing Texan boy and begins a new life within the boy's family, posing as their child?"
Layton, without even attempting to make sense of this most curious state of affairs, continued the stories within the story of his film. It began in Spain back in 2009 when he came upon a magazine article about "a certain Frédéric Bourdin, aka, Le Chaméléon."
Bourdin, it seems, "had adopted dozens of false identities and traveled the length and breadth of Europe passing himself off as a traumatized child."
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A quick Internet search led the filmmaker to "a long and fascinating piece from the New Yorker Magazine which described his time in Texas."
When Layton met the imposter, "he was extremely compelling. At once charming and off-putting, childlike and jaded someone who seemed to have lived his life in a fantasy he had created for himself one that suited him better than the troubled life he was born into."
Although by now convinced Bourdin was a pathological liar and that he could easily get sucked in, Layton wanted "to hear him tell his story in his own words a story he seemed to have been writing and rewriting for some time." Speaking of the Texas component, from which the film was drawn, Bourdin explained it this way: "They were a family without a kid. I was a kid without a family."
From filming the many participants in this stranger-than-fiction story, Layton came away with many quite different versions of the same events. The mother and father and sister of the missing Texas boy had their stories, of course. The filmmaker found them "fragmented, bereaved and still unsettled by their encounter with the man who had claimed to be their long-lost loved one, who had lived (with them) as their child."
Then there was the Texas private investigator who saw something goofy about the new boy's ears and a female FBI agent who discovers the case she's looking into to be a total fabrication. There appeared to be loose ends about the missing Texas boy who had been found alive in the south of Spain with a story of kidnap and torture. Go figure!
Even before the stylized lighting had been set up and the cameras rolled, the film had become "noir." New truths supplant older truths until they themselves are called into question. Which is just where Layton wants to leave us: "I want audiences to go on an emotional journey and to leave the film with their heads buzzing with thoughts, questions and debates."
"The Imposter" continues its run this week in the "World Cinema Documentary Competition" category and will screen:
Wednesday, Jan. 25, noon, Temple Theatre, PC
Thursday, Jan. 26, 9 p.m., Tower Theatre, SLC
Friday, Jan. 27, 8:30 a.m., Library Center Theatre, PC
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To measure sequential performance I ran a 1 minute long 128KB sequential test over the entire span of the drive at a queue depth of 1. The results reported are in average MB/s over the entire test length. These results are going to be the best indicator of large file copy performance.
Again we see that low queue depth transfers don't stress the Z-Drive enough to flex its muscles.
Sequential Performance vs. Transfer Size (ATTO)
I stopped putting these charts in our reviews (although I do include the data in Bench) because they are generally difficult to read. Here we're only going to look at three drives though: a Vertex 3, RevoDrive 3 X2 and the Z-Drive R4 CM88:
Now we're starting to see something. If you can't scale with queue depth, scaling up the transfer size seems to do the trick. After about 64KB the Z-Drive R4 starts to pull away fro the RevoDrive 3 X2, peaking at just over 2.5GB/s!
Read performance is even more impressive: the Z-Drive R4 manages just under 3GB/s for 2MB transfer sizes.
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The gospel group Chosen will be performing at the A-Z Family Center this Friday, Aug. 9, and Saturday, Aug. 10, along with other gospel artists from all over the east coast.
For the past four years, Chosen to Serve Ministries has been traveling all over the eastern United States to sing and minister to people from all walks of life. They have also helped people financially who have been in an emergency situation or time of crisis. According to their website, in the very near future, they will be venturing out even farther so that they can begin to reach people worldwide.
Members of the group include Stan Parks, Marshall Parks, Revetta Parks, Marquita Temoney, Quinda Spratt-Foster, Donald Taylor Jr., Keith Lowery, Terrance Torrence, Todd Hurt and Leatrice Taylor. The band is from North Wilkesboro, N.C. They are influenced by Willie Neal Johnson and the Keynotes, Power Outreach Ministries and The Gospel Mellotones.
The group has been a featured guest on the nationally syndicated Bobby Jones Show on BET as well as on the Word Network. They also hosted the National Singing Quartet Convention of America in August 2010. The band's CEO, Stan Parks, was overseer of that project, which brought more than 7,000 people to their community.
The group's primary goal is to help those in need of financial assistance, food, clothing assistance, and any other emergency or crisis situation that may arise. They want people to understand it is alright to ask for help without feeling humiliated for being unable to provide for themselves or their families in their time of need on a short-term basis.
They are visiting Pulaski for the East Coast Singers and Musicians Conference, presented by Light of Day Productions, which will consist of daytime teaching seminars, beginning at 9:30, and nightly concerts. Those attending will learn about the gospel music industry, the recording process, and even ministry. Chosen will be performing with the other artists both nights at 6 p.m. Concert admission is $10.
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DENVER — The perfect time to play against Peyton Manning is when it doesn't count.
That's why tonight's third preseason game is the perfect time for the Houston Texans' defensive backs to play against Denver's record-setting quarterback, who is coming off the most prolific regular season of any player in history at his position.
The Broncos have the best offense in the NFL, and the Texans' defensive backs have been trying to take advantage of a rare opportunity: They've competed against Manning and his terrific receivers in three practices leading up to Saturday night's game.
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Coach Bill O'Brien and defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel will have a better idea of just how far their secondary has advanced since the start of the offseason program when they tangle with the Broncos.
And the defensive backs, especially strong safety D.J. Swearinger, did tangle with Denver's receivers during the joint practices.
There was a lot of trash talking, and the Texans didn't back down. Swearinger was in the middle of everything during what was a great week of work for him.
"You practice how you play," Swearinger said. "You don't get these opportunities to practice against the greats very often."
Swearinger, a second-round pick in 2013, isn't going to lose any competition if trash talking is involved. It's always been a big part of his game.
But he's much more than a big talker. He's a hard hitter who is showing improvement on coverage.
"A lot of playmakers, they have a little savvy about them, have a little swagger about them," he said. "That's something that if they don't like it that's cool. I'm going to play my game, and if you let me get into your head, that's your problem. ... That's just a part of me, and it doesn't change my game. I think it changes other players' games."
Young players usually make their most significant improvement between their first and second seasons, and Swearinger has been impressive. He sets the tone for the secondary with his toughness. His teammates seem to appreciate it.
"If you love what you're doing, you're going to have fun, and that's what we're doing," Swearinger said.


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Sinead Keeney0000-0003-2134-2213
Sinead Keeney is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Nursing Research within the School of Nursing at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Ireland. She received a primary degree in politics and sociology from Queens University in Belfast, Ireland, in 1996 and graduated from the University of Ulster with the MRes degree in 1997. Sinead began her career in research at the University of Ulster in 1999. She earned a Ph.D. degree in 2007 from the University of Ulster, the subject of which was an exploration of the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of people in midlife with regards to cancer prevention. Her other major research interest lies in mental health research into suicide and self-harm.
Biography Updated on 25 November 2010